American actress (born 1910)

Joan Bennett

Joan Geraldine Bennett was an American stage, film, and television actress, one of three acting sisters from a show-business family. Beginning her career on the stage, Bennett appeared in more than 70 films from the era of silent films, well into the sound era. She is best remembered for her film noir femme fatale roles in director Fritz Lang's films—including Man Hunt (1941), The Woman in the Window (1944), and Scarlet Street (1945)—and for her television role as matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard in the gothic 1960s soap opera Dark Shadows, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Daytime Programming at the 20th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1968.

Born

1910

February 27

Died

1990

Era

1910s

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1910 Born
1990 Died

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380 Edict of Thessalonica: Emperor Theodosius I and his co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II declare their wish that all Roman citizens convert to Nicene Christianity.
425 The University of Constantinople is founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.
907 Abaoji, chieftain of the Yila tribe, is named khagan of the Khitans.
1560 The Treaty of Berwick is signed by England and the Lords of the Congregation of Scotland, establishing the terms under which English armed forces were to be permitted in Scotland in order to expel occupying French troops.

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The world in 1910

When Joan arrived

april 12 SMS Zrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
april 16 The oldest indoor ice hockey arena used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
april 28 Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in the United Kingdom.
april 29 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.

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David H. Hubel 1926–2013 Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013) Franchot Tone 1905–1968 American actor, singer, and producer (died 1968) Graeme Pollock 1944– South African cricketer and coach Irwin Shaw 1913–1984 American author and screenwriter (died 1984) Lotte Lehmann 1888–1976 German-American soprano (born 1888) Roger Scruton 1944– English philosopher and writer (died 2020)

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Alicia Markova 1910–2004 English ballerina and choreographer (died 2004) António de Spínola 1910–1996 Portuguese general and politician, 14th President of Portugal (died 1996) Barbara Castle 1910–2002 Baroness Castle of Blackburn, English politician, First Secretary of State (born 1910) Bluey 1910–1939 Australian cattle dog, second-oldest recorded dog (died 1939) Bonnie Parker 1910–1934 American criminal (born 1910) Carmine Coppola 1910–1991 American composer and conductor (born 1910) Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg 1910–2012 Polish-Israeli rabbi and author (born 1910) Cyril Cusack 1910–1993 South African-born Irish actor (died 1993) Douglas Bader 1910–1982 English fighter pilot in World War II (died 1982)

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