B
12--1898
Jean MacArthur, Nashville Tn, wife of General Douglas MacArthur
12--1909
Arch Oboler, radio writer (Lights Out)
12--1946
Sherry Alberoni, actress (Midge-Ed Wynn Show, Debbie-Tom Ewell Show)
12--1948
Christopher William Stearns, NYC, actor (Mary Kay & Johnny)
12--1957
Sian Adey-Jones, Ciwyd Wales, Miss Wales (1975)
12011566
Philip, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, gov of Ft Gorinchem/Nmegen
12011724
Charles Theoby, ruler (Palts & Bayern)
12011726
Eggert Olafsson, Icelandic writer
12011743
Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium)
12011800
Mih ly Vrsmarty, Hungary, poet/dramatist ("To a Day-Dreamer")
12011826
William Mahone, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
12011832
Archibald Gracie Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
12011835
Micah Jenkins, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
12011873
Charles JM Ruys de Beerenbrouck, premier of Neth (1918-25, 29-33
12011884
Karl Schmidt[-Rottluff], German painter/sculptor (Brcke)
12011886
Rex Stout, mystery writer (Nero Wolf)
Willem E Crown, Antillian writer
12011898
Cyril Ritchard, actor (Capt Hook-Peter Pan)
12011899
Robert Welch, found John Birch Society
120119--
Ryan Roxie, rocker (Electric Angels-I Believe, Whiplash)
12011902
Morris "Red" Badgro, Wash, NFL hall of famer (Yanks, Giants, Dodgers)
12011904
W A "Tony" Boyle, United Mine Workers president
12011905
Charles Finney, US, author (Circus of Dr Lao)
12011911
Walter Alston, baseball manager (Dodgers)
Wim van Nuland, [Willem C Mhlmann], priest/writer (Doorstep)
12011912
Minoru Yamasaki, architect (World Trade Center, NY)
12011913
Mary Martin, Weatherford Tx, actress (Peter Pan) Larry Hagman's mom
12011914
Dame Alicia Markova, ballerina (Diaghilev Ballet Russe 1925-32)
Johnny Johnston, St Louis Mo, singer (Make that Spare)
12011917
Marty Marion, baseball player (NL MVP 1944)
12011919
Anne Cox Chambers, Dayton Ohio, US ambassador to Belgium (1977-81)
12011921
Ralph Manza, SF Calif, actor (Banacek, Mama Malone, Newhart)
12011922
Geraldine McCulloug, Maywood Ill, painter/sculptor (Phoenix)
Paul Picerni, NYC, actor (Agent Lee Hobson-Untouchables)
12011923
Stansfield Turner, CIA director
12011925
David Doyle, Omaha Neb, actor (John Bosley-Charlie's Angels)
Jordan Klein, Miami Fla, cameraman/director (Thunderball)
12011926
Allyn Ann McLerie, Quebec, actress (Tony Randall Show, Thorn Birds)
Keith Michell, Adelaide Australia, actor (6 Wives of Henry VIII)
Robert Symonds, Bristow Okla, actor (Roebert E Lee-Blue & Gray)
12011929
David Doyle, actor (Charley's Angels, Pursuit of Happiness)
Dick Shawn, Buffalo NY, actor (Producers, Maid to Order, Angel)
Emily McLaughlin, actress (Jessie-General Hospital)
12011934
Billy Paul, Phila, singer (Me & Mrs Jones)
Hilly Axwk, Suriname social worker
12011935
Roger Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
Woody Allen, [Allen Stuart Konigsberg] Bkln (Zelig, Annie Hall)
12011936
Lou Rawls, Chicago Ill, singer (Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man)
12011937
Gordon Crosse, Bury Lancashire England, composer (Grace of Todd)
12011938
Sandy Nelson, Santa Monica, 50s rocker (Teen Beat, All Night Long)
12011939
Dianne Lennon, LA Calif, singer (Lennon Sisters)
Lee Trevino, Dallas Tx, PGA golfer (US Open 1968,71)
12011940
Richard Pryor, Ill, comedian/actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy)
Ron Finn, Toronto, NHL linesman
12011942
John Crowley, US, sci-fi writer (The Deep)
Peter Kalikow, Queens NYC, real estate developer/publisher (NY Post)
12011943
Orton Enderlein, German FR, luge (Olympic-gold-1964)
12011945
Bette Midler, Patterson NJ, singer/actress (Do You Want to Dance?)
John Densmore, LA, drummer (Doors-C'mon Light My Fire)
12011946
Gilbert O'Sullivan, Ireland, singer (Alone Again Naturally)
Ho-Jun Li, Korea PR, rifle (Olympic-gold-1972)
12011950
Richard Keith, Lafayette La, actor (Little Ricky-I Love Lucy)
12011951
Treat Williams, actor (Flashpoint, Hair)
12011954
Bob Goen, TV host (Wheel of Fortune)
12011955
Uwe Benter, German FR, coxsman (Olympic-gold-1972)
12011958
Charlene Tilton, San Diego Calif, actress (Lucy Ewing-Dallas)
12011960
Carol Alt, [Altman], Queens NY (Mrs Ron Greshner), model (Sports Ill)
12011962
Stan Albers, Pleasant Beach NJ, actor (Curtis-Loving)
12011976
Konerak Sinthasomphone, Milwaukee Wisc, Jeffrey Dahmer's victim
12011978
Arthur Spingarn, founder of NAACP
12011988
Zoe Kravitz, daughter of Lisa Bonet & Lenny Kravitz
12021802
Melancthon Smith Wade, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1868
12021821
Rufus Barringer, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
12021825
JKLSBFXvPSMGRG Pedro II van Alcantara, Emperor of Brazil (1831-89)
12021837
Charles Garrison Harker, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
12021846
Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Min of Foreign affairs/premier
12021859
Georges Seurat, France, painter/pointillist (Grande Jatte)
12021866
Henry Thacker Burleigh, Erie Pa, black composer (Springarn Medal)
12021868
Francis Jammes, French screenwriter/writer (Jammisme)
12021884
Ruth Draper, US, lecture artist [or 1989]
12021885
George Minot, US, physician, worked on anemia (Nobel 1934)
N¡kos Kazantazak¡s, Greece, writer (Zorba, Last Temptation of Christ)
12021893
William Gaxton, SF Calif, actor (Destry, Convoy)
12021895
Warren William, [Krech], US, actor (Csar in Cleopatra)
12021896
Georgi K Zjoekov, marshal of Moskow/Stalingrad
12021897
Rewi Alley, NZ, writer (Americans in China)
120219--
Bill Erwin, Honey Grove Texas, acor (Glenn-Struck by Lightning)
Robert F Simon, Mansfield Oh, actor (Custer, M*A*S*H, Nancy)
12021902
Horace A Hildreth, (Gov-Maine, 1945-49)
12021904
Donald Woods, Brandon Manitoba, actor (Tammy)
12021906
John Bentley, England, actor (Hammer the Tuff)
Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records
12021908
Robert F Simon, US, actor (Man who shot Liberty Valance)
12021910
Robert Paige, Indianapolis Ind, actor (Colgate Comedy Hour)
12021914
Eddie Sauter, Bkln, musician (Sauter-Finegan Band, Sat Night Revue)
Ray Walston, actor (South Pacific, My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees)
12021915
Adolph Green, songwriter (married to Phyllis Newman)
Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher
12021917
Ezra Stone, US, actor/producer (Henry Aldrich)
12021918
Milton Delugg, LA Calif, orch leader (Tonight Show)
12021922
Leo V Gordon, NYC, actor (Circus Boy, Enos, Winds of War)
12021923
Maria Callas, NYC, soprano (Mademoiselle Award, 1953)
Meshulam Riklis, husband of Pia Zadora
12021924
Alexander Haig Jr, (R) US Sec of State (1981-82)/General
12021925
Julie Harris, Grosse Pt Mich, actress (Bell Jar, East of Eden)
12021929
Harvey Phillips, Aurora Missouri, tubist (NYC Ballet Orch)
Jap Boersma, AR-min/director Amsterdam municipality
Lowell North, Springfield Mass, yachtsman (Olympic-Gold-1968)
12021931
Edwin Meese III, prude, US attorney General (1985-88)
12021937
Brian Lumley, England, sci-fi author (Compleat Crow, Psychomech)
12021940
Willie Brown, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders)
12021941
Paul C W Chu, China, physicists, superconductivity researcher
12021944
Cathy Lee Crosby, LA, actress (Coach, That's Incredible)
12021950
Merrill Ashley, St Paul Minn, ballerina (NYC Ballet)
12021953
Meg Griffin, DJ (WNEW-FM, WPLJ-FM, WKRK-FM)/VJ (V-1)
Myung-Whan Chung, Seoul Korea, pianist (Chung Sisters)
12021954
Huub Stapel, actor
12021956
Steven Bauer, Havana Cuba, actor (Scarface, Thief of Hearts)
12021958
Vladimir Parfenovich, USSR, 500m kayak (Olympic-gold-1980)
12021960
Rick Savage, bass player (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
12021962
Tracy Austin, Rolling Hills Calif, tennis pro (US Open 1979, 81)
12021965
Karrie Mitchell, Arvada Colorado, Miss Colorado-America (1991-top 10)
12021966
Anita Jokiel, Poland, gymnist (Olympic-1980)
12021967
Sharry Konopski, Longview Wash, playmate (August, 1987)
12021968
Rena Sofer, actress (Rocky-Loving)
Rene Tenison, Caldwell Id, playmate of the year (Nov, 1989)
12021973
Monica Seles, Yugoslavia, tennis star (US Open 1992)
12031368
Charles VI, [the Well-Beloved], king of France (1380-1422)
12031483
Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reformation theologist
12031684
Ludvig, Baron Holberg, a founder of Danish & Norwegian literature
12031729
Padre Antonio Soler, Olot Spain, composer  (Fandango)
12031755
Gilbert Stuart, US, portrait painter (painted Washington)
12031795
Rowland Hill, introduced 1st adhesive postage stamp (1840)
12031797
Francis P Kenrick, Irish/US archbishop of Baltimore
12031806
Henry Alexander Wise, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1876
12031809
Thomas Alfred Davies, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
12031822
Charles Adam Heckman, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
12031826
George Brinton McClellan, Major General (Union Army), died in 1885
12031829
Green Berry Raum, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
12031838
Cleveland Abbe, US, meteorologist (Father of Weather Bureau)
Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement
12031842
Ellen Henrietta Richards, US, chemist (Amer Home Eco Assn-1st Pres)
12031857
Joseph Conrad, Poland, novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness)
12031862
Jules Renkin, Belgian jurist/minister/premier (1931-32)
12031864
Herman Heermans Jr, writer (Kamertjeszonde, Diamond City)
12031875
Bernhard Lichtenberg, German clergyman/antifascist
12031883
Anton (Friedrich Wilhelm) von Webern, Vienna Aust, 12-tone composer
12031886
Karl MG Siegbahn, Swedish physicist (rntgen spectroscope, Nobel 1924)
12031895
Anna Freud, Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund F
12031897
Kate O'Brien, Irish writer (Without My Cloak)
120319--
Brian Lando, actor (Benjamin Carroll-Guns of Paradise)
Mary Alice, actress (Lettie-Different World)
Mickey Thomas, vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Starship)
Moe Keale, Honolulu Hawaii, actor (Truck-Hawaii 5-0)
12031900
Lester Matthews, Nottingham England, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu)
Richard Kuhn, Austria, biochemist, worked with vitamins (Nobel 1938)
12031904
Juan E Yrausquin, founder (Party of Patriot Arubans)/minister
12031907
Connee Boswell, New Orleans La, singer (Pete Kelly's Blue)
12031908
Halsey Stevens, Scott NY, composer (Triskelion)
12031911
Dana Suesse, songwriter (You Ought to be in Pictures)
Nino Rota, Milan Italy, composer (Torquemada)
12031914
Irving Fine, Boston Mass, composer (Toccata)
12031921
Hans G Kresse, artist (Eric the Viking)
12031923
Tom Fears, NFL end (LA Rams)
12031924
John Backus, inventor (FORTRAN computer language)
12031926
Hans Otte, German composer/pianist
12031927
Ferlin Husky, country singer (Born to Lose, Gone)
12031930
Andy Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show)
Jean-Luc Godard, French director (Alphaville, Hail Mary)
Phyllis Curtin, West Virginia, soprano (NYC Opera)
12031931
Ellen Blazer, Dutch TV director (Sonja)
Jaye P Morgan, Mancos Colo, singer/actress (Gong Show, Night Patrol)
12031932
Corry Brokken, singer
12031934
Nicolas Coster, London, (Lionel-Santa Barbara, Electric Horseman)
Viktor V Gorbatko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 8, 24, 37)
12031938
Jos Serebrier, Montevideo Uruguay, conductor/composer (Star Wagon)
12031945
Laura Dean, Staten Island NYC, composer/choreographer (Drumming)
12031948
Ozzy Osbourne, English heavy metal musician; ate a bat (Suicide)
12031949
Heather Menzies, Toronto Canada, actress (Jessica-Logan's Run)
12031950
John Akii-bua, Uganda, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1972)
12031951
Danger Alberto Juantorena, Cuba, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1976)
James Turner Brewer, Maywood Ill, basketball player (Oly-silver-1972)
Mike Stock, rocker (Stock, Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
Rick Mears, Indy-car racer (over 25 wins)
12031952
Mel Smith, author (Morons From Outer Space)
12031953
Franz Klammer, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1976)
12031955
Melody Anderson, Edmonton Alb, actress (Flash Gordon, Brooke-Manimal)
12031956
Heart Boucher, Canada actor
12031959
Kathy Jordan, Penn, tennis player (US Opens Doubles 1981)
12031960
Mike Ramsey, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1980)
12031965
Katarina Witt, Staaken GDR, figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88)
12031968
Kevin Telles, actor
12031980
Anna Chlumsky, Chicago Ill, actress (My Girl)
12031981
Brian Bonsall, actor (Family Ties, Star Trek Next Generation)
12041443
Pope Julius II, (1503-13), patron of Michelangelo, Bramante, Raphael
12041584
John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony
12041795
Thomas Carlyle, Scotland, essayist/historian (French Revolution)
12041803
Augustus Zerega diZerega, Martinique, ship owner (Red Z Lane)
12041812
Elias Smith Dennis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
12041818
William Wing "Old Blizzards" Loring, Mjr Gen (Confederate Army)
12041822
Frances Crabbe, England, feminist founded Anti-Vivisection Society
12041835
Samuel Butler, England, author (Erewhom, Way of All Flesh)
12041861
Lillian Russell, [Helen Leonard], US, singer/actress (Great Mogul)
12041865
Edith Louisa Cavell, England, nurse (WW I)
12041866
Vassily V Kandinsky, Russ/Ger/Fr abstract painter (Dreamy Inspiration)
12041868
Richard N Roland Holst, artist/painter
12041875
Rainer Maria Rilke, Germany, poet (Duino Elegies)
12041876
Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria, poet (Iron send)
12041881
Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (July 20th plot)
12041892
Francisco Franco, [y Bahamonde], Spanish General/dictator (1936-75)
12041895
Nils FA Nilsson Piraten, Swedish writer (Bombi Bitt Och Jag)
12041897
Mari Andriessen, sculptor (Dock Worker)
120419--
Dena Dietrich, Pitts Pa, actress (Dena-Karen, Ethel-The Ropers)
Donnelly Rhodes, Winnipeg Manitoba, actor (Dutch-Soap, Double Trouble)
12041903
Cornell Woolrich, US, writer (El Angel Nego)
12041905
Emilio Mdici, president Brazil (1969-74)
12041907
Jo Farmer, author (Catharina & the Magnolia's)
12041908
A D Hershey, US, biologist, worked with bacteriophages (Nobel 1969)
12041910
Alex North, Chester Penn, composer (Spartacus, Viva Zapata)
Ramaswamy Venkataraman, president of India (1987-  )
12041912
John W Pritchard, [Ian Wallace], US, sci-fi author (Megalomania)
12041915
Allan Jackson, Hot Springs Ark, newscaster (Youth Takes a Stand)
12041922
Deanna Durbin, Canada, actress/singer (100 Men & a Girl)
Grard Philipe, French actor (Caligula, Le Diable au Corps)
12041923
Charles Keating, district attorney (LA Calif)
Maria M Callas, [Kalogeropoulos], Greek/US singer
12041924
John Portman, SC, architect (Ivan Allen Award-1964)
12041925
Maurice Binder, NYC, photographer/film titler (James Bond)
12041930
Harvey Kuenn, baseball player (AL Rookie of the Year-1953)
Ronnie Corbett, England, comedian (2 Ronnies)
12041932
Roh Tae Woo, Taegu South Korea, President South Korea (1988-  )
12041933
Horst Buchholz, actor (Magnificent 7, Raid on Entebbe, Sahara)
12041934
Victor French, Santa Barbara Calif, actor (Highway to Heaven)
Wink Martindale, Jackson Tn, TV host (Tic-Tac-Dough, Can You Top This)
12041937
Max Baer Jr, Oakland Calif, actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies)
12041938
Andre Marrou, Libertarian Presidential candidate (1992)
12041940
Freddy Cannon, rocker (Palisades Park)
12041942
Chris Hillman, rocker (Byrds-Turn Turn Turn, Mr Tambourine Man)
12041943
Patti Chandler, Calif, actress (Bikini Beach)
12041944
Dennis Wilson, Calif, drummer/singer (Beach Boys-My Room)
12041948
Southside Johnny Lyon, NJ, rocker (Asbury Jukes-Don't Want Go Home)
12041949
Jeff Bridges, actor (Stay Hungry, Jagged Edge, Against All Odds)
12041950
Charles van de Graf, Dutch TV host
Jan Rietman, Dutch radio/TV host
Pamela Stephenson, Auckland NZ, actress (Superman 3, Sat Night Live)
12041951
Patricia Wettig, actress (Nancy Weston-30 Something)
12041952
Ronald M Sega, Cleve Ohio, Phd/Astronaut
12041956
Bernard King, basketball player (NY Knicks, NJ Nets)
Blagoi Blagoyev, Bulgaria, 82.5 kg weightlifer (Olympics-silver-1976)
12041957
Raul Boesel, Brazil, Indy-car racer (CART)
12041966
Anne [Anton JR] Krger, computer programmer
12051782
Martin Van Buren, Kinderhook, NY, (D) 8th pres (1837-41)
12051786
Henry Drummond, English banker/apostole
12051824
Titian James Coffey, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1867
12051826
John Benjamin Sanborn, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1904
12051830
Christina Rossetti, London, poet (Winter Rain, Passing Away)
12051839
George Armstrong Custer, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
12051861
Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24)
12051863
Paul Painlev, French PM (1917, 1925), mathematician
12051866
Vassily V Kandinsky, Russ/German/French painter (Der blaue Reiter)
12051872
Harry N Pillsbury, US chess player
12051880
Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Neth violinist/conductor
12051884
Evert Cornelis, conductor/pianist
12051885
Dirk H W Filarski, painter/lithographer (Bergense School)
12051890
Fritz Lang, Germany, director (M, Metropolis)
12051896
Willem F M Lampe, perfect minister Dutch Antilles
120519--
Jack Russell, rocker (Great White-Twice Shy)
Johnny Douglas, rocker (Kik Tracee-Hot Wire)
Pamela Blair, actress (Loving)
12051901
Grace Moore, US, soprano (One Night to Live)
Walter Elias Disney, Chicago, animator (Mickey Mouse)
Werner Heisenberg, German physicist/discovered uncertainty (Nobel 32)
12051902
J Strom Thurmond, (Sen-D/R-SC)
12051903
Cecil Frank Powell, England, physicist, discovered pion (Nobel 1950)
12051905
Otto Preminger, Austria, director/producer (Laura, Exodus)
12051907
Lin Piau, Chinese politician
12051910
Abraham L Polonsky, US writer/director (Tell them Willie Boy is Here)
12051915
Margaret Hayes, Balt Md, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents)
12051921
Peter Hansen, Oakland Calif, actor (Mr Parkson-Mr Novak, Gen Hospital)
12051926
George Savalas, Bronx NY, actor (Kojak)
12051927
Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX of Thailand (1950-  )
12051932
"Little" Richard, [Penniman], rocker (Tutty Fruity, Lucille)
12051933
Bernard van Beurden, composer/music educator
12051934
Joan Didion, US writer (Salvador)
12051935
Calvin Trillin, author (New Yorker)
12051938
John J Cale, Oklahoma City, rock guitarist (After Midnight)
12051942
Randy Kirby, Chicago Ill, actor (Randy-Girl From UNCLE)
12051945
J W "Corkey" Fornof, New Orleans, stunt coordinator (Octopussy)
12051946
Jos Carreras, opera star/actor (I Lombardi)
12051947
Jim Messina, rocker (Loggins & Messina-Your Mamma Don't Dance)
Jim Plunkett, San Jose, CA, NFL quarterback (New England, Oakland)
Jos Carreras, US, actor (I Lombardi)
Jugderdemidyin Gurragcha, 1st Mongolian space traveler (Soyuz 39)
12051949
Bruce E Melnick, NYC, Cmdr USCG/astronaut (STS 41, STS 49)
12051951
Morgan Brittany, Hollywood Calif, actress (Katherine-Dallas)
12051953
Jonathan Lewis, trombonist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
12051957
Charlene Morett, Darby Pa, field hockey left wing (Oly-bronze-1984)
Phil Collen, rocker (Def Leppard-Hysteria, Rock of Ages)
12051959
Nikki Gianulias, Vallejo Calif, bowler (LPBT Rookie of Year 1979)
12051962
Connie Needham Newton, Anaheim Calif, actress (Elizabeth-8 is Enough)
12051963
Carrie Hamilton, actress, Carol Burnett's daughter (Fame)
12051967
Ren Shuman, [Shumans], rockabilly-bandleader/ singer)
12061285
Ferdinand V, king of Castili & Le¢n
12061421
Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 1470-71)
12061732
Warren Hastings, England, 1st governor-General of India (1773-84)
12061808
Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author (Future)
12061809
Stephen Thomas, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
12061816
Henry Eustace McCulloch, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
12061822
John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US
12061831
Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
12061833
John Singleton Mosby, lawyer/Col (Confederate Army), died in 1916
12061843
Albert de Vriendt, Flemish historical painter/etcher
12061857
Joseph Conrad, Polish/British writer (Lord Jim, Secret Affiliate)
12061870
William S Hart, actor, silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok, Tumbleweeds)
12061886
Joyce Kilmer, US, (male) poet (Trees)
12061887
Lynn Fontanne, Bdwy actress (Dulcy, Arms & the Man)
12061892
F Osbert S Sitwell, London, poet/writer (Out of the Flame)
12061893
Lou Little, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)
12061896
George Trafton, NFL center (Chicago Bears)
Ira Gershwin, lyricist ('S Wonderful, I Got Rhythm)
12061898
Gunnar Myrdal, Sweden, sociologist/economist (Nobel 1974)
Herman Shumlin, actor (Watch on the Rhine)
120619--
Gina Hecht, Houston Tx, actress (Melanie-Hizzoner, Mork & Mindy)
Lindsey Alicy
12061906
Agnes Moorehead, Clinton Mass, actress (Endora-Bewitched)
Antoon Spinoy, Belgian politician
12061913
Eleanor Holm, NYC, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
12061920
Dave Brubeck, jazz pianist (Take 5)
12061921
Nicolas A Pi¤a, Venezulian/Aruban songwriter
Otto Graham, AAFC/NFL QB (Cleveland Browns)
12061924
Wally Cox, Detroit, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares)
12061925
Andy Robustelli, NFL defensive end (LA Rams, NY Giants)
12061932
Don King, boxing promoter (Mike Tyson)
12061938
David Ossman, comedian (Firesign Theater)
12061939
Tom s Svoboda, Paris France, Czech composer (Etude)
12061940
Steve Alaimo, Rochester NY, rocker (Mashed Potatoes)
12061941
Helen Cornelius, Hannibal Mo, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
John Nelson, San Jos Costa Rica, conductor (Les Troyens of Berlioz)
Richard Speck, mass murderer (killed 8 student nurses in 1966)
12061942
Len Barry, Phila, rocker (Bristol Stomp)
Peter Handke, Austrian songwriter (Ritt ber den Bodensee)
12061943
Mike Smith, London Engld, rocker/pianist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
12061945
James Naughton, Middletown Ct, actor (Trauma Center, Making the Grade)
Larry Bowa, 2nd baseman (Phillies)
12061948
Don Nickles, (Sen-R-Okla)
Jonathan King, London, singer (Everyone's Gone to the Moon)
12061950
Daniel Sahuleka, Moluks/Dutch singer/guitarist (Viva la Libertad)
12061952
Terence Knox, Richland Wash, actor (Peter-St Elsewhere)
12061953
Kin Shriner, Indiana, actor (Scott-General Hospital, Rituals)
Thomas Hulce, Plymouth Mi, actor (Amadeus, Equus, Echo Park)
Wil Shriner, NYC/Indiana, talk show host (Wil Shriner Show)
12061954
Miles Chapin, NYC, actor (French Postcards, Get Crazy, Funhouse)
12061955
Steven Wright, droll comedian (Steven Wright Live)
12061957
Luis Mariano Delis Fournier, Cuba, discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1980)
12061962
Ben Watt, rocker (Everything but the Girls-Sir Idlewood)
Janine Turner, Lincoln Neb, actress (Maggie-Northern Exposure)
12061967
Spanky Marcus, Hollywood Calif, actor (Jimmy Joe-Mary Hartman)
1207 967
Aboe Sa'id ibn Aboa al-Chair, Persian mystic
12071542
Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland (1560-1587)
12071598
Giovanni Bernini, Italy, baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy)
12071751
Jurrian F de Frederici, governor-General (Suriname)
12071761
Madame Marie Tussaud, created wax museum
12071808
Hugh McCulloch, US Secy of Treasury
12071830
Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (cemetery)
12071835
Dom Joseph Pothier, French benediction/musicologist
12071847
James Deacon White, Canton NY, ball player jumped teams in 1876 (Chi)
Solomon Schechter, US Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader
12071863
Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (boskoning)
12071872
Johan Huizinga, culture historian (Homo Ludens)
12071873
Willa Cather, US, author (My Antonia)
12071876
Ludwig Schiedermair, German musicologist (Beethoven-Archiv)
12071878
Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
12071879
Rudolf Friml, Czech/US composer (Bohemian suite)
12071887
Ernst Toch, Vienna Austria, composer (Melodie Lehre)
12071888
Hamilton Fish, US congress leader/isolationist
Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish (male) writer (House of Children)
Matthew Heywood Campbell Broun, 1st pres of Amer Newspaper Guild
12071891
Fay Bainter, LA Calif, actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair)
120719--
Armando Manzanero, spanish entertainer
Mike Minor, SF Cal, actor (Steve-Petticoat Junction, All My Children)
Reed St Mark, rock drummer (Mind Funk-Sugar Aint So Sweet, Fire)
12071901
A F [Tony] Pugsley, led attack on Walcheren (1944)
12071905
Gerard Kuiper, US astronomer (discovered moons of Uranus, Neptune)
12071910
Rod Cameron, Calgary Alberta, actor (City Detective, State Trooper)
12071912
Louis Prima, New Orleans La, singer (That Old Black Magic)
Rod Cameron, actor (Kansas, Evel Knievel, Oh Susanna, Stampede)
12071915
Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], US, sci-fi author (Ginger Star)
Eli Wallach, Bkln NY, actor (Magnificent 7, Misfits, People Next Door)
Leigh Brackett, US, sci-fi writer (Ginger Star)
12071923
Ted Knight, Terryville Ct, (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort)
12071924
M rio Soares, (Socialist), premier of Portugal (1976-78, 1983-  )
12071926
Victor Kiam, CEO (Remington shavers)/NFL owner (Patriots)
12071928
Noam Chomsky, linguist (founded transformational grammar)
12071932
Ellen Burstyn, Detroit, actress (Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here)
Gerard van den Berg, Dutch TV host (Like Father, Like Son)
12071936
Martha Layne Collins, Baghdad Ky, (Gov-D-Ky)
12071937
Thad Cochran, (Sen-R-Miss)
12071942
Harry Chapin, rocker (Taxi, Cats Craddle)
12071947
Johnny Bench, baseball catcher (Reds)
Peter de Jong, Dutch actor (Maxi-Mini & Maxi)
Vincent Baggetta, Paterson NJ, actor (Lou-Chicago Story)
12071948
Gary Morris, country singer/actor (Colbys)
Yoko Morishita, prima ballerina (Baterina No Habataki)
12071949
Tom Waits, Calif, rocker/song writer (Blue Valentine)
12071951
Henk Temming, singer (Good Goal)
12071955
Priscilla Barnes, Ft Dix NJ, actress (License to Kill, 3s Company)
12071956
Larry Bird, hoop star (Boston Celtics)
12071963
Barbara Weathers, vocalist (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover)
12071964
Duncan Miller, rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous)
Mike Nolan, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
12071966
C Thomas Howell, LA Calif, actor (Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man)
1208  65
-BC- Horace, Rome, lyric poet/satirist (Satire, Odes)
12081626
Christina, queen of Sweden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
12081708
Francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)
12081741
Maximilian JLP Gardel, French dancer/choreographer (Menuet Reine)
12081765
Eli Whitney, inventor (Cotton Gin)
12081822
Luther Prentice Bradley, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
12081826
Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist
12081828
Clinton Bowen Fisk, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
Robert Bullock, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
12081832
Bjírnstjerne Bjírnson, Norway, novelist (Pa Guds Veje, Nobel-1903)
12081861
Aristide Maillol, France, painter/sculptor (Seated Woman)
Georges Mlis, Paris, magician; 1st to film a fictional story
William Crapo Durant, founded General Machine
12081865
Jean Sibelius, Tavastehus Finland, composer (Valse Triste, Finlandia)
12081879
Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Bauhaus)
12081881
Padraic Colum, Irish poet/novelist/poet (Collected Poems)
12081882
Manuel Mar¡a Ponce, Fresnillo Mxico, composer (Estrellita)
12081886
Diego Rivera, [Lenin of Mexico], Mexico, painter/wife of Frida Kahlo
12081888
Vesey D'Davoren, character actor
12081889
W Hervey Allen, US writer/screenwriter (Anthony Adverse)
12081890
Bohuslav Martinu, Policka Czechoslovakia, composer (Hry o Marti)
12081894
James (Grover) Thurber, Columbus Ohio, humorist (Men, Women & Dogs)
12081899
John Qualen, Vancouver BC, actor (Grapes of Wrath, Searchers)
120819--
Dan Hartman, Harrisburg Pa, singer (Sometimes When We Touch)
Michael Levin, Minneapolis, actor (Ryan's Hope)
12081903
Adele Simpson, NYC, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1946)
12081905
Frank Faylen, St Louis Mo, actor (Herbert Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
12081906
Richard Llewellyn, Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
12081907
Frank Faylen, St Louis Mo, actor (Dobie Gillis)
12081908
John Volpe, (Gov-Mass)/US Secretary of Treasury (1969-73)
12081911
Lee J Cobb, NYC, actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront)
12081913
Delmore Schwartz, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Shenandoah)
Paul Flix, Flemish architect (Sun Song)
12081917
Rufo I Wever, Arubians pianist/composer (ca'i organ)
12081918
Grard Souzay, Angers France, baritone (Le Nozze di Figaro)
12081920
Emmanuel McDonald Bailey, Trinidad, 100m runner (Olympic-bronze-1952)
12081921
Johnny Otis, Calif, R&B talent scout (Cold Shot, Cuttin' Up)
Terence Morgan, London England, actor (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)
12081922
John B (Jack) McKay, X-15 pilot
Lucian Freud, Berlin German, artist (Boy With a Rat)
12081925
Sammy Davis Jr, NYC, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man)
12081927
Vladimir A Shatalov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
12081930
John Morressy, US, sci-fi author (Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane)
Maximilian Schell, Austria, actor/director (Odessa File, Julia)
12081933
Flip Wilson, Jersey City NJ, comedian (Flip Wilson Show)
12081936
David Carradine, actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets)
12081937
James MacArthur, LA Calif, actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0)
Jan van Houwelingen, Dutch Sec of Defense (CDA)
12081939
James Galway, Belfast Ireland, flutist (18k gold flute, Royal Phil)
Jerry Butler, Miss, rocker (Never Give You Up)
12081940
Nick Nolte, actor (Teachers, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40)
12081941
Albert J Evenhuis, Dutch sect of Economic (VVD)
12081943
Jim Morrison, Melbourne Fla, singer (Doors) is he really dead?
Mary Woronov, Brooklyn Hgts NY, actress (Eating Raoul, Terror Vision)
12081944
Neil Innes, musician (The Rutles)
12081946
John Rubinstein, LA Calif, actor/composer (Family, Boys from Brazil)
12081947
French Lense, Dutch politician (PvdA) 2nd Chamber
Gregg Allman, singer (Allman Brothers-Eat a Peach)
12081949
Mary Gordon, US, author
12081952
Richie Morales, drummer (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
Sam Kinison, screaming comedian/actor (Back to School, Charlie Hoover)
12081953
Kim Basinger, Athens Ga, actress (9« Weeks, Batman)
Roy Firestone, sportscaster (Life's Most Embarrassing Moments)
12081958
Billy Hufsey, actor (Christopher-Fame, Days of our Life)
12081959
Paul Rutherford, vocalist (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-Relax)
12081962
Berry van Aerle, soccer star (PSV)
12081966
Matthew Laborteaux, LA Calif, actor (Albert-Little House on Prairie)
Si¤ead O'Connor, Dublin Ireland, singer (Nothing Compares 2 U)
12081967
Marina Augusta Baker, Windsor England, playmate (Mar, 1987)
12081969
Lisa Marie Munzert, New Castle Delaware, Miss Delaware-America (1991)
12091392
Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa benfeitoria)
12091561
Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony
12091569
Martinus de Porres, Peru, saint (patron of social rights)
12091594
Gustavus II Adolphus, king who made Sweden a major power (1611-32)
12091608
John Milton, London, poet/puritan (Paradise Lost)
12091717
Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist (History of Ancient Art)
12091837
mile Waldteufel, Strasbourg France, waltz composer (The Skaters)
12091842
Pjotr A Kopotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist)
12091843
P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economiste Franais)
12091848
Joel Chandler Harris, US journalist (created Uncle Remus stories)
12091853
Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn, Rochester NY, pitcher (60-12 in 1884)
12091868
Fritz Haber, Germany, chemist (Nobel-1918)
12091882
Joaqu¡n Turina, Seville Spain, composer (Rima)
12091884
Antonin Zapotocky, Czechoslovak president (Ceskoslovensky Spisouatel)
12091886
Clarence Birdseye, frozen vegatable king (Birdseye)
12091894
Eddie Dowling, actor (Anywhere USA)
12091897
Hermione Gingold, London England, actress (Gigi, Music Man)
12091898
Emmett Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willie)
12091899
Jean de Brunhoff, France, children's book author (Babar the Elephant)
Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (Those not elected)
120919--
Anne Sward Hanson, actress (Lyla-As the World Turns)
Frances Reid, actor (Alice-Days of our Life)
Leonard Simon, Norristown Pa, actor (Jim-Just Our Luck)
Terri Vandenbosch, actress (As the World Turns)
12091901
Odn [Edmund] von Horvath, Hungarian/Austrian writer
12091902
Margaret Hamilton, Cleve Ohio, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz)
Richard A Butler, England, Dutch min of Finance/Foreign affairs
12091905
Dalton Trumbo, US, writer/film director (Johnny Got His Gun)
12091906
Freddy Martin, Cleve Oh, orch leader (started Merv Griffin)
Greet Koeman, singer
12091909
Douglas Fairbanks Jr, NYC, actor (Ghost Story)
12091910
Dick Elffers, graphic artist
12091911
Broderick Crawford, Phila, actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol)
Lee J Cobb, actor (Virginian, Man Who Loved Cat Dancing)
12091912
Fred Engelen, Flemish actor/director
Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill, (Rep-D-Mass)/Speaker of the House
12091915
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Jarotschin Germ, soprano (Der Rosenkavalier)
12091916
Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog)
12091918
Kirk Douglas, [Issur Demsky], actor (Gunfight at OK Corral)
12091922
Redd Foxx, St Louis Mo, comedian (Sandford & Son, Redd Foxx Show)
12091925
Dina Merrill, NYC, actress (Operation Petticoat, Butterfield 8)
12091926
Luis Miguel Domingu¡n, Spain, matador
12091928
Dick Van Patten, Queens NY, actor (Tom Bradford-8 is Enough)
12091929
John Cassavetes, NYC, actor (Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby)
Robert JL Hawke, (L), PM Australia (1983-  )
12091934
Junior Wells, Memphis Tn, blues singer (In My Younger Days)
Milton Gray Campbell, Plainfield NJ, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1956)
12091935
Dominico Tromp, Aruba, band leader
12091938
[David] Deacon Jones, NFL defensive end (LA, SD, Washington)
12091941
Beau Bridges, LA Calif, actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer)
12091942
Dick Butkus, Chicago, NFL hall of fame linebacker (Bears)/sportscaster
Joe McGinniss, Rye NY, author (Selling of President 1968)
12091943
Rick Danko, Canada, rocker (The Band-Islands, Stage Fright)
12091944
George Baker, [Hans Bouwens], singer (G B Selection)
12091945
Michael Nouri, Wash DC, actor (Beacon Hill, Bay City Blues)
12091949
Tom Kite, McKinney Tx, PGA golfer (Bing Crosby 1983)
12091950
Joan Armatrading, St Kitts, singer (Back to the Night)
12091952
Michael Dorn, actor (Worf-Star Trek Next Generation)
12091953
John Malkovich, Christopher Ill, actor/director (Killing Field)
World B Free, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors)
12091954
Herman Finkers, night club performer
12091957
Donny Osmond, Ogden Utah, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie)
12091963
B rbara Palacios, Carcas Venz, Miss Universe (1986)
12091965
Brad Savage, Livdnia Mich, actor (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
12091968
Michael Foster, Richmond Va, drummer (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
12091969
Allison Smith, Bronx NY, actress (Jennie-Cagney & Lacey, Kate & Allie)
12091975
Joshua Rudoy, actor (Harry & Hendersons)
12101538
Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian writer (Faithfull Shepherd)
12101787
Thomas H Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf
12101794
James Wolfe Ripley, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
12101805
William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator)
12101813
Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)
12101820
David Allen Russell, Army Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1864
12101822
Csar Franck, Lige Belgium, composer (Rbecca)
Thomas Casimer Devin, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1878
12101824
George MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie)
12101830
Emily Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems)
K lm n Tisza, premier of Hungary (1875-90)
12101831
Alexander Conze, German archaeologist
12101851
Melvil Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
12101870
Adolf Loos, Austria architect (building of houses)
Pierre Lous, France, novelist/poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet)
12101872
Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves)
12101883
Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer/foreign min/UN-ambassador
12101886
Victor McLaglen, England, actor (Informer, Acad Award-1935)
12101891
Nelly Sachs, Germany, poet (O the Chimneys-Nobel 1966)
12101897
Karl H Waggerl, Austria writer (Kraft of the Liebe)
12101898
Anton Mauve, painter
121019--
Jason Coppola, rocker (Mind Funk-Sugar Aint So Sweet, Fire)
Joel Brooks, NYC, actor (Lt Dean-Pvt Benjamin, J D-My Sister Sam)
Pepsi Demarque, rocker (Pepsi & Shirley-All Right Now)
Tom DeFile, rock bassist (Saigon Kick-New World)
Wayne Northrup, actor (Roman-Days of our Life)
12101901
F Fischer, German war criminal (Breda 4)
12101903
George J Lewis, Guadalajara Mexico, sacotr (Don-Zorro)
Una Merkel, Covington Ky, actress (42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln)
William Plomer, Transvaal, author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa)
12101904
Antonin Nov¢tny, Czechoslovakia, Pres of Czechoslovakia (1957-68)
12101907
Michael Blankfort, US, writer/producer/director
Rumer Godden, England, author (Thursday's Children)
12101908
Arnold A van Ruler, theologist
Olivier Messiaen, Avignon France, composer (L'Ame en Bourgeon)
12101910
Dennis Morgan, Prentice Wisc, actor (Dennis-21 Beacon Street)
John Hammond Sr, NYC, rock/jazz producer (I Can Tell, So Many Roads)
12101911
Chet Huntley, Cardwell Mont, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report)
12101913
Morton Gould, NY, unbelievably prolific composer (Verdun)
12101914
Dorothy Lamour, [Mary Kaumeyer], New Orleans, actress (Road to Bali)
12101920
Ragnhild Hveger, Denmark, 200m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936)
12101923
Harold Gould, Schenectady NY, actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus)
Jorge Semprun, French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z)
12101928
John Colicos, Toronto, actor (Battlestar Galactica)
12101929
Dan Blocker, Texas, actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
12101930
Clayton K Yeutter, Nebraska, US trade rep
12101937
Don Sebesky, Perth Amboy NJ, orch leader (Jimmy Dean Show)
12101938
Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik Russia, conductor (Kirov)
12101941
Fionnula Flanagan, Dublin Ireland, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
Tim Considine, Louisville Ky, actor (Mike-My 3 Sons)
Tommy Rettig, Jackson Heights NY, actor (Jeff's Collie-Lassie)
12101943
Theodore Wilson, NYC, actor (That's My Mama, Sanford Arms)
12101945
Eric Boom, guitarist/producer
12101946
Gloria Loring, NYC, actress/singer (Days of our Life)
12101947
Sinaida Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold/silver/2 bronze-1968)
12101951
Johnny Rodriquez, US actor(?)
12101952
Susan Hallock Dey, Ill, actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law)
12101958
John J York, Chicago Ill, actor (Mac Scorpio-General Hospital)
Paul Hardcastle, keyboardist (Don't Waste My Time, Just for Money)
12101959
Burke Moses, NYC, actor (Sean Baxter-As the World Turns)
Mark Aguirre, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
12101960
Kenneth Branagh, Irish actor (High Season, Dead Again)
12101961
Nia Peeples, [Vernia], Hollywood, dancer/host (Fame, Party Machine)
12101963
Robin White, San Diego Cal, tennis player (US Open doubles 1988)
12101985
Raven-Symon Pearman, actress (Cosby)
12111475
Leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italy, Pope (1513-21)
12111781
David Brewster, Scotland, physicist/inventor (kaleidoscope)
12111797
Hiram Paulding, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1878
12111803
Hector Berlioz, Cte-Saint-Andr, Isre, France, composer (Manqu)
Louis H Berlioz, French composer (Requiem, Symphony Fantastique)
12111810
Alfred de Musset, Paris, writer (Un Caprice, Bettine)
12111836
Jan Boissevain, Dutch politician/ship owner
12111838
Emil Rathenau, German industrialist (AEG)
12111840
Kemal Bey, Turkey, poet/author (Fatherland-1872)
12111843
Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel 1905)
12111849
Ellen Key, Swedish theory/author/feminist (courageous wife)
12111856
Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist
12111863
Annie Jump Cannon, US, stellar spectroscopist/author
12111874
Paul Wegener, German actor/director (Student of Prag)
12111882
Fiorello La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45)
Max Born, Germany, physicist (Nobel 1954)
12111892
Leo Ornstein, Kremenchug Russia, composer (Bio in Sonata Form)
12111894
Eddie Dowling, Woonsocket RI, composer (Anywhere USA)
12111898
Nils JE Ferlin, Swedish songwriter (Barfotabarn)
121119--
Patrick Tovatt, actor (Cal-As the World Turns)
Tom Fuccello, Newark NJ, actor (Dave-Dallas)
12111905
Eugen Fink, German philosopher
Gilbert Roland, Mexico, actor (Barbarosa)
12111906
Birago Diop, Senegalees writer/ambassador (Leurres et Lueurs)
12111908
Elliott Cook Carter Jr, NYC, composer (Tom & Lily)
12111913
Carlo Ponti, producer, married to Sophia Loren (2 Women)
Jean Marais, Cherbourgh France, actress (Donkey Skin, Orpheus)
12111918
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970)
12111920
Eddy Firestone, SF Calif, actor (Eddy-Mixed Doubles)
12111922
Grace Paley, writer (1970 Arts & Letters Award)
Peter Birch, Bronx, choreographer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
12111923
Betsy Blair, actress (Marty)
12111924
Marie Windsor, [Emily Marie Bertelson], Utah, actress (Double Deal)
12111926
Big Mama Thornton, blues singer (Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt)
12111927
Stein Eriksen, Norway, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1952)
12111930
Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor/director (Man & a Woman, Z)
12111931
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, leader B-sect/guru of rich
Rita Moreno, [Rosa Dolores Alverio], Humacao PR, (West Side Story)
12111932
Ald r Kov csi, Hungary, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1952)
Anne Heywood, [Violet Pretty], Engl, Miss GB (1949)/actress (Brain)
Wynn Irwin, NYC, actor (Lotsa Luck, Sugar Time)
12111934
Ron Carey, Newark NJ, actor (Barney Miller, Montefuscos, High Anxiety)
12111935
Femke Boersma, actress
12111936
Hans van den Broek, Dutch foreign minister (-1992)
12111939
Thomas McGuane, US, writer
Tom Hayden, 60's activist, Mr Jane Fonda, Calif state Assemblyman
12111940
David Gates, rocker (Bread-Baby I'm A Want You)
12111941
Max Baucus, (Sen-D-Mont)
Rogier van Otterloo, composer/conductor
12111942
Karen Susman, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1962)
12111943
Donna Mills, Chicago Illinois, actress (Knots Landing, Incident)
12111944
Brenda Lee, Atlanta Georgia, singer (I'm Sorry)
Lynda Day George, San Marcos Tx, actress (Casey-Mission Impossible)
12111946
Teri Garr, Lakewood Ohio, actress (Mr Mom, Young Frankenstein)
12111948
Elizabeth Baur, LA Calif, actress (Fran-Ironside, Teresa-Lancer)
1211195-
Isabella Hoffmann, actress (Kate-Dear John)
12111950
Christine Onassis, [Andreadis], NYC, Aristotle's daughter
12111951
Robert Cochran, Claremont Vt, skier (Olympics-1972)
12111952
Susan Seidelman, director (Desperately Seeking Susan)
12111953
Bess Armstrong, Balt Md, actress (Julia-On Our Own, 4 Seasons, Jaws)
Ken Wahl, actor (Wanderers, Wise Guys)
Peter Isacksen, Dover NH, actor (CPO Sharkey, Jessie)
12111954
Jermaine Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer (Jackson 5-ABC)
12111955
Stu Jackson, Reading Pa, NBA coach (NY Knicks (1989-90)
12111958
Nicki Sixx, San Jose Calif, rock guitarist (Mtley Cre-Girls Girls)
12111959
Tina Gayle, Frankfurt GFR, Cowboy cheerleader/actress (Kathy-Chips)
12111962
Kim Linehan, swimmer (1979 1500m World record)
12111963
Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German FR, tennis star
Mark Alalmo, actor (Avenging Force)
12111965
Laurie Carr, Dallas Tx, playmate (Dec, 1986)
12111966
Terry Sharpe, rocker (The Adventures, Starjets-Starjets)
12121673
Ahmed III, 23rd sultan (Turkey, 1703-30)
12121712
Charles Alexander, Duke of Lotharingen
12121745
John Jay, diplomat/governor (NY)
12121805
Henry Wells, founder (American Express Co & Wells Fargo & Co)
William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
12121806
Stand Watie, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
12121818
Paul Octave Hebert, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1880
12121821
Gustave Flaubert, France, novelist (Madame Bovary)
12121830
Joseph Orville Shelby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
12121833
Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica)
12121838
Sherburne W Burnham, US, astronomer (double territory)
12121848
William Vanderbilt, yachtsman (donated Vanderbilt Cup)
12121859
Edward Bradley, horse owner (1st to own 4 Kentucky Derby winners)
Maurice Donnay, French playwright (Lovers)
12121863
Edvard Munch, Norway, painter/print maker (The Scream)
12121866
Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913)
12121875
Karl RG von Rundstedt, German gen-field marshal (Normandy
12121879
Friedrich Christiansen, nazi commander Wehrmacht Netherland
Laura Hope Crews, US, actress (Camille, Gone with the Wind)
12121882
Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (openings theory)
12121893
Edward G Robinson, Romania, actor (10 Commandments)
121219--
Al Harrington, American Samoa, actor (Ben Kokua-Hawaii 5-0)
Brandon Maggart, Carthage Tn, actor (George-Jennifer Slept Here)
Bruce Kulick, rocker (Kiss-Beth)
Dave Meniketti, rocker (Y&T-Contagious)
Ernie Townsend, actor (Edge of Night)
John Johnston, actor (Loving)
Rick Ruhl, rock vocalist (Every Mother's Nightmare-Hard to Hold)
Tatiana, spanish entertainer
12121906
William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Season restaurant, NYC)
12121909
Armand H F Boni, [de Goede], Flemish screenwriter/writer=-
12121912
Fred Angels, Flemish actor/director [or Dec 9]
12121913
Hal Dickinson, singer (Modernaires)
Jesse Owens, US, track star (4 golds 1936), spoiled Hitler's olympics
12121915
Frank Sinatra, Hoboken, singer/actor (old blue eyes/chairman of board)
12121917
Heinrich Bll, German writer (Aussatz, Nobel 1972)
12121918
Joe Williams, jazz singer (Everyday I have the Blues)
Nilda Pinto, [NM Geerdink-Jesurun P], Curaaos writer (Nanzi)
12121923
Bob Barker, Darrington Wash, game show emcee (Price is Right)
Gerard [K Van de] Reve, writer (Dear guys d'orgel, Typhoid)
12121924
Edward I Koch, NYC, (Mayor-D-NYC, 1977-89)
Olivier Gendebien, Belgian auto racer
12121928
Helen Frankenthaler, NY, abstract expressionist artist (Arden)
12121929
John Osborne, Engld, playwright (Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964)
12121931
Lionel Blair, Montreal, choreographer (Spotlight)
12121932
Robert Pettit, NBA star (St Louis Bombers/1959 MVP)
12121938
Connie Francis, Newark NJ, singer/actress (Where the Boys Are)
12121940
Dionne Warwick, East Orange NJ, singer (Solid Gold, Way to San Jose)
12121941
Liesbeth List, actress/singer (Theodorakis)
Tim Hauser, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Tuxedo Junction)
12121943
Dicky Betts, rocker (Allman Brothers-Jessica, Ramblin' Man)
Grover Washington Jr, jazz artist (Mr Magic)
12121945
Karl Edward Wagner, US, sci-fi author (Bloodstone, Night Winds)
12121946
Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazil, Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
George Santo Pietro, husband of Vanna White
12121949
Ricardo Lu¡s Carreras, NYC, bantamweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1972)
12121950
Billy Smith, Ontario, NHL goaltender (NY Islanders)
12121951
Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Blansky's Beauties)
Steven A Hawley, Ottawa Ks, PhD/ast (STS 41-D, STS 61-C, STS-31)
12121952
Cathy Rigby McCoy, Los Alamitos Calif, gymnist (Olympic-4th-1968)
Sarah Douglas, England, actress (Conan, Superman II, Falcon Crest)
12121956
Ana Alicia, Mexico City, actress (Melissa-Falcon Crest)
Sondra Theodore, San Bernadino Cal, playmate (July, 1977)
12121957
Cy Curnin, rocker (The Fixx-Sign of Fire)
Sheila E[scovedo], disco singer (Krushgrove, Holly Rock)
12121958
Leo Kenter, drummer (Trckener Kecks)
Sheree J Wilson, actress (Our Family Honor, April-Dallas)
12121959
Belouis Some, rocker (Neville Keighley-Some People)
12121960
Jap van Sweden, violinist/concert master
12121962
Holly Gagnier, LA, actress (One Life to Live)
12121964
Rockin' Jeff, rocker (The Pasadenas-Riding on a Train)
12121968
Tatianna, Phila Pa, spanish singer (Baile Commigo, Chicad de Hoy)
12121969
Carrie Westcott, playmate (Sept, 1993)
12121970
Jennifer Connelly, Bkln Heights NY, actress (Labyrinth, Rocketeer)
Kirk Cameron, actor (Mike-Growing Pains, Teen Wolf II)
12121972
Missy Francis, LA Calif, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
12121975
Mayim Winkelman Bialik, SD, actress (Blossom, Beaches)
12131521
Sixtus V, [Felice Peretti/"Montalto"], bishop of Fermo/Pope (1585-90)
12131533
Erik XIV Wasa, king of Sweden (1560-69)
12131553
Henry IV, 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610)
12131797
Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt)
12131810
Clark Mills, US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty)
12131816
Clement Claiborne Clay, MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor
12131818
Mary Todd Lincoln, 1st lady (1861-65)
12131835
Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem)
12131853
Joseph Sickman Corsen, Curaaos musician/composer/screenwriter
12131860
Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theatre director (l'odon)
12131863
John Weiss, German new testament
12131871
Russell W Porter, Vermont, explorer (Alaska)
12131890
Marc Connelly, McKeesport Pa, playwright (One Minute Please)
12131897
Drew Pearson, Evanston Ill, newscaster (Drew Pearson)
12131899
Harold Guinzburg, publisher (founder of Literary Guild)
121319--
Bill Morey, Framingham Mass, actor (Thorn Birds, Tucker's Witch)
Lenny Schultz, Bronx NY, comedian (Ball Four, Laugh-in Revival)
12131903
Carlos Montoya, Madrid Spain, guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966)
John Piper, British writer (US Churches in WW I)/official war painter
12131910
Lillian Roth, singer/actress (Animal Crackers)
Van Heflin, Walters Okla, actor (Great Adventure, Madame Bovary)
12131911
Kenneth Patchen, US, poet/novelist (Cloth of the Tempest)
12131912
Max Croiset, actor
12131913
Archie Moore, light-heavyweight boxing champ (1952-60)
Jimmy Carroll, NYC, pianist (Most Important People)
12131914
Alan L Bullock, British historian
12131915
Balthazar Johannes Vorster, Prime Minister of South Africa (1966-77)
Mark Stevens, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Big Town, Martin Kane)
Ross MacDonald, detective novelist (Goodbye Look)
12131917
Dave Street, LA Calif, actor/singer (Broadway Open House)
12131920
Don Taylor, Freeport Pa, actor (Father's Little Dividend)
George P Schultz, US Secretary of State (1982-89)
Kaysone Phomvihane, chairman (Pathet Lao)/premier/president Laos
12131922
Rex Allen, Wilcox Az, cowboy actor (I Dream of Jeannie)
12131923
Fred van der Spek, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PSP)
12131924
Larry Doby, 1st black in baseball's AL (Cleve Indians)
12131925
Dick Van Dyke, West Plains Mo, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
12131926
Carl Erskine, baseball player (Bkln Dodgers)
12131929
Albert Paulsen, Guayaquil Ecuador, actor (Doctors' Hospital)
Christopher Plummer, Toronto, actor (Sound of Music, Doll's House)
12131930
Genevieve Page, actress (Day & the Hour)
Robert Prosky, Phila, actor (Christine, Sgt Jablonski-Hill St Blues)
12131935
Bonno Spieker, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
Karim Aga Khan, prince/billionaire/husband of Rita Hayworth
12131937
Rob Houwer, director/producer
12131940
Steve Harmon, Bkln NY, actor (Ens Pulver-Mr Roberts)
12131941
John Davidson, Pitts, TV host (Hollywood Squares, That's Incredible)
12131943
Ferguson Jenkins, baseball player (Red Sox)
12131948
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, guitarist (Steely Dan-Deacon Blues)
Kathy Garver, Long Beach Calif, actress (Cissy-Family Affair)
Lillian Board, England, 400m (Olympic-silver-1968)
Ted Nugent, Detroit, guitarist (Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees)
12131949
Nana Alexandria, USSR, International Woman's Chess Grandmaster (1976)
R[oberta] A[nn] MacAvoy, US, sci-fi author (Damiano's Lute, Raphael)
Randy Owen, country singer (Alabama-Take Me Down)
Roberta A MacAvoy, US, sci-fi writer (Twisting the Rope)
Tom Verlaine, musician (Television)
12131950
Heather North, Pasadena Calif, actress (The Barefoot Executive)
12131953
Tom Sanders, Jackson Wyoming, aerial cameraman (Living Daylights)
Zoltan Magyar, Hungary, side horse gymnist (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
12131954
John Anderson, country singer/actor (Lone Wolf McQuade)
12131956
Phillip Gregory Hubbard, Canton Oh, basketball (Olympic-gold-1976)
12131958
Dana Strum, Wash DC, rock bassist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
Lynn-Holly Johnson, actress (Ice Castles)
12131959
John Whitaker, Van Nuys Calif, actor (Family Affair, Snowball Expr)
12131962
Karen Witter, actress (Tina-One Life to Live)/playmate (Mar, 1982)
12131967
Deborah Driggs, Oakland Ca, playmate (Mar, 1990)
Jenn Thompson, NYC, actor (Dee-Harper Valley PTA)
12131973
Christie Clark, LA, actress (Carrie Brady-Days of Our Life)
12131981
Chelsea Hertford, actress (Major Dad)
12141363
John Van [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist
12141503
Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist/prophet
12141546
Tycho Brahe, Knudstrup Denmark, astronomer (Golden nose)
12141824
Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (Panthon)
12141829
John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold US political office
12141830
Allen Thomas, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
12141832
Daniel Harris Reynolds, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
12141837
William Wells, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
12141853
Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexican poet (Los Cien Mejores Poemas)
12141870
Dirk J de Geer, premier (1926-29, 39-40)
Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/president (1918-20, 45-50)
12141883
Manolis Kalomiris, Greek opera composer
Morihei Ueshiba, founder (Aikido)
12141895
George VI, king of England (1936-52)
12141896
James H Doolittle, General (US Air Force)
12141897
Margaret Chase Smith, (Rep/Sen-R-Maine)
121419--
Celia Weston, Spartanburg SC, actress (Jolene-Alice)
Elaine Princi, actress (As the World Turns, Dorian-One Life to Live)
Franco, spanish entertainer
Robert Lusseir, West Warwick RI, actor (Brent-Man From Atlantis)
Sallie Brophy, Phoenix Az, actress (Annie O'Connell-Buckskin)
12141901
Paul I, King of Greece
12141908
Laurence Naismith, Surrey England, actor (Judge Fulton-Persuaders)
12141909
Edward L Tatum, US, molecular geneticist (Nobel 1958)
Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, harpist/founder Eduard of Beinumstichting
12141911
Spike Jones, Long Beach Calif, composer (In a Secluded Rendesvous)
12141912
Morey Amsterdam, Chicago Ill, comedian (Buddy-Dick Van Dyke Show)
12141914
Dan Dailey, NYC, dancer/actor (Gov Drinkwater-Governor & JJ)
Karl Carstens, German (CDU)/pres Germany (1979-84)
Morey Amsterdam, actor/comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show)
Rosalyn Tureck, Chicago Illinois, pianist (Bach & Rock)
12141915
Clay Warnick, Tacoma Wash, choral director (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
12141917
Elyse Knox, Hartford Ct, actress (Hit the Ice, Black Gold)
12141919
Shirley Jackson, US, writer (Road Through the Wall)
12141922
Charley Trippi, NFL halfback (Chicago Cardinals)
Don Hewitt, NYC, TV creator (60 Minutes)
12141923
Gerard [K van het] Reve, writer (Dear Guys)
Leonardus S van Egerat, travel expert
12141924
Marion Morgan, singer (Stop the Music)
Siiri Rantanen, Finland, cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1956)
12141927
Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD)
12141932
Abbe Lane, Bkln, aka Mrs Xavier Cugat/singer (Xavier Cugat Show)
Charlie Rich, Colt Arkansas, singer (Behind Closed Doors)
George Furth, Chicago Ill, actor/dir (Tammy, Good Guys, Dumplings)
12141933
Leo N Wright, US saxophonist (I left my heart in SF)
12141935
Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Bath England, actress (Search for the Nile)
Lee Remick, Quincy Mass (Days of Wine & Rose, Long Hot Summer)
12141936
Robert Allan Ridley Parker, NYC, PhD/astronaut (STS-9, STS-35)
12141938
Hall Williams, US, actor (Private Benjamin, Sanford & Son)
Janette Scott, actress (Day of the Triffids)
Leonardo Boff, Italy, Brazilian Catholic theologian
12141939
Ernest Davis, 1st black to win Heisman Trophy (1961)
Hal Williams, Columbus Ohio, actor (Pvt Benjamin, 227, Sanford & Son)
12141942
Rex Thompson, NYC, actor (Young Bess, King & I, Her 12 Men)
12141943
Frank Allen, rock vocalist (Searchers-Needles & Pins)
12141946
Jane Birkin, actress (Mr Don Juan, Dark Places, Dust)
Joyce Vincent Wilson, Detroit Mich, singer (Tony Orlando & Dawn)
Patty Duke, [Anna Marie], Elmhurst NY, actress (Miracle Worker)
Stan Smith, tennis pro (Wimbeldon 1972)
12141947
Christopher Parkening, LA Calif, guitarist (transcribed sacred music)
12141948
Boudewn Buch, writer/TV host
12141949
Bill Buckner, Calif, 1st baseman, error cost Red Sox 1986 world series
Cliff Williams, bass (AC/DC-Highway to Hell)
Dee Wallace Stone, KC Mo, actress (Critters, Secret Admirer, 10)
12141950
Vicki Michelle, Essex England, actress (Virgin Witch, Allo Allo)
12141951
Jan Timman, chess player
12141953
Joe Toplyn, Boston, comedic writer (Late Night with David Letterman)
Vay Amritraj, India, tennis player/actor (Octopussy)
12141954
James Horean, actor (Loving)
12141956
Hanni Wenzel, Liechtenstein, Slalom (Olympic-2 gold-1980)
T K Carter, LA Calif, actor (Mike-Punky Brewster, Just our Luck)
12141958
Jan Dksma, bassist (Weekend at Waikiki)
Mike Scott, rocker (Blues Inc, Waterboys-Rainbow Warrior)
Steven Rock-Savage, Mellville Louisiana, (LSU), actor
12141959
Franco Iglesia, Cuba, spanish singer
12141960
Catherine G Coleman, Charleston SC, USAF Capt/astronaut
12141962
Ginger Lynn Allen, Rockford Ill, XXX actress (Vice Academy 2)
12141963
Cindy Gibb, Bennington Vt, actress (Search for Tomorrow, Youngblood)
12141964
C(arl) J(eff) Snare, Wash DC, vocalist (Firehouse-Love of a Lifetime)
Chelsea Noble, actress (Kate-Growing Pains)
12141967
Noelle Beck, Baltimore, actress (Trisha-Loving, Fletch Lives)
12141977
Tisha Dabber, Shelbyville Indiana, actress (New Mickey Mouse Club)
1215  37
Claudius Nero, 5th Roman emperor (54-68); didn't fiddle as Rome burned
12151610
David Teniers II, Flemish (court)painter (Theatrum Pictorium)
12151787
Charles Cowden Clarke, English editor/Shakespearean critic
12151793
Henry Charles Carey, Phila, economist (Principles of Poli Economy)
12151802
J nos Bolyai, Romania, mathematician (non-Euclidean geometry)
12151832
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (Eiffel tower)
12151836
Edmond Picard, French/Belgian lawyer/writer (La forge Roussel)
12151848
Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress
12151852
Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903)
Tewfik Pasja, khedive (viceroy) of Egypt)
12151853
Jean BA Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies
12151859
Lew [Lejzer L] Zamenhof, Polish physician/linguist (Esperanto)
Ludwik L Zamenhof, Russian Poland, created Esperanto
12151860
Niels Ryberg Finsen, Denmark, physician/phototherapist (Nobel 1903)
12151861
Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor (1st auto built & operated in US)
12151863
Arthur D Little, US, chemist (patented rayon)
Paul [Prudent] Painlev, French mathematician/minister/premier
12151879
Hugo WC Bordewk, Dutch lawyer
Rudolf von Laban, Czech/German choreographer (modern dance)
12151882
Helena Rubinstein, US cosmetic manufacturer
12151887
Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of the Dutch Tribe)
12151888
Artturi A Leinonen, Finnish journalist/writer (Kati)/politician
Maxwell Anderson, US, dramatist (Winter Set, High Tor)
12151892
J Paul Getty, Minneapolis Mn, oil magnate (Getty Oil)
121519--
Don Franklin, actor (Noah Dixon-The Young Riders)
Felicity LaFortune, actress (Ryan's Hope)
Marta Dubois, David Panama, actress (Tales of Gold Monkey)
Sophy, PR, spanish singer (Comparame Balada y Salsa)
Thaao Penghlis, actor (Days of our Life)
Tim Gaines, rock bassist/vocalist (Stryper-Against the Law)
12151904
Kermit Bloomgarden, producer (Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man)
12151906
Betty Smith, novelist (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn)
12151907
Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilians architect (Brasilia)
12151913
Muriel Rukeyser, US, poet (1977 Shelley Memorial Award)
12151916
Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA (Nobel 1962)
12151918
Jeff Chandler, [Ira Grossel], actor (Broken Arrow, Away All Boats)
12151919
Ake Seyffarth, 10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1948)
12151922
Alan Freed, Penn, DJ, accepted payola/introduced term "rock-n-roll"
12151928
Jimmy Nelson, Chic Ill, ventriloguist (Nestles, Farfel)
12151931
Evald Schorm, Prague Czech, director (Courage for Every Day)
12151932
Edna O'Brien, Ireland, writer (Fanatic of Heart, Casualties of Peace)
12151933
Jesse Belvin, Arkansas, vocalist (Mr Easy)
Tim Conway, Willoughby Oh, comic (McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show)
12151937
John [Thomas] Sladek, US, sci-fi author (Tik-Tok, Bugs)
Karen Morrow, Chic, actress (Aunt Minerva-Tabitha, Jim Nabors Hour)
12151939
Cindy Birdsong, singer (The Supremes)
12151940
Nick Buoniconti, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)/sportscaster (NBC)
12151942
Dave Clark, England, rock drummer (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
12151943
Mihaly Hesz, Hungary, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1968)
12151944
Stan Bahnsen, NY Yankee pitcher (1968 AL Rookie-of-year)
12151946
Carmine Appice, musician (Have You Heard, Keep on Rolling)
12151948
David Gwillim, Plymouth England, (RADA), actor
12151949
Don Johnson, Flatt Creek Mo, actor (Miami Vice, Harrad Experiment)
Ton [Teunis] Sbrands, Woman's World Champion
Ton [Teunis] Sbrands, world champion checker player
12151950
Ernst Hirsch Ballin, Dutch minister of Justice
12151954
Mike Ratledge, author (2DAY & NEWDAY)/sysop East Bay X-Change
12151955
Melanie Chartoff, West Haven Ct, actress (Fridays, Parker Lewis)
12151959
Heidi Bohay, Somerset NJ, actress (Megan-Hotel)
12151961
Annie Pujol, Perpignan, French TV hostess (Roue de la Fortune)
12151963
Helen Slater, NYC, actress (Supergirl, Billie Jean, Ruthless People)
12151985
Sheeba Reiter, Fla, illegitimate daughter of Jackie Mason
12161485
Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of Henry VIII
12161685
Charles Cressent, France, cabinetmaker (Rgence)
12161770
Ludwig von Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer (Ode to Joy)
12161775
Jane Austin, England, novelist (Pride & Prejudice)
12161812
William Grose, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1900
12161819
Robert Selden Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
12161825
Henry Heth, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
12161827
Jan AC Oudemans, geographer/astronomer
12161828
John Beatty, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
12161830
John Frederick Hartranft, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1889
12161834
Lon Walras, French economist (border use theory)
12161851
Theodoor H de Meester, Dutch premier (1905-08)
12161857
Edward Emerson Barnard, Tenn, astronomer (Jupiter's 5th satellite)
12161862
Eugne Demolder, Belgian writer (Sous la robe)
12161863
George Santayana, Spain, philosopher/poet/humanist (Last Puritan)
Ralph Adams Cram, US, gothic architect (Cathedral of St Joan NYC)
12161865
Victor Rousseau, Belgian sculptor
12161869
Albert F Pollard, British historian (Dict of natural biography)
12161882
John Berry Hobbs, England, 1st cricket played knighted (1953)
Walther Meissner, physicist (Meissner effect)
Zolt n Kod ly, Kecskemt Hungary, composer (Psalmus Hungaricus)
12161883
Max Linder, French actor/comic/director (Max prend un bain)
12161888
Alphonse Juin, French marshal
12161892
A "Shon Nn" Morales, Antillean/Neth very old lady
12161893
Vladimir Golschmann, Paris France, conductor with Immortal Downbeat
12161899
Nol Coward, England, playwright (In Which We Serve-1942 Acad Award)
121619--
Dori Brenner, NYC, actress (Rhoda Gold-7th Avenue)
Patti Deutsch, Pitts Pa, comedienne (Ace Trucking Co, Laugh-in)
Ross Kettle, actor (Santa Barbara)
Terry Carter, Bkln NY, actor (McCloud, Battlestar Galactica)
12161900
Victor S Pritchett, literary critic/author (Myth Makers)
12161901
Margaret Mead, Phila, anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa)
12161904
Norbert E Fonteyne, Flemish writer (Guest house Vivs)
12161907
Ray C Bliss, (R) Ohio State Republican Chairman
12161917
Arthur C[harles] Clarke, sci-fi author (2001, 2010, Childhood's End)
12161923
Tip [Silvio A] Marugg, Antillian writer (Weekend pilgrimage)
12161926
James McCracken, Gary Ind, dramatic tenor (Rodolfo-La Bohme)
12161927
G Randall P D Garrett, US, sci-fi writer (Takeoff (too)!)
Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson, Zambia, sci-fi author (Heartsease)
[Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, US, sci-fi author (Lord Darcy)
12161928
Philip K[indred] Dick, US, sci-fi author (Hugo-1963, Blade Runner)
12161932
Rodion Shchedrin, Moscow Russia, composer (Humpback Horse)
12161937
Joyce Bulifant, Newport News Va, actress (Marie-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
12161938
Michael Greer, Durham NC, actor (Bobby Gentry Show)
12161939
Liv Ullman, Tokyo Japan, actress (Cries & Whispers, 40 Carats)
12161940
Dimitri van Toren, singer/composer
12161941
Lesley Stahl, Lynn Mass, White House correspondent (CBS-TV)
12161943
Steven Bochco, producer (Hill St Blues, LA Law, St Elsewhere)
Tony Hicks, rocker (Hollies-The Air That I Breathe)
12161946
Adrian van Dis, Dutch TV host/writer (Promised Country)
Benny Andersson, Stockholm, singer (ABBA-Money! Money! Money!)
Fred Borgman, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
12161947
Ben Cross, England, actor (Chariots of Fire, Far Pavillions)
Vincent Matthews, US, 400m dash (Olympic-gold-1972)
12161949
Billy Gibbons, jazz guitarist/vocalist (Moving Sidewalks, ZZ Top)
12161950
Caroline Munro, Windsor England, actress (Golden Voyage of Sinbad)
Ieremia Tabai, pres of Kiribati (Gilbert Islands) (1979-  )
12161952
Elayne Boosler, comedienne (Night Court)
12161953
Filip Bolluyt, actor (De Dagerad)
12161954
Joslyn Y Hoyte-Smith, Barbados, 4X400m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1980)
12161958
Bart Oates, NFL center (NY Giants)
12161959
Alison La Placa, actress (Duet)
12161962
Maruschka Detmers, Schoonebeek Holland, actress (Devil in the Flesh)
Melanie Smith, Scranton Pa, actress (Emily-As the World Turns)
William "The Refrigerator" Perry, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
12161965
Cynthia Lynne White, Okla City Okla, Miss Okla-America (1991-top 10)
Romallis Ellis, Wash DC, lightweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1988)
12161971
Michael S McCary, [Boss], Phila Pa, rapper (Boyz II Men)
12171554
Ernst van Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbishop of Keulen
12171619
Ruprecht, prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician
12171706
Chtelet, la belle Emilie, French writer
Gabrielle Chtelet, [La belle Emilie], French writer (Voltaire)
12171749
Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Il matrimonio segreto)
12171778
Humphry Davy, discovered several chemical elements
12171797
Joseph Henry, US, scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism
12171801
Johan NMJ, king of Saxon (1854-73) (translated Divina Commedia)
12171807
John Greenleaf Whittier, US, poet (Snow-bound)
12171819
Samuel Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
12171820
Frederick Tracy Dent, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
12171821
Frederick West Lander, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
12171824
Manning Ferguson Force, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1899
Thomas Starr King, NY, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity & Humanity)
12171830
Jules de Goncourt, France, novelist (Germinie)
12171833
James Thadeus Holtzclaw, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
12171835
Alexander E Agassiz, US, businessman/biologist/geology
12171853
Herbert Beerbohm Tree, England, actor/theater manager (Trilby)
12171859
Willem C Grnings, Curaaos publisher (Friends of Pueblo)
12171861
Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer
12171873
Ford Madox Ford, England, novelist/editor (Inheritors)
12171874
William Lyon Mackenzie King, (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)
12171876
J£lio A Peixoto, Brazilian writer (O esfinge)
12171881
John CB "John" Sluyters, painter
12171889
Vaslav F Ninski, Ukraine/US ballet dancer (l'aprs-midi d'une faune)
12171893
Erwin Piscator, German song director (Der Stellvertreter)
12171894
Arthur Fiedler, Boston Mass, conductor (Boston Pops)
Hans [Henry A] Kramers, theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics)
121719--
Jaimee Foxworth, actor (Judy Winslow-Family Matters)
William Roerick, actor (Guiding Light)
12171900
Lucan M Skerjanc, Yugoslavia, composer/conductor
12171903
Erskine P Caldwell, author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
12171904
Dmitri B Kabalevski, Russian composer
Paul Cadmus, NYC, etcher/painter (Sailors & Floozies)
12171908
Willard Frank Libby, inventor (carbon-14 "atomic clock" (Nobel 1960))
12171909
Ferdinand H Aus der Fnten, German war criminal (Breda 4)
12171916
Toon Hermans, entertainer/poet
12171922
Hubert HA Beckers, Curaaos musician
12171925
Rk de Gooyer, actor
12171926
Patrice Wymore, actress (The Big Tree)
12171927
Richard Long, Chic Ill, actor (Prof-Nanny & the Professor)
12171929
William Safire, political columnis (NY Times)/speech writer (Nixon)
12171930
Bob Guccione, [Robert C J Edwa], US publisher (Penthouse, Omni)
Julia Meade, actress/TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse)
Robert Guccione, magazine publisher (Penthouse, Omni)
12171931
Yvonne Keuls, [Bamberg], writer (Jan Rap & his mat)
12171933
Paul Snoek, [Edm Shootsekat], Belgian poet
12171936
Frank Martinus Arion, [F Efraim M], Antilles, writer (Double Speak)
Roland Sheldon, pitcher (NY Yankees)
Tommy Steele, singer/actor (« a Sixpence, Finian's Rainbow)
12171937
Art Neville, singer (Neville Brothers)
12171939
Eddie Kendricks, Alabama, rocker (Temptations-My Girl, Boogie Down)
James Booker, New Orleans, R & B musician (Gonzo)
Novella Nelson, Bkln NY, actress (Nellie Cole-Chiefs)
12171942
Bernard Hill, actor
Paul Butterfield, Chicago, blues musician (Better Days)
12171944
Ference Bene, Hungary, record 12 soccer goals (Olympic-gold-1964)
Jack L[aurence] Chalker, US, sci-fi author (Saga of Well World)
12171945
Christopher Cazenove, England, actor (Ben-Dynasty)
Ernie Hudson, actor (Ghostbusters, Weeds)
12171946
Eugene Levy, Hamilton Canada, comedian/writer (SCTV)
12171947
Marilyn Hassett, actress
Simon Bates, English DJ
12171948
Jim Bonfanti, rocker (Raspberries-Go All the Way)
12171949
Paul Rodgers, Engl, rocker (Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love, Firm)
12171952
Hans Alders, Dutch minister of environment & business (PvdA)
12171953
Barry Livingston, LA Calif, actor (Ernie-My 3 Sons)
12171957
Bob Ojeda, pitcher (NY Mets)
12171959
Albert King, actor (BB King & Friends, Blues Alive)
12171961
Sarah Dallin, rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
Venice Kong, St Mary Jamaica, playmate (September, 1985)
12171964
Eric Brown, NYC, actor (Buzz-Mama's Family)
12171970
Benedictine, [St Bernard]; becomes heaviest known dog (137 kg)
12171974
Giovonni Ribisi, actor (Cory-My 2 Dads, New Leave it To Beaver)
12181610
Charles Du Fresne Du Cange, French scholar/philologist
12181707
Charles Wesley, co-founder (Methodist movement)
12181709
Elizabeth, empress of Russia (to Peter the Great & Catherine I)
12181779
Joseph Grimaldi, England, pantomimist ("greatest clown in history")
12181786
Carl Maria von Weber, Germany, romantic composer (Der Freischutz)
12181788
Camille Pleyel, Austria, piano builder
12181803
William Allen, (Rep/Gov-Oh)
12181811
Alexander Sandor Asboth, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1868
12181816
Alfred Elzey Jones, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
12181819
Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorena)
12181825
Charles Griffin, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1867
12181826
Charles-A Chatrian, [Erckmann-C], French writer (L'ami Fritz)
Mercer Brooke John, (Confederate Navy), died in 1906
12181835
George Dashiell Bayard, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
12181837
A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder (CVP)
12181844
Lujo [Ludwig J von) Brentano, German economist
12181856
Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron (Nobel 1906)
12181861
Aristide Maillol, French sculptor/graphic artist
Edward MacDowell, US, composer (Indian Suite)
12181863
French Ferdinand, archduke of Austria (Sarajevo/WW I)
12181867
Antoon van Welie, painter
12181870
Saki (Hector Hugo Munro), Burma, author (Reginald, When William Came)
12181879
Paul Klee, Switzerland, abstract painter (Twittering Machine)
12181884
Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister
12181886
Ty Cobb, Colo, batted .367, stole 892 bases (Det Tigers)
12181888
Gladys Cooper, Lewisham England, actress (My Fair Lady)
Robert Moses, power broker (built Long Island & NYC parks & roads)
12181890
Edwin Howard Armstrong, NYC, radio pioneer inventor (FM)
12181897
Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist
121819--
Gillian Spencer, actress (Daisy Cortlandt-All My Children)
12181904
George Stevens, US director (Alice Adams, Penny Serenade)
12181907
Christopher Fry, England, playwright (Ring Around the Moon)
12181908
Celia Johnson, Brits actress (Happy Breed, Brief encounter)
12181909
Mona Barrie, England, actress (Dawn on Great Divide)
12181910
Abe Burrows, Bkln NY, Broadway composer (Guys & Dolls 1951 TONY)
12181911
Jules Dassin, director (Circle of Two, Never on Sunday)
12181913
Alfred Bester, US, science fiction author (Decievers, Starlight)
Lynn Bari, Roanoke Va, actress (Connie-Detective Wife, Earthbound)
Willy Brandt, [Herbert Frahm], German chancellor (1969-74, Nobel 1971)
12181915
Dario Mangiarotti, Italy, fencing, gold, 2 silver (Olympic-1948, 52)
12181916
Betty Grable, St Louis, actress (Gay Divorcee), great gams
12181917
Ossie Davis, actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam)
12181919
Anita O'Day, Chicago, big band jazz singer (Gene Krupa, Stan Kanton)
12181920
Rita Streich, German singer
12181922
Larry D Mann, Toronto Canada, actor (Marty-Accidental Family)
12181923
Lotti [Charlotte] van der Gag, sculptor/painter
12181926
Peggy Cummins, North Wales, actress (Curse of the Demon)
12181927
Ramsey Clark, US attorney General (1967-69)
Sterling Lanier, US, writer (Hiero's Journey)
12181930
Theodore C Freeman, Penns, astronaut
12181932
Roger Smith, South Gate Calif, actor (77 Sunset Strip)
12181934
Boris V Volynov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5, 21)
12181938
Chas Chandler, rocker (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
12181939
Michael J Moorcock, England, sci-fi author (Alien Heat, Bull & Spear)
Sandro Lopopolia, Italy, lightweight boxer (Olympic-Silver-1960)
12181941
Sam Andrew, rocker (Big Brother & Holding Company-Cheap Thrills)
12181943
Keith Richards, England, rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
12181945
Birenda Bir Bikram, King of Nepal
Carolyn Wood, US, 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1960)
12181946
Hubie Green, Birmingham Ala, PGA golfer (US Open 1977)
Stephen (Steve) Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist
12181947
Eddie Antar, founder/CEO (Crazy Eddie Electronics Store)
Steven Spielberg, Cincinatti, director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws)
12181949
Joni Flynn, Assam India, actress (Octopussy)
12181950
Leonard Maltin, NYC, movie critic (Entertainment Tonight)
12181951
Andrew S W Thomas, Adelaide Australia, PhD/astronaut
12181954
Ray Liotta, Newark NJ, actor (Sacha-Casablanca, Goodfellas)
12181957
John Webster, rocker (Red Ryder-Light in the Tunnel)
12181961
Ken Foreman, rocker (Thrashing Doves-Reprobate's Hymm)
12181965
Brad Pitt, actor (Cutting Class)
Fawna Maclaren, Santa Monica Ca, playmate (Jan, 1989)
12181966
Kiefer Sutherland, actor (Young Guns, Stand by Me, Lost Boys)
Steve Dullaghan, rocker (Primitives-Lovely, Lump of Coal)
12191---
Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaii
12191036
Su Tung-p'o, China, poet/essayist/painter/official
12191498
Andreas Osiander, German theologist (justice)
12191676
Louis-Nicolas Clrambault, French organist/composer
12191683
Phillip V, 1st Bourbon king of Spain (1700-46)
12191790
William Parry, England, Arctic explorer
12191792
Andries H Potgieter, South African explorer
12191814
Edwin McMasters Stanton, Secy War (Union), died in 1869
12191817
James Jay Archer, Brig General (Confederate Army) died in 1864
12191819
James Clifford Veatch, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1895
12191821
Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader
12191837
John Carpenter Carter, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
12191849
Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie
12191852
Albert A Michelson, established c as universal constant (Nobel 1907)
12191861
Italo Svevo, Trieste, novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno)
12191865
Minnie Maddern Fiske, US, stage actress (Hedy Gabler)
12191875
Carter G Woodson, Virginia, African American
12191880
Klaus Painter, reformed theologist (Christ & his suffering)
12191883
Louis Davids, [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer
12191884
Anton¡n Z potocky, premier/president of Czechoslovakia
12191888
Fritz Reiner, Budapest Hungary, conductor (Pitts Symphony 1938-48)
12191894
Ford C Frick, baseball commissioner (1951-65)
121919--
Jourdan Fremin, New Orleans La, actress (At Ease)
Klaus Eichstadt, rocker (Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad)
Maria Martha Serralima, Buenos Aires Argentina, entertainer
12191901
Oliver Lafarge, novelist (Laughing Boy)
12191902
Ralph Richardson, British actor (Anna Karenina, Dr Zhivago)
12191906
H Allen Smith, US, humorist/author (Low Man on Totem Pole)
Leonid I Brezhnev, Ukraine, 1st Secretary of USSR (1964-82)
12191907
H Allen Smith, Ill, TV host (Armchair Detective)
12191910
Jean Gent, France, novelist/playwright (The Blacks)
12191915
Edith Piaf, [E Giovanna Gassion], Paris, chanteuse (Little Sparrow)
12191916
Adriaan van der Veen, writer (Kom M Niet Te Na)
Hal Hastings, NYC, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway)
12191920
David Susskind, NYC, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show)
Ragnild Hveger, Denmark, 400m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936)
12191924
Edmund Purdom, England, actor (Asissi Underground, Pieces)
12191925
Jimmy Dickens, Bolt WV, country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
12191926
Bobby Layne, NFL QB (Detroit Lions)
12191928
Galt MacDermot, Canada, composer (Letting Down My Hair)
12191929
Herman T M Lauxtermann, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
12191933
Cecily Tyson, Harlem NYC, actress (Roots, Miss Jane Pittman)
12191934
Al Kaline, Detroit Tigers slugger (AL bat champ 1955)
Rudi Carrell, [Rudolf W Kesselman], showmaster
12191938
Barbara Steele, Trenton Wirrall England, actress (Came from Within)
12191939
Cicely Tyson, NYC, actress (Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman)
12191940
Phil Ochs, El Paso Tx, anti-war folk singer (Joe Hill, War is Over)
12191941
Maurice White, drummer (Earth, Wind & Fire-Spirit)
12191943
William De Vries, Bkln, surgeon-inventor (Symbion artifical heart)
12191944
Tim Reid, Norfolk VA, comedian (Venus Flytrap-WKRP, Frank's Place)
Zal Yanovsky, rock guitarist (Lovin' Spoonful-Do You Believe in Magic)
12191945
Elaine Joyce, Cleveland Ohio, actress (City of Angels, Mr Merlin)
12191946
Marianne Faithfull, Hampstead England, singer (Money, As Tears Go By)
Robert Urich, Toronto Ohio, actor (SWAT, Spenser for Hire, Vega$)
12191947
Janie Fricke, country singer (Country Music Best Female 1982, 83)
12191949
Claudia A Kolb, US, 200m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-silver-1964)
12191956
Alice Barrett, NYC, actress (Frankie Frame-Another World)
12191957
Doug Johnson, rock keyboardist (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
Kevin McHale, NBA forward (Boston Celtics)
Liz Glazowski, Chicago Ill, playmate (April, 1980)
12191958
Limahl, British rocker (Kajagoogoo-Too Shy)
12191960
Mike Lookinland, Mt Pleasant Utah, actor (Bobby-Brady Bunch)
12191962
Bettina Huebers, Hamburg GFR, illegitimate daughter of Paul McCartney
12191963
Jennifer Beals, Chicago, actress (Flashdance, Bride)
12191964
Beatrice Dalle, Breast France, actress (Betty Blue, Sabbath)
12191966
Robert MacNaughton, NYC, actor (ET)
12191969
Kristy Swanson, actress (Knots Landing, Buffy Vampire Slayer)
12191970
Zac Foley, rock bassist (EMF-Unbelievable)
12191971
Amy Locane, Trenton NJ, actress (Andrea-Spencer, Sandy-Melrose Place)
12191972
Alyssa Jane Milano, Bkln NY, actress (Samantha-Who's the Boss)
12201579
John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist (Phylaster) (baptized)
12201805
Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry
12201807
Richard Lucian Page, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
12201808
Thomas Tinsley Craven, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1887
12201813
Samuel Jordan Kirkwood, (Gov-Iowa)/US Sect of Interior (1881-82)
12201819
John Geary, 1st SF postmaster, 1st mayor (May 1, 1850)
12201825
Romeyn Beck Ayres, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
12201833
Dr Samuel A Mudd, convicted of giving medical aid to JW Booth
12201841
Ferdinand-douard Buisson, France, educator (Nobel Peace Prize 1927)
12201858
John [Jean] T Toorop, painter/graphic artist (3 Brides)
12201859
Antonius J Derkinderen, painter
12201868
Harvey S Firestone, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road
12201870
Pieter C Boutens, poet (Rekenschap voor Sir Herbert Grierson)
12201872
Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer
12201875
T F Powys, Wales, writer (Captain Patch, Goat Green)
12201876
J Van Oudshoorn, [John K Feylbrief], writer (Maze of Sentences)
12201881
Branch Rickey, baseball executive (Dodgers)
12201886
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, Calif, tennis player (US Open 1909-11)
12201894
Robert Menzies, Australian PM (1939-41, 1949-66)
12201895
Susanne Langer, US, philosopher/educator (Philosophy in a New Key)
122019--
Charlie Callas, Bkln, comedian/actor (High Anxiety, Hysterical)
Chris Robinson, rocker (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
Luisa Maria Guell, Havana Cuba, singer (Tres Palabras)
12201900
Gabby Harnett, (NL MVP 1935)
12201901
Irene Dunne, Louisville Ky, actress (Schlitz Playhouse)
Louis I Kahn, US architect
Robert Van de Graaff, Alabama, physicist (Mobility of Gaseous Ions)
12201902
Max Lerner, US, columnist (NY Post)
Sidney Hook, anticommunist philosopher (Paradoxes of Freedom)
12201904
Albert Van Dekker, US actor (Dr Cyclops, Beau Gesture)
Irene Dunne, Louisville, actress (I Remember Mama, My Favorite Wife)
12201911
Hortense Calisher, novelist (Arts & Letters 1967)
12201918
Audrey Totter, Joliet Ill, actress (Carpetbaggers, Set-Up)
12201922
Charita Bauer, Newark NJ, actress (Guiding Light, Aldrich Family)
George Roy Hill, dir (Slap Shot, Little Durmmer Girl, Little Romance)
12201925
Datuk Seri Mahathir bin Mahamad, premier of Malaysia (1981-  )
12201926
David Levine, US painter
12201928
Jack Christiansen, Kansas, NFL hall of famer defensive back (Lions)
12201929
Milan Panic, premier of little Yugoslavia
12201931
Mala Powers, SF Calif, actress (Mona-Hazel, Man & the City)
12201932
John Hillerman, Denison Tx, actor (Higgins-Magnum PI)
12201933
Gordon Getty
Rik Van Looy, Belgian cyclist (world champion)
12201938
John Harbison, Orange NJ, composer
12201941
Frank Creton, Suriname/Neth painter
12201942
Robert L Hayes, Jacksonville Fla, 100m/4x100m runner (Oly-gold-1964)
12201943
Angel Tomblin, Albany Calif, actress (Gloria-Search)
12201944
Robert Colomby, rocker (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
12201946
John Spencer, actor (Tommy Mullanney-LA Law)
Uri Geller, psychic (bends forks)
12201947
Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer
Peter Criss, Brooklyn, singer (KISS-Beth)
12201952
Jenny Agutter, Taunton England, actress (Logan's Run, Equus, Amy)
12201955
Ed Kuepper, German/Australian, singer/songwriter (Saints)
Pierre Bokma, actor
12201956
Blanche Baker, NYC, actress/Carroll Baker's Daughter (French Postcard)
12201957
Mike Watt, US bassist (Rockband Firehose)
12201958
Billy Bragg, British rocker (It Says Here, Ideology)
12201960
Carolyn Seaward, Devonshire England, Miss UK (1979)
12201961
Bonnie Marino, Cleveland Oh, playmate (Jun, 1990)
12201963
Pam Casale, Camden NJ, tennis player (Marco Island finals 1985)
12211117
Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury
12211537
Johan III, king of Sweden (1569-92)
12211573
Mathurin Rgnier, French poet (Macette)
12211800
Barnwell Rhett Robert, (Confederacy), died in 1876
12211804
Benjamin Disraeli, (Tory) British PM (1868, 1874-80)
12211818
Amalia, wife of king Otto of Greece
12211823
Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist (insects & spiders)
12211832
John Henry Ketcham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
12211840
Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish journalist (Vatan)
12211849
James Lane Allen, US writer (Kentucky Cardinal)
12211853
Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter)
12211859
Gustave Kahn, France, poet (claimed to have invented vers libre)
12211860
Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah)
12211872
Albert P Terhune, US, novelist (Lad, a Dog)
12211874
Juan Bautista Sacasa, pres of Nicaragua (1932-36)
12211879
Joseph Stalin, [Dzoegashvili], Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000
12211886
Hermann AJ Kees, German Egyptologist (Problem of Egyptology)
12211890
Fred M Vinson, US Supreme Court Justice (1946-53)
12211891
John W McCormack, (D) Speaker of House (1962-70)
12211892
Dame Rebecca West, journalist/novelist (Arnold Bennett Himself)
Walter Hagen, Rochester NY, PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19)
12211896
Carl Romme, lawyer/KVP-min Socialist Business
12211898
Eugne Dabit, French writer/painter (Htel du Nord)
Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar)
122119--
Danielle Von Zerneck, actress (General Hospital)
Devon Ericson, Salt Lake City, actress (Studs Lonigan, Chisholms)
Jane Kaczmarek, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Mary-Hometown)
Ray Acevedo, rocker (Menudo-Cannonball)
12211901
Juan A de Zunzunegui y Loredo, Spanish writer
12211905
Anthony Powell, England, novelist (Infants of Spring)
12211908
Pat Weaver, LA Calif, TV Executive, started Today show
12211909
George Ball, Iowa, lawyer/undersecretary of state
12211911
Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth" (hit 800+ HRs)
12211917
Alicia Alonso, Havana Cuba, ballerina (American Ballet Theatre)
Andre Eglevsky, choreographer (Limelight)
Heinrich Bll, Germany, writer (Group Portrait with Lady, Nobel '72)
12211918
Donald Regan, White House staffer/US Secretary of Treasury (1981-85)
Kurt Waldheim, 4th UN Sec-Gen (1972-81), Austrian pres/Nazi
12211919
Gert Fredriksson, Sweden, 1K kayak (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
12211922
Paul Winchell, NYC, ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smith)
12211924
Joe Paterno, football coach (Penn State, SI Sportsman of 1986)
Rita Reys, [Maria Res], jazz singer
12211926
Pedro Gonzales-Gonzalez, Aguilares Tx, actor (Rio Bravo)
12211928
Ed Nelson, New Orleans La, actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider)
12211931
Caroline Kart, [Paterson Raitt], alto singer
David Baker, Indianapolis Indiana, composer (Reflections)
12211933
Huib Eversdk, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
12211935
Phil Donahue, Cleve Ohio, talk show host (Phil Donahue Show)
12211937
Harald, Crown Prince, son of King Olav V, heir apparent of Norway
Jane Fonda, NYC, actress (Barbarella, Klute), physically fit
12211938
Larry Bryggman, Concord Calif, actor (John-As the World Turns)
12211940
Frank Zappa, rocker (Mothers of Invention, Catholic Girls)
Paul, [Ray Hildebrand], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
12211944
Jared Martin, NYC, actor (Varian-Fantastic Voyage, Dusty-Dallas)
Michael Tilson Thomas, LA Calif, conductor (NY Phil Young People)
12211946
Carl Wilson, rocker (Beachboys-Barbie)
Christopher Keene, Berkeley Calif, conductor (La Traviata)
12211948
Barry Gordon, Brookline Mass, actor (Gary-Archie Bunker's Place)
Carol Potter, NYC, actress (Maggie Clinton-Today's FBI)
Dave Kingman, baseball player (Mets, Yanks, Giants)
Willem AFG Vermeend, economist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
12211953
Andras Schiff, Budapest Hungary, pianist (Tchaikovsky-1974)
Arie Luyendyk, Netherlands, Indy-car racer (1990 Indianapolis 500)
12211954
Chris Evert Lloyd Mills, Ft Lauderdale, tennis pro 'Miss pokerface'
12211957
Joshua Mostel, NYC, actor (Delta House, At Ease)
Lisa Gerritsen, LA Calif, actress (Bess-Mary Tyler Moore Show)
12211959
Florence Griffith Joyner, LA Calif, runner (Olympic-3 gold-1988)
12211960
Roger McDowall, pitcher (NY Mets)
12211967
Kristi Cooke, Marion Ohio, Miss Ohio-America (1991)
12211968
Khrystyne Haje, Santa Clara, Cal, actress (Simone-Head of the Class)
12221400
Luca della Robbia, Italy, sculptor (Madonna of Rose Garden)
12221459
Djem Sultan, son of Turks sultan Mehmed II
12221523
Charles "Cardinal" of Bourbon, archbishop Rouen
12221573
Ernst Casimir, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Friesl/Groningen
12221639
Jean-Baptiste Racine, French dramatist (Andromaque) (baptized)
12221696
James Oglethorpe, England, General/author/colonizer (Georgia)
12221702
Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Madame d'epinay)
12221727
William Ellery, signer of Declaration of Independence
12221803
Joseph King Fenno Mansfield, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1862
12221815
Henry Highland Garnet, abolitionist
Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader
12221819
Franz W Abbot, German composer/choir conductor
12221826
James Scott Negley, (Union volunteers Major General, died in 1901)
12221831
Robert Ogden Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1874
12221832
Edward Hatch, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
12221846
Oscar Carr, circus director
12221847
Heihatjir Tj, Japan, admiral (Russian-Japanese war)
12221856
Frank Kellogg, Sec of State (1925-29), try to outlaw war (Nobel 1929)
12221858
Giacomo Puccini, Lucca Italy, opera composer (La Bohme, La Tosca)
12221862
Connie Mack, HOF baseball executive/manager (Phila A's 1900-1950)
12221867
Frantisek X Salda, Czech writer/critic
12221869
Edwin Arlington Robinson, US, poet (Richard Corey)
12221876
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Ital writer (Futurism e Futurista)
12221885
Edgar Varse, Paris France, composer (Innisation)
Joseph Deems Taylor, NYC, composer (Peter Ibbetson)
12221887
Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indies mathematician (ã/Notebooks)
12221888
Joseph Arthur Rank, English film magnate
12221890
Mark Tobey, US abstract painter (Broadway standard)
12221899
Gustaf Grndgens, German actor/director
122219--
Elizabeth Hubbard, actress (Lucinda-As the World Turns)
Franc Luz, Cambridge Mass, actor (Ben-Hometown)
Lanna Saunders, actress (Young & Restless)
Lynne Thigpen, Joliet Ill, actress (Nancy-Love Sidney)
Raymond Singer, NYC, actor (Operation Petticoat, Mamam Malone)
Wolfe Perry, New Orleans La, actor (Teddy-White Shadow)
12221901
Andr Kostelanetz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Lincoln Portrari)
12221903
Dr Barbara Moore, walked across US in 86 days in 1960
H Keffer Hartline, US, biophysicist (Nobel 1967)
12221905
Kenneth Rexroth, US, poet/critic/translator (Birds in the Bush)
12221907
Peggy Ashcroft, stage actress (Dear Brutus, Happy Days)
12221908
Giacomo Manz£, Italy, sculptor (St Peter, Laurenskerk, Lenin Prize)
Marius F Duintjer, architect
12221911
Alan Carney, Bkln NY, actor (Herbie-Take it from Me)
Groot Reber, US, astronomer (1st parabolic radio telescope)
12221912
Claudia A "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson, 1st lady (1963-1969)
Henry Armstrong, held feather/light/welterweight boxing titles (1938)
12221917
Gene Rayburn, Ill, TV game show host (Match Game)
12221921
Hawkshaw Hawkins, Huntington WV, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)
12221922
Barbara Billingsley, LA Calif, actress (June-Leave it to Beaver)
James C Wright Jr, (Rep-D-Texas), Speaker of House (1987-89)
12221926
Peggy Castle, Appalachia Va, actress (Lily Merrill-Lawman)
12221936
Hector Elizondo, NYC, actor (American Gigolo, Young Doctors in Love)
12221937
Marco J de Castro, Dutch Antillian politician
12221944
Barry Jenkins, rocker (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
Steve Carlton, Phillies' pitcher (Cy Young '72, '77, '80, '82)
12221945
Diane Sawyer, Glasgow Ky, newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC Prime Time)
Joris J C Voorhoeve, Dutch 2nd chamber member (VVD)
Marianne van Wnkoop [Bosscher], actress (Les Misrables)
12221947
Brian C Daley, US, sci-fi author (Exploits of Han Solo, Tron)
12221948
Noel Edmonds, British TV personality (Foul-ups, Bleeps & Blunders)
Steve Garvey, 1st baseman (LA Dodgers, San Diego Padres)
12221949
Maurice Gibb, singer (BeeGees-I Started a Joke)
Robin Gibb, singer (BeeGees-Holiday)
12221950
Rick Nielsen, guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist (Cheap Trick-Surrender)
12221951
Charles de Lint, Neth, sci-fi author (Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow)
Jan Stephenson, Sydney Australia, golfer (LPGA Rookie of Year-1974)
12221953
Bernnadette Stanis, Bkln NY, actress (Thelma-Good Times)
12221960
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Haiti/US graffiti artist/painter (Gray, SAMO)
Tyrell Biggs, Phila, super HW boxer (Olympic-gold-1984)
12221961
Catherine Oxenberg, NYC, actress (Amanda-Dynasty)
Yuri Ivanovich Matinchenko, Russian lt-colonel/cosmonaut
12221968
Lauralee Bell, actress (Cricket-Young & Restless)
12221972
Vanessa Paradis, France, model (Channel)/actress (White Wedding)
12231174
Louis I, Duke of Wittelsbach
12231597
Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"
12231732
Richard Arkwright, inventor (spinning frame)
12231750
Frederik Augustus I de Rechtvaardige, king of Saxon (1806-27)
12231777
Alexander I, tsar of Russia (1801-25)
12231790
Jean-Franois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics
12231804
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, French critic/writer (Informal Talk)
12231805
Joseph Smith Jr, Sharon Vt, found Mormon church
12231808
Thomas Turner, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1883
12231812
Samuel Smiles, Scotland, author (Self-Help, Character, Duty)
12231815
Henry Highland Garnet, Maryland, minister/abolitionist/diplomat
12231818
David Addison Weisiger, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
12231827
Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Austrian admiral (Helgoland/Lissa)
12231828
Mathilde Wesendonk, German writer/poet (Tagebuchblatter)
12231834
Thomas R Malthus, English vicar/economist (moral restraint)
12231845
Emmanuel-Persillier Lachapelle, dr (found Notre Dame Hosp Montreal)
12231860
Harriet Monroe, Chicago, poet/editor of Poetry magazine (You & I)
12231862
Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian (History of Belgium)
12231867
Madame C J Walker, Louisiana, cosmetic mogul
12231883
Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45)
12231888
Eric Blore, English/US actor (Great Gatsby, Bowery to Baghdad)
12231893
Ann O'Neal, Missouri, actress (Nana-Professional Father)
12231896
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Sicilian writer (Der Leopard)
122319--
Alan North, NYC, actor (Capt Ed Hocken-Naked Gun)
Allison Argo, Richmond Va, actress (Susan-Ladies' Man)
John Callahan, Brooklyn NY, actor (Craig-Santa Barbara, Falcon Crest)
John Marin, painter (1948 Fine Arts Medal)
Michael Richardson, Riverside Calif, actor (Steve Baker-Chase)
Mitch Brown, Bronx NY, actor (Hardy-The Cowboys)
Patrick Ramsey, football player
12231903
Michael Kalatozov, Russian producer (Cranes are Flying)
12231906
Ross Lee Finney, Wells Minnesota, composer (Landscapes Remembered)
12231907
Don McNeill, Galena Ill, host (Don McNeill TV Club)
12231908
Yousuf Karsh, portrait photographer (Life Magazine)
12231909
Barney Ross, NYC, Welterweight Boxing Champ (1934)
12231911
James Gregory, Bronx NYC, actor (My Favorite Martian, Barney Miller)
12231918
Helmut Schmidt, Chancellor of Germany (SPD, 1974-  )
Jos Greco, Italy, flamenco dancer (Holiday for Lovers)
12231921
Gerald S O'Loughlin, NYC, actor (Storefront Lawyer, Rookies, Wheels)
12231922
Micheline Ostermeyer, France, shot-put/discus thrower (Oly-gold-1948)
12231923
Leonard Stern, TV writer (Phil Silvers Show, Get Smart)
Milt Okun, Bkln NY, orch leader (Starland Vocal Band Show)
Ruth Roman, Boston Mass, actress (Sylvia-Knots Landing, Dallas)
12231924
Floyd Kalber, Omaha Neb, newscaster (NBC Weekend News Anchor-1973)
12231925
Harry Guardino, NYC, actor (Monty Nash, Perry Mason, Hill St Blues)
12231926
Robert Bly, US, poet/editor/translator (Loving a Woman in 2 Worlds)
12231929
Dick Weber, pro bowler (16, 300 games)
12231931
Ronnie Schell, Richmond Cal, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Good Morning World)
12231933
Akihito, emperor of Japan (1989-  )
12231935
Paul Hornung, Green Bay Packer (the Golden Boy)
12231936
James Stacy, LA Calif, actor (Fred-Adv of Ozzie & Harriet)
12231937
Karol J Bobko, NYC, Col USAF/astronaut (STS-6, STS 51D, STS 51J)
12231941
Elizabeth Hartman, Youngstown Ohio, actress (Walking Tall, Beguilled)
Tim Hardin, Oregon, singer (If I Were a Carpenter, Bird on a Wire)
12231942
Jerry Koosman, pitcher (NY Mets)
12231943
Harry Shearer, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
Silvia Sommerlath, German wife of King Charles XVI of Sweden
12231944
DJD Dees, pharmacist/Dutch minister of WVC (VVD)
Ennes Heerma, Dutch politician (CDA)
12231945
Richard C Wohlhuter, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1976)
Ronald Bushy, rocker (Iron Butterfly-Ina gada davida)
12231947
Bill Rodgers, marathon runner (Boston, NY)
12231948
Jack Ham, NFL linebacker (Steelers)
Susan Lucci, Westchester NY, actress (All My Children, Mafia Princess)
12231955
Dave Murray, heavy metal rocker (Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast)
12231956
Michele Alboretto, formula-1 racer (Ferrari)
12231958
Denise McConnell, Weisbaden Germany, playmate (March, 1979)
Joan Severance, Houston Tx, actress (Hear No Evil, See No Evil)
12231959
Edward FLW Halifax, English viscount/viceroy of India
1223196-
Chantily Lace, XXX actress (Unlaced)
12231960
Zindzi Mandela, daughter of Nelson & Winnie Mandela
12231970
Shannon Noelle DePuy, Lynchburg Va, Miss Virg-America (1991-top 10)
12231971
Corey Haim, Toronto, actor (Silver Bullet, Lucas, License to Drive)
1224   3
-BC- Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th Roman emperor (68-69)
12241167
John Zonder Land, king of England (1199-1216)
12241714
Rainieri De Calzabigi, Italian's literary (1st European Lottery)
12241745
Benjamin Rush, Byberry Pa, physician-General (Continental Army)
12241754
George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet (Everlasting Mercy)
12241761
Selm III, screenwriter/composer/sultan of Turkey (1789-1808)
12241791
A Eugne Scribe, French dramatist (Bertrand et Raton)
12241798
Adam Mickiewicz, Poland, national poet (Pan Tadeusz)
12241809
Christopher "Kit" Carson, KY, western scout
12241818
James Prescott Joule, physicist (discovered conservation of energy)
12241822
Charles Hermite, French mathematician (e is transcendent)
Matthew Arnold, England, poet/critic (Dover Beach)
12241837
Sissi, Emperor of Austria
12241867
Tevfik Fikret, Turkish poet (Napkin-i Fnun/Sis)
12241868
Emanuel Lasker, Germany, world chess champion (1894-21)
12241869
Henritte GO Roland Holst-Van de Schalk, poetess (Women in Forest)
12241871
Henri Stroethoff, actor (A Chique Knulletje)
12241881
Juan Ram¢n Jimnez, Spain, poet (Distant Gardens, Nobel 1956)
122419--
Michael Billington, England, actor (Col Foster-UFO, Quest)
12241905
Howard Hughes, reclusive billionaire (Hughes Aircraft)/inventor
12241906
Franz Waxman, Knigshtte, Germany, composer (Day at the Races)
12241907
I[sidore] F[einstein] Stone, US journalist (IF Stone's Weekly)
12241909
Adam Rapacki, Polish minister of Maritime/premier (1897-1901)
12241910
Fritz [Reuter] Leiber Jr, US, sci-fi author (Bazaar of the Bizarre)
Mitchell Ayres, Milwaukee Wisc, orch leader (Hollywood Palace)
12241920
Dave Bartholomew, La, jazz artist/songwriter (Blueberry Hill)
12241921
Bill Dudley, NFL halfback (Pittsburgh, Detroit, Washington)
12241922
Ava Gardner, Grabtown NC, actress (On the Beach, Night of the Iguana)
12241924
Lee Dorsey, New Orleans, vocalist (Working in the Coal Mines)
Willem Drees, economist/Dutch politician (DS'70)
12241927
Teresa Stich-Randall, US soprano (Vienna State Opera)
12241929
Mary Higgins Clark, Bronx NY, author (Cry in the Night, Stillwatch)
12241930
Robert Joffrey, [Abdullah Jaffa Anver Bey Khan], US, dancer
12241931
Jill Bennett, Penang Malay, actress (Lady Jane, Concrete Jungle)
Mauricio Kagel, Argentina/German composer
12241938
Ralp Inbar, Dutch TV host (Banana Split)
12241940
Jorma Kaukonen, rock guitarist/vocalist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna)
Paul Tagliabue, NFL commissioner (1989-  )
12241944
Erhard Keller, German FR, 500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
Mike Curb, Savannah Ga, singer (Mike Curb Congregation)
12241945
Lemmy, [Ian Kilminster], rocker (Hawkwind, Motorhead-Built for Speed)
12241946
John Akkerman, guitarist (Focus-Can't level noise)
Sharon Farrell, Sioux City Iowa, (Lori-Hawaii 5-0, Young & Restless)
12241950
Peter Van Forest, singer (Claw Boys Claw)
12241951
Johnny Contardo, rocker (Sha Na Na-Shannon)
12241955
Clarence Gilyard Jr, actor
12241956
Stephanie Hodge, comedian
12241957
Clarence Gilyard Jr, Moses Lake Wash, actor (Chips, Duck Factory)
Ian Burden, rocker (Human League-Only Human)
12241969
Kenny Kelly, r&b performer (Riff)
12241985
Gregory Scott, director
1225   4
-BC- Jesus of Nazareth, religious leader/philosopher (est date)
12251642
Isaac Newton, English physicist/mathematician/astronomer
12251698
Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator
12251717
Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italy, Pope (1775-99)
12251721
William Collins, Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet
12251763
Claude Chappe, French engineer (optical telegraph)
12251808
Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
12251813
Milledge Luke Bonham, (Confederacy) died in 1890
12251821
Clara Barton, Oxford Mass, nurse/founder (American Red Cross)
Clara Harlowe Barton, Nurse (Confederate Army), died in 1912
12251823
Preston Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
12251832
Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1865
12251837
Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner
12251855
James Galvin, pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884
12251863
E Fern ndez Arb¢s, Spanish violinist/conductor/composer
12251865
Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army General
12251875
Theodor Innitzer, cardinal/archbishop Vienna
12251876
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Karachi, founded Pakistan (1947)
12251878
W Starling Burgess, yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise)
12251881
Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees)
12251883
Maurice Utrillo, France, painter (Port St Martin)
12251887
Conrad Hilton, hotel mogul (Hilton Hotels)
12251892
Rebecca West, journalist/feminist/writer (Meaning of Treason)
12251893
Fred Hillebrand, Bkln NY, actor (Martin Kane)
Ropert L Ripley, Santa Rosa Calif, cartoonist (Believe It or Not)
12251899
Frank Fergusson, actor (My Friend Flicka, Peyton Place)
Humphrey Bogart, NYC, actor, Here's looking at you, kid (Casablanca)
Raphael Soyer, painter (Arts & Letters 1945)
122519--
Kenny Everett, British TV personality (Kenny Everett Show)
Mabel King, Charleston SC, actress (Mama-What's Happening?)
12251900
Barton Maclane, Columbia SC, actor (Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie)
Gladys Swarthout, Deepwater Missouri, mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda)
12251903
J Edward Bromberg, Hungary, actor (Mark of Zorro, Under 2 Flags)
12251904
Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist (molecular structure-Nobel 1971)
12251906
Clark M Clifford, US Secretary of Defense (1968-69)
Lord Grade, British TV mogul (ATV)/movie producer (Boys from Brazil)
William McChesney Martin, Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank (1951-70)
12251907
Cab Calloway, bandleader/actor (Blues Brothers, Jazzball)
12251909
Louis Van Band, Belgian painter
Mike Mazurki, Tarnopal Austria, actor/wrestler (Centerfold Girls)
12251912
Herman W Filarski, bridge journalist
Tony Martin, Oakland Cal, singer (Tony Martin Show, Tonight We Love)
12251915
Noelle de Mosa, Neth/British dancer/teachers (Brigadoon)
12251918
Anwar el-Sadat, Egyptian pres (1970-81, Nobel 1978)
Eddie Safranski, Pitts Pa, orch leader (Jonathan Winters Show)
12251922
Kitty Kallen, Phila Pa, singer (Judge For Yourself)
12251923
Louis Lane, Eagle Pass Texas, conductor (Oere Orch 1968-73)
Nel Vandernotte, France, cox (Olympic-bronze-1936)
12251925
Ossi Reichert, German FR, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1956)
12251927
Nellie Fox, White Sox infielder (AL MVP 1959)
12251928
Earl Brown, Salt Lake City Ut, actor (Stovall-Operation Petticoat)
12251929
Billy Horton, rocker (The Silhouettes-Get a Job)
Irish McCalla, Pawnee City Neb, actress (Sheena Queen of Jungle)
12251931
Carlos Castaneda, US, writer/mystic (Eagle's Gift, Fire From Within)
12251934
Bob Martinez, US politician(?)
John Ashley, KC Mo, actor (Clipper-Straightaway)
12251937
O'Kelly Isley, rock vocalist (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
12251938
Wibo van de Linde, Dutch TV host/director (Avro)
12251940
French Moor, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
12251942
Franoise Durr, France, tennis player (1976 US indoor Doubles)
12251943
Hanna Schygulla, Katowice Silesia, actress (Love is Colder than Death)
12251944
Henry Vestine, rock guitarist (Canned Heat-On the Road Again)
12251945
Gary Sandy, Dayton Ohio, actor (Andy-WKRP in Cincinatti)
Kenny Stabler, NFL QB (Oakland Raiders)
Noel Redding, rocker (The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze)
12251946
Jimmy Buffett, singer (Margaritaville)
Larry Csonka, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, NY Giants)
12251948
Barbara Mandrell, Houston Tx, singer/TV host (Mandrell Sisters)
12251949
Dan Pastorini, NFL QB (Raiders)
Sissy Spacek, Quitman Tx (Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter)
12251951
Ria Thielsch, singer (Luv)
12251953
Arnella Flynn, Rome Italy, Errol Flynn's daughter
12251954
Annie Lennox, Aberdeen Scotland, vocalist (Eurythmics, Why)
Robin Campbell, rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
Steve Wariner, country singer (I Got Dreams)
12251957
Jan Rot, composer/writer (Verkeerde nachten)
Jillie Mack, Mrs Tom Selleck/actress
John Rot, composer/writer (Wriggled Nights)
Shane McGowan, rock vocalist (The Pogues-Red Roses For Me)
12251958
Rickey Henderson, baseball player (stolen base king, A's, Yankees)
12251959
Missy Cleveland, Jackson Miss, playmate (April, 1979)
12251962
Dean Cameron, Morrison Ill, actor (Herbie-Spencer)
12251964
Peter Hanson, English/Sierra Leone/Dutch actor
12251966
Sandy Corn, model/Penthouse Pet (March, 1991)
12251968
Helena Christensen, Coopenhagen Denamrk, model (Wicked Game)
12251969
Bernhard Jr, Prince of Netherlands
12261194
Frederick II, Iesi Italy, German Emperor (1212-1250)
12261198
Frederick II, Jesi Germany, King of Sicily (1198)
12261687
Johann G Pisendel, German violinist/composer
12261716
Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard)
12261738
Thomas Nelson, merchant, signer of Declaration of Independence
12261770
Pierre earl de Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba)
12261771
Heinrich J von Collin, Austria dramatist/poet (Regulus)
12261778
Juan Lovera, Venezuela, artist
12261792
Charles Babbage, inventor (calculating machine)
12261809
William Nelson Pendleton, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1883
12261815
Israel Bush Richardson, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
12261820
Gustavus Adolphus SMith, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1885
12261824
Augustus Louis Chetlain, Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1914
12261826
Martinus Nhoff, founder Nhoff's book/publisher (Van Dale)
12261837
Adm George Dewey, American naval hero of Manila
12261859
Johan F van Bemmelen, zoologist
12261867
Julien Benda, French philosopher/writer (Dialogues  Byzance)
12261874
Norman Angell, [Lane], English cowboy/journalist (Nobel 1933)
12261878
Isaiah Bowman, US, geography/co-founder (Geographical Review)
12261883
Carl Oscar Ahues, Germany, International Chess Master (1950)
Frank Debenham, Australian geography/geology
Maurice Utrillo, French painter (Montmartre)
12261886
Gyula Gmbs von J kfa, general/dictator of Hungary (1932-35)
12261891
Henry Miller, author (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, Sexus)
12261893
Mao Tse-tung, of little red book fame, PM of China PR (1949-76)
12261897
Willie Corsari, [Wilhelmina A Schmidt], writer
122619--
Gerald Hopkins, actor (A J Quartermaine-General Hospital)
Lars Ulrich, rock drummer (Metallica-Helpless)
Terri Garber, actress (Leslie Carrington-Dynasty)
Victoria Racimo, NYC, actress (Corene-Falcon Crest)
12261902
Elisha Cook Jr, SF Calif, actor (Maltese Falcon, Shane, Magnum PI)
12261904
Alentejo Carpentier, Cubans/French writer (Guerra del Tiempo)
12261908
Ralph Hill, US, 5K runner (Olympic-1932)
12261914
Richard Widmark, Sunrise Mich, actor (Madigan, Judgement at Nuremberg)
12261915
Hans [Henri A] Gomperts, literature (Duck on Attic)
12261917
Rosemary Woods, Nixon's secretary, keep her away from your tapes
12261921
Steve Allen, NYC, comedian/TV host (Tonight Show, Steve Allen Show)
12261927
Alan King, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Anderson Tapes, Memories of Me)
Denis Quilley, London England, actor (Masada)
12261930
Donald Moffat, Plymouth England, actor (Kent-Logan's Run)
12261936
Kitty Dukakis, substance abuser/wife of Michael (Gov-Mass)
Mary Tyler Moore, Bkln NY, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show)
12261939
Lynn Martin, US politician(?)
Phil Spector, record producer (Wall of Sound)
12261940
Harmen Siezen, TV-journal host
12261942
Earl Cate, Ark, country singers (Cate Bros-Fire on the Tracks)
Ernie Cate, Ark, country singers (Cate Bros-Fire on the Tracks)
Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arvalo, president of Guatemala (1986-  )
Rob de Ns, singer (Put a candle on your window)
12261944
Jane Lapotaire, actress (Spirit of the Dead)
12261946
Lisette Hordk, Dutch TV broadcaster
12261947
Carlton Fisk, Vermont, all star catcher (Red Sox, White Sox)
12261948
Chris Chambliss, 1st baseman (NY Yankee)
12261949
Ira Newborn, NYC, orch leader (Manhattan Transfer)
12261950
Michael Jones, rocker (BT Express-Here Comes the Express)
12261951
Richard Skinner, British DJ
12261952
Andr-Michel Schub, Paris France, pianist (Van Cliburn-1981)
12261953
Valeri Yuriyevich Sharov, Russia, cosmonaut
12261954
Peter Woods, rocker (Romeo Void-Girl in Trouble)
Susan Butcher, dog sled driver (Idatarod)
Ullrich Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976)
Walter Diessner, German DR, 4 man cox (Olympic-gold-1976)
12261956
Gail Tatterson, WBL center (NY Stars)
Karen Smith, WBL forward (NY Stars)
12261961
Storm Davis, Dallas Texas, pitcher (KC Royals)
Tahnee Welch, San Diego Calif, actress (Cocoon)
12261974
Tiffany Brissette, actress (Vicki-Small Wonder)
12271555
Johann Arndt, German Lutherian theologist
12271571
Johann Kepler, Wrttemberg Germany, astronomer (elliptical orbits)
12271761
Michael A Barclay de Tolly, Scot/Russ minister of War
12271773
George Cayley, England, found science of aerodynamics
12271802
Thomas Fearnley, Norway, landscape painter
12271814
James Henry Carleton, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1873
12271816
Eliakim Parker Scammon, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
12271822
Louis Pasteur, Dole France, bacteriologist (pasturization)
12271829
James Clay Rice, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
12271831
Lucius Fairchild, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
12271836
Henricus Oort, theologist (Leidse translation)
12271852
Dom J G da Cmara, Portugese journalist/songwriter
12271855
Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist
12271879
Sydney Greenstreet, Sandwich England, actor (Maltese Falcon)
12271896
Arch Ward, sportswriter (proposed baseball's all-star game)
Ewan Calague, economist/statistician (Social Security Board)
Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer (Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926)
12271897
Iwan S Konew, Russ marshal/supreme commander pact of Warsaw
12271899
Paul Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-gold-1920, 24, 28)
122719--
Jerry Gaskill, rocker (King's X-Faith Hope Love)
12271901
Marlene Dietrich, Berlin Germany, singer/actress (Blue Angel)
12271906
Oscar Levant, Pittsburgh, actor (American in Paris, Dance of Life)
12271907
Willem Van Otterloo, Winterwk Holland, conductor (Melbourne 1967-71)
12271908
Louis JHCA de Bourbon, writer/poet (Black Vanen)
12271909
Johan[nes B] Schmitz, actor/reciter (Match, MacBeth)
12271914
Giuseppe Berto, Italian writer (Heaven Sees Red)
12271924
James A McClure, (Sen-R-Idaho)
Mokta O Daddah, president Mauritania
Wouter Ekelemboom, architect (Holy-hospital Flanders)
12271926
Jerome Courtland, Knoxville Tn, actor (Tonka, Tharus)
12271930
Jacqueline Fontyn, Flemish composer
Meg Greenfield, US politician(?)
Wilfrid Sheed, England, writer (Boys of Winter, Hack)
12271931
Scotty Moore, guitarist (for Elvis)
12271934
Larissa Latynina, Ukraine, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)
12271936
Lee Salk, doctor (CBS TV)
12271939
John Amos, Newark NJ, actor (Good Times, Coming to America)
12271940
Jerry Lambert, jockey (rode Native Diver)
12271941
Leslie Maguire, rocker (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry Crossed the Mersey)
Michael Pinder, rocker (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
12271944
Mick Jones, rocker (Foreigner-Want to Know What Love is)
Tracy Nelson, Madison Wisc, singer/actress (Square Pegs)
12271946
Janet Street-Porter, British TV personality (Youth)
12271948
Grard Depardieu, France, actor (Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Danton)
Larry Byrom, rocker (Steppenwolf-Hour of the World)
12271950
Jack van Gelder, Dutch TV host
Terry Bozzio, rock drummer (Missing Persons-Hello I Love You)
12271952
Karla Bonoff, rock singer (New World, Restless Nights)
Tovah Feldshuh, NYC, actress (Idolmaker, Terror out of the Sky)
12271953
Arthur Kent, newscaster (NBC-Gulf War coverage)
12271959
Andre Tippett, NFL linebacker (New England Patriots)
12271960
Maryam d'Abo, British actress (James Bond)
12271962
Barbara Crampton, Long Island NY, actr (Body Double, Young & Restless)
12271967
Niels Meer, rocker (Bob Color)
12271972
Thomas Wilson Brown, actor (Jason-Knots Landing)
12271975
Heather O'Rourke, San Diego Calif, actress (Happy Days, Poltergeist)
12281763
John Molson, founded Montral brewery (Molsons)
12281787
Hermanus J Abbring, officer/writer
12281801
James Barnes, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1869
12281822
William Booth Taliaferro, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1898
12281823
Thomas Alexander Scott, Asst Secy War (Union), died in 1881
12281827
Robert Latimer McCook, volunteers Brig General (Union), died in 1862
12281828
Karl L Kahlbaum, German psychiatrist (katatonie)
12281833
Charles Miller Shelley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
12281835
Archibald Geikie, British geologist
12281849
Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto of Bismarck
12281855
Juan Zorrilla de San Martin, Uruguay's diplomat/songwriter (Tabar)
12281856
Woodrow Wilson, Staunton Va, (D), 28th pres (1912-21, Nobel 1919)
12281859
John W Fortescue, military historian
12281865
Flix E Vallotton, Switz/French painter/writer (Chaste Suzanna)
12281868
Marie van Regteren Altena, painter (Amsterdam's Joffers)
12281872
Pio Baroja Y Nessa, San Sebastion Spain, writer (Caminode Parfecci¢n)
12281880
Christian DFL Leipoldt, South african physician/writer/poet
12281882
Arthur Eddington, England, astrophysicist/cosmologist/mathematician
12281884
Joseph Pholien, Belgian premier (1950-52)/communist hunter
12281894
Andr de Meulemeester, Belgian WW I pilot (Eagle of Flanders)
Ed Healey, NFL tackle (Rock Island Independents, Chicago Bears)
12281896
Roger Sessions, Brooklyn NY, composer (Black Maskers)
122819--
Bob Perlow, Pawtucket RI, TV host (People Do the Craziest Things)
Don Francisco, spanish TV host (Sab do Gigante)
12281902
Mortimer J Adler, NYC, author (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
12281903
John Von Neumann, mathematician/astronomer (Bocher Award 1938)
12281905
Cliff Arquette, Toledo Oh, comedian (Charlie Weaver)
Earl "Fatha" Hines, Duquesne Pa, jazz pianist (Deep Forest)
12281908
Lew Ayres, Minn, actor (All Quiet on Western Front, Dr Kildare)
12281909
Billy Williams, Waco Tx, singer (Your Show of Shows)
12281911
Sam Levenson, NYC, humorist (Sam Levenson Show, Masquerade Party)
12281913
Lou Jacobi, Toronto Ontario, comedian (Dean Martin Show, Melba)
12281914
Bernard Youens, British actor (Coronation Street)
Lee Bowman, Cincinnati Ohio, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover)
12281916
Noel Johnson, British(?) actor
12281917
Ellis Clarke, president Trinidad & Tobago
12281920
Steve Van Buren, NFL halfback (Philadelphia Eagles)
12281921
Eddy Doorenbos, singer/pianist/guitarist
12281923
Andrew Duggan, actor (Secret War of Harry Frigg, Winds of War)
12281924
Rod Serling, Syracuse NY, writer/host (Twilight Zone, Night Gallery)
12281925
Bill [William) Westwood, British bishop of Peterborough
Hildegarde Neff, Ulm Germany, actress (Touch of Class, Mozambique)
12281927
Martin Milner, Detroit Mich, actor (Route 66, Adam 12, Life of Riley)
Simon Raven, writer/critic
12281928
Bo Diddley, pop singer/guitarist
12281929
Maarten Schmidt, Neth/US astronomer (quasars)
Owen Bieber, United Auto Workers president
Terry Sawchuk, NHL goaltender (Redwings, Bruins, Maple Leaf, Rangers)
12281931
John de Mol, singer/composer
12281932
Clem Schouwenaars, Flemish poet/writer
Dorsey Burnette, Memphis, rocker (Tall Oak Tree, Hey Little One)
Manuel Puig, Argentina, writer (Blood of Requited Love)
Roy Hattersley, British journalist/Labour-parliament leader
12281933
Jack Perkins, Cleve Ohio, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday, NBC Magazine)
12281934
Maggie Smith, Ilford Eng, actress (Death on Nile, Clash of Titans)
12281936
Nichelle Nichols, Robbins Ill, actress (Uhura-Star Trek)
12281938
Richard Sudhalter, British(?) writer/jazz musician
12281941
Intikhab Alam, Pakistan cricketer
12281942
Paul Horowitz, NYC, physicist, META project (Sloan Award 1971-3)
12281943
David Peterson, Toronto, premier of Ontario Canada (L) (1982-  )
12281945
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva, King of Nepal (1972-  )
Dwight Bement, rocker (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief (Daily Telegraph)
12281946
Edgar Winter, Beaumont Tx, rocker (They Only Come Out at Night)
12281947
Richard Diamonde, rocker (Easybeats-Friday on My Mind)
Robert Gilliot, father of Gerda Havertongs daughter Zulma
12281950
Alex Chilton, rocker (Box Tops-Let Me Get Close to You)
12281952
Ray Knight, 3rd baseman (NY Mets, Balt Orioles)
12281953
Richard Clayderman, pianist (Amour, Romantic America)
12281954
Denzel Washington, Mount Vernon NY, actor (Dr Chandler-St Elsewhere)
Rosie Vela, British singer (Zazu, Fools Paradise)
Tony Rosato, Naples Italy, comedian (SCTV, SNL, Amanda's)
12281956
Kenneth Grant, bass/vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking, Operator)
Michael Gibbons, rocker (Bo Donaldson & Heywoods-Billy Dont be a Hero)
Nigel Kennedy, English violinist
12281958
Terry Butcher, British soccer
12281959
Everson Walls, NFL corner back (Dallas Cowboys, NY Giants)
12281960
Chad McQueen, actor (Nightforce)
Ray Borque, NHL defenseman (Boston Bruin-3 Norris Trophys)
12281963
Mel Stottlemyre Jr, pitcher (Toronto Blues Jays)
12281964
Colleen Dion, Newburgh NY, actress (Felicia-Bold & Beautiful)
12281965
Mary Waddell Gainey, Hartsville SC, Miss SC-America (1991-2nd)
12281968
Jennifer Palmquest, Wilmot SD, Miss SD-America (1991)
12281975
Tannis Vallely, NYC, actress (Janice Lazorotto-Head of the Class)
12291586
Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona
12291721
Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of French King Louis the 15th
12291776
Charles Macintosh, Scotland, patented waterproof fabric
12291800
Charles Goodyear, inventor (vulcanization process for rubber)
12291808
Andrew Johnson, Raleigh NC, (Unionist), 17th pres (1865-69)
12291809
Albert Pike, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
William Ewart Gladstone, (Lib) British PM (1868-74, '80-86, '92-94)
12291831
Adam Badeau, Bvt Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
12291833
John James Ingalls, (Rep-Ks)
12291859
Venustiano Carranza, pres of Mxico (1915-20)
12291876
Pablo Casals, Vendrell Catalonia Spain, violinist/conductor/composer
12291879
Billy Mitchell, aviation hero Gen (WW I)
12291890
Jozef Cantr, Flemish sculptor/wood carver
12291896
David Alfaro Siqueiros, Mxico, painter/muralist (Lib of Chile)
122919--
Jose Alberto, spanish entertainer
Ronnie Younkins, rocker (Kix-Hot Wire)
Susie Garrett, Detroit Mich, actress (Punky Brewster)
Wendell Niles, Twin Valley Mn, TV announcer (It Could be You)
12291908
Gerben Sonderman, test pilot (Fokker)
12291912
Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Melbourne Australia, composer (Triad)
12291915
Charles L[eonard] Harness, US, sci-fi author (Paradox Men, Wolfhead)
John PW Meefout, sculptor (Laying Woman)
Robert Ruark, US writer (Something of Value)
12291917
Tom Bradley, (Mayor-D-LA) (1973-  )
12291919
Pieter Terpstra, journalist/writer (De dei is forroun/Havank-T)
12291920
Viveca Lindfors, actress (The Way We Were, Welcome to LA)
12291921
Mala Powers, actress (Cyrano de Bergerac, Death in Small Doses)
12291925
12291927
Jim Simpson, Wash DC, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
12291928
Bernard Cribbins, Oldham England, actor (Val Doonican Show)
12291931
Barbara Steele, England, actress (Castle of Blood, Dark Shadows)
12291932
Inga Swenson, Omaha Nebraska, actress (Gretchen-Benson)
12291934
Ed Flanders, Minneapolis Mn, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere)
Tom Jarriel, LaGrange Ga, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20)
12291936
Ray Nitschke, NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers)
12291937
Mary Tyler Moore, Bkln, actress (Mary Tyler Moore, Ordinary People)
12291938
Jon Voight, actor (Deliverance, Midnight Cowboy)
12291939
Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, president of Maldives (1978-  )
12291940
Peter Koelewn, writer/singer (Come to the Roof)
12291941
Ray Thomas, rocker (Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin)
12291943
JHR Ma-Wegge, minister of Vertime
12291945
Adje Roland, Dutch disc-jockey
12291946
Laffit Pincay Jr, jockey (Ky Derby 1984, Belmont 1982-84, Swale)
Marianne Faithfull, British actress/singer
Paul Trible, (Sen-R-Va)
12291947
Ted Danson, SD Calif, actor (Sam Malone-Cheers, 3 Men & a Baby)
12291949
Angel Tompkins, actress (Bees, Prime Cut, Murphy's Law)
12291951
Laurel Masse, Holland Mich, jazz singer (Manhattan Transfer-Operator)
Yvonne Elliman, US actress/singer (I Don't Know How to Love Him)
12291952
Gelsey Kirkland, ballerina/druggie (Nutcracker)
Nikolai  Andrianov, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1972, 76, 80)
12291955
Jan Pnenburg, drummer (Doe Maar)
12291956
Dolf de Vries, musical/director/arranger (Josephine)
12291958
Nancy Jane Sherlock, Wilmington Del, Capt Army/Astronaut (SK:STS 57)
12291959
Leslie Graves, Silver City NM, actress (Brenda-Capitol)
Paula Poundstone, comedian
12291964
Kimberly Russell, actress (Sarah-Head of the Class)
12291968
Carlo H L Ponti Jr, son of Carlo Ponti & Sophia Loren
12291985
Alexa Ray Joel, daughter of Billy Joel & Christie Brinkley
1230  39
Titus, 10th Roman emperor (79-81), conqueror of Jerusalem
12301818
James Cantey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1874
12301819
John White Geary, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
Theodor Fontane, German writer (Effi Briest)
12301828
Mark Perrin Lowrey, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
12301851
Asa Griggs Candler, developed Coca-Cola
12301855
Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Menschheit)
12301865
Rudyard Kipling, Bombay, author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907)
12301867
Simon Guggenheim, philanthropist (died aboard Titanic)
12301869
Adolphe Max, Belgian Rep (Lib)
Stephen Leacock, Canada, economist/humorist/professor
12301879
Sri Ramana Maharshi, Hindu philosopher/yogi (Maharshi Research Inst)
12301880
Alfred Einstein, German/US musicologist/nephew of Albert Einstein
12301883
Lester Patrick, NHL pioneer
12301884
Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM during WW II
12301889
Georg von der Vring, German painter/writer (Soldier Suhren)
12301898
Vincent Lopez, Bkln NY, orch leader (Welcome Aboard)
123019--
Bernard Barrow, actor (Ryan's Hope, Louie Slavinsky-Loving)
Jack Riley, Cleve Ohio, actor (Carlin-Bob Newhart, Ocassional Wife)
Patricia Kalember, Schnectady NY, actress (Kay O'Brien)
12301904
Dmitri Kabalevsky, St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire)
12301906
Carol Reed, motion picture director (3rd Man)
12301910
Herman van der Horst, cinematographer (Faja Lobbi)
Paul Bowles, US composer/writer (Shelting Sky)
12301911
Jeanette Nolan, LA Calif, actress (Richard Boone Show, Virginian)
12301914
Bert Parks, [Jacobson], Atlanta Ga, TV host (Miss America)
12301918
W Eugene Smith, US photographer (Saipan, Walk to Paradise Garden)
12301919
Jo Van Fleet, actress (Gunfight at OK Corral, East of Eden)
12301921
Rashid Karami, Lebanon, 10 time PM of Lebanon
12301928
Bo Diddley, [Ellas Bates], Miss, rock `n' roll pioneer (Bo Diddley)
Jack Lord, NYC, actor (Steve McGarrett-Hawaii 5-0, God's Little Acre)
12301929
Barbara Nichols, Jamaica NY, actress (Dear Heart, Disorderly Orderly)
Bob Bouma, TV host
12301931
Charles A Bassett II, Dayton Ohio, Captain USAF/astronaut
Skeeter Davis, Dry Ridge Ky, singer (End of World)
12301932
John Hillerman, actor (Magnum PI, Blazing Saddles, Audrey Rose)
12301934
Nicolas Coster, London, actor (Our Private World, Lobo, Ryan's Four)
Russ Tamblyn, LA Calif, actor (Win Place or Steal, Twin Peaks)
12301935
Omar [Albert B] Bongo, president of Gabon (1984-  )
Sandy Koufax, Dodger pitcher (Cy Young '63, '65, '66, perfect-1967)
12301937
John Hartford, NYC, singer/songwriter (Smothers Brothers Hour)
12301938
Joseph Bologna, actor (Citizen Cohn)
12301939
Del Shannon, [Charlie Westover], rocker (Runaway)
Doeke Eisma, sociologist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (D66)
12301942
Michael Nesmith, Houston, rocker (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
12301945
Davy Jones, Manchester Eng, singer (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
12301946
Patti Smith, US singer
12301947
Jeff Lynne, rocker (ELO-Telephone Line, Travelling Wilburys)
Michael Burns, Mineola LI, actor (Barnaby West-Wagon Train)
12301952
Somtow Sucharitkul, [SP Somtow], Thailand, sf author (Utopia Hunters)
12301953
Daniel T Barry, Norwalk Ct, Phd/astronaut
12301956
"Chrie" Samba (Mbimba N'zinga), Zare painter (Pitie la prostitue)
12301958
Brandon Clark, NYC, actor (Sean-The Fitzpatricks)
Steven L Smith, Phoenix Arizona, astronaut
12301959
Tracey Ullman, singer/actress (Tracey Ullman Show)
12301961
Ben Johnson, 100m runner (Olympic-gold-1988-disqualified)
12301962
Paul Crowder, rocker (The Adventures-Sea of Love)
12301963
Alessandra Mussolini, Naples Italy, actress (Ferragosto OK)
Johnny van 't Schip, soccer star (Ajax)
12301964
Kimberly Taylor, [Cindy], model/Penthouse Pet (1990)
12301972
Maureen Flannigan, actress (Evie-Out of this World)
12301983
Rachel & Ross Trudeau, twins of Jane Pauley & Gerry Trudeau
12311378
Callistus III, [Alfonso the Borja], Pope (1455-58)
12311514
Andreas Vesalius, Brussels Belgium, anatomist (Fabrica)
12311550
Henri Guise [le Balafr], French duke/leader catholic League
12311720
Charles E Stuart, pretender to English throne
12311738
Charles Lord Cornwallis, solider/statesman "fire when ready Gridley"
12311805
Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult, [Daniel Stern], French author (Knife)
12311815
George Gordon Meade, Major General (Union Army), died in 1872
12311825
Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1905
12311830
Ismail Pasja, kedive of Egypt (1863-79)
12311838
Emile Loubet, premier/president of France (1892, 1899-1906)
12311846
Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, vicar/Dutch anarchist (Right for all)
12311869
Henri Matisse, France, impressionist painter (Odalisque)
12311870
Thomas Connolly, baseball's major league umpire for 50 years
12311880
George C Marshall, Uniontown Pa, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
12311881
Colin G Fink, US chemist (electro chemistry)
Jacob Isral de Han, poet/writer (Pipelines)
Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter/graphic artist (That Brcke)
12311882
Ben Jones, Missouri, horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway)
12311892
Jason Robards Sr, Hillsdale Mich, actor (Acapulco)
12311894
Pola Negri, [Barbara A Chalupiec], Polish/US actress (Madame Dubarry)
12311899
Silvestre Revueltas, Santiago Papasquiaro, Mxico, composer
123119--
Buzz Adlam, Chelmsford England, composer (Stage Two Revue)
Don Diamont, actor (Brad-Young & Restless)
Sally Gracie, actress (One Life to Live)
Scott Ian, rocker (Anthrax-Protest & Survive)
12311904
Chuck Gardiner, UK, NHL goalie (Vezina winner)
Nathan Milstein, Odessa Russia, concert violinist (Phila Orch 1942)
12311905
Guy Mollet (Socialist), French premier (1956-57)
Jule Styne, England, songwriter/composer (1954 Acad Award, 1968 Tony)
12311906
Erna Bogen, Hungary, foils (Olympic-bronze-1932)
12311910
Dick Kollmar, Rigewood NJ, actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What)
12311914
Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show)
12311921
Rocky Graziano, NYC, boxer (Middlewgt champ)/actor (Miami Undercover)
12311922
Joan McCracken, Phila Pa, actress (Claudie Story of a Marriage)
Rex Allen, Wilcox Az, cowboy singer (Dr Baxter-Frontier Doctor)
12311924
Victoria Draves, US, platform/springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1948)
12311928
Hugh McElhenny, NFL halfback (SF, Minnesota, Giants, Detroit)
Ross Barbour, Columbus Ind, singer (4 Freshmen)
12311929
Mies Bouman, TV hostess (Open the Village)
12311930
Odetta, [Holmes] Birmingham Ala, folk singer (Sanctuary)
12311931
Bob Shaw, UK, sci-fi author (Orbitsville, Ragged Astronauts, Vertigo)
12311932
George Schlatter, TV producer (Laugh-in)
12311937
Anthony Hopkins, Wales, actor (Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Bounty)
12311938
Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Holland, speed skater, world champion
Rosalind Cash, Atlantic City NJ, actress (Omega Man, Wrong is Right)
12311941
Sarah Miles, Essex, England, actress (Ryan's Hope, Big Sleep, Venom)
12311942
Andy Summers, pop musician (Police-Roxanne)
12311943
Ben Kingsley, Scarborough England, actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice)
John Denver, singer (Rocky Mt High), thank God he's a country boy
12311945
Claude D Marks, Buenos Aires Argent, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
12311946
Barbara Carrera, Managua Nicaragua, actress (Angelica-Dallas)
Diane von Frstenberg, Brussels Belgiums, fashion designer
Patti Smith, Chicago, singer (Radio Ethiopia)
12311947
Burton Cummings, rock guitarist (Guess Who-These Eyes)
Tim Matheson, Calif, actor (Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek)
12311948
Donna Summer, Boston, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio)
Joe Dallesandro, Pensicola Fla, actor (Heat, Trash, AW Frankenstein)
Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasieyv, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11)
12311949
Claude Daniel Marks, Buenos Aires, one of FBI's most wanted
12311951
Fermin Goytisolo, rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
Michael Allen Bantom, Phila, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1972)
Tom Hamilton, rocker (Aerosmith-Dream On)
12311953
James Remar, Boston, actor (48 Hours, Rent-a-Cop, Cotton Club)
12311959
Val Kilmer, actor (Top Secret, Top Gun, Willow)
12311961
Joanna Johnson, actress (Caroline-Bold & Beautiful)
12311969
Martha Byrne, actress (Lily-As the World Turns)
12311972
Joseph Mulrey McIntyre, rocker (New Kids-Lovin' You Forever)
D
1201 660
Eligius/Eloy, French bishop of Doornik-Noyon/saint, dies
12011135
Henry I Beauclerc, king of England (1st king that could read), dies
12011374
Magnus Eriksson, king of Norway/Sweden, dies
12011521
Leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italian Pope (1513-21), dies at 45
12011580
Giovanni Morone, Italian theologian/diplomat/cardinal, dies
12011633
Isabella CE, land guardian of Netherlands, dies at 67
12011842
Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged
12011916
Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer, dies at 58
Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad
Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies
John Crowley, US, sci-fi author (Deep, Beasts, Novelty)
12011947
Aleister Crowley, dies at 74
12011952
Victor E Orlando, Italian premier (1917-19), dies at 92
12011971
Arthur B Springarn, US NAACP chairman (1940-65), dies at 93
12011972
Antonio Segni, Italian lawyer/minister/premier/president, dies at 81
12011973
David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel dies in Tel Aviv at 87
12011974
Stephen Gill Spottswood, US bishop/chairman (NAACP), dies at 77
12011975
Nick Kenny, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show), dies at 80
12011977
Paul Hardy, Belgian designer (Italian Country), dies
12011986
Horace Heidt, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon), dies at 85
Robert L "Bobby" Layne, football player (Detroit Lions), dies at 59
12011987
Donn F Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies at 57 of a heart attack
James Arthur Baldwin, writer (Another Country), dies at 63
12011989
Alvin Ailey, US choreographer (Blues suite, Revelations), dies at 58
12011990
Jan H de Great, founder (Vr Nederland), dies
1202 537
Sylvester, Italian Pope (536-37), dies
12021774
Johann F Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies
John Brown, abolitionist hanged at Charles Town WV
12021888
Kemal Bey, Turkish poet dies at 47
Mehmed N Kemal, Turkish writer/journalist (Vatan), dies at 47
12021935
Albert Kessel, first to die in Calif gas chamber
Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67
Francis Picabia, French painter/illustrator, dies at 75
Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers, mathematician, dies
Francis J "Cardinal" Spellman, archbishop of NY, dies at 78
12021969
Kliment J Worosjilow, president USSR (1953-60), dies
12021972
Jos Lim¢n, Mexican/US dancer (moor's pavane), dies at 64
12021976
William Tannen, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp), dies at 65
12021982
Marty Feldman, comedic actor dies at 49 of a heart attack in Mxico
12021983
Fifi D'Orsay, "French Bombshell" dies of cancer at 79
12021985
Alex Courtney, actor (Sword of Justice)
12021986
Desi Arnaz, actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy), dies at 69 of cancer
Lee Dorsey, R&B singer, dies at 59
12021990
Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90
Robert Cummings, actor (Love that Bob), dies at 88
12021992
Gary Mascaro, choreographer, dies at 43
Loek Elfferich, journalist/historian (Treason in Rotterdam), dies
1203 450
Petrus Chrysologus, 1st archbishop of Ravenna, dies
12031137
Lotharius III, of Supplinburg, Roman-German emperor (1133-37), dies
12031154
Anastasius IV, Pope (1153-54), dies
12031463
Louis Chalon, prince of Orange, dies
12031491
Thomas Basin, French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies
12031789
Claude-Joseph Vernet, French seascape painter, dies
12031807
Clara Reeve, English author (old English baron), dies
12031839
Frederik VI, king of Denmark (1808-39)/Norway (1803-14), dies
Christian D Rauch, German sculptor, dies at 80
12031892
William Bonaparte, grandson of Lucien
12031894
Robert Louis Stevenson, English writer (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies
12031910
Mary Baker Eddy, founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies
12031919
Pierre A Renoir, French painter/sculptor, dies
12031937
Prosper Poullet, Belgian mayor, dies
12031957
Frank E Gannett, newspaper publisher dies at 81
12031967
Fred Engelen, Flemish actor/director, dies
12031973
Michael O'Shea, actor (Denny- It's a Great Life), dies at 67
12031985
Sam Gillman, actor (Sam-Shane), dies at 70
12031991
Alex Graham, British cartoonstrip artist (Fred Basset), dies
12041334
John XXII, [Jacques Duze], Pope (316-34), dies
12041371
Stefanus X Uros V, king of Serbia (1355-71), dies
12041576
Rheticus, mathematician dies
12041732
John Gay, poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
12041807
Prince Hall, activist & Masonic leader, dies in Boston
12041909
Paul-Albert Besnard, French painter/graphic artist (Elle), dies
Stefan George, German poet (Das neue Reich), dies
Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/antifascist, dies
Karl Bonhoeffer, German psychiatrist/neurologist, dies
Karen Horney, German/US neo freudians psycho analyist, dies at 67
12041967
Bert Lahr, US comic/actor (Wizard of Oz), dies at 72
12041969
Fred Hampton, US Black-Panther leader, murdered
12041975
Hannah Arendt, German/US politician, dies
12041976
Benjamin Britten, British composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at 63
12041979
Robert Karnes, actor (Max-The Lawless Years), dies at 62
12041983
Estelle Omens, actress, dies at 55
12041984
John Rock, US co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94
12041986
Reuben Nakian, US sculptor, dies at 89
12041987
Rouben Mamoulian, dir (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde), dies at 90
12041990
Edward Binns, US actor (12 Angry One), dies
12051212
Dirk II van Are, Bishop of Utrecht (1197-1212), dies
12051244
Johanna van Constantinople, countess of Flanders (1205-44), dies
12051355
Jan III, duke of Brabant/Limburg, dies
12051560
Francis II, King of France (1559-60), dies at 16
12051594
Gerardus Mercator, geographer dies
12051784
Philis Wheatley, poet, dies in Boston
12051791
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composer, dies in Vienna Austria, at 35
12051859
Louis Poinsot, French instrument maker, dies at 82
12051891
Jklsbfxvpsmgrg Pedro II of Alcantara, emperor of Brazil (1831-89), die
12051922
Samuel Muller Fzn, historian, dies
12051925
Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], feminist, dies
French, [MJ Franois] Erens, literary (Pursuit Years), dies at 78
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson, of baseball's black sox scandal, dies
12051964
Remy Angenot, Flemish actor, dies
12051966
Sylveer Maes, Belgian bicylist, dies
12051974
Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, tennis player (US Open 1909-11) dies at 87
12051983
Robert Aldrich, dir/producer dies at 65
12051986
Carmol Taylor, country songwriter, dies at 53 of cancer
12051989
John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies
12051991
Aad Mansfield, soccer player/trainer (ADO/Feyenoord/FC Utrecht), dies
Richard Speck, mass murderer, dies a day before his 50th birthday
12061185
Afonso I, the Conqueror, king of Portugal (1143-85), dies at 76
12061352
Clement VI, [Pierre Roger], Pope (1342-52), dies
12061550
Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter, dies
12061562
Jan van Scorel, painter/architect, dies
12061799
Joseph Black, Scottish medical/chemist/physicist, dies
12061865
Sebastian de Iradier, Spanish composer (Arreglito), dies
12061889
Jefferson Davis, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5), dies
E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officier, dies
12061914
Eduard Jacobs, cabaret artist, dies at 47
12061926
Claude [Oscar] Monet, French painter (impressionist), dies
Anthony G Krller, entrepreneur/govt advisor, dies
Firmin Baes, Flemish painter, dies
12061959
Len Doyle, actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66
12061963
Jozef Goossenaerts, Flemish philological (Language Boundary), dies
12061973
Robert A Watson-Watt, England, physicist (radar), dies
12061984
Ruth Cummings, actress dies at 90
12061985
Burleigh Grimes, US baseball pitcher, dies at 92
Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie), dies at 68
12061988
Roy Orbison, singer, dies of a massive heart attack at 52
12061989
Frances Beauvier, actress (Aunt Bee, Mayberry) dies at 86
John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), dies at 77
Sammy Fain, composer, dies at 87
12061991
Headman Tshabalala, South Afr singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), dies
12071254
Innocent IV, [Sinibaldo dei Fieschi], Pope (1243-54), dies
12071817
William Bligh, British naval officer of "Bounty" fame, dies in London
12071826
John Flaxman, English sculptor (tomb at St Paul's Cathedral), dies
12071881
Julius FA Bahnsen, German philosopher (Tragic as Weltgesetz), dies
George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies
12071962
Kirsten Flagstead, Norwegian soprano (Wagner), dies
12071975
Thornton Wilder, US writer (Bridge of San Luis Rey, dies
12071979
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, 1st woman full prof at Harvard U, dies
Prince Chahryar Shafik, Shah of Iran's nephew, murdered in Paris
12071983
Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA
12071984
Jeanne Cagney, actress, dies at 65
12071985
Potter Stewart, 94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), dies in NH at 70
12071988
Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies
12071990
Joan Bennett, US actress (House Across the Bay), dies
12071992
Maurice [Bob] Coutinho, writer/interpreter (ocean combat), dies
Vincent Gardenia, actor (Moonstruck, LA Law), dies at 71
1208 899
Arnulf van Karinthi, last emperor of Austria-France, dies
12081292
John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62
12081587
Mary, Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed
12081681
Gerard Terborch the younger, painter/etcher, dies
12081709
Thomas Corneille, French dramatist, dies
12081831
James Hoban, architect who designed White House, dies
Herbert Spencer, British engineer/philosopher, dies
Oscar II Frederik, King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905), dies
12081923
Dom Joseph Pothier, French benediction/musicology, dies
12081926
John Six, art historian/collector, dies
12081954
Gladys George, actress (Roaring Twenties), dies at 50
12081972
George Collins, (Rep-Ill), dies at 47, in airplane crash
12081978
Golda Meir, served as Israel's PM (1969-74, dies in Jerusalem at 80
12081980
John Lennon, assassinated in NY by Mark David Chapman
12081982
Andr Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered
Bertus de Harder, soccer star (Bordeaux), dies
Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered
Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered
Frank Wngaarde, Suriname journalist, murdered
J Slagveer, Suriname journalist, murdered
John Baboeram, Suriname advocate, murdered
Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered
Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, murdered
Surendre Rambocus, Suriname military man, murdered
12081983
Slim Pickins, western actor dies at 64 after brain surgery
12081984
Luther Adler, actor (Dr Bernard Altman-The Psychiatrist), dies at 81
12081989
Hans Hartung, German/French painter, dies
12081990
Martin Ritt, US, director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70
12081991
Buck Clayton, US jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies
12081992
William Shawn, US editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies
12091292
Sa'di, great Persian poet (Orchard, Rose Garden) dies
Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], lawyer/Pope, dies
12091437
Sigismund, German Emperor/king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 70
12091565
Pius IV, [Gianangelo de' Medici], Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66
12091669
Clement IX, [Giulio Rospigliosi], Ital Pope (1667-69), dies
12091706
Pedro II, king of Portugal (1683-1706), dies at 58
12091819
Ann C Coleman, fiancee of pres Buchanan, commits suicide
Emmett Kelly, US circus clown (Weary Willie), dies
P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73
12091924
Bernard Zweers, composer (music rights of Aemstel), dies
12091940
... Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle
Laird Cregar, actor (Charley's Aunt, Hangover Square), dies at 28
Carswell Adams, sportscaster (Your Sports Special), dies
12091959
Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47
Philibert Schmitz, Belgium, historian (Order of St Benot), dies
12091971
Ralph J Bunche, UN delegate/Nobel Prize winner, dies at 67 in NYC
William A Wellman, US director (Ox Bow Incident), dies
12091979
Fulton J Sheen, archbishop/religious broadcaster dies in NYC at 84
12091982
Joey Forman, actor (Sid Caesar Show, Joey Bishop Show), dies at 53
Leon Jaworski, Watergate special prosecutor dies at 77 in Texas
Paul Godwin, [Goldfein], Polish/Dutch violist, dies at 80
Roger Danneels, Flemish accordionist, dies at 55
12091983
David Rounds, actor (Terence-Beacon Hill), dies at 53
12091990
Mike Mazurski, wrestler/actor (Centerfold Girls), dies
12091992
Carl Barger, baseball pres (Pitts Pirates, Fla Marlins), dies at 62
1210 969
Nicephorus II Phocas, Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered
12101041
Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, emperor of Byzantine, dies
12101198
Averros, arabian philospher, dies
12101603
William Gilbert, physician/physicist dies at 58
12101638
Ivan [Dzivo F] Gundulic, Dalmatisch writer (Osman), dies at 49
12101749
Gabrielle Chtelet, [La belle Emilie], French writer (Voltaire), dies
Simon Bolivar, South American freedom fighter/"dictator", dies
12101896
Alfred Nobel, dies; Swedish Nobel Prize ceremony on this date
Joseph D Hooker, British botanist, dies
12101936
Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies
Damon Runyon, US journalist/writer (Guys & Dolls), dies at 66
Walter Johnson, Washington Senator great pitcher dies at 59
12101964
Sam Cooke, US, soul singer (Sad Moon), slain at a motel
12101967
Otis Redding, singer (Dock of Bay) dies in plane crash at 26
12101968
Karl Barth, Swiss theologist/minister (Kirchliche Dogma), dies
Thomas Merton, French/US priest/writer (7 Story Mountain), dies at 53
12101974
Paul Richards, actor (Dr Thompson-Breaking Point), dies at 50
12101979
Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living), dies at 84
12101981
John Kieran, TV host (Information Please), dies at 89
12101982
Freeman "Amos" Gosden, US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 83
12101983
Dorothy Cummings, actress dies at 84
Patrick O'Moore, actor dies at 74
12101986
Kate Wolf, folksinger (Back Roads), dies of leukemia at 44
12101987
Jascha Heifetz, Russia, violinist, dies at 86
12101988
Dick Clair, comedian (Clair & McMahon, Facts of Life) dies of aids
12101990
Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
12101991
Berenice Abbott, US photographer, dies
12101992
Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general, dies
12111282
Michael VIII, Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1259-82), dies
12111524
Henry Van Zutphen, Roman catholic martyr, burned at stake
12111686
Louis II Cond, duke of Bourbon, dies at 65
12111718
Charles XII, King of Sweden (1697-1718), shot dead
12111902
Matthias Hohner, German manufacturer (harmonica), dies
12111911
Thomas Ball, US sculptor/painter/singer, dies
12111933
Emile C Wauters, Belgian painter (Van der Goes Klooster), dies at 87
12111974
Reed Hadley, actor (Racket Squad, Public Defender), dies at 63
12111979
Claire Carleton, NYC, actress (Alice-Cimarron City), dies at 66
12111984
George Waggner, director/writer dies at 90
12111990
Armand Hammer, US businessman/philanthropist/diplomat (USSR), dies
Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker, dies
12111991
Artur Lundkvist, Swedish writer/Prof (Swedish Academy), dies
Headman Tshabala, musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo), slain at 44
12111992
Vilma Banky, silent film actress, dies at about 90
12121112
Tancred, monarch of Galilea/Edessa/Antioch, dies
12121263
Hakon IV, Gamli, King of Norway (1217-63), dies
12121600
John Craig, Scottish church reformer, dies
12121777
Rev Benjamin Russen, executed at Tyburn, England for rape
12121880
Michel Chasles, French mathematician (geometry), dies
12121889
Robert Browning, English poet, dies
Luitpold von Bayern, prince-regent of Bayern, dies
12121914
Watkins Lewis, black man lynched in Shrevport La
12121920
Olive Schreiner, South Afr writer (Healing Imagination), dies at 75
12121921
Henrietta Leavitt, cepheid period-luminosity relation discover, dies
Raymond Radiguet, French journalist/writer (Le ball du comte), dies
12121926
Jean Richepin, French poet/writer (Contes sans morale), dies
12121939
Douglas Fairbanks, US actor (Zorro/3 musketeers/Robin Hood, dies
John [John L] Walch, literature (Abelard & Helose), dies
12121947
J£lio A Peixoto, Brazilian writer (Fruta do mato, dies
Sid Saylor, actor (Wally-Waterfront), dies at 67
12121965
Johnny Lee, actor (Calhoun-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 67
Tallulah Bankhead, actress (All Star Revue), dies at 66
12121971
David Sarnoff, US TV pioneer (RCA), dies at 80
Jack Barnhill, a Northern Ireland senator is assassinated
12121976
Jack Cassidy, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She), dies at 49
12121985
Anne Baxter, actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel), dies at 62
12121988
John Canning, NY Post managing editor, dies at 56
12121991
Lex Karsemeer, tenor (Sweet 16, Pro Musica), dies
12121992
Bernard CJ Lievegoed, anthroposophy (founder Free Hague court), dies
1213 838
Pippn I, King of Aquitania, dies
12131124
Callistus II, [Guido di Borgogna], Italian Pope (1119-24), dies
12131126
Hendrik IX, the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies
12131204
Maimonides, Jewish philospher dies in Cairo at 69
12131250
Frederick II, German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55
12131557
Niccol¢ Tartaglia, Italian mathematician dies
12131565
Konrad von Gesner, naturalist dies at 49
12131574
Selm II Sari, the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies
12131603
Franciscus Vieta, mathematician dies in Paris at 63
12131672
Jan II Kazimierz, king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63
12131693
Dodoftei, Moldavian writer (Sanctity of Life), dies
Willem Van de Velde, the Old, seascape painter, dies
12131729
Anthony Collins, English philosopher (On Liberty & Necessity), dies
12131881
August Senoa, Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43
Samuel Gompers, organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies at 44
12131944
Vassily Kandisky, abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies at 78
12131945
Robert of Genechten, Dutch political leader (NSB), commits suicide
Ahmed Mukhtar Baban, premier of Iraq, executed
Barhanuddin Bashajan, Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed
Rafiq Aref, Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed
Tim Moore, actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 70
12131961
Grandma [Anna M] Moses, US painter, dies at 101
12131963
Hubert ME Pierlot, Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies
12131969
Raymond A Spruance, US admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83
12131974
Rufe Davis, actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66
12131975
Cyril Delevanti, actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88
12131979
Jon Hall, actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at 66
Pigmeat Markham, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In), dies at 75
12131983
Leora Dana, actress dies at 60
Mary Renault [Challans], British author (Funeral games), dies at 78
12131990
Friedrich Drrenmatt, Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame), dies
12131991
Andr Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (La marge), dies
12131992
Bernard Printer, organist/pianist/orch leader (duivelswiel), dies
1214 872
Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72), dies
12141077
Agnes van Poitou, German empress/wife of emperor Henry III, dies
12141136
Harald IV, "Gylle Krist", king of Norway, murdered
12141417
John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English edelman, hanged
12141591
Juan de la Cruz, [de Yepes], Spanish Carmelet/poet/saint, dies
12141754
Mahmoed I, sultan of Turkey, dies
12141760
Kacic Miosic, Croatish poet (Razgovar ugodni naroda slovinskoga), dies
12141788
Charles III, King of Spain, dies
12141799
George Washington, 1st president USA (1789-97), dies at 66
12141861
Albert, prince consort of England & husband of Queen Victoria, dies
12141873
J Louis R Agassiz, Swiss geologist/paleo-biologist), dies
12141900
Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46
12141903
William Ennis, 1st cop to die in electric chair
12141906
Jan A C Oudemans, geographer/astronomer, dies
12141918
Sidonio Pais, prince of Portugal, murdered
12141926
Theo Van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter (pointillisme), dies
Stanley G Weinbaum, US, sci-fi writer (Martian Odyssey), dies
Helene ELJ Krller-Mller, founder/head mistress (K-M Museum), dies
12141945
Henry Van Goudoever, lawyer/judge, dies at 69
Josef Kramer, known as "beast of Belsen," & 10 others, hanged
Stanley Baldwin, English premier (1923, 24-29, 35-37), dies
Maria EG "Lizzy" Ansingh, house painter (Verstoten), dies at 84
Dinah Washington, singer, dies of sleeping pill overdose at 39
Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD), dies
William Bendix, actor (Life of Riley), dies at 58
12141966
Verna Felton, actress (Hilda-December Bride), dies at 76
12141974
Walter Lippmann, US journalist (One of Dynasty), dies at 85
12141975
Arthur Treacher, TV announcer (Merv Griffin Show), dies at 81
12141980
Elston Howard, catcher (NY Yankees), dies
12141984
Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet (Historia del coraz¢n), dies at 86
12141985
Roger Maris, HR hitter (61 in 61, NY Yankees), dies at 51 of cancer
Stanley G[rauman] Weinbaum, US, sci-fi author (Red Peri) dies at 85
12141989
Andrej Sacharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68
12151025
Basilius II, the Bulgarendoder, Byzantine emperor (976-1025), dies
12151230
Ottokar I, king of Bohemia (1197-1230), dies
12151515
Alfonso de Albuquerque, under king of Portugese Indies, dies
12151715
George Hickes, English linguistic (Old German Philology), dies
12151817
Maria Walewska [Leszczinska], lover of emperor Napoleon I, dies
12151826
William Browser, revolting slave, executed in NYC
12151880
Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Ital minister of Justice, dies at 76
12151889
Ferdinand II A F A, king of Portugal, dies
12151890
Sitting Bull, leader Hunkpapa indians (Little Big Horn), killed by US
12151934
Maggis Lena Wlaker, 1st black woman to head a bank, dies at 69
Thomas W "Fats" Waller, dies at 39, in KC Missouri
12151951
Eric Drummond, 1st sec-gen League of Nations (1919-33), dies
William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player, dies at 99
12151962
Charles Laughton, English actor (Hunchback of Notre Dame), dies
12151966
Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65, put in suspended animation
12151968
Jess Willard, Heavyweight boxing champ (1915-19), dies at 86
12151972
Herbert Eimert, German composer (Glockenspiel), dies
12151974
Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top This?), dies at 89
12151978
Chill Wills, actor (Fronteir Circus, Rounders), dies at 75
12151979
Bern Hoffman, actor (Major Dell Conway), dies at 66
12151984
Avon Long, actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies at 74
Jan Peerce, operatic tenor, dies at 80 following a stroke
12151992
Fr [Frederik] Meis, Dutch 2nd-Chamber member (CPN), dies
1216 714
Pippin II, of Hristal, Duke & prince of France, dies
1216 882
John VIII, Italian Pope (872-82), dies
12161821
Claire E J, countess the Rmusat/Vergennes/author (Salon), dies
12161852
Andries H Potgieter, South African explorer, dies
12161897
L-M Alphonse Daudet, Frans writer (Tartarin sur les Alpes), dies
12161916
Grigori Rasputin, a powerful Russian monk, murdered
12161920
Ma de Welwillende, Chinese muslim rebel (saint war), dies
12161921
Charles-Camille Saint-Saens, French composer/conductor, dies
12161922
Elizer Ben-Jehuda, [Perelmann], Latvian/Palestinian writer, dies
Gabriel Narutowicz, 1st pres of Polish Republic, assassinated
12161931
Gustave J Waffelaert, Flemish theologist/bishop of Bridge, dies
M Eugne F T Dubois, geologist/paleontologist (Wadjakmens), dies
12161944
Glenn Miller, US jazz composer/orchestra leader (Danny boy), dies
Traitsjo Kostov, Bulgaria communist/vice-premier, executed
12161961
Cato Engelen-Sewing, soprano singer/primadonna, dies
W Somerset Maugham, English author (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91
12161973
Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies
12161976
George, a goose that lived to 49 years 8 months
12161980
Harland "Colonel" Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90
12161982
Anthony C B Chapman, England, formula 1 racer, dies at 54
12161985
Paul Castellano, Organized-crime chief shot dead by a NYC restaurant
12161987
Albert P Morano, (Rep-R-Conn, 1951-59), dies at 79
12161989
Lee Van Cleef, US actor (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies
Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies
12161992
Anton [Tom] Koolhaas, writer (White Snow), dies
Rinus Terlouw, soccer trainer (Sparta 34), dies
12171187
Gregory VIII, [Alberto de Morra], Italian Pope (1187), dies
12171195
Boudewn V, count of Henegouwen/Flanders (Boudewn VIII), dies
12171213
Johannes de Matha, French saint, dies at 53
12171471
Isabella of Portugal, duchess of Bourgundy, dies
12171711
Arnold Moonen, vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst), dies
12171751
Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Czech master builder, dies at 62
Simon Bolivar, president of Columbia, dies at 47 in Colombia
12171907
Kelvin of Largs, [William Thomson], Brit physicist (Kelvin), dies
Leopold II, king of Belgium, dies
Dorothy Sayers, [Atherton Fleming], author (Whose body), dies at 64
Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
12171962
Thomas Mitchell, US, actor (Outlaw), dies at 70
12171965
Jeff Grayher, basketball player (Olympic-bronze-1988)
Tito [Raffaele AA] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies
12171973
Charles G Abbot, US astronomer (Constant Sun), dies
12171975
Noble Sissle, jazz musician, dies at 86
12171982
Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58
12171986
Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
12171987
Bernard Cardinal Alfrink, cardinal of Ultrecht Netherlands, dies at 87
Marguerite Yourcenard, author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84
12171990
Mieke Verstraete, Belgian/Neth actress (Pleasant Settled), dies
12171992
Dana Andrews, US actor (Laura), dies at 82
12181290
Magnus I Laduls, [schuurgrendel], king of Sweden (1277-90), dies
12181638
Le Pre Joseph, French mystic, dies
12181737
Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin-maker dies in Cremona, Italy
12181751
Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, master builder (Nepomukkerk, Prague), dies
12181892
Richard Owen, English zoologist (Dinosaurus), dies at 88
12181935
Juan V G¢mez, general/dictator of Venezuela (1908-35), dies
Matthew Brown, Journalist, dies at 51
12181948
Janet Fay, hammered to death by Honeymoon Killers
12181971
Bobby Jones Jr, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930) dies at 69
Diana Lynn, actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go), dies at 45
Robert T "Bobby" Jones, US golfer
12181977
Louis Untermeyer, poet/critic/TV panelist (What's My Line), dies at 92
12181980
Alexei N Kosygin, Soviet PM suffers a fatal heart attack at 76
12181981
Mehmet Shehu, premier Albania/"US-Russ spy", commits suicide
12181992
Dana Andrews, actor (Best Years of Our Lifes), dies at 83
Mark Goodson, game show creator (Family Feud), dies at 77 of cancer
Mother Clare Hale, cared for NYC AIDS babies, dies at 87
Richard H Ichord, US leader of House Un-American Act Comm, dies
1219 401
Anastasius I, Bishop of Rome (399-401), dies
12191370
Urban V, [Guillaume de Grimoard], 1st Avignon Pope (1362-70), dies
12191554
Philips Willem, prince of Orange, dies
12191741
Vitus J Bering, Dutch navigator & explorer, dies
12191851
J M William Turner, British painter (Rain, Steam & Speed), dies
12191914
Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German catholic lawyer, dies
Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, dies
Karl Wagenfeld, Defeated German writer (Match, Death & devil), dies
12191951
Barton Yarbrough, actor (Dragnet), dies at 51
12191953
Robert A Millikan, US physicist (Nobel 1923), dies at 85
12191959
Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
12191968
Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84
12191977
Nellie Tayloe Ross, 1st woman governor dies at 101
12191982
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, French organist/composer, dies at 71
12191983
Raymond Massey, actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildaire), dies at 87
1220 910
Alfonso III de Great, king of Asturi, dies
12201355
Stefanus IX Uros IV Dusan, king (1331-46)/Serbia (1346-55), dies
12201590
Ambroise Par, French surgeon dies at 80
12201679
Johan Maurits, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies at 75
12201798
Cornelis Ploos Van Amstel, engraver/art collector, dies
12201812
Sacagawea, Shoshone interpreter for Lewis & Clark, dies
Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies
Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
12201936
Baron De Borchgrave, Belgian ambassador, murdered in Madrid
12201937
Erich Ludendorff, German general (WW I), dies at 72
12201939
Hans Langsdorff, German capt (Graaf Spee), commits suicide
Jean Gilbert, [Max Winterfield], German composer, dies at 63
12201948
C Aubrey Smith, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 85
Moss Heart, US dramatist (You can't take it with you), dies at 57
12201968
John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1962), dies in NY at 66
12201972
Gnter Eich, German literary (Botschaften des Regens), dies at 75
12201973
Bobby Darin, singer (Mack the Knife), dies at 36 of heart failure
Luis Carrero Blanco, PM of Spain is assassinated
12201975
Vincent Lopez, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76
William Lundigan, Syracuse NY, actor (Climax), dies at 61
12201976
Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chicago), dies at 74
12201982
Arthur Rubinstein, pianist (My Young Years), dies in Geneva at 95
12201988
Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49
12201991
Andries Copier, glass enterpeneur (plexiglass), dies
Fop[pe] I Brouwer, biologist (Everything that Lives & Grows), dies
1221 918
Conrad I, Duke of France/German King, dies
12211308
Henry I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308), dies
12211375
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies
12211429
Jacquemart de Blharies, Doorniks "heretic", burned to death
12211579
Juan de Juanes, [Vicente J Maip], Spanish relig painter, dies at 56
Niels W Gade, Danish composer, dies
12211907
Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (Bath House), dies
12211921
P B S Pinchback, major Reconstruction politician, dies at 84
Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Pole explorer (Thule), dies
Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist/writer (Panter, Tiger & Co), dies
Frank Kellog, US foreign minister (Nobel 1929), dies
F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44
12211942
Leendert Round, sculptor (Giraffen, Bldorp), dies at 63
12211945
George S Patton, US General (Sicily/Normandy), dies in car crash
Seisjiro Itagaki, Japanese General/min of War, hanged
12211955
Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65
12211956
Lewis M Terman, US, psychologist (Genetic studies of genius), dies
12211958
Lion Feuchtwanger, German philosopher/writer (Der falsche Nero), dies
12211972
Horace Mann Bond, president of Lincoln University (Pa), dies at 70
12211975
William Lundigan, announcer (CBS Mystery Theater), dies at 61
12211980
Marc Connelly, playwright (One Minute Please), dies at 90
12211983
Rod Cameron, actor dies at 73
12211989
Nicolae Ceaucescu, Romanian dictator (1945-89), executed
12211992
Albert King, US blues singer/guitarist (Crosscut Saw), dies
Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian/US violist (Beethoven, Bach), dies
Stella Adler, US actress (Love on Toast), dies at 90
Sybil Andrews, English/Canada painter, dies
12221419
John XXIII, [Baldassare Cossa], Italian Pope (1410-15), dies
12221440
Bluebeard, pirate, executed
12221603
Mehmed III, sultan (Turkey), dies
12221668
Stephen Day, 1st British colonial printer dies
12221721
Nathaniel Hawes, tortured & executed in England for robbery
12221767
John Newberry, English publisher, dies
Jos Maria Morelos, Mxican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards
12221828
Rachel Jackson, wife of 7th US pres Andrew Jackson, dies
Jean-Victor Poncelet, French mathematician (cinematic), dies
12221880
George Eliot, [Mary A Evans], English author (Spanish Gypsy), dies
Dwight L Moody, US evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement)
Andr Kostelanetz, Russian conductor, dies
12221902
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, psychiatrist, dies
Marie Jungius, teacher/fairy tale writer, dies
12221913
Menelik II, King of Ethiopia (1896-1913), dies at 69
Francesca Saveria Cabrini, US saint/patron of immigrant, dies at 67
Harry Langdon, US comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies
12221969
Donald Foster, actor (Herbert Johnson-Hazel), dies at 80
Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai express), dies
12221971
Godfried [Jan Arnold] Bomans, writer (Walking by Rome), dies
12221973
Irna Phillips, creator of 5 TV soap operas dies at 72
12221974
Richard Long, actor (Prof-Nanny & Professor), dies at 47
12221979
Darryl F Zanuck, film producer (20th Century Fox), dies
12221980
Dick Kallman, actor (Hank Dearborn-Hank), murdered at 47
12221989
Samuel Beckett, Irish/French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83
12221991
Ernst Krenek, Austrian/US composer (Orpheus & Eurydike), dies
12221992
Frederick W Franz, CEO (Watch Tower), dies at 99
1223 679
Dagobert II, king of Austrasia (676-679), murdered
12231116
Ivo van Chartres, French canonist/bishop of Chartres/saint, dies
12231236
Philippus Cancellarius, French theologist/poet (Summa Cum Laude), dies
12231569
St Philip, of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
12231588
Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered
Henry de Guise, French leader of catholic Ligue, murdered at 37
12231619
Johan Sigismund, ruler of Fireenburg/duke of Prussia, dies at 47
12231652
John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher dies at 68
12231789
Charles-Michel abb de l'Ep, (school for the deaf), dies at 77
Franois A Gevaert, Belgian composer (Le diable au moulin), dies
A S C Wallis, [Adle von Antal-Opzoomer], writer (Vorstengunst), dies
12231930
John H Leg, Brielle archivist, dies at 71
12231938
Robert Herrick, US writer (Chimes), dies
12231939
Anthony H G Fokker's, airplane builder (Spider), dies
Theo[dorus J] Thssen, writer (Kees de jongen, dies
Hideki Tojo, Japan PM (1941-44) & 6 other Japs hung for war crimes
12231951
Benito Lynch, Irish/Argentine writer (Palo Verde), dies at 66
12231953
Lavrenti P Beria, soviet minister of internal security, executed
Lester Lonergan Jr, actor (Growing Paynes), dies at 65
Lord Irwin, ambassador to US (1940-46), dies at 78
Charlie Ruggles, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 84
12231972
Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies
Charles Atlas, body builder dies at 79
12231975
Richard S Welch, CIA station chief in Athens, shot dead
12231982
Jack Webb, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet), dies at 62 of a heart attack
12241069
Godfried II Mit de Baard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies
12241380
John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies
12241453
John Dunstable, English composer, dies
12241524
Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator dies in Cochin, India
Nicolaas G Pierson, economist/head-director (Suriname), dies
Eduard David, German minister (constitution of Weimar), dies at 67
12241942
Jean LXF Darlan, French admiral, murdered by gaullists
12241954
Johnny Ace, ballad singer dies at 25 of Russian Roulette
Nana Bryant, actress (Mrs Nestor-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 67
Norma Talmadge, US actress (sign on bay), dies at 60
12241979
Rudi [Rudolf) Dutschke, German student leader, dies
12241982
Louis Aragon, French poet/writer (Pour un ralisme socialiste), dies
12241984
Ian Hendry, actor, dies at 53
Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61
12241986
Gardner F[rancis] Fox, author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman), dies at 75
12241991
Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46
12241992
Abdulkadir Widjojoatmodjo, Java diplomat, dies
Pierre Culliford [Peyo], Belgian cartoonist (Smurfs), dies
1225 795
Adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies
1225 820
Leo V de Armenir, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered
12251683
Kara Moestafa, Turks grand vizer (1676-83), executed
12251761
Empress Elizabeth, dies
12251895
Raul d'avila Pompeia, Brazilians writer (Liederen without metre), dies
Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression scenes in NYC)
12251926
Joshihito, Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies
Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer, dies
Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb
Frederick Law Olmsted, US architect (Central Park), dies at 87
12251961
Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope dies
Cheerio Meredith, actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74
12251977
Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88
12251979
Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70
Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64
12251980
Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies
12251983
Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90
12251985
George Rhodes, orch leader (Sammy Davis Jr Show), dies at 66
12251989
Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies
Billy Martin, NY Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61
Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, & his wife, are executed
Ton Regtien, student leader, dies
12251991
Orane Demazis, French actress (Marius, Fanny et Csar), dies
12251992
Garrison H Davidson, US lt-gen commandant (West Point), dies
Helen BM Fennell Joseph, English/South African anti-apartheid, dies
Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies
Ted Croker, RAF-pilot/sect English soccer team (sponsoring), dies
1226 267
Dionysius, bishop of Rome/saint, dies
12261574
Charles Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims, dies at 50
12261624
Simon Marius, astronomer dies in Bavaria at 54
12261658
Simon Guillain, French sculptor (Castle of Blois/Sorbonne), dies
12261676
Domenicus van Tol, painter, dies
12261740
Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, lt-gen (12 children), dies
12261862
38 Santee Sioux indians, hanged in Mankato
12261890
Heinrich Schliemann, archaeologist (Trojan War), dies
Louise J Gautier, French poetess/daughter of Thophile G, dies
James Stephens, Irish poet (Crock of Gold), dies
12261963
"Gorgeous George" Wagner, wrestler, dies
12261965
Anthonie Donker, [Prof N Donkersloot], literary, dies at 63
12261966
Ina Boudier-Baker, author (Poverty), dies
12261969
Louise L de Vilmorin, French poet/author (History d'aimer), dies
12261971
Robert Lowery, actor (Circus Boy, Pistols 'n' Petticoats), dies at 57
12261972
Harry Truman, 33rd US Pres (1945-53) dies at 88 in Kansas City, Mo
12261973
Harold B Lee, US head of Mormon Church, dies at 74
Jack Benny, comedian (Jack Benny Show), dies at 80
12261976
Philip A Heart, (Sen-D-Mich), dies at 64
12261977
Howard Hawks, director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81
12261986
Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstien), dies at 84
12261990
Nancy Cruznan, accident victim/right-to-die case, dies at 33
12261992
Bert [Lambertus H] Feet, journalist/poet (Eye on Tomorrow), dies
John G Kemeny, US computer pioneer (BASIC), dies
Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist, dies
1227 418
Zosimus, Greek Pope (417-8), dies
12271065
Ferdinand I, the Great, king of Castili, dies
12271805
Belle van Zuylen, [Isabelle AE de Charrire-of Tuyll, dies
Serooskerken, Neth/Swiss writer (Trois Femmes), dies
Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state Texas, dies
12271900
William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Brit const (hydr faucet), dies at 90
William Archer, Scottish critic/screenwriter (Green Goddess), dies
12271925
Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/literary (At assault!), dies
Hans von Seeckt, German Gen/advisor of Chang Kai Shek, dies
12271938
Emile Vandervelde, leader of Belgian BWP, dies
Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66
Henri G Winkelman, gen/supreme commander navy 1940, dies at 76
Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat, dies at 70
Lester B Pearson (L), 14th Canadian PM (Nobel 1956), dies
12271974
Amy Vanderbilt, US author (Complete book of etiquette), dies at 66
12271978
Bob de Lange, [Jacob Bernard], actor/director, dies
12271981
Hoagy Carmichael, US actor/songwriter (Stardust), dies at 82
12271982
John L Swigert Jr, astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51
12271983
Houari Boumediene, Algerian President dies after 40 days in a coma
12271985
Dian Fossey, US naturalist (Gorillas in Mist), found dead in Rwanda
12271986
Cliff Burton, bass player (Metallica), dies in a bus crash at 24
12271987
Rewi Alley, NZ author, pro Chinese communist, dies at 90 in Beijing
12271991
W Hudson, US "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies
12271992
Cardew "the Cad" [Douglas] Robinson, English comedian (Alfie), dies
John Peeters, water colors painter/monument artist, dies
12281446
Clemens VIII, [Aegyd Mu¤oz], Spanish anti-pope (1423-29,) dies
12281452
Albert Pigge [Pighius], astronomer/pontifical theologist, dies
12281622
Franois de Sales, French bishop of Genva/writer/saint, dies at 55
12281694
Queen Mary II, of England dies after 5 years of rule
12281706
Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59
Gerben Colmjon, Fries language/publisher, dies
Roger Sessions, US composer (Black Masks)
Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81
12281918
George H White, last post Reconstruction congressman (Penn), dies
Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, engineer (Eiffel tower), dies
12281937
Maurice J Ravel, Swiss/French composer (Bolero), dies in Paris at 62
Theodore Dreiser, novelist (An American Tragedy), dies at 74
Victor Emmanual III, king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia, dies at 78
12281948
Mahmud Nokrashy Pasja, premier of Egypt, assassinated
12281949
Jack Lovelock, surgeon/athlete
W Hervey Allen, US writer/songwriter (Anthony Adverse), dies
12281961
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1st lady (1915-21), dies at 89
Paul Hindemith, German composer (Composer's World), dies at 68
12281970
Charles "Sonny" Liston, heavyweight boxer champ (1962-64)
L Mendel Rivers, (Rep-D-SC), dies at 65
12281978
Harry Winston, US jeweler for the "rich & famous", dies at 82
12281983
William Demarest, actor (My 3 Sons), dies at 92 in Palm Springs
12281984
Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59
12281987
Charles Malik, Lebanon's 1st delegate to UN, dies at 81
12281988
Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director dead of cancer at 59
12281990
Ed Van der Elsken, photographer, dies
Kiel Martin, US actor (Det LaRue-Hill Street Blues), dies
Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan promoter, dies
12281992
Mort Greene, US songwriter (My Grandfather's Clock), dies at 80
12291170
Thomas Beckett, archbishop, assassinated by 4 knights of King Henry II
12291619
Antoine Arnauld, French lawyer (Philippica), dies
12291703
Moestafa II, sultan (Turkey), dies
12291731
J Brook Taylor, English mathematician, dies
12291815
Saartjie Baartman, Hottentot Venus, dies in Paris
12291825
Jacques-Louis David, French painter (Death of Marat), dies
12291877
Willem Sassen, "papachi S", procureur-gen on Curaao (Affair-S), dies
Big Foot, Sioux indian chief, dies at Wounded Knee
12291916
Grigori J Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45
Flix E Vallotton, Swiss/Fr painter/writer (Kuise Suzanna), dies at 60
12291926
Rainer M Rilke, Austrias songwriter/writer (Die weise Frstin), dies
12291933
Joh Georghe Duca, premier of Romania, murdered
William H Singer, US painter/collector (S Museum, Laren), dies at 75
Doris Humphrey, US dancer/choreographer, dies
Bernard von Brentano, German writer (Big Cats), dies at 63
12291967
Paul Whiteman, US orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), dies
12291970
John de Mol, accordianist/entertainer, dies
12291980
Roy Engle, actor (Police Chief-My Favorite Martian), dies at 67
Tim Hardin, US singer, dies
12291981
Guido Provoost, Belgian historian, dies
12291982
Sol C Siegel, US film producer (High Society), dies at 79
12291984
Leo Robin, lyricist dies of heart failure at 84
12291986
Harold Macmillan, former British PM dies in Sussex, England, at 92
12291992
LH Ruitenberg, vicar/editor in chief (Reform Netherlands), dies
Vivienne Segal, US actress (Broadway, Pal Joey), dies
1230 273
Felix I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies (or 274)
12301572
Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60
12301591
Innocent IX, [Giovanni Facchinetti], Pope, (1591 62 days), dies at 72
12301635
Jan Baptista Van Helmont, physician/alchemist dies
12301777
Maximilian III Jozef, ruler of Bayern (1745-77), dies at 50
12301832
Abijah Hammond, owned large portion of Greenwich Village, dies
12301894
Amelia Jenks Bloomer, suffragist dies (Bloomers named for her)
12301896
Jos Mercado Rizal, anti-Spanish rule of Philippines proponent dies
12301912
Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister, dies
12301944
Romain Roland, French writer, dies
Han [Henricus A) van Meegeren, painter/art forger, dies at 58
12301951
Jozef E Stokvis, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (SDAP), dies
12301966
Christian A Herter, US Min of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at 71
1231 192
Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31
1231 439
Melania de Jongere, Novel monastery founder/saint, dies
12311384
John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies
12311583
Thomas Erastus, Switz, theologist, dies
12311616
Jacques Le Maire, pirate, dies
12311719
John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73
12311775
Richard Montgomery, General, dies fighting British
12311907
Jules the Trooz, premier Belgium, dies
12311920
Albert Roelofs, painter/etcher, dies
12311936
Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Spanish philosopher/poet (Cancionero), dies
Richard N Roland Holst, artist/painter, dies
Frits [Frederik H] Tartaud, actor, dies at 89
Franz X Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa), dies
12311950
Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor/pres (1918-20, 45-50), dies at 80
Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat, dies at 75
Philipp A Kohnstamm, philosopher/theory, dies at 76
Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64
12311954
Peter Van Anrooy, conductor/composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie), dies at 75
12311960
Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Trees of Illness), dies at 69
12311963
Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer, dies
12311966
Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of Dutch Tribe), dies
12311968
Carl Oscar Ahues, International Chess Master (1950), dies at 84
12311971
Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31
Roberto Clemente, Pitts Pirate slugger, dies in a plane crash at 38
12311977
Nora Marlowe, actress (Sara-Gov & JJ), dies
12311983
Frank Link, actor (Burns & Schreiber Comedy Show), dies at 46
12311985
Rick Nelson, singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45
Sam Speigel, Academy Award winning producer dies at 84
12311986
Lloyd Haynes, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222), dies at 54
12311987
[Gordon] Randall [P D] Garrett, author (Lord Darcy), dies at 60
12311990
George Allen, US football coach (LA Rams, Wash Redskins), dies
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1201
[Azores, Portugal] Independence Day (1640)
[Cape Verde] Restoration Day (1968)
[Central African Republic] Proclamation of Republic Day (1958)
[Iceland] Independence Day (1918)
[Liberia] Matilda Newport Day (1822)
[Portugese Guiana] Mocidale Day/Youth Day
[Spain] Memorial Herstel Independence (1640)
[World]  AIDS day
1202
[America] Pan American Health Day
[Cuba] Landing of Granma Expeditionaries
[Laos] Proclamation of Lao People's Democratic Republic (1975)
[United Arab Emirates] Independence Day (1971)
1203
[Illinois] Admission Day (1818)
[Philatelists] Sir Rowland Hill Day (1795/1840)
[World] Heart Transplant Day (1967)
1204
[Mxico] Day of Artisans
[Tonga] Proclamation Day
1205
[Beirut Lebanon] Arbor Day
[Haiti] Discovery Day (1492)
[Netherlands] St Nicholas' Eve
[Thailand] Birthday of His Majesty the King (1927)
[USSR] Constitution Day (1936)
1206
[Bahrain] Ruler's Ascension Day
[Ecuador] Day of Quito (1534)
[Finland] Independence Day (1917)
1207
[Cuba] Day of National Mourning
[Delaware] Ratification Day (1787)
[Ivory Coast] National Day (1960)
[US] Pearl Harbor Day (1941)
1208
[Guam] Lady of Camarin Day
[Japan] Enlightenment of Buddha
[Spain, Panama, Canal Zone] Mother's Day
[Spain] School Reunion Day
[Uruguay] Beaches Day/Family Day
1209
[Tanzania] Independence Day/Republic Day (1961)
1210
[Cuba] Independence Day (1898)
[Khmer Republic] Rights of Man Day
[Mississippi] Admission Day (1817)
[Namibia] Settlers' Day
[Stockholm, Sweden] Nobel Prize presentation Day (1896)
[Thailand] Constitution Day (1932)
[UN, Equatorial Guinea] Human Rights Day (1948)
[World] World Freedom Day
[Wyoming] Wyoming Day (women's sufferage) (1869)
1211
[Geneva, Switzerland] Scaling Day/Escalade (1602, 1816)
[Indiana] Admission Day (1816)
[Upper Volta] Republic Day (1958)
1212
[El Salvador/Mexico] St Guadelupe Day
[El Salvador] Day of Indians
[Kenya] Independence Day/Jamhuri Day (1963)
[Pennsylvania] Ratification Day (1787)
[World] National Ding-a-ling Day
1213
[Malta] Republic Day
[Upper Volta] National Day
1214
[Alabama] Admission Day (1819)
[El Salvador] Revolution Day
[Iran] Death of Iman Ja'far Sadeq Day
12141217
[Turkey] Festival of Mevlana-Jelaeddin Rumi (Whirling Dervishes)
12141228
[World] Halcyon Days
1215
[Esperanto League] Zamenhof Day (1859)
[Malaysia] Hol Al-Marhom Sultan Ibrahim of Johore
[Netherlands Antilles] Kingdom Day/Statute Day (1954)
[Pakistan] Quaid-i-Azam's Birthday
[US] Bill of Rights Day (1791)
[World] Underdog Day
1216
[Bahrain] National Day
[Bangladesh] Victory Day (1971)
[Mxico] Posadas Days/Lodgings
[Namibia, South Africa] Day of Covenant
[Nep l] Human Rights Day/Constitution Day (1962)
[Pretoria, South Africa] Foretrekkers' Day
[South Africa] Dingaan's Day (1838)
1217
[Bhutan] Ascension to throne of 1st King/National Day (1907)
[Columbia] Independence Day (1819)
[US] Pan American Aviation Day/Wright Brothers Day (1903)
[Venezuela] Bolivar Day (1830)
1218
[New Jersey] Ratification Day (1787)
[Niger] Republic Day (1958)
1219
[Hawaii] Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop's Birthday
[Zanzibar] Independence Day (1961)
1220
[Taiwan] Bank Holiday
1221
[Nep l] Independence Day/Unity Day (1923)
[Plymouth, Mass] Forefathers' Day (1620)
1222
[Arab] Ashura
[Mxico] Day of National Mourning (Jos Maria Morelos) (1815)
[World] International Arbor Day
1223
[Egypt] Victory Day
[Japan] Birthday of Emperor (1933)
12230123
[Montego Bay Jamaica] John Canoe Day
1224
[Laos] Sovereignty Day (1954)
[Libya] Independence Day (1951)
1225
[England] New Year's Day observed before 1068
[Taiwan] Constitution Day (1946)
1226
[Africa, US] Kwanzaa (Santa Claus=Nia Umoja) (1966)
[Bahamas] "Junkanoo" (carnaval)
[Canada, United Kingdom (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
[China PR] Mao Tse-Tung's Birthday
[Czechoslovakia] Day of Rest
[West Germany] 2nd Day of Christmas
[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day
1227
[Australia, Channel Is, England, Nauru] Boxing Day
[Bhutan] Day of 9 Evils
[Indonesia] Independence Day (1949)
[Namibia, South Africa] Family Day
[Canada, UK (except Scotland)] Boxing Day celebrated
1228
[Iowa] Admission Day (1846)
[Mauritania] Independence Day (1960)
[Nep l] King Birendra's Birthday (1945)
1229
[Gabon] President's Birthday
[Texas] Admission Day (1945)
[World] Anti-Pent-Ultimate Day
1230
[Bolivia, Chile] Bank Holiday
[Iran] Birthday of Iman Reza
[Italy] New Year's Eve
[Philippiines] Rizal Day (anniversary of his death) (1896)
12301231
[El Salvador] Bank Holiday
1231
[Austria] Imperial Ball
[Bangladesh, Brunei, India, Mxico, Phil, Sri Lanka] Bank Holiday
[Benin] Feed Yourself Day
[Congo] National Day
[Indians at Mitla, Oaxaca] Noche de Pedimento/Wishing Night
[Japan] Omisoka Day/Grand Purification
[Lebanon] Evacuation Day (1946)
[Mauritania] People's Party Day
[Scotland] Hogmanay Day
[World] New Year's Eve/Watch Night
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[Christian] Advent (4 Sundays till Christmas)-start of church year
[RC] Commemoration of St Eligius, bishop/goldsmith
12011581
[RC] Commemoration of St Edmund Champion, English Jesuit, martyr
12011637
[Ang] Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, deacon
[RC] Commemoration of St Bibiana, virgin & martyr
[Ang] Mem of Channing Moore Williams, missionary bp in China & Japan
1203 298
[RC] Commem of St Cassian of Tangier, patron of stenographers
12031552
[Luth, RC] Memorial of St Francis Xavier, apostle of India & Japan
[Orth] Presentation in Temple of Mary (11/21 OS)
1204 235
[RC] Commemoration of St Barbara, virgin/martyr
1204 450
[RC] Comm of St Peter Chrysologus, bishop of Ravenna/doctor
1204 760
[RC, Ang] Commemoration of John Damascene, priest/doctor
12041999
[Jewish] Hanukkah-Festival of Lights
1205 210
[Ang] Commemoration of Clement of Alexandria, priest
1205 532
[RC] Commemoration of St Sabbas, abbot
1206 342
[Ang, RC, Luth] Mem of Nicholas, Archbp of Myra patron of children
12061996
1207 397
[RC, Ang, Luth] Memorial of St Ambrose, governor/bishop of Milan
[RC] Commemoration of St Mary Josepha Rossello, foundress
[Buddhist-Japan]  Enlightenment of Buddha
[RC] Solemnity of Conception of Virgin (Immaculate Conception)
12081996
[Moslem] Night of Ascent (Rajab 27, 1417 AH)
[Christian] Commemoration of Conception of Anne, mother of Mary
12091640
[RC] Commemoration of St Peter Fourier, French priest
12091993
12091999
[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadn (1420 AH)
1210 314
[RC] Comemoration of St Melchiades, pope (311-14) & martyr
1211 384
[RC] Memorial of St Damasus I, pope (366-384) (opt)
12111910
[Luth] Commemoration of Lars Skrefsrud, missionary to India
[RC-US] Memorial of Dark Virgin of Guadalupe, patron of Mxico
12121641
[RC] Memorial of Jane Frances de Chantal, religious (opt)
[Moslem] New Year
1213 304
[RC] Memorial of St Lucy, virgin & martyr (St Lucia Day in Sweden)
1213 720
[RC] Commemoration of St Odilia, abbess, patroness of blind
[Luth] Commemoration of Teresa of Avila
[RC, Luth] Memorial of St Spyridon
[Ang, RC] Ember Day
[RC, Luth] Feast of John of Cross, priest/doctor
12141998
1215 350
[Christian] Commemoration of St Nio, virgin
1215 709
[Christian] Commemoration of St Offa of Essex, king
1215 956
[Christian] Commemoration of St Paul of Latros, hermit
12151855
[Christian] Commemoration of St Mary di Rosa
1216 370
[Old RC] Feast of St Eusebius, bishop of Vercelli, martyr
[Christian] Fiesta of Virgin of Lonely
[Christian] Feast of Our Lady of Solitude, patron of lonely
12181995
[Orth] Feast of St Nicholas the Wonderworker (12/6 OS)
12201992
12201995
[Moslem] Night of Ascent (Rajab 27, 1416 AH)
12201998
[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadn (1419 AH)
[RC, Luth, Ang] Commemoration of St Thomas apostle
12211597
[RC] Memorial of St Peter Canisius, priest & doctor (opt)
[Witch] Yule sabbat
[RC] Commemoration of St Frances Xavier Cabrini, virgin
12222000
12231193
[RC] Commemoration of St Thorlac, bishop, patron of Iceland
12231473
[RC] Memorial of St John of Kanty, Polish priest, theologian (opt)
[Christian] Christmas Eve
12241898
[RC] Commemoration of St Sharbel Makhlouf, Lebanese monk, hermit
12241997
[Christian] Christmas Day  Peace on Earth, good will towards men
[RC] New Years Day (until 12th century)
[RC] Feast of Holy Family of Jesus, Mary & Joseph
1226  33
[RC, Ang, Luth] Feast of St Stephen, deacon, 1st martyr
12261896
[RC] Commemoration of St Vicenta Maria Lopez y Vicuna, foundress
[RC, Luth, Ang] Feast of St John, apostle/evangelist
[RC] Mem of St Thomas of Canterbury (Thomas  Beckett), bp/martyr
12301994
[Moslem] Night of Ascent (Rajab 27, 1415 AH)
1231 335
[RC] Memorial of St Sylvester I, 33rd pope (314-35) (opt)
12311997
[Moslem] 1st day of Ramadn (1418 AH)
S
1200
Flowers-narcissus, poinsettia & holly    Gems-turquoise & zircon
National Indigestion Season
[Ancient Rome] Calendae December
[World] World AIDS Day
12011221
Astrological sign:  Sagittarius
[Ancient Rome] Nonae December
[Sweden] Sven name day
Feast of St Nicholas
[Sweden] Anna name day
12101216
Geminid meteor shower, radiant in Gemini (50-80 per hour)
[ancient Rome] Agonalia
[Ancient Rome] Idus December
Friday the 13th!  Beware!
[Ancient Rome] Consualia
[Ancient Rome] Opalia
12171223
[ancient Rome] Saturnalia, festival honoring Saturn
[ancient Rome] Divalia
Winter Solstice in No Hemisphere, shortest day of year
[ancient Rome] Larentalia
12211223
Ursid meteor shower
12220120
Astrological sign:  Capricorn
[Mxico] Night of Radishes
[Sweden] Eva name day
National Whiner's Day
Considered unluckiest day of year
12-- 384
St Siricius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
12-- 872
Adrian II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
12--1925
KFH-AM in Wichita KS begins radio transmissions
12--1926
KUJ-AM in Walla Walla WA begins radio transmissions
12--1947
WTMJ TV channel 4 in Milwaukee, WI (NBC) begins broadcasting
12--1950
Clandestine Radio Free Russia (anti-communist) begins transmitting
12--1953
KENI (now KTUU) TV chan 2 in Anchorage, AK (NBC) begins broadcasting
WSIL TV channel 3 in Harrisburg, IL begins broadcasting
12--1956
KLEW TV channel 3 in Lewiston, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
12--1972
WJMR TV channel 20 in New Orleans, LA (IND) begins broadcasting
WSWB (now WOFL) TV channel 35 in Orlando, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
12--1986
Richard & David Jacobs becomes CEO of Cleveland Indians
12--1989
Niger adopts constitution
1201 772
Pope Adrian I elected
12011640
Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
12011641
Mass becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
12011742
Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
Jews are expelled from Great Russia by Empress Elisabeth
12011750
1st American school to offer manual training courses opens, Md
12011783
Charles & M N Roberts ascend 2,000' in hydrogen balloon
12011804
emperor Napoleon marries Josphine of Martinique
12011821
Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
12011822
Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil
12011824
House of Reps begins to end election deadlock between JQ Adams,
Jackson, WH Crawford & H Clay Adams eventually declared president
12011831
Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
12011864
Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, TN to Saltville, VA
12011868
John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war
12011875
A Borrelly discovers asteroid #157 Dejanira
12011878
1st White House telephone
12011887
Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"
Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
12011894
A Charlois discovers asteroid #396 Aeolia
12011896
1st certified public accountants receive certificates, NY
12011906
Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of Kpenick) sentenced to 4 yrs
12011909
1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa
1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)
Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2:38)
Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town
12011918
Iceland becomes independent state under Danish crown
Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade
Yugoslavia declares independence; monarchy established
Lady Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
1st US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF
Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns
12011924
Calles becomes president of Mxico
G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1046 Edwin
Treaty of Locarno signed
12011928
Railroad museum opens in Utrect Neth
BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe
J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1708 Polit
O Oikawa & K Kubokawa discovers asteroid #1139 Atami
12011930
NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
Ruth Nichols becomes 1st woman pilot to cross continent
12011933
Rudolf Hess & Earnest Rhm become a minister in Hitler govt
Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
EW Brundin & FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants
Japan recognizes Franco govt
School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
SS-Fhrer Himmler begins deportation ofn Polish Jews
12011941
US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
Oil rationed in US
FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to operation Overload
12011948
Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine
Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player
12011949
WBNG TV channel 12 in Binghamton, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
12011953
WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast
WAXA TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) begins broadcasting
WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland, ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
Walter Alston named Dodger manager
Nationalist China & US sign dike agreement
Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus
12011956
Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta, resigns
Central African Rep made autonomous member of Fr Comm (Nat'l Day)
Chicago: parochial school in fire: 93 die
Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students & 3 nuns (Chic)
12011959
12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
1st color photograph of Earth from outer space
Billy Cannon (Louisiana halfback) wins Heisman trophy
Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
12011963
NY Jets 1st shutout, beat KC 17-0
Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union
12011965
Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
12011966
Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colo
12011967
Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
Wilt Chamberlain set NBA record of 22 free throws misses
12011968
Pirate Radio Modern (259) (England) begins transmitting
John & Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US
Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK
Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea
Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year
LA Skid Row slasher kills first of 8
C Torres discovers asteroid #2741 Valdivia
H Wroblewski discovers asteroid #2858 Carlosporter
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3322
Harvard College discovers asteroids #2153 Akiyama & #2493 Elmer
Pres Carter more than doubles national park system size
12011980
A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3168
George Rogers (South Carolina running back) wins Heisman trophy
Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in "Cementing Relationships"
US Justice Dept sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination
12011981
180 dies as Yugoslav DC-9 jetliner slams into a mountain
12011982
Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as pres of Mxico
12011983
Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury
12011984
Doug Flutie (Boston College quarterback) wins 50th Heisman trophy
George Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee to win WBA Boxing title
12011985
STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"
Digging begins to link England & France under English Channel
596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
NBC bids record $401M to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics
NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs St Louis Blues
"Day Without Art"-Artists demonstrate against AIDS
East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year Cal Angels contract
USSR Pres Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
Hissene Habr of Chad flees to Cameroon
Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
Lithauania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
NY Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96
Ty Detmer, Brigham Young quarterback, wins Heisman trophy
12011991
AIDS awareness day
Frances beats US, for their 1st Davis Cup (tennis) since 1932
US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
Ukrainian people vote for independence
12011992
2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana & crash, 13 die
12021620
English language newspaper "Namloos" begins publishing in Amsterdam
12021763
Touro shul of Newport RI dedicated (oldest existing US synagogue)
12021777
British Gen Howe plots attack on Washington's army for Dec 4
English sell Suriname to Dutch
12021804
Napoleon becomes 1st French emperor, placing crown on his own head
12021805
Napoleon defeats Russians & Austrians at Austerlitz
12021812
James Madison re-elected president of US, E Gerry vice-pres
12021816
1st savings bank in US opens (Philadelphia Savings Fund Society)
12021822
In San Salvador, a congress proposes incorporation into US
12021823
President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine"
12021840
Opera "Die Favoritin" is produced (Paris)
William H Harrison elected president of US
12021848
Franz Josef I becomes emperor of Austria & King of Hungary
12021852
2nd French empire established; Louis Napoleon becomes emperor
John Brown is executed by hanging at Charles Town, (West) VA
12021877
Opera "Samson et Dalila" is produced (Rouen)
Opera "Regina di Saba" is produced (Vienna)
12021887
Charles Dickens' 1st public reading in US (NYC)
12021891
52nd Congress (1891-93) convenes
54th Congress (1895-97) convenes
12021899
US & Germany agree to divide Samoa between them
12021901
Gillette patents 1st disposable razor
A Charlois discovers asteroid #498 Tokio
12021907
Tommy Burns KOs Gunner Moir to retain heavyweight boxing title
12021913
Archdiocese of Managua created
Cabinet -Barthou falls due to overtime conscription
Austria army conquerors Belgrade Serbia
G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #1024 Hale
British-German trade agreement signed
12021927
1st Model A Fords sold, for $385
1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien
G Reiss discovers asteroid #1237 Genevieve
L Boyer discovers asteroid #1211 Bressole
12021934
5.08-m (200") Mt Palomar Observatory mirror is cast
12021939
British Imerial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC
Largest roller skating rink (outside of NYC) opens in Peekskill NY
Yamamoto sends his fleet to Pearl Harbor
12021942
1st controlled nuclear chain reaction (Enrico Fermi-U of Chicago)
German troops seize Betuwse dikes
Leslie Hovrath, Ohio State quarterback wins Heisman Trophy
12021947
Johnny Lujack, Notre Dame quarterback wins Heisman Trophy
Vic Toweel knocks down Danny O'Sullivan 14 times in a title fight
12021951
Phila sets NFL record of 25 1st-downs rushing
12021952
1st human birth televised to public (Denver, Colo)
Frank Selvy of Milwaukee sets then NBA record of 24 of 26 free throws
Fidel Castro lands with "Granma" on coast of Cuba
12021957
1st full-scale atomic electric power plant-power generated, Pa
Benelux treaty signed by Belgium, Netherlands & Luxembourg
KNOP TV channel 2 in North Platte, NB (NBC) begins broadcasting
Pete Dawkins, Army back wins Heisman Trophy
12021959
Malpasset dam collapses destroying French Riviera town of Frejus
12021961
1st OT Grey Cup game (Winnipeg 21, Hamilton 14)
Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist, & will lead Cuba to Communism
12021964
Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed
Love, Moby Grape & Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
12021970
Environmental Protection Agency begins (Dir: William Ruckelshaus)
12021971
Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars
"December Giant" largest sinkhole in US collapses (Alabama)
A R Klemola discovers asteroid #1934 Jeffers
In 1 of their worst trades Yanks get Rich McKinney for Stan Bahnsen
12021974
Soyuz 16 launched into Earth orbit for 6 days
12021975
Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
12021978
Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters poured through Tehran
Streisand & Diamond's "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," goes #1
12021979
Crowds attack US embassy at Tripoli Libya
Foots Walker becomes 1st Cleve Cavalier to score a triple-double
12021980
4 American Maryknoll nuns killed by death squads in El Salvador
12021981
F Dossin discovers asteroid #3435 Boury
Moscone Convention Center, SF opens at 11:30 AM
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3221
12021984
4th meeting of Giants-Jets, Giants even series at 2 with 20-10 win
Dow-Jones index hits record 1955.57
12021987
Chicago City Council elects Eugene Sawyer acting mayor
12021988
"Naked Gun" premieres, a movie based on TV's "Police Squad"
5 gunmen who hacked Soviet Aeroflot jet, surrender in Israel
STS-27 Atlantis launched (Secret military mission)
UN votes 151-2 (Isr & US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Brit abstains
12021989
KHJ-TV in Los Angeles CA changes call letters to KCAL-TV
Vishwanath Pratap Singh sworn in as president of India
1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) launches into orbit
12021991
Bobby Bonilla signs record $29 million-5 year pact with NY Mets
Muslim Shites release US hostage Joseph Cicippio
WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC
1203 741
St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Gregory III
12031586
Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England, from Colombia
12031621
Galileo perfects telescope
12031678
Edmund Halley receives MA from Queen's College, Oxford
12031685
Charles II bars Jews from settling in Stockholm Sweden
12031775
1st official US flag raising (aboard naval vessel Alfred)
12031818
Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
12031828
Andrew Jackson elected 7th president of US
12031833
Oberlin College in Oh, 1st truly coeducational college opens
12031834
1st US dental society organized (NY)
12031835
1st US mutual fire insurance company issues 1st policy (RI)
12031847
Frederick Douglass publishes 1st issue of his newspaper "North Star"
12031863
Longstreet abandons his siege at Knoxville, TN
12031866
Paid fire dept replaces volunteer companies
12031868
Trial of Jefferson Davis starts; 1st blacks on US trial jury
12031881
Henry M Stanley finds Leopoldville/Kinshasa
48th Congress (1883-85) convenes
12031903
Panglima Polim surrenders to Capt Coln at Atjeh
12031912
Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
12031920
Turkey & Armenia agree to peace treaty
Manchester Guardian (German Reichswehr/Red Army work together)
Air-borne chemicals combine with fog to kill 60 (Meuse Valley Belgium)
L Boyer discovers asteroid #1212 Francette
Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
12031933
Joe Lilliard QBs Chic Cardinals; last NFL black until 1946
Italian colonial Tripoli & Cyrenaica annexed to Libya
KYW-AM in Chicago Ill moves to Phila Penn
AAU's decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
12031942
E Delporte discovers asteroid #1560 Strattonia
12031943
Strike of Monte Cassino, Italy begins
12031944
British order to disarm, causes general strike in Greece
NFL Cardinals-Pitts merger disolves
12031946
US govt askes UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
12031947
Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire," opens
"Pumpkin Papers" come to light (claimed to be from Alger Hiss)
1st US woman army officer not in medical corps sworn-in
Chinese refugee ship "Kiangya" explodes in E China Sea, killing 1,100
KRLD (now KDFW) TV channel 4 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (CBS) begins
Cleve Browns last NFL team with no-pass game (beat Phila 13-7)
Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
Marcos Perez Jimnez elected president of Venezuela
Eisenhower criticize McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party
KTVE TV channel 10 in Monroe-El Dorado, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
England & France pull troops out of Egypt
KFSA (now KFSM) TV channel 5 in Ft Smith, AR (CBS) 1st broadcast
Wilt Chamberlain's 1st collegiate basketball game (scores 52)
Emergency crisis in Cyprus ends
"Camelot" opens at Majestic Theater on Broadway
12031961
Anton Geesink becomes 1st not-Japanese judo world champion
George Blanda of Houston Oilers kicks 55-yard field goal
12031962
Pravda criticizes western art
12031964
KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
Police arrests 800 sit-in students at U of Cal at Berkeley
USSR launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon
1st human heart transplant performed (Dr Christian Barnard, S Africa)
Final run of "20th Century Limited," famed NY-Chicago luxury train
12031969
John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
12031972
Convair 990A charter crashes in Tenerife Canary Island, 155 die
L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2233 Kuznetsov
Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
12031975
Laos falls to communist forces; Lao People's Democratic Rep proclaimed
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2583
12031976
Dr Patrick J Hillery elected president of Iraq
12031979
11 trampled to death at Cincinnati Who concert [or 1204?]
Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
Iran accepts constitution
NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ & Murphy, D-NY, guilty
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #3089 & #3463
12031982
35.7 cm rainfall at Big Fork, Arkansas (state record)
NJ Devils 1st hat trick (Steve Tambellini)
12031984
2,000 die from Union Carbide poison gas emission in Bhopal, India
Oldest groom - Harry Stevens, 103, weds Thelma Lucas, 83, in Wisc
23rd Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-lands at Edwards AFB
12031988
Barry Sanders wins Heisman Trophy
Hulk Hogan defeats Undertaker to become 4th time WWF champion
Muslim Shites release US hostage Alan Steen
White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns
12031992
UN Security Council votes unanimous for US led forces to enter Somalia
12041110
Syria harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
12041489
Battle of Baza-Spanish army captures Baza from Moors
12041563
Council of Trent holds last session, after 18 years
12041619
America's 1st Thanksgiving Day (Va)
12041674
Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago
12041680
Hen in Rome lays an egg imprinted with comet not seen until Dec 16th
12041682
1st General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
12041783
Gen Washington bids officers farewell at Fraunce's Tavern, NYC
Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pa patents a horse-drawn mower
12041816
James Monroe, Va elected 5th pres, defeating Federalist Rufus King
12041833
American Anti-Slavery Society forms by Arthur Tappan in Phila
American Anti-Slavery Society organizes
12041836
Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa
12041843
Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented, Mass
12041844
James K Polk elected president of US
12041851
Pres Louis Napolean Boaparte forces crush a coup d'etat in France
12041864
Battle of Waynesborough,  GA
Romanian Jews are forbidden to practice law
12041867
Grange organized to protect farm interests
William Marcy "Boss" Tweed (NYC-Tammany Hall) escapes from jail
12041899
56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
A Charlois discovers asteroid #451 Patientia
Webb Hayes son of pres Rutherford Hayes receives medal of honor
12041906
Alpha Phi Alpha, 1st Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms
Haiti's president-General Alexis Nord flees from militairy coup
1st Grey Cup game (University of Toronto 26, Toronto Parkdale 6)
Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County Ga
Panama Pacific International Exposition opens
12041920
1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds
Lucille Atcherson, becomes 1st woman legation sect-US foreign service
WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
12041927
Duke Ellington opens at Cotton Club in Harlem
FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration
L Boyer discovers asteroids #1338 Duponta & #1339 Desagneauxa
12041935
1,200 at St Joseph's College (Phila) enroll in anticommunism class
1st US citizenship granted an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
US bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II
Works Progress Administration liquidated
Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1883 Rimito
Commissioner Landis announces any baseball club may sign negroes
Yugoslavian resistance forms under Dr Ribar
12041945
Doc Blanchard becomes 1st junior to win Heisman Trophy
Senate approves US participation in UN
12041947
USSR joins Intl Amateur Athletic Union
SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River China, sinks killing 2,750 die
Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
Superheated gases roll down Mount Catarman (Phillipines), kills 500
Killer fogs begin in London England, "Smog" becomes a word
Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO
12041953
H Gessner discovers asteroid #3642 Frieden
Paul Hornung wins Heisman Trophy
1st edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published
2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's England)
12041958
Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within Fr Community
Finnish govt of Fagerholm, resigns
12041961
Heavyweight Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley
Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days
Smallest NY Knick, 49th St MSG crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
12041963
Aldo Moro forms Italian govt
Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
12041964
Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album
12041965
2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die
2nd NY Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)
Gemini 7 (Borman & Lovell) launched
KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
12041970
Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
12041973
John Cappelletti wins Heisman trophy
12041974
Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Moslem pilgrims
Liz Taylor's 7th marriage (John Warner)
12041977
Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of Central African Empire, crowns himself
NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinatti beats KC 27-7
12041978
Dianne Feinstein is named SF 1st female mayor
Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 7, Bingo Smith
Liza Minnelli's 3rd marriage (Mark Gero)
12041980
E Bowell discovers asteroid #3086 Kalbaugh
Islanders end 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2) (Col Rockies)
12041982
China adopts its constitution
Hershel Walker wins Heisman Trophy
M Antal discovers asteroid #3730
NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota Detroit Red Wings 6-0
US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #3735
Hackers commandeered a Kuwaiti airliner
12041985
Pres Reagan appoints Vice Adm John Poindexter as security adviser
NASA launches Fltsatcom-7
12041988
Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
12041991
Judds final concert (Nashville)
Muslim Shites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6« years)
12051301
Pope Boniface VIII's degree Ausculta fili (only nominee)
12051349
Jews are massacred at Nuremberg in Black death riots
12051456
Earthquake strikes Naples; about 35,000 die
12051492
Columbus discovers Hispaniola (El Espa¤ola) (Haiti)
12051496
Jews are expelled from Portugal by order of King Manuel I
12051776
Phi Beta Kappa, 1st American scholastic fraternity, founded
12051804
Thomas Jefferson re-elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres
12051831
Former Pres John Q Adams takes his seat as member of House of Reps
12051832
Andrew Jackson re-elected president of US
12051846
C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive
12051848
Pres Polk triggers Gold Rush of '49, confirms Calif gold discovery
12051854
Aaron Allen of Boston patents a folding theater chair
Gatling gun patented
12051862
Battle of Coffeeville, MS
12051868
1st American bicycle college opens (NY)
12051876
Daniel Stillson (Mass) patents 1st practical pipe wrench
Fire at Brooklyn Theater kills 295, trampled or burned to death
12051879
1st automatic telephone switching system patented
12051881
47th Congress (1881-83) convenes
Henry Campbell-Bannermam (Lib) becomes PM of England
12051908
1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)
12051918
Oil refinery on Curaao opens
12051920
Pro football playoff game Akron & Buffalo 0-0 tie, title undecided
German govt of Luther falls
12051928
MW Miklas elected president of Austria
12051929
1st US nudist organization (American League for Physical Culture, NYC)
12051931
G Reiss discovers asteroid #1213 Algeria
German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa
21st Am ratified, 18th Amendment (Prohibition) repealed (5:32 PM EST)
1st coml hydroponics operation established (Montebello Calif)
National Council of Negro Women forms by Mary McLeod Bethune (NYC)
12051941
Football Writers Association of America organized
Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army
Sister Elizabeth Kenny new treatment for infantile paralysis approved
West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland
12051943
NFL Phila Eagle-Pitts Steeler merger disolves
12051944
German troops rob all the silver coin in Utrecht
"Lost Squadron" crashes east of Florida (Bermuda Triangle)
Pres Truman creates Committee on Civil Rights by Exec Order #9808
Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Joe Walcott
12051948
NY Giant Charley Conerly sets NFL record of 36 pass completions
Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for heavyweight boxing title
12051950
Sikkim becomes a protectorate of India
"Dragnet" premiers
12051952
-8) worst smog in London ever, 4-8,000 die
12051954
KTEW (now KJRH) TV channel 2 in Tulsa, OK (NBC) begins broadcasting
12051955
AFL & CIO merge, with George Meany as president
Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks
12051958
WTOL TV channel 11 in Toledo, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
12051960
Ghana drops diplomatic relations with Belgium
Beatles clothing store "Apple" on 94 Baker Street, London, opens
Benjamin Spock & Allen Ginsberg arrested protesting Vietnam war
12051968
Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP
12051971
KCBJ (now KMIZ) TV channel 17 in Columbia, MO (ABC) 1st broadcast
12051972
P Wild discovers asteroid #1866 Sisyphus
12051973
Cubs' Ron Santo became 1st baseball player to veto his trade
Paul McCartney releases "Band on the Run" album
Pioneer 10 launched to Jupiter
1st Wash Cap penalty shot, Tom Williams unsuccessful vs Buff Sabres
1st World Football League Bowl, Birmingham Americans beat Florida
Airport terminal roof collapses killing 17 (Teheran Iran)
Oliver Tilden Triangle in the Bronx named
Seattle Seahawks forms
Tom Williams is unsuccessful on Wash Capitals 1st NHL penalty shot
12051975
NASA launches space vehicle S-196, it failed
12051977
Egypt breaks dipl relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq & S Yemen
12051981
Marcus Allen of USC wins Heisman Trophy
12051982
Herschel Walker of Georgia wins Heisman Trophy
Mel Gray ends NFL streak of 121 consecutive game receptions
Seattle Univ Baptist Ch declares sanctuary for Cen Am refugees
12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut
LA Dodger pitcher Steve Howe is suspended for 1 year for cocaine use
12051985
Dow Jones Industrial Average rose above 1,500 level for 1st time
12051988
Shuttle Atlantis launches world's 1st nuclear-war-fighting satellite
France TGV train reaches world record speed of 482.4 kph
12051990
Former Noriega aide Luis del Cid pleads guilty
10m meteor 1991-VG passes 465,000 km from Earth
Charles Keating Jr (Lincoln Savings & Loan fraud), found guilty
NY Daily News files for protection under chapter 11
12061491
King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne
12061492
Haiti discovered by Columbus, at Mle Saint Nicolas
12061534
Quito, Ecuador founded by Spanish
12061631
1st predicted transit of Venus (Kepler) is observed
1st play in American colonies acted by professional players, NYC
12061768
1st edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published (Scotland)
12061790
Congress meets in Philadelphia, new temporary US capital
12061820
US president James Monroe re-elected
12061825
Pres John Adams suggests establishment of a US observatory
12061846
Opera "La Damnation de Faust" is produced (Paris)
12061849
Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland
12061862
Pres Lincoln orders hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians
12061864
Battle of Deveaux's Neck, SC
13th Amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery
12061866
Chicago water supply tunnel 3,227 m into Lake Michigan completed
Joseph H Rainey, 1st black in House of Reps (SC)
12061873
1st international football game in US: Yale 2, Eton (England) 1
12061875
44th Congress (1875-77) convenes
12061876
1st crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Penn
City of Anaheim incorporated for 2nd time
US Electorial College picks Rep Hayes as pres (although Tilden won)
12061877
Washington Post publishes 1st edition
12061882
Atmosphere of Venus detected during transit
12061884
Aluminum capstone set atop Washington Monument, Wash, DC
A Charlois discovers asteroid #378 Holmia
12061899
J E Keeler discovers asteroid #452 Hamiltonia
12061904
Theodore Roosevelt confirms Monroe-doctrine (Roosevelt Corollary)
12061907
Coal mine explosions in Monongah, WV, kills 361
12061912
China votes for universal human rights
German troops over run L¢dz
12061917
1,600 die as 2 munitions ships collide at Halifax, Nova Scotia
Finland declares independence from Russia (National Day)
French munition ship "Mont Blanc" explodes in Halifax, kills 1,700
Irish Free State gains independence from Britain
12061922
1st constitution of Irish Free State comes into operation
1st electric power line commercial carrier in US, Utica, NY
12061923
1st presidential address broadcast on radio (Pres Calvin Coolidge)
Italy, Britain & Egypt sign Jaghbub accord (Italy)
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1063 Aquilegia
Record 73,000 pay to watch Chic Bears beat NY Giants 19-7
12061929
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1187 Afra
Turkey votes for female suffrage
12061930
Pablo Neruda marries Marie A Hagenaar Vogelzang in Batavia
12061933
James Joyce' "Ulysses" banned in US
French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
King Leopold of Belgium marries Lilian Baels
NYC Council agrees to build Idlewild (Kennedy) Airport in Queens
Queen Wilhelmina proclaims Dutch Commonwealth
RAF bombs Philips factory (150 die)
Czech govt tells Israeli ambassador, he's persona nun grata
Simone de Beauvoir receives Prix Goncourt
NY psychologist Joyce Brothers won "$64,000 Question" on boxing
12061956
Nelson Mandela & 156 others arrested for political activities in S Afr
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2789
1st US attempt to launch a satellite fails-Vanguard rocket blows up
AFL-CIO votes to expel Teamsters (readmitted in October 1987)
Indonesia begins nationalizing Dutch possessions
12061958
US lunar probe Pioneer 3 reaches 107,269 km, falls back
12061960
AL grants Gene Autry a franchise, LA Angels
US abandons Skybolt balastic missile program
Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans
12061964
KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
12061965
2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125
12061968
Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
WKID (now WSCV) TV channel 51 in Ft Lauderdale, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
12061969
300,000 attend Altamont Calif, rock concert feature Rolling Stones
12061970
Cleve Cavaliers 1st NBA home victory, beating Buffalo Braves 108-106
12061971
Lewis Franklin Powell confirmed as Supreme Court justice
Bahrain's constitution goes into effect
Gerald Ford sworn-in as 1st unelected VP, succeeds Spiro T Agnew
NL votes to move San Diego Padres to Washington DC (doesn't happen)
12061974
George Harrison releases "Ding Dong, Ding Dong"
12061975
Sen Robert Dole & Elizabeth Hanford marry
12061977
South Africa grants Bophuthatswana independence
12061978
Spain adopts constitution
12061980
Jim Bakker rapes Jessica Hahn
NASA launches Intelsat V
12061983
A bomb planted on a bus in Jerusalem explodes, kills 6 Israelis
Hackers aboard Kuwaiti jetliner kill 2nd hostage
12061986
Vinny Testaverde of Minn wins Heisman Trophy
12061987
3 satanist Missouri teenagers bludgeon comrade to death for "fun"
Arafat meets prominent American Jews in Stockholm, Sweden
Milwaukee Bucks win their 1,000th NBA game (2nd fastest)
Worst Canadian mass murder - man kills 14 women at U of Montral
mafia drug kingpin bombs security force at Bogot , kills 52
12061990
NHL grants conditional membership to Tampa Bay Lightning
Saddam anounces release of all foriegn hostages
"Star Trek VI-Undiscovered Conuntry" premieres
12061992
300,000 hindus destroy mosque of Babri India, 4 die
SF 49er Jerry Rice catches NFL record 101st touchdown
SF Giants renig on $43 million pact with Barry Bonds
US beats Switzerland for Davis Cup
1207  36
-BC- Earliest known Mayan inscription, Stela 2 at Chiapa de Corzo
1207 185
Emperor Lo-Yang, China sees supernova (MSH15-52?)
1207 283
St Eutychian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
12071787
Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify constitution
James Madison elected US pres/George Clinton vice-pres
12071836
Martin Van Buren elected 8th president
12071842
NY Philharmonic's 1st concert
12071862
Battle of Hartsville, TN
Battle of Prairie Grove, AR
12071868
Jesse James gang robs bank in Gallatin Missouri, kills 1
HMS Challenger sets sail on 3«-year world oceanographic cruise
12071875
Natives Sons of the West organized
NY Mutuals & Phila A's expelled from NL for not completing sked
12071885
49th Congress (1885-87) convenes
52nd Congress (1st to appropriate $1 billion) holds 1st session
12071896
A Charlois discovers asteroid #423 Diotima
12071909
Leo Baekeland, Yonkers, NY, patents 1st thermosetting plastic
Bust of Queen Nefertete found in El-Amarna, Egypt
J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #737 Arequipa
12071916
David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM
12071917
US becomes 13th country to declare war on Austria during World War I
12071920
USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
12071921
KWG-AM in Stockton CA begins radio transmissions
German election (SPD wins)
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1078 Mentha
12071929
Leo Diegel wins PGA golf tournament
1st gyro-stabilized vessel to cross Atlantic arrives in NY
12071934
Wiley Post discovers jet stream
12071935
Winnipeg Blue Bombers become 1st western team to win Grey Cup
Dutch Minister Romme proclaims married women are forbidden to work
Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe
12071938
W9XZY broadcasts facsimile of St Louis Post-Dispatch by radio
12071941
German siege of Tobroek after 8 months ends
Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
12071944
General Radescu forms Romanian government
12071946
Fire at Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, kills 119
Chang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
12071952
KKTV TV channel 11 in Colorado Spgs-Pueblo, CO (CBS) 1st broadcast
12071953
Israel's PM Ben-Gureon retires
WCCB TV channel 18 in Charlotte, NC (IND/ABC) begins broadcasting
12071954
Japanese government of Joshida, resigns
KCTS TV channel 9 in Seattle, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Helen O'Connell joins Today Show panel
12071958
R¢mulo Btancourt elected pres of Venezuela
12071960
Ivory Coast claims independence from France
George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs
12071968
M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923
Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823
12071971
Wings release their 1st album "Wild Life"
12071972
Apollo 17, last of Apollo Moon series, launched
Phillipine 1st lady Imelda Marcos stabbed & wounded by an assailant
12071973
Wings release "Band on the Run"
10th Islander shut-out opponent-Glenn Resch 3-0 vs Sabres
P Wild discovers asteroid #2843
12071976
UN Security Council endorses Kurt Waldheim, sec-gen for 2nd 5 yr term
12071977
Islander Billy Smith's 10th shut-out opponent-Black Hawks 4-0
12071978
Islander's Mike Bossy's 1st career hat trick
12071980
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3494
12071981
Spain becomes a member of the NATO
12071982
T Seki discovers asteroid #2961 Katsurahama
2 jets collided at Madrid Airport killing 93
Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB
Bo Jackson of Auburn wins Heisman Trophy
12071986
Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Hati
12071987
43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in Calif (man shot pilots)
Gorbachev arrives in US for a summit meeting
25,000 killed by an earthquake in Armenian SSR (6.9)
Armenian SSR rocked by earthquake, 8 on Richter scale (55,000 die)
Gorbachev announces 10% unilateral Soviet troop reductions at UN
Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
NY Islanders fire Simpson, Arbour new coach
Iraqi parliment endorses Saddam's decision to free hostages
Ted Turner & Jane Fonda announce their engagement
Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)
12071995
Galileo spacecraft arrives on Jupiter
12081776
George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from NJ
12081777
Capt Cook leaves Society Islands
12081792
1st cremation in US, Henry Laurens
12081794
1st issue of Herald of Rutland, VT published
12081845
Asteroid number 5, Astraea discovered (named for goddess of justice)
German amateur astronomer M Hencke discovers 5th asteroid, Astra
K L Hencke discovers asteroid #5 Astraea
12081857
1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of NY"
12081863
2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile
Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
Pres Lincoln offers amnesty for confederate deserters
12081864
Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")
12081869
20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
12081874
Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie Kansas
Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
12081896
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
12081898
A Charlois discovers asteroid #441 Bathilde
12081902
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
12081909
Bird banding society found
Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
12081914
British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
German-US friendship treaty signed
Labour/Liberals win British parliament
Salary & price freeze in Germany
12081931
Coaxial cable patented
Anastasio Somoza elected pres of Nicaragua
NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
12081938
Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa Calif
LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
1st NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
SF 1st blackout, at 6:15 PM
US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II
Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
12081948
Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
Chinese Nationalist govt moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1st TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
Isaak Ben-Zwi elected pres of Israel
WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh, NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
12081956
16th Olympic games end in Melbourne
1st test firing of Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues," single goes #1 for 10 weeks
Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
12081961
Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive pts without a miss (NBA rec)
114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
Failed coup in Brunei
Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
United Airlines crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
12081974
Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
12081976
UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim secretary-General
"Bravo" network premiers on cable tv
Osservatorio San Vittore discovers asteroid #2601 Bologna
9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB
Ringo appears on Saturday Night Live
12081985
Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (NY Jet record) to Wesley Walker
12081986
House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
12081987
Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalee to actually score a goal
Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
12081988
6.9 Earthquakes hit Armenia; about 60,000 die
Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
Russia, Byelorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
Asteroid 4179 Toutatis (í 3,5 km) is 3.6 million km from Earth
Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May, 1993
12091425
Pope Martinus V forms University of Leuven
12091738
Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia
12091793
Noah Webster establishes NY's 1st daily newspaper, American Minerva
12091824
Battle of Ayacucho (Candorcangui), Peru defeats Spain
12091851
1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America (Montral)
12091854
Lord Tennyson's poem, "Charge of the Light Brigade," published
12091861
Battle of Bird Creek, Indian Terr (High Shoal, Chusto-Talasah)
12091869
Noble Order of Knights of Labor founded, Philadelphia
12091878
Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
12091883
New Brunswick adopts Eastern Standard Time (until 1902)
Levant Richardson patents ball-bearing skate
12091892
A Charlois discovers asteroid #349 Dembowska
12091895
A Charlois discovers asteroid #409 Aspasia
12091900
Dutch Pres Paul Kruger & Queen Wilhelmina have a triumphant procession
12091903
Norwegian parliament vote unanimiously for female suffrage
French Assembly National votes for seperation of church & state
12091907
1st Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington Del post office)
1st US monoplane flown (Henry W Walden, Long Island, NY)
French troops occupy Morrocan harbor city Agadir
H Vogt discovers asteroid #735 Marghanna
12091913
Heavyweight Jack Johnson-Jim Johnson fight to no decision in Paris
John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League
12091917
British forces under General Allenby capture Jerusalem
French troops attack Mainz
Gabriel Narutowicz elected Polish president
Dutch & Hungary trade treaty signed
Michael Hainisch re-elected Austrian president
Pro football a hit in NYC; Grange & Bears beat Giants before 73,000
USGA leagalizes steel shaft golf clubs
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1104 Syringa
12091931
Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
Spain becomes a republic
12091933
Romania disallows fascist Iron Guard
NY Giants defeat Chicago Bears 30-13 for NFL championship
12091939
Russian air raid on Helsinki
British assault on Banghazi Lybia
British troops 1st major offensive in No Africa (Libya) during WW II
Illeagal Jewish immigrants to Haifa are deported to Mauritius
1st US WW II bombing mission in Far East, Luzon, Philippines
300 Montgomery, SF opens as new Bank of America HQ
China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
Citizen Register reports "Hostile planes reported nearing Westchester"
12091948
UN General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide
Dutch 2nd Chamber accept Indonesian sovereignty
NFL merges Cleve Browns, SF '49ers & Balt Colts from AAFC
12091951
Voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wrttemberg, W Germ
General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
Mont Canadiens (106) & Toronto Maple Leafs (98) get 204 penalty mins
12091961
SS Col Adolf Eichman found guilty of war crimes in Israel
Tanganyika gains independence from Britain takes name Tanzania
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
12091962
"I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes on Broadway
Tanganyika becomes a republic within British Commonwealth
Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
Zanzibar gains independence from Britain
Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium
12091967
Jim Morrison, arrested on stage for disturbing the peace
Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in White House
Nicolea Ceausescu becomes president (dictator) of Romania
KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
Lewis F Powell Jr appointed to Supreme Court
12091974
Johnson Grigsby freed after 66 years in jail
12091980
61øF in Boston at 1 AM
12091981
Porn star John Holmes charged with Laurel Canyon murders
Mary-Beth & William Hurt divorce
12091984
6 day hack of Kuwaiti jet ends
12091985
Jerry Rice begins NFL streak of 100+ consecutive game receptions
Phoenix Arizona, gets 3" of snow
12091987
Larry Bird, ends streak of 59 consecutive free throws
Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank
12091988
NY Yanks sell all TV rights to cable network in $500 M deal
Lech Walesa wins presidental election in Poland
NFL NY Giant Otis Anderson becomes 8th to rush for 10,000th yard
Cin Red owner Marge Schott apologizes for racist remarks
Operation Restore Hope - US Marines land in Somalia
12101294
Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
12101508
League of the kingdom signed (covenant against Venice)
12101520
Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant
12101672
NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
12101690
Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
12101817
Mississippi admitted as 20th state
"Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
12101864
Sherman reaches Savannah & 12 day siege begins
12101869
Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
12101879
J Palisa discovers asteroid #211 Isolda
1st intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam
1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frdric Passy)
Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime
12101906
Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
French government returns to Paris
12101915
10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
Pres Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt
12101918
John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
12101919
Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
President Woodrow Wilson receives Nobel Peace Prize
12101922
Nobel awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr & Albert Einstein
Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
Polish cabinet of Grabski, forms
12101924
Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
12101925
George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel
12101926
2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
12101927
Grand Ole Opry makes its 1st radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN
12101931
Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
Manuel Aza¤a becomes premier/Niceto Zamora president of Spain
12101932
Thailand recieves its 1st constitution
12101934
Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
NFL adopts player waiver rule; applies after 6th game of season
12101939
Green Bay Packers win NFL championship
KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
12101940
British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
Japanse troops overrun Guam
12101942
Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
12101948
UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
12101950
Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
12101953
KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
12101954
Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1st domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
Dr Ruth marries Fred Westheimer
Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
USSR & Angolia breaks diplomatic relations
12101962
Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show
Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
12101966
Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
12101970
North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
12101971
William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
12101973
1st time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)
Helios 1 launched by US, Germany; later makes closest flyby of Sun
12101975
Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
12101976
Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
12101977
Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
12101978
In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
12101980
Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
Last NFL game at Shea Stadium; Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
12101984
South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
"Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens
12101989
President Gustav Hus k of Czechoslovakia, resigns
Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
NHL awards franchises to Mimai & Anaheim (for 1994-95)
NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
St Damasus I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
12111419
Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence
12111620
103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/21 NS)
12111710
Battle of Villa Viciosa (France beat Habsburgers)
12111719
1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in US (New England)
12111792
France's King Louis XVI went on trial, accused of treason
12111812
1st newspaper on Curaao (Curaao Gazette & Commercial Advertiser)
12111816
Citizens of Geneva thwarted Savoyard invaders
Indiana becomes 19th state
12111844
1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Ct
12111866
1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean
12111872
1st black US gov took office, Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (La)
12111888
French Panama Canal company fails
12111899
Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronj vs Gen Methuen
12111901
Marconi sends 1st transatlantic radio signal, Cornwall to Nfld
12111903
British forces under MacDonald & Young march into Tibet
120ø F (49ø C), Rivadavia, Argentina (South American record)
12111909
Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #691 Lehigh
12111914
Stockton Street Tunnel (SF) completed
12111917
13 black soldiers hanged for alleged participation in Houston riot
German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
12111919
Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Ala
12111928
Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on Pres-elect Herbert Hoover
SF's coldest day (27øF) - it snows
1st Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher unsuccessful vs Rangers
Ford C Frick becomes president of baseball's National League
G Kulin discovers asteroid #1436 Salonta
12111937
Italy withdraws from League of Nations
12111938
NY Giants win NFL championship
Germany & Italy declare war on US
Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
Japanese occupy Guam
Timor (Austr/Dutch guerrilla troops evacuated near Australia
Surprise attack on House of Keeping Axe, 29 prisoners freed
Hank Williams begins to record on Sterling label
Spain suspended from UN
UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
12111947
Pacific Coast League application for major league status rejected
WHEN (now WTVH) TV channel 5 in Syracuse, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
WMC TV channel 5 in Memphis, TN (NBC) begins broadcasting
12111949
Chic Bear Johnny Lujack passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chic Cards (52-29)
Cleveland Browns beat SF '49ers 21-7 in final AAFC championship game
WOAI (now KMOL) TV channel 4 in San Antonio, TX (NBC) 1st broadcast
Joe Dimaggio announces his baseball retirement
KTVA TV channel 11 in Anchorage (CBS) becomes Alaska's 1st TV station
USS Forrestal christened in Newport News, Va
12111956
Anti-Russian demonstrates in Stettin & Wroclaw Poland
12111957
Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra
Upper Volta (now Bourkina Fasso) gains autonomy from France
12111960
Black Sunday - Riot in Algiers, 114 die
12111961
Adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel
Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii," album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 20 wks
JFK provides US miltary helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards
12111967
Beatles' Apple Music signs its 1st group-Grapefruit
SST prototype "Concorde" 1st shown (France)
12111968
KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
US Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband
12111969
Libya adopts constitution
12111970
John Lennon releases an album that contains songs with word "fuck"
12111972
Astronauts Cernan & Harrison become 11th & 12th on Moon
Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)
12111973
Houston Astro Caesar Cedino jailed in death of 19 year old woman
NA Soccer League awards LA, SF, Seattle & Vancouver franchises
12111981
Muhammad Ali's 61st & last fight, losing to Trevor Berbick
Peru's Javier Perez de Cuellar becomes sec-gen of UN
Spacelab I arrives at Kennedy Space Center
UN Sec Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as 5th Sec Genl
Wash Capitals biggest margin of victory (9) beating Toronto 11-2
12111983
1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
12111985
Edm Oilers (36) & Chic Black Hawks (26) score NHL record 62 points
General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
12111986
A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's National League
12111989
Mark Davis signs record $3.25 million per year KC Royals contract
13 die in 83 vehicle accident in Chattanooga Tn I-75, due to fog
US 69th manned space mission STS 35 (Columbia 11) returns from space
William Kennedy Smith found not guilty of rape
Nor'easter storm hits NY, doing $ Billion worth of damage
WNEW-AM radio on 1130 in NYC ends transmitting after 58 years
12121098
1st Crusaders capture & plunder Mara Syria
12121474
Isabella crowns herself queen of Castili & Aragon
12121479
Jews are expelled from Schlettstadt Alsace by Emperor Frederick III
12121769
Pope Clement XIV proclaims a universal jubilee
Rev Benjamin Russen executed at Tyburn, England for rape
12121787
Pennsylvania becomes 2nd state to ratify US constitution
12121791
Bank of US opens
12121800
Washington DC established as capital of US
12121862
Battle of Dumfries, VA
Naval Engagement at Yazoo River, MS (USS CAIRO torpedoed)
12121870
Joseph Rainey (SC) became 1st black sworn into House of Reps
12121871
Jules Janssen discovers dark lines in solar corona spectrum
12121899
George F Grant of Boston patents golf tee
12121900
National Negro Anthem, "Lift Every Voice & Sing," composed
12121901
Marconi receives 1st transatlantic radio signal, England to US
Oscar Straus, 1st Jewish cabinet member, appointed Sec of Commerce
"Mona Lisa," stolen from Louvre Museum in 1911, recovered
1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany
Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
French troop train derails in French Alps killing 543
Rev Edward Flanagan forms Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb
12121925
Arthur Heinman coins term "motel," opens Motel Inn, San Luis Obispo
Cossack officer/ex-premier Reza Chan becomes shah of Persia
last Qajar Shah of Iran deposed; Rexa Shah Pahlavi takes over
Japanese Cabinet of Imukai forms
USSR & China resume diplomatic relations
Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
British troops conquer Sidi el-Barrani
German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
Special Court of justice convicts NSB-leader Mussert to death
Ice plant collapses, shearing a tenement building & burying 38
UN accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr
H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2201 Oljato
United Mine Workers union withdrew from AFL
Dallas Texans (former Boston Yanks) play last game, last original team
12121953
Chuck Yeager reaches Mach 2.43 in Bell X-1A rocket plane
Maj Adrian Drew flies 1,943 kph in F-101 Voodoo
US announces manufacture of Borazon (harder than diamond)
Dutch social democratic party-ministers/premier Drees dismissed
UN Committee on Peaceful Use of Outer Space is established
12121961
Ham radio satellite Oscar 1 launched with military Discoverer 36
Martin Luther King Jr & 700 demonstraters arrested in Albany Ga
12121963
Frank Sinatra Jr returned after being kidnapped
Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK
Shooting starts for Star Trek pilot, "The Cage" (Menagerie)
Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
12121967
US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis
Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired
Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points)
Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 42 launched to study X-rays
12121973
San Diego files anti-trust against NL (stopping Padres move to DC)
Gas stove explodes & starts fire killing 138 (Mecca Saudi Arabia)
Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill Pres Gerald Ford
QB Joe Namath last game as a NY Jet
12121977
Yanks purchase Andy Messersmith from Braves
12121979
Gold hits record $462.50 an ounce
Rhodesia becomes independent nation of Zimbabwe
12121980
US's copyright law amended to include computer programs
12121981
Gambia & Senegal sign agreement to be known as Senegambia in Feb 1982
Wayne Gretsky scores quickest 50th goal (game 39)
12121982
$9,800,000 in cash stolen from cash machine in NYC
12121983
A truck bomb explodes at US Embassy in Kuwait
248 US soldiers & 8 crew members die in Arrow Air charter crash
DC-8 crashes near Gander, Newfoundland; 258 die
NASA launches space vehicle S-207
12121986
James "Bone Crusher" Smith KO's WBA champ Tim Witherspoon in MSG
12121987
Mookie Blaylock sets NBA record of 13 steals in a game
Rollermania at MSG, Eastern Express beats Midwest Pioneers
3 trains collide in London, 40 die
NYC Subway system adds new stations (Z line)
Sandra Miller of Queens sues Mike Tyson for sexual harassment
12121990
US accuses Iraq of dragging its feet on dates for talks
US ambassador to Kuwait, Nathaniel Howell leaves Kuwait
Actor Richard Gere marries super model Cindy Crawford
NJ Nets set NBA record of 22 blocks beating Nuggets 121-81
Orion Pictures filed Chapter 11 for bankruptcy protection
6.8-7.5 earthquake strikes Flores Island (tsunami kills 3,000)
NY Giants lose 19-0 to Phoenix Cardinals
12131294
Pope Coelestinus V ends term
12131545
Council of Trent (19th ecumenical council) opens
12131577
Sir Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around world
12131642
New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman
12131769
Dartmouth College in New Hampshire received its charter
12131774
1st incident of Revolution-400 attack Ft William & Mary, NH
Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
12131861
Battle of Alleghany Summit, WV
12131862
Battle of Fredericksburg, VA (Marye's Heights)
12131864
Battle of Ft McAllister, GA
12131879
1st federal fish hatching steamer lauched (Wilmington Delaware)
Italo Marcioni patents ice cream cone (NJ)
Wright Bros make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
12131907
German emperor Wilhelm II visits Amsterdam
Mona Lisa stolen in Aug 1911 returned to Louvre
12131916
Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
12131918
US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany
Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as president (France)
12131919
Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
F Pease's interferometer measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
Netherland breaks contact with kingdom of Serbia, Croatia & Slavia
KOA-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
12131928
George Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premieres (NYC)
L Volta discovers asteroid #1115 Sabauda
12131938
Los Angeles freezes at 28ø
12131939
Battle at La Plata - 3 British cruisers vs German Graf Spee
German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union
Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die
12131942
Washington Redskins win NFL championship
Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
12131946
Lon Blum elected French premier
12131947
Maine Turnpike opens to traffic
AL votes down proposal to revive spitball
Knesset votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
12131951
Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis Thatcher
KOAM TV channel 7 in Pittsburg-Joplin, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
Archbishop Makarios elected 1st president of Cyprus
12131960
Italy beats US in Davis cup (1st time in 24 years US not in finals)
Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller
Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles
12131966
1st US bombing of Hanoi
1st battle for Blmer flats Amsterdam
United Soccer Assn & Natl Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
12131968
Playland at Beach reopens
Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager
12131971
John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 maruana joints) is freed
World Football League grants 1st franchise (Detroit)
Malta becomes a republic
12131976
Golden Gate Bridge District starts ferry service to Larkspur
Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to SF 13h14m)
12131977
14 University of Evansville basketball players die in plane crash
Entire U of Evansville basketball team, die in plane crash
12131978
Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
Polish govt declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
12131982
Devils' 1st hat trick-Steve Tambellini
Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
9,655 see highest-scoring NBA game: Detroit 186, Denver 184 (3 OT)
Islander's Butch Goring scorings 4 goals against Oilers
KYA-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KOIT
Martha Layne Collins inaugurated as Kentucky's 1st female governor
12131984
Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
12131988
3 men end 29-hr all-466-station subway ride in NYC
Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
12131989
Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games
Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
Pres De Klerk of S Afr meets with Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconcilliation
NY assembly speaker Mel Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
Ricky Pierce (Seattle) ends NBA free throw streak of 75 games
1214 867
Adrian II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
John VIII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
12141124
Theobald Buccapecus elected Pope Coelestinus II
12141287
Zuider Zee seawall collapses with loss of 50,000 lives
12141782
Charleston, SC evacuated by British
12141793
1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Ky to Cincinnati
12141798
David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a nut & bolt machine
12141819
Alabama admitted to Union as 22nd state
12141825
Decembrist uprising in Russia against Tsar Nicholas I begins
12141849
1st chamber music group in US gives their 1st concert (Boston)
12141863
Battle of Bean's Station-Confederacy repulses Union in Tenn
12141889
American Academy of Political & Social Science organized, Phila
12141892
A Charlois discovers asteroid #350 Ornamenta
1st table tennis tournament is held, at London Royal Aquarium
12141904
M Wolf discovers asteroid #552 Sigelinde
South Pole 1st reached, by Norwegian Roald Amundsen
12141913
Greece formally takes possession of Crete
UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany
F Gonnessiat discovers asteroid #915 Cosette
12141920
Heavyweight Jack Dempsey KOs Bill Brennan in NYC
Chang Kai Shek occupies Hankou
Danish Madsen govt, forms
Iraq gains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
12141929
Alexander Zaimis elected pres of Greece
12141930
NY Giants defeat Notre Dame 22-0 in a charity game
12141931
1st assembly of Anton Musserts NSB in Utrecht
French govt of Herriot falls
12141934
1st streamlined steam locomotive introduced, Albany, NY
12141937
Japanese troops conquers Nanjing
Soviet Union attacks Finland-League of Nations drops Soviet Union
12141941
1st NFL division playoff, Bears beat Packers 33-14
12141944
Congress establshes rank of General of Army (5-star General)
German occupier forbid use of electricity in NZ & Holland
Togo made a trusteeship territory of UN
UN General Assembly votes to establish UN HQs in NYC
Cleve Browns beat NY Yankees 14-3 in AAFC championship game
UN Gen Assembly establishes High Comm for Refugees (Nobel 1954)
12141952
KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
Uprising of captives in Pongam South-Korea, 82 die
WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting
12141955
Tappan Zee Bridge in NY opens to traffic
Paul-Henri Spaak appointed secretary-general of NATO
Archbishop Makarios proclaimed president of Cyprus
J B Jordan in F-104C sets world altitude record, 31,513 m
Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) forms
Mariner 2 launched, makes 1st US visit to another planet (Venus)
Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene"
12141971
Golden Gate Bridge lights out all night due to power failure
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #2122 Pyatiletka
12141972
Eugene Cernan & Harrison Schmitt leave the Moon
Islander Glenn Resch's 1st shut-out opponent-Kings 3-0
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2655 Guangxi
6 So Moluccan terrorists surrender, holding 23 hostages for 12 days
WCPR (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
Egypt & Israel reps gather in Cairo for 1st formal peace conference
12141979
E Bowell discovers asteroids #2246 Bowell, #2772 Dugan & #3478 Fanale
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2778 & #3570
Anders Kailur scores on 6th Islander penalty shot
At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon
New Orleans Saints end 14 game losing streak, beat NY Jets 21-20
12141981
Israel annexes Golan Heights
12141982
E Bowell discovers asteroid #3062 Wren
E F Helin discovers asteroid #3757
Marcel Dionne, LA, becomes 9th NHLer to score 500 goals
12141988
CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
NBA's Miami Heat wins 1st game ever, 89-88 (Clippers), after 17 loses
Spanish General strike to protest austerity measures
US agrees to talk to Palestine Liberation Org (1st time in 13 yrs)
12141991
Desmond Howard of Michigan wins Hiesman trophy
1215 687
St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
12151124
Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
12151612
Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
12151791
Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
12151792
1st life insurance policy issued in US, Philadelphia
12151794
Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
12151810
1st Irish magazine in US, Shamrock, is published
12151811
Earthquake hits New Madrid, Missouri
12151820
1st General pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
Patent Office burns in Wash, DC
Asteroid 23, Thalia discovered (named for a muse of comedy)
J R Hind discovers asteroid #23 Thalia
12151854
1st street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
12151864
Battle of Nashville, TN
Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs, VA
12151874
1st reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by Pres Grant
12151877
Thomas Edison patents phonograph
12151891
James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
12151909
Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
12151914
Battle of L¢dz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
12151917
Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
Fiume (Reka) declares it's Independence
IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
12151925
1st hockey game at Madison Sq Garden, Mont Candiens 3, NY Americans 1
1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
12151926
Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
12151927
Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
12151935
Detroit Lions win NFL championship
Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin
12151936
E Delporte discovers asteroid #3534 Sax
KVL-AM in Seattle Wash changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
12151938
Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Wash DC
Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1488 Aura & #1503 Kuopio
1st commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford, Delaware
Gone With the Wind premiers in Atlanta
Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo/Curaao
12151941
Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland
USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
US troops lands on Mindoro
12151945
John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
Chic Bears beat NY Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
Giants Filchock & Hapes suspended by NFL, didn't report bribe attempt
Former state dept official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title
NYC's Port Authority opens
12151952
KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
12151953
WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City, FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
12151956
Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
KGW TV channel 8 in Portland, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
12151957
Goethe Link Obs discovers asteroids #1765 Wrubel & #1853 McElroy
Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
12151960
King Boudewn of Belgium marries do¤a Fabiola de Mora y Aragon
Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
Vaughn Meader's "1st Family," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 wks
12151964
American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
Canada adopts maple leaf flag
12151965
3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River
Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000
Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball
Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
12151967
Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
Joe Garagiola joins Today Show panel
Silver Bay bridge (Oh-WV) collapes during afternoon rush hr, 34 die
12151969
SF Fire Dept replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
12151970
Ferryboat capsized in Korean Strait drowning 261
Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
12151973
Golf Resort (Disney Inn) opens
Pirates of Caribbean opens
Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
US Psychiatrist say homosexuals are not mentally ill
A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panama
World Court in Hague rules Iran should relase all US hostages
12151980
Free agent Dave Winfield signs with Yankees
12151981
12151982
Bill Parcells becomes 12th head coach of NY Giants
Roy Williams, Teamsters pres, & 4 others convicted of bribery
Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
12151983
Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
12151986
CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
12151988
Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
12151990
Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
WNEW-AM (1130) NYC goes off air, replaced by WBBR
Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding John VIII
12161431
King Henry VI of England crowned king of France
12161492
Columbus discovers Hispaniola (Haiti/Dom Rep)
12161631
Mount Vesuvious, Italy erupts, destroys 6 villages & kills 4,000
12161653
Oliver Cromwell became lord protector of England, Scotland & Ireland
12161689
English Parliament adopts Bill of Rights after Glorious Revolution
12161773
Big tea party in Boston harbor-indians welcome (Boston Tea Party)
12161809
Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine by French Senate
12161811
Most violent & prolonged quakes in US begins in Midwest region
12161835
Fire consumes over 600 buildings in NYC
12161838
Boers beat Zulu chieftain Dingaan in South Africa
Earthquake in Naples, Italy
Kingdom of Nepal accepts its constitution
12161864
Battle of Nashville
12161890
Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN
M Wolf discovers asteroid #351 Yrsa
Anton Dvorak's "New World Symphony" premieres
1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
12161903
Majestic Theater, NYC, becomes 1st in US to employ women ushers
12161905
"Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published
Great White Fleet sails from Hampton Downs on it's World Cruise
12161908
1st credit union in US formed, Manchester, NH
12161909
US pressure forces Nicaraguan Pres Jos Santos Zelaya from office
12161912
1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 parcel post, issued
Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia
12161914
French offensive in Artois (Ptain)
8.6 earthquake destroys 15,000ý miles (Kansu China); Over 180,000 die
WOW-AM in Omaha NE begins radio transmissions
12161929
1st NHL game at Chicago Stadium (Black Hawks)
German SPD begins Eiserne Front against fascism
12161933
Abe de Vries & Sipke Castelein win Elfstedentocht
12161935
R Carrasco discovers asteroid #1644 Rafita
Heavyweight Joe Louis KOs Al McCoy in Chicago
Sarawak occupied by Japanese
"Tamiami Champion" trains collide, kills 73 & injures 200
Battle of Bulge begins in Belgium
German V-2 strikes Antwerp bioscope (638 kill)
12161945
Cleveland Rams win NFL championship
Sukarno becomes president Indonesia, Mokammed Hatta premier
Truman proclaims state of emergency against "Communist imperialism"
Charles E Yeager fly > 2,575 kph in Bell X-1A
Bogot  warehouse fire kills 82
Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48
12161960
TWA 266 & United 826 collide over Staten Island, kills 134
Constitutional Monarchical Hindu State of Nep l adopts new constit
Gemini 6 returns to Earth
Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit
Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, becomes King of Tonga
12161966
Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in UK
12161967
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago
12161968
KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI begins broadcasting
12161970
1st successful landing on Venus (USSR)
Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares independence from Pakistan
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #1900 Katyusha
12161972
Bangladesh Constitution goes into effect
Miami Dolphins become 1st undefeated NFL team (14-0-0)
O J Simpson becomes 1st NFLer to rush 2,000 yard in a season
Andrew Young named Ambassador & Chief US Delegate to UN
12161978
Ronald Reagan denounces Pres Jimmy Carter's recognition of China PR
12161979
E Bowell discovers asteroid #2264 Sabrina
H Debehogne discovers asteroid #2795 Lepage & #3175 Netto
Alexander Haig named Reagan's Secretary of State
E Bowell discovers asteroid #3162 Nostalgia
Pres-elect Reagan announces Alexander Haig as secretary of state
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-L mission
12161988
Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud
12161990
KUSW, Salt Lake City Utah, final shortwave radio transmissions
12161991
Fla Marlins sign their 1st player, 16 year old pitcher Clemente Nunez
UN reverses ruling that Zionism is racism by 111-25 (13 abstain) vote
1217 283
St Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
12171538
Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
12171777
France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
George Washingtons army returns to Valley Forge Pa
12171790
Aztec calendar stone discovered in Mxico City
12171791
NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
12171792
Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Qubec city
12171798
1st impeachment trial against a US senator (Wm Blount, TN) begins
Congress of Angostura establishes Columbia's independence from Spain
Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
12171852
1st Hawaiian cavalry organized
12171860
Anaheim Township created in Los Angeles County
12171862
Gen US Grant issues order #11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
12171864
Battle of Franklin, TN
12171875
Violent bread riots in Montral
12171895
Anti-Saloon League of America formed, Washington, DC
George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Mass)
At 10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
12171905
M Wolf discovers asteroid #580 Selene
Ugyen Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
12171914
Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
12171919
Austria parliament approves 8-hour day
12171920
British Empire receives League of Nations mandate to Nauru
Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
Last British troops leave Ireland Freestate
12171923
Greek king George II overthrown by army/republic
12171924
1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx, NY
Col William "Billy" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination
Russia & Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
German Marx govt falls due to cooperation with red army
KYA-AM in San Francisco CA begins radio transmissions
Lithuiana military state under gen Augustine Woldemaras
US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
German pocket battleship Graf Spee scuttled by its crew off Uruguay
12171940
British troops occupies Sollum
12171941
German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
Allies in London sentence German war criminals
Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St
US Army announces end of excluding Jap-Americans from West Coast
US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
NY struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
WEWS TV channel 5 in Cleveland, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
12171951
Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
12171954
1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, Indiana)
WEAU TV channel 13 in Eau Claire, WI (NBC) begins broadcasting
US successfully test-fires Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile
1st movie opening simultaneously in major cities (On The Beach)
Disgruntled employee set fire to a circus tent in Niteroi Brazil
India seizes Goa & 2 other Portugese colonies
Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro catches fire; 323 die
Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
12171963
Tsjoi Doo Sun forms govt in South-Korea
West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50)
12171967
WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
12171969
50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
12171971
"Diamonds are Forever" premiers in US
Ceasefire between India & Pakistan in Kashmir
Radio Bangladesh begins transmitting
12171972
New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India & Pakistan
WGVC (now WUCX) TV channel 35 in Grand Rapids, MI (PBS) 1st broadcast
1st time NY Islanders shut-out NY Rangers, 3-0-Billy Smith's 5th
John Paul Stevens appointed to Supreme Court
Lynette Fromme was sentenced to life for attempt on Pres Ford's life
12171978
Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
12171979
Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
H Kosai & G Sasaki discovers asteroid #3392 Setouchi
12171980
Mauritania provisional constitution published
12171981
Members of Red Brigades kidnap Brig Gen James L Dozier
12171983
Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die
12171984
NJ Devils 1st penalty shot-Rocky Trottier scores against Edmonton
12171988
Bryan Murray becomes 17th NHL coach to win 300 games (Wash Caps)
NY Islanders break 12 game losing streak, beat Devils 5-2
USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
12171989
Brazil elects conservative Fernando Collor de Mello pres
KTBN, Salt Lake City Utah, begins shortwave radio transmissions
12171991
NBA's most lopsided game Cleveland beats Miami 148-80
Soap opera "One Life To Live" airs its 6,000th episode
12181352
Etienne Aubert elected as Pope Innocentius VI
12181774
Jews expelled from Prague, Bohemia & Moravia by Empress Maria Theresa
12181777
1st national Thanksgiving Day, commemorating Burgoyne's surrender
12181787
New Jersey becomes 3rd state to ratify constitution
12181796
1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday, Baltimore Monitor
12181799
George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon
12181813
British take Ft Niagara in War of 1812
12181839
1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in US, John Draper, NYC
12181849
William Bond obtains 1st photograph of Moon through a telescope
12181859
South Carolina declared an "independent commonwealth"
12181865
13th Amendment ratified, slavery abolished
1st US cattle importation law passed
A Charlois discovers asteroids #430 Hybris, #431 Nephele & #432 Pythia
12181898
Automobile speed record set-63 kph (39 mph)
Pres Wilson, widowed the year before, marries Edith Bolling Galt
Soviet regiment (Stalin/Lenin) declares Finland Independent
International zone of Tangier set up in Morocco
Chicago Bears beat Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in 1st NFL playoff game
Edward Benes becomes president of Czechoslovakia
12181936
1st giant panda imported into US
Finnish army recaptures Agljrvi
Japanse troops land on Hong Kong
12181944
Destroyers "Hull," "Spence" & "Monaghan" sink in typhoon (Phillipines)
Uruguay joins UN
TV's 1st network dramatic serial "Faraway Hill" ends 2 month run
Indonesia begins it's 2nd political election
WDSU TV channel 6 in New Orleans, LA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Phila Eagles beat LA Rams 14-0 in NFL championship game
12181953
KATV TV channel 7 in Little Rock, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting
KMID TV channel 2 in Midland & Odessa, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
12181956
Japan admitted to UN
Shippingport Atomic Power Stn, 1st nuke plant to generate electricity
12181958
1st test project of Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equip
1st voice from space: recorded Christmas message by Eisenhower
Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
12181959
Sammy Baugh named 1st coach of NY Titans (AFL)
12181960
General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid
For 2nd cons year, AP names  Wilma Rudolph female athlete of year
India annexes Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao & Diu
KAIL TV channel 53 in Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 78 points vs LA
12181962
WAIQ TV channel 26 in Montgomery, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
12181963
Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow
Borman & Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission
Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates
12181969
Britain abolishes death penalty
1st Candlelight Processional
CBS radio cancels Saturday morning band concerts
People United To Save Humanity (PUSH) forms by Jesse Jackson in Chic
12181972
US began its heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
12181973
Soyuz 13 launched into Earth orbit for 8 days
12181974
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2077 Kiangsu
SF Visitors Center at City Hall opens
Cleveland Cavaliers retire jersey # 42, Nate Thumond
M Lovas discovers asteroid #3579
12181979
Stanley Barrett 1st to exceed land sonic speed (739.666 MPH)
Bruce Sprinsteen's concert at Madison Sq Garden
Vietnam adopts constitution
12181982
Flight readiness firing of Challenger's main engines; 20 seconds
12181983
NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak
12181985
UN Security Council unanimously condemns "acts of hostage-taking"
12181987
Benazir Bhutto, Pakistan's future pres, marries Asif Ali Zardari
12181988
5th meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets win & eliminate Giants from playoffs
Seattle Seahawks win their 1st ever division title with 9-7 record
12181989
"I Love Lucy" Christmas episode, shown for 1st time in over 30 years
12181990
NL releases short list of teams for 1993 NL expansion
12181991
DeForest Kelly (Dr McCoy on Star Trek) gets a star in Hollywood
General Motors announces closing of 21 plants
St Anastasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
12191154
King Henry II of England crowned
12191686
Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years (as per Defoe)
12191732
Benjamin Franklin begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
12191776
Thomas Paine publishes his 1st "American Crisis" essay
12191777
Washington settles his troops at Valley Forge, Pa for winter
12191795
1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky
12191823
Georgia passes 1st US state birth registration law
12191828
South Carolina declares right of states to nullify federal laws
12191842
US recognizes independence of Hawaii
12191843
Charles Dickens publishes "A Christmas Carol," in England
12191854
Allen Wilson of Conn patents sewing machine to sew curving seams
12191859
Grading started for Market Street RR
Battle of Black Water
12191867
Victims of "Angola Horror" burned to death (Angola NY)
12191871
Albert Jones, NYC, patents corrugated paper
12191881
Opera "Hrodiade" is produced (Brussels)
12191887
Jake Kilrain & Jem Smith fight 106 round bare knuckle draw
12191889
Bishop Museum founded in Hawaii
12191890
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Beryl Coronet" (BG)
12191891
1st Negro Catholic priest ordained in US, Charles Uncles, Baltimore
A Charlois discovers asteroid #397 Vienna
12191903
Williamsburg suspension bridge opens between Brooklyn & Manhattan
239 workers died in a coal mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Penn
Gas explosion at Jacobs Creek Pa, coal mine kills 239
1st city ordinace requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)
Rayon 1st commercially produced, Marcus Hook, Penn
12191913
A Massinger discovers asteroid #772 Tanete
C Le Morvan discovers asteroid #774 Armor
12191917
1st NHL game played on artificial ice (Toronto)
Quebec Bulldogs play their 1st professional hockey game
12191919
American Meteorological Society found
1st US indoor curling rink opens (Brookline, Mass)
12191922
Mrs Theres Vaughn, 24, confessed in court to being married 62 times
1st autogiro (predecessor of helicopter) flight in US
12191930
James Weldon Johnson resigns as executive secretary of NAACP
12191931
Joseph A Lyons (C) becomes premier of Australia
12191932
British Broadcasting Corp begins transmitting overseas
Electric Home & Farm Authority Inc, authorized
Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 & 1930
Russian air raid on Finnish
Military coup in Bolivia
Austrian Republic re-establishes
War breaks out in Indochina as Ho Chi Minh attacks French in Hanoi
12191948
2nd political action of Java/Sumatra
8th largest snowfall in NYC history (15.3")
Cleveland Browns beats Buffalo Bills 49-7 in AAFC championship game
Phila Eagles shutout Chicago Cards 7-0 in NFL championship game
WJW TV channel 8 in Cleveland, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
12191950
Gen Eisenhower named NATO commander
12191952
Queen Juliana unveals statue "Docker"
KFYR TV channel 5 in Bismarck, ND (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
"Music Man," starring Robert Preston, opens on Broadway
1st Liberty Bowl game-Penn State beats Alabama 7-0
Fire aboard USS Constellation, under construction at Bkln (50 die)
Mercury-Redstone 1A reaches 210 km in test flight
12191961
British govt begins decimal coin system
Nyasaland secedes from Rhodesia & Nyasaland
Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission
Transit 5A1, 1st operational navigational satellite, launched
Zanzibar becomes independent from UK
WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released
NASA launches Intelsat 4 F-3 for COMSAT Corp
Apollo 17 (last of Apollo Moon landing series) returns to Earth
12191973
Grenada adopts constitution
P Wild discovers asteroid #1937 Locarno
12191974
"Man With Golden Gun" premiers in US
Dave Kryskow scores Washington Capitals 1st NHL shorthanded goal
Nelson A Rockefeller sworn-in as 41st VP
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3051
12191975
John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice
12191980
Anguilla becomes a British dependency separate from St Kitts
Iran requests $24 billion in US guarantees to free hostages
Mutaual Broadcasting cancels Sears Radio Theater
12191984
Fire at Wilberg Mine in central Utah killed 27 people
Scotty Bowman becomes NHL's all time winningest coach
UK signs agreement with China to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
Wayne Gretzky becomes 18th NHLer to score 1,000 points
12191985
STS 61-C scrubbed at T -13s because of SRB auxiliary power problem
12191986
USSR frees dissident Andrei Sakharov from internal exile
12191987
Bruins' Linseman & Blues' Doug Gilmore score goals, 2 seconds apart
12191988
NASA unviels plans for lunar colony & manned missions to Mars
Oklahoma's College football team gets 3 year probation
Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
12191989
American Airlines purchases Eastern Airline's Latin American route
Larry Bird (Celtics) begins NBA free throw streak of 71 games
12191991
6,000th episode of One Life To Live
Boris Yeltsin takes control of Kremlin
NY Yankee pitcher Steve Howe arrested for cocaine possession
12201606
Virginia Company settlers leave London to establish Jamestown
12201699
Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1
12201790
1st successful US cotton mill to spin yarn (Pawtucket, RI)
12201803
Louisiana Purchase formally transferred from France to US for $27M
12201820
Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 & 50
12201850
Hawaiian post office established
12201860
SC votes 169-0 for Ordinace of Seccession, 1st state to secede
12201861
Battle of Dranesville, VA
12201862
-Dec 20th) Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA
-Jan 3rd) Vicksburg campaign
Battle of Holly Spring, MS
12201864
-Dec 27th) Battle of Ft Fisher, NC
12201879
Tom Edison privately demonstrated incandescent light at Menlo Park
12201880
NY's Broadway lit by electricity, becomes known as "Great White Way"
12201883
Intl cantilever railway bridge opens at Niagara Falls
12201891
Strongman Louis Cyr withstands pull of 4 horses
12201892
Phileas Fogg completes around world trip, according to Verne
Pneumatic automobile tire patented, Syracuse, NY
12201893
1st state anti-lynching statue approved, in Georgia
Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)
12201906
Venezuela (under vice-pres Gomez) attacks Dutch fleet
12201907
Explosion at Yolande Alabama, coal mine kills 91
12201915
Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
12201917
Russian secret police in Czech forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
12201919
Canadian Natl Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
US House of Representatives restricts immigration
14 republics form Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics (USSR)
Polish parliament selects Stanislaw Wojcieckowski as president
12201924
Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
Pope Pius XI convicts fascist pursuit in Italy
1st internationsl dogsled mail leaves Minot, Maine for Montral, Qu
Mount Davidson dedicated as a San Francisco city park
Bolivia & Paraguay sign weapon ceasefire
V K Zworykin receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
Radio Australia begins overseas shortwave service
1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
"International" is no longer USSR National Anthem
Battle of Bastogne, Nazis surround 101st Airborne (NUTS!)
Bishop forbids membership in non Catholic unions
12201945
Rationg of auto tires ends in US
KHQ TV channel 6 in Spokane, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
12201953
KID (now KIDK) TV channel 3 in Idaho Falls, ID (CBS) 1st broadcasting
KWTV TV channel 9 in Oklahoma City, OK (CBS) begins broadcasting
Military coup under colonel Simbolon in Sumatra
Auschwitz-commandant Richard Br arrested in German FR
12201962
Osmond brothers debut on Andy Williams Show
Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners
Massemba-Debate elected pres of Congo-Brazzaville
Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins
12201965
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroids #2085 Henan & #2886
12201966
NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season
12201967
474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam
AL pres Joe Cronin refuses to allow Dick Williams to manage Yankees
Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point
12201974
George Harrison releases his "Dark Horse" album in UK
Israel's PM Yitzhak Rabin resigns
N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2427 Kobzar & #2700 Baikonur
12201977
1st Space walk made by G Grechko from Salyut
12201978
H R Haldeman, Nixon's White House chief of staff released from jail
12201980
USSR formally announces death of Alexei Kosygin
12201981
"Dreamgirls" opens on Broadway
A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3130, #3334 & #3550
Dou Small (Winnipeg Jets) ties NHL record scoring at 5 second mark
E Bowell discovers asteroid #2904 Millman & #3353 Jarvis
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3611 & #3704
12201983
El Salvador adopts constitution
Guy Lafleur, Montreal, became 10th NHLer to score 500 goals
NY Islanders score their most goals (11) vs Pitts Penguins
PLO chairman Yasser Arafat & 4,000 loyalists evacuate Lebanon
12201984
33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library
12201985
Denis Potvin passes Bobby Orr as NHL defenseman scorer (916 points)
12201986
White teenagers beat blacks in Howard Beach, NY
12201987
T Kojima discovers asteroid #3774
Animal rights terrorists fire-bomb Harrod's dept store, London
NBC signs lease to stay in NYC, 33 more years
12201989
Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor
US troops invade Panama & oust Manuel Noriega, but don't catch him
12201990
Pentagon warns Saddam that US air power is ready to attack on 1/15
Robert F X Sillerman purchases WAFL NY-NJ Knights for $11 million
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resigns
NHL grants permanent membership to Tampa Lightning & Ottawa Senators
Northwest & KLM introduce a new joint logo "Worldwide Reliability"
12201999
Portugal returns Macau to China
12211620
103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock (12/11 OS)
12211762
James Cook marries Elizabeth Batts
12211784
John Jay becomes 1st US secretary of state (foreign affairs)
12211829
1st stone arch railroad bridge in US dedicated, Baltimore
1st US skating club formed (Phila)
12211864
Gen Sherman conquers Savannah
12211866
Cheyennes, Arapho's, Sioux, Fetterman Massacre
Pim Mulier 1st & only trip to "Alvesteddetocht"
18 students play 1st basketball game (Springfield College)
Scientists Pierre & Marie Curie discovers radium
U of Coopenhagen rejects Cook's claim that he was 1st to North Pole
12211910
Explosion in coal mine in Hulton England, 344 mine workers dies
12211912
Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
12211913
1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues) printed in NY World
12211915
10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Glenora, Oregon (state record)
Supreme Court rules labor injunctions & picketing unconstitutional
12211923
Nepal changes from British protectorate to independent nation
12211925
Eisenstein's movie Potemkin premiers in Moscow
12211929
1st US group hospital insurance plan instituted, Dallas, Texas
1st group hospital insurance plan effected, Dallas Tx
Dried human blood serum 1st prepared, Univ of Pennsylvania
Newfoundland reverts to being a crown colony
1st feature-length color & sound cartoon premiers (Snow White)
A Patry discovers asteroid #1509 Esclangona
12211939
Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Lecture IV B"
US Supreme court declares Nevada seperation legal
Earthquake in South Japan, kills 1,086
Ireland leaves Commonwealth
O'Neil Place in the Bronx erronously renamed O'Neill Place
State of Eire (formerly Irish Free State) declares its independence
12211952
Broadway Tunnel opens in SF
WSBT TV channel 22 in South Bend, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting
KOMU TV channel 8 in Columbia, MO (NBC/PBS) begins broadcasting
Dr Sam Sheppard's wife Marilyn is murdered (he is accused of crime)
Indonesia proclaims end to state of war
Charles De Gaulle wins 7 year term as 1st pres of 5th Rep of France
10th largest snowfall in NYC history (13.7")
Citizens of Deerfield Ill block building of interracial housing
Shah of Persia marries Farah Diba
12211961
Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Ready Teddy"
12211962
Angolin leaves Comecon
12211966
USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell & Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage
12211969
Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing
12211970
WUTV TV channel 29 in Buffalo, NY (IND) begins broadcasting
12211971
UN Security Council chooses Kurt Waldheim as 4th secretary General
Soviet Union signs a separate peace with East Germany
12211973
Israel, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, US & USSR meet in Geneva
12211976
20th Islander shut-out opponent-Billy Smith 3-0 vs Bruins
Patricia R Harris named secretary of HUD
UN General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979-Year of Child
12211978
Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrested John W Gacy Jr for murder
12211979
Gary Unger plays in record 914th consecutive NHL game
Zimbabwe adopts constitution
Harold Carmichael ends NFL streak of 127 consecutive game receptions
12211981
Cincinnati beats Bradley 75-73 in 7 OTs (NCAA record)
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #3388
Loretta Swit weds Dennis Holahan
NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak
12211984
Islander Kelly Hrudy's 1st shut-out win-Whalers 1-0
USSR launches Vega 2 for fly-by of Halley's Come
12211985
ARCO Anchorage runs aground near Port Angeles, WA
Heart's "Heart," album goes #1
12211987
3 white NY teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man
Soyuz TM-4 carries 3 cosmonauts to space station Mir
Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov launched
12211988
Drexel agrees guilt to security felonies, pays a $650 million fine
NY bound Pan Am jumbo jet explodes over Scotland all 258 aboard die
Vladimir Titov & Musa Manarov return to earth (a year) with Chretien
Romania's dictator Nicolae Ceausescu's final speech (executed 12/25)
12211991
95 share in Madrid Spain $1.3 billion lottery (#47996)
El Sayid Nosair acquitted of killing Meir Kahane
US actress Jane Fonda marries CNN-director Ted Turner
Dutch DC-10 in fire at landing on Faro Portugal, 56 die
1222 401
St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
12221596
Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
12221772
Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
12221775
Continental navy organized with 7 ships
12221783
Washington resigns his military commission [or 1223?]
12221807
Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
12221810
British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
Spaniards execute Mxican revolutionary priest Jos Maria Morelos
-Jan 2nd) Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown, KY
12221870
Jules Janssen, flys in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
12221877
"American Bicycling Journal" begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
12221886
1st national accountants' society in US formed (NYC)
C H F Peters discovers asteroid #264 Libussa
Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
12221910
M Wolf discovers asteroid #707 Steina
US postal savings stamps 1st issued
F Kaiser discovers asteroid #773 Irmintraud
12221915
Federal Baseball League disolved
Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
12221919
Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
Belgian parliament rejects Dutch university in Ghent
12221924
Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
12221934
1st flight from Netherland to Curaao (Christmas flight 1934)
Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins in games
1st common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton, Pa
Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic
12221939
125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany
12221941
Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Phillipine
Winston Churchill arrives in Washington for a wartime conference
12221943
WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, Natl Inst of Arts & Letters
Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
12221946
Cleve Browns beat NY Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
12221952
French cabinet-Pinay, resigns
WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York, PA (IND) begins broadcasting
12221956
Last British/French troops leave Egypt
12221957
KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton, WY (ABC) begins
12221958
L J M Beel becomes premier
12221959
NY Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
12221962
Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
12221963
Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
Official 30-day mourning period for Pres John F Kennedy ends
12221964
Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
12221965
Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up
12221966
WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
12221970
SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life in prison
KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, AK (PBS) begins broadcasting
UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as secretary-General
Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
12221976
35 Unification church couples wed in NYC
12221977
36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
12221978
N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2836 Sobolev
Thailand adopts constitution
12221983
Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Caps
12221984
A R Klemola discovers asteroid #3712
Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths on a NYC subway train
Madonna's "Like a Virgin," single goes #1 for 6 weeks
12221985
STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
12221986
T Niima & T Urata discovers asteroid #3565 Ojima
12221987
Mtley Cre's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
12221988
2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 M in NJ
South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa
Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 mi of WA & BC coast
After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolea Ceausescu
12221990
Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1223 619
Boniface V begins his reign as Catholic Pope
12231482
Peace of Atrecht
St Philip of Moscow martyred by Ivan the Terrible
12231672
Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn
12231690
John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered
12231776
Continental Congress negotiates a war loan of $181,500 from France
Thomas Paine writes "These are the times that try men's souls"
12231779
Benedict Arnold court-martialed for improper conduct
12231783
Washington resigns as US Army's commander-in-chief
12231788
Maryland votes to cede a 10ý mile area for Dist of Columbia
12231793
Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies
12231823
"Visit from St Nicholas" by C Moore published in Troy (NY) Sentinel
Joseph Hansom of London receives patent for Hansom cabs
12231852
1st Chinese theater in US, Celestial John, opens in San Francisco
1st self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove-hair straightner)
Opera "Hnsel und Gretel" is produced (Weimar)
1st all-steel passengar railroad coach completed, Altoona, Pa
Albert becomes king of Belgium
Opera "I Giojelli Della Madonna" is produced (Berlin)
12231912
Aswan Dam in Nile begins operation
12231913
President Woodrow Wilson signs Federal Reserve Act into law
12231919
1st hospital ship built to move wounded naval personnel launched
Alice H Parker patents gas heating furnace
12231920
Ireland divided into 2 parts, each with its own parliament
King George V signs Home Rule Act
Pope Pius XI pleas for peace: encyclical Ubi arcano
Sultan Ibn Saud of Nedzjed conquers Djeddah
KEX-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
12231928
NBC sets up a permanent, coast-to-coast network
Police Bureau of Criminal Alien Investigation started in NYC
Howie Morenz takes over NHL career goal lead at 251
Train crash in Eastern Paris; 230 die
Finnish counter offensive at Summa
American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
British troops overrun Benghazi Libya
Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma
Allies air attack on Den Helder
1st telecast of a complete opera (Hansel & Gretel), Schenectady, NY
Beginning of harsh winter
Frederick Astons "Cinderella" premiers in London
Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church
Abdallah Ibrahim forms govt of Morocco
De Quay govt falls
King Saudi of Saudi-Arabia takes power
12231961
KICU TV channel 43 in Visalia-Fresno, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
Train accident in Italy, 70 die
12231962
Cuba starts returning US prisoners from Bay of Pigs invasion
Dallas Texans beat Houston Oilers 20-17 in AFL championship game
12231963
Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die
12231966
Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program
12231968
1st US case of space motion sickness
82 members of US intelligence ship `Pueblo' released by North Korea
Borman, Lovell & Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon
NY World Trade Center reaches highest point (411 m)
16 plane crash survivors rescued after 70d, survived by cannabalism
12231973
"Young & Restless" premiers on TV
6 Persian Gulf nations double their oil prices
Congress passes Metric Conversion Act
12231979
L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3724
NY Islanders greatest shutout lose (8-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #3068 Khanina, #3345 & #3675
12231983
Journal Science publishes 1st report on nuclear winter
12231984
Oak Ridge Observatory discovers asteroid #3773
12231986
Rutan & Yeager make 1st around-the-world flight without refueling
12231990
Slovenians vote to secede from Yugoslavia
12231991
NY Daily News publisher Kevin Maxwell resigns
1224 640
John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
12241046
Pope Clement II, [Suitger] elected
12241814
Treaty of Ghent (end of War of 1812) signed
"Silent Night" composed by Franz Joseph Gruber; 1st sung next day
12241832
1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Ga
12241851
Fire devastates Library of Congress in Wash, destroys 35,000 volumes
US Library of Congress catches fire; 35,000 books burn
12241864
Battle of Gordonsville, VA
12241865
Several Confederate veterans form Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tn
Giusseppi Verdi's "Aida" premieres in Cairo, at Suez canal opening
12241874
Pope Pius IX proclaims a jubilee for 1875
12241889
Daniel Stover & William Hance patent bicycle with back pedal brake
12241893
Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor
12241902
M Wolf discovers asteroid #499 Venusia
12241904
German SW Africa abolishes slavery of young children
J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #581 Tauntonia
Reginald A Fessenden became 1st to broadcast music over radio (Mass)
Luisa Tetrazzini sings to 250,000 people at Lotta's Fountain
Enrico Caruso gives his last public performance (NYC)
1st radio transmission of NCRV in Netherlands
Albania becomes a republic (ex-premier Ahmed Zogoe's coup)
School in Babb's Switch, Oklahoma catches fire, 36 die
C W Tombaugh discovers asteroid #2941 Alden
12241932
Arturo Alessandri wins presidental election in Chile
12241933
Paris express train derails & kills 160, injures 300 (France)
12241936
1st radioactive isotope medicine administered, Berkeley, Ca
12241937
A Patry discovers asteroid #1756 Giacobini
Dutch govt recognizes Italians king as emperor of Abyssinia
1st powered flight of V-1 buzz bomb, Peenemnde, Germany
Red army conquerors German airports at Tasjinskaja & Morozowsk
12241943
FDR appoints Gen Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces
4th French republic established
US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazi's" amnesty
12241948
1st US house completely sunheated is occupied, Dover, Mass
Greek govt disbands due to state of war, press censorship
Cleveland Browns win NFL football championship
1st televised opera (Amahl & Night Visitor)
United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN
12241953
2 fast express trains crash head-on killing 103 (Czechoslovakia)
KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting
KOA (now KCNC) TV channel 4 in Denver, CO (NBC) begins broadcasting
Ren Coty elected pres of France
Wellington-Auckland (NZ) express train swept away in flood kills 166
Laos gains its independence
"I Love Lucy" Christmas show airs, never put in syndication
Ferdinand de Lesseps statue blown up in Port Said Egypt
12241960
Dutch bishops question papacy values
12241961
Houston Oilers beat San Diego Chargers 10-3 in AFL championship game
12241963
Greek & Turks riot in Cyprus
12241964
Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek
12241966
Luna 13 lands on Moon
USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129
12241967
Pirate Radio Pegasus starts broadcasting off New Zealand
12241968
Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
WAGT TV channel 26 in Augusta, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
12241970
9 Jews are convicted in Lenningrad of hacking a plane
Walt Disney's "Aristocats" is released
12241973
Ferryboat capsized off coast of Equador, drowning 200
12241976
C Kowal discovers asteroid #2134 Dennispalm
L Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3074 & #3566
12241980
Americans remembered Iran hostages by shining lights for 417 seconds
12241981
Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa & Lisa Evers marry
Palace coup in Mauritania
French hostage Aurel Cornea, held in Lebanon for 9 months, released
12241989
Panama's dictator, Manual Noriega seeks asylum at Vatican embassy
12241990
Saddam says Israel will be Iraq's 1st target
Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as head of Soviet Union
1225   1
1st Christmas, according to calendar-maker Dionysus Exiguus
1225 336
1st recorded celebration of Christmas on Dec 25 occurs in Rome
1225 597
England adopts Julian calendar
Adrian I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1225 800
Leo III crowns Charles the Great, Roman emperor
1225 875
Charles, the Bare, crowned emperor of Rome
1225 969
Johannes I Tzimisces, crowned emperor of Byzantium
12251066
William the Conqueror, crowned king of England
12251100
Boudewn I of Boulogne crowned king of Jerusalem
12251223
St Francis of Assisi assembles 1st Nativity scene (Greccio, Italy)
12251492
Columbus' ship Santa Maria docks at Dominican Republic
12251621
Gov William Bradford forbids game playing on this day
12251640
Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis
12251745
Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians
12251758
Halley's comet 1st sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch during return
12251760
Juptier Hammon, NY slave, publishes poetry in "An Evening Throught"
12251775
Pope Pius VI encyclical on the problems of the pontificate
12251776
Washington crosses Delaware & surprises & defeats 1,400 Hessians
12251818
"Silent Night," by Franz Joseph Gruber & Joseph Mohr sung for 1st time
1st US performance of Handel's Messiah, Boston
Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians
12251843
1st theatre matinee (Olympic Theatre, NYC)
12251848
New Haven Railroad opens
12251862
40,000 watch Union army men play baseball at Hilton Head, SC
Lambs Club in NY forms
12251888
1st indoor baseball game played at fairgrounds in Philadelphia
12251894
1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, U of Chicago
(-Dec 26) Lenin dictates his "Political testament"
Hirohito became emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
12251930
1st US bobsled run open to public (Lake Placid, NY)
NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio
12251933
Belgian Working people's party accept Henry de Mans Plan of Labor
12251936
Belgian bishops condemn fascism & communism
12251939
Montgomery Ward introduces Rudolph the 9th reindeer
12251941
Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
Constitution accepted in Taiwan
12251947
Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
12251950
Cleve Browns beat LA Rams 30-28 in NFL championship game
Avalanche of lava kills 150 (Ruapehu volcano, New Zealand)
WSFA TV channel 12 in Montgomery, AL (NBC) begins broadcasting
12251955
Cleveland Browns win NFL championship
Pope Pius XII encyclical on sacred music & popular music
Ed Gein found insane of murder
A synagogue in Cologne Germany desecrated with swatstikas
12251963
Walt Disney's "Sword In Stone" is released
"Goldfinger" premiers in US
12251967
Paul McCartney & Jane Asher get engaged
Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon
5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
12251971
Longest NFL game (82m40s) as Dolphins beat Chiefs 27-24
Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity) form Jesse Jackson
Worst hotel fire in history kills 163 at Taeyokale Hotel in Seoul
12251973
Tommy Chambers (Scotland) finishes 51 yr cycle tour (799,405 miles)
12251974
Cyclone Tracy virtually destroys Darwin Australia
Israeli PM Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with Egyptian Pres Sadat
1st live telecast of Christmas Parade
12251984
NBA's Bernard King scores 60 points
12251987
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who escaped 2 days earlier, recaptured
Japanese scientist achieve -271.8øC, coldest temp ever recorded
12251990
"Godfather III" premiers
1226 268
St Dionysius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1226 418
St Zosimus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1226 795
St Leo III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
12261492
1st Spanish settlement in New World founded, by Columbus
12261620
Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth, MA
12261773
Expulsion of tea ships from Philadelphia
12261776
Battle of Trenton-major British defeat
12261805
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts established, Philadelphia
12261825
Erie Canal opens
12261831
Opera "Norma" is produced (Milan)
12261848
1st gold seekers arrive in Panama en route to SF
William & Ellen Craft escape from slavery in Georgia
12261854
Wood-pulp paper 1st exhibited, Buffalo
12261860
Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt)
-Dec 28th) Battle of Dumfries, VA
1st US navy hospital ship enters service
12261865
James H Mason (Mass) patents 1st US coffee percolator
12261872
4th largest snowfall in NYC history (18")
12261877
Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st natl convention
1st US store to install electric lights, Philadelphia
12261892
Opera "Cristoforo Colombo" is produced (La Scala)
Most knock downs in a fight, Oscar Nelson (5) & Christy Williams (42)
Jack Johnson KOs Tommy Burns at Sydney, Aust for boxing title
12261916
Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France
Fed govt took over operation of American RR for duration of WW I
12261919
Yanks & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth
12261925
1st East-West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans
NHL record 141 shots as NY Americans (73) beat Pitt Pirates (68) 3-1
Turkey adopts Gregorian calendar
12261926
Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
12261931
Pulitzer Prize-winning musical play "Of Thee I Sing" opens on Bdwy
12261932
Earthquake kills 70,000 in Kansu China
12261933
US forswears armed intervention in Western Hemisphere
Earthquake in East-Anatolia Turkey
Mine strikes in Borinage Brussels
12261943
British sink German battle cruiser Scharnhorst
Chicago Bears win NFL championship
Battle of Bastogne-US Gen Patton's 4th Pantzers repulse Germans
Budapest surrounded by soviet army
Gen Patton's 4th armour division attacks Bastogne
Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas opens (start of an era)
US win Davis Cup tennis tournament
British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia
Hungarian cardinal Mindszenty arrested
Gillette & Mutual buy All Star & World Series rights ($6M for 6 yrs)
Cleveland Browns beat Detroit Lions 56-10 in NFL championship game
12261955
Cleveland Browns beat LA Rams 38-14 in NFL championship game
12261960
Phila Eagles beat Green Bay Packers 17-13 in NFL championship game
US furnishes cereal to USSR
12261964
Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game
Moors Murderers claim last victim
"Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand closes on Broadway
Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game
Paul McCartney is interviewed on pirate radio station Radio Caroline
Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
12261967
BBC broadcasts "Magical Mystery Tour"
2 Skylab 3 astronauts walk in space for a record 7 hours
Soyuz 13 returns to Earth
Washington Capitals 1st NHL sellout
12261975
1st supersonic transport service (USSR-Tupolev-144)
12261978
India's former PM, Indira Gandhi, released from jail
TV soap "Search for Tomorrow" ends 35 year run
12261988
"Legs Diamond" starring Peter Allen opens on Broadway
Garry Kasparov beats Antatoly Karpov to retain chess championship
Reggie Williams becomes 1st GM of WLAF's NY-NJ Knights
12261991
Chuck Knolls retires as NFL coach after 23 years
Jack Ruby's gun sells for $220,000 in auction
Militant Sikhs kill 55 & wound 70 in India
NY Islander Derek King ties NJ Devils 5-5 with « second left
NY Jet announcer Marty Glickman retires at 75
[Etalius] begins his reign as Catholic Pope
12271741
Prussian forces took Olmutz, Czechoslovakia
12271825
1st public railroad using steam locomotive completed in England
Darwin begins his voyage on board HMS Beagle
Worst English avalanche kills 8 of 15 buried (Lewes Sussex)
12271845
Ether 1st used in childbirth in US, Jefferson, Ga
12271850
Hawaiian Fire Dept established
12271862
Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, MS (Chickasaw Bayou)
Battle of Elizabethtown, KY
12271867
Ontario & Qubec legislatures hold 1st meeting
12271871
World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)
12271887
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Blue Carbuncle" (BG)
12271892
Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St John laid (NYC)
N C Biddle beats Livingston 4-0 in 1st black college football game
Montreal Victorias beat Ottawa Capitals 15-2 for Stanley Cup
Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)
12271903
"Sweet Adaline," a barbershop quartet favorite, is 1st sung
12271904
Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan)
M Wolf discovers asteroid #553 Kundry
1st annual meeting of American Sociological Society, Providence, RI
12271923
Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan
Depot Square in Bronx renamed Botanical Square
Latkin Square in Bronx named for 1st US Jewish soldier to die in WW I
12271927
"Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater (NYC)
Stalin's faction wins All-Union Congress in USSR, Trotsky expelled
12271932
Radio City Music Hall opens (NYC)
1st youth hostel in US opens (Northfield, Mass)
L Boyer discovers asteroid #1340 Yvette
Shah of Persia declares Persia now Iran
12271937
German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos
1st American skimobiles (North Conway, NH)
Between 20,000 & 40,000 die in magnitude 8 quake (Erzincam Turkey)
Earthquake in Turkey, about 50,000 die
Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
12271942
1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use
12271943
France transfers most of her powers in Lebanon to Lebanese govt
German warship "Scharnhorst" sinks in Barents Sea
12271945
International Monetary Fund established-World Bank founded
US wins 1st Davis Cup since 1938
12271947
1st "Howdy Doody Show," (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC
12271949
Queen Juliana (Netherlands) grants sovereignty to Indonesia
United States of Indonesia gains independence from Netherlands
Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-16 in NFL championship game
12271956
Bill Sharman (Boston) ends NBA free throw streak of 55 games
Balt Colts beat NY Giants 31-16 in NFL championship game
12271961
Belgium & Congo resume diplomatic relations
12271964
Cleveland Browns beat Balt Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game
12271968
Apollo 8 returns to Earth
12271970
"Hello, Dolly!" closes on Broadway after a record 2,844 performances
LA Kings start Islanders on 12 game losing streak
New North Korean constitution comes into effect
12271973
LA Dodgers announce night games will start at 7:30 instead of 8
Dear Abby show ends run on CBS radio after 11 years
FSLN seizes government hostages at a private Managua party
C Kowal discovers asteroid #2102 Tantalus
Explosion at Chasnala Colliery collapses drowning 350 (Dhanbad India)
12271976
Albania constitution goes into effect
12271979
"Knots Landing," premieres on CBS-TV
Red Army beats NY Rangers 5-2 at MSG
Soviet troops invade Afgh nist n, Pres Hafizullah Amin overthrown
12271980
Calvin Murphy (Rockets) begins longest NBA free throw streak of 78
Oiler Wayne Gretsky becomes fastest NHL to get 100 pts (38th game)
Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca)
Propane gas fire devastated 16ý blocks of Buffalo
12271988
Bulgaria stops jamming Radio Free Europe after more than 3 decades
12271989
Oregon begins taking bids on NBA games
Bengals hire Dave Shula as youngest NFL coach (32)
Chuck Knox retires as Seattle Seahawk coach
1228 418
St Boniface I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
12281065
Westminster Abbey opens in London
12281816
American Colonization Society organizes
12281832
John Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with Pres Jackson)
12281846
Iowa becomes 29th state
12281850
Rangoon, Burma, destroyed by fire
12281864
Battle of Egypt Station, MS
12281869
William Finley Semple of Mount Vernon, Ohio, patents chewing gum
12281877
John Stevens, Wisc, applies for patent on flour rolling mill
12281878
Pope Leo XIII encyclical on socialism
12281879
North British Railway's train falls as Firth bridge collapses (Scot)
12281887
Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted
A Charlois discovers asteroid #398 Admete
A Charlois discovers asteroid #425 Cornelia
1st indoor pro football game, Syracuse beats Phila 6-0 (MSG, NYC)
Trans-Pacific cable links Hawaii to US
Electric lamp sets fire to Iroquois theater in Chicago; 602 die
Intercollegiate Athletic Assn of US founded (becomes NCAA in 1910)
12281906
Ecuador adopts its constitution
Earthquake strikes Messina, Italy; 80,000 die
12281910
Opera "Knigskinder" is produced (NYC)
12281912
SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)
12281915
SF City Hall dedicated by Mayor James Rolph
12281926
Imperial Airways begins England-India mail & passenger service
Lin-Sen follows Chang Kai-shek as president of Nanjing-China
12281935
W P A Federal Art Project Gallery opens in NYC
Fascist Octavian Goga becomes PM of Romania/begins spread of Judaism
12281940
Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1659 Punkaharju, #1678 Hveen & #2962
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #2181 Fogelin
Oberkommando Wehrmacht orders strategist flight out of Kaukasus
Robert Sullivan becomes 1st pilot to fly Atlantic 100 times
Congress officially recognizes "Pledge of Allegiance"
Chic Cards beat Phila Eagles 28-21 in NFL championship game
IDF crosses Egyptian border
Chinese troops cross 38th Parallel, into South Korea
Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 17-7 in NFL championship game
WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, MS (NBC) begins broadcasting
KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
What might be called greatest NFL game, Colts beat Giants 23-17
12281962
UN troops occupies Elizabethstad Katanga
12281966
13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass
12281967
KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival
Beatles' "Beatles-White Album," goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks
KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, CA (IND) 1st broadcast
Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) adopts constitution
12281972
Kim Il-song, becomes president of North Korea
12281973
Alexander Solzhenitsyn publishes "Gulag Archipelag"
12281974
More than 5,200 people killed in Pakistan earthquake
"Hail Mary Pass"-Cowboys beat Vikings 17-14 on last second pass
Earthquake in Pakistan, 4,000 die
P Wild discovers asteroid #2087 Kochera
Red Army beats NY Rangers 7-3 at MSG
30th hat trick in Islander history (Mike Bossy)
A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3003
US say they will leave UNESCO on Dec 31, 1984
TV soap "Edge of Night" ends 28 year run
12281985
Warring Lebanese Moslem & Christian leaders sign peace agreement
In Arkansas R Gene Simmons kills 16
US 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals affirms Yonkers is guilty of racism
12281989
Alexander Dubcek elected parliament chairman of Czech
Earthquake at Newcastle Australia, 11 die
2 die in a NYC subway accident
12281991
8 are crushed to death at a RAP basketball game at City College, NYC
Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year
12291782
1st nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston
12291813
British burn Buffalo, NY during War of 1812
12291837
Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop, Maine
12291845
Texas admitted as 28th state
12291848
Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)
12291851
1st Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)
12291852
Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
12291862
Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat Gen Sherman
12291864
Fire Dept celebrates 1st annual ball
12291867
1st telegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Co, NY
11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula Ohio, 92 die
US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee, SD
12291891
Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
12291906
Montreal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (NS) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906)
patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville, Wisc
12291911
SF Symphony formed
12291913
1st movie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn," premieres in Chicago
William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
12291922
Dutch Constitution proclaimed
Revised Netherlands Law proclaims sufferage
Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index
12291929
Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders
Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
1st collegiate basketball doubleheader (MSG)
Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930
2nd Irish constitution goes into effect; Irish Free State renamed Erie
G Kulin discovers asteroid #1442 Corvina & #2712
Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1443 Ruppina
Pan Am starts San Francisco-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins
Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WW II)
12291948
US State Dept announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
1st UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport Ct)
Hungary nationalized its industries
Flying Enterprise in difficulty in Canal
1st transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
Barbra Striesand's 1st recording "You'll Never Know" at age 13
12291957
Detroit Lions beat Cleve Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game
Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme wed in Las Vegas
Balt Colts beat NY Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game
TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
12291965
"Thunderball" premiers in US
CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"
12291966
Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass)
Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
Balt Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game
NY Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game
12291972
Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
Life magazine ceases publication
12291975
11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in NYC
12291978
Shah of Iran, askes Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian govt
Spain constitution goes into effect
12291979
Red Army beats NY Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
12291983
US announced withdrawal from UNESCO
Blues took 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parlimetary elections
12291988
Soviet Red Army Team edges NY Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
12291989
Vaclav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia
Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova, named athletes of decade by AP
12291990
Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley
12291991
Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei
1230 274
St Felix I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
12301703
Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
12301809
Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
12301817
1st coffee planted in Hawaii
12301835
After gold discovery in Ga, Cherokees forced to move across Miss R
12301836
Lehman-theater in St Petersburg catches fire; 100 die
12301844
Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
12301854
Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co, 1st in US, incorporated in NYC
12301861
US, banks stops payments in gold
Philadelphia Knights of Labor forms
12301875
Andrassy Note calls for Christian-Muslim religious freedoms
12301892
Dr Miles V Lynk, physician, publishes 1st Black medical journal
Montreal Victorias beat Winn Victorias 6-5 for Stanley Cup
12301897
Province of Zululand annexed to Natal colony
12301903
602 die as flames swept through Iroquois Theater in Chicago
American Political Science Association founded at New Orleans
Fire at Chicago's Iriquois Theater kills 602
Iran becomes a constitutional monarchy
12301907
Abraham Mills' commission declares Abner Doubleday invented baseball
Sun Yat-sen elected 1st pres of Republic of China
12301915
Cromarty Harbour, Scot-British cruiser Natal explodes: 405 die
12301917
-32øF (-36øC) in Mountain City, Tennessee (state record)
-37øF (-38øC) in Lewisburg, WV (state record)
12301924
Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems
12301927
Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long)
G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1140 Crimea
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority incorporates
12301933
-50øF (-46øC) in Bloomfield, Vermont (state record)
Govt disallows NSB-membership for civil service
Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia
12301936
United Auto Workers stage 1st sit-down strike, at Fisher Body Plant
M Laugier discovers asteroid #1461 Jean-Jacques
Electronic television system patented, VK Zworykin
12301940
Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #2750 Loviisa
12301941
Al Capone's son Sonny marries in Miami Beach
King George II of Greece, abdicates his throne
King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne
Romanian republic proclaimed
12301949
India recognizes People's Republic of China
12301950
Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states in France Union
Tuskegee Inst reports 1952 as 1st yr in 71 with no lynchings in US
NY Giants beat Chicago Bears 47-7 in NFL championship game
12301957
Israeli govt of Ben Gurion, resigns
New York Giants win NFL championship
French franc devalued
George Washington, 1st ballistic missile sub commissioned
Green Bay Packers beat NY Giants 16-7 in NFL championship game
Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar
12301965
Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2197 Shanghai
12301967
Beatles' "Hello Goodbye," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
12301968
-48øF (-44øC), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
12301971
Long Island NHL franchise purchased (NY Islanders)
Pres Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3119 Dobronravin
12301973
1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)
Miami Dolphins beat Oakland Raiders 27-10 in AFC championship game
Minn Vikings beat Dallas Cowboys 27-10 in NFC championship game
12301975
Constitution of Democratic Republic of Madagascar comes into force
12301977
Carter holds 1st news conf by US pres in Eastern Europe (Warsaw)
12301978
Harvard College discovers asteroid #2240 Tsai
Ohio State dismisses Woody Hayes as its football coach
12301979
Rock group, Emerson, Lake & Palmer break up
Togo adopts constitution
12301980
A Mrkos discovers asteroid #2971
Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #2365 Interkosmos
12301981
E Bowell disc asteroid #2984 Chaucer, #3247 Di Martino & #3549 Hapke
F Dossin discovers asteroid #3198 Wallonia
Wayne Gretzky sets NHL record of 50 goals by 39th game of season
12301982
US Assay Office in New York City, NY closes
12301984
Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) & Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed
12301985
IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 released
Pakistan restores constitution
12301988
Canadian Senate OK's free trade pact; with US
Former Soviet Pres Brezhnev's son-in-law sentenced to 12-yr (bribery)
Mercedes-Benz pays $20.2-M fine failed to meet '86 govt fuel standard
North subpoenas Reagan & Bush as defense witnesses for upcoming trial
St Silvester I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
12311492
Jews are expelled from Sicily
12311600
British East India Company chartered
12311744
James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's motion of nutation
Battle of Qubec; Americans unable to take British stronghold
12311781
Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens
End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
12311841
Alabama becomes 1st state to license dental surgeons
12311852
Future president & Mrs Rutherford B Hayes marry
12311857
Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada
12311862
-Jan 20th) Battle of Stone's River, TN (Stone River, Monfreesboro)
Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Pres Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to Union
Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sank at Cape Hatteras, NC
J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)
12311879
Cornerstone laid for Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp
Opera "Pirates of Penzance" is produced (NYC)
12311890
Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
12311896
A Charlois discovers asteroid #424 Gratia
12311897
Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)
J Palisa discovers asteroid #583 Klotilde
For 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year
Last San Francisco firehorses retired
12311923
1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies
12311925
14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry
Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1208 Troilus
12311934
Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport
12311935
CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
Battle in Barents Sea
Potatoes rationed in Holland
NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater
12311944
48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab
Ratification of UN Charter completed
French troops leave Lebanon
Pres Truman officially proclaims end of WW II
18 countries recognize Republic Indonesia
Jockeys W Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year
1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president
WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (NBC) begins
Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year
12311957
AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy
12311958
International Geophyscial Year ends
Willie Shoemaker 1st jockey to win national riding championship 4X
1st performance of Beach Boys
Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game
Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
12311962
American Basketball League announces suspension of operation
Dutch flag flies in Dutch, New-Guinea
Katanga becomes part of Democratic Republic of Congo
Dear Abby show premiers on CBS radio (runs 11 years)
12311964
Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)
Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks
Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
12311967
Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game
Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13ø F)
1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
NY Jets win AFL championship
12311970
Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to disolve Beatles
KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
Leap second day; also in 1973-79, 1987
Miami Dolphins beat Pitts Steelers 21-7 in AFC championship game
Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game
12311974
Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3 million Yank contract
Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin
12311976
TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run
Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait
Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa
Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado
WFAT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
12311978
Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US
12311979
Winterland Rock Concert Hall in SF closes after 556 concerts
12311980
A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
12311981
Lt Jerry Rawlings becomes head of Ghana, suspends constitution
12311982
CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years
NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features
TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run
Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves after military coup
12311984
NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira
US leaves UNESCO
Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97
WIS-AM in Columbia SC changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)
Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace
12311991
CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance
Daniel McCarthy becomes General partner of NY Yankees
Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83
USSR, last day of existance
12311992
Target date for Europe's single market
WCBS TV news anchor Carol Martin weds Joe Terry
12311999
Control of Panama Canal reverts to Panama
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