Today In History - Friday, May 17, 2024




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Welcome to Today In History for Friday, May 17, 2024.

On this day in history ..

0218 - 7th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0352 - Liberius begins his reign as Catholic Pope replacing Julius I
0884 - St Adrian III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1525 - Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
1527 - P nfilo de Narva‚z departs to explore Florida
1536 - Anne Boleyns 4 "lovers" executed
1544 - Scot earl Matthew van Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII
1579 - Artois/Henegouwen/French-Flanders sign Treaty/Peace of Parma recognizing Spanish duke van Parma as land guardian
1620 - 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1630 - Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface
1631 - Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg
1648 - Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
1672 - Frontenac becomes governor of New France (Canada)
1673 - Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin exploring Mississippi
1678 - King Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
1712 - Maximilian Emanuel of Bavaria honored as "sovereign of Netherlands"
1733 - England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions
1742 - Frederick great (Emperor of Prussia) beats Austrians
1744 - French army takes Austrian Netherlands
1750 - -18] Tax revolt in Gorinchem
1756 - Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
1787 - English slave ship Sisters, from Africa to Cuba, capsizes
1792 - 24 merchants form NY Stock Exchange at 70 Wall Street
1794 - Hard frost in southern New England
1803 - John Hawkins & Richard French patent the Reaping Machine
1804 - Lewis & Clark begin exploration of Louisiana Purchase
1809 - Papal States annexed by France
1814 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden (Natl Day)
1814 - Norwegian constitution passed by constitutent assembly at Eidsvoll
1837 - Royal Decides installs the Weapon of Belgium firm(ly)
1845 - Rubber band patents
1846 - Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax
1848 - Premier earl Schimmelpenninck resigns
1849 - Fire destroy Centrum in St Louis Missouri
1853 - Thorbeckes liberals win 2nd-Parliamentary election
1862 - Battle of Princeton WV, ends, about 128 casualities
1863 - Battle of Big Black River Bridge, MS
1864 - Battle of Adairsville Georgia, Union forces Confederates to retreat
1871 - Indians fighter Gen Sherman escapes in ambulance vs Comanches
1872 - Bohemian Club incorporated
1875 - 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
1876 - 7th US Cavalry under Custer leaves Ft Lincoln
1877 - Edwin T Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm
1881 - 7th Kentucky Derby: Jim McLaughlin aboard Hindoo wins in 2:40
1881 - Frederick Douglass appointed recorder of deeds for Wash DC
1881 - Revised version of New Testament
1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha
1884 - Alaska becomes a US territory
1890 - Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel," premieres in NYC
1890 - Comic Cuts, 1st weekly comic paper, published in London
1890 - Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome
1894 - 19th Preakness: Fred Taral aboard Assignee wins in 1:49¬
1895 - W G Grace completes his 100th 100 v Somerset at Bristol
1898 - Camp Merritt forms in Presidio [see 0503]
1899 - Victoria & Albert Museum foundation laid England
1900 - British troops relieve Mafeking (Cape Colony)
1903 - Cleve Indians beat NY Highlanders 9-2 in Columbus Ohio
1904 - Maurice Ravel's "Sh‚h‚razade," premieres in Paris
1905 - Waseda U of Tokyo defeats LA High School 5-3 in baseball
1906 - Switzerland's Simpion Tunnel open to rail traffic
1909 - White firemen on Georgia RR strike to protest hiring blacks
1910 - Canada sets the designs for the 1›-50› coins
1911 - 36th Preakness: Eddie Dugan aboard Watervale wins in 1:51
1915 - 40th Preakness: Douglas Hoffman aboard Rhine Maiden wins in 1:58
1915 - Cubs George "Zip" Zabel relieves with 2 outs in 1st & winds up with 4-3 19-inning win over Brooklyn in longest relief job ever
1915 - Last liberal British govt of Asquith falls
1915 - National Baptist Convention chartered
1916 - British Summer Time (Daylight Savings), 1st introduced
1920 - 1st De Havilland double-decker flight (London) lands in Schiphol
1920 - 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
1921 - Belgian-Luxembourg sign customs union
1921 - President Harding opens (via telephone) 1st Valencia Orange Show
1923 - Fire during closing day ceremonies at Grover Cleveland School (SC)
1924 - 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2
1925 - Cleveland Indian Tris Speaker gets his 3,000th hit
1926 - Chiang Kai-shek is made supreme war lord in Canton
1926 - German govt of Marx takes power
1927 - Chicago Cubs beat Boston Braves, 4-3, in 22 innings
1928 - 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
1930 - 56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6
1932 - Congress changes name "Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
1937 - Juan Negrin succeeds Largo Caballero as Spain's premier
1938 - Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
1938 - Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
1939 - 1st sports telecast-Columbia vs Princeton-college baseball
1940 - Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium & begins invasion of France
1940 - Nazi's bombs Middelburg/B IJzerdrat begins illegal defiance
1941 - Pennsylvania declares legal holiday to honor A's manager Connie Mack
1942 - Dutch SS vows loyalty to Hitler
1944 - -18] Allied air raid on Surabaja, Java
1944 - Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
1944 - General Eisenhower sets D-Day for June 5th
1944 - Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea
1945 - 2 US P-47 Thunderbolts bomb Kiushu
1946 - KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections
1946 - Pres Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
1947 - "Street Scene" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 148 performances
1948 - Israel liberates Acre, Nebi Yusha & Telel-Kadi
1948 - Soviet Union recognized Israel
1949 - British government recognizes Republic of Ireland
1952 - 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4
1953 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Reno Golf Open
1953 - Yanks & Browns use record 41 players in a game
1954 - Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but equal" Plessy Vs Ferguson decision
1955 - Dutch Govt of Drees resigns
1957 - Prayer Pilgrimage, biggest civil rights demonstration to date (DC)
1957 - School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education
1958 - 84th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Tim Tam wins in 1:57.2
1958 - Emergency crisis proclaimed in Algeria
1959 - Sam Snead sets PGA record for 36 holes at 122
1960 - 1st atomic reactor system patents, J W Flora of Canoga Park CA
1961 - Castro offers to exchange Bay of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
1962 - Marin County withdraws from BART district
1963 - Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in NY, to become WWF champ
1963 - Houston Colt .45's Don Notterbart no-hits Phillies, 4-1
1963 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational
1964 - Phillies triple play Houston Colt .45s
1966 - KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1967 - Dylan's 1965 UK Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back"
1968 - European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite
1968 - Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game
1968 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman & The Agents hits #92
1969 - 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6
1969 - Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL
1969 - Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
1970 - Hank Aaron becomes 9th player to get 3,000 hits
1970 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Johnny Londoff Chevrolet Golf Tournament
1970 - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra
1971 - Stephen Schwartz' musical "Godspell," premieres off-Broadway
1971 - Washington State bans sex discrimination
1972 - Neth & China PR exchange ambassadors
1972 - Tottenham Hotspur wins 1st UEFA Cup in London
1973 - "Nash at Nine" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 21 performances
1973 - Joe Ferguson, hits the 6,000th Dodger home run
1973 - Senate Watergate Committee begins its hearings
1973 - Stevie Wonder releases "You are the Sunshine of my Love"
1973 - US performs 3 nuclear tests at Rifle Colorado
1973 - Angels outfielder Bobby Valentine breaks his leg trying to scale wall to prevent a Dick Green home run during a 5-4 loss to the A's
1974 - Bayern Mnchen wins 20th Europe Cup 1 at Brussels
1974 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet
1975 - "Funky Gibbon" by The Goodies hits #79
1975 - 101st Preakness: Darrel McHargue aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4
1975 - 10cc releases "I'm Not in Love"
1975 - Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
1975 - NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone with the Wind" one time
1976 - 28th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Jack Albertson & M Learned
1976 - Earthquake in Uzbekistan: 1000's killed
1977 - Menahem Begins Likoed-party wins election in Israel
1978 - Lee Lacy hits record 3rd consecutive pinch-hit home run
1979 - -12øF (-11øC), on top of Mauna Kea, Hawaii (state record)
1979 - Emmy 6th Daytime Award presentation
1979 - Phillies beat Cubs, 23-22, on 50 hits with 11 HRs
1980 - 106th Preakness: Angel Cordero Jr aboard Codex wins in 1:54.2
1980 - Kumar Anandan balanced on one foot for 33 hours
1980 - Major race riot in Miami Florida - 16 killed, 300 injured
1980 - Paul & Linda McCartney appear on Saturday Night Live
1981 - "Inacent Black" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 14 performances
1981 - Islanders score 5 power play goals against Flyers in a playoff
1981 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1983 - Israel & Lebanon sign a peace treaty
1983 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Edmonton Oilers in 4 games
1984 - Cincinnati Reds Mario Soto throws 4 strikeouts in one inning
1984 - Mai Shanley, 21, (NM), crowned 33rd Miss USA
1985 - Les Anderson, catches record 97 lb 4 oz Chinook Salmon, off Alaska
1986 - "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart
1986 - 112th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8
1987 - "Stardust" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 102 performances
1987 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Golf Classic
1987 - USS Stark hit by Iraqi missiles, 37 sailors die
1989 - Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000 miles cost $16,000!
1989 - Napoli wins 18th UEFA Cup in Stuttgart
1989 - Nelson Mandela receives a BA from U of S Africa
1989 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825M
1990 - Cheers' star Kelsey Grammer sentenced to jail for 30 days for DWI
1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,831.71
1990 - European court rules pension rights for both men & women
1990 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Patty Ann
1991 - Lupita Jones, 23, of Mexico, crowned 40th Miss Universe
1992 - 38th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Betsy King
1992 - Expos Gary Carter is 3rd to catch 2,000 games (joins Boone & Fisk)
1993 - Intel's new Pentium processor is unveiled
1994 - Bakili Muluzi's UDF wins Malawi presidents/parliamentary election
1996 - Alicia Machado, 18, of Venezuela crowned 45th Miss Universe
1996 - Habib & Whitaker make 320 for 5th Cricket wkt, Leics v Worcs
1997 - 123rd Preakness: Gary Stevens aboard Silver Charm wins in 1:54
1997 - Sylvester Stallone weds Jennifer Flavin in London
1997 - WIBC Bowling Queens won by Sandra Jo Shiery-Odom
1998 - 44th McDonald's LPGA Championship

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1444 - Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter (Birth of Venus)
1451 - Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg
1490 - Albrecht von Hohenzollern, 1st duke of Prussia
1551 - Martinus A del Rio, Spanish/South Neth lawyer/historian/theologist
1568 - Christoph Thomas Walliser, composer
1576 - Ferdinand van Apshoven, the Older, Flemish painter, baptized
1673 - Jozef LD von K”nigsegg, Austria, milt minister of Austrian Netherlands
1691 - Antoine Court, French reformed theologist
1732 - Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer
1741 - John Penn, US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [OS=May 6]
1749 - Edward Jenner, England, physician, discovered vaccination
1768 - Caroline, Brunswick, Queen Consort of King George IV
1794 - Anna Brownell Jameson, Dublin, writer
1796 - Martinus J Niewindt, bishop of Cura‡ao (christen slaves)
1800 - Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer
1803 - Robert Smith Surtees, novelist
1804 - Ottho G Heldring, Dutch vicar/reformer (Heldring Institutions)
1808 - Charles-Louis-Adolphe Vogel, composer
1812 - Joseph Warren Revere, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1880
1819 - Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer
1823 - Charlotte Helen Sainton-Dolby, contralto/composer
1836 - Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer (Helium)/founder (Nature magazine)
1846 - Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle
1850 - Antonio Scontrino, composer
1866 - Erik Alfred Satie, Honfleur France, composer (M‚moirs d'un Amb‚sique)
1867 - Gerrit Mannoury, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1871 - Henricus P Bremmer, art historian (Modern Kunstwerken)
1873 - Dorothy Miller Richardson, Abingdon Berkshire, novelist
1873 - Henri Barbusse, Asnieres France, novelist (Le Feu)
1876 - Alban Collignon, Belgian sport journalist
1878 - Conway Tearle, US actor (Klondike Annie, Should Ladies Behave?)
1886 - Alfonso XIII, Borb¢n King of Spain (1902-31)
1888 - A P "Tich" Freeman, cricket leg-spinner (legend for Kent & England)
1888 - Selmer Jackson, Iowa, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1889 - Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat (Higenia Cruel)
1889 - Marcel Moyse, Saint-Amour, France, flutist (20 Exercises et ‚tudes)
1890 - Philip James, composer
1896 - Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer
1896 - Hannah Tillich, writer
1899 - Ralf Harolde, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Framed, Smart Money, Tip-off)
1900 - Nicolai Berezowsky, composer
1900 - Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's ayatollah (1979-89)
1901 - Werner Egk, Auchsesheim Germany, composer (Die Zaubergeige)
1902 - John Vincent, composer
1903 - Douglas Packard, British Lt General
1904 - Jean Gabin, [Alexis Moncorg‚], actor (Stormy Waters, French Can Can)
1905 - John Patrick, screenwriter
1906 - Eric Mensforth, president (Westland Aircraft)
1907 - Charles Cawley, British chief scientist/minister of power
1907 - Horace McMahon, South Norwalk Ct, actor (Martin Kane Private Eye)
1907 - Ilona Schacherer Elek, Budapest Hung, fencer (Olympic-gold-1936, 48)
1908 - Sigismund Toduta, composer
1908 - Zinka Milanov, Zagreb Yugoslavia, soprano (Ljublama Opera 1927)
1909 - Edward Playfair, British senior civil servant
1909 - Magda Schneider, actress (Eva, Going Gay, Be Mine Tonight)
1911 - Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative
1911 - Maureen O'Sullivan, Boyle Ireland, actress (Tarzan, Pride & Prejudice)
1912 - Archibald Cox, special prosecutor (Watergate)
1912 - Clarence "Ace" Parker, NFL QB (Brooklyn, Boston Yanks)
1912 - Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher conductor
1913 - Alec Ogilvie, CEO (Powell Duffryn)
1913 - Lord Hirshfield, chartered accountant
1914 - Guido Masanetz, composer
1915 - Joseph D Craggs, electrical engineer
1916 - Cornelis A Eman, Aruban politician
1916 - John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter
1918 - Birgit Nilsson, Karup Sweden, operatic soprano (Elektra, Salome)
1920 - Harriet Van Horne, Syracuse NY, columnist/panelist (Leave it to Girls)
1920 - Lydia Wideman, Finland, 10K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921 - Dennis Brain, London England, french-hornist (Serenade)
1921 - John Garlick, British senior civil servant
1923 - Michael Beetham, Marshal (RAF)
1923 - Miles Wingate, deputy master (Trinity House)
1923 - Peter Mennin[i], Erie Pennsylvania, composer (Moby Dick)
1924 - Frantisek Kovaricek, composer
1924 - Lord Tombs, CEO (Rolls Royce)
1924 - Thomas Baird, vice-admiral
1926 - Cicely Berry, voice director (Royal Shakespeare Company)
1926 - David Young, Lt-Gen/CEO (Cairn Tech)
1926 - Earl of Airlie, KT
1926 - Geoffrey Caston, vice chancellor (U of South Pacific)
1926 - Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Airilet
1926 - Tenniel Evans, rev/actor (10 Rillington Place, My Brother's Keeper)
1927 - Ronald Halstead, deputy CEO (British Steel)
1928 - Donald Cameron Watt, historian
1928 - Ian Griggs, bishop (Ludlow)
1928 - Vivian Moses, biotechnologist
1929 - Raymond Hide, geophysicist
1931 - Dewey Redman, jazz musician
1932 - Arthur Jones, principal (Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester)
1932 - Colin Hope, CEO (T/N)
1932 - Peter Burge, cricketer (dashing Australian batsman of 50's & 60's)
1932 - Rodric Braithwaite, British ambassador to USSR
1934 - Earl Morrall, NFL QB (Lions, Giants, Colts)
1935 - Dennis Christopher George Potter, playwright (Karaoke, Midnight Movie)
1935 - Ivan Slone, world-famous watchmaker
1936 - Dennis Hopper, KS, actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider)
1936 - Lars Gustafsson, writer
1936 - Philippe Boesmans, composer
1938 - Don Dolan, Staten Island NY, actor (Guy Lewis- General Hospital)
1938 - Jason Bernard, actor (Judge-Liar Liar)
1938 - Pervis Jackson, rocker (Spinners)
1938 - Trinus Riemersma, Dutch-Frisian writer (Conquest of Leeuwarden)
1939 - Hugh Dykes, MP
1939 - Wim de Bie, CEO (Simplistic Covenant)
1941 - David Howell Cope, composer
1941 - Malcom Hale, rocker
1941 - Miriam Margolyes, actress (Will Be)
1942 - Caroline Charles, fashion designer
1942 - Taj Mahal, NYC, singer/songwriter (Real Thing)
1944 - Arif Butt, cricketer (pace bowler for Pakistan in three Tests 1964-65)
1944 - Canon P B Price, general secretary, USPG
1944 - Jesse Winchester, Shreveport La, singer/songwriter (Learn to Love it)
1944 - Paul Crossley, concert pianist
1945 - D A S Pennefather, Maj-General/Commandant (General Royal Marines)
1945 - George Miller, (Rep-D-CA, 1975- )
1946 - Sinaida Turchina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)
1947 - John Traicos, cricketer (in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93)
1948 - Bill Bruford, English pop drummer (Yes, King Crimson-Red, Genesis)
1949 - Timothy Cordy, British director (Town/Country Planning Assn)
1950 - A A Johnson, MP
1950 - Christian Lacroix, French couturier (Chic Frills)
1950 - Keith Bradley, MP
1951 - I R Evans, CEO (Hyder, Welsh Water)
1951 - Simon Hughes, MP
1952 - Jody Pijper, Dutch (background) singer
1953 - George Johnson, LA Calif, rocker (Brothers Johnson)
1953 - Kathleen Sullivan, Pasadena Ca, newscaster (ABC-TV, CBS Morning Show)
1953 - Nicholas Bacon, premier baronet of England
1953 - Yoko Shimada, Kumamota Japan, author (Kir Royal)/actress (Shogun)
1954 - John Iles, dolby supervisor (Elephant Man, Richard III)
1954 - Michael Roberts, jockey
1955 - Bill Paxton, actor (Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies)
1956 - Bob Saget, Phila, comedian (Full House, America's Funniest Home Video)
1956 - Sue Carpenter, TV presenter/journalist
1956 - Sugar Ray [Charles] Leonard, Willington SC, boxer (Olympics-gold-76)
1958 - Vincent Henar, Surinam, bassist (Fra Fra Sound)
1959 - Paul Di'anno, rocker (Iron Maiden Chingford, London V Early Vocalist
1960 - Fiona Hutchison, Miami Fla, actress (One Life to Live, Guiding Light)
1961 - Enya, [Eithne N¡ Bhraon in], Gweedore Ireland, vocalist (Watermark)
1962 - Scott Case, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1962 - Tracey Bryn, rocker (Voice of Beehive-Let it Bee)
1963 - Jon Koncak, NBA center (Orlando Magic)
1965 - Trent Reznor, musician (9 Inch Nails)
1966 - Danny Manning, NBA forward/center (Phoenix Suns)
1966 - Mark Kratzmann, Australia, tennis star
1966 - Mark Schmocker, Interlaken Switz, US team handball goalie (Oly-96)
1967 - Cameron Bancroft, actor (Beverly Hills 90210)
1967 - Debbie Dutch, Titusville NJ, actress (Hell's Paradox)
1968 - Tim Grunhard, NFL center (KC Chiefs)
1969 - Aaron Ruffin, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 - Craig Erickson, NFL quarterback (Indianapolis Colts, Miami Dolphins)
1969 - Paige Turco, Boston MA, actress (Melanie-Guiding Light)
1969 - Ujesh Ranchod, cricketer (Zimbabwe off-spinner 1993)
1970 - Alan Wetmore, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes)
1970 - Derrick Deese, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1970 - Hubert Davis, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks, NY Knicks)
1970 - Jim Cummins, Dearborn, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970 - Jodie Rogers, Melbourne Victoria Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1970 - John Karelse, soccer player (NAC)
1970 - Jordan Nathaniel M Knight, Mass, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough)
1970 - Renzo Furlan, Italy, tennis star
1970 - Stefania Croce, Bergamo Italy, golfer (95 State Farm Rail Classic-11)
1970 - Todd Mundt, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks)
1971 - Bill Lindsay, Big Fork, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1971 - Mark Williams, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 - Elena Wagner, Sofia Bulgaria, tennis star (1996 ITF/Redbridge-GBR)
1972 - John Burrough, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 - Jay Riemersma, tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1974 - Marcia Turner, Cambridge Mass, Miss America (Mass-Top 10-1996)
1976 - Anna Windsor, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - Daniel Komen, Nyaru Kenya, 5k runner
1976 - Peter Devine, NYC, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1977 - Jere Michael, Aspen Colo, figure skater (1994 National Jr champ)

Famous deaths for this day ..

1050 - Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies
1510 - Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65
1510 - Sandro Botticelli, [Alessandro di Mariano del Filpepi], painter, dies
1575 - Matthew Parker, archbishop of Canterbury (1559-75), dies at 68
1591 - Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51
1606 - Forges Dimitri #1, czar of Russia (1605-06), murdered
1695 - Cornelis de Heem, painter, dies
1727 - Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies
1729 - Samuel Clarke, theologian, dies
1796 - Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, composer, dies at 89
1809 - Leopold Auenbrugger von Auenbrugg, physician, dies
1838 - Charles-Maurice duke of Talleyrand-P‚rigord, French bishop, dies at 84
1840 - Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57
1851 - Jean E "Adrian" van Bevervoorde, journalist (Treason), dies at 31
1864 - N Hawthorne, writer, dies at 59
1866 - Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70
1872 - Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63
1883 - Lydia Estes Pinklham, patent-medicine manufacturer, dies
1884 - Louis Brassin, composer, dies at 43
1889 - William Roxby Beverly, artist, dies
1892 - Gy”rgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72
1914 - Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914), dies at 79
1916 - Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer, dies at 68
1919 - Bohumil Pazdirek, composer, dies at 80
1920 - Maitland Hathorn, cricketer (325 runs in 12 Tests S Afr 1901-11), dies
1926 - Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies
1930 - Herbert David Croly, US founder (New Republic), dies at 61
1931 - Johan [Eliza J] de Master, art critic/writer, dies
1931 - Timothy Cole, wood engraver, dies
1935 - Paul A Dukas, French composer/tutor of Messiaen (Vell‚da), dies at 69
1943 - Montagu Love, actor (Wind), dies at 65
1945 - Jan van Geenen, resistance fighter, dies
1945 - Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies
1950 - Eduardo Fabini, composer, dies at 67
1951 - Karl Heinrich David, composer, dies at 66
1953 - Eric De Lamarter, composer, dies at 73
1955 - Alan Fairfax, cricketer (10 Tests for Australia 1928-31), dies
1955 - Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer, dies at 75
1955 - Leslie Hylton, cricketer (West Indies quickie 1939), hung for murder
1957 - Shalva Azmayparashvili, composer, dies at 54
1961 - French of Cauwelaert, Flemish minister/mayor of Antwerp, dies at 81
1961 - Henri Gagnon, composer, dies at 74
1964 - Otto V Kuusinen, pres of Karelo-Finnish soviet rep (1940-56), dies 82
1967 - John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 65
1967 - Nigel Martin Balchin, novelist, dies
1969 - Joseph Beran, Czech archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 80
1970 - Nigel M Balchin, English author (My Executioner), dies at 61
1973 - Alexander J Kropholler, Dutch architect/writer, dies at 91
1974 - Charles Braswell, actor (Only Game in Town), dies at 49
1978 - John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons, dies
1980 - Joseph M "Joop" Lcker, Dutch editor-in-chief (Volkskrant), dies at 65
1981 - Hugo Freidhofer, composer, dies at 80
1981 - Jeannette Ridlon Piccard, 1st US woman free balloon pilot, dies
1985 - Bobby Ewing, (Patrick Duffy) killed off on Dallas
1985 - Hugh Burden, actor (Night of Laughing Dead), dies at 72
1985 - Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wizard of Oz), dies
1987 - Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, economist (Nobel 1974), dies at 88
1989 - Robert Webber, actor (Nuts, Assassin, 10), dies at 74
1992 - George Hurrell, Hollywood photographer, dies of cancer at 87
1992 - Lawrence Welk, conductor/accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies at 89
1992 - Leonardo del Ferro, [Keyser], US epic tenor, dies
1992 - Warren Neal Boxer, dies of AIDS at 34
1993 - Harry Elstrím, Danish/Belgian sculptor, dies at 86
1994 - Alain Cuny, [Ren‚ X Marie], French actor (La Dolce Vita), dies at 85
1994 - Andrew Brown, film Producer, dies at 55
1994 - Donald Keith Falkner, singer, dies at 94
1994 - Willian Noel Moffat, architect, dies at 82
1995 - Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer, dies at 72
1996 - Rusi Modi, cricketer (736 runs 10 post-war Tests for India), dies
1996 - Scott Evans Brayton, racing car driver, dies at 37
1996 - Willi Daume, olympic organiser, dies at 82
1996 - Willis Conover, broadcaster, dies at 75