American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (born 1879)

Will Rogers

William Penn Adair Rogers was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films, and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and was one of the higher paid Hollywood film stars.

Born

1879

November 4

Died

1935

Era

1870s

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1935 Died

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512 Following Byzantine emperor Anastasius' deposition of Chalcedonian patriarchs and attempts to make Monophysite changes to liturgy, riots break out in Constantinople with a mob trying to proclaim Areobindus as emperor.
1354 War of the Straits: The Genoese fleet under Paganino Doria defeats and captures the entire Venetian fleet under Niccolò Pisani at the Battle of Sapienza.
1429 Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War: Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1493 Christopher Columbus reaches the Leeward Islands.

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The world in 1935

When Will departed

april 1 India's central banking institution, the Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
april 11 Stresa Front: Opening of the conference between the British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, the Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and the French Minister for Foreign Affairs Pierre Laval to condemn the German violations of the Treaty of Versailles.
april 14 The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, sweeps across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
april 23 The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Alfred Lee Loomis 1887– American physicist and philanthropist (died 1975) Bernard Francis Law 1931– Mexican-American cardinal (died 2017) Carlos Baerga 1968– Puerto Rican baseball player and coach Dustin Brown 1984– American ice hockey player Hu Zongxian 1512–1565 Chinese general (born 1512) Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu 1900–1954 Romanian lawyer and politician, Romanian Minister of Justice (born 1900) Nikolaos Plastiras 1883–1953 Greek general and politician, 135th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1883) Roger Wilbraham 1553–1616 Solicitor-General for Ireland (born 1553) Shakuntala Devi 1929–2013 Indian mathematician and astrologer (born 1929)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1879

Albert Einstein 1879–1955 German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (born 1879) Albert Asher 1879– New Zealand rugby player (died 1965) Alfred Korzybski 1879– Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (died 1950) Annie Kenney 1879– leading British suffragette (died 1953) Benjamin R. Jacobs 1879–1963 American biochemist (born 1879) Boris Savinkov 1879– Russian soldier and author (died 1925) Carlos Chagas 1879–1934 Brazilian physician and parasitologist (died 1934) Edward Bruce 1879–1318 American lawyer and painter (died 1943) Edward Steichen 1879–1973 Luxembourgian-American photographer, painter, and curator (born 1879)

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