Today in History for 1st July 2015

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 349

69 - Bataafs nobleman Gaius JuliusCivilis proclaimed emperor of Syria

70 - Roman General Titus and hisforces set up battering rams to assaultthe walls of Jerusalem

251 - The Battle of Abrittus is won bythe Goths against the Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.

649 - Pope Martinus I elected to succeed Theodore I

1097 - 1st Crusaders defeat Sultan Kilidj Arslan of Nicea

1200 - In China, sunglasses are invented

1233 - Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice

1252 - King Alfonso X "el Sabio" of Castile/Leon crowned

1253 - Battle at Westkapelle-Floris the Guardian beats Gwijde van Dampierre

1347 - Engagement of Count Louis of Male to Margaretha, daughter of Jan III

1390 - French Genuese armada sails out against barbarian pirates

1517 - 1st burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands

1517 - Inquisitor Adrian Boeyens (pope Adrianus VI) becomes cardinal

1535 - Sir Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason

Roman Emperor Titus

1543 - England Scotland sign Peace treaty of Greenwich

1569 - Latvia Parliament accept Union of Lublin, incorporate into Poland

1600 - Prince Maurits' army occupies Newport Flanders Neth

1656 - 1st Quakers (Mary Fisher/Ann Austin) arrives in Boston (arrested)

1674 - Spain, France Netherlands form Triple Alliance

1689 - Matsuo Basho, zen poet, leaves for 150 days journey on Honshu Japan

1690 - Battle of Colors: French beats Spanish/Dutch army

1690 - Army of Protestant King William III defeats deposed Roman Catholic King James II in Battle ofBoyne in Ireland

1745 - Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [OS]

1747 - Battle at Lafeld: France beat British/Dutch army

Engrossed copy of the United States Declaration ofIndependence

1776 - 1st vote on Declaration of Independence for Britain's North American colonies

1782 - American privateers attack Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

1795 - John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of US Supreme Court

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte

1798 - Napoleon's fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt

1810 - Louis Napoleon resigns as king of the Netherlands

1816 - French frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Géricault's painting "Raft of the Medusa"

1820 - 1st edition of newspaper "Courrier de la Meuse" published

1823 - 9th US Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office

1823 - United Provinces of Central America gain independence from Mexico

1831 - Admiral James C Ross reaches magnetic North Pole

1836 - US President Andrew Jackson announces to Congress bequest by James Smithson of 100,000gold sovereigns to found institution in Washington.

1839 - Abdul-Medjid succeeds Mahmud II as Sultan of Turkey

1847 - 1st US postage stamps go on sale, 5 cent Franklin 10 cent Washington, NYC

1850 - At least 626 ships lie at anchor around SF Bay

US President General Andrew Jackson

1858 - 1st Canadian coins minted (1, 5, 10 and 20 cent)

1858 - The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to theLinnean Society.

1859 - 1st intercollegiate baseball game, Amherst beats Williams 66-32

1859 - Balloon covers a record 809 miles over St Louis

1861 - 1st public schoolhouse opens at Washington Mason St, SF

1861 - War Dept decrees that Kansas and Tennessee are to be canvassed for volunteers

1862 - Battle at Booneville Mississippi: Confederate superior power driven out

1862 - Congress outlaws polygamy for the 1st time

1862 - US Civil War: Day 7 of 7 Days-Battle of Malvern Hill (Poindexter's Farm) Union forces repelConfederate attack

1862 - Emperor Alexander II grants Jews right to publish books

1862 - Battle of Holly Spring, MS

Naturalist Charles Darwin

1862 - US Internal Revenue Law imposes 1st federal taxes on inheritance, tobacco on incomes over$600 (progressive rate)

1862 - The Russian State Library is founded.

1863 - -2] Battle at Baltimore: Crump's Crossroads Virginia

1863 - Battle of Gettysburg, Pa; Lee's northward advance halted

1863 - Free city delivery of mail begins in 49 US cities; postage 3 cents per oz

1863 - Slavery abolished in Suriname Dutch Antilles

1864 - Battle of Petersburg, VA [-JUL 31] -front US3695 CS---

1867 - The Dominion of Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,Ontario Quebec, with John A. Macdonald serving as the first Prime Minister

1869 - Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed

Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald

1869 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada opens

1870 - James W Smith of SC is one of 1st African Americans to enter West Point

1871 - The decimal currency system is made uniform in Canada

1873 - Henry Ossian Flipper of Georgia one of the first African Americans enters West Point MilitaryAcademy

1873 - Prince Edward Island becomes 7th Canadian province

1874 - 1st Chamber accept law against child labor

1874 - 1st US kidnapping for ransom, 4-year-old Charles Ross, $20,000

1874 - 1st US zoo opens (Philadelphia)

1875 - Universal Postal Union established

1877 - 1st edition of "Amsterdammer" published

1878 - Treaty of Berlin divides Africa for colonization

1878 - Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.

1879 - Ex-khedive Ismael Pasha sails from Alexandria to Naples

Soldier and Former Slave Henry Ossian Flipper

1879 - Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.

1881 - 1st international telephone conversation, Calais, ME-St Stephen, NB

1881 - US Assay Office in St Louis, Missouri opens

1881 - General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell-Childers reforms of the British Army'sorganisation, comes into effect.

1883 - ANWB forms in Utrecht

1885 - The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.

1889 - Frederick Douglass named Minister to Haiti

1889 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada reopens

1890 - Great-Britain Germany sign Zanzibar-Helgoland Treaty

1890 - Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.

1893 - SF Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood

Abolitionist Frederick Douglass

1896 - Harbor of Ymuiden opens

1896 - Wilfrid Laurel sworn in as 1st French speaking premier of Canada

1897 - Bronx acquires Hutton Square

1897 - 14th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Blanche Hillyard beats C Sterry (5-7 7-5 6-2)

1897 - 21st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Reginald Doherty beats H Mahony (6-4 6-4 6-3)

1898 - Teddy Roosevelt his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill

1899 - Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels

1899 - SF City Hall turned over to city, after 29 years of building

1902 - Ranji (230) Newham (153) add 344 for 7th wkt, Sussex v Essex

1902 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" (BG)

1902 - US Congress passes the Philippines Government Act, providing that the Philippines begoverned by a commission appointed by the President, with consent from the senate; Filipinos are tobe treated as citizens of their land, no the USA

1903 - 1st Tour de France bicycle race begins

1903 - 20th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Dorothea Chambers beats E Larcombe (4-6 6-4 6-2)

1903 - 27th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Laurence Doherty beats F Riseley (7-5 6-3 6-0)

1904 - 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St Louis

Theoretical Physicist Albert Einstein

1905 - Albert Einstein introduces his theory of relativity

1907 - World's 1st air force established (US Army)

1907 - The Orange River Colony, known as the Orange Free State, is granted self-government by theBritish

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 222

1381 - Laurentius Justitianus, [Lorenzo Giustiniani], saint

1481 - Christian II of Denmark, Sweden and Norway (d. 1559)

1506 - Louis II, king of Hungary/Bohemia (1516-26)

1511 - Hadrianus Junius, [Adriaen de Jonghe], Dutch physician, historian and humanist

1534 - Frederick II, King of Denmark and Norway (1559-88)

1560 - Charles van Croij, prince of Chimay/duke of Aarschot

1574 - Joseph Hall, English bishop and writer (d. 1656)

1586 - Claudio Saracini, composer

1633 - Johann Heinrich Heidegger, Swiss theologian (d. 1698)

1646 - G W Leibniz, German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads

1663 - Franz Xaver Murschhauser, composer

1688 - Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer

1723 - Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/historian/literary

1725 - Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)

1735 - James Lyon, composer

1742 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer (types of Lichtenberg)

1764 - Georg Christoph Grosheim, composer

1780 - Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist

1788 - Jean-Victor Poncelet, mathematician, founded projective geometry

1802 - Gideon Welles, Secy Navy (Union), (d. 1878)

1804 - George Sand, France, (female) novelist (Valentine, Le Figaro)

1807 - Thomas Green Clemson, mining engineer, endowed Clemson University

1810 - Walter White, secretary (NAACP)

1812 - Willem J d'Ablaing van Giessenburg, Dutch genealogist/heraldicus

1818 - Ignaz Semmelweis, gynecologist

1833 - Alfred Thomas Archimedes Torbert, Bvt Major General (Union Army)

1834 - Jadwiga ?uszczewska, Polish poet (d. 1908)

1840 - Robert S Ball, Irish mathematician/astronomer

1844 - Verney L Cameroon, English explorer (Tanganyika)

1857 - Roger Connor, 1st baseman (NY Giants)

1861 - Samuel D Riddle, horse owner (Man 'o War)

1863 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (d. 1892)

1869 - William Strunk Jr., American grammarian (d. 1946)

1872 - Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel

1873 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (d. 1968)

1874 - Michel H Campen, author/critic (Bikoerim)

1879 - Leon Jouhaux, France, socialist/co-founder UN's ILO (Nobel 1951)

1881 - Piet[er] L Kramer, architect (Amsterdam School)

1883 - Arthur Borton, English soldier (d. 1933)

1887 - Charles D Brown, Iowa, actor (Barefoot Boy, Disbarred, Night Editor)

1892 - James M Cain, Minneapolis Mn, novelist (Postman Always Rings Twice)

1893 - Walter Francis White, Atlanta Georgia

1896 - Pavel G Antokolski, Russian poet/director (Syn) [NS]

1898 - Andre-Marie Charue, bishop of Namen Belgium

1899 - Cavan O'Connor, singer

1899 - Charles Laughton, England, actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Spartacus)

1899 - Henry "Indiana" Jones Jr, fictional character "Indiana Jones"

1899 - Konstantinos Tsatsos Greek politician and president (1975-1980)

1901 - Irna Phillips, created 6 soap operas (Guiding Light), born in Chicago, Illinois

1901 - Sylvia Mary Paget Chancellor, philanthropist

1902 - Billy Wyler, director (Ben Hur, Mrs Miniver)

1902 - Jose Luis Sert, Spanish/US architect

1903 - Amy Johnson, British pilot

1903 - Beatrix Lehmann, England, actress (Candles at Nine, Staircase)

1904 - Mary Calderone, physician/founder (planned parenthood)

1906 - Edward Lansing Gordon Jr, Jackson Miss, long jumper (Olympic-gold-32)

1906 - Frank Parker, actor (Shawn-Days of our Life), born in NYC, New York

Cosmetics Company Founder Estée Lauder (1906)

1906 - Estée Lauder, New York, NY, CEO (Estée Lauder cosmetics) (d. 2004)

1907 - Bill Stern, sportscaster (Saturday Night Fights), born in Rochester, New York

1908 - Paul Hardy, Belgian writer (Best of Painted Furniture)

1908 - Peter Anders, German opera singer

1908 - Peg Entwistle, Welsh actress (d. 1932)

1909 - Juan Carlos Onetti, novelist

1909 - Madge Evans, Manhattan TV panelist (Masquerade Party), born in NYC, New York

1909 - Bill Stern, American sportscaster (d. 1971)

1911 - Alvino Rey, Cleve Ohio, orchestra leader (King Family)

1911 - Sergei Sokolov, Soviet marshal

1912 - Ahmad H al-Bakr, Iraqi fieldmarshal/president/premier

1912 - David Brower, environmentalist/president (Sierra Club)

1912 - Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer

1912 - Sally Kirkland, American fashion editor (d. 1989)

1913 - Jo Sinclair, writer

1914 - Cristyl Cranz, Germany, slalom (Olympic-gold-1936)

1914 - Earle Warren, alto sax player

1914 - Magda Gabor, Budapest Hungary, actress (People vs Zsa Zsa Gabor)

1915 - Jean Stafford, US writer (Boston Adventure, Lion Carpenter)

1915 - Viscount Leverhulm, English large landowner (Unilever)

1915 - Willie Dixon, Vicksburg Missisipi, blues artist (Walkin' the Blues, Mellow Down Easy)

1915 - Joseph Ransohoff, American neurosurgeon (d. 2001)

1916 - Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo Japan, actress (Adventures of Robin Hood)

1919 - Hans Bender, German poet

1920 - Harold Sakata, American actor (d. 1982)

1921 - Seretse Khama, 1st premier/president of Botswana (Bechuanaland)

1921 - Sir Seretse Khama, Serowe, in the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswanan

statesman and president

1923 - Constance Ford, actress (Ada Hobson-Another World)

1925 - Farley Granger, actor (Arnold, Rope, Deathmask), born in San Jose, California

1926 - Franclaois-Regis Bastide, writer/broadcaster

1926 - Robert Fogel, American economic historian and Nobel laureate, born in NYC, New York

1926 - Carl Hahn, German automotive executive

1927 - Hans Eklund, composer

1927 - Ruben Gomez, baseball player

1928 - Constance Ford, US actress (Cabinet of Calgary, Ada-Another World)

1928 - Volker Wangenheim, composer

1929 - Gerald M Edelman, US biochemist (Nobel 1972), born in Ozone Park, NY, (d. 2014)

1930 - Andreas JAI Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Schipluiden/Leiderdorp)

1930 - Moustapha Akkad, Syrian-American filmmaker (d. 2005)

1930 - Margaret A Brewer, American soldier, in Durand Michigan, first female General officer in USMarine Corps. (d. 2013)

1931 - Leslie Caron, French-American actress (Gigi, Father Goose), born in Boulogne-Biliancourt,Seine

1932 - Bobby Day, [Robert Byrd], Fort Worth Tx, rock vocalist (Rockin' Robin)

1932 - Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (d. 2007)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 14 of 14

Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand (1900)

1900 - Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand (36) weds countess Sophie Chotek (32) in Reichstadt,Bohemia

1902 - British admiral John Rushworth Jellicoe (42) weds Gwendoline Cayzer at Holy Trinity inLondon

1916 - Dwight Eisenhower marries Mary `Mamie' Geneva Doud in Denver, Colorado

1961 - Business magnate Martha Stewart (19) weds Andrew Stewart

1981 - NFL quarterback Joe Montana (25) weds second wife Cathleen Castillo

1982 - Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at NYC Madison Square Garden

1989 - Hugh Hefner (Playboy editor) weds playmate Kimberly Conrad

1990 - Country singer-songwriter Hank Williams Jr (41) weds model Mary Jane Thomas at aCongregational church near his ranch in Missoula, Montana

1995 - Crown Prince of Greece and the oldest son of the deposed King Constantine of Greece, Pavlos(28) weds Robert W. Miller's daughter Marie-Chantal Miller (26) at London's Cathedral of SaintSophia

Country Music Singer and Songwriter Hank Williams Jr (1990)

1995 - Princess Stephanie of Monaco (30) weds her bodyguard Daniel Ducruet (31) in a civilceremony in Monaco

1998 - Eight-time Grammy Award-winning singer Barbra Streisand (57) weds actor James Brolin (58)in Malibu

2006 - "Hi-5" actress and singer Jennifer Peterson-Hind (26) weds recording artist Tom Korbee inMadison, Wisconsin

2011 - English model Kate Moss (37) weds English guitarist Jamie Hince (42) at St. Peter's Church,Southrop in Gloucestershire

2013 - Canadian singer Avril Lavigne (28) weds Canadian singer Chad Kroeger (38) at the Châteaude La Napoule, a reconstructed medieval castle on the Mediterranean Sea in the South of France.

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 4 of 4

2011 - "Medium" actress Patricia Arquette (40) divorces actor Thomas Jane (39) due toirreconcilable differences after 5 years of marriage

Actress Scarlett Johansson (2011)

2011 - Actor Ryan Reynolds (34) divorces actress Scarlett Johansson (26) due to irreconcilabledifferences after two years of marriage

2011 - Ann Serano Lopez divorces actor and talk show host George Lopez (49) due to irreconcilabledifferences

2011 - Journalist and executive producer Maria Shriver (55) divorces Hollywood action film iconArnold Schwarzenegger (63) due to irreconcilable differences after 25 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 130

251 - Decius, Roman Emperor (b. 207)

251 - Herennius Etruscus, joint Roman Emperor with father Decius (b. ca. 227)

868 - Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam (b. 828)

1109 - King Alfonso VI of Castile (b. 1040)

1277 - Baibars, Mameluk sultan of Egypt (b. 1223)

1378 - Jan I V van Arkel, bishop of Utrecht/Luik, dies

1523 - Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake

1523 - John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake

1589 - Christophe Plantin, French/Belgian book publisher, dies

1592 - Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist/composer (Responsoria), dies

1614 - Isaac Casaubon, French-born classical scholar (b. 1559)

1622 - William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, British politician (b. 1575)

1627 - Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, dies at 41

1662 - Simon Ives, composer, dies at 61

1681 - Oliver Plunkett, Irish saint (b. 1629)

1691 - Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, composer, dies at 77

1708 - Emperor Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia (b. 1706)

1723 - Willem van de Pose, gov of Cape Colony (1699-1797), dies at about 59

1742 - Bohuslav Mat?j ?ernohorský, Czech monk/composer, dies at 58

1774 - Henry Fox Holland, English corrupt politician, dies at 68

1776 - Francis Salvador, 1st Jew to die in American Revolutionary War

1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth 2nd marquis of Rockingham, dies at 52

1784 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, composer, son of J.S. Bach, dies at 73

1805 - Georg Ritschel, composer, dies at 60

1819 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher (b. 1752)

1839 - Mahmud II, sultan of Turkey (1808-39), dies at 53

1847 - George F Kersting, German painter, dies at 61

Inventor Charles Goodyear (1860)

1860 - Charles Goodyear, American inventor, dies at 59

1863 - John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42

1883 - Manuel Gregorio Tavarez, composer, dies at 39

1885 - Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens), dies at 73

1894 - Julius PJA van Nyevelt, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 77

1894 - Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)

1896 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), dies at 85

1910 - Marius Petipa, Fren ballet dancer/choreographer (Casse-noisette), dies

1916 - William Booth, cricketer (WW I 2 Tests for England 1913-14), dies

1925 - Erik Alfred Leslie Satie, French composer (Dreamy Fish), dies at 59

1925 - Jan P Veth, Dutch painter/lithographer/art historian, dies at 61

1939 - Louis Davids [Simon David], cabaret performer/chorus performer, dies

1943 - Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed

1943 - C Bakker, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

Abolitionist and Author Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896)

1943 - C L Barentsen, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 - Coos Hartogh, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 - Cor Roos, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 - Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed

1943 - Johan Brouwer, hispanist/writer/Dutch resistance fighter, executed

1943 - Koen Limperg, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 - Sam Bloemgarten, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 - Willem Arondeus, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1943 - Willem Brouwer, Dutch resistance fighter (census bureau), executed

1944 - Carl Mayer, actor (Dreaming Lips, Ariane, Sunrise), dies at 49

1947 - Clarence Lucas, composer, dies at 80

1949 - Louis Davids, [Simon David], cabaret artist, dies at 65

1950 - Edward Faber Schneider, composer, dies at 77

1950 - Eliel Saarinen, Fins/US architect (Chicago Trib building), dies at 76

1950 - Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Swiss musician (b. 1865)

1953 - Azzedine Bey, Tunisian heir to the throne, murdered

1953 - Jacob D du Toit [Totius], South African poet/theologist, dies

1958 - Apie [Adrian P] Prince, Dutch writer (I Go Me Own Way), dies

1958 - Harry Nicholls Holmes, Dr (crystallized vitamin A), dies at 78

1958 - Rudolf von Laban, Czech/Ger choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78

1961 - Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French writer (b. 1894)

1963 - Camille Chautemps, premier France, dies

1964 - Pierre Monteux, French/US conductor (Concert Bldg Orch), dies at 89

1965 - Claude Thornhill, composer, dies at 55

1965 - Wally Hammond, South African cricketer (7,249 runs for England), dies

1968 - Dick Young, cricketer (England wicketkeeper v Aust 1907-08), dies

1968 - Virginia Weidler, actress (All This Heaven Too), dies at 42

1971 - Lord Learie Constantine, WI cricketer (all-rounder fielder), dies

1973 - Mario La Broca, composer, dies at 76

1974 - Juan Perón, Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), dies of aheart attack at 78

1976 - Anneliese Michel, German woman said to be possessed by demons (b. 1952)

1978 - Kurt Student, German Luftwaffe general (b. 1890)

1979 - Richard Ward, actor (Beacon Hill), dies at 64

1980 - Charles Percy Snow, British writer (Friends Associates), dies at 75

1981 - George Voskovec, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag), dies at 76

1981 - Carlos de Oliveira, Portuguese writer (b. 1921)

1981 - Rushton Moreve, American bass player (b. 1948)

1982 - John Everett Watts, composer, dies at 51

1982 - Vera [A Veronica] Bondam, actress, dies at 86

1983 - R Buckminster Fuller, inventor/philosopher, dies in LA at 87

1984 - Moshe Feldenkrais, Ukrainian-born educator (b. 1904)

1986 - Roy Poole, actor (Winds of War), dies at 62

1987 - Snakefinger, British-born musician (b. 1949)

1988 - Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer, dies at 82

1988 - Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer, dies at 68

1989 - William Ching, actor (Moonlighter, Terror in Haunted House), dies

1990 - Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48

1990 - Jurriaan Schrofer, graphic designer, dies

1991 - Joost Baljeu, painter/founder-editor Structure, dies

1991 - Michael Landon, actor (Bonanza, Hwy to Heaven), dies of cancer at 54

1992 - Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies

1992 - Francisco Mendes, Guinea-Bissauan politician (b. 1933)

1994 - Johanna Ader-Appels, resistance fighter/author, dies

1995 - Bruce Mitchell, South African cricketer (leading Test scorer with 3471), dies

1995 - Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest, dies at 49

1995 - Wolfman Jack, disc jockey (Midnight Special), dies at 57

1996 - Alfred Marks, actor (Fanny Hill, Desert Mice), dies at 75

1996 - Margaux Hemmingway, actress (Lipstick), dies at 41

1996 - Richard Michael Fraser, political administrator, dies at 80

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