Oscar-winning actor Robin Williams dies at 63
Robin Williams, the prolific Oscar-winning actor and comedian, died by suicide on August 11, 2014. He was 63.
On the big screen, Williams, who was born in Chicago in 1951, made his debut in the 1977 low-budget comedy “Can I Do it ‘Til I Need Glasses?” then went on to appear in films such as “Good Morning, Vietnam” (1987), for which he earned his first Academy Award nomination, “Dead Poets Society” and his role as a delusional homeless man in “The Fisher King” (1991).
Virginia and Leonard Woolf marry On August 10, 1912, Virginia Stephen, 30, marries Leonard Woolf, 31, at a registry office in London. Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, grew up surrounded by intellectuals. Her father was a writer and philosopher, and her mother was a British aristocrat. The family developed close friendships with other intellectuals and writers. Their circle of friends came to be called the Bloomsbury group, a leisured set […]
