November 4th

EVENTS

922 – Richarius becomes bishop of Luik
1333 – Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
1501 – Philip de Blank & Juana “la Loca” depart to Spain
1519 – Flood ravages Dutch/Friese coast
1520 – Danish/Norwegian king Christian II crowned king of Sweden
1529 – English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested
1576 – Eighty Years’ War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
1619 – Frederik V crowned king of Bohemia
1631 – Ferdinand of Austria installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1645 – Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Holly
1646 – Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God’s word
1675 – Storm hits Western Europe: flood in Amsterdam
1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, inaugurated.
1771 – Carlo Goldoni’s “Le Bourru Bienfaisant” premieres in Paris
1783 – W.A. Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 is premiered in Linz, Austria.

Classical Musician and Composer Wolfang Amadeus Mozart

1819 – Māori Chiefs Hongi Hika and Rewa sell 13,000 acres (5260 hectares) at Kerikeri to the Church Missionary Society for 48 felling axes, New Zealand
1839 – The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain.
1841 – First wagon train arrives in California
1845 – First nationally observed uniform election day in US
1846 – Benjamin Palmer patents artificial leg
1852 – Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy.
1854 – Lighthouse built on Alcatraz Island
1856 – James Buchanan elected 15th US president
1861 – University of Washington founded in Seattle
1862 – Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun (Indianapolis)
1864 – Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee
15th US President James Buchanan

1864 – Naval Engagement at Reynoldsburg Island
1866 – Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
1867 – 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, for seawall
1873 – Dentist John Beers of SF patents gold crown
1874 – Samuel J Tilden elected governor of NY
1875 – Passenger Steamship “Pacific” collides with sailing vessel “Orpheus” off Cape Flattery Wash, 236 die
1875 – Tonga adopts constitution
1875 – Massachusetts Rifle Association is founded in Boston
1876 – John Brahms’ 1st Symphony in C premieres
1879 – Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus
1879 – James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his Dayton, Ohio saloon
US President Grover Cleveland

1884 – Grover Cleveland (D) beats James G Blaine (R) for his 1st presidential term. The only American president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms
1886 – Edward MacDowell’s “Ophelia” premieres
1889 – Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball’s NL
1890 – Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
1890 – Prince of Wales opens first underground station at Stockwell, South London
1890 – Alexander Borodin’s opera “Prince Igor” premieres in Petersburg
1893 – Dr Jamesons Legertje occupies Bulawayo Matabeleland
1901 – Clyde Fitch’s “Way of the World” premieres in NYC
1903 – Panama and Colombia wake up to news that the insurrectionists have declared an independent Republic of Panama
1904 – First stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)
1905 – Dock strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam
1908 – Brooklyn Academy of Music opens in NYC
1909 – Opera “Il Segreto di Susanna” is produced (Munich)
1910 – Start of South Africa’s 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained
Tsar Nicholas II

1910 – Russian Tsar Nicholas II visits German Emperor Wilhelm II at Potsdam; they force tentative agreements on spheres of influence in the Middle East
1911 – France & Germany signs treaty about Morocco & Congo
1914 – Vogue holds 1st model show (“Fashion Fete”, NYC)
1918 – The Allied armistice with Austria-Hungary, signed 3 November, goes into effect
1921 – The Sturmabteilung or SA (the “Brown Shirts”) is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
1921 – Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1922 – Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt
1924 – British Labour government of Ramsay MacDonald resigns
1924 – California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914)
1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross elected first US female governor (Wyoming)
30th US President Calvin Coolidge

1924 – US President Calvin Coolidge re-elected
1928 – Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua
1929 – John Baldridge’ “Berkeley Square” premieres in NYC
1929 – Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains, the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica
1931 – Jean Genet’s “Judith” premieres in Paris
1933 – Bradman scores 200 NSW v Queensland, 184 mins, 26 fours
1933 – Hermann Goering & Georgi Dimitrov duel
1933 – Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
1934 – Pitts ends Detroit Lions’ shutout streak at 7 games but loses 40-7
1939 – 1940 Olympics awarded to Helsinki, Finland
1939 – First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois
1939 – US allows “cash & carry” arms sales during WW II
Nazi Politician Hermann Goering

1940 – Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands
1942 – 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afrika Korps draws back out Fuka-posing
1944 – German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1944 – RAF bombs Dinteloord, 54 killed
1946 – “Park Avenue” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 72 performances
1946 – UN Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization formed
1948 – TS Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
1949 – “One Man’s Family” premieres on TV
1950 – “Barrier” closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 4 performances
1950 – “Consul” closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 269 performances
1950 – Indonesian troops reconquer Ambonese capital Ambon
1950 – US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea
1951 – 9th Ryder Cup: US wins 9½-2½ at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst, North Carolina, US)
1951 – NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
1951 – Vijay Merchant scores 154 v England in his last Test Cricket innings
1952 – Earthquake & flood strike Kamshatka-South America
34th US President & WWII General Dwight D. Eisenhower

1952 – General Dwight Eisenhower (R) elected 34th president of the USA, beating Adlai Stevenson (D)
1953 – Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Phila A’s
1953 – New balk rule gives the batter option; of accepting the outcome of the pitch or the balk
1954 – “Fanny” opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 888 performances
1954 – Philadelphia A’s move to Kansas City
1955 – The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.
1956 – 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Soviet movement in Budapest, Hungary
1956 – Israel captures Straits of Tiran & reach Suez Canal Egypt
1957 – 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1958 – Angelo G Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII
1958 – Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
Pope John XXIII

1958 – Democrats win US congressional election
1959 – Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP
1960 – “Misfits” premieres, final movie for Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe
1961 – Karamanlis becomes premier of Greece
1962 – Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
1962 – US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 – John Lennon utters his infamous “rattle your jewellery” line at a Royal Variety Performance in London
1965 – Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah
1966 – Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
1968 – Battles between Jordan army & Al Fatah-arm forces
1968 – WRDU (now WPTF) TV chan 28 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (NBC) 1st broadcast
1968 – WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
Musician and Beatle John Lennon

1968 – Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O’Neill meets British Prime Minister Harold Wilson for talks about the situation in Northern Ireland; Wilson states that there will be no change in the constitutional position of Northern Ireland without the consent of the Northern Ireland population
1970 – Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
1970 – Genie, a 13 year old feral child was found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
1972 – Bangladesh adopts constitution
1972 – Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders
1973 – Thousands commemorate former Greek premier Georgios Papandreou
1973 – Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic
1973 – M Medoff’s “When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?” premieres in NYC
1973 – New Orleans Saints 1st shutout victory, 13-0 vs Buffalo Bills
1973 – The Netherlands experiences the first Car Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters.
LPGA Golfer Kathy Whitworth

1975 – Orioles Jim Palmer wins his 2nd Cy Young Award
1976 – 1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich & McCovey, available
1977 – UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
1978 – Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U
1978 – Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3)
1978 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1978 – 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, & Darrell Evans, available
1979 – 500 Iranian “students” seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days)
1980 – Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
1980 – Libyan invasion in Chad
1980 – Ronald Reagan (R) defeats incumbant US President Jimmy Carter (D) by a landslide
US President & Actor Ronald Reagan

1980 – Sadaharu Oh, 40, pro baseball’s all-time HR run king with 868, retires
1980 – Steve Carlton wins 3rd NL Cy Young Awards
1981 – Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart” premieres in NYC
1981 – Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining
1981 – Dr George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley
1982 – Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier
1983 – Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed
1983 – Washington Capitals first NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4
1984 – Nayoko Yoshikawa wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1984 – Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
1987 – Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year
1987 – Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
1987 – NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte & Miami for 1988 & Minneapolis & Orlando for 1989
1988 – First NBA game at Charlotte Coliseum – Hornets lose to Cavs, 133-93
1989 – First NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to NJ Nets, 111-106
1989 – Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
1989 – Horse Racing Breeders’ Cup Champs: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence
1989 – The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
1990 – “Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story” opens at Shubert NYC for 225 perfs
1990 – 20th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Wanda Panfil in 2:30:45
1990 – 21st NYC Marathon won by Douglas Wakiihuri in 2:12:39
1990 – Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mazda Japan 133 Golf Classic
1990 – Iraq says it is preparing for a “dangerous war”
1990 – US Secretary of State James Baker visits American troops in Saudi Arabia
1990 – 41st Formula One WDC: Ayrton Senna wins by seven points
1991 – Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain
First Lady and Politican Imelda Marcos

1991 – Imelda Marcos returns from exile to the Philippines and was arrested the next day for tax fraud and corruption. She was then released on $6,400 bail.
1992 – NY Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR
1992 – NY Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio
1993 – “Timon of Athens” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 37 performances
1993 – Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror for a false report on his diet
1993 – Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1993 – Jean Chretien is appointed the Prime Minister of Canada by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn
1994 – Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazahkstan
1994 – United Center in Chicago opens – Bulls beat Charlotte Hornets, 89-83
1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focusses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
20th Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien

1995 – “Indiscretions” closes at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 perfs
1995 – 1st-class Cricket debut of Paul Adams, W Province v N Transvaal
1995 – Key Arena opens, Seattle Supersonics beat LA Lakers 103-89
2001 – 53rd Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Sex and the City, James Gandolfini & Edie Falco win
2001 – MLB World Series: Arizona Diamondbacks defeat New York Yankees to win 4-3
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
2003 – The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.
2003 – Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
2004 – 12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d’Ivoire civil war.
44th US President Barack Obama

2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States
2009 – MLB World Series: New York Yankees defeat Philadelphia Phillies to win 4-2
2012 – Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
2012 – Kimi Raikkonen wins Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2012
2012 – Syrian rebels capture a major oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate
2014 – The US votes in mid-term elections: Republicans retain the house & regain the Senate
2014 – Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko orderes army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities to combat potential rebel offensive
2014 – The body of the last missing victim is found on board the wrecked Costa Concordia, during its dismantling in Genoa
2014 – Protectionist wins the 2014 Melbourne Cup
2014 – Tim Scott becomes the first African-American Senator in the south since the Reconstruction

BIRTHDAYS

1448 – King Alphonso II of Naples (d. 1495)
1575 – Guido Reni, Italian painter (d. 1642)
1587 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised
1590 – Gerard van Honthorst, Dutch painter
1640 – Carlo Mannelli, composer
1650 – William III of Orange, king of England (1689-1702)
1656 – Leonard Sailer, composer
1661 – Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (d. 1742)
1674 – Anton Englert, composer
1708 – Robert Praelisauer, composer
1740 – Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn “Rock of Ages” (d. 1778)
1756 – Anthony van Hoboken, Rotterdam merchant/ship owner
1765 – Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
1779 – John W Pieneman, historical painter (Battle at Waterloo)
1787 – Edmund Kean, England, actor (Edmund Kean’s Masonic Career)
1790 – Carlos A Lopez, president of Paraguay (1844-62)
1797 – Aleksander A Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, Russian author
1800 – Eduard Brendler, composer
1809 – Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1874)
1812 – Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet (Lettere a Maria)
1816 – William Polk Hardeman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1898)
1816 – Stephen Johnson Field, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1899)
1818 – Alexander Robert Lawton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1896)
1820 – Robert Vinkler Richardson, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), (d. 1870)
1823 – Karel Komzák I, Bohemian composer and musician, born in Netěchovice, Czech Republic (d. 1893)
1835 – Lunsford Lindsay Lomax, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1913)
1836 – Henry J. Lutcher, American businessman and sawmill partner (d. 1912)
1841 – Carl Tausig, composer
1842 – William Barker Cushing, Lt Cmdr (Union Navy), (d. 1874)
1845 – Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, The First Indian Revolutionary (d. 1883)
1846 – Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer
1859 – Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer
1862 – Eden Phillpotts, English novelist/poet/playwright (Red Madymaynes)
1867 – Tomasz Arciszewski, Polish Prime Minister 1944-47
1868 – Carolina Otero, a.k.a La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and courtesan (d. 1965)
1872 – Herman Finck, composer
1873 – G E Moore, English philosopher (Ethics)
1874 – Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
1876 – James Fraser, designed buffalo nickel
Humorist Will Rogers(1879)

1879 – Will Rogers, Oologah Indian Territory (Okla), humorist and actor (Judge Priest), (d. 1935)
1881 – Gena Branscombe, composer
1881 – Milton Rosmer, Southport England, director (Murder in the Red Barn)
1884 – Harry Ferguson, Northern Irish aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
1886 – Ian Wolfe, Canton Ill, actor (Diary of a Madman, Wizards & Warriors)
1887 – Knut Algot Hakanson, composer
1889 – Alton Augustus Adams, composer
1890 – Klabund, [Alfred Henschke], German writer (Bracke, Borgia)
1891 – Miroslav Krejci, Czech composer
1896 – Carlos P. Garcia, 8th President of the Philippines (d. 1971)
1897 – Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara)
1899 – Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet (Teotihuacan)
1899 – Mimi Boesnach, Dutch actress (Wedding of Kloris & Roosje)
1899 – Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (d. 1985)
1900 – Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars)
1900 – Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
1901 – Princess Bang-ja of Korea (d. 1989)
1901 – Spyridon Marinatos, Greek archaeologist (d. 1974)
1902 – Frank Jenks, actor (Zombies on Broadway), born in Des Moines, Iowa
1903 – Ion Vasilescu, composer
1904 – Don Alvarado, [Jose Page], Albuquerque NM, actor (Captain Thunder)
1904 – Walter Bauer, writer
1904 – Tadeusz Żyliński, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
1905 – Martin Raschke, German author/publisher/war correspondent
1906 – Arnold Atkinson Cooke, composer
1906 – Bob Considine, sports columnist (Bob Feller Story)
1906 – Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat
1906 – Siegfried Borris, composer
1908 – Anthony Warde, PA, actor (Black Widow)
1908 – Stanley Cortez, New York City, American cinematographer
1909 – Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
1909 – Bert Patenaude, American soccer player (d. 1974)
1909 – Evelyn Johnson, Corbin Kentucky, female pilot (most flying hours – 57,685), (d. 2012)
1911 – Jack Rose, screenwriter
1911 – Ssamu Shimizu, composer
1912 – H “Giff” Vivian, cricketer (father of Graham 1st Test for NZ at 18)
1912 – Pauline Trigere, fashion designer (Bell Bottoms)
1912 – Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer
1913 – Gig Young, St. Cloud Minnesota, American actor (They Shoot Horses Don’t They)
1915 – Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science
1915 – Courtenay E Benson, broadcaster
1915 – Lloyd James Austin, French Scholar
Broadcast Journalist Walter Cronkite (1916)

1916 – Walter Cronkite, St Joseph Mo, news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81)
1917 – Leonardo Cimino, Manhattan, New York, actor (V, Dune), (d. 2012)
1918 – Art Carney, Mount Vernon NY, actor (Ed Norton-Honeymooners)
1918 – Cameron Mitchell, Dallastown Pa, actor (Buck-High Chaparral)
1919 – Martin Balsam, actor (Murray-Archie Bunker’s Place, Catch 22), born in NYC, New York
1920 – Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician (Numbers Game)
1921 – Antonio Ruiz Soler, spanish dancer
1922 – Poul Rovsing Olsen, composer
1922 – Benno Besson, Swiss actor (d. 2006)
1923 – Alfred Heineken, beer brewer (Heineken)
1924 – Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
1927 – Vittorio Fellegara, composer
1928 – Hannah Weiner American experimental poet
1929 – Jimmy Piersall, baseball player (Red Sox, Senators, Indians)
1929 – Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor (d. 1987)
1930 – Dick Groat, shortstop (NL MVP 1960)
Actress Doris Roberts(1930)

1930 – Doris Roberts, St Louis Mo, actress (Angie, Maggie, Emmy 1983)
1930 – Kate Reid, actress (Heaven Help US), born in London, England
1931 – Darla Hood, Leedey Oklahoma, singer/actress (Little Rascals)
1932 – David Shipman, film historian
1932 – Noam Pitlik, Phila Pa, actor/director (Sanford & Son, Bob Newhart)
1932 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
1933 – Mildred McDaniel, US high jumper (Olympic-gold-1956)
1933 – Tito Francona, American baseball player
1934 – Judith Herzberg, Dutch poetess/author (Charlotte Life or Theater)
1935 – Elgar Howarth, composer
1936 – Didier Ratsiraka, president of Madagascar
1936 – C. K. [Charles Kenneth] Williams, American poet and translator (Pulitzer prize 2000), (d. 2015)
1937 – Loretta Swit, Passaic NJ, actress (Hotlips Houlihan-M*A*S*H)
1938 – Alan Jones, cricketer (England v ROW 1970 his only intl honour)
1938 – Harry Elston, rocker
1940 – Delbert McClinton, Lubbock Tx, singer (Gonna Find a Good Woman)
1941 – Martin Brozius, Dutch actor (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden)
1943 – Marlene Jobert, novelist (Adventures of John Difool)
1943 – Clark Graebner, American tennis player
1944 – Willem Breuker, Dutch saxophonist/conductor (WB Collective)
1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer
1946 – Laura Bush, U.S. First Lady 2001-09
1946 – Frederick Elmes, American cinematographer
1947 – Aleksandr Tkachev, USSR, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1980)
1947 – Alexei Ulanov, USSR, pairs figure skater (Olympic-gold-1972, 76)
1947 – Edward Matt Dougherty, Chester PA, PGA golfer (1995 Deposit Guaranty)
1947 – Rodney Marsh, cricketer (AKA “Iron Gloves” AKA “Bacchus” Kept wickets)
1949 – Berlinda Tolbert, Charlotte NC, actor (Jenny-Jeffersons)
1949 – Kathy McMullen, LPGA golfer
1950 – Markie Post, [Marjorie], Palo Alto Cal, actress (Christine-Night Court)
1950 – Charles Frazier, American author
1951 – Traian Băsescu, President of Romania
1953 – Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
1953 – Jacques Villeneuve (elder), Canadian racing driver
1953 – Dr. Marvel Williamson, American educator
1954 – Chris Difford, guitarist/vocalist (Squeeze-Tempted)
1955 – Peter Boynton, Danaiscotta Maine, actor (Tonio-As the World Turns)
1955 – Matti Vanhanen, Prime Minister of Finland
1956 – James Honeyman-Scott, rock guitarist/vocalist (Pretenders)
1956 – Jeff Watson, rock guitarist (Night Ranger)
1956 – Jordan Rudess, American musician (Dream Theater)
1957 – Najee, rocker
1958 – Anne Sweeney, American television executive
1960 – Kim Forester, Lookout Mt Ga, country singer (Forester Sister-Men)
1960 – Kathy Griffin, American comedienne (Suddenly Susan, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List), born in Chicago, Illinois
1960 – Marc Awodey, American artist and writer
1960 – Frl. Menke, German pop singer of the Neue Deutsche Welle
1961 – Edward Knight, Ann Arbor, Michigan, composer
1961 – Carlos Espinosa, Mexico, Canadian Tour golfer (1995 Philippine Open)
1961 – Ralph Macchio, Huntington NY, actor (Karate Kid, 8 is Enough)
1961 – Daron Hagen, American composer
1961 – Edward Knight, American composer
1961 – Les Sampou, American musician
1961 – Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer
1962 – Jeff Probst, American television host
1963 – David Williams, WI cricket wicket-keeper (3 Tests 1992)
1963 – Michael Heidt, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
1963 – Marc Déry, Canadian singer and guitarist (Zébulon)
1963 – Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
1963 – Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey coach
1963 – Wang Shu, Chinese Architect, born in Ürümqi, Xinjiang
1964 – Fiona Pike, Adelaide Australia, golfer (S Aust State champ 1993/94)
1964 – Kurt Krakowian, Berwyn, Illinios, child actor
1965 – Erik Norgard, NFL center/guard (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1965 – Gregory Scott [Koenig], Dearborn Mich, guitarist (Signs of Life)
1965 – Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
1965 – Tomoaki Ishizuka “Pata”, Japanese musician
1965 – Wayne Static [Wells], American musician (Static-X), born in Muskegon, Michigan (d. 2015)
1966 – Bubba McDowell, NFL safety (Carolina Panthers)
1966 – Kool Rock, [Damon Wimbley], rapper (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1966 – Petra Verkaik, playmate (Dec, 1989), born in Los Angeles, California
1966 – H. John Heinz IV, American medieval armor craftsman; son of Teresa Heinz
1967 – Alex Rousseau, Paris France, US water polo 2m Offense (Oly-4th-92, 96)
1967 – Asif Mujtaba, cricketer (Pakistani lefty batsman)
1967 – Eric Karros, Hackansack NJ, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1968 – Carlos Baerga, Puerto Rico, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
1968 – Domingo Cedeno, La Ramona Dom Rep, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
1968 – Osvaldo Fernandez, Holguin Cuba, pitcher (SF Giants)
1969 – Jan Apell, Sweden, tennis star
1969 – Katrin Borchert, Germany, Australian canoeist (Olympics-96)
Actor Matthew McConaughey (1969)

1969 – Matthew McConaughey, Uvalde, Texas, American actor (Contact, A Time to Kill)
1969 – Tommy Henry, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 – Puff Daddy [Sean Combs], American rapper and record producer (Come to Me, I’ll be Missing You), born in New York City
1970 – Corey Schwab, North Battleford Canada, NHL goalie (NJ Devils)
1970 – Tim DeBoom, American triathlete
1971 – Russell Copeland, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1972 – Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
1972 – Tabassum Hashmi, Indian actress
1974 – Cedric Bixler-Zavala, American musician (At the Drive-In, The Mars Volta)
1975 – Eric Fichaud, Anjou Canada, NHL goalie (NY Islanders)
1975 – Heather Tom, actress (Victoria Howard-Young & Restless), born in Hinsdale, Illinois
Rapper Puff Daddy (1969)

1975 – Lorenzen Wright, NBA forward (LA Clippers)
1975 – Michael Osmond, Utah, singer (Osmond Boys)
1975 – Orlando Pace, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1975 – Eduard Kokcharov, Russian handball player
1975 – Curtis Stone, Australian chef and television personality
1976 – Bruno Junqueira, Brazilian racing driver
1976 – Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
1977 – Roseanne Farrugia, Miss Universe-Malta (1996)
1977 – Larry Bigbie, American baseball player
1977 – So Ji-sub, South Korean swimmer, model and actor
1977 – Tonicha Jeronimo, British actress
1978 – Carmen Cali, American baseball player
1978 – John Grabow, American baseball player
1979 – Daisy Eagan, American actresss (Secret Graden), born in Brooklyn, New York
1979 – Jesse Camp, former MTV veejay
1979 – Trishelle Cannatella, American reality tv castmember and model
1980 – Sabrina Colie, Jamaican actress
1980 – Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby union footballer, born in Apia, Samoa
1980 – Richard Owens, American football player
1980 – Marcy Rylan, American actress
1981 – Vince Wilfork, American football player
1982 – Devin Hester, American football player
1985 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
1986 – Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer and actress
1986 – Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver
1993 – Jonathan Ric Ocasek, son of rocker Ric & model Paulina Porizkova

WEDDINGS

1842 – U.S. first lady Mary Todd Lincoln (23) weds US president Abraham Lincoln (33) in Springfield, Illinois
1911 – Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
1939 – Actress and comedian Phyllis Diller (22) weds inspector Sherwood Diller in Covington, Kentucky
1978 – “The Nanny” actress Fran Drescher (20) weds writer and director Peter Marc Jacobson (20)
2006 – Radio and television journalist Alison Stewart (40) weds MSNBC vice-president of prime-time programming Bill Wolff (40) at the stylish New York restaurant Cipriani 23rd Street
2006 – Croatian princess Paola Doimi de Frankopan (37) weds son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent Lord Nicholas Windsor (37) at St. Stephen of Abyssina in Vatican City
Comedienne and Actress Phyllis Diller (1939)

2006 – 1996 summer Olympics gold medalist gymnast Dominique Moceanu (25) weds podiatrist Dr. Michael Canales (29) in Houston, Texas

DIVORCES

1940 – American author and journalist “The Old Man and the Sea” Ernest Hemingway divorces 2nd wife Pauline Pfeiffer
1993 – Nia Peeples files for divorce from Howard Hewett
2009 – R&B singer Usher (30) divorces hair stylist and wardrobe stylist Tameka Foster (38) due to irretrievably broken marriage after 2 years

DEATHS

1203 – Dirk VII, Count of Holland (1190-1203), dies
1411 – Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
1652 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
1658 – Antoine Le Maistre, French Jansenist (b. 1608)
1669 – Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
1674 – Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72
1698 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
1702 – John Benbow, English vice-admiral (Santa Marta), dies
1702 – Thomas Eisenhut, composer, dies at 58
1704 – Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (b. 1654)
1768 – Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer, dies at 57
1781 – Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1801 – William Shippen, American physician and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1712)
1830 – Frederic LG de Merode, Belgian revolutionary, dies in battle at 37
1837 – Jean-Louis M Alibert, French dermatologist, dies at 69
1847 – Jacob L Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German pianist/composer, dies at 38
1853 – Alexander Stadtfeld, composer, dies at 27
1856 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter (b. 1797)
1869 – George Peabody, American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Trust and the Peabody Institute, dies at 74
1890 – Jacob PP baron van Zuylen, Dutch foreign minister (1852-3), dies at 74
1890 – Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer, dies at 46
1893 – Cornelis E van Koetsveld, Dutch vicar/literature, dies at 86
1893 – Pierre Tirard, French politician (b. 1827)
1898 – Jerome Hopkins, composer, dies at 62
1904 – Jack Brown, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1894-99), dies
1906 – John H. Ketcham, American politician (b. 1832)
1908 – Tomés Estrada Palma, 1st president Cuba (1902-06), dies
1914 – Georg Trakl, writer, dies at 27
1918 – Wilfred Owens, anti-war poet (Anthem for doomed youth), dies at 25
1921 – Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered
1924 – Gabriel Urbain Faure, French composer (Requiem), dies at 79
1924 – Richard Conner, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1843)
1931 – Charles Buddy Bolden, US jazz musician, dies
1932 – Belle Bennett, actress (Iron Mask), dies at 41
1935 – Miklos Radnai, composer, dies at 43
1937 – Rogelio del Villar, composer, dies at 61
1939 – Charles Arnold Tournemire, composer, dies at 69
1940 – Manuel Azaña y Diez, Spanish PM (1932..4)/pres (1936-39), dies at 60
1942 – Marcel Barger, [Streliskie], cabaret performer, killed in Auschwitz
1950 – Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1953 – Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89
1954 – Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31
MLB Pitcher Cy Young(1955)

1955 – Cy Young, American baseball pitcher and MLB all-time wins leader, dies at 88
1956 – Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer, dies at 46
1957 – Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer, dies at 78
1957 – Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith (b. 1897)
1965 – Krsto Odak, composer, dies at 77
1967 – June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash at 36
1968 – Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78
1968 – Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
1969 – Carlos Marighela, Brazilian guerilla, dies in battle
1969 – Ferenc Szabo, composer, dies at 66
1973 – Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75
1974 – Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62
1975 – Sheila Ryan, actress(Song of Texas, Great Guns), dies at 54
1980 – Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (b. 1905)
1982 – Dominique Dunne, actress (Poltergeist), murdered by boyfriend at 23
1982 – Jacques Tati[scheff], French mime/director, dies at 74
1984 – Merie Earle, actress (Maude-Waltons), dies of uremic poisoning at 95
1986 – Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
1987 – Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87
1992 – Regina Carrol, actress (Jessi’s Girl), dies of cancer at 49
1993 – Basuki Abdullah, Indonesian painter, murdered at 78
1993 – Cliff Young, pitcher (Cleveland Indians), dies in car accident at 29
1993 – Cornelis T “Cor” van de Molen, Dutch journalist (Beehive), dies at 62
1993 – Ely A Landau, producer (Long Day’s Journey), dies of stroke at 73
1993 – Jose L Guarner, Spanish movie reviewer, dies at 56
1994 – Alexander Hardie Williamson, artist, dies at 87
1994 – Fred “Sonic” Smith, guitarist, dies at 46
1994 – Jan Wegter, actor (Pastorale 1943), dies at 64
1994 – Sam Francis, US painter (Basel Mural), dies at about 71
1994 – Samuel Lewis Francis, painter, dies at 71
1995 – Gilles Deleuze, philosopher, dies at 70
1995 – Jerome Berger, lawyer/Film producer, dies at 64
1995 – Marti Lynne Stringer Caine, singer/comedienne, dies at 50
1995 – Paul Eddington, actor (Jim Hacker), dies at 68
5th Prime Minister of Israel Yitzhak Rabin (1995)

1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, PM of Israel, assassinated at 73
1995 – Itzhak Rabin, PM of Israel (1968-73), assassinated
1996 – Robert Rapoport, social anthropologist, dies at 72
1997 – George Chambers, PM of Trinidad & Tobago (1981-86), dies
1997 – H Richard Hornberger, surgeon (inspired M*A*S*H), dies at 73
1997 – Wally Bruner, journalist (ABC, What’s My Line), dies at 66
1999 – Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1958)
2003 – Richard Wollheim, British philosopher (b. 1923)
2003 – Ken Gampu, South African actor (b. 1929)
2003 – Charles Causley, Cornish writer and poet (b. 1917)
2005 – Nadia Anjuman, Afghan poet and journalist (b. 1980)
2005 – Sheree North, American actress and singer (b. 1932)
2006 – Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, American memoirist (Cheaper by the Dozen) (b. 1908)
2006 – Frank Arthur Calder, Canadian politician (b. 1915)
2007 – Peter Viertel, German-American author and screenwriter (b. 1920)
Novelist Michael Crichton(2008)

2008 – Michael Crichton, American author, dies at 66
2008 – Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican Secretary of the Interior (b. 1971)
2009 – Hubertus Brandenburg, Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (b. 1923)
2010 – Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager, dies at 76
2010 – Eugénie Blanchard, French supercentenarian (b. 1896)
2010 – Michelle Nicastro, American actress and singer (b. 1960)
2011 – Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer (b. 1919)
2012 – Ted Curson, American jazz trumpeter, dies from a heart attack at 77
2013 – Hakon Barfod, Norwegian sailor and Olympic champion, dies at 87
2014 – Acker Bilk, Jazz clarinettist of the the trad jazz revival of the 1950s and 60s, 85

ALSO ON THIS DAY

• Lead Story

• 1956 Soviets put brutal end to Hungarian revolution

• American Revolution

• 1801 Patriot, politician and physician William Shippen dies

• Automotive

• 1979 Iranian students storm U.S. embassy in Tehran, leading to oil embargo

• Civil War

• 1864 Battle of Johnsonville, Tennessee

• Cold War

• 1956 Soviets crush Hungarian revolt

• Crime

• 1928 One of New York’s most notorious gamblers is shot to death

• Disaster

• 1927 Heavy rain leads to flooding in New England

• General Interest

• 1922 Entrance to King Tut’s tomb discovered
• 1979 Iranians storm U.S. embassy
• 1995 Yitzhak Rabin assassinated
• 2008 Barack Obama elected as America’s first black president

• Hollywood

• 1990 Dances with Wolves debuts

• Literary

• 1948 T.S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize in literature

• Music

• 1978 Anne Murray earns a #1 pop hit with “You Needed Me”

• Old West

• 1879 Will Rogers is born in Oklahoma

• Presidential

• 1842 Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Todd

• Sports

• 2001 End of an era for the Yankees

• Vietnam War

• 1969 South Vietnamese battle communists along the Cambodian border
• 1970 U.S. hands over air base to the Vietnamese Air Force

• World War I

• 1918 Poet Wilfred Owen killed in action

• World War II

• 1944 Gen. Sir John Dill dies