Births
1543 - Alfonso Ferrabosco, composer
1641 - Fran‡ois Michel le Tellier, French statesman (Marquis de Louvois)
1657 - Hendrik Casimir II, Dutch Fieldmarshal (Nassau)
1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch Classical prof, baptized
1689 - Charles de Montesquieu, France, philosopher/writer (Letters Persanes)
1726 - Hendrik D F L, prince of Prussia/diplomat
1732 - Jean-Guillain Cardon, composer
1751 - Ferdinand Kauer, composer
1779 - Peter Roget, thesaurus fame/inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard)
1782 - Daniel Webster, Salisbury NH, orator/politician/lawyer
1793 - William Henry Havergal, composer
1795 - Anna Paulowna Romanova, monarch of Russia/daughter of czar Paul I
1809 - Richard Caswell Gatlin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1813 - Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor (1st coml useable barbed wire)
1815 - James Chesnut Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
1815 - Richard Yates Gov, MC (Union), died in 1873
1817 - Jacques Gregoir, composer
1818 - Johannes van Vloten, Dutch literary/theologist
1820 - Abraham Buford, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1884
1829 - Louis van Haecke, Flemish chaplain/author (Blood to Bridge)
1831 - Edward Ferrero, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1835 - C‚sar A Cui, Vilna Lithuania, fort architect/composer
1835 - Jan van Droogenbroeck, Flemish poet
1840 - Austin Dobson, England, poet/critic/biographer
1840 - Ernst Rudorff, composer
1841 - Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, France, composer (Le Roi Malgr‚ Lui)
1849 - Edmund Barton, 1st PM of Australia (1900-03)
1854 - Thomas A Watson, needed by Bell, inventor assistant (Telephone)
1856 - Daniel Nathan Hale Williams, surgeon (1st open heart operation)
1856 - John Hyatt Brewer, composer
1857 - Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)
1861 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist
1861 - Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer
1867 - Rub‚n Dar¡o, national poet (Nicaragua)
1869 - Willem De Vreese, Flemish linguist/biblographer
1870 - Berend Modderman, printer (Drukkers yearbook)
1871 - Franz Blei, [Peregrinus Steinh”vel], Austrian painter/critic
1872 - Paul Leautaud, [Maurice Boissard], France, writer (Petit ami)
1878 - Hendrik Baels, Belgian politician
1879 - Henri-Honor‚ Giraud, French general/member of parliament
1880 - Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist (adiabates hypothesis)
1881 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Librairie Gallimard) [or 1908]
1882 - Alan Alexander Milne, English author (Winnie-the-Pooh)
1882 - Jacob Clay, Dutch philospher/phyicist (Mesones)
1882 - Sylvia Pankhurst, English feminist
1882 - A.A. Milne
1884 - Arthur Ransome, English author (Swallows & Amazons)
1886 - Antoine Pevsner, French sculptor
1886 - Peter Alma, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1892 - Oliver Hardy, Harlem Ga, comedy team member (Laurel & Hardy)
1893 - John Lawrence Seymour, composer
1893 - Jorge Guill‚n, Valladolid Spain, poet/critic (C ntico, Final)
1894 - Wilhelm HC Tenhaeff, Dutch parapsychologist
1896 - Hans H Holm, Norwegian poet (Jonsoknatt)
1901 - Arie Querido, Dutch social psychiatrist
1903 - Berthold Goldschmidt, German/British (opera)composer (Beatrice Cenci)
1904 - Cary Grant, England, actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)
1904 - Henri-Georges Adam, French etcher/painter/sculptor (Grand Nude)
1904 - Cary Grant
1905 - Chick Chandler, Kingston NY, actor (Barney-One Happy Family)
1906 - Hans Aeschbacher, Swiss sculptor (Venus de Six-Tours)
1907 - Janos Ferencsik, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Budapest Opera)
1908 - Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59)
1908 - Jacob Bronowsky, British mathematician/cultural historian
1910 - Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso, Glass Cage
1911 - Gabor Darvas, composer
1912 - Charles Moeller, Belgian theologist (Humanism et saintete)
1912 - Ren‚ Gabri‰ls, Belgian billiard pro (7 World/9 European championships
1912 - William Sansom, English writer (Loving Eye)
1913 - Danny Kaye, Bkln NY, UNICEF/comedian/actor (Danny Kaye Show)
1913 - Danny Kaye
1914 - Arno Schmidt, writer
1916 - Alec Coxon, cricketer (England pace bowler in one Test, 2-90 & 1-82)
1917 - Oscar Lewenstein, impressario
1918 - Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest
1918 - Bohuslav Jeremias, composer, dies at 58
1918 - Ton Brandsteder, CEO/founder (Sony Nederland)
1919 - Juan Antonio Orrego-Salas, Santiago Chile, composer
1921 - Bruce Woodcock, boxer
1922 - Constance Moore, Sioux City Iowa, actress (Window on Main Street)
1922 - Yehezkiel Braun, composer
1924 - Donald Baverstock, TV producer
1925 - Anthony Joly de Lotbiniere, TV producer
1925 - Gilles Deleuze, philosopher
1925 - Roepie Kruize, Dutch field hockey player (Olympic-Bronze-48/Silver-52
1932 - Joe Schmidt, NFL Hall-of-Famer
1932 - Robert Anton Wilson, US, sci-fi author (Trick Top Hat)
1933 - David Bellamy, English botanist/tv-program maker
1933 - John Boorman, producer/dir (Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz)
1933 - Ray Dolby, sound expert/inventor (Dolby noise limiting system)
1933 - Vladimir Yevgrafovich Bugrov, cosmonaut
1935 - Raymond Briggs, English author (Fungus the Bogeyman)
1939 - Bernard Glassman, NY, Zen teacher/head (Zen Center of NY)
1941 - Bobby Goldsboro
1941 - Bobby Goldsboro, Marianna Fla, singer (Honey)
1941 - David Ruffin, Miss, vocalist (Temptations-Papa Was a Rolling Stone)
1941 - Iva Zanicchi, actress (Ragazza Tutta d'Oro)
1943 - Dave Greene, rocker
1944 - Larry "Legs" Smith, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band-Urban Spaceman)
1944 - Relus ter Beek, Dutch Minister of defense (PvdA)
1946 - Katia Ricclarelli, actress (Falstaff, Otello, Turandot)
1948 - Takeshi Kitano, Tokyo Japan, actor (Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
1950 - Claudia de Colombia, Bogato Columbia, spanish singer (Yo Creo En Ti)
1950 - Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian auto racer
1950 - John Hughes, director (Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science)
1953 - Brett Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
1955 - Kevin Costner
1955 - Johannes AM "Hans" van Tongeren, Dutch actor (Hunk)
1955 - Kevin Costner, LA Calif, actor (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham)
1955 - Mable Fergerson, LA Calif, 4x400m runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1956 - Mark Collie, Waynesboro Tn, country singer (Another Old Soldier)
1957 - Tom Bailey, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Thompson Twins-Doctor Doctor)
1958 - Jeffrey N Williams, Superior Wisc, Major Army/astronaut
1958 - Larry Smith, NBA player
1959 - Bob Rosenberg, rocker (Will To Power)
1961 - Mark D Messier, Edmonton Alberta, NHL Center (Edmonton, NY Rangers)
1962 - Alison Arngrim, actress (Nellie-Little House of the Prairie)
1962 - David O'Connor, equestrian 3-day (Olympics-silver-96)
1963 - Jane Horrocks, Lancashire England, actress (Absolutely Fabulous)
1964 - Brady Anderson, Silver Spring MD, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1964 - Jenny Holliday, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1965 - Richard Dunwoody, British(?) jockey)
1967 - Kim Perrot, WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1967 - M C Tab, [Sharon Richard], NYC, rapper
1967 - Peter Cox Jr, Bronxville NY, fencer-sabre (Olympics-96)
1969 - Larry Webster, defensive tackle (Baltimore Ravens)
1969 - Marvin Pope, CFL defensive end (Calgary Stampeders)
1970 - Leo Araguz, NLF/WLAF punter (Oakland Raiders, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Andre Coleman, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (SD Chargers)
1971 - Greg Engel, NFL center (SD Chargers)
1972 - Dwayne Carswell, NFL tight end (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Mike Lieberthal, Glendale CA, catcher (Phila Phillies)
1972 - Ryan Kuehl, defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1972 - Steven Conley, linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 - Vinod Kambli, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1993-)
1973 - Crispian Mills, London, vocalist/guitarist (Kula Shaker)
1973 - Edward Jasper, defensive tackle (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 - Junior Burrough, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1973 - Regilio Vreede, soccer player (Blue White, RKC)
1974 - Devon Odessa, actor (Sharon-My So Called Life, Girl of Limberlost)
1974 - Shane Burton, defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1975 - Derek Smith, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1976 - Laurence Courtois, Kortrijk Belg, tennis star (1995 finalist Jakarta)
1976 - Vincent Polvliet, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1981 - Kimberly Gloudemans, Miss California Teen USA (1997)
1981 - Latoya Farley, Miss Oklahoma Teen USA (1996)
Events
336 - St Mark elected Catholic Pope
350 - General Maxentius drives out Western Roman emperor Constans
532 - Nika uprising at Constantinople fails, 30-40,000 die
1307 - German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia
1478 - Grand Duke Ivan II of Moscow occupies Novgorod
1486 - King Henry VII of England marries Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV
1520 - Christian II of Denmark & Norway defeats Swedes at Lake Asunde
1535 - Francisco Pizarro founds Lima Peru
1644 - 1st UFO sighting in America, by perplexed pilgrims in Boston
1644 - Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
1650 - French Prince Louis II of Condé captured
1671 - Pirate Henry Morgan defeats Spanish defenders, captures Panamá
1691 - English king Willem III travels to The Hague
1701 - Frederik I/Sophie Charlotte van Hanover crowned king/queen of Prussia
1733 - 1st polar bear exhibited in America (Boston)
1777 - San Jose California, founded
1778 - Capt James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
1788 - English settlers arrive in Aust's Botany Bay to setup penal colony
1795 - French admitted to Amsterdam without resistance
1795 - governor/viceroy Willem V flees Scheveningen to England
1817 - San Martín leads a revolutionary army over Andes
1840 - Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, 1st US electrical journal, appears
1850 - British blockade Piræus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims
1854 - Filibuster William Walker proclaims Republic of Sonora in NW México
1862 - Confederate Territory of Arizona forms
1865 - Battle of Ft Moultrie, SC
1869 - Elegant Calif Theater opens in SF
1871 - 2nd German Empire proclaimed by Kaiser Wilhelm I & Bismarck
1884 - General Charles Gordon departs London for Khartoum
1895 - Amsterdam's AFC soccer team forms
1896 - 1st demonstration of an X-ray machine in US (NYC)
1896 - British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa
1900 - Jan Blockx's "Tÿl Uilenspiegel" premieres in Brussels
1901 - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Graves De Communi Re
1905 - French govt of Combes falls
1908 - Frederick Delius' "Brigg Fair," premieres
1911 - 1st shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania)
1912 - English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald
1913 - Turkish-Greek sea battle near Troy
1915 - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die
1919 - WW I Peace Congress opens in Versailles, France
1921 - William Archer's "Green Goddess," premieres in NYC
1922 - Irish author Liam O'Flaherty & others occupy Rotunda in Dublin
1923 - 1st radio telegraph message from Netherlands to Dutch East Indies
1929 - "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio
1929 - Stalin proposes to ban Trotsky from the Politburo
1930 - -27°F (-33°C), Watts, Oklahoma (state record)
1930 - Shostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premieres in Leningrad
1933 - White Sands National Monument, NM established
1934 - Eugene O'Neill's "Days Without End," premieres in NYC
1938 - Bradman scores 104* for South Australia v NSW at the SCG
1938 - Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander is elected to Hall of Fame
1939 - SA wicketkeeper Bradman gets his 6th straight ton, 135* v NSW
1942 - Nazi's arrest Frans Goedhart & Wiardi Beckman
1943 - Jews in Warsaw Ghetto begin resistance of Nazis
1943 - Presliced bread sale banned to reduce bakery demand for metal parts
1943 - Soviets announce they broke long Nazi siege of Leningrad
1943 - US rations bread & metal
1943 - Uprising in Warsaw ghetto
1944 - 1st Chinese naturalized US citizen since repeal of exclusion acts
1945 - Warsaw freed by Soviet army
1947 - "Red Mill" closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 831 performances
1947 - Detroit Tigers sell Hank Greenberg to Pirates (for $25-35,000)
1947 - Small river steamer sank on Yangtze River, kills 400
1948 - 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1948 - Ted Mack's "Original Amateur Hour" begins, DuMont (later NBC/ABC/CBS)
1949 - "They Stand Accused" courtroom drama premieres on CBS (later DuMont)
1949 - 1st US Congressional standing committee headed by Negro (W Dawson)
1949 - South African Rev Andries P Treurnicht marries Engela Dreyer
1950 - Christopher Fry's "Venus Observed," premieres in London
1950 - Indians pitcher Bob Feller, after 15-14 season, takes $20,000 salary cut to $45,000, pay cut i
1951 - 1st use of lie detector in Netherlands
1951 - Hermann Flake sentenced to death due to "hate campaign against GDR"
1951 - NFL rules tackles, guards & centers ineligible for forward pass
1951 - NFL takes control of failing Baltimore Colts
1953 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1954 - Fanfani forms Italian govt
1956 - German DR forms own army (National People's Army)
1957 - 3 B-52's set record for around-the-world flight, 45 hr 19 min
1958 - 1st black in NHL (William O'Ree, Boston Bruins)
1959 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1960 - US & Japan sign joint defense treaty
1961 - Zanzibar's Afro-Shirazi party wins 1 seat by a single vote & parliament by a single seat
1962 - Southern University closed due to demonstrations
1962 - US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59)
1964 - Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35)
1964 - Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
1965 - H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname
1966 - Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)
1967 - 20th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 3-0 at Montreal
1967 - Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 - Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada
1968 - "Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances
1968 - Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in NYC
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris
1970 - Hasse Börjes skates world record 500m in 38.9 sec
1970 - NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13
1971 - Ivan Koloff beats Bruno Sammartino in NY, to become WWF champ
1973 - Boston Red Sox sign Orlando Cepeda as 1st player signed as a DH
1973 - Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak
1973 - John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC
1974 - "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1974 - Israel & Egypt sign weapons accord
1975 - "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
1976 - Superbowl X: Pitts Steelers beat Dallas Cowboys, 21-17 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Lynn Swann, Pit
1977 - Imran Khan takes 12 wickets in match for Pakistan win at the SCG
1978 - Geoff Boycott captains England for the 1st time, v Pak Karachi
1978 - Roof of 3-yr-old Civic Center in Hartford, Ct collapses (no injuries)
1978 - Thiokol conducts 2nd test firing of space shuttle's SRB
1979 - Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon
1980 - Gold reaches $1,000 an oz
1980 - Pink Floyd's "Wall" hits #1
1980 - Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell & Ian Schrager sentenced to 3½ years in prison for tax evasion &
1981 - Iran accepts US offer of $7.9 billion in frozen assets
1981 - Wendy O Williams arrested in Milwaukee for on-stage obscenity
1983 - IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being pai
1984 - 80th Islander & 3rd dual hat trick (Carroll & Bossy) 9-1 win
1985 - US renounces jurisdiction of World Court despite previous promise
1986 - 24th Space Shuttle (61-C) Mission-Columbia 7-returns to Earth
1986 - AIDS charity record "That's What Friends are For," hits #1
1986 - NY Lotto pays $30.5 million to one winner (#s are 19-20-27-34-41-46)
1987 - 11th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1988 - Airliner crashes in SW China, killing all 108 on board
1989 - Astronomers discover pulsar in remnants of Supernova 1987A (LMC)
1989 - Candace Thomas marries Steve Garvey
1989 - IBM announces earnings up 10.4% in 1988
1989 - Otis Redding, Dion, Rolling Stones, Temptations & Stevie Wonder
1989 - West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup
1990 - South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress
1990 - Wash DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1991 - Iraq launches SCUD missiles against Israel
1991 - US acknowledges CIA & US Army paid Noriega $320,000 over his career
1991 - WLAF's NY Knights become NY-NJ Knights
1991 - Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 ho
1992 - 43rd NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 10-6 at Phila
1992 - 49th Golden Globes
1992 - Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr Peter Hui
1992 - Comedian Pat McCormick injured in a car accident
1992 - NHL All Star Game - Campbell-10, Wales-6 (Brett Hull, MVP) at Phila
1993 - Martin Luther King Jr holiday observed in all 50 states for 1st time
1993 - West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0
1995 - Kumble takes 16-99 in match for Karnataka v Kerala
1995 - Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia
1996 - Baseball owners unanimously approve interleague play in 1997
1996 - Lisa Marie Presley filed for divorce from Michael Jackson in NY
1997 - 47th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 11-7 at San Jose Arena
1998 - "Ragtime," opens at Ford Theater NYC
1998 - 48th NHL All-Star Game: North America beats World 8-7 at Vancouver
1998 - 55th Golden Globes Awards
1998 - ABL All-Star Game at Disney complex in Orlando
1998 - Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00
1998 - Kelly Robbins wins Healthsouth Golf Inaugural
1998 - UCP Telethon
Deaths
1367 - Pedro I, king of Portugal (1357-67), dies at 46
1479 - Louis IX, the Rich, duke of Bayern (U of Ingolstadt), dies at 61
1580 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of John), dies at 63
1659 - Benedikt Lechler, composer, dies at 64
1664 - Moise Amyrault, French theologist/vicar, dies
1666 - Adriaen A Bloemaert, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 56
1677 - John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57
1730 - Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14
1760 - Claudio Casciolini, composer, dies at 62
1769 - Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan
1854 - Juda Turo, American philanthropist, dies
1862 - John Tyler, 10th US pres (1841-45), dies in Richmond Va at 71
1875 - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer, dies at 55
1886 - Michal Czajchovski, [Sadik Pasja], writer, dies
1890 - Amadeus I FM, king of Spain (1870-73), dies at 44
1902 - Filippo Marchetti, composer, dies at 70
1906 - Bartolom‚ Mitre, president of Argentina (1862-70), dies at 84
1913 - Edmond R H Regout, Dutch industrialist/politician, dies at 49
1919 - John C F, son of English king George V, dies at 13
1921 - Adolf von Hildebrand, German sculptor, dies at 73
1923 - Wallace Reid, actor (Birth of a Nation), dies at 31
1936 - Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907), dies at 70
1940 - Kazimierz P Tetmajer, Polish writer/poet (Young Poland), dies at 74
1951 - Robert Mark, US chairman (Caste World Congress), dies at 41
1954 - Sydney Greenstreet, actor (Conflict, Maltese Falcon), dies at 74
1962 - Raymond Moulaert, composer, dies at 86
1963 - Johnnie Moyes, journalist/cricketer (S Aust batsman), dies
1966 - Kathleen Norris, US author, dies at 85
1967 - Albert Conti, actor (Eagle, Jazz Heaven, Topaz), dies at 79
1967 - Barney Ross, welterweight Boxing Champ (1934), dies at 57
1967 - Harry Antrim, actor (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies of heart attack at 83
1967 - Reese "Goose" Tatum, basketballer (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 45
1967 - Simon FHJ Berkelbach van der Sprenkel, vicar/theologist, dies at 84
1968 - Bert Wheeler, actor (Rainmakers, High Flyers, Dixiana), dies at 72
1968 - John Ridgely, actor (Air Force, Possessed, Big Sleep), dies at 58
1968 - Lee Tracy, actor (Martin Kane-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 69
1970 - David O McKay, 9th Mormon president, dies at 96
1971 - Catherine Calvert, actress (Fires of Faith), dies of stroke at 80
1972 - Rudolf Wittelsbach, composer, dies at 69
1976 - Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes, Sparta), dies in crash [or 1/17]
1976 - Sonia Dresdel, actor (Fallen Idol, Secret Tent), dies at 67
1977 - Carl Zuckmayer, German/Swiss/US playwright (Second Wind), dies at 80
1977 - Paul Nordoff, US composer (Frog Prince), dies at 67
1977 - Yvonne Printemps, actress (Paris Waltz, Voyage to America), dies at 8
1978 - Carl Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show), dies at 67
1978 - Ivan Ivonovich Dzerzhinsky, composer, dies at 68
1979 - Cyril Mockridge, composer, dies at 82
1980 - Cecil Beaton, British photographer, dies at 76
1982 - Burnet Corwin Tuthill, US composer (Laurentia), dies at 93
1982 - Ram¢n (J) Sender (Garc‚s), Spanish writer, dies at 79
1982 - Trent Lehman, actor (Butch-Nanny & the Professor), dies at 20
1984 - Malcolm H Kerr, 9th pres of American U of Beirut, shot dead
1985 - Mahmoud Taha, Sudanese Moslem leader, hanged at 76
1985 - Wilfrid Brambell, actor (Hard Day's Night, Boys), dies at 72
1986 - Claire James, actress (Jack Armstrong), dies
1989 - Bruce Chatwin, British writer, dies at 49
1990 - Melanie Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim), dies of liver cancer at 23
1991 - Hamilton Fish, congressman (NY), dies at 102
1991 - Lillian Bond, actress (Air Mail, Pick-up, Blond Cheat), dies at 83
1991 - Nita Krebs, actor (Munchkin-Wizard of Oz), dies of heart attack at 85
1992 - John Remme, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56
1992 - Tom Elios, entertainer, dies
1993 - M Eleonore Lippits, 1st Dutch female missionary doctor, dies at 85
1993 - Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies
1993 - Mike Templeton, 2nd person to receive a heart pump, dies at 34
1994 - Arthur Altman, songwriter, dies at 83
1995 - Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939), dies at 91
1995 - Charles Baskerville, vocalist, dies at 54
1995 - Joseph Kagan, businessman, dies at 79
1996 - Leonor Fini, painter, dies at 87
1996 - Minnesota Fats, [Rudolf Wanderone Jr], billiard hustler, dies at 82
1996 - N T Rama Rao, PM of Andhra Pradesh India (1983-84, 84-89, 94-95), die
1997 - Myfanwy Piper, librettist, dies at 85
1997 - Neville Crump, racehorse trainer, dies at 86
1997 - Paul Tsongas, (Sen-D-Mass), dies at 55
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