In 1976, the world class boxer Oscar Bonavena ( 1942 – 1976 ), who was a former friend of Conforte's and probably had an affair with his wife Sally, was shot dead at the ranch by Conforte's bodyguard.

* May 22 – death of Oscar Bonavena ( 34 ), Argentinian heavyweight, who was shot in Reno, Nevada

In 1970, he first regained a boxing license and promptly fought two comeback fights, against Jerry Quarry and Oscar Bonavena in an attempt to regain the heavyweight championship from Joe Frazier.

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Former world champions Jimmy Ellis and Floyd Patterson as well as George Foreman, Oscar Bonavena, Jerry Quarry, Earnie Shavers, Leon Spinks, Ken Norton, as well as Larry Holmes, Ron Stander, Chuck Wepner, Jose King Roman, Light Heavyweight champ Foster, John Tate, Jimmy Young, Ron Lyle, Joe Bugner, Scott LeDoux and many others added intrigue to the division.

* Oscar Bonavena ( 1942 – 1976 ), heavyweight boxer

Oscar Natalio " Ringo " Bonavena ( September 25, 1942 – May 22, 1976 ) was a heavyweight professional boxer with a career record of 58 wins, 9 losses and 1 draw.

Argentinian Oscar Bonavena also challenged for the world heavyweight championship, challenging Joe Frazier.

His title quest, however, again was derailed when Martin travelled to Argentina to meet Oscar Bonavena in his home town of Buenos Aires, where he lost by decision.

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The top heavyweights of the time included Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Floyd Patterson, Jerry Quarry, Oscar Bonavena, George Chuvalo and Earnie Shavers, among others.

In his next fight, Ellis dropped iron-jawed Oscar Bonavena twice on his way to an easy fifteen-round unanimous decision to reach the WBA tournament final.

Although he worked with Oscar Bonavena shortly, at the beginning of the Argentinian's career, he never again trained a world championship contender.

Born in Montería, Colombia on January 16, 1952, Mercado was once a sparring partner for Argentine heavyweight Oscar Bonavena, before turning professional on November 15, 1975.

Peralta went on to win nine of his next ten fights, including a rematch victory over Mauro Mina, outpointed in ten rounds at Buenos Aires on September 19 of ' 64, before defending his Argentine Heavyweight title for the first time, and losing it, to Oscar Bonavena by a twelve round decision on September 4, 1965 in Buenos Aires.

Other fighters, such as Oscar Bonavena, Juan Roldán, and Luis Firpo, did not win world championships, but were also popular among boxing fans during their years as professional fighters.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

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He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director in 1942 for Sergeant York, but he received his only Oscar in 1975 as an Honorary Award from the Academy.

In 1942, Steiner won his second Oscar for Now, Voyager, and was also nominated for Casablanca, which remains one of his most famous scores.

* Oscar winners: Rebecca ( 1940 ), How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ), Mrs. Miniver ( 1942 ), Casablanca ( 1943 ), Going My Way ( 1944 ), The Lost Weekend ( 1945 ), The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ), Hamlet ( 1948 ), All the King's Men ( 1949 ).

In 1942, the film won an Oscar in the Best Picture category and both Greer Garson and Teresa Wright won an Oscar in the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories respectively.

He played sympathetically an impoverished composer-pianist in Tales of Manhattan ( 1942 ) and starred in an updated version of Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost in 1944.

Even though she had not made a picture in five years, Arthur accepted the part at the request of George Stevens with whom she had worked in two earlier films, The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ) and The More the Merrier ( 1943 ) for which she received her only Oscar nomination.

On December 27, 1942, Bong claimed his initial aerial victory, shooting down a Mitsubishi A6M " Zero " and an Nakajima Ki-43 " Oscar " over Buna ( during the Battle of Buna-Gona ).

In 1942 his great hit Always in my heart ( Siempre en mi Corazon ) was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song ; it lost out to White Christmas.

Oscar Verner Peterson ( August 27, 1899 – May 13, 1942 ) was a Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy who received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II for his actions during the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Over a seven-year span ( 1936 – 1942 ), he was nominated five times for the " Best Cinematography " Oscar, including a win in 1940 for his work on Wuthering Heights.

He was again nominated for an Oscar in 1942 for Here Comes Mr. Jordan.

He received Oscar nominations for his scripts for Wake Island ( 1942 ) and The Great Escape.

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In the following decade, he appeared in such films as The Buccaneer ( 1938 ), The Great McGinty ( 1940 ), The Corsican Brothers ( 1941 ), Tortilla Flat ( 1942 ), Five Graves to Cairo ( 1943 ), His Butler's Sister ( 1943 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ), for which he received another Oscar nomination, and The Miracle of Morgan's Creek ( 1944 ).

Film production at Cinesound ground to a halt with the advent of World War Two, although Hall kept busy during this period producing and directing newsreels, documentaries and short subjects, including the Oscar-winning Kokoda Front Line ( 1942 )-the first time an Australian film / documentary was awarded an Oscar.

Prelude to War won the Oscar for Best Documentary of 1942.

In 1942, his great hit, Always in my heart ( Siempre en mi Corazon ) was nominated for an Oscar for Best Song ; however, it lost to White Christmas.

He would go on to receive Academy Award nominations for his writing on Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), The Talk of the Town ( 1942 ), and Jolson Sings Again ( 1949 ), winning an Oscar for Here Comes Mr. Jordan ( 1941 ).

* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

* 1925 – Oscar Peterson, Canadian pianist and composer ( d. 2007 )

* 1958 – Oscar Collodo, Swiss-Italian rugby player and coach

* 2000 – The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.

* 1876 – Oscar De Somville, Belgian rower ( d. 1938 )

* 1954 – Oscar Larrauri, Argentine race car driver

He taught at the Universidade de São Paulo, 1945 – 47, where he worked with Oscar Zariski.

* 1895 – Trial of the libel case instigated by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.

Saint Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, ( September 8, 801 – February 3, 865, in Bremen ) was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen.

* 1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician ( d. 1986 )

* Oscar Wilde ( 1854 – 1900 ), author and playwright ( educated in Portora Royal School )

* 1907 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect

* 1906 – Oscar Levant, American pianist, composer and actor ( d. 1972 )

Some of the most influential contemporary classical double bass players are known as much for their contributions to pedagogy as for their performing skills, such as US bassist Oscar G. Zimmerman ( 1910 – 1987 ), known for his teaching at the Eastman School of Music and, for 44 summers at the Interlochen National Music Camp in Michigan and French bassist François Rabbath ( b. 1931 ) who developed a new bass method that divided the entire fingerboard into six positions.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

* 1949 – Oscar Gamble, American baseball player

* 1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

* 1929 – Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer

* 1920 – Oscar Brand, Canadian folk musicologist

* 1911 – Oscar Heidenstam, English bodybuilding champion ( d. 1991 )

* 1958 – Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball player

* 1907 – Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter ( d. 2008 )