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David Bowie with his wife Iman in 2009

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On Sunday, the great artist David Bowie passed away. He had cancer for some time but concealed his illness. He’s been an amazing artist that constantly experimented and reinvented himself. He leaves us a huge number of musical albums and cinema performances.

Leigh Brackett in 1941

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Leigh Douglas Brackett was born on December 7, 1915, in Los Angeles, California. She was appreciated as a writer and a screenwriter for cinema and television. Her most famous literary works are the ones set on Mars and her Eric John Stark series. She wrote or co-wrote the scripts for movies such as “The Big Sleep”, “Rio Bravo”, “Hatari!”, “The Long Goodbye”, and “The Empire Strikes Back”. Leigh Brackett died of cancer on March 18, 1978.

Alexander Siddig at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009

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Siddig El Tahir El Fadil El Siddig Mohammed Abderrahman Ahmed Abdel Karim El Mahdi, this is his full birth name, was born on November 21, 1965 in Sudan. His mother is the sister of actor Malcolm McDowell, his father is the brother of Sudanese politician Sadiq al-Mahdi. Alexander Siddig is famous especially for playing Doctor Julian Bashir in the TV show “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”. Lately he’s getting more fame playing Prince Doran Martell in the TV show “Game of Thrones”.

Peter Sellers in 1973

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Richard Henry Sellers – this was his birth name – was born on September 8, 1925 in Southsea, a suburb of Portsmouth, England. During his career, Peter Sellers was a stage, radio, television and cinema actor. Among his biggest successes there are the Pink Panther series, in which he played the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, and Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”

Mira Furlan at the 2013 Phoenix Comicon

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Mira Furlan was born on September 7, 1955 in Zagreb, in the then Yugoslavia, now Croatia. During her career she worked in stage, television and cinema productions. In the ’70 and ’80 she worked in Yugoslavia but after the start of the civil war she moved to the USA with her husband, the director Goran Gajic. There she was cast for the roles she’s best known for: ambassador Delenn in the TV show “Babylon 5” and Danielle Rousseau in the TV show “Lost”. During the last decade she resumed working in her native Croatia.