American actor and singer (died 1999)

Richard Kiley

Richard Paul Kiley was an American stage, film, and television actor and singer. He is best known for his distinguished theatrical career in which he twice won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. Kiley originated the role of Don Quixote in the original 1965 production of the Broadway musical Man of La Mancha and was the first to sing and record "The Impossible Dream", the hit song from the show. In the 1953 hit musical Kismet, he played the Caliph in the original Broadway cast and as such was one of the quartet who sang "And This Is My Beloved".

Born

1922

March 31

Died

1999

Era

1920s

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1999 Died

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307 After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman emperor Maximian.
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1174 A conspiracy against Saladin, aiming to restore the Fatimid Caliphate, is revealed in Cairo, involving senior figures of the former Fatimid regime and the poet Umara al-Yamani. Modern historians doubt the extent and danger of the conspiracy reported in official sources, but its ringleaders will be publicly executed over the following weeks.
1272 Pope Gregory X calls for a General Church Council to discuss reunion of Churches, Crusade to the Holy Land and Church reform.

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The world in 1922

When Richard arrived

april 1 In newly formed Northern Ireland, six Catholics are murdered in the Arnon Street killings, one week after six others were killed in the McMahon killings.
april 15 U.S. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming introduces a resolution calling for an investigation of a secret land deal, which leads to the discovery of the Teapot Dome scandal.
april 16 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
april 20 The Soviet government creates the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast within the Georgian SSR.

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Alvin Dark 1922–2014 American baseball player and manager (died 2014) Barbara Bel Geddes 1922–2005 American actress (born 1922) Bill Johnston 1922– Australian cricketer and businessman (died 2007) Cecil H. Underwood 1922–2008 American educator and politician, 25th Governor of West Virginia (born 1922) Charles Mingus 1922–1979 American bassist, composer, and bandleader (died 1979) Christiaan Barnard 1922–2001 South African surgeon and academic (died 2001) Denholm Elliott 1922–1992 English-Spanish actor (died 1992) Enrico Berlinguer 1922–1984 Italian politician (born 1922) Erich Hartmann 1922–1993 German colonel and pilot (died 1993)

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