2004 Event Hurricane Frances hits Florida, causing $40 billion in damage. 2004 Death Frances Dee, actress, Little Women, dies at 96 1997 Event 69th Academy Awards - Oscar Ceremony Billy Crystal hosts, The English Patient wins Best Picture, Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win lead acting awards 1996 Death Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist, dies at 85 1996 Death Frances Lear, writer, dies at 73 1995 Death Francis Joan Frances Will, actress, dies at 75 1994 Death Frances Tustin, child Psychologist, dies at 81 1994 Death Frances Heflin, actress (Mona Tyler-All My Children), dies at 70 1994 Death Frances Gifford, dies of emphysema, at 71 1993 Death Frances Hunt, actress (You're a Sweetheart), dies of stroke at 77 1992 Event Frances votes in favor of Maastricht treaty 1992 Birthday Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love 1991 Death Frances Faye, singer and actress (Pretty Baby), dies after strokes 1989 Death Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry), dies at 86 1984 Death Paul Frances Webster, lyricist, dies of Parkinson's disease at 76 1984 Death Frances Goodrich, (Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 93 of lung cancer 1977 Birthday Ryan Frances, actor, Trevor-Sisters 1976 Death Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch), dies at 73 1973 Death Frances Marion, screenwriter (Pollyanna, Camille), dies at 85 1970 Death Frances Farmer, actress (Toast of NY, Come and Get It), dies at 55 1965 Death Frances Perkins, U.S. 1st female minister of Labor (1933-45), dies at 83 1958 Birthday Frances Barber, Wolverhampton England, actress, Castaway 1957 Birthday Frances McDormand, actress, Fargo, Academy Award 1956 Event Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV 1956 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett 1955 Event Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe and Bowden of CAN 1954 Birthday Frances Bucholz, rocker, Scorpions-Wind of Change 1954 Event Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN 1953 Birthday Frances Conroy, American Actress 1947 Death Frances Cleveland Preston, former 1st lady (1885-89 93-97), dies at 83 1947 Birthday Jeffrey DeMunn, born in Buffalo, New York, actor, Blaze, Frances, Windy City 1946 Event Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint 1945 Birthday Neil Frances Tennant, rocker, Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl 1944 Birthday Frances de la Tour, actress, Bejeweled, Wombling Free 1943 Birthday Sam Shepard, Illinois, actor and playwright, Frances, Crimes of the Heart 1943 Birthday Julia Cumberlege, born in England, Julia Frances Cumberlege, Baroness Cumberlege, politician, businesswoman, British Conservative Party, member of Dames of the Order of St. Gregory the Great 1940 Birthday Frances FitzGerald, New York City, journalist/author, Fire in the Lake 1940 Event Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star" 1938 Event America's 1st saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified 1938 Birthday Mary Frances Berry, educator/head, US Commission on Civil Rights 1938 Event Frances Moulton elected 1st woman president of a U.S. national bank 1933 Event Frances Perkins becomes sec of labor, 1st U.S. woman cabinet member 1930 Birthday Frances Sternhagen, Washington D.C., actress, Outland, Starting Over 1924 Event Judy Garland, 2, billed as Baby Frances, show business debut 1923 Birthday Frances Heflin, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, actress, Mona Tyler-All My Children 1923 Birthday Frances Lear, Larchmont, New York, Woman's magazine publisher, Lears 1922 Birthday Frances Rafferty, born in Sioux City, Iowa, actress, December Bride 1920 Birthday Joan Frances Will, actress 1920 Birthday Frances K Bairstow, educator/labor relations consultant 1914 Birthday Frances Farmer, born in Seattle, Washington, actress, Son of Fury, Among the Living 1913 Birthday Frances Swem Anderson, technologist, nuclear medicine 1913 Birthday Frances Tustin, child psychologist 1913 Birthday Frances Langford, born in Lakeland, Florida, singer, Armed Forces Hour, Star Time 1912 Birthday Dale Evans, Frances Butts, Uvalde, Texas, cowgirl, Roy Rogers Show 1912 Death Mary Frances Allitsen, composer, dies at 63 1911 Birthday Julia Frances Smith, composer 1910 Birthday Frideswide Frances Emma Knight, musician/socialist 1907 Birthday Frances Dee, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Of Human Bondage 1905 Event Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall 1903 Birthday Frances Clode, CEO, WRVS 1902 Birthday Frances Beauvier, actress, Aunt Bea-Andy Griffith Show 1902 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" 1898 Death Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58 1898 Death Frances E. Willard, American Activist 1888 Birthday Frances Marion, born in San Francisco, California, screenwriter/actress, Pollyanna 1886 Event Grover Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency, Frances Folsom 1885 Birthday Frances Parkinson Keyes, novelist, Dinner at Antoine 1880 Birthday Frances Perkins, 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position, Labor 1864 Birthday Frances Folsom Cleveland, 1st lady, 1885-89, 93-97 1849 Birthday Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of childrens book, My Secret Garden 1848 Birthday Mary Frances Allitsen, composer 1839 Birthday Frances E C Willard, New York, founder, Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1839 Birthday Frances E. Willard, American Activist 1825 Birthday Frances E. W. Harper, famous African 1822 Birthday Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society 1809 Birthday Frances Anne "Fanny" Kemble, England, Shakespearian actress, Juliet 1652 Death Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies 1587 Event Sir Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain and sinks Spanish fleet 1581 Event Frances Drake completes circumnavigation of world 1269 Event King Louis IX of Frances decrees all Jews must wear a badge of shame
