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- Alice Lee Roosevelt was the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, then a New York state assemblyman. Her mother died two days after her birth; Theodore remarried Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and established a family seat in Oyster Bay, Long Island, where Alice grew up amid wealth, tradition, and politics. When her father suddenly became U.S. president in 1901 after the death of President McKinley, Alice Roosevelt was thrust into the national spotlight. Headstrong and rebellious and with a pronounced taste for the society of aristocrats and the Gilded Age wealthy, she was a favorite topic for the press, which dubbed her "Princess Alice" and slavishly recorded her comings and goings, her defiance of conventions, and her acidic comments on her contemporaries. When asked by the press about his daughter's unconventional behavior, the President sighed, "I can control the affairs of state, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both." In 1906 she married Ohio Representative Nicholas Longworth. Though the marriage was generally an unhappy one, the Longworth house was a center of Republican conviviality. Longworth became speaker of the House of Representatives in 1925, the same year that Alice gave birth to the couple's only child, Paulina, at the age of 41. After Longworth's death in 1931, Alice remained near Washington politics and capital social life. She campaigned against her fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and her scathing imitation of her first cousin Eleanor was favorite entertainment in Republican social circles during the New Deal. In 1934 she published her memoirs, 'Crowded Hours.' She famously kept a pillow in her parlor, embroidered with the words, "If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me." Her acerbic wit, gossip, and irreverence were legendary and were frequently recorded. Even in old age she was a fixture of the Washington scene, earning the nickname "Washington's other monument." She died at her home in 1980 at the age of 96.
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Alan J. Levitt was born on 20 September 1924 in Brighton, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Maude (1972), All in the Family (1971) and Miss Winslow and Son (1979). He died on 20 February 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Lucienne Laurence was born on 6 March 1925 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. She was an actress, known for Le bateau à soupe (1946), Le village perdu (1947) and La ferme du pendu (1945). She was married to Gilbert Dupé. She died on 20 February 1980 in Paris, France.
- Muriel Brunskill was born on 18 December 1900 in Kendal, Lake District, Cumbria, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Gilbert and Sullivan (1953). She died on 20 February 1980 in London, England, UK.
- Joseph Banks Rhine was born on 29 September 1895 in Waterloo, Juniata County, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 20 February 1980 in Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA.