2005 Death Fritz Scholder, American Artist 1994 Death Herman W. "Fritz" Liebert, U.S. librarian/Yale-curator, dies at 83 1993 Death Fritz Feld, actor (Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93 1988 Death Frederick [Fritz] Loewe, composer, dies 1986 Death Fritz A Lipman, discoverer (co-enzymes, Nobel 1953), dies at 87 1984 Death Fritz Geissler, composer, dies at 62 1982 Death Fritz Usinger, German writer (Song against Death), dies at 87 1982 Death Fritz Eberhard, West German lawyer/resistor, dies at 85 1976 Death Fritz Rasp, actor (Diary of a Lost Girl), dies at 85 1976 Death Fritz Lang, director (Cloak and Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85 1974 Death Fritz Zwicky, Swiss/US astronomer (supernova), dies at 75 1973 Death Fritz Mahler, composer, dies at 71 1972 Death Fritz Behrend, composer, dies at 83 1972 Birthday Fritz Fequiere, WLAF guard, Barcelona Dragons, London Monarchs 1970 Death Fritz vs. Unruh, writer, dies at 85 1967 Birthday Steve Fritz, Salina Kansas, decathlete 1967 Death Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP), dies at 53 1966 Death Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (Stuttgart 1955-58), dies at 35 1963 Death Fritz Reiner, Hungarian/U.S. conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, dies at 74 1963 Event Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ 1963 Event Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ 1963 Death Fritz Reuter, composer, dies at 66 1962 Death Fritz Kreisler, Austria/US violinist and composer, dies at 86 1960 Death Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter, dies at 90 1959 Death Fritz Brun, composer, dies at 81 1957 Death Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Roman Law), dies at 78 1956 Death Fritz Kunkel, German physician/charachterologist, dies at 66 1949 Death Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer, dies at 75 1946 Death Fritz Sauckel, German war criminal, hanged 1945 Death Fritz Fromm, German supreme commander of Reserve army, executed 1943 Birthday Robert Crumb, U.S., cartoonist, Father Time, Fritz Cat 1943 Death Fritz Schmidt, Nazi commissioner in Holland, commits suicide at 39 1942 Birthday Fritz Peterson, baseball pitcher, New York Yankees 1942 Death Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt), dies at 50 1940 Death Fritz Volbach, composer, dies at 79 1940 Death Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78 1938 Birthday Ralph Bakshi, animator, Lord of Rings, Fritz the Cat, Mighty Mouse 1937 Birthday Fritz Scholder, American Artist 1934 Death Fritz Cortolezis, composer, dies at 56 1934 Death Fritz Haber, German chemist (Nobel 1918), dies at 65 1933 Birthday Philip Corner, born in America, composer, visual artist, taught by Fritz Jahoda, teacher, Modern Music at the New School for Social Research 1933 Birthday Fritz Bolkestein, Dutch CEO, Shell, and Minister of Defense, VVD 1930 Birthday Fritz Wunderlich, Kusel Germany, tenor, Stuttgart 1955-58 1929 Event 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel) 1928 Event Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car 1928 Birthday Walter Fritz Mondale, born in Ceylon, Minnesota, Senator-D-Minnesota 1964 - 1976, 42nd Vice President, 1977 - 1981 1927 Event Fritz Lang's Metropolis premieres 1926 Birthday Fritz Weaver, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Josef-Holocaust, Day of the Dolphin 1925 Birthday Fritz Behrendt, German/Dutch cartoon character, The Slogan 1923 Death Fritz Mauthner, German author/philosopher (skepticism), dies at 73 1922 Event Fritz Langs "Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler" premieres in Berlin 1922 Birthday Fritz Hollings, American Politician 1921 Birthday Fritz Geissler, composer 1919 Event Fritz Kreisler and F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in New York City 1916 Death Fritz Steinbach, composer, dies at 61 1913 Birthday Fritz Erler, German politician, SDP 1913 Event 17th Boston Marathon won by Fritz Carlson of Minnesota in 2:25:14.8 1911 Birthday Herman W. "Fritz" Liebert, U.S. OSSer/librarian, Yale curator 1910 Birthday Fritz [Reuter] Leiber, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Bazaar of the Bizarre 1906 Birthday Leopold Kohr, writer/mentor of Fritz Schumacher 1906 Death Fritz Schaudinn, German animal scholar: examined amoebasis, dies at 34 1903 Birthday Fritz Schmidt, German street photographer 1901 Birthday Fritz Mahler, composer 1900 Birthday Fritz Feld, Berlin Germany, actor, Jack Benny Show, At the Circus 1899 Birthday Fritz Bayerlein, German Lieutenant-General, WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo 1898 Birthday Fritz Zwicky, Swiss astronomer, super nova 1896 Birthday Fritz Eberhard, Hellmut Rauschenplat, W-German lawyer/resistor, Law 1896 Birthday Fritz Reuter, composer 1895 Birthday Fritz Usinger, German writer, Eternal Struggle 1894 Birthday Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi General of Labor 1894 Birthday Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star, 1920-26 1893 Birthday Fritz Perls, father of Gestalt therapy 1892 Birthday Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister, Organization Todt 1891 Birthday Fritz Feigl, Austria, chemist, spot tests 1891 Birthday Fritz Rasp, Bayreuth Germany, actor, Diary of a Lost Girl 1890 Birthday Fritz Lang, Germany, director, M, Metropolis 1889 Birthday Fritz Kunkel, German physicians, Angewandte Characterize 1889 Birthday Fritz Behrend, composer 1888 Birthday Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, U.S. conductor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1885 Birthday Fritz vs. Unruh, writer 1879 Birthday Fritz Schulz, German law historian, Classical Novel Law 1878 Birthday Fritz Brun, composer 1878 Birthday Fritz Cortolezis, composer 1875 Birthday Fritz Kreisler, Vienna Austria, violinist and composer 1874 Death Fritz Reuter, writer, dies at 63 1874 Birthday Fritz Bennicke Hart, composer 1871 Birthday Fritz Schaudinn, German animal expert, examined syphilis 1870 Birthday Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter 1868 Birthday Fritz Haber, German phycist-chemist, Nobel 1919 1861 Birthday Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer 1855 Birthday Fritz Steinbach, composer 1849 Birthday Fritz Mauthner, Bohemia, German author/philosopher, skepticism 1826 Birthday Charles-A Chatrian, Erckmann-C, French writer, L'ami Fritz 1810 Birthday Fritz Reuter, writer 1783 Death Gaspard Fritz, composer, dies at 67 1716 Birthday Gaspard Fritz, composer
