2013 Event The 1950's American pop singer Patti Page, known for the songs, '(How Much Is That) Doggie In The Window' and "Tennessee Waltz', dies in Encinitas, California at 85 years old 2011 Event The European Space Agency makes contact with the Fobos-Grunt probe 48 hours after the spacecraft's window for launch to Mars closes 1997 Death Alvinio Misciano, Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window 1995 Death Louis "Loulou" Gaste, guitarist/comp (Doggy in the Window), dies at 88 1991 Death Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5 1988 Death Chet Baker, jazz trumpeter, fell to death out of a hotel window at 59 1986 Death Paul Stewart, actor (Opening Night, In Cold Blood, Window), dies 1985 Death Dandy Nichols, actress (Confessions of a Window Cleaner), dies at 78 1975 Event Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches 1968 Death Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72 1961 Birthday Melissa Etheridge, rock guitarist and vocalist, Come to My Window 1953 Birthday Nanci Griffith, U.S. singer and songwriter, Poet in My Window 1942 Birthday Rob de Nijs, Dutch singer, Put a candle in your window 1928 Birthday Grace Kelly, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actress, Rear Window, Princess, Monaco 1922 Birthday Constance Moore, Sioux City Iowa, actress, Window on Main Street 1920 Event Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window 1913 Birthday Judith Evelyn, born in Seneca, South Dakota, actress, 13th Letter, Tingler, Rear Window 1902 Event Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan 1899 Birthday Alfred Hitchcock, born in London, director, Psycho, Birds, Rear Window 1897 Birthday Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter, Door, Window 1887 Birthday Juan Gris, born in Spain, cubist painter, Still Life Before an Open Window 1851 Event Window tax abolished in Britain 1846 Birthday Kate Greenaway, born in England, artist/book illustrator, Under the Window 1618 Event Imperial civil servants thrown out a window of Prague Castle
