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0451 Germans & Romans beat Atiila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields
1212 French & Spanish crusaders unite against the Almohaden at Toledo
1402 Battle of Angora (Ankara)-Tatars defeat Turkish Army
1530 German Parliament joins to Augsburg together
1547 Count Philip van Hessen captured
1567 Don Henrique of Brazil, expel Jews
1567 Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of regent Don Henrique
1582 Bishop Domingo de Salazar of Manila suppresses the Philippines
1591 Mauritius & Willem van Nassau occupy Devente
1624 Netherlands & France sign Treaty of Compiègne
1632 Britain grants 2nd Lord Baltimore rights to Chesapeake Bay area
1656 Polish King Jan II Casimir recaptures Warsaw
1675 Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan & Wampanoag indians form anti-English front under Metacom
1756 146 Brit soldiers imprisoned in India-Black Hole of Calcutta-most die
1756 India rebels defeat Calcutta on British army
1779 Battle of Stone Ferry
1782 Congress approves Great Seal of US & eagle as it's symbol
1789 Oath of Tennis Court (for a new constitution) in France taken
1791 King Louis XVI caught trying to escape French Revolution
1793 Eli Whitney patents his cotton gin
1819 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1825 Coronation of French king Charles X the Bourbon
1826 Siam/England sign trade/peace treaty
1837 England issues its 1st stamp, 1P Queen Victoria
1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph
1855 Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin
1863 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1863 Skirmish at Greencastle Pennsylvania
1863 West Virginia admitted as 35th US state
1864 Battle of Kinston NC & Battle of Abingdon VA
1864 Battle of Petersburgs VA - in trenches
1864 Skirmish at Lattermore's Mills/Powder Springs Georgia
1866 Italy declares war on Austria
1867 Pres Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in federal court in Oxford Miss
1874 1st US Lifesaving Medal awarded (Lucian Clemons)
1888 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Libertas
1893 Lizzie Borden acquitted in murder of parents in New Bedford Mass
1895 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin)
1895 Canal of Smock official opens
1895 Nicaragua, El Salvador & Honduras form a short-lived confederation
1901 Charlotte Manye is 1st native African to graduate from a US college
1907 1st Portland Rose festival
1909 1st balloon honeymoon (Roger Burham & Eleanor Waring)
1910 "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1911 NAACP incorporates (NY)
1912 NY Giant Josh Devore steals 4 bases in an inning (2nd & 3rd twice)
1912 NY Giants lead Bost Braves 14-2 into 9th, Giants win 21-12
1913 3 of 1st 4 Yankees hit-by-pitch en route to a record 6 hit batsman
1913 Bert Daniels set AL mark, being hit-by-pitch 3 times in a doubleheader
1914 46th Belmont: Merritt Buxton aboard Luke McLuke wins in 2:20
1915 German offensive in Argonnes
1919 German govt of Scheideman resigns
1919 Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria
1920 Yanks win protest of 1-0 White Sox win & game is replayed
1921 11.5" (29.2 cm) of rainfall, Circle, Montana (state record)
1926 Mordecai W Johnson becomes 1st black president of Howard University
1930 65th British Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 291 at Hoylake Hoylake
1931 Karl Buresch becomes chancellor of Austrian
1932 A's Roger Cramer gets 6 consecutive hits in a game (repeats in 1935)
1936 Jesse Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2
1939 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants
1940 Joe Louis TKOs Arturo Godoy in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas
1942 Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
1942 German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
1943 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded
1943 Detroit race riot kills 35
1943 German round up Jews in Amsterdam
1943 National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
1943 New Québec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Québec (3« km dia)
1943 Sweden's Gunther Hagg beats favorite Greg Rice by 35 yards in 5,000m at national AAU track & field championship in NY
1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
1944 Heavy storm hits the Channel
1944 Nazi begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz
1944 Soviet forces conquer Wiborg
1944 US attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea
1944 US troops occupy Biak
1946 NYC transit begins using PA system - Car # 744 on 8th Ave IND line
1947 Pres Truman vetoes Taft-Hartley Act
1948 "Toast of the Town" hosted by Ed Sullivan premieres on CBS-TV
1948 20 Jews killed when a bomb is thrown into Jewish quarter of Cairo
1948 Cleveland draws then record 82,781 for doubleheader
1948 Deutsche Mark introduced in West-Germany
1949 Central Intelligence Agency Act, passes
1950 Dutch Air Force base Tjililitan given to Indonesia
1950 Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1951 Cleve Indian Bobby Avila hits 3 HRs, double & single vs Red Sox
1953 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1955 "Almost Crazy" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 16 performances
1956 Venezuelan Super Constellation crashes in NJ, 74 killed
1956 At Detroit's Briggs Stadium, Mickey Mantle hits 2 Billy Hoeft pitches into right center field bleachers (no else hits 1 there)
1958 NZ all out 47 v England at Lord's Laker 4-13, Lock 5-17
1960 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack & Jane Wyatt
1960 Federation of Mali (& Senegal) becomes independent of France
1960 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 5 for heavywgt boxing title
1960 Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johnstown (NYC)
1963 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 6-2
1963 Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income
1963 US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1964 64th US Golf Open: Ken Venturi shoots a 278 at Congressional CC MD
1965 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1966 66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF
1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
1967 Phillies Larry Jackson beats NY Mets for 18th straight time
1968 Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear
1969 Georges Pompidou sworn in as president of France
1969 White Rhodesia agrees to race separation
1970 "Ray Stevens Show," debuts on NBC-TV
1970 British govt of Edward Heath forms (with Margaret Thatcher)
1970 Oriole's Brooks Robinson get his 2,000 career hit, a 3 run HR
1971 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open
1973 Chicago's Cy Acosta is 1st AL pitcher to bat since DH rule (strikeout)
1973 Juan Perón returns to Argentina
1973 SF Giants Bobby Bonds sets NL record with 22 lead off HRs
1976 76th US Golf Open: Jerry Pate shoots a 277 at Atlanta AC in Duluth Ga
1976 Carl Fugate, Starkwether accomplice, paroled
1976 Czechoslovakia becomes European soccer champ
1976 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Hoosier Golf Classic
1976 River Country opens
1977 Menahem Begin forms Israeli govt
1977 Oil enters Trans-Alaska pipeline exits 38 days later at Valdez
1978 1st 6 teams of Women's Pro Basketball League (WBL) granted-Iowa, NJ, Milwaukee, Chicago, Minnesota & Dayton
1980 Calif Angels Freddie Patek, hits 3 HRs & double to beat Red Sox 20-2
1980 Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision
1981 Guitarist Gerry Cott quits Boomtown Rats
1981 Mudjahedin uprises against Iran regime
1981 Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection
1982 82nd US Golf Open: Tom Watson shoots a 282 at Pebble Beach GL Calif
1982 Israeli PM Menachem Begin arrives in Washington
1982 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1982 Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)
1983 83rd US Golf Open: Larry Nelson shoots a 280 at Oakmont CC PA
1983 NY Yankee Bobby Murcer retires
1984 A's Dave Kingman hits his 3rd grand slam & 14th lifetime
1984 Amber Kvanli, of Minnesota, crowned America's Junior Miss
1986 Drs at Bethesda Naval remove 2 small benign polyps from Reagan's colon
1986 Jim Fregosi replaces Tony LaRussa as White Sox manager
1987 Chuti Tiu, 17, of Wisconsin, crowned America's Junior Miss
1987 Johnny Carson marries 4th wife Alexis Mass
1988 Curtis Strange wins US Open golf tournament
1988 Haiti's general assembly dissolves
1988 NYC WABC-AM becomes flagship radio station of NJ Devils
1988 Price is Right model Janice Pennington is knocked out by a TV camera
1988 WABC officially becomes the NJ Devils new home radio
1988 Supreme Court upholds a law that made it illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women & minorities
1990 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
1990 Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of US
1992 Kelly Saunders is 2nd female baseball PA announcer (Balt Orioles)
1993 47th NBA Championship: Chicago Bulls beat Phoenix Suns, 4 games to 2
1993 93rd US Golf Open: Lee Janzen shoots a 272 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1993 Tammie Green wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1994 Bomb attack on Islamic temple in Mashad Iran (70 killed)
1994 Ernie Els win's 1994 Golf US Open
1994 Howard Stern begins 30-minute (Radio) TV show on E! cable network
1994 OJ Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman
1995 Space probe Ulysses begins 2nd passage behind the Sun
1996 Space Shuttle STS 78 (Columbia 20), launches into space
1997 Negotiators announce agreement in principle with tobacco industry
1999 99th US Golf Open: at Pinehurst CC NJ

Famous birthdays for this day Events  Deaths

1566Sigismund III, King of Poland/Sweden
1585Lazaro Valvasensi, composer
1615Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter/musician [or 7/21]
1634Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75)
1642George Hickes, English linguistic (Old German Philology)
1647Johan Georg III, elect of Saxon (1680-91)
1674Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate (Jane Shore, Tamerlane)
1694Hans A Brorson, Danish poet/bishop of Ribe
1723Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian
1730Nonnosus Madlseder, composer
1743Anna L Barbauld, writer of hymns
1756Joseph Martin Kraus, composer
1763Theobald Wolfe Tone, Irish nationalist
1819Jacques Offenbach, Cologne, French composer (Tales of Hoffmann)
1823Jesse Lee Reno, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1824George E Street, British (?) architect
1824John Tyler Morgan, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1833Léon-J-F Bonnat, painter
1852Theodorus Heemskerk Jzn, minister of interior (1866..88) [or Jul 20]
1858Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits)
1861Arthur Battelle Whiting, composer
1864Worm Pander, sculptor
1866Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], Dutch lawyer/detective writer
1866Lord George ESMH Carnarvon, England, egyptologist (Tutanchamon)
1868Helen Miller Shepard, philanthropist/established Hall of Fame
1875Othenio Able, Austria, paleontologist
1883Giannotto Bastianelli, composer
1883Jules Verstraete, [Julien G the Graef], actor (Driestuiversopera)
1883Leah Baird, Chicago IL, actress (Lady Gangster)
1887Arnaut Colnot, painter/graphic artist
1887Kurt Schwitters, German/British dada-artist/poet (collages)
1892S M Tretjakow, writer
1894George Delacorte, NYC, philanthropist/publisher (Dell Books)
1894Lloyd A Hall, Illinois, pioneer in food chemistry
1897Cyril "Froggy" Francois, cricketer (S Afr all-rounder v Eng 1922-23)
1899Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer
1899Jean Moulin, hero of the French Resistance (WW II)
1900Ernest White, composer
1901Iri Maruki, artist
1903Glenna Collett Vare, RI, Natl Am Golf champ (1922, 25, 28-30, 35)
1904Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo, German Foreign Minister
1906Bob Howard, Newton Mass, singer/pianist (Sing it Again)
1906Catherine Cookson, England, novelist (Bannaman Legacy)
1907Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
1909Cecil Marley, cricketer (Jamaican batsman 1928-1946, WICBC pres)
1909Errol Flynn, Hobart Tasmania, actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood)
1909Joan Harrison, screenwriter
1911Gail Patrick, Birmingham Ala, actress (My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy)
1911Lord Brightman, British judge of appeals
1914Friedrich Zipp, composer
1915Terence Young, Shanghai China, director (Dr No, Thunderball)
1916Johnny Morris, British broadcaster/actor (Once in a Lifetime)
1916William Balchin, geographer
1919Bruce Gordon, London England, actor (Frank Nitti-Untouchables)
1919Ronald Hines, Dutch/British actor (Pack of Lies)
1920DeForest Kelley, Atlanta Ga, actor (Dr Leonard McCoy-Star Trek)
1920Haydn Tudor Evans, British high court judge
1923Marcus Bakker, Dutch MP (CPN)
1924Audie Murphy, Kingston Tx, WW II hero/actor (Destry, Joe Butterfly)
1924Chet Atkins, Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me & My Guitar)
1924Rainer Barzel, German leader (CDU-CSU)/minister
1925Doris J Hart, St Louis Mo, tennis player (Wimbledon 1951)
1926Arthur Bell, royal botanic gardens director (Kew Gardens)
1927John M Dengler, jazz bass sax/trumpet/trombone
1928David Mitchell, British MP
1928Jean-Marie le Pen, France, leader (National Front party)
1928Martin Landau, Bkln, actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood)
1928Robert Satanowski, composer
1929Ingrid Haebler, Austrian pianist (Hayd/Mozart/Schubert)
1930Ellie Rabb, US, actor (Fabulous Baker Boys, Extreme Close-up)
1930John Waine, bishop (Chelmsford)
1930Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet
1931Arne Nordheim, Larvik Norway, conductor/composer (Aftonland)
1931James Tolkan Calumet MI, actor (Weekend War, Leap of Faith)
1931Olympia Dukakis, Lowell Mass, actress (Moonstruck, Cemetery Club)
1931Richard Southwood, zoologist/chancellor (Oxford University)
1932Robert Rozjdestvenski, Russian poet (Requiem, Userjoz)
1933Brett Halsey, Santa Ana Calif, actress (Paul-Follow the Sun)
1933Claire Tomalin, biographer/editor
1933Danny Aiello, NYC, actor (Moonstruck, Radio Days)
1933Earl of Cranbrook, CEO (Nature Conservancy Council)
1933Jean Boiteux, France, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1952)
1934Brian Barder, British high commissar (Australia)
1934Cornel Taranu, composer
1934Rosanna Podesta, [Carla Podest ], Tripoli, actress (Helen of Troy)
1934Wendy Craig, England, actress (Joseph Andrews)
1935Anthony Pilkington, CEO (Pilkington Pic)
1936Billy Guy, Attasca Tx, rock baritone (Coasters-Young Blood)
1936Bobby Nunn, rocker (Coasters-Young Blood)
1936Leon Hughes, rocker
1937Jerry Keller, rocker/actor (If Ever I See You Again)
1938Nikolay Avksentevich Martinov, composer
1939Budge Rogers, British rugby player
1939R B Desai, cricketer (effective pace bowler for India in 60s)
1940John Mahoney, Manchester England, actor (Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out)
1941Stephen Frears, England, dir (Prick Up Your Ears, Dangerous Liaisons)
1941Ulf D Merbold, German physicist/astronaut (STS 9, 42, Soyuz TM-19)
1942Brian Wilson, Inglewood Calif, vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)
1943Andy Etchebarren, baseball catcher (Balt Orioles)
1944Dave Nelson, baseball player
1944Terry Funk, Hammond Ind, pro wrestler (WWF/NWA)/actor (Paradise Alley)
1945David S Monson, (Rep-R-UT, 1985- )
1945James F Buchli, New Rockford ND, USMC/astr (STS 51C, 61A, 29, 48)
1945John McCook, Ventura Cal, actor (Codename: Firefox, Bold & Beautiful)
1945[Morna] Anne Murray, Springhill Nova Scotia Canada, singer (Snow Bird)
1946André Watts, Nuremberg Germany, concert pianist (Oberon)
1946Duchess of Gloucester
1947Candy Clark, Ok, actress (Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti)
1947David French, British director (Deep Sleep, Bingo)
1947John Forbes, horse trainer
1948Joey Molland, rocker
1948Nigel Morris, rocker (Isotope)
1949Bob Andrews, England, rock keyboardist/vocalist
1949Paul Shaw, Collingwood Ontario, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1950Lionel Richie, Alabama, singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover)
1951Peter Gordon, composer
1952Jayne Thobois, Noblesville IN, LPGA golfer (1995 Hawaiian-56th)
1952John Goodman, St Louis Mo, actor (Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe)
1952Larry Riley, Memphis Tn, actor (Harry-Stir Crazy, Knots Landing)
1953Alan Longmuir, Edinburgh Scotland, rocker (Bay City Rollers)
1953Brian J Duffy, Boston, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 45, 57, 72, sk:92)
1953Cyndi Ann Stephanie Lauper, Bkln, singer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
1953Raul Ramirez, tennis player
1954Alan [Joseph] Lamb, S African/British cricket player (Northampton)
1954Allan Lamb, cricketer (Langebaanweg, Cape Prov, 79 Tests for England)
1955Michael Anthony, rocker
1957Butch Patrick, Inglewood Calif, actor (Real McCoys, Eddie-Munsters)
1958Chuck Wagner, Nashville Tn, actor (Automan)
1958Dickie Thon, baseball player
1960Donna Mayhew, Taylor Penn, javelin thrower
1960John Taylor, rocker
1960Michael Corbett, Collingwood NJ, actor (David-Young & Restless)
1960[Nigel] John Taylor, England, rock bassist (Duran Duran-Girls on Film)
1961Gary Varsho, baseball player
1961Karin Enke, Dresden German DR, speed skater (Olympic-gold-1980, 84)
1963Kirk Baptiste, Beaumont Tx, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1963Matt Anger, Walnut Creek Cal, tennis star
1964Najee Mustafaa, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
1964Paul David Goydos, Long Beach CA, PGA golfer (1994 BC Open-7th)
1965Michael Landon Jr, Encino Calif, actor (Bonanza The Return)
1967Joseph William Cathcart, rock guitarist (Nelson-Love & Affection)
1967Pat Jablonski, Toledo, NHL goalie (Montreal Canadiens)
1968Fred McAfee, NFL running back (Pitts Steelers)
1968Garry Howe, WLAF nose tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968Mike McCarthy, Bkln NY, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-88, 96)
1969Gerald Dixon, NFL linebacker (Cleve Browns, Cincinnati Bengals)
1969Malivai Washington, Glenn Cove NY, tennis star (Olympics-96)
1970Shay-Oren Smadja, Israel, men's half middleweight judoka (Oly-1996)
1971Rodney Rogers, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1971William Gaines, NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1972Jo Roberts, WLAF quarterback (Barcelona Dragons)
1972Jozef Stumpel, Nitra CZE, NHL forward (Team Slovakia, Boston)
1972Juan Castro, Sinaloa Mexico, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1972Martin Keino, Nyeri Kenya, 1.5k runner
1972Paras Mhambrey, Indian cricket pace bowler (Test v England 1996)
1974Jami Ferrell, Munncie Indiana, playmate (Jan 1997)
1975Francois Rozenthal, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1975Maurice Rozenthal, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1979Sydne Vogel, Anchorage Alaska, figure skater (1996 NW Pac Sr champ)

Famous deaths for this day Events  Birthdays

0840 Louis de Vrome, emperor of French rich, dies
1585 Christianus Adrichomius, writer (Theatrum Terrae Sanctae), dies at 52
1597 Willem Barents, explorer (discovered Spitsbergen & Bereneil), dies
1649 Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, author, dies
1751 Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen of Neth-Indies (1737-41), dies at 56
1787 Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63
1833 Philip Knapton, composer, dies at 44
1837 Giovanni Furno, composer, dies at 89
1837 William IV, King of England, dies
1842 Michael Umlauf, composer, dies at 60
1846 Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67
1864 Friend Smith Rutherford, US Union brig-gen, dies in battle at 43?
1870 Jules de Goncourt, writer, dies at 39
1876 Antonio L de Santa Ana, pres Mexico, dies at 79
1883 Olivier Gloux, [Gustave Aimard], French world explorer, dies at 64
1888 Cesare Dominiceti, composer, dies at 66
1888 John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45
1890 Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer, dies at 63
1904 Anthony F A Sandys, (British?) painter, dies
1915 Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG), dies
1917 James Mason Crafts, US chemist, dies at 78
1922 Vittorio Monti, composer, dies at 54
1923 Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85
1925 Wilhelm Posse, composer, dies at 72
1933 Clara Zetkin, German feminist/communist, dies
1940 Jehan Alain, French organist/composer, dies in battle at 29
1941 Stephanie H (Lapidoth-)Swarth, author (Lonely flowers, dies
1945 Bruno Frank, writer, dies at 58
1947 Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead in Beverly Hills Cal
1948 George Frederick Boyle, composer, dies at 61
1950 Claude Jennings, cricketer (Aust opening bat in 1912 Triangular), dies
1953 Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67
1958 Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950), dies
1959 Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71
1960 Mahlon Hamilton, actor (Peg O'My Heart, High School Girl), dies at 80
1960 Walter Dehmel, writer, dies at 57
1963 Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1963 Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Wash state execution in 25 yrs
1963 Ralph Sanford, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 64
1964 Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57
1965 Ira Louvin, country singer (Louvin Brothers), dies at 41
1966 Georges LemaŒtre, originator of "big bang" theory, dies at 71
1972 Horst Salomon, writer, dies
1972 Howard Johnson, US restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75
1975 Daniel Ayala Perez, composer, dies at 68
1977 Abner Biberman, actor (Imhook-Kodiak), dies at 68
1978 Karel G Bakker, actor (Coffee House), dies at 66
1980 Gustaf Allan Pettersson, composer, dies at 68
1984 Estelle Winwood, actress (Miracle on 34th Street), dies at 99
1984 Sunny Johnson, actress (Animal House), dies cerebral hemorrhage at 30
1986 Tim Herbert, comedian (Dagmar's Canteen), dies at 71
1990 Ina Balin, actress (Patsy), dies at 52, of pulmonary hypertension
1994 Bram Koopmans, cyclist/coach, dies at 78
1994 Charlotte Auerbach, computer pioneer/mathematician, dies at 84
1994 Emmanuel Bankole Timothy, journalist, dies at 70
1994 Louis Benjamin, showman, dies at 71
1995 Dennis Gomm, musician, dies at 84
1995 Emil Mihai Cioran, writer/aphorist, dies at 84
1995 Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot, dies at 91
1996 Hellevi Rombin Schine, Miss Universe (1955), dies in plane crash at 64
1996 Irving Krick, meteorologist, dies at 89
1996 Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96
1996 Michel Lebrun, crime writer, dies at 65
1996 Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies
1997 Bobby Helms, composer (Jingle Bell Rock), dies at 61
1997 Lawrence Payton, rocker (4 Tops-I'll Be There), dies at 59

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