1718) Keith Magnuson

Keith Arlen Magnuson (1947 – 2003), Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1969 and 1979.

Magnuson grew up in Wadena, Saskatchewan. His family moved to Saskatoon when he was 10 years old. When he was seventeen he played for the Saskatoon Blades, before he received a hockey scholarship to the University of Denver. Magnuson joined the Chicago Black Hawks for the 1969–70 season and led the league in penalty minutes in his first two seasons. He became an assistant coach for the Black Hawks after retiring in 1979 and was promoted to head coach for the 1980–81 season.

- "Many fans remember the fights and the flowing red hair, but many more remember Keith Magnuson as one of the greatest ambassadors the Chicago Blackhawks franchise has ever had."   https://committedindians.com/keith-magnuson-late-hawks-captain-ties-chicago-denver/

- "... his fiery red hair and his determined countenance always struck me as magnificent. [...] It was here where a red-haired boy named Keith Arlen Magnuson was born on April 27, 1947, the youngest of four children to Joe and Birdie Magnuson."   https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9781623683641_A24020601/preview-9781623683641_A24020601.pdf

1717) Myles Standish

Myles Standish 1584 – 1656). English military officer and colonist. 

He was hired as military adviser for Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts, United States, by the Pilgrims. Standish accompanied the Pilgrims on the ship Mayflower and played a leading role in the administration and defense of Plymouth Colony from its foundation in 1620. On February 17, 1621, the Plymouth Colony militia elected him as its first commander and continued to re-elect him to that position for the remainder of his life. Standish served at various times as an agent of Plymouth Colony on a return trip to England, as assistant governor of the colony, and as its treasurer.

- "Examining the remains of the man believed to be Captain Standish, a doctor proclaimed that he had been a man of great physical strength. Hair still remaining on the skull was red and gray."   https://historicaldigression.com/2014/05/10/digging-up-myles-standish-thrice/

1716) Gerhard Schaschke

Gerhard Kurt Erwin Schaschke (1911 - 1941). German air ace during WWII. He was born in Dresden.

His favorite tactic was to have a few Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters flying over a Soviet airbase as bait. When the enemy scrambled their planes, he slipped in behind them at treetop level and shot them down on takeoff. In just six weeks, his score rose to about 20 kills (the sources differ on the final number, but a photo of the tail fin shows 20 kill marks prior to his last fight), earning him the Iron Cross, 1st class. He also sunk three ships. Schaschke’s luck ran out on 4 August 1941. He got into a fight with LaGG-3s of the 145th Fighter Aviation Regiment southeast of Murmansk, reportedly shooting down two enemy aircraft before himself being shot down by captain Aleksandr Zaytsev.

In 1937 he had married Isolde Lucia Wilhelmine Riedel.

- "SCHASCHKE, Gerhard (“Ryzhyy”, i.e.“carrots”, a reference to his red hair)."   https://www.ww2.dk/Lw%20Offz%20-%20S-Z%20Apr%202021.pdf

- "Hauptmann Schaschke soon became well known and earned a special hatred among his adversaries. They even gave him a nickname, “Ryzhyy” (“Red-Hair,” or more correctly, “Carrots”)."   https://ourairports.biz/?p=6124

1715) Marjorie West

Marjorie West (1933 - ?). American child who went missing from McKean County, Pennsylvania on May 8, 1938. Her disappearance was heavily covered by both local and national media, but her whereabouts have never been ascertained.

On May 8, 1938, Marjorie, along with her parents, 7-year-old brother Allan and 11-year-old sister Dorothea, attended a church in Bradford, Pennsylvania. After they attended the church, they went to Marshburg, Pennsylvania for a picnic to celebrate Mother's Day. Dorothea left Marjorie alone while she spoke to her mother. When Dorothea went back to Marjorie, she had disappeared and was never seen again. Her parents called the police, but the police found no evidence of Marjorie's whereabouts. 

In 2010, a local publisher, Harold Thomas Beck, claimed to have solved the mystery by identifying Marjorie with Sylvia Waldrop London. She eventually admitted that her mother confessed on her deathbed to her husband having stolen her from a park, and that she had remembered the names Dorothea and Allan from childhood. 

- "Dorothea and Marjorie, a red-haired girl who was dressed like Shirley Temple (in the style of the time), picked violets together."  https://carenlissner.medium.com/the-still-unsolved-mystery-of-a-little-girl-who-vanished-in-1938-7f9d6edeee04

- "... another day had passed without finding the little red-haired four-year-old, Marjorie West. [...]  Police began circulating a poster describing Marjorie’s “curley” red hair, freckles, red Shirley Temple hat and patent leather shoes." https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/26/missing-marjorie-west 

1714) James "Shanghai" Kelly

James Kelly, better known as "Shanghai" Kelly. American crimp of the 19th century who kidnapped men and forced them to work on ships. The terms "crimping" and "shanghaiing" are used to describe this type of work. A legendary figure in San Francisco history, Kelly was known for supplying or shanghaiing men to understaffed ships.

Kelly kept a boarding house in San Francisco. He also ran a number of bars and a saloon. These businesses provided Kelly with a steady supply of victims.

In the early 1870s, Kelly was reported to have shanghaied 100 men for three understaffed ships in a single evening. 

Actor Robert Taylor played Kelly in the 1967 episode "Shanghai Kelly's Birthday Party" of the syndicated television series Death Valley Days, which Taylor also hosted.

The Irish music band Gaelic Storm released a song about Kelly, entitled "Shanghai Kelly", on the 2017 album Go Climb a Tree.

- "Kelly wore a red beard and had a fiery temper to match."   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kelly_(crimper) 

- "Shanghai Kelly was a dumpy little man. He had a mass of riotous red hair, and a huge red beard. He had fury written all over his ugly face." https://www.realsanfranciscotours.com/crime-seen-san-franciscos-barbary-coast/ 

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1713) Thutmose IV

Thutmose IV. 8th Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled in approximately the 14th century BC. He was the son of Amenhotep II and Tiaa and the grandfather of Akhenaten.

The currently preferred reconstruction usually comes to an accession date around 1401 BC or 1400 BC for the beginning of Thutmose IV's reign. The length of his reign is not clear, but today most scholars ascribe him a 10-year reign from 1401 to 1392 BC, within a small margin of error.

- "His hair, which is parted in the middle, is about 16 cm (6.3 in) long and dark reddish-brown."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thutmose_IV#Burial_and_mummy 

(As usual with many Egyptian mummies, it is not clear whether Thutmose IV's hair was naturally red/brown of if this colour was a consequence of the henna used during the embalming. A simple examination of hair roots would solve the mystery)

Statue of Thutmose IV and his mother Tiaa.

1712) Erich Mühsam

Erich Mühsam (1878 – 1934). German antimilitarist anarchist essayist, poet and playwright. He emerged at the end of World War I as one of the leading agitators for a federated Bavarian Soviet Republic, for which he served five years in prison.

Also a cabaret performer, he achieved international prominence during the years of the Weimar Republic for works which, before Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, condemned Nazism and satirized the future dictator. Mühsam was tortured and murdered in the Oranienburg concentration camp in 1934.

- "... bushy red hair and wild red beard crowding an emaciated face; scrawny body and wiry fingers."   https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1942&context=bts 

Portrait by Auguste Herbin