Today In History - Monday, August 20, 2018




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Welcome to Today In History for Monday, August 20, 2018.

On this day in history ..

0002 - Venus-Jupiter in conjunction-Star of Bethlehem(?)
0573 - Gregory of Tours selected bishop of Tours
0636 - Battle at Yarmuk: Moslems beat Byzantines [or August 15]
0917 - Battle at Anchialus: Bulgaria army counter attacks Byzantines
1191 - Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko
1534 - Turkish admiral Chaireddin"Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
1566 - Iconoclasm reaches Antwerp Belgium
1585 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Treaty of Nonsuch: aid to Netherland
1597 - 1st Dutch East India Company ships returned from Far East
1604 - Spanish garrison of Sluis surrenders to count Maurice
1619 - 1st Black slaves brought by Dutch to colony of Jamestown Virginia
1641 - Britain & Scotland sign Treaty of Pacification
1648 - Battle of Lens: French duke d'Enghien defeats Spaniards
1741 - Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
1781 - George Washington begins to move his troops south to fight Cornwallis
1791 - Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering discovers Alaska
1794 - Gen Mad Anthony Wayne defeated the Indians at Fallen Timbers Ohio
1795 - Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England
1852 - Steamer "Atlantic" collided with fishing boat, sinks with 250 aboard
1856 - Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
1861 - Skirmish at Jonesboro MO
1864 - 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3900 casualties)
1865 - Pres Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
1866 - Pres Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1879 - Govt Kappeijne of Coppello resigns
1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow
1888 - Longest US men's single tournament match Palmer Presbrey defeats T S Tailer, 19-21, 8-6, 6-1, 6-4, an 80-game 1st-round contest
1893 - Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Norwood Builder" (BG)
1896 - Dial telephone patented
1900 - Great Britain beats France in cricket in Olympic Games
1901 - Fawcett committee visits Mafeking concentration camp in Cape Colony
1908 - Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
1910 - US supported opposition brings down Madriz in Nicaragua
1912 - Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1912 - Wash Senator Carl Cushion no-hits Cleve Indians, 2-0 in 6 innings
1913 - 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe PＨoud-France)
1913 - Piotr Nesterow 1st flight (Kiev Ukraine)
1914 - -21] German General von B〕ow executes 211 Belgians
1914 - -24] Battle of Bounderies: Lorraine, Ardennen, Sambre & Meuse, Mons
1914 - Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
1914 - Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
1914 - Bavarian troops kill 50 inhabitants of Nomeny France
1914 - German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
1915 - Italy declares war on Turkey
1915 - White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleve in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, & $31,500
1918 - Britain opens offensive on Western front during WW I
1919 - Wichita outfielder Joe Wilhoit (Western League) fails to get a hit, ending a 69-game streak (155 hits in 299 at bats for a .505 avg)
1920 - 1st US coml radio, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit began daily broadcasting
1920 - Allen Woodring wins Oympic 200 m dash wearing borrowed shoes
1920 - Israel publishes it's 1st medical journal "Ha-Refuah"
1920 - Preliminary meeting in Akron to form American Pro Football League
1920 - Red Sox-Indians game postponed in Boston to allow Indian players to attend Ray Chapman's funeral in Cleveland
1921 - 35th US Womens Tennis: Molla B Mallory beats M Browne (46 64 62)
1922 - 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
1923 - London harbor strike ends
1925 - WJR-AM in Detroit MI begins radio transmissions
1926 - Uprising against Reza Shah Pahlawi in Persia
1929 - 1st airship flight around Earth flying eastward completed
1930 - Bradman scores 232 in 5th Test Cricket at The Oval
1930 - Dumont's 1st TV broadcast for home reception (NYC)
1931 - 45th US Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Eileen Whitingstall (64 61)
1934 - Ponsford out for 266 in his final Test Cricket match
1935 - Milt coup by General Pons & president Ibarra in Ecuador
1938 - Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam
1939 - 1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1939 - Russ offensive under gen Zjoekov against Jap invasion in Mongolia
1940 - 1st Polish squadrons fight along in the Battle of Britain
1940 - Leon Trotsky, revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson, dies Aug 21
1940 - British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
1941 - Police raid 11th district of Paris, takes 4,000+ Jewish males
1942 - Dim-out regulations implemented in SF
1944 - "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway
1944 - 26th PGA Championship: Bob Hamilton at Manito G & CC Spokane Wash
1944 - Gen de Gaulle returns to France
1944 - Russian offensive at Jassy & Kisjinev
1944 - US & British forces destroy German 7th Army at Falaise-Argentan Gap
1945 - Dodgers Tommy Brown, 17, is youngest player to hit a HR
1945 - Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament
1945 - Russian troops occupy Harbin & Mukden
1945 - Tommy Brown, Bkln Dodger becomes youngest HR hitter (17)
1947 - Boston Braves hit a million attendance for 1st time
1947 - Turner Caldwell in D-558-I sets aircraft speed record, 1131 kph
1948 - 15th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chi Cards 28, All-Stars 0 (101,220)
1948 - US expels Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin
1949 - 78,382 watch White Sox play Indians at Cleveland
1949 - Hungary (Magyar People's Republic) accepts constitution
1952 - Stalin meets Chou Enlai
1953 - General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests premier Mossadeq of Persia
1953 - Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
1955 - 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
1955 - Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
1956 - Republicans convene at Cow Palace
1957 - "Simply Heavenly" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 62 performances
1957 - Chic White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Wash Senators, 6-0
1957 - USAAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)
1957 - White Sox Bob Keegan no-hits Senators 6-0
1958 - Cubs use 1st baseman Dale Long as their 1st lefty catcher since 1906
1958 - Dale Long becomes 1st major league lefty catcher in 52 years
1958 - Detroit Tiger Jim Bunning no-hits Boston Red Sox, 3-0
1959 - Belgium shortens conscription to 12 months
1960 - Senegal breaks from Mali federation, declaring independence
1960 - USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
1961 - Phillies set then dubious record of 23 straight loses, beat Braves
1961 - East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 - LBJ signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
1964 - President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act
1964 - Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 v India in only Test Cricket innings
1964 - Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit)
1965 - Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team
1966 - Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
1967 - Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, & fired again as manager of A's
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open
1968 - 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record)
1970 - -21] Hurricane Dorothy, kills 42 in Martinique
1971 - FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr
1972 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
1972 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1974 - Brooklyn pitcher Dan Bankhead is 1st black to homer in his 1st at bat
1974 - Nelson Rockefeller becomes VP
1974 - Nolan Ryan pitch measured at record 161.6 kph (100.4 mph)
1974 - Pres Gerald Ford, assumes office after Richard Nixon's resignation
1975 - Il-62 crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126
1975 - Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing
1977 - NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus & Neptune
1978 - Gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London
1978 - Mark Vinchesi of Amherst Mass keeps a frisbee aloft 15.2 seconds
1978 - Sandra Post wins LPGA Lady Stroh's Golf Open
1978 - Tatyana Providokhina runs female world record 1k (2:30.6)
1979 - India premier Charan Singh resigns
1979 - Singer Vikki Carr & Michael Nilsson wed
1980 - Mt Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone
1980 - NY Yankee Bob Watson hits Seattle Kingdome speaker, 2nd straight day
1980 - Pitts Omar Moreno steals record 70 bases for 3rd consecutive season
1980 - Reinhold Messner of Italy is 1st to solo ascent Mt Everest
1980 - Cleve Dan Spillner, 545 ERA, is 2 outs from a no-hitter when White Sox rookie Leo Sutherland singles
1980 - UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all of Jersualem is it's capital
1982 - Don Lever becomes 1st captain of NJ Devils
1982 - US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
1983 - Miss National Teen-Ager
1985 - 1st NL pitcher to strike out 200+ in 1st 2 seasons (Dwight Gooden)
1985 - Israel ships 96 TOWs to Iran on behalf of US
1985 - Libya throws out 1000s Tunisian/Egyptian gas workers
1985 - Met Dwight Gooden strikes out 16 on way to his 13th consecutive win
1985 - Hanspeter Beck of South Australia, finishes a 3,875 mile, 51 day trip from Western Australia to Melbourne on a unicycle
1986 - Mail carrier Patrick Sherrill, Edmond Ok, shot 14 fellow workers dead
1986 - Phils Don Carmen perfect game bid is broken in 9th
1988 - 6.5 earthquake strikes India/Nepal, 1,000s killed
1988 - Yordanka Donkova of Bulgaria sets 100m hurdle woman's record (12.21)
1989 - Aak crashes into pleasure boat The Margin on the Thames, 51 killed
1989 - Howard Johnson joins B Bonds & W Mays to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases
1989 - Janet B Evans swims female world record 800m freestyle (8:16.22)
1989 - Said Aouita runs world record 3000 m (7:29.45)
1990 - Gene Michael names NY Yankee VP/GM replacing Harding Peterson
1990 - George Steinbrenner steps down as NY Yankee owner
1990 - Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1990 - NY Yankee Kevin Mass is quickest to reach 15 HRs (approx 132 at bat)
1991 - After the attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares
1991 - Norbert Rosza swims world record 100m breast stroke (1:01.29)
1991 - Dolphin Dan Marino surpasses Joe Montana as the highest paid NFL player with a 5-year extension for $25 million
1991 - Estonia declares it's independence from USSR itself independent
1992 - England get 7-363 in 55 overs vs Pakistan, then world ODI record
1992 - Rocker Sting weds Trudie Styler
1993 - Colin Jackson runs world record 110m hurdles (12.91)
1993 - Howard Stern is fired from WLUP-AM, Chicago
1993 - Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
1994 - 109.8 (43.2) in Cordoba Spain
1994 - Archbishop Quarracino wants all homosexuals to leave Argentina
1994 - Ferry boat sinks at Chandpur Bangladesh, 300-350 killed
1995 - "Play's the Thing" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 75 perfs
1995 - Indians' Jose Mesa sets record with his 37th consecutive save
1995 - Kerrie Webb wins LPGA Weetabix Women's British Golf Open
1996 - India defeat Pakistan in Under-15 World Challenge Final at Lord's
1997 - Shelly Moore, 18, of Tenn, crowned 15th Miss Teen USA

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1517 - Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, cardinal/viceroy of Naples (1571-75)
1526 - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist (Historia Martyrum)
1561 - Jacopo Peri, composer
1625 - Thomas Corneille, French playwright
1637 - Cornelis Van Aerssen, Dutch governor/co-owner of Surinam
1665 - Bernardus Smijtegelt, vicar (Gekrookte Reed)
1666 - Alphonse d' Eve, composer
1702 - Stepan F graaf Apraksin, Russian general-fieldmarshal
1710 - Thomas Simpson, English mathematician (rules of Simpson)
1720 - Bernard de Bury, composer
1756 - Bernardo Bittoni, composer
1764 - Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies
1778 - Bernardo O'Higgins, won independence for Chile
1779 - Freiherr J馬s J Berzelius, Swedish chemist (atomic weight)
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, US Naval hero ("We have met the enemy")
1788 - Jose Bernardo Alcedo, composer
1799 - Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician
1802 - Cadwalader Ringgold, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1867
1811 - Gilman Marston, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1820 - Adolfe Louis Eugene Fetis, composer
1824 - Absalom Baird, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1905
1827 - Charles T H Coster, Belg literary (LＨendes d'Ulenspiegel) [or May 7]
1832 - Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor, died in 1913
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, (R) 23rd Pres (1889-1893)
1842 - Juliaan de Vriendt, Flemish painter
1856 - Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter (Laodania) [NS Sept 1]
1860 - Raymond Poincar�, France, president/PM (1912)
1873 - Eliel Saarinen, Finland, architect (GM Tech Institute, Mich)
1873 - William Henry Bell, composer
1881 - Edgar Albert Guest, Detroit Mich, poet/newspaperman
1881 - Nikolay Yakovlevich Myaskovsky, composer
1885 - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti orfici)
1886 - Paul Tillich, German/US theologist (Die sozial Entscheidung)
1888 - George Sklavos, composer
1889 - Witold Friemann, composer
1890 - H P Lovecraft, US, Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness)
1890 - Howard Phillips Lovecraft, US horror writer (Weird Tales)
1897 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian author (Det Store Spelet)
1898 - G Kraus, director Santpoort (Insanity in Netherlands)
1898 - Leopold Infeld, Polish nuclear physicist (Whom the God's Love)
1899 - Hanns Lilje, German Lutherian bishop/antifascist (Church und Welt)
1900 - Edward J "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player, 1st witnessed 147 break
1901 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959)
1902 - Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club owner
1904 - Jaap [Jacob AW] Burger, chairman (PvdA)
1905 - Duncan Macrae, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Casino Royale, Kidnapped)
1905 - Jack [Weldon J] Teagarden, US trombonist/actor (Meet Band Leaders)
1907 - Alan Reed, NYC, actor (Mr Adams & Eve)/voice (Fred Flintstone)
1907 - Anatole Fistoulari, conductor
1907 - Shirley Booth, [Thelma Booth Ford], NYC, actress (Hazel)
1907 - Stanley Devon, photographer
1908 - Alfonso Lopez, baseball player (AL Manager of the year 1959)
1908 - Jeanne Stern, writer
1908 - John Reginald Bevins, politician
1908 - Kingsley Davis, sociologist/demographer, coined (population explosion)
1909 - Albert Roberts, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in 5 Tests 1932-37)
1909 - Andre Morell, London England, actor (Hound of the Baskervilles)
1910 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (IBM Building, MIT Chapel)
1911 - Ronald Udell, England, production designer (Pinewood Studios)
1912 - Philip Kapleau, founder (Rochester Zen Center in New Haven)
1913 - Conrad Hermann Hubertius Maria Apollinaris Josten, jazz guitarist
1914 - Kitei Sohn, Korean marathon runner/coach (Olympic-gold-1936)
1920 - Istv�n Sziv｢s, Hungary, water polo player (Olympic-gold-1976)
1921 - Jack Wilson, cricket slow left-armer (Test for Australia 1956)
1921 - Jacqueline Susann, Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls)
1924 - Jim Reeves, US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim)
1929 - Norma Connolly, Boston, Mass, actress (Ruby Anderson-General Hospital)
1931 - Bernhard Becher, photographer (industrialist builder 19th/20th)
1931 - Don King, boxing promoter, shocking hairstyle [or Dec 6]
1933 - Don Fuqua, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-86)
1933 - George John Mitchell, (Sen-D-ME, 1980-94/Senate Whip 1989- )
1933 - Larry Robideaux, horse trainer
1935 - Charles Shere, composer
1935 - J J Malone, US soul singer (It's a shame)
1935 - Justin Tubb, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1936 - Carla Fracci, Milan Italy, ballerina
1937 - Corrie E Moret-de Jong, Dutch MP (CDA)
1937 - George Thoma, German FR, cross country ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1960)
1938 - Jean-Loup Jaques Marie Chretien, France, cosmonaut (T-6, TM-7, STS 86)
1940 - John Lantree, rocker
1940 - Rex Sellers, Aust cricketer leg-spinner (bowled 5 overs in Tests)
1940 - Sam Melville, Utah, actor (Mike Danko-Rookies, Roughnecks)
1941 - Slobodan Milocevic, premier Serbia
1941 - William H Gray III, Baton Rouge La, (Rep-D-PA, 1978- )
1942 - Hans-Joachim Klein, German FR, 100m swimmer (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1942 - Isaac Hayes, Covington TN, composer (Shaft)
1943 - Robert Plant, English rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love)
1944 - Graig Nettles, 3rd baseman (NY Yankees, SD Padres, Cleve Indians)
1944 - John Povey, rocker
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi, PM of India (1984-89)
1946 - Connie Chung, TV news anchor (NBC, CBS)
1947 - James Pankow, Chicago IL, rocker (Chicago)
1951 - Greg[ory Dale] Bear, US, sci-fi author (2 Hugos, Eon, Eternity)
1951 - Phil Lynott, Dublin Ireland, rock bassist (Thin Lizzy)
1951 - Svetlana Oktyabrevna Omelchenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1952 - John Emburey, England cricket off-spinner (1978-95, captain 1988)
1952 - John Hiatt, US singer/songwriter (Have a Little Faith in Me)
1952 - Rudy Gatlin, Olney Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
1953 - Peter Horton, Bellevue Wash, actor (Gary-30 Something)
1954 - Al Roker, Queens NY, weatherman (NBC, Today)
1954 - Theresa Saldana, Bkln NY, actress (Rachel Scali-Commish)
1954 - William Quinn Buckner, Phoenix Ill, basketballer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 - Jay Acovone, Mahopac NY, actor (Det Rado-Hollywood Beat)
1955 - Ned Overend, Taipei Taiwan, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1955 - Rob Wiedijk, Dutch rock vocalist (Bob Color)
1956 - Alvin Greenidge, cricketer (WI opener, no relation to Gordon or Geoff)
1956 - Joan Allen, Ill, actress (Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker, In Country)
1956 - Rick Olsen, rock guitarist (Berlin-Take My Breath Away)
1957 - Cindy Nicholas, Canada, swimmer (swam English Channel 19 times)
1957 - Doug Fleger, rocker
1957 - Jim "Bullseye" Bowen, British TV game show host
1957 - Mike Dodd, Manhattan Beach CA beach volleyballer (Olympics-silver-96)
1957 - Scott Ayakatubby, beach volleyball champ
1958 - Lenny Henry, British comedian (3 of a Kind)
1959 - Missie McGeorge, Pueblo CO, LPGA golfer (1994 PING-Cellular One)
1959 - Richard DeStasio, horse trainer
1960 - Elizabeth Alda, daughter of Alan Alda, actress (Beth-Four Seasons)
1960 - Mark Langston, San Diego CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1960 - Troy Young, horse trainer
1961 - Linda Mantz, NYC, actress (Frankie-Dorothy)
1961 - Rick Rael, heavy metal rocker
1962 - Duffy James Joseph Waldorf Jr, LA CA, PGA golfer (1995 LaCantera Tx)
1962 - Loretta Alderete, LA CA, LPGA golfer (1992 Oldsmobile-14th)
1962 - Robert Meyer, Sacramento Cal, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Morningstar)
1963 - Bruce Hick, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1964 - Giuseppe Giannini, Rome Italy, soccer player (Rome A Team)
1965 - Joe Durigon, jockey
1966 - Courtney Gibbs, Miss USA (1988)/actress (Baywatch)
1966 - Greg Jackson, NFL strong safety (Phila Eagles, SD Chargers)
1966 - Steven Finn, Laval, NHL defenseman (LA Kings)
1967 - Andy Benes, Evansville IN, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1967 - Michael "Sean" Hall, Williamsburg Va, rower (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Sandy Brondello, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 - Bart Spark, soccer player (Veendam, SC Heerenveen)
1969 - Francisco Torres, jockey
1970 - Els Callens, Antwerp Belgium, tennis star (1996 quarterfinalist Essen)
1970 - Jay McNeil, CFL guard (Calgary Stampeders)
1971 - Bernard Whittington, defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Brett Bech, wide receiver (New Orleans Saints)
1971 - Ke Huy Quan, Saigon Vietnam, actor (Sam-Together We Stand)
1971 - Kevin Hickman, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1971 - Oronde Gadsden, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Derrick Alston, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1974 - Denesha Reid, Miss USA-Georgia (1997)
1978 - Sanna Lankosaari, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1979 - Tara Shaffer, Miss Ohio Teen USA (1996)
1980 - Corey Carrier, actor (Young Indiana Jones)
1981 - Lauri Illy, Virginia Beach Va, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1994 - White buffalo, Janesville Wisconsin

Famous deaths for this day ..

0984 - John XIV, [Petrus Canepanova], Italian Pope (983-84), dies
1153 - Bernard[us] van Clairvaux, French saint, dies
1384 - Geert Great, [Gerardus Magnus], theologist (Getijdenboek), dies
1538 - Aefgen Listinck, Dutch anabaptist, burned at stake
1632 - Valentin de Boulogne, French painter, buried at 38
1639 - Martin Opitz, German poet/historian (Troerinnen), dies at 41
1648 - Edward Herbert of Cherbury, English military/philosopher, dies at 65
1672 - Cornelis de Witt, Dutch, statesman, lynched at 49
1672 - Johan de Witt, advisor of Holland, lynched
1679 - Jacob Alting, Dutch theologist, dies at 60
1799 - Johann Christian Gottlob Eidenbenz, composer, dies at 37
1804 - Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
1813 - Jan Krtitel Vanhal, composer, dies at 74
1823 - Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], Pope (1800-23), dies at 83
1825 - Richard Wainwright, composer, dies at 68
1854 - Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79
1856 - Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer, dies at 80
1864 - Daniel Chaplin, US Union brig-general, dies
1864 - John H Kelly, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 24
1885 - Edouard J A Agneessens, Flemish painter (Slave Market), dies at 42
1908 - Louis Varney, composer, dies at 64
1910 - Arthur Coquard, composer, dies at 64
1912 - William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies
1914 - Pius X, [Giuseppe M Sarto], Pope (1903-14), dies
1915 - Paul Ehrlich, Germ geneologist (Chemotherapy, Nobel 1908), dies in 61
1917 - JFW Adolf Ritter von Baeyer, German chemist (Nobel 1905), dies
1919 - Gregor MacGregor, English cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests 1890-93), dies
1930 - Charles Bannerman, cricketer (1st three Tests for Australia), dies
1931 - Waldemar von Baussnern, composer, dies at 64
1932 - Emille-Louis-Victor Mathieu, composer, dies at 87
1932 - Paul Keller, German writer (Vergrabenes Gut), dies at 59
1932 - Tadeusz Joteyko, composer, dies at 60
1935 - Otakar Ostrcil, composer, dies at 56
1945 - A Roda Roda, writer, dies at 73
1947 - Franz VM Cumont, Belgian religious historian, dies at 79
1948 - David John de Lloyd, composer, dies at 65
1952 - Kurt Schumacher, German politician/chairman (SPD), dies
1956 - [仁ile M] Louis Madelin, French historian (Fouch�), dies at 85
1959 - Alfred Kubin, writer, dies at 82
1960 - Rudolf Moser, composer, dies at 68
1961 - Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, dies at 82
1968 - Earl Sande, US jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69
1970 - Hildo Krop, modernistic sculptor, dies at 86
1974 - Ilona Massey, actress (Love HAppy, Holiday in Mexico), dies at 62
1976 - Phyllis Konstam, actress (Murder, Skin Game), dies at 69
1978 - Ivan Jirko, composer, dies at 51
1978 - Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86
1980 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
1982 - Ulla Jacobsson, Swedish actress (Zulu), dies of bone cancer at 53
1983 - Kerwin Duinmeijer, Antillean boy, murdered by racist at 15
1985 - Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists
1986 - Donn Bennett, TV host (The Big Idea), dies at 76
1986 - Thad Jones, jazz trumpeter, dies of cancer at 63
1986 - Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71
1990 - Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer, dies
1991 - Betty Bowden, British dancer/actress (Vote for Nigel), dies at 86
1991 - Lenore Strunsky Gershwin, widow of Ira Gershwin, dies at 90
1992 - Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut, dies at 59
1992 - William Taylor, chairman (FDIC), dies at 53
1993 - Bernard Delfgaauw, philosopher (Johnson murderer!), dies at 80
1994 - Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65
1994 - Kalman Kahana, Polish co-founder of state Israel, dies at 81
1995 - Hugo Pratt, graphic artist, dies at 68
1995 - John E Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist, dies at 63
1995 - Paul Foster, singer, dies at 75
1995 - Vladimir Skutina, writer playwright/journalist, dies at 64
1995 - Von McDaniel, baseball player, dies at 56
1995 - William Kennedy, baseball player, dies at 76
1996 - George Brian Snape, businessman/rugby league entrepreneur, dies at 81
1996 - Rio Reiser, rock singer, dies at 46