Today In History - Sunday, September 15, 2024




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Welcome to Today In History for Sunday, September 15, 2024.

On this day in history ..

0608 - St Boniface IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1514 - Thomas Wolsey appointed archbishop of York
1556 - Vlissingen ex-emperor Charles V returns to Spain
1584 - San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid finished
1590 - Giambattista Catagna elected as Pope Urban VII
1619 - Prince Bethlen G bors troops occupy Pozsony (Pressburg) Hungary
1620 - Mayflower departs from Plymouth England with 102 pilgrims [OS May 8]
1621 - Swedish troops occupy Riga
1644 - Giambattista Pamfili replaces Pope Urban VII as Innocent X
1656 - England & France sign peace treaty
1683 - Germantown Pa founded by 13 immigrant families
1707 - R k¢czi II & Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement
1733 - King Frederik Willem I divides Prussia-Brandenburg in Cantons
1774 - Cossack Emilian Pugachev captured
1776 - British forces capture Kip's Bay Manhattan during Revolution
1787 - -16] Utrecht patriots flee to Amsterdam
1789 - Dept of Foreign Affairs, renamed Dept of State
1795 - Cape Colony surrenders to England
1812 - French army under Napoleon reaches Kremlin, Moscow
1821 - Costa Rica El Salvador Guatemala Honduras & Nicaragua gain independ
1830 - 1st National Negro Convention begins in Phila
1830 - 1st to be run-over by a railroad train (William Huskisson, England)
1830 - Duke of Wellington opens Liverpool & Manchester Railway
1835 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Galapagos Islands
1846 - Jung Bahadur Rana grabs power in Nepal
1853 - 1st US woman ordained a minister, Antoinette Blackwell
1857 - Timothy Alder patents typesetting machine
1862 - Confederates conquer Union-weapon arsenal at Harpers Ferry WV
1870 - Dutch 1st Chamber abolishes Capital punishment (20-18)
1873 - Last German troops leave France
1879 - Pim Mulier forms "Haarlem Football Club"
1882 - British general Wolseley occupies Cairo
1887 - Phila celebrates 100th anniversary of US Constitution
1894 - Japan defeats China in Battle of Ping Yang
1898 - National Afro-American Council forms in Rochester NY
1899 - 5th US Golf Open: Willie Smith shoots a 315 at Baltimore CC MD
1903 - Queen Wilhelmina calls railroad strikers "criminals"
1904 - Wilbur Wright makes his 1st airplane flight
1910 - Boers & Afrikaners win 1st general elections in Union of South-Africa
1912 - Red Sox pitcher Joe Wood ties then record of 16 straight wins
1912 - War between Turkey & Montenegro breaks out in Albania
1913 - 1st US milch goat show held, Rochester, NY
1914 - Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I
1914 - US Marines march out of Vera Cruz, Mexico
1915 - Boston Braves beat St Louis Cards 20-1
1916 - 1st tank used in war, "Little Willies" at Battle of Flors, France
1916 - Britains 1st use of tanks (Battle of Somme)
1917 - Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky
1918 - CH Chubb gives Stonehenge to English state
1921 - Pope Benedictus XV publishes encyclical Alcohol Paraclitus
1921 - WBZ-AM in Boston MA begins radio transmissions
1922 - Catcher Butch Henline is 1st NLer to hit 3 HRs in a game since 1897
1923 - 43rd US Mens Tennis: William T Tilden beats W M Johnston (64 61 64)
1923 - Bill Tilden wins US Lawn Tennis Open
1923 - Gov Walton of Oklahoma declares state of siege because of KKK terror
1926 - Failed attempt on Mussolini
1928 - 400 kg Fournier-albums (forged postage stamps) burn in Geneva
1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1928 - Cards set NL record of 18 men left on base beating Phillies 8-6
1928 - Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in NYC
1930 - 1st intl bridge match is held in London. US team defeats England
1931 - British naval fleet mutinies at Invergordon over pay cuts
1931 - Phila A's clinch pennant, beating Cleveland
1935 - Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
1937 - WPA extends L-Taraval streetcar to SF Zoo (at Sloat Blvd)
1938 - British PM Chamberlain visits Hitler at Berchtesgarden
1938 - John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day)
1938 - Only time brothers hit back-to-back HRs (Lloyd & Paul Waner, Pitts)
1940 - 3rd American Football League plays 1st game (Milw 14, Columbus 2)
1940 - Chicago Tribune sponsors Ted Lyons Day (White Sox pitcher)
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Bristol Aeroplane Company
1940 - PM Winston Churchill visits #11 Fighter Group
1940 - Tide turns in Battle of Britain in WW II, RAF beats Luftwaffe
1941 - Nazis kill 800 Jewish women at Shkudvil Lithuania
1942 - US aircraft carrier Wasp torpedoed at Guadalcanal
1943 - Benito Mussolini forms a rival fascist government in Italy
1943 - Concentration Camp Vaivara in Estonia opens
1943 - Concentration Camp Kauwen in Lithuania opens
1944 - British bombers hit Tirpitz with Tallboy bombs
1944 - Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
1944 - US 1st Infantry division pushes through to Westwall
1944 - US 28th Infantry division occupies Hill 555 at Roscheid
1944 - US troops lands on Palau & Morotai
1946 - Dodgers beat Cubs 2-0 in 5 inns, games called because of gnats
1947 - 1st 4 engine jet propelled fighter plane tested, Columbus, Oh
1947 - Yanks clinch pennant #15
1948 - "Small Wonder" opens at Coronet Theater NYC for 134 performances
1948 - F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speech record of 1080 kph
1948 - WHN-AM in NY City changes call letters to WMGM
1949 - "Lone Ranger" premieres on ABC-TV
1949 - WJAC TV channel 6 in Johnstown, PA (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1949 - WJXT TV channel 4 in Jacksonville, FL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 - During Korean conflict, UN forces land at Inchon in South Korea
1950 - East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
1950 - For a record 6th time, NY Yankee Johnny Mize hits 3 HRs in one game
1950 - Longest game in Phila's Shribe Park, Phils beat Reds 8-7 in 19
1950 - UN lands at Inchon to drive North Korean troops out of the south
1950 - US troop land on Wolmi-Do island off of Seoul
1951 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" closes at Ziegfeld NYC after 740 perfs
1951 - Emile Zatopek runs world record 20k (1:01:15.8)
1951 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ingruentium Malorum
1952 - Braves last game in Boston's Braves Field before move to Milwaukee
1952 - European Parliament forms in Strasbourg
1952 - UN turns over Eritrea to Ethiopia
1953 - Boxing's NBA adopts 10-pt-must-scoring-system (10 pts to round winner)
1953 - KVOA TV channel 4 in Tucson, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 - WVEC TV channel 13 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - WCTV TV channel 6 in Tallahassee-Thomasville, FL (CBS) begins
1957 - "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres
1957 - Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany
1957 - SF Seals (Pacific Coast League) play their last game
1958 - 48 die in a train crash in Elizabethport NJ
1958 - Commuter train crashes through drawbridge, killing 48 (Newark NJ)
1959 - Soviet Premier Khrushchev arrives in US to begin a 13-day visit
1960 - France spends 9 billion guilders on atomic experiments
1961 - 61st US Golf Amateur Championship won by Jack Nicklaus
1961 - Hurricane Carla strikes Texas with winds of 175 mph
1962 - "Bravo, Giovanni" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 76 perfs
1962 - Australia's 1st entry in America's Cup yacht race (US wins)
1962 - KC A's Bill Fischer sets record of 69 1/3 innings without a walk
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 - WOKR TV channel 13 in Rochester, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
1963 - Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, & Jesus-appear in SF outfield for 1 inn
1963 - Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria
1963 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open
1963 - WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 - Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland
1964 - Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald"
1965 - "Lost in Space" premieres
1966 - 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched
1966 - Dutch political party (D'66) forms
1966 - Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth
1967 - KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 - "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV
1968 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational
1968 - Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
1968 - NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada
1968 - WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 - WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 - Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
1969 - Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 NY Mets in a game
1970 - Decca awards Bing Crosby a 2nd platinum disc for selling 300 million
1970 - PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan
1970 - Rotterdam harbor strikes end
1971 - 1st broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC-TV
1972 - WMAO TV channel 23 in Greenwood, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1973 - "Star Trek-Animated" premieres on TV
1973 - Dutch Guilder devalued 5%
1973 - Ohio State's Archie Griffith begins record 31 cons 100 yd rushing
1973 - Secretariat wins Marlboro Cup in world record 1:45 2/5 for 1¬ miles
1974 - Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens
1974 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
1975 - Mike Vail extends hitting streak ton rookie-record 23 straight game
1976 - Ntozake Shange's "For Colored Girls Who ...," premieres in NYC
1976 - Soyuz 22 carries 2 cosmonauts into Earth orbit for 8 days
1977 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 124 performances
1977 - Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when mgr Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound)
1977 - Pres Carter meets with 15 record company execs
1977 - Rock Music Award
1977 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 - Dodgers become 1st major league team to draw 3 million fans
1978 - Muhammad Ali beats Leon Spinks in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1978 - Yanks beat Boston 4-0, Guidry wins # 22, Yanks lead 2« games
1979 - Red Sox Bob Watson is 1st to hit for cycle in AL & NL (Astros)
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "Temporary Secretary"
1981 - US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor
1981 - Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism
1982 - 1st issue of "USA Today" published by Gannett Co Inc
1982 - Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut
1982 - Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1983 - Cops beat to death Michael Stewart for graffiting NYC subway
1983 - Israel premier Begin resigns
1984 - Morocco Showcase opens
1984 - Sharlene Wells (Utah), 20, crowned 58th Miss America 1985
1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1985 - 26th Ryder Cup: Europe beat US, 16«-11« at The Belfry, England
1985 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1985 - Olof Palme forms Sweden minority govt
1985 - Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings
1985 - Willie Nelson's Farm Aid concert
1985 - Yanks trade Jim Deshaies to Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro
1986 - 1st broadcast of "LA Law" on NBC-TV
1986 - Bomb attack in Paris, 1 dead
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Raimund Theatre, Vienna
1988 - Lillehammer, Norway upsets Anchorage to host 1994 Winter olympics
1988 - Museum of Moving Image in London opens
1988 - Test Cricket debut of Ian Healy, vs Pakistan at Karachi
1990 - 42nd Emmy Awards - LA Law & Murphy Brown win
1990 - Chicago White Sox Bobby Thigpen is 1st to record 50 saves
1990 - Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1990 - Florida lottery goes over $100,000,000
1990 - France announce it will send 4,000 troops to Persian Gulf
1991 - "Party Machine with Nia Peeples" final show
1991 - 19th du Maurier Golf Classic: Nancy Scranton
1991 - NBA star Magic Johnson marries Earletha "Cookie" Kelly
1991 - SD State freshman Marshall Faulk sets NCAA rushing record of 386 yds
1991 - US women's gymnastics team win 1st World Championships medal (silver)
1992 - Ted Weiss, despite dying on 14th, wins congressional NYC seat
1993 - Liechtenstein prince Hans-Adam II disbands parliament
1994 - "Sound of Motown," premieres in Rotterdam
1994 - Dennis Richardson sworn in as head of St Maarten
1994 - Moslem fundamentalists kidnap & behead 16 citizens in Algeria
1995 - Cards shortstop Ozzie Smith sets record of 1,554 double plays
1996 - 2nd Presidents Golf Cup: US beats Intl team 16«-15« at Robert Jones Va
1996 - Bangladesh beat UAE by 104 runs to win the ACC Trophy Final
1996 - Karrie Webb wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
1996 - Texas Rangers retire their 1st number, Nolan Ryan's #34
1997 - Edison Intl purchases Anaheim Stadium naming rights for $50M
1997 - Oprah Winfrey announces she will continue her show through 2000

Famous birthdays for this day ..

0053 - Mark U Trajanus, 13th Roman emperor (98-117)/conqueror of Ctesiphon
1505 - Maria, queen of Hungary/wife of Louis II/governess of Neth (1531-55)
1572 - Erasmus Widmann, composer
1584 - Georg R Weckerlin, German poet (Oden und Ges„nge)
1586 - Cristobal de Isla Diego, composer
1613 - Fran‡oise duc de la Rochefoucald, Paris France, writer (M‚moires)
1685 - Gottfried Kirkhoff, composer
1690 - Ignazio Prota, composer
1736 - Jean-Sylvain, French historian (History of France)
1744 - Georg Ritschel, composer
1764 - Friedrich Heine, composer
1764 - Paolo Francesco Parenti, composer
1780 - Jonas Daniel Meyer, Dutch lawyer (Esprit, origin et progrŠs)
1789 - James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major US novelist (Last of Mohicans)
1808 - Louis Clapisson, composer
1811 - Jan Nepomuk Skroup, composer
1811 - Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch author
1816 - Edward Wolff, composer
1830 - Jos‚ de la Cruz Porfirio D¡az, president of Mexico (1877-1911)
1834 - Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian/parliament member
1837 - Leo van Gheluwe, composer
1843 - Willem F Mauritius HK, prince of Orange/son of king Willem III
1851 - Emilia Pardo Bazan, Spanish countess/writer (Sirena Negra)
1851 - Josif Marinkovic, composer
1852 - Jan E Matzeliger, Surinamese inventor (shoe lacing machine)
1857 - William Howard Taft, Cin, (R) 27th pres (1909-13), chief justice
1858 - Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer/hermit
1858 - Jeno Hubay, composer
1863 - Horatio William Parker, composer
1865 - Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer (Loi Falcidie)
1865 - Nicolaus Adriani, linguist (Middle-Celebes languages)
1868 - Dirk B Nanninga, Dutch painter
1876 - Bruno Walter, [B W Schlesinger], Berlin Germany, conductor (NY Phil)
1876 - Frank E Gannett, Rochester, newspaper publisher (Gannett)
1881 - Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, Milan, race car builder (Amaz Bugattis)
1884 - Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer
1887 - Jean/Hans Arp, French/Swiss statues artist/poet
1888 - Philibert Schmitz, Belgium, historian (Ordre the St-BenoŒt)
1889 - Robert Benchley, Worcester MA, humorist (My 10 Years in a Quandary)
1890 - Agatha Christie, mystery writer (Murder on Orient Express)
1890 - Claude McKaye, Jamaica/US author (Songs of Jamaica, Banjo)
1890 - Frank Martin, Geneva Switzerland, composer (In Terra Fax)
1894 - Jean Renoir, French director (Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion)
1896 - Tadeusz Szeligowski, composer
1898 - John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet (El Dorado)
1899 - Milton S Eisenhower, Dwight's brother/pres (Pennsylvania State)
1900 - Larry Kent, CA, director (High Stakes)
1902 - Magda [Helena] Lupescu, wife of King Carol II of Romania
1903 - Roy Acuff, Maynardville Tenn, country musician (Hee Haw)
1904 - Tom Conway, Russia, actor (Mark Saber, Betty Hutton Show)
1904 - Umberto II, van Piemonte, king of Italy (1946)
1906 - Kathryn Murray, Jersey City NJ, dancer (Arthur Murray Dance Party)
1906 - Penny Singleton, Phila Pa, voice (Jane Jetsons)/actress (Blondie)
1907 - Bengt G Ekel”f, Swedish poet (Sent p† jorden)
1907 - Jack Bailey, Hampton Iowa, TV host (Queen for a Day)
1908 - Gerd Gaiser, German writer (Ship in the Mountain)
1909 - Carlos Estrada, composer
1909 - Jean Batten, NZ air pioneer (1st woman to fly solo Australia-
1909 - Phil Arnold, NJ, actor (Errand Boy, Stud Lonigan, Damn Yankees)
1910 - George D Kilpatrick, Canadian/British bible scholar
1910 - Richard Baerlein, racing writer
1911 - Silas Hogan, blues singer/guitarist
1912 - Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer
1913 - Hans Filbinger, German politician (CDU)
1913 - Henry Dreyfus Brant, Montreal Canada, composer (Great American Goot)
1913 - John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail
1913 - Roger "Ram" Ramirez, jazz pianist/composer
1914 - Creighton Abrams, US, army general (Vietnam War)
1914 - Jens Otto Krag, premier of Denmark (1962-68, 71-72)
1915 - Helmut Schoen, football coach
1915 - John Conte, Plamer Mass, actor (Mantovani)
1916 - Margaret Lockwood, Karachi India, actress (Lady Vanishes)
1917 - Richard Arnell, composer
1919 - Fausto Coppi, Italian bicylist (world record 45,798 km)
1921 - Jackie Cooper, LA Calif, actor/director (Hennesey, People's Choice)
1921 - Jan Frank Fischer, composer
1923 - Anton Heiller, composer
1924 - Bobby Short, Danville Ill, singer/pianist (Carlisle Hotel)
1924 - Lucebert, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist (Boozz, PC Hooft prize 1967)
1925 - Forrest Compton, Reading Pa, actor (Gomer Pyle USMC, Edge of Night)
1927 - Norm Crosby, Boston Mass, comedian/double talker (Liar's Club)
1929 - Murray Gell-Mann, physicist who predicted quarks
1933 - Henry Darrow, NYC, actor (Harry O, New Dick Van Dyke Show)
1933 - Rafael Frbeck de Burgos, Burgos, Spain, conductor (World of Song)
1935 - Jacques d'Ancona, journalist/TV host (Sound-Mix Show)
1936 - Ashley J Cooper, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
1937 - Cynthia Anzolut, Harrisburg PA, LPGA golfer
1938 - Gaylord Perry, baseball player (1972 AL Cy Young winner)
1938 - Rafael H Osuna, tennis champ (US Open - 1963)
1939 - Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet/painter
1940 - Frank Linzy, baseball player
1940 - Merlin Olsen, UT, NFL tackle (Rams)/sportscaster/actor (Father Murphy)
1940 - Norman [Richard] Spinrad, US, sci-fi author (Child of Fortune)
1941 - Miroslav Hermazewski, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 30)
1942 - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, US, sci-fi author (Hotel Transylvania)
1942 - Phil Harris, English carpet manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1945 - Jessye Norman, US, opera singer (Carmen)
1946 - Fighting Mack, [Edwin Alberto], Antillian welterweight boxer
1946 - Oliver Stone, NYC, director (Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon)
1946 - Tommy Lee Jones, actor (Executioner's Song, Bloody Monday, Fugitive)
1949 - Joe L Barton, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985- )
1952 - Kelly Keagy, rock vocalist (Night Ranger)
1953 - Bruce Heuchan, Kingston Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 Alberta-7th)
1953 - Jerry Page, golfer (largest PGA victory margin)
1953 - Pat Barrett, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1954 - 7th marquess of Bristol, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1955 - Mac Sweeney, (Rep-R-TX, 1985- )
1956 - Jaki Graham, British personality
1956 - Ned Rothenberg, composer
1956 - Tawny Elaine Godin Schneider, Maine, Miss Amer (76)/(Eye on Hollywood)
1957 - Fulton Peter Allem, Kroonstad South Africa, PGA golfer (1993 SW Bell)
1958 - Lesley Player, Redhill England, Sarah Fergusson's father's lover
1960 - Scott Thompson Baker, Minneapolis, actor (Gen Hosp, All My Children)
1961 - Dan Marino, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins)
1962 - Aubrey Matthews, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1962 - Earnest Byner, NFL running back (Cleve Browns)
1962 - Patricia "Patty" Shea, Belmont NY, field hockey goalie (Olympics-96)
1962 - Wendie Jo Sperber, Glendale Calif, actress (Amy-Bossom Buddies)
1964 - Andrew Landenberger, Australian tornado yachter (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1964 - R Kikuchi, Japan cosmonaut
1964 - Robert Farley, Ndola Zambia, Australasia golfer
1964 - Ryoko Kikuchi, Japan cosmonaut
1965 - Rob Whitlock, Newcastle NSW, Australasia golfer
1966 - Sherman Douglas, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
1967 - Dexter Carter, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1967 - Jerry Dixon, heavy metal bassist (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1968 - Danny Nucci, actor (Gabriel Ortega-Falcon Crest)
1968 - Michael Puschacher, hockey goalie (Team Austria 1998)
1968 - Rich Robertson, Nacogdoches TX, pitcher (Minn Twins)
1969 - KG, rocker (Naughty by Nature)
1970 - Danny Ellis, Orlando Fla, golfer (All-American-1990, 92, 93)
1971 - Chad Bratzke, NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
1971 - Crystal McLaurin-Coney, Miss USA-North Carolina (1997)
1971 - Josh Charles, actor (Crossing the Bridge, Cooperstown)
1971 - Myron Bell, NFL safety (Pitts Steelers)
1971 - Wayne Ferreira, Johannesburg S Africa, tennis star (Munich 1995)
1971 - Will Shields, NFL guard (KC Chiefs)
1972 - Amanda Lynn Granrud, Great Falls Montana, Miss America-Montana (1996)
1975 - Tom Dolan, US, 400m freestyle/200m/400m medley swimmer (Oly-gold-96)
1975 - Tsutsumi Otomo, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
1978 - Amanda Rochelle Penix, Miss Oklahoma Teen USA (1997)
1984 - Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of Wales, 3rd in British succession

Famous deaths for this day ..

0009 - Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman viceroy of Syria, suicide at 59
0921 - Ludmilla, wife of 1st christian Bohemian king Borijov I/saint, dies
0928 - Louis III, the Blind Proven‡aals king of Lombardije/Germany, dies at 48
1231 - Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach, dies
1525 - John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake
1598 - Hidejoshi, [Hijoshi], Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies
1654 - Cornelis Bicker, merchant/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 61
1747 - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer, dies at 59
1750 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, composer, dies at 59
1840 - Franz Xaver Pechacek, composer, dies at 47
1841 - Alessandro Rolla, composer, dies at 84
1842 - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist/composer, dies at 70
1859 - John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 72
1862 - R E V Miles, US Union Colonel (general?), killed at Harpers Ferry
1875 - Jeanne-Louise Farrenc, composer, dies at 71
1880 - William Hauser, composer, dies at 67
1883 - Joseph AF Plateau, Belg physicist (Blue Moon), dies
1885 - Juliusz Zarebski, composer, dies at 31
1895 - Jan Kleczynski, composer, dies at 58
1914 - Jacobus Herculas de la Rey, [Uncle Chose], Boer general, dies at 66
1916 - Isidore Edouard Legouix, composer, dies at 82
1921 - Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Russ baron/general, dies
1923 - Sayed Darwish, composer, dies at 31
1924 - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer, dies at 66
1927 - Herman Gorter, socialist/poet (Mai, Pan), dies at 62
1929 - Sara Amsel, Indon/Dutch actress/wife of Carel van Hoisted, dies at 58
1932 - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer, dies at 76
1934 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61
1936 - Bela Anton Szabados, composer, dies at 69
1937 - Clifford Heatherley, actress (For Love or Money, Cash), dies at 48
1938 - Thomas Wolfe, US writer (Enigma), dies at 62
1940 - Dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37
1942 - Jack Singer, US war reporter (Wasp), dies
1942 - Joe Travers, cricketer (Australian SLA, in only Test innings), dies
1943 - Hans Ulrich Humpert, composer, dies at 2
1945 - Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern, Austrian composer, dies at 61
1950 - Vojtech Rihovsky, composer, dies at 79
1951 - Jacinto Guerrero, composer, dies at 56
1953 - Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, dies
1956 - Henry Clough-Leiter, composer, dies at 82
1963 - Fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69
1964 - Robert Dower, cricketer (Test for South Africa), dies
1967 - Eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78
1967 - Hans Haug, composer, dies at 67
1972 - Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer, dies at 66
1978 - Willy Messerschmitt, German aircraft builder, dies at 80
1979 - Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
1980 - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
1981 - Sara Haden, actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83
1982 - Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, Iran's former foreign minister, executed in Iran
1983 - LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88
1983 - Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49
1984 - Jack Ikin, cricketer (England opener 1946-55), dies
1986 - Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69
1987 - Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75
1989 - Harry Cave, cricketer (New Zealand captain 1955-56), dies
1990 - G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA), dies
1990 - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 60
1991 - Allan Sobek, dancer, dies
1991 - Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83
1991 - John Hoyt, actor (My Favorite Brunette), dies of lung cancer at 87
1992 - Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92), dies at 79
1993 - Frits Noske, musicologist (Tie Musikwerk), dies at 72
1993 - Herman Meyer, Germanist (Deutsche Dichtung), dies at 82
1994 - Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78
1994 - Haywood Frank Henry, sax player, dies at 81
1994 - H‚l‚na Manson, Venez/French actress (Nude in a White Car), dies at 94
1994 - Michael Joyce, stage Manager, dies at 48
1995 - Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83
1995 - Michio Watanabe, politician, dies at 72
1995 - Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63
1996 - Brother Eugene Gerard Salois, teacher, dies at 76
1996 - George Scheuer, writer/journalist, dies at 80
1996 - Hilary Preston, editor, dies at 88
1996 - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85
1996 - Peter Michael Grayson, showman, dies at 70