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May 16th

Holidays and Festivals

La Festa dei Ceri (Italy)Ubald a.k.a. Saint Ubaldo Day (Jessup, Pennsylvania)
Mass Graves Day (Iraq)
Middlesex Day (Middlesex)
National Day (Southern Sudan)
Teachers' Day (Malaysia)
Wear Purple for Peace Day * (see Song of the Day)

Biographer's Day
National Sea Monkey Day
Love a Tree Day
National Sea Monkey Day
Christian Feast Day of Aaron (Coptic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Abda and Abdjesus, and companions
Christian Feast Day of Abdas of Susa
Christian Feast Day of Andrew Bobola
Christian Feast Day of Brendan the Navigator (Roman Catholic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Germerius
Christian Feast Day of Honoratus of Amiens
Christian Feast Day of John of Nepomuk
Christian Feast Day of Peregrine of Auxerre
Christian Feast Day of Simon Stock
Rhododendron Festival May 15-16 Mentone, Alabama (2of2)

Fête de la Civette Translation: Chive Day (French Republican) The 27th day of the Month of Floréal in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"Here's to God's first thought, Man!
Here's to God's second thought, Woman!
Seconds thoughts are always best,
So here's to Woman!"
- Unknown

Drink of The Day

Rickey

2oz bourbon, rye whiskey, or gin
Half of a lime
Sparkling Mineral Water
Pour Spirit in Highball or Wine Glass. Squeeze and drop the lime and shell in the Glass. Add Ice, Stir and then add Sparkling Mineral Water.

Wine of The Day

Trecini Cellars (2008) Vicini Vineyards
Style - Pinot Noir
Russian River Valley
$40

Beer of The Day

Minerva Pale Ale
Brewer - Cerveceria Minerva SA de CV Zapopan, Mexico
Style - English-Style Mild Ale

Joke of The Day

One day, Mom was cleaning junior's room, and in the closet she found a
bondage S+M magazine. This was highly upsetting for her. She hid the
magazine until his father got home and showed it to him. He looked at it
and handed it back to her with out a word.
She finally asked him, " Well what should we do about this?"
Dad looked at her and said, "Well I don't think you should spank him."

Quote of The Day

"I used to be schizophrenic, but we're okay now."
- Anonymous

Whiskey of The Day

Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit Single Barrel Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey

Song of The Day

"Start Wearing Purple"

Gogol Bordello

- In Honor of Wear Purple for Peace Day

May Observances

ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease) Awareness Month
APS (Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome) Awareness Month
American Wetlands Month
Arthritis Awareness Month
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Awareness of Medical Orphans Month
Bicycle Safety Month
Borderline Personality Disorder Month
Brain Tumor Awareness Month
Carrots and Cauliflower Month
Celiac Awareness Month
Clean Air Month
Community Living Month (Ontario, Canada)
Creative Beginnings Month
Date Your Mate Month
EcoDriving Month
Family Wellness Month
Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month
Freedom Shrine Month
Gardening for Wildlife Month
Get Caught Reading Month
Gifts From The Garden Month
Go Fetch! Food Drive for Homeless Animals Month
Good Car-Keeping Month, Natl
Grapefruit and Kiwi Month
Haitian Heritage Month
Heal the Children Month
Healthy Vision Month
High Blood Pressure Education Mont
Huntington's Disease Awareness Month
Internal Audit Awareness Month, Intl
International Audit Month
International Business Image Improvement Month
International Civility Awareness Month
International Multiple Sclerosis Month
International Victorious Woman Month
Jewish-American Heritage Month
Latino Books Month
(World) Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Melanoma and Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
National Allergy and Asthma Awareness Month
National Arthritis Month
National Barbecue Month
National Better Hearing and Speach Month
National Bike Month
National Blood Pressure Month
National Cancer Research Month
National Correct Posture Month
National Egg Month
National Electric Safety Month
National Family Month (5/12 to 6/16)
National Foster Care Month
National Good Car Keeping Month
National Hamburger Month
National Hepatitis Awareness Month
National Inventors Month
National Lupus Awareness Month
National Meditation Month
National Mediterranean Diet Month
National Mental Health Month
National Military Appreciation Month
National Motorcycle Safety Month
National Moving Month
National Neurofibromatosis (NF) Awareness Month
National Older Americans Month
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month
National Photo Month
National Photograph Month
National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
National Physiotherapy Month
National Prepare To Buy a Home Month
National Preservation Month
National Recommitment Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa (Food) Month
National Smile Month
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Sweet Vidalia Onions Month
National Teen Self-Esteem Month
National Tuberous Sclerosis Month
National Vinegar Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son Thursday before the Second Saturday in March through Second Saturday in June
National Youth Traffic Safety Month
Personal History Month
Potatoes and Limes Month
Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month
Preeclampsia Awareness Month
Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Month (5/12-6/16)
REACT Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Sweet Vidalia Month, Natl
Tay-Sachs and Canavan Diseases Awareness Month
Teen CEO Month
Teen Self Esteem Month
Tennis Month
Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month (5/15 - 6/15)
Toxic Encephalopathy and Chemical Injury Awareness Month
Ultra-violet Awareness Month
Women's Health Care Month
Young Achiever Month
Young Achievers of Tomorrow Month

Observances this Week

National Women's Health Week, 7 Days beginning with Mother's Day
Reading Is Fun Week, Second Full Week in May
Universal Family Week, Second Full Week in May
Food Allergy Awareness Week, Second Full Week in May
National Return To Work Week, Second Full Week in May
Salute to Moms 35+ Week, Second Full Week in May
Work At Home Moms Week, Second Full Week of May
National Stuttering Awareness Week, Second Full Week of May

Public Service Recognition Week, Full Week of May 15th
National Police Week, Full Week of May 15th
Arbour Week (Prince Edward Island, Canada),Third Week in May * CLICK HERE
National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week, Third Week in May
American Craft Beer Week, 7 Days Starting the Second Monday in May
World Trade Week, 12 Days Starting Second Monday in May
Children's Book Week, 7 Days Starting Monday of the Second Full Week in May
National Etiquette Week, 7 Days Starting Monday of the Second Full Week in May
National Transportation Week, Full Week of the Third Friday in May
National Safe Boating Week, 7 Days ending the last Friday before Memorial Day

Historical Events on May 16th

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955 Alberich II, (bastard?) son of Octavianus elected pope
1165 Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
1204 Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders is crowned as the first Emperor of the Latin Empire.
1527 The Florentines drive out the Medici for a second time and Florence re-establishes itself as a republic.
1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
1547 Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg
1568 Mary, Queen of Scotland, flees to England
1571 Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
1584 7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal
1605 Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
1606 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
1648 Battle at Zolty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir
1747 Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Neth
1763 Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
1770 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
1771 The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called "The Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
1777 Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.
1792 Denmark abolishes slave trade
1795 Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state
1796 Lombardije Republic forms
1803 Peace of Amiens ends
1804 Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France
1811 Peninsular War The allies Spain, Portugal and Britain, defeat the French at the Battle of Albuera.
1815 The Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie, officially names the town of Blackheath in the upper Blue Mountains.
1817 Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1822 Greek War of Independence: The Turks capture the Greek town of Souli.
1836 Edgar Allan Poe marries his 13-year-old cousin Virginia.
1843 The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
1860 Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
1861 Confederate government offers war volunteers $10 premium
1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
1862 Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile
1863 Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign
1864 Battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13), Atlanta Campaign
1864 Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA
1864 Last battles at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties)
1866 Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer
1866 The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
1866 US Treasury Dept authorizes nickel
1868 Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor," premieres in Prague
1868 President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
1869 Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
1872 Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
1874 A flood on the Mill River in Williamsburg, Massachusetts destroys much of four villages and kills 139 people, 1st recorded dam disaster.
1875 Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
1877 May 16, 1877 political crisis in France.
1879 Antonin Dvorák's "Slavic Dancing," premieres
1879 Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
1881 World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
1882 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40.00
1884 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40.25
1888 CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
1891 George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam
1894 Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
1901 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" (BG)
1902 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3
1903 George Wyman makes 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip across the US, begins at SF
1910 The United States Congress authorizes the creation of the United States Bureau of Mines.
1911 Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
1911 Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf
1914 American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City
1914 Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
1914 The first ever Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup final is played. Brooklyn Field Club defeats Brooklyn Celtic 2-1.
1916 41st Preakness, Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8
1918 The Sedition Act of 1918 is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable offense.
1919 A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.
1920 In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc as a saint.
1920 Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized a saint
1920 Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
1921 47th Preakness, F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2
1922 White Star Line Majestic completes 5½ day maiden voyage
1924 108°F (42°C) in Blitzen Oregon
1925 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
1927 NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
1927 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
1929 1st Academy Awards "Wings," Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins
1929 In Hollywood, California, the first Academy Awards are handed out.
1930 6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2
1931 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8
1932 Yanks 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston
1933 Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
1936 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
1936 62nd Preakness, George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59
1938 1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)
1938 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
1938 In cricket Bradman scores 278 Aust v MCC, 349 mins, 35 fours 1 six
1939 1st AL night game, Phila Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
1939 Food stamps are 1st issued
1940 Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers
1940 Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
1941 1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
1941 Germans made their last major air attack on Britain
1941 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia
1941 Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
1941 Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
1942 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
1943 RAF bombs Möhne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
1943 German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
1943 The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends. Jewish resistance ends after 30 days of fighting
1944 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
1944 Milt police attack gypsies
1945 Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa
1946 Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC
1948 Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion
1948 CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
1948 Chaim Weizmann is elected the first President of Israel.
1948 Egyptians enter the Gaza
1948 George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found
1948 Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
1951 The first regularly scheduled transatlantic flights begin between John F Kennedy International Airport in New York City and Heathrow Airport in London, operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1952 "New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
1953 Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open
1954 Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone
1954 WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo
1955 Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown
1955 Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 in SF for heavyweight boxing title
1956 Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China
1956 Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia
1956 Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
1956 Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey v Australians at the Oval
1957 Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH
1957 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae
1957 US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn
1957 Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
1958 Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex
1958 Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
1959 85th Preakness, William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57
1959 WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
1960 Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris.
1960 Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser, at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
1961 13rd Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck
1963 "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
1963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury
1964 90th Preakness, Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8
1964 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1964 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1965 "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 perfs
1965 Balt Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers
1965 Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam
1965 Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1965 The Campbell Soup Company introduces Spaghetti-Os under its Franco-American brand.
1965 WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, NY (TEL) begins broadcasting
1966 Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released
1966 National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
1966 Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
1966 The Communist Party of China issues the 'May 16 Notice', marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
1967 Phila voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
1968 Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
1969 Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
1969 Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam
1969 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF
1969 Venera 5, a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
1969 Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault
1970 96th Preakness, Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2
1970 Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70
1971 1st class postage now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents)
1971 Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave," premieres in Aldwych
1971 Bulgaria adopts it's constitution
1972 "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 perfs
1972 Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet
1972 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale
1973 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar
1973 AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki
1974 Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor
1974 Josip Broz Tito is re-elected president of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. This time he is elected for life.
1974 USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 India annexes Principality of Sikkim after the mountain state holds a referendum in which the popular vote is in favour of merging with India.
1975 Junko Tabei becomes the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
1976 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens sweep Phila Flyers in 4 games
1976 Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1977 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC
1977 Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1979 FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel
1979 NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M
1980 34th NBA Championship, LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2
1980 Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
1980 Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes
1980 Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks
1981 107th Preakness, Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6
1981 Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
1981 Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
1982 "Barnum" closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
1982 "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 perfs
1982 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4
1982 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1982 Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep
1982 Stanley Cup, NY Islanders sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games
1983 Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel
1983 Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement rebels against the Sudanese government.
1984 Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
1984 Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel
1984 Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minnesota Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game
1984 Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
1984 US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1985 Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
1985 Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
1986 "Top Gun," premieres
1986 Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
1986 Joaquín Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election
1986 South African Pres P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
1986 The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
1987 "Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site
1987 "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 perfs
1987 113th Preakness, Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8
1987 David Crosby weds Jan Dance in LA
1987 Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show
1988 A report by United States' Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
1988 US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
1989 Soviet president Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing
1990 Dominican Republic President Joaquín Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
1990 Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino
1991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
1991 Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
1992 "Smells Like Nirvana," by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35
1992 118th Preakness, Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6
1992 Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock
1992 US Space Shuttle Endeavour (STS-49) lands safely after a successful maiden voyage.
1993 "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
1993 "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 30 perfs
1993 Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
1993 Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head
1993 Laura Davies wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1993 Suleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey
1994 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando FL on WTKS 104.1 FM
1994 Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment
1994 Joaquín Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic
1994 Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana
1995 Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
1996 Sammy Sosa is 1st Chic Cub to hit 2 HRS in 1 inning
1997 Atlanta Braves beat St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings
1997 Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Univ) as Miss USA
1997 Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of US crowned 46th Miss Universe
1997 Expos trailing SF Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13
1997 St Louis Cards Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits
1998 124th Preakness
2003 In Casablanca, Morocco, 33 civilians are killed and more than 100 people are injured in the Casablanca terrorist attacks.
2004 The Day of Mourning at Bykivnia forest, just outside of Kiev, Ukraine. Here during 1930s and early 1940s communist bolsheviks executed over 100,000 Ukrainian civilians.
2005 Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
2006 A large earthquake (7.4 on the Richter scale) occurs near New Zealand
2007 Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is the first Scottish National Party leader to be elected as First Minister after winning a historic victory at the Scottish general election on May 3rd
2011 Space shuttle Endeavour launches for its final commission in space
2013 Bill Gates becomes the world's richest man with $72.7 billion again after losing the position in 2008
2013 Human stem cells are successfully cloned
2013 Pope Francis calls for ethical financial reform to fight speculation
2014 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. & Manchester City F.C. are each fined €60 million for breaching Fair Play Regulations
2015 140th Preakness: Victor Espinoza aboard American Pharoah wins in 1:58.46

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1490 Duke Albert of Prussia (d. 1568)
1558 Andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)
1578 Everard Digby, English conspirator (d. 1606)
1609 Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands
1611 Pope Innocent XI (d. 1689)
1641 Dudley North, financier/economist
1659 Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist
1710 William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)
1718 Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician (d. 1799)
1748 Antonius van Alphen, apostolic vicar of De Bosch
1761 John Opie, artist
1763 Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium) (d. 1829)
1782 John Sell Cotman, water color artist
1788 Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
1801 William H. Seward, 24th United States Secretary of State, 12th Governor of New York, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre (Seward's Folly) (d. 1872)
1804 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten)
1806 George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1879)
1816 Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1886)
1819 Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy) (d. 1898)
1821 Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician (d. 1894)
1822 Eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor
1824 Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army) (d. 1893)
1824 Levi P(arsons) Morton, 22nd United States Vice President (1889-93)(d. 1920)
1827 Petrus J H Cuypers, Dutch architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station) (d. 1921)
1831 David E(dward) Hughes, American musician, inventor (microphone, teleprinter) (d. 1900)
1832 Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)
1845 Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1916)
1850 Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer
1857 Juan Morel Campos, composer
1858 Frank Lynes, composer
1858 Hanus Trnecek, composer
1860 Herman Webster Mudgett, American Serial Killer (d. 1896)
1866 Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)
1878 Taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely)
1880 Julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment)
1887 Bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory)
1887 J van Hoddis, writer
1889 Joan Collette, Dutch (male) painter (New Church, Delft)
1892 Coenraad B van Haeringen, linguist/etymologist (Dutch Dictionary)
1892 Richard Tauber (Ernst Seiffert), Austrian tenor (d. 1948)
1893 Jose Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30)
1893 Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer
1897 Walther Geiser, composer
1898 August de Schrijver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP)
1898 Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (d. 1956)
1898 Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (d. 1980)
1902 Jan Kiepura, Sosnowiec Poland, vocalist/actor (Her Wonderful Lie)
1904 Hugh Plaxton, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1928)
1904 Lily Pons, opera singer/actress (That Girl From Paris)
1905 H(erbert) E(rnest) Bates, novelist (Feast for July, Love for Lydia)
1905 Henry Fonda, American actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond) (d. 1982)
1906 Alfred Pellan, French Canadian painter (d. 1988)
1906 Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuelan writer, minister (Lanzas Coloradas) (d. 2001)
1906 Ernie McCormick, cricketer (Australian quickie of late 30's)
1906 Margret Rey, author and illustrator (d. 1996)
1906 Nicholas Beriozoff, ballet master
1907 Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1932)
1908 Hilary Preston, editor
1908 Mohammed Roem, Indonesian foreign minister (Linggadjati)
1909 Charles Wislon, principal (Glasgow University)
1909 Margaret Sullavan, American actress (Back Street) (d. 1960)
1910 Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (d. 1972)
1910 Olga Berggolts, Russian poet (d. 1975)
1911 Olaff J de Landell, [JB Wemmerslager van Sparwoude], writer
1912 Studs Terkel, American writer (Stud's Place, Working) (d. 2008)
1913 Woody Herman, American musician and band leader (Thundering Herds) (d. 1987)
1914 Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author (d. 2009)
1916 Adriana Caselotti, American actress, cartoon voice (d. 1997)
1916 Bernard Braden, broadcaster/actor (All Night Lone, Full Treatment)
1916 Ephraim Katzir, 4th President of the State of Israel, biophysicist (d. 2009)
1916 Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer
1917 George Gaynes, American actor (Henry-Punky Brewster)
1917 Geraint Jones, conductor/organist
1917 James C. Murray, American politician (d. 1999)
1917 Juan Rulfo, Mexican novelist (Pedro Paramo) (d. 1986)
1918 Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert
1918 Kevin Skelton, Bishop (Lichfield)
1918 Wilf Mannion, English former footballer (d. 2000)
1919 Ramon Margalef, Spanish scientist (d. 2004)
1919 Richard Mason, author
1919 (Wladziu Valentino) Liberace, West Allis Wisconsin, American pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman) (d. 1987)
1920 Dave Philley, Paris, Texas, Major League Baseball switch-hitter (record 9 straight pinch hits), (d. 2012)
1920 Martine Carol (Maryse Mopurer), French actress (Nana) (d. 1967)
1921 Harry Carey, Jr., American actor (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1921 Robert Croften Brown, politician
1922 Colin Cole, Principal King of Arms
1922 Russell Wood, treasurer (Queen Elizabeth)
1923 Merton Miller, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
1923 Peter Underwood, English parapsychologist
1924 Dawda Kairaba Jawara, president (Gambia, 1970-94)
1924 Frank F Mankiewicz, NYC, columnist (Perfectly Clear)
1925 Bobbejaan Schoepen, Belgian entertainer
1926 Jan Zimmer, composer
1926 Ronald Podrow, British peace activist (d. 2004)
1927 John Walford, solicitor
1927 Nílton Santos, Brazilian footballer
1928 Billy Martin, American baseball player (2nd baseman) and coach (NY Yankees, Oakland A's) (d. 1989)
1928 Reginald Askew, dean (King's College London)
1929 Adrienne Cecile Rich, American feminist writer (Diamond Cutters) (d. 2012)
1929 Claude Morin, French Canadian politician
1929 John Conyers, American politician (Rep-D-MI, 1965)
1929 Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer
1930 Betty Carter, American jazz singer (d. 1998)
1930 Desmond Langley, gov (Bermuda)
1930 Don Conicannon, government minister
1930 Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist, composer (Hangman's Songs) (d. 2000)
1931 Denise Filiatrault, French Canadian actress and director
1931 Donald James Martino, Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974)
1931 Hana Brady, Killed during Holocaust (d. 1944)
1931 Jack Dodson, American actor (Howard Sprage-Andy Griffith Show) (d. 1994)
1931 Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., American politician (Sen-R-CT, 1971-88/Gov-D-CT)
1931 Natwar Singh, Indian politician
1931 Peter Levi, poet/writer
1932 Isaac "Redd" Holt, US drummer (Young-Holt Unlimited-In Crowd)
1934 Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1934 Nicholas Goodison, CEO (TSB Group)
1935 James Bolam, English actor
1936 Karl Lehmann, German Catholic cardinal
1936 Philippe de Montebello, Paris, art exhibitionist (Treasures of Tut)
1936 Roy Hudd, English radio and television actor (Blood Beast Terror, Vampire Beast Craves Blood)
1937 James Hunt Jr, (Gov-NC)
1937 Yvonne Craig, American actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin)
1938 Stuart Bell, MP
1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (1900, Last Emperor)
1940 Gareth Roberts, chancellor (Sheffield University)
1941 John McWilliams, MP
1941 Maurice Henry Weddington, composer
1943 Dan Coats, (Rep-R-IN, 1981)
1943 Jon Jost, director (All the Vermeers in NY)
1943 Marko Kravos, Slovenian poet
1944 Billy Cobham, American virtuoso drummer, jazz (Same Ole Love)
1944 Danny Trejo, American actor (Machete)
1945 Alan Flusser, American clothing designer
1945 Brewster H Shaw Jr, Mich, Col USAF/astro (STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28)
1945 James Moran, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1945 Nicky Chinn, English songwriter (Sweet, Suzi Quatro) producer (Chinn & Chapman)
1946 Jessi B Wilson, Mississippi, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1946 Robert Fripp, English guitarist (King Crimson)
1946 Roger Earl, English rock drummer (Savoy Brown, Foghat)
1947 Barbara Lee, US singer (Chiffons, He's So Fine)
1947 Bill Smitrovich, American actor (Crime Story, Miami Vice)
1947 Rosie Barnes, MP
1948 Adrian Legg, English guitarist
1948 Jesper Christensen, Danish actor
1948 Judy Finnegan, English TV presenter (Richard & Judy)
1948 Katia Dandoulaki, Greek actress
1949 Jimmy Hood, MP
1949 Rick Reuschel, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1949 William Sputnik Spooner, rock guitarist (Grateful Dead, Tubes)
1950 Jock Bartley, rocker (Firefall)
1950 Johannes Georg Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel laureate 1987)
1950 Ray Condo, Canadian rockabilly musician (d. 2004)
1951 Christian Lacroix, French fashion designer
1951 Jonathan Richman, American proto-punk icon (Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae)
1952 James Herndon, American media psychologist
1953 David Maclean, British minister of state
1953 Pierce Brosnan, Irish actor (Remington Steele, Golden Eye)
1953 Richard Page, LA California, musician (Mr Mister)
1953 Rick Rhoden, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1954 Janet Maw, actress (Sparrow, King John, Mayor of Casterbridge)
1954 (Dafydd) Rhys Williams, Canadian physician and astronaut (STS 90)
1955 Debra Winger, American actress (Officer & Gentleman)
1955 Hazel O'Connor, English singer, actress (Breaking Glass)
1955 Jack Morris, American baseball player, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1955 Olga Korbut, Belarussian gymnast (Olympic-2 golds-1972)
1957 Joan Benoit Samuelson, Cape Elizabeth ME, marathoner (Oly-gold-1984)
1958 Glenn Gregory, rock vocalist (Heeaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1959 Bob Patterson, Jacksonville FL, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1959 Mare Winningham, American actress (St Elmo's Fire, Turner & Hooch)
1959 Ty Armstrong, Waxahachie TX, Nike golfer (1993 Anheuser-Busch-19th)
1960 Anne Parillaud, Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita, Innocent Blood)
1960 Landon Deireragea, Nauruan politician
1961 Charles Wright, American professional wrestler ("The Godfather")
1961 Kevin Guidry, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos)
1961 Kevin McDonald, Canadian comedian and actor
1961 Nina Arvesen, White Plains NY, actress (Cassandra-Young & Restless)
1962 Gary Crocker, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman)
1963 Jon Coffelt, American artist
1963 Mercedes Echerer, Austrian actress and politician
1964 Boyd Tinsley, American violinist (Dave Matthews Band)
1964 Edit Berces, Hungarian marathon runner
1964 John Salley, American basketball player, NBA (Detroit Pistons)
1965 Brent Jasmer, Portland Oregon, actor (Sly-Bold & Beautiful)
1965 Krist Novoselic, American bassist (Nirvana), author, and activist
1965 Lori Sippel, Stratford Ontario, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1966 Janet Jackson, American singer (Control), Michael Jackson's sister
1966 Scott Reeves, American actor (Ryan-Young & Restless) and singer
1966 Sean Quilty, Australian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 Thurman Thomas, American football player, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1968 Chingmy Yau, Hong Kong actress
1968 Ralph Tresvant, American singer (New Edition)
1969 David Boreanaz, American actor
1969 Marcel Schewe, cricketer (Holland wicket-keeper 1996 World Cup)
1969 Steve Lewis, American athlete
1969 Steven Earl Lewis, LA California, 4X100/400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1969 Tracey Gold, American actress (Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)
1969 Tucker Carlson, American television commentator
1970 Danielle Spencer, Australian singer and actress
1970 Eric Lynch, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1970 Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
1971 Khari Jones, CFL/WLAF quarterback (BC Lions, Scottish Claymores)
1971 Rachel Goswell, English singer and songwriter (Slowdive, Mojave 3)
1972 Christian Califano, French rugby player
1972 Derek Mears, American actor
1972 Keith Burns, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 Khary Payton, American actor
1972 Matthew Hart, cricketer (NZ lefty spinner 1994)
1973 Jason Acuña "Wee-Man", American television personality (Jackass)
1973 Special Ed, American rapper
1973 Tori Spelling, American actress
1974 Conal Groom, Northford Conn, rower (Olympics-1996)
1974 Keith Thibodeaux, cornerback (Washington Redskins)
1974 Laura Pausini, Italian pop singer
1974 Sonny Sandoval, American singer (P.O.D.)
1975 Tony Kakko, Finnish singer (Sonata Arctica)
1975 Tonéx, American singer
1976 Brian Langtry, American lacrosse player
1976 Dirk Nannes, Dutch/Australian cricketer
1977 Dolcenera, Italian singer
1977 Jean-Sébastien Giguère, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 Melanie Lynskey, New Zealand actress
1978 David Ford, English singer/songwriter
1978 Lionel Scaloni, Argentine footballer
1978 Vincent Larusso, Livingston, NJ, actor (Adam-Mighty Ducks, D2, D3)
1979 Evan Ferrante, actor (Owen-Swan's Crossing)
1979 McKenzie Lee, English pornographic actress
1980 Melanie Lofton, American Journalist
1980 Michael Ryan, American ice hockey player
1980 Mikel Alonso, Spanish footballer
1981 Jessica Ponzo, Miss New Jersey Teen USA (1996)
1981 Jim Sturgess, English actor
1982 Billy Crawford, Filipino-American Singer/Musician
1982 Hanna Mariën, Belgian athlete
1982 Joo Ji Hoon, Korean actor and model
1982 Lukasz Kubot, Polish tennis player
1983 Daniel Kerr, Australian football player (AFL)
1983 Kyle Wellwood, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 Mince Fratelli, Scottish Drummer (The Fratellis)
1983 Nancy Ajram, Lebanese singer
1984 Jensen Lewis, American baseball player
1984 Mickie Knuckles, American female professional wrestler
1985 Anja Mittag, German footballer
1985 Corey Perry, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 Okura Tadayoshi, Japanese singer (Kanjani Eight)
1985 Stanislav Ianevski, Bulgarian actor
1986 Andy Keogh, Irish footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers)
1986 Megan Fox, American actress (Transformers) and model
1990 Thomas Sangster, British actor
1991 Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgarian tennis player
1998 Ariel Waller, Canadian child actress

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583 Saint Brendan, Irish navigator (b. 484)
942 Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura
1265 Saint Simon Stock, English saint (b. 1165)
1434 Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder
1569 Dirk Willems, Anabaptist Martyr
1620 William Adams, English navigator (b. 1564)
1657 Andrzej Bobola, Polish Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1667 Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)
1669 Pietro da Cortona (Berrettini), Italian architect (b. 1596)
1669 Reyer Anslo, writer/poet
1691 Jacob Leisler, American colonist, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason (b. 1640)
1703 Charles Perrault, French author and fairy tale writer (b. 1628)
1754 Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer
1762 Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer
1768 Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor
1777 Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
1778 Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)
1782 Daniel Charles Solander, Swedish botanist (b. 1736)
1790 Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)
1805 Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer
1819 Alexander van Bylandt, military
1829 William Congreve, English officer
1830 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French scientist , mathematician (b. 1768)
1835 Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer
1847 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer
1862 Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet
1863 Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1864 Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered
1880 Karl August Krebs, composer
1882 Reuben Chapman, American lawyer and politician (b. 1799)
1891 Ion Bratianu, Romanian statesman (b. 1821)
1892 John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas)
1892 Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter
1903 Eduard Rappoldi, composer
1904 N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland
1910 Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter
1913 Louis Perrier, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1849)
1918 Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan
1920 Levi P. Morton, 22nd United States Vice President under Benjamin Harrision (b. 1824)
1926 Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last Ottoman Sultan (b. 1861)
1928 Edmund William Grosse, poet/author
1929 Lilli Lehmann, soprano
1932 Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
1932 William Pember Reeves, politician/poet
1938 Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach
1942 Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist
1943 Alfred Hoche, German psychiatrist (b. 1865)
1944 George Ade, American author (Counsel Widow) (b. 1866)
1944 Leone Sinigaglia, composer
1944 Max Brand (Frederick Schiller Faust), western author
1947 Frederick Hopkins, English biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1861)
1949 William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver
1952 Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for Eng v South Africa 1892)
1953 Django Reinhardt, Belgian musician (b. 1910)
1954 Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera) (b. 1893)
1954 Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally
1955 James Agee, American writer (Death in Family) (b. 1909)
1956 H. B. Reese, American confectioner, founder of Reeses (b. 1876)
1957 Eliot Ness, American federal agent (b. 1903)
1958 Jeroom Verten (Jozef F Vermetten), Flemish playwright
1959 Elisha Scott, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1894)
1959 Joe Cook, Stage comedian
1961 George A. Malcolm, American jurist & educator (b. 1881)
1966 Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home
1969 Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice)
1969 Robert R., American teenager, first confirmed death from AIDS in North America (b. 1954)
1972 Maxime Dumoulin, composer
1975 Al Helfer, American radio sportscaster (b. 1911)
1975 Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder
1979 A(sa) Philip Randolph, American civil rights activist and labor union leader (b. 1889)
1981 Ernie Freeman, American pianist and arranger (b. 1922)
1983 Carel Brons, composer
1984 Andy Kaufman, American comedian (Latka-Taxi), allegedly ;) (b. 1949)
1984 Irwin Shaw, American author (Rich Man, Poor Man) (b. 1913)
1985 Margaret Hamilton, American actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz) (b. 1902)
1988 Charles Keeping, English illustrator (b. 1924)
1988 Kay Baxter, best bodybuilder in the world (1983-85), dies in car crash
1988 Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72)
1989 Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered
1990 Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brandos boyfriend killed by brother Christian
1990 Jim Henson, American puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show) (b. 1936)
1990 Sammy Davis, Jr., American entertainer (Golden Boy) (b. 1925)
1991 Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer
1992 Chalino Sanchez, Mexican musician (b, 1960)
1992 Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages)
1993 Marv Johnson, American R&B and soul singer (You Got What it Takes) (b. 1938)
1994 Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel)
1994 Barbara Jean Jones, fictional character on General Hospital
1994 Phani Majumdar, film director
1994 Vasek Simek, Czech/US actor (Green Card, Mistress)
1995 Lola Flores, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona)
1995 Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian
1996 Edward McInnes, German scholar
1996 Jeremy Michael Boorda, American admiral, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), commits suicide (b. 1939)
1996 Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent
1997 Elbridge Durbrow, American diplomat (b. 1903)
2000 Bodacious the Bull Famous rodeo bull (b. 1988)
2001 Brian Pendleton, English musician (The Pretty Things) (b. 1944)
2002 Alec Campbell, the last surviving ANZAC (b. 1899)
2002 Big Dick Dudley, American professional wrestler (b. 1968)
2003 Mark McCormack, American businessman (b. 1930)
2008 David Mitton, British television director (b. 1939)
2010 Hank Jones, American jazz pianist (b. 1918)
2010 Ronnie James Dio, American heavy metal vocalist (b. 1942)
2011 Bill Skiles, American comic (b. 1931)
2011 Bob Davis, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
2011 Edward Hardwicke, English actor (b. 1932)
2012 James Abdnor, American senator
2013 Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and Nobel Laureate
2013 Dick Trickle, American race car driver, commits suicide by gunshot
2013 Bernard Waber, American children's book author
2015 Dean Potter, American free climber and BASE jumper, dies in a BASE jumping accident at Yosemite National Park
2016 Julia Meade, actress/TV hostess (Spotlight Playhouse)

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