Today in History for 17th July 2015

180 - 6 inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa are executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
561 - John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I
855 - St Leo IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1054 - Emperor Henry III crowns his son Henry IV king
1070 - Arnulf III the Hapless becomes earl of Flanders
1203 - Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade, Crusaders aboad a Venetian fleet attack the city
1245 - Pope bans emperor Frederik II Hohenstaufen for 3rd time
1393 - Osmanen occupy Turnovo, Bulgaria
1429 - Dauphin crowned king of France
1453 - 1st battle at Castillon: French beat English troops
1473 - Charles the Stout conquerors Nijmegen
1505 - Martin Luther enters into an Augustinian monastery at Erfurt
1509 - Venice recaptures Padua
1549 - Jews are expelled from Ghent Belgium
1552 - Siena drives Spanish troops out of Verdun
1583 - Spanish & Walloon troops conquer Dunkerk

1585 - English secret service discovers Anthony Babington's murder plot against Queen Elizabeth I
Queen of England and Ireland Elizabeth I 1596 - At 10:30AM Dutch explorer Willem Barents arrives at Novaya Zemlya
1603 - Sir Walter Raleigh arrested by forces of King James
1686 - A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defence, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.
1712 - England, Portugal & France sign ceasefire [or 19th]
1717 - Handel's "Water Music" premieres on the river Thames in London
1727 - Simon van Slingelandt appointed Dutch pension advisor
1740 - Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
1762 - Catherine II becomes tsarina of Russia upon the murder of Peter III
1774 - Captain Cook arrives in the New Hebrides (Vanuatu)
1775 - 1st military hospital approved
1791 - Members of the French National Guard under the command of General Lafayette open fire on a crowd of radical Jacobins at the Champ de Mars, Paris, during the French Revolution, killing as many as 50 people.
Empress of Russia Catherine the Great 1794 - Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
1821 - Spain cedes Florida to US
1841 - British humorous and satirycal magazine "Punch" first published; it finally closed in 2002
1850 - Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1856 - The Great Train Wreck of 1856 between Camp Hill and Fort Washington, Pennsylvania kills over 60 people.
1861 - US Congress authorizes paper money
1861 - Manassas, VA Gen Beauregard requests reinforcements for his 22,000 men, Gen Johnston is ordered to Manassas
1862 - Naval Engagement at Pascagoula River MS: USS Potomac Expedition
1862 - US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
1862 - United army officially divides corps
1862 - R John Hunt Morgan:Cynthiana, KY CS24 US17 Skirmish at Columbia, TN
1863 - Battle of Honey Springs - largest battle in Indian Territory
1863 - Māori forces are defeated by British troops at Koheroa, Waikato, in the New Zealand Wars between Maori tribes and British colonials
1864 - CSA President Davis replaces Gen Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood
1866 - Italian fleet under Admiral Count Carlo Pellion di Persano captures Austrian Fort Lissa
1867 - 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1878 - Nqwiliso, tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with H.G. Elliott ceding sovereign rights and shipping in the Umzimvubu River mouth to the Cape government, Southern Africa
1879 - 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
1882 - 6th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats E Renshaw (6-1 2-6 4-6 6-2 6-2)
1885 - 9th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats H Lawford (7-5, 6-2 4-6 7-5)
1886 - 10th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats H Lawford (6-0 5-7 6-3 6-4)
1890 - Cecil Rhodes becomes premier of Cape colony
1893 - Arthur Shrewsbury is 1st to score 1,000 runs in Test Cricket
1897 - 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
1898 - Spanish American War - Spaniards surrender to US at Santiago Cuba
1900 - NY Giant Christy Mathewson begins career losing to Bkln Superbas
1902 - Orioles forfeit to St Louis having only 5 players available to play they then forfeit their franchise back to the AL
1902 - Lord Tennyson, son of the poet, is named to succeed Lord Hopetown, first governor general of Australia
1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party meets, first in Brussels and then London because their leaders have been forced into exile by the Russian Government
1906 - Clement Armand Fallieres is elected President of France, but power lies with George Clemenceau
1911 - Overthrown shah of Persia Mohammed Ali lands on Astrabad with army
1912 - IAF (Intl Amateur Athletic Federation) forms in Sweden
1914 - Giants outfielder Red Murray is knocked unconscious by lightning after catching a flyball, ending 21 inning game, Giants win 3-1
1915 - Italian offensive at Isonzo
King of the United Kingdom George V 1917 - Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor
1918 - Longest errorless game, Cubs beat Phillies 2-1 in 21 innings
1919 - Finland adopts constitution
1919 - Yanks 21 hits, Browns 17 hits Browns win 7-6 in 17, on squeeze play
1922 - Curacao harbor workers begin strike under Felix Chacuto
1922 - Ty Cobb gets 5 hits in a game for record 4th time in a year
1923 - Carl Mays gave up 13 runs & 20 hits in 13-0 lose to Indians
1924 - St Louis Card Jesse Haines no-hits Boston Braves, 5-0
1925 - Tris Speaker, is 5th to get 3,000 hits
1926 - Paavo Nurmi walks world record 4x1500m (16:11.4)
1929 - USSR breaks diplomatic relations with China
1933 - After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.
Baseball Legend Babe Ruth 1934 - Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland
1935 - Variety's famous headline "Sticks Nix Hick Pix"
1936 - Carl Hubbell begins winning streak, beating Pittsburgh 6-0
1936 - Spanish generals Francisco Franco and Emilio Mola lead a right-wing uprising, starting the Spanish Civil War
1938 - Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan leaves NY for LA, wound up in Ireland
1939 - 22nd PGA Championship: Henry Picard at Pomonok CC Flushing NY
1941 - NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak ends in Cleveland
1942 - 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15
1942 - Estimated 34.5" (87.5 cm) of rainfall, Smethport, Pa (state record)
1942 - Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 - RAF bombs Germany rocket base Peenemunde
1944 - 2 ammunition ships explodes at Port Chicago, California kills 322
Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio 1944 - Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland
Winston Churchill, Harry S. Truman and Josef Stalin in the garden of Cecilienhof Palace before meeting for the Potsdam Conference
Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin 1945 - Potsdam Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
1948 - Israeli army captures Nazareth
1948 - Proclamation of constitution of Republic of (South) Korea
1950 - Indonesian troops land on Buru, South-Molukka
1950 - Suppression of Communism Act comes into force in South Africa
1951 - King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son Boudouin I
1951 - Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered.
1952 - Shah of Persia named Ghavam Sultaneh premier
1954 - 1st major league game where majority of team is black (Dodgers)
1954 - Construction begins on Disneyland. . .
1954 - Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany
1955 - Arco Idaho becomes 1st US city lit by nuclear power
1955 - Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 220
1487 - Ismail I, Shah of Persia, converted Iran from Sunni to Shi'ah (d. 1524)
1674 - Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist (Horae Lyrican)
1702 - Johann Schneider, composer
1744 - Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering
1745 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
1763 - Johannes H van der Palm, Dutch theologist/minister of Education
1763 - John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader
1775 - August Harder, composer
1797 - Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (d. 1856)
1817 - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer
1827 - Frederick A Able, English chemist/inventor (cordiet)
1830 - Eelco Refer, linguist (Dictionary for the Dutch translator)
1831 - Xianfeng, Emperor of China (d. 1861)
1832 - Johan August Soderman, composer
1839 - Friedrich Gernsheim, composer
1839 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (d. 1916)
1853 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer
1859 - Luis Munoz Rivera, Puerto Rico, journalist (founded Federalist Party)
1871 - Lyonel C A Feininger, US cartoonist/painter
1873 - Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Rigoletto)
1875 - Donald Francis Tovey, Eton England, musicologist/composer
1876 - Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
1876 - Rosa Jackson Lumpkin, lived to be 115 years old, born in Flint, Georgia (d. 1991)
1876 - Vittorio Gnecchi, composer
1878 - Henri Zagwijn, composer
1883 - Bart de Ligt, anti militarist theologist (Acting Peace)
1883 - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Erotikon)
1885 - Benjamin James Dale, composer
1888 - Shmuel Agnon, Israel, novelist (Day Before Yesterday-Nobel 1966)
Detective Writer Erle Stanley Gardner (1889) 1889 - Erle Stanley Gardner, Malden Mass., US detective writer (Perry Mason), (d. 1970)
1894 - Mary Clare, actress (Evil Mind, Young & Innocent), born in London, England
1897 - Elbert Parr Tuttle, lawyer/judge
1898 - Berenice Abbott, Springfield Oh, photographer (World of Atget)
1898 - Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (d. 1999)
1899 - James Cagney, New York City, NY, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1901 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (d. 1938)
1902 - Christina Stead, Australia, novelist (Man Who Loved Children)
1903 - Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky, composer
1904 - Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor
1905 - Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan
1905 - William Gargan, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Dynamite, Ellery Queen)
Actor James Cagney (1899) 1906 - John Carroll, [Julian LaFaye], actor (Wolf Call), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1908 - Rudolf Petzold, composer
1909 - Hardy Amies, royal dressmaker (Queen Elizabeth II), born in London, England
1911 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (d. 1979)
1912 - Art Linkletter, Saskatchewan Canada, TV host (People are Funny)
1913 - Everett Helm, composer
1913 - Roger Garaudy, French philosopher
1913 - Bertrand Goldberg, American architect (d. 1997)
1914 - Lucille Benson, Scottsboro Ala, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies)
1914 - James Purdy, Hicksville, Ohio, writer (The House of the Solitary Maggot), (disputed birthdate, 1923), (d. 2009)
1915 - Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1915 - Dorothy Poynton-Hill, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1932)
1915 - Esther Williamson Ballou, composer
1915 - Habib Rajab, Durban, South African, a trader and collector of oriental art
1916 - Eleanor Steber, Wheeling WV, soprano (Metropolitan Opera-1940)
1917 - Lou Bourdeau, baseball player/manager (1948 AP Athlete of Year)
Comedienne and Actress Phyllis Diller (1917) 1917 - Phyllis Diller, Lima Ohio, comedienne and actress (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number), (d. 2012)
1917 - Red Sovine, American country music singer (d. 1980)
1917 - Kenan Evren, Turkish soldier and politician, (President of Turkey 1980-1989 by military coup), born in Alaşehir, Manisa Province (d. 2015)
1918 - Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, President of Guatemala (d. 2003)
1919 - Alex Moir, cricketer (New Zealand leg-spinner in 17 Tests 1950-59)
1920 - Bill Monroe, newscaster (NBC-TV, Congressional Report), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
1920 - Helen Walker, Worcester MA, actress (Brewster's Million)
1920 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, chairman (International Olympic Committee)
1920 - Rudolf Karpati, Hungary, sabres (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1920 - Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (d. 2005)
1921 - Acquanetta, [Mildred Davenport], Wyo, actress (Tarzan & Leopard Woman)
1921 - George Barnes, Chicago Hgts, guitarist (Skip Farrell Show)
1921 - František Zvarík, Slovakian actor
Baseball Player Toni Stone (1921) 1921 - Toni Stone [Marcenia Lyle Alberga], St. Paul Minnesota, American baseball player (first woman to play in a men's league)
1922 - Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic
1923 - John Cooper, English race car designer (d. 2000)
1926 - Édouard Carpentier, French-born professional wrestler
1926 - Charles Champlin, American film critic and writer
1928 - Jean Elizabeth Leuckert Muir, designer dressmaker
1928 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician and composer (d. 1976)
1929 - Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
1930 - Ryohei Hirose, composer
1932 - Niccolo Castiglioni, composer
1932 - Vince Guaraldi, jazz pianist (Charlie Brown TV specials)
1932 - Wojciech Kilar, Lwów, Second Polish Republic, composer (The Pianist), (d. 2013)
1932 - Hal Riney, American advertising executive (d. 2008)
1933 - Tony Pithey, cricketer (brother of David, South African batsman in 17 Tests)
1933 - Bruce Wells, British boxer & actor
1934 - Pat McCormick, comedian (Don Rickles Show)
1934 - Philippe Capdenat, composer
1934 - Rainer Kisch, writer
1934 - Lucio Tan, Chinese Filipino businessman (Philippine Airlines), in Amoy China
1935 - Donald Sutherland, St John New Brunswick, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)
1935 - Diahann Carroll, Bronx, actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty)
1935 - P D Q Bach, [Peter Schickele], Iowa, composer (5th of Beethoven)
1937 - Jose Ignacio Cabrujas, writer
1938 - Stan Bronstein, rocker
1939 - Spencer Davis, Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1939 - Warwick Hutton, artist
1939 - Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran
1939 - Andrée Champagne, French Canadian actress and politician
1940 - Phyllis Davis, Port Arthur Tx, actress (Love American Style, Vega$)
1940 - Tim Brooke-Taylor, English comedian

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 12 of 12
Comedian Groucho Marx (1954) 1954 - Master of quick wit and widely considered one of the best comedians of the modern era Groucho Marx (63) weds actress Eden Hartford (24)
1988 - NHL ice hockey star player Wayne Gretzky (27) weds actress Janet Jones (27) at St. Joseph's Basilica in Edmonton, Canada
1990 - PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis
1990 - Record producer Berry Gordy (60) weds Grace Easton
1990 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (56) weds Suha Tawil (27)
1999 - Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt (36) weds "The Simpsons" voice actor Hank Azaria (35) in Los Angeles, California
1999 - Cricketer Glenn McGrath (29) weds flight attendant Jane Louise Steele
1999 - Actress Raquel Welch (58) weds Richard Palmer in Beverly Hills, California
2005 - Actor Ethan Embry (27) weds actress Sunny Mabrey (29)
2006 - "Wheel of Fortune" Original host Chuck Woolery (65) weds Kim Barnes at The Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas
Actress Raquel Welch (1999) 2010 - Actress Khadijah Haqq (29) weds New Orleans Saints defensive end Bobby McCray (29) at Vibiana in downtown Los Angeles
2010 - Boston Celtics star player Paul Pierce (32) weds interior-designer Julie Landrum (27) at Pelican Hill Resort in Newport Coast, California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1
Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr (1975) 1975 - Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 133
180 - Christenen Cittinus/Donatus/Natzalus/Secunda/Speratus/Vestia sentenced to death as Christians in Carthage
521 - Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474)
656 - Uthman ibn Affan, Third Caliph, assassinated.
924 - King Edward the Elder of England (899-924)
1025 - Boleslaw I Chobry, [the brave], duke/king of Poland, dies
1070 - Boudouin VI, count of Flanders/Henegouwen, dies
1345 - Jacob Van Artevelde, [Manner Man], Flemish broker, lynched
1453 - John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader
1510 - Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48
1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni, Japanese military commander (b. 1484)
1571 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1588 - Sinan, Ottoman architect (b. 1489)
1627 - Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67
1645 - Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician
1682 - Johann Heinrich Kittel, composer, dies at 29
1704 - Pierre-Charles Le Sueur, French fur trader and explorer
1709 - Pascal Collasse, composer, dies at 60
1709 - Robert Bolling, English settler in Virginia (b. 1646)
1746 - Anthonie van de Heim, Dutch pension advisor (1737-46), dies at 53
1753 - Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies
1762 - Peter III, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34
1763 - Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer, dies at 45
1764 - Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82
Economist and Philosopher Adam Smith (1790) 1790 - Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher (b. 1723)
1791 - Martin Dobrizhoffer, Austrian Jesuit missionary (b. 1717)
1793 - Charlotte Corday, murderer (Jean-Paul Marat), is guillotined
1794 - Jean-Frederic Edelmann, composer, dies at 45
1794 - John Roebuck, British inventor (b. 1718)
1804 - Christian Ernst Graf, composer, dies at 80
1826 - Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65
1838 - John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82
1845 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)
1851 - Beni Egressy, composer, dies at 37
1863 - James Johnston Pettigrew, US attorney/Confederate, dies at 35
1864 - Daniel McCook Jr, US Union-brig-gen, dies at 29
1864 - Dirk Dark Curtius, attorney/liberal minister of Justice, dies at 71
1871 - Karl Tausig, composer, dies at 29
1875 - Gabor Matray, composer, dies at 77
1878 - Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65
1879 - Maurycy Gottlieb, Ukrainian painter (b. 1856)
1881 - Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer (b. 1804)
1885 - Jean-Charles Chapais, Canadian politician (b. 1811)
1887 - Dorothea Dix, french social activist (b. 1802)
1893 - Frederick A. Johnson, American politician (b. 1833)
1894 - Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (b. 1810)
1901 - John Farmer, composer, dies at 64
1903 - James A McNeill Whistler, US/Brit writer (Bride Tomorrow), dies at 69
1912 - J-Henri Poincaré, French mine engineer/mathematician, dies at 58
1915 - Francesco Fanciulli, composer, dies on 62nd birthday
1918 - Aleksei N Romanov, son and heir of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 13
1918 - Alexandra Fjodorova, wife of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death at 46
Grand Duchess of Russia Anastasia Nikolaevna (1918) 1918 - Anastasia Nikolaevna, daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, executed at 17
1918 - Botkin, personal physician of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Charitonov, cook of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Demidova, lady in waiting of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Maria Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Nicholas II Alexandrovich, last Tsar of Russia, executed at 50
1918 - Olga Romanova, daughter of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Tatyana Romanova, daughter of RussianTsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1918 - Trupp, lackey of Tsar Nicholas II, shot to death
1922 - Heinrich Rubens, German physicist, dies at 57
1928 - Alvaro Obregon, general/pres of Mexico, assassinated
1928 - Giovanni Giolitti, 5x premier of Italy (1892..1921), dies
1935 - George William Russell, Irish nationalist, poet and artist (b. 1867)
1937 - Henri-Constant-Gabriel Pierne, composer, dies at 73
Tsar Nicholas II (1918) 1943 - Sir Patrick Duncan, Governor-general of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943), dies at 72
1944 - Hugh Rigby, English portrait painter (King George V 1928-32), dies
1944 - William James Sidis, gifted mathematician and child prodigy (b. 1898)
1946 - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslav gen (Nazi), executed at 53
1947 - Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat in WW II (saved thousands of Jews), dies at 34
1950 - Evangeline Booth, the 4th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1865)
1953 - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer, dies at 65
1953 - Maude K Adams, US actress (Little Minister), dies
1954 - Dirk B Nanninga, painter, dies at 85
1955 - Bronislaw Zygmunt Szulc, composer, dies at 73
1959 - Billie Holiday, jazz singer, dies at Metropolitan Hospital in New York of cirrhosis of the liver at 44
Jazz Musician Billie Holiday (1959) 1959 - Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies
1959 - Eugene Meyer, American businessman and newspaper publisher (b. 1875)
1961 - Ty Cobb, baseball great (Det Tigers), dies of cancer at 74
1965 - Luiz Cosme, composer, dies at 57
1966 - August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Piranesi-suite), dies at 71
1967 - Cyril Ring, actor (Duffy's Tavern, Red Hot & Blue), dies at 74
1967 - Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77
1967 - John Coltrane, US jazz sax/composer (Round Midnight), dies of cancer at 40
1970 - Juano Hernandez, actor (St Louis Blues, Two Loves), dies at 74
1971 - Cliff Edwards, "Ukulele Ike", singer (54th Street Revue), dies at 76
1974 - Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher (St Louis Cards), dies at 63
1975 - Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 (oldest known nonhuman mammal)
1975 - Konstantine Gamsakhurdia, Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. 1893)
Jazz Musician John Coltrane (1967) 1978 - Thayer David, actor (Rocky, Roots, Savages), dies at 51
1979 - Doug Meintjes, South African cricket pace bowler (v England 1922-23), dies
1980 - Donald Barry, actor (Mr Gallo-Mr Novak), dies at 68
1980 - Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician (b. 1890)
1984 - J Delos Jewkes, singer/actor (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 89
1985 - Czeslaw Josef Marek, composer, dies at 93
1985 - Margo, actress (Rumba, Viva Zapata), dies at 68 of a brain tumor
1987 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
1988 - Bruiser Brody [Frank Goodish], professional wrestler, stabbed to death at 42
1990 - Bernard Cowan, TV announcer, dies of kidney disease at 68
1993 - Ineke Shutter, choreography (Black Girl Goes to School), dies at 61