GoMasonry's Today In History for Saturday, June 17, 2000 On this day in history: [ Notable events | Famous births | Famous deaths ]
- 0653 - St Martin I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 0656 - Ali ibn Abu Talib chosen kalief of Islam
- 0676 - Deusdedit III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1091 - Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland
- 1119 - Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders
- 1291 - Akko reconquered after 200 years by French crusaders, & destroyed
- 1397 - Union of Kalmar established between Denmark, Sweden & Norway
- 1535 - English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights
- 1579 - Anti-English uprising in Ireland
- 1579 - Francis Drake entered SF Bay
- 1579 - Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of Calif
- 1580 - Battle at Hardenberg: Spanish troops beat rebels
- 1583 - Brabant: duke of Parma beats French mercenaries
- 1609 - Netherlands, England & France sign 12 year Covenant
- 1665 - Battle at Viciosa: English & Portuguese army beat Spain
- 1700 - Mass orders priest to leave the colony
- 1734 - French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine
- 1745 - American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French
- 1775 - Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
- 1789 - 3rd Estate in France declared itself a national assembly
- 1815 - Stephen Decatur conquerors Algerian frigate Mashouda
- 1824 - Bureau of Indian Affairs established
- 1837 - Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent
- 1850 - Paddle-wheeler "G P Griffith" burns off Mentor Ohio (206 die)
- 1855 - Heavy French/British bombing of Sebastopol, 2000+ killed
- 1856 - Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia
- 1861 - Battle of Boonville, MI-Brig General Lyon defeats Confederate forces
- 1863 - Battle at Middleburg Virginia
- 1863 - Battle of Aldie, Confederates fail to drive back Union in Virginia
- 1863 - Naval Engagement at Warsaw Sound GA-USS Weehawken vs CSS Atlanta
- 1863 - Travelers Insurance Co of Hartford chartered (1st accident insurer)
- 1864 - -18] Confederate troops pull back out Solves/lost Mt, Georgia
- 1864 - 640m long ponton bridge over James River Virginia finished
- 1864 - General John B Hood replaces General Johnston
- 1864 - Skirmish at Mud Creek/Noyes's (Nose) Creek, Georgia
- 1876 - 1st to hit 2 HRs; & score 5 runs in 9 inn NL game (George Hall, A's)
- 1876 - Battle of Rosebud/Battle Where Girl Saved Her Brother
- 1880 - John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo
- 1882 - Tornado kills 130 in Iowa
- 1885 - Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
- 1894 - 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out, Rutland, Vermont
- 1895 - US Ship Canal (W 225th St) in the Bronx completed; cutting Marble Hill off from Manhattan
- 1897 - William Frank Powell, NJ educator, named minister to Haiti
- 1898 - US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
- 1911 - Belgium govt of De Broqueville forms
- 1915 - League to Enforce Peace forms in Philadelphia
- 1916 - 1st national congress of Sarekat Islam at Bandoeng Java
- 1916 - US troops under Gen Pershing march into Mexico
- 1917 - British king George V takes the name Windsor
- 1919 - "Barney Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres
- 1920 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Anti-revolution law
- 1928 - Amelia Earhart leaves Nfld to become 1st woman (passenger) to fly Atlantic (as a passenger in a plane piloted by Wilmer Stultz)
- 1930 - Bradman scores 131 in the 1st Test cricket at Trent Bridge
- 1930 - Chuck Klein sets Phillies hitting streak at 26 straight games
- 1932 - Oil tanker Cymbeline explodes in Montreal, Canada
- 1933 - Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob
- 1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" opens in NY
- 1938 - Japan declares war on China
- 1940 - France asks Germany for terms of surrender in WW II
- 1940 - General De Gaulle departs Bordeaux for London
- 1940 - Germany occupiers ration bread in Holland
- 1940 - USSR occupies Estonia
- 1942 - 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
- 1943 - Player-manager Joe Cronin of Red Sox hits two 3-run pinch home runs
- 1944 - -19] French troops under Lattre de Tssigny conquer Elba
- 1944 - Hitler secretly meets with von Rundstedt in Marjival Soissons
- 1944 - Iceland declares independence from Denmark
- 1944 - Republic of Iceland proclaimed at Thingvallir, Iceland
- 1944 - Resistance fighter/poet Col Blake arrives in London
- 1945 - Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
- 1946 - SW Bell inaugurates mobile telephone commercial service, St Louis
- 1947 - 1st round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC
- 1947 - Earnest Reuter becomes mayor of Berlin
- 1947 - Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline
- 1948 - Joe Cronin pinch hit HRs in both ends of a doubleheader
- 1950 - 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)
- 1950 - Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia & Syria sign security pact
- 1951 - "Flahooley" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 40 performances
- 1952 - 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
- 1953 - Most runs scored in 1 inning (17 by Red Sox)
- 1953 - Riots in East Germany for reunification
- 1953 - Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas stays executions of spies Julius & Ethel Rosenberg scheduled for next day their 14th anniversary
- 1954 - CIA exile army lands in Guatemala (JF Dulles & United Fruit Co)
- 1954 - Rocky Marciano beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1954 - Televised Senate Army McCarthy hearings ends
- 1956 - Golda Meir begins her term as Israel's foreign minister
- 1957 - "So Rare" by Jimmy Dorsey Orch peaks at #2
- 1957 - Tuskegee boycott begins (Blacks boycotted city stores)
- 1958 - Radio Moscow reports execution of Hungarian ex-premier Imre Nagy
- 1959 - Eamon de Valera elected pres of Ireland
- 1960 - Ted Williams hit his 500th HR
- 1961 - "Billy Barnes People" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 8 perfs
- 1961 - 61st US Golf Open: Gene Littler shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
- 1961 - Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt
- 1962 - 62nd US Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 283 at Oakmont CC PA
- 1962 - Brazil Beats Czechoslovakia in soccer's 7th World Cup at Santiago
- 1962 - Lou Brock is 2nd to HR into Polo Grounds right-center field bleachers
- 1962 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
- 1963 - British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair
- 1963 - Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
- 1965 - 11.08" (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record)
- 1965 - 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon)
- 1965 - Kinks arrive in NYC beginning their 1st US tour
- 1966 - Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers
- 1967 - "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5
- 1967 - 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes
- 1967 - Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park performed
- 1967 - China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power
- 1967 - Longest doubleheader 9:15 (Tigers & Athletics)
- 1968 - Belgium govt of Eyskens-Merlot forms
- 1968 - KQEC TV channel 32 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1968 - Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold
- 1969 - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens in NYC (almost entirely in the nude)
- 1970 - Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera
- 1972 - "Long Haired Lover From Liverpool" by Little Jimmy Osmond peaks at #38
- 1972 - 5 arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate
- 1972 - Chile president Allende forms new government
- 1972 - Looking Glass releases "Brandy"
- 1973 - 1st du Maurier Golf Classic (La Canadienne): Jocelyne Bourassa
- 1973 - 73rd US Golf Open: Johnny Miller shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC PA
- 1973 - Russian party leader Brezhnev visits US
- 1975 - Voters in Northern Mariana Is approve commonwealth status with US
- 1976 - ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA
- 1976 - Indonesia annexes Portuguese East-Timor
- 1978 - "Cheeseburger In Paradise" by Jimmy Buffett peaks at #32
- 1978 - Ron Guidry sets Yankee record with 18 strike-outs
- 1979 - "Sarava" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 140 performances
- 1979 - 79th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 284 at Inverness Club in Toledo
- 1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
- 1980 - Led Zeppelin begins their last European tour
- 1981 - Battle between Moslems & Christians in Cairo, 14 killed
- 1982 - Pres Reagan 1st UN Gen Assembly address ("evil empire" speech)
- 1982 - President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat
- 1984 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
- 1984 - John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada
- 1985 - 18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 launched
- 1986 - Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated
- 1988 - Bruce Springsteen separates from Juliette Phillips
- 1988 - Givens' Family reports Mike Tyson beats his wife Robin Givens
- 1988 - Microsoft releases MS DOS 4.0
- 1988 - Soyuz TM-5 launches
- 1988 - Women sentenced to 90 years in 1st product tampering murder case
- 1989 - US beats Guatemala 2-1, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
- 1990 - "Some Americans Abroad" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 62 perfs
- 1990 - "Zoya's Apartment" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 45 perfs
- 1990 - 90th US Golf Open: Hale Irwin shoots a 280 at Medinah CC in Medinah Il
- 1990 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic
- 1991 - Country entertainer Minnie Pearl suffers a stroke at 78
- 1991 - Pres Zachary Taylors body is exhumed to test how he died
- 1991 - South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
- 1992 - Conn Gov Lowell Weicker & WFAN DJ Don Imus change places for 1 day
- 1992 - Phila 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns
- 1992 - Slaughtering by Inkhata-followers at Boipatong, S Africa, kills 42
- 1993 - Indians' Carlos Baerga hits 3 home runs against Detroit
- 1994 - 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago
- 1994 - OJ Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA cops chase his Ford Bronco for 1« hours, eventually gives up (seen live on TV)
- 1995 - "Who's Tommy" closes at St James Theater NYC after 899 performances
- 1996 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Syracuse NY on WAQX 95.7 FM
- 1997 - NHL announces it will add Nashville in 1998, Atlanta in 1999 & Minneapolis-St Paul & Columbus, Ohio in 2000
- 1239 - Edward I, King of England (1272-1307)/chased Jews out of England
- 1604 - Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen (Maurits House)
- 1682 - Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718)
- 1703 - John B Wesley, England, religion co-founder (Methodists)
- 1714 - Cesar F Cassini, de Thury, French astronomer (geodesic labor)
- 1725 - Joseph Anton Bauer, composer
- 1742 - William Hooper, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence)
- 1750 - Michel Woldemar, composer
- 1756 - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, French member of Committee of Salut Public
- 1810 - F Freiligrath, writer
- 1811 - Jon Sigurdsson, Iceland, leader/collects Icelandic legends
- 1817 - Ivan K A‹vazovski, Russan painter (Harbor Scenes)
- 1817 - Thomas Maley Harris, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
- 1818 - Charles Francois Gounod, Paris France, opera composer (Faust)
- 1818 - Sophia Frederika Mathilde, queen of Netherlands/wife of William III
- 1823 - John Henry Hobart Ward, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
- 1828 - Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian
- 1830 - Rochard Montgomery Gano, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1913
- 1832 - William Crookes, English chemist/physicist (Crookes-pipe, thallium)
- 1837 - Vincent Strong, civil war fighter, died in 1863
- 1838 - Bankim C Chattopadhyaya, writer (Kapala-Kundala)
- 1838 - Chattopadhyaya/Bankim Chandra, Bengalese writer (Monastery of Delight)
- 1845 - Hendrik P Staal, Dutch banker
- 1855 - Fritz Steinbach, composer
- 1858 - Eben Sumner Draper, (Gov-MA)
- 1861 - Sidney James Jones, composer
- 1867 - John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor (shorthand)
- 1870 - George Cormack, cereal inventor (Wheaties)
- 1871 - James Weldon Johnson, lawyer (1st black admitted to Florida Bar)
- 1871 - Nicolae Iorga, writer/poet/literature historian/pres of Romania
- 1874 - Grant Mitchell, Columbus OH, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner)
- 1875 - Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theorist (Mensch & World)
- 1878 - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
- 1880 - Carl Van Fight, US author/critic (Red, Nigger Heaven)
- 1880 - Russell Simpson, actor (Abraham Lincoln)
- 1882 - Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring) [NS]
- 1883 - Alexandre Cellier, composer
- 1884 - Christina C Bakker-van Bosse, feminist/pacifist
- 1888 - Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, composer
- 1895 - Louise Fazenda, Lafayette IN, actress/com‚dienne (Almost an actress)
- 1895 - Slavko Osterc, composer
- 1898 - Maurits C Escher, Dutch graphic artist
- 1900 - Hermann Reuter, composer
- 1900 - Martin Bormann, propoganda minister (Hitler)
- 1903 - Michail Swetlow, writer
- 1904 - Coenraad van Emde Boas, Dutch sexologist
- 1904 - Ralph Bellamy, Chicago, actor (Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places)
- 1906 - Thomas G Cowling, British mathematician/astronomer
- 1908 - Frank Sully, St Louis MO, actor (Along Came Jones, Phantom Thief)
- 1908 - Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/Writer
- 1908 - John Verrall, composer
- 1910 - Herbert Owen Reed, composer
- 1910 - Red Foley, Blue Lick Ky, country singer (Mr Smith Goes to Washington)
- 1912 - Don Gillis, Cameron Missouri, composer (Symphony #5«)
- 1912 - Wessel Couzijn, sculptor/cartoonist (Auschwitz-monument)
- 1913 - Felix Hartlaub, writer
- 1914 - John R Hersey, author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall)
- 1915 - Stringbean, [David Akeman], Ky, banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw)
- 1916 - Einar Englund, composer
- 1916 - Victor Dalby Lord, ficticious character on One Life to Live
- 1917 - Dean Martin, Steubenville Ohio, singer/actor (with Jerry Lewis)
- 1918 - Maldwyn Thomas, president (Welsh Liberal Party)
- 1919 - Antonius C "Ton" Lutz, Dutch actor/director (Lucifer)
- 1919 - Galina Ivanova Ustvol'skaya, composer
- 1919 - Kingman Brewster, college president (Yale)
- 1919 - Max Dendermonde, [Henk Hazelhoff], Dutch literary
- 1920 - Beryl Reid, actress (Joseph Andrews, Psychomania, Yellowbeard)
- 1920 - Fran‡ois Jacob, France, biologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1965)
- 1920 - Patrick Duffy, MP
- 1922 - Herbert Kelsey Jones, composer
- 1922 - Jerry Fielding, Pitts Pa, composer (Lively Ones, Hogan's Heroes)
- 1922 - Paul Schallck, German writer (Don Quixote in Cologne)
- 1923 - Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch, AAFC, NFL halfback, end (LA Rams)
- 1924 - Althea T L Simmons, human rights activist/chief lobbyist (NAACP)
- 1924 - Gotthold Gloger, writer
- 1924 - Henk J Hoekstra, president (Dutch Communist Party)
- 1925 - Keith Larsen, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Hunter, Brave Eagle)
- 1926 - Alan Walters, political economist
- 1926 - Manuel Enriquez, composer
- 1927 - Austin J Murphy, (Rep-D-PA, 1977- )
- 1927 - Lucio Fulci, director
- 1928 - James Brown, Pulaski TN, soul singer (Hot Pants, Living in America)
- 1929 - Michael L Strang, (Rep-R-CO, 1985- )
- 1929 - Tigran Petrosyan, USSR, world chess champion (1963-69)
- 1930 - Brian Statham, cricketer
- 1930 - James Gathers, Sumter SC, 200m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
- 1930 - Romuald Twardowski, composer
- 1932 - Derek Ibbotson, 5K runner (Oly-bronze-1956)
- 1932 - John P Murtha, (Rep-D-PA, 1974- )
- 1933 - Christian Ferras, French violinist/conductor
- 1937 - Peter Lupus, actor (Mission Impossible)
- 1938 - Judy Kimball-Simon, LPGA golfer
- 1939 - Dickey Do, [Gerry Granahan], rocker (Dickey Doo & The Dont's)
- 1939 - Donald Anderson, MP (Labour)
- 1939 - Hanna Johansen, writer
- 1940 - Bobby Bell, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs)
- 1940 - Tony Marlow, MP (Conservative)
- 1942 - Norman Kuhlice, England, rocker (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
- 1943 - Christopher Brown, composer
- 1943 - Newt[on] L Gingrich, (Rep-R-G, 1979- /Speaker of House 1995-97)
- 1944 - Bill Rafferty, comedian (Real People, Laugh-in '77)
- 1944 - Chris Spedding, rocker
- 1945 - Eddy Merckx, Belgium, cyclist (5 time winner of Tour de France)
- 1945 - Ken Livingstone, MP (Labour)
- 1945 - Tony Roche, tennis coach
- 1946 - Barry Manilow, Bkln NY, singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs)
- 1946 - Marcy Kaptur, (Rep-D-HA, 1983- )
- 1948 - David Concepcion, Venezuela, all star shortstop (Cincinnati Reds)
- 1948 - Rub‚n Blades, Panama, singer/actor (Fatal Beauty, Critical Condition)
- 1949 - Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator
- 1950 - Cathy Sherk, LPGA golfer
- 1951 - Joe Piscopo, Passaic NJ, comedian (SNL, Miller Lite commercials)
- 1954 - Mark Linn-Baker, St Louis, actor (Larry Appleton-Perfect Strangers)
- 1956 - Nicholas Cook, cricketer
- 1956 - Nick Cook, cricketer (England lefty slow bowler in 15 Tests 1983-89)
- 1957 - Philip Chevron, English pop musician (Pogues-Peace & Love)
- 1958 - Dan McVicar, Independence Mo, actor (Clarke-Bold & Beautiful)
- 1960 - Mitzi Edge, Albany GA, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic)
- 1962 - Ed Brady, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
- 1963 - Greg Kinnear, actor/talk show host (Talk Soup, Sabrina, Later)
- 1963 - Kevin Glover, NFL center (Detroit Lions)
- 1964 - Diane Murphy, actress (Tabitha Stevens-Bewitched)
- 1964 - Erin Murphy, actress (Tabitha Stevens-Bewitched)
- 1964 - Michael Gross, West Germany, swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984)
- 1964 - Steve Rhodes, cricketer (England wicket-keeper 1994-95)
- 1965 - Dan Jansen, West Allis Wisc, speed skater (Oly-gold-1984, 88, 92)
- 1965 - Danny McManus, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
- 1965 - Dermontti Dawson, NFL center (Pitts Steelers)
- 1965 - Gianluca Pozzi, Bari Italy, tennis star (1991 Brisbane)
- 1965 - Kami Cotler, Long Beach Calif, actress (Elizabeth-Waltons)
- 1965 - Mike Magnante, Glendale CA, pitcher (KC Royals)
- 1965 - Ray Seals, NFL defensive end (Pitts Steelers, Carolina Panthers)
- 1966 - Clare Look-Jaeger, Milwaukee Wisconsin, high jumper
- 1966 - Fred Barnett, NFL wide receiver (Phila Eagles)
- 1967 - Keith Sims, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins)
- 1967 - Pearl Sinn, LPGA golfer
- 1967 - Robyn Meagher, Antigonish Nova Scotia, 5k runner (Olympics-96)
- 1967 - Terry Davis, NBA forward/center (Dallas Mavericks, Wash Wizards)
- 1969 - Karen Nystrom, ice hockey forward (Canada, Oly-Silver-98)
- 1969 - Kevin Thornton, Amarillo, vocalist (Color Me Badd-Want to Sex You Up)
- 1969 - Patric Kjellberg, hockey forward (Team Sweden Oly-1998)
- 1970 - Arnold Ale, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
- 1970 - Jason Hanson, NFL kicker (Detroit Lions)
- 1970 - Popeye Jones, NBA center (Toronto Raptors)
- 1970 - Ron "Popeye" Jones, NBA forward (Dallas Mavericks)
- 1970 - Stephane Fiset, Montreal, NHL goalie (Colorado Avalanche)
- 1971 - Tripp Schwenk, US, 100m/200m backstroke (Olympics-silver-96)
- 1972 - Dirk-Jan Derksen, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
- 1972 - James McKnight, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
- 1975 - Frederick Koehler, Queens NY, actor (Chip-Kate & Allie)
- 1975 - Petra Vaarakallio, ice hockey center (Finland, Oly-98)
- 1977 - Andrea Deak, Miss Universe-Hungary (1996)
- 1977 - Bernardo Federico Tomas, Prince of Netherlands
- 1977 - Jason Miller, Silver Springs Md, actor (New Mickey Mouse Club)
- 1978 - Jenny Keim, Cin Ohio, diver (Olympics-9th-96)
- 1979 - Cawey Schau, Seattle Wash, canoist (alt-Olympics-96)
- 1980 - Andee Pickens, New Orleans La, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
- 1980 - Brittney McConn, Largo Fla, figure skater (1997 Eastern Sr champ)
- 1980 - Venus Williams, Lynwood Calif, tennis star
- 0656 - Osman ibn Affan, 3rd kalief of Islam (644-56) murdered
- 0676 - Adeodatus II, Italian Pope (672-76), dies
- 0855 - Leo IV, Italian Pope (847-55), dies
- 1091 - Dirk V, count of Holland (1061-91), dies
- 1119 - Boudouin VII with the Axe, earl of Flanders (1111-19), dies
- 1501 - Jan I Olbracht, King of Poland, dies
- 1672 - Orazio Benevoli, Italian composer, dies at 67
- 1678 - Giacomo Torelli, composer, dies at 69
- 1696 - Jan III Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies at 72
- 1696 - Johannes II Sobieski, King of Poland (1674-96), dies
- 1719 - Joseph Addison, English poet/writer/secretary of state, dies at 47
- 1734 - Duke of Berwick, French general strategist, dies in battle
- 1762 - Prosper Jolyot de Cr‚billon, French poet (Idom‚n‚e), dies at 88
- 1797 - Aga Mohammed Khan, cruel ruler of Persia, castrated & killed
- 1815 - Hammida, Algerian admiral, dies in battle
- 1862 - Charles J Canning, English 1st viceroy of British-Indies, dies at 49
- 1863 - Isham W Garrott, US attorney/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
- 1885 - Gen Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies
- 1905 - M ximo G¢mez, Cuban general, dies at 68
- 1906 - Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player, dies
- 1906 - William Dale, international legal consultant, dies
- 1910 - Lady Mosley, biographer, dies
- 1918 - Derek Barber, CEO (Countryside Commission), dies
- 1928 - Ramon de Basterra, Spanish writer/diplomat (Virulo, mocedades), dies
- 1936 - Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red), dies
- 1938 - H V "Ranji" Hordern, cricketer (7 Tests for Australia 1910-12, dies
- 1938 - Peter Michael, CEO (Cray Electronics), dies
- 1939 - Eugene Weldman, last guillotined in France
- 1941 - Johan Wagenaar, Dutch composer (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 78
- 1950 - Syed Wazir Ali, cricketer (7 Tests for India), dies
- 1951 - Carl Vogler, composer, dies at 77
- 1952 - Alberto Williams, Argentine composer (Etrerno Reposo), dies at 89
- 1953 - Walter Niemann, composer, dies at 76
- 1957 - D Richardson, writer, dies at 84
- 1959 - Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68
- 1960 - Pierre Reverdy, French author/poet (North-South), dies at 70
- 1961 - Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Away all boats), dies at 40
- 1963 - Alain F B Alanbrooke, 1st viscount of Brookeborough, dies at 79
- 1963 - John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies
- 1965 - Arnold Meijer, leader (Fascist Nationally Front), dies
- 1970 - Matthew Henderson, cricketer (one Test for NZ 1930), dies
- 1971 - C Christopher Morris, cricketer (brilliant batsman for Phila), dies
- 1973 - Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66
- 1974 - Pamela Britton, actress (Blondie, My Favorite Martian), dies at 50
- 1974 - Yadavendra Singh, cricketer (Yuvraj of Patiala, Test for India), dies
- 1978 - Cully Richards, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie), dies at 68
- 1979 - Lou Frizzel, actor (Dusty Rhoades-Bonanza), dies at 58
- 1983 - Eelco N van Kleffens, Dutch min of Foreign affairs 1939-46, dies at 88
- 1983 - Peter Mennin(i), US composer (Moby Dick), dies at 60
- 1984 - Chet Allen, actor (Jerry-Bonino, Slats-Troubleshooter), dies at 51
- 1984 - Swale, Kentucky Derby winner, collapses & dies
- 1985 - Piet De Somer, Belgian rector of University of Louvain, dies at 67
- 1986 - Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75
- 1986 - Kate Smith, singer (God Bless America), dies in Raleigh NC at 78
- 1987 - Dick Howser, mgr (NY Yankees & KC Royal), dies of brain cancer at 51
- 1989 - John Matusek, NFLer (Oak Raider)/actor, dies of a heart attack at 38
- 1989 - Stanley David Griggs, astronaut (STS 51-D), dies plane crash at 59
- 1990 - Dick Elffers, graphic artist, dies
- 1990 - Palmira Henry, fashion designer, dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 44
- 1992 - Dewey Balfa, bayou fiddler, dies at 65
- 1992 - Frederick Exley, novelist (Fan's Note), dies at 63
- 1993 - Angus Suttie, English potter, dies of AIDS at 46
- 1993 - French of Nouhuys, civil servant in Indonesia, dies at 88
- 1994 - Joeri Nagibin, Russian screenwriter (Babje Karstvo), dies at 74
- 1995 - Claire Sterling, journalist, dies at 75
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