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Events on Monday 14 November 1904 3
1904 – 1963Dick Powell (1904-1963)American singer, actor, director and producer, from Warner musicals to Philip Marlowe and Four Star Television.
1904Dick Powell born in Mountain View, ArkansasDick Powell is born in Mountain View, Arkansas.
1904Mother dies — Father Francis Morgan becomes guardianMabel Tolkien dies of diabetes on 14 November 1904, aged 34 — her health undermined, Tolkien always believed, by the stress of her family's rejection after her conversion. Ronald is 12; Hilary 10. Before her death, Mabel entrusts the boys to Father Francis Morgan, a Catholic priest and family friend. Morgan becomes one of the most important figures in Tolkien's life — a warm, generous father-figure who manages a small trust for the boys and supervises their education. Tolkien later wrote that his mother 'was a martyr indeed, and it is not to everybody that God grants so easy a way to his great gifts as he did to Hilary and myself, giving us a mother who killed herself with labour and trouble.'