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| x Harvey Milk |
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Dan White | Nov 27, 1978 | San Francisco City Hall |
Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Politics and gay activism were not...
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| x George Moscone |
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Dan White | Nov 27, 1978 | San Francisco City Hall |
George Richard Moscone (November 24, 1929 – November 27, 1978) (pronounced /mɒsˈkoʊni/) was an American attorney and Democratic politician. He was the mayor of San Francisco, California, US from January 1976 until his assassination in November 1978....
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| x John Lennon |
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Mark David Chapman | Dec 8, 1980 | The Dakota |
John Winston Ono Lennon, MBE (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980) was an English rock musician, singer-songwriter, author, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles. With Paul McCartney, Lennon formed...
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| x Lee Harvey Oswald |
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Jack Ruby |
Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was, according to three United States government investigations, the assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who was fatally shot on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.
A United States...
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| x John F. Kennedy |
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Lee Harvey Oswald | Nov 22, 1963 12:30pm | Dallas |
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 Robert Ford |
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Edward Capehart O'Kelley |
Robert Newton "Bob" Ford (January 31, 1862 – June 8, 1892) was a Ray County, Missouri born American outlaw who gained fame by killing his gang leader Jesse James in 1882. Ford was shot to death by Edward O'Kelley in his tent saloon with a shotgun...
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| x Jesse James |
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Robert Ford |
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882) was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank and train robber from the state of Missouri and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Already a celebrity when he was alive, he became a...
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| x Al Adamson |
Al Adamson (July 25, 1929 – June 21, 1995) was a prolific director of B-grade horror films throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
After assisting his father in making the 1963 movie Halfway to Hell, Adamson decided to work in the motion picture industry....
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| x Alex Odeh |
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Alex Odeh (April 4, 1944 – October 11, 1985) was an Arab-American anti-discrimination activist who was killed in a bombing as he opened the door of his office at 1905 East 17th Street, Santa Ana, California. Odeh was west-coast regional director of...
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| x Orlando Anderson |
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Orlando Tive "Baby Lane" Anderson (August 13, 1974 – May 29, 1998) was an affiliate of the Southside Crips and is believed to be responsible for the murder of acclaimed American rapper Tupac Shakur. On the night of September 7, 1996 in Las Vegas...
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| x Walter H. Auble |
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Walter H. Auble was the police chief in Los Angeles, California, on a one-year appointment from November 1905 to 1906. He was born around 1861 in Illinois and was killed in a shooting on September 9, 1908. He was only the third Los Angeles Police...
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| x The Notorious B.I.G. |
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Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), popularly known as Biggie Smalls (after a fictional gangster in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again), Frank White (from the 1990 film King of New York), and by his primary stage name The...
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| x David Bacon |
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David Bacon (March 24, 1914 – September 13, 1943) was an American film actor.
Born Gaspar Griswold Bacon, Jr. in Barnstable, Massachusetts, his family were one of the prominent Brahmin families and active in politics. His father Gaspar G. Bacon was...
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| x Chauncey Bailey |
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Chauncey Wendell Bailey, Jr. (20 October 1949 – 2 August 2007) was an American journalist, noted for his work primarily on issues of the African-American community. He served as editor-in-chief of The Oakland Post from June 2007 until he was shot...
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| x Bonnie Lee Bakley |
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May 4, 2001 |
Bonnie Lee Bakley (June 7, 1956 – May 4, 2001) was the wife of actor Robert Blake.
Bonnie Lee Bakley was born in Morristown, New Jersey to arborist Edward J. Bakley and his wife, Marjorie, aka Lois Carlyon. She had three other siblings: Margery Lois...
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| x Judith Barsi |
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Judith Eva Barsi (June 6, 1978 – July 25, 1988) was an American actress. She was small in stature and often played characters younger than her actual age. On July 25, 1988, at the age of 10, she was murdered by her father.
Judith Barsi was the...
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| x Georgette Bauerdorf |
Georgette Elise Bauerdorf (May 6, 1924 – October 12, 1944) was a twenty-year-old oil heiress who was strangled in her home at the El Palacio Apartments on 8493 Fountain Avenue, West Hollywood, California. She was educated in a convent on Long Island...
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| x Susan Berman |
Author Susan Berman (1945-2000) was murdered execution style with a nine-millimeter hand gun on Christmas Eve 2000 in Benedict Canyon, California.
Berman's father was mob figure Davie Berman, who had replaced Bugsy Siegel in Las Vegas at the...
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| x Paul Bern |
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Paul Bern (December 3, 1889 – September 5, 1932) was a German-American film director, screenwriter and producer for MGM.
He was born Paul Levy to a Jewish family in Wandsbek, which was then a town in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein (now...
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| x Black Dahlia |
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Elizabeth Short (July 29, 1924 – ca. January 15, 1947) was an American woman who was the victim of a gruesome and much-publicized murder. She acquired the nickname Black Dahlia after moving to California. Short was found mutilated, her body severed,...
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| x Francis Boggs |
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Francis W. Boggs (March 1870 – October 27, 1911) was a stage actor and pioneer silent film director. He was one of the first to direct a film in Hollywood.
He was born in Santa Rosa, California to George W. Boggs and Alabama McMeans. While in his...
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| x Lenny Breau |
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Lenny Breau (August 5, 1941–August 12, 1984) was a Canadian guitarist. He was known for blending many styles of music including: jazz, country, classical and flamenco guitar. Breau, inspired by country guitarists like Chet Atkins, used fingerstyle...
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| x Susan Cabot |
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Susan Cabot (July 9, 1927 – December 10, 1986) was an American actress.
Born Harriet Shapiro to a Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, Cabot's early life was one of turmoil, and she was raised in eight different foster homes. She completed her...
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| x Margaret Campbell |
Margaret Campbell (April 24, 1883 – June 27, 1939) was an American character actress in silent films.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Campbell had been the leading lady of the Bramhall Players and appeared on Broadway in revivals of Hamlet and The...
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| x Nicholas Candy |
Nicholas Candy (1949 - 1996) was a British-born U.S. permanent resident who was killed, at age 47, by his father-in-law, Richard Keech, a then 79-year old World War II veteran, in a contentiously disputed case. The prosecution contended that it was...
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| x Thor Nis Christiansen |
Thor Nis Christiansen (28 December 1957 – 30 March 1981) was a serial killer from Solvang, California. He committed his first three murders in late 1976 and early 1977, killing young women of similar appearance from Isla Vista, California. His...
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| x Barbara Colby |
Barbara Colby (July 2, 1940 – July 24, 1975) was an American actress.
Born Barbara Colby in New York City on July 2, 1940, she started her acting career in the theater. Following a solid performance in Six Characters in Search of an Author in 1964,...
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| x Joe Cole |
Joseph Dennis "Joe" Cole (April 10, 1961 – December 19, 1991) was a roadie for Black Flag and Rollins Band. He was also the best friend and roommate of the musician/author/actor Henry Rollins. His memoirs were published posthumously by 2.13.61...
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| x Corine Christensen |
Corine Christensen (1955 – 1986) was a prostitute, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) student, and cocaine abuser who was murdered in California on November 3, 1986. Christensen specialized in performing kinky sex acts for money. With her boyfriend,...
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| x Tara Correa-McMullen |
Tara Correa-McMullen (May 24, 1989 – October 21, 2005), born Shalvah McMullen, was an American actress who was most well-known for a recurring role playing a gang member, Graciela Reyes, on the CBS television series Judging Amy. In 2005, she co...
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| x Ennis Cosby |
Ennis William Cosby (April 15, 1969 – January 16, 1997) was the son of comedian-actor Bill Cosby and Camille Cosby. He was murdered in 1997 on the shoulder of Los Angeles' 405 Freeway by Mikhail Markhasev.
Ennis' father Bill Cosby mined family life...
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| x Kirsten Costas |
Kirsten Marina Costas (July 23, 1968 – June 23, 1984) was an American high school student who was murdered by her classmate, Bernadette Protti, in 1984.
The daughter of well-to-do parents, Arthur and Berit Costas, she and her brother Peter grew up...
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| x Barry Crane |
Barry Crane, born Barry Cohen, (November 10, 1927, Detroit, Michigan – July 5, 1985, Los Angeles, California) was a prolific television producer and director, and a champion bridge player.
Crane (sometimes credited as Barry Cohen) produced The...
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| x William Maurice Davis |
William Maurice Davis, also known as Willie Mo D, was a small time drug dealer and bookie in the Oakland, California area who was shot and killed in his backyard swimming pool in what has become an infamous gangland murder. Police responding to the...
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| x Karel de Leeuw |
Karel deLeeuw, or de Leeuw (February 20, 1930(1930-02-20) – August 18, 1978), was a mathematician at Stanford University, specializing in harmonic analysis and functional analysis. He received his doctorate at Princeton in 1954 under Emil Artin. He...
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| x Dominique Dunne |
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Dominique Ellen Dunne (November 23, 1959 – November 4, 1982) was an American actress.
Dunne made appearances in several made for television movies, television series, and films, and played a prominent role as the oldest daughter, Dana, in the 1982...
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| x Abigail Folger |
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Aug 9, 1969 | Laurel Canyon |
Abigail Anne "Gibby" Folger (August 11, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American coffee heiress, debutante, socialite, volunteer social worker, civil rights devotee and member of the prominent United States Folger family. She was the great-great...
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| x Marcus Foster |
Marcus Albert Foster (March 31,1923 – November 6, 1973) was a respected African-American educator who gained a national reputation for educational excellence while serving as principal of Simon Gratz High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as...
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| x Marvin Gaye |
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Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr., better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye, (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist with a three-octave vocal range. Starting as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the...
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| x Dedrick D. Gobert |
Dedrick D. Gobert (November 25, 1971 - November 19, 1994) born Dedrick Dwayne Fontenot was an American actor best known for his supporting role as Dooky in the 1991 John Singleton film Boyz N the Hood. Born in Louisiana, Gobert was an up and coming...
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| x Ronald Goldman |
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Ronald Lyle "Ron" Goldman (July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994) was an American aspiring model and waiter. He was murdered in 1994 along with Nicole Brown Simpson, former wife of O. J. Simpson, an actor and retired American football player. The subsequent...
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| x Haing S. Ngor |
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Dr. Haing S. Ngor (Traditional Chinese: 吳漢, March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the movie The...
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| x Latasha Harlins |
Latasha Harlins (1976 – 1991) was a 15 year-old African-American girl who was shot and killed on March 16, 1991, by Soon Ja Du, a 49 year-old Korean store owner. Harlins was a student at Westchester High School in Los Angeles, California. Because...
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| x Brooke Hart |
Brooke Hart (June 11, 1911 – November 9, 1933) was the oldest son of Alexander Hart, the owner of L. Hart and Son Department Store in San Jose, California. His kidnapping and murder was reported throughout the United States, and the lynching of his...
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| x Phil Hartman |
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Brynn Hartman |
Phil Hartman (September 24, 1948 – May 28, 1998) was a Canadian-born American actor, comedian, screenwriter and graphic artist. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Hartman and his family immigrated to the United States when he was ten. After graduating from...
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| x Evelyn Hernandez |
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Evelyn Hernandez (1978 - 2002) was a woman who disappeared along with her five-year-old son in San Francisco, California in May 2002. She was nine months pregnant with her second child at the time she went missing.
Evelyn Hernandez, a 24-year-old...
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| x Huang Yuanyong |
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Huang Yuanyong (黃遠庸), (Pen name: Huang Yuansheng 黃遠生) (15 January 1885 – 25 December 1915) was a renowned Chinese author and journalist during the late Qing Dynasty (清朝) and early Republic of China (民國初年). Huang made significant contributions to...
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| x Ronald Hughes |
Ronald Hughes (March 16, 1935 – c. November 1970) was a court appointed attorney who represented Manson family member Leslie Van Houten and an alleged Manson family murder victim.
Hughes was among the first lawyers to meet with Charles Manson in...
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| x Meredith Hunter |
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Meredith Hunter (October 24, 1951 – December 6, 1969) was a spectator at the Altamont Free Concert. During the performance by The Rolling Stones, Hunter pulled out a gun and was then stabbed to death by a Hells Angel serving as a security guard. The...
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| x Peter Ivers |
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Peter Scott Ivers (September 1946 - March 3, 1983) was an American musician, best known as the host of New Wave Theatre.
Ivers was born in Illinois, but raised in Brookline, a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts. He attended the Roxbury Latin School and...
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| x Don Jordan |
Don Jordan (1934-1997) was a boxer born in Los Angeles, California and was the undisputed Welterweight Champion of the World from 1958 to 1960. His nickname was ‘Geronimo’. Managed by Don Nesseth.
Born 22 June 1934 in Los Angeles, Jordan’s brief...
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| x Charlie Keever |
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Charles “Charlie” Allen Keever (1980 - March 27, 1993) was a 13 year old boy who was murdered on March 27, 1993, in San Diego County, California, along with his friend, 9 year old Jonathan Sellers. The murder of both boys was solved via a DNA match...
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| x Robert F. Kennedy |
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Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (Irish: Roibeárd Proinsias Ó Cinnéide, November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968), also referred to by his initials RFK, was an American politician. He was a younger brother of President John F. Kennedy and acted as one of his...
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| x Victor Kilian |
Victor Arthur Kilian (March 6, 1891 – March 11, 1979) was an American actor who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Victor Kilian began his career in entertainment at the age of...
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| x Polly Klaas |
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Polly Hannah Klaas (January 3, 1981 - October 1993) was an American murder victim whose case gained national attention. At the age of 12, she was kidnapped at knife point from her mother's home during a slumber party in Petaluma, California, on...
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| x Suesan and Sheila Knorr |
Suesan Marline Knorr (September 27, 1966 - July 16, 1984), and Sheila Gay Sanders (March 13, 1965 - June 24, 1985), were teenaged sisters from Sacramento, California, who were both abused and later killed by their mother, Theresa Knorr. Suesan was...
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| x Karyn Kupcinet |
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Karyn "Cookie" Kupcinet (March 6, 1941 – November 28, 1963) was an American actress who was found dead at her West Hollywood, California home, in the days following the JFK assassination. It has been theorized that her death, officially ruled a...
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| x Leno LaBianca | Susan Atkins |
Pasqualino Antonio "Leno" LaBianca (August 6, 1925 - August 10, 1969) and his wife Rosemary LaBianca (December 15, 1930 - August 10, 1969) were victims of the Manson Family murders.
Rosemary LaBianca was born in Arizona to parents who divorced. Her...
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| x Robert Lees |
Robert Lees (July 10, 1912 – June 13, 2004) was an American television and film screenwriter. Lees was best known for writing comedy, including several Abbott and Costello films.
Born in San Francisco, California, Lees started in show business as a...
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| x Chiang Nan |
Henry Liu (7 December 1932, Jingjiang, Jiangsu, China – 15 October 1984, Daly City, California, United States), often known by his pen name Chiang Nan, was a writer and journalist from Taiwan. He was a vocal critic of the Kuomintang (Nationalist...
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