Vivien Leigh was born on 5 November 1913 in Darjeeling. A British actress, Leigh won two Academy Awards for Best Actress, for playing Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind and Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire. She began on the stage in London and became known for her beauty as well as her talent, appearing in That Hamilton Woman and Caesar and Cleopatra. For many years she was married to the actor Laurence Olivier, with whom she performed on the stage in productions of Shakespeare. She suffered from bipolar disorder and recurrent tuberculosis, which affected her career, and she died at the age of fifty-three.
Before and after
- 14 July 1913Birth of Gerald Ford
- 10 August 1913Treaty of Bucharest
- 16 August 1913Birth of Menachem Begin
- 31 August 1913Founding of PSV Eindhoven
- 5 November 1913Birth of Vivien Leigh
- 7 November 1913Birth of Albert Camus
- 18 December 1913Birth of Willy Brandt
- 23 December 1913Founding of Federal Reserve System
- 1914Rise of Assemblies of God
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The era
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