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Michelangelo Antonioni (September 29, 1912 - July 30, 2007) was an Italian modernist film director whose films are widely considered as some of the most influential in film aesthetics.
 Early life
Michelangelo Antonioni was born in Ferrara, Emilia Romagna. Upon graduation from the University of Bologna with a degree in economics, he started writing for the local Ferrara newspaper Il Corriere Padano in 1935 as a film journalist.

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Michael Reid (19 January 1940 – 29 July 2007) was an English comedian and character actor, who is best remembered for playing Frank Butcher in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. He was well noted for his gravelly voice and strong Cockney accent.

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William Ernest Walsh (November 30, 1931 – July 30, 2007[1]) was an American football head coach of the San Francisco 49ers and Stanford University and the inventor of the West Coast Offense.
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Tom Snyder (May 12, 1936 - July 29, 2007) was an American television, news anchor, and radio personality best known for The Tomorrow Show.

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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (help·info) (IPA: ['ɪŋmar 'bærjman] in Swedish) (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was a Swedish stage and film director.
 Biography
Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden, to a Lutheran minister of Danish descent, Erik Bergman (later chaplain to the King of Sweden), and his wife, Karin (née Åkerblom). He grew up surrounded by religious imagery and discussion. He had a strict upbringing and was locked up in dark closets for infractions such as wetting the bed. Bergman performed two five-month stretches of mandatory military service and attended Stockholm High School and Stockholm University, not completing his course in literature and art but instead becoming interested in theatre and later in cinema (though he had become a “genuine movie addict”[1] by the early 1930s).

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