American ballet dancer and actress (born 1937)

Yvonne Craig

Yvonne Joyce Craig was an American actress best known for her role as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in the 1960s television series Batman. Other notable roles in her career include Dorothy Johnson in the 1963 movie It Happened at the World's Fair, Azalea Tatum in the 1964 movie Kissin' Cousins, and the green-skinned Orion Marta in the Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy" (1969). The Huffington Post called her "a pioneer of female superheroes" for television. Craig was a philanthropist and "an advocate for workers unions, free mammograms, and equal pay for women".

Born

1937

May 16

Died

2015

Era

1930s

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1937 Born
2015 Died

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946 Emperor Suzaku abdicates the throne in favor of his brother Murakami who becomes the 62nd emperor of Japan.
999 Rebel Turkish warlord Mahmud of Ghazni defeats Samanid Emir Mansur II in battle at Merv.
1003 Patrician John Crescentius, who has seized control of Rome, selects Pope John XVII as the new pope.
1204 Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.

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The world in 1937

When Yvonne arrived

april 1 Aden becomes a British crown colony.
april 1 The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
april 12 Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
april 26 Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Condor Legion and the Italian Aviazione Legionaria.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on May 16

Billy Martin 1928–1989 American baseball player and manager (born 1928) David Boreanaz 1969– American actor IU 1993– Korean singer-songwriter and actress Janet Jackson 1966– American singer-songwriter actress Kenji Mizoguchi 1898–1956 Japanese director and screenwriter (born 1898) Kevin McDonald 1961– Canadian actor and screenwriter Kitanoumi Toshimitsu 1953–2015 Japanese sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna (died 2015) Rick Rypien 1984–2011 Canadian ice hockey player (born 1984) Robert Fripp 1946– English guitarist, songwriter and producer

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1937

Abner Haynes 1937–2024 American football player (born 1937) Alain Badiou 1937– French philosopher and academic Alice Coltrane 1937–2007 American pianist and composer (died 2007) Barry Switzer 1937– American football player and coach Bill Cosby 1937– American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter Billy Meier 1937– Swiss author and photographer Birju Maharaj 1937–2022 Indian dancer, composer, singer and exponent of the Lucknow "Kalka-Bindadin" Gharana of Kathak dance (died 2022) Bobby Charlton 1937–2023 English footballer and manager (died 2023) Carlos Lamarca 1937–1971 Brazilian captain (died 1971)

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