American actress and comedian (died 2024)

Teri Garr

Terry Ann Garr, known as Teri Garr, was an American actress, comedian and dancer. Known for her comedic roles in film and television in the 1970s and 1980s, she often played women struggling to cope with the life-changing experiences of their husbands, children or boyfriends. She received nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award for her performance in Tootsie (1982), playing a struggling actress who loses the soap opera role of a female hospital administrator to her male friend and acting coach.

Born

1944

December 11

Died

2024

Era

1940s

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2024 Died

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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 1944

When Teri arrived

april 1 World War II: Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
april 10 Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler escape from Birkenau death camp.
april 16 World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
april 17 Forces of the Communist-controlled Greek People's Liberation Army attack the smaller National and Social Liberation resistance group, which surrenders. Its leader Dimitrios Psarros is murdered.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on December 11

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) Rita Moreno 1931– Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1944

Al Kooper 1944– American singer-songwriter and producer Al Michaels 1944– American sportscaster Angélica María 1944– American-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress Anne Robinson 1944– English journalist and game show host António Variações 1944–1984 Portuguese musician (died 1984) Azizan Abdul Razak 1944–2013 Malaysian politician, 10th Menteri Besar of Kedah (died 2013) Ban Ki-moon 1944– South Korean politician and diplomat, 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations Barry White 1944–2003 American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (born 1944) Carlos Alberto Torres 1944–2016 Brazilian footballer and manager (died 2016)

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