Life In Good Measure

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Data for 1935

1935ParkingMeter In the year 1935, Italy’s Benito Mussolini and France’s Pierre Laval agree upon mutual non-interference of colonial claims (Jan 7),  Amelia Earhart becomes the first to fly solo from Hawaii to California (Jan 11), the first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia (Jan 24), the use of radar is demonstrated for the first time (Feb 26), Joseph Stalin opens the Moscow Metro to the public (May 15), Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio (Jun 10), the world’s first parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City (Jul 16), the Nuremberg Laws remove citizenship from Jews (Sep 15), Lebensborn program in support of Nazi eugenics is founded by Heinrich Himmler in Germany (Dec 12) - and all these fine people were born:

1935-0101 1935-0102 Jack Lemley* engineering manager/architect - Coeur d’Alene, ID USA (2021/86) 1935-0104 Floyd Patterson* boxer - Waco, NC USA (2006/71) 1935-0107 Valery Kubasov* cosmonaut - Vyazniki, Russia, Soviet Union (2014/79) 1935-0107 Jean Webster* cook/operator of Sister Jean’s Kitchen (soup kitchen) in Atlantic City, New Jersey - New York City, NY USA (2011/76) 1935-0108 Elvis Presley* singer - Tupelo, MS USA (1977/42) 1935-0110 Georg Katzer* composer - Habelschwerdt, Nazi Germany (2019/84) 1935-0113 Mauro Forghieri* mechanical engineer/Formula One racing car designer - Modena, Kingdom of Italy (2022/87) 1935-0120 1935-0121 Raye Montague* naval engineer - Little Rock, AR USA (2018/83) 1935-0122 Seymour Cassel* actor - Detroit, MI USA (2019/84) 1935-0123 Bob Moses* educator/ civil rights activist - Harlem, NY USA (2021/86) 1935-0125 1935-0128 John Davis Chandler* actor - Hinton, WV USA (2010/75) 1935-0130 Wolfgang Boettcher* cellist/academic teacher - Berlin, Nazi Germany (2021/86) 1935-0131 Kenzaburo Ooe* 大江 健三郎 novelist /N - Oose, Ehime, Japan (2023/88) 1935-0131 Guy Ullens* Belgian art collector/businessman/philanthropist - San Francisco, CA USA (2025/90) 1935-0 1935-0202 Inga-Britt Söderberg* beauty pageant/sheep farmer in Canada - Finland (2019/84) 1935-0204 Martti Talvela* opera singer - Hiitola, Finland (1989/54) 1935-0213 Carol Jarecki* chess organizer/arbiter/chess writer - Neptune, NJ USA (2021/86) 1935-0215 George Alexander Albrecht* academic teacher/composer/ conductor - Leuchtenburg, Prussia, Nazi Germany (2021/86) 1935-0215 Roger B. Chaffee* aeronautical engineer/astronaut - Grand Rapids, MI USA (1967/31) 1935-0216 Sonny Bono* singer/ producer/ politician - Detroit, MI USA (1998/62) 1935-0225 Sally Jesse Raphael* (b Lowenthal) TV-host - Easton, PA USA **** 1935-0301 Jed Allan* actor/television host - New York, NY USA (2019/84) 1935-0301 Robert Conrad* actor/singer/ stuntman - Chicago, IL USA (2020/84) 1935-0305 Letizia Battaglia* photographer/ photojournalist - Palermo, Italy (2022/87) 1935-0307 Gordon French* computer engineer/programmer/played a key role in the Homebrew Computer Club - USA (2019/84) 1935-0309 Vil Mirzayanov* chemist/ whistleblower - Starokangshevo, Soviet Union **** 1935-0311 Nancy Kovack* actress - Flint, MI USA **** 1935-0314 Erno Paasilinna*  writer/journalist - Petsamo, Finland (2000/65) 1935-0315 Judd Hirsch* actor - The Bronx, NY USA **** 1935-0319 Janne Stefansson* cross-country skier/OG (Vasaloppet) - Transtrand, Dalarna, Sweden **** 1935-0320 1935-0322 M. Emmet Walsh* actor - Ogdensburg, NY USA (2024/88) 1935-0323 Barry Cryer* writer /actor/comedian - Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England (2022/86) 1935-0324 Walter Moody* convicted&executed criminal - Rex, GA USA (2018/83) 1935-0331 Herb Alpert* singer/artist/philanthropist - Los Angeles, CA USA **** 1935-0401 1935-0403 Märta Tikkanen* (b Cavonius) writer/journalist - Helsinki, Finland **** 1935-0404 Kenneth Mars* actor - Chicago, IL  USA (2011/75) 1935-0405 Donald Lynden-Bell* theoretical astrophysicist - Dover, England (2018/82) 1935-0406 Elisabeth Rehn* (b Carlberg) politician - Helsinki, Finland **** 1935-0407 Hodding Carter III* journalist/politician - New Orleans, LA USA (2023/88) 1935-0411 Nelson W. Aldrich Jr.* author/ editor - Boston, MA USA (2022/86) 1935-0414 Erich von Däniken* author/ ufologist - Zofingen, Aargau, Switzerland **** 1935-0419 Dudley Moore* actor/ musician/ composer - Charing Cross, London, England (2002/66) 1935-0420 Gary Raymond* actor - Brixton, London, England **** 1935-0421 Charles Grodin* actor/author/ television talk show host - Pittsburgh, PA USA (2021/86) 1935-0425 Jim Peebles* astrophysicist/ theoretical cosmologist/N - Winnipeg, MB Canada **** 1935-0428 Pehr G. Gyllenhammar* industrialist/ leader of Volvo - Gothenburg, Sweden (2024/89) 1935-0429 Otis Rush Jr.* blues guitarist/singer/songwriter - Philadelphia, MS USA (2018/83) 1935-0430 1935-0501 Don Martina* politician/PM - Curaçao (2024/89) 1935-0502 Luis Suárez* football player/manager - A Coruña, Spain (2023/88) 1935-0504 Reginald Green* development economist - Walla Walla, WA USA (2021/86) 1935-0507 Michael Hopkins* architect - Poole, Dorset, England (2023/88) 1935-0508 Jack Charlton* footballer/ WG/manager - Ashington, England (2020/85) 1935-0510 1935-0511 Doug McClure* actor - Glendale, CA USA (1995/59) 1935-0512 Johnny Bucyk* hockey player (NHL 100) - Edmonton, AB Canada **** 1935-0514 Maung Paw Tun* writer/ translator - Manaung, British Burma (2022/87) 1935-0518 Allan Burns* screenwriter/television producer - Baltimore, MD USA (2021/85) 1935-0520 1935-0524 Paul A. David* academic economist - New York City, NY USA (2023/87) 1935-0524 Joan Micklin Silver* filmmaker - Omaha, NE USA (2020/85) 1935-0527 Lee Meriwether* actress - Los Angeles, CA USA **** 1935-0528 Anne Reid* actress - Jesmond, Tyne and Wear, England 1935-0601 Norman Foster* architect - Reddish, Stockport, England **** 1935-0621 Monte Markham* actor - Manatee County, FL USA **** 1935-0624 Robert Downey Sr.* actor/ director/producer - New York City, NY USA (2021/85) 1935-0625 Larry Kramer* playwright/film producer/LGBT rights activist - Bridgeport, CT USA (2020/84) 1935-0626 John R. Bonner Sr.* avid fisherman/active in Flint, Michigan - Birmingham, AL USA (1997/61) Find A Grave 1935-0701 David Prowse* bodybuilder/ weightlifter/actor (Darth Vader) - Bristol, England (2020/85) 1935-0702 Ed Bullins* playwright - Philadelphia, PA USA (2021/86) 1935-0702 Sergei Khrushchev* engineer/son of Nikita Khrushchev/to U.S. 1991 - Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union (2020/84) 1935-0703 Al Primo* television news executive/credited with creating the Eyewitness News format - Pittsburgh, PA USA (2022/87) 1935-0703 Harrison Schmitt* astronaut/12Moon1972 - Santa Rita, NM USA **** 1935-0707 Hans Belting* historian/ theorist - Andernach, Nazi Germany (2023/87) 1935-0709 Michael Williams* actor /husband of Judi Dench - Liverpool, England (2001/65) 1935-0710 Margaret McEntee* Sister James, Catholic nun/educator  - New York City, NY USA **** 1935-0711 Günther von Lojewski* political journalist/ television presenter/author - Berlin, Nazi Germany (2023/87) 1935-0712 Hans Tilkowski* football goalie/coach - Dortmund-Husen, Germany (2020/84) 1935-0713 Mathias Reitz* actor/ writer - Los Angeles, CA USA (2011/76) 1935-0713 Kurt Westergaard* cartoonist - Døstrup, Denmark (2021/86) 1935-0714 Ei-ichi Negishi* 根岸 英一 Japanese chemist/N/active in the U.S. - Hsinking, Manchukuo, China (2021/85) 1935-0715 Ken Kercheval* actor - Wolcottville, IN USA (2019/83) 1935-0716 P. W. T. Simanjuntak* Protestant Lutheran priest - North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies (2021/85) 1935-0717 Donald Sutherland* actor - Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada (2024/87) 1935-0720 1935-0724 Lowry Mays* entrepreneur/ founder of Clear Channel Communications - Houston, TX USA (2022/87) 1935-0728 Denise Perrier* Miss World 1953/actress - Ambérieu-en-Bugey, France **** 1935-0731 1935-0801 1935-0803 Georgy Shonin* cosmonaut - Rovenky, Soviet Union (1997/61) 1935-0805 Michael Ballhaus* cinematographer - Berlin, Nazi Germany (2017/81) 1935-0807 Ada Deer* civil servant/member of the Menominee Indian Tribe/Native American advocate - Keshena, WI USA (2023/88) 1935-0808 1935-0810 Giya Kancheli* Georgian composer - Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet Union (2019/84) 1935-0812 John Cazale* actor (Godfather) - Revere, MA USA (1978/42) 1935-0818 Rafer Johnson* athlete (decathlon/OG)/actor - Hillsboro, TX USA (2020/86) 1935-0820 Ron Paul* physician/politician/activist - Pittsburgh, PA USA **** 1935-0824 Lando Buzzanca* actor - Palermo, Italy (2022/87) 1935-0826 Geraldine Ferraro* attorney/politician - Newburgh, NY USA (2011/75) 1935-0829 William Friedkin* film director/ producer/ screenwriter - Chicago, IL USA (2023/87) 1935-0831 Eldridge Cleaver* writer/political activist/a Black Panther leader - Wabbaseka, AR USA (1998/62) 1935-0831 Frank Robinson* baseball player - Beaumont, TX USA (2019/83) 1935-0901 Seiji Ozawa* 小澤 征爾 Japanese conductor - Mukden, Fengtian, Manchukuo (2024/88) 1935-0902 David Glass* businessman - Oregon County, MO USA (2020/84) 1935-0903 Assar Rönnlund* cross-country skier/OG - Sävar, Västerbotten, Sweden (2011/75) 1935-0905 Johnny Briggs* actor - Battersea, London, England (2021/85) 1935-0905 Maya Widmaier-Picasso* daughter of Pablo Picasso - Boulogne-Billancourt, France (2022/87) 1935-0908 William Vance* comics artist - Anderlecht, Belgium (2018/82) 1935-0909 Chaim Topol* actor/ singer/producer - Tel Aviv, Mandatory Palestine (2023/87) 1935-0910 Mary Oliver* poet - Maple Heights, OH USA (2019/83) 1935-0911 Gherman Titov* cosmonaut - Verkhneye Zhilino, Russia, Soviet Union (2000/65) 1935-0913 1935-0915 Bill Pinkney* executive/ sailor - Chicago, IL USA (2023/87) 1935-0917 Ken Kesey* novelist/ essayist - La Junta, CO USA (2001/66) 1935-0920 Wong Phui Nam* Malaysian economist/poet - Kuala Lumpur (2022/87) 1935-0921 Jimmy Armfield* football player/ manager - Denton, Lancashire, England (2018/82) 1935-0922 1935-0927 Al MacNeil* hockey player/coach/executive - Sydney, NS Canada (2025/89) 1935-0928 **Leni Katajakoski **(Kuningas/Lartio)* actress - Tampere, Finland (2020/84) 1935-0929 Jerry Lee Lewis* singer/ songwriter/pianist - Ferriday, LA USA (2022/87) 1935-0930 Shamsur Rahman Faruqi* Urdu language poet/author/theorist - Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh, British India (2020/85) 1935-0930 Johnny Mathis* singer/songwriter - Gilmer, TX USA **** 1935-1001 1935-1003 Charles Duke* astronaut/10Moon1972 - Charlotte, NC USA **** 1935-1004 Horst Janson* actor - Mainz-Kastel, Nazi Germany (2025/89) 1935-1005 1935-1008 Albert Roux* chef active in Britain - Semur-en-Brionnais, France (2021/85) 1935-1015 María Teresa Mirabal* surveyor/ political activist – Salcedo, Dominican Republic (1960/25) 1935-1015 Bobby Morrow* sprinter/OG - Harlingen TX USA (2020/84) 1935-1015 Willie O’Ree* hockey player/the first black player in the NHL - Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada **** 1935-1018 Peter Boyle* actor - Norristown, PA USA (2006/71) 1935-1020 Jerry Orbach* actor New York, NY USA (2004/69) 1935-1028 Juhani Kärkinen* ski jumper - Kotka, Finland (2019/83) 1935-1028 Bob Veale* baseball player/coach - Birmingham, AL USA (2025/89) 1935-1030 1935-1101 Gary Player* golfer - Johannesburg, South Africa **** 1935-1104 Jim Gregory* hockey coach/executive - Port Colborne, ON Canada (2019/83) 1935-1104 Elgar Howarth* trumpeter/ conductor/composer - Cannock, Staffordshire, England (2025/89) 1935-1111 Bibi Andersson* actress - Stockholm, Sweden (2019/83) 1935-1111 Jim Van Pelt* quarterback/ accountant - Chicago, IL USA (2022/86) 1935-1112 Eduardo Luis Elizando* Cuban-American electronics engineer/ to U.S. at age 23 - Cienfuegos, Las Villas, Cuba **** 1935-1119 Jack Welch* chemical engineer/ business executive/writer - Peabody, MA USA (2020/84) 1935-1129 Diane Ladd* actress/director - Meridian, MS USA **** 1935-1201 Woody Allen* stand-up comedian/actor/director - Brooklyn, NY USA **** 1935-1202 José Antonio González Casanova* lawyer/ politician/ constitutional law academic - Barcelona, Spain (2021/85) 1935-1206 Kyllikki Saari* homicide victim - Isojoki, Finland (1953/17) 1935-1209 Christopher Pratt* painter/ printmaker/designed the flag of Newfoundland and Labrador - St. John’s, NL Canada (2022/86) 1935-1213 Ed Koren* writer/ illustrator/political cartoonist (The New Yorker) - New York City, NY USA (2023/87) 1935-1216 Ismo Kallio* actor - Turku, Finland (2019/83) 1935-1218 Brian Bamford* golfer - Surrey, England (2021/85) 1935-1221 Rinchen Barshold* paleontologist/geologist - Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia **** 1935-1221 Phil Donahue* writer/film producer/television host (The Phil Donahue Show) - Cleveland, OH USA (2024/88) 1935-1224 Väinö Huhtala* cross-country skier/OG - Revonlahti, Finland (2016/80) 1935-1230 Wolfgang Dauner* jazz pianist - Stuttgart, Nazi Germany (2020/84) 1935-0 1935-0 1935-0 Updated 2025-0426 Helsinki-Tampa Search for another year here