today in history for 2nd july 2015

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Today in History for 2nd July 2015

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 209

311 - St Militiades begins his reign as Catholic Pope

626 - In fear of assassination, Li Shimin ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li

Jiancheng in the Incident at Xuanwu Gate. On September 4, Shimin's father abdicates in his favour

and Shimin becomes Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor of China.

706 - In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has the remains of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, his wife

and recently-deceased ruling empress Wu Zetian, her son Li Xian, her grandson Li Chongrun, and

granddaughter Li Xianhui all interred in a new tomb complex outside Chang'an known as the

Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang.

963 - The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plainsoutside Cappadocian Caesarea

1140 - Hartbert becomes bishop of Utrecht

1214 - Battle of La Roche-aux-Moines (Angers), part of King John of England attempt to reclaim

Normandy from France

1298 - Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf Albrecht I

1505 - After an encounter with a violent thunderstorm, Martin Luther declares that he will become amonk

1555 - Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.

1561 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.

1576 - Muitende Spanish soldiers conquer Zierik Sea

1578 - Martin Frobisher sights Baffin Island.

1582 - Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.

1600 - Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army


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1613 - The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall.

1644 - Battle of Marston Moor, North Yorkshire: Parliamentary forces under Lords Fairfax and

Manchester defeat royalists led by Prince Rupert

1679 - Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by

Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.

1681 - Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high treason

1687 - King James II disbands English parliament

1698 - Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine

1776 - NJ Jersey gives the right to vote to all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds

1776 - Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are of right ought to be Free

Independent States"

Founding Father of the United States John Dickinson

1776 - At the Continental Congress, John Dickinson abstains from the votes that declare

independence

1787 - Marquis de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered

1794 - 2nd Battle of Seneffe: France-Austria

1808 - Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam

1823 - Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the

Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.

1839 - Slaves aboard a Spanish schooner La Amistad revolt to secure their freedom while being

transported from one Cuban port to another


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Newspaper cutting fom the Times-Picayune on the dayan alligator fell from the sky

1843 - An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina

1847 - Envelope bearing 1st US 10 cent stamps used (still exists today)

1849 - Garibaldi begins hunger strike in Rome

1850 - Benjamin Lane patents gas mask with a breathing apparatus

1858 - Partial emancipation of Russian serfs

1861 - Battle of Hoke's Run, WV - small Union victory

1862 - Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges

1863 - Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)

1863 - R Morgan's: Burksville, KY to Salineville, OH [-JUL 26]

1864 - Gen Early Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington, DC

1864 - Statuary Hall in US Capitol forms

1865 - One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine found the

Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation) as the East London Christian Mission

1867 - 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC


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1870 - Jules Joseph d'Anethan is elected the tenth Prime Minister of Belgium.

20th US President James Garfield

1881 - US President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield

died 79 days later

1885 - Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear

1890 - Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act

1894 - Government obtains injunction against striking Pullman Workers

1900 - Sibelius' "Finlandia" premieres in Helsinki

1900 - First flight LZ-1, of a dirigible airship designed by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, at Lake

Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

1901 - Butch Cassidy Sundance Kid rob train of $40,000 at Wagner, Montana

1902 - John J McGraw becomes manager of NY Giants (stays for 30 years)

1902 - 19th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Muriel Robb beats C Sterry (7-5 6-1)

1902 - 26th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Laurence Doherty beats A Gore (6-4 6-3 3-6 6-0)

1903 - AL/NL batting champ Ed Delahanty, disappears, found dead days later

Outlaw Butch Cassidy


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1903 - Pitcher Jack Doscher, 1 son of a major leaguer debuts with Cubs

1906 - Yanks win by forfeit for the 1st time

1915 - Erich Muenter, an instructor in German at Cornell University, explodes a bomb in the US

Senate reception room

1916 - Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism

1916 - Russian offensive in Armenia

1917 - Riots in East St Louis Mo

1921 - 41st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: B Tilden beats B Norton (4-6 2-6 6-1 6-0 7-5)

1921 - Jack Dempsey KOs George S Carpentier in 4 for heavyweight boxing title 1st million dollar

gate ($1.7m) boxing match (Dempsey KOs Carpentier)

1921 - Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war

with Germany

29th US President Warren G. Harding

1926 - US Army Air Corps created; Distinguish Flying Cross authorized

1927 - 40th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (6-2 6-4)

1927 - Earthquake hits Palestine

1928 - British parliament reduces the age at women can vote to 21 - the same as men

(Representation of the People Act 1928)

1928 - The Jenkins Television Corporation (owned by Charles Jenkins) goes on air with W3XK, the

first television broadcasting station in the USA

1932 - 52nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ellsworth Vines beats H Austin (6-4 6-2 6-0)

1932 - FDR makes 1st presidential nominating conventional acceptance speech

1933 - Carl Hubbell shuts-out Cards 1-0 in 18 innings without a walk


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1934 - General Lazaro Cardenas elected president of Mexico

1935 - Great Britain boxing team beat US team in 1st international Golden Gloves

1937 - 57th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Don Budge beats G von Cramm (6-3 6-4 6-2)

Aviation Pioneer Amelia Earhart

1937 - Amelia Earhart Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean

1937 - 50th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothy Little beats J J?drzejowska (6-2 2-6 7-5)

1938 - 51st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats Helen Jacobs (6-4 6-0)

1940 - Dutch PM Colijn publishes "Borders of 2 Worlds" (German victory)

1940 - Hitler orders invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)

1940 - Lake Washington (Seattle) Floating bridge dedicated

1940 - British PM Churchill meets Major General Bernard Montgomery

1940 - Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.

1941 - DiMaggio breaks Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak (45th of 56)

1941 - Earthquake hits Palestine

1941 - Nazi mass murder in Lvov/Lemberg (7,000 dead)

1941 - Noel Coward's "Blithe Spirit" premieres in London


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Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler

1943 - Gulf of Biskaje: Liberator bombers sinks U-126

1943 - Indians score 12 runs in 4th inning beat Yankees 12-0

1943 - Lt Charles Hall becomes 1st black pilot to shoot down a Nazi plane

1944 - Field Marshal von Kluge replaces General von Rundstedt

1946 - Dutch Beel government forms

1946 - Harbor workers end strike at Rotterdam Amsterdam

1947 - Military coup discovered in France

1948 - 62nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Falkenburg beats Bromwich (7-5 0-6 6-2 3-6 7-5)

1948 - 77th British Golf Open: Henry Cotton shoots a 284 at Muirfield

1949 - "High Button Shoes" closes at Century Theater NYC after 727 perfs

1949 - "Red Barber's Clubhouse" sports show premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV

1949 - 56th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: L Brough beats M duPont (10-8 1-6 10-8)

1950 - Indian Bob Feller, wins his 200th game, 5-3 over Detroit

1950 - Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan, burns down.

1950 - Henri Queuille is elected the seventh Prime Minister of the Fourth French Republic.

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 224

419 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor (425-55)


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1029 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (d. 1094)

1262 - Arthur II, Duke of Brittany (d. 1312)

1363 - Mary, Queen of Sicily (d. 1401)

1489 - Thomas Cranmer, England, archbishop/reformer/martyr

1492 - Elizabeth Tudor, English princess (d. 1495)

1581 - Johann Staden, composer

1589 - Guillaume van Messaus, composer

1636 - Daniel Speer, composer

1644 - Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar

1647 - Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English min of foreign affairs

Duke of Brittany Arthur II (1262)

1652 - Guillielmus "Willem" Kerricx, Flemish sculptor (Rozenkrans)

1665 - Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (d. 1726)

1667 - Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (d. 1740)

1698 - Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)

1714 - Christoph W Ritter von Gluck, Austria composer (Il re pastore)

1724 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet

1737 - Francois Leonard Rouwyzer, composer

1746 - Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer

1756 - Christian G Korner, German lawyer/father of Karl


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1763 - Peter Ritter, composer

1793 - Antoine Prumier, composer

1810 - Robert Augustus Toombs, Secy State (Confederacy), (d. 1885)

1814 - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer

1819 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (d. 1900)

1819 - Thomas Anderson, Scottish Chemist (discovered pyridine)

1820 - George Law Curry, Newspaper publisher and Governor of Oregon (d. 1878)

6th Prime Minister of Canada Charles Tupper (1821)

1821 - Charles Tupper, Amherst Nova Scotia, (C) 6th Prime Minister of Canada (69-day term)

1822 - Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails/trains)

1830 - John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

1834 - Hendry P G Quack, lawyer/economist/secr Dutch Bank

1836 - Henry Eugene Davies, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1894)

1847 - Marcel Bertrand, French mine engineer (tectonic geology)

1849 - Maria Theresia of Austria-Este, queen of Bavaria (d. 1919)

1857 - Francesco Spetrino, composer

1862 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1942)

1865 - Lili Braun, Prussia, feminist/socialist writer (Im Schatten Titanen)

1867 - Herbert Prior, England, actor (Caught Short, Slave of Desire)

1876 - Wilhelm Cuno, German ship owner/republic chancellor (1922-23)


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1877 - Hermann Hesse, Switzerland, novelist/poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946), (d. 1962)

Nobel Laureate Novelist Hermann Hesse (1877)

1880 - Albert Szirmai, composer

1881 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (d. 1929)

1882 - Edgar Mayne, cricketer (Australian batsman, prolific for Victoria)

1884 - Alfons Maria Jakob, German neurologist (d. 1931)

1887 - Marcel Tabuteau, Compiègne France, oboist (Phila Orch 1915-54)

1888 - Selman Waksman, Russ/US microbiologist (Nobel 1951)

1889 - Cor Hermus, Dutch actor/director/writer (A Mother)

1890 - Earl Roy Curry, religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer (d. 1980)

1892 - Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario (Crazy Passage Show)

1893 - August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Shylock-Hamlet)

1893 - Ralph Hancock, Welsh garden designer (Rockefeller Center) (d. 1950)

1894 - Walter Brennan, Swampscott Mass, actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point)

1896 - Lydia Mei, Estonian artist (d. 1965)

1900 - Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)

1901 - Arthur Rex Alston, sports commentator

1903 - Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, (C) British PM (1963-64)

1903 - Olav AFEC of Schleswig-Holstein-S-G, King Olav V of Norway (1957-91)

1904 - Carl Weinrich, composer


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1904 - Gerarda "Meik" Rueter, Dutch (sculptress, if that word exists)

1905 - Jean-Rene Lacoste, France, US Open (1926)/alligator shirt designer

1906 - Alan Webb, actor (King Lear, Taming of Shrew, Challenge of Lassie)

1906 - Hans Bethe, physicist (Nobel 1967), peace worker

1906 - Robert Levine Sanders, composer

1907 - Eppo Doeve, Dutch cartoonist/painter

1907 - Leo O'Brien, cricketer (Australian batsman in 5 Tests 1932-36)

1908 - Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner

First Black Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall (1908)

1908 - Thurgood Marshall, 1st African American Supreme Court justice (1967-91), born in Baltimore,

Maryland (d. 1993)

1909 - Hermann Bengtson, German historian (Greeks Ancient Times)

1910 - Earl Hawley Robinson, composer

1910 - Hans Gunther Adler, German writer

1910 - William Douglas Denny, composer

1911 - Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader (Vatican movie bureau)

1913 - Edith Heerdegen, Dresden Germany, actress (Serpent's Egg, Monpti)

1914 - Frederick Fennell, conductor (Time Winds), born in Cleveland, Ohio

1914 - Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist (d. 1990)

1915 - 8th duke of Wellington, English large landowner/multi-millionaire

1915 - Bert Decorte, Flemish poet


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1916 - Barry Gray, [Bernard Yaroslaw], interviewer (started call-in radio)

1916 - Ken Curtis, [Curtis Gates], Lamar CO, actor (Ripcord, Festus-Gunsmoke)

1916 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (d. 1982)

1917 - Pierre Dubois, Dutch literary

1918 - Imam Elissa, singer

1918 - Sheikh Iman, player/singer

1918 - Wibo, Dutch cartoonist (d. 2005)

1919 - Johnny Bradford, Long Branch NJ, actor (Ransom Sherman Show)

1919 - Jean Craighead George, American writer

1920 - Eliseo Diego, latin American poet

1922 - Dan Rowan, Beggs Oklahoma, comedian (Rowan Martin's Laugh-in)

1922 - Genrikh Matusovich Vagner, composer

1923 - Wislawa Szymborska, Prowent, Poland, poet referred to as the 'Mozart of Poetry' (Nobel

1996), (d. 2012)

1924 - Rick Besoyan, composer

1925 - Marvin Rainwater, Wichita Ks, country singer (Ozark Jubilee), (d. 2013)

1925 - Patrice E Lumumba, Zaire, revolutionary/1st premier of Congo

1925 - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer

1925 - Patrice Emery Lumumba, Katakokombe region of the Kasai Province of Belgian Congo, first

Prime Minister of an independent Congo,

1926 - Billy Usselton, saxophonist

1926 - Lee Allen, Pittsburg, Ks, tenor sax (Walkin' With Mr Lee)

1926 - Octavian Paler, Romanian writer, journalist, (d. 2007)

1927 - Brock Peters, actor/singer (Carmen Jones, To Kill a Mockingbird), born in NYC, New York

1927 - Jerome Meyer, horse trainer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 15 of 15


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Jazz-orchestra leader, Composer, Pianist Duke Ellington (1918)

1918 - Jazz orchestra band leader Duke Ellington (19) weds high school sweetheart Edna Thompson

1932 - Platinum blonde screen goddess Jean Harlow (21) weds MGM producer Paul Bern (42)

1939 - Syndicated columnist Ann Landers (21) weds business executive Julius Lederer

1952 - Zulu-leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi marries Irene Mzila

1953 - British writer ("Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") Ronald Dhal marries American actress

Patricia Neal

1953 - Author Roald Dahl (36) weds stage actress Patricia Neal (27) at Trinity Church in New York

1955 - Desmond Tutu marries Leah Nomalizo Shinxani

1955 - NFL placekicker Pat Summerall (25) weds Kathy Jacobs

1959 - Belgian Albert, Prince of Liège marries Dona Paola, Princess Ruffo di Calabria in Brussels

Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson (1964)

1964 - Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson (52) weds Sigmond Galloway

1994 - "Green Day" vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong (22) weds Adeline Records co-owner Adrienne

Nesser (24)

2004 - Actress Mira Sorvino (36) weds actor Christopher Backus (23) in a private civil ceremony at


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the Santa Barbara Courthouse

2010 - Miss California USA 2009 Carrie Prejean (23) weds Oakland Raiders quarterback Kyle Boller

(29) in San Diego

2011 - Charlene Princess of Monaco (33) weds Prince Albert II of Monaco (53) at the Church of St

Devote of Monaco

2013 - Actor John Barrowman (46) weds longtime boyfriend Scott Gill in California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

MLB shortstop Ernie Banks (1959)

1959 - MLB baseball player Ernie Banks

(28) divorces Mollye Louise after 6 years

of marriage

2007 - Dancer Mandie Taketa divorces

talk show host Wayne Brady (34) due to

irreconcilable differences after 8 years of

marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 120

783 - Bert(h)a/Berthrada, mother of

Charles the Great, dies

862 - St. Swithun, Bishop of Winchester(b. 789)

936 - Henry I the Vogelaar, German king (919-36)/duke of Saxon 912-36, dies

1298 - Adolf van Nassau, RC-German king (1292-98), dies in battle at about 43


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1504 - Stephen III (Stefan the Great), ruler of Moldavia (1457-1504), dies

Astrologer/Prophet Nostradamus (1566)

1566 - Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist, dies at 62

1582 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)

1591 - Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer (b. 1520)

1619 - Olivier de Serres, French farming pioneer (silkworms), dies

1621 - Thomas Harriot, English astronomer

1644 - William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights, is killed at 24

1656 - François-Marie, comte de Broglie, Italian-born French commander (b. 1611)

1663 - Thomas Selle, composer, dies at 64

1674 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1614)

1684 - John Rogers, president of Harvard University (b. 1630)

1700 - Lambert Doomer, painter/cartoonist, dies at about 77

1708 - Willem of Nassau, mister of Zuylenstein/lt-gen/baron Enfield, dies

1743 - Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies

1746 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)

1778 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, composer, dies at 66

1778 - Bathsheba Spooner, American murderer

1794 - Franz Xaver Thomas Pokorny, composer, dies at 65

1798 - John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies


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1822 - Denmark Vesey, 5 aides hanged at Blake's Landing, Charleston, SC

1833 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine politician (b. 1757)

1843 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88

British Prime Minister Robert Peel (1850)

1850 - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62

1857 - Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot (b. 1818)

1861 - Peter A de Genestet, vicar/poet, dies at 31

1863 - Stephen Hinsdale Weed, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 28

1878 - Francois-Emmanuel-Joseph Bazin, composer, dies at 61

1895 - William Rockstro, composer, dies at 72

1903 - Ed Delahanty, American Hall of Fame baseball player (b. 1867)

1911 - Felix Mottl, composer, dies at 54

1912 - Tom Richardson, English cricketer (88 wickets in 14 Tests for England), dies (b. 1870)

1914 - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78

1915 - Gen Porfirio [Jose de la Cruz] Diaz, president Mexico, dies

1917 - Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor/director (Hamlet), dies

1918 - Mohammed V Resjad, sultan of Turkey (1909-18), dies

1920 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (b. 1846)

1921 - Edwin Evans, cricketer (6 Tests for Australia), dies

1926 - Emile Coué, French pharmacist (recovery by auto suggestion), dies


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1929 - Gladys Brockwell, actress (Oliver Twist), dies at 34

1930 - Anders Randolf, actor (Love of Sunya, Dangerous Curves), dies at 59

1931 - Stephen Babcock, American Agricultural Chemist (Babcock test and father of scientific

dairying), dies at 87

1932 - Manuel II, last King of Portugal (1908-10), dies at 43

1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, french colonel, dies

1936 - Harry Northrup, actor (Who's Knocking at My Door), dies at 60

1937 - Fred L Noonan, US navigator, disappeared over Pacific Ocean

1939 - Alfred R Zimmerman, mayor of Rotterdam (1906-22), dies

1940 - Ben[jamin] Turpin, US comic (Saps at Sea, His New Job), dies

1940 - Bertram Shapleigh, composer, dies at 69

1941 - Mohammad Baqa Jilani, cricketer (Test for India), dies at 29

1946 - Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81

1949 - Georgi Dimitrov, Bulgaria premier (1946-49), dies at 67

1951 - Earnest F Sauerbruch, German nazi/surgeon, dies at 75

1952 - Henriette H Bosmans, Dutch cello player/pianist/composer, dies at 56

1955 - Edward Lawson, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1873)

Author Ernest Hemingway (1961)

1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American author and Nobel laureate, dies from suicide at 61

1963 - Seth Barnes Nicholson, American astronomer who discovered four satellites of Jupiter, dies at

71


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1964 - Glenn "Fireball" Roberts, biggest NASCAR money winner, dies in crash

1965 - Theodora E "Betsy" Ranucci-Beckmann, actress (Klatergoud), dies at 88

1966 - Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet (b. 1900)

1968 - Francis Brennan, US cardinal of Philadelphia, dies at 74

1969 - Michael DiBiase, wrestler (b. 1923)

1970 - Jessie Street, Australian civil rights activist, dies

1971 - Edward Ballantine, composer, dies at 84

1972 - Joseph F Smith Jr, leader US mormon chuch, dies at 95

1973 - Betty Grable, US actress (How to Marry a Millionaire), dies at 56

1973 - George Macready, US, actor (Martin Peyton-Peyton Place), dies at 73

1973 - Swede Savage, dies of injuries at Indianapolis 500

1973 - Chick Hafey, baseball player (b. 1903)

1973 - George McBride, baseball player (b. 1880)

1973 - Ferdinand Schörner, German field marshal (b. 1892)

1975 - James Robertson Justice, actor (DR at Large, Dr om Love), dies at 70

1976 - Frances Howard, actress (Swan, Shock Punch), dies at 73

1977 - Vladimir V Nabokov, Russian/US writer (Lolita), dies at 78

1978 - Aris Alexandrou, Greek novelist, poet and translator (b. 1922)

1981 - Robert Emmett Keane, actor (Rookie Cop, Red Dragon), dies

1982 - Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer, dies at 59

1984 - Ramiro Cortes, composer, dies at 50

1984 - Paul Dozois, Quebec politician (b. 1908)

1985 - David Purley, British Formula 1 driver (b. 1945)

1986 - Peanuts Lowrey, baseball player (b. 1917)

1987 - Karl Linnas, accused Nazi, dies of heart failure in Russia

1987 - Michael Bennet, choreographer (Chorus Line), dies of AIDS at 44


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1989 - Franklin Schaffner, American film director (b. 1920)

1990 - Muntu Myeza, S Afr anti-apartheid activist, dies in auto at 39

1990 - Snooky Lanson, singer, dies at 76

1991 - Lee Remick, actress (Days of Wine Roses), dies of cancer at 55

1992 - Borisav Pekic, Serbian writer/politician, dies

1992 - Edith Valckaert, Belgian violinist, dies at 42

1992 - Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer/Claudia Cardinale's husband, dies

1992 - Jose Monje, [Camaron de la Isla], Spanish flamenco singer, dies

1993 - Fred Gwynne, actor (Herman-Munsters), dies of pancreatic cancer at 66

1993 - Sir Edward Dunlop, Australian war hero (b. 1907)

1994 - Andres Escobar, Colombia world cup soccer star, shot for losing to US

1994 - Marion Williams, gospel singer, dies of diabetes at 66

1994 - Maung Maung, premier of Burma (1988), dies at 69

1994 - Ralph C Rinzler, folklorist (Greenbriar Boys), dies at 59

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