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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #180 on: January 31, 2013, 06:48:01 AM »
This Day in History for 31st January


Famous Weddings


1560 - Spanish king Philip II marries Elisabeth van Valois
1842 - 10th US President John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in White House
1960 - Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress/singer Phyllis Newman in NYC
1974 - "The Outlaw" actress Jane Russell (52) weds real-estate broker John Calvin People (45) in
            Santa Barbara, California
2009 - "Stay" singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb (40) weds Late Night with Conan O'Brien music supervisor
            Roey Hershkovitz (30) at Manhattan restaurant in New York City

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #181 on: January 31, 2013, 06:49:04 AM »
This Day in History for 31st January


Famous Divorces


1957 - Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding)

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #182 on: January 31, 2013, 06:58:15 AM »
This Day in History for 31st January


Famous Birthdays


                                             
Novelist Norman Mailer (1923)                 Hall of Fame MLB shortstop                          Singer-songwriter
                                                                     Ernie Banks (1931)                             Justin Timberlake (1981)


36 BC - Antonia Minor, daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor (d. 38 AD)
877 - Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (d. 943)
1512 - King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580)
1517 - Gioseffo Zarlino, composer
1543 - Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616)
1550 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (d. 1588)
1573 - Ambrosius Metzger, composer
1573 - Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, composer
1597 - John Francis Regis, French saint (d. 1640)
1601 - Pieter de Bloot, Dutch landscape painter
1607 - James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
1612 - Hendrik Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia
1614 - Nicolas Saboly, composer
1620 - Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief
1623 - Francois-Xavier de Laval
1633 - Nathaniel Crew, English bishop (Durham)
1673 - Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint (d. 1716)
1686 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758)
1734 - Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer
1734 - Robert Morris, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
1750 - Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800, 1803-06)
1752 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816)
1759 - Francois Devienne, composer
1778 - Franz Anton graaf von Kolowrat, Austrian premiere of Bohemia (1848)
1784 - Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer
1797 - Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal Austria, composer (Unfinished Symphony)
1798 - Karl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer
1802 - Jan C J van Speijk, Dutch naval hero
1804 - Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic
1810 - Daniel Ruggles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1812 - John Randolph Tucker, Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1883
1813 - Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist
1817 - Antony Winkler Prins, Dutch writer (Groiler Encyclopaedia)
1818 - William Raine Peck, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
1820 - William B. Washburn, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
1830 - James G Blaine, the "Plumed Knight"
1835 - William Charles Lunalilo, Monarch of Hawaii (d. 1874)
1836 - Henryk Szulc, composer
1857 - George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1933)
1863 - F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher (Revue the Synthesis)
1865 - Henri Desgrange, Founder of the Tour-de-France (d. 1940)
1865 - Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951)
1866 - Emil Strauss, Germany, writer (Naked Man)
1866 - Henry Forster, cricketer (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Aust Gov-General)
1868 - Theodore William Richards, chemist (atomic weights, Nobel-1914)
1869 - Henri Carton de Wiart, Belgian Count/literary/premier (1920-21)
1872 - Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)
1877 - Max Ettlinger, German philosopher
1878 - Willem J M van Eysinga, Dutch international law jurist
1881 - Irving Langmuir, inventor (tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932)
1881 - Joseph A Cushman, US, palaentologist
1882 - Anna Pavlova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer
1882 - Josephus RH van Schaik, Dutch lawyer/vice-premier
1884 - Nicholas Joy, Paris France, actor (Boss Lady)
1884 - Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundespräsident) (d. 1963)
1886 - Alfonso Lopez, Colombia, statesman (Pres UN security council-1948)
1889 - F R Foster, cricketer (330 runs & 45 wickets for England)
1890 - Adolf Bach, German language/sociologist (Deutsche Namenkunde)
1891 - Max Drischner, composer
1892 - Eddie Cantor, NYC, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater)
1893 - Freya Stark, English explorer/ travel writer
1894 - Percy Helton, NY, actor (Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men)
1894 - Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956)
1896 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
1901 - Blaz Arnic, composer
1901 - Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer
1902 - Alva Myrdal, Uppsala Sweden, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize-1982)
1902 - Jean C M Picart le Doux, France, carpet designer
1902 - Julian H Steward, US anthropologist/professor
1903 - Gardner Cowles, Iowa, publisher/founder (Look Magazine)
1903 - Tallulah Bankhead, Huntsville Ala, actress (Lifeboat, Die Die Darling)
1904 - E van Ruller, Dutch journalist/ARP-alderman/co-founder (Trouw)
1905 - Anna Blaman, [Johanna P Vrugt], Dutch writer (Wife & Friend)
1905 - John O'Hara, Pottstown Penn, novelist (Appointment at Samarra)
1906 - Benjamin Frankel, composer
1906 - R W Bonham, founder (International Braille Chess Association)
1908 - René Simone Mathieu, France, doubles tennis star (Wimbledon 1934)
1909 - Foley Newns, British colonial administrator
1909 - Miron Grindea, literary editor
1910 - Herbert Ashworth, CEO (Nationwide Building Society)
1911 - A G Ogston, president (Trinity College-Oxford)
1911 - Christina Foyle, book seller
1911 - Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981)
1913 - Don Hutson, NFL end (Packers)
1913 - Hector Iglesias Villoud, composer
1913 - Wayne Millner, NFL end (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1914 - Carey Lofton, Blountsville Fla, actor (Skinner-Troubleshooters)
1914 - Jersey Joe Walcott, heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52)
1914 - Louis Osman, architect/artist/goldsmith
1914 - Sri Daya Mata, Hindu religious figure
1915 - Bobby Hackett, Providence RI, trumpeteer/orchestra leader (Air Time '57)
1915 - Garry Moore, [Thomas Garrison Morfit], Balt, host (I've Got a Secret)
1915 - John Profumo, president (Toynbee Hall)
1915 - Thomas Merton, France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist (7 Storey Mt)
1915 - William Crosbie, artist
1915 - Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
1916 - Ciro D Crown, premier of Dutch Antilles (1968-69)
1916 - Frank A Parker, tennis champ (US Open-1944)
1916 - Violet Cane, statistician
1917 - Erich Geiringer, general practitioner campaigner
1917 - Jose Maceda, composer
1919 - Jackie Robinson, Ga, 1st black major league baseball player (Dodgers)
1919 - Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry. Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
1920 - Patrick Heron, painter
1920 - Robert Hersant, press baron
1920 - Stewart L Udall, St Johns Ariz, US Secretary of Interior (1961-69)
1921 - Carol Channing, Wash, actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hello Dolly)
1921 - John Agar, Chicago, actor (Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima)
1921 - Mario Lanza, Phila, actor/singer (Great Caruso, Toast of New Orleans)
1921 - E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004)
1922 - Michael Wilford, diplomat
1922 - William Sylvester, Oakland California, actor (2001, Gorgo, Gemini Man)
1923 - Eddie Ryder, NYC, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital)
1923 - Joanne Dru, Logan WV, actress (Guestwood Ho, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1923 - Norman Mailer, Long Branch NJ, NYC mayoral candidate/novelist (Naked & the Dead), (d. 2007)
1924 - Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge
1924 - Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker
1925 - Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader
1925 - Charles Aidman, Frankfort Ind, narrator (New Twilight Zone)
1925 - Fred Catherwood, MP
1926 - Prunella Briance, founder (National Childbirth Trust)
1926 - Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1928 - Chuck Willis, rock vocalist (C C Rider)
1928 - Eric Ash, rector (Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine)
1928 - Richard Buckley, royal equerry
1928 - Robert Clatworthy, sculptor
1929 - Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1929 - Jean Simmons, London, England, actress (Thorn Birds, Guys & Dolls)
1930 - Lynn Carlin, LA California, actress (Joan Hunter-James at 15)
1930 - Joakim Bonnier, Swedish racecar driver (d. 1972)
1931 - Bill Watson, cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman mid-50s)
1931 - Christopher Chataway, British MP/athlete (world record 5k)
1931 - Ernie Banks, Dallas Texas, "Mr Cub" Chicago Cubs, Hall-of-Famer (short stop/1st baseman)
1931 - Jean Burroughs, educationalist
1931 - Nicholas Gordon Lennox, diplomat
1932 - Pieter Brattinga, Dutch graphic artist
1932 - Rick Hall, country/R&B singer
1933 - Joseph D Early, (Rep-D-MA, 1975- )
1933 - Walter Paulis, mineworker/pilot/Dutch MP (CDA)
1933 - Bernardo Provenzano , Mafia Boss
1934 - Brian Bolus, cricketer (England opening batsman early 60's)
1934 - James Franciscus, Clayton Mo, actor (Mr Novak, Longstreet, Hunter)
1934 - Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist
1935 - Bojidar Dimov, composer
1935 - Oe Kenzaburo, Japanese novelist (Catch, Personal Matter)
1936 - Marvin Junior, singer (Dells-Oh What a Night)
1937 - Philip Glass, Baltimore Md, minimal composer (Einstein on the Beach)
1937 - Steve Karmen, Bronx NY, jingle writer (I Love NY, This Bud's for You)
1937 - Suzanne Pleshette, NYC, actress (Birds, Emily-Bob Newhart Show)
1937 - Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
1937 - Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1938 - Ajip Rosidi, Indonesian poet/writer (Madjalah Sunda, Pesta)
1938 - Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, queen of Netherlands (1980- )
1938 - James G Watt, Colo, US Secretary of Interior (1981-83)
1939 - Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter
1940 - Jessica Walter, Bkln NY, actress (Play Misty For Me, Amy Prentiss)
1940 - Stuart Margolin, Davenport Iowa, actor (Love American Style)
1941 - George S Mickelson, (Gov-SD)
1941 - Richard A Gephardt, (Rep-D-MO, 1977- )
1941 - Sharon Miller, LPGA golfer
1942 - Derek Jarman, actor/director (Angelic Conversation, Edward II)
1942 - Gerald Chanberlain, rocker
1942 - Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress
1944 - Anton Korteweg, Dutch poet (For the Good Order)
1944 - Charley Musselwhite, blues musician (Stand Back, Louisiana Fog)
1944 - Eugene Terre Blanche, S Afr leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
1944 - John Inverarity, cricketer (Australian batsman 1968-72)
1945 - Noah Creshevsky, composer
1946 - Glynn Turman, NYC, actor (Lew-Peyton Place, Manimal, Centennial)
1946 - Jonathan Banks, Wash DC, actor (Armed & Dangerous, Cold Steel)
1946 - Subroto Guha, cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69)
1946 - Terry Kath, rocker (Chicago-If You Leave Me Now)
1947 - Jim Nollman, composer
1947 - Nolan Ryan, pitcher (Mets, Angels, Astros) (7 no-hitters, 5,714 Ks)
1948 - Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
1949 - Carol Hawkins, actress (Dialing for Dingbats)
1949 - Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist
1949 - Ken Wilber, American philosopher
1951 - Harry Casey, [KC], rock vocalist (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
1951 - Phil Manzanera, rock guitarist (Roxy Music-Let's Stick Together)
1951 - Presiley Baxendale, British QC
1951 - Dave Benton, Aruban-born singer
1952 - Rosanne Musgrave, headmistress (Blackheath HS)
1952 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969)
1953 - Aart Mol, Dutch bassist (Catapult)
1954 - Adrian Vandenberg, Amsterdam Neth, rock guitarist (Whitesnake)
1954 - Sheik Faoud Ahamul Bacchus, cricketer (West Indian bat late 70's)
1955 - Virginia Ruzici, Romania, tennis star
1956 - Johnny Rotten, [John Lydon], rocker (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen)
1956 - Lloyd Cole, rocker
1956 - Trevor A Manuel, South African UDF/ANC-leader
1957 - Brett "the Hitman" Hart, Alberta Canada, WWF champion
1957 - Shirley F Babashoff, California, swimmer (Olympics-6 silver/2 gold-72, 76)
1958 - Rafael Santana, shortstop (NY Mets, NY Yankees)
1958 - Tom Schuman, pianist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1959 - Anthony LaPaglia, actor (Murder One)
1959 - Kelly Lynch, actress (Drugstore Cowboy)
1959 - Kelly Moore, American stock car driver
1960 - Elaine Roque, Santa Monica Ca, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1960 - Grant Morrison, British comic book author
1961 - Lloyd Cole, guitar/vocals (& the Commotions-Rattlesnakes)
1962 - Sophie Muller, Music video director
1963 - John Dye, Amory Mass, actor (Andrew-Touched by an Angel)
1963 - Scott Ian Rosenfeld, Bayside NY, rocker (Anthrax-Protest & Survive)
1964 - Oto Hascak, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1964 - Remi Bouchard, Lasalle Que, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 India Open)
1964 - Sharon Cain, San Antonio TX, team handball center back (Olympics-1996)
1964 - Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer)
1965 - Adam Johnson, Portland Ore, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1965 - Bianca Yasmin Salahshourian, Fairfield Conn, Miss Conn-America (1991)
1965 - Bobby Dollas, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1965 - Kim Clarke, Tulsa Oklahoma, team handball back court (Olympics-88, 92, 96)
1965 - René Trost, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1966 - Al Jaworsky, [Alan Doughty], pop bassist (Jesus Jones)
1966 - Charles Dimry, NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Bucs, Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 - Jamie Taras, CFL guard (BC Lions)
1966 - Dr Umar Alisha, A Sufi Master was Born at Pithapuram.
1967 - Fat Mike, American musician
1967 - Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress
1967 - Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress
1968 - Doug Pederson, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1968 - Michael Sinclair, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 - Steve Phoenix, US baseball pitcher (Oakland Athletics)
1968 - Patrick Stevens, Belgian athlete
1969 - Mathew Pallister, Sydney NSW Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 - Greg Skrepenak, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders, Carolina Panthers)
1970 - Rachel Jean Marteen, Atlanta GA, playmate (Aug, 1995)
1970 - Travis Hannah, NFL/WLAF receiver (Houston Oilers, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 - Brandi Sherwood, Miss USA-Idaho (1997, 2nd)
1971 - Corey Holliday, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 - Minnie Driver, actress (Good Will Hunting)
1971 - Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer
1971 - Lee Young Ae, South Korean actress
1971 - Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian
1972 - Ben Cavil, guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1972 - Fritz Fequiere, WLAF guard (Barcelona Dragons, London Monarchs)
1972 - Marvin Coleman, CFL defensive back (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Pulu Poumele, guard (San Diego Chargers)
1972 - Reinier Robbemond, Dutch soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1973 - Latario Rachal, WLAF/NFL receiver (Amsterdam Admirals, San Diego Chargers)
1973 - Portia de Rossi, Australian actress
1974 - Bob Mulder, soccer player (Appingedam, FC Groningen)
1974 - Lorenzo Styles, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - Othella Harrington, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1974 - Pavi Sald, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1974 - Tory Toogood, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 - Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
1975 - Kenard Lang, defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1975 - Jackie O, Australian radio host
1975 - Preity Zinta, Indian actress
1976 - Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer
1976 - Buddy Rice, American race car driver
1977 - Naomi Darrell, Miss Bermuda Universe (1997)
1977 - Shingo Katori, Japanese actor and singer (SMAP)
1977 - Jim Kleinsasser, National Football League tight end
1977 - Kate Shindle, American actress
1977 - Kerry Washington, American actress
1978 - Fabián Caballero, Argentine footballer
1978 - Brad Rutter, Jeopardy! champion
1978 - Ray Shah, Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter
1979 - Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant
1980 - James Adomian, American actor
1980 - Ryan Kienle, American musician
1980 - Tiffany Limos, American actress
1981 - Sergio D. Acosta, Chicano Filmmaker
1981 - Julio Arca, Argentinian football player
1981 - Justin Timberlake, Memphis, Tennessee, singer-songwriter (Sexyback, My Love)
1982 - Yuniesky Betancourt, Major League Baseball shortstop
1982 - Andreas Görlitz, German football player
1982 - Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese actor, comedian and TV host
1982 - Elena Paparizou, Greek singer
1982 - Jānis Sprukts, National Hockey League player
1982 - Brad Thompson, Major League Baseball player
1983 - Tom Vangeneugden, Belgian swimmer
1983 - James Sutton, British television actor
1984 - Jeremy Wariner, American 400m runner
1984 - Vernon Davis, NFL player
1985 - Adam Federici, Australian footballer
1985 - Mario Williams, NFL player
1986 - Yves Makabu-Makalambay, Belgian football goalkeeper

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #183 on: January 31, 2013, 07:00:51 AM »
This Day in History for 31st January


Famous Deaths



English Catholic Conspirator
Guy Fawkes (1606)


743 - Muhammad al-Baqir, Shia Imam (b. 676)
1398 - Emperor Sukō (b. 1334)
1435 - Xuande, Emperor of China (b. 1398)
1561 - Menno Simonsz, Dutch priest/vicar (Foundation Book), dies
1561 - Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar
1580 - Henry, King of Portugal, Cardinal, Epilepticus and Regent. Reigned 1578-80 (b. 1512)
1606 - Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed at 35
1615 - Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
1632 - Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
1665 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
1686 - Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
1720 - Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (c. 1654)
1729 - Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
1736 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (b. 1678)
1788 - Francesco Zannetti, composer, dies at 50
1788 - [Bonnie Prince Charlie] Charles E Stuart, English pretender to the throne, dies at 67
1790 - Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718)
1794 - Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
1815 - José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)
1828 - Alexandros Ypsilanti, Greek resistance fighter, dies at 35
1844 - Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
1861 - Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at 53
1864 - Hamilton Rowan Gamble, US judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies
1888 - John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
1891 - Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75
1892 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834)
1907 - Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
1919 - Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79
1922 - Heinrich Reinhardt, composer, dies at 56
1933 - John Galsworthy, England, writer (Forsythe, Nobel 1932), dies at 65
1939 - George Thornton, cricketer (1 Test for South Africa 1902, 1* & 1-20), dies
1940 - René "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56
1942 - Henry Larkin, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1942 - Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)
1944 - Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
1945 - Eddie Slovik, 1st US executed for desertion since Civil War at 25
1949 - Henri de Vries, [Hendricus Walterop], actor (Cleopatra), dies at 84
1954 - Edwin H Armstrong, US radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63
1954 - Florence Bates, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama), dies at 65
1955 - John R Mott, US theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89
1956 - A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
1960 - Lowell Gilmore, actor (Calcutta, Roadblock), dies at 53
1966 - Elizabeth Patterson, actress (Tall Story), dies at 90
1967 - Chief Thundercloud, actor (Ambush, Colt 45, Typhoon), dies at 100
1967 - Otto Dibelius, German theologian/bishop, dies at 86
1967 - Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
1969 - Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok, composer, dies at 77
1969 - Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)
1970 - Slim Harpo, [James Moore], rocker, dies at 28
1972 - Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, king of Nepal (1955-72), dies at 51
1972 - Howard Barlow, conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 79
1972 - Istvan Szelenyi, composer, dies at 67
1973 - Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist (Nobel 1969), dies at 77
1974 - Glenn Morris, olympian/actor (Tarzan's Revenge), dies at 61
1974 - Harry Baum, actor (Crime & Punishment), dies at 58
1974 - Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter (Flandre), dies at 72
1974 - Roger Pryor, actor (Lady by Choice), dies at 72
1974 - Samuel Goldwyn, Polish/English/US film magnate (MGM), dies at 91
1976 - Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941)
1980 - J P Duminy, cricket (30 runs at 5 & 1 wkt at 39 in 3 Test S Af), dies
1987 - Yves Allégret, French film director (b. 1907)
1989 - Jack Douglas, humorist (My Brother Was an Only Child), dies at 80
1989 - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer, dies at 63
1990 - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
1992 - Mel Hein, NFL center (NY Giants), dies at 82
1992 - Wim van Heumen, field hockey coach (Netherlands), dies at 63
1994 - Pierre Boulle, French writer (Executioner), dies at 81
1995 - George Abbott, playwright/actor/producer (Damn Yankees), dies at 105
1995 - James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83), dies at 86
1996 - Gustave Solomon, mathematician, dies at 65
1997 - Eve Lister, actress/singer (No Limit, Hyde Park), dies at 84
1997 - John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
1999 - Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
1999 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler
2000 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)
2001 - Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)
2002 - Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (b. 1919)
2004 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913)
2006 - Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)
2007 - Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
2007 - Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (b. 1944)
2007 - Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 - Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929)
2008 - Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug (b. 1997)
2009 - Nagesh, Indian comedian actor in Kollywood (b. 1933)
2012 - mike Kelley, American artist, commits suicide at 57
2012 - Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal, dies at 88
2012 - Dorothea Tanning, American artist, dies at 101
2012 - Tristram Coffin, American folklorist, dies from pneumonia at 89

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #184 on: February 01, 2013, 06:54:49 AM »
This Day in History for 1st February


Historical Events


                                             
The Sun King Louis XIV                            Inventor Thomas Edison                        Composer Giacomo Puccini

                                             
Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini            37th US President Richard Nixon                   Goddess of Pop Cher
                                                                                                                                     (Cherilyn Sarkisian)

                           
Comedian David Letterman                          Singer Janet Jackson


772 - Adrian I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother
           Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1539 - Emperor Karel & King Francois I sign anti-English treaty
1587 - English queen Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence
1662 - Dutch garrison on Formosa surrenders for Chinese pirates
1669 - French King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1709 - Alexander Selkirk [Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
1713 - The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his
           unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
1717 - Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France
1720 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty
1732 - Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions
1742 - Sardinia & Austria sign alliance
1783 - William Herschel announces star Lambda Herculis as apex
1788 - 1st US steamboat patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1789 - Chinese troops driven out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
1790 - Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
1793 - France declares war on England & Netherlands
1793 - Patent granted Ralph Hodgson, NY, for oiled silk & linen
1796 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1809 - Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system
1810 - 1st insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
1810 - Seville, Spain surrenders to French
1810 - US Population: 7,239,881, Black population: 1,377,808 (19%)
1814 - Lord Byron's "Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication
1814 - Volcano Mayon on Luzon Philippines erupts killing 1,200
1840 - Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US, incorporated
1846 - Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation
1856 - Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama Male College.
1860 - 1st rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
1861 - Dike breaks in Gelderland Netherlands
1861 - American Civil War: Texas becomes the 7th state to secede from the United States.
1862 - Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
1864 - -Feb 8th] Battle of Yazoo River, MS
1864 - 2nd German-Danish war begins
1864 - Austrian/Prussian troops occupy Sleeswijk/Holstein
1865 - 13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1865 - General Sherman's march through South Carolina begins
1865 - JS Rock, 1st black lawyer to practice in Supreme Ct, admitted to bar
1867 - Bricklayers start working 8-hour days
1871 - Jefferson Long of Georgia is 1st black to make an official speech in House of Reps (opposing
           leniency to former Confederates)
1880 - The first edition of theatrical newspaper The Stage is published.
1881 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri authorized
1883 - French lt-col Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes reaches Bamako on the Niger
1884 - 1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
1887 - Harvey Wilcox of Ks subdivides 120 acres he owned in Southern California & starts selling it
           off as a real estate development (Hollywood)
1892 - Mrs William Astor invites 400 guests to a grand ball at her mansion thus beginning use of
          "400" to describe socially elite
1893 - Puccini's Opera "Manon Lescaut," premieres in Turin
1893 - Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1896 - Giacomo Puccini's Opera "La Boheme," premieres in Turin
1897 - Shinhan Bank, the oldest bank in South Korea, opens in Seoul.
1898 - 1st auto insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
1902 - China's empress Tzu-hsi forbids binding woman's feet
1902 - Hermann Sudermanns "Es lebe das Leben," premieres in Berlin
1905 - Hague soccer team ADO froms
1905 - Hungarian premier Tisza resigns
1906 - 1st federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
1906 - English min of Frgn affairs Edward Grey's wife Dorothy fatally injured
1908 - King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.
1909 - US Assay Office in Salt Lake City, Utah opens
1910 - 1st British labour exchange opens
1910 - Dragoumis government forms in Greece
1914 - NY Giants & Chic White Sox play an exhibition baseball game in Egypt
1914 - Pennsylvania State Board of [motion picture] censors appointed
1914 - Tanganyika Railway opens
1917 - Admiral Tirpitz announces unlimited submarine war
1918 - Franz Lehars opera "Wo die Lerche singt," premieres in Budapest
1918 - Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical premieres in NYC
1918 - Russia adopts Gregorian calender (becomes Feb 14)
1919 - Dodgers trade Jake Daubert to Reds for Tommy Griffith Daubert
1920 - 1st commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn)
1920 - Soccer team Quick Boys forms
1920 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal Northwest Mounted Police merge with
           Dominion Police
1923 - Allied ultimatum on Lithuanian occupation of Memel
1923 - Fascists Voluntary Militia forms in Italy under Benito Mussolini
1923 - Noel Coward's "Young Idea," premieres in London
1924 - Amsterdam's Netherlands Press Museum opens
1924 - New British MacDonald government recognizes USSR
1924 - Soccer team VSV Tonido forms in Voorburg
1924 - Soviet Union formally recognized by Britain
1925 - 1st national conference of KPD's Rotfrontkämpferbund in Berlin
1926 - Kirghiz Autonomous Region in RSFSR becomes Kirghiz ASSR
1926 - Land at Broadway & Wall Street sold at a record $7 per sq inch
1929 - 1st clean & jerk of 400 lbs (182 kg), Charles Rigoulet, 402½ lbs
1930 - Arnold Schönbergs opera, Von heute auf Morgen premieres in Frankfurt
1932 - Bradman makes 299* vs South Africa, runs out partner going for 300th
1933 - Colonial government arrests Anton de Kom in Paramaribo Suriname
1933 - Dutch bishops forbid membership in non-catholic unions
1933 - German Parliament disolves, Gen Ludendorf predicts catastrophe
1934 - Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves all political parties but his
1935 - 1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
1935 - James T Farrell finishes his "Studs Lonigan" trilogy
1937 - Stapleton, Staten Island becomes a customs-free port
1940 - Russia begins new offensive against Finland
1941 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1941 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
1942 - 2nd Norwegian government of Quisling forms
1943 - German occupiers make Vidkun Quisling Norwegian premier
1943 - Mussert forms pro Nazi shadow cabinet (Neth)
1944 - Supreme Soviet enlarges soviet republics' autonomy
1944 - US 7th Infantry/4th Marine Division lands on Kwajalein/Roi/Namur
1945 - US Army arrives at Siegfriedlinie
1946 - Republic of Hungary proclaimed, Zolt n Tildy as communist president
1946 - Trygve Lie, a Norwegian socialist, becomes 1st Sec-Gen of UN
1947 - Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems & communists
1947 - Dmitri Shostakovitch named professor at conservatory of Leningrad
1947 - NV United Dutch Fokker's Aircraft established
1948 - Federation Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
1948 - Palestine Post building in Jerusalem bombed
1949 - 200" (5.08-m) Hale telescope 1st used [See June 3, 1948]
1949 - RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1950 - USSR demands condemnation of Emperor Hirohito for war crimes
1950 - Urko Kekkonen elected president of Finland
1951 - -50°F (-46°C), Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
1951 - 1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion
1951 - Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
1951 - UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor in Korea
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1952 - General strike against French colonial management in Tunisia
1952 - SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in NYC
1953 - "General Electric Theater" premieres on CBS TV; Reagan later hosts
1953 - "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
1953 - Dr A de Waal appointed as Neth 1st female asst sect of state
1953 - Flooding in Netherlands, kills 1,835
1953 - WEEK TV channel 25 in Peoria, IL (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - 1st TV soap opera "Secret Storm" premieres
1954 - Scapino Ballet Studio in Amsterdam destroyed by fire
1954 - Soccer team The County froms in Doetinchem
1955 - HC Hansen appointed premier of Denmark
1956 - Hague Daily Newspaper reveals war crimes of Hague mayor Schokking
1956 - WSAV TV channel 3 in Savannah, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 - 1st black pilot (PH Young) on a US scheduled passenger airline
1957 - Gijsbert of Hall appointed mayor of Amsterdam
1957 - Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine was running at the NSU
           research and development department Versuchsabteilung TX in Germany
1958 - 1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
1958 - Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge into United Arab Republic
1958 - WFTV TV channel 9 in Orlando, FL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Swiss males vote against voting rights for women
1959 - Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1959 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Carol Heiss
1959 - US male Figure Skating championship won by David Jenkins
1959 - WVUE TV channel 8 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Havana Golf Tournament
1959 - Zack Wheat unanimously elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1960 - 34th Australian Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats J Lehane (75 62)
1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
1960 - 48th Australian Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats N Fraser (57 36 63 86 86)
1960 - Extreme right-wing rebels in Algiers surrender
1961 - 1st full-scale test of US Minuteman ICBM is successful
1961 - British minister Enoch Powell makes medical insurance more expensive
1961 - Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 mins for cricket draw vs West Indies
1962 - "New Faces of '62" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 performances
1962 - NL releases its 1st 162-game schedule
1963 - Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda
1964 - "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert NYC after 556 perf
1964 - Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks
1964 - Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity
1964 - Suriname River dammed
1965 - Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
1965 - Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
1965 - NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster
1967 - Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million & 60 lives
1967 - WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - Former VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president
1968 - Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers
1968 - World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi
1968 - Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head
1969 - Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert
1969 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1969 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood
1969 - WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 - Ford Frick, Earle Combs & Jesse Haines elected to Hall of Fame
1970 - Stalled commuter train rammed by express in Argentina, 139 die
1970 - WMAA TV channel 29 in Jackson, MS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 - West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract
1972 - 1st scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1972 - Wings release "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" in UK
1972 - Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
           Malaysia.
1973 - Monte Irvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1974 - "Good Times" (spinoff from "Maude") premieres on CBS TV
1974 - Kuala Lumpur is declared a Federal Territory.
1975 - "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
1975 - "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
1975 - 1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
1975 - Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
1975 - Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense
           Department
1976 - "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV
1976 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1976 - Sonny & Cher resume TV show, despite real-life divorce
1976 - East Lansing police arrest Dodgers reliever Mike Marshall for taking batting practice at Mich
           State U after he is warned not to
1977 - Heavy blizzard in New England claims 100 lives
1977 - Hillsdale High School defeats Person High School 2-0 in basketball
1978 - Harriet Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
1978 - Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of
           engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
1979 - Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison for bank robbery
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - Sears Radio Theater moves from CBS to Mutual Broadcasting System
1980 - Soap opera "Love of Life" ends a 28 year run
1981 - 11th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 21-7
1981 - 31st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland
1981 - Duke Ellington-musical "Sophisticated Ladies," premieres in NYC
1981 - Dutch Antilles census is 231,932
1981 - French government accord sends 60 Mirage fighter jets to Iraq
1981 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-7
1981 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1981 - Trevor Chappell bowls underarm to Brian McKechnie, WSC Final MCG
1982 - "Late Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC-TV
1982 - Senegal & Gambia form loose confederation (Senegambia)
1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1984 - China & Netherlands regain diplomatic relations
1984 - Daniel Stern becomes NBA commissioner
1984 - Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, kidnapped in England (killed 0203)
1985 - -61°F (-52°C), Maybell, Colorado (state record)
1985 - -69°F (-56°C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)
1985 - Azharuddin scores 3rd Test century in 3rd Test Cricket (122 v Eng)
1985 - Cards trade D Green, Jose Uribe, Dave LaPoint to Giants for Jack Clark
1985 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tiffany Chin
1986 - KHJ-AM in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KRTH
1987 - 163 day strike against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
1987 - 38,873 NBA crowd watch Chicago at Detroit
1987 - Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1987 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 10-6
1989 - Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 at perihelion
1989 - Princess Diane of England visits NYC
1989 - The Western Australian towns of Kalgoorlie and Boulder amalgamate to form the City of
           Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
1991 - Afghanistan/Pakistan hit by earthquake, 1,200 die
1991 - Craig McDermott takes 8-97 v England at the WACA
1991 - President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal all apartheid laws
1991 - US Air & Skywest Fairchild jet collide at LA Airport killing 32
1992 - "Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1992 - Barry Bonds signs baseball's highest single year contract ($4.7 mil)
1992 - Denis Potvin's #5 becomes 1st number retired by NY Islanders
1993 - NY Judge Sol Wachtler indicted for harassing Joy Silverman
1993 - Soyuz TM-16 lands
1994 - Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.03 sec)
1994 - Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean
1995 - Amtrak NY-Tampa run ends
1995 - Amy van Dikes swims woman's world record 50 m butterfly (26.73)
1995 - Andy & Grant Flower make 269 stand vs Pak, brotherly record
1995 - Belgium's TV channel VT4 goes on the air
1996 - The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1998 - "Street Corner Symphony," closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 79 perf
1998 - 86th Australian Mens Tennis: Petr Korda beats Marcelo Rios (62 62 62)
1998 - Australian Mixed: J Gimelstob & V Williams beat Suk & Sukova (62 61)
1998 - NFL Pro Bowl Game, AFC beats NFC 29-24
1998 - Rear Admiral Lillian E. Fishburne became the first female African American to be promoted to
           rear admiral.
2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all
           seven astronauts aboard.
2004 - 251 people are trampled to death and 244 injured in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in
           Saudi Arabia.
2004 - Janet Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting
            in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to FCC censorship guidelines.
2005 - Nepal King Gyanendra exercises Coup d'état to capture the democracy becoming Chairman of
           the Councils of ministers.
2005 - Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act, making Canada the fourth country to sanction
            same-sex marriage.
2009 - Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the
           first openly gay Head of State in the modern world.
2012 - At least 73 people are killed in the Egyptian football riots in Port Said

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
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This Day in History for 1st February


Famous Weddings


1986 - Singer Diana Ross marries Norwegian businessman Arne Naess in Switz

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This Day in History for 1st February


Famous Birthdays


                                             
Actor Clark Gable (1901)                     Russian President Boris Yeltsin (1931)            Princess of Rock and Roll   
                                                                                                                                  Lisa Marie Presley (1968)                                                                                 
                                                                                                 

1261 - Walter de Stapledon, English bishop (d. 1326)
1459 - Conrad Celtes, German scholar (d. 1508)
1462 - Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer (d. 1516)
1552 - Edward Coke, Mileham Norfolk, jurist/politician (defended common law)
1603 - Michael Trumper, composer
1605 - Isaac Aboab de Fonseca, Portuguese/Neth rabbi/mystic
1633 - Gabriel Schutz, composer
1635 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)
1659 - Jacob Roggeveen, Dutch Swiss lawyer/navigator (Easter Island)
1663 - Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress (d. 1748)
1669 - Miguel Lopez, composer
1690 - Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer
1710 - Konrad E Ackermann, German actor (Die Oberpfalz)
1757 - John P Kemble, England, actor/director (Drury Lane, Covent Garden)
1761 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, South African mycologist (d. 1836)
1763 - Thomas Campbell, founder (Church of Disciples in America)
1789 - Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer
1791 - Charles J Sax, Belgian music instrument builder
1796 - Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (d. 1865)
1801 - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer
1801 - Thomas Cole, US, romantic landscape painter (Hudson River School)
1801 - Émile Littré, French lexicographer (d. 1881)
1805 - Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary (workers' leader)
1807 - William Bowen Campbell, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1810 - Charles Lenox Remond, Salem Mass, famous black American orator and abolitionist
1819 - Henry Lawrence Eustis, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
1820 - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (d. 1897)
1821 - Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer
1827 - Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker
1829 - John Potts Slough, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
1833 - Henry McNeal Turner, black methodist bishop
1839 - James A Herne, [J Aherne], US playwright (Hearts of Oak)
1841 - William H H Davenport, Buffalo, stage medium
1844 - Eduard Adolf Strasburger, German botanist (Angiospermen)
1844 - Granville Stanley Hall, US, psychologist
1851 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (d. 1908)
1859 - Victor August Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland)
1859 - Victor Herbert, Irish/US composer (Kiss in Dark)
1869 - Johannes F "Frits" Bakker Sr, actor (Holland Tooneelgezelschap)
1872 - Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose
1872 - Jerome F. Donovan, American politician (d. 1949)
1872 - Andrew Kehoe, American mass murderer (d. 1927)
1873 - Clara Butt, Southwick Sussex, contralto (Country of Hope & Glory)
1873 - Joseph Allard, Canadian fiddler (d. 1947)
1873 - John Barry, Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (d. 1901)
1874 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austria, poet/dramatist/essayist
1875 - Eddie Pola, composer (Lullabye of Broadway)
1877 - Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer
1878 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate
1878 - Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (d. 1944)
1879 - Sydney Baynes, composer
1880 - Antonio Guarnieri, composer
1880 - Francesco Balilla Pratella, composer
1881 - Jose Ignacio Quinton, composer
1882 - Louis St Laurent, Compton Quebec, (L) 12th Canadian PM (1948-57)
1883 - Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor/director (Eric XIV)
1884 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russia, novelist/playwright (We)
1885 - Camille Chautemps, premier France
1887 - Dirk Roosenburg, Dutch architect
1887 - Charles Nordhoff, English-born author (d. 1947)
1889 - Gertrude Caton-Thompson, British archaeologist (Zimbabwe, So Arabia)
1891 - James Price Johnson, composer
1892 - K Rudolf Mengelberg, composer/musicologist (Amsterdam Concert Hall)
1894 - James P. Johnson, American composer (d. 1955)
1895 - John Ford, Maine, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man)
1896 - Anastasio "Tacho" Somoza, general/pres of Nicaragua (1937-56)
1897 - Denise Robins, London, romantic novelist (1st Long Kiss)
1900 - Stephen Potter, humorist/writer (School for Scoundrels, Shipbuilders)
1901 - Clark Gable, Cadiz Ohio, American actor (Gone With the Wind)
1902 - Carlo Borbolla, composer
1902 - Langston Hughes, poet/translator (Weary Blues)
1902 - Therese Brandl, Nazi concentration camp guard (d. 1947, by execution)
1903 - Georg Rendl, Austria miner/beekeeper/writer (The Bees Novel)
1904 - S J Perelman, Brooklyn, author/humorist (Around the World in 80 Days)
1905 - Emilio Segre
1905 - Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg
1906 - Hildegarde, Adell Wisc, night club vocalist (I'll Be Seeing You)
1906 - Pierre Cardevielle, French composer/conductor (Amants Captifs)
1907 - Alan Strode Campbell Ross, professor (coined the terms U & non-U)
1907 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazil, composer/conductor
1907 - John Canaday, art critic (Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios)
1907 - Mozart Camargo Guarnieri, composer
1908 - Albie Booth, collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale)
1908 - Edward Staempfli, composer
1908 - George Pal, Hungarian/US director (When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons)
1909 - Douglas Hall, Governor (Somaliland Protectorate)
1909 - Helen Chandler, Charleston SC, actress (Christopher Strong, Dracula)
1910 - H Stanley Cayzer
1910 - Jahangir Khan, cricketer (father of Majid, Indian player 1932-36)
1910 - Michael Kanin, Rochester NY, director/writer/actor (Woman of the Year)
1913 - Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot
1915 - Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted
1916 - Gordon Hobday, Lord Lieutenant (Nottinghamshire)
1918 - Maurice Laing, life president (John Laing)
1918 - Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)
1920 - Kenneth Bond, former vice-chairman
1921 - Peter Sallis, actor (Tast the Blood of Dracula)
1922 - Bogumil Witalis Andrzejewski, professor of Cushtic Languages
1922 - Clifford McWatt, cricketer (WI wicket-keeper in 6 Tests 1954-55)
1924 - H. Richard Hornberger, American writer (d. 1997)
1924 - Ben Weider, Quebec businessman and author
1926 - Douglas Johnson, historian
1926 - Peter Crill, Bailiff of Jersey
1926 - Stuart Whitman, SF California, actor (Capt Apache, Ransom, Cimarron Strip)
1927 - Galway Kinnell, Providence RI, author (Body Rags, Book of Nightmares)
1928 - Eric Evans, Dean (St Paul's)
1928 - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer
1928 - Sam Edwards, physicist
1928 - Thoams Eric Evans, dean (St Paul's)
1928 - Tom Lantos, (Rep-D-CA, 1981- )
1928 - Ursula Mamlok, composer
1930 - Peter Tapsell, British MP
1930 - Shahabuddin Ahmed, President of Bangladesh
1930 - Mario Beaulieu, Quebec politician (d. 1998)
1931 - Barrel, [ABM] Frinking, teacher/Dutch MP (CVP)
1931 - Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
1931 - Madeline Berthod, Switzerland, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
1931 - Mark Richmond, CEO (Science & Engineering Research Council)
1931 - Ton [ABM] Frinking, Dutch MP (CDA)
1932 - John Hart, Denver Colo, newsman (CBS News Retrospective, NBC News)
1932 - John Nott, British MP
1933 - Reynolds Price, US writer (Strengthened by a Pale Green Light)
1934 - Bob Shane, vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1935 - Ruth Clarke, Moderator (General Assembly of the United Reform Church)
1935 - Vladimir Viktorovich Aksyonov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 22, T-2)
1936 - G H Blake, Principal (Collingwood College, Durham U)
1936 - Azie Taylor Morton, 35th Treasurer of the United States (d. 2003)
1937 - Don Everly, Brownie Ky, vocalist (Everly Bros-Wake Up Little Susie)
1937 - Dr Hook, [Ray Sawyer], Ala, vocalist (Dr Hook-When You're in Love)
1937 - Garrett Morris, New Orleans La, actor (SNL, Martin, Carwash)
1938 - Jacky Cupit, golfer (Rookie of Year 1961)
1938 - Jimmy Carl Black, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
1938 - Sherman Hemsley, Phila, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen), (d. 2012)
1939 - Del McCoury, bluegrass singer/musician
1939 - Paul E Gillmor, (Rep-R-Ohio)
1939 - Ray Sawyer, rocker
1939 - Claude François, French singer (d. 1978)
1940 - Bibi Besch, Vienna Austria, actress (Star Trek 2, Beast Within)
1940 - Herve Filion, sulky driver (1969 Canadian Sports Hall of Fame)
1941 - Anatoliy Firssov, USSR, ice hockey play (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1941 - Franco Nones, Italy, 30K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1968)
1941 - Robert Walmsley, British Vice-Admiral
1941 - Karl Dall, German television host
1941 - Jerry Spinelli, children's author
1942 - Dave Sincock, cricketer (chinaman bowler played for Aust 1964-66)
1942 - Terry Jones, Colwyn Bay North Wales, comedian (Monty Python)
1942 - Muna Wassef, Wassef is a well known Syrian/Arab movie star and a United Nations Goodwill ambassador.
1943 - Josceline Dimbleby, cookery writer
1943 - Lord Mountevans
1943 - Tina Sloan, NY, actress (Lillian-Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow)
1944 - Leo Burmester, Louisville Ky, actor (Flo, Chiefs, Abbys, Odd Jobs)
1944 - Tommy Duffy, rocker (Echos)
1944 - Mike Enzi, American politician, senator of Wyoming
1944 - Burkhard Ziese, German football manager
1945 - Ole Buck, composer
1946 - Bart Braverman, LA California, actor (Bobby-Vega$, Roy-New Odd Couple)
1947 - Adam Ingram, British MP
1947 - Terry Hibbitt, soccer star
1947 - Mike Brant, Israeli pop singer (d. 1975)
1947 - Normie Rowe, Australian singer
1948 - Debbie Austin, LPGA golfer
1948 - Jennifer Adams, superintendent (Central Royal Parks)
1948 - Elisabeth Sladen, British actress
1949 - Jimmy Lee Thorpe, Roxboro NC, PGA golfer (1985 Greater Milwaukee Open)
1950 - Mike Campbell, American guitarist and producer
1951 - Andrew Smith, British MP
1952 - Rick James, [James Johnson], rock/soul/funk vocalist (Super Freak)
1953 - Andy Mill, skier/husband of Chris Everet
1953 - C A Barnett, headmaster (Whitgift School)
1953 - Brendan Batson, English former footballer
1954 - Billy Mumy, California, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte)
1954 - Mike Campbell, guitarist (Tom Petty & Heartbreakers-Breakdown)
1954 - Chuck Dukowski, American musician (Black Flag)
1955 - Kate Ashbrook, general secretary (Open Spaces Society)
1955 - Virginia Elliot, three-day eventer
1955 - Ernie Camacho, baseball player
1956 - Brahmanandam, Indian film actor
1956 - Exene Cervenka, American musician
1956 - Mike Kitchen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1957 - Donna Adamek, Duarte California, bowler (BWAA Woman of Year 1978-81)
1958 - Maureen Madill, Coleraine No Ireland, golfer (Brit Open Amateur 1979)
1958 - Jackie Shroff, Indian actor
1958 - Luther Blissett, English footballer
1959 - Anthony LaPlagia, actor (Criminal Justice, Betsy's Wedding)
1959 - Carolyn Hill, Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1994 McCall's Classic)
1959 - Mike Horan, NFL punter (NY Giants)
1959 - Wade Wilson, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1961 - Daniel M Tani, Ridley Park MD, astronaut
1961 - Gina Hull, Jacksonville FL, LPGA golfer (1989 USX Golf Classic-8th)
1962 - José Luis Cuciuffo, Argentinian footballer (d. 2004)
1962 - Tomoyasu Hotei, Japanese guitarist
1963 - Jani Lane, heavy metal drummer (Warrant-Cherry Pie)
1963 - Takashi Murakami, Japanese artist
1964 - Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, musician
1964 - Kaitlin Hopkins, NYC, actress (Kelsey-Another World)
1964 - Sharon Bruneau, Toronto Ontario, actress (Sensuous Muscle)
1964 - Mario Pelchat, Quebec singer
1964 - Linus Roache, English actor
1965 - Brandon Lee, Emerson Colo, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo)
1965 - David Callaghan, cricketer (South African all-rounder in one-dayers 1992)
1965 - Sherilyn Fenn, Detroit Mich, actress (2 Moon Junction, Twin Peaks)
1965 - Stephanie Marie Elisabeth de Grimaldi, Monte Carlo Monaco, Princess
1966 - Donna Edmondson, Greensboro NC, playmate of year (Nov, 1986)
1966 - Eddie Zambrano, Venezuelan/US baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1966 - Michelle Akers, Santa Clara California, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1966 - Rob Lee, English footballer
1967 - Tim Naehring, Cincinnati OH, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1967 - Meg Cabot, American author
1967 - Patle Shishupal Natthu, Indian politician
1968 - George Quigley Jr, Cin Ohio, skeet (Olympics-1996)
1968 - Javier Sanchez, Spain, tennis star
1968 - Kent Mercker, Dublin OH, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, Balt Orioles)
1968 - Lisa Marie Presley Keough Jackson, Memphis Tenn, daughter of Elvis
1968 - Mark Recchi, Kamloops, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 - Pauly Shore, Hollywood, comedian (Totally Pauly, Encino Man)
1968 - Sean Millington, CFL fullback (BC Lions)
1969 - Bryan Jacob, Palatka Fla, 59 kg (130 lbs) weightlifter (Oly-1992, 96)
1969 - John Moore, Australian baseball catcher (Olympics-1996)
1969 - Gabriel Batistuta, Argentine footballer
1969 - Joshua Redman, American musician
1969 - Brian Krause, American actor
1969 - Patrick Wilson, American musician (Drummer for Weezer)
1969 - Andrew Breitbart, Los Angeles, California, conservative blogger and publisher, (d. 2012)
1970 - Eric Mobley, NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1970 - Malik Sealy, NBA guard/forward (Detroit Pistons, LA Clippers)
1970 - Yasuyuki Kazama, Japanese racing driver
1971 - Ajay Jadeja, cricketer (Indian opening batsman)
1971 - Derek Byrd, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
1971 - Robert O'Neal, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 - Tommy Salo, Surahammar SWE, NHL goalie (Team Sweden, NY Islanders)
1971 - Zlatko Zahovič, Slovenian footballer
1971 - Ron Welty, American musician
1972 - Brian Krause, actor (December, Sleepwalkers, Return to Blue Lagoon)
1972 - Geoff Sanderson, Hay River, NHL left wing (Hartford Whalers)
1972 - Richard Becker, Aurora IL, outfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1972 - [Thomas] Carlton Bruner, US, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-96)
1972 - Yoshi DeHerrera, American TV personality
1972 - Kami (musician), drummer of Japanese visual kei band Malice Mizer (d.1999)
1973 - Andrew DeClercq, NBA forward (Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics)
1973 - Elena Makarova, Moscow Russia, tennis star (1993 Futures-Val)
1973 - Michael Joyce, Santa Monica CA, tennis star (1989 USTA Natl Boys' 18)
1973 - Tlia Reima, ice hockey center (Finland, Oly-98)
1973 - Yuri Landman, Experimental musical instrument builder, musician and comic book artist
1973 - Makiko Ohmoto, Japanese voice actress
1974 - Jennifer Lien, actress (Hannah Moore-Another World)
1974 - Lisa Marie Scott, Pensacola FL, playmate (Feb, 1994)
1974 - Walter McCarty, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
1974 - Roberto Heras, Spanish cyclist
1974 - David Meca, Spanish long distance swimmer
1975 - Martijn Reuser, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
1975 - Big Boi, American musician (Outkast)
1976 - Phil Ivey, American poker player
1977 - Kevin Kilbane, Irish footballer
1979 - Juan Silveira dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
1979 - Julie Augustyniak, American soccer player
1979 - Valentin Elizalde, Mexican Singer (d.2006)
1980 - Courtney Hamilton, Miss Arizona Teen USA (1996)
1980 - Moisés Muñoz, Mexican footballer
1980 - Otilino Tenorio, Ecuadorian footballer (d. 2005)
1980 - Héctor Luna, Dominican Republic baseball player
1981 - Luis Lamá, Angolan footballer
1981 - Graeme Smith, South African cricketer
1981 - Rob Austin, British racing driver
1982 - Shoaib Malik, Pakistani cricketer
1983 - Jurgen Van Den Broeck, Belgian cyclist
1983 - Kevin Martin, American basketball player
1984 - Darren Fletcher, Scottish footballer
1984 - Lee Thompson Young, American actor
1985 - Dean Shiels, Northern Irish footballer
1985 - Rachael Scdoris, American dog musher
1985 - Jodi Gordon, Australian actress and model
1986 - Lauren Conrad, American TV star
1987 - Giuseppe Rossi, Italian footballer
1989 - Hurricane Chris, American rapper
1990 - Laura Marling, British singer-songwriter

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #187 on: February 01, 2013, 07:11:26 AM »
This Day in History for 1st February


Famous Deaths


                                                   
Frankenstein Author Mary Shelley (1851)           Abstract Painter Piet Mondrian (1944)


656 - Sigebert III, king of Austrasia, dies at about 25
1204 - Alexius IV Angelus, regent of Byzantium (1203-04), murdered
1248 - Hendrik II, duke of Brabant (1235-48), dies
1294 - Louis II, the Stern, ruler of Upper-Bayern, dies
1328 - Charles IV, the Handsome, King of France (1322-28), dies
1502 - Olivier de la Marche, Flemish writer/poet/governor, dies
1542 - Girolamo Aleandro, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1480)
1563 - Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia (died of fever)
1590 - Lawrence Humphrey,English clergyman and educator
1650 - Rene Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", stops thinking
1666 - Sjihab al-Din Sultan C Shah Djahan, mogol of India (Taj-Mahal), dies
1669 - Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at 31
1691 - Alexander VIII, [Pietro Ottoboni], Italian Pope (1689-91), dies at 80
1691 - George Etherege, English stage writer (Love in a Tub), dies at 56
1694 - John L baron van Elderen, 63rd bishop of Liege (1688-94), dies at 73
1718 - Charles Talbot, 1st Duke of Shrewsbury, English politician (b. 1660)
1733 - August II, the Strong, King of Poland (355 children), dies at 62
1734 - John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
1743 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer, dies at 85
1747 - Jacobus E J Capitein, Dutch slave/vicar/merchant, dies
1761 - Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, French historian (b. 1682)
1768 - Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet, British cavalry officer (b. 1685)
1793 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (b. 1717)
1795 - Giacomo Insanguine, composer, dies at 66
1818 - Giuseppi Gazzaniga, composer, dies at 74
1824 - Maria Theresia von Paradis, composer, dies at 64
1832 - Ecco Epkema, Dutch classic linguist (Frisian/Old Frisian), dies at 71
1832 - Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician (b. 1777)
1838 - Abraham de Veer, Dutch gov-gen of Suriname (1822-28), dies at 71
1839 - Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at 76
1850 - Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln
1851 - Mary Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), dies at 53
1869 - Frederik W Conrad, hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer, dies at 68
1871 - Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer, dies at 51
1873 - Matthew Maury, hydrographer, dies
1875 - William Sterndale Bennett, composer, dies at 58
1877 - Joseph-Leon Gatayes, composer, dies at 71
1878 - George Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), dies at 85
1883 - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies
1889 - Joseph Gungl, composer, dies at 78
1893 - George Henry Sanderson, Mayor of San Francisco (b. 1824)
1897 - Constantin von Ettingshausen, Austrian geologist (b. 1826)
1902 - Salomon Jaoassohn, composer, dies at 70
1903 - George G Stokes, British physicist/pres Royal Society, dies at 83
1904 - Peter PM Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76
1905 - Oswald Aschenbach, German painter, dies at 77
1908 - Carlos I, King of Portugal (1889-1908), assassinated by mob at 44
1910 - Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), dies at 44
1916 - Anton Simon, composer, dies at 65
1922 - William Desmond Taylor, director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49
1928 - Hughie Jennings, American baseball player and manager (b. 1869)
1929 - August Otto Halm, composer, dies at 59
1936 - Georgios Kondylis, general of the Greek army and Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1878)
1937 - Marguerite Audoux, writer, dies
1940 - Philip Francis Nowlan, science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers character (b. 1888)
1944 - Martin Lunssens, composer, dies at 72
1944 - Piet Mondrian, abstract painter (Composition in Blue), dies at 71
1945 - Johan Huizinga, Dutch culture historian (Homo Ludens), dies at 72
1946 - Hans Betghe, writer, dies at 70
1949 - Herbert Stothart, composer, dies at 63
1954 - Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69
1957 - Friedrich von Paulus, German field marshall (Stalingrad), dies at 66
1958 - Clinton Joseph Davisson, dies
1959 - Madame Sul-To-Wan, [Conley], actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 85
1963 - Fleetwood Lindley, the last living person to see Abraham Lincoln's face (b. 1888)
1966 - Buster Keaton, [Joseph Francis], US comic (General), dies at 69
1966 - Hedda Hopper, [Elda Furry], US gossip columnist, dies at 75
1966 - Nicholas Piantanida, sets balloon flight record & dies in descent
1966 - William Harrigan, actor (Invisible Man, Girl in 419), dies at 71
1967 - Ernie Bromley, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1933-34), dies
1968 - Lawson Little, amateur golfer (US/Brit Opens 1934,35), dies at 57
1970 - Blaz Arnic, composer, dies at 69
1970 - Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1921)
1971 - Jim A J Christy, cricket (10 Tests for S Af, 638 runs at 34 33), dies
1974 - Lynda Ann Healy, 1st Bundy murder victim, abducted in Seattle
1975 - Richard Wattis, actor (Dick & Duchess, Liberace), dies at 62
1976 - Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66
1976 - Werner C Heisenberg, physicist (Nobel 1932, field theory), dies at 74
1976 - George Whipple, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1878)
1977 - Edmond [Moore] Hamilton, US, sci-fi author (Danger Planet), dies at 72
1979 - Mort Marshall, actor (Cully-Dumplings), dies at 60
1980 - Jack Bailey, TV host (Queen for a Day), dies at 72
1980 - Romolo Valli, actor (Boom, La Viaccia), dies at 54
1980 - Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (b. 1930)
1981 - Donald W Douglas, US aviation pionieer/builder, dies at 88
1981 - Ernst Pepping, composer, dies at 79
1981 - Nils Geirr Tveitt, composer, dies at 72
1981 - Wanda Hendrix, actress (Sierra, Ride the Pink Horse), dies
1983 - Tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies
1986 - Alva Myrdal, Swedish Nobel peace prize winner (1982), dies at 84
1986 - Dick James, Beatles' music publisher (1962-70), dies in London at 58
1986 - Gino Hernandez, American wrestler (b. 1957)
1987 - Erin Westmore, makeup artist (Hollywood Backstage), dies at 82
1987 - Alessandro Blasetti, Italian film director (b. 1900)
1988 - Heather O'Rourke, (Poltergeist) star, dies of intestinal ailment at 12
1988 - Reinder Zwolsman, Dutch businessman, dies at 75
1989 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (b. 1918)
1991 - Carol Dempster, actress (Sally of Sawdust, America), dies at 89
1991 - H J van Ommeren-Averink, Dutch MP (CPN), dies
1991 - James G MacDonald, cartoon voice (Mickey Mouse), dies at 84
1991 - Phil Watson, NHL coach (NY Rangers), dies
1992 - George Berkeley, actor (Life Stinks, Capts & Kings), dies at 70
1992 - Irving R Kaufman, federal judge (Rosenberg Case), dies at 81
1994 - Fouad Fram al-Boustani, Lebanese historian (Rawaeaa), dies at 88
1994 - Olan Soule, radio voice (Super Friends), dies of lung cancer at 83
1995 - George Abbot, director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107
1995 - John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC), dies at 74
1995 - Michael Caesar, pope of pot, dies of liver cancer at 52
1996 - Clive Burton, neuropathologist, dies at 54
1997 - Herb Caen, columnist, Lung cancer, dies at 80
1997 - Mitchell Goodman, writer, dies at 71
1997 - Peter Morris, historian of France, dies at 50
1997 - Thelma Moss, psychologist, dies at 78
1999 - Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907)
1999 - Barış Manço, Turkish singer, composer, television producer and celebrity. (b. 1943)
2001 - André D'Allemagne, Quebec teacher, political observer and essayist (b. 1929)
2002 - Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer, and writer (b. 1925)
2003 - Michael P. Anderson - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1959)
2003 - David Brown - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1956)
2003 - Kalpana Chawla - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Laurel Clark - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Rick D. Husband - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1957)
2003 - Willie McCool - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1961)
2003 - Ilan Ramon - crew of the STS-107 Mission (Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) (b. 1954)
2003 - Mongo Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader (b. 1922)
2004 - May O'Donnell, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1909)
2005 - John Vernon, Canadian actor (b. 1932)
2006 - Dick Bass, American football player (b. 1937)
2006 - Bryce Harland, New Zealand diplomat (b. 1931)
2007 - Gian Carlo Menotti, Italian-born composer (b. 1911)
2007 - Seri Wangnaitham, Thai dance choreographer (b. 1937)
2007 - Ray Berres, American baseball player (b. 1907)
2007 - Ahmad Abu Laban, Danish Muslim leader (b. 1946)
2007 - Whitney Balliett, American jazz critic (b. 1926)
2012 - Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet and Nobel Laureate, dies at 88
2012 - Angelo Dundee, American boxing trainer and cornerman, dies at 90
2012 - Gerlando Alberti, Sicilian Mafioso, dies from cancer at 88
2012 - Don Cornelius, American television host, commits suicide by gunshot at 75

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #188 on: February 02, 2013, 08:26:38 AM »
This Day in History for 2nd February


Historical Events


                                             
Composer George Friedrich Handel         Versatile Athlete Jim Thorpe                   Novelist & Poet James Joyce

                                             
Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra                       Gangster Al Capone                                 Singer Buddy Holly

                           
Playwright Tom Stoppard                       264th Pope John Paul II

                                                       
Anti-apartheid activist/                          Country Singer Willie Nelson
South African President
Nelson Mandela


506 - King Alarik II of Visigoten delegates Lex Romania Visigothorum out
962 - Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor
1032 - Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes King of Burgundy, succeeding Rudolf III
1119 - Guido di Borgogna elected Pope Callistus II
1141 - Battle at Lincoln: King Stephen captured
1461 - 2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrian defeat Yorkists
1509 - The Battle of Diu takes place near Diu, India, between Portugal and Turkey.
1536 - Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires
1542 - Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Moslem-occupied hillfort in northern Ethiopia
           in the Battle of Baçente.
1550 - English Edward Seymour duke of Somerset, freed
1633 - M Rossi's opera "Erminia sul Giordano," premieres in Rome
1637 - Zorilla's "El más Impropio Verdugo Para Las," premieres in Madrid
1653 - New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York City)
1709 - British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years,
           his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"
1714 - Nicholas Rowe's "tragedy of Jane Shore," premieres in London
1731 - Georg F Handel's opera "Poro," premieres in London
1732 - King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia
1742 - British Walpole government resigns
1762 - Thomas Arnes opera "Artaxerxes," premieres in London
1787 - Arthur St. Clair is elected the 9th President of the President of the Continental Congress
           under the Articles of Confederation.
1795 - Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres
1798 - Federal St Theater, Boston, becomes 1st in US destroyed by fire
1802 - 1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents)
1811 - Russian settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of SF
1823 - Rossini's opera "Semiramide" premieres in Venice
1829 - Madman Jonathan Martin sets York Cathedral afire, does £60,000 damage
1843 - US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose government committee
1848 - 1st ship load of Chinese arrive in SF
1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico &
           Arizona for $15 million
1852 - 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London)
1852 - Alexandre Dumas Jr's "Le Dame aux Camélias," premieres in Paris
1854 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On persecution of Armenians"
1863 - Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
1864 - -Oct 7th) Cruise of CSS Florida
1869 - James Oliver invents removable tempered steel plow blade
1870 - Cardiff Giant (supposed petrified human) proved to be gypsum
1876 - Baseball's National League forms with teams in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford,
           Louisville, New York, Philadelphia, St Louis
1878 - Greece declares war on Turkey
1880 - SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton
1882 - Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Conn
1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
1892 - Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore)
1892 - Johnny Briggs takes a hat-trick, England v Aust SCG
1892 - Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry 
           Sharpe & Frank Crosby
1893 - 1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ
1894 - US warship Kearsarge wrecked on Roncador Reef, near Solomon Island
1899 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital
           (Canberra) between Sydney and Melbourne.
1900 - Gustave Charpentiers opera "Louise" premieres in Paris
1901 - Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization
1901 - Queen Victoria's funeral takes place.
1906 - Pope encyclical against separation of church & state
1909 - Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris
1912 - Frederick R Law, parachutes from Statue of Liberty (stunt for Pathe)
1913 - NY football Giants sign Jim Thorpe
1913 - NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens
1914 - James Royce Shannon's musical "Shameen Dhu," premieres in NYC
1919 - Monarchist riot in Portugal
1920 - Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)
1920 - France occupies (German) Memel territory
1920 - Tarto/Dorpat peace treaty: USSR recognizes Estonian independence
1922 - It was 2:22:22 on 2/2/22
1922 - James Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)
1923 - Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
1923 - US signs friendship treaty with Central American countries
1924 - International Ski Federation (FIS) forms
1925 - Belgian episcopacy rejects liberalism, communism & socialism
1925 - Dogsleds reach Nome with emergency diphtheria serum after 1000-km
1925 - NL holds Golden Jubilee Year meeting at same hotel where NL began
1926 - 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours
1927 - Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita," premieres in NYC
1927 - Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at 6th Ave & 54th St NYC
1931 - 1st siyyum of Talmud celebrated by Daf Yomi students
1931 - 1st use of a rocket to deliver mail (Austria)
1932 - Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta, Georgia)
1932 - Geneva disarmament conference begins with 60 countries
1932 - Grimmett takes 14 wickets v South Africa (7-116 & 7-83)
1932 - Reconstruction Finance Corp organized
1933 - 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament
1933 - Goering bans communist meetings/demonstrations in Germany
1933 - Ucicky's "Rotten Morning," premieres in Berlin
1934 - Dutch RC Bishops warn against fascism/nazism
1935 - Lie detector 1st used in court (Portage Wisc)
1935 - Leonarde Keeler tests the first polygraph machine.
1940 - Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orch)
1942 - LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
1942 - US auto factories switch from commercial to war production
1943 - Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army
1943 - Cubs return to original uniform after experimenting with a vest
1943 - German 6th Army surrenders at Stalingrad, turning point of WW II
1944 - 4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands
1944 - Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory
1944 - Baseball meets in NYC to discuss postwar action
1944 - Edward Chodorov's "Decision," premieres in NYC
1945 - Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp
1946 - "Nellie Bly" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 16 performances
1946 - The Proclamation of Hungarian Republic is made.
1948 - President Harry Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program
1949 - 1st 45 RPM record released
1949 - Golfing champ Ben Hogan seriously injured in an auto accident
1950 - "Arms & the Girl" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 134 performances
1950 - 1st broadcast of "What's My Line," on CBS-TV
1951 - -35°F (-37°C), Greensburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1954 - Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 113 pts in basketball game
1954 - Pres Eisenhower reports detonation of 1st H-bomb (done in 1952)
1954 - Snow falls on Gibraltar
1955 - 1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower on ABC
1956 - Coasters sign with Atlantic Records
1957 - "Candide" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 73 performances
1957 - UN adopts a resolution calling for Israeli troops to leave Egypt
1958 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Havana Biltmore Golf Open
1958 - Syria joins Egypt in United Arab Republic
1958 - WRIK (now WLUZ) TV channel 7 in Ponce, PR (PTC) begins broadcasting
1959 - Buddy Holly's last performance
1959 - Vince Lombardi signs a 5 year contract to coach Green Bay Packers
1960 - Michale Eufemia sinks 625 balls in pool match without a miss
1961 - Prince Bernhard opens new RAI building in Amsterdam
1962 - 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games)
1962 - 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1963 - Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard)
1964 - GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
1964 - Sjoukje Dijkstra (Neth) wins Olympic gold for figure skating
1964 - Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, & Miller
           Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame
1965 - Joe Ortons "Loot," premieres in Brighton
1966 - Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir dispute as number one item for the
           proposed Indo-Pak ministerial talks after 1965 war.
1967 - Bolivia adopts its constitution
1967 - Formation of American Basketball Association is announced
1968 - Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed
1969 - KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - Stan Coveleski & Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame
1970 - Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
1971 - Idi Amin ousts Milton Obote to become dictator of Uganda
1972 - Lefty Gomez, Ross Youngs & William Harridge selected for Hall of Fame
1972 - Tom Stoppard's "Jumpers," premieres in London
1973 - "Midnight Special" rock music show debuts on NBC-TV
1973 - James R Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA (until July)
1973 - Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA
1973 - Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, NZ v Pakistan, Wellington
1974 - Barbra Striesand's 1st #1 hit, "The Way We Were"
1974 - Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary"
1974 - Smallest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Golden State-1,641)
1974 - The F-16 Fighting Falcon flies for the first time.
1975 - Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia
1975 - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1975 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1975 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1976 - "Honeymooners Second Honeymoon" airs on TV
1976 - "Rich Little Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1976 - Roger Connor, Fred Lindstrom & ump Cal Hubbard elected to Hall of Fame
1977 - Burn up of Salyut 4 Space Station (USSR)
1977 - Radio Shack officially begins creating TRS-80 computer
1977 - Toronto's Ian Turnbull scores 5 goals, NHL REcord for a defenseman
1980 - FBI releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected & public officials for
           bribes for political favors
1982 - Government troops & Moslem-fundamentalists battle in Hamah Syria
1982 - San Diego beats Miami 41-38 in OT after blowing a 24-0 lead
1982 - Hama Massacre: The government of Syria attacks the town of Hama and kills thousands of
           people.
1983 - Chicago Absp Joseph L Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested
1983 - Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals
1984 - 8th Soap Opera Digest Poll Awards
1984 - Lebanese army fight in Beirut
1985 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1986 - "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" closes at Ritz NYC after 13 perfs
1986 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1986 - Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
1986 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 28-24
1986 - Oscar Arias Sanchez elected president of Costa Rica
1987 - KC Royal pitcher Dennis Leonard (3X 20 game winner), retires
1987 - Philippines adopts constitution
1988 - David Boon's 6th Test Cricket century, 184* v England at Sydney
1989 - 0°F (-18°C) or below in 15 US states
1989 - FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader
1989 - NL announces Yanks' broadcaster Bill White will be 1st black president
1990 - South Africa's Pres FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other
           political orgs
1991 - Aravinda De Silva scores 267 v NZ at Wellington
1991 - NH snaps its 32-game losing streak at home beating Holy Cross, 72-56
1991 - US postage is raised from 25 cents to 29 cents
1991 - Sting scores his second UK No.1 album with 'The Soul Cages'
1992 - Colleen Walker wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1992 - Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45.02 sec)
1992 - David Boon's 13 Test Cricket century, 107 v India at Perth
1992 - IRS & Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M)
1992 - Kieren Perkins swims world record 1500m freestyle (14:32.40)
1992 - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 21-15
1993 - Frito Lay pays court ordered $2,500,000 to Tom Wait for using his song
1993 - Irina Privalova runs world record 50m indoor (6.05 sec)
1995 - "Moliere Comedies" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 56 performances
1995 - Henry Olonga no-balled for throwing in Zimbabwe-Pakistan Test Cricket
1995 - US space shuttle Discovery launched
1996 - Ali Landry, 22, (Louisiana), crowned 45th Miss USA
1997 - "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" closes at Gershwin NYC
1997 - Mark O'Meara wins Pebble Beach National Golf Pro-am
1997 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 26-23 (OT)
1997 - Royal Caribbean Senior Golf Classic
1998 - Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in NYC for cocaine overdose
1998 - Philippine DC-9 crashes apparently killing all 104 on board
2003 - Jennifer Lopez starts a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'All I Have'
2003 - Russian pop girl duo Tatu start a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'All The
          Things She Said'
2012 - Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 08-02)
2012 - MV Rabaul Queen sinks off the coast of Papa New Guinea with 246 people saved and 126
           missing (100 of these estimated to be trapped inside)
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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #189 on: February 02, 2013, 08:29:11 AM »
This Day in History for 2nd February


Famous Weddings


1870 - American writer (Huckleberry Finn) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, pen name Mark Twain, (34)
           marries Olivia Langdon (24) in Elmira, NY
1904 - US blues singer Gertrude Pridgett marries comic William Rainey
1957 - Liz Taylor's 3rd marriage (Mike Todd)
1990 - Marina Ogilvy (daughter of Engl princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt
1997 - "American Idol" judge Paula Abdul (34) weds sportswear designer Brad Beckerman at The
           Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel
2002 - Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (38) weds Argentinean born Maxima
           Zorreguieta (34) at the Beurs van Berlage
2008 - Singer-actress Katharine McPhee (23) weds producer Nick Cokas (42) at the Beverly Hills
           Presbyterian Church in Beverly Hills, California
2008 - 23rd French Republic President Nicolas Sarkozy (53) weds supermodel-turned-singer Carla
           Bruni (39) at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France
2010 - Former glamour model Katie Price (32) weds MMA fighter and former "Hollyoaks" actor Alex
           Reid (34) at the chapel in the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas
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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #190 on: February 02, 2013, 08:48:30 AM »
This Day in History for 2nd February


Famous Birthdays


                                             
Novelist & Poet James Joyce (1882)         Actress Farrah Fawcett (1946)                   Singer Shakira (1977)


1208 - James I of Aragon (d. 1276)
1455 - King John of Denmark (d. 1513)
1494 - Bona Sforza, queen of Sigismund I of Poland (d. 1557)
1502 - Damião de Góis, Portuguese philosopher (d. 1574)
1506 - René de Birague, French cardinal and chancellor (d. 1583)
1522 - Lodovico Ferrari, Italian mathematician (d. 1565)
1583 - Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poetess
1595 - Jacob van Campen, painter/architect (New Church, Amsterdam)
1600 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (d. 1653)
1613 - Noël Chabanel, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1621 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (d. 1679)
1649 - Benedict XIII, [Pierfrancesco Orsini], Italy, 245th pope (1724-30)
1650 - Nell [Eleanor] Gwyn, English actress/mistress (King Charles II)
1669 - Louis Marchand, composer
1695 - William Borlase, English naturalist (d. 1772)
1695 - François de Chevert, French general (d. 1769)
1711 - Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz, Austrian diplomat (d. 1794)
1714 - Gottfried August Homilius, composer
1717 - Ernst Gideon Freiherr von Laudon, Austrian field marshal (d. 1790)
1748 - Christian Gottfried Thomas, composer
1773 - Vincenc Tomas Vaclav Tucek, composer
1780 - Johannes van den Bosch, gov-gen (Neth East Indies)
1786 - Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (d. 1856)
1802 - Jean-Baptiste JD Boussingault, French chemist
1803 - Albert Sidney Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1804 - Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer
1815 - Nathaniel Collins McLean, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1817 - John Glover, English chemist (sulfuric acid)
1817 - Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer
1820 - Hans E Schack, Danish politician/writer (Phantasterne)
1827 - Abner Monroe Perrin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1827 - Oswald Aschenbach, German painter
1829 - Alfred Brehm, German zoologist (d. 1884)
1835 - Luigi Manzotti, Milano, ballet choreographer
1840 - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer
1841 - François-Alphonse Forel, Swiss hydrologist (d. 1912)
1842 - Yulian Vasilievich Sokhotski, Russian mathematician (d. 1927)
1844 - Leander Schlegel, composer
1847 - Jules Francois Blasini, Curacaos pianist/composer
1849 - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (d. 1921)
1850 - Carel V Gerritsen, Dutch free thinker
1851 - José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican artist (d. 1913)
1852 - Teunis Stoel, actor/director (Small Theater, Rotterdam)
1856 - Makar Grigori Ekmalyan, composer
1857 - Jan Six, Dutch art historian/art collector
1859 - Havelock Ellis, US physician/sexologist (Psychology of Sex)
1860 - Curtis Guild, Jr., 43rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1915)
1861 - Mehmed VI, last sultan of Ottoman Empire (1918-22)
1861 - Solomon R Guggenheim, philanthropist (Guggenheim Museum NYC)
1873 - Freiherr Konstantin von Neurath, German secretary of State (1932-38)
1873 - Johan P earl van Limburg Stirum, Dutch diplomat
1873 - Leopold Fall, Austria, operetta composer (Dollar Princess)
1875 - Annette Kolb, German/French author (Small Fanfare)
1875 - Fritz Kreisler, Vienna Austria, violinist/composer
1878 - Christian Gauss, educator/writer (Phi Beta Kappa award namesake)
1878 - Alfréd Hajós, Hungarian swimmer (d. 1955)
1881 - Karl Frederick, pistol champ (Olympic-gold-1920)
1882 - James Joyce, Ireland, novelist/poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake)
1882 - James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold)
1883 - Mikhail Fabianovich Gnesin, composer
1884 - Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/General Spanish rep army
1884 - S Z Sakall, Budapest Hungary, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca)
1885 - Aldo Palazzeschi, [Giurlani], Italian writer (I cavalli bianchi)
1886 - Kurt Baschwitz, German/Dutch sociologist/journalist (Du und)
1887 - Ernst Hanfstängl, German pianist and politician (d. 1975)
1888 - Candelario Huizar, composer
1888 - Frank Lloyd, Scotland, actor/director (Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist)
1888 - Frederick Lane, Australian swimmer (d. 1969)
1890 - Jean J M de Lattre de Tassigny, French gen (Indo-China)
1891 - Antonio Segni, premier/president (Italy)
1891 - Frank Foyston, NHL Hall of Famer (Seattle)
1893 - Cornelius Lanczos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1974)
1893 - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (d. 1970)
1895 - George S Halas, [Papa Bear], end/coach (Bears), co-founder NFL
1896 - Jane Wilde, writer
1896 - Kazimierz Kuratowski, Polish mathematician and logician (d. 1980)
1897 - Howard Johnson, American hotelier (d. 1972)
1897 - Aimé Avignon, France's former oldest living man (d. 2007)
1898 - Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Theatre De la Mar)
1899 - Benny Rubin, Boston Mass, actor/comedian (Benny Rubin Show)
1900 - Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Springfield Ohio, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65)
1900 - Willie Kamm, MLB third baseman (d. 1988)
1901 - Connie Gilchrist, Bkln NY, actress (Cry Havoc, Letter to 3 Wives)
1901 - Jascha Heifetz, Vilna Lithuania, US violin virtuoso (Carnegie Hall)
1902 - Tyra Ryman, Arboga Sweden, actress (Peter the Tramp)
1902 - Newbold Morris, American politician (d. 1966)
1903 - Frank McGrath, Mound City Mo, actor (Wagon Train)
1904 - Buzurg Alavi, Persian author (Panjah va sih nafar, Namal'ha)
1904 - Jose Enrique Pedreira, composer
1905 - Ayn Rand, writer (Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead)
1905 - Jean-Pierre Guerlain, cosmetics pioneer
1905 - Ayn Rand, Russian-born author and philosopher (d. 1982)
1907 - Bernardas Brazdzionis, Lithuania, poet/editor/critic
1908 - Anita Garvin, actress (Swiss Miss, Blotto, Charlatan, Hats Off)
1908 - Cal Tinney, Oklahoma, comedian (Stop Me If You Heard This One)
1908 - Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, California, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)/actor
1908 - Pavel Sivic, composer
1908 - Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer
1908 - Wes Ferrell, All-Star MLB pitcher (d. 1976)
1909 - Franc Albertson, Fergus Falls MN, actor (Psycho, Alice Adams)
1910 - Charlotte Auerbach, computer Pioneer/Mathematician
1910 - Hendrik H K Beernink, Dutch politician (CHU)
1911 - Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer
1911 - Johan J "Jussi" Bjorling, Swedish tenor
1912 - Burton Lane, Broadway composer (Finian's Rainbow)
1912 - Stefan Schnabel, German actor (Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox)
1912 - Millvina Dean, last living survivour of the RMS Titanic.
1913 - Poul Reichhardt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
1914 - Eric Kierans, Canadian politician and economist (d. 2004)
1915 - Evert Werkman, Dutch journalist (Het Parool)
1915 - Abba Eban, Israeli diplomat (d. 2002)
1915 - Stan Leonard, Canadian professional golfer (d. 2005)
1916 - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1985)
1918 - Hella [S Lelyveld-]Haasse, Dutch author (Cider for Poor People)
1919 - Allie Reynolds, NY Yankee pitcher (1952 AL ERA leader (2.07))
1919 - Lisa Debeljevic-della Casa, Swiss vocalist
1920 - An Wang, founder (Wang Labs, Wang Computers)
1923 - Al "Red" Schoendienst, baseball manager/2nd baseman (St Louis Cards)
1923 - Bonita Granville, NYC, actress (Hitler's Children, Lone Ranger)
1923 - James Dickey, Atlanta, poet/actor (Deliverance)
1923 - Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Smith, Tx, journlist/author (WNBC, NY Daily News)
1923 - Peter Fowler, physicist
1923 - Liz Smith, American gossip columnist
1924 - Tine Balder, [Clementine AL Cobbaut], Flemish actress (Antigone)
1924 - Elfi von Dassanowsky, Austrian-American producer and musician
1925 - David Abell Wood, priest
1925 - Michel Paul Philippot, composer
1926 - Elaine Stritch, Detroit Mich, actress (My Sister Eileen, Company)
1926 - Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo, 1st Cent American cardinal (Nicaragua)
1926 - Nydia M E Ecury, Arubian poet/actress (Kantika pa Mama Tera)
1926 - Wanda Lewis, Struther Ohio, actress (This is Music, Paul Dixon Show)
1926 - Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, French politician
1927 - Friedrich K Flick, German industrialist
1927 - Richard Ray, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- ) [or Jan 2]
1927 - Richard Vance Maxfield, composer
1927 - Stan Getz, Phila, jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey)
1928 - Alan Fluck, musical educationalist
1928 - Howard Caine, Nashville Tn, actor (Californians)
1928 - Luigi Ciriaco De Mita, PM of Italy (1988-89)
1929 - Reiner Bredemeyer, composer
1931 - Andreas "Andries" van Agt, Dutch premier (CDA, 1977-82)
1931 - Dries van Agt, Dutch politician
1931 - Les Dawson, British comedian (d. 1993)
1931 - Judith Viorst, American author
1932 - Robert Mandan, Clever Mo, actor (Chester-Soap, James-3's a Crowd)
1933 - Than Shwe, ruler of Myanmar
1933 - Tony Jay, English actor (d. 2006)
1934 - [Clyde] Skip Batten, LA California, rocker (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn)
1936 - Duane Jones, American actor
1937 - Martina Arroyo, NYC, opera soprano (NY Met)
1937 - Tom Smothers, NYC, comedian (Smother Brother Show, Serial)
1937 - Don Buford, All-Star MLB outfielder
1937 - Remak Ramsay, American actor
1939 - Rachel English, London, author (My 1st 500)
1939 - Akbar Adibi, Iranian scientist, father of electronics in Iran (d. 2000)
1940 - Alan "Tea" Caddy, rock guitarist (Tornados-Globetrotter)
1940 - Thomas M[ichael] Disch, US, sci-fi author (Genocides, 102 H-Bombs)
1940 - David Jason, English actor
1940 - Wayne Fontes, American football coach
1941 - Serge Alexandrovich Tcherepnin, composer
1942 - Barry Diller, founder (Fox-TV)
1942 - Bo Hopkins, Greenville SC, actor (Dynasty, Doc Elliot, Rockford Files)
1942 - Graham Nash, guitarist (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young-Southern Cross)
1943 - Peter MacBeth, rocker (Foundations)
1944 - Andrew Davis, Ashbridge, England, conductor (New Phil Orch-London)
1944 - Katherine Crawford, LA California, actress (Gemini Man, Captains & Kings)
1944 - Ursula Oppens, NYC, pianist/co-founder (Speculum Musicae-NYC)
1944 - Karen Foss, American broadcaster
1944 - Geoffrey Hughes, British actor, (d. 2012)
1945 - Ronnie Goodson, rocker
1946 - Farrah Fawcett, Texas, actress (Charley's Angels, Burning Bed)
1946 - Howard Bellamy, Darby Fla, vocalist (Bellamy Bros-Let Your Love Flow)
1946 - Alpha Oumar Konaré, ex-president of Mali
1947 - Aleksandr Medved, USSR, wrestler (Olympic-gold-1964, 68, 72)
1947 - Derek Shulman, rocker
1947 - Peter Lucia, rock drummer (Tommy James & Shondells-Crystal Blue)
1948 - Alan McKay, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Boogie Wonderland)
1948 - Jessica Savitch, Kennet Sq PA, news anchor (NBC)
1948 - Tony DeMeur, rocker (Fabulous Poodles-Anna Rexia, Suicide Bridge)
1949 - Jetty Weels, Surinamese/Dutch vocalist (Mai Tai)
1949 - Ross Valory, SF, rock bassist (Journey-Who's Crying Now, Open Arms)
1949 - Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow)
1949 - Tom Tripplehorn, rocker (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)
1949 - Brent Spiner, Houston, Texas, American actor (Data-Star Trek the Next Generation)
1949 - Francisco Maturana, Colombian football manager
1950 - Barbara Sukowa, Germany, actress (Zentropia, Sicilian, Voyager, Lola)
1950 - Osamu Kido, wrestler (NJPW/UWF)
1951 - Alphonso Johnson, jazz bassist
1951 - Kim Zimmer, Mich, actress (Guiding Light, Doctors, One Life to Live)
1952 - Simon MacCorkindale, Cambridge Engl, actor (Jaws 3, MacBeth) [or 2/12]
1952 - Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese professional wrestler
1953 - James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president (NACTU)
1953 - Penny Pulz, LPGA golfer
1953 - Duane Chapman, American bounty hunter.
1954 - Christie Brinkley, [Ex-Mrs Billy Joel], model/actress (SI, Vacation)
1954 - Jayantha Amerasinghe, cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka v NZ 1983)
1954 - Ina Garten, American author and TV personality
1954 - Hansi Hinterseer, Austrian singer, actor, former skier
1955 - Michael Talbott, Waverly Iowa, actor (Stan-Miami Vice)
1957 - Laurie Mann, current DPS curator/geek
1957 - Sandra Joyce Cagle Milwukee WI, playmate (Feb, 1980)
1958 - Dexter Manley, NFLer (Wash Redskins)
1960 - Eric Shea, actor (Castaway Cowboy)
1960 - Lee Chill, Cleveland Ohio, Canadian Tour golfer (1977 Ohio Jr)
1961 - Joey Benjamin, cricket pace bowler (in St Kitts England in 1994)
1961 - Lauren Lane, American actress
1962 - Ben Testerman, Knoxville Tenn, tennis star
1962 - Michael T Weiss, Chicago, actor (Jarod-Pretender, Days of our Lives)
1962 - Andy Fordham, English darts player
1962 - Paul Kilgus, baseball player
1963 - Pebbles Flintstone, fictional character on "The Flintstones"
1963 - Stephen McGann, Liverpool England, actor (Catherine the Great)
1963 - Eva Cassidy, American singer (d. 1996)
1963 - Philip Laats, Belgian judoka
1965 - Harry Swayne, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1965 - Carl Airey, English footballer
1965 - Naoki Sano, Japanese professional wrestler
1966 - Andrei Chesnokov, Russia, tennis star
1966 - Bob Alan Estes, Graham TX, PGA golfer (1994 Texas Open)
1966 - Tony Plourde, Chibougamau Quebec, sabre (Olympics-96)
1966 - Victor Muhammad, WLAF running back (London Monarchs)
1966 - D. C. Douglas, American actor and director
1967 - Arturs Irbe, Latvian hockey player
1967 - Laurent Nkunda, Congolese general
1968 - Paul McKenzie, Australian Finn class yachter (Olympics-96)
1968 - Sari Krooks, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1968 - Scott Erickson, Long Beach CA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins, Balt Orioles)
1968 - Sean Elliott, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1968 - Steve Henson, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1968 - Ventson Donelson, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1968 - Simon Wickham-Smith, composer and Mongolist
1969 - Ijaz Ahmed Jr, cricketer (one Test Pakistan v Sri Lanka 1995)
1969 - Jeff Christy, corner (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 - Jody Hull, Cambridge, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1969 - Valeri Karpin, Russian footballer
1969 - Tim Sherwood, English footballer
1970 - Chris Luneburg, WLAF T (London Monarchs)
1970 - Diego Martos, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1970 - Erik ten Hag, soccer player (FC Twente, RKC, FC Utrecht)
1970 - Ivan Vukov, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1970 - Nikolaos Michopoulos, Greek footballer
1970 - Roar Strand, Norwegian footballer
1970 - C. Ernst Harth, Canadian actor
1971 - Ken Dilger, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Tony Miller, Mount Pleasant Texas, 400m runner
1972 - Charlie Williams, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1972 - Ivan Droppa, Liptovsky Mikulas CZE, NHL defenseman (Chicago)
1972 - Lance Brown, NFL defensive back (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 - Dana International, Israeli singer
1972 - Tego Calderón , nominated reggaeton singer/rapper.
1973 - Dan Brandenburg, linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1973 - Jose White, WLAF/NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 - Patrick Jeffers, NFL wide reciever (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1973 - Radka Bobkova, Prague Czech Rep, tennis star (quarter Bournemouth)
1973 - Sergio Gonzalez, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
1973 - Tim Denton, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 - David Buck, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1974 - J R Conrad, offensive tackle/guard (NY Jets)
1974 - Jeff Cassar, soccer goalkeeper (Olympics-gold-96)
1975 - Macey Brooks, wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 - Todd Bertuzzi, Sudbury, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
1975 - Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
1975 - Vaggelis Koutsoures, Greek footballer
1976 - Steven Dewick, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1976 - James Hickman, British swimmer
1976 - Lori Beth Denberg, American actress
1977 - Shakira [Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll], Barranquilla, Colombian pop singer ('Whenever Wherever', 'Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)')
1977 - Libor Sionko, Czech football player
1977 - Heather Martin, American gospel singer
1978 - Annabel Ellwood, Canberra Australia, tennis star (1995 Futures NC)
1978 - Eden Espinosa, American singer and stage actress
1978 - Barry Ferguson, Scotish football player
1979 - Brandee Dawn McCoskey, Miss Alaska Teen USA (1996)
1979 - Lindsay Langston, Modesto California, archer (Olympics-1996)
1979 - Petra Cada, Prague Czech, Canadian table tennis player (Olympics-96)
1979 - Fani Halkia, Greek hurdler
1979 - Irini Terzoglou, Greek shot putter
1979 - Shamita Shetty, Indian actress
1980 - Teddy Hart, Canadian professional wrestler
1980 - Gucci Mane, African-American rapper
1980 - Oleguer Presas, Spanish football player
1981 - Jason Kapono, American basketball player
1982 - Brandy Talore, American pornographic actress
1982 - Han Ga In, South Korean model/actress
1982 - Sergio Castaño, Spanish footballer
1982 - Kelly Mazzante, American basketball player
1983 - Carolina Klüft, Swedish athlete
1983 - Alex Westaway, British musician
1983 - Will South, Thirteen Senses frontman
1983 - Jordin Tootoo, Canadian hockey player
1987 - Gerard Piqué, Spanish football player
1987 - Martin Spanjers, American actor
1992 - Rebop Rundgren, son of Michelle Gray & Todd
1992 - Danielle White, American singer
2338 - Data, android character on Star Trek Next Generation

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #191 on: February 02, 2013, 08:59:57 AM »
This Day in History for 2nd February


Famous Deaths


         
Musician Sid Vicious (1979)


672 - Saint Chad
1032 - Rudolf III, last independent king of Bourgundy, dies
1124 - Bořivoj II of Bohemia
1218 - Konstantin of Rostov, Prince of Novgorod (b. 1186)
1250 - Eric XI of Sweden (b. 1216)
1435 - Johanna II, lawless Queen of Naples (1414-35), dies at 61
1461 - Owen Tudor, Welsh founder of the Tudor dynasty of England
1491 - Martin Schongauer, German painter, dies at 40
1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer (b. 1478)
1540 - George Schenck van Toutenburg, gov/viceroy of Frisia/Groningen
1563 - Hans Neusiedler, Hungarian/German luitist/author, dies at approx 54
1580 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)
1594 - Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, dies at 68
1597 - Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 61
1648 - George Abbot, English writer
1660 - Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (Isaac blesses Jacob), dies at 45
1660 - Jean BG duke of Orleans, brother of French king Louis XIII, dies at 51
1661 - Lucas Holstenius, German humanist (b. 1596)
1673 - Kaspar Forster, composer, dies at 56
1685 - Charles II, King of England/Scotland/Ireland (1660-85), dies at 54
1688 - Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer (b. 1610)
1704 - Guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62
1712 - Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician
1714 - John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (b. 1643)
1723 - Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, dies at 66
1750 - Johann Graf, composer, dies at 65
1768 - Robert Smith, English mathematician (b. 1689)
1769 - Clement XIII, [Carlo Rezzonico], Pope (1758-69), dies at 75
1779 - Georg Philipp Kress, composer, dies at 59
1789 - Armand-Louis Couperin, Fren composer/organist (Notre Dame), dies at 63
1793 - William Aiton, English botanist (Kew Gardens), dies at 61
1802 - Welbore Ellis, 1st Baron Mendip, British statesman (b. 1713)
1804 - Caesar Rodney, US judge (signed Declar of Independence), dies at 62
1804 - George Walton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1749-50)
1822 - Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer, dies at 79
1827 - Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer, dies at 62
1828 - Frederik Sigismund earl of Bylandt, vice-admiral, dies at 78
1852 - Francois MP Liberman, French founder (Congr of H Heart), dies at 49
1881 - Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59
1882 - Fabio Campana, composer, dies at 63
1895 - Archduke Albert, Austrian general (b. 1817)
1902 - Emanuil Mandlov, composer, dies at 42
1904 - William C. Whitney, American financier (b. 1841)
1907 - Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at 72
1909 - Adolf Stoecker, German anti-semite/prime minister, dies at 73
1918 - John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59
1919 - Xavier Henry Napoleon Leroux, composer, dies at 55
1921 - Luigi Mancinelli, composer, dies at 72
1925 - Antti Aarne, Finnish sociologist, dies at 57
1926 - Vladimir Sukhomlinov, Russian general (b. 1848)
1931 - Theodor Batthynyi, Hungarian contra-revolutionary, dies at 71
1932 - Agha Petros, Assyrian nationalist leader
1934 - Ernesto Nazareth, composer, dies at 70
1941 - Johannes Schlaf, writer, dies at 78
1942 - Daniil Kharms, Russian playwright (b. 1905)
1945 - Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at 60
1948 - Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870)
1948 - Bevil Rudd, South African athlete (b. 1894)
1950 - Constantin Carathéodory, Greek mathematician (b. 1873)
1952 - Charles De Roche, actor (10 Commandments), dies at 72
1952 - Johann Babtist Thaller, composer, dies at 79
1953 - Gustav Strube, composer, dies at 85
1954 - Theodor Rogalski, composer, dies at 52
1956 - Charley Grapewin, actor (Ellery Queen), dies at 86
1956 - Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter (b. 1876)
1957 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (b. 1890)
1959 - Frank DeCaires, cricketer (WI bat v Eng 1930, 3 Tests 232 runs), dies
1960 - Jeno Huszka, composer, dies at 84
1961 - Adolf Vogl, composer, dies at 87
1961 - Anna May Wong, actress (Thief of Baghdad), dies at about 56
1963 - Herman Bouber, [Blom], actor/playwright (Bluejackets), dies at 77
1965 - Richard P Blackmur, US, critic/publisher (Good European), dies at 61
1965 - Richard Wurz, composer, dies at 79
1969 - Boris Karloff, [Pratt], British actor (Frankenstein), dies at 81
1969 - Giovanni Martinelli, opera singer (NY Met), dies at 83
1970 - Bertrand Russell, philosopher, British MP, dies in Merioneth at 97
1970 - Jaroslav Vogel, composer, dies at 76
1970 - Lawrence Gray, American actor (b.1898)
1972 - Jessie Royce Landis, actress (North by Northwest), dies at 67
1972 - Natalie Clifford Barney, American writer (b. 1876)
1973 - Henry J Elias, Flemish historian/mayor of Gent, dies at 70
1973 - Hendrik Elias, Belgian politician (b. 1902)
1974 - Jean Absil, Belgian composer (Benedictions), dies at 80
1976 - Harry Elliott, England cricket wicketkeeper (3 Tests 1927-34), dies
1976 - Johan[nes A] Kaart, Dutch actor (My Fair Lady), dies at 78
1976 - Maurice Jacobson, composer, dies at 80
1978 - Wendy Barrie, TV hostess (Wendy Barrie Show), dies at 65
1979 - Jim Burke, cricketer (Australian opener), commits suicide
1979 - Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie], bassist (Sex Pistols), OD's at 31
1980 - William H Stein, US biochemist (Nobel 1972), dies at 68
1981 - Donald W Douglas, US aircraft pioneer/builder, dies at 88
1981 - Jan Donner, Dutch chairman of High Council, dies at 89
1981 - Louise Lorraine, actress (Adventures of Tarzan), dies
1982 - Stringfellow Barr, US educationalist (100 Great Books), dies at 85
1982 - Paul Desruisseaux, French Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician (b 1905)
1983 - Bryan Valentine, cricketer (7 Tests for England, 454 runs), dies
1983 - Roy Horb, Suriname sergeant/putschist, commits suicide
1983 - Sam Chatman, elder statesman of the blues, dies
1987 - Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78
1987 - Patrick "Spike" Hughes, Brit jazz musician (Cinderella), dies at 78
1987 - Castilho, Brazilian footballer (b. 1927)
1987 - Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist (b. 1922)
1988 - Clive Epstein, brother of Brian Epstein, dies at 51
1988 - G Mennen Williams, Supreme Court justice, dies at 76 in Detroit
1989 - John Cassavetes, US actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, dies at 59
1989 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (b. 1951)
1990 - Joel Fluellen, actor (Man Friday, Burning Cross), dies at 79
1990 - Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
1992 - Bert Parks, [Jacobson], TV host (Miss America), dies at 77
1992 - Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies at 78
1992 - Maurice J Hill, writer (Track of Thunder), dies of pneumonia at 89
1992 - Maurice L Kusell, dies
1994 - John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 62
1994 - Stephen Barclay, actor (Pride of the Plains), dies at 75
1994 - Willie Mae Ford Smith, gospel Singer/Songwriter, dies at 89
1994 - Zilner T Randolph, jazz Trumpeter/ Arranger, dies at 95
1995 - Alexis d'Anjou de Bourbon-Condé, French prince/Russian, dies at 47
1995 - Andre Frossard, French publicist (Defense of Pope), dies at 80
1995 - David Kindersley, alphabet Designer/Cutter, dies at 79
1995 - Donald Pleasance, English actor (Halloween), dies at 75
1995 - Fred Perry, English tennis star (Wimbledon 1934-36), dies at 85
1995 - Phillip Borsos, Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies
1995 - Robert L Haller, coon Dog Trainer, dies at 32
1996 - Gene Kelly, actor/dancer (Singing in the Rain), dies at 83
1996 - Ray McIntire, chemical engineer, dies at 77
1996 - Shamus Culhane, animator, dies at 87
1997 - Chico Science Francisco Franca, musician, dies at 40
1997 - Godfrey Baseley, British radio executive, dies at 92
1997 - Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (b. 1913)
1997 - Sanford Meisner, American actor (b. 1904)
1999 - David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (b. 1962)
2002 - Paul Baloff, American singer (Exodus) (b. 1960)
2002 - Claude Brown, American writer (b. 1937)
2003 - Lou Harrison, American composer (b. 1917)
2004 - Bernard McEveety, American film director (b. 1924)
2005 - Max Schmeling, German boxer (b. 1905)
2007 - Vijay Arora, Indian film and television actor (b. 1944)
2007 - Filippo Raciti, Italian police officer (b. 1967)
2007 - Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
2007 - Billy Henderson, American singer (The Spinners) (b. 1939)
2007 - Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of The Funk Brothers (b. 1927)
2007 - Eric von Schmidt, American folk/blues singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
2008 - Katoucha, Guinean model and activist (b. 1960)
2011 - Defne Joy Foster, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ. (b. 1975)
2011 - Margaret John, Welsh actress (b. 1926)
2012 - Dorothy Gilman, American mystery writer, dies from Alzheimer's disease at 88

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #192 on: February 03, 2013, 06:39:44 AM »
This Day in History for 3rd February


Historical Events


                                             
Playwright Tennessee Williams               Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix                     Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat

                           
Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry            42nd US President Bill Clinton


1377 - Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term
1377 - Mass execution of population of Cesena Italy
1451 - Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 - Bartholomeus Diaz discovers Mosselbaai (Angra dos Vaqueros)
1509 - The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
1576 - Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
1591 - German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau
1653 - Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile
1660 - General Moncks army reaches London
1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
1740 - Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
1743 - Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
1752 - Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills
1781 - Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British
1783 - Spain recognizes US independence
1807 - A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of
           Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay.
1809 - Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
1815 - World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1825 - Dutch North Sea coast floods
1830 - The sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol.
1834 - Wake Forest University is established.
1836 - Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
1844 - Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain," premieres in Paris
1855 - Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
1860 - Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
1864 - Sherman's march through Mississippi
1865 - Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
1867 - Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
1869 - Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
1870 - 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
1876 - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis
           ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1882 - Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1887 - To avoid disputed natl elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
1892 - Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
1894 - 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
1895 - Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 m (46.8 secs)
1900 - Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Balt
1900 - Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1901 - Dutch troops under Gen Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra
1903 - Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa
1908 - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1908 - Foundation of Panathinaikos in Athens, Greece.
1913 - 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1913 - Golden/Cawthorne's musical "Sunshine Girl," premieres in NYC
1915 - Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
1916 - Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
1916 - Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
1917 - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
1918 - Twin Peaks Tunnel longest (11,920') streetcar tunnel begins service
1919 - Herbert/Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady," premieres in NYC
1919 - League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
1919 - Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
1923 - The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
1924 - Alexei Ryko elected as Pres of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
1927 - Uprising against regime of general Carmona in Portugal
1929 - Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
1930 - Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
1930 - William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
1930 - The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
1931 - Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls state "apex
           of moronia"
1931 - The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258
1933 - 1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC
1933 - German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts
1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin
1937 - Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket v England
1938 - Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time," premieres in NYC
1941 - Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets min wages & max hrs
1942 - 1st Japanese air raid on Java
1942 - Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
1943 - 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
1944 - World War II: United States troops capture the Marshall Islands.
1945 - Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
1945 - Walt Disney's "3 Caballeros" released
1947 - -81°F (-63°C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
1947 - 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
1947 - Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
1948 - Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
1950 - Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
1951 - "Victor Borge Show," debuts on NBC TV
1951 - Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
1951 - Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
1951 - Tennessee Williams' "Rose Tattoo," premieres in NYC
1953 - J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show
1954 - Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
1956 - Autherine J Lucy admitted to U of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
1956 - Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
1958 - Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart & peaks at #3
1959 - American Airlines Electra crashes in NY's East River, killing 65
1961 - 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
1962 - John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
1962 - Pres Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1964 - "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
1964 - Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools
1965 - 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams
1965 - Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
1965 - Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
1965 - Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned
           down
1966 - 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US
1966 - 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
1967 - "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix
1967 - Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison,
           Melbourne.
1969 - "Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 122 perfs
1969 - The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
1971 - KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Spgs, CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
1972 - 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 & peaks at #6
1973 - President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
1974 - "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs
1974 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1975 - Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
1976 - 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia
1977 - Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame
1978 - Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test
1978 - India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
1979 - "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1979 - Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
1979 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1979 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
1980 - 30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington
1980 - Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 - Mohammed Ali tours Africa as Pres Carter's envoy
1981 - Australia beats NZ 3-1 to win World Series Cup
1981 - Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway
1982 - Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
1982 - Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
1982 - John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours
1982 - Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder
1983 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1984 - 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
1985 - "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
1985 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1986 - Pres Reagan announces formation of Comm on Challenger Accident
1987 - Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
1987 - SD Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup
1989 - Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
1989 - Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay
1989 - Start 1st Test Cricket, NZ v Pak, washed out
1990 - Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation
1990 - Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
1991 - Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1991 - NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 23-21
1992 - Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in war on drugs"
1992 - Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
1992 - Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
1993 - Cin Red owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
1993 - General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
1993 - Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of
           Rodney King begins in LA Calif
1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore
1994 - Pres Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
1994 - STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1995 - STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
1997 - Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca NY
1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM
1998 - Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps
1998 - Fla Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals
1998 - NY Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
1998 - Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain
1998 - US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20
1998 - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her
           baby
1998 - Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United
           States since 1984.
1999 - In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is
           revived.
2002 - Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams, 20-17 at the Louisiana
           Superdome, New Orleans MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB
2007 - A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339.
2011 - All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities.

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #193 on: February 03, 2013, 06:41:22 AM »
This Day in History for 3rd February


Famous Weddings


1112 - Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of
           those two states.
1547 - Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova
1994 - Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok
2006 - "The Science Guy" Bill Nye (50) weds author/oboist Blair Tindall at Skirball Cultural Center in
           Los Angeles
2006 - Academy Award-winning actress Glenn Close (58) weds David Evans Shaw in Maine
2007 - Winner of "Strictly Come Dancing and "Eastenders" actress Jill Halfpenny (31) weds actor
           Craig Conway (32) at St. Andrew's Church in Newcastle
2007 - Jackass prankster Bam Margera (27) weds Missy Rothstein (26) in downtown Philadelphia

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Re: ~ On This Day in History ~
« Reply #194 on: February 03, 2013, 06:49:14 AM »
This Day in History for 3rd February


Famous Birthdays


                                             
Physician Elizabeth Blackwell (1821)        Quarterback Fran Tarkenton (1940)         Actress Isla Fisher (1976)


1338 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)
1368 - Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422)
1525 - Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer
1648 - Louis Bouteiller, composer
1655 - Francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized
1677 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)
1690 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)
1721 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
1736 - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austria organist/composer
1740 - Guillaume Lasceux, composer
1747 - Samuel Osgood, American patriot (d. 1813)
1755 - Florido Tomeoni, composer
1763 - Caroline von Wolzogen, [von Lengefeld], German author
1784 - John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English (opera)composer/diplomat
1795 - Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830)
1805 - Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia
1807 - Joseph Eggleston Johnston, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1809 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Hamburg Germ, composer (Great Scherzos)
1811 - Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man")
1817 - Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer
1817 - Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1817 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)
1820 - Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
1821 - Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician
1823 - Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station)
1824 - George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1824 - Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brig Gen (Confederacy), died in 1868
1824 - Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
1826 - Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist
1830 - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C), British PM (1885-1902)
1831 - Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1833 - Thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian
1842 - Sidney Clopton Lanier, US, composer/poet (Hall of Fame)
1845 - Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Sedan)
1851 - Johannes B van Heutsz, lt-gen/gov-gen Dutch East Indies
1851 - Lord Harris, cricketer (4 Tests for England MCC big-wig)
1859 - Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)
1865 - Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Will Power)
1868 - Damaso Ledesma, composer
1870 - Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Il Libro di Mara)
1872 - Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
1873 - Ernest B Allo, French theologist
1874 - Franklyn Dyall, Liverpool England, actor (Easy Virtue)
1874 - Gertrude Stein, Penn, author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
1876 - William Tedmarsh, silent movie actor (d. 1937)
1878 - Joseph Gordon Coates, PM of New Zealand (1925-28)
1879 - Charles Follis, 1st black NFLer (Shelby, Ohio)
1880 - Arnoldus JH Aerts, bishop of Neth-Guinea (1920-42)
1882 - Trijntje Jansma-Boskma; oldest person in the Netherlands
1883 - Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter
1883 - Clarence Mulford, Ill, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy)
1886 - Erwin Kroll, composer
1887 - Carlo Jachino, composer
1887 - Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely)
1887 - Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore)
1887 - Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)
1888 - Joris Baers, Flemish bibliography/founder (Boekengids)
1889 - Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'arc)
1889 - Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president
1890 - Charles [Andy] Correll, Peoria Ill, actor (Calvin & Colonel)
1891 - Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice (1926-33)
1891 - Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Great Neth Stage)
1893 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
1894 - Norman Rockwell, US, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers)
1895 - Izak Buys, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 & 4*, 0-52)
1895 - Nick Kenny, Astoria NYC, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show)
1895 - Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, politician (APRA-Peru) [or Feb 22]
1896 - Johannes Urzidil, writer
1898 - Alvar Aalto, Finland, architect (Finlandia House)
1898 - Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician
1899 - Doris Speed, actress (Annie-Coronation Street)
1899 - Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer (elected 1961)
1899 - João Café Filho, Brazilian president (m.1970)
1899 - Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
1900 - Mabel Mercer, English cabaret vocalist (Fly Me to the Moon)
1903 - Priaulx Rainier, composer
1903 - Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor
1904 - Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd, FBI Most Wanted criminal
1904 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer
1904 - Roger Makins, diplomat
1905 - Arne Beurling, American mathematician(d. 1986)
1906 - Ludvig Nielsen, composer
1907 - James A Michner, NYC, writer (South Pacific, Hawaii, Space)
1907 - James Michener, American author (d. 1997)
1908 - Oddbjorn Hagen, Norway, cross country jumper (Olympic-gold-1936)
1909 - M Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], poet (Phoenix)
1909 - Simone Weil, Paris, social philosopher/Resistance fighter (WW II)
1910 - Blas Galindo Dimas, San Gabriel Mexico, composer (A la Patria)
1910 - Nelson Case, Long Beach California, TV host (Trash or Treasure)
1911 - Jehan [Ariste] Alain, French organist/composer
1911 - Jesse Thomas, blues singer
1911 - Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)
1912 - Jacques Soustelle, French minister of information
1913 - Richard Seaman, British racing driver (d. 1939)
1914 - Cornelis "Kees" Andrea, Dutch painter/graphic artist/carpet designer
1914 - Felix Kelly, artist
1915 - Jann Willem Holsbergen, author (Zakenmensen Fair as Gold)
1915 - Richard Bales, composer
1916 - Vivien Signy, nurse
1918 - Joey Bishop, [Gottlieb], Bronx, talk show host (Joey Bishop Show)
1918 - Helen Stephens, Fulton Mo, American 100m runner (double Olympic gold-1936)
1920 - Bibi Osterwald, New Brunswick NJ, actress (Bridget Loves Bernie)
1920 - Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver)
1920 - Stan Ockers, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1955, 56)
1920 - Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver
1920 - George A. Miller, Charleston, West Virginia, cognitive psychologist (the magical number seven), (d. 2012)
1922 - Bill Chappell Jr, (Rep-D-FL, 1969- )
1923 - Alys Robi, Quebec singer
1925 - John Fiedler, Platville Wisc, actor (Mr Peterson-Newhart)
1925 - Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder (World Press Photo)
1925 - Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1926 - Arthur Arfons, auto racer/designer (Green Monster 1964-536.71 MPH)
1926 - Glen Tetley, US choreographer
1926 - Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats (SPD)
1926 - J Roy Rowland, (Rep-D-GA, 1983- )
1926 - Shelley Berman, Chicago, comedian (Son of Blob, Love American Style)
1927 - Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker
1927 - Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
1927 - Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003)
1927 - Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003)
1928 - C V Gadkari, cricketer (Indian batsman in 6 Tests 1953-55)
1928 - Mr [Fred] Rogers, Latrobe, Pa, kid host (Mr Roger's Neighorhood)
1929 - Russell Arms, Berkeley California, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
1929 - Val Doonican, Irish singer/entertainer
1929 - Ken Shipp, American football coach
1930 - Joan Rice, actress (Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up)
1930 - Gillian Ayres, English painter
1932 - J P "Pom-Pom" Felloes-Smith, cricketer (S Afr batsman v England 1960)
1932 - Maria Itkina, USSR, sprinter (9 world records)
1932 - Peggy Ann Garner, Canton Ohio, actress (Little Women, Daisy Kenyon)
1933 - Paul S Sarbanes, (Sen-D-MD, 1977- )
1934 - Jeremy Kemp, Chesterfield England, actor (Winds of War)
1935 - Johnny "Guitar" Watson, rock guitarist
1936 - Bobby Simpson, cricketer (great Australian batsman/capt/coach/slip)
1936 - Robert Simpson, Australian cricket player/manager
1938 - Victor Buono, SD California, actor (Man from Atlantis, Untouchables)
1938 - Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny, Russia, cosmonaut
1938 - Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer
1939 - Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut
1940 - Fran Tarkenton, Richmond Va, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minnesota Vikings)
1940 - Jim Hartz, newscaster (NBC-TV, Innovations)
1941 - Angelo D'Aleo, Bronx, tenor (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
1941 - Bridget Hanley, Minneapolis Mn, actress (Here Come the Brides)
1941 - Carol Mann, Buffalo NY, golfer (LPGA Hall of Fame 1977, 1965 US Open)
1941 - Chuck Tharp, rock vocalist (Fireballs)
1941 - Gary Bartlett, cricket pace bowler (NZ in 10 Tests in the 1960's)
1941 - Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
1943 - Blythe Danner, Phila PA, actress (Butterflies are Free)
1943 - Dennis Edwards, rocker (Temptations-Aint Too Proud To Beg, My Girl)
1943 - Eric Haydock, bassist (Hollies-He Aint Heavy He's My Brother)
1944 - Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress
1945 - Bob Griese, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, 1971 Player of Year)
1945 - Johnny Cymbal, rocker (Mr Bass Man)
1945 - Willeke Alberti, [Verbruggen], Dutch vocalist/actress (Small Truth)
1947 - Chose Alberts, [Krommenhoek], vocalist (Yet Many Years)
1947 - Dave Davies, London, rock vocalist/guitarist (Kinks-Lola)
1947 - Joe Coleman, baseball pitcher (Washington, Detroit)
1947 - Koos Alberts, [Krommenhoek], Dutch vocalist (Many More Years to Come)
1947 - Melanie, [Safka], Astoria, vocalist/songwriter (Candles in Rain)
1947 - Paul Auster, US author/poet/director (Mr Vertigo, Smoke)
1947 - Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor
1948 - Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timor politician, Nobel Peace laureate
1948 - Henning Mankell, Swedish author
1949 - Oscar Benton, Dutch blues vocalist/guitarist (Ze is Zoals Jij)
1949 - Arthur Kane, American musician
1949 - Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
1950 - Michael Dickinson, British(?) reorganizer
1950 - Morgan Fairchild, [Patsy McClenny], Dallas Tx, actress (Falcon Crest)
1951 - Felipe Munoz, Mexico, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1951 - Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
1952 - Fred Lynn, Chicago, baseball outfielder (Boston, California, Baltimore)
1952 - Jack Fields, (Rep-R-TX, 1981- )
1953 - Savvas Tsitouridis, Greek politician
1954 - Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 - Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
1955 - Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist
1956 - Nathan Lane, Jersey NJ, actor (One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie)
1956 - Pamela Cossey, England, model/sister of transsexual Tula
1956 - John Jefferson, American football player
1956 - Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1957 - Michele Greene, Las Vegas Nevada, actress (Abby Perkins-LA Law)
1958 - Lizzie Borden, director/writer (Love Crimes, Working Girls)
1958 - Joe Frank Edwards Jr, Richmond Va, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 89)
1958 - Lee Crystal, rocker (Joan Jett & Blackhearts-Ashes in the Wind)
1958 - N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist
1959 - Loi Tolhurst, rocker (Cure-Hell's Kitchen)
1959 - Molly Killingbeck, Jamaica, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-silver-1984)
1959 - Thomas Calabro, Bkln NY, actor (Michael Mancini-Melrose Place)
1959 - Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five)
1960 - B J Jefferson, Dallas Tx, actress (Ronnie Laurance-Another World)
1960 - Richard Kotzen, rocker
1960 - Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1993)
1960 - Marty Jannetty, American Wrestler
1961 - Keith Gordon, NYC, actor (Dressed to Kill, Legend of Billie Jean)
1961 - Jay Adams, American skateboarder
1961 - Linda Eder, American singer
1962 - Joe Handle, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1965 - Dorcas Wonsavage, Madison Wis, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1965 - Kathleen Kimont, LA California, actress (Fraternity Vacation, Renegade)
1965 - Maura Tierney, Boston, actress (Lisa-Newsradio)
1965 - Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician
1966 - Danny Morrison, cricket pace bowler (NZ since 1987)
1966 - Gillian Bonner, Athens GA, playmate (Apr, 1996)
1966 - Sean Patrick Wade, Houston Texas, NZ marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 - Frank Coraci, American film director
1967 - Aurelio Vidmar, soccer player (Standard Luik, Feyenoord)
1967 - Jason Morris, Scotia NY, half-middleweight judoka (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1967 - Natalie Hunter, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1967 - Dave Benson-Phillips, Children's TV Presenter
1967 - Bob Taylor, English footballer
1968 - Frantisek Kucera, Prague Cze, NHL defenseman (Vanc Canucks, Oly-G-98)
1968 - Leroy Thompson, NFL running back (KC Chiefs)
1968 - Mark Koevermans, Netherlands, tennis star
1968 - Vlade Divac, Yugoslavia, NBA center (Charlotte Hornets, LA Lakers)
1969 - Casey Weldon, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1969 - Jeff Christy, NFL center (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 - Robert Pack, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Dallas Mavericks)
1969 - Terry Bradshaw, US baseball outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1969 - Retief Goosen, professional golfer
1970 - Alonza Barnett, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 - Eric Curry, NFL defensive end (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 - Jason Muzzatti, Toronto, NHL goalie (Hartford Whalers)
1970 - Keith Carney, Providence, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, Team US)
1970 - Oscar Cordoba, Colombian footballer
1970 - Warwick Davis, British actor
1971 - Eric Owens, Danville VA, outfielder (Cin Reds)
1971 - Marcus Buckley, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
1971 - Roman Cechmanek, NHL goaltender (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
1971 - Sean Dawkins, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 - Elisa Donovan, American actress
1971 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)
1971 - Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor
1972 - Jermaine Smith, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 - Keith Elias, NFL running back (NY Giants)
1972 - Tyrone Poole, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Mart Poom, Estonian football player
1973 - Jim Campbell, Worcester, NHL center (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1973 - Kyle Richardson, WLAF punter (Rhein Fire)
1974 - Konrad Gałka, Polish swimmer
1976 - Dwayne Rudd, linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1976 - Karen Bradley, Miss Rhode Island USA (1996)
1976 - Isla Fisher, Australian actress
1977 - Maitland Ward, Torrance CA, actress (Jessica-Bold & Beautiful)
1977 - Daddy Yankee , reggaeton singer/rapper.
1978 - Adrian R'Mante, American actor
1978 - Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer
1980 - Sarah Lewitinn, American writer
1981 - Maurice Ross, Scottish footballer
1981 - Alisa Reyes, American actress and singer
1982 - Alan Gurr, Australian V8 Supercar driver
1982 - Jessica Harp, American singer (The Wreckers)
1983 - Richard Bartel, National Football League quarterback
1983 - Silambarasan Rajendar,famous south Indian actor
1989 - Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer
1989 - Ryne Sanborn, American actor
1990 - Cody Newton Gifford, son of Kathie Lee & Frank Gifford
1990 - Sean Kingston, American reggae rapper
1994 - Tallulah Belle Willis, 3rd daughter of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore