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Personal data Orson Welles 


Household of Orson Welles

He had a relationship with Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino.

The couple were divorced in 1920.

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Historical events

Birthday May 6, 1915

  • The temperature on May 6, 1915 was between 10.2 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1915: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 6.3 million citizens.
    • January 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
    • January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
    • April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
    • May 7 » The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
    • May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
    • May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.

Day of death October 10, 1985

  • The temperature on October 10, 1985 was between 9.6 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
  • Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
  • In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
  • In the year 1985: Source: Wikipedia
    • The Netherlands had about 14.5 million citizens.
    • January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
    • May 25 » Bangladesh is hit by a tropical cyclone and storm surge, which kills approximately 10,000 people.
    • July 17 » Founding of the EUREKA Network by former head of states François Mitterrand (France) and Helmut Kohl (Germany).
    • September 19 » Tipper Gore and other political wives form the Parents Music Resource Center as Frank Zappa and other musicians testify at U.S. Congressional hearings on obscenity in rock music.
    • November 23 » Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid.
    • December 16 » Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti, who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family.


Same birth/death day

Source: Wikipedia

Source: Wikipedia

  • 1982 » Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
  • 1983 » Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
  • 1985 » Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1915)
  • 1985 » Yul Brynner, Russian actor (b. 1920)
  • 1986 » Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist and academic (b. 1899)
  • 1987 » Behice Boran, Turkish Marxist politician, author and sociologist (b. 1910)

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