Today In History From JJDR........July 6

1044 - The Battle of Ménfő takes place.
1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.
1253 - Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania.
1348 - Papal bull of Pope Clement VI issued during the Black Death stating Jews not to blame and urging their protection
1415 - Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
1483 - England's King Richard III crowned
1484 - Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
1491 - Opening ceremony of Daitokuji's Shinju at subtemple
1495 - Battle of Fornovo, near Parma: French King Charles VIII beats Holy League
1560 - England and Scotland sign Treaty of Edinburgh

1573 - Pacificatie of Boulogne: new peace treaty with huguenots
1573 - Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.
1590 - English admiral Francis Drake takes Portuguese Forts at Taag
1609 - Majesteitsbrief: Emperor Rudolf II grants Bohemia freedom of religion
Vice Admiral and Navigator Francis Drake 1621 - Dutch gov-gen John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda-islands, 15,000 die
1630 - Swedish troops under Gustaf II Adolf land at Peenemunde
1634 - Johan van Walbeeck's ships bypass St-Anna Bay, Curaçao
1641 - Battle at La Marfée Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army
1652 - Fire on Dutch Dam (Amsterdam's city hall burns)
1669 - LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River
1673 - French troops conquer Maastricht as part of the Franco-Dutch War
1685 - Battle at Sedgemoor: King James II beats duke of Monmouth
1699 - Pirate Capt William Kidd is captured in Boston
1770 - Battle at Cesme: Russian fleet beats Turkish
1775 - Congress issues "Declaration of the Causes & Necessity of Taking up Arms," listing grievances but denying intent to be independent
Engrossed copy of the United States Declaration of Independence 1776 - American Declaration of Independence announced on front page of "PA Evening Gazette"
1777 - British Gen Burgoyne captures Fort Ticonderoga from Americans
1782 - British-French sea battle at Negapatam (off India)
1785 - Congress unanimously resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage
1787 - French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax
1787 - Orange troops occupy Area at Duurstede
1798 - US law makes aliens "liable to be apprehended, restrained, ... & removed as alien enemies"
1801 - Battle at Algeciras: French fleet beats British
1840 - Christian Hebbel's "Judith" premieres in Berlin
1848 - Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
Abolitionist Frederick Douglass 1853 - National Black convention meets in Rochester NY, ex-slave Frederick Douglass attends
1853 - William Wells Brown publishes "Clotel", 1st novel by an African American
1854 - 1st Republican state convention (Jackson, Mich)
1858 - Lyman Blake patents shoe manufacturing machine
1862 - Skirmish at Devall's Bluff, Arkansas (106 casualties)
1863 - Battle of Williamsport, MD [-Jul 07]
1863 - Northern Territory passes from New South Wales to South Australia
1864 - Battle of Chattahoochee River, GA [->JUL 10] US730 CS600
1869 - Black candidate for lt governor of Va, Dr J H Harris, defeated
1882 - 14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa, Palestine
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
1886 - Horlick's of Wisconsin offers 1st malted milk to public
1887 - 4th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (6-2 6-0)
Filipino Nationalist and Novelist Jose Rizal 1892 - Jose Rizal forms La Liga Filipina in Manila
1892 - Striking steel workers in Homestead, Pa, fire on scabs, killing 7
1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
1893 - The small town of Pomeroy, Iowa, is nearly destroyed by a tornado that kills 71 people and injures 200.
1894 - Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
1903 - George Wyman arrives in NYC by motorcycle 51 days out of SF
1904 - Two Russian cruisers move into the Red Sea and begin to stop ships of Britain, Germany, and other nations they believe friendly to Japan
1904 - The US Democratic Party nominates little known New York judge Alton B Parker for presidential nominee - virtually assuring the election of Theodore Roosevelt
1905 - Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the second time.
26th US President Theodore Roosevelt 1908 - Robert Peary's expedition sails from NYC for north pole
1912 - Donald Lippincott runs world record 100m (10.6)
1917 - T. E. Lawrence captures port of Aqaba from Turks
1919 - British R-34 lands in NY, 1st airship to cross Atlantic (108 hr)
1919 - William Veeck, sportswriter, replaces Fred Mitchell as Cubs president
1920 - Yankees score 14 in 5th inning & beat Washington Senators, 17-0
1922 - Dutch auto/airplane manufacturer Trompenburg declares bankruptcy
1923 - 36th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats K McKane (6-2 6-2)
1923 - Rail crash on New Zealand's main trunk line; 17 killed and 28 injured
1923 - The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in December 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1924 - 1st photo sent experimentally across Atlantic by radio, US-England
1928 - 1st all-talking motion picture shown in NY (Lights of NY)
Soldier and Writer T. E. Lawrence 1928 - Worlds largest record hailstone 1.5 lbs (7 inchs in diameter) at the time falls in Potter, Nebraska
1928 - 48th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: René Lacoste beats Henri Cochet (6-1 4-6 6-4 6-2)
1929 - St Louis has 2, 10 run innings & beats Phillies 28-6
1929 - 49th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Jean Borotra (6-4 6-3 6-4)
1931 - 35th US Golf Open: Billy Burke shoots a 292 at Inverness Club Ohio
1932 - 1st class postage back up to 3 cents from 2 cents
1932 - Cubs shortstop Bill Jurges is shot twice in Chicago hotel room by a spurned girlfriend, Violet Popovich Valli
1933 - 1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Babe Ruth hits first All Star home run
1934 - 47th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothy Little beats H Jacobs (6-2 5-7 6-3)
Baseball Legend Babe Ruth 1934 - 54th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Fred Perry beats J Crawford (6-3 6-0 7-5)
1935 - 48th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Helen Moody beats H Jacobs (6-3 3-6 7-5)
1935 - Rotterdam architect A van de Steurs Museum Boymans opens
1936 - 114°F (46°C), Moorhead, Minnesota (state record)
1936 - 121°F (49°C), Steele, North Dakota (state record)
1936 - A major breach of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet into the River Irwell.
1938 - 6th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-1 at Crosley Field, Cincinnati
1939 - German Nazis close last Jewish enterprises
1941 - NY Yankees unveil a monument to Lou Gehrig in centerfield
1942 - 10th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 3-1 at Polo Grounds, New York
1942 - Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in After House, Amsterdam
1942 - Von Hoth' IV Pantser army fights with Voronezj
Jewish Victim & Diarist of the Holocaust Anne Frank 1943 - 2nd day of battle at Kursk: 25,000 German killed
1943 - US destroyer William D Porter [Willie Dee] launched
1944 - 170 die in a fire at Ringling Bros Circus in Hartford Conn
1944 - French General Charles de Gaulle arrives in Washington, DC
1944 - US General Patton lands in France
Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations 1945 - Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to ratify the Charter of the United Nations
1945 - US President Harry Truman signs executive order establishing Medal of Freedom
1945 - Wash Senator Rick Ferrell catches a record 1,722 games
Comedian and Actor Lou Costello 1945 - Abbott and Costello's film "The Naughty Nineties" released featuring longest version of their "Who's on First" routine
1946 - "St Louis Woman" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 113 perfs

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 222
1542 - Elisabeth van Nassau, daughter of Willem/Juliana van Stolberg
1580 - Johann Stobaeus, composer
1632 - Albert Schop, composer
1632 - Pietro Reggio, composer
1638 - Gerrit A Berckheyde, Dutch painter
1668 - Peter Burmannus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch attorney/classicist
1678 - Nicola Francesco Haym, composer
1686 - Antoine de Jussieu, French naturalist (d. 1758)
1702 - Franz Anton Maichelbeck, composer
1739 - Freidrich Wilhelm Rust, composer
1747 - Coelestin Jungbauer, composer
1747 - John Paul Jones, naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight")
1753 - John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, baptized
1755 - John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
1766 - Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born naturalist (d. 1813)
1773 - Wenzel Thomas Matiegka, composer
British Statesman and Founder of Singapore Stamford Raffles (1781) 1781 - Stamford Raffles, British statesman and founder of Singapore
1782 - Luis [Philippus] Brion, Curacao commander of Colombian fleet
1782 - Maria Louisa of Spain, queen of Etruria (d. 1824)
1785 - William J Hooker, English botanist/director (Kew Gardens)
1789 - Maria Isabella of Spain, queen of the Two Sicilies (d. 1846)
1793 - Jacob M de Kempenaer, Dutch lawyer/min of Internal Affairs (1848-49)
1796 - Nicholas I Pavlovitch, tsar of Russia (1825-55)
1800 - Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti, composer
1814 - Justus McKinstry, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1897)
1817 - Albert von Kölliker, Swiss anatomist (d. 1905)
1818 - Adolf Anderssen, Prussia, world chess champion (1851-66)
1819 - Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke, German Physician and Physiologist, born in Berlin, Germany
1821 - Edward Winston Pettus, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1907)
1832 - Maximilian I of Mexico and Archduke of Austria, first and only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire, born in Vienna, Austria
Emperor of Mexico Maximilian I (1832) 1837 - Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer
1838 - Vatroslav Jagic, Croatian scholar (d. 1923)
1852 - John Albert Delany, composer
1856 - Edward Anseele, Belgian minister of Rail/PTT
1859 - Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, poet/novelist (Charles Men, Nobel 1916)
1864 - Alberto Nepomuceno, Brazil, composer/conductor (Artemis)
1865 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (d. 1950)
1868 - Petrus A Euwens, Dutch vicar/editor (Amigoe di Curacao)
1868 - Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1935)
1873 - Paul Keller, German writer (Ferien vom Ich)
1876 - Harry Ford Sinclair, founder of Sinclair Oil (Teapot Dome Scandal), born in Benwood, West Virginia
1877 - David Stanley Smith, composer
1877 - Niceto A Zamora y Torres, premier/president of Spain (1931-36)
1878 - Eino Leino, Finnish poet (d. 1926)
1881 - Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Quadriga, Pumpernickel)
1882 - Ralph Morgan, [Wupperman], actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), born in NYC, New York
1884 - Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter/cartoonist
1884 - Harold Vanderbilt, NY, America Cup (1930,34,37)/inv contract bridge
1884 - Willem Dudok, Dutch architect (town hall Hilversum/Beehive Rotterdam)
1885 - Ernst Busch, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1888 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid), born in Sydney, New South Wales
1890 - Andrew Sandham, cricketer (Test cricket's 1st triple centurion)
1892 - Baron Willy Coppens de Houthulst, Belgian WW I pilot
1893 - Wilton St Hill, WI cricketer (3 Tests 1928-30)
1896 - Thomas W McKnew, president (National Geographic Society)
1897 - Richard Krautheimer, art Historian
1898 - Hanns Eisler, German/US composer/German DR-minister for propaganda
1900 - Emil Barth, writer
1900 - Frederica Sagor Maas, American playwright and screen writer (d. 2012)
1903 - Axel Theorell, Sweden, biochemist, studied enzymes (Nobel 1955)
1904 - Robert Whitney, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor (Sospiro do Roma)
1904 - Erik Wickberg, Salvation Army general (d. 1996)
1906 - Agnes Elisabeth Lutyens, composer
1907 - M C Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and wife of Diego Rivera
1908 - Leonce Grass, Flemish singer/conductor
1910 - Dorothy Kirsten, Montclair NJ, soprano (Time to Sing, Chevy Show)
1911 - Laverne Andrews, American singer (Andrews Sisters), born in Mound, Minnesota (d. 1967)
1912 - Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2006)
1914 - Jens Rohiner, composer
1915 - Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist/composer (Vague et Sillon)
1916 - Unica Zorn, writer
1917 - Hugo Cole, composer
1917 - Hugo Yarnold, cricketer (Worcestershire keeper & Test umpire)
1917 - Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand running coach (d. 2004)
1918 - Bert [Lambertus H] Voeten, Dutch journalist/poet (Crossing)
1918 - Eugene List, Phila Penn, pianist/prof (Eastman School of Music)
1918 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (Mr French-Family Affair, Time Machine), born in London, England
1920 - William Worthington, horse trainer
1921 - Nancy Davis Reagan, [Anne Francis Robbins], US First Lady (1981-89), born in NYC, New York
1921 - Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet Major General and Spy for the CIA, born in Ukraine
1922 - Francisco Moncion, dancer
1922 - William Schallert, actor (Patty Duke Show, Get Smart), born in Los Angeles, California
1923 - Cathy O'Donnell, Siluria AL, actress (Miniver Story, Man from Laramie)
1923 - Marie McDonald, Burgin KY, singer/actress (Promises Promises)
1923 - Wojciech Jaruzelski, Polish general/pres (1989-90), born in Karow, (d. 2014)
1924 - Robert Michael White, test pilot (X-15), born in NYC, New York
1925 - Bill Haley, Highland Park Mich, rock vocalist (Rock Around the Clock)
1925 - Huub H Jacobse, member of Dutch 2nd chamber (Liberal)
1925 - Merv Griffin, San Mateo California, TV host (Merv Griffin Show)
1926 - Nicky Hilton, 1st husband of Elizabeth Taylor
1927 - Charles Whittenberg, composer
Actress Janet Leigh (1927) 1927 - Janet Leigh, [Jeanetta Morrison], Merced CA, actress (Psycho), (d. 2004)
1927 - Pat Paulsen, Wash, comedian/pres candidate (Smothers Bros Show)
1927 - Susan Cabot, actress (Carnival Rock), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1927 - [Jan] Hein Donner, Dutch chess master
1927 - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (d. 2004)
1929 - Gerd Zacher, composer
1930 - Francoise Mallet-Joris, [F Lilar], Belgian writer (Signs & Wonders)
1930 - H J Heise, writer
1931 - Donal Donnelly, Bradford Yorkshire England, actor (Dead)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 13 of 13
Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1877) 1877 - Composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (37) weds Antonina Miliukova (29) at the Church of Saint George in Moscow, Russia
1893 - British Prince George Duke of York (later George V) marries Princess Victoria of Teck (Queen Mary) at St James's Palace
1953 - "James Bond" actor Roger Moore (25) weds Welsh singer Dorothy Squires (38) in Jersey City
1956 - Journalist Ben Bradlee (34) weds Antoinette Pinchot
1966 - American science fiction writer "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Philip K Dick marries 4th wife Nancy Hackett
1968 - US Army General Norman Schwarzkopf Jr (33) weds Brenda Halsinger
1971 - ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus (26) weds fellow singer Agnetha Faltskog (21)
1973 - "The Avengers" actress Diana Rigg (35) weds Israeli painter Menachen Gueffen (43)
1978 - Country singer Tammy Wynette (36) weds record producer George Richey (42) in Florida
Folk Singer Mary Travers (1991) 1991 - Folk singer Mary Travers (54) weds restaurateur Ethan Robbins
2006 - "National Treasure" director Jon Turteltaub (42) weds co-founder of Creative Visions Foundation Amy Eldon at Saddlerock Ranch and Vineyard in Malibu, California
2013 - Actress Elisha Cuthbert (30) weds ice hockey player Dion Phaneuf at St James Catholic Church in Summerfield, Canada
2014 - Talent manager Scooter Braun (33) weds philanthropist Yael Cohen (28) in Whistler, British Columbia

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2
Actress Bette Davis (1960) 1960 - Actress Bette Davis (52) divorces actor Gary Merrill (46) after almost 10 years of marriage
2009 - Actress Rachael Bella (25) divorces "Terminator 2" actor Eddie Furlong (31) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 119
1189 - Henry II, King of England (1154-89), dies at 56
1218 - Eudes III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1166)
1415 - Jan Hus, Bohemian reformer (b. 1369), burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany
1476 - Regiomontanus, [Johannes Muller of Königsberg], German astronomer (b. 1436)
1480 - Antonio Squarcialupi, composer, dies at 64
1533 - Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), dies at 57
1535 - Sir Thomas More, philosopher, author (Utopia) and statesman, executed (beheaded) for treason at 57
1553 - Edward VI Tudor, King of England (1547-53), dies at 15
1568 - Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher/publisher, dies at 61
1583 - Edmund Grindal, English bishop of London/archbhp of York, dies at 64
1585 - Thomas Aufield, English Catholic martyr (b. 1552)
1587 - Michael Lauterbeck, assassinated Fries viceroy Willem Louis, executed
1684 - Peter Gunning, English royalist churchman (b. 1614)
1734 - Nicolas Bernier, composer, dies at 69
1758 - George Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe, British general
1765 - Ferdinand Zellbell, composer, dies at 76
1768 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer, dies at 78
1795 - Georg Gottfried Petri, composer, dies at 79
1802 - Daniel Morgan, American Revolutionary general and politician (b. ~1735)
1809 - Antoine Charles Louis Lasalle, French cavalry general (b. 1775)
1813 - Granville Sharp, British abolitionist (b. 1735)
1816 - Philipp Meissner, composer, dies at 67
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States John Marshall (1835) 1835 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States, dies of 79
1854 - Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (Ohm's law), dies at 65
1858 - Jan Emmanuel Dulezalek, composer, dies at 78
1860 - Alexandre Edouard Goria, composer, dies at 37
1863 - Strong Vincent, US Union brig-general, dies
1864 - Samuel Allen Rice, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries at 36
1868 - Samuel Lover, composer, dies at 71
1868 - Sanosuke Harada, Shinsengumi Captain (b. 1840)
1871 - Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (O navio negreiro), dies at 34
1879 - Henry Thomas Smart, composer, dies at 65
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, French author (b. 1850)
1896 - Alexander Sergeyevich Famintsin, composer, dies at 54
1901 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1819)
1902 - Leopoldo Miguez, composer, dies at 51
1907 - August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German Linguist, Theologian (b. 1826)
1914 - Delmira Augustini, Uruguayan poet, murdered at 27
1916 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
1918 - Count von Mirbach, German ambassador to Moscow, dies
1922 - Maria Theresa Ledochowska, Polish-Austrian Catholic nun (b. 1863)
1932 - Kenneth Grahame, English author (b. 1859)
1933 - Robert Kajanus, composer, dies at 76
1934 - Warden Uncle, [Edward Vermeulen], Flemish landlord/writer, dies at 73
1950 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1923)
1951 - Josef Huttel, composer, dies at 57
1952 - Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, French Canadian politician (b. 1867)
1954 - Dirk Verbeek, actor/director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70
1955 - Paolo Gallico, composer, dies at 87
1959 - George Grosz, German cartoonist/painter (Ecce Homo), dies at 65
1960 - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (b. 1897)
1961 - Cuno Amiet, Swiss painter, dies at 93
1961 - Enrique Larreta, [E Rodriguez Maza], Argentine diplomat/writer, dies
1961 - Scott LaFaro, American musician (b. 1936)
1961 - Woodall Rodgers, American politician (b. 1890)
Author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner (1962) 1962 - William Faulkner, US author (Nobel 1949), dies at 64
1962 - Archduke Joseph August of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1872)
1962 - Georg, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1899)
1966 - Anne Nagel, dies of cancer at 50
1966 - Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player (b. 1892)
1970 - Marjorie Rambeau, dies at 80
1971 - Horst Lange, writer, dies at 66
1971 - Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, jazz musician (Hello Dolly), dies at 71
1971 - Thomas C Heart, US admiral/commander (Asiatic fleet), dies
1971 - Louis Armstrong, American jazz trumpeter and singer, dies at 69
1972 - Brandon De Wilde, actor (Jamie), dies at 30 in a car crash
1972 - Sam de Grasse, dies at 97
1972 - Vincent Valentine, WI cricket pace bowler (England 1933), dies
Jazz Musician Louis Armstrong (1971) 1973 - Joe E Brown, comedian, dies after long illness at 80
1973 - Otto Klemperer, German/US conductor, dies at 88
1973 - Patrick McVey, actor (Manhunt, Big Town), dies at 63
1974 - Carlos Isamitt, composer, dies at 87
1975 - Otto Skorzeny, German/Austrian SS (Mussolini/Ardennen), dies
1975 - Ruffian, American racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (b. 1887)
1977 - Oedoen Partos, composer, dies at 69
1979 - Van McCoy, singer/songwriter (Hey Mr DJ, Hustle), dies at 35
1980 - Gail Patrick, actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69
1982 - Russell Thorson, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 72
1982 - Bob Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1905)
1986 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (b. 1908)
1989 - Janos Kádár, premier of Hungary (1956-58), dies at 77
1990 - Jim Samuels, comedian, dies of spinal meningitis at 41
1990 - Paul Wynne, KGO-TV SF reporter, dies of AIDS at 46
1990 - Nathaniel Wyeth, American chemist and inventor (created PET plastic beverage bottle), dies at 78
1991 - Thorley Walters, actor (Trog, Edwardians, Daisy), dies at 78
1991 - Muda Lawal, Nigerian footballer (b. 1954)
1992 - Edgardo Pallero, Argentina producer (Los hijos de fierro), dies
1993 - Ruth Lady Fermoy, maternal grandmother of Princess Diane, dies at 84
1994 - Cameron Mitchell, actor (High Chapparral), dies of lung cancer at 75
1994 - Geoffrey McQueen, TV writer, dies at 46
1995 - Aziz Nesin, writer, dies at 79
1995 - Helene Johnson, poet, dies at 87
1995 - Ivor Keys, musician/teacher, dies at 76
1996 - John Sturdy, scholar, dies at 62
1996 - Kathy Ahern, American golfer (b. 1949)
1998 - Roy Rogers, American actor (b. 1911)
1999 - Carl Gunter Jr, American politician (b. 1938)
1999 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (b. 1901)
1999 - Barry Winchell, American soldier (b. 1977)