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- Sybil Lamb was born on 26 July 1932 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Car 54, Where Are You? (1961). She was married to Joseph Schmerler. She died on 5 July 2001.
- Marcel De la Brosse was born on 4 August 1902 in Hericy, France. He was an actor, known for Le chanteur de Séville (1931), Suspicion (1957) and 77 Sunset Strip (1958). He died on 5 July 2001 in Carroll, Iowa, USA.
- Hannelore Kohl (7 March 1933 in Berlin - 5 July 2001) was the first wife of former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. She met him for the first time at a prom in Ludwigshafen, Germany, when she was 15 years old.
She was born in Berlin and was christened Johanna Klara Eleonore Renner. Her father Wilhelm Renner, who joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in 1933, was Wehrwirtschaftsführer at Hugo Schneider AG and also headed the employment office that developed the anti-tank weapon Panzerfaust.
Later, she chose the portmanteau "Hannelore" to be used as her first name.
In the days following Germany's defeat in World War II, at the age of 12, Hannelore Kohl was raped by Red Army soldiers and subsequently "thrown out of a window like a sack of potatoes by the Russians." In addition to the obvious psychological impact, the attacks left her with a fractured vertebra and back pain for the rest of her life. In order to help others with similar injuries, in 1983 she founded the Kuratorium ZNS, a foundation that helps those with trauma-induced injuries to the central nervous system, and became its president.
On 5 July 2001, Hannelore was found dead at age 68 in her Ludwigshafen home. She had apparently committed suicide with an overdose of medication, after years of suffering from what she had claimed to be a very rare and painful allergy induced by an earlier penicillin treatment that had forced her to avoid practically all sunlight for years. Hannelore's biographer, Heribert Schwan, cited "medical experts to support his theory that the bizarre light allergy of her later years may have been a psychosomatic reaction to the suppressed traumas of the war." In 2005, the Kuratorium ZNS was renamed ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Stiftung in her honor.
Kohl's collection of German-style cooking recipes, Kulinarische Reise durch Deutsche Länder (Culinary Journey through German Regions), was published in 1996. - Special Effects
- Art Department
For more than thirty years, A. D. Flowers worked his magic in movies and on TV and ended his career as one of Hollywood's most highly respected and sought-after special effects experts. His craft, however, predated the now-universally employed computerized high-tech FX that the movie and TV industry relies upon today. Explosives, flashbulbs, miniatures, water tanks, unique recipes for blood, and a lot of improvisation (not to mention chance) comprised Flowers' bag of tricks. Affirming that he used his bag of tricks to its best advantage, the Academy Awards presented Flowers with Oscars for his contributions as a "powder man" in the 1970 production of "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and for his skillful creation of disaster in the 1972 "The Poseidon Adventure." He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work with Steven Spielberg in the 1979 movie "1941" -- one of Flowers last efforts in his field. He was born in Texas and raised in Sayre, Oklahoma. After graduating from high school in 1935, like so many others from Oklahoma in the '30s, he hitchhiked to California, the golden state, where he hoped to find work. Within three years he was married and, with the help of his father-in-law, a painter at MGM studios, had a job as a studio handyman. Starting right at the bottom, literally, Flowers spent his first 19 nights at his new job on his hands and knees polishing a dance floor that Mickey Rooney used. He eventually moved from floors to grounds and was given the "greenman" assignment wherein his responsibility included feeding and nursing and otherwise maintaining plants, flowers, and any turf on movie sets. By the mid-'40s, Flowers had worked his way into the studio property department and from there onto assignments working with special effects. Explosives became his forte, but anything mechanical proved his domain. Whether employing hydraulics, electronics, or pyrotechnics -- skills that he studied at trade schools while practicing them in movies -- Flowers helped create or re-create fires, floods, dog fights (the aerial kind), bombs bursting in air, etc. For many years he enjoyed the role of chief of mechanical special effects at 20th Century-Fox. And his specialties were not limited to movies. He also plied his trade in television on shows such as "Gunsmoke" and Combat!" for example. A. D. Flowers retired to Camarillo, California, in 1979.- Willy Bartelsen was born on 3 February 1929 in Flensburg, Germany. He was an actor, known for The Democratic Terrorist (1992), Traffik (1989) and Tatort (1970). He died on 5 July 2001 in Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
- Soundtrack
R&B singer Ernie K-Doe was born Ernest Kadore Jr. in New Orleans in 1936. He is mos famous for his 1961 #1 hit, "Mother-in-Law", written and produced by pioneering R&B producer Allen Toussaint.
K-Doe sang in various gospel groups in New Orleans before his family moved to Chicago in 1953. There he sang with such groups as The Moonglows and The Flamingos, and recorded several R&B songs for Chicago's United Records, but they were never released. He soon returned to New Orleans and formed his own group, The Blue Diamonds, which released several records on the Savoy label, but they didn't do much for the group's career. In 1955 he left the group and signed with Specialty Records. He gained a reputation for putting on energetic and raucous stage shows and soon was playing in many of the top clubs in New Orleans, but he just couldn't crack the record market. In 1960 he signed with Minit Records and started working with Toussaint. The first two records they cut didn't do much, but the third was "Mother-in-Law", which became his biggest hit. Unfortunately, he was never able to duplicate that record's success. He continued performing and recording throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and even worked for a while as a disc jockey.
He died in 2001 and is buried in New Orleans.- Nelli Radó was born in 1910 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for A kék bálvány (1931). She died on 5 July 2001 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Producer
Carlo Bernasconi was born on 15 August 1943 in Salzburg, Austria. He was a producer, known for Malena (2000). He died on 5 July 2001 in Milan, Italy.- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Werner Scharfenberger was born on 25 September 1925 in Regensburg, Germany. He was a composer and actor, known for Mein Schatz ist aus Tirol (1958), Blaue Jungs (1957) and Conny und Peter machen Musik (1960). He died on 5 July 2001 in Lugano, Switzerland.- Helene de Beauvoir was born on 6 June 1910 in Paris, France. She died on 5 July 2001 in Goxwiller, Bas-Rhin, France.
- Additional Crew
Arthur M. Concello was born on 26 March 1911 in Starbuck, Washington, USA. He is known for The Greatest Show on Earth (1952). He was married to Antoinette Concello. He died on 5 July 2001 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Jindrich Brabec was born on 25 May 1933 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. He was a composer, known for Marta Kubisová: Modlitba pro Martu (1967), Nada Urbánková: Nadeje (1967) and Advokát ex offo (1989). He died on 5 July 2001 in Prague, Czech Republic.- She was a daughter of a former promoter of Sanremo's Festival for the Italian song, she studied at University of Comunication in Rome, and passed the last examination before of dying of leukemia on 2001. The university decided to assign her a special degree as a memoriam because she has spent the last part of her life studying. Laura non c'è (1998) is the only film she made.