30th May, on this day
1035 Boudouin V
van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders
1087 German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht
1381 English boer uprising begins in Essex
1431 Joan
of Arc, the French peasant girl who became a national heroine
leading French troops against the English, is burnt at the stake in
Rouen for heresy. She is canonised in 1920 on the anniversary of her
death
1434 Battle
at Lipany
1498 Columbus departs with 6 ships for 3rd trip to America
1522 French troops driven out of Genoa
1527 University of Marburg (Germany) founded
1536 King Henry VIII of England marries his third wife, Jane Seymour
- 11 days after the execution of wife number two, Anne Boleyn
1539 Spanish explorer Fernando
de Soto discovers Florida
1574 Henry III follows brother Charles IX as king of France
1574 Sea battle at Lillo Belgium (Adolf Van Haemstede vs Louis de
Boisot)
1584 Earl Adolf van Nieuwenaar/Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland
1588 The last ship in the Spanish Aramada under Medina-Sidonia departs
Lisbon to invade England
1631 France/Maximilian van Bavarian signs Accord of Fontainebleau
1635 Emperor Ferdinand II and Saksen sign Peace
of Prague
1642 From this date all honours granted by Charles I are retrospectively
annulled
by Parliament
1646 Spain and Netherlands signs temporary cease fire
1656 Formation of the Grenadier Guards the senior regiment of the
British Army
1783 Benjamin Tower of Philadelphia publishes 1st daily newspaper
in US
1793 Georges Couthon chosen member of French Committee the Salut Public
1808 Napoleon annexes Tuscany and gave it seats in French Senate
1814 1st Treaty of Paris, after Napoleon's 1st abdication
1821 James Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1822 House slave betrays Denmark Vesey conspiracy (37 blacks hanged)
1832 Evariste
Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31)
1842 An assassination attempt is made on Queen Victoria as she drives
down Constitution Hillin London with her husband Prince Albert. The
would-be assassin is John Francis
1848 2nd battle at Gioto: Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians
1848 Mexico ratifies a treaty with America, which gives Mexico 15
million dollars while the United States gain possession of New Mexico,
California and parts of Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Colorado
1848 William G Young patents ice cream freezer
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed Missouri Compromise opens north
slavery
1858 Hudson Bay Company's rights to Vancouver Island revoked
1862 Battle of Booneville, MS - captured General Beauregard evacuates
Corinth MS
1862 Battle of Front Royal, VA
1864 Battle of Bethesda Church, VA
1864 Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek), VA
1868 Memorial Day 1st observed when 2 women in Columbus, MS placed
flowers on both Confederate and Union graves
1872 Mahlon
Loomis patents wireless telegraphy
1879 An F4 tornado strikes Irving, Kansas, killing 18 and injuring
60.
1879 Gilmore Garden (NYC) renamed Madison Square Garden
1883 Rumor that the Brooklyn Bridge is going to collapse caused a
stampede that kills 12
1889 The brassiere
is invented
1895
W G Grace scores his 1,000th Cricket run of the season after 22
days
1896 1st car accident occurs, Henry Wells hits a bicyclist (NYC)
1908 Paris advocate E Archdeacon is 1st passenger in a airplane
1909 Reuben Siegel laid cornerstone of 1st home in Tel-Aviv
1911 First running of the Indianapolis 500 motor race. Winner is Ray
Harroun at an average speed of 74.59 miles an hour
1912 US Marines sent to Nicaragua
1913 1st Balkan War ends, Treaty
of London
1913 New country of Albania is formed
1914 New and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS
Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool,
England to New York City.
1921 Lord
Dunsany's "If" premieres in London
1921 Salzburg Austria votes to join Germany
1922 Latvia and Vatican sign accord
1922 Lincoln
Memorial dedicated
1923 Howard
Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic" premieres
1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists
1925 In China, protests erupt against the Great Powers infringing
on Chinese sovereignty.
1933 Patent on invisible glass installation
1935 Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies
1937 Memorial Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers
at Republic Steel Plant in Chicago, 10 die
1941 1st anti semitic measures in Serbia
1941 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government
1941 German capture Crete
1942 The
RAF carries out its first 1,000 plus bombing raid of Germany - sending
1,047 aircraft to bomb Cologne
1942 Reichsführer Himmler arrives in Prague
1942 US aircraft carrier Yorktown leaves Pearl Harbor
1943 French General De Gaulle arrives in Algiers
1943 US troops reconquer Attu Aleutians
1944 Transport nr 75 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
1946 United flight 521 crashes on takeoff at LaGuardia Airport (New
York) 42 die
1948 A dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating
Vanport, Oregon within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands
are left homeless.
1948 The British Citizenship Act confers the status of British subjects
on all Commonwealth citizens
1949 East Germans constitution approved
1949 NPS/VHP win 1st general election in Suriname
1952 Darius
Milhaud's "West Point Suite" premieres
1955 Said el-Mufti forms Jordan Government
1955 Tunisia begins domestic self governing
1956 Bus boycott begins in Tallahassee, FL
1956 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1958 Unidentified soldiers killed in WWII and Korean War buried in
Arlington
1958 US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1959 Iraq terminates military assistance pact with US due to neutrality
1959 President Somoza ends emergency crisis in Nicaragua
1959 President Stroessner disbands Paraguay's parliament
1959 The first full-size experimental hovercraft, the SR-N1, built
by Saunders- Roe and designed by Sir Christopher Cockerell, is launched
at Cowes on the Isle of Wight
1961 Dutch DC-8 crashes after takeoff at Lisbon, 62 die
1962 69 killed in bus crash (Ahmedabad, India)
1962 Benjamin
Britten's "War Requiem" premieres
1964 Beatles' "Love Me Do" single goes number 1
1964 Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is number
1 in Australia
1965 France performs nuclear test at Ecke,r Algeria (Underground)
1965 Viet Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1965 Vivian
Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama
1966 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
1966 Graham
Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph)
1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to the Moon
1966 Former Congolese Prime Minister Evariste
Kimba and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa
on the orders of President Joseph
Mobutu.
1967 At the Ascot Park in Gardena, California, daredevil Evel
Knievel jumps his motorcycle over 16 cars lined-up in a row.
1967 The Nigerian Eastern Region declares independence as the Republic
of Biafra, sparking a civil war.
1967 King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo
1967 Robert "Evel"
Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
1968 Beatles begin work on their only double album "The Beatles"
1968 President De Gaulle disbands French parliament
1968 University church in Leipzig German Democratic Republic, blown
up
1968 West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law
1969 Gibraltar adopts constitution
1969 People revolt in Willemstad, Curaçao
1971 36 hospitalized during Grateful Dead concert; after drinking
LSD apple juice
1971 Train crash at Duivendrecht Netherlands, 5 die
1971 Launch of the US space probe Mariner
9 on its mission to Mars. It is able to send more than 7,000 pictures
of the planet back to Earth
1972 The Angry
Brigade goes on trial over a series of 25 bombings throughout
Britain.
1972
In Tel Aviv, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport
Massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others
1975 European
Space Agency (ESA) forms
1979 Percom Data Company Inc release Microdos for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1980 1st papal visit to France since 1814
1980 Turner's painting "Juliet and Her Nurse" sells for
$6.4 million
1981 Bangladesh President Ziaur
Rahman is shot by group of rebel officers c
1982 Spain becomes 16th member of NATO
1984 Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua
1986 Ariane-2 (ESA) launched
1986 France performs nuclear test
1986 England cricketer Ian Botham is banned from international matches
for two months for possession of drugs
1987 Mike
Tyson TKOs Pinklon
Thomas in 6 for World Boxing Council heavyweight boxing title
1987 North American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1987 West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
1989 Tiananmen
Square protests of 1989: The 33-foot high "Goddess
of Democracy" statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student
demonstrators.
1989 Margaret Ray pleads guilty to breaking into David
Letterman's house
1989 British singer Cliff
Richard releases his 100th single record
1990 Earthquake (6.4) hits Peru, killing 135
1992 Paul
Simon weds Edie
Brickell
1992 UN votes for sanctions against Serb-led Yugoslavia to halt fighting
1997 Betty
Shabazz, widow of Malcolm
X, set afire by 12 year old grandson
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, reprimands a senior aide for telling
a newspaper she was furious with former royal nanny Tiggy Legge Bourke
for joining Prince William at a picnic at Eton
1998 A magnitude
6.6 earthquake hits northern Afghanistan, killing up to 5,000.
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Birthdates which
occurred on 30th May :
1220 Alexander
Nevski [Aleksandr] Russian great ruler (1252-63)
1524 Selîm II Sari the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74)
1578 Valentin Dretzel composer
1623 Wallerand Vaillant painter/engraver, baptized
1672 Peter I "the Great" Romanov tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
1757 Henry Addington Viscount Sidmouth (C), British PM (1801-04)
1797 Johann Christian Lobe composer
1800 Karl W Feuerbach German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach)
1808 Joaquim Casimiro Jr composer
1812 John Alexander McClernand Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 Levin Goldschmidt German business law expert
1830 Edward Winslow Hinks Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1832 George Doherty Johnston Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1835 Alfred Austin Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
1844 Louis Varney composer
1845 Amadeus I duke of Aosta/king of Spain (1870-73)
1846 Peter Carl Fabergé Russia, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker
1847 Alice Sophia Stopford Green Ireland, proponent of Irish independence
1853 Andries André Dutch actor/husband of Geertruida Meeuwissen
1853 Karl Fritjof Valentin composer
1859 Pierre Marie Felix Janet France, psychologist/neurologist
1867 Arthur Vining Davis Sharon MA, CEO (Alcoa-1910-57)
1879 Colin Blythe cricketer (outstanding English slow lefty pre-WWI)
1881 George von Küchler German fieldmarshal (Invasion Netherlands)
1883 Riccardo Zandonai composer
1887 Alexander Archipenko Ukraine sculptor/lithographer
1887 Gino Tagliapietra composer
1888 James A Farley postmaster general (1933-38)
1891 Iman J van den Bosch Belgian resistance fighter
1894 Hubertus J van Mook Dutch minister of Colonies (1942-45)
1895 Maurice Tate cricketer (great England pace bowler of 20's)
1896 Howard Hawks Goshen IN, director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface)
19-- John Terlesky actor (Dakota-Guns of Paradise)
19-- Michel Langevin Canada, rock drummer (Voivod-Angel Rat)
19-- Scott Holmes actor (Tom-As the World Turns)
19-- Steve West rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It)
1901 Cornelia Otis Skinner Chicago IL, writer (When Our Hearts Were
Young & Gay)
1902 Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd archaeologist
1902 Stepin Fetchit [Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry] Key West
FL, actor (In Old Kentucky, Miracle in Harlem)
1903 Countee Cullen Baltimore MD, poet (Black Christ & Other Poems)
1903 Ray Howard-Jones artist
1904 Ernesto de la Guardia Jr President of Panamá (1956-60)
1908 Hannes OG Alfvén Swedish physicist (Nobel 1970)
1908 Mel[vin Jerome] Blanc San Francisco CA, voice (Bugs Bunny, Elmer
Fudd & Porky Pig)
1909 Benny Goodman Chicago IL, clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing)
1909 George Headley cricketer (in Panamá All-time great West
Indies batsman)
1911 Douglas Fowley New York NY, actor (Grandpa-Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1912 Alexander Langsdorf physicist
1912 Hugh Griffith Anglesey Wales, actor (Ben Hur, Mutiny on the Bounty,
Oliver!)
1912 Joseph Stein dramatist/playwright (Fiddler on the Roof)
1912 Julian Gustave Symons writer
1913 Cedric Thorpe Davie composer
1914 Bobby Sherwood Indianapolis IN, orchestra leader (Milton Berle
Show)
1915 Jerome Bert Weisner military scientist/disarmer
1916 Dr Joseph W Kennedy scientist (1 of 4 discoverers of plutonium)
1920 George London Montréal Canada, baritone (Dr Greenvil-La
Traviata)
1920 John Heawood actor/singer/choreographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
1922 Harry Clement Stubbs US, sci-fi author (Needle, Iceworld)
1923 Jimmy Lydon Harrington Park NJ, actor (Richard-Love That Jill)
1924 Norbert Schemansky USA, middle heavyweight (Olympics-gold-1952)
1925 Claude Prey composer
1925 Eddy Bruma Suriname politician
1925 Gerard John Toorenaar political commissar in Amsterdam (1975-79)
1926 Christine Jorgensen pioneer transsexual
1926 Edouard Van Remoortel Brussels, conductor (1958-62 St Louis Symphony)
1926 James Whitman McLamore businessman
1927 Clint Walker Hartford IL, actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen)
1927 Dick Noel Brooklyn NY, TV host (It's a Small Wonder)
1927 Evelyn Wesler Zemel US, author (American Glass Animals)
1928 Agnès Varda French photograph/director (Cléo de
5 à 7, Le bonheur)
1928 John Keith Wright English economist/assistant Secretary of State
(1971-84)
1929 Michael Mellinger Bavaria, actor (Goldfinger)
1932 Pauline Oliveros Houston TX, composer (Sound Patterns)
1932 Seppo Antero Yrjonpoika Nummi composer
1934 Alexei A Leonov Siberia USSR, cosmonaut (Voskhod II, Soyuz 19)
1936 Galina Shostakovich daughter of Russian composer Dmitri
1936 Keir Dullea Cleveland OH, actor (2001, 2010, David & Lisa)
1936 Roy Harford cricketer (brother of Noel New Zealand wicketkeeper
vs India 1968)
1936 Ruta Lee actress (Operation Eichmann, Marjorie Morningstar)
1937 Arthur C Jacobs poet
1938 Wilfried A de Pree Dutch MP (PvdA)/theologist
1939 Michael J Pollard Passaic NJ, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Roxanne)
1940 David Ackroyd Orange NJ, actor (I Come in Peace, Memories of
Me)
1942 Dan Miller (Representative-R-FL)
1942 Lenny Davidson London England, rock guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad
All Over)
1943 Gale Sayers NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
1945 Meredith MacRae Houston TX, actress (Petticoat Junction, My 3
Sons)
1946 Candy Lightner political activist/founder (MADD)
1947 Jocelyne Bourassa LPGA golfer
1949 Bob Willis cricketer (superb England fast bowler 1971-84)
1951 Stephen Tobolowsky Dallas TX, actor (Single White Female, Thelma
& Louise)
1952 Zoltan Kocsis composer
1953 Colm Meaney actor (Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1955 Nicky "Topper" Headon English drummer (Clash-Complete
Control)
1957 Allison Roe Auckland New Zealand, marathoner (NYC-1981)
1957 Chris Van Jaarsveld guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1957 Michael Clayton Melbourne Victoria Australia, Australasia golfer
1958 Marie Fredriksson Ostra-Ljuajak Sweden, singer (Roxette-Must
Have Been Love)
1958 Michael E Lopez-Alegria Madrid Spain, US Navy Lieutenant Commander/astronaut
(STS 73, sk 92)
1958 Ted McGinley Newport Beach CA, actor (Love Boat, Married With
Children, Dynasty)
1960 Stephen "Tea Tower" Duffy rocker (Lilac Time-Paradise
Song)
1961 Ella Arolovich Leningrad USSR, model
1961 Ralph Carter New York NY, actor (Michael Evans-Good Times)
1961 Trey Parker rapper/actor (Newsies, Hull High)
1962 Jan Gunnarsson Sweden, tennis star
1962 John Alt NFL tackle (Kansas City Chiefs)
1962 Tonya Pinkins Chicago IL, actress (Livia Frye-All My Children)
1963 Helen Patricia Sharman Great Britain, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-12)
1963 Lynda Wiesmeier Washington DC, playmate (July 1982)
1964 Nhi Lan Le Vietnam, US fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1964 Wynonna [Christina Judd] Ashland KY, singer (Judds-Why Not Me,
Love Can Build A Bridge)
1965 Tammy Parks Rockville Centre NY, actress (Attack of 60' Centerfold)
1965 Tyronne Stowe NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1966 Gary Martin cricket pace bowler (Zimbabwe ODI)
1967 Benoît Gauthier St Jerome Québec, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1967 Rechelle Hawkes Albany West Australia, field hockey midfielder
(Olympics-96)
1968 Amy Fuller Westlake CA, rower (Olympics-92, 96)
1968 Jerry Springer White Plains NY, Canadian Tour golfer
1968 Tim Burgess English rock vocalist (Charlatans-Only One I Know)
1970 Audrey Wooding LPGA golfer
1970 Sam Rogers NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
1971 Drahomir Kadlec Pribham Czechoslovakia, hockey defenseman (Team
Czechoslovakia Republic)
1971 Jiri Slegr Jihlava Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers,
Olympics-gold-98)
1971 Kyle Vander Kuyp Australian 110 meter hurdler (Olympics-96)
1972 Allen Aldridge NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 Anthony Cook NFL defensive end/defensive tackle (Tennessee Oilers)
1972 Jeff Jones NFL tackle (Detroit Lions)
1972 Manny Ramirez Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, outfielder (Cleveland
Indians)
1972 Renita Farrell Townsville Queensland Australia, field hockey
midfielder (Olympics-96)
1972 Terry Wilburn WLAF running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1973 Christine Pavone Miss USA-Connecticut (1997)
1973 Jennifer Darst Dallas TX, pairs skater (& Arthur Reid)
1973 Je'Rod Cherry safety (New Orleans Saints)
1973 Steve Charbonneau CFL defensive linebacker (Montréal Alouettes)
1974 David Wilkie Ellensburg, NHL defenseman (Montréal Canadiens)
1976 Omri Hairi Katz Los Angeles CA, actor (Marshall Teller-Eerie
Indiana)
1978 Krassmira Todorava Miss Bulgaria Universe (1997)
1986 Ashley Slaney daughter of Olympians Mary Decker & Richard
Slaney
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Deaths which occurred
on May 30th:
0727 Hubertus bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht/saint, dies at about 72
1035 Boudouin IV count of Flanders (988-1035), dies
1252 Ferdinand III the holy King of Castilië/León, dies
1416 Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by the Church
1431 Joan of Arc burned as a witch by the English at Rouen at 19
1434 Prokopius Bohemian leader of taboriets, dies in battle
1574 Charles IX King of France (1560-74), dies
1593 Christopher Marlowe British dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great),
murdered
1640 André Duchesne French historian/genealogy, dies
1640 Peter Paul Rubens Flemish painter, dies at 62
1718 Arnold J van Keppel Earl of Albemarle/General, dies at about
48
1718 Bernard Nieuwentyt physician/theologist, dies at 63
1744 Alexander Pope English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56
1746 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo composer, dies at 69
1778 Voltaire [François-Marie Arouet] French writer (Candide),
dies at 42
1791 Ildephons Haas composer, dies at 56
1797 Carl Ludwig Junker composer, dies at 48
1809 Johan B Scheffer portrait painter, dies at about 43
1833 Josef Slavik composer, dies at 27
1840 Dominique J de Eerens Governor-General of Dutch-Indies, dies
at 59
1864 James Barbour Terrill US attorney/Confederate Brigadier-General,
dies at 26
1865 William Clarke Quantrill criminal/Confederate bushwhacker, dies
at 27
1870 Gustave Vogt composer, dies at 89
1906 William Yeates Hurlstone composer, dies at 30
1912 Wilbur Wright US aviation pioneer, dies
1918 Georgi V Plechanov Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
1919 Lord John Raleigh British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies
1922 David Mendes Chumaceiro Curaçaos poet (Adelfas), dies
at 45
1923 Camille Chevillard composer, dies at 63
1923 Charles Fichardt cricketer (South Africa batsman in 2 Tests 1892-96),
dies
1935 Lothar Windsperger composer, dies at 49
1938 Raden Sutomo Indonesian freedom fighter, dies at 49
1940 Y de Smit-Rog eldest Dutchman, dies at 104
1944 Jessie Ralph actress (Good Earth, San Francisco), dies at 79
1945 Irma Laplasse Flemish farmer/Nazi collaborator, executed
1947 Sidney Hugo Nicholson composer, dies at 72
1951 Hermann Broch writer, dies at 64
1953 George Barnes cinematographer, dies at 60
1954 Ahmad Amin Egyptian historian/author, dies at 67
1957 Toivo R Pekkanen Finnish writer (Black Ecstacy), dies
1959 Thomas Carl Whitmer composer, dies at 85
1960 Boris Pasternak Russian poet (Dr Zhivago), dies at 70
1961 Rafael L Trujillo Molina dictator Dominican Republic (1930-61),
murdered at 69
1964 Leo Szilard Hungarians/US nuclear physicst, dies at 66
1966 Wäinö V Aaltonen Finnish sculptor, dies at 72
1967 Claude Rains actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77
1969 Gaston Brenta composer, dies at 66
1969 John Cipollini guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45
1971 Audie Murphy WWII hero/actor (Sierra), killed in plane crash
at 46
1971 Marcel Dupré French composer, dies at 85
1971 Rodd Redwing actor (Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory), dies
at 66
1972 Margaret Ruthven Lang composer, dies at 104
1973 Hal Hastings orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at
66
1975 Michel Simon actor (Panic, Plague, Two of Us), dies at 80
1975 Steve Prefontaine middle-long distance runner, dies in one-car
accident at 24
1977 Claire Goll writer, dies at 86
1977 Paul Desmond US jazz saxophonist, dies at 52
1979 Jack Raine actor (Quartet), dies at 82
1980 Carl Radle bassist (Derek & Dominoes), dies of a kidney ailment
1980 Timmy Caldwell rocker (Marshall Tucker Band), dies
1981 Ziaur Rahmen President of Bangladesh, is assassinated
1983 Alfred M Gruenther US General/NATO-commander (1953-56), dies
at 84
1986 Hank Mobley US jazz saxophonist, dies at 55
1987 Frank Carlson (Governor/Representative/Senator-R-KS), dies at
94
1987 Turk Murphy jazz trombonist, dies at 71
1988 Ella Raines actress (Uncle Harry, Runaround, Impact), dies at
66
1989 Zinka Milanov Metropolitan Opera Diva, dies of a stroke at 83
1991 Manolo Gomez Bur Spanish comedian dies at 74
1992 Daniel Addes actor (Victor-Sunst Grill), dies at 59
1992 Karl Carstens President German Federal Republic (1979-84), dies
at 77
1992 Leen 't Hart organist/composer, dies at 72
1993 Herman S Blount Sun Ra, US jazz pianist (Solar Arkestra), dies
at 79
1993 Sun Ra blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79
1994 Baron Marcel Bich inventor (Bic Pen), dies at 79
1994 Ezra Taft Benson 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94
1994 Jean Gattegno translator/scholar, dies at 58
1994 Juan Carlos Onetti Uruguayan writer (La vida breve), dies at
85
1994 Marcel Bich Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies
at 79
1995 Bobby Stokes soccer star, dies at 44
1995 Philip Owen A Sherrard scholar theologian poet/translator, dies
at 72
1995 Ted Drake soccer star, dies at 82
1995 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson British national park warden, dies
at 87
1996 Bob Stroup trombonist, dies at 57
1996 John Cameron judge, dies at 96
1996 John Kahn bassist, dies at 47
1996 Leon-Etienne Duval archbishop/cardinal, dies at 92
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