American writer (born 1903)

Manly Wade Wellman

Manly Wade Wellman was an American writer. While his science fiction and fantasy stories appeared in such pulps as Astounding Stories, Startling Stories, Unknown and Strange Stories, Wellman is best remembered as one of the most popular contributors to the legendary Weird Tales and for his fantasy and horror stories set in the Appalachian Mountains, which draw on the native folklore of that region. " Wellman also wrote in a wide variety of other genres, including historical fiction, detective fiction, western fiction, juvenile fiction, and non-fiction.

Born

1903

May 21

Died

1986

Era

1900s

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1986 Died

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293 Roman Emperors Diocletian and Maximian appoint Galerius as Caesar to Diocletian, beginning the period of four rulers known as the Tetrarchy.
878 Syracuse, Sicily, is captured by the Muslim Aghlabids after a nine-month siege.
879 Pope John VIII gives blessings to Branimir of Croatia and to the Croatian people, considered to be international recognition of the Croatian state.
996 Sixteen-year-old Otto III is crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

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The world in 1903

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april 19 The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
april 26 Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded.
april 29 A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
august 18 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.

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Albrecht Dürer 1471–1528 German painter, engraver, and mathematician (born 1471) Elizabeth Fry 1780–1845 English prison reformer, philanthropist and Quaker (died 1845) Gotye 1980– Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter Jamaal Magloire 1978– Canadian basketball player and coach John Dalton 1943–1844 English physicist, meteorologist, and chemist (born 1776) Jonathan Hyde 1948– Australian-English actor Joseph Fouché 1759– French lawyer and politician (died 1820) Lázaro Cárdenas 1895–1970 Mexican general, president (1934–1940) and father of Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas (died 1970) Mohanlal 1960– Indian actor

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Alec Douglas-Home 1903–1995 English cricketer and politician, 66th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (died 1995) Caroline Pafford Miller 1903–1992 American author (died 1992) Fernandel 1903– French actor and singer (died 1971) Frank P. Ramsey 1903–1930 English economist, mathematician, and philosopher (died 1930) Frank Sargeson 1903– New Zealand writer (died 1982) Georg Elser 1903– German carpenter and attempted assassin of Adolf Hitler (died 1945) Giulio Natta 1903–1979 Italian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979) Guy Simonds 1903– English-Canadian general (died 1974) Harold Eugene Edgerton 1903–1990 American engineer and academic (died 1990)

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