The Day 2 Day

Births

1486 - Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat
1524 - Fran�ois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat (Anti-Tribonien)
1593 - Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Pianto d'Italia)
1727 - Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer
1740 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41)
1751 - Louis-Fran�ois Beffara, lexicographer
1754 - Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-93) eventually guillotine
1769 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (La R�gne Animal)
1773 - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher
1809 - Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Trip to H Land)
1818 - Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893
1829 - Moritz B Cantor, German math historian
1832 - Alexander Chambers, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1851 - A Jir�sek, writer
1854 - Moritz Moszkowski, composer
1864 - Eleftherios K Venizalos, premier of Greece (1910-15, 28-32)
1867 - Marcel Schwob, Frans writer/journalist (Le Croisade des Enfants)
1869 - Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist [or Sep 23]
1869 - James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
1879 - Alfreds Kalnins, composer
1881 - Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1885 - Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist
1886 - Gottfried Rudinger, composer
1887 - Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright (Fatherland)
1887 - Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright
1887 - Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright
1889 - A Lichtenstein, writer
1893 - Roy Agnew, composer
1894 - Gareth Hughes, Llanelly Wales, actor (Midnight Girl)
1900 - Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf)
1901 - John Sherman Cooper, (Sen-Ky)
1901 - Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman
1903 - William Primrose, Glasgow Scot, violist (Method for Violin & Viola)
1903 - Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian/senator
1905 - Leonard Constant Lambert, London England, composer (King Pest)
1908 - Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP
1908 - Ben Barnett, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1938 England tour)
1908 - Arthur Adamov, Kislovodsk Russia, playwright (Paolo Paoli)
1911 - Elizabeth "Betty" Robinson, US 100m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1928)
1911 - Carl Dolmetsch, director (Haslemere Festival)
1911 - Birger Ruud, Norway, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
1911 - Albert Alberts, writer/journalist (French battle)
1912 - Gene Kelly
1912 - Gene Kelly, Pitts, dancer/actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way)
1912 - Jara Ribnikar, writer
1912 - Lord Kissin, president (GPG)
1913 - Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant
1913 - Bob Crosby, Spokane Wa, Bing's brother, orch leader (Bob Crosby Show)
1913 - Luis-Felipe Ramon y Rivera, composer
1916 - Mary Ward, [Myra Syri�r], actress (Jenny Kissed Me, Playing for Keeps
1918 - Guus [August CM] Hermus, Dutch actor (Jantjes, Soldaat van Oranje)
1919 - James Quinn, film producer/actor (Joey, Hammett, Overlord)
1919 - Robert Crichton-Brown, CEO (Rothmans International)
1920 - Aart Verstegen, ballet dancers/choreographer (Jolly Joker's Last Joke
1921 - Sam Cook, cricketer (England slow left-armer in only Test)
1922 - Jack Boddy, British trade union leader
1922 - Brian Young, Chairman (Christian Aid)
1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Ger, conductor (Vienna Symph 1960-70)
1923 - Richard Adler, composer/songwriter (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game)
1923 - Humphrey Fisher, TV producer
1923 - Kenneth Rickards, cricketer (WI batsman two Tests 104 runs)
1924 - Denis Sargan, econometrician
1924 - Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia
1924 - Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer
1924 - Ephraim Kishon, writer
1925 - Wlodzimierz Kotonski, composer
1925 - Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze, composer
1927 - Martial Solal, composer
1927 - John Hoskyns, director-general (Institute of Directors)
1927 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
1927 - Houari Boum�dienne, president of Algeria (1965-78)
1928 - Gerd Natschinski, composer
1929 - Peter Thompson, golfer
1930 - Andy Ireland, (Rep-R-FL, 1977- )
1930 - Vera Miles, [Ralston], Boise City ID, actress (Psycho)
1930 - Michel Rocard, Courbevoie France, Prime Minister of France
1930 - Jack Bannister, cricketer (Warwickshire stalwart)/commentator (BBC)
1930 - Vera Miles
1930 - John Fairclough, British scientific adviser
1931 - Richard Vincent, British chief of Defense
1932 - Mark Russell, Buffalo NY, political satirist/pianist (Real People)
1932 - Mark Russell
1933 - Manfred Donike, chemist drug test pioneer
1933 - Pete Wilson, (Sen-R-CA, 1983-88/Gov-R-Ca 1991- )
1934 - Barbara Eden
1934 - Barbara Eden, [Huffman], Tucson Az, actress (Dream of Jeannie)
1934 - Christian "Sonny" Jurgensen, NFL QB (Eagles, Redskins)
1934 - Lojze Lebic, composer
1934 - Sonny Jurgensen, NFL quarterback (Wash Redskins)/sportscaster
1935 - Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director (Victoria & Albert Museum)
1935 - Brendan Jackson, British air marshal
1935 - Loren Rush, composer
1936 - Rudy Lewis, rocker (Drifters)
1938 - Roger Greenaway, composer
1938 - Ronny Cox, actor/singer (Robocop, Dr John Gideon-St Elsewhere)
1939 - Ronald [Ronny] A Casseres, minister of Dutch Antilles
1939 - Charles Wardle, MP/under sect of state British home office
1940 - Richard Sanders, Harrisburg Pa, actor (Les-WKRP, Spencer, Berrengers)
1940 - Tony Bill, SD Cal, actor (What Really Happened to the Class of '65)
1940 - Lee Majors, Wyandotte, actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy)
1941 - Gloria Ehret, LPGA golfer
1942 - Nancy Richey Gunther, San Ant Tx, tennis player (US Doubles 1965, 66)
1942 - Patricia McBride, Teaneck, NJ, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co)
1943 - Peter Lilley, MP/sect of state for British social security
1943 - Bobby Diamond, LA Calif, actor (Duncan Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
1943 - Dale Campbell-Savours, MP (Lab)
1944 - Antonia Novello, 14th US Surgeon General (1990-92)
1944 - Lena Tabori, Stockholm Sweden, model/daughter of Viveca Lindfors
1947 - Rex Allen Jr, Chicago, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
1947 - Keith Moon, English rock drummer (Who-I'm A Boy)
1947 - Willy Russell, author/playwright (Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita)
1947 - Terje Rypdal, composer
1948 - Ernst Jansz, Dutch keyboardist/singer (Doe Maar)
1948 - Ron Blomberg, 1st baseman (NY Yankees)/1st designated hitter
1949 - Rick Springfield, Australia, (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl)
1949 - Shelley Long, Fort Wayne Indiana, actress (Diane-Cheers, Money Pit)
1949 - Geoff Capes, shot putter
1949 - John Bauldie, music journalist/dylanologist
1949 - Pieter J Biesheuvel, lawyer/Dutch MP (CDA)
1949 - Shelley Long
1949 - Rick Springfield
1949 - Norah Ellen O'Neill, airline pilot (Flying Tigers)
1949 - Woody Paul, [Paul Chrisman], Nashville, singer (Riders in the Sky)
1949 - Christopher Blake, actor (Alexa)
1951 - Mark Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
1951 - Jimi Jamison, rocker (Survivor)
1951 - Queen Noor, of Jordan
1951 - Barbra Mizrahie, LPGA golfer
1952 - Dalton Reed, singer
1952 - Cathy St George, Norfolk Va, playmate (Aug, 1982)
1952 - Mac Cone, Memphis Tenn, Canadian equestrian jumper (Olympics-96)
1953 - Klaus-Dietrich Flade, German FR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
1953 - Bobby Gubby, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1956 - David A Wolf, Indianapolis Ind, MD/astronaut (STS 58, sk: 89/91)
1956 - ? Kennedy, daughter of future Pres Kennedy, dies same day
1960 - Helen Rees, director (Design Museum)
1961 - Julio Franco, Sp de Macrois Dom Rep, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
1961 - Bobby Gubby, rocker
1962 - Glenn Healy, Pickering, NHL goalie (NY Rangers)
1962 - Kyle Clifton, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
1963 - Blaine Schmidt, CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1963 - Richard Illingworth, cricketer (England slow-left-armer 1991- )
1964 - Cam Emerson, Hamilton Ont, Canadian golfer (1989 Canadian Long Drive)
1965 - Anne Minter, Austratia, tennis star
1966 - Rik Smits, NBA center (Indiana Pacers)
1966 - Laura Richmond, Fort Dix NJ, playmate (Sep, 1988)
1966 - Rhonda Cator, Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1967 - Nancy Jane Cox, Campbellsville Kentucky, Miss Kentucky-America-1991
1967 - Markus Ketterer, Helsinki FIN, hockey goalie (Team Finland)
1967 - Karen Noble, Morristown NJ, LPGA golfer (1995 Dinah Shore-32nd)
1968 - Christian Dean DiMarco, Huntington NY, PGA golfer (1994 Deposit-3rd)
1968 - Cortez Kennedy, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 - Scott Kowalkowski, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Clayton Holmes, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1969 - Amanda Hope, Austin Texas, playmate (Jul, 1992)
1970 - River Phoenix, Madras Ore, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me)
1970 - LaMark Carter, Shreveport Louisiana, triple jumper
1970 - Andrew Henry, CFL safety (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 - River Phoenix
1970 - Fabian Wilnis, Dutch soccer player (NAC, De Graafschap)
1971 - Hugh Douglas, NFL defensive end (NY Jets)
1972 - Anthony Calvillo, CFL quarterback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1972 - Sheldon Benoit, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1972 - Tony Carter, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1973 - Jason Clemett, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 - James Roe, wide receiver (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 - Paula Gaye Montgomery, Cabot Ark, Miss America (Arkansas-3rd-1996)
1975 - Joe Andruzzi, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1976 - Kate Sobrero, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1976 - Linette Smith, Miss Universe-British Virgin Islands (1996)
1977 - Nicole Bobeck, Chic, figure skater (US Champ 1995)
1978 - Kobe Bryant, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
1994 - ? Beatty, son of Warren Beatty & Annette Bening

Events

406 - Battle at Florence: Stilicho's Roman army beats Radagaisus' Barbarians
476 - Odoacer elected King of Byzantine
1046 - King Henry III gives money to Utrecht Deventer diocese
1328 - Battle at Kassel: French troops stop uprising of Flemish farmers
1328 - King Philip VI of France, crowned
1441 - Holland & Hanzesteden sign cease fire treaty
1542 - Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code
1553 - Bishop Stephen Gardiner appointed English Lord Chancellor
1566 - Land guardian Margaretha van Parma grants Calvinists rights
1566 - Beeldenstorm reaches Amsterdam
1582 - French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders
1614 - University of Groningen opens
1617 - 1st one-way streets open (London)
1711 - Admiral Hovenden Walkers fleet reach St Lawrence
1784 - Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & name it Franklin; a year
1796 - African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
1813 - Battle of Grossbeeren - Prussians under Von Bulow repulse French
1821 - Mexico declares independence
1833 - Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
1838 - Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1839 - British capture Hong Kong from China
1850 - 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1862 - Skirmish at Big Hill, Kentucky (2 Federal regiments)
1864 - Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Morgan, Alabama
1866 - Treaty of Prague ends Austro-Prussian war
1869 - 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
1872 - 1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying tea
1873 - Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens
1879 - Governor-general Charles Gordon of Sudan returns to Cairo
1883 - Phillies make 27 errors against Providence (wild pitches, walks & & passballs count as errors
1889 - 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
1898 - 18th US Mens Tennis: Malcolm Whitman beats Dwight Davis (36 62 62 61)
1900 - National Negro Business League organizes (Boston)
1903 - 6th Zionist Congres, Theodor Herzl declares Jewish state
1904 - Automobile tire chain patented
1906 - Chicago White Sox win 19th straight, beating Wash Senators
1906 - Cuba's 1st president Tom�s Estrada Palma asks for US intervention
1907 - Pitts Howie Camnitz no-hits NY Giants, 1-0 in 5 inning game
1910 - Fred Clarke makes a record 4 outfield assists for Pittsburgh
1911 - British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with German
1914 - Battle at Mons: general von Klucks troops beat Britten
1914 - Gen von Hausen executes 612 inhabitants of Dinant Belgium
1914 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1914 - -24] German troops plunder Belgium
1915 - Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
1916 - Military court of Berlin sentences Karl Liebknecht to 4 years
1917 - Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
1919 - "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1920 - M R Rinehart & A Hopwood's "Bat," premieres in NYC
1924 - Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1926 - 40th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats Elizabeth Ryan (46 64 97)
1929 - Arabs attack Jews in Israel
1930 - 44th US Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64)
1931 - Phila A's Lefty Grove, loses 1-0 (Browns) after winning 16 straight
1931 - Count Gyula K�rolyi becomes premier of Hungary
1931 - 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen B Whitingstall (64 61)
1933 - 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton & Laurie Raiteri in London
1936 - 17 year old Bob Feller's 1st game, he strikes out 15 St Louis Browns
1938 - England score 7-903 decl v Australia Hutton 364
1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop-pact (Soviet Union neutral/Poland divided)
1939 - USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
1939 - Molotov-Ribbentrop pact: East Europe divided between Hitler & Stalin
1939 - John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats
1940 - German Luftwaffe begins night bombing on London
1940 - Queen Wilhelmina fires premier De Geer
1942 - Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (
1942 - 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
1942 - British Premier Winston Churchill flies back to London from Cairo
1942 - Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1943 - Red army recaptures Charkow
1944 - US B-24 crashes into school in Freckelton England, 76 killed
1944 - US 20th Army corp enter Fontainebleau/Melun de Seine
1944 - Sammellager Drancy freed
1944 - Romania liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
1944 - General George Leclercs troops advance towards Paris
1944 - 94.5�F (34.7�C) in De Bilt Netherlands & 101.5�F (38.6�C) in Warnsvelt
1944 - Allied troops capture Marseilles France
1944 - General Montgomery consults with Generals Bradley/Eisenhower
1944 - King Michael of Romania ordered his forces to cease fire against Allies & dismissed the pro-Ax
1946 - 13th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 16, Los Angeles 0 (97,380)
1947 - Pres Truman's daughter, Margaret's 1st public singing concert
1948 - World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1948 - Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine
1950 - West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
1950 - Jack Holden wins marathon (2:32:12)
1952 - Arab League security pact goes into effect
1952 - Giants Bob Elliot is ejected for arguing a strike, Bobby Hoffman complete his at bat, he strik
1953 - USSR performs nuclear test
1953 - Phil Grate sets record for throwing a baseball (443'3�")
1953 - KBAK TV channel 29 in Bakersfield, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 - Braves Phil Paine is 1st former major leaguer to play in Japan
1953 - Dutch DC-6 crashes near Ymuiden in North Sea, 21 die
1953 - Cyclist Arie Van Vliet becomes world champion sprinter
1954 - President Get�lio Vargas of Brazil resigns temporarily
1955 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA White Mountain Golf Open
1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - China PR resumes fire on Quemoi & Matsoe
1958 - Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female record 133 hours
1959 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Spokane Golf Open
1960 - World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
1961 - Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi
1961 - East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West & East Berlin
1961 - US lunar probe Ranger 1 reaches 190 km from Earth, falls back
1962 - 1st Europe-US live TV program (via Telstar)
1962 - John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By"
1963 - Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK
1964 - St Louis Cards are 11 games back in NL, & win World Series
1964 - Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
1968 - Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
1968 - Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily
1969 - Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno,
1969 - France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American
1970 - Roberto Clemente compiles his record 2nd straight 5-hit game
1970 - Kathy Ahern wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1971 - WGTU TV channel 29 in Traverse City, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 - Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th (Jimmie Foxx, Hank Greenberg, & Alex Johnson) to homer into Comisk
1972 - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew but not unanimous-1 vote went to
1973 - Intelsat communications satellite launched
1974 - John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in NYC
1974 - Zaheer Abbas scores 240 Pakistan v England at The Cricket Oval
1975 - Free guitarist Paul Kossoff revived from dead after heart attack
1975 - Philip Kapleau conducts 1st jukai ceremony in Poland
1975 - Classical Way wins Championship Cup at Roosevelt Raceway
1975 - Communists take over Laos
1975 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1975 - Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile
1976 - Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
1977 - 1st man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan Allen in Gossamer Condor)
1977 - Yanks leap frog over Red Soxs � game in 1st place to stay
1977 - Marxist philosopher Rudolf Bahro imprisoned in German DR
1978 - Iranian students occupies Iranian embassy at Wassenaar
1979 - UN's Vienna office opens
1979 - Iran army opens offensive against Kurds
1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
1980 - Charlie Finley sells A's for $127M to Haas (owners of Levi Strauss)
1981 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1982 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1982 - Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1982 - Seattle Mariner pitcher Gaylord Perry ejected for throwing a spitter
1985 - Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college
1985 - Said Aouita of Morocco sets 1.5k record (3:29.46) in Berlin
1985 - West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
1985 - South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested
1986 - "Rags" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 4 performances
1986 - Vrijkomend vulkaangas kills 1500 people in Nyos-more, Cameroon
1987 - 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
1987 - Betsy King wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1987 - Violent rainfall/floods in Bangladesh, kills 100s
1988 - Mike Tyson & Mitch Green brawl at 4 A.M. in Harlem
1989 - LA Dodgers beat Montreal Expos, 1-0, in 22 innings (Rick Dempsey HR)
1989 - Lewis/Everett/Burrell/Heard run world record 4x200 m (1:19.38)
1990 - US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
1990 - East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
1990 - Armenia declares independence
1992 - Dennis Eckersley, who previously set record for most consecutive saves (40), is 1st pitcher to
1992 - Kris Tschetter wins LPGA Northgate Computer Golf Classic
1993 - Fred McGriff & David Justice are 6th to hit back-to-back HRs twice in same game
1993 - NY Dow Jones index reaches record high of 3,638.96 points
1995 - Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
1995 - Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 38th consecutive save
1998 - Minnesota LPGA Classic

Deaths

634 - Aboe Bekr Abd Allah, [al-Siddik], friend/successor of Mohammed, dies
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled & beheaded
1328 - Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle
1507 - Jean Molinet, Burgundy historian (Chroniques), dies at about 72
1540 - Guillaume Bud�, French humanist, dies at about 72
1591 - Luis de L�on, scholar/poet, dies
1618 - Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33
1628 - George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36
1668 - Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), dies
1723 - Antoine Mouque, composer, dies at 64
1777 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77
1802 - Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer, dies at 51
1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, Fren physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70
1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday
1825 - Amos Bull, composer, dies at 81
1831 - August WA Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal, dies at 70
1839 - Charles Philippe Lafont, composer, dies at 57
1865 - Ferdinand G Waldm�ller, Austria painter (biedermeier), dies
1878 - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer, dies at 77
1898 - Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82
1903 - Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher, dies at 75
1914 - Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks
1914 - George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico, dies
1926 - Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in NY at 31
1927 - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
1929 - Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
1933 - Adolph Loos, Austrian architect, dies at 62
1937 - Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel, composer, dies at 68
1939 - Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 4
1941 - Jack O'Connor, cricketer (four Tests for Aust 1908-09, 13 wkts), dies
1943 - Johann P Zilcher, German composer, dies at 88
1944 - Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer, dies at 63
1956 - ... Kennedy, daughter of future Pres Kennedy, dies same day
1958 - Martin du Gard, writer, dies
1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65
1962 - Irving Fine, composer (Toccata), dies at 47
1962 - Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw), dies at 70
1965 - John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67
1966 - Francis Xavier Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur), dies at 83
1970 - Nel Rose, dancer, dies at 55
1971 - Oliver F McGowan, actor (Banning, Stagecoach), dies at 64
1971 - Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer, dies at 58
1972 - Balis Dvarionas, composer, dies at 68
1975 - Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87
1977 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (Giles French-Family Affair), dies at 59
1979 - Mian Mohammad Saeed, cricketer (1st Pakistan capt 1948-49), dies
1979 - Richard Hearne, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower), dies at 70
1980 - Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77
1982 - Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85
1982 - Stanford Moore, US biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies
1986 - Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80
1987 - Siegfried Borris, composer, dies at 80
1989 - Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer, dies
1989 - Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies
1989 - Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black
1990 - David Rose, composer (Holiday for Strings, Stripper), dies at 80
1991 - Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93
1992 - Malcolm Atterbury, actor (7 Days in May, Wild River), dies at 85
1992 - Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 92
1992 - Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51
1993 - Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88
1993 - Edwina Lewis, actress (Boy Who Cried Bitch), dies of heart attack 42
1993 - Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 8
1994 - Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65
1994 - Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer, dies at 77
1994 - Henri Rousselot, admiral, dies at 82
1994 - Zolt�n F�bri, Hungarian director, dies of heart attack at 76
1994 - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 7
1995 - Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, musician, dies at 31
1995 - Arthur Holt, politician, dies at 81
1995 - Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist, dies at 66
1995 - James Pilditch, designer, dies at 66
1995 - Johnny Carey, soccer star, dies at 76
1995 - Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, tycoon, dies at 72
1995 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist, dies at 96
1997 - Eric Gairy, PM of Grenada (1974-79), dies