French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 2019)

Michel Legrand

Michel Jean Legrand was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written more than 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs. His scores for two of the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), and additional Oscars for Summer of '42 (1971) and Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983).

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1932

February 24

Died

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1930s

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1932 Born

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484 King Huneric of the Vandals replaces Nicene bishops with Arian ones, and banishes some to Corsica.
1303 The English are defeated at the Battle of Roslin, in the First War of Scottish Independence.
1386 King Charles III of Naples and Hungary is assassinated at Buda.
1525 A Spanish-Austrian army defeats a French army at the Battle of Pavia.

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The world in 1932

When Michel arrived

april 24 Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
april 5 Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.
august 2 The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.
august 24 Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the United States non-stop (from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey).

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