Dion Boucicault

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Milestones

26 December 1820
Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (later DB ), actor and playwright, was born in Dublin, the youngest of his mother's five children.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908.
18 September 1890
DB , Irish-born playwright, died of pneumonia in New York.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Biography

He shortened his first given name and changed the spelling of his surname in two stages to bring it closer to a historical French spelling.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

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