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March 2, 1938

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D'ANNUNZIO DIES; POET-HERO WAS 74; Cerebral Hemorrhage Brings End to Colorful Career of Invader of Fiume HE HEADED ROME ACADEMY War Exploits Added to Esteem of Public--His Dramas Had World-Wide Acclaim Died at His Desk D'ANNUNZIO DIES; POET-HERO WAS 74 First Book of Verse Turned Talent to the Drama CAREER WAS A VARIED ONE Politics and Poetry Vied for Dominant Interest Opposed to President Wilson Defied Allied Powers King Conferred Title Books Displeasing to Church Developed Private Museum Became Academy President Love Letters to Be Published

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Notable Births

Clark Gesner

1938Clark Gesner, American author and composer (died 2002)[†]

Clark Gesner was an American composer, songwriter, author, and actor. He is best known for composing the musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, based on the Charles M. Schulz comic strip Peanuts.

Ricardo Lagos

1938Ricardo Lagos, Chilean economist, lawyer, and politician, 33rd President of Chile[†]

Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military dictatorship and astounded contemporaries in 1988 by openly denouncing dictator Augusto Pinochet on live television. He served as Minister of Education from 1990 to 1992 and Minister of Public Works from 1994 to 1998 under President Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle before narrowly winning the 1999–2000 presidential election in a runoff against Independent Democrat Union (UDI) candidate Joaquín Lavín. Lagos was the third president from the centre-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy to have governed Chile since 1990. He was succeeded on 11 March 2006 by Socialist Michelle Bachelet, from the same coalition. From 2007 to 2010 he served as a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Lagos made an unsuccessful bid to run for president in the 2017 Chilean general election.

Lawrence Payton

1938Lawrence Payton, American singer-songwriter and producer (died 1997)[†]

Lawrence Albert Payton Sr. was an American tenor, songwriter, vocal arranger, musician, and record producer for the popular Motown quartet, the Four Tops.

Notable Deaths

Ben Harney

1938Ben Harney, American pianist and composer (born 1871)[†]

Benjamin Robertson Harney was an American songwriter, entertainer, and pioneer of ragtime music. His 1895 composition "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" is known as the second ragtime composition to be published and the first ragtime hit to reach the mainstream. The first Ragtime composition published was La Pas Ma La written by Ernest Hogan in 1895. The copyright for "You've Been a Good Old Wagon but You Done Broke Down" was registered in January 1895 source, a few months prior to La Pas Ma La source, suggesting it was in fact the first of the two. During the early years of Harney's career, he falsely promoted himself as being the inventor of ragtime and never acknowledged the genre's black origin. Many contemporary musicians criticized him for it. Although ragtime is now probably more associated with Scott Joplin, in 1924 The New York Times wrote that Ben Harney "Probably did more to popularize ragtime than any other person." Time magazine called him "Ragtime's Father" in 1938.