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Sailor


1996 Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor, dies at 68

1996 Anthony Griffin, sailor, dies at 75

1995 Tristan Jones, sailor, author, Welsh story teller, dies at 71

1994 Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71

1985 U.S. sailor Michael L. Walker arrested for spying for U.S.S.R.

1968 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76

1956 Yoshiko Sakakibara, Chiba Japan, actress, Sailor Moon, Vampire Hunter

1956 Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympic skier to sweep 3 alpine events

1955 Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies

1940 Chay Blyth, English sailor, Alone in Order to the World

1929 Tristan Jones, born in Liverpool, England, sailor, author, Welsh story teller, wrote about sailing in books and articles

1928 Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor

1920 Anthony Griffin, sailor

1913 Ernst Schnabel, German sailor/dramatist, Anne Frank

1908 Edzard H Schaper, German/Swiss sailor/UP-correspondent/antifascist

1900 Yves Tanguy, French/U.S. sailor/surrealistic painter

1885 Herman Bouber, Dutch actor and playwright, Sailor's Wives

1865 Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Ft. Fisher NC, 40 die

1838 Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery disguised as a sailor

1832 John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried

1709 British sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for 5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"

1697 Sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island

1499 Perkin Warbeck, Flemish sailor, hanged

1497 Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard IV

1028 German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king

1024 Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king


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