Welcome to Today In History for Saturday, March 13, 2010.

On this day in history ..

• 0483 - St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 0607 - 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
• 1138 - German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
• 1519 - Cortez lands in M‚xico
• 1560 - Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
• 1564 - Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
• 1567 - Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
• 1569 - Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
• 1591 - Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
• 1634 - Acad‚mie Fran‡aise opens
• 1639 - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
• 1656 - Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
• 1677 - Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
• 1735 - 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
• 1759 - 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
• 1772 - Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick
• 1781 - Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
• 1790 - John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
• 1797 - Cherubini's opera "Med‚e," premieres in Paris
• 1835 - Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing
• 1846 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in K”nigsberg
• 1852 - Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly
• 1861 - Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
• 1865 - US Confederate Congress calls on black slaves for field service
• 1868 - Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
• 1869 - Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
• 1878 - Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match
• 1884 - Siege of Khartoum Sudan begins
• 1884 - US adopts Standard Time
• 1887 - Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
• 1888 - Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
• 1894 - J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
• 1895 - Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
• 1900 - British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange-Free state
• 1904 - Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
• 1911 - Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in NYC
• 1911 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4
• 1912 - Stanley Cup: Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
• 1913 - Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
• 1915 - Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
• 1918 - American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
• 1918 - 1st NHL championship: Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
• 1920 - Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
• 1921 - Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
• 1922 - George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in NYC
• 1922 - WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
• 1922 - NHL Championship: Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
• 1923 - Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
• 1924 - German Republic day
• 1925 - NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
• 1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
• 1928 - 450 die in St Francisquito Valley Dam burst (Calif)
• 1928 - Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in NYC
• 1929 - Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton
• 1930 - Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
• 1933 - Banks reopen
• 1933 - Josef G”bbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda
• 1935 - Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
• 1938 - Anschluá-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
• 1940 - Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische
• 1941 - A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
• 1942 - Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
• 1943 - Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
• 1943 - Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
• 1943 - Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
• 1944 - USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio govt
• 1945 - Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
• 1945 - Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
• 1947 - "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
• 1947 - 19th Academy Awards - "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win
• 1948 - 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
• 1949 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
• 1949 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
• 1950 - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
• 1951 - 2nd Dutch govt of Drees forms
• 1951 - Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
• 1954 - Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
• 1954 - Viet Minh General Giap opens assault on That Bien Phu
• 1955 - Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
• 1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
• 1956 - NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
• 1957 - Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
• 1958 - Govt troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
• 1960 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
• 1960 - NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis
• 1960 - White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
• 1961 - Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party
• 1961 - Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavywgt boxing title
• 1961 - JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
• 1961 - Landslide in USSR, kills 145
• 1961 - Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender
• 1961 - Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
• 1962 - Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
• 1963 - 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
• 1963 - Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in NYC
• 1963 - Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
• 1964 - Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
• 1965 - Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
• 1965 - Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
• 1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
• 1967 - Congo sentences ex-premier Mo‹se Tsjombe to death
• 1967 - Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in NYC
• 1968 - Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
• 1969 - Apollo 9 returns to Earth
• 1970 - 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
• 1970 - Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
• 1970 - SF city employees begin 4-day strike
• 1971 - Live at Fillmore East recorded
• 1973 - Syria adopts constitution
• 1973 - "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
• 1973 - Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC
• 1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens near Paris
• 1974 - Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust
• 1975 - Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in NYC
• 1977 - Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
• 1978 - Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
• 1979 - European Monetary System is established, ECU created
• 1979 - Gairy dictatorship in Grenada overthrown by New Jewel Movement
• 1979 - Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
• 1980 - Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
• 1980 - Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
• 1980 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
• 1981 - Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
• 1981 - NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
• 1982 - Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)
• 1982 - Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess & Thierbach (GDR)
• 1982 - Men's Fig Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
• 1982 - Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
• 1982 - Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
• 1983 - "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 perfs
• 1983 - 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
• 1984 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
• 1984 - WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
• 1985 - Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
• 1985 - Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
• 1986 - Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
• 1987 - Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
• 1987 - John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
• 1987 - Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs
• 1988 - 14th People's Choice Awards: Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
• 1989 - 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
• 1989 - FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
• 1989 - US space shuttle STS-29 launched
• 1990 - Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
• 1991 - Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
• 1992 - 570 die in a Turkish earthquake
• 1992 - FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
• 1992 - Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
• 1993 - Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
• 1994 - 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right FP™
• 1994 - Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
• 1994 - Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
• 1994 - Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
• 1994 - President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
• 1995 - 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
• 1995 - Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms
• 1995 - Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
• 1995 - Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
• 1996 - Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
• 1996 - Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher & himself

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 1548 - Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole
• 1599 - Johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint
• 1615 - Innocent XII, [Antonio Pignatelli], Pope (1691-1700)
• 1696 - Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal
• 1700 - James Kent, composer
• 1700 - Michel Blavet, composer
• 1712 - Isfrid Kayser, composer
• 1733 - Joseph Priestly, England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)
• 1741 - Jozef II, arch duke of Austria/RC German emperor (1765-90)
• 1744 - David Allan, Scottish painter
• 1746 - Maurus Haberhauer, composer
• 1752 - Josef Reicha, composer
• 1764 - Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
• 1767 - Heinrich Domnich, composer
• 1768 - Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant
• 1770 - Daniel Lambert, England, giant (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death)
• 1779 - Oliver Shaw, composer
• 1781 - Karl F Schinkel, German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel)
• 1798 - Abigail Powers Fillmore, 1st lady (1850-53)
• 1818 - Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
• 1820 - Louis Herbert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
• 1822 - Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet
• 1832 - Alberto Randegger, composer
• 1850 - Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer
• 1855 - Percival "Percy" Lowell, US astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)
• 1858 - Maximilien Luce, French painter
• 1859 - Ivo Bligh, cricketer (Lord Darnley England capt v Australia 1882-83)
• 1860 - Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Windisch-Gr„z Austria, composer
• 1862 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
• 1872 - Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
• 1875 - Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)
• 1881 - Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer
• 1883 - Enrico Toselli, composer
• 1884 - Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
• 1884 - Hugh S Walpole, NZ, novelist/playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)
• 1884 - Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926)
• 1886 - Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist
• 1886 - John "Home Run" Baker, hall of famer (hit 2 HR in 1911 world series)
• 1887 - Carlos Isamitt, composer
• 1890 - Frank Thieá, writer
• 1890 - Michael Taube, composer
• 1892 - Alec Rowley, composer
• 1892 - Janet Flanner, journalist (New Yorker)
• 1896 - Dorothy Aldis, writer
• 1897 - Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)
• 1897 - William Herald, Australia, swimmer (Olympic-1920)
• 1898 - Josie Sedgwick, TX, actress (Son of Oklahoma)
• 1899 - Pancho Vladigerov, composer
• 1901 - Paul Fix, Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
• 1904 - Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot
• 1907 - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian
• 1907 - Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to the Portuguese throne
• 1907 - Frank Wilcox, DeSoto Mo, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies)
• 1907 - Oscar Brink, latinist
• 1908 - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician
• 1908 - Paul Stewart, NYC, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline)
• 1908 - Walter Annenberg, Milwaukee, publisher (Triangle-TV Guide)/Amb to GB
• 1909 - Gilbert Inglefield, Mayor of London (1967-68)
• 1910 - Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
• 1911 - Jose Ardevol, composer
• 1911 - L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/scientologist (Dianetics)
• 1912 - Ernst Hess, composer
• 1912 - Igor Youskevitch, dancer
• 1912 - James Friell, political cartoonist
• 1913 - Sammy Kaye, saxophonist (Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye)
• 1913 - William J Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87)
• 1914 - Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer
• 1914 - Tessie O'Shea, entertainer
• 1916 - Corinne Boggs, political administrator
• 1916 - Lindy Boggs, (Rep-D-LA, 1973- )
• 1917 - Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago Ill, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
• 1917 - Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author
• 1917 - Tessie O'Shea, England, actress (Entertainers)
• 1918 - Faye Glenn Abdellan, US government official (health services)
• 1918 - George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
• 1920 - Frans van der Elst, Flemish attorney/MP (Volksunie)
• 1921 - Allan Jaffee, comic strip cartoonist/illustrator (MAD Magazine)
• 1921 - Cyril Poole, cricketer (England batsman against India 1951-52)
• 1922 - Brun Smith, cricketer (NZ right-handed batsman of late 1940's)
• 1922 - Jim Rodger, sports writer
• 1925 - Anthony Milner, composer
• 1925 - Bertha Tickey, Dinuba Calif, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973)
• 1925 - Roy Haynes, US jazz drummer (Trio Music with Chick Corea)
• 1926 - Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist
• 1926 - Ra£l Alfons¡n, Argentine pres (1983-89) (or 3/12/1927)
• 1927 - Charles Sickman Corsen, Dutch Antillean poet
• 1929 - J D Slater, writer
• 1929 - Peter Breck, Rochester NY, actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji)
• 1929 - Walter Medio, race horse trainer
• 1929 - Will Eisma, composer
• 1930 - Doug Harvey, hockey star (3 time James Norris winner)
• 1930 - Liz Anderson, C & W singer
• 1931 - Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect
• 1931 - Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
• 1931 - Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Berlin, actor/director/writer (Solo Sunday)
• 1933 - Frank H Murkowski, (Sen-R-AK, 1981- )
• 1933 - Mike Stoller, composer (Lieber & Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown)
• 1935 - Don Nute, Connellsville Penn (Denver University), actor
• 1936 - Clarence Nash, animation voice (Donald Duck)
• 1937 - Fofo I F Sunia, (Rep-D-Amer Samoa, 1981- )
• 1938 - Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
• 1938 - Jean-Claude Risset, composer
• 1938 - Joseph Bellino, footballer (1960 Heisman Trophy)
• 1938 - Patricia W Amicone, educator/midwife
• 1939 - Neil Sedaka, Bkln NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
• 1943 - Andre Techine, director/writer (Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous)
• 1943 - Stephen Vincent Benet, writer
• 1947 - Lesley Collier, British ballet dancer
• 1947 - Tomas Hinojosa, jockey
• 1950 - Bernard Julien, cricketer (WI left-arm pace all-rounder mid-70's)
• 1950 - Danny Kirwan, London, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
• 1950 - Joe Bugner, Hungarian/British/Australian boxer (European Champ 1971)
• 1950 - Robert S Woods, Calif, actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons)
• 1950 - Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
• 1950 - William H Macy, Miami FL, actor (Homicide, Water Engine)
• 1951 - Fred Berry, St Louis Mo, actor (Rerun-What's Happening)
• 1952 - Wolfgang Hihm, composer
• 1953 - Andy Bean, Lafayette Ga, PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978)
• 1953 - Deborah Raffin, LA Calif, actress (Ransom, Demon, 40 Carats)
• 1954 - Robin Duke, Toronto Canada, comedienne (SNL, SCTV, Club Paradise)
• 1955 - Glenne Headly, New London CT, actress (Dick Tracy, Making Mr Right)
• 1955 - Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980)
• 1955 - Patricia J Engfer, general manager (Hyatt Regency-Orlando)
• 1956 - Dana Delany, NYC, actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach, Exit to Eden)
• 1958 - Debi Nicolle Johnson, Torrance Calif, playmate (October, 1984)
• 1958 - Rick A Lazio, (Rep-R-NY)
• 1959 - Dirk Wellham, cricketer (century on NSW debut & Australian debut )
• 1959 - Ronnie Rogers, guitarist (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
• 1960 - Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)
• 1961 - Cor Lems, soccer player (ADO The Hague/Dordrecht '90)
• 1962 - Liane Tooth, Sydney NSW Australia, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
• 1963 - Mariano Duncan, S P de Macoris Dom Rep, infielder (NY Yankees)
• 1963 - Vance Johnson, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos)
• 1964 - Will Clark, New Orleans LA, infielder (Texas Rangers)
• 1966 - Akira Nogami, wrestler (NJPW)
• 1966 - Tine Scheuer-Larsen, Denmark, tennis star
• 1967 - Colleen Rosensteel, S Greensburg PA, heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96)
• 1967 - Satu Huotari, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
• 1968 - Christopher Collett, NYC, actor (Manhattan Project)
• 1969 - Chris Zorich, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)
• 1969 - Kevin Kaminski, Churchbridge, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
• 1971 - Curtis Conway, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Chic Bears)
• 1971 - Li Chen, Changsha China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Austin TX)
• 1971 - Paul Henderson, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
• 1971 - Ralf Kleinmann, WLAF kicker/punter (Frankfurt Galaxy)
• 1971 - Robert Samuels, cricketer (West Indies Test opening batsman v NZ 1996)
• 1971 - Ryan Hayden, Indianapolis Indiana, 400m hurdler
• 1971 - Tony Vinson, NFL running back (Atl Falcons, Lon Monarchs, Balt Ravens)
• 1971 - Tracy Wells, actress (Heather-Mr Belvedere)
• 1972 - Avrom Smith, WLAF RB (London Monarchs)
• 1972 - Brian Saxton, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
• 1972 - Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
• 1972 - Ryan McCoy, WLAF LB (London Monarchs)
• 1972 - Shea Olliff, Augusta Georgia, Miss America-Georgia (1997)
• 1972 - Trent Dilfer, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
• 1973 - Ann Coale, Miss USA-Maryland (1997)
• 1973 - Bobby Jackson, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
• 1973 - Dan Wilkinson, NFL defensive tackle (Cin Bengals)
• 1973 - Edgar Davids, Dutch soccer player (Ajax, AC Milan)
• 1973 - Trezelle Jenkins, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs)
• 1974 - Andr‚ Batista Santos "Vampeta", (Brazilian?) soccer player (PSV)
• 1974 - Corinna Broiz, Garberville Colo, lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
• 1974 - Thomas Enqvist, Stockholm Sweden, tennis star (1991 Wimbledon jr boys)
• 1975 - Landon Wilson, St Louis, NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1202 - Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies
• 1516 - Vladislav II Jagiello, king of Bohemia (1490-1516), dies at 60
• 1558 - Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies
• 1569 - Lodewijk Cond‚, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies
• 1569 - Louis Cond‚, French prince/co-leader of Hugenot, dies in battle
• 1573 - Michel de l'H“pital, chancellor of France (1560-68), dies at about 65
• 1619 - Richard Burbage, English actor (Shakespeare), dies
• 1716 - Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 46
• 1756 - Johann Melchior Conradi, composer, dies at 81
• 1817 - Matej Sojka, composer, dies at 77
• 1837 - Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs, dies at 66
• 1839 - Robert Gallenberg, composer, dies at 55
• 1879 - Adolf Anderssen, German world champ chess (1851..66), dies at 60
• 1881 - Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated at 62
• 1890 - Henry Wylde, composer, dies at 67
• 1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd pres (1889-1893), dies in Indianapolis at 67
• 1903 - Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura), dies at 88
• 1906 - Susan B[rownell] Anthony, American suffragist, dies at 85
• 1911 - Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist, dies at 80
• 1915 - Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia, dies at 65
• 1918 - Karel Stecker, composer, dies at 57
• 1918 - William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake), dies at 26
• 1930 - Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke), dies at 77
• 1934 - Fritz Cortolezis, composer, dies at 56
• 1938 - Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney, dies in Chicago at 80
• 1941 - A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
• 1941 - Bernard Ijzerdraat, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
• 1941 - E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
• 1941 - Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46
• 1941 - J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
• 1945 - Herbert Bedford, composer, dies at 78
• 1946 - Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Rembrandt), dies at 90
• 1946 - Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer, dies at 69
• 1946 - Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67
• 1951 - Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate, dies
• 1951 - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/Catholic bishop, dies at 67
• 1955 - Maharajadhiraja Tribhuvana Bir Bikram Yung Bahadur Shum Shere, dies
• 1955 - Yung Deva, king of Nepal (191.-55), dies at about 48
• 1957 - Lena Ashwell, Engl actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway), dies at 84
• 1964 - Kitty Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; 40 neighbors looked on
• 1965 - George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor), dies at 65
• 1967 - Frank Worrell, West indian cricketer, dies
• 1969 - Felix Locher, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter), dies at 86
• 1970 - Rick Besoyan, composer, dies at 45
• 1971 - Piero Coppola, composer, dies at 82
• 1971 - Rockwell Kens, US artist/painter/illustrator, dies at 88
• 1973 - Stacy Harris, actor (NOPD, Doorway to Danger), dies at 54
• 1974 - Howard St John, actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank), dies at 68
• 1974 - Janos Prohaska, actor (Andy Williams Show), dies at 52
• 1975 - Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71
• 1975 - Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961), dies at 82
• 1975 - Jean Del Val, actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces), dies at 83
• 1975 - Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75
• 1976 - Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch comedian/poet, dies at 77
• 1977 - Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter, dies
• 1977 - Jan Patocka, Czech philosopher, dies in prison
• 1978 - David McKinley Williams, composer, dies at 91
• 1978 - Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (3 wkts in 2 Tests for India), dies
• 1980 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer, dies at 61
• 1982 - Albert Weisser, composer, dies at 64
• 1982 - Wilfred Hawker, Suriname sgt-major, executed
• 1983 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), dies at 58
• 1983 - Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor, dies at 86
• 1984 - Dick Whitington, journalist/cricketer (South Aust & AIF bat), dies
• 1986 - Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies
• 1987 - Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77
• 1987 - Finn Videro, composer, dies at 80
• 1987 - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
• 1988 - Olive Carey, actress (Affairs With a Stranger), dies at 92
• 1990 - Bruno Bettelhelm, Austrian/US psychoanalyst, commits suicide at 86
• 1991 - Cor Witschge, [Pipo the Clown], Dutch actor (Alicia), dies at 65
• 1991 - Jimmy McPartland, US, jazz cornetist, dies
• 1992 - Clarence Wright, singer, dies at 84
• 1992 - Hans Redeker, Dutch art critic (Algemeen Handelsblad), dies
• 1993 - Ralph Smith Fults, US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang), dies at 82
• 1994 - Danny Barker, US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at 85
• 1994 - Edward James "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player
• 1994 - Sandra Paretti, romantic novelist, dies at 59
• 1995 - Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death
• 1995 - John Silverlight, journalist, dies at 75
• 1995 - Leo Kaplan, lawyer (ASCAP), dies at 89
• 1995 - Leon Day, pitcher (Negro Leagues), dies of heart failure at 78
• 1995 - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65
• 1995 - P C J van Lierde, Dutch vicar-gen of Vatican (1951-91), dies at 87
• 1996 - Brian Hulls, television news cameraman, dies at 48
• 1996 - Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director, dies of heart attack at 54
• 1996 - Lucio Fulci, filem director, dies at 68
• 1996 - Lucy Faithfull, children's campaigner, dies at 85