1994 Death Nadia Gray, actress (La Dolce Vita, Naked Summer), dies at 70 1994 Death Alain Cuny, Rene X. Marie, French actor (La Dolce Vita), dies at 85 1993 Death Federico Fellini, director (La Dolce Vita), dies of stroke at 73 1982 Death Mario Praz, Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85 1972 Birthday Anna Falchi, born in Tampera, Finland, actress, La Dolce Vita '90 1962 Death Vita Sackville-West, English Novelist 1954 Birthday Franco De Vita, born in Caracas, Venezuala, spanish singer, Extranjero 1946 Death Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer (Vita Breve, Atlantida), dies at 69 1932 Birthday Anouk Aimee, Paris, actress, 8, La Dolce Vita 1931 Birthday Anita Ekberg, Malmo Sweden, actress, La Dolce Vita, Miss Sweden, 1950 1928 Death Italo Svevo, Ettore Schmitz, Italian writer (Una Vita), dies at 66 1925 Birthday Jacques Sernas, born in Lithuania, actor, La Dolce Vita, Helen of Troy 1924 Birthday Marcello Mastroianni, Rome, Italy, actor, 8, La Dolce Vita 1920 Birthday Federico Fellini, born in Rimini, Italy, dir, 8, Satyricon, La Dolce Vita 1892 Birthday Vita Sackville-West, born in England, novelist/poet, The Land 1533 Birthday Christianus Adrichomius, Dutch priest/writer, Vita Jesu Christi 1475 Death Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Citt di Vita), dies at 69 1406 Birthday Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer, Della vita civile 1375 Death Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies 973 Death Ekkehard I, monk of St. Gallen (Vita Waltharii manu fortis), dies 840 Death Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69