Births
1487 - Esma'il I, shah who converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah
1674 - Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)
1702 - Johann Schneider, composer
1744 - Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering
1763 - Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education
1763 - John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader
1775 - August Harder, composer
1817 - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
1827 - Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet)
1830 - Eelco Refer, linguist (Dictionary for the Dutch translator)
1832 - Johan August Soderman, composer
1839 - Friedrich Gernsheim, composer
1853 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer
1859 - Luis Mu¤oz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party)
1871 - Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter
1873 - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
1875 - Donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876 - Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
1876 - Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, Georgia, lived to be 115 (died in 1991)
1876 - Vittorio Gnecchi, composer
1878 - Henri Zagwijn, composer
1883 - Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Acting Peace)
1883 - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Erotikon)
1885 - Benjamin James Dale, composer
1888 - Shmuel Agnon, Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966)
1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner, US detective writer (Perry Mason)
1894 - Mary Clare, London England, actress (Evil Mind, Young & Innocent)
1897 - Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge
1898 - Berenice Abbott, Springfield Oh, photographer (World of Atget)
1900 - James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), hold that grapefruit
1902 - Christina Stead, Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children)
1903 - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer
1904 - Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor
1905 - Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan
1905 - William Gargan, Bkln NY, actor (Dynamite, Ellery Queen)
1906 - John Carroll, [Julian LaFaye], New Orleans LA, actor (Wolf Call)
1908 - Rudolf Petzold, composer
1909 - Hardy Amies, London England, royal dressmaker (Queen Elizabeth II)
1912 - Art Linkletter, Saskatchewan Canada, TV host (People are Funny)
1912 - Pal Kov cs, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1952)
1912 - Art Linkletter
1913 - Everett Helm, composer
1913 - Roger Garaudy, French philosopher
1914 - Lucille Benson, Scottsboro Ala, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies)
1915 - Cass Daley, Philadelphia PA, actress (Red Garters)
1915 - Dorothy Poynton-Hill, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1932)
1915 - Esther Williamson Ballou, composer
1916 - Eleanor Steber, Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940)
1917 - Lou Bourdeau, baseball player/manager (1948 AP Athlete of Year)
1917 - Phyllis Diller, Lima Ohio, comedienne (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number)
1917 - Phyllis Diller
1919 - Alex Moir, cricketer (New Zealand leg-spinner in 17 Tests 1950-59)
1920 - Bill Monroe, New Orleans La, newscaster (NBC-TV, Congressional Report
1920 - Helen Walker, Worcester MA, actress (Brewster's Million)
1920 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, chairman (International Olympic Committee)
1920 - Rudolf Karpati, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1921 - Acquanetta, [Mildred Davenport], Wyo, actress (Tarzan & Leopard Woman
1921 - George Barnes, Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show)
1922 - Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic
1928 - Jean Elizabeth Leuckert Muir, designer dressmaker
1930 - Ryohei Hirose, composer
1932 - Niccolo Castiglioni, composer
1932 - Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials)
1932 - Wojciech Kilar, composer
1933 - Tony Pithey, cricketer (brother of David, S African batsman in 17 Tes
1934 - Donald Sutherland, St John NB, actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)
1934 - Pat McCormick, comedian (Don Rickles Show, New Bill Cosby Show)
1934 - Philippe Capdenat, composer
1934 - Rainer Kisch, writer
1935 - Diahann Carroll, Bronx, actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty)
1935 - P D Q Bach, [Peter Schickele], Iowa, composer (5th of Beethoven)
1935 - Diahann Carroll
1937 - Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer
1938 - Stan Bronstein, rocker
1939 - Spencer Davis, Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1939 - Warwick Hutton, artist
1940 - Phyllis Davis, Port Arthur Tx, actress (Love American Style, Vega$)
1941 - Bob Taylor, cricketer wicket-keeper (too often in Knotty's shadow)
1941 - Daryle Lamonica, Oakland Raider QB (AFL leading passer 1967)
1942 - Connie Hawkins, Harlem Globetrotter/NBA (Phoenix Suns, ABA MVP 1968)
1942 - Gale Garnett, Auckland NZ, singer (We'll Sing in the Sunshine)
1942 - Spencer Davis, rocker (Spencer Davis Group)
1944 - Mark Burgess, cricketer (NZ batsman of the 70's)
1945 - Fenneken Fockema Andreae, Dutch actress (Sea Gull)
1947 - Camilla Parker-Bowles, London England, Prince Charles' lover
1948 - Brian Glascock, rock drummer (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1948 - Cathy Ferguson, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1964)
1948 - Luc Bondy, Zurich Switzerland
1948 - Phillip Harris, rocker
1949 - Bill Ward, rocker
1949 - Geezer Butler, Birmingham, rocker (Black Sabbath)
1949 - Mick Tucker, London, rock drummer (Sweet Harlesden)
1949 - Mike Vale, rock bassist (Tommy James & The Shondells)
1949 - Terry "Geezer" Butler, Birmingham, rock bassist (Black Sabbath)
1951 - Lucie Arnaz, LA Calif, actress (Kim-Here's Lucy, Jazz Singer)
1952 - Chet McCracken, Seattle Wash, rocker (Doobie Brothers)
1952 - David Hasselhoff, Balt Md, actor (Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch)
1952 - Nicolette Larson, KC MO, rock vocalist (Twins, Lotta Love)
1952 - Phoebe Snow, singer (Theme from "It's a Different World")
1952 - Robert R[ick] McCammon, US, sci-fi author (Baal, Mystery Walk)
1952 - Th‚ Lau, Dutch singer/guitarist/composer (The Scene, Row Row Row)
1952 - David Hasselhoff
1952 - Phoebe Snow
1956 - Bryan Trottier, Val Marie Sask, NHL Center (NY Islanders)
1957 - Bruce Crump, rock drummer (Molly Hatchet)
1958 - Belinda Carlisle, LA Calif, rock vocalist (Go-Go's-Vacation)
1959 - Janet Lynn Kavandi, Springfield Mo, PhD/astronaut (sk:STS 91)
1960 - Jan Wouters, Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Bayern Munich, PSV)
1960 - Karen Elaine Price, Pasadena Calif, playmate (January, 1981)
1960 - Kim Barnett, cricketer (England batsman & occasional leggie 1988-89)
1960 - Nancy Giles, NYC, actress (Connie-Delta, Off Beat, Big, Angie)
1960 - Robin Shou, martial arts actor (Mortal Kombat, Beverly Hills Ninja)
1960 - Scott Norwood, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills-Superbowl XXV goat)
1962 - Jay Barrs, Jacksonville Fla, archer (Olympics-gold-1988, 92, 96)
1963 - Denise Miller, Bkln NY, actress (Billie-Archie Bunker's Place)
1963 - Matti Nyk„nen, Finnish ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1984, 88)
1964 - Heather Langenkamp, actress (Marie-Just the 10 of Us)
1965 - Alex Winter, London England, actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure)
1965 - Ken Evraire, CFL slot back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1966 - Michael John Bradley, Largo FL, PGA golfer (1993 Kemper Open-3rd)
1967 - Kevin Pritchard, NBA guard (Washington Bullets)
1967 - Pearl Sinn, Seoul Korea, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic-35th)
1969 - Tommy Soderstrom, Stockholm SWE, NHL goalie (Sweden, NY Islanders)
1970 - Bronwyn Roye, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - Mandy Smith, England, rocker (I Just Can't Wait)/wife of Bill Wyman
1971 - Calbert Cheaney, NBA forward/guard (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1971 - Daniel Kunce, Sumperk GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1972 - Donny Marshall, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1972 - Eric Williams, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets, Boston Celtics)
1972 - Melissa "Missy" Schwen, Bloomington Ind, rower (Olympics-silver-96)
1972 - Michael Lampert, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1973 - Horacio Llamas, NBA center (Phoenix Suns)
1975 - Troy Amos Ross, Georgetown Guyana, Canadian boxer (Olympics-96)
Events
180 - Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death in Carthago
561 - John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
855 - St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1054 - Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king
1070 - Arnulf III the Hapless becomes earl of Flanders
1203 - Venetianen conquer Constantinople, emperor Alexius III flees
1245 - Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time
1393 - Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
1429 - Dauphin crowned king of France
1453 - 1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops
1473 - Charles the Stout conquerors Nijmegen
1509 - Venice recaptures Padua
1549 - Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
1552 - Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun
1583 - Spanish & Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk
1585 - English secret service discovers Anthony Babingtons murder plot against queen Elizabeth I
1596 - At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya
1603 - Sir Walter Ralegh arrested
1712 - England, Portugal & France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
1727 - Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
1740 - Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
1774 - Capt Cook arrives at New Hebrides (Vanuata)
1775 - 1st military hospital approved
1788 - Russian fleet destroys Swedish
1794 - African Church of St Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
1794 - Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
1821 - Spain cedes Florida to US
1841 - British humor magazine "Punch" 1st published
1850 - Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1856 - Sunday school excursion train collides killing 46 children (Phila)
1861 - Congress authorizes paper money
1861 - Manassas, VA Gen Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, Gen Johnston is ordere
1862 - Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition
1862 - US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
1862 - United army officially divides corps
1862 - R John Hunt Morgan:Cynthiana, KY CS24 US17 Skirmish at Columbia, TN
1863 - Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory
1864 - CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1866 - Italian fleet under adm Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa
1867 - 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1879 - 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
1890 - Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony
1893 - Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket
1897 - 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
1898 - Spanish American War-Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba
1900 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Bkln Superbas
1902 - Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their fr
1911 - Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
1912 - IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
1914 - Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, end
1915 - Italian offensive at Isonzo
1917 - British Royal family changes its name from Hanover to Windsor
1918 - Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
1919 - Finland adopts constitution
1919 - Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
1922 - Curaçao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1922 - Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year
1923 - Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
1924 - St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1925 - Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1926 - Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
1929 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with China
1934 - Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
1935 - Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"
1936 - Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0,
1936 - Military uprising under Gen Franco/begins Spanish civil war
1938 - Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland
1939 - 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY
1941 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland
1942 - 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
1942 - Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record)
1942 - Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemünde
1944 - 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322
1944 - Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland
1945 - Potsdam Conference (FDR, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
1948 - Israeli army captures Nazareth
1948 - Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea
1950 - Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
1951 - King Leopold II of Belgium gives up throne to son Boudouin I
1952 - Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier
1954 - 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1954 - Construction begins on Disneyland. . .
1954 - Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany
1955 - Disneyland opens its doors in rural Orange County
1955 - Arco Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
1958 - King Hussein declares himself head of Jordan/Iraqi federation
1958 - Peter Shaffer's "Five Finger Exercise," premieres in London
1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Enwetak
1959 - 2,000 ft long by 1,300 foot wide section of ridge falls into Madis
1959 - Dr Leakey discovers oldest human skull (600,000 years old)
1959 - Tibet abolishes serfdom
1959 - River Canyon extending man-made Lake Hebgen by 5 miles. (Montana)
1961 - John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show
1961 - Roger Maris loses a HR (of his 61) due to a rain-out in 5th
1961 - Ford Frick rules that if anyone breaks Babe Ruth 60 HR record, it must be done in 1st 154 game
1962 - East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall
1962 - Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)
1962 - Senate rejects medicare for aged
1962 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
1964 - Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph)
1964 - Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (ABC) begins
1966 - "It's a Bird... It's Superman" closes at Alvin NYC after 129 perfs
1966 - Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1966 - Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit
1966 - Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
1966 - Pioneer 7 launched
1967 - Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act
1967 - Race riots in Cairo Illinois
1968 - Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
1968 - Revolt in Iraq
1970 - 30,000 attend Randall's Island Rock Festival, NYC
1971 - Kathy Whitworth/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Four-Ball Golf Championship
1972 - 1st 2 women begin training as FBI agents at Quantico
1973 - Military coup in Afghanistan; King Mohammad Zahir Shah flees
1974 - 1st quadrophonic studio in UK is open by Moody Blues
1974 - Bob Gibson becomes 2nd pitcher to strike-out 3,000 (Cesar Geronimo)
1974 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1974 - John Lennon is ordered to leave US in 60 days
1975 - Apollo 18 & Soyuz 19 make 1st US/USSR linkup in space
1975 - Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce
1976 - 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montréal
1976 - Indonesian president Suharto annexes East Timor
1977 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1978 - NY Yank manager Billy Martin & Reggie Jackson fight in dug out
1978 - Reggie Jackson refusal to bunt causes mgr Billy Martin to suspend him
1979 - 50th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-6 at Kingdome, Seattle
1979 - All star MVP: Dave Parker (Pitts Pirates)
1979 - David Gower 200* in England score of 5-633 v India at Edgbaston
1979 - Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza flees to Miami
1979 - Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
1979 - Simone Veil becomes chairman of European Parliament
1980 - Bolivian military coup; general Garcia Meza becomes president
1980 - Ronald Reagan formally accepts Republican nomination for president
1980 - Zenko Suzuki becomes premier of Japan
1981 - "This is Burlesque" closes at Princess Theater NYC after 28 perfs
1981 - Humbar Estuary Bridge, UK, world's longest span (1.4 km), opens
1981 - Israeli bombers destroy PLO/al-Fatah headquarters in Beirut
1981 - Lobby Walkways at KC's Hyatt Regency collapse 114 die, 200 injured
1981 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1981 - Fulton County (Atlanta) grand jury indicts Wayne B William 23 year old photographers, for murd
1983 - 112th British Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 275 at Royal Birkdale
1983 - 1st USFL championship (Mich Panthers beats Phila Stars 24-22)
1983 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic
1984 - Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France
1984 - Soyuz T-12 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 7
1986 - Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 7th time
1987 - "Les Miserables," opens at Imperial Theatre, Tokyo
1987 - 10 teens die in Guadalupe River flood (Comfort, Tx)
1987 - Don Mattingly is 2nd to hit HRs in 7 straight AL games (en route to 8)
1987 - Dow Jones closes above 2,500 (2,510.04) for 1st time
1987 - Iran & France breaks diplomatic relations
1988 - 117th British Golf Open: Seve Ballesteros shoots 273 at Royal Lytham
1988 - 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute
1988 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 100m woman's record (10.49)
1988 - Highest temperature ever recorded in San Francisco, 103°F (39°C)
1989 - 1st Test flight of US stealth-bomber
1989 - Paul McCartney releases "This One"
1989 - Reds reliever Kent Tekulve retires after 1,070 appearances
1990 - Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
1990 - NY Yankee Deion Sanders hits an inside park homer
1990 - PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis
1990 - Minn Twins become 1st team to turn 2 triple plays in a game but lose to Boston Red Sox 1-0
1992 - Slovak parliament asks for self rule
1993 - Graeme Obree bicycles world record time, 51,596 km
1994 - 123rd British Golf Open: Nick Price shoots a 268 at Turnberry Scotland
1994 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1994 - Brazil beats Italy in a shoot out, for their 4th soccer world cup
1994 - French youngster (4) becomes Buddhist Lama Tulkou Kalou Rinpoche
1994 - Hulk Hogan beats Ric Flair to win WCW wrestling championship
1995 - Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world ($12.9B)
1996 - 230 people die when TWA 800 crashes outside of NYC
1996 - Yank John Weteland blows save after record 24 consecutive saves
1997 - STS 94 (Columbia 23), lands
1998 - Russia buries tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died
Deaths
924 - Edward, the Older, English speaking king (899-924), dies
1025 - Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies
1070 - Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies
1345 - Jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched
1510 - Edmund Dudley, English minister of Justice/Finance, dies
1510 - Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48
1627 - Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67
1682 - Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29
1709 - Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60
1746 - Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53
1753 - Andr‚-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies
1762 - Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34
1763 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45
1764 - Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82
1793 - Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined
1794 - Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45
1826 - Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65
1838 - John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82
1851 - Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37
1863 - James Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35
1864 - Daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29
1864 - Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71
1871 - Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29
1875 - Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77
1878 - Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65
1901 - John Farmer, composer, dies at 64
1903 - James A McNeill Whistler, US/Brit writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69
1912 - J-Henri Poincar‚, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58
1915 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday
1918 - Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II, executed at 13
1918 - Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death at 46
1918 - Anastasia N Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicholas, executed at 17
1918 - Botkin, personal physician of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 - Charitonov, cook of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 - Demidova, lady in waiting of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 - Maria Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 - Nicolas II Aleksandrovitch, last tsar of Russia, executed at 50
1918 - Olga Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 - Tatyana Romanova, daughter of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1918 - Trupp, lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death
1922 - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57
1928 - Alvaro Obregon, general/pres of Mexico, assassinated
1928 - Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies
1937 - Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
1944 - Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies
1946 - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslav gen (Nazi), executed at 53
1947 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved Jews), dies at 34
1953 - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65
1953 - Maude K Adams, US actress (Little Minister), dies
1954 - Dirk B Nanninga, painter, dies at 85
1955 - Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73
1957 - John Coltrane, rocker, dies of cancer at 30
1959 - Billie Holiday, jazz singer, dies of drug OD at 44
1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78
1959 - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies
1961 - Ty Cobb, baseball great (Det Tigers), dies of cancer at 74
1965 - Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57
1966 - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71
1967 - Cyril Ring, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Red Hot & Blue), dies at 74
1967 - Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77
1967 - John Coltrane, US jazz sax/composer (Round Midnight), dies at 40
1970 - Juano Hernandez, actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74
1971 - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76
1974 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher (St Louis Cards), dies at 63
1975 - Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)
1978 - Thayer David, actor (Rocky, Roots, Savages), dies at 51
1979 - Doug Meintjes, S Afr cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies
1980 - Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68
1984 - J Delos Jewkes, singer/actor (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 89
1985 - Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93
1985 - Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor
1988 - Bruiser Brody, wrestler, stabbed to death
1990 - Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68
1993 - Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61
1993 - Scott Salmon, US choreographer (La Cage aux Folles), dies at 51
1993 - Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84
1994 - Jean Borotra, [Flying Basque], Fr tennis star (Davis Cup), dies at 95
1994 - S‚bastian Piana, Argentine pianist/tango composer, dies at 91
1995 - Herbert Hippauf, baseball player, dies at 56
1995 - Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd, dies at 71
1996 - Alan McGilvray, cricket commentator, dies at 85
1996 - Amancio D'Silva, musician, dies at 60
1996 - Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57
1996 - Chris Komar, dancer, dies at 48
1996 - Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe, landscape architect, dies at 95
1996 - John William Fozard, aircraft designer, dies at 68
1996 - Paul Touvier, French WW II criminal, dies at 81
1996 - Sid Sussman, beauty pageant organizer, dies of heart attack
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