English actor (born 1906)

George Sanders

George Henry Sanders was a British actor and singer whose career spanned over 40 years. His heavy, upper-class English accent and smooth bass voice often led him to be cast as sophisticated but villainous characters. He is remembered for his roles as the wicked Jack Favell in Rebecca (1940), Scott ffolliott in Foreign Correspondent, The Saran of Gaza in Samson and Delilah, theater critic Addison DeWitt in All About Eve, Sir Brian De Bois-Guilbert in Ivanhoe (1952), King Richard the Lionheart in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954), Mr. Freeze in a two-part episode of Batman (1966), and the voice of Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book (1967).

Born

1906

July 3

Died

1972

Era

1900s

Country

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1906 Born
1972 Died

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324 Battle of Adrianople: Constantine I defeats Licinius, who flees to Byzantium.
987 Hugh Capet is crowned King of France, the first of the Capetian dynasty that would rule France until the French Revolution in 1792.
1035 William the Conqueror becomes the Duke of Normandy, reigning until 1087.
1535 Diego de Almagro leaves the recently conquered Inca capital of Cuzco to lead an expedition to Chile.

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The world in 1906

When George arrived

april 14 The first meeting of the Azusa Street Revival, which will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement, is held in Los Angeles.
april 18 The 7.9 Mw earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing more than 3,000 people, making one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
april 22 The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
april 27 The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Alfred Korzybski 1879– Polish-American mathematician, linguist, and philosopher (died 1950) Anthony Lester 1936– Baron Lester of Herne Hill, English lawyer and politician (died 2020) Carl Ludvig Engel 1778– German architect (died 1840) Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860–1935 American sociologist and author (born 1860) Franz Kafka 1883–1924 Czech-Austrian author (died 1924) Jean-Claude Duvalier 1951–2014 Haitian politician, 41st President of Haiti (died 2014) John Singleton Copley 1738–1815 American painter (died 1815) Kurtwood Smith 1943– American actor Teemu Selänne 1970– Finnish ice hockey player

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1906

Adolf Eichmann 1906–1962 a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (born 1906) Bea Benaderet 1906–1968 Turkish-Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress (died 1968) Buddhadasa 1906– Thai monk and philosopher (died 1993) Chandra Shekhar Azad 1906–1931 Indian revolutionary (born 1906) Clifford Odets 1906–1963 American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906) Constance Stokes 1906–1991 Australian painter (died 1991) Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945 German pastor and theologian (born 1906) Eleanor Hibbert 1906– English author (died 1993) Endre Kabos 1906– Hungarian fencer (died 1944)

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