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Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1358 Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305) 1826 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787) 1927 Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered 1928 Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered 1935 Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies 2002 Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
uwe Send message Joined: 31 Aug 99 Posts: 124 Credit: 177,257 RAC: 0 |
1809 Thomas Paine (b.January 29, 1737 ) |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1583 Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1908 Jose FdT Coelho, Portuguese writer (Os meus amores), dies at 46 1947 Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, president of Poland (1939-40), dies at 62 1976 Sybil Thorndike, actress (Melba, Major Barbara), dies at 93 2006 Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946) 2007 Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate (b. 1981) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1727 George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/king of England, dies at 67 1946 Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead at 20 1994 Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates, dies at 64 1995 Masaya Hanai, businessamn, dies at 82 1996 Hugh Burnton Mitchell, US senator, dies at 89 2000 Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1467 Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 70 1907 William Le Baron Jenney, US architect, dies 1917 Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist (b. 1867) 1969 Georges Pompidou, president of France, dies 1994 Nadia Gray, actress (La Dolce Vita, Naked Summer), dies at 70 2006 Herb Pearson, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1910) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1733 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672) 1801 Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer, dies at 58 1926 Viktor Vasnetsov, Russian painter (b. 1848) 1973 Fay Holden, actress (Mother-Andy Hardy films), dies at 77 1995 Jonas Salk, biologist (Polio vaccine), dies of heart failure 2006 Luke Graham, American wrestler (b. 1940) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
803 Matthew Thornton, Irish/US physician/signer (Decl of Ind), dies at 88 1882 Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine), dies at 60 1922 Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54 1938 "Digger" Robertson, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885), dies 1977 André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (b. 1943) 2005 Hakham Yedidia Shofet, Former chief rabbi of Iran (b. 1908) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Uli Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 |
Matthew, I think your first entry is a serious typo. I think you are missing at least a thousand years. Pluto will always be a planet to me. Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
Thanks for the heads up!! It has been corrected :o) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1253 Thibaud IV, poet/count of Champagne/King of Navarra, dies 1689 Edward Wooster, English Connecticut pioneer (b. 1622) 1826 Luther Martin, American statesman (b. 1748) 1870 John D Zocher Jr, architect (Soestdijk Palace), dies at 79 1995 Elizabeth Adams, madam, dies at 65 2001 John O'Shea, New Zealand film director (b. 1920) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
521 Magnus Felix Ennodius, bishop and Latin poet (b. 474) 1918 Trupp, lackey of tsar Nicolas II, shot to death 1918 Aleksei N Romanov, son of tsar Nicolas II, executed at 13 1967 Gertrude McCoy, silent screen actress (Blue Bird), dies at 77 1974 Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean, pitcher (St Louis Cards), dies at 63 1975 Modoc, the elephant, dies at age 78 LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1457 Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50 1557 Olaus Magnus, Swedish writer (b. 1490) 1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies 1977 Francis Gary Powers, US U-2 pilot, dies at 47 1995 Loudi Nijhoff, Dutch actress (Alicia, Van Geluk Gesproken), dies 1996 John Lanigan, tenor, dies at 75 LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1627 Jacques Mauduit, composer, dies at 69 1772 Alessandro Felici, composer, dies at 29 1957 Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, Norwegian meteorologist and oceanographer (b. 1888) 1964 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies 1970 Timothy Mather Spelman, composer, dies at 79 1991 Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect, dies LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1656 Johan Georg I, ruler of Saxon (1611-56, Peace of Prague), dies at 71 1936 Red Ames, American baseball player (b. 1882) 1970 Jean Giono, French writer (Hussard Sur le Toit), dies at 75 1978 Tibor Serly, Hungarian violist/composer (American Elegy), dies at 76 1983 Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49 1996 Harold Watkins Shaw, musicologist, dies at 85 LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1610 Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548) 1941 Pavel Filonov, Russian painter (b. 1883) 1981 Walter Knott, American farmer (b. 1889) 1994 Giorgi Chanturia, Pres of Georgia, assassinated 1994 Dolf Verspoor, literary/translator (M Nijhoff prize 1958), dies at 77 2004 Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese mathematician (b. 1911) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1167 - Robert of Melun, English philosopher/bishop of Hereford, dies 1656 - Johan van Heemskerk, Dutch lawyer/writer/interpreter, dies 1659 - Henry Dunster, first President of Harvard College (b. 1609) 1699 - Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton, English politician (b. c. 1625) 1706 - John Evelyn, diarist, dies 1720 - Samuel Parris, English-born Puritan minister (b. 1653) 1731 - Angelo Predieri, composer, dies at 76 1733 - Johann Adam Birkenstock, composer, dies at 46 1735 - John Arbuthnot, physician/mathematician, dies 1779 - Jan Nepveu, Dutch gov-gen of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59 1797 - Benvenuto Robbio San Rafaele, composer, dies at 61 1805 - Stefan Paluselli, composer, dies at 57 1844 - Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85 1852 - Joseph Drechsler, composer, dies at 69 1862 - Gabriele dell' Addolorata, patron of Ital Catholic youth, dies at 23 1881 - George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46 1887 - Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53 1892 - Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker (b. 1821) 1913 - Adam Sedgwick, English zoologist (Peripatus), dies at 58 1920 - Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72 1921 - Schofield Haigh, cricketer (Eng all-rounder 11 Tests 1898-1912), dies 1923 - Charles Francis Abdy Williams, composer, dies at 67 1929 - Manuel Manrique de Lara y Berry, composer, dies at 65 1932 - William Southam, Canadian newspaper publisher (b. 1843) 1936 - Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86 1936 - Joshua W. Alexander, U.S. Secretary of Commerce under Woodrow Wilson (b. 1852) 1939 - Nadezjda K Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70 1940 - Peter Behrens, German architect, dies 1941 - William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895) 1942 - Karel WFM Doorman, Dutch rear-admiral (Java Sea), KIA at 52 1943 - Kostis Palamas, Greek poet, twice nominated for the Nobel prize (b. 1859) 1945 - HJ Lochtman, Dutch chaplain/resistance fighter, dies in Bergen-Belsen 1947 - Mackinnon of Mackinnon, cricketer (Tests Eng v Aust 1879), dies at 89 1950 - Ivan Goll, writer, dies at 58 1952 - Theodorus Pangalos, Greek general/dictator 1926, dies at 74 1955 - Tom Howard, comedian (It Pays to be Ignorant), dies at 66 1956 - Frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54 1956 - Gunther Ramin, German organist/composer/choir conductor, dies at 57 1958 - Harry Cohn, CEO (Columbia Pictures), dies of a heart attack 1960 - Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58 1961 - Platt Adams, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1912), dies 1962 - Willie Best, actor (Charlie-My Little Margie), dies at 45 1964 - Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897) 1966 - Minerva Urecal, actress (Apache Rose, Ghost Crazy), dies at 81 1968 - Johannes Tralow, writer, dies at 85 1968 - Ludvik Podest, composer, dies at 46 1969 - John Boles, actor (Stella Dallas, Curly Top), dies at 73 1969 - Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist (b. 1883) 1970 - Robert Bruce Lockhart, diplomat/writer, dies 1970 - Marie Dionne, one of the French Canadian Dionne quintuplets (b. 1934) 1972 - Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914) 1973 - Lucijan Marija Skerjanc, Yugoslav composer/conductor, dies at 72 1974 - Pat Brady, Toledo Ohio, actor (Roy Rodgers Show), dies at 59 1975 - Neville Cardus, writer/cricketer, dies 1977 - Allison Hayes, actress (Attack of 50 Foot Woman), dies at 47 1977 - John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905) 1978 - Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov, composer, dies at 65 LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
235 - Marcus Aurelius Alexander, Syrian emperor of Rome (222-235), murdered 978 - Edward, the Martyr, King of Anglo-Saxons (975-78)/st, murdered at 15 1227 - Honorius III, [Cencio Savelli], Pope (1216-27), dies 1314 - Jacques De Molay, the last grand master of Order of Knights, dies 1493 - John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Neth/Zealand, dies at 82 1582 - Jean Jaurequi, Basque murderer of Willem of Orange, lynched 1583 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540) 1584 - Ivan IV, the terrible, Russian tsar (1547-84), dies at 53 1675 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606) 1689 - John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607) 1690 - Charles, duke of Lutherans, dies 1696 - Robert Charnock, English conspirator 1745 - Robert Walpole, 1st English premier (1722-42), dies at 68 [NS=3/29] 1746 - Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718) 1768 - Lawrence Sterne, writer (Sentimental Journey France & Italy), dies 1781 - Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727) 1799 - John Randall, composer, dies at 82 1816 - Johann Paul Schulthesius, composer, dies at 67 1817 - Johann Jakob Walder, composer, dies at 67 1823 - Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer, dies at 69 1835 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769) 1870 - Joaquin y Garbayo Gaztambide, composer, dies at 48 1871 - Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806) 1875 - Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43 1876 - F Freiligrath, writer, dies at 65 1886 - Leopold Zunz, German intellect (Synagogue Poetry), dies at 91 1889 - William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66 1898 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826) 1899 - Douglas Strutt Galton, English engineer (rails, trains), dies at 76 1899 - Svetolik Rankovic, Serbian writer (Crushed Ideals), dies at 35 1900 - Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (So [Lonely]), dies at 32 1907 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827) 1913 - George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67 1917 - William Shalders, S Afr cricket batsman (12 Tests 1895-1907), dies 1918 - Willem Coenen, composer, dies at 80 1924 - John Frederick Bridge, composer, dies at 79 1928 - Paul van Ostaijen, Flemish writer (Outlawed), dies at 32 LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
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Fess Parker died today March 18th 2010, He was 85. (August 16, 1924 – March 18, 2010) He played Davey Crockett and Daniel Boone on TV and such. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1999 - Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924) 2001 - Charles K. Johnson, President of the Flat Earth Society (b. 1924) 2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926) 2003 - Émile Genest, Canadian actor (b. 1921) 2004 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911) 2005 - John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925) 2007 - Calvert DeForest, American actor (b. 1921) 2007 - Luther Ingram, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1937) 2008 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author and inventor (b. 1917) 2008 - Raghuvaran, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam actor (b. 1948) 2008 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (b. 1929) 2009 - Ion Dolănescu, Romanian singer and politician (b. 1944) LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
Matthew Love Send message Joined: 26 Sep 99 Posts: 7763 Credit: 879,151 RAC: 0 |
1987 - Norman Harris, guitarist (O'Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure 1988 - Gil Evans, Canadian/US jazz composer (Out of the Cool), dies at 75 1990 - Jannetje Visser-Roosendaal, Dutch writer, dies at 90 1990 - Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60 1990 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929) 1991 - Conor Clapton, Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 5 1992 - Avonne Taylor, actress (My Best Girl, Honor Among Lovers), dies at 93 1992 - Frank Westbrook, dancer/choreographer, dies at 82 1992 - Georges Delerue, French composer (Hiroshima, My Love), dies at 67 1993 - Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85 1993 - Jonathan Ball, English youngster, killed by IRA at 3 1994 - Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (b. 1946) 1995 - Merv Harvey, cricketer (scored 12 & 31 in Test Aus v Eng 46-47), dies 1995 - Rachida Hammadi, Algerian TV journalist, murdered at 32 1995 - Sidney Kingslei, playwright, dies at 88 1995 - Sidney Kingsley, US playwright (Pulitzer prize 1934), dies at 88 1996 - Alan Ridout, composer, dies at 61 1996 - Claude Bourdet, human rights activist/journalist, dies at 86 1996 - Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71 1997 - Carlo Fassi, figure skating coach (Fleming, Hamill), dies at 67 1997 - Grace Hefner, mother of Hugh Hefner (Playboy), dies at 101 1997 - Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913) 1998 - George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician LETS BEGIN IN 2010 |
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