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YEAR 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 Beaus‚jour, 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-Perc‚ 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 127øF 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 cause him to forfeit his Olympic
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 Brown 14 game losing streak
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   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
1968   Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic
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 (58'11«") in Indianapolis quadruple bogies 5th hole & never recovers
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 black youths who tried to rob him
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 complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 m
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 (Weaver, Wiebe, Pate & Price)
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   Longest salami is 68'9 & 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway
1992   Red Sox Mark Reardon sets record of 342 saves (vs Yanks 1-0)
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

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 Walkre, 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   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)
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)
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   Jan Zelezny, Czech, javelin thrower (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1966   [Eric] Randy Barnes, Charleston WV, shot putter (Oly-silv/gold-88, 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)
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

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 51
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 45
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 78
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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