Births
1502 - Hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader (Children of God)
1628 - Jan Theunisz Blanckerhoff, [Jan Maet], seascape painter)
1635 - Willem … Brakel, Frisian theologist (Reasonable religion)
1638 - Niels Stensen, Danish astronomer
1644 - Louis Boufflers, marshall of France
1683 - Gasparo Visconti, composer
1701 - Johann Caspar Simon, composer
1738 - Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys)
1747 - Abraham L Breguet, French clock maker
1760 - Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer
1766 - Louis Massonneau, composer
1768 - James Varicick, 1st AME Zion Bishop
1769 - Michel Ney, French marshal (Waterloo)
1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (naming plants & animals)
1780 - M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist
1797 - A V Droste-Hlshoff, writer
1814 - Aubrey de Vere, Irish writer (Victorian Observer)
1815 - Alexander Brydie Dyer, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874
1815 - Thomas Williams, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1825 - Alexander Travis Hawthorn, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1834 - John Acton, English historian/MP
1854 - Peter Gast, composer
1855 - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian (History of the Dutch People)
1858 - Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Cheerful Bl„tter, Simplicissimus)
1864 - George Washington Carver, agricultural scientist [or Jul 12]
1867 - Gerhard Anschtz, German MP
1871 - Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Austrian author (Jesse & Maria)
1876 - Johannes W "Jan" Eisenloeffel, Dutch goldsmith
1877 - Frederick Gardner Cottrell, inventor (elecrostatic precipitator)
1880 - Eduard M Meijers, Dutch lawyer (Short Cause)
1880 - French van Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp
1880 - Grock, [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown/circus director
1880 - Manuel Aza¤a y D¡az, PM/pres of 2nd Spanish republic (1936-39)
1882 - Charles Trowbridge, Vera Cruz Mexico, actor (Fatal Hour)
1883 - Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet/writer (Pjotr Peroyj) [NS]
1883 - Florence Reed, Phila, silent film actress (Dancing Girl)
1883 - Francis X Bushman, Norfolk VA, silent film actor (Ben Hur)
1884 - James Philip Dunn, composer
1886 - Jose Antonio de Donostia, composer
1887 - Robinson Jeffers, US, poet/playwright (Tamar & Other Poems, Medea)
1888 - Emile van Bosch, Dutch revue/operetta-artist (Fair Folks)
1888 - Grock, Switzerland, clown
1890 - Douglas MacLean, Phila, silent film comedian/producer (Going Up)
1890 - Ernest Milton, SF CA, actor (Cat Girl, Fiddler's Three)
1891 - Jos Speybrouck, Flemish painter
1892 - Dumas Malone, Miss, historian (Jefferson & His Time)
1894 - Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director (Obsession, The Bad Seed)
1897 - Albert Moeschinger, composer
1898 - Sergei M Eisenstein, Russian director (Alexandr Nevski) [OS]
1901 - Pauline Starke, Joplin MO, actress (Dante's Inferno, Dance Magic)
1903 - Barbara Hepworth, English abstract sculptor/actress (Rescued by Rover
1903 - Jean Morel, Abbeville France, conductor
1903 - Jens A Schade, Danish writer (Schadebogen, Losses Híjsang)
1904 - Jesus Garcia Leoz, composer
1904 - Ray Bolger, Dorchester Mass, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz)
1904 - Ray Bolger
1908 - Paul Henreid
1908 - Bernard Lee, London England, actor (M in James Bond movies)
1908 - Paul Henreid, Trieste, actor (Casablanca, 4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
1909 - Grace Mitchell, educator
1909 - Rudolf Kubin, composer
1910 - Dorothy Stroud, garden historian
1910 - Galina Ulanova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina (Bolshoi)
1910 - Jean Martinon, Lyons France, conductor/composer
1911 - Jan Boon, [Tjalie Robinson], Dutch East Indies publicist (Tong Tong)
1913 - Gustav Husak, president of Czechoslavakia (1975-89)
1913 - Haywood Frank Henry, sax player
1914 - Claude Gallimard, France, publisher
1914 - Polly Rowles, Phila Pa, actress (Aunt Laurie-Jamie)
1915 - Dean Dixon, Zug Switzerland, conductor
1917 - Jerry Wexler, music producer (Aretha Franklin/Bob Dylan)
1920 - Georges Marchal, Nancy France, actor (Evil Eden, Gina, Milky Way)
1923 - Ingeborg Drewitz, writer
1924 - Ludmilla Chiraeff, ballet dancer
1925 - Maxwell Roach, composer
1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, Winnipeg Manitoba, singer/actress (Your Hit Parade)
1927 - Johnnie Ray, Dallas OR, pop singer (Cry)
1927 - Lee Philips, Bkln NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
1927 - Gisele MacKenzie
1927 - Johnnie Ray
1928 - Donald Brooks, fashion designer (Emmy 1983)
1928 - Wallace Berry, composer
1930 - Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues singer
1930 - Roy E Disney, CEO (Disney)
1931 - Alexander L "Alex" Boraine, S Africa vicar/MP
1931 - Ron Galella, celebrity photographer (sued by Jackie O)
1933 - Akira Miyoshi, composer
1933 - Len Coldwell, cricket bowler (Engld medium-fast in 7 Tests 1962-64)
1933 - Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer
1935 - Georg Katzer, composer
1935 - Ronnie Hawkins, Ark, rocker (The Band-Who Do You Love?)
1935 - Sherrill Milnes, Hinsdale Illinois, baritone
1938 - Francis W "Frank" Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player
1938 - Frank Mahovlich, NHL Hall of Famer (Mont Canadians)
1938 - Ivan Twigden, English contractor/multi-millionaire (Twigden PLC)
1938 - Willie "Stretch" McCovey, 1st baseman (SF Giant #44)
1939 - Bill Toomey, Phila Pa, decathelete (Olympic-gold-68)
1939 - Sal Mineo, NYC, actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause)
1939 - Sal Mineo
1940 - Harry Gant, NASCAR driver
1942 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1942 - Jack Regan, broadcaster
1942 - Jim Croce, Phila, rock vocalist (Time in a Bottle)
1942 - Walter Hill, director (48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice)
1945 - Frank Sinatra Jr, Jersey City NJ, singer/bandleader (Golddigers)
1945 - Rod Stewart, London, singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy)
1945 - Rod Stewart
1946 - Alexis Nihon Jr, Bahamas, wrestler (Olympics-1968)
1946 - Aynsley Dunbar, rocker (Journey, Jefferson Starship)
1946 - Bob Lang, rock bassist (Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders)
1947 - George Alec Effinger, US, sci-fi author (Nick of Time)
1948 - Cyril Neville, US singer/percussionist (Neville Bros-Yellow Moon)
1948 - Donald Fagen, Passaic NJ, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg)
1948 - William Sanderson, Memphis Tenn, actor (Larry-Newhart, Blade Runner)
1949 - George Foreman, Houston Tx, world HW boxing champ (1973-74, 95)
1949 - Teresa Graves, Houston Tx, actress (Laugh-in, Get Christie Love)
1949 - Walter S Browne, US chess champion (1974-78, 1980-84)
1949 - George Foreman
1950 - Cyril Neville, rocker (Neville Brothers)
1951 - Kathleen Bradley, Youngstown Oh, model (Price is Right)
1952 - Scott Thurston, keyboardist/guitarist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1953 - Bobby Rahal, Indy-car racer (over 15 wins)
1953 - Pat Benatar, [Andrezejewski], Bkln NY, singer (Hell Is for Children)
1953 - Pat Benatar
1955 - Luci Martin, rocker vocalist (Chic)
1955 - Michael Schenker, heavy metal rocker (MSG-Coming on Strong, Scorpions
1957 - Robert Thompson, Houston TX, Nike golfer (1990 Boise Open-2nd)
1958 - Shawn Colvin, singer/guitarist
1959 - Chandra Cheesborough, Jacksonville Fla, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-84
1959 - Don Letts, rocker (Big Audio Dynamite)
1959 - Kirk & Curtwood, musician (Meat Puppets)
1961 - Evan Handler, NYC, actor (Dear Mr Wonderful)
1961 - Janet Jones, Bridgeton MO, actress (American Anthem, Flamingo Kid)
1961 - Nadja Salerni-Sonnenberg, Rome Italy, concert violinist
1962 - Jim Lindeman, US baseball outfielder (NY Mets)
1963 - Frank Wijnhoven, Dutch soccer player (NEC, Treffers)
1964 - Karen Josephson, Bristol Ct, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1992)
1964 - Krista Tesreau, St Louis Mo, actress (Tina-OLTL, Silk Stalkings)
1964 - Sarah Josephson, Bristol Ct, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1992)
1965 - James Washington, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys, Wash Redskins)
1965 - Nathan, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
1967 - Mick Hankers, Dutch dancer (Josephine, Sound of Motown)
1967 - Micky Michelle, [Ingrid Hankers], Dutch dancer (Josephine)
1967 - Trini Alvarado, actor (Frighteners)
1968 - Lyle Menendez, NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)
1968 - Malcolm Showell, WLAF defensive end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1969 - Doug E Doug, rapper/comedian (Operation Dumbo Drop, Jungle Fever)
1969 - Juanita Clayton, Manitou Manitoba, softball catcher (Olympics-96)
1970 - Cameron MacKenzie, Australian 100m/200m/400m (Olympics-96)
1970 - Deon Figures, NFL cornerback/PR (Pitts Steelers)
1970 - James Wilson, WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1971 - Guylaine Cloutier, Levis QUE, 100m breaststroke swimmer (Oly-4-92, 96
1971 - Sergi Bruguera, Italy, tennis star
1972 - Thomas Lewis, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1973 - Berry Radstraat, Dutch soccer player (NEC, SCH)
1973 - Glenn Robinson, Gary In, NBA forward (Milw, Olympics-gold-96)
1973 - Travis Davis, NFL strong safety (NO Saints, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1974 - Andre Kirwan, CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
1974 - Hollis Thomas, defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1975 - Shannon Kavanaugh, Boston Mass, rocker (Ivory Soul)
1979 - Chris H E Smith, [Daddy Mack], Atlanta, rapper (Kris Kross-Warm it Up
Events
69 - Roman emperor Galba adopts Marcus Piso Licinianus as Cæsar
236 - St Fabian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo
1356 - German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree
1429 - Order of Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
1430 - Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal
1430 - Order of the Guilder forms
1514 - Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
1550 - 1st sitting of "Vurige Chamber" in Paris
1642 - King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford
1663 - King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
1731 - Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza
1776 - "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, published
1799 - Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini," premieres in Weimar
1806 - Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
1808 - Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as gov-gen of Neth Indies
1810 - French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Joséphine
1811 - Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
1833 - Felix Mendelssohn's "Die erste Walpurgisnacht," premieres in Berlin
1839 - Tea from India 1st arrives in UK
1840 - Penny Post mail system is starts
1845 - Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
1853 - Charles Reade's "Gold," premieres in London
1861 - Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
1861 - Ft Jackson & Ft Philip are taken over by LA state troops
1861 - US forts & property seized by Mississippi
1862 - Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek)
1862 - Battle of Romney, WV
1863 - 1st underground railway opens in London
1863 - General McClernand's Union troops surround Fort Hindman Ark
1863 - January-uprising begins in Poland
1863 - London's 1st subway opens
1870 - Georgia legislature reconvenes
1870 - John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1878 - US Senate proposes female suffrage
1883 - Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin kills 71. General Tom Thumb of P T Bar
1889 - Ivory Coast declared a protectorate of France
1890 - Edward Macdowell's "Lancelot & Elaine," premieres
1890 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Sapientiae Christianae
1893 - Richard Drigo's ballet "Magic Flute" premieres, St Petersburg
1897 - Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors
1897 - Vincent d'Indy's "Istar" premieres in Amsterdam & Brussels
1900 - Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
1901 - Oil discovered in Texas
1902 - Alphons Diepenbrock's "Te Deum" premieres (Amsterdam)
1910 - 1st international air meet in US held, in LA
1910 - Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC
1911 - 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
1911 - Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1911 - Trumper scored double cricket ton v South Africa, goes on to get 214
1912 - Caillaux govt in France resigns
1912 - World's 1st flying boat's maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
1914 - 1st edition of Hague's Post under SF van Oss, published
1914 - Oscar Mathisen skates world record 500 m in 43.7 sec in Oslo
1916 - Russian offensive in Kaukasus
1920 - League of Nations established
1920 - Mont Canadiens (14) & Tor St Patricks (7) score NHL record 21 goals
1920 - Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
1923 - Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
1923 - Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
1925 - France-Saarland forms
1925 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as TX gov, nation's 2nd woman governor
1927 - Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres
1928 - G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in NYC
1928 - Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1929 - Elmer Rice's "Street Scene," premieres in NYC
1930 - Commencement of NZ's 1st Test, v England Christchurch
1930 - Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England v NZ Christchurch
1930 - Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
1931 - Phila Quakers defeat Montréal, ends NHL-record 15-game losing streak
1932 - "Mickey Mouse" & "Silly Symphony" comics syndicated
1932 - "Pete the Tramp" cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
1935 - Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks
1938 - Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
1938 - Jean Anouilh's "La Sauvage," premieres in Paris
1938 - Paul Vincent Carroll's "White Seed," premieres in NYC
1939 - Bradman hits 186 SA v Qld before Christ catches him at short-leg
1941 - Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic & Old Lace," premieres in NYC
1941 - Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
1942 - Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies
1943 - Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
1943 - 1st US pres to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
1944 - 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Phila
1944 - British troops conquer Maungdaw, Burma
1945 - Baseball writers again fail to elect a new Hall of Famer
1945 - LA Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1945 - No one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1946 - 1st radar contact with Moon
1946 - UN General Assembly meets for 1st time (London)
1946 - US Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
1947 - "Finian's Rainbow" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 725 performances
1947 - British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
1947 - Greek steamer "Himara" strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392
1948 - "Call Me Mister" closes at National Theater NYC after 734 performances
1949 - 1st Jewish family show "Goldbergs" premieres on CBS
1949 - RCA introduces 45 RPM record
1951 - 1st jet passenger trip made
1951 - UN headquarters opens in Manhattan NY
1952 - Jean Anouilh's "La valse des toréadors," premieres in Paris
1953 - "My Darlin' Aida" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 89 perfs
1953 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Archibald MacLeish
1953 - NFL Pro Bowl: N Conf beats A Conf 27-7
1954 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to W H Auden
1956 - Elvis records "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 - Anthony Eden resigns & Harold Macmillan becomes PM Britain
1957 - Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick rules Bing Crosby can keep token stock in the Det Tigers, eve
1958 - Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
1960 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Delmore Schwartz
1962 - 4,000 die in avalanche, Ranrahirca, Perú
1962 - Eruptions on Mount Huascaran in Peru destroy 7 villages & kill 3,500
1964 - Battles between moslems & hindus in Calcutta
1964 - Panama severs diplomatic relations with US
1964 - US version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres
1965 - Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory
1965 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14
1965 - WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 - India & Pakistan sign peace accord
1966 - Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War
1967 - Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven
1967 - Edward Brooke, takes (Sen-R-Mass) seat as 1st popular elected black
1967 - Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia
1967 - PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
1967 - Princess Margret marries Mr Pieter van Vollenhoven
1968 - "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1
1968 - US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho
1969 - Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland
1969 - Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam
1969 - USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus
1970 - Preview Center Opens
1971 - "Light, Lively & Yiddish" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 87 perfs
1971 - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Richard Wilbur
1972 - LA Lakers 33 straight win streak snapped, losing to Bucks 120-104
1972 - Sheik Mujib ur-Rahman arrives in Dacca, East-Pakistan
1972 - Triple album set "Concert for Bangladesh" released in UK
1973 - Gas tank on Staten Island explodes, 40 die
1977 - 20th hat trick in Islander history - Bobby Nystrom
1978 - Soyuz 27 carring 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1979 - 1st brother Billy Carter makes allegedly anti-Semitic remarks
1979 - Entertainer of the Year Awards
1980 - Last broadcast of "Rockford Files" on NBC
1980 - Jim Stewart, Bruin's rookie goalie allows 3 goals in his 1st 4 mins & a total of 5 in 1st peri
1981 - El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "general offensive"
1981 - John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m
1982 - -17°F (27.2°C) in Braemar Grampian (equals UK record)
1982 - Bengals beat Chargers in -59°F (-51°C) to win AFC championship
1982 - Petra Schneider swims world record 1500 m freestyle (15:43.31)
1983 - NY Supreme Court issues a preliminary injunction barring NY Yankees from playing season-openin
1984 - Argentine ex-president/general Bignone arrested
1984 - Bulgarian Tupolev 134 crashs at Sofia airport in Bulgaria, 50 die
1984 - Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?"
1984 - Luis Aparicio, Harmon Killebrew, & D Drysdale elected to Hall of Fame
1984 - US establishes full diplomatic relations with Vatican after 117 years
1985 - Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as president of Nicaragua
1986 - Palau signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 - STS 61-C mission scrubbed T -9m because of bad weather at Kennedy
1988 - "Don't Get God Started" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 86 perfs
1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
1990 - China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
1990 - NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
1991 - Japan ends routine fingerprinting of all adult ethnic Koreans
1991 - US Congress begins debate on Persian Gulf crisis
1992 - 8th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1993 - "My Favorite Year" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 37 perfs
1993 - "Sea Gull" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 48 performances
1993 - Maiden flight of Ultrair (Houston to LA)
1994 - Trial of Lorena Bobbitt who cut off her husband's penis, begins
1994 - Ukraine says it will give up world's 3rd largest nuclear arsenal
1994 - Uzbekistan & Kazakhstan agrees to abolish trade tariffs
1995 - "Late Late Show" with Tom Snyder premieres on CBS at 12:30 AM
1996 - Israel frees hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
1996 - Jimmy Johnson announced as new coach of Miami Dolphins
1997 - "Rehersal," closes at Criterion Theater NYC
1997 - 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1
1997 - 4,000th episode of "Entertainment Tonight"
1997 - Dow Corning provides $295 billion to settle breast implant suits
1997 - Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
1997 - Right-winger Arnoldo Aleman sworn in as president of Nicaragua
1998 - 18th United Negro College Fund raises (rebroadcasted Jan 17th)
Deaths
681 - Agatho, Sicilian pope (678-81), dies
866 - Lin-chi I-hsuan, [J Rinzai Gigen], Zen teacher, dies
976 - John I Tzimisces, co-emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies at 51
1271 - Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies
1276 - Gregorius X, [Tedaldo Visconti], pope, dies
1542 - Gerardus Noviomagus, [Gerrit Geldenhauer], Dutch theologist, die at 5
1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, beheaded for treason at 71
1674 - Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/MP, dies at 84
1754 - Daniel Raap, Dutch porcelain salesman/politician, dies at about 51
1768 - Charles Cressent, French court furniture maker, dies at 82
1775 - Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"czar Peter III", dies
1778 - Carolus Lin‘us "Carl von Linn‚", Swedish botanist/explorer, dies at 7
1780 - Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist/composer, dies at 82
1789 - Pierre Lyonet, Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at 82
1792 - Jean-Louis Laruette, composer, dies at 60
1800 - Johan Wikmanson, composer, dies at 46
1811 - Marie-Joseph de Ch‚nier, French poet (Chant du D‚part), dies at 46
1824 - Victor Emanuel I, king of Sardinia (1802-21), dies at 64
1833 - Adrien Marie Legendre, dies
1833 - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer, dies at 73
1846 - Etienne P de Senancour, French writer (De l'Amour), dies at 75
1855 - Mary Russell Mitford, Engl playwright/poet (Julian), dies at 67
1862 - Samuel Colt, inventor (6 shot revolver), dies at 47
1871 - Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41
1876 - Charles EH de Coussemaker, Belgian musicologist/historian, dies at 70
1889 - Martin Andreas Udbye, composer, dies at 68
1892 - Heinrich Ludwig Egmont Dorn, composer, dies at 91
1895 - Benjamin Louis Paul Godard, composer, dies at 45
1899 - Gerard Keller, Dutch writer (Vlugmaren), dies at 69
1908 - Anna S Barbiers, Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at 65
1917 - Buffalo Bill Cody,, army scout & Indian fighter, dies
1927 - August(us) Alleb‚, Dutch painter/lithograph, dies at 88
1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist, beheaded in Berlin at 24
1935 - Charlie McGahey, cricket (MCC tour of Aus 1901-02 cured his TB), dies
1935 - Edwin H Flack, English 800/1500m runner (Oly-gold-1896), dies at 60
1936 - Charles Wright, cricketer (3 Tests England v S Africa 1895-96), dies
1938 - Willem de Vreese, Flemish linguist, dies at 68
1939 - Jameson Thomas, actor (Piccadilly, Farmer's Wife), dies at 50
1939 - Julius Bittner, Austria composer (Missa Austriaca), dies at 64
1941 - Frank Bridge, English violinist/composer (Sea), dies at 61
1941 - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67
1943 - Agustin P Justo y Rolon, pres Argentina (1931-38), dies at 66
1943 - J Arthur S Berson, Austrian meteorologist, dies at 83
1945 - Rudolf Borchardt, writer, dies at 67
1951 - Athos Palma, composer, dies at 59
1951 - Harry Sinclair Lewis, US writer (Nobel 1930), dies at 65
1951 - Sinclair Lewis, writer, dies at 65
1953 - Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Golden Cage), dies at 56
1954 - Fred Raymond, composer, dies at 53
1956 - Henricus P Bremmer, Dutch art historian (Beeldende Kunst), dies at 84
1956 - Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum), dies at 64
1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Nobel Prize 1945), dies at 67
1958 - Charles de Trooz, Belgian writer, dies at 52
1961 - Dashiell Hammett, US detective writer (Thin Man), dies at 66
1963 - Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer, dies at 66
1964 - A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day & Night), dies at 46
1966 - George Cresswell, cricketer (Took 13 wkts in 3 Tests for NZ), suicide
1966 - Hermann Kasack, writer, dies at 69
1967 - Emerson Treacy, actor (Prowler), dies after surgery at 66
1967 - Vilem Petrzelka, composer, dies at 77
1968 - Basil Sydney, actor (Hamlet, Simba), dies of pleurisy at 73
1968 - Howard Smith, actor (Harvey Griffin-Hazel), dies at 74
1968 - Josue Teofilo Wilkes, composer, dies at 85
1968 - Louis-Fran‡ois-Marie Aubert, French composer (La Momie), dies at 90
1968 - Theophilus E D”nges, South Afr Internal minister, dies at 69
1970 - Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II), dies at 44
1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer, dies at 87
1972 - Al Goodman, Russian/US orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81
1972 - Georg Rendl, Austriam miner/beekeeper (Satan on Earth), dies at 68
1972 - Sverre Jordan, composer, dies at 82
1976 - Chester Arthur Burnett, US blues pianist/harmonica player, dies at 65
1976 - Howlin' Wolf, singer/guitarist, dies following brain surgery at 65
1978 - Don Gillis, US composer (Symphony #5«), dies at 65
1978 - John D Rockefeller III, US billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71
1978 - Pedro Joaqu¡n Chamorro, of La Prensa, assassinated in Managua
1978 - Zeb Turner, country-rock performer (Chew Tobacco Rag), dies at 62
1980 - George Meany, labor leader, dies at 86
1981 - Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel), dies at 63
1982 - Lazar Weiner, composer, dies at 84
1982 - Paul Lynde, comedian (Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies at 55
1984 - Suvanna Phuma, premier of Laos, dies at 82
1986 - Joseph Kraft, US columnist, dies at 61
1990 - Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42
1990 - Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies
1991 - Dimitris Myrat, dies of cancer at 62
1992 - Barbara Couper, British actress (Last Days of Dolwyn), dies at 89
1993 - Diana Adams, ballerina, dies
1993 - Noorjahan Begum, "adulterous" wife in Bangladesh, stoned to death
1994 - Catharina I "Ien" Dales, min of Internal affairs (1989-94), dies at 6
1994 - Charles "Chub" Feeney, baseball pres (National League), dies at 72
1994 - Michael Aldridge, actor (Murder in the Cathedral), dies at 73
1995 - Elaine Greene, literary Agent, dies at 74
1995 - Halton Kathleen Tynan, writer, dies at 57
1995 - Souphanouvong, leader of Pathet Lao (1957), dies
1996 - Alexander Robertus, organic chemist, dies at 88
1996 - Arthur Sydney Martin, spycatcher, dies at 81
1997 - Alvinio Misciano, Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window
1997 - Elspeth Josceline Huxley, writer, dies at 96
1997 - George Young, footballer, dies at 74
1997 - Hilary Grover Barratt Brown, conservationist, dies at 71
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