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Harry Wilson was born on 22 November 1897 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Some Like It Hot (1959), Frankenstein's Daughter (1958) and One Million B.C. (1940). He died on 6 September 1978 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Music Department
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A black, conservative Republican from Waco, Texas, Wilson moved to Nashville after high school and attended one year at Fisk University. He then attended Harvard and was head of the Young Republicans on campus there. Although he graduated in 1954 with an honors degree in economics, Wilson was more interested in jazz music, joining the Harvard New Jazz Society and working at WHRB, the college radio station, where he set up jam sessions and got involved in the local jazz scene. After graduation, he soon began producing jazz records, including the debut album of Sun Ra. He joined Columbia Records in 1963, replacing Quincy Jones in the Artists & Repertoire department there. Wilson then became the first black producer to be hired at Columbia. However, they wanted him to work with a fairly new artist they had recently signed, Bob Dylan. Wilson produced Dylan's albums Bringing It All Back Home, The Times They Are A-Changin', Another Side of Bob Dylan, and Highway 61 Revisited, from which he produced "Like A Rolling Stone" before being replaced by Bob Johnston after a falling-out with Dylan. While at Columbia, Wilson also produced Simon and Garfunkel's initial effort, the 1964 acoustic folk album Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. Although it sold very poorly and led to the duo breaking up, by early 1965, the song "Sound of Silence" began to get increased radio play requests, especially from college students. After the success of "Like A Rolling Stone" in summer of 1965, Wilson had heard the Byrds' electric version of Pete Seeger's "Turn, Turn, Turn" and got the idea to record a similar rock backing track for "Sound of Silence" with drums, bass, and electric guitars. He overdubbed the track onto the original acoustic track of "Sound of Silence" without the duo's knowledge, creating the duo's first hit song, released in late 1965, after which they reunited and quickly recorded a second album featuring the new electric version of the song. Around this time, Wilson left Columbia for a higher-paying position at MGM subsidiary Verve Records, where he produced Freak Out, the 1966 debut album from Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. He also produced most of the 1967 debut album from The Velvet Underground and Nico, although production credit went to Andy Warhol. In 1968, he quit MGM and founded the Record Plant studio in New York City. He worked with Motown in the 1970's and lived in London for a time. Wilson and his business partner, producer Larry Fallon, were working with Danny Sims, the manager of singer Johnny Nash. Wilson and Fallon had written an R&B opera called Mind Flyers of Gondwana that, according to a 1976 article in Melody Maker, "weaves together the legend of Atlantis and the story of the black man in America from his roots in Africa." It was to star Nash, Gladys Knight, Gil Scott-Heron, and the Righteous Brothers, but it was never made. In 1978, Wilson died of a heart attack in Los Angeles, secondary to Marfan Syndrome, a connective tissue disease. He was buried in Doris Miller Memorial Park in Waco. For some reason, his tombstone incorrectly shows his year of death as 1975.- After graduating from school, Dassler followed in his father's footsteps to complete an apprenticeship as a Schumacher. In 1920 he took over his father's shoe making business, whose product range he soon expanded to include sports shoes. In 1924 his brother Rudolf Dassler also joined the company. Due to the innovative management of the Dassler brothers, the former shoemaker's workshop quickly developed into a flourishing business. In 1925, Adolf Dassler developed the first football shoe with nail studs, which was patented in the same year. The resourceful entrepreneur also manufactured tennis shoes from 1931. The fact that a German sprinter won the bronze medal at the 1932 Olympic Games wearing Dassler sports shoes had a positive effect on the reputation of his products.
At the subsequent Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, successful runner Jesse Owens won four gold medals in Dassler shoes. Due to personal differences, Rudolf Dassler left the company in 1947 to found his own company, "Puma", which also focused on the production of sporting goods. "Adi" Dassler continued to run the business alone, which he was able to keep on the road to success under the company name "adidas". In 1948, the famous three stripes were added as a distinctive design element, which still characterizes the corporate identity of "adidas" today. In 1952, Dassler also added sports bags to its product range. The company's offerings expanded continuously in the following years.
After the German national team won the 1954 World Cup wearing adidas shoes with the characteristic, replaceable studs, the company continued to expand. In 1959, the son of the company boss, Horst Dassler (1936-1987), began to lay the foundation for the company's international expansion by setting up "adidas France". Further company investments in other countries followed. Dassler's company now manufactured every conceivable sports and leisure clothing product and developed into the largest sporting goods manufacturer in the world by the 1970s. The "adidas" products became a synonym for sporting elegance and success; they increasingly determined the equipment of competitive athletes of international standing. After receiving numerous honors as an entrepreneur and pioneer of sportswear, he died
Adolf Dassler died on September 6, 1978 in Herzogenaurach.
In 1980, the son Horst Dassler joined the management under his mother Käthe Dassler, after whose death he served as CEO from 1985 to 1987. In the 1980s, the "adidas" range was expanded to include leisure clothing and cosmetics. Nevertheless, the company increasingly fell behind its US competitors. After Horst Dassler's early death in 1987, his heirs sold 80% of "adidas" to the French entrepreneur Bernard Tapie in the 1990s. A little later he sold his "adidas" shares to an international consortium. As a result of the purchase of the Salomon Group, the company expanded into adidas-Salomon in 1997. However, in October 2005, adidas sold its winter sports and outdoor division Salomon to the Finnish Amer Sports Corporation for more than 485 million euros after the division was only making losses. - Roger Fradet was born in 1926 in Pays de la Loire, France. He was an actor, known for The Red Circle (1970), The Samurai (1967) and A Cop (1972). He died on 6 September 1978 in Canada.
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Naur Klint was born on 16 June 1920 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Naur was a production designer, known for Billet mrk. (1946) and Naar man kun er ung (1943). Naur died on 6 September 1978.- Lona Dubois was born on 14 August 1923 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for Lügen haben hübsche Beine (1956), Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind (1965) and Das Mädl aus der Vorstadt (1962). She died on 6 September 1978 in Vienna, Austria.
- Elvira Kralj was born on 16 August 1900 in Trieste, Italy. She was an actress, known for Madamigella di Maupin (1966), Vesna (1953) and The Upstarts (1953). She died on 6 September 1978 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia.