17th
December, on this day
0283 St
Gaius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1526 Ferdinand
of Austria chosen as King
of Bohemia
1526 Pope
Clemens VII publishes degree Cum ad zero - forms Inquisition
1538
Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII
1572 Spanish army begins fires in Haarlem, Netherlands
1638 French/Swedish troops occupy Breisach on the Rhine
1718 England
declares war on Spain
1728 Congregation Shearith
Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan,
to build New York's 1st synagogue
1745 Bonnie
Prince Charles army retreats to Scotland
1777 France recognizes independence of English colonies in America
1777 George
Washington's army returns to Valley
Forge, PA
1788 The Russian Army, commanded by Gregori
Potemkin, captures the city of Ochakov
on the Black Sea
1790 Aztec calendar stone discovered in México City
1791 NYC traffic regulation creates 1st 1-way street
1792 Opening of 1st legislative assembly of Lower Canada in Québec
City
1798 1st impeachment trial against a US senator (William Blount, Tennessee)
begins
1819 In South America, Simon Bolivar becomes President of the Republic
of Colombia - created by the union of Venezuela and New Granada
1821 Kentucky abolishes debtors prisons
1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails in Strait
Le Maire
1849 Thomas
and William Bowler, makers of felt hats, sell their first 'bowler'
1862 General
US Grant issues order
#11, expelling Jews from Tennessee
1862 Battle
of Goldsboro Bridge Foster defeats Confederates and destroys the
bridge.
1864 Battle of Franklin, TN
1865 Franz
Schubert's "Unvolendete Symphony" premieres
1875 Violent bread riots in Montréal
1885 Leopold
II of Belgium begins his reign
1885 France declares Madagascar a protectorate
1887 Georges
Feydeau' "Tailleur Pour Dames" premieres in Paris
1888 Opening of the Lyric
Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, London
1892 The Russian Imperial Ballet gives the first performance of Tchaikovsky's
"The
Nutcracker" in St Petersburg
1893 Russia ratifies Duple Alliance with France
1895 Anti-Saloon
League of America formed, Washington DC
1895 George Brownell patents a machine to make paper twine (Massachusetts)
1900 1st prize of 100,000 francs offered for communications with extraterrestrials.
Martians excluded-considered too easy
1900 New Ellis
Island Immigration station completed costing $1.5 million
1902 Frank
Wedekind's "Der Erdgeist" premieres in Berlin
1903 At
10:35 AM, 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight (Orville Wright)
1907 Ugyen
Wangchuck became 1st hereditary king of Bhutan
1909 US pressure forces Nicaraguan President
José Santos Zelaya from office
1909 Albert I becomes King
of Belgium following the death of Leopold II
1914 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv by Turkish authorities
1914 Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova, Poland
1914 Great Britain declares Egypt a protectorate
1920 British Empire receives League
of Nations mandate to Nauru
1920 Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
1920 South Africa receives League of Nations mandate over SW Africa
1922 Last British troops leave Irish Freestate
1924 1st US diesel electric locomotive enters service, Bronx NY
1925 Colonel William
"Billy" Mitchell court-martial for insubordination
1925 Russia and Turkey sign non-aggresion pact
1926 German Marx government falls due to cooperation with red army
1926 Lithuanian military state under General Augustine Woldemaras
1927
US sub 'S-4' sinks after collision kills all 34 aboard
1933 Spain's 2nd Government of Lerroux forms
1936 Ventriloquist Edgar
Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy, make their radio debut on Rudy
Vallee’s Royal Gelatin Hour
1939 World War II: German battleship Admiral Graf
Spee is scuttled at the entrance of Montevideo Harbour after being
defeated in the Battle of the River Plate
1940 British troops occupies
Sollum
1941 World War II: Japanese troops begin the invasion of North Borneo
1941 German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
1941 Dutch and Australian troops lands on Portuguese-Timor
1941 Battle
of Sevastopol begins.
1942 Allies in London sentence German war criminals
1943 Transport 63 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1944 US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans
from West Coast; Japanese-Americans are released from detention camps
1944 A typhoon hits the Third Fleet of Admiral Halsey; three destroyers
capsize.
1944 The Malmedy
massacre: SS troops execute 86 American prisoners in the Ardennes
offensive. The SS troops are led by SS commander Jochen Peiper.
1944 US destroyers sink in storm off Philippines, 790 killed
1946 US V-2 rocket reaches 183 km, White Sands Proving Grounds NM
1947 New York struck by a blizzard, resulting with 27" of snow
1949 Burma recognizes People's Republic of China
1951 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
1953 Dmitri Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad
1953 FCC approves RCA's black and white-compatible color TV specifications
1954 1st fully automated railroad freight yard (Gary, IN)
1957 US successfully test-fires Atlas
intercontinental ballistic missile
1959 "On
The Beach" is 1st film to premiere on both sides of Iron
Curtain
1961 Disgruntled employee set fire to a Niteroi Circus of Rio de Janeiro
circus tent in Niteroi
Brazil; 323 die
1961 India seizes Goa and 2 other Portuguese colonies
1962 Current constitution of Monaco promulgated
1962 Beatles 1st British TV appearance (People and Places)
1963 Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea
1963 West and East Berlin sign accord about travel rules
1965 Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at 946 pages (50¢)
1965 Astrodome
opens, 1st event is Judy Garland and Supremes concert
1965 British government proclaims end of oil-embargo against Rhodesia
1965 David
Levy begins his search for comets
1967 Australian Prime Minister Harold
Holt is presumed drowned after disappearing while swimming at
Portsea
1967 British yachtsman
Alec Rose arrives in Australia aboard his boat The Lively Lady
after sailing solo from Britain - a voyage of 14,500 miles
1969 In US, 50 million TV viewers see singer Tiny
Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show
1969 USAF closes Project
Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships
behind thousands of UFO sightings
1970 Gdansk, Poland shipworkers strike
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1971 Cease-fire between India and Pakistan in Kashmir
1971 "Diamonds
are Forever" premieres in US
1972 New line of control agreed to in Kashmir between India and Pakistan
1973 Arab
terrorists kill 31 during the hi-jacking of a German airliner at Rome
Airport
1975 Lynette Fromme is sentenced to life for attempt on President
Ford's life
1977 Elvis
Costello and The Attractions 1st US TV appearance (Saturday Night
Live)
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1978 Referendum approves new constitution of Rwanda
1978 OPEC raises oil prices 18%
1979 Budweiser rocket car reaches 1190 kph (record for wheeled vehicle)
1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Mauritania provisional constitution published
1981 Members of the Red Brigades kidnap Brigadier-General James
L Dozier
1983 An IRA car bomb kills six Christmas shoppers and injures scores
of others outside the Harrods store in Knightsbridge, London
1983 Disco in Madrid catches fire; 83 die
1983 A Provisional IRA car bomb kills 6 Christmas shoppers and injures
90 outside Harrods in London.
1986 Mrs Davina Thompson makes medical history by having the 1st heart,
lung and liver transplant (Papworth
Hospital in Cambridge, England)
1986 US Congress forms "Irangate"
committee
1987 Czechoslovak party leader Gustav
Husák resigns
1988 USS Tennessee, 1st sub to carry Trident 2 missiles, commissioned
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1989 Brazil elects conservative Fernando
Collor de Mello president
1991 Russian leaders Boris Yeltsin and Mikhail Gorbachev agree to
dissolve the USSR and proclaim a new Commonwealth of States (CIS)on
New Years Day
1991
Patrick Manning becomes premier of Trinidad and Tobago
1992 General Suwa finds tooth of 4.4 million year old Australopithecus
ramidus
1993 Bangladesh moslems call for murder of feminist Taslima
Nasrin
1999 The United Nations General Assembly passes resolution 54/134
designating November 25 as the annual International
Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
2002 Second
Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue
sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance
and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
2003 SpaceShipOne
flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes the first privately-funded
manned supersonic flight.
2005 Anti-WTO
protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
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Birthdates which
occurred on 17th December :
1493 Philippus
A Paracelsus Swiss physician/alchemist (Liber paramixum)
1554 Ernst of Bayern prince/bishop of Liege/archbishop of Cologne
1619 Ruprecht prince of Palts/admiral/chemist/engraver/mathematician
1638 Johann Ulrich Sultzberger composer
1706 Gabrielle Châtelet [La belle Emilie] French writer (Voltaire)
1734 William Floyd US soldier/signer (Declaration of Independence)
1749 Domenico Cimarosa Italian composer (Il Matrimonio Segreto)
1770 Johann Friedrich Schubert composer
1778 Sir Humphrey Davy discovered several chemical elements
1797 Joseph Henry US, scientist/inventor/pioneer of electromagnetism
1800 Gergely Czuczor Hung/Czechoslovakian poet/translator (Great Hung
dictionary)
1801 Johan king of Saxon (1854-73) (translated Divina Commedia)
1807 John Greenleaf Whittier US, poet (Snow-bound)
1819 Samuel Jones Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1887
1820 Frederick Tracy Dent Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died
in 1892
1821 Frederick West Lander Brigadier-General (Union volunteers), died
in 1862
1824 Thomas Starr King New York NY, Unitarian clergyman (Christianity
& Humanity)
1824 John Kerr System physicist (electro-visually Kerr-effect)
1824 Manning Ferguson Force Brevet Major General (Union volunteers),
died in 1899
1830 Jules de Goncourt France, novelist (Germinie)
1833 James Thadeus Holtzclaw Brigadier-General (Confederate Army),
died in 1893
1835 Alexander E Agassiz US, businessman/biologist/geology
1838 Berthold Tours composer
1840 Christian Frederik Emil Horneman composer
1842 Marius Sophus Lie Norwegian mathematician (continous groups)
1848 Frederick Grant Gleason composer
1853 Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree England, actor/theater manager (Trilby)
1859 Willem C Grünings Curaçao publisher (People's Friend)
1861 Fritz Volbach German musicologist/conductor/composer
1863 Ion Vidu composer
1864 John Felix August Korling composer
1869 Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli composer
1873 Ford Madox Ford England, novelist/editor (The Inheritors)
1874 William Lyon Mackenzie King (L), 10th Canadian PM (1921-30, 1935-48)
1876 Júlio Afrânio Peixoto Brazilian writer (O esfinge)
1881 Aubrey Faulkner cricketer (great South Africa all-rounder early
20th cent)
1881 Johannes CB "Jan" Sluyters Dutch painter
1889 Vaslav F Nijinski Ukraine/US ballet dancer (l'après-midi
d'une faune)
1891 Robertson Hare London England, actor (Our Girl Friday, Banana
Ridge)
1893 Erwin Piscator German stage director (Der Stellvertreter)
1894 Arthur Fiedler Boston MA, conductor (Boston Pops)
1894 Hans [Henry] Kramers Dutch theoretical physicist (quantum mechanics)
1894 Hans Henny Jahnn writer
1894 Willem Schermerhorn Netherlands premier (1945-46)
1895 David Butler San Francisco CA, director (April in Paris, Calamity
Jane)
1900 Lucijan Marija Skerjanc Yugoslavia, composer/conductor
1902 Simon Drach writer
1903 Erskine P Caldwell author (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre)
1904 Paul Cadmus New York NY, etcher/painter (Sailors & Floozies)
1904 Dmitri B Kabalevsky St Petersburg Russia, composer (In the Fire)
1905 Joseph Heifitz film director
1906 Fernando Lopez-Garcia composer
1908 Willard Frank Libby inventor (carbon-14 "atomic clock"
(Nobel 1960))
1908 William Brocklesby Wordsworth composer
1909 Ferdinand H Aus der Fünten German war criminal (Breda 4)
1910 Keki Khursedji Tarapore cricketer (0-72 in his only Test for
India)
1911 William Roerick actor (Henry Chamberlain-Guiding Light)
1914 Mushtaq Ali cricketer (prolific Indian batsman of 30's &
40's)
1916 Antoine G T "Toon" Hermans Dutch entertainer/poet (Kolderliedjes)
1917 Louis Salvador Palange composer
1920 Armin Mueller-Stahl Tilsit East Prussia, actor (Kafka, Music
Box)
1922 Eric Brand diplomat
1922 Hubert H A Beckers Curaçao opera singer
1925 Rijk de Gooyer Dutch actor (Black Rider, Rififi in Amsterdam)
1926 Jeremy Brooks writer
1926 Patrice Wymore Miltonville KS, actress (The Big Tree)
1927 Richard Long Chicago IL, actor (Professor-Nanny & the Professor)
1928 Marilyn Beck newspaper columnist
1929 William Safire political columnist (New York Times)/speech writer
(Nixon)
1930 Julia Meade actress/TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse)
1930 Robert [C J Edward] Guccione magazine publisher (Penthouse, Omni)
1930 Makoto Moroi composer
1931 Yvonne Keuls [Bamberg] Dutch writer (Jan Rap & Co)
1933 Bruce Morrison cricketer (one Test New Zealand vs England 1963)
1933 Paul Snoek [Edm Schietekat] Belgian poet
1935 Cal Ripken Sr baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles)
1936 Roland Sheldon pitcher (New York Yankees)
1936 Frank Martinus Arion [F Efraim M] Antilles, writer (Double Play)
1936 Tommy Steele London, singer/actor (½ a Sixpence, Finian's
Rainbow)
1937 Art Neville New Orleans LA, vocalist (Neville Brothers)
1939 James Booker New Orleans, R & B musician (Gonzo)
1939 Novella Nelson Brooklyn NY, actress (Nellie Cole-Chiefs)
1939 Eddie Kendricks Alabama, rocker (Temptations-My Girl, Boogie
Down)
1942 Paul Butterfield Chicago IL, blues musician (Better Days)
1942 Bernard Hill Manchester, actor (Bellman & True, New World,
Bounty)
1943 Dave Dee rocker
1943 William Brooks composer
1944 Ference Bene Hungary, record 12 soccer goals (Olympics-gold-1964)
1944 Jack L[aurence] Chalker US, sci-fi author (Charon: A Dragon at
the Gate, Saga of Well World)
1945 Christopher Cazenove England, actor (Ben-Dynasty)
1945 Ernie Hudson Benton Harbor MI, actor (Ghostbusters, Weeds)
1946 Eugene Levy Hamilton Canada, comedian/writer (SCTV)
1946 Albert Padmore cricketer (West Indies off-spinner mid-70s)
1947 Simon Bates English DJ
1947 Marilyn Hassett Los Angeles CA, actress (Bell Jar, Other Side
of Mountain)
1947 Wes Studi actor (Last of the Mohicans)
1948 Jim Bonfanti rocker (Raspberries-Go All the Way)
1948 Jim Alexander rocker
1949 Paul Rodgers England, rocker (Bad Company-Feel Like Makin Love,
The Firm)
1950 Carlton Barrett Jamaicans reggae drummer (Bob Marley & Wailers)
1951 Tatyana Kazankina USSR, middle distance runner (Olympics-gold-1976)
1951 Wanda Hutchison rocker
1952 Hans Alders Dutch minister of environment (PvdA)
1952 Mickey Jones Washington DC, rock bassist
1953 Barry Livingston Los Angeles CA, actor (Ernie-My 3 Sons)
1953 Ikue Ile Mori drummer/composer
1953 Mark Gane Toronto Ontario, rocker (M+M)
1954 Bill Pullman actor (Sommersby, League of their Own, Independence
Day)
1957 Bob Ojeda pitcher (New York Mets)
1958 Mike Mills US pop bassist (REM-One I Love)
1959 Albert King actor (BB King & Friends, Blues Alive)
1959 Michelle Mackall Washington DC, LPGA golfer (1995 Friendly's-32nd)
1959 Tammie Green Somerset OH, LPGA golfer (1989 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1961 Sarah Dallin rocker (Bananarama-Venus)
1961 Venice Kong St Mary Jamaica, playmate (September, 1985)
1962 Giulla Boschi Italian actress (Act of Contrition, Bonus Malus)
1962 Rocco Anthony Mediate Greensburg PA, PGA golfer (1991 Doral-Ryder)
1964 Eric Brown New York NY, actor (Buzz-Mama's Family)
1964 Frank Musil Pardubice Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman (Ottawa
Senators)
1964 Joe Wolf NBA forward/center (Orlando Magic, Denver Nuggets)
1964 Tyrone Braxton NFL safety (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1965 Craig Berube Calahoo, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
1965 Jeff Grayer NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, Olympics-bronze-1988)
1965 Scott Edward Gump Rockledge FL, PGA golfer (1991 International-2nd)
1966 Hans Visser Dutch soccer player (MVV, FC Utrecht)
1967 Alan Nolet Toronto Ontario, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1967 Pauline Maurice Welland Ontario, softball outfielder (Olympics-96)
1967 Vincent Damphousse Montréal, NHL center (Montréal
Canadiens)
1968 Curtis Pride Washington DC, outfielder (Detroit Tigers)
1968 Jeff[rey] Klepacki Kearny NJ, rower (Olympics-1992, 96)
1969 Dean Wilson Kaneohe HI, golfer (1991 Western Athletic)
1969 Marc Davis Oceanside CA, 3K steeplechase runner (Goodwill-gold-94)
1969 Marty Carter NFL safety (Chicago Bears)
1969 Rob Maas Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1969 Scott Player WLAF punter (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 Benedictine [St Bernard] becomes heaviest known dog (137 kg)
1970 Earl Dotson NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1970 Michael Mols soccer player (FC Twente)
1971 Alyson Habetz Crowley LA, female pitcher (Colorado Silver Bullets)
1971 Carl Reeves NFL defensive end (Chicago Bears)
1971 Mark Byers WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Nikki McCray Collierville TN, basketball guard (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 Sari Kristiina Fisk ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Olympics-98)
1971 Tony Richardson NFL fullback (Kansas City Chiefs)
1972 Brian Williams NFL linebacker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 Dewayne Washington cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 Don Davis linebacker (New Orleans Saints)
1972 Ivan Pedroso Cuba, long jumper (Olympics-4th-92)
1974 Giovonni Ribisi actor (Cory-My 2 Dads, New Leave it To Beaver)
1975 Milla Jovovich Kiev Ukraine, actress (Return to Blue Lagoon,
Chaplin)
1975 Napiera Danielle Groves Miss USA-Washington DC (1997, Miss Congeniality)
1975 Nick Farrell East York Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1979 Jaimee Foxworth actor (Judy Winslow-Family Matters)
1979 Cheri Vivette Alexander Miss District of Columbia Teen USA (1997)
1981 Emma Laaksonen ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Olympics-98)
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Deaths which occurred on 17th December:
0695 Begga ancestress of the Carolingians/saint, dies
1187 Gregory VIII [Alberto de Morra] Italian Pope (1187), dies
1195 Boudouin V count of Hainault/Flanders (Boudouin VIII), dies
1213 Jean de Matha French saint, dies at 53
1471 Isabella of Portugal duchess of Burgundy, dies
1562 Adrian Willaert Flemish singer/bandmaster/composer, dies at about
82
1651 Wolfgang Schonsleder composer, dies at 81
1679 Don Juan ruler of Spain, dies
1711 Arnold Moonen vicar/literature (Defeated German Spraekkunst),
dies
1751 Kilian I von Dientzenhofer Czechoslovakian master builder, dies
at 62
1811 John Antes composer, dies at 71
1811 Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny composer, dies at 54
1829 Bernard Jumentier composer, dies at 80
1830 Simon Bolivar President of Colombia, dies at 47 in Colombia
1833 Kaspar Hauser German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered
at 21
1870 Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante composer, dies at 75
1881 Lewis H Morgan US ethnologist (Iroquois-Indians), dies at 62
1891 Msiri king of Garanganja (Katanga), dies in battle
1891 Omer Bodson Belgian captain, dies in battle
1893 Levinus T Keuchenius Dutch Minister of Colonies (1888-90), dies
at 71
1899 Frederick "Freddy" Roberts son of British field marshal,
dies in battle
1907 Kelvin of Largs [William Thomson] British physicist (Kelvin),
dies at 83
1909 Leopold II king of Belgium dies
1913 Stefano Gobatti composer, dies at 61
1925 A N "Monkey" Hornby cricketer (England captain at Oval
1882), dies
1926 Alexandr Dmitriyevich Kastal'sky composer, dies at 70
1930 Peter Warlock composer, dies at 36
1933 Hans Vaihinger German philosopher (Side-Studies), dies at 81
1937 Gerard Vissering banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72
1944 Pieter A Roodenburgh student/resistance fighter, dies at 26
1946 Constance [Clara] Garnett Russian-English translator, dies at
84
1948 Edgar Istel composer, dies at 68
1949 David Stanley Smith composer, dies at 72
1956 Eddie Acuff actor (Guns of Pecos), dies at 48
1957 Dorothy Leigh Sayers [Atherton Fleming] author (Whose body),
dies at 64
1961 Marion Perkins sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53
1962 Thomas Mitchell US, actor (Outlaw), dies of cancer at 70
1965 Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies
at 76
1966 Gustaf Paulson composer, dies at 68
1967 [Francis] Barry Byrne Chicago IL, architect, dies at 83
1967 Harold Holt Australian premier (1966-67), drowns at 59
1969 Arturo da Costa e Silva President of Brazil (1967-69), dies at
67
1972 Erwin Dressel composer, dies at 63
1973 Charles G Abbot US astronomer (Sun Constant), dies at 101
1973 Patrick Hadley composer, dies at 74
1975 Noble Sissle jazz musician, dies at 86
1975 Frank Sully actor (Parachute Nurse, Inside the Law), dies at
67
1982 Leonid B Kogan Russian violist, dies at 58
1982 Philipp Jarnach composer, dies at 90
1985 Otto Gotsche writer, dies
1986 Ron Kass record company president (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
1987 Bernard Cardinal Alfrink archbishop of Ultrecht Netherlands,
dies at 87
1987 Marguerite Yourcenard author (Memoirs of Hadrien), dies at 84
1990 Don Draper actor (Pepper Agent 00X), dies of AIDS at 61
1990 Mieke Verstraete Belgian/Netherlands actress (Pleasant Settled),
dies at 79
1991 John Blatnik (Representative-MN, 1947-75), dies at 80
1992 Dana Andrews actor (Laura, Best Years of Our Lives), dies of
pneumonia in Los Alamitos at 83
1993 Frederik "Fried" Löwensteyn Dutch lawyer/writer,
dies at 71
1993 Janet Margolin US actress (Annie Hall), dies at 50 of ovarian
cancer
1994 Jan Wiegel director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at
64
1995 Lila Clark Knapp publisher, dies at 63
1996 Elizabeth Hill teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96
1996 Francesco Siciliani opera administrator, dies at 85
1996 Irving Caesar songwriter, dies at 101
1996 Michael Saunders barrister, dies at 22
1996 Ruby Murray singer, dies at 61
1996 Stanko Todorov PM of Bulgaria (1971-81), dies
1997 Reginald Victor Jones scientist, dies at 86
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