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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.
    • February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
    • April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
    • June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
    • July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
    • August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
    • October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.

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.
    • February 19 » Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.
    • March 3 » Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
    • May 31 » United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
    • August 7 » Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
    • September 19 » A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
    • October 30 » Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.


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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