The Academy Awards (aka the Oscars) are tonight!
Today is also the Feast Day of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows
HISTORICAL ROYAL EVENT
1594 Henry IV is crowned King of France
HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHS
272 Constantine I, Roman Emperor (d.337)
1711 Constatine Mavrocordatos, Prince of Wallachia & Prince of Moldavia (d.1769)
BIRTHDAYS OF OTHER "FAMOUS" OR OTHERWISE NOTABLE PERSONS
1807 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d.1882)
1902 John Steinbeck, American writer & Nobel laureate (d.1968)
1928 Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
1930 Joanne Woodward, American actress
1932 Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress
1934 Ralph Nader, American author, activist & political figure
1971 "Chilli" Thomas, American singer (TLC)
1980 Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill & Hillary Clinton
1981 Josh Groban, American singer
DEATHS
1887 Alexander Borodin, Russian composer & chemist
1892 Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker
1936 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist & Nobel prize winner
1970 Marie Dionne, one of the French-Canadian Dionne quintuplets
1985 Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician
2003 Fred Rogers, American children's television actor
2008 William F. Buckley, Jr., American conservative author & commentator
Just a correction.....Marie Dionne died in 1970 not 1920.....of an apparent blood clot. They were born in 1934. They were famous in my house during my younger years. They were born the same year my parents were married. So they were talked about a lot.
ReplyDeleteOops, sorry for the typo! Thanks for your help!
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