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- George Baker was born on 10 February 1885 in Birkenhead, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Waltz Time (1933), The Beggar's Opera (1948) and The Loves of Robert Burns (1930). He was married to Olive Groves and Kathlyn Hilliard. He died on 8 January 1976 in Pontrilas, Herefordshire, England, UK.
- En-lai Chou (Enlai Zhou) is wildly recognized as the most influential diplomat in the history of Communist China, but less commonly known as the right-hand man of Zedong Mao.
He was born in rural Hwaian, China, in 1898 (the exact date is unknown). The son of an imperial government bureaucrat, Chou was disillusioned by the Manchu court's concessions to the West and became a militant nationalist. He joined the socialist movement in 1917 while he was a student studying in Japan. Two years later, upon his return to China, he was arrested for being a leftist agitator. Upon his release in 1920 he fled to France, where he became an active corresponding member of the newly founded Communist Party. After finishing his Marxist studies, Chou went back to China in 1922 to join Yat-sen Sun, then cooperating with the Communists.
In 1924 he taught at Whampoa Military Academy, which was then under Communist control. In 1927, two years after Sun's death, fighting broke out between the Communist rebels and Nationalist troops loyal to Kuomintang leader Kai-Shek Chiang in Shanghai. During that time Chou became one of the top commanders of the Chinese People's Red Army, and by 1931 he became second-in-command with the rank of general alongside Mao. Chou played a key part in the Red Army's survival and took part in the "Long March" of 1934 when the Red Army, after suffering a string of defeats at the hands of the Nationalists, retreated across the country to rebuild their shattered forces. In 1937, after Japan invaded China from occupied Manchuria, Chou negotiated a truce between the warring Chinese armies to combat the Japanese. Throught the Second World War in China (1937-1945) Chou served as the Communists' chief liaison with Chiang Kai-shek, an assignment that signaled his transition from field commander to diplomat. As a result of his new role, Chou helped plan the overall strategy during the second civil war that broke out once again between the Communists and Nationalists after the defeat of Japan in late 1945, but he personally did not lead troops into combat again, for that was now solely Mao's job.
Following the Communist victory that resulted in the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Chou was named premier and foreign minister. During his long political career, Chou played an important role in the negotiations that ended the Korean War (1950-1953)--in which China sent troops to fight alongside the Communist North Korean army--as well as the French war in Indochina (1946-1954), the US involvement in Vietnam in the 1960s and the normalization of relations with the US in 1972. En-lai Chou died while in office in Peking (Bejing) from cancer on January 8, 1976, at the age of 77 or 78, second only to Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong in the Communist hierarchy, who ironically later died in September that same year. - Director
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Herman van der Horst was born on 30 December 1910 in Alblasserdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Houen zo! (1952), Toccata (1969) and Prijs de zee (1959). He died on 8 January 1976 in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Guadalupe la Chinaca was born on 11 April 1914 in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico. She was an actress, known for Caminos de ayer (1938) and The Pretty Indian Girl (1938). She was married to Jorge Humberto Maza Chanona and José Antonio Rangel Sagredo. She died on 8 January 1976 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
- Jean-Louis Fénoglio was born on 7 February 1925 in Paris, France. He died on 8 January 1976 in Morainvilliers, Yvelines, France.
- French poet and novelist. Born of a bourgeois family. His weak health prevented him from studying at the university. First poems much in the style of Baudelaire and Mallarmé. Published pacifist texts during World War I and went through a deep identity crisis as a result. He rejected all he had written before and turned to spiritual poetry with profound religious dimensions. Married psychoanalyst Blanche Reverchon. Main novels : Paulina 1880 (1925), the story of a young woman torn between faith and pleasure ; Le Monde désert (1927), the story of the discovery of poetry, Hécate (1928) and Vagadu (1931), inspired by psychoanalysis. After 1931 Jouve spent most of his time writing poetry : Les Noces (1931), Sueur de sang (1935); La Vierge de Paris (1944), Matière Céleste (1937) and Kyrie (1938), all profoundly religious. Later poetry : Diadème (1949); Mélodrame (1957); Moires (1962).
- Czu-En-Lai Quarter was born in 1898 in Taipei, China. Czu-En-Lai was a composer, known for Nocleg (1989). Czu-En-Lai died on 8 January 1976 in Taipei, China.