Monday, January 4, 2010

January 4th: History of Events, Birthdays, Deaths



January 4th Events in History

2007
Nancy
Pelosi is elected Speaker of the House, by a vote of 233-202
2006
Ehud Olmert becomes Prime Minister of Israel after Ariel Sharon
suffers a stroke
1998
Funny Thing Happened, closes at St. James New York City after
715 perform
1998
Ivanov, closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City after 51
performances
1998
Triumph of Love, closes at Royale Theater New York City
1996
Father opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 52
performances
1995
Newt Gingrich becomes speaker of the House
1994
10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome)
1993
7th largest wrestling crowd (63,500-Tokyo Dome)
1992
8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
1991
AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
1991
Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold
medal
1991
Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th
1991
Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland
1989
Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
1989
U.S. F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
1989
Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to
declare himself president
1987
16 die in a train crash in Chase Md
1986
David Boon's second Test century, 131 vs. India at Adelaide
1986
NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots
1984
Night Court starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV
1984
Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game
1983
U.S. Football League holds its 1st player draft
1982
Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show"
1982
Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show
1982
Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
1982
ABC Direction Network (57 affiliates) and ABC Rock Network (40
affiliates) become the 5th and 6th ABC radio network
1981
Frankenstein opens and closes on Broadway
1981
Peter Pan closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after
578 performances
1981
69th Australian Mens Tennis: B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76
63)
1981
British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire
Ripper"
1980
President Carter announces U.S. boycott of Moscow Olympics
1977
Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV
play-by-play
1976
Candide closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 740
performances
1976
Home Sweet Homer opens and closes at Palace Theater New York
City
1975
Good News closes at St. James Theater New York City after 16
performances
1975
Gypsy closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 120
performances
1975
Over Here closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 341
performances
1975
Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the U.S. (No
11828)
1975
Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
1975
Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
1974
Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate
Committee
1971
Congressional Black Caucus organizes
1971
Dr. Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected governor of Virgin
Is
1971
Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated
1970
Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
1970
New York City transit fare rises from 20 cents to 30 cents, new
larger tokens used
1970
Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary
1969
Fig Leaves Are Falling closes at Broadhurst New York City after
4 performances
1969
France begins arms embargo against Israel
1968
Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in
Texas
1968
Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million
1966
Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test
1966
WFLD TV channel 32 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1965
Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" State of the
Union Address
1963
Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
1962
1st automated (unmanned) subway train (New York City)
1961
Longest recorded strike ends-33 yrs-Danish barbers' assistants
1960
European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm
1959
Luna 1, Mechta, becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity
1958
Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere and burns up
1957
Blondie situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)
1957
Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
1954
Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville
1954
Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres
1953
KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951
During Korean conflict, Chinese forces capture Seoul
1948
Burma declares independence from UK
1947
Park Avenue closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 72
performances
1947
Show Boat closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 417
performances
1945
Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam
1945
U.S. jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze
attack
1943
Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph and His
Brothers"
1942
NFL Pro Bowl: Chi Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24
1942
Premier Churchill and General Marshall fly to Florida
1942
Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame
1941
Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st
meet
1941
Sergey Rachmaninov's "Symphonie Dances," premieres in
Philadelphia
1939
Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a U.S. graduate
school
1939
Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish
Emigration
1936
Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade
1936
Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 vs. South
Africa
1935
Bob Hope 1st heard on network radio as part of "The
Intimate Revue"
1935
Fort Jefferson National Monument in Florida established
1934
1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of
Orange," premieres
1932
Bradman scores 167 for Australia vs. South Africa at the MCG
1932
British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi and Nehru
1932
State of siege proclaimed in Honduras
1926
Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator
1925
French psychologist Emil Coue brings his self-esteem therapy to
U.S. "Every day in every way I am getting better and better"
1923
1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Ft. Worth
Texas)
1923
Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of
Stalin
1921
Eugene O'Neill's "Diff'rent," premieres in New York
City
1920
Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
1915
1st elected Jewish governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in
Idaho
1915
Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
1912
Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km
center-to-ctr
1907
George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell," premieres in
London
1906
South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win
1904
Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 beat Winnipeg Rowing Club, 2 games
to 1
1904
Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to
US
1902
Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick vs. England at the MCG
1898
1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life and
Letters" appears
1896
AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, New York City
1896
Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th
state
1894
France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia
1893
U.S. President Cleveland grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy
1887
Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF)
1885
Dr. W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary
Gartside, 22)
1884
Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
1883
Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) forms
1881
Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture"

premieres, Breslau
1863
4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
1862
Battle of Helena, AK
1862
Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath
1861
President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened
succession
1861
U.S. Ft. Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama
1843
Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale," premieres in
Paris
1843
Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens
1790
President Washington delivers 1st State of the Union address
1781
Andre Mechain discovers M80 (globular cluster in Scorpio)
1780
Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown, NJ
1762
England declares war on Spain and Naples
1754
Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York City)
1725
Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
1717
Netherlands, England and France sign Triple Alliance
1642
King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament
1570
Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician,
Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew"
1519
1st Altenburger sermon (Luther and Karl von Miltitz)
1493
Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage
1357
Flemish earl Louis and Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace
treaty
871
Battle at Reading: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
274
St.
Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope

January 4th Birthdays in History

1974
Carl
Powell, defensive end for the Indianapolis Colts
1973
Lamont Warren, NFL running back for the Indianapolis Colts
1973
Ray Mickens, cornerback for the New York Jets
1973
Todd Sauerbrun, NFL punter/kicker for the Chicago Bears
1972
Mike McCoy, WLAF quarterback for the Amsterdam Admirals
1971
Carlos Perez, Dominican/US baseball pitcher for the Montreal
Expos
1971
Deb Sonnenberg, born in Edmonton, Alberta, softball pitcher 1996
Olympics
1971
Errol Brown, CFL defensive back for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
1971
Garrison Hearst, NFL running back, Arizona Cardinals, San
Francisco 49ers
1971
Jeremy Licht, born in Los Angeles, California, actor,
Mark-Valerie/Hogan Family
1971
Orlanda Truitt, wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders
1971
Richard Chee Quee, cricketer, NSW opening batsman Fiji/Chin
ancestry
1970
Colin Scrivener, CFL defensive tackle for the Winnipeg Blue
Bombers
1970
Sean Lumpkin, NFL safety for the New Orleans Saints
1969
Corie Blount, NBA forward, Los Angeles Lakers
1969
Kees van Wonderen, Dutch soccer player, NEC/NAC
1969
Lindsay Kennedy, born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor, Jeb-Little
House on the Prairie
1968
Jackie Harris, NFL tight end, Green Bay Packers, Tampa Bay
Buccaneers
1967
David Wayne Toms, Monroe, Louisiana, PGA golfer, 1992 Northern
Telecom-3rd
1967
Michael "Mike" Peterson, Washington D.C., rower 1996
Olympics
1967
Rick Cunningham, NFL tackle, Minnesota Vikings, Oakland Raiders
1966
Deana Carter, born in Nashville, Texas, Deana Kay Carter,
country singer, famous for multi-platinum debut album 'Did I Shave My Legs
for This?', albums include fourteen singles, three reached number one on the
Billboard country charts, including 'Strawberry Wine'
1965
David Glasper, rocker, Breathe-All I Need
1965
Guy Forget, Morocco, tennis star
1965
Jergus Baca, born in Liptovsky Mikulas, Czechoslovakia, IHL
defenseman, Team Slovakia 98
1965
John Jackson, NFL offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers
1965
Julia Ormond, born in London, England, actress, Sabrina, Legends
of the Fall
1965
Kevin Wickander, U.S. baseball pitcher, Cincinnati Reds
1965
Mitch Booth, Australian tornado yachter 1996 Olympics
1965
Beth Gibbons, English Musician
1964
Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson, Somerville, New Jersey, U.S. rower
1992 Olympics
1963
Dave Foley, actor/comedian, Kids In The Hall, Dave
Nelson-NewsRadio
1963
Linda Muri, Killingly Conn, rower 1996 Olympics
1962
Joe Kleine, NBA center, Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls
1962
Martin McAloon, rocker, Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good
1962
Patrick Cassidy, born in Los Angeles, California,
actor/composer, Fever Pitch, Off the Wall
1962
Peter Steele, American Musician
1961
Lee Curreri, New York City, actor, Bruno Martelli-Fame
1960
Cory Everson, Racine Wisconsin, body builder, 6X Ms Olympia
1960
Michael Stipe, U.S. rock vocalist, REM-Losing My Religion, Stand
1959
Vanity, Denise Marquardt, Ontario Canada, actress, 52 Pick Up
1958
Matt Frewer, Washington D.C., actor, Max Headroom, Doctor Doctor
1958
Nina Foust, Asheboro, North Carolina, LPGA golfer, 1994 Hawaiian
Ladies Open-6th
1957
Patty Loveless, Ramey, Pikeville, Kentucky, singer, Blue Side of
Town
1956
Ann Magnuson, Charleston, West Virginia, actress, Anything But
Love, Hunger
1956
Barney Sumner, rock guitarist and vocalist, New Order-Blue
Monday
1956
Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist, Joy Division
1955
Kathy Forester, Lookout Mt, Georgia, country singer, Forester
Sister-Men
1955
Mark Hollis, English pop musician, Talk Talk, Dum Dum Girl
1951
Barbara Ann Cochran, Claremont, New Hampshire, slalom skier,
Gold Medal 1972 Olympics
1951
Eugene Chadbourne, American Composer
1946
Bernard Sumner, rocker, New Order-Round and Round
1945
Jay Dee Maness, Loma Linda California, singer, Desert Rose
Band-Love Reunited
1944
Volker Hornback, rocker, Tangerine Dream
1943
Tom Wilkinson, CFL quarterback for the Edmonton Eskimos
1943
Doris Kearns Goodwin, American Historian
1942
John McLaughlin, rock guitarist, Sentimental Journey/Clouds of
Joy
1941
John Bennett Perry, born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, singer
and actor, Falcon Crest
1941
Jorg Reme, German/Dutch painter/graphic artist
1941
Maureen Reagan, 1st daughter, Ronald Reagan
1940
Anthony Skooter Teague, Texas, actor, How to Succeed in Business
1940
Brian Josephson, British physicist, Nobel 1973
1940
Gao Xingjian, Chinese Novelist
1940
Helmut Jahn, born in Nuremburg, Germany, architect, designed
O'Hare 'L' Station, Chicago, Illinois, AIA's, Ten Most Influential Living
Architects, 1991
1939
Jon Appleton, born in Los Angeles, California, composer, pioneer
in electro-acoustic music, won Guggenheim, Fulbright Foundation fellowships
1938
Louis Krebs Graham, born in Nashville, Tennessee, PGA golfer,
1975 U.S. Open
1937
Dyan Cannon, born in Tacoma, Washington, Mrs. Cary Grant,
actress, 'Heaven Can Wait'
1937
Grace Bumbry, St. Louis, mezzo-soprano, Venus in Tannhauser
1937
R Surendranath, cricketer, Indian pace bowler in 11 Tests early
60s
1935
Floyd Patterson, heavyweight champ 1956 - 1959, 1960 - 1962,
Gold Medal 1952 Olympics
1935
Kenneth Money, Canada, astronaut, STS-42-alt
1934
Rudolf Schuster, Czechoslovakian Statesman
1933
Ed Jenkins, born in Young Harris, Georgia,
Representative-D-Georgia 1977 - 1993
1932
Richard Stahl, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Howard-It's a
Living
1930
Don Shula, winningest NFL coach for the Miami Dolphins
1930
Iain Cuthbertson, British actor, Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger
UXB
1930
Sorrell Booke, Buffalo, New York, actor, Bye Bye Braverman,
Black Like Me
1929
Amitai W. Etzioni, U.S. sociologist, Active Society
1929
Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist
1927
Barbara Rush, born in Denver, Colorado, actress, Marsha-Peyton
Place, Flamingo Road
1925
Veikko Hakulinen, Finland, 30K/50K cross country skier, Gold
Medals 1952, 1956, 1960 Olympics, Silver Medals 1956, 1960 Olympics, Bronze
Medal 1960 Olympics
1923
Flavio Testi, composer
1922
Frank Wess, flutist/saxophonist/composer
1920
Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish writer, Fortunata y Jacinta
1920
William Egan Colby, CIA director, Nixon
1920
William Colby, American Public Servant
1919
Al "Jazbo" Collins, New York City, DJ, Tonight!
America After Dark
1919
Havelock Henry Trevor Hudson, underwriter, Lloyd's of London
1917
Maurice Wohl, English broker/multi-millionaire
1916
Catherina Elisabeth "Tootje" Vreede, portrait painter
1916
Robert Parrish, Columbus, Georgia, director, Casino Royale
1914
Mohammed Sahir, shah, Afghanistan
1913
Malietoa Tanumafili II, King of West-Samoa, 1962-
1910
Gabe Paul, American Businessman
1908
Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal, Austrian nude
model/Hitler's lover
1908
Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian
1905
Sterling Holloway, Cedartown, Georgia, actor, Waldo-Life of
Riley
1903
Joris Diels, Flemish actor and director, Haagsche Comedy
1903
Ramon Ernesto Cruz Ucles, Honduras president, 1971-72, ;
overthrown
1901
C. L. R. James, Journalist
1898
Roger Vuataz, composer
1896
Andre Aime Rene Masson, French Surrealist artist, Labyrinth
1896
Everett Dirksen, born in Pekin, Illinois, Senator-R-Illinois
1951 - 1969
1895
Lourens G M Baas Becking, Dutch botanist/resistance fighter
1894
Wesley La Violette, composer
1893
Manuel Palau Boix, composer
1890
Alfred G Jodl, German Wehrmacht general/chief of staff
1890
Mosa Pijade, Yugoslavia, MP, communist
1889
Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director,
Abandoned Child
1883
Johanna Westerdijk, botanist/Netherlands 1st female prof,
Utrecht, 1917-52
1883
Max F Eastman, U.S., critic/essayist, Masses
1883
Max Eastman, American Author
1881
Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter, poet and sculptor, Seated
Youth
1878
Alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer, Black Dogs and Other
Stories
1877
Gibson Gowland, England, actor, Blind Husbands, Phantom of the
Opera
1874
Josef Suk, Czechoslovakian violinist and composer, Asrael
1874
Sven Fleuron, writer
1872
Edmund Rumpler, Austria, auto/airplane builder
1869
Percy Pitt, composer
1858
Carter Glass, American Politician
1847
Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician
1844
Thomas H Rollinson, composer
1838
Charles Stratton, General Tom Thumb, famous short person
1837
Casimiro de Abreu, Brazil, poet, Camoes e o jau
1823
Otto van Rees, Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, 1884-88
1823
Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General Union volunteers
1822
Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers
1821
John James Peck, Major General Union volunteers
1813
Alexander Freiherr von Bach, Austria attorney/premier, 1852-59
1813
Isaac Pitman, Britain, inventor, stenographic shorthand
1813
Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator
1809
Louis Braille, Coupvray France, developer, reading system for
blind
1807
Baltasar Saldoni, composer
1805
Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh, composer
1797
Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer, constructed 1st Moon
map
1789
Benjamin Lundy, philanthropist/abolitionist
1785
Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, librarian, fairy tale
collector
1773
Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer
1772
Paul-Louis Courier, de Mere, French writer/interpreter
1759
Maria Rosa Coccia, composer
1756
Anne Nagell van Ampsen, Dutch politician
1739
Henrik C Cras, Dutch lawyer, Laudatio Hugonis Grotii
1726
Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Dutch engraver/art collector
1720
Johann Friedrich Agricola, German, court, composer/organist
1717
Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer
1710
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, Il Prigioniero
Superbo
1643
Isaac Newton, born in Grantham, England, physicist,
mathematician, and astronomer
1604
Jacob Balde, German jesuit/barok conductor, Jephthe
1581
James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, gave age to Earth based on
bible
1579
Willem Teellinck, Dutch theologist/vicar
1567
Franciscus Aguilon, physicist/mathematician/jesuit/architect
1334
Amadeus VI,
Green Earl, earl of Savoye

January 4th Deaths in History

2005
Humphrey
Carpenter, English Author
2003
Conrad Hall, American Artist
1999
Iron Eyes Cody, actor, dies at 94
1998
John Gary, singer, dies at 65
1998
Mae Questel, actress, voice of Betty Boop, dies at 89
1997
Harry B. Helmsley, businessman, Helmsley hotels, dies at 88
1996
Ramon Vinay, operatic tenor/baritone, dies at 83
1996
Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer, dies at 83
1995
D Elmina Davies, filmmaker, dies at 36
1995
Dorothy Granger, U.S. actress (Hog Wild, Dentist), dies at about
80
1995
Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor, dies in air crash at 52
1995
Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and conducter, BBC Empire
Orchestra, dies at 92
1995
Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar, dies at 82
1994
Jim Booth, New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures), dies at 48
1994
Michiel P "Michael" Gorsira, Governor of Curaeao 1951
- 1967, dies at 80
1993
Daniel H Craven, South African rugby coach, dies
1993
Joe Keenan, actor (Conviction of Kitty Dodd), dies of cancer at
69
1992
Earl Colbert, entertainer, dies
1992
William Walker, stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74
1991
Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed), dies of kidney failure at 78
1991
Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon), committed suicide at 94
1991
Leo N Wright, U.S. saxophonist (I Left My Heart in SF), dies at
57
1990
Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62),
dies
1990
Robert F Adams, U.S., sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at
57
1987
F van Heek, Dutch sociologist, dies at 79
1987
Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads), dies at
91
1986
Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions and Shadows), dies
at 81
1986
Phil Lynott, rocker (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose at 34
1985
Brian Gwynne Horrocks, English Lieutenant-General (A Full Life),
dies at 89
1979
Charles Mingus, jazz bassist, dies of heart attack
1978
Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber/lumber/wood manufacturer, dies at
76
1976
Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov), dies at 84
1975
Carlo Levi, Italian writer (Parole Sono Pietre), dies at 72
1974
Karel Janacek, composer, dies at 70
1972
Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer, dies at 57
1969
Montague Fawcett Phillips, composer, dies at 83
1968
Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist
fighter, dies at 83
1967
Donald Campbell, boat racer, dies trying to break 300 mph on
water
1965
T S Eliot, poet (Washed Country), dies in London at 76
1965
T. S. Eliot, English Poet
1964
Ralph Dumke, actor (Movieland Quiz), dies at 64
1961
Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Going My Way), dies at 72
1960
Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident
at 46
1960
Dudley Nichols, American Screenwriter
1958
Waverley John Anderson, Scot, viscount/governor of Bengal, dies
at 75
1957
Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian President (1951-57),
dies at 84
1956
Alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer, dies at 91
1955
Dominicus Johner, composer, dies at 80
1955
Francois Rasse, composer, dies at 81
1955
Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch preacher, dies at 84
1953
Arthur Hoyt, actor (Gold Rush Gertie, Lost World), dies at 78
1952
Constantly Permeke, Flemish painter (Boerin), dies at 65
1947
Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate), dies at
71
1946
Barney Oldfield, daredevil, dies at 67
1944
Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family
doctor/antifascist, murder
1944
Kaj Munk, Harald Leininger, anti-fascist writer (Kaj Munk), dies
1942
Leon Jessel, composer, dies at 70
1941
Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at
81
1940
Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words), dies at 59
1933
Lucas Lindeboom, Dutch evangelist (Vredebond), dies at 87
1931
Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs and Saddles), dies at
40
1920
Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish writer (Gloria), dies at 76
1914
Redjaizade M Ekrem, Turkish poet and writer, dies at about 66
1914
Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author (Free Quaker), dies
at 84
1913
Alfred von Schlieffen, Prussian General-Field Marshal, dies at
79
1910
Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies
1908
Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at
70
1903
Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek, Dutch surrealist painter, dies at 49
1898
Frantisek Pivoda, composer, dies at 73
1891
Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Australia
tour), dies
1886
Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horace), dies at 77
1885
Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer, dies at 29
1883
Nicolas Ledesma, composer, dies at 91
1880
Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies
1877
Cornelius Vanderbilt, U.S. robber baron, dies at 82
1864
Mateo Ferrer, composer, dies at 75
1843
Petronella Moens, Frisian author and poet, dies at 80
1831
Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet, dies at 37
1825
Ferdinand I, King of Sicily/Naples (Ferdinand IV), dies at 73
1821
Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in
Maryland
1809
Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer, dies at 67
1804
Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), dies
1799
Galib Dede/Seyh Galib, Turkish poet (Husn u Ask), dies at about
40
1793
Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen), dies at 35
1786
Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at
56
1782
Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (Ecole Military), dies at
83
1778
Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter, dies at 57
1765
Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer, dies at 39
1761
Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83
1752
Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), dies at
47
1745
Willem I Kerricx, the Young, Flemish architect/painter, dies at
62
1729
Joseph de Montesquiou earl d'Artagnan, French
Lieutenant-General, dies at 77
1729
Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies
1707
Louis Willem I, count of Baden-Baden, dies
1701
Ernst R Tarhemberg, Austria, field marshal, dies at 62
1695
Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourg/French marshal, dies
1678
Johan Maetsuyker, Dutch Governor-General of Ceylon (1653-78),
dies at 71
1612
Henry L Spieghel, Dutch merchant/writer, dies at 62
1584
Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44
838
Babak,
Persian social/religious reformer, martyred


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