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2012 Event - In London, the 23rd James Bond film, 'Skyfall' receives its Royal premiere at the Royal Albert Hall

2011 Event - Prince Albert II of Monaco weds Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock at the royal palace; Wittstock is now known as Her Serene Highness, Princess Charlene

2008 Death - Albert Hofmann, dies in Switzerland, of natural causes, at 102

2007 Death - Albert Ellis, American psychologist, dies of heart failure at 93

2001 Death - Albert Hague, composer, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, dies at 81

2000 Death - Carl Albert, politician, Speaker of the House from 1971-1977, dies at 91

1997 Event - Albert Belle's Chicago White Sox tying 27-game hitting streak ends

1997 Event - Marv Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexually assault

1996 Event - Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox

1996 Death - Edward Albert Radice, economist, dies at 89

1996 Death - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian, dies at 89

1996 Event - Albert Belle uses a forearm to break up a double play and nearly breaks Brewer 2nd baseman Fernando Vina's nose, Belle gets 2 game suspension

1996 Death - Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79

1996 Death - Albert Meltzer, anarchist, dies at 76

1996 Event - Albert Belle shows off his arm by hitting Sports Illustrated photographer Tony Tomsic in the hand prior to a game

1995 Event - Cleveland Indian Albert Belle hits his 50th home run of season

1995 Death - Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89

1995 Death - Albert Hardy, photographer, dies at 82

1995 Death - Albert Drach, writer, dies

1995 Death - Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 95

1994 Death - Albert de Courtray, French archbishop of Lyon/cardinal, dies at 71

1994 Death - Albert Goldman, U.S. biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66

1993 Event - King Albert II of Belgium, crowned

1993 Death - Albert Sabin, physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86

1992 Death - Stephen Albert, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto', killed in an automobile accident in Cape Cod, Massachusetts

1992 Death - Albert King, U.S. blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw), dies at 71

1992 Death - Albert Pierrepont, last British executioner (433 men/17 women), dies

1991 Event - Albert Belle is shipped to minors for not running out a ground ball

1990 Death - Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife and self at 62

1987 Death - Albert P. Morano, Representative-R-Connecticut, 1951 - 1959, dies at 79

1987 Death - Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86

1986 Death - Lester Albert Trimble, composer, dies at 63

1986 Death - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, bio-chemist (Vitamin C, Nobel 1937), dies at 93

1986 Death - Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Hungarian Scientist

1985 Death - Albert Moeschinger, composer, dies at 88

1985 Death - Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist, dies at 83

1984 Birthday - Henry Charles Albert David, Prince of Wales, 3rd in British succession

1983 Death - 18/10? Albert "Carel" Willink, painter: magic(al)-realism, dies at 83

1983 Death - Albert Carel Willink, painter (surrealism), dies at 83

1983 Death - 19/10? Albert "Carel" Willink, painter: magic(al)-realism, dies at 83

1983 Event - Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years (Royal Albert Hall)

1983 Event - Albert Rizzo trod water at sea for 108 hours 9 minutes

1983 Death - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84

1982 Death - Albert Soboult, French historian, dies at 68

1982 Death - Ab [Albert] Visser, poet and writer (Kain sloeg Abel), dies

1982 Death - Albert TLCA Bird, lecture artist, dies

1982 Death - Albert Weisser, composer, dies at 64

1981 Death - Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76

1977 Event - Albert Innaurato's "Gemini," premieres in New York City

1975 Birthday - Albert Fields, born in Gary, Indiana, rocker, Party-Rodeo, That's Why

1974 Birthday - Albert Connell, wide receiver for the Washington Redskins

1973 Death - Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed in prison

1973 Death - Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist, dies at 89

1972 Birthday - Jeff Nelson, Prince Albert, NHL center for the Washington Capitals

1971 Death - Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director (King Lear), dies at 82

1971 Event - Royal Albert Hall opens

1971 Event - Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa

1971 Birthday - Brenda Lee Armstrong, Albert Lea, Minnesota, Miss Minn-America 1991

1970 Death - Albert Louis Wolff, composer, dies at 86

1970 Death - Albert Wolff, Dutch Musician

1970 Event - Joni Mitchell's final concert at Royal Albert Hall

1970 Death - Albert Mahll, German writer, dies at 76

1969 Event - Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall)

1968 Death - Albert Dekker, dies of accidental suffocation at 62

1967 Death - Albert J Luthuli, president South Africa (ANC), dies

1967 Birthday - Dave Manson, Prince Albert, NHL defenseman, Winnipeg Jets

1967 Death - Albert Remy, actor (Blows), dies at 55

1967 Event - Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison

1967 Death - Albert Conti, actor (Eagle, Jazz Heaven, Topaz), dies at 79

1967 Death - Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86

1966 Death - Albert P A A Besnard, poet/journalist (Doom and Thirst), dies

1966 Birthday - Albert Belle, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, outfielder, Indians, White Sox

1966 Death - Albert Giacometti, Swiss/French painter/sculptor, dies at 64

1965 Death - Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), dies at 90

1965 Death - Alan Bunce, actor (Albert-Ethel and Albert), dies at 61

1964 Death - Albert Hay Malotte, composer, dies at 69

1964 Death - Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77

1963 Death - Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer, dies

1963 Birthday - Laurens BBM, Belgian prince/son of Albert II and Paola

1962 Death - Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933, 36), dies at 90

1962 Birthday - Astrid, Belgian princess/daughter of Albert II

1962 Death - Albert Israel Elkus, composer, dies at 77

1961 Event - Producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star

1961 Birthday - Albert Lawrence, Jamaica, 4X100m relayer 1984 Olympics silver

1960 Birthday - Albert Lewis, NFL cornerback for the Oakland Raiders

1960 Birthday - Albert McDonald, Dartmouth NS, U.S. canoe alternate for 1996 Olympics

1960 Birthday - Prince Andrew, Albert Christian Edward, of Britain/Duke of York

1960 Death - Albert Camus, French author (Stranger), dies in an auto accident at 46

1959 Birthday - Albert King, actor, BB King and Friends, Blues Alive

1959 Death - Albert William Ketelby, composer, dies at 84

1959 Event - Prince Albert marries Princess Paola in Brussels

1958 Birthday - Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco

1958 Birthday - Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco/bobsledder 1988 Olympics

1958 Death - Albert Kuyle, Lou Kuitenbrouwer, writer (Jesus' Carpet), dies at 54

1957 Death - Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, U.S. gangster (Murder Inc), dies at 55

1957 Event - French author Albert Camus awarded Nobel Prize in Literature

1957 Death - Albert Ascoli, Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies

1957 Death - Albert Edward Sammons, composer, dies at 71

1956 Event - Dr. Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine

1956 Death - Albert Woolson, last veteran U.S. Union army, dies at 109

1956 Death - Albert H Edelkoort, theologist (Christusverwachting), dies at 65

1956 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett

1956 Death - Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgium ambassador to Tokyo, dies at 82

1955 Death - Albert Einstein, German U.S. physicist, dies

1954 Event - Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize

1954 Event - Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, laid in Bronx

1953 Death - Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64

1953 Event - Dr. Albert Schweitzer and General George C Marshall win Nobel Peace Prize

1953 Event - Albert W. Dent, elected president of National Health Council

1953 Birthday - Donald Albert Weibring, Jr., Quincy, Illinois, PGA golfer, 1979 Quad Cities

1953 Death - Albert Spalding, composer, dies at 64

1952 Death - Albert van Raalte, conductor, Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, dies at 62

1952 Death - Albert Basserman, actor (Madame Curie, Rhapsody in Blue), dies at 84

1952 Birthday - Norm Jarvis, Prince Albert Sask, golfer, 1984 Chilliwack

1951 Birthday - Tim Penny, born in Albert Lea, Minnesota, Representative-D-Minnesota 1983 - 1985

1951 Birthday - Albert R. Wynn, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Maryland 1993 - 2008

1951 Birthday - Albert Wynn, American Politician

1951 Birthday - Edward Albert, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Jeff-Falcon Crest, Butterflies are Free

1950 Death - Albert Riemenschneider, composer, dies at 71

1950 Death - Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer (Strum), dies at 63

1950 Event - Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb

1949 Event - Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris

1949 Birthday - Albert West, Dutch singer, Dumb Willie

1949 Birthday - Albert Sacco, Jr., born in Boston, Massachusetts, PhD/astronaut, STS-73

1949 Birthday - Patrick Deuchar, CEO, Albert Hall

1948 Event - Albert Camus' "L'etat de Siege," premieres in Paris

1948 Death - Albert F Pollard, British historian (Evolution of parliament), dies at 78

1948 Birthday - Albert Innaurato, Philadelphia, playwright/director, Age in Soho

1947 Birthday - Albert Brooks, born in Los Angeles, California, comedian, Broadcast News, Lost in America

1947 Death - Albert JM Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch), dies at 82

1946 Birthday - Albert Padmore, cricketer, WI off-spinner mid-70s

1945 Death - Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

1945 Event - Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner

1944 Birthday - Albert Hammond, born in London, England, rocker, musician, songwriter, producer, collaborated with Mike Hazelwood on The Air That I Breathe for the Hollies, wrote hits for Tina Turner

1943 Birthday - Albert Lee, born in Leominster, Herefordshire, Grammy-award winning English guitarist, musical director, celebrated finger-style and hybrid picking technique, played with the Crickets

1943 Birthday - Marv Albert, New York City, "Yes!" sportscaster, NBC-TV, back biter

1943 Death - Albert Stoessel, composer, dies at 48

1943 Birthday - William Albert Penn, composer

1942 Death - Albert Siklos, composer, dies at 63

1941 Birthday - Albert J Evenhuis, Dutch undersecretary of Economic, VVD

1941 Birthday - Stephen Albert, born in New York City, New York, composer, Pulitzer Prize winner 1985, for symphony 'RiverRun', won Grammy Award 1995 for 'Cello Concerto'

1940 Death - Frederick Albert Cook, American Explorer

1940 Death - Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies

1940 Birthday - Albert Johanneson, soccer star

1939 Event - Albert Einstein informs Franklin D. Roosevelt of possibilities of atomic bomb

1939 Event - Albert Lebrun elected president of France

1939 Death - Albert Fish, mass murderer, executed

1938 Birthday - Beverly F. Albert, architect

1938 Death - Albert Huybrechts, composer, dies at 39

1937 Birthday - Albert Hall, Boothton Alabama, actor, Trouble in Mind, Ryan's 4

1937 Death - Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel, composer, dies at 68

1937 Death - Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71

1936 Birthday - Claude Albert Coppens, composer

1936 Birthday - Albert Finney, Salford UK, actor, Dresser, Under the Volcano

1936 Birthday - John Albert, professor, Master of University College Oxford

1935 Death - Albert Kessel, 1st to die in California gas chamber

1935 Birthday - Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director, Victoria and Albert Museum

1935 Birthday - Albert Bustamante, born in Asherton, Texas, Representative-D-Texas 1985 - 1993

1934 Death - Albert Funke Kuppes, political cartoonist, dies

1934 Birthday - Albert W. Hall, actor, Apocalypse Now

1934 Birthday - Albert II FHTCEM, king of Belgium, 1993-

1934 Birthday - King Albert II, Belgian Royalty

1934 Death - Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium (1909-34), dies at 58

1933 Event - Albert Einstein arrives in U.S., a refugee from Nazi Germany

1933 Death - Albert Ross Parsons, composer, dies at 85

1933 Death - Albert Gyorgy Earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education, dies at 86

1932 Event - German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa

1932 Birthday - Albert Reynolds, Irish Politician

1932 Event - Senate chairman Albert Lebrun becomes president of France

1932 Death - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician

1932 Death - Albert Thomas, French social minister of Weapon production, dies

1932 Death - Eugene Francis Charles D'albert, composer, dies at 67

1931 Event - Albert Lonergan scores 137 SA vs. Qld at Adelaide before 5,697

1930 Event - Building begins on Albert Canal in Belgium

1929 Birthday - Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor, Doctors' Hospital

1929 Event - Former Interior Sec Albert Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe

1929 Death - Albert Anselmi, U.S. gangster, murdered by Al Capone

1929 Birthday - Albert H. Crews, astronaut

1929 Death - Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, Germany para-psychologist, dies at 66

1929 Death - Albert Steinruck, German actor (Golem), dies at 56

1928 Birthday - Marion Ross, Albert Lea, Minnesota, actress, Marion-Happy Days, Brooklyn Bridge

1928 Birthday - Albert Shanker, American labor leader, American Federation of Teachers

1928 Birthday - Albert Booth, British government minister

1928 Birthday - Albert Salmi, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue

1928 Death - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer, dies at 62

1926 Birthday - Jon[athan Stewart] Vickers, Prince Albert, Canada, tenor

1926 Event - 58th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard Crusader wins in 2:32.2

1926 Event - 52nd Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson on Bubbling Over wins in 2:03.8

1925 Birthday - Albert Bandura, Canadian Psychologist

1925 Event - Albert Michelsen runs world record marathon (2:19:01.8)

1925 Event - 57th Belmont: Albert Johnson aboard American Flag wins in 2:16.8

1924 Birthday - Albert TLCA Vogel, Dutch elocutionist

1923 Birthday - Lester Albert Trimble, composer

1923 Event - Albert Einstein speaks on pacifism in Berlin

1923 Event - English prince Albert (George VI) marries lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

1923 Birthday - Albert King, born in Mississippi, blues singer/guitarist, Bad Look Blues

1922 Event - Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein

1922 Event - Albert von Tilzer and Neville Fleesons musical premieres in New York City

1922 Death - Albert H K, monarch of Monaco (1889-1922), dies at 73

1922 Death - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 56

1922 Event - 48th Kentucky Derby: Albert Johnson aboard Morvich wins in 2:04.6

1921 Event - Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new theory of relativity

1921 Event - Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity

1921 Birthday - Joseph Albert Walker, Washington D.C., test pilot, X-15

1921 Birthday - Albert Sloman, Vice-Chancellor, Essex U

1920 Death - Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 43

1920 Death - Gerard Leman, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War, dies

1920 Birthday - Albert Hague, Berlin Germany, actor, Mr Shorofsky-Fame

1920 Birthday - Albert Meltzer, anarchist

1919 Birthday - Joseph Albert Wapner, Louisiana, judge, People's Court

1918 Event - King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels

1918 Death - Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41

1918 Birthday - Albert Weisser, composer

1917 Birthday - Albert de Klerk, Dutch composer and conductor

1917 Birthday - Robert [Albert] Bloch, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Psycho

1917 Birthday - Albert "Pud" Brown, clarinetist/saxophonist

1915 Event - Albert Einstein publishes the General Theory of Relativity

1915 Event - Journalist Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, convicted of murder in Georgia

1915 Death - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist, dies in battle

1915 Birthday - Bert [Albert L F] Peleman, Dirk Dyckmans, Flemish writer

1915 Death - Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo), dies at 65

1914 Birthday - Albert Markos, composer

1914 Event - French government awards king Albert of Belgium the Great Cross

1914 Event - King Albert I becomes supreme commander of Belgian army

1914 Birthday - Albert Soboult, French historian

1914 Event - U.S. Senator Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"

1914 Birthday - Albert Westerlinck, Jose J M Aerts, Flemish literary

1914 Death - J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Hague School), dies at 69

1913 Birthday - Albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director, The Just-Nobel 1957

1913 Birthday - Albert Ellis, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, American psychologist, developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

1913 Birthday - Albert Hardy, photographer

1913 Birthday - Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet and writer, Man Without a Head

1912 Event - Albert Berry made the 1st parachute jump from an airplane

1912 Event - Captain Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane

1912 Event - Albert Berry makes 1st parachute jump from an airplane

1911 Birthday - Albert Alberts, writer/journalist, French battle

1911 Birthday - Albert Cleage, famous African

1911 Birthday - Albert Remy, born in Sevres, France, actor, Grand Prix, Gigot, Train

1911 Death - Albert von Rothschild, baron/Austrian banker, dies at 66

1910 Death - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57

1910 Birthday - Sylvia Fisher, soprano, Albert Herring Opera

1910 Death - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer, dies at 75

1910 Death - Albert Fuchs, composer, dies at 51

1909 Event - Albert becomes king of Belgians

1909 Birthday - Albert Roberts, cricketer, New Zealand pace bowler in 5 Tests 1932-37

1909 Event - Victoria and Albert Museum opens in London

1909 Event - Albert Raines runs world record marathon (2:46:04.6)

1908 Death - Albert Dietrich, composer, dies at 79

1908 Event - Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light

1908 Birthday - Carl Albert, D, speaker of the House

1908 Birthday - Eddie Albert, born in Rock Island, Illinois, actor, Oliver-Green Acres

1908 Birthday - Carl Albert, U.S. speaker of house, 1971-77

1908 Birthday - Albert P. Morano, born in Paterson, New Jersey, Representative-R-Connecticut, 1951 - 1959

1907 Birthday - Albert Rice Leventhal, publisher, Little Golden Books

1907 Birthday - Sunnyland Albert Luandrew Slim, blues pianist

1907 Event - Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Mddx vs. Somerset

1907 Death - John Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54

1907 Birthday - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher and historian

1907 Birthday - Edward Albert Radice, economist

1906 Death - Albert Reville, French theologist (Jesus of Nazareth), dies at 79

1906 Birthday - Albert B Sabin, Russia, U.S. microbiologist, oral polio vaccine

1906 Birthday - Albert Goodwin, historian

1906 Birthday - Albert Hofmann, born in Baden, Switzerland, scientist, first to synthesize, examine, study, the psychedelic effects of LSD

1905 Event - Albert Cuypstrat street market in Amsterdam inaugurated

1905 Death - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer, dies at 85

1905 Birthday - Jef Maes, born in Antwerp, Belgium, composer, lecturer, worked for the Knokke orchestra, studied with Albert van de Vijver, Karel Candaeil, and Napoleon Distelmans

1905 Birthday - Albert Speer, German architect/minister of Armament, NSDAP

1904 Birthday - Albert Van Dekker, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Dr. Cyclops, Beau Gesture

1904 Birthday - Albert Kuyle, Louis Kuitenbrouwer, Dutch writer, Jesus' Robe

1903 Death - Albert Schaffle, German sociologist, dies at 72

1903 Birthday - Albert Helman, Lou Lichtveld, Suriname politician/novelist

1903 Birthday - Dean Jagger, Lima Ohio, actor, Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry

1903 Birthday - Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld, Albert Helman, Suriname author

1903 Birthday - Alan Bunce, born in Westfield, New Jersey, actor, Albert-Ethel and Albert

1903 Death - Albert Cahen, composer, dies at 57

1902 Birthday - Umberto "Albert" Anastasia, U.S. gangster, Murder Inc

1902 Death - Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902), dies at 74

1901 Birthday - Albert Dondeyne, Belgian philosopher/theologist

1901 Birthday - Karel Albert, Flemish composer, Marieken van Nymeghen

1901 Birthday - Albert Henneberg, composer

1900 Death - Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher, dies

1900 Event - Belgium crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern

1900 Birthday - [Albert] Carel Willink, Dutch painter, magic realism

1900 Birthday - Albert Maurice Hackett, playwright/screenwriter

1899 Event - Albert Trott hits Monty Noble over the Pavilion at Lord's

1899 Event - Victoria and Albert Museum foundation laid England

1899 Birthday - Albert Huybrechts, composer

1898 Birthday - Albert Claude, Belgium, biologist/physician, Nobel 1974

1897 Birthday - Albert Moeschinger, composer

1895 Birthday - Albert Hay Malotte, composer

1895 Event - Albert Trott takes 8-43 on Test debut, then a record

1894 Birthday - Albert Stoessel, composer

1893 Birthday - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, Hungary, biochemist, Vitamin C, Nobel 1937

1893 Birthday - Albert Szent-Gyorgi, Hungarian Scientist

1893 Birthday - Albert Mahl, German writer, Hart vull Drift

1892 Death - Charles Albert White, composer, dies at 62

1891 Death - Stephen Albert Emery, composer, dies at 49

1891 Death - Albert Pike, American Lawyer

1890 Birthday - Albert H Edelkoort, theologist, Zondebesef

1890 Birthday - Albert van Raalte, conductor, AVRO-orchestra

1889 Birthday - Albert J Sylvester, England, ballroom dancer, Alex Moor Award-1977

1889 Birthday - Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director, KLM

1889 Birthday - Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director, Abandoned Child

1888 Birthday - Albert Spalding, composer

1887 Event - Stanley's expedition reaches plateau at Lake Albert Congo

1887 Birthday - Albert PAA Besnard, Dutch poet/journalist, Uprising and Remorse

1887 Birthday - Albert P. Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor, Charles the Great

1887 Birthday - Albert Conti, born in Trieste, Austria, actor, Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion

1886 Birthday - Albert Ehrenstein, Austria writer, Message from the Madhouse

1886 Birthday - Albert Saverys, Flemish painter

1886 Death - Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype), dies at 61

1886 Birthday - Albert Edward Sammons, composer

1884 Birthday - Albert Warner, U.S. producer, Warner Bros

1884 Birthday - Albert Israel Elkus, composer

1884 Birthday - Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist

1884 Birthday - Albert Louis Wolff, composer

1884 Birthday - Albert Wolff, Dutch Musician

1883 Birthday - Albert "Tibby" Cotter, cricketer, great Aussie quick of early century

1883 Death - Albert Franz Doppler, composer, dies at 61

1882 Birthday - Albert Coates, born in St. Petersburg, Russia, conductor and composer, Eagle

1881 Birthday - Edgar Albert Guest, born in Detroit, Michigan, poet/newspaperman

1880 Birthday - Alfred Einstein, German/U.S. musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein

1880 Birthday - Albert Szirmai, composer

1879 Birthday - Albert Einstein, born in Ulm, Germany, physicist, Nobel 1921

1878 Birthday - Albert Riemenschneider, composer

1878 Birthday - Albert Siklos, composer

1878 Birthday - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician

1878 Birthday - Albert Weisgerber, German painter/graphic artist

1877 Birthday - O. W. Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter/etcher

1877 Birthday - Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist, People/Nutcracker

1876 Birthday - Albert E Michotte van den Berck, Belgian psychologist

1876 Event - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, and football

1875 Birthday - Albert William Ketelbey, Aston England, composer, Wonder Worker

1875 Birthday - Albert I LCMM von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium, 1909-34

1875 Birthday - Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist, Nobel 1954

1874 Birthday - Albert Aftalion, Bulgaria/French economist

1874 Birthday - Albert Relf, cricketer, England all-rounder in 13 Tests 1903-14

1873 Birthday - Albert J. Nock, American Philosopher

1873 Event - Albert Bridge creossing Thames opens

1873 Birthday - Albert MLA de Bassompierre, Belgian ambassador to Tokyo, 1921-39

1872 Birthday - Albert P. Terhune, U.S., novelist, Lad, a Dog

1872 Birthday - Albert P Sarraut, French Governor-General of Indo-China, 1911..19, PM, 1933/36

1872 Birthday - Albert Steinruck, German actor, Golem

1871 Event - Albert L Jones (New York City), patents corrugated paper

1871 Event - Albert Hall opens by Queen Victoria in London

1869 Birthday - Albert F Pollard, British historian, Dict of natural biography

1869 Death - Albert Grisar, composer, dies at 60

1869 Birthday - Albert Roussel, born in Tourcoing, France, composer, Rapsodie Flamende

1869 Birthday - Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design

1867 Birthday - Albert Basserman, Mannheim Germany, actor, Foreign Correspondant

1867 Event - Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria

1866 Birthday - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter/etcher

1865 Birthday - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer

1865 Birthday - Frederick Albert Cook, American Explorer

1865 Birthday - Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian, Motion

1865 Death - Albert G Bilders, Dutch landscape painter, dies at 26

1864 Birthday - Albert J M Bakker, Dutch actor, Teun the night watch

1864 Birthday - Eugene Francis Charles D'Albert, German pianist and composer, Golem

1862 Birthday - Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, U.S., politician/author, Progressive

1862 Birthday - Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, German para-psychologist

1862 Death - Albert Sidney Johnston, U.S. Confederate general, dies in battle at 59

1861 Death - Albert, prince consort of England/husband of Queen Victoria, dies at 42

1860 Birthday - Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established U.S. credit union movement

1860 Death - Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies

1858 Birthday - Albert Fuchs, composer

1858 Event - Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox

1853 Birthday - Albert Vandal, French earl/historian, Le Pacha Bonneval

1852 Birthday - John Albert Delany, composer

1851 Death - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer, dies at 49

1851 Birthday - Gerard Leman, born in Liege, Belgium, Belgian general, war hero, provided King Albert I of Belgium with his military education, commander of the forts surrounding Liege in World War One, captured as a prisoner of War by the Germans and released at the end of the War

1850 Birthday - Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company

1850 Birthday - Ernest Albert Waterlow, water-color painter

1849 Birthday - Albert J-BJ Thos, Belgian colonial pioneer, Congo

1849 Death - Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Minister of Finance (1801-14), dies at 88

1849 Death - Albert Gallatin, Swiss Statesman

1849 Death - Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49), dies

1849 Event - Dutch princess Marianne and Prince Albert of Prussia separate

1849 Event - Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic)

1848 Birthday - Albert HK, monarch of Monaco, 1889-1922

1847 Birthday - Albert Ross Parsons, composer

1846 Birthday - Albert Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education

1846 Birthday - Albert Cahen, composer

1844 Birthday - Albert von Rothschild, Austrian banker

1844 Birthday - J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter, Haagse school

1843 Birthday - Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher

1841 Birthday - Stephen Albert Emery, composer

1840 Event - British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg

1834 Birthday - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer

1834 Birthday - Albert Lindley Lee, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1830 Birthday - Albert Gallatin Jenkins, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1830 Birthday - Albert Bierstadt, Germany, painter, US landscapes

1829 Birthday - Albert Dietrich, composer

1829 Birthday - Charles Albert White, composer

1828 Birthday - Albert FA, king of Saxon, 1873-1902

1826 Birthday - Albert Reville, French theologist, Jesus of Nazareth

1825 Birthday - Joseph Albert, German photographer, albertotype

1822 Death - Albert Christoph Dies, composer, dies at 67

1822 Birthday - Jan Albert van Eyken, composer/organist

1821 Birthday - Albert Franz Doppler, composer

1821 Birthday - Albert, duc de Broglie, France, premier, 1873-74, 1977

1820 Death - Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer, dies at 71

1819 Birthday - Albert "Bertie" von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, husband of queen Victoria

1819 Birthday - Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer

1810 Birthday - Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1809 Birthday - Albert Pike, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1809 Birthday - Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy

1809 Birthday - Albert Schaffle, German sociologist, Abriss der Soziologie

1808 Birthday - Albert Grisar, composer

1803 Birthday - Albert Sidney Johnston, General Confederate Army

1801 Birthday - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer

1798 Birthday - Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, 1831-49

1770 Birthday - Albert Bertel Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen Denmark, sculptor, Dying Lion

1761 Birthday - Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, born in Switzerland, U.S. minister of Finance, 1801 - 1814

1761 Birthday - Albert Gallatin, Swiss Statesman

1755 Birthday - Albert Christoph Dies, composer

1748 Birthday - Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer

1745 Death - Charles VII Albert, German emperor (1742-45), dies at 47

1742 Event - German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor

1736 Death - Albert Seba, Amsterdam pharmacist, dies at 71

1691 Death - Albert Cuyp, landscape painter, buried at 71

1651 Death - Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47

1632 Birthday - Albert Schop, composer

1621 Death - Charles d'albert duke of Luynes/Prime Minister of France, dies at 43

1604 Birthday - Heinrich Albert, Germany, composer, Arien oder Melodien

1578 Birthday - Charles d'Albert duke of Luynes, premier of France/Governor of Picardie

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

1389 Event - Battle at Falkoping: Danes defeat King Albert of Sweden

1298 Event - Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor

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

1192 Death - Albert I van Leuven/Luik, Belgian bishop of Luik/saint, dies at 27













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