Today In History - Monday, May 4, 2026




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On this day in history ..

1303 - Flemings conquers Middelburg
1471 - Battle of Tewkesbury - King Edward IV vs Ex-queen Margaretha
1493 - Spanish Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain & Portugal
1494 - Christopher Columbus lands in Jamaica
1540 - Venice & Turkey sign Treaty of Constantinople
1572 - Veere sides with Geuzen
1626 - Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons
1626 - Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands
1634 - Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West-Indies
1652 - Battle at Etampes: French army under Turenne beats Fronde rebels
1715 - French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
1728 - Georg F H„ndels opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto," premieres in London
1747 - Willem IV appointed viceroy of Overijssel
1776 - Rhode Island declares independence from England
1780 - American Academy of Arts & Science founded
1780 - Charles Bunbury on Diomed wins 1st Epsom Derby
1783 - Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus
1805 - Henry C Overing buys 80 acres of Throggs Neck in Bronx
1814 - Bourbon reign restored in France
1818 - Netherlands & England sign treaty against illegal slave handling
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean
1839 - The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio
1843 - Great-Britain annexes Natal
1846 - US state Michigan ends death penalty
1847 - NY State creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
1851 - 1st major SF fire
1858 - War of Reform (M‚xico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1861 - At Gretna LA, one of 1st guns of Rebel navy is cast
1862 - -5] Battle at Williamsburg, Virginia
1862 - Yorktown, VA - McClellan halted his troop before town as it is full of armed torpedoes left by CS Brig general Gabrial Rains
1863 - Battle of Chancellorsville-action at Salem Church
1863 - End of Chancellorsville - Beaten Union army withdraws
1864 - -16] actions at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia
1864 - Gen Grant's Army at Potomac attacks at Rappahannock
1864 - Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee
1865 - Battle of Citronville, AL; Richard Taylor surrenders
1865 - Battle of Mobile, AL
1866 - Woodward's Gardens opens to public
1871 - 1st baseball league game (National Association of Baseball Players), (Ft Wayne 2, Cleveland 0) Deacon Jim White gets 1st hit, a double
1878 - Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1883 - John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss)
1886 - Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
1888 - Italy & Spain sign military covenant
1893 - Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
1896 - 1st edition of London Daily Mail (« penny)
1896 - Grease fire ignites « ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
1897 - 23rd Kentucky Derby: Buttons Garner aboard Typhoon II wins in 2:12«
1897 - Fire in Paris bazaar at Rue Jean Goujon kills 200
1898 - 24th Kentucky Derby: Willie Simms aboard Plaudit wins in 2:09
1899 - 25th Kentucky Derby: Fred Taral aboard Manuel wins in 2:12
1910 - Canadian Currency Act, 1910, receives Royal Assent
1910 - Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy
1910 - Tel Aviv founded
1912 - Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes
1915 - Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb & Germany
1916 - At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
1917 - Arabs sack Tel Aviv
1918 - Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4
1919 - 1st legal Sunday baseball game in NYC (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
1919 - FVC soccer team forms
1919 - Giants play their 1st legal Sunday home game, 35,000 see Phils win 4-3
1922 - KNX-AM in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1923 - Bloody street battles between nazi's, socialist & police in Vienna
1923 - NY state revokes Prohibition law
1924 - 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France
1924 - German Republic election fascists & communists win
1925 - League of Nations conference on arms control & poison gas usage
1926 - General strike hits Britain
1927 - 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1927 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms
1927 - Nicaragua agrees to a US supervised presidential election in 1928
1929 - Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, Yankees 11, Tigers 9
1931 - Mustafa Kemal Pasja becomes Turkish president
1932 - Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary
1933 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
1935 - 61st Kentucky Derby: Willie Saunders aboard Omaha wins in 2:05
1936 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1938 - Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire
1940 - 21 "not neutral" nazis & communists arrested in Netherlands
1940 - 66th Kentucky Derby: Carroll Bierman aboard Gallahadion wins in 2:05
1942 - Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
1942 - Food 1st rationed in US
1942 - German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
1943 - NL Ford Frick demonstrates revised balata ball to reporters by bouncing it on his office carpet ball proves to be 50% livelier
1945 - German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender
1946 - 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay
1946 - 72nd Kentucky Derby: Warren Mehrtens aboard Assault wins in 2:06.6
1946 - Wash's Cecil Travis gets 6 straight hits before being stopped
1948 - The Hague Court of Justice convicts Hans Rauter (SS) to the death
1949 - Air crash at Turijn (whole Torino-soccer team survives)
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open
1953 - Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man & The Sea)
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1956 - Queen Juliana unveils National Monument to Dams in Amsterdam
1956 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Enwetak
1957 - 83rd Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Iron Liege wins in 2:02.2
1957 - Alan Freed hosts "Rock n' Roll Show" 1st prime-time network rock show
1957 - Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
1958 - Alberto Lleras Camargo chosen president of Colombia
1959 - 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win
1959 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
1960 - 1st great Delta dam closes, North-South Beveland
1961 - 13 Freedom riders began bus trip through South
1961 - 1st on-the-road Spacemobile lecture given.
1961 - CORE begins freedom rides from Washington, DC
1961 - Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon
1961 - South-Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested
1962 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1963 - 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8
1963 - Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game
1964 - "Another World" & "As the World Turns" premieres on TV
1964 - 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva
1964 - KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
1965 - Willie Mays 512th HR breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record
1966 - Soviet govt signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR
1967 - Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by US; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1968 - 1st ABA championship: Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers, 4 games to 3
1968 - 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins
1968 - Dancer Image DQ due to drugs after winning 94th Kent Derby in 2:02«
1969 - Charles Gordone's "No Place to be Somebody," premieres in NYC
1969 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational
1969 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games
1970 - National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
1970 - Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
1970 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
1972 - Vietcong forms revolutionary govt in Quang Tri South Vietnam
1973 - 1st TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
1973 - BPAA US Women's Bowling Open won by Millie Martorella
1973 - Longest game in Veterans' Stadium, Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20
1973 - Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope
1973 - Phillies beat Braves 5-4 in 20 innings
1973 - Wings release "Red Rose Speedway" in UK
1974 - 100th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04
1975 - Ed Bullins' "Taking of Miss Jane," premieres in NYC
1975 - Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots
1975 - Houston's Bob Watson scores baseball's one-millionth run of all time
1975 - Maria Astrologes wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1976 - "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 7 perfs
1976 - Kiss performs their 1st concert
1978 - Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany
1979 - Jackie Mercer wins her 4th golf title 31 years after her 1st
1979 - Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister of England
1979 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-2
1980 - Dodgers bat out of order against Phillies in 1st inning
1980 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA CPC Women's Internationalional Golf Tournament
1980 - White Sox 1st baseman Mike Squires catches final inning of 11-1 loss to Brewers, becoming 1st lefty to catch since Dale Long in 1958
1981 - Rockline premieres on KLOS FM in Los Angeles
1981 - Silvana Cruciata runs 15k female world record (49:44.0)
1981 - Yankee Ron Davis strikes out 8 consecutive Angels, ran record of 13 strikeouts of last 14 faced, also saved Gene Nelsons 1st win, 4-2
1982 - British torpedo boat Sheffield off Falkland hit by Exocet rocket
1982 - Nordiques 2-Isles 4-Semifinals-Isles win series 4-0
1982 - Twins rookie outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
1983 - China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1984 - Dave Kingman's fly ball never comes down (stuck in Metrodome ceiling)
1985 - 111th Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr on Spend A Buck wins 2:00.2
1986 - President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan
1988 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 - Junior Felix of Toronto becomes 53rd to hit HR on 1st at bat
1989 - US launches Magellan to Venus
1989 - US space shuttle STS-30 launched
1990 - Angela Bowie reveals that ex husband David slept with Mick Jagger
1990 - Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
1990 - Oriole Gregg Olson sets relief pitcher rec of 41 cons scoreless inns
1990 - Pakistan beat Aust by 36 runs to win Austral-Asia Cup, Sharjah
1991 - 117th Kentucky Derby: Chris Antley aboard Strike the Gold wins in 2:03
1991 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Doug Kent
1991 - Actress Sharon Gless & producer Barney Rosenzeig wed
1991 - Indians' Chris James sets club record for most RBIs in a game (9)
1991 - Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease
1991 - NY Mets M Sasser & Mark Carreon are 8th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
1991 - Pres Bush is hospitalized for erratic heartbeat
1993 - "Angels in America-Millennium Approaches" opens at Kerr for 367 perfs
1994 - Arsenal wins 34th Europe Cup II
1994 - Courtney Love cleared of drug charges
1996 - 122nd Kentucky Derby: Jerry Bailey aboard Grindstone wins in 2:01
1996 - ABC Bud Light Masters Bowling Tournament won by Ernie Schlegel
1996 - Greg Pavlik one-hits Tigers making the Rangers 1st AL team to pitch back-to-back one-hitters since the Washington Senators in 1917
1997 - Bruno's Memorial Senior Golf Classic
1997 - Phil Blackmar wins 50th Houston golf Open
1997 - Sprint Titleholders LPGA Championship
1997 - Tammie Green wins LPGA Sprint Titlehoders Championship

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1006 - Abd-Allah Ansari, Persian mystic/poet (Monadjat)
1611 - Carlo Rainaldi, composer
1622 - Juan de Vald‚s Leal, Spanish painter/sculptor
1631 - Mary I Henriette Stuart, daughter of Charles I/queen of England
1635 - Willem van Outhoorn, Dutch governor-general (Dutch East Indies)
1655 - Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italy, piano builder
1738 - Josef Kohaut, composer
1744 - Marianne von Martinez, composer
1763 - Franz Stanislaus Spindler, composer
1769 - Charles Hague, composer
1776 - Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist
1777 - Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens, composer
1796 - Horace Mann, US, educator/author/editor (pioneered public schools)
1796 - Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brig General (Union Army), died in 1864
1820 - Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack
1820 - Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of Pres John Tyler (1841-45)
1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, scientist/humanist/Darwinist
1826 - Frederick Church, US romantic landscape painter (Hudson River Sch)
1835 - Edmund Hart Turpin, composer
1846 - Emile Gall‚, French glass/marble/ceramic artist (Gall‚ Glaze)
1860 - Emil Nikolaus Von Reznicek, Vienna Austria, composer (Donna Diana)
1867 - Dynam-Victor Fumet, composer
1871 - Mynona, writer
1875 - Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, Spanish writer (Don Quixote & Celestine)
1875 - Reggie Schwartz, cricketer (1st of great South African googlists)
1877 - Arthur Lang, US, boxer/businessman (Died Aug 8, 1992 at 115)
1881 - Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917-Prelude to Bolshevism)
1882 - Wilhelm Lehmann, writer
1889 - Francis J Spellman, US Cardinal
1891 - Frederick Jacobi, composer
1891 - Johan W F Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet (Daily Bread)
1893 - Edgar Dearing, Ceres CA, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Free & Easy)
1893 - Royal Butler, [Edwin Richey], Atlanta GA, actor
1902 - Cola [Nicolas] Debrot, Bonaire governor (Neth Antilles)/author
1902 - Cvjetko Rihtman, composer
1902 - Rodney Meredith Thomas, architect/painter
1903 - Luther Adler, NYC, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-Psychiatrist)
1905 - M ty s Seiber, Budapest Hungary, composer (Scherzando)
1906 - Esmond Knight, East Sheen England, actor (Hamlet, Sleeping Murder)
1909 - Howard Da Silva, [Silverblatt], Cleve Oh, actor (Ben Franklin-1776)
1909 - Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright
1910 - Mady Alfredo, [Maria M the Brieder], actress (Alicia)
1912 - Lou Brown, Bkln, orch leader (Jerry Lewis Show)
1914 - Abdel Karim Kassem, general/premier/dictator of Iraq (1958-63)
1914 - Emmanuel RoblŠs, Algerian-Fren journalist/playwright (Lesson Hauteurs)
1915 - Curt Conway, Boston MA, actor (Raw Deal)
1915 - Pedro Saenz, composer
1916 - Maurice "Moe" Purtill, jazz drummer
1917 - Edward Toner Cone, composer
1918 - Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking
1919 - Dimiter Petkov, composer
1919 - Mary Ann McCall, singer
1921 - John van Kesteren, Dutch tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin)
1921 - Patsy Garrett, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Nanny & the Professor)
1922 - John Paul Hammerschmidt, (Rep-R-AR, 1967- )
1924 - Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey
1924 - Tat'yana Petrovna Nikolayeva, composer
1925 - Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet (Capricorn)
1926 - G Reinshagen, writer
1926 - Milton "Milt" Thompson, US NASA-test pilot/chief-engineer (X-15)
1928 - Betsy Rawls, Spartanburg SC, golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60)
1928 - Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president (1981- )
1928 - Maynard Ferguson, Verdun Quebec, jazz trumpeter (Roulette)
1929 - Audrey Hepburn, Brussels Belg, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady)
1930 - Roberta Peters, NYC, operatic soprano (NY Met)
1931 - Ed Cassidy, drummer (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1931 - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
1932 - Fausto Razzi, composer
1934 - Pete Barbutti, Scranton Pa, comedian (Garry Moore Show)
1936 - El Cordob‚s, [Manuel Ben¡tez], Spanish toreador
1937 - Hans Ulrich Lehmann, composer
1938 - Tyrone Davis, US R&B singer (Are you serious)
1938 - William J Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)
1939 - Amos Oz, Jerusalem Israel, author (My Michael)
1940 - Dick Curl, Chester Pa, offensive coordinator coach (Barcelona Dragons)
1941 - George F Will, political analyst (Night Line)
1942 - Ronnie Bond, drummer (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1943 - Nickolas Ashford, SC, singer (Ashford & Simpson-Solid as a Rock)
1943 - Stella Parton, sister of Dolly Parton/singer (A Woman's Touch)
1944 - Dave, [Otto Levenbach], Dutch singer (Du cot‚ the Chez Swann)
1944 - Paul Gleason, Jersey City NJ, actor (Breakfast CLub, Die Hard)
1944 - Peggy Santiglia McGannon, NJ, rocker (Angels)
1945 - George Wadenius, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1945 - Monika van Paemel, Belgian writer (Accursed Fathers)
1946 - Renee Powell, LPGA golfer
1948 - Billy O'Donnell, harness racer driver of year (1984)
1949 - Gerrit J P van Otterloo, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1949 - Sybil Danning, [Danninger], Weis Austria, actress (Chained Heat)
1949 - Zal Cleminson, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1950 - Darryl Hunt, English pop bassist (Pogues-Pair of Brown Eyes)
1950 - Hilly Hicks, LA Calif, actor (Roll Out, Roots)
1950 - Ren‚ CM van Asten, Dutch actor (Herenstraat 10)
1951 - Gene Greenwood, (Rep-R-Pennsylvania)
1951 - Jackie Jackson, [Sigmund], Gary In, rocker (Jackson 5-ABC)
1954 - Julie Budd, Bkln, singer (Child of Plenty)
1956 - Jackie Bertsch, LPGA golfer
1956 - Michael L Gernhardt, Mansfield OH, astronaut (STS 69, 83, 94, sk 100)
1956 - Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt W Germany, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1957 - Peter Sleep, cricketer (Australian leg-spin all-rounder 1979-90)
1957 - Richard E Grant, Swaziland, actor (Posse, Bram Stoker's Dracula)
1958 - Keith Haring, Kutztown Pa, graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review)
1959 - Randy Travis, Marshville NC, country singer (Diggin' Up Bones)
1959 - Robert Raymond Tway, Oklahoma City OK, PGA golfer (1986 Shearson)
1959 - Rohn Stark, NFL punter (Pitts Steelers)
1960 - Martyn Moxon, cricketer (England batsman in ten Tests 1986-89)
1961 - Eugene Daniel, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens)
1961 - Jay Aston, rocker
1961 - Mary Elizabeth McDonough, Van Nuys Cal, actress (Erin-Waltons)
1962 - Tracy Vaccaro, Glendale Calif, playmate (October, 1983)
1964 - Goran Prpic, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1965 - Adri Bogers, Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
1966 - Monica Tranel [Michini], Billings Mont, rower (Olympics-96)
1967 - Derek MacCready, CFL defensive tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1967 - John Child, East York Ontario, beach volleyballer (Olympics-bronze-96)
1967 - Matthew Crane, Kimberton Pa, actor (Matt Cory-Another World)
1968 - Andre Collins, NFL linebacker (Cin Bengals)
1968 - Eddie Perez, Cuidad Ojeda Venezuela, catcher (Atlanta Braves)
1968 - Kevin Todd, Winnipeg, NHL center (LA Kings)
1970 - Dawn Staley, Phila, basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 - Derrick Clark, NFL/WLAF fullback (Broncos, Rhein Fire)
1971 - Steve Glenn, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1972 - Ethan Watts, Phila, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1972 - Gretchen Ulion, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1972 - Marc Lamb, WLAF T (London Monarchs)
1973 - Edward Hervey, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 - Matthew Barnaby, Ottawa, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1973 - Melissa Boyd, Miss Ohio USA (1996)
1973 - Michelle Martinez, Dallas Texas, Miss America (Texas-Top 10-1997)
1975 - Pablo Ruiz, Buenos Aires Arg, spanish singer
1976 - Heather Kozar, Akron OH, playmate (Jan, 1998)

Famous deaths for this day ..

1594 - Paul Buys, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies at 62
1604 - Claudio Merulo, composer, dies at 71
1605 - Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82
1752 - Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver, dies at 71
1770 - Christian Gottfried Krause, composer, dies at 51
1832 - Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church
1855 - Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66
1860 - Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek, composer, dies
1879 - William Froude, Brit civil eng/shipbuilder (F Integer), dies at 68
1885 - Aleksandar I Karadjordjevic, monarch of Serbia (1842-58), dies at 78
1891 - Sherlock Holmes, "dies" at Reichenbach Falls
1893 - George Washington Hewitt, composer, dies at 82
1928 - Barry E Odell Pain, English writer (Punch), dies at 63
1929 - Henry Morton Dunham, composer, dies at 75
1935 - Lodewijk Scharp‚, Flemish literature historian, dies at 65
1938 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist/writer (Nobel 1935), dies at 48
1953 - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic, dies at 60
1953 - Thomas Tertius Noble, composer, dies at 85
1955 - Georges Enescu, Romanian/French violist/composer (Oedipe), dies at 73
1955 - Louis Breguet, French aviation pioneer, dies at 75
1961 - Anita Stewart, dies of heart attack at 66
1965 - Norman Brokenshire, TV moderator (Four Square Court), dies at 66
1966 - Juan Maria Thomas Sabater, composer, dies at 69
1967 - Bengt Axel von Torne, composer, dies at 75
1969 - F Osbert S Sitwell, English poet (Who Killed Cock Robin?), dies at 76
1970 - 4 students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
1971 - Donald Dexter Van Slyke, US chemist (Cyanosis), dies at 88
1971 - Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83
1971 - Louis de Bree, [Louis C Davids], Dutch actor (Bluejackets), dies at 87
1973 - Jane Bowles, writer, dies at 56
1974 - Israel Citkowitz, composer, dies at 65
1974 - John Wengraf, actor (Pride & Passion, 12 to the Moon), dies at 77
1975 - Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], comedian (3 Stooges), dies at 77
1980 - Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87
1980 - Kay Hammond, actress (Blithe SPirit, 5 Golden Hours), dies
1981 - Bobby Sands, Irish IRA-terrorist, dies after hunger strike
1983 - Nino Sanzogno, composer, dies at 72
1984 - Diana Dors, actress (Berserk!), dies at 52 of cancer
1987 - Cathryn Damon, actress (Mary Campbell-Soap), dies at 56
1987 - Dick Hillenius, Dutch biologist/writer, dies at 59
1987 - Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, dies of drug abuse at 44
1990 - Don Appell, dies
1991 - Dennis Crosby, son of Bing, commits suicide at 54
1992 - Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89
1992 - Ismael Galeano, "Commandant Franklyn" (Contra), dies
1992 - Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
1994 - Karl Francis Hettinger, onion Field survivor, dies at 59
1995 - Lewis T Preston, banker, dies at 68
1995 - Louis Krasner, violinist, dies at 91
1996 - Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist, dies at 87
1996 - Stanley William Reed, cineaste, dies at 85
1997 - Alvy Moore, actor/producer (Mr Kimball-Green Acres), dies at 75
1997 - Vijayananda Dahanayake, PM of Sri Lanka (1959-60), dies