Monday, February 28, 2011

Famous Deaths on 1 Mar

Famous Deaths on 1 Mar

1131 - King Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1101)
1233 - Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)
1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
1383 - Amadeus VI of Savoy (b. 1334)
1510 - Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer
1536 - Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (b. 1465)
1546 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b 1513)
1620 - Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)
1633 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583)
1661 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
1697 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
1706 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)
1734 - Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
1757 - Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
1773 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (b. 1700)
1777 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (b. 1715)
1792 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
1841 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
1862 - Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
1875 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
1879 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
1898 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
1906 - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
1911 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1912 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
1914 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
1920 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
1929 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
1932 - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinettist (b. 1906)
1933 - UÅ‚adzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
1936 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (b. 1871)
1938 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (b. 1863)
1940 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
1942 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain (b. 1882)
1943 - Alexandre Yersin, Swiss physician (b. 1863)
1952 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
1963 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1963 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1966 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
1970 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
1974 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
1979 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
1980 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
1980 - Wilhelmina, high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
1984 - Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
1988 - Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (b. 1907)
1991 - Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor (Polaroid Corporation) (b. 1909)
1995 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946)
1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian television journalist (b. 1956)
2000 - Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
2005 - Peter Malkin Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
2006 - Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
2006 - Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
2006 - Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)
589 - Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)
986 - King Lothair of France (b. 941)

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Famous Deaths on 28 Feb

Famous Deaths on 28 Feb

1261 - Henry III, Duke of Brabant (b. c. 1230)
1326 - Duke Leopold I of Austria (b. 1290)
1453 - Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
1485 - Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German soldier (b. 1441)
1510 - Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer
1525 - Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler
1572 - Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
1621 - Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
1648 - King Christian IV of Denmark and Norway (b. 1577)
1746 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
1786 - John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
1788 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (b. 1725)
1857 - André Dumont, Belgian geologist (b. 1809)
1869 - Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer and poet (b. 1790)
1916 - Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)
1925 - Friedrich Ebert, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1871)
1929 - Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician (b. 1874)
1932 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
1935 - Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
1936 - Charles Nicolle, French bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1866)
1941 - King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
1942 - Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
1956 - Emile Buisson, French murderer executed (b. 1902)
1959 - Maxwell Anderson, American playwright and film writer (b. 1888)
1963 - Rajendra Prasad, First President of India (b. 1884)
1966 - Jonathan Hale, Canadian-born actor (b. 1891)
1967 - Henry Luce, American publisher (b. 1898)
1974 - Bobby Bloom, American singer/songwriter (b. 1946)
1977 - Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, American actor (b. 1905)
1978 - Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905)
1978 - Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)
1978 - Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)
1979 - Paul Alverdes, German writer (b. 1897)
1985 - David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (b. 1947)
1985 - Ray Ellington, English singer (b. 1916)
1986 - Olof Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden (b. 1927)
1986 - Laura Z. Hobson, American novelist (b. 1900)
1991 - Wassily Hoeffding, American statistician (b. 1914)
1991 - Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (b. 1916)
1993 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (b. 1911)
1993 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian actress and dancer (b. 1910)
1998 - Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (b. 1952)
1998 - Arkady Shevchenko, Soviet diplomat (b. 1930)
1999 - Christine Glanville, British Puppeteer (. 1924)
2002 - Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (b. 1920)
2002 - Mary Stuart, American actress (b. 1926)
2003 - Chris Brasher, English athlete (b. 1928)
2003 - Fidel Sánchez Hernández, President of El Salvador (b. 1917)
2003 - Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (b. 1935)
2003 - Rudolf Kingslake, Lens designer, and Engineer (b. 1903)
2004 - Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian soldier (b. 1982)
2004 - Carmen Laforet, famed Spanish novelist
2004 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (b. 1914)
2006 - Owen Chamberlain, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1920)
2007 - Baron Charles Forte, Italian-born hotelier (b. 1908)
2007 - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and political commentator (b.1917)
2007 - Billy Thorpe, Australian musician (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (b. 1946)
2008 - Mike Smith, English musician (The Dave Clark Five) (b. 1943)

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Famous Deaths on 27 Feb

Famous Deaths on 27 Feb

1659 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609)
1699 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625)
1706 - John Evelyn, English diarist (b. 1620)
1720 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653)
1735 - John Arbuthnot, English physician and writer (b. 1667)
1844 - Nicholas Biddle, President of the Second Bank of the United States (b. 1786)
1887 - Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
1892 - Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821)
1902 - Harry 'Breaker' Morant, Anglo-Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances (b. 1864)
1902 - Peter Handcock, Australian Soldier executed in the Second Boer War under controversial circumstances
1921 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (b. 1871)
1932 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843)
1936 - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852)
1936 - Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1849)
1941 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
1943 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859)
1964 - Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
1968 - Frankie Lymon, American singer (b. 1942)
1969 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist (b. 1883)
1970 - Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934)
1972 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1977 - John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
1978 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
1980 - George Tobias, American actor (b. 1901)
1981 - Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
1985 - Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)
1986 - Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
1987 - Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
1989 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
1989 - Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
1990 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
1992 - S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
1993 - Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
1998 - George H. Hitchings, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1905)
1998 - J. T. Walsh, American actor (b. 1943)
2002 - Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (b. 1918)
2003 - Fred Rogers, American children's television actor (b. 1928)
2003 - John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
2004 - Paul Sweezy, American economist and editor (b. 1910)
2004 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
2006 - Linda Smith, British comedian (b. 1958)
2006 - Robert Lee Scott, Jr., U.S. General, Flying Tiger, and author (b. 1908)
2006 - Otis Chandler, American newspaper publisher (b. 1927)
2007 - Bobby Rosengarden, American jazz drummer (b. 1924)
2007 - Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
2008 - Myron Cope, American sports broadcaster (b. 1929)
2008 - William F. Buckley, Jr., American conservative author and commentator (b. 1925)
2008 - Boyd Coddington, American automobile designer (b. 1944)

Friday, February 25, 2011

Famous Deaths on 26 Feb

Famous Deaths on 26 Feb

1154 - King Roger II of Sicily (b. 1093)
1200 - Symeon, former Serbian ruler and saint
1266 - King Manfred of Sicily
1360 - Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)
1552 - Heinrich Faber, German composer
1561 - Jorge de Montemayor, Spanish writer
1577 - King Eric XIV of Sweden (b. 1533)
1608 - John Still, English bishop
1630 - William Brade, English composer (b. 1560)
1638 - Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac, French mathematician (b. 1681)
1723 - Thomas d'Urfey, English writer (b. 1653)
1726 - Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1662)
1770 - Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer (b. 1692)
1802 - Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War admiral (b. 1718)
1813 - Robert Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1746)
1815 - Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (b. 1737)
1821 - Joseph de Maistre, Savoyard diplomat and writer (b. 1753)
1864 - Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (b. 1807)
1883 - Alexandros Koumoundouros, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1817)
1889 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (b. 1838)
1903 - Richard Jordan Gatling, American inventor (b. 1818)
1913 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (b. 1835)
1921 - Carl Menger, Austrian economist (b. 1840)
1931 - Otto Wallach, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1847)
1933 - Princess Thyra, daughter of Christian IX of Denmark (b. 1853)
1943 - Theodor Eicke, Nazi official (b. 1892)
1947 - Heinrich Häberlin, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council (b. 1868)
1950 - Sir Harry Lauder, Scottish Music Hall Entertainer, Knighted for WWI War Work (b. 1870)
1961 - King Mohammed V of Morocco (b. 1909)
1966 - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian freedom fighter and writer (b. 1883)
1969 - Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1895)
1969 - Karl Jaspers, German psychiatrist (b. 1883)
1971 - Fernandel, French actor (b. 1903)
1981 - Robert Aickman, English writer and conservationist (b. 1914)
1981 - Howard Hanson, American composer (b. 1896)
1985 - Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1910)
1989 - Roy Eldridge, American musician (b. 1911)
1990 - Cornell Gunter, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1938)
1993 - Constance Ford, American actress (b. 1923)
1994 - Bill Hicks, American comedian (b. 1961)
1995 - Jack Clayton, British film director (b. 1921)
1997 - David Doyle, American actor (b. 1929)
1998 - James Algar, American film director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1912)
1998 - Theodore Schultz, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
2000 - George L. Street III American Navy Submariner and Medal of Honor recipient.(b. 1913)
2001 - Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer (b. 1906)
2002 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (b. 1919)
2003 - Christian Goethals, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
2004 - Boris Trajkovski, President of the Republic of Macedonia (b. 1956)
2004 - Adolf Ehrnrooth, Finnish general (b. 1905)
2004 - Shankarrao Chavan, Indian politician (b. 1920)
2005 - Jef Raskin, American computer scientist (b. 1943)
2008 - Buddy Miles, American drummer (Band of Gypsies; b. 1947)
2008 - Dick Fletcher, Meteorologist (b.1942)
2008 - Glory Mukwati, Zimbabwean politician

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Famous Deaths on 25 Feb

Famous Deaths on 25 Feb

1246 - Dafydd ap Llywelyn, King of Gwynedd
1522 - William Lilye, English classical scholar
1536 - Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)
1553 - Hirate Masahide, Japanese diplomat and tutor of Oda Nobunaga (suicide) (b. 1492)
1558 - Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (b. 1498)
1601 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, English politician (b. 1566)
1634 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (b. 1583)
1643 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1655 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (b. 1580)
1682 - Alessandro Stradella, Italian composer (b. 1639)
1713 - King Frederick I of Prussia (b. 1657)
1715 - Pu Songling, Chinese writer (b. 1640)
1723 - Sir Christopher Wren, English architect (b. 1632)
1756 - Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)
1798 - Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais, French diplomat and writer (b. 1716)
1805 - Thomas Pownall, British colonial statesman (b. 1722)
1831 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
1850 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (b. 1782)
1852 - Thomas Moore, Irish poet (b. 1779)
1860 - Chauncey Allen Goodrich, American clergyman, educator, and lexicographer (b. 1790)
1899 - Paul Julius Reuter, German-born journalist (b. 1816)
1912 - Guillaume IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (b. 1852)
1919 - Josef Christiaens, Belgian racing driver (b. 1879)
1922 - Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (b. 1869)
1934 - John McGraw, American baseball player and manager (b. 1873)
1945 - Mário de Andrade, Brazilian writer and photographer (b. 1893)
1950 - George Minot, American physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1885)
1953 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (b. 1856)
1957 - George "Bugs" Moran, American gangster (b. 1893)
1964 - Grace Metalious, American writer (b. 1924)
1966 - James D. Norris, American sports businessman (b. 1906)
1970 - Mark Rothko, Latvian-born American painter (b. 1903)
1971 - Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1884)
1975 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (b. 1897)
1978 - Daniel "Chappie" James Jr., American general (b. 1920)
1983 - Tennessee Williams, American playwright (b. 1911)
1987 - James Coco, American actor (b. 1930)
1993 - Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
1993 - Mary Walter, Filipino actress (b. 1912)
1994 - Baruch Goldstein, American-born mass murderer (b. 1956)
1994 - Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer (b. 1914)
1996 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-born actor (b. 1940)
1998 - Celestine Tate Harrington, a quadriplegic street musician and writer.
1999 - Glenn T. Seaborg, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
2001 - Sir Donald Bradman, Australian cricketer (b. 1908)
2003 - Tom O'Higgins, Irish Chief Justice (b. 1916)
2003 - Alberto Sordi, Italian actor (b. 1920)
2004 - Donald Hings, Canadian inventor (b. 1907)
2005 - Peter Benenson, English founder of Amnesty International (b. 1921)
2006 - Charlie Wayman, English footballer (b. 1922)
2006 - Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
2007 - William R. Anderson, CO USS Nautilus submarine, US Congressman (b. 1921)
2007 - Mark Spoelstra, American singer/songwriter (b. 1940)
2008 - Ashley Cooper, Australian race car driver (b. 1980)
2008 - Hans Raj Khanna, Judge of the Supreme Court of India (b. 1912)
2008 - Static Major, American singer (b. 1974)

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Famous Deaths on 24 Feb

Famous Deaths on 24 Feb

1525 - Guillaume Gouffier, seigneur de Bonnivet, French soldier
1563 - Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (b. 1519)
1588 - Johann Weyer, Dutch physician and occultist
1666 - Nicholas Lanier, English composer (b. 1588)
1674 - Matthias Weckmann, German composer (b. 1616)
1685 - Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)
1704 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (b. 1643)
1714 - Edmund Andros, English governor in North America (b. 1637)
1721 - John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, English statesman and poet (b. 1648)
1732 - Colonel Francis Charteris, known as "The Rape-Master General". (b. 1675)
1777 - King Joseph I of Portugal (b. 1714)
1779 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)
1781 - Edward Capell, English critic (b. 1713)
1799 - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist (b. 1742)
1810 - Henry Cavendish, English scientist (b. 1756)
1812 - Etienne-Louis Malus, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1775)
1815 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (b. 1765)
1825 - Thomas Bowdler, English physician and editor (b. 1754)
1856 - Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (b. 1792)
1876 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (b. 1809)
1914 - Joshua Chamberlain, Civil War hero for the Union on Little Round Top at the Battle of Gettysburg
1925 - Hjalmar Branting, Prime Minister of Sweden, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1860)
1929 - André Messager, French composer and conductor (b. 1853)
1953 - Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (b. 1875)
1970 - Conrad Nagel, American actor (b. 1897)
1975 - Nikolai Bulganin, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
1982 - Virginia Bruce, America actress and singer (b. 1910)
1984 - Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (b. 1912)
1986 - Tommy Douglas, Canadian politician (b. 1904)
1987 - Jim Connors, Legendary Radio personality (b. 1940)
1989 - Sparky Adams, American baseball player (b. 1894)
1990 - Tony Conigliaro, American baseball player (b. 1945)
1990 - Malcolm Forbes, American publisher (b. 1917)
1990 - Sandro Pertini, Italian politician (b. 1896)
1990 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (b. 1927)
1991 - Webb Pierce, American music singer (b. 1921)
1991 - George Gobel, American comedian (b. 1919)
1991 - John Daly, South African game show host (b. 1914)
1993 - Danny Gallivan, Canadian radio and television sportscaster (b. 1917)
1993 - Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
1994 - Jean Sablon, French singer (b. 1906)
1994 - Dinah Shore, American actress and singer (b. 1916)
1998 - Henny Youngman, English-born comedian (b. 1906)
1998 - Antonio Prohias, Cuban-born cartoonist (b. 1921)
1999 - Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (b. 1916)
1999 - Andre Dubus, American writer (b. 1936)
2001 - Claude E. Shannon, American information theorist (b. 1916)
2002 - Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
2002 - Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (b. 1912)
2003 - John Edward Christopher Hill, English historian (b. 1912)
2003 - Bernard Loiseau, French chef (b. 1951)
2004 - John Randolph, American actor (b. 1915)
2006 - Denis Twitchett, Cambridge scholar, and Chinese historian (b. 1925)
2006 - John Martin, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1947)
2006 - Octavia Butler, American author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow (b. 1947)
2006 - Don Knotts, American actor (b. 1924)
2006 - Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 - Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (b. 1932)
2007 - Bruce Bennett, American actor (b. 1906)
2007 - Damien Nash, American football player (b. 1982)
2007 - Lamar Lundy, American football player (b. 1935)
2008 - Larry Norman, American musician, singer, songwriter and producer (b. 1947)
616 - King Ethelbert of Kent

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Famous Deaths on 23 Feb

Famous Deaths on 23 Feb

1011 - Willigis, Archbishop of Mainz
1100 - Emperor Zhezong of China (b. 1076)
1270 - Saint Isabel of France, daughter of Louis VIII of France (b. 1225)
1447 - Pope Eugene IV (b. 1383)
1447 - Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1390)
1464 - Zhengtong, Emperor of China (b. 1427)
1526 - Diego Colón, Spanish Viceroy of the Indies
1554 - Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English politician (executed) (bc. 1515)
1572 - Pierre Certon, French composer
1603 - Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519)
1669 - Leo Aitzema, Dutch historian and statesman (b. 1600)
1704 - Georg Muffat, French composer (b. 1653)
1730 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
1766 - Stanislaw Leszczynski, King of Poland (b. 1677)
1781 - George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (bc. 1716)
1792 - Joshua Reynolds, English painter (b. 1723)
1800 - Joseph Warton, English literary critic (b. 1722)
1821 - John Keats, English poet (b. 1795)
1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1855 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
1859 - Zygmunt Krasiński, Polish Romantic poet (b. 1812)
1879 - Albrecht Graf von Roon, Prime Minister of Prussia (b. 1803)
1897 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (b. 1828)
1908 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (b. 1823)
1922 - Albert Victor Bäcklund, Swedish physicist (b. 1845)
1930 - Horst Wessel, Nazi ideologue and composer (b. 1907)
1931 - Nellie Melba, Australian opera soprano (b. 1861)
1934 - Edward Elgar, English composer (b. 1857)
1944 - Leo Hendrik Baekeland, Flemish-American chemist and inventor of the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite (b. 1863)
1946 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885)
1948 - John Robert Gregg, Irish-born publisher and inventor (b. 1866)
1955 - Paul Claudel, French poet and playwright (b. 1868)
1957 - Marika Ninou, Greek singer (b. 1918)
1960 - Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (b. 1898)
1965 - Stan Laurel, British born actor and comedian (b. 1890)
1969 - King Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1902)
1970 - Hirsch Jacobs, American thoroughbred horse trainer and owner (b. 1904)
1973 - Dickinson W. Richards, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1895)
1974 - Harry Ruby, American composer and writer (b. 1895)
1976 - LS Lowry, English artist (b. 1887)
1979 - W.A.C. Bennett, Canadian politician (b. 1900)
1983 - Herbert Howells, English composer (b. 1892)
1990 - José Napoleón Duarte, President of El Salvador (b. 1925)
1992 - Markos Vafiadis, Greek politician (b. 1906)
1995 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1942)
1995 - James Herriot, English writer (b. 1916)
1997 - Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (b. 1945)
1999 - Carlos Hathcock, USMC Sniper, 93 Confirmed Kills (b. 1942)
2000 - Stanley Matthews, English footballer (b. 1915)
2000 - Ofra Haza, Israeli singer (b. 1957)
2001 - Robert Enrico, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1931)
2003 - Robert K. Merton, American sociologist (b. 1910)
2003 - Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (b. 1955)
2004 - Sikander Bakht, Governor of Kerala (b. 1918)
2004 - Carl Liscombe, Canadian hockey player (b. 1915)
2004 - Don Cornell, American singer (b. 1919)
2004 - Carl Anderson, American singer (b. 1945)
2004 - Vijay Anand, Indian film director (b. 1934)
2006 - Benno Besson, Swiss actor and film director (b. 1922)
2006 - Telmo Zarraonaindía, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
2007 - Donnie Brooks, American singer (b. 1936)
2007 - John Ritchie, British footballer (b. 1941)
2008 - Paul Frère, Belgian race car driver and motorsport journalist (b. 1917)
2008 - Janez Drnovšek, Slovenian prime minister and president (b. 1950)
2008 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot, first to land at Newfoundland Airport on January 11, 1938 (b. 1916)
943 - Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, (b. 884)

Monday, February 21, 2011

Famous Deaths on 22 Feb

Famous Deaths on 22 Feb

1071 - Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle) (b. c.1055)
1111 - Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
1371 - King David II of Scotland (b. 1324)
1512 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (b. 1454)
1627 - Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
1674 - Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
1680 - Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c.1640)
1690 - Charles Le Brun, French artist (b. 1619)
1727 - Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
1731 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
1732 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
1742 - Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
1797 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
1799 - Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
1816 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
1875 - Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)
1875 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
1890 - John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
1890 - Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
1892 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
1903 - Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1904 - Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
1913 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (b. 1857)
1921 - Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
1923 - Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
1934 - Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
1939 - Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
1942 - Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
1943 - Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1918)
1943 - Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (b. 1919)
1943 - Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (b. 1921)
1944 - Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1960 - Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
1961 - Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
1965 - Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
1968 - Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
1973 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1973 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
1974 - Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1976 - Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
1976 - Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)
1980 - Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (b. 1886)
1982 - Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1983 - Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
1983 - Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
1984 - Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)
1985 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
1985 - Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)
1985 - Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
1987 - Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
1989 - Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader, UDT President in the exterior (b. 1938)
1994 - Papa John Creach, American musician (b. 1917)
1995 - Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
1997 - Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
1998 - Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
1999 - Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2000 - Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
2002 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
2002 - Chuck Jones, American animator (b. 1912)
2002 - Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel leader (b. 1934)
2002 - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
2003 - Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
2004 - Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2004 - Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2005 - Zdzisław Beksiński, Polish artist (b. 1929)
2005 - Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
2005 - Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
2006 - Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2007 - Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
2007 - Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
2007 - Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007 - George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)
965 - Odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Famous Deaths on 21 Feb

Famous Deaths on 21 Feb

1437 - King James I of Scotland (b. 1394)
1471 - John of Rokycan, Czech Catholic archbishop
1513 - Pope Julius II (b. 1443)
1543 - Ahmed Gragn, Sultan of Adal
1554 - Hieronymus Bock, German botanist (b. 1498)
1595 - Robert Southwell, English Jesuit priest and poet (executed)
1668 - John Thurloe, English Puritan spy (b. 1616)
1677 - Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher (b. 1632)
1715 - Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, Governor of the Province of Maryland (b. 1637)
1730 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
1788 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1821 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
1824 - Eugène de Beauharnais, son of Napoleon's wife, Josephine (b. 1781)
1846 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
1862 - Justinus Kerner, German poet (b. 1786)
1901 - George Francis FitzGerald, Irish mathematician (b. 1851)
1919 - Kurt Eisner, German socialist (assassinated), leader of socialist revolution of 1918 in Bavaria (b. 1867)
1920 - Jacinta Marto, witness of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Fatima (b. 1910)
1926 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853)
1934 - Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino, Nicaraguan patriot (assassinated) (b. 1895)
1938 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (b. 1868)
1941 - Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891)
1944 - Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian-born race car driver (b. 1873)
1945 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (b. 1902)
1946 - José Streel, Belgian World War II collaborator (b. 1911)
1949 - Tan Malaka, Indonesian nationalist activist and communist leader (b. 1894)
1958 - Duncan Edwards, English footballer (b. 1936)
1960 - Jacques Becker, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1965 - Malcolm X, American black activist (b. 1925)
1966 - Paul Comtois, French Canadian politician (b. 1895)
1967 - Charles Beaumont, American writer (b. 1929)
1968 - Howard Walter Florey, Australian-born pharmocologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1898)
1972 - Bronislava Nijinska, Polish-Russian ballet dancer (b. 1891)
1972 - Eugène Tisserant, French Catholic candinal (b. 1884)
1974 - Tim Horton, Canadian hockey player (b. 1930)
1978 - Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (b. 1901)
1980 - Alfred Andersch, German writer
1982 - Murray the K, American impresario and disc jockey (b. 1922)
1984 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1985 - Louis Hayward, British actor (b. 1909)
1986 - Helen Hooven Santmyer, American writer (b. 1895)
1986 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, also the world's oldest man ever (b. 1865)
1989 - Alex Thépot, French footballer (b. 1906)
1991 - Dame Margot Fonteyn, English ballet dancer (b. 1919)
1994 - Johannes Steinhoff, German fighter pilot & NATO commander (b.1913)
1996 - Morton Gould, American composer (b. 1913)
1999 - Gertrude B. Elion, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1918)
1999 - Wilmer David Mizell, baseball player (b. 1930)
2000 - Antonio Díaz-Miguel, Spanish basketball coach (b. 1933)
2002 - Harold Furth, Austrian-born physicist (b. 1939)
2002 - John Thaw, English actor (b. 1942)
2003 - Eddie Thomson, Scottish football player and coach (b. 1947)
2004 - Guido Molinari, Canadian artist (b. 1933)
2004 - John Charles, Welsh footballer (b. 1931)
2005 - Ara Berberian, American opera singer (b. 1930)
2005 - Gérard Bessette, Quebec novelist and poet (b. 1920)
2005 - Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban novelist (b. 1929)
2005 - Eugene Scott, American religious broadcaster (b. 1929)
2008 - Sunny Lowry, First British woman to swim the English Channel (b. 1911)
2008 - Ben Chapman, American actor (b. 1928)

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Famous Deaths on 20 Feb

Famous Deaths on 20 Feb

1154 - Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett
1171 - Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
1194 - King Tancred of Sicily
1258 - Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad
1408 - Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)
1431 - Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
1524 - Tecún Umán, last leader of the Quiché-Maya
1579 - Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
1618 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
1626 - John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (b. 1563)
1762 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1771 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678)
1773 - King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
1778 - Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711)
1790 - Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
1803 - Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713)
1806 - Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)
1810 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (executed) (b. 1767)
1862 - William Wallace Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln
1871 - Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)
1893 - P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
1895 - Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer (b. 1818)
1905 - Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
1907 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1916 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1844)
1920 - Robert Peary, American explorer (b. 1856)
1941 - La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
1961 - Percy Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
1963 - Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
1963 - Jacob Gade, Danish composer(b. 1879)
1965 - Fred Immler, German actor (b. 1880)
1966 - Chester Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
1968 - Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (b. 1902)
1969 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
1970 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
1972 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1972 - Walter Winchell, American journalist (b. 1897)
1976 - René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887)
1976 - Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907)
1981 - Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (b. 1904)
1983 - Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. 1910)
1984 - Paul Dirac, British theoretical physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1902)
1985 - Clarence "Ducky" Nash, American voice actor (b. 1904)
1992 - Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician (b. 1944)
1992 - Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
1993 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
1996 - Solomon Asch, American psychologist (b. 1907)
1996 - Tōru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)
1997 - Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
1999 - Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
1999 - Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
2000 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (b. 1937)
2001 - Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
2003 - Maurice Blanchot, French author (b. 1907)
2003 - Orville Freeman, American politician (b. 1918)
2003 - Harry Jacunski, American football player
2003 - Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
2003 - Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani Chief of the Air Staff (b. 1947)
2005 - Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
2005 - Tom Willmore, English geometer (b. 1919)
2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
2005 - John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917)
2005 - Pam Bricker, American jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (b. 1954)
2006 - Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
2006 - Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. 1920)
2007 - F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (b. 1930)
2007 - Mike Awesome, Pro Wrestler (b. 1965)
2008 - Emily Perry, English Actress (b. 1907)
2008 - Larry Davis (criminal)
702 - K'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)

Friday, February 18, 2011

Famous Deaths on 19 Feb

Famous Deaths on 19 Feb

1133 - Irene Ducaena, wife of Alexius I Comnenus (b. 1066)
1553 - Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511)
1589 - Saint Philothei, Orthodox martyr and Patron of Athens (b. 1522)
1602 - Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercoeur, French soldier (b. 1558)
1605 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550)
1620 - Roemer Visscher, Dutch writer (b. 1547)
1622 - Sir Henry Savile, English educator (b. 1549)
1653 - Luigi de Rossi, Italian composer (b. 1597)
1663 - Adam Adami, German bishop and diplomat (b. 1603)
1670 - King Frederick III of Denmark (b. 1609)
1672 - Charles Chauncy, English-born president of Harvard College (b. 1592)
1709 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)
1716 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (b. 1634)
1789 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (b. 1738)
1799 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (b. 1733)
1806 - Elizabeth Carter, English writer (b. 1717)
1837 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
1873 - Vasil Levski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1837)
1887 - Multatuli, Dutch writer (b. 1820)
1897 - Karl Weierstraß, German mathematician (b. 1815)
1916 - Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
1927 - Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer (b. 1847)
1936 - Charles Harding Firth, British historian (b. 1857)
1936 - Billy Mitchell, American general and military aviation pioneer (b. 1879)
1936 - Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
1942 - Frank Abbandando, American gangster (executed) (b. 1910)
1951 - André Gide, French writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1869)
1952 - Knut Hamsun, Norwegian author, Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
1957 - Maurice Garin, French cyclist (b. 1871)
1962 - Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear (b. 1883)
1968 - Georg Hackenschmidt, Estonian professional wrestler (b. 1878)
1969 - Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899)
197 - Clodius Albinus, Roman governor of Britain
1972 - John Grierson, Scottish documentary filmmaker (b. 1898)
1972 - Tedd Pierce, American animator (b. 1906)
1973 - Kostas Negrepontis, Greek footballer (b. 1897)
1973 - Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
1975 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (b. 1904)
1977 - Mike González, Cuban baseball player (b. 1890)
1977 - Anthony Crosland, British politician (b. 1918)
1980 - Bon Scott, Australian musician and singer for the band AC/DC (b. 1946)
1983 - Alice White, American film actress (b. 1904)
1986 - Adolfo Celi, Italian actor (b. 1922)
1988 - André Frédéric Cournand, French-born physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1994 - Derek Jarman, British film director (b. 1942)
1996 - Antonio Creus, Spanish racecar driver (b. 1924)
1996 - Charles O. Finley, American sports entrepreneur (b. 1918)
1997 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist leader and revolutionary (b. 1904)
1997 - Leo Rosten, American Yiddish writer and humorist (b. 1908)
1998 - Grandpa Jones, American entertainer (b. 1913)
1999 - Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi Shiite leader (assassinated)
2000 - Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
2001 - Charles Trenet, French singer (b. 1913)
2001 - Stanley Kramer, American director (b. 1913)
2001 - Priscilla Davis, American socialite (b. 1942)
2003 - Johnny PayCheck, American singer (b. 1938)
2007 - Janet Blair, American actress (b. 1921)
2007 - Celia Franca, founder of National Ballet of Canada (b. 1921)
2008 - Lydia Shum, Hong Kong comedian and actress (b. 1945)
2008 - Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer (b. 1964)
440 - Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian monk, theologian and linguist (b. 361/362)

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Famous Deaths on 18 Feb

Famous Deaths on 18 Feb

1139 - Prince Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)
1294 - Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215)
1379 - Albert II of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)
1405 - Tamerlane, Mongol Emperor (b. 1336)
1455 - Fra Angelico, Italian artist (b. 1395)
1478 - George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1449)
1535 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, astrologer and alchemist (b. 1486)
1546 - Martin Luther, German religious reformer (b. 1483)
1564 - Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian artist (b. 1475)
1583 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian writer (b. 1503)
1654 - Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French writer (b. 1594)
1683 - Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
1712 - Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir to the throne of France (b. 1682)
1718 - Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English dramatist (b. 1663)
1743 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)
1748 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
1772 - Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)
1778 - Joseph Marie Terray, French statesman (b. 1715)
1780 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian poet (b. 1714)
1785 - Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (b.1774)
1788 - John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist (b. 1713)
1803 - Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet (b. 1719)
1842 - Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1779)
1851 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804)
1893 - Serranus Clinton Hastings, American politician (b. 1814)
1895 - Karl Abs, German professional wrestler (b. 1851)
1900 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (b. 1824)
1902 - Charles Lewis Tiffany, American founder of Tiffany & Co. (b. 1812)
1906 - John Batterson Stetson, American manufacturer (b. 1830)
1911 - Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
1931 - Milan Å ufflay, Croatian politician (b. 1879)
1933 - James J. Corbett, American boxer (b. 1866)
1938 - David King Udall, American politician (b. 1851)
1942 - Albert Payson Terhune, American author (b. 1872)
1945 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906)
1955 - Sadako Sasaki, School student(b. 1944)
1956 - Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
1957 - Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
1957 - Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer (b. 1877)
1964 - Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Quebec inventor and industrialist (b. 1907)
1966 - Robert Rossen, American screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1908)
1967 - J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1904)
1967 - Dragiša Cvetković, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister (b. 1893)
1973 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (b. 1891)
1977 - Andy Devine, American actor (b. 1905)
1978 - Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928)
1981 - John Knudsen Northrop, American aircraft manufacturer (b. 1895)
1982 - Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)
1993 - Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1960)
1993 - Jacqueline Hill, British actress (b. 1929)
1995 - Bob Stinson, American guitarist (b.1959)
1997 - Emily Hahn, American writer (b. 1905)
1998 - Robbie James, Welsh footballer (b. 1957)
1998 - Harry Caray, American baseball broadcaster (b. 1914)
1999 - Noam Pitlik, American actor and director (b. 1932)
2000 - Willy Maltaite, Belgian comics creator (b. 1927
2001 - Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)
2001 - Eddie Mathews, American baseball player (b. 1931)
2001 - Balthus, Polish-born painter (b. 1908)
2003 - Isser Harel, Israeli Mossad leader (b. 1912)
2003 - Johnny Paycheck, American country singer/songwriter (b. 1938)
2004 - Jean Rouch, French filmmaker and ethnologist (b. 1917)
2006 - Richard Bright, American actor (b. 1937)
2008 - Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress, (b. 1955)
2008 - Sir Richard Knowles, British politician (b. 1917)
2008 - Mickey Renaud, Canadian professional ice hockey player (b. 1988)
806 - Tarasius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 730)
814 - Angilbert, Frankish monk and confidant of Charlemagne
901 - Thabit ibn Qurra, Arab astronomer and mathematician (b. 826)
999 - Pope Gregory V (b. 972)

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Famous Deaths on 17 Feb

Famous Deaths on 17 Feb

1339 - Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)
1371 - Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
1596 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)
1600 - Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)
1609 - Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
1624 - Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
1659 - Abel Servien, French diplomat (b. 1593)
1673 - Molière, French playwright (b. 1622)
1680 - Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)
1680 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist (b. 1637)
1715 - Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (b. 1646)
1732 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)
1768 - Arthur Onslow, English politician (b. 1691)
1780 - Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b. 1706)
1841 - Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist (b. 1770)
1854 - John Martin, English painter (b. 1789)
1856 - Heinrich Heine, German writer (b. 1797)
1874 - Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796)
1883 - Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (b. 1806)
1883 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b. 1845)
1890 - Christopher Sholes, American inventor (b. 1819)
1909 - Geronimo, Apache leader (b. 1829)
1912 - Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer (b. 1876)
1919 - Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1841)
1934 - King Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
1934 - Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (b. 1862)
1939 - Willy Hess, German violinist (b. 1859)
1943 - Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
1943 - Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (b. 1888)
1958 - Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (b. 1876)
1961 - Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1897)
1962 - Bruno Walter, German conductor (b. 1876)
1970 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1970 - Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1901)
1977 - Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (b. 1922)
1982 - Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (b. 1922)
1982 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (b. 1917)
1982 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian-born actor (b. 1901)
1986 - Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b.1895)
1989 - Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1990 - Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1901)
1990 - Erik Rhodes, American actor (b. 1906)
1994 - Randy Shilts, American author and activist (b. 1951)
1996 - Hervé Bazin, French writer (b. 1911)
1997 - Zein Isa, Palestinian militant imprisoned in the United States for the honor killing of his daughter
1998 - Ernst Jünger, German author (b. 1895)
1998 - Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (b. 1921)
2001 - Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (b. 1948)
2001 - Bob Geary, Canadian football player and manager (b. 1933)
2004 - José López Portillo, President of Mexico (b. 1920)
2005 - Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Omar Sivori, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
2006 - Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (b. 1948)
2006 - Ray Barretto, Puerto Rican musician (b. 1929)
2007 - Jurga IvanauskaitÄ—, Lithuanian writer (b. 1961)
2007 - Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
2007 - Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born Canadian musician, producer and songwriter (b. 1943)
2007 - Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2008 - Brian Harris, English footballer (b. 1935)
364 - Jovian, Roman Emperor
440 - Mesrop Mashtots

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Famous Deaths on 16 Feb

Famous Deaths on 16 Feb

1247 - Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
1279 - King Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210)
1391 - John V Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1332)
1531 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)
1560 - Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat
1710 - Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (b. 1632)
1721 - James Craggs the Younger, English politician (b. 1686)
1754 - Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1673)
1844 - Joseph Crosfield, English soap and alkali manufacturer (b. 1792)
1898 - Thomas Bracken, New Zealand poet (b. 1843)
1899 - Félix Faure, President of France (b. 1841)
1907 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1835)
1912 - St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest (b. 1836)
1917 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)
1919 - Vera Kholodnaya, Russian film star (b. 1893)
1928 - Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (b. 1856)
1932 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1841)
1967 - Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor (b. 1887)
1967 - Smiley Burnette, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1911)
1974 - John Garand, Canadian rifle engineer and manufacturer (b. 1888)
1975 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b. 1903)
1975 - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (b. 1927)
1977 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (b. 1897)
1978 - E. Roland Harriman, American financier (b. 1895)
1979 - Nematollah Nassiri, executed Iran general/head of SAVAK (b. 1911)
1980 - Erich Hückel, German physicist (b. 1895)
1988 - Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1916)
1990 - Keith Haring, American artist (b. 1958)
1992 - Angela Carter, English writer (b. 1940)
1992 - Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician (b. 1917)
1992 - Herman Wold, Swedish statistician (b. 1908
1996 - Brownie McGhee, American singer (b. 1915)
1996 - Edmund G. Brown, Governor of California (b. 1905)
1996 - Roger Bowen, American actor (b. 1932)
1997 - Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (b. 1912)
1999 - Michael Larson, Press Your Luck Big-winning contestant (b. 1949)
2000 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (b. 1918)
2000 - Karsten Solheim, Norwegian-born engineer and inventor (b. 1911)
2000 - Marceline Day, American actress (b. 1908)
2001 - Bob Buhl, baseball player (b. 1928)
2001 - Howard W. Koch, American film director (b. 1916)
2001 - William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1915)
2002 - Walter Winterbottom, England football manager (b. 1913)
2003 - Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (b. 1907)
2004 - Doris Troy, American singer (b. 1937)
2004 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (b. 1925)
2005 - Nicole DeHuff, American actress (pneumonia) (b. 1975)
2005 - Queen Narriman, second and last wife of King Farouk and mother of their only child King Fuad II
2006 - Johnny Grunge, American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2006 - Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)

Monday, February 14, 2011

Famous Deaths on 15 Feb

Famous Deaths on 15 Feb

1145 - Pope Lucius II
1621 - Michael Praetorius, German composer (b. 1571)
1637 - Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1578)
1738 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
1775 - Peter Dens, Flemish Catholic theologian (b. 1690)
1781 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (b. 1729)
1818 - Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
1835 - Henry Hunt, British politician (b. 1773)
1839 - Chevalier de Lorimier, Quebec notary (b. 1803)
1843 - Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek military figure (b. 1770)
1844 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1757)
1847 - Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1794)
1848 - Hermann von Boyen, Prussian field marshal (b. 1771)
1849 - Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (b. 1804)
1857 - Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (b. 1804)
1869 - Mirza Ghalib, Indian poet (b. 1796)
1911 - Theodor Escherich, German pediatrician (b. 1859)
1928 - H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852)
1932 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (b. 1865)
1939 - Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter (b. 1878)
1956 - Vincent de Moro-Giafferi, French criminal attorney (b. 1878)
1959 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1879)
1964 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman and politician (b. 1880)
1965 - Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)
1966 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (b. 1909)
1970 - Sir Hugh Dowding, British military figure (b. 1882)
1971 - Dimitrios Loundras, Greek gymnast (b. 1885)
1973 - Wally Cox, American actor (b. 1924)
1973 - Tim Holt, American actor (b. 1919)
1974 - Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (b. 1887)
1981 - Mike Bloomfield, American musician (b. 1943)
1981 - Karl Richter, German conductor (b. 1926)
1984 - Ethel Merman, American singer and actress (b. 1908)
1988 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1918)
1992 - María Elena Moyano, Peruvian activist (b. 1960)
1992 - William Schuman, American composer (b. 1910)
1996 - Tommy Rettig, American actor (b. 1941)
1996 - McLean Stevenson, American actor (b. 1929)
1996 - Lucio Agostini, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1913)
1998 - Louie Spicolli, American professional wrestler
1999 - Big L, American rapper (b. 1974)
1999 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1926)
2002 - Howard K. Smith, American journalist (b. 1914)
2002 - Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor (b. 1963)
2004 - Jens Evensen, Norwegian minister and jurist (b. 1917)
2004 - Jan Miner, American actress (b. 1917)
2005 - Pierre Bachelet, French singer and songwriter (b. 1944)
2005 - Samuel Francis, American journalist (b. 1947)
2007 - Walker Edmiston, actor (b. 1926)
2007 - Ray Evans, American songwriter (b. 1915)
2008 - Amnon Netzer, Iranian-Israeli historian (b. 1934)
2008 - Ashley Callie, South African actress (b. 1976)

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Famous Deaths on 14 Feb

Famous Deaths on 14 Feb

1317 - Marguerite of France, queen of Edward I of England (b. 1282)
1400 - King Richard II of England (murdered) (b. 1367)
1405 - Timur, Mongol conqueror (b. 1336)
1571 - Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (b. 1517)
1676 - Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
1714 - Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen Consort of Spain (b. 1688)
1737 - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)
1744 - John Hadley, inventor (b. 1682)
1779 - James Cook, British naval captain and explorer (b. 1728)
1780 - William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723)
1808 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
1831 - Henry Maudslay, English inventor (b. 1771)
1831 - Vicente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782)
1870 - St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)
1881 - Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (b. 1812)
1885 - Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)
1891 - William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)
1894 - Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)
1922 - Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (assassinated) (b. 1880)
1929 - Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
1942 - Adnan Bin Saidi, Officer of the Malay Regiment killed in the defense of Singapore (b. 1915)
1943 - Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)
1943 - David Hilbert, German mathematician (b. 1862)
1948 - Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (b. 1876)
1949 - Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
1950 - Karl Guthe Jansky, American Discoverer of cosmic radio waves (b. 1905)
1952 - Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)
1958 - Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
1959 - Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)
1967 - Sig Ruman, German-American actor (b. 1884)
1969 - Vito Genovese, American gangster (b. 1897)
1970 - Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880).
1974 - Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
1975 - P. G. Wodehouse, English writer (b. 1881)
1975 - Julian Huxley, British biologist (b. 1887)
1978 - Paul Governali, American professional football player (b. 1921)
1979 - Adolph Dubs, American diplomat (b. 1920)
1980 - Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor
1983 - Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
1987 - Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
1987 - Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
1988 - Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (b. 1901)
1989 - James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
1990 - Tony Holiday, German singer
1994 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)
1995 - U Nu, Burmese politician (b. 1907)
1995 - Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (b. 1923)
1996 - Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)
1999 - Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
1999 - John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor (b. 1925)
2002 - Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
2003 - Dolly, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
2003 - Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)
2004 - Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
2005 - Rafik Hariri, Lebanese politician and billionaire businessman (b. 1944)
2005 - Najai Turpin, American boxer
2006 - Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
2006 - Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
2006 - Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
2007 - Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
2007 - Ryan Larkin, Canadian animated film maker. (b. 1943)
270 - St. Valentine marking Valentines Day (some sources say 269, others 273).
869 - Saint Cyril, Greek monk, scholar, theologian and linguist (b. 827)

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Famous Deaths on 13 Feb

Famous Deaths on 13 Feb

1130 - Pope Honorius II
1141 - Béla II of Hungary (b. 1110)
1219 - Minamoto no Sanetomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1192)
1332 - Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1259)
1539 - Isabella d'Este, Marquise of Mantua (b. 1474)
1542 - Catherine Howard, fifth wife of Henry VIII of England (executed) (b. 1525)
1571 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (b. 1500)
1585 - Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar (b. 1515)
1592 - Jacopo Bassano, Italian painter
1600 - Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter (b. 1538)
1602 - Alexander Nowell, English clergyman
1608 - Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski, Lithuanian prince (b. 1526)
1624 - Stephen Gosson, English satirist (b. 1554)
1657 - Miles Sindercombe, attempted assassin of Oliver Cromwell
1660 - King Charles X of Sweden (b. 1622)
1662 - Elizabeth Stuart (b. 1596)
1727 - William Wotton, English scholar (b. 1666)
1728 - Cotton Mather, American Puritan minister (b. 1663)
1732 - Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
1787 - RuÄ'er BoÅ¡ković, Croatian scientist and diplomat (b. 1711)
1787 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1717)
1813 - Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (b. 1725)
1818 - George Rogers Clark, American military leader (b. 1752)
1826 - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (b. 1745)
1837 - Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (b. 1809
1845 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773)
1883 - Richard Wagner, German composer (b. 1813)
1888 - Jean Baptiste Lamy, 1st Archbishop of Santa Fe (b. 1814)
1889 - João Maurício Wanderley, Brazilian magistrate and politician (b. 1885)
1905 - Konstantin Savitsky, Russian painter (b. 1844)
1906 - Albert Gottschalk, Danish painter (b. 1866)
1942 - Epitácio Pessoa, Brazilian president (b. 1865)
1950 - Rafael Sabatini, Italian author (b. 1875)
1951 - Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
1952 - Josephine Tey, English author (b. 1896)
1958 - Georges Rouault, French painter (b. 1871)
1958 - Dame Christabel Pankhurst, a leading suffragette (English) "Queen of the mob" (b.1880)
1964 - Werner Heyde, German psyhiatrist (b. 1902)
1968 - Mae Marsh, American actress (b. 1895)
1975 - André Beaufre, French General (b. 1902)
1976 - Lily Pons, French-born soprano (b. 1904)
1976 - Murtala Mohammed, Nigerian military leader (b. 1938)
1980 - David Janssen, American actor (b. 1931)
1984 - Andre Stander, South African police captain and bank robber (b. 1946)
1989 - Wayne Hays, American politician (b. 1911)
1991 - Arno Breker, German sculptor (b. 1900)
1992 - Nikolay Bogolyubov, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1996 - Martin Balsam, American actor (b. 1919)
1997 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (b. 1920),Jessica Browne,singer and dancer
2000 - James Cooke Brown, American author and inventor (b. 1921)
2002 - Waylon Jennings, American musician (b. 1937)
2003 - Kid Gavilan, Cuban boxer (b. 1926)
2003 - Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (b. 1932)
2003 - Walt Rostow, U.S. government official (b. 1916)
2004 - Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Chechen leader (b. 1952)
2005 - Maurice Trintignant, French race car driver (b. 1917)
2005 - Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (b. 1965)
2005 - Dick Weber, American professional bowler (b. 1929)
2005 - Lúcia Santos, Carmelite nun and Fatima visionary (b. 1907)
2005 - Nelson Briles, baseball player (b. 1943)
2006 - Andreas Katsulas, Greek-American actor (b. 1946)
2006 - Peter Frederick Strawson, British philosopher (b. 1919)
2007 - Charlie Norwood, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 - Elizabeth Jolley, Australian writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Richard Gordon Wakeford, Air Marshal, Royal Air Force (b. 1922)
2007 - Johanna Sällström, Swedish actress (b. 1974)
2008 - Roger Voisin, Trumpet player, Boston Symphony (b. 1918)
858 - Kenneth I of Scotland

Friday, February 11, 2011

Famous Deaths on 12 Feb

Famous Deaths on 12 Feb

1538 - Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter
1554 - Lord Guilford Dudley, consort of Lady Jane Grey (b. 1536)
1554 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the English throne (b. 1537)
1571 - Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)
1590 - François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (b. 1524)
1595 - Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553)
1612 - Christopher Clavius, German astronomer (b. 1538)
1624 - George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b. 1563)
1630 - Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (b. 1566)
1700 - Aleksei Shein, Russian general and statesman (b. 1662)
1724 - Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648)
1728 - Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (b. 1653)
1762 - Laurent Belissen, French composer (b. 1693)
1763 - Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
1771 - King Adolf Frederick of Sweden (b. 1710)
1789 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (b. 1738)
1799 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (b. 1729)
1804 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (b. 1724)
1894 - Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (b. 1830)
1896 - Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (b. 1811)
1903 - Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish dramatist and statesman (b. 1834)
1915 - Émile Waldteufel, French composer (b. 1837)
1916 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (b. 1831)
1929 - Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
1931 - Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (b. 1855)
1933 - Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848)
1935 - Auguste Escoffier, French chef (b. 1846)
1945 - Antonio Villa-Real, Filipino jurist (b. 1880)
1949 - Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
1951 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (b. 1897)
1954 - Dziga Vertov, Russian filmmaker (b. 1896)
1957 - Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (b. 1872)
1958 - Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (b.1897)
1971 - James C. Penney, American department store founder (b. 1875)
1976 - Sal Mineo, American actor (b. 1939)
1979 - Jean Renoir, French director (b. 1894)
1980 - Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (b. 1913)
1982 - Victor Jory, Canadian actor (b. 1902)
1983 - Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (b. 1887)
1984 - Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (b. 1914)
1984 - Anna Anderson, claimant to the throne of Russia (b. 1896)
1985 - Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (b. 1924)
1989 - Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist (b. 1931)
1991 - Roger Patterson, American death metal bass player (b. 1968)
1992 - Bep van Klaveren, Dutch boxer (b. 1907)
1993 - James Bulger, English murder victim (b. 1990)
1994 - Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (b. 1950)
1995 - Philip Taylor Kramer, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1952)
1995 - Robert Bolt, English writer (b. 1924)
1996 - Bob Shaw, Northern Irish novelist (b. 1931)
2000 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American musician (b. 1929)
2000 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
2000 - Andy Lewis, Australian musician (b. 1967)
2000 - Charles Schulz, American comics author (b. 1922)
2000 - Oliver, American pop singer (b. 1945)
2001 - Kristina Söderbaum, German actress (b. 1912)
2003 - Vali Myers, Australian painter (b. 1930)
2005 - Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (b. 1964)
2005 - Sammi Smith, American country music singer (b. 1943)
2007 - Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1905)
2007 - Randy Stone, American actor and casting director (b. 1958)
2008 - Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (b. 1907)
2008 - Lawrence "Larry" King, 15-year old hate crime victim (b. 1993)

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Famous Deaths on 11 Feb

Famous Deaths on 11 Feb

1141 - Hugo of St. Victor, German philosopher and theologian
1160 - Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (b. 1123)
1503 - Elizabeth of York, queen consort of Henry VII of England (b. 1466)
1511 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, son of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
1626 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (b. 1552)
1650 - René Descartes, French philosopher (b. 1596)
1685 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (b. 1638)
1713 - Jahandar Shah, Mughal emperor of India (b. 1664)
1755 - Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist (b. 1675)
1762 - Johann Tobias Krebs, German composer (b. 1690)
1763 - William Shenstone, English poet (b. 1714)
1797 - Antoine Dauvergne, French composer (b. 1713)
1829 - Alexandr Griboyedov, Russian playwright (b. 1795)
1862 - Elizabeth Siddal, British poet and artist (b. 1829)
1868 - Léon Foucault, French astronomer (b. 1819)
1879 - Honoré Daumier, French caricaturist and painter (b. 1808)
1917 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (b. 1872)
1923 - Wilhelm Killing, German mathematician (b. 1847)
1931 - Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (b. 1854)
1939 - Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
1940 - John Buchan, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1875)
1945 - Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (b. 1891)
1948 - Sergei Eisenstein, Latvian film director (b. 1898)
1954 - Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (b. 1877)
1958 - Ernest Jones, British psychonanalyst (b. 1879)
1959 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)
1963 - Sylvia Plath, American writer (b. 1932)
1968 - Howard Lindsay, American playwright (b. 1888)
1972 - Jan Wils, Dutch architect (b. 1891)
1973 - Hans D Jensen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1907)
1975 - Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy soldier and statesman, assassinated (b. 1931)
1976 - Frank Arnau, German writer (b. 1894)
1976 - Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (b. 1894)
1976 - Lee J Cobb, American actor (b. 1911)
1977 - Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1902)
1978 - James B Conant, American chemist and university president (b. 1893)
1978 - Harry Martinson, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1904)
1982 - Eleanor Powell, American actress and dancer (b. 1912)
1982 - Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
1985 - Heinz Eric Roemheld, American composer (b. 1901)
1985 - Ben Abruzzo, American businessman and balloonist (b. 1930)
1985 - Henry Hathaway, American actor and director (b. 1898)
1986 - Frank Herbert, American author (b. 1920)
1986 - Evelio Javier, Filipino politician, lawyer, and civil servant (b. 1942)
1987 - Sadequain, famous Pakistani painter and artist. (b. 1930)
1989 - George O'Hanlon, American actor and director (b. 1912)
1991 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1922)
1994 - Sorrell Booke, American actor (b. 1930)
1994 - Neil Bonnett, American race car driver (b. 1946)
1994 - William Conrad, American actor (b. 1920)
1996 - Cyril Poole, English cricketer (b. 1921)
1996 - Amelia Rosselli, Italian poet (b. 1930)
1996 - Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1946)
1997 - Barry Evans, English actor (b. 1943)
1997 - Don Porter, American actor (b. 1912)
2000 - Roger Vadim, French director (b. 1928)
2000 - Jacqueline Auriol, French aviatrix (b. 1917)
2002 - Barry Foster, British actor (b. 1931)
2002 - Frank Crosetti, baseball player (b. 1910)
2004 - Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (b. 1925)
2005 - Jack L. Chalker, American author (b. 1944)
2006 - Jackie Pallo, wrestler (b. 1926)
2006 - Peter Benchley, American author (b. 1940)
2006 - Jockey Shabalala, South African singer (b. 1943)
2007 - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (b. 1927)
2008 - Tom Lantos, member of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1928)
2008 - Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical designer (b. 1919)
641 - Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium
731 - Pope Gregory II
821 - Saint Benedict of Aniane
824 - Pope Paschal I

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Famous Deaths on 10 Feb

Famous Deaths on 10 Feb

1126 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
1162 - King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
1242 - Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
1278 - Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
1576 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
1686 - William Dugdale, English antiquarian (b. 1605)
1722 - Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
1755 - Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
1758 - Thomas Ripley, English architect
1782 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
1829 - Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
1837 - Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
1857 - David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
1865 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
1891 - Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
1904 - John A. Roche, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
1906 - Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
1912 - Joseph Lister, British surgeon (b. 1827)
1917 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
1918 - Abdul Hamid II Ottoman Sultan (b. 1842)
1918 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833)
1923 - Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
1932 - Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1875)
1939 - Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
1944 - Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer, a crater on Mars and the Antoniadi crater on the Moon were named in his honor (b. 1870)
1945 - Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
1950 - Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
1952 - Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)
1957 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
1960 - Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1964 - Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
1966 - Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (b. 1899)
1975 - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
1984 - David Von Erich, professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1985 - Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
1987 - Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
1992 - Alex Haley, American author (b. 1921)
1993 - Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
1997 - Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
2000 - Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
2001 - Abraham Beame, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
2001 - George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
2002 - Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
2002 - Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
2003 - Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
2003 - Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
2003 - Clark MacGregor, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922)
2003 - Al Ruffo, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
2003 - Ron Ziegler, press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
2004 - Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
2005 - Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
2006 - J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
2006 - Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
2007 - Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
2007 - Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
2008 - Roy Scheider, American Actor (b. 1932)
2008 - Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Famous Deaths on 9 Feb

Famous Deaths on 9 Feb

1011 - Bernard I, Duke of Saxony
1199 - Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
1450 - Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
1555 - Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (b. 1510)
1619 - Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
1640 - Murad IV, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1612)
1675 - Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
1709 - François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)
1751 - Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
1752 - Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
1777 - Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
1782 - Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Syrian orientalist (b. 1710)
1803 - Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
1857 - Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)
1874 - Jules Michelet, French historian (b. 1798)
1881 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (b. 1821)
1891 - Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (b. 1819)
1906 - Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet (b. 1872)
1940 - Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
1951 - Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910)
1957 - Miklós Horthy, Hungarian admiral (b. 1868)
1960 - Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870)
1960 - ErnÅ' Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1877)
1966 - Sophie Tucker, Russian-born actress (b. 1884)
1969 - Gabby Hayes, American actor (b. 1885)
1973 - Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (b. 1883)
1973 - Max Yasgur, American farmer (Woodstock Festival) (b. 1919)
1976 - Percy Faith, Canadian musician (b. 1908)
1977 - Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1894)
1978 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (b. 1893)
1978 - Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (b. 1935)
1979 - Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1980 - Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
1981 - Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (b. 1925)
1984 - Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician (b. 1914)
1989 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
1991 - James Cleveland, American gospel singer (b. 1931)
1994 - Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)
1995 - J. William Fulbright, American politician (b. 1905)
1995 - David Wayne, American actor (b. 1914)
1997 - Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (b. 1945)
1999 - Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)
2001 - Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2002 - Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom (b. 1930)
2002 - Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
2004 - Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (b. 1925)
2006 - Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2006 - Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
2007 - Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
2007 - Hank Bauer, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2008 - Christopher Hyatt Occultist,Philosopher and Author.
2008 - Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (b. 1931)
2008 - Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school (b. 1930)
2008 - Scott Halpin, a one time drummer of The Who.

Monday, February 7, 2011

Famous Deaths on 8 Feb

Famous Deaths on 8 Feb

1204 - Alexius IV Angelus, deposed Eastern Roman Emperor (b. circa 1182)
1250 - Robert I of Artois, French crusader (b. 1216)
1250 - William II Longespee
1265 - Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217)
1296 - King Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
1529 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478)
1587 - Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542)
1599 - Robert Rollock, Scottish educator
1623 - Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)
1696 - Tsar Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
1709 - Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658)
1725 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (b. 1672)
1749 - Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682)
1750 - Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685)
1768 - George Dance the Elder, English architect (b. 1695)
1772 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719)
1849 - France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (b. 1800)
1849 - François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (b. 1781)
1856 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)
1907 - Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (b. 1854)
1910 - Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854)
1921 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (b. 1842)
1921 - George Formby (Senior), English entertainer (b. 1876)
1929 - Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
1932 - Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, New York City gangster from County Donegal in Ireland (b. 1908)
1956 - Connie Mack, American baseball manager and executive (b. 1862)
1957 - Walther Bothe, German physicist and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1957 - John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
1960 - Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect (b. 1880)
1960 - John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher, (b. 1911)
1963 - George Dolenz, American actor, father of Micky Dolenz (b. 1908)
1964 - Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (b. 1888)
1972 - Markos Vamvakaris, Greek musician and songwriter (b. 1905)
1975 - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1977 - Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)
1980 - Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (b. 1936)
1982 - John Hay Whitney, American financier (b. 1904)
1984 - Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
1985 - William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1901)
1987 - Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (b. 1905)
1990 - Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)
1992 - Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist (b. 1924)
1993 - N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader
1994 - Raymond Scott, American composer (b. 1908)
1996 - Del Ennis, American baseball player (b. 1925)
1998 - Enoch Powell, British Conservative MP and shadow cabinet member (b.1912)
1998 - Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
1998 - Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1999 - Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919)
2000 - Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
2000 - Bob Collins, American radio broadcaster (b.1942)
2000 - Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
2001 - Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (b. 1920)
2002 - Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930)
2002 - Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (b. 1936)
2004 - Julius Schwartz, American comic book and science fiction editor (b. 1915)
2005 - Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2005 - Keith Knudsen, American drummer, vocalist and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1948)
2006 - Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
2006 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
2007 - Anna Nicole Smith, American model, actress, and entertainer (b. 1967)
2007 - Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American professor and reincarnation expert (b. 1918)
2008 - Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (b. 1947)

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Famous Deaths on 7 Feb

Famous Deaths on 7 Feb

1045 - Emperor Go-Suzaku of Japan (b. 1009)
1317 - Robert, Count of Clermont, French founder of the House of Bourbon (b. 1256)
1560 - Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (b. 1493)
1626 - William V, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1548)
1642 - William Bedell, English clergyman (b. 1571)
1652 - Gregorio Allegri, Italian composer (b. 1582)
1690 - William Morice, English royalist statesman
1693 - Paul Pellisson, French writer (b. 1624)
1736 - Stephen Gray, English astronomer and scientist (b. 1666)
1779 - William Boyce, English composer (b. 1711)
1799 - Qianlong, Emperor of China (b. 1711)
1801 - Daniel Chodowiecki, Polish painter (b. 1726)
1823 - Ann Radcliffe, English novelist (b. 1764)
1837 - King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (b. 1778)
1839 - Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (b. 1799)
1871 - Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, piano manufacturer (Steinway & Sons) (b. 1797)
1873 - Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer (b. 1814)
1878 - Pope Pius IX (b. 1792)
1897 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (b. 1847)
1919 - William Halford, American naval officer and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1841)
1920 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (b. 1874)
1937 - Elihu Root, American statesman and diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1845)
1938 - Harvey Firestone, American manufacturer (b. 1868)
1939 - Boris Grigoriev, Russian painter (b. 1886)
1942 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (b. 1876)
1944 - Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano (b. 1874)
1959 - Nap Lajoie, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1959 - Guitar Slim, American blues guitarist (b. 1926)
1960 - Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist (b. 1903)
1962 - Clara Nordström, German writer and translator (b. 1886)
1963 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (b. 1902)
1964 - Sophoklis Venizelos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1894)
1968 - Nick Adams, American actor (b. 1931)
1979 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (b. 1911)
1980 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet pioneer (b. 1904)
1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen of Greece (b. 1917)
1985 - Matt Monro, English singer (b. 1932)
1986 - Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian (b. 1923)
1990 - Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
1990 - Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (b. 1913)
1991 - Amos Yarkoni, legendary Israeli soldier (b. 1920)
1991 - Jean-Paul Mousseau, Quebec painter, member of Les Automatistes (b. 1927)
1992 - Buzz Sawyer, wrestler (b. 1959)
1994 - Stephen Milligan, British journalist and politician (b. 1948)
1994 - Witold Lutosławski, Polish composer (b. 1913)
1996 - Phillip Davidson, US Army general (b. 1915)
1998 - Lawrence Sanders, American author (b. 1920)
1999 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935)
1999 - José Silva, author of Silva Method and the Silva UltraMind ESP System (b. 1914)
1999 - Bobby Troup, American musician and actor (b. 1918)
2000 - Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (b. 1943)
2000 - Doug Henning, Canadian magician (b. 1947)
2000 - Big Pun, Puerto Rican-American rapper (b. 1971)
2001 - Dale Evans, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
2001 - Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American author and aviator (b. 1906)
2002 - Jack Fairman, British racing driver (b. 1913)
2003 - John Reading, Mayor of Oakland, California (b. 1917)
2003 - Augusto Monterroso, Guatemalan author (b. 1921)
2005 - Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1934)
2006 - Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (b. 1914)
2008 - Tamara Desni, German-born British actress (b. 1913)
999 - Boleslaus II of Bohemia

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Famous Deaths on 6 Feb

Famous Deaths on 6 Feb

1378 - Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
1497 - Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1410)
1515 - Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
1585 - Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
1593 - Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
1593 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
1617 - Prospero Alpini, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
1685 - King Charles II of England (b. 1630)
1740 - Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
1775 - William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
1783 - Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
1793 - Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (b. 1707)
1807 - John Reid, British army general and composer (b. 1721)
1816 - Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
1833 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
1834 - Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
1855 - Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
1899 - Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
1899 - Prince Prince Alfred of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
1910 - Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b.1839)
1916 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
1918 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
1927 - Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
1938 - Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
1950 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
1952 - George VI of the United Kingdom (b. 1895)
1958 - Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
1958 - David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
1958 - Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 - Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 - Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
1958 - Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
1958 - Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
1958 - Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
1963 - Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician
1964 - Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (b. 1869)
1966 - Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
1967 - Martine Carol, French film actress (b. 1920)
1976 - Vince Guaraldi, American musician (b. 1928)
1981 - Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer (b. 1925)
1981 - Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
1985 - James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
1986 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
1986 - Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
1988 - Nuno Oliveira, Bass Player (b. 1925)
1989 - André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)
1989 - Barbara Tuchman, American historian (b. 1912)
1989 - Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
1989 - Osbourne Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
1991 - Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (b. 1914)
1991 - Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1993 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
1994 - Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (b. 1917)
1994 - Joseph Cotten, American actor (b. 1905)
1995 - James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
1996 - Guy Madison, American actor (b. 1922)
1997 - Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
1998 - Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
1998 - Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
1998 - Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (b. 1946)
2001 - Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
2001 - Fulgence Charpentier, Quebec journalist (b. 1897)
2002 - Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
2005 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2005 - Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
2007 - Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
2007 - Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2007 - Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932)
2007 - Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007 - Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
2008 - John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
2008 - Tony Rolt, English racing driver (b. 1918)
891 - Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople

Friday, February 4, 2011

Famous Deaths on 5 Feb

Famous Deaths on 5 Feb

1520 - Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
1578 - Giambattista Moroni, Italian painter
1705 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
1766 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
1775 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)
1790 - William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
1807 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725)
1881 - Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)
1892 - Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807)
1915 - Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
1917 - Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
1922 - Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
1922 - Christiaan De Wet, South African general (b. 1854)
1927 - Inayat Khan, Indian sufi
1937 - Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (b. 1861)
1938 - Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)
1941 - Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)
1946 - George Arliss, English actor (b. 1868)
1948 - Johannes Blaskowitz, German general (b. 1883)
1957 - Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
1962 - Jacques Ibert, French composer (b. 1890)
1967 - Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
1969 - Thelma Ritter, American actress (b. 1905)
1970 - Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1972 - Marianne Moore, American poet (b. 1887)
1976 - Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)
1977 - Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
1981 - Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
1984 - Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, Mexican wrestler and film actor (b. 1917)
1985 - Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (b. 1907)
1987 - William Collier, American film and stage actor (b. 1902)
1991 - Dean Jagger, American actor (b. 1903)
1992 - Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
1993 - Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (b. 1930)
1993 - Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958)
1993 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909)
1995 - Doug McClure, American actor (b. 1935)
1997 - Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat (b. 1920)
1998 - Tim Kelly, American musician (b. 1963)
1999 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)
2000 - Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)
2003 - Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer
2004 - John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
2005 - Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
2006 - Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
2006 - Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
2007 - Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983-1995) (b. 1930)
2007 - Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)
2008 - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. ca. 1917)
995 - William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Famous Deaths on 4 Feb

Famous Deaths on 4 Feb

1508 - Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)
1590 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)
1615 - Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath and child prodogy (b. 1535)
1615 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
1617 - Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher (b. 1546)
1694 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671)
1774 - Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
1781 - Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (b. 1737)
1799 - Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
1894 - Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker (b. 1814)
1905 - Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
1928 - Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1853)
1933 - Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)
1936 - Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
1940 - Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
1943 - Frank Calder, the first NHL President (b. 1877)
1944 - Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
1944 - Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
1958 - Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)
1959 - Una O'Connor, Irish actress (b. 1880)
1966 - Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American president of the National Geographic Society (b. 1875)
1967 - Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
1968 - Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
1974 - Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)
1975 - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
1975 - Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
1977 - Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)
1982 - Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge (b. 1909)
1982 - Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)
1983 - Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters) (b. 1950)
1987 - Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
1987 - Liberace, American musician (b. 1919)
1990 - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1917)
1992 - Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)
1994 - Fred De Bruyne, Belgian cyclist (b. 1930)
1995 - Patricia Highsmith, American author (b. 1921)
1995 - Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher (b. 1915)
2000 - Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941)
2000 - Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
2000 - Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
2001 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (b. 1924)
2001 - Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (b. 1922)
2002 - George Nader, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
2003 - Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (b. 1920)
2003 - Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2006 - Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
2006 - Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)
2007 - Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959)
2007 - Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
2007 - Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
2007 - José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup footballer (b. 1925)
2007 - Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (b. 1938)
2008 - Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (b. 1942)
211 - Septimius Severus, Emperor of Rome (b. 146)
708 - Pope Sisinnius
856 - Rabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz (b. circa 780)
869 - Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827)

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Famous Deaths on 3 Feb

Famous Deaths on 3 Feb

1014 - King Sweyn I of Denmark
1116 - King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
1399 - John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1340)
1428 - Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)
1451 - Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1404)
1468 - Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher
1566 - George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1619 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
1737 - Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)
1802 - Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (b. 1723)
1832 - George Crabbe, English naturalist (b. 1754)
1862 - Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b. 1774)
1866 - François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)
1874 - Lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)
1889 - Belle Starr, American outlaw (b. 1848)
1922 - John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
1924 - Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
1929 - Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
1935 - Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)
1936 - Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b.1885)
1937 - Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (b. 1887)
1945 - Roland Freisler, Nazi leader (b. 1893)
1947 - Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (b. 1887)
1956 - Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
1956 - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916)
1959 - Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
1959 - J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930)
1959 - Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)
1960 - Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
1961 - Viscount Dunrossil, Australian governor-general (b. 1893)
1964 - Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880)
1967 - Joe Meek, English record producer (b. 1929)
1969 - Eduardo Mondlane Mozambican independence founder (b. 1920)
1975 - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (b. 1873)
1975 - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)
1985 - Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
1989 - John Cassavetes, American actor (b. 1929)
1989 - Lionel Newman, American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger (b. 1916)
1991 - Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
1991 - Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
1993 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (b. 1916)
1996 - Audrey Meadows, American actress (b. 1926)
1998 - Karla Faye Tucker, American murderer (b. 1959)
2000 - Richard Kleindienst, American politician (b. 1923)
2003 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)
2005 - Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
2005 - Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)
2005 - Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist (b. 1904)
2006 - Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
2007 - George Becker, American president of United Steelworkers (1993-2001) (b. 1928)
2007 - Ralph de Toledano, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author (b. 1916)
2007 - Pedro Knight, Cuban-American musician, husband of legendary singer Celia Cruz (b. 1921)
2008 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot (b. 1916)
619 - Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury
699 - Saint Werburgh