Headline Birthdays for June 28
Henry VIII 1491-1547
born at Greenwich, near London, the second son
of the Tudor King Henry VII, died in London Jan. 28, 1547; King of England
1509-47; 1502 Henry became heir to the throne when his older brother Arthur
died; April 21, 1509 came to the throne, affirming the union of the houses
of Lancaster and York whose rivalry had caused the War of the Roses; 1513
won victory over the invading Scots at Flodden; 1515 named Thomas Cardinal
Wolsey hius chief Minister; 1531 broke with the Catholic Church and set up
a (Protestant) National Church in England under his supreme leadership when
Rome would not let him nullify his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon,
(mother of the future Queen Mary I) who was unable to provide him with a
male heir; 1533 secretly married Anne Boleyn, who was crowned queen after
Henry's archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declared the marriage with
Catherine void and that with Anne valid; 1533 birth of Anne's only surviving
child, Elizabeth, later Elizabeth I; 1536-40 dissolved the Catholic monasteries
and sold the lands to the gentry; 1536, after charging Anne Boleyn with incest
and adultery, Henry had her executed, then married Jane Seymour, who died
in 1537 after bearing Henry's only legitimate son, Edward, later Edward VI.
1539 his Act of Six Articles defined the Anglican faith; 1540 married Anne
of Cleves to form a tie between England and the Protestant princes of Germany;
divorced her after several months and married Catherine Howard, who was executed
in 1542; 1543 married his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who survived him. [picture: young Henry, 1511; Holbein copy;
at age 40, by Joos; as an old man]
Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1649
born in exile at Siegen, Westphalia,
Germany, son of a prominent lawyer and Antwerp alderman who converted from
Catholicism to Calvinism and had to flee Flanders in 1568; died in Antwerp,
Belgium May 30, 1640; Flemish Baroque painter; on his father's death in 1587,
his widow returned the family to Antwerp, where they again became Catholics;
1598 at age 21 became a master painter of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke;
1600 travelled to Italy; worked for Vincenzo Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, employed
Rubens for about nine years, doing original works, and copying Renaissance
paintings for the ducal collection; 1605 served as the duke's emissary to
King Philip III of Spain; 1609 engaged as court painter to the Austrian archduke
Albert and his wife, the Spanish infanta Isabella, who ruled the Low Countries
as viceroys for the king of Spain; set up a studio along the lines of Italian
painters' workshops, in which the did the initial sketch and final touches,
while his apprentices such as Anthony van Dyck completed all the intermediary
steps; 1622 visited Paris, where French queen Marie de Médicis commissioned
him to depict her life in a series of allegorical paintings (completed 1625);
1625 helped negotiate an end to the war between the Spanish Netherlands and
the Dutch Republic; 1630 helped conclude a peace treaty between England and
Spain; best known for works The Elevation of the Cross, The Coronation of
Marie de Medicis, The Judgment of Paris, The Descent from the Cross, The
Allegory of War and Peace (1629; Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace).
[pictures: The Artist and His First Wife, Isabella Brandt, in the Honeysuckle
Bower, 1609; Venus and Adonis; Helena Fourment with a Carriage 1639; Self Portrait]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778
born in Geneva, Switzerland; died
in Ermenonville, France July 2, 1778; philosopher, writer, political theorist;
his mother died shortly after his birth, and when Rousseau was 10 his father
fled from Geneva to avoid imprisonment for a minor offense, leaving young
Jean-Jacques to be raised by an aunt and uncle; left Geneva at 16 and wanders
about Italy France and Switzerland; 1731 meets a widow Madame de Warens after
converting to Catholicism in Turin and she becomes his mistress; 1743 goes
to Paris and meets Therese le Vasseur who will become his mistress, bearing
him five children, and whom he marries near the end of his life; 1745 collaborates
with Diderot on the Encyclopedia. 1751 Publishes Discourse on the Sciences
and the Arts, where he proposed that the progress of knowledge had made governments
more powerful, and crushed individual liberty, and that material progress
had actually undermined the possibility of sincere friendship, replacing
it with jealousy, fear and suspicion; 1761 publication of Heloise; 1762 publication
of Emile and The Social Contract which forced him to leave France to avoid
arrest; 1770 returns to live in Paris where he finishes his Confessions,
his Dialogues and Reveries.
Quotes: "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
"At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who,
on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Let them
eat cake." (a statement frequently inaccurately attributed to Marie-Antoinette.)
Luigi Pirandello 1867-1936
born at Agrigento, Sicily, Italy; died
in Rome Dec. 10, 1936; novelist, short-story write, author of over 50 plays
including Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca
d'autore, 1921), where he invents the device of a theatre within a theatre,
to explore illusion and reality at the same time.awarded the 1934 Nobel Prize
for Literature.
Richard Rodgers 1902-1970
born in New York City; died there Dec.
30, 1979; composer of musical comedy, including over 1,500 Broadway songs
and 42 musicals; wrote first song at age 14; by the time he entered Columbia
University in the fall of 1919, he had already created a Broadway musical
with librettist Lorenz Hart called, A Lonely Romeo; 1921 studied at the Juilliard
School of Music for three years; 1931-35 worked with Hart in Hollywood writing
songs for such films as Love Me Tonight (1932), starring Maurice Chevalier
and Jeanette MacDonald, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933), starring Al Jolson,
and Mississippi (1935), with Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields; his best known
works with Hart (1918-1942) and Oscar Hammerstein II (to 1960), include Poor
Little Ritz Girl, By Jupiter, Babes in Arms, Pal Joey, The Sound of Music,
Love Me Tonight, My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp, Oklahoma!, South
Pacific, State Fair, The King and I, Carousel; songs include You'll Never
Walk Alone, Getting to Know You, Some Enchanted Evening, It Might as Well
be Spring (Oscar, 1945). [picture: with Hammerstein]
John Dillinger 1903-1934
born in Indianapolis, Indiana; killed by
the FBI in Chicago July 22, 1934; bank robber, called Public Enemy No. 1
by J. Edgar Hoover's Division of Investigation; March 3, 1934 using a wooden
gun, broke out of the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana where he was
awaiting trial for murder; took two of his keepers hostage, locked up the
warden, Lou Baker, commandeered two machine guns and made his getaway in
the sheriff's V-8 Ford; he and gang member Baby Face Nelson made their way
to Chicago, where he had his face and fingerprints altered by a plastic surgeon;
July 20 brothel owner Anna Sage called the East Chicago police and offered
to reveal his whereabouts in return for both the reward money and help in
blocking her deportation to Romania; July 22, all available FBI agents waited
outside the Biograph movie house, where Manhattan Melodrama featuring Clark
Gable was showing; at 10:30 pm., the agents tried to arrest Dillinger as
he left the theatre, then gunned him down when he tried to escape.
Mel Brooks 1926-
born Melvin Kaminsky to Russian immigrants in Brooklyn,
NY; comedian, actor, director; served as a combat engineer in World War II,
where he was known to respond to German propaganda broadcasts by doing an
Al Jolson imitation of Toot Toot Tootsie; started as a standup comedian in
the Catskills; wrote for Sid Caesar's TV variety show Your Show of Shows
with Neil Simon, Woody Allen and Carl Reiner; 1965-70 wrote the satirical
spy sitcom Get Smart for Buck Henry; 1960s developed the 2000 Year Old Man
routine with Reiner; 1964 married actress Anne Bancroft; first film was The
Producers (Oscar for Writing, 1968), followed by Blazing Saddles (1973),
Young Frankenstein (1974), History of the World: Part One (1981), and the
film parodies Spaceballs (1987), Robin Hood:.Men In Tights (1993), and Dracula
- Dead And Loving It (1995).
Quote: "Humor is just another defense against the universe."
[pictures: in Blazing Saddles and Historyof the World Part II]
Gilda Radner 1946-1989
born in Detroit Michigan; died May 20, 1989;
actress, comedian; got her comedy start with the Second City comedy improv
group, then was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live (Emmy, 1977-78),
where she was best known for her goofy Roseanne Roseannadana character and
the crotchety news commentator Emily Litella; also in film Haunted Honeymoon,
with husband Gene Wilder; lost 3-year-long battle with ovarian cancer, but
her name continues to be associated with research and support groups for
the disease.
Other Birthdays
1367 06 28 Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia
1476 06 28 Paul IV, [Giampietro Caraffa], inquisition/Pope (1555-59)
1490 06 28 Albrecht von Brandenburg, German archbishop/monarch of Mainz/cardinal
1547 06 28 Cristofano Malvezzi, composer
1550 06 28 John Drusius, Flemish hebrew translator
1577 06 28 Peter Paul Rubens, Siegen, Flemish Baroque painter (Circumcision)
1586 06 28 Paul Siefert, composer
1712 06 28 Jean Jacques Rousseau, France, composer/social contractor (Confession)
1734 06 28 Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier, composer
1787 06 28 Henry G W Smith, leader of British-Indian forces
1806 06 28 Napoleon Coste, composer
1808 06 28 Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican
1812 06 28 Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter
1816 06 28 Jacob P P baron van Zuylen van Nijevelt, Min Foreign Affairs (1852-53)
1824 06 28 Paul Broca, France, brain surgeon/anthro (located speech center)
1824 06 28 William Tatus Wofford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1825 06 28 Richard ACE Erlenmeyer, German chemist (Erlenemyer kolf)
1831 06 28 Joseph Joachim, Kittsee Germany, violinist (Hungarian Concerto)
1847 06 28 Sveinbjorn Sveinbjornsson, composer
1852 06 28 Hans Huber, composer
1853 06 28 Edwin Arthur Jones, composer
1865 06 28 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer/journalist (Remarkable Stories)
1867 06 28 Luigi Pirandello, Italy, writer (6 Characters-Nobel 1934)
1867 06 28 William Courtleigh, Guelph Ontario, actor (Eyes of Youth, Madame X)
1873 06 28 Alexis Carrel, France, surgeon/sociologist/biologist (Nobel 1912)
1874 06 28 Oley Speaks, composer
1879 06 28 Sigurd von Koch, composer
1885 06 28 Berthold Viertel, writer
1885 06 28 Giuseppe Mule, composer
1886 06 28 Joe Cox, cricketer (S African pace bowler in 1913-14 series v England)
1887 06 28 Boleslav Vomacka, composer
1888 06 28 George Challenor, cricketer (pioneering West Indian batsman)
1889 06 28 Frank Mayo, silent screen actor (Burning Gold, Hell's Headquarters)
1892 06 28 Edward H Carr, England, historian (History of Soviet Russia)
1893 06 28 Luciano Gallet, composer
1893 06 28 Nils Bjorkander, composer
1894 06 28 Lois Wilson, Pitts Pa, actress (Alice-Aldrich Family)
1895 06 28 Kazimierz Sikorski, composer
1897 06 28 Jacobus J E Hondius, graphic artist
1900 06 28 Leon Kruczkowski, Polish author (Kordian into Cham)
1902 06 28 John Dillinger, US bank robber (public enemy #1)
1902 06 28 Pierre Brunet, France, figure skater pair (Olympic-gold-1928, 32)
1902 06 28 Richard Rodgers, Hammels Station NY, composer (Rodgers & Hammerstein)
1903 06 28 Alan Bunce, Westfield NJ, actor (Albert-Ethel & Albert)
1904 06 28 Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer
1906 06 28 Maria Goeppert Mayer, US atomic physicist (Nobel 1963)
1906 06 28 Nancy Mayhew Youngman, artist/educator
1906 06 28 Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/music historian
1907 06 28 Paul-Emile Victor, French pole explorer (La civilisation du phoque)
1908 06 28 James L Reinsch, media-adviser (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy)
1909 06 28 Arnold Shaw, composer
1909 06 28 Eric Ambler, London, suspense writer (Epitaph for a Spy)
1909 06 28 French van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist
1912 06 28 Audrey Langford, singing teacher
1912 06 28 Carl F von Weisz„cker, German physicist/philosopher
1912 06 28 Sergiu Celibidache, conductor
1913 06 28 George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer (Serf, John Socman)
1914 06 28 Charles Urbanus, Dutch baseball player
1914 06 28 Lester Raymond Flatt, TN, bluegrass (Earl-Ballad of Jed Clampett)
1917 06 28 Willem Wim Sonneveld, Dutch singer/actor (My Fair Lady)
1918 06 28 Bert Schierbeek, [Lambertus], Dutch writer/poet (Cross Roads)
1921 06 28 P V Narasimha Rao, premier of India (1991- )
1922 06 28 Terje Stigen, Norwegian author (Det siste paradiset)
1923 06 28 Lloyd Labeach, Panama City, 100m/200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1948)
1924 06 28 Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host
1925 06 28 Giselher W Kleber, German (opera)composer (Die R„uber)
1926 06 28 Mel Brooks, NYC, comedian/actor/director (Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs)
1926 06 28 Robert Shelton Shapiro, journalist
1927 06 28 Theo van Tijn, Dutch marxist/social-historian
1928 06 28 Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, cybernetician stage producer/lyricist
1928 06 28 Peter Heine, cricketer (solid South African fast bowler in 1950's)
1928 06 28 Ronald Alfred Gardyne Rags Butler, sailor
1929 06 28 Don Dubbins, Brooklyn, actor (Enchanted Island, Fix)
1930 06 28 Nikolay Nikolayevich Karetnikov, composer
1933 06 28 Gunnar Reynir Sveinsson, composer
1933 06 28 Pat Morita, Berkeley CA, actor (Happy Days, Karate Kid)
1934 06 28 Carl M Levin, (Sen-D Michigan, 1979- )
1934 06 28 Roy Gilchrist, cricketer (volatile WI fast bowler of late 50s)
1936 06 28 Bill Orton, (Rep-R-UT, 1983- )
1936 06 28 Gisela Kraft, writer
1936 06 28 Major R Owens, (Rep-D-NY)
1936 06 28 Peter Hall, folklorist/musician
1938 06 28 Leon E Panetta, (Rep-D-CA, 1977- )
1942 06 28 Chris Martin Thembisile Hani, sec-gen (S Africa Communist Party)
1942 06 28 Jim Kolbe, (Rep-R-AZ, 1985- )
1942 06 28 Sjoukje Dijkstra, Holland, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 06 28 Bobby Harrison, England, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
1943 06 28 Ed Pastor, (Rep-D-Arizona)
1945 06 28 Dave Knights, London, rock bassist (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
1945 06 28 Jane Harmon, (Rep-D-California)
1946 06 28 Bruce Davison, Phila, actor (Capt Wyler-Hunter, Willard, High Risk)
1946 06 28 Gilda Radner, Detroit Mich, actress (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon)
1946 06 28 John Mike Lounge, Denver Colo, astr (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35)
1946 06 28 Robert L Asprin, US, sci-fi writer (Thieves World, Cold Cash War)
1946 06 28 Robert Xavier Rodriguez, composer
1947 06 28 Mark Helprin, US writer
1947 06 28 Patrick Kincaid, who wrote the TODAY program; send him a card
1948 06 28 Kathy Bates, Memphis TN, academy award winning actress (Misery)
1949 06 28 Don Baylor, Tx, baseball player (Rockies, 1979 AL RBI leader, 267 HBP)
1949 06 28 Edward Totah, art dealer
1950 06 28 Ken Arthur, Australian softball asst coach (Olympics-bronze-96)
1952 06 28 Pietro Mennea, Italian runner (200m world record)
1954 06 28 Alice Krige, South Africa, actress (Chariots of Fire, Ladykiller)
1954 06 28 Ava Barber, Knoxville Tn, country singer (Lawrence Welk Show)
1955 06 28 Mitch Addock, Macon MS, Nike golfer (1992 BC Open-11th)
1955 06 28 Nikolai Simyatov, USSR, nordic skier (Olympic-3 golds-1976)
1958 06 28 Oran Juice Jones, rocker (Curiosity, Here I Go Again)
1958 06 28 Sergei Shakrai, USSR, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1960 06 28 John Elway, NFL quarterback (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1961 06 28 Jay Schroeder, NFL quarterback (Wash Redskins, LA Raiders)
1961 06 28 Jeff Malone, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Miami Heat)
1962 06 28 Anisoara Stanciu-Cusmir, Romania, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 06 28 Allen Pitts, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1963 06 28 Andy Cousin, rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet & Other Stories)
1964 06 28 Bryan Barker, NFL punter (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1964 06 28 Stephanie Maynor, Chester England, golfer (1995 PING Welch's-13th)
1964 06 28 Susan Mascarin, Detroit Mich, tennis star
1965 06 28 Michele Timms, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury, Olympics-1988, 96)
1966 06 28 Andrew Lang, NBA center (Minnesota Timberwolves, Milwaukee Bucks)
1966 06 28 John Cusack, Chicago, actor (Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead)
1966 06 28 Mary Stuart Masterson, Houston Tx, actress (Some Kind of Wonderful)
1966 06 28 Mike Bellamy, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1967 06 28 Anthony Smith, NFL defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1967 06 28 Matt Karchner, Berwick PA, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
1969 06 28 Danielle Brisebois, Bkln NY, actress (Archie's Place, Big Bad Mama 2)
1969 06 28 Tichina Arnold, Queens, actress (Ryan's Hope, Sharla-All My Children)
1970 06 28 Mushtaq Ahmed, cricketer (prodigious Pakistani leggie 1990-)
1970 06 28 [Jack] Stephen Burton, Indianapolis, actor (Chris-Out of this World)
1971 06 28 Aileen Quinn, actress (Annie)
1971 06 28 Bobby Hurley, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings)
1971 06 28 Gary Downs, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1971 06 28 Greg Evans, NFL/WLAF safety (Buffalo Bills, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 06 28 Greg Keagle, Corning NY, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1971 06 28 Jeff Cothran, NFL fullback (Cin Bengals)
1972 06 28 Arie van de Padt, Dutch soccer player (Tonegido, Sparta)
1972 06 28 Eric Johnson, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 06 28 Jerry Colquitt, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 06 28 Kelly Wiltshire, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 06 28 Marvin Jones, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1972 06 28 Ryan Fujita, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1973 06 28 Alberto Berastegui, Spain, tennis star
1973 06 28 Brian Maisonneuve, Detroit Mich, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 06 28 Ingrid Seynhaeve, Brussels Belgium, model (Look of the Year 1991)
1974 06 28 Atilla Buday, Budapest Hungary, Canadian canoeist (Olympics-96)
1974 06 28 Josh[ua] Crosby, Manchester Mass, rower (Olympics-1996)
1974 06 28 Karim Abdul-Jabaar, running back (Miami Dolphins)
1975 06 28 Chad Green, Dunkirk NY, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1977 06 28 Lindsay Lee, Okla City Okla, tennis star (1995 Futures-Woodlands TX)
1979 06 28 ? Papajohn, Englewood Co, 1996 US Ladies' Figure Champion
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born at Greenwich, near London, the second son
of the Tudor King Henry VII, died in London Jan. 28, 1547; King of England
1509-47; 1502 Henry became heir to the throne when his older brother Arthur
died; April 21, 1509 came to the throne, affirming the union of the houses
of Lancaster and York whose rivalry had caused the War of the Roses; 1513
won victory over the invading Scots at Flodden; 1515 named Thomas Cardinal
Wolsey hius chief Minister; 1531 broke with the Catholic Church and set up
a (Protestant) National Church in England under his supreme leadership when
Rome would not let him nullify his first marriage to Catherine of Aragon,
(mother of the future Queen Mary I) who was unable to provide him with a
male heir; 1533 secretly married Anne Boleyn, who was crowned queen after
Henry's archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declared the marriage with
Catherine void and that with Anne valid; 1533 birth of Anne's only surviving
child, Elizabeth, later Elizabeth I; 1536-40 dissolved the Catholic monasteries
and sold the lands to the gentry; 1536, after charging Anne Boleyn with incest
and adultery, Henry had her executed, then married Jane Seymour, who died
in 1537 after bearing Henry's only legitimate son, Edward, later Edward VI.
1539 his Act of Six Articles defined the Anglican faith; 1540 married Anne
of Cleves to form a tie between England and the Protestant princes of Germany;
divorced her after several months and married Catherine Howard, who was executed
in 1542; 1543 married his sixth wife, Catherine Parr, who survived him. [picture: young Henry, 1511; Holbein copy;
at age 40, by Joos; as an old man]
born in exile at Siegen, Westphalia,
Germany, son of a prominent lawyer and Antwerp alderman who converted from
Catholicism to Calvinism and had to flee Flanders in 1568; died in Antwerp,
Belgium May 30, 1640; Flemish Baroque painter; on his father's death in 1587,
his widow returned the family to Antwerp, where they again became Catholics;
1598 at age 21 became a master painter of the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke;
1600 travelled to Italy; worked for Vincenzo Gonzaga, duke of Mantua, employed
Rubens for about nine years, doing original works, and copying Renaissance
paintings for the ducal collection; 1605 served as the duke's emissary to
King Philip III of Spain; 1609 engaged as court painter to the Austrian archduke
Albert and his wife, the Spanish infanta Isabella, who ruled the Low Countries
as viceroys for the king of Spain; set up a studio along the lines of Italian
painters' workshops, in which the did the initial sketch and final touches,
while his apprentices such as Anthony van Dyck completed all the intermediary
steps; 1622 visited Paris, where French queen Marie de Médicis commissioned
him to depict her life in a series of allegorical paintings (completed 1625);
1625 helped negotiate an end to the war between the Spanish Netherlands and
the Dutch Republic; 1630 helped conclude a peace treaty between England and
Spain; best known for works The Elevation of the Cross, The Coronation of
Marie de Medicis, The Judgment of Paris, The Descent from the Cross, The
Allegory of War and Peace (1629; Banqueting House, Whitehall Palace). 
born in Geneva, Switzerland; died
in Ermenonville, France July 2, 1778; philosopher, writer, political theorist;
his mother died shortly after his birth, and when Rousseau was 10 his father
fled from Geneva to avoid imprisonment for a minor offense, leaving young
Jean-Jacques to be raised by an aunt and uncle; left Geneva at 16 and wanders
about Italy France and Switzerland; 1731 meets a widow Madame de Warens after
converting to Catholicism in Turin and she becomes his mistress; 1743 goes
to Paris and meets Therese le Vasseur who will become his mistress, bearing
him five children, and whom he marries near the end of his life; 1745 collaborates
with Diderot on the Encyclopedia. 1751 Publishes Discourse on the Sciences
and the Arts, where he proposed that the progress of knowledge had made governments
more powerful, and crushed individual liberty, and that material progress
had actually undermined the possibility of sincere friendship, replacing
it with jealousy, fear and suspicion; 1761 publication of Heloise; 1762 publication
of Emile and The Social Contract which forced him to leave France to avoid
arrest; 1770 returns to live in Paris where he finishes his Confessions,
his Dialogues and Reveries.
born in New York City; died there Dec.
30, 1979; composer of musical comedy, including over 1,500 Broadway songs
and 42 musicals; wrote first song at age 14; by the time he entered Columbia
University in the fall of 1919, he had already created a Broadway musical
with librettist Lorenz Hart called, A Lonely Romeo; 1921 studied at the Juilliard
School of Music for three years; 1931-35 worked with Hart in Hollywood writing
songs for such films as Love Me Tonight (1932), starring Maurice Chevalier
and Jeanette MacDonald, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933), starring Al Jolson,
and Mississippi (1935), with Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields; his best known
works with Hart (1918-1942) and Oscar Hammerstein II (to 1960), include Poor
Little Ritz Girl, By Jupiter, Babes in Arms, Pal Joey, The Sound of Music,
Love Me Tonight, My Funny Valentine, The Lady is a Tramp, Oklahoma!, South
Pacific, State Fair, The King and I, Carousel; songs include You'll Never
Walk Alone, Getting to Know You, Some Enchanted Evening, It Might as Well
be Spring (Oscar, 1945). [picture: with Hammerstein]
born in Indianapolis, Indiana; killed by
the FBI in Chicago July 22, 1934; bank robber, called Public Enemy No. 1
by J. Edgar Hoover's Division of Investigation; March 3, 1934 using a wooden
gun, broke out of the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana where he was
awaiting trial for murder; took two of his keepers hostage, locked up the
warden, Lou Baker, commandeered two machine guns and made his getaway in
the sheriff's V-8 Ford; he and gang member Baby Face Nelson made their way
to Chicago, where he had his face and fingerprints altered by a plastic surgeon;
July 20 brothel owner Anna Sage called the East Chicago police and offered
to reveal his whereabouts in return for both the reward money and help in
blocking her deportation to Romania; July 22, all available FBI agents waited
outside the Biograph movie house, where Manhattan Melodrama featuring Clark
Gable was showing; at 10:30 pm., the agents tried to arrest Dillinger as
he left the theatre, then gunned him down when he tried to escape.
born in Detroit Michigan; died May 20, 1989;
actress, comedian; got her comedy start with the Second City comedy improv
group, then was an original cast member of Saturday Night Live (Emmy, 1977-78),
where she was best known for her goofy Roseanne Roseannadana character and
the crotchety news commentator Emily Litella; also in film Haunted Honeymoon,
with husband Gene Wilder; lost 3-year-long battle with ovarian cancer, but
her name continues to be associated with research and support groups for
the disease.