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- Jay Ward was born on 13 August 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Strange Case of Dr. Meade (1938), As Husbands Go (1934) and Goodbye Again (1933). He died on 22 April 2002 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.
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Soja Jovanovic was born on 1 February 1922 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia. She was a director and writer, known for Pop Cira i pop Spira (1957), Put oko sveta (1964) and Sumnjivo lice (1954). She died on 22 April 2002 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.- Production Designer
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Albrecht Becker was born on 14 November 1906 in Thale, Germany. He was a production designer and art director, known for Das Glas Wasser (1960), The Captain from Köpenick (1956) and Woe to Him Who Loves (1951). He died on 22 April 2002 in Hamburg, Germany.- Victor Frederick Weisskopf was born on September 19, 1908, in Vienna, into a comfortable, assimilated and cultured Jewish family as a second child of Emil and Martha Weisskopf (maiden last name: Gut). He is regarded as one of the great men of the 20th-century physics. His contributions to physics, science, and society in general had been many. He was a highly accomplished researcher, innovative administrator, scientific statesman, inspired teacher, passionate pianist, and articulate spokesman for the international community of physicists and scientists. His deep interest in history, politics, art, music, and other human endeavors is the product of his unique polymathic mind. He was a man of warmth, compassion, and wisdom-a contemplative and unpretentious human being.
Throughout the world's scientific community he is known simply as Viki.
In physics he had given us, among other things, the theory of the widths of energy levels and their fundamental relations to atomic and nuclear lifetimes, the theory of the self-energy of the electron, the theory of nuclear structure, known as the "Clouded Crystal Ball" model, and the theory of hadron matter called the "MIT Bag" model.
He played a leading role in fostering international collaboration in physics, perhaps most visibly as Director General of CERN [The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire)], from 1961 to 1965. He was an eloquent spokesman regarding the social and political responsibilities of science and scientists. He was called the conscience of the physics community and the conscience of the entire international scientific community.
Of high importance are his contributions to the teaching, exposition and promotion of physics at all levels. His books, conference lectures, review articles, and popular scientific writings all demonstrate exceptional scope and the power of insight of an exceptional interpreter of science.
Victor Frederick Weisskopf brought to all of us - colleagues, students, friends, and the general public - new ways of seeing phenomena with which we live daily. By his deep insight and personal example as a teacher, he enabled us to see further and deeper and to understand the immensely productive power of knowledge combined with compassion. - Jane Bartlett was born on 7 January 1939 in Rowley Regis, West Midlands, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Stiffkey Scandals of 1932 (1969) and The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968). She was married to Donald Britton and Neville Alcock. She died on 22 April 2002 in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, UK.
- Janet Fox was born on 12 June 1912 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for They Knew What They Wanted (1940), Suspense (1949) and Lux Video Theatre (1950). She was married to Henry Goldsmith. She died on 22 April 2002 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
- Eishiro Saito was born on 22 November 1911 in Yasuda, Agano, Niigata, Japan. He was married to Toshiko Kato. He died on 22 April 2002 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Mercedes Formica was born on 9 August 1913 in Cadiz, Spain. She was a writer, known for Terroristi a Madrid (1955). She died on 22 April 2002 in Malaga, Spain.
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Walter Firner was born on 5 March 1905 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer and director, known for Das Kuckucksei (1949), Die Frau am Wege (1948) and Die Tage und Nächte der Beebee Fenstermaker (1966). He died on 22 April 2002.- TV presenter whose irreverent wit earned him many fans around the world, who tuned into the BBC's nightly entertainment programme Liquid News (2000) to hear Price's caustic comments on the day's celebrity gossip.
After earning a degree in languages from Reading University, Price began his broadcasting career as a journalist on a BBC local radio station. His talents were soon spotted and he was quickly promoted to national radio, being part of the team who launched the BBC's 24 hour news station, Radio 5 Live.
In 1997 Price joined the BBC's new digital news channel BBC News 24 (1997) as a newsreader on the overnight shift. His demeanour suited the channel, which at the time aimed to be less formal than the traditional BBC news bulletins.
During his stint at News 24 he was given the opportunity to present a new entertainment slot: _"Entertainment 24" (1998)_, soon renamed "Zero 30" after its timeslot, 0030 hours.
Meanwhile, another BBC digital channel, BBC Choice, was suffering from low ratings and critical disdain. Searching for something to boost the figures, channel controller Stuart Murphy decided to transfer Price and the Zero 30 production team from News 24 and into a more prominent 8pm slot. The new show, named Liquid News (2000), debuted in 2000 and, by BBC Choice standards, was a huge hit, with most of this success directly attributable to its host.
The publicly-funded BBC was criticised in 2001 when bosses offered Price a large pay rise to stay with the channel for the foreseeable future. Some sections of the press considered his £280,000 a year salary to be too much for a presenter on a digital channel. However, the BBC recognised Price's potential and were keen to keep him from "defecting" to a rival network.
Under his new contract, Price hosted extra editions of Liquid News for BBC One, BBC Prime and BBC America, raising his profile further. Under proposals which were awaiting government approval, Price and Liquid News would have been the centrepiece of a new BBC channel, BBC Three.
Sadly it was not to be. Price hosted his last edition of Liquid News on Tuesday, April 16, 2002. For the rest of the week he was replaced by a guest host while he was ill with an inner ear infection. He was scheduled to return to the show on the following Monday, but never arrived for work that morning. Concerned colleagues went to his home in Shepherd's Bush, London, where they found him collapsed. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene two hours later.
Investigations concluded that Price had died from overdosing on his prescribed medication, but police where unable to conclude whether this was accident or a deliberate suicide. Friends who had seen Price immediately prior to his death said that he seemed cheerful and upbeat, but he had been prone to mood swings and bouts of depression in the past.
There can be no doubt that Christopher Price's death at the age of 34 was a great loss for British broadcasting. In a Liquid News special broadcast the day after his death, celebrities as diverse as comic actor Ralf Little, game show host Anne Robinson and BBC newsreader Huw Edwards paid tribute to him. Within a few days of his death, the BBC website had received over 5000 e-mails paying tribute to him. - David Nixon was born on 9 March 1962 in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA. He died on 22 April 2002 in Grapevine, Texas, USA.