On this day in history ..

• 0579 - Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 0657 - St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Eugene I
• 1178 - Frederick I (Barbarossa), Holy Roman Emperor, crowned King of Burgundy
• 1419 - Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, stormtown hall in Prague & throw Catholic councillors out the windows
• 1537 - Resistant of Bomy: French/Dutch cease fire
• 1601 - Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius
• 1618 - Prince Maurits' troops pull into Utrecht
• 1619 - House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective US governing body
• 1626 - Earthquake hits Naples; 10,000 die
• 1646 - English parliament sets king Charles I Newcastle Propositions
• 1650 - Prince Willem II occupies Amsterdam
• 1653 - Johan de Witt sworn in as pension advisor of Holland
• 1655 - Dutch troops occupy Fort Assahudi Seram
• 1678 - English troops lands in Flanders
• 1715 - Spanish gold & silver fleet disappears off St Lucie, Florida
• 1729 - City of Baltimore founded
• 1733 - Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
• 1739 - Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing in Allowaystown, NJ
• 1775 - Capt Cook with Resolution returns to England
• 1792 - 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
• 1809 - English invasion army lands in Walcheren
• 1822 - James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
• 1824 - Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Th‚ƒtre Italian, Paris
• 1826 - Java prince Dipo Negoro surprise attacks Dutch colony, 82 killed
• 1836 - 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
• 1839 - Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
• 1844 - 1st US yacht club organized, NY Yacht Club
• 1863 - Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
• 1864 - Battle of Chambersburg, PA - burned by Union forces under McCausland
• 1864 - Battle of the Crater: Gen Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg
• 1864 - Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, in fire
• 1865 - Pope Pius IX visits Suriname
• 1866 - Race riot in New Orleans
• 1870 - Staten Island ferry "Westfield" burns, killing 100
• 1874 - 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
• 1878 - German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
• 1878 - Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
• 1889 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Naval Treaty" (BG)
• 1898 - Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes
• 1902 - Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
• 1905 - Dutch Covenant of Worker's union, NVV, forms
• 1908 - Around the World Automobile Race ends in Paris
• 1909 - John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
• 1909 - Wright Brothers deliver 1st military plane to the army
• 1913 - Conclusion of 2nd Balkan War
• 1914 - Austrian-Hungary & Russia proclaim general mobilization
• 1914 - French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
• 1914 - John French appointed British supreme commander
• 1916 - German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
• 1917 - Board of Commissioners of Cleveland Metroparks has its 1st meeting
• 1923 - New Zealand claims Ross Dependency
• 1926 - Albanian boundaries deduced
• 1928 - George Eastman shows 1st color motion pictures (US)
• 1930 - 1st broadcast of "Death Valley Days" on NBC-radio
• 1930 - Uruguay beats Argentina 4-2 for soccer's 1st World Cup in Montevideo
• 1932 - 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
• 1933 - 28th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats France in Paris (3-2)
• 1935 - 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution
• 1937 - Phillies Dolph Camilli, plays 1st base & registers no put outs
• 1938 - Gen Metaxas names himself premier of Greece
• 1939 - Belgium SylvŠre Maes wins 33rd Tour de France
• 1941 - German occupiers forbid SDAP, VDB, ARP, RKSP, CHU & SGP in Netherlands
• 1942 - FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
• 1942 - German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
• 1942 - German occupiers set night curfew on Jews in Netherlands
• 1943 - Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
• 1943 - US 45th Infantry division occupies San Stefano
• 1944 - Heavy battles at Tessy-sur-Vire & Villebaudon Normandy
• 1944 - US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-L“ Normandy
• 1945 - Philippines Sea: US cruiser Indianapolis torpedoed/sinks, 880 die
• 1946 - 1st rocket attains 100 mi (167 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
• 1947 - Cin Reds 16 game win streak ends, losing to NY Giants 5-4
• 1948 - Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)
• 1948 - Professional wrestling premieres on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
• 1949 - British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
• 1951 - Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
• 1952 - Ford Frick sets waiver rule to bar inter-league deals until all clubs in same league get right to bid
• 1954 - Bob Kennedy hits the 1st grand slam for the new Baltimore Orioles
• 1954 - Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
• 1955 - Louison Bobet wins his 3rd Tour de France
• 1956 - US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
• 1959 - In his major league debut, SF Giant Willie McCovey goes 4-for-4
• 1960 - 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
• 1961 - 43rd PGA Championship: Jerry Barber shoots a 277 at Olympia Fields IL
• 1961 - Judy Kimball wins LPGA American Women's Golf Open
• 1962 - 33rd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-4 at Wrigley Field, Chicago
• 1962 - All star MVP: Leon Wagner (LA Angels)
• 1963 - British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
• 1964 - US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam
• 1965 - Charles Ives' "From the Steeples & the Mountains," premieres
• 1965 - Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown & the Green Apple," premieres
• 1965 - LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
• 1965 - Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants
• 1966 - Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
• 1966 - England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London
• 1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
• 1966 - US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
• 1967 - Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ
• 1967 - Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
• 1968 - Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
• 1968 - Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
• 1969 - Astros Denis Menke & Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets
• 1969 - Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
• 1969 - KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1969 - Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos)
• 1970 - -Aug 5] Hurricane Celia, kills 31 in Cuba, Florida & Texas
• 1970 - 30,000 attend Powder Ridge Rock Festival, Middlefield Ct
• 1971 - 38th NFL Chicago All Star Game: Baltimore 24, All Stars 17 (52,289)
• 1971 - George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"
• 1971 - Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
• 1971 - US Apollo 15 (Scott & Irwin) lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
• 1972 - "Ain't Supposed to Die Death" closes at Barrymore NYC after 325 perfs
• 1972 - Jan Ferraris wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open
• 1973 - Texas Rangers Jim Bibby no-hits 1st-place Oakland, 6-0
• 1974 - House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
• 1975 - Simon Gray's "Otherwise Engaged," premieres in London
• 1975 - Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit
• 1976 - Giulio Andreotti sworn in as premier of Italy
• 1976 - Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
• 1978 - Expos crush Braves, 19-0, collecting 28 hits & NL-record-tying 8 HRs
• 1978 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
• 1980 - Houston Astro pitcher J R Richard suffers a stroke
• 1980 - Vanuatu (New Hebrides) gains independence from Britain & France
• 1981 - Belgian Senate accept laws against racism
• 1981 - Simon Gray's "Quartermaine's Terms," premieres in London
• 1982 - Atlanta Braves remove Chief Noc-A-Homa to make room for more seats
• 1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear Test
• 1983 - Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif
• 1983 - Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
• 1984 - Alvenus tanker at Cameron La, spills 2.8 million gallons of oil
• 1984 - Holly Roffey (11 days) gets heart transplant
• 1984 - Soap Opera "Santa Barbara" premieres on NBC TV
• 1985 - Discovery moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-I mission
• 1985 - Valerie Lowrance, of Texas, 18, crowned America's Junior Miss
• 1988 - Cin Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month
• 1988 - Harry Drake shoots arrow record 1873m
• 1988 - James Ogilvy (under Engl princess Alexandra) marries Julia Rawlinson
• 1988 - John Franco saves record 13th game of July
• 1988 - Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO
• 1988 - King Hussein dissolves Jordan's House of Representatives
• 1988 - Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
• 1989 - Chile amends its constitution
• 1989 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
• 1990 - 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce members found guilty of money
• 1990 - Graham Gooch scores 123 v India to follow up 1st innings 333
• 1990 - Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
• 1990 - George Steinbrenner is forced by Commissioner Fay Vincent to resign as prinicipal partner of NY Yankees
• 1991 - MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
• 1991 - Red Sox Carlos Quintana is 11th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (3rd)
• 1992 - Lin Li swims female world record/OR 200m medley (2:11.65)
• 1994 - Record 103.8øF (39.9øC) in Preschen Lausitz Germany
• 1995 - Becky Iverson wins LPGA Friendly's Golf Classic
• 1995 - Dominic Cork takes hat-trick in England Test Cricket win v WI
• 1995 - Lara completes 5th Test Cricket century, 145 at Old Trafford
• 1995 - Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame
• 1996 - Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
• 1997 - Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 1511 - Giorgio Vasari, Italy, painter/art historian (Vasari's Lives)
• 1747 - Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer
• 1751 - Maria A [Nannerl] Mozart, Austrian pianist/Wolfgang's sister
• 1763 - Samuel Rogers, English poet (Italy, a poem)
• 1793 - Josepf Fran‡ois Snel, composer
• 1815 - Thomas Jackson Rodman, Bvt Brig General (Union volunteers)
• 1817 - Charles Radoux-Rogier, composer
• 1818 - Emily Jane Bront‰, England, novelist (Wuthering Heights)
• 1818 - John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch minister of Internal minister (1866..88)
• 1824 - Eugenio Terziani, composer
• 1831 - Helene P Blavatsky, founder (Theosophist Cooperation)
• 1837 - Elon John Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
• 1838 - Eugen Richter, German parliament member (Liberal)
• 1845 - Jacob C van Marken, Dutch philantropist/CEO (Calv‚-Delft)
• 1855 - James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"
• 1855 - Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist
• 1856 - Richard B Haldane, British viscount/lord-chancellor (Life of A Smith)
• 1857 - Thorstein Veblen, US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899)
• 1863 - Henry Ford, Dearborn Township Mich, auto maker (Ford)
• 1868 - Alfred Weber, German economist/sociologist
• 1872 - Clementine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte
• 1875 - James William Tate, composer
• 1880 - Robert Rutherford McCormick, US, editor/publisher (Chicago Tribune)
• 1882 - Holmes Herbert, Mansfield England, actor (The Kiss)
• 1882 - Leo van Puyfielde, Flemish art historian
• 1886 - Johan Algot Haquinius, composer
• 1887 - Felix A Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (gravity)
• 1887 - Timothy Mara, NFL owner (NY Giants)
• 1888 - Jean-Jacques Bernard, French writer (Mon pŠre Tristan Bernard)
• 1888 - Raden Sutomo, Indonesian freedom fighter
• 1889 - Vladimir K Zworykin, USSR, electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV
• 1890 - Casey Stengel, baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met's 1st)
• 1892 - Roy Park, cricketer (one Test Aust v Eng 1920, out 1st ball)
• 1897 - Jacques de Kadt, Dutch politician/writer (Fascism is War!)
• 1898 - Henry Moore, England, sculptor (Vertebrae)
• 1899 - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud)
• 1899 - Henricus Moorman, Dutch vice-admiral (KVP)
• 1899 - John Woods Duke, composer
• 1906 - L'udovit Rajter, composer
• 1906 - Serafin Pro, composer
• 1909 - Cyril Northcote Parkinson, England, historian (Pursuit of Progress)
• 1912 - Anne B Ridler, British poetess (Who is my neighbor?)
• 1913 - Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer
• 1913 - Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Neth playwright/director (Albee/Pinter)
• 1916 - Robert van Spaendonk, Dutch resistance fighter
• 1918 - Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player
• 1921 - Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy)
• 1921 - Grant Johannesen, Salt Lake City Ut, pianist (Ost‚nd 1st prize 1947)
• 1921 - Jacques Vander Schueren, Belgium, minister of Economic Affairs
• 1922 - Zbigniew Wiszniewski, composer
• 1923 - Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI (1951-65)
• 1923 - John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner
• 1924 - Christopher Shaw, composer
• 1924 - William Gass, Fargo ND, novelist/philosopher (Omensetter's Luck)
• 1925 - Antoine Duhamel, composer
• 1925 - Jacques Sernas, Lithuania, actor (La Dolce Vita, Helen of Troy)
• 1926 - Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money)
• 1927 - Richard Johnson, actor (Never So Few, Restless, Beyond the Door)
• 1929 - Christine McGuire, Middletown Oh singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime)
• 1929 - Sid Kroft, Athens Greece, puppeteer (Barbara Mandrell Show)
• 1930 - Thomas Sowell, author/activist
• 1931 - Joan Vohs, St Albans NY, actress (Fort Ti, Vice Squad, Sabrina)
• 1933 - Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, LA, actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper)
• 1934 - Andre Prevost, composer
• 1934 - Ben Piazza, Little Rock Ark, actor (Blues Brothers, Ben Casey, Dallas)
• 1934 - Bud Selig, owner (Milw Brewers)/acting baseball commissioner
• 1936 - Buddy Guy, rocker
• 1936 - George "Buddy" Guy, US blues guitarist (Stone Crazy)
• 1936 - Istvan Zelenka, composer
• 1936 - John Burton-Hall, Dorset England, captain (QE2)
• 1936 - Ralph Taeger, Richmond Hill NY, actor (Klondike, Acapulco, Hondo)
• 1936 - Yuri Alexandrovich Falik, composer
• 1938 - Vayachselav Ivanenko, USSR, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1988)
• 1939 - Eleanor Smeal, leader (National Organization for Women)
• 1939 - Peter Bogdanovich, Kingston NY, director/producer (Last Picture Show)
• 1940 - Clive Sinclair, British computer inventor (ZX Spectrum)
• 1940 - Patricia Schroeder, (Rep-D-Colorado, 1973- )
• 1940 - Reva Rose, Chicago Ill, singer/actress (Temperature's Rising)
• 1941 - Count Desmond, [Edward Benjamin], Binghamton NY, sword swallower
• 1941 - Paul Anka, Ottawa Ontario, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
• 1944 - Frances de la Tour, actress (Bejeweled, Wombling Free)
• 1944 - Teresa Cahill, opera singer
• 1945 - David Sanborn, jazz saxophonist (David Letterman Show)
• 1946 - Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, rock bassist (Jethro Tull)
• 1947 - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austria, body builder (Commando, Terminator)
• 1947 - Margo Sappington, Baytown TX, actress (Oh Calcutta)
• 1947 - William Atherton, Ct, actor (Real Genius, Ghostbusters, Class of 44)
• 1949 - Joyce Jones, US singer (1st Choice)
• 1950 - Frank Stallone, NYC, Sylvestor's brother/actor (Barfly, Outlaw Force)
• 1950 - Wime de Craene, Flemish chansonnier/composer
• 1953 - Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-9)
• 1954 - Ken Olin, Chicago Ill, actor (Hill St Blues, Michael-30 Something)
• 1956 - Anita Hill, professor of law, Clarence Thomas' nemesis
• 1956 - Delta Burke, Orlando Fla, actress (Suzanne-Designing Women)
• 1956 - Phil Fearon, rocker (Galaxy, Kandidate-I Don't Want to Lose You)
• 1957 - Bert Oosterbosch, Dutch bicyclist
• 1957 - Bill Cartwright, basketball player (NY Knicks, Chic Bulls)
• 1957 - Mark Tymchyshyn, Minneapolis, actor (Gavin-As The World Turns)
• 1957 - Rat Scabies, [Chris Miller], Surrey England, rock drummer (Damned)
• 1958 - Daley Thompson, London, Decathalete (Olympic-gold-1980, 1984)
• 1958 - Kate Bush, Plumstead England, singer/songwriter (Wild Things)
• 1958 - Richard Burgi, Montclair NJ, actor (Chad Rollo-Another World)
• 1959 - Petra Felke, German DR, javelin thrower (world record 1988)
• 1961 - Laurence Fishburne, Augusta GA, actor (Red Heat, School Daze)
• 1961 - Reggie Roby, NFL punter (Tampa Bay Bucs)
• 1962 - Andy Green, UK, 1st to break sound barrier on land
• 1962 - Monique Gabrielle, KC Mo, actress (Flashdance, Night Shift)
• 1962 - Tom Pagnozzi, Tucson AZ, catcher (St Louis Cardinals)
• 1962 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Dezhurov, Rus lt-colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-21)
• 1963 - Chris Mullin, Bkln NY, NBA forward (Warriors, Pacers, Olympic-gold-92)
• 1963 - Ingrid Butts, Denver Colo, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
• 1963 - Lisa Kudrow, Encino Calif, actress (Phoebe-Friends, Romy & Michele)
• 1963 - Monique Gabrielle, LA Cal, actress (Bad Girls 4, Amazon Women on Moon)
• 1965 - Tex Axile, rocker (Transvision Vamp-Velveteen)
• 1965 - Tim Munton, cricketer (England pace bowler in two Tests 1992)
• 1968 - Charles Gordon, CFL defensive back (Montreal Alouettes)
• 1968 - Michael Brandon, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
• 1968 - Terry Crews, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
• 1969 - Duane Bock, Southampton NY, golfer (1991 Low Amateur NY State Open)
• 1969 - Errol Stewart, S African cricket wicket-keeper (limited-over 1993)
• 1969 - Robert Porcher, NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions)
• 1970 - Ed Hawthorne, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
• 1970 - Joe Montford, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
• 1970 - Tom McManus, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
• 1970 - Werner Hippler, WLAF TE (Frankfurt Galaxy)
• 1971 - Ron Blazier, Altoona PA, pitcher (Phila Phillies)
• 1972 - Clif Groce, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
• 1972 - Damon House, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
• 1972 - Jim McIlvaine, NBA center (Washington Bullets, Seattle Supersonics)
• 1972 - Olga Chernyak, Kiev Ukraine, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
• 1973 - Andrea Gaudenzi, Faenza Italy, tennis star (1990 French Open junior)
• 1973 - Cara Jackson, Chandler Arizona, Miss America-Arizona (1996)
• 1973 - Markus Naslund, Bonassund Swe, NHL right wing (Vancouver Canucks)
• 1974 - Hilary Swank, Bellingham WA, actress (Karate Kid 4)
• 1975 - Tifini Hale, Palm Springs Calif, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
• 1977 - Jayme Dickman, South Bend Ind, 3x20 rifle (Olympics-1996)
• 1977 - Suangsuda Rodprasert, Miss Thailand Universe (1997)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0579 - Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies
• 1516 - Johan V Nassau, earl of Nassau-Vianden/Dietz, dies
• 1528 - Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48
• 1652 - John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist, dies at 68
• 1653 - Gabriel Naud‚, French librarian/ composer, dies at 53
• 1655 - Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer, dies at 47
• 1712 - Abraham Elsevier, publisher, dies
• 1718 - William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer (No cross, no crown), dies
• 1727 - Franz Weichlein, composer, dies at 67
• 1741 - Wierich PL count von Daun, gov-gen of Austria & Netherlands, dies
• 1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet, dies at 54
• 1781 - Augustin Ullinger, composer, dies at 35
• 1784 - Denis Diderot, writer, dies at 70
• 1796 - Nicolas the Pigage, French classical architect, dies
• 1832 - Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies
• 1863 - George Crockett Strong, US Union gen-mjr, dies of injuries at 29
• 1865 - George Wright, US Union brig-general, dies at 61
• 1889 - Charles Absolom, cricketer (Test for Eng), dies in an accident
• 1898 - Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83
• 1903 - Servas Daems, [Peeter Klein], Flem writer (Wheelbarrows), dies at 65
• 1912 - Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60
• 1914 - Albert Trott, cricketer (3 Tests for Aus, 2 for Eng), commits suicide
• 1914 - Jean Jaur‚s, leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
• 1918 - Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies
• 1927 - Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies
• 1936 - Adolf Philipp, composer, dies at 72
• 1943 - Benjamin James Dale, composer, dies at 58
• 1947 - George Challenor, cricketer (played in 1st WI Test side 1928), dies
• 1957 - Sem Dresden, Dutch composer/conductor, dies at 76
• 1958 - Alexander Albrecht, composer, dies at 72
• 1962 - Myron McCormick, actor (China Girl, Jigsaw), dies of cancer at 54
• 1965 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79
• 1966 - Edward G Craig, English actor/dir (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94
• 1967 - Alfried Krupp, German industrialist, dies at 59
• 1967 - John Macchia, actor (Beach Blanket Bingo), dies of stroke at 35
• 1968 - Jon Leifs, composer, dies at 69
• 1970 - George Szell, Hungarian/US conductor (Cleveland Orch), dies at 73
• 1973 - Erich Katz, composer, dies at 72
• 1973 - Guy Middleton, actor (Fur Collar, Now & Forever), dies at 65
• 1974 - Lev Konstantinovich Knipper, composer, dies at 75
• 1977 - Johanna Andersen-Nex”, wife of Danish poet Martin A-N, dies at 74
• 1977 - Jrgen Ponto, West German banker, murdered
• 1979 - Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 67
• 1980 - Charles McGraw, actor (Michael-Falcon, Smith Family), dies at 66
• 1980 - Norman Lloyd, composer, dies at 70
• 1982 - Frank Nicholson, S African cricket wicket-keeper (1935-36), dies
• 1983 - Howard Deitz, MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease
• 1983 - Lynn Fontanne, Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965), dies at 95
• 1984 - Maurice Tremlett, cricketer (England pace bowler 1948-49), dies
• 1987 - Mary Spinell, actress (Last Horror Film), dies
• 1990 - Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered
• 1990 - Karl Weber, dies of heart failure at 74
• 1991 - Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert, dies at 68
• 1991 - William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando), dies at 60
• 1992 - Brenda Marshall, actress (Highway West, Smiling Ghost), dies at 76
• 1992 - Joe Shuster, co creator (Superman), dies at 78
• 1992 - Titti Sotto, latin songwriter, dies at 48 of aids
• 1993 - Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 97
• 1993 - Jay Scott, [Jeffrey Scott Beaven], US/Canada movie critic, dies at 43
• 1993 - John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington NH in 200 years, killed at 45
• 1994 - Enid Balint-Edmonds, British psychoanalyst, dies at 90
• 1994 - Henry Mackie, designer of the Belfast Calorimeter, dies at 73
• 1994 - Theo van Scheltinga, skater, dies at 80
• 1995 - Biggie Rodwell Tembo Marasha, musician, dies at 36
• 1995 - Charles James Dunn, japanese scholar, dies at 80
• 1995 - Harry Shorto, linguist, dies at 75
• 1996 - Alan Cheales, dominican priest, dies at 83
• 1996 - Claudette Colbert, actress (Happened One Night), dies of stroke at 93
• 1996 - Magda Schneider, actress (Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight), dies at 87