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- Andrew Jackson was an American lawyer, general, and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Before being elected to the presidency, Jackson gained fame as a general in the United States Army and served in both houses of the U.S. Congress. An expansionist president, Jackson sought to advance the rights of the "common man" against a "corrupt aristocracy" and to preserve the Union.
- The Eton and Cambridge-educated William Lamb was called to the bar in 1804. He took his seat in the House of Commons in 1805, and married Caroline Ponsonby, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough, that June 3rd. Her grandfather, the 1st Earl Spencer, was the 6th great-grandfather of Princess Diana.
After 2 miscarriages, Caroline gave birth to a son, George Augustus Frederick, on August 28, 1807. Tragically, was he epileptic and mentally handicapped. But instead of placing him in an asylum, as other couples of their rank would have done, Lamb and Caroline cared for him themselves. George died in 1836.
Despite the heartbreak of George's condition and the loss of their daughter, who died 24 hours after she was born, the pair were happy. Then Caroline met Lord Byron in 1812 at a party she was hosting. Although she famously noted in her diary later that evening that he was "mad, bad, and dangerous to know", she soon succumbed to the notorious libertine, and remained obsessed by him after he broke with her. An exasperated Byron eventually sought help from Lady Melbourne, who launched a very-public campaign to rid her son of his wife. It was Caroline who finally prevailed upon Lamb to agree to a formal separation, nine years after Byron left England for good. Lamb undertook the perilous voyage from Ireland to his family's estate to be with Caroline before she died on January 25, 1828; he never remarried. Upon his father's death that July 23rd, he was styled 2nd Viscount Melbourne, of Kilmore in the County of Cavan. He became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on April 18, 1835.
In 1836, the husband of socialite Caroline Norton attempted to blackmail him. When Lamb refused to pay out, Norton accused him of being Caroline's lover. Owing to his reputation for integrity, not only did Lamb's government not fall, King William and the Duke of Wellington urged him to stay on. He was ultimately vindicated; however, Caroline's reputation was ruined, and their friendship was destroyed.
In June 1837, the now-58-year-old Lamb became the then-18-year-old Queen Victoria's first Prime Minister. His foreign secretary Lord Palmerston's obsession with British identity was a thorn in Lamb's side, and Ireland was a constant worry. Conservative and cautious, he had mastered the art of doing next to nothing. Biographer Dorothy Marshall noted: "Lamb's capacity to do absolutely nothing unless driven, and then do as little as possible, was a definite asset". Victoria's marriage to Prince Albert effectively ended Lamb's role as her advisor and mentor. Trouble between British and French settlers in Canada and unrest in Jamaica as a result of his decision to abolish slavery were his undoing. When his majority fell to just four, he resigned on August 30, 1841.
Lamb died on November 24, 1848. Melbourne, Australia is named for him. - Writer
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Gaston Arman de Caillavet was born on 15 March 1870 in Paris, France. He was a writer, known for Tavasz a télben (1918), The King on Main Street (1925) and Papacito lindo (1939). He was married to Jeanne Pouquet. He died on 15 January 1915 in Essendièras Périgord, France.- Lamar Johnstone was born on 15 March 1884 in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for The Ne'er Do Well (1915), Robin Hood (1912) and The Holy City (1912). He died on 21 May 1919 in Palm Springs, California, USA.
- Mrs. E.M. Kimball was born on 15 March 1860 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Deep Purple (1915), The Yellow Passport (1916) and The Feast of Life (1916). She was married to Edward Kimball. She died on 11 December 1919 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Leo Delaney was born on 15 March 1885 in Swanton, Vermont, USA. He was an actor, known for As You Like It (1912), The Great Victory, Wilson or the Kaiser? The Fall of the Hohenzollerns (1919) and A Tin-Type Romance (1910). He died on 4 February 1920 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Charles Nungesser was born on 15 March 1892 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for The Sky Raider (1925). He was married to Consuelo Hatmaker. He died on 8 May 1927 in Atlantic Ocean.
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Leslie Stuart was born on 15 March 1864 in Southport, Lancashire, England, UK. He was married to Mary Catherine Fox. He died on 27 March 1928 in Richmond, Surrey, England, UK.- Composer
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Silvio Hein was born on 15 March 1879 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for Charity (1916), M*A*S*H (1972) and The Lambs' All-Star Gambol (1914). He was married to Anna V. Mooney. He died on 19 December 1928 in Saranac Lake, New York, USA.- Professor Chira was born on 15 March 1865 in Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Idol of the Stage (1916), The Haunted Manor (1916) and Grant, Police Reporter (1916). He died on 11 September 1931 in Florida, USA.
- Lady Augusta Gregory was born on 15 March 1852 in Roxborough, Galway, Ireland, UK [now Ireland]. She was a writer, known for The Rising of the Moon (1957), Actor's Studio (1948) and Theatre Parade (1936). She was married to William Henry Gregory. She died on 23 May 1932 in County Galway, Ireland.
- Actor
- Writer
Kazimierz Dunin-Markiewicz was born on 15 March 1874 in Denikhovka, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Denykhivka, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor and writer, known for Powrót (1920) and Córka pani X (1920). He was married to Constance Gore-Booth. He died on 2 December 1932 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Arthur Wellesley was born on 15 March 1849 in Hyde Park, London, England, UK. He was married to Kathleen Bulkeley-Williams. He died on 18 June 1934 in Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Dave Vaughan-Thomas was born on 15 March 1873 in Ystalyfera, Glamorgan, Wales, UK. Dave was a composer, known for Because That Road Is Trodden (1969). Dave died on 15 September 1934 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Johan Halvorsen was born on 15 March 1864 in Drammen, Norway. He was a composer, known for Journey to the Christmas Star (1976), Concerts at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2007) and Når nettene blir lange (1977). He was married to Anna Grieg. He died on 4 December 1935 in Oslo, Norway.- Director
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- Writer
Vladimir Barskiy was born on 15 March 1866. He was a director and actor, known for Battleship Potemkin (1925), Shuquras saidumloeba (1925) and Tavadis asuli Meri (1926). He died on 24 January 1936.- Grace Livingston Furniss was born on 15 March 1864 in Bayonne, New Jersey, USA. Grace Livingston was a writer, known for Gretna Green (1915), The Pride of Jennico (1914) and On with the Dance (1915). Grace Livingston died on 20 April 1938 in Rye, New York, USA.
- Nina Visaroff was born on 15 March 1885 in Radomyshl, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for Paddy O'Day (1936). She was married to Michael Visaroff. She died on 14 December 1938 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- High school education in Japan and America and drama school in Chicago. Yukio Aoyama was an editor of the Japanes Daily News for five years and also writer and drama critic. Was a leading man in Japanese stock companies. Was in American-produced films, and co-starred with Lois Wilson in "Hari-Kari" (aka "Who Is Your Servant", and co-starred with Helen Holmes in the Warners's serial "The Tiger Band."
Worked in over sixty Vitagraph films as technical director or assistant director. In 1934, worked on the Japanese Movie Magazine and the Kodan Club, and was the owner of The Oriental Costume Company in Hollywood. - Philip Yale Drew was born on 15 March 1880 in Marshfield Hills, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Water Lily (1919), Fruits of Passion (1919) and The Root of Evil (1919). He died on 2 July 1940 in London, England, UK.
- Gerda Wegener was a Danish artist and illustrator known for her fashion illustrations and later her paintings that pushed the boundaries of her time concerning gender and love. She studied art at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen where she met her first husband Einar Wegener. They married in 1904 and he became her model as Lili Elbe. The couple eventually moved to Paris, where her husband/model felt free to appear in public sometimes as Einar Wegener and sometimes as Lili Elbe. Along with her art pushing boundaries, her work in the fashion industry took off as she illustrated for magazines such as Fantasio, Vogue, and La Vie Parisienne. In 1931 her husband Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe died of complications during the completion of his gender reassignment. Gerda Wegener remarried with the Italian Major Fernando Porta. She held her last exhibition in 1939, but by this time, her artwork was out of style as the simpler Functionalism had become more popular in the 1930s. Gerda Wegener passed away back in Denmark in 1940.
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Billy Jones was born on 15 March 1889 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Get That Girl (1932), Spectral Trip (2017) and Leap Year Leaps (1920). He died on 23 November 1940 in New York City, New York, USA.- Børge Munch Petersen was born on 15 March 1901 in Denmark. He was an actor, known for De tre måske fire (1939), København, Kalundborg og - ? (1934) and Jeg har elsket og levet (1940). He died on 21 August 1942 in Denmark.
- American novelist and historian Charles Caldwell Dobie was born in San Francisco, CA, in 1881. He had to drop out of grammar school at age 14 because of his father's death. He took a job as an office boy in an insurance company, and stayed with that company until 1915, when he began to make enough money from his writing to devote his full time to it.
The majority of his work is about or set in his home town of San Francisco, where he spent his entire life (he never married). Both his fiction and non-fiction about his beloved city has been praised as "smooth" and "deftly written" by such literary figures as Carey McWilliams.
Dobie died in San Francisco on January 11, 1943. - Actor
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Montague Love - certainly an intriguing name - but his own - started his working life as a newspaper man in London. His primary expertise centered on being a field illustrator and cartoonist who covered the Boer War (1899-1902). His realistic battle sketches gained him popularity among readers, but he was bound for a different career. He decided to become an actor. A robust man with a massive head of noble bearing and brooding lower lip, these were ingredients well suited to this goal. Love honed basic stage talents in London, and then made an early departure for the US in 1913 with a road-company production of Cyril Maude's "Grumpy." An early stop was Broadway, and he returned many times to appear in a laundry list of important plays from 1913 to 1934.
Silent film studios of the early days were originally based in the East, and Love started his film career at World Studios, New Jersey in 1914. His silent career alone was prodigious-nearly a hundred films. His look and bearing were perfect for authoritative figures. And, though certainly taking on a whole spectrum of roles (sultan, native chiefs, many a doctor and military officer, among many others) he became famous for his bad guy characterizations through the 1920s. Some historians credit him as the best villain of the silent era.
In 1926 he was nemesis to Rudolf Valentino in The Son of the Sheik (1926) and 'John Barrymore' in Don Juan (1926). The latter movie had the particular fame of sporting the longest sword duel in silent history between Love's Count Giano Donati and Barrymore's Don Juan. The fight filming was unique and realistic with middle and close shots looking directly at the individual combatants-with the appropriate blood in their eyes. The duel was all the more complex choreography for being one with swords and daggers (historically correct but rarely seen in film history). But Love was just as effective as the Roman centurion in The King of Kings (1927) by 'Cecil B DeMille'. Starting with Synthetic Sin (1929), Love's movies followed the trend of an increasing number of silent films using recorded music and some snatches of dialogue or background sound with the several incipient audio systems. Some movies originally issued as silent were released again with the process added. `Sin' was one of 11 films of 1929 featuring Love given the semi-sound treatment. The last of these was Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island (1929), very loosely adapted to the point of being hokey, but one of the first films also using the primitive two-color process.
Love had a commanding, puckered-lip British delivery of speech which he could believably weld to any part, but it particularly fit characters of authority, as in the silent era. Into the 1930s, these were increasingly benign rather than despotic-always colonels and generals, prime ministers, American presidents - even Zorro's father. Perhaps his best known character tour de force displaying his genuine acting power was his Henry VIII in Prince and the Pauper (1937). It is hard to forget him in purple as the Bishop of the Black Canons in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Sometimes, as with other veteran character actors, his roles were almost as featured extra-but his very costumed presence was all that was needed to lend realism. A very apt example was his Detchard, noble henchmen to 'Raymond Massey', in The Prisoner of Zenda (1937), in which he has little more than one line. He was still in demand in the early 1940s - ten roles in 1940 alone. But these slowed into the war years. By his passing in 1943, an actor who was considered as noble on screen as off, he had lent his voice as well as virtuoso acting skills to eighty-one additional films.- Rolinda Bainbridge was born on 15 March 1875 in Sheldon, Vermont, USA. She was an actress, known for The Capture of Fort Ticonderoga (1911), One of Our Girls (1914) and Chris and His Wonderful Lamp (1917). She was married to John K. Hutchinson. She died on 21 September 1943 in Manhattan, New York, USA.
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Ray portrayed simple unaffected country bumpkins in silent rural melodramas. Unfortunately, Ray let Hollywood turn him into a headstrong egotist. Alienating most producers, he put up his own money to finance a major feature called The Courtship of Myles Standish (1923). The film was a miserable failure that wiped out Ray's fortune. Comeback attempts were hampered by the advent of the sound picture.- Henri Ghéon was born on 15 March 1875 in Bray-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Marne, France. He was a writer, known for Primera fila (1962), Weihnachten auf dem Marktplatz (1961) and Directions (1960). He died on 13 June 1944 in Paris, France.
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Charles Barrois was born on 15 March 1890 in Paris, France. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Carmen (1926), Trois de la marine (1934) and Aux portes de Paris (1935). He died on 11 December 1944 in Paris, France.- Max Bing was born on 15 March 1885 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor, known for Immer nur Du (1941), Der rote Streifen (1916) and Dreiklang der Nacht (1924). He died on 7 February 1945 in Jauernig, Czech Republic.
- George Sidney was born on 15 March 1877 in Nagynichal, Hungary. He was an actor, known for In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924), Around the Corner (1930) and Sweet Daddies (1926). He was married to Carey Weber. He died on 29 April 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
Harry Holman was born on 15 March 1872 in Conway, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Meet John Doe (1941), The Dark Horse (1932) and Oliver Twist (1933). He died on 3 May 1947 in Hollywood, California, USA.- Milos Subrt was born on 15 March 1886 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Batalión (1937), Workers, Let's Go (1934) and The Masked Lover (1940). He died on 8 March 1948 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Josef Skruzný was born on 15 March 1871 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a writer, known for Milenky starého kriminálníka (1927), Drátenícek (1920) and Falesná kocicka aneb Kdyz si zena umíní (1926). He died on 12 May 1948 in Zbraslav, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
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Harold Palmer was born on 15 March 1897 in Illinois, USA. He was an editor, known for I Promise to Pay (1937), The Brighton Strangler (1945) and The Farmer's Daughter (1947). He died on 10 July 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Brember Wills was born on 15 March 1883 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Old Dark House (1932), Unfinished Symphony (1934) and What Happened to Harkness? (1934). He died on 29 September 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Roberto Banquells was born on 15 March 1908 in Madrid, Spain. He was an actor, known for Every Madman to His Specialty (1939), Refugiados en Madrid (1938) and While Mexico Sleeps (1938). He died on 28 October 1948 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.
- G. Swayne Gordon was born on 15 March 1879 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor, known for Follies Girl (1943), Kraft Theatre (1947) and Sorry, Wrong Number (1946). He was married to Lois Howell and Spain Thorne. He died on 23 June 1949 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Harry Frazer was born on 15 March 1894 in South Dakota, USA. He was an actor, known for Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1921), The Man Who Stood Still (1916) and The Divine Sacrifice (1918). He died on 2 August 1949.
- János Komjáthy was born on 15 March 1865 in Pázmánd, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Toprini nász (1918), A szerencse fia (1917) and Az obsitos (1917). He died on 11 September 1949 in Kistarcsa, Hungary.
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- Director
Bruno Decarli was born on 15 March 1877 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. He was an actor and producer, known for Ein Glas Wasser (1923), Das Gift im Weibe (1919) and Der Unheimliche (1922). He died on 31 March 1950 in Tiverton, Devon, England, UK.- Josef Volman was born on 15 March 1886 in Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was an actor, known for Príbeh jednoho dne (1926), O velkou cenu (1922) and Prazský kat (1927). He died on 21 May 1951 in Rumburk, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Oleg Leonidov was born on 15 March 1893 in Moscow, Russia. He was a writer, known for An Hour with Chekhov (1929), Man from the Restaurant (1927) and Treasure Island (1938). He died on 18 September 1951.
- Harold L. Ickes was born on 15 March 1874 in Frankstown, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Jane Dahlman and Anna Wilmarth Thompson . He died on 3 February 1952 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Director
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- Actor
Eugenio de Liguoro was born on 15 March 1899 in Naples, Italy. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Entre gallos y medianoche (1940), Sueña, mi amor (1946) and Ramayan (1922). He died on 30 June 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Henry W. Pemberton was born on 15 March 1875 in Richmond, Virginia, USA. He was an actor, known for The Dead Line (1920), One Hour (1917) and The Way Women Love (1920). He was married to Blanche Koppal and Kathleen C.. He died on 26 July 1952 in Orlando, Florida, USA.
- Matthew 'Mike' Matina was born on 15 March 1902 in Budapest, Hungary. He died on 1 June 1954 in Suffern, New York, USA.
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Jimmy Lono was born on 15 March 1890 in Hawaii [now Hawaii, USA]. He was an actor, known for Three Days to Live (1924) and Wings Over the Pacific (1943). He died on 18 August 1954 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.- Writer
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Axel Frische was born on 15 March 1877 in Tjele, Denmark. He was a writer and actor, known for Niels Pind og hans dreng (1941), Min kone er husar (1935) and Naar bønder elsker (1942). He died on 2 February 1956 in Denmark.- Costume Designer
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Hattie Carnegie was born on 15 March 1886 in Vienna, Austria. She was a costume designer, known for The Secret Fury (1950), Born to Be Bad (1950) and Two Against the World (1932). She was married to John Zanft and Ferdinand Fleischman. She died on 23 February 1956 in New York City, New York, USA.