Today In History - Wednesday, October 15, 2025




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Welcome to Today In History for Wednesday, October 15, 2025.

On this day in history ..

1501 - English crown prince Arthur marries Catharina of Arag¢n
1520 - King Henry VIII of England orders bowling lanes at Whitehall
1522 - Emperor Karel I names Hern n Cort‚s governor of Mexico
1581 - Commissioned by Catherine De Medici, the 1st ballet "Ballet Comique de la Reine," is staged in Paris
1582 - Many Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar, skip 10 days
1598 - Spanish general strategist Bernardino de Mendoza occupies fort Rhine
1641 - Paul de Chomedy de Maisonneuve claims Montreal
1654 - Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Overijssel
1655 - Jews of Lublin are massacred
1660 - Asser Levy granted butchers license (kosher meat) in New Amsterdam
1705 - English fleet under Lord Peterborough occupies Barcelona
1724 - Cornelis Steenoven is 1st archbishop of Old-Catholic church
1756 - Saxon army surrenders to Prussia
1777 - Mjr James Graves Simcoe appointed commandant of Queen's Rangers (Penn)
1783 - Jean Pilƒtre de Rozier makes captive-balloon ascent
1786 - Earliest 32øF (0øC) recorded temp in NYC
1789 - 1st presidental tour-George Washington in New England
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte exiled on Island of St Helena
1827 - Charles Darwin reaches Christ's Counsel, Cambridge
1842 - Karl Marx becomes editor-in-chief of Rheinische Zeitung
1846 - Dr William Thomas Green Morton 1st public use of ether
1860 - 11-year-old Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln, tells him to grow a beard
1863 - Cliff House opens in SF (1st of many on site)
1864 - Confederate troops occupy Glasgow, Missouri
1866 - Great fire in Quebec destroys 2,500 houses
1874 - Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force
1877 - 45th Congress (1877-79) convenes
1878 - Edison Electric Light Company incorporated
1880 - K”ln cathedral completed, 633 years after it begun
1881 - 1st American fishing magazine, American Angler published
1883 - Supreme Court declares Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional
1885 - Hoss Radbourne pitches his 60th win of season
1889 - Amsterdam Central Station officially opens
1890 - Alabama Penny Savings Bank organizes in Birmingham
1894 - Capt Alfred Dreyfus arrested accused of espionage
1897 - Aaron/Samuel Bloch carry 1st Mail Pouch
1897 - King Leopold II takes Belgian crown
1899 - Cincinnati closes season with 16-1 & 19-3 victories over Cleve Spiders
1905 - Claude Debussy's "La Mer," premieres
1905 - Union workers at NVV rejects safety demands
1912 - Red Sox Tris Speaker's makes only world series unassisted double play, from the outfield
1913 - Train crash in Liverpool during "Black Week"
1914 - ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers) founded
1914 - Battle of Warsaw, begins (ends Oct 21)
1914 - Clayton Anti-trust Act passed (union & strike rights)
1917 - Chicago White Sox beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 14th World Series
1918 - British Q-ship Cymric sinks British submarine J6
1919 - 14 horses begin 300-mile race from Vt to Mass for $1000 prize money
1923 - NY Yankees 1st World Series win beating NY Giants, 4 games to 2
1924 - Pres Coolidge declares Statue of Liberty a national monument
1925 - Pitts Pirates beat Wash Senators, 4 games to 3 in 22nd World Series
1925 - Willem Landr‚'s opera "Beatrice" premiers in The Hague
1926 - Austria govt of Seipel, forms
1926 - Philip Barry's "White Wings!," premieres in NYC
1928 - German dirigible "Graf Zeppelin" lands in Lakehurst, NJ
1928 - Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators
1933 - Philadelphia Eagles play 1st NFL game, lose to NY Giants 56-0
1935 - NHL's St Louis Eagles fold
1937 - Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
1937 - Rather than accept any trade offers, the Yanks release Tony Lazzeri
1938 - Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in NYC
1939 - LaGuardia Airport opens in NYC
1939 - Yeshiva of Mir closes after 124 years
1940 - -16] Heavy German air raid on London, 400 killed
1940 - London's Waterloo Station bombed by Germans
1941 - 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe
1941 - Japan Tojo regime forms
1941 - Jews caught outside Polish Ghetto walls could be put to death
1942 - German 6th Army occupies Tractorenfabriek, 3,000 German's die
1945 - Baseball Attendance hits record 10.28 million (Tigers 1.28 is highest)
1946 - Smallest World Series share since 1918 (Cards $3,748, Red Sox $2,140)
1946 - St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 43rd World Series
1946 - Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series
1948 - China's Red army occupies Chinchov
1949 - Administration of territory of Manipur taken over by Indian govt
1949 - Billy Graham begins his ministry
1949 - Tripura accedes to Indian union
1951 - "I Love Lucy" debuts on CBS TV
1951 - Egyptian parliament accept denounces Suez Canal Treaty
1952 - Arthur Laurent's "Time of the Cuckoo," premieres in NYC
1953 - John Patrick's "Teahouse of the Red Moon," premieres in NYC
1953 - KOIN TV channel 6 in Portland, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 - WJNL (now WFAT) TV channel 19 in Johnstown, PA (IND) begins
1954 - Hurricane Hazel strikes US & Canada, 348 die
1954 - KLTV TV channel 7 in Tyler-Longview, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - Pyotr Bolotnikov runs world record 10k (28:42.8)
1956 - William J Brennan Jr appointed to Supreme Court
1956 - Yankees Enos Slaughter scores from 1st on a single in World Series
1957 - Giants trade Minneapolis franchise to Red Sox for SF Seals-franchises only, not the players
1958 - Tunisia drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - "Untouchables" premieres
1959 - KNDO TV channel 23 in Yakima, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - "Laughs & Other Events" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 8 perfs
1962 - Byron R White appointed to Supreme Court
1962 - WLOX TV channel 13 in Biloxi-Gulfport, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1963 - Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor
1964 - Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph
1964 - Dr Martin Luther King Jr awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1964 - Kosygin & Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev
1964 - St Louis Cardinals beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series
1964 - NY Yankees appears in 14 & win 9 of last 16 World Series
1965 - Dodgers & Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins
1965 - WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 - Australia bans Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself," as "terribly obscene"
1966 - LBJ signs a bill creating Dept of Transportation (DOT)
1968 - AL expansion draft, KC pick Roger Nelson & Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st
1969 - Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
1969 - Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars)
1969 - NY Met Ron Swoboda's spectacular diving catch of sinking liner with runners at 1st & 3rd in 9th, Mets win in 10th in World Series game
1969 - Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a World Series
1969 - Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
1970 - Anwar Sadat elected president of Egypt
1970 - Baltimore Orioles beat Cin Reds, 4 games to 1 in 67th World Series
1970 - Bridge over Yarra River in Melbourne crashes; killing 35
1970 - Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
1972 - 61st Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Bucharest (3-2)
1972 - Omni in Atlanta opens - Hawks beat NY Knicks 109-101
1973 - 7th Country Music Assn Award: Roy Clark wins
1973 - Tanks attack Thailand demonstrating students, 300 killed
1974 - National Guard mobilizes to restore order in Boston school busing
1974 - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Paul J Flory (macro molecules)
1974 - Washington Capitals 1st NHL tie, playing LA Kings to 1-1 tie
1975 - Iceland moves intl boundary from 50 to 200 miles
1976 - 1st debate of major-ticket VP nominees Mondale (D) vs Dole (R)
1976 - Ringo releases "A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll"
1977 - Arkansas' Steve Little kicks a record tying 67 yard field goal
1977 - Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life," goes #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
1977 - Don Ritchie runs world record 100 mile (11:30:51)
1978 - Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - 1st Monday night game from NYC, Jets beat Vikings 14-7 (Shea Stad)
1979 - Chinese premier Hwa Kwofeng visits Paris
1979 - Military coup in El Salvador: president/general Carlos Romero flees
1979 - NY Knicks retire 2nd number, # 10, Walt Frazier
1980 - George Brett is forced out of World Series with hemorrhoids
1980 - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Lawrence R Klein
1981 - NY Yankees capture 33rd AL pennant, sweeping 3 games from Oakland A's
1983 - Black Hawks & Maple Leafs combine for fastest 5 goals (84 seconds)
1983 - Columbia beats Yale 21-18 in football, will lose next 44 games
1983 - US Marine sharpshooters kill 5 snipers at Beirut Intl Airport
1984 - Central Intelligence Agency's Information Act passes
1984 - Centrum party expels 2nd Member of parliament Janmaat due to fraud
1985 - Nobel prize for economics awarded to Franco Modigliani
1985 - Shuttle Columbia carries Spacelab into orbit
1985 - Shelley Taylor of Australia makes fastest swim ever around Manhattan Island, doing it in 6 hours 12 minutes 29 seconds
1986 - Longest post season game, Mets beat Astros 7-6 in 16 & win NL pennant
1987 - "Late Nite Comic" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 4 performances
1987 - 6th Belgium govt of Martens falls
1987 - Coup in Burkina Faso, president Sankara dies
1987 - Lanford Wilson's "Burn This," premieres in NYC
1987 - NFL Players Assn orders an end to 24 day strike
1988 - Amnesty International's Global Concert Tour ends in Buenos Aires
1988 - NCAA record rushing yardage (768 yards-Oklahoma)
1988 - With 2 outs in bottom of 9th, an injured Kirk Gibson hits dramatic 2 run HR to gives Dodgers a 5-4 win in 1st game of World Series
1989 - Billy Graham is given 1,900th star on Hollywood Blvd
1989 - S Afr pres FW de Klerk frees Sisulu & 4 other political prisoners
1989 - South african ANC-founder/leader Walter Sisulu freed
1989 - Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howes as NHL's all time top scorer
1990 - Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
1991 - Clarence Thomas is confirmed as Supreme Court Justice (52-48)
1992 - Charles Taylor launches an offensive against Monrovia Liberia
1992 - Howard Stern radio show begins broadcasting on WLUP-AM, Chicago
1992 - NYC Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train
1993 - Amstel brewery on Cura‡ao produces 1,000,000,000th bottle
1993 - Guardian Angel Lisa Evers Sliwa files for divorce from Curtis Sliwa
1993 - Nelson Mandela & S Afr Pres F W de Klerk awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1994 - Botswana Pres Ketumile Masires BDP wins parliamentary election
1994 - Pres Jean-Baptiste Aristide returns to Haiti
1995 - Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA World Championship of Women's Golf
1995 - Carolina Panthers win 1st game ever beating NY Jets 26-15
1997 - Britain's Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (763.035 mph)
1997 - Cleve Indians beat Balt Orioles 4 games to 2 in ALCS
1997 - Former rep Dan Rostenkowski released from custody for mail fraud
1997 - NY jury awards boxer Mitch Green $45,000 in civil lawsuit against Mike Tyson, for street brawl in 1988
1997 - US launches nuclear powered Cassini to Saturn

Famous birthdays for this day ..

0070 - Publius Vergilius Maro, Roman leader/poet (Bucolica, Aene‹s)
1542 - Djalalud-Din Mohammed Akbar, emperor of India (1556-1605)
1550 - Henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange
1674 - Robert Herrick, Mass, British poet (Together)
1761 - Peter Gronland, composer
1762 - Samuel Adams Holyoke, composer
1775 - Bernhard Henrik Crusell, composer
1779 - Johan O Wallin, Swedish poet/songwriter/archbishop (D”dens Engel)
1784 - Thomas Hastings, composer
1785 - Jos‚ Miguel Carrera, president of Chile (1811-14)
1795 - Frederik Willem IV, king of Prussia (1840-61)/Germany (1849-61)
1799 - August Ferdinand Haeser, composer
1816 - Amiel Weeks Whipple, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1818 - Irvin McDowell, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1819 - Marinus FAG Campbell, bibliography/literary
1822 - Alfred Meissner, Austrian physician/writer
1829 - Asaph Hall, discovered satellites of Mars (Phobos & Deimos)
1831 - Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, author (Ramona)
1832 - Henry Harrison Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1912
1833 - Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader
1836 - Thomas Lafayette Rosser, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1844 - Friedrich Nietzsche, Germany, philosopher/anti-semite (šbermensch)
1851 - George F Moore, US theologist (Hebrews, Old Testament)
1852 - Wilhelm Posse, composer
1856 - R G Nivelle, French military man
1858 - Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer
1858 - John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ (1882-92)
1859 - Jaime de Magalhes Lima, Portuguese author/poet (Salmos do Prisoneiro)
1865 - Walther Amelung, German archaeologist
1874 - Otallo Morales, composer
1878 - Paul Reynaud, premier France (May-June 1940)
1879 - Jane Darwell, [Patti Woodward], Palmyra MO, actress (Huckleberry Finn)
1879 - Sara Allgood, Dublin Ireland, actress (Blackmail, Storm in a Teacup)
1881 - P G Wodehouse, British-American writer (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves)
1890 - Arcady Dubensky, composer
1892 - Ina Claire, [Fagan], Washington DC, actress (Ninotchika)
1893 - Charles II, King of Romania (1930-40)
1895 - Alfred Neumann, German playwright (Devil)
1896 - Melville Cooper, Birmingham England, TV panelist (I Got a Secret)
1898 - Gunther Ramin, composer
1900 - Fritz Feld, Berlin Germany, actor (Jack Benny Show, At the Circus)
1900 - Mervyn LeRoy, movie producer (Devil at 4 O'Clock)
1901 - Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats)
1901 - Hermann Abs, director (Deutsche Bank)/Hitler's advisor
1901 - Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier
1902 - Andrey Yakolevich Shtogarenko, composer
1902 - William Edmundson, Spokane Wash, vocalist (Southernaires)
1904 - Julian Hodge, British financier/multi-millionaire (Hodge Group)
1905 - Alexey Kozlovsky, composer
1905 - Charles P Snow, England, novelist/scientist (Death Under Sail)
1905 - Dag Ivar Wiren, composer
1905 - Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher
1907 - John "Cardinal" Dearden, US cardinal (1969-88)/archbishop of Detroit
1908 - John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (Affluent Society-58 Hillman Award)
1909 - Robert Trout, Wake County NC, newscaster (ABC)
1910 - Xenophon Balaskas, cricketer (South African leg-spinner of 30's)
1911 - James H[enry] Schmitz, Germany, sci-fi author (Lion Game)
1913 - Klaus Barbie, gestapo chief (Lyon)
1915 - W Weyrauch, writer
1917 - Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Ohio, historian (1946 Pulitzer-Age of Jackson)
1917 - Jan Miner, Boston Mass, actress (Crime Photographer)
1919 - Edwin C Tubb, Brits sci-fi writer (Earth is Heaven, Earthfall)
1919 - Howard Frank Trayton Smith, diplomat/head (MI5)
1921 - Angelica Rozeanu, Romanian table tennis player (World Champ 1950-55)
1921 - Gul Mahomed, cricketer (Indian & Pakistani batsman)
1921 - Mario Puzo, NYC, novelist (Godfather, Cotton Club, Earthquake)
1923 - Italo Calvino, Cuba, author (Winter's Night a Traveler)
1924 - Colin Romoff, NYC, orch leader (Andy Williams Show)
1924 - Lee A Iacocca, CEO (Chrysler Corp)
1924 - Nigel Green, South Africa, actor (Skull, Tobruk, Ipcress File)
1925 - Mickey Baker, rocker
1926 - Evan Hunter, [Ed McBain], American writer (Blackboard Jungle)
1926 - Jean Peters, Canton OH, actress (Viva Zapata!, Apache, Deep Waters)
1926 - Karl Richter, composer
1926 - Michel Foucault, French philosopher (History of Sexuality)
1926 - Paul-Michel Foucault, French philosopher (Les Mots et les Choses)
1927 - Mary Perot Nichols, journalist
1927 - Oswald Moxley Gibbs, diplomat
1928 - Mark Lenard, actor (Mr Spock's dad Sarek-Star Trek)
1930 - Fela Ransome/Anikulapo Kuti, Nigerian singer/saxophonist
1930 - Phillipe Leroy, Paris France, actor (Night Porter, Leonardo da Vinci)
1932 - Jaan Raats, composer
1932 - Riekus Waskowsky, poet
1934 - Peter Haskell, Boston Mass, actor (Bracken's World, Rituals)
1935 - Bobby Joe Morrow, Brownsville TX, sprinter (Olympic-3 gold-1956)
1935 - Hans Croiset, Dutch theatre director/actor (Witte Waan)
1935 - Murdo Alexander MacLeod, minister
1936 - Kari Rydman, composer
1937 - Anthony Hopkins, clinical neurologist
1937 - Barry McGuire, Oklahoma City, singer (Eve of Destruction)
1937 - Linda Lavin, Portland Maine, actress (Alice, Barney Miller)
1938 - Marvin E "Marv" Johnson, US gospel/R&B singer (Move 2 mountains)
1938 - Rafael Aponte-Ledee, composer
1939 - Carmelo Bossi, Italy, light middleweight boxer (Olympic-silver-1960)
1942 - Don Stevenson, Seattle Wash, rock drummer (Moby Grape)
1942 - James A Leach, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1977- )
1942 - Penny Marshall, Bronx NY, actress (Odd Couple, Laverne & Shirley)
1944 - Mac Collins, (Rep-R-Georgia)
1945 - Jim Palmer, NYC, Oriole pitcher/sportscaster/jockey underwear salesman
1945 - Steven Camacho, cricketer (WI batsman early seventies)
1946 - Richard Carpenter, New Haven Ct, vocalist (Carpenters-Close to You)
1946 - Victor Banerjee, Calcutta India, actor (A Passage to India)
1947 - Lynn Lowry, E St Louis Ill, actress (Cat People, Crazies)
1948 - Aleksandr S Puchkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1950 - Chris De Burgh, [Davidson], Argent/Irish rock vocalist (Lady in Red)
1950 - Koos van der Vaart, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1951 - Frank Dimino, Wash DC, rock vocalist (Angel)
1951 - Roscoe Tanner, tennis player (Wimbledon Finals 1979)
1953 - Larry Miller, NYC, comedian/actor (Larry-Pursuit Of Happiness)
1953 - [Toriano] Tito Jackson, singer (Jackson 5-ABC, Never Can Say Goodbye)
1954 - Jere Burns, Cambridge MS, actor (Something So Right, Kirk-Dear John)
1954 - Kip Byrne, Detroit Mich, Canadian Tour golfer (Mich State Jr-1970-71)
1955 - Cathy Ladman, comedienne (Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead)
1955 - Kristine Winder, Vancouver BC, playmate (Oct, 1977)
1955 - Tanya Roberts, [Leigh], Bronx NY, actress (Charlie's Angels, Sheena)
1955 - Victor Pecci, Paraguay, tennis star
1958 - Jayne Modean, Hartford Ct, actress (Nurse Hooter-Trauma Center)
1959 - Sarah Magaret Fergusson, [Fergie], London England, Duchess of York
1962 - Susan DeMattei, SF Calif, cyclist (Olympics-bronze-96)
1963 - Angela Rock, Lakewood CA, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-1992)
1963 - Stanley Menzo, Suriname/Dutch soccer goaltender (Ajax/PSV)
1965 - Daniel Held, Milwaukee Wisc, 10k runner
1966 - Douglas Vipond, British pop drummer (Deacon Blue-Raintown)
1966 - Jeffrey Jacquet, Bay City Texas, actor (Mork & Mindy, Whiz Kids)
1967 - Carlos Garcia, Venezuela, infielder (Pitts Pirates)
1968 - George Koonce, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1968 - Meredith Rainey, Brooklyn NY, 800m runner
1969 - Curtis Cotton, NFL/WLAF cornerback (Oak Raiders, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 - Cooper Harris, CFL linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1970 - Lonnie Palelei, guard (NY Jets)
1971 - Angelia Savage, Miss USA-Florida (1997, top 6)
1971 - Bernardo Harris, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 - Roland McGhee, Flint Michigan, long jumper
1972 - Fred Hoiberg, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1973 - Susannah Kate Pryde, Auckland NZ, road race cyclist (Olympics-96)
1978 - Cheryl Crowe, Miss Delaware Teen USA (1997)
1978 - Devon Gummersall, Colo, actor (Relativity, Brian-My So Called Life)
1979 - Mahana Ka'ahumanu Walters, Miss Hawaii Teen USA (3rd-1997)
1991 - Owen Joseph Kline, son of Phoebe Cates & Kevin Kline

Famous deaths for this day ..

0892 - Al-Mutamid, kalief of Abbasiden, dies
1080 - Rudolf von Schwaben, German anti-King, dies
1268 - Dirk II, mister of Valkenburg, dies
1271 - Hostiensis, [Henricus the Segusia], cardinal/bishop of Ostia, dies
1389 - Urbanus VI, [Bartolomeo Prignano], Italian pope (1378-89), dies
1512 - Antoon Keldermans, Flem builder (Middelburg town hall), dies at 72
1524 - Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter, dies at about 45
1539 - Reynier Brunt, procureur-general of Court of Holland, dies
1595 - Abu al-Faiz ibn Mubarak Faizi, Persian-Dutch E indies poet, dies at 48
1605 - Abul-Fath Djalal-ud-Din, Mogol keizer of India (1556-1605), dies at 63
1682 - John Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 56
1690 - Juan de Vald‚s Leal, Spanish painter/sculptor, dies at 68
1817 - Tadeusz AB Kosciusko, Polish lt-general/freedom fighter, dies
1819 - F Louise W, daughter of viceroy Willem V, dies at 48
1865 - Andr‚s Bello, Venezuelan poet (Alocuci¢n), dies at 83 [or 10/16]
1883 - Francesco Schira, composer, dies at 74
1900 - Zdenek Fibich, composer, dies at 49
1910 - Stanley "Midnight Assassin" Ketchel, HW boxing champ, shot & killed
1914 - Aleksander Rozycki, composer, dies at 69
1915 - Paul Scheerbart, [Bruno Kfer], German writer (Tarub), dies at 52
1917 - Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris
1934 - Raymond Poincar‚, premier/president France (1913-20), dies at 74
1937 - James Marcus, actor (Clockwork Orange), dies at 60
1942 - Dirk Bannink, nurse/local counciller Deventer, executed
1944 - Philip Mechanicus, journalist, executed in Auschwitz-Birkenau
1945 - Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62
1946 - Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichmarshal, poisons himself in prison
1949 - L szl¢ Rajk, Hungarian Sect of State/Foreign minister, hanged
1955 - Fumio Hayasaka, composer, dies at 41
1958 - Jack Mason, cricketer (England all-rounder v Australia 1897-98), dies
1958 - John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 72
1958 - John Hamilton, actor (Perry White-Superman), dies at 61
1960 - Clara Kimball Young, actress (Return of Chandu), dies of stroke at 70
1960 - Henny Porten, silent screen actress (Mother Love), dies at 70
1960 - Maude Eburne, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), dies at 84
1963 - Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French writer (Ecoute Isra‰l), dies
1964 - Cole Porter, composer (Still of the Night), dies at 73
1965 - Carl Hoff, orch leader (Music Hall), dies at 60
1968 - Bea Benaderet, NYC, actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), dies at 62
1968 - Franz Reizenstein, composer, dies at 57
1969 - Rod[erique] La Rocque, US western actor (Mystery Woman), dies
1969 - Shermake, president of (Somalia), murdered
1976 - Carlo Gambino, US gangster, dies at 74
1977 - Ralph Truman, actor (Henry V, Treasure Island), dies at 77
1981 - Frank DeKova, actor (Chief Wild Eagle-F Troop), dies
1981 - Justin Jud Strunk Jr, comedian (Laugh In), dies at 48
1982 - Elsie Randolph, actress (That'll Make You Whistle), dies
1983 - Pat O'Brien, actor (Some like it hot), dies of heart attack at 83
1985 - Meret Oppenheim, writer, dies at 72
1987 - Thomas Sankara, president of Burkina Faso, dies
1990 - Delphine Seyrig, dies of lung disease at 58
1990 - Leonard Bernstein, composer (West Side Story), dies at 72
1991 - Hotze de Roos, carpenter/kid book writer (Chameleon series), dies
1992 - Dorothy Helen Baker, mother of Diane Baker, dies at 78
1993 - Ken E Jones, musician (New Amsterdam Symph Orch), dies of AIDS at 34
1994 - Hannes Wustinger, Austrian race car driver, dies at 29
1994 - Jean Dast‚, French actor (Z‚ro de Conduite, L'Atalante), dies at 90
1994 - Karl Edward Wagner, writer, dies at 48
1994 - Sarah Kofman, philosopher, dies at 60
1994 - Wilhelmus HL "Willem" Tollenaar, actor/director (Elkerlyc), dies at 82
1995 - Arthur Carleton Hetherington, public servant, dies at 82
1995 - Phil Sidey, broadcaster, dies at 69
1996 - Bernard Frank, oriental scholar/writer, dies at 69