American poet, painter (born 1919)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti was an American poet, painter, social activist, and co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. An author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, Ferlinghetti was best known for his second collection of poems, A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), which has been translated into nine languages and sold over a million copies. When Ferlinghetti turned 100 in March 2019, the city of San Francisco turned his birthday, March 24, into "Lawrence Ferlinghetti Day".

Born

1919

March 24

Died

2021

Era

1910s

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1919 Born
2021 Died

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1199 King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
1387 English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.
1401 Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1603 James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.

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The world in 1919

When Lawrence arrived

april 10 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos.
april 10 The Third Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents is held by the Makhnovshchina at Huliaipole.
april 13 Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops led by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer kill approximately 379–1,000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India. Approximately 1,500 are injured.
april 16 Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.

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Also born on March 24

Agnes Macphail 1890–1954 Canadian educator and politician (born 1890) Annabella Sciorra 1960– American actress Clyde Barrow 1909–1934 American criminal (died 1934) Dario Fo 1926–2016 Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016) David Dacko 1930–2003 Central African politician, 1st president of the Central African Republic (died 2003) Edward Weston 1886–1936 English-American chemist (born 1850) Franciszek Blachnicki 1921–1987 Polish priest (born 1921) Gary Paffett 1981– English racing driver Georgius Agricola 1494–1555 German mineralogist and scholar (died 1555)

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Also born in 1919

Alan Young 1919–2016 English-born Canadian-American actor (born 1919) Clifton McNeely 1919– American basketball player and coach (died 2003) David Willcocks 1919–2015 English organist, composer, and conductor (died 2015) Doris Lessing 1919–2013 British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1919) Edward Brooke 1919–2015 American captain and politician, 47th Massachusetts Attorney General (born 1919) Émile Bouchard 1919–2012 Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1919) Eva Gabor 1919–1995 Hungarian-American actress (died 1995) Eva Perón 1919–1952 Argentinian politician, 25th First Lady of Argentina (born 1919) Fritz Langanke 1919–2012 German lieutenant (born 1919)

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