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- Zvee Scooler was born on 1 December 1899 in Kamenets-Podolsky, Russian Empire [now Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Love and Death (1975) and Uncle Moses (1932). He was married to Lillian Friedman. He died on 25 March 1985 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Arthur Tracy was one of the most famous of all recording stars of the 1930s and '40s. With his suave style and sentimental ballads he captured the hearts of housewives in both America and Great Britain. His voice was both a baritone and a tenor, which he described as "bari-tenor", and he claimed that the biggest influence on his singing was Enrico Caruso.
Born in the Ukraine, he emigrated to America at the age of six with his parents. The family was poor and he received little education and no musical training. Once asked how he became known as "The Street Singer", he said it was because he had sung in the streets of Philadelphia for pennies. One of his most enduring hits was the song "Pennies from Heaven".
As a teenager he began singing in operettas and quickly became a headliner in vaudeville, appearing with such stars as Will Rogers and W.C. Fields. Columbia Records put him under contract and a stream of hits followed, such as "Roses of Picardy" and "It's A Sin To Tell A Lie".
On radio he co-starred with Groucho Marx, Jack Benny and Bing Crosby, and in Hollywood he made a special guest appearance in The Big Broadcast (1932). He went to London where he topped the bill at the London Palladium, and while in Britain made several films including Backstage (1937) alongside Anna Neagle, followed by The Street Singer (1936) with Margaret Lockwood, and Follow Your Star (1938) with Lilli Palmer.
He returned to America in 1940 but gradually his style of singing had become passé and he was forced into semi-retirement. During the 1960s he made something of a comeback and record companies in both America and Britain started to re-release most of his material. In 1996 he was awarded a gold CD to mark the huge sales of his records over 60 years.- Mikhail Veller was born on 20 May 1948 in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. He is a writer, known for Uzkokoleyka, Pahupidi (1989) and Ballada o bombere (2011).
- Antonina Domanska was born in September 1853 in Kamieniec Podolski, Poland, Russian Empire [now Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine]. She was a writer, known for Historia zóltej cizemki (1961). She died on 26 January 1917 in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland].
- Vladimir Berenstein was born on 7 November 1927 in Kamenets-Podolskyi, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Kamianets-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an editor, known for Neitralnye vody (1969). He died in 1993.
- Boris Khimichev was born in family, which was far from acting: his mother was a teacher, and his father was the chairman of the collective farm. The difficult military and post-war years undermined Boris's health, and the boy became an object for attacks by peers. An outlet for the child at that time was a rare film show in a rural club, but he did not even dream of becoming an actor. After finishing school, Boris submitted documents to the Lvov Mining Institute and was enrolled in the faculty for the development of non-metallic sites. However, the young man was not attracted to the prospect of becoming a geologist, the desire of some other, brighter life led him to Kiev, where he became a student of the radio-physical faculty. In the movie Khimichev debuted the role of Lieutenant Artamonov in the detective "Operation" Trust ". In the future, he often acted in detective films, playing usually negative roles - "The Sleuth". But still more often the directors invited the actor to the "costume" roles. Boris Khimichev died on the 82nd year of life on September 14, 2014 at his dacha in Moscow.