English-born Canadian-American actor (born 1919)

Alan Young

Alan Young was a British Canadian and American actor. Young is best known for portraying Wilbur Post in the television comedy Mister Ed (1961–1966) and voicing Disney's Scrooge McDuck for over 40 years, beginning in the 1974 Disneyland Records album An Adaptation of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Performed by The Walt Disney Players. He again voiced Scrooge in the Academy Award-nominated short film Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) and continued in the role in various other films, television series and video games up until his death. He was considered by TV Guide to be "the Charlie Chaplin of television".

Born

1919

November 19

Died

2016

Era

1910s

Country

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Alan, in brief

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1919 Born
2016 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

461 Libius Severus is declared emperor of the Western Roman Empire. The real power is in the hands of the magister militum Ricimer.
636 The Rashidun Caliphate defeats the Sasanian Empire at the Battle of al-Qādisiyyah in Iraq.
1646 The current Saint Peter's Basilica is consecrated in Rome, replacing an earlier basilica on the same site.
1794 The United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to resolve some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War.

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The world in 1919

When Alan arrived

april 10 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
april 10 The Third Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Huliaipole.
april 13 Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379–1,000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India. Approximately 1,500 are injured.
april 16 Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on November 19

André Lotterer 1981– German race car driver Bunny Ahearne 1900–1985 Irish-born English businessman (born 1900) Charles I of England 1600–1649 Scotland, and Ireland (born 1600) Charlie Kaufman 1958– American director, producer, and screenwriter Eleanor Audley 1905–1991 American actress (died 1991) Erika Alexander 1969– American actress and screenwriter Gail Devers 1966– American sprinter and hurdler George Rogers Clark 1752–1818 American general (born 1752) Indira Gandhi 1917–1984 Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India (died 1984)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1919

Clifton McNeely 1919– American basketball player and coach (died 2003) David Willcocks 1919–2015 English organist, composer, and conductor (died 2015) Doris Lessing 1919–2013 British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919) Edward Brooke 1919–2015 American captain and politician, 47th Massachusetts Attorney General (born 1919) Émile Bouchard 1919–2012 Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1919) Eva Gabor 1919–1995 Hungarian-American actress (died 1995) Eva Perón 1919–1952 Argentinian politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (born 1919) Fritz Langanke 1919–2012 German lieutenant (born 1919) George Wallace 1919–1960 American lawyer, and politician, 45th Governor of Alabama (died 1998)

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