Today in History for 1st September 2015

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 275

462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle.

891 - Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France

1067 - Baldwin VI becomes Count of Flanders

1181 - Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III

1267 - Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem

1355 - Tvrtko I writes in castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from old town Visoki.

1482 - Tatars plunder Kiev, Ukraine

1511 - Council of Pisa opens

1535 - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)

1547 - Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state)

1598 - Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments

1609 - Pieter Both sworn in as 1st governor general of Dutch East Indies

1614 - Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany

1632 - Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses

1638 - -4] French queen-mother Maria de' Medici visits Amsterdam

King of Spain Philip II1647 - French cardinal Mazarin & duke of Modena sign treaty against Milan

1661 - 1st Yacht race, England's King Charles vs his brother James

1689 - Russia began taxing men's beards

1695 - Dutch/English army under king Willem III occupies Names

1695 - French garrison of castle Namur surrenders fto the army of the Grand Alliance under thecommand of King William III of England

1715 - King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 yearsthe longest of any major Europeanmonarch.

1739 - 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal

1752 - Liberty Bell arrives in Phila

1763 - Catherine II of Russia endorses Ivan Betskoy's plans for a Foundling Home in Moscow

1772 - Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa forms in California

Empress of Russia Catherine the Great1785 - Mozart publishes 6th string quartet opus 10 inVienna

1797 - 2nd National Meeting in Hague

1798 - Britain signs treaty with Nizam of Hyderabad, India

1799 - Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)

1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer KarlLudwig Harding.

1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire

1821 - 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail

1831 - Charles Darwin travels aboard HMS Beagle

1836 - Reconstruction begins on Synagogue of Rabbi Judah Hasid in Jerusalem

1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains,

arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.

1849 - California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey

1858 - 1st transatlantic cable fails after less than 1 month

Naturalist Charles Darwin1859 - 1st Pullman sleeping car in service

1859 - R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare

1859 - A solar superstorm affects electrical telegraph service.

1861 - Grant assumes command of Federal forces at Cape Girardeau MI

1861 - Skirmishes at Boone Court House WV & Blue Creek WV

1862 - Battle at Chantilly (Ox Hill) Virginia (2100 casualties)

1862 - Federal tax levied on tobacco

1863 - 6th Ohio Cavalry ambush at Barbees Crossroads Virginia

1863 - Federal troops reconquer Fort Smith Arkansas

1863 - Rail & ferry connection between San Francisco & Oakland inaugurated

1864 - 2nd day of battle at Jonesboro Georgia, about 3,000 casualties

1864 - Battle of Petersburg VA

1864 - Skirmish at Hood evacuated confederates from Atlanta GA

1866 - Last Navaho chief Manuelito turns himself in at Fort Wingate

1867 - Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School

1870 - Napoleon III captured at Sedan

1873 - Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his fatherMpande.

1874 - 28th Postmaster General: Marshall Jewell of Conn takes office

1874 - Sydney General Post Office opens in Australia

1875 - A murder conviction effectively forces the violent Irish anti-owner coal miners, the "MollyMaguires", to disband.

1878 - 1st female telephone operator starts work (Emma Nutt in Boston)

1886 - Netherland's New Code of Criminal law enforced

1887 - Dutch Amateur Photography Cooperation established

1888 - Dutch Railway Deventer-Almelo opens

1890 - 1st baseball tripleheader-Boston vs Pittsburgh

1893 - Gladstones' Second Home Rule Bill for Ireland passes in the House of Commons but vetoed byThe House of Lords by 419 votes to 41

1893 - 33rd British Golf Open: William Auchterlonie shoots a 322 at Prestwick Golf Club

1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in NorthAmerica.

1898 - Dutch soccer team Receiver forms

1898 - Lord Kitchener's troops attack Omdurman, Sudan

1900 - Cumann na nGaedheal (Irish Council) founded by Arthur Griffith in order to promote a buyIrish campaign

1901 - Construction begins on NY Stock Exchange

1902 - Tinker, Evers, & Chance appear together for 1st time

1905 - Alberta & Saskatchewan become 8th & 9th Canadian provinces

Prime Minister of Canada Wilfrid Laurier1905 - Wilfrid Laurier oversees Alberta andSaskatchewan joining the Confederation of Canada

1906 - Alberta adopts Mountain Standard Time

1906 - British New Guinea placed under Australian administration

1906 - Joseph Harris (Boston) & Jack Coombs (A's) pitch complete 24 inn game

1906 - NY Highlanders win 6th game in 3 days from Wash (3 straight DHs)

1906 - The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.

1911 - M Fourny sets world aircraft distance record of 720 km

1913 - George Bernard Shaw's "Androcles & the Lion" premieres in London

1913 - Yuan Shikai captures Nanjing "2nd Chinese revolution"

1914 - 34th US Men's Tennis: R Norris W III beats M E McLoughlin (6-3 8-6 10-8)

1914 - Lord Kitchener arrives in Paris

1914 - St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd

Playwright George Bernard Shaw1914 - Von Gluck's army meets up with British expeditionaryarmy

1914 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.

1914 - 34th U.S. Men's National Championship: R. Norris Williams beats Maurice McLoughlin (6-3,8-6, 10-8)

1915 - The German ambassador to the US pledges again that German submarines will no longer sinkliners without warning and providing safety of passengers and crew following the sinking of theBritish liner "Arabic"

1916 - Bulgaria declares war on Romania

1916 - US Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)

1918 - Baseball season ends due to WW I

1918 - Ty Cobb pitches 2 innings against Browns

1918 - US troops land in Vladivostok, Siberia, stay until 1920

1919 - Frank Wedekind's "Herakles" premieres in Munich

MLB Legend Ty Cobb1920 - France creates Greater Lebanon

1920 - New town hall of Rotterdam opens

1921 - Nederlander Theater opens at 208 W 41 St NYC (Billy Rose, Trafalgar)

1922 - NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"

1923 - 18th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in New York (4-1), for their 4th straight Davis Cup

1923 - 7.9 earthquake strikes Tokyo & Yokohama, kills 142,000

1924 - Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 224

1286 - Elisabeth Richeza of Poland, Queen of Poland (d. 1335)

1453 - Gonzalo Fernndez de Crdoba, Spanish general (d. 1515)

1529 - Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter

1549 - Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, etc

1566 - Edward Alleyn, English actor (d. 1626)

1588 - Henry II, Prince of Cond, French nobleman (d. 1646)

1608 - Giacomo Torelli, Fano, Italy, stage designer, engineer and architect

1651 - Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (d. 1694)

Composer Johann Pachelbel (1653)1653 - Johann Pachelbel, Nuremberg, composer (Canon in D),(d. 1706)

1689 - Kilian I von Dientzenhofer, Bavarian master builder (Prague)

1711 - Willem IV KH Friso, Dutch prince of Orange-Nassau

1712 - Simon Fokke, Dutch book illustrator

1724 - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder (Society of It General)

1732 - Johann Gottlieb Sollner, composer

1732 - Thomas Alexander Erskine Kelly, composer

1751 - Emmanuel Johann Joseph Schikaneder, composer [or Apr 9]

1758 - Wilhelmus Kist, writer/director of Dutch Staatscourant

1768 - Carl Bernhard Wessely, composer

1787 - John Bake, classical composer

1789 - Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, composer

1791 - Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy)

1795 - James Gordon Bennett, Sr., Keith Scotland, American newspaper publisher (New YorkHerald)

Founder of the New York Herald James Gordon Bennett (1795)1798 - Richard Delafield, Bvt MajorGeneral (Union Army), (d. 1873)

1803 - Jacobus T Abels, Dutch painter

1816 - Gustav Schmidt, composer

1824 - Isaac Hardin Duval, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), (d. 1902)

1827 - Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Overbetuwsche Novellen)

1829 - James Conner, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1883)

1845 - Paul S Methuen, English fieldmarshal/governor of Natal/Malta

1848 - Auguste-Henri Forel, Swiss entomologist (d. 1931)

1849 - Elizabeth Harrison, US, educator (Natl Congress of Parents & Teachers)

1854 - Engelbert Humperdinck, Germany, opera composer (Parisfal)

1855 - Innokenty Annensky, Omsk, Russian Empire, poet, critic and interpreter (potes maudits)

1856 - Sergei Winogradsky, Russian scientist (d. 1953)

1862 - Adolphe Appia, Swiss set designer/theorist

1862 - Alphons Diepenbrock, Dutch composer [or Sept 2]

1864 - Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916)

1866 - James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight champion boxer (1892-97)

1868 - Henri Bourassa, French Canadian politician and publisher (d. 1952)

1870 - Timotei Popovici, composer

1871 - J. Reuben Clark, Jr., American Undersecretary of State (d. 1961)

1873 - Guy Standing, English actor (Cradle Song)

1874 - Heinrich Otto Ludwig, composer

1874 - Ismar Elbogen, German/US rabbi (Encyclopedia Judaica)

1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, US, sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga)

1876 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (d. 1961)

1877 - Francis William Aston, Nobel laureate (d. 1945)

1878 - Princess Alexandra of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (d. 1942)

1883 - Didier Pitre, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1934)

1884 - Sigurd Walln, Swedish actor and filmdirector (d. 1947)

1886 - Othmar Schoeck, composer

1887 - Blaise Cendrars, [Frederic Sauser-Hall], Swiss poet/writer

1887 - Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar

1888 - Andrija tampar, Croatian physician (d. 1958)

1889 - Richard Arlen, American actor (d. 1976)

1892 - Leverett Saltonstall, 55th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1979)

1893 - Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher/lithographer

1895 - Edit Angold, Germany, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel)

1895 - Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar, Indian musician (d. 1974)

1896 - A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian theologian (d. 1977)

1897 - Andy Kennedy, Irish footballer (d. 1963)

1898 - Marilyn Miller, [Renolds], US actress (Sunny)/wife of Jack Pickford

1900 - Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht)

1900 - Kazimierz Wilkomirski, composer

1900 - Richard Arlen, Virginia, actor (Alice in Wonderland, Crawling Hand)

1904 - Johnny Mack Brown, Dothan AL, actor (Lawman is Born, Back Trail)

1904 - Ray Flaherty, AFL/NFL/AAFC coach (NY Giants)

1905 - Gervase Hughes, composer

1905 - Elvera Sanchez, Puerto Rican dancer (d. 2000)

1906 - Franz Biebl, German composer (d. 2001)

1907 - Joaquin Balaguer, president Dominican Republic

1907 - Walter Reuther, labor leader/president (UAW & CIO)

1908 - Jean Crepin, soldier/industrialist

1908 - Amir Elahi, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1980)

1909 - E. Herbert Norman, Canadian diplomat (d. 1957)

1911 - Komei Abe, composer

1911 - Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman (CNV)/trade union leader

1913 - Christian Nyby, American director and film editor (d. 1993)

1916 - Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner

1919 - Roy John Britten, Washington, molecular biologist (repeated DNA sequences in eukaryoticgenomes), (d. 2012)

1920 - Hubert Lampo, Flemish writer/essayist (Coming of Joachim Stiller)

1920 - Richard Farnsworth, actor (Misery, Havana, Sylvester), born in Los Angeles, California

1921 - Matt Higgins Doran, composer

1921 - Willem Frederik Hermans, Dutch writer (Mandarins on Sulfuric Acid)

1922 - Melvin R Laird, (Rep-R-Mich), US Secretary of Defense (1969-73)

1922 - Vittorio Gassman, Genoa Italy, actor (War & Peace)

1922 - Yvonne De Carlo, Canadian actress (10 Commandments, Lily-Munsters), born in Vancouver,British Columbia (d. 1922)

1922 - Joe Astroth, East Alton, Illinois, MLB player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics), (d. 2013)

Heavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky Marciano (1923)1923 - Rocky Marciano, Brockton,Massachusetts, heavyweight champion boxer (1952-56), (d. 1969)

1923 - Theo H Joekes, journalist/Dutch MP (VVD)

1925 - Art[hur E] Pepper, US, alto saxophonist

1925 - Ruth S White, composer

1925 - Art Pepper, American musician (d. 1982)

1926 - Abdur Rahman Biswas, President of Bangladesh

1927 - Tommy Evans, rocker (Drifters)

1928 - George Maharis, Astoria New York, actor (Buz-Route 66, Most Deadly Game)

1928 - Clifford Lincoln, Canadian politician

1929 - Anne Ramsey, American actress (d. 1988)

1930 - Charles Correa, Indian architect (McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT), born inSecunderabad (d. 2015)

1931 - "Boxcar" Willie, singer

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 20 of 20

United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin (1730)1730 - US Founding Father BenjaminFranklin establishes a common-law marriage with Deborah Read

1843 - Prime Minister of Canada John A. Macdonald (28) weds his cousin Isabella Clark

1940 - Actor Harry Morgan (25) weds Eileen Detchon

1945 - Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (23) weds childhood sweetheart Jane Marie Cox

1970 - "The Bee Gees" singer Barry Gibb (24) weds former Miss Edinburgh Linda Ann Gray

1975 - Broadcasting pioneer Roone Arledge (44) weds Ann Fowler

1986 - Actress Whoopi Goldberg (30) weds cinematographer David Claessen

1996 - Presidential daughter Amy Carter (29), the only child of former U.S President Jimmy Carterweds computer consultant Jim Wentzel (28) in Plains, Georgia

2001 - "The Accidental Tourist" actress Geena Davis (45) weds Iranian American plastic surgeon Dr.Reza Jarrahy

Actress Whoopi Goldberg (1986)2001 - "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" actor Nicholas Brendon (30)weds Tressa Di Figlia in Carlsbad

2001 - "Six Days Seven Nights" actress Anne Heche (32) weds cameraman Coleman Laffoon in LosAngeles, California

2001 - Singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder (51) marries for second time fashion designer Kai MillardMorris

2002 - Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar (35) weds actor Freddie Prinze Jr. (36) at El Careyes Resort inMexico

2002 - "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" actress Terry Farrell (38) weds actor Brian Baker (35) at ParisLas Vegas in in Paradise, Nevada

2007 - Singer-songwriter Usher (28) weds hair stylist and wardrobe stylist Tameka Foster (37) atChateau Elan Winery and Resort in Georgia

2007 - The first Apprentice winner Bill Rancic (36) weds E! News anchor Giuliana DePandi (32) atthe Church of Santa Sofia in Capri, Italy

Singer Usher (2007)2007 - "Grey's Anatomy" actress Kate Walsh (39) weds movie executive AlexYoung (35) at the Ojai Presbyterian Church in Ojai, California

2007 - "Dancing with the Stars" tv personality Alec Mazo (29) weds fellow dancer Edyta Sliwinska(28) in San Francisco, California

2012 - "Grey's Anatomy" actor Jesse Williams (31) weds real estate broker Aryn Drake-Lee (32) inLos Angeles

2013 - Comedian Seth Meyers (39) weds human rights lawyer Alexi Ashe on Martha's Vineyard inMassachusetts

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 110

1067 - Baldwin V, Count of Flanders/guardian of King of France, dies

1159 - Adrian IV, [Nicole Breakspear], only English pope (1154-59), dies

1215 - Otto van Gelre, son of Otto I/earl-elect of Utrecht

1256 - Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (b. 1218)

1406 - Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry), dies at 84

1414 - William de Ros, 7th Baron de Ros, Lord Treasurer of England (b. 1369)

1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France, dies at 65

French Explorer Jacques Cartier (1557)1581 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (b. 1534)

1600 - Tade Hjek, Czech physician (b. 1525)

1615 - tienne Pasquier, French lawyer (b. 1529)

1648 - Marin Mersenne, French mathematician (Number of Mersenne), dies at 59

1666 - French Neck, portrait painter (Women Portrait), dies at about 86

1671 - Hugues de Lionne marquis de Berny, French ambassador to Rome, dies

1685 - Leoline Jenkins, Welsh lawyer (b. 1625)

1687 - Henry More, English philosopher (b. 1614)

1715 - Louis XIV, the sun king of France (1643-1715), dies at 76

1715 - Franois Girardon, French sculptor (b. 1628)

1731 - Pierre Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 50

1777 - Johann Ernst Bach, composer, dies at 55

1780 - Reynier de Klerk, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1777-1800), dies at 69

1801 - Robert Bage, English writer (Hermsprong), dies

The Sun King of France Louis XIV (1715)1814 - Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer, dies at 53

1838 - William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies at 68

1862 - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 44

1862 - Oliver Tilden, of the Bronx, killed in Civil War in Virginia

1862 - Philip "Phil" Kearny, US Union general-major, dies in battle at 48

1867 - Edward Hodges, composer, dies at 71

1880 - Antoon Jurgens, margarine maker, dies at 75

1896 - Johannes Habert, composer, dies at 62

1903 - Charles Renouvier, French philosopher (neo criticism), dies

1912 - Sam[uel E] van Beem, actor (Dollar Princess), dies at 62

1912 - Samuel Coleridge Taylor, African-British composer, dies at 37

1914 - Martha, last known passenger pigeon, dies at Cincinnati Zoo

1941 - Benjamin Dwight, US tennis championship umpire, dies

1943 - Charles Atangana, Cameroonian chief (b. 1880)

Explorer and Leader of Lewis and Clark Expedition William Clark (1838)1945 - Jacobus W GBalfoort, Dutch actor (Heimwee, Head On), dies at 57

1947 - Frederick Russell Burnham, father of the international Scouting movement (b. 1861)

1951 - Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German drawer/painter, dies at 38

1953 - Bernard O'Dowd, Australian poet (b. 1866)

1955 - Philip Loeb, actor (Jake-Goldbergs), dies at 61

1957 - Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83

1957 - Dennis Brain, English musician (b. 1921)

1961 - Eero Saarinen, Finnish/US architect (Dulles Airport), dies at 51

1961 - William S Foster, chairman (US Communist Party, 1945-57), dies at 80

1963 - Guy Burgess, British spy for the USSR

1963 - Jean Canneel, Flemish sculptor, dies at 73

1964 - George Georgescu, composer, dies at 76

1967 - Ilja Ehrenburg, writer, dies at 76

1967 - Siegfried L Sassoon, English poet/writer (Counterattack), dies at 80

1967 - James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61

1967 - Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (b. 1906)

1968 - Granville English, composer, dies at 69

1969 - Drew Pearson, newscaster (Drew Pearson), dies at 71

1969 - William Flanagan, composer, dies at 46

1970 - Francois Mauriac, writer, dies

1972 - May Aufderheide, composer, dies at 84

1977 - Ethel Waters, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather), dies at 76

1978 - Olga de Haas, Dutch ballerina, dies at 33

1979 - Doris Kenyon, silent screen actress (Alexander Hamilton), dies at 81

1981 - Albert Speer, German NSDAP-architect/minister of Army at 76

1981 - Ann Harding, actress (When Ladies Meet, Devotion), dies

1981 - Bi Thanh Lim, Vietnamese cosmonaut, dies in a MiG-21 crash at 32

1982 - Clifford M Curzon, England, pianist, dies at 75

1982 - Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76

1982 - Haskell Curry, American mathematician (b. 1900)

1983 - Henry "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash), dies at 71

1983 - Lennox Brown, cricket leg spinner (3 wickets at 63 for South Africa), dies

1983 - Larry McDonald, American congressman (b. 1935)

1984 - Howland Chamberlin, actor (Force of Evil, Pickup), dies at 73

1985 - Stefan Bellof, German race car driver (b. 1957)

1985 - Jay Youngblood, American wrestler (b. 1955)

1986 - Murray Hamilton, actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63

1988 - Leonor Sullivan, (Rep-D-Missouri, 1955-77), dies at 86

1989 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commissioner, dies of heart attack at 51

1989 - Tadeusz Sendzimir, American inventor (b. 1894)

1991 - Mark Robinson, British actor (The Girl), dies at 30

1991 - Steve Kemp, British light enterpeneur, dies

1992 - Morris Carnovsky, US actor (Dead Reckoning), dies at 94

1993 - Gerben Wagenaar, resistance fighter/communist, dies at 80

1993 - Hew Lorimer, British sculptor, dies at 86

1993 - Jacqueline Wijchers, film publicist (Havenloods, Sextant), dies at 89

1994 - Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop, dies at 88

1994 - Pieter C "Piet" Author, sailor/corrector, dies at 71

1994 - Wallis Mathias, cricketer (scored 783 in 21 Tests for Pakistan), dies

1994 - Boris Malenko, American professional wrestler (b. 1933)

1995 - Elizabeth Brown, minister healer/writer, dies at 32

1995 - Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club Owner, dies at 93

1996 - Brother Adam Kehrle, benedictine monk/beekeeper, dies at 98

1996 - Charles Daniels, archaeologist, dies at 63

1996 - George Levy, antique dealer/heritage campaigner, dies at 69

1996 - Vagn Holmboe, composer, dies at 86

1998 - Jzef Krupiski, Polish poet (b. 1930)

1998 - Cary Middlecoff, American golfer (b. 1921)

1999 - W. Richard Stevens, Zambian computer scientist (b. 1951)

2001 - Brian Moore British sports commentator (b. 1932)

2003 - Sir Terry Frost, British artist (b. 1915)

2004 - Ahmed Kuftaro, Grand Mufti of Syria (b. 1915)

2005 - R. L. Burnside, American musician (b. 1926)

2005 - Thanos Leivaditis, Greek actor (b. 1934)

2006 - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)

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