Births
1455 - Johan Cicero, elect of Brandenburg (1486-99)
1627 - Samuel Dircksz van Hoogstraten, Dutch painter
1632 - Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)
1696 - Mahmud I, Sultan of Ottoman (Turkey) (1730-54)/fought Austria & Russi
1723 - Nicolas de Pigage, French classical architect
1746 - Joan Lucaz, Dutch journalist/patriot
1754 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, France, architect laid out Wash DC
1775 - Jose Angel Lamas, composer
1802 - Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman, 1st archbishop of Westminster
1818 - [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of the Netherlands/general-major
1826 - William Denison Whipple, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1902
1832 - Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society)
1834 - Isa„c Capadose, lawyer/evangelist
1834 - Fr‚d‚ric Auguste Bartholdi, Colmar France, sculptor (Statue of Libert
1835 - Elisha Grey, inventor (Telephone)
1854 - Francis Marion Crawford, British author
1858 - A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent of Netherlands
1858 - William Watson, British poet (Prince's Quest, Father of Forest)
1858 - Catherina van Rennes, composer
1865 - Irving Babbitt, US writer (Rousseau & Romanticism)
1867 - Ernest C Dowson, British poet
1868 - Constantine I, king of Greece
1878 - Aino J M Kallas, Finnish writer (White Ship, Estonian Tales)
1878 - Princess Ingeborg, of Sweden
1881 - Ethel Mary Dell, English author (Storm Drift)
1881 - Stanislaw Kazuro, composer
1882 - Nanny I Larsen-Todsen, Swedish opera singer
1882 - Rik Wouters, Belgian painter/sculptor (Virgin Doll)
1882 - Johannes Tralow, writer
1884 - R¢mulo Gallegos, Venezuela, novelist (Do¤a B rbara)/pres (1947-48)
1888 - Oscar Rasbach, composer
1890 - Pauline Hall, composer
1891 - Mihail Jora, composer
1891 - Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss, London, composer (Olympians)
1892 - John Kieran, NYC, columnist/author (Natural History of NYC)
1892 - Jack Warner, US movie studio head (Warner Bros)
1895 - Matthew Henderson, cricketer (lefty pace bowler in NZ's 1st Test)
1899 - George Malcolm Thomson, journalist
1899 - Charles Bennett, screenwriter
1900 - Marinus Adam, Dutch conductor/composer
1900 - Helen Morgan, [Riggins], US, singer/actress (Applause)
1905 - Myrna Loy, Helena Mont, actress (Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair)
1905 - Karl Amadeus Hartmann, composer
1905 - Myrna Loy
1906 - Albert Goodwin, historian
1908 - George Kimble, geographer
1909 - Lord Benson, accountant
1910 - Lou Zara, NYC, writer (Stump the Authors)
1910 - Lawrence Josset, engraver
1910 - Gertruida EW "Truss" van Aalten, actress (Girl in Blue Hat)
1912 - Ann Dvorak, [McKim], NYC, actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface)
1912 - Bela Szigeti, theoretical physicist
1912 - George Kimble, geographer
1913 - Lord Benson, accountant
1914 - Gary Merrill, Hartford Conn, actor (Young Dr Kildare, All About Eve)
1914 - Ismond Rosen, psychoanalyst/artist
1914 - Felix Leclerc, composer
1915 - Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter
1916 - Beatrice Straight, Old Westbury NY, actress (Poltergeist, Nun's Story
1916 - Reginald Murley, surgeon
1919 - John Pinkerton, compuer scientist
1920 - Louis Pauwels, writer/editor
1920 - Phyllis James, mystery writer
1920 - Theo Marcuse, WA, actor (Mara of Wilderness)
1922 - Carroll O'Connor, NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night)
1922 - Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary (TUC)
1922 - Paul Laxalt, (Sen-R-NV, 1974- )
1923 - Brian Neill, Lord Justice of Appeal
1924 - Carroll O'Connor
1924 - James Baldwin
1924 - James Baldwin, NY, author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country)
1925 - Alan Wicker, British broadcaster
1926 - Betsy Bloomingdale, dept store mogul
1926 - Peer Wahl””, writer
1926 - Lord Murray of Epping Forest, general secretary (TUC)
1927 - Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician
1927 - Brian Neill, British Lord Justice of Appeal
1928 - Hugh Francis Lamprey, ecologist
1929 - Lord Waddington, Governor of Bermuda
1929 - Alan Wicker, British broadcaster
1929 - John Gale, theatrical producer
1929 - John Hannam, MP
1930 - Ron de Lugo, (Rep-D-Virgin Islands, 1973-79, 81- )
1931 - Eddie Fuller, cricketer (South African fast bowler in 7 Tests 1952-58
1931 - Philippa Duke Schuyler, composer
1931 - Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician
1931 - Henryck Schiller, composer
1932 - Peter O'Toole, Ireland, actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia)
1932 - Lamar Hunt, NFL owner (KC Chiefs)
1932 - Marvin David Levy, composer
1932 - Peter O'Toole
1933 - Lord Waddington, Governor of Bermuda
1933 - John Hannam, MP
1933 - John Gale, theatrical producer
1933 - Alan Tuffin, trade union leader
1934 - Carl Cecil Cain, Freeport Ill, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1956)
1934 - Albert W Hall, actor (Apocalypse Now)
1934 - Valery Bykovsky, cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, 31)
1935 - John MacIvor Perkins, composer
1935 - Brian Wolfson, CEO (Wembley Pic)
1935 - Derek Anthony Enright, politician
1936 - Christopher Hogg, CEO (Courtaulds & Reuters)
1936 - Anthony Edward Payne, composer
1937 - William Cannon, football player (Heisman-1959)
1937 - Alan Tuffin, trade union leader
1937 - Ronald Brierley, company chairman
1937 - Garth Hudson, rocker
1938 - Brunhilde Hendrix, German FR, relay runner (Olympic-silver-1960)
1938 - Yvonne Regg, Switzerland, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 - Brian Wolfson, CEO (Wembley Pic)
1939 - Edward Pattern, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
1939 - Wes Craven, Cleveland OH, director (Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream)
1940 - Doris Kenner, Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1941 - Homer Banks, US singer/songwriter (Be What You Are)
1941 - Doris Coley, rocker
1942 - Leo Beenhakker, Dutch soccer trainer
1942 - Garth Hudson, rock keyboardist (The Band)
1943 - Kathy Lennon, singer (Lennon Sisters)
1943 - Max Wright, Detroit, actor (Buffalo Bill, Alf, Misfits of Science)
1943 - Jeltje van Nieuwenhoven, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1943 - Garth Hudson, Canada, pop musician (The Band-Life is a Carnival)
1943 - Rose Tremain, British novelist/playwright (Restoration)
1944 - Joanna Cassidy, [Caskey], Haddonfield NJ, actress (240 Robert)
1945 - Jewell Jackson McCabe, pres (natl coaltion of 100 black women)
1945 - John Bowis, MP
1947 - Rose Tremain, novelist/playwright
1948 - Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author (Ghost Dance, Labyrinth)
1949 - Bertalan Farkas, Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz 36/35)
1949 - "Fat" Larry James, US drummer (Fat Larry's Band)
1949 - Madeleine Smith, Sussex England, actress (Vampire Lovers)
1949 - John Bowis, MP
1950 - Lance Ito, judge (OJ Simpson trial)
1950 - Mathieu Carriere, Hanover W Germany, actor (Bay Boy, Woman in Flames)
1950 - Judge Lance Ito
1950 - Kathryn Harrold, Tazewell Va, actress (MacGruder & Loud)
1951 - Andrew Gold, Burbank, rocker (Lonely Boy)
1952 - Paul David Crews, SC, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1952 - Angel Herrera, Cuba, FW/LW boxer (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1953 - Anne Leuchars, British TV journalist
1953 - Butch Patrick, actor (Eddie Munster-Munster)
1954 - Sammy McIlroy, Irish soccer star
1954 - Lisa Brown, KC, Mo, actress (Guiding Light, Iva-As the World Turns)
1955 - Roberta Wallach, NYC, actress (Civil Wars)
1955 - Jimmy Lowe, Nashville Tenn, country singer (Pirates of Ms-Fred Jake)
1956 - Bill Murchison Jr, Lake Charles LA, Nike golfer (1994 Boise Open-2nd)
1956 - Isabel Pantoja, Spain, spanish singer (Genio y Figura)
1957 - Stephen Kelly Petterson, Auckland NZ, Smallbore rifle (Olympics-96)
1957 - Anne Leuchars, TV journalist
1958 - Sammy McIlroy, soccer player
1958 - Arshad Ayub, cricketer (Indian off-spinner of the late 1980's)
1959 - Britt Helfer, Clearfield Utah, actress (Lily-Loving, Alley Cat)
1960 - Linda Fratianne, US, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1980)
1960 - Apollonia, [Patricia Kotero], Santa Monica Ca, actress (Purple Rain)
1961 - Ed West, NFL tight end (Phila Eagles, Atlanta Falcons)
1961 - Pete de Freitas, Trinidad, rock drummer (Echo & the Bunnyman)
1963 - Caroline Pierce, Cheshire Eng, golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple Classic-2nd
1963 - Cynthia Stevenson, Oakland Calif, actress (Player, Bob, Hope & Gloria
1963 - Jeff Bloom, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Montana Open)
1964 - John Cullen, Puslinch, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 - Mary-Louise Parker, Ft Jackson SC, actress (Fried Green Tomatoes)
1965 - Takayuki Iizuka, wrestler (NJPW)
1966 - Tim Wakefield, Melbourne FL, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1966 - Joseph Wanag, Wilson Ct, US judoka (Olympic-92)
1967 - Aaron Krickstein, Ann Arbor Mich, tennis player (Tel Aviv 1983)
1967 - Derek Wells, LA Calif, actor (Fitzpatricks)
1967 - Martin Laamers, soccer player (Vitesse)
1968 - Sean Groom, Northford Conn, rower (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Cedric Ceballos, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Phoenix Suns)
1969 - Erik Meijer, Dutch soccer player (PSV, Uerdingen)
1970 - Wes Bender, WLAF/NFL running back (Frankfurt Galaxy, NO Saints)
1970 - Chainey Umphrey, Albuquerque NM, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1970 - Elijah Alexander, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts, Denver Broncos)
1970 - Jonathan Andrew Kaye, Denver CO, PGA golfer (1995 Quad City-2nd)
1970 - Kevin Smith, director (Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks)
1970 - Philo Wallace, cricketer (WI ODI opening batsman 1991-92)
1970 - Tony Amonte, Hingham MA, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks, USA)
1971 - Pete Sampras, tennis champ, US Open (1990)
1971 - Dick Schreuder, Dutch soccer player (PSV/FC Groningen/RKC)
1971 - Fernando Smith, NFL defensive end (Minn Vikings)
1972 - Lee McClinton, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Nathan Thomas, Australian water polo player (Olympics-96)
1973 - Fiona Mullally, Miss Ireland Universe (1997)
1973 - George Zidek, NBA center (Denver Nuggets, Charlotte Hornets)
1973 - Kari Anne Safford, Point Pleasant WV, Miss America-WV (1997)
1973 - Karina Habsudova, Bojnice Slovakia, tennis star (1995 Futures Czech)
1973 - Nancy Drolet, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-98)
1973 - Susie O'Neill, Mackay Austral, butterfly swimmer (Oly-br/gold-92, 96)
1973 - Kia Goodwin, Livingston NJ, actress (Tiffany Holloway-227)
1974 - Nabil Bouchlal, soccer player (Willem II)
1974 - Paul Grasmanis, defensive tackle (Chicago Bears)
1976 - Michael Weiss, Washington DC, figure skater (1997 World Champ-7th)
1977 - Edward Furlong, Pasedina Calif, actor (John Connor-Terminator 2)
1977 - Edward Furlong
1991 - Gabriel Anthony Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
1993 - Cassidy Gifford, daughter of Frank & Kathy Lee
Events
257 - St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1057 - Frederik van Lotharingen elected as 1st Belgium, Pope Stephen IX [X]
1375 - 1st roller skating rink opens (London)
1492 - Jews are expelled from Spain by King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella
1542 - French troops leave Flanders
1552 - Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
1578 - Battle of Rijmenam
1581 - Leiden University names Snellius math professor
1610 - Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
1665 - French expedition against Barbarians in Tunis/Algiers
1704 - Duke of Marlborough beats French & Bavarians at Blenheim
1718 - Austrian joins Triple Alliance
1738 - France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey
1776 - Formal signing of Declaration of Independence
1782 - George Washington creates Honorary Badge of Distinction
1786 - Utrechtse Vroedschap flees
1787 - Horace the Saussure reaches top of Mont Blanc
1791 - Samuel Briggs & his son, patent nail-making machine
1798 - British under Adm Horatio Nelson beat French at Battle of Nile
1802 - Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life"
1819 - 1st parachute jump in US
1831 - Ten day campaign begins, Dutch army occupies Belgium
1832 - 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sac & Fox indians, end Black Hawk War
1832 - Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc
1832 - Black Hawk defeated (IA)
1858 - 1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC streets
1858 - Govt of India transferred from East India Company to Crown
1861 - Skirmish at Dug Springs, MI
1864 - 2nd Saratoga Racetrack (NY) opens
1865 - Trans Atlantic Cable being laid by SS Great Eastern snaps & is lost
1865 - Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1873 - 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
1875 - World 1st roller skating rink opens in London
1877 - SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes
1884 - Dutch Queen Emma appointed regent
1887 - Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
1892 - Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator
1894 - Death duties 1st introduced in Britain
1894 - Dutch Society for Women Suffrage gets royal charter
1903 - Unsuccessful uprising of Macedonians against Turkey
1906 - Chicago White Sox begin AL record 19 game win streak
1907 - Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington & loses 3-2 to Detroit
1909 - 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1909 - Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1911 - Haïti's dictator Simon flees on US warship near Jamaica
1912 - 18th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY
1914 - Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
1914 - Belgian govt receives German ultimatum
1914 - German troops overthrows Luxembourg
1914 - Germany & Turkey signs secret treaty
1914 - Great Britain mobilizes
1914 - Postdam Conference ended
1914 - Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
1914 - German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
1920 - Marcus Garvey presents his "Back To Africa" program in NYC
1921 - Chicago jury brings in not guilty verdict against the Black Sox
1922 - China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die
1924 - Joe Hauser sets record of 14 total bases in a game
1928 - Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1929 - Phillies Don Hurst sets NL record of 6 consecutive games with a HR
1931 - Spanish Catalonia agrees (99+%) for autonomous status
1932 - Charlie Grimm replaces Roger Hornsby as manager of Chic Cubs
1934 - 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it
1934 - Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
1934 - William Franks twirls an indian club overhead 17,280 times in 1 hour
1938 - 1st test of a yellow baseball (Dodgers vs Cardinals)
1939 - Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers
1940 - KL-House of saxon & commandos focus on Gross Rosen, Silesia
1940 - Clermont-Ferrand sentences Gen Charles de Gaulle to death
1941 - Jews are expelled from Hungarian Ruthenia
1941 - Hungarian Ruthenia, expels Jews
1941 - German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman
1942 - Col-Gen Hoth' Pantser army reaches Kotelnikovo
1942 - 250 Dutch Catholic Jews arrested, transported to Amersfoort camp
1943 - Sunderland seaplanes sinks U-706 & U-106
1943 - RAF bombs Hamburg
1943 - Lt John F Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
1943 - Armed revolt breaks out in Treblinka
1943 - Uprising at Treblinka Concentration Camp (crematorium destroyed)
1944 - Amsterdam soccer team "The Volewijckers" plays in orange shirts
1944 - Jewish survivors of Kovono Ghetto emerge from their bunker
1944 - Turkey breaks diplomatic relationship with nazi-Germany
1945 - Potsdam Conference ended, with Stalin, Truman & Churchill
1953 - Betty Jack Davis, singer (w/Skeeter Davis), killed in car crash
1953 - KCPQ TV channel 13 in Tacoma-Seattle, WA (IND) begins broadcasting
1954 - Tahar Ben Ammar appointed premier of Tunisia
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test
1958 - Jordan & Iraq disolve their Arab Federation, after 3 months
1959 - SF Giants 1st baseman Willie McCovey hits 1st of his 521 HRs
1959 - Milwaukee Brave Bill Bruton hits 2 bases loaded triples
1959 - 41st PGA Championship: Bob Rosburg shoots a 277 at Minneapolis GC
1961 - Cyrille Adula becomes premier of Congo
1961 - Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
1961 - St Louis Cards (NFL) beat Toronto Argonauts (CFL) 36-7 in Toronto
1962 - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1963 - 30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000)
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1964 - North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin
1964 - Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees
1964 - Race riot in Jersey City NJ
1965 - Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing
1966 - Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
1967 - New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to LA Rams 16-77
1967 - US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
1968 - 35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917)
1969 - Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion
1969 - Pres Nixon visits Romania
1970 - Songwriter Sammy Cahn marries Tita Curtis in Calif
1970 - France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1970 - Baltimore defeats KC 10-8, Orioles 23rd straight win over the Royals
1972 - Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London
1973 - George Brett gets his 1st hit
1975 - 107°F (42°C) at Chester/New Bedford, Massachusetts (state record)
1975 - 104°F (40°C) at Providence, Rhode Island (state record)
1979 - Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
1979 - "Broadway Opry '79" closes at St James Theater NYC after 6 perfs
1980 - Fascist bomb attack on Bologna Italy train station, 86 killed
1980 - US swimmers set 3 world records at National championships
1981 - Australia set 151 to win, all out 121, Botham 5-11 in 14 overs
1981 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1982 - Oakland's Rickey Henderson steals his 100th base of the season
1982 - Roger Ebert's Movie News premieres on ABC FM network
1983 - US District Court begins trying Yonkers accuse of race discrimination
1983 - STS-8 vehicle moves to launch pad
1984 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 - NASA launches space vehicle S-209
1985 - 5 die in a train crash in Westminster Colo
1985 - Delta Lockheed L-1011 crashes at Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, 137 die
1986 - TODAY/PC born today
1986 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
1987 - Cin Red Eric Davis becomes 7th & earliest 30 HR 30 steal man
1987 - 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)
1987 - Chris Johnson wins Columbia Savings LPGA National Golf Pro-Am
1987 - Don Brown sets flight record for handbow (1,336 yds 1'3")
1987 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1987 - Michael Andretti runs fastest Indy car race in history (171.49 MPH)
1987 - Kevin Seitzer (KC Royals), gets 6 hits in one baseball game
1987 - Eric Davis is 7th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in one season
1988 - System Enhancement Assoc settles case with PKware (ARC vs PKARC)
1988 - Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo
1989 - NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2
1990 - Yankees rookie Kevin Maas hits his 10th home run in just 77 at bats
1990 - Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait, Emir flees to Saudi Arabia
1991 - Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges
1991 - Space shuttle STS 43 (Atlantis 9) launched
1991 - Mike Jeffcoat is 1st AL pitcher to get an RBI since 1972
1991 - Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA
1992 - "Death & the Maiden" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 159 perfs
1992 - Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA Welch's Golf Classic
1992 - Tom Seaver, R Fingers, Hal Newhouser, & B McGowan enter Hall of Fame
1992 - Kevin Bacon marries Kyra Sedgwick
1993 - Train crash in tunnel at Vega de Anzo Spain, 12 killed
1993 - Peter Angelos & William DeWitt purchase Orioles
1993 - Shamrock Broadcasting, a Disney company, officially takes ownership of Cleveland's WMMS-FM/100
1993 - NYC radio (WFAN) personality Don Imus' lung collapes
1994 - Explosion in lead/zinc mine in Guangxi China, 120+ killed
1994 - NY Supreme Court refuses Howard Stern's non financial disclosure
1994 - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 3000m (7:25.11)
1994 - Congressional hearings begin on White Water
1998 - 26th du Maurier Golf Classic
1998 - 30th Curtis Cup:
Deaths
257 - Stefanus I, bishop of Rome (254-57)/heretic fighter, dies
640 - Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies
686 - John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies
1002 - Abu Amir Mohammed ibn Abd allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abi Amir, dies at 64
1075 - John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1100 - William II, [Rufus], king of England, shot in New Forest at 44
1332 - Christoffel II, king of Denmark (Handf‘stning), dies at 55
1451 - Elisabeth von G”rlitz, duchess of Luxembourg, dies
1512 - Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48
1589 - Henry III, king of Poland/France (1573-89), assassinated at 37
1600 - Arent van Dorp, Dutch governor of East-Zealand, dies at about 70
1649 - Elisabeth Bas, wife of Dutch Adm Swartenhondt, dies at about 78
1655 - Alfonso de la Cueva, Spanish marquis of Bedmar/diplomat, dies at 83
1788 - Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), dies at 61
1792 - Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer, dies at 60
1799 - Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist, dies at 54
1811 - William Williams, US merchant/signer (Decl of Indep), dies at 80
1827 - James Hewitt, composer, dies at 57
1849 - Mehemet Ali, British viceroy to Egypt, dies
1858 - A Emma WT von Waldeck-Pyrmont, queen/regent, dies at 76
1869 - Alexandrine Tinne, Dutch explorer/photographer, murdered at 30+
1872 - Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59
1873 - Frank Mori, composer, dies at 53
1876 - Wild Bill Hickok, shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while playin
1881 - Marcus Andrews Hislop Clarke, author (His Natural Life) at 35
1892 - douard Joseph Stevens, Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 72
1903 - Martha Jane Cannary, [Calamity Jane], US desperado, dies
1912 - Albert U B††th, Swedish poet (Dikter), dies at 59
1914 - Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer, dies at 36
1916 - Hamish MacCunn, composer, dies at 48
1921 - Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48
1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish/US physicist (telephone), dies
1922 - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, Dutch author/feminist, dies at 82
1923 - Warren Harding, 29th Pres (1921-23), dies at Palace Hotel SF at 57
1932 - Gheorghe Cucu, composer, dies at 50
1934 - Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Hindenburg, soldier/statesman, dies at 86
1936 - Louis Bi‚riot, aviator, dies
1938 - Bjarni Thorsteinsson, composer, dies at 76
1941 - Jos‚ Juan Tablada, Mexican poet (La Feria), dies at 70
1942 - Friedrich Aereboe, Dutch landlord, dies at 77
1943 - ... Galewski, Polish? leader of uprising in Treblinka, commits suicid
1943 - Zelo Bloch, Polish? Treblinka-rebel, shot to death
1945 - Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), dies at 81
1945 - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer (Donna Diana), dies at 85
1954 - Rene Amengual, composer, dies at 42
1955 - Ruprecht, crown prince of Bayern/general-fieldmarshal, dies
1955 - Wallace Stevens, US poet/writer (Owl's Clover), dies at 75
1956 - Albert Woolson, last veteran US Union army, dies at 109
1958 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
1959 - Prospero Bisquertt, composer, dies at 78
1961 - Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64
1963 - Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer, dies at 61
1964 - Jack Kirkwood, actor (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 69
1964 - Jose Maria Castro, composer, dies at 71
1965 - Milton B Babbitt, US composer (Widow's Lament), dies at 49
1967 - Claude A Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77
1969 - Clarence Dickinson, composer, dies at 96
1971 - Ludwig Marcuse, German philosopher, dies at 77
1972 - Rudolf Ganz, composer, dies at 95
1972 - Brian Cole, vocalist/bassist (Association), dies of overdose at 29
1972 - Paul Goodman, US social critic/writer, dies at 60
1973 - Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57
1976 - Fritz Lang, director (Cloak & Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85
1978 - Totie Fields, [Sophie Feldman], comedienne, dies at about 48
1978 - Carlos Chavez y Ramires, Mexican composer, dies at 79
1978 - Satomi Myodo, Zen nun/attendant of Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, dies at 82
1979 - Thurmon Munson, NY Yankee, killed in a plane crash at Akron Oh at 32
1980 - Verdun John Scott, cricketer (ten Tests for NZ), dies
1982 - Cathleen Nesbitt, English actress (Separate Tables), dies at 93
1982 - Rudolf Maros, composer, dies at 65
1985 - Frank Faylen, vaudevillian, dies of pneumonia at 79
1985 - Sandy Bell, South African cricket pace bowler (16 Tests), dies
1986 - Roy Marcus Cohn, US lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies
1987 - Myron Stout, US abstract artist, dies at 79
1988 - Raymond Carver, poet/short story writer (Furious Season), dies at 50
1988 - Roger Vuataz, composer, dies at 90
1991 - Gabriel Cohen, son of Meredith Viera & Richard Cohen
1991 - Helen Page Camp,
1992 - Michel Berges, French composer, dies of a heart attack at 44
1992 - Ephraim Katz, Israeli/US encyclopedist (film encyclopedia), dies
1992 - Jim Whaley, TV host (Cinema Showcase), dies of heart attack at 44
1992 - Julio C Fern ndez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies
1994 - Bhagwatpersad Ausan, commandant Suriname military police, dies at 38
1995 - Colin Gray, airman, dies at 80
1995 - Brian Smith, British sportscaster, dies
1996 - U Hia Than, politician, dies at 52
1996 - Michel Debre, PM of France in (1959-62), dies
1996 - Humphrey Fisher, TV Producer, dies at 72
1997 - William S Burroughs, author (Naked Lunch), dies at 83
445 Events for 2nd August