American actress (born 1913)

Ellen Albertini Dow

Ellen Rose Albertini Dow was an American film and television character actress and drama coach. She portrayed feisty old ladies and is best known as the rapping grandmother Rosie in The Wedding Singer (1998), performing "Rapper's Delight". Dow's other film roles include elderly lady Mary Cleary who "outs" her grandson in Wedding Crashers, Disco Dottie in 54, the recipient of Christopher Lloyd's character's slapstick in Radioland Murders and a choir nun in Sister Act. She was best known to small screen audiences for her guest appearances on sitcoms The Golden Girls and Will & Grace.

Born

1913

November 16

Died

2015

Era

1910s

Country

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951 Emperor Li Jing sends a Southern Tang expeditionary force of 10,000 men under Bian Hao to conquer Chu. Li Jing removes the ruling family to his own capital in Nanjing, ending the Chu Kingdom.
1272 While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.
1491 An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1532 Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca.

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The world in 1913

When Ellen arrived

april 24 The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
april 4 First Balkan War: Greek aviator Emmanouil Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot to die in the Hellenic Air Force when his plane crashes.
august 10 Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
august 13 First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.

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Also born in 1913

Al Suomi 1913–2014 American ice hockey player and referee (died 2014) Albert Ellis 1913–2007 American psychologist and author (born 1913) Barbara Pym 1913–1980 English author (born 1913) Bear Bryant 1913–1983 American football player and coach (born 1913) Bill Shankly 1913–1981 Scottish footballer and manager (died 1981) Burt Lancaster 1913–1994 American actor (died 1994) Carl F. H. Henry 1913– American theologian and publisher (died 2003) Cho Ki-chon 1913–1951 North Korean poet (born 1913) Erich Priebke 1913–2013 German war criminal, leader of the 1944 Ardeatine massacre (died 2013)

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