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

The most successful New Zealand band, The La De Das, produced the psychedelic pop concept album The Happy Prince ( 1968 ), based on the Oscar Wilde children's classic, but failed to break through in Britain and the wider world.

Ironically, for an artist considered one of the Italian cinema's greatest and most influential directors, De Sica's sole Academy Award nomination was for acting, when he received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nod for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop.

Oscar De la Hoya

Another monument of relevant importance that has been restored to its former beauty is the monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, in which the mortal remains of several known personalities rest, among them Giuseppe Mazzini, Fabrizio De André and Oscar Wilde's wife.

On June 7, 1996, Chávez faced Oscar De La Hoya.

He lost to only three champions: Randall, Oscar De La Hoya and Kostya Tszyu, plus to Willy Wise and Grover Wiley.

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* The World Awaits-Floyd Mayweather, Jr. beat Oscar De La Hoya for the WBC super-welterweight title.

* The Dream Match-The Welterweight match between Manny Pacquiao ( moving up 2 weight classes ) against Oscar De La Hoya ( moving down 1 weight class ).

During his career he fought Oscar De La Hoya winning the Lineal and World Boxing Council welterweight champion, Fernando Vargas in a unification fight where with sensei Fabio Martella he won the International Boxing Federation's light middleweight title, and William Joppy for the World Boxing Association's middleweight championship.

In the spring of 1999, Don King and Oscar De la Hoya's promoter, Bob Arum, agreed to co-promote a mega-fight for the Lineal, World Boxing Council and International Boxing Federation welterweight championships on September 18, 1999 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.

Some of Arum's superstars from the 1990s include former world flyweight champion Michael Carbajal and six-division world champion Oscar De La Hoya and current boxing superstars includes eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao and three-division world champion Erik Morales.

In 2003, Arum complained about the judging in the September 13 bout between Oscar De La Hoya and Sugar Shane Mosley and suggested there was a vendetta against him from a member of the Nevada State Commission that led to De La Hoya's loss.

The magazine is currently owned by Oscar De La Hoya's Golden Boy Enterprises.

Some of the boxers featured on the magazine covers have included Andrew Golota, Salvador Sánchez, Jack Dempsey, Max Schmeling, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Marciano, Willie Pep, Muhammad Ali, Alexis Argüello, Wilfred Benítez, Wilfredo Gómez, Roberto Durán, Larry Holmes, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Bud Taylor, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Thomas Hearns, Roy Jones Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Mauro Mina, and Ricardo Mayorga.

He was, however, ranked # 10 among Oscar De La Hoya's challengers at the welterweight division after his win over Flores, making him an official world title challenger once again.

Camacho fought for the World Welterweight Championship against Félix Trinidad ( in 1994 ) and Oscar De La Hoya ( in 1997 ), losing both matches by unanimous decision.

Chávez was the mandatory challenger though he had not fought at super lightweight for two years, had recently lost to journeyman boxer Willie Wise, and had not beaten a top contender since losing his first fight to Oscar De La Hoya in 1996.

The WBO was made popular by boxers such as Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Marco Antonio Barrera, Ronald " Winky " Wright, Naseem Hamed, Verno Phillips, Michael Carbajal, Johnny Tapia, Harry Simon, Jermain Taylor, Nigel Benn, Paul " Silky " Jones, Gerald McClellan, Joe Calzaghe, Steve Collins, Daniel Santos, Michael Moorer, Dariusz Michalczewski, Chris Eubank, Riddick Bowe, Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko, Chris Byrd and Tommy Morrison in the 1990s.

Oscar De La Hoya.

On June 7, 1996, Oscar De La Hoya fought Mexican legend Julio César Chávez ( 96 – 1 – 1 ) for the Lineal & WBC Light Welterweight Championships.

Former Weismann performers at the reunion include Max and Stella Deems, who lost their radio jobs and became store owners in Miami ; Solange La Fitte, a coquette, who is still vibrant three decades later ; Hattie Walker, who has outlived five younger husbands ; Vincent and Vanessa, former dancers who now own an Arthur Murray franchise ; Heidi Schiller, for whom Franz Lehár once wrote a waltz ( or was it Oscar Straus?

The fight was close and in keeping with past De La Hoya big fights, Oscar would fade late into the fight and Mosley was able to edge out a points win.

Mosley reportedly began his doping regimen prior to his rematch with Oscar De La Hoya.

In 2000, he released a Grammy-nominated CD, entitled Oscar De La Hoya.

In 2006, De La Hoya authorized a children's picture book titled Super Oscar published by Simon and Schuster and released in his name.

** Oscar de la Hoya, American boxer

Sports and Entertainment Publications, LLC is part of a family of companies owned by a group of private investors led by Oscar de la Hoya.

On May 1, 2007, the Staples Center sports arena announced that a bronze statue of Oscar De La Hoya would join similar tributes to Los Angeles sports stars Magic Johnson and Wayne Gretzky at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles.

Oscar De La Hoya is on the front covers of the PS3, Xbox 360 and PSP versions of EASports ' Fight Night Round 3.

Winning the 1951 Best Picture Oscar and numerous other awards, the film was directed by Vincente Minnelli, featured many tunes of Gershwin, and concluded with an extensive, elaborate dance sequence built around the An American in Paris symphonic poem ( arranged for the film by Johnny Green ), costing $ 500, 000.

The film, in which Brooks obnoxiously films a typical suburban family in an effort to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize, was a sendup of PBS's An American Family documentary.

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

* 1949 – Oscar Gamble, American baseball player

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

Richard D ' Oyly Carte was the booking manager for Oscar Wilde, a then lesser-known proponent of aestheticism, and dispatched Wilde on an American lecture tour in conjunction with the opera's U. S. run, so that American audiences might better understand what the satire was all about.

* 1895 – Oscar Hammerstein II, American songwriter, director, and producer ( d. 1960 )

* 1883 – Oscar Goerke, American cyclist ( d. 1934 )

* 1954 – Oscar Brockmeyer, American soccer player ( b. 1883 )

Spacey won universal praise and a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's American Beauty ; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

* 1847 – Oscar Hammerstein I, American businessman, impresario, and composer ( d. 1919 )

* 1958 – Oscar Nunez, Cuban-born American actor

* 1938 – Oscar Robertson, American basketball player

* 1883 – Oscar Brockmeyer, American soccer player ( d. 1954 )

* 1926 – Oscar Brown Jr, American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor ( d. 2005 )

* Academy Award or Oscar, presented by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ( AMPAS ) for cinematic film achievements

* Beast of Busco, a North American cryptid turtle named Oscar

* The Oscar ( film ), a 1966 American drama

* Oscar ( 1991 film ), an American film adapted from the same source as the French film, starring Sylvester Stallone

* Oscar ( 2013 film ), a 2013 American film directed by Mike Mitchell

Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960 ) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and ( usually uncredited ) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years.

* Darlington, Oscar G. " Gerbert, the Teacher ," The American Historical Review ( Volume 52, Number 3, 1947 ): 456 – 476.

* 26-Peter Stone, 73, Oscar and Tony-winning American screenwriter, pulmonary fibrosis