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Ric Estrada
1928 births | american artists | american cartoonists | american comics artists | american illustrators | american latter day saints | american novelists | comic book inkers | cuban-americans | living peopleRic Estrada was born in February 1928 in Cuba. Although best known as a penciller of comic books, he has also worked in a political cartoons, advertising, storyboarding, book illustration and other artistic endeavors.
Estrada made his first professional sale at the age of 13; the illustration was used on the cover of a top Cuban magazine. Through a family connection with Ernest Hemingway and an uncle in New York, Estrada moved to New York to further his artistic career.
Vern Morgan
1928 births | 1975 deaths | chicago cubs players | major league baseball coaches | major league baseball players from virginia | major league baseball third basemen | minor league baseball managers | minor league baseball playersVernon Thomas Morgan (August 28, 1928 -- November 8, 1975) was an American third baseman and coach in Major League Baseball, and a manager and longtime player (1948-64) at the minor league level. A native of Emporia, Virginia, who attended the University of Richmond, Morgan threw right-handed, batted left-handed, stood 6'1" (185 cm) tall and weighed 185 pounds (84 kg).
Morgan's major league playing career consisted of 31 games and 71 at bats for the 1954- 55 Chicago Cubs. Morgan collected 16 hits, including two doubles, and drove in three runs, batting .225. In 1956, he was acquired by the Washington Senators organization, and he would spend the rest of his baseball career in the employ of the franchise (which became the Minnesota Twins in 1961). Morgan played for the Senators' Double-A farm club, the Chattanooga Lookouts of the Southern Association, from 1956 through mid-1960. As a 28-year-old veteran, Morgan had his best minor-league season for the 1957 Lookouts, batting .332 with 14 home runs and 92 RBI and making the SA all-star team as an outfielder.
Antonio Salim Curiati
1928 births | brazilian politicians | mayors of são pauloAntônio Salim Curiati (Avaré, 13 February 1928 is a Brazilian medic, and politician. He was Mayor of São Paulo from 13 May 1982 to 14 March 1983.
Lutfiyar Imanov
1928 births | 2008 deaths | azerbaijani opera singers | operatic tenors | people's artists of the ussrLutfiyar Muslum oglu Imanov ( Azeri: Lütfiyar İmanov) (17 April 1928, Sabirabad – 22 January 2008, Baku) was an Azerbaijani opera singer (dramatic tenor).
Career
Lutfiyar Imanov started his career in the arts as a teenage actor at the Sabirabad State Drama Theatre. Lutfiyar Imanov. Musiqi.az He graduated from the Zeynalli School of Music with a degree in vocal arts in 1957. At the time, he had been working with various Azerbaijani choirs and orchestras. He made his operatic debut in 1957 when he performed in the leading role in Uzeyir Hajibeyov's opera Koroghlu in Moscow. Upon graduating, he accepted a job at the Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy before switching in 1959 to the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre where he worked until his death. In 1962, he was admitted to the six-year program in drama studies at the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts. In 1965 and 1975 respectively, Imanov was an intern at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and La Scala in Milan. Lutfiyar Muslum oglu Imanov (obituary). Bakinskii rabochii. 2. 23 January 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2008 From 1968 onward, he performed leading roles in over 30 operas.Danny Finn
1928 births | american basketball players | philadelphia warriors players | st. john's red storm men's basketball playersDaniel Lawrence Finn (born May 27, 1928) was an American professional basketball player. Finn played three years for the NBA's Philadelphia Warriors. He attended St. John's University.
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Yann Richter
1928 births | 2008 deaths | people from the canton of neuchâtel | swiss politiciansYann Richter in 1983. Yann Richter-Du Pasquier (April 4, 1928 Hauterive, Neuchâtel - July 20, 2008 Neuchâtel, Switzerland) was a Swiss politician whos served as the first President of the Free Democratic Party of Switzerland (FDP) from 1978 until 1984.
William Dean (cricketer)
1928 births | english cricketers | somerset cricketersWilliam Henry Dean, born at Leeds, Yorkshire on November 25, 1928 was a cricketer who played one first-class match for Somerset in 1952.
Dean was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. Along with fellow Yorkshireman Malcolm Walker, he was picked by Somerset for the match against the touring Indian side at County Ground, Taunton from 28 May 1952. Somerset batted first and reached 193 for eight wickets when Dean batted at No 10, joining all-rounder Johnny Lawrence, who had recommended him to the county. The pair put on 133 for the ninth wicket, only 13 short of the county side's then ninth wicket record, and Lawrence made an unbeaten 103, his first century after six years of county cricket. Dean made 21 before being bowled by Vijay Hazare.
Douglas "Doug" Bigelow
1928 births | 1996 deaths | australian rules footballers | essendon bombers players birthplace = originalteam = Bentleigh Football Club heightweight = 184 cm (6' 0½"), 96 kg dead = 1996 deathdate = deathplace = debutdate = June 28, 1947 debutteam = Essendon debutopponent = Melbourne debutstadium = Windy Hill playingteams = Essendon (1947-1956)
}} Douglas "Doug" Bigelow (July 17, 1928 – 1996) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 148 senior games for the Essendon Football Club from 1947 to 1956.
- 148 games, 27 goals
- Bentleigh F.C. (1963)
- Essendon Grand Final Team: 1948 (“drawn” match only), 1951.
- Essendon Football Club Life Member: 1956
- Essendon Football Club Committee: 1954, 1956, 1964-1976
}} Douglas "Doug" Bigelow (July 17, 1928 – 1996) is a former Australian rules footballer who played 148 senior games for the Essendon Football Club from 1947 to 1956.
Career
Recruited from Bentleigh Football Club, he played his first match in round 11 of the 1947 season, against Melbourne, at Essendon's home ground, Windy Hill. He went on to play 148 games for Essendon from 1947 to 1956.David Sheiner
1928 births | american actors | people from new york cityDavid Sheiner (born January 13, 1928 in New York City) is an American film and television actor. He has gotten attention from several of his featured roles, including The Odd Couple as Roy and The Greatest Story Ever Told as James the Elder. Additionally, he has a stretch of experience in many television roles, including The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Mission: Impossible, Blind Ambition, and The Fugitive.
David retired from acting in 1988.
Valerie French (actress)
1928 births | 1990 deaths | b-movie actors | british actors | people from londonValerie French (March 11th, 1928-November 3rd, 1990) was a British film actress and later stage actress beginning in the 1950's.
Born Valerie Harrison in London, England, French entered into film acting in her early 20's, with her first film appearance being in the 1954 film Maddalena. Her best remembered roles during this period were in western films such as Jubal in 1956 opposite Glen Ford, and Decision at Sundown opposite Randolph Scott in 1957.
