The soap icon also reveals the moment he considered retiring not long ago, how he feels celebrating 45 years as Victor Newman ...

While the actor is marking 45 years on the No. 1 soap on February 8, in real life, he lost his house last month ... was a part of was playing John Jacob Astor IV in the 1997 blockbuster, Titanic.

Months before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying 18-year-old socialite Madeleine Talmage Force. To make the news even more ...

Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her in Lifeboat ... In 1903, a year after friend Flagler completed a Palm Beach mansion as a wedding gift for his third wife ...

Tall, lean and mustachioed John Jacob Astor IV wanted to accompany her in Lifeboat 4 ... In 1903, a year after friend Flagler completed a Palm Beach mansion as a wedding gift for his third wife, Mary ...

John Jacob Astor IV, when the so-called “indestructible” Titanic hit an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, taking the lives of about 1,500 souls. Many stories have been written ...

John Jacob Bausch was born in Gross Suessen, Germany in 1830. He was 18 when he moved to Berne, Switzerland, where he found work in an optical shop designing camera lenses. The following year, in 1849 ...

The actor played John Jacob Astor IV in the film and told TV Insider that he always knew the movie would be a hit, even when others were doubtful. “I’m the only one who did,” he admitted.

This article is written by William Roka, a historian with the South Street Seaport Museum. Titanic and New York City, ...

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