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- American novelist and historian Charles Caldwell Dobie was born in San Francisco, CA, in 1881. He had to drop out of grammar school at age 14 because of his father's death. He took a job as an office boy in an insurance company, and stayed with that company until 1915, when he began to make enough money from his writing to devote his full time to it.
The majority of his work is about or set in his home town of San Francisco, where he spent his entire life (he never married). Both his fiction and non-fiction about his beloved city has been praised as "smooth" and "deftly written" by such literary figures as Carey McWilliams.
Dobie died in San Francisco on January 11, 1943. - Betty Chester was born on 12 October 1895 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Musgrave Ritual (1922), Be Mine Tonight (1932) and The Co-Optimists (1929). She died on 11 January 1943 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Bill Dwyer was born on 7 May 1887 in St. John's Wood, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for On the Air (1934), Radio Parade of 1935 (1934) and Variety Hour (1937). He died on 11 January 1943 in Uppingham, Rutland, England, UK.
- William Dwyer was an actor, known for The Pulse of Life (1917) and King Cotton (1925). He died on 11 January 1943 in Rutland, England, UK.
- Carlo Tresca was born on 9 March 1879 in Sulmona, Abruzzo, Italy. He died on 11 January 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.