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2012 Event - Publishers Penguin and Random House merge to become Penguin Random House, the largest publisher in the world

2003 Death - Adam Osborne, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation

2002 Death - Walter Annenberg, publisher/philanthropist/ambassador, started TV GUide, dies at 94

2001 Death - Katharine Graham, publisher, The Washington Post, dies at 84

2001 Death - Katherine Graham, American Publisher

2000 Death - Frederick Clarke, writer/publisher, Cinefantastique, dies at 51

1999 Death - John F. Kennedy, Jr., publisher and philanthropist, 'George' magazine, dies at 38

1997 Death - Kathy Keeton Guccione, publisher, A founder of Omni, dies at 58

1997 Death - John Sengstacke, publisher (Defender), dies at 84

1997 Death - Desmond Flower, publisher, dies at 89

1996 Death - Edward Kassner, music publisher, dies at 76

1996 Death - David Herbert, publisher, dies at 69

1996 Death - Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher, dies at 77

1996 Death - John Boon, publisher, dies at 79

1996 Death - Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman, dies at 79

1996 Death - Rex Collings, writer/publisher, dies at 70

1996 Death - John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57

1996 Death - Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher, dies at 89

1996 Death - Kaye Webb, publisher, dies at 81

1995 Death - Lila Clark Knapp, publisher, dies at 63

1995 Death - Charles Scribner, Jr., publisher, dies at 74

1995 Death - Louis Levy, Jr., music publisher, dies at 84

1995 Death - Simone Gallimard, publisher, dies at 77

1995 Death - Karl Anton Martin Gerhard Gerd Bucerius, publisher, dies at 89

1995 Death - Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher, dies at 66

1995 Death - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher, dies at 83

1995 Death - Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher, dies at 74

1995 Death - Brian Coffey, poet, publisher, dies at 89

1995 Death - Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer, dies at 75

1995 Death - Ian Ballantine, publisher, dies of heart attack at 79

1995 Death - Pierre Tisseyre, publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85

1995 Death - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher, dies at 56

1995 Death - L Jansma, Fries publisher (Friese stamp), dies

1995 Death - Maxwell Henley Harris, Austrian poet/publisher (Critics), dies at 73

1994 Death - Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer, dies at 76

1994 Death - Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher, dies at 65

1994 Death - Otto F Walther, Swiss publisher/author (Der Stumme), dies at 66

1994 Death - Henk Figee, author/publisher (Shoes of the Sea), dies at 46

1994 Death - Louis-Robert Casterman, Belgian publisher (Kuifje), dies at 74

1994 Death - Alan Frank, music publisher, dies at 83

1994 Death - Robert O van Gennep, Dutch publisher (Guevara, Mandel), dies at 56

1994 Death - Michel R Vassallucci, French/Netherlands publisher (Arena), dies at 32

1994 Death - Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69

1993 Event - Norwegian Rushdie publisher William Nygaard injured in attack

1993 Death - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72

1993 Death - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator, dies at 72

1992 Death - Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies

1992 Death - William E Gaines, publisher (Mad Magazine), dies at 70

1992 Death - Johan B. W. Polak, publisher/publicist (Bloom of Decadence), dies at 63

1991 Event - NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns

1991 Death - Robert Maxwell, Billionaire publisher (New York Daily News), dies at 68

1991 Death - Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies

1991 Death - Freek Zoetmulder, publisher (Austrian Encyclopedia)/neo-nazi, dies

1990 Death - Georges Dargaud, French publisher (Asterix, Kuifje), dies at 78

1990 Death - Maurice Girodias, French publisher, dies at 71

1990 Death - Malcolm S. Forbes, American Publisher

1990 Death - Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia

1988 Death - Barry Bingham Sr, U.S. daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82

1988 Death - James "Hamish" Hamilton, British publisher (Salinger/Mitford), dies at 87

1986 Death - Cass Canfield, U.S. publisher, dies at 88

1986 Death - Dick James, Beatles' music publisher (1962-70), dies in London at 58

1985 Death - Gardner Cowles, Jr., U.S. publisher (Look Magazine), dies at 82

1984 Death - Alfred A Knopf, U.S. publisher, dies at 91

1984 Death - Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68

1984 Death - Basil Henry Blackwell, British publisher, dies

1983 Death - John Cowles Sr, U.S. publisher, dies at 84

1982 Death - Hendrik Algra, Newspaper publisher/Dutch MP (ARP), dies

1981 Death - William O Walker, publisher of Cleveland Call Post, dies at 85

1981 Death - William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, New Hampshire, dies at 75

1978 Death - John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 71

1976 Death - Roy Thomson, Canadian Publisher

1975 Death - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Library Gallimard), dies at 94

1974 Death - William Sloane, publisher/writer ("Edge of Running Water"), dies

1974 Death - Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77

1974 Event - Patty Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA

1973 Death - Alexandre A M Stols, publisher/typographer (Schoone Book), dies at 73

1970 Death - Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher (Penguin Books), dies at 67

1969 Death - Leonard Sidney Woolf, English publisher/writer, dies at 88

1966 Death - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74

1965 Death - Richard P Blackmur, U.S., critic/publisher (Good European), dies at 61

1961 Birthday - Michel R Vassallucci, French/Netherlands publisher, Arena

1961 Death - Joris Vriamont, Flemish writer/music publisher, dies at 64

1960 Birthday - John F. Kennedy, Jr., New York City, son of John F. Kennedy, lawyer, magazine publisher, 'George' magazine

1959 Death - Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher (Amor), dies at 54

1959 Death - Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag), dies at 68

1957 Death - Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher, dies at 81

1955 Event - Actress Joyce Randolph marries publisher Richard Charles

1955 Birthday - John Nunn, born in London, England, champion chess player, chess writer, publisher, mathematician, once ranked among the world's top ten, two-time champion in chess problem solving

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 Death - Julius P Hoste, Belgian minister/newspaper publisher, dies at 69

1951 Death - William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills

1951 Birthday - Esther Dyson, born in Zurich, Switzerland, computer publisher, Release 1.0

1950 Birthday - Carel P de Haseth, Curaeaos author/publisher, Bida after kolo

1949 Death - Nico van Suchtelen, publisher, dies at 70

1949 Birthday - William Randolph Hearst III, publisher/editor

1949 Birthday - David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher, Sunday Sport

1946 Death - Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81

1946 Birthday - Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, New York City, newspaper publisher

1946 Birthday - Jann S Wenner, publisher, Rolling Stone

1944 Birthday - Robert Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph

1944 Birthday - Jon Hiseman, born in Woolwich, London, musician, drummer, record producer and music publisher, formed bands Colosseum, Coloseeum II with Don Airey, Gary Moore and Tempest with Alan Holdsworth

1944 Birthday - Eddie Shah, English publisher, Today, Post

1943 Birthday - Earl of Stockton, English publisher/grandson of premier Macmillan

1943 Death - Emanuel Querido, publisher (Sobibor), dies

1942 Birthday - Peter Kalikow, Queens New York City, real estate developer/publisher, New York Post

1941 Birthday - Martha Stewart, publisher, producer and celebrity

1941 Birthday - Joni Evans, New York City, publisher, Simon and Schuster, Random House

1941 Death - Sherwood Anderson, U.S. writer/publisher (Winesburg Ohio), dies at 64

1940 Birthday - Antony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher/multi-millionaire

1939 Birthday - Adam Osborne, born in Thailand, author, computer designer, book and software publisher, founded and wrote memoir about Osborne Computer Corporation

1939 Birthday - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher

1938 Birthday - John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher

1938 Birthday - Carmen Callil, born in Melbourne, Australia, publisher, author, founder, Virago Press, publisher of Chatto & Windus, Hogarth Press

1938 Event - Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded

1937 Birthday - Rob Van Gennep, publisher

1937 Birthday - Robert O "Rob" van Gennep, Dutch publisher, Guevara, Gorz, Mandel

1936 Birthday - John Menzies, Scottish publisher/banker/multi-millionaire

1936 Birthday - Philip J. Attenborough, CEO/publisher, Hodder and Stoughton

1936 Birthday - Al Goldstein, American Publisher

1935 Birthday - Tom Rosenthal, publisher/British broadcaster

1934 Birthday - Gloria Steinem, born in Toledo, Ohio, feminist/publisher, Ms. Magazine

1933 Birthday - Jan van Ginkel, graphic artist/publisher, Perscombinatie

1933 Birthday - Nelson Doubleday, publisher, Doubleday, owner for the New York Mets

1933 Birthday - Alistair Service, writer/publisher

1931 Death - Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, publisher, dies

1931 Birthday - Rupert Murdoch, born in Australia, publisher, New York Post and CEO of FOX

1931 Birthday - David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher, Whitaker's Almanack

1930 Birthday - Bob Guccione, Robert C J Edwa, U.S. publisher, Penthouse, Omni

1930 Birthday - Robert Gavron, English publisher/multi-millionaire, St. Ives

1929 Death - Friedrich Lienhard, German publisher (Turmer), dies at 63

1929 Birthday - Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher

1928 Birthday - Johan B. W. Polak, Dutch publisher/publicist, Bloom of Decadence

1928 Birthday - Charles Hugh Shirley, publisher

1928 Birthday - Anthony Blond, British publisher, The Publishing Game, Book Book

1927 Birthday - David Herbert, publisher

1926 Death - Joseph Mallaby Dent, publisher, dies

1926 Birthday - Hugh Hefner, born in Chicagp, magazine publisher, Playboy

1926 Birthday - Paul Hamlyn, English publisher/multi-millionaire, Octopus

1926 Birthday - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, New York City, publisher, New York Times

1925 Birthday - W Howard Baker, English publisher

1925 Birthday - Rex Collings, writer/publisher

1925 Birthday - Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder, World Press Photo

1924 Birthday - Peter Allsop, publisher

1923 Birthday - Frances Lear, Larchmont, New York, Woman's magazine publisher, Lears

1923 Birthday - Robert L Bernstein, New York City, publisher, Random House

1922 Birthday - Helen Kinney Copley, newspaper publisher

1922 Birthday - Paul Acket, Dutch publisher/organizer, Music Express, North Sea Jazz

1922 Death - Lord Northcliffe, British Publisher

1922 Birthday - William M. Gaines, publisher of MAD Magazine

1922 Birthday - Helen Gurley Brown, Portland Me, author/publisher, Cosmopolitan

1921 Birthday - Charles Scribner, Jr., music publisher, Scribner

1921 Birthday - Maxwell Henley Harris, Australian poet/publisher, Gift of Blood

1921 Birthday - Max de Metz, Dutch publisher and translator

1921 Birthday - Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher

1920 Birthday - Edward Kassner, music publisher

1919 Birthday - Malcolm Forbes, publisher, Forbes Magazine

1919 Birthday - Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer

1919 Birthday - Maurice Girodias, French publisher

1918 Birthday - Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher

1918 Birthday - Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer

1917 Birthday - Simone Gallimard, publisher

1917 Birthday - Malcolm S. Forbes, American Publisher

1917 Birthday - Katharine Graham, born in New York City, newspaper publisher, Washington Post

1917 Birthday - Katherine Graham, American Publisher

1916 Birthday - John Boon, publisher

1916 Birthday - Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman

1916 Birthday - Marshall Field IV, publisher/editor, Chicago Daily News, Sunday Times

1916 Birthday - Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher, Busy Bee

1916 Birthday - Ian Ballantine, publisher, Ballantine Books

1915 Birthday - Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher

1914 Birthday - Daisy Bates, publisher/head, Arkansas NAACP

1914 Death - Charles Peguy, French writer/publisher (Clio), dies in battle at 41

1914 Birthday - Kaye Webb, English writer/publisher, Puffin Club

1914 Birthday - Claude Gallimard, France, publisher

1912 Birthday - Bert Bakker, Dutch publisher, Free Netherlands

1912 Birthday - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher

1911 Birthday - Georges Dargaud, French publisher, Asterix/Kuifje

1911 Birthday - Georges Dargaud, French publisher, Asterix, Tintin

1910 Birthday - Louis Levy, Jr., music publisher

1910 Birthday - Alan Frank, music publisher

1910 Birthday - Paul Hodder-Williams, publisher

1908 Birthday - Walter Annenberg, born in Milwaukee, publisher, Triangle-TV Guide and Ambassador to Great Britain

1908 Birthday - William Randolph Hearst, Jr., newspaper publisher, Hearst Publishing

1908 Birthday - Lord Iliffe, English publisher, Coventry Evening Telegraph/Autocar

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

1907 Birthday - Desmond Flower, publisher

1907 Birthday - John Hadfield, author/publisher, Love on a Branch Line

1906 Birthday - Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher

1906 Birthday - John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher

1905 Birthday - Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent

1905 Birthday - John Hay Whitney, publisher, New York Herald Trib 1961-67

1905 Birthday - Manuel Altolaguirre, Spanish poet/publisher, La lenta libertad

1905 Birthday - Jacques Goddot, French publisher, Tour de France

1905 Birthday - Brian Coffey, born in Dublin, Ireland, poet, publisher, influenced by Catholicism, science and philosophy, surrealism, published in the University Review, established Advent Press

1905 Birthday - Oveta Culp Hobby, government official/newspaper publisher/CEO, Houston Post

1903 Birthday - Dorothy Schiff, publisher, New York Post

1903 Birthday - Gardner Cowles, Iowa, publisher/founder, Look Magazine

1902 Birthday - Allen Lane, English publisher/founder, Penguin Books

1902 Birthday - Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper publisher, Le Monde, The Voice,

1901 Birthday - James Pitman, Bath England, educator/publisher/phonetic speller

1901 Birthday - Cecil H King, Irish/British daily newspaper publisher, Daily Mirror

1900 Birthday - Alexandre AM Stols [Chl van Halsbeke], publisher, History of Ecuador

1899 Birthday - Harold Guinzburg, publisher, founder of Literary Guild

1899 Birthday - Nelson Doubleday, U.S., publisher, Doubleday

1898 Death - Stephane Mallarme, French publisher (L'apres-midi d'un faune), dies

1898 Birthday - Bennett Cerf, publisher, Random House, panelist, What's My Line

1898 Birthday - Henry R. Luce, born in Tengchow, China, publisher, Time, Fortune, Life

1898 Birthday - Neville Pearson, English publisher

1896 Birthday - Joris Vriamont, Flemish author/music publisher

1895 Death - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition), dies

1895 Birthday - Samuel I Newhouse, U.S. millionaire publisher, Parade, Vogue, Glamour

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

1894 Birthday - John S. Knight, West Virginia, publisher, Knight-Rider

1894 Death - Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies

1894 Birthday - George Delacorte, born in New York City, philanthropist/publisher, Dell Books

1894 Birthday - Roy Thomson, Canadian Publisher

1892 Birthday - Alfred A Knopf, U.S., publisher, 1966 Alexander Hamilton Medal

1891 Birthday - Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher, Suhrkamp Verlag

1889 Birthday - DeWitt Wallace, St. Paul, Minnesota, publisher, founded Readers Digest, 1921

1887 Birthday - Ernst Rowohlt, German publisher, Rowohlt-Verlag

1886 Birthday - Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher/founder, System Keesing

1886 Death - Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horace), dies at 77

1885 Birthday - Eratstus Flaval Beadle, publisher, Beadle's Dime Novels

1885 Death - Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuelan publisher on Curaeao, dies at 58

1884 Death - Gerben Colmjon, Frisian linguist/publisher, dies at 56

1884 Birthday - Julius P. Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher, Last News

1884 Death - John Wisden, publisher/cricketer (prominent Sussex player), dies

1883 Death - William Chambers, author/publisher, dies

1880 Birthday - Robert Rutherford McCormick, U.S., editor/publisher, Chicago Tribune

1879 Birthday - Frederick G. Melcher, U.S., publisher/editor/founded children book week

1878 Birthday - Nico van Suchtelen, Dutch publisher

1876 Birthday - Frank E Gannett, Rochester, newspaper publisher, Gannett

1876 Birthday - Sherwood Anderson, born in Winesburg, Ohio, author/publisher, Winesburg

1872 Death - Horace Greeley, U.S. founder/publisher (New York Tribune), dies at 61

1872 Death - Judocus Smits, Dutch RC newspaper publisher (De Tijd), dies at 59

1871 Birthday - Emanuel Querido, Joost Mendes, author/publisher

1869 Birthday - Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher, Mother Earth

1869 Death - Philippe Vandermaelen, Flemish cartographer/publisher, dies at 73

1869 Birthday - Johannes M Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher

1868 Birthday - Bernard MacFadden, publisher, Physical Culture, True Romances

1868 Birthday - Halsey William Wilson, U.S., publisher of reference books

1868 Birthday - Harold Sidney Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere/Newspaper publisher

1866 Birthday - Paul Lincke, German composer and conductor /publisher, Frau Luna

1865 Death - John Brough, U.S. publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54

1865 Birthday - Lord Northcliffe, British Publisher

1865 Birthday - William Heinemann, England, publisher, Chemical Instrumental

1864 Death - Louis Hachette, French publisher, dies at 64

1863 Birthday - William Randolph Hearst, publisher, SF Examiner, Seattle P-I

1863 Birthday - Cornelis A J van Dishoeck, Dutch publisher

1862 Birthday - Marcel Prevost, French publisher/writer, Les demis-vierges

1862 Birthday - Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder, Doubleday and Co

1860 Birthday - Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer, Printing Types

1859 Birthday - Willem C Grunings, Curacaos publisher, People's Friend

1858 Death - Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher, dies at 87

1858 Death - Anton Diabelli, Austrian composer/publisher, dies at 76

1858 Death - Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76

1857 Birthday - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher

1856 Birthday - Elbert Hubbard, U.S., editor/publisher/author, Message to Garcia

1854 Birthday - Edward Wyllis Scripps, publisher/journalist

1849 Birthday - Joseph Mallaby Dent, Dutch publisher

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

1846 Death - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49

1846 Death - Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, dies at 49

1844 Death - Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher, dies at 63

1839 Birthday - Isaac Kauffman Funk, U.S., publisher, Funk and Wagnalls

1837 Death - Elijah P Lovejoy, publisher, murdered by pro-slavery mob at 34

1832 Birthday - H H Bancroft, historian, publisher, History of Pacific States

1828 Birthday - Gerben Colmjon, Dutch Frisian linguist/publisher

1826 Birthday - Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book/publisher, Van Dale

1826 Birthday - Agustin Bethencourt, Venezuela publisher on Curaeao

1821 Birthday - Charles Scribner, U.S., music publisher, Scribner Catalog

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

1819 Birthday - Meir A Goldschmidt, Danish writer/publisher, Corsaren and Jode

1818 Birthday - George Brown, Canada, publisher, Toronto Globe, PM, L, 1858

1818 Death - Adriaan Loosjes Pzn, Dut publisher/writer (Moral Stories), dies at 56

1816 Birthday - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher, T Edition

1813 Death - Giambattista Bodoni, Italian stamp cutter/publisher (bodoni), dies at 73

1808 Birthday - Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher, Horatius

1808 Birthday - Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher, The Guide

1805 Birthday - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher, The Liberator

1802 Birthday - Elijah P Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher/abolitionist

1800 Birthday - Louis Hachette, French publisher, Librairie Hachette

1800 Birthday - William Chambers, author/publisher, Basis of Communication and Coding

1798 Death - Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, publisher (Moniteur Universel), dies at 62

1796 Birthday - Nikoli A. Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, Sotsjinenija,

1796 Birthday - Nikoli A. Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher, Sotsjinenija,

1784 Birthday - Adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher

1781 Birthday - Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer

1780 Birthday - Charles-Louis Panckoucke, French publisher

1778 Birthday - John Murray, publisher

1771 Birthday - Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher

1767 Death - John Newberry, English publisher, dies

1761 Birthday - Adrian Loosjes Pzn, publisher/writer, Mauritius Lijnslager

1753 Death - Andre-Joseph Panckoucke, French book publisher/merchant, dies

1749 Birthday - Isaiah Thomas, U.S., printer/editor/publisher/historian

1746 Birthday - William Curtis, English botanist/publisher, Botanical Magazine

1736 Birthday - Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher, Mercure de France

1712 Death - Abraham Elsevier, publisher, dies

1680 Death - Daniel Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 54

1673 Death - Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77

1661 Death - John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 39

1660 Birthday - Peter Schenck, German/Netherlands engraver/publisher, baptised

1652 Death - Abraham Verhoeven, Flemish printer/newspaper publisher, dies

1652 Death - Bonaventura Elsevier, book publisher/merchant, dies at about 69

1652 Death - Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 60

1651 Death - Isaac Elsevier, book publisher, dies at 55

1640 Death - Matthijs Elsevier, Flemish/Dutch book publisher/merchant, dies at 75

1634 Death - Pieter I de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies

1626 Birthday - Daniel Elsevier, book publisher/publisher

1617 Death - Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher, dies at about 76

1610 Birthday - Jacob Neefs, Flemish engraver/publisher, baptised

1606 Birthday - Pieter II de Jode, Flemish engraver/publisher

1599 Birthday - Jacob Aertsz Colom, Dutch publisher, Consolation of the Sea

1597 Death - Franciscus Raphelengius [French of Ravelingen], Netherlands publisher, dies

1596 Birthday - Joan Blaeu, cartographer/publisher

1596 Birthday - Isaac Elsevier, book publisher

1592 Birthday - Abraham Elsevier, book publisher/publisher

1591 Death - Gerard de Jode, Flemish publisher, dies

1589 Death - Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher, dies

1573 Birthday - Henricus Hondius, Dutch etcher/publisher

1573 Death - Jan "Hans" Liefrinck, Flemish engraver/publisher, dies at about 54

1568 Death - Johann Oporinus, Swiss book publisher/publisher, dies at 61

1548 Death - Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies

1539 Birthday - Franciscus Raphelengius, Dutch book publisher

1536 Death - Pietersz, book publisher (Kersten Knight - on Index), dies

1536 Death - Garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral), dies

1533 Birthday - Peter Bornemisza, Hungarian vicar/author/publisher, Tragoedia

1513 Death - Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70

1507 Birthday - Johann Oporinus [Herbster], Swiss book publisher, Koran













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