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2012 Death - Joseph Murray, a Nobel prize winner, plastic surgeon and the first person to perform a kidney transplantation, dies at age 93

2012 Event - In the U.S., President Obama nominates John R. Allen as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), with General Joseph Dunford positioned to succeed Allen in his previous post of commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan

2011 Event - Despite protests by opposition leader Etienne Tshisekedi, Joseph Kaliba is sworn in as President of the Democratic Republic of Congo

2006 Death - Joseph Stefano, American Writer

2005 Event - Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, becomes the 265th pope

2004 Death - Joseph James Zimmerman, inventor, invented the first electronic telephone answering machine in 1948, dies at 91

2002 Death - Joseph Nathan Kane, trivia expert, Famous First Facts, dies at 103

2001 Death - Joseph Greenberg, American Writer

1999 Death - Joseph Heller, writer, Catch-22, dies at 76

1997 Death - Anthea Joseph, music producer, dies at 57

1997 Death - Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer, dies at 62

1997 Death - Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician, dies at 76

1996 Death - Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer, dies at 79

1996 Death - Joseph Bernardin, cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, dies at 68

1996 Death - Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot, dies at 81

1996 Death - Joseph Green, film maker, dies at 96

1996 Death - Joseph Mitchell, writer, dies at 87

1996 Death - Joseph Stone, lawyer, dies at 79

1996 Death - Leon Joseph Suenens, cardinal, dies at 91

1996 Death - Joseph Lee Pope, singer, dies at 62

1996 Death - John Joseph Krol, cardinal, dies at 95

1996 Death - Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician, dies at 78

1996 Death - Joseph Brodsky, poet, dies at 55

1996 Death - Gerald Joseph Mulligan, baritone saxophonist/composer, dies at 68

1996 Death - Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader, dies at 84

1995 Death - Francis Joseph Quinn, academic, dies at 90

1995 Death - Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician, dies at 64

1995 Event - Joseph Rotblat awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1995 Death - Odut Joseph Olutola Oluola Oguntala, soho club owner, dies at 74

1995 Death - Joseph Fattorini, businessman, dies at 82

1995 Death - Roger Joseph Zelazny, sci-fi writer, dies of cancer at 60

1995 Death - Joseph Tomelty, actor and playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick), dies at 84

1995 Death - Joseph Heifitz, film director, dies at 89

1995 Death - Joseph Peter Grace, businessman, dies at 61

1995 Death - Joseph Anthony "Joe" Richards, singer and actor (Colorado Ranger), dies at 44

1995 Death - Joseph Needham, British Scientist

1995 Death - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83

1995 Death - Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist/rebel, dies at 77

1995 Death - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect, dies at 69

1995 Death - Joseph Kagan, businessman, dies at 79

1994 Death - Keith Joseph, British MP (C), dies

1994 Death - Joseph H Hazen, U.S. producer/Vice President (Warner Bros), dies at 96

1994 Death - Joseph Paul Jack Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer, dies at 91

1994 Birthday - Nicholas Joseph Mills, son of Chris Evert and Andy Mills

1994 Death - Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered

1994 Event - "Joseph and the Amazing" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 223 performances

1994 Death - Joseph Janni, producer, dies at 78

1994 Death - Joseph Cotten, actor (Citizen Kane), dies at 88

1993 Event - "Joseph and the Amazing" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 223 performances

1993 Event - Nobel prize for physics awarded to Russel Hulse and Joseph Taylor

1993 Death - Joseph Warren, actor (Gift of Love, Urban Warriors), dies at 77

1993 Death - Joseph Towers, U.S. pilot, dies

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

1993 Death - Joseph Anthony [Deuster], U.S. director/actor (Rainmaker), dies at 80

1992 Death - Helen B M Fennell Joseph, English/South Afr anti-apartheid, dies at 87

1992 Birthday - Jacob Joseph Worton, Newark DE, twin actor, Baby's Day Out

1992 Death - Joseph L George, dies of cancer at 65

1992 Death - Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st Chamber member (CPN), dies

1992 Event - Joseph A. Molloy elected New York Yankee general partner

1992 Event - Supreme Court rules 5-3 that Joseph Doherty isn't entitled to asylum

1991 Event - Muslim Shites release American held in Lebanon hostage Joseph Cicippio

1991 Death - George Joseph Stigler, U.S. economist (Nobel 1982), dies at 80

1991 Death - Joseph Papp, U.S. theater producer (Chorus Line, Hair), dies at 70

1991 Death - Joseph Papp, Broadway producer (Chorus Line), dies of cancer at 70

1991 Event - U.S. Supreme Court begins to hear Joseph Doherty case

1991 Birthday - Owen Joseph Kline, son of Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline

1991 Event - Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers

1991 Event - New York City Mayor Dinkins declares "Joseph Doherty Week"

1991 Birthday - Abraham Joseph Groening, son of Simpson creator Matt Groening

1991 Event - U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case

1990 Event - Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected

1990 Event - U.S. doctors Joseph E. Murray and E. Donnall Thomas win Nobel Prize

1990 Death - Joseph Hardy, actor and director (Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies at 71

1990 Death - Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies

1990 Event - Former Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William Sound and pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill

1990 Event - Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill

1990 Death - Arthur Joseph Goldberg, American Statesman died at age 81

1990 Event - Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84

1990 Death - Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73

1989 Death - Joseph Wybran, Belgian physician/Jews foreman, murdered

1989 Event - Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty deported to UK

1988 Event - Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty deported to U.K.

1987 Death - Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image), dies at 83

1987 Event - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Joseph Brodsky

1986 Event - U.S. professor Joseph Cicippio is kidnapped and held hostage in Beirut

1986 Death - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist, dies at 77

1986 Death - Roy Marcus Cohn, U.S. lawyer (Joseph McCarthy), dies

1986 Death - Joseph P Addabbo, U.S. defence specialist/(Sen-D), dies at 61

1986 Death - Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64

1986 Death - Joseph Kraft, U.S. columnist, dies at 61

1985 Death - Paul Creston [Giuseppe/Joseph Guttoveggio], U.S. composer, dies at 78

1985 Death - Joseph Walker, cameraman, dies at 92

1985 Death - Joseph "Smoky Joe" Wood, pitcher (Boston Red Sox), dies at 95

1984 Event - Joseph Luns resigns as Secretary-General of NATO

1984 Death - Joseph Losey, director (Go-Between, M, Concrete Jungle), dies at 75

1983 Birthday - Joseph Mazzello, actor, Internal Affairs

1983 Event - "Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Royale New York City after 747 performances

1983 Event - Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour

1983 Event - IRA's Joseph Doherty arrested in New York City

1983 Event - Chicago Absp Joseph L. Bernardin is among 18 new cardinals invested

1982 Event - South Bend, Indiana jury acquits self-avowed racist Joseph Paul Franklin

1982 Death - Joe Tex, Joseph Arrington Jr, singer (Getting Scarce), dies at 49

1982 Birthday - Jessica Joseph, born in Royal Oak, Michigan, dance skater, Butler-1997 National

1982 Birthday - Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor, Tommy Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun

1982 Event - "Joseph and the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale New York City for 747 performances

1981 Event - Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City

1981 Death - Joseph Yasser, composer, dies at 88

1981 Death - Joseph H Hirschhorn, U.S. art collector/founder H Museum, dies at 82

1981 Event - IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail

1981 Event - NCAA St. Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul

1980 Death - Joseph M "Joop" Lucker, Dutch editor-in-chief (Volkskrant), dies at 65

1980 Event - Joseph Doherty and 3 other IRA men arrested for murder

1980 Death - Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80

1979 Event - A. L. Webber musical "Joseph and Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," premieres

1979 Event - Billy Martin is involved in a barroom altercation with Joseph Cooper, a Minnesota marshmallow salesman. Cooper requires 15 stitches

1979 Death - Joseph Kotalla, German war criminal (4 of Breda), dies at 71

1979 Event - Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau

1978 Event - Joseph Freeman, Jr. is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

1978 Death - Joseph EA "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter, dies at 77

1978 Birthday - Nafisa Joseph, Miss India Universe, 1997

1978 Death - Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (New York Yankees), dies at 96

1977 Event - Joseph L Howze installed as bishop of Roman Catholic diocese (Miss)

1977 Birthday - Joseph Hahn, American Musician

1976 Event - Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ

1976 Event - Joseph William Turner watercolor auctioned for 340,000 pounds

1976 Birthday - Matthew P Newmark, actor, Joseph Carroll-Guns of Paradise

1976 Death - Joseph Henabery, actor and director (Cobra), dies at 88

1975 Death - Joseph Calleia, actor (Jungle Book, Gilda), dies at 78

1975 Death - Jozsef Mindszenty, Joseph Prehm, Hungarian cardinal, dies at 83

1975 Birthday - Danyon Joseph Loader, born in Dunedin, New Zealand, 200m/400m swimmer, Olympic-2 gold-96

1975 Death - Joseph Dunninger, New York City, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger), dies at 82

1974 Death - Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist, dies at 89

1974 Death - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer, dies at 74

1974 Birthday - Miles Joseph, West Springfield Massachusetts, soccer forward, 1996 Olympics gold

1973 Birthday - Kerry Joseph, WLAF quarterback for the London Monarchs

1973 Death - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian/US violinist, dies at 80

1972 Birthday - Joseph Mulrey McIntyre, rocker, New Kids-Lovin' You Forever

1972 Death - Joseph Cornell, American Sculptor

1972 Event - Joseph A Walkers "River Niger," premieres in New York City

1972 Death - Joseph Kaminski, composer, dies at 68

1972 Birthday - Vance Joseph, NFL cornerback and safety for the New York Jets

1972 Death - Joseph F Smith, Jr., leader U.S. mormon chuch, dies at 95

1972 Birthday - Dwayne Joseph, NFL cornerback for the Chicago Bears

1972 Birthday - Joseph Patton, NFL guard for the Washington Redskins

1971 Event - Joseph Luns becomes Secretary-General of NATO

1971 Death - Joseph Ford McGuinn, director, dies of heart attack at 67

1971 Birthday - Joseph Fitzgerald, born in Brooklyn, New York, team handball center back 1996 Olympics

1971 Death - Joseph Colombo, mobster, shot dead at 48

1971 Event - Joseph Luns appointed Secretary-General of NATO

1971 Birthday - Joseph Rogers, CFL receiver for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

1971 Death - Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor, dies at 83

1971 Death - Joseph Valachi, U.S. gangster, dies at 66

1971 Death - Joseph Desire Fernandel, comedian, dies of cancer at 67

1971 Birthday - Jennifer Christine Joseph, Wendover Nev, Miss America-Nevada 1996

1970 Birthday - Joseph Hudson, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox

1970 Birthday - Joseph Fiennes, British Actor

1970 Death - Joseph W. Krutch, U.S. writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76

1970 Death - Joseph Wood Krutch, American Environmentalist

1970 Birthday - Wesley Barnett, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, Olympic weightlifter, Silver medal 1987 Pan American

1970 Birthday - Wes Barnett, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, 238lb, 108kg, weightlifter, 1992, 1996 Olympics

1970 Death - Joseph A. Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered

1969 Death - Joseph P. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Massachusetts, at 81

1969 Death - Joseph Kosma, composer, dies at 63

1969 Death - Joseph Beran, Czechoslovakian archbishop of Prague/cardinal, dies at 80

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

1969 Death - Joseph Messner, composer, dies at 75

1968 Birthday - Darren Joseph, CFL fullback for the Saskatchewan Roughriders

1968 Death - Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festival), dies

1968 Birthday - Joseph Ouellet, hockey forward, Team France 1998

1968 Death - Joseph Martin, Jr., Speaker of the House, dies at 83

1968 Death - Joseph Pholien, Belgian Prime Minister 1950 - 1952 communist fighter, dies at 83

1967 Death - Francis Joseph Spellman, American Clergyman

1967 Birthday - James Joseph, NFL running back for the Cincinnati Bengals

1967 Birthday - Joseph William Cathcart, rock guitarist, Nelson-Love and Affection

1967 Birthday - Curtis Joseph, born in Keswick, Ontario, NHL goalie, Team Canada, Edmonton Oilers

1967 Birthday - Dale Joseph, CFL defensive back for the Saskatchewan Roughriders

1967 Birthday - Joseph Tilford Leigh Greene, born in Dayton, Ohio, long jumper, 1992, 1996 Olympics

1967 Death - Arnhem "Tata" Joseph Weiss, "the Zigeunerbaron," buried

1967 Birthday - Joseph Amor, San Jose, video game record holder, Space Invaders

1966 Birthday - Joseph Barbara, New Symrna, Florida, actor, Joe Carlino-Another World

1966 Birthday - Joseph "Run" Simmons, rapper, Run DMC

1966 Birthday - Joseph Wanag, Wilson, Connecticut, U.S. judoka 1992 Olympics

1966 Death - Joseph Deems Taylor, composer, dies at 80

1966 Death - Joseph Crehan, dies of stroke at 81

1966 Death - Buster Keaton, Joseph Francis, U.S. comic (General), dies at 69

1966 Birthday - Joseph Harper, Ventura California, canoe alternate for 1996 Olympics

1965 Event - USAF Captain Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15

1965 Death - Joseph Auslander, American Poet

1964 Birthday - Joseph "Run" Simmons, rapper, RUN DMC

1964 Birthday - John Joseph Thomas, Arcadia California, actor, Young Dan'l Boone

1964 Death - Joseph Marx, Austrian composer, dies at 82

1964 Birthday - Joe Magrane, born in Des Moines, Iowa, Joseph David Magrane, baseball player, pitcher, MLB Network broadcaster, played for Major League Baseball teams, St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago White Sox, California Angels, NBC sports analyst at 2008 Summer Olympics

1964 Birthday - Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer, FBI Most Wanted List

1964 Death - Joseph Schildkraut, Austr actor (Flame of Barbary Coast), dies at 68

1964 Death - Joseph Schildkraut, actor (Joseph Schildkraut Presents), dies at 68

1964 Death - Joseph Schildkraut, actor (Cleopatra, Diary of Anne Frank), dies at 68

1963 Death - Joseph Self, murderer, executed; last Washington state execution in 25 yrs

1962 Death - Joseph Allen, Jr., actor (All Women Have Secrets), dies at 44

1962 Birthday - Duffy James Joseph Waldorf, Jr., born in Los Angeles, California, PGA golfer, 1995 LaCantera Tx

1962 Event - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 60,000 m

1962 Event - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m

1962 Event - NASA civilian Test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,600 m

1962 Event - NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m

1962 Event - NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m

1962 Event - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 75,190 m

1962 Event - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 46,900m

1962 Death - Joseph Kearns, actor (George-Dennis the Menace), dies at 55

1961 Death - Joseph Schenck, Russian Businessman

1961 Event - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 33,100 m

1961 Event - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 to 34,840 m

1961 Event - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 32,770 m

1961 Event - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m)

1961 Event - 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St. Joseph's defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes

1961 Death - Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph and his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25

1961 Event - Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo

1961 Death - John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday

1960 Death - Joseph Lamb, composer, dies at 72

1960 Event - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')

1960 Birthday - Joseph Guzaldo, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Stir Crazy

1960 Birthday - Joseph Martin Mudd, born in Louisville, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1988 Federal Express

1960 Death - Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81

1960 Death - Joseph Haas, German opera composer (Totenmesse), dies at 81

1959 Death - Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 81

1959 Death - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israel Knesset (1949-59), dies at 73

1959 Death - Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer, dies at 85

1958 Death - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert, dies at 84

1958 Birthday - Joseph Richard Sylvers, born in Memphis, Tennessee, guitarist, vocalist, member of rhythm and blues band, The Sylvers

1958 Death - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80

1958 Death - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80

1958 Birthday - Joseph Paul Sindelar, born in Ft. Knox, Kentucky, PGA golfer, BC Open-1985, 87

1958 Death - Clinton Joseph Davisson, dies

1958 Birthday - Grandmaster Flash, Joseph Saddler, New York City, rocker, Message

1957 Death - Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer, dies at 78

1957 Death - Joseph McCarthy, Wisconsin Senator-R-Wisconsin 1947 - 1957, dies at 47

1957 Death - Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66

1957 Event - Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as President of Milwaukee Braves

1956 Birthday - Martin Joseph Fettman, born in Brooklyn, New York, PhD/astronaut, STS-58

1956 Death - Joseph Erlanger, U.S. doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944), dies

1956 Death - Joseph John Richards, composer, dies at 77

1955 Death - Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer, dies at 91

1955 Death - Joseph Foley, actor (Mr Peepers), dies at 45

1955 Death - Joseph McCabe, English Writer

1954 Event - U.S. Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign

1954 Birthday - Tobias Picker, born in New York City, New York, composer, awarded Joseph H. Bearns Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Award in Music from American Academy of Arts and Letters, composer-in-residence for Houston Symphony, 1985 - 1990, music publisher, Schott Music Corporation

1954 Birthday - Alan [Joseph] Lamb, South African/British cricket player, Northampton

1954 Event - Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" during Senate-Army hearings

1954 Death - Joseph Hergesheimer, novelist (Java Head), dies

1954 Birthday - Joseph Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Surfacing, Blind Date

1954 Event - U.S. Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics

1954 Event - Edward R. Murrow criticizes Senator Joseph McCarthy on 'See it Now'

1953 Event - KQTV TV channel 2 in Saint Joseph, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting

1953 Death - Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82

1953 Death - Joseph Jongen, Belgian composer, dies at 79

1953 Event - Joseph Laniel appointed French premier

1953 Birthday - Fred Upton, born in St. Joseph, Michigan, Representative-R-Michigan 1987 -

1953 Death - Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader

1953 Birthday - Carl Joseph Stone, born in America, composer, electronic music genre, minimalist, studied composition at California Institute of the Arts, served as President of the American Music Center

1952 Birthday - Joseph P. Kennedy II, born in Brighton, Massachusetts, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1987 - 1999

1952 Death - Joseph Allen Sr, dies

1952 Birthday - Joseph Kent Massey, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, soling yachter, 1996 Olympics bronze

1952 Death - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66

1951 Death - Robert Joseph Flaherty, documentary film maker, dies

1951 Death - Joseph Bovet, composer, dies at 71

1951 Birthday - Paul Dresher, born in Los Angeles, California, Paul Joseph Dresher, composer, drummer, minimalist and post-minimalist genres, studied at University of California, Berkeley, 2006 Guggenheim fellowship recipient

1950 Event - Joseph Pholien becomes Belgian premier

1950 Death - M Joseph V d'Arbaud, French poet/author (Li cant palustre), dies at 76

1950 Event - Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists

1950 Event - 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published

1950 Birthday - Joseph R Tanner, Danville, Illinois, astronaut, STS-66, 82, sk: 97

1950 Death - Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66

1950 Death - Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies

1949 Birthday - Joseph C. Wilson, American Public Servant

1949 Death - Joseph A Cushman, U.S. paleontologist, dies at 68

1948 Death - John Joseph Pershing, American Soldier

1948 Death - Joseph Wihtol, composer, dies at 84

1947 Death - Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/general, dies at 78

1947 Death - Joseph Hardstaff, cricket (311 runs in 5 Tests for England 1907-08), dies

1946 Death - Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general (China), dies

1946 Birthday - Joseph Sobran, American Activist

1945 Death - Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet and writer (Vienna Verbatim), dies at 43

1944 Death - Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer, dies at 66

1944 Death - Joseph B "Aristide" Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist, dies

1944 Birthday - Joseph Celli, born in America, composer, musician, experimental, contemporary music genres, worked with John Cage, the Kronos Quartet

1944 Event - Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, and Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves

1943 Death - Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist and composer (Golem suite), dies at 56

1943 Death - Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer, dies at 47

1943 Birthday - Joseph Schwantner, composer

1943 Birthday - Joseph E. Stiglitz, American Economist

1943 Birthday - Gavin Bryars, born in Goole, England, composer, bassist, performed in trio Joseph Holbrooke, founding member, Portsmouth Sinfonia

1943 Event - Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph and His Brothers"

1942 Event - Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden"

1942 Birthday - Shere Hite, St. Joseph Missouri, sex therapist, Hite Report

1942 Death - Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer (Weber and Lewis Fields), dies at 74

1942 Birthday - Tony Meehan, born in New End, England, born Daniel Joseph Anthony Meehan, musician, drummer, founding member of the Shadows with Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Jet Harris

1942 Death - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer, dies at 92

1942 Death - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American Clergyman

1941 Event - Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss," premieres in New York City

1941 Event - Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia

1941 Event - Joseph Kesselring's "Arsenic and Old Lace," premieres in New York City

1941 Death - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67

1940 Birthday - Anthea Joseph, music producer

1940 Birthday - Joseph J. DioGuardi, born in New York City, New York, Representative-R-New York 1985 - 1989

1940 Birthday - Joseph J. DioGuardi, Politician

1940 Birthday - Joseph Torre, outfield/manager, Braves, Mets, 1971 NL MVP

1940 Birthday - Joseph Brodsky, U.S.S.R., author, Less than 1, Nobel 1987

1940 Death - Joseph Limburg, liberal 2nd-Member of parliament (1905-19), dies at 75

1940 Event - Rear Admiral Joseph Taussig testifies before U.S. Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable

1940 Birthday - Joseph L. Goldstein, born in Sumter, South Carolina, physician, Nobel-1985

1939 Death - Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer, dies at 72

1939 Birthday - Joseph "Jesse" Russell, U.S. singer, Slip Sliding Away

1939 Birthday - Joseph Mosikili, South African actor/singer

1939 Death - Joseph Mendes da Costa, sculptor, dies

1939 Birthday - Joe Clark, Charles Joseph, P-C, 16th Canadian PM, 1979-80

1939 Death - Joseph Roth, Austria journalist (Fluctuate ohne Ende), dies at 44

1938 Birthday - Joseph Bologna, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Citizen Cohn, My Favorite Year

1938 Death - Joseph Moorat, composer, dies at 73

1938 Birthday - Joseph Bellino, footballer, 1960 Heisman Trophy

1937 Birthday - Karol Joseph Bobko, New York City, Col USAF/astronaut, STS-6, STS-51D, STS-51J

1937 Birthday - Joseph Jarman, American Musician

1937 Death - Joseph Lee, father of Playgrounds movement, dies

1937 Birthday - Joseph P Allen IV, Crawfordsville, Indiana, PhD/astronaut, STS-5, STS 51A

1937 Birthday - Roger [Joseph] Zelazny, sci-fi author, 6 Hugos, Chronicles of Amber

1937 Birthday - Joseph Saidu Momoh, gen/president, Sierra Leone

1937 Birthday - Joseph Wambaugh, born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police writer, Onion Fields

1936 Birthday - Joseph Willaert, Flemish painter

1936 Birthday - Anthony Joseph Gnazzo, composer

1935 Event - 1,200 at St. Joseph's College (Philadelphia) enroll in anticommunism class

1935 Birthday - Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer

1934 Birthday - Wendy Craig, born in England, actress, Joseph Andrews

1933 Birthday - Joseph Pope, U.S. singer, Hey Girl Don't Bother Me

1933 Death - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer, dies at 80

1933 Birthday - Joseph Bottoms, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Blind Date, Braker

1933 Birthday - Joseph D. Early, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1975 - 1993

1933 Birthday - Ron[ald Joseph] Goulart, U.S., sci-fi author, Deadwalk, Plunder

1932 Death - Nadya Aliluieva, wife of Joseph Stalin, dies at 30

1932 Death - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies

1932 Birthday - Paul Joseph Weitz, born in Erie, Pennsylvania, astronaut, Skylab 2, STS-6

1932 Birthday - Jenny Joseph, English Poet

1932 Birthday - Joseph Silverstein, born in Detroit, Michigan, violinist, Denver Symphony Orchestra

1932 Birthday - Joseph P. Kerwin, born in Oak Park, Illinois, Captain Med Corps USN/astronaut, Skylab 2

1931 Event - Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia

1931 Birthday - Joseph M. McDade, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Representative-R-Pennsylvania 1963 - 1999

1931 Birthday - Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader

1931 Birthday - Joseph Lichtman Layton, dancer

1931 Event - NHL's Quebec Bulldogs' Joseph Malone scores a record 7 goals

1931 Death - Joseph J C Joffre, French marshal, dies at 78

1930 Birthday - Brian Joseph Lenihan, politician

1930 Event - Joseph Sylvester becomes 1st jockey to win 7 races in 1 day

1930 Event - NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater

1930 Death - Joseph Force Crater, American Judge

1930 Event - Georges Forbes succeeds Joseph Ward as premier of New Zealand

1930 Birthday - Joseph Burnett-Stuart, CEO, Robert Fleming Holdings

1929 Birthday - William Joseph "Pete" Knight, astronaut/test pilot, X-15

1929 Death - Joseph McGinnity, baseball pitcher (New York Giants), dies at 58

1929 Birthday - Joseph Jackson, American Businessman

1929 Death - Joseph "Top Toad" Giunta, U.S. gangster, murdered by Al Capone

1929 Birthday - Joseph Anthony Pass, guitarist

1928 Birthday - William Joseph Russo, composer

1928 Birthday - Joseph "Cardinal" Bernardin, of Chicago

1928 Birthday - Ezra Sims, born in Birmingham, Alabama, composer of microtonal music, Joseph Maneri adopted his system of notation, composed in quarter tones, received Guggenheim Fellowship

1927 Birthday - Joseph Castaldo, composer

1927 Birthday - Joseph Campanella, New York City, actor, Dr. Steffen-The Nurses, Lou-Mannix

1927 Birthday - Joseph Wilbur Adcock, manager/player, Braves

1927 Birthday - Joseph Ratzinger, German theologist/dogmaticus

1927 Birthday - Roy Cohn, lawyer, "grand inquisitor", for Senator Joseph McCarthy

1927 Event - Harry Tierney/Joseph McCarthy's "Rio Rita," premieres in New York City

1926 Death - Joseph McKenna, American Politician

1926 Death - Joseph Gurney Cannon, American Politician

1926 Birthday - Joseph M. Gaydos, born in Braddock, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1968 - 1993

1926 Birthday - Joseph Horovitz, composer

1926 Death - Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies

1926 Death - Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies

1926 Death - Joseph Carl Breil, composer, dies at 55

1925 Birthday - Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect

1924 Death - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 76

1924 Death - Joseph Vezina, composer, dies at 75

1924 Death - Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness), dies at 66

1924 Event - 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago

1924 Death - Joseph Ludwig, composer, dies at 79

1923 Death - Dom Joseph Pothier, French Benedictine/musicologist, dies at 88

1923 Death - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer, dies at 85

1923 Birthday - Joseph Heller, born in Brooklyn, New York, novelist, Catch-22, 1963 Arts and Letters Award

1923 Birthday - Joseph Wiezenbaum, artificial intelligence pioneer

1923 Birthday - Joseph Weizenbaum, American Educator

1922 Event - German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth term ends

1922 Birthday - Joseph Stefano, American Writer

1921 Birthday - Kenneth Joseph Arrow, American Economist

1921 Birthday - Joseph Papp, born in Brooklyn, stage producer/director, Pirates of Penzance

1921 Birthday - Joseph Beuys, Germany, avant-garde painter/politician

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

1920 Birthday - Joseph Olutola Olu Odutola Oguntala, soho club owner

1920 Event - Joseph Horne Company in Pittsburgh sells radios for $10

1920 Birthday - Beryl Reid, actress, Joseph Andrews, Psychomania, Yellowbeard

1920 Death - Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack

1920 Birthday - Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician

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

1919 Birthday - Betty Garrett, St. Joseph, Missouri, actress, Irene-All in the Family

1919 Birthday - Joseph R Hunt, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1943

1918 Death - Joseph Lesage, French painter/etcher (WW I), dies at 34

1918 Event - Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia

1918 Birthday - Joseph Wiseman, Montreal, actor, Dr. No, Viva Zapata, Les Miserables

1918 Birthday - Joseph Allen, Jr., born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Death of a Champion

1918 Birthday - Margaret Osborne DuPont, born in Joseph, Oregon, tennis pro, U.S. Open 1948-50

1918 Birthday - Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician

1917 Birthday - Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, medical writer

1917 Birthday - Joseph Coors, CEO, Adolph Coors Co Brewery

1917 Death - Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer, dies at 72

1917 Birthday - Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist, barricade uprising

1917 Birthday - Joseph Stone, lawyer

1916 Event - Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France

1916 Death - Franz Joseph, Austrian Statesman

1916 Birthday - Walter Cronkite, St. Joseph, Missouri, news anchor, CBS Evening News 1962-81

1916 Birthday - Ruth Warwick, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, actress, Citizen Kane, All My Children

1916 Birthday - Joseph W. Kennedy, scientist, 1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium

1916 Death - Joseph S Gallieni, General/military governor of Paris, dies

1916 Birthday - Joseph Janni, producer

1916 Event - 1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip "Gumps"

1916 Birthday - Joseph L Alioto, Mayor-SF

1915 Death - George Joseph Smith, British Criminal

1915 Birthday - Joseph Kagan, businessman

1915 Birthday - Joseph Greenberg, American Writer

1915 Birthday - Joseph D Craggs, electrical engineer

1915 Birthday - Harry Joseph Chick Daugherty, trombonist, Spike Jones and City Slickers

1915 Death - Johann Joseph Abert, composer, dies at 82

1915 Birthday - Joseph Roy George Ralston, pilot

1914 Birthday - Daniel Joseph Boorstin, author, Empire of Czar, 1974 Pulitzer Prize

1914 Birthday - Robert J. Morris, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, lawyer, served New York State Assembly committee investigating Communist activities, credited for efforts attributed to Senator Joseph McCarthy

1914 Birthday - Joseph M "Joop" Lucker, Dutch journalist/editor in chief, Volkskrant

1914 Death - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister to Germany, dies at 78

1914 Birthday - Joseph de Pietro, U.S., 56kg weightlifter 1948 Olympics gold

1914 Death - Joseph Wilson Swan, physicist/chemist, dies

1913 Birthday - Joseph Peter Grace, businessman

1913 Death - Joseph Bayer, composer, dies at 61

1912 Death - Joseph Wieniawski, composer, dies at 75

1912 Birthday - Joseph Fattorini, businessman

1912 Birthday - Joseph Stein, dramatist/playwright, Fiddler on the Roof

1912 Birthday - Joseph Anthony, Deuster, U.S. director/actor, Matchmaker, Tomorrow

1912 Event - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer

1911 Death - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist, dies at 94

1911 Death - Joseph Pulitzer, American newspaperman, dies in Charleston, SC

1911 Birthday - Joseph MAH Luns, foreign minister/secr-general, NATO

1911 Birthday - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician

1911 Birthday - Joe Hardstaff, Jr., cricketer, son of Joseph, 23 Tests for England

1911 Event - Joseph Caillaux forms government in France

1911 Birthday - Robert Joseph Kane, born in Ithaca, New York, President of U.S. Olympic Commission, 1976

1911 Birthday - Joseph Barbera, animator, Hanna-Barbera

1911 Birthday - Charles Joseph A. Russhon, USAF Lieutenant Colonel/liaison, James Bond films

1911 Birthday - Joseph Tomelty, actor and playwright, Bedevilled, Moby Dick, Melba

1910 Birthday - Joseph Alsop, political newspaper columnist, Men Around the President

1910 Birthday - Josef Tal, born in Pinne, Poland, born Joseph Gruenthal, composer, pianist, played hard with Palestine Orchestra, developed notational system for computer-generated compositions at Hebrew University

1909 Birthday - Joseph McCarthy, born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin Senator-R-Wisconsin 1947 - 1957

1909 Birthday - Joseph Force Crater, American Judge

1909 Birthday - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist, champ sprinter 1932-37,

1909 Birthday - Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, film writer and director, Sleuth

1909 Birthday - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Director

1909 Birthday - Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Flem cyclist, champ sprinter 1932-37,

1909 Birthday - Joseph Walton Losey, Wisconsin, director, Damned, Accident

1908 Death - Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, architect (Wiener Sezession), dies at 40

1908 Birthday - Joseph Mitchell, writer

1908 Birthday - Joseph Kotalla, German war criminal, 4 of Breda

1908 Birthday - Joseph Keilberth, German conductor, Bayreuther Festspiele

1908 Birthday - Joop [Joseph] van Santen, Dutch 1st chamber member, CPN

1907 Birthday - Joseph Wechsberg, Austria/U.S. writer, Looking For a Bluebird

1907 Death - Joseph Joachim, German violinist and composer, dies at 76

1907 Birthday - Benny Baker, St. Joseph, Missouri, actor, 18 Again, Sting II, Thunderbirds

1906 Event - Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy

1906 Death - Joseph F Glidden, inventor (barbed wire), dies

1906 Event - Joseph Harris (Boston) and Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game

1906 Birthday - Joseph Wright, born in Canada, oarsman, 1928 Olympics gold

1906 Death - Joseph Wheeler II, Confederate General, dies at 70

1906 Death - Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer, dies at 51

1905 Birthday - Joseph Heifitz, film director

1905 Birthday - Joseph Kosma, composer

1905 Birthday - Francis Joseph Quinn, academic

1905 Birthday - Joseph C Harsch, Toledo Ohio, newscaster, Background

1905 Birthday - Joseph Cotten, Virginia, actor, 3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse

1905 Death - Joseph Jefferson, American Artist

1905 Birthday - Helen B M Fennell Joseph, anti-apartheid writer, Side by Side

1905 Death - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, dies at 85

1904 Death - Chief Joseph, U.S. indian chief (Nez Perces), dies

1904 Birthday - Leo Joseph Suenens, Cardinal, Belgium

1904 Birthday - Joseph Campbell, mythologist, Mythic Image

1904 Birthday - John J. Sirica, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, John Joseph Sirica, judge, Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over Watergate scandal, Time magazine Person of the Year, 1973

1904 Birthday - Joseph Ford McGuinn, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Dick Tracy's G-Men

1903 Birthday - Joseph Cornell, American Sculptor

1903 Birthday - Joseph Kaminski, composer

1903 Birthday - Joseph Desire Fernandel, Marseilles France, comedian, Grand Chef

1903 Death - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68

1903 Death - Joseph Parry, composer, dies at 61

1902 Birthday - Joseph Paul Sharkey Zukauskas, boxer

1902 Birthday - Jeno Takacs, born in Cinfalva, Hungary, composer, studied with Joseph Marx, Paul Weigarten, professor of piano, composition at University of Manila in the Philippines, gave concerts in China, Japan, Hong Kong

1902 Event - Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (New York City)

1901 Birthday - Joseph Pasternak, film producer, Anchors Aweigh, Date With Judy

1900 Birthday - Joseph Needham, British Scientist

1900 Birthday - Joseph E A "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter

1900 Birthday - Joseph Green, film maker

1900 Birthday - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer

1899 Birthday - Joseph Nathan Kane, historian, Famous Firsts

1898 Death - Elisabeth AE, empress of Austria/wife of Franz Joseph I, dies at 60

1898 Death - Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82

1898 Birthday - Joseph Hazen, lawyer

1898 Birthday - Joseph Kessel, French journalist and writer, Army of the Shadows

1897 Birthday - Joseph Goebbels, Nazi propagandist

1897 Birthday - Joseph Goebbels, Criminal

1897 Birthday - Joseph Auslander, American Poet

1897 Event - Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera

1897 Birthday - Joseph Calleia, Malta, actor, Jungle Book, Gilda, Touch of Evil

1897 Death - James Joseph Sylvester, English Mathematician

1896 Birthday - Rex Maupin, St. Joseph, Missouri, orchestra leader, Tin Pan Alley TV

1896 Death - Anton Joseph Bruckner, composer, dies at 72

1896 Death - Joseph Barnby, composer, dies at 57

1895 Birthday - Buster [Joseph F] Keaton, actor, Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr

1895 Birthday - Joseph Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist, Extra-Sensory Perception

1895 Birthday - Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger, composer

1895 Death - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer, dies at 44

1895 Death - Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter, dies at 73

1895 Death - Joseph Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker' Almanack), dies at 75

1895 Birthday - Joseph Schildkraut, Vienna, actor, Joseph Schildkraut Presents

1895 Birthday - Joseph Rosenstock, Cracow Poland, conductor, Nippon Philharmonic Orchestra 1936 - 1941

1894 Death - Joseph E. Brown, American Politician

1894 Birthday - Joseph Roth, Austria, journalist and writer, Hotel Savoy

1894 Death - William Joseph Westbrook, composer, dies at 63

1894 Death - Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer, dies at 24

1893 Birthday - Joseph W. Krutch, U.S. naturalist, Was Europe a Success?

1893 Death - Joseph W. Krutch, U.S. naturalist (Was Europe a Success?), dies

1893 Birthday - Joseph Wood Krutch, American Environmentalist

1893 Birthday - Irving Bacon, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, actor, Branded Men, Fort Ti

1893 Birthday - Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader, 1945-..

1893 Birthday - Joseph Yasser, composer

1893 Birthday - Joseph Messner, composer

1892 Death - Joseph Lippens, Belgian lieutenant in Congo, murdered

1892 Birthday - Joseph Szigeti, Budapest Hungary, violinist, Violinist Notebook 1933

1892 Death - Edouard Joseph Stevens, Belgian painter/graphic artist, dies at 72

1892 Birthday - Joseph Dunninger, born in New York City, mentalist, Amazing Dunninger

1892 Birthday - Jozsef Mindszenty, Joseph Prehm, Hungarian cardinal

1892 Birthday - Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet and writer, Adel und Untergang

1891 Death - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73

1889 Death - Joseph B Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham, dies at 61

1889 Death - Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter, dies at 48

1889 Birthday - Joseph L. Hromadka, Czechoslovakian theologist, Lenin prize 1957

1889 Death - Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm, Pauwels Foreestier, poet, dies at 68

1889 Death - Joseph Gungl, composer, dies at 78

1888 Birthday - Joseph Beran, Czechoslovakian archbishop of Prague/cardinal

1888 Birthday - Joseph Arthur Rank, English film magnate/baron

1888 Birthday - Joseph P. Kennedy, born in Boston, Massachusetts, diplomat, father of John F. Kennedy, RFK and Teddy

1888 Birthday - Joseph P. Kennedy, American Diplomat

1888 Birthday - Joseph Csaky, Hungarian/French sculptor

1888 Birthday - Joseph Henabery, born in Omaha, Nebraska, director, Cobra

1887 Birthday - Joseph Lamb, composer

1886 Birthday - Joseph Achron, Latvia/US violinist and composer, Golem suite

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

1886 Death - Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer (Ekkehard), dies at 60

1886 Birthday - John Joseph Becker, composer

1885 Birthday - Joseph Deems Taylor, New York City, composer, Peter Ibbetson

1885 Birthday - Egon Joseph Wellesz, Austria, composer/musicologist

1885 Birthday - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset, 1949-59

1885 Birthday - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader

1884 Birthday - Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier, 1950 - 1952, communist hunter

1884 Birthday - Joseph Crehan, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight

1884 Event - John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, California

1883 Death - Joseph AF Plateau, Belgian physicist (Blue Moon), dies

1883 Birthday - Joseph W. Stilwell, U.S. general, China

1883 Birthday - Joseph A. Schumpeter, Austria/U.S. economist/minister of finance

1883 Birthday - Joseph A. Schumpeter, American Economist

1882 Death - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (surface of Liouville), dies

1882 Death - Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine), dies at 60

1882 Birthday - Joseph Marx, Austrian composer/critic

1882 Death - Jesse James, outlaw, shot dead at 34, in St. Joseph, Missouri by Robert Ford

1881 Birthday - Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager, New York Yankees

1881 Death - Joseph Labitzky, composer, dies at 79

1881 Birthday - Joseph A. Cushman, U.S., palaentologist

1880 Birthday - Joseph Tinker, baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo

1880 Death - Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61

1879 Birthday - Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000

1879 Birthday - Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer

1879 Birthday - Joseph Bovet, composer

1879 Birthday - Joseph Wirth, German politician, Stalin Peace Prize

1879 Birthday - Joseph Haas, German, opera, composer, Tobias Wunderlich

1879 Event - Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow

1878 Birthday - Joseph Schenck, Russian Businessman

1878 Event - Joseph Pulitzer begins publishing "St. Louis Dispatch"

1878 Event - Joseph Pulitzer buys St. Louis Dispatch for $2,500

1878 Birthday - Joseph John Richards, composer

1878 Birthday - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/conductor/composer

1878 Death - Joseph Henry, American Scientist

1878 Birthday - Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer

1878 Birthday - Joseph Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1925 - 1928

1877 Event - Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War

1877 Birthday - Armand Louis Joseph Marsick, composer

1876 Birthday - Baron Joseph van de Meulebroeck, mayor, Brussels, Belgium

1876 Death - Joseph Bosworth, lexicographer/scholar, dies

1876 Birthday - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist

1875 Death - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 84

1875 Birthday - Maurice Joseph Ravel, born in Cibourne, France, composer, Bolero

1875 Death - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer, dies at 55

1874 Event - Joseph F. Glidden patents barbed wire

1874 Birthday - Joseph Willoughby, cricketer, 2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96

1874 Birthday - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert

1874 Birthday - Joseph Erlanger, doctor, shock therapy-Nobel 1944

1873 Death - Joseph Howe, Canadian Politician

1873 Birthday - Viktor Joseph Keldorfer, composer

1872 Birthday - [Rosalie] Julia Cuypers, Flemish actress/wife of Joseph of Lyre

1872 Birthday - George Joseph Smith, British Criminal

1871 Birthday - Joseph McGinnity, born in Rock Island, Illinois, baseball pitcher for the New York Giants

1870 Event - Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps

1870 Event - Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Representatives (SC)

1870 Birthday - Joseph Carl Breil, composer

1870 Birthday - Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron

1870 Birthday - Guillaume Jean Joseph Nicolas Lekeu, composer

1870 Birthday - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer/builder, Golden Gate Bridge

1869 Birthday - Joseph Franklin Rutherford, American Clergyman

1869 Birthday - Joseph Duveen, England, art connoisseur, Elgin marbles

1869 Birthday - John Joseph Pershing, American Soldier

1869 Birthday - Joseph Cuvelier, Belgian historian/archivist

1867 Birthday - Joseph [Maria] Olbrich, Silesia, German architect, Wiener Sezession

1867 Birthday - Joseph McCabe, English Writer

1867 Birthday - Joseph M Weber, comedian/singer, Weber and Lewis Fields

1867 Event - Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete

1867 Birthday - Marie Joseph Leon Desire Paque, composer

1866 Birthday - Joseph Limburg, liberal Second-Member of parliament, 1905-19

1866 Birthday - Joseph Lincoln Steffens, muckraker and journalist, Shame of the Cities

1865 Death - Joseph Paxton, designer (Crystal Palace), dies

1864 Birthday - Joseph Moorat, composer

1864 Birthday - Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz, composer

1864 Death - Joseph Gilbert Totten, U.S. Union general-major, dies at 76

1863 Death - Joseph Mayseder, composer, dies at 74

1863 Death - Paul Joseph Revere, U.S. grandson of Paul Revere/Union Brigadier-General, dies

1863 Death - Joseph Netherclift, composer, dies at 70

1863 Event - General Joseph Hooker replaces Burnside as head of Army of Potomac

1862 Death - Joseph Funk, composer, dies at 84

1862 Death - Joseph Bennett Plummer, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies at 42 or 46

1862 Event - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile

1862 Birthday - Joseph Lee, helped develop playgrounds

1862 Death - Joseph Frohlich, composer, dies at 81

1861 Death - Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer, dies at 71

1861 Death - Franz Joseph Glaser, composer, dies at 63

1861 Birthday - Bion Joseph Arnold, electrical engineer/inventor

1860 Event - Joseph Jefferson's "Rip Van Winkle," premieres in New York City

1860 Death - Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies

1860 Birthday - Joseph Carey Merrick, "Elephant Man"

1860 Event - 1st Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco from St. Joseph, Missouri

1860 Event - Pony Express began between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California

1859 Death - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer, dies at 65

1858 Birthday - Joseph Thomson, Scotland, geologist, Thomson's gazelle

1857 Death - Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer, dies at 73

1857 Birthday - Joseph Conrad, Poland, novelist, Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness

1857 Death - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69

1857 Birthday - Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist, Babinski reflex

1857 Death - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer, dies at 54

1857 Death - Joseph Fischhof, composer, dies at 53

1856 Birthday - Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron, Nobel 1906

1856 Death - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64

1855 Death - Joseph Hume, social reformer, dies

1854 Birthday - Joseph Miroslav Weber, composer

1854 Event - Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"

1854 Death - Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84

1853 Birthday - Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curacao, musician/composer/screenwriter

1852 Birthday - Paul Joseph Guillaume Hillemacher, composer

1852 Birthday - Joseph Bayer, composer

1852 Death - Joseph Drechsler, composer, dies at 69

1852 Death - Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies

1852 Birthday - Joseph J C Joffre, French Field Marshal, Indo China, Marne

1851 Birthday - Oliver Joseph Lodge, born in England, early radio pioneer

1850 Birthday - Joseph Paul Skelly, composer

1849 Birthday - Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer

1849 Birthday - Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher

1849 Birthday - Joseph Vezina, composer

1849 Birthday - Joseph S. Gallieni, general, Battle of Marne, military governor, Paris

1849 Event - Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill

1848 Event - Antoine Joseph Sax patents Saxophone

1848 Birthday - Antoine Joseph Sax, inventor, saxophone

1848 Birthday - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer

1847 Birthday - Joseph Pulitzer, born in Hungary, publisher, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, New York World

1846 Death - Joseph Leopold Eybler, Austrian composer/choir master, dies at 81

1846 Event - Saxophone is patents by Antoine Joseph Sax

1846 Death - Joseph Weigl, Austria composer and conductor (Waisenhaus), dies at 79

1845 Event - Joseph Francis, New York City, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat

1845 Death - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer, dies at 67

1844 Event - Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death

1844 Birthday - Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer

1844 Birthday - Joseph Ludwig, composer

1844 Death - Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78

1843 Birthday - Joseph McKenna, American Politician

1843 Event - Mormon leader Joseph Smith say God OKs polygamy

1843 Death - Joseph Franz Karl Lanner, Austria, composer/violist, dies at 42

1842 Death - Joseph Rastrelli, composer, dies at 43

1841 Birthday - Joseph Parry, composer

1841 Death - Joseph Blanco White, theological writert, dies

1841 Birthday - Joseph H. Neuhuys, painter

1840 Death - Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer, dies at 89

1840 Birthday - Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii

1839 Death - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer, dies at 61

1839 Death - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies

1839 Death - Joseph A Koch, Australia painter/cartoonist/etcher/illustrator, dies at 70

1838 Birthday - Joseph F Smith, 6th President of Mormon church

1838 Death - Joseph Lancaster, English Educator

1838 Death - Joseph Panny, composer, dies at 43

1838 Birthday - Joseph Barnby, conductor/academic principal

1838 Birthday - Joseph Leopold Rockel, composer

1837 Birthday - Joseph Grimaldi, London, clown

1837 Death - Joseph Grimaldi, greatest clown (king of pantomime), dies at 57

1837 Death - Joseph Anderson, American Politician

1837 Death - Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53

1837 Birthday - Joseph Wieniawski, composer

1836 Birthday - Joseph Wheeler II, Major General, Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee

1836 Birthday - Joseph Chamberlain, British minister of Commerce/Colonies

1836 Birthday - Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer, Helium, founder, Nature magazine

1836 Birthday - Joseph Cannon, American Politician

1835 Birthday - Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk/musicologist

1835 Birthday - Joseph Hayes, Major General Union volunteers

1834 Event - Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs

1834 Birthday - Joseph Jackson Bartlett, Major General Union volunteers

1834 Birthday - Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer, John Inglesant

1833 Death - Joseph Comb, missionary to Moluccas, dies at 63

1833 Birthday - Garnet Joseph, 1st viscount Wolseley soldier

1833 Event - Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation

1832 Birthday - Joseph Smith, son of founder of Mormonism

1832 Death - Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, composer, dies at 73

1832 Birthday - Johann Joseph Abert, composer

1832 Death - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer, dies at 39

1832 Event - Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio

1831 Death - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian composer/piano builder, dies at 74

1831 Birthday - Joseph Joachim, born in Kittsee, Germany, violinist, Hungarian Concerto

1831 Death - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer, dies at 64

1831 Birthday - Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1831 Birthday - William Joseph Westbrook, composer

1830 Birthday - Joseph Orville Shelby, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1830 Birthday - Franz Joseph, Austrian Statesman

1830 Death - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies

1830 Event - Joseph Smith and 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, New York

1829 Event - Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith

1829 Birthday - Joseph Jefferson, American Artist

1828 Death - Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology), dies at 70

1828 Birthday - Joseph Bradford Carr, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Joseph B. Lightfoot, English theologist/bishop of Durham

1827 Birthday - Joseph Anthony Mower, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Death - Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82

1827 Event - Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils

1826 Death - Joseph Graetz, composer, dies at 65

1826 Birthday - Jean Joseph Bott, German violinist and composer

1826 Birthday - Joseph V von Scheffel, German writer, Gaudeamus

1825 Birthday - Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1825 Birthday - Joseph Bailey, Major General Union volunteers

1825 Birthday - Joseph Albert, German photographer, albertotype

1825 Birthday - Joseph Robert Davis, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1824 Birthday - Joseph Horace Lewis, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1824 Event - Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire England)

1824 Birthday - Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1824 Death - Joseph Joubert, French Writer

1823 Death - Joseph Pouteau, composer, dies at 84

1823 Birthday - Joseph Alexander Cooper, Major General Union volunteers

1823 Event - Moroni 1st appears to Joseph Smith, according to Smith

1823 Birthday - Joseph E Labbe, French lawyer

1823 Birthday - Mother Joseph, Esther Pariseau, religious leader, US capitol

1823 Birthday - Joseph Medill, born in St. John, Canada, newspaper editor, Chicago Tribune

1823 Birthday - Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1823 Birthday - Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Joseph Haydn Potter, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1822 Birthday - Joseph Rodman West, Major General Union volunteers

1822 Death - Joseph Supries, composer, dies at 60

1822 Birthday - Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter

1822 Death - Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell, German landscape painter, dies at 72

1822 Birthday - Joseph Brevard Kershaw, Major General Confederate Army

1822 Birthday - Joseph Jones Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Emerson Brown Joseph, Confederacy

1821 Birthday - Joseph E. Brown, American Politician

1821 Death - Joseph de Maistre, French Diplomat

1820 Death - Joseph R. Drake, U.S. poet (American Flag), dies at 25)

1820 Birthday - Joseph Alberdingk Thijm, Pauwels Foreestier, poet, Dietsche Warande

1820 Death - Joseph Banks, English natural historian (Cook/Australia), dies

1820 Birthday - Joseph Whitaker, England, publisher, founded Whitaker's Almanack

1820 Death - Joseph F. Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79

1819 Birthday - Edouard Joseph Stevens, Belgian animal painter/graphic artist

1819 Birthday - Joseph C Juglar, French physician/economist, Crises Commercial

1819 Birthday - Joseph Philbrick Webster, composer

1818 Event - "Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day

1818 Birthday - Joseph Rummel, composer

1818 Birthday - Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1817 Birthday - Joseph baron Kervyn de Lettenhove, Belgian Internal minister, 1870-71

1817 Birthday - Joseph K Barnes, Major General Union Army

1817 Birthday - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer

1817 Birthday - Joseph D Hooker, British botanist

1816 Death - Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 44

1816 Birthday - Joseph Bennett Plummer, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Joseph Robinson, composer

1815 Birthday - William Joseph Hardee, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

1814 Death - Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne, Belgian Field Marshal/author, dies at 79

1814 Birthday - Joseph Finegan, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1814 Birthday - Joseph Hooker, Major General Union volunteers

1814 Birthday - James Joseph Sylvester, English Mathematician

1814 Death - George Joseph Vogler, composer, dies at 64

1813 Birthday - Joseph Tarr Copeland, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1813 Birthday - Joseph Reid Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1813 Death - Jan Joseph Rosler, composer, dies at 41

1813 Birthday - Joseph Farwell Glidden, inventor, 1st coml useable barbed wire

1812 Death - Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer, dies at 61

1812 Death - Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer, dies at 81

1812 Death - Joseph Schuster, composer, dies at 63

1812 Death - Joseph Wolfl, composer, dies at 38

1812 Birthday - Joseph Warren Revere, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1811 Birthday - Joseph Dana Webster, Major General Union volunteers

1811 Birthday - Joseph Lanman, Commander Union Navy

1811 Birthday - Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, co-discoverer, Neptune

1810 Birthday - Joseph Gungl, composer

1810 Death - Joseph Lipavsky, composer, dies at 37

1809 Death - Joseph Quesne, composer, dies at 62

1809 Birthday - Franz Joseph Haydn, Vienna Austria, composer

1809 Death - Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, dies on 77th birthday

1809 Death - Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92

1809 Birthday - Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers

1809 Birthday - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st President of Liberia

1809 Death - Johann Joseph Emmert, composer, dies at 76

1809 Birthday - Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician, libertarian socialist

1808 Death - Joseph Anton Bauer, composer, dies at 83

1808 Event - Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna

1808 Event - Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain

1807 Death - Joseph Jerome Le Francais de Lalande, French astronomer, dies

1807 Birthday - Joseph Eggleston Johnston, General Confederate Army

1807 Birthday - Joseph Holt, Major General Union Army

1806 Birthday - Joseph Lewis Hogg, Brigadier General Confederate Army, die in 1862

1805 Birthday - Joseph Smith, Jr., Sharon Vt, founder, Mormon Church

1805 Death - Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer, dies at 95

1804 Birthday - Joseph Howe, Canadian Politician

1804 Birthday - Joseph Fischhof, composer

1804 Death - Joseph Priestley, English / U.S0 theologist, philosopher. and chemist, dies at 70

1803 Birthday - Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Major General Union volunteers

1803 Birthday - Joseph Napoleon Ney Moskova, composer

1802 Death - Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer, dies at 50

1802 Birthday - Joseph Labitzky, composer

1801 Birthday - Joseph AF Plateau, Belgium, physicist, blinded - stared at Sun 25 seconds

1801 Birthday - Joseph Paxton, English landscape architect, Crystal Palace

1801 Event - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"

1799 Death - Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies at 71

1799 Death - Joseph Friebert, composer, dies at 74

1799 Birthday - Joseph Rastrelli, composer

1799 Event - Joseph Haydn's "Die Schopfung," premieres in Vienna

1798 Birthday - Franz Joseph Glaser, composer

1797 Birthday - Joseph Henry, U.S., scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism

1797 Birthday - Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs

1796 Death - Joseph Lederer, composer, dies at 63

1796 Birthday - Joseph Pannell Taylor, Brigadier General Union Army

1795 Event - Joseph Haydn returns to Vienna from England

1795 Event - Joseph Haydn leaves England forever

1795 Event - Joseph Haydns 102nd Symphony in B, premieres

1794 Birthday - Joseph Panny, composer

1794 Event - 1st U.S. patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine)

1794 Event - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D

1794 Event - Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres

1793 Death - Joseph Legros, composer, dies at 54

1793 Birthday - Joseph Hartmann Stuntz, composer

1793 Birthday - Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer

1792 Death - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer, dies at 36

1792 Event - In Vienna, Ludwig Von Beethoven (22) receives 1st lesson in music composition from Franz Joseph Haydn

1792 Birthday - Joseph Netherclift, composer

1792 Event - Joseph Haydn's 94th Symphony in G, premieres

1791 Birthday - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer

1791 Death - Joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57

1790 Birthday - Karol Joseph Lipinski, composer

1790 Birthday - Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer

1790 Birthday - Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral Union Navy

1790 Death - Joseph II, Emperor of Holy Roman empire, dies at 48

1790 Death - Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies

1789 Birthday - Joseph Mayseder, composer

1789 Death - Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer, dies at 68

1788 Death - Joseph Gibbs, composer, dies at 88

1788 Birthday - Joseph Gilbert Totten, Major General Union Army

1788 Death - Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer, dies at 56

1788 Birthday - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet, Das Marmorbild

1788 Death - Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer, dies at 63

1787 Birthday - Joseph von Fraunhofer, born in Germany, physicist, studied Sun's spectrum

1785 Death - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer, dies at 36

1785 Event - British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle

1784 Birthday - Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer

1784 Death - Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer, dies at 59

1783 Birthday - Joseph Lincke, composer

1783 Event - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight

1782 Death - Joseph Reipel, composer, dies at 73

1782 Birthday - Joseph Drechsler, composer

1780 Birthday - Joseph Frohlich, composer

1779 Birthday - Joseph Grimaldi, England, pantomimist, "greatest clown in history"

1779 Death - Joseph Hewes, U.S. merchant and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 49

1779 Birthday - Joseph Story, Massachusetts, 19th Supreme Court justice, 1812-45

1778 Birthday - Joseph Lancaster, English Educator

1778 Birthday - Joseph Funk, composer

1778 Birthday - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer

1778 Birthday - Franz Joseph Volkert, composer

1777 Event - English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting U.S. flag

1775 Birthday - Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter, Shipwreck

1774 Birthday - Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti, Cardinal/linguist, understood 70 languages

1774 Event - Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen

1773 Birthday - Joseph Wolfl, composer

1772 Birthday - Joseph Franz Maximilian Lobkowitz, composer

1772 Death - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer, dies at 48

1772 Death - Joseph Kerckhoff, Limburg surgeon/robber captain, hanged

1772 Birthday - Joseph Lipavsky, composer

1771 Birthday - Jan Joseph Rosler, composer

1770 Death - Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer, dies at 74

1769 Birthday - Joseph Comb, missionary to Molukkas

1769 Birthday - Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer

1767 Death - Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer, dies at 45

1767 Birthday - Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer

1766 Birthday - Joseph Weigl, Austria composer and conductor, Emmeline

1766 Death - Gregor Joseph Werner, composer, dies at 73

1765 Birthday - Joseph Mazzinghi, composer

1765 Death - Joseph Thaddaus Stammel, Austrian sculptor, dies at 70

1765 Birthday - Joseph N. Niepce, French inventor, photography

1765 Death - Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer, dies at 39

1764 Birthday - Joseph Leopold von Eybler, Austrian composer

1763 Birthday - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator

1762 Death - Joseph Umstatt, composer, dies at 51

1761 Birthday - Joseph Supries, composer

1761 Birthday - Joseph Lefebvre, composer

1761 Death - Willem de Fesch, Dutch violinist and composer (Joseph), dies at 73

1760 Birthday - Joseph Graetz, composer

1759 Death - Louis Joseph Montcalm, French general (Plains of Abraham), dies at 47

1758 Birthday - Othon Joseph Vandenbroek, composer

1758 Birthday - Franz Joseph Gall, German and French physician, frenology

1757 Birthday - Joseph Anderson, American Politician

1757 Birthday - Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, composer

1756 Birthday - Joseph Martin Kraus, composer

1756 Birthday - Joseph Gehot, composer

1755 Death - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer, dies at 65

1754 Birthday - Joseph Joubert, French Writer

1753 Event - Joseph Haydns "Krumme Teufel," premieres

1753 Birthday - Joseph de Maistre, French Diplomat

1752 Birthday - Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer

1752 Birthday - Joseph Matthias Kracher, composer

1751 Birthday - Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer

1749 Birthday - Louis Joseph Claude Saint-Amans, composer

1749 Birthday - George Joseph Vogler, composer

1748 Birthday - Etienne Joseph Floquet, composer

1748 Birthday - Joseph Schuster, composer

1746 Birthday - Joseph Quesne, composer

1744 Birthday - Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer

1744 Birthday - Joseph Beer, Bohemia clarinetist/composer, 5th clarinet flap

1742 Death - Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer, dies at 52

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

1740 Birthday - Joseph Montgolfier, France, aeronaut, ballooning

1740 Birthday - Joseph F. Weigl, German/Austrian, violin cellist

1739 Birthday - Joseph Legros, composer

1739 Birthday - Joseph Pouteau, composer

1738 Birthday - Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor, guillotine

1737 Birthday - Joseph Nollekins, London, sculptor

1735 Birthday - Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian Field Marshal/author

1734 Birthday - Joseph Schmitt, composer

1733 Event - Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)

1733 Birthday - Joseph Priestley, born in England, clergyman and scientist, discovered oxygen

1733 Birthday - Joseph Lederer, composer

1732 Birthday - Johann Joseph Emmert, composer

1732 Birthday - Franz Joseph Haydn, born in Austria, composer, help develop classical style

1732 Event - Mass celebrated for 1st time at St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia

1731 Birthday - Carl Joseph Toeschi, composer

1730 Birthday - Jean Joseph Rodolphe, composer

1730 Birthday - Charles Joseph Messier, astronomer, cataloguer of "M objects"

1730 Birthday - Christian Joseph Lidarti, composer

1730 Birthday - Joseph Hewes, U.S. merchant, Declaration of Independence signer

1729 Death - Joseph de Montesquiou earl d'Artagnan, French Lieutenant-General, dies at 77

1728 Birthday - Joseph Zwart, Scottish chemist/physicist

1725 Birthday - Joseph Anton Bauer, composer

1725 Birthday - Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer

1724 Birthday - Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer

1724 Birthday - Joseph Friebert, composer

1724 Birthday - Ferdinand Philipp Joseph Lobkowitz, composer

1723 Birthday - Johann Andreas Joseph Giulini, composer

1722 Birthday - Joseph Paul Ziegler, composer

1722 Birthday - Joseph Wilton, sculptor

1720 Birthday - Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schavensee, composer

1719 Death - Joseph Addison, English poet, writer, and secretary of state, dies at 47

1716 Death - Joseph Sauveur, French sound engineer, dies at 63

1716 Birthday - Joseph M Vien, French, court, painter

1712 Birthday - Louis Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, France, general

1712 Birthday - L Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Veran, French general in America

1711 Birthday - Joseph Umstatt, composer

1710 Birthday - Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer

1709 Birthday - Joseph Reipel, composer

1707 Birthday - Henry Fielding, born in England, novelist, Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones

1699 Birthday - Joseph Gibbs, composer

1696 Birthday - Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard, composer

1695 Birthday - Joseph Thaddaus Stammel, Austrian sculptor

1694 Birthday - Joseph Joachim Benedict Munster, composer

1693 Birthday - Gregor Joseph Werner, composer

1692 Birthday - Joseph Butler, Wantage Berkshire, theologian

1689 Birthday - Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, composer

1689 Birthday - Johann Joseph Ignaz Brentner, composer

1687 Birthday - Willem the Fesch, Dutch violinist and composer, Joseph

1678 Birthday - Joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor, 1705-11

1678 Death - Joseph de La Barre, composer, dies at 44

1672 Birthday - Joseph Addison, England, essayist, Spectator

1656 Death - Joseph Hall, English Clergyman

1653 Birthday - Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician

1646 Event - Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent

1638 Death - Le Pere Joseph, French mystic, dies

1633 Birthday - Joseph de La Barre, composer

1609 Death - Joseph Justus Scaliger, French inventor of "Julian Period", dies at 68

1574 Birthday - Joseph Hall, English Clergyman

1558 Death - Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies

1542 Event - Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code

1540 Birthday - Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating

1235 Event - Emperor Joseph II orders Jews of Galicia Austria to adopt family names

82 Death - St. Joseph of Arimathea, dies













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