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- Agnes Carpenter was born on 5 March 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She was married to Harold Carpenter. She died on 1 October 1996 in Downey, California, USA.
- Actress
Donna Mae Roberts was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of Walter Roberts and Cora H. Myers. She went to the University in California, where she majored in psychology and belonged to two honorary scholastic fraternities. She left her classes at the end at the end of her junior year to join the chorus. Roberts started as a "Goldwyn girl" in movies and was a chorus girl in a couple of Busby Berkeley movies. She also played small parts in Warner Bros. movies of the 1930s.
Donna Mae Roberts had the highest intelligence quotient of 54 chorus girls given a bona fide test by Prof. Neil Warren of the university of Southern California. Her IQ rating was 132, which falls in the "near Genius" class. Since the test, Donna Mae Roberts was acclaimed: "The smartest chorus girl in Hollywood".
Her career started to decline in the late 1930s; during that period she did some work as an extra and then retired from the screen.
Her first husband was Paul Spark, who died in 1943. Her second husband was Robert Roderick, with whom she had a son.
Roberts died at the Cottonwood Care Center in Gardnerville in 1996. Her body was cremated at Fitzhenry's Crematory.- Dorothy DeHaven was born on 27 October 1909 in Rhode Island, USA. She was an actress, known for Three Little Pirates (1946). She died on 1 October 1996 in Monterey, California, USA.
- Nobuo Tsukamoto was born on 7 May 1933 in Tokyo, Japan. He was an actor, known for Return of Ultraman (1971), Kamen Rider Super-1: The Movie (1981) and Kamen Rider (1979). He died on 1 October 1996.
- Alexandru Andritoiu was born on 8 October 1929. He was a writer, known for Elixirul tineretii (1975), Cine va deschide usa? (1967) and Sah la rege (1966). He died on 1 October 1996.
- Vera Nováková was born on 27 February 1930 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Requiem for a Maiden (1992), Spadla z oblakov (1978) and My Mother's Courage (1995). She died on 1 October 1996 in Zlín, Czech Republic.
- Director
- Writer
Grzegorz Dubowski was born on 9 May 1934 in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Mazowieckie, Poland. Grzegorz was a director and writer, known for Cyganskie piesni Papuszy (1984), Tumor Witkacego (1985) and Augusta Zamoyskiego odkrywanie sztuki (1993). Grzegorz died on 1 October 1996 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.