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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