; ct2gcal.pl output ; ; Absolutely NO warrenty! ; ; ;# CalenTool V2.2 - nflag=1 range=3,4 - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE ;# $Header: lives2,v 1.1 91/03/07 16:18:54 billr Exp $ ;# (Mar-Apr) ;# Famous people's births, deaths and marriages file for calentool ;# extracted from ProLine's today file and Today in History provided ;# by Robert Heckendorn at Hewlett-Packard in Fort Collins, Colorado. ;# converted to calentool format by lwv27%cas.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.Edu. ;# ;# There may be duplicates where I don't have a definitive correct ;# date. billr@saab.cna.tek.com ;# 00000301 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US sculptor, designed 1907 $20 gold piece. (1848)%s18480301 00000301 David Niven, the actor, born (1910)%s19100301 00000301 Edwin H. Land, inventor, his 500 patents was exceeded only by Edison, dies (1991)%s19910301 00000301 Frederic Chopin (1810)%s18100301 00000301 Jim Morrison busted for obscenity (Miami, 1969)%s19690301 00000301 Ron Howard, actor and director, is born in Duncan, Oklahoma (1954)%s19540301 00000302 Blues guitarist Rory Gallagher born (Ballyshannon, Ireland, 1949)%s19490302 00000302 D. H. Lawrence, author, died (1930)%s19300302 00000302 Karen Carpenter, the drummer and singer of "The Carpenters", is born in New Haven, Conn. (1950)%s19500302 00000302 Neil Erbe (1944)%s19440302 00000302 Theodor Seuss Geisel, also known as the writer and illustrator of children's books, Dr. Seuss, is born (1904)%s19040302 00000303 Arthur Murray, dance instructor, dies (1991)%s19910303 00000303 Danny Kaye, actor and comedian, dies (1987)%s19870303 00000303 David Atchison, president pro tempore of the senate, is president for one day since Taylor won't take office on a Sunday (1849)%s18490303 00000303 Jean Harlow, "the blonde bombshell," American actress, is born (1911)%s19110303 00000304 Antonio Vivaldi, late Baroque violin virtuoso and composer born in Venice, Italy. (1678)%s16780304 00000304 Casimir Pulaski, Polish nobleman who served in the American Revolution, is born (1747)%s17470304 00000304 Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsored Portuguese voyages of discovery (1394)%s13940304 00000305 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, soldier, founder of Detroit and governor of Louisiana, is born in France (1658)%s16580305 00000305 Berick Traven Torsvan, American author, is born (1890)%s18900305 00000305 Gerardus Mercator born (1512)%s15120305 00000305 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (of Currier & Ives fame) (1824)%s18240305 00000305 John Belushi, actor, dies (Los Angeles, 1982)%s19820305 00000305 Joseph Stalin, the dictator, dies in Moscow (1953)%s19530305 00000305 Rex Harrison, Professor Henry Higgins from "My Fair Lady", was born (1908)%s19080305 00000305 Rosa Luxembourg, "Red Rosa", German socialist leader, is born (1871)%s18710305 00000305 Sergei Prokofiev, the composer, dies in Moscow (1953)%s19530305 00000306 Aaron Burr, dualist (1756)%s17560306 00000306 Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking. (1812)%s18120306 00000306 Cyrano de Bergerac, dramatist, is born (1619)%s16190306 00000306 David Gilmour born (Cambridge, England, 1944)%s19440306 00000306 Davy Crockett dies in the Alamo (1836)%s18360306 00000306 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, is born (1806)%s18060306 00000306 Hongi Hika, Ngapuhi War Chief of New Zealand, dies (1828)%s18280306 00000306 John Philip Sousa, American composer and band leader, dies (1932)%s19320306 00000306 Josephvon Fraunhaufer born (1787)%s17870306 00000306 Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, dies (1888)%s18880306 00000306 Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet, is born (1475)%s14750306 00000306 Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, the composer, is born in Russia (1844)%s18440306 00000306 Pearl Buck, American novelist, dies (1973)%s19730306 00000306 Valentina Tereshkova, 1st woman cosmonaut (1937)%s19370306 00000307 Aristotle, philosopher, died (322 BC) 00000307 Luther Burbank, plant breeder (1849)%s18490307 00000307 Maurice Ravel, the composer, is born in France (1875)%s18750307 00000307 Sir John Frederick William Herschel, the astronomer and brother of Caroline Herschel, is born (1792)%s17920307 00000308 Alvan Clark, astronomer and lens manufacturer, is born (1804)%s18040308 00000308 Graf (count) Ferdinand von Zeppelin, airship pioneer, dies in Berlin (1917)%s19170308 00000308 Howard Aiken, computer pioneer, born (1900)%s19000308 00000308 John Ericsson, inventor of the screw propeller, dies (1889)%s18890308 00000308 Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, helped create modern plastic surgery (1787)%s17870308 00000308 Kenneth Grahame, author of "Wind in the Willows", is born in Edinburgh (1859)%s18590308 00000308 Ned Gordon, last American pirate, is hanged (1862)%s18620308 00000308 Otto Hahn, co-discoverer of nuclear fission (1879)%s18790308 00000308 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (Grateful Dead) dies (CA, 1973)%s19730308 00000309 Leland Stanford, Governor, Senator, founded Stanford Univ. (1824)%s18240309 00000309 Mickey Spillane, novelist, is born in Brooklyn (1918)%s19180309 00000309 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais (1796)%s17960309 00000309 Robin Trower born (London, 1945)%s19450309 00000309 Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, is born (1934)%s19340309 00000310 HRH Prince Edward Anthony Richard Louis, third son of Elizabeth II of England is born (1964)%s19640310 00000310 Heywood Hale Broun, American journalist, is born (1918)%s19180310 00000311 Erle Stanley Gardner, writer and creator of Perry Mason, dies (1970)%s19700311 00000311 John Chapman ("Johnny Appleseed") dies (1845)%s18450311 00000311 Lawrence Welk, bandleader, is born in North Dakota (where else?) (1903)%s19030311 00000311 Robert Treat Paine born (1737)%s17370311 00000311 Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist, dies (1955)%s19550311 00000311 Vannevar Bush born (1890)%s18900311 00000312 Ann Zwinger, American ecological author, is born (1925)%s19250312 00000312 Charles Boycott, estate manager in Ireland, caused boycotts. (1832)%s18320312 00000312 Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer. (1831)%s18310312 00000312 Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, the physicist, is born (1824)%s18240312 00000312 Jack (Jean-Louis) Kerouac, Canadian-born American author, is born (1922)%s19220312 00000312 James Taylor, singer songwriter, is born (1948)%s19480312 00000313 Charles, Earl Grey, Whig statesmen and Prime Minister is born (1764)%s17640313 00000313 Clarence Darrow, lawyer, dies (1938)%s19380313 00000313 Czar Alexander II of Russia is assassinated with a bomb (1881)%s18810313 00000313 Stephen Vincent Benet, poet, dies (1943)%s19430313 00000314 Albert Einstein, physicist, born (1879)%s18790314 00000314 Casey Jones, railroad engineer (1864)%s18640314 00000314 Colin Fletcher, "The Man Who Walked Through Time," is born (1922)%s19220314 00000314 Edward Abbey, environmentalist author, author of "The Monkey Wrench Gang", dies in Tucson, AZ (1989)%s19890314 00000314 Georg Philipp Telemann, leading German late baroque composer. (1681)%s16810314 00000314 Giovanni Virginio Schiaparelli, astronomer who named Mars "canals", is born (1835)%s18350314 00000314 Hank Ketcham, cartoonist who penned Dennis the Menace, is born (1920)%s19200314 00000314 Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician and physicist, is born (1768)%s17680314 00000314 John Holmes, porn star, dies (1987)%s19870314 00000314 John Luther "Casey" Jones, railroad engineer, born (1864)%s18640314 00000314 Karl Marx dies (1883)%s18830314 00000314 Les Brown, band leader, is born (1912)%s19120314 00000314 Michael Caine, actor, is born (1933)%s19330314 00000315 Andrew Jackson, 7th President (1828-1836) (1767)%s17670315 00000315 Ides of March; Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus (44 BC) 00000315 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille born (1713)%s17130315 00000315 Phil Lesh born Philip Chapman (Berkeley, 1940)%s19400315 00000315 Sly Stone, of the rock band Sly and the Family Stone, born (1944)%s19440315 00000316 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car. (1836)%s18360316 00000316 Caroline Herschel born (1750)%s17500316 00000316 George Clymer, American politician and signer of the Declaration of Independence, is born (1739)%s17390316 00000316 James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817) (1751)%s17510316 00000316 Jerry Jeff Walker, American country singer, is born (1942)%s19420316 00000316 Maksim Gorky, Russian novelist, is born (1868)%s18680316 00000317 Gottlieb Daimler, automobile pioneer (1834)%s18340317 00000317 James Bridger, scout, fur trader, mountain man par excellance. (1804)%s18040317 00000317 Nat King Cole (1919)%s19190317 00000317 Paul Kantner (Jefferson Airplane) born (San Francisco, 1942)%s19420317 00000318 Grover Cleveland, President (1885-1889, 1893-1897) (1837)%s18370318 00000318 Ivan the Terrible, czar of Russia, dies (1584)%s15840318 00000318 John C. Calhoun, statesman (1782)%s17820318 00000318 John Updike, poet and novelist. (1932)%s19320318 00000318 Rudolf Diesel, invented an engine. (1858)%s18580318 00000319 Charles Russell, American Western artist, is born (1864)%s18640319 00000319 Edgar Rice Burroughs, the writer and creator of Tarzan, dies (1950)%s19500319 00000319 Georges de La Tour, French painter, is born (1593)%s15930319 00000319 Glenn Close, actress, is born in Greenwich, Connecticut (1947)%s19470319 00000319 Sir Richard Burton, explorer, writer, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika is born in Devon (1821)%s18210319 00000319 William Jennings Bryan, 'The Great Commoner' (1860)%s18600319 00000320 B. F. Skinner, psychologist, pioneer in Behaviorism. (1904)%s19040320 00000320 Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management. (1856)%s18560320 00000320 Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian dramatist and poet, is born (1828)%s18280320 00000320 Marshall Ferdinand Foch, French military leader, dies (1929)%s19290320 00000320 Ozzie Nelson, American TV star, is born (1907)%s19070320 00000320 Sir Isaac Newton, mathematician, physicist and astronomer, dies in London (1727)%s17270320 00000320 William Hurt, actor, born (1950)%s19500320 00000321 Benito Juarez, Mexican revolutionary and president, is born (1806)%s18060321 00000321 Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer and impresario, is born in Chicago (1869)%s18690321 00000321 James Usher, Archbishop of Armagh, scholar, dies at Reigate, Surrey (1656)%s16560321 00000321 Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician & Egyptologist (1768)%s17680321 00000321 Johann Sebastian Bach, baroque composer, born in Eisenach, Germany (1685)%s16850321 00000321 Robert Preston, actor, known for his role as the Music Man, dies at 68 (1987)%s19870321 00000322 Johann Wolfgang Goethe, poet, novelist, dies (1832)%s18320322 00000322 Leonard Marx, Chico of the Marx Brothers, is born (1891)%s18910322 00000322 Marcel Marceau, mime and actor, born in Strasbourg (1923)%s19230322 00000322 The Great Wallenda (of the Flying Wallendas) dies (1978)%s19780322 00000322 William Shatner, Captain Kirk of Star Trek, is born in Montreal,Quebec (1931)%s19310322 00000323 Elizabeth I of England dies (1603)%s16030323 00000323 Joan Crawford is born (1908)%s19080323 00000323 Werner von Braun, rocketeer (1912)%s19120323 00000324 Clyde Barrow (Bonnie and Clyde) is born (1909)%s19090324 00000324 Harry Houdini, magician and escape artist, is born (1874)%s18740324 00000324 John Wesley Powell, explorer of the Colorado River, is born (1834)%s18340324 00000325 Aretha Franklin born (Detroit, 1943)%s19430325 00000325 Assassination of King Fisal of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh, by his nephew, Prince Museid (1975)%s19750325 00000326 Benjamin Thompson born, Count Rumford; American physicist (1753)%s17530326 00000326 Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock from Star Trek, is born in Boston, Mass. (1931)%s19310326 00000326 Pierre Boulez, French composer. (1925)%s19250326 00000326 Robert Frost, American poet, is born (1874)%s18740326 00000326 Tennessee Williams, American playwright, is born (1912)%s19120326 00000326 Walt Whitman, poet, dies (1892)%s18920326 00000327 Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (of Currier & Ives) (1813)%s18130327 00000327 Sarah Vaughn, American singer, is born (1924)%s19240327 00000327 Sir Henry Royce, one of the founders of Rolls-Royce. (1863)%s18630327 00000327 Tony Banks born (England, 1950)%s19500327 00000327 Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen born, discoverer of X-rays (1845)%s18450327 00000327 Yuri Gagarin and Seryogin die in aircraft accident (1968)%s19680327 00000328 Dwight Eisenhower, American statesman and soldier, dies (1969)%s19690328 00000328 Maria Augusta von Trapp, member of the Austrian family portrayed in the film "Sound of Music", dies at 82 (1987)%s19870328 00000328 Pierre Simon de Laplace born, mathematician and astronomer (1749)%s17490328 00000328 Sergei Rachmaninov, composer and pianist, dies in Beverly Hills, California (1943)%s19430328 00000328 Virginia Woolf, novelist and critic, dies; suicide by drowning (1941)%s19410328 00000329 Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911). (1867)%s18670329 00000329 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive oil well in US. (1819)%s18190329 00000329 Eugene McCarthy born (1916)%s19160329 00000329 John Tyler, 10th President (1841-1845) (1790)%s17900329 00000329 President Barthelemy Boganda dies (Central African Republic) 00000330 Beau Brummel, man of fashion, dies (1840)%s18400330 00000330 Eric Clapton, rock musician, born (Surrey, England, 1945)%s19450330 00000330 Francisco Jose de Goya, painter, born in Spain (1746)%s17460330 00000330 James Cagney, the actor, dies (1986)%s19860330 00000330 Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright, is born (1880)%s18800330 00000330 Sir John Hawkins, wrote 1st history of music in English (1719)%s17190330 00000330 Vincent Van Gogh, painter, born in the Netherlands (1853)%s18530330 00000330 Warren Beatty, actor, is born (1937)%s19370330 00000331 Cesar Chavez, farm labor organizer, is born (1927)%s19270331 00000331 Charlotte Bronte, eldest of the Bronte sisters, author of Jane Eyre, dies (1855)%s18550331 00000331 Edward FitzGerald, writer, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" (1809)%s18090331 00000331 Franz Joseph Haydn, composer, is born in Austria (1732)%s17320331 00000331 John Constable, English Landscape painter, dies (1837)%s18370331 00000331 John Donne, dean of Saint Paul's, poet and author, dies (1631)%s16310331 00000331 John Pierpont (J. P.) Morgan, American banker and financier, dies (1913)%s19130331 00000331 Rene Descartes, mathematician and philosopher, is born (1596)%s15960331 00000331 Robert Bunsen, chemist and inventor of the Bunsen Burner, is born (1811)%s18110331 00000331 Sir Dugald Clerk, inventor of the 2-stroke motorcycle engine. (1854)%s18540331 00000401 P. D. Q. Bach was born, 12:01 AM (1742)%s17420401 00000401 Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France, dies (1204)%s12040401 00000401 Lon Chaney, actor, is born (1883)%s18830401 00000401 Wallace Beery, film actor, is born (1881)%s18810401 00000401 William Harvey, discoverer of blood circulation, is born (1578)%s15780401 00000402 Buddy Ebsen, dancer and vaudeville actor, is born (1908)%s19080402 00000402 Casanova, lover, is born (1752)%s17520402 00000402 Charlemagne, King of the Franks, is born (742)%s07420402 00000402 Doris Day, girl next door (1924)%s19240402 00000402 Emmy Lou Harris, country music star, is born (1947)%s19470402 00000402 Emperor Charlemagne ( 742)%s07420402 00000402 Hans Christian Andersen, is born in Odense Denmark (1805)%s18050402 00000402 Jack Webb, television producer/actor(1920)%s19200402 00000402 Marvin Gaye born (Washington, DC, 1939)%s19390402 00000402 Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of morse code, dies (1872)%s18720402 00000402 Sir Alec Guiness, actor, is born (1914)%s19140402 00000402 Walter Chrysler, founded a car company. (1875)%s18750402 00000403 Doris Day, actress, is born (Ohio, 1924)%s19240403 00000403 Jesse James, outlaw, is killed (1862)%s18620403 00000403 Marlon Brando, actor (1924)%s19240403 00000403 Washington Irving born (1783)%s17830403 00000404 Dorothea Dix, social reformer (1802)%s18020404 00000404 John Cameron Swayze, newscaster (1906)%s19060404 00000404 Martin Luther King. Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee (1968)%s19680404 00000404 Muddy Waters (McKinley Morganfield) born (Rolling Fork, MS, 1915)%s19150404 00000404 President Harrison dies one month after inaugural. (1841)%s18410404 00000404 Thaddeus Stevens (1792)%s17920404 00000405 Bette Davis, the actress, is born (1908)%s19080405 00000405 Booker T. Washington (1856)%s18560405 00000405 Howard Hughes, industrialist, dies (1976)%s19760405 00000405 Michael W. Butler, creator of this TODAY program. (1954)%s19540405 00000405 Pocahontas marries John Smith (1614)%s16140405 00000405 Spencer Tracy, the actor, is born (1900)%s19000405 00000405 Thomas Hobbes, philosopher, is born (1588)%s15880405 00000406 Albrecht Durer, painter and engraver, dies in Nuremberg, Germany (1528)%s15280406 00000406 Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, pioneer aircraft manufacturer (1890)%s18900406 00000406 Bob Marley born Rhoden Hall (Jamaica, 1945)%s19450406 00000406 Brigham Young marries number 27, his final wife. (1868)%s18680406 00000406 Donald Wills Douglas, founded an aircraft company. (1892)%s18920406 00000406 Harry Houdini, escape artist, magician, exposer of fakes of supernatural phenomena, is born (1874)%s18740406 00000406 Igor Stravinsky, composer of "The Firebird" and "The Rite of Spring", dies in New York City (1971)%s19710406 00000406 James Watson, collaborator in the discovery of the form of DNA, is born in Chicago (1920)%s19200406 00000406 Lincoln Steffens, muckraker. (1866)%s18660406 00000406 Lowell Thomas, journalist (1892)%s18920406 00000406 Maximilien de Robespierre, lawyer and leader in the French Revolution, is born in Arras France (1758)%s17580406 00000406 Neils Abel, Norwegian mathematician, dies (1829)%s18290406 00000406 Philip Henry Gosse, invented the institutional aquarium (1810)%s18100406 00000407 Bill Kreutzmann born (Palo Alto, 1946)%s19460407 00000407 Billie Holiday, blues singer (1915)%s19150407 00000407 Francis Ford Coppola, movie director (1939)%s19390407 00000407 Henry Ford, industrialist and car manufacturer, dies (1947)%s19470407 00000407 James Garner, actor, is born in Norman, Oklahoma (1928)%s19280407 00000407 John Oates, singer (1949)%s19490407 00000407 Mark Russell, satirist (1932)%s19320407 00000407 Phineas T. (P.T.) Barnum, entrepreneur of Barnum and Bailey, dies (1891)%s18910407 00000407 Richard (Dick) Turpin, highwayman, is executed at York (1739)%s17390407 00000407 Richard I Coeur de Lion, King of England, dies (1199)%s11990407 00000407 The Crucifixion of Christ. This seems most likely of many dates proposed. (see "The Calendar" by Philips, Cambridge 1921) (30)%s07300407 00000407 Theda Bara, silent film actress, dies (1955)%s19550407 00000407 W.K. Kellogg, founded the cereal company. (1860)%s18600407 00000407 William Wordsworth, poet, is born (1770)%s17700407 00000408 Betty Ford, former first lady (1918)%s19180408 00000408 David Rittenhouse born, astronomer and mathematician (1732)%s17320408 00000408 El Greco, the Spanish painter, dies (1614)%s16140408 00000408 Frank Woolworth, the US Merchant, dies (1919)%s19190408 00000408 Gen. Omar N. Bradley, America's last five star general, died in New York at age 88 (1981)%s19810408 00000408 Lorenzo de Medici, Florentine ruler, dies (1492)%s14920408 00000408 Mary Pickford is born (1893)%s18930408 00000408 Sir Adrian Boult, conductor (BBC Symphony Orchestra) (1889)%s18890408 00000408 Sonja Henie, the ice skater is born (1913)%s19130408 00000409 Charles Baudelaire, French author, is born (1821)%s18210409 00000409 Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865)%s18650409 00000409 Dennis Quaid, actor (1954)%s19540409 00000409 Eadweard Muybridge, pioneered study of motion in photography. (1830)%s18300409 00000409 Efram Zimbalist, the violinist, is born (1889)%s18890409 00000409 Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, dies (1959)%s19590409 00000409 Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy, is born (1926)%s19260409 00000409 John Presper Eckert, co-inventor of 1st electronic computer (ENIAC) (1919)%s19190409 00000409 Paul Robeson, the actor, is born (1898)%s18980409 00000409 Paulina Porizkova, actress-model (1965)%s19650409 00000409 W.C. Fields, actor (1879)%s18790409 00000410 Bunny Wailer born Neville O'Reilly Livingston (Kingston, 1947)%s19470410 00000410 Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born (1854)%s18540410 00000410 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, dies (1919)%s19190410 00000410 Harry Morgan, actor (1915)%s19150410 00000410 John Madden, sportscaster (1936)%s19360410 00000410 Joseph Pulitzer, the journalist and philanthropist, is born (1847)%s18470410 00000410 King James V of England is born (1512)%s15120410 00000410 Louis the II of France dies (879)%s08790410 00000410 Omar Sharif is born (1932)%s19320410 00000410 William Booth born, founder of the Salvation Army (1829)%s18290410 00000411 Louise Lasser, actress (1939)%s19390411 00000411 Oleg Cassini, fashion designer (1913)%s19130411 00000411 Pocahontas dies (1617)%s16170411 00000412 David Letterman, talk-show host (1947)%s19470412 00000412 Francis P. Blair, helped found the Republican Party. (1791)%s17910412 00000412 Henry Clay, 'The Great Compromiser' (1777)%s17770412 00000412 Herbie Hancock, musician (1940)%s19400412 00000412 Lily Pons, the opera singer, was born (1904)%s19040412 00000412 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader & vibraphone improvisor (1913)%s19130412 00000412 President Franklin Roosevelt dies (1945)%s19450412 00000412 Seneca, the Roman Philosopher was killed by order of Nero (65)%s00650412 00000413 Butch Cassidy, American outlaw, is born (1866)%s18660413 00000413 F.W. Woolworth, the "five-and-ten" king. (1852)%s18520413 00000413 George Frederick Handel, the German composer, dies (1759)%s17590413 00000413 John Hanson, 1st US President under the Articles of Confederation (1721)%s17210413 00000413 Ricky Schroder,actor (1970)%s19700413 00000413 Ron Pearlman, actor (1950)%s19500413 00000413 Samuel Beckett born (outside Dublin, 1906)%s19060413 00000413 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President (1801-1809) (1743)%s17430413 00000414 Abraham Lincoln assasinated in Ford's Theater. (1865)%s18650414 00000414 Anthony Perkins, actor (1932)%s19320414 00000414 Arnold Toynbee, historian (1889)%s18890414 00000414 Christian Huyghens, Dutch physicist and astronomer, discoverer of Saturn's rings, is born (1629)%s16290414 00000414 Frederick March, actor, dies (1975)%s19750414 00000414 Julie Christie, actress, is born in Chukur, India (1942)%s19420414 00000414 Loretta Lynn, country singer, is born (1935)%s19350414 00000414 President Abraham Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded at 11 pm by John Wilkes Booth while attending the comedy "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theater in Washington. The president died the following morning. (1865)%s18650414 00000414 Rachel Carson, American author of "Silent Spring", dies (1964)%s19640414 00000414 Ritchie Blackmore (Deep Purple, Rainbow) born (1945)%s19450414 00000414 Sir John Gielgud, the British actor, is born (1904)%s19040414 00000415 Charles Darwin, dies (1882)%s18820415 00000415 Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (1933)%s19330415 00000415 John Singer Sargent, portrait painter, dies (1925)%s19250415 00000415 Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine artist, engineer, musician and scientist, is born (Julian Calendar) (1452)%s14520415 00000415 Leonhard Euler, mathematician (1707)%s17070415 00000415 Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV of France, dies in Versailles (1764)%s17640415 00000415 President Lincoln dies of gun shot wound at 7:30 this morning (1865)%s18650415 00000415 Roy Clark, country singer (1933)%s19330415 00000416 Anatole France, French author, is born (1844)%s18440416 00000416 Charles (Charlie) Chaplin, actor, born (London, 1889)%s18890416 00000416 Henry Mancini, popular song writer, is born (1924)%s19240416 00000416 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball great (1947)%s19470416 00000416 Wilbur Wright, inventor of the airplane, is born (1867)%s18670416 00000417 Don Kirshner, Rock promoter (1934)%s19340417 00000417 Harry Reasoner, CBS News correspondent (1923)%s19230417 00000417 J.P. Morgan, financed the US. (1837)%s18370417 00000417 Jan Hammer, Composer-musician (1948)%s19480417 00000417 Jim Eisenreich, Kansas City Royals outfielder (1959)%s19590417 00000417 Lindsay Anderson, movie and theatrical director (1923)%s19230417 00000417 Nikita Khrushchev, Russian political leader, is born (1894)%s18940417 00000417 Olivia Hussey, actress, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1951)%s19510417 00000417 Thornton Wilder, American novelist (1897)%s18970417 00000418 Albert Einstein, physicist and mathematician, dies (1955)%s19550418 00000418 Clarence Darrow, lawyer (1857)%s18570418 00000418 Grace Kelly, actress, marries Prince Rainier of Monaco in a civil service. A church wedding was the next day. (1956)%s19560418 00000418 Hayley Mills, actress (1946)%s19460418 00000418 James Woods, actor (1947)%s19470418 00000419 Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier III of Monaco in the Cathedral of St. Nicholas in Monte Carlo (1956)%s19560419 00000419 Charles Darwin, biologist and one of the creators of the theory of evolution, dies (1882)%s18820419 00000419 Dudley Moore, actor-comedian (1935)%s19350419 00000419 Elinor Donahue,actress (1937)%s19370419 00000419 Frank Viola, N.Y. Mets pitcher and Longwood resident (1960)%s19600419 00000419 Jayne Mansfield, American actress, born (1932)%s19320419 00000419 Lord Byron, poet, dies in Missolonghi, Greece (1824)%s18240419 00000419 Ole Evinrude, invented the outboard marine engine. (1877)%s18770419 00000419 Pierre Curie, physicist, dies (1906)%s19060419 00000419 Sue Barker, tennis player (1956)%s19560419 00000420 Adolph Hitler, dictator, is born in Braunau, Austria (1889)%s18890420 00000420 Chief Pontiac of the Ottawa tribe is killed (1769)%s17690420 00000420 Comedienne Gilda Radner died at age 42. (1989)%s19890420 00000420 Edouard Manet, the French artist, dies (1883)%s18830420 00000420 George Clintion died - the first vice pres. to die while in office (1812)%s18120420 00000420 Harold Lloyd, comedian, is born (1894)%s18940420 00000420 Jessica Lange, actress, is born (1950)%s19500420 00000420 Joan Miro, artist, is born (1893)%s18930420 00000420 Lionel Hampton, musician, is born (1913)%s19130420 00000420 Nina Foch, actress (1924)%s19240420 00000420 Ryan O'Neal, actor (1941)%s19410420 00000420 Steve Spurrier, University of Florida football coach (1945)%s19450420 00000421 Anthony Quinn, actor (1915)%s19150421 00000421 Charles Grodin, actor (1935)%s19350421 00000421 Jack Kerouac, Canadian-born American author, dies (1969)%s19690421 00000421 John Muir, American naturalist, is born (1838)%s18380421 00000421 Mark Twain, author, dies (1910)%s19100421 00000421 Queen Elizabeth II's real birthday. It is celebrated in June when the weather is more reliable. (1926)%s19260421 00000421 Tony Danza, actor (1951)%s19510421 00000422 Eddie Albert, actor, is born (1908)%s19080422 00000422 Glen Campbell, singer, is born (1938)%s19380422 00000422 Imanual Kant, philosopher, born (1724)%s17240422 00000422 J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist (1904)%s19040422 00000422 Jack Nicholson, actor, is born (1937)%s19370422 00000422 Kant born (1724)%s17240422 00000422 Peter Frampton, singer (1940)%s19400422 00000422 Sir Yehudi Menuhin, violinist (1916)%s19160422 00000422 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Russian Revolutionary leader, is born (1870)%s18700422 00000423 James Buchanan, 15th President (1857-1861) (1791)%s17910423 00000423 Lee Majors, actor (1940)%s19400423 00000423 Miguel de Cervantes, author, dies (1616)%s16160423 00000423 Shirley Temple Black, child actress and U.S. ambassador, is born (1928)%s19280423 00000423 Valerie Bertinelli, actress (1960)%s19600423 00000423 Vladimir Nabokov, Russian novelist, is born (1899)%s18990423 00000423 William Shakespeare, playwright, dies (1616)%s16160423 00000423 William Wordswoth, poet, dies near Grasmere, Westmorland (1850)%s18500423 00000424 Andrew Halliday, Cable Car Pioneer, dies (1900)%s19000424 00000424 Barbara Streisand, singer and actress, is born (1942)%s19420424 00000424 Jill Ireland, actress (1936)%s19360424 00000424 John Graunt, statistician, founded the science of demography (1620)%s16200424 00000424 Robert Penn Warren, American Poet Laureate, is born (1905)%s19050424 00000424 Shirley MacLaine, actress (1934)%s19340424 00000424 Stanley Kauffmann, critic (1916)%s19160424 00000424 The Duchess of Windsor dies in Paris at 89 (1986)%s19860424 00000425 Al Pacino, actor (1940)%s19400425 00000425 Alan Baxter, WDIZ-FM morning deejay (1955)%s19550425 00000425 Albert King, blues guitarist, born (1925)%s19250425 00000425 Dave Corzine, Orlando Magic center (1956)%s19560425 00000425 Edward R. Murrow, American broadcast journalist, is born (1908)%s19080425 00000425 Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer (1918)%s19180425 00000425 Guglielmo Marconi, made radio possible (1874)%s18740425 00000425 Meadowlark Lemon, former Harlem Globetrotter (1932)%s19320425 00000425 Oliver Cromwell, English military, political and religious leader, is born (1599)%s15990425 00000426 Carol Burnett, comedian, born (San Antonio, TX, 1933)%s19330426 00000426 Charles Richter, he tells us how bad the quakes are. (1900)%s19000426 00000426 Duane Eddy, guitarist (1938)%s19380426 00000426 John J. Audubon, American ornithologist and artist, is born in Haiti (1785)%s17850426 00000426 Lucille (Lucy) Ball, actress and comedienne, dies (1989)%s19890426 00000426 Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-born English philosopher, is born (1889)%s18890426 00000426 Srinivasa Ramanujan, one of the most brilliant mathematicians to ever live, dies at 32 of what was probably vitamin deficiency (1920)%s19200426 00000426 William Shakespeare baptized (Stratford-on-Avon, England, 1564)%s15640426 00000427 Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist (1927)%s19270427 00000427 Edward Whymper, artist and mountaineer, first man to climb the Matterhorn, is born (1840)%s18400427 00000427 Gypsy Rose Lee, American entertainer and author, dies (1970)%s19700427 00000427 Jack Klugman, actor (1922)%s19220427 00000427 Jan van Goyen, Dutch landscape painter, dies (1656)%s16560427 00000427 Judith Blegen, opera singer (1941)%s19410427 00000427 Judy Carnes, actress (1939)%s19390427 00000427 Louis Victor de Broglie born, physicist (1774)%s17740427 00000427 Magellan killed (Philippines, 1521)%s15210427 00000427 Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet, dies in Concord, Massachusetts (1882)%s18820427 00000427 Samuel F. B. Morse (1791)%s17910427 00000427 Ulyssses S. Grant, 18th President (1869-1877) (1822)%s18220427 00000427 Wallace Hume Carothers, invented nylon. (1896)%s18960427 00000428 Ann-Margaret, actress and beauty, is born in Stockholm, Sweden (1941)%s19410428 00000428 James Baker, Secretary of State (1930)%s19300428 00000428 James Monroe, 5th President (1816-1824) (1758)%s17580428 00000428 Marcia Strassman, actress (1948)%s19480428 00000428 Mussolini is executed by firing squad (1945)%s19450428 00000428 Rowland Evans, Syndicated columnist (1921)%s19210428 00000429 Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels... (1830)%s18300429 00000429 Alfred Hitchcock, director of mystery films, dies (1980)%s19800429 00000429 Duke Ellington, American jazz musician, is born (1899)%s18990429 00000429 Fred Zinnermann, movie director (1907)%s19070429 00000429 Jules Henri Poincare, founder of topology, is born (1854)%s18540429 00000429 Rod McKuen, poet (1933)%s19330429 00000429 William Randolph Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner) (San Francisco 1863)%s18630429 00000429 Zubin Mehta, conductor (1936)%s19360429 00000430 Adolph Hitler committed suicide with his wife of one day (1945)%s19450430 00000430 Alice B. Toklas, American author, is born (1877)%s18770430 00000430 Brandy Johnson, Olympic Gymnast from Altamonte Springs, Fl. (1973)%s19730430 00000430 Eve Arden, Our Miss Brooks (1912)%s19120430 00000430 Jill Clayburgh, actress (1944)%s19440430 00000430 Karl Friedrich Gauss, mathematician and astronomer, is born (1777)%s17770430 00000430 Sarah Hale, the author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb", dies (1879)%s18790430 00000430 Willie Nelson, country/western singer, is born (1933)%s19330430