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2013 Event - Scientists discover that a large amount of bacterial life forms live in the deepest part of the world's oceans, the Mariana Trench, which is about 6.831 miles

2013 Event - U.S. Senate Republicans filibuster the nomination of Chuck Hagel as U.S. Secretary of Defense, demanding answers to questions about President Obama and Benghazi

2013 Event - In the wake of several anti-Semitic and racist posts on Twitter, a French court orders the company to reveal personal information about its users

2012 Event - Egyptian President Morsi plans to address the nation about the decree he enacted which greatly increases his powers

2012 Event - A fire breaks out in the Tamweel Tower, one of about 80 towers built or still under construction in the Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai

2012 Event - Hostess Brands reveals its plan to file for bankruptcy and liquidate its assets, claiming contract disputes from the bakery's union worker strike crippled its operations; about 18,500 workers will be laid off

2012 Event - Scientists discover the closest known rogue planet to Earth, known as CFBDSIR 2149-0403, the planet is about 100+ light years away

2012 Event - Chinese bookstore suspend the sale of books by or about Japan, and all books by Japanese authors

2012 Event - In an apparent effort to keep his contract, a subcontractor at Japan's defunct Fukushima's nuclear power plant shielded dosimeters with lead plates to ensure they did not reach radiation limits, and workers to lie about possible high radiation exposure

2012 Event - Hearings are delayed for the U.S. extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom over concerns about the search and seizure of documents

2012 Event - The U.S., Russia and China, begin talks about Iran's nuclear program

2012 Event - IAEA nuclear inspectors hold discussions about Iran's nuclear program in Tehran

2011 Event - Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdul-Aziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia dies, raising questions about succession in the kingdom

2011 Event - Libya's National Transitional Council raises concerns about the mass killing of political prisoners by Muammar Gaddafi's government

2011 Event - Concerns about the European economy are heightened as Germany reports second quarter growth of only 0.1%

2011 Event - In the Papuan capital of Jayapura, about 10,000 Papuan people demonstrate in support of independence from India

2011 Event - About 193,000 people are without power after severs storms struck the U.S. city of Atlanta, Georgia

2011 Event - The International Atomic Energy Agency calls for a summit to discuss concerns about nuclear safety following radiation leaks at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

2010 Event - Italy's plan to ban plastic bags goes into effect; the country was using 20 billion plastic bags a year - about 300 per person

2010 Event - BP CEO Tony Hayward testifies before the U.S. about the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster at the Deepwater Horizon rig that has caused the worst oil spill in U.S. history

2009 Event - Concern about spreading influenza from Mexico and the United States to other countries is expressed by the WHO

2004 Death - Gary Webb, investigative journalist, wrote articles for 'San Jose Mercury News' about Nicaraguan cocaine smugglers linked to CIA-backed Contras, dies from two gunshot wounds to the head, judged a suicide

2004 Event - Ukraine re-elects Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. but the election results were thrown out after large protests about the way the election was conducted

2004 Death - Gibson Kente, wrote about life in South African black townships, known as Father of Black Theater in South Africa, dies

2004 Event - After a 2-day standoff, Islamist terrorists murder about 340 held inside a school in Beslan, Russia

2004 Death - Paul Klebnikov, journalist, Forbes writer murdered in Russia after writing about corruption, dies at 41

2003 Death - Adam Osborne, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation

1999 Event - Earthquake kills about 1,185 in Armenia, Colombia

1998 Death - Mary Calderone, doctor/writer, Talking With Your Child About Sex, dies at 94

1998 Event - Bill Clinton confesses to Hilary about the Monica Lewinsky affair

1998 Event - Linda Tripp begins to testify before a grand jury about the Lewinsky case

1998 Event - Earthquake kills about 5,000 in northern Afghanistan

1998 Event - Earthquake kills about 2,300 in northern Afghanistan

1997 Death - Brendan Gill, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine, dies at 83

1997 Death - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, oceanographer, made many documentaries about the ocean, dies of heart attack at 87

1997 Death - Michael Dorris, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord', commits suicide in Concord, New Hampshire, at age 52

1996 Death - Roger Bowen, actor (M*A*S*H, Main Event, What about Bob), dies at 62

1995 Event - Howard Stern gets in trouble for disparaging remarks about Selena

1995 Death - Paul Monette, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy, dies of AIDS in Los Angeles, California at 49

1995 Death - Dorothy Granger, U.S. actress (Hog Wild, Dentist), dies at about 80

1994 Death - Carmen McRae [Clark], U.S. jazz singer/pianist, dies at about 73

1994 Death - Michael O'Donoghue, comedian (SNL), dies at about 54

1994 Death - Sam Francis, U.S. painter (Basel Mural), dies at about 71

1994 Death - Virginia Dale, U.S. actress/dancer (Holiday Inn), dies at about 77

1994 Death - Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52

1994 Death - Manfred Salzgeber, German film distributor/publicist, dies at about 51

1994 Event - 6.0 earthquake/avalanche destroys Toez Colombia, about 1000 killed

1994 Death - Hein Salomonson, architect, dies at about 83

1994 Event - Mad About You actress Leila Kenzel (33) weds Neil Monaco (34)

1994 Death - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday), dies at about 68

1994 Death - Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kenyan vice-president (1963-66), dies at about 81

1993 Death - Gertrude "Trudi" Duby Blom, actress, shot to death at about 92

1993 Death - P A Jacob Mees, Dutch banker (Mees and Hope), dies at about 86

1993 Death - Jane Nigh, actress (Big Town, Blue Blood, Rawhide), dies at about 67

1993 Event - Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed

1993 Event - Tropical storm Bret ravages Venezuela, about 100 killed

1993 Death - Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WW II), dies at about 83

1993 Death - Joseph L Mankiewicz, U.S. writer and director (All about Eve), dies at 83

1992 Death - Vilma Banky, silent film actress (Eagle, Rebel), dies at about 90

1992 Event - "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC and PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah

1992 Death - Vernon Howard, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth, dies

1991 Event - 6.1-7.1 earthquake in Uttar Kashi, India, about 670 die

1991 Event - Michael Landon appears on Tonight Show to talk about his cancer

1991 Event - Boat rams a tanker in Livorno Italy fog, killing about 138

1991 Death - Dean Jagger, U.S. actor (Mr Novak, Rawhide, Oscar), dies at about 87

1990 Death - Bobby Nunn, U.S. bassist (Coasters-Down in Mexico), dies at about 65

1990 Event - Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die

1990 Event - Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die

1989 Death - Bette [Ruth E] Davis, actress (All About Eve, White Mama), dies at 81

1989 Event - Soviet sub sinks in Norwegian Sea, with about a dozen deaths

1988 Death - Lotte Stam-Beese, German/Netherlands architect, dies at about 85

1988 Death - Ray Buchanan, U.S. blues gitarist, dies at about 48

1988 Event - Somalia and Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert

1988 Death - Jan van den Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67

1988 Death - Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam, dies at about 74

1988 Event - Vice President Bush and Dan Rather clash on "CBS Evening News" as Rather attempts to question Bush about his role in Iran-Contra affair

1988 Event - Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes

1986 Event - Captured Iraqi Airways Boeing-737 in Saudi Arabia, about 60 killed

1986 Death - Willem Klein, variety artist, dies at about 73

1984 Event - U.S.S.R. offers to start talking about banning SDI

1983 Death - Manuel Scorza, Peruvian writer, dies at about 55

1983 Event - 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war

1982 Death - Jack Mullaney, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time), dies at 49

1981 Birthday - Nicole Richie, actress, socialite, known for television series, 'The Simple Life' with Paris Hilton, author of 'The Truth About Diamonds'

1981 Birthday - Larisa Oleynik, born in Santa Clara County, California, actress, starred in 'The Secret World of Alex Mack' television series and film, '10 Things I Hate About You'

1981 Birthday - Julia Stiles, born in New York City, New York, actress, films include, '10 Things I Hate About You', 'Mona Lisa Smile', 'The Bourne Supremacy', 'The Bourne Ultimatum'

1980 Death - Raoul Walsh, U.S. director (High Sierra), dies at about 88

1980 Event - Hurricane Allen ravages Caribisch area, about 70 killed

1978 Event - U.N. observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by U.S. and about 20 other countries

1978 Event - French TV announced a rating of "0" for a program about an Armenian's woman's 40th birthday, (comp: Napoleanic drama-67%, Knockout-33%)

1978 Death - Totie Fields, Sophie Feldman, comedienne, dies at about 48

1978 Event - Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner and Jackson

1978 Birthday - Charlie Korsmo, actor, Dick Tracy, What About Bob

1978 Event - Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40

1977 Event - U.S. and Cuba talk about diplomatic relations

1976 Event - Egyptian SS Patria sinks in Red Sea, about 100 killed

1976 Death - Alan Dewitt, actor (Mr Tyler-It's About Time), dies at 52

1976 Death - Margaret Leighton, British actress (Much ado about nothing), dies at 53

1975 Event - Spain, Morocco and Mauretania sign accord about Spanish Sahara

1975 Event - Poland and West germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans

1974 Event - Hurricane Fifi hits coast of Honduras; about 5,000 die

1974 Event - President Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in

1974 Death - Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect, dies at about 73

1973 Event - MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya

1973 Death - Stringer Davis, actress (Mouse on the Moon, Miranda), dies at about 77

1973 Death - Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39

1973 Event - John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"

1973 Death - Meijer Sluyser, Dutch journalist/commentator (VARA), dies at about 71

1972 Event - 1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie

1971 Event - British and Argentina sign accord about Falkland Islands

1971 Event - About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington

1970 Death - Dora Paulen, German/Dutch cabaretiere, dies at about 72

1970 Death - Yusuf Bin Ishak, president of Singapore 1965-70, dies at about 60

1970 Death - Anita Louise, actress (Gorilla, Anthony Adverse), dies at about 55

1970 Birthday - Rachel Weisz, born in London, England, actress, model, appeared in films, 'About a Boy', 'The Constant Gardener', 'Constantine', 'Runaway Jury'

1969 Event - Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, New York, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days

1969 Death - Helena Rubinstein, U.S. cosmetic manufacturer, dies at about 89

1969 Death - Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55

1969 Death - Thelma Ritter, actress (All About Eve, Pillow Talk), dies at 63

1968 Death - Vladimir Boudnik, Czechoslovakian sculptor, commits suicide at about 45

1968 Death - Ruth St. Denis, U.S. choreography, dies at about 90

1967 Death - Bert Berns, U.S. songwriter/producer (Twist and Shout), dies at about 38

1967 Event - Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450

1966 Event - South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die

1966 Event - Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in U.S.S.R.

1966 Event - David Bowie releases his 1st record 'Can't Help Thinking About Me'

1965 Event - Saudi-Arabian and Egyptian accord about Yemen

1965 Event - President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking

1965 Death - Howard Spring, British author (Heaven Lies About Us), dies at 76

1965 Event - Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed

1964 Event - India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed

1964 Event - ML King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign

1964 Birthday - Janeane Garofalo, born in New Jersey, comedienne, SNL, Truth about Cats and Dogs

1964 Event - Davie Jones and King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me," group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie

1964 Death - Halide Edib Adevar/Salih, Turkish feminist (Handan), dies at about 80

1964 Death - Rika Hopper, Dutch actress (Comedia, Anastasia), dies at about 86

1963 Event - West and East Berlin sign accord about travel rules

1963 Death - Carmen Amaya, Spanish flamenco dancer, dies at about 50

1963 Event - Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die

1963 Event - Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die and 100,000 injured

1963 Birthday - Andy Cousin, rocker, All About Eve-All About Scarlet and Other Stories

1963 Birthday - Helen Hunt, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Jamie-Mad About You, Twister

1963 Event - Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed

1962 Event - Adlai Stevenson speaks at United Nations about Cuba crisis

1962 Event - John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba

1962 Death - Saif al-Islam Achmad, monarch of Yemen, dies at about 71

1962 Event - Netherlands and Indonesia signs accord about New Guinea

1962 Birthday - Julianne Regan, rocker, All About Eve-All About Scarlet

1962 Birthday - Trace Adkins, born in Springhill, Louisiana, country music singer, successful album 'Songs About Me' was certified double multi-platinum

1961 Event - General Meeting of United Nations debates about New-Guinea

1961 Birthday - Leila Kenzle, New York, actress, Fran Devanow-Mad About You

1961 Death - Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67

1961 Event - Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to John F. Kennedy about New Guinea

1961 Birthday - Alexander Payne, born in Omaha, Nebraska, film director, screenwriter, co-wrote, 'About Schmidt' and 'I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry'

1961 Death - Anna May Wong, actress (Thief of Baghdad), dies at about 56

1960 Birthday - Elizabeth Perkins, Queens, New York, actress, About Last Night, Big

1960 Event - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die

1960 Death - Maude Eburne, actress (Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman), dies at 84

1960 Event - Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 4000 die

1960 Event - Argentina complains to United Nations about Israeli illicit transfer of Eichmann

1960 Death - Chris van Abkoude, author (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), dies at about 79

1959 Event - Japan hit by typhoon Vera; about 5,000 die

1959 Birthday - Mark Price, bass/vocals, All About Eve, Tin Huey-Contents Dislodged

1959 Death - Abdul Mouse, Indonesian nationalist foreman/author, dies at about 68

1958 Birthday - Michael McNeill, synthesizer, Simple Minds-Don't You Forget About Me

1957 Death - Jacques Fesch, French political assassin/saint?, beheaded at about 26

1957 Event - New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants and Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast

1957 Birthday - Paul Reiser, born in New York City, actor, My 2 Dads, Diner, Aliens, Mad About You

1956 Death - Jeanne Cappe, Belgian author (Tres Grand Cardinal), dies at about 61

1956 Event - Dynamite transport explodes in Colombia; about 1200 die

1955 Birthday - Gary Webb, born in America, investigative journalist, wrote articles for 'San Jose Mercury News' about Nicaraguan cocaine smugglers linked to CIA-backed Contras

1955 Death - Yung Deva, king of Nepal (191.-55), dies at about 48

1954 Event - Typhoon hits Japan - 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600

1954 Birthday - Nancy Wilson, rock guitarist, Heart-Never, What about Love

1953 Death - Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73

1953 Birthday - Michael Bolton, Connecticut, rock vocalist, That's What Love Is All About

1952 Event - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres

1952 Event - German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments

1952 Birthday - Marianne Williamson, born in Houston, Texas, spiritual activist, author, speaker, lecturer, wrote, 'A Course in Miracles', a program about choosing love over fear, 'A Return to Love', breakthrough success attributed to appearance on Oprah Winfrey

1951 Birthday - Ann Wilson, born in San Diego, California, rock vocalist, Heart-What About Love

1951 Birthday - Jorge Santana, born in Autlan, Jalisco, Mexico, musician, member of band Malo, recorded with Malo members to produce solo albums Jorge Santana, It's All About Love, plays green Frender Stratocaster guitar, recorded Santana Brothers album with brother, Carlos Santana, 1994

1951 Event - 23rd Academy Awards - "All About Eve," Judy Holliday and J Ferrer win

1950 Birthday - Dan Hartman, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, singer, songwriter, record producer, known for "I Can Dream About You"

1950 Birthday - Bill Murray, born in Evanston, Illinois, comedian, SNL, What About Bob, Stripes

1950 Event - Heavy typhoon strikes Japan, kills about 250

1950 Event - 2 Air France DC-4s crash near Bahrain, about 100 die

1950 Event - East Germany and Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border

1950 Death - Harry Lauder (Maclennan), Scottish comic/singer, dies at about 75

1949 Event - 6.75 Earthquake hits Quito; about 6000 die

1948 Death - Lillian Brainthwaite, British actress (Man About the House), dies at 75

1948 Death - Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43

1947 Event - French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522

1947 Birthday - Mike Kellie, rock drummer, Spooky Tooth-It's All About

1946 Event - President Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine

1945 Event - Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church

1945 Birthday - Paul Monette, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy

1945 Birthday - Mike Harrison, keyboardist, Spooky Tooth-It's All About

1945 Birthday - Michael Dorris, born in Louisville, Kentucky, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord'

1944 Event - Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die

1944 Death - Arthur J Treadwell, English mayor of Stoke Newington, dies at about 71

1944 Event - General Montgomery speaks to generals about invastion plan

1944 Death - Mohammed Emin Yurdakul, Turkish poet, dies at about 74

1943 Event - All inhabitants of Kalmukkie deported, about 70,000 killed

1943 Event - Soviet forces under Tolbuchin stick Sivash-bay about

1943 Event - Tank battle at Prochorowka - Russians beat Nazis, about 12,000 die

1943 Birthday - Gary Wright, singer, dream weaver, Spooky Tooth-It's All About

1942 Event - Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan

1942 Event - Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"

1942 Event - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin

1941 Event - Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die

1941 Event - Nazi's slaughter about 34,000 Jews of Kiev

1941 Event - Sicherheitsdienst complains about Dutch anti German sentiments

1939 Event - Earthquake in Turkey, about 50,000 die

1939 Birthday - Adam Osborne, born in Thailand, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation

1938 Birthday - Frank Converse, actor, It's About Time, Dr. Cook's Garden, Movin' On

1937 Event - Pan Arab conference about Palestine opens

1937 Death - Nathan Birnbaum, Austria philosopher (Zionism), dies at about 72

1934 Event - Colombia and Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia

1934 Birthday - David Halberstam, born in New York City, journalist, author, Pulitzer Prize winner, wrote about the Vietnam War

1934 Event - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500

1933 Birthday - David Reuben, author, Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex

1933 Death - Sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", U.S. singer, dies at about 64

1933 Birthday - Roger Bowen, actor, M*A*S*H, Main Event, What about Bob, Petulia

1933 Birthday - Edward de Bono, physician, inventor, consultant, author, invented term lateral thinking, promoted deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in public schools, advanced applied psychology, making theories about creativity, perception into usable tools

1932 Birthday - Jack Mullaney, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, My Living Doll, It's About Time

1932 Birthday - Gibson Kente, born in South Africa, wrote about life in South African black townships, known as Father of Black Theater in South Africa

1929 Event - Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro

1929 Event - Chile, Peru and Bolivia sign accord about Tacna-Arica-area

1929 Birthday - Tristan Jones, born in Liverpool, England, sailor, author, Welsh story teller, wrote about sailing in books and articles

1929 Death - Julio Antonio Mella, Cuban revolutionary, murdered at about 28

1928 Birthday - Tom Aldredge, born in Dayton, Ohio, actor in What About Bob, Nurse, Mind Snatchers

1927 Birthday - Boris Porena, born in Rome, Italy, Italian composer, didactical expert, studied under Goffredo Petrassi, influenced by neoclassical poetics, wrote texts about music including Musica-Societa which includes social and political analysis

1926 Event - Hurricane hits Miami and Palm Beach Florida; about 450 die

1926 Event - U.S. and Panamanian pact about safeguard of Panama Canal

1926 Birthday - Frank Aletter, Long Island, New York, actor, Mac-It's About Time, Tom-Nancy

1925 Event - U.S. and Italy sign peace accord about war debts

1925 Event - Belgian and U.S. sign treaty about war debts

1925 Event - Italian-Serbian/Croatian/Slav treaty about Dalmatie

1924 Event - Conference about German recovery payments opens in London

1923 Event - Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)

1922 Event - BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas"

1922 Event - China, hit by a typhoon; about 60,000 die

1922 Birthday - Herman Kahn, New Jersey, writer, Thinking About the Unthinkable

1921 Birthday - Mary Douglas, born in San Remo, Italy, British anthropologist, wrote about symbolism, human culture

1919 Birthday - Celeste Holm, born in New York City, actress, Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve

1918 Event - Forest fire in Minnesota and Northern Wisconsin kills about 800

1918 Birthday - Vernon Howard, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth

1917 Event - Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die

1916 Birthday - Alex Dreier, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, newscaster, Whats it all about World?

1915 Death - Solomon Schechter, theologist, dies at about 64

1915 Event - Train crashes at Colima-Guadalajara Mexico, about 600 die

1914 Birthday - Brendan Gill, born in Hartford, Connecticut, writer, film critic, author, wrote film critiques for Film Comment, wrote articles for The New Yorker, and a book about his time at The New Yorker magazine

1914 Birthday - Gary Merrill, Hartford Conn, actor, Young Dr. Kildare, All About Eve

1914 Birthday - Chapman Pincher, British journalist/author, about secret service

1914 Death - Redjaizade M Ekrem, Turkish poet and writer, dies at about 66

1912 Death - Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader, dies at about 65

1911 Event - France and Germany signs treaty about Morocco and Congo

1911 Event - British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany

1911 Death - Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75

1909 Event - France and Germany sign treaty about Morocco

1908 Death - Geronimo, Apache chief, dies at about 79

1906 Birthday - George Sanders, Russia, actor, All About Eve-Academy Award 1950

1906 Event - Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco)

1905 Death - Tippo-Tip, Hamed ben Mohammed, Zanzibar merchant, dies at about 67

1905 Death - Jacob Olie, Dutch photographer, dies at about 70

1903 Event - Roger Casement completes report about abuses in Belgian Congo

1903 Birthday - Rabbe A. Enckell, Finnish author and poet, Lutad about Brunnen

1902 Event - Santa Maria Guatemala hit by Earthquake; about 6,000 die

1901 Death - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82

1900 Event - Boer attack under Sarel Eloff, about 70 killed

1900 Event - Boers attack at Ladysmith, about 1,000 killed or injured

1899 Event - British and French accord about West-Africa

1897 Death - Ralph Abercromby, British meteorologist, dies at about 54

1897 Birthday - Bernard Verhoeven, poet/literature, About the Laugh

1896 Death - Matthew B Brady, U.S. photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72

1895 Death - Franz Hedrich, Austria writer, dies at about 62

1894 Event - Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die

1894 Death - M F Sadi Carnot, president of France (1887-94), murdered at about 56

1893 Birthday - Roy Del Ruth, director, About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show

1893 Event - Tornado destroys coast of Savannah and Charleston, about 1000 die

1891 Birthday - John Metzelaar, Dutch/US, About Tropical Atl Visschen

1891 Event - Hurricane hits Martinique, about 700 die

1890 Event - U.S. 7th Cavalry massacre about 300 captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

1888 Event - Hail stones kills about 250 in Moradabad district of Delhi

1887 Event - Gele River (Huang Ho) in China floods, kills about 1.5 million

1887 Event - Gas lamp at Theater Royal in Exeter catches fire killing about 200

1885 Death - Edmond About, French Novelist

1883 Death - Abd el-Kader, Algerian sultan/religious ruler, dies at about 74

1882 Event - Storm and floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die

1881 Event - Hurricane hits Florida and Carolinas; about 700 die

1880 Event - Henry Stanley and Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo

1880 Event - Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage

1879 Event - News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London

1878 Birthday - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament, About Plato

1876 Event - Cyclone hits Bengal, about 200,000 die

1875 Death - Otogaki Rengetsu, zen nun/benefactress of Tessai, dies at about 84

1875 Birthday - Maude Eburne, Canada, actress, Ladies They Talk About, Guardsman

1875 Event - Garonne Flood: great damage in Verdun and Toulouse, kills about 1,000

1870 Death - William F Brantly, Confederate, murdered at about 40

1870 Death - Eugenio Lucas y Padilla, Spanish poet, dies at about 46

1868 Death - Christian Schonbein, German chemist, dies at about 69

1868 Death - Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author and poet, dies at about 60

1868 Death - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70

1868 Birthday - Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity

1865 Death - Rene E de Russy, West Indian/US Brigadier-General, dies at about 75

1865 Death - John Brough, U.S. publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54

1865 Death - Cleaveland J Campbell, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 29

1864 Death - Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, U.S. Union-Brigadier-General, dies at about 34

1864 Event - 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties

1864 Event - 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Virginia (about 3900 casualties)

1864 Death - Samuel Benton, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 44

1864 Event - Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle

1864 Death - Thomas Greeley Stevenson, Union Brigadier-General, dies at about 27

1864 Event - 6th and last day of battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties)

1864 Death - Stephen Gardner Champlin, Brigadier-General (Union), dies at about 36

1863 Event - Battle at Bristoe Station Virginia (about 2000 casualties)

1863 Death - Edward Needle Kirk, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 35

1863 Event - Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in New York City; about 1,000 die

1863 Death - Alonzo Hersford Cushing, U.S. Union lt, dies in battle at about 22

1862 Death - Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union Brigadier-General, dies of injury at about 40

1862 Death - William Edwin Starke, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 48

1862 Event - Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die

1862 Death - Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle at about 35

1862 Death - Robert Hatton, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 34

1862 Event - Battle of Princeton, West Virginia, ends, about 128 casualities

1862 Death - George W. Johnson, U.S. planter/Confederate (gov-Kentucky), dies at about 50

1862 Death - James McIntosh, U.S. confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 33

1859 Death - John Emde, German evangelist, dies at about 84

1858 Event - Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people

1857 Event - Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die

1854 Death - Abbas Hilmi I, viceroy of Egypt, dies at about 41

1846 Event - Alexis the Tocqueville writes about "Algerian problem"

1846 Death - Pieter Adams, architect of Rotterdam, dies at about 67

1846 Event - Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his initiation

1842 Event - Natchex Mississippi, hit by tornado; about 500 die

1838 Death - Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43

1836 Death - Theodore Dotrenge, South Netherland orangist, dies at about 74

1835 Event - N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel

1834 Event - Prussia, Austria and Russia sign classified accord about Belgium

1833 Event - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200

1833 Death - James Ball Antyne, Scottish founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60

1831 Event - Hurricane hits Barbados; about 1,500 die

1831 Event - Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30

1829 Death - Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, French nature investigator, dies at about 85

1829 Death - Jacobus Blue, Dutch regent/patriot, dies at about 73

1828 Birthday - Edmond About, French Novelist

1822 Event - Antioch Syria, hit by Earthquake; about 20,000 die

1822 Death - Ali Pasha of Janina, (Napoleon, Lord Byron), dies at about 77

1821 Death - Maurice J M prince de Broglie, bishop of Ghent, dies at about 55

1820 Event - Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die

1813 Death - Louis-Alexandre Crette, Belgian porselein painter, dies at about 55

1812 Death - Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000), dies at about 57

1812 Event - Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas; about 20,000 die

1810 Death - Albertus H Wiese, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies, dies at about 48

1809 Death - Johan B Scheffer, portrait painter, dies at about 43

1807 Death - Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72

1806 Death - George Wythe, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at about 79

1806 Death - Jean-Jacques Bachelier, French painter, dies at about 82

1805 Event - Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die

1799 Death - Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41

1799 Death - Mohammed Esad Galib Dede, Turkish poet, Husn-u asjk, dies at about 41

1799 Death - Galib Dede/Seyh Galib, Turkish poet (Husn u Ask), dies at about 40

1798 Event - British kill about 500 Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara

1795 Death - Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70

1794 Death - James Adam, System architect (essays on agriculture), dies at about 64

1793 Death - Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75

1793 Event - Volcano Unsen on Japan erupts killing about 53,000

1791 Birthday - Nikolaj A. Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter, Account about Holland

1790 Death - Pieter van/of Bleiswijk, pension advisor 1771-87, dies at about 66

1789 Death - Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67

1788 Death - John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40

1788 Death - Charles C of Nassau-Weilburg, governor of Maastricht, dies at about 53

1787 Death - Thomas Stone, U.S. attorney/signer (Dec of Ind), dies at about 44

1786 Death - Alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68

1783 Event - Skaptar Volcano on Iceland erupts killing about 9,000

1783 Death - Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew), dies at about 67

1780 Event - About midday, near-total darkness descends on much of New England to this day it's cause is still unexplained

1779 Death - John Heart, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at about 68

1773 Death - Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48

1773 Birthday - Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer, Fantasies about Art

1768 Death - Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81

1768 Death - Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70

1765 Death - Jacob Gilles, pension advisor, dies at about 74

1761 Death - Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about 51

1754 Death - Henry Pelham, English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57

1754 Death - Daniel Raap, Dutch porcelain salesman/politician, dies at about 51

1752 Death - John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at about 85

1752 Death - Daniel Marot, French/Netherlands, architect/engraver, dies at about 88

1748 Event - France and Austria signs treaty about Southern Netherlands

1743 Death - Richard Savage, English poet/playwright, dies at about 46

1741 Death - Johann Joseph Fux, Austrian composer/music theorist, dies at about 80

1740 Death - Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72

1735 Death - Dirk T van Cloon, Dutch lawyer/Governor-General of E Indies, dies at about 46

1734 Death - Johann C van Erckel, old Catholic theologist, dies at about 79

1731 Event - Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die

1731 Death - Daniel Defoe, English author (Robinson Crusoe), dies at about 70

1729 Death - Matthaeus de Cock, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1725-29), dies at about 65

1729 Death - John Law, Scottish financier, dies at about 57

1728 Death - Fjodor M graaf Apraksin, Russian General-Admiral, dies at about 57

1727 Death - Jacques Abbadie, French theologist, dies at about 73

1727 Death - Catharina I, Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42

1725 Death - Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Japanese playwright (Yotsugi Soga), dies at about 71

1724 Death - Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81

1723 Death - Willem van de Pose, Governor of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59

1718 Death - Arnold J van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48

1717 Death - Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75

1716 Death - William Wycherley, dramatist (The Country Wife), dies at about 75

1714 Death - Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14), dies at about 49

1713 Death - Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer, dies at about 49

1712 Death - Yusuf Nabi, Turkish poet (Hayriye), dies at about 77

1711 Death - Jozef I, Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1705-11), dies at about 32

1709 Death - William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62

1707 Death - Dietrich Buxtehude, German organist/composer, dies at about 69

1704 Death - Guillaume F A de l'Hospital, French mathematician, dies at about 62

1704 Death - Willem B Schepers, Dutch merchant/ship owner, dies at about 83

1703 Event - Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die

1700 Death - Willem ten Rhijne, Dutch physician in Batavia, dies at about 53

1700 Death - Lambert Doomer, painter/cartoonist, dies at about 77

1699 Death - Henrik A van Reede tot Drakenstein, Dutch botanist, dies at about 63

1695 Death - Melchior de Hondecoeter, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 58

1693 Death - Willem Van de Velde, Dutch the Old, seascape painter, dies at about 82

1692 Death - Gerardus L Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66

1686 Death - Adriaen Paets, Rotterdams regent/diplomat, dies at about 55

1686 Death - Godefroi L earl d'estrades, French diplomat/marshal, dies at about 78

1685 Death - Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 55

1685 Death - Pieter de la Court, economist/historian, dies at about 67

1684 Death - Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48

1684 Death - Pieter van den Abeelen, Dutch medallist/jeweller, dies at about 75

1684 Death - Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48

1682 Death - Jacob I van Ruysdael, physician/landscape painter, dies at about 53

1680 Death - Gillis Valckenier, mayor of Amsterdam (1665..80), dies at about 57

1679 Death - Barent Avercamp, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 66

1678 Death - Charles Dujardin, painter/etcher (Learned Dog), dies at about 56

1678 Death - Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70

1677 Death - Aert van der Neer, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 73

1677 Death - Wenzel Hollar, Bohemia cartoonist/etcher, dies at about 69

1675 Event - Storm hits about West-Europe: flood in Amsterdam

1674 Death - Rutger van Haersolte, viceroy of Overijsselse, dies at about 66

1673 Death - Anthonie Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 72

1673 Death - John de Love I, Vice-Admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54

1673 Death - Johannes Teellinck, Dutch vicar, dies at about 58

1673 Death - Francois Caron, admiral/governor (Formosa), drowns at about 72

1672 Death - Govert D Camphuysen, (court)painter, dies at about 48

1672 Death - Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda, dies at about 37

1671 Death - Edward Montagu, English baron Kimbolton, dies at about 68

1670 Death - Geory Horn, Hornius, theologist/historian, dies at about 50

1669 Death - John Coccejus, German/Netherlands reformed theologist, dies at about 66

1669 Death - Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42

1669 Death - Leo Allatios, Greek/Italian theologist/literary, dies at about 82

1668 Death - Antoon Anselmo, South Netherlands lawyer, dies at about 79

1668 Death - Francois Anguier, French sculptor, dies at about 64

1666 Death - French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86

1666 Death - Adriaen A Bloemaert, Dutch landscape painter, dies at about 56

1665 Death - Auke Stellingwerf, lt-admiral of Friesland, dies in battle at about 29

1665 Death - Egbert Meussen Kortenaer, Vice-Admiral, dies in battle at about 29

1662 Death - Cornelis van Aerssen, Dutch ruler of Sommelsdok, dies at about 62

1662 Death - Johannes C Verspronck, portrait painter, buried at about 64

1662 Death - Leonhart Kern, German sculptor, dies at about 73

1661 Death - Don Luis Mendez de Haro, premier of Spain (1643-61), dies at about 63

1661 Death - Jacobus de la Torra, RC apostole vicar of Holland, dies at about 53

1661 Death - Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded at about 53

1661 Death - Hendrick Uylenburgh, art dealer, buried at about 73

1661 Death - Pieter Claesz, Dutch still life painter, dies at about 64

1660 Death - Jacques Sarazin, French sculptor/painter, dies at about 70

1660 Death - Gilbertus van Zinnik, Flemish architect, dies at about 33

1659 Death - Able J Tasmania, navigator/discovered (Tasmania, New Zealand), dies at about 56

1658 Death - Jacobus Revius, Reefsen, theologist/writer/poet, dies at about 72

1658 Death - Pieter Florisz, Dutch admiral, dies in battle at about 50

1657 Death - Robert Blake, English Admiral (Dover, Dungeness), dies at about 57

1656 Death - Alexander van der Capellen, mister of Aartsbergen, dies at about 64

1656 Death - Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55

1653 Death - Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51

1653 Death - Gillesz de Hondecoeter, painter/Hostage rights, buried at about 49

1653 Death - Johan van Galen, Dutch Admiral (Dunes Monte Christo), dies at about 48

1652 Death - John Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42

1652 Death - Bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant, dies at about 69

1652 Death - Benjamin G Cuyp, historical painter, dies at about 40

1652 Death - John Both, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 37

1652 Death - Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about 67

1651 Death - Jacob A Backer, painter, dies at about 43

1650 Death - Abraham de Verwer, painter, buried at about 55

1650 Event - Viceroy Willem II and Amsterdam reach accord about standing army

1650 Death - Cornelis Galle I, Flemish engraver, dies at about 73

1650 Death - John Adriaensz, hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer), dies at about 74

1649 Death - Outgert Arisz Akersloot, Dutch silversmith, dies at about 73

1649 Death - Ferdinand van Boisschot, South Netherlands diplomat, dies at about 89

1649 Death - Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36

1649 Death - Elisabeth Bas, wife of Dutch Admiral Swartenhondt, dies at about 78

1648 Death - Benedictus J van Haeften, poet (Regia thru Crucis), dies at about 60

1648 Death - Tirso de Molina, Spanish author, dies at about 63

1647 Death - Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect, dies at about 61

1647 Death - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, poet/playwright (Warenar), dies at about 65

1646 Death - John C Lichthart, Admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45

1645 Death - Anton van Diemen, Governor-General (Netherlands East Indies), dies at about 51

1643 Death - John Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59

1643 Death - John Hampden, English politician, dies of injuries at about 48

1642 Death - Armand-Jean Duplessis Richelieu, bishop of Lueon, dies at about 57

1642 Death - Maria de' Medici, French queen-mother, dies at about 69

1642 Death - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66

1641 Death - Robert Dowland, English luitist/son of John Dowland, dies at about 50

1641 Death - Cornelis C Jol, Houtebeen, Admiral (South-America), dies at about 41

1640 Event - Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis

1640 Death - Erasmus Quellinus I, Flemish wood carver, dies at about 55

1638 Death - Cornelis Cornelisz, "of Haarlem", painter, dies at about 76

1638 Death - Gilles Claesz de Hondecoeter, Flemish painter, buried at about 63

1638 Death - Johannes Althusius, Althaut, German lawyer, dies at about 81

1638 Death - Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 30

1638 Death - Paul Moreelse, Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66

1638 Death - Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73

1637 Death - Foppe van Aitzema, diplomat, dies at about 57

1636 Death - Giovanni B Aleotti, Italian writer/theater architect, dies at about 90

1635 Death - Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42

1633 Death - Carlo Caraffa, Italian jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72

1631 Death - John Pijnas, Dutch painter, buried at about 47

1630 Death - Ambrogio Spinola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, dies at about 61

1629 Death - Arnold Baert, Flemish lawyer/member of Great Council, dies at about 74

1628 Death - Gregor Aichinger, German composer/organist, dies at about 63

1627 Death - Frederik de Houtman, navigator/governor of Ambon, dies at about 56

1627 Death - Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41

1627 Death - Lieven de Key, Flemish master builder (Vleeshal), dies at about 67

1627 Death - Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish Clerk of the House, dies at about 81

1626 Death - Adriaen de Vries, Dutch sculptor/painter, dies at about 70

1626 Death - Willebrord Snellius, astronomer/mathematician, dies at about 46

1626 Death - Cyril Tourneur, English poet/dramatist, dies at about 51

1625 Death - Adriaen Valerius, notary/Netherlands Gedenck-clanck, dies at about 49

1624 Death - Willem Pietersz Buytewech, painter/etcher, dies at about 32

1624 Death - Isaac Le Maire, Amsterdam ship owner, dies at about 66

1624 Death - Steven van der Haghen, admiral/Governor on Ambon 1617 - 1618, dies at about 61

1624 Death - Dirck van Baburen, Dutch painter (Sepulture), dies at about 28

1624 Birthday - Arnold Geulincx, South Netherland, philosopher, About Virtue

1622 Death - Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69

1622 Death - William Baffin, British explorer, dies at about 38

1621 Death - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, organist/composer, dies at about 59

1620 Death - Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59

1619 Event - England and Netherlands signs treaty about business in the Indies

1617 Death - Franchois Vranck, economist/writer (Deduction), dies at about 62

1617 Death - Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher, dies at about 76

1612 Death - Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60

1612 Death - Philip Galle, Flemish engraver, dies at about 74

1612 Death - Maarten van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 77

1611 Death - Gillis van Valkenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 72

1610 Death - Johan van Duivenoorde, mister of Warmond, dies at about 62

1609 Death - Jacobus Arminius, Jacob Hermans, theologist, dies at about 49

1609 Death - Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at about 69

1607 Death - Cornelius Kilianus, Flemish translator/poet, dies at about 78

1607 Death - Herman Herbertsz, vicar, dies at about 60

1605 Death - Pieter Bast, Bastius, Dutch engraver/cartographer, dies at about 34

1604 Death - Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29

1604 Death - John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604), dies at about 74

1603 Death - Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68

1603 Death - Maarten de Vos, Flemish painter, dies at about 71

1602 Death - Everard van Reyd, Dutch historian, dies at about 51

1600 Death - Baki, Turkish royal poet (Davan, Ghazalijjat), dies at about 74

1600 Death - Arent van Dorp, Dutch governor of East-Zealand, dies at about 70

1599 Death - Edmund Spenser, poet (Faerie Queene), dies at about 46

1598 Death - Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78

1598 Death - Floris I van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg, dies at about 61

1597 Death - Pieter J Kies, Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about 66

1597 Death - Lucas van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 61

1596 Death - Jacobus Latomus, Flemish poet (Psalms/Jeremias) dies at about 84

1595 Death - Reynier Cant, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 59

1594 Death - Orlandus Lassus, composer (Prophet sybillarum), dies at about 61

1592 Death - Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre, dies at about 75

1591 Death - Edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60

1591 Death - Jacobus de Kerle, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 59

1590 Death - Pierre de Loyseleur de Villiers, S Netherlands theologist, dies at about 60

1590 Death - Joost Jansz Bilhamer, master builder/cartographer, dies at about 49

1590 Death - Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert, theologist/philosopher, dies at about 68

1590 Death - Cujacius, Jacques Cujas, French lawyer, dies at about 68

1590 Death - Francis Walsingham, English Secretary of State, dies at about 57

1589 Death - Maarten Schenck van Nideggen, Lieutenant Colonel (80 year war), dies at about 49

1589 Death - Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49

1588 Death - Joost Sybrantsz Buyck, Amsterdam merchant/regent, dies at about 82

1585 Death - Caspar de Robles, Spanish viceroy of Frisia, dies at about 57

1582 Death - Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, marquis of Soria, dies at about 75

1578 Death - Sebastiaan, king of Portugal (1557-78), dies in battle at about 24

1576 Event - Dutch provinces begin consultation about Spanish existence

1576 Death - Louis de Boisot, Dutch admiral, drowns at about 44

1575 Death - Charles de Boisot, water beggar, dies in battle at about 45

1575 Death - Pieter Aertsen, Long Worm, painter, dies at about 65

1574 Death - Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54

1573 Death - Michel de l'Hopital, chancellor of France (1560-68), dies at about 65

1573 Death - Jan "Hans" Liefrinck, Flemish engraver/publisher, dies at about 54

1572 Death - John Knox, Scottish preacher, dies at about 67

1572 Death - Pieter Tichelmann, Flemish Franciscan, dies at about 71

1569 Death - Pieter Bruegel, South Netherlands painter, dies at about 44

1568 Death - Antoon van Stralen, Flemish mayor of Antwerp, beheaded at about 47

1568 Death - Don Carlos, son of Spanish king Philip II, dies at about 23

1568 Death - Willem Key, painter, dies at about 47

1567 Death - Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79

1567 Death - Jacob Vaet, Flemish composer/royal chaplain master, dies at about 37

1562 Death - Adrian Willaert, Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about 82

1561 Death - Johannes Vasaeus, Flemish humanist/historian, dies at about 49

1560 Death - Peder Palladus, Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about 56

1559 Death - Erasmus Sarcerius, German luthers theologist, dies at about 58

1559 Event - 5 Spanish ships sinks in storm off Tampa, about 600 die

1559 Death - Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor, dies at about 52

1556 Death - David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54

1556 Death - Ignatius Loyola, Spanish founder (Jesuit), dies at about 65

1555 Death - French Vervoort, Flemish mystic (Bruylocht Cleedt), dies at about 65

1555 Death - Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65

1555 Death - Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76

1553 Death - Erasmus Alberus, Germ theologist (Barfusser Monche), dies at about 52

1549 Death - Elia Levita, German-Yiddish writer (Habachur), dies at about 80

1548 Death - Catharine Parr, queen of England/wife of Henry VIII, dies at about 36

1547 Death - Pierino del Vaga, Italian painter, dies at about 46

1545 Death - John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55

1544 Death - Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist, dies at about 53

1544 Death - Jacobus Latomus [Jasques Masson], Belgian inquisitor, dies at about 68

1542 Death - Albert Pigge, Pighius, Dutch theologist/astronomer, dies at about 52

1541 Death - Andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61

1541 Death - Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish occupier, dies at about 56

1541 Death - Bernard van Orley, Flemish royal painter of Hungary, dies at about 52

1540 Death - Guillaume Bude, French humanist, dies at about 72

1539 Death - Lieven Pain, Flemish, beheaded at about 75

1538 Death - Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador (Chile/Peru), dies at about 63

1538 Death - Hugo, earl of Leisnig, governor of Frisia, dies at about 79

1538 Death - Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57

1536 Death - Ibrahim Pasha, grand-visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about 45

1535 Death - John Fisher, English bishop (1504-35)/cardinal, beheaded at about 65

1534 Death - Willem van Enkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 70

1534 Death - Dirk Martens, Flemish printer/humanist, dies at about 83

1531 Event - Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die

1530 Death - Lord Chancellor, (1514-29), dies at about 56

1530 Death - Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43

1529 Death - John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69

1529 Death - John Cuspinianus, Spiessheimer, German physician, dies at about 55

1528 Death - Lucas van Prague, Czechoslovakian leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68

1528 Event - Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die

1528 Death - Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48

1525 Death - Joannes Custos, S Netherlands humanist, dies at about 50

1524 Death - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer/viceroy of Cochin, dies at about 55

1524 Death - Joachim Patinir, Flemish landscape painter, dies at about 45

1524 Death - Thomas Howard 2nd duke of Norfolk, general/premier, dies at about 80

1522 Death - Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at about 75

1521 Event - About 300 heretics burned in Vrijdagmarkt Gent

1521 Death - Willem van Croij, duke of Soria, dies at about 62

1519 Death - Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85

1519 Death - Hans Backofen/Backoffen, German sculptor, dies at about 49

1519 Death - Johann Tetzel, Dominican monk, dies at about 79

1519 Death - Johann Tetzel, (German) monk, dies at about 79

1517 Death - John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37

1513 Death - Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70

1510 Death - Tree of Commonwealth, beheaded at about 48

1510 Death - Alessandro di Botticelli, painter (Birth of Venus), dies at about 65

1510 Death - Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59

1507 Death - Jean Molinet, Burgundy historian (Chroniques), dies at about 72

1504 Death - Anton of Burgundy, the Great Bastard, knight, dies at about 82

1504 Death - Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52

1498 Death - Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77

1497 Death - Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies at about 52

1496 Death - David van Bourgondie, Bishop of Utrecht (1456-96), dies at about 69

1494 Death - Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56

1492 Event - Columbus' fleet about 400 sea miles from Puerto Rico

1490 Death - Antoine Haneron, Bourgundy diplomat, dies at about 90

1490 Death - French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen, dies at about 25

1490 Death - Adriaan Vilain II of Rassegem, peace of Tours, murdered at about 39

1488 Death - Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52

1478 Death - Giuliano de' Medici, Medeheerser of Florence, murdered at about 24

1475 Death - Dieric Bouts, Dutch painter, dies at about 64

1474 Death - Guillaume Dufay, French/Flemish composer, dies at about 74

1469 Death - Piero de' Medici, ruler of Florence, dies at about 53

1463 Death - Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65

1457 Death - Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50

1456 Event - Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die

1456 Death - Janos Hunyadi, Hungarian general strategist, dies at about 49

1444 Death - Robert Campin, South Netherlands painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65

1444 Death - John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50

1438 Death - Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at about 64

1434 Death - Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60

1405 Death - Timur/Tamerlan "Lenk", Crippled, Mongols monarch, dies at about 68

1404 Death - Albrecht of Bavaria, duke of Bavaria, dies at about 74

1387 Death - French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57

1380 Death - Bertrand du Guesclin, French King of Granada, dies at about 60

1367 Death - Egidius AC Albornor, Spanish archbishop of Toledo, dies at about 57

1361 Death - John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61

1349 Death - Gunther Van Schwarzburg, German anti-king 1349, dies at about 44

1345 Death - Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand, dies at about 27

1337 Death - Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49

1336 Death - Elisabeth van Portugal, queen of Portugal/saint, dies at about 65

1336 Death - Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71

1317 Death - Guy van Avesnes/Henegouwen, bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 63

1298 Death - Adolf van Nassau, RC-German king (1292-98), dies in battle at about 43

1297 Death - Willem van Afflighem, Flemish poet/abbot St. Truiden, dies at about 86

1276 Death - Innocent V, Pierre the Tarantaise, Pope (1276), dies at about 36

1272 Death - Zita/Cita, Italian maid/saint, dies at about 59

1253 Death - Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53

1246 Death - Lutgardis/Ludgardis, Flemish mystic/saint, dies at about 64

1231 Death - Elisabeth van Thuringen, Hungarian princess, dies at about 24

1229 Death - Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68

1202 Death - Knut VI, king of the Denen/Turn (1182-1202), dies at about 39

1167 Death - Aelred of Hexham/Rievaulx, English abbot/saint, dies at about 56

1164 Death - Elisabeth von Schonau, German mystic (Visiones), dies at about 34

1156 Death - Peter Venerabilis, French theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies at about 61

1153 Death - David I, king of Scotland (1124-53), dies at about 68

1152 Death - Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies at about 58

1134 Death - Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51

1130 Death - Baldricus Burgoliensis, French historian/archbishop, dies at about 83

1115 Death - Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64

1093 Death - Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62

1072 Death - Sancho II, king of Castilie/bro of Alfonso VI, murdered at about 35

1015 Death - Lambert I with the Beard, count of Leuven, dies in battle at about 65

1010 Death - Ansfried, 9th bishop of Utrecht (995-1010)/saint, dies at about 69

999 Death - Adelheid the Saint, German empress of Otto I/saint, dies at about 68

983 Death - Otto II the Red, German king/emperor (973-83), dies at about 28

974 Death - Ratherius of Verona/Liege, bishop/abbot, dies at about 84

965 Death - Bruno I, archbishop of Cologne/duke of Lutheran, dies at about 40

956 Death - Hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55

939 Death - Giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49

912 Death - Nottker "the Stamelaar", benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71

898 Death - Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39

875 Death - Ado of Vienne, French archbishop of Vienne, dies at about 75

875 Death - Louis II, king of Italy/emperor of France, dies at about 50

872 Death - Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80

833 Death - Ansegis/Ansegius, French abbot of Fontenelle/author, dies at about 63

828 Death - Nicephorus, patriarch of Constantinopel (806-15), dies at about 77

811 Death - Charles, eldest son of emperor Charles the Great, dies at about 39

809 Death - Liudger, missionary/1st bishop of Munster/saint, dies at about 66

771 Death - Karloman II, French king of Burgundy, dies at about 20

766 Death - Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50

743 Death - Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, 10th Moslem caliph, dies at about 52

735 Death - Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian, dies at about 62

727 Death - Hubertus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72

711 Death - Justitianus II, emperor of Byzantium, dies at about 42

711 Death - Childebert III, king of French, dies at about 27

709 Death - Aldhelmus of Ealdhelm, English abbot/bishop/poet/saint, dies at about 69

709 Death - Wilfried, bishop of York, dies at about 76

659 Death - Gertrudis van Nijvel, saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32

656 Death - Sigebert III, king of Austrasia, dies at about 25

641 Death - Heraclius, emperor of Byzantium (610-641), dies at about 65

640 Death - Arnulf, bishop of Metz (614-640)/politician, dies at about 58

593 Death - Guntram, French king in Burgundy, dies at about 67

561 Death - Chlotarius I, king of the France (558-61), dies at about 61

558 Death - Childebert, king of France (511-58), dies at about 62

545 Death - Chlotilde, wife of French king Clovis/saint, dies at about 70

533 Death - Remigius van Reims, 1st bishop of Reims (459-533)/saint, dies about 96

526 Event - Antioch struck by Earthquake; about 250,000 die

524 Death - Chlodomer, King of the France to Orleans, dies at about 29

524 Death - Chlodomir, king of the France to Orleans (511-24), dies at about 28

511 Death - Clovis, 1st King of France, dies at about 45

439 Death - Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56

421 Death - Flavius Constantine III, emperor of Westromeinse, dies at about 51

413 Death - Nicias, Athens politician (Peace of Nicias), killed at about 57

397 Death - Martinus, (St. Maarten), Roman bishop of Tours, dies at about 81

365 Event - Alexandria hit by Earthquake; about 50,000 die

364 Death - Flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64), dies at about 32

311 Death - Gaius VM Galerius, emperor of Rome, dies at about 50

98 Death - Marius Cocceius Nerva, emperor of Rome (96-98), dies at about 67

81 Death - Titus Flavius Vespasianus, emperor of Rome (69-81), dies at about 42













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