Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer

Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer. With a career spanning eight decades she is known for her roles on stage and screen, and is one of the last remaining stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Among her numerous accolades, she is one of the few actors to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (EGOT) and the Triple Crown of Acting. She has been honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004, the National Medal of Arts in 2009, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 2013, the Kennedy Center Honor in 2015, and a Peabody Award in 2019.

Born

1931

December 11

Died

Living

Era

1930s

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1931 Born

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220 Emperor Xian of Han is forced to abdicate the throne by Cao Cao's son Cao Pi, ending the Han dynasty.
361 Julian enters Constantinople as sole Roman Emperor.
861 Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the Turkish guard, who raise al-Muntasir to the throne, start of the "Anarchy at Samarra".
969 Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes.

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The world in 1931

When Rita arrived

april 14 The Second Spanish Republic is proclaimed and King Alfonso XIII goes into exile. Meanwhile, in Barcelona, Francesc Macià proclaims the Catalan Republic.
april 17 After negotiations between Catalan and Spanish provisional governments, the Catalan Republic proclaimed in April 14 becomes the Generalitat de Catalunya, the autonomous government of Catalonia within the Spanish Republic.
august 24 Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
august 5 Judge and Nazi Party member Werner Best drews the Boxheim Documents, which described a violent takeover of the government by the NSDAP.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Aquilino Pimentel 1933– Jr., Filipino civil servant and politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines (died 2019) Elena Garro 1916– Mexican author and playwright (died 1998) Francesco Algarotti 1712–1764 Italian poet, philosopher, and critic (died 1764) George Mason 1725–1792 American lawyer and politician (died 1792) Glenn Lazarus 1965– Australian rugby league player and politician Jean Marais 1913–1998 French actor and director (died 1998) Manoel de Oliveira 1908–2015 Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1908) Paul Greengard 1925– American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2019) Santiago Creel 1954– Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior

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Albert DeSalvo 1931– American serial killer known as the Boston Strangler (died 1973) Alex Delvecchio 1931–2025 Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (died 2025) Allen Klein 1931–2009 American businessman and music publisher (died 2009) Bernard Francis Law 1931– Mexican-American cardinal (died 2017) Bob Johnson 1931–1991 American ice hockey player and coach (died 1991) Buddy Ryan 1931–2016 American football coach (died 2016) Cardiss Collins 1931–2013 American politician (born 1931) Cecil Parkinson 1931–2016 English politician (born 1931) Chalmers Johnson 1931–2010 American scholar and author (died 2010)

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