Mattiwilda Dobbs
Mattiwilda Dobbs( July 11, 1925 – December 8, 2015) was an African- American coloratura soprano and one of the first black singers to enjoy a major international career in opera.
She was the first black singer to perform at La Scala in Italy, the first black woman to receive a long- term performance contract at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the first black singer to play a lead role at the San Francisco Opera.
Miloš Forman
Jan Tomáš" Miloš" Forman( 18 February 1932 – 13 April 2018) was a Czech- American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States 1968.
Forman was an important figure in the Czechoslovak New Wave.
Film scholars and Czechoslovakian authorities saw his 1967 film" The Firemen's Ball" as a biting satire on Eastern European Communism, and it was banned for many years in his home country.
He left Czechoslovakia for the United States, and his films" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"( 1975) and" Amadeus"( 1984) acquired particular renown and for both films he won the Academy Award for Best Director.
" One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was the second film to win all five major Academy Awards( Best Picture, Actor in Leading Role, Actress in Leading Role, Director, and Screenplay).
Forman also received an Academy Award nomination for a Best Director for" The People vs. Larry Flynt"( 1996).
He also won Golden Globe, Cannes, Berlinale, BAFTA, Cesar, David di Donatello, European Film Academy, and Czech Lion awards.
Henri Colpi
Henri Colpi( 15 July 1921 – 14 January 2006) was a French film editor and film director.
Johann Peter Petri
Johann Peter Petri, nicknamed Old Black Peter or simply Black Peter(" Schwarzer Peter"),( born 24 March 1752 in Burgen near Bernkastel; died after 1812) was a robber and accomplice of" Schinderhannes", the notorious highwayman.
The name of the card game, Black Peter is probably derived from Petri.
The Long Absence
The Long Absence(" Such a long absence") is a 1961 French film directed by Henri Colpi.
It tells the story of Therese( Alida Valli), a Puteaux café owner mourning the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier.
A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband.
But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.
" The Long Absence" shared the" Palme d' Or" prize with the Luis Buñuel film" Viridiana" at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.
Black Peter (film)
Black Peter( original Czech title:" Černý Petr", known also as" Peter and Paula") is a 1964 film directed by Miloš Forman.
It won the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno International Film Festival.
Pixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley ka Isaka Seme( c. 1881 – June 1951) was one of the first black lawyers in South Africa( Alfred Mangena was the first black attorney, Duma Nokwe the first black advocate), and a founder and President of the African National Congress.
Charles Young (United States Army)
Charles Young( March 12, 1864 – January 8, 1922) was an American soldier.
He was the third African- American graduate of the United States Military Academy, the first black U.S. national park superintendent, first black military attaché, first black man to achieve the rank of colonel in the United States Army, and highest- ranking black officer in the regular army until his death in 1922.
Violet King Henry
Violet Pauline King Henry (October 18, 1929 – March 30, 1982) was the first black woman lawyer in Canada, the first black person to graduate law in Alberta and the first black person to be admitted to the Alberta Bar.
She was also the first woman named to a senior management position with the American national YMCA.
William Hallett Greene
William Hallett Greene or Green( October 1864 May 1942) was the first black member of the U.S. Signal Corps, the first black graduate of City College of New York, and first black meteorologist.

Question: Which film has the director who died first, Black Peter (Film) or The Long Absence?
Answer: The Long Absence