American actor (died 1998)

Richard Denning

Richard Denning was an American actor who starred in science fiction films of the 1950s, including Unknown Island (1948), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Target Earth (1954), Day the World Ended (1955), Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), and The Black Scorpion (1957). Denning also appeared in the film An Affair to Remember (1957) with Cary Grant and on radio with Lucille Ball in My Favorite Husband (1948–1951), the forerunner of I Love Lucy. He's more well-known as Governor Paul Jameson in late 1968-1980 police procedural TV series Hawaii Five-O.

Born

1914

March 27

Died

1998

Era

1910s

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1914 Born
1998 Died

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1309 Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized Ferrara, a papal fiefdom.
1329 Pope John XXII issues his In Agro Dominico condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513 Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.
1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

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The world in 1914

When Richard arrived

april 20 Nineteen men, women, and children participating in a strike are killed in the Ludlow Massacre during the Colorado Coalfield War.
april 21 Ypiranga incident: A German arms shipment to Mexico is intercepted by the U.S. Navy near Veracruz.
april 24 The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
august 1 World War I: The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.

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Andrei Kozyrev 1951– Belgian-Russian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Russia Edward Steichen 1879–1973 Luxembourgian-American photographer, painter, and curator (born 1879) George Giffen 1859–1927 Australian cricketer and footballer (died 1927) Georgios Katrougalos 1963– Greek jurist and politician Jakob Sverdrup 1845– Norwegian bishop and politician, Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (died 1899) John Sulston 1942– English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018) Karl Mannheim 1893–1947 Hungarian-English sociologist and academic (born 1893) Kathleen Scott 1878–1947 English sculptor (born 1878) Kenta Kobashi 1967– Japanese professional wrestler

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Adolph Green 1914–2002 American playwright and composer (died 2002) Baldev Raj Chopra 1914– Indian director and producer (died 2008) Barbara Ward 1914–1981 Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, English economist, journalist, and prominent Catholic layperson (died 1981) Dylan Thomas 1914–1953 Welsh poet and author (born 1914) Jack LaLanne 1914– American fitness expert (died 2011) James Van Allen 1914–2006 American physicist and academic (born 1914) Jersey Joe Walcott 1914– American boxer and police officer (died 1994) Jim Cairns 1914–2003 Australian economist and politician, 4th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia (born 1914) Jimmy Wakely 1914– American country music singer-songwriter and actor (died 1982)

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