| 6th 
            May, on this day  1312 Pope Clement 
            V closes Council of Vienna 1476 Emperor Frederik III of Habsburg and duke Charles the Stout arrange 
            marriage of their children
 1527 Spanish and German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending the Renaissance. 
            147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, died fighting the forces 
            of Charles V during the Sack of Rome in order to allow Pope 
            Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo
 1529 Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans & Bengals
 1536 King 
            Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church
 1642 Ville Marie (Montréal) forms
 1644 Johan Mauritius resigns as Governor of Brazil
 1648 Battle at Zólty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat 
            John II Casimir
 1672 Brandenburgs monarch Frederik Willem signs treaty with Netherlands
 1733 1st international boxing match: Bob Whittaker beats Tito di Carni
 1753 French King Louis XV observes transit of Mercury at Mendon Castle
 1757 Battle 
            at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army
 1787 1st Black Masonic Lodge (African number 459) forms at Prince 
            Hall, Boston
 1794 Haiti, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, revolts against France
 1804 Suriname sold to English (until February 1816)
 1816 The American 
            Bible Society is founded in New York City.
 1833 John Deere makes 1st steel plow
 1835 James 
            Gordon Bennett, Sr.publishes 1st edition of New York Herald (price 
            1¢)
 1840 The world's first postage stamp, the Penny 
            Black, is issued by the Post Office in Britain
 1844 Johan Thorbecke argue general right to vote
 1848 Otto Tank ends slavery in Suriname colony
 1851 Dr John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
 1851 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock
 1851 New slave regulations go into effect in Suriname
 1853 1st major US rail disaster kills 46 (Norwalk, CT)
 1857 The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of 
            Bengal Native Infantry whose Sepoy Mangal 
            Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered 
            to be the First Martyr in the War of India's Independence.
 1860 Giuseppe 
            Garibaldi's Mille 
            set sail from Genoa to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
 1861 Arkansas and Tennessee become 9th and 10th states to secede from 
            US
 1861 Jefferson Davis approves a bill declaring War between US and 
            Confederacy
 1863 The Battle 
            of Chancellorsville ends indefinitely, with a defeat of the Army 
            of the Potomac under General Joseph Hooker by Confederate troops under 
            Stonewall Jackson.
 1864 Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA
 1864 Battle of Wilderness-General Longstreet seriously injured
 1864 General Sherman begins advance to Atlanta, GA
 1877 Chief Crazy 
            Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in 
            Nebraska.
 1882 Chinese 
            Exclusion Act: US Congress ceases Chinese immigration
 1882 Epping Forest England dedicated by Queen Victoria
 1889 Universal 
            Exposition opens in Paris France; Eiffel Tower completed
 1890 Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman 
            pub)]
 1891 Conductors on London General Omnibus Company go on strike
 1902 British SS Camorta sinks off Rangoon; 739 die
 1902 Zulu assault at Holkrantz, South-Africa
 1906 In Russia, Tsar Nicholas II makes a public declaration of the 
            Fundamental Law of the Russian Empire - re-affirming autocratic rule
 1910 Death of King 
            Edward VII of England - reigned 1901-1910
 1910 England replaces King Edward VII stamp series with King George 
            V
 1910 King 
            George V ascends to British throne
 1913 King Nikita I of Montenegro vacates Skoetari, North-Albania
 1914 British House of Lords rejects women suffrage
 1915 Allies attack Cape Helles, Hellespont
 1915 German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
 1916 Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
 1919 Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; German East 
            Africa is assigned to Britain and France, German Southwest Africa 
            to South Africa
 1921 American Soccer League formed
 1929 New York to San Fransisco footrace begins
 1933 Italy and USSR sign trade agreement
 1935 British King George and Queen Mary celebrates silver jubilee
 1935 New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works 
            Progress Administration (WPA).
 1937 German 
            airship Hindenburg explodes and bursts into flames while coming in 
            to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey, USA. 36 of the 97 people on board 
            are killed
 1941 Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia
 1941 At California's March Field Bob 
            Hope performs his first USO 
            show.
 1942 Corregidor 
            and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
 1943 British 1st army opens assault on Tunis
 1945 Axis 
            Sally delivers her last propaganda broadcast to Allied troops 
            (first was on December 11, 1941).
 1945 The Prague 
            Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
 1950 Liz Taylor's 1st marriage (Conrad Hilton Jr)
 1954 Roger 
            Bannister of Britain breaks 4 minute mile (3:59:4)
 1955 West Germany joins NATO
 1957 Italian Government of Segni resigns
 1957 Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV
 1959 Icelandic gunboats fire live ammunition at British trawlers during 
            a Cod War between Britain and Iceland over fishing rights in the North 
            Sea
 1960 Princess 
            Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, marries Anthony 
            Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey in London
 1960 President Eisenhower signs Civil Rights Act of 1960
 1960 Students attack Dutch embassy in Djakarta
 1960 Trotsky's murderer Jacques Mornard (Ramón Mercader), freed 
            in México
 1962 1st nuclear warhead fired from Polaris submarine (Ethan Allen)
 1962 Antonio Segni elected President of Italy
 1962 
            St. Martín de Porres becomes canonized by Pope 
            John XXIII.
 1962 Pathet Lao breaks cease fire/conquerors Nam Tha Laos
 1962 US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
 1964 Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloan" premieres in London
 1966 At Chester Crown Court in Britain, Moors murderers 
            Ian Brady and Myra 
            Hindley are found guilty of torturing and killing several children 
            before burying their bodies on the Moors north of Manchester
 1967 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College
 1967 Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem President of India
 1968 Battle between students and troops in Paris France, 1000 injured
 1968 Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards
 1970 Yuchiro Miura of Japan skis down Mount Everest
 1974 Bundy victim Roberta Parks disappears from OSU, Corvallis, OR
 1974 Stolen "Guitar Player" painting by Jan 
            Vermeer found in London
 1974 West German chancellor W Brandt resigns
 1975 Bundy victim Lynette Culver disappears from Pocatello ID
 1975 Early warnings provided by REACT (ham radio operators) means 
            only 3 people die in tornado that strikes Omaha, NE
 1976 An earthquake strikes Friuli, causing 989 deaths and the destruction 
            of entire villages.
 1978 South Africa military goes into Angola
 1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 81.8 kph over 200 
            meters
 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk 
            USSR
 1981 US expels Libyan diplomats
 1981 A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously selects Maya 
            Ying Lin's design for the Vietnam 
            Veterans Memorial from 1,421 other entries.
 1983 The Hitler diaries were revealed as a hoax when experts examined 
            the books and concluded that they were fake.
 1984 José 
            Napoleon Duarte wins El Salvador presidential election
 1985 17th Space Shuttle Mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 lands at Edwards 
            Air Force Base
 1986 Donald 
            E Pelotte becomes 1st native American bishop
 1986 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
 1987 Gary 
            Hart denies affair with model Donna Rice
 1987 
            Mario Andretti sets the one-lap speed record at Indianapolis 500 
            at 218.204 MPH
 1987 Niroslav Milhailovic begins 54 hours of telling jokes
 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk 
            USSR
 1988 An airplane going from Namsos to Brønnøysund in 
            Norway crashes into the side of the Torghatten mountain, killing all 
            36 passengers and crew.
 1990 Former President PW Botha quit South Africa's ruling National 
            Party
 1990 Tom 
            Cruise is ticketed for careless operation of a vehicle in South 
            Carolina "
 1994 French President Mitterrand and Queen 
            Elizabeth II jointly open the Channel 
            Tunnel linking Britain and France underneath the English Channel
 1994 House passes the assault weapons ban
 1994 Former Arkansas state worker Paula 
            Jones files suit against President Bill Clinton, alleging he'd 
            sexually harassed her in 1991.
 1994 Lennox 
            Lewis TKOs Phil Jackson in 8 for heavyweight boxing title
 1994 Nelson Mandela and his ANC, finally confirmed winners in South 
            Africa
 1996 The body of former CIA director William 
            Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, 
            eight days after he disappeared.
 1997 The Bank 
            of England is given independence from political control, the most 
            radical shake-up in the bank's 300-year history.
 1999 In an historic vote, electors in Scotland and Wales go to the 
            polls to chose their representatives for the newly-devolved Scottish 
            Parliament and Welsh 
            Assembly
 2001 During a trip to Syria, Pope John 
            Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
 2002 Dutch politician Pim 
            Fortuyn is shot and killed by an animal rights activist.
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        | Birthdates which 
            occurred on 6th May : 0973 Henry II Roman 
            Catholic German king/emperor (1002/14-24) 1501 Marcellus II [Marcello Cervini] Italy, humanist/Pope (1555, 22 
            days)
 1581 Frans Francken the Younger, painter
 1606 Lorenzo Lippi [Perlone Zipoli] poet/painter
 1758 Maximilien Robespierre Arras Fr, French revolutionary/avocat 
            (1781)
 1759 François Andrieux French writer/politician
 1769 Ferdinand III archduke of Austria/ruler of Toscane
 1785 Arvir A Afzelius Swedish story teller
 1786 Ludwig Börne writer
 1790 Vaclav Vilem Wurfel composer
 1800 Ferdinand Marcucci composer
 1801 George Sears Greene Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), 
            died in 1899
 1802 Friedrich Wilhelm Schirmer artist
 1806 Chapin Aaron Harris US, founded America Society of Dental Surgeons
 1809 William Walker composer
 1812 Martin Robinson Delaney Charlestown VA, 1st black major in US 
            Medical Corps
 1813 Joseph Tarr Copeland Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died 
            in 1893
 1814 Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst composer
 1825 Joseph Bailey Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 
            1867
 1829 Phoebe Ann Coffin 1st female ordained minister in New England
 1830 Guido Gezelle Flemish priest/poet
 1838 Alfred Humphreys Pease composer
 1843 Grove Karl Gilbert geologist, investigated Lake Bonneville UT
 1849 Wyatt Eaton artist
 1856 Robert Edwin Peary US, arctic explorer (North Pole-April 6 1909)
 1856 Sigmund Freud Freiberg Moravia, cigar smoker, father of psycho-analysis
 1858 Georges Adolphe Hue composer
 1859 Luis María Drago Argentina, statesman, anti-interventionist
 1859 Willem J T Kloos Dutch poet (Act of Simple Justice)
 1861 Radindranath Tagore Hindu poet/mystic/composer (Nobel 1913)
 1868 Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont Poland, novelist (Chiopi, Nobel-1924)
 1869 Jan R Slotemaker de Bruïne Dutch clergyman/politician (CHU)
 1869 Joseph Cuvelier Belgian historian/archivist
 1870 Amedos Peter Giannini San Jose CA, founded Bank of America
 1870 John McClutcheon cartoonist (Pulitzer Prize-1931)
 1871 August Reusner composer
 1871 Ch Morgenstern writer
 1875 William Daniel Leahy Iowa, 5 star Admiral/chief of staff (1949)
 1879 Johan H T Norlind Swedish musicologist
 1880 Baron W Edmund Archangel & Ironside, British fieldmarshal
 1880 Ernst L Kirchner German painter (Die Brücke)
 1883 José Ortega y Gasset Spanish philosopher/author [or May 
            9]
 1888 Emmanuel Celler (Representative-D-NY, 1923-73)
 1889 Arthur Morison typographer
 1890 Claire Whitney New York NY, silent film actress (Blind Fools, 
            Haunted Mine)
 1894 Filip Lazar composer
 1895 Rudolph Valentino Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle)
 1897 Paul Alverdes German writer (Pfeiferstube)
 1898 Daniel Gerber Freemont MI, beloved by babies at mealtime
 19-- Tony King Alliance OH, actor (Sergeant John Webber-Bronk)
 1902 Harry Golden Jewish humorist/writer (2¢ Plain, Only in America)
 1902 Max Ophüls Saarland, director/writer (Letters From an Unknown 
            Woman)
 1902 Walter Dawson British Air Chief marshall
 1904 Catherine Lacey London England, actress (Sorcerors)
 1904 Harry Martinson Sweden, novelist/poet (Trade Wind-Nobel 1974)
 1905 [Bernard] Toots Shor raconteur/restauranteur (Toots Shor)
 1905 Norman De Tar composer
 1906 André Weil [Bourbaki] French/US mathematician
 1907 Weeb Ewbank NFL coach (Baltimore Colts, New York Jets)
 1908 Necil Kazim Akses composer
 1910 Antoon Breyne Belgian journalist
 1912 Barend Roest Crollius painter/writer (Chronicle Sins of Youth)
 1912 Bill Quinn New York NY, actor (Rifleman, Van Ranseleer-All in 
            the Family)
 1912 Hugh Martell British Vice Admiral
 1913 Carmen Cavallaro New York NY, actor (Hollywood Canteen, Diamond 
            Horseshoe)
 1913 Gyula David composer
 1913 Jack [John T] Aitken British anatomist
 1913 Kenneth Horne English paper manufacturer/multi-millionaire
 1913 Ronald Harris British 1st Church Estates Commissioner
 1913 Stewart Granger [James Stewart], London, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
 1915 George Perle Bayonne NJ, composer (12 Tone Tonality)
 1915 John Arnold British high court judge
 1915 May Henriquez-Alvarez Curaçao, sculptor
 1915 Orson Welles Kenosha WI, actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds)
 1915 Theodore H White historian/writer (Making of the President)
 1915 Theodore H White historian/writer (Making of the President)
 1916 Adriana Caselotti animation voice (Show White)
 1918 Godfrey Ridout composer
 1918 Sydney Chatton England
 1919 Frank Ereaut Balliff of Jersey
 1920 John Henderson Lord-Lieutenant (Berkshire England)
 1921 Erich Freid writer
 1921 Freddy Randall jazz trumpeteer
 1921 Robert Fell CEO (British Stock Exchange)
 1922 Alan Ross editor (London Magazine)
 1922 Carlos J Moorhead (Representative-R-CA, 1973- )
 1922 John Ernest constructionist artist
 1922 Pat Harder Milwaukee WI, NFL fullback (Cardinals, Lions)
 1923 Elizabeth Sellars Glasgow Scotland, actress (Chalk Garden)
 1923 Guiseppe Martelli physicist
 1924 Mimi Benzell Bridgeport CT, operatic soprano (Gilda-Rigoletto)
 1925 Patrick Meany CEO (Rank Organization)
 1926 [Martin] Ross Hunter Cleveland OH, actor (Ever Since Paris)
 1926 John Hamilton-Jones CEO (Richmond Enterprises)/British Major-General
 1926 Marguerite Piazza New Orleans LA, operatic soprano (Young Broadway)
 1927 Ettore Manni Rome Italy, actor (Fatal Desire, Heroes in Hell)
 1927 Michael Frederick cricketer (one Test West Indies vs England 
            1954, scored 0 & 30)
 1929 John Polk Allen Carnegie OK, CEO (Biosphere 2)
 1929 John Taylor bishop (St Albans)/Lord High Almoner to Queen
 1929 Rosemary Camp president (Council for British Archaeology)
 1931 Marvin Leath (Representative-D-TX, 1979- )
 1931 Willie Mays Westfield AL, Hall of Fame baseball centerfielder, 
            "Say Hey Kid" (New York Giants, New York Mets, 660 homeruns, 
            National League MVP 1954)
 1932 Gunther Hauk composer
 1932 John Bond cricket umpire
 1932 Viscount Coke English large landowner/art collector
 1933 Lord Pender
 1934 Richard C Shelby (Representative-D-AL (1979-86)/Senator-D-AL, 
            1987- )
 1936 Joanna Dunham actress (Possession, House the Dripped Blood)
 1936 Sylvia Robinson rocker (Mickey & Sylvia-Love is Strange)
 1938 Eleanor Platt QC
 1939 Anthony Blacker master-general of Ordnance
 1939 Herbie Cox rocker (Cleftones)
 1939 Zhanna Dmitriyevna Yerkina Russian cosmonaut
 1940 Henry Habibe Arubian poet (Kerensentenchi)
 1940 Murray Sidlin Baltimore MD, conductor (National Symphony 1973-77)
 1941 Fred J Eckert (Representative-D-NY, 1985-87)
 1941 Ghena Dimitrova actress (Nabucco)
 1942 Colin Earl rocker
 1945 Bob Seger Dearborn MI, rocker (Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down)
 1945 Richard Eyers Los Angeles CA, actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach 
            West)
 1945 Victoria Bond composer
 1946 Jim Ramstad (Representative-R-MN)
 1946 Sydne Rome Akron OH, actress (What?, Candy)
 1947 Andy Roberts cricketer (New Zealand batsman 1976)
 1947 Ben Masters Corvalis OR, actor (Vic-Another World, Making Mr 
            Right)
 1947 Dennis Cowan London, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
 1947 Richard "Dick" Fosbury Portland OR, high jumper (Olympics-gold-68)
 1947 Sandra Fisher painter
 1948 Lolita [Abrázame] Spanish singer (Espérame)
 1948 Richard Cox New York NY, actor (Mark-Executive Suite)
 1949 David Cornell Leestma Muskegon MI, USN/astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 
            45)
 1950 Robbie McIntosh drummer (Average White Band-Show your Hand)
 1952 Chiaki Naito-Mukai Tatebayashi Japan, astronaut (STS 65, 95)
 1953 Lynn Whitfield Baton Rouge, actress (Josephine Baker, Equal Justice)
 1953 Tony Blair British PM (Labour, 1997- )
 1954 Sergei Nikolayevich Tresvyatsky Russia, cosmonaut
 1955 Donald A Thomas Cleveland OH, PhD/Astronaut (STS 65, 70, 83, 
            94)
 1955 John Hutton MP
 1959 Aidan Quinn actor (Avalon, Crusoe, Desperately Seeking Susan)
 1959 Charles Hendry MP
 1959 Eric D Fingerhut (Representative-D-OH)
 1959 Kate Collins Boston MA, actress (Natalie Hunter-All My Children)
 1959 Scott Hood Seattle WA, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 Montana Open-2nd)
 1960 Bart de Boer Dutch guitarist (Ivy Green)
 1960 Julianne Phillips Lake Oswego OR, actress (Frankie Reed-Sisters)
 1960 Larry Steinbacheck keyboardist (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
 1960 Larry Steinbachek rock synthesizer (Bronski Beat-Smalltown Boy)
 1961 Clay O'Brien Ray AZ, actor (Weedy-The Cowboys)
 1961 George Clooney Lexington KY, actor (Dr Douglas Ross-ER, Batman)
 1961 Roma Downey Derry Ire, actress (1 Life to Live, Touched by an 
            Angel)
 1962 Neil Foster cricketer (England right-fast medium)
 1963 Alessandra Ferri British ballerina (American Ballet Theater)
 1964 Dana Hill [Goetz] Van Nuys CA, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)
 1964 Dana Hill Van Nuys CA, actress (2 of Us, Shoot the Moon)
 1964 Kim Oden Irvine CA, US Olympic volleyball player (NCAA Play of 
            Decade-80s)
 1964 Mike Grob Billings MT, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 Manitoba-3rd)
 1964 Mike McGruder NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
 1964 Roma Downey Derry Ireland, actress (JoAnna-One Life to Live)
 1965 Bob Bassen Calgary, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
 1965 Ken Harvey NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
 1965 Norman Whiteside British soccer player
 1965 Paul Frase NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
 1965 Tim Simpson Atlanta GA, Nike golfer (1985 Southern Open)
 1965 Zahid Sadiq cricketer
 1967 Patrick F Manning Jr Poughkeepsie NY, rower (Olympics-92)
 1968 Andy Kelly WLAF quarterback (Rhein Fire)
 1968 Linnea Marie Fayard Shreveport LA, Miss Louisiana-America (1991-5th)
 1969 Mark Thomas NFL defensive end (Carolina Panthers, Packers, Bears)
 1969 Pascall Davis WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
 1970 Emerson Martin NFL guard (Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers, 
            Packers)
 1971 Rob Holmberg NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
 1972 Dean Larsson British Columbia Canada, Nike golfer (1994 Monterey 
            Open-46th)
 1972 Martin Brodeur Montréal, NHL goalie (New Jersey Devils, 
            Team Canada)
 1973 Clay Williams OL (Indianapolis Colts)
 1973 Joe Spiteri Australian soccer striker (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
 1973 Wendy Ward San Antonio TX, LPGA golfer (1995 GHP Classic-15th)
 1976 Lindsay Page Madison WI, figure skater (1997 E Great Lakes Senior-3rd)
 1977 Gabriela Aguilar Miss Costa Rica Universe (1997)
 1977 Shannon Shakespeare Mission British Columbia, 100 meter swimmer 
            (Olympics-96)
 1977 Trent Steed Sydney New South Wales Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
 1980 Brooke Bennett 800 meter freestyle (Olympics-gold-96)
 1980 Kasumi Takahashi Tokyo Japan, Australian rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deaths which occurred 
            on May 6th:
 0523 Thrasamunde king of Vandalen
 0988 Dirk II West Frisian count of Holland
 1085 King Alfonso VI of León conquered Toledo, dies
 1124 Balak Emir of Aleppo, murdered
 1475 Dieric Bouts Dutch painter, dies at about 64
 1527 Karel van Bourbon military governor (Lombardije), dies at 37
 1540 Jean Luis Vives Spanish theory/humanist/reformer, dies at 48
 1638 Cornelius Jansen theologian (Jansenism), dies
 1642 Frans Francken the Younger, Flemish painter, dies on 61st birthday
 1666 Paul Siefert composer, dies at 79
 1667 Johann Jacob Froberger German singer/organist/composer, dies 
            at 50
 1678 Joseph de La Barre composer, dies at 44
 1727 Catharina I Latvia tsarina of Russia, dies at about 42
 1739 Bernardus Smijtegelt vicar (Gekrookte Reed), dies at 63
 1776 James Kent composer, dies at 76
 1794 Jean-Jacques Beauvarget-Charpentier composer, dies at 59
 1814 George Joseph Vogler composer, dies at 64
 1836 Christian Ignatius Latrobe composer, dies at 78
 1841 John Thomson composer, dies at 35
 1852 Charles-Louis-Joseph Hanssens composer, dies at 75
 1856 William Hamilton metaphysicist, dies
 1859 Friedrich Heinrich Alexander explorer/scientist, dies
 1862 Henry David Thoreau US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies at 
            44
 1864 Henry Livermore Abbott US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle
 1864 Micah Jenkins Confederate Brigadier-General (friendly fire), 
            dies at 28
 1882 Lord Frederick Cavendish assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, 
            in Dublin
 1882 Thomas Henry Burke assassinated by Fenian Invincibles, in Dublin
 1890 Hubert Leonard composer, dies at 71
 1892 Ernest Guiraud composer, dies at 54
 1904 Franz von Lenbach German painter, dies at 67
 1908 Jean Réville French vicar (Le Prophétisme Hébreu), 
            dies at 53
 1910 Edward VII King of England (1901-10), dies at 68
 1916 Dirk Bos Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
 1916 Earl Ross Drake composer, dies at 50
 1919 Frank Lyman Baum author (Wizard of Oz), dies at 62
 1924 Carel S Adama van Scheltema poet/writer (socialism), dies at 
            47
 1936 Hans Jelmoli composer, dies at 59
 1948 43 communist rebels executed in Athens
 1949 A L Ochse cricketer (10 wickets in 3 Tests for South Africa 1927-29), 
            dies
 1949 P-M-B Maurice Maeterlinck Belgian philosopher (Nobel 1911), dies 
            at 86
 1950 Agnes Smedley writer, dies
 1952 Alberto Savinio Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60
 1952 Maria Montessori Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81
 1960 Paul Abraham Hungarian composer (Blume von Hawaii), dies at 67
 1961 Lucian Blaga philosopher/poet (Transcendental censor), dies at 
            65
 1963 Monty Wooley actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies 
            at 74
 1964 Harold Morris composer, dies at 74
 1971 Helene Weigel Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at 70
 1973 Ernest MacMillan composer, dies at 79
 1975 József Mindszenty [Joseph Prehm], Hungarian cardinal, 
            dies at 83
 1976 Karel Cruysberghs Flemish author (On the Pulpit), dies at 85
 1978 Ethelda Bleibtrey US swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1920), dies at 
            76
 1978 Ko van Dijk Jr Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at 61
 1982 Sam Baker dies
 1987 William J Casey director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73
 1989 Guy Williams actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), dies at 65
 1990 Charles Farrell actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies at 89
 1991 Anthony van Kampen writer (Ketelbinkie, Geschonden Eldorado), 
            dies
 1991 Chucky Mullins US soccer player, dies
 1991 Thomas A Carlin dies at 62
 1991 Wilfrid Hyde-White British actor (Peyton Place/140+ films), dies 
            at 87
 1992 Jilly Rizzo restauranteur/friend of Frank Sinatra, dies in car 
            at 75
 1992 Marlene Dietrich [Maria Losch], actress (Angel), dies in Paris 
            at 90
 1993 Ann Todd actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke 
            at 84
 1993 Minnie Gentry actress (Def by Temptation), dies in New York at 
            77
 1994 Fred Sadoff actor (Quiet American), dies of AIDS at 67
 1994 Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler blues singer/guitarist, 
            dies at 59
 1994 Helen Lessore artist, dies at 86
 1994 Montague Modlyn broadcaster, dies at 72
 1994 Moses Rosen Romania's chief rabbi, dies at 81
 1995 Dona Maria Pia de Braganca pretender to Port throne, dies at 
            88
 1995 Leanoard "Red" Truss R&B singer, dies at 47
 1995 Nicholas Palmer TV writer/producer, dies at 57
 1996 Frank Hercules writer, dies at 85
 1996 Geoffrey Dawes physiologist, dies at 78
 1996 Geoffrey Hodges bomb disposal expert, dies at 87
 1996 Joseph Stone lawyer, dies at 79
 1996 Leon Joseph Suenens cardinal, dies at 91
 1996 Michael Gerzon mathematician, dies at 50
 
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