1999 Death Dusty Springfield, pop singer, Son of a Preacher Man, dies at 59 1995 Death W Fenton Morley, preacher, dies at 83 1986 Death John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45 1970 Death Ralph W. Sockman, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S., dies at age 80 1968 Death Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84 1955 Death Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch preacher, dies at 84 1945 Birthday K B Wilson, methodist Preacher/Principal, Westminster College Oxford 1927 Birthday Harry Belafonte, Harlem New York City, calypso singer, Buck and the Preacher 1918 Birthday Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher, Brooklyn Dodgers 1912 Birthday W Fenton Morley, preacher 1890 Birthday Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, Pentecostal, radio preacher 1889 Birthday Ralph W. Sockman, born in New York, New York, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S. 1883 Birthday Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Newport New, Virginia, TV preacher 1843 Event Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today 1808 Death Jacob Albright, Albrecht, German / U.S. preacher, dies at 49 1771 Birthday Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author 1744 Birthday Rowland Hill, preacher 1688 Death John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies 1674 Birthday Isaac Watts, England, writer/preacher/hymnist, Horae Lyrican 1652 Death John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68 1608 Birthday Antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher 1572 Death John Knox, Scottish preacher, dies at about 67
