AUGUST 16
SIGNS:
Anton Vikhrevey, Malinnik. What is Anton, such is October. Cold wind – to a frosty winter, warm – to a soft and snowy one. On this day, you can’t clean the house – it will be clean and in your wallet.
BORN:
980 IBN SINA (AVICENNA), famous Persian philosopher, poet, physician, musician.
1900 Margaret MITCHELL, American writer. The author of the only – and perhaps the most famous in American literature of the twentieth century – the novel “Gone with the Wind” (1936). She died in a car accident on her birthday.
1934 Pierre RICHARD (Pierre Richard Maurice Charles Leopold DEFEY), French actor. Born into the family of a successful entrepreneur. Lives on a barge that only the very rich can afford in Paris.
1954 James Cameron, American director Born in the family of an engineer. He is left handed. Fame came to Cameron back in 1984 thanks to the movie “Terminator”. The image of the Terminator, according to legend, he dreamed of in a dream, during an illness with the flu.
1957 Kirill Viktorovich NABUTOV, Russian TV presenter. He has two sons.
1958 MADONNA (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone), famous American singer and actress. Her father, an automation engineer, brought up his children in strictness, requiring them to attend church on Sundays and study diligently at school. He forbade them even to watch TV. Madonna’s fortune – more than $500 million.
1973 Yulia Alexandrovna VYSOTSKA, Belarusian-Russian actress and TV presenter. Married with a second marriage to director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky. They have two children. Their daughter, 14-year-old Masha, was in a serious car accident in France in October 2013 and fell into a coma.
2001 Yannick SINNER, Italian tennis player Over the course of his career, he has earned more than $9.6 million.
EVENTS:
1836 In Moscow, at the bell tower of Ivan the Great, the Tsar Bell was installed on a pedestal. Its height with a bridge is 6.24 m, diameter – 6.6 m; weight 202 tons. It has never been used as intended.
1954 In Farahzad (Iran), a flood in a gorge flooded a Muslim mosque, killing about 2,000 pilgrims.
1977 Elvis Presley, American singer, has died. In 1973, a TV show with his participation gathered a billion people at the screens – even a report on the landing of the first man on the moon could not collect such a number of viewers.
1987 On the stage of the theater in Riga, right during the performance, the Russian actor Andrei MIRONOV died.
2017 Russian actress Vera Glagoleva died of stomach cancer. She was 61 years old.
2020 Nikolai Gubenko, a Russian actor and director, died one day before his birthday.
