By Cassie Lee
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Donovan Jerome Leitch (born August 16, 1967) is an English-born American actor and singer. He is the son of the singer-songwriter Donovan and the brother of actress Ione Skye. He was a member of the hard rock band Camp Freddy, was a founding member of neo-glam group Nancy Boy along with Jason Nesmith, the son of Michael Nesmith of The Monkees. As an actor, he is best known for portraying Paul Taylor in the 1988 remake of The Blob.
Leitch was born in London, the son of singer/songwriter Donovan and model Enid Karl (née Stulberger). He is the brother of actress Ione Skye. His parents separated when he was three and he was raised by his mother in the Hollywood Hills of California. His father is Scottish, of partial Irish descent. His mother was raised in The Bronx, New York City and is Jewish.
He married Scottish model Kirsty Hume on September 23, 1997. Their daughter, Violet Jean Leitch, was born March 21, 2004, at home in Los Angeles. Leitch and Hume separated in 2011, and Hume filed for divorce in summer 2014.
Leitch proposed to actress Libby Mintz two months after Hume filed for divorce. He and Mintz had a son, Donovan Evers Leitch, on April 14, 2015, and were married in a ceremony in Los Angeles on October 3, 2015.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
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Born
- Gaspard Monge (mathematician) –
- Robert Gray (sailor) –
- John Wilkes Booth (assassin) –
- Mae Murray (actress) –
- Max Steiner (composer) –
- Fred Astaire (actor & dancer) –
- Maybelle Carter (country musician) –
- Donovan Leitch (singer) –
- Bono (singer) –
- Kenan Thompson (actor) –
Died
- Paul Revere (patriot) –
- Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson (Confederate Army general) –
- Joan Crawford (actress) –
- Shel Silverstein (poet, author) –
- David Riesman (author) –
Events
- Christopher Columbus discovered the Cayman Islands and named them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there –
- Louis XVI became King of France –
- Golden spike linked Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory Point, Utah, creating the first continental railroad –
- Victoria Woodhull became the first woman nominated for President of the United States –
- The Centennial Exhibition opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at which Caroline Shawk Brooks displayed her sculpture of a woman’s face made out of butter. The rendering, Dreaming Iolanthe, sparked a movement of serious artistic butter sculpting in America. Butter sculptures remain a popular attraction at state fairs –
- The Society of American Magicians was founded –
- Mother’s Day first celebrated in Grafton, West Virginia. –
- J. Edgar Hoover was appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation –
- First submerged voyage around world completed by submarine USS Triton –
- Nelson Mandela sworn in as first black president of South Africa –
- An earthquake near Ardekul in northeastern Iran killed at least 2,400 people –
- FBI agent Robert Hanssen was given a life sentence without the possibility of parole for selling American secrets to Moscow –
- Sonic boom heard, Virginia Beach, Virginia –
Weather
- Bloomington-Normal and Aurora, Illinois, established a state record for the month of May with morning lows of 21 degrees F –
- A foot of heavy snow fell on upper Michigan –
- 14.2 inches of snow fell in Marquette, Michigan –
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