1962 Event Sumner Arthur Long's "Never Too Late," premieres in New York City 1961 Death Sumner Welles, U.S. diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy), dies at 68 1956 Birthday Barney Sumner, rock guitarist and vocalist, New Order-Blue Monday 1951 Birthday Sting, Gordon Sumner, rock vocalist, Police-Roxanne, actor, Dune 1946 Birthday Bernard Sumner, rocker, New Order-Round and Round 1929 Birthday Sumner White, U.S., yachtsman 1952 Olympics gold 1923 Birthday Sumner Redstone, American Businessman 1910 Death William G Sumner, U.S. sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), dies at 69 1905 Birthday J. William Fulbright, born in Sumner, Missouri, Senator-D-Arkansas 1945 - 1974 1892 Birthday Sumner Welles, U.S. undersecretary/diplomat, Good neighbor policy 1888 Death Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian 1874 Death Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 1863 Death Edwin Vose Sumner, U.S. Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66 1858 Birthday Eben Sumner Draper, Gov-MA 1856 Event Violence in Senate, South Carolina Representative Brooks used a cane on Massachusetts Senator Sumner 1856 Event Senator Charles Sumner, Massachusetts, spoke out against slavery 1840 Birthday William G Sumner, U.S. sociologist/political analyst 1822 Birthday Henry James Sumner Maine, English Historian 1811 Birthday Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction senator 1797 Birthday Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General Union volunteers
