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On this day in history ..
  • 1796 - Emancipation of Jews in the Netherlands
  • 0911 - Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs treaty with Byzantines
  • 1192 - Sultan Saladin & king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire
  • 1519 - 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico
  • 1537 - King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church"
  • 1644 - Battle at Lostwithiel: Robert Devereux' infantry surrenders
  • 1666 - -06] Great Fire in London ends, kills 8 [NS=Sept 12]
  • 1666 - Fire in London destroys 13,000 houses & kills 8
  • 1686 - Habsburgse armies occupy Buda on Turks
  • 1732 - Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
  • 1743 - England/Austria/Savoye-Sardinia sign Treaty of Worms
  • 1752 - Last Julian calender day in US & England (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
  • 1752 - Last day of Julian calendar in Britain, British colonies
  • 1789 - US Treasury Department established by Congress
  • 1792 - Paris masses remove nobles/clergymen out of jails & slaughter them
  • 1796 - Jews of the Netherlands are emancipated
  • 1806 - A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley Switz, kills 500
  • 1839 - Salon of Vari‚t‚s opens in Amsterdam
  • 1859 - Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii
  • 1864 - Union General William T Sherman captures Atlanta
  • 1867 - 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem Neth
  • 1870 - Napoleon III surrenders to Prussian armies
  • 1894 - -3] Amsterdam Municipal theater opens
  • 1894 - Forest fires destroy Hinckley Minnesota: about 600 die
  • 1897 - "McCall-magazine 1st published
  • 1898 - Battle of Omdurman: Lord Kitchener retakes Sudan for Britain
  • 1898 - Machine gun 1st used in battle
  • 1900 - Telegraph use between Germany & US begins
  • 1901 - VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"
  • 1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Bill Lang in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
  • 1909 - English King Edward VII signs South Africa Bill
  • 1911 - Joao Chagas forms Portuguese govt
  • 1913 - Amsterdam reroutes sewage of canals to South Seas
  • 1914 - -3] Gen von Hausen & countess of France regime flees to Bordeaux
  • 1917 - Deutsche Vaterlands Party forms (by admiral Tirpitz)
  • 1919 - Communist Party of America organizes in Chicago
  • 1919 - Italy agress to general voting right/proportional representation
  • 1919 - National Commission recommends a best-of-9 World Series
  • 1920 - W Somerset Maugham's "East of Suez," premieres in London
  • 1922 - Pres Ebert declares "Deutschland ber alas" as German national anthem
  • 1924 - 44th US Mens Tennis: William Tilden beats William Johnston (61 97 62)
  • 1924 - Rudolf Friml's "Rose Marie" opens to rave reviews in NYC
  • 1926 - Italy signs treaty with Yemen
  • 1927 - Rumour starts that Yankee Lou Gehrig will be traded to Tigers
  • 1929 - Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros
  • 1929 - WOR (NYC) ends affiliation with CBS radio network
  • 1930 - 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)
  • 1935 - A hurricane slams Florida Keys killing 423
  • 1936 - 1st transatlantic round-trip air flight
  • 1937 - US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act
  • 1940 - 23rd PGA Championship: Byron Nelson at Hershey CC Hershey Pa
  • 1940 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated
  • 1941 - Academy copyrights Oscar statuette
  • 1942 - German troops enter Stalingrad
  • 1944 - Belgium's Emissie bank closes
  • 1944 - During WW II, George Bush ejects from a burning plane
  • 1944 - Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz
  • 1944 - US leaders meet in Belgium
  • 1945 - 59th US Womens Tennis: Sarah P Cooke beats Pauline Betz (36 86 64)
  • 1945 - Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independence from France (National Day)
  • 1945 - V-J Day; formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri (WW II ends)
  • 1946 - Johnny Neun replaces Bill Dickey as Yankee manager
  • 1946 - Nehru forms govt in India
  • 1949 - Fire in riverfront area kills 1,700 (Chungking China)
  • 1951 - Australia, NZ & US sign ANZUS-pact
  • 1952 - Dr Floyd J Lewis 1st uses deep freeze technique in heart surgery
  • 1954 - Hurricane Edna batters NE US, killing 20
  • 1954 - WTVD TV channel 11 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
  • 1955 - KCRA TV channel 3 in Sacramento, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
  • 1956 - Collapse of a RR bridge under a train kills 120 (India)
  • 1956 - Orioles trailing Red Sox 8-0 come back to win 11-10 in 9 innings
  • 1956 - Washington-Jackson cable line replaced by bus service
  • 1957 - 1st edition newspaper the Ware Time (in Suriname), 1,700 die
  • 1957 - Milwaukee Braves' Frank Torre scores 6 runs in 1 game
  • 1957 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
  • 1958 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
  • 1958 - Henry Verwoerd appointed PM of South Africa
  • 1958 - KAYS TV channel 7 in Hays, KS (CBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1958 - Minn announces $9 million bond issue to improve Metropolitan Stadium
  • 1958 - National Defense Education Act was signed
  • 1959 - US President Eisenhower arrives in Paris
  • 1960 - Tamara & Irina Press (USSR) become 1st sisters to win olympic gold
  • 1960 - William Walton's 2nd Symphony, premieres
  • 1962 - Stan Musial's 3,516th hit moves over Tris Speaker into 2nd place
  • 1962 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
  • 1963 - Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS
  • 1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes
  • 1963 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament
  • 1964 - Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia
  • 1964 - Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal
  • 1965 - Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th HR (off Curt Simmons)
  • 1965 - Treblinka trial in Dsseldorf ends
  • 1966 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf
  • 1967 - KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
  • 1968 - Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
  • 1969 - NY Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated
  • 1969 - Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season
  • 1970 - 1st tennis tie break at a Grand Slam (US Open) (9 pt sudden death)
  • 1971 - Cesar Cedeno hits an inside-the-park grand slammer
  • 1971 - Chris Evert & Jimmy Connors win their 1st US Open tennis matches
  • 1971 - NY's Electric Circus Club goes out of business
  • 1972 - Chic White Sox Milt Pappas no-hits SD Padres, 1-0
  • 1972 - Renate Stecher runs 100m European female record (11.07 sec)
  • 1972 - Rod Stewart's 1st #1 hit (You Wear it Well)
  • 1972 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
  • 1973 - Billy Martin fired as manager of Tigers
  • 1973 - Netherlands wins hockey world's championship
  • 1973 - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Charity Golf Classic
  • 1974 - Jerry Lewis' 9th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
  • 1974 - Prest Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act
  • 1978 - George Harrison marries Olivia
  • 1978 - Gloria Fajardo (21) marries Emilio Estefan (25) (Miami Sound Machine)
  • 1978 - Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man
  • 1978 - John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston
  • 1978 - Reggie Jackson is 19th player to hit 20 HR in 11 straight years
  • 1979 - "I Remember Mama" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 108 perfs
  • 1979 - 79th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Mark O'Meara
  • 1980 - John Arlott calls his last game, England v Australia at Lord's
  • 1981 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
  • 1982 - Rolling Stone Keith Richard's house burns down
  • 1983 - Yitzhak Shamir (Herut) endorsed by Menachem Begin for Israeli PM
  • 1984 - "Zorba" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 362 performances
  • 1985 - Betsy King wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
  • 1985 - Jerry Lewis' 20th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $33,100,000
  • 1986 - Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi
  • 1987 - Donald Trump takes out a full page NY Times ad lambasting Japan
  • 1987 - Kevin Bass is 1st NLer to switch hit HRs in a game twice in 1 season
  • 1987 - Philips introduces CD-video
  • 1987 - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
  • 1988 - Amnesty International's Human Rights Now! tour begins in Wembley
  • 1989 - Rev Al Sharpton leads a civil rights march through Bensonhurst
  • 1990 - "Grapes of Wrath" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 188 performances
  • 1990 - Steve Allen, installed as a new abbot of Hartford St Zen Center, SF
  • 1991 - Jerry Lewis' 26th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $45,071,657
  • 1991 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
  • 1991 - US officially recognizes independence of Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
  • 1992 - Nicaragua struck by earthquake/floodings; 118 die
  • 1992 - US dollar valued at 156.50 guilder (record)
  • 1993 - 10th MTV Awards: Pearl Jam, En Vogue wins
  • 1993 - Central African Republic ex-emperor Bokassa freed
  • 1993 - Day of Peace in South Africa
  • 1994 - Miguel Indurain bicycles world record time (53,040 km)
  • 1995 - Actor Charlie Sheen (30th birthday) marries Donna Peele (25)
  • 1995 - Frank Bruno beats Oliver McCall in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
  • 1995 - Southern California begins using new area code 562
  • 1996 - Jerry Lewis' 31st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $49,200,000
  • 1996 - Michelle McGann wins LPGA State Farm Rail Golf Classic
  • 1996 - Soyuz TM-24, lands
  • 1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Montreal Canada on CHOM 97.7 FM
  • 1997 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toronto Canada on CILQ 107.1 FM

Famous birthdays for this day ..

  • 1661 - Georg Bohm, German organist/composer
  • 1716 - Johann Trier, composer
  • 1731 - Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Olint und Sophronia)
  • 1750 - Pehr Frigel, composer
  • 1763 - Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author
  • 1778 - Leopold FJJJ van Sassen Ysselt, Dutch politician
  • 1798 - Thomas Holliday Hicks, (Union Gov) died in 1865
  • 1814 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian
  • 1837 - James Harrison Wilson, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1925
  • 1838 - Liliuokalani, [Lydia Paki], last queen of Hawaii (1891-93)
  • 1839 - Henry George, land reformer/writer (Progress & Poverty)
  • 1850 - Albert Spaulding, baseball player/founded Spaulding sports company
  • 1850 - Eugene Field, author/journalist (Little Boy Blue)
  • 1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, Germany, physical chemist (Nobel 1909)
  • 1856 - Yang Hsiu-ch'ing, commander in chief of Taiping Rebellion
  • 1866 - Hiram Johnson, (Gov-Progressive-Cal)
  • 1869 - Delfien Vanhaute, [Eckart], Flem pastor/poet (Parsifal, Ark of No‰)
  • 1870 - Marie Ault, [Mary Cragg], Wigan England
  • 1878 - Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr
  • 1884 - Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, educator, taught reading through phonetics
  • 1887 - Willem De M‚rode, protestant poet
  • 1892 - Felix Wolfes, composer
  • 1894 - Joseph Roth, Austria, journalist/writer (Hotel Savoy)
  • 1904 - Set Svanholm, V„steras Sweden, tenor (London Convent Garden 1948-57)
  • 1904 - Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], NYC, actress (Follow the Leader)
  • 1905 - Bernard C J Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposophist? (founder Free College)
  • 1908 - Barbara Jo Allen, NYC, actress (Ice Capades Revue, Rosie the Riveter)
  • 1910 - Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher
  • 1911 - Eileen Way, actress (Les Miserables, Rainbow, Vikings, Assassin)
  • 1911 - Rene Amengual, composer
  • 1912 - Johan Daisne, [Herman Thiery], Belgian writer (magic realism)
  • 1914 - Booker T Laury, blues pianist/vocalist
  • 1915 - Dai-Keong Lee, composer
  • 1915 - Hans Joachim Koellreutter, composer
  • 1916 - Dorothy May Bundy-Cheney, winner of more than 141 US tennis titles
  • 1916 - Penny Santon, Greenwich Village NY, actress (Roll Out, Matt Houston)
  • 1917 - Cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide)
  • 1917 - Laurindo Almeida, Brazilian guitarist (developed bossa nova)
  • 1918 - Allen Drury, author (Advise & Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize)
  • 1918 - Laurindo Almeida, composer/guitarist
  • 1918 - Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell
  • 1919 - Gideon William Waldrop, composer
  • 1919 - Marge Champion, LA Calif, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show)
  • 1925 - Ronnie Stevens, London England, actor (Rodney-Dick & Duchess)
  • 1927 - Francis Matthews, British actor (On the Bowery, Paul Temple)
  • 1927 - Leonard Katzman, TV producer
  • 1927 - Trudi Jochum-Beiser, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
  • 1927 - Tzvi Avni, composer
  • 1928 - Miloslav Istvan, composer
  • 1928 - Peter Mansfield, writer
  • 1930 - Andrey Pavlovich Petrov, composer
  • 1931 - Alan K Simpson, minority whip (Sen-R-WY, 1979- )
  • 1931 - Pierre Huyskens, Dutch radio host
  • 1934 - Michael Sahl, composer
  • 1935 - Jim Moody, (Rep-D-WI, 1983- )
  • 1936 - David Leonard Blake, composer
  • 1936 - Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted
  • 1937 - Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics (1984)/baseball commissioner
  • 1938 - Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster
  • 1939 - Bobby Purify, rocker
  • 1939 - Robert Lee Dickey, US singer (I'm your puppet)
  • 1939 - Sam Gooden, Chattanooga Tenn, rock vocalist (Impressions-Gypsy Woman)
  • 1940 - Beverly Sanders, Hollywood Calif, actress (Lotsa Luck, CPO Sharkey)
  • 1940 - Jimmy Clanton, Baton Rogue, La, rock vocalist (Just a Dream)
  • 1940 - Mike Pyne, jazz Pianist
  • 1941 - Tommy Aycock, Edinburg TX, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas Senior-5th)
  • 1943 - Glenn Sather, NHL coach (Edmonton Oiler)
  • 1943 - Joe Simon, US singer (Power of Love)
  • 1943 - Rosalind Ashford, Detroit, rock vocalist (Martha Reeve & Vandellas)
  • 1944 - Claude Nicollier, Vevey Switzerland, astronaut (STS 61-K, 46, 61, 75)
  • 1946 - Luis Avalos, Havana Cuba, actor (Condo, E/R, I Had 3 Wives)
  • 1946 - Marty Grebb, Chicago, rocker (Buckinghams)
  • 1948 - Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, teacher/astronaut (STS 25)
  • 1948 - Terry Bradshaw, NFL QB (Pittsburgh Steelers)/announcer (CBS, FOX)
  • 1949 - Albert West[laken], Dutch singer (Dumb Willie)
  • 1951 - Mark Harmon, Burbank Calif, actor (Dr Caldwell-St Elsewhere)
  • 1951 - Michael Gray, Chicago Ill, actor (Ronnie-Brian Keith Show)
  • 1951 - Mike Kaminsky, rocker
  • 1952 - Earl Pomeroy, (Rep-D-North Dakota)
  • 1952 - Jimmy Connors, tennis brat (US Open-78, 82, 83 Wimbledon-74, 82)
  • 1953 - Gerhard P J Thiele, Brenz Germany, astronaut
  • 1955 - Linda Purl, Greenwich Ct, actress (Gloria-Happy Days, Matlock)
  • 1957 - Steve Porcaro, LA Cal, rock keyboards/vocalist (Toto-Roseanna, Africa)
  • 1958 - Marlene Janssen, Rock Island Ill, playmate (Nov, 1982)
  • 1959 - Esther Oosterbeek, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots)
  • 1960 - Eric Dickerson, Texas, NFL halfback (LA Rams, Colts/2,105 yds in 1984)
  • 1960 - Rex Hudler, Tempe AZ, outfielder (NY Yankees, California Angels)
  • 1961 - Jeff Russell, Cincinnatti OH, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
  • 1963 - Sam Mitchell, NBA forward (Minn Timberwolves)
  • 1964 - Keanu Reeves, Beirut, actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed)
  • 1965 - Doug Linton, Santa Ana CA, pitcher (KC Royals)
  • 1965 - Lennox Lewis, WBC boxing champ
  • 1966 - Salma Hayek, actress (Desparado)
  • 1968 - Ricardo de Jongh, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
  • 1969 - Mark Brettschneider, Cincinnati Oh, actor (Jason-One Life to Live)
  • 1969 - Russell Freeman, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
  • 1969 - Shani Waugh, Bunbury Aust, LPGA golfer (Aust sub-jr champ-1986, 87)
  • 1971 - Rich Aurilia, Brooklyn NY, infielder (SF Giants)
  • 1971 - Shauna Sand, San Diego Calif, actress (Renegade)
  • 1971 - Tommy Maddox, NFL quarterback (NY Giants)
  • 1972 - James Willis, NFL linebacker (Phila Eagles)
  • 1972 - Katarina Studenikova, Bratislava Slovak Rep, tennis star
  • 1973 - Matthew Dunn, Leeton NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
  • 1974 - Jason Lawson, NBA center (Orlando Magic)
  • 1974 - Karina Wieland, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
  • 1980 - Ashley Witmer, Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA (1997)
  • 1981 - Katie Teft, Grand Rapids Mich, gymnast (Olympics-96)

Famous deaths for this day ..
  • 0421 - Flavius Constantine III, emperor of Westromeinse, dies at about 51
  • 1384 - Louis I, duke of Anjou/king of Naples (Battle of Poitiers), dies
  • 1418 - Jan III Chalon, prince of Orange/gov of Burgundy, dies
  • 1547 - Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians
  • 1566 - Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter, dies at 37
  • 1606 - Carel van Mander, Flemish painter/art historian, dies at 58
  • 1645 - lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded
  • 1698 - Justus Vingboons, Architect, buried
  • 1715 - Constantin Christian Dedekind, composer, dies at 87
  • 1779 - Onno Zwier van Hairs, Fries poet (Agon), dies at 66
  • 1790 - Johann N von Hontheim, German religious historian/Bishop, dies
  • 1862 - Thornton F Brodhead, US lawyer/politician/brig-general, dies at 40
  • 1870 - Charles Victor Arthur Saint-Leon, composer, dies at 48
  • 1891 - Ferdinand Christian Wilhelm Praeger, composer, dies at 76
  • 1896 - Nat Thompson, cricketer (played 1st Two Tests for Australia), dies
  • 1898 - Hubert Howard, British journalist (Times), dies through friendly fire
  • 1905 - Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer, dies at 79
  • 1906 - Guiseppe Giacosa, Ital screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies
  • 1910 - Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, dies
  • 1914 - EugŠne OdŠne, French mayor of Senlis, executed
  • 1915 - August Stramm, writer, dies at 41
  • 1934 - Ruggiero de Rudolpho "Russ" Columbo, US singer/violist, dies at 26
  • 1937 - Esther de Farmer-of Rich, actress (Kniertje-On hope of blessing), dies
  • 1937 - Pierre de Coubertin, baron/revivor of Olympics, dies at 74
  • 1944 - George W Norris, US senator (lame duck-amendement), dies
  • 1955 - Rudolf Kattnigg, composer, dies at 60
  • 1957 - William A Craigie, Scottish lexicographer, dies at 90
  • 1961 - Greet Koeman, Dutch singer, dies at 54
  • 1964 - Francisco H Craveiro Lopes, Portuguese gen/pres (1951-58), dies at 70
  • 1964 - Morris Ankrum, actor (Kronos, Earth vs Flying Saucers), dies at 67
  • 1965 - Johannes Bobrowski, writer, dies at 48
  • 1968 - Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82
  • 1969 - Harry Williams Millard, producer, dies of cancer at 41
  • 1970 - Allan Walker, actor/writer (Red Buttons Show), dies at 64
  • 1970 - Cornelis L "Kees" van Baaren, Dutch composer (Hollow Men), dies at 63
  • 1973 - John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies of ulcer at 81
  • 1979 - Felix Aylmer, actor (Quartet, Hamlet, Dreaming Lips), dies at 90
  • 1980 - William Douglas Denny, composer, dies at 70
  • 1982 - Jay Novello, actor (Harum Scarum, Rebel Breed), dies of cancer at 78
  • 1982 - Tom Bakker, actor (Golden Voyage of Sinbad), dies of a drug OD at 42
  • 1985 - Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star, dies at 64
  • 1989 - A Bartlett Giamatti, baseball commisioner, dies at 51
  • 1991 - Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican foreign minister (Nobel 1982), dies
  • 1991 - Concetto Lo Bello, Italian intl soccer judge, dies
  • 1992 - Barbara McClintock, US, geneticist (Nobel 1983), dies at 90
  • 1992 - Piotr Jaroszewicz, premier of Poland (1970-80), dies
  • 1993 - Eric Berry, English/US actor (Pippin, 49th Parallel), dies at 80
  • 1993 - John/Eoin Higgins, N Ire supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66
  • 1994 - Detlef Macha, German DR cyclist (5x world champ), dies at 35
  • 1994 - Harry Vincent Kemp, poet, dies at 82
  • 1994 - Mildred Mcafee Horton, US 1st head mistress of WAVES, dies
  • 1994 - Richard M Major, US anti-terror specialist (CIA Red Book), dies at 72
  • 1994 - Roy Castle, entertainer, dies at 62
  • 1995 - Vaclav Neummann, conductor, dies at 74
  • 1996 - Cyril Reuben, violinist, dies at 69
  • 1996 - Emily Kngwarreye, artist, dies at 86
  • 1996 - Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West, dies at 71
  • 1996 - Otto Luening, composer, dies at 96
  • 1996 - Paddy Clift, cricketer (Rhod & Leicester all-rounder 1970-88), dies
  • 1997 - Rudolf Bing, opera manager (NY Met Opera), dies at 95
  • 1997 - Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist (Man's Search for Meaning), dies at 92

  


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