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1000 Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1365 University of Vienna founded
1496 Jews are expelled from Syria
1572 Luís Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusíados" in Portugal
1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 England routes troops to Amiens
1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1642 Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony
1689 Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1789 US Post Office established
1799 Austria declares war on France
1848 2nd republic established in France
1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1857 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice
1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1865 Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
1867 Last French troops leave Mexico
1868 Britain annexed Basutoland in Africa
1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1868 Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
1877 British annex Walvis Bay in southern Africa
1877 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die)
1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad): Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1889 Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth
1894 Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
1896 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1897 Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel
1900 President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1901 Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL
1904 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1908 Stanley Cup: Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games
1910 Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3
1912 Capt Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1912 Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St NYC
1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3
1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in St Petersburg
1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1919 George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in NYC
1925 British govt of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1926 Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
1930 Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
1934 Acting Pres Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn Estonia
1934 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1934 Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin
1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 Finland surrenders to Russia during WW II, gives Karelische Isthmus
1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day
1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1945 USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1947 "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
1947 Belgian govt of Huysmans resigns
1947 Pres Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1948 -5°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1950 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
1951 Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1954 1st performance of Arnold Schönberg's "Moses und Aaron"
1956 Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1957 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1959 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open
1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1963 Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance
1964 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine & Roses, Striesand wins 2
1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1964 SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in NYC
1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 Love's 1st album released "Love"
1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated [SF?]
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1967 Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority
1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins
1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Pérez Morena de Macias
1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
1971 Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open
1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash
1975 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
1976 South African troops leave Angola
1977 Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1977 Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC
1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
1982 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica v Leeward Islands
1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1984 Coal Miners' strike ended
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1986 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ perfs
1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1987 Men's Fig Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN)
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 15th People's Choice Awards
1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1990 LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1991 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2« week speech
1994 Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1995 Congress party loses India national election
1995 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
1995 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1995 Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
1995 Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 Letitia Vriesde runs S Amer indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1995 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1995 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN)
1996 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1998 "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC

Famous birthdays for this day Events  Deaths

1336Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern
1479Giuliano de' Medici, monarch of Florence
1515Caspar Othmayr, composer
1685George Berkeley, Ireland, philosopher/bishop of Cloyne
1710Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia)
1755Georges Couthon, French politician
1758Leopold earl of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician [or March 22]
1768Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
1788Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor
1793Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer
1800Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian
1806Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (1853-57)
1808Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet
1816David Stuart, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
1818John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1897
1821John Abbott, Québec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
1821Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern
1823William Flank Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1824Gustav R Kirchoff, Prussia, physicist (spectral analysis)
1826Robert Lowry, composer
1827John Robert Jones, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1827William Richard Terry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1830William Felix Brantley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1870
1831Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
1832Charles Boycott, Ireland, estate manager/caused boycotts
1835Simon Newcomb, US, scientist/mathematician/astronomer
1837Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer
1838William Perkin, inventor (1st artificial dye)
1848Cyrill Kistler, composer
1855John White, composer
1859Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
1860Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
1862Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
1863Adolf A Wolfschoon, Curaçao, poet
1863Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italy, writer/military hero (Intruder)
1874Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer
1875Julio Garreta, composer
1877Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
1878Gemma Galgani, Italian saint
1878Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer
1880House Peters, England, silent film actor (Kansas Territory)
1881Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
1881Kemal Atatrk, 1st pres of Rep of Turkey
1881Väinö A Tanner, premier of Finland (1926-27)
1883Judge Jackson, composer
1885Raphaël HLAJM Verwilghen, Flemish architect/urban developer
1888Hall Johnson, composer
1889Philip Guedalla, historian
1890A Evert Taube, Swedish writer/troubadour
1890Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian/US ballet dancer (Petroesjka) [OS=Feb 28]
1891Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist
1896Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great
1898Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor (Sold Grandpa)
1900David Croll, QC senator
1900Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer
1904Ken James, cricket wicketkeeper (NZ's 1st Test, later Northants)
1907(Margaret Peggy McCrorie) Herbison, politician
1908David Saul Marshall, diplomat lawyer/politician
1908Inez Courtney, NYC, actress (13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven)
1910Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant)
1910Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, Orange NJ, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront)
1910Wilhelmus L Reijers, sculptor
1911Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, president of Mexico
1912James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
1912Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
1912Paul Weston, Springfield Mass, orch leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
1913Harold Butler, cricketer (England pace bowler late 40's)
1914Jan Kapr, composer
1915Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/abstract painter
1917Googie Withers, Karachi India, actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
1917Tom Normanton, British MP
1918James Bracken, race horse trainer
1921Giovanni Agnelli, CEO (Fiat Automakers)
1921Gordon MacRae, East Orange NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel)
1921Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator
1921Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
1922Helen Parrish, Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business)
1922Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues)
1922Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO)
1922Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer
1923Hjalmar Andersen, Norway, 1500, 5K, 10K speed skater (Oly-gold-1952)
1923Mstislav Rostropovich
1923Norbert Brainin, violinist
1923Walter M Schirra Jr, Hackensack NJ, Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7)
1925Georges Delerue, composer
1925Harry [Maxwell] Harrison, UK, sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy)
1925Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
1925Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55)
1925William G Whitehurst, (Rep-R-Va)
1926David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE)
1926George R Ariyoshi, (Gov-D-Hawaii)
1926Gudrun Ure, British actress (Lady MacBeth, BBC Sorcerer)
1926Hildy Park, Wash DC, actress (To Tell the Truth)
1926John C[lellon] Holmes, US writer (Horn)
1926Rolv Berger Yttrehus, composer
1926Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery)
1927Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist (Cello Concerto) [3/22 NS]
1927Raul Alfonsin, president (Argentina)
1928Edward Albee, Washington, DC, playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)
1928Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music)
1928Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority)
1929Bernard Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956)
1929Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
1930Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador (to US)
1930Robin Cavendish, disabled campaigner
1930Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda)
1930Stanko Horvat, composer
1931Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection)
1931William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascals)
1932Andrew Young, US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
1934Rudolph Agner, CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields)
1935Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
1935John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
1936Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
1936Keith Slater, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1958-59 series)
1936Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News Va, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
1936Patrick Procktor, painter
1937Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano (Victor-Victoria)
1938Dimitri Terzakis, composer
1938Johnny Rutherford, auto racer (26 championship races)
1938Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael
1938Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)
1938Norman Hogg, British MP
1938Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer
1938Vijay Mehra, cricketer (Indian Test batsman from age 17)
1939Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
1939David Mlinaric, British interior director
1940Al Jarreau, Milwaukee WI, jazz singer (Moonlighting)
1940Albert Johanneson, soccer star
1942Bert Campaneris, baseball player (Oakland A's)
1942Brian O'Hara, rocker
1942Paul Kantner, SF Calif, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane)
1942Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti)
1945Hans van Emden, Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques)
1946Liza Minnelli, Hollywood CA, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
1947Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!)
1948Dana Walden, rock keyboardist (Champaign)
1948James Taylor, Boston MA, vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof)
1948Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota)
1948Les Holroyd, Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1948Virginia Bottomley, secretary (Heritage)
1948Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health
1949Bill Payne, Waco TX, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero)
1949David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury/MP
1949Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV)
1949Mike Gibbons, Swansea Wales, rock drummer (Badfinger)
1949Sara Lane, NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian)
1950Jon Provost, actor (Timmy-Lassie)
1950Willie Duggan, rugby football player
1951Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties)
1951Jack Green, rocker
1953Labamba, [Richard Rosenberg], rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1956Dale Murphy, Portland Ore, slugger (Atlanta Braves, 2 time NL MVP)
1957Jerry Levine, New Brunswick NJ, actor (Born on 4th of July)
1957Marlon D Jackson, Gary IN, singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow)
1957Steve Harris, London, hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss)
1958Debra Jensen, Orange County Cal, playmate (January, 1978)
1960Courtney B Vance, Detroit MI, actor (Hamburger Hill)
1960Eldine Baptiste, cricketer (WI all-rounder early 80's)
1962Darryl Strawberry, LA Calif, right fielder (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees)
1962Gunde Svan, Swedish long jumper (Olympics-gold-1984, 88)
1963Candy Costie, Seattle Wash, synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazil, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963John Andretti, race car driver
1963Julia Campbell, Huntsville Ala, actress (Opportunity Knocks)
1963Paul Way, British golfer
1964Tony Terry, rock producer (Tony Terry)
1965Fran Harris, WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1965Molly Van Nostrand, West lslip NY, tennis star
1965Randy Dixon, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1965Steve Finley, Union City TN, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1966Alecia Stephenson, North Vancouver BC, softball ss (Olympics-96)
1966Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, US Olympic water polo foward (Olympic-92)
1966Grant Long, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks)
1967Irvin Smith, CFL cornerback (Montreal Alouettes)
1967Rowelle Blenman, WLAF cornerback/safety (London Monarchs)
1968Merton Hanks, NFL safety (SF 49ers)
1969Graham Coxon, singer (Blur)
1969J P Izquierdo, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1969Karen Snelgrove, London Ontario, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1969Muhammad Oliver, NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins)
1970Michael Bankston, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1970Rex Walters, NBA guard (Phila 76ers, Miami Heat)
1970Rod Smith, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1971Greg Hansell, Bellflower CA, pitcher (Minn Twins)
1971Isaiah Rider, NBA guard/forward (Minn Timberwolves, Port Trailblazers)
1971Raul Mondesi, San Cristobal Dom Rep, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1972Alisa Castillo, Miss Nevada USA (1996)
1973Antonio Banks, cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1973Gabriel Mendez, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973Keif Bryant, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973Louis Laros, Dutch soccer player (Willem II, Vitesse)
1974Chris Carr, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Minn Timberwolves)
1978Cristina Teuscher, New Rochelle NY, 4X200m freestyle (Olymp-gold-96)
1978Tara Mounsey, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)

Famous deaths for this day Events  Birthdays

0417 Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies
0604 Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604), dies at 64
1209 Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet, dies
1471 Dionysius the Carthusian/van Rijkel, Dutch scholastic theologist, dies
1496 Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher, dies
1507 Cesare Borgia, cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31
1563 John Bull, composer of British natl anthem (God Save The King), dies
1570 Jacob van den Eynden, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies
1628 John Bull, English organist/composer, dies
1648 Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63
1681 French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45
1734 Antonius Schultingh, [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer, dies at 74
1753 George Berkeley, philosopher/bishop (Cloyne), dies on 68th birthday
1824 Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
1831 Johann Franz Volkert, composer, dies at 64
1832 Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau, German/Danish opera composer, dies at 45
1834 Karl W Feuerbach, mathematician (circle of Feuerbach), dies at 33
1840 Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61
1852 Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75
1877 Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52
1883 Murrumgunarriman, [Twopenny], cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868), dies
1888 Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76
1889 Yohannes IV, [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
1902 John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54
1905 Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, dies at 92
1908 Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
1909 Johanna "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach, dies at 34
1913 Joseph Bayer, composer, dies at 61
1914 George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67
1916 M v Ebner-Eschenbach, writer, dies at 39
1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies
1925 Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58
1932 Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
1937 Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, French organist/composer, dies at 93
1937 Jeno Hubay, composer, dies at 78
1941 Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72
1942 Enrique Morera, composer, dies at 76
1945 Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp
1946 Philip Merivale, dies at 59
1949 Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr, dies at 95
1950 L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races), dies at 78
1955 Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC
1955 Theodor Plievier, writer, dies
1957 Harry Dean, cricketer (England left-arm bowler in 3 Tests, 1912), dies
1957 Josephine Hull, actress (Harvey), dies at 71
1958 Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden, dies at 79
1961 Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25
1966 Estelita Rodriguez, actor (Golden Stallion, Susanna Pass), dies at 37
1973 Esther Williamson Ballou, composer, dies at 57
1973 Frankie "Fordham Flash" Frisch, baseball player, dies at 74
1973 Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron), dies at 77
1974 Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated
1978 John Cazale, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), dies at 41
1978 Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor, dies
1982 Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Course of Events), dies at 90
1983 Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus), dies at 85
1984 Arnold Riley, playwright/actor, dies at 88
1985 Eugene Ormandy [Blau], Hungarian/US conductor, dies at 85
1988 Billie Rhodes, dies
1988 William Camp, dies at 74
1989 Maurice Evans, actor (Bewitched, MacBeth), dies at 87
1991 Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92
1992 Barbara Morrison, actress (Proj Moonbase), dies of heart failure at 84
1992 Hans G Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies at 70
1992 Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies
1992 Karel Poons, father of Paul Deen, dies
1992 Philippe Soupault, writer, dies
1992 Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/MP (chr-dem), murdered
1993 Andreas J A I Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Leiderdorp), dies at 62
1993 June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62
1993 Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year), dies at 83
1993 Wang Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China (1988), dies
1994 Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter), dies at 59
1996 Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine, dies at 92
1996 Gyula Kallai, PM of Hungry (1965-67), dies at 85
1996 John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher, dies at 67

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