• Home
• Articles
• Dates
• Days
• Today in History
• Topics
• Quiz

Results 1 - 88 of 88

816 - Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies
816 - Pope Leo III
918 - Ethelfleda, Lady of the Mercians
1020 - Lyfing, Archbishop of Canterbury
1036 - Tedald, Bishop of Arezzo
1231 - Antonius van Padua, [Fernando M de Bulhom], Port minister, dies at 35
1418 - Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac, Constable of France (b. 1360)
1435 - John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)
1490 - Adriaan Vilain II of Rassegem, peace of Tours, murdered at about 39
1560 - Imagawa Yoshimoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1519)
1560 - Ii Naomori, Japanese warrior (b. 1506)
1565 - Adrianus Turnebus, French classical scholar (b. 1512)
1567 - Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1490)
1616 - Cornelis F Schuyt, Dutch organist/composer (Madrigalen), dies
1647 - Thomas Farnaby, English grammarian
1675 - Charles Emanuel II, Duke of Savoy (1638-75), dies at 40
1687 - Jurriaen van Streeck, Dutch still life painter, buried
1758 - Augustus William, Prince of Prussia (b. 1722)
1759 - William Collins, English poet (Ode to Simplicity), dies at 37
1761 - Meinrad Spiess, composer, dies at 77
1772 - Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, French explorer (b. 1724)
1778 - Philip Livingston, US merchant (signed Decl of Indep), dies at 62
1788 - Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet, dies at 65
1789 - Jean E Liotard, [Turk], Swiss painter (Maria-Theresia), dies
1816 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (b. 1757)
1818 - Egwale Seyon, Emperor of Ethiopia
1850 - Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77
1853 - John C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist, dies at 60
1858 - Cornelis Smit, Dutch ship builder/ship owner, dies at 74
1858 - William Horsley, composer, dies at 83
1878 - Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer [Head of Jut], dies at 26
1887 - Gustav Weber, composer, dies at 41
1888 - Carel Vosmaer, art historian/poet/editor (Neth Spectator), dies at 62
1904 - Camille de Renesse, Belgian Count (b. 1836)
1912 - Frederic Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901), dies
1917 - Maria Teresa Carreno, composer, dies at 63
1922 - Wolfgang Kapp, German politician (Kapp putsch 1920), dies at 63
1928 - Salvador Diaz Miron, Mexicans poet, dies
1930 - Dyce Willcocks, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of Canadian cricket), dies
1932 - René de Clerq, Flemish poet/writer (Book of Love), dies
1932 - Theodorus Heemskerk, lawyer/Dutch sec of state (1866..88), dies at 79
1936 - Isidore Weiss, French world checker champion, dies
1936 - Karl Kraus, writer, dies at 62
1937 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1893)
1942 - Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36
1946 - Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese fieldmarshal, dies
1947 - Jazeps Medins, composer, dies at 70
1952 - Michael von Faulhaber, Cardinal/archbishop of Munich, dies at 83
1957 - James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, US orchestra leader, dies at 53
1962 - John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82
1963 - Andrew Browne, Irish/British admiral (Cape Matapan, WW II), dies at 80
1963 - Medgar Evers, NAACP official, shot in Jackson Miss at 37
1966 - Hermann Scherchen, German conductor/music publisher, dies at 74
1966 - Thomas Chalmers, actor (Blind Alleys, Outrage), dies at 81
1968 - Fidelio Friedrich Finke, composer, dies at 76
1969 - Alexander Deyneka, Ukrainian painter (b. 1899)
1972 - Edmund Wilson, US writer (To the Finland station), dies at 79
1972 - Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63
1978 - Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (b. 1892)
1980 - Milburn Stone, actor (Doc-Gunsmoke), dies at 75
1980 - Billy Butlin, Founder of the brand of holiday venues known as Butlins (b. 1899)
1982 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1886)
1982 - Sgt Ian McKay VC, British soldier (Falklands War) (b. 1953)
1983 - Norma Shearer, actress (Escape, Romeo & Juliet), dies at 82
1986 - Antoon Breyne, Belgian journalist, dies at 76
1986 - Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66
1988 - Marcel Poot, Belgian baron/composer, dies at 87
1989 - Peter Conrad Baden, composer, dies at 80
1989 - Lou Monte, American singer (b. 1917)
1990 - Terence O'Neil, lord/PM of Ulster (1963-69), dies
1992 - Edward Fleming, Danish director (Lille Spejl), dies
1992 - Gerda Nicolson, actress (Next of Kin, Clinic), dies
1994 - Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher leader (1950-94), dies at 92
1994 - Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of OJ, murdered at 35 (probably by OJ)
1994 - Otto Roesch, paleontologist, dies at 93
1994 - Ron Goldman, waiter, murdered with wife of OJ Simpson at 27
1995 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, pianist, dies at 75
1996 - Ilona Ference, actress (Quatermass II, Star of My Night), dies at 78
1996 - MacKenzie John, pipe major, dies at 83
1997 - Bulat Okudzhava, Russian writer and musician (b. 1924)
2000 - P.L.Deshpande, Marathi writer (b. 1919)
2002 - Bill Blass, American fashion designer (b. 1922)
2003 - Gregory Peck, American actor (b. 1916)
2005 - Scott Young, Canadian sportswriter, novelist, and journalist (b. 1918)
2006 - György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
2006 - Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, Canadian businessman and art collector (b. 1923)
2007 - Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host (b. 1917)
2008 - Derek Tapscott, Welsh footballer (b. 1932)