Irish actor (born 1888)

Barry Fitzgerald

William Joseph Shields, known professionally as Barry Fitzgerald, was an Irish stage, film, and television actor. In a career spanning almost forty years, he appeared in such notable films as Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Long Voyage Home (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), The Sea Wolf (1941), Going My Way (1944), None but the Lonely Heart (1944), and The Quiet Man (1952). For Going My Way, he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and was simultaneously nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the same performance. In 2020, he was listed at number 11 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.

Born

1888

March 10

Died

1961

Era

1880s

Country

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Barry, in brief

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1888 Born
1961 Died

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-241 First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
298 Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage.
947 The Later Han is founded by Liu Zhiyuan. He declares himself emperor.
1496 After establishing the city of Santo Domingo, Christopher Columbus departs for Spain, leaving his brother in command.

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The world in 1961

When Barry departed

april 11 The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
april 12 Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1.
april 16 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
april 17 Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.

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Osama bin Laden 1957–2011 Saudi Arabian terrorist, founded al-Qaeda (died 2011) Edward Hodges Baily 1788– English sculptor (died 1867) Hector Guimard 1867–1942 French-American architect (died 1942) John Playfair 1748– Scottish minister and scientist (died 1819) Logan Mankins 1982– American football player Marcello Malpighi 1628–1694 Italian physician and biologist (died 1694) Martellus Bennett 1987– American football player Pascual Ortiz Rubio 1877– Mexican diplomat and president (1930–1932) (died 1963) Val Logsdon Fitch 1923–2015 American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1888

Chesley Bonestell 1888–1986 American painter, designer, and illustrator (died 1986) Georges Bernanos 1888–1948 French soldier and author (died 1948) Grey Owl 1888–1938 English-Canadian environmentalist and author (born 1888) Harpo Marx 1888–1964 American comedian and musician (died 1964) J. B. Kripalani 1888–1982 Indian lawyer and politician (born 1888) J. Frank Dobie 1888– American journalist and author (died 1964) Josef Albers 1888–1976 German-American painter and educator (died 1976) Lotte Lehmann 1888–1976 German-American soprano (born 1888) Miles Malleson 1888–1969 English actor and screenwriter (born 1888)

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