American actor, producer, director and screenwriter (died 1928)

Larry Semon

Lawrence Semon was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter during the silent film era. In his day, Semon was considered a major movie comedian, but he is now remembered mainly for working with both Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy before they started working together. He directed and appeared in the 1925 silent film The Wizard of Oz, which had a slight influence on the better-known 1939 talkie The Wizard of Oz released by MGM. The film was included in the 2005 three-disc DVD version of the 1939 film, along with other silent Oz movies.

Born

1889

February 9

Died

1928

Era

1880s

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Key dates

1889 Born
1928 Died

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474 Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
1003 Boleslaus III is restored to authority with armed support from Bolesław I the Brave of Poland.
1098 A First Crusade army led by Bohemond of Taranto wins a major battle against the Seljuq emir Ridwan of Aleppo during the siege of Antioch.
1539 The first recorded race is held on Chester Racecourse, known as the Roodee.

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The world in 1928

When Larry departed

april 12 The Bremen, a German Junkers W 33 type aircraft, takes off for the first successful transatlantic aeroplane flight from east to west.
august 27 The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
december 17 Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the police. The three were executed in 1931.
december 4 Cosmo Gordon Lang was enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Arthur Edward Moore 1876–1963 New Zealand-Australian politician, 23rd Premier of Queensland (died 1963) Bill Bergey 1945–2024 American football player (born 1945) Brian Greene 1963– American physicist Ciarán Hinds 1953– Irish actor Daisuke Sekimoto 1981– Japanese wrestler Jalen Green 2002– American basketball player John Walker Lindh 1981– American Taliban member Keʻelikōlani 1826– Hawaiian royal and governor (died 1883) Kermit Gosnell 1941– American abortionist and serial killer

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1889

Abelardo L. Rodríguez 1889–1967 substitute president of Mexico (1932–1934) (born 1889) Adolf Hitler 1889–1945 Austrian-born German politician, Führer of Nazi Germany (died 1945) Adrian Boult 1889–1983 English conductor (died 1983) Alexander Mair 1889–1969 Australian politician, 26th Premier of New South Wales (died 1969) Ante Pavelić 1889–1959 Croatian fascist dictator during World War II (born 1889) Gabriela Mistral 1889–1957 Chilean poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1957) Gao Qifeng 1889–1933 Chinese painter (died 1933) Jawaharlal Nehru 1889–1964 Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of India (born 1889) John Reith 1889–1971 1st Baron Reith, Scottish broadcaster, co-founded BBC (died 1971)

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