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Born of African and West Indian ancestry on July 2, 1927 in New York City, Brock Peters set his sights on a show business career early on, at age ten. A product of NYC's famed Music and Arts High School, Peters initially fielded more odd jobs than acting jobs as he worked his way up from Harlem poverty. Landing a stage role in "Porgy and Bess" in 1949, he quit physical education studies at CCNY and went on tour with the acclaimed musical. His film debut came in Carmen Jones (1954), but he really began to make a name for himself - having dropped his real name, George Fisher, in 1953 - in such films as To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) and The L-Shaped Room (1962). He received a Tony Award nomination for his starring stint in Broadway's "Lost in the Stars" in 1973. He also appeared in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), two sequels to the popular Star Trek films. Brock Peters died at age 78 of pancreatic cancer on August 23, 2005.

Vladimir Kuznetsov was born on 14 May 1924. He was a writer, known for The Fight in the Blizzard (1978), SOS nad taygoy (1976) and Syshchik (1980). He died on 23 August 2005.

She was associated with the theater from an early age. After the outbreak of World War II, on September 6, 1939, her mother's apartment and theater were bombed, and she stayed in a shelter for three weeks with her family and a group of friends, including: Adolf Rosner, who proposed to her during the second week of her stay in the bunker. As a dowry, she received a ring from her mother and a can of sardines that she found in the ruins. After leaving the shelter, she and her family lived with friends for some time.

Kaminska soon left Warsaw with a wave of residents and reached Lviv. After the Third Reich's aggression against the Soviet Union, in June 1941 she left for Rivne, and then through Kharkov and Baku to Frunze, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. There she gave birth to a daughter, Erica, whose name was short for Esther Rachel.

Magdalena Sanchez was born on 9 April 1915 in Puerto Cabello, Carabobo, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for La doña (1972), Simón Bolívar (1969) and TV Confidencial (1977). She died on 23 August 2005 in Maracay, Venezuela.

Josef Liesler was born on 19 September 1912 in Vidolice u Kadane, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a costume designer, known for Podobizna (1948) and Na plovárne (1999). He died on 23 August 2005 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Glenn Corneille was born on 12 July 1970 in Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands. He was married to Chantal. He died on 23 August 2005 in Laren, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.