American actor and comedian (born 1886)

Ed Wynn

Isaiah Edwin Leopold, better known as Ed Wynn, was an American actor and comedian. He began his career in vaudeville in 1903 and was known for his Perfect Fool comedy character, his pioneering radio show of the 1930s, his performances in classic Disney films such as Alice in Wonderland and Mary Poppins, and his later career as a dramatic actor, which continued into the 1960s. Wynn's variety show (1949–1950), The Ed Wynn Show, won a Peabody Award and an Emmy Award. Late in his career, he began alternating his comedic work with acclaimed dramatic performances; earning nominations for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award for The Great Man, and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Diary of Anne Frank.

Born

1886

November 9

Died

1966

Era

1880s

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Ed, in brief

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694 At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1180 The Battle of Fujigawa: Minamoto forces (30,000 men) under Minamoto no Yoritomo defeat Taira no Koremori during a night attack near the Fuji River but he escapes safely with the routed army.
1277 The Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement forced on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd by King Edward I of England, brings a temporary end to the Welsh Wars.
1307 Knights Templar officer Hugues de Pairaud is forced to confess during the Trials of the Knights Templar. He was persecuted on the charges of false idolism and sodomy.

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The world in 1966

When Ed departed

april 21 Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
april 22 American Flyers Airline Flight 280/D crashes on approach to Ardmore Municipal Airport in Ardmore, Oklahoma, killing 83.
april 23 Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people.
april 26 The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on November 9

Anne Sexton 1928–1974 American poet and academic (died 1974) Florence R. Sabin 1871– American medical scientist (died 1953) French Montana 1984– Moroccan-American rapper Gabrielle Miller 1973– Canadian actress and director Martin Chemnitz 1522–1586 Lutheran theologian and reformer (born 1522) Maud Howe Elliott 1854–1948 American novelist (born 1854) Otfrid Foerster 1873–1941 German neurologist and physician (born 1873) Paul Cameron 1939– American psychologist and academic Peter Lumsden 1829–1918 English general (died 1918)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1886

Art Ross 1886–1964 Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (born 1886) Charlie Macartney 1886–1958 Australian cricketer and soldier (died 1958) Edward Weston 1886–1936 English-American chemist (born 1850) Florence Goodenough 1886–1959 American child psychologist (born 1886) Fred Quimby 1886–1965 American animation producer (died 1965) Hella Wuolijoki 1886–1954 Estonian-Finnish author and politician (born 1886) Joyce Kilmer 1886–1918 American soldier, author, and poet (died 1918) Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 1886–1965 Japanese author (died 1965) Marthe Bibesco 1886–1973 Romanian-French author and poet (died 1973)

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