Monday, May. 25, 1981
BORN. To Princess Anne, 30, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, and her husband Mark Phillips, 32, a former army captain: a daughter, their second child, who ranks sixth in line to the British throne; in London. Weight: 8 Ibs. 1 oz. No name has yet been chosen.
DIED. Bob Marley, 36, reggae superstar who became the foremost proponent of the jagged, pulsing Caribbean sound and a major factor in its popularity and influence; of cancer; in Miami. Son of an English army captain and a Jamaican native, he founded his band, the Wailers, in 1964, but did not achieve commercial success until more than a decade later. Marley, whose song I Shot the Sheriff was made a hit by Eric Clapton in 1974, was an outspoken advocate of Rastafarianism, a Jamaica-based political-religious cult embracing a variety of ideas and trends: reggae music, marijuana use, a return to the "promised land" in Africa and belief in the divinity of the late Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.
DIED. Hoyt Fuller, 57, educator and literary critic who, as managing editor of Negro Digest and its successor Black World between 1961 and 1976, helped turn the magazine into a showcase for the nation's finest black writers; of a heart attack; in Atlanta.
DIED. Margaret Lindsay, 70, Iowa-born actress who posed as an Englishwoman to land a film role in Cavalcade (1933), and appeared in 80 other movies over the next 30 years, mostly mysteries and melodramas, including The House of the Seven Gables (1940); of emphysema; in Los Angeles.
DIED. Nelson Algren, 72, novelist and short-story writer who portrayed galleries of drifters, derelicts and drug addicts in The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) and A Walk on the Wild Side (1956); of a heart attack; in Sag Harbor, N.Y. A 1931 journalism graduate of the University of Illinois, he spent a few years wandering through the South and Midwest, meeting the losers and misfits who would later inhabit his fiction. A tireless traveler and avid gambler, Algren was a genial loner who spoke in the language of his working-class roots. He once warned, "Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never go to bed with a woman whose troubles are greater than your own."
DIED. Benjamin Henry Sheares, 73, obstetrician and gynecologist who served since 1971 as President and ceremonial head of state of Singapore; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Singapore.
DIED. Prince Andrew of Russia, 84, a nephew of Tsar Nicholas II and the oldest known surviving member of the dynasty that ruled Russia for three centuries; in Teynham, England. An heir to the Russian crown, Andrew fled the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and finally settled in England, where he lived in a luxurious 13th century manor as the head of the exiled Romanovs.
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