#SmartDates // do not remove this line # # Date format: # s - sign of year # YYYY - year # MM - month # DD - day ( day of month [1,2, ... ] or day of week [Mo, Tu, Wd, Th, Fr, St, Su] ) # dd - duration # p - periodicity (0 - none, 1 - daily, 2 - weekly, 3 - monthly, 4 - yearly) # sYYYY MM DD [dd] {p} Info text # # Description: Famous people's births, deaths and marriages # +1953 01 01 Hank Williams, country singer, dies +1895 01 01 J. Edgar Hoover, first director of the FBI, is born +1919 01 01 J.D. Salinger is born +1449 01 01 Lorenzo de Medici, Florentine ruler was born +1901 01 02 Robert Marshall, for whom the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Alaska was named, is born +1840 01 03 Father Damien, helped the lepers in Hawaii. +1892 01 03 J.R.R. Tolkien, the REAL Lord of the Rings. +1951 01 03 Mel Gibson, actor and hunk, is born +1838 01 04 Charles Stratton (alias General Tom Thumb, famous short person) +1937 01 04 Dyan Cannon, the actress, is born in Tacoma, Washington +1921 01 04 Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first American born Catholic saint, dies in Emmitsburg, Maryland +1809 01 04 Louis Braille, blind educator, inventor of Braille alphabet, is born in Coupvray, France +1965 01 04 T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot, the poet dies at 76 +1838 01 04 Tiny Tim, the dwarf made famous by P. T. Barnum, is born +1933 01 05 Calvin Coolidge dies +1956 01 05 Grace Kelly announces engagement to Prince Ranier +1855 01 05 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor +1779 01 05 Stephen Decatur, early American Naval hero +1779 01 05 Zebulon Pike, the explorer, is born +1878 01 06 Carl Sandburg, poet and biographer, is born in Illinois +1811 01 06 Charles Sumner, leading Reconstruction Senator +1914 01 06 Danny Thomas, actor and comedian, is born +1924 01 06 Earl Scruggs, bluegrass musical performer, is born +1759 01 06 George Washington and Martha Custis were married +1799 01 06 Jedediah Strong Smith, American fur trader and explorer, is born +1925 01 06 John DeLorean, automaker and entrepreneur, is born +1883 01 06 Khalil Gibran, metaphysical author, is born in Lebanon +1540 01 06 King Henry VIII marries his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. The marriage will last about six months. +1913 01 06 Loretta Young, actress, is born +1882 01 06 Samuel Rayburn, Speaker of the House (1940 - 1957) +1854 01 06 Sherlock Holmes is born +1946 01 06 Syd Barrett, born Roger Keith Barrett (Cambridge, 1946 +1919 01 06 Theodore Roosevelt died at his home in Oyster Bay, NY +1412 01 06 Tradition says that Joan of Arc was born on this day +1989 01 07 Emperor Hirohito of Japan dies of cancer. He is succeeded by his son Akihito, a fish biologist. +1926 01 07 George Burns and Gracie Allen marry +1800 01 07 Millard Fillmore, 13th President (1850-1853) +1976 01 08 Chou En-lai, Chinese premier, dies +1947 01 08 David Bowie born David Robert Jones (London, 1947 +1935 01 08 Elvis Presley, early rock performer and truck driver, is born +1862 01 08 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher & founder of Doubleday & Co. +1941 01 08 Lord Baden-Powell, philanthopist and founder of the Boy Scouts, dies +1786 01 08 Nicholas Biddle, made 2nd Bank of US 1st effective central bank. +1868 01 08 Sir Frank Dyson, proved Einstein right about light bent by gravity +1946 01 08 Tod Brannan +1880 01 08 the passing of Norton I, Emperor of the US, Protector of Mexico +1848 01 09 Astronomer Caroline Herschel, publisher of "Herschel`s Catalog of Stars" and sister of William, dies at 97 +1935 01 09 Bob Denver, actor played Gilligan on "Gilligan`s Island", is born +1901 01 09 Chic Young, creator of the "Blondie" comic strip. +1914 01 09 Gypsy Rose Lee, entertainer and author, is born +1945 01 09 James Patrick Page (Led Zeppelin) born (Middlesex, England, 1945 +1941 01 09 Joan Baez, folk singer, is born on Staten Island, New York +1870 01 09 Joseph B. Strauss, civil engineer & builder of Golden Gate Bridge. +1890 01 09 Karel Capek, Czech author and originator of the term robot, is born +1913 01 09 Richard M. Nixon, 37th President (1968-1974) +1908 01 09 Simone de Beauvoir, feminist, born +1976 01 10 Blues guitarist Howlin` Wolf dies (Chicago, 1976 +1917 01 10 Buffalo Bill Cody dies in Denver, Colorado +1971 01 10 Coco Chanel, the fashion designer, dies +1961 01 10 Dashiell Hammett, the author, dies +1738 01 10 Ethan Allen, Revolutionary War fighter (lead the Green Mtn Boys) +1877 01 10 Frederick Gardner Cottrell, invented the elecrostatic precipitator, used for polution control and air ionizers. +1943 01 10 Jim Croce born (Phildelphia, 1943 +1952 01 10 Pat Benatar born (Long Island, 1952 +1904 01 10 Ray Bolger, the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz, is born +1945 01 10 Rod Stewart born (Glasgow, Scotland, 1945 +1897 01 11 Aldo Leopold, ecological writer, is born +1807 01 11 Ezra Cornell, founded Western Union Telegraph & Cornell University. +1821 01 11 Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky, Russian author, is born +1843 01 11 Francis Scott Key, the author of "Star Spangled Banner", dies +1928 01 11 Thomas Hardy, the English author, dies +1941 01 12 "Long" John Baldry born (London, 1941 +1976 01 12 Agatha Christie, mystery writer, dies +1893 01 12 Herman Goering, Nazi field marshal, is born +1897 01 12 Isaac Pitman, the inventor of shorthand, dies +1876 01 12 Jack London, author and adventurer, born +1737 01 12 John Hancock +1588 01 12 John Winthrop, 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. +1907 01 12 Tex Ritter, western folk singer, is born +1832 01 13 Horatio Alger, Jr. +1941 01 13 James Joyce dies +1741 01 14 Benedict Arnold, fink +1898 01 14 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, dies +1986 01 14 Donna Reed, actress, dies of cancer +1742 01 14 Edmond Halley dies +1892 01 14 Hal Roach, early film director and producer. +1957 01 14 Humphrey Bogart dies +1984 01 14 Ray Kroc, founder of the McDonald`s empire, dies +1951 01 15 Charo, entertainer, is born +1908 01 15 Edward Teller, fathered the H-bomb. +1915 01 15 Fanny Farmer, cook and writer, dies +1929 01 15 Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamer +1987 01 15 Ray Bolger, the Scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, dies +1942 01 16 Carole Lombard, actress, her mother and about 20 others are killed in a plane crash near Las Vegas, during a tour to promote War Bonds +1599 01 16 Edmund Spenser, the poet, dies +1962 01 16 Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in automobile crash +1908 01 16 Ethel Merman, actress and singer, is born +1874 01 16 Robert Service, Canadian author, is born +1899 01 17 Al Capone, mobster, is born +1860 01 17 Anton Chekhov, the writer, is born +1771 01 17 Charles Brockden Brown, father of the American novel. +1927 01 17 Juliette Low, founder of the Girl Scouts, dies +1880 01 17 Mack Sennett, created Keystone Kops +1942 01 17 Muhammed Ali, who floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee. +1882 01 18 A. A. Milne, author of "Winnie the Pooh", is born +1904 01 18 Cary Grant, actor, is born +1782 01 18 Daniel Webster, early American orator and politician. +1671 01 18 Henry Morgan, the pirate, captured Panama on behalf of England and was knighted regardless of his ruthless techniques +1813 01 18 Joseph Farwell Glidden, invented 1st commercially useable barbed wire +1892 01 18 Oliver Hardy, of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. +1779 01 18 Peter Roget, of Thesaurus fame, invented Slide Rule, pocket chessboard +1936 01 18 Rudyard Kipling, author, dies +1888 01 18 Sir Thomas Octave Sopwith, aviator, airplane builder, Sopwith Pup, Sopwith Camel, Hurricane, and the Harrier VTOL, born +1854 01 18 Thomas A. Watson, needed by Bell. +1946 01 19 Dolly Parton, buxom singer, composer, is born in Sevierville, Tenn. +1736 01 19 James Watt, inventor of the practical steam engine, is born +1839 01 19 Paul Cezanne, the artist, was born +1939 01 19 Phil Everly (of the Everly Brothers) is born +1775 01 20 Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist and mathematician, is born in Lyon +1990 01 20 Barbara Stanwyck, actress, dies +1920 01 20 DeForest Kelley, Dr. McCoy in Star Trek, is born in Atlanta, Georgia +1907 01 20 Dmitri Mendeleyev, chemist, formulated the periodic table of the elements, dies in St. Petersburg, Russia +1930 01 20 Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, American astronaut, is born in New Jersey +1920 01 20 Federico Fellini, film director, is born in Italy +1896 01 20 George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum), comedian, born in New York, NY +1900 01 20 John Ruskin, philosopher, dies +1984 01 20 Johnny Weismuller, Tarzan, actor and swimmer, dies at 79 in Acapulco +1925 01 21 Benny Hill, comedian, is born +1959 01 21 Cecil B. De Mille, film producer, dies +1950 01 21 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) dies in London +1815 01 21 Horace Wells, dentist, pioneer in use of medical anethesia. +1813 01 21 John C Fremont, mapmaker & explorer of Western US +1743 01 21 John Fitch, had a working steamboat years before Fulton. +1609 01 21 Joseph Scaliger, the chronologist and inventor of the Julian date, dies +1793 01 21 Louis XVI is beheaded by the guillotine of the French revolution +1924 01 21 Telly Savalas, actor, is born +1924 01 21 Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary, dies of a stroke +1949 01 21 Wolfman Jack, radio personality, is born +1788 01 22 Lord Byron, poet, lover, revolutionary, is born +1832 01 22 Molly Pitcher, distinguished herself in the battle of Monmouth during the Revolutionary War, dies +1901 01 22 Queen Victoria, long time queen of England, dies at her winter home on the Isle of Wight +1935 01 22 Sam Cooke born (Chicago, 1935 +1919 01 23 Ernie Kovacs, American comedian, is born +1840 01 23 Ernst Abbe, formulated diffraction theory, is born +1737 01 23 John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence and first governor of Massachusetts, is born +1730 01 23 Joseph Hewes, American revolutionary leader, born +1989 01 23 Salvador Dali, Spanish surrealist painter and founder of the movement, dies +1981 01 23 Samuel Barber, the American composer, dies +1756 01 23 Wolfgang A. Mozart, musical prodigy +1862 01 24 Edith Wharton, American author, is born +1888 01 24 Ernst Heinrich Heinkel, built 1st rocket-powered aircraft. +1949 01 24 John Belushi born (Chicago, 1949 +1895 01 24 Lord Randolph Churchill, English statesman, dies +1989 01 24 Ted Bundy, confessed serial murderer of over 21 (possibly as many as 100) women during a period of 15 years, is executed +1990 01 25 Ava Gardner, actress, dies +1736 01 25 J. L. Lagrange born +1890 01 25 Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran Seaman), American journalist, went around the world in 72 days +1759 01 25 Robert Burns, poet, born +1874 01 25 Somerset Maugham, poet +1882 01 25 Virginia Woolf, novelist and critic, born +1874 01 25 W. Somerset Maugham, author, born +1944 01 26 Angela Davis, is born +1880 01 26 Douglas MacArthur, he did return +1929 01 26 Jules Feiffer, satiric cartoonist, is born +1925 01 26 Paul Newman, actor, is born in Cleveland, Ohio +1930 01 27 Bobby "Blue" Bland (Robert Calvin Bland) born (TN, 1930 +1832 01 27 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (you know him as Lewis Carroll) +1832 01 27 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, writer and mathematician, is born in Cheshire +1834 01 27 Dmitri Mendeleyev, chemist, formulated the periodic table of elements, is born in Tobolsk, Russia +1901 01 27 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of "La Traviata and Rigoletto", dies in Milan +1851 01 27 John James Audubon, naturalist and painter, dies +1850 01 27 Samuel Gompers, 1st president of the American Federation of Labor +1988 01 27 Sir Thomas Octave Sopwith, aviator, airplane builder, Sopwith Pup , Sopwith Camel, Hurricane, and the Harrier VTOL, dies +1756 01 27 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born (Salzburg, 1756 +1873 01 28 Colette (Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine), French novelist, is born +1687 01 28 Johannes Hevelius dies +1859 01 28 Seth Thomas, American clock maker, dies +1855 01 28 William Seward Burroughs, invented recording adding machine. +1901 01 29 Allen B DuMont, perfected 1st commercially practical cathode ray tube +1860 01 29 Anton Chekhov, writer (The Cherry Orchard) +1880 01 29 Claude William Dukenfield (better known as W.C. Fields) +1838 01 29 John Davison Rockefeller, industrialist and philanthropist, is born +1850 01 29 Lawrence Hargrave, invented the box kite +1737 01 29 Thomas Paine, American author and Revolutionary leader, is born +1945 01 29 Tom Selleck who plays Magnum PI was born in Detroit +1880 01 29 W.C. Fields, American entertainer, is born +1843 01 29 William McKinley, 25th President (1897-1901) +1923 01 30 Carol Channing, actress, born +1835 01 30 Chief Osceola, Seminole leader, dies in prison. -0000 01 30 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President (1933-1945) (Hyde Park, NY 1882) +1982 01 30 Lightnin` Hopkins, most-recorded blues artist, dies +1948 01 30 Mohandas Gandhi assassinated by Hindu fanatic (New Delhi, 1948 +1937 01 30 Vanessa Redgrave, actress and activist, is born +1885 01 31 Anna Pavlova, the Russian ballerina, is born +1945 01 31 Eddie Slovik is executed +1797 01 31 Franz Schubert, composer, born in Vienna +1881 01 31 Irving Langmuir invented the tungsten filament lamp +1919 01 31 Jackie Robinson, 1st black major league baseball player +1830 01 31 James G. Blaine, the `Plumed Knight`. +1938 01 31 James Watt, highly criticized Secretary of Interior and professional tool of big industry, is born +1903 01 31 Tallulah Bankhead, actress, is born in Huntsville, Alabama +1872 01 31 Zane Gray, American West novelist +1901 02 01 Clark Gable, the actor, is born +1937 02 01 Don Everly, of the Everly Brothers, is born +1895 02 01 John Ford, the film maker, is born +1904 02 01 Sidney Joseph Perelman, American author, is born +1959 02 02 Buddy Holly, the singer, dies -0000 02 02 Fred Flintstone`s birthday +1942 02 02 Graham Nash born (Lancashire, England, 1942 +1882 02 02 James Joyce, novelist, is born in Dublin +1650 02 02 Nell Gwynn, actress and mistress of King Charles II, is born +1754 02 02 Talleyrand, French statesman & diplomat. +1959 02 03 Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper die in plane crash +1821 02 03 Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman to get MD from a US Medical school. +1874 02 03 Gertrude Stein, poet, novelist, is born +1811 02 03 Horace Greeley, journalist, born in Amherst New Hampshire +1809 02 03 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Felix Mendelssohn), the composer, is born in Hamburg +1902 02 04 Charles Lindbergh, aviator, is born in Detroit +1906 02 04 Clyde Tombaugh born +1494 02 04 Francois Rabelais, French author and humanist, is born +1987 02 04 Liberace (Wladzio Valentino), pianist and entertainer, dies of AIDS related disease +1869 02 04 William Dudley ("Big Bill") Haywood, American labor leader who founded I.W.W., is born +1935 02 05 Alex Harvey (SAHB) born (Glasgow, Scotland, 1935 +1878 02 05 Andre-Gustave Citroen, French automaker +1840 02 05 John Boyd Dunlop, developed the pneumatic rubber tire. +1788 02 05 Sir Robert Peel, Prime Minister, founder of London Police force, is born +1914 02 05 William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the adding machine, is born +1756 02 06 Aaron Burr +1989 02 06 Barbara Tuchman, historian and author "A Distant Mirror", dies +1945 02 06 Bob Marley, reggae singer, is born +1885 02 06 George Herman Ruth (`Babe Ruth`), baseball legend, +1952 02 06 King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II +1922 02 06 Patrick Macnee, actor, is born +1911 02 06 Ronald Reagan, 40th President (1981-1988) +1940 02 06 Tom Brokaw, television newsman, is born +1812 02 07 Charles Dickens, author, "David Copperfield", is born +1883 02 07 Eubie Blake, composer +1817 02 07 Frederick Douglas, 1st black to hold high rank in US government +1804 02 07 John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements. +1867 02 07 Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of "Little House on the Prairie" series, is born +1700 02 07 Philippe Buache, geographer, devised contour lines for maps +1885 02 07 Sinclair Lewis, novelist, author of "Babbitt", is born +1478 02 07 Sir Thomas More, humanist, philosopher, statesman, is born in London +1906 02 08 Chester F. Carlson, invented xerography (xeroxing) +1795 02 08 Friedleib F. Runge, father of paper chromatography +1925 02 08 Jack Lemmon, actor, +1931 02 08 James Dean, American actor, is born +1828 02 08 Jules Verne, author, born (Nantes, France, 1828 +1920 02 08 Lana Turner the actress is born +1587 02 08 Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded +1872 02 08 The Viceroy of India is murdered +1820 02 08 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War general. +1450 02 09 Agnes Sorel, mistress of Charles VII of France, dies +1941 02 09 Carole King, American singer, is born (Brooklyn, 1941 +1914 02 09 Ernest Tubb, American country music star, is born +1489 02 09 George Hartmann born, designed astrolabes, timepieces, etc. +1914 02 09 Gypsy Rose Lee, stripper and author, was born naked +1567 02 09 Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered +1773 02 09 William Henry Harrison, 9th President (March 4-April 4, 1841) +1898 02 10 Bertolt Brecht, German poet and playwright, is born +1890 02 10 Boris Pasternak, author of "Dr. Zhivago", is born +1775 02 10 Charles Lamb, English critic and essayist, born +1927 02 10 Leontyne Price, opera singer, is born +1840 02 10 Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert (Francis-Albert-Augustus-Charles-Emmanuel, Duke of Saxe, Prince of Saxe-Colburg and Gotha) +1930 02 10 Robert Wagner, actor, is born +1940 02 10 Roberta Flack, singer, is born +1863 02 10 Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren, famous midget couple, wed +1868 02 10 William Allen White born +1650 02 11 Rene Descartes the French philosopher dies +1847 02 11 Thomas Edison, the inventor and holder of over 1000 patents, is born +1489 02 11 William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer, is born +1809 02 12 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President (1861-1865) +1542 02 12 Catherine Howard the fifth wife of Henry VIII is beheaded +1809 02 12 Charles Darwin born in Shrewsbury, England +1893 02 12 General of the Army Omar Bradley, `The GI General` +1554 02 12 Lady Jane Grey was Queen of England for nine days. She and her husband were executed on this day. +1885 02 13 Bess Truman, married to President Harry Truman +1805 02 13 David Dudley Field, lawyer whose advocacy of law codification (1805)had international e +1849 02 13 Randolph Churchill, English politician and father of Winston Churchill, was born +1883 02 13 Richard Wagner, composer, dies +1894 02 14 Benny Kubelski, aka Jack Benny. Oh, Rochester +1934 02 14 Florence Henderson, actress and singer, is born +1946 02 14 Gregory Hines, actor and dancer, is born +1921 02 14 Hugh Downs, TV personality, is born -0000 02 14 St. Valentine beheaded (278) +1766 02 14 Thomas Malthus, English economist, is born. +1564 02 15 Galileo Galilei born (Pisa, Italy, 1564 +1797 02 15 Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker +1803 02 15 John Augustus Sutter +1988 02 15 Richard Feynman, winner of Nobel prize in physics, educator, philosopher, bongo player, dies +1820 02 15 Susan B. Anthony, American women`s suffrage advocate, born +1600 02 16 Giordano Bruno burned at stake +1892 02 16 Henry Walter Bates, naturalist and explorer of South America, is born +1926 02 16 John Schlesinger, movie director, is born +1957 02 16 LeVar Burton, actor, Lt. LeForge on "Star Trek, the Next Generation", is born +1698 02 16 Pierre Bouguer, founder of photometry, is born +1884 02 16 Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film. +1908 02 17 "Red" Barber, pioneering sportscaster born +1844 02 17 A. Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business. +1856 02 17 Frederick Eugene Ives, inventor, pioneer of halftone photoengraving process and color photography, is born +1925 02 17 Hal Holbrook, actor, is born +1982 02 17 Jazz great Thelonius Monk dies (Englewood, NJ, 1982 +1673 02 17 Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere, playwright, author, actor, died on stage while playing the part of a sick man in his "Le Malade Imaginaire" +1902 02 17 Marion Anderson, American contralto, is born +1874 02 17 Thomas J. Watson, Sr. born (1874), founder +1896 02 18 Andre Breton, French author and critic, is born +1745 02 18 Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta, invented the electric battery, +1950 02 18 Cybill Shepherd, actress, is born +1838 02 18 Ernst Mach, philosopher and optics pioneer, is born +1922 02 18 Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmo editor, is born +1919 02 18 Jack Palance, actor, is born +1954 02 18 John Travolta, actor and dancer, is born +1848 02 18 Louis Comfort Tiffany, glassmaker +1546 02 18 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, dies +1964 02 18 Matt Dillon, actor, is born +1564 02 18 Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, architect and painter, born in Caprese, Italy +1968 02 18 Molly Ringwald, actress, is born +1516 02 18 Queen Mary (Bloody Mary) is born +1957 02 18 Vanna White, game show hostess, is born +1909 02 18 Wallace Stegner, ecological author, is born +1933 02 18 Yoko Ono, John Lennon`s wife, is born (Tokyo, 1933 +1916 02 19 Ernst Mach, physicist, philosopher, dies +1960 02 19 HRH Prince Andrew, second son of Elizabeth II is born +1946 02 19 Karen Silkwood, plutonium plant worker, is born +1473 02 19 Nicolas Copernicus born (Thorn, Poland, 1473 +1473 02 19 Nicolaus Copernicus +1940 02 19 William "Smokey" Robinson born (Detroit, 1940 +1902 02 20 Ansel Adams, photographer, was born +1941 02 20 Buffy Sainte-Marie, singer, songwriter, is born +1924 02 20 Gloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer, is born +1946 02 20 J. Geils (J. Geils Band) born +1838 02 20 Ludwig Boltzmann, atomic physics pioneer, is born +1925 02 20 Robert Altman, movie director, is born +1946 02 20 Sandy Duncan, actress, is born +1924 02 20 Sidney Poitier, actor, is born +1694 02 20 Voltaire, the French philosopher is born +1838 02 21 Alexis De Rochon, developed spyglass, born +1903 02 21 Anais Nin, French-born American author and diarist, is born +1938 02 21 George Ellery Hale dies +1965 02 21 Malcolm X shot to death as he was about to speak to a rally of followers in Harlem +1907 02 21 W.H. Auden, English-born American author, is born +1987 02 22 Andy Warhol, creator of the Pop art movement, dies +1987 02 22 David Susskind, talk show producer and host, dies +1892 02 22 Edna St. Vincent Millay, the American poet, is born in Rockland Maine +1925 02 22 Edward Gorey, slightly morbid cartoonist, is born +1810 02 22 Frederic Chopin, the Polish composer, is born near Warsaw +1732 02 22 George Washington, Father figure for US, President (1789-1796) +1749 02 22 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist & 1st biographer of Bach +1890 02 22 John Jacob Astor, the millionaire, dies +1900 02 22 Luis Bunuel, film director, born in Spain +1838 02 22 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, who found hydrogen in the sun, is born +1949 02 22 Russell Porter dies +1685 02 23 George Frederick Handel, German born English composer, is born +1944 02 23 Johnny Winter born (Leland, MS, 1944 +1633 02 23 Samuel Pepys, English author and diarist, is born +1868 02 23 W. E. B. DuBois, the Black educator, is born +1885 02 24 Admiral Chester Nimitz, in charge of Pacific Fleet in WWII. +1822 02 24 Bluebeard executed for burning ten of his wives +1619 02 24 Charles Le Brun, painter, is born in Paris +1810 02 24 Henery Cavendish, physicist, dies +1955 02 24 Steven Jobs, Apple co-founder. +1825 02 24 Thomas Bowdler, censor and prude, dies +1836 02 24 Winslow Homer, artist, is born in Boston +1841 02 25 August Renoir, the French impressionist painter, is born +1873 02 25 Enrico Caruso, singer +1943 02 25 George Harrison of the Beatles is born in Liverpool, England +1888 02 25 John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State for President Eisenhower +1901 02 25 Zeppo Marx, actor, is born +1846 02 26 Buffalo Bill Cody, frontiersman and impresario, is born +1786 02 26 Dominique Francois Jean Arago born, first observer of "Poisson`s spot". cf. June 21 +1866 02 26 Herbert Henry Dow, pioneer in US chemical industry +1852 02 26 John Harvey Kellogg, physician, inspired the flaked cereal industry. +1802 02 26 Victor Hugo, French author, is born. +1846 02 26 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody. +1929 02 27 Elizabeth Taylor, the actress, is born +1807 02 27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the Poet, is born in Portland, Maine +1936 02 27 Ivan Pavlov, the physiologist and psychologist, dies in Leningrad +1902 02 27 John Steinbeck, the author, is born. +1912 02 27 Lawrence Durrell, English author, is born +1934 02 27 Ralph Nader, ex-Corvair fan +1948 02 28 Bernadette Peters, actress, is born +1901 02 28 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize winning chemist, is born +1533 02 28 Michel de Montaigne, French essayist, is born +1986 02 28 Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme, 59 was shot to death while walking from a movie theater in central Stockholm +1860 02 29 Herman Hollerith, invented 1st electric tabulating machine. +1904 02 29 Jimmy Dorsey, musician, born +1848 03 01 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece. +1910 03 01 David Niven, the actor, born +1991 03 01 Edwin H. Land, inventor, his 500 patents was exceeded only by Edison, dies +1810 03 01 Frederic Chopin +1969 03 01 Jim Morrison busted for obscenity (Miami, 1969) +1954 03 01 Ron Howard, actor and director, is born in Duncan, Oklahoma +1949 03 02 Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher born (Ballyshannon, Ireland, 1949) +1930 03 02 D. H. Lawrence, author, died +1950 03 02 Karen Carpenter, the drummer and singer of "The Carpenters", is born in New Haven, Conn. +1944 03 02 Neil Erbe +1904 03 02 Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as the writer and illustrator of children`s books, Dr. Seuss, is born +1991 03 03 Arthur Murray, dance instructor, dies +1987 03 03 Danny Kaye, actor and comedian, dies +1849 03 03 David Atchison, president pro tempore of the senate, is president for one day since Taylor won`t take office on a Sunday +1911 03 03 Jean Harlow, "the blonde bombshell," American actress, is born +1678 03 04 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer born in Venice, Italy. +1747 03 04 Casimir Pulaski, Polish nobleman who served in the American Revolution, is born +1394 03 04 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages of discovery +1658 03 05 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, soldier, founder of Detroit and governor of Louisiana, is born in France +1890 03 05 Berick Traven Torsvan, American author, is born +1512 03 05 Gerardus Mercator born +1824 03 05 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame) +1982 03 05 John Belushi, actor, dies (Los Angeles, 1982) +1953 03 05 Joseph Stalin, the dictator, dies in Moscow +1908 03 05 Rex Harrison, Professor Henry Higgins from "My Fair Lady", was born +1871 03 05 Rosa Luxembourg, "Red Rosa", German socialist leader, is born +1953 03 05 Sergei Prokofiev, the composer, dies in Moscow +1756 03 06 Aaron Burr, dualist +1812 03 06 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking. +1619 03 06 Cyrano de Bergerac, dramatist, is born +1944 03 06 David Gilmour born (Cambridge, England, 1944) +1836 03 06 Davy Crockett dies in the Alamo +1806 03 06 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, is born +1828 03 06 Hongi Hika, Ngapuhi War Chief of New Zealand, dies +1932 03 06 John Philip Sousa, American composer and band leader, dies +1787 03 06 Josephvon Fraunhaufer born +1888 03 06 Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, dies +1475 03 06 Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet, is born +1844 03 06 Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, the composer, is born in Russia +1973 03 06 Pearl Buck, American novelist, dies +1937 03 06 Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman cosmonaut -0322 03 07 Aristotle, philosopher, died +1849 03 07 Luther Burbank, plant breeder +1875 03 07 Maurice Ravel, the composer, is born in France +1792 03 07 Sir John Frederick William Herschel, the astronomer and brother of Caroline Herschel, is born +1804 03 08 Alvan Clark, astronomer and lens manufacturer, is born +1917 03 08 Graf (count) Ferdinand von Zeppelin, airship pioneer, dies in Berlin +1900 03 08 Howard Aiken, computer pioneer, born +1889 03 08 John Ericsson, inventor of the screw propeller, dies +1787 03 08 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery +1859 03 08 Kenneth Grahame, author of "Wind in the Willows", is born in Edinburgh +1862 03 08 Ned Gordon, last American pirate, is hanged +1879 03 08 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission +1973 03 08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies (CA, 1973) +1824 03 09 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford Univ. +1918 03 09 Mickey Spillane, novelist, is born in Brooklyn +1796 03 09 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais +1945 03 09 Robin Trower born (London, 1945) +1934 03 09 Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, is born +1964 03 10 HRH Prince Edward Anthony Richard Louis, third son of Elizabeth II of England is born +1918 03 10 Heywood Hale Broun, American journalist, is born +1970 03 11 Erle Stanley Gardner, writer and creator of Perry Mason, dies +1845 03 11 John Chapman ("Johnny Appleseed") dies +1903 03 11 Lawrence Welk, bandleader, is born in North Dakota (where else?) +1737 03 11 Robert Treat Paine born +1955 03 11 Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist, dies +1890 03 11 Vannevar Bush born +1925 03 12 Ann Zwinger, American ecological author, is born +1832 03 12 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts. +1831 03 12 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer. +1824 03 12 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, the physicist, is born +1922 03 12 Jack (Jean-Louis) Kerouac, Canadian-born American author, is born +1948 03 12 James Taylor, singer songwriter, is born +1764 03 13 Charles, Earl Grey, Whig statesmen and Prime Minister is born +1938 03 13 Clarence Darrow, lawyer, dies +1881 03 13 Czar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated with a bomb +1943 03 13 Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, dies +1879 03 14 Albert Einstein, physicist, born +1864 03 14 Casey Jones, railroad engineer +1922 03 14 Colin Fletcher, "The Man Who Walked Through Time," is born +1989 03 14 Edward Abbey, environmentalist author, author of "The Monkey Wrench Gang", dies in Tucson, AZ +1681 03 14 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer. +1835 03 14 Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, astronomer who named Mars "canals", is born +1920 03 14 Hank Ketcham, cartoonist who penned Dennis the Menace, is born +1768 03 14 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician and physicist, is born +1987 03 14 John Holmes, porn star, dies +1864 03 14 John Luther "Casey" Jones, railroad engineer, born +1883 03 14 Karl Marx dies +1912 03 14 Les Brown, band leader, is born +1933 03 14 Michael Caine, actor, is born +1767 03 15 Andrew Jackson, 7th President (1828-1836) -0044 03 15 Ides of March; Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus +1713 03 15 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille born +1940 03 15 Phil Lesh born Philip Chapman (Berkeley, 1940) +1944 03 15 Sly Stone, of the rock band Sly and the Family Stone, born +1836 03 16 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car. +1750 03 16 Caroline Herschel born +1739 03 16 George Clymer, American politician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born +1751 03 16 James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817) +1942 03 16 Jerry Jeff Walker, American country singer, is born +1868 03 16 Maksim Gorky, Russian novelist, is born +1834 03 17 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer +1804 03 17 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance. +1919 03 17 Nat King Cole +1942 03 17 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) born (San Francisco, 1942) +1837 03 18 Grover Cleveland, President (1885-1889, 1893-1897) +1584 03 18 Ivan the Terrible, czar of Russia, dies +1782 03 18 John C. Calhoun, statesman +1932 03 18 John Updike, poet and novelist. +1858 03 18 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine. +1864 03 19 Charles Russell, American Western artist, is born +1950 03 19 Edgar Rice Burroughs, the writer and creator of Tarzan, dies +1593 03 19 Georges de La Tour, French painter, is born +1947 03 19 Glenn Close, actress, is born in Greenwich, Connecticut +1821 03 19 Sir Richard Burton, explorer, writer, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika is born in Devon +1860 03 19 William Jennings Bryan, `The Great Commoner` +1904 03 20 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism. +1856 03 20 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management. +1828 03 20 Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist and poet, is born +1929 03 20 Marshall Ferdinand Foch, French military leader, dies +1907 03 20 Ozzie Nelson, American TV star, is born +1727 03 20 Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist and astronomer, dies in London +1950 03 20 William Hurt, actor, born +1806 03 21 Benito Juarez, Mexican revolutionary and president, is born +1869 03 21 Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer and impresario, is born in Chicago +1656 03 21 James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh, scholar, dies at Reigate, Surrey +1768 03 21 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist +1685 03 21 Johann Sebastian Bach, baroque composer, born in Eisenach, Germany +1987 03 21 Robert Preston, actor, known for his role as the Music Man, dies at 68 +1832 03 22 Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet, novelist, dies +1891 03 22 Leonard Marx, Chico of the Marx Brothers, is born +1923 03 22 Marcel Marceau, mime and actor, born in Strasbourg +1978 03 22 The Great Wallenda (of the Flying Wallendas) dies +1931 03 22 William Shatner, Captain Kirk of Star Trek, is born in Montreal,Quebec +1603 03 23 Elizabeth I of England dies +1908 03 23 Joan Crawford is born +1912 03 23 Werner von Braun, rocketeer +1909 03 24 Clyde Barrow (Bonnie and Clyde) is born +1874 03 24 Harry Houdini, magician and escape artist, is born +1834 03 24 John Wesley Powell, explorer of the Colorado River, is born +1943 03 25 Aretha Franklin born (Detroit, 1943) +1975 03 25 Assassination of King Fisal of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, by his nephew, Prince Museid +1753 03 26 Benjamin Thompson born, Count Rumford; American physicist +1931 03 26 Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock from Star Trek, is born in Boston, Mass. +1925 03 26 Pierre Boulez, French composer. +1874 03 26 Robert Frost, American poet, is born +1912 03 26 Tennessee Williams, American playwright, is born +1892 03 26 Walt Whitman, poet, dies +1813 03 27 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives) +1924 03 27 Sarah Vaughn, American singer, is born +1863 03 27 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce. +1950 03 27 Tony Banks born (England, 1950) +1845 03 27 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, discoverer of X-rays +1968 03 27 Yuri Gagarin and Seryogin die in aircraft accident +1969 03 28 Dwight Eisenhower, American statesman and soldier, dies +1987 03 28 Maria Augusta von Trapp, member of the Austrian family portrayed in the film "Sound of Music", dies at 82 +1749 03 28 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, mathematician and astronomer +1943 03 28 Sergei Rachmaninov, composer and pianist, dies in Beverly Hills, California +1941 03 28 Virginia Woolf, novelist and critic, dies; suicide by drowning +1867 03 29 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911). +1819 03 29 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well in US. +1916 03 29 Eugene McCarthy born +1790 03 29 John Tyler, 10th President (1841-1845) -0000 03 29 President Barthelemy Boganda dies (Central African Republic) +1840 03 30 Beau Brummel, man of fashion, dies +1945 03 30 Eric Clapton, rock musician, born (Surrey, England, 1945) +1746 03 30 Francisco Jose de Goya, painter, born in Spain +1986 03 30 James Cagney, the actor, dies +1880 03 30 Sean O`Casey, Irish playwright, is born +1719 03 30 Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music in English +1853 03 30 Vincent Van Gogh, painter, born in the Netherlands +1937 03 30 Warren Beatty, actor, is born +1927 03 31 Cesar Chavez, farm labor organizer, is born +1855 03 31 Charlotte Bronte, eldest of the Bronte sisters, author of Jane Eyre, dies +1809 03 31 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" +1732 03 31 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, is born in Austria +1837 03 31 John Constable, English Landscape painter, dies +1631 03 31 John Donne, dean of Saint Paul`s, poet and author, dies +1913 03 31 John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan, American banker and financier, dies +1596 03 31 Rene Descartes, mathematician and philosopher, is born +1811 03 31 Robert Bunsen, chemist and inventor of the Bunsen Burner, is born +1854 03 31 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine. +1742 04 01 P. D. Q. Bach was born, 12:01 AM +1204 04 01 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France, dies +1883 04 01 Lon Chaney, actor, is born +1881 04 01 Wallace Beery, film actor, is born +1578 04 01 William Harvey, discoverer of blood circulation, is born +1908 04 02 Buddy Ebsen, dancer and vaudeville actor, is born +1752 04 02 Casanova, lover, is born -0000 04 02 Charlemagne, King of the Franks, is born (742) +1924 04 02 Doris Day, girl next door +1947 04 02 Emmy Lou Harris, country music star, is born -0000 04 02 Emperor Charlemagne ( 742) +1805 04 02 Hans Christian Andersen, is born in Odense Denmark +1920 04 02 Jack Webb, television producer/actor +1939 04 02 Marvin Gaye born (Washington, DC, 1939) +1872 04 02 Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of morse code, dies +1914 04 02 Sir Alec Guiness, actor, is born +1875 04 02 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company. +1924 04 03 Doris Day, actress, is born (Ohio, 1924) +1862 04 03 Jesse James, outlaw, is killed +1924 04 03 Marlon Brando, actor +1783 04 03 Washington Irving born +1802 04 04 Dorothea Dix, social reformer +1906 04 04 John Cameron Swayze, newscaster +1968 04 04 Martin Luther King. Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee +1915 04 04 Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) born (Rolling Fork, MS, 1915) +1841 04 04 President Harrison dies one month after inaugural. +1792 04 04 Thaddeus Stevens +1908 04 05 Bette Davis, the actress, is born +1856 04 05 Booker T. Washington +1976 04 05 Howard Hughes, industrialist, dies +1954 04 05 Michael W. Butler, creator of this TODAY program. +1614 04 05 Pocahontas marries John Smith +1900 04 05 Spencer Tracy, the actor, is born +1588 04 05 Thomas Hobbes, philosopher, is born +1528 04 06 Albrecht Durer, painter and engraver, dies in Nuremberg, Germany +1890 04 06 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer +1945 04 06 Bob Marley born Rhoden Hall (Jamaica, 1945) +1868 04 06 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife. +1892 04 06 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company. +1874 04 06 Harry Houdini, escape artist, magician, exposer of fakes of supernatural phenomena, is born +1971 04 06 Igor Stravinsky, composer of "The Firebird" and "The Rite of Spring", dies in New York City +1920 04 06 James Watson, collaborator in the discovery of the form of DNA, is born in Chicago +1866 04 06 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker. +1892 04 06 Lowell Thomas, journalist +1758 04 06 Maximilien de Robespierre, lawyer and leader in the French Revolution, is born in Arras France +1829 04 06 Neils Abel, Norwegian mathematician, dies +1810 04 06 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium +1946 04 07 Bill Kreutzmann born (Palo Alto, 1946) +1915 04 07 Billie Holiday, blues singer +1939 04 07 Francis Ford Coppola, movie director +1947 04 07 Henry Ford, industrialist and car manufacturer, dies +1928 04 07 James Garner, actor, is born in Norman, Oklahoma +1949 04 07 John Oates, singer +1932 04 07 Mark Russell, satirist +1891 04 07 Phineas T. (P.T.) Barnum, entrepreneur of Barnum and Bailey, dies +1739 04 07 Richard (Dick) Turpin, highwayman, is executed at York +1199 04 07 Richard I Coeur de Lion, King of England, dies -0000 04 07 The Crucifixion of Christ. This seems most likely of many dates proposed. (see "The Calendar" by Philips, Cambridge 1921) (30) +1955 04 07 Theda Bara, silent film actress, dies +1860 04 07 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company. +1770 04 07 William Wordsworth, poet, is born +1918 04 08 Betty Ford, former first lady +1732 04 08 David Rittenhouse born, astronomer and mathematician +1614 04 08 El Greco, the Spanish painter, dies +1919 04 08 Frank Woolworth, the US Merchant, dies +1981 04 08 Gen. Omar N. Bradley, America`s last five star general, died in New York at age 88 +1492 04 08 Lorenzo de Medici, Florentine ruler, dies +1893 04 08 Mary Pickford is born +1889 04 08 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra) +1913 04 08 Sonja Henie, the ice skater is born +1821 04 09 Charles Baudelaire, French author, is born +1865 04 09 Charles Proteus Steinmetz +1954 04 09 Dennis Quaid, actor +1830 04 09 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography. +1889 04 09 Efram Zimbalist, the violinist, is born +1959 04 09 Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, dies +1926 04 09 Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy, is born +1919 04 09 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC) +1898 04 09 Paul Robeson, the actor, is born +1965 04 09 Paulina Porizkova, actress-model +1879 04 09 W.C. Fields, actor +1947 04 10 Bunny Wailer born Neville O`Reilly Livingston (Kingston, 1947) +1854 04 10 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born +1919 04 10 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, dies +1915 04 10 Harry Morgan, actor +1936 04 10 John Madden, sportscaster +1847 04 10 Joseph Pulitzer, the journalist and philanthropist, is born +1512 04 10 King James V of England is born -0000 04 10 Louis the II of France dies (879) +1932 04 10 Omar Sharif is born +1829 04 10 William Booth born, founder of the Salvation Army +1939 04 11 Louise Lasser, actress +1913 04 11 Oleg Cassini, fashion designer +1617 04 11 Pocahontas dies +1947 04 12 David Letterman, talk-show host +1791 04 12 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party. +1777 04 12 Henry Clay, `The Great Compromiser` +1940 04 12 Herbie Hancock, musician +1904 04 12 Lily Pons, the opera singer, was born +1913 04 12 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor +1945 04 12 President Franklin Roosevelt dies -0000 04 12 Seneca, the Roman Philosopher was killed by order of Nero (65) +1866 04 13 Butch Cassidy, American outlaw, is born +1852 04 13 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king. +1759 04 13 George Frederick Handel, the German composer, dies +1721 04 13 John Hanson, 1st US President under the Articles of Confederation +1970 04 13 Ricky Schroder,actor +1950 04 13 Ron Pearlman, actor +1906 04 13 Samuel Beckett born (outside Dublin, 1906) +1743 04 13 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809) +1865 04 14 Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford`s Theater. +1932 04 14 Anthony Perkins, actor +1889 04 14 Arnold Toynbee, historian +1629 04 14 Christian Huyghens, Dutch physicist and astronomer, discoverer of Saturn`s rings, is born +1975 04 14 Frederick March, actor, dies +1942 04 14 Julie Christie, actress, is born in Chukur, India +1935 04 14 Loretta Lynn, country singer, is born +1865 04 14 President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded at 11 pm by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford`s Theater in Washington. The president died the following morning. +1964 04 14 Rachel Carson, American author of "Silent Spring", dies +1945 04 14 Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) born +1904 04 14 Sir John Gielgud, the British actor, is born +1882 04 15 Charles Darwin, dies +1933 04 15 Elizabeth Montgomery, actress +1925 04 15 John Singer Sargent, portrait painter, dies +1452 04 15 Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine artist, engineer, musician and scientist, is born (Julian Calendar) +1707 04 15 Leonhard Euler, mathematician +1764 04 15 Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV of France, dies in Versailles +1865 04 15 President Lincoln dies of gun shot wound at 7:30 this morning +1933 04 15 Roy Clark, country singer +1844 04 16 Anatole France, French author, is born +1889 04 16 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin, actor, born (London, 1889) +1924 04 16 Henry Mancini, popular song writer, is born +1947 04 16 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball great +1867 04 16 Wilbur Wright, inventor of the airplane, is born +1934 04 17 Don Kirshner, Rock promoter +1923 04 17 Harry Reasoner, CBS News correspondent +1837 04 17 J.P. Morgan, financed the US. +1948 04 17 Jan Hammer, Composer-musician +1959 04 17 Jim Eisenreich, Kansas City Royals outfielder +1923 04 17 Lindsay Anderson, movie and theatrical director +1894 04 17 Nikita Khrushchev, Russian political leader, is born +1951 04 17 Olivia Hussey, actress, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina +1897 04 17 Thornton Wilder, American novelist +1955 04 18 Albert Einstein, physicist and mathematician, dies +1857 04 18 Clarence Darrow, lawyer +1956 04 18 Grace Kelly, actress, marries Prince Rainier of Monaco in a civil service. A church wedding was the next day. +1946 04 18 Hayley Mills, actress +1947 04 18 James Woods, actor +1956 04 19 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco in the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Monte Carlo +1882 04 19 Charles Darwin, biologist and one of the creators of the theory of evolution, dies +1935 04 19 Dudley Moore, actor-comedian +1937 04 19 Elinor Donahue,actress +1960 04 19 Frank Viola, N.Y. Mets pitcher and Longwood resident +1932 04 19 Jayne Mansfield, American actress, born +1824 04 19 Lord Byron, poet, dies in Missolonghi, Greece +1877 04 19 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine. +1906 04 19 Pierre Curie, physicist, dies +1956 04 19 Sue Barker, tennis player +1889 04 20 Adolph Hitler, dictator, is born in Braunau, Austria +1769 04 20 Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa tribe is killed +1989 04 20 Comedienne Gilda Radner died at age 42. +1883 04 20 Edouard Manet, the French artist, dies +1812 04 20 George Clintion died - the first vice pres. to die while in office +1894 04 20 Harold Lloyd, comedian, is born +1950 04 20 Jessica Lange, actress, is born +1893 04 20 Joan Miro, artist, is born +1913 04 20 Lionel Hampton, musician, is born +1924 04 20 Nina Foch, actress +1941 04 20 Ryan O`Neal, actor +1945 04 20 Steve Spurrier, University of Florida football coach +1915 04 21 Anthony Quinn, actor +1935 04 21 Charles Grodin, actor +1969 04 21 Jack Kerouac, Canadian-born American author, dies +1838 04 21 John Muir, American naturalist, is born +1910 04 21 Mark Twain, author, dies +1926 04 21 Queen Elizabeth II`s real birthday. It is celebrated in June when the weather is more reliable. +1951 04 21 Tony Danza, actor +1908 04 22 Eddie Albert, actor, is born +1938 04 22 Glen Campbell, singer, is born +1724 04 22 Imanual Kant, philosopher, born +1904 04 22 J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist +1937 04 22 Jack Nicholson, actor, is born +1724 04 22 Kant born +1940 04 22 Peter Frampton, singer +1916 04 22 Sir Yehudi Menuhin, violinist +1870 04 22 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Revolutionary leader, is born +1791 04 23 James Buchanan, 15th President (1857-1861) +1940 04 23 Lee Majors, actor +1616 04 23 Miguel de Cervantes, author, dies +1928 04 23 Shirley Temple Black, child actress and U.S. ambassador, is born +1960 04 23 Valerie Bertinelli, actress +1899 04 23 Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist, is born +1616 04 23 William Shakespeare, playwright, dies +1850 04 23 William Wordswoth, poet, dies near Grasmere, Westmorland +1900 04 24 Andrew Halliday, Cable Car Pioneer, dies +1942 04 24 Barbara Streisand, singer and actress, is born +1936 04 24 Jill Ireland, actress +1620 04 24 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography +1905 04 24 Robert Penn Warren, American Poet Laureate, is born +1934 04 24 Shirley MacLaine, actress +1916 04 24 Stanley Kauffmann, critic +1986 04 24 The Duchess of Windsor dies in Paris at 89 +1940 04 25 Al Pacino, actor +1955 04 25 Alan Baxter, WDIZ-FM morning deejay +1925 04 25 Albert King, blues guitarist, born +1956 04 25 Dave Corzine, Orlando Magic center +1908 04 25 Edward R. Murrow, American broadcast journalist, is born +1918 04 25 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer +1874 04 25 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible +1932 04 25 Meadowlark Lemon, former Harlem Globetrotter +1599 04 25 Oliver Cromwell, English military, political and religious leader, is born +1933 04 26 Carol Burnett, comedian, born (San Antonio, TX, 1933) +1900 04 26 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are. +1938 04 26 Duane Eddy, guitarist +1785 04 26 John J. Audubon, American ornithologist and artist, is born in Haiti +1989 04 26 Lucille (Lucy) Ball, actress and comedienne, dies +1889 04 26 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born English philosopher, is born +1920 04 26 Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the most brilliant mathematicians to ever live, dies at 32 of what was probably vitamin deficiency +1564 04 26 William Shakespeare baptized (Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564) +1927 04 27 Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist +1840 04 27 Edward Whymper, artist and mountaineer, first man to climb the Matterhorn, is born +1970 04 27 Gypsy Rose Lee, American entertainer and author, dies +1922 04 27 Jack Klugman, actor +1656 04 27 Jan van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter, dies +1941 04 27 Judith Blegen, opera singer +1939 04 27 Judy Carnes, actress +1774 04 27 Louis Victor de Broglie born, physicist +1521 04 27 Magellan killed (Philippines, 1521) +1882 04 27 Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet, dies in Concord, Massachusetts +1791 04 27 Samuel F. B. Morse +1822 04 27 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877) +1896 04 27 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon. +1941 04 28 Ann-Margaret, actress and beauty, is born in Stockholm, Sweden +1930 04 28 James Baker, Secretary of State +1758 04 28 James Monroe, 5th President (1816-1824) +1948 04 28 Marcia Strassman, actress +1945 04 28 Mussolini is executed by firing squad +1921 04 28 Rowland Evans, Syndicated columnist +1830 04 29 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels... +1980 04 29 Alfred Hitchcock, director of mystery films, dies +1899 04 29 Duke Ellington, American jazz musician, is born +1907 04 29 Fred Zinnermann, movie director +1854 04 29 Jules Henri Poincare, founder of topology, is born +1933 04 29 Rod McKuen, poet -0000 04 29 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner) (San Francisco 1863) +1936 04 29 Zubin Mehta, conductor +1945 04 30 Adolph Hitler committed suicide with his wife of one day +1877 04 30 Alice B. Toklas, American author, is born +1973 04 30 Brandy Johnson, Olympic Gymnast from Altamonte Springs, Fl. +1912 04 30 Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks +1944 04 30 Jill Clayburgh, actress +1777 04 30 Karl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician and astronomer, is born +1879 04 30 Sarah Hale, the author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb", dies +1933 04 30 Willie Nelson, country/western singer, is born +1904 05 01 Anton Dvorak, the composer, dies +1265 05 01 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, is born +1873 05 01 David Livingstone, the explorer, dies +1769 05 01 Duke of Wellington, who made Napoleon very unhappy. +1700 05 01 John Dryden, the poet, dies +1923 05 01 Joseph Heller, American author, is born +1909 05 01 Kate Smith, the singer,is born +1930 05 01 Little Walter (Marion Walter Jacobs) born (Alexandria, LA, 1930) +1830 05 01 Mary Harris Jones (Mother Jones), American labor leader, is born +1975 05 01 Smokey the Bear retires +1965 05 01 Spike Jones, American band leader, dies +1904 05 02 Bing Crosby, the singer and actor, is born +1729 05 02 Catherine the Great of Russia is born +1903 05 02 Dr. Benjamin Spock born +1837 05 02 Henry Martyn Robert, author of "Robert`s Rules of Order" +1972 05 02 J. Edgar Hoover, eternal FBI director, dies +1520 05 02 Leonardo Da Vinci, artist and inventor, dies (Julian Calendar) +1939 05 02 Lou Gehrig sets record for being in most consecutive games (2130) +1840 05 02 Thomas Hardy, English author, is born +1945 05 03 Bob Seger born (Ann Arbor, MI, 1945) +1874 05 03 Francois Coty, perfumemaker. +1898 05 03 Golda Meir, the Israeli leader, is born +1810 05 03 Lord Byron swims the Dardanelles, a trip of about 4 miles +1469 05 03 Niccolo Machiavalli, philosopher, is born +1919 05 03 Pete Seeger, American folk singer, is born +1932 05 04 Al Capone was jailed in Atlanta for tax evasion +1929 05 04 Audrey Hepburn, the actress, is born in Brussels +1655 05 04 Bartolommeo Cristofori, inventor of pianoforte, is born +1825 05 04 Henry Huxley, biologist, is born +1915 05 05 Alice Faye, actress +1941 05 05 Craig James, U.S. Rep. R-Deland, Florida +1818 05 05 Karl Marx, German political philosopher and economist, is born +1943 05 05 Michael Palin, comedian-actor +1821 05 05 Napoleon Bonaparte, conqueror, dies on the island of St. Helena +1867 05 05 Nellie Bly, name became a synonym for female star reporter. +1942 05 05 Tammy Wynette, country singer +1870 05 06 A.P. Giannini, founder of Bank of America. +1945 05 06 Bob Seger, rock singer -0000 05 06 Daniel Gerber, beloved by babies at mealtime +1952 05 06 Fred Newan, Mickey Mouse Club host +1862 05 06 Henry David Thoreau, writer and naturalist, dies +1919 05 06 Lyman Frank Baum (aka Frank L. Baum), author of "The Wizard of Oz", dies +1915 05 06 Orson Welles, American actor, is born +1895 05 06 Rudolph Valentino, the silent screen actor, is born +1856 05 06 Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychologist, is born +1913 05 06 Stewart Granger, actor +1931 05 06 Willie Mays, baseball great +1825 05 07 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies +1922 05 07 Darren McGavin, actor +1909 05 07 Edwin Land, founded instant photography (Polaroid), is born +1885 05 07 Gabby Hayes, Western character actor, is born +1901 05 07 Gary Cooper, American actor, is born +1833 05 07 Johannes Brahms, the composer, born in Hamburg +1933 05 07 Johnny Unitas, former quarterback +1840 05 07 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the composer, is born +1812 05 07 Robert Browning, the poet is born +1931 05 07 Teresa Brewer, singer +1942 05 08 Angel Cordero, jockey +1926 05 08 Don Rickles, comedian, is born +1737 05 08 Edward Gibbon, historian, "The History of the Decline & Fall (1737)of the Roman E +1880 05 08 Gustave Flaubert, French novelist and author of "Madame Bovary", dies +1884 05 08 Harry S Truman, the 33rd U.S. president, is born +1828 05 08 Henri Dunant, founded Red Cross, YMCA. +1829 05 08 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, 1st internationally recognized US pianist +1964 05 08 Melissa Gilbert, actress +1940 05 08 Peter Benchley, author +1926 05 08 Sir David Attenborough, environmentalist, is born +1786 05 08 Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry +1943 05 08 Toni Tennille, singer, is born +1949 05 09 Billy Joel, singer +1946 05 09 Candice Bergen, actress, is born +1882 05 09 Henry J. Kaiser, built Liberty Ships, Jeeps +1873 05 09 Howard Carter, Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamen +1805 05 09 Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, German poet and playwright, dies +1800 05 09 John Brown, the abolitionist, is born +1850 05 09 Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, the chemist, dies +1957 05 09 Pinza dies +1788 05 10 Augustin-Jean Fresnel, pioneered in optics. +1945 05 10 Dave Mason born (Worcester, England, 1945) +1902 05 10 David O. Selznick, the film producer, is born +1946 05 10 Donovan, singer +1899 05 10 Fred Astaire (Frederick Austerlitz) born in Omaha, Nebraska +1936 05 10 Gary Owens, television and radio personality +1904 05 10 Henry Stanley, the explorer, dies +1909 05 10 Mother Maybelle Carter, American country singer, is born +1921 05 10 Nancy Walker, actress +1818 05 10 Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot, dies +1957 05 10 Phil Mahre, Olympic medalist skier +1957 05 10 Steve Mahre, Olympic medalist skier +1981 05 11 Bob Marley, Reggae singer, dies in hospital in Miami +1812 05 11 British Prime Minister Spencer Percival, is assassinated by Bellingham +1920 05 11 Denver Pyle, actor, is born +1912 05 11 Foster Brooks, comedian +1959 05 11 Gerard Christopher, television`s Superboy +1888 05 11 Irving Berlin, the composer, was born +1892 05 11 Margaret Rutherford, the actress, was born +1893 05 11 Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer, born in Pittsburgh +1927 05 11 Mort Sahl, satirist and actor, is born in Montreal, Canada +1904 05 11 Salvador Dali, the artist, was born +1871 05 11 Sir John Herschel, astronomer, dies in London +1929 05 12 Burt Bacharach, composer +1768 05 12 Dolly Madison, First Lady, was born +1621 05 12 Edward Winslow and Susanna White become the first couple to marry in the colony of Plymouth +1962 05 12 Emilio Estevez, actor +1921 05 12 Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf author, is born +1820 05 12 Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy +1845 05 12 Gabriel Faure, composer +1937 05 12 George Carlin, comedian +1914 05 12 Howard K. Smith, television newscaster +1925 05 12 John Simon, critic +1925 05 12 Lawrence Peter (Yogi) Berra, baseball great, is born -0465 05 12 Socrates is born +1903 05 12 Wilfred Hyde-White, actor +1925 05 12 Yogi Barra, catcher +1842 05 13 Arthur S. Sullivan, of Gilbert and Sullivan, is born +1926 05 13 Beatrice Authur, actress, is born +1927 05 13 Clive Barnes, critic +1884 05 13 Cyrus McCormick, perfecter of the mechanical harvester, dies +1907 05 13 Daphne du Maurier, English novelist, is born +1961 05 13 Gary Cooper, movie actor, dies +1914 05 13 Joe Louis, heavyweight boxer, is born in Lexington Alabama +1925 05 13 Patrice Munsel, opera singer +1950 05 13 Peter Gabriel born England +1856 05 13 Peter Henry Emerson, first photographer to promote photography as an independent art +1950 05 13 Stevie Wonder, singer, is born +1928 05 14 Billy Martin, local boy who made good in baseball. +1952 05 14 David Byrne, rock artist +1944 05 14 Francesca Annis, actress +1696 05 14 Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit, inventor of the thermometer, is born +1944 05 14 George Lucas, movie producer +1919 05 14 Henry Heinz, US food manufacturer, dies +1643 05 14 Louis XIII, the French king, dies +1987 05 14 Rita Hayworth, actress, dies of Alzheimer`s disease +1951 05 14 Season Hubley, actress +1727 05 14 Thomas Gainsborough, artist and portrait painter, is born +1610 05 14 assassination of Henry IV, king of England, by Ravaillac +1926 05 15 Anthony Shaffer, playwright +1948 05 15 Brian Peter George St. John de Baptiste de la Salle Eno born (Woodbridge, England, 1948) +1971 05 15 Donald F. Duncan, inventor of the yo-yo, dies +1969 05 15 Emmit Smith, University of Florida football running back +1953 05 15 George Brett, Kansas City Royals baseball player +1909 05 15 James Mason, the actor, is born +1905 05 15 Joseph Cotten, actor +1955 05 15 Lee Horsley, actor +1856 05 15 Lyman Frank Baum, creator of the Wizard of Oz, is born +1953 05 15 Mike Oldfield born (Essex, England, 1953) +1926 05 15 Peter Shaffer, playwright +1859 05 15 Pierre Curie, physicist and chemist, is born +1955 05 16 Debra Winger, actress +1886 05 16 Emily Dickinson, the poet, dies +1970 05 16 Gabriela Sabatini, tennis player +1905 05 16 Henry Fonda, the actor, is born +1913 05 16 Jack Eckerd, Clearwater, Florida`s drugstore magnate +1990 05 16 Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, dies of complications of the flu +1919 05 16 Liberace, pianist and entertainer, is born +1770 05 16 Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette the archduchess of Vienna are wed +1985 05 16 Margaret Hamilton, maker of 75 movies and known for her role as Wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz dies +1967 05 16 Sammie Smith, Miami Dolphins running back (from Apopka Florida) +1990 05 16 Sammy Davis Jr., entertainer, dies of throat cancer +1912 05 16 Studs Terkel, author, is born +1913 05 16 Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist and band-leader, is born +1900 05 17 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, religious leader of Iran, is born +1918 05 17 Birgit Nilsson, opera singer +1727 05 17 Catherine I, Russian Empress and favorite consort of Peter the Great, dies in St. Petersburg +1936 05 17 Dennis Hopper, actor-director +1866 05 17 Erik Satie, composer +1836 05 17 Joseph Norman Lockyer born (1836), discoverer of Helium +1911 05 17 Maureen O`Sullivan, actress +1936 05 17 Paul Dukas, composer of "The Sorcerer`s Apprentice", dies +1510 05 17 Sandro Botticelli, the painter, is born +1956 05 17 Sugar Ray Leonard, boxer +1949 05 17 Toni Jennings, State Senator, R-Orlando, Florida +1872 05 18 Bertrand Russell the philosopher was born +1703 05 18 Charles Perrault, the original Mother Goose, dies +1919 05 18 Margot Fonteyn, the ballerina, was born +1864 05 18 Nathaniel Hawthorne, the author, dies +1850 05 18 Oliver Heaviside, physicist, is born +1930 05 18 Pernell Roberts, actor +1912 05 18 Perry Como, singer, is born +1920 05 18 Pope John Paul II is born +1946 05 18 Reggie Jackson, baseball player, is born +1949 05 18 Rick Wakeman, composer/musician, born (West London, England, 1949) +1931 05 18 Robert Morse, actor +1933 05 18 Sam Vincent, Orlando Magic guard +1919 05 18 Vladimir Nabokov, Russian author of "Lolita", learned to fox-trot +1536 05 19 Anne Boleyn the queen of Henry VIII is beheaded for treason and adultery because of a stillborn son +1944 05 19 Curly Neal, Orlando Magic Special Projects Director +1935 05 19 David Hartman, TV personality +1890 05 19 Ho Chi Minh, revolutionary, is born +1934 05 19 Jim Lehrer, PBS newscaster +1918 05 19 Mike Wallace +1941 05 19 Nora Ephron, author +1971 05 19 Ogden Nash, humorist, dies +1895 05 19 Oscar Wilde released from Pentonville Prison +1945 05 19 Pete Townshend born (London, 1945) +1935 05 19 Thomas Edward Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia", dies in a motorcycle accident in Dorset England +1471 05 20 Albrecht Durer, the artist, is born +1930 05 20 Amelia Earhart Putnam takes off to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic alone +1946 05 20 Cher, actress and singer, is born +1506 05 20 Christopher Columbus, the explorer, dies +1933 05 20 Constance Towers, actress +1919 05 20 George Gobel (Lonesome George) is born +1799 05 20 Honore de Balzac, French author, is born +1944 05 20 Joe Crocker, singer +1806 05 20 John Stuart Mill, English philosopher and economist, is born +1834 05 20 Marquis de Lafayette, revolutionary war hero, dies +1915 05 20 Moshe Dayan, Israeli general & politician +1364 05 20 Sir Henry Percy, knight and supporter of Henry IV, aka Harry Hotspur, dies +1750 05 20 Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during the War of 1812 +1818 05 20 William George Fargo, helped to found Wells, Fargo & Co. +1913 05 20 William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Co. +1471 05 21 Albrecht Durer, painter & printmaker, greatest German (1471)Renaissance a +1688 05 21 Alexander Pope, poet and satirist, is born +1878 05 21 Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aircraft builder (e.g. Curtiss Jennie) and inventor of the aileron, was born +1916 05 21 Harold Robbins, novelist +1471 05 21 Henry VI of England is murdered -0000 05 21 Plato (Aristocles) born (Athens(?), 427 BC) +1917 05 21 Raymond Burr, actor +1860 05 21 Willam Einthoven, invented the electrocardiograph +1828 05 22 Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon, founded modern ophthalmology -0000 05 22 Constantine the Great, Roman emperor, dies (337) +1941 05 22 Paul Winfield, actor +1934 05 22 Peter Nero, conductor +1813 05 22 Richard Wagner, composer, is born +1859 05 22 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author and creator of Sherlock Holmes, is born +1907 05 22 Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, is born in Dorking, London +1938 05 22 Susan Strasberg, actress +1920 05 22 Thomas Gold, astronomer, established the steady-state theory (1920)of the uni +1885 05 22 Victor Hugo, the novelist, dies +1910 05 23 Artie Shaw, band leader +1934 05 23 Bonnie and Clyde were shot to death in Louisiana. +1701 05 23 Captain Kidd, naval officer and pirate, is hanged in London +1883 05 23 Douglas Fairbanks, actor and producer, is born in Colorado +1963 05 23 Elmore James, blues great, dies +1945 05 23 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi Minister of the Interior, kills himself +1936 05 23 Joan Collins, actress and sex symbol, is born in London +1868 05 23 Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies +1952 05 23 Marvin Hagler, boxer +1928 05 23 Rosemary Clooney, singer, is born +1941 05 24 Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmerman), folk singer, born (Duluth, 1941) +1974 05 24 Duke Ellington, jazz composer and pianist, dies +1686 05 24 Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist, is born +1743 05 24 Jean Paul Marat, revolutionary leader in France, is born +1543 05 24 Nicolas Copernicus, the astronomer, dies +1935 05 24 Walt Zembriski, professional golfer and Orlando resident +1819 05 24 the future Queen Victoria is born +1929 05 25 Beverly "Bubbles" Sills, opera singer, is born +1950 05 25 Bob Morris, Orlando Sentinel columnist +1889 05 25 Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the helicopter, is born +1943 05 25 Jessi Colter, country singer +1926 05 25 Miles Davis, jazz musician, is born +1803 05 25 Ralph Waldo Emerson, American poet and essayist, is born +1927 05 25 Robert Ludlum, author, is born +1936 05 25 Tom T. Hall, country singer, is born +1886 05 26 Al Jolson, the entertainer, born -0000 05 26 Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, dies (604) +1949 05 26 Hank Williams Jr., singer +1877 05 26 Isadora Duncan +1923 05 26 James Arness, actor +1907 05 26 John Wayne, actor, is born +1920 05 26 Peggy Lee, singer +1913 05 26 Peter Cushing, actor +1908 05 26 Robert Morley, actor +1951 05 26 Sally Ride, astronaut +1948 05 26 Stevie Nicks, singer +1939 05 26 Teresa Stratas, opera singer +1818 05 27 Amelia Bloomer, suffragist known for her pantaloons +1943 05 27 Bruce Weitz, actor +1922 05 27 Christopher Lee, actor +1894 05 27 Dashiell Hammett, American author, is born +1923 05 27 Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State +1915 05 27 Herman Wouk, novelist +1911 05 27 Hubert H. Humphrey, politician, is born +1935 05 27 Lee Meriwether, actress +1936 05 27 Louis Gossett Jr., actor +1907 05 27 Rachel Carson, environmental author, is born +1911 05 27 Vincent Price, actor +1837 05 27 Wild Bill Hickok +1934 05 28 Dionne quintuplets born +1920 05 28 Gaston Lenotre, Epcot restaurateur +1944 05 28 Gladys Knight, singer +1908 05 28 Ian Fleming, author of the James Bond books, is born +1938 05 28 Jerry West, Los Angeles Lakers General Manager +1886 05 28 Jim Thorpe +1843 05 28 Noah Webster, lexicographer and teacher, dies +1947 05 28 Sondra Locke, actress +1939 05 29 Al Unser Sr., race car driver +1948 05 29 Anthony Geary, actor +1874 05 29 Gilbert Keith Chesterton, journalist and writer, is born +1917 05 29 John F. Kennedy, 35th President (1960-1963) +1903 05 29 Leslie Townes (Bob) Hope, comedian, is born +1963 05 29 Lisa Whelchel, actress and gospel singer +1736 05 29 Patrick Henry, American patriot, born +1923 05 30 Art Grindle, State Representative, Altamonte Springs, Fl. +1909 05 30 Benny Goodman, band leader, born +1431 05 30 Joan of Arc is burned at the stake +1936 05 30 Keir Dullea, actor +1908 05 30 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny and many others, is born in San Francisco +1939 05 30 Michael J. Pollard, actor +1932 05 30 Richard A. "Dick" Nunis, Disney Attractions president +1936 05 30 Ruta Lee, actress +1964 05 30 Wynonna Judd, country singer +1962 05 31 Adolph Eichmann was hanged for his role in the Holocaust. +1965 05 31 Brooke Shields, actress-model +1930 05 31 Clint Eastwood, actor +1908 05 31 Don Ameche, actor +1809 05 31 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, dies +1950 05 31 Gregory Harrison, actor +1433 05 31 Joan of Arc has a hot time at the stake... +1943 05 31 Joe Namath, former football quarterback +1949 05 31 Johnny Paycheck, singer +1902 05 31 Norman Vincent Peale, author-minister +1950 05 31 Tom Berenger, actor +1819 05 31 Walt Whitman, American poet, is born +1926 06 01 Andy Grifith, actor, is born +1801 06 01 Brigham Young, founder of Salt Lake City, is born +1945 06 01 Frederica von Stade, opera singer +1968 06 01 Helen Keller, writer and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind, dies +1926 06 01 Marilyn Monroe, actress and beauty, is born +1934 06 01 Pat boone, singer +1941 06 02 Charlie Watts, rock drummer +1929 06 02 Chuck Barris, TV producer +1882 06 02 Giusepppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot, dies +1948 06 02 Jerry Mathers, "... and Jerry Mathers as the Beaver", is born +1941 06 02 Lou Gehrig died in New York of a degenerative disease. +1740 06 02 Marquis de Sade, writer and all around fun guy, is born +1944 06 02 Marvin Hamlisch, composer +1835 06 02 Pope Pius X +1990 06 02 Rex Harrison, Professor Henry Higgins from "My Fair Lady", dies +1937 06 02 Sally Kellerman, actress +1857 06 02 Sir Edward Elgar, English composer, born in Worcester, England +1941 06 02 Stacy Keach, actor +1840 06 02 Thomas Hardy, English author, is born in Dorset +1926 06 03 Allen Ginsberg, the Beatnik poet, is born +1926 06 03 Colleen Dewhurst, actress +1942 06 03 Curtis Mayfield, musician +1951 06 03 Deniece Williams, singer +1924 06 03 Franz Kafka, Austrian novelist, dies +1875 06 03 Georges Bizet, composer of Carmen and The Pearl Fishers, dies +1811 06 03 Henry James, American philosopher and author, born +1808 06 03 Jefferson Davis, Confederate President (1861-1865), is born +1963 06 03 Pope John XXIII dies +1864 06 03 Ransom Eli Olds, auto manufacturer. +1925 06 03 Tony Curtis, actor, born in New York +1657 06 03 William Harvey, discoverer of blood circulation, dies +1965 06 04 Andrea Jaeger, tennis player +1989 06 04 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, political and spiritual leader of Iran, dies +1936 06 04 Bruce Dern, actor +1936 06 04 Bud Bronson, State Representative; D-Kissimmee, Florida +1924 06 04 Dennis Weaver, actor +1961 06 04 El DeBarge, singer-musician +1937 06 04 Freddie Fender, singer +1922 06 04 Gene Barry, actor +1919 06 04 Robert Merrill, opera singer +1723 06 05 Adam Smith, economist, was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland +1934 06 05 Bill Moyers, broadcast journalist, is born +1900 06 05 Dennis Gabor, inventor of holography (3D laser photography) +1883 06 05 John Maynard Keynes, economist, was born in Cambridge, England +1878 06 05 Pancho Villa, robber and revolutionary, is born +1929 06 05 Robert Lansing, actor +1968 06 05 Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded. +1956 06 06 Bjorn Borg, tennis player, +1961 06 06 Carl Gustav Jung, psychologist, dies +1939 06 06 Gary `U.S.` Bonds, singer-songwriter +1954 06 06 Harvey Fierstein, playwright-actor +1966 06 06 James Meredith, Black activist, was shot as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration +1756 06 06 John Trumbull, painter. +1755 06 06 Nathan Hale, American Revolutionary war officer, is born +1875 06 06 Thomas Mann, American author, is born +1848 06 07 (Eugene Henri) Paul Gauguin, French painter who lived in Tahiti, born +1778 06 07 Beau Brummel, English Dandy. +1866 06 07 Chief Seattle dies +1778 06 07 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, English dandy, gambler, friend of royalty, born +1980 06 07 Henry Miller, American playwright, dies +1509 06 07 Henry VIII marries for the first time (to Catherine) +1937 06 07 Jean Harlow, actress, dies +1940 06 07 Jeff Clark, City Council member, Orlando, Florida +1909 06 07 Jessica Tandy, actress +1329 06 07 Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland, dies +1921 06 08 Alexis Smith, actress +1925 06 08 Barbara Bush, first lady, is born +1953 06 08 Bonnie Tyler, singer +1944 06 08 Boz Scraggs, musician +1874 06 08 Cochise, Apache chief, dies +1930 06 08 Dana Wynter, actress +1916 06 08 Francis Crick, Nobel prize winner for work on DNA, is born +1869 06 08 Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, is born in Richland Center, Wisconsin +1876 06 08 George Sand (Amantine Dupin), novelist, dies in France +1625 06 08 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, astronomer +1955 06 08 Griffin Dunne, actor +1936 06 08 James Darren, actor -0000 06 08 Mohammed, prophet (570) +1940 06 08 Nancy Sinatra, singer +1908 06 08 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and teacher, dies +1831 06 08 Sara Siddons, actress, dies in London +1809 06 08 Thomas Paine, political writer, dies +1870 06 09 Charles Dickens, author, dies near Rochester, Kent +1976 06 09 Dame Sybil Thorndike, the actress dies +1951 06 09 Dave Parker, baseball player +1934 06 09 Donald Duck, famous fowl +1781 06 09 George Stephenson, principal inventor of the railroad locomotive. +1923 06 09 Les Paul (Lester Polfus), guitarist, born (Waukesha, WI, 1923) +1964 06 09 Lord Beaverbrook, politician and newspaper man, dies +1961 06 09 Michael J. Fox, actor, is born -0000 06 09 Nero commits suicide (68) +1916 06 09 Robert S. McNamara, former Defense Secretary +1933 06 10 F. Lee Bailey, attorney +1904 06 10 Frederick Loewe, composer +1910 06 10 Howlin` Wolf (Chester Burnett) born (West Point, MS, 1910) +1922 06 10 Judy Garland, actress and singer, is born +1928 06 10 Maurice Sendak, American author of children`s books, is born +1925 06 10 Nat Hentoff, columnist +1921 06 10 Prince Philip, British royalty +1945 06 11 Adrienne Barbeau, actress +1572 06 11 Ben Johson, playwright +1937 06 11 Chad Everett, actor +1867 06 11 Charles Fabry, discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere +1847 06 11 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women`s movement +1935 06 11 Gene Wilder, the actor, is born +1939 06 11 Jackie Stewart, former auto racer +1910 06 11 Jacques Cousteau, oceanographer, is born +1956 06 11 Joe Montana, San Francisco 49ers quarterback +1776 06 11 John Constable, landscape painter, is born +1985 06 11 Karen Ann Quinlan, finally dies in her mother`s arms of pneumonia after 10 years in a coma +1900 06 11 Lawrence Spivak, broadcast journalist +1913 06 11 Rise Stevens, opera singer +1925 06 11 William Styron, author +1929 06 12 Anne Frank, whose World War II diary was so famous, is born +1941 06 12 Chick Corea, jazz musician +1915 06 12 David Rockefeller, the banker, is born +1924 06 12 George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st President (1989- ) was born in Milton, Massachusetts +1916 06 12 Irwin Allen, movie producer +1932 06 12 Jim Nabors, actor-singer +1960 06 12 Mark Calcavecchia, professional golfer from Ocala Florida -0000 06 12 Maximus, the Roman emperor, is born (445) +1928 06 12 Vic Damone, singer -0323 06 13 Alexander the Great dies +1962 06 13 Alley Sheedy, actress +1892 06 13 Basil Rathbone, the actor renowned for his Sherlock Holmes, is born +1963 06 13 Bettina Bunge, Tennis player +1942 06 13 Don Dizney, United Med. Corp Chairman +1903 06 13 Harold "Red" Grange, the "Galloping Ghost" of football. +1951 06 13 Richard Thomas, Actor +1854 06 13 Sir Charles Parsons, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine, is born +1801 06 14 Benedict Arnold, soldier and spy, dies +1961 06 14 Boy George, singer +1909 06 14 Burl Ives, American folk singer, is born +1946 06 14 Donald Trump, developer +1928 06 14 Ernesto `Che` Guevara, guerrilla leader and revolutionary, is born in Argentina +1811 06 14 Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist and reformer, is born +1884 06 14 John McCormack, Irish tenor, is born +1936 06 14 Maksim Gorky, Russian novelist, dies +1843 06 15 Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg born in Bergen, Norway +1941 06 15 Harry Nilsson, singer-songwriter, born (Brooklyn, 1941) +1954 06 15 Jim Belushi, comedian-actor +1958 06 15 Wade Boggs, baseball player +1937 06 15 Waylon Jennings, American country singer, is born +1937 06 16 Erich Segal author -0000 06 16 Hammurabi the Great dies (Babylon, 1686 BC) +1943 06 16 Joan Van Ark, actress +1722 06 16 John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough and military commander, dies +1938 06 16 Joyce Carol Oates author +1951 06 16 Roberto Duran, boxer +1890 06 16 Stan Laurel, film comedian, is born in Lancashire +1946 06 17 Barry Manilow, singer +1870 06 17 George Cormack, the inventor of "Wheaties" cereal. +1951 06 17 Joe Piscopo, comedian +1904 06 17 Ralph Bellamy, actor +1932 06 18 Carol Kane, Actress +1910 06 18 E.G. Marshall, Actor +1959 06 18 Ethel Barrymore, American actress, dies +1882 06 18 Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer, is born +1932 06 18 Isabella Rossellini, Actress +1877 06 18 James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator, best known for his (1877)"I want you" Uncle Sam recruiting p +1880 06 18 John Sutter, German-born American pioneer in California on whose land gold was found, dies penniless in Pennsylvania. +1898 06 18 M C Escher born +1942 06 18 Paul McCartney born in Liverpool, England +1936 06 18 Phillip B. Crosby, Winter Park, FL management consultant +1975 06 18 Prince Museid was publicly beheaded for the assassination of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia +1942 06 18 Roger Ebert, Movie reviewer +1913 06 18 Sammy Cahn, Lyricist +1913 06 18 Sylvia Porter, Financial writer +1936 06 18 Tom Wicker, Columnist +1951 06 19 Ann Wilson, Rock singer +1623 06 19 Blaise Pascal, mathematician. -0551 06 19 Confucius, Chinese philosopher and author, is born +1886 06 19 Duchess of Windsor +1867 06 19 Emperor Maximilian of Mexico is executed +1936 06 19 Gena Rowlands +1902 06 19 Guy Lombardo, band leader, is born +1903 06 19 Henry Louis Gehrig, the "Iron Horse" of the Yankees. +1953 06 19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed in Sing-Sing prison for spying +1954 06 19 Kathleen Turner, Actress +1921 06 19 Louis Jourdan, Actor +1928 06 19 Nancy Marchand, Actress +1963 06 19 Paula Abdul, Singer-dance-choreographer +1919 06 19 Pauline Kael, Movie critic +1914 06 19 Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif +1921 06 19 Sen. Howell Heflin, D-Ala +1956 06 19 Thomas J. Watson, founder of IBM, dies +1945 06 20 Anne Murray, Singer +1942 06 20 Brian Wilson, Singer-songwriter +1947 06 20 Candy Clark, Actress +1924 06 20 Chet Atkins, Guitarist +1933 06 20 Cyndi Lauper, Singer +1947 06 20 Gangster Buggsy Siegel was killed at a Beverly Hills, Ca. mansion +1960 06 20 John Taylor, Rock musician +1905 06 20 Lillian Hellman, American author and playwright, is born +1984 06 20 Lillian Hellman, American author and playwright, dies +1923 06 20 Pancho Villa, robber and revolutionary, is murdered +1940 06 21 Edouard Vuillard, painter, dies +1852 06 21 Friedrich Froebel, educator and developer of the idea of the kindergarten, dies +1652 06 21 Inigo Jones, architect, landscape designer and antiquary, dies in Somerset House, London +1921 06 21 Jane Russell, actress, full-figured gal +1905 06 21 John Paul Sartre, philosopher, novelist, dramatist, is born in Paris +1732 06 21 Martha Custis Washington +1527 06 21 Nicolo Machiavelli, diplomat and writer, dies +1882 06 21 Rockwell Kent, illustrator, is born +1916 06 22 Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Author +1922 06 22 Bill Blass, Fashion designer +1916 06 22 Billy Wilder, Movie director +1903 06 22 Carl Hubbell, baseball pitcher who mastered the screwball, elected to baseball hall of fame 1947, is born +1933 06 22 Dianne Feinstein, Former San Francisco Mayor +1941 06 22 Ed Bradley, CBS News correspondent +1897 06 22 Erich Maria Remarque, German-born American novelist, is born +1987 06 22 Fred Astaire, dancer and actor, dies +1856 06 22 H. Rider Haggard, English novelist, author of "King Solomon`s Mines", is born +1921 06 22 Joseph Papp, Broadway producer +1969 06 22 Judy Garland, actress and singer, dies in London +1937 06 22 Kris Kristofferson, Singer-actor +1949 06 22 Lindsay Wagner, Actress +1949 06 22 Meryl Streep, the actress, is born in Summit, New Jersey +1928 06 22 Raphl Waite, Actor +1948 06 22 Todd Rundgren born (Upper Darby, PA, 1948) +1912 06 23 Alan Turing, early computer scientist, is born +1846 06 23 George Sax, inventor of the saxophone. +1842 06 24 Ambrose Bierce, American satirist, is born +1839 06 24 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift & Co. +1987 06 24 Jackie Gleason, comedian and actor, dies at 87 +1944 06 24 Jeff Beck born (Surrey, England, 1944) +1945 06 25 Carly Simon, singer, is born in New York, NY +1903 06 25 Eric Arthur Blair (a.k.a. George Orwell) is born +1894 06 25 Hermann Oberth, founder of modern astronautics, is born +1819 06 26 Abner Doubleday, credited with inventing American Baseball +1730 06 26 Charles Messier born +1541 06 26 Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish conqueror, dies in Lima Peru +1913 06 26 Maurice Wilkes, invented the stored program concept for computers. +1892 06 26 Pearl Buck, author of "The Good Earth" and "This House Divided", is born +1898 06 26 Willi Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer, is born in Frankfort +1927 06 27 Bob Keeshan, (Captain Kangaroo) +1880 06 27 Helen Keller born in Alabama +1844 06 27 Joseph Smith, founder of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormons), and his brother Hyrum, are killed by a mob -0356 06 28 Alexander the Great is born +1914 06 28 Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were killed in Sarajevo, Bosnia. +1491 06 28 Henry VIII of England is born in Greenwich +1712 06 28 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher, is born +1947 06 28 Patrick Kincaid, send him a card. +1577 06 28 Peter Paul Rubens, the Flemish painter, is born +1900 06 29 Antoine St.-Exupery, French aviator and author, is born +1861 06 29 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the poet, dies +1858 06 29 George Washington Goethals, engineer who built the Panama Canal +1577 06 29 Peter Paul Rubens, the artist, is born +1917 06 30 Lena Horne, the entertainer, was born +1861 06 30 Lola Montez, the actress, dies +1940 06 30 Paul Klee, the artist, dies +1919 06 30 Susan Hayward, the actress, was born +1952 07 01 Dan Aykroyd, Actor +1961 07 01 Diana, the Princess of Wales (Princess Di) is born +1960 07 01 Evelyn "Champagne" King, Singer +1942 07 01 Genevieve Bujold, Actress +1804 07 01 George Sand, Amadine Aurore Lucie Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, French author, is born +1934 07 01 Jamie Farr, Actor +1942 07 01 Karen Black, Actress +1963 07 01 Lerna Patterson, Actress +1916 07 01 Olivia de Haviland, Actress +1934 07 01 Sydney Pollack, Movie driector +1941 07 01 Twyla Tharp, Dancer-choreographer +1951 07 02 Cheryl Ladd, Actress +1961 07 02 Ernest Hemingway, the writer, commits suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho +1929 07 02 Imelda Marcos, Former Philippine first lady +1961 07 02 Jimmy McNichol, Actor +1947 07 02 Luci Baines Johnson Turpin, Former Pres. L. B. Johnson`s daughter +1937 07 02 Polly Holliday, Actress +1566 07 02 Michel de Nostradamus (the "prophet") dies in Salon +1918 07 02 Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice +1947 07 03 Betty Buckley, Actress +1947 07 03 Dave Barry, Humor columnist +1883 07 03 Franz Kafka born +1971 07 03 Jim Morrison, rock singer with the Doors, dies of drug overdose in Paris +1927 07 03 Ken Russell, movie director +1423 07 03 Louis XI of France is born +1933 07 03 Mary Johnson, Orlando City Council Member -0000 07 03 St. Phocas beheaded by Roman executioners in his own home (303) +1962 07 03 Tom Cruise, Actor +1872 07 04 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-1929) +1924 07 04 Eva Marie Saint, Actress +1940 07 04 Gene McDowell, UCF football coach +1878 07 04 George M. Cohan +1831 07 04 James Monroe, 5th President, dies. +1753 07 04 Jean-Pierre-Francois Blanchard, 1st balloon flights in England, US +1826 07 04 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die on same day +1900 07 04 Louis Armstrong is born +1804 07 04 Nathaniel Hawthorne, author, born in Salem, MA +1927 07 04 Neil Simon, Playwight +1883 07 04 Rube Goldberg, made the easy outrageously difficult. +1826 07 04 Stephen Foster, American composer, "Oh, Susanna" +1853 07 05 Henry Rhodes, statesman, born +1951 07 05 Huey Lewis, Pop musician +1948 07 05 Julie Nixon Eisenhower +1536 07 05 Magdalen tragically dies soon after becoming the Scottish queen of James V +1810 07 05 P.T. Barnum, circus promoter +1951 07 05 Rich "Goose" Gossage, Baseball pitcher +1937 07 05 Shirley Knight, Actress +1794 07 05 Sylvester Graham, inventor of the Graham cracker +1866 07 06 (Helen) Beatrix Potter, creator of Peter Rabbit, born +1934 07 06 Bill Frederick, City of Orlando`s Mayor +1535 07 06 English chancellor Thomas More beheaded for refusal to sanction Henry VIII`s marriage to Anne Boleyn +1927 07 06 Janet Leigh, Actress +1747 07 06 John Paul Jones is born +1893 07 06 King George V of England and Victoria Mary of Teck are wed +1832 07 06 Mexican Emperor Maximilian is born +1926 07 06 Nancy Reagan, wife of former President Reagan, is born +1946 07 06 Sylvester Stallone, Actor +1860 07 07 Gustave Mahler, the composer, is born in Bohemia +1752 07 07 Joseph-Marie Jacquard, inventor of the punch card weaving machine, is born in Lyons, France +1887 07 07 Marc Chagall, the painter, is born in Russia +1940 07 07 Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), of the Rock Group The Beatles, born in Liverpool, England +1907 07 07 Robert A. Heinlein, author who helped develop Science Fiction as a sophisticated mode of literary expression +1930 07 07 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, dies +1855 07 08 Admiral Parry, the Arctic explorer, dies +1838 07 08 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin born +1839 07 08 John D. Rockefeller +1822 07 08 Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, dies off the coast of Italy +1916 07 09 Edward Heath, Former British Prime Minister +1540 07 09 Henry VIII divorces Anne of Cleves +1936 07 09 James Hampton, Actor +1932 07 09 King Camp Gillette, inventor of the safety razor, dies +1947 07 09 O.J. Simpson, Football great +1879 07 09 Ottorino Respighi, composer of "Pines of Rome", is born +1802 07 09 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st commercially successful electric motor +1956 07 09 Tom Hanks, Actor +1850 07 09 Zachary Taylor, U.S. president and general in Indian and Mexican Wars, dies +1974 07 10 Chief Justice Earl Warren dies +1959 07 10 Davis Phinney, American cyclist, was born +1867 07 10 Finley Peter Dunne, journalist/humorist who created Mr. Dooley. +1834 07 10 James Whistler, mama`s boy +1509 07 10 John Calvin, Protestant theologian, born +1914 07 10 Joseph Shuster, co-creator of Superman, is born +1871 07 10 Marcel Proust, French author, is born +1989 07 10 Mel (Melvin Jerome) Blanc, voice of Bugs Bunny and many others, dies +1945 07 10 Robert Goddard dies +1920 07 11 Yul Brynner, actor, is born +1935 07 11 Alfred Dreyfus, the wrongly imprisoned French army officer, dies +1951 07 11 Bonnie Pointer, Singer +1937 07 11 George Gershwin, the composer, dies +1767 07 11 John Quincy Adams, 6th President (1825-1829), is born +1953 07 11 Leon Spinks, Boxer +1274 07 11 Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, is born +1989 07 11 Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, dies +1931 07 11 Tab Hunter, Actor +1917 07 12 Andrew Wyeth, artist and illustrator, is born +1937 07 12 Bill Cosby, comedian, is born +1849 07 12 Dolly Madison, wife of James Madison, dies. She was known for her social skills as hostess of the white house +1854 07 12 George Eastman, inventor, is born in Waterville, New York +1817 07 12 Henry David Thoreau, author, is born +1543 07 12 Henry VIII marries Catharine Parr (his 6th & last wife) -0100 07 12 Julius Caeser is born +1908 07 12 Milton Berle, entertainer, is born +1895 07 12 Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist, is born +1895 07 12 R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome +1922 07 12 Sen. Mark Hatfield, R-Ore. +1944 07 12 U.S. Rep. Bill McCollum, Altamonte Springs, FL +1934 07 12 Van Cliburn, Pianist +1942 07 13 Harrison Ford, Actor +1793 07 13 Jean-Paul Marat stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday +1890 07 13 John Charles Fremont, American soldier, explorer and politician, dies +1954 07 13 Louise Mandrell, Singer +1965 07 14 Adlai Stevenson, US statesman, dies +1913 07 14 Gerald R. Ford, 38th President (1974-1976), is born +1899 07 14 James Cagney, movie actor and notorious screen gangster, is born +1918 07 14 Jay Wright Forrester, invented random-access magnetic core memory. +1912 07 14 Woodrow Wilson (Woody) Guthrie, folk singer, is born +1779 07 15 Clement Clarke Moore, author of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas", is born +1573 07 15 Inigo Jones, architect, lancscape designer and antiquary, is born +1685 07 15 James, Duke of Monmouth, executed for treason at Tower Hill, London +1946 07 15 Linda Ronstadt, singer, born in Tucson, AZ +1606 07 15 Rembrandt van Rijn, painter, born in Leiden Netherlands +1890 07 15 Rose Kennedy, Grand Dame of the Kennedy family is born +1907 07 16 Barbara Stanwyck, actress, is born +1915 07 16 Barnard Hughes, actor +1918 07 16 Czar Nicholas II, family and servants are killed by Bolsheviks +1932 07 16 Dick Thornburgh, Attorney General +1911 07 16 Ginger Rogers, actress-dancer +1981 07 16 Harry Chapin dies (Long Island Expressway, 1981) +1942 07 16 Margaret Court, tennis player +1821 07 16 Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist, born +1948 07 16 Pinchas Zukerman, violinist +1952 07 16 Stewart Copeland, rock composer-musician +1912 07 17 Art Linkletter, TV personality +1845 07 17 Charles, Earl Grey, Whig statesman and Prime Minister, dies +1952 07 17 David Hasselhoff, actor +1935 07 17 Diahann Carroll, actress-singer +1934 07 17 Donald Sutherland, actor +1744 07 17 Elbridge Gerry, father of the "gerrymander" +1889 07 17 Erle Stanley Gardner, author and creator of Perry Mason, was born +1900 07 17 James Cagney, hold that grapefruit +1903 07 17 James Whistler, painter, lithographer, dies +1763 07 17 John Jacob Astor, millionaire in North American trapping industry, is born in Germany +1951 07 17 Lucie Arnaz, actress +1952 07 17 Nicolette Larson, singer +1934 07 17 Pat McCormick, comedy writer +1952 07 17 Phoebe Snow, singer +1917 07 17 Phyllis Diller, comedian, is born in Lima, OH +1939 07 18 Brian Auger born (London, 1939) +1899 07 18 Horatio Alger, whose lads always had enough pluck to succeed, dies +1911 07 18 Hume Cronyn, actor +1721 07 18 Jean-Antoine Watteau, painter, dies +1921 07 18 John Glenn Jr., astronaut, is born in Ohio +1610 07 18 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies +1913 07 18 Red Skelton. comedian +1906 07 18 S. I. Hayakawa +1848 07 18 William Gilbert Grace, Victorian England`s greatest cricketer +1811 07 18 William Makepeach Thackeray, author of Vanity Fair, is born +1986 07 19 Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President Kennedy, married Edwin A. (1986)Schlossberg in Centerville, +1943 07 19 Dennis Cole, actor +1843 07 19 Edgar Degas, Impressionist painter, is born +1860 07 19 Lizzie Borden, reputed but acquitted ax murderess, is born +1959 07 19 Peter Barton, actor +1374 07 19 Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), poet and scholar, dies near Padua, Italy +1814 07 19 Samuel Colt, American gunsmith and inventor, is born +1941 07 19 Vikki Carr, singer +1937 07 20 Butch Cassidy, outlaw, dies in Spokane, Washington +1947 07 20 Carlos Santana born (Autlan, Mexico, 1947) +1938 07 20 Diana Rigg, actress +1946 07 20 Kim Carnes, singer +1957 07 20 Larry Rinker, golfer and Winter Park resident +1938 07 20 Natalie Wood, actress, is born in San Francisco +1031 07 20 Robert II, King of France, dies +1919 07 20 Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer and explorer, is born +1890 07 20 Theda Bara, American actress and vamp, is born +1924 07 21 Don Knotts, actor-comedian +1943 07 21 Edward Herrmann, actor +1899 07 21 Ernest Hemingway, author, is born +1920 07 21 Isaac Stern, violinist, is born +1926 07 21 Norman Jewison, movie director +1796 07 21 Poet Robert Burns dies in Scotland of a lingering illness brought on by excessive drinking +1952 07 21 Robin Williams, comedian-actor +1947 07 22 Albert Brooks, actor-comedian-director +1940 07 22 Alex Trebek, game show host +1898 07 22 Alexander Calder, sculptor, is born +1967 07 22 Carl Sandburg, poet, dies at Flat Rock, North Carolina +1849 07 22 Emma Lazarus, whose poem was inscribed on the Statue of Liberty +1934 07 22 John Dillinger, bank robber, was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago`s Biograph Theater -0000 07 22 Mary Magdalen dies at St. Beaume. (1st c. BC) +1928 07 22 Orson Bean, actor-comedian +1932 07 22 Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer +1844 07 22 Rev. William Archibald Spooner, invented `spoonerisms` +1890 07 22 Rose Kennedy +1898 07 22 Stephen Vincent Benet, American poet, is born +1940 07 22 Terence Stamp, actor +1950 07 23 Belinda Montgomery, actress +1986 07 23 Britain`s Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey in London +1929 07 23 C.R. Smith, Frontline Outreach founder +1913 07 23 Coral Browne, actress +1936 07 23 Don Drysdale, baseball hall-of-famer +1925 07 23 Gloria DeHaven, actress +1875 07 23 Isaac Singer, inventor of the sewing machine, dies +1888 07 23 Raymond Chandler, American author, is born +1802 07 24 Alexandre Dumas, novelist and dramatist, author of "The Three Musketeers", is born +1898 07 24 Amelia Earhart, pioneer aviator, is born in Kansas +1965 07 24 Joe Oliver, Cincinnati Reds catcher and Orlando native +1758 07 24 John Dyer, poet, dies +1951 07 24 Lynda Carter, actress, is born in Pheonix, AZ +1935 07 24 Pat Oliphant, political cartoonist +1783 07 24 Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule. +1943 07 25 Janet Margolin, actress +1978 07 25 Louise Brown, first baby conceived by in vitro fertilization, is born +1879 07 25 Maxfield Parrish, American artist, is born +1554 07 25 Queen Mary of England marries King Philip of Spain -0000 07 25 St James beheaded by Herod in Jerusalem (44) +1948 07 25 Steve Goodman born (Chicago, 1948) +1844 07 25 Thomas Eakins, American realist painter, is born +1954 07 25 Walter Payton, former football player +1894 07 26 Aldous Huxley, English author of Brave New World, is born +1922 07 26 Blake Edwards, movie director +1875 07 26 Carl Jung, the psychologist, is born +1856 07 26 George Bernard Shaw born +1943 07 26 Mick Jagger born (Kent, England, 1943) +1895 07 26 Robert Graves, English-born American author and critic, is born +1928 07 26 Stanley Kubrick, movie director +1950 07 26 Susan George, actress +1954 07 26 Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis player +1940 07 27 Bugs Bunny +1946 07 27 Gertrude Stein, poet, novelist, dies +1984 07 27 James Mason, actor, dies in Lausanne, Switzerland +1667 07 27 Johann Bernoulli, mathematician, is born +1844 07 27 John Dalton, English chemist and physicist, dies +1948 07 27 Peggy Fleming, ice skater, is born +1980 07 27 The deposed Shah of Iran dies in Cairo, Egypt +1940 07 27 Walt Gallagher, Orange County Sheriff +1929 07 28 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former wife of President Kennedy, is born +1945 07 28 Jim Davis, "Garfield" creator +1750 07 28 Johann Sebastian Bach, organist and composer, dies in Leipzig Germany +1945 07 28 Richard Wright born (London, 1945) +1794 07 28 Robespierre dies on the guillotine like those he sent before him +1948 07 28 Sally Struthers, actress +1869 07 29 Booth Tarkington, novelist +1983 07 29 David Niven, actor, dies +1030 07 29 King Olaf II of Norway was killed in battle +1949 07 29 Marilyn Quayle +1907 07 29 Melvin Belli, San Francisco`s `King of Torts` +1883 07 29 Mussolini, Italian dictator, is born +1938 07 29 Peter Jennings, national news anchorman, is born +1981 07 29 Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer in St. Paul`s Cathedral +1983 07 29 Raymond Massey, actor, dies +1934 07 29 Robert Fuller, actor +1871 07 29 Siberian peasant, Grigori Rasputin, powerful influence on Nicolas II, is born +1887 07 29 Sigmund Romberg, operetta composer, was born in Hungary +1890 07 29 Vincent Van Gogh, artist, dies in Auvers, France +1947 07 30 Arnold Schwarzenegger, actor +1891 07 30 Casey (Charles Dillon) Stengel, baseball great, is born +1956 07 30 Delta Burke, actress +1939 07 30 Eleanor Smeal, feminist activist +1818 07 30 Emily Bronte, author of "Wuthering Heights", is born +1863 07 30 Henry Ford, auto manufacturer, is born +1958 07 30 Kate Bush, singer +1941 07 30 Paul Anka, singer +1939 07 30 Peter Bogdanovich, director +1919 07 31 Curt Gowdy, national sportscaster, is born +1944 07 31 Geraldine Chaplin, actress +1556 07 31 Ignatius Loyola, Jesuit founder, dies +1912 07 31 Milton Friedman, economist, is born +1922 08 01 Arthur Hill, actor +1933 08 01 Dom DeLuise, actor and comedian, is born +1977 08 01 Francis Gary Powers, the once captured U-2 pilot, was killed while flying a helicopter for a Los Angeles television station +1779 08 01 Francis Scott Key, wrote the `Star-Spangled Banner`, is born +1819 08 01 Herman Melville, author, born +1744 08 01 Jean Baptiste de Lamarck is born in France +1942 08 01 Jerry Garcia, rock musician, is born +1815 08 01 Richard Henry Dana, spent 2 years before the mast. -0000 08 01 St. Peter is executed (67) +1770 08 01 William Clark, explored Pacific Northwest with Lewis. +1936 08 01 Yves St. Laurent, fashion designer, is born +1876 08 02 "Wild Bill" Hickok was shot and killed in Deadwood, S.D. +1922 08 02 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, dies +1918 08 02 Beatrice Straight, actress +1924 08 02 Carroll O`Connor, actor +1921 08 02 Enrico Caruso dies of pleurisy +1976 08 02 Fritz Lang, film director, dies +1799 08 02 Jacques Etienne Montgolfier, balloonist and paper manufacturer, dies +1945 08 02 Joanna Cassidy, actress +1905 08 02 Myrna Loy, actress +1932 08 02 Peter O`Toole, actor +1923 08 02 President Harding dies at the Palace Hotel. +1100 08 02 William II of England was killed in a hunting accident +1811 08 03 Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safe elevator. +1940 08 03 John Landis, movie director +1901 08 03 John Stennis, Former Sen.(D-Miss.) +1966 08 03 Lenny Bruce dies of morphine overdose +1924 08 03 Leon Uris, author +1940 08 03 Martin Sheen, actor +1926 08 03 Tony Bennett, singer +1875 08 04 Hans Christian Andersen dies +1958 08 04 Mary Decker Slaney, track star +1755 08 04 Nicolas-Jacque Conte, invented the modern pencil. +1792 08 04 Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet, was born +1900 08 04 The Queen Mother Elizabeth is born +1850 08 05 Guy de Maupassant is born +1906 08 05 John Houston, film maker, born +1935 08 05 John Saxon, actor +1945 08 05 Loni Anderson, the actress and beauty, is born in St. Paul, Minn. +1962 08 05 Marilyn Monroe was found dead in Los Angeles. +1930 08 05 Neil Armstrong, 1st Moonwalker +1953 08 05 Samantha Sang, singer -0465 08 05 Xerxes I of Persia dies +1623 08 06 Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare`s wife, dies at age of 67 +1637 08 06 Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, dies +1942 08 06 Dave Marsh, WESH-Channel 2 meteorologist +1809 08 06 Lord Alfred Tennyson, poet laureate of England. +1911 08 06 Lucille (Lucy) Ball, actress and comedienne, is born +1938 08 06 Peter Bonerz, actor +1984 08 06 Richard Burton, the actor, dies +1917 08 06 Robert Mitchum, actor +1881 08 06 Sir Alexander Fleming, cashed in on penicillin +1976 08 06 Soleil Moon Frye, actress +1958 08 07 Alberto Salazar, marathon runner +1942 08 07 B.J. Thomas, singer +1942 08 07 Garrison Keillor, humorist +1783 08 07 John Heathcoat, invented lace-making machinery -0000 08 07 King Herod, persecutor of the Apostles, dies (44) +1943 08 07 Lana Cantrell, singer -0480 08 07 Leonidas of Sparta, Greek hero, dies +1886 08 07 Louis Alan Hazeltine, invented the neutrodyne circuit, making commercial radio possible, is born +1876 08 07 Mata Hari, the spy, is born +1926 08 07 Stan Freberg, writer-producer +1988 08 08 Beatrice, Britain`s Princess +1763 08 08 Charles Bullfinch, 1st US professional architect +1938 08 08 Connie Stevens, actress +1953 08 08 Donny Most, actor +1937 08 08 Dustin Hoffman, actor, is born in Los Angeles +1880 08 08 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, is born +1923 08 08 Esther Williams, actress +1950 08 08 Keith Carradine, actor +1932 08 08 Mel Tillis, singer +1944 08 08 Peter Weir, movie director +1922 08 08 Rudi Gernreich, designed 1st women`s topless swimsuit & the miniskirt +1884 08 08 Sara Teasdale, American poet, is born +1910 08 08 Sylvia Sidney, actress +1930 08 09 Betty Boop +1942 08 09 David Steinberg, comedian-director +1955 08 09 Doug Williams, quarterback +1913 08 09 Herman Talmadge, former Georgia Senator +1945 08 09 Ken Norton, boxer +1957 08 09 Melanie Griffith, actor +1919 08 09 Ralph Houk, former baseball manager +1944 08 09 Sam Elliott, actor +1962 08 09 Sammy Duvall, water-skier and Windermere, FL resident +1963 08 09 Whitney Houston, singer +1928 08 10 Eddie Fisher, singer +1874 08 10 Herbert Hoover, 31st President (1929-1933) +1947 08 10 Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) born (Edinburgh, Scotland, 1947) +1928 08 10 Jimmy Dean, singer +1948 08 10 Patti Austin, singer +1923 08 10 Rhonda Fleming, actress +1959 08 10 Rosanna Arquette, actress +1932 08 10 The original Rin Tin Tin dies +1921 08 11 Alex Haley, author +1949 08 11 Eric Carmen, singer +1925 08 11 Mike Douglas, former TV talk show host +1933 08 11 Rev. Jerry Falwell +1954 08 11 Steve Rondinaro, WESH-Channel 2 news anchor +1990 08 12 B. Kliban, cartoonist best known for his "CAT" character, dies +1881 08 12 Cecil B. deMille, directed God. +1925 08 12 Dale Bumpers, politician +1939 08 12 George Hamilton, actor +1851 08 12 Issac Singer granted a patent for his sewing machine. +1926 08 12 John Derek, director +1939 08 12 Larry Ziegler, golfer +1911 08 12 Mario Moreno, alias Cantinflas. +1955 08 12 Thomas Mann, American author, dies +1827 08 12 William Blake, English poet, dies +1899 08 13 Alfred Hitchcock, film producer, born +1814 08 13 Anders Jonas Angstrom born +1860 08 13 Annie Oakley born +1951 08 13 Dan Fogelberg, singer, is born (Peoria, IL, 1951) +1930 08 13 Don Ho, singer +1926 08 13 Fidel Castro, Cuban leader, born +1655 08 13 Johann Christoph Denner, invented the clarinet. +1985 08 13 Kenneth Ernst, "Mary Worth" artist since 1942, dies at age 67 +1818 08 13 Lucy Stone, pioneer in Woman`s Rights. +1929 08 13 Pat Harrington, actor +1926 08 14 Alice Ghostley, actress, is born +1956 08 14 Bertolt Brecht, dramatist and theatrical director dies +1926 08 14 Buddy Greco, singer +1941 08 14 David Crosby, singer, is born in Los Angeles +1930 08 14 Earl Weaver, baseball manager +1944 08 14 Robyn Smith, jockey +1925 08 14 Russell Baker, newspaper columnist +1946 08 14 Susan Saint James, actress, is born +1951 08 14 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher, dies in Beverly Hills +1931 08 15 Janice Rule, actress +1935 08 15 Jim Dale, actor +1912 08 15 Julia Child, chef. +1944 08 15 Linda Ellerbee, author-journalist +1057 08 15 Macbeth, King of Scotland, was slain by the son of King Duncan. +1548 08 15 Mary Queen of Scots was married to the Dauphin. She was 6 years old +1925 08 15 Mike Connors, actor +1769 08 15 Napoleon Bonaparte was born +1924 08 15 Phyllis Schlafly, Eagle Forum president +1950 08 15 Princess Anne of England was born +1924 08 15 Robert Bolt, playwright +1925 08 15 Rose Marie, actress +1803 08 15 Sir James Douglas, father of British Columbia. +1771 08 15 Sir Walter Scott is born +1877 08 15 Thomas Edward Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), soldier, archaeologist, adventurer, and author, is born in Wales +1935 08 15 Vernon Jordan, civil rights activist +1935 08 15 Will Rogers and Wiley Post die in airplane crash near Point Barrow, Alaska +1809 08 16 Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate, is born +1936 08 16 Anita Gillette, actress +1928 08 16 Ann Blyth, actress +1821 08 16 Arthur Cayley, mathematician, dies +1948 08 16 Babe Ruth, baseball player, dies +1977 08 16 Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis at age 42. +1932 08 16 Eydie Gorme, singer +1925 08 16 Fess Parker, actor +1930 08 16 Frank Gifford, sportscaster +1892 08 16 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant", known for it`s fine drawing and historical detail, is born +1884 08 16 Hugo Gernsback, responsible for science fiction becoming an independent literary form, is born +1935 08 16 Julie Newmar, tall and beautiful Scandinavian actress, is born +1946 08 16 Lesley Ann Warren, actress +1958 08 16 Madonna, singer +1913 08 16 Menachem Begin, former Israeli Prime Minister +1930 08 16 Robert Culp, actor +1960 08 16 Timothy Hutton, actor +1958 08 17 Belinda Carlisle, singer +1786 08 17 Davy Crockett, American folk hero, is born +1969 08 17 Donnie Wahlberg, singer +1983 08 17 Ira Gershwin, lyricist and brother of George Gershwin, dies +1892 08 17 Mae West, actress, is born +1990 08 17 Pearl Bailey, Singer with the sexy, throaty drawl, died at age 72. +1943 08 17 Robert DeNiro, actor +1935 08 18 Gail Fisher, actress +1227 08 18 Genghis Khan, Mongol emperor, dies +1970 08 18 Malcolm-Jamal Warner, actor +1834 08 18 Marshall Field, founded a Chicago-based store chain. +1943 08 18 Martin Mull, actor-comedian +1774 08 18 Meriwether Lewis, of Lewis and Clark, is born +1990 08 18 Pearl Baily, spiritual singer, dies +1937 08 18 Robert Redford, the actor, is born +1933 08 18 Roman Polanski, filmmaker +1927 08 18 Rosalynn Carter, former first lady, born +1922 08 18 Shelley Winters, actress +1587 08 18 Virginia Dare, the first woman to be born in America of English parents, is born in North Carolina +1990 08 19 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, dies +1662 08 19 Blaise Pascal, the mathematician and philosopher, died +1814 08 19 Count Rumford, aka Benjamin Thompson, Physicist, inventor and adventurer, dies +1933 08 19 Debra Paget, actress +1921 08 19 Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek producer +1948 08 19 Gerald McRaney, actor +1646 08 19 John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England. +1902 08 19 Ogden Nash, humorist, born +1871 08 19 Orville Wright, pioneer aviator, born +1915 08 19 Ring Lardner Junior, author +1785 08 19 Seth Thomas, pioneer in mass production of clocks. +1931 08 19 Willie Shoemaker, jockey +1833 08 20 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (1889-1893) +1946 08 20 Connie Chung, network newscaster, is born +1942 08 20 Isaac Hayes, singer +1940 08 20 Leon Trotsky assassinated +1944 08 20 Rajiv Gandhi, former prime minister of India +1948 08 20 Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin) born (Worcestershire, England, 1948) +1906 08 21 Count Basie, jazz pianist and bandleader, is born +1660 08 21 Hubert Gautier, engineer, wrote 1st book on bridge building. +1959 08 21 Jim McMahon, football quarterback +1938 08 21 Kenny Rogers, singer +1930 08 21 Princess Margaret Rose, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, is born but the birth is not registered till three days later to avoid the registration number 13 +1939 08 22 Carl Yastrzemski, baseball great +1948 08 22 Cindy Williams, actress +1862 08 22 Claude Debussy, composer, born +1989 08 22 Huey Newton, was found shot to death in Oakland, California +1485 08 22 King Richard III of England, last of the Plantagenets, dies in the Battle of Bosworh Field ending the War of the Roses. +1964 08 22 Mats Wilander, tennis star +1935 08 22 Morton Dean, newsman +1920 08 22 Ray Bradbury, science fiction author, is born +1940 08 22 Valerie Harper, actress, is born +1934 08 23 Barbara Eden, actress, is born +1912 08 23 Gene Kelly, dancer and actor, born +1869 08 23 James "Sunny Jim" Rolph, Mayor (1912-1931), Muni backer. +1947 08 23 Keith Moon born (London, 1947) +1754 08 23 Louis XVI, future French king, is born at Versailes +1932 08 23 Mark Russell, political satirist, is born +1959 08 23 Mike Elliott, deejay WOMX-FM (105.1) Orlando, FL. +1785 08 23 Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. Naval hero, was born in Rhode Island +1960 08 23 Oscar Hammerstein II, librettist, dies +1942 08 23 Patricia McBride, ballet dancer, is born +1952 08 23 Queen Noor, Queen of Jordan, is born +1926 08 23 Rudolph Valentino, silent film actor, dies at the age of 31 +1949 08 23 Shelley (sic) Long, actess, is born +1963 08 23 Terry Catledge, Orlando Magic forward +1930 08 23 Vera Miles, actress, is born +1960 08 24 Cal Ripken Jr., All-Star shortstop +1917 08 24 Dennis James, TV host +1912 08 24 Durward Kirby, TV personality +1956 08 24 Gerry Cooney, boxer +1540 08 24 Il Parmigianino, aka Francesco Mazzola, painter, dies Cremona, Italy +1899 08 24 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian author, is born +1965 08 24 Marlee Matlin, actress -0000 08 24 Pliny the Elder, naturalist and author, dies during the Vesuvius eruption (79) +1816 08 24 Sir Daniel Gooch, laid 1st successful trans-Atlantic cables +1886 08 24 William Francis Gibbs, naval architect, designed the Liberty ships +1927 08 25 Althea Gibson, 1st black tennis champion (in a major event) +1947 08 25 Anne Archer, actress +1776 08 25 David Hume, philosopher, dies +1836 08 25 Francis Bret Harte, American author, is born +1900 08 25 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philosopher, dies +1949 08 25 Gene Simmons, rock singer-actor +1530 08 25 Ivan the Terrible, czar of Russia, is born +1918 08 25 Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer, is born +1959 08 25 Pat Clarke, WFTV-Channel 9 sports anchor, Orlando, Fl. +1930 08 25 Sean Connery, actor most famous for his roles as James Bond, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland +1933 08 25 Tom Skerritt, actor +1913 08 25 Walt Kelly, creator of Pogo comic strip, is born +1822 08 25 William Herschel dies +1723 08 26 Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the inventor of the microscope, dies +1933 08 26 Ben J. Wattenberg, author +1921 08 26 Benjamin C. Bradlee, Washington Post Executive Editor +1920 08 26 Charlie Parker, jazz guitarist, is born +1935 08 26 Geraldine Ferraro, former Democratic vice-presidential nominee +1873 08 26 Lee De Forest, invented the Audion vacuum tube (radio tube) +1819 08 26 Prince Albert (Queen Victoria`s husband) born (not in a can) in Bavaria +1676 08 26 Sir Robert Walpole, Whig statesman and British Prime Minister, is born +1948 08 26 Valerie Simpson, singer +1899 08 27 C.S. Forester, historical novelist, created Horatio Hornblower +1942 08 27 Daryl Dragon, the "captain" of Captain and Tenille +1941 08 27 Linda Chapin, Orange County Commissioner, Orlando, FL. +1908 08 27 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President (1963-1969) +1916 08 27 Martha Raye, actress-comedian +1910 08 27 Mother Teresa, Nobel peace laureate +1882 08 27 Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer filmmaker +1990 08 27 Stevie Ray Vaughn dies in helicopter crash (East Troy, WI, 1990) +1576 08 27 Titian, the Venetian painter, dies +1937 08 27 Tommy Sands, actor +1943 08 27 Tuesday Weld, actress +1930 08 28 Ben Gazzara, actor +1943 08 28 David Soul, actor +1925 08 28 Donald O`Connor, actor-dancer +1749 08 28 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, novelist, is born +1828 08 28 Leo Tolstoy was born +1921 08 28 Nancy Kulp, actress +1940 08 28 Richard Sanders, actor +1908 08 28 Roger Tory Peterson, bird lover and naturalist author, was born +1958 08 28 Scott Hamilton, skating champion +1811 08 28 The poet Shelley elopes with Harriet Westbrook +1912 08 29 Barry Sullivan, actor +1877 08 29 Brigham Young, 2nd president of the Morman Church, died in Utah. +1769 08 29 Edmond Hoyle, the games master, dies at 97 +1938 08 29 Elliott Gould, actor +1916 08 29 George Montgomery, actor +1780 08 29 Jean Ingres, the artist, is born +1632 08 29 John Locke, writer and thinker on the philosophy of government, is born +1987 08 29 Lee Marvin, actor, dies +1958 08 29 Michael Jackson, singer and dancer, born in Gary, Indiana +1809 08 29 Oliver Wendell Holmes born, physician and father of the jurist +1923 08 29 Sir Richard Attenborough, actor-director -0000 08 29 St. John the Baptist beheaded by Herod rewarding Salome for dance (30) +1939 08 29 William Friedkin, director -0030 08 30 Cleopatra commits suicide with a snake +1908 08 30 Fred MacMurray, actor +1907 08 30 John W. Mauchly born +1797 08 30 Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley, English author ("Frankenstein") is born +1922 08 30 Regina Resnik, opera singer +1907 08 30 Shirley Booth, actress +1918 08 30 Ted Williams, Hall-of-Famer +1924 08 31 Buddy Hackett, comedian +1970 08 31 Debbie Gibson, singer +1935 08 31 Frank Robinson, baseball great +1945 08 31 Itzhak Perlman, violinist +1946 09 01 Barry Gibb, singer +1933 09 01 Conway Twitty, country singer +1875 09 01 Edgar Rice Burroughs is born +1957 09 01 Gloria Estefan, Miami singer +1866 09 01 James Corbett (Gentleman Jim), pugilist and prize fighter, is born in San Francisco +1939 09 01 Lily Tomlin, comedian-actress +1715 09 01 Louis XIV, king of France, dies +1957 09 01 Molly Pesce Scott, actress; former Miss FL. from Altamonte Sprs. +1924 09 01 Rocky Marciano, boxer, is born +1935 09 01 Seiji Ozawa, conductor +1924 09 01 Yvonne De Carlo, actress +1866 09 02 Hiram Johnson, Calif governor, Progressive. +1952 09 02 Jimmy Connors, tennis brat +1955 09 02 Linda Purl, actress +1951 09 02 Mark Harmon, actor +1838 09 02 Queen Liliuokalani (last queen of Hawaii) +1788 09 02 Thomas Gainsborough, artist, portrait painter, dies +1969 09 03 Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese president, dies +1856 09 03 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture. +1923 09 03 Mort Walker, cartoonist and originator of Beetle Bailey, is born +1658 09 03 Oliver Cromwell, the British "politician" and destroyer of English heritage dies +1943 09 03 Valerie Perrine, the actress, is born in Galveston, Texas +1970 09 03 Vince Lombardi, football coach, dies in Washington D.C. +1824 09 04 Anton Bruckner, Wagner disciple +1920 09 04 Craig Claiborne, cooking expert +1928 09 04 Dick York, actor +1907 09 04 Edvard Grieg, the composer, dies +1931 09 04 Mitzi Gaynor, actress +1918 09 04 Paul Harvey, ABC Radio commentator -0518 09 04 Pindar the Greek Poet is born +1949 09 04 Tom Watson, golfer +1929 09 05 Bob Newhart, comedian and actor, is born +1950 09 05 Cathy Guisewite, "Cathy" cartoonist +1877 09 05 Crazy Horse, the Sioux Indian chief, died +1902 09 05 Darryl F. Zanuck, Hollywood producer & motion picture executive +1847 09 05 Jesse James, credited with inventing the train robbery, is born +1912 09 05 John Cage, composer +1638 09 05 King Louis XIV of France born +1940 09 05 Raquel Welch, actress and beauty, is born +1939 09 05 William Devane, actor +1984 09 06 Ernest Tubb, country music star, dies +1811 09 06 James Melville Gilliss, founded Naval Observatory in Washington +1947 09 06 Jane Curtin, comedian-actress +1766 09 06 John Dalton, developed the atomic theory of matter +1757 09 06 Lafayette, French hero of the American revolution, is born +1901 09 06 President William McKinley shot. He dies 9 days later. +1944 09 06 Roger Waters born (Surrey, England, 1944) +1944 09 06 Swoosie Kurtz, actress +1936 09 07 Buddy Holly, rock singer, is born Charles Hardin Holley in Lubbock, Texas +1548 09 07 Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII, dies +1908 09 07 Dr. Michael DeBakey, heart surgeon +1909 09 07 Elia Kazan, producer-director +1533 09 07 Elizabeth I born of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII at Greenwich +1860 09 07 Grandma Moses, American Primitive painter, is born +1789 09 07 James Fenimore Cooper born in Burlington, NJ +1914 09 07 James Van Allen, discovered Van Allen radiation belts. +1937 09 07 John Philip Law, actor +1951 09 07 Julie Kavner, actress +1978 09 07 Keith Moon (The Who) dies of drug overdose (London, 1978) +1799 09 07 Leonard Euler, the mathematician, dies +1533 09 07 Queen Elizabeth I of England born +1948 09 07 Susan Blakely, actress +1947 09 08 Ann Beattie, author +1841 09 08 Anton Dvorak born in Nelahozeves, Czechoslovakia +1914 09 08 Hillary Brooke, actress +1157 09 08 King Richard I of England born +1925 09 08 Peter Sellers, actor, born in Southsea, England +1945 09 08 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (GD) born (San Bruno, CA, 1945) +1922 09 08 Samuel Pierce Jr., former sec. of housing and urban development +1922 09 08 Sid Caesar, comedian +1952 09 09 Angela Cartwright, actress +1946 09 09 Billy Preston, singer +1976 09 09 Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-Tung dies at age of 82 +1925 09 09 Cliff Robertson, actor +1890 09 09 Colonel Harlan (Kentucky Fried) Sanders is born +1951 09 09 Harris Rosen, hotelier +1901 09 09 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, artist, dies +1924 09 09 Jane Greer, actress +1949 09 09 Joe Theismann, football commentator +1962 09 09 Kristy McNichol, actress +1868 09 09 Mary Hunter Austin, American author and feminist, is born +1951 09 09 Michael Keaton, actor-comedian +1951 09 09 Tom Wopat, actor +1953 09 10 Amy Irving, actress +1929 09 10 Arnold Palmer, golfer and Bay Hill resident +1934 09 10 Charles Kuralt, "On the road..." for CBS. +1939 09 10 Greg Mullavey, actor +1886 09 10 Hilda (H.D.) Doolittle, American poet, is born +1945 09 10 Jose Feliciano, singer +1948 09 10 Judy Geeson, actress +1914 09 10 Robert Wise, movie director +1087 09 10 William the Conqueror dies at 61 from an earlier fall from his horse. He was too obese to fit in his coffin and in forcing him to fit the monks accidentally ruptured him giving off a terrible smell that drove mourners away. +1913 09 11 Bear Bryant, Crimson Tide football coach, +1940 09 11 Brian De Palma, movie director +1885 09 11 D.H. Lawrence, Taos pioneer +1928 09 11 Earl Holliman, actor +1877 09 11 James Jeans born +1935 09 11 Ken Kesey, American author, is born +1862 09 11 O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), the writer, is born +1958 09 11 Robert Service, Canadian Poet, dies +1973 09 11 The assassination of President Allende of Chile during a military coup +1924 09 11 Tom Landry, former Dallas Cowboys football coach +1892 09 12 Alfred Abraham Knopf, American publisher, is born +1944 09 12 Barry White, singer +1846 09 12 Elizabeth Barrett secretly weds Robert Browning at St. Marylebone Parish Church +1880 09 12 H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken, American editor and critic, is born +1913 09 12 Jesse Owens, Gold medal winner at 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, born +1940 09 12 Linda Gray, actress +1943 09 12 Maria Muldaur, singer +1888 09 12 Maurice Chevalier, thanked heaven for little girls. +1818 09 12 Richard Jordan Gatling, US inventor of hand-cranked machine gun +1946 09 13 Jaqueline Bisset, actress, is born in Weybridge England +1925 09 13 Mel Torme, singer +1755 09 13 Oliver Evans, pioneered the high-pressure steam engine. +1851 09 13 Walter Reed, American physician and army surgeon, is born +1892 09 14 A.P. Giannini marries Clorinda Cuneo. +1867 09 14 Charles Dana Gibson, illustrator, drew the "Gibson Girl" +1914 09 14 Clayton Moore, who played the Lone Ranger, is born +1921 09 14 Hughes Rudd, TV newscaster +1927 09 14 Isadora Duncan, pioneer of modern dance, dies when her scarf becomes entangled in a wheel of her sports car +1944 09 14 Joey Heatherton, actress and singer, is born -0604 09 14 Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher, is born +1990 09 14 Leonard Bernstein, conductor and composer, dies +1883 09 14 Margaret Sanger, feminist. +1938 09 14 Nicol Williamson, actor, is born +1901 09 14 President William McKinley dies +1933 09 14 Zoe Caldwell, actress +1890 09 15 Dame Agatha Christie, author, born in Torquay, England +1961 09 15 Dan Marino, Miami Dolphins quarterback +1881 09 15 Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti, car builder +1923 09 15 Hank Williams, country-western music singer, is born +1922 09 15 Jackie Cooper, actor +1789 09 15 James Fenimore Cooper, 1st major American novelist. +1894 09 15 Jean Renoir, son of August Renoir and film director, is born +1984 09 15 Prince Harry is born to Prince Charles and Lady Diana +1857 09 15 William Howard Taft, 27th President (1909-1913) +1914 09 16 Allen Funt born in Brooklyn, NY +1925 09 16 B. B. King, blues singer, born (Itta Bena, MS, 1925) +1822 09 16 Charles S. Crocker, of Southern Pacific fame. +1946 09 16 James Jeans die +1924 09 16 Lauren Bacall, actress, is born in New York City +1927 09 16 Peter Falk, actor +1498 09 16 Tomas de Torquemada, Dominican monk largely responsible for the Spanish Inquisition, is born +1931 09 17 Anne Bancroft, actress +1730 09 17 Baron Frederick von Steuben, made the Continental Army winners. +1933 09 17 Dorothy Loudon, actress +1947 09 17 Jeff NacNelly, cartoonist +1948 09 17 John Ritter, actor +1935 09 17 Ken Kesey, author +1938 09 17 Paul Benedict, actor +1928 09 17 Roddy McDowall, actor +1907 09 17 Warren Burger, former U.S. Chief Justice +1883 09 17 William Carlos Williams, American physician and poet, is born +1883 09 18 Elmer Maytag born +1940 09 18 Frankie Avalon, singer +1905 09 18 Greta Garbo, renowned World War II pinup, born +1920 09 18 Jack Warden, actor +1970 09 18 Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist, dies of drug overdose +1925 09 18 Peter Sellers, the actor, is born +1970 09 18 Rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27. +1916 09 18 Rossano Brazzi, actor +1959 09 18 Ryne Sandberg, baseball player +1709 09 18 Samuel Johnson, the writer, is born +1846 09 19 Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning run off to Paris together +1881 09 19 James Garfield, 20th president, finally dies of wounds from an assassination attempt (Baltimore, 1881) +1950 09 19 Joan Lunden, TV personality +1949 09 19 Twiggy, actress +1911 09 19 William Golding, author +1929 09 20 Anne Meara, actress-comedian +1928 09 20 Dr. Joyce Brothers, Psychologist +1885 09 20 Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe (Jelly Roll) Morton, American jazz musician and composer, is born +1924 09 20 Gogi Grant, singer +1951 09 20 Guy LaFleur, former hockey player +1973 09 20 Jim Croce, singer, dies in plane crash +1934 09 20 Sophia Loren, actress, is born in Rome, Italy +1878 09 20 Upton (Beall) Sinclair born +1904 09 21 Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce dies in exile +1874 09 21 Gustav Holst, composer of `The Planets` +1866 09 21 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells born in Bromley, England +1756 09 21 John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface (asphalt) +1959 09 21 Larry Hagman, actor +1934 09 21 Leonard Cohen born (Montreal, 1934) +1645 09 21 Louis Joliet, explorer and discoverer of the Mississippi River, is born +1947 09 21 Stephen King, author +1776 09 22 Captain Nathan Hale is captured by the British on Long Island. He is denied a clergyman and hung. His last words were, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country." +1885 09 22 Erich von Stroheim, early film director +1989 09 22 Irving Berlin, songwriter, dies at the age of 101 +1960 09 22 Joan Jett, singer-musician +1914 09 22 Martha Scott, actress +1791 09 22 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of the electric motor. +1927 09 22 Tommy Lasorda, baseball manager -0000 09 23 Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born (Rome, 63 BC) +1949 09 23 Bruce "The Boss" Springsteen, singer, born (Freehold, NJ, 1949) -0480 09 23 Euripides born in Salamis, Greece +1926 09 23 John Coltrane, saxophonist +1902 09 23 John Wesley Powell, the explorer, dies +1943 09 23 Julio Iglesias, singer +1947 09 23 Mary Kay Place, actress-singer +1920 09 23 Mickey Rooney, actor +1930 09 23 Ray Charles +1852 09 23 William Stewart Halsted, established 1st surgical school in US +1931 09 24 Anthony Newley, actor-singer +1896 09 24 F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, is born +1870 09 24 Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light. +1717 09 24 Horace Walpole, the English novelist, is born +1936 09 24 Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets, is born in Greenville, Mississippi +1921 09 24 Jim McKay, sportscaster, is born +1541 09 24 Paracelsus, the alchemist and physician, dies in Salzburg, Austria +1924 09 24 Shelia MacRae, actress +1931 09 25 Barbara Walters, ABC news correspondent +1952 09 25 Christopher Reeve, actor +1830 09 25 Emily Dickinson born +1961 09 25 Heather Locklear, actress +1980 09 25 John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) dies of alcohol poisoning +1903 09 25 Mark Rothko, the American Painter, is born in Dvinsk, Russia +1944 09 25 Michael Douglas, actor-producer +1725 09 25 Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile. +1680 09 25 Samuel Butler, poet and author, dies +1897 09 25 William Faulkner, the author, is born +1917 09 26 Edgar Degas, French artist, dies +1898 09 26 George Gershwin, composer, born in Brooklyn, NY +1953 09 26 J.J. Parrish III, citrus baron +1774 09 26 John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed) born +1926 09 26 Julie London, actress +1942 09 26 Kent McCord, actor +1947 09 26 Lynn Anderson, singer +1962 09 26 Melissa Sue Anderson, actress +1948 09 26 Olivia Newton-John, singer, is born in Cambridge England +1927 09 26 Patrick O`Neal, actor +1888 09 26 T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot born in St. Louis +1922 09 27 Arthur Penn, movie director +1934 09 27 Barbara Howar, author +1965 09 27 Clara Bow, silent-film actress, dies +1934 09 27 Dick Schaap, sportscaster +1327 09 27 Edward II is assassinated +1934 09 27 Greg Morris, actor +1933 09 27 Kathleen Nolan, actress +1947 09 27 Meat Loaf, singer +1949 09 27 Mike Schmidt, former baseball player +1929 09 27 Sada Thompson, actress +1722 09 27 Samuel Adams, American patriot, is born +1958 09 27 Shaun Cassidy, singer +1840 09 27 Thomas Nast, cartoonist, born +1920 09 27 William Conrad, actor +1909 09 28 Al Capp, cartoonist, +1934 09 28 Brigitte Bardot, French beauty and actress, is born +1902 09 28 Ed Sullivan (the great stone face), TV personality, is born +1953 09 28 Edwin Hubble dies +1989 09 28 Ferdinand Marcos, Phillippine hero and dictator, dies +1895 09 28 Louis Pasteur, French scientist, dies +1924 09 28 Marcello Mastroianni, actor +1573 09 28 Michelangelo Buanarroti born (Caprese, Italy, 1573) -0106 09 28 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome +1925 09 28 Seymour Cray, computer genius, born +1901 09 28 William S. Paley, CBS founder +1923 09 28 William Windom, actor, is born +1948 09 29 Bryant Gumbel, "Today" show host +1975 09 29 Casey Stengel, baseball manager, dies +1901 09 29 Enrico Fermi, physicist, is born in Rome +1911 09 29 Gene Autry, cowboy and actor,is born +1908 09 29 Greer Garson, actress, is born +1758 09 29 Horatio Nelson, British naval commander, is born in Burnham Thorpe +1943 09 29 Lech Walesa, founder of the Polish Solidarity movement, is born +1942 09 29 Madeline Kahn, actress -0048 09 29 Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus), the Great, died in Egypt +1978 09 29 Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment. +1910 09 29 Winslow Homer, American painter, dies in Maine +1931 09 30 Angie Dickinson, actress, was born +1921 09 30 Deborah Kerr, actress +1955 09 30 James Dean, film actor, dies in two car crash in California +1915 09 30 Lester Maddox, former Georgia Gov. +1943 09 30 Marilyn McCoo, singer +1924 09 30 Truman Capote, a short short story writer. +1947 10 01 Bob Opsahl, WFTV-Channel 9 news anchor, Orlando, FL. +1924 10 01 Jimmy Carter, 39th President (1976-1980) +1935 10 01 Julie Andrews, singer and actress, is born +1904 10 01 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, is born +1881 10 01 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft company. -0322 10 02 Aristotle dies of indigestion +1945 10 02 Don McLean, singer-songwriter +1851 10 02 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be the leader responsible for Allies winning World War I +1895 10 02 Groucho Marx, comedian, is born +1869 10 02 Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi born at Porbandar, Kathiawad, India +1452 10 02 Richard III is born in Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire +1985 10 02 Rock Hudson, actor, dies of complications of AIDS +1803 10 02 Samuel Adams, American patriot, dies +1951 10 02 Sting, singer-actor +1941 10 03 Chubby Checker, rock `n` roller +1951 10 03 Dave Winfield, All-Star outfielder +1925 10 03 Gore Vidal, writer. +1803 10 03 John Gorrie, invented cold-air process of refrigeration +1947 10 03 Lindsey Buckingham, singer +1934 10 03 Madlyn Rhue, actress +1226 10 03 St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, dies in a small chapel at Portiuncula +1900 10 03 Thomas Clayton Wolfe, American novelist and playwright, was born +1804 10 03 Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan +1967 10 03 Woody Guthrie, folk singer, dies +1949 10 04 Armand Assante, actor +1895 10 04 Buster Keaton, film comedian, is born +1923 10 04 Charlton Heston, actor +1945 10 04 Clifton Davis, actor +1861 10 04 Frederic Remington, American Western painter, sculptor and author, is born +1989 10 04 Graham Chapman, of Monty Python`s Flying Circus, dies of cancer +1917 10 04 Jan Murray, comedian +1970 10 04 Janis Joplin dies of heroin overdose (Hollywood, 1970) +1903 10 04 John V. Atanasoff born +1947 10 04 Max Planck, German physicist and creator of Quantum Physics, dies +1669 10 04 Rembrandt Van Rijn, the Dutch painter, dies +1822 10 04 Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President (1877-1881) -0000 10 04 St. Francis of Assisi (even though he died the day before) (1182-1226) +1946 10 04 Susan Sarandon, actress +1924 10 05 Bill Dana, comedian +1954 10 05 Bob Geldof, rock singer and famine-relief organizer +1829 10 05 Chester A. Arthur, 21st President (1881-1884) +1919 10 05 Donald Pleasence, actor +1923 10 05 Glynis Johns, actress +1951 10 05 Karen Allen, actress +1881 10 05 Pablo Picasso born (Malaga, Spain, 1881) +1902 10 05 Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald`s fast food restaurants, is born +1882 10 05 Robert Hutchings Goddard, father of modern rocketry +1943 10 05 Steve Miller, singer-musician, is born in Dallas +1813 10 05 Tecumseh, Shawnee Indian chief, is killed +1892 10 06 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet, dies +1942 10 06 Britt Ekland, actress +1981 10 06 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in Cairo +1846 10 06 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US. +1930 10 06 Hafez Assad, president of Syria +1820 10 06 Jenny Lind, nightengale +1809 10 06 John W. Griffiths, the developer of the Clipper ship, is born +1866 10 06 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music +1925 10 06 Shana Alexander, author-journalist -0000 10 06 St. Faith, who was a virgin, and several of her companions were martyred (4C) +1536 10 06 William Tyndale, a Protestant theologian, is burned at the stake +1927 10 07 Al Martino, singer +1931 10 07 Desmond Tutu, South African Archbishop +1849 10 07 Edgar Allen Poe, mystery and horror writer, dies +1951 10 07 John Cougar Mellencamp, singer +1917 10 07 June Allyson, actress +1885 10 07 Niels Bohr, physicist & Nobel laureate, expanded quantum physics. +1955 10 07 Yo-Yo Ma, cellist +1543 10 07 the German painter Hans Holbein is born +1940 10 08 Chevy Chase, comedian-actor +1940 10 08 David Carradine, actor +1873 10 08 Ejnar Hertzsprung born +1869 10 08 J. Frank Duryea, with his brother, invented 1st auto built & operated in the US +1951 10 08 Johnny Ramone, rock singer +1941 10 08 Reverend Jesse Jackson +1936 10 08 Rona Barrett, Entertainment reporter +1956 10 08 Stephanie Zimbalist, actress +1916 10 09 Charles Millican, founding Univ. of Central Fl. President +1967 10 09 Dr. Ernesto (Che) Guevara is executed +1949 10 09 Jackson Browne, singer +1944 10 09 John Alec Entwistle born (London, England, 1944) +1940 10 09 John Lennon, singer songwriter and member of the rock band "The Beatles", born in Liverpool, England +1944 10 09 Peter Tosh born Winston Hubert MacIntosh (West Morland, Jamaica, 1944) +1940 10 09 Steven Lew, Universal Studios Hollywood president and resident of Winter Park, Fl. +1946 10 10 Ben Vereen, entertainer +1738 10 10 Benjamin West, painter. +1955 10 10 David Lee Roth, singer +1813 10 10 Giuseppe Verdi, composer of operas. +1933 10 10 Glen Rinker, WCPX-Channel 6 news anchor, Orlando, FL. +1930 10 10 Harold Pinter, playwright +1900 10 10 Helen Hayes, actress, is born in Washington D.C. +1924 10 10 James Clavell, author +1946 10 10 John Prine born (Maywood, IL, 1946) +1547 10 10 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish author of Don Quixote, is born +1985 10 10 Orson Welles, radio and movie star, dies +1985 10 10 Yul Brynner, the King in "The King and I" on stage and screen, dies of lung cancer +1948 10 11 Daryl Hill, singer-musician +1884 10 11 Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady, is born +1844 10 11 Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company +1918 10 11 Jerome Robbins, choreographer +1948 10 12 Chris Wallace, reporter +1932 10 12 Dick Gregory, activist-comedian +1915 10 12 Edith Cavell, English nurse, is executed by Germans in occupied Belgium during World War I +1970 10 12 Kirk Cameron, actor +1935 10 12 Luciano Pavarotti, opera singer, is born +1962 10 12 Sid Fernandez, baseball player +1950 10 12 Susan Anton, actress and singer, is born +1935 10 12 Tony Kubek, sportscaster +1925 10 13 Frank D. Gilroy, playwright +1769 10 13 Horace H. Hayden, cofounder of 1st dental college +1925 10 13 Lenny Bruce born (New York City, 1925) +1925 10 13 Margaret Thatcher, Former Britsh Prime Minister, is born +1959 10 13 Marie Osmond, singer, is born +1941 10 13 Paul Simon, singer, songwriter, musician, is born -0000 10 13 Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) born (near Mantua, Italy, 70 BC) -0000 10 13 Roman Emperor Claudius dies (54) +1601 10 13 Tycho Brahe dies +1921 10 13 Yves Montand, actor-singer +1916 10 14 C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General +1890 10 14 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President (1953-1961) +1857 10 14 Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer, built one of the first US autos +1066 10 14 King Harold, the last Saxon king of England is killed at the Battle of Hastings +1896 10 14 Lillian Gish, actress, is born +1939 10 14 Ralph Lauren, fashion designer +1927 10 14 Roger Moore, actor +1977 10 14 Singer Bing Crosby died of a heart attack after a round of golf at a club outside Madrid, Spain +1644 10 14 William Penn born in London +1894 10 14 e.e. cummings, poet, is born +1829 10 15 Asaph Hall, astronomer, discovered the moons of Mars, Phobos & Deimos +1959 10 15 Britain`s Duchess of York (formerly Sarah Ferguson) +1905 10 15 C. P. Snow, British novelist and scientist. +1844 10 15 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philologist and philosopher, is born +1946 10 15 Herman Goering commits suicide +1986 10 15 Jacqueline Picasso, wife of the painter, found dead of gunshot wound. Suicide is the cause +1858 10 15 John L. Sullivan, famed pugelist. +1924 10 15 Lee Iacocca, Chrysler chairman +1920 10 15 Mario Puzo, author +1917 10 15 Mata Hari dies by firing squad outside Paris +1881 10 15 Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, playwright, is born +1946 10 15 Richard Carpenter, singer and songwriter, is born in New Haven Conn. +1708 10 16 Albrecht von Haller, the father of experimental physiology +1925 10 16 Angela Lansbury, actress +1947 10 16 Bob Weir born Robert Hall (San Francisco, 1947) +1931 10 16 Charles W. Colson, former presidential adviser +1888 10 16 Eugene O`Neill, playwright, is born +1916 10 16 Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in N.Y. +1793 10 16 Marie Antoinette is guillotined almost nine months after Louis XVI +1758 10 16 Noah Webster, author of dictionary, is born +1854 10 16 Oscar Wilde (Fingal O`Flahertie Wills), author, born in Dublin +1890 10 16 Paul Strand, photographer +1946 10 16 Suzanne Somers, actress +1898 10 16 William Orville Douglas, Supreme Court Justice, is born +1605 10 17 Akbar the Great, Muslim ruler of Northern India, dies +1915 10 17 Arthur Miller, American playwright, is born +1938 10 17 Evel Knievel, daredevil +1849 10 17 Frederic Francois Chopin, Polish master of short piano composition, dies of tuberculosis +1948 10 17 George Wendt, actor +1908 10 17 Jean Arthur, actress +1930 10 17 Jimmy Breslin, columnist +1780 10 17 Richard Mentor Johnson born, 9th V.P. of U.S. +1918 10 17 Rita Hayworth, actress and beauty, is born +1927 10 17 Tom Poston, actor, is born +1871 10 18 Charles Babbage, inventor, dies +1926 10 18 Chuck Berry, rock `n` roll star, born in San Jose, CA +1927 10 18 George C. Scott, actor +1939 10 18 Mike Ditka, football coach +1951 10 18 Pam Dawber, actress +1741 10 18 Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, artillery officer and writer of "Les Liaisons dangereuses", is born +1919 10 18 Pierre Trudeau, Canadien -0000 10 18 St Luke is crucified on an olive tree (63) +1931 10 18 Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies +1973 10 18 Walt Kelly (Walter Crawford Kelly), American cartoonist and illustrator (Pogo author), dies +1961 10 18 Wynton Marsalis, jazz trumpeter +1950 10 19 Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet, dies +1937 10 19 Ernest, Lord Rutherford, physicist, dies +1922 10 19 Jack Anderson, columnist +1945 10 19 Jeannie C. Riley, singer +1931 10 19 John Le Carre, author +1945 10 19 John Lithgow, actor +1216 10 19 King John of England dies +1920 10 19 LaWanda Page, actress +1932 10 19 Robert Reed, actor +1605 10 19 Thomas Browne, philosopher, is born +1682 10 19 Thomas Browne, philosopher, dies +1908 10 20 Arlene Francis, radio-television personality +1925 10 20 Art Buchwald, columnist +1812 10 20 Austin Flint, 19th century pioneer in US heart research +1874 10 20 Charles Ives, composer +1632 10 20 Christopher Wren, the English architect, is born +1968 10 20 Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. +1854 10 20 Jean Nicholas Arthur Rimbaud, French poet, is born +1935 10 20 Jerry Orbach, actor +1953 10 20 Keith Hernandez, All-star first baseman +1931 10 20 Mickey Mantle, baseball Hall-of Famer +1632 10 20 Sir Christopher Wren, astronomer, greatest English architect of his time, built many of the cathedrals in London +1890 10 20 Sir Richard Burton, English explorer, writer, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, dies +1977 10 20 Three members of Lynyrd Skynyrd die in plane crash +1932 10 20 William Christopher, actor +1833 10 21 Alfred Bernhard Nobel, created dynamite and Peace Prizes, born in Stockholm +1956 10 21 Carrie Fisher, actress +1917 10 21 Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter, is born +1805 10 21 Horatio Nelson dies +1969 10 21 Jack Kerouac, American "beat" poet, dies +1940 10 21 Manfred Mann, rock singer +1772 10 21 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet, critic and theologian, is born +1912 10 21 Sir Georg Solti, conductor +1942 10 22 Annette Funicello, actress and Mouseketeer, is born in Utica NY +1943 10 22 Catherine Deneuve, actress +1938 10 22 Christopher Lloyd, actor +1938 10 22 Derek Jacobi, actor +1811 10 22 Franz Liszt, composer and pianist, born +1952 10 22 Jeff Goldblum, actor +1917 10 22 Joan Fontaine, actress +1973 10 22 Pablo Casals, cellist, dies +1844 10 22 Sarah Bernhardt, "the Divine Sarah" French actress, is born Rosine Bernard, in Paris +1939 10 22 Tony Roberts, actor +1959 10 23 "Weird Al" Yankovic, parodist +1835 10 23 Adlai Stevenson, Vice President +1950 10 23 Al Jolson, American singer and entertainer, dies +1925 10 23 Gore Vidal, the writer, was born +1921 10 23 John Dunlop, the inventor of the pneumatic tire, dies +1925 10 23 Johnny Carson, TV personality, was born +1942 10 23 Michael Crichton, author-movie director +1940 10 23 Pele, the Brazilian soccer player, is born +1939 10 23 Zane Grey, writer of westerns, dies +1936 10 24 David Nelson, actor-producer +1947 10 24 Kevin Kline, actor +1945 10 24 Steven Altman, University of Central Florida President +1926 10 24 Y.A. Tittle, football Hall-of-Famer +1941 10 25 Helen Reddy, singer +1877 10 25 Henry Norris Russell born +1944 10 25 Jon Anderson (Yes) born (Lancashire, England, 1944) +1952 10 25 Kenneth Jean, Florida Symphony Orchestra conductor +1881 10 25 Pablo Picasso, artist, born in Malaga, Spain +1942 10 26 Bob Hoskins, actor +1855 10 26 Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals. +1685 10 26 Domenico Scarlatti, virtuoso harpsichordist and composer, is born in Naples +1972 10 26 Igor Sikorsky, inventor of the helicopter, dies +1947 10 26 Jaclyn Smith, actress +1946 10 26 Pat Sajak, TV host +1764 10 26 William Hogarth, artist and engraver, dies in London +1466 10 27 Captain James Cook, explorer, is born in Yorkshire, England +1946 10 27 Carrie Snodgress, actress +1914 10 27 Dylan Marlais Thomas, Welsh romantic poet, is born +1933 10 27 Gerald M. Weinberg, computer scientist-author, born +1926 10 27 H.R. Halderman, former White House chief of staff +1811 10 27 Issac Merrit Singer, invented 1st practical home sewing machine +1951 10 27 Jayne Kennedy-Overton, actress and beauty, is born +1939 10 27 John Cleese, actor and comedian of Monty Python, is born +1920 10 27 Nanette Fabray, actress +1922 10 27 Ralph Kiner, sportscaster and Hall-of-Famer +1924 10 27 Ruby Dee, actress +1958 10 27 Simon Le Bon, singer +1918 10 27 Teresa Wright, actress +1858 10 27 Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President (1901-1909) +1846 10 28 Auguste Escoffier, "the king of chefs & the chef of kings" +1936 10 28 Charlie Daniels, musician-songwriter +1469 10 28 Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Renaissance scholar and theologian, is born +1914 10 28 Dr. Jonas Salk, who made polio a fear of the past. +1466 10 28 Erasmus, scholar, author of "In Praise of Folly" +1939 10 28 Jane Alexander, actress +1704 10 28 John Locke, writer and thinker on the philosophy of government, dies +1922 10 29 Bill Mauldin, cartoonist, best known for "Willie and Joe", is born +1971 10 29 Duane Allman dies in motorcycle crash (near Macon, GA, 1971) +1656 10 29 Edmund Halley born +1891 10 29 Fanny Brice, actress, dancer, singer, is born +1740 10 29 James Boswell, Samuel Johnson`s biographer. +1911 10 29 Joseph Pulitzer, journalist, dies +1948 10 29 Kate Jackson, actress +1901 10 29 Leon Czolgosz is electrocuted for assassination of President McKinley +1945 10 29 Melba Moore, singer +1947 10 29 Richard Dreyfuss, actor +1618 10 29 Sir Walter Raleigh, explorer, writer and courtier, dies +1987 10 29 Woody Herman, jazz musician, dies +1893 10 30 Charles Atlas, Italian-born American physical culturist, is born +1451 10 30 Christopher Columbus, Italian navigator, is born +1937 10 30 Claude Lelouch, movie director +1821 10 30 Dostoyevsky, author, is born +1885 10 30 Ezra Loomis Pound, American poet and critic, is born +1939 10 30 Grace Slick, rock singer, born (Chicago, 1939) +1951 10 30 Harry Hamlin, actor +1945 10 30 Henry Winkler, actor +1735 10 30 John Adams, 2nd President (1797-1801) +1932 10 30 Louis Malle, movie director +1984 10 30 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi assassinated by Sikhs who had infiltrated her personal guard +1922 10 31 Barbara Bel Geddes, actress +1887 10 31 Chiang Kai-Shek born +1912 10 31 Dale Evans, actress-singer +1942 10 31 David Ogden Stiers, actor +1948 10 31 Deidre Hall, actress +1926 10 31 Harry Houdini, magician and escape artist, dies in Detroit +1632 10 31 Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter, is born in Delft Netherlands +1950 10 31 Jane Pauley, NBC newsoman +1795 10 31 John Keats, the poet, is born +1943 10 31 Max Reinhardt, stage and film director, dies +1937 10 31 Michael Landon, actor-director +1960 11 01 Fernando Valenzuela, baseball pitcher +1935 11 01 Gary Player, golfer and Longwood Florida resident +1920 11 01 James J. Kilpatrick, newspaper columnist +1949 11 01 Jeannie Berlin, actress +1942 11 01 Larry Flynt, magazine publisher +1963 11 01 Rick Allen, rock musician +1941 11 01 Robert Foxworth, actor +1953 11 02 Alfre Woodard, actress +1913 11 02 Burt Lancaster, actor +1734 11 02 Daniel Boone born near Reading, PA +1885 11 02 Harlow Shapley, US astronomer +1795 11 02 James K. Polk, 11th President (1845-1849) +1944 11 02 Keith Emerson born +1938 11 02 Patrick J. Buchanan, political commentator +1914 11 02 Ray Walston, actor +1942 11 02 Shere Hite, author +1865 11 02 Warren G. Harding, 29th President (1921-1923) +1909 11 03 James Reston, journalist +1972 11 03 James Taylor & Carly Simon married (Manhattan, 1972) +1718 11 03 John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor of same. +1990 11 03 Mary Martin, stage actress of Peter Pan and South Pacific, dies +1933 11 03 Michael Dukakis +1918 11 04 Art Carney, actor, is born +1918 11 04 Cameron Mitchell, actor +1847 11 04 Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Felix Mendelssohn), the composer, dies in Leipzig +1650 11 04 King William III of Orange born +1937 11 04 Loretta Swit, actress, is born +1950 11 04 Markie Post, actress +1916 11 04 Walter Cronkite, CBS newsman, is born +1879 11 04 Will Rogers, humorist, born +1963 11 05 Andrea McArdle, actress +1941 11 05 Art Garfunkel, singer +1959 11 05 Bryan Adams, singer +1855 11 05 Eugene Victor Debs, American labor organizer and socialist, is born +1857 11 05 Ida Tarbell, muckraker (Standard Oil was VERY unhappy) +1931 11 05 Ike Turner, singer-songwriter +1942 11 05 Paul Simon, singer and songwriter, is born +1912 11 05 Roy Rogers, actor and singer, is born in Cincinnati, OH +1943 11 05 Sam Shepard, actor-playwright +1963 11 05 Tatum O`Neal, actress +1989 11 05 Vladimir Horowitz, pianist, dies +1771 11 06 Aloys Senefelder, inventor of lithography. +1851 11 06 Charles Henry Dow, founded Dow Jones & Co. +1861 11 06 Dr. James Naismith, Canadian inventor of Basketball, is born +1893 11 06 Edsel Ford is born +1948 11 06 Glenn Frey, rock singer +1854 11 06 John Philip Sousa, band leader and composer, is born in Washington D.C. +1960 11 06 Lance Kerwin, actor +1955 11 06 Maria Shriver, TV newscaster +1931 11 06 Mike Nichols, movie and stage director +1893 11 06 Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, dies of Cholera after knowingly drinking unboiled water +1946 11 06 Sally Field, actress, is born +1406 11 06 Sir John Falstaff, English knight, dies +1922 11 07 Al Hirt, jazz musician +1913 11 07 Albert Camus born in Mondavi, Algeria +1913 11 07 Billy Graham, evangelist, is born +1962 11 07 Eleanor Roosevelt dies +1837 11 07 Elijah P Lovejoy, Abolitionist newspaperman, murdered by mob +1943 11 07 Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) born in Alberta, Canada +1867 11 07 Madame Marie Curie, discovered radium. +1937 11 07 Mary Travers, singer +1929 11 08 Bobby Bowden, Florida State University football coach +1887 11 08 Doc Holliday, notorious dentist of the Old West, dies +1656 11 08 Edmond Halley, astronomer, 1st to calculate a comet`s orbit. +1909 11 08 Katherine Hepburn, actress, born +1951 11 08 Mary Hart, television personality, is born +1931 11 08 Morley Safer, newsman of TV program 60 Minutes, is born +1927 11 08 Patti Page, singer, born +1936 11 09 Bob Graham, former governor of Florida +1934 11 09 Carl Sagan, astronomer, author and popularist of the sciences, is born +1970 11 09 Charles de Gaulle, French military and political leader, dies +1930 11 09 Charlie Jones, sportscaster +1953 11 09 Dylan Thomas, Welsh romantic poet, dies in New York +1886 11 09 Ed Wynn, actor, is born +1952 11 09 Lou Ferrigno, actor +1918 11 09 Spiro T. Agnew, former Vice President +1931 11 09 Whitey Herzog, former baseball manager +1949 11 10 Ann Reinking, actress-dancer +1939 11 10 Bob Marshall, Alaskan explorer, dies +1865 11 10 Captain Wirz, commandant of Andersonville Prison hanged +1819 11 10 Cyrus West Field, financier known for the success of the 1st transatlantic cable +1668 11 10 Francois Couperin, composer +1948 11 10 Greg Lake born (Bournemouth, England, 1948) +1895 11 10 John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer. +1483 11 10 Martin Luther, church reformer, born in Eisleben, Germany +1925 11 10 Richard Burton, the actor, is born +1935 11 10 Roy Scheider, actor +1982 11 10 Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75 +1697 11 10 William Hogarth, artist, is born +1904 11 11 Alger Hiss, former State Department official +1945 11 11 Daniel Ortega, former president of Nicaragua +1962 11 11 Demi Moore, actress +1821 11 11 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, author, "Crime and Punishment" +1885 11 11 General George Patton, World War II tank strategist, is born in San Gabriel, California +1925 11 11 Jonathan Winters, comedian +1922 11 11 Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, author, born in Indianapolis +1831 11 11 Nat Turner, slave who lead a slave revolt, hanged +1938 11 11 Typhoid Mary dies. She was under permanent detention for refusing to give up serving food and would even use false names to continue to do so. +1915 11 11 William Proxmire, former Senator +1840 11 12 Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, is born +1934 11 12 Charles Manson, crazed murderer, born +1815 11 12 Elizabeth Stanton, early leader of women`s rights movement. +1929 11 12 Grace Kelly, actress and monagesque princess, is born +1908 11 12 Harry Blackmun, Supreme Court Justice +1922 11 12 Kim Hunter, actress +1961 11 12 Nadia Comaneci, former Romanian gymnast +1945 11 12 Neil Young, musician-songwriter, born in Toronto +1916 11 12 Percival Lowell, astronomer, dies at Flagstaff Arizona +1866 11 12 Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China (ROC and PRC) +1941 11 13 Dack Rambo, actor +1934 11 13 Garry Marshall, producer-director +1868 11 13 Gioacchino Rossini, opera composer, dies +1856 11 13 Justice Louis Brandeis +1974 11 13 Karen Silkwood dies under unusual circumstances +1922 11 13 Madeleine Sherwood, actress +1932 11 13 Richard Mulligan, actor +1850 11 13 Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, born in Edinburgh -0000 11 13 St. Augustine of Hippo born in Numidia, Algeria (354) +1949 11 13 Whoopi Goldberg, actress-comedian +1900 11 14 Aaron Copland, American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) +1921 11 14 Brian Keith, actor +1840 11 14 Claude Monet, impressionist +1935 11 14 Don Stewart, actor +1716 11 14 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz, German mathematician and philosopher, died +1948 11 14 HRH Charles, Prince of Wales, first son of Queen Elizabeth II, is born +1776 11 14 Henri Dutrochet, discovered & named process of osmosis +1935 11 14 Jordan`s King Hussein +1929 11 14 McLean Stevenson, actor +1765 11 14 Robert Fulton, built 1st commercial steamboat +1929 11 15 Edward Asner, actor +1891 11 15 Erwin Rommel, German tactician, general known as "The Desert Fox", is born +1887 11 15 Georgia O`Keeffe, Southwestern artist, was born +1925 11 15 Howard H. Baker, former White House chief of staff +1934 11 15 Joanna Barnes, actress +1630 11 15 Johannes Kepler, the astronomer, dies +1962 11 15 Mark Acres, Orlando Magic forward-center +1932 11 15 Petula Clark, singer +1731 11 15 William Cowper, poet, is born +1738 11 15 Willim Herschel born +1908 11 16 Burgess Meredith, actor +1960 11 16 Clark Gable, film actor, dies +1964 11 16 Dwight Gooden, baseball player +1935 11 16 Elizabeth Drew, journalist -0042 11 16 Emperor of Rome, Tiberius born +1901 11 16 George Gallop, pollster +1944 11 16 Joanna Pettet, actress +1967 11 16 Lisa Bonet, actress +1745 11 16 Lucas von Hildebrandt, architect, dies +1873 11 16 William Handy, established the popularity of the blues in band music +1558 11 17 "Bloody" Mary Tudor, Queen of England dies +1790 11 17 August Mobius, the mathematician, was born +1930 11 17 Bob Mathias, Olympian-turned-politician +1944 11 17 Danny DeVito, actor +1938 11 17 Gordon Lightfoot, singer, is born +1944 11 17 Lauren Hutton, actress, is born +1934 11 17 Lyndon Baines Johnson married Claudia Alta Taylor, better known as "Lady Bird" +1925 11 17 Rock Hudson, the actor, is born +1923 11 18 Alan Sheppard, 1st American into space. +1808 11 18 Boatswain (Lord Byron`s dog) dies +1889 11 18 Eugene Ormandy, conductor, was born +1908 11 18 Imogene Coca, actress-comedian +1942 11 18 Linda Evans, actress +1789 11 18 Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, developed a method of photography +1836 11 18 Sir William S. Gilbert, playwright (of Gilbert & Sullivan fame) +1919 11 19 Alan Young, actor +1936 11 19 Dick Cavett, talk show host +1828 11 19 Franz Schubert, composer, dies +1939 11 19 Garrick Utley, NBC newsman +1752 11 19 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War +1831 11 19 James A. Garfield, 20th President (March 4-September 19, 1881) +1926 11 19 Jeane Kirkpatrick, former United Nations Ambassador +1962 11 19 Jodie Foster, actress +1915 11 19 Joe Hill (labor organizer) executed in Salt Lake City +1933 11 19 Larry King, talk show host +1921 11 19 Roy Campanella, baseball hall-of-famer +1938 11 19 Ted Turner, broadcasting and sports executive +1905 11 19 Tommy Dorsey, band leader, is born +1908 11 20 Alistair Cooke, author, is born +1956 11 20 Bo Derek, actress, is born +1947 11 20 Britain`s future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh +1900 11 20 Chester Gould, author of Dick Tracy, is born in Pawnee, Oklahoma +1939 11 20 Dick Smothers, comedian, is born +1946 11 20 Duane Allman born (Nashville, TN, 1946) +1889 11 20 Edwin Hubble, astronomer, is born +1927 11 20 Estelle Parsons, actress +1975 11 20 Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain, dies in Madrid +1947 11 20 Joe Walsh born (Cleveland, 1947) +1946 11 20 Judy Woodruff, broadcast journalist +1602 11 20 Otto von Guericke, invented the air pump +1620 11 20 Peregrine White is born aboard the Mayflower in Massachusetts Bay becoming the first child born of English parents in the New England +1925 11 20 Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney General and Senator, is born +1904 11 21 Coleman Hawkins, virtually created the tenor saxophone for jazz, born +1694 11 21 Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire is born +1945 11 21 Goldie Hawn, actress, is born +1941 11 21 Juliet Mills, actress +1934 11 21 Laurence Luckinbill, actor +1952 11 21 Lorna Luft, actress-singer +1937 11 21 Marlo Thomas, actress +1940 11 21 Natalia Makarova, ballet dancer +1898 11 21 Rene Magritte, artist, is born +1787 11 21 Sir Samuel Cunard, founded 1st regular Atlantic steamship line +1920 11 21 Stan Musial, baseball Hall-of-Famer +1921 11 21 Vivian Blaine, actress-singer +1694 11 21 Voltaire, thinker +1963 11 22 Aldous Huxley, English author, dies +1944 11 22 Arthur S. Eddington dies +1943 11 22 Billie Jean King, tennis player +1967 11 22 Boris Becker, tennis player +1890 11 22 Charles de Gaulle +1950 11 22 Greg Luzinski, baseball player +1942 11 22 Guion S. Bluford, astronaut +1899 11 22 Hoagy Carmichael, composed `Star Dust`. +1916 11 22 Jack London, author, dies +1958 11 22 Jamie Lee Curtis, actress +1980 11 22 Mae West, actress and sex idol, dies in LA at 87 +1961 11 22 Mariel Hemingway, actress +1963 11 22 President John Kennedy assasinated in Dallas. +1932 11 22 Robert Vaughn, actor +1247 11 22 Robin Hood dies according to "A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hood" printed in 1495 +1940 11 22 Terry Gilliam, comedy writer-animator +1718 11 22 The English pirate Blackbeard was killed off the coast of Virginia +1941 11 22 Tom Conti, actor +1887 11 23 Boris Karloff, the actor, is born in Dulwich, England. +1804 11 23 Franklin Pierce, 14th President (1853-1857) +1893 11 23 Harpo Marx of the Marx brothers is born +1928 11 23 Jerry Bock, broadway composer +1913 11 23 Maurice Zolotow, author +1930 11 23 William E. Brock, former Labor Secretary +1859 11 23 William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid) is born +1632 11 24 Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher and theologian, is born +1922 11 24 Erskine Childers, Irish nationalist writer, is executed by the Irish in Dublin +1713 11 24 Father Junipero Serra, who had a mission in California +1864 11 24 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, painter and graphic artist, is born in Albi, France +1572 11 24 John Knox, Scottish religious and political reformer, dies +1963 11 24 Lee Harvey Oswald killed by Jack Ruby (Dallas, 1963) +1942 11 24 Marlin Fitzwater, White House spokesman +1868 11 24 Scott Joplin, entertainer +1925 11 24 William F. Buckley, columnist +1784 11 24 Zachary Taylor, 12th President (1849-1850) +1960 11 25 Amy Grant, singer +1835 11 25 Andrew Carnegie, steelman and librarian +1963 11 25 Bernie Kosar, football player +1846 11 25 Carry Nation, scrouge of barkeepers and drinkers. +1971 11 25 Christina Applegate, actress +1914 11 25 Joe DiMaggio, baseball Hall-of-Famer +1960 11 25 John F. Kennedy Jr. +1947 11 25 John Larroquette, actor +1933 11 25 Kathryn Crosby, actress +1978 11 25 Ms. Elaine Esposito dies at age 43 after having been in a coma since her appendectomy when she was 6. +1881 11 25 Pope John XXIII was born Angelo Roncalli in a village near Bergamo, Italy +1920 11 25 Richardo Montalban, actor, is born +1922 11 26 Charles M. Schultz, creator of Peanuts cartoon strip, is born in Minneapolis +1879 11 26 Charles W. Goddard, the author of "The Perils of Pauline", is born +1912 11 26 Eugene Ionesco, playwright +1607 11 26 John Harvard, minister, philanthropist, and founder of Harvard University, is born +1832 11 26 Louisa May Alcott, little woman +1894 11 26 Norbert Weiner born +1938 11 26 Rich Little, impressionist +1933 11 26 Robert Goulet, singer -0000 11 26 St Peter, martyr and bishop of Alexandria, dies (311) +1938 11 26 Tina Turner, rock singer, is born +1876 11 26 Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment +1852 11 27 Ada Byron (Countess of Lovelace) only child of Lord and Lady Byron dies +1924 11 27 Alexander M. Haig, former Secretary of State +1701 11 27 Anders Celsius +1953 11 27 Eugene O`Neill, dramatist, dies in Boston +1942 11 27 Jimi Hendrix (Johnny Allen Hendrix), rock guitarist, is born in Seattle +1962 11 27 Tracy Austin, tennis player +1917 11 28 "Buffalo" Bob Smith, children`s entertainer, is born +1929 11 28 Berry Gordy Jr., recording executive +1933 11 28 Hope Lange, actress, is born +1959 11 28 Judd Nelson, actor +1949 11 28 Paul Shaffer, musician, is born +1943 11 28 Randy Newman, singer +1976 11 28 Rosalind Russell, actress, dies of cancer at 63 +1859 11 28 Washington Irving, American writer and diplomat dies +1757 11 28 William Blake, the English poet and painter, is born +1898 11 29 C.S. Lewis, author, is born +1530 11 29 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, one time advisor to Henry VIII, dies +1960 11 29 Cathy Moriarty, actress +1803 11 29 Christian Doppler, discovered Doppler Effect (frequency shift) +1940 11 29 Chuck Mangione, musician +1949 11 29 Garry Shandling +1955 11 29 Howie Mandel, actor-comedian +1933 11 29 John Mayall born (Cheshire, England, 1933) +1832 11 29 Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women", is born +1981 11 29 Natalie Wood, actress, drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California, at age 43 +1876 11 29 Nellie Taylor Ross, the first woman governor (Wyoming) and first woman director of the US Mint is born +1849 11 29 Sir Ambrose Fleming, inventor of the diode. +1946 11 29 Suzy Chaffee, skier +1927 11 29 Vin Scully, sportscaster +1955 11 30 Billy Idol, singer +1962 11 30 Bo Jackson, football and baseball player -0030 11 30 Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, commits suicide by snake +1929 11 30 Dick Clark, host of "American Bandstand", is born +1667 11 30 Jonathan Swift, satirist, wrote "Gulliver`s Travels" +1835 11 30 Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) born in Florida, Missouri +1810 11 30 Oliver Fisher Winchester, rifle maker. +1900 11 30 Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies +1924 11 30 Shirley Chisholm, former U.S. Representative, D-N.Y. -0000 11 30 St. Andrew is crucified (70) +1874 11 30 Winston Churchill, statesman, born in Blenheim Palace +1945 12 01 Bette Midler, singer, is born in Paterson, NJ +1985 12 01 Bill Scott who did the voice of Bullwinkle, Doright and Mr. Peabody dies +1914 12 01 Mary Martin the actress was born +1886 12 01 Rex Stout, American detective story writer, creator of Nero Wolfe, born in Noblesville, Indiana +1935 12 01 Woody Allen (Allen Stuart Konigsberg) born in Brooklyn, NY +1990 12 02 Aaron Copland, Americian composer, dies +1914 12 02 Edmond Rostand, dramatist, and author of "Cyrano de Bergerac", dies in Paris +1547 12 02 Hernando Cortez, the conqueror of Mexico, dies +1859 12 02 John Brown, militant abolitionist, hung for treason, murder and conspiracy in Charlestown, Virginia +1906 12 02 Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV & LP records. +1552 12 02 St. Francis Xavier, founder of the Jesuits, dies +1729 12 03 Antonio Soler, famed late 18th century Spanish composer. +1905 12 03 John Bartlett, author of Bartlett`s Familiar Quotations, dies +1857 12 03 Joseph Conrad, author of "Lord Jim", is born +1910 12 03 Mary Baker Eddy, founder of the "Church of Christ, Scientist", dies +1895 12 03 Robert Louis Stevenson, author, dies in Samoa +1835 12 04 Samuel Butler, English novelist, born +1976 12 04 Tommy Bolin dies of heroin overdose (Miami, 1976) +1926 12 05 Claude Monet the French impressionist painter dies +1890 12 05 Director Fritz Lang (Metropolis?) born in Vienna +1839 12 05 General George A. Custer +1782 12 05 Martin Van Buren, 8th President (1837-1841) +1057 12 05 Scottish King MacBeth dies +1901 12 05 Walt (Walter Elias) Disney born in Chicago +1791 12 05 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies +1822 12 06 John Eberhard, built 1st large scale pencil factory in US. -0000 12 06 St. Nicholas, archbishop of Myrna and confessor, patron saint of Russia, mariners, youth and virgins, dies (342) +1870 12 06 William S. Hart, star of silent Western movies +1942 12 07 Harry Chapin born (New York City, 1942) +1793 12 07 Madame du Barry, mistress of French King Louis XV, is guillotined +1532 12 07 Mary Queen of Scots is born +1928 12 07 Noam Chomsky, linguist, is born +1810 12 07 Theodore Schwann, physiologist, is born +1975 12 07 Thornton Wilder, novelist, author of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey", dies +1873 12 07 Willa Cather, a novelist, is born in Virginia +1817 12 07 William Bligh, captain of the Bounty, dies +1765 12 08 Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin, is born -0065 12 08 Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa, Italy +1894 12 08 James (Grover) Thurber born in Columbus, Ohio +1865 12 08 Jean Sibelius, major Scandinavian composer. +1943 12 08 Jim Morrison born (Melbourne, FL, 1943) +1980 12 08 John Lennon, musician and composer, assassinated in New York City +1925 12 08 Sammy Davis Jr., entertainer, is born in New York, New York +1694 12 08 Scaramouche dies +1741 12 08 Vitus Bering the discoverer of the Bering strait dies +1861 12 08 William Durant, founded General Motors Corp. +1886 12 09 Clarence Birdseye, became the frozen vegetable king +1887 12 09 Hermione Gingold, actress who played the mayor`s wife in "The Music Man", was born +1848 12 09 Joel Chandler Harris, author of "Uncle Remus", is born +1608 12 09 John Milton, epic poet, is born +1879 12 09 Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator, is born +1916 12 09 Natsume Soseki, Japanese novelist and critic, dies +1896 12 10 Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, dies +1830 12 10 Emily Dickinson, the poet, is born +1851 12 10 Melvil Dewey, created the Dewey Decimal System for libraries +1918 12 11 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn +1803 12 11 Hector Berlioz, the composer, is born +1282 12 11 Llewellyn, last native prince of Wales, is ambushed and killed at the orders of Edward I +1949 12 11 Teri Garr, actress, is born in Lakewood, Ohio +1939 12 12 Douglas Fairbanks Sr., actor, dies +1893 12 12 Edward G. Robinson, actor, born in Bucharest, Romania +1915 12 12 Frank Sinatra, singer, is born +1821 12 12 Gustave Flaubert, novelist, `Madame Bovary`. +1805 12 12 Henry Wells, founded American Express Co. and Wells Fargo & Co. +1889 12 12 Robert Browning, the poet, dies +1961 12 13 Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses, American primitive painter, dies +1925 12 13 Dick Van Dyke, entertainer, is born +1797 12 13 Heinrich Heine, poet, journalist, satirist, is born -0000 12 13 Nero, Roman emperor, is born (37) +1503 12 13 Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer, is born +1871 12 13 Russell Porter born +1949 12 13 Ted Nugent, the motor city madman, born (Detroit, 1949) +1989 12 14 Andrei Sakharov, physicist, Nobel Prize winner and dissident, dies +1799 12 14 George Washington, president, general, surveyor, dies at Mount Vernon +1503 12 14 Michael de Nostradamus, supposed seer into the future, is born +1861 12 14 Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, dies of Typhoid +1417 12 14 Sir John Oldcastle, prototype for Shakespeare`s Falstaff, is burned as a Lollard +1553 12 14 Tycho Brahe, the astronomer, is born +1832 12 15 Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, built a tower in Paris. +1861 12 15 Charles Edgar Duryea, with his brother, invented 1st auto to be built and operated in US +1890 12 15 Sitting Bull shot in head while submitting to arrest +1966 12 15 Walt Disney, animator and film producer, dies +1917 12 16 Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction author, is born in Somerset +1863 12 16 George Santayana, philosopher, poet, humanist. +1775 12 16 Jane Austen, author, is born +1939 12 16 Liv Ullmann, the actress, is born +1770 12 16 Ludwig van Beethoven christened in Bonn, Germany (often treated as his birthday since the real date is not known) +1899 12 16 Sir Noel Coward, playwright +1965 12 16 Somerset Maugham, novelist and dramatist, dies -0000 12 17 Arthur Fiedler (1894-1979) +1916 12 17 Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated +1907 12 17 Lord Kelvin, the physicist, dies +1830 12 17 Simon Bolivar, revolutionary leader in South America, dies +1778 12 17 Sir Humphrey Davy, discovered several chemical elements +1908 12 17 Willard Libby, chemist, discoverer of carbon dating is born in Grand Valley, Colorado +1929 12 17 William Safire (Safir) born +1737 12 18 Antonio Stradivari, renowned violin maker, dies in Cremona, Italy +1890 12 18 Edwin Armstrong, radio pioneer (invented FM) +1943 12 18 Keith Richards, rock star, is born +1870 12 18 Saki, the British short-story writer is born in Burma +1980 12 18 Soviet Premier, Alexei Kosygin suffers a fatal heart attack +1947 12 18 Stephen Spielberg, the movie director, is born in Cincinnati, OH +1886 12 18 Ty Cobb, baseball player, +1849 12 19 Henry Clay Frick, industrialist; worked for Carnegie. +1851 12 19 William Turner, the artist known for is brilliant impressionistic skies, dies +1982 12 20 Arthur Rubinstein, pianist, dies in Geneva, Switzerland +1798 12 20 Bridie Murphy is born +1868 12 20 Harvey Firestone, rubber manufacturer, is born +1819 12 20 John Geary, 1st Postmaster, 1st Mayor (May 1, 1850) of San Francisco (?) is born +1968 12 20 John Steinbeck, author, dies +1976 12 20 Richard Daley, mayor of Chicago, dies +1805 12 20 Thomas Graham, the father of colloid chemistry +1804 12 21 Benjamin Disraeli, statesman and novelist, is born +1940 12 21 F. Scott Fitzgerald, author, dies in Hollywood +1940 12 21 Frank Zappa, musician and song writer, born in Baltimore +1945 12 21 General George S. Patton dies of injuries received in a car accident +1911 12 21 Josh Gibson, in professional baseball, the "Negro Babe Ruth" +1858 12 22 Giacomo Puccini, composer of "La Boheme", and "Madame Butterfly", is born +1944 12 22 Glenn Miller disappears crossing the English Channel +1913 12 22 Lady Bird Johnson, wife of president and Texas environmental proponent, is born +1887 12 22 Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the most brilliant mathematicians to ever live, was born +1790 12 23 Jean-Francois Champollion, deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphics +1805 12 23 Joseph Smith, founder of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormons), is born in Sharon, Vermont +1905 12 24 Howard Hughes, aircraft manufacturer, was born +1914 12 24 John Muir, naturalist, dies +1809 12 24 Kit Carson, explorer, is born +1918 12 25 Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt, is born +1907 12 25 Cab Calloway, bandleader, is born +1899 12 25 Humphrey Bogart, actor, is born -0004 12 25 Jesus of Nazareth, Christian messiah, is born. Actually it is suspected that he was born in the summer. +1642 12 25 Sir Isaac Newton born in Grantham, England +1949 12 25 Sissy Spacek, actress, is born +1946 12 25 W.C. Fields dies +1791 12 26 Charles Babbage, credited with designing the first computer, is born +1891 12 26 Henry Miller, the author, is born +1893 12 26 Mao Tse-tung, revolutionary, is born in Hunan Province +1981 12 27 Hoagy Carmichael, songwriter, dies +1571 12 27 Johannes Kepler, astronomer, is born +1904 12 27 Marlene Dietrich, singer and actor, is born +1493 12 27 Philippus Paracelsus, Alchemist and physician, opposed humoral theory, stressed observation, is born +1882 12 28 Arthur S. Eddington born +1946 12 28 Edgar Winter born (Beaumont, TX, 1946) +1903 12 28 John von Neumann, mathematician and computer scientist, born +1922 12 28 Stan Lee (Stanley Martin Lieber), editor and publisher for Marvel Comics, was born +1856 12 28 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (1912-1921) +1808 12 29 Andrew Johnson, 17th President (1865-1869) +1800 12 29 Charles Goodyear, invented vulcanization process for rubber +1876 12 29 Pablo Casals, Spanish Cellist, is born +1809 12 29 William Ewart Gladstone, British statesman +1947 12 30 Alfred Whitehead, mathematician and philosopher, dies +1894 12 30 Amelia Bloomer, women`s rights activist, popularized the term bloomers, dies +1691 12 30 Robert Boyle, chemist and physicist, dies +1865 12 30 Rudyard Kipling, author and poet, is born +1869 12 30 Stephen Leacock, economist and humourist, is born +1869 12 31 Henri Matisse, painter, is born +1943 12 31 John Denver, song writer and singer, born in Roswell, NM +1985 12 31 Ricky Nelson, singer, his band and girlfriend all killed in a light plane crash in Texas