The document provides a summary of historical events and famous birthdays that occurred on August 16th throughout history. Some key events mentioned include the Battle of Guinegate in 1513 where Maximilian and Henry VIII defeated France, the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819 where cavalry charged demonstrators killing 15, and the Woodstock music festival beginning its second day in 1969. Famous birthdays listed include T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) in 1888, Tony Trabert a five-time major tennis champion in 1930, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in 1913.
1. Today in History for 16th August 2015
Historical Events
Events 1 - 100 of 157
1384 - The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears a case of couple who tore paper
money bills while fighting over them (equal to act of destroying stamped government documents - by
law necessitated one hundred floggings). However Hongwu Emperor decides to pardon them.
1513 - Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian & Henry VIII beat France
1570 - King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II
1625 - Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe
1691 - Yorktown, Virginia founded
1717 - Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade
1743 - Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)
1745 - Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
1748 - "Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies
1777 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
1780 - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
1794 - Hungarian revolutionary Ignác Martinovics arrested in Vienna
King of England Henry VIII
1797 - Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth
1812 - General Hull surrenders Detroit & Michigan territory to British forces
1812 - British forces under the command of Major General Sir Isaac Brock capture Fort Detroit with
2. the help of Indigenous warriors led by Tecumseh
1819 - Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England: cavalry charges demonstrators.15 people killed and
400-700 injured
1829 - Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
1834 - Charles Darwin climbs Mt Campana in Chile
1858 - Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan
1861 - Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy
1861 - Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri
1863 - Chickamauga campaign GA
1864 - Federal assault on 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia
Queen of the United Kingdom Victoria
1864 - Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam
1865 - Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its
independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.
1869 - Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian
Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
1870 - Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
1876 - Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
1880 - The French state commissions sculptor Auguste Rodin for a large sculpted doorway 'The
Gates of Hell' for the proposed Musée des Arts Décoratifs
1882 - British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria
1890 - Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia
3. 1894 - Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce
Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
1896 - Gold first discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Alaska by George Carmack
Sculptor Auguste Rodin
1898 - Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
1903 - Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8
1904 - NYC begins building Grand Central Station
1905 - Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa
1906 - -17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
1907 - Mulay Hafid is proclaimed the Sultan of Morocco by supporters leading to civil war; Mulay is
supported by Germany while France supports the existing Sultan
1908 - The Committee of Union and Progress, 'The Young Turks', announces a program for reforms
and respect for the rights of all within the Ottoman Empire, regardless of race or religion
1913 - T?hoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day T?hoku University) admits its first female
students.
1914 - German army occupies last fort at Liege, Belgian general Leman caught
1914 - Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico
1914 - World War I: Battle of Cer begins.
1915 - KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0
1918 - US troops overrun at Archangelsk by Bolshevik troops
1920 - Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only
major league fatality
4. 1921 - Members of the Dail (parliament) swear allegiance to the Irish Republic at their first meeting,
held at Dublin House
1922 - AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC)
Tennis Player Helen Wills Moody
1924 - 38th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla Mallory (6-1 6-3)
1924 - Conference about German recovery payments opens in London
1924 - Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed
1924 - 38th U.S. Women's National Championship: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla Bjurstedt Mallory
(6-1, 6-3)
1927 - 1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)
1930 - The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1934 - US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
1934 - US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere
1936 - 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin
1940 - 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
1941 - HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene,
near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
5. Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1942 - British Premier Winston Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
1943 - 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily)
1943 - Bulgarian Tsar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
1944 - 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise, Normandy
1944 - Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London
1944 - US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux
1944 - First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
1945 - Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops.
1946 - Direct Action Day - riots in Calcutta between Muslim and Hindus kill over 4,000 over demand
for Pakistan separate state
1947 - Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs
1948 - Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem
1948 - Israeli pound becomes legal tender
1950 - West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England
6. Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler
1953 - KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins
1953 - Shah of Persia & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome
1954 - "Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing
1954 - 200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood
1955 - Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
1956 - Adlai E Stevenson nominated as US Democratic presidential candidate
1956 - Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open
1959 - USSR introduces installment buying
1960 - Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
1960 - Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')
1960 - Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms
1961 - 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin
1961 - Martin L King protests for black voting right in Miami
7. Beatles Drummer Ringo Starr
1962 - Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles' drummer
1963 - Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
1964 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational
1964 - St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader
1965 - AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins)
1967 - Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves
1967 - WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 - WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting
Swami
Satchidananda addressing the opening ceremony at Woodstock
1969 - Second day of the Woodstock rock festival in NY
8. Golfer and Two-Time PGA Champion Dave Stockton
1970 - 52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK
1970 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open
1971 - Over 8,000 workers go on strike in Derry, Northern Ireland, in protest at the introduction of
Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial)
1972 - 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 235
1355 - Philippa Plantagenet, Countess of Ulster
1378 - Hongxi Emperor of China (d. 1425)
1397 - Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany
1401 - Jacqueline, Countess of Hainaut, dauphine of France (d. 1436)
1550 - Carolus Gallus, [Karel de Haan], Dutch lawyer/pastor/vicar
1557 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (d. 1602)
1573 - Anna of Austria, queen of Poland (d. 1598)
1596 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine (d. 1632)
1622 - Tsjerk H de Vries, fleet guardian
1637 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and poet (d. 1706)
1645 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696)
1650 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist (d. 1718)
1666 - Henriette Amalia, monarch of Nassau-Dietz
9. 1682 - Louis, duc de Bourgogne, heir-apparent to the French throne (d. 1712)
1761 - Yevstigney Fomin, Russian composer (d. 1800)
1769 - Jean Aime Vernier, composer
1776 - Philipp Jakob Riotte, composer
1795 - Heinrich August Marschner, composer
1815 - John Bosco, Italian priest and educator (d. 1888)
1816 - Joseph Robinson, composer
1817 - Henry Winter Davis, MC (Union), (d. 1865)
1820 - Andrew Rainsford Wetmore, Canadian politician (d. 1892)
1828 - Joseph Bradford Carr, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 - Edward Payson Chapin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1863)
1831 - John Jones Ross, Quebec politician (d. 1901)
1832 - Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher
1836 - John Farmer, composer
1837 - Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer
1842 - Jakob Rosanes, German mathematician (d. 1922)
1845 - Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
1846 - Justus van Maurik, Dutch cigar manufacturer/writer/editor (Groene)
1858 - Arthur Achleitner, German writer (d. 1927)
1860 - Jules Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintas)
1860 - Lord Hawke, cricketer (England batsman 1890's, many official posts)
1862 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, football pioneer, inventor (tackling dummy)
1864 - Ferdinand C S Schiller, British philosopher (Riddles of the Sphinx)
1867 - Antonio Nobre, Portuguese poet (Lonely)
1868 - Charles Sanford Skilton, composer
1868 - Bernarr McFadden, American physical culture advocate and (d. 1955)
10. 1871 - Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili, composer
1876 - Ivan Bilibin, Russian illustrator (d. 1942)
1877 - Karl L Hoschna, composer
1882 - Pierre H Ritter Jr, Dutch literary/head (Utrecht Newspaper)
1884 - Adrian S Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer/adviser (British Petroleum/Shell)
1884 - Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer (1960 Hugo)
1884 - Walther von Reichenau, German field marshal (d. 1942)
1885 - Charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), born in London, England
Soldier and Writer T. E. Lawrence (1888)
1888 - T. E. Lawrence Tremadoc [Lawrence of Arabia], Wales, soldier/writer
1888 - Armand J. Piron, American musician (d. 1943)
1892 - Harold Foster, cartoonist (created "Prince Valiant")
1892 - Otto Messmer, American cartoonist (d. 1983)
1894 - George Meany, labor leader (headed AFL-CIO), born in NYC, New York
1895 - Jacinto Guerrero, composer
1895 - Lucien Littlefield, San Antonia Tx, actor (Mr Beasley-Blondie)
1895 - Albert Cohen, Swiss novelist (d. 1981)
1895 - Liane Haid, Austrian actress (d. 2000)
1896 - (or the 17th) Tina Modotti, Udine Italy, Italian artist and activist
1897 - Robert Ringling, circus master
11. 1897 - Vicente Ascone, composer
1899 - Glenn Strange, Weed NM, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke)
1902 - Georgette Heyer, English novelist (Friday's Child)
1902 - Stefan Boleslaw Poradowski, composer
1904 - Wendell Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel 1946)
1906 - Franz Josef II, prince of Liechtenstein (1938-89)
1907 - Alexander Uriah Boskovich, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Israeli composer
1907 - Mae Clarke, [Klotz], Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Waterloo Bridge)
1908 - William Maxwell, American novelist and editor (d. 2000)
1909 - Paul Smith Callaway, composer
1910 - Mae Clarke, Phila, actress (Frankenstein, Nana, Parole Girl)[or 1907]
1912 - Marga AM Klompe, 1st Netherland woman elected minister
1912 - Ted Drake, English footballer (d. 1995)
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (1913)
1913 - Menachem Begin, Brest Russian Empire, Israeli PM (1977-83, Nobel 1978), (d. 1992)
1914 - Tullio Pandolfini, Italy, water polo (Olympic-gold-1948)
1915 - Al Hibbler, singer (Unchained Melody)
1916 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (d. 2003)
1917 - Roque Cordero, Panama, composer (Sonata Breve)
1920 - Charles Bukowski, Andernach Germany, US writer (Hollywood: A Novel)
12. 1922 - Louis E Lomax, author
1923 - Joe Hutton, northumbrian piper/shepherd
1923 - Millôr Fernandes, Brazilian playwright
1925 - Fess Parker, Fort Worth Texas, actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller)
1925 - Willie Jones, American baseball player (d. 1983)
1928 - Ann Blyth, Mt Kisko NY, actress (Kismet, Mildred Pierce)
1928 - Eddie Kirkland, Jamaican/US blues guitarist (Have Mercy)
1929 - Bill Evans, US jazz pianist
1929 - Helmut Rahn, German footballer (d. 2003)
1929 - Fritz Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1997)
1930 - Frank Gifford, American NFL halfback (NY Giants)/ABC sportscaster, born in Santa Monica,
California (d. 2015)
1930 - Marion A Trabert, tennis champ (US Open-1953)
1930 - Robert Culp, Berkley California, actor (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
Tennis Player and Five-Time Major Champion Tony Trabert (1930)
1930 - Tony Trabert, Cincinnati Ohio, tennis pro (1955 Wimbledon)
1932 - Eydie Gorme, [Edithe Gormezano], Bronx NY, singer (Bossa Nova), (d. 2013)
1932 - Jon Lindbergh, 2nd son of aviator Charles Lindbergh
1933 - Jan van Ginkel, graphic artist/publisher (Perscombinatie)
1933 - Reiner Kunze, writer
1933 - Stuart A "Smokey" Roosa, Durango Colo, Col USAF/astronaut (Apollo 14)
13. 1934 - Diana Wynne Jones, UK, sci-fi author (Drowned Ammet, Witch Week)
1934 - Ed van Thijn, (Jewish) Dutch foreign min/mayor (Amsterdam, 1983-94)
1934 - John Standing, actor (Edward-Lime Street), born in London, England
1934 - Ketty Lester, [Revoyda Frierson], US singer/actress (Love Letters)
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 11 of 11
1290 - Charles van Valois weds Margaretha van Anjou
1477 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, weds Mary of Burgundy, the heiress to the Duchy of
Burgundy in Ghent, Belgium
1846 - Opera Composer (The Barber of Seville) Gioacchino Rossini marries 2nd wife Olympe
Pélissier in Paris
Filmmaker and Director Cecil B. DeMille (1902)
1902 - Filmmaker Cecil B DeMille (21) weds actress Constance Adams (28) in Orange, New Jersey
1919 - NFL player Curly Lambeau (21) weds high school sweetheart Marguerite Van Kessel in Green
Bay, Wisconsin
1946 - Famous ballet choreographer George Balanchine (42) weds ballerina Maria Tallchief (21)
14. 1983 - musician Paul Simon weds actress and writer Carrie Fisher
1985 - Singer Madonna weds actor Sean Penn on her 27th birthday
1992 - Comedian Janeane Garofalo (27) weds writer Robert Cohen in Las Vegas
2008 - "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" talk show host Ellen DeGeneres (54) weds actress Portia de
Rossi (39) in Beverly Hills, California
2011 - Fashion designer Michael Kors (51) weds Lance LePere in Southampton, New York
Famous Divorces
Divorces 1 - 1 of 1
Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra (1968)
1968 - Singer/actor Frank Sinatra and 3rd wife actress Mia Farrow divorce after 2 years of marriage
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 100 of 126
1027 - Giorgi I, King of Georgia (b. 998)
1297 - John II of Trebizond (b. 1262)
1327 - Roch, French saint (b. 1295)
1358 - Duke Albert II of Austria (b. 1298)
1419 - Wenceslaus, King of the Romans, King of Bohemia (b. 1361)
1443 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1434)
1445 - Margaret of Scotland (Dauphine of France), wife of the future King Louis XI (b. 1424)
1508 - Henry van Stolberg & Wernigerode, Ger viceroy of Friesland, dies at 41
1518 - Loyset Compère, French composer
15. 1532 - John the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony (b. 1468)
1603 - Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri), dies at 62
1661 - Thomas Fuller, English prime minister, dies at 53
1675 - Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies
1678 - Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57
1705 - Jean/Jacobus Bernouilli, Swiss mathematician, dies at 50
1733 - Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)
1738 - Joe Miller, English comic, dies
1748 - Pietro Giuseppe Sandoni, composer, dies at 63
1786 - Henri-Jacques de Croes, Flemish composer/bandmaster, dies at 80
1791 - Charles-François de Broglie, marquis de Ruffec, French soldier and diplomat (b. 1719)
1799 - Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, dies at 61
1807 - Claude C Saunier, French furniture maker, dies at about 72
1831 - Eduard Brendler, composer, dies at 30
1836 - Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician (b. 1755)
1854 - Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies
1855 - Henry Colburn, British publisher (b. ?)
1864 - John Randolph Chambliss Jr, planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31
1870 - Ludvig Anton Edmund Passy, composer, dies at 80
1886 - Swami Ramakrishna, Indies philosopher, dies at 50
1888 - John Pemberton, American druggist and inventor of Coca-Cola (b. 1831)
1893 - Jean-Martin Charcot, French neurologist (b. 1825)
1894 - Herman van der Tuuk, Dutch linguist (Toba Batak grammar), dies at 70
1899 - Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, German chemist (b. 1811)
1900 - Eca de Queiroz, writer, dies
1907 - James Hector, Scottish geologist (b. 1834)
16. 1910 - Charles Ferdinand Lenepveu, composer, dies at 69
1911 - Karl Munzinger, composer, dies at 68
1920 - J Norman Lockyer, English physicist (discovered helium in Sun), dies
1921 - Peter I Karadjordjevic, king of Serbia/Yugoslavia, dies [or 8/26]
1929 - Frank Valentine Van der Stucken, composer, dies at 70
Singer and guitarist Robert Johnson (1938)
1938 - Robert Johnson, US Delta-blues singer/guitarist, poisoned at 27
1938 - Andrej Hlinka, Slovak politician and priest (b. 1864)
1939 - Ron Oxenham, cricketer (7 Tests for Australia, 14 wickets), dies
1940 - Billy Fiske, US RAF-pilot/2nd lieutenant, dies of injuries
1940 - Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75
1944 - Roman Padlewski, composer, dies at 28
1945 - Nico Richter, composer, dies at 29
1945 - Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies
1946 - Herman Harrell Horne, philosopher (idealism)
1948 - Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (NY Yankees), dies in NY at 53
1949 - Margaret Mitchell, US writer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 48
1951 - Louis Jouvet, actor (Volpone, Topaze, La Marseillaise), dies at 63
1952 - Lydia Field Emmet, American painter (b. 1866)
1956 - Bela Lugosi, actor (Dracula), dies of heart attack at 73
17. Actor Bela Lugosi (1956)
1957 - Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1881)
1958 - Paul Panzer, actor (Cat's Paw, Mildred Pierce), dies at 85
1959 - Pedro Humberto Allende Saron, Chilean composer (Tonados), dies at 74
1959 - William "Bull" F Halsey, US vice-admiral (WW II Pacific), dies
1959 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
1960 - Errol Holmes, cricketer (batted in 5 Tests for England 1935), dies
1961 - Maulvi Abdul Haq, Father of Modern Urdu (b. 1870)
1964 - Jack Pennick, actor (Lady From Louisiana), dies at 68
1965 - Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer, dies at 64
1966 - Jack Mather, actor (Cisco Kid), dies of heart attack at 58
1968 - Luis Gianneo, composer, dies at 71
1969 - Russ Bender, actor/writer (Air Patrol, Strangler), dies at 59
1971 - Elsie Baker, actress (Ghosts of Hanley House), dies at 78
1972 - John Barnes Chance, composer, dies at 39
1973 - Selman A Waksman, Russian/US microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85
1973 - Veda Ann Borg, actress (Kid Galahad), dies at 54
1974 - Karl E Mundt, (Rep/Sen), dies
1976 - Beppie Nooij Jr, Dutch actress (Rooie Sien), dies at 83
18. Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley (1977)
1977 - Elvis Presley, American musician, dies at Graceland at 42. Official cause of death is cardiac
arrhythmia
1978 - Alidius WL Tjarda van Stachouwer, gov-gen of Neth Indies, dies at 90
1979 - John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada, dies at 83
1983 - Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)
1984 - Gyorgy Kosa, composer, dies at 87
1986 - John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45
1986 - Jaime Saenz, Bolivian poet, novelist, and short story writer (b. 1921)
1988 - Milton Adolphus, composer, dies at 75
1989 - Amanda Blake [Beverly Louise Neill], American actress (Gunsmoke), dies at 60
1990 - Pat O'Connor, New Zealand professional wrestler (b. 1925)
1991 - Robert DiMatte Jr, stage director/actor, dies at 43
1991 - Shamu the Whale, dies of respiratory failure at 16
13th Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker (1979)
19. 1991 - Stuart Karl, CEO (Karl Home Video), dies at 38 of skin cancer
1992 - Mark Heard, Christian musician, dies at 41 of a heart attack
1993 - Irene Sharaff, US costume designer (Cleopatra, Can-can), dies at 83
1993 - Joseph Towers, US pilot, dies
1993 - Stewart Granger, actor (Scaramouche), dies of cancer at 80
1993 - Tom Fuccella, actor (Paul-One Life to Live), dies of AIDs at 56
1994 - Earnest Pawel, Polish/US author (Nightmare of Reason), dies at 74
1994 - Frits de Knight, photographer, dies of AIDS at 40
1994 - Henry Geldzahler, US critic, dies
1994 - John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73
1995 - John Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC), dies at 89
1995 - John Priestly McCartjy, detroit DJ, dies at 62
1995 - Robert "Robby" Debarge, R&B Musician, dies at 36
1996 - Eric Cullen, actor (Huntington Tower), dies at 31
1996 - Robert Lynn, anarchist, dies at 72
1997 - Gerard McLarnon, actor/writer, dies at 82
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