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2010 Event - In China, 23 elder members of the Communist Party of China call for ending the country's restrictions on free speech

2010 Event - Nepal declares a national day of mourning in honor of Girija Prasad Koirala, the 'elder statesman of South Asia' who dies in Kathmandu at age 86

1996 Death - Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69

1983 Death - Sam Chatman, elder statesman of the blues, dies

1969 Event - Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," premieres in New York City

1968 Death - Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84

1961 Death - Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies

1952 Birthday - Larry Elder, American Journalist

1942 Birthday - Ann Elder, born in Cleveland, Ohio, comedienne, Smothers Brothers Show, Laugh-In

1934 Birthday - [Robert] Lee Elder, born in Dallas, Texas, PGA golfer, 1974 Monsanto Open

1930 Event - Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in U.S., Cincinnati

1883 Birthday - Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Newport New, Virginia, TV preacher

1849 Death - Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45

1804 Birthday - Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer, Radetzky March

1794 Death - George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies

1732 Birthday - George Colman, "the Elder", playwright, baptised

1708 Birthday - William Pitt the Elder, Whig, U.K. PM, 1756-61, 66-68, 'Great Commoner'

1681 Death - French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45

1662 Death - Gerard Terborch, the elder, painter, dies

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

1635 Birthday - Frans van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch painter

1635 Birthday - Walraad, the Elder, Dutch Field Marshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen

1610 Birthday - Cornelis Evertsen, the Elder, Dutch/Swiss Vice-Admiral

1593 Birthday - Matthew Merian, the Elder, engraver/bookseller

1548 Death - Sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81

1202 Death - Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies

965 Death - Arnulf I, the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies

430 Death - Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75













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