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 Soviet Union
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 Jesus 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 - Sergey Konenkov, 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, Greece, 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 Rome)
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 New York City
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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