Births
1113 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, France, conquered Normandy
1210 - Floris IV, Count of Holland
1420 - Albrecht van Eyb, German humanist/parson (Bamberg & Eichst„tt)
1531 - Ercole Bottrigari, composer
1579 - John Amner, composer
1591 - Robert Herrick, England, poet (Gather ye rosebuds) (baptized)
1669 - Alessandro Marcello, composer
1683 - Meinrad Spiess, composer
1694 - Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king [or 8/25]
1712 - Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer
1725 - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer
1733 - David Traugott Nicolai, composer
1750 - M Laetitia Bonaparte-Ramolino, [Madame MŠre], mother of Napoleon I
1759 - Wilbur Wilberforce, England, crusaded against slavery
1772 - Willem I Frederik, grand duke of Luxembourg/king of Neth (1814-40)
1787 - James Weddell, Ostend England, Antarctic explorer (Weddell Sea)
1808 - Benjamin Grubb Humphreys, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1808 - Thomas Fenwick Drayton, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1816 - Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful transatlantic cables
1817 - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [OS]
1820 - Jacopo Tomadini, composer
1821 - Emmanuele Muzio, composer
1827 - Walter Husted Stevens, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1828 - George Hume "Maryland" Steuart, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1837 - Theodore Dubois, composer
1839 - Eduard Napravnik, composer
1842 - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market)
1854 - Nikolay Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
1856 - Felix Mottl, composer
1865 - Ferdinand I VAM, king of Romania
1872 - Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit (Saturday Review)
1879 - Rentaro Taki, composer
1880 - Joshua L Cowen, inventor (electric train)
1880 - Miles W L Killearn of Killearn, Scotish baron/diplomat
1886 - William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed Liberty ships
1889 - Simon Kimbangu/Kibangu, Congo prophet
1890 - Duke Kahanamoku, Hawaii, swimmer (Olympics-3 gold/2 silver-12, 20, 24
1890 - Franz Philipp, composer
1891 - Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Kniertje in On hope)
1891 - Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok, composer
1894 - Jean Rhys, [Ella Williams], Dominica, writer (Voyage in the Dark)
1896 - Phil Baker, Phila, comedian (Who's Whose)
1898 - Marie J Hugenholtz, [Doctor Grandi], surgeon on Cura‡ao
1898 - Malcolm Cowley, Belsano Penn, author (Flowering of New England)
1898 - Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician (Nobel 1974)
1899 - Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, writer of fiction, essays (Labyrinths)
1899 - Ruth Schaumann, German painter/writer (Rose, Black King)
1899 - Johan J Fabricius, Dutch novelist (Island of Demons)
1900 - V sa Pr¡hoda, Czech violinist
1900 - Preston Foster, Ocean City NJ, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger)
1902 - Fernand Braudel, French historian (Civililization & Capitalism)
1904 - Rod Redwing, NY, actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory)
1905 - Donald Douglas, Scotland, actor (I Love You Again)
1905 - Sven Johan Stolpe, Swedish author (L„tt, snabb och ”m)
1909 - Ronnie Grieveson, S Afr cricket keeper/batsman (2 Tests v Eng 1939)
1910 - Bernhard Heiden, composer
1911 - Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister
1911 - L‚o Ferr‚, French singer/composer (Silly-aim‚, Ni Dieu ni maŒtre)
1912 - Durward Kirby
1912 - Durward Kirby, Indianapolis Ind, TV announcer (Garry Moore Show)
1913 - Dorothy Comingore, [Linda Winters], LA CA, actress (Citizen Kane)
1915 - Wynonie Harris, rocker
1915 - Alice B[radley] Sheldon, US, sci-fi author (Byte Beautiful)
1916 - Anita V Figueredo, physician/humanitarian
1916 - Peter Crichton Kirkpatrick, oarsman
1917 - Dennis James, Jersey City NJ, wrestling announcer/TV host (PDQ)
1918 - Ray McIntire, chemical engineer
1919 - "Drs P" [Heinz H Polzer], Swiss/Dutch songwriter/singer
1919 - Nils Viggo Bentzon, composer
1922 - R‚ne L‚vesque, Quebec premier (1976-85)
1923 - Helena Carter, [Helen Rickerts], US model/actress (River Lady)
1924 - Louis Teicher, pianist (Ferante & Teicher-Exodus)
1927 - William V Shannon, journalist/ambassador to Ireland (1977-81)
1927 - Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist
1929 - Yasser Arafat
1929 - William Winfield, rocker (Harptones)
1932 - Richard Graham Meale, composer
1934 - Kenny Baker, actor (R2D2-Star Wars)
1934 - Roger Donald Dickerson, composer
1936 - William J Coyne, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania, 1981- )
1938 - Mason Williams, Abilene Tx, writer (Smother Brothers Hour)
1938 - David Freiberg, Boston MA, rock bassist (Quicksilver Messenger)
1940 - Tony Secunda, rock band manager
1940 - Don Cormier Sr, horse trainer
1941 - Ernest Wright Jr, US rock vocalist (Imperials-So Much)
1942 - Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck, mathemetician/educator
1942 - Joe Chambers, LA Calif, rock guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
1943 - John Cipollina, SF Cal, rock guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service
1944 - Gregory Bruce Jarvis, Detroit Mich, astronaut (STS 25)
1944 - Jim Capaldi, English singer/songwriter (Traffic-Something So Strong)
1945 - Ken Hensley, rock keyboardist (Blackfoot, Uriah Heep)
1945 - Malcolm "Mollie" Duncan, Scotland, saxophonist (Average White Band)
1946 - Richard "Dick" N Richards, Key West, USN/astr (STS 28, 41, 50, 64)
1949 - Stephen Harrison Paulus, composer
1949 - Joe Regalbuto, Bkln NY, actor (Knots Landing, Frank-Murphy Brown)
1949 - Anna Lee Fisher, St Albans NY, MD/astronaut (STS 51-A)
1950 - Frank Murray, Australian field hockey national coach (Oly-sil-92, 96)
1951 - Orson Scott Card, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Nebula, Ender's War)
1951 - Jimmy Farrar, Jacksonville Fl, rock vocalist (Molly Hatchet)
1955 - Jeffrey Daniel, LA CA, rock vocalist (Shalamar)
1956 - Gerry Cooney, heavyweight boxer (US Olympics team 1980)
1958 - Steve Guttenberg, Bkln NY, actor (Police Academy, Short Circuit)
1958 - Steve Guttenberg
1959 - Adrian Kuiper, cricketer (South African all-rounder)
1959 - Michel Valke, Dutch soccer player (Sparta, Dordrecht '90)
1960 - Kris Monaghan, Spokane WA, golfer (1990 Red Robin Kyocera Inamori)
1960 - Cal Ripken, Jr.
1960 - David Guillory, jockey
1960 - Cal Ripken, Havre de Grace MD, shortstop (Balt Orioles, game streak)
1960 - Franz Vienboeck, Austria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13)
1960 - Steven W Lindsey, Arcadia Calif, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 87, sk:95)
1961 - Cal Ripkin Jr, all-star shortstop (Balt Orioles)
1961 - Mark "Bedders" Bedfored, London, rock bassist (Madness)
1961 - Colin Angus, Scottish pop musician (Shamen, Ebeneezer Goode)
1962 - Mary Ellen Weber, Cleveland Ohio, PhD/astronaut (STS 70)
1963 - John Bush, US heavy metal singer (Anthrax-Armed & Dangerous)
1964 - Pebbles, rock vocalist (Girlfriend)
1964 - Salizhan Sharkirovich Sharipov, Kirhizia, astronaut (STS-89)
1965 - Casey Lambert, jockey
1965 - Marlee Matlin
1965 - Vince Alcalde, WLAF offensive assistant (Scottish Claymores)
1965 - Marlee Matlin, Ill, deaf actress (Children of Lesser God-Acad Award)
1965 - Reggie Miller, Riverside Calif, NBA guard (Ind Pacers, Oly-gold-96)
1968 - Andreas Kisser, Brazilian heavy metal guitarist (Sepultura)
1968 - Tim Salmon, Long Beach CA, outfielder (California Angels)
1968 - Benoit Brunet, Pointe Claire, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 - Arnold Galesloot, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Dan Henderson, Downey Calif, 180« lb greco-roman wrestler (Oly-92, 96
1970 - Sandra Whyte, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1972 - Lee DeRamus, (NO Saints)
1972 - Chris Right, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 - Kurt Miller, Tucson AZ, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1972 - Christian Ruud, Oslo Norway, tennis star (1989 Norwegian)
1972 - Ian Moran, Cleveland Ohio, US hockey defenseman (Olympics-1994, Pitts
1973 - Barret Oliver, actor (Never Ending Story, Secret Garden)
1973 - Andrew Brunette, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
1974 - Tony McCombs, linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1974 - Archie Amerson, CFL running back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1976 - Nordin Wooter, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1976 - Bjorn van der Doelen, Dutch soccer player (PSV)
1978 - Melissa McElroy, Houston Tx, rhythmic gymnast (US team-96)
Events
79 - Mt Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii & Herculaneum, 15,000 die
410 - Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire
1215 - Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta invalid
1217 - Battle at South Foreland: English fleet beats France
1349 - Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1349 - 6,000 Jews, blamed for the Plague, are killed in Mainz
1391 - Jews of Palma Majorca massacred
1511 - Portugese troops under Afonso the Albuquerque occupy Malakka
1516 - Battle at Aleppo: Turks beat Syria
1542 - Conquistador Francisco de Orellana returns to Spain
1561 - Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon
1572 - King Charles IX orders massacre of thousands of French Protestants
1608 - 1st English convoy lands at Surat India
1654 - Louis II Condé disbands ends of Atrecht
1658 - Battle at Grevelingen: English fleet beats Spanish
1662 - Act of Uniformity requires English to accept book of Common Prayer
1682 - Duke James of York gives Delaware to William Penn
1690 - Job Charnock founds Calcutta India
1704 - Sea battle at Malaga
1751 - Thomas Colley executed in England for drowning supposed witch
1787 - Wolfgang A Mozart completes his viola sonata in A, K526
1814 - British forces captured Washington, DC, & burned down many landmarks
1826 - Netherland's South Willems Port (Bosch-Luik) opens
1828 - Dutch army takes Fort Du Bus in New Guinea
1831 - John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle
1833 - HMS Beagle reaches Bahia Blanca, Argentina
1847 - Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"
1853 - 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs NY)
1854 - National emigration convention meets in Cleveland
1858 - Richmond "Daily Dispatch" reports 90 blacks arrested for learning
1869 - Cornelius Swarthout patents waffle iron
1876 - Riot abolishes fairs in Amsterdam, 2 killed
1891 - Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera
1893 - Tornado destroys coast of Savannah & Charleston, about 1000 die
1904 - Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1904 - 24th US Mens Tennis: Holcombe Ward beats William Clothier (108 64 97)
1905 - Chicago Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 20 innings
1906 - Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game
1908 - NY Giants scores shown on electric diamonds known as "Compton's Baseball Bulletin" at MSG
1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Squires in 13 for heavyweight boxing title
1909 - Workers start pouring concrete for Panama Canal
1911 - Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1912 - US passes Anti-gag law, federal employees right to petition govt
1912 - NYC ticker tape parade for Jim Thorpe & victorious US olympians
1912 - Territory of Alaska organizes
1914 - German troops occupy Namur Belgium
1914 - Jerome Kern & Michael E Rourles musical premieres in NYC
1914 - Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops
1918 - Chicago Cubs, win earliest pennent ever (season ended Sept 2)
1918 - Sect Baker grants extended exemption to World Series players
1919 - Cleveland pitcher Ray Caldwell is flattened by a bolt of lightning
1921 - British airship R-38 crashes in Humber, 44 die
1921 - Battle of Sakaray Valley begins between Turkey & Greece
1922 - 1st Phillie to hit for cycle (Cy Williams)
1923 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3 mile (14:11.2)
1925 - 39th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats K McKane (36 60 62)
1929 - 43rd US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Phoebe H Watson (64 62)
1929 - Palestinians attack orthodox Jews in Jerusalem
1929 - Turkey & Persia signs friendship treaty
1931 - France & USSR sign neutrality/no attack treaty
1932 - 1st transcontinental non-stop flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart
1936 - FDR gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists & communists
1936 - Australian Antarctic Territory created
1937 - Republican offensive near Belchite Spain
1938 - England beat Australia by an innings & 579 runs at The Oval
1938 - Virgil Trucks strikes out his 418th batter, highest season total in organized ball-for Andalus
1939 - Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs London
1940 - Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams pitches the last 2 innings in a 12-1 loss to Detroit Tigers,
1942 - Sea battle off Eastern Solomon Islands
1942 - Transport nr 23 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - Phila A's drop AL record tying 20th game in a row, win the 2nd game
1944 - Gen LeClercs troops open assault on Paris
1945 - Cleveland ace Bob Feller returns from Navy & strike out 12
1949 - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
1950 - Edith Sampson named 1st black US delegate to UN
1950 - 1st US Negro delegate to UN appointed-ES Sampson
1950 - Operation Magic Carpet concludes transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews
1951 - Bill Veeck's "Fans Managers' Night," Browns defeat A's 5-3; Browns coaches hold up placards fo
1954 - Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism
1954 - Eisenhower signs Communist Control Act, outlawing the Communist Party
1954 - International Amateur Athletic Federation recognizes Red China
1954 - William Heatherton's "Reluctant Debutante," premieres in London
1956 - 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Wash DC
1957 - British soccer player Jimmy Greaves' (17) 1st game for Chelsea
1958 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open
1958 - Sergei Popov wins Stockholm marathon (2:15:17.0) (WR)
1959 - Hiram L Fong sworn in as 1st Chinese-American senator while Daniel K Inouye sworn in as 1st Ja
1959 - England complete 5-0 series drubbing of India
1960 - 60 people die when bus plunges off bridge into Turvo River, Brazil
1960 - -127°F (-88°C), Vostok, Antarctica (world record)
1961 - Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fi
1961 - Windward Islands' Airways International (Winair) forms
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 - Dodger coach Leo Durocher suffers a near-fatal allergic reaction to a penicillin injection whi
1963 - 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58)
1963 - John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17'
1964 - 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 6-4
1966 - USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1967 - Liberian flag designed
1968 - France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa
1969 - Peru nationalizes US oil interests
1969 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament
1970 - Bomb kills 1 at U of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison
1971 - India beat England by 4 wickets, their win against the Poms
1972 - Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame
1972 - Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 v Australia
1972 - 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1
1973 - John Adams & his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleve Stadium
1973 - Garry Sobers scores 26th & last Test Cricket ton 150 v Eng Lord's
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1975 - Papadopoulos/Pattakos/Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
1975 - Davey Lopes steals his 38th consecutive base, then thrown out stealing
1975 - SF Giant Ed Halick no-hits NY Giants, 6-0
1975 - Tampa Bay Rowdies beat Portland 2-0 for NASL cup
1975 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open
1976 - Soyuz 21 returns to Earth
1978 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1979 - NFL fans (60,916) choose old Patriots logo over new
1979 - Cars play concert in NY Central Park
1979 - UN's Vienna office begins issuing postage stamps
1980 - Beth Daniel wins Columbia Savings LPGA Golf Classic
1980 - Jozef Pinkovski replaces Poland premier Babiuch
1981 - Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 yrs to life for Lennon's murder
1981 - American Charles Chapman is 1st black to swim English Channel
1982 - KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record
1983 - Cin Red Pete Rose ends consecutive games played streak at 745
1984 - Pat Bradley set LPGA record for 9 holes with a 28 at Denver
1985 - STS 51-I mission scrubbed at T -5m because of bad weather
1986 - Juli Inkster wins Atlantic City LPGA Golf Classic
1987 - Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1989 - British brewery Bass buys Holiday Inn hotel chain
1989 - Pete Rose is suspended from baseball for life for gambling
1989 - Voyager 2 flies past Neptune
1990 - 3,500 peacekeepers arrive in Liberia
1990 - Iraqi troops surround US & other embassies in Kuwait City
1991 - Ukraine declares independence from USSR
1991 - Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party
1991 - Taiwan captures its 15th Little League World Series, 11-0
1991 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1991 - Silky Stallone, wins the Cane Pace at Yonkers Raceway
1992 - 1st structural steel beams are erected at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1992 - Cleveland Browns suffer their worst preseason loss, 56-3, to Vikings
1992 - Hurricane Andrew hits South Florida; 35 die
1992 - Screw magazine superimposed a gunsight over a picture of Larry Flint
1993 - Mars Observer comes closest to Mars
1993 - Padres scores 14 in 1st vs Cardinals
1994 - Kieren Perkins swims world record 800m free style (7:46.00)
1994 - Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m free style (14:41.66)
1994 - Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, healt
1995 - Fire that wipes 6,000 acres begins in Hamptons on Long Island
1995 - Windows 95 debuts
1997 - Greg Norman wins World Series of Golf shooting 273
1997 - Mark Calcavecchia wins Greater Vancouver Golf Open shooting 265
1997 - Gordon Spence discovers 2^2976221 - 1 (36th known Mersenne prime)
1997 - Colleen Wakjer wins Star Bank LPGA Classic
1997 - 97th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Joel Kribel
1997 - Saint Luke's Senior Golf Classic
Deaths
1103 - Magnus III Berbein, [Blootbeen], King of Norway (1093-1103), dies
1217 - Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle
1313 - Henry VII, Roman Catholic German King/emperor (1308/12-13), dies
1371 - Eduard, duke of Gelre (1361-71), assasinated
1572 - Gaspard de Chƒtillon, Count the Coligny, French gen/admiral, beheaded
1572 - Charles de F‚ligny, French officer/huguenot, murdered
1595 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (Universe Infinite), dies
1647 - Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect, dies at about 61
1666 - Francisco M the Melo, Portuguese author (Obras Morales), dies at 57
1680 - Ferdinand Bulb, Dutch painter/etcher, buried
1712 - Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 54
1724 - Andreas Kneller, composer, dies at 75
1759 - Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44
1770 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (Revenge), dies
1801 - Jacques-Denis Antoine, French builder (La Monnaie Paris), dies at 68
1806 - Paul-Louis Cyffl‚, Flemish sculptor/goldsmith (Terre Lorraine), dies
1833 - Adrian H Haworth, English entomologist/botanist, dies at 65
1840 - Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89
1841 - Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer, dies at 36
1888 - Rudolph J E Clausius, German physicist (thermodynamics), dies
1889 - Jan E Matzeliger, Suriname inventor (shoe lacing machine), dies
1895 - John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74
1906 - Alfred Stevens, Belgian painter, dies
1907 - Pieter Louis Tak, writer (Chronicle), dies at 58
1923 - Kate Douglas Wiggin, author (US kindergarten movement), dies at 66
1939 - W H Moule, cricketer (Australia v England 1880)/High Court judge, die
1940 - Paul G Nipkow, German TV pioneer (Nipkow disk), dies at 80
1943 - Ernst Ottwalt, writer, dies
1943 - Simone Weil, French philosopher (Le pesanteur et la grƒce), dies at 3
1950 - Ernst Wiechert, writer, dies at 63
1954 - Get£lio D Vargas, pres/dictator Brazil: 1930-45, 51-54, suicide at 71
1957 - Albert Edward Sammons, composer, dies at 71
1958 - Leo Blech, composer, dies at 87
1958 - Kenneth Leighton, composer, dies at 28
1958 - John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65
1962 - Henry George Ley, composer, dies at 74
1964 - Maurice Schoemaker, composer, dies at 73
1967 - Amanda Randolph, actress (Danny Thomas, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1967 - Henry J Kaiser, industrialist (Boulder Dam, Liberty ship), dies at 85
1968 - Cyril Vincent, cricketer (84 wkts slow lefty for S Af 1927-35), dies
1972 - Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 59
1973 - Slava Vorlova, composer, dies at 79
1973 - Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76
1975 - Charles H Revson, US cosmetic magnate, dies at 69
1976 - Michael Dewar Head, composer, dies at 76
1978 - Louis Prima, singer, dies at 66
1982 - Jack Siedle, cricketer (batted in 18 Tests for S Africa), dies
1983 - Jack Somack, actor (Ball Four, Stockard Channing Show), dies at 64
1983 - Shawn Lewis, 5th wife of Jerry Lee Lewis, dies of methadone OD
1985 - Paul Creston [Giuseppe/Joseph Guttoveggio], US composer, dies at 78
1987 - Bayard Rustin, US civil rights activist, dies at 77
1988 - Leonard Frey, actor (Tattoo, Magic Christian), dies of AIDS at 49
1988 - Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69
1991 - Beb [Elizabeth] Vuyk, Neth/Indon writer (Camp Diary), dies at 86
1991 - Mike Sokoll, cowboy actor, dies at 97
1991 - Abel Kivlat, US 1500m runner (Olympic-silver-1912), dies at 99
1991 - Bernard Castro, patented convertible couch, dies at 87
1992 - Larrie Londin, jazz drummer, dies at 48
1992 - Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 7
1993 - Professor D B Deodhar, cricketer (Ind non-Test bat o 30s), dies at 10
1994 - Jason McRoy, downhill MTB racer, dies at 23
1994 - Wijnanda MC "Nan" Aberson, friend of Gerard Van de Reve Sr, dies at 8
1995 - Erich Geiringer, general Practitioner campaigner, dies at 78
1995 - Gary Crosby, singer/actor (Operation Bikini, Mardi Gras), dies at 61
1996 - Emile Noel, international civil servant, dies at 73
1996 - Ahmed Bahauddin, journalist, dies at 69
1996 - Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer, dies at 42
1996 - John Christopherson, artist/collector, dies at 75
1997 - Phillip Humphrey Vellacott, classicist, dies at 90
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