French actress and screenwriter (born 1844)

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She played female and male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Rostand called her "the queen of the pose and the princess of the gesture", and Hugo praised her "golden voice". She made several theatrical tours worldwide and was one of the early prominent actresses to make sound recordings and act in motion pictures.

Born

1844

October 22

Died

1923

Era

1840s

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1923 Died

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april 15 Racially motivated Nihon Shōgakkō fire lit by a serial arsonist kills 10 children in Sacramento, California.
april 26 The Duke of York (the future King George VI) weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.
april 28 Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.

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Friedrich Nietzsche 1844–1900 German philologist, philosopher, and critic (born 1844) G. Stanley Hall 1844–1924 American psychologist and academic (born 1844) Ilya Repin 1844–1930 Russian painter and sculptor (died 1930)

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