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YEAR EVENTS
858   Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope
1061   Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed
1185   Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet
1288   Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder
1311   Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1364   Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht
1524   Duke of Bourbon drives admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
1547   Battle of Mhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave
1558   Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Fran‡ois
1570   Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman
1596   Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1704   "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in US, forms
1762   Russia & Prussia signs peace treaty
1792   "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1800   Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1801   1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
1823   EugŠne Scribes "Le Menteur V‚ridique," premieres in Paris
1833   Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent soda fountain
1833   Patent granted for 1st soda fountain
1854   Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"
1863   Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid)
1865   Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)
1867   Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
1871   Opera "Aida" is produced (Cairo)
1872   Volcano Vesuvius erupts
1877   Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1877   Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania
1880   Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1883   28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
1884   National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1888   Eastman Kodak forms
1891   Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
1894   French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
1894   Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers
1895   Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1897   1st reporter, William Price (Wash Star), assigned to White House
1898   Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1898   US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
1899   Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
1900   Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1901   1st AL game, Chic beats Cleve Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out
1905   1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey v Gentlemen (18 & 28)
1905   Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3
1908   Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
1909   Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds
1910   German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1915   German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1915   Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day)
1915   Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0
1916   Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1917   Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
1920   British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1920   Polish troops attack Ukraine
1921   1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
1923   Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
1923   General harbor strike begins in NYC
1925   88øF highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1928   Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1929   1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1929   Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1932   German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1933   1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)
1938   Lindenheuvel soccer team forms
1941   British army begins evacuation of Greece
1941   Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
1942   Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1944   1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
1944   RAF bombs Munich
1944   United Negro College Fund incorporates
1945   Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
1945   Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF (to discuss UN)
1946   11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, & McGinnity are named to Hall of
1949   3rd Tony Awards: Death of a Salesman & Kiss Me Kate win
1950   "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances
1950   Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
1950   Pres Truman denies there are communists in US govt
1951   Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open
1953   Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1954   1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1954   Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
1954   WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955   Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends
1955   Gaullists lose elections in France
1955   KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955   KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956   AL ump Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
1957   Chic Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning
1958   Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
1959   Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
1959   WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1960   14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win
1960   Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
1960   Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
1960   Record 4 grand slams hit today
1961   JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1961   Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1962   1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
1962   MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA
1962   Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game
1963   17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2
1963   English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy
1963   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965   "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 perfs
1965   Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
1965   NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager
1966   Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee)
1966   Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
1967   21st NBA Championship: Phila 76ers beat SF Warriors, 4 games to 2
1968   ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas
1968   Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC
1968   USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969   Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
1969   Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians
1969   Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead
1969   US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
1970   China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
1970   Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth
1970   Senegal adopts constitution
1971   "Frank Merriwell" opens/closes at Longacre Theater NYC for 1 perf
1971   Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1974   Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
1974   NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers
1975   Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3
1975   US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977   Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament
1978   Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game
1979   Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
1980   US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1981   Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
1981   IBM-PC computer introduced
1981   San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record
1981   US ends grain embargo against USSR
1982   150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany
1982   Cards win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Phillies
1982   Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin
1983   "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances
1983   Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1983   Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1984   Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1985   Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
1987   Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC
1988   Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
1989   10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
1989   Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
1990   Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," premieres in Dublin
1990   Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
1990   US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
1990   West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1991   26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
1992   "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 108 performances
1992   David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland
1992   George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball
1992   Vinson Pike fined œ1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures
1993   1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1
1993   ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett
1993   Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham
1994   "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
1994   "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
1994   Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)
1994   Armando Calder¢n Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
1994   Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
1994   David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71
1994   NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs
1995   Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes
1995   Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
1995   Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
1996   "Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore" opens at Belasco for 12 perf
1996   31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain
1996   Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24, Tigers 11
1997   "Steel Peer," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances

BIRTHS
1538   Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer
1576   Sab Vicente de Pa£l
1594   Benedikt Lechler, composer
1620   John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography
1660   Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver
1670   Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer
1706   Giovanni Battista Martini, composer
1721   Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised
1742   Roman Hoffstetter, composer
1743   Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom)
1750   Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician
1766   Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac)
1769   Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington
1773   Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director
1791   Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)
1796   K L Immermann, writer
1804   Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)
1807   Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1814   Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire
1814   Vincente F L¢pez, Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje)
1815   Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)
1815   James Edward Harrison, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1822   Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1824   Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger
1828   Robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1829   George Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1836   Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist
1837   Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)
1845   Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)
1849   Joseph S Galli‚ni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)
1851   Eduardo Acevedo D¡az, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)
1856   Henri POBJ P‚tain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)
1864   George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen (PTT)/Dutch Min of War (1918-20)
1867   Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death)
1873   Theodor K”rner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president
1874   John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial)
1874   Willem E Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1875   Jeno Huszka, composer
1877   Charles Cuvillier, composer
1883   Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik) [or April 30]
1886   Kurt Pinthus, writer
1886   R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man (died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108)
1889   [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing (1942-45)
1892   Jack Hulbert, Ely England, actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack)
1893   Robert Harron, NYC, actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance)
1895   S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
1897   Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist (or 1797)
1897   Gyorgy Kosa, composer
1903   Jos‚ A Primo de Rivera y Sa‚nz de Heredia, founder (Spanish Falange)
1903   Mike Michalske, NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers)
1903   Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist (Black Byzantium)
1904   Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist (Siemens), dies
1904   Willem De Kooning, Rotterdam Netherland, artist (North Atlantic Light)
1905   Robert Penn Warren, 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men)
1907   Vaclav Trojan, composer
1908   Heddy Bouber, [Hermanus G Blom], actor (Bluejackets)
1909   Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany)
1909   Irven Spence, animator
1911   Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian (Disorderly Orderly)
1911   Karl O Schiller, German economist (Minister of Economics)
1911   Robert Joseph Kane, Ithaca NY, Pres of US Olympic Comm (1976)
1911   Sigursveinn David Kristinsson, composer
1914   Bernard Caulfield, judge
1914   Justin Wilson, cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips)
1914   Ruth White, Perth Amboy NJ, actress (Up the Down Staircase)
1916   Stanley Kauffmann, NYC, playwright (Red Handkerchief Man)
1917   Len Creed, bookmaker
1921   Laci Boldemann, composer
1922   J D Cannon, Salmon Idaho, actor (McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory)
1924   Marilyn Erskine, Rochester NY, actor (Fran-Tom Ewell Show)
1924   Yehoshua Lakner, composer
1927   Josy Barthel, Luxembourg, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1927   Pasqualino de Santis, cinematographer
1927   Patrick Bowles, writer/translator
1928   Gustav Krivinka, composer
1929   Ferit Tuzun, composer
1930   Conn Findlay, Stockton Calif, coxswain (Oly-2 gold/bronze-56, 64, 76)
1931   Bridget Riley, British painter (op-art)
1932   Coen[rad] Flink, Dutch actor (Pastorale 1943, Havinck, Honneponnetje)
1933   Freddie Scott, US songwriter/singer (Cry to Me)
1934   John Barbour, Toronto, TV host (Real People)
1934   Shirley MacLaine, Richmond Va, actress/mystic (Irma la Douce)
1935   Louis Keith, Chicago, physician (expert on multiple-births)
1936   Jill Ireland, London, actress (Breakout, Assassination, Chino)
1940   David Larter, cricketer (two-metre tall England pace bowler)
1941   John Williams, Melbourne Australia, guitarist (Acad Award)
1942   Barbra Streisand, Bkln NY, singer/actress/award winner (People)
1942   Richard M Daley, (mayor-D-Chicago)
1942   Valeri Abramovich Voloshin, Russian cosmonaut
1943   Richard Sterban, Camden NJ, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1944   [Bernard] St Clair Lee [Calhoun], US singer (Rock the Boat)
1945   Doug Clifford, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
1945   Eugene O'Brien, composer
1945   Robert Knight, rocker
1945   Stu Cook, rocker
1946   Bruce Stuart Saylor, composer
1947   Glenn Cornick, rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
1947   Hubert Ann Kelly, US singer (Hues Corporation/Rock the boat)
1948   Benzion Freshwater, English multi-millionaire
1948   Eddie James Hart, Martinez Cal, 4x100m relay runner (Olympic-gold-72)
1951   Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator
1953   Eric Bogosian, Woburn MA, actor (Talk Radio)
1953   John P Hiler, (Rep-R-IN, 1981- )
1953   Porter Carroll Jr, drummer (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
1954   Captain Sensible, [Ray Burns], UK, rock bassist (Women & Capts 1st)
1954   Jack Blades, rock bassist (Damn Yankees-Coming of Age, Night Ranger)
1954   Vince Ferragamo, NFL/CFL quarterback (LA Rams, Montr‚al Alouettes)
1955   Jack Kingston, (Rep-R-Georgia)
1955   Michael O'Keefe, NJ, actor (Caddyshack, Ironweed, Slugger's Wife)
1957   Tricia Lange, Hollywood Calif, playmate (June, 1984)
1958   Fernando Luna, Spain, tennis star
1959   Yvonne D Cagle, West Point NY, MD/astronaut
1960   ?, weatherman (WNYW TV NYC)
1960   Paula Yates, London England, Mrs Bob Geldof/rocker/writer (Blondes)
1963   Billy Gould, LA Calif, rock bassist (Faith No More)
1963   Joey Vera, heavy metal rocker (Armored Saint-Aftermath)
1965   Mike Blowers, Wurlzburg Germany, infielder (NY Yankees, LA Dodgers)
1966   Margashayam Venkataramana, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989)
1966   Pascale Paradis-Mangon, France, tennis star
1966   Theo Adams, WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1967   Dino Radja, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1967   Leslie M Marx, Ft Belvoir Va, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
1967   Pam[ela] Bustin, Somerset Mass, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1968   Aaron Comes, rocker (Spin Doctors)
1968   Mark Vanderloo, Waddenveen Neth, model
1968   Todd Jones, Marietta GA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1968   Tracy Gravely, CFL linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
1970   Damien Fleming, Aust cricket pace bowler (hat-trick on Test debut)
1970   Emanuela Zardo, Switzerland, tennis star
1971   Jeff Brohm, quarterback (San Francisco 49ers)
1971   Ken Klee, Indianapolis, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1971   Kumara Dharmasena, cricketer (Sri Lankan off-spinner)
1971   Phil Rogers, Adelaide SA Aust, 100m breaststroker (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1972   Chipper Jones, Deland FL, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1972   Jamie Brown, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972   Nicolas Gill, Montreal Quebec, 86kg judoka (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1973   Eric Snow, NBA guard (Phila 76ers, Seattle Supersonics)
1973   Jamie Brown, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos)
1973   Mark Babic, Australian soccer defender (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973   Melissa Short, Kaaawa Hawaii, Miss America (Hawaii-Top 10-1997)
1973   Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar, cricketer (prodigy at 16, Indian capt at 23)
1973   Ville Peltonen, hockey forward (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1974   Jared Tomich, defensive end (New Orleans Saints)
1974   Marc Collins, NFL punter (Seattle Seahawks)
1974   Toine Rorije, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1975   Justin Boocock, Launceston Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1975   Michael Stewart, NBA center (Sacramento Kings)
1976   Shane McDermott, actor (Garrett Booth-Swan's Crossing)
1976   Sonya Jeyaseelan, Newestminster BC, tennis star (1995 Futures Fla)
1977   Ryan Mitchell, Port Augusta SA Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1988   Michael Tylo, son of US actor/actress Michael Tylo/Deborah Hunter
1992   Sean Rademaker, actor (Kirkland Harrison-Another World)

DEATHS
709   Wilfried, bishop of York, dies at about 76
729   Egbert[us], English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89
1077   Geza I, King of Hungary (1074-7), dies
1185   Antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns
1530   Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies
1617   Carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered
1731   Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies
1758   Florian Wrastill, composer, dies at 41
1776   Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84
1776   Giuseppi Paolucci, composer, dies at 49
1824   Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71
1827   Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82
1848   Fran‡ois van Campenhout, Belgian composer (Braban‡onne), dies at 69
1850   Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70
1855   Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75
1875   Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer, dies at 58
1891   Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies
1900   George J D Campbell, Brit min of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76
1904   Friedrich Siemens, German industrial, dies at 77
1912   Justin M'Carthy, politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at 81
1917   Oskar Blumenthal, writer, dies
1922   Richard Batka, composer, dies at 53
1924   George Street, English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923), dies
1928   Ferdinand B Hummel, composer, dies at 72
1935   Paul Klengel, composer, dies at 80
1936   Alphons Diepenbrock, composer, dies at 73
1936   Bernard van Dieren, composer, dies at 51
1939   John Foulds, composer, dies at 58
1943   Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63
1945   Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47
1945   Hubert Bath, composer, dies at 61
1948   Joseph Wihtol, composer, dies at 84
1948   Manuel Marua Ponce, Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65
1948   Rosita Marstini, actress (I Cover Waterfront, Big Parade), dies at 54
1952   Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57
1952   Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State, dies at 82
1955   Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79
1956   Albrecht G Alt, German theologist (Small Schriften), dies at 72
1956   Henry Stephenson, actor (Conquest, Mr Lucky), dies at 85
1957   Andries CD de Graeff, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1926-31), dies at 84
1959   Jef van Hoof, composer, dies at 72
1960   John P "John" Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84
1961   Lee Moran, actor (Circus Clown), dies of heart ailment at 72
1965   Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86
1967   Frank Overton, actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48
1967   Vladimir M Komarov, cosmonaut (Voshkod I), dies in Soyuz 1 at 40
1968   Norman McKaye, actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies at 62
1968   Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), dies at 45
1974   Bud Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 78
1975   William Hartnell, actor (Jackpot, This Sporting Life), dies at 67
1976   Mark Tobey, US abstract painter, (Broadway Norm), dies at 85
1979   John Carroll, actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta, Geraldine), dies at 72
1980   Alentejo Carpentier, Cuban/Fren writer (Guerra del Tiempo), dies at 75
1985   Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80
1986   Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, (Edward abdicated for her), dies at 89
1986   Bill Edrich, cricketer (39 Tests for England), dies
1988   E S "Bob" Newson, cricketer (S African fast bowler in 1930's), dies
1990   Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies
1990   Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone, Cliff-Another World), dies
1991   J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies
1993   Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75
1995   Douglas Gunsekera, banker, dies at 77
1996   Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62
1996   Erma Bombeck, columnist (Septic Tank is Always Greener), dies
1996   Preston Lockwood, actor (House of Windsor, Black Candle), dies at 83
1997   Pat Paulsen, comedian (Smothers Brothers Show), dies at 69

   
 
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