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March
19th
0721
-BC- 1st recorded lunar eclipse; Location,
Babylon
1227 Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope
Gregory IX
1452 Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned
Roman German Emperor
1524 Giovanni de Varrazano of France
sights land around area of Carolinas
1540 Court of Holland names Amsterdam
sheriff John Hubrechtsz a
"heretic"
1563 Peace of Amboise; Rights for
Huguenots
1571 Spanish troops occupy Manila
1628 Massachusetts colony founded by
Englishmen
1644 200 members of Peking imperial
family/court commit suicide
1682 Nationally Council accept
independence of French church
1702 James II's daughter Anne Stuart
becomes queen of England
1748 English Naturalization Act passes
granting Jews right to colonize US
1775 4 people buried by avalanche for 37
days, 3 survive (Italy)
1775 Poland & Prussia sign trade
agreement
1799 Joseph Haydn's "Die Schöpfung"
premieres in Vienna
1803 Johann von Schillers "Die Braut
von Messina" premieres in Weimar
1822 Boston MA incorporated as a city
1831 1st US bank robbery (City Bank, New
York/$245,000)
1859 Charles François Gounod's opera
"Faust" premieres in Paris
France
1864 Charles François Gounod's opera
"Mireille" is produced (Paris
France)
1865 Battle of Bentonville-Confederates
retreat from Greenville NC
1866 Immigrant ship Monarch of the Seas
sinks in Liverpool; 738 die
1870 Antônio Carlos Gomes's opera
"Il Guarany" premieres in Milan
Italy
1877 Australia beat England by 45 runs in
very 1st Test match
1883 Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to
manufacture entire shoes
1885 Louis Riel returns to Canada,
proclaims provisional government,
Saskatchewan
1892 3 brothers Hearne play in same Test
Cricket England vs SA (Cape Town)
1895 Los Angeles Railway established to
provide streetcar service
1906 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro
Rusteghi" premieres in Munich
1907 18.8 cm precipitation at Lewer's
Ranch NV (state record)
1914 Stanley Cup: Toronto Blueshirts (NHA)
sweep Victoria Capitals (PCHA) in 3 game
1915 Pluto photographed for 1st time
(although unknown at the time)
1917 US Supreme Court upheld 8-hour work
day for railroad employees (Adamson Act)
1918 Congress authorizes time zones &
approves daylight saving time
1918 S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to
shoot down a German seaplane
1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of
Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify
League of Nations' covenant (maintaining
isolation policy)
1925 Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII)
becomes a bishop
1927 Bloody battles between communists
& Nazis in Berlin
1928 "Amos & Andy" debuts on
radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
1930 Nakagawa Soen accepted as a student
of Katsube Keigaku Roshi
1931 Nevada legalizes gambling
1937 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical
Divini redemptoris against communism
1938 Toronto Maple Leafs score 8 goals in
5 minutes
1940 Failed British air raid on German
base at Sylt
1940 French government of Daladier, falls
1941
1941 Jimmy Dorsey & his Orchestraestra
record "Green Eyes" &
"Maria Elena"
1942 FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to
register for non military duty
1942 Thoroughbred Racing Association of US
formed in Chicago
1943 Airship Canadian Star torpedoed &
sinks
1944 Tippett's oratorium "Child of
Our Time" premieres in London
1945 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS
Franklin off Japan
1945 Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree:
destruction of German facilities
1945 British 36th division conquers Mogok
(ruby mine)
1945 US Task Force 58 attacks ships near
Kobe/Kure
1946 French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique
& Réunion become overseas departments
1946 Nicolai Schwernik succeeds Kalinin as
President of USSR
1947 Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1947 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek
conquers Jenan
1948 Lee Savold KOs Gino Buonvino in 54
seconds at Madison Square Garden, New York
NY
1949 1st museum devoted exclusively to
atomic energy, Oak Ridge TN
1950 5th US Women's Open Golf Championship
won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias
1950 City College of New York defeats
Bradley to win the NIT
1951 Herman Wouk's "Caine
Mutiny" is published
1953 25th Academy Awards: "Greatest
Show on Earth", Gary Cooper &
Shirley Booth win (1st time televised)
1953 Tennessee Williams' "Camino
Real" premieres in New York NY
1954 1st color telecast of a prize fight,
Giardello vs Troy in Madison Square
Garden, New York NY
1954 1st rocket-driven sled on rails was
tested in Alamogordo NM
1954 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship
won by Tenley Albright
1954 US Men's Figure Skating Championship
won by Hayes A Jenkins
1954 Weekes, Worrell & Walcott
complete tons in innings vs England
1955 17th NCAA Men's Basketball
Championship: San Francisco beats La Salle
77-63
1956 Biggest NBA margin of victory:
Minnesota Lakers-133, St Louis Hawks-75
1957 Indians reject Boston's offer of $1
million for Herb Score
1958 Britain's 1st planetarium opens at
Madame Tussaud's in London
1958 Sobers completes a century in each
innings vs Pakistan
1959 "1st Impressions" opens at
Alvin Theater NYC for 84 performances
1960 "Redhead" closes at 46th St
Theater NYC after 455 performances
1960 22nd NCAA Men's Basketball
Championship: Ohio State beats California
75-55
1962 "All American" opens at
Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80
performances
1962 Archbishop Suenens of Mechelen-Brussels
appointed cardinal
1964 Sean Connery's 1st day of shooting on
"Goldfinger"
1965 Chivu Stoica becomes President of the
Council of Romanian People's Republic
& Nicolae Ceausescu appointed 1st
Secretary of Romanian communist party
1965 Indonesia nationalizes all foreign
oil companies
1965 Rembrandt's "Titus" sells
for then record ƒ7,770,000
1966 "Pousse Cafe" closes at
46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances
1966 28th NCAA Men's Basketball
Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky
72-65
1966 Belgium government of Vanden
Boeynants begins
1967 French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to
continue association with France
1967 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St
Petersburg Orange Golf Classic
1968 Howard University students seize
administration building
1969 British invade Anguilla
1969 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of
Chicago Democratic convention
1970 West German chancellor & East
German premier Willy Brandt meet
1971 Philadelphia 76ers outscore
Cincinnati Royals 90-8 in 1 half
1972 "To Live Another Summer"
closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173
performances
1972 Carol Mann wins LPGA Orange Blossom
Golf Classic
1972 India & Bangladesh sign
friendship treaty
1972 Los Angeles Lakers beat Golden State
Warriors, 162-99, by then record 63 points
1973 Dean tells Nixon, "There is a
cancer growing on the Presidency"
1974 Jefferson Starship begins their 1st
tour
1975 "Dr Jazz" opens at Winter
Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances
1975 Pennsylvania is 1st state to allow
girls to compete with boys in High School
sports
1976 Princess Margaret separates from the
Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years
1977 "Side by Side by Sondheim"
closes at Music Box NYC after 390
performances
1977 France performs nuclear test at
Muruora Island
1977 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record
1000 meter (1:15.33)
1978 50,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam
against neutron bomb
1978 Sally Little wins LPGA Kathryn
Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
1979 House of Representatives begins live
TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
1981 2 workers killed in space shuttle
Columbia accident
1981 Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple
Leafs 14-4
1981 Emmy 8th Daytime Awards: Susan Lucci
loses for 2nd time
1982 National Guard jet tanker crashes
killing 27
1984 "Kate & Allie"
premieres
1984 John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop
of New York
1984 KSD-AM in St Louis MO changes call
letters to KUSA
1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000
gallons into Columbia River
1984 Pitcher Denny McLain, indicted on
various charges of racketeering
1984 STS 41-C vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 "Spin Magazine" begins
publishing
1985 New South Wales wins cricket
Sheffield Shield by beating Queensland by
1 wicket
1985 Senate votes 55-45, to authorize
production of the MX missile
1987 Bonnie Blair skates ladies world
record 500 meter (39.43 seconds)
1987 Fred Currey acquires Greyhound Bus
Company
1987 Hassanali inaugurated as President of
Trinidad & Tobago
1987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after
sex scandal with Jessica Hahn
1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world
record 3 km (4:16.85)
1988 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast
North Ireland
1988 Yvonne van Gennip skates un-official
world record 10 km (15 :5.25)
1989 Boeing V-22 Osprey VTOL aircraft
makes maiden flight
1989 Lori Garbacz wins Circle K LPGA Golf
Open Tucson
1989 World Ice Dance Championship in Paris
France won by M Klimova & S
Ponomarenko (USR)
1989 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating
Championship in Paris France won by E
Gordeeva & S Grinkov (USSR)
1989 World Ladies Figure Skating
Championship in Paris France won by Midori
Ito (Japan)
1989 World Men's Figure Skating
Championship in Paris France won by Kurt
Browning (Canada)
1990 1st world ice hockey tournament for
women held (Ottawa)
1991 Kansas City Royals announce they are
putting Bo Jackson on waivers
1991 NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993
Super Bowl game due to Arizona not
recognizing Martin Luther King Day
1991 Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29
consecutive road loses
1991 St Louis Blue Brett Hull is 3rd NHLer
to score 80 goals in a season
1992 "Master Builder" opens at
Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1992 British Prince Andrew & Princess
Sarah Ferguson announce separation
1993 Supreme Court Justice Byron R White
announced plans to retire
1993 World Ice Dance Championship in
Prague won by M Usova & A Zhulin
(Russia)
1993 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating
Championship in Prague won by I Brasseur
& L Eisler (Canada)
1993 World Ladies Figure Skating
Championship in Prague won by Oksana Baiul
(Ukraine)
1993 World Men's Figure Skating
Championship in Prague won by Kurt
Browning (Canada)
1994 2500 kilograms of cocaine intercepted
in Zeewolde Netherlands
1994 Lara scores 167 for West Indies vs
England at Georgetown
1994 Largest omelet (1,383² ft) made with
160,000 eggs in Yokohama Japan
1994 New Jersey Devils club record 41st
win of the season
1995 "Translations" opens at
Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances
1995 "Uncle Vanya" closes at
Circle in Square Theater NYC after 29
performances
1995 5 die by poison gas in Japanese
subway
1995 Arizona begins using new area code
520 outside of Phoenix
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world
record point total (156.450)
1995 Finland Social-Democratic Party wins
parliamentary election
1995 Laura Davis wins LPGA Standard
Register PING Golf Tournament
1995 Michael Jordan rejoins Chicago Bulls
after 17 months, beats Pacers
1995 NBA New York Knicks beat New York
Nets in 100th meeting (Knicks 53 Nets 47)
1995 Neil Marshall skates world record 3
km (3 :4.08)
1996 Winnie Mandela divorces Nelson after
38 years of marrage
1997 Major League Baseball announces 5
year/$50M deal with Pepsi
1997 Supreme Court hears Internet
indecency arguments
1998 "Ah Wilderness!" opens at
Vivian Beaumont theater
Births
1503
Benedetto Varchi Italy, humanist/historian
(Storia Fiorentina)
1589 William Bradford Governor of Plymouth
colony for 30 years (baptized)
1593 Georges de la Tour French painter
1601 Alonzo Cano Spanish painter/sculptor
(Cathedral Granada)
1604 Johan IV composer/king of Portugal
(1640-56)
1610 Hasegawa Tohaku Japanese painter
1629 Aleksei M Romanov 1st Romanov tsar of
Russia
1673 Pedro Vaz Rego composer
1715 Charles-Joseph van Helmont composer
1716 Guillaume Coustou Jr French sculptor
(Mausolée du Dauphin)
1721 Tobias Smollett Scottish writer,
baptized
1728 Pieter-Jozef Verhaghen Flemish (court)painter
1734 Thomas McKean US attorney (signed
Declaration of Independence)
1740 Johann Georg Roser composer
1740 Joseph F Weigl Germany, violin
cellist
1742 Zacharias H Alewijn Dutch
literary/poet
1745 Nicolas Sejan composer
1752 Jose Mauricio composer
1767 Leonhard von Call composer
1777 Anton R Falck Dutch minister of
Education/diplomat
1785 Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann
composer
1809 Fredrik Pacius composer
1813 David Livingstone Scotland, explorer
(found by Stanley in Africa)
1816 Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst
composer
1817 Lewis Henry Little Brigadier General
(Confederate Army), died in 1862
1819 David Henry Williams Brigadier
General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1821 Francis Barretto Spinola Brigadier
General (Union volunteers)
1821 Sir Richard Burton
explorer/translator (Arabian Nights)
1821 William Allingham Irish poet
(Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland)
1823 Cornelis A van Sypesteyn Dutch
Governor of Surinam (1873-82)
1827 Alexander Shaler Bvt Major General
(Union volunteers), died in 1911
1837 Robert Daniel Johnston Brigadier
General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1844 Ulrika "Minna"
Cant-Johnstown Finnish playwright (Kovan
onnen lapsia)
1845 Willem H de Beaufort Dutch
historian/politician
1847 Constantin Dimitrescu composer
1848 Wyatt Earp Monmouth IL, marshall-fought
in Gunfight at the OK Corral
1851 Roque Sáenz Peña President of
Argentina (1910-14)
1860 William Jennings Bryan "The
Great Commoner" orator/statesman
1871 Joseph McGinnity Rock Island IL,
baseball pitcher (New York Giants)
1871 Schofield Haigh cricketer
("Sunshine of the Yorkshire 11")
1872 Sergei Diaghilev Gruzino Novgorod
Russia, ballet director
1873 Max Reger Brand Bavaria,
composer/pianist/professor (Leipzig
University)
1874 Arthur Hoyt Georgetown CO, actor
(Gold Dust Gertie, Goldie Get Along)
1879 Joseph Haas German (opera) composer
(Tobias Wunderlich)
1882 Gaston Lachaise US sculptor (Standing
Woman)
1883 Josef Matthais Hauer composer
1883 Joseph W Stilwell US General (China)
1888 Josef Albers German/US graphic
artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus)
1889 Manoel II last king of Portugal
(1908-10)
1891 Earl Warren California,
(Governor-Republican-CA)/14th supreme
court chief justice (1953-69)
1892 Robert Denzler composer
1892 Siegfried T Bok
neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica)
1894 Jackie "Moms" Mabley
Brevard SC, comedienne (Merv Griffin Show)
1897 Betty Compson Beaver UT, actress
(Millionaire Kid, Mad Youth)
1897 L O'Flaherty writer
1900 [Jean] Frédéric Joliot-Curie French
physicist (Nobel 1935)
1900 Roy Roberts Tampa FL, actor
(Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show)
1901 Gerrit Jan van Heuven Goedhart Dutch
Minister of Justice (Nobel 1954)
1901 Jo Mielziner Paris France, set
designer (Carousel, Death of a Salesman)
1903 Benjamin M Telders President of Dutch
Liberal States Party
1903 James Bullock colliery manager
1904 John J Sirica US federal judge
(Watergate hearings)
1904 Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern composer
1905 Albert Speer German
architect/minister of Armament (NSDAP)
1906 Adolf Eichmann Ruhr Germany, Nazi
Gestapo officer
1906 Normand Lockwood composer
1907 Cor Treslem [Cornelis L Melsert],
actor/director (Willem van Oranje)
1907 Elizabeh LeFanu Maconochy composer
1907 Kent Smith New York NY, actor (Peyton
Place, Invaders)
1907 Marc Vaubourgoin composer
1907 Nakagawa Soen Formosa, Zen teacher (Rinzai
line)
1909 Louis Hayward Johannesburg South
Africa, actor (Lone Wolf, Survivors)
1910 Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin cosmonaut
1911 Kenneth Robinson
politician/businessman
1912 Adolf Galland fighter Pilot
1912 Russ Case Hamburg IA, orchestra
leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
1913 William Chatterton cricketer (48 in
only Test for England 1892)
1914 J Jay Berwanger 1st Heisman Trophy
winner (1935)
1914 Patricia Morison actress (Peyton
Place, Dressed to Kill)
1915 Norman Yardley England cricket
captain (late 40's)
1916 Irving Wallace author (People's
Almanac, The Man)
1917 Dino Lipatti composer
1918 Congress passed the Standard Time Act, which authorized the
Interstate Commerce Commission to establish standard time zones in the
United States.
1919 Cornelis Berkhouwer Member of 2nd
chamber (Dutch Liberal Party)
1920 The Treaty of Versailles, establishing the League of Nations,
was rejected by the U.S. Senate.
1923 Janine Dacosta French pianist
1923 Tige Andrews Brooklyn NY, actor
(Captain Adam Greer-Mod Squad)
1925 Brent Scowcroft Ogden UT, Lieutenant
General (USAF)/National Security Council
1927 Richie Ashburn baseball infielder
(Philadelphia Phillies)/sportscaster
1928 Clive Van Ryneveld cricketer (South
African all-rounder 1951-58)
1928 Hans Kung theologian
1928 Patrick McGoohan Astoria NY, actor
(#6-Prisoner, Secret Agent)
1929 Herman van San composer
1929 Michael Ryan actor (John
Randolph-Another World)
1929 Robert Muczynski composer
1930 Bill Henderson Chicago IL, jazz
singer (Torpedo-Dreams)
1930 Ornette Coleman jazz composer
(Downbeat Musician of Year 1966)
1931 In an effort to ease the hard times of the Great Depression, the
Nevada state legislature voted to legalist gambling.
1931 Bill Hoskyns England, épée fencer
(Olympics-silver-1964)
1932 Gay Robert Brewer Middletwon OH, PGA
golfer (1972 Canadian)
1933 Philip Roth Newark NJ, novelist
(Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
1934 Börge Andersen Denmark, Danish Chess
Champion (1967, 68)
1935 Burt Metcalfe Saskatchewan Canada,
actor/director (Father of the Bride)
1935 Phyllis Newman Jersey City NJ,
actress (Coming of Age, TW3)
1935 Renee Taylor New York NY, actress
(Jack Paar Show, Mary Hartman, Nanny)
1936 Amancio D'Silva musician
1936 Ursula Andress Berne Switzerland,
actress (Dr No, She, Sensuous Nurse)
1937 Clarence "Frogman" Henry
musician (You Always Hurt the One You
Love)
1939 Abbas Ali Baig cricketer (Indian bat
112 on debut vs England 1959)
1939 Joe Kapp NFL QB (Minnesota Vikings,
Boston Patriots, Houston Oilers)
1941 Lord Vestey British food
magnate/billionaire (Union International)
1942 With World War II under way, all men in the United States
between the ages of 45 and 64, about 13 million, were ordered to
register with the draft boards for non-military duty.
1942 David Minge
(Representative-Democrat-MN)
1942 Jeff Neighbour US bassist (Joy of
Cooking)
1942 Robin Luke rocker (Susie Darlin')
1942 Ross Valory rocker (Journey)
1944 Joseph Celli composer
1944 Lynda Bird Johnson Robb LBJ's
daughter
1944 Myung-Wha Chung Seoul Korea, cellist
(Chung Sisters)
1945 Lisa Nicole Baker Detroit TX,
playmate of the year (Nov 1966)
1946 Bigas Luna director/writer (Anguish)
1946 Mohammad Ilyas cricketer (Pakistani
batsman in ten Tests 1964-69)
1946 Paul Atkinson rock guitarist
(Zombies-Never Even Thought)
1946 Ruth Pointer singer (Pointer
Sisters-I'm So Exicted)
1947 Earlie Fires jockey (Hialeah Park)
1947 Glenn Close Greenwich CT, actress
(The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction)
1947 John Beckwith English real estate
developer/multi-millionaire
1947 Vince Martino Schenectady NY, WLAF
offensive assistant (Barcelona Dragons)
1948 Vintcent Van der Bijl Natal cricket
bowler (superb 2 meter of 70's & 80's)
1949 Denny Albee Oklahoma City OK, actor
(Dr Janssen-One Life to Live)
1952 Derek Longmuir Edinburgh Scotland,
rock drummer (Bay City Rollers-Saturday
Night)
1952 Warren Lees New Zealand cricket
wicket-keeper (late 70's)
1953 Billy Sheehan rocker (Mr Big-Lean
Into It)
1953 Hans Rinn German Democratic Republic,
2 man lugist (Olympics-gold-1976, 80)
1953 Ricky Wilson Athens GA, rock
guitarist (B-52's-Rock Lobster, Love
Shack)
1954 Charles Pinnell horse trainer
1955 [Walter] Bruce Willis PennsGrove NJ,
actor (Moonlighting, Die Hard)
1956 Alina Castro Havana Cuba, daughter of
Fidel
1957 Blake Passey horse trainer
1959 Shelly Burch Tucson AZ, actress (Delila-One
Life to Live, Identity Crisis)
1959 Terry Hall rocker (Colourfield-Animal
Liberation)
1966 Paul Devenport New Zealand, Canadian
Tour golfer (1991 Texas Tour)
1968 Liam Jewell Toronto Ontario, kayaker
(Olympics-96)
1968 Tyrone Hill NBA forward (Milwaukee
Bucks)
1969 Arjan Vermeulen soccer player (Vitesse)
1969 Michael Bergin model (Coca
Cola)/actor
1969 Scott Alexander Brownlee Hamilton New
Zealand, rowing coxless 4 men
(Olympics-96)
1970 Errol Refos soccer player (Feyenoord)
1970 Janne Laukenen Lahti Finland, NHL
defenseman (Finland Olympics-B-98,
Senators)
1970 Rick Mirer NFL quarterback (Seattle
Seahawks, Chicago Bears)
1970 Sean Fleming CFL kicker (Edmonton
Eskimos)
1971 Cory Fleming NFL wide receiver
(Dallas Cowboys)
1971 Dalton James actor (My Father the
Hero, Mark-Beverly Hills 90210)
1971 Kirk Botkin NFL tight end (New
Orleans Saints, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 Louie Debrusk Cambridge, NHL left
wing (Edmonton Oilers)
1971 Marty Moore NFL inside linebacker
(New England Patriots)
1971 Taase Faumui NFL defensive linebacker
(Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 Whitney Hedgepeth 100 meter/200 meter
backstroke (Olympics-2 silver-96)
1972 Maria Maunder St John's Newfoundland,
rower (Olympics-96)
1973 John Michels NFL tackle (Green Bay
Packers-Superbowl 31)
1974 Jennifer Lynn Drayton Saginaw MI,
Miss Michigan-America (1996)
1974 John Coppinger El Paso TX, pitcher
(Baltimore Orioles)
1975 Antonio Daniels NBA guard (Vancouver
Grizzlies)
1976 Rachel Blanchard Toronto, actress (Cher
Horowitz-Clueless)
1982 Che'Vonne Burton Miss Michigan
Teen-USA (1997)/Miss Michigan-USA (2000)
1992 Henry & Angus Bernsen twin sons
of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays
Deaths
1263
Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro French cardinal,
dies
1556 Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius],
South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
1635 Pieter Christiaensz Bor Dutch
historian, dies
1638 Paul Moreelse Dutch painter/master
builder, dies at about 66
1644 Si Sang last Ming-emperor of China,
commits suicide
1687 Rene-Robert Cavelier La Salle French
explorer (Louisiana), murdered in what is
now Texas at 43
1702 Willem III Henry [Dutch William],
king of England/Scot, dies at 51
1721 Clement XI [Giovanni F Albani],
Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71
1782 Adrien Trudo Sale composer, dies at
59
1782 Louis-Henry Paisible composer, dies
at 33
1796 Stephen Storace composer, dies at 33
1797 Philip Hayes composer, dies at 58
1811 Frantisek Adam Mica composer, dies at
65
1845 George Augustus Kollmann composer,
dies at 56
1850 Adalbert Gyrowetz composer, dies at
87
1862 F Wilhelm von Schadow German painter
(Modern Vasari), dies at 73
1866 Louis Clapisson composer, dies at 57
1869 Guillaume Nerenburger Belgian General
(triangulatie), dies at 64
1876 Jozef Stefani composer, dies at 75
1884 Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback
composer, dies at 54
1893 Karel Komzak composer, dies at 69
1897 Antoine T d'Abbadie French explorer
(Ethiopia), dies at 87
1898 Joao da Cruz Brazilian poet, dies at
26
1905 Makar Grigori Ekmalyan composer, dies
at 49
1907 Thomas Bailey Aldrich US writer
(Stillwater Tragedy), dies at 70
1913 John Thomas composer, dies at 87
1918 Willem H de Beaufort Dutch
historian/liberal politician, dies at 73
1924 Charles Villiers Stanford Irish
composer/author, dies at 71
1930 Arthur J Balfour British theologist/premier
(1902-05), dies at 81
1934 Anthony J Block lawyer (Dutch
strafproces), dies at 66
1936 John Larkin IV actor/writer (Charlie
Chan in Panamá), dies at 63
1937 Horacio Quiroga Uruguayan
author/poet, commits suicide at 58
1940 Gustaaf Sap Belgian minister of
Economic Affairs, dies at 54
1943 Vicente Ripolles composer, dies at 75
1945 Fritz Fromm German supreme commander
of Reserve army, executed
1946 Amir Hamzah Indonesian poet (Buah
Rindu), dies at 35
1947 Willem F J Pijper Dutch
composer/critic, dies at 52
1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs sci-fi author
(Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74
1951 H Zur Mühlen writer, dies
1954 Walter Braunfels composer, dies at 71
1958 Vernon Ransford cricketer (20 Tests
for Australia, 1211 runs), dies
1961 Edric Cundell composer, dies at 68
1969 Theodor Schaefer composer, dies at 65
1971 Jan Greshoff Dutch
poet/author/journalist (Last Things), dies
at 82
1971 Mary Dorna Dutch author, dies at 79
1974 Anne Klien fashion designer, dies at
51
1974 Edward Platt actor (Chief-Get Smart),
dies at 58
1974 Hertha Kuusinen Finnish
communist/daughter of Otto K, dies at 70
1975 John A DeMott dies at 63
1976 George Sklavos composer, dies at 87
1976 Paul Kossoff rock guitarist (Free),
dies of heart failure at 25
1979 Al Hodge actor (Captain Video), dies
at 65
1979 Richard Beckinsale actor (Doing Time,
Porridge, Lovers), dies at 31
1982 Alan Badel actor, dies of a heart
attack at 58
1982 Randy Rhoads heavy metal guitarist (Ozzy
Osbourne), dies in plane crash at 25
1987 Arch Oboler radio writer (Lights
Out), dies at 77
1987 Emile Meyer actor (Young Jesse James,
Lineup), dies
1987 Louis Broglie French physicist (Nobel
1929), dies at 94
1987 Tony Stratton-Smith journalist/record
co CEO (Charisma), dies at 53
1991 John Russell Thomas NFL general
manager (Detroit Lions), dies
1991 Ron Pagano dies after lengthy illness
at 37
1991 Sunday Wilshin actor (Murder by
Rope), dies at 86
1992 Cesare Danova actor (Tentacles, Viva
Las Vegas), dies at 66
1993 Barend P Tammeling journalist (Trouw,
Peek on the North), dies at 58
1993 Jeff Ward drummer (9 Inch Nails),
commits suicide at 30
1994 Giuseppe Diana Italian anti-mafia
priest, murdered
1994 Jose Coronel Urtecho poet, dies at 87
1995 Fernand Lodewick literature historian
(Literature), dies at 85
1995 Gerard Tebroke 5/10 km-dasher, dies
at 45
1995 Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless priest
folk musician, dies at 83
1996 Christopher John Magenis Headington
musician, dies at 65
1996 William Hutchinson Murray
mountaineer/author, dies at 83
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