Births
1583 - Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent
1633 - Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer
1637 - Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer
1752 - Meingosus Gaelle, composer
1834 - Wesley Merritt, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1837 - Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
1843 - David Popper, composer
1843 - Jan Malat, composer
1853 - Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer
1858 - Eugene Ysaye, composer
1858 - Gustav V, king of Sweden (1907-50)
1861 - Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian
1863 - Paul Antonin Vidal, composer
1874 - Arthur Meighen, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926)
1879 - Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Novel Law)
1879 - Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees the boy)
1888 - Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown)
1890 - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], England, comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1892 - Lupino Lane, London England, actress (Love Parade)
1894 - Norman Kerry, Rochester NY, actor (Phantom of the Opera)
1895 - Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1896 - Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer (Peugeot)
1896 - William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants)
1899 - Helen Traubel, St Louis MO, soprano (Sieglinde in Walkre, Nightclubs
1899 - Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday)
1900 - Jan van Tilburg, governor Suriname (PVDA, 1955-62)
1901 - Arthur Pierson, Oslo Norway, actor/director (Hat Check Girl)
1901 - Conrad Beck, composer
1902 - Barbara McClintock, US, cytogeneticist (Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983)
1902 - Kornelis Posthumus, Dutch chemist
1903 - Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer
1904 - Gerard Holt, Dutch architect
1906 - Alan Fairfax, cricketer (Australian all-rounder late 20's early 30's)
1907 - Jack Albertson, Malden Mass, actor (Thin Man, Chico & the Man)
1907 - John Hadfield, author/publisher (Love on a Branch Line)
1909 - Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert)
1910 - E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders, Caine Mutiny)
1910 - Ilona Massey, Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show)
1910 - Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council)
1910 - Richard Maling Barrer, chemist
1911 - Georg Meistermann, German (glass)painter (Raumpl„nen)
1912 - Enoch Powell, England, MP (C)/racist/Greek professor
1912 - John Peel, MP
1914 - Stewart Cathie "Billy" Griffith, cricketer (140 for England, 1948)
1914 - Stewart Griffith, secretary (MCC)
1915 - Joseph Kagan, businessman
1915 - Mariano Rumor, premier Italy
1916 - Francis Lopez, composer
1916 - Hank Luisetti, NBA forward (1st to use a one-handed shot)
1917 - Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post)
1919 - Lord Aberdare, committee chairman (House of Lords)
1920 - John Howard Griffin, US, photographer/author (Black Like Me)
1921 - Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England)
1923 - Ake Hermanson, composer
1923 - Henryk Czyz, composer
1924 - Sayed Idries Shah, thinker
1925 - Faith Domergue, New Orleans, actress (House of 7 Corpses)
1925 - Richard Jacobs, philanthropist/sports owner (Cleveland Indians)
1927 - Robert Matthews, master (Clare College Cambridge England)
1927 - Thomas W "Tom" Graveney, English cricket batsman (50's & 60's)
1928 - Harold Hanham, vice chancellor (Lancaster University)
1928 - Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64)
1929 - James Kirtland Randall, composer
1930 - Brian Statham, cricketer (masterful England quick for two decades)
1930 - David Konstant, bishop (Leeds)
1931 - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader
1931 - Ivo Petric, composer
1931 - Robert F [Bob] Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1983- )
1932 - David Keylsey, actor/director
1932 - Ralph Robins, CEO (Rolls-Royce)
1933 - Joachim Nowotny, writer
1934 - Eileen Atkins, London England, actress (Equus, Devil Within Her)
1934 - Janet Pilgrim, playmate (July 1955, Dec 1955, Oct 1956)
1934 - Little Caesar, vocalist (Little Caesar & the Romans)
1934 - Lord Patrick Beresforord, blood-stock agent
1934 - Lucia Dlugoszewski, composer
1935 - Jim Dine, Cincinnati Oh, pop artist (St John the Divine)
1936 - August Willemsen, Dutch poet/translator
1936 - Fred Oster, Dutch TV host
1937 - Erich Segal
1937 - August Busch III, CEO (Anheuser-Busch, St Louis Cards)
1937 - Erich Segal, Brooklyn NY, author (Love Story, Oliver's Story)
1938 - Helen Ryan, British?, actress (Hannah)
1938 - James Bolam, actor (Crucible of Terror)
1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, NY, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights)
1938 - Michael Culver, British? actor (Devil's Webs)
1938 - Mickie Finn, Hugo Okla, TV hostess/banjo player (Mickie Finn's)
1938 - Joyce Carol Oates
1940 - Billy "Crash" Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer
1940 - Hans Dorrestijn, Dutch cabaret performer
1941 - Lamont Dozier, Detroit, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier)
1942 - Eddie Levert, Canton Ohio, vocalist (O'Jays-For the Love of Money)
1942 - Giacomo Agostini, Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion
1942 - John Rostill, rocker
1943 - Joan Van Ark, NYC, actress (Valene-Dallas, Knots Landing)
1943 - Joan Van Ark
1944 - Joan Barbara Grigor, artist
1944 - Takamiyama, [Jesse Kuhaulua], Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion
1946 - Lord Astor, of Hever
1946 - Neil MacGregor, director (British National Gallery)
1946 - Simon Williams, US, actor (Fiendish plot of dr Fu Manchu)
1949 - Kale Browne, San Rafael Calif, actor (Michael Hudson-Another World)
1949 - Peppy Castro, [Emil Thielhelm], NYC, rock vocalist (Balance)
1950 - James Smith, US, singer (Stylistics-Can't Give you Anything)
1950 - Jesse Dizon, Oceanside Calif, actor (Ramon-Operation Petticoat)
1951 - John Salthouse, British(?) actor (American Werewolf in London)
1951 - Michel Viso, France, cosmonaut
1951 - Roberto Duran, boxer (fists of stone, no m…s)
1951 - Sonia Braga, Maringa Brazil, actress (Dona Flor & Her 2 Husbands)
1952 - Aleksandr Zaitsev, USSR, pairs figure skating (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1952 - Gino Vanelli, Montreal Quebec, singer (Living Inside Myself)
1952 - Rob Kloet, pop drummer/singer (Nits-In the Dutch Mountains)
1953 - Ian Mosley, Paddington London, drummer (Marillion-Clutching at Straws
1954 - Gary Roberts, rocker (Boomtown Rats)
1954 - Jeffrey S Ashby, Dallas Tx, astronaut (sk: STS 85)
1955 - Laurie Metcalf, Carbonville Illinois, actress (Jackie-Roseanne)
1955 - Simon Bailey, priest
1957 - Adri van Tiggelen, Dutch soccer star (Sparta/PSV)
1957 - Ian Buchanan, Scotland, actor (General Hospital, Gary Shandling Show)
1961 - Robbie Kerr, cricketer (Queensland opener 2 Tests for Australia 1985)
1963 - Mohsin Kamal, cricketer (Pakistani fast bowler 1984- )
1965 - J J Birden, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1965 - Johannes Harisch, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1966 - [Eric] Randy Barnes, Charleston WV, shot putter (Oly-silv/gold-88, 96
1966 - Jan Zelezny, Czech, javelin thrower (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1968 - Alton Montgomery, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 - Matt Turk, NFL punter (Washington Redskins)
1968 - Nehemiah Perry, cricketer (fine Jamaican off-spinner)
1968 - Patrick Stuart, Hollywood Cal, actor (Will Cortlandt-All My Children)
1969 - Kevin Young, Alpena MI, infielder (KC Royals)
1969 - L B Stephens, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 - Michael Husted, NFL place kicker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Phil A Mickelson, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1991 Northern Telecom)
1971 - Andre President, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 - Christopher Gomez, LA Calif, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1971 - Tupac Shakur, Bkln NY, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet) (killed in 1996
1971 - Tupac Shakur
1972 - Shawnelle Scott, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1973 - Shannon Myers, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1975 - Asa Carlsson, Vasteras Sweden, tennis star (1995 Futures-Stockholm)
1975 - Maria Sinigerova, Miss Universe-Bulgaria (1996)
1976 - Frank van Twillert, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1993 - Alice Ann Newman, daughter of Gretchen & Randy
Events
632 - Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era
1338 - German monarch declares pope & king's decree redundant
1487 - Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole & Lord Lovell
1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison Scotland
1624 - Judge directs US colony Virginia to English crown
1673 - Peace of Vossem: Fren King Louis XIV & Frederik Willem of Brandenburg
1745 - English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River
1746 - Battle at Piacenza: Austria & Sardinia beat Spanish & French army
1755 - British capture Fort Beauséjour, expel Acadians
1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it is Breed's Hill)
1775 - Liberty Bell rang for the 2nd Continental Congress
1779 - In support of the US, Spain declares war on England
1779 - Vice-adm Hardy sails out of Isle of Wright against Spanish Armada
1784 - Holland forbids orange clothes
1794 - 1st stone layed at Dutch biggest grain windmill (De Walvisch)
1815 - Battle at Ligny: French army under Napoleon beats Prussia
1815 - Battle at Quatre-Bras: allies strike French
1822 - Denmark Vessy leads slave rebellion in South Carolina
1823 - King Willem I opens shipyard at Rotterdam-Antwerp
1832 - Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Ill
1836 - London Working Men's Assn forms
1842 - Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die
1858 - Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand"
1861 - Battle of Vienna, VA & Secessionville, SC (James Island)
1864 - Battle of Lynchburg VA
1864 - Skirmish at Golgotha Georgia
1864 - Union Gen Grant begin siege of Petersburg, Va
1871 - Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of Mystic Shrine founded, NYC
1873 - Pres Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Percé indians
1879 - Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
1880 - Salvation Army forms in Londo
1881 - Austria-Hungary & Serbia sign military treaty
1882 - 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa
1883 - 1st baseball "Ladies' Day" (NY Gothams beat Cleve Spiders 5-2)
1884 - 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1884 - On Coney Island, the 1st roller coaster begins operating
1893 - RW Rueckheim invents Cracker Jack
1896 - Temperature hits 127°F at Fort Mojave, Calif
1898 - China's emperor De Zong (Guang Xu) receives Kang Youwei
1899 - Victor Trumper's 1st Test Cricket century 135* v England, Lord's
1903 - 1st Highlander (Yankee) shut-out victory 1-0 over White Sox
1903 - Ford Motors incorporates
1903 - Pepsi Cola company forms
1904 - Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses)
1909 - 1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
1909 - Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will
1913 - South-African parliament forbids blacks owning land
1916 - Boston Brave's Tom Hughes 2nd no-hitter beats Pitts, 2-0
1917 - 1st Congress of Soviets convene in Russia
1917 - 49th Belmont: James Butwell aboard Hourless wins in 2:17.8
1922 - Henry Berliner demonstrates his helicopter to US Bureau of Aeronautics
1923 - Sun Yat Sen founds military academy
1924 - South Africa all out 30 v England in 48 minutes, Gilligan 6-7
1927 - 31st US Golf Open: Tommy Armour shoots a 301 at Oakmont CC in Pa
1929 - Otto E Funk, 62, ends marathon walk (NY to SF, 4165 miles in 183 days)
1931 - Austrian govt of Ender falls
1932 - Germany forbids SA/SS-gang fights
1932 - Pres Hoover & VP Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention
1932 - Sutcliffe & Holmes make 555 opening cricket stand for Yorks v Essex
1933 - National Industrial Recovery Act becomes law (later struck down)
1933 - US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created
1935 - US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"
1936 - Dutch queen Wilhelmina opens the Waal bridge
1936 - Pope Pius XI receives Anton Mussert (Dutch Nazi collaborator)
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in LA
1938 - Jimmie Foxx is walked a record 6 consecutive times by Browns
1938 - St Louis Browns walk Boston Red Sox Jimmy Foxx 6 times in a row
1940 - Communist govt installed in Lithuania
1940 - General De Gaulle arrives in Bordeaux
1941 - 1st US federally owned airport opened Wash DC
1943 - Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
1944 - Iceland adopts constitution
1944 - King Edward VI visits Montgomery's HQ in Normandy
1944 - US bombs Kyushu Japan
1945 - 71st Preakness: Wayne D Wright aboard Polynesian wins in 1:58.8
1945 - Boo Ferriss loses to Yanks 3-2 after starting his career with 8 wins
1946 - "Annie Get Your Gun" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1147 perfs
1946 - 46th US Golf Open: Lloyd Mangrum shoots a 284 at Canterbury GC Cleve
1947 - 1st network news-Dumont's "News from Washington"
1947 - Pravda denounces Marshall Plan
1949 - Gas turbine-electric locomotive demonstrated, Erie Pa
1951 - 51st US Golf Open: Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1951 - 83rd Belmont: David Gorman aboard Counterpoint wins in 2:29
1952 - Soviet Fighters shoot Swedish Catalina reconnaissance flight down
1953 - Despite Johnny Mize 2,000th hit, Yanks lose ending 18 game win streak & also ending St Louis B
1954 - Dutch military conscription shortened from 20 to 18 months
1954 - Ngo Dinh Diem elected president of Vietnam
1955 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1955 - Pope Pius XII ex-communicates Argentine Pres Juan Peron
1956 - 56th US Golf Open: Cary Middlecoff shoots a 281 at Oak Hill CC NY
1956 - 88th Belmont: David Erb aboard Needles wins in 2:29.8
1957 - French offensive in Algeria
1957 - White Sox reliever Dixie Howell hits 2 HRs to beat Wash Senators 8-6
1958 - "Flip Top Box" by Dicky Doo & The Don'ts hits #46
1958 - Govt troops land on North-Celebes Indonesia
1960 - "Psycho," opens in NY
1960 - Pres Eisenhower cancels trip to Japan
1961 - Dave Garroway is fired as Today Show host
1961 - Discoverer 25 launched
1961 - Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris
1962 - 2 US army officers killed in Saigon
1962 - Caspar Weinberger (Sec of Def 1981-87), indicted on Iran-contra charge
1963 - Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM
1963 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open
1963 - Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
1964 - Amnesty granted to 3,000 political prisoners
1964 - Quake strikes Niigata Japan
1966 - "Rowan & Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1966 - 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win
1967 - 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival
1968 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic
1968 - 68th US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY
1968 - Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par
1969 - Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House
1970 - Kenneth A Gibson elected 1st black mayor of Newark, NJ
1970 - Race riots in Miami Florida
1971 - Groningen soccer team forms in Groningen
1971 - Racial disturbance in Jacksonville Florida
1973 - Leonid I Brezhnev visit US
1974 - 74th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 287 at Winged Foot GC NY
1974 - Homer Simpson & Marge Bouvier wed
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins Lawson's LPGA Golf Open
1975 - Bucks trade Kareem Abdul-Jabber & Walt Wesley to LA for 4 players
1975 - Italy's Communist party PCI, wins
1975 - Randy Farland finds a 14-leaf clover near Sioux Falls, SD
1975 - Supreme Court rules uniform minimum legal fees are a violation
1976 - Student uprisings begin in Soweto, South Africa (Soweto Day)
1977 - "Beatlemania" opens on Broadway
1977 - Fianna Fail-party wins Irish elections
1977 - Leonid Brezhnev named president of USSR
1977 - Ron Guidry's 1st complete game, 7-0 over KC Royals
1978 - Cin Red Tom Seaver no-hits St Louis Cards, 4-0
1978 - Ringo releases "Bad Boy" album; Wings releases "I've Had Enough"
1979 - "Logical Song" by Supertramp peaks at #6
1979 - Carl Yastrzemski hits his 1,000th extra base hit
1979 - Moslem Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria
1980 - "Blues Brothers," premieres in Chicago
1980 - Supreme Court rules new forms of life created in labs could be patents
1982 - Britain requests Argentina arrange for return of prisoners
1983 - Charlos Vieira completes 191 hr "nonstop" cycling in Leiria Portugal
1983 - European Space Agency launches European Comm Satellite 1, Oscar 10
1983 - Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1983 - Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany
1983 - USSR party leader Yuri Andropov elected president
1984 - Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race
1984 - Matt de Waal finishes 14,290-mi round trip from Salt Lake City (106d)
1985 - 85th US Golf Open: Andy North shoots a 279 at Oakland Hills CC Mich
1985 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1985 - T C Chen, ahead by 4 strokes in final round of US Open
1985 - Willie Banks of USA sets triple jump record (58'11½") in Indianapolis quadruple bogies 5th hol
1986 - 1 day general strike in South Africa
1987 - Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, opens
1987 - Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 blac
1988 - Boston Red Sox Barrett steals home
1988 - In Santa Barbara, CA, a team of 32 divers begin cycling underwater on a standard tricycle, to
1989 - "Ghostbusters II" premieres
1989 - Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956
1989 - Only 17 hole-in-ones recorded since US open began, today 4 more are made all on 6th hole (Weav
1990 - "U Can't Touch This" by MC Hammer peaks at #8
1990 - Nelson & Winnie Mandela visit Leidseplein, Amsterdam
1991 - "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 241 perfs
1991 - -23] NYC Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"
1991 - 91st US Golf Open: Payne Stewart shoots a 282 at Hazeline Natl GC Minn
1991 - Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
1991 - Colleen Walker wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1991 - Minnesota Twins win a team record 15 games in a row
1991 - Otis Nixon steals NL record 6 bases in 1 day
1991 - With 3 runs in 9th, Balt ends Twins 15 game win streak 6-5
1992 - Colo Rockies 1st minor league team's (Bend Oregon in Class A) game
1992 - Great Brit postage stamp 350 year battle near Edgehill
1992 - Jeff King is 5th to be thrown out twice trying to steal in an inning
1992 - Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0)
1992 - Longest salami is 68'9 & 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway
1993 - Ken Griffey Jr slugs his 100th career home run in Seattle's
1994 - Martin Brodeur becomes 1st Devil to win Calder Trophy
1995 - "Batman Forever" opens with a record $528 million weekend
1995 - Marlins outfielder Andre Dawson hits his 400th NL career HR (429)
1995 - Salt Lake City awarded the XIX Winter Olympics in 2002
1996 - 1st competitive game played on turf in Holland (in third grade)
1996 - 50th NBA Championship: Chic Bulls beat Seat Supersonic, 4 games to 2
1996 - 96th US Golf Open: Steve Jones shoots a 278 wins at Oakland Hills CC
1996 - Liselotte Neumann wins First Bank Edina Realty LPGA Golf Classic
1997 - 31st Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & LeAnn Rimes
Deaths
956 - Hugo, the Great, duke of France, dies
1216 - Innocent III, pope, dies at 54
1246 - Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64
1361 - John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61
1492 - Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded
1575 - Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen the Jonghe], medical/historian, dies at 63
1620 - Carlo Saraceni, [Carlo Veniziano], Italian painter (Judith), dies
1644 - Johannes a Sancto Thoma, [Poinset], Portuguese theologist, dies at 54
1651 - Marsilio Casentini, composer, dies at 74
1671 - Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured & executed in Moscow
1722 - John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72
1752 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88
1793 - Louis A count d'Affry, general/French ambassador in Netherland, dies
1804 - Johann Adam Hiller, composer, dies at 75
1808 - Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer, dies at 60
1812 - Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23
1815 - Frederik Willem, duke of Brunswick (1813-15), dies in battle
1831 - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64
1837 - Valentino Fioravanti, composer, dies at 72
1880 - James Southerton, cricketer (appeared in England's 1st 2 Tests), dies
1892 - Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice, dies at 80
1901 - Hermann Grimm, German writer/poet/historian, dies
1905 - Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer/governor of E Africa, dies at 5
1910 - Wendelin Weissheimer, composer, dies at 72
1930 - Elmer Ambrose Sperry, US inventor (gyroscope compass), dies
1932 - Frederik W Van Oaths, psychiatrist/writer (Blades of Grass), dies
1936 - Leib Malach, Yiddish writer, dies
1940 - Dubose Heyward, US writer (Porgy, Star Spangled Virgin), dies
1940 - Vitezslava Kapralova, composer, dies at 25
1941 - Lodo of Hamel, 1st Dutch secret affiliate, dies
1946 - Ludwig Winder, writer, dies
1946 - Miloje Milojevic, composer, dies at 61
1947 - Jean-Fran‡ois Capart, Belgian egyptologist (Memphis), dies at 86
1958 - Jose Pablo Moncayo Garcia, composer, dies at 45
1959 - George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), shoots self at 4
1961 - O C Scott, cricketer (WI leg-spinner in 8 Tests), dies
1962 - Hans Rudolf Krik, Danish writer/critic (Vredens Sín), dies at 64
1963 - J C Powys, writer, dies at 90
1969 - Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Brit field marshal, dies at 7
1969 - John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57
1969 - John Scott, rocker with the Pretenders, dies at 25
1969 - Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, composer, dies at 53
1970 - Elsa Triolet, writer, dies at 73
1970 - Heino Eller, composer, dies at 83
1975 - Don Robey, US gospel/impresario/producer, dies at 71
1976 - Francis E Meloy Jr, US ambassador to Lebanon, kidnapped & killed
1976 - Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live, dies
1977 - Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), dies at 65 of smoking
1979 - Ben Weber, US composer (Thorne Music Award 1965), dies at 62
1979 - Liselotte Welskopf-Heinrich, writer, dies at 77
1981 - Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered
1981 - John S Knight, US newspaper magnate, dies at 86
1982 - John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs
1987 - Henk H Badings, mine engineer/composer (Orestes, Ka‹n), dies at 80
1990 - Eva Turner, British soprano, dies
1991 - Vicky Brown, US singer (Power of Love), dies
1992 - Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies
1993 - John B Connally, gov of Texas/shot with JFK in 1963, dies at 76
1993 - Lindsay Hassett, cricketer (3073 runs in Tests), dies
1994 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble, dies at 88
1994 - Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings), dies at 82
1994 - Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic, dies at 82
1995 - Jack Wagner, actor/voice (Disneyland, Walt Disney World), dies
1996 - David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician, dies at 69
1996 - Mel Allen, sportscaster (NY Yankees), dies at 83
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