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March
18th
0417
St Zosimus begins his reign as Catholic
Pope
0731 St Gregory III begins his reign as
Catholic Pope
1123 1st Latern Council (9th ecumenical
council) opens in Rome
1167 Battle of El-Babein, Egypt: Franks
under Amalrik vs Syrians
1190 Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St
Edmonds England
1229 German emperor Frederick II crowns
himself king of Jerusalem
1438 Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king
of Germany
1509 Emperor Maximilian I names Margaretha
land guardians of Netherlands
1532 English parliament bans payments by
English church to Rome
1543 Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded
flood in America (Mississippi River)
1582 Prince Willem of Orange injured in
attack at Antwerp
1583 Dutch States General & Anjou sign
treaty
1673 Lord Berkley sells his half of New
Jersey to the Quakers
1754 Duke of Newcastle becomes English
premier
1766 British Parliament reinstitutes the
Stamp Act
1773 Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to
Conquer" premieres in London
1793 2nd Battle at Neerwinden: Austria
army beats France
1810 "Converse", 1st US opera,
premieres in New York
1813 David Melville, Newport RI, patents
apparatus for making coal gas
1818 Congress approves 1st pensions for
government service
1834 1st railroad tunnel in US completed,
in Pennsylvania (275 meter long)
1835 Charles Darwin departs Santiago Chile
on his way to Portillo Pass
1847 1st Dutch public telegram
1850 Henry Wells & William Fargo forms
American Express in Buffalo
1858 Dutch Van der Brugghen government
resigns
1859 Vera Cruz besieged by Miramón (Cons)
in Mexican War of Reform
1864 Dale Dike on Humber River crumbles
drowning some 240
1865 Battle of Wilson's raid to Selma AL
1865 Congress of Confederate States of
American adjourns for last time
1870 1st US National Wildlife Preserve
(Lake Meritt in Oakland CA)
1871 Communards revolt in Paris France
1877 President Hayes appoints Frederick
Douglass marshal of Washington DC
1881 [PT] Barnum & [James A] Bailey's
Greatest Show on Earth opens (Madison
Square Garden)
1890 1st US state naval militia organized
(Massachusetts)
1891 Britain is linked to the continent by
Telephone
1892 Lord Stanley proposes silver
challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
1895 200 blacks leave Savannah GA for
Liberia
1899 Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is
discovered by Pickering
1900 Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club), forms
1902 Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known
performer to make a record
1902 Schönberg's "Verklärte Nacht"
premieres in Vienna
1904 1st performance of Edward Elgar's
"In the South (Alassio)"
1909 Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham
broadcast
1910 1st opera by an US composer
(Converse) performed at the Met, New York
NY
1911 North Dakota enacts a hail insurance
law
1914 White Wolf gang beats government army
in Jingdezhen China
1915 Failed British attack in Dardanelles
1915 French battleship Bouvet explodes,
640 killed
1915 Turkey's Canakkale (Trojan) Sea
Victory against allied powers(USA,
Australia, England, Italy) during First
World War
1918 Soccer team SON OF Meerssen forms
1918 Socialist Youth AJC organizes in
Amsterdam
1919 Order of DeMolay is established in
Kansas City
1920 Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar
1921 2nd Peace of Riga, Poland enlarged
1921 Steamer "Hong Kong" runs
aground off Swatow China killing 1,000
1922 1st intercollegiate indoor polo
championship (Princeton vs Yale)
1922 British magistrates in India sentence
Mohandas K Gandhi to 6 years for
disobedience
1922 WBT-AM in Charlotte NC begins radio
transmissions
1925 (8) 60-MPH tornadoes speed through
Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky,
& Tennessee kill 689
1929 Dmitri Shostakovich's "The New
Babylon" premieres in Leningrad
1930 Boston Bruins win record 20th NHL
home game
1930 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh
(US)
1931 1st electric shavers go on sale in US
(Schick)
1931 Juan Bautista Aznar becomes premier
of Spain
1933 Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st
radio transmission
1933 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship
won by Maribel Vinson
1933 US Men's Figure Skating Championship
won by Roger Turner
1937 Gas explosion in school in New London
TX; 296 die
1938 New York 1st requires serological
blood tests of pregnant women
1938 President Cardena of Mexico
nationalizes US & British oil
companies
1940 Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's
war against France & Britain
1942 2 black players, Jackie Robinson
& Nate Moreland, request a tryout with
the Chicago White Sox, they are allowed to
work out
1942 Illegal Free Netherlands announces
boycott of theaters
1943 James Oglethorpe (US) & Terkolei
(Netherlands), torpedoed & sinks
1943 Red Army evacuates Belgorod
1944 2,500 women trample guards &
floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm
clocks announced for sale in a Chicago IL
department store
1944 Nazi Germany occupies Hungary
1945 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin
1945 Maurice "Rocket" Richard
becomes the 1st NHLer to score 50 goals
1945 US Task Force 58 attacks targets on
Kiushu
1948 France & Great Britain &
Benelux sign Treaty of Brussels
1948 Philips begin experimental TV
broadcasting
1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty
Organization) ratified
1949 WGAL TV channel 8 in Lancaster PA
(NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 "Touch & Go" closes at
Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176
performances
1950 CCNY beats Bradley 69-61 for the NIT
championship
1951 Pat O'Sullivan wins LPGA Titleholders
Golf Championship
1952 1st plastic lens for cataract
patients fitted (Philadelphia)
1952 Communist offensive in Korea
1953 15th NCAA Men's Basketball
Championship: Indiana beats Kansas 69-68
1953 Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250
die
1953 KGNC (now KAMR) TV channel 4 in
Amarillo TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 National League approves Boston
Braves move to Milwaukee (1st shift since
1903)
1955 I Hatojama recognized as premier of
Japan
1957 WTWV (now WTVA) TV channel 9 in
Tupelo-Columbus MS (NBC) begins
1958 Dodgers announces mascot/clown Emmett
Kelly will not perform in 1958
1959 Boston Celtics' Bill Sharman begins
record of 56 straight free-throws
1959 President Dwight D Eisenhower signs
Hawaii statehood bill
1961 Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy
introduced
1962 Algerian War ends after 7½ years of
fighting (250,000 die), Ben Bella flees
1962 Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of
Supreme Soviet of USSR
1963 "Tovarich" opens at
Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances
1963 France performs underground nuclear
test at Ecker Algeria
1963 Supreme Court's Miranda Decision:
defendants must have lawyers
1963 WGSF TV channel 31 in Newark OH (PBS)
begins broadcasting
1965 "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens
at 46th St Theater NYC for 220
performances
1965 Rolling Stones fined £5 each for
public urination
1965 USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei
Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 minutes)
1966 "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th
St Theater NYC for 3 performances
1966 General Suharto forms government in
Indonesia
1966 Scott Paper begins selling paper
dresses for $1
1967 Beatles' "Penny Lane"
single goes #1
1967 Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock
off the Isles of Scilly Cornwall UK &
spills oil
1968 Congress repeals requirement for a
gold reserve
1968 WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland VT
(PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor VT
(PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 "Come Summer" opens at Lunt
Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances
1970 Cambodia military coup under General
Lon Nol, prince Sihanuk flees
1970 KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin TX (ABC)
suspends broadcasting
1970 Mail service paralyzed by 1st major
postal strike
1970 NFL selects Wilson as official
football & scoreboard as official time
1971 200 die in landslide into Lake
Yanahuani, Chungar Peru
1972 AIAW 1st basketball championship,
Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48
1972 Cornell NCAA hockey team shut out for
1st time in 225 games (Boston University)
1972 Memphis' Larry Miller sets ABA record
of 67 points in a game
1972 People's Rebublic of China performs
nuclear test at Lop Nor People's Rebublic
of China
1973 "Seesaw" opens at Uris
Theater NYC for 296 performances
1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Orange
Blossom Golf Classic
1974 Most Arab oil producing nations end
embargo against US
1975 Kurds end fight against Iraqi army
1977 Clash releases their 1st recording
"White Riot"
1977 US restricts citizens from visiting
Cuba, Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia
1977 Vietnam hands over MIA to US
1978 250,000 attend rock concert
California Jam II in Ontario CA
1978 Pakistani former premier Ali Bhutto
sentenced to death
1979 "On the 20th Century"
closes at St James Theater NYC after 460
performances
1979 Battles between Kurds & Iranians
break in Sananday Iran
1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic
Golf Classic
1980 Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad
while being refueled, killing 50
1981 Buffalo Sabres sets NHL record of 9
goals in 1 period (vs Toronto)
1982 Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord
severed in a car accident
1984 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Tucson
Conquistadores Golf Open
1985 Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth
reinstates Willie Mays & Mickey Mantle
1985 Capital Cities Communications Inc
acquires ABC
1986 Exciting draw in final gives New
South Wales the Sheffield Shield over
Queensland
1986 Treasury Department announces plans
to alter paper money
1987 Gerber survey find most popular names
for newborns (Jessica & Matthew)
1987 US performs nuclear test at Nevada
Test Site
1989 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29
(Discovery 8), returns to Earth
1989 California Quake amusement ride opens
at Universal Studios
1989 Dino Ciccarelli sets Washington
Capital record of 7 points in a game
1989 Investor group led by George W Bush
& Edward W Rose purchases controlling
interest of Texas Rangers
1990 1st free elections in German
Democratic Republic, Conservatives beat
Communists
1990 32-day lockout by baseball owners
ends
1990 A Tampa little leaguer, dies, after
being struck by a pitch
1990 Colleen Walker wins Circle K Tucson
LPGA Golf Open
1990 Largest Art robbery in the history
(Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in
Boston), where 12 paintings valued at $100
million are stolen
1990 Loyola Marymount beats Michigan
Wolverines 149-115, highest NCAA score
1991 Apple computer head Steve Jobs weds
Laurene Powell
1991 Mike Tyson beats Razor Ruddock in the
7th round
1991 Philadelphia '76ers retire Wilt
Chamberlain's #13 jersey
1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) ends NBA free
throw streak of 52 games
1992 "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun"
opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 38
performances
1992 Donna Summer gets a star on
Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1992 Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years
for tax evasion
1992 Zimbabwe beat England by 9 runs in
World Cup at Albury
1993 "Sisters Rosensweig" opens
at Barrymore Theater NYC for 556
performances
1993 Amsterdam stock exchange hits record
ƒ12.2 billion
1993 Eddie Murphy marries Nicole Mitchell
in NYC
1993 Sri Lanka beat England in Test match
by 5 wickets
1994 South Africa Goldstone committee
reveals existence of secret police
1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16),
lands
1994 Zsa Zsa Gabor files for bankruptcy
1995 Michael Jordan announces he is ending
his 17 month NBA retirement
1995 Spanish princess Elena (31) weds
Jaime de Marichalar y Saenez Tejada
1995 STS 67 (Endeavour 8) lands after 16½
days
1996 50,000 swimmers raise 15 million for
charity during BT's Swimathon '96
1997 Russian AN-24 plane crashes in
Turkey, 50 die
Births
1380
Liduina van Schiedam Dutch "Christ's
bride"/saint
1483 Raphael painter (Sistine Madonna)
1548 Cornelis Ketel Dutch portrait
painter/poet
1556 François-Hercule de Valois French
duke of Anjou/Brabant
1578 Adam Elsheimer German
painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized
1609 Frederick III king of Denmark &
Norway (1648-70), absolutist
1644 Gottfried Wegner composer
1657 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni Italian
composer
1690 Christian Goldbach German
mathematician (Goldbach position)
1734 Joseph Schmitt composer
1756 Johann Christoph Vogel composer
1765 David H Chassé Dutch baron/General
(fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
1781 Gustave Vogt composer
1782 John Caldwell Calhoun Abbeville SC,
Andrew Jackson's Vice President (1825-32)
1809 Gabriel de la Concepción Valdés [Placido],
Cuban poet
1813 Friedrich Hebbel writer
1829 William Robertson Boggs Brigadier
General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1830 Numa D Fustel de Coulanges French
historian/sociologist
1837 [Stephen] Grover Cleveland Caldwell
NJ, 22nd & 24th President (1885-1889,
1893-1897)
1838 Jan B Stobbaerts Flemish painter
1838 Sir Randal Cremer Britain, trade
unionist, pacifist (Nobel 1903)
1839 Francis Fessenden Major General
(Union volunteers), died in 1906
1842 Stéphane Mallarmé French poet (L'Après-midi
d'un faune)
1843 Jules Vandenpeereboom premier of
Belgium (1899)
1844 Nicolai Andreevich Rimski-Korsakov
Tikhvin Russia, composer (Flight of the
Bumble Bee, Scheherazade)
1848 Nathaniel Herreshoff America Cup
yacht designer
1858 Rudolph C K Diesel German engineer
(Diesel motor)
1864 Karl M Lybeck Finnish/Swedish
language poet (Samlade Arbeten)
1866 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu composer
1866 John Loudon Dutch minister of Foreign
Affairs (1913-18)
1867 Michael G de Boer historian (Harbor
of Amsterdam)
1869 [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain British
Prime Minister (C, 1937-40)
1872 Frank Hoyt Losey composer
1877 Clem Hill cricketer (all-time great
Australian batsman)
1880 Christopher K H de Nerée tot
Babberich cartoonist
1881 Oliver Seibert hall of fame hockey
player (elected 1963)
1881 Paul Le Flem composer
1882 Gian Francesco Malipiero composer
1886 Edward Everett Horton Brooklyn NY,
actor/narrator (Bullwinkle Show)
1886 Kurt Koffka Germany, Gestalt
psychologist
1886 Marianne [Goudeket-]Philips Dutch
author (Between Heaven & Earth)
1888 Joseph Csaky Hungarian/French
sculptor
1889 F Rijkens oldest living person in
Netherlands
1890 Gerardus van der Leeuw Dutch religion
historian/minister of Education
1892 Robert P Tristram Coffin
poet/reporter (WWII)
1893 Wilfred Owen England, anti-war poet
(Anthem for Doomed Youth)
1897 Betty Compson actress (Big City,
Docks Of New York)
1898 Otto Jochum composer
1899 Lavrenti Beria chief of Soviet secret
police under Stalin
19-- Geoffrey Owens actor (Elvin-Cosby
Show)
19-- Jeff LaBar rocker
(Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
19-- Margueritte Ray actress (To Sleep
With Anger)
1901 Piotr Perkowski composer
1905 John Kirkpatrick New York NY, pianist
(Concord Sonata)
1905 Mollie Parnis New York NY, fashion
designer (Mollie Roberts Collection)
1905 Robert Donat Withington Manchester
England, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Citadel)
1906 Roy L Johnson US Admiral
(WWII-Pacific Ocean)
1907 Eleanor L "Betty" Compton
US actress (Here Comes Trouble)
1908 Louis Gaste songwriter
1910 Chiang Ching-huo son of Chinese
President Chiang Kai-shek
1911 Smiley Burnette Summum IL, cowboy
(Charlie-Petticoat Junction)
1913 Margaret Hesse princess of Hesse/Rhine
1913 Rene Clement Bordeaux France,
director/writer (Is Paris Burning)
1913 William Hutchinson Murray
mountaineer/author
1914 Cesar Guerra Peixe composer
1914 James Pack naval officer museum
curator
1915 Richard Thomas Condon author
1916 Louis Toebosch composer
1919 Laila Schou Nilsen Norway, downhill
skier (Olympics-gold-1936)
1919 Len Johnson cricketer (Australian
fast bowler played Test in 1948)
1920 Eric Halsall sheepdog trial
commentator
1920 John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla], Poland,
Pope (1978- )
1922 Egon Bahr German
journalist/politician
1924 Madhussudan Rege cricketer (15 runs
in only Test India vs West Indies 1948-49)
1925 Peter Graves Minneapolis MN, actor
(James Phelps-Mission Impossible)
1927 George Plimpton New York NY, sports
writer (Paper Lion)
1927 John Harold Kander composer (Cabaret,
Funny Lady, Kramer vs Kramer)
1928 Fidel V Ramos President (Philippines)
1928 William R Boggs Georgia, Brigadier
General/chief of engineers under Bragg
1929 Christa Wolf German novelist (Divided
Heaven)
1929 Ctirad Kohoutek composer
1929 Kai Winding rocker
1930 Maurice Peress New York NY, conductor
(Kansas City Philharmonic 1974-80)
1931 Howard Coble
(Representative-Republican-NC, 1985- )
1932 F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk
President South Africa (1989-94)
1932 John Updike Shillington PA,
poet/novelist (A Month of Sundays, Brazil,
The Centaur, Rabbit Run)
1933 Unita Blackwell 1st black mayor in
Mississippi
1934 Pavle Despalj composer
1936 Hans Peter Bleuel writer (Sex and
Society in Nazi Germany)
1936 Robert Lee Smith US singer (Tams, You
Lied to Your Daddy)
1936 Tony Nash England, bobsled
(Olympics-gold-1964)
1937 Mark Donohue auto racer (1972
Indianapolis 500)
1937 Robin Wright race horse trainer
1938 Carl Gottlieb comedian (Ken Berry Wow
Show)
1938 Charley Pride Sledge MS, country
singer (Just Between You And Me, Sweet
Country)
1938 Shashi Kapoor Calcutta India, actor
(Shalimar, Heat & Dust)
1939 Travis Pritchett rocker (Travis &
Bob)
1940 Kathy Hutchinson race horse trainer
1941 Wilson Pickett Prattville AL, R&B
singer (Funky Broadway)
1941 Wolfgang Bauer writer
1942 Ann Packer England, 800 meter runner
(Olympics-gold-1964)
1943 Kevin Dobson Jackson Heights NY,
actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon)
1945 Aleksey Vakhonin USSR, bantam weight
(Olympics-gold-1964)
1945 Eric Woolfson Glasgow Scotland,
composer/musician (Alan Parsons Project,
Woolfson Entertainment Group)
1946 Michael Reagan talk show host,
Ronald's son
1947 Barry Wilson England, rock drummer (Procol
Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1947 David Lloyd cricketer (England
opener, 214 vs India 1974)
1947 Robert Harrison rocker (Procol Harum-Whiter
Shade of Pale)
1947 Steven H Schiff
(Representative-Republican-NM)
1948 Eknath Solkar cricketer (India
1969-77, brilliant short-leg fielder)
1949 Alex "Hurricane" Higgins
Irish snooker player (2X world-champion)
1949 Starr Danias New York NY, ballerina
(Turning Point)
1950 Brad Dourif Huntington WV, actor
(Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal
Beauty)
1950 James Conlon New York NY, conductor
(Cincinnati May Festival-1979)
1950 John Hartman Falls Church VA, rock
drummer (Doobie Brothers-Taking it to the
Streets)
1953 Helmer C Koetje Dutch 2nd chamber
member (CDA)
1953 Margaret L Augustine Buffalo NY,
project manager (Biosphere 2)
1953 Nicholas Wisdom cricketer (son of
comic Norman, 2 games Sussex 1974)
1954 James F Reilly II Mount Home AFB ID,
PhD/astronaut (STS 89)
1955 Graham Porter cricketer (1 day
international for Australia 1979)
1956 "The Model" Rick Martel
[Richard Vignault], wrestler (WWF/AWA)
1956 Ingamar Stenmark Sweden, slalom
(Olympics-2 gold-1980)
1957 Christer Fuglesang Stockholm Sweden,
physicist/astronaut (Mir backup)
1957 Melvin Gentry vocalist/guitarist
(Midnight Star-No Parking)
1958 Andreas Wenzel Liechtenstein, skier
(Olympics-silver-1980)
1959 Irene Cara Bronx New York NY,
actress/singer (Fame, DC Cab, Certain
Fury)
1960 Claudia Udy Albuquerque NM, actress
(Out of Control, Nightforce)
1960 Guy Carbonneau Sept-Iles Québec
Canada, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1960 Patricia Farinelli Los Angeles CA,
playmate (December, 1981)
1960 Richard Biggs Columbus OH, actor
(Marcus-Days of Our Lives)
1961 Kevan James cricketer (all-rounder 4
wickets/4 balls & ton vs India 1996)
1961 Mark Van Thillo Wilrijk Belgium,
co-captain (Biosphere 2)
1961 Todd Nelson Dalles OR, tennis star
1962 Thomas Ian Griffith actor (Vampires,
Catlin-Another World)
1962 Trevor Franklin cricketer (opened for
New Zealand mid-80's)
1963 Vanessa L Williams Tarrytown NY, 1st
black Miss America (1984)/singer (Colors
of the Wind)/actress (Eraser)
1964 Bonnie Blair Champaign IL, speed
skater (Olympics-5 gold/bronze-88, 92, 94)
1964 Christina Ferguson Phoenix AZ,
playmate (April 1983)
1965 Geronimo Berroa Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic, outfielder (Oakland
A's)
1965 Jeff Labarr rocker
(Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1966 Jerry Cantrell US rock guitarist
(Alice in Chains-Dirt)
1967 Andre Rison NFL wide receiver
(Cleveland Browns, Kansas City Chiefs)
1967 Derrick Graham NFL tackle (Green Bay
Packers, Car Panthers, Seat Seahawks)
1968 Joseph Ouellet hockey forward (Team
France 1998)
1968 Pat Terrell NFL strong safety
(Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1969 Michael Dumas NFL free safety (San
Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 Shaun Udal cricketer (Hants
off-spinner, England tourist to Australia
1994-95)
1969 Sheila Taormina 4X200 meter freestyle
swimmer (Olympics-gold-96)
1970 Michael Rapaport actor (Zak-Zebrahead)
1970 Queen Latifah [Dana Owens] Newark NJ,
rap singer/actress (Khadijah James-Living
Single)
1970 Sarah Thorsett Winona MN, 1.5k runner
1971 Mariaan de Swardt Johannesburg,
tennis star (1996 3rd round Australia)
1973 Marlon Kerner NFL cornerback (Buffalo
Bills)
1973 Rob Johnson NFL quarterback
(Jacksonville Jaguars)
1974 Petra Kamstra Rotterdam Holland,
tennis star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1974 Tina Krizan Maribor Slovenia, tennis
star (1995 Surabaya doubles)
1974 Torrian Gray safety (Minnesota
Vikings)
1975 Claude N'Goran Adzope Ivory Coast,
tennis pro
1975 Kimmo Timonen hockey defenseman (Team
Finland Olympics-Bronze-1998)
1978 Dionne Bainbridge Brisbane Queensland
Australia, New Zealand 200 meter swimmer
(Olympics-96)
1996 ? son of woman in coma raped by John
Horace
Deaths
978
St Edward the Martyr king of Anglo-Saxons
(975-78) dies
0235 Marcus Aurelius Alexander Syrian
emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered
0978 Edward the Martyr, King of
Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15
1227 Honorius III [Cencio Savelli], Pope
(1216-27), dies
1314 Jacques De Molay the last grand
master of Order of Knights, dies
1493 John of Lannoy Flemish
Governor/viceroy of Netherlands/Zealand,
dies at 82
1582 Jean Jaurequi Basque murderer of
Willem of Orange, lynched
1584 Ivan IV the terrible, Russian tsar
(1547-84), dies at 53
1690 Charles duke of Lutherans, dies
1745 Robert Walpole 1st English premier
(1722-42), dies at 68
1768 Lawrence Sterne writer (Sentimental
Journey France & Italy), dies
1799 John Randall composer, dies at 82
1816 Johann Paul Schulthesius composer,
dies at 67
1817 Johann Jakob Walder composer, dies at
67
1823 Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval
composer, dies at 69
1870 Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide
composer, dies at 48
1875 Ferdinand Laub composer, dies at 43
1876 F Freiligrath writer, dies at 65
1882 Morgan Earp brother of Wyatt Earp,
shot and killed while playing billiards in
Tombstone
1886 Leopold Zunz German intellect
(Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91
1889 William Henry Monk composer, dies at
66
1899 Douglas Strutt Galton English
engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76
1899 Svetolik Rankovic Serbian writer
(Crushed Ideals), dies at 35
1900 António Nobre Portuguese poet (Só
[Lonely]), dies at 32
1913 George I king of Greece (1861-1913),
assassinated by Schinas at 67
1917 William Shalders South African
cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies
1918 Willem Coenen composer, dies at 80
1924 John Frederick Bridge composer, dies
at 79
1928 Paul van Ostaijen Flemish writer
(Outlawed), dies at 32
1933 Luigi A duke of the Abruzzi Italian
explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at 60
1936 Egon Friedell Austrian journalist (Kleine
Portratgalerie), dies at 58
1938 Cyril Rootham composer, dies at 62
1944 Benjamin Delmonte theater
director/actor, dies at 79
1954 Walter Mead cricketer (one Test for
England 1899), dies
1956 Friedrich Panzer German germanist (Hilde-Gudrun),
dies at 85
1956 Louis Bromfield writer, dies at 59
1964 Norbert Wiener US mathematician
(cybernetics), dies at 69
1965 Farouk I last King of Egypt
(1936-52), dies at 45
1967 Jimmy Blaine singer (Stop the Music),
dies at 42
1968 Manuel Gomez Carillo composer, dies
at 85
1969 Barbara Bates actress (Kathy-It's a
Great Life), dies at 43
1971 George Wood England cricket
wicketkeeper (v South Africa 1924), dies
1973 Lauritz L H Melchior Danish
baritone/actor (Luxury Liner), dies at 82
1974 David C Imboden actor (King of
Kings), dies at 87
1976 James McCartney father of Paul
McCartney, dies at 73
1976 Robert de Roos composer, dies at 69
1977 Marien Ngouabi President of
Congo-Brazzaville, murdered
1978 Faith Baldwin US author (They Who
Love), dies at 84
1978 Peggy Wood actress (One Life to Live,
Mama), dies at 86
1980 Erich Fromm German/US psychoanalyst,
dies at 79
1980 Herman Griffith cricketer (13 Tests
for West Indies, 44 wickets), dies
1982 Georg G Lampe Dutch painter/director
(Free Academy), dies at 60
1983 Umberto of Piemonte King Umberto II
of Italy (1946), dies
1984 Charlie Lau White Sox coach/renowned
hitting instructor, dies at 50
1984 Paul Frances Webster lyricist, dies
of Parkinson's disease at 76
1985 Jack Miller orchestra leader (Kate
Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89
1986 Bernard Malamud US writer (Fixer,
Natural), dies at 71
1987 Bil Baird puppeteer (Jack Paar Show),
dies at 82
1989 Piet Kruiver Dutch soccer player,
dies at 51
1989 William Challee actor (Desperate,
Moonchild), dies
1990 Robin Harris actor (House Party, Mo'
Better Blues), dies at 36
1991 Jack McCoy Radio/TV personality, dies
at 72
1991 Vilma Banky actress (Eagle, Son of
Sheik, Rebel), dies at 93
1992 Cornelis B Vaandrager [C Vaan], poet
(Giant of Rotterdam), dies at 56
1995 Charles Drain singer, dies at 65
1995 Frederic Ramsey Jr folklorist/author,
dies at 80
1995 Heinrich Sutermeister Swiss composer
(Raskolnikov), dies at 84
1996 Alepoude Odysseus Elytis llis poet,
dies at 84
1996 Hawkes Jessie Jacquetta Priestley
archaeologist, dies at 85
1997 ? raped comatose woman who bore a
child 1 year earlier, dies at 30
1997 Willem de Kooning (abstract artist)
dead Alzheimer's at 92
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