By Kiesly Jameson
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (German: [nasˈtasi̯a ˈkɪnskiː] ; born Nakszynski, Polish: [nakˈʂɨj̃skʲi]; born 24 January 1962) 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! (1993). She also appeared in the biographical drama film An American Rhapsody (2001). She is the daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski.
Kinski was born in West Berlin as Nastassja Aglaia Nakszynski. She is the daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski and his second wife, actress Ruth Brigitte Tocki. She is of partial Polish descent, for her grandfather Bruno Nakszynski was a Germanized ethnic Pole. Kinski has two half-siblings: Pola and Nikolai Kinski. Her parents divorced in 1968. After the age of 10, Kinski rarely saw her father. Her young mother struggled financially to support them; they eventually lived in a commune in Munich.
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Born
- Edith Wharton (author) –
- Vicki Baum (novelist) –
- Leon Kirchner (composer) –
- Neil Diamond (singer) –
- John Belushi (actor) –
- Nastassja Kinski (actress) –
- Mary Lou Retton (gymnast) –
- Matthew Lillard (actor) –
- Mischa Barton (actress) –
Died
- Sir Winston Churchill (British Prime Minister) –
- George Cukor (film director) –
- Vincente Minnelli (film director) –
- Thurgood Marshall (first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court) –
- Jay Monahan (legal analyst for NBC News) –
- Bob Russell (creator of the Miss America Pageant and Name That Tune) –
- Chris Penn (actor) –
Events
- Gold nuggets discovered at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California, triggered the California Gold Rush –
- “Typewriter copy ribbon” patented by Jacob L. Wortman –
- Patent 1,404,539 granted for the Eskimo Pie (now Edy’s Pie) –
- Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island, NY –
- Percy Spencer granted patent for microwave oven –
- Soviet satellite Cosmos 954 crashed in Canada’s Northwest Territories, leaking radioactive waste –
- An otter entertained crowds all winter at the mouth of the Ompompanoosuc River in Norwich, Vermont –
- Apple Computer, Inc. introduced the Macintosh personal computer –
- The Voyager 2 spacecraft sent back photographs from the planet Uranus –
- Rover Opportunity landed on Mars –
- A blizzard that took over New England with blinding snow and blustering wind kept the Cape Cod Times from publishing a print edition for the first time –
Weather
- The temperature in Browning, Montana, plunged 100 degrees in 24 hours, from 44F to -56F, establishing a U.S. record for a 24-hour temperature drop. –
- Fifteen degrees below zero F in Nashville, Tennessee –
- 4 inches of snow fell near Lake Jocassee in South Carolina –
- North Myrtle Beach experienced a low temperature of 16 degrees F –
- Thirty-eight inches of snow on Cape Cod after a 2-day winter blizzard –
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