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1996 Frances Lear, writer, dies at 73

1995 Reza Abdoh, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS, died of AIDS at age 32

1982 Patrick Magee, Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), dies at 58

1982 Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Challenge to Lassie), dies at 75

1976 Ronald Radd, actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies at 47

1971 Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director (King Lear), dies at 82

1963 Reza Abdoh, born in Tehran, Iran, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS

1952 Dominic Muldowney, born in Southampton, England, composer, created television, film scores for Loose Connections, King Lear, radio work, theater music, created large-scale oboe concerto, versatile has created music for David Bowie, Royal Academy of Music teacher

1951 Robert Lindsay, Ilketson England, actor, Strike it Rich, King Lear

1946 Amanda Lear, French singer

1930 Colin Blakely, Bangor N Ireland, actor, Shattered, Equus, King Lear

1926 Evelyn Lear, Shulman, born in Brooklyn, New York, soprano

1923 Frances Lear, Larchmont, New York, Woman's magazine publisher, Lears

1922 Norman Lear, TV writer/producer, All in The Family

1918 Jack MacGowran, Dublin Ireland, actor, King Lear, Exorcist

1906 Alan Webb, actor, King Lear, Taming of Shrew, Challenge of Lassie

1905 Grigori Kozintsev, born in Kiev, Ukraine, director, Hamlet, King Lear

1902 William Lear, engineer/manufacturer/CEO, Lear Jet Corp

1888 Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75

1812 Edward Lear, England, landscape painter, Complete Nonsense Book


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