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- Aurelio Coccia was born in 1868 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Argentine Love (1924), Aloma of the South Seas (1926) and The Humming Bird (1924). He was married to Minnie Amata (dancer). He died on 30 September 1938 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- Will "Kid" Herman came out of Kansas City as a dancer and piano player; around the time of America's entry into World War I, he moved west to Los Angeles and soon became involved in the motion picture world; for a number of years he appeared in numerous bit parts in major motion pictures; as well as securing bit parts and small speaking roles for blacks; he also was a noted still photographer and cinematographer. He supplemented his work in movies by shooting "thousands of feet of film around local happenings and the like," and then traveling the country exhibiting the finished newsreels, short subjects and features in movie theaters, community halls, churches and schools, while attempting to raise funding for his next project. After years of ill health, Herman was found dead after a fall from the fourth floor of the Los Angeles General Hospital; he had recently discovered that the "arthritis" he had been suffering from was actually bone cancer.
- Actress
Dead at the age of twenty six does not allow for much of a career or legacy, but that was the promise of Michiko Oikawa who so early in life had already begun to impress and earn the title of 'the eternal virgin,' a description which years later would also be assigned to Setsuko Hara. Born in Tokyo, Japan to Christian parents she would go on to profess the same faith as she began acting in theatre and graduating from the Tokyo Music School. She would commence work under contract at Shochiku Studio in 1929, but as early as 1930 would have to take a break of one year due to a worsening heart problem. Similarly, she would have to take time off in 1934 only to return in 1935. Following her return she did appear in new films, but was soon ill again culminating in her death due to tuberculosis in 1938. Her earlier boyfriend, the novelist On Watanabe, had also died following an accident at age thirty in 1930.