Today in History for 19th July 2015

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 204

64 - Circus Maximus in Rome catches fire

532 - Start of Dionysian Pascal Cycle

711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic.

1195 - Battle at Alarcos: Almohaden beats Alfons VIII of Castilia

1380 - Thomas of Buckingham's invasion army lands on Calais

1425 - Duke John VI of Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good

1510 - 38 Jews are burned at stake in Berlin, Prussia

1524 - Peasants' War begins in Germany's Black Forest

1525 - Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau

1544 - Italian War of 1542: The Siege of Boulogne began.

1545 - King Henry VIII's flagship Mary Rose sinks at Portsmouth; 73 die

1551 - Treaty of Karlsburg: arch duke Ferdinand of Austria recognized as King ofHungary/Transsylvania

1553 - 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days

1572 - Battle at Saint Ghislain: Spanish army beats The Genlis' mercenaries

1575 - Spanish viceroy Gilles of Hierges attacks Oudewater

King of Spain Philip II

1590 - King Philip II's secretary Antonio Perez escapes jail

1595 - Astronomer Johannes Kepler has an epiphany and develops his theory of the geometricalbasis of the universe

1599 - Jacob van Necks merchant fleet leaves Java

1639 - French troops occupy Salses, at Perpignan

1674 - Court of Holland bans books of Hobbes/Spinoza/Meyer

1688 - Soldiers killed governor of Aerssen in Paramaribo

1692 - 5 more people are hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem Mass

1702 - Swedish troops under King Charles XII occupy Krakow

1760 - The formal request to found the later city of Mayagez, Puerto Rico is filed by its founders.

1816 - Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days

1836 - HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Ascension

Naturalist Charles Darwin

1843 - Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craftwith an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.

1845 - Fire in NYC destroys 1,000 homes & kills many

1848 - 1st US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organised by Elizabeth CadyStanton & Lucretia Mott

1848 - German Parliament demands Dutch province of Limburg

1850 - Airship Elizabeth leaves in storm for Fire Island, crashes (42 die)

1860 - 1st railroad reaches Kansas

1862 - Forrest's 1st raid

1863 - Battle of Buffington's Island (St George Creek), Ohio

1864 - Battle of Winchester, VA (Stephenson's Depot) [->JUL 20]

1866 - Tennessee is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment to the US constitution, guaranteeing civil rights

17th US President Andrew Johnson

1867 - US Congress passed 3rd Reconstruction Act over President Andrew Johnson's veto

1867 - Dutch Red Cross forms

1869 - Louis Riel speaks at a meeting of Metis residents about rights, setting in motion the eventsnow referred to as the Red River Rebellion

1870 - France declares war on Prussia; Franco-Prussian war begins

1875 - Emma Abbott, a floating hospital for sick kids, makes trial trip, NYC

1877 - 1st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall (61 62 64)

1879 - Doc Holliday kills for the first time after a man shoots up his New Mexico saloon.

1880 - SF Public Library starts lending books

1884 - 8th Wimbledon Men's Tennis: William Renshaw beats H Lawford (6-0 6-4 9-7)

1899 - National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers forms

Gunfighter in the American Old West Doc Holliday

1900 - Michel Thato wins 2nd olympics marathon (2:59:45.0-40,260k)

1902 - NY Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw

1904 - Dutch Premier Kuypers disbands 1st Chamber

1907 - Under pressure from the Japanese, the Emperor of Korea abdicates in favor of his son, afigurehead

1908 - Feyenoord soccer team forms in Rotterdam

1909 - Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball executes an unassisted triple play

1910 - Cleveland Indian baseball player Cy Young registers 500th career victory against Washington5-4 in 11 innings

1912 - A meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona,causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.

1913 - Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs"Malinda's Wedding Day is #1

MLB Pitcher Cy Young

1914 - Boston Braves begin drive from last to 1st place in NL

1915 - Dutch accidents at sea law enforced

1915 - Wash Nationals steal record 8 bases vs Cleve Indians in the 1st inning

1918 - World War I: German armies retreat across Marne River in France

1918 - Wash catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Sec of War Newton DBaker rules baseball players are not draft exempt

1919 - Following Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted andburnt down Luton Town Hall.

1923 - WRC-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions

1926 - 2nd French government of Herriot, forms

1927 - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit

1928 - King Fuad of Egypt siezes power and disbands parliament

1930 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould, and their polar expedition team return tothe United States following the first exploration of the interior of Antarctica

MLB Legend Ty Cobb

1933 - 1st time brothers on opposite teams homer in the same game. Red Sox

1933 - Rick Ferrell homers off brother pitcher Wes of Cleve, who also homers

1936 - Indians' Bob Feller makes his major league debut in relief

1936 - Spanish premier Casares Quiroga succeeded by Jose Giral

1937 - Entartete Art Fair opens in Munich

1937 - Joris Ivens' "Spanish Earth" premieres in Hollywood

1939 - Dr Roy P Scholz is 1st surgeon to use fiberglass sutures

1940 - Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender

1940 - Nazi occupiers imprison 231 prominent Dutch citizens in Buchenwald

1940 - Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid anti-nazi films

1941 - 1st US Army flying school for black cadets dedicated (Tuskegee Ala)

1941 - BBC World Service begins playing V(ictory) ("...-" in Morse code) (opening of Beethoven's 5thsymphony)

Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill

1941 - British PM Winston Churchill launched his "V for Victory" campaign

1941 - President Roosevelt appointed FEP Committee

1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony premieres in USA

1942 - German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague

1943 - 500 allied air forces raid Rome during WW II

1944 - 1,200+ 8th US Air Force bombers bomb targets in SW Germany

1944 - 500 15th US Air Force Liberators/Flying Fortresses bomb Munich vicinity

1944 - Allied troops occupy Faubourg de Vaucelles, at Caen

1944 - Danish resistance fails in assault on Taarbaek Fort near Copenhagen

1944 - Democratic convention opens in Chicago

1944 - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem

1944 - General Bradley flies to England

1944 - Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas

1944 - NY archbishop Spellman flies to Europe

1944 - Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg 1st meets Eichmann

1945 - USS Cod saves 51 sailors from Dutch sub in only sub-to-sub rescue

1947 - Prime Minister of shadow Burma government, Bogyoke Aung San and 6 of his cabinet and 2non-cabinet members assassinated by armed paramilitaries

1948 - French government of Schuman, resigns

1949 - Laos becomes associated state within French Union

1950 - French/Vietnamese offensive against Viet Minh

1950 - NY Yanks obtain their 1st black players, Elston Howard & Frank Barnes

1950 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Summi maeroris

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 214

1592 - Erhard Buttner, composer

1670 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (d. 1758)

1688 - Giuseppe Castiglione, Italian missionary to China (d. 1766)

1735 - Garret Wesley Mornington, composer

1742 - Jean-Baptiste Davaux, composer

1744 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)

1750 - Alessio Prati, composer

1759 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint (d. 1833)

1782 - Jonathan Blewitt, composer

1789 - John Martin, English painter

1797 - Johann Gottlieb Schneider, composer

1800 - Juan Jos Flores, military and first president of Ecuador (d. 1864)

1811 - Vincenz Lachner, composer

Inventor/Industrialist Samuel Colt (1814)

1814 - Samuel Colt, Hartford Connecticut, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), (d. 1862)

1817 - Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, US, army nurse (union)

1819 - Gottfried Keller, writer

1822 - Augusta of Cambridge, Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1916)

1823 - George Henry Gordon, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

1827 - Mangal Pandey, Indian freedom fighter (d. 1857)

1828 - Roger Atkinson Pryor, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), (d. 1919)

1833 - John Wesley Turner, Bvt Major General (Union Army), (d. 1899)

1834 - Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter, sculptor and artist

1838 - Joel Asaph Allen, US zoologist (Rule of Allen)

1846 - Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist

1848 - Cornelis A Pekelharing, artist (fabric seller)

1849 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian

1849 - Ferdinand Brunetire, French writer and critic (d. 1906)

1851 - Hendrik J Jut, Dutch murderer (head of Jut)

1854 - Daniel Josephus Jitta, Dutch High Court lawyer

Acquitted Murderer Lizzie Borden (1860)

1860 - Lizzie Borden, American woman acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her motherforty whacks), born in Fall River, Massachusetts

1863 - Hermann Bahr, Austria writer/director (New Men)

1865 - Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)

1873 - Louis Zimmermann, violinist/1st concert master of Concert building

1876 - Joseph Fielding Smith, 10th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d.1972)

1876 - John Gunn, Former England cricketer (d. 1963)

1877 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (d. 1949)

1878 - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-1st-Member of parliament (About Plato)

1879 - Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director (KNMI)

1881 - Adriaan J Zoetmulder, Dutch writer/directer (Eindhovens Dagblad)

1881 - Friedrich J H Dessauer, German physicist (radiologist)

1883 - Max Fleischer, Austrian animator and film producer (d. 1972)

1888 - Eugene Jungers, Belgian governor of Rwanda Urundi

1892 - Dick Irvin, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1957)

1893 - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Soviet Georgia, poet (Ode to Revolution)[OS=7/7]

1894 - Joris [Georges] of Severen, Flemish fascist/Member of parliament

1894 - Khawaja Nazimuddin, 2nd Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 1965)

1894 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin, Russian mathematician (d. 1959)

1895 - Xu Beihong, Chinese painter (d. 1953)

1896 - A. J. Cronin, Scottish writer (Citadel, Shining Victory) (d. 1981)

1898 - Juan Bautista Plaza-Alfonzo, composer

1899 - Paul de Groot, Dutch communist politician (CPN)/Editor (The Truth)

1900 - Arno Breker, German sculptor (3rd Reich sculptor

1900 - Charles Barnet "Roscoe" Harvey, soldier

1900 - Marc Turfkruijer, Flemish movie journalist/writer

1902 - Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Miraculous Life of Willem Parel)

1905 - Boyd Neel, Blackheath, Kent England, conductor (Story of an Orch)

1905 - Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist: Red star over China

1905 - Louis Philip Kentner, composer

1906 - Klaus Egge, Gransherad, Telemark Norway, composer (Noregsonger)

1906 - Wim van Doorne, Dutch car manufacturer (DAF)

1907 - Gunter Bialas, composer

1907 - Isabel Jewell, American actress (d. 1972)

1909 - Jeno Vecsey, composer

1912 - Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1997)

1914 - Josef Palenicek, composer

1914 - Marius Russo, baseball player (d. 2005)

1916 - James D Ramage, US lt-Adm (WW II-Palau/Guam/Philippines)

1916 - Phillip Cavaretta, baseball player (NL MVP 1945)

1917 - Robert Aitken, Phila, Zen co-founder (Diamond Sangha)

1917 - William W Scranton, (Gov-R-Pa), (d. 2013)

1919 - Patricia Medina, actress (High-Low), born in Liverpool, England (d. 2012)

1919 - Robert Pinget, novelist/playwright

1919 - Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (d. 2005)

1920 - Robert Christiani, cricketer (brother of Cyril WI batsman in 22 Tests)

1920 - Robert Mann, Portland Oregon, composer/violinist (String Quartet 1952)

1921 - Rosalyn Yalow, medical physicist

1922 - George McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972), (d. 2012)

1922 - Rachel Robinson, social activist/humanitarian/Mrs Jackie Robinson

1922 - Harold Camping, American evangelist, founder of Family Radio

1923 - William A. Rusher, American columnist

1924 - Pat Hingle [Martin Patterson], American actor (Splendor in the Grass, Batman Returns), bornin Miami, Florida

1924 - Sybren Polet, [Sijbe Minnema], Dutch writer/poet (Mannekino)

1924 - Stanley K. Hathaway, American politician (d. 2005)

1925 - Sue Thompson, American pop and country music singer

1926 - Helen Gallagher, Bkln, actress (Ryan's Hope, Strangers When We Meet)

1926 - Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer (Dictionary Sranantongo)

1926 - Sue Thompson, [Eva Sue Mckee], rocker

1927 - Jan Myrdal, Swedish writer/journalist (Albania Defiant)

1928 - John Bratby, painter/writer (Breakdown)

Gymnast Sofia Muratova (1929)

1929 - Sofia Muratova, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-6 gold/3 silv/4 bronze-1952-60), (d. 2006)

1932 - Buster Benton, singer/guitarist

1934 - Willem Nijholt, actor (De Nietsnut, Respect, Op Afbetaling)

1934 - Francisco S Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1980)

1935 - Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor

1937 - George Hamilton IV, American country musician, born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, (d.2014)

1937 - Larry Boxx, founder (Land B Computer Serv)

1937 - Richard Jordan [Robert Anson Jordan Jr.], American actor (Dune, Gettysburg), born in NYC,New York

1938 - Jayant Narlikar, Indian astrophysicist

1938 - Nicholas Bethell, British historian (d. 2007)

1940 - Vikki Carr [Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)], El Paso Texas, singer (Let it BeHim)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 13 of 13

Founding Father of the United States John Dickinson (1770)

1770 - Founding Father of the United States John Dickinson (37) weds land and estate owner MaryNorris (30) in a civil ceremony

1913 - Billboard publishes earliest known "Last Week's 10 Best Sellers among Popular Songs"Malinda's Wedding Day is #1

1928 - Physicist Enrico Fermi (26) weds writer Laura Capon in Rome, Italy

1932 - "Rebecca" author Daphne DuMaurier (25) weds commander of the I Airborne Corps Lt. Gen.Frederick Browning (35)

1958 - NFL coach Don Shula (28) weds first wife Dorothy Bartish

1966 - 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas

1971 - "The Who" lead singer Roger Daltrey (27) weds model Heather Taylor

1985 - NBA player Isiah Thomas (24) weds Lynn Kendall in Chicago

1986 - Caroline Kennedy (28) weds Edwin Schlossberg (41) at the Church of Our Lady of Victory inCenterville, Massachusetts

2003 - "King of Queens" actress Leah Remini (33) weds actor/salsa musician Angelo Pagan (45) atthe Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas

Actress Melissa Joan Hart (2003)

2003 - "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch" actress Melissa Joan Hart (27) weds "Course of Nature" leadsinger-guitarist Mark Wilkersonin (26) in Florence, Italy

2014 - Actress and singer Naya Rivera (27) weds actor Ryan Dorsey in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

2014 - Maroon 5 lead vocalist Adam Levine (35) weds Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo (25) inCabo San Lucas, Mexico

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

Actor Burgess Meredith (1938)

1938 - Actor Burgess Meredith (30) divorces actress Margaret Perry (25) after 2 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 131

514 - Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies

931 - Uda, Emperor of Japan (b. 867)

1054 - Bernold[us] Benno/Bernulphus, bishop of Utrecht (1027-54)/saint, dies

1234 - Floris IV, count of Holland, killed in tournament

1346 - Dirk IV, mister of Valkenburg (1332-46), dies in battle

1374 - Francesco Petrarca, [Petracco], Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69

1415 - Philippa of Lancaster, wife of John I of Portugal (plague) (b. 1359)

1534 - Willem van Enkenvoirt, cardinal/bishop of Utrecht, dies at about 70

1543 - Lady Mary Boleyn, mistress of King Henry VIII of England

1545 - George Carew, English admiral, drowns

1545 - Roger Grenville, English captain of Mary Rose, drowns

1625 - Samuel Besler, composer, dies at 50

1627 - Dirck R "Didericus" Camphuysen, poet/printer/vicar, dies at about 41

1631 - Cesare Cremonini, Italian philosopher (b. 1550)

1687 - Laura Martinozzi, Duchess of Modena (b. 1637)

1688 - Cornelis van Aerssen, governor of Suriname (1683-88), murdered at 50

1700 - Hieronymus Gradenthaler, composer, dies at 62

1730 - Jean-Baptiste Loeillet, composer, dies at 49

1740 - Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71

1742 - John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor, dies at 45

1742 - William Somervile, English poet (b. 1675)

1810 - Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III, dies at 34

1811 - Christian Gotthilf Tag, composer, dies at 76

1814 - Matthew Flinders, English cartographer (Australia coast), dies at 40

1st Emperor of Mexico Agustn de Iturbide (1824)

1824 - Agustn de Iturbide [crowned Agustin I], Mexican army general, politician and the 1stemperor of Mexico is executed by firing squad at 40

1838 - Frederic Nicolas Duvernoy, composer, dies at 72

1844 - Heinrich Domnich, composer, dies at 77

1847 - Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer, dies at 75

1850 - Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned

1850 - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary, dies

1852 - Anne-Francois Mellinet, French/Belgian general (Antwerp), dies at 83

1857 - Stefano Franscini, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1796)

1868 - Soji Okita, Japanese samurai, 1st Captain of the Shinsengumi (b. 1842 or 1844)

1873 - Samuel Wilberforce, English bishop and one of the greatest public speakers of his day(remembered for his opposition to Darwin's theory of evolution), dies at 67

1881 - Isaac Baumann, a Jewish pioneer and trader in Bloemfontein, South Africa, dies at 67

1892 - Thomas Cook, CEO (Cook Travel Bureau), dies at 83

1895 - Charles T Stork, great industrialist (cotton mach factory), dies at 73

1895 - Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67

1896 - Abraham H. Cannon, American Mormon apostle (b. 1859)

1906 - Ferdinand Brunetire, French writer and critic (b. 1849)

1907 - Hector H Malot, French lawyer/author (Alone in the World), dies at 77

1913 - Clmaco Caldern, President of Colombia (b. 1852)

1914 - Alexander Conze, German archaeologist, dies at 82

1918 - Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies

1922 - Cornelis A Pekelharing, Dutch histologist, dies on 74th birthday

1930 - Robert Stout, NZ prime minister (1884-87), dies at 85

1939 - Tom Hayward, cricketer (35 Tests for England, 1999 runs), dies

1939 - Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet (b. 1850)

1940 - Samuel H Chang, US newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai

1944 - Carl Bock, Danish Gestapo agent, liquidated

1944 - Harry CA Eyres, British diplomat (Constantinople, Albania), dies at 87

1944 - Will Marion Cook, composer, dies at 75

1945 - George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80

1947 - Aung San, Burmese nationalist (assassinated) (b. 1915)

1947 - U Razak, Burmese politician (b. 1898)

1951 - Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77

1954 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer, dies at 81

1955 - Koos [Jacobus J] Vorrink, Dutch soc-democrat (SDAP/AJC/PvdA), dies at 64

1957 - Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Ital author (Kaputt), dies at 59

1958 - Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32

1964 - Carol Veazie, actress (Maude-Norby), dies at 69

First President of South Korea Syngman Rhee (1965)

1965 - Syngman Rhee, first President of South Korea (1948-60), dies at 90

1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, in Ted Kennedy's car, drowns at 28

1969 - Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies

1970 - Barry Wood, singer (Your Hit Parade), dies at 61

1972 - Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (b. 1884)

1973 - Clarence White, rocker (Byrds), killed by drunken driver at 29

1973 - Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33

1974 - Joe Flynn, actor (McHale's Navy), dies at 59

1974 - Erno Schwarz, Hungarian American soccer player (b. 1904)

1975 - Lefty Frizzell, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1928)

1976 - Gene Roth, actor (Rosie, Tormented, Nightfall), dies at 73

1976 - Sal Tas, Dutch journalist, dies at 70

1977 - John R Powers, US director model bureau, dies at 80

1977 - Noel Wien, American aviation pioneer (Wien Air Alaska), dies at 78

Aviation Pioneer Noel Wien (1977)

1981 - Louis Cheslock, composer, dies at 81

1981 - Roger Doucet, French Canadian tenor (b. 1919)

1982 - John Harvey, stage and film actor (b. 1911)

1984 - Carol Eberts Veazie, actress (Maude Endles-Norby), dies at 89

1984 - Geert Lubberhuizen, Dutch publisher (Busy Bee), dies at 68

1984 - Faina Ranevskaya, Russian actress (b. 1896)

1985 - Janusz A. Zajdel, Polish writer (b. 1938)

1989 - Carl-Heinz Schroth, dir/actor (Strafverteidiger), dies at 87

1989 - Kazimierz Sabbat, Polish president (b. 1913)

1990 - Eddie Quillan, actor (Brigadoon, Summer Magic), dies of cancer at 83

1990 - Herbert Nelson, actor (Guilding Light), dies of a stroke at 76

1990 - Johnny Wayne, comedian (Wayne & Shuster), dies of cancer at 72

1992 - Bert Brugman, Dutch puppeteer (Dutch marionette theater), dies

1992 - Heinz Galinski, Pres (Central council for Jews in Germany), dies at 79

1992 - Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia

1993 - Elmar Klos, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83

1993 - Szymon Goldberg, Polish violinist/conductor, dies at 84

1994 - Christian-Jaque, [Christian Maudet], French director (Nana), dies

1994 - Frederik "Frits" van der More, archaeologist/art historian, dies at 87

1994 - Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre Producer, dies at 81

1994 - Nathan Susskind, Slovak/US linguist (Yiddish), dies at 87

1994 - Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37

1995 - Dorothy McHugh, actress (I Fallen & I Can't Get Up), dies at 87

1995 - James Smiddy, high school basketball coach (1,216 wins), dies at 71

1995 - Michael Andrews, painter, dies at 66

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