American actress

Blair Brown

Bonnie Blair Brown is an American theater, film and television actress. She has had a number of high-profile roles, including in the play Copenhagen on Broadway, the leading actress in the films Altered States (1980), Continental Divide (1981) and Strapless (1989), as well as a run as the title character in the comedy-drama television series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, which ran from 1987 to 1991 and earned her four consecutive Outstanding Comedy Series Actress Emmy Award nominations. Her later roles include Nina Sharp on the Fox television series Fringe and Judy King on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black.

Born

1946

April 23

Died

Living

Era

1940s

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1946 Born

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711 Dagobert III succeeds his father King Childebert III as King of the Franks.
1014 Battle of Clontarf: High King of Ireland Brian Boru defeats Viking invaders, but is killed in battle.

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The world in 1946

When Blair arrived

april 1 The 8.6 Mw  Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
april 1 The Malayan Union is established. Protests from locals led to the establishment of the Federation of Malaya two years later.
april 17 The last French troops are withdrawn from Syria.
april 18 The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.

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Alexandra Kosteniuk 1984– Russian chess player Andruw Jones 1977– Curaçaoan baseball player Avram Davidson 1923–1993 American soldier and author (died 1993) Edward Stafford 1819–1901 Scottish-New Zealand educator and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1901) Guy Simonds 1903– English-Canadian general (died 1974) James Anthony Froude 1818–1894 English historian, novelist, biographer and editor (died 1894) Judy Davis 1955– Australian actress Matt Freeman 1966– American bass player Oleg Penkovsky 1919– Russian colonel (died 1963)

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Donald Trump 1946– American businessman, television personality, 45th and 47th President of the United States George W. Bush 1946– American businessman and politician, 43rd President of the United States Steven Spielberg 1946– American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks Ahmed Zewail 1946–2016 Egyptian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946) Alicia Borinsky 1946– Argentine writer Bettye LaVette 1946– American singer-songwriter Billy Preston 1946–2006 American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1946) Daryl Hall 1946– American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer David Lynch 1946–2025 American television and film director, visual artist and musician, complications from emphysema (born 1946)

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