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2013 Event - American boxer Floyd Mayweather defeats Robert Guerrero and retains his WBC Welterweight title in a unanimous decision

2013 Event - The Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine for in vitro fertilisation, Robert G. Edwards, dies at age 87

2012 Event - Robert Spitzer, a retired American psychiatrist, claims his 2001 study was 'fatally flawed'; the study falsely supported the myth that gay people could be 'cured'

2012 Event - Love letters written between poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning are published online by Wellesley College and Baylor University

2010 Death - Robert Byrd, born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, Senator 1959 - 2010, longest serving member of the U.S. Senate, dies at age 92

2009 Event - Morgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe after agreeing to share power with President Robert Mugabe

2008 Death - Robert Mondavi, dies in Yountville, California, at 94

2008 Death - Robert Rauschenberg, dies in Florida, of heart failure, at 82

2007 Death - Robert Goulet, dies in Los Angeles, California, awaiting a lung transplant for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, at 73

2007 Death - Robert A. Young, Representative-D-Missouri 1977 - 1987, died from liver disease

2007 Death - Robert Pickett, stage name, Bobby Boris Pickett, singer, co-wrote and performed hit 'Monster Mash', dies

2007 Death - Robert C. Solomon, dies in Zurich, Switzerland, at 64

2005 Death - Robert Sheckley, American Author

2005 Death - Robert Badham, Representative-R-California 1977 - 1989

2005 Death - Robert Moog, American Inventor

2004 Death - Robert Merrill, opera singer, dies at 85

2004 Death - "Robert ""Gypsy Boots"" Bootzin", actor/gadfly, The Gypsy in Me, dies at 89

2004 Death - Robert Teeter, American Politician

2004 Death - Robert Quine, guitarist, guitar soloist, worked with Matthew Sweet, Marianne Faithfull, style combines jazz, rock, blues, dies

2004 Death - Robert Pastorelli, actor/boxer, Murphy Brown, dies at 49

2003 Death - Robert Palmer, resistable performer, Addicted to Love, dies at 54

2003 Death - Robert McCloskey, writer/illustrator, Make Way for Ducklings, dies at 78

2003 Death - Robert Stack, actor, The Untouchables, dies at 84

2003 Death - Robert Atkins, diet doctor, Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution, dies at 72

2002 Death - Robert Forward, writer, Dragon's Egg, dies at 70

2002 Death - Robert Urich, actor, Spenser for Hire, dies at 55

2002 Death - Robert L. Chapman, lexicographer, Roget's Thesaurus, dies at 81

2002 Death - Robert Nozick, American Philosopher

2001 Death - Robert Ludlum, novelist, The Bourne Identity, dies at 73

2000 Death - Robert Buck, rock guitarist/songwriter, ", 10,000 Maniacs, ", dies at 42

2000 Death - Robert Trout, radio Methuselah, ", coined the term ""fireside chat"" to describe FDR's informal speeches, ", dies at 91

2000 Death - Robert Cormier, writer, The Chocolate War, dies at 75

2000 Death - Robert Northshield, TV news producer, Sunday Morning, dies at 78

2000 Death - Robert Trent Jones, golf course architect, Augusta National Course, dies at 93

2000 Death - Robert Rathburn Wilson, nuclear physicist, a leader of the Manhattan Project, dies at 82

1999 Death - Robert Bresson, French Director

1999 Death - Robert Shaw, chorale director, founded the Robert Shaw Chorale, dies at 82

1998 Event - Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail LPGA Tournament

1998 Death - Robert Young, actor, Marcus Welby, dies at 91

1998 Death - Robert Merrill, songwriter (Funny Girl), commits suicide at 76

1998 Event - Boston Celtics retire Robert Parrish's #00

1997 Death - Michael Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, dies in ski accident at 39

1997 Death - Robert Steel, academic, dies at 82

1997 Death - Robert Sutton, electronics engineer, dies at 82

1997 Death - Robert Palmer, rock critic, dies at 52

1997 Death - Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician, dies at 55

1997 Death - Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78

1997 Death - Robert Mitchum, actor, Winds of War, dies at 79

1997 Event - TV evangelist Robert Schuller attacks a flight attendant

1997 Event - Republic of Texas security chief Robert Scheidt surrenders

1996 Death - Robert Grant-Ferris, politician, dies at 89

1996 Death - Robert J. Morris, lawyer, served New York State Assembly committee investigating Communist activities, dies at 81

1996 Death - Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier, dies at 95

1996 Death - Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist, dies at 72

1996 Death - Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician, dies at 49

1996 Death - Robert Bourassa, Prime Minister of province of Quebec 1970 - 1976, 1985 - 1993, dies at 63

1996 Event - 2nd Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 16 -15 at Robert Jones Va

1996 Death - Robert Croften Brown, politician, dies at 75

1996 Death - Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer, dies at 42

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

1996 Death - Robert Lynn, anarchist, dies at 72

1996 Death - Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist, dies at 48

1996 Death - Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon, dies at 85

1996 Death - Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35

1996 Death - Robert Hersant, press baron, dies at 76

1996 Death - Robert William Paine, architect, dies at 88

1996 Death - Marthe Robert, essayist/translator, dies at 82

1996 Death - Robert Franklin Overmyer, astronaut (STS-5, STS-51-B), dies at 59

1996 Death - Robert Mellors, gay activist, dies at 47

1996 Death - Robert Covington, drummer/singer, dies at 54

1996 Death - Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician, dies at 80

1995 Death - Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72

1995 Death - Robert Shelton (Shapiro), journalist, dies at 69

1995 Death - Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor, dies at 77

1995 Death - Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79

1995 Death - Robert Stephens, actor (Chaplin, QB VII, Cleopatra), dies at 64

1995 Death - Robert Grieve, civil Servant, dies at 84

1995 Death - Robert Lorimer Riggs, tennis Player, dies at 77

1995 Event - Robert E. Lucas awarded Nobel Prize in economics

1995 Death - Robert "Robby" Debarge, r&B Musician, dies at 36

1995 Death - Robert L "Bob" Talley, pianist, dies at 75

1995 Death - Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer/collector, dies at 82

1995 Death - Robert Flemyng, actor (Kafka, Rebecca, Funny Face), dies at 83

1995 Death - Robert Harris, actor (Werewolf of London), dies at 95

1995 Death - Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57

1995 Death - Robert Selby Taylor, bishop, dies at 86

1995 Death - Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer, dies at 93

1995 Death - Robert Turner, winner of 1st All-American Soap Box Derby, dies at 72

1995 Death - Robert Urquhart, actor (Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed), dies at 72

1995 Death - Robert Bolt, British playwright (Doctor Zhivago, Bounty), dies at 70

1995 Death - Robert Bolt, British Playwright

1995 Death - Robert L Haller, coon Dog Trainer, dies at 32

1995 Death - Robert Shaw, town Planner, dies at 81

1995 Death - Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar, dies at 82

1995 Death - Robert Nesbitt, impresario, dies at 88

1994 Death - Robert Emhardt, actor (Mac Cory-Another World), dies at 80

1994 Death - Robert Jesse Charleston, museum curator, dies at 78

1994 Death - Robert White, guitarist, dies at 57

1994 Death - Robert White, guitarist, African-American musician, performed guitar riff on The Temptations hit, My Girl, dies in Los Angeles, California

1994 Death - Robert Lansing, actor (Blade Runner, Equalizer), dies of cancer at 66

1994 Death - Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/Choreographer, dies at 88

1994 Death - Robert Bloch, screenwriter (Psycho), dies of cancer at 77

1994 Event - 1st Presidents Golf Cup: U.S. beats International team 20-12 at Robert Jones Va

1994 Death - Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet, dies at 64

1994 Death - Robert Hutton, Winne, U.S. actor (Rocket), dies at 74

1994 Death - Robert Jungk, German/French/Us/Austrian philosopher/historian, dies

1994 Death - Robert Michael Payton, pizza magnate, dies at 50

1994 Death - Robert E Lee, dies of cancer at 75

1994 Death - Robert Millar, journalist, dies at 72

1994 Death - Mark Robert Isfeld, combat Engineer, dies at 31

1994 Event - Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)

1994 Event - Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (21 days after his divorce) weds Mary Richardson

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

1994 Death - Robert Doisneau, French photographer (The Kiss), dies at 81

1994 Event - Robert F Kennedy, Jr. divorces Emily Black

1994 Death - Robert Shea, author, dies of cancer

1993 Event - Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns

1993 Event - Robert Goulet undergoes prostate cancer surgery

1993 Death - Robert Taft, Jr., Senator-R-Ohio 1971 - 1976, died at age 76

1993 Event - Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44)

1993 Death - Robert C Maynard, CEO (Oakland Tribune), dies at 56

1993 Event - Televangelist Robert Tilton announces he is divorcing Marte

1993 Death - Robert W. Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93

1993 Death - Robert J Glass, film producer (ET), is killed at 53

1993 Death - Robert Davis, dies of emphysema at 76

1993 Death - Robert Strong

1993 Death - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor (large iron sculptures), dies at 80

1993 Event - Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA

1992 Death - Robert F Simon, U.S. actor (Operation Petticoat, M*A*S*H), dies at 83

1992 Death - Robert Shayne, U.S. actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!), dies of cancer at 92

1992 Birthday - Adam Robert Worton, Newark DE, twin actor, Baby's Day Out

1992 Death - Robert Reese, producer, dies of natural causes at 66

1992 Event - New York City Subway motorman Robert Ray convicted of manslaughter in death of 5 riders, when he fell asleep drunk while in control of train

1992 Death - Robert Muldoon, premier New Zealand (1975-84)/President IMF, dies

1992 Death - Robert Morley, actor (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 84

1992 Death - Robert Morris Page, U.S. physicist (radar), dies at 88

1992 Death - Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59

1992 Death - Robert Harris, murderer, executed in California's gas chamber at 39

1992 Death - Robert Alton Harris, American Criminal

1992 Death - Robert F Clayton, drummer (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash

1992 Death - Robert Paul Haynes, bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash

1992 Event - BPAA U.S. Open by Robert Lawrence

1992 Death - Robert Beatty, actor (Odd Man Out), dies at 82

1992 Event - Robert Schenkkan's "Kentucky Cycle," premieres in LA

1991 Death - Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83

1991 Death - Robert Q Lewis, U.S. comic/TV panel member (RQL Show), dies at 70

1991 Event - Robert M. Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA

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

1991 Event - Robert Helmick resigns as President of U.S. Olympic Committee

1991 Death - Robert DiMatte, Jr., stage director/actor, dies at 43

1991 Death - Robert Motherwell, U.S. painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76

1991 Event - Robert Strauss becomes U.S. ambassador to Soviet Union

1991 Event - Robert M. Gates becomes head of CIA

1991 Event - Actor Robert Duvall weds Sharon Brophy

1991 Death - Robert Maroff, dies at 57

1991 Death - Robert Wagner, mayor (NYC-D-1954-65), dies

1991 Event - Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude

1990 Event - Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-New Jersey Knights for $11 million

1990 Death - Robert Cummings, actor (Love that Bob), dies of kidney failure at 82

1990 Death - Robert Mariano, entertainer, dies at 21

1990 Death - Robert Tessier, actor (Nightwish, Future Force), dies at 56

1990 Event - Robert E. Nederlander appointed New York Yankee managing general partner

1990 Death - Robert Alex, shot to death by robber at 31

1990 Death - Robert Sommer, singer, dies of liver failure at 42

1990 Event - Kerry Kennedy (daughter of Robert) and Andrew Coumo (Mario's son) wed

1990 Death - Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founder (Intel), dies

1990 Event - Lebanon release U.S. hostage Robert Polhill after 39 months

1990 Death - Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87

1990 Death - Robert F Adams, U.S., sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57

1989 Death - Robert Wickler, dies

1989 Death - Robert Penn Warren, American Novelist

1989 Death - Robert Webber, actor (Alex-Moonlighting), dies of ALS at 64

1989 Death - Robert Webber, actor (Nuts, Assassin, 10), dies at 74

1989 Event - Richard J. Kerr replaces Robert M. Gates as deputy director of CIA

1989 Death - Robert Mapplethorpe, U.S. photographer, dies at 42

1989 Event - Robert McFarlane gets $20,000 fine, 2 years probation for Iran-Contra

1988 Death - Bob Steele, Robert Bradbury, dies after short illness at 60

1988 Event - Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by U.S. Senate

1988 Event - Robert Englund, actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth

1988 Death - Robert Gwathmey, artist, dies at 85

1988 Event - Rockers Jonathan "Chico" and Robert DeBarge indicted on drug trafficking

1988 Death - Robert Lee "Bobby" Dodd, U.S. football coach

1988 Death - Robert A Heinlein, sci-fi writer (Friday), dies of heart failure at 80

1988 Death - Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

1988 Death - Robert Livingston, actor (Lone Ranger), dies at 83 of emphysema

1988 Birthday - Jamie Altman, son of Lynda Carter and Robert Altman

1987 Death - Robert Paige, actor (Son of Dracula, Pardon My Sarong), dies

1987 Event - Nobel prize for economy awarded to Robert M. Solow

1987 Event - Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Court nomination

1987 Event - William H. Webster replaces Robert M. Gates as 14th director of CIA

1987 Death - Robert Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), dies at 68

1987 Event - Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide

1986 Death - Robert L "Bobby" Layne, football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 59

1986 Death - Robert Sutton Whitney, composer, dies at 82

1986 Death - Robert S Mulliken, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1966), dies at 90

1986 Death - Robert Helpmann, actor (Second Time Lucky, Patrick), dies at 77

1986 Death - Jennifer Levin, strangled by Robert Chambers in Central Park

1986 Death - Robert Drivas, actor (Our Private World), dies at 47

1986 Death - Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80

1986 Death - Robert Alda, actor (Dan Lewis-Supertrain), dies at 72

1986 Event - Robert M. Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA

1985 Event - Position of American Poet Laureate established (Robert Warren is 1st)

1985 Death - Robert Graves, English writer/poet (King Jesus), dies at 90

1985 Event - Senate judiciary committee begins Robert Bork confirmation hearings

1985 Death - Rodney Robert Porter, British Scientist

1985 Death - Robert Nathan, U.S. writer/poet (Portrait of Jennie), dies at 91

1985 Death - Robert W. Woodruff, CEO (Coca-Cola), dies at 95

1985 Death - Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., U.S. founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85

1985 Event - Actress Judith Licht (Who's the Boss) marries Robert Desiderio (One Life to Live)

1984 Death - Robert Moore, actor (Marshall-Diana), dies at 56

1984 Event - Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st U.S. poet laureate

1984 Event - Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman

1983 Death - Robert Aldrich, dir/producer (Last Sunset), dies at 65

1983 Death - Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure

1983 Death - Robert Gross, composer, dies at 69

1983 Event - Robert de Castella wins Helsinki marathon 2:10:03

1983 Death - Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65

1983 Death - Robert Christian, actor (Bustin' Loose), dies of cancer at 42

1982 Death - Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73

1982 Death - Robert Coote, actor (MacBeth), dies in New York City of a heart attack at 73

1982 Birthday - Robert Anthony, born in Chicago, Illinois, ring name, 'Egotistico Fantastico', professional wrestler, athlete, World Junior Heavyweight Champion, Iron Man Champion, AAW Heavyweight Championship

1982 Death - Robert H G Havemann, German chemist/dissident, dies

1981 Death - Robert H Harris, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 72

1981 Death - Robert Montgomery, actor/dir (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 77

1981 Death - Robert Russell Bennett, U.S. composer/arranger (Oklahoma!), dies at 87

1981 Death - Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered

1981 Death - Robert Emmett Keane, actor (Rookie Cop, Red Dragon), dies

1981 Death - Robert Davi (opera singer/actor), dies at 54

1981 Birthday - Robert Earnshaw, born in Mufulira, Zambia, Welsh international soccer player, striker, plays for Nottingham Forest

1981 Event - Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy

1980 Birthday - Margot Contois, Marquette, Michigan, dance skater, & Robert Peal

1980 Event - Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe

1980 Event - Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins elections in Zimbabwe

1980 Death - Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician, dies at 62

1979 Death - Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62

1979 Event - "Bad Case Of Loving You" by Robert Palmer peaks at #14

1978 Event - Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, vs. England at the MCG

1978 Death - Robert Shaw, actor (Dan-Buccaneers), dies of heart attack at 51

1978 Event - Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm and Market, SF, dedicated

1978 Death - Robert Heger, composer, dies at 91

1977 Death - Robert C "Cal" Hubbard, U.S. baseball player/umpire, dies at 77

1977 Death - Robert Lowell, U.S. poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)

1977 Death - Karac Plant, son of Robert Plant, dies of respratory failure at 6

1977 Death - Robert Middleman, actor (Barney-Monroes), dies at 66

1977 Death - Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator

1977 Death - Margaret Hayes, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents), dies at 61

1976 Death - Robert Fleming, composer, dies at 55

1976 Birthday - Gregory Robert Henderson, Dunedin New Zealand, 4k pursuit cyclist 1996 Olympics

1976 Death - Robert de Roos, composer, dies at 69

1975 Event - Senator Robert Dole and Elizabeth Hanford marry

1975 Birthday - Robert Enes, Australian soccer midfielder, Olyroos, 1996 Olympics

1975 Event - Robert Plant is involved in a car crash in Rhodes

1975 Event - House of Representatives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee

1975 Death - Robert Stolz, Austrian composer (Fruhling im Prater), dies at 94

1975 Event - 27th Emmy Awards: Mary Tyler Moore Show, Robert Blake and Jean Marsh

1975 Death - Rob Touber, Robert J Noordervliet, chansonnier/director, dies at 38

1975 Death - Robert Strauss, actor (Sergeant Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), dies at 61

1975 Death - Robert Evett, composer, dies at 52

1975 Birthday - Robert Norman Waddell, Cambridge New Zealand, Single scull rower 1996 Olympics

1975 Death - Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77

1974 Death - Robert Levine Sanders, composer, dies at 68

1974 Death - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer (La Chanson d'Eve), dies at 88

1974 Death - Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79

1974 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)

1974 Birthday - Robert Rollins, cricketer, big-hitting Essex wicketkeeper-batsman

1973 Birthday - Robert Walker, Australian rower 1996 Olympics

1973 Death - Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies at 81

1973 Death - Robert Ellis, actor (Curse of King Tut's Tomb), dies at 40

1973 Birthday - Robert Petrovicky, born in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, NHL forward, Team Slovakia, Dallas

1973 Birthday - Robert Tate, wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings

1973 Event - Judd Woldon and Robert Brittens musical "Raisin," premieres in New York City

1973 Birthday - Robert Couch, NFL tackle for the Atlanta Falcons

1973 Birthday - Robert Lee, NFL cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons

1973 Death - Robert Ryan, U.S. actor (Dirty Dozens, Longest Day), dies at 63

1973 Birthday - Robert Barr, NFL tackle for the Seattle Seahawks

1973 Death - Robert Armstrong, actor (Fall Guy, Exposed), dies at 82

1973 Event - Robert Joffrey Dance Company opens

1973 Birthday - Robert Pipkins, Staten Island, New York, luger 1994 Olympics

1973 Birthday - Robert Braknis, born in Montreal, Quebec, 100m backstroke/4 x 100 1996 Olympics

1973 Birthday - Robert Dunn, Glenn Cove, New York, team handball left wing 1996 Olympics

1972 Birthday - Robert Robinson, CFL defensive linebacker for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

1972 Death - Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary, dies at 53

1972 Death - Robert M Casadesus, French pianist/composer (Prix Diemer), dies at 73

1972 Death - Robert Denzler, composer, dies at 80

1972 Birthday - Robert Peal, born in Chicago, Illinois, dance skater, & Margot Contois

1972 Birthday - Robert Esmie, born in Jamaica, Canadian 4X100m runner, 1996 Olympics gold

1972 Birthday - Robert Kennedy, cricketer, New Zealand opening bowler 1996

1972 Birthday - Robert Smith, NFL running back for the Minnesota Vikings

1972 Event - Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia

1972 Birthday - Adrian Rollins, cricketer, Derbyshire batsman, bro of Robert of Essex

1972 Event - "Emergency" with Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV

1971 Event - Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman,, Jr., USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1971 Death - Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 57

1971 Birthday - Robert Flickinger, WLAF defensive end for the Scottish Claymores

1971 Birthday - Robert Wijnands, Dutch soccer player for the FC Utrecht

1971 Birthday - David Robert Duval, born in Jacksonville, Florida, PGA golfer, 1995 Bob Hope

1971 Death - Robert Gordon director/writer (Loveless), dies at 76

1971 Birthday - Robert Reichel, born in Litinov, Czechoslovakia, hockey forward, New York Islanders, Gold Medal 1998 Olympics

1971 Birthday - Robert Samuels, cricketer, West Indies Test opening batsman vs. New Zealand 1996

1971 Birthday - Robert O'Neal, WLAF safety for the Amsterdam Admirals

1971 Death - Robert Still, composer, dies at 60

1971 Birthday - Robert O' Neal, WLAF DB for the Amsterdam Admirals

1970 Birthday - Robert Hall, WLAF wide reciever for the Amsterdam Admirals

1970 Birthday - Robert Lang, Teplice, Czech Republic, NHL forward, Team Czech Republic, Los Angeles

1970 Birthday - Robert Griffith, NFL strong safety for the Minnesota Vikings

1970 Death - Robert Ruthenfranz, composer, dies at 65

1970 Birthday - Natasha Gregson Wagner, actress, Dark Horse, SFW, Robert's daughter

1970 Birthday - Robert Green, NFL running back for the Chicago Bears

1970 Birthday - Robert Horry, NBA forward, Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets

1970 Birthday - Robert Higginson, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, outfielder for the Detroit Tigers

1970 Event - Robert Morley's "How the Other Half Loves," premieres in London

1970 Birthday - Robert Brooks, NFL wide reciever, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31

1970 Event - 22nd Emmy Awards: Marcus Welby, Robert Young and Susan Hampshire

1970 Birthday - Robert Croft, cricketer, Glamorgan off-spinner, England 1996-

1970 Death - Robert Bruce Lockhart, diplomat/writer, dies

1970 Event - Robert Marasco's "Child's Play," premieres in New York City

1970 Event - Robert Altman's "M*A*S*H," premieres

1970 Death - Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81

1969 Birthday - Robert Person, born in St. Louis, Missouri, pitcher for the New York Mets

1969 Birthday - Robert Jones, NFL linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys

1969 Birthday - Robert Coons, NFL tight end for the Buffalo Bills

1969 Death - Robert Lehman, U.S. multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies

1969 Birthday - Robert Scott, Australian rower 1996 Olympics

1969 Birthday - Robert Porcher, NFL defensive end, Detroit Lions

1969 Birthday - Robert Gordon, CFL receiver for the Edmonton Eskimos

1969 Birthday - Robert Harris, NFL defensive end for the New York Giants

1969 Death - Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days), dies of lung cancer at 57

1969 Birthday - Robert Perez, born in Bolivar, Venezuela, outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays

1969 Event - Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death

1969 Event - Robert E. Cushman, Jr., becomes deputy director of CIA

1969 Event - Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy

1969 Birthday - Robert Sean Leonard, New Jersey, actor, Dead Poets Society, Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

1969 Birthday - Robert Massey, NFL cornerback for the New York Giants

1969 Birthday - Robert Molenaar, Dutch soccer player, FC Volendam

1969 Birthday - Robert Pack, NBA guard, Washington Bullets, Dallas Mavericks

1969 Birthday - Robert Young, NFL player for the St. Louis Rams

1969 Birthday - Robert Wilson, NFL running back for the Miami Dolphins

1969 Birthday - Robert Svehla, born in Martin, Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman, Florida Panthers, Slovakia

1968 Death - Robert Ayres, actor (Battle Beneath the Earth), dies at 54

1968 Birthday - Vanilla Ice, Robert Van Winkle, rapper, Ice Ice Baby

1968 Birthday - Robert van Oosterom, cricket opening batsman, Holland 1996 World Cup

1968 Death - Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67

1968 Death - Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47

1968 Birthday - Robert Bailey, NFL cornerback for the Dallas Cowboys

1968 Birthday - Robert Anthony Gamez, born in Las Vegas Nevada, PGA golfer, 1990 Nestle

1968 Birthday - Robert Rodriguez, director, El Mariachi, Desperado

1968 Event - AL games at Baltimore and Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy

1968 Death - Robert F Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42

1968 Death - Robert Kennedy, American Politician

1968 Birthday - Robert David Burns, Mission Hills, California, PGA golfer, 1994 Buick-5th

1968 Event - Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign

1968 Event - Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in New York City

1968 Death - Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84

1967 Death - Robert H Lawrence, USAF/astronaut, dies at 32

1967 Event - Robert McNamara elected president of World bank

1967 Death - Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Judge Tie), dies

1967 Event - Major Robert H Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut

1967 Birthday - Robert Drummond, CFL running back for the Toronto Argonauts

1967 Birthday - Robert Reading, born in Buffalo, New York, 110m hurdler

1967 Event - Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles

1967 Birthday - Robert Blackmon, defensive back, Indianapolis Colts, Seattle Seahawks

1967 Event - Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in New York City

1967 Birthday - Robert Kron, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, NHL right wing, Hartford Whalers

1967 Death - Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, dies at 62

1967 Birthday - Robert Massey, NFL cornerback, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions

1967 Event - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren

1967 Death - Robert J Van De Graaff, U.S. nuclear physicist, dies at 65

1966 Death - Robert Keith, actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68

1966 Birthday - Robert MacNaughton, New York City, actor, ET

1966 Event - Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken

1966 Event - High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame

1966 Birthday - Robert Kempainen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, marathoner, 1996 Olympics

1966 Event - Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD)

1966 Event - 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD)

1965 Birthday - Robert Oberrrauch, hockey defenseman, Team Italy 1998

1965 Event - Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward

1965 Event - Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry

1965 Event - 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447

1965 Event - Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one

1965 Birthday - Robert Goff, NFL defensive tackle for the New Orleans Saints

1965 Birthday - Robert Rusler, actor, Game of Love, Vamp, Thrashin'

1965 Birthday - Robert Manry, Cleveland newspaper editor/sailed the Atlantic, in craft

1965 Birthday - Robert Holland, CFL defensive back for the BC Lions

1965 Birthday - Robert Platus, born in New York City, lip syncher, Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know This

1965 Death - Robert E Hickok, U.S. murderer (In Cold Blood), hanged

1965 Birthday - Robert Downey, Jr., born in New York City, comedian, SNL, Less than Zero, Back to School

1964 Birthday - Robert Haynes, cricketer, Jamaica and WI leggie, one-dayer but no Tests

1964 Death - Robert Burton, actor (Dr. Gordon-Kings Row), dies at 69

1964 Birthday - Robert Farley, Ndola Zambia, Australasia golfer

1964 Event - U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns

1964 Birthday - Robert Mimbs, CFL running back for the Saskatchewan Roughriders

1964 Death - Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85

1964 Birthday - Katie Wagner, daughter of Robert Wagner/model/guest VJ, MTV

1964 Birthday - Robert Kelker-Kelly, born in Wichita, Kansas, Bo-Days of our Live

1964 Birthday - Robert "Bob" Kaehler, born in Burlingame, California, rower, Olympics 1992, 1996

1964 Event - Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno," premieres in New York City

1963 Birthday - Robert Jenkins, NFL tackle for the Oakland Raiders

1963 Death - Robert Hamer, British Director

1963 Death - Robert Stroud, "bird man of Alcatraz", dies

1963 Birthday - Robert Bailey, cricketer, England batsman in four Tests 1988-90

1963 Death - Robert Schuman, French premier/chair (European Parliament), dies at 77

1963 Event - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m

1963 Birthday - Robert Seguso, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, tennis star

1963 Birthday - Robert James Affuso, born in Newburgh, New York, rock drummer, Skid Row-Psycho Love

1963 Event - Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize

1963 Death - Robert Lee Frost, U.S. poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers), dies at 88

1963 Death - Robert Frost, American Poet

1962 Birthday - Robert Willis, Sydney NSW, Australasia golfer

1962 Event - USAF Major Robert A. Rushworth takes X-15 to 40,800m

1962 Event - USAF Major Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300m

1962 Birthday - Robert Meyer, Sacramento Cal, Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 Morningstar

1962 Birthday - Mark Robert Isfeld, combat engineer

1962 Event - Robert White in X-15 sets altitude record of 108 km (354,300 ft)

1962 Event - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 75,190 m

1962 Event - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m

1962 Event - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 40,420 m

1962 Event - Robert A. Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m

1962 Birthday - Robert Druppers, runner, world record 1 km indoor

1962 Birthday - Alain Robert, French Athlete

1962 Birthday - Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., born in Baltimore, Maryland, astronaut, STS-85, sk: 99

1962 Event - Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands

1962 Birthday - Robert Mailhouse, New Haven, Connecticut, actor, Brian-Days of our Life

1961 Birthday - Robert Louis Tewdwr Moss, journalist/travel writer

1961 Event - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 30,970m

1961 Event - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 66,100m

1961 Event - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 32,830 m

1961 Death - Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies

1961 Birthday - Stephen Robert Pate, Ventura California, PGA golfer, 1987 Southwest Classic

1961 Birthday - Doctor Robert, Bruce R Howard, rocker, Blow Monkeys-Wicked Ways

1961 Event - Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit

1961 Event - USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 32,000 m

1961 Birthday - Robert Carlyle, Scottish Director

1961 Event - Robert Weaver sworn in with then highest federal post by a black

1961 Event - Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at John F. Kennedy's inauguration

1961 Birthday - Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman

1960 Birthday - Robert Harold Lohr, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, PGA golfer, 1988 Walt Disney

1960 Birthday - Robert Pukalovic, hockey defenseman, Team Slovakia 1998

1960 Event - Robert Bolt's "Man For All Seasons," premieres in London

1960 Event - USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 41,600 m

1960 Event - 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack and Jane Wyatt

1960 Event - USAF Major Robert M. White takes X-15 to 33,222 m

1960 Birthday - Robert Green, born in Omaha, Nebraska, tennis star

1959 Birthday - Robert Wrenn, born in Richmond, Virginia, Nike golfer, 1987 Buick Open

1959 Birthday - Robert Raymond Tway, born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, PGA golfer, 1986 Shearson

1959 Birthday - Robert Smith, born in Sussex, rock guitarist and vocalist, Cure-Hell's Kitchen

1959 Event - Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s

1958 Event - Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society

1958 Death - Edgar A Robert Cecil viscount of Chelwood, (Nobel 1937), dies at 94

1958 Event - New York City Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League

1958 Birthday - Robert Patrick, American Actor

1958 Death - Robert Lach, composer, dies at 84

1958 Death - Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet

1958 Death - Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32

1958 Birthday - Robert Foth, born in Buffalo, New York, air rifle, Olympics-1988, 92, 96

1958 Birthday - Robert Newman, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Joshua Lewis-Guiding Light

1958 Death - Robert Greig, actor (Devil Doll, Indian Love Call), dies at 78

1958 Death - Robert Donat, actor (Citadel, Goodbye Mr. Chips, 39 Steps), dies at 53

1958 Event - 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young and Jane Wyatt

1957 Death - Robert Frank Kurka, composer, dies at 35

1957 Event - NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers and Giants

1957 Birthday - Robert. L. Ehrlich, American Politician

1957 Birthday - Robert Beltran, actor, Star Trek Voyager

1957 Death - Robert Oboussier, composer, dies at 56

1957 Event - New York City Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants and Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast

1957 Event - 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young and Loretta Young

1957 Birthday - Robert Townsend, Chicago, comedian/actor, Hollywood Shuffle, Ratboy

1957 Birthday - Robert Thompson, born in Houston, Texas, Nike golfer, 1990 Boise Open-2nd

1956 Death - Robert Walser, writer, dies at 78

1956 Event - Charles Ives' overture "Robert Browning," premieres in New York City

1956 Death - Robert Mills Delaney, composer, dies at 53

1956 Event - Curt Robert of Columbus (International League) hits 4 home runs in 7 inning game

1956 Birthday - Robert Davi, actor, License to Kill, Raw Deal, Wild Thing

1956 Birthday - Robert Dover, equestrian dressage 1996 Olympics bronze

1956 Death - Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50

1956 Event - New York Mayor Robert Wagner and Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30M Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build

1955 Death - Robert E Sherwood, dramatist (Abe Lincoln in Illinois), dies at 59

1955 Death - Robert E. Sherwood, American Playwright

1955 Birthday - Robert ten Brink, Dutch TV host/cabaret artist

1955 Death - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer, dies at 70

1955 Birthday - Robert Feld, born in Nashville, Tennessee, National Scrabble Champion 1990

1955 Death - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at 76

1954 Death - Robert H. Jackson, American Statesman

1954 Birthday - Robert Kocharian, born in Stepanakert, Azerbaijan SSR, Soviet Union, politician, President of Armenia 1998 - 2008, President of Nagorno-Karabakh from 1994 - 1997

1954 Birthday - Robert Cameron, CFL punter for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers

1954 Event - Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr. J Robert Oppenheimer

1954 Birthday - Robert Davi, born in Astoria, New York, opera singer and actor, Gangster Chronicles

1954 Birthday - Robert Pastorelli, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Eldin-Murphy Brown

1954 Birthday - Bo [Robert] Donaldson, rock vocalist, Billy Don't Be a Hero

1954 Death - Robert Capa, American Photographer

1954 Event - Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed

1954 Event - Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist

1954 Birthday - Robert Carradine, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Slim-The Cowboys, Wavelength

1954 Birthday - Robert F Kennedy, Jr., attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council

1954 Birthday - Robert Menendez, American Politician

1953 Birthday - Robert Pittman, TV executive/developer, MTV

1953 Death - Robert A Millikan, U.S. physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85

1953 Death - Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist, dies at 70

1953 Birthday - Robert Picardo, Philadelphia, actor, Frame Up, Gremlins 2

1953 Event - Robert Anderson's "Tea and Sympathy," premieres in New York City

1953 Birthday - Robert Parish, NBA center, Boston Celtics, Charlotte Hornets

1953 Birthday - Robert Brent Thirsk, BC Canada, astronaut, STS-78

1953 Birthday - Robert Cray, Columbus, Georgia, blues singer and songwriter, 1987 Grammy

1953 Death - Robert Taft, Senator-R-Ohio 1971 - 1976, dies in New York at 63

1953 Event - Congress cites research of New York City librarian Robert Henderson in proving

1953 Birthday - Craig Robert Stadler, born in San Diego, California, PGA golfer, Masters 1982

1953 Death - Robert M. La Follette, American Politician

1953 Birthday - Robert Brazile, born in Mobile, Alabama, football player, linebacker, played for National Football League's Houston Oilers and Kansas City Chiefs, nicknamed 'Dr. Doom', named 1975's NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year

1952 Birthday - Robert R[ick] McCammon, U.S., sci-fi author, Baal, Mystery Walk

1952 Birthday - Andy Fraser, born in Paddington, West London, pianist, guitarist, songwriter, played bass for Free, composed "All Right Now", wrote hits for Robert Palmer, Rod Stewart, Joe Cocker

1952 Birthday - Robert D. Kaplan, American Journalist

1952 Birthday - Robert Ainsworth, born in Coventry, England, Robert William Ainsworth, politician, Labor Party, 2009, assumed roles of Secretary of State for Defense, since 1992, serves as a Member of Parliament for Coventry North East

1951 Birthday - Robert Lindsay, Ilketson England, actor, Strike it Rich, King Lear

1951 Birthday - Robert Cochran, Claremont Vt, skier, Olympics-1972

1951 Death - Robert G Aitken, U.S. astronomer (New General Catalogue), dies at 86

1951 Birthday - Robert Wuhl, Union, New Jersey, actor, Bull Durham, Good Morning Vietnam

1951 Birthday - Robert Desiderio, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Det Kennedy-Heart of the City

1951 Death - Robert Franz Richard Hernried, composer, dies at 67

1951 Death - Robert Walker, actor and writer (Bataan, Madame Curie), dies at 32

1951 Birthday - Robert Torricelli, born in Paterson, New Jersey, Representative-D-New Jersey 1983 - 2003

1951 Birthday - Robert Joy, born in Montreal, Quebec, actor, Big Shots, Suicide Club

1951 Birthday - Robert Edwin Wadkins, Richmond, Virginia, PGA golfer, 1994 Kemper Open-2nd

1951 Birthday - Chris Smith, born in Barnet, London, Christopher Robert 'Chris' Smith, Baron Smith of Finsbury, politician, Labor Party, Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Member of Parliament for Islington South and Finsbury, Cabinet minister, first openly gay MP member, HIV positive

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

1951 Death - Robert J. Flaherty, Director

1951 Death - Robert Kahn, composer, dies at 85

1951 Birthday - Robert Hegyes, New Jersey, actor, Underground Aces, Welcome Back Kotter

1951 Birthday - Robert Iger, born in Los Angeles, California, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, succeeded Michael Eisner

1951 Death - Robert Mark, U.S. chairman (Caste World Congress), dies at 41

1950 Birthday - Robert Bryan Gilder, Corvallis OR, PGA golfer, 1980 Canadian Open

1950 Death - Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer, dies at 66

1950 Birthday - Robert B. Laughlin, American Physicist

1950 Birthday - Robert "Kool" Bell, Youngstown, Ohio, rocker, Kool and the Gang

1950 Death - Robert W. Lehnhoff, Executioner of Groningen, SS fuhrer, executed

1950 Event - French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman calls for European community EGKS

1950 Birthday - Robert S. Woods, born in California, actor, Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons

1950 Event - "Robert Montgomery Presents" dramatic anthology premieres on NBC TV

1949 Birthday - Robert Sternberg, American Educator

1949 Birthday - Robert Mellors, gay activist

1949 Death - Robert Lynd [YY], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle), dies at 70

1949 Birthday - Robert Englund, actor, Freddy Kreuger-Nightmare on Elm St, V

1949 Death - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer, dies at 65

1949 Birthday - Robert Cabana, born in Minneapolis, Major USMC/astronaut, STS-41, 53, 68, sk:88

1949 Birthday - Robert Palmer, born in Batley, England, singer, Power Station

1948 Death - Robert Quillen, American Journalist

1948 Birthday - Robert Ginty, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Paper Chase, White Fire

1948 Birthday - Robert A. Borski, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1983 - 2003

1948 Birthday - Robert Anderson, cricketer, New Zealand batsman 1976-78

1948 Birthday - Robert Plant, English rock vocalist, Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love

1948 Birthday - Robert P Holdstock, UK, sci-fi author, Ghost Dance, Labyrinth

1948 Birthday - Robert Spink, born in Haworth, Worth Valley, Yorkshire, England, Robert Michael Spink, politician, Independence Party, former Conservative Party member, became Member of Parliament for Castle Point in June, 2001

1948 Birthday - Robert A. Underwood, born in Tamuning, Guam, Representative-D-Guam 1993 - 2003

1948 Birthday - Robert Zemeckis, director, Forrest Gump, Back to the Future

1948 Birthday - Robert Braunwart, who added thousands of dates to this database

1948 Death - Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator, dies at 38

1948 Birthday - Robert Coover, novelist, Pricksongs and Descants

1947 Birthday - Robert Gilliot, father of Gerda Havertongs daughter Zulema

1947 Event - Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan and Fred Saigh for $4M

1947 Birthday - Robert Kidd, marine geoscientist

1947 Birthday - Robert E. Cramer, born in Huntsville, Alabama, Representative-D-Alabama 1991 - 2009

1947 Birthday - Robert Hays, Bethesda, Maryland, actor, Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous

1947 Birthday - Robert M. Parker, Jr., American Critic

1947 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)

1947 Birthday - Robert C. Scott, born in Washington, D.C., Representative-D-Virginia 1993 -

1947 Birthday - Robert Kiyosaki, American Author

1947 Birthday - Bobby Kimball, Robert Toteaux, Vinton, Louisiana, rocker, Toto-Roseann

1947 Birthday - Robert O'Neill Crossman, politician

1947 Birthday - Robert Martin, American Politician

1947 Birthday - David Bowie, born in London, England, singer and actor, Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, also known as David Robert Hayward-Jones

1946 Birthday - Robert Urich, Toronto Ohio, actor, SWAT, Spenser for Hire, Vega$

1946 Birthday - Robert Mapplethorpe, U.S. photographer

1946 Birthday - Robert L "Hoot" Gibson, Cooperstown, New York, USN/ast, STS-41B,61C,27,47,71

1946 Birthday - Robert Jackson, MP/minister of British Civil Service

1946 Birthday - Robert L Asprin, U.S., sci-fi writer, Thieves World, Cold Cash War

1946 Birthday - Robert Xavier Rodriguez, composer

1946 Birthday - Robert Asprin, American Author

1946 Birthday - Robert Reich, U.S. Secretary of Labor, Clinton

1946 Birthday - Tristan Rogers, born in Australia, actor, Robert Scorpio-General Hospital

1946 Birthday - Robert Jarvik, surgeon/inventor, Jarvik 7 artificial heart

1946 Birthday - Robert E. McKee, CEO and managing director, Conoco-UK

1945 Death - Robert van Genechten, Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide

1945 Birthday - Robert Pickett, born in Somerville, Massachusetts, stage name, Bobby Boris Pickett, singer, co-wrote and performed hit 'Monster Mash'

1945 Death - Robert Benchley, U.S. humorist (My 10 years in a quandary), dies at 56

1945 Birthday - Robert J. Mrazek, born in Newport, Rhode Island, Representative-D-New York 1983 - 1993

1945 Death - Robert Ley, German nazi, commits suicide

1945 Event - Robert T Duncan appears as Tonio in "I Pagliacci"

1945 Death - Robert Benchley, American Comedian

1945 Birthday - Robert Greenwald, American Director

1945 Event - Robert Hamilton wins PGA golf tournament

1945 Birthday - Robert Balaban, Chicago, actor, Absence of Malice, Altered States

1945 Death - Robert H Goddard, U.S., rocket pioneer, dies at 62

1945 Death - Robert Goddard, Rocket pioneer, dies

1945 Event - 55th Postmaster General: Robert E Hannegan of Mo takes office

1945 Birthday - Kenneth Robert Livingstone, British Politician

1945 Birthday - Robert Henrit, England, rocker, Argent

1945 Birthday - Robert Knight, born in Franklin, Tennessee, singer, rocker, debuted with the Paramounts, recorded hit, signature song, Everlasting Love

1945 Birthday - Robert Key, MP/British undersecretary for National Heritage

1945 Birthday - Robert Fripp, guitarist, King Crimson

1945 Birthday - Robert A. Brady, American Politician

1945 Birthday - Robert Wittinger, composer

1945 Birthday - Robert Wyatt, English Musician

1944 Birthday - Robert Colomby, New York City, rock drummer, Blood Sweat and Tears-When I Die

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

1944 Birthday - Robert Lamm, New York City, rocker, Chicago-If You Leave Me Now

1944 Death - Robert Cole, U.S. Lt-colonel, dies in battle at Best

1944 Death - Robert Lejour, Belgian lawyer/resistance fighter, murdered

1944 Birthday - Robert Mueller, American Public Servant

1944 Birthday - Joanna Cassidy, Caskey, Haddonfield, New Jersey, actress, 240 Robert

1944 Death - Robert H Iseley, U.S. pilot/lt-comdr (Saipan), dies in battle

1944 Birthday - Robert Powell, England, actor, Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets

1944 Birthday - Robert Michael Payton, pizza magnate

1944 Death - Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at 79

1944 Birthday - Robert Landers, Tarrant County, Texas, PGA golfer, Ft. Worth-1976, 78, 80

1943 Birthday - Joel Robert, Belgian motorcyclist

1943 Birthday - Robert Lindsay Thomas, born in Patterson, Georgia, Representative-D-Georgia 1983 - 1993

1943 Birthday - Robert Jay Sigel, Narberth, Pennsylvania, PGA golfer, 1994 GTE West Classic

1943 Birthday - Robert Long, Leverman, Dutch singer and actor, Vroeger Kon je Lachen

1943 Death - Robert Cooper, father of Card pitcher Mort and catcher Walker, dies

1943 Death - Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer, dies at 60

1943 Birthday - Robert Walden, New York City, actor, Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors

1943 Birthday - Robert M. Gates, American Politician

1943 Birthday - Robert Crumb, U.S., cartoonist, Father Time, Fritz Cat

1943 Birthday - Robert De Niro, born in New York City, actor, Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver

1943 Birthday - Robert W. Edgar, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Pennsylvania, 1975 - 1987

1943 Birthday - Milton Robert Carr, born in Janesville, Wisconsin, Representative-D-Michigan 1975 - 1981, 1983 - 1993, and 1993 - 1995

1943 Birthday - Robert J Murphy, Jr., born in Brooklyn, New York, PGA golfer, 1968 Philadelphia Classic

1942 Birthday - Robert Quine, born in Akron, Ohio, guitarist, guitar soloist, worked with Matthew Sweet, Marianne Faithfull, style combines jazz, rock, blues

1942 Event - Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times

1942 Birthday - Robert L. Hayes, born in Jacksonville, Florida, 100m/4x100m runner, 2 Gold Medals 1964 Olympics

1942 Event - Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ

1942 Event - Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ

1942 Birthday - Robert C. Solomon, born in Michigan, philosophy professor, studied Hegel, Nietzsche, Sartre, philosophy of emotions

1942 Birthday - Robert Lee Stewart, Washington D.C., Brigadier General U.S. Army/astronaut, STS-41B, 51J

1942 Birthday - Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician

1942 Birthday - Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer, Titanic in 1985

1942 Birthday - Robert C Springer, St. Louis, Col USMC/astronaut, STS-29, STS-38

1942 Death - Robert Musil, Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), dies at 61

1942 Birthday - Robert Klein, Bronx, comedian/actor, Hooper, Deadly Rivals

1941 Birthday - Robert Covington, drummer/singer

1941 Birthday - Robert Foxworth, born in Houston, Texas, actor, Chase-Falcon Crest, Frankenstein

1941 Death - Robert Delaunay, French painter, dies at 56

1941 Event - 61st U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats F Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)

1941 Birthday - Robert Forster, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Lady in Red, Alligator

1941 Birthday - Robert Pine, born in Scarsdale, New York, actor, Joe Getraer-CHiPs

1941 Birthday - Robert Forester, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Banyon, Nakia

1941 Event - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)

1941 Birthday - Robert C. Smith, born in Trenton, New Jersey, Representative-R-New Hampshire, 1985 - 1990, Senator-R-New Hampshire 1990- 2003

1941 Death - Robert Liefmann, German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67

1941 Birthday - Robert Hass, American Poet

1941 Birthday - Robert Walmsley, British Vice-Admiral

1941 Death - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83

1941 Birthday - Robert Hicks, rocker, Paul Butterfield Blues Band

1940 Death - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Gaskugeln), dies at 78

1940 Event - 60th U.S. Mens Tennis: W D McNeill beats Robert L Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)

1940 Event - 60th U.S. Mens Tennis: McNeill beats Robert Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)

1940 Death - Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32

1940 Birthday - Robert Kramer, actor, A.K.

1940 Event - Robert Sherwood's "There Shall be No Night," premieres in New York City

1940 Birthday - Robert Walker, Jr., New York City, actor, Ceremony, Ms Don Juan, Ensign Pulver

1940 Event - 12th Academy Awards 'Gone with the Wind', Robert Donat and Vovoem Leigh win

1939 Event - 59th U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats S Welby van Horn (64 62 64)

1939 Birthday - Robert Lee Dickey, U.S. singer, I'm your puppet

1939 Birthday - Robert A. M. Stern, American Architect

1939 Birthday - James Robert Jones, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Representative-D-Oklahoma 1973 - 1987

1939 Death - Robert Courtneidge, British theater producer, dies

1939 Birthday - Robert Nye, writer, Facts of Life and other fiction, 3 Views of Man

1939 Birthday - Robert Tear, born in Barry, Wales, tenor, Welsh National Opera 1970

1938 Death - Robert Herrick, U.S. writer (Chimes), dies at 70

1938 Birthday - Robert Drivas, Choromokos, Chicago, actor, Our Private World

1938 Birthday - Robert Nozick, American Philosopher

1938 Birthday - Robert "Evel" Knievel, motorcycle daredevil, Snake River Canyon

1938 Event - Robert Sherwoods "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," premieres in New York City

1938 Birthday - Robert E. Rubin, American Businessman

1938 Death - Robert Johnson, U.S. Delta-blues singer and guitarist, poisoned at 27

1938 Birthday - Robert Hughes, born in Australia, writer/critic, Barcelona

1938 Birthday - Robert Frank Baksa, composer

1937 Birthday - Robert L Crippen, Beaumont, Texas, Captain USN/astronaut, STS-1, 7, 41C, 41G

1937 Birthday - Robert Crippen, American Astronaut

1937 Birthday - Olly Wilson, born in St. Louis, Missouri, composer, double bassist, musicologist, contemporary classical music, preeminent African American composer, studied with Robert Wykes, earned PhD from University of Iowa

1937 Birthday - Robert Stone, U.S. writer, Who'll Stop the Rain, WUSA

1937 Birthday - Robert Redford, born in California, actor, Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby

1937 Birthday - Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator

1937 Birthday - Robert Fulghum, American Author

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

1937 Birthday - Robert Boozer, born in Omaha, Nebraska, basketball player 1960 Olympics gold

1937 Birthday - Robert Hooks, Washington D.C., actor, Fast Walking, Aaron Loves Angela

1937 Birthday - Robert Huber, Munich Germany, biochemist, Nobel 1988

1937 Birthday - Robert Moran, born in Denver, Colorado, composer, operas include 'The Juniper Tree' co-composed with Philip Glass 'Night Passage'

1936 Birthday - Robert Alan Ridley Parker, New York City, PhD/astronaut, STS-9, STS-35

1936 Birthday - Robert White, born in Billmyre, Pennsylvania, guitarist, African-American musician, performed guitar riff on The Temptations hit, My Girl

1936 Birthday - Rob Touber, Robert J Noordervliet, cabaret director, Capers

1936 Birthday - Robert Hogan, New York City, actor, Peyton Place, Operation Petticoat

1936 Birthday - Robert Wolders, Rotterdam Holland, actor, Erik Hunter-Laredo

1936 Birthday - Robert F Overmyer, born in Lorain, Ohio, Col USMC/astronaut, STS-5, STS-51B

1936 Birthday - Robert Maclennan, British MP

1936 Death - Robert E. Howard, American Writer

1936 Birthday - Robert Herman Nichols, born in Louisville, Kentucky, PGA golfer, 1986 Showdown

1936 Birthday - Robert Scheer, American Journalist

1936 Birthday - Robert "Bobby" Smith, U.S. singer, Spinners

1936 Birthday - Robert Lee Smith, U.S. singer, Tams, You Lied to Your Daddy

1936 Birthday - Roy Beggs, born in Ballyclare, Northern Ireland, John Robert Beggs, Ulster Unionist Party, Member of Parliament for East Antrim 1983 - 2005, known for his Euroscepticism, strong support of Northern Ireland's grammar schools

1936 Birthday - Robert Simpson, Australian cricket player/manager

1936 Birthday - Robert Suderburg, composer

1935 Birthday - Robert Crandall, American Businessman

1935 Birthday - Robert Caro, American Writer

1935 Birthday - Robert H Lawrence, born in Chicago, Illinois, USAF/astronaut

1935 Birthday - Robert Kruger, Sen-D Texas

1935 Event - Dr. Robert Smith and William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous

1935 Birthday - Robert Conrad, Conrad R Falk, Chicago, actor, Wild Wild West

1935 Event - RADAR-Radio Detection and Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt)

1935 Birthday - Robert Silverberg, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Regan's Planet

1934 Birthday - Nicolas Coster, actor, Robert Delaney-Another World

1934 Birthday - Robert Towne, producer/screenwriter, Chinatown

1934 Birthday - Robert E Hughes, New York City, orchestra leader, Rich Little Show

1934 Birthday - Robert Lang, actor, Night Watch, director

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

1934 Birthday - Robert A Moog, inventor, Moog Synthesizer

1934 Birthday - Robert Moog, American Inventor

1934 Event - 60th Preakness: Robert Jones aboard High Quest wins in 1:58.2

1934 Birthday - Robert Stigwood, producer, Saturday Night Fever, Grease

1933 Birthday - Robert Goulet, born in Massachusetts, singer, actor, television, film, Canadian-American Grammy, Tony-Award winner

1933 Birthday - Robert Blake, Nutley, New Jersey, Baretta, Little Rascals, Coast to Coast

1933 Birthday - Robert F Bennett, Sen-R Utah

1933 Birthday - Robert Bennett, American Politician

1933 Birthday - Robert Foster Bennett, American Politician

1933 Birthday - Robert Fuller, Troy, New York, actor, Laramie, Wagon Train

1933 Birthday - Robert Bourassa, born in Montreal, premier of Quebec, 1970-76, 1985-

1933 Death - Robert Kajanus, composer, dies at 76

1933 Birthday - Dr. Robert Stevens, Master, Pembroke College, Oxford

1933 Birthday - Robert Rhodes James, historian, Gallipoli

1933 Birthday - Robert Garcia, born in Bronx, New York, Representative-D-New York 1978 - 1983

1932 Birthday - Robert Pettit, NBA star, St. Louis Bombers/1959 MVP

1932 Birthday - Robert T Herres, born in Denver, Colorado, USAF/astronaut

1932 Birthday - Robert Vaughn, New York City, actor, Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy

1932 Event - Journalist, Robert Trout, joins CBS

1932 Birthday - Robert Reed, born in Highland Park, Illinois, actor, Mike-Brady Bunch, Nurse

1932 Birthday - Robert Benton, Texas, writer and director, Kramer vs Kramer

1932 Birthday - Robert [Franklin] Adams, U.S., sci-fi author, Castaways in Time

1932 Birthday - Robert L[ull] Forward, U.S., sci-fi author, Dragon's Egg, Starquake

1932 Birthday - Robert William Davis, born in Marquette, Michigan, Representative-R-Michigan 1979 - 1993

1932 Birthday - Robert Cowan, CEO, Highlands and Islands Enterprises

1932 Birthday - Bobby Day, Robert Byrd, Fort Worth, Texas, rock vocalist, Rockin' Robin

1932 Birthday - Robert Rozjdestvenski, Russian poet, Requiem, Userjoz

1932 Birthday - Robert Sherlaw Johnson, composer

1932 Birthday - Gay Robert Brewer, born in Middletwon, Ohio, PGA golfer, 1972 Canadian

1932 Birthday - Robert Mandan, Clever, Missouri, actor, Chester-Soap, James-3's a Crowd

1932 Birthday - Robert Anton Wilson, U.S., sci-fi author, Trick Top Hat

1931 Birthday - Robert Stephens, Bristol England, actor, Uncle Kurt-Holocaust

1931 Birthday - Robert Ito, Vancouver BC, actor, Sam-Quincy ME

1931 Birthday - Robert Freeman Smith, born in Portland, Oregon, Representative-R-Oregon 1983 - 1995 and 1997 - 1999

1931 Event - 1st rocket-powered aircraft design patented, Robert Goddard

1931 Birthday - Robert Morse, Newton Massachusetts, actor, That's Life, Jack Frost

1931 Birthday - Robert Dickson, born in Canada, ice hockey player, 1948

1931 Birthday - Robert D Novak, Joliet, Illinois, news reporter, CNN-Evans and Novak

1931 Birthday - Robert Novak, American Journalist

1931 Birthday - Robert MacNeil, Montreal, news anchor, NBC Weekend News, 1965-67

1931 Birthday - Robert Duvall, born in San Diego, California, actor, Great Santini, Taxi Driver

1930 Birthday - Robert Joffrey, Abdullah Jaffa Anver Bey Khan, U.S., dancer

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

1930 Birthday - Robert Prosky, Philadelphia, actor, Christine, Sergeant Jablonski-Hill St. Blues

1930 Birthday - Bobby Van, Robert King, New York City, singer, Hollywood Palace

1930 Birthday - Robert Easton, Milwaukee, actor, Someone Up There Likes Me

1930 Birthday - Robert Parker, U.S. saxophonist/soul singer, Barefootin'

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

1930 Birthday - Robert Culp, Berkley California, actor, I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice

1930 Death - Robert Stout, New Zealand prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85

1930 Event - 34th U.S. Golf Open: Robert T "Bobby" Jones wins

1930 Birthday - Robert Evans, born in New York City, director/actor, Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown

1930 Birthday - Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, poet

1930 Birthday - Robert Buchanan, founder, Center for History of Tech Bath University

1930 Birthday - Robert Bunyard, Commandant, British Police Staff College

1930 Death - Robert S Bridges, poet laureate (Testament of beauty), dies at 85

1930 Death - Robert Bridges, English Poet

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

1930 Birthday - Robert Ashley, born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, composer, audio synthesis pioneer, works incorporate extended techniques, electronics

1930 Birthday - Robert Wagner, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart

1930 Birthday - Robert Loggia, Staten Island, actor, Officer and a Gentleman, THE Cat

1929 Birthday - Robert J L Hawke, Lab, Prime Minister Australia, 1983 - 1991

1929 Birthday - Robert Coles, Milton Massachusetts, author, Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973

1929 Death - Robert Henri, U.S. painter (The Eight), dies at 63

1929 Birthday - Robert Badham, born in Los Angeles, California, Representative-R-California 1977 - 1989

1929 Birthday - Robert Welch, designer/silversmith, Robert Welch flatware

1929 Birthday - Robert Wade-Gery, diplomat and executive director, Barclays de Zoete Wedd

1929 Birthday - Robert Muczynski, composer

1929 Event - Robert Sherriff's "Journey's End," premieres in London

1928 Birthday - Robert Helps, composer

1928 Birthday - Robert Indiana, American Artist

1928 Birthday - Robert M. Pirsig, American Philosopher

1928 Birthday - Robert Sheckley, American Author

1928 Birthday - Robert Washburn, composer

1928 Birthday - Robert Satanowski, composer

1928 Birthday - Robert Lansing, born in California, actor, 12 O'Clock High, Equalizer, Automan

1928 Birthday - Robert Byrne, American Celebrity

1928 Birthday - Robert Mugabe, president, Zimbabwe, 1988-

1928 Birthday - David Somerset, born in England, David Robert Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, British peer, criticized for accepting public funds on riverbed land granted to his dukedom 400 years ago

1928 Birthday - Robert Clatworthy, sculptor

1927 Birthday - Robert Guillaume, Williams, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Benson, Soap

1927 Birthday - Robert Abernethy, born in Geneva, Switzerland, Newscaster, NBC News Encore

1927 Birthday - Red Robert Chudnick Rodney, jazz trumpeter

1927 Birthday - Robert Moore, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Marshall-Diana

1927 Birthday - Robert Shaw, born in England, actor, Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday

1927 Death - Robert Marquies de Flers, French writer (Monsieur Bretonneau), dies

1927 Birthday - Robert Casey, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Henry-Aldrich Family Show

1927 Birthday - Robert Matthews, master, Clare College Cambridge England

1927 Birthday - Robert Evans, CEO, British Gas

1927 Birthday - Robert Ludlum, New York City, spy novelist, Bourne Identity

1927 Death - Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order), dies at 90

1927 Birthday - Robert Brustein, born in New York City, dean, Yale School of Drama

1927 Birthday - Robert Mosbacher, U.S. politician

1927 Birthday - Robert Di Domenica, composer

1927 Birthday - Robert Orben, magician, comedy writer, author, specializes in observational comedy, wrote, 'Encyclopedia of Patter', 'Speaker's Handbook of Humor', speechwriter for Vice President Gerald R. Ford, became Director, White House Speechwriting Department

1927 Birthday - Robert Bork, American Public Servant

1927 Birthday - Robert Brown, Herbrides Is, actor, Here Come the Brides, Primus

1926 Birthday - Robert Bly, U.S., poet/editor/translator, Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds

1926 Birthday - Robert Symonds, Bristow Oklahoma, actor, Robert E Lee-Blue and Gray

1926 Birthday - Robert Schuller, televangelist, Glass Cathedral, Hour of Power

1926 Birthday - Robert H. Schuller, American Clergyman

1926 Birthday - Robert J. Lagomarsino, Representative-R-California 1974 - 1993

1926 Birthday - Robert Shelton Shapiro, journalist

1926 Birthday - Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human, 486 kg

1926 Death - Frederick Robert Spofforth, cricketer/demon bowler, dies

1926 Birthday - Robert Creeley, Massachusetts, poet and novelist, Island

1926 Birthday - Robert Jay Lifton, American Psychologist

1926 Birthday - Robert Hall Lewis, composer

1926 Event - 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard

1926 Event - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters)

1926 Birthday - Robert Clary, born in Paris, France, actor, LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes

1926 Birthday - Robert Eugene Richards, Illinois, pole vaulter, Olympics gold 48, 52, 56

1926 Birthday - Robert L Van Citters, cardiology/advisory panelist/UW dean

1926 Birthday - Robert Earle, Baldwin, New York, TV host, GE College Bowl

1925 Birthday - Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass, D-Sen-NY, AG; assassinated

1925 Birthday - Robert Kennedy, American Politician

1925 Birthday - William Robert Mayer, composer

1925 Event - Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays

1925 Birthday - Robert Rauschenberg, born in Texas, artist, created "Combines", combinations of non-traditional materials and objects

1925 Birthday - Guitar Gabriel Robert Lewis Jones, singer/guitarist

1925 Birthday - Robert Finch, actor, Academy Theater

1925 Birthday - Robert Linn, born in America, composer, educator, University of Southern California, composed music for chorus and chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra and wind orchestra

1925 Birthday - Robert Heppener, composer, Hymns and Conversations, Movie Music

1925 Birthday - Ernst Jandl, born in Vienna, Austria, writer, poet, influenced by Dada, translated Gertrude Stein, Robert Creeley's The Island and John Cage's Silence

1925 Birthday - Robert Venturi, born in Philadelphia, architect, Levittown, New York, Las Vegas

1925 Birthday - Robert Arthur, born in Aberdeen, Washington, actor, 12 O'Clock High, Just For You

1925 Birthday - Robert Caldwell Crawford, composer

1925 Birthday - Robert Cohan, artistic director, Contemporary Dance Trust

1925 Birthday - Robert Altman, born in Kansas City, Missouri, director, Nashville, M*A*S*H

1924 Birthday - Robert Frank, Swiss Photographer

1924 Birthday - Robert N Rapoport, social anthropologist

1924 Birthday - Robert Webber, born in Santa Ana California, actor, 79 Park Avenue

1924 Birthday - Robert A Rushworth, Madison Maine, test pilot, X-15

1924 Birthday - Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright, Man for All Seasons, Dr. Zhivago

1924 Birthday - Robert Bolt, British Playwright

1924 Birthday - Robert Horton, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena

1924 Event - Robert LeGendre of U.S., sets then long jump record at 25' 5 "

1924 Birthday - Robert Michael White, New York City, test pilot, X-15

1924 Event - In Chicago, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks

1924 Birthday - Robert Parris, Philadelphia, composer, Book of Imaginery Beings

1924 Event - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)

1924 Birthday - Robert A. Roe, born in Wayne, New Jersey, Representative-D-New Jersey 1969 - 1993

1924 Birthday - Robert G Mugabe, premier/president of Zimbabwe

1924 Birthday - Robert Lynn, anarchist

1924 Birthday - Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge

1924 Birthday - Robert Kastenmeier, born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Representative-D-Wisconsin 1959 - 1991

1924 Birthday - Robert Starer, Vienna Austria, composer

1923 Birthday - Robert A. Young, Representative-D-Missouri 1977 - 1987

1923 Birthday - Robert Francis Vere Heuston, British professor of law

1923 Birthday - Robert Craft, Kingston, New York, conductor, Stravinsky-follower

1923 Birthday - Robert J Dole, Sen-R Kansas, 1969 - 1995, presidential candidate, R-1996

1923 Birthday - Robert J. Dole, American Politician

1923 Birthday - Robert Maxwell, Jan Hoch, Czechoslovakia, billionaire/CEO, New York Daily News

1923 Birthday - Robert H. Michel, born in Peoria, Illinois, Representative-R-Illinois 1957 - 1995

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

1922 Birthday - Robert Evett, composer

1922 Birthday - Robert Urquhart, actor, Dunkirk, Bulldog Breed, Dark Avenger

1922 Birthday - Robert W. Holley, U.S., biochemist, worked with RNA, Nobel '68

1922 Birthday - Guy Madison, Robert Moseley, California, actor, Wild Bill Hickok

1921 Birthday - Robert Frank Kurka, composer

1921 Birthday - Robert Fleming, composer

1921 Birthday - Robert Runcie, Kennedy, Liverpool England, Archbishop of Canterbury

1921 Birthday - Robert Muldoon, premier New Zealand, 1975-84, chairman, IMF

1921 Birthday - Robert Millar, journalist

1921 Birthday - Robert Arthur Ley, UK, sci-fi author, Telepath, Power of X

1921 Birthday - Robert Croften Brown, politician

1921 Birthday - Robert Fell, CEO, British Stock Exchange

1921 Birthday - Robert Q. Lewis, born in New York City, TV host, Masquerade Party, Robert Q Lewis Show

1921 Birthday - Robert Wilfred Levick Simpson, composer

1920 Birthday - Robert Moevs, composer

1920 Birthday - Robert Feenstra, Dutch law historian

1920 Death - Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27

1920 Birthday - Robert Christiani, cricketer, brother of Cyril WI batsman in 22 Tests

1920 Birthday - Robert Mann, born in Portland, Oregon, composer/violinist, String Quartet 1952

1920 Birthday - Paul Foster, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, singer, Soul Stirrers gospel group member, sang with Robert Harris, Sam Cooke, Rising Stars, Golden Echoes, memorable recording 'Be With Me Jesus'

1920 Birthday - Robert Hutton, Kingston, New York, actor, Torture Garden, Rocket

1920 Birthday - Robert Fizdale, born in Chicago, Illinois, pianist, Misia

1920 Death - Robert E Peary, U.S. pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63

1920 Birthday - Robert Hersant, press baron

1919 Birthday - Robert Crichton-Brown, CEO, Rothmans International

1919 Birthday - Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright

1919 Birthday - Robert Merrill, American Musician

1919 Birthday - Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary

1919 Birthday - Robert Suter, composer

1919 Birthday - Robert Lowry, born in Ireland, judge, Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, Baron Lowry of Crossgar in the County of Down

1919 Birthday - Robert Stack, born in born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Eliot Ness-Untouchables, Airplane

1918 Event - Robert Ripley began his "Believe It or Not" column (New York Globe)

1918 Birthday - Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor

1918 Birthday - Robert Walker, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, actor and writer, Bataan, Mme Curie

1918 Death - Robert Baldwin Ross, French Celebrity

1918 Birthday - Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher

1918 Birthday - Robert Aldrich, U.S. director/producer, Dirty Dozen

1918 Birthday - Robert Preston, born in Newton, Massachusetts, actor, Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter

1918 Birthday - Robert Hunt, CEO, Dowty Group

1918 Birthday - Robert Zimonyi, born in Hungary, cox, Olympic-Hungary-bronze-1948/US-gold-64

1918 Birthday - Robert Wadlow, Alton, Illinois, tallest known human, 2.72 m, 8' 11.1"

1917 Birthday - Robert Byrd, born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, Senator 1959 - 2010

1917 Death - Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix

1917 Birthday - Robert Sterling, Newcastle, Pennsylvania, actor, George Kirby-Adv of Topper

1917 Birthday - Robert Bray, Kalispell Mont, actor, Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West

1917 Birthday - Rodney Robert Porter, British Scientist

1917 Birthday - Robert Adams, English sculptor

1917 Birthday - Robert Eugene Ward, born in Cleveland, Ohio, composer, Pantaloon

1917 Birthday - Robert Mitchum, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, actor, Winds of War, North and South

1917 Birthday - Robert Cowans, executive director, British Aerospace

1917 Birthday - Robert Farnon, composer and conductor /arranger

1917 Birthday - Robert Aitken, born in Philadelphia, Zen co-founder, Diamond Sangha

1917 Birthday - Robert Conquest, English author, Back to Life

1917 Birthday - Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician

1917 Birthday - Robert Anderson, author, Tea and Sympathy

1917 Birthday - Robert Merrill, born in Brooklyn, New York, baritone, New York Metropolitan Opera

1917 Birthday - Robert Anderson, born in New York, writer, Tea and Sympathy, Never Sang for My Father

1917 Birthday - Robert Cornthwaite, born in St. Helen, Oregon, actor, Thing, War of the Worlds

1917 Birthday - Robert Burns Woodward, organic chemist, Nobel 1965

1917 Birthday - Robert [Albert] Bloch, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Psycho

1917 Birthday - Robert Bloch, Writer

1917 Birthday - Robert Erickson, composer

1917 Birthday - Robert Lowell, poet and pacifist, Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean

1917 Birthday - Robert Taft, Jr., born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Senator-R-Ohio 1971 - 1976

1916 Birthday - Robert A Bruce, Maryland, pioneer, exercise cardiology

1916 Birthday - Robert Lowery, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, Murder Over New York

1916 Birthday - Robert [Augustine] W[ard] Lowndes, U.S., sci-fi author, Puzzle Planet

1916 Birthday - Robert van Spaendonk, Dutch resistance fighter

1916 Birthday - Robert Stevens Baker, composer

1916 Birthday - Robert S. McNamara, U.S. Secretary of Defense, 1961 - 1968, head World Bank

1916 Birthday - Robert Shaw, born in Red Bluff, California, chorale conductor, Robert Shaw Chorale

1916 Birthday - Robert Jesse Charleston, museum Curator

1916 Birthday - Robert Parrish, Columbus, Georgia, director, Casino Royale

1915 Birthday - Robert Ruark, U.S. writer, Something of Value

1915 Birthday - Robert A. Dahl, American Writer

1915 Birthday - Margaret Hayes, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, Robert Montgomery Presents

1915 Birthday - Robert Sutton, electronics engineer

1915 Birthday - Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise, musician

1915 Event - White Sox obtain Joe Jackson from Cleveland in exchange for Robert Roth, Larry Chappell, Ed Klepfer, and $31,500

1915 Birthday - Robert Steel, academic

1915 Birthday - Robert Moffat Palmer, composer

1915 Death - Robert Smalls, Reconstruction congressman, dies at 75 in SC

1915 Birthday - Robert Hofstadter, U.S. atomic physicist

1915 Birthday - Robert B Motherwell, U.S., painter, Elegies to the Spanish Republic

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 - Robert Wise, director, Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story

1914 Birthday - Robert Emhardt, actor, Mac-Another World, Underworld USA, Mooncussers

1914 Event - 1st patent for liquid-fueled rocket design granted, Dr. Robert Goddard

1914 Birthday - Marthe Robert, essayist/translator

1914 Birthday - Robert Gross, composer

1914 Birthday - Robert Alda, New York City, actor, Dan Lewis-Supertrain, By Popular Demand

1913 Birthday - Robert Dougall, English TV host

1913 Death - Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer (Ball Screw), dies

1913 Birthday - Robert Strauss, New York City, actor, Sergeant Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey

1913 Event - Robert Martineau, bishop of Blackburn

1913 Birthday - Robert Schollum, composer

1913 Birthday - Robert Stafford, born in Rutland, Vermont, Senator-R-Vermont 1971 - 1989, Governor of Vermont 1959 - 1961

1913 Birthday - Robert Mondavi, born in Minnesota, American vintner, marketer, attracted worldwide recognition for Napa Valley wines

1913 Birthday - Robert Shaw, town planner

1913 Birthday - Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photographer and collector

1912 Event - Robert Scott's diary and dead body found in Antarctica

1912 Birthday - Robert Jacobsen, Danish sculptor, great iron sculptures

1912 Birthday - Robert Doisneau, photographer

1912 Event - Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"

1912 Death - Robert F Scott, British pole explorer (Antarctica), dies

1912 Birthday - Robert Watson Hughes, composer

1912 Birthday - Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar

1912 Event - English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before

1912 Event - Robert Scott expedition arrives at South Pole, 1 month after Amundsen

1912 Birthday - Robert Flemyng, Liverpool Eng, actor, Windom's Way, Young Winston

1911 Event - Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole

1911 Birthday - Robert McCormick, Danville, Kentucky, NBC newscaster, Current Opinion

1911 Birthday - Robert Taylor, Filley, Nebraska, actor, Death Valley Days

1911 Birthday - Robert Middleman, Cin, Ohio, actor, Barney-Monroes

1911 Birthday - Robert Johnson, blues singer, King of Delta Blues Singer

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

1911 Birthday - Robert Hamer, British Director

1911 Birthday - Robert Guyn McBride, Tucson Arizona, composer, Mexican Rhapsody

1910 Birthday - Robert Noehren, composer

1910 Birthday - Robert Grieve, civil servant

1910 Birthday - Robert Arthur Hughes, missionary/surgeon

1910 Birthday - Robert Paige, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, actor, Colgate Comedy Hour

1910 Birthday - Robert Pineda-Duque, composer

1910 Birthday - Robert H van Gulik, Dutch diplomat/writer, Judge Ti

1910 Birthday - Robert K Meston, U.S. sociologist, functionalism

1910 Birthday - Robert Still, composer

1910 Death - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), dies

1910 Birthday - Robert H. G. Havemann, German chemist

1909 Birthday - Nigel Tranter, author/historian, River Realm, Robert the Bruce

1909 Birthday - Robert Ryan, Chicago, actor, Billy Budd, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day

1909 Birthday - Robert Douglas, Finlayson, Bletchley England, actor, Adv of Don Juan

1909 Birthday - Robert Beatty, Ontario, actor, Amorous Mr. Pawn, Where Eagles Dare

1909 Birthday - Robert Trout, Wake County, North Carolina, newscaster, ABC

1909 Birthday - Robert Kagan, American Writer

1909 Birthday - Robert Helpmann, born in Mount Gambier, Australia, actor, Second Time Lucky

1909 Birthday - Robert Murray Halpmann, dancer

1909 Event - North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary and Matthew Henson

1909 Birthday - Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator

1909 Birthday - Robert Selby Taylor, bishop

1909 Event - Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6)

1909 Birthday - Robert Coote, London, actor, Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe

1909 Event - Robert Fowler runs then world record marathon (2:52:45.4)

1908 Birthday - Robert F Simon, Mansfield, Ohio, actor, Man who shot Liberty Valance

1908 Event - Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1

1908 Event - Robert Peary's expedition sails from New York City for north pole

1908 Birthday - Robert Cummings, born in Joplin, Missouri, actor, Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder

1908 Birthday - Robert Morley, England, actor, High Road to China, African Queen

1908 Birthday - Robert William Paine, architect

1908 Birthday - Robert Rossen director and writer, Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo

1907 Birthday - Robert Grant Grant-Ferris, politician

1907 Birthday - Robert Bresson, France, director, Pickpocket, Mouchette

1907 Event - Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England

1907 Birthday - Robert A[nson] Heinlein, U.S., sci-fi author, 4 Hugos, Red Planet

1907 Birthday - Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

1907 Birthday - Robert Humphreys, British? historian

1907 Birthday - Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdler 1932 Olympics gold

1907 Birthday - Robert de Roos, composer

1907 Birthday - Robert Young, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD

1906 Death - Robert Rainy, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views, dies

1906 Birthday - Robert Levine Sanders, composer

1906 Birthday - Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov, Hong Kong

1906 Birthday - Robert Shone, director-general, NEDC

1906 Birthday - Robert, Bob, Allen, actor for the Texas Rangers

1906 Birthday - Robert E[rvin] Howard, U.S., sci-fi author, Conan the Conqueror

1906 Birthday - Robert E. Howard, American Writer

1906 Birthday - Robert Nesbitt, impresario

1905 Birthday - Charles Robert Owen Medley, dancer/choreographer

1905 Birthday - Robert Ruthenfranz, composer

1905 Birthday - Robert Newton, England, actor, Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days

1905 Event - Robert S. Abbott published 1st issue of newspaper "Chicago Defender"

1905 Birthday - Robert Houben, Belgian CVP-minister of Public health, 1958

1905 Birthday - Robert Penn Warren, 1st U.S. poet laureate, All the King's Men

1905 Birthday - Robert Donat, born in England, actor, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Citadel

1904 Birthday - Robert Whitney, Newcastle-on-Tyne England, conductor, Sospiro do Roma

1904 Birthday - Robert Knox, bacteriologist

1904 Birthday - Robert Montgomery, Beacon, New York, actor/dir, Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack

1904 Birthday - J. Robert Oppenheimer, born in New York, head of Manhattan, A-bomb, Project

1903 Death - George [Robert] Gissing, English novelist, dies at 46

1903 Death - Robert A T G C Salisbury, British premier (1885..1902), dies at 73

1903 Birthday - Robert Mills Delaney, composer

1903 Death - Jean Robert Planquette, composer, dies at 54

1903 Birthday - Robert Gwathmey, artist, Arts and Letters

1902 Birthday - [Robert] Meredith Willson, Mason City Iowa, composer, Music Man

1902 Death - Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays', dies

1901 Birthday - Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist, Mobility of Gaseous Ions

1901 Birthday - Robert Bromston Thesiger Daniell, soldier

1901 Birthday - Robert Allenby, born in Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer

1901 Death - Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet

1901 Birthday - Harry Robert Wilson, composer

1901 Birthday - Robert Elliott Storey Wyatt, cricketer

1901 Birthday - Robert Marshall, founder, Wilderness Society

1900 Birthday - Robert Oboussier, composer

1900 Event - 165 lb Robert Fitzsimmons KOs 305 lb Ed Dunkhost in a boxing match

1900 Birthday - Robert Harris, actor, Big Caper, Laughing Anne

1900 Birthday - Robert "Lefty" Grove, baseball pitcher, 300 game winner

1899 Birthday - Robert Welch, found John Birch Society

1899 Death - Robert H "Bobby" Gunning, British colonel (60th Rifles), dies in battle

1899 Event - Sutro railroad sold to Robert F Morrow for $215,000

1899 Death - Robert Green Ingersoll, American Lawyer

1899 Birthday - Robert Marcel Casadesus, French pianist and composer, Prix Diemer

1899 Death - Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war), dies at 75

1899 Birthday - Robert Maynard Hutchins, U.S., educator/civil libertarian

1899 Birthday - Robert M. Hutchins, American Educator

1898 Death - Robert Purvis, American Activist

1898 Birthday - Robert Keith, Fowler, Indiana, actor, Battle Circus, Branded, Wild One

1897 Birthday - Robert Ringling, circus master

1897 Birthday - Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author, Waters of Babylon

1896 Birthday - Robert Mulliken, U.S., chemist/physicist, Nobel 1966

1896 Birthday - Robert Sheriff, playwright, Journey's End

1896 Birthday - Robert Sherwood, dramatist, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Idiot's Delight

1896 Birthday - Robert E. Sherwood, American Playwright

1895 Event - 15th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred H Hovey beats Robert D Wrenn (63 62 64)

1895 Birthday - Robert Burton, actor, Dr. Gordon-Kings Row

1895 Birthday - Robert Graves, Irish Novelist

1895 Birthday - Robert Gordon, born in Kansas, actor in Loveless

1895 Birthday - Robert M. La Follette, American Politician

1894 Birthday - Robert Menzies, Australian PM, 1939-41, 1949-66

1894 Death - Robert Louis Stevenson, English writer (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), dies at 45

1894 Death - Robert Charles Winthrop, American Politician

1894 Birthday - Robert Russell Bennett, born in Kansas City, composer/arranger, Oklahoma!

1894 Death - Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68

1894 Birthday - Robert Nathan, New York City, poet, novelist, Portrait of Jennie

1893 Event - 13rd U.S. Mens Tennis: Robert D Wrenn beats Fred H Hovey (64 36 64 64)

1893 Birthday - Robert Harron, born in New York City, actor, Birth of a Nation, Intolerance

1892 Birthday - Robert A. Watson-Watt, England, physicist, radar

1892 Birthday - Robert Denzler, composer

1892 Birthday - Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter, WW II

1892 Birthday - Robert Houghwout Jackson, 84th Supreme Court justice, 1941-54

1892 Birthday - Robert H. Jackson, American Statesman

1891 Birthday - Robert W. P. Peereboom, Dutch editor in chief, Haarlem Newspaper

1891 Birthday - Robert Gordon Sproul, educator/college President, University of California

1890 Birthday - Robert Armstrong, Saginaw, Michigan, actor, Mighty Joe Young, King Kong

1890 Birthday - Robert Ley, German chemist/MP, NSDAP

1889 Death - Robert Browning, English poet (Ring and Book), dies at 77

1889 Birthday - Robert Benchley, born in Worcester, Massachusetts, humorist, My 10 Years in a Quandary

1889 Birthday - Robert Taft, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Senator-R-Ohio 1939 - 1953, Taft-Hartley Act

1889 Birthday - Robert A. Taft, American Politician

1889 Birthday - Robert [Harriot] Barrat, New York City, actor, Go West, Distant Drums

1888 Birthday - Robert Moses, power broker, built Long Island and New York City parks and roads

1887 Birthday - Robert Quillen, American Journalist

1886 Death - Robert Collier, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates, dies

1886 Birthday - Robert Heger, composer

1886 Birthday - Robert Schuman, French premier

1886 Birthday - Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer, Hiawatha's Song

1885 Birthday - Robert Delaunay, French painter

1885 Birthday - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer

1884 Birthday - Robert Muller-Hartmann, composer

1884 Birthday - Robert Flaherty, Michigan, father of documentary film, Nanook of North

1884 Birthday - Robert J. Flaherty, Director

1883 Death - Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer, dies at 68

1883 Birthday - Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist, St. John's Gospel

1883 Birthday - Robert Franz Richard Hernried, composer

1883 Birthday - Stanley Robert Marchant, composer

1882 Birthday - Robert Nathaniel Dett, composer

1882 Birthday - Robert Hutchings Goddard, Worcester Massachusetts, rocket pioneer

1882 Death - Charles Robert Darwin, evolutionist, Origin of Species', dies at 73

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

1882 Event - German scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB

1882 Event - Dr. Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis

1880 Birthday - Robert [Edler von] Musil, Austrian author, Young Torless

1880 Birthday - Robert E Stolz, Austrian composer and conductor, ...smaller guard

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

1880 Death - Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist

1879 Birthday - Robert Greig, Australia, actor, Horse Feathers

1879 Birthday - Robert Lynd, Irish writer/critic, Pleasures of Ignorance

1878 Birthday - Robert Warwick, Bien, Sacramento California, actor, Falcon's Adventure

1878 Birthday - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament, About Plato

1878 Death - Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor

1878 Birthday - Robert Walser, writer

1878 Death - Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist

1878 Birthday - Robert Garbe, German poet, Gorniek

1876 Birthday - Robert Dower, cricketer, 1 Test South Africa vs. England 1898, scored 0 and 9

1876 Birthday - Robert Barany, Sweden, otologist, vestibular expert, Nobel 1914

1874 Birthday - Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning

1874 Birthday - Robert Frost, born in San Francisco, poet, Mending Wall, Road Not Taken

1874 Birthday - Robert Liefmann, German economist, Unternehmersverbande

1874 Birthday - Robert Lach, composer

1874 Birthday - Robert Service, England, Canadian poet, Cremation of Sam McGee

1874 Birthday - Robert W. Service, Scottish Poet

1873 Birthday - Robert D Wrenn, tennis champ, U.S. Open - 1893

1873 Death - Robert Nelson, Canadian Politician

1872 Birthday - Robert marquess of Flers, French author, Habit Vert

1871 Death - Robert Chambers, Scottish Writer

1870 Death - Robert E Lee, General of Confederate Army, dies at 63

1870 Death - Robert E. Lee, American Soldier

1869 Birthday - Robert Baldwin Ross, French Celebrity

1868 Birthday - Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition

1868 Birthday - Robert Herrick, U.S. writer, Common lot

1868 Birthday - Robert A. Millikan, U.S. physicist, photoelectric effect; Nobel 1923

1867 Event - Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School

1867 Birthday - John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor, shorthand

1867 Death - Robert Smirke, British architect, dies

1867 Death - Robert Smirke, architect, dies

1865 Birthday - Robert Kahn, composer

1865 Birthday - Robert Henri, U.S. painter, leader of Ashcan school

1865 Death - Robert C Tyler, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle

1865 Event - Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops, surrender to U.S. Grant at Appomattox

1865 Event - Robert E. Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief

1865 Event - Robert E. Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army

1865 Event - General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies

1864 Birthday - Robert G Aitken, U.S. astronomer, Binary Stars

1864 Death - Robert Emmet Rodes, U.S. Confederate General-major, dies in battle at 35

1864 Birthday - Robert Cecil, viscount of Chelwood, Nobel 1937

1864 Event - Robert E. Lee's home area, Arlington, Virginia, becomes a military cemetery

1864 Event - Ulysses S. Grant crosses Rapidan and begins his duel with Robert E. Lee

1864 Birthday - Robert E Park, U.S., sociologist, human ecology, marginal man

1863 Death - Robert Gould Shaw, American Soldier

1862 Event - General Robert E Lee takes command of Confederate armies of E Virginia and NC

1862 Death - Robert Hatton, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at about 34

1862 Death - Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German chancellor, dies at 81

1862 Birthday - Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics, Emden-polytroop

1861 Death - Robert Fuhrer, composer, dies at 54

1861 Birthday - Robert T A Innes, Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer, Proxima Centauri

1861 Death - Robert Selden Garnett, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 41

1861 Event - Robert E. Lee named commander of Virginia Confederate forces

1861 Event - Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from Union army

1861 Event - Col Robert E. Lee turns down offer to command Union armies

1861 Event - Robert E Lee resigns from Union army

1861 Event - English Admiral Robert Ritzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships

1860 Event - Major Robert Anderson, under cover of darkness, concentrated his small force at Ft. Sumter

1859 Death - Robert Stephenson, English Celebrity

1857 Birthday - Robert Abel, cricketer, The Guv'nor Surrey and England batsman

1857 Birthday - Robert Baden-Powell, founder, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides

1856 Birthday - Robert Kajanus, composer

1856 Death - Robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46

1856 Birthday - Robert Edwin Peary, U.S., arctic explorer, North Pole-Apr 6 1909

1855 Birthday - Robert Marion La Follette, born in Wisconsin, President candidate, Progressive

1854 Birthday - Robert Laird Borden, C, 8th Canadian PM, 1911-20

1854 Event - Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine

1852 Birthday - Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician

1852 Birthday - Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays'

1851 Event - Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch," premieres in Dusseldorf

1850 Birthday - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scotland, author, Treasure Island

1850 Death - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62

1850 Event - British ex-premier sir Robert Peel falls off his horse

1848 Birthday - Jean Robert Planquette, France, composer, Bells of Corneville

1847 Birthday - George Robert Sims, English Journalist

1847 Event - Robert von Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner

1847 Event - Robert Thompson patents rubber tire

1846 Event - Robert Schumann's 2nd Symphony in C, premieres

1846 Event - Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning elopes

1846 Event - U.S. fleet officer Robert F Stockton annexes California

1846 Event - Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire

1846 Birthday - Mildred Childe "Life" Lee, daughter of confederate General Robert E Lee

1845 Event - Macon B. Allen and Robert Morris, Jr., 1st blacks to open law practice

1845 Event - Poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning begin corresponding

1844 Birthday - Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate, Eros and Psyche

1844 Birthday - Robert Bridges, English Poet

1844 Birthday - Robert Stout, Shetland Islands Scotland, New Zealand prime minister, 1884-87

1843 Birthday - Robert Koch, German bacteriologist, TB, cholera, Nobel 1905

1843 Event - Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri," premieres in Leipzig

1843 Birthday - Robert Todd Lincoln, Captain Union volunteers

1843 Death - Robert Southey, English Poet

1841 Event - Robert Schumann's 4th Symphony in D, premieres

1841 Birthday - Robert Williams Buchanan, British Poet

1841 Event - 1st performance of Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony in B

1841 Birthday - [Eleanor] Agnes Lee, daughter of U.S. general Robert E Lee

1840 Event - Composer Robert Schumann marries Clara Wieck

1840 Birthday - Robert S. Ball, Irish mathematician and astronomer

1839 Birthday - Robert Smalls, born in Beaufort, South Carolina, black congressman 1875-87, Rep-SC

1839 Death - Robert Gallenberg, composer, dies at 55

1837 Birthday - Robert Gould Shaw, American Soldier

1837 Birthday - Robert Frederick Hoke, Major General Confederate Army

1837 Birthday - Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian, Robert's Rules of Order

1837 Birthday - Robert Ross McBurney, 1st paid secretary of the YMCA

1837 Birthday - Robert Daniel Johnston, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1835 Birthday - Robert Houston Anderson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1834 Death - Robert Morrison, missionary in China/translated bible, dies

1834 Birthday - Robert Sanford Foster, Major General Union volunteers

1833 Birthday - Aleksandr Porfirievich Borodin, Russia, composer, Robert LeDiable

1833 Birthday - Robert Green Ingersoll, New York, author/politician/agnostic, Attorney General-R-Illinois

1832 Death - Robert the Hermit, U.S. ex-slave/hermit in Massachusetts, dies

1831 Birthday - Robert Ogden Tyler, Major General Union Army

1831 Event - Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)

1831 Event - Robert Montgomery Bird's "Gladiator," premieres in New York City

1831 Event - Robert Jenkins loses an ear, starts war between Britain and Spain

1830 Event - Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini

1830 Birthday - Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, C, British Prime Minister, 1885-1902

1829 Birthday - Robert Brown Potter, Major General Union volunteers

1829 Event - Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)

1829 Birthday - Robert Emmet Rodes, Major General Confederate Army

1829 Death - Robert Archibald Smith, composer, dies at 48

1828 Birthday - Robert Bullock, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1828 Birthday - Robert Brank Vance, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1828 Birthday - Robert Alexander Cameron, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Robert Ransom, Jr., Major General Confederate Army

1827 Birthday - Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brigadier General, Union

1827 Death - Robert Pollok, poet, dies

1827 Birthday - John Robert Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1827 Birthday - Charles Robert Woods, Major General Union Army

1826 Birthday - Robert Hopkins Hatton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1826 Birthday - Robert Kingston Scott, Major General Union volunteers

1826 Birthday - Robert Rainy, born in Glasgow, Scotland, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views

1825 Birthday - Robert Prescott Stewart, composer

1825 Birthday - Joseph Robert Davis, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1825 Event - Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community

1823 Birthday - Robert J Fruin, historian, 80 year war

1823 Death - Robert Bloomfield, English Poet

1823 Birthday - Robert Byington Mitchell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1822 Death - Robert Stewart, 2nd marguess of Londonderry, commits suicide, dies

1820 Birthday - Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1819 Birthday - Robert Selden Garnett, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1818 Birthday - Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1817 Birthday - Robert Collier, born in England, Robert Porrett Collier, 1st Baron Monkswell, politician, judge, educated at Oxford, successfully defended Brazilian pirates

1816 Birthday - Robert Huston Milroy, Major General Union volunteers

1816 Birthday - Robert Seaman Granger, Union Army Major general

1815 Death - Robert Hudson, composer, dies at 83

1815 Birthday - Friedrich Robert Volkmann, composer

1815 Birthday - Robert Hall Chilton, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1815 Death - Robert Fulton, steamboat pioneer, dies

1814 Birthday - Julius Robert Mayer, German Scientist

1814 Death - Robert Jasper van der Capellen, Dutch politician, dies at 71

1814 Death - Robert Jasper van der de Capellen, mister of Marsch, dies at 71

1814 Death - Robert Treat Paine, U.S. judge, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 83

1813 Birthday - Robert Fortune, Scottish Scientist

1813 Death - Robert R Livingston, U.S. diplomat signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 66

1812 Birthday - Robert Browning, born in London, England, poet, Pied Piper

1811 Death - Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies

1811 Birthday - Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist, Bunsen Burner

1811 Birthday - Robert Allen, Major General Union Army

1811 Birthday - Robert Christie Buchanan, Major General Union Army

1811 Birthday - [Catherine] Mildred Lee, daughter of U.S. general Robert E Lee

1811 Birthday - Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary, est Robert College, Turkey

1810 Birthday - Robert Purvis, American Activist

1810 Birthday - Robert Augustus Toombs, Secretary State, Confederacy

1810 Birthday - Robert A. Schumann, Zwickau Saxony Germany, composer, Fantastiestucke

1810 Birthday - Robert Schumann, Zwickau Germ, composer, Neue Zeitschrift fuer Musik

1809 Birthday - Robert Cumming Schenck, Major General Union volunteers

1809 Birthday - Robert Charles Winthrop, American Politician

1809 Birthday - Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, Secretary State, Confederacy

1809 Event - Robert Fulton patents steamboat

1807 Event - Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat

1807 Event - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River

1807 Birthday - Robert Fuhrer, composer

1807 Birthday - Robert Edward Lee, Stratford, Virginia, General-in-Chief, Confederacy

1807 Birthday - Robert E. Lee, American Soldier

1805 Birthday - Robert Cowdin, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1805 Birthday - Robert Anderson, Major General Union Army

1804 Birthday - Robert Parker Parrott, Inventor

1804 Birthday - Robert Baldwin, L, help establish government in Canada, or 1904

1803 Birthday - Robert Stephenson, English Celebrity

1803 Death - Robert Emmet, Irish nationalist, executed

1803 Event - Robert Emmett's insurrected in Dublin

1803 Birthday - Robert Smith Surtees, novelist

1802 Birthday - Robert Chambers, Scottish Writer

1801 Death - Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies

1801 Birthday - Robert Woodward Barnwell, MC, Confederacy

1800 Birthday - Barnwell Rhett Robert, Confederacy

1799 Death - Robert Kimmerling, composer, dies at 61

1796 Death - Robert Burns, Scottish poet (Auld Lang Syne), dies at 37

1795 Death - Robert Bakewell, English cattle breeder, dies at about 70

1794 Birthday - Robert Nelson, Canadian Politician

1793 Event - 1st American stove patent is granted to Robert Haeterick

1792 Event - Columbia River discovered and named by U.S. Captain Robert Gray

1792 Event - Captain Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)

1792 Death - Robert Adam, Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), dies at 63

1792 Birthday - Robert Patterson, Major General Union volunteers

1790 Birthday - Robert Stirling, Scottish Inventor

1790 Event - Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage

1790 Event - Robert Gray is 1st American to circumnavigate the Earth

1788 Birthday - Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British conservative premier/founder, Bobbies

1787 Death - Robert Lowth, English Author

1786 Birthday - Benjamin Robert Haydon, Plymouth, painter, Waiting for The Times

1783 Birthday - Robert Gallenberg, composer

1782 Death - Robert Wainwright, composer, dies at 33

1781 Birthday - Robert Mills, U.S., architect, Washington Monument

1780 Birthday - Karl Robert von Nesselrode, Germ/Russian minister of Foreign Affairs

1780 Birthday - Robert Archibald Smith, composer

1778 Birthday - Robert Peel, British Prime Minister, 1834-46, founder, Tories

1774 Death - Robert Fergusson, Scottish songwriter (Scottish Poems), dies

1774 Birthday - Robert Southey, English poet laureate/biographer of Nelson

1773 Death - Robert Clive, English occupier (India), dies at about 48

1772 Birthday - Robert Stevenson, born in Glasgow, civil engineer

1772 Death - Robert J Pothier, French lawyer, dies at 73

1771 Death - Robert Praelisauer, composer, dies at 62

1771 Birthday - Robert Owen, England, factory owner/socialist

1768 Death - Robert Simson, Scotland mathematician, dies at 80

1766 Birthday - Robert Bloomfield, English Poet

1766 Birthday - Robert Bailey Thomas, founder, Farmer's Almanac

1765 Birthday - Robert Fulton, built 1st steamboat

1764 Birthday - Robert Haldane, Scottish theologist/philanthropist

1759 Birthday - Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet, Auld Lang Syne

1757 Event - Robert Clive defeats Indians at Plassey, wins control of Bengal

1756 Event - British troops under Robert Clive occupy Fulta India

1751 Event - English troops under sir Robert Clive occupy Arcot India

1750 Birthday - Robert Fergusson, Scottish poet, Scots poems

1748 Birthday - Robert Wainwright, composer

1746 Birthday - Robert Livingston, delivered oath of office to George Washington

1746 Death - Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46

1745 Death - Robert Walpole, 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68

1745 Death - Robert Walpole, 1st English premier (1722-42), dies at 68

1743 Birthday - Robert Jasper van de Capellen, master of Marsch/politician

1737 Birthday - Robert Kimmerling, composer

1736 Birthday - Robert Raikes, England, Sunday school pioneer

1735 Event - Robert Walpole is 1st British Prime Minister to live at 10 Downing Street

1734 Birthday - Robert Morris, merchant, signed Declaration of Independence

1732 Birthday - Robert Hudson, composer

1731 Birthday - Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer, Declaration of Independence

1730 Event - Robert Walpole becomes England 1st prime minister (was: chief min)

1728 Birthday - Robert Adam, architect/designer, Adelphi Terrace, London

1728 Birthday - Robert Bage, English writer, Criticism by Peter Faulkner

1725 Birthday - Robert Clive, English explorer/founder, British empire in India

1725 Birthday - Robert Clive, founder, British empire in India

1725 Death - Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63

1721 Event - Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury

1714 Event - English Queen Anne fires premier Robert Haley

1710 Birthday - Robert Lowth, English Author

1708 Birthday - Robert Praelisauer, composer

1703 Death - Robert Hooke, scientific genius, dies in London

1702 Death - Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, English Prime Minister 1687 - 1688, dies at 61

1699 Birthday - Robert Blair, Scottish poet, Grave

1699 Birthday - Robert J Pothier, French lawyer

1688 Event - King James II fires premier Robert Spencer

1687 Birthday - Robert Simson, Scotland, mathematician

1682 Event - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France

1678 Event - Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon

1676 Birthday - Robert Walpole, Whig, British Prime Minister, 1721-42

1674 Birthday - Robert Herrick, Massachusetts, British poet, Together

1674 Death - Robert Arnauld d'andilly, French literary/financier/translator, dies

1663 Death - Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63), dies

1661 Birthday - Robert Haley, earl of Oxford/English premier, Whig, 1710-14

1658 Death - Robert Rich 2nd earl of Warwick, English Lord High Admiral, dies at 70

1657 Death - Robert Blake, English Admiral (Dover, Dungeness), dies at about 57

1657 Event - Battle in Santa Cruz Bay, Tenerife: English fleet under Robert Blake sinks Spanish silver fleet

1652 Event - English Admiral Robert Blake drives out Dutch fleet under lt-adm Tromp

1646 Death - Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, dies

1645 Event - Robert Devereux resigns as parliament supreme commander

1644 Event - Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders

1643 Event - 1st battle at Newbury: King Charles I vs Robert Devereux' armies

1641 Death - Robert Dowland, English luitist/son of John Dowland, dies at about 50

1640 Death - Robert Burton, author (Anatomy of Melancholy), dies

1637 Death - Robert Fludd, composer, dies at 63

1635 Birthday - Robert Hooke, Isle of Wight, physicist, Micrographia

1629 Event - King Charles I gives Bahamas to Sir Robert Heath

1627 Birthday - Robert Boyle, Ireld, physicist/chemist/author, experiments with color

1612 Event - Robert Dowland appointed court luitist of King James I

1612 Death - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/Prime Minister 1598 - 1612, dies at 48

1610 Death - Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63

1601 Death - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth

1601 Event - Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London

1601 Event - Robert, Earl of Essex leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth

1599 Event - Robert Devereux becomes Lieutenant-General of Ireland

1595 Death - Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest

1595 Death - Robert Southwell, English Jesuit/poet, hanged

1591 Birthday - Robert Herrick, England, poet, Gather ye rosebuds, baptized

1586 Event - Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Netherlands

1585 Event - English fleet and earl Robert Dudley van Leicester reach Vlissingen

1577 Birthday - Robert Burton, writer, Anglican clergyman, Anatomy of Melancholy

1574 Birthday - Robert Fludd, composer

1571 Birthday - Robert Bruce Cotton, English antiquary, politician

1566 Birthday - Robert Devereux 2nd earl of Essex/cousin/lover of Elizabeth I

1564 Event - Robert Dudley becomes earl of Leicester

1564 Event - Liege prince-bishop Robert van Bergen resigns

1563 Birthday - Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister, 1598-1612

1560 Death - Amy Robsart, wife of English premier Robert Dudley, dies by accident

1558 Birthday - Robert Greene, Elizabethan dramatist, Friar Bacon

1546 Birthday - Robert Parsons, English jesuit, A Letter Disclosure

1521 Death - Robert Fayrfax, composer, dies at 57

1501 Death - Robert Gaguin, French writer/diplomat (Arte Metrificandi), dies at 66

1464 Birthday - Robert Fayrfax, composer

1444 Death - Robert Campin, South Netherlands painter/porter of Doornik, dies at about 65

1415 Death - Robert of Bar, French knight, dies in battle

1406 Death - Robert III, King of Scotland (1390-1406), dies

1394 Death - Clement VII, Robert de Geneve, Pope (1378-94), dies

1390 Death - Robert II the Steward, King of Scotland (1371-90), dies

1390 Death - Robert II, King of Scotland, dies

1378 Event - Robert de Geneve, "butcher of Cesena" crowned anti-pope Clemens VII

1377 Event - Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term

1371 Event - King Robert II Stuart of Scotland crowned

1343 Death - Robert of Anjou, king (Naples), dies

1342 Death - Charles I Robert van Anjou, King of Hungary (1307-42), dies

1329 Death - Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29), dies at 53

1322 Event - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence

1316 Birthday - Robert II, the Steward, King of Scotland, 1371-90

1306 Event - Robert the Bruce crowned king of Scotland

1279 Death - Robert Kilwardby/Anglicus, English philosopher/Cardinal, dies

1274 Birthday - Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, 1306-29

1253 Death - Robert Grosseteste, English Bishop/expert (optica), dies

1201 Birthday - Robert de Sorbon, founded Sorbonne University, Paris

1167 Death - Robert of Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies

1134 Death - Robert III/II Curthouse, Duke of Normandy, dies

1106 Event - Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert

1085 Death - Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia and Calabria, dies at 70

1081 Event - Battle at Durazzo/Durres: Normans under Robert Guiscard beat Byzantine

1072 Event - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo

1035 Death - Robert II/I, Duke of Normandy, dies

1031 Event - Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France

1031 Death - Robert II de Vrome, King of France (996-1031), dies

1027 Event - Robert II, the Vrome, names son Henry I, king of France

987 Event - French King Hugo Capet crowns his son Robert the compassionate king

923 Death - Robert I, King of France (922-23), dies in battle

922 Event - French republic chooses Robert I, King of France













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