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March 27, 1931

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Notable Births

David Janssen

1931David Janssen, American actor and screenwriter (died 1980)[โ€ ]

David Janssen was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (1963โ€“1967). Janssen also had the title roles in three other series: Richard Diamond, Private Detective; O'Hara, U.S. Treasury; and Harry O.

Notable Deaths

Arnold Bennett

1931Arnold Bennett, English author and playwright (born 1867)[โ€ ]

Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal totalling more than a million words. He wrote articles and stories for more than 100 newspapers and periodicals, worked in and briefly ran the Ministry of Information during the First World War, and wrote for the cinema in the 1920s. Sales of his books were substantial, and he was the most financially successful British author of his day.