Today in History for 16th July 2015

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 186

463 - Start of Lunar Cycle of Hilarius

622 - Muslim Era begins - Muhammad begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hijra)

1054 - Michael Caerularius excommunicated of Constantinople

1054 - Three Roman legates fracture relations between Western and Eastern Christian churches byplacing invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoondivine liturgy. Often dated as start of the East-West Schism.

1099 - Crusaders herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue set it afire

1212 - Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa; end of Muslim power in Spain

1251 - The Virgin Mary gives Simon Stock a Brown Scapular (legend)

1338 - German monarch signs Treaty of Rense

1429 - Army entered Reims

1429 - Joan of Arc and the French army enter the city of Rheims

1439 - Kissing is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)

1465 - Battle at Montlhéry

1519 - Public debate between Martin Luther theologist John Eck at Pleissenburg Castle in Liepzig,Luther denies the divine right of the Pope

Founder of Protestanism Martin Luther

1548 - La Paz, Bolivia is founded

1573 - Alva demands submission of Zealand/Holland

1618 - Capt John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain

1661 - 1st banknotes in Europe are issued by Bank of Stockholm

1683 - Turkish troops under Kara Mustafa attain Vienna

1683 - Manchu/Chinese Qing Dynasty naval forces under commander Shi Lang defeat the Kingdomof Tungning in the Battle of Penghu near the Pescadores Islands.

1755 - John Adams graduates Harvard

1769 - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in California

1782 - Mozart's opera "Das Entfuhrung aus dem Serail," premieres in Vienna

1790 - US Congress establishes District of Columbia

1798 - US Public Health Service forms US Marine Hospital authorized

1801 - Pope Pius VII 1st consul Napoleon sign concord

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1809 - La Paz, Bolivia declares its independence from the Spanish Crown and forms the JuntaTuitiva. The first independent government in Spanish America, led by Pedro Domingo Murillo

1819 - Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen sets sail to explore Antarctica for Tsar Alexander I

1845 - NY Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta

1856 - Statue of Laurens Jansz Coster unveiled in Haarlem

1857 - Sir Henry Havelock arrives at Battle of Cawnpore

1861 - Battle of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought

1861 - Manassas Campaign [-JUL 22]

1862 - David Farragut is 1st Rear Admiral in US Navy

1863 - Utrecht-Swells railway opens

1867 - Amstel Hotel, "the dignified old lady" opens in Amsterdam

1867 - D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint

US Civil War Admiral David Farragut

1867 - Joseph Monier patents reinforced concrete

1879 - 3rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Hartley beats V Goold (6-2 6-4 6-2)

1880 - Dr. Emily Stowe becomes the first woman licenced to practice medicine in Canada.

1883 - 7th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: William Renshaw beats E Renshaw (2-6 6-3 6-3 4-6 6-3)

1888 - 5th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Lottie Dod beats Blanche Hillyard (6-3 6-3)

1888 - 12th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Ernest Renshaw beats H Lawford (6-3 7-5 6-0)

1894 - Many negro miners in Alabama killed by striking white miners

1894 - Treaty of Aoki-Kimberley signed between Japan England

1895 - Archie MacLaren completes cricket 424 for Lancs v Somerset at Taunton

1897 - The South African Committee, investigating the Jameson Raid releases its report finding thatit was conducted almost implicitly through the support and encouragement of Cecil John Rhodes andthe mining houses in the Transvaal

1900 - A report appears in London that all foreigners in Peking, China, have been massacred.Although soon exposed as false, the report helps mobolize support for relief of foreigners

1900 - Russia launch an offensive against the Chinese in Manchuria

1901 - The Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett is established as a result of an outcryagainst the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the South African War

1902 - John McGraw named manager of NY Giants

1902 - Test Cricket debut of K S Ranjitsinhji v Australia, at Old Trafford

1904 - Islands of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs

1909 - Det Wash play longest scoreless game in AL history-18 innings

1912 - Naval torpedo launched from an airplane patents by B A Fiske

1914 - Socialist conference in Brussels (Kautsky, Trotski Rosa Luxemburg)

Tsar Nicholas II

1918 - A Bolshevik firing squad at Ekaterinburg, Siberia, executes Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and hisfamily

1920 - 15th Davis Cup: USA beats Australasia in Auckland (5-0)

1920 - China joins the League of Nations

1920 - Gen Amos Fries appointed 1st US army chemical warfare chief

1920 - Ruth sets season home run record with 30 en route to 54

1921 - Encouraged by the British, King Constantine of Greece launches a drive to take Asia Minorfrom nationalists under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

1924 - Conference over German recovery payments begins in London

1924 - NY Giants George Kelly is 1st to hit HRs in 6 cons games

1925 - The first parliament in Iraq opened by King Feisal in Baghdad

1926 - Jaspar government asks authority to save Belgian franc

1926 - National Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos

President and founder of the Republic of Turkey Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

1927 - Augusto Sandino begins 5½ year war against US occupation of Nicaragua

1934 - Bradman scores 140 Aust v Yorkshire, 120 mins, 22 fours 2 sixes

1935 - 1st automatic parking meter in US installed (Oklahoma City, Ok)

1936 - 1st x-ray photo of arterial circulation, Rochester, NY

1936 - NY Giants are 10½ games back in NL, go on to win pennant

1938 - 21st PGA Championship: Paul Runyan at Shawnee CC Shawnee-on-Del Pa

1940 - NSB'er Woudenberg appointed as NVV-trustee

1941 - 100°F (38°C) highest temperature ever recorded in Seattle Wash

1941 - Joe DiMaggio goes 3 for 4, hitting in his 56th straight game

1942 - French police arrest 13,152 Jews in Paris

1942 - Jews transported from Holland to extermination camp

1944 - Dodgers score 8 unearned runs against Braves to win 8-5 break their 16-game losing streak,they will lose another 5 in a row

1945 - 1st test detonation of an atomic bomb, Trinity Site, Alamogordo, New Mexico as part of theUS Manhatten Project

Baseball Player Joe DiMaggio

1945 - Australian Services win 3rd Victory Test Cricket by 4 wickets

1945 - Cruiser Indianapolis leaves SF with atom bomb

1946 - Attempt made to recall Mayor Lapham (1st time in SF history)

1946 - US court martials 46 SS to death (Battle of Bulge crimes) in Dachau

1947 - Bobo Newsom wins 200th game, 1st as a Yankee Yanks 18th straight In nightcap Vic Rashiextends streak to 19

1948 - Eddie Sawyer replaces Ben Chapman in Phila, NY Giants Leo Durocher replaces Mel Ott BurtShotton replaces Durocher as Dodger manager

1950 - Single day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)

1950 - FIFA World Cup: Uruguay beats Brazil 2-1 for soccer's 4th World Cup in Rio de Janeiro

1951 - 1st Dutchman to win Tour de France (Wim Van Est)

1951 - King Leopold III, of Belgium, abdicates

1951 - Len Hutton scores his 100th 100, Yorks v Surrey at The Oval

Novelist J. D. Salinger

1951 - Novel "Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published

1953 - KROC (now KTTC) TV channel 10 in Rochester, MN (NBC) 1st broadcast

1955 - "Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland

1956 - Detroit Tigers Briggs Stadium sold for then record $5.5 million

1956 - Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR

1956 - King Faisal of Iraq begins visit to England

1956 - Last Ringling Bros, Barnum Bailey Circus under a canvas tent

1957 - Marine Maj John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08)

1960 - 205,000 (record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer

1960 - George Crowe sets record of 12 pinch hit HRs with a runner on

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 227

1194 - Saint Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (d. 1253)

1571 - Theodoor Galle, Flemish engraver, baptized

1611 - Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland (d. 1644)

1704 - John Kay, England, machinist, invented flying shuttle

1714 - Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer (d. 1800)

1715 - Charles, Prince de Rohan-Soubise, marshal of France

1722 - Joseph Wilton, sculptor

1723 - Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter (Simplicity)

1725 - Georg Simon Lohlein, composer

1728 - Henri Moreau, composer

1746 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk/discoverer (1st asteroid-Ceres)

1796 - Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, painter

Christian Science Founder Mary Baker Eddy (1821)

1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, Bow New Hampshire, founded Christian Science (Science Health), (d.1910)

1822 - Luigi Arditi, violinist/composer

1823 - James Isham Gilbert, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

1829 - Robert Brown Potter, Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1887)

1834 - Carlo Angeloni, composer

1834 - Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914)

1839 - Philipus J Hoedemaker, Dutch theologist

1848 - Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch conductor/composer (Lexicon of Music)

1855 - Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer

1858 - Eugene Ysaye, Belgian composer and violinist, born in Liège

1860 - Jens Otto Harry Jespersen, linguist/philologist

1862 - Ida Bell Wells-Barnett [Iola], US civil rights activist (d. 1931)

1865 - George A Birmingham, [Rev James Owen Hannay], novelist

1870 - Lambert McKenna, Irish scholar (d. 1956)

1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole

1877 - Béla Schick, Hungarian/US children artist (Serum Krankheit)

1882 - Edward Earle, Toronto Ont, actor (Charlie Chan-Meeting at Midnight)

1882 - Felix Locher, Switzerland, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)

1884 - Anna Vyrubova, Russian memoirist (d. 1964)

1887 - "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, African American sox player (Say it aint so, Joe)

1888 - Frits Zernike, invented phase-contrast microscope (Nobel 1953)

1888 - Percy Kilbride, SF CA, actor (Egg I, Ma Pa Kettle)

1889 - Larry Semon, American comedian (d. 1928)

1896 - Mauritius R J Dekker [Boris Robazki], Dutch writer (Merkteken)

1896 - Trygve Halvdan Lie, Norway, 1st UN secretary general (1946-52)

1896 - Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, German eugenicist and Nazi physician (d. 1969)

1899 - Eunice Hunton Carter, 1st African American female district attorney (NY)

1901 - Fritz Mahler, composer

1902 - Alexander Luria, Russian psychologist (d. 1977)

1903 - Mary Philbin, actress (Phantom of the Opera), born in Chicago, Illinois

1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian musician (d. 1971)

1904 - Goffredo Petrassi, Zagarolo Italy, composer (Beatitudines)

1904 - Leo Joseph Suenens, Cardinal (Belgium)

1906 - Vincent Sherman, American film director (d. 2006)

1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, Bkln, actress (Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds)

Businessman Orville Redenbacher (1907)

1907 - Orville Redenbacher, Brazil Indiana, American popcorn King (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet)

1907 - Frances Horwich, American educator and television personality (d. 2001)

1908 - Aruna Asaf Ali, politician

1908 - Maurice Adams, surgeon/British rear admiral

1909 - Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian

1909 - John Edward "Teddy" Buckner, trumpeter

1910 - Stan McCabe, cricketer (exciting NSW Australian batsman of 30's)

1911 - Ginger Rogers, [Virginia McMath], Independ Mo, dancer (Gay Divorcee)

1911 - Sonny Tufts, [Bowen Charleston Tufts II], Bost, actor (Variety Girl)

1912 - Ray Barr, pianist (Vincent Lopez Show), born in NYC, New York

1912 - Milt Bocek, American baseball player (d. 2007)

1913 - Hugh Ford, FRS mechanic engineer

1913 - Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor (Brain, Wages of Fear)

Actress and Dancer Ginger Rogers (1911)

1915 - Barnard Hughes, Bedford Hills NY, (Tron, Where's Poppa, Best Friends)

1915 - Baroness Llewelyn-Davies of Hastoe, deputy speaker (House of Lords)

1915 - Edward Miller, Master (Fitzwilliam College Cambridge)

1916 - Harold Locke, archdeacon of Loughborough

1917 - William Bishop, Oak Park Ill, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life)

1918 - Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (d. 1989)

1919 - Charles Graham, lord-lt of Cumbria UK

1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea (d. 2006)

1919 - Hermine Braunsteiner, Nazi war criminal (d. 1999)

1920 - Anwar Hussain, cricketer (four Tests for Pakistan v India 1952-53)

1921 - Bernard Rogers, supreme Allied commander Europe

1921 - Trevor Williams, scientific consultant

1923 - Reginald Prentice, British government minister

1923 - Chris Argyris, American educator

1924 - Bess Myerson, Bronx NY, 1st Jewish Miss America (1945)

1925 - Phillip Pine, Hartford Ct, actor (Set-Up, Under the Ground)

1925 - Cal Tjader, American musician (d. 1982)

1926 - Brian Howard, deputy chairman (Marks Spencer)

1926 - Philip Randle, biochemist

1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, Nobel laureate (Chemistry 2004), born Brooklyn NY

1927 - John Freeland, Legal advisor UK foreign office

1927 - John Warr, England, cricket bowler (avg 281)/president (MCC)

1927 - Shirley Hughes, author/illustrator

1928 - Bella Davidovich, Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel)

1928 - James Kilfedder, MP (Ulster Popular Unionist)

1928 - Ray Thornton, (Rep-D-Arkansas)

1928 - Robert Sheckley, US, sci-fi author (10th Victim, Mindswap)

1928 - Anita Brookner, English novelist

1928 - Ticho Parly, Danish tenor (d. 1993)

1929 - Michael Morland, High court judge

1930 - John Everett Watts, composer

1930 - Michael Bilirakis, (Rep-R-Florida, 1983- )

1931 - Caroline Blackwood, writer

1932 - John Chilton, jazz trumpeter

1932 - Milly Vitale, Rome, actress (7 Little Foys, War Peace, Juggler)

1932 - Oleg Protopopov, Russia, olympic pairs skater (Gold 1964, 68)

1932 - [Dick] Richard L Thornburgh, Penn, US Attorney General (1988-93)

1932 - Max McGee, American football player (d. 2007)

1933 - Sollie McElroy, RB singer (Flamingos-Golden Teardrops)

1934 - Donald Payne, Newark, New Jersey, New Jersey Congressman (1989-2012), (d. 2012)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 11 of 11

1659 - Princess Henriette C of Orange-Nassau weds monarch Johan George II

Confederate General Stonewall Jackson (1857)

1857 - Confederate general Thomas Jackson (33) weds Mary Anna Morrison in Lincoln County

1892 - Impressionist Painter Claude Monet (51) weds longtime companion Alice Hoschedé

1960 - Actress Vera Miles (30) weds actor Keith Larsen (36)

1974 - "The Osmonds" singer Alan Osmond (25) weds Suzanne Pinegar at LDS Temple in Provo,Utah

1980 - Five-time Grammy Award singer Donna Summer (31) weds award winning arranger BruceSudano (31) in Los Angeles, California

1988 - "Back To The Future" actor Michael J. Fox (27) weds "Family Ties" actress Tracy Pollan (28)at West Mountain Inn in Arlington, Vermont

1994 - Anna Nicole Smith (26) weds ½ billionaire J Howard Marshall II (89)

2000 - Cartoonist Jim Davis (54) weds Jill Davis

2005 - Academy award winning actress Sandra Bullock (40) weds "Monster Garage" host JesseJames (36) at sunset on the grounds of The Folded Hills Ranch in Gaviota, California

Actress Sandra Bullock (2005)

2010 - Def Leppard lead guitarist Phil Collen (52) weds costume designer Helen L. Simmons (42) atRitz-Carlton Palm Beach Resort in Florida

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

Actress Meg Ryan (2001)

2001 - "Kate Leopold" actress Meg Ryan (38) divorces actor Dennis Quaid (46) after 9 years ofmarriage

2012 - Actor-comedian Russell Brand (36) divorces popstar Katy Perry (27) due to irreconcilabledifferences a year after the fairy-tale wedding in India

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 117

276 - Mark Annius Florianus, emperor of Rome (276), murdered

599 - Monulphus, bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht (St Servaaskerk), dies

1139 - Walram II, duke of Limburg/Neth-Lutherans, dies

1216 - Innocent III [Lotario de' Conti di Segni], Italian Pope (1198-1216), dies at 54 or 55

1324 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (b. 1267)

1342 - King Charles I of Hungary

1482 - John van Schaffelaar, Gelders knight, dies

1546 - Anne Askew, English Protestant (burned at the stake) (b. 1521)

1557 - Anne of Cleves, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII, dies at 41

Queen of England Anne of Cleves (1557)

1590 - Bartholomaeus a Martyribus, [Fernandez], pontiff of Portugal, dies

1594 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (b. 1558)

1647 - Masaniello, [Tommaso Aniello] Neapolitan rebel (b. 1622)

1664 - A Gryphius, writer, dies at 47

1686 - John Pearson, English theologian (b. 1612)

1691 - Francois-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois, statesman, dies

1698 - Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer, dies at 84

1729 - Johann David Heinichen, composer, dies at 46

1730 - Elijiah Fenton, poet, dies

1736 - Thomas Yalden, poet/fable writer, dies

1747 - Giuseppe Maria Crespi, painter/etcher, dies

1762 - Jacques Hotteterre, composer, dies at 87

1764 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia (1740-41), murdered at 23

1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)

1782 - Louise Ulrike, queen of Sweden/wife of Adolf Frederik, dies at 61

1796 - George Howard, British field marshal (b. 1718)

1827 - Josiah Spode, potter, dies

1831 - Louis Alexandre Andrault de Langeron, Russian general (b. 1763)

1843 - Hubert MAJ van Asch van Wijck, politician, dies at 68

1857 - Pierre-Jean de Baranger, poet, dies

1864 - Victor JB Girardey, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 27

1868 - Louis-Francois Dauprat, composer, dies at 87

1871 - Tad Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln

1879 - Edward Deas Thomson, Australian politician (b. 1800)

First Lady of the United States Mary Todd Lincoln (1882)

1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)

1886 - Ned Buntline, [Edward Zane Carroll Judson], author, dies

1887 - Nicaise de Keyser, Flemish painter (Battle at Woeringen), dies at 73

1889 - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83

1890 - Gottfried Keller, novelist/poet, dies

1896 - Edmond-Louis-Antoine Huot de Goncourt, novelist, dies at 74

1896 - William Hamilton Gibson, illustrator/author/novelist, dies

1897 - Levin Goldschmidt, German business law expert, dies

1915 - Ellen White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, dies at 87

1916 - Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov, Russ bacteriologist (Nobel 1908), dies

1916 - Ludwig P Scharwenka, German composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70

1916 - Victor Alexander Haden Horsley, physician, dies

1916 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1845)

1917 - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, Ger composer (Album Polonaise), dies at 70

1923 - Louis M A Couperus, poet/writer (Books of Small Soles), dies at 60

1931 - Charles Studd, cricketer (5 Tests for England 1882-83), dies

1939 - Beatrice Erskine Lane Suzuki, Zen student, dies

1944 - John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed

1947 - Horatio Mbelle, South African interpreter, community leader and politician, dies in Pretoria at77

1949 - Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet (b. 1866)

1953 - Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82

1955 - Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise Courtenay], Belgian princess, dies at 81

1960 - Albrecht von Kesselring, German fieldmarshal (Italy), dies at 74

1960 - John Phillips Marquand, novelist, dies at 66

1961 - [Louise] Sophie M E de Vries, actress (English Prof), dies at 88

1962 - Jan M Romein, historian (Breaking of Two Ages), dies

1971 - H T Tsiang, dies at 65

1972 - Giorgio Nataletti, composer, dies at 65

1972 - Max Zehnder, composer, dies at 70

1973 - Trijntje "Nine" van de Schaaf, author (Fries dorpsleven), dies at 91

1976 - Carmelo Soria, Spanish diplomat assassinated in 1976 by the Chilean DINA

1979 - James F Mcintyre, archbishop of Los Angeles, dies at 93

1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)

1981 - Harry Chapin, folk vocalist (Taxi), dies in car crash at 38

1982 - Leendert Braat, sculptor/writer (White World), dies

1982 - Patrick Dewaere, actor (Catherine Co), shoots self at 35

1982 - Charles Robberts, The first State President of South Africa, dies at 88

1984 - Billy Williams, singer (Your Show of Shows), dies at 73

1985 - Wayne King, orchestra leader (Wayne King Show), dies at 84

1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)

1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor, dies at 81

1990 - Robert Blackburn, Irish educationist (b. 1927)

1990 - Sidney Torch, English composer, conductor and organist (b. 1908)

1991 - Cornelis Z Forster, [Da Kuneisi], Suriname granman/gaanman, dies

1991 - Dwight Weist, Radio actor/film narrator (Radio Days), dies at 81

1991 - Frank Rizzo, (Mayor-D-Phila, 1972-80), dies of a heart attack at 70

1991 - Robert Motherwell, US painter (Elegies to Spanish Rep), dies at 76

1992 - "Gorgeous" George, [Arena], wrestler, dies at 84

1992 - Buck Buchanan, NFL defensive lineman (KC Chiefs), dies at 51

1992 - Johnny Martin, cricketer (NSW Australian chinaman bowler), dies

1994 - M Vink, surgeon (1st Dutch kidney transplant), dies at 78

1994 - Madzy Rollin Couquerque, tennis star/international hockey, dies at 91

1995 - Charles Bruck, Hungarian/French/US conductor (Dutch Opera), dies at 83

1995 - Eleanore M "May" Sarton, Belg/US writer (Land of Silence), dies at 83

1995 - Juan Manuel Fangio, racing Driver, dies at 84

1995 - Max Factor Jr, makeup inventor, dies

1995 - Mordechai Gur, Israeli general, commits suicide at 65

1995 - Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds), dies at 91

1995 - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher, dies at 83

1995 - Stephen Harold Spender, writer, dies at 86

1995 - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher, dies at 91

1996 - John Panozzo, drummer, dies at 48

1996 - Adolf von Thadden, German politician, (b. 1921)

1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)

1999 - Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, Jr. (b. 1966)

Publisher and Lawyer John F. Kennedy Jr. (1999)

1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., American publisher (George) and lawyer, dies in a plane crash at 38

1999 - Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)

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