German-American actress and producer

Nastassja Kinski

Nastassja Aglaia Kinski is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with Stay as You Are (1978). She then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winning performance as the title character in the Roman Polanski-directed film Tess (1979). Other films in which she acted include the Francis Ford Coppola musical romance film One from the Heart (1982), erotic horror film Cat People (1982) from Paul Schrader, and the Wim Wenders drama films Paris, Texas (1984) and Faraway, So Close!

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1961

January 24

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1960s

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1961 Born

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41 Claudius is proclaimed Roman emperor by the Praetorian Guard after they assassinate the previous emperor, his nephew Caligula.
914 Start of the First Fatimid invasion of Egypt.
1438 The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
1458 Matthias Corvinus is elected King of Hungary.

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The world in 1961

When Nastassja arrived

april 11 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
april 12 Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1.
april 16 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
april 17 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

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Ade Edmondson 1957– English comedian and musician Brian Bevan 1924–1991 Australian rugby league player (died 1991) Daniel Auteuil 1950– French actor, director, and screenwriter Frederick the Great 1712–1786 Prussian king (born 1712) Kristen Schaal 1978– American actress, voice artist, comedian and writer Luis Suárez 1987– Uruguayan footballer Oral Roberts 1918–2009 American evangelist, founded the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association (born 1918) Phil LaMarr 1967– American actor and comedian Ray Stevens 1939– American singer-songwriter and actor

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Also born in 1961

Alain Vigneault 1961– Canadian ice hockey player and coach Ann Coulter 1961– American political commentator and author Artur Ekert 1961– Polish-British physicist and academic Ben Summerskill 1961– English businessman and journalist Cam Cameron 1961– American football player and coach Carl Lewis 1961– American long jumper and runner Christian Okoye 1961– American football player Cindy Herron 1961– American singer-songwriter and actress David Armstrong-Jones 1961– 2nd Earl of Snowdon, English businessman

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