Today In History From JJDR........July 7

1124 - Tyrus surrenders to Crusaders
1438 - French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges
1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1495 - King Ferdinand II returns to Naples
1498 - Emperor Maximilian I establishes choir of Imperial Chapel
1520 - Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force
1534 - European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1543 - French troops invade Luxembourg
1550 - Traditional date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe
1585 - King Henri III & Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots lose all freedoms

1647 - People's uprising against high prices & Spanish rule in Naples
1668 - Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge
1713 - 1st performance of George F Handel's "Te Deum" & "Jubilate"
Composer George Friedrich Handel 1753 - British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament (opens in 1759)
1753 - British parliament grants Jews citizenship
1754 - Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)
1768 - Firm of Johann Buddenbrook founded, in Thomas Mann's novel
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Hubbardton
1798 - Quasi-War: the U.S. Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking the 'war.'
1799 - Ranjit Singh's men take up their positions outside Lahore.
1801 - Toussaint L'Ouverture declares Haitian independence
1802 - 1st comic book "The Wasp" is published
1807 - France, Russia & Prussia sign Peace of Tilsit
1814 - Walter Scott's "Waverley" published
1829 - Royal Military Chapel forms
1838 - Central American federation is dissolved
1846 - US annexs California
1850 - Scottish explorer Edward Eyre reaches Albany, W-Australia
1861 - Battle of Laurel Hill, VA
1862 - Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
1863 - 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
US President & Union General Ulysses S. Grant 1863 - Orders barring Jews from serving under US General Ulysses S. Grant are revoked
1864 - S Middleton, MD -Early's Washington Raid-
1868 - Ed Pooley takes 12 dismissals as keeper in match Surrey v Sussex
1874 - 27th Postmaster General: James W Marshall of NJ takes office
1875 - Jesse James robs train in Otterville Missouri
1878 - Social-Democratic United forms in Amsterdam
1887 - 11th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Herbert Lawford beats E Renshaw (1-6 6-3 3-6 6-4 6-4)
1891 - Travelers checks patents
1892 - Katipunan: the Revolutionary Philippine Brotherhood is established leading to the fall of the Spanish Empire in Asia.
1892 - 9th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats B Hillyard (6-1 6-1)
1892 - 16th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Wilfred Baddeley beats Joshua Pim (4-6 6-3 6-3 6-2)
Outlaw Jesse James 1898 - US annexes Hawaii
1900 - Boston hurler Kid Nichols notches his 300th career victory
1905 - 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)
1908 - Great White Fleet leaves SF Bay
1908 - The Democratic Party meets in Denver at the start of their convention; William Jennings Bryan is nominated as presidential nominee
1911 - 28th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: D Chambers beats D Boothby (6-0 6-0)
1911 - Dorothea Lambert Chambers beats Dora Boothby 6-0, 6-0 in a record
1914 - Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty
1915 - A Great Gorge and International Railway trolley with an extreme overload of 157 passengers crashes near Queenston, Ontario, killing 15.
1916 - The New Zealand Labour party is formed
Baseball Legend Connie Mack 1919 - Phillies tie major league record of 8 steals in 9 inn game
1919 - 39th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Gerald Patterson beats N Brookes (6-3 7-5 6-2)
1923 - 43rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Johnston beats F Hunter (60 63 61)
1923 - Cleve Indians beat Boston Red Sox 27-3 with 13 runs in 6th inning
1923 - University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
1924 - Robert LeGendre of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 5½"
1928 - 41st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Helen Moody beats L de Alvarez (6-2 6-3)
1928 - Edward Hamm of US, sets then long jump record at 25' 11"
1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. It is described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped".
1929 - Romania & Vatican sign concord
31st US President Herbert Hoover 1930 - Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam
1932 - Bradman scores a cricket double century in Montreal
1933 - 53rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Jack Crawford beats E Vines (4-6 11-9 6-2 2-6 6-4)
1934 - Elizabeth Ryan wins her 12th Wimbledon doubles championship
1936 - 4th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 4-3 at Braves Field, Boston
1937 - 5th All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 8-3 at Griffith Stadium, Wash
1937 - Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), beginning of Second Sino-Japanese War
1939 - 52nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Kay Stammers (62 60)
1939 - 74th British Golf Open: Dick Burton shoots a 290 at St Andrews
1941 - Nazis executed 5,000 Jews in Kovono, Lithuania
1941 - US forces land in Iceland to forestall Nazi invasion
1941 - World War II: Beirut is occupied by Free France and British troops.
Tennis Champion Alice Marble 1942 - Germany troop march into Woronezj
1942 - Milt all star team (including Bob Feller) losts to AL all stars 5-0
1943 - -10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
1943 - 3rd day of battle at Kursk: Germans occupy Dubrova
1943 - Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
1943 - Liberator bombers sinks U-517
1943 - U-951 sunk
1944 - RAF Bomber Command drop 2,572 tons of bombs on Caen, France
1944 - Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident.
1948 - 6 female reservists become 1st women sworn into regular US Navy
1948 - Cleveland Indians sign Leroy "Satchel" Paige
1948 - Indians sign Satchel Paige at 42
1949 - "Cabatgata (A Night in Spain)" opens at Broadway NYC for 76 perfs
1949 - "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio; also a TV series in 1951 & 1967
1950 - 1st Farnborough airshow held
1950 - 64th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Budge Patty beats Sedgman (6-1 8-10 6-2 6-3)
1950 - 79th British Golf Open: Bobby Locke shoots a 279 at Royal Troon
1951 - 58th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Doris Hart beats Shirley Fry (6-1 6-0)
1952 - SS United States cross Atlantic in record 82:40
1953 - 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Mich
Argentine Revolutionary Che Guevara 1953 - Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1954 - Formation of the TANU party (Tanganyika African National Union ) in Tanzania
1955 - 1st LPGA Championship won by Beverly Hanson
1956 - 63rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Shirley Fry beats Angela Buxton (63 61)

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 212
1053 - Emperor Shirakawa of Japan (d. 1129)
1119 - Emperor Sutoku of Japan (d. 1164)
1528 - Anna of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria, daughter of Ferdinand I (d. 1590)
1586 - Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)
1656 - Guru Har Krishan, 8th Guru of Sikhism (d. 1664)
1690 - Johann Tobias Krebs, composer
1710 - Arvid Niclas Hopken, composer
1746 - Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer
1752 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented programmable loom
1778 - Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
1806 - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education
1813 - William Scott Ketchum, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1871)
1816 - Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard, Gen (Union volunteers), (d. 1889)
1824 - Alfred Pleasonton, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1897)
1827 - James Murrell Shackelford, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1827 - William Montague Browne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
Physician and Nobel Laureate Camillo Golgi (1843) 1843 - Camillo Golgi, Corteno, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Austrian Empire, Italian physician and medical researcher (Nobel Prize in Medicine-1906), (d. 1926)
1851 - Lillien Jane Martin, psychologist, found gerontology clinic
1851 - Charles Tindley, American gospel music composer (d. 1933)
1853 - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Le Pacha Bonneval)
1855 - Ludwig Ganghofer, German writer (d. 1920)
1856 - George Hearne, cricketer (brother of Frank & Alec, Test for England)
1860 - Gustav Mahler, Kalischat Bohemia Austria, composer/conductor (Titan)
1872 - Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
1874 - Erwin Bumke, German jurist (d. 1945)
1879 - Jacob Weinberg, composer
1882 - Zdzislaw Jachimecki, composer
1883 - Toivo Kuula, composer
1884 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German dramatist (d. 1958)
1885 - Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer
1887 - Dirk Koster, literary (New Noises)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Vitebsk Russia, artist (I & The Village)
1887 - Raymond Hatton, Red Oak IA, actor (Girls in Prison, Lady Killer)
1890 - Tom Powers, Owensboro KY, actor (Station West, Destination Moon)
1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[NS=7/19]
1893 - Miroslav Krleža, Croatian writer (d. 1981)
1897 - Anna Luther, NJ, silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk)
1898 - Hanns Eisler, composer
1899 - George Cukor, producer/director (Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story)
1900 - Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (d. 1990)
1901 - Gustav Knuth, Braunschweig Germany, actor (Freddy Unter Fremden)
1901 - Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor/director (Fietsendieven)
1902 - James McCartney, father of Beatle Paul McCartney
1902 - Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor (2 Women)
1902 - Ted "Double Duty" Radcliffe, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1904 - Simone Beck, French chef (d. 1991)
1905 - Marcel Rubin, composer
1906 - Harry Von Zell, sidekick (George Burns Show)
1906 - [Leroy] Satchel Paige, baseball pitcher, never look back
1906 - William Feller, Croatian mathematician (d. 1970)
1906 - Anton Karas, Viennese musician (d. 1985)
1907 - Helene Johnson, poet
1907 - Robert A[nson] Heinlein, US, sci-fi author (4 Hugos, Red Planet)
1908 - Evert W Beth, Dutch mathematician/philosopher
1908 - Harriette Arnow, Wayne Co, Ky, novelist (Dollmaker)
1908 - Revilo P. Oliver, American professor (d. 1994)
1911 - Eddie Mayehoff, Balt Md, actor (Hour Glass, How to Murder Your Wife)
1911 - Gian-Carlo Menotti, Italy, composer (Amahl & Night Visitors)
1911 - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger)
1912 - Tiny Alma, [Catharina E J Stam], operetta singer (Vienna Blood)
1914 - Cor de Groot, pianist/conductor/composer (Old-Dutch Suite)
1914 - Serafim Sergeyevich Tulikov, composer
1915 - Margaret Walker Alexander, poet/novelist (For My People)
1916 - Luc Peire, Flemish painter/graphic artist
1916 - Robert Stevens Baker, composer
Jazz Guitarist Tiny Grimes (1916) 1916 - Tiny Grimes, Newport News Virginia, Jazz guitarist
1917 - Elton Britt, Marshall Ark, country singer (Sat Night Jamboree)
1917 - Lawrence F O'Brien, (Watergate conspirators broke into his office)
1917 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, Salvadoran politician (d. 2003)
1919 - Jon Pertwee, English comic/actor (Dr Who, Worzel Gummidge)
1919 - William Moses Kunstler, defense attorney (Chicago 8)
1921 - Ezzard Charles, Lawrenceville Georgia, world heavyweight boxing champion (1949-51)
1921 - Stanislaw Wislocki, composer
1921 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician (d. 1996)
1922 - Artie Malvin, US music director (Julie LaRosa/Steve Lawrence)
1922 - Pierre Cardin, Paris France, fashion designer (Unisex)
1923 - Richard Lumley, English insurance magnate/multi-millionaire
1923 - Roberto Caamano, composer
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles (1921) 1924 - Dieter Nowka, composer
1924 - Mary Ford, [Colleen Summer], vocalist/actress (Queen of Outer Space)
1925 - Yvonne Mitchell, writer (Johnny Nobody, Genghis Khan), born in London, England
1925 - Wally Phillips, American radio personality (d. 2008)
1927 - Alan J Dixon, (Sen-D-IL, 1981- )
1927 - Charlie Louvin, Rainsville Ala, country singer (Louvin Brothers)
1927 - Doc Severinson, [Carl], Arlington Oregon, bandleader/trumpeter on the Tonight Show
1928 - Colleen Summers, Pasadena California, vocal overdubber
1929 - Marcel Liebman, Belgian historian
1929 - R Baumgart, writer
1929 - Hasan Abidi, Pakistani journalist and poet (d. 2005)
1930 - Hank Mobley, US jazz saxophonist
1931 - David Eddings, US, sci-fi author (Belgariad, Malloreon)
1931 - Stanley Brock, Bkln, actor (Ivan-He's the Mayor)
1932 - Josef Zawinul, Austrian-American jazz keyboardist, composer and musician (d. 2007)
1933 - David McCullough, actor (Huey Long)
1933 - Dick Kallman, Brooklyn NY, actor (Borned to Be Loved, Verboten!)
1933 - Murray Halberg, New Zealand, 5K runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1934 - Vinko Globokar, composer
1936 - Friedhelm Dohl, composer
1936 - Stuart Ross Dempster, composer
1936 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (d. 1980)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 17 of 17
Journalist and Author Damon Runyon (1932) 1932 - Author Damon Runyon (51) weds Patrice Amati del Grande
1946 - 39th US President Jimmy Carter (21) weds Rosalynn Smith (18) in Plains, Georgia
1970 - Actress Shelley Duvall (21) weds Bernard Sampson
1976 - NFL running back Walter Payton (21) weds Connie Norwood in Los Angeles, California
1976 - NBA guard George Gervin (24) weds Joyce King
1977 - "American Bandstand" TV host Dick Clark (47) weds Kari Wigton (34) in Malibu, California
1984 - Singer Frankie Valli (50) marries Randy Clohessy (24)
1986 - US actress Deborah Hunter marries actor Michael Tylo
1987 - "The Bold and the Beautiful" actress Hunter Tylo (25) weds actor Michael Tylo (38)
2001 - "Charlie's Angels" star Drew Barrymore (26) weds actor-comedian Tom Green (29) in Malibu
Actress Drew Barrymore (2001) 2006 - "Extreme Makeover" Bill Dorfman (47) weds former contestant on "The Apprentice" and beauty queen Jennifer Murphy (27) at the Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California
2006 - Three-time "Survivor" contestant Stephanie LaGrossa (26) weds Michael Ward in Seaside Heights, New Jersey
2006 - Anchor and Skating with Celebrities runner-up Jillian Barberie (39) weds actor Grant Reynolds (33) in Tarzana, California
2007 - Actress and model Eva Longoria (37) weds NBA player Tony Parker (30) at The Church of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois in Paris, France
2007 - Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck (38) weds handbag designer Gelila Assefa (38) in a three-day celebration on the Italian island of Capri
2012 - "The Office" Ellie Kemper (32) weds former "Conan O'Brien" writer Michael Koman at the Blessed Sacrament Roman Catholic Church in New York City
2012 - Documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux (42) weds TV director Nancy Strang (37)

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 3 of 3
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey (1943) 1943 - Heavyweight boxing champ Jack Dempsey (48) divorces broadway singer Hannah Williams (32) after 10 years of marriage
1994 - Actress Diane Lane files for divorce from Christopher Lambert
2008 - Cynthia Rodriguez (35) divorces New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez (32) due to long period of infidelity and emotional abandonment after 6 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 123
1129 - Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (1072-86)/budhist monk, dies at 76
1304 - Benedict XI, [Niccolo Boccasini], Pope (1303-04), dies
1307 - Edward I, King of England (1272-1307), dies at 68
1348 - John Andreae, Italian canonist, dies
1537 - Madeleine de Valois, queen of James V of Scotland (b. 1520)
1572 - Sigismund II August, last Jagellonen king of Poland, dies at 51
1573 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (b. 1507)
1647 - Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies
1656 - Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55
1663 - Thomas Baltzar, German violinist
1694 - Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies
1701 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (b. 1631)
1713 - Henry Compton, Bishop of Oxford and privy councillor (b. 1632)
1764 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)
1771 - Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy), dies at 54
1773 - Cornelis Douwes, Dutch mathematician/astronomer, dies at 60
1774 - Giuseppi Maria Carretti, composer, dies at 83
1776 - Jeremiah Markland, English classical scholar (b. 1693)
1790 - Franciscus "Frans" Hemsterhuis, Frisian philosopher, dies at 68
1794 - Pascal Boyer, composer, dies at 51
1799 - William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical Magazine), dies at 53
1814 - Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician, dies at 71
1816 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish playwright and politician (b. 1751)
1826 - Friedrich Ludwig Dulon, flautist/composer, dies at 56
1855 - Konstantin Batyushkov, Russian poet (b. 1787)
1861 - John Willis Ellis, US governor of NC (1858-61), dies
1865 - Mary Surratt, & 3 other Lincoln conspirators, hanged
1865 - Lewis Paine, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1844)
1865 - David Herold, Lincoln conspirator (b. 1842)
1878 - Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev, Russian mathematician (b. 1847)
1885 - Nicola De Giosa, composer, dies at 66
1889 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer, dies at 67
1890 - Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. (b. 1814)
1893 - Guy de Maupassant, writer, dies at 42
1898 - Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies
1901 - Johanna Spyri, Swiss author children's classic "Heidi"(b. 1827)
1903 - Ferreira Veiga, Viscount d' Arneiro, composer, dies at 64
1903 - Jose Augusto da Ferreira Veiga, composer, dies at 64
1907 - James McGranahan, composer, dies at 67
1913 - Edward Burd Grubb, American Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General (b.1841)
1919 - Paul Deusen, German philosopher/CEO (Schopenhauer-Gesellschaft), dies
1922 - Cathal Brugha, Chief of Staff of Irish Republican Army (b.1874)
1925 - Clarence Hudson White American photographer (b.. 1871)
1927 - Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician (b. 1846)
Author Arthur Conan Doyle (1930) 1930 - Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), dies at 71
1931 - Johannes Jacobus "Kodgee" Kotze, cricketer (South Africa 1902-07), dies
1932 - Alexander Grin, Russian novelist (b. 1880)
1932 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1933 - John M Acket, literary (New Friends), dies at 70
1934 - Doodles Tapscott, cricketer (South African batsman 1922-23), dies
1939 - James Deacon White, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi), dies at 91
1944 - Erich Salomon, German photographer, dies
1944 - Georges Mandel, [Louis Rothschild], French foreign min (-1940), dies
1945 - Salomeja Neris, [S Bacinskaite-Buciene], Latvian poet, dies at 40
1949 - Bunk Johnson, American musician (b. 1879 or 1889)
1955 - Franco Casavola, composer, dies at 63
1956 - Gottfried Benn, writer, dies at 70
1958 - Raymond Hackett, dies at 55
1965 - Bill Hitch, England cricket fast-bowler (7 Tests 1911-21), dies
1965 - Moshe Sharett, 2nd Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1894)
1966 - Carmelita Geraghty, dies of heart attack at 65
1967 - Vivian Leigh, actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), dies at 53
1967 - Jo Schlesser, French Formula One racing driver (b. 1928)
1968 - Leo Sowerby, composer (Pulitzer Prize), dies at 73
1969 - Erskine Sanford, dies at 83
1969 - Gladys Swarthout, US mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), dies at 69
1970 - Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67
1970 - Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies
1970 - Marjorie Rambeau, actress (Primrose Path, Torch Song), dies at 80
1970 - Sylvester Wiere, comedian (Wiere Brothers-Ford Festival), dies at 60
1970 - Dame Laura Knight, British impressionist artist
1971 - Claude Gauvreau, Canadian writer (b. 1925)
1971 - Ub Iwerks, American artist, director, and cartoonist (b1901)
1972 - Athenagoras, 268th patriarch of Constantinople, dies
1972 - King Talal of Jordan (b. 1909)
1973 - Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78
1973 - Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress (Ramrod), dies at 58
1975 - Barbara Brown
1975 - Vito Frazzi, composer, dies at 86
1975 - Ruffian, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1972)
1976 - Gustav Heinemann, German president, dies at 76
1976 - Norman Foster, dies at 75
1976 - Walter Giesler, American soccer coach (b. 1910)
1979 - D P Conyngham, cricketer (one Test for South Africa), dies
1980 - Reginald Gardiner, actor (Great Dictator), dies at 77
1981 - Keefe Brasselle, actor (Be Our Guest), dies at 58
1981 - Mildred Lisette Norman a.k.a. Peace Pilgrim, American pacifist and activist
1982 - Bep [Elisa H] Bakhuis, soccer star/writer, dies at 76
1982 - Fred Stuthman, actor (Henry Adler-Hello Larry), dies at 63
1983 - George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday
1983 - Herman Kahn, US futurist/nuclear strategist, dies at 71
1983 - Vicki Morgan, mistress (Beautiful Bad Girl), murdered at 30
1984 - Flora Robson, actress (Great Day, Frieda), dies in her sleep at 82
1984 - Carl Boenish, American father of BASE jumping (b. 1941)
1985 - Patti McCarty, actress (Gangster of the Frontier), dies at 64
1988 - Jimmy Edwards, actor (Plank, Bottoms Up, Late Mr H), dies at 68
1990 - Bill Cullen, game show host (Price is Right), dies at 70 of cancer
1990 - Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Jes priest/apprentice Zen teacher, dies at 92
1990 - Cazuza, Brazilian poet, singer and composer (b. 1958)
1992 - Ruurd Faber, mayor of Aalten (1971-75), dies at 79