Births
1432 - Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante)
1619 - Hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate
1688 - Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
1702 - Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher
1725 - Ferdinando Bertoni, composer
1727 - Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer
1736 - Johann Christoph Kellner, composer
1740 - M Claudius, writer
1741 - Thomas Norris, composer
1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15)
1771 - Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)
1776 - Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Apollo under the Hirten)
1776 - Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer
1782 - Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs)
1785 - Thomas De Quincey, Eng, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
1787 - Alexander Aliabiev, composer
1788 - Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director
1794 - Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum)
1803 - James Douglas, father of British Columbia
1822 - Wilhelm Rust, composer
1823 - Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Eduard de Hartog, composer
1839 - Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer
1845 - Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)
1851 - [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat)
1856 - J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
1860 - Roosje Vos, Dutch union organizer
1860 - Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23)
1865 - Johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)
1866 - Charles-Jean Vall‚e-Poussin, mathematician (d'analyse)
1872 - Rubin Goldmark, composer
1872 - Harold Fraser-Simson, composer
1874 - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
1875 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)
1876 - Aleksandar Belic, Serb linguist
1878 - Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general (White Armies, WW II)
1879 - Ethel Barrymore
1879 - Ethel Barrymore, Phila, actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green)
1885 - Edna Ferber, author, playwright
1885 - Mary Nash, Troy NY, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By)
1885 - Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer
1886 - Bill Whitty, cricketer (Australian left-arm bowler 1909-12)
1887 - Edna Ferber, US, author (American Beauty, Cimarron)
1888 - Albert Spalding, composer
1888 - T E Lawrence Tremadoc, [Lawrence of Arabia], Wales, soldier/writer
1890 - Jacques Ibert, Paris France, composer (Escales)
1892 - Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer
1892 - Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist (Nobel 1929)
1893 - Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8)
1893 - Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer
1896 - Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor
1897 - Marion Eugene Bauer, composer
1898 - Lillian Carter, Pres Carter's (1977-1981) mom
1900 - Estelle Brody, NYC, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything)
1901 - Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68)
1901 - Byron Arnold, composer
1901 - Hans Lorbeer, writer
1901 - Sulho Ranta, composer
1902 - Jan RT Campert, writer (Song the 18 dead)
1904 - Bill Baird, Grand Is Nebr, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie, Muppet Show
1906 - Finn Videro, composer
1907 - Paul Vincze, medallist
1909 - Raymond O'Malley, teacher
1910 - Josef Klaus, Chancellor of Austria (1966-70)
1910 - Signe Hasso, actress (QB VII, Taxi 13, Black Bird, Crisis)
1910 - Hugo Winterhalter, composer
1912 - Julia Child, Pasadena Calif, chef (French Chef)
1912 - Wijnanda M C "Nan" Aberson, friend of Gerard Reve Sr
1912 - Wendy Hiller, England, actress (Major Barbara, David Copperfield)
1914 - Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer
1915 - Alma Gardeslan, Surinamese/Dutch folklorist
1915 - Signe Hasso, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Johnny Angel, Double Life)
1915 - Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author/resistance fighter (Mensch op Weg)
1918 - Fay Honey Knopp, activist
1918 - Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, composer
1919 - Huntz Hall
1919 - Huntz Hall, NYC, actor (Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game)
1922 - Lukas Foss, [Fuchs], Berlin Germany, composer (Prairie)
1923 - Simon Peres, [Persky], premier of Israel
1923 - Rose Marie, NYC, actress (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1924 - Phyllis Schlafly
1924 - Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president
1924 - Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright (Man for All Seasons, Dr Zhivago)
1925 - Mike Conners
1925 - Rose Marie
1925 - Mike Connors, [Krekor Ohanian], Fresno, Calif, actor (Mannix)
1925 - Rose Marie, actress/comedienne (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1925 - Billy Pinkney, Sumter NC, rock bassist/vocalist (Drifters)
1925 - Gertrude Shope, South African head (ANC female section)
1926 - Lyutsian Abramovich Prigozhn, composer
1926 - Georgiann Johnson, Decorah Iowa, actress (Marge-Mr Peepers)
1926 - Lewis T Preston, banker
1927 - Eddie Leadbeater, cricketer (England leg-spinner with an avg of 109)
1928 - Nicolas Roeg, London England, cinematographer/director (Aria, Eureka)
1931 - Janice Rule, Norwood Ohio, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Doctor's Wife)
1931 - Mario Kuri-Aldana, composer
1932 - Robert L[ull] Forward, US, sci-fi author (Dragon's Egg, Starquake)
1933 - Floyd Ashton, US singer (Tams-What Child of Fool)
1933 - Bobby Helms, rock vocalist (Jingle Bell Rock)
1933 - Lori Nelson, Santa Fe NM, actress (Greta-How to Marry a Millionaire)
1934 - Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut
1934 - Reg Scarlett, WI cricket off-spinner (3 Tests 1960)
1935 - Jim Dale, Rothwell England, Broadway actor (Barnum, My One & Only)
1935 - Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr, civil rights activist (National Urban League
1935 - Abby Dalton, Las Vegas NV, actress (Joey Bishop Show)
1937 - Ronnie G Flippo, (Rep-D-NY, 1977- )
1938 - Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court justice
1938 - Maxine Waters, (Rep-D-California)
1939 - Herman van Keeken, Dutch singer (Daddy don't run so fast)
1939 - H Onno C R Ruding, director (Amrobank)/Dutch Financial minister (CDA)
1941 - Don Rich, Olympia Wash, guitarist/country singer (Hee Haw)
1941 - Viktor Mikhailovich Pisarev, Russian cosmonaut
1942 - Peter York, Cleve, rock drummer (Spencer Davis Group)
1943 - Eni F H Faleomavaega, (Rep-D-American Samoa)
1943 - Barbara Bouchet, Reichenberg Czech, actress (Casino Royale)
1944 - Linda Ellerbee
1944 - Linda Ellerbee, Bryan Texas, newscaster (Weekend, NBC Overnight)
1944 - Frederick Knight, US singer (I've been lonely so long)
1945 - Thomas C Sawyer, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1945 - Gene Upshaw, NFL guard (Oakland), NFLPA leader
1945 - Charlemagne Palestine, composer
1946 - Jim Webb
1946 - Kathryn Jean Whitmire, Houston Texas, (4 time Mayor-Houston)
1946 - Jimmy Webb, Elk City Okla, songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away)
1947 - Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, Macon Ga, USN/astro (STS 33)
1947 - Geraldo Velez, jazz congas (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1947 - Brian Hulls, British TV news cameraman
1949 - Kate Taylor, rocker
1949 - Carlien Brouwer, translator/missing since Jan 6, 1994
1949 - Ann Ryerson, Wisc, actress (Pvt Carol Winter-Pvt Benjamin)
1950 - William "Bill" Griffin, US singer (Miracles-Love Machine)
1950 - Thomas Aldrich, country drummer (Black Oak Arkansas)
1950 - Tess Harper, Mammoth Sp AR, actress (Amityville 3D, Tender Mercies)
1950 - Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, Engl, Princess/olympic equestria
1951 - Bobby Caldwell, NYC, rocker
1951 - John Childs, cricketer (England left-arm spinner, two Tests v WI 1988
1952 - Ger Hoeymakers, Dutch rock guitarist (Franc Boeijen Group)
1955 - Larry Mathews, Burbank Calif, actor (Ritchie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
1955 - Kenneth Carr, Clearwater Fla, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Gordon Bruks, England, Dr/cosmonaut
1956 - Vinny Denunzio, rocker
1957 - Zeljko Ivanek, Lujubljana Yugoslavia, actor (Mass Appeal)
1959 - Scott D Altman, Lincoln Ill, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (sk: STS 90)
1960 - Tommy Aldridge, heavy metal rocker (Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man)
1960 - Maureen "Peanut" Louie Harper, SF, tennis player (Denver-1985)
1960 - Ron van de Berg, soccer player (Sparta)
1961 - Matt Johnson, rocker (The The-Infected Soul Mining)
1961 - Joan Delk, Tampa FL, LPGA golfer (1995 First Bank Edina Realty-66th)
1962 - Igor Dorokhin, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1962 - Bubby Brister, NFL quarterback (NY Jets, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1963 - Jack Russell, superb England cricket wicket-keeper (36 Tests 1988-94)
1963 - Greg Adams, Nelson, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1963 - Lydia Czuckermann-Hatuel, Israel, Women's foil fencer (Oly-1996)
1964 - MCA, [Adam Yauch], rock vocalist (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight)
1964 - Debi Mazar, Queens NY, actress (Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law)
1965 - Jon Evans, Nottimgham ENG, Australasia golfer
1966 - Fred Strickland, linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
1966 - Leo Goeas, guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1967 - Mike James, Ft Walton FL, pitcher (California Angels)
1967 - Moulay Brahim Boutaib, Morocco, 10k runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1967 - Neil Wilkinson, Selkirk, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1968 - Luciana Bemvenuti, Porto Alegre Brazil, golfer (1994 Jamie Farr-36th)
1968 - Vassili Pankov, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
1969 - Mark Heese, Toronto Ontario, beach volleyballer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 - Pavel Kamentsev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1969 - James Black, Regina, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1969 - Eric Bieniemy, NFL running back (Cin Bengals)
1969 - Yancey Thigpen, NFL wide receiver (Pitts Steelers)
1970 - Dawn Ponte, Kent RI, dance skater (& Frey-1995 Eastern Jr champ)
1971 - Perry Carter, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1971 - Priscilla Taylor, Miami FLA, playmate (Mar, 1996)
1972 - Mikey Graham, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
1972 - Ben Affleck, actor (Daddy)
1972 - Freddie Solomon, NFL wide receiver (Phila Eagles)
1972 - Jason Maniecki, defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1972 - Ken Walter, punter (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Ben Affleck
1973 - Marcus Jones, defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 - Ramon Morel, Villa Gonzalez Dom Rep, pitcher (Pitts Pirates)
1975 - Jurgen Dirkx, soccer player (PSV)
1975 - Bert Berry, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1976 - Boudewijn Send, soccer player (PSV)
1976 - Ger Unterluggauer, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
Events
778 - Battle at Roncevalles: Basques beat Charles the Great
1308 - Johannieter knights conquer Rhodos on the Greece
1457 - Earliest dated book, "Mainz Psalter," completed
1519 - Panama City founded
1534 - Ignatius of Loyola forms society of Jesus/Jesuits
1535 - Asunción, Paraguay founded
1548 - Mary queen of Scotland (6) arrives in France
1549 - Portuguese missionaries Franciscus Xaverius lands in Kagoshima Japan
1620 - Mayflower sets sail from Southampton with 102 Pilgrims
1635 - 1st recorded US hurricane hit the Plymouth Colony
1653 - -16] Dutch ship "Sperwer" stranded at Tsjedzjoe Korea
1658 - France/Sweden/Bavarian/Brunswick/Münster/Hessen-Kassel form Rijnbond
1668 - Rijnbond disbands
1684 - Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France
1741 - French troops attack the Rhine
1748 - United Lutheran Church of US organized
1760 - Battle at Leignitz: Prussia beats Austria & Russia
1785 - French cardinal De Rohan arrested
1795 - Joseph Haydn leaves England forever
1824 - Freed American slaves forms country of Liberia
1832 - Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism
1843 - Tivoli Park in Copenhagen opens
1843 - National black convention meets (Buffalo NY)
1848 - M Waldo Hanchett patents dental chair
1858 - Regular mail to Pacific coast begins
1861 - Lincoln directs reinforcements to be sent to MI
1863 - Submarine "HL Hunley" arrives in Charleston on railroad cars
1864 - Off New England coast, CSS Tallahassee captures 6 yankee schooners
1867 - 2nd Reform Bill extends suffrage in England
1870 - Transcontinental Railway actually completed in Colorado
1876 - US law removes Indians from Black Hills after gold find
1886 - Guy Hecker scores 7 runs in 1 game
1892 - 4th & last British government of Gladstone forms
1893 - US no longer allowed exclusive rights in Bering Sea
1899 - Louisville's Henry Dowling struck out 5 times in a game
1901 - Arch Rock, danger to Bay shipping, blasted with 30 tons of nitro
1905 - Phila A's Rube Waddell no-hits St Louis Browns, 2-0 in 5 innings
1906 - 1st freight delivery tunnel system begins, underneath Chicago
1911 - Procter & Gamble unveils its Crisco shortening
1912 - Yankee Guy Zinn sets record by stealing home twice in a game
1914 - 13th Davis Cup: Australasia beats USA in New York (3-2)
1914 - Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs
1914 - Panama Canal opens (under cost)
1914 - German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured
1914 - Japan joins side of allies
1915 - Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia
1918 - 1st full length cartoon (Sinking of Lusitania)
1918 - Russia severs diplomatic ties with US
1923 - Eamon de Valera arrested in Irish Free State
1923 - Mexico & US reaches accord over oil concession of 1917
1925 - White Sox Dickie Kerr, 1st appearance since winning 2 world series games in 1919
1925 - Norway annexes Spitsbergen
1931 - Roy Wilkins joined NAACP as asst secretary
1931 - Spakenburg soccer team forms
1931 - Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi)
1939 - "Wizard of Oz" premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood
1939 - In 1st night game at Comiskey Park, Sox beat Browns 5-2
1940 - 1st edition of Jewish Weekly newspaper in Amsterdam (under Nazi)
1940 - Heavy dogfights above England: 75 German aircrafts damaged
1941 - Kovono Lithuanian Jews are herded into Slobodka ghetto
1942 - 5 hostages executed by Nazis in St-Michielsgestel
1943 - Allies land on Kiska Aleutians
1944 - German field marshal von Kluge vanishes for one day
1944 - US 7th Armour division reaches Chartres
1944 - US 12 Army corp enters Le Mans through Orléans
1944 - Operation Anvil: Allies land on French Mediterranean sea coast
1944 - Allied air raid on train in North Netherlands, 32 killed
1944 - Operation Dragoon: Allied troops land in Provence
1945 - A riot ensued in SF while the city was celebrating the end of WW II
1945 - South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
1945 - Chandler sells World Series radio rights for $150,000 to Gillette, Ford had been World Series
1945 - US wartime rationing of gasoline & fuel oil ends
1947 - India declares independence from UK, Islamic part becomes Pakistan
1947 - Pakistan (formerly West Pakistan) declares independence from UK
1948 - 3rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1948 - Republic of Korea (South Korea) proclaimed (National Day)
1949 - WOTV TV channel 8 in Grand Rapids, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 - Indians make their 1st triple play at Cleveland Stadium
1950 - Rotterdam harbor strike begins
1950 - Pres Sukarno proclaims unity of Indonesia
1950 - Indies Constitution goes into effect
1950 - Ezzard Charles TKOs Freddie Beshore in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1950 - 8.6 earthquake in India kills 20,000 to 30,000
1950 - Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier
1952 - 19th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Los Angeles 10, All-Stars 7 (88,316)
1952 - 9" of rain fall creates a 20' wave in Lynmouth, England killing 34
1954 - Alfredo Stroessner names himself president of Paraguay
1954 - WCHS TV channel 8 in Charleston-Huntington, WV (ABC) begins
1955 - WXEX TV channel 8 in Richmond-Petersburg, VA (ABC) begins
1957 - David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon
1957 - USAF Capt Joe B Jordan reaches 31,513 m in F-104 jet fighter
1958 - Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank
1958 - Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank
1958 - Buddy Holly weds Maria Santiago
1958 - 25th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 35, Detroit 19 (70,000)
1960 - UFO is sighted by 3 California patrolmen
1960 - Mil Brave Lew Burdette no-hits Phila Phillies, 1-0
1960 - Congo (formerly Congo/Brazzaville) declares Independence from France
1960 - Chic Bears beat NY Giants 16-7 in Toronto (NFL expo)
1960 - CFL's Calgary Stampeders move into McMahon Stadium
1961 - Building of Berlin Wall begins
1962 - Netherlands & Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea
1962 - Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
1963 - Fulbert Youlou, resigns as Pres of Congo-Brazzaville
1964 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 3¼"
1964 - Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke)
1964 - Phillies triple-play NY Mets
1964 - Race riot in Dixmoor (Chicago suburb) Ill
1964 - Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago
1965 - 47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley GC PA
1965 - Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium
1965 - Mary Mills wins LPGA St Louis Golf Open
1965 - Japanese community of SF holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese
1966 - Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
1967 - England's Marine Offense Bill makies pirate radio stations a crime goes into effect, pirate st
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae
1968 - Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1968 - Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting
1969 - Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
1970 - Patricia Palinkas becomes 1st woman pro football player (Orlando)
1971 - Bahrain gains independence from Britain
1971 - Charles Lismont wins Helsinki marathon (2:13:09.0)
1971 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Len Immke Buick Golf Open
1971 - Pres Nixon announces 90-day freeze on wages, prices & rents
1971 - KVRL (now KRIV) TV ch 26 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1973 - Black September kills 3 wounds 55 Athens
1973 - David Storey's "Cromwell," premieres in London
1973 - USSR performs nuclear test
1974 - Hurricane/floods ravage Bangladesh, 4,000 killed
1974 - South Korean President Park Chung-Hee escapes assassination
1974 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1974 - Longest team (6) trampoline bouncing marathon (1,248 hours (52 days))
1975 - Bangladesh military coup under Khondakar Moustaque Ahmed
1975 - Joanne Little acquitted of murder charges
1976 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
1977 - SS chief Kappler escapes from prison hospital in Rome
1977 - England regain cricket Ashes by taking a 3-0 series lead over Aust
1978 - House of Reps approves (233-169), 39-month extension for ERA
1979 - Andrew Young resigns as UN ambassador
1981 - Robin Leamy of US swims record 7.98 kph for 50 m
1981 - Botham scores a century in 86 balls v Australia at Old Trafford
1982 - Equatorial Guinea adopts constitution
1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA WUI Golf Classic
1983 - Ramones guitarist Joey Ramone, beaten in fight-undergoes brain surgery
1985 - Anti-apartheid lawyer Bulelani Ngcuka marries in South Africa
1985 - Iraqi air raid on Iran oil-island Kharg
1986 - Pres Reagan decides to support a replacement for Challenger
1987 - US beats Cuba in Pan-Am baseball
1987 - At Pan Am games in Indianapolis, USA & Cuba are tied with 2 outs in 9th, Ty Griffin HR, Cuba 1
1988 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 176 perfs
1988 - At 4PM LILCO consumers used a record 3,813 megawatts
1988 - NYC begins $70 million program to rebuild 900 Bronx apartments
1989 - In 2nd start since after cancer treatment, Giants Dave Dravecky breaks his pitching arm while
1989 - US Venus probe Magellan launched from Space shuttle
1989 - Giorgio Lamberti swims world record 200m free style (1:46.69)
1989 - Frederik de Klerk becomes president of South Africa
1989 - Cancer sufferer/SF Giant pitcher Dave Dravecky breaks arm on mound
1990 - Mark McGwire is 1st to hit 30 HRs in each of his 1st 4 seasons
1990 - 51st PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Gary Player
1990 - Phils Terry Mulholland no-hits Giants 6-0 (8th no hitter of 1990)
1991 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 - 750,000 attend Paul Simon's free concert in Central Park
1992 - Actress Susan Anton marries actor Jeff Lester
1992 - Colombo '92 closes in Genoa Italy
1993 - "Goodbye Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 188 performances
1993 - 75th PGA Championship: Paul Azinger shoots a 272 at Inverness Club Oh
1993 - Cindy Schreyer wins LPGA Sun-Time Challenge Golf Tournament
1993 - NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes for 2nd time
1993 - Nolan Ryan, 324th & final victory, Rangers 4, Indians 1
1993 - Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte
1994 - S African Pres Nelson Mandela receives Anne Frank Penning
1994 - Terrorist Carlos the Jackal, captured in Khartoum Sudan
1995 - Keylee Sue Sanders, 18, of Kansas, crowned 13th Miss Teen USA
1997 - LA Dodgers retire Tommy Lasorda's #2
1997 - Dow Jones drops 247.37 pts
1997 - Dan Wilson hits Seattle Mariners 3,000th HR
Deaths
69 - Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered
423 - Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies
1038 - Stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies
1057 - Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan
1118 - Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies
1464 - Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58
1576 - Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer, dies
1600 - Johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60
1615 - Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies
1619 - Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies
1666 - Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies
1725 - Gerard Noodt, lawyer, dies at 77
1728 - Marin Marias, composer, dies at 72
1729 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64
1758 - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60
1798 - Felice Alessandri, composer, dies at 50
1807 - Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70
1848 - Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88
1852 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92
1853 - Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72
1864 - Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies
1887 - Me‹r Aron Goldschmidt, Danish writer (Ravnen, Hjemlís), dies at 67
1901 - Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77
1907 - Joseph Joachim, German violinist/composer, dies at 76
1914 - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59 [NS=Aug 28]
1915 - Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
1918 - Peter Gast, composer, dies at 64
1935 - Will Rogers, humoprist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55
1935 - Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36
1935 - Gerard Brucken Fock, composer, dies at 75
1936 - Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64
1936 - Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer, dies at 76
1951 - Artur Schnabel, Austria/US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69
1956 - Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83
1958 - William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy, US blues singer/guitarist, dies at 65
1963 - John Powell, composer, dies at 80
1966 - Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64
1966 - Jan Kiepura, actor (Give Us this Night), dies of heart attack at 64
1966 - Seena Owen, actress/writer (Queen Kelly), dies at 71
1967 - Ren‚ Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 68
1968 - Edward Kilenyi, composer, dies at 84
1969 - Stijn Streuvels, [F Lateur], Flemish writer (Vlaschard), dies at 97
1970 - Karl August Andersen, composer, dies at 66
1971 - Paul Lukas, actor (Kim, Berlin Express), dies of heart failure at 76
1972 - Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer, dies at 89
1974 - Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered
1974 - Edmund Cobb, actor (Motorcycle Gang), dies at 82
1975 - Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, killed in a military coup at 53
1976 - Jean P J C Haesaert, Flemish lawyer/sociologist, dies at 84
1978 - Harrison Kerr, composer, dies at 80
1982 - Patrick J G McGee, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon), dies at 60
1983 - Anthony Costello, actor (Blue), dies at 42
1983 - Benjamin V Cohen, US author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88
1985 - Richard Yardumian, US composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68
1988 - Ray Buchanan, US blues gitarist, dies at about 48
1988 - Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash
1988 - Barry Bingham Sr, US daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82
1989 - F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies
1990 - Nina Bara, actress (Missile to the Moon), dies of cancer at 66
1991 - Marietta Tree, ambassador (UN Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74
1992 - Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies
1992 - Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), die
1992 - Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US author (American Glass Animals), dies
1992 - Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies
1992 - Marie Paxton, entertainer, dies after brief illness
1993 - Robert W Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93
1994 - Wout Wagtmans, cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64
1994 - Simon R Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28
1994 - Shepherd Mead, London England, dies of stroke at 80
1995 - Erbie Bowser, pianist, dies at 77
1995 - Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist, dies at 86
1995 - Ismay Thomas, teacher, dies at 74
1996 - Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86
1996 - Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver, dies at 93
1996 - Masao Maruyama, social scientist, dies at 82
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