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Marlon Brando

Marlon Brando

1924 – 2004
Film & Entertainment

Marlon Brando Jr. was an American actor. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential performers in the history of cinema, he has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three BAFTAs, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Brando is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to mainstream audiences.

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Contemporaries

Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks
80 yr overlap
 Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman
80 yr overlap
 Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
80 yr overlap
 Edmund Hillary
Edmund Hillary
80 yr overlap
 Stan Lee
Stan Lee
80 yr overlap
 Bob Hope
Bob Hope
79 yr overlap
 Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
79 yr overlap
 B.B. King
B.B. King
79 yr overlap
 Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
78 yr overlap
 Gabriel García Márquez
Gabriel García Márquez
77 yr overlap
 James Watson
James Watson
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 Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou
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Their World

Global Events
1928 Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1929 Wall Street Crash; Great Depression begins
1933 Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
1936 Spanish Civil War begins
1939 World War II begins
1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor; US enters WWII
1944 D-Day: Allied invasion of Normandy
1945 Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; WWII ends
1945 United Nations founded
1947 India and Pakistan gain independence
1948 State of Israel established
1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted
1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed
1950 Korean War begins
1953 Watson and Crick discover DNA structure
1955 Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
1957 Sputnik launched; Space Age begins
1959 Cuban Revolution; Castro takes power
1961 Berlin Wall constructed
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 Assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1964 Civil Rights Act signed in the United States
1969 Apollo 11: first humans walk on the Moon
1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and independence
1973 1973 oil crisis
1975 Fall of Saigon; Vietnam War ends
1979 Iranian Revolution
1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster
1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall
1989 Tiananmen Square protests
1990 Nelson Mandela released from prison
1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union
1994 Rwandan genocide
1994 End of apartheid; South Africa holds first free elections
1997 Dolly the Sheep cloned
1998 Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland
2001 September 11 attacks
2003 Human Genome Project completed
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
In Their Field
1927 The Jazz Singer: first feature-length talkie
1929 First Academy Awards ceremony held
1939 The Wizard of Oz and Gone with the Wind released
1941 Orson Welles releases Citizen Kane
1946 Cannes Film Festival established
1950 Kurosawa releases Rashomon; Japanese cinema gains world stage
1960 Fellini releases La Dolce Vita
1960 French New Wave: Godard releases Breathless
1968 Kubrick releases 2001: A Space Odyssey
1972 Coppola releases The Godfather
1975 Spielberg releases Jaws; blockbuster era begins
1977 Star Wars released
1985 Miyazaki co-founds Studio Ghibli
1994 Pulp Fiction revitalizes independent cinema
1995 Toy Story: first fully computer-animated feature film