Born on this day in 1901, Princess Anastasia was the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II--the last in the Romanov imperial dynasty to lead Russia before the Revolution of 1917. Although several women later came forward claiming to be Anastasia, she was presumed killed along with the rest of her family by the Bolsheviks in July of 1918. She is seen in a portrait from her youth. 
geboren: Die jüngste Tochter des russischen Zaren Nikolaus II., Anastasia (+1918). Bis heute ranken sich insbesondere in der "Regenbogenpresse" Gerüchte darum, ob ausgerechnet sie das Massaker der Bolschewisten an der Zarenfamilie vom 16.7.1918 überlebt haben könnte. Anspruchstellerinnen hat es seitdem jedenfalls genug gegeben. 
 1901 - Jeanette (Anna) MacDonald
singer with Nelson Eddy, actress: Love Me Tonight, The Firefly, Cairo, The Cat and the Fiddle, One Hour with You, The Merry Widow, Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie; died Jan 14, 1965, geboren

As a youngster, little Sammy wanted to grow up to be a famous vaudeville fiddler. How lucky we are that he stopped thinking about this in his teenage years. That’s when he met pianist, Saul Chaplin. Sammy wrote the words and Saul wrote the music to their first hit, Rhythm is Our Business for bandleader, Jimmie Lunceford. Then Until the Real Thing Comes Along for Andy Kirk and the jazz classic, Shoe Shine Boy, performed by Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, the Mills Brothers, even Bing Crosby. The Andrews Sisters were lucky to know Sammy, too. It was his adaptation of the Yiddish song, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön that became their signature. 

Frank Sinatra’s many signature titles were Sammy Cahn’s words, too (with Jimmy Van Heusen’s music): All the Way (won an Oscar in 1957), My Kind of Town, and Grammy Award-winning September of My Years. As part of the personal song-writing team for Mr. Sinatra, Sammy also wrote Love and Marriage, The Second Time Around, High Hopes (another Oscar winner in 1959) and The Tender Trap. 

If you still haven’t found a song that makes you care, try these additional Oscar winners by Sammy Cahn: Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) and Call Me Irresponsible (1963). We could cover the entire page with the 22 other songs that were nominated but didn’t win the gold statue! 

Want to know more? Pick up the autobiography of the talented Sammy Cahn, written in 1974, I Should Care. 

 1913 - (S.F.) Sylvia (Feldman) Porter
financial columnist: New York Post, New York Daily News; author: Sylvia Porter’s A Home of Your Own, Money Book; died Jun 6,1991, geboren

 1942 - (James) Paul McCartney