Chinese-English director and screenwriter (died 1994)

Terence Young

Stewart Terence Herbert Young was a British film director and screenwriter who worked in the United Kingdom, Europe and Hollywood. He is best known for directing three James Bond films: the first two films in the series, Dr. No (1962) and From Russia with Love (1963), and Thunderball (1965). His other films include the Audrey Hepburn thrillers Wait Until Dark (1967) and Bloodline (1979), the historical drama Mayerling (1968), the infamous Korean War epic Inchon (1981), and the Charles Bronson films Cold Sweat (1970), Red Sun (1971), and The Valachi Papers (1972).

Born

1915

June 20

Died

1994

Era

1910s

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1915 Born
1994 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

451 Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory.
1180 First Battle of Uji, starting the Genpei War in Japan.
1295 The Treaty of Anagni, an attempt mediated by the papacy to end the War of the Sicilian Vespers, is signed by the crown of Aragon, the kingdom of France and kingdom of Naples.
1622 The Battle of Höchst takes place during the Thirty Years' War.

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The world in 1915

When Terence arrived

april 18 World War I: French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines.
april 22 World War I: The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
april 24 The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
april 25 World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

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Alexander Winton 1860– Scottish-American race car driver and engineer (died 1932) Billy Werber 1908–2009 American baseball player (born 1908) Charles W. Chesnutt 1858– American novelist and short story writer (died 1932) Danny Aiello 1933–2019 American actor (born 1933) James Tolkan 1931–2026 American actor and director (died 2026) Joan Kirner 1938–2015 Australian educator and politician, 42nd Premier of Victoria (born 1938) Len Dawson 1935– American football player (died 2022) Paul Tiulana 1921–1994 Iñupiat artist and dancer (born 1921) Peter Gay 1923–2015 German-American historian, author, and academic (died 2015)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1915

Claudia Jones 1915–1964 Trinidad-British journalist and activist (born 1915) Ethel Rosenberg 1915–1953 American spy (born 1915) Germán Valdés 1915– Mexican actor, singer, and producer (died 1973) Jon Hall 1915–1979 American actor and director (born 1915) Joseph Ransohoff 1915–2001 American surgeon and educator (born 1915) Kiyosi Itô 1915–2008 Japanese mathematician and academic (born 1915) Leonard Goodwin 1915–2008 British protozoologist (died 2008) Les Paul 1915–2009 American guitarist, songwriter, and inventor (born 1915) M. F. Husain 1915–2011 Indian painter and director (born 1915)

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