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- Eileen Way was born on 2 September 1911 in New Malden, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Vikings (1958), Kidnapped (1960) and Sean's Show (1992). She was married to Felix Warden Brown. She died on 16 June 1994 in Canterbury, Kent, England, UK.
- Kristen Marie Pfaff was born on May 26, 1967 on Buffalo, New York, USA. Kristen is the only child of her mother's first marriage, which ended in divorce when Kristen was very young. Her mother Janet later married Norman Pfaff, and Kristen took his stepfather's surname. She had a younger brother, Jason Pfaff.
Kristen graduated in 1985 from Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart. She spent a brief time in Europe and returned to USA attend Boston College. She later enrolled in University of Minnesota.
Kristen Pfaff played classical piano and cello since she was a child, but it wasn't until she was around 21 years old, living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, that Kristen started to play the bass guitar.
Kristen formed her first band, "Janitor Joe" in 1992, alongside guitarist/vocalist Joachim Breuer and drummer Matt Entsminger. "Janitor Joe" released their first single the same year, and their debut album, "Big Metal Birds" on 1993.
Los Angeles band Hole were looking for a female bassist, after the departure of their previous bass player Jill Emery. Founding members Courtney Love and Eric Erlandson scouted Kristen during a "Janitor Joe" performance in California. Love asked Kristen to join Hole, but she declined, returning to Minnesota. Both musicians insisted on their purpose to have Kristen as their new bass player. Hole had a millionaire contract with multinational record company Geffen Records, so finally Kristen moved to Seattle, Washington, in order to join Hole.
In early 1993, Kristen started to rehearsal for Hole 's second album, "Live Through This". Kristen provided bass, piano and backing vocals. In Seattle, Kristen became close friend of bandmate, guitarist 'Eric Erlandson (I)' (later they would have a romantic relationship) and a good friend of 'Nirvana' frontman, Kurt Cobain, then husband of bandmate Courtney Love. Alongside drummer Patty Schemel, the band moved to Los Angeles to record "Live Through This" on October,1993.
Unfortunately, Kristen began to use heroin during her time on Seattle (like most of her inner circle). On February, 1994, Kristen moved back to Minnesota in order to enter a heroin detox center. She then took a sabbatical from Hole, and after her detox, Kristen reunited with "Janitor Joe" members and went to tour with them.
On April 8th, 1994, Kurt Cobain 's body was found on his Seattle house. This tragedy affected Kristen, and she returned to Seattle after the "Janitor Joe" tour, with the decision to leave Hole and return to Minneapolis.
On June 16th, 1994, Kristen Pfaff was found dead in the bathroom of her Seattle apartment by her friend Paul Erickson, who was supposed to drive her back to Minneapolis. She was at her Seattle apartment to retrieve some of her packed belongings. The cause of dead was declared as an accidental heroin overdose. - John Michael Heffernan was born and raised in New South Wales, Australia. He started his career as a singer and dancer, and in 1963, the Australian Opera chose him to play Alfred in "Die Fledermaus", an opera by Johann Strauss. From 1963 to 1968, Heffernan, going professionally by John Aron, remained with the Australian Opera as a tenor, playing the roles of Erik in "The Flying Dutchman", Goro in "Madame Butterfly", Ernesto in "Don Pasquale", and Conte d'Almaviva in "Il barbiere di Siviglia". In 1968, while in Adelaide, South Australia, Aron played Spoletta in "Tosca", playing alongside Tito Gobbi, who played Scarpia. That same year, Aron moved to the United Kingdom and sang with the Scottish Opera.
In 1970, Aron joined the Royal Shakespeare Company on their tours throughout Great Britain of Ivor Novello's operas "Glamorous Night", "Perchance to Dream", and "King's Rhapsody". Aron's West End debut was in 1974, where he sang in the musical "Cole", alongside Julia McKenzie and Angela Richards. That same year, Aron sang in "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" as Judah. In 1975, Aron starred as Cardinal Rossini in "Thomas and the King" at Her Majesty's Theater, but the short-lived show only lasted 20 performances. Aron also sang in the musicals "The King and I", "Waltz Dream", "Calamity Jane", and "Pickwick".
In 1980, Aron was chosen by Harold Prince to play Adolfo Pirelli in Stephen Sondheim's "Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street" at the Theater Royal Drury Lane, acting alongside Sheila Hancock and Denis Quilley; this signified Aron's return to the West End theatre. In 1983, he played Senator Gallagher in "Call Me Madame" at the Victoria Palace Theater, and in 1985, he played Pirelli in "Sweeny Todd" a second time, alongside Gillian Hanna in an Off West End production. That same year, he played a ballroom dancer in the ballroom dance sequence of Jim Henson's fantasy film Labyrinth (1986), and returned to the West End, starring as Manuel, Maitre Du Fresne, and a telephone installer in the musical "Gigi", alongside Beryl Reid and Siân Phillips.
In early 1986, Aron returned to Australia briefly and joined the Queensland Lyric Opera, singing in "Carmen" and "La bella Elena". In October that year, having returned to England, Andrew Lloyd Webber, who wrote "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat", chose Aron to play Ubaldo Piangi in his musical "The Phantom of the Opera", which would be directed by Harold Prince, and played at Her Majesty's theatre. Aron played the role for 5 years, from 1986 to 1991, with the exception of a few weeks hiatus in 1989.
Aron died of cancer in London in 1994, at the age of 59. - George Raphaël Béthenod de Montbressieux was born on 8 February 1910 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. He died on 16 June 1994 in Neuilly-sur-Marne, France.
- Zbigniew Mamont was born on 6 February 1931 in Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for Przeciwko bogom (1961) and Television Theater (1953). He died on 16 June 1994 in Szczecin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland.
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Jacques Chabannes was born on 13 October 1900 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was a writer and producer, known for Le cabaret du grand large (1946), Palace of Shame (1954) and Les beaux jours du roi Murat (1947). He died on 16 June 1994 in Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France.