Today's Birthdays 5/19

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Posted: 5/19/08 at 5:45pm

Johns Hopkins 5/19/1795 - 12/24/1873 American merchant; endowed Johns Hopkins University and hospital, Peabody Conservatory is now a part of JHU

Lorraine Hansberry 05/19/1930 - 1/12/1965 writer, - A Raisin in the Sun; To be Young, Gifted and Black

David Hartman 5/19/1935 performer, stage manager - Hello, Dolly!; The Yearling; film's & tv's Emmy Award-winning TV host: Good Morning America; Lucas Tanner, The Bold Ones; The Ballad of Josie (Doris Day, Peter Graves, George Kennedy)

Marilyn Chris 05/19/1938 performer, wife of Lee Wallace (December 14, 1975 - present) - The Birthday Party; The Seven Descents of Myrtle (Estelle Parsons, Harry Guardino, Brian Bedford); tv's & film's Law & Order; One Life To Live; The Honeymoon Killers; Love with the Proper Stranger

Nancy Kwan 5/19/1939 performer - film's The World of Suzie Wong, Flower Drum Song, Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story

James Fox 05/19/1939 performer; Grandson of Frederick Lonsdale; son of Robin Fox (agent) - tv's & film's The Miniver Story; The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner; Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes; King Rat; A Passage to India; 1997 Anna Karenina; Mickey Blue Eyes; 2001 tv The Lost World; Poirot; Marple: The Body in the Library; Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Absolute Power

Nora Ephron 5/19/1941 writer; Daughter of Phoebe & Henry Ephron - Short Talks on the Universe; Imaginary Friends; tv's & film's Heartburn; You've Got Mail; Sleepless in Seattle; 2005 Bewitched; Adam's Rib (Ken Howard, Blythe Danner, Ron Rifkin); Heartburn; Silkwood; Bewitched

Pete Townshend 05/19/1945 writer, composer, lyricist - The Who's Tommy

SHOWS THAT OPENED ON THIS DATE:

1924 Blossom Time - Gregory Ratof

1936 New Faces of 1936 - Imogene Coca,
Van Johnson

1937 Room Service - Eddie Albert, Sam Levene

1962 Bravo Giovanni - Cesare Siepi, Michele Lee, Larry Fuller

1964 The White House - Fritz Weaver, James Daly, Helen Hayes, Gene Wilder

1968 - Piano stylist and vocalist Bobby Short gained national attention as he presented a concert with Mabel Mercer at New York’s Town Hall. He had been the featured artist at the intimate Café Carlyle for years.

1973 Smith - Nicholas Dante, Don Murray

2002 An Evening With Mario Cantone

ON THIS DAY IN:

1536 Anne Boleyn, the second wife of England's King Henry VIII, was beheaded after being convicted of adultery.

On May 19, 1935, T.E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia," died in England from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash.

1962 Actress Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of 'Happy Birthday' for President John F. Kennedy during a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden.

1994 Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York at age 64.

(sources: IBDB, IMDB, NYT's ON THIS DAY, 440.com’s Those Were The Days, Playbill.com)

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