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Romulus Linney, the prolific American playwright, was born on September 21, 1930 in Philadelphia. He was the namesake of his great-grandfather, the Republican Congressman, Romulus Zachariah Linney, a Confederate Army veteran who represented North Carolina's 8th District from 1895-1901. Raised in North Carolina and Tennessee, Linney graduated from Oberlin College and then attended the Yale School of Drama, here he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree.
Linney wrote 85 plays, including "Holy Ghosts", "Sand Mountain, "The Sorrows of Frederick", and "2: Goering at Nuremberg". His play "The 34th Star" was produced for public television in 1974.
His plays were staged Off- and Off-Off-Broadway and by regional theaters. His one Broadway production, "The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks", was a flop, closing after only five performances in 1972. (The play was revived Off-Broadway in 1992, playing for a little over two weeks.) While he was never a success in commercial terms, he was highly respected. Linney won two Obie Awards, one of which was for career achievement, and two National Critics Awards. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Academy honored him with its Award in Literature, its Award of Merit and the Gold Medal, its highest award. In 1994, he also received an honorary doctorate award from his alma mater, Oberlin College.
Linney also taught dramatic writing, eventually serving as the head of Columbia University's MFA Playwriting program. He also taught playwriting at the Actors Studio's MFA program, and taught at the New School in New York, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania, among other schools.
Suffering from lung cancer, Romulus Linney died on January 15, 2011. He was 80 years old. The award-winning actress Laura Linney is his daughter. They appeared together in the movie Kinsey (2004).- John MacKay was born on 23 September 1924 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Regarding Henry (1991), State of Grace (1990) and Krush Groove (1985). He was married to Mary Foskett. He died on 14 December 1999 in Germantown, New York, USA.
- John Willis was born on 8 June 1924 in Miami, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for The Silencers (1966), Space Probe Taurus (1965) and Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963). He died on 23 January 2002 in Germantown, Maryland, USA.
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- Actress
Ms. Bambara was an accomplished African-American short story writer, scriptwriter, and documentary filmmaker. In 1970 she put together an anthology of African-American women's writing in "The Black Woman, a Collection of Essays". She also wrote the novel "The Salt Eaters" and collaborated on the documentary films 'The Bombing of Osage Avenue' and 'WEB DuBois-A Biography in Four Voices'. At the time of her death, she was working on a manuscript for a book on murdered children in Atlanta and had just finished a new collection of short stories.- Actress
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Margaret Ann Rich was born on 5 December 1933 in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Take This Job and Shove It (1981) and Mindhunter (2017). She was married to Charlie Rich. She died on 22 July 2010 in Germantown, Tennessee, USA.- Florence Hart was born on 8 January 1893 in Liverpool, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Son of Wallingford (1921), The Prince Chap (1920) and It Can Be Done (1921). She was married to Kenneth Harlan. She died on 30 March 1960 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Echalty was born on 30 October 1996. He was an actor, known for Echalty: Withdraws (2018), Echalty: Frauds (2018) and Echalty: Again (2020). He died on 23 December 2021 in Germantown, Maryland, USA.
- Neal Lipe was born on 25 November 1954 in Washington D.C., USA. He was an actor, known for Magnum, P.I. (1980). He was married to Ann West Lipe. He died on 2 April 2011 in Germantown, Tennessee, USA.
- Hortense Allen was born on 17 September 1919 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Rhythm in a Riff (1947). She died on 15 March 2008 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA.
- John Colbert was born on 20 November 1946 in Greenville, Mississippi, USA. John died on 30 November 2011 in Germantown, Tennessee, USA.
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Mark Norris was an actor and producer, known for 21 Grams (2003), Daylight Fades (2010) and Forty Shades of Blue (2005). He died on 16 May 2011 in Germantown, Tennessee, USA.- Dr. Roman was remembered as "the mother of the Hubble." As NASA's first chief of astronomy and the first woman in a leadership position at the space agency, Dr. Roman oversaw the early planning for the Hubble Space Telescope, which began orbiting Earth above its atmosphere in April 1990 to capture an unobstructed view of the universe.
Placed into orbit from a manned Discovery shuttle and named for the pioneering American astronomer Edwin Hubble, it became the first large optical telescope in space. It has enhanced knowledge of distant galaxies as well as planets in our own solar system by transmitting images that would have been distorted if it were operating from within the Earth's atmosphere. The idea for that kind of large optical telescope had circulated in the scientific world since the astronomer Lyman Spitzer Jr. envisioned it in 1946. But the concept met with skepticism over feasibility and cost. So the road toward getting the Hubble into the skies was a long one.
"It was Nancy in the old days before the internet and before Google and email and all that stuff who really helped to sell the Hubble Space Telescope, organize the astronomers, who eventually convinced Congress to fund it, " Edward J. Weiler, Dr. Roman's successor as chief scientist for the Hubble, told the Voice of America in 2011. - Monnette Sudler was a composer, known for Dumped On (1992). Monnette died on 21 August 2022 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Bartley Costello was born on 21 January 1871 in Rutland, Vermont, USA. Bartley died on 14 January 1941 in Germantown, Pennsylvania, USA.- Janky Jeff was an actor, known for Janky Jeff: Rich (2019), Sluttylo x Janky Jeff: Bucks (2019) and Janky Jeff x Snomarr: Big Business (2019). He died on 11 May 2022 in Germantown, Maryland, USA.