| 19th 
            April, on this day  607 Comet 1P/607 
            H1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0898 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth1012 Martyrdom of St. Alphege in Greenwich, London.
 1451 Alam Shah of Delhi resigns throne
 1529 At the Second 
            Diet of Speyer, a group of rulers (German: Fürst) and independent 
            cities (German: Reichsstadt) protests the reinstatement of the Edict 
            of Worms, beginning the Protestant movement.
 1539 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt
 1552 Mauritius of Saksen captures Karel
 1587 Sir 
            Frances Drake sails into Cadiz Spain and sinks Spanish fleet
 1591 Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France
 1713 Emperor Karel VI ends Pragmatic 
            Sanctions
 1770 Amsterdam buys Van Aerssens family 1/3 part of Suriname
 1770 Captain James Cook 1st sees Australia
 1774 CW Gluck's opera "Iphigenia in Aulis", premieres in 
            Paris France
 1775 Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired 
            upon
 1775 Start of the American War of Independence against Britain when 
            fighting begins at Lexington 
            and Concord
 1782 John 
            Adams secured the Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States 
            as an independent government and the house that he purchased in The 
            Hague, Netherlands became the first American embassy.
 1809 The army of Austria attacks and is defeated by the forces of 
            the Duchy of Warsaw in the Battle 
            of Raszyn, part of the struggles of the Fifth Coalition.
 1810 Venezuela achieves home rule: Vicente 
            Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people 
            of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
 1825 33 patriotic exiles return to Uruguay
 1836 Nikolai 
            Gogol's "Revisor", premieres in St Petersburg
 1837 Cheyney 
            University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth
 1839 Treaty 
            of London constitutes Belgium an independent kingdom and Luxembourg 
            a Grand Duchy
 1843 The gas meter is patented by Carl Ludwig Farwig
 1861 Baltimore 
            riots - 4 soldiers, 9 civilians killed
 1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)
 1863 Union troops/fleet occupy Fort Huger VA
 1864 Naval Engagement at Cherbourg, FR USS Kearsage vs CSS Alabama
 1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
 1890 Henry 
            Morton Stanley is inaugurated in Brussels
 1892 Charles 
            Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United 
            States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.
 1896 Herzl's "The Jewish State" is published
 1897 1st Boston Marathon won by John McDermott of New York in 2:55:10
 1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire
 1909 Joan 
            of Arc, declared a saint
 1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
 1911 George Bernard Shaw's "Fanny's First Play", premieres 
            in London
 1916 Italians troops conquer Colonel di Lana at Merano
 1919 Leslie 
            Irvin of US makes 1st parachute jump and free fall
 1921 Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria
 1923 New Egyptian law allows suffrage for men, except soldiers
 1927 Hollywood actress Mae 
            West is found guilty of indecent behaviour in her production of 
            'Sex' on Broadway. She is sentenced to 10 days in prison and fined 
            500 dollars
 1928 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
 1928 The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary 
            is published.
 1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces that the United States 
            will be abandoning the gold standard.
 1934 Shirley 
            Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"
 1936 Anti-Jewish 
            riots break out in Palestine
 1940 "Lake Shore Ltd" derails, killing 34 near Little Falls 
            NY
 1940 Dutch prime minister De Geer declares state of siege
 1941 Bertolt 
            Brecht's "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder", premieres 
            in Zürich
 1941 Bulgarian troops invade Macedonia
 1942 In Poland, the Majdan-Tatarski ghetto is established, situated 
            between the Lublin ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.
 1943 Jews attack Nazi occupation forces at Warsaw 
            Ghetto under Mordechai Anielewicz
 1944 Allied fleet attack Sabang Sumatra
 1945 Rodgers 
            and Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
 1945 US aircraft carrier Franklin is heavily damaged in Japanese air 
            raid
 1947 French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
 1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China
 1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
 1951 The first Miss World Contest is won by a 21 year old from Sweden. 
            The contest is devised by Mecca publicity officer, Eric Morley, as 
            part of the Festival of Britain celebrations
 1954 Constituent Assembly of Pakistan decides Urdu and Bengali to 
            be national languages of Pakistan.
 1956 US actress Grace 
            Kelly marries Monaco's Prince Rainier III (civil ceremony)
 1958 Legendary English footballer Bobby 
            Charlton makes the first of his 106 appearances for England against 
            Scotland and scores the first of his record 49 goals for his country
 1959 Uprising in La Paz Bolivia, fails
 1960 Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest 
            against their president Syngman 
            Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign
 1961 The Bay 
            of Pigs invasion of Cuba ends in success for the defenders.
 1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to an altitude 
            of 6,900 meter
 1964 Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier
 1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating
 1965 At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted 
            because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die and eventually 
            led to the installation of Astroturf
 1966 Roberta Bignay becomes the 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon
 1967 Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years (they don't)
 1967 US Surveyor III lands on Moon
 1967 "Casino Royale" premieres
 1967 Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4½ years
 1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic
 1971 USSR Salyut 
            1 launched; 1st manned lab in orbit
 1971 Vietnam 
            Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, 
            DC.
 1971 Charles 
            Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
 1972 Bangladesh becomes a member of British Commonwealth
 1972 Hungary revises constitution
 1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1973 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk 
            USSR
 1975 India 
            launches 1st satellite with help of USSR
 1976 Executive 
            Order 9066 is rescinded.
 1978 Yitzhak Navron elected 5th President of Israel
 1982 Rosie 
            Ruiz, marathon race cheater, arrested for forgery
 1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
 1982 USSR Salyut 7 space station put into orbit
 1982 Guinon 
            Bluford announced as 1st black astronaut
 1983 France performs nuclear test
 1984 Nemesis, death star of dinosaurs 1st appears in print (Nature 
            magazine)
 1985 Advance 
            Australia Fair is proclaimed as Australia's national anthem, and 
            green and gold as the national colours.
 1985 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk 
            USSR
 1986 Michael 
            Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
 1987 Gregory Robertson does 200-mph free fall to save unconscious 
            skydiver
 1987 Last wild condor captured on California wildlife reserve
 1987 USSR performs underground nuclear test
 1989 Republic Day in Sierra Leone
 1989 Gun turret explodes on USS 
            Iowa, killing 47 sailors
 1990 Contra guerrillas, leftist Sandinistas and incoming government 
            agree to truce in Nicaragua's civil war
 1991 Battle of the Ages-Heavyweight champion Evander Hollyfield beats 
            42 year old George Foreman in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
 1993 Branch 
            Dividians/FBI 51 day standoff in Waco TX ends with the deaths 
            of 4 FBI Agents and numerous deaths from suicide of the cult members
 1993 Fire in psychiatric institute in South Korea, kills 40
 1994 Graeme Obree bicycles world record 10km (11:25.88)
 1994 Inkatha ends boycott of South African multi-racial election
 1994 Rodney King award $3,800,000 in compensation of police beating
 1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of 
            gender
 1995 Oklahoma 
            City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma 
            City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168. That same day convicted 
            murderer Richard Wayne Snell, who had ties to bombing suspect Timothy 
            McVeigh, was executed in Arkansas.
 1999 The German Bundestag 
            returns to Berlin.
 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected 
            Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
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        | Birthdates which 
            occurred on 19th April : 1320 Pedro I King 
            of Portugal (1357-67) 1605 Orazio Benevoli composer
 1660 Sebastian Duron composer
 1700 Georg Abraham Schneider composer
 1715 James Nares composer
 1721 Roger Sherman signer (Declaration of Independence, Constitution)
 1721 Thomas McKean attorney (signed Declaration of Independence) [or 
            3/19]
 1728 Francisco Albergati Capacelli Italian playwright
 1737 Geert Reinders Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation propagandist
 1768 Adrian H Haworth English entomologist/botanist
 1771 Giuseppe Cartufo composer
 1772 David Ricardo economist
 1775 Battle of Lexington & Concord-American Revolution
 1785 Alexandre Pierre François Boely composer
 1795 Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg German zoologist
 1798 Franz Joseph Glaser composer
 1798 Heinrich Maria von Hess historical painter
 1801 Gustav T Fechner [Dr Mises] German philosopher/physicist
 1805 Charles Edmond-Hénri de Coussemaker Belgian musicologist/historian
 1817 John Philip painter
 1821 Mortimer Dormer Leggett Major General (Union volunteers), died 
            in 1896
 1830 Rudolf Cornely German bible expert/jesuit
 1832 José Echegaray y Eizaguirre mathematician/dramatist (Nobel 
            1904)
 1832 Lucretia Rudolph Garfield US 1st lady (1881-1885)
 1838 August[us] Allebé Dutch painter/lithographer
 1840 Andrea Bezzola writer
 1850 Edward John Gregory painter/engraver
 1850 Theo Mann-Bouwmeester Dutch actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler)
 1857 Lucien Levy-Bruhl philosopher
 1858 May Robson [Mary J Robison] Melbourne Australia, actress (Apple 
            Annie)
 1858 Siegfried Ochs composer
 1861 Warden Oncle [Edward Vermeulen] Flemish farmer/writer
 1863 Felix Blumenfeld composer
 1866 Henri Deterding Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell)
 1868 Max Von Schillings German composer/conductor (Der Pfeifertag)
 1873 Sydney Barnes cricketer (probably England's greatest bowler)
 1874 Firmin Baes Flemish painter
 1876 Hendrik Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin/king of Netherlands
 1877 Ole Evinrude inventor (outboard marine engine)
 1879 Richard Scheibe German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz)
 1883 Getúlio Vargas President of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), 
            modernizer
 1888 William L Axt composer
 1890 Lou Bandy [Lodewijk F Dieben] revue-artist (Look for the Sun)
 1891 Francoise Rosay Paris France, actress (Interlude, Women in Prison, 
            Saraband)
 1891 Ricardo Bacchelli Italian writer/poet (La Ronda)
 1892 Germaine Tailleferre [Les Six] Pau-St-Maur France, composer
 1897 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney sculptor/art benefactor
 1897 Vivienne Segal Philadelphia PA, Broadway actress (Pal Joey)
 1898 Constance Talmadge Brooklyn NY, comedienne/actress (Intolerance)
 1898 Sybil Andrews English/Canadian painter
 19-- Robert Tyler [Barry Kaufman] Stockton CA, actor (Trucker McKenzie-Loving)
 1900 Allen Jenkins New York NY, actor (Girl Habit, Fugitive from a 
            Chain Gang)
 1900 Richard Arthur Warren Hughes English writer (Fiction as Truth)
 1903 Eliot Ness untouchable (Prohibition Agent for Department of Treasury-Chicago, 
            Untouchables)
 1905 John S "Jimmy" Thach US pilot/Admiral (WWII)
 1905 Tommy Benford jazz drummer
 1907 Alan Wheatley England, actor (Adventure of Robin Hood)
 1907 Gino Contilli composer
 1907 Lina Basquette San Mateo CA, actress (Paradise Park, Pleasure, 
            Goldie)
 1910 Andrew Gilchrist historian/diplomat
 1911 Francesco Maria Saraceni composer
 1912 Glenn T Seaborg head of Atomic Energy Commission/chemist/discovered 
            Plutonium/Nobel 1951
 1912 William Murray teacher/educationalist
 1913 Cyril English British educator
 1914 Andrew Wilkinson pediatrician
 1915 Dorian Le Gallienne composer
 1915 Harry Craft baseball manager
 1917 Johnny Hoes Dutch musician/producer (Wished I'd stayed with my 
            Mom)
 1919 Gil Langley cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper 1951-56)
 1920 Frank Fontaine Cambridge MA, comedian (Crazy Guggenheim)
 1921 Glyn England CEO (CEGB, Windcluster Ltd)
 1921 Will Ogdon composer
 1922 Erich Hartmann German WWII pilot (downed 352 Russian aircrafts)
 1922 Luigi Barbbarito reverend (Apostolic ProNuncio)
 1925 Hugh O'Brian [Krampke] Rochester NY, actor (Wyatt Earp, Search)
 1927 Don Barbour Greencastle IN, singer (4 Freshmen)
 1928 Alexis Korner Paris France, musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him)
 1928 John Horlock British vice-chancellor (Open College)
 1929 Edward Crook Detroit MI, middleweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1960)
 1931 Alex Webster football coach (New York Giants)
 1931 Denis Henry British high court judge
 1931 Garfield Morgan Brtish actor (Odessa File, To Catch a Spy)
 1931 Hendrick J "Kobie" Coetsee South Africa minister of 
            Defense/Justice
 1932 Andrea Mead Lawrence Rutland VT, alpine slalom skier (Olympics-2 
            gold-52)
 1933 Dick Sargent Carmel CA, actor (Darrin-Bewitched)
 1933 Jayne Mansfield [Vera Jane Palmer] Bryn Mawr PA, actress (Guide 
            for the Married Man, Girl Can't Help It, Too Hot to Handle)
 1933 Harold "Dickie" Bird cricketer (noted England Test 
            umpire)
 1934 Dickie Goodman parody singer (Flying Saucer)
 1934 Jan Helge Guttorm Bark composer
 1934 John Roch high court judge
 1935 Dudley Moore London England, actor (10, Arthur, Bedazzled, 6 
            Weeks)
 1936 Csaba Szabo composer
 1936 Ruby Johnson US singer (I'll Run Your Hurt Away)
 1936 Wilfried Martens premier (Belgium, 1979-81, 1981-92)
 1937 Elinor Donahue Tacoma WA, actress (Betty Anderson-Father Knows 
            Best, Gladys Peterson-Get a Life)
 1938 Jonathan Tunick composer
 1939 Ellen Weston New York NY, actress (Betty-SWAT)
 1939 E Clay Shaw Jr (Representative-Republican-FL, 1981- )
 1939 Michael John Macaulay cricketer (Transvaal, Western Province, 
            Orange Free State, North Eastern Transvaal, Eastern Province & 
            South Africa)
 1940 Algy Cluff CEO (Spectator, Cluff Resources)
 1941 Alan Price Fatfield Durham England, rock keyboardist (Animals-House 
            of the Rising Sun)
 1941 Michel Roux chef de cuisine
 1943 Mike Kelly rocker (Duprees)
 1944 Mark "Flo" Volman rocker (Flo & Eddie, Turtles-Eleanor)/DJ 
            (WKRK)
 1944 Bernard Worrell US keyboardist (Funkadelic-Cosmic Slop)
 1944 Margo MacDonald Scottish national broadcaster
 1945 Nuria Ortiz México, skeet shooter (Olympics-13th-1968)
 1946 Leon Wessels South Africa lawyer/underminister of Law & Order
 1946 Tim Curry Cheshire England, actor (Rocky Horror Picture Show)
 1946 Viktor Viktorovich Zabolotsky Russia, cosmonaut (BST-02)
 1947 Frits Castricum journalist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
 1947 Murray Perahia New York NY, pianist (Avery Fischer Prize-1975, 
            Grammy 1988)
 1947 Wilf Stevenson director (British Film Institute)
 1949 Myra McCulloch teacher academic/administrator
 1949 Paloma Picasso [Gilot] Paris France, artist/jewelry designer/actress 
            (Immoral Tales)
 1950 Jeff Hammond cricketer (Australian fast bowler on 1973 West Indies 
            tour)
 1950 Marc Demeyer Belgian bicyclist (Paris-Brussel '74)
 1952 Adny Shernoff rocker
 1953 Sara Simeoni Italy, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1980)
 1954 Trevor Francis British soccer manager
 1956 Lori West Denver CO, LPGA golfer (1994 State Farm-5th)
 1956 Sue Barker England, tennis star
 1957 [Boaz] Boo Watson keyboardist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
 1957 Belinda Lipscomb vocalist (Midnight Star-No Parking)
 1957 Rod Morgenstein rocker (Winger)
 1960 Frank Viola Hempstead NY, pitcher (Minnesota Twins, New York 
            Mets/Cy Young-1988)
 1961 Richard Phelps British pentathlete
 1962 Al Unser Jr Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
 1962 Christa Teno Tecumseh Ontario Canada, LPGA golfer (1989 Mitsubishi-44th)
 1964 Harris Barton NFL tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
 1964 Scott Kamienicki pitcher (New York Yankees)
 1965 Melita Rühn Romania, horse vaulter (Olympics-bronze-1980)
 1966 Paul Reiffel cricketer (Victorian & Australian pace bowler)
 1966 Randolph Keys NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks)
 1968 Ashley Taylor Judd [Ciminella] Granada Hills CA, actress (Kuffs, 
            Sisters)
 1968 Brent Mayne Loma Linda CA, catcher (New York Mets)
 1968 Keith McCants NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
 1968 Roger Reinson CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
 1968 Thomas Nock Zurich Switzerland, actor (Tartort, Gemini-Twin Stars)
 1969 Carlos Reyes Miami FL, pitcher (Oakland A's)
 1969 Danelle Marie Folta Hammond IN, playmate (April 1995)
 1969 James Westphal Oak Park IL, 10k runner
 1970 Luis Miguel Vera Cruz México, Spanish singer
 1970 Michael Barrow NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers, Carolina Panthers)
 1970 Rick Hamilton WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
 1971 Otis Scott Gainesville FL, 400 meter/800 meter runner
 1972 Eric Jack NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
 1972 Jeff Wilkins NFL kicker (San Francisco 49ers)
 1974 Ante Moric Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
 1975 Jason Gillespie cricketer (SA fast bowler, Australia 1996)
 1975 Nazarena Almada Miss Argentina-Universe (1997)
 1975 Temoc Suarez Greenwood SC, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
 1976 Vanessa Guzman Miss México-Universe (1996)
 1978 Adrienne Parker Miss Tennessee Teen-USA (1996)
 1978 Whitney Metzler 400 meter medley swimmer (Olympics-8th-96)
 1979 Challen Sievers Downers Grove IL, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
 1979 Mariah Billado Miss Vermont Teen-USA (1997)
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deaths which occurred 
            on April 19th:
 0843 Judith French empress/2nd wife of Louis de Vrome, dies
 1044 Gothelo duke of Netherlands-Lotharingen, dies
 1054 Leo IX [Bruno von Egesheim und Dagsburg] Pope (1049-54), dies 
            at 51
 1390 Robert II King of Scotland, dies
 1529 John Cuspinianus [Spiessheimer] German physician, dies at about 
            55
 1560 Philipp Melanchton [Schwazerd] church reformer, dies at 63
 1567 Michael Stifel German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 
            79
 1588 Paolo Veronese [Cagliari] painter, dies
 1608 Earl of Dorset poet/statesman, dies
 1645 Anton van Diemen Governor-General (Netherlands East Indies), 
            dies at about 51
 1645 William Smith composer, dies at 42
 1658 Robert Rich 2nd earl of Warwick English Lord High Admiral, dies 
            at 70
 1689 Christina Queen of Sweden (1644-54), dies
 1706 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen Dutch baptist leader, dies
 1739 Nicholas Saunderson mathematician, dies
 1768 Filippo della Valle Italian sculptor, dies at about 70
 1770 Esprit Joseph Antoine Blanchard composer, dies at 74
 1772 Johann Peter Kellner composer, dies at 66
 1773 Florian Johann Deller composer, dies at 43
 1776 Jacob Israel Emden [Jacob ben Tswi] German rabbi, dies at 78
 1791 Richard Price nonconformist minister/writer (Alabi's World), 
            dies
 1799 Pieter Hellendaal violinist/organist/composer (Glees), dies at 
            78
 1813 Benjamin Rush physician/abolotionist (signed Declaration of Independence), 
            dies at 67
 1824 [George Gorden Noel] "Lord" Byron poet, dies at 36
 1852 Vasili A Zjukovski Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus), dies 
            at 69
 1862 Simon Fraser Canadian explorer, dies
 1862 Louis Powell Harvey US Governor of Wisconsin, drowns
 1867 Robert Smirke British architect, dies
 1870 Andreas Schelfhout painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 83
 1870 Camille Marie Stamaty composer, dies at 59
 1870 William Henry Havergal composer, dies at 77
 1874 Owen Jones architect, dies
 1876 Samuel Sebastian Wesley composer, dies at 65
 1881 Benjamin Disraeli 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies
 1881 Michel Abeloos Flemish sculptor, dies at 53
 1882 Charles Robert Darwin evolutionist (Origin of Species), dies
 1889 Warren De La Rue astronomer/chemist, dies
 1893 John Addington Symonds critic/poet, dies
 1895 George Scharf critic, dies
 1895 Victor J van Hinsbergh South Netherlands engraver (PTT-stempels), 
            dies at 70
 1900 Ivan K Aïvazovski Russian painter (harbor scenes), dies 
            at 82
 1906 Pierre Curie French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies
 1914 Charles Pierce philosopher/scientist, dies
 1923 Thomas Paine Westendorf composer, dies at 75
 1926 Squire Bancroft [Butterfield] actor/manager (Haymarket), dies 
            at 84
 1932 Wladyslaw Rzepko composer, dies at 77
 1937 William M Conway English historian/explorer (Spitzbergen), dies 
            at 81
 1938 Henry John Newbolt poet/author (Studies Green & Gray), dies 
            at 75
 1938 Marie-Clémentine "Suzanne" Valadon French acrobat/model, 
            dies at 72
 1941 Johanna Muller-Hermann composer, dies at 63
 1943 Alexander Schmorell German resistance fighter, beheaded
 1943 Gustave Doret composer, dies at 76
 1943 Kurt Huber German resistance fighter, beheaded
 1943 Willy Graf German resistance fighter, beheaded
 1944 Tommy Hitchcock polo player (Westchester Cup 1924, 27), dies 
            at 44
 1945 J P Heyboer resistance fighter, executed
 1950 Tyrwhitt-Wilson 14th baron Berners/composer, dies at 66
 1954 Joe Laurie Jr comedian (Can You Top This?), dies at 61
 1956 Ernst R Curtius German literature historian, dies at 70
 1956 Léon N H Jungschlaeger head military intelligence Netherlands-Indies, 
            dies at 52
 1956 Lionel K P "Buster" Crabb British diver (WWII), dies 
            at 47
 1957 Charles Funk Encylopediest (Funk & Wagnalls), dies at 76
 1957 Johan W Albarda 1st Dutch SDAP minister (1939-45), dies at 79
 1964 Cyril Merry cricketer (West Indies batsman in 2 Tests 1933), 
            dies
 1965 George Davis actor (Private Lives, Devil May Care), dies at 75
 1966 Väinö A Tanner Finnish premier (1926-27)/minister, 
            dies at 85
 1967 Conrad Adenauer West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91
 1968 Tommy Bridges US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), dies at 61
 1969 Casper Höweler music critic, dies at 71
 1972 Adolf Bach German philologist/sociologist, dies at 82
 1978 Emile de Strijker Belgian philosopher, dies at 70
 1980 Alfred [Joseph] Hitchcock dies in Los Angeles CA from renal failure 
            at 80
 1980 Ethel Wilson actress (Aunt Harriet-Aldrich Family), dies at 88
 1980 Tony Beckley actor (Assault, When a Stranger Calls), dies at 
            51
 1981 Ernst Levy composer, dies at 85
 1983 Lorene Scott actress (Faraway Hill), dies at 74
 1983 Jerzy Andrzejewski writer (Ashes & Diamonds), dies at 73
 1986 Alvin Childress actor (Amos-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 78
 1986 Dag Ivar Wiren composer, dies at 80
 1987 Maxwell D Taylor US commander 101st airborne (WWII), dies at 
            85
 1987 Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum Actor (Mr Green Jeans), dies at 
            77
 1989 Daphne Du Maurier English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn), dies 
            at 82
 1990 Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev Russia, cosmonaut, dies at 52
 1992 Alice Mary Riley entertainer, dies of cancer at 51
 1992 Frankie [Francis Alex] Howerd actor (Mr Mustard-Sgt Pepper's 
            Lonely Hearts Club Band, Carry on Doctor, Up the Front, That Was the 
            Week That Was), dies from a heart attack at 70
 1992 Pat Thompson actress (Strictly Ballroom), dies at 51
 1992 Robert F Clayton drummer (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car crash
 1992 Robert Paul Haynes bassist (Jody Grind), dies at 26 in a car 
            crash
 1993 David Koresh [Vernon Howell] cult leader (Davidians), suicide
 1993 George Mickelson Governor of South Dakota, & 7 others, die 
            in a plane crash
 1994 Frederick Ferrari crazy Gang Member, dies at 81
 1994 Larry Davis blues Singer/Guitarist, dies at 57
 1994 Louis Simmonds bookseller, dies at 87
 1994 Michael Carreras film Director, dies at 67
 1994 Michel van Rooy Dutch actor (Doctor Vlimmen, The Attack), dies 
            at 43
 1995 "King" Herbert Whitaker tenor sax, dies at 66
 1995 Igor Hajek translator/writer, dies at 64
 1995 J[oseph] Peter Grace CEO (W R Grace), dies at 82
 1995 Kenneth Burslam Gardner librarian/Orientalist, dies at 70
 1996 Bernard Edwards bass player, dies at 44
 1996 Norman Oldfield cricketer (scored 99 runs in Test for England), 
            dies
 1996 Peg Ridge peace campaigner, dies at 72
 
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