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Frank Herbert was born on 8 October 1920 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. He was a writer, known for Dune (2021), Dune (1984) and Dune: Part Two (2024). He was married to Theresa Shackleford, Beverley Ann Stuart and Flora Parkinson. He died on 11 February 1986 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.- Music Artist
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Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 - December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. His music was described by critics as operatic, earning him the nicknames "The Caruso of Rock" and "The Big O." Many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability at a time when most male rock-and-roll performers chose to project masculinity. He performed while standing motionless and wearing black clothes to match his dyed black hair and dark sunglasses, which he wore to counter his shyness and stage fright.- Music Artist
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Otis Redding was born on 9 September 1941 in Dawson, Georgia, USA. He was a music artist and composer, known for Top Gun (1986), Hamburger Hill (1987) and Road House (1989). He was married to Zelma Redding. He died on 10 December 1967 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.- Additional Crew
Ed Gein and his elder brother Henry lived on a rural farm near Plainfield, WI. George Gein, his father, was a tanner and carpenter and was drunk most of the time. Augusta, Ed's domineering mother, was the real power of the house. She was a religious fanatic who constantly warned her sons about the sins of premarital sex and railed against "evil" women. Ed's father died in 1940, and brother Henry died four years later fighting a marsh fire (although it was later suspected that Ed might have killed him). Ed stayed at the family farm with his mother and never strayed out of the surrounding few counties. When she died of a stroke in 1945, Ed was left all alone at the "tender" age of 39. He sealed her bedroom and the rest of his house off, living in just the kitchen and one other room. During the period of 1950-55, he visited three local cemeteries at night and dug up at least ten graves. He removed bits and pieces from each body, returning some to their graves. He used skullcaps for bowls, and stitched chair seats and lampshades out of human skin. On special occasions, he would dance outside in the moonlight wearing numerous stitched skin coverings, including the face masks of some of his victims. His first murder was committed on December 8, 1954, the other occurred on November 16, 1957. He attacked his last victim in her store and dragged her body to a truck parked out back. Later that evening the victim's son stopped in at the store to check on his mother and found the doors locked, the cash register missing and a trail of blood leading out to the back door. He recalled that he had seen Ed at the store the day before. When the police went to his farm, they found her headless body in his shed, hanging by it's heels from the rafters. Gein was arrested and eventually confessed to his crimes. On January 16, 1958, he was sent to Central State Hospital at Waupun, WI. In November 1968, he was judged competent to stand trial. He was now diagnosed to have chronic schizophrenia, found "not guilty by reason of insanity" and returned to Waupun. It has been theorized that Gein might have killed two men who hired him as their hunting guide in 1952 and were never seen again. There were also two other unidentified women's body parts were found at his farm. In that his murder & grave robbing victims were all of middle or elderly age, these two women's remains were decisively young, in their teenage years. This was never conclusively investigated. In 1978, he was moved to Mendota Mental Health Institute. Gein was a model prisoner and died quietly in his sleep in the geriatric psychiatric ward in 1984. He is buried next to his mother in the Plainfield Cemetery.- Nicholas Hitchon was born on 22 October 1957 in Littondale, North Yorkshire, England, UK. He was married to C. Cryss Brunner and Jacqueline Bush. He died on 23 July 2023 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
- Elroy 'Crazylegs' Hirsch was born on 17 June 1923 in Wausau, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Zero Hour! (1957), Unchained (1955) and Crazylegs (1953). He was married to Ruth Stahmer. He died on 28 January 2004 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
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Howard Finkel was born on 7 June 1950 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for WWE Smackdown! (1999), The Wrestlers: Land of a Thousand Dances (1985) and The JBL & Cole Show with Renee Young (2012). He died on 16 April 2020 in Madison, Connecticut, USA.- Richard Caine was born on 25 October 1938 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Born Again (1978), Knight Rider (1982) and Big Shots (1987). He was married to Kathleen Connors. He died on 22 February 2024 in Madison, Ohio, USA.
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- Soundtrack
Hank Snow was born on 9 May 1914 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor, known for The Ice Road (2021), The Mule (2018) and Who'll Stop the Rain (1978). He was married to Minnie Blanch Aalders. He died on 20 December 1999 in Madison, Tennessee, USA.- Warren Ashe was born on 5 March 1903 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Deerslayer (1943), Boston Blackie and the Law (1946) and Wildcat Bus (1940). He was married to Mady Correll and Agnes Biedenkapp. He died on 19 September 1947 in Madison, Connecticut, USA.
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Robin Robertson was born on 22 May 1951 in Batesville, Arkansas, USA. Robin is known for My Dog Skip (2000). Robin died on 9 November 2018 in Madison, Mississippi, USA.- Kate Fleming was born on 6 October 1965 in Arlington, Virginia, USA. She was an actress, known for Mario Tennis (2000), Hard Candy (1993) and Ollo in the Sunny Valley Fair (2002). She was married to Charlene Strong. She died on 14 December 2006 in Madison Valley, Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Fred Burrell was born on 18 September 1936 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. He was an actor, known for Klute (1971), We Own the Night (2007) and Kinsey (2004). He was married to India Cooper and Mary Flaherty Muir. He died on 9 April 2018 in Madison, Indiana, USA.
- Jeff Erlanger was born on 30 November 1970 in Berkeley, California, USA. He died on 10 June 2007 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
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Kitty Wells was born on 30 August 1919 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for The Blues Brothers (1980), Mississippi Burning (1988) and Crazy Heart (2009). She was married to Johnny Wright. She died on 16 July 2012 in Madison, Tennessee, USA.- Actor
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Legendary country pianist Floyd Cramer, one of the men responsible for what became known as "The Nashville Sound", was born on Oct. 27, 1933, in Shreveport, Louisiana, but grew up in Huttig, Arkansas. As a young boy he taught himself to play the piano, and after finishing high school went back to Shreveport, where his musical abilities landed him a job on the "Louisiana Hayride" radio show as a pianist. In 1953 he cut his first single, "Dancin' Diane", for Abbott Records. Shortly afterward he hooked up with a young singer with whom he would form a close personal and professional bond--Elvis Presley.
Cramer relocated to Nashville in 1955, at a time when piano accompaniment on country music songs was becoming popular, and he found more work than he could handle. He soon became one of the busiest session musicians in the business, playing on the records of such luminaries as Brenda Lee, Patsy Cline, Eddy Arnold, Elvis Presley--he played piano on "Heartbreak Hotel"--and Roy Orbison, among others. It was during these sessions that Cramer developed the practice of "slip notes", in which a note would flow effortlessly into the next--a sea change from the "percussive" style of piano playing prevalent at the time.
Although he was a top studio musician in Nashville, few people outside of the music business knew who he was. He had been recording and releasing his own records since the early '50s, but recognition didn't come for him until 1960, when he released the mournful instrumental "Last Date", which was a classic example of his "slip note" style of playing. The record hit #2 on the Billboard Top 100 chart and wound up selling more than one million copies. The next year he had another hit, "On the Rebound", which went to #3 (and #1 in the UK). In the mid-'60s he, guitar legend Chet Atkins and sax master Boots Randolph toured the US as "The Million Dollar Band".
In 1997 Floyd Cramer died of lung cancer, and is buried in Madison, Tennessee.- Johnny Brewer was born on 8 March 1937 in Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Number One (1969), The NFL on CBS (1956) and 1967 East-West Pro Bowl (1967). He was married to Anita Wood Brewer. He died on 27 May 2011 in Madison, Mississippi, USA.
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She received her BA in 1975 in Germanic linguistics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her Master of Fine Arts in film production from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1979. While at UCLA she served as a research assistant in Old Icelandic language and linguistics under Dr. Jesse Byock.- India Cooper was born on 24 July 1952 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA. She was an actress, known for Above the Law (1988), Law & Order (1990) and Never Again (2001). She was married to Fred Burrell. She died on 17 May 2020 in Madison, Indiana, USA.
- Gloria Pepin was born on 19 June 1937 in New York, New York, USA. She was married to Jacques Pepin. She died on 5 December 2020 in Madison, Connecticut, USA.
- David Bordwell was born on 23 July 1947 in Penn Yan, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for A expedicao Brasileira de 1916 (2006), Cinema Futures (2016) and The Perfect Team: The Making of 'On the Bowery' (2009). He was married to Barbara Weinstein and Kristin Thompson. He died on 29 February 2024 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
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Robert Lawrence was born on 9 November 1913 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was an editor and assistant director, known for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Spartacus (1960) and Never Say Never Again (1983). He died on 19 September 2004 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.- James Martin Pedersen was the actor who played Rocky Rococo and was in fact the whole face of the pizza brand as he starred not only in "MasterPizza Theatre" but also was in their commercials as well as in their logo. James Martin Pederse n was very well loved in Wisconsin and was by all accounts an icon of the state's culture. But sadly James passed away in 2016. He is survived by his spouse, Georgia Pollard; son, Jason (Kim Shelton); grandson, Colin James; Gershwin, his beloved Toller; and many, many friends and family. Jim was preceded in death by his daughter, Jessica; former wife, Janet Pedersen; sister, Denise Radke; brother-in-law, Dieter Radke; and his parents. James was the face and personality of Rocky Rococo Pizza for decades.
- David Gray was born on 29 April 1968 in Highland Park, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Making Revolution (2003). He died on 18 January 2002 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
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Silent-film actress Louise Vale had a relatively short career--only five years. She made her film debut with The Girl of the Sunny South (1913) and ended her career five years later with Vengeance (1918). In addition to acting, she was also a screenwriter, and wrote Joan of the Woods (1918). She was married to pioneering producer/director Travers Vale.