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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 192

1528-11-06 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1685-02-18 - Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1821-01-17 - Mexico permits Moses Austin & 300 US families to settle in Texas
1823-01-03 - Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
1826-12-16 - Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican controlled Nacogdoches, Texas and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia.
1829-08-25 - Pres Jackson makes an offer to buy Texas, but Mexican government refuses
1836-01-05 - Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
1836-03-02 - Republic of Texas declares independence from Mexico
1836-03-05 - Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model
1836-03-16 - Texas approves a constitution
1836-03-17 - Texas abolishes slavery
Inventor/Industrialist Samuel Colt 1836-04-21 - Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins independence from Mexico
1836-09-05 - Sam Houston elected president of Republic of Texas
1836-10-22 - Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected pres of Republic of Texas
1837-03-03 - US president Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas
1842-03-05 - Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
1845-03-01 - President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas
1845-07-04 - Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1845-10-13 - Texas ratifies a state constitution
1845-12-29 - Texas admitted as 28th state
1846-02-19 - Texas state government formally installed in Austin
1846-04-25 - Thornton Affair: Open conflict begins over the disputed border of Texas, triggering the Mexican-American War.
1846-05-03 - Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1846-05-08 - 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto Texas
1848-02-02 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico & Arizona for $15 million
1848-05-19 - Mexico gives Texas to US, ending the war
US President & General Andrew Jackson 1855-02-14 - Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1858-01-09 - Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
1861-02-01 - American Civil War: Texas becomes the 7th state to secede from the United States.
1861-02-23 - By popular referendum, Texas becomes 7th state to secede from US
1861-03-16 - Edward Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
1861-08-03 - Federal fleet bombs Galveston Texas
1861-08-12 - Skirmish at Texas - rebels are attacked by Apache Indians
1862-10-05 - Federal fleet occupies Galveston, Texas
1863-01-01 - Battle of Galveston, Texas-Confederates recapture the city
1863-09-08 - Battle of Sabine Pass TX: 47 Texas volunteers repel Federal forces
1863-11-27 - -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza Texas
1863-11-30 - Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas
1864-08-04 - Land & naval action new Brazos Santiago, Texas
1865-05-12 - Last land action of Civil war at Palmito Ranch, Texas
1865-06-19 - Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas
1868-06-01 - Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin
1870-03-30 - Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
1874-01-17 - Armed Democrats seize Texas government ending Radical Reconstruction
1881-04-14 - The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupts in El Paso, Texas.
1886-10-12 - Hurricane & sea surge kills 250 at Indianola Texas
1891-09-03 - Cotton pickers organize union & staged strike in Texas
1895-08-19 - American frontier murderer and outlaw, John Wesley Hardin, is killed by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas.
1896-05-15 - Tornado kills 78 in Texas
1899-06-29 - Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage
1900-09-08 - 6,000 killed when a hurricane & tidal wave strikes Galveston, Texas
1901-01-10 - Oil discovered in Texas
1901-07-24 - O. Henry is released from prison in Austin, Texas after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
1902-04-07 - Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1904-10-29 - 1st intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)
1906-08-13 - Black soldiers raid Brownsville Texas
1915-08-25 - Hurricane kills 275 in Galveston, Texas with $50 million damage
1915-09-22 - Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas) holds its 1st class
1917-08-23 - Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
1917-10-19 - Love Field in Dallas, Texas is opened.
1919-07-13 - Race riots in Longview & Gregg counties Texas
1922-03-02 - WBAP-AM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1922-05-02 - WBAP-AM begins broadcasting from Fort Worth Texas
1922-11-20 - Zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in NYC
1923-01-04 - 1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Fort Worth Texas)
1924-11-09 - Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1925-01-08 - 1st all-female US state supreme court appointed, Texas
1925-10-16 - Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution
1925-12-15 - 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
1930-05-13 - Farmer killed by hail in Lubbock, Texas
1932-01-26 - KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW
1933-02-08 - -23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record)
1936-08-12 - 120°F (49°C), Seymour, Texas (state record)
1937-03-18 - Gas explosion in school in New London Texas: 294 die
1938-11-28 - 4th Heisman Trophy Award: Davey O'Brien, Texas Christian (QB)
1940-03-14 - 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas
1941-06-20 - German U-203 fails on torpedo attack on US battleship Texas
1943-02-24 - Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II
1943-06-16 - Race riot in Beaumont Texas (2 die)
1943-06-19 - Race riot in Beaumont Texas
1943-09-07 - Fire in decrepit old Gulf Hotel kills 45 (Houston Texas)
1946-06-21 - 10 die in fire at Baker Hotel, Dallas Texas
1947-04-09 - Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300
1947-04-16 - Massive explosion & fire kills 522 in Texas City, Tx
1947-04-19 - French ship explodes in Texas City harbor, kills about 522
1948-09-28 - WBAP-TV, (NBC affiliate) Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1949-03-08 - WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1949-11-28 - "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 293 perfs
1950-09-09 - "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 293 perfs
1952-01-24 - 1st NFL team in Texas, Dallas Texans formerly NY Yanks
1953-05-11 - Tornado kills 114 in Waco Texas ($39M damage)
1953-05-25 - 1st non-commercial educational television station-Houston, Texas
1954-10-18 - Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio.
1956-04-26 - First container ship left Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas
1956-08-30 - White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
1957-06-27 - Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana & Texas
1957-11-02 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
1957-12-03 - 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB)
1958-08-21 - KUT-FM in Austin Texas begins radio transmissions
1959-02-01 - Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 180

1788-04-14 - David G. Burnet, interim president of the Republic of Texas (d. 1870)
1793-03-02 - Sam[uel] Houston, 1st president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44)
1793-11-03 - Stephen Fuller Austin, colonized Texas
1798-01-20 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (d. 1858)
1815-10-16 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (d. 1905)
1829-09-24 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
1846-07-26 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (d. 1880)
1868-12-22 - John Nance Garner, Texas, (VP-D-1933-41)
1880-08-10 - Robert L. Thornton, American businessman, philanthropist, and Mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1964)
1882-07-10 - Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony
1884-01-12 - Texas Guinan, American actress (d. 1933)
1889-02-17 - H[aroldson] L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire
1890-05-11 - Woodall Rodgers, mayor of Dallas, Texas (d. 1961)
1894-11-29 - Yakima Canutt, [Enos Edward], Colfax WA, actor/dir (Texas Terror)
1895-04-09 - Mance Lipscomb, Texas, blues musician (Texas Sharecropper)
1895-07-21 - Ken Maynard, Texas, cowboy/actor/producer (Bigfoot)
1899-12-21 - Guy Wilkerson, TX, actor (Dead or Alive, West of Texas, Shootin' Iron)
1899-12-22 - Wiley Post, Texas, aviation pioneer
1900-08-11 - Charles William Paddock, Texas, American athlete and 100m record breaker (Olympic-2 gold-1920) (d. 1943)
1901-03-21 - Carmelita Geraghty, Rushville IN, actress (My Best Girl, Texas Ranger)
1903-07-18 - Chill Wills, Seagoville Texas, actor (Fronteir Circus, Rounders)
1903-09-13 - Claudette Colbert, [Lily Chauchoin], Paris, actress (Texas Lady)
1903-10-17 - Irene Ryan, El Paso Texas, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies)
1905-03-23 - Joan Crawford, [Lucille Le Sueur], Texas, actress (Mildred Pierce), (d. 1977)
1906-01-12 - Tex Ritter, Texas, country singer (5 Star Jubilee, Wayward Wind)
1908-10-30 - Stuart Hamblen, Texas, singer/composer (This Old House)
American Outlaw Bonnie Parker (1910-10-01) 1910-10-01 - Bonnie Parker, Rowena, Texas, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), (d. 1934)
1910-10-10 - Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas)
1912-01-11 - Thomas "Schoolboy" Rowe, Waco Texas, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1912-03-08 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
1912-03-15 - Lightnin' [Sam] Hopkins, Texas, blues stylist (Ball of Twine)
1914-03-17 - Sammy Baugh, Texas, NFL hall of famer QB (Wash Redskins)
1914-11-11 - Perry Bass, Texas billionaire
1915-02-21 - Ann Sheridan, Denton Texas, actress (Dodge City, Another World)
1917-02-27 - John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), shot in Kennedy motorcade
1918-04-07 - Ronald Howard, Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style)
1920-07-27 - Beatrice Pearson, Dennison Texas, actress (Moving Finger)
1921-08-19 - Gene Roddenberry, El Paso Texas, executive producer (Star Trek)
1922-12-22 - James C Wright Jr, (Rep-D-Texas), Speaker of House (1987-89)
1923-04-23 - Dolph Briscoe, Governor of Texas
1923-12-25 - Louis Lane, Eagle Pass Texas, conductor (Oere Orch 1968-73)
Blues Singer Lightnin' Hopkins (1912-03-15) 1924-01-11 - Don Cherry, Wichita Texas, singer (Dean Martin Summer Show)
1924-08-30 - Kenny Dorham [McKinley], Fairfield, Texas, jazz trumpeter, (d. 1972)
1925-08-16 - Fess Parker, Fort Worth Texas, actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller)
1927-07-23 - Elliot McKay See Jr, Dallas Texas, astronaut
1927-09-22 - Eligio [Kika] De La Garza, (Rep-D-Texas, 1965- )
1928-08-29 - Thomas Stewart, San Saba Texas, baritone (La Roche Capriccio)
1928-12-10 - Dan Blocker, De Kalb Texas, American actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
1928-12-31 - Amarillo Slim [Thomas Preston], Amarillo Texas, hall of fame professional poker player (1971 World Series main event), (d. 2012)
1929-04-28 - Carolyn Jones, Amarillo Texas, actress (Morticia-Addams Family)
1929-08-12 - Buck Owens, [Alvis Edgar], Sherman Texas, country singer (Hee Haw)
1929-08-22 - Harry McPherson, Tyler, Texas, presidential counsel (Lyndon Johnson) and lobbyist, (d. 2012)
1930-01-05 - Edward Galven Givens Jr, Quanah Texas, Major USAF/astronaut
1930-03-09 - Ornette Coleman, Fort Worth, Texas, American jazz composer (Downbeat Musician of Year 1966)
1930-03-26 - Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- )
1930-06-27 - H Ross Perot, Texas, billionaire/presidental candidate (1992)
Jazz Composer Ornette Coleman (1930-03-09) 1930-09-17 - Edgar Dean Mitchell, Hereford Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Apollo 14)
1930-10-11 - Sam Johnson, (Rep-R-Texas)
1930-11-14 - Edward H White II, San Antonio Texas, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4)
1931-01-31 - Ernie Banks, Dallas Texas, "Mr Cub" Chicago Cubs, Hall-of-Famer (short stop/1st baseman)
1932-01-02 - Dabney Coleman, Austin Texas, (That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill)
1932-03-15 - Alan Lavern Bean, Wheeler Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3)
1932-04-01 - Debbie Reynolds, El Paso Texas, actress (Singin' in the Rain)
1932-05-30 - Pauline Oliveros, Houston Texas, composer (Sound Patterns)
1932-09-29 - Robert Benton, Texas, writer/director (Kramer vs Kramer)
1933-02-27 - Raymond Berry, Texas, NFL hall of famer (Baltimore Colts)
1933-03-09 - William McBeth, Ropesville, Texas, composer, (d. 2012)
1933-04-30 - Willie Nelson, Abbott Texas, country singer (On the Road Again)
1933-11-25 - Kathryn Grant Crosby, Houston Texas, actress (Mr Cory, Big Circus)
1934-06-01 - Peter Masterson, Houston Texas, actor (Ambush Bay)
1934-11-10 - Norm Cash, Eldorado Texas, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers)
Country Singer Willie Nelson (1933-04-30) 1935-08-18 - Rafer Johnson, Hillsboro Texas, decathlete (Olympics-gold-60)
1935-09-19 - Robert Kruger, (Sen-D Texas)
1937-05-09 - Sonny Curtis, Texas, guitarist (Crickets)
1938-04-10 - Don Meredith, Mount Vernon Texas, NFL QB (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football
1938-08-21 - Kenny Rogers, Houston Texas, singer (Through the Years)
1938-10-26 - Charles W Stenholm, (Rep-D-Texas, 1979- )
1938-11-06 - P J Proby, [James Marcus Smith], Houston Texas, American rocker
1939-04-07 - Donald L Holmquest, Dallas Texas, astronaut
1939-05-18 - Glen Hardin, Texas, rocker (Crickets)
1939-05-27 - Don Williams, Floydada Texas, country singer (I Believe in You)
1940-01-04 - Anthony Skooter Teague, Texas, actor (How to Succeed in Business)
1940-05-19 - Frank Lorenzo, airline executive (Continental, Texas Air, Eastern)
1940-07-07 - Richard K Armey, (Rep-R-Texas, 1985- )
1940-07-19 - Vikki Carr [Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)], El Paso Texas, singer (Let it Be Him)
1940-12-29 - Ed Buce, Keiser Ar, country singer (Texas)
Country Singer Kenny Rogers (1938-08-21) 1941-07-03 - Wylie Walker Vale, Houston, Texas, Endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone
1941-10-12 - Craig A Washington, (Rep-D-Texas)
1941-11-01 - Joe Louis Caldwell, Texas City, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941-11-06 - Doug Sahm, San Antonio Texas, country singer (Texas Tornadoes-Dinero)
1942-07-08 - Phil Gramm, (Sen-R Texas, 1985- )
1943-04-29 - Duane Allen, Taylortown Texas, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
1943-07-22 - Kay Bailey Hutchison, U.S. Senator from Texas
1943-10-22 - Bobby Fuller, Texas, rock vocalist/guitarist (Bobby Fuller Four)
1944-03-07 - Townes Van Zandt, Texas, singer/songwriter (Kathleen, Loretta), (d. 1997)
1944-08-15 - Linda Ellerbee, Bryan Texas, newscaster (Weekend, NBC Overnight)
1944-11-26 - Jean Terrell, Texas, rocker (Supremes)
1945-10-02 - Frank Tejeda, (Rep-D-Texas)
1945-10-09 - Jeannie C Riley, Texas, singer (Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw)
1946-04-01 - William Frederick Fisher, Dallas Texas, MD/astronaut (STS 51-I)

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 24 of 24

1919-05-31 - 1st wedding held in an aircraft (over Houston, Texas)
1977-11-05 - 43rd US President George W. Bush (31) weds Laura Welch (31) at The First United Methodist Church in Midland, Texas
1998-11-28 - Actor and martial arts expert Chuck Norris (58) weds former model Gena O'Kelley (30) at The North Church in Carrolton, Texas
1999-05-01 - "Dixie Chicks" singer Emily Erwin (26) weds singer-songwriter Charlie Robison (34) at Lone Star State in Texas
2000-10-14 - Asylum recording artist Bryan White (26) weds actress Erika Page at Royal Lane Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas
2001-06-09 - "Law & Order" actress and model Angie Harmon (28) weds New York Giant NFL player Jason Sehorn (30) at Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas, Texas
2002-02-23 - "Blue" country and pop singer LeAnn Rimes (19) weds backup dancer Dean Sheremet (21) at Perkins Chapel in Dallas, Texas
2002-10-26 - American singer-songwriter and TV personality Jessica Simpson (22) weds singer-songwriter Nick Lachey (28) at Riverbend Church in Austin, Texas
2004-02-27 - Singer-actress Solange Knowles (18) weds Texas Southern University football player Daniel Smith at Old Bahama Bay Resort in Grand Bahama Island
2005-09-26 - Country music singer-songwriter Billy Joe Shaver (66) weds Wanda Lynn Canady in Corsicana, Texas
2006-01-28 - A bright-eyed 18-month-old from Midland, Texas, who fall into abandoned well Jessica McClure (19) weds Daniel Morales (32) in the Greenwood Church of Christ near Midland
Popstar Jessica Simpson (2002-10-26) 2006-11-04 - 1996 summer Olympics gold medalist gymnast Dominique Moceanu (25) weds podiatrist Dr. Michael Canales (29) in Houston, Texas
2006-12-17 - Contemporary Christian and Latin pop singer Jaci Velasquez (27) weds "Salvador" lead singer Nic Gonzalez in Austin, Texas
2007-08-25 - Dallas Stars hockey player Mike Modano (37) weds "Dancing with the Stars" season 3 alumna Willa Ford (26) in Athens, Texas
2007-09-22 - "Desperate Housewives" actor Ricardo Chavira (36) weds longtime girlfriend Marcea Dietzel in San Antonio, Texas
2008-05-10 - President George W. Bush's daughter Jenna Bush (26) weds Henry Hager (30) at the Bush family ranch in Texas
2009-04-17 - World's no. 1 professional tennis player Andy Roddick (29) weds fashion model and actress Brooklyn Decker (25) in Austin, Texas
2010-01-02 - "American Idol" singer Jason Castro (22) weds Mandy Mayhall near Dallas, Texas
2010-05-15 - Actress and model Danneel Harris (33) weds actor Jensen Ackles (34) at the Rosewood Crescent Court Hotel in Dallas, Texas
2010-06-26 - Former WWE Diva Michelle McCool (30) weds fellow wrestler "The Undertaker" Mark Calaway (45) in Houston, Texas
2011-05-14 - Country singer Blake Shelton (34) weds singer Miranda Lambert (27) at Don Strange Ranch in Boerne, Texas
2011-05-28 - Former American beauty queen Candice Crawford (24) weds Dallas Cowboys football quarterback Tony Romo (31) at Arlington Hall in Dallas, Texas
2012-06-09 - Actor Matthew McConaughey (42) weds model Camilla Alves (30) in Austin, Texas
2012-11-03 - Olympic gymnast Carly Patterson (24) weds Mark Caldwell (27) at the Main Street Garden Park in Dallas, Texas

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 29 of 29

1836-03-27 - James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
1836-12-27 - Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state of Texas, dies at 43
1853-08-23 - Alexander Calder, first mayor of Beaumont, Texas (b. 1806)
1858-01-09 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
1863-07-26 - Samuel Houston, 1st Pres of Rep of Texas (1836-38, 41-44), dies at 70
1880-05-04 - Edward Clark, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1880-06-28 - Texas Jack Omohundro, American frontier scout, actor, and cowboy (b. 1846)
1885-10-23 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)
1905-06-22 - Francis Lubbock, Governor of Texas (b. 1815)
1913-05-01 - John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal (b. 1850)
1918-08-01 - John Riley Banister, American cowboy and Texas Ranger (b. 1854)
1933-11-05 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)
1956-10-02 - George Bancroft, actor (Texas, Stagecoach, Little Men), dies at 74
US President John F. Kennedy (1963-11-22) 1963-11-22 - John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States (1961-63), assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas at 46
1966-08-01 - Charles Whitman, former marine, kills 16 at U of Texas, shot by cops
1969-11-28 - Roy Barcroft, actor (Eyes of Texas, Son of Zorro), dies at 67
1973-01-22 - Lyndon B Johnson, president (1963-69), dies at his Texas ranch at 64
1975-09-24 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
1975-11-04 - Sheila Ryan, actress(Song of Texas, Great Guns), dies at 54
1982-12-07 - Charlie Brooks Jr, convicted murderer became 1st US prisoner to be executed by lethal injection, at a prison in Huntsville, Texas
1988-08-25 - Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas), dies at 77
1991-01-19 - Don Beddoe, actor (Bullwhip, Loophole, Texas), dies at 87
1992-04-22 - Billy Wayne White, murderer, executed in Texas at 34
1993-06-15 - John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76
1993-06-16 - John B Connally, gov of Texas/shot with JFK in 1963, dies at 76
2003-10-18 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (b. 1912)
2006-09-01 - Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
2006-09-13 - Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
36th US President Lyndon B Johnson (1973-01-22) 2011-05-29 - Bill Clements, Governor of Texas (b. 1917)