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Vera Ferbasová was born on 21 September 1913 in Sukorady, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Jedna z miliónu (1935), Vdavky Nanynky Kulichovy (1938) and Rozkosný príbeh (1937). She died on 4 August 1976 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet Street, the late Canadian media mogul, was a radio salesman who solved the problem of not being able to market his merchandise due to a lack of local radio stations by starting his own in 1931. The Canadian radio industry suffered due to its proximity to the high-powered American stations just over the border, and because Canadians were allocated less efficacious frequencies when the radio spectrum was divvied up. In 1934, after starting two more radio stations, Thomson moved into print media, buying his first newspaper in a small mining town in northern Ontario. It was the newspaper empire that made Thomson's fortune and led to his ennoblement in Britain. (As Conrad Black so famously proved, Canadians like their neighbors to the south cannot receive titles; Black, now styled Lord Black of Crossharbour, like Thomson and Lord Beaverbrook before him, had to repatriate himself to the UK to accept his title).
Thomson, and his son Kenneth, the current Lord Thomson, acquired many newspapers, including 'The Times' of London (which the first Lord Thomson saved from financial ruin, and was rewarded with a peerage), eventually creating the greatest media empire in Canada. Kenneth, the second Lord Thomson of Fleet Street, eventually sold off the newspapers to reposition Thomson Corp. as a digital company in the new millennium. Lord Thomson retains a 69% stake in Thomson Corp. which racked up US$8.1 billion in sales in 2004. The media empire, which is now chaired by his son David, who took over in 2002, is an international electronic media and information services giant. Divesting itself of its 54 trade publications for $350 million in 2004, it is now even more entrenched in new media, as it acquired the bond-trading platform TradeWeb for $385 million as it moves into financial services software.
The current Lord Thomson, who lives in London, is the richest Canadian in the world, with a fortune estimated by Forbes at US$17.9 billion. He paid a record $76.2 million for Peter Paul Rubens's "Massacre of the Innocents" in 2002. He donated over $300 million worth of paintings to the Art Gallery of Ontario in 2002, and pledged $50 million for expanding the galleries in 2003.
A major concert hall/performing arts house in Toronto, Roy Thomson Hall, was dedicated in 1982. - Actor
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Steve Benton was born on 8 July 1896 in Salem, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for You Can't Run Away from It (1956). He was married to Marie. He died on 4 August 1976 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Actor
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Martin Burton was born on 9 July 1904 in Mitchell, Indiana, USA. He was an actor, known for When Ladies Meet (1933), Hotel Variety (1933) and Broken Dreams (1933). He died on 4 August 1976 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Philip Hahn was born in 1884 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for The Dancer's Peril (1917), The Bachelor's Romance (1915) and The Price He Paid (1914). He died on 4 August 1976 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Trudik Daniel was born on 30 July 1892 in Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Castle (1968), Krankensaal 6 (1974) and Der Rebell, der keiner war (1965). She died on 4 August 1976 in Bremen, Germany.
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Hap Hadley was born on 16 March 1895 in Findlay, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Rough House Rosie (1927) and Floodgates (1924). He was married to Nina Mildred Leahman and Margaret. He died on 4 August 1976 in Los Angeles, California, USA.