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Troy Donahue was a journalism student at Columbia University when he began playing in stock productions. He made his film debut in Man Afraid (1957) and in 1959 signed as a contract player with Warner Bros., which promoted him to stardom with A Summer Place (1959) that year. He was soon a teenage heartthrob, his blond hair and blue eyes appearing frequently on the covers of movie magazines. His most successful film was Parrish (1961), in which he played the title character. A few years after that his career went into a decline; he made only a few television movies between the mid-'60s and his small role in The Godfather Part II (1974) (in which his character's name, Merle Johnson, was actually his real name). His later films were almost entirely for the low-budget home video market, e.g., Sexpot (1990) and Nudity Required (1989).
On August 30, 2001, Donahue suffered a heart attack and was admitted to the hospital in Santa Monica, California. He died three days later on September 2 at the age of 65.- He studied medicine in Cape Town, where he also received his doctorate and completed his residency. He received specialist surgical training at the University of Minnesota in the USA. In 1948 he married Aletta Gertruida Louw and the couple had a daughter and a son. He performed his first heart operation in Minnesota, but in 1958 he returned to Cape Town. There he initially worked as a general practitioner before becoming a surgical assistant at the Medical School at the University of Cape Town. In the same year he performed the first open heart operation at the Groote Schuur Hospital. He became director of the surgical research department at the University of Cape Town and was appointed professor of thoracic surgery at the age of 40. However, he had already had around 1,000 heart operations. In addition, since 1963 he had been intensively involved in animal experiments with special surgical techniques, such as special vascular suturing techniques and the effects of medication.
On December 3, 1967, Prof. Barnard led the 31-member transplant team that achieved the first human heart transplant. The heart of Denise Darvall, who died in a car accident at the age of 25, was transplanted into the patient, Louis Washkansky, in a five-hour operation at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. The operation was successful in that Washkansky survived it. To prevent his body from rejecting the foreign organ, Washkansky's immune powers were largely disabled. After 18 days he died of pneumonia as a result of an infection. The second patient, Dr. Philip Blaiberg, underwent surgery on January 2, 1968 and lived with the transplanted heart for 19 months. Nevertheless, transplant medicine did not initially catch on. It only experienced an upswing around 1980, when the active ingredient cyclosporine was used to suppress the rejection of foreign organs. Even after the first heart transplant, Barnard made a name for himself with further spectacular operations.
In 1971, he simultaneously transplanted a heart and both lungs into a patient. In 1974, he transplanted a donor heart without first removing the diseased organ. Both patients died not long after surgery. After the divorce in 1970, he married Barbara Maria Zoellner and the couple had two sons. The marriage ended in divorce in 1982. In 1983 Barnard had to give up his practice as a surgeon because he suffered from severe arthritis. He dedicated himself to heart disease children with the "Christian Barnard Foundation", ran a clinic on the Greek island of Kos and worked as a scientist in Oklahoma on aging problems. He has published numerous non-fiction books such as the guide "50 Ways to a Healthy Heart". In 1988, Karin Setzkorn became his third wife, with whom he had a daughter and a son. This marriage also ended in divorce in 2000.
Christiaan Neethling Barnard died on September 2, 2001 while on vacation in Cyprus at the age of 78. - John Wallace Overall, was an Australian World War II veteran and architect. Overall served as an officer in the Australian Imperial Force during World War Two. He was awarded the Military Cross. After serving with the 9th Divisional Engineers, in September 1943 he was given command of Australia's first parachute infantry battalion, the 1st Parachute Battalion.
After the war had ended, Overall worked as an architect. In 1952 was made the Chief Government Architect in the Commonwealth Department of Works. In 1957 he was appointed Commissioner of the National Capital Development Commission' making significant contributions to the development of Canberra. In 1972, he returned to private practice in 1972.
In 1982, he was awarded the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal.
His wife Margaret, died in 1988, with Overall passing away in 2001, being survived by four sons and many grandchildren. - Michel Caron was born in 1929 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Les messieurs de Saint-Roy (1973), Graduate First (1978) and Le démon dans l'île (1983). He died on 2 September 2001.
- Director
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Theo Gallehr was born on 15 July 1929. He was a director and writer, known for Rote Fahnen sieht man besser (1971), In der Hölle ist noch Platz (1961) and Gruppo Di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza (1967). He died on 2 September 2001.- Peter Wigzell was born on 26 August 1925 in Camberwell, Surrey, England. He was an actor, known for ITV Television Playhouse (1955). He was married to Annie Robinson. He died on 2 September 2001 in Frome, Somerset, England, UK.
- Lothar Dombrowski was born on 22 December 1933 in Bydgoszcz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Die Glückspirale (1972), ARD-Fernsehlotterie - Ein Platz an der Sonne (1956) and Dalli Dalli (1971). He died on 2 September 2001 in Bergisch Gladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
- Sound Department
Larry Lantz is known for City Confidential (1998), Snoopy's Campfire Stories (1996) and Get Ready for School, Charlie Brown! (1995). Larry died on 2 September 2001 in Los Angeles, California, USA.