13th
February, on this day
1130 Pope
Honorius II ends papacy. Gregorio de' Papareschi elected as Pope
Innocent II
1258 Baghdad
falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid
Caliphate is destroyed.
1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsordf, Switzerland
1510 Charles of Gelre conquerors Oldenzaal
1545 Willem of Nassau becomes prince of Orange
1566 St Augustine,FL founded
1601 John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London
1633 Italian astronomer Galileo
Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing
belief that earth revolves around the Sun
1635 Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1651 Flemish missionary Joris van Geel departs to Congo
1668 Treaty of Lisbon : Spain recognizes Portugal
1678 Tycho
Brahe 1st sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system
1689 British Parliament adopts Bill of Rights
1689 William
III of England begins reign
1692 The 'Massacre
at Glencoe' in the Scottish Highlands. After being lured to a
meeting place, the MacDonalds are killed by their traditional enemies,
the Campbells
1693 College
of William and Mary opens
1706 Battle
at Fraustadt : Swedish army beats Russia/Saksen
1741 Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine (The American
Magazine)
1755 Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty
of Gianti Java
1777 Marquis
de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress
1782 French fleet occupies St Christopher
1799 1st US law regulating insurance passed, by Massachusetts
1809 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege
1816 Teatro
San Carlo in Naples destroyed by fire
1826 American
Temperance Society, forms in Boston
1832 1st appearance of cholera
at London
1837 Riot in New York over high price of flour
1854 Opening of Cheltenham
Ladies College - Britain's first public school for girls
1858 Sir Richard
Burton and John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa
1860 King Basse Kajuara departs Boni South-Celebes
1861 Siege
of Gaeta ends. War between Sardina and the Kingdom
of the Two Sicilies
1861 1st military action to result in Congressional
Medal of Honor, Arizona
1861 Abraham
Lincoln declared President
1861 Colonel Bernard Irwin attacks and defeats hostile Chiricahua
Indians
1862 Siege of Ft Donelson, TN
1864 Meridian Campaign fighting at Chunky Creek and Wyatt MS
1866 Jesse
James holds up his 1st bank, Liberty, MO ($15,000)
1867 Johann Strauss' "Blue
Danube" waltz premieres in Vienna
1886 Painter Thomas
Eakins resigns from Philadelphia Academy of Art after controversy
over use of male nudes in a coed art class
1895 Moving picture projector patented
1907 English suffragettes storm British Parliament and 60 women are
arrested
1917 In Britain, women are allowed to become taxi drivers
1917 World War I: Dutch spy Mata
Hari is executed by the French
1920 League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland
1920 Switzerland rejoins League
of Nations
1924 King
Tut's tomb opened
1927 Uprising against Portuguese regime of General
Carmona defeated
1929 Cruiser
Act OKs construction of 19 new cruisers and an aircraft carrier
1932 "Free Eats" introduces George "Spanky" McFarland
to "Our
Gang"
1934 Austrian Dollfuss government bans socialistic party
1935 1st US surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
OH
1935 Bruno
Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap and murder of Lindbergh's infant
1937 "Prince
Valiant" comic strip appears; known for historical detail
1942 Hitler's Operation
Seelöwe (invasion of England) cancelled
1943 Rommel launches a counter-attack against the Americans in western
Tunisia; he takes Sidi bou Zid and Gafsa. The
Battle of the Kasserine Pass begins: inexperienced American troops
are soon forced to retreat. General Eisenhower visits front
1943 Women's US Marine Corps created
1945 World War II: 1,400 RAF aircraft and 450 USAF planes bomb Dresden
in Germany non-stop for 14 hours - virtually destroying the entire
city; 135,000 die
1945 USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000
die
1948 Wright
Flyer,1st plane to fly, returns to US from England
1952 Rocky
Marciano defeats Lee Savold for his 39th straight win
1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
1959 Barbie
doll goes on sale
1959 Miro Cardon, premier of Cuba, resigns
1960 France becomes the world's fourth nation to build and successfully
explode an atomic bomb at Reggane Proving Grounds Algeria
1961 Frank
Sinatra launches Reprise
label under Warner Brothers Records
1961 Soviet Union fires a rocket from Sputnik V to Venus
1966 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1968 US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam
1969 The
Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ) set off a powerful
bomb that ripped through the Montreal Stock Exchange causing massive
destruction and seriously injuring 27 people.
1969 Suriname government of Pengel resigns
1970 Man-eating tiger is reported to have killed 48, 80 km from New
Delhi
1971 Golfing Vice President Spiro
Agnew hits 2 tee shots into the crowd, injuring 2
1971 12,000 South Vietnamese troops cross into Laos
1972 "Grease"
opens on Broadway
1972 11th
Winter Olympics games close at Sapporo, Japan
1973 US dollar devalues 10%
1974 Dissident Nobel writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from USSR
1975 Cyprus premier Denktash
proclaims Turkish-Cypriot Federation
1976 Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in
9 holes
1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 Washington State's Hood
Canal Bridge breaks up in windstorm
1980 Apollo
Computer Inc incorporated
1981 Australian media tycoon Rupert
Murdoch publishes his first newspaper in Britain
1981 Longest sentence published by New York Times-1286 words
1982 Pink Floyd's "Dark
Side of the Moon" is on the charts for 402nd week
1983 World Boxing Council becomes 1st to cut boxing from 15 to 12
rounds
1984 Konstantin
Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as USSR leader
1984 6 year old Texan Stormie Jones gets 1st heart and liver transplant
1985 Polish police arrests 7 Solidarity
leaders
1988 15th
Winter Olympics games open at Calgary, Canada
1988 European Community plans removal of inner boundaries on Jan 1,
1992
1988 Ronald
Weigel runs unofficial world record speed walking (18 minutes
11.41 seconds)
1989 Salvadoran army attacks Encuentros hospital, rapes, kills patients
1989 Kidnapped Belgian Premier Vanden
Boeynants freed
1990 US, England, France and England give Germany the OK to re-unify
1990 50 killed at Inkatha-UDF battle in Natal, South Africa
1990 German
reunification: An agreement is reached for a two-stage plan to
reunite Germany.
1990 In boxing, James
'Buster' Douglas inflicts a shock knockout defeat on reigning
world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson during their fight in Tokyo
1991 Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
1991 During the Gulf
War the US bombs Iraqi air raid shelter, killing 334
1992
Jose Canseco repeatedly rams his Porsche into wife Esther's BMW
1994 Ship disaster near Ranong, Thailand, kills 200
1996 Rock musical "Rent", by Jonathan
Larson, opens off-Broadway
1996 British pop group 'Take
That' announce they are splitting up
1997 Discovery captures Hubble
Space Telescope
1997 The Dow
Jones Industrial Average closes above 7,000 for the first time
closing at 7,022.44.
2000 The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in
newspapers one day after Charles
M. Schulz dies.
2001 An earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Scale hits El Salvador,
killing at least 400.
2004 The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics discovers the
universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM
37093.
2007 Taiwan opposition leader Ma
Ying-jeou resigns as the chairman of the Kuomintang party after
being indicted by the Taiwan High Prosecutors Office on charges of
embezzlement during his tenure as the mayor of Taipei; Ma also announces
his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election.
|
Birthdates which
occurred on 13th February :
1440 Hartmann Schedel
German physician/humanist/historian
1480 Hieronymus Aleander [Girólamo Aleandro], Italian diplomat/cardinal
1599 Alexander VII [Fabio Chigi], Siena Italy, pope (1655-67)
1610 Jean de la Badie French divine, founder of the Lagardists
1622 Adam Pijnacker landscape painter/etcher, baptized
1658 Jan B Wellekens Dutch poet/painter
1660 Johann Sigismund Kusser composer
1682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Venice, painter (Fortune Teller)
1713 Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas composer
1721 John Reid composer
1755 François Alexander Sallantin composer
1756 Joannes van der Linden lawyer/judge (Ware Pleiter)
1757 John C Hespe Dutch journalist/politician
1766 Thomas Malthus Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer/population
expert (Law of Malthus)
1768 Édouard Mortier French general, duke, prime minister (1834-35)
1778 Fernando Sor composer
1787 James P Carrell composer
1805 David Dudley Field lawyer/law codifier
1805 Peter G L Dirichlet Germany, number theorist/analyst
1807 Bartolommea Capitanio Italian monastery founder (Liefdezusters)
1813 Charles Pierre Schimpf Governor of Suriname (1855-59)
1820 Bela Albrecht Pal Keler composer
1822 Lev A Mej Russian nobleman/poet
1829 Gerard Keller writer (Netherlands Spectator)
1831 John Aaron Rawlins Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in
1869
1833 William Whedbee Kirkland Brigadier General (Confederate Army),
died in 1915
1837 Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea composer
1840 Georg Jacobi composer
1849 Lord Randolph Churchill England, politician, Winston's father
1852 Johan L E Dreyer Danish astronomer (New generation catalogue
of nebulae)
1859 Frank van de Goes Dutch writer/marxist theorist
1859 William Strang Scottish painter/engraver
1861 Uchimura Kanzo Tokyo, religious writer (How I Became a Christian)
1862 Karel Weis composer
1870 Leopold Godowsky Lithuania, virtuoso pianist/composer
1874 Hendrik Spiekman Dutch politician (social-democratic)
1875 Kanouse quintuplets Watertown WI, 1st quintuplets in US, born
to Edna Kanouse
1877 Jazeps Medins composer
1881 Eleanor Farjeon English writer (Martin Pippin)
1883 Harold "Hal" Chase baseball player/manager
1883 Bainbridge Crist composer
1885 Elizabeth Virginia "Bess" Truman 1st lady (1945-53)
1886 Ricardo Güiraldes Argentina, novelist/poet (Don Segundo
Sombra)
1887 Alvin York famed US soldier with 25 kills in WWI
1888 Georgios Papandreou Greek prefect of Lesbos/minister/premier
1888 Heintje Davids [Hendrika], Dutch revue star
1892 Grant Wood US, painter (American Gothic)
1892 Robert Houghwout Jackson 84th Supreme Court justice (1941-54)
1893 Ana Pauker-Rabensohn Romania, communist/foreign minister (1945-52)
1895 Fred Essler Austria, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown, Saratoga
Trunk)
1898 Neville Pearson English publisher
1902 Blair Moody New Haven CT, (Senator-MI)
1902 Karl Menger Austria/US mathematician (theory of dimension)
1903 Georges Simenon Belgium, mystery writer (Snow Was Black)
1908 Gerald Strang Claresholm Canada, composer
1908 Sulo Nurmela Finland, 4 X 100K relay skier (Olympics-gold-1936)
1908 Pauline Frederick journalist/correspondent (UN, NBC TV)
1910 William B Shockley London, US physicist (Nobel 1956 - for research
on semiconductors and discovery of the transistor effect along with
John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain)
1911 Jean Muir Fullarton actress
1912 Jose de Capriles US, fencer (Olympics-1936, 48, 52)
1912 French J Van den Brande Flemish actor
1912 Margaretta Scott actress (Crescendo, Where's Charley, Counterblast)
1913 Arthur Carleton Hetherington public servant
1913 Guiseppe Dossetti politician/priest
1914 Earl Cadogan British large landowner (Military Cross)
1914 George Kleinsinger San Bernardino CA, composer (Tubby the Tuba)
1915 Lyle Betther Philadelphia PA, actor (Harry-Grand Jury, Lone Ranger)
1916 James Griffith Los Angeles CA, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
1917 Polly Rose actress (Myrtle-Love That Jill)
1918 Helen Stephens Fulton MO, 100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1936)
1918 Patty Berg Minneapolis MN, LPGA golfer (1938 US Amateur, 1943,
1955 AP Sports Woman of the Year)
1919 Eddie Robinson winningest college football coach (Grambling)
1919 Joan Edwards New York NY, singer (Joan Edwards Show)
1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford Bristol TN, country singer/actor (pea picker)
1920 Bryant Boudleaux Shellman GA, rock writer (Bye Bye Love)
1920 Eileen Farrell Willimantic CT, opera soprano (Interrupted Melody)
1921 Henk van Galen Last Dutch journalist
1921 Zao-Wou-Ki Chinese/French painter/graphic artist
1922 Lord Pym of Sandy British minister of foreign affairs
1923 Chuck Yeager US test pilot (1st man to break sound barrier)
1924 Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber French economist/politician
1925 Gene Ames singer
1925 Jan Arends Dutch poet/author
1926 Barney Childs composer
1927 Harry Wich Dutch set designer
1929 Omar Torrijos Herrera President of Panamá
1930 Dotty McGuire Middletown OH, singer (McGuire Sisters)
1931 Marjorie Jackson Austria, 100 meter/200 meter dash (Olympics-gold-1952)
1933 Emanuel Ungaro France, fashion designer (Neiman-Marcus Award-1969)
1933 Paul Biya President of Cameroon (1982- )
1933 Caroline Blakiston actress (At Bertram's Hotel)
1933 Kim Novak [Marilyn], Chicago IL, actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage)
1934 George Segal actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick &
Jane)
1935 Tommy Jacobs golfer
1936 John Harris British cricket player
1936 Leamon King Tulare CA, 4X100 meter relayer (Olympics-gold-1956)
1937 Sigmund Jähn German DR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 31/29)
1937 Susan Oliver New York NY, actress (Ann-Peyton Place, Star Trek-Cage)
1938 Oliver Reed London England, actor (Big Sleep)
1939 Valery Illych Rozhdestvensky USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 23)
1941 Bo Svenson Göteborg Sweden, actor (North Dallas 40, Walking
Tall)
1942 Carol Lynley New York NY, actress (Night Stalker, Fantasy Island,
Immortal)
1942 Donald E Williams Lafayette IN, Captain USN/astronaut (STS 51D,
STS 34)
1942 Peter Tork [Peter Halsten Thorkelson] Washington DC, singer/actor
(Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville)
1943 F C Delius writer
1943 Geoff Edwards Westfield NJ, actor (Jeff-Petticoat Junction, Jackpot)
1943 Leo Frankowski US, sci-fi author (High Tech Knight, Flying Warlord)
1944 Stockard Channing New York NY, actress (Grease, The Big Bus,
Without a Trace)
1944 Jerry Springer London England, talk show host (Jerry Springer
Show)
1944 Sal Bando baseball player (Oakland A's)
1945 Keith Nichols jazz pianist
1945 King Floyd rocker
1945 Roy Dyke Liverpool, rock drummer (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder German director/actor (Ehe der Maria
Braun)
1947 Mike Krzyzewski basketball coach
1947 Tony Butler rock bassist (Big Country-It's a Big Country, Wonderland)
1950 Leonard Pascoe cricketer (dynamic Aussie quick 1977-82)
1950 Peter Gabriel Surrey England, rock vocalist (Genesis, In Your
Eyes)
1951 David Naughton Hartford CT, actor (My Sister Sam, Seperate Vacations)
1952 David Puilum Choi Hong Kong, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1952 Ed Gagliardi New York NY, rock bassist (Foreigner-Cold As Ice)
1953 Sharon Wyatt Lebanon TN, actress (Tiffany-General Hospital)
1953 Suleiman Nyambui Tanzanian runner (world record 5k indoor)
1955 Jan de Ligt Dutch saxophonist (I've Got the Bullets)
1955 Scott Smith rock bassist (Loverboy-Get Lucky)
1956 Liam Brady British soccer player
1956 Peter Hook English rock bassist (New Order-Round & Round,
Run)
1956 Richard Eden actor (Brick-Santa Barbara, Solar Crisis, Robocop)
1957 Doris King Nashville TN, vocalist (Girls Next Door-Don't Be Cruel)
1957 Thelston Payne cricket wicket-keeper (West Indies 1986)
1958 Mark Fox congas/percussionist (Haircut 100-Nobody's Fool)
1959 Ali Campbell rocker (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1960 Michael Craig rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Want to Hurt
Me)
1960 Kelly McCormick Anaheim CA, diver (Olympics-silver-1984)
1960 Matt Salinger Windsor VT, actor (Captain America, Deadly Deception)
1961 Les Warner rocker (Cult-Fire Woman)
1961 Henry Rollins US vocalist/poet (Black Flagg, Rollins Band)
1961 Kyi Hla Han Yangon, Australasia golfer
1962 Jackie Silva Rio de Janeiro Brazil, volleyballer (Pan Am-bronze)
1963 Roberta Vasquez Los Angeles CA, playmate (November, 1984)
1963 Penelope Ann Miller actress (Awakenings, Chaplin, Freshman)
1964 Evi Strasser Bavaria German, equestrian (Olympics-96)
1965 Stephen Manley Los Angeles CA, actor (Donny-Married the 1st Year)
1965 Kenny Harrison Milwaukee WI, triple jumper
1966 Freedom Williams rock vocalist (C&C Music Factory-Everybody
Dance Now)
1966 Tally Chanel Tel Aviv Israel, actress (Warrior Queen)
1967 Melanie Denise Bridges Derry NH, Miss New Hampshire-America (1990)
1967 Bas Roorda soccer player (FC Groningen)
1967 Eddie Pye US baseball infielder (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1968 Matt Mieske US baseball outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 Subroto Banerjee cricketer (Indian quickie & Dennis Lillee
protégé)
1970 Kevin Stocker US baseball infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1970 Ruben Brown NFL guard (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Vernon Patao 141 lbs (64 kg) US weightlifter (alternate-Olympics-1996)
1971 Jim Reid NFL tackle (Houston Oilers)
1971 Mats Sundin Bromma Sweden, NHL center (Team Sweden, Toronto Maple
Leafs)
1971 Shelly Hammonds NFL safety (Minnesota Vikings)
1971 Todd Williams US baseball pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers)
1972 Charlie Garner NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1972 Juha Ylonen Helsinki Finland, NHL forward (Olympics-bronze-1998,
Phoenix)
1973 Willie Smith NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
1974 Anthony Mortas hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1975 Mark Gerald Keddell Christchurch New Zealand, 200 meter (Olympics-96)
1979 Julie Nagle Miss North Dakota Teen-USA (1997)
1980 Kristy Powell Florida, gymnast (Olympics-96)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Deaths which occurred
on February 13th:
1130 Honorius II [Lamberto], Pope (1124-30), dies
1199 Stefanus Nemanja (Symeon) monk, dies
1237 Jordanus of Saxon 2nd general of Dominicans, drowns
1315 Jean I of Chalon-Arlay mayor of Neuchâtel, dies
1332 Andronicus II Paleologus Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk,
dies
1542 Catherine Howard queen of England/5th wife of Henry VIII, is
beheaded
1602 Alexander Nowell English churchman, dean of St Paul's, dies
1629 Girolamo Giacobbi composer, dies at 61
1635 Georg R Weckerlin German poet, dies at 50
1660 Charles X Gustaaf king of Sweden (1654-60), dies at 37
1662 Elisabeth Stuart English daughter of James I, dies at 65
1693 Johann Kaspar von Kerll German composer, dies at 65
1724 Francisco Jose Coutinho composer, dies at 43
1741 Johann Joseph Fux Austrian composer/music theorist, dies at about
80
1784 Charles Gravier French earl of Vergennes/Minister of Foreign
Affairs, dies
1798 Wilhelm H Wackenroder German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies
at 24
1814 Augustin Holler composer, dies at 69
1818 George Rogers Clark frontier military leader in Revolutionary
War, dies
1841 Thomas Ainsworth English/Dutch industrialist, dies at 45
1849 Christian Rummel composer, dies at 61
1873 Petrus AS van Limburg Brouwer [Abraham van Luik], literary, dies
1882 Henry Highland Garnet diplomat, dies in Monrovia Liberia at 66
1883 Pavel Melnikov [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64
1883 Wilhelm Richard Wagner German composer (Die Walküre), dies
in Venice at 69
1891 David Dixon Porter US Rear Admiral (Union Army-Civil War), dies
at 77
1893 Ignacio M Altamirano Mexican author (El Zarco), dies at 58
1894 Franjo Racki Croatian historian/politician, dies at 65
1896 Karl Reinthaler composer, dies at 73
1907 Marcel Bertrand French mine engineer, dies at 59
1917 Joel Angel Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48
1921 Willem P C Knuttel Dutch bibliography/librarian, dies at 67
1927 Brooks Adams US philosopher (New Empire), dies at 78
1935 Violet Paget British author (Gospels of Anarchy), dies at 78
1937 C A Bernoulli writer, dies
1941 Naomi Uemura Japanese mountain climber, dies on Mt McKinley
1943 William Walraven journalist/writer (Neglected Grouser), dies
at 55
1945 George Studd cricketer (4 Tests with brother vs Australia 1882-83),
dies
1952 Alfred Einstein German/US musicologist, dies at 71
1958 Georges Rouault French painter (Christ aux outrages), dies at
86
1959 William L Axt composer, dies at 70
1960 Delmar G Roos designer of the jeep, dies at 79
1963 Harry Steers bowling hall of famer, dies
1965 Jerry Burke pianist (Lawrence Welk Show), dies
1965 William H Kilpatrick US mathematician/philosopher, dies at 93
1966 Elio Vittorini writer, dies
1968 Ildebrando Pizzetti Italian composer, dies at 87
1968 Mae Marsh actress (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance), dies at 72
1970 Herbert Strudwick cricketer (28 Tests for England, ct 60 stp
12), dies
1975 Dagmar Godowsky actress (Common Law, Red Lights), dies at 78
1975 Eric Harding Thiman composer, dies at 74
1975 Henry P Van Dusen US protestant theologist, dies at 77
1976 General Murtala Mohammed head of Nigeria, killed during a coup
1976 Lily Pons French/US soprano/opera diva (Met Opera), dies at 71
1977 Jack Gardner actor (Wild Bill Hickok, 3 Russian Girls), dies
at 77
1979 Jean Renoir actor/director (Rules of the Game), dies at 84
1980 David Janssen [Meyer], actor (Fugitive, Harry O), dies at 49
1982 Zeng Jinlian Hunan China, grew to 8'1" (tallest woman),
dies at 17
1983 Marian Nixon actress (Dr Bull, Sweepstakes), dies of cancer at
78
1987 M L "Curly" Page cricketer (New Zealand Test captain
1933), dies
1990 Ken Lynch actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies
at 79
1991 Bernard Sauer Yiddish actor, dies of heart attack at 67
1991 Eddie Bartell actor (Every Night at Eight), dies at 83
1992 Bob den Uyl Dutch journalist/writer (Restless Travel), dies at
61
1993 Agatha Hagtingius-Seger Dutch author (Sparkles Chain), dies at
91
1994 Jack Kirby cartoonist (Marvel Comics), dies at 76
1994 Michael Francis Morris Lindsay orientalist, dies at 84
1994 Theo Bitter Dutch painter/set designer, dies at 79
1995 Abdelhafid Said Algerian student leader, murdered
1995 Alberto Burri Italian physician/sculptor/painter), dies at 79
1995 Azeddine Medjoubi head Algerian nationally theater, murdered
at 49
1995 Joan A C Ramsey nee Hamilton lady Ramsey of Canterbury, dies
at 84
1995 Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair saxophonist, dies at 68
1996 Daniel K Womack singer/guitarist, dies at 91
1996 Martin Balsam actor (Archie's Place), dies at 76
1998 Jo Clayton author, (Cancer Died, Drums of Chaos), dies at 58
|