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March
20th
0141
6th predicted perihelion passage of
Halley's Comet
1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction;
thought "cause of plague
epidemic"
1525 Paris' parliament begins pursuit of
Protestants
1569 Duke van Alva leads "tenth
penning" in Ponts the Cé
1598 French king Henri IV & duke van
Mercour sign treaty
1602 United Dutch East Indian Company
(VOC) forms
1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of
London to seek gold in Guyana
1627 France & Spain signs accord for
fighting protestantism
1697 Willem de Vlamingh returns to Batavia
after exploring "South Land"
1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349
buildings
1800 French army defeats Turks at
Helipolis Turkey, & advance to Cairo
1814 Prince Willem Frederik becomes
monarch of Netherlands
1815 Napoleon enters Paris after escape
from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to
review state court decisions
1833 US & Siam conclude commercial
treaty
1848 King Louis I of Bayern abdicates to
marry dancer Lola Montez
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle
Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)
1854 In what is considered the founding meeting of the Republican
Party, former members of the Whig Party met in
Ripon, Wis., to establish
a new party to oppose the spread of slavery into the western
territories.
1863 Battle of Pensacola FL: evacuated by
Federals
1865 2nd day of Battle of Bentonville NC
1865 Michigan authorizes workers'
cooperatives
1868 Jesse James Gang robs bank in
Russelville KY of $14,000
1883 Unity treaty of Paris signed;
protects industrial property
1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents
shoe lacing machine
1885 Yiddish theater opens in New York
with Golldfaden operetta
1886 1st AC power plant in US begins
commercial operation, Massachusetts
1888 Start of the Sherlock Holmes
Adventure, "A Scandal in
Bohemia"
1890 General Federation of Womens' Clubs
founded
1890 German emperor Wilhelm II fires
republic chancellor Otto Von Bismarck
1896 Marines land in Nicaragua to protect
US citizens
1896 Uprising in Matabeleland
1897 1st known intercollegiate basketball
game, Yale beats University of
Pennsylvania 32-10
1897 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical
seminary (RIETS) incorporates in New York
1897 France signs treaty with emperor
Menelik II of Abyssinia
1906 George B Shaw's "Captain
Brassbound's Conversion" premieres in
London
1911 National Squah Tennis Association
formed (New York NY)
1911 Winter Garden Theater opens at 1634
Broadway NYC
1914 1st international figure-skating
tournament held in US, New Haven
1916 Allies attack Zeebrugge Belgium
1920 1st flight from London to South
Africa lands (1½ months)
1920 US Ladies Figure Skating Championship
won by Theresa Weld
1920 US Men's Figure Skating Championship
won by Sherwin Badger
1922 USS Langley is commissioned, Navy's
1st aircraft Carrier
1922 WIP-AM in Philadelphia PA begins
radio transmissions
1923 Bavarian minister of Interior refuses
to forbid Nazi SA
1923 Belgian Senate rejects Dutch
University in Ghent
1924 Finnair begins scheduled flight of
Helsinki-Tallinn
1924 Stanley Cup: Montréal Canadiens
(NHL) sweep Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA)
in 2
1930 Clessie Cummins sets diesel engine
speed record of 129.39 kph
1931 Bishop Schreiber warns against
national-socialism in Berlin
1932 Kara-Kalpak Autonomous Region in
RSFSR becomes Kara-Kalpak ASSR
1933 Dachau, 1st concentration camp,
completed
1934 Female Babe Didrickson pitches
hitless inning for Philadelphia A's in
exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers
1934 Test of practical radar apparatus
made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Kiel Germany
1935 "Your Hit Parade" made its
debut on radio
1937 Franco-offensive at Guadalajara Spain
1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel
Lithuania
1940 Paul Reynoud becomes French premier
1941 Nazi-German/Yugoslav pact drawn
1942 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland
to Russia
1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall
return"
1942 Major German assault on Malta
1943 British offensive against Mareth-line
1943 German U-384 bombed & sinks
1944 Bus falls off bridge into Passaic
River NJ, killing 16
1944 Mount Vesuvius, Italy explodes
1945 US 70th Infantry division/7th Armour
division attack Saar
1946 Belgian government of Spaak, resigns
1947 180-metric ton blue whale (record)
caught in South Atlantic
1948 1st live televised musical Eugene
Ormandy on CBS followed in 90 minutes by
2nd live televised musical Arturo
Toscanini on NBC
1948 20th Academy Awards:
"Gentleman's Agreement", Ronald
Colman, Loretta Young win
1951 Indonesian army offensive against
Darul Islam on Java
1952 24th Academy Awards: "American
in Paris", Humphrey Bogart &
Vivian Leigh win
1952 US Senate's final ratification of
peace treaty restoring sovereignty to
Japan
1953 Senator Edwin C Johnson offers a bill
to give clubs the sole right to ban
radio-TV broadcasts of major league games
in their own territory
1954 "King & I" closes at St
James Theater NYC after 1246 performances
1954 16th NCAA Men's Basketball
Championship: La Salle beats Bradley 92-76
1954 1st newspaper vending machine used
(Columbia Pennsylvania)
1955 KXTV TV channel 10 in Sacramento CA
(CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 E Ochab succeeds Beirut as 1st
Secretary of Polish CP
1956 Mount Bezymianny on Kamchatka
Peninsula (USSR) explodes
1956 Tunisia gains independence from
France
1956 Union workers ended a 156-day strike
at Westinghouse Electric Corp
1956 USSR performs nuclear test
1957 Britain accepts NATO offer to mediate
in Cyprus, but Greece rejects it
1958 50" snow across the Mason-Dixon
line
1958 Greek Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio
(communist), Voice of Truth 1st
transmission
1962 Sjoukje Dijkstra becomes world
champion figure skater
1963 1st "Pop Art" exhibition
(New York NY)
1963 Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup
Namgyal marries Hope Cooke
1964 "Funny Girl" with Barbra
Streisand opens on Broadway
1964 ESRO established, European Space
Research Organization
1965 27th NCAA Men's Basketball
Championship: UCLA beats Michigan 91-80
1965 Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs New
Zealand at Delhi
1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St
Petersburg Women's Golf Open
1967 Supremes release "The
Happening"
1967 WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in
Dayton OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Military intervene in South-Yemen
(leftist ministers resign)
1968 President Lyndon Johnson signs a bill
removing gold backing from US paper money
1969 Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near
Addis Ababa
1969 Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono
in Gibraltar
1969 US President Nixon proclaims he will
end Vietnam war in 1970
1971 Boston Bruins win 13th straight NHL
game
1972 19 mountain climbers killed on
Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche
1972 Sicco L. Mansholt succeeds Franco M.
Malfatti as chairman of European Committee
1973 Roberto Clemente elected to hall of
fame, 11 weeks after his death
1976 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record
1000 meter (1:15.70)
1976 Patricia Hearst convicted of armed
robbery
1977 Parisians elect former Prime Minister
Jacques Chirac as 1st mayor in a century
1977 Premier Indira Gandhi loses election
in India
1978 Flyers' Rick MacLeash scores on 6th
penalty shot against Islanders
1979 Columbia flies on Shuttle carrier
aircraft to Kennedy Space Center
1980 The Mi Amigo ship containing
England's pirate Radio Caroline sinks
1980 US appeals to International Court on
hostages in Iran
1981 Argentine ex-President Isabel Perón
sentenced to 8 years
1981 Jean Harris sentenced 15-to-life for
slaying of Scarsdale Diet Doctor
1982 1st-class debut of Richie Richardson,
Leeward Islands vs Barbados
1982 France performs nuclear test
1982 Joan Jett & Blackhearts' "I
Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7
weeks
1982 Reverend A Treurnicht forms
Conservative Party of South Africa
1983 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's
Kemper Golf Open
1984 Andy Kaufman & Fred Blassie's
"My Breakfast With Blassie"
premieres
1984 Senate rejects amendment to permit
spoken prayer in public schools
1985 Libby Riddles is 1st woman to win
Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race
1986 The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 1800 for the first
time.
1986 228 KPH gust of wind strikes
Cairngorm (UK record)
1986 Jacques Chirac become Prime Minister
of French government
1987 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS
treatment)
1987 NASA launches Palapa B2P
1987 Soap opera "Capitol" final
episode
1987 Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood
for an entertainment summit
1987 Yvonne van Gennip skates ladies world
record 5 km (7 :0.36)
1988 David Henry Hwang's "M
Butterfly" premieres in New York NY
1988 Laura Davies wins Circle K LPGA
Tucson Golf Open
1988 Mike Tyson KOs Tony Tubbs in 2 for
heavyweight boxing title
1989 Baseball announces Reds manager Pete
Rose is under investigation
1989 Richard J Kerr replaces Robert M
Gates as deputy director of CIA
1990 Los Angeles Lakers retire Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar's #33
1990 Singer Gloria Estefan breaks her
collarbone in a bus accident
1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in
contract violation suit against Disney
1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M six album
deal with Sony records
1991 Supreme Court rules unanimously
employers can't exclude women from jobs
where exposure to toxic chemicals could
potentially damage fetus
1991 US forgives $2 billion in loans to
Poland
1991 Baghdad was warned to abide by the cease-fire after U.S. fighter
jets shot down an Iraqi jet fighter in the first major air action since
the end of the Persian Gulf War.
1992 Janice Pennington is awarded $1.3M
for accident on Price is Right set
1992 Noriega's wife Felicidad arrested for
stealing buttons from dresses
1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500
meter (36.02 seconds)
1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in
Warrington England
1993 Morton Downey Jr weds Lori Krebs
1993 Russian President Boris Yeltsin declared emergency rule, setting
a referendum on whether the people trusted him or the hard-line Congress
to govern.
1994 "Cyrano: The Musical"
closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137
performances
1994 "Flowering Peach" opens at
Lyceum Theater NYC for 41 performances
1994 "No Man's Land" closes at
Criterion Theater NYC after 61
performances
1994 14th Golden Raspberry Awards:
Indecent Proposal wins
1994 El Salvador's 1st Presidential
election following 12-year-old civil war
1994 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard
Register Ping Golf Tournament
1994 Mashonaland U-24 beat Matabeleland on
1st inn to win Logan Cup
1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square
Garden New York, Bret Hart pins Yokozuna
to win WWF championship
1994 Zulu-king Goodwill Zwelithini founds
realm in South Africa
1995 Beatles song, "Free As A
Bird", with late John Lennon as lead
singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single
since their 1970 breakup
1995 Dow-Jones hits 4083.68 (record)
1995 Poison Gas released in Tokyo subway
12 killed, 4,700 injured
1996 "Love Thy Neighbor" opens
at Booth Theater NYC
1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty
of killing their parents
1996 UK admits humans can catch CJD
(Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease aka Mad Cow
Disease)
1997 "Play On!" opens at Brooks
Atkinson Theater NYC for 61 performances
1997 Liggett admits cigarettes are
addictive
Births
1634
Balthasar Bekker Frisian theologist
(Examiner of Comets)
1680 Baron Emanuele d' Astorga Italian
composer (Stabat mater)
1725 Abdül-Hamid I 27th sultan of Turkey
(1774-89)
1728 Franciscus L Kersteman Dutch
lawyer/astrologist
1739 Eligio Celestino composer
1750 Martinus van Marum Dutch
chemist/physicist (Homo Diluvii Testus)
1770 Johann Friedrich Hölderlin Tübingen
Germany, lyric poet (Der Rhein, Andenken)
1774 John Braham composer
1804 Neal Dow Brigadier General (Union
volunteers), died in 1897
1811 George Caleb Bingham US,
politician/painter (Country Election)
1811 Napoleon Bonaparte II Napoleon's
son/King of Rome
1812 George Bibb Crittenden Major General
(Confederate Army), died in 1880
1813 Matthias Keller Ulm Germany, hymn
writer (O Farther un High)
1820 Alexander J Cuza monarch of Moldavia/Wallachia/Romania
1823 John Echols Brigadier General
(Confederate Army), died in 1896
1825 William Nelson Rector Beall Brigadier
General (Confederate Army)
1826 Carel Vosmaer Dutch art
historian/poet/editor
1828 Henrik Ibsen Norway, dramatist (Peer
Gynt, Hedda Gabler)
1829 Charles Albert White composer
1830 Eugene Asa Carr Bvt Major General
(Union Army), died in 1910
1833 Henry Southwick Perkins composer
1834 Charles William Elliot Boston MA,
President of Harvard (1869-1909)
1846 Auguste Bender writer
1853 George Godfrey Chelsea MA,
heavyweight boxer (Old Chocolate)
1856 Frederick Winslow Taylor father of
scientific management
1863 Ernesto Nazareth composer
1868 Obe Postma Frisian
poet/geography/historian (Frisian Clay
Farm)
1870 Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck Prussian
General/politician (East Africa)
1872 Bernhard Seklas composer
1872 Karin Michaelis writer
1882 René Coty Le Havre France, President
of France (1953-58)
1883 Colin Campbell Falkirk Scot, actress
(High Bright Sun, Leather Boys)
1883 Karl Hasse composer
1885 Eugen Herrigel Germany,
philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe
1885 Hendrik A de Fish [Henri Pauwels],
Flemish philological/sociologist
1888 S V Vegesack writer
1890 Lauritz Melchior Copenhagen Denmark,
baritone tenor (National Symphony)
1896 Hal Walker Ottumwa IA, director (I
Married Joan)
19-- Big Bird muppet (Sesame Street)
1902 Edgar Buchanan Humansville MO, actor
(Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction)
1902 Kathryn Forbes short story writer
(Mama's Bank Account)
1903 Vincent Richards hall of fame tennis
pro (elected 1961)
1904 B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner
Susquehanna PA, Behaviorism pioneer
(Skinner box)
1906 Abraham Beame (Mayor-Democrat-NYC),
NYC's 1st Jewish mayor
1906 Ozzie Nelson Jersey City NJ, actor
(Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
1906 Pavel P Parenago Russian astronomer
1908 Frank Stanton Muskegon MI,
broadcasting executive (CBS)
1908 Philip "Felix" Bekkers
actor (Czardasvorstin)
1908 Sir Michael Redgrave Bristol England,
actor (Browning Version, The Lady
Vanishes)
1911 Mieke Verstraete Belgian/Dutch
actress (Pleasantly Settled)
1913 Judith Evelyn Seneca SD, actress
(13th Letter, Tingler, Rear Window)
1914 Sviatosiav Richter Zhitomir Ukraine,
pianist (Stalin Prize-1945)
1914 Wendell Corey Dracut MA, actor (11th
Hour, Peck's Bad Girl)
1914 William Baddeley rector (St James'
Piccadilly)
1915 Dr Rudolf Kirchschläger President of
Austria (1974-86)
1916 Pierre Messmer Prime Minister
(France)
1917 Dame Vera Lynn singer (Anniversary
Waltz)
1917 Dolf Verspoor literary/interpreter (M
Nijhoff Prize 1958)
1917 Kalervo H Hortamo Finnish poet (Sydänmaa)
1917 Peter Caddy founder (Findhorn
Community)
1918 Bernd-Alois Zimmermann German
composer (Soldiers)
1918 Jack Barry Lindenhurst NY, game show
emcee (Joker's Wild)
1920 Bryan Genesse actor (Bold &
Beautiful)
1920 Douglas G Chapman biomathematical
statistician
1920 Marian McPartland jazz pianist (Bill
Mayer, Jimmy McPartland)
1920 Werner Klemperer Cologne Germany,
actor (Colonel Klink-Hogan's Heroes)
1921 Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow Senegal, director
general of UNESCO
1921 Primoz Ramovs composer
1922 Carl Reiner Bronx NY, comedian/actor
(2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show)
1922 Doug Barnard Jr
(Representative-Democrat-GA, 1977- )
1922 Jack Kruschen Winnipeg Canada, actor
(Papa-Webster, Busting Loose)
1922 Larry Elgart New Haven CT,
bandleader/alto sax (Elgart Orchestra)
1922 Ray Goulding Lowell MA, comedian (Bob
& Ray)
1922 Sir Arnold Burgen college president
(Academia Europaea)
1923 Marc Saporta French writer/essayist
(Le Grand Défi)
1925 James Pickles judge
1925 John D Erlichman Politician (Nixon
aide, Watergate conspirator)
1927 John Pierre Herman Joubert composer
(Chamber Music for brass quintet)
1928 Anthony Blond British publisher (The
Publishing Game, Book Book)
1928 Christopher Benstead race horse
trainer
1928 Hans Küng Swiss religious theologist
1928 Jerome Cousins Biffle Denver CO, long
jumper (Olympics-gold-1952)
1928 Mr [Fred McFeely] Rogers Latrobe PA,
children's television host (Mr Roger's
Neighborhood)
1930 Michel Magne composer
1931 Antonio Tauriello composer
1931 Dr John Rae British educator
(Conscience & Politics)
1931 Hal Linden [Harold Lipshitz] Bronx
NY, actor (Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic,
Rothchild)
1931 Sir David Montgomery chairman
(British Forestry Commission)
1932 Tod Dockstader composer
1933 David James Moore educationalist
1933 Jacquez Guyonnet composer
1934 Eric Hebborn artist/faker
1934 Marion Conti arch bishop (Aberdeen
England)
1935 Ted Bessell Flushing Queens NY, actor
(Don-That Girl, Frankie-Gomer Pyle)
1936 Lord Mark Saville of Newdigate
British high court judge
1937 Elizabeth Gille writer
translator/editor
1937 Helmut Recknagel Germany, 90 meter
ski jump (Olympics-gold-1960)
1937 Jerry Reed Atlanta GA, singer/actor
('Gator, Bat 21, Smokey & the Bandit)
1937 Joe Rivers rocker (Johnnie & Joe)
1937 Mark Saville QC, British high court
judge
1938 Frans J van der Heijden Dutch
journal/Dutch MP (CDA)
1939 Brian Mulroney (P-C) 18th Prime
Minister of Canada (1984-93)
1939 Earl of Seafield [Ginger] English
large landowner
1940 Mickey Preger horse trainer
1941 Carlos Lopez jockey
1945 Larry Combest
(Representative-Republican-TX, 1985- )
1945 Pat Riley Schenectady NY, NBA
star/coach (San Diego Rockets, Los Angeles
Lakers, New York Knicks, Miami Heat)
1945 Tim Yeo British MP/Under-Secretary
(State of Environment)
1946 Ranger Doug [Douglas Green],
Illinois, singer (Riders in Sky-Cowboy
Way)
1947 Carl Palmer drummer (Asia-Heat of the
Moment, Emerson Lake & Palmer)
1947 John Eastburn Boswell medievalist
1948 Bobby Orr Parry Sound Ontario, Hall
of Fame NHL defenseman (Boston Bruins)
1948 John de Lancie actor (Q-Star Trek
Next Generation, Eugene Bradford-Days of
our Lives)
1948 Pamela Sargent US, sci-fi author
(Venus of Dreams, Cloned Lives)
1949 Chip Zien Milwaukee WI, actor (Love
Sidney, Reggie)
1950 William Hurt Washington DC, actor
(Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God)
1951 Guy Perry rock guitarist/vocalist
(Motels-Only the Lonely)
1951 Jimmie Vaughan guitarist (Fabulous
Thunderbirds)
1951 John Wetton rocker (Asia, UK, King
Crimson)
1951 Madan Lal Britishcricketer (Indian
medium pacer in the 70's)
1951 Tanya Boyd Detroit MI, actress
(Celeste-Days of our Life)
1952 Anand Armitraj India, tennis player
(Brother of ViJay)
1954 Charlie Simmer Ontario, NHL Left
winger (Los Angeles Kings)
1954 Jim Seales Hamilton AL, singer
(Shenandoah-Sunday in the South)
1956 Phillip Oppenhein British MP
1957 Spike Lee Atlanta GA, director (Mo
Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
1957 Theresa Russell [Paup] San Diego CA,
actress (Black Widow, Straight Time,
Razor's Edge)
1958 Holly Hunter Conyers GA, actress (The
Piano, Broadcast News, Roe vs Wade)
1958 Rickey Jackson NFL defensive end (San
Francisco 49ers)
1959 Dale Reid Ladybank Scotland, LPGA
golfer (European Solheim Cup team)
1959 Richard Drummie rocker (Go West-Call
Me, Don't Look Down)
1961 John Clark Gable Los Angeles CA,
actor (Bad Jim)
1961 Kathy Guadagnino Albany NY, LPGA
golfer (1985 US Women's Open)
1961 Slim Jim Phantom [Jim Mcdonnell] rock
drummer (Stray Cats-Stray Cat Strut)
1963 Paul Annacone Southampton NY, tennis
star
1963 Paul Mirkovich rock keyboardist
(Nelson-Love & Affection)
1963 Ramon Andersson Middle Swan
Australia, canoeist (Olympics-bronze-92,
96)
1964 Ruth Davidon Baltimore MD, rower
(Olympics-6th-96)
1965 Chris Hoiles Bowling Green OH,
catcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1965 Danielle Woodward Melbourne Victoria
Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1966 Blas Minor Merced CA, pitcher
(Seattle Mariners)
1966 Giulio Caravatta CFL quarterback
(British Columbia Lions)
1967 Bryan Genesse actor, (Rocco-Bold
& Beautiful, Grady-Street Justice)
1967 Dana Rinehart Dalton Orlando FL, Miss
Florida-America (1990)
1967 Mookie Blaylock NBA guard (Atlanta
Hawks)
1967 Randy Gullatt horse trainer
1968 Eric Viscaal Dutch soccer star (PSV/AA
Gent)
1968 Jurgen Rumrich Miesbach Germany,
hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1968 Sheree Megan Higgins Matamata New
Zealand, golfer (1991 Bridgestone)
1969 Caroline Brunet Québec City Québec
Canada, kayaker (Olympics-silver-96)
1969 Konstantine Starikovitch Podolsk
Russia, 238lbs US weightlifter
(Olympics-96)
1969 Paul Atkinson jockey
1969 Sharon Manning WNBA center/forward
(Charlotte Sting)
1969 Thang Thanh Nguyen Soc Trang Vietnam,
murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1970 Kristin Klein Santa Monica CA,
volleyball outside hitter (Olympics-96)
1970 Ralph Dawkins NFL running back (New
Orleans Saints)
1970 Ron George NFL linebacker (Atlanta
Falcons)
1970 Todd Burger NFL guard (Chicago Bears)
1971 Janis Kelly Winnipeg Manitoba,
volleyball player (Olympics-96)
1971 Manny Alexander Dominican Republic,
infielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1972 Ajah Wilson-Ogechukwu soccer player (Roda
JC)
1973 Jane March Edgeware England, actress
(Lover)
1973 Nico Boje cricketer (South African
ODI left-arm spinner 1996)
1973 Norman Tome Australian soccer striker
(Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1974 P J Bogart New York NY, diver
(Olympics-96)
1975 Brian Buetsch Rockford IL, figure
skater (1997 Great Lakes Sr champion)
1976 Arno Knapen Dutch soccer player (Holten,
FC Twente)
Deaths
0842
Alfonso II the Chaste king of Asturia
(791-842), dies
1191 Clement III [Paolo Scolari], Pope
(1187-91, 3rd crusades), dies
1351 Mohammed ibn-Tughluq sultan of Delhi
India, dies
1393 Johannes Nepomucenus [Jan Nepomucky],
Czechoslovakian saint, killed
1415 Henry IV Bolingbroke King of England
(1399-1413), dies at 45
1501 Jean Carondelet lawyer/chancellor of
Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72
1531 Sicke Freerks/Frericx [Cutter], Dutch
anabaptist, beheaded
1549 Thomas Seymour of Sudely English Lord
Admiral, beheaded
1568 Albrecht von Hohenzollern 1st duke of
Prussia, dies at 77
1617 Franciscus Aguilon physicist/theologist/mathematician,
dies at 50
1619 Matthias II Holy Roman Catholic
emperor (1611-19), dies
1646 Matthew Vossius historian (Annales
Holland Zelandiaeque), dies at 35
1703 Johann Kunckel/Kunkel German
alchemist/ambassador to Sweden, dies
1727 Sir Issac Newton English
physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84
1751 Frederick Louis English prince of
Wales/son of George I, dies
1757 Johann Paul Kunzen composer, dies at
60
1767 Firmin Abauzit French huguenot/scholar,
dies at 87
1804 Ignaz Malzat composer, dies at 47
1812 Jan Ladislav Dussek Bohemian
pianist/composer, dies at 52
1848 Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven
Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27
1866 Rikard Nordraak composer, dies at 23
1871 Antonio Buzzolla composer, dies at 56
1873 Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis composer,
dies at 52
1874 Hans Christian Lumbye composer, dies
at 63
1887 Pavel Annenkov Russian literature
historian, dies at 73
1892 Arthor Goring Thomas composer, dies
at 41
1894 Lajos Kossuth Hungarian freedom
fighter/president (1849), dies at 91
1898 Luis Palés Matos Puerto Rican poet (Tuntún
the paso y grifería), dies
1899 Martha M Place of Brooklyn NY,
becomes 1st woman to die by electrocution
1910 Félix Tournachon [Nadar], French
writer/photographer, dies at 89
1911 Jean-Theodore Radoux composer, dies
at 75
1913 Christian Barnekow composer, dies at
75
1913 Song Jiao-ren leader Chinese
Guomindang-Party, dies
1920 Venustiano Carranza President of
Mexico (1915-20), murdered at 60
1925 George N Curzon British Foreign
minister (1919-22), dies at 66
1929 Ferdinand Foch Marshal of France
(WWI), dies at 77
1933 Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara electrocuted
for assassination attempt on FDR
1934 A Emma W T von Waldeck-Pyrmont Dutch
queen (& regent), dies at 76
1936 Durant Clifford Parkin cricketer
(Tests for South Africa 1891-92), dies
1941 D A van den Bosch anti-Nazi clergyman
(Amersfoort Camp), dies
1942 Theodoro Valcarcel composer, dies at
41
1944 Felix Woyrsch composer, dies at 83
1950 Walter Eucken German economist, dies
at 59
1951 Jan Ingenhoven composer, dies at 74
1951 Kathleen Lockhart Manning composer,
dies at 60
1953 Graciliano Ramos Brazilian author (Vidas
Secas), dies at 60
1962 C Wright Mills US sociologist (Power
Elite), dies at 45
1962 Dr Andrew E Douglass
Dendrochronologer (Study of Tree Rings)
dies
1963 Karl Otten writer, dies at 73
1964 Brendan Behan Irish writer/poet, dies
at 41
1964 Jean Rogister composer, dies at 84
1967 A J F Moody 1st US Army General to
die in Vietnam
1968 Carl T Dreyer Danish director
(Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies
1972 Aad de Haas Dutch religious
painter/graphic artist, dies at 51
1972 Jan Engelman Dutch poet/art critic
(At the Front), dies at 71
1972 Marilyn Maxwell actress (Grace-Bus
Stop), dies at 50
1974 [Lavinia] Marian Fleming Poe Black US
advocate in Virginia, dies at 83
1974 Chet Huntley newscaster (NBC
Huntley-Brinkley Report), dies at 62
1974 Edward Platt actor (Chief-Get Smart),
dies at 58
1976 Michael Goodliffe actor (Gorgon, 7th
Dawn, Way Out), dies at 61
1982 Hendrik L van Beek Dutch
Vice-Admiral, dies at 52
1987 Norman Harris guitarist (O'Jays),
dies at 39 of heart failure
1988 Gil Evans Canadian/US jazz composer
(Out of the Cool), dies at 75
1990 Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal Dutch
writer, dies at 90
1990 Jev Jasjin Russian soccer goalie,
dies at 60
1991 Conor Clapton Eric Clapton's son,
falls out of 53rd floor window at 4
1992 Avonne Taylor actress (My Best Girl,
Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93
1992 Frank Westbrook dancer/choreographer,
dies at 82
1992 Georges Delerue French composer
(Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67
1993 Claudia Yeltsin mother of Russian
President Yeltsin, dies at 85
1993 Jonathan Ball English youngster,
killed by IRA at 3
1995 Merv Harvey cricketer (scored 12
& 31 in Test Australia vs England
46-47), dies
1995 Rachida Hammadi Algerian TV
journalist, murdered at 32
1995 Sidney Kingsley US playwright
(Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88
1996 Alan Ridout composer, dies at 61
1996 Claude Bourdet human rights
activist/journalist, dies at 86
1996 Victor Zorza journalist/Russian
specialist, dies at 71
1997 ? Hefner mother of Hugh Hefner
(playboy), dies at 101
1997 Carlo Fassi figure skating coach
(Fleming, Hamill), dies at 67
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