1958 Birthday Vasili Yuriyevich Lukiyanyuk, Russian cosmonaut 1954 Birthday Vasili Vasilyevich Tsibliyev, Rus col/cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-17, TM-25 1942 Birthday Vasili Alexeyev, U.S.S.R., weightlifer, Olympics gold 72, 76 1919 Death Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher and writer, dies at 62 1904 Death Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War and Peace), dies 1852 Death Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies at 69 1843 Birthday Vasili V Vereshchagin, Russian painter, War and Peace 1842 Birthday Vasili O Klyutshevski, Russian historian 1783 Birthday Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homer 1783 Birthday Vasili A. Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator, Homerus 1610 Event Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 and Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki 1533 Death Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33), dies at 54 1479 Birthday Vasili III, great prince of Moscow 1505-33 amd son of Ivan III
