September 25th

EVENTS

303 – On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
953 – Ratherius becomes bishop of Luik
955 – Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees
1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge; an English army under King Harold Godwinson beat the invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold’s brother Tostig, who were both killed. Three weeks later Harold died fighting the Normans at Hastings.
1212 – Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia)
1340 – England & France sign disarmament treaty
1396 – Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies
1492 – Crewman on Pinta sights “land”-a few weeks early
1493 – Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to the Americas
1513 – Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see Pacific Ocean
1555 – Freedom of Religion in Augsburg
1560 – Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg as 1st archbishop of Utrecht
1597 – Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV
King of Spain Philip II

1639 – First printing press in America
1639 – Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening
1654 – England & Denmark sign trade agreement
1663 – Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to invading Turkish army
1690 – Publick Occurrences, first newspaper in the American colonies (Boston), publishes first & last edition
1775 – American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
1777 – British general William Howe conquers Philadelphia
1780 – Benedict Arnold joins the British
1781 – -26] Joan Derks scatters “On the People of Netherlands” pamphlets
1789 – US Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
1804 – 12th amendment to US constitution, regulating judicial power
1820 – French Physicist Francois Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself
Military and Political Leader Simon Bolívar

1829 – Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar
1836 – HMS Beagle anchors at St Michael
1844 – Canada defeats USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international
1846 – US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico
1857 – Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins
1861 – Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1862 – Skirmish at Davis’ Bridge, Tennessee
1866 – (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
1867 – Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Wash DC
1868 – The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
1878 – British physician Dr. Charles Drysdale warns against the use of tobacco in a letter to The Times newspaper in one of the earliest public health announcements on the dangers of smoking
1882 – 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
1886 – Comedy opera “Dorothy” 1st produced in London
1888 – Royal Court Theatre, London, opens
1888 – Start of Sherlock Holmes “Hound of Baskervilles” (BG)
1890 – Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California)
1890 – Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Silver Blaze” (BG)
1897 – 1st British bus service opens
1904 – Charles Follis is 1st black to play proessional American football
1906 – John Galsworthy’s “Silver Box” premieres in London
1906 – In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.
1907 – Jean Sibelius’ 3rd Symphony premieres
1908 – Cubs’ Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout
1909 – Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY
1911 – French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
1911 – Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
1912 – Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
1915 – Battle of Loos commenced, lasted until 14th October. Chlorine gas deployed by the British was blown back into their own trenches: 59,000 British & 26,000 German casualties
1915 – The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
28th US President Woodrow Wilson

1919 – US president Woodrow Wilson suffers a breakdown in Colorado, his health never recovers
1920 – Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
1920 – 34th U.S. Women’s National Championship: Molla Bjurstedt Mallory beats Marion Zinderstein (6-3, 6-1)
1922 – Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw’s 8th pennant
1924 – Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH
1926 – 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury Golf Club in Westbury, New York
1926 – Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week
1926 – International slavery convention signed by 20 states
1926 – NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
1926 – Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant
1926 – Mackenzie King is re-elected as Prime Minister of Canada
10th Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King 

1929 – Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
1930 – Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
1930 – Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
1930 – Zoe Akins’ “Greeks Had a Word for it” premieres in NYC
1932 – Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season
1933 – 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
1933 – 5th “extermination campaign” against communists in Nanjing China
1934 – John Van Druten’s “Distaff Side” premieres in NYC
1934 – Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1934 – Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America’s Cup
1935 – Maxwell Anderson’s “Winterset” premieres in NYC
1936 – Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double
1937 – “il duce” visits Berlin/named “the Fuhrer” to corporal 1st class
1937 – Battle of of P’ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain
Baseball Player Lou Gehrig

1939 – German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
1939 – Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
1940 – German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government
1940 – Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
1941 – Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
1943 – Russian troops liberate Smolensk
1947 – 2nd Cannes Film Festival ends
1948 – “Heaven on Earth” closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances
1949 – 4th US Women’s Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs
1949 – Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place
1952 – Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game
1954 – Francois “Doc” Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
1954 – Indians win AL record 111 games
1954 – WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 – Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ
1955 – Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
1955 – The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 – First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Newfoundland-Oban)
1956 – Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
1957 – 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
1957 – Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 – Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
1957 – 18th Venice Film Festival: “Aparajito” directed by Satyajit Ray wins Golden Lion
1960 – Chubby Checker’s “Twist” hits #1
1960 – For 1st time since 1927, Pirates clinch NL pennant
1960 – NY Yankees clinch AL pennant
1960 – Phillies beat Reds 7-1, ending 16 consecutive Sunday loses
1961 – KTPS TV channel 62 in Tacoma, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 – Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston

1962 – Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1st round for heavyweight title
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 – Weatherly (US) beats Gretel (Aust) in 19th running of America’s Cup
1962 – Yankees clinch AL pennant
1962 – “New Painting of Common Objects” exhibition at Pasadena Art Museum opens – 1st show on American Pop Art
1964 – Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark
1965 – “Do I Hear a Waltz?” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 perfs
1965 – 60 year old Satchel Paige of KC A’s pitches 3 scoreless innings
1965 – Beatle cartoon show begins in US
1965 – Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal
1966 – 12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret
1966 – Dmitri Shostakovitch’s 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow
1966 – Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1
1967 – WGBX TV channel 44 in Boston, MA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr

1970 – Ringo Starr releases his album “Beaucoups of Blues”
1972 – Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
1972 – KAVT (now KSMQ) TV channel 15 in Austin, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 – Norway votes to join European common market
1972 – Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1973 – 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
1973 – Mets beat Expos 2-1 on Willie Mays Night at Shea Stadium
1974 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 – Scientists first report that freon gases from aerosol sprays are destroying the ozone layer
1975 – Jackie Wilson, suffers heart attack & lapse into a 9 yr terminal coma
1976 – “Porgy & Bess” opens at Uris Theater NYC for 122 performances
1976 – Expo’s last game at Montreal’s Jarry Park
Rocker Bono

1976 – Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which would eventually become U2
1977 – Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament
1978 – PSA Boeing 727 & a Cessna private plane collide by San Diego, 144 die
1979 – “Evita” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances
1979 – California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant
1980 – Chevy Chase calls Cary Grant a homo on Tomorrow show (suit follows)
1980 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 – Jerry Mumphrey joins Ozzie Smith, & Gene Richards to steal 50 bases this year for Padres
1980 – The first congress of the Democratic Youth Organization of Afghanistan held in Kabul.
MLB Pitching Legend Nolan Ryan

1981 – Nolan Ryan’s 5th career no-hitter as Astros beat Dodgers 5-0
1981 – Rolling Stones begin their 6th US tour (JFK Stadium, Phila)
1981 – Sandra Day O’Connor sworn in as 1st female supreme court justice
1982 – Northwestern ends 34 football game losing streak, beats No Ill 31-6
1982 – Penn prison guard George Banks kills 13 (5 were his own children)
1982 – USSR performs underground nuclear test
1982 – 33rd Formula One WDC: Keke Rosberg wins by five points
1983 – 35th Emmy Awards: Hill St Blue, Cheers, Ed Flanders & Shelley Long win
1983 – Bob Forsch pitches 2nd career no-hitter, Cards beat Expos 3-0
1983 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1984 – “Quilters” opens at Jack Lawrence Theater NYC for 24 performances
1984 – 1st London performance of musical “Stepping Out” presented
1984 – Egypt & Jordan regain diplomatic relations
1984 – NY Met Rusty Staub joins Ty Cobb, who hit HRs as a teen & in 40s
MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1985 – Akali Dal wins Punjab State election in India
1985 – Palestinian terrorists kill 3 Israeli sailors at Lanaca Cyprus
1985 – Rickey Henderson steals Yankee record 75th base of season
1986 – Antonin Scalia appointed to Supreme Court
1986 – Houston Astro Mike Scott no-hits SF Giants, 2-0
1987 – 2nd coup on Fiji led by Major General Sitiveni Rabuka
1988 – Florence Griffith Joyner runs Olympic record 100m in 10.54s
1988 – Kathy Guadagnino wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1988 – Christopher Jacobs, Troy Dalbey, Tom Hunter & Matt Biondi, swim world record 4×100 m freestyle (3:16.53)
1988 – Pope John Paul II beatifies Friar Junípero Serra (founder of 1st Californian missions)
1989 – Archaeologists open Titus of Rhine grave in Amsterdam
Missionary Junípero Serra

1989 – Ronald Harwood’s “Another Time” premieres in London
1989 – Wade Boggs is 1st to get 200 hits & 100 walks in 4 consecutive seasons
1990 – “Les Miserables” opens at Forrest Theatre, Phila
1990 – 1st 8 NY Yankees hit safely vs Balt Orioles to tie record
1990 – Oakland A’s clinch 3rd straight AL West title
1990 – Saddam Hussein warns that US will repeat Vietnam experience
1990 – UN Security Council vote 14-1 to impose air embargo against Iraq
1991 – “Good & Evil” premieres on ABC TV
1991 – Paramount at Madison Square Garden in NYC opens
1991 – 3rd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m
1992 – “Barry Manilow’s Showstoppers” opens at Paramount NYC
1992 – China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
1992 – Opening Main-Donau canal (North Sea-Black Sea)
MLB Player and Manager Sparky Anderson

1992 – Sparky Anderson ties Hughie Jennings as Detroit’s winning-est manager
1992 – US Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle
1992 – Gregory Kingsley, 12, wins right to divorce his parents & live with his foster parents, he takes name Shawn Russ
1994 – Oliver McCall TKOs Lennox Lewis in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1996 – The last of the Magdalen Asylums closes in Ireland.
1997 – “ER” is performed live on TV
1997 – Britain’s Andy Green sets jet-powered car record (714 mph)
1997 – Marv Albert plea bargains in assault case
1997 – STS 86 (Atlantis 20) launches into orbit
1997 – WNBA announces it will add Detroit & Wash DC franchises
2002 – The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2003 – A magnitude-8.0 earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō, Japan.
2005 – E1 Train Disaster
Heavyweight Boxing Champion Lennox Lewis

2008 – China launches the spacecraft Shenzhou 7.
2008 – The “Celtic Tiger” slides into recession for the first time in over two decades, recording a 0.5% fall in second quarter GDP, following a 0.3% decline in the first quarter; its last recession in 1983 saw thousands of people leave Ireland to seek work overseas
2012 – 50 Taiwanese ships clash with the Japan Coast Guard in waters off the Senkaku Islands
2012 – Anouchka van Miltenburg is elected President of the House of Representatives in the Netherlands
2013 – Oracle Team USA defeats Team New Zealand 9-8 to win the America’s Cup
2015 – Singapore closes schools due to hazardous levels of air pollution from fires in Indonesia

BIRTHDAYS

1358 – Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 – Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1593 – Matthew Merian, the Elder, engraver/bookseller
1599 – Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)
1612 – Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian
1613 – Claude Perrault, Paris, French Architect and Physician (east facade of the Louvre)
1644 – Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1683 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized)
1711 – Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1714 – Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer
1725 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile
1725 – Robert Clive, English explorer/founder (British empire in India)
1729 – Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist
1738 – Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
1741 – Vaclav Pichl, composer
1744 – Frederick Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97)
1752 – Carl Stenborg, composer
1764 – Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1766 – Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
1773 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
1780 – Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
1782 – Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
1785 – George Frederic Pinto, composer
1793 – Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet
1796 – Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
1798 – Henri Scheffer, painter
1798 – JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist
1805 – Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder (Pella colony in Iowa)
1807 – Alfred Vail, Morristown New Jersey, American Inventor, early telegraph pioneer, and financial backer to Samuel Morse
1822 – Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen (Union vol)
1823 – Thomas John Wood, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1906)
1829 – William Michael Rossetti, civil servant
1830 – Karl Klindworth, pianist/conductor
1832 – William Le Baron Jenney, US, architect/”father of skyscraper”
1839 – Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya)
1839 – [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist
1843 – Melville Reuben Bissell, Hartwick New York, American inventor (carpet sweeper)
1843 – Thomas Chrowder Cham Mattoon Illinois, American Geologist and educator, born in Berlin, Germany
1846 – Wladimir Köppen [Vladimir Köppen], St. Petersburg, Russia, German Meteorologist and Climatologist who mapped and classified the climatic regions of the world (Köppen climate classification system)
1852 – Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy (1910-18)
1852 – Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Nietzsche Philosophy)
1862 – Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer (Variations Symphoniques)
1862 – Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1866 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, US, biologist (Nobel-1933)
1867 – Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
1872 – Charles Blake Cochran, impresario
1877 – Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
1879 – Luis da Costa, composer
1879 – Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963)
1881 – Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1884 – Cornelis “Kees” Boeke, Dutch educationalist
1886 – Jesus Guridi, composer
1886 – John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright
1887 – May Sutton Bundy, US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904)
1889 – George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist
1889 – C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
1896 – Elsa Triolet, writer
1896 – Roberto Gerhard, composer
1896 – Sandro Pertini, president Italy
1897 – Teddy Hart, actor (3 Men on a Horse), born in NYC, New York
Author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner (1897)

1897 – William Faulkner, New Albany Mississippi, author (Sound & Fury-Nobel 1949), (d. 1962)
1898 – Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1901 – Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
1902 – Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche)
1902 – Jeno Takacs, composer
1903 – John Everett Allen, US businessman
1903 – Mark Rothko, [Marcus Rothkovich], US, painter (Green on Blue)
1904 – Columbus O’Donnell Iselin, New Rochelle, New York, American oceanographer
1905 – Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem)
1905 – Red Smith, Green Bay Wisc, sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk)
1906 – Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St Petersburg Russia, composer [NS]
1906 – Jaroslav Jezek, composer
1906 – Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer
1906 – Phyllis Pearsall, East Dulwich, London, British painter and writer (A to Z Map Company)
1907 – Jan Felderhof, composer
1907 – Robert Bresson, France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette)
1908 – Eugen Suchon, composer
1909 – Florizel A Glasspole, governor-gen of Jamaica (1973-91)
1911 – Lionel Henry Nowak, composer
1911 – Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1913 – David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner
1914 – Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist
Alleged Soviet Spy Ethel Rosenberg (1915)

1915 – Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist, born in New York City, New York
1916 – Tolia Nikiprowetzsy, composer
1917 – Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1918 – Phil Rizzuto, American sportscaster/shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950), born in Brooklyn, New York
1920 – Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)
1921 – Remy C, de Kerckhove, Flemish poet
1921 – Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/chairman (IMF)
1922 – John Farr, British MP
1922 – Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1924 – Norman Ayrton, opera director (Royal Shakespearean Acad – UK)
1925 – Silvana Pampanini, Rome Italy, actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner)
1925 – William Edgar Mitchell, physicist
1925 – Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor (1st man-powered aircraft)
1926 – Aldo Ray, Pen Argyl PA, actor (God’s Little Acre, Green Beret)
1926 – John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West)
1926 – Sergei Filatov, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
1926 – Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
1927 – Carl Braun, basketball player (NY Knicks)
1927 – Sir Colin Davis, Weybridge England, conductor (NY Met 1967-71)
1928 – Hendrika G “Tine” de Vries, actress (Seaman’s Wife)
1929 – John Rutherford, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1956)
1929 – Ronnie Barker, British comedian (the Two Ronnies)
1929 – Barbara Walters, newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1929 – Kevin White, American politicians (Mayor of Boston, 1968-1984), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2012)
1930 – H Heckmann, writer
1930 – Shel Silverstein, American humorist and author (d. 1999)
1931 – Patrick WIlliam Walker, British astrologer
1931 – Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (d. 2005)
1932 – Andrew Gardner, British broadcaster
1932 – Daphne Swallow, commandant/director (WRNS)
1932 – Glenn Herbert Gould, pianist (sued Steinway Piano), born in Toronto, Ontario
1932 – Terry Medwin, Welsh retired footballer
1933 – Adolfo Suarez, premier of Spain (1976-81), (d. 2014)
1933 – Erik Darling, rocker (Rooftop Singers), born in Baltimore, Maryland
1933 – Ian Tyson, rocker
1933 – Hubie Brown, American basketball coach and broadcaster
1934 – John S Bull, astronaut, born in Memphis, Tennessee
1934 – Struther Arnott, professor (St Andrew University)
1934 – Jean Sorel, French actor
1936 – Edward Jones, UK military rep to NATO
1936 – Juliet Prowse, Bombay India, actress/dancer (Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1936 – Roosevelt “Booba” Barnes, bluesman
1937 – Michael Gibbs, jazz composer
1937 – Thomas Kessler, composer
1939 – David Mann, (Rep-D-Ohio)
1939 – Joseph “Jesse” Russell, US singer (Slip Sliding Away)
1939 – Leon Britain, British politician, vice president (Commission of European Communities)
1939 – Feroz Khan, Indian actor
1940 – Timothy Severin, author/explorer
1941 – Vivian Stern, director (Nacros)
1942 – John Taylor, jazz pianist
1942 – Michael Stephen, MP
1942 – Peter Petherick, cricketer (NZ slow lefty 1976-77, hat-trick on debut)
1943 – Gary Alexander, TN, rock vocalist/guitarist (Association)
1943 – John Locke, LA Clif, rock keyboardist (Spirit-I Got A Line on You)
1943 – Robert Walden, actor (Joe Rossi-Lou Grant, New Doctors), born in NYC, New York
1943 – Robert Gates, American Secretary of Defense
1944 – Eugenia Zukerman, Cambridge Ms, flutist/novelist (Deceptive Cadence)
1944 – Grayson Shillingford, cricket bowler (WI 1969-71, 7 Tests 15 wickets)
Actor Michael Douglas(1944)

1944 – Michael Douglas, NJ, actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile)
1944 – Doris Matsui, American politician
1945 – Kathleen Brown, state treasurer (D-California, 1991- )
1945 – Owen “Onnie” McIntyre, Scotland, guitarist (Average White Band)
1945 – Reynold Henry Weidenaar, composer
1946 – Bishan Bedi, cricketer (mighty Indian slow left-armer 1966-79)
1946 – Felicity Kendal, Indies/British actress (Shakespeare Wallah)
1946 – Gilmer Bryan Morgan, Wewoka OK, PGA golfer (1977 BC Open)
1947 – Cheryl Tiegs, Minnesota, model (Sports Illustrated)
1947 – John Fiddler, England, rock vocalist/guitarist (British Lions)
1949 – Anson Williams, actor (Potsie-Happy Days), born in Los Angeles, California
1949 – Inshan Ali, cricketer (big-spinning WI chinaman bowler 1971-77)
1949 – Jerry F Costello, (Rep-D-Illinois)
1949 – Mimi Kennedy, actress (Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof), born in Rochester, New York
1951 – Bob McAdoo, NBA forward/center (Buffalo Braves, LA Lakers)
1951 – Burleigh Drummond, rocker (Ambrosia)
1951 – Mark Hamill, actor (Luke Skywalker-Star Wars), born in Oakland, California
1951 – Pedro Almodovar, Spain, director/screenwriter (Kika, Matador)
1952 – Christopher Reeve, actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), born in NYC, New York
1952 – Tommy Norden, actor (Flipper), born in NYC, New York
1952 – Gloria Jean Watkins, American scholar
1953 – Richard Harvey, British musician and composer (Gryphon)
1954 – Sylvester Croom, American college football coach
1954 – Juande Ramos, Spanish Football Manager
1955 – Adelmo “Zucchero” Fornaciari, Italian R&B-singer (Senza una Donna)
1955 – Steven Severin, British pop bassist (Siouxsie & Banshees-Wild Thing)
1955 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German footballer
1955 – Ludo Coeck, Belgian footballer (d. 1985)
1956 – Jamie Hyneman, American visual effects technician
1957 – Rupert Haselden, journalist/Screenwriter
1957 – Ian Reddington, English actor
1958 – Michael Madsen, actor (Reservoir Dogs, Straight Talk), born in Chicago, Illinois
1958 – Eamonn Healy, Irish chemist
1959 – Andy Waller, cricketer (big-hitting Zimbabwe batsman-1992 World Cup)
1960 – John Hills, horse trainer
1960 – Igor Belanov, Ukrainian footballer
1960 – Sonia Benezra, Canadian television host
1961 – Heather Locklear, LA Ca, actress (Stacy-T J Hooker, Sammy Jo-Dynasty)
1961 – Tim Zoehrer, cricketer (Aussie keeper, & occasional WA leggie)
1962 – Rajiv Kulkarni, cricketer (Indian Test pace bowler 1986-87)
1963 – Keely Shaye Smith, correspondent (Unsolved Mysteries)
1964 – Bryan Tooley, Eugene Ore, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1964 – Anita Barone, American actress
1964 – Joey Saputo, Canadian businessman and sports executive
1964 – Gary Ayles, British racing driver
1964 – Maria Doyle Kennedy, Irish actress and singer
1965 – Scottie Pippen, Hamburg, Arkansas, American NBA forward (Bulls, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
1966 – Elizabeth “Liz” Tchou, Medford NJ, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1966 – Todd Philcox, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1967 – Lezlie Lund, Tolna ND, Miss ND-America (1991)
1967 – Kim Issel, Canadian ice hockey player
Actor Will Smith (1968)

1968 – Will Smith [The Fresh Prince], actor/rapper (Men in Black, Independence Day, Fresh Prince)
1968 – Johan Friso, prince of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands
1968 – Reggie Jefferson, Tallahassee FL, 1st baseman (Cin, Cleve, Sea, Bos)
1968 – John Worsfold, Australian rules football coach
1969 – Catherine Zeta Jones, Swansea Wales, actress (Christopher Columbus)
1969 – David Weathers, Lawrencburg TN, pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Yankees)
1969 – Hansie Cronje, cricket captain (solid South African batsman)
1969 – Michae Wright, WLAF cornerback (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 – Hal Sparks, American actor
1970 – Curtis Buckley, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 – Damon Pieri, NFL safety (Carolina Panthers)
1970 – Doug Pelfrey, NFL kicker (Cin Bengals)
1970 – Kerri Kendall, playmate (Sep, 1990), born in San Diego, California
1970 – Shannon Jones, WLAF linebacker (Scottish Claymores)
1970 – Dean Ween, American musician (Ween)
1971 – John Lynch, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1971 – Tony Harrison, WLAF receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 – Brian Dunkleman, American actor
1972 – Kevin Mason, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 – Nikole Viola, Miss USA-Louisiana (1997)
1973 – Melonie McGarrah, Rogers Arkansas, Miss America-Arkansas (1997)
1973 – Tijani Babangida, soccer player (Roda JC)
1973 – Bridgette Wilson, Gold Beach, Oregon, American actress (Mortal Kombat, Billy Madison)
1973 – Bridget Marquardt, American model
1974 – Daniel Kessler, American musician (Interpol)
1975 – Declan Donnelly, English television presenter (Ant and Dec)
1975 – Matt Hasselbeck, American football player
1975 – Daniel Hyde, British actor
1976 – Chauncey Billups, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1977 – Clea DuVall, American actress
1977 – Mike Krahulik, Illustrator
1977 – Wil Nieves, Puerto Rican baseball player
1978 – Laura Nicholls, Kitchener Ontario, 50m swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 – Roudolphe Douala, Cameroonian footballer
1978 – Ricardo Gardner, Jamaican footballer
1978 – Jodie Kidd, English model
1978 – Joel Pineiro, Puerto Rican baseball player
1980 – T.I., American rapper
1981 – Rocco Baldelli, American baseball player
1981 – Jason Bergmann, American baseball player
1981 – Shane Tutmarc, American songwriter and musician
1981 – Van Hansis, American actor
1982 – Hyun Bin, South Korean actor
1983 – Terrance Pennington, National Football League guard
1984 – Matt Carle, American ice hockey player
1990 – Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater
1994 – Jansen Panettiere, American actor

WEDDINGS

1845 – Confederate army Nathan Bedford Forrest (24) weds Presbyterian minister’s daughter Mary Ann Montgomery (18) in Hernando, Mississippi
1873 – Frontiersman and gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok supposedly marriesCalamity Jane according to the later’s daughter (disputed)
1889 – Prime Minister of Canada Robert Borden (34) weds Laura Bond
1926 – Outlaw Bonnie Parker (15) weds Roy Thornton
1940 – “Sullivan’s Travels” actress Veronica Lake (18) weds American motion picture art director and set designer John S. Detlie (31)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev (1953)

1953 – Statesman Mikhail Gorbachev (22) weds Raisa Maximovna (21) at a Komsomol wedding ceremony
1954 – “Roman Holiday” actress Audrey Hepburn (25) weds actor Mel Ferrer (37) in Burgenstock
1959 – Cosmopolitan founder Helen Gurley Brown and film (37) weds theatre producer David Brown (43)
1965 – Novelist Danielle Steel (18) weds banker Claude-Eric Lazard
1988 – Actor Paul Gross (29) weds actress Martha Burns
2003 – Prince of Venice and Piedmont Emanuele Filiberto (31) weds French actress Clotilde Courau (34) at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome
2004 – Academy Award winning actor Kevin Costner (49) weds model and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner (30) at his 165-acre ranch in Aspen, Colorado
2005 – “Gremlins” actor Zach Galligan (41) weds Ling-Ling Hu Ingerick at New York City’s Yale Club in New York City
2010 – Actress Emily Deschanel (33) weds writer-actor David Hornsby (34) in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles
Actor Kevin Costner (2004)

2010 – PayPal founder Elon Musk (39) weds actress Talulah Riley (24) at Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland
2010 – Charlie Sheen’s daughter Cassandra Estevez (25) weds Casey Huffman (27) in Santa Barbara, California

DIVORCES

None

DEATHS

813 – al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered
1066 – Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway (1047-66), dies in battle at 51
1066 – Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
1086 – William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1333 – Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
1392 – Sergius van Radonesj, Russian saint, dies at 78
1396 – Jean de Vienne, French admiral/crusader, dies in battle
1396 – Odard de Chasseron, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1396 – Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1496 – Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
1501 – Dzore Drzic, Croatish poet, dies
1506 – Felipe I, the handsome, King of Castile (Spain) (1504-06), dies
1525 – Johannes Pistorius, [Bakker], RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26
1534 – Clement VII, [Giulio de’ Medici], Italian Pope (1523-34), dies at 56
1602 – Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1617 – Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1617)
1617 – Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
1619 – Francesco Soto de Langa, composer, dies
1630 – Ambrogio Spinola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, dies at about 61
1665 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
1680 – Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies
1716 – Johann Christoph Pez, composer, dies at 52
1727 – Jacques Abbadie, French theologist, dies at about 73
1733 – Georg Motz, composer, dies at 79
1774 – John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1777 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49
1791 – William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
1792 – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
1794 – Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1808 – Richard Porson, scholar, dies
1813 – Braz Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 61
1825 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
1826 – Giovanni Battista Brocchi, Italian Geologist, dies at 54
1840 – Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier
1849 – Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45
1860 – Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer, dies at 60
1867 – Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
1871 – Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies
1876 – A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66
1877 – Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich, German Physician and advocate of scientific medicine, dies at 62
1898 – Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet, French Anthropologist who was the first to organize and classify Stone Age cultures into a chronological sequence of epochs, dies at 77
1898 – Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German Mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium, dies at 73
1900 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1901 – Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1905 – Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
1914 – A Lichtenstein, writer, dies at 25
1914 – Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter, dies at 76
1916 – Julius Fucik, composer, dies at 44
1917 – Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
1918 – John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80
1918 – Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1920 – William F Sudds, composer, dies at 77
1926 – Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1928 – Karl Schneider, cricketer (South Aust bat), dies of leukaemia at 23
1929 – Miller Huggins, manager (NY Yankees), dies from blood poisoning at 49
1933 – Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist, dies at 53
1933 – Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
1940 – Marguerite Clark, American silent film actress (Snow White), dies at 57
1944 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68
1944 – Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer, dies at 43
1945 – Charles A Ellwood, US sociologist/psychologist, dies at 72
1953 – Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies
1954 – Eugenio d’ Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist/philosopher, dies at 71
1958 – John B Watson, US psychologist/behaviorist, dies at 80
1959 – Ennio Porrino, composer, dies at 49
1959 – Helen Broderick, comedienne/actress (Swing Time, Top Hat), dies
1959 – S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon’s PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
1960 – Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86
1961 – Frank Fay, American actor (God’s Gift to Women), dies at 69
1970 – Efim Golishev, composer, dies at 73
1970 – Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72
1971 – TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50
Famous Clown Coco the Clown (1974)

1974 – Coco the Clown, [Nikolai Poliakoff], dies at 73
1974 – William Sloane, publisher/writer (“Edge of Running Water”), dies
1975 – Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68
1977 – Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician, dies at 78
1978 – Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80
1979 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
1980 – John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32
1980 – Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
1980 – Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1980 – Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890)
1983 – Leopold III, king of Belgium (1934-51), dies
1984 – Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs Miniver), dies at 87
1985 – Albert Moeschinger, composer, dies at 88
1985 – William Cumming Rose, American Biochemist, dies at 98
1986 – Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99
1986 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
1986 – Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (b.1909)
1986 – Nikolay Nikolayevich Semyonov, Russian Chemist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 90
1987 – Emlyn Williams, actor/director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81
Actress Mary Astor (1987)

1987 – Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81
1988 – Billy Carter, brother of US President Jimmy Carter, dies of cancer at 51
1991 – Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77
1991 – Max Koot, royal photographer, dies
1991 – Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
1991 – Lydia Cabrera, Cuban Anthropologist, dies at 91
1994 – John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73
1994 – Kitty Masters, actress, dies at 92
1994 – Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Germ prince of Prussia, dies at 86
1994 – Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88
1995 – Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer, dies at 104
1995 – Dave Bowen, footballer, dies at 67
1995 – Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper), dies at 102
1996 – Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator, dies at 80
1996 – Nicu Ceaușescu, youngest child of Romanian Communist Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu and considered the President’s heir apparent, dies of cirrhosis at 45
1997 – Sayed Mutawli ad Imam scholar/broadcaster-Darsh, dies at 66
1997 – Jean Françaix, French composer (b. 1912)
1997 – Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (b. 1916)
1999 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
2000 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (b. 1913)
2003 – Aquila al-Hashimi, Iraqi politician (b. 1953)
2003 – Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
2003 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
2003 – Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
2003 – Franco Modigliani, Italian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2005 – Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
2005 – George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
2005 – Ghulam Mustafa Khan, Pakistani critic and linguist (b. 1912)
2005 – Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2005 – M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
2005 – Friedrich Peter, Austrian politician (b. 1921)
2006 – Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
2006 – John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
Gymnast Sofia Muratova(2006)

2006 – Sofia Muratova, Russian Olympic gold winning Gymnast, dies at 77
2007 – Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian negotiator (b. 1919)
2009 – Alicia de Larrocha, Catalan pianist (b. 1923)
2010 – Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)
2011 – Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, dies from ovarian cancer at 71
2012 – Andy Williams, American singer, dies from bladder cancer at 84

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1957 Central High School integrated

• American Revolution

• 1775 Ethan Allen is captured

• Automotive

• 2004 Formula One racetrack in Shanghai prepares for its grand opening

• Civil War

• 1864 Confederate president visits General Hood in Georgia

• Cold War

• 1959 Eisenhower and Khrushchev meet for talks

• Crime

• 1959 Little Augie Pisano is murdered

• Disaster

• 1978 Mid-air collision kills 153

• General Interest

• 1789 Bill of Rights passes Congress
• 1981 O’Connor takes seat on Supreme Court
• 2005 IRA officially disarms

• Hollywood

• 1944 Michael Douglas born

• Literary

• 1897 William Faulkner is born

• Music

• 1970 The Partridge Family premieres on ABC television

• Old West

• 1867 Cattle pioneer Oliver Loving dies of gangrene

• Presidential

• 1894 Grover Cleveland pardons bigamists, adulterers, polygamists and unlawful cohabitants

• Sports

• 1965 Fifty-nine-year-old Satchel Paige pitches three innings

• Vietnam War

• 1969 Congressional opponents of Nixon Vietnam policy renew opposition

• World War I

• 1915 The Battle of Loos begins

• World War II

• 1942 Gestapo headquarters targeted in Norway