Today in History

On April 10 in history ..

0837 - Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 AUs of Earth
0847 - St Leo IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0879 - Louis III, crowned King of France
1500 - France captures duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan
1512 - Pope Julius II opens 5th Council of Lateranen
1516 - 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
1552 - Henri II of France occupies Metz
1589 - Spanish troops conquer Geertruidenberg
1656 - Dutch fleet occupiers Colombo Ceylon
1694 - Duke Victor Amadeus of Savoye attacks Casale
1739 - Dick Turpin executed in England for horse stealing
1741 - Prussians defeat Austrians at Mollwitz
1790 - Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth
1790 - US Patent system forms
1815 - Austria declares war on realm of Naples
1816 - 2nd Bank of US chartered
1816 - Bank of the U.S. chartered for 20 years
1825 - 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
1825 - Nicaraguan constituent assembly meets at León
1835 - Charles Darwin returns to Santiago, Chile
1841 - NY "Tribune" begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
1845 - More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh Pa
1849 - Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $100
1863 - Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn
1864 - Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of México
1865 - At Appomattox, Gen Lee issues Gen Order #9, his last
1866 - American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1868 - 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem"
1868 - Brits defeat King of Abyssinia at Magdala
1869 - Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
1871 - William Hammond Hall's maps & surveys of Golden Gate Park accepted
1872 - 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans
1872 - Arbor day 1st celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
1877 - 1st human cannonball act performed in London
1877 - Federal troops withdrawn from Columbia SC
1878 - Calif St Cable Car RR Co starts service
1882 - Matson founds his shipping company (San Francisco & Hawaii)
1884 - US Senate accepts Belgian administration of Congo
1887 - President Abraham Lincoln's re-buried with his wife in Springfield Il
1887 - Soccer team Be Quick forms in Hairs Groningen
1896 - Spiridon Louis wins 1st Olympic marathon (2:58:50)
1912 - RMS Titanic sets sail for its 1st & last voyage
1913 - Pres Woodrow Wilson throws out 1st ball, Senators beat Yankees 2-1
1913 - Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings
1916 - 1st professional golf tournament held
1917 - Munition factory explosion at Eddystone PA, kills 133 workers
1923 - Hitler demands "hatred & more hatred" in Berlin
1924 - Tubular steel golf club shafts approved for championship play
1925 - Czarina re-christened Stalingrad (now Volgograd)
1925 - Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
1930 - George Headley scores 223 v England at Kingston
1930 - Synthetic rubber 1st produced
1932 - Paul von Hindenburg elected 1st German president (Hitler is 2nd)
1934 - Stanley Cup: Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 3 games to 1
1935 - Vaughan Williams' 4th Symphony premieres in London
1936 - 200" mirror blank arrives in Pasadena
1938 - 2nd govt of Blum replaced by Daladier govt in France
1938 - Austria becomes a state of Germany
1938 - NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
1939 - Colijn's Dutch govt opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
1939 - Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1940 - Vidkun Quisling forms Norwegian "national government"
1941 - German troops conquer Libyan county Cyrenaica
1942 - Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
1943 - 12 Jewish patients of Herren Loo-Lozenoord escape nazis
1943 - General Montgomery occupies Sfax Tunisia
1944 - "Patrolling the Ether" is shown on 3 TV stations simultaneously
1944 - Soviet forces liberate Odessa from Nazis
1945 - Allies liberate 1st Nazi concentration camp, Buchenwald (Czech)
1945 - Canadian troops conquer Deventer
1945 - General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"
1945 - German troops attack Ijsselbrug
1945 - NFL's Boston Yanks & Brooklyn Tigers merge
1945 - US troops land on Tsugen Shima Okinawa
1945 - US troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany
1945 - William Schuman & Antony Tudors ballet premieres in NYC
1946 - 1st election for Japanese Diet
1947 - Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in major league baseball (Dodgers)
1947 - King Frederik IX of Denmark crowned
1948 - Jewish Hagana repels an Arab attack on Mishmar HaEmek
1949 - 13th Golf Masters Championship: Sam Snead wins, shooting a 282
1953 - "House of Wax," 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC)
1953 - 7th NBA Championship: Minneapolis Lakers beat NY Knicks, 4 games to 1
1954 - KRGV TV channel 5 in Weslaco, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - 19th Golf Masters Championship: Cary Middlecoff wins, shooting a 279
1955 - 9th NBA Championship: Syrac Nats beat Ft Wayne Pistons, 4 games to 3
1955 - Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine
1955 - Ruth Ellis shoots jilting lover David Blakely
1956 - Philips broadcasts 1st Dutch color TV programs
1956 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1
1957 - John Osborne's "Entertainer," premieres in London
1957 - Jordanian govt of Naboelsi resigns
1957 - Suez canal reopens for all traffic
1957 - USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 - Northern strip of Spanish Sahara ceded to Morocco
1959 - Japan's Crown Prince Akihito marries commoner Michiko Shoda
1960 - 24th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 282
1960 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open
1960 - Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill
1961 - 25th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 280
1961 - Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
1961 - Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to JFK about New Guinea
1961 - New Wash Senators loses 1st regular-season game 4-3 to White Sox
1962 - 1st baseball game at LA's Dodger Stadium, they lose 6-3 to Reds
1962 - 1st major league game in Houston, Colt .45s beat Chicago Cubs, 11-2
1962 - NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits his 375th HR
1963 - Thresher, US atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project
1964 - Iranian motor launch catches fire & sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)
1967 - 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," E Taylor & P Scofield win
1968 - "George M!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances
1968 - 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night," Rod Steiger & K Hepburn win
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 - 1st baseball game at Phila's Veterans Stadium, Phils beat Expos 4-1
1971 - US table tennis team arrives in China PR
1972 - 7.0 earthquake kills 1/5 of population of Iranian province of Fars
1972 - US, USSR & 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons
1973 - BEA flight to Basel Switz, crashes on landing, killing 104 of 143
1973 - KC opens its new park, Royals Stadium, with 12-1 rout of Rangers
1973 - Pakistan suspends constitution
1974 - American Boccaccio Association forms
1974 - Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet
1974 - Yitzhak Rabin replaces resigning Israeli PM Golda Meir
1975 - Rangers score 8 goals against Islanders in playoffs
1976 - Brewers' Don Money's grand slammer disallowed-Yanks win 9-7
1976 - Cleve Cavaliers win their 1st NBA Central Division title
1977 - 41st Golf Masters Championship: Tom Watson wins, shooting a 276
1977 - Beverly Klass wins LPGA Women's International Golf Satellite
1977 - Cleveland Indians set club record for longest, 9 inn game (3:17)
1978 - Formation of Major Indoor Soccer League announced
1979 - J R Richard throws major league record 6 wild pitches in Astrodome
1979 - Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
1981 - "Caveman" with Ringo premieres
1981 - Computer glitch keeps Space Shuttle Columbia grounded
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1981 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to Brit Parliament
1982 - LA Kings losing 5-0 to Edmonton in 3rd period, win in OT 6-5
1982 - Penguins 2-Isles 1 (OT)-Preliminary- Isles hold 2-1 lead
1983 - Baltimore's Eddie Murray hits his 1,000 career hit
1983 - Caps 3-Isles 6-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isles win series 3-2
1983 - Hennie Kuiper (Neth) wins Paris-Roubaix cycle race
1983 - Jordan king Hussein ceases negotiations with PLO
1983 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 - Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle
1984 - John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1984 - US Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
1985 - At 80 Leo Sites becomes oldest bowler to score a 300 game
1985 - Caps 4-Isles 3 (OT)-Patrick Div Semifinals-Caps hold 1-0 lead
1985 - Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-B mission
1986 - "Big Deal" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 70 performances
1986 - Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan
1986 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1988 - 52nd Golf Masters Championship: Sandy Lyle wins, shooting a 281
1988 - 8th Golden Raspberry Awards: Leonard Part 6 wins
1988 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA San Diego Inamori Golf Classic
1988 - Herschel Walker performs Fort Worth Ballet
1988 - Islanders beat Devils 5-4 (OT) 1st round tied at 2-2
1989 - 10th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1989 - 24th Academy of Country Music Awards: Hank Williams Jr, Alabama
1989 - H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood & Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins
1989 - Intel corp announces shipment of 80-486 chip
1990 - CUNY/Lehman College, Bronx, opens a branch campus in Hiroshma Japan
1990 - Curtly Ambrose takes 8-45 in cricket vs England at Bridgetown
1991 - Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138
1991 - LA King Wayne Gretzky scores NHL record 93rd playoff goal
1991 - Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
1991 - Martin Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:52.51)
1992 - 25 die in a bus bombing in Sri Lanka
1992 - Floriade (Flower Show) opens at Hague Neth
1992 - NHL strike ends after 10 days
1993 - BPAA US Open by Del Ballard Jr
1993 - Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses
1993 - Pittsburgh Penguins win their NHL record 17 game winning streak
1994 - "Les Miserables," opens at Hiten Theatre, Osaka
1994 - 58th Golf Masters Championship: Jose M Olazabal wins, shooting a 279
1995 - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 24 perfs
1995 - NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more

Famous birthdays on April 10 ..

0401 - Theodosius II, the Younger, Eastern Roman emperor
1512 - James I, king of Scotland (1513-42)
1569 - Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange & Anna of Saxon
1583 - Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law
1633 - Werner Fabricius, composer
1695 - Balthazar Huydecoper, Dutch translator/historian
1737 - François Giroust, composer
1755 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician/originator of homeopathy
1778 - William Hazlitt, Maidstone Kent England, essayist/critic
1783 - Hortense E de Beauharnais, French queen of Netherlands (1806-10)
1794 - Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan
1797 - Claude Ambroise Seurat, Troyes France, (World's skinniest man)
1806 - Leonidas Polk, Lt Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1808 - Auguste Franchomme, composer
1823 - Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, Brig General (Confederate Army)
1827 - Lewis Wallace, Major General (Union volunteers)/author (Ben Hur)
1829 - William Booth, founder (Salvation Army)
1833 - David McMurtrie Gregg, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1833 - James Edward Rains, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1847 - Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer
1847 - Joseph Pulitzer, Hungary, publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World)
1854 - Jozef M T Orelio, baritone
1857 - Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician/puzzle maker
1864 - Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert, German pianist/composer (Golem)
1864 - Tully Marshall, Nevada City CA
1868 - George Arliss, London England, actor (Devil, Green Goddess)
1877 - Alfred Kubin, writer
1880 - Frances Perkins, 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position (Labor)
1882 - Simon F H J Berkelbach Van der Sprenkel, theologist (Fear & Religion)
1886 - Val Paul
1887 - Bernardo A Houssay, Argentine physiologist (Nobel 1947)
1887 - Heinz Tiessen, composer
1891 - Tim McCoy, Saginaw MI
1892 - Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist (Rassenkunde)
1892 - Victor de Sabata, Trieste Italy, conductor/composer (Il Macigno)
1894 - Ben Nicholson, English painter/sculptor (Circle)
1896 - Edith Day, Minneapolis MN
1898 - Hans Ehrke, German writer/poet (Narrenspiegel, Füer)
1900 - Jean Duvieusart, premier (Belgium 1950)
1903 - Clare Boothe Luce, US ambassador (to Vatican)
1903 - Nick Stuart, Romania, bandleader
1905 - Jan H van Roijen, diplomat/Netherland foreign minister
1906 - Fud Livingston, composer
1906 - Kathleen Major, principal (St Hilda's College, England)
1906 - Lili Darvas, Budapest Hungary, actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron)
1907 - Pete Desjardins, US, platform/springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1928)
1908 - Aidan Crawley, CEO (London Weekend TV)
1910 - Abu-Bakr Khairat, composer
1910 - David Gilroy Bevan, politician
1911 - Maurice Schumann, French statesman/writer (La Voix du couvre-feu)
1912 - Clarke Hinkle, NFL fullback (Green Bay Packers)
1912 - Martin Denny, rocker/actor (Forbidden Island)
1912 - Roy Hofheinz, engineer (Houston Astrodome)
1913 - Stefan Heym, German/US author (Crusaders, Family Benda)
1914 - E A V "Foffie" Williams, cricketer (WI all-rounder 1939-48)
1914 - Jack Badcock, cricketer (Tasmania Australian batsman of 30's)
1915 - Harry Morgan, Detroit Mich, actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet)
1915 - Leo Vroman, Dutch/US poet/biologist
1917 - Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist (Nobel 1965)
1921 - Chuck Connors, Bkln NY, actor (Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa)
1921 - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest
1921 - Sheb Wooley, Erick Okla, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw)
1923 - Floyd M Simmons, actor/decathlete (Olympic-bronze-1948, 52)
1923 - John Watkins, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 15 Tests 49-57)
1924 - Johanna M van de Berg, actress (What See I?)
1926 - "Alvin" Junior Samples, Cummings Ga, country singer (Hee Haw)
1926 - Jacques Casterede, composer
1926 - Johnnie Tillmon, civil rights activist (Natl Welfare Rights Assn)
1929 - Dusan Radic, composer
1929 - Max Von Sydow, Lund Sweden, actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape)
1930 - Lord Morton, of Shauna, senator (College of Justice, Scotland)
1930 - Shuja-ud-Din, cricketer (batted in 19 Tests for Pakistan 1954-62)
1931 - Marcel van Maele, Belgian poet
1932 - Adrian Henri, poet/president (Liverpool Academy of Arts)
1932 - Delphine Seyrig, Beirut Lebanon, actress (Freak Orlando, Reperages)
1932 - Hari Rhodes, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Mike-Daktari, Roots)
1932 - Mae Heriwentha Faggs Starr, NJ, 4x100m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1932 - Nathaniel Nelson, rocker (Flamingos)
1932 - Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub], Egypt, actor (Dr Zhivago, Top Secret)
1933 - Philip Corner, composer
1933 - Poncie Ponce, actor (Kazuo Kim-Hawaiian Eye)
1933 - Robert Rhodes James, historian (Gallipoli)
1934 - David Halberstam, intl correspondent (NY Times/Pulitzer 1964)
1934 - Zsolt Durko, composer
1935 - Jorge Mester, Mexico City Mexico, conductor (Louisville Orch 1967-79)
1935 - Patrick Garland, director (Doll House)
1936 - John Madden, NFL coach (Oakland Raiders)/sports commentator (CBS, FOX)
1936 - Michael Naylor, insurance broker
1936 - Robert "Bobby" Smith, US singer (Spinners)
1937 - Stan Mellor, British racehorse trainer/jockey
1938 - Don Meredith, Mount Vernon Texas, NFL QB (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football
1939 - Alan Rothenberg, US Soccer pres (1990- )
1939 - Daniel Oliver, NYC, CEO (Federal Trade Commission)
1940 - Gloria Hunniford, British broadcaster/actress (Old Curiosity Shop)
1941 - Paul Theroux, American travel book writer (Mosquito Coast)
1944 - Danny Woods, US musician (CEO of the Board)
1945 - Vera Misevich, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1980)
1946 - Armand, [Herman van Loenhout], singer (Blommenkinders)
1947 - Bunny Waller, vocalist/percussionist (Bob Marley & Wailers)
1947 - Karl Russell, rocker
1948 - Thomas Spencer, MEP (Conservative)
1949 - Frank de Leeuw, Dutch rock guitarist (Bob Color)
1950 - Dave Peverett, rocker (Foghat)
1950 - Eddie Hazel, US pop guitarist (Funkadelic-Uncle Jam Wants You)
1951 - Mark Roth, bowler (4-time PBA Player of Year)
1951 - Steven Seagal, Detroit MI, actor (Above the Law, Hard to Kill)
1953 - David Moorcroft, British athlete
1953 - Terre Roche, rocker (Roches)
1954 - Jouko Törmänen, Finland, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1980)
1954 - Peter MacNicol, Dallas TX, actor (Chicago Hope, Sophie's Choice)
1955 - Cary Middlecoff, golfer (Masters)
1958 - Ken Griffy, baseball player (Cin Reds, NY Yanks)
1959 - Brian Setzer, Massapequa Park NY, rock guitarist/vocalist (Stray Cats)
1960 - Julie Fulton, Evanston Ill, actress (Lime Steel)
1961 - Jeb Adams, Hollywood Calif, actor (Lt Jeb Pruitt-Baa Baa Black Sheep)
1961 - Olivia Brown, Frankfurt GFR, actress (Det Trudy Joplin-Miami Vice)
1962 - Cathy Turner, Rochester NY, short track skater (Olympics-gold-1994
1962 - Jukka Tammi, hockey goaltender (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1962 - Steve Tasker, wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1963 - Claire Smith, Ottawa Ontario, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1963 - Kirk Lowdermilk, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 - Marvin Freeman, Chicago IL, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1963 - Mike Devereaux, Casper WY, outfielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1963 - Warren DeMartini, heavy metal rocker (Dokken-Alone Again, Ratt)
1964 - Alan "Reni" Wren, English pop drummer (Stone Roses-Fools Gold)
1964 - Felicia Collins, Albany NY, guitarist (David Letterman)
1964 - Manon Bollegraf, den Bosch Neth, tennis star (semi 1996 Aust doubles)
1965 - Karen Booker, WNBA center (Utah Starzz)
1965 - Tim "Herb" Alexander, US funk metal drummer (Primus-Prok soda)
1966 - Neil Smith, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs, Den Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 - Donald Dufresne, Rimouski, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1967 - Kay Whitmore, Sudbury, NHL goalie (NY Rangers)
1969 - Billy Jacoby, Flushing NY, actor (Brad-Silver Spoons, Maggie)
1969 - Dennis Vial, Sault Ste-Marie Ca, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1969 - Wayne Lammle, WLAF kicker/punter (Scotland Claymores)
1969 - William Jayne, actor (Mikey Randall-Parker Lewis Can't Lose)
1970 - Enrico Ciccone, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks)
1970 - J J McCleskey, NFL safety (NO Saints, Arizona Cardinals)
1970 - Sean Gilbert, defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1970 - Wesley Barnett, St Joseph Mo, Oly weightlifter (Pan Am-silver-1987)
1971 - Karl Williams, wide receiver (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 - Mihai Bagiu, Timisoara Romania, US gymnast (Olympics-96)
1971 - Nana Miyagi, Seattle Wash, tennis star (1995 final Surabaya doubles)
1972 - Maurice Harrell, NFL tight end (SD Chargers)
1972 - Richard Wearne, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Sue Merz, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1974 - Sherry Johnson, Owatonna Minnesota, Miss America-Minnesota (1996)
1975 - Eric Den Besten, Bettendorf Iowa, rower (Olympics-1996)
1975 - Floris, Prince of Netherlands
1975 - Steve Washburn, Ottawa, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
1977 - Claudia Delpin, Miss Chile Universe (1997)
1978 - Jessica Davis, Greenbrae Calif, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-27th-96)
1984 - Zoe, Melbourne Australia, 1st frozen-embryo child
1989 - Haley Joel Osment, LA Calif, actor (Matt-Jeff Foxworthy Show)

Famous deaths on April 10 ..

0879 - Louis II, the stutterer, King of France (877-79), dies
0947 - Hugo van Arles, count of Arles/king of Italy, dies
1008 - Notger, bishop of Luik (972-1008), dies
1362 - Machteld, countess of Holland, dies
1533 - Frederik I, King of Denmark/Norway (1523-33), dies at 61
1585 - Gregory XIII, [Ugo Buoncampagni], Italian Pope (1572-85), dies
1640 - Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer, dies at 61
1640 - Charlotte Flandrina van Nassau, daughter of Willem I, dies at 60
1712 - Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77
1723 - Claude F Tserclaes, South Neth earl of Tilly, dies at 74
1731 - Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, composer, dies at 58
1756 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94
1760 - Gerard George Clifford, head of East-Indian Company, dies at 75
1784 - Simon Fokke, book illustrator, dies at 71
1807 - Anna Amalia van Brumswijk-Wolfenbüttel, duchess of Saxon-Weimar, dies
1810 - Konrad Back, composer, dies at 60
1825 - Paul-Louis Courier, (Méré), French writer/interpreter, dies at 53
1848 - Godert AGP baron van Capellen, gove-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 69
1862 - William Harvey Lamb Wallace, US lawyer/brig-general, dies at 40
1863 - Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77
1885 - John H Scholten, theologist (Free Want), dies at 73
1909 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet, dies at 72
1911 - Mikolajus Konstantinas Ciurlionis, composer, dies at 35
1919 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered at 39
1920 - Moritz B Cantor, German mathematician, dies at 90
1920 - Tryggve Andersen, Norwegian writer (Mod Kvaeld), dies at 53
1927 - Ivo Bligh, cricketer (8th Earl of Darnley, 4 Tests 1882-83), dies
1929 - Edmond Thieffry, Belgium, WW I pilot, dies at 36
1932 - André Baillon, Belgian/French author (& sabots), dies at 56
1937 - Algernon Ashton, composer, dies at 77
1938 - Nana Annor Adjaye, Pan-Africanist, dies in W Nzima Ghana
1939 - Alfredo Panzini, Ital author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75
1945 - Hendrik N Werkman, resistance/painter (Blue Boat), executed at 63
1954 - Auguste Lumière, French photograph/movie pioneer, dies at 81
1954 - Ludwig Curtius, German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst), dies at 79
1955 - Oskar Frederik Lindberg, composer, dies at 68
1956 - Bozidar Sirola, composer, dies at 66
1956 - Clarence Beaumont, 1st batter in 1st World Series, dies at 75
1956 - Jozef Szulc, composer, dies at 81
1958 - Chuck Willis, rocker, dies at 30
1958 - W C Handy, composer/musician, dies at 84 in NY
1960 - Arthur Benjamin, Austral composer/pianist (Devil Take Her), dies at 66
1961 - Irene Warfield, silent screen actress (Satan Sanderson), dies at 65
1962 - Stuart Sutcliffe, bassist (Beatles), dies of brain hemorrhage at 21
1965 - Linda Darnell, dies from burns received in a fire at 41
1966 - Christian J Modeste, Dutch king of gypsies, dies at 71
1966 - Evelyn Waugh, British writer (Black Mischief), dies at 62
1970 - Charles Paton, dies at 96
1974 - Patricia Collinge, dies at 81
1974 - Roger Bastide, French sociologist, dies at 76
1975 - Marjorie Main, actress (Ma & Pa Kettle), dies at 85
1975 - Sophia JW "Sophie" Hermse, actress (But a Dream), dies at 86
1975 - Walker Evans, US photographer (Fortune Magazine), dies at 71
1979 - Henriëtte P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Dodendans), dies at 91
1979 - Nino Rota, Italian composer (Torquemada), dies at 67
1980 - Kay Medford, actress (Dean Martin Show, To Rome With Love), dies at 65
1983 - Issam Sartawi, PLO ambassador to Portugal, murdered
1983 - Ulf S von Euler-Chelpin, Swedish physiologist, dies at 78
1984 - Nate Nelson, R&B-singer (Flamingos-I'll Be Home), dies on 52 birthday
1984 - Ray Middleton, dies at 75
1986 - Joseph P Addabbo, US defence specialist/(Sen-D), dies at 61
1988 - Cliff Gladwin, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49), dies
1989 - Joan Barry, dies at 85
1991 - Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry & Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35
1991 - Natalie Schafer, actress (Gilligan's Island), dies at 90 from cancer
1992 - Ken Ward, dies at 37
1992 - Sam Kinison, loud mouth comedian, dies in a car crash at 38
1993 - Chris Hani, sec-gen South Africian Communist Party, assassinated at 50
1994 - James L Lyons, jazz promoter, dies at 77
1994 - Victor Afanasiev, Rus editor-in-chief of Pravda (1976-89), dies at 71
1995 - Chen Yun, VPM of China (1949-75, 79-80), dies
1995 - Glyn Jones, writer, dies at 90
1995 - Gunter Guillaume, German politican, dies
1995 - Joseph Anthony "Joe" Richards, singer/actor (Colo Ranger), dies at 44
1995 - Morarji Desai, PM of India (1977-79), dies
1996 - Jessica Dubroff, attempting to be youngest pilot, dies in crash at 7