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| x Jimi Hendrix |
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James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is often considered to be the greatest electric guitarist in the history of rock music by other...
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| x Janis Joplin |
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Janis Lyn Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970) was an American singer, songwriter and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company and later as a...
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| x Kurt Cobain |
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Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – c. April 5, 1994) was an American musician, best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of the rock band Nirvana.
With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from Nirvana's second album...
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| x Jim Morrison |
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James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (December 8, 1943 – July 3, 1971) was an American singer, songwriter, poet, writer and filmmaker. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic...
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| x Brian Jones |
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Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones (28 February 1942 – 3 July 1969) was an English musician and one of the founding members of the rock group The Rolling Stones. Jones was known for his use of multiple instruments, his flamboyant attire and his recreational...
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| x Keith Moon |
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Keith John Moon (23 August 1946 – 7 September 1978) was an English drummer of the rock group The Who. He gained notoriety for exuberant drumming and his destructive lifestyle that earned him the nickname, "Moon the Loon." Moon joined The Who in 1964...
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| x Ron "Pigpen" McKernan |
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Ronald C. "Pigpen" McKernan (September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973) was a founding member of the band the Grateful Dead. His musical contributions to the Grateful Dead included vocals, Hammond organ, harmonica, percussion, and occasionally guitar. He...
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| x Keith Godchaux |
Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was a musician best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead.
Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California. He met and married Donna Jean...
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| x Bruce Lee |
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Bruce Lee (Jun Fan, 李振藩, 李小龍; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènfān, Lǐ Xiăolóng; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Chinese American and Hong Kong actor, martial artist, philosopher, film director, screenwriter, practitioner of Wing Chun and founder of the Jeet...
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| x Heath Ledger |
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Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His...
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| x Edgar Allan Poe |
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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest...
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| x Dylan Thomas |
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Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself. His public...
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| x John F. Kennedy |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29 , 1917 – November 22 , 1963), also referred to as John F. Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy or Jack Kennedy , was the 35th President of the United States. He served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Major events...
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| x Sonny Bono |
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Salvatore Phillip "Sonny" Bono (February 16, 1935 – January 5, 1998) was an American record producer, singer, actor, and politician whose career spanned over three decades.
Born in Detroit to Italian immigrants Jean and Santo, Sonny had two older...
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| x Michael Landon |
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Michael Landon (October 31, 1936 – July 1, 1991) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who starred in three popular NBC TV series that spanned three decades. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in Bonanza (1959...
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| x Dana Plato |
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Dana Michelle Plato (November 7, 1964 – May 8, 1999) was an American actress notable for playing the role of Kimberly Drummond in the U.S. television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes. Plato's career declined after her departure from the show, with...
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| x Randy Pausch |
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Randolph Frederick "Randy" Pausch (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) was an American professor of computer science and human-computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pausch learned that he had...
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| x Chris Farley |
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Christopher Crosby "Chris" Farley (February 15, 1964 – December 18, 1997) was an American comedian and actor. Farley was a member of Chicago's The Second City Theatre and the cast of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live. He has also...
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| x Robert Gould Shaw |
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Robert Gould Shaw (October 10, 1837 – July 18, 1863) was the colonel in command of the all-black 54th Regiment, which entered the American Civil War in 1863. He is the principal subject of the 1989 film Glory. He was killed in a failed attempt to...
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| x Anne Brontë |
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Anne Brontë (pronounced /ˈbrɒnti/) (17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.
The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her...
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| x Robert Murray M'Cheyne |
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Robert Murray M'Cheyne (pronounced, and occasionally spelled as "McCheyne"; 21 May 1813 – 25 March 1843) was a minister in the Church of Scotland from 1835 to 1843. He was born at Edinburgh, was educated at the University of Edinburgh and at the...
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| x Hank Gathers |
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Eric "Hank" Gathers (February 11, 1967, in Philadelphia – March 4, 1990 in Los Angeles) was an American college basketball star at Loyola Marymount University who collapsed and died during a game. He originally played at the University of Southern...
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| x Rico Yan |
Ricardo Carlos Castro Yan (March 14, 1975 – March 29, 2002) was a Filipino matinee idol, model and actor. He was under an exclusive contract in the ABS-CBN Broadcasting Network. Yan was a member of ABS-CBN's circle of homegrown talents named Star...
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| x Sammy Babitzin |
Aleksandr "Sammy" Babitzin (11 July 1948, Helsinki – 29 April 1973, Jyväskylä) was a Finnish popular music singer, the brother of Kirka.
Babitzin started his professional career in a band called The Stealers. Its line-up also included Remu Aaltonen....
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| x Christoph Probst |
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Christoph Hermann Probst (born November 6, 1919 in Murnau am Staffelsee – executed February 22, 1943 in Munich) was a student of medicine and a member of the White Rose (Weiße Rose) resistance group.
White Rose was the name of a resistance group in...
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| x Yaki Kadafi |
Yafeu Akiyele Fula (October 9, 1977 - November 10, 1996) was a rapper who was part of the American rap group Outlawz, who are best known for their collaborations with Tupac Shakur. Yaki was a long time friend with Tupac since childhood. While part...
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| x Fabio Casartelli |
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Fabio Casartelli (August 16, 1970 – July 18, 1995) was an Italian cyclist and an Olympic gold medalist, who died in a crash on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet, France, during the 15th stage of the 1995 Tour de France.
He was born in Como,...
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| x Josh Hancock |
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Joshua Morgan Hancock (April 11, 1978 – April 29, 2007) was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals. Born in Cleveland, Mississippi, he lived in St. Louis...
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| x Jean Vigo |
Jean Vigo (26 April 1905 – 5 October 1934) was a French film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s and was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Vigo was born to Emily Clero and...
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| x Gift Leremi |
Mpho "Gift" Leremi (October 13, 1984 – September 3, 2007) was a South African football midfielder for Mamelodi Sundowns, in the Premier Soccer League, and South Africa. Leremi died in a car crash on September 3, 2007 near Johannesburg, South Africa....
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| x Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor |
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Otto III (980 – 23 January 1002) was the fourth ruler of the Saxon or Ottonian dynasty of the Holy Roman Empire. He was elected king of Germany in 983 on the death of his father Otto II.
Otto was born in Kessel, near Goch, in what is now North Rhine...
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| x Novalis |
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Novalis (German pronunciation: [noˈvaːlɪs]) was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (May 2, 1772 – March 25, 1801), an author and philosopher of early German Romanticism.
Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg was born...
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| x Ryan Shay |
Ryan Shay (May 4, 1979 – November 3, 2007) was an American professional long-distance runner. He was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, and attended the University of Notre Dame. He was married to Alicia Craig, also an American distance runner.
Ryan Shay ...
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| x Pete de Freitas |
Pete Louis Vincent de Freitas (2 August 1961–14 June 1989) was a musician and producer, best known as a drummer with Echo & the Bunnymen.
In 1961, de Freitas was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago and educated by the Benedictines at Downside...
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| x Timothy Birdsall |
Timothy Birdsall (10 May 1936 in Cambridge, England – 10 June 1963 ) was an English cartoonist.
Birdsall appeared on the BBC’s That Was The Week That Was. He was shown behind a glass panel improvising drawings on it with an ink-marker. While at...
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| x Alexander Fu Sheng |
Alexander Fu Sheng (simplified Chinese: 傅声; traditional Chinese: 傅聲; pinyin: Fù Shēng 20 October 1954-7 July 1983) (born as Chang Fu-Sheng, 張富聲) was a major Hong Kong martial arts film star in the 1970s.
Alexander was born as Cheung Fu-Sheng in 20...
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| x Terrence Kiel |
Terrence Dewayne Kiel (November 24, 1980 — July 4, 2008) was an American safety in the National Football League. He played his entire career for the San Diego Chargers (2003-2006) after being drafted by them in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft...
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| x David Strickland |
David Gordon Strickland, Jr. (October 14, 1969 – March 22, 1999) was an American television actor best known for playing the boyish rock music reporter Todd Styles in the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan.
Strickland was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, New...
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| x Jason Thirsk |
Jason Matthew Thirsk (December 25, 1967 – July 29, 1996) was the former bass player of the California punk rock band Pennywise who grew up in Hermosa Beach, California.
Thirsk, who had been in rehabilitation for alcoholism and also suffered from...
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| x Teddy Diaz |
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Teodoro de Villa Diaz, more popularly known as Teddy Diaz (April 1, 1963 - August 21, 1988), was the founding guitarist of the Filipino rock band The Dawn. At the height of his career and at the peak of The Dawn's popularity in the late 1980s, he...
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| x Sándor Petőfi |
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Sándor Petőfi (pronounced [ˈʃaːndor ˈpɛtøːfi], 1 January 1823 – most likely 31 July 1849), Hungarian poet and revolutionary, was the author of the Nemzeti dal, the poem said to have inspired the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, in which he played a key...
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| x Lillian Board |
Lillian Barbara Board, MBE (13 December 1948 – 26 December 1970) was an athlete from Great Britain, who won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and two gold medals at the 1969 European Championships in...
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| x Christopher Pettiet |
Christopher Lee Pettiet (February 12, 1976 – April 12, 2000) was an American television and film actor best known for his role as Jesse James in the Western TV series The Young Riders and as Zach Crandell in the cult comedy film Don't Tell Mom the...
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| x Tommy Taylor |
Thomas "Tommy" Taylor (29 January 1932 – 6 February 1958) was an English footballer, who was known for his aerial ability. He was one of the eight Manchester United players who lost their lives in the Munich air disaster.
Taylor began his career...
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| x Merritt Butrick |
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Merritt R. Butrick (September 3, 1959 – March 17, 1989) was an American actor who was known for his role as Captain James T. Kirk's son David Marcus in the movies Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. He also...
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| x Maria Malibran |
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The mezzo-soprano (although she commonly sang soprano parts) Maria Malibran (March 24, 1808 – September 23, 1836), was one of the most famous opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality and dramatic intensity,...
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| x Hillel Slovak |
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Hillel Slovak (April 13, 1962–June 25, 1988) was an Israeli-American musician best known as the original guitarist and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers. Prior to his death of a heroin overdose in 1988, Slovak...
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| x Jean Harlow |
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Jean Harlow (March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American film actress and sex symbol of the 1930s. Known as the "Platinum Blonde" and the "Blonde Bombshell" due to her platinum blonde hair, Harlow was ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of...
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| x Jarno Saarinen |
Jarno Karl Keimo Saarinen (December 11, 1945 in Turku, Finland – May 20, 1973 in Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Italy) was a Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He is the only Finn to win a road racing World Championship.
Early in Saarinen's...
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| x Timo K. Mukka |
Timo Kustaa Mukka (17 December 1944 - 27 March 1973) was a Finnish author who wrote about the lives of people in Lapland.
Timo Mukka was born in Bollnäs in Sweden. During his life Mukka studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki and completed...
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| x Jesse Belvin |
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Jesse Lorenzo Belvin (December 15, 1932 – February 6, 1960) was an American R&B; singer, pianist and songwriter popular in the 1950s, whose success was cut short by his death in a car crash aged 27.
Belvin was born in Texarkana, Texas, and moved...
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| x Carol Willis |
Carol Willis (April 17, 1951 – November 24, 1971) was an American model.
She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its July 1970 issue and her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar.
Willis was part Cherokee. She was born in Texas...
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| x Andrea Feldman |
Andrea Feldman (April 1, 1948 – August 8, 1972) was an American actress and a Warhol superstar. A native New Yorker, she starred in several of Warhol’s underground movies, such as Trash, before committing suicide in 1972.
Feldman was a regular in...
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| x Marc-Vivien Foé |
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Marc-Vivien Foé (1 May 1975 – 26 June 2003) was a Cameroonian international football player, who played in midfield for both club and country. With success in the French League, and stints in the English Premier League, his sudden death, while in...
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| x Christopher Marlowe |
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Christopher Marlowe (c. 26 February 1564–30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. The foremost Elizabethan tragedian next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching...
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| x Aaliyah |
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Aaliyah Dana Haughton (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001), who performed under the mononym Aaliyah (pronounced /əˈliːə/), was an American recording artist, actress and model. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, and was raised in Detroit, Michigan....
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| x Ashleigh Aston Moore |
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Ashleigh Aston Moore (September 30, 1981 – December 10, 2007) was a Canadian child actress. She is best known for her role in the 1995 film Now and Then.
Moore was born Ashley Rogers in Sunnyvale, California. She had two younger brothers, Aeron and...
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| x Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder |
Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (13 July 1773 – 13 February 1798) was a German jurist and writer. With Ludwig Tieck, he was a co-founder of German Romanticism.
Wackenroder was born in Berlin. He was a close friend of Tieck from youth until his early...
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| x Lucille Ricksen |
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Lucille Ricksen (August 22, 1909 – March 13, 1925) was an American motion picture actress during the silent film era.
Born Lucille Ericksen in Chicago, Illinois, Ricksen began her career as a professional child model. In 1920 she arrived with her...
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