Today in History for Year 1975

Months in Year 1975: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 665

Jan 1st - Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime
Jan 1st - International Women's Year begins
Jan 1st - Sweden adopts constitution
Jan 2nd - US Dept of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species
Jan 4th - "Good News" closes at St James Theater NYC after 16 performances
Jan 4th - "Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 120 performances
Jan 4th - "Over Here" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 341 performances
Jan 4th - Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828)
Jan 4th - Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
Jan 4th - Montreal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
Jan 5th - "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances
Jan 5th - Charlie Smalls' "Wiz," premieres in NYC
Jan 5th - Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
Jan 5th - 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks
Jan 6th - "AM America," premieres on ABC-TV with Bill Beutel as host
Jan 6th - "Wheel Of Fortune," debuts on NBC-tv
Jan 6th - 1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting overnight inside the lobby of the Boston Garden for tickets to the group's February 4th gig to go on sale, cause a riot and an esimated $30,000 damage
Jan 7th - "Shenandoah" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 1050 performances
Jan 7th - Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to AR Ammons (Sphere)
Jan 7th - Gary Geld & Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah," premieres in NYC
Jan 7th - Led Zeppelin fans riot before Boston concert, causing $30,000 damage
Jan 8th - Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach & Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison
Jan 9th - 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike
Jan 9th - Australia beat England by 171 runs in 4th Test to regain Ashes
Jan 11th - Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
Jan 12th - Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates
Jan 12th - Superbowl IX: Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, RB
Jan 14th - Anita Wold (Norway) sets women's ski jump distance record-98 m
Jan 14th - USSR breaks trade agreement with US
Jan 15th - Portugal signs accord for Angola's independence
Jan 15th - Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
Jan 18th - "Jeffersons" spinoff from "All in the Family" premieres on CBS
Jan 19th - 4 mail truck assault on El Al B-747 in Paris, escape to Iraq
Jan 19th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Colgate Golf Triple Crown
Jan 19th - Triple J begins broadcasting in Sydney, Australia.
Jan 20th - 5th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-10
Jan 20th - Terrence McNally's "Ritz," premieres in NYC
Jan 21st - 28th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 7-1 at Montreal
Jan 22nd - Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
Jan 23rd - "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
Jan 23rd - Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
Jan 24th - "Hot l Baltimore" situation comedy premieres on ABC TV
Jan 24th - Fastest Earth-bound object, 7200 kph, in vacuum centrifuge, England
Jan 25th - 10th hat trick in Islander history-Denis Potvin's 1st
Jan 25th - Parliament disposes of premier sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
Jan 26th - Edward Albee's "Seascape," premieres in NYC
Jan 28th - 8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio
Jan 29th - "Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater NYC for 5 performances
Jan 29th - 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King
Jan 29th - W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
Musician Barry Manilow Jan 31st - Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold
Jan 31st - John Lennon releases "#9 Dream"
Jan 31st - UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
Feb 1st - "Hoppy, Gene & Me" by Roy Rogers peaks at #65
Feb 1st - "Men on the Moon" closes at Little Theater NYC after 5 performances
Feb 1st - 1st successful Wash Cap penalty shot, Ken Lockett vs Vancouver Canucks
Feb 1st - Lorne Henning scores on 3rd Islander penalty shot
Feb 1st - Otis Francis Tabler is 1st open homosexual to get security clearance to work for the Defense Department
Feb 2nd - Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia
Feb 2nd - Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
Feb 2nd - US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
Feb 2nd - US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
Feb 3rd - Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
Feb 4th - Haicheng earthquake, M 7.3, occurred in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
Feb 6th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Rocker/Beatle John Lennon Feb 7th - NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak
Feb 8th - 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea
Feb 8th - Caps only got one shot in a period against Islanders
Feb 9th - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
Feb 9th - Soyuz 17 returns to Earth
Feb 10th - William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
Feb 11th - Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
Feb 13th - Cyprus premier Denktash procliams Turkish-Cypriot Federation
Feb 14th - Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
Feb 16th - Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating KC Scouts 3-0
Feb 18th - 2nd American Music Award:
Feb 18th - Italy broadens abortion law
Feb 20th - Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan Lahore
Feb 20th - Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party
Feb 20th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Feb 21st - John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album
Feb 21st - John Mitchell, HR Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 yrs
Feb 23rd - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
Feb 23rd - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
Feb 25th - Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured
Feb 26th - "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 perfs
Feb 26th - 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
Feb 27th - CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin
Feb 27th - House of Reps pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill
Feb 28th - 41 killed in London Underground, as train speeds past final stop
Feb 28th - EG signs accord of Lome with 46 developing countries
Feb 28th - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Feb 28th - A major tube train crash at Moorgate station, London kills 43 people.
Mar 1st - 17th Grammy Awards: I Honestly Love You, Marvin Hamlisch win
Mar 1st - Eagles' "Best of My Love" reaches #1
Mar 1st - Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
Mar 3rd - "Goodtime Charley" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 104 performances
Mar 3rd - Linda McCartney is charged in US with possession of marijuana
Mar 6th - Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
Mar 7th - Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 915

Jan 1st - Becky Kellar, ice hockey defenseman (Canada, Oly-98)
Jan 1st - Chris Anstey, NBA center (Dallas Mavericks)
Jan 1st - Eiichiro Oda, Japanese Manga artist
Jan 1st - Sonali Bendre, Indian model and actress
Jan 1st - Joe Cannon, American soccer player
Jan 2nd - Chris Cheney, Australian musician (The Living End)
Jan 2nd - Doug Robb, American singer (Hoobastank)
Jan 2nd - Dax Shepard, American actor
Jan 2nd - Reuben Thorne, New Zealand rugby union player
Jan 3rd - Danica McKellar, actress (Winnie Cooper-Wonder Years) [or Mar 3]
Jan 3rd - Jason Marsden, actor (General Hospital, Eddie-Munsters Today)
Jan 3rd - Thomas Bangalter, French DJ (Daft Punk)
Jan 5th - Ray Morgan, announcer (I'd Like to See)
Jan 5th - Warrick Dunn, running back (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
Jan 5th - Kylie Bax, New Zealand model
Jan 5th - Bradley Cooper, American actor
Jan 6th - James Farrior, linebacker (NY Jets)
Jan 6th - Laura Berg, Whittier CA, softball outfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
Jan 6th - Yukana, Japanese seiyū
Jan 6th - Jason King, English radio DJ (Radio 1)
Jan 7th - Robert Norman Waddell, Cambridge NZ, Single scull rower (Olympics-96)
Jan 8th - Vitali Yachmenev, Chelyabinsk Russia, NHL right wing (LA Kings)
Jan 8th - DJ Clue, American DJ and producer
Jan 8th - Harris Jayaraj, Indian music composer
Jan 9th - Justin Huish, Fountain Valley CA, archer (Olympics-gold-1996)
Jan 9th - Mariano Friedick, Tarzana California, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
Jan 9th - Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player
Jan 9th - Kimberley Ann Scott Mathers, former wife of Eminem
Jan 10th - Shannon Kavanaugh, Boston Mass, rocker (Ivory Soul)
Jan 10th - Jake Delhomme, American football player
Jan 11th - Brad Badger, guard (Washington Redskins)
Jan 11th - Jacky Verbeek, Dutch soccer player (RKC)
Jan 11th - Rory Fitzpatrick, Rochester, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
Jan 12th - Chase Hampton, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, rocker (Party-Rodeo, That's Why)
Jan 12th - Jocelyn Thibault, Montreal, NHL goalie (Montreal Canadiens)
Jan 12th - Jason Freese, American musician
Jan 13th - Angela Holbeck, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
Jan 14th - Marcel Koning, soccer player (FC The Hague/NEC)
Jan 15th - Greg Loveridge, cricketer (NZ leg-spinner, did not bowl v Zim 1996)
Jan 15th - Mary Pierce, Montreal Canada, tennis star (1995 Australian Open)
Jan 15th - Edith Bowman, Scottish television and radio presenter
Jan 16th - Greg Strause, American visual effects creator
Jan 16th - Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
Jan 17th - Tom Jenkinson, English musician (Squarepusher)
Jan 17th - Freddy Rodriguez, Puerto Rican-American actor
Jan 17th - Rami Yacoub, Swedish songwriter/producer
Jan 18th - Derek Smith, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
Jan 19th - Natalie Harvey, Australian 3k/5k runner (Olympics-96)
Jan 19th - Noah Georgeson, American Musician and Producer
Jan 20th - David Eckstein, American baseball player
Jan 20th - Norberto Fontana, Argentine racing driver
Jan 21st - Anette Oldenborg, Miss Universe-Denmark (1996)
Jan 21st - Faghma Absalom, Miss Universe-Namibia (1996)
Jan 21st - Willem Korsten, Dutch soccer player (Vitesse)
Jan 21st - Ito, Spanish footballer
Jan 21st - Nicky Butt, English footballer
Jan 21st - Casey FitzRandolph, American speed skater
Jan 21st - Yuji Ide, Japanese racing driver
Jan 22nd - Lee Maxwell Francis Vertongen, Palmerston North NZ, cyclist (Oly-96)
Jan 22nd - Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
Jan 23rd - Kevin Alexander, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
Jan 23rd - Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter
Jan 24th - Danielle Connors, Miss Virginia USA (1996)
Jan 24th - Rónald Gómez, Costa Rican footballer
Jan 25th - John Piersma, US, 200m/400m freestyle swimmer (Olympics-4th-96)
Jan 25th - Dat Phan, Vietnamese stand-up comedian
Jan 25th - Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
Jan 25th - Tim Montgomery, American athlete
Jan 27th - Chaminda Vaas, brilliant Sri Lankan cricket pace bowler (1994- )
Jan 28th - Anne Montminy, Montreal Quebec, 10m diver (Olympics-17-92, 96)
Jan 28th - Julian Dean, Waihi NZ, team pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
Jan 28th - David Zingler, American writer
Jan 28th - Lee Latchford-Evans, English singer
Jan 28th - Junior Spivey, American baseball player
Jan 28th - Terri Colombino, American Actress
Jan 29th - Hendrik Dreekmann, Germany, tennis star
Jan 29th - Kelly Packard, Glendale CA, actress (Tiffani Smith-California Dreams)
Jan 29th - Lorraine Magwenzi, Miss Zimbabwe Universe (1997)
Jan 29th - Maarten Kerkhof, soccer player (Vitesse, De Graafschap)
Jan 29th - Sara Gilbert, Santa Monica California, actress (Melissa-Roseanne)
Jan 30th - Juninho Pernambucano, Brazilian footballer
Jan 30th - Yumi Yoshimura, Japanese singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
Jan 31st - Kenard Lang, defensive end (Washington Redskins)
Jan 31st - Jackie O, Australian radio host
Jan 31st - Preity Zinta, Indian actress
Feb 1st - Martijn Reuser, Dutch soccer player (Ajax)
Feb 1st - Big Boi, American musician (Outkast)
Feb 2nd - Macey Brooks, wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
Feb 2nd - Todd Bertuzzi, Sudbury, NHL right wing (NY Islanders)
Feb 2nd - Ieroklis Stoltidis, Greek footballer
Feb 2nd - Vaggelis Koutsoures, Greek footballer
Feb 4th - Elana Eve Chomiszak, Providence RI, Miss America-Rhode Island (1997)
Feb 4th - Miriam Ruppert, Miss Universe-Germany (1996)
Feb 4th - Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
Feb 5th - Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
Feb 5th - Jan l'Ami, Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
Feb 5th - Adam Carson, American musician (AFI)
Feb 6th - Chad Allen, Dallas Tx, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
Feb 6th - Leo Insam, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
Feb 6th - Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 8 of 8

Jun 7th - Academy Award-winning director Ron Howard (21) weds Cheryl Alley (21) at Magnolia Park United Methodist Church in Burbank, California
Jun 30th - Cher, just 4 days after divorcing Sonny Bono marries Gregg Allman
Jul 4th - Fictional wedding date of Coneheads
Aug 5th - Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry (25) weds Elissa Jerret
Oct 10th - Liz Taylor's 6th marriage (re-marries Richard Burton)
Oct 11th - Bill Clinton weds Hillary Rodham
Oct 17th - Bee Gees Maurice Gibb weds Yvonne Spencely
Dec 6th - US Senator Bob Dole (52) weds former senator Elizabeth Hanford (39)

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 3 of 3

Jun 26th - Cher divorces Sonny Bono
Jul 10th - Cher files for divorce from Gregg Allman, 10 days after they married
Jul 17th - Ringo Starr & Maureen Cox divorce

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 321

Jan 1st - Arthur Pierson, actor/director (Hat Check Girl), dies at 73
Jan 3rd - Milton J Cross, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions), dies at 87
Jan 3rd - Robert Neumann, Austrian/British author (False Flag), dies at 77
Jan 3rd - Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor, dies at 71
Jan 4th - Carlo Levi, Italian writer (Parole Sono Pietre), dies at 72
Jan 5th - Don Wilson, pitcher (Astro), dies at 29 of carbon monoxide poisoning
Jan 6th - Noel Madison, actor (Jitterbugs, Black Raven), dies at 77
Jan 8th - Anthony Warde, actor (Big Punch, Buck Rogers), dies at 66
Jan 8th - Gertrude Olmsted, actress (Cobra, Torrent), dies at 70
Jan 8th - John Dierkes, actor (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 69
Jan 8th - John Gregson, actor (Rooney, Assassin), dies at 55
Jan 8th - Louis J H C A de Bourbon, Dutch writer/poet (Gypsy Blood), dies at 66
Jan 8th - Richard Tucker, [Reuben Ticker], US tenor (La Gioconda), dies at 61
Jan 9th - John Slater, actor (Deadlock, 3 on a Spree), dies at 58
Jan 9th - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur Vincent), dies at 77
Jan 9th - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
Jan 11th - Max Lorenz, German heldentenor famous for Wagner roles (b. 1901)
Jan 12th - Caryn Campbell, Bundy victim, disappears from Snowmass, Colo
Jan 18th - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (b. 1897)
Jan 19th - Thomas Hart Benton, American painter dies at 85 (b. 1889)
Jan 20th - Franz Andre, Belgian conductor, dies at 81
Jan 21st - Marie Lohr, actress (Pygmalion, Small Hotel, Escapade), dies at 84
Jan 22nd - Klaas Voskuil, Dutch journalist, dies at 79
Jan 22nd - Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
Jan 23rd - Karel Paul van der Mandele, director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94
Jan 24th - Larry Fine, actor (3 Stooges), dies at 72
Jan 25th - Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (The Power of Women), dies at 78
Jan 25th - Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician, mayor of Ottawa (b. 1896)
Jan 26th - Lubov Orlova, actress (Moscow Laughs, Man of Music, Tanya), dies at 72
Jan 27th - Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
Jan 28th - Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
Jan 30th - Boris Blacher, German composer (Purloined Letter), dies at 72
Feb 1st - Richard Wattis, actor (Dick & Duchess, Liberace), dies at 62
Feb 3rd - John Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing), dies at 55
Feb 3rd - Robert Evett, composer, dies at 52
Feb 3rd - William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (b. 1873)
Feb 3rd - Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)
Musician Louis Jordan (Feb 4th) Feb 4th - Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
Feb 4th - Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
Feb 7th - Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54
Feb 8th - Martyn Green, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Mikado), dies at 75
Feb 8th - Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
Feb 9th - Constant Burniaux, Belgian art historian (L'amour Vivre), dies at 82
Feb 10th - Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
Feb 11th - Richard Ratsimandrava, Malagasy soldier and statesman, assassinated (b. 1931)
Feb 13th - Dagmar Godowsky, actress (Common Law, Red Lights), dies at 78
Feb 13th - Eric Harding Thiman, composer, dies at 74
Feb 13th - Henry P Van Dusen, US protestant theologist, dies at 77
Feb 14th - Heintje Davids, [Hendrika David], Dutch cabaret artist, dies at 87
Feb 14th - Julian S Huxley, English scholar/dir-gen (UNESCO), dies at 87
Feb 14th - Pelham G Wodehouse, English/US writer (Piccadilly Jim), dies at 93
Feb 15th - Julian Huxley, biologist, dies
Feb 15th - Pelham G Wodehouse, writer, dies
Feb 16th - Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b. 1903)
Feb 16th - Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (b. 1927)
Feb 18th - Chivu Stoica, [Stoica Chivu), premier of Romania (1955-61), dies at 66
Feb 18th - Luigi Dallapiccola, composer, dies
Feb 18th - Raymond Moley, US advisor to pres Roosevelt "Brain Trust", dies at 88
Feb 18th - Syed Nazir Ali, cricketer (2 Tests for India, 4 wickets), dies
Feb 19th - Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian 12-tone composer, dies at 71
Feb 20th - Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76
Feb 20th - Lillian Fontaine, actress (Suddenly it's Spring), dies at 88
Feb 20th - Robert Strauss, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey), dies at 61
Feb 24th - Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79
Feb 25th - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, dies in Chicago at 78
Feb 27th - Neville Cardus, writer/cricketer, dies
Feb 28th - Istvan Kardos, composer, dies at 83
Mar 2nd - Jean Kurt Forest, composer, dies at 65
Mar 2nd - Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Kenyan politician (b.1929)
Mar 7th - Ben Blue, actor (Accidental Family, Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 73
Mar 7th - Francine Larrimore, actress (John Meade's Woman), dies at 76
Mar 7th - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
Mar 7th - Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b. 1901)
Mar 8th - George Stevens, US director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70
Mar 9th - Joseph Dunninger, NYC, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger), dies at 82
Mar 9th - Shirley Ross, actress (Night Vision, Mindkiller), dies at 62
Mar 9th - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888)
Mar 10th - Leopold Samuel, composer, dies at 91
Mar 11th - Philip Bezanson, composer, dies at 59
Mar 11th - Sammy Spear, orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65
Mar 11th - Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74
Mar 13th - Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier, dies at 71
Mar 13th - Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961), dies at 82
Mar 13th - Jean Del Val, actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces), dies at 83
Mar 13th - Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor, dies at 75
Mar 14th - Susan Hayward, actress (Young & Willing), dies at 56
Mar 15th - Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler/sportscaster, dies at 49
Mar 15th - Aristotle S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, dies at 69
Mar 16th - T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), dies at 64
Mar 16th - Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936)
Mar 18th - Alain Grandbois, Quebec poet (b. 1900)
Mar 19th - John A DeMott, dies at 63
Mar 21st - Berend Giltay, composer, dies at 64
Mar 21st - Ralph Hawtrey, economist (multiplier), dies at 95
Mar 21st - Joe Medwick, baseball player (b. 1911)
Mar 22nd - Asa Smith Bushnell Jr, Sec of US Olympics (1945-65), dies at 75
Mar 22nd - Cass Daley, actress (Red Garters), dies at 59
Mar 22nd - Paul Verhoeven, German director dies at 73
Mar 24th - Muriel Hutchinson, actor (Another Thin Man), dies at 60
Mar 24th - Oscar Rasbach, composer, dies at 86