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This Day in History for 13th July


Famous Deaths

New York Yankees Owner
George Steinbrenner (2010)


574 - John III, Italian Pope (561-74), dies
939 - Leo VII, Italian Pope (936-39), dies
1024 - Henry II, the Monk, German King (1002-24), dies
1105 - Rashi, [Rabbi Shlomo Yitzaki], Jewish intellectual, dies
1205 - Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England
1309 - Jan I van Nassau, bishop of Utrecht, dies
1357 - Bartolus de Saxoferrato Italian jurist (b. 1313)
1380 - Bertrand du Guesclin, French King of Granada, dies at about 60
1399 - Peter Parler, German architect (b. 1330)
1402 - Jianwen Emperor of China (b. 1377)
1551 - John Wallop, English soldier and diplomat (b. 1490)
1621 - Albrecht/Albertus, archduke of Austria, dies at 61
1626 - Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)
1628 - Robert Shirley, English adventurer (b. 1581)
1629 - Caspar Bartholin the Elder, Swedish physician and theologian (b. 1585)
1683 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
1693 - Hendrik Trajectinus, Count of Solms, Dutch lieutenant-general (b. 1636)
1705 - Titus Oates, English Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)
1755 - Edward Braddock, British general, dies in battle at Pittsburgh
1760 - Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to the Native Americans (b. 1696)
1761 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
1762 - James Bradley, 3rd Astronomer Royal, dies
1777 - Guillaume Coustou Jr, French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61
1785 - Stephen Hopkins, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 78
1789 - Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, French economist (b. 1715)
1793 - Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary, murdered by Charlotte Corday
1807 - Henry Benedict Stuart, Jacobite claimant to the throne of England (b. 1725)
1813 - Johann Friedrich Peter, composer, dies at 67
1844 - Johann Gansbacher, composer, dies at 66
1860 - John Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder, dies at 69
1861 - Robert Selden Garnett, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 41
1863 - John S Bowen, US architect/Confederate gen-major, dies at 32
1877 - Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65
1882 - Johnny Ringo, American Gunfighter (b. 1850)
1889 - Carli Zoeller, composer, dies at 49
1889 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (b. 1830)
1890 - John C. Frémont, American army officer, explorer and presidential candidate (b. 1813)
1894 - Juventino Rosas, composer, dies at 26
1896 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German chemist (b. 1829)
1903 - August Reissmann, composer, dies at 77
1922 - Martin Dies, American politician (b. 1870)
1923 - Asger Hamerik [Hammerich], German(?) composer, dies at 80
1925 - Gerben Postma [Ids], Fries writer (Lytse Fryske Spraekleare), dies
1927 - James E K Aggrey, Ghana/US theologist, dies
1936 - Izydor Lotto, composer, dies at 91
1936 - Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance, murdered at 43
1943 - Kurt Huber, German philosopher/resistance fighter, dies at 50
1946 - Alfred Stieglitz, US photographer/art dealer (Camera Work), dies at 82
1947 - Warwick Armstrong, cricketer (50 Tests 1901-21, 2863 runs), dies
1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austria/US composer (Verklärte Nacht), dies at 76
1954 - Irving Pichel, dies at 63
1954 - M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter/wife of Diego Rivera, dies at 47
1955 - Beulah Ecton Woodard, US sculptor, dies at 59
1955 - Ruth Ellis, last English woman (murderess), executed by hanging
1956 - Vladimir Grigor'yevich Zakharov, composer, dies at 54
1958 - Karl Erb, German tenor, dies on 81st birthday
1960 - Anna Blaman, Dutch writer (Life & Death), dies at 55
1960 - Joy Gresham, American writer (b. 1915)
1967 - Cornelis A Eman, chairman (State of Aruba Peoples Party), dies at 51
1967 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (b. 1937)
1973 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 67
1973 - Martian Negrea, composer, dies at 80
1973 - Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon), dies at 72
1974 - Patrick MS Blackett, British physicist (Nobel 1948), dies at 76
1975 - Owen Wynne, cricketer (6 Tests for South Africa 1948-50), lost at sea
1976 - Max Butting, composer, dies at 87
1976 - Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (b. 1884)
1976 - Joachim Peiper, German military leader (SS, by assassination; b. 1915)
1978 - Antonio Veretti, composer, dies at 78
1979 - Corine Griffith, dies at 84
1980 - Seretse Khama, 1st president of Botswana, dies
1982 - Edith Heerdegen, dies at 69
1982 - John Alexander, actor (Alien PI), dies at 85
1983 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
1987 - Patience Collier, dies
1988 - Huub Bals, Dutch film promotor, dies at 51
1988 - Samuel L Mendel, oldest US war veteran, dies at 104
1989 - Abdul Rahman Qassemlu, Iran Kurds leader, murdered
1989 - Arnaldo Ochoa Sanchez, Cubans general, executed
1990 - Lois Moran Young, dies of cancer at 81
1991 - Cor Ria Leeman, Flemish (youth)writer, dies
1992 - Alex Wojciechowicz, NFLer (Philadelphia Eagles), dies at 76
1992 - Carla van Neste, Belgian violinist, dies at 78
1993 - Davey Allisson, race car drive, dies in a plane crash at 32
1993 - Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31
1994 - Eddie Boyd, blues vocal/pianist, dies at 79
1994 - Robert Michael Payton, pizza magnate, dies at 50
1995 - Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, Danish toy manufacturer (Lego Group) (b. 1920)
1996 - Joyce Buck, actress/interior designer, dies at 71
1996 - Pandro S Berman, film producer, dies at 91
1996 - Walter Hassan, engineer, dies at 91
1997 - Alexandra Danilova, ballet great, dies at 92
1997 - Miguel Ángel Blanco, Spanish politician (b. 1968)
2002 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born Armenian photographer (b. 1908)
2003 - Compay Segundo, Cuban musician (b. 1907)
2004 - Arthur Kane, American musician (b. 1949)
2004 - Carlos Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1930)
2006 - Red Buttons, American comedian (b. 1919)
2008 - Bronisław Geremek, Polish social historian and politician (b. 1932)
2010 - Manohari Singh, Indian saxophonist and part of R.D. Burman's band (b. 1931)
2010 - George Steinbrenner, American businessman and owner of the New York Yankees, dies from
           heart attack at 80
2011 - Allan Jeans, Australian football player and coach (b. 1933)
2012 - Richard Darryl Zanuck, American Academy Award winning film producer, dies from a heart
           attack at 77
2012 - Jerzy Kulej, Polish light welterweight boxer and politician, dies from a heart attack at 71

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This Day in History for 14th July


Historical Events

                                   
Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard        Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini             Baseball Player Ted Williams

                 
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein            Baseball Player Hank Aaron


1223 - Louis VIII becomes King of France upon the death of his father, Philip II
1420 - Battle at Vitkov Zizka's hill (Prague): Taboriets beat Bohemia
1520 - Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernan Cortes & Tlascala's vs Aztecs
1535 - Emperor Charles V conquerors Tunis
1544 - English troops attack The Canal
1581 - English jesuit Edmund Campion arrested
1682 - Henry Purcell appointed organist of Chapel Royal, London
1698 - The Darien scheme begins with five ships, bearing about 1,200 people, departing Leith for the
           Isthmus of Panama.
1714 - Battle of Aland, Russian fleet overpowers larger Swedish fleet
1769 - The de Portolá Expedition establishes a base in California, and sets out to find the Port of
           Monterey (now Monterey, California).
1771 - Mission San Antonio de Padua founded in California
1789 - Bastille Day-French Revolution begins with the fall of Bastille
1791 - The Priestley Riots drive Joseph Priestley, a supporter of the French Revolution, out of
           Birmingham, England.
1798 - 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land & slaves
1798 - Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against US government
1822 - Slave revolt in SC under Denmark Vesey/Peter Poyas
1823 - Switzerland signs boundaries for fugitives
1832 - Opium exempted from federal tariff duty
1845 - 1st postmasters' provisional stamps issued, NYC
1845 - Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes & kills many
1850 - 1st public demonstration of ice made by refrigeration
1853 - 1st US World's fair opens (Crystal Palace NY)
1853 - Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan
1853 - Pres Franklin Pierce opens 1st industrial exposition (NY)
1861 - Gen McDowell advances toward Fairfax Courthouse, VA with 40,000 troops
1861 - Naval Engagement at Wilmington NC - USS Daylight establishes blockade
1863 - Battle of Falling Waters, MD (Beaver Creek)
1863 - Jews of Holstein Germany granted equality
1864 - Gold is discovered in Helena, Mont
1865 - Whymper, Hudson, Croz, Douglas & Hadow 1st to climb Matterhorn
1868 - Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure
1877 - General strike brings US railroad to a stand still
1891 - John T Smith patents corkboard
1902 - The Campanile in St Mark's Square, Venice collapses, also demolishing the loggetta.
1909 - Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
1911 - 46" of rain begins to fall in Baguio, Philippines
1912 - Kenneth McArthur runs Olympic record marathon (2:36:54.8 )
1914 - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted (Robert Goddard)
1914 - NL's Boston Braves start climb from last place to world series sweep
1916 - 33.6 cm rainfall at Effingham SC (state record)
1916 - St Louis Brown Ernie Koob pitches all 17 inns in a 0-0 tie vs Boston
1918 - Dutch government reclaims South seas
1921 - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti convicted in Dedham Mass, of killing their shoe company's
           paymaster
1927 - 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii
1932 - Belgian Chamber rules Dutch language for education of Flanders
1933 - Germany began mandatory sterilization of those with hereditary illness
1933 - NSDAP becomes only party in Germany
1933 - Verity bowls out Essex twice in a day, 8-47 & 9-44, at Leyton
1934 - 116°F (47°C), Orogrande NM (state record, broken on June 27, 1994)
1934 - NY Times erroneously declares Ruth 700 HR record to stand for all time
1934 - Phillies score 11 runs in an inning, beats Cincinnati 18-0
1934 - Ruth hits 700th career home run
1936 - 1 million demonstrate to support French People's Front government
1936 - 116°F (47°C), Collegeville, Indiana (state record)
1938 - Benito Mussolini publishes anti-Jewish/African manifest
1940 - Due to beanball wars, Spalding advertises batting helmet with earflaps
1940 - Lithuania becomes Lithuanian SSR
1941 - 6,000 Lithuanian Jews are exterminated at Viszalsyan Camp
1941 - Cease fire of Joan of Arc (ends combat in Lebanon & Syria)
1941 - Jam rationed in Holland
1942 - 1st transport of Amsterdam Jews to Westerbork
1942 - Riots against Jews in Amsterdam
1944 - Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested
1944 - US assault on Coutances Cotentin
1945 - Battleship USS South Dakota is 1st US ship to bombard Japan
1946 - Dr Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published
1946 - Mass murder on Jews in Kielce Poland
1946 - Cleve Lou Boudreau hits 4 doubles & HR but Red Sox win 11-10 on Ted Williams 3 HR with 8
           RBIs
1948 - Israel bombs Cairo
1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot near to the Italian Parliament.
1949 - USSR explodes their 1st atom bomb
1950 - RE Wayne awarded 1st Distinguished Flying Cross in Korea
1951 - "Courtin' Time" closes at National Theater NYC after 37 performances
1951 - "Make a Wish" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 102 perfs
1951 - 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)
1951 - Citation becomes 1st horse to win $1,000,000 in races
1951 - George Washington Carver monument unveiled
1952 - SS United States crosses Atlantic in 84:12 (record westward)
1953 - 1st Natl monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver
1953 - 20th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1953 - Communist offensive in Korea
1954 - 117°F (47°C), East St Louis, Illinois (state record)
1954 - 118°F (48°C), Warsaw & Union, Missouri (state record)
1955 - 2 killed, many dazed when lightning strikes Ascott racetrack, England
1956 - Boston Red Sox Mel Parnell no-hits Chicago White Sox, 4-0
1957 - Soviet steamer "Eshghbad" sinks in Caspian Sea, drowning 270
1958 - General Abdul K Kassem forms a military government in Iraq
1958 - Pope Pius XII publishes his 39th & last encyclical Meminisse juvat
1958 - Col Saddam Hussein & Iraqi army overthrows the monarchy
1959 - 1st atomic powered cruiser, Long Beach, Quincy Mass
1960 - Barbara Romack wins LPGA Leesburg Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1960 - Fire raging through a Guatemala City, Guatemala insane asylum kills 225, severly injuring 300
1961 - Astro's Eddie Matthews hits HR #500
1961 - Finland's Miettunen government forms
1961 - Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate
1962 - Borehole for Mont Blanc-tunnel finished
1962 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1963 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open
1964 - Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France
1964 - Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter
1965 - Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4)
1965 - Israeli/Jordanian border fights
1965 - US Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)
1966 - Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
1967 - Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Juan Marichal
1967 - Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing
1967 - The Who, opening for Herman's Hermits begin a US tour
1968 - Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic
1968 - Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1
1968 - WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1969 - "Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins
1969 - Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead)
1969 - WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1969 - The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from
           circulation.
1970 - 41st All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-4 at Riverfront Stadium, Cin
1970 - All star MVP: Carl Yastremski (Boston Red Sox)
1972 - Jean Westwood is 1st woman chosen to head Democratic Natl Committee
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
1972 - Plate ump & catcher in a game are brothers. Bill Haller is ump & Tom Haller is Tigers catcher,
           KC Royals win 1-0
1973 - 102nd British Golf Open: Tom Weiskopf shoots a 276 at Royal Troon
1973 - Phil Everly storms off stage declaring an end to Everly Brothers
1974 - Billy Martin is 1st AL manager ejected by ump from 2 games in 1 day
1974 - Bundy victims Janice Ott & Denise Naslund disappear, Lk Sammamish, WA
1974 - Sharon Miller wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1975 - EPCOT Center (Florida) plans announced
1976 - Jimmy Carter wins Democratic pres nomination in NYC
1976 - USSR banishes dissident Andrei Amalrik to Netherlands
1977 - North Korea shoots down US helicopter, killing 3
1977 - US House establishes permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
1978 - Anatoly Scharansky convicted of anti-Soviet agitation
1978 - Ump Doug Harvey ejects Don Sutton after discovering 3 scuffed balls
1978 - Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode," blocks trainload of fissile material headed for
           Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado
1979 - USSR performs nuclear Test
1981 - Kevin Wade's "Key Exchange," premieres in London
1983 - Crane (Rep-R-Il) & Studds (Rep-D-Mas) admit to sex with pages
1984 - STS 41-D vehicle moves to Vandenberg AFB for remanifest of payloads
1984 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 40th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Kathy Baker
1985 - Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Offutt AFB, Neb
1985 - Last USFL game-Baltimore Stars defeats Oakland Invaders, 28-24
1986 - 10 killed & 60 injured at ETA-bomb attack in Madrid
1986 - 2nd government of Lubbers sworn in
1986 - 41st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes
1986 - Motley Crue's Vince Neil begins 30 day sentence for vehicular homicide
1986 - NASA's plan to implement recommendations of Rogers commission
1986 - Paul McCartney releases "Press"
1986 - Richard W Miller became 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage
1986 - Shalamar's Howard Hewett acquitted in Miami of drug charges
1987 - 58th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-0 in 13 at Oakland-Alameda Stad
1987 - All star MVP: Tim Raines (Montreal Expos)
1987 - Greyhound Bus buys Trailways Bus for $80 million
1987 - Lt Col Oliver North concludes 6 days of Congressional testimony
1987 - Rookie of the Year Award is renamed to honor Jackie Robinson
1987 - Steve Miller's star is unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1987 - Taiwan ends 37 years of martial law
1988 - 200,000 demonstrate in Soviet Armenia for incorporation of Nagorno-Karabak
1988 - Mike Schmidt passes Mickey Mantle with his 537th HR into 7th place
1988 - WYHY radio offers $1M to anyone who can prove Elvis is still alive
1989 - 16th James Bond movies "License to Kill" premieres
1990 - "Howard Stern's Summer Show" premieres on WWOR-TV (NYC)
1990 - Sara Martin, of Illinois, crowned America's Junior Miss
1991 - 46th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Meg Mallon
1991 - Failed military coup in Mali
1992 - 63rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 13-6 at Jack Murphy Stadium, SD
1992 - Actress Nell Carter undergoes brain surgery
1992 - All star MVP: Ken Griffey Jr (Seattle Mariners)
1992 - 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning the Open Source Operating
           System Revolution. Linus Torvalds release his Linux soon afterwards.
1993 - Aeroflot starts non-stop flights between Moscow & NY
1994 - Gas explosion at old age home in Milan, 27 killed
1995 - LA Dodger Ramon Martinez no-hits the Florida Marlins 7-0
1995 - Ramon Martinez pitches a 7-0 no-hitter against the Marlins
1996 - "How To Succeed in Business..." closes at R Rodgers NYC after 548 perf
1996 - "Thousand Clowns" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 32 performances
1996 - 14th Seniors Players Golf Championship: Raymond Floyd
1996 - Michelle McGann wins Youngstown-Warren LPGA Golf Classic
1996 - NY Yankee John Weteland sets record of 24 consecutive saves
1996 - NY Yanks sweep complete season series in Baltimore for 1st time
1997 - Bomb in Algiers kills 21 & wounds 40
2002 - French President Jacques Chirac escapes an assassination attempt unscathed during Bastille
           Day celebrations.
2007 - Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
2012 - Suicide bomber attacks a wedding reception and kills 22 people and inures 22 in northern
           Afghanistan
2012 - Floods on the Japanese island of Kyushu kill 20 and displace 250,000

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This Day in History for 14th July


Famous Weddings

1966 - Sex symbol of the 1960s Brigitte Bardot (31) weds German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs
          (33) in Las Vegas
1994 - Princess Margaret's daughter Sarah Armstrong-Jones (30) weds ex-actor and fellow artist
           Daniel Chatto (37) in London, United Kingdon
1996 - "Green Bay Packer" quarterback Brett Favre (20) weds Deanna Tynes (28) at St. Agnes
           Catholic Church in Green Bay, Wisconsin
2007 - Actor Jerry O'Connell (33) weds Xmen's "Mystique" Rebecca Romijn (34) at Calabasas,
           California
2007 - Former "Full House" actress Jodie Sweetin (25) weds set designer Cody Herpin (30) at Little
           Church of the West in Las Vegas

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This Day in History for 14th July


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Archaelogist Gertrude Bell (1868)             Animator William Hanna (1910)            38th US President
                                                                                                                             Gerald R Ford (1913)


1454 - Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d. 1494)
1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italy, painter (Recollets)
1602 - Jules Mazarin, France, cardinal, French 1st Minister (1642-61)
1608 - George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)
1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
1671 - Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)
1675 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)
1676 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)
1696 - William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)
1707 - Jacques-Philippe Lamoninary, composer
1721 - John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)
1743 - Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
1756 - Thomas Rowlandson, English painter/cartoonist/etcher
1785 - Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851)
1794 - John G Lockhart, [Scorpion], biographer (Life of Sir Walter Scott)
1801 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
1804 - Ludwig A Benedek, Austrian general
1816 - Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)
1818 - Nathaniel Lyon, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
1830 - Richard Henry Jackson, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 - William Dwight, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
1834 - James Abbott McNeill Whistler, artist (Whistler's Mother)
1839 - Edward Sydney Smith, composer
1854 - Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer
1855 - Richard Samuel Hughes, composer
1857 - Maytag, inventor (washing machine)
1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst, England, found (Women's Social & Political Union)
1859 - Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)
1862 - Florence Bascom, US, 1st American woman PhD
1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austria, Art Nouveau painter
1865 - Annie Jones, Virginia, bearded lady
1868 - Gertrude Bell, Durham, British archaeologist (Desert & The Sown), (d. 1926)
1869 - Owen Wister, US, novelist (Virginian)
1874 - 'Abbas Hilmi II, last khedive (Ottoman viceroy) of Egypt (1892-1914)
1874 - Andre Debierne, French chemist/physicist (Actinium)
1880 - Donald Meek, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Stage Fair, Stagecoach)
1883 - Alexandru Zirra, composer
1884 - Charles Meldrum Daniels, Dayton Oh, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1904, 08)
1885 - King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)
1890 - Ossip Zadkine, [Zadkin], Russ/French sculptor (Destroyed City)
1891 - Henry Oscar, London England, actor (Saint in London)
1893 - John G Strijdom, premier of South-Africa (1954-58)
1893 - Spencer Williams, Vidalia La, actor (Andy-Amos 'n' Andy)
1893 - Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)
1895 - Frank Raymond Leavis, British literary critic (Culture & Environment)
1896 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)
1898 - Ivan Triesault, Estonia, actor (Cry of the Werewolf, Black Parachute)
1898 - A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)
1901 - George Tobias, NYC, actor (Abner Kravitz-Bewitched)
1901 - Gerald Finzi, London, British composer (Dies natalis)
1902 - Paul Guilfoyle, Jersey City NJ, actor/director (Curiosity Kills)
1902 - Richard Clarkson, aerodynamicist
1902 - Truman J Hedding, US vice-admiral (WW II)
1903 - Irving Stone, US, author (Love is Eternal, Lust for Life)
1903 - Ken Murray, NYC, comedian (Ken Murray Show, Judy Garland Show)
1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Poland, Yiddish novelist (Enemies-Nobel 1978)
1906 - Arthur James Bramwell Hutchings, composer
1906 - Tom Carvel, ice cream mogul (Carvels)
1908 - Chaim Raphael, writer
1909 - Annabella, [Suzanne G Charpentier], Paris, actress (Dinner at Ritz)
1910 - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic
1910 - William Hanna, Melrose New Mexico, animator (Hanna-Barbera- Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo),
           (d. 2001)
1911 - J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president (Church & Peace)
1911 - Terry-Thomas, England, actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
1912 - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, folk singer (This Land Is Your Land)
1912 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
1913 - Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP)
1913 - Gerald R Ford, [Leslie King], Omaha Nebraska, 41st VP (1973-74)/38th pres (R-1974-77), (d.
           2006)
1913 - Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, politician
1914 - Sidney George Gray, company secretary
1916 - Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author (Family dictionary)
1916 - Phyllis Stedman, politician
1917 - Arthur Leavins, violinist
1917 - Douglas Edwards, Alda Oklahoma, newscaster (CBS Evening News, FYI)
1918 - Arthur Laurents, NYC, playwright (West Side Story, Gypsy)
1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Uppsala Sweden, director (Cries & Whispers)
1918 - Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory
1919 - Lino Ventura, Parma Italy, actor (Happy New Year, Pain in the A--)
1921 - Geoffrey Wilkinson, chemist
1921 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
1922 - Peter Andrew Tranchell, composer
1922 - Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007)
1922 - Elfriede Rinkel, Nazi concentration camp guard
1923 - Dale Robertson, Harrah Ok, actor (Death Valley Days, Walter-Dynasty)
1923 - Frances Lear, Larchmont NY, Woman's magazine publisher (Lears)
1923 - Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (d. 1989)
1924 - James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate
1925 - Luis Antonio Escobar, composer
1926 - Harry Dean Stanton, West Irvine KY, actor (Alien, Cool Hand Luke)
1926 - Jan Krenz, composer
1927 - John William Chancellor, Chicago Ill, news anchor (NBC, VOA)
1928 - Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher
1928 - Nancy Olson, Milwaukee, actress (Absent-Minded Professor, Pollyanna)
1928 - Ole Schmidt, composer
1928 - Pierre Olaf, Cauderan France, actor (Kraft Music Hall)
1929 - George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher
1929 - Charles Anthony [Caruso], New Orleans, Louisiana, tenor (2,928 performances at
           Metropolitan Opera), (d. 2012)
1930 - Eric Norman Stokes, composer
1930 - Polly Bergen, Knoxville Tn, actress (Rhoda-Winds of War, Baby Talk)
1931 - Donald Eugene Webb, Oklahoma City, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1931 - Robert Stephens, Bristol England, actor (Uncle Kurt-Holocaust)
1932 - Roosevelt Grier, Cuthbert Ga, NFLer (NY Giants)/actor (Movin' On)
1933 - Del Reeves, singer/guitarist
1933 - Robert Bourassa, Montreal, premier of Quebec (1970-76, 1985- )
1934 - Leo Joseph Koury, Pitts, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1934 - [Robert] Lee Elder, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1974 Monsanto Open)
1936 - Gloria Lambert, Worcester Mass, singer (Sing Along With Mitch)
1936 - Robert F Overmyer, Lorain Ohio, Col USMC/astronaut (STS 5, STS 51B)
1937 - Khalid Hassan, Pak cricket leg-spinner (took 2-116 at 16 in only Test)
1937 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
1938 - Bob Scholl, rocker (Mellow Kings)
1938 - Jerry Rubin, activist (Chicago 7)/stockbroker
1939 - Karel Gott, Czech singer
1939 - Sid Haig, American actor
1939 - George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
1940 - Susan Howatch, English author
1941 - Tatyana Dmitryevna Kuznetsova, cosmonaut
1941 - Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
1941 - Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
1942 - Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
1943 - Lynn Loring, NYC, actress (Patty-Fair Exchange, Barbara-FBI)
1944 - Billy McCool, American baseball player
1945 - Peter James Leonard Klatzow, composer
1946 - Maureen O'Connor, Mayor (San Diego)
1946 - John Wood, Australian actor
1947 - Nick Benedict, Los Angeles CA, actor (Pistol-Birth of a Legend)
1947 - Steve Stone, Cleveland Ohio, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1947 - Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer
1948 - Tommy Matola, rock manager/CEO (CBS records)
1949 - Joyce Benson, LPGA golfer
1949 - Lukas D Barnard, head of South Africa secret service (NIS)
1950 - Bruce Oldfield, British mode-designer
1950 - Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d. 1999)
1951 - Esther Dyson, Zurich Switz, computer publisher (Release 1.0)
1951 - Judi Brown, E Lansing Mich, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1984)
1951 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
1952 - Chris Cross, [St John], rock singer (Arthur)
1952 - Eric Laneuville, New Orleans La, actor (Larry-Room 222, St Elsewhere)
1952 - George Louis Francis Lewis, composer
1952 - Jerry Houser, Los Angeles California, actor (Slapshot, Summer of '42, Class of     
           '44)
1952 - Joel Silver, South Orange NJ, producer (Warriors, Xanadu, Die Hard)
1952 - Stan Shaw, Chicago Illinois, actor (Mississippi, Roots Next Generation)
1952 - Franklin Graham, American evangelist
1952 - Bob Casale, AKA Bob 2, American Musician (Devo)
1953 - Bebe Buell [Beverle Lorence], Portsmouth, Virginia, American model/singer (Nov 1974
           Playmate of the Month)
1954 - Jos Zoomer, Amsterdam Neth, rock drummer (Vandenberg)
1954 - Ralph D'Amico, jockey
1955 - L. Brent Bozell, American author and activist
1956 - Vladimir Kulich, Czech actor
1957 - Peter Webb, NZ cricketer (batsman against West Indies 1980)
1958 - Joe Keenan, American screenwriter, television producer and novelist.
1959 - Rodney Rash, horse trainer
1960 - Ray Herndon, Scottsdale Ar, singer (McBride & Ride-Can I Count on You)
1960 - Anna Bligh, Australian politician
1961 - Jackie Earle Haley, Northridge California, actor (Breaking Away)
1962 - Diane Ratnik, Toronto Ontario, volleyball setter (Olympics-8-92, 96)
1962 - Jeff Olson, American musician
1963 - Bel Le Harper, NFL tight end (Atlanta Falcons)
1963 - Phil Rosenthal, American newspaper columnist
1964 - Barbara Chiu, Canton China, Canada table tennis player (Oly-33-92, 96)
1964 - Brett J Ogle, Paddington Austral, PGA golfer (1993 AT&T Pebble Beach)
1964 - Jack Kay Jr, Montreal Que, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Singapore Open)
1965 - Reina Olea, female jockey
1966 - D J Johnson, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 - Matthew Fox, Crowheart Wyo, actor (Party of 5, Fredhman Dorm)
1966 - Tayna Donelly, rocker (Belly)
1966 - Ellen Reid, Canadian musician (Crash Test Dummies)
1966 - Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator
1967 - Glen Scrivener, CFL defensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Hashan Tillekeratne, cricketer (Sri Lanka wicket-keeper/batsman)
1967 - Leonardo Lavalle, Mexico, tennis star
1967 - Robin Ventura, Santa Maria CA, infielder (Chicago White Sox)
1967 - Patrick J. Kennedy, politician
1968 - John Maginnes, Atlanta GA, Nike golfer (1994 NIKE Texarkana Open-5th)
1968 - Mark Lenz, US, 3m spring diver (Olympic-gold-1992)
1968 - Kazushi Sakuraba, Japanese mixed martial artist/professional wrestler
1969 - Jose Hernandez, Hato Rey Puerto Rico, infielder (Chicago Cubs)
1970 - Mark Brandenburg, Houston Texas, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1970 - Mark Strickland, NBA forward (Miami Heat)
1970 - Michelle Sawatzky, Steinbach Manitoba, volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1970 - Missy Gold, Great Falls Mont, actress (Katie-Benson)
1970 - Todd Rucci, NFL guard (NE Patriots)
1971 - Mark LoMonaco, American professional wrestler
1971 - Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator
1971 - Marie-Chantal Toupin, French Canadian singer
1972 - Ben Talley, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1972 - Joe Aska, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1972 - Lou Roe, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1972 - Matthew Campbell, NFL tight end (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Deborah Mailman, Australian actress
1973 - Kieren Perkins, Brisbane QLD Aust, 1500m swimmer (Olymp-2 gold-92, 96)
1973 - Halil Mutlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter
1973 - Adam Quinn, American bagpipe player
1973 - Candela Peña, Spanish actress
1974 - Erick Dampier, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1974 - David Mitchell, English comedian and actor
1975 - Matthew Kessinger, Louisville Ky, fig skater (1995 Gt Lakes Jr champ)
1975 - Taboo, American rapper
1975 - Tim Hudson, American baseball player
1976 - Yesim Cetin, Miss Turkey Universe (1997)
1976 - Geraint Jones, English cricketer
1976 - Kirsten Sheridan, Irish film director and screenwriter
1977 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden
1979 - Bernie Castro, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier
1980 - George Smith, Australian Rugby player
1981 - Lee Mead, English actor
1981 - Yomi, Japanese vocalist (Nightmare)
1982 - Dmitry Chaplin, So You Think You Can Dance finalist
1983 - Wesley Dening, Australian TV personality
1984 - Chris Steele, Canadian musician, (Alexisonfire)
1987 - Adam Johnson, English footballer
1988 - James Vaughan, English footballer
1989 - Sean Flynn-Amir, American actor

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This Day in History for 14th July


Famous Deaths

Frontier Outlaw Billy the Kid (1881)


664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
937 - Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria
1223 - King Philip II of France (1180-1223) dies at 57
1298 - Jacob de Voragine, Italian bishop/writer (Golden Legend), dies
1575 - Richard Taverner, English Bible translator
1614 - Camillus de Lellis, Ital soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64
1671 - Méric Casaubon, English classical scholar (b. 1599)
1711 - Johan Willem Friso, Prince of Orange/(Nassau-Dietz), drowns at 23
1723 - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
1744 - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28
1762 - Cornelis Hop, Amsterdams regent/diplomat, dies at 77
1766 - František Maxmilián Kaňka, Czech architect (b. 1674)
1770 - David 't Kindt, Flemish architect (Mammelokker, Ghent), dies at 71
1774 - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine, British field marshal (b. 1682)
1779 - George Ross, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 49
1780 - Charles Batteux, French philosopher (b. 1713)
1788 - Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer, dies at 60
1789 - Jacques de Flesselles, French provost (assassinated) (b. 1721)
1789 - Bernard-René de Launay, governor of the Bastille, murdered during the Storming of the
           Bastille (b.1740)
1790 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (b. 1717)
1793 - Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist, dies in battle at 44
1803 - Esteban Salas y Castro, composer, dies
1812 - Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1816 - Francisco AG de Miranda, Venezuela freedom fighter, dies at 66
1817 - Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, Swiss author (b. 1766)
1827 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, French physicist (b. 1788)
1830 - Anthony FRE Haersolte, member of Executing Regime, dies at 73
1834 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French
           Revolution (b. 1763)
1850 - August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
1873 - Ferdinand David, Dutch violinist/composer, dies at 63
1876 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English Methodist chapel builder (b. 1816)
1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1859?)
1895 - Alexander Ewing, composer, dies at 65
1902 - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, dies at 58
1904 - S J Paul Kruger, general/pres South-Africa (1883-1904), dies at 78
1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor (b. 1838)
1908 - William Mason, composer, dies at 79
1917 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (b. 1887)
1923 - Louis Ganne, composer, dies at 61
1925 - Pancho Villa, Filipino world boxing champion (b. 1901)
1930 - W H Ashley, cricketer (Test South Africa, 7 wkts), dies
1938 - Robert Poore, cricketer (3 Tests for South Africa in 1895-96 series), dies
1939 - Alphonse Mucha, Czech painter, decorative artist (b. 1860)
1940 - Bill Howell, cricketer (18 Tests for Aust 1898-1905), dies
1942 - Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Neth/French/Belgian painter's model, dies
1943 - Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor, dies at 74%
1948 - Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's CPI chairman, assassinated
1949 - Frank Hearne, cricketer (2 Tests for England, 4 Tests for S Afr), dies
1951 - Sammy Jones, cricketer (last survivor of the 1882 Oval Test), dies
1954 - Jacinto Benavente y Martinez, Spanish playwright, dies at 87
1954 - Jackie Saunders, American silent screen actress (b. 1892)
1956 - Jaroslav Ridky, composer, dies at 58
1958 - Abdoel Illah, crown prince of Iraq, murdered
1958 - Emil Barth, writer, dies at 58
1958 - Faisal II, King of Iraq (1939-58), assassinated at Baghdad
1958 - Franciscus J Feron, vicar-general of Roermond, dies at 62
1958 - Noeri el-Said, premier of Iraq, murdered
1959 - Grock, [Adrien Wettach], Swiss clown/circus director, dies at 79
1965 - Adlai Stevenson, US amb to UN/pres candidate (D, 1952, 56), dies
1966 - Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
1967 - Tudor Arghezi, Romanian writer (b. 1880)
1968 - Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76
1968 - Westbrook Van Voorhis, announcer (March of Time), dies at 64
1968 - Konstantin Georgiyevich Paustovsky, Russian writer (b. 1892)
1970 - Preston S Foster, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger), dies at 69
1973 - Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds), killed by a car
1974 - Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77
1974 - Carl Spaatz, American World War II general and 1st Chief of Staff of the United States Air
           Force, dies at 83
1975 - Zutty Singleton, US jazz drummer, dies at 77
1975 - Madan Mohan, Hindi Film's Melodious Music director (b. 1924)
1979 - George De Witt, TV host (Name that Tune), dies at 56
1982 - George Amadee Tremblay, composer, dies at 71
1983 - Jack MacBryan, cricketer (Test for England 1924), dies
1984 - Al Schacht, [Clown prince of baseball], baseball player, dies at 91
1984 - Kenny Delmar, comedian (School House), dies at 74
1984 - Philippe Wynne, US soul singer (I'll Be Around), dies at 43
1984 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
1986 - Raymond Loewy, US industrial designer, dies at 92
1989 - Frank Bell, British educator (b. 1916)
1990 - Dallas Alinder, dies
1990 - Philip Leacock, dies of collapsed lungs at 73
1991 - Nic van Bridges, Flemish poet, dies
1993 - Robert Strong
1994 - Patrick Crommelynck, Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1994 - Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies
1994 - Taeko Kuwata, Japanese/Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1995 - Michael Naylor, insurance broker, dies at 59
1996 - Frederick Angus Armstrong, journalist, dies at 82
1996 - Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, physicist, dies at 91
1996 - Kim Besly, activist, dies at 69
1996 - Jeff Krosnoff, CART driver (b. 1964)
1998 - Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer (b. 1909)
2000 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
2000 - René Ríos Boettiger, Chilean cartoonist (b. 1911)
2000 - Meredith MacRae, American actress (b. 1944)
2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
2003 - Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist (b. 1926)
2003 - François-Albert Angers, French Canadian economist (b. 1909)
2005 - Joe Harnell, American musician, composer and arranger (b. 1924)
2005 - Cicely Saunders, English Nurse, physician and writer (b. 1918)
2007 - John Ferguson Sr, former professional hockey player (b. 1938)
2008 - Henki Kolstad, Norwegian actor (b. 1915)
2009 - Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Polish actor (b. 1934)
2010 - Mădălina Manole, Romanian pop recording artist (b. 1967)
2010 - Gene Ludwig, American jazz organist (b. 1937)
2012 - Sixten Jernberg, Swedish skier, dies at 83

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This Day in History for 15th July


Historical Events

                                   
Key Figure of Medieval                          Pathologist and Nobel Laureate               264th Pope John Paul II
Rus Alexander Nevsky                               Howard Florey


1099 - 1st Crusaders capture, plunder Jerusalem
1205 - Pope Innocent III states Jews are doomed to perpetual servitudea and subjugation due to
           crucifixion of Jesus
1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen
           Langton.
1240 - A Novgorodian army led by Alexander Nevsky defeats the Swedes in the Battle of the Neva.
1307 - Duke Henrik van Karinthi chosen king of Bohemia
1381 - John Ball, a leader in the Peasants' Revolt, is hanged, drawn and quartered in the presence of
           Richard II of England.
1410 - Battle of Tannenburg-Teutonic Knights vs King Ladislas II of Poland
1500 - Duke Albrecht of Saxon beats Friese rebellion
1500 - Baglione family massacre at the "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione & Lavinia Colonna in
           Perugia
1501 - Explorer Pedro Cabral back in Lisbon
1524 - Emperor Karel I bans German national synode
1538 - Peace talks between Karel & King Francois I
1662 - King Charles II charters Royal Society in London
1741 - Alexei Chirikov sights land in Southeast Alaska. He sends men ashore in a longboat, making
           them the first Europeans to visit Alaska.
1755 - French ambassador recalled from London
1779 - US troops under Gen A Wayne conquer Ft Stony Point, NY
1783 - 1st steamboat, Pyroscaphe, 1st run in France
1787 - Parliament of Paris banished to Troyes
1789 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, is named by acclamation colonel-general of the new
           National Guard of Paris.
1795 - "Marseillaise" becomes French national anthem
1799 - The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-
           François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign.
1806 - Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest
1808 - French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples
1815 - Napoleon surrendered & is later exiled on St Helena
1815 - 1st flat horse race held on Nottingham Hill at Cheltenham, England (day and month TBC)
1823 - A fire destroys the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.
1830 - 3 Indian tribes, Sioux, Sauk & Fox, signs a treaty giving the US most of Minnesota, Iowa &
           Missouri
1840 - England, Russia, Austria & Prussia signs Quadruple Alliance
1850 - John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North v South at Lord's
1856 - Natal forms as a British colony separate from Cape Colony
1862 - CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R
1863 - Pres Davis orders service duty for confederate army
1864 - Troop train loaded with Confederate prisoners collided with a coal train killing 65 & injuring
           109 of 955 aboard
1867 - SF Merchant's Exchange opens
1869 - Margarine is patented by Hippolye Méga-Mouriès for use by French Navy
1870 - Georgia becomes last confederate to be readmitted to US
1870 - Manitoba becomes 5th Canadian province & NW Territories created
1870 - Hudson's Bay & Northwest Territories transferred to Canada
1876 - Baseball's 1st no-hitter, St Louis' George W Bradley no-hits Hartford
1888 - Bandai volcano (Japan) erupts for 1st time in 1,000 years
1893 - Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
1900 - President Steyn/General De Law escape Brandwater Basin
1901 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson no-hits St Louis, 5-0
1902 - Ranjitsinhji scores 180 before lunch, for Sussex v Surrey
1904 - 1st Buddhist temple in US forms, Los Angeles
1906 - Republic museum opens Rembrandt hall in Amsterdam
1909 - Ty Cobb hits 2 inside-the-park HRs
1911 - 46" of rain (begining 7/14) falls in Baguio, Philippines
1912 - British National Health Insurance Act goes into effect
1914 - Mexican president Huerta flees with 2 million pesos to Europe
1916 - 22.22" (56.4 cm) of rain falls in Altapass NC (state record)
1916 - Boeing Co (Pacific Aero) formed by William Boeing in Seattle Wash
1918 - 2nd Battle of Marne began during WW I
1920 - Ruth ties his record of 29 HRs in a season
1922 - 1st duck-billed platypus publicly exhibited in US, at NY zoo
1922 - 26th US Golf Open: Gene Sarazen shoots a 288 at Skokie CC in Ill
1923 - 27th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 296 at Inwood CC in NY
1923 - Italian parliament accepts new constitution
1926 - VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms
1927 - 62nd British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 285 at St Andrews
1927 - Massacre of July 15, 1927: 89 protesters are killed by the Austrian police in Vienna.
1929 - 1st airport hotel opens-Oakland Ca
1932 - President Hoover cuts own salary 15%
1933 - Wiley Post began 1st solo flight around world
1934 - Continental Airlines commences operations.
1936 - Dutch 2nd Chamber agree to temporarily increase defense budget
1937 - Buchenwald Concentration Camp opens
1937 - Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
1938 - Arthur Fagg completes 244 & 202 in the same cricket game for Kent
1939 - Clara Adams (NYC) is 1st woman to complete round world flight
1940 - 1st betatron placed in operation, Urbana, Il
1940 - Nazi occupiers seize library of IISG Amsterdam
1941 - Florey & Heatley present freeze dried mold cultures (Penicillin)
1942 - 1st deportation camp at Westerbork, Jews sent to Auschwitz
1942 - Dutch Jews invoked for "Labor camps"
1944 - Greenwich Observatory damaged by WW II flying bomb
1945 - 27th PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Morraine CC Dayton Ohio
1946 - British North Borneo Co transfers rights to British crown
1948 - Alcoholic Anonymous founded in Britain
1948 - Pres Harry Truman nominated for another term (Phila)
1949 - "Miss Liberty" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 308 performances
1949 - Czech tennis stars Jaroslav Drobny & Vladimir Cernik, defect to US
1949 - WBTV TV channel 3 in Charlotte, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1952 - 1st transatlantic helicopter flight begins
1954 - 110°F (43°C) at Balcony Falls, Virginia (state record)
1954 - 1st coml jet transport plane built in US tested (Boeing 707)
1954 - KOCO TV channel 5 in Oklahoma City, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 - WBOC TV channel 16 in Salisbury, MD (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - WNDU TV channel 16 in South Bend, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed
           by thirty-four others.
1956 - Beverly Hanson/Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Hot Springs Golf Invitational
1956 - Iharos runs world record 10k (28:42.8 )
1957 - Dutch Super Constellation crashes near New Guinea, 56 die
1957 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1958 - Pres Eisenhower sends US troops to Lebanon; they stay 3 months
1958 - US marines deployed in Lebanon
1959 - The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first
           time in United States history.
1960 - Balt Orioles' Brooks Robinson goes 5 for 5 including the cycle
1961 - "Donnybrook!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 68 performances
1961 - 90th British Golf Open: Arnold Palmer shoots a 284 at Royal Birkdale
1961 - Spain accept equal rights for men & women
1962 - Algeria becomes member of Arab League
1962 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open
1962 - Neth & Indonesia accord over New-Guinea
1963 - KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Paul McCartney is fined £17 for speeding
1964 - Barry M Goldwater (Sen-R-Az) nominated for president by Republicans
1965 - "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars
1965 - Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece
1967 - "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 608 performances
1967 - LA Wolves beat Wash Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Ass champs
1967 - Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open
1967 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - "One Life to Live" premieres on TV
1968 - Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR
1968 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1968 - NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA)
1968 - Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres
1969 - Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1969 - Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season
1970 - Denmark beats Italy 2-0 in 1st world female soccer championship
1971 - Pres Nixon announces he would visit People's Rep of China
1972 - 101st British Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots 278 at Muirfield Gullane
1972 - Sandra Palmer/Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship
1973 - California Angel Nolan Ryan 2nd no-hitter beats Detroit Tigers, 6-0
1973 - Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic
1973 - Paul Getty III kidnapped
1973 - Ray Davies, announces retirement from Kinks then attempts suicide
1973 - Willie McCovey becomes 15th to hit 400 HRs
1974 - Military coup on Cyprus: archbishop/president Makarios flees
1975 - 46th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-3 at County Stadium, Milwaukee
1975 - All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) & John Matlock (NY Mets)
1975 - Apollo 18 launched (will rendezvous with Soyuz)
1975 - Soyuz 19 & Apollo 18 launched; rendezvous 2 days later
1976 - 36-hr kidnap of 26 school children & their bus driver in Calif
1978 - 107th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at St Andrews
1979 - 34th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jerilyn Britz
1979 - Morarji Desai resigns as premier of India
1980 - Johnny Bench hits his 314th HR as a catcher breaks Yogi Berra's record
1982 - Body of Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
1982 - Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via Dyess AFB, Texas
1982 - Senate confirms George Shultz as 60th sec of state by vote of 97-0
1983 - 8 killed, 54 wounded, by Armenian extremists bomb at Orly, France
1983 - Linda Ronstadt debuts as Mabel in "Pirates of Penzance"
1984 - 39th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Hollis Stacy
1984 - John Lennon releases "I'm Stepping Out"
1985 - Deborah Carthy-Deu, of Puerto Rico, crowned 34th Miss Universe
1986 - 57th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-2 at Astrodome, Houston
1986 - All star MVP: Roger Clemens (Boston Red Sox)
1987 - Boy George barred from British TV show, he may be a bad influence
1987 - John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings
1987 - State of siege ends in Taiwan
1990 - 45th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1991 - France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island
1991 - US troops leave northern Iraq
1991 - Sandhi Ortiz-DelValle is 1st woman to officiate a men's pro basketball (USBL) game, game
           between New Haven Skyhawks & Phila Spirit
1992 - Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed
1994 - Gyula Horn sworn in as premier of Hungary
1994 - Israel & Jordan agree to talks in Wash DC on July 25th
1994 - NJ Nets Derrek Coleman accused of rape in Detroit
1994 - Sonia O'Sullivan runs 3K (8:21.64)
1995 - Birmingham Barracudas 1st CFL home game (vs Hamilton)
1995 - Jews take Jerusalem
1995 - Northern Virginia begins using new area code 540
1996 - After 2,216 consecutive games at shortstop, Cal Ripkin goes to 3rd
1996 - MSNBC begins Microsoft internet-NBC TV
1996 - Prince Charles & Princess Di sign divorce papers
1996 - Southern Mexico hit with 6.5 earthquake
1996 - A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band
           crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
1999 - The inaugural game at the Seattle Mariners' Safeco Field was held in Seattle, Washington.
2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh pleads guilty to supplying aid to the enemy and to
           possession of explosives during the commission of a felony.
2002 - Anti-Terrorism Court of Pakistan hands down the death sentence to British born Ahmed
           Omar Saeed Sheikh and life terms to three others suspected of murdering Wall Street Journal
           reporter Daniel Pearl.
2003 - AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape Communications Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation is
           established on the same day.
2009 - A 7.9 Magnitude earthquake registers 160km west of Invercargill, New Zealand, creating a
           small tsunami.
2012 - 39 pilgrims are killed in a bus crash in Parasi, Nepal
2012 - A Russian Soyuz rocket with an international team launches for a mission to the International
           Space Station

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This Day in History for 15th July


Famous Weddings

1500 - "Blood Wedding" of Astorre Baglione & Lavinia Colonna in Perugia family Baglione massacre
1952 - Gerald D Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Angela Dowding
1999 - "Grateful Dead" guitarist Bob Weir (51) weds Natasha Muenter (31) in Mill Valley, California
2005 - Heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis (39) weds former Miss Jamaica runner-up Violet
           Chang at William Knibb Memorial Baptist Church in Falmouth, Jamaica
2006 - Singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne (21) weds "Sum 41" lead singer and guitarist Deryck Whibley
          (26) at a private estate in Montecito, California
2006 - Soccer star player Ashley Cole (25) weds "Girls Aloud" member Cheryl Tweedy (23) at Holy
          Trinity Church in Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire
2011 - American TV personality and host Vanessa Minnillo (30) weds American singer-songwriter Nick
           Lachey (37) at Sir Richard Branson's private Necker Island in British Virgin Islands
2011 - Former Rhode Island Congressman Patrick Kennedy (44) weds Amy Petitgout in Hyannis Port,
           Massachusetts

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This Day in History for 15th July


Famous Divorces

1996 - Prince Charles & Princess Di sign divorce papers

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Painter                                                     Author and creator of The                    Supermodel Kim Alexis (1960)
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606)                           Huffington Post
                                                               Arianna Huffington (1950)


1273 - Ewostatewos, Ethiopian monk and religious leader (d. 1352)
1353 - Vladimir the Bold, Russian prince (d. 1410)
1458 - Juan Ponce de Leon, Spanish Explorer (d. 1521)
1471 - Eskender, Emperor of Ethiopia (d. 1494)
1553 - Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
1573 - Inigo Jones, London, architect (Old St Paul's Cathedral, Coven Garden)
1606 - Rembrandt van Rijn, Leiden Netherlands, painter (Night Watch), (d. 1669)
1631 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700)
1638 - Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani, composer
1700 - Johann Christoph Richter, composer
1701 - Pierre Joubert, became oldest known Canadian (113 y 124 d at death)
1704 - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, founder of Moravian Church in North America
1737 - Princess Louise-Marie of France, daughter of king Louis XV (d. 1787)
1779 - Clement Clarke Moore, US, author ('Twas the Night Before Xmas)
1796 - Thomas Bulfinch, mythologist (Bulfinch's Mythology)
1798 - Charles H Bell, Comm (Union Navy), died in 1875
1802 - John Barnett, composer
1808 - Henry Cole, promotor (Great Exhibition of 1851)
1808 - Henry Edward Manning, cardinal/archbishop (Westminster)
1812 - Benno Adam, animal painter
1812 - James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
1817 - John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway)
1818 - Heinrich Esser, composer
1837 - Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, queen of Portugal (d. 1859)
1848 - Vilfredo F D Pareto, Italian economist/sociologist
1849 - Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer
1850 - Francesca Xavier Cabrini, [Mother Cabrini], 1st US saint
1851 - Eduardo Gutiérrez, Argentinian author (d. 1889)
1856 - Owen Dunell, cricketer (South Africa's 1st Test captain)
1864 - Marie Tempest, [Marie Susan Etherington], actress (Yellow Sands)
1865 - Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, 1st viscount Northcliffe
1865 - Wilhelm Wirtinger, Austrian mathematician (d. 1945)
1867 - Maggie Mitchell Walker, 1st woman bank director/philanthropist
1870 - Ernest Walker, composer
1871 - Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
1875 - Frank "Pop" Morgenweck, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
1875 - Jean van den Eeckhoudt, Belgian painter
1878 - Willem Paerels, Neth/Belgian painter/graphic artist
1884 - Enrique Soro Barriga, composer
1889 - Marjorie Rambeau, SF California, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song)
1892 - Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer
1893 - Enid Bennett, Australia, silent film actress (Skippy, Hairpins)
1894 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
1898 - Noel Gay, [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer
1898 - Norman Demuth, composer
1899 - Seán Lemass, Irish leader (d. 1971)
1901 - Pyke F C Koch, Dutch surrealistic painter (Dolores' Breakfast)
1902 - Jean Rey, Belgium, pres of European Commission (1967-70)
1902 - Raymond Hackett, NYC, husband of Blanche Sweet/actor (Faithless Lover)
1903 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian politician (d. 1975)
1904 - Rudolf Arnheim, German-born author (d. 2007)
1905 - Dorothy Fields, lyricist (I'm in the Mood for Love)
1906 - Edmund Davies, British lord of appeal
1906 - Rudolf "Rudi" Uhlenhaut, German automotive engineer and test driver (Mercedes Benz) (d.
          1989)
1907 - Paterson Fraser, British air marshal
1909 - Enid Kathleen Hutchinson, adult educationalist
1909 - Isabel Jewell, Shoshone WY, actress (Ceiling Zero, Arousers)
1909 - John Cochrane, South African cricket pace bowler (one Test 1931)
1910 - Ronald Binge, composer
1911 - Juliet Pannett, English portrait painter
1911 - Lord Shackelton, explorer/government minister
1911 - Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
1913 - Murvyn Vye, Quincy Mass, actor (Bob Cummings Show)
1913 - Ralph Hammond Innes, English author
1913 - Cowboy Copas, American country singer (d. 1963)
1913 - Dorothy Schwartz, American violinist (d. 2007)
1913 - Abraham Sutzkever, Yiddish language poet and memoirist.
1914 - Akhtar Hameed Khan, pioneer of Microcredit in developing countries (d. 1999)
1914 - Howard Vernon, Swiss actor (d. 1996)
1915 - Alexander Durie, vice president (British AA)
1915 - Ron Smith, union leader (British Postal Workers)
1916 - George Maduro, Antillian resistance fighter (Willemsorde/Madurodam)
1917 - Robert Conquest, English author (Back to Life)
1918 - Lord Buxton of Alsa, CEO (ITV)
1919 - Iris Murdoch, Dublin Ireland, novelist (Severed Head, Unicorn)
1920 - Eldon Rudd, (Rep-R-AZ, 1977- )
1920 - Ruthven Wade, British Air Chief marshal
1921 - Jack Hamilton Beeson, composer
1922 - Jef Houthuys, chairman Belgian labor union (ACV 1968-87)
1922 - Jeffrey Benson, CEO (600 group)
1922 - Jiri Lederer, Czechoslovakia, journalist/dissident
1924 - David Cox, warden (Nuffield College, Oxford)
1924 - Jeremiah A Denton, (Sen-R-AL, 1981-86)
1925 - Phil Carey, Hackensack NJ, actor (Asa Buchanan-One Life to Live)
1926 - John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer
1926 - John Graham, British ambassador to NATO
1926 - Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author
1926 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
1927 - Ann Jellicoe, theater director/playwright (Knack)
1927 - Carmen Zapata, NYC, actress (Hagen, Viva Valdez, Man & the City)
1928 - Carl Woese, American microbiologist
1929 - Larry Lamb, newspaper editor
1929 - Charles Anthony, American tenor
1930 - Charles Kelly, chief constable (Staffordshire England)
1930 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
1930 - Stephen Smale, American mathematician
1931 - Clive Cussler, Aurora Illinois, writer (Raise The Titantic, Sahara)
1931 - Eugene Louw, South African minister of Internal affairs
1932 - Nina Van Pallandt, Copenhagen Denmark, actress (American Gigolo)
1933 - Frederico Davia, opera singer
1933 - James Ball, economist
1933 - Julian Bream, guitarist
1934 - Harrison Birtwhistle, Accringto Lancashire, composer (Trombeau)
1934 - Simon Gournlay, president (British National Farmer's Union)
1934 - Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
1934 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (d. 1977)
1935 - Alex Karras, Gary Ind, NFLer (Detroit Lions)/actor (George-Webster), (d. 2012)
1935 - Ken Kercheval, Wolcottville Ind, actor (Cliff Barnes-Dallas)
1935 - Donn Clendenon, baseball player (d. 2005)
1936 - Marion Roe, MP (C)
1938 - Carmen Callil, publisher
1938 - Enrique Figuerola Camue, Cuba, 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1964)
1939 - Haseeb Ahsan, Pakistani cricket off-spinner (12 Tests 1958-62)
1939 - Patrick Wayne, Los Angeles California, actor (Rounder, Shirley, Beyond Atlantis)
1939 - Ronald Hadfield, chief constable (West Midlands England)
1939 - William David Hellerman, composer
1941 - Geoffrey Burgon, composer
1942 - Henry McCubbin, MEP (Labour)
1942 - Philip R Sharp, (Rep-D-Indiana, 1975- )
1942 - Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
1943 - Diligenti quintuplets, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1943 - Jocelyn Burnell, astronomer
1944 - Jan-Michael Vincent, Denver, actor (Hooper, Tribes, Buster & Billie)
1944 - Millie Jackson, Thompson Ga, model/singer (Get it out 'cha system)
1945 - Peter Lewis, Los Angeles California, rock guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape)
1945 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
1946 - Hassabal Bolkiah Mu'izzadin Waddaulah, sultan of Brunei
1946 - Linda Ronstadt, Tucson Az, singer (Dif Drum)/actress (Pir of Penzance)
1948 - Enrique Basilio, hurler, 1st lady to light Olympic flame (Mexico-1968)
1948 - Alicia Bridges, American singer
1949 - John Arthur Casken, composer
1949 - Kerry Short, Vineland Ont, Canad Tour golfer (Highland Amat-1981, 84)
1949 - Trevor Horn, rock producer (Buggles-Video Killed, Yes, Frankie)
1949 - WiIlliam Faure, producer
1949 - Carl Bildt, Swedish politician
1950 - Alan Hurst, cricketer (Australian pace bowler 1974-79)
1950 - Colin Barnett, Australian politician
1950 - Arianna Huffington, Athens, Greek-born author, syndicated columnist and creator of The
           Huffington Post
1951 - Jesse "The Body" Ventura, wrestler/actor (Predator, Running Man)
1952 - David Bell, horse trainer
1952 - David Pack, rocker (Ambrosia)
1952 - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, (Rep-R-Florida)
1952 - Jeff Carlisi, rock guitarist (38 Special)
1952 - Jesse Ventura, [James Janos], wrestler/actor (mayor-Brooklyn Pk-MN)
1952 - Jill Long, (Rep-D-Indiana)
1952 - Larken Collins, rocker (Rossington-Collins Band)
1952 - Johnny Thunders, American musician (d. 1991)
1952 - Terry O'Quinn, American actor
1952 - Judy McGrath, American television executive
1953 - Cathy Larmouth Torrance California, playmate (Jun, 1981)
1953 - Franklyn Seales, St Vincent, actor (Dexter-Silver Spoons)
1953 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, president of Haiti (1991, 1994- )
1953 - John Denham, MP (Labour)
1954 - Boris Polak, Israel, Men's 50M Free Rifle 3 Positions (Oly-20-1996)
1956 - Joe Satriani, rocker
1956 - Kathy Kreiner, Canada, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 - Toshihiko Seko, Japanese runner (world record 25/30 km)
1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician (d. 1980)
1957 - Kate Kellaway, critic
1958 - Daniel Bruce Forsman, Rhinelander WI, PGA golfer (1992 Buick Open)
1958 - Mac Thornberry, American politician
1959 - Vincent Lindon, French actor
1959 - Shep Pettibone, American record producer
1960 - Alexander W Dunlap, Honolulu Hawaii, astronaut
1960 - Kim Alexis, Lockport NY, supermodel (Sports Illustrated swimsuit cover) and actress
1960 - Willie Aames, Newport Beach Ca, actor (8 is Enough, Paradise, Zapped)
1961 - Forest Whitaker, Longview TX, actor (Bloodsport, Platoon, Stakeout)
1961 - Lolita Davidovich, actress (Blaze, Jungle2Jungle)
1961 - Jean-Christophe Grangé, French writer and screenwriter
1961 - Scott Ritter, UN weapons inspector in Iraq
1963 - Brigitte Nielsen, Eisinore Denmark, actress (Red Sonja, Rocky IV)
1963 - Joe Phillips, NFL defensive tackle (KC Chiefs)
1963 - Steve Thomas, Stockport England, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1964 - Shari Headley, Queens, New York, American actress (All My Children, Coming to America)
1964 - Leonard Stabb, actor (Hunter Guthrie-One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
1965 - Kirt Manwaring, Elmira NY, catcher (SF Giants)
1965 - Scott Livingstone, Dallas TX, infielder (SD Padres, Det Tigers)
1965 - David Miliband, British politician
1966 - Irene Jacob, actress (Red, Othello)
1966 - Kristoff St John, NYC, actor (Adam-Generations, Young & Restless)
1966 - Rickey Foggie, CFL quarterback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1967 - Carnell Lake, NFL strong safety (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1967 - Adam Savage, American actor
1968 - Eddie Griffin, American comedian
1968 - Stan Kirsch, American actor
1969 - Christina Novak, Miss Arizona USA (1996)
1969 - John Crotty, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trailblazers)
1969 - Johnny Scott, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
1969 - Lorenzo Williams, NBA center (Wash Wizards, Dallas Mavericks)
1969 - Peter Ciavaglia, Albany NY, US hockey forward (Olympics-1994)
1969 - Richard Fletcher Pride III, Tuscaloosa AL, PGA golfer (1994 Fed Exp)
1970 - Julian Paynter, Australian 5k runner (Olympics-96)
1970 - Stephen Howard, NBA forward (Seattle Supersonics)
1970 - Chi Cheng, American musician (Deftones), (d. 2013)
1971 - Dean Panaro, Knoxville Tenn, diver (Olympics-96)
1971 - Eric Lacroix, Montreal, NHL left wing (LA Kings)
1971 - Ernest Dye, NFL tackle (Arizona Cardinals)
1971 - James Baldwin Jr, Southern Pines NC, pitcher (Chicago White Sox)
1971 - Danijela, Croatian singer
1972 - Khalid Reeves, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, NJ Nets)
1972 - Michael Barnett, UK musician / producer
1972 - Scott Foley, American actor
1972 - Beth Ostrosky, American model
1973 - Brian Austin Green, Van Nuys Cal, actor (David-Beverly Hills 90210)
1973 - Donald Willis, WLAF corner (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 - John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
1973 - Chris Taylor, Australian comedian, member of The Chaser
1974 - Janice Bremner, Burlington Ontario, synchro swimmer (Olymp-silver-96)
1974 - Chot Ulep, Filipino musician
1975 - Kara Drew, An American professional wrestler better known as Cherry
1975 - Ben Pepper, Australian basketball player
1976 - Rebecca Snyder, Grand Junction Colo, air pistol (Olympics-1996)
1976 - Jim Jones, African Puerto Rican American rapper
1976 - Diane Kruger, German actress and former fashion model
1977 - Ray Toro, American musician (My Chemical Romance)
1977 - Faraz Anwar, Pakistani guitarist (Mizraab)
1977 - Kitana Baker, American model (Miller Light Catfight commercial)
1977 - Lana Parrilla, American actress
1977 - Andre Nel, South African Cricketer
1978 - Miguel Olivo, Dominican baseball player
1979 - Laura Benanti, American musical theatre actress
1979 - Alexander Frei, Swiss footballer
1980 - Jonathan Cheechoo, professional ice hockey player
1980 - Reggie Abercrombie, professional baseball player
1980 - Jasper Pääkkönen, Finnish actor and film producer
1981 - Alecia Ingram, Knoxville Tenn, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1983 - Nelson Merlo, Brazilian racing driver
1984 - Vice Cooler, American musician
1989 - Tristan Wilds, American actor
1992 - Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer (Morning Musume)

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 15th July


Famous Deaths

                                   
Chemist and Nobel Laureate                          US WW1 Commander                      Fashion Designer
Hermann Emil Fischer (1919)                        John J. Pershing (1948)                     Gianni Versace (1997)


668 - Constantius II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at 37
1085 - Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia & Calabria, dies at 70
1262 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1222)
1274 - John F Bonaventura, Ital/French theologist/dominican/saint, dies
1291 - Rudolf I, King of Germany & Holy Roman Empire, dies
1381 - John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged
1406 - Duke William of Austria (b. c.1370)
1410 - Ulrich von Jungingen, German Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (killed in battle) (b. 1360)
1411 - Johannes Parvus, [Jean Petit], French theologist, dies
1416 - John, Duke of Berry, captain of Paris, dies
1417 - Willem J Eggert, financier (W E Center, Purmerend), dies
1521 - Juan Ponce de León, Spanish Explorer (b. 1458)
1571 - Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
1609 - Annibale Carracci, painter, dies
1614 - Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, French historian and biographer (b. c.1540)
1655 - Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect (b. 1570)
1685 - James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles 2, executed
1738 - Alexander Voznitsyn, Rus Naval officer converted to Judaism, executed
1738 - Antonio Maria Pacchioni, composer, dies at 84
1738 - Baruch Leibov, converted Russian Naval officer to Judaism, executed
1750 - Vasily Tatishchev, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
1751 - John Wilson, botanist, dies
1765 - Charles-André van Loo, French painter (b. 1705)
1767 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
1782 - Farinelli, Italian singer, dies at 77
1782 - Robert Wainwright, composer, dies at 33
1784 - Johan B Straub, South German sculptor, dies
1789 - Jacques Duphly, composer, dies at 74
1798 - Gaetano Pugnani, composer, dies at 66
1810 - Jean-Baptiste Rey, composer, dies at 75
1828 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
1839 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, politician/poet, dies
1844 - Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
1854 - Wincenty Studzinski, composer, dies at 39
1856 - Margaretha J de Neufville, author (The Kidnap), dies at 81
1857 - Carl Czerny, Austrian pianist/composer, dies at 66
1862 - David Emanuel Twiggs, US Confederate gen-mjr (Monterrey), dies at 72
1865 - Reinier C Bakhuizen van de Brink, Dutch historian, dies at 55
1868 - William Thomas Morton, dentist (1st to use ether), dies
1869 - A J Haynes, US army captain and civil war veteren, assassinated by KKK
1876 - Aleksander Fredro, Polish comedy writer (Zemstra), dies at 82
1881 - Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], shot by sheriff Pat Garrett at 21
1883 - Tom Thumb, famous small person (40"), dies of a stroke at 44
1885 - Rosalia de Castro, Spanish writer and poet (b. 1837)
1890 - Gottfried Keller, writer, dies at 70
1898 - Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1825)
1904 - Anton Pavlovich Chechov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), dies at 44
1910 - Daniel Kinet, auto racer/1st Belgian flyer, dies
1912 - Francisco Lazaro, Portuguese marathon runner (Olympics), dies at 21
1915 - Ludwik Grossman, composer, dies at 80
1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate, commits suicide at 66
1929 - Hugo Von Hofmannsthal, playwright/poet, dies
1930 - Leopold von Auer, Hungarian/US violinist, dies
1931 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
1933 - Irving Babbitt, US writer (Democracy & Leadership), dies at 67
1933 - Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
1934 - Jules Renkin, Belgian PM (1931-32), dies
1935 - Alfred Archer, cricketer (England batsman in one Test 1899), dies
1935 - Pieter WA Cort van de Linden, Dutch premier (1913-18), dies at 89
1937 - Walter Gay, artist, dies
1939 - Johon Mellanby, physiologist, dies
1939 - Percy Scott Worthington, architect, dies
1940 - Donald Calthrop, dies at 52
1940 - Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32
1942 - Denis Moloney, cricketer (during WW II 3 Tests for NZ 1937), dies
1946 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
1947 - Henry Kolker, dies at 76
1947 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
1948 - John J. Pershing, [Black Jack], US general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87
1952 - Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother dies in a car accident
1953 - Servant of God Archbishop Mar Ivanios (b.1882)
1957 - George Cleveland, actor (Grampa-Lassie), dies at 74
1957 - Marie C of Zeggelen, author (Dessajongen), dies at 87
1957 - James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
1957 - Vasily Maklakov, Russian orator and liberal politician (b. 1869)
1958 - Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident
1958 - Nuries-Said, Iraqi soldier/statesman, assassinated, dies
1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78
1959 - Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (The Dream), dies
1959 - Vance Palmer, Australian author (b. 1885)
1960 - Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, baritone, dies after surgery at 63
1960 - Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (b. 1897)
1961 - John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
1965 - Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
1968 - Lura Anson, dies in Woodland at 76
1969 - Peter Van Eyck, dies after long illness at 56
1971 - Guy Wilkerson, dies of cancer at 71
1974 - Christine Chubbuck, television news reporter (b.1944)
1975 - Charles Weidman, US dancer/choreographer (Fables for Our Time), dies
1976 - Paul William Gallico, writer, dies at 78
1977 - Konstantin Fedin, writer, dies
1979 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (b. 1911)
1980 - Eddie Jackson, comedian (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 84
1980 - Henri Martelli, composer, dies at 85
1982 - Donald Beard, cricketer (4 Tests for NZ 1952-56), dies
1982 - Wendy Caulfield, 1st Green River victim, found near Seattle
1982 - Bill Justis, American musician and producer (b. 1926)
1983 - Eddie Foy Jr, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange), dies of cancer at 78
1986 - Benny Rubin, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show), dies at 87
1986 - Florence Halop, actress (Florence-Night Court), dies at 63
1986 - Billy Haughton, American harness driver and trainer (b. 1923)
1987 - Alfie Bass, actor (Moonraker, Are You Being Served), dies at 66
1987 - Jack O'Hagan, cricketer/composer (Our Don Bradman), dies
1988 - Eleanor Estes, author (Ginger Pye, Moffats), dies at 82
1989 - Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (b. 1956)
1990 - Alison Leggatt, actress (Day of Triffids, Cows), dies at 86
1990 - Margaret Mary Lockwood, actress (Man in Grey, Wicked Lady), dies at 73
1990 - Troy Dixon, rapper (Trouble T-Roy of Heavy D), dies at 22 of a fall
1991 - Bert Convy, actor (Snoop Sisters, Win Lose or Draw), dies at 57
1992 - Henk van der Molen, guitarist/composer/writer (Martine Bijl), dies
1992 - Chingiz Mustafayev, Azerbaijan's most noted journalist (b. 1960)
1992 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
1993 - David Brian, US actor (Damned Don't Cry, Fort Worth), dies at 78
1993 - Bobby Kent, alleged Florida bully murdered by his friends (b. 1973)
1994 - Jeanne Bieruma Oosting, Dutch painter/illustrator, dies
1995 - Eddie J Bush, golf professional, dies at 83
1995 - Willie George "Bill" Woodruff Sr, vocalist, dies at 66
1996 - Dana Hill, actress (Vacation), dies at 32
1997 - Alan Chaig, paleontologist (Carl Sagan of BBC), dies at 70
1997 - Gianni Versace, fashion designer, shot to death by Andrew Cunanan at 50
2000 - Louis Quilico, Canadian baritone (b. 1925)
2003 - Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)
2003 - Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (b. 1920)
2006 - Robert H. Brooks, founder of Hooters of America (b. 1937)
2007 - Kelly Johnson, English guitarist, dies at 49
2008 - Gyorgy Kolonics, Hungarian canoeist, Olympics medalist. (b. 1972)
2010 - James E. Akins, American diplomat and advisor to Richard Nixon (b. 1926)
2011 - Googie Withers, British actress (b. 1917)
2012 - Celeste Holm, American actress, dies at 95

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 16th July


Historical Events

                                   
Founder of Protestanism                         US Civil War Admiral                             Yankee Clipper Joe DiMaggio
Martin Luther                                          David Farragut

                                   
Baseball Player and Manager                         Novelist J. D. Salinger                  Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco
Leo Durocher

                 
US President & Actor                          Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper
Ronald Reagan                                                  Carl Lewis


463 - Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius
622 - Moslem Era begins-Mahomet begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hejira)
622 - Origin of Islamic Era (Muharram 1, 1 AH)
1054 - Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople
1054 - Three Roman legates fracture relations between Western and Eastern Christian churches by
           placing invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday
           afternoon divine liturgy. Often dated as start of the East-West Schism.
1099 - Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
1212 - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Moslem power in Spain
1251 - The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stock a Brown Scapular (legend)
1338 - German monarch signs Treaty of Rense
1429 - Army entered Reims
1429 - Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans
1439 - Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
1465 - Battle at Montlhéry
1519 - Public debate between Martin Luther & theologist John Eck
1548 - La Paz, Bolivia is founded
1573 - Alva demands submission of Zealand/Holland
1618 - Capt John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain
1661 - 1st banknotes in Europe were issued by Bank of Stockholm
1683 - Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna
1683 - Manchu/Chinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdom of
           Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.
1755 - John Adams graduates Harvard
1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in Calif
1782 - Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna
1790 - US Congress establishes District of Columbia
1798 - US Public Health Service forms & US Marine Hospital authorized
1801 - Pope Pius VII & 1st consul Napoleon sign concord
1809 - The city of La Paz, in what is today Bolivia, declared its independence from Spanish Crown and
           formed the Junta Tuitiva, the first independent government in Spanish America, lead by Pedro
           Domingo Murillo.
1845 - NY Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta
1856 - Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem
1857 - Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore
1861 - Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
1861 - Manassas Campaign [->JUL 22]
1862 - David Farragut is 1st Rear Admiral in US Navy
1863 - Utrecht-Swells railway opens
1867 - Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam
1867 - D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint
1867 - Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete
1880 - Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.
1894 - Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners
1894 - Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan & England
1895 - Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs v Somerset at Taunton
1902 - John McGraw named manager of NY Giants
1902 - Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji v Australia, at Old Trafford
1904 - Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
1909 - Det & Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings
1912 - Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske
1914 - Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski & Rosa Luxemburg)
1920 - 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)
1920 - China joins the League of Nations
1920 - Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief
1920 - Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54
1924 - Conference over German recovery payments begins in London
1924 - NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games
1926 - Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc
1926 - National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1927 - Augusto Sandino begins 5½ year war against US occupation of Nicaragua
1934 - Bradman scores 140 Aust v Yorkshire, 120 mins, 22 fours 2 sixes
1935 - 1st automatic parking meter in US installed (Oklahoma City, Ok)
1936 - 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY
1936 - NY Giants are 10½ games back in NL, & go on to win pennant
1938 - 21st PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Shawnee CC Shawnee-on-Del Pa
1940 - NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee
1941 - 100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash
1941 - Joe Dimaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game
1942 - French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris
1942 - Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp
1944 - Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 & break their 16-game losing
           streak, they will lose another 5 in a row
1945 - 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico
1945 - Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets
1945 - Cruiser Indianapolis leaves SF with atom bomb
1946 - Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)
1946 - US court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau
1947 - Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee & Yanks 18th straight In nightcap Vic Rashi
           extends streak to 19
1948 - Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Phila, NY Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott & Burt
           Shotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager
1950 - Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
1950 - Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro
1951 - 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est)
1951 - King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates
1951 - Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks v Surrey at The Oval
1951 - Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published
1953 - KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast
1955 - "Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland
1956 - Detroit Tigers & Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million
1956 - Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
1956 - King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England
1956 - Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
1957 - Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)
1960 - 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
1960 - George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on
1961 - Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Tippecanoe Golf Open
1961 - Ralph Boston of US, sets then long jump record at 27' 2"
1962 - NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m
1963 - Amazon river carries 190,000 m3/sec of water (record)
1964 - Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as pres candidate
1965 - Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France & Italy opens
1966 - "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 perfs
1967 - Mickey Wright wins Lady Carling Golf Open
1967 - Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida)
1969 - Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched
1970 - Iraq's constitution goes into effect
1970 - Reds spoil Pirates debut in Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium, 3-2
1971 - Franco points prince Juan Carlos as deputy in Spain
1972 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos becomes 269th patriarch of Constantinople
1972 - Smokey Robinson & Miracles final live performance
1973 - During Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
1975 - Commissioner Bowie Kuhn is reelected for a 7-year term
1976 - Rock duo Loggins & Messina break-up after 6 years
1977 - Janelle Commissiong, of Trinidad & Tobago, crowned 26th Miss Universe
1978 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Borden Golf Classic
1979 - Premier/pres al-Bakr of Iraq is succeeded by Saddam Hussein
1980 - Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
1980 - Ronald Reagan nominated for Pres by Republicans in Detroit
1981 - India performs nuclear Test
1981 - Shukuni Sasaki spins 72 plates simultaneously
1982 - George P Shultz sworn in as minister of Foreign affairs
1982 - NASA launches Landsat 4 to thematic map the Earth
1982 - Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud
1983 - 20 killed in Britain's worst helicopter accident
1983 - Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.
1985 - 56th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-1 at Humphrey Metrodome, Minn
1985 - All star MVP: LaMarr Hoyt (SD Padres)
1985 - Bill to abolish Greater London Council receives royal assent
1985 - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record of 1152 kph (716 mph)
1987 - Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1987 - Said Aouita runs world record 2000m (4:50.81)
1987 - Don Mattingly hits his 4th grand slam of season & ties AL record of homers in 6 straight
           games (on way to tie major league record of 8 )
1988 - Carl Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec
1988 - Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds
1988 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts
1988 - San Antonio (Texas League) beats Jackson 1-0 in 26 innings
1988 - Wayne Gretzky (NHL) & Janet Jones (Police Acad 5) wed in Edmonton
1989 - 44th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1990 - 400 die in a (7.7) earthquake in Philippines
1990 - Bridgette LeAnn Wilson, 17, of Oregon, 8th crowned Miss Teen USA
1990 - Civil trial by parents of Suicide victims against Judas Priest begins
1990 - NYC's Empire State Building catches fire-No fatalities
1990 - Rick Dee's "Into the Night," premieres on ABC-TV
1990 - Ukraine declares independence
1993 - President Lissouba calls emergency rule in Congo-Brazzaville
1993 - S van Ruysdael's "Winter Landscape" sold for £705,500 in London
1993 - SF outfielder Darren Lewis sets record of 267 consec errorless games
1994 - "Sisters Rosensweig" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 556 perfs
1994 - 1st parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd)
1994 - 3 tenors-Placid Domingo, Luciano Parvoti, Jose Carreras, perform in LA
1994 - Baseball Night in America premieres (no Saturday day games)
1994 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter
1994 - Shreveport Pirates 1st CFL home game (vs Toronto Argonauts)
1994 - Spanish fishing boats sink a French fishing boat over fishing rights
1994 - Sweden shuts out Bulgaria 4-0, to finish 3rd in the World Cup
1995 - "Buttons on Broadway" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 40 perfs
1995 - "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" closes at Plymouth NYC after 55 perfs
1995 - 13th Seniors Players Golf Championship: J C Snead
1995 - 50th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Annika Sorenstam
1997 - Jerold Mackenzie awarded $266M for being fired from Miller Brewing for sexual harrassment
           for relaying a Seinfeld episode to a co worker
1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette
           are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The Piper Saratoga aircraft was
           piloted by Kennedy.
2004 - Millennium Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the early 21st
           century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.
2007 - An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast, Japan,
           killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant. See 2007
           Chūetsu offshore earthquake.

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This Day in History for 16th July


Famous Weddings

1659 - Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II
1974 - "The Osmonds" singer Alan Osmond (25) weds Suzanne Pinegar at LDS Temple in Provo,
           Utah
1988 - "Back To The Future" actor Michael J. Fox (27) weds "Family Ties" actress Tracy Pollan (28) at
           West Mountain Inn in Arlington, Vermont
1994 - Anna Nicole Smith (26) weds ½ billionaire J Howard Marshall II (89)
2005 - Academy award winning actress Sandra Bullock (40) weds "Monster Garage" host Jesse James
           (36) at sunset on the grounds of The Folded Hills Ranch in Gaviota, California
2010 - Def Leppard lead guitarist Phil Collen (52) weds costume designer Helen L. Simmons (42) at
           Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach Resort in Florida

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Famous Divorces

2001 - "Kate & Leopold" actress Meg Ryan (38) divorces actor Dennis Quaid (46) after 9 years of
            marriage
2012 - Actor-comedian Russell Brand (36) divorces popstar Katy Perry (27) due to irreconcilable
          differences a year after the fairy-tale wedding in India

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Famous Birthdays

                                   
Christian Science Founder                         The Lord of the Dance                              Olympic Gold Shooter
Mary Baker Eddy (1821)                                Michael Flatley (1958)                              Kim Rhode (1979)


1194 - Saint Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)
1571 - Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, baptized
1611 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)
1704 - John Kay, England, machinist, invented flying shuttle
1714 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)
1715 - Charles, Prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France
1722 - Joseph Wilton, sculptor
1723 - Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter (Simplicity)
1725 - Georg Simon Lohlein, composer
1728 - Henri Moreau, composer
1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk/discoverer (1st asteroid-Ceres)
1796 - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, painter
1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, Bow New Hampshire, founded Christian Science (Science & Health), (d.
           1910)
1822 - Luigi Arditi, violinist/composer
1823 - James Isham Gilbert, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - Robert Brown Potter, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1834 - Carlo Angeloni, composer
1834 - Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914)
1839 - Philipus J Hoedemaker, Dutch theologist
1848 - Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch conductor/composer (Lexicon of Music)
1855 - Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer
1858 - Eugene Ysaye, composer
1860 - Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, linguist/philologist
1862 - Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], US civil rights activist
1865 - George A Birmingham, [Rev James Owen Hannay], novelist
1870 - Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956)
1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole
1877 - Béla Schick, Hungarian/US children artist (Serum Krankheit)
1882 - Edward Earle, Toronto Ont, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight)
1882 - Felix Locher, Switzerland, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
1884 - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)
1887 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, black sox player (Say it aint so, Joe)
1888 - Frits Zernike, invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953)
1888 - Percy Kilbride, SF CA, actor (Egg & I, Ma & Pa Kettle)
1889 - Larry Semon, American comedian (d. 1928)
1896 - Mauritius R J Dekker [Boris Robazki], Dutch writer (Merkteken)
1896 - Trygve Halvdan Lie, Norway, 1st UN secretary general (1946-52)
1896 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (d. 1969)
1899 - Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st black female district attorney (NY)
1901 - Fritz Mahler, composer
1902 - Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)
1903 - Mary Philbin, Chicago IL, actress (Phantom of the Opera)
1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)
1904 - Goffredo Petrassi, Zagarolo Italy, composer (Beatitudines)
1904 - Leo Joseph Suenens, Cardinal (Belgium)
1906 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (d. 2006)
1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, Bkln, actress (Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds)
1907 - Orville Redenbacher, popcorn King (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet)
1907 - Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (d. 2001)
1908 - Aruna Asaf Ali, politician
1908 - Maurice Adams, surgeon/British rear admiral
1909 - Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian
1909 - John Edward "Teddy" Buckner, trumpeter
1910 - Stan McCabe, cricketer (exciting NSW & Australian batsman of 30's)
1911 - Ginger Rogers, [Virginia McMath], Independ Mo, dancer (Gay Divorcee)
1911 - Sonny Tufts, [Bowen Charleston Tufts II], Bost, actor (Variety Girl)
1912 - Ray Barr, NYC, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show)
1912 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1913 - Hugh Ford, FRS mechanic engineer
1913 - Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor (Brain, Wages of Fear)
1915 - Barnard Hughes, Bedford Hills NY, (Tron, Where's Poppa, Best Friends)
1915 - Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, deputy speaker (House of Lords)
1915 - Edward Miller, Master (Fitzwilliam College Cambridge)
1916 - Harold Locke, archdeacon of Loughborough
1917 - William Bishop, Oak Park Ill, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life)
1918 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)
1919 - Charles Graham, lord-lt of Cumbria UK
1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea (d. 2006)
1919 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (d. 1999)
1920 - Anwar Hussain, cricketer (four Tests for Pakistan v India 1952-53)
1921 - Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe
1921 - Trevor Williams, scientific consultant
1923 - Reginald Prentice, British government minister
1923 - Chris Argyris, American educator
1924 - Bess Myerson, Bronx NY, 1st Jewish Miss America (1945)
1925 - Phillip Pine, Hartford Ct, actor (Set-Up, Under the Ground)
1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)
1926 - Brian Howard, deputy chairman (Marks & Spencer)
1926 - Philip Randle, biochemist
1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1927 - John Freeland, Legal advisor UK foreign office
1927 - John Warr, England, cricket bowler (avg 281)/president (MCC)
1927 - Shirley Hughes, author/illustrator
1928 - Bella Davidovich, Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel)
1928 - James Kilfedder, MP (Ulster Popular Unionist)
1928 - Ray Thornton, (Rep-D-Arkansas)
1928 - Robert Sheckley, US, sci-fi author (10th Victim, Mindswap)
1928 - Anita Brookner, English novelist
1928 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993)
1929 - Michael Morland, High court judge
1930 - John Everett Watts, composer
1930 - Michael Bilirakis, (Rep-R-Florida, 1983- )
1931 - Caroline Blackwood, writer
1932 - John Chilton, jazz trumpeter
1932 - Milly Vitale, Rome, actress (7 Little Foys, War & Peace, Juggler)
1932 - Oleg Protopopov, Russia, olympic pairs skater (Gold 1964, 68)
1932 - [Dick] Richard L Thornburgh, Penn, US Attorney General (1988-93)
1932 - Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)
1933 - Sollie McElroy, R&B singer (Flamingos-Golden Teardrops)
1934 - Donald Payne, Newark, New Jersey, New Jersey Congressman (1989-2012), (d. 2012)
1935 - Tom Rosenthal, publisher/British broadcaster
1936 - Buddy Merrill, Torrey Utah, guitarist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1936 - V Subramanya, cricketer (Indian batsman in nine Tests mid-60's)
1937 - Richard Bryan, (Sen-D Nevada)
1938 - Anita Brookner, art historian/novelist
1938 - Thorkell Sigurbjornsson, composer
1938 - Tony Jackson, English bass player (The Searchers) (d. 2003)
1939 - Corin Redgrave, London, actor (Excalibur, Man For All Seasons)
1939 - Marion Pitt, social worker/writer
1939 - Mary Parkinson, British broadcaster
1939 - William Bell, [Yarborough], US singer (Tryin' to Love Two)
1939 - Mariele Ventre, Italian choir director (d. 1995)
1940 - Tony Jackson, Liverpool, rock bassist/vocalist (Searchers)
1941 - George Young, MP/British minister of housing & planning
1941 - Hans Wiegel, Dutch commissioner of the queen (Frisia)
1941 - Jan G H Krajenbrink, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
1941 - Mišo Kovač, Croatian musician
1942 - Desmond Dekker, [Dacris], Jamaica, reggae pioneer (Aces-Israelites)
1942 - Frank Field, MP (Labour)
1942 - Margaret Smith Court, Australia, tennis pro (1970 Grand Slam)
1943 - Jimmy Johnson, NFL coach (Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins)
1943 - Stanley Gebler Davies, journalist/drinker
1943 - Reinaldo Arenas, Cuban poet (d. 1990)
1945 - Barry Dudleston, cricket umpire
1945 - Diana Warwick, leader (Association of University Teachers)
1945 - Jos Stelling, director (Pointsman)
1945 - Kellie Everts, Kalv Germany, Miss nude Universe (1968)
1946 - Barbara Lee, American politician
1946 - Richard LeParmentier, American actor, (d. 2013)
1946 - Ron Yary, American football player
1947 - Roelof P Meyer, S Afr under minister of Law & Order etc
1947 - Tom Boggs, rock drummer (Box Tops)
1947 - Alexis Herman, 23rd U.S. Secretary of Labor
1947 - Assata Shakur, American activist
1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/violist (Leventritt 1967)
1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian singer and actor
1949 - Alan "Fitz" Fitzgerald, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Night Ranger)
1949 - Cyndy Garvey, Detroit, wife of Steve Garvey, talk show host (AM LA)
1949 - Ray Major, rock guitarist (British Lions)
1950 - Camille Saviola, Bronx NY, actress (Nightlife)
1950 - Valery Yevgenyevich Maksimenko, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1950 - Tom Terrell, musicologist, deejay
1950 - Pierre Paradis, Quebec politician
1950 - Dennis Priestley, English darts player
1951 - Esther M Friesner[-Stutzman], US, sci-fi author (Witchwood Cradle)
1951 - Lorraine Chase, actress/model (Lame Ducks, Love & Bullets)
1951 - Jean-Luc Mongrain, French-Canadian journalist
1952 - Phillip Carrick, cricketer
1952 - Stewart Copeland, Alexandria Egypt, drummer (Police-Roxanne)
1952 - Robert David Steele, American spy
1953 - Philece Sampler, San Angelo, Tx, actress (Donna Love-Another World)
1953 - Douglas J. Feith, American Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
1954 - Jeanette Mott Oxford, American politician
1956 - Ian Curtis, English rock vocalist (Joy Division-Transmission)
1956 - Tony Kushner, American playwright
1957 - Alan Donnelly, MP (Labour)
1957 - Wlodi Smolarek, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1957 - Alexandra Marinina, Russian writer
1958 - Michael Flatley, Chicago Ill, Irish choreographer (Lord of Dance)
1958 - Pierre Roland Renoir, Canadian artist
1958 - Mike D. Rogers, American politician
1959 - Gary Anderson, NFL kickerk (Philadelphia Eagles)
1959 - Doug Herzog, American television executive
1960 - Eus van Someren, pop guitarist (Scene, Blaauw)
1960 - Gisela Beyer, German DR, discus thrower (Olympics-4th place-1980)
1960 - Terry Pendleton, Los Angeles California, infielder (Florida Marlins)
1960 - Leila Kenzle, Long Island, New York, American actress (Mad About You, Identity)
1963 - Mikael Pernfors, Sweden, tennis star
1963 - Phoebe Cates, Manhattan NY, actress (Fast Times at Ridgemount High)
1963 - Srečko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
1964 - Miguel Indurain, Spanish bicyclist (Tour de France winner 1991-95)
1965 - Charles Smith, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1965 - Claude Lemieux, Buckingham Que, NHL forward (Team Canada, Colorado)
1966 - Bonnie Bright, Redondo Beach CA, WPVA volleyballer (Hermosa-17th-)
1966 - Chip Lohmiller, NFL kicker (NO Saints)
1966 - Jyrki Lumme, Tampere Fin, NHL defenseman (Canucks, Finland Oly-B-98)
1966 - Warren Sallenback, South Surrey BC, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1966 - Johnny Vaughan, English writer and broadcaster
1967 - Roger Duffy, NFL guard/center (NY Jets)
1967 - Will Ferrell, American comedian
1967 - Christopher Rocancourt, French con artist
1968 - Ariel Solomon, NFL center/guard (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1968 - Barry Sanders, NFL running back (Detroit Lions, 1988 Heisman Trophy)
1968 - Eric Jonassen, WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 - Larry Sanger, American co-founder of Wikipedia
1969 - Rain Pryor, actress (Head of the Class)/daughter of Richard
1969 - Kathryn Harby-Williams, Australian netballer
1969 - Daryl Mitchell, American actor
1970 - Fabio Casartelli, cyclist
1970 - Phil Graham, Halifax Nova Scotia, rower (Olympics-96)
1970 - William Van Landingham, Columbia TN, pitcher (SF Giants)
1970 - Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thai film director
1971 - Chris Thomas, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers)
1971 - Corey Feldman, Encino California, actor (License to Drive, Stand by Me)
1971 - Ed Kowalczyk, American singer (Live)
1972 - Aaron Glenn, NFL cornerback/kick returner (NY Jets)
1972 - Mindy Carson, NYC, vocalist (Club Embassy, Ford Star Revue)
1973 - Karla Beteta, Miss Universe-Guatemala (1996)
1973 - Shaun Pollock, cricketer (son of Peter South African Test quick 1995-)
1973 - Stefano Garzelli, Italian cyclist
1973 - Tim Ryan, American politician
1973 - Graham Robertson, American filmmaker and author
1974 - Michelle Chandler, Australian basketball point guard (Olymp-bronze-96)
1974 - Chris Pontius, American actor and Jackass cast member
1974 - Wendell Sailor, Australian rugby league and union footballer
1975 - Jonathan Zwinkel, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1975 - Bas Leinders, Belgian racing car driver
1975 - Ana Paula Arósio, Brazilian actress
1975 - Jamie Oliver, Welsh keyboardist
1976 - Anna Smashnova, Minsk Russia, tennis star (1993 Futures-Erlangen GER)
1976 - Michael Petkovic, Australian soccer goalie (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1976 - Tomasz Kuchar, Polish Rally driver
1976 - Bobby Lashley, American Professional Wrestler
1976 - Carlos Humberto Paredes, Paraguyan footballer
1977 - Bryan Budd, British soldier (VC recipient) (d. 2006)
1978 - Stephanie Lee Hamilton, Williston ND, Miss America-ND (1997)
1978 - Taj Anwar, model and activist
1979 - Kim Rhode [Kimberley], Whittier California, double trap (Olympics-gold-1996)
1979 - Jayma Mays, American actress
1979 - Chris Mihm, American basketball player
1980 - Adam Scott, Australian golfer
1982 - Michael Umaña, Costa Rican footballer
1984 - Hayanari Shimoda, Japanese racing driver
1984 - Katrina Kaif, Indian Actress
1986 - Calum Gittins, New Zealand actor
1989 - Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer
1991 - Randall Bentley, American actor
1994 - Mark Indelicato, American singer and actor

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This Day in History for 16th July


Famous Deaths

First Lady of the United States
Mary Todd Lincoln (1882)


276 - Mark Annius Florianus, emperor of Rome (276), murdered
599 - Monulphus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht (St Servaaskerk), dies
1099 - El Cid, [Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar], Spanish general strategist, dies at 59
1139 - Walram II, duke of Limburg/Neth-Lutherans, dies
1216 - Innocent III [Lotario de' Conti di Segni], Italian Pope (1198-1216), dies at 54 or 55
1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)
1342 - King Charles I of Hungary
1482 - John van Schaffelaar, Gelders knight, dies
1546 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)
1557 - Anne of Cleeves, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII, dies at 41
1590 - Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], pontiff of Portugal, dies
1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)
1647 - Masaniello, [Tommaso Aniello] Neapolitan rebel (b. 1622)
1664 - A Gryphius, writer, dies at 47
1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)
1691 - Francois-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois, statesman, dies
1698 - Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer, dies at 84
1729 - Johann David Heinichen, composer, dies at 46
1730 - Elijiah Fenton, poet, dies
1736 - Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies
1747 - Giuseppe Maria Crespi, painter/etcher, dies
1762 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer, dies at 87
1764 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), murdered at 23
1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
1782 - Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik, dies at 61
1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)
1827 - Josiah Spode, potter, dies
1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)
1843 - Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, politician, dies at 68
1857 - Pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies
1864 - Victor JB Girardey, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 27
1868 - Louis-Francois Dauprat, composer, dies at 87
1871 - Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1879 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)
1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
1886 - Ned Buntline, [Edward Zane Carroll Judson], author, dies
1887 - Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle at Woeringen), dies at 73
1889 - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83
1890 - Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet, dies
1896 - Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, novelist, dies at 74
1896 - William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies
1897 - Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies
1915 - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (b. 1827)
1916 - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies
1916 - Ludwig P Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1916 - Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, physician, dies
1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)
1917 - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Ger composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70
1923 - Louis M A Couperus, poet/writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60
1931 - Charles Studd, cricketer (5 Tests for England 1882-83), dies
1939 - Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki, Zen student, dies
1944 - John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed
1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)
1953 - Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82
1955 - Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise Courtenay], Belgian princess, dies at 81
1960 - Albrecht von Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Italy), dies at 74
1960 - John Phillips Marquand, novelist, dies at 66
1961 - [Louise] Sophie M E de Vries, actress (English Prof), dies at 88
1962 - Jan M Romein, historian (Breaking of Two Ages), dies
1971 - H T Tsiang, dies at 65
1972 - Giorgio Nataletti, composer, dies at 65
1972 - Max Zehnder, composer, dies at 70
1973 - Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91
1976 - Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA
1979 - James F Mcintyre, archbishop of Los Angeles, dies at 93
1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
1981 - Harry Chapin, folk vocalist (Taxi), dies in car crash at 38
1982 - Leendert Braat, sculptor/writer (White World), dies
1982 - Patrick Dewaere, actor (Catherine & Co), shoots self at 35
1984 - Billy Williams, singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73
1985 - Wayne King, orchestra leader (Wayne King Show), dies at 84
1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor, dies at 81
1990 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)
1990 - Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)
1991 - Cornelis Z Forster, [Da Kuneisi], Suriname granman/gaanman, dies
1991 - Dwight Weist, Radio actor/film narrator (Radio Days), dies at 81
1991 - Frank Rizzo, (Mayor-D-Phila, 1972-80), dies of a heart attack at 70
1991 - Robert Motherwell, US painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76
1992 - "Gorgeous" George, [Arena], wrestler, dies at 84
1992 - Buck Buchanan, NFL defensive lineman (KC Chiefs), dies at 51
1992 - Johnny Martin, cricketer (NSW & Australian chinaman bowler), dies
1994 - M Vink, surgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant), dies at 78
1994 - Madzy Rollin Couquerque, tennis star/international hockey, dies at 91
1995 - Charles Bruck, Hungarian/French/US conductor (Dutch Opera), dies at 83
1995 - Eleanore M "May" Sarton, Belg/US writer (Land of Silence), dies at 83
1995 - Juan Manuel Fangio, racing Driver, dies at 84
1995 - Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies
1995 - Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65
1995 - Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds), dies at 91
1995 - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher, dies at 83
1995 - Stephen Harold Spender, writer, dies at 86
1995 - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher, dies at 91
1996 - John Panozzo, drummer, dies at 48
1996 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)
1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)
1999 - John F. Kennedy, Jr., American publisher (b. 1960)
1999 - Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
2001 - Maurice De Bevere, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1923)
2001 - Terry Gordy, American professional wrestler (b. 1961)
2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)
2004 - George Busbee, Governor of Georgia (b. 1927)
2005 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (b. 1920)
2005 - Prince Gu of Korea (b. 1931)
2005 - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer, lyricist, and entertainer (b. 1920)
2006 - Bob Orton, Sr., American professional wrestler (b. 1929)
2006 - Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas (b. 1948)
2008 - Jo Stafford, American singer of traditional pop music (b. 1917)
2010 - James Gammon, American actor (b. 1940)
2011 - Forrest Blue, American football player (b. 1944)
2012 - Jon Lord, English musician, dies from a pulmonary embolism at 71
2012 - Kitty Wells, American country singer, dies from complications after a stroke at 92