American pianist and composer (born 1905)

Marc Blitzstein

Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, was an American composer, lyricist, and librettist. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration. He is known for The Cradle Will Rock and for his off-Broadway translation and adaptation of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. His works also include the opera Regina, an adaptation of Lillian Hellman's play The Little Foxes; the Broadway musical Juno, based on Seán O'Casey's play Juno and the Paycock; and No for an Answer.

Born

1905

March 2

Died

1964

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1900s

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1964 Died

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537 Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off.
986 Louis V becomes the last Carolingian king of West Francia after the death of his father, Lothaire.
1331 Fall of Nicaea to the Ottoman Turks after a siege.
1444 Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë.

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The world in 1905

When Marc arrived

april 17 The Supreme Court of the United States decides Lochner v. New York, which holds that the "right to free contract" is implicit in the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
april 3 Association football club Boca Juniors is founded in Buenos Aires, Argentina
april 30 Albert Einstein completes his doctoral thesis at the University of Zurich.
april 4 In India, an earthquake hits the Kangra Valley, killing 20,000, and destroying most buildings in Kangra, McLeod Ganj and Dharamshala.

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Arike Ogunbowale 1997– American basketball player Bedřich Smetana 1824–1884 Czech pianist and composer (died 1884) Camille Desmoulins 1760–1794 French journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1760) Carl Schurz 1829–1906 German-American general, lawyer, and politician, 13th United States Secretary of the Interior (died 1906) Geoffrey Grigson 1905–1985 English poet and critic (died 1985) James Purnell 1970– English politician, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Lou Reed 1942–2013 American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (died 2013) Margaret Sibella Brown 1866– Canadian bryologist (died 1961) Method Man 1971– American rapper, record producer and actor

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Andy Devine 1905–1977 American actor (born 1905) Dorothy Fields 1905–1974 American songwriter (died 1974) Eleanor Audley 1905–1991 American actress (died 1991) Félix Houphouët-Boigny 1905–1993 Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (born 1905) Franchot Tone 1905–1968 American actor, singer, and producer (died 1968) Francisco Javier Arana 1905–1949 Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (died 1949) Geoffrey Grigson 1905–1985 English poet and critic (died 1985) Helen Sawyer Hogg 1905–1993 American-Canadian astronomer and academic (died 1993) J. William Fulbright 1905–1995 American lawyer and politician (died 1995)

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