Today in History for 10th July 2015

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 199

48 BC - Battle of Dyrrhachium: Julius Caesar barely avoids a catastrophic defeat to Pompey in Macedonia.

552 - Origin of Armenian calendar

988 - The city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.

1040 - Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes

1212 - The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.

1460 - Wars of Roses: Richard of York defeats King Henry VI at Northampton

1520 - King Charles V France King Henry VIII of England sign treaty of Calais

1568 - Battle on Eems: Dutch Water garrison beats Spanish

1584 - Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium

1598 - Spanish theater plays "Moros y Los Cristianos" in Rio Grande

1609 - Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League

1627 - English fleet under George Villiers reach La Rochelle [NS=June 20]

1629 - 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in US founded (Salem, MA)

King of England Henry VIII

1645 - Battle at Langport, Somerset: Cromwell's New Model Army beats Royalists

1652 - England declares war on Netherlands 1690 - Battle of Beachy Head - French fleet defeat Anglo-Dutch fleet under Cornelis Evertsen

1739 - King George II authorised the Admiralty Board to seek maritime reprisals against Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)

1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye

1762 - Roubiliac's monument for Handel unveiled at Westminster Abbey London

1775 - Horatio Gates issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army

1778 - American Revolution: Louis XVI of France declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain.

1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovers that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.

Mathematician, Astronomer, and Physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss

1800 - The British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu, Hindi and other vernaculars of sub continent.

1806 - The Vellore Mutiny is the first instance of a mutiny by Indian sepoys against the British East India Company.

1832 - President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US

1847 - Urbain J J Leverrier John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune, meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel

1850 - Millard Fillmore sworn in as president of US (replacing Taylor)

1861 - Lincoln writes to Kentucky's militia says Union troops will not enter that state

1862 - US begins construction of Central Pacific Railroad

1863 - Battle of Charleston, SC (Morris Island) [-SEP 06]

1863 - Battle of Jackson, MS - captured by federals [-JUL 16] US1000 CS1339

1866 - Indelible pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass 1873 - French poet Paul Verlaine wounds Arthur Rimbaud with pistol

Poet Arthur Rimbaud

1877 - The then villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.

1884 - 1st Test Cricket to be played at Old Trafford 1st day washed out

1886 - George Goldie gets charter for Royal Niger Company

1886 - Eruption of Tarawera volcano destroys famous pink white calcium carbonate hot-spring terraces (North Island, New Zealand)

1890 - Wyoming becomes 44th state of US (1st with female suffrage)

1892 - 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)

1898 - Jean-Baptiste Marchands expedition reaches Fashoda at White Hippo

1905 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina opens Technical Hague court

1908 - H Kamerlingh Onnes makes helium liquid (-269°C)

1910 - Chicago White Sox Comiskey Park opens, visiting Browns win 2-0

1911 - 105°F (41°C) at North Bridgton, Maine (state record)

1912 - Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record 5000m (14:36.6)

1913 - 134°F (57°C), Greenland Ranch, California (US record)

1913 - Romania declares war on Bulgaria

1913 - Death Valley, California hits 134 °F (~56.7 °C), which is the highest temperature recorded in the United States. Baseball Legend Babe Ruth

1914 - Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles

1915 - British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa

1917 - Emma Goldman imprisoned for obstructing draft

1918 - Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms

1919 - Dutch 1st Chamber approves woman suffrage

1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to Senate

1920 - Tris Speaker is stopped at 11 consecutive hits by Tom Zachary

1922 - 42nd Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Gerald Patterson beats R Lycett (6-3 6-4 6-2)

1923 - 2-pound hailstones kill 23 many cattle (Rostov, Russia)

1923 - All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy

1924 - Denmark takes Greenland as Norway ends claim

28th US President Woodrow Wilson

1924 - Railroad worker strike ends in Amsterdam

1925 - Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial 1925 - USSR's official news agency TASS forms

1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.

1926 - 30th US Golf Open: Bobby Jones shoots a 293 at Scioto CC in Ohio

1926 - Lake Denmark, NJ arsenal explodes, kills 21, $75m damage

1928 - Senator Milt Gaston hurls record tying 14-hit shutout

1929 - In game between Pirates Phillies 9 HRs hit 1 in each inning

1929 - US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency

1932 - Jack Burnett gets 9 hits, Eddie Rommel relieves in 2nd 18-17 victory in 18 as his A's beats Indians in longest relief job

1933 - 1st police radio system operated, Eastchester Township, NY

1934 - 1st sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1934 - 2nd All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 9-7 at Polo Grounds, New York

1934 - Carl Hubbell strikes out Ruth, Gehrig Foxx in All star game

1936 - 109°F (43°C) Cumberland Frederick, Maryland (state record)

1936 - 110°F (43°C) at Runyon, New Jersey (state record)

1936 - 111°F (44°C) Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (state record)

1936 - 112°F (44°C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record)

1936 - New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles

1936 - Phillies Chuck Klein becomes 4th to hit 4 HRs in a game 1937 - Dutch Django Reinhardts "Quintette, premieres in du Hot Club"

1938 - "Yankee Clipper" completes 1st passenger flight over Atlantic

1938 - Howard Hughes flies around the world in 91 hours

1940 - Battle of Britain begins as Nazi forces attacked shipping convoys in English Channel

1941 - Jedwabne Pogrom is a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the village of Jedwabne in Poland.

1942 - Himmler orders sterilization of all Jewish woman in Ravensbruck Camp

1942 - Netherland's government in exile (London) recognizes

1943 - 6th day of battle at Kursk

1943 - US, British and Canadian forces invade Sicily in WW II (Operation Husky)

1944 - U-821 sinks

Father of Medicare Tommy Douglas

1944 - "Father of Medicare" Tommy Douglas becomes the 7th Premier of Saskatchewan

1945 - Adm Marc Mitscher named chief of US Navy staff

1946 - Belgian government of Acker resigns

1947 - 200 die when train derailed fell into a river in Canton, China

1947 - Cleveland Indian Don Black no-hits Phila A's, 3-0

1947 - Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor General of Pakistan by then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Clement Attlee.

1948 - "Allegro" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 318 performances

1948 - "Ballet Ballads" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 62 performances 1948 - "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 188 perfs

1948 - Lydda Airfield captured by Israeli army

1949 - 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Ohio

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 240

1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono of Japan (d. 1471)

1452 - King James III of Scotland (d. 1488)

1509 - John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian

1517 - Odet de Coligny, Cardinal of Châtillon/bishop

1526 - Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien

1592 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (d. 1660)

1614 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)

1625 - Jean Herauld Gourville, French adventurer (d. 1703)

1638 - David Teniers III, Flemish painter (carpet cartons)

1666 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)

1682 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)

1682 - Roger Cotes, English mathematician (d. 1716)

1697 - Francois Hanot, composer

1711 - Princess Amelia Sophia of Great Britain (d. 1783)

Jurist William Blackstone (1723) 1723 - William Blackstone, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries), born in London, England

1736 - Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (d. 1807)

1759 - Eleanore Sophia Maria Westenholz, composer

1778 - Sigismund Ritter von Neukomm, Austrian composer/royal chaplain master

1779 - Alois Basil Nikolaus Tomasini, composer

1792 - George Mifflin Dallas, (D) 11th VP (1845-49)

1797 - Pieter L Uys, South African pioneer (Great Pull)

1804 - Emma Smith Inaugural President of the Women's Relief Society of The Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1879)

1809 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)

1818 - John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

1820 - Andrew Porter, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1872)

1821 - Christopher Columbus Augur, Major General (Union volunteers)

1824 - Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician

1826 - Theodore Edouard Dufaure de Lajarte, composer

Painter Camille Pissarro (1830)

1830 - Camille Pissarro, Danish Antillean/French painter (Impressionism)

1832 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)

1833 - Lucius Eugene Polk, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1892)

1834 - James A McNeill Whistler, US/British painter (Whistler's Mother)

1835 - Henryk Wieniawski, Lubin Poland, violinist/composer (Souv de Moscou) 1839 - Adolphus Busch, German-born brewer (d. 1913)

1852 - Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, German foreign minister

1856 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor, developed alternating current and the Tesla Coil

1858 - Karl Flodin, composer

1865 - Jan "Pa" van der Steur, Dutch philanthropist (Steurtjes)

1867 - Finley Peter Dunne, US, journalist/humorist (Mr Dooley)

1867 - Max Prinz von Baden, German chancellor (Oct-Nov 1918)

1870 - Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism)

Electrical and Mechanical Engineer Nikola Tesla (1856)

1871 - Marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)

1874 - Austin Diamond, cricket non- Test capt (NSW batsman 1899-1919, Aust)

1874 - , Russian sculptor (d. 1971)

1875 - Mary McLeod Bethune, SC, educator (Bethune-Cookman College)

1879 - Harry Nicholls Holmes, Penn, Dr (crystallized vitamin A)

1882 - Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony

1882 - Riccadro Pick-Mangiagalli, composer 1883 - Johann Blaskowitz, German general

1883 - Sam Wood, US, communist fighter/director (For Whom the Bell Tolls)

1886 - John SSPV Gort, viscount of Limerick/fieldmarshal of Palestine

1887 - Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer

1888 - Giorgio De Chirico, , Metaphysical painter (Soothsayer)

1888 - Graham McNamee, sportscaster (1st Rose Bowl)

1888 - Toyohiko Kagawa, Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer

1889 - Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Go West, Distant Drums), born in NYC, New York

1890 - Andre Souris, composer

1892 - George "Slim" Summerville, US actor (Keystone Cops)

1894 - Jimmy Francis McHugh, composer

1895 - Carl Orff, Munich Germany, composer (Antigonae; Mozart prize 1969)

1895 - John Gilbert, [Pringle], Logan UT, actor (Heart o' the Hills)

1895 - Maarten P Vrij, Dutch lawyer/criminologist/member High Court

1895 - Nahum Goldmann, Switz, pres Zionist World Organization

1896 - Thérèse Casgrain, French Canadian politician and senator (d. 1981)

1897 - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director

1897 - Karl Plagge, German officer (d. 1957)

1897 - Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931)

1899 - John Gilbert, American actor (d. 1936)

1899 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (d. 1978)

1900 - Bob Catterall, cricketer (dashing South African batsman of 20's)

1900 - Elsie Evelyn Laye, English singer/actress (Bitter Sweet, Merry Widow)

1900 - Sampson Sievers, Russian Orthodox Christian monk, priest and wonder-worker (d. 1979)

1900 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (d. 1993)

1902 - G Weisenborn, writer 1902 - Kurt Alder, German chemist (Nobel 1950)

1903 - John Wyndham P L B Harris, US, sci-fi author (Day of the Triffids)

1904 - Isa Krejci, composer

1905 - Thomas Gomez, actor (Force of Evil, Key Largo, Kim, Sellout), born in NYC, New York

1905 - Wolfram Sievers, Nazi physician (d. 1948)

1910 - Ronald Fletcher, broadcaster

1911 - Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier of Indonesia

1911 - Terry-Thomas, England, actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)

1912 - Francis Showering, brewer

1913 - Ljuba Welitsch, Borisovo, Bulgaria, opera soprano (Nedda-Pagliacci)

1913 - Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (d. 1985)

1914 - Joe Shuster, Canadian-born cartoonist (d. 1992)

1916 - Dick Cary, jazz Musician

1917 - Don Herbert, Waconia Minn, scientist/TV host (Watch Mr Wizard)

1917 - Reg Smyth, English cartoonist (Andy Capp)

1917 - Hugh Alexander, American baseball player (d. 2000)

1919 - Rusty Gill, St Louis Mo, singer (Polka Time)

1920 - David Brinkley, Wilmington NC, NBC news anchor (Huntley-Brinkley)

1920 - Owen Chamberlain, physicist/co-discoverer (antiproton, Nobel-1959)

1921 - Eunice Shriver, founder (Special Olympics) World Middleweight Boxing Champion Jake LaMotta (1921)

1921 - Jake LaMotta, Bronx New York, middleweight boxing champ (1949-51) (Raging Bull)

1921 - Jeff Donnell, South Windham Maine, actor (Gidget Goes to )

1921 - Revaz Il'yich Lagidze, composer

1921 - Harvey Ball, American inventor (d. 2001)

1922 - Derek Prouse, writer actor/film festival director (Le Scandale)

1922 - Herb McKenley, Jamaica, 4 X 400m relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 12 of 12

Marxist Revolutionary and Russian Leader Vladimir Lenin (1898)

1898 - Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin marries fellow revolutionary Nadezhda "Nadya" Krupskaya in Shushenskoye.

1919 - Author Aldous Huxley (25) weds epidemiologist Maria Nys in Bellem, Belgium

1926 - Cuban president Fulgencio Batista (25) weds Elisa Godínez y Gómez (25)

1937 - Actress Ingrid Bergman (21) weds dentist Petter Aron Lindström 1994 - The "Anthrax" heavy-metal guitarist Scott Ian (31) weds Debbie Leavitt (23) in Huntington Beach, California

1994 - Fred Norris (from the Howard Stern Show) marries Allison Furman

1999 - "It Could Happen To You" actress Rosie Perez (34) weds playwright and screenwriter Seth Zvi Rosenfeld (37) in Brooklyn, New York

2004 - "The West Wing" actor Dule Hill (29) weds actress Nicole Lyn (26) in Montego Bay, Jamaica

2010 - Actress and fourth season American Idol winner Carrie Underwood (29) weds Nashville Predators ice hockey player Mike Fisher (32) at Ritz Carlton Lodge in Greensboro, Georgia

Singer Carrie Underwood (2010)

2010 - Actress Emily Blunt (29) weds actor John Krasinski (32) at the luxurious Villa D'este hotel in Como, Italy

2010 - NBA star Carmelo Anthony (25) weds actress Lala Vasquez (30) at Cipriani 42nd St. in

2010 - "Big Momma's House" actor Martin Lawrence (45) weds longtime girlfriend Shamicka Gibbs (35) on an intimate wedding in Beverly Hills

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

1975 - Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 108

138 - Hadrian, Roman emperor (117-138), dies at 62

518 - Anastasius I Dikoros, [Dyrrhachium/Durazzo], Byzantine emperor, dies

649 - Li Shimin, Emperor of China (b.599) 983 - Benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies

1086 - Knut IV, the Saint, king of Denmark (1080-86), murdered

1099 - El Cid, of Castile (b. 1044)

1103 - Erik I Ejegod, the good hearted, King of Denmark (1095-1103), dies

1290 - King Ladislaus IV of Hungary (b. 1262)

1460 - Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English military leader (b. 1402)

Roman Emperor Hadrian (138)

1480 - King René I of Naples (b. 1410) last heir of house of Anjou

1535 - Jacob Van Campen, Reconstruction bishop, beheaded

1559 - Henry II, King of France (1547-59), dies

1573 - Willem van Bronkhorst, Brattenburg/Stein/army leader, dies

1584 - William I "the Silent" [William of Orange], Earl of Nassau, is assassinated at 51in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.

1590 - Archduke Charles II of Austria (b. 1540)

1594 - Paulo Bellasio, composer, dies at 40

1621 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (b. 1571)

1653 - Gabriel Naudé, French librarian and scholar (b. 1600)

1668 - Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer, dies at 45 King of France Henry II (1559)

1680 - Louis Moréri, French encyclopedist (b. 1643)

1683 - François-Eudes de Mézeray, French historian (b. 1610)

1686 - Ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restauranteur, dies at 76

1686 - John Fell, English churchman (b. 1625)

1690 - Domenico Gabrielli, composer, dies at 39

1690 - Jan van Brakel, Dutch vice admiral (Chatham), dies in battle at 48

1692 - Bridget Bishop, 1st person to be hanged in Salem witch trials Massachusetts USA

1762 - Johann F Gronovius, physician/botany, dies at 76

1776 - Richard Peters, English-born clergyman (b. 1704)

1806 - George Stubbs, British painter (b. 1724)

1838 - Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43

1839 - Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, composer, dies at 61

1851 - Louis Daguerre, French inventor and photographer (b. 1787)

Photographer and Inventor Louis-Jacques Daguerre (1851) 1863 - Clement Clarke Moore, ('Twas the Night Before Xmas), dies at 83

1863 - Paul Jones Semmes, US businessman/Confederate brig-general, dies at 48

1868 - Carlo Conti, composer, dies at 71

1881 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (b. 1812)

1884 - Paul Charles Morphy, US lawyer/chess wizard, dies at 47

1888 - Rafael Hernando, composer, dies at 66

1902 - Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902), dies at 74

1908 - Eliza Laurillard, vicar/poet/writer, dies at 78

1908 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (b. 1839)

1909 - Flooi Du Toit, cricket leg-spinner (Test for South Africa 1892), dies

1910 - Johann G Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, dies

1915 - Hendrik W Mesdag, painter (Panorama Mesdag), dies

1920 - Eugenie M de Montijo y de Guzman, Emperor of France, dies at 94

1920 - John A "Jacky" Kilverston, adm/designer (dreadnought), dies at 79

1920 - Jackie Fisher, British admiral (b. 1841)

1924 - Johannes B van Heutsz, gov-gen of Dutch Indies (1904-09), dies at 73

1927 - Kevin O'Higgins, Irish Free State VP, assassinated

1937 - Attilio Brugnoli, composer, dies at 56

1937 - Johan[nes] B Schepers, Fries writer (Braga), dies at 71

1940 - Donald Francis Tovey, English musicologist/composer, dies at 64

1941 - Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, pioneer jazz pianist, dies in LA at 56

1943 - Arthur Finlay Nevin, composer, dies at 72

1952 - Rued Immanuel Langgaard, composer, dies at 58

1953 - Sidney Homer, composer, dies at 88

1954 - Calogero Vizzini, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1877)

1955 - Henry W Methorst, Dutch director (Central Bureau of Statistic), dies 1956 - Joe Giard, American baseball player (b. 1898)

1957 - Sholem Asch, Polish/Israeli writer (East River), dies at 77

1963 - John Sutton, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of heart attack at 54

1963 - Teddy Wakelam, English sports broadcaster and rugby union player (b. 1893)

1965 - Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Le cavalier seul), dies at 66

1971 - Harry M O'Connor, dies of pneumonia at 98

1971 - Mohamed Madbouh, Moroccan general/putschist, shot to death

1972 - Lovie Austin, American jazz pianist (b. 1887)

1975 - Achiel H van Acker, Belgian premier (1945-46, 1954-58), dies at 77

1977 - Norman Paris, orchestra leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41

1978 - Michel Gusikoff, composer, dies at 85

1978 - Joe Davis, English snooker player (b. 1901)

1979 - Arthur Fiedler, orchestra leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84

1981 - Ken Rex McElroy, American resident of Skidmore, Missouri known as "the town bully", murdered at 47 in an unsolved killing in front of a crowd of 30-46 in Skidmore's main street

1982 - Gustav MR von Koenigswald, German/Dutch paleontologist, dies at 79

1982 - Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Aust/US, singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies

1983 - Werner Egk, German composer (Die Zaubergeige), dies at 82

1985 - Fernando Pereira, military activist, murdered

1987 - John Hammond, Jazz reviewer (Melody Maker), dies at 76

1988 - Errol John, playwright, dies at 63

1989 - Mel Blanc, cartoon voice (Warner Bros cartoons), dies at 81

1989 - Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English comic (Bitter Springs), dies at 80

1990 - Hans Faverey, poet, dies

1990 - Irene Champlin, dies after long illness at 59

1991 - Gerome Ragal, author (Hair), dies of cancer at 48 1993 - Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95

1993 - Ruth Krauss, author (Carrot Seed), dies at 91

1993 - Sam Rolfe, American screenwriter (b. 1924)

1994 - Earl Strum, referee (NBA), dies of brain cancer at 66

1994 - Otto Bonsema, soccer star/trainer (GVAV, Veendam), dies at 84

1995 - Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman, dies at 74

1996 - Eladio Rusconi, writer/publisher/businessman, dies at 79

2000 - Vakkom Majeed, Indian Freedom fighter, Travancore-Cochin Legislative member (b. 1909)

2000 - Justin Pierce, English-American actor and skateboarder (b. 1975)

2002 - Jean-Pierre Côté, French Canadian politician and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1926)

2003 - Winston Graham, English writer (b. 1908)

2003 - Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (b. 1902)

2003 - Bishnu Maden, Nepalese politician

2005 - A.J. Quinnell, English writer (b. 1940)

2005 - Freda Wright-Sorce, American radio performer (b. 1955)

2005 - Freddy Soto, American comedian and actor (b. 1970)

2005 - Jimmy Franklin and Bobby Younkin, airshow performers

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