1997 Death Violet Carlson, stage dancer/singer, dies at 97 1997 Event NBA announces hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as 1st women to officiate a major-league all-male sports league 1969 Death Violet Farebrother, actress (Downhill, Easy Virtue), dies at 81 1944 Event Korvet Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean 1935 Death Violet Paget, British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78 1932 Birthday Anne Heywood, Violet Pretty, Engl, Miss GB, 1949, actress, Brain 1932 Event Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli 1932 Birthday Elizabeth Taylor, born in London, actress, Cleopatra, violet eyes 1927 Birthday Leontyne Mary Violet Price, Laurel Mississippi, opera soprano, Porgy and Bess 1926 Event Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22) 1916 Birthday Violet Cane, statistician 1888 Birthday Violet Farebrother, Grimsby England, actress, Downhill, Easy Virtue 1874 Birthday Julius Bittner, Austrian composer, Little Violet 1856 Birthday Violet Paget, Vernon Lee, British author, Satan the master
