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1301 Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes 1st prince of Wales
1522 Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish/Austrian Branches
1550 Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III
1569 King Philip II forms inquistion in South America
1613 Michail Romanov (16) becomes czar of Russia
1639 Académie Française begins Dictionary of French Language
1653 Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France
1668 Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of "Ballet of Peace"
1792 Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant
1792 D Cimarosa's opera "Il Matrimonio Segreto," premieres in Vienna
1795 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
1795 Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies
1812 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1812 Lord Byron makes his maiden speech in House of Lords
1818 1st successful US educational magazine "Academician," begins (NYC)
1827 Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (NYC)
1831 Belgium adopts it's Constitution
1836 "Sketches by Boz" (essays) published by Charles Dickens
1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
1862 Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC
1864 Federal troops occupy Jacksonville, Florida
1872 Alcorn A & M College opens
1876 Pres Grants private-secretary Orville acquitted in Whiskey Ring
1877 1st Guernsey Cattle Club organizes (NYC)
1881 Battle at Ingogo, Transvaal: Boers beat superior British forces
1882 Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss
1883 Lt-colonel Borgnis-Desbordes founds Fort Bamako Niger
1884 Canadian Rugby Football Union forms
1889 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in SF
1891 Great Blizzard of 1891 begins
1900 British troops vacate Vaal Krantz, Natal
1900 Labour Party forms in England
1901 Queen Wilhelmina marries Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
1903 VVV '03 Soccer team forms in Venlo
1904 Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)
1905 Dominican Rep signs treaty turning over customs collection to US
1905 Oklahoma admitted to statehood
1908 Connie Mack sells hurler Rube Waddell to St Louis Browns for $5,000
1910 Edmond Rostand's "Chantecler," premieres in Paris
1912 2nd Dutch 11 city skate (Coen de Koenig wins (11:40)
1914 Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
1914 Steel work completed on Exposition (Civic) Auditorium, SF
1915 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
1915 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
1922 John Willard's "Cat & the Canary," premieres in NYC
1924 Mussolini govt exchanges diplomats with USSR
1928 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)
1931 US opera, "Peter Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera NYC
1933 Colonial troops in Suriname kill 2 demonstrators
1933 Social-Dem meeting in Berlin "As thousands cheer" Marxism is dead
1934 1st contract for TVA power, Tupelo, Miss
1935 Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags
1936 A flag is authorized for Vice President
1936 Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer
1940 British railroads nationalized
1940 Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio," premieres (NYC)
1941 Frank Sinatra & Tommy Dorsey Orch record "Everything Happens to Me"
1942 1st indoor 15' pole vault (Cornelius Warmerdam 15' 3/8")
1943 Shoe rationing begins in US (may purchase up to 3 more pairs in 1942)
1944 Bing Crosby records "Swinging on a Star" for Decca Records
1944 Germans launch counteroffensive at Anzio Italy
1945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila
1945 Pres Truman appoints Irwin C Mollison judge of US Customs Court
1945 US 76th/5th Infantry divisions begin crossing Sauer
1946 Filibuster in US Senate kills FEPC bill
1947 Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine
1948 "Cradle Will Rock" closes at Mansfield Theater NYC after 34 perfs
1948 Omar Bradley succeeds Dwight Eisenhower as Army Chief of Staff
1949 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (NY Yankees)
1950 Georges Bidault forms French govt
1950 Sen Joe McCarthy finds "communists" in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs
1950 US & Great-Britain recognize Bao Dai Vietnamese regime
1956 Autherine Lucy, 1st black admitted to U of Alabama, is expelled
1958 1st showing of DAF 600 auto
1958 Dodgers officially become the Los Angeles Dodgers, Inc
1958 Dutch auto-transmission car DAF 600 introduced
1959 "Whoop-Up" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 56 performances
1959 Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
1959 Cessna lands in Las Vegas after 65 d without landing (refuels in air)
1959 Dorothy Rigney sells White Sox to Bill Veeck for a reported $27M
1960 Old handwriting found in at Qumran, near the Dead Sea
1961 Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"
1962 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298
1962 President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba
1962 Sam Snead wins LPGA Royal Poinciano Plaza Golf Invitational
1964 Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream
1964 Beatles land at NY's JFK airport, for 1st US tour
1964 Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres
1965 George Harrison has his tonsils removed
1965 Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao
1965 US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam
1965 WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in NYC
1968 Belgium govt of Vanden Boeynants falls
1968 WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 "This Is Tom Jones," debuts on ABC TV
1969 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
1969 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
1970 "Hollywood Palace," last airs on ABC TV
1970 "Jingle Jangle" hits #10 on the pop singles chart by Archies
1970 LSU's "Pistol" Pete Marovich scores 69 pts in losing cause
1970 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1970 US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
1971 Swiss men accept female suffrage
1973 1st time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1973 Senate createse Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities
1974 Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1974 Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters
1975 NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak
1976 Darryl Sittler, Toronto, sets NHL record with 10 points in a game
1976 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Bkln NY)
1976 Larry Groce's "Junk Food Junkie" peaks at #9
1976 World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
1977 Soyuz 24 launches with 2 cosmonauts
1978 Ethiopian offensive in Ogaden desert
1979 "Supertrain," TV Anthology, Superbomb of 1979, debuts on NBC
1979 Colonel Benjedid Chadli succeeds pres Boumédienne in Algeria
1979 Faoud Bacchus scores 250 for WI v India at Kanpur
1979 Pink Floyd premiered their live version of "The Wall" in Los Angeles
1979 Toronto Maple Leaf Darryl Sittler scores NHL record 10 pts (6 goals)
1982 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1982 Luis A Monge elected pres of Costa Rica
1983 1st female secretary of transportation sworn-in (Elizabeth Dole)
1984 Bruce McCandless makes 1st untethered space walk (US)
1984 David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for 1st time
1984 Michael Jackson awarded a 4-ft-high platinum disc by CBS
1985 "New York, New York" became the official anthem of NYC
1985 Marshall U's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5¬"
1985 NY Devil Don Lever becomes 57th NHLer to score 300 goals
1986 US female Figure Skating championship won by Debi Thomas
1986 Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti
1986 Philippine Corazon Aquino defeats incumbent dictator Ferdinand Marcos but fraudulent returns gave the election to Marcos
1987 "Ronnies Rap" by Ron & DC Crew peaks at #93
1987 Dennis Conner & Stars & Stripes bring America's Cup back to US
1987 Madonna's "Open Your Heart," single goes #1
1987 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1988 38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago
1988 Heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson marries actress Robin Givens
1988 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 15-6
1988 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1989 40th NHL All-Star Game: Campbell beat Wales 9-5 at Edmonton
1989 Tennis superstar Björn Börg, apparently attempts suicide in Milan
1990 Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
1990 USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
1990 Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood Calif scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half & loses 102-24
1991 Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti's 1st elected president
1991 Bob Knight, Larry O'Brien, Tiny Archibald, Dave Cowens, Harry Gallatin & Larry Fleisher elected to NBA Hall of Fame
1992 Mike Tyson testifies in his rape trial
1992 Shannon LA Rhea Marketic, 22, (California), crowned 41st Miss USA
1993 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-20
1993 Pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed
1993 Tammie Green wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
1994 21st American Music Award: Whitney Houston wins
1994 Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge
1994 Jim Nabors undergoes a liver transplant
1995 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Graham Gooch & Mike Gatting
1997 US & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21
1998 18th Winter Olympic games open at Nagano Japan
1998 NHL's Dallas Stars retire Neal Broten's #7

Famous birthdays for this day Events  Deaths

1478Thomas More, lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia)
1556Maria van Nassau, Dutch countess of Buren
1589Jacob de Witt, Dutch mayor (Dordrecht)/mathematician
1612Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader (King's Men)
1655Jean-François Regnard, French comedy writer (Slave in Algeria)
1688Maria Louise van Hessen-Kassel, [Marijke Meu], princess of Orange
1693Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40) [NS]
1700Philippe Buache, French geographer/cartographer (Contourlijnen)
1707Carl August Thielo, composer
1710William Boyce, English organist/composer of Cathedral music
1739Joseph Pouteau, composer
1740Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP
1753Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle/Thirsa)
1758Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer
1801John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist
1803Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasvérus)
1804John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements
1809Frederik Paludan-Mller, Danish Romantic poet (Danserinden)
1812Charles Dickens, England, novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities)
1817Leroy Pope Walker, US lawyer/Confederate minister of War (1861)
1822Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer
1823Richard Genee, composer
1824William Higgins, discoverer (nature of spiral nebulae)
1825Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer
1833Ricardo Palma, Peru, writer/poet (Tradiciones Peruanas)
1834Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table)
1837James Augustus Henry Murray, Scotland, created Oxford Dictionary
1839Nicolaas G Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier (1897-1901)
1842Alexandre Ribit, premier (France)
1847Ernst Franck, German composer/conductor
1862Bernard Maybeck, US architect (Palace of Fine Arts, SF)
1863Mieczyslaw Soltys, composer
1864Arthur Collins, singer/comedian (Peerless Quartet)
1864Ricardo Castro Herrera, composer
1866Raf[ael] Verhulst, [Koen Ravestein], Flemish writer (Jesus of Nazarus)
1867Laura Ingalls Wilder, Wisc, kid book author (Little House on Prarie)
1869Jindrich S Baar, Czech pastor/writer (Jan Cimbura)
1870Alfred Adler, Austria, psychiatrist (Inferiority Complex)
1871Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer
1872Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek lawyer/diplomat/foreign minister
1875Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer
1875Walter Courvoisier, composer
1877Feliks Nowowiejski, composer
1877Godfrey H Hardy, England, number theorist
1877Julius Curtius, German minister of Foreign affairs (1929-..)
1878Ossip Gabrilovich, composer
1883Eubie Blake, ragtime composer/pianist (Memories of You)
1883Paul de Backer, Belgian radiologist
1885Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel 1930)
1891Joachim Stutschewsky, composer
1896Harold Hoffman, South Amboy NJ, (Gov-NJ)
1896Jacob Paludan, Danish pharmacist/writer (Jírgen Stein)
1897Quincy Porter, New Haven Ct, composer
1899Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member
1901Bob den Doolaard, [Cornelis Spoelstra], Dutch writer (Grape Pickers)
1902Ethelda Blebtrey, Waterford NY, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1920)
1904Milton Krims, writer (Speed)
1905Olf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist
1905Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (L'Humanité, La Conspiration)
1905Ulf Svante von Euler, Sweden, physiologist (Nobel 1970)
1906Henry P'u-i, last emperor of China, puppet emperor of Manchukuo
1907Arthur George Bottomley, politician
1909Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Flem cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37) [OS]
1910Buster Crabbe, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)
1912Derek Farr, London, actor (8 O'Clock Walk, Doctor at Large)
1912Jane Ross, Spokane Wash, actress (Audrey-Phyllis, Coed Fever)
1914David Ignatow, US poet (Tread the Dark, Rescue the Dead)
1914Jacques Mornard, [Ramón Mercader], murderer (Trotsky)
1914Ralph Whitlock, writer
1917Dick Emery, London England, actor (Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love)
1919Dom Hélder Cƒmara, Brazilian bishop
1919Ilse Pausin, Austria, figure skating pairs (Olympics-silver-1936)
1920Eddie Bracken, Astoria NYC, actor (Summer Stock, Young & Willing)
1920Oscar Brand, Winnipeg Canada, folk vocalist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1921Athol Rowan, cricketer (brother of Eric, South African off-spinner)
1921Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk
1923George H H Lascelles, English earl of Harewood/leader (Covent Garden)
1923Keefe Brasselle, Elyria Ohio, actor (Be Our Guest)
1924Cathy Long, (Rep-D-LA, 1985-86)
1924Dora Bryan, [Broadhurst], Southport England, actress (Taste of Honey)
1924Hattie Jacques, Kent England, actress (Carry on Doctor)
1924Johnny Jordaan, [Jan van Musscher], Amsterdam folk vocalist
1925Arthur Berry, artist
1925H Eisenreich, writer
1925Marius Constant, Rumania, Dutch composer/conductor (Paradise Lost)
1925Romolo Valli, actor (Bobby Deerfield, Fistful of Dynamite, La Viaccia)
1926Konstantin Petrovich Feokistov, USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
1927John Buller, composer
1928Al "Fuzzy" Smith, baseball player
1932Alfred M Worden, Jackson Michigan, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15)
1932Gay Talese, author (Honor Thy Father)
1934Earl King, [Solomon Johnson], rocker
1934King Curtis, [Curtis Ousley], US vocalist (Memphis Soul Stew)
1934Piet Bukman, Dutch minister for Development Aid (CDA)
1935Herb Kohl, (Sen-D Wisconsin)
1938Juan Pizarro, baseball player
1938Robert Frank Baksa, composer
1940Gary Bond, England, actor (Outback, Zulu, Anne of Thousand Days)
1942Ton [ACHM] de Kok, Dutch MP (CDA)
1944Berend baron van Voorst tot Voorst, Dutch foreign state sect (CDA)
1944Berry [AH] Esselink, Dutch MP (CDA)
1944Michael A Andrews, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1945Gerald Davies, British rugby player
1945Pete Postlethwaite, actor (The Boxer)
1946Hector Babenco, director (Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1946Lawrence Ascott, rocker (Isotope)
1946Sammy Johns, rocker (Politics, Religion & Her)
1948Jimmy Greenspoon, LA Cal, rock organist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1949Alan Lancaster, bassist (Status Quo-Down Down, On the Level)
1949Sunil Wettimuny, cricket (Sri Lanka open batsman 1975-79 World Cups)
1950Burt Hooton, baseball player
1950Dan Quisenberry, baseball pitcher (KC Royals)
1950Marilyn Cochran, Burlington Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
1951Benny Ayala, baseball player
1951Manfred Schumann, German FR, bobsled (Olympic-silver/bronze-1976)
1953Robert Brazile, NFLer
1954Miguel Ferrer, Santa Monica CA, actor (Robocop)
1955Charlie Puleo, baseball player
1955Rolf Benirschke, Boston, NFL place kicker/TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
1956Garth Brooks, Tulsa Okla, country vocalist (No Fences)
1957Carney Lansford, baseball player
1957Damaso Garcia, baseball player
1958Manuel Mijares, Mexico, spanish vocalist (Maria Bonita)
1958Michele Drake, La Jolla CA, playmate (May, 1979)
1959Brian Travers, rock saxophonist (UB40-Red Wine)
1959Sammy Lee, British soccer player
1960James Spader, NYC, actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin)
1960Steve Bronski, rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
1962Alan Sippy, cricketer (dashing Bombay lefty batsman of 1980's)
1962David Bryan, rock keyboardist (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)
1963Heidemarie M Stefanyshyn-Piper, St Paul Minn, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1963Roland Lefebvre, cricket pace bowler (Glamorgan & Holland)
1964Cynthia "Sippy" Woodhead, Riverside Calif, swimmer (Olympic-silver-84)
1964Dona L Speir, Norwalk Calif, playmate (March, 1984)
1964Gretchen Magers, Pittsburgh PA/San Antonio TX, tennis star
1965Jason Gedrick, Chicago IL, actor (Heavenly Kid, Class of '96)
1965Kristal Parker-Gregory, Columbus OH, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-20th)
1965Reginald Thal, soccer player (MVV)
1966Chris Rock, comedian (SNL, CB4, Boomerang)
1967Joseph Tilford Leigh Greene, Dayton Ohio, long jumper (Oly-br-92, 96)
1968Ashely Allen, San Antonio TX, playmate (Aug, 1992)
1968Martin Sinner, Koblenz Germany, tennis star (1990 Pretoria)
1968Michael Stich, Germany, tennis star
1968Peter Bondra, Lutsk Ukr, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals)
1969Bucky Richardson, US football quarterback (Houston Oilers)
1969Fiona Robinson, Collie Western Aust, basketball player (Oly-bronze-96)
1970Chris Gardocki, NFL punter (Indianapolis Colts)
1970Denis Chasse, Montreal, NHL right wing (Winnipeg Jets)
1970Stanley Roberts, NBA center (LA Clippers, Minn Timberwolves)
1971Andrew Currey, Australian javelin thrower (Olympics-96)
1971Marvin Graves, CFL quarterback (Montreal Alouettes)
1972Aftab Habib, cricketer (Leicestershire righty batsman 1996)
1972John Slaney, St John's, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1973Billy Baumhoff, St Louis MO, soccer midfielder/forward (Oly-gold-96)
1973Juwan Howard, NBA forward/center (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1973Kristin Godridge, Traralgon Aust, tennis star (1993 Futures-Singapore)
1973Leanne Schuster, Mesa Az, WPVA volleyballer (National-9th-1995)
1973Sonia Paquette, St-Janvier Quebec, hurdler (Olympics-96)
1973Tim Bowens, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1974Ryan Phillips, linebacker (NY Giants)
1974Steve Nash, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns)
1975Alexandre Daigle, Montreal, NHL center (Ottawa Senators)
1975Marika Lehtimaki, ice hockey center (Finland, Oly-98)
1976Hrafnhildur Hafsteinsdottir, Miss Universe-Iceland (1996)
1976Terry Battle, running back (Detroit Lions)
1977Christine Scheels, New Berlin Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1977Hillary Wolf, Chicago, extra lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1979Cerina Vincent, Miss Nevada Teen USA (1996)
1985Tina Majorino, actress, (Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman)

Famous deaths for this day Events  Birthdays

0590 Pelagius II, Gothic Pope (579-90), dies from plague
1593 Jacques Amyot, French humanist/abbot of Bellozanne, dies at 79
1609 Ferdinand I, cardinal/ruler of Toscane, dies
1743 Lodovico Giustini, composer, dies at 57
1749 Andre Cardinal Destouches, composer, dies at 76
1779 William Boyce, composer, dies at 67
1820 Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer, dies at 57
1823 Ann Radcliffe (Ward), English poet/author of horror novels, dies at 58
1827 Franz Anton Dimmler, composer, dies at 73
1830 Marcus Antonio da Fonseca Portugal, Portuguese composer, dies at 67
1857 Félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65
1862 Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer, dies at 61
1865 John Henry Winder, US Confederate brig-gen/provost marshal, dies at 64
1878 Pius IX, "Pio Nono", [Giovanni Ferretti], Pope (1846-78), dies at 85
1881 Fredrik Cygnaeus, Finnish poet/literature critic, dies at 73
1897 Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49
1901 Benjamin Edward Woolf, composer, dies at 64
1911 Harry Graham, cricketer (6 Test for Australia 1893-96, 301 runs), dies
1915 Wladyslaw Gorski, composer, dies at 68
1918 Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, composer, dies at 68
1920 Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed
1921 Peter Kropotkin, Russ Prince/geologist/revolut anarchist, dies at 78
1931 Ion Vidu, composer, dies at 67
1933 Albert György Earl Apponyi, Hung minister of Education, dies at 86
1937 Elihu Root, US min of War/Foreign affairs (Nobel 1912), dies at 91
1940 Francis Ford, cricketer (5 Tests for Engld v Australia 1894-95), dies
1942 Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, marathoner (Oly-gold-1908), dies at 56
1948 "Red" McKenzie, blues-jazz singer (played comb-with-tissue-paper), dies
1954 Jan Adam Maklakiewicz, composer, dies at 54
1957 Rudolph Reti, composer, dies at 71
1958 Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at 76
1959 Daniel F Malan, premier of South Africa (1948-54), dies at 84
1959 Napoleon Lajorie, baseball player, dies at 83
1959 Slim [Eddie Jones] Guitar, rocker, dies at 32
1960 Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
1961 Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Fren physician/author/anti-semite, dies at 67
1962 Arthur Carr, cricketer (11 Tests for Eng 22-29), dies shovelling snow
1964 Hermann A J Kees, German egyptologist, dies at 77
1964 Lillian Copeland, US discus thrower (Oly-gold-32), dies at 59
1965 Nance O'Neil, actor (Cimarron, Royal Bed, Rogue Song), dies at 90
1967 Henry Morgenthau, US minster of Finance (devaluate dollar), dies at 74
1968 Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), ODs at 36
1968 Stuart Foster, singer (Galen Drake Show), dies at 49
1969 Bainbridge Crist, composer, dies at 85
1974 Arline Judge, actress (Age of Consent), dies at 61
1975 Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54
1977 Herman Dooyeweerd, Dutch philosopher/lawyer, dies at 82
1979 Josef Mengele, concentration camp doctor, drowns
1980 Ernst Kunz, composer, dies at 88
1980 Katherine Emery, actress (Maze, Isle of the Dead), dies at 73
1984 Brooks West, actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67
1985 Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at 83
1985 Uday Merchant, cricket (bro of Vijay, prolific scorer), dies
1986 Armand Preud'homme, Flemish organist/lyricist, dies at 81
1987 David Savoy Jr, rock manager (Hsker Du), commits suicide at 24
1988 Lin[wood V] Carter, US, sci-fi writer (Lost World of Time), dies at 57
1990 Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
1990 Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77
1990 Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
1991 Dick Winslow, actor (Tom Sawyer, Mutiny on the Bounty), dies at 75
1991 Gladys LaVerne, dies of heart problems at 87
1992 Jeanne Gerson, dies of cancer & pneumonia at 87
1993 Arthur Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at 49
1993 W Sybout A Colenbrander, Dutch historian/journalist, dies at 82
1994 Maarten Vrolijk, Dutch soc-dem minister (CRM 1965-66), dies at 74
1994 Richard Bissell, US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84
1995 Helen Wallis, cartographer/Librarian, dies at 70
1995 Massimo Pallottino, Ital archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86
1996 George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary, dies at 89
1996 Isian Kehinde I K Dairo, musician/academic, dies at 65
1996 Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist, dies at 84
1996 Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer, dies at 88
1996 Tiny Winters, musician, dies at 87
1997 Danil Shafran, cellist, dies at 74
1998 Carl Dean Wilson, musician, dies at 51

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