English actor (died 2023)

Julian Sands

Julian Richard Morley Sands was an English actor. He had co-starring roles in Oxford Blues and The Killing Fields in 1984, and the following year got his breakout role as George Emerson in A Room with a View, then went on to appear in Gothic (1986); Siesta (1987); Warlock (1989); Arachnophobia (1990); Naked Lunch (1991); Boxing Helena (1993); Leaving Las Vegas (1995); The Medallion (2003); Ocean's Thirteen (2007); and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). His television roles included Nick Hardaway in Rose Red (2002), Vladimir Bierko in 24 (2006), Jor-El in Smallville (2009–2010), and the voice of Valmont in Jackie Chan Adventures (2000–2002).

Born

1958

January 4

Died

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1950s

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-46 Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
871 Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army.
1642 English Civil War: King Charles I, accompanied by 400 soldiers, attempts to arrest five members of Parliament for treason, only to discover the men had been tipped off and fled.
1649 English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial.

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The world in 1958

When Julian arrived

april 14 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
april 21 United Air Lines Flight 736 collides with a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
april 26 Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68 years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
april 4 The CND peace symbol is displayed in public for the first time in London.

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Amadeus VI 1334–1383 Count of Savoy (died 1383) Barbara Rush 1927–2024 American actress (died 2024) Bernard Sumner 1956– English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Chris Cutler 1947– English percussionist, lyricist and music theorist Coco Jones 1998– American singer-songwriter and actress Georg Elser 1903– German carpenter and attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (died 1945) George P. Cosmatos 1941– Italian-Canadian director and screenwriter (died 2005) Günter Schabowski 1929–2015 German journalist and politician (died 2015) James Milner 1986– English footballer

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Adrian Newey 1958– English aerodynamicist and engineer Andy Reid 1958– American football player and coach Anna Politkovskaya 1958–2006 Russian journalist and activist (died 2006) Betsy DeVos 1958– American businesswoman and politician, 11th Secretary of Education Caryl Phillips 1958– Caribbean-English author and playwright Charlie Kaufman 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Chris Columbus 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Hugo Sánchez 1958– Mexican footballer, coach, and manager Jennifer Saunders 1958– English actress, comedian and screenwriter

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