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Re: On This Date In History...
« Reply #30 on: Sep 3rd, 2011, 10:43pm » |
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1954 - Eugene Pallette, actor (It's a Date, My Man Godfrey), dies at 65
1960 - Joseph Lamb, composer, dies at 72
1961 - Robert E. Gross, American businessman (b. 1897)
1962 - e[dward] e cummings, US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), dies at 67
1964 - Stewart Holbrook, American author (b. 1893)
1965 - Otto Lederer, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 79
1967 - David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84
1967 - James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61
1967 - Woody Guthrie, rocker, dies of Huntington's Chorea at 55
1968 - Isabel Withers, American actress (b. 1896)
1970 - Al Wilson, "Blind Owl", guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat), dies at 27
1970 - Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies in Washington DC at 57
1971 - Veronica Turleigh, actress (Promoter), dies at 68
1974 - Harry Partch, American composer (b. 1901)
1980 - Barbara O'Neil, actress (Tower of London, Stella Dallas)
1980 - Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury), dies at 76
1982 - Michael Thoma, actor (8 is Enough, Fame), dies at 55
1984 - Arthur Schwartz, producer (Inside USA with Chevrolet), dies at 83
1984 - Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid), dies at 80
1985 - Joe Jones, drummer, dies at 73
1985 - John Herbert McDowell, composer, dies at 58
1987 - Morton Feldman, US composer, dies at 61
1990 - David Acer, Florida dentist, dies of AIDs after infecting 5 patients
1991 - Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94
1992 - Johannes van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Born 4/22/1884), dies
1994 - James Aubrey, actor (Riders of the Storm), dies of heart attack at 75
1994 - Major Lance, soul singer, dies at 55
1994 - Roswell Gilbert, who mercy killed his ailing wife, dies at 85
1994 - William Ambrose Right, footballer, dies at 70
1995 - Alfred Earle Birney, poet, dies at 91
1995 - Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian, dies at 75
1995 - Mary Adshead, muralist/painter, dies at 91
1995 - Peter Michalke, journalist, dies at 40
1995 - Roye England, modeller/museum curator, dies at 88
1996 - Julian Amery, politician, dies at 77
1996 - Robert Croften Brown, politician, dies at 75
2000 - Edward Anhalt, American screenwriter (b. 1914)
2001 - Pauline Kael, American film critic (b. 1919)
2001 - Thuy Trang, American actress (b. 1973)
2002 - W. Clement Stone, American entrepreneur (b. 1902)
2003 - Paul Jennings Hill, American anti-abortion murderer (b. 1954)
2005 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States (b. 1924)
2007 - Steve Ryan, American actor (b. 1947)
2007 - Carter Albrecht, Musician (b. 1973)
2008 - Donald Blakeslee, American aviator, led 4th Fighter Group during World War II. (b.191
2010 - Robert Schimmel, American stand-up comedian (b. 1950)
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« Reply #31 on: Sep 5th, 2011, 10:47pm » |
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September 5...
1912 - Arthur MacArthur, Jr., U.S. Army general (b. 1845)
1920 - Robert Harron, actor (Intolerance), accidental shot to death at 27
1930 - Robert Means Thompson, American naval officer (b. 1849)
1931 - John Thomson, football player who died in an accidental collision during a match (b. 1909)
1932 - Paul Bern, husband of Jean Harlow, dies
1948 - Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (b. 1881)
1969 - Mitchell Ayres, orch leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58
1973 - Jack Fournier, American baseball player (b. 1889)
1980 - Barbara Loden, actress (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 48
1982 - Douglas Bader, RAF fighter pilot in World War II (b. 1910)
1988 - Gert Froebe, actor (Lover's Wood, Upper Hand), dies at 75
1992 - Billy Herman, 2nd baseman/manager (Dodgers, Cubs), dies at 83
1992 - Dorothy MacKaye, marital advisor (Ladies Home Journal), dies at 88
1992 - Irving Allen Lee, actor (Newspaper Boys), dies of AIDS at 43
1993 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
1993 - Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60
1994 - Billy Usselton, saxophonist, dies at 68
1994 - William Usselton, US tenor saxophonist, dies at 68
1995 - Francis Showering, brewer, dies at 83
1995 - James "Pigmeat" Jarrett, pianist, dies at 95
1996 - Leonard Katzman, TV producer, dies at 69
1996 - Rose Isabel Williams, sister of Tennessee Williams, dies at 86
1997 - Leon Edel, biographer, dies at 89
1997 - Mother Teresa, Nobel (1979), dies of cardiac arrest at 87
1998 - Leo Penn, American film director (b. 1921)
1999 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (b. 1914)
2001 - Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (b. 1914)
2002 - David Todd Wilkinson, American astronomer, author of the first study of the Cosmic microwave background radiation (b. 1935)
2007 - Jennifer Dunn, American politician (b. 1941)
2007 - Paul Gillmor, American politician (b. 1939)
2007 - D. James Kennedy, American televangelist (b. 1930)
2007 - Thomas Hansen (musician) (b. 1976)
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Re: On This Date In History...
« Reply #32 on: Sep 8th, 2011, 11:44pm » |
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September 8...
1914 - William E Darwin, British son of Charles Darwin, dies at 74
1935 - Huey P Long, (Sen-La) assassinated at Baton Rouge Capitol building
1965 - Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), dies at 41 in Hollywood
1969 - Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at 61
1970 - Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven, (b. 1894)
1974 - Robert Cox, last surviving member of Keystone Kops, dies at 79
1975 - John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82
1977 - Zero [Samuel J] Mostel, US actor (Fiddler on the Roof), dies at 62
1979 - Jean Seberg, actress (Breathless, Airport), commits suicide at 40
1981 - Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80
1985 - John Franklin Enders, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1887)
1991 - Alex North, music composer (Spartacus), dies at 80 of cancer
1991 - Brad Davis, US, actor (Midnight Express, Chariots of Fire), dies at 41
1992 - Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-91), dies at 84
1993 - Hall Bartlett, US director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70
1993 - Lorin "Whitey" Harrison, surfer, dies at 80 of a heart attack
1994 - Dennis Morgan, actor (Cattle Town, Canyon Pass), dies at 83
1994 - Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer
1994 - Michael Peters, choreographer, dies
1999 - Moondog, American composer, musician and poet (b. 1916)
2004 - Frank Thomas, American animator (b. 1913)
2006 - Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
2006 - Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
2008 - Evan Tanner, UFC Champion
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Re: On This Date In History...
« Reply #33 on: Sep 9th, 2011, 11:26pm » |
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September 9...
1901 - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36
1909 - Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad entrepreneur (b. 184
1915 - Albert Spalding, American baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (b. 1850)
1951 - Cecil Gray, composer, dies at 56
1951 - Gibson Gowland, actor (Greed), dies at 74
1954 - Alfred Gradstein, composer, dies at 49
1962 - Pat Rooney, vaudevillian (Night club), dies at 82
1964 - Charles O'Neill, composer, dies at 82
1966 - Nestor Paiva, actor (3 Stooges in Orbit), dies of cancer at 61
1967 - Helen Flint, actress (Sea Devils), dies after being hit by a car at 69
1969 - Katherine Singleton, actress/Miss Universe (1926), dies at 65
1971 - Billy Gilbert, US actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at 76
1973 - Samuel N Behrman, US stage/screenwriter (Quo Vardis), dies at 80
1975 - Ethel Griffies, actress (Billy Liar, Birds), dies at 97
1975 - John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show), dies at 61
1975 - Minta Durfee, actress (Keystone Comedies, Mickey), dies at 85
1977 - John Breeden, actor (Madame Racketeer, Salute), dies at 73
1978 - Jack L Warner, US movie production (Warner Bros), dies at 86)
1980 - John Howard Griffin, American writer (b. 1920)
1982 - Frederic Dannay, [Ellery Queen], US, detective writer, dies at 76
1984 - Walter Kaufmann, composer, dies at 77
1985 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
1989 - Tim Hovey, actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose
1991 - Edwin M McMillan, US, chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies
1991 - John Lawrence, doctor, dies
1991 - Paul Michael Lombardi, actor, dies of AIDS at 31
1993 - David Tendlar, animator (Betty Boop), dies
1993 - Helen O'Connell, singer (Green Eyes), dies of cancer at 74
1994 - Keith Davis, voice Tutor/Author, dies at 85
1994 - Patrick O'Neal, US actor (King Rat, Night of the Iguana), dies at 66
1994 - Roy Castle, actor (Dr Who & the Daleks), dies of lung Cancer
1995 - Ida Carroll, musician, dies at 89
1996 - Bill Monroe, bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music), dies at 84
1996 - Edward Greenall, businessman/sportsman, dies at 67
1996 - Jack Pepys, immunologist, dies at 82
1996 - William Smith Monroe, bluegrass musician, dies at 84
1997 - Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48
1997 - Richie Ashburn, HOF baseball player (Phillies, Mets), dies at 70
1998 - Bill Cratty, American modern dancer and choreographer (b. 1951)
1999 - Catfish Hunter, American baseball player (b. 1946)
1999 - Ruth Roman, American actress (b. 1922)
1999 - Chan Parker, American author; wife of Charlie Parker and Phil Woods (b. 1925)
2003 - Larry Hovis, American actor (b. 1936)
2004 - Roland Sherwood "Ernie" Ball, American businessman (b. 1930)
2006 - Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
2006 - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
2007 - Hughie Thomasson, American musician (b. 1952)
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Re: On This Date In History...
« Reply #34 on: Sep 12th, 2011, 11:33pm » |
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September 12...
1927 - Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1847)
1947 - Harry Rowe Shelley, composer, dies at 89
1953 - Lewis Stone, actor (Prisoner of Zenda), dies of heart attack at 73
1972 - William Boyd, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy), dies at 77
1973 - Marjorie Post, US philanthropic/multi-millionaire ($200m), dies at 86
1977 - Robert Lowell, US poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)
1977 - Steven Biko, S African black student leader, dies in police custody
1978 - Frank Ferguson, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal), dies at 69
1980 - Lillian Randolph, actress (Roots, Amos n Andy), dies at 65
1986 - Frank Nelson, actor (Ralph-I Love Lucy, Jack Benny Show), dies at 75
1987 - John Qualen, actor (Patch of Blue, Jungle Book), dies
1988 - Alan Bible, (Sen-D-Nev, 1954-74), dies at 78
1988 - Lauris Morstad, NATO commander/CEO Corning Fiberglass, dies at 71
1990 - Athene Seyler, actress (Make Mine Mink), dies at 101
1991 - Jacques Benoit, [JJM Bayer], poet, dies
1991 - Regis Toomey, actor (You're in the Army Now, Burke's Law), dies at 93
1992 - Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho), dies from AIDs at 60
1992 - Ed Peck, actor (Zoot Suit, Bullitt), dies of heart attack at 75
1992 - Ruth Nelson, actress (Awakenings, 3 Women), dies at 87
1993 - Charles Lamont, actor/director (Abbott & Costello movies), dies at 95
1993 - Harold Innocent, actor (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves), dies at 60
1993 - Herman Nieland, organist/pianist/composer, dies at 82
1993 - Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason), dies of liver cancer at 76
1994 - Douglas MacKenzie Davey, psychometrist, dies at 72
1994 - Major Bill Smith, record producer, dies at 72
1994 - Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], US actor (7 Year Itch), dies at 85
1995 - Geoffrey Stokes, rock & roll writer, dies at 55
1995 - Jeremy William Huggins Brett (Moll Flanders), actor, dies at 59
1995 - John Stuart-Jervis, balloonist, dies
1995 - Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist, dies at 59
1996 - Geoffrey Bryan Bentley, moral theologian, dies at 87
1996 - George Patrick Reid, schoolkeeper, dies at 59
1996 - James Gulliver, businessman, dies at 66
1996 - Lloyd Turner, journalist, dies at 57
1996 - Oscar Michael Moore, journalist, dies at 36
1996 - Richard Maling Barrer, chemist, dies at 86
1997 - Janet Leach, potter, dies at 79
1997 - Judith Merril [Grossman], science fiction writer, dies at 74
1997 - Stikkan Stig Anderson, music entrepreneur (Polar), dies at 66
2000 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1934)
2001 - Victor Wong, Chinese-American actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Johnny Cash, American singer and guitarist (b. 1932)
2008 - David Foster Wallace, American author and essayist (b. 1962)
2009 - Norman Borlaug, American agronomist (b. 1914)
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Re: On This Date In History...
« Reply #35 on: Sep 15th, 2011, 12:23am » |
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September 14...
1898 - William Seward Burroughs, American inventor (b. 1857)
1899 - Henry Bliss, 1st auto death (NYC)
1901 - Pres William McKinley, dies in Buffalo, of gunshot wounds inflicted
1902 - Reinhold Finsterbusch, composer, dies at 76
1916 - Josiah Royce, US philosopher (Conception of Immortality), dies
1927 - Isadora Duncan, dies as her scarf became entangled in her car's wheel
1942 - E.S. Gosney, American eugenicist (b. 1855)
1959 - Wayne Morris, actor (Kid Galahad), dies of heart attack at 45
1964 - Mary Howe, composer, dies at 82
1966 - Gertrude Berg, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs), dies at 66
1966 - Nikolai Cherkasov, actor (Ivan the Terrible), dies at 63
1969 - James Anderson, actor (Connection, Five), dies at 48
1972 - Kornelis Posthumus, chemist, dies at 70
1974 - Barbara Jo Allen, actress (Girl Rush, Melody Ranch), dies at 66
1974 - Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], actr (Follow the Leader), dies at 70
1974 - Warren Hull, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World), dies at 71
1979 - Raymond Loucheur, composer, dies at 80
1981 - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart attack
1982 - Grace Kelly, princess of Monaco, dies in a car crash at 52
1982 - John C Gardner, US, writer (Life & Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49
1984 - Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise), dies at 77 from a traffic accident
1988 - Louis Quinn, actor (Unholy Rollers), dies at 73 of cancer
1991 - Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer
1991 - Russell Lynes, American art historian and magazine editor (b. 1910)
1992 - David Jones, actor, commits suicide (had terminal cancer) at 76
1992 - Ted Weiss, (Rep-NY, 1977-92), dies at 64
1994 - David van Cup, sculptor/painter, dies at 57
1995 - Eiji Okada, actor (Traffic Jam, Yakuza, Ugly American), dies at 75
1995 - Maurice K. Goddard, American state government official (b. 1912)
1996 - Clive Beadon, airman, dies at 77
1996 - Joe Elsby Martin, boxing coach, dies at 80
1996 - Juliet Prowse, actress/dancer (Mona McCluskey), dies at 59
2000 - Beah Richards, American actress (b. 1920)
2003 - Yetunde Price, half-sister of Venus and Serena Williams (b. 1972)
2003 - John Serry, Sr., American musician, (b. 1915)
2005 - William Berenberg, American physician (b. 1915)
2005 - Robert Wise, American filmmaker (b. 1914)
2006 - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
Father of Mariska Hargitay, best known for her role as New York City sex crimes Detective Olivia Benson on the NBC television drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,
2009 - Jody Powell, American press secretary to Jimmy Carter (b. 1943)
2009 - Patrick Swayze, American actor, dancer, and songwriter (b. 1952)
2009 - Henry Gibson, American actor and songwriter (b. 1935)
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Re: On This Date In History...
« Reply #36 on: Sep 15th, 2011, 11:05pm » |
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September 15...
1924 - Anthony Johnson Showalter, composer, dies at 66
1930 - Milton Sills, American actor (b. 1882)
1932 - Charles Hutchison Gabriel, composer, dies at 76
1934 - David Vaughan Thomas, composer, dies at 61
1937 - Clifford Heatherley, actress (For Love or Money, Cash), dies at 48
1938 - Thomas Wolfe, US writer (Enigma), dies at 62
1940 - Dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37
1942 - Jack Singer, US war reporter (Wasp), dies
1963 - Fred Hillebrand, actor (Martin Kane), dies at 69
1965 - Steve Brown, American musician (b. 1890)
1967 - Eva McKenzie, sister of Ida Mae/actress (Virtuous Husband), dies at 78
1972 - Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1887)
1979 - Tommy Leonetti, singer/actor (Gomer Pyle USMC), dies at 50
1980 - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist, dies of a bleeding ulcer at 51
1981 - Sara Haden, actress (A Family Affair), dies at 83
1983 - LeRoy Prinz, choreographer, dies at 88
1983 - Willie Bobo, jazz drummer (Cos), dies at 49
1986 - Virginia Gregg, actress (Little Women), dies at 69
1987 - Bob Tadema Sporry, author, dies at 75
1987 - Steven Tuomi, murder victim of Jeffery Dahmer (b. 1963)
1989 - Robert Penn Warren, American writer (b. 1905)
1991 - Andre Baruch, Radio/TV announcer dies at 83
1991 - John Hoyt, actor (My Favorite Brunette), dies of lung cancer at 87
1992 - Walter B Jones, (Rep-D-NC, 1966-92), dies at 79
1994 - Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78
1994 - Haywood Frank Henry, sax player, dies at 81
1994 - Michael Joyce, stage Manager, dies at 48
1995 - Marguerite Fawdry, museum curator, dies at 83
1995 - Sam McCluskie, trade unionist, dies at 63
1996 - George Scheuer, writer/journalist, dies at 80
1996 - Hilary Preston, editor, dies at 88
1996 - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85
1996 - Peter Michael Grayson, showman, dies at 70
2000 - Vincent Canby, American movie critic (b. 1924)
2003 - Jack Brymer, English clarinetist (b. 1915)
2004 - Johnny Ramone, American guitarist (The Ramones) (b. 194
2005 - Sidney Luft, American film director (b. 1915)
2007 - Brett Somers, Canadian-born American actress and Match Game panelist (b. 1924)
2008 - Richard Wright, keyboardist and founding member of Pink Floyd (b. 1943)
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Re: On This Date In History...
« Reply #37 on: Sep 21st, 2011, 12:02am » |
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September 20...
1906 - Robert R. Hitt, American politician (b. 1834)
1927 - George Nichols, actor (His Favorite Pastime, Star Boarder), dies at 62
1945 - William Buehler Seabrook, Writer, journalist, occultist and explorer (b. 1884)
1947 - Fiorello H La Guardia, (Mayor-R-NYC, 1933-45), dies
1949 - Nikolaos Skalkottas, composer, dies at 45
1949 - Richard Dix, actor (Tombstone, Ghost Ship, 13th Hour), dies at 56
1959 - Olin Howlin, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy), dies at 63
1960 - Lee Duncan, owner/trainer (Rin Tin Tin), dies of heart attack at 67
1971 - James Westerfield, actor (Travels of Jaime McPheeters), dies at 59
1971 - William F Albright, US archaeologist, dies at 80
1973 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist, dies
1973 - Glenn Strange, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), dies at 74
1973 - Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), dies in a plane crash at 30
1974 - Carlyle Blackwell Jr, entertainer, dies at 61
1976 - Johan Boskamp, opera singer/actor, dies at 83
1984 - Steve Goodman, folk singer/guitarist, dies at 36
1987 - Michael Stewart Two-time Antoinette Perry Award winner ,the author of some of the most successful stage musicals , wrote the book, lyrics, or both for such shows as Bye Bye Birdie, Hello Dolly!, George M., and I Love My Wife
1988 - Roy Kinnear, actor (Casanova, Pirates, Scrooge, Help!), dies at 54
1989 - Richie Ginther, American racing driver (b. 1930)
1990 - Jackie Moran, actor (Janie, Barefoot Boy), dies of cancer at 65
1994 - Jimmy Hamilton, saxophonist, dies at 77
1994 - Jule Styne, Broadway composer (Gypsy, Funny Girl), dies at 88
1995 - Monica Maurice, industrialist, dies at 87
1996 - Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82
1996 - Paul Draper, dancer, dies at 87
1996 - Paul Erdos, mathematician, dies of heart attack at 83
1996 - Paul Weston, bandleader, dies at 84
1997 - Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist/probation officer, dies at 59
1999 - Raisa Gorbachyova, wife of Mikhail Gorbachev (b. 1932)
2003 - Gordon Mitchell, American actor (b. 1923)
2004 - Townsend Hoopes, American politician (b. 1922)
2004 - Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (b. 1935)
2005 - Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter (b. 190
2006 - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)
2010 - Kenny McKinley, American football player (b. 1987)
2010 - Leonard Skinner, American high school gym teacher; namesake of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd (b. 1933)
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Re: On This Date In History...
« Reply #38 on: Sep 22nd, 2011, 11:44pm » |
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September 22...
1949 - Sam Wood, US communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66
1952 - Cor Ruys, actor (Princess Stage), dies at 62
1959 - Jane Winton, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan), dies at 53
1961 - Marion Davies, actress (Not So Dumb, 5 & 10), dies of cancer at 64
1971 - Joseph Ford McGuinn, director, dies of heart attack at 67
1971 - Yvonne St Clair, dancer, dies at 57
1975 - Patricia Doyle, actress (Wuthering Heights), dies at 60
1978 - Lina Carstens, actress (Homeland, Broken Jug), dies at 85
1981 - Harry Warren, American composer and lyricist (b. 1893)
1987 - Christopher Stryker, entertainer, dies at 27
1987 - Dan Rowan, actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in), dies at 65
1987 - John F "Jaco" Pastorius, rock guitarist (Weather Report), dies at 35
1987 - Louis Philip Kentner, composer, dies at 82
1988 - Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani poet and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)
1989 - Irving Berlin, composer (God Bless America), dies at 101
1991 - Reynold Abel Dorris, (Broken Cord), dies at 23 in car crash
1994 - Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79
1994 - John Edward Teddy Buckner, trumpeter, dies at 85
1994 - Leonard Geoffrey Feather, jazz critic/musician, dies at 80
1994 - Mattie Moss Clark, gospel Singer, dies at 69
1995 - Albert Goodwin, historian, dies at 89
1995 - Arthur Benfield, formed head of Cheshire CID, dies at 82
1995 - Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer, dies at 62
1996 - Dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81
1997 - Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76
1997 - George Bryan Ingham, artist, dies at 61
1997 - Ruth Picardie, journalist, dies at 33
1999 - George C. Scott, American actor (b. 1927)
2000 - Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), American professional wrestler (b. 1966)
2001 - Isaac Stern, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1920)
2003 - Gordon Jump, American television actor (b. 1932)
2004 - Ray Traylor (The Big Boss Man), American professional wrestler (b. 1962)
2006 - Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
2007 - Marcel Marceau, French mime artist (b. 1923)
2010 - Eddie Fisher, American singer (b. 192
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Re: On This Date In History...
« Reply #39 on: Sep 24th, 2011, 11:13pm » |
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September 24...
1930 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
1933 - Mike Donlin, baseball player (b. 187
1934 - Edwin Lehare, composer, dies at 69
1939 - Carl Laenmie, film producer, dies
1948 - Warren William, actor (Fear, Wolf Man, Madame X), dies at 53
1951 - Georges Rency, Belgian poet/literature, dies at 75
1960 - Melanie Klein, [Reizes], child psycho-analyst, dies
1961 - Sumner Welles, US diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy), dies at 68
1967 - Orville Caldwell, Deputy Major (LA-1940), dies at 71
1967 - Robert H van Gulik, diplomat/writer (Judge Tie), dies
1968 - Harry Robert Wilson, composer, dies at 67
1968 - Robert Arthur Ley, sci-fi author (Telepath, Power of X), dies at 47
1975 - Clive Morton, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker), dies at 71
1975 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
1976 - Bruno VeSota, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll), dies at 54
1976 - Romney Brent, actor/writer (Dinner at the Ritz), dies at 74
1978 - Ruth Etting, US dancer/singer (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 80
1981 - Patsy Kelly, actress (Brigid Murphy-Cop & the Kid), dies at 71
1982 - Sarah Churchill, actress (Royal Wedding, Spring Meeting), dies at 67
1983 - Isobel Baillie, oratorio singer, dies
1984 - Neil Hamilton, actor (Com Gordon-Batman), dies of asthma at 85
1990 - Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34
1991 - Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73
1991 - Theodore Geisel, children's author (Dr Seuss), dies of cancer at 87
1991 - Peter Bellamy, folk singer (b. 1944)
1994 - Colin Berry Haycraft, publisher, dies at 65
1996 - Mark Frankel, actor (Solitaire for 2, Simon-Sisters), dies at 34
1997 - Jonathon Silver, entrepreneur/arts patron, dies at 47
2002 - Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952)
2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
2003 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
2008 - Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 191
2009 - Susan Atkins, American murderer (b. 194
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1918 - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80
1920 - William F Sudds, composer, dies at 77
1926 - Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862) William Booth (10 April 1829 – 20 August 1912) was a British Methodist preacher who founded The Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912).
1929 - Miller Huggins, manager (NY Yankees), dies from blood poisoning at 49
1933 - Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
1944 - Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer, dies at 43
1945 - Bela Bartok, composer, dies at 64
1945 - Charles A Ellwood, US sociologist/psychologist, dies at 72
1958 - John B Watson, US psychologist/behaviorist, dies
1959 - Helen Broderick, comedienne/actress (Swing Time, Top Hat), dies
1960 - Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86
1961 - Frank Fay, actor (God's Gift to Women), dies in Santa Monica CA
1971 - TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50
1974 - Coco the Clown, [Nikolai Poliakov], dies
1974 - William Sloane, publisher/writer ("Edge of Running Water"), dies
1975 - Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68
1978 - Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80
1980 - John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32
1980 - Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890)
1984 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs Miniver), dies at 87
1987 - Emlyn Williams, actor/director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81
1987 - Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81
1988 - Billy Carter, Pres Carter's brother, dies of cancer at 51
1994 - John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73
1994 - Kitty Masters, actress, dies at 92
1994 - Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88
1995 - Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer, dies at 104
1995 - Dave Bowen, footballer, dies at 67
1995 - Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper), dies at 102
1996 - Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator, dies at 80
1999 - Marion Zimmer Bradley, American writer (b. 1930)
2003 - Herb Gardner, American playwright (b. 1934)
2003 - George Plimpton, American writer and actor (b. 1927)
2005 - Don Adams, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
2005 - George Archer, American golfer (b. 1939)
2005 - Urie Bronfenbrenner, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2005 - M. Scott Peck, American psychiatrist and writer (b. 1936)
2006 - Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
2006 - John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
2010 - Art Gilmore, American actor (b. 1912)
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1900 - Samuel Fenton Cary, congressman, prohibitionist (b. 1814)
1910 - Winslow Homer, painter (Prout's Neck), dies
1913 - Rudolph C K Diesel, German constructer (Diesel Motor), dies at 55
1915 - Luther Orlando Emerson, composer, dies at 95
1928 - Arnold Kent, dies, Italian actor who was brought to America as a young leading man, but died before living up to his promise. Born Lido Manetti, he studied civil engineering in his native Italy, but entered the theatre and then films subsequent to his schooling. After a number of Italian films, he was noticed by a Universal studio talent scout and brought to Hollywood. After a brief stay at Universal, where he was renamed Arnold Kent, he signed a contract with Paramount. He was playing a prominent role in The Four Feathers (1929) at the time of his death, which resulted from his being struck one evening on a Hollywood street by a car driven, coincidentally, by a film extra. He was replaced in the film and his scenes reshot. He was 28.
1937 - Ray Ewry, jumper (Olympics-10 gold-1900, 04, 06, 0, dies at 63
1951 - Bradley Barker, dies, Bradley Barker (1883 – 29 September 1951) was an American actor and film director of the silent era. He appeared in 70 films between 1915 and 1928. He also directed seven films between 1929 and 1930. He provided the roar of the MGM lion, Leo. He was born in Long Island, New York and died in New York, New York.
1951 - Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
1959 - Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, dies
1959 - Harold Huber, actor (I Cover Times Square), dies at 49
1962 - Patrick Corry, developed self-rotating rock drill, dies in the Bronx
1964 - Robert Burton, actor (Dr Gordon-Kings Row), dies at 69
1967 - Carson McCullers, US author (Heart is a Lonely Hunter), dies at 50
1967 - Ludwig Donath, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco), dies of leukemia at 67
1970 - Edward Everett Horton, actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), dies at 84
1975 - Casey Stengel, NY Yankee manager (1949-60), dies in Glendale at 85
1978 - John Paul I, Pope for 34 days, dies at 65
1982 - Monty Stratton, baseball player (b. 1912)
1986 - Betty Kean, actress (Amy Tucker-Leave it to Larry), dies at 69
1987 - Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70
1988 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family), dies of heart attack at 76
1989 - A A Busch Jr, brewer/baseball owner (St Louis Cards), dies at 90
1989 - Gussie Busch, American brewing magnate (b. 1899)
1991 - Sam Ntuli, South African ANC-writer, murdered
1992 - Paul Jabara, singer/actor (Last Dance), dies of AIDS at 44
1993 - Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85
1994 - Don Watson, race car driver, dies in an accident at 46
1994 - John Heddle Nash, singer, dies at 68
1995 - Francis Frederick Johnson, architect, dies at 84
1995 - George Chesterman Phillips, naval Officer, dies at 90
1995 - Seger Pillot Ellis, pianist/vocalist, dies at 91
1995 - Susan Maureen Fleetwood, actress (Krays, Clash of Titans), dies at 51
1996 - Ethel Jane Cain, original UK Speaking Clock voice, dies at 87
1996 - Leslie Crowther, entertainer, dies at 63>>
1997 - Milner Connorton Gray, designer, dies at 97
1997 - Robert Arthur Thornbury Campbell, journalist/musician, dies at 55
1997 - Roy Lichtenstein, pop artist, dies of pneumonia at 73
1998 - Tom Bradley, Mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1917)
1998 - Jared High, victim of bullying and suicide (b. 1985)
2002 - Edmund Trebus, probably best known for his appearance on A Life of Grime (b. 191
2005 - Austin Leslie, American chef, the "Godfather of Fried Chicken" (b. 1934)
2006 - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
2010 - Tony Curtis, American Actor (b. 1925)
2010 - Greg Giraldo, American comedian (Comedy Central Roast) (b.1965)
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1904 - Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor (Statue of Liberty), dies
1943 - Richard T Ely, US economist (Ground under our feet), dies
1944 - Al Smith, American politician (b. 1873)
1951 - Willie Moretti, American gangster (b. 1894)
1961 - Max Weber, Polish/Russ/US painter, dies
1961 - Metropolitan Benjamin (Fedchenkov), Orthodox missionary and writer, Exarch of Russian Church in North America (b. 1880)
1962 - John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79
1966 - Sherman Billingsley, talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66
1970 - George Frederick McKay, composer, dies at 71
1970 - Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me), dies of a drug overdose at 27
1971 - Edit Angold, actor (Suspense, Molly, Blue Angel), dies at 76
1972 - Colin Gordon, actor (John-Baron), dies at 61
1972 - Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist, dies at 68
1974 - Anne Sexton, US poetess (Pulitzer 1967), dies at 45
1975 - Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets, dies at 72
1976 - Alexander Gray, singer (This is Music), dies at 74
1981 - Freddie Lindstrom, Major League Baseball Hall of famer (b. 1905)
1989 - Graham Chapman, comedian (Monty Python), dies of cancer at 48
1989 - Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)
1990 - Avis Bunnage, actor (Loneliness of Long Distance Runner), dies at 67
1990 - Jill Bennett, actress (Skull, Hawks), dies of undisclosed causes at 58
1991 - Leonard C Odell, wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83
1992 - Laurie Anders, singer, dies of cancer
1993 - Fran Carlon, ( "As the World Turns.")
dies of cancer at 80
1994 - Bill Challis, arranger/Pianist, dies at 90
1994 - Daniel Wood Gatton, guitarist, dies at 49
Gatton was ranked 63rd on Rolling Stone magazine's 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time in 2003. On May 26, 2010, Gibson.com ranked Gatton as the 27th best guitarist of all time.
1995 - Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer, dies at 81
1996 - Martyn Harris, journalist, dies at 43
1996 - Tim N Gidal Gidalewitsch, photojournalist, dies at 87
1999 - Art Farmer, American jazz trumpet player (b. 192
2000 - Michael Smith, Nobel laureate (b. 1932)
2001 - Blaise Alexander, American race car driver (b. 1976)
2002 - Alphonse Chapanis, founder of ergonomics (b. 1917)
2003 - Sid McMath, American politician (b. 1912)
2004 - Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (b. 1927)
2005 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (b. 1924)
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1925 - Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86
1925 - Christy Mathewson, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1939 - Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, dies at 70
1951 - Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77
1956 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
1959 - Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
1963 - Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface), dies at 69
1966 - Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash
1966 - Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46
1988 - Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73
1990 - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84
1991 - Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86
1992 - Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62
1992 - Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet), dies
1993 - Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo), dies at 88
1993 - Cyril Cusack, actor (Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82
1993 - Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63
1994 - James Hill, director, dies at 75
1994 - Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60
1995 - Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91
1998 - Arnold Jacobs, American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915)
2001 - Herblock, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
2003 - Arthur Berger, American composer (b. 1912)
2003 - Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
2005 - Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
2007 - George E. Sangmeister, American politician (b. 1931)
2009 - Irving Penn, American photographer (b. 1917)
2010 - T Lavitz, American musician (b. 1956)
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1917 - Florence La Badie, American actress
Florence La Badie (April 27, 1888 – October 13, 1917) was an American actress in the early days of Hollywood, during the silent film era. Though little known today, she was a major star between 1911 and 1917, her career was at its height and climbing when she died unexpectedly due to injuries sustained during an automobile accident.
1938 - E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye) (b. 1894)
1945 - Milton S. Hershey, American chocolate tycoon (b. 1857)
1948 - Samuel S Hinds, actor (Raven, Test Pilot), dies at 73
1950 - Ernest Haycox, American writer (b. 1899)
1953 - Millard Mitchell, actor (12 O'Clock High, Gunfighter), dies at 50
1966 - Clifton Webb, actor (Laura, Razor's Edge), dies of heart attack at 72
1968 - Bea Benaderet, actress , She is best remembered for her wide variety of television work, which included a starring role in the 1960s television series Petticoat Junction as Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate Bradley, supporting roles as Blanche Morton in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and as the voice of Betty Rubble during the first four seasons of The Flintstones, and a relatively brief but significant turn in The Beverly Hillbillies as Jethro Bodine's mother Pearl. She also did a great deal of voice work for the Warner Bros. cartoons of the 1940s and '50s.
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1970 - Julia Culp, mezzo-soprano, dies at 90
1974 - Ed Sullivan, TV host (Ed Sullivan Show, Toast of the Town), dies at 73
1979 - Clarence Muse, actor (Sam-Casablanca), dies at 90
1979 - Rebecca Clarke, composer, dies at 93
1981 - Nils Asther, actor (Son of Lassie, Wild Orchids), dies at 84
1987 - Walter H Brattain, US physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85
1988 - Mike Venezia, jockey, dies in 5th-race fall at Belmont Race Track, NY
1991 - Donald Houston, actor (Battle Hell, Study in Terror), dies at 67
1992 - Hughes Rudd, news anchor (CBS Morning News), dies of aneurysm at 71
1992 - James Marshall, illustrator/author (The Stupids), dies at 50
1992 - John Hancock, actor (Ike-Love & War), dies of heart attack at 51
1993 - Gwen Wells, actress (Nashville), dies of cancer at 42
1993 - Leon Ames, US actor (Mr Ed, Peggy Sue got Married), dies at 90
1995 - Henry Roth, novelist (Call it Sleep), dies at 89
1996 - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian, dies at 89
1996 - Beryl Reid, actress (Yellowbeard, Psychomania), dies at 76
1996 - Rene Lacoste, tennis player, dies at 92
2000 - Jean Peters, American actress (b. 1926)
2001 - Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers, "I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing" "Look What They've Done To My Song, Ma") (b. 1949)
2002 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian and biographer (b. 1936)
2005 - Vivian Malone Jones, American civil rights activist (b. 1942)
2009 - Stephen Barnett, American legal scholar who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 (b. 1935)
2010 - Vernon Biever, American photographer (b. 1923)
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