13th
December, on this day
0863 Boudouin with
the Iron Arm weds Charles de Kales' daughter Judith
0872 John
VIII begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1294
Pope Coelestinus V ends term
1545 Pope
Paul III opens Council of Trente (19th ecumenical council)
1570 Denmark, in the Peace
of Stettin, agrees to recognise the independence of Sweden
1572 Spanish army beats
Geuzen fleet under Admiral Lumey
1577 Sir
Francis Drake sets sail from England to go around the world
1621 Emperor
Ferdinand II delegates 1st anti-Reformation decree
1668 Jean
Racine's "Britannicus" premieres in Paris
1734 England and Russia sign trade agreement
1759 1st music store in America opens (Philadelphia)
1774 1st incident of the Revolution-400 attack Fort
William and Mary, New Hampshire
1789 Austrian
Netherlands declares independence as Belgium
1808 Spanish capital, Madrid, surrenders to Napoleon Bonaparte
1816 Patent for a dry
dock issued to John Adamson, Boston
1823 Gioacchino Rossini arrives in London
1833 HMS
Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port Deseado, Patagonie
1843 "A
Christmas Carol" by Charles
Dickens published, 6,000 copies sold
1861 Battle
of Alleghany Summit, WV
1862 American Civil War: Confederate forces, commanded by Robert E
Lee, defeat
the Union Army at Fredericksburg
1864 Battle of Fort McAllister, GA
1867 In London, 12 people are killed when Irish terrorists blow up
the outer wall of Clerkenwell
Prison in an attempt to rescue a jailed colleague
1884 A coin operated weighing machine patented by Percy Everitt
1895 1st complete execution of Gustav
Mahler's 2nd Symphony
1900 Battle at Nooitgedacht:
Generals The la Rey/Smuts beat Britten
1903 Italo Marchiony granted patent for the
ice cream cone
1903 Wright
Brothers make 1st flight at Kittyhawk
1906 German chancellor Bernhard
von Bülow disbands the Parliament
1913 Mona Lisa stolen in Aug 1911 returned to Louvre
1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hours
in Tyrol
1916 Esme
Stuart Lennox Robinson's premieres in Dublin
1916 French chief of staff Joffre
replaced by Nivelle
1918 US army of occupation crosses the Rhine, enters Germany
1918 Woodrow Wilson, becomes 1st to make a foreign visit as President
(France)
1919 Ross
Smith lands in Australia from a flight from London
1920 F Pease's interferometer
measures 1st stellar diameter (Betelgeuse)
1920 League of nations establishes
International Court of Justice in The Hague
1921 Britain; France; Japan and the USA sign the Washington
Treaty respecting each other's rights over possessions in the
Pacific
1928 George
Gershwin's "An
American In Paris" premieres (New York NY)
1928 Clip-on tie designed
1930 Last public appearance of prima ballerina Anna
Pavlova
1930 Theodore
Steeg forms French government
1937 Japanese
troops take Nanking City in China
1939 World War II: the start of the Battle
of the River Plate when British warships attack the German battleship
Admiral Graf Spee. The battle finishes when the captain of the Graf
Spee scuttles his ship at the entrance to Montivideo harbour
1941 Lawine battlers destroy Haaraz, Peru; about 3,000 die
1942 Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton
Mussert to call himself Leader
1943 150 US Marauders bomb Schiphol
1944 Japanese
kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1946 Léon
Blum elected French premier
1949 Knesset
votes to transfer Israel's capital to Jerusalem
1950 James
Dean begins his career with an appearance in a Pepsi commercial
1951 Future British PM Margaret Roberts Thatcher marries Denis
Thatcher
1960 Laos
General Fumi Nosavang occupies Vientiane
1961 Beatles
sign a formal agreement to be managed by Brian
Epstein
1961
Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann
1961 Jimmy Dean's "Big
Bad John" album is country music's 1st million $ seller
1962 Relay 1 communication satellite launched
1963 Capitol records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with the
Beatles
1964 In El Paso TX, LBJ abd Mexican President Gustavo
Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio
Grande, to reshape US-México border
1965 Algerian President
Boumédienne visits Moscow
1966 1st US bombing of Hanoi
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 A military coup in Greece overthrows the monarchy - King
Constantine flees to Rome with his family
1968 President Da
Costa e Silva of Brazil disbands parliament
1969 Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's
Restaurant"
1970 Neil Simon's "Gingerbread
Lady" premieres in New York NY
1971 John Sinclair (sentenced to 10 years for selling 2 marijuana
joints) is freed
1972 Apollo 17 astronauts, on the last US moon mission, unveil a plaque
dedicated to peace on the lunar surface
1973 British Government orders a 3-day working week following an Arab
oil embargo and industrial action by the country's miners
1973 MPLA/FNLA accord about combat against Portuguese Libya
1974 Malta becomes a republic
1974 Egypt demands a 50 year freeze on Israel's population as a condition
for peace in the Middle East
1975 1st time "Saturday
Night" Live uses a time delay (Richard Pryor hosts)
1975 Australian Conservatives and Liberals win parliamentary election
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1976 Longest non-stop passenger airflight (Sydney to San Francisco
13 hours 14 minutes)
1976 First oil brought to Britain from the Brent
Oil Field in the North Sea
1977 Entire University
of Evansville basketball team (14 players) die in plane crash
1978
Susan B Anthony dollar, 1st US coin to honor a woman, issued
1979 Strikes against price increases in Gdansk Poland
1981 Polish government declares martial law, arrests Solidarity activists
1982 Earthquake hits Northern Yemen; 2,000 die
1983 British
Airways incorporates
1984 Artificial heart recipient William Schroeder suffers 1st stroke
1987 Belgium
Christian Democrats (CVP) loses parliamentary election
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk
USSR
1988 3 men end 29-hour all-466-station subway ride in New York NY
1988 Yasser Arafat addresses UN in Geneva
1989 Forced repatriation of Vietnamese in Hong Kong
1989 Former ANC prisoner Nelson
Mandela visits South African President F.W.de
Klerk to discuss an end to apartheid
1990 ANC President Oliver
Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years in exile
1990 Heavy earthquake strikes Sicily, 18 die
1991 Leaders of Kazakhstan; Tadzhikistan; Kirgizia; Uzbekistan and
Turkmenistan agree to join the Commonwealth
of Independent States
1991 Both Koreas sign an accord calling for reconciliation
1991 New York assembly speaker Mel
Miller is convicted of federal mail fraud
1993 Deadline for Israeli troop withdrawal from Gaza, they don't
1993 Fire in textile factory in Fuzjou China, 60 killed
1994 American Eagle commuter plane crashes in North Carolina, killing
15
1995 Christopher
Reeve is released from physical rehab center
1995 A
Romavia Antonov AN-24 registered YR-AMR, crashes after taking
off from Verona airport, due to overloading and ice accumulated on
the wings, killing all 4 crew and all 45 passengers.
1996 Kofi
Annan is elected as Secretary-General of the United Nations.
2000 The "Texas
7" escape from the John Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas
and go on a robbery spree, during which police officer Aubrey Hawkins
is shot and killed.
2000 American Vice President Al
Gore delivers his concession speech ending his hopes of becoming
the 43rd President of the United States.
2001 The Indian Parliament Sansad
is attacked by terrorists, killing 15 people, including all the terrorists.
2002 Enlargement
of the European Union: The European Union announces that Cyprus,
the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland,
Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members from May 1, 2004.
2003 Former Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit
2004 Former Chilean dictator, General Augusto
Pinochet is put under house arrest, after being sued under accusations
over 9 kidnapping actions and manslaughter. The house arrest is lifted
the same day on appeal.
2006 The Baiji,
or Chinese River Dolphin, announced as extinct.
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Birthdates which
occurred on 13th December :
1521 Sixtus V [Felice
Peretti/"Montalto"] bishop of Fermo/Pope (1585-90)
1533 Erik XIV Wasa king of Sweden (1560-69)
1553 Henry IV 1st Bourbon-king of Navarre/France (1572/89-1610)
1724 Aepinus [Franz Hoch] German physician/physicist
1732 Jean-Claude Trial composer
1740 Franz Xaver Schnitzer composer
1770 John Clarke-Whitfeld composer
1797 Heinrich Heine Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt)
1810 Clark Mills US, sculptor (Freedom, Armed Liberty)
1816 Clement Claiborne Clay MC (Confederacy), died in 1882
1816 E Werner von Siemens German artillery officer/inventor
1818 Mary Todd Lincoln 1st lady (1861-65)
1819 Edwin George Monk composer
1835 Phillips Brooks Episcopal bishop/composer (Little Town of Bethlehem)
1838 Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor composer
1843 George Stephanescu composer
1850 G F Grace cricketer (brother of W G )
1850 Iver Paul Fredrik Holter composer
1853 Joseph Sickman Corsen Curaçao, musician/composer/screenwriter
1858 Jakab Gyula Major composer
1860 Lucien G Guitry French actor/theatre director (l'Odéon)
1863 Johannes Weiss German New Testament scholar
1865 Gustav Luders composer
1871 Russell W Porter Vermont, explorer (Alaska)
1871 Herman T Colenbrander Dutch historian
1874 Ludwig Curtius German archaeologist (Die antike Kunst)
1877 Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych composer
1886 Lambertus J van Apeldoorn lawyer (martial law)
1889 Clarence Loomis composer
1890 Marc Connelly McKeesport PA, playwright (One Minute Please)
1892 Brand Dirck Ochse filmer/co-founder (Polygoon)
1893 Curt Jurgens Munich Germany, actor (Enemy Below, Longest Day)
1897 Drew Pearson Evanston IL, newscaster (Drew Pearson)
1898 Daniel Lazarus composer
1899 Harold Guinzburg publisher (founder of Literary Guild)
1899 Yusef Greiss composer
19-- Bill Morey Framingham MA, actor (Thorn Birds, Tucker's Witch)
19-- Lenny Schultz Bronx NY, comedian (Ball Four, Laugh-in Revival)
1900 Jonel Perlea composer
1900 Norman Foster Richmond IN, actor (Skyscraper Souls)
1901 Georg M Rimski-Korssakov Russian musicologist/theory
1901 John Wijga painter/illustrator
1902 Paul Kurzbach composer
1902 Talcott Parsons US sociologist
1903 Carlos Montoya Madrid Spain, guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966)
1903 Jewgeni Petrow writer
1903 John Piper British writer (US Churches in WWI)/official war painter
1906 Ingemar Liljefors composer
1906 Laurens jan van der Post soldier/explorer/conservationist
1908 Victor Babin composer
1910 Van Heflin Walters OK, actor (Great Adventure, Madame Bovary)
1910 Lillian Roth [Rutstein] singer/actress (Animal Crackers)
1911 Kenneth Patchen US, poet/novelist (Cloth of the Tempest)
1913 Archie Moore light-heavyweight boxing champion (1952-60)
1913 Jimmy Carroll New York NY, pianist (Most Important People)
1913 John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy English art historian
1914 Alan L Bullock British historian
1914 George "Tiger" Haynes guitarist/actor (Land Without
Music, Guv'nor)
1914 Samuel "Larry" K Parks Olathe KS, actor (Jolson-Jolson
Story)
1915 Balthazar Johannes Vorster Prime Minister of South Africa (1966-77)
1915 Mark Stevens Cleveland OH, actor (Big Town, Martin Kane)
1915 Ross MacDonald detective novelist (Goodbye Look)
1917 Dave Street Los Angeles CA, actor/singer (Broadway Open House)
1920 Don Taylor Freeport PA, actor (Father's Little Dividend)
1920 George P Schultz US Secretary of State (1982-89)
1920 Frits Noske Dutch musicologist (Signifier & the Signified
1920 Kaysone Phomvihane/premier/President of Laos (Pathet Lao) (1991-92)
1922 Rex Allen Wilcox AZ, cowboy actor (I Dream of Jeannie)
1922 Halina Czerny-Stefánska Polish pianist (Chopin)
1923 Fred van der Spek Dutch 2nd chamber member (PSP)
1924 Larry Doby 1st black in baseball's American League (Cleveland
Indians)
1925 Dick Van Dyke West Plains MO, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke
Show)
1925 Henry C Gordon USAF/astronaut (Dynasoar)
1926 Carl Erskine baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers)
1928 W Gordon Smith playwright
1929 Albert Paulsen Guayaquil Ecuador, actor (Doctors' Hospital)
1929 Christopher Plummer Toronto Ontario, actor (Sound of Music, Doll's
House)
1930 Genevieve Page actress (Day & the Hour)
1930 Robert Prosky Philadelphia PA, actor (Christine, Sergeant Jablonski-Hill
St Blues)
1934 Richard Darryl Zanuck film producer/executive
1935 Bonno Spieker Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1935 Thomas Wakefield writer
1936 Karim Aga Khan prince/spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims
1937 Rob Houwer Dutch director/producer/actor (OK, Professor Columbus)
1938 Alvin Curran composer
1938 Tom Shaw Wichita KS, PGA golfer (1969 Doral Open AVCO Golf Classic)
1938 Tony Gomez rocker (Foundations)
1939 Clive Brain educationalist
1940 Steve Harmon Brooklyn NY, actor (Ens Pulver-Mr Roberts)
1940 Edith Clever Wuppertal Germany, actress (Parsifal, L'Adolescente)
1941 John Davidson Pittsburgh PA, TV host (Hollywood Squares, That's
Incredible)
1941 Anouska Hempel Forbes New Zealand, actress (Tiffany Jones)
1943 Arturo Ripstein director (El Lugar Sin Limites, Foxtrot)
1943 Ferguson Jenkins baseball pitcher (Red Sox)
1947 Les Joslin cricketer (Test as batsman for Australia 1968, made
7 & 2)
1948 Jeff "Skunk" Baxter guitarist (Steely Dan-Deacon Blues)
1948 Lillian Board England, 400 meter (Olympics-silver-1968)
1948 Ted Nugent Detroit MI, guitarist (Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees)
1948 Kathy Garver Long Beach CA, actress (Cissy-Family Affair)
1949 Nana Alexandria USSR, International Woman's Chess Grandmaster
(1976)
1949 R[oberta] A[nn] MacAvoy US, sci-fi author (Damiano's Lute, Raphael)
1949 Randy Owen Fort Payne AL, country music star (Alabama-Mountain
Music)
1949 Tom Verlaine [Miller] Mount Morris NJ, rock vocalist (Television)
1949 Walter "Clyde" Owen rocker
1950 Heather North Pasadena CA, actress (The Barefoot Executive)
1950 Davey O'List rocker (Roxy Music)
1950 Wendie Malick actress (Just Shoot Me)
1951 Robert Lindsay Ilketson England, actor (Strike it Rich, King
Lear)
1952 John Francome English jockey
1953 Zoltan Magyar Hungary, side horse gymnast (Olympics-gold-1976,
1980)
1953 Ray Stewart Matsqui British Columbia, Canadian Tour golfer (1994
Dunhill Cup)
1953 Tom Sanders Jackson WY, aerial cameraman (Living Daylights)
1954 John Anderson Apopka FL, country singer/actor (Lone Wolf McQuade)
1954 Steve Forbert rocker
1956 Dale Berra baseball infeilder (Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees)
1956 Phillip Gregory Hubbard Canton OH, basketball (Olympics-gold-1976)
1957 Steve Buscemi actor (Fargo)
1958 Dana Strum Washington DC, rock bassist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1958 Clark Brandon New York NY, actor (Fast Food)
1958 Lynn-Holly Johnson Chicago IL, actress (Ice Castles)
1959 John Whitaker Van Nuys CA, actor (Family Affair, Snowball Express)
1959 Marianne Gravatte Hollywood CA, playmate of year (October 1982)
1960 Randy Stoklos Pacific Palisades CA, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1960 Richard Dent defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1961 Gary Zimmerman NFL tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1962 Karen Witter California, actress (Tina-One Life to Live)/playmate
(March 1982)
1965 Stacy Sunny San Bernadino CA, female infielder (Colorado Silver
Bullets)
1967 Deborah Driggs Oakland CA, playmate (March 1990)
1967 Jenn Thompson New York NY, actor (Dee-Harper Valley PTA)
1967 Chris O'Loughlin Los Angeles CA, fencer (Olympics-96)
1967 Jamie Foxx comedian (In Living Color)
1967 Mike Mordecai Birmingham AL, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1967 Scott Zolak NFL quarterback (New England Patriots)
1968 Carlos Hasselbaink Dutch soccer player (VVV/FC Utrecht/Haarlem)
1968 Shaun Stafford Ocala FL, tennis star (1992 Taipei)
1969 Norm Krumpschmd hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1969 Sergei Fedorov Pskov Russia, NHL forward (Detroit, Olympics-silver-1998)
1970 Basit Ali cricketer (exciting Pakistani batsman 1993-)
1970 Elizabeth Patricia Reilly North Providence RI, Miss America-Rhode
Island (1996)
1970 George Van Os Jr Houston TX, team handball left back (Olympics-1996)
1970 Tonja Yevette Buford-Bailey Dayton OH, 400 meter hurdler (Olympics-bronze-96)
1971 Johnny Dixon WLAF safety (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Miguel Angel Martinez Soto mariachi
1972 GiGi Gordon Butler PA, Miss America-Pennsylvania (1997)
1973 Christie Clark Los Angeles CA, actress (Carrie Brady-Days of
Our Life)
1973 Shandon Anderson NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1974 Chris Lewis CFL safety (Calgary Stampeders)
1975 Matt LeCroy Anderson SC, baseball catcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 Sarah Brady Miss Universe-New Zealand (1996)
1979 Christina Todd Miss Ohio Teen USA (Miss Congeniality-1997)
1981 Chelsea Hertford actress (Casey-Major Dad)
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Deaths which occurred on 13th December:
0838 Pippijn I King of Aquitania, dies
1048 Al-Biruni Arabic royal astrologer, dies at 74
1124 Callistus II [Guido di Borgogna] Italian Pope (1119-24), dies
1126 Hendrik IX the Black, Duke of Bayern (1120-26), dies
1250 Frederick II German Emperor (1212-1250), dies at 55
1404 Albrecht duke of Bavaria, dies at 74
1521 Manoel I "the Great" King of Portugal (1495-1521),
dies at 52
1557 Niccoló Tartaglia Italian mathematician, dies
1565 Konrad von Gesner naturalist, dies at 49
1574 SelŒm II Sari the blonde, sultan of Turkey (1566-74), dies
at 50
1603 Franciscus Vieta mathematician, dies in Paris at 63
1622 Jan Campanus composer, dies at 50
1672 Jan II Kazimierz king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63
1693 Dodoftei Romanian metropolitan of Moldavia/writer (Saint Lives),
dies
1693 Willem Van de Velde Dutch the Old, seascape painter, dies at
about 82
1729 Anthony Collins English philosopher (On Liberty & Necessity),
dies at 53
1738 Gotthard Wagner composer, dies at 59
1769 C F Gellert writer, dies at 54
1774 Susanne K von Klettenberg German friend of Goethes mother, dies
at 50
1793 Johann Joachim Christoph Bode composer, dies at 63
1812 Marianne von Martinez composer, dies at 68
1814 Charles Joseph Prince of Ligne Belgian fieldmarshal/author, dies
at 79
1862 Conrad Feger Jackson US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle
at 49
1862 Maxcy Gregg US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle
at 48
1862 Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb Confederate Brigadier-General, dies
in battle at 39
1863 Friedrich Hebbel writer, dies at 50
1872 Helena Beeloo Hague's maid, murdered by Henry Jut
1872 W T van der Kouwen-ten Cate Hague's Dame, murdered by Henry Jut
1881 August Senoa Croatian writer (Kletva [The Curse]), dies at 43
1894 Sarah Parker Remond US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68
1898 George Frederick Bristow composer, dies at 72
1909 Innokenti F Annenski Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53
1911 Reg Duff cricketer (23 Tests for Australia 1902-05, 1317 runs),
dies
1919 Amintore Galli composer, dies at 74
1921 Frederick Martin cricketer (14 wickets in 2 Tests for England
1890-92), dies
1924 Samuel Gompers organizer (American Federation of Labor), dies
at 74
1929 Knut Algot Hakanson composer, dies at 42
1935 John Nicolson cricketer (South African lefty batsman 1926-27),
dies
1940 Dusty Tapscott cricket (brother of Doodles, 4&1 in only South
Africa Test), dies
1940 George Macaulay cricketer (took 24 wickets in 8 Tests, England
22-33), dies
1942 Eleanor Everest Freer composer, dies at 78
1944 Vassily V Kandinsky abstract artist (Dreamy Inspiration), dies
at 78
1944 Lupe Velez actress (Joe Palooka), overdoses on seconal at 34
1945 Robert van Genechten Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide
1945 Vittorio Mario Vanzo composer, dies at 83
1951 Selim Palmgren Finnish pianist/composer (Daniel Hjort), dies
at 73
1958 Tim Moore actor (Kingfish-Amos 'n' Andy), dies at 70
1958 Ahmed Mukhtar Baban premier of Iraq, executed
1958 Barhanuddin Bashajan Iraqi minister of Foreign affairs, executed
1958 Brand Dirck Ochse film/bioscope pioneer (Polygoon), dies at 66
1958 Rafiq Aref Iraqi chief-staff Arabs Statenbond, executed
1961 Grandma [Anna M] Moses US painter, dies at 101
1963 Hubert Pierlot Belgian advocate/premier (1939-45), dies at 79
1966 Charles Watts actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies
of cancer
1968 Siegfried Reda composer, dies at 52
1969 Raymond A Spruance US admiral (battle of Midway), dies at 83
1971 Max Mell Austrian artillery officer/literary, dies at 88
1974 Rufe Davis actor (Floyd Smoot-Petticoat Junction), dies at 66
1975 Cyril Delevanti actor (Lucius-Jefferson Davis), dies at 88
1975 Hendrik Kruls Dutch general/chief military authority (1944-46),
dies at 73
1976 Eduard Claudius writer, dies
1979 Jon Hall actor (Ramor of the Jungle), dies at 66
1980 Harm van Riel Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73
1981 Pigmeat Markham comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In), dies
at 75
1981 Cornelius Cardew composer, dies at 45
1982 Jack Badcock cricketer (7 Tests, 1 century but inconsistent),
dies
1983 Leora Dana actress (Amityville II, Change of Habit, Sylvie Kosloff-Another
World), dies at 60
1983 Mary Renault [Challans] British author (Funeral games), dies
at 78
1986 Heather Angel actress (Lifeboat, Daniel Boone), dies at 77
1990 Alice Marble California, tennis star, dies at 77
1990 Friedrich Dürrenmatt Swiss writer (Besuch der alten Dame),
dies at 69
1991 André Pieyre de Mandiargues French writer (La marge),
dies at 82
1992 Bernard Drukker Dutch pianist/orchestra leader (duivelswiel),
dies
1993 Charles Jonckheere Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87
1994 Antoine Pinay PM of France (1952-53), dies
1994 Herman W "Fritz" Liebert US librarian/Yale-curator,
dies at 83
1994 Norman Beaton actor (Eureka, Black Joy, Mighty Quinn), dies at
60
1995 Evangeline Bruce hostess, dies at 81
1995 Nancy LaMott singer, dies at 43
1996 Cao Yu dramatist, dies at 86
1996 Charles Edwin Molnar computer pioneer, dies at 61
1996 Edward Blishen writer teacher/broadcaster, dies at 76
1996 Mae Barnes singer, dies at 89
1997 Alexander Oppenheim mathematician, dies at 94
1997 Martin Carter poet/critic, dies at 70
1997 Rafael Jose Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer restaurateur, dies
at 83
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