December 21st Events in History | |
| 1997 | Detroit Lions Barry Sanders is 3rd to run for 2,000 yards in a season |
| 1997 | Detroit Lions linebacker Reggie Brown, knocked unconscious in game |
| 1997 | Lexus Senior Golf Challenge |
| 1997 | Wendy's Three-Tour Senior Golf Challenges |
| 1997 | Wendy's Three-Tour LPGA Challenge |
| 1996 | Pakistan all out 67 to lose to Tasmania by an inning |
| 1995 | Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup |
| 1995 | San Francisco Giants announce plans to build a new stadium to open in 2000 |
| 1994 | Bomb goes off on #4 train on Fulton Street New York City |
| 1992 | Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die |
| 1991 | 95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996) |
| 1991 | El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane |
| 1991 | U.S. actress Jane Fonda marries CNN-director Ted Turner |
| 1991 | Soviet Union formally dissolves 11 of 12 republics sign treaty forming Commonwealth of Independent States |
| 1990 | Steve and Mark Waugh complete 464* partnership for NSW vs. WA |
| 1989 | Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25) |
| 1989 | Dan Quayle sends out 30,000 Xmas cards with word beacon spelled beakon |
| 1988 | Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine |
| 1988 | New York bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die |
| 1988 | Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien |
| 1987 | 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man |
| 1987 | Soyuz TM-4 launches 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir |
| 1987 | Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov launched |
| 1986 | 75th Davis Cup: Australia beats Sweden in Melbourne (3-2) |
| 1986 | Amy Alcott/Bob Charles wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship |
| 1985 | ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA |
| 1985 | Alice Miller/Don January wins LPGA Mazda Golf Championship |
| 1985 | Heart's "Heart," album goes #1 |
| 1984 | Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0 |
| 1984 | U.S.S.R. launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come |
| 1983 | Tap Dance Kid opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 669 performances |
| 1983 | Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan |
| 1983 | Musical "Tap Dance Kid" with H Battle premieres in New York City |
| 1983 | NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak |
| 1983 | NCAA rules rescinded last 2-minute men's basketball free throw rule |
| 1981 | Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record) |
| 1980 | Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions |
| 1979 | Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game |
| 1979 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1979 | Zimbabwe adopts constitution |
| 1978 | Broadway Musical opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City |
| 1978 | Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder |
| 1976 | 20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins |
| 1976 | Patricia R. Harris named secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
| 1976 | U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 - Year of Child |
| 1976 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1975 | Hello, Dolly closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 51 performances |
| 1975 | Very Good Eddie opens at Booth Theater New York City for 307 performances |
| 1975 | 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) |
| 1975 | 64th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Czechoslovakia in Stockholm (3-2) |
| 1975 | Madagascar adopts constitution |
| 1975 | Buffalo Sabres set NHL record of 40 points beating Caps 14-2 scoring 5 goals vs Washington Caps in 4:57 |
| 1973 | Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, U.S. and U.S.S.R. meet in Geneva |
| 1972 | Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany |
| 1971 | U.N. Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General |
| 1970 | WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, New York (IND) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme on theEd Sullivan Show |
| 1969 | Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing |
| 1968 | Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell and Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage |
| 1968 | David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash premiere together in California |
| 1966 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum |
| 1962 | Angolin leaves Comecon |
| 1962 | U.S. and Cuba accord, releases bay of pigs captive |
| 1961 | Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Ready Teddy" |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda |
| 1959 | 10th largest snowfall in New York City history (13.7") |
| 1959 | Citizens of Deerfield, Illinois block building of interracial housing |
| 1959 | Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba |
| 1959 | Tom Landry accepts coaching job with Dallas Cowboys (stays until 1988) |
| 1958 | Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st President of 5th Rep of France |
| 1957 | Indonesia proclaims end to state of war |
| 1954 | Dr. Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime) |
| 1953 | KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | Broadway Tunnel opens in SF |
| 1952 | WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1950 | Out of This World opens at New Century Theater New York City for 157 performances |
| 1950 | Cole Porter's musical "Out of this World," premieres in New York City |
| 1949 | Dutch 1st Chamber accept soeveregnty of Indonesia |
| 1948 | O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place |
| 1948 | State of Eire, formerly Irish Free State, declares its independence |
| 1946 | If the Shoe Fits closes at Century Theater New York City after 20 performances |
| 1946 | Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086 |
| 1946 | Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," premieres |
| 1946 | Morton Gould's "Minstrel Show," premieres in Indianapolis |
| 1945 | Billion Dollar Baby opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 219 performances |
| 1945 | Gould/Comden/Green's "Billion Dollar Baby," premieres in New York City |
| 1944 | Cards' Marty Marion wins NL MVP |
| 1942 | U.S. Supreme Court declares Nevada separation legal |
| 1941 | Chicago Bears Ray McLean makes last NFL drop kick for an extra point |
| 1941 | Chicago bears win the NFL championship |
| 1941 | David Diamond's 1st Symphony, premieres |
| 1941 | German submarine U-567 sinks |
| 1941 | Last NFL drop kick for an extra point (Ray McLean, Chicago Bears) |
| 1939 | Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B" |
| 1937 | 1st feature-length color and sound cartoon premieres (Snow White) |
| 1937 | O'Reilly completes 14-98 for cricket match, NSW vs. South Australia |
| 1936 | Bradman's 2nd consecutive Test Cricket duck! Australia all out 80 |
| 1933 | Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1933 | Fox signs Shirley Temple, 5, to a studio contract |
| 1933 | Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony |
| 1932 | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, 1st joint movie (Flying Down to Rio) |
| 1932 | Giants sign former outfielder Billy Southworth as a coach |
| 1929 | 1st group hospital insurance plan offered (Dallas Tx) |
| 1926 | Soccer team DOS Struggle forms |
| 1925 | Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premieres in Moscow |
| 1925 | Stork Hendry scores 325 for Victoria against New Zealand |
| 1923 | Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation |
| 1921 | Supreme Court rules labor injunctions and picketing unconstitutional |
| 1920 | Jerome Kern/BG DeSylva's musical "Sally," premieres in New York City |
| 1919 | J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia |
| 1918 | Red Sox trade Dutch Leonard, Ernie Shore and Duffy Lewis to Yankees for Ray Caldwell and Slim Love, Frank Gilhooey, Al Walters and $15,000 |
| 1915 | 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record) |
| 1914 | Tillie's Punctured Romance, 1st six-reel feature comedy debuts |
| 1914 | 1st feature-length silent film comedy, "Tillie's Punctured Romance" released. (Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charles Chaplin) |
| 1913 | 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in New York World |
| 1912 | Denmark, Norway and Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war |
| 1910 | Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies |
| 1909 | 1st junior high school established (Berkeley California) |
| 1909 | Clyde Fitch' "City," premieres in New York City |
| 1909 | University of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole |
| 1907 | Dutch government of De Master falls due to war budget |
| 1900 | Gerhart Hauptmann's "Michael Kramer," premieres in Berlin |
| 1898 | Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovers radium |
| 1891 | 18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College) |
| 1890 | Pim Mulier 1st and only trip to "Alvesteddetocht" |
| 1866 | Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre |
| 1864 | General Sherman conquers Savannah |
| 1849 | 1st U.S. skating club formed in Philadelphia |
| 1835 | HMS Beagle sails into Bay of Islands (New Zealand) |
| 1829 | 1st stone arch railroad bridge in U.S. dedicated, Baltimore |
| 1788 | Hue Tay Son becomes emperor Quang Trung of Vietnam |
| 1784 | John Jay becomes 1st U.S. Secretary of State |
| 1762 | James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts |
| 1688 | Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham |
| 1650 | Johan de Witt installed as Dutch pension advisor of Dordrecht |
| 1620 | Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock |
| 1582 | Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar, tomorrow is Jan 1 1583 |
| 1561 | Archbishop Granvelle installed |
| 1163 | Hurricane hits villages in Holland/Friesland, causing floods |
December 21st Birthdays in History | |
| 1978 | Amber Corwin, Harbor City California, figure skater, 1997 National Sr - 5th |
| 1978 | Michael Vitar, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, D2, D3, Sunset Grill, Sandlot Kids |
| 1978 | Jackie Stiles, American Athlete |
| 1974 | Karrie Webb, born in Queensland, Australia, LPGA golfer, 1994 Australia Strokeplay |
| 1974 | Raymond Austin, cornerback and safety for the New York Jets |
| 1974 | Tommie Boyd, wide reciever, Detroit Lions |
| 1973 | Mike Alstott, fullback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers |
| 1971 | Ernest Hunter, NFL running back for the Cleveland Browns |
| 1971 | Irena Slavutskay, Israel, athlete, 1996 Olympics |
| 1971 | Jey Phillips, WLAF DB for the Amsterdam Admirals |
| 1971 | Tommie Boyd, NFL/WLAF receiver, Detroit Lions, Rhein Fire |
| 1970 | Irving Spikes, NFL running back for the Miami Dolphins |
| 1970 | Monique Ambers, WNBA forward, Phoenix Mercury |
| 1970 | Ronnie Woolfork, WLAF linebacker for the Frankfurt Galaxy |
| 1969 | Chuck Smith, NFL defensive end for the Atlanta Falcons |
| 1969 | Julie Delpy, actress, Before Sunrise |
| 1969 | Leon Searcy, NFL offensive tackle, Pittsburgh Steelers, Jackson Jaguars |
| 1968 | Anthony Lynn, NFL running back, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 |
| 1968 | Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara, Cal, actress, Simone-Head of the Class |
| 1967 | Ervin Johnson, NBA center, Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks |
| 1967 | Kristi Cooke, Marion Ohio, Miss Ohio-America 1991 |
| 1967 | Terry Mills, NBA forward, Miami Heat, Detroit Pistons |
| 1967 | Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian Statesman |
| 1966 | Kiefer Sutherland, actor, Young Guns, Stand by Me, Lost Boys |
| 1965 | Andy Dick, Charleston, South Carolina, actor, Matthew-Newsradio |
| 1965 | Gabrielle Glaser, musician, Luscious Jackson |
| 1965 | Rodney Thomas, WLAF cornerback, Barcelona Dragons |
| 1965 | Sue Thomas, Texarkana, Texas, LPGA golfer, 1991 Orix Hawaiian Ladies-14th |
| 1964 | Ed Jongsma, Dutch pop bassist, Sleeze Beez-Look Like Hell |
| 1964 | Joey Kocur, Calgary, NHL right wing, Vancouver Canucks |
| 1964 | Keith Taylor, NFL safety for the Washington Redskins |
| 1962 | Christy Forester, Lookout Mt, Georgia, country singer, Forester Sister-Men |
| 1961 | Trevor Bayliss, cricketer, NSW batsman |
| 1960 | Andy Van Slyke, baseball player |
| 1960 | Michael Swain, Elizabeth, New Jersey, judoka, Olympics-bronze-88 |
| 1960 | Roger McDowell, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, pitcher, New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles |
| 1959 | Florence Griffith Joyner, born in Los Angeles, California, runner, Olympic-3 gold-1988 |
| 1957 | Joshua Mostel, New York City, actor, Delta House, At Ease |
| 1957 | Lisa Gerritsen, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Bess-Mary Tyler Moore Show |
| 1957 | Ray Romano, born in Queens, New York, actor, Ray Barone-Everybody Loves Raymond |
| 1956 | Kevin Burnham, Hollis, New York, 470 yachter, Olympics-8th-1992, 96 |
| 1956 | Lee Roy Parnell, Abilene Texas, country singer, Oughta be a Law |
| 1955 | Jane Kaczmarek, American Actress |
| 1954 | Chris Evert, Ft. Lauderdale, tennis pro |
| 1953 | Andras Schiff, Budapest Hungary, pianist, Tchaikovsky-1974 |
| 1953 | Arie Luyendyk, born in Netherlands, Indy-car racer, 1990 Indianapolis 500 |
| 1953 | Betty Wright, born in Miami, Florida, singer, rhythm and blues, soul music, influenced the world of hip hop, sang with Alice Cooper, Gloria Estefan, song Shoorah! Shoorah!, used in movie Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
| 1953 | Tina Brown, journalist, New Yorker |
| 1952 | Dennis Boutsikaris, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Batteries Not Included |
| 1952 | Steve Furniss, U.S. swimmer, Olympics-bronze-1972 |
| 1952 | Joaquin Andujar, Dominican Republican Athlete |
| 1950 | Jeffrey Katzenberg, American Producer |
| 1948 | Barry Gordon, Brookline Massachusetts, actor, Gary-Archie Bunker's Place |
| 1948 | Carol Potter, New York City, actress, Beverly Hills 90210, Today's FBI |
| 1948 | Dave Kingman, baseball player, Mets, Yankees, Giants |
| 1948 | Willem AFG Vermeend, Dutch economist/undersecretary of Finance, 1994- |
| 1948 | Samuel L. Jackson, actor, Amos and Andrew, White Sand, Pulp Fiction |
| 1947 | Zoe Lofgren, American Politician |
| 1946 | Carl Dean Wilson, Hawthorne California, rock vocalist, Beach Boys-Barbie |
| 1946 | Christopher Keene, born in Berkeley, California, conductor, La Traviata |
| 1946 | Josh Mostel, New York, actor, Windy City, Animal Behavior, Money Pit |
| 1945 | Doug Walters, cricketer, Aussie batting genius 1965-81 Extrovert |
| 1945 | Millie Hughes-Fulford, Wells, Texas, astronaut, STS-40 |
| 1944 | Jared Martin, New York City, actor, Varian-Fantastic Voyage, Dusty-Dallas |
| 1944 | Michael Tilson Thomas, born in Los Angeles, California, conductor, New York Phil Young People |
| 1943 | Albert Lee, born in Leominster, Herefordshire, Grammy-award winning English guitarist, musical director, celebrated finger-style and hybrid picking technique, played with the Crickets |
| 1943 | Jack Nance, actor, Rubbed Out |
| 1943 | Walter Spanghero, French rugby player |
| 1942 | Carla Thomas, U.S. singer, Let Me Be Good to You |
| 1942 | Hu Jintao, Chinese Statesman |
| 1940 | Frank Zappa, born in Baltimore, rocker, Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls |
| 1939 | Wen Ho Lee, American Scientist |
| 1938 | Larry Bryggman, Concord California, actor, Dr. John Dixon-As the World Turns |
| 1937 | Harald, Crown Prince, son of King Olav V, heir apparent of Norway |
| 1937 | Jane Fonda, New York City, actress, Barbarella, Klute, physically fit |
| 1935 | Phil Donahue, born in Cleveland, Ohio, talk show host, Phil Donahue Show |
| 1934 | Hanif Mohammad, cricketer, prolific Pakistani batsman 1952-69 |
| 1933 | Huib Eversdijk, Dutch 2nd chamber member, CDA |
| 1933 | Jackie Hendriks, cricketer, West Indian wicket-keeper of 60's |
| 1931 | Caroline Kaart, Paterson Raitt, Dutch alto singer |
| 1931 | David Baker, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, composer, Reflections |
| 1930 | Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, secretary of Council of Churches |
| 1929 | Jack Philip Cannon, composer |
| 1928 | Ed Nelson, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, actor, Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider |
| 1928 | Thomas Rajna, composer |
| 1927 | Michael Carreras, film director |
| 1926 | John Herbert McDowell, composer |
| 1926 | Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez, Aguilares, Texas, actor, Rio Bravo |
| 1925 | Paul Kurtz, American Philosopher |
| 1924 | Joe Paterno, football coach, Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986 |
| 1924 | Johan W "Jo" van Marle, KNVB-chairman, 1980-93 |
| 1924 | Rita Reys, Dutch jazz singer |
| 1922 | Paul Winchell, New York City, ventriloquist, Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith |
| 1921 | Alica Alonso, Havana, ballerina |
| 1921 | James Tye, safety expert |
| 1921 | Joan Dickson, born in England, cellist, professor at Royal College of Music in London, studied with Enrico Mainardi in Paris, performed with Joyce Rathbone |
| 1919 | Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak, Gold Medals 1948, 1952, 1956 Olympics |
| 1918 | Donald Regan, White House staffer and U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1981 - 1985 |
| 1918 | Kurt Waldheim, born in Austria, Austrian diplomat, politician, Secretary-General of the U.N., ninth President of Austria |
| 1918 | Donald T. Regan, American Public Servant |
| 1917 | Alicia Alonso, Havana Cuba, ballerina, American Ballet Theatre |
| 1917 | Andre Eglevsky, choreographer, Limelight |
| 1917 | Heinrich Boll, Germ, writer, Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72, |
| 1916 | Eve Perrick, journalist |
| 1916 | John Boon, publisher |
| 1913 | Raich Carter, soccer star |
| 1911 | Paul Burkhard, composer |
| 1909 | George Ball, Iowa, lawyer/undersecretary of state |
| 1909 | Seicho Matsumoto, Dutch Japanese detective/playwright, 10 to Sen |
| 1908 | Pat Weaver, born in Los Angeles, California, TV Executive, started Today show |
| 1907 | Garmt Stuiveling, Dutch literary, Poet in Love |
| 1905 | Anthony Powell, England, novelist, Infants of Spring |
| 1901 | Juan A de Zunzunegui y Loredo, Spanish writer |
| 1901 | Robin Irvine, born in London, England, actor, Easy Virtue |
| 1900 | Oda Schaefer, German author and poet, Die Windharfe, Ladies Only |
| 1899 | Guy Wilkerson, Texas, actor, Dead or Alive, West of Texas, Shootin' Iron |
| 1898 | Eugene Dabit, French writer/painter, Hotel du Nord |
| 1898 | Ira S. Bowen, U.S. physicist and astronomer, Mount Wilson/Palomar |
| 1896 | Carl Romme, Dutch catholic foreman/KVP-Minister Socialist Business |
| 1896 | Constantine Rokossovski, Russian marshal/vice-premier of Poland |
| 1896 | Leroy Robertson, composer |
| 1896 | Eric Johnston, American Businessman |
| 1895 | Paul Hoffer, composer |
| 1892 | Rebecca West, Cicily I F Andrews, English author, Meaning of Treason |
| 1892 | Walter Hagen, born in Rochester, New York, PGA golfer, U.S. Open 1914, 19 |
| 1891 | John W. McCormack, D, Speaker of House, 1962-70 |
| 1891 | John William McCormack, American Politician |
| 1890 | Fred M Vinson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1946-53 |
| 1886 | George Norman Peterkin, composer |
| 1886 | Hermann A. J. Kees, German Egyptologist, Problems of Egyptology |
| 1879 | Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000 |
| 1879 | Theodore Limperg, business economist, substitute value |
| 1874 | Juan Bautista Sacasa, President of Nicaragua, 1932-36 |
| 1872 | Albert P. Terhune, U.S., novelist, Lad, a Dog |
| 1867 | John Winter Thompson, composer |
| 1860 | Henrietta Szold, founder, Hadassah |
| 1859 | Gustave Kahn, France, poet, claimed to have invented vers libre |
| 1853 | Isolde Kurz, German writer/poet, Meine Mutter |
| 1850 | Zdenek Fibich, composer |
| 1849 | James Lane Allen, U.S. writer, Kentucky Cardinal |
| 1848 | Edward Everett Rice, composer |
| 1843 | Thomas Bracken, Irish Poet |
| 1840 | Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist, Vatan |
| 1832 | John Henry Ketcham, Major General Union volunteers |
| 1826 | Ernst Pauer, composer |
| 1823 | Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist, insects and |
| 1818 | Amalia, wife of king Otto of Greece |
| 1818 | Lewis H. Morgan, U.S., etnologist, Systems of Cons |
| 1815 | Thomas Couture, French painter/author |
| 1810 | Ludwig Schuncke, composer |
| 1804 | Benjamin Disraeli, Tory, British Prime Minister, 1868, |
| 1800 | Barnwell Rhett Robert, Confederacy |
| 1756 | Thomas Anton Kunz, composer |
| 1728 | Hermann Friedrich Raupach, composer |
| 1628 | Samuel Friedrich Capricornus, composer |
| 1616 | Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer |
| 1573 | Mathurin Regnier, French poet, Macette |
| 1537 | Johan III, king of Sweden, 1569-92 |
| 1518 | Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician |
| 1117 | Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury |
| December 21st Deaths in History | |
| 2001 | Dick Schaap, sportscaster/writer, Flashing Before My Eyes, dies at 67 |
| 2001 | Foster Brooks, comic, ", ""professional lush"", ", dies at 89 |
| 2000 | Thomas Yohe, TV producer/innovator, Schoolhouse Rock, dies at 63 |
| 1997 | Bruce Woodcock, boxer, British and Empire heavyweight champion 1945 - 1950, dies at 76 |
| 1997 | Michael Lyne, air-marshal, dies at 78 |
| 1996 | Margaret E Rey, author of children's books, dies at 90 |
| 1996 | Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts, dies at 96 |
| 1995 | Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72 |
| 1995 | Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90 |
| 1994 | Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State, dies at 85 |
| 1994 | Shauna McDonald Brown, British TV producer, dies at 37 |
| 1993 | Philip Christison, British general (Rangoon), dies at 100 |
| 1992 | Albert King, U.S. blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw), dies at 71 |
| 1992 | Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian/US violist (Beethoven, Bach), dies at 87 |
| 1992 | Stella Adler, U.S. actress (Love on Toast), dies at 90 |
| 1992 | Sybil Andrews, English/Canada painter, dies at 94 |
| 1989 | Elena Ceaucescu, wife of Romanian dictator Nicolae, executed |
| 1989 | Jan Cikker, composer, dies at 78 |
| 1989 | Nicolae Ceaucescu, Romanian dictator (1945-89), executed |
| 1988 | Bob Steele, Robert Bradbury, dies after short illness at 60 |
| 1988 | Nicholas Tinbergen, Dutch/British biologist, dies at 81 |
| 1987 | Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies |
| 1983 | Rod Cameron, actor (Santa Fe Passage, Stampede), dies at 73 |
| 1983 | Paul de Man, Belgian Critic |
| 1980 | Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90 |
| 1975 | William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61 |
| 1974 | Richard Long, actor (Nanny and Professor), dies at 47 |
| 1972 | Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70 |
| 1967 | Louis Washkansky, 18 days after 1st heart transplant, dies at 55 |
| 1967 | Stuart Erwin, actor (Trouble With Father), dies of heart attack at 64 |
| 1965 | Claude Adonai Champagne, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1964 | Carl Van Vechten, American Writer |
| 1958 | H[arry] B[yron] Warner, actor (10 Commandments, New Moon), dies at 83 |
| 1958 | Lion Feuchtwanger, philosopher and writer (Der falsche Nero), dies at 74 |
| 1957 | Eric Coates, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1956 | Lewis M Terman, psychologist (Genetic studies of genius), dies at 79 |
| 1955 | Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65 |
| 1948 | Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/Minister of War, hanged |
| 1945 | George S Patton, U.S. General (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car crash at 60 |
| 1945 | George S. Patton, American Soldier |
| 1942 | Leendert Round, sculptor (Giraffen, Blijdorp), dies at 63 |
| 1940 | F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44 |
| 1937 | Frank Kellog, U.S. foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies at 80 |
| 1937 | Frank B. Kellogg, American Politician |
| 1935 | Kurt Tucholsky, Germany journalist and writer (Panter, Tiger and Co), dies at 45 |
| 1933 | Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies at 54 |
| 1931 | John-French Cantre, Flemish wood carver/painter/cartoonist, dies at 45 |
| 1928 | Luigi Cadorna, Italian Field Marshal (WW I, Caporetto), dies at 78 |
| 1921 | P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84 |
| 1921 | P. B. S. Pinchback, American Politician |
| 1920 | Claude Tozer, cricketer, dashing NSW batsman, shot to death |
| 1907 | Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58 |
| 1906 | Adalbert von Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 58 |
| 1890 | Niels Vilhelm Gade, Danish composer, dies at 73 |
| 1889 | Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham, dies at 61 |
| 1864 | William Henry Fry, composer, dies at 51 |
| 1859 | Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist, dies at 66 |
| 1820 | Charles-Franeois Dumonchau, composer, dies at 45 |
| 1765 | Joseph Thaddaus Stammel, Austrian sculptor, dies at 70 |
| 1755 | Caspar Ruetz, composer, dies at 47 |
| 1736 | Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini), dies at 45 |
| 1734 | Philipp Hyacinth Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 54 |
| 1674 | Rutger van Haersolte, viceroy of Overijsselse, dies at about 66 |
| 1597 | Petrus Canisius, Dutch jesuit/saint, dies at 76 |
| 1579 | Juan de Juanes, Vicente J Maeip, Spanish relig painter, dies at 56 |
| 1429 | Jacquemart de Bleharies, Tournay "heretic", burned to death |
| 1375 | Boccaccio, writer, dies |
| 1375 | Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies |
| 1308 | Henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies |
| 918 | Conrad I, Duke of Franconia/German King (911-918), dies |
0 comments:
Post a Comment