Welcome to Today In History for Tuesday, December 2, 2008.

On this day in history ..

• 1620 - English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
• 1682 - English earl of Shaftesbury flight to Amsterdam
• 1697 - St Paul's Cathedral opens in London
• 1763 - Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)
• 1777 - British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
• 1790 - Austrian army occupies Brussels
• 1802 - English sell Suriname to Dutch
• 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte crowned emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII
• 1805 - Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
• 1812 - James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-pres
• 1813 - Prince Willem Frederik accepts constitutional monarchy
• 1816 - 1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
• 1822 - In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
• 1823 - President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
• 1840 - Gaetano Donizetti's opera "La Favorita," premieres in Paris
• 1840 - Opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)
• 1840 - William H Harrison elected president of US
• 1848 - Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria & King of Hungary
• 1852 - 2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
• 1864 - Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
• 1868 - 1st British government of Disraeli resigns
• 1877 - Camille Saint-Sa‰ns' opera "Samson et Dalila," premieres in Weimar
• 1882 - Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium
• 1883 - John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres
• 1885 - Opera "Regina di Saba," premieres in Vienna
• 1887 - Amsterdam's Oscar Carr‚s Circus Theater opens
• 1887 - Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in US (NYC)
• 1887 - French president Gr‚vy (80) resigns
• 1891 - 52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
• 1895 - 54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
• 1896 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Die versunkene Glocke," premieres in Berlin
• 1899 - US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
• 1900 - South African president Paul Kruger arrives in Germany
• 1901 - Gillette patents 1st disposable razor
• 1901 - King Camp Gillette begins selling safety razor blades
• 1902 - Soccer team Go Ahead forms in Deventer
• 1907 - English Professional Football Player's Association forms
• 1907 - Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1908 - Pu Yi (Hsuan-T'ung) became China's Last Emperor at age 3
• 1913 - Archdiocese of Managua created
• 1913 - Govt -Barthou falls due to overtime conscription
• 1914 - Austria army occupies Belgrade Serbia
• 1916 - Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
• 1917 - Han Yong-woon, found Zen awakening at Osean Monastery Korea
• 1922 - 10th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 13-1
• 1924 - British-German trade agreement signed
• 1927 - 1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
• 1928 - Cardinals 1B Jim Bottomley is voted NL MVP
• 1929 - 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
• 1932 - "Adv of Charlie Chan" 1st heard on NBC-Blue radio network
• 1933 - 1st transatlantic telephone wedding (Bertil Clason-Sigrid Carlson)
• 1933 - Fred Astaire's 1st film, "Dancing Lady," released
• 1934 - 5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
• 1939 - British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC
• 1939 - NY's La Guardia Airport began operations as an airliner from Chicago lands, 1 minute after midnight
• 1941 - Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill NY
• 1941 - NY Giants name Mel Ott as player-manager, replacing Bill Terry
• 1941 - Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul
• 1941 - Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor
• 1942 - 1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (Enrico Fermi-U of Chicago)
• 1943 - 1st RSHA transport out of Vienna reaches Birkenau camp
• 1944 - 10th Heisman Trophy Award: Les Horvath, Ohio State (QB)
• 1944 - General De Gaulle arrives in Moscow
• 1944 - German troops seize Betuwse dikes
• 1944 - US 95th Infantry division occupies bridge at Saar
• 1947 - 13th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lujack, Notre Dame (QB)
• 1948 - Stan Musial is picked NL MVP
• 1950 - Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
• 1951 - "Borscht Capades" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 90 performances
• 1951 - Phila sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing
• 1952 - 18th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Vessels, Oklahoma (HB)
• 1952 - 1st human birth televised to public (KOA-TV Denver, Colo)
• 1954 - "Hit the Trail" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 4 performances
• 1954 - Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
• 1954 - US Senate censures Joe McCarthy (Sen-R-Wisc) for "conduct that tends to bring Senate into dishonor & disrepute"
• 1956 - Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba
• 1957 - 1st US large scale nuclear power plant opens (Shippingport Penn)
• 1957 - Sam Cooke's "You Send Me" reaches #1
• 1958 - 24th Heisman Trophy Award: Pete Dawkins, Army (HB)
• 1958 - Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
• 1958 - KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1959 - Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
• 1961 - Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
• 1961 - Wind Bell, journal of SF Zen Center, begins publishing
• 1962 - 50th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg beats Hamilton, 28-27 at Toronto [OT]
• 1963 - 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km
• 1963 - ML Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts, effective in 1965
• 1964 - Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed
• 1966 - Love, Moby Grape & Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
• 1967 - 55th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 24-1
• 1968 - Pres Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
• 1969 - "Buck White" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 7 performances
• 1969 - Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to NYC)
• 1970 - Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
• 1970 - Tippetts Opera "Knot Garden," premieres in London
• 1971 - Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
• 1971 - United Arab Emirates, (Trucial States) declares independence from UK
• 1971 - Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates
• 1971 - Zayid bin Sultan Al Nuhayyan of Abu Dhabi becomes pres of UAE
• 1972 - "December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
• 1972 - "Via Galactica" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 7 performances
• 1972 - 60th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Saskatchewan, 13-10
• 1972 - In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
• 1973 - 62nd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (5-0)
• 1973 - Capital Centre (USAir Arena) in Wash DC opens
• 1973 - US Air Arena opens in Landover Maryland, Bullets beat Seattle, 98-96
• 1974 - Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs
• 1974 - Giant Baba beats Jack Brisco in Kagoshimi, to become NWA champ
• 1974 - Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
• 1975 - 7 South Moluccans hijack train at Wijster Drente, 3 killed
• 1975 - G S Chappell gets ton in each inn of 1st Test Cricket as capt v WI
• 1975 - Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, republic forms
• 1975 - Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
• 1978 - Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
• 1978 - Neil Diamond & Barbra Striesand's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" hits #1
• 1978 - Streisand & Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1
• 1979 - Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
• 1979 - Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score a triple-double
• 1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1980 - 4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
• 1981 - Fernando Valenzuela (Dodgers) wins NL Rookie of the Year
• 1981 - Moscone Convention Center, SF opens at 11:30 AM
• 1981 - Spanish government requests membership in NATO
• 1982 - 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart
• 1984 - 4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
• 1984 - Bob Holland takes 9-83 for NSW against South Australia, SCG
• 1984 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1985 - "Mystery of Edwin Drood" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 608 perfs
• 1985 - Philipine Chief staff Gen Fabian speaks of B Aquino's murder
• 1985 - Rupert Holmes' musical "Mystery of Edwin Drood," premieres in NYC
• 1986 - Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57
• 1987 - Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
• 1987 - Jennifer Steele, 17, of Colo becomes Miss Teen of America [Approx]
• 1987 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1987 - "334" club forms as 334 brave Devil fans journey through 20" of snow to attend NJ Devils 7-5 victory over Calgary at Meadowlands
• 1988 - "Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
• 1988 - 5 gunmen who hijacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
• 1988 - STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
• 1988 - UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Brit abstains
• 1989 - 55th Heisman Trophy Award: Andre Ware, Houston (QB)
• 1989 - KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
• 1989 - Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India
• 1990 - 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
• 1990 - 1st time 12 people in space
• 1990 - 79th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in St Petersburg (3-2)
• 1990 - Beth Daniel/Davis Love wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
• 1990 - US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
• 1991 - Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with NY Mets
• 1991 - Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio
• 1992 - WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC
• 1993 - A Websters musical "Sunset Promenade" premieres in LA
• 1993 - Dow-Jones hits record 3702.11
• 1993 - Houston Rockets tie NBA record of 15-0 start
• 1993 - Space shuttle STS-61 (Endeavour 5), launches
• 1994 - "Cobb" premieres
• 1994 - Achille Lauro (Willem Ruys) sinks off the coast of Somalia
• 1994 - Andrew Lloyd Webber admitted to the hospital for ulcer treatment
• 1994 - Jury finds Heidi Fleiss guilty of running a call girl ring
• 1995 - 17th ACE Cable Awards
• 1997 - MCI Center opens in Wash DC, Wizards vs SuperSonics

Famous birthdays for this day ..

• 1578 - Agostino Agazzari, composer
• 1678 - Nicolaas S Cruquius, Dutch hydraulic engineer (drained Haarlemmermeer)
• 1728 - Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat
• 1760 - Joseph Graetz, composer
• 1777 - Henry Doeff, colonialist (wrote Dutch-Japanese dictionary)
• 1802 - Melancthon Smith Wade, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
• 1813 - Jacob Rosenhaim, composer
• 1821 - Rufus Barringer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
• 1825 - JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1831-89)
• 1837 - Charles Garrison Harker, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
• 1846 - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier
• 1856 - Robert Kajanus, composer
• 1859 - Georges Seurat, France, painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte)
• 1860 - C T Studd, cricketer (brother of G B, five Tests for England)
• 1863 - Gustav Wohlgemuth, composer
• 1866 - Henry Thacker Burleigh, Erie Pa, black composer (Springarn Medal)
• 1868 - Francis Jammes, French poet/writer (Jammisme)
• 1869 - Jonas Cohn, German/English philosopher (Theory of the Dialects)
• 1870 - Francis Louis Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor
• 1875 - Frank Reicher, Munich Germany, actor (King Kong, Son of Kong)
• 1884 - Ruth Draper, US, lecture artist [or 1989]
• 1885 - George Minot, US, physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
• 1885 - Nˇkos Kazantazakˇs, Greece, writer (Zorba, Last Temptation of Christ)
• 1892 - Leo Ornstein, composer
• 1893 - Julius Bissier, German painter
• 1893 - Louis Freeman, band leader
• 1893 - William Gaxton, SF Calif, actor (Destry, Convoy)
• 1894 - Warren William, [Krech], Aitkin MN, actor (C‘sar in Cleopatra)
• 1895 - Klaas Voskuil, journalist
• 1896 - Georgi K Zjukov, marshal of Moskow/Stalingrad [NS-Dec 11]
• 1897 - Rewi Alley, NZ, writer (Americans in China)
• 1899 - John Barbirolli, English conductor (NY Philharmonic Orchestra)
• 1901 - Staf Gustaf Frans Nees, Belgian composer
• 1901 - Staff Nees, Flemish organist/composer (Simon Peter)
• 1902 - Horace A Hildreth, (Gov-Maine, 1945-49)
• 1902 - Miroslav Ponc, composer
• 1904 - Donald Woods, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Tammy)
• 1905 - Osvaldo Pugliese, musician/composer
• 1906 - Eric Dalton, cricketer (2 centuries in 15 Tests for S Africa 1929-39)
• 1906 - John Bentley, England, actor (Hammer the Tuff)
• 1906 - Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records
• 1908 - Robert F Simon, Mansfield Oh, actor (Man who shot Liberty Valance)
• 1908 - Rufe Davis, OK, actor (Cocoanut Grove, Trail Blazers, Gangs of Sonora)
• 1910 - Robert Paige, Indianapolis Ind, actor (Colgate Comedy Hour)
• 1914 - Eddie Sauter, Bkln, musician (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
• 1914 - Ray Walston, Laurel MS, actor (My Favorite Martian)
• 1915 - Adolph Green, songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
• 1915 - Nico Richter, composer
• 1915 - Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher
• 1916 - John Bentley, Warwickshire England, actor (Chair)
• 1917 - Ezra Stone, US, actor/producer (Henry Aldrich)
• 1918 - Milton Delugg, LA Calif, orch leader (Tonight Show)
• 1919 - Michael Geoffrey Corcos, medical researcher
• 1920 - Robert Moevs, composer
• 1922 - Leo V Gordon, Baltimore MD, actor (Circus Boy, Enos, Winds of War)
• 1923 - Maria M Callas, NYC, soprano (Carmen) [or 12/4]
• 1923 - Meshulam Riklis, husband of Pia Zadora
• 1924 - Alexander Haig Jr, Bala-Cynwyd Pa, US Sec of State (1981-82)/General
• 1924 - Jonathan Frid, actor (Barnabas Collins-Dark Shadows)
• 1925 - Julie Harris, Grosse Pt Mich, actress (Bell Jar, East of Eden)
• 1929 - Harvey Phillips, Aurora Missouri, tubist (NYC Ballet Orch)
• 1929 - Jaap Boersma, Dutch minister for Social Affairs (ARP)
• 1929 - Lowell North, Springfield Mass, yachtsman (Olympic-Gold-1968)
• 1931 - Edwin Meese III, prude, US attorney General (1985-88)
• 1935 - Jurg Wyttenbach, composer
• 1936 - Peter Michael Braun, composer
• 1937 - Brian Lumley, England, sci-fi author (Compleat Crow, Psychomech)
• 1940 - Gerry Cheevers, NHL goalie (Bruin, longest undefeated streak-32 games)
• 1940 - Willie Brown, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders)
• 1941 - Paul C W Chu, China, physicist (superconductivity)
• 1941 - Tom McGuiness, rocker (McGuiness-Flint)
• 1942 - Bob E Smith, Sacramento CA, PGA golfer (1993 Yanase Cup)
• 1942 - Ted Bluechel, San Pedro Ca, rock vocalist/drummer (Association)
• 1943 - David Munden, rocker
• 1944 - Botho Strauá, writer
• 1944 - Cathy Lee Crosby, LA, actress (Coach, That's Incredible)
• 1944 - Roger Omond, journalist
• 1945 - Alan "Froggy" Thomson, cricketer (Australian quickie 1970-71)
• 1946 - Gianne Versace, fashion designer (Versace)
• 1947 - Dhiraj Parsana, cricket pace bowler (Indian v WI 1978-79)
• 1947 - Michael Green, English TV/video producer
• 1950 - Merrill Ashley, St Paul Minn, ballerina (NYC Ballet)
• 1952 - Keith Szarabajka, Oak Park IL, actor (Nightlife)
• 1952 - Michael McDonald, St Louis, rock keyboardist/vocals (Doobie Brothers)
• 1953 - Jay Dean Haas, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (1978 Andy Williams-San Diego)
• 1953 - Meg Griffin, DJ (WNEW-FM, WPLJ-FM, WKRK-FM)/VJ (V-1)
• 1953 - Myung-Whan Chung, Seoul Korea, pianist (Chung Sisters)
• 1954 - Dan Butler, actor (Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe-Frasier)
• 1954 - Danielle Alexander, Ft Worth Tx, country music pianist
• 1954 - Huub Stapel, Dutch actor (Amsterdamned, Attic: Hiding of Anne Frank)
• 1954 - Stone Phillips, news host (NBC Dateline)
• 1955 - Dennis Christopher, Phila, actor (Breaking Away, California Dreaming)
• 1956 - Steven Bauer, Havana Cuba, actor (Scarface, Thief of Hearts)
• 1958 - Vladimir Parfenovich, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1980)
• 1959 - Greg Barton, kayak (Olympics-2 gold-88)
• 1959 - Patty Jordan, Buffalo NY, LPGA golfer (1988 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean)
• 1960 - Rick Savage, bass player (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
• 1964 - Brian Habib, NFL guard (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
• 1964 - Chip Hale, Santa Clara CA, infielder (Minn Twins)
• 1964 - Yolanda Henry, Houston Texas, high jumper
• 1965 - Karrie Mitchell, Arvada Colorado, Miss Colorado-America (1991-top 10)
• 1966 - Anita Jokiel, Poland, gymnist (Olympic-1980)
• 1966 - Clive Eksteen, cricketer (South African slow left-armer 1993)
• 1966 - Kelly Buchberger, Langenburg, NHL left wing (Edmonton Oilers)
• 1966 - Rob Sullivan, Chicago Ill, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Tri-City Pro-Am)
• 1966 - Zeke Jones, Yipsilanti Mich, 114« lbs freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
• 1967 - Naeem Akhtar, Rawalpindi cricket medium-pacer (10-28 vs Peshawar 1995)
• 1967 - Sharry Konopski, Longview Wash, playmate (August, 1987)
• 1968 - Darryl Kile, Garden Grove CA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
• 1968 - Elna Reinach, Pretoria S Africa, tennis star
• 1968 - Jiri Dopita, Sumperk CZE, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
• 1968 - Mark Harding, Bath England, keeper of Internet biographies
• 1968 - Rena Sofer, actress (Rocky-Loving, Lois Cerullo-General Hospital)
• 1968 - Rene‚ Tenison, Caldwell Id, playmate of the year (Nov, 1989)
• 1969 - Lewis Bush, NFL outside linebacker (SD Chargers)
• 1969 - O J McDuffie, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins)
• 1969 - Paul Francis Stankowski, Oxnard CA, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas-5th)
• 1970 - Rene Pucher, Presov CZE, hockey forward (Team Slovakia)
• 1971 - Jessie Hicks, WNBA forward/center (Utah Starzz)
• 1971 - Rachel McQuillan, Merewether NSW Aust, tennis star (1989 Futures ITA)
• 1971 - Roy van de Hill, soccer player (Roda JC)
• 1972 - Alan Henderson, NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
• 1972 - Chris Burns, CFL tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
• 1972 - James Willis, linebacker (Philadelphia Eagles)
• 1972 - Sunjith Somasunder, cricketer (Karnataka & India ODI opening bat 1996)
• 1972 - Zack Crockett, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
• 1973 - Kevin Feighery, NFL/WLAF punter (NY Giants, Panthers, Galaxy)
• 1973 - Monica Seles, Novi Sad Yugoslavia, tennis star (US Open 1992)
• 1975 - Brett Lindros, London, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
• 1975 - Mark Kotsay, Whittier CA, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
• 1976 - Jennifer Robinson, Barrie Ontario, (1996 Canadian Champ)
• 1988 - Edward EMG baron Downpatrick, grandson of English prince Edward

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0537 - Sylvester, Italian Pope (536-37), dies
• 1463 - Albrecht VI, archduke of Habsburg, dies
• 1515 - Gonzalo de C˘rdoba, Spanish general/strategist/viceroy of Naples, dies
• 1592 - Alexander Farnese, land guardian of Neth (1579-92), dies at 46
• 1719 - Pasquier Quesnel, French theologist (La Foi), dies at 85
• 1723 - Philip, French duke of Orl‚ans/regent (1715-23)/PM (1723), dies
• 1763 - Carl August Thielo, composer, dies at 56
• 1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54
• 1814 - Marquis de Sade, writer, dies at 74
• 1828 - Simon Paap, Dutch 56 cm long dwarf/cabaret artist, dies at 39
• 1831 - Traugott Maximilian Eberwein, composer, dies at 56
• 1845 - Johannes Simon Mayr, composer, dies at 82
• 1859 - John Brown, US abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59
• 1864 - Archibald Gracie Jr, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 31
• 1880 - Josephine Lang, composer, dies at 65
• 1888 - Franz Xaver Witt, composer, dies at 54
• 1888 - Mehmed N Kemal Bey, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47
• 1903 - Victor Roger, composer, dies at 50
• 1915 - Jan Malat, composer, dies at 72
• 1916 - Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer, dies at 69
• 1918 - Margit Kaffka, writer, dies at 38
• 1919 - Henry Clay Frick, built largest coke & steel operation, dies at 69
• 1923 - Tomas Breton y Hernandez, composer, dies at 72
• 1925 - Julio Garreta, composer, dies at 50
• 1931 - Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent D'indy, French count/composer, dies at 80
• 1933 - Josef Gruber, composer, dies at 78
• 1935 - Albert Kessel, 1st to die in Calif gas chamber
• 1943 - Nordahl Grieg, writer, dies
• 1944 - Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67
• 1944 - JW Ummels, Dutch resistance fighter (House of Saxon-Nazi), dies
• 1950 - Dino Lipatti, composer, dies at 33
• 1953 - Ernest Hayes, cricketer (Surrey bat played 5 Tests for England), dies
• 1953 - Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator, dies at 75
• 1957 - Harrison Ford, silent screen actor (Rubber Tires), dies at 73
• 1963 - Sabu Sabu, actor (Jungle Book, Drums), dies of heart attack at 39
• 1964 - Roger BissiŠre, French painter, dies at 76
• 1965 - The Rajkumar of Vizianagram, cricketer (Indian Test capt 1936), dies
• 1966 - Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, Dutch mathematician, dies at 85
• 1967 - Francis J "Cardinal" Spellman, archbishop of NY, dies at 78
• 1969 - Kliment J Voroshilov, president USSR (1953-60), dies
• 1970 - Dora Paulen, German/Dutch cabaretiŠre, dies at about 72
• 1972 - Friedrich Christian Christiansen, German Luftwaffe general, dies
• 1972 - Jos‚ Lim˘n, Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies at 64
• 1974 - Sofie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatte, composer, dies at 72
• 1976 - Danny Murtaugh, baseball manager (Pitts Pirates), dies at 59
• 1976 - William Tannen, actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull), dies at 65
• 1979 - Vasily Pavlovich Solov'yov-Sedoy, composer, dies at 72
• 1981 - Hershy Kay, composer, dies at 62
• 1981 - Nicolaas "Cola" Debrot, gov of Dutch Antilles (1962-70), dies at 79
• 1981 - Wallace K[irkman] Harrison, US architect (UN), dies at 86
• 1982 - David Blue, rocker, dies while jogging in Greenwich Village at 41
• 1982 - Marty Feldman, comedian (Young Frankenstein), dies at 49
• 1983 - Atholl Mckinnon, cricketer (S African lefty spinner in 8 Tests), dies
• 1983 - Fifi D'Orsay, "French Bombshell" (Dixie Jamboree), dies cancer at 79
• 1985 - Alex Courtney, actor (Sword of Justice), dies
• 1985 - Philip Larkin, [hermit of Hull], English poet, dies at 63
• 1986 - Desi Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69 of cancer
• 1986 - Lee Dorsey, R&B singer, dies at 59
• 1990 - Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90
• 1990 - Robert Cummings, actor (Love that Bob), dies of kidney failure at 82
• 1992 - Gary Mascaro, choreographer, dies at 43
• 1992 - Loek Elfferich, Dutch journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam), die
• 1993 - Pablo Escobar Gaviria, Colombian drug baron, shot to death at 44
• 1994 - Donald John Urquhart, librarian, dies at 85
• 1994 - James Norman Dalrymple Anderson, lawyer, dies at 86
• 1995 - Francis Joseph Quinn, academic, dies at 90
• 1995 - Roxie Roker, actress (Helen Willis-Jeffersons), dies at 66
• 1995 - Stanley Devon, photographer, dies at 88
• 1995 - [William] Robertson Davies, novelist essayist/dramatist, dies
• 1996 - Penelope Jessel, politcal activist, dies at 76