American actress

Abigail Breslin

Abigail Breslin is an American actress. Following a string of film parts as a young child, she rose to prominence at age 10 after playing Olive Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine (2006), for which Breslin received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She went on to establish herself as a mainstream actress with roles in films such as No Reservations (2007), Nim's Island (2008), Definitely, Maybe (2008), My Sister's Keeper, Zombieland, Rango (2011), The Call, August: Osage County, Ender's Game, Maggie (2015), and Stillwater (2021). Breslin's other projects include the Fox series Scream Queens (2015–2016), where she portrayed Libby Putney, her first regular role on television.

Born

1996

April 14

Died

Living

Era

1990s

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1996 Born

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-43 Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum.
69 Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho in the First Battle of Bedriacum to take power over Rome.
966 Following his marriage to the Christian Doubravka of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state.
972 Otto II, Co-Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, marries Byzantine princess Theophanu. She is crowned empress by Pope John XIII in Rome the same day.

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The world in 1996

When Abigail arrived

april 13 Two women and four children are killed after an Israeli helicopter fires rockets at an ambulance in Mansouri, Lebanon.
april 18 The Israeli military commits the Qana massacre in a deliberate shelling of a United Nations compound near the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, killing 106 Lebanese civilians who were taking shelter there and wounding over 100 more.
april 21 Four people are killed and 75 are injured in a train accident in Jokela, Finland.
april 24 In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on April 14

Augustus Pitt Rivers 1827– English general, ethnologist, and archaeologist (died 1900) Brad Sinopoli 1988– Canadian football player Brian Adams 1964–2007 American wrestler (died 2007) Charles Hamelin 1984– Canadian speed skater Christiaan Huygens 1629–1695 Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (died 1695) Faisal of Saudi Arabia 1906–1975 Saudi Arabian king (died 1975) Frank Serpico 1936– American-Italian soldier, police officer and lecturer Greg Maddux 1966– American baseball player, coach, and manager John Gielgud 1904–2000 English actor, director, and producer (died 2000)

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Also born in 1996

Aaron Ekblad 1996– Canadian ice hockey player Austin Abrams 1996– American actor Ben Simmons 1996– Australian basketball player Caeleb Dressel 1996– American swimmer Emmanuel Mudiay 1996– Congolese-American basketball player Jacob Batalon 1996– Filipino-American actor Joshua Wong 1996– Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Kevin Fiala 1996– Swiss ice hockey player Napheesa Collier 1996– American basketball player

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