Today in History for 22nd July 2015

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 151

259 - St Dionysius elected as Pope, succeeding Sixtus II

1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon is elected the first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of TheKingdom of Jerusalem.

1298 - English defeat Scots at Battle of Falkirk

1306 - King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France

1456 - Battle at Nandorfehervar (Belgrade): Hungarian army under Janos Hunyadi beats sultanMurad II

1484 - Battle of Lochmaben Fair - a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albanyand James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother JamesIII of Scotland; Douglas is captured.

1489 - "Tractate Niddah" a talmudic edition, 1st printed

1489 - Treaty of Frankfurt signed between Maximilian of Austria and King Charles VIII of France

1515 - First Congress of Vienna settles issues between Poland & Holy Roman Empire - rise of theHabsburgs influence

1535 - Christians captured in Tunis in uprising against Adm Barbarossa

1582 - Willem of Orange moves from Antwerp to Delft

1587 - 2nd English colony forms on Roanoke Island off NC

1627 - English fleet under George Villiers lands on the Rhe [OS=June 12]

1632 - Foundation laid in Madrid for Buen Retiro-palace for king Philip IV

1648 - 10,000 Jews of Polannoe murdered in Chmielnick massacre during Khmelnytsky Uprising

1686 - City of Albany, NY chartered

1691 - Battle at Aghrim: English/Dutch army beats France

1729 - Diamonds found in Minas Geras, Brazil

1731 - Spain signs Treaty of Vienna

1739 - Turks defeats Holy Roman Empre at Crocyka Yugoslavia & threaten Belgrade

First US President George Washington

1775 - George Washington takes command of the Continental Army

1793 - Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American tocomplete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.

1796 - Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleveland

1812 - Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain

1859 - V E Walker takes 10-74 in an innings for England v Surrey

1864 - Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman, 8,449 Confederate and 3,641 US soldiers die

1865 - V E Walker takes 10-104 in an innings for Middlesex v Lancashire

1893 - Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" in Colorado

1898 - Crew of Belgium RV Belgica see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs - 1st expedition to endure Antarcticwinter

1901 - Serbia reactivates diplomatic relations with Montenegro

1901 - British House of Lords, in its role as court, rules trade unions can be sued for actions of itsmembers - in Taff Vale Case

1905 - Phila Athletic's Weldon Henley no-hits St Louis Browns, 6-0

1912 - 5th Olympic games in Stockholm, Sweden closes

1912 - In the face of ever-increasing German naval power, the British Admiralty decides to recallBritish warships from the Mediterranean and base them in the North Sea

1916 - A bomb went off during a Preparedness Day parade in SF killing 10

1917 - British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades

1918 - Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park

1919 - De Falla & Massine's "Three-cornered Hat" premieres in London

Pioneering Golfer Jim Barnes

1921 - 25th US Golf Open: Jim Barnes shoots a 289 at Columbia CC in MD

1922 - Cards enter 1st place, marks 1st time both St Louis teams are on top

1923 - Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)

1925 - Yankees purchase infielder Leo Durocher

1926 - 105F (41C), Waterbury, Connecticut (state record)

1926 - 108F (42C), Troy, NY (state record)

1926 - Cin Red Curt Walker ties record of 2 triples in an inning

1933 - 1st solo flight round the world 7d 19hrs (Wiley Post)

1933 - Caterina Jarboro sings "Aida", NYC-1st negro prima donna in US

1934 - Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally woundedby FBI agents.

1935 - Lester Walton appointed US minister to Liberia

1936 - Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive HRs

1937 - Irish premier Eamon de Valera wins elections

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt

1937 - Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court

1939 - Jane Bolin becomes the 1st African American female judge (NY)

1940 - Dutch prime minister De Geer meets Hitler seeking peace talks

1942 - 4th Russian army forms with 80 tanks

1942 - Gasoline rationing using coupons begins

1942 - Warsaw Ghetto Jews (300,000) are sent to Treblinka extermination Camp

1943 - US forces led by Gen George Patton liberate Palermo Sicily

1944 - Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation

1946 - Estelle Bennett, rocker (Ronettes)

1946 - Menachen Begin's opposition group surprise attack on King David hotel

1947 - -8F (-13C), Charlotte Pass, NSW (Australian record)

1950 - Frank Worrell completes 261 v England at Trent Bridge

1950 - King Leopold returns to Belgium after 6 years in exile

1951 - General Francisco Craveiro Lopes appointed President of Portugal

US General George S. Patton

1952 - Poland adopts Communist-imposed Constitution

1954 - US Virgin Islands adopt constitution (Revised Organic Act)

1954 - WTHI TV channel 10 in Terre Haute, IN (CBS) begins broadcasting

1955 - Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting

1955 - Phillies longest win streak since 1892 hits 11

1958 - US performs atmospheric nuclear Test at Bikini Island

1959 - Benjamin Britten's "Missa Brevis" in D premieres

1959 - Earth gas found at Kolham (Slochteren) Groningen

1960 - Cuba nationalizes all US-owned sugar factories

1961 - WBNB TV channel 10 in Charlotte Amaile, VI (CBS) begins broadcasting

1962 - 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off

1962 - 44th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 278 at Aronimink GC PA

Golfer Gary Player

1962 - Chicago White Sox Floyd Robinson goes 6 for 6 (all singles)

1962 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Tournament

1963 - The Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles"

1963 - Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

1963 - Sarawak achieves independence from British colonial rule

1965 - Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Home as leader of British Conservative party

1967 - 1st major appearance by Vanilla Fudge (Village Theater NYC)

1967 - Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in 9th inning

1967 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Ladies' Golf Open

1967 - Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour

1968 - Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the stateschool system

Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston

1969 - Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit

1969 - USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite

1971 - Sudanese military counter-coup under premier Numeiry

1972 - 10.84" (27.53 cm) of rainfall, Fort Ripley, Mn (state 24-hr record)

1972 - Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus

1972 - 2 Catholics are abducted, beaten, and shot dead in a Loyalist area of Belfast

1973 - 28th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning

1975 - US House of Representives votes to restore citizenship to General Robert E. Lee

1976 - "Let My People Come" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 106 performances

1979 - Pat Meyers wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic

1981 - Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca sentenced in a Rome, Italy court to life

Confederate General Robert E. Lee

1982 - Academic Text Processing Service forms in Seattle

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 223

1210 - Joan of England, Queen consort ofScotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland (d.1238)

1478 - Philip I, (the Handsome), 1st HabsburgKing of Spain (1504-06)

1510 - Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence(d. 1537)

1535 - Katarina Stenbock, wife of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1621)

1559 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (d. 1619)

1597 - Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer

1621 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury/minister (1660-73)

1642 - Johann Quirsfeld, composer

1647 - Margaretha M Alacoque, French mystic/saint

1649 - Clement XI, [Giovanni F Albani], Italy, Pope (1700-21)

1651 - Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer

1711 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (d. 1753)

1713 - Jacques-Germain Soufflot, French architect (d. 1780)

1721 - Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer

1722 - Jean-Noel/Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian

1733 - Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (d. 1790)

1755 - Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician (d. 1839)

1763 - James Geddes, Carlisle Pennsylvania, American Engineer and chief engineer in theconstruction of the Erie Canal

1784 - Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (star parallax, Bessel Function)

1807 - Karolina Pawlowa, writer

1820 - Louis Powell Harvey, Governor (Union), (d. 1862)

1822 - Hamilton Prioleau Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1897)

1822 - John George Walker, Major General (Confederate Army), (d. 1893)

1830 - Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer

1830 - William Sooy Smith, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1916)

1833 - Benjamin Hanby, composer

1834 - Daniel McCook Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), (d. 1864)

1844 - William Archibald Spooner, reverend/inventor (spoonerisms), born in London, England

1848 - Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1914)

Poet Emma Lazarus (1849)

1849 - Emma Lazarus, New York NY, poet ("New Colossus" - on the base of Statue of Liberty)

1853 - Victor Roger, composer

1863 - Alec Hearne, cricketer (brother of George & Frank, Kent 1884-1910)

1871 - Akos Buttykai, composer

1872 - David D Salas, Antillian writer (Josefina)

1873 - Ettore Pozzoli, composer

1878 - Lucien Febvre, French historian (Un destin: Martin Luther)

1879 - Gustaf Heintze, composer

1882 - Edward Hopper, US painter (House by the Railroad)

1887 - Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist (Nobel 1925)

1888 - Kirk Bryan, American geologist (d. 1950)

1889 - Frederick Preston Search, composer

Kennedy Family Matriarch Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890)

1890 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mom of JFK, RFK & Ted, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1995)

1892 - Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Austrian chancellor (1930s)/war criminal

1892 - John MacBryan, cricketer (one Test Eng v South Africa 1924 DNBat, DNbowl)

1893 - Jesse Haines, American baseball player (d. 1978)

1894 - O M Graf, writer

1895 - James Arthur Calata, African National Congress (ANC) leader and Anglican clergyman

1898 - Alexander Calder, sculptor (mobiles, stabiles)

1898 - Stephen Vincent Bent, American author (d. 1943)

1901 - Charles Weidman, Nebraska, modern dancer/choreographer (Candide)

1902 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Kryukov, composer

1905 - Boris Alexandrov, conductor (Red Army Song/Dance Ensemble)

1905 - Doc Cramer, American baseball player (d. 1990)

1907 - Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (d. 1987)

1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, American authority on etiquette (Complete Book of Etiquette, Complete CookBook), born in NYC, New York

1909 - Dorino Serafini, Italian racing driver (d. 2000)

1910 - Edith Abbo, daughter of Mien Wenneker/Dutch Prince Henry

1913 - Licia Albanese, American operatic soprano (NY Met Opera), born in Bari Italy, (d. 2014)

1913 - Gorni Kramer, Italian bandleader (d. 1995)

1914 - Cecil Effinger, composer

1915 - Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician, diplomat and author. (d. 2000)

1916 - Hipolito M Ocalia, Curacao, landscape painter

1916 - Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)

1916 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)

1918 - Pim [Albrecht W] Lyre, Dutch lawyer/son of prince Henry

1920 - Hugh Dundas, fighter pilot/businessman

1921 - William V Roth Jr, (Sen-R-Delaware, 1971- )

1923 - Robert J Dole, (Sen-R Kansas, 1969-95)/presidential candidate (R-1996)

1923 - Bob Dole, American politician

1923 - Lillian Ellison, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)

1923 - Mukesh, Indian singer (d. 1976)

1924 - Margaret Whiting, American singer (Kreisler Bandstand, Strauss Family), born in Detroit,Michigan

1926 - Bryan Forbes, director/producer (Endless Games, King Rat), (d. 2013)

1926 - Peter Michael Grayson, showman

1927 - George Hunter, South Africa, light heavyweight boxer (Oly-gold-1948)

1928 - Georg Dreyfus, composer

1928 - Orson Bean, Burlington VT, actor/comedian (To Tell the Truth)

1928 - Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)

1929 - Vivien Merchant, Manchester England, actress (Under Milk Wood)

1929 - John Barber, British racing driver

1930 - Leoncjusz Ciuciura, composer

1930 - Marcia Henderson, Andover Mass, actress (Kathleen-Aldrich Family)

1931 - Charles Huxtable, General commander (English ground armies)

1931 - Perry Lopez, actor (Chinatown, Death Wish 4), born in NYC, New York

1932 - Oscar de la Renta, Dom Rep, designer (Coty Hall of Fame-1973)

1932 - William Wilkinson, businessman/conservationist

1933 - Chuck Cassey, choral director (Jimmy Dean Show), born in Chicago, Illinois

Actress Louise Fletcher (1934)

1934 - Louise Fletcher, Birmingham AL, actress (One Flew over Cuckoo's Nest)

1935 - Tom Cartwright, England cricket medium pacer (5 Tests 1964-65)

1936 - Harold "Dusty" Rhodes, England cricket pace bowler (1959)

1936 - Krasimir Kyurkchiiski, composer

1936 - Tom Robbins, American author

1937 - John Price, England cricket fast-medium bowler (1964-72)

1937 - V B Ranjane, Indian cricket fast bowler (early 1960's)

1937 - Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)

1938 - Terence Stamp, English actor (The Collector, Billy Budd), born in London, England

1939 - Gila Almagor, Israeli actress

1940 - Alex Trebek, Sudbury Ontario, TV game host (High Rollers, Jeopardy)

1940 - Stan Ross, actor, born in NYC, New York

1940 - Yuriy Klimov, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 12 of 12

1515 - Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria

1515 - Louis of Hungary (9) marries Maria of Bohemia & succession to Hungarian throne

Father of American Music Stephen Foster (1850)

1850 - Composer Stephen Foster (24) weds Jane Denny McDowell at Trinity Episcopal Church inPittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1929 - American Playwright Eugene O'Neill (40) marries 3rd wife actress Carlotta Monterey (40)

1972 - Business magnate Richard Branson (22) weds Kristen Tomassi

1982 - Biggest mass wedding, Rev Sun Myung Moon weds 2,200 couples in NYC

1995 - "True Lies" actor Tom Arnold (36) weds Julie Champnella (25) in Dearborn, Michigan

1995 - Actor Ewan McGregor (24) weds production designer Eve Mavrakis (29)

1999 - Director Martin Scorsese (56) weds Helen Morris in New York

2006 - Spanish singer David Bustamante (24) weds Spanish TV star Paula Echevarria at Basilica deSanta Maria la Real de Covadonga in the Asturias

2006 - British TV presenter Ant McPartlin (30) weds former member of "Deuce" Lisa Armstrong (29)at St. Nicholas Church in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England

Director Martin Scorsese (1999)

2007 - Muhammad Ali's daughter Laila Ali (30) weds former NFL player Curtis Conway (36) inMarina del Rey, California

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

US First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1940)

1940 - Jacqueline Kennedy's parents John Vernou "Black Jack" Bouvier III and Janet (Norton Lee)divorce

2010 - "The Princess Bride" actress robin wright (44) divorces actor-director Sean Penn (49) due toirreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 121

1035 - Robert II/I, Duke of Normandy, dies

1362 - Louis of Durazzo, Italian soldier (b. 1324)

1387 - French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57

1461 - Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), dies at 58

1477 - Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies in battle at 39

1497 - Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies at about 52

1499 - Neithart Fox, [Jonker Fox], German passage leader, slain in battle

1525 - Richard Wingfield, English diplomat

1619 - Lawrence of Brindisi, Italian monk (b. 1559)

1633 - Trijntje Keever, presumed to have been the tallest woman ever (b.1616)

1635 - Pietro Antonio Tamburini, composer, dies at 45

1645 - Gaspar de Guzman, premier of Spain (1621-43), dies at 58

1676 - Clement X, [Emilio Altieri], Italian Pope (1670-76), dies at 86

1726 - Hugh Drysdale, British Colonial Governor of Virginia

1734 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England

1786 - Vaclav Kalous, composer, dies at 71

1789 - Joseph-Franois Foulon, French administrator (b. 1715)

1794 - Jean-Benjamin de La Borde, composer, dies at 59

Anatomist and Physiologist Marie Francois Xavier Bichat (1802)

1802 - Marie Francois Xavier Bichat, a founder of histology, dies from falling down stairs at 30

1826 - Giuseppe Piazzi, monk/mathematician (found 1st asteroid), dies at 80

1832 - Napoleon II of France (b. 1811), son of Napoleon I dies of tuberculosis

1840 - Josef Jawurek, composer, dies at 83

1848 - Karl Guhr, composer, dies at 60

1852 - Auguste Marmont, French marshal (b. 1774)

1861 - Barnard Elliot Bee, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 37

1863 - Carl Schuberth, composer, dies at 52

1864 - James Birdseye Mcpherson, US Union gen-major, dies in battle at 35

1864 - William Henry Talbot Walker, Confederate gen-mjr, dies in battle at 47

1868 - Zikmund Michal Kolesovsky, composer, dies at 51

1869 - John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (b. 1806)

1870 - Josef Strauss, composer, dies at 42

1880 - Anna Caroline Oury, composer, dies at 72

1902 - Mieczys?aw Halka Ledchowski, Polish Catholic Cardinal (b. 1822)

1903 - Cassius Marcellus Clay, American emancipationist (b. 1810)

1904 - Wilson Barrett, English actor (b. 1846)

1908 - William Randal Cremer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1828)

1909 - D v Liliencron, writer, dies at 65

1915 - Sir Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor (b. 1827)

1916 - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)

1918 - Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (b. 1898)

1920 - William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (b. 1849)

1922 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)

1922 - John Motley Morehead III, American Chemist (commercial production of calcium carbide,important for welding), dies at 67

1929 - Bror Beckman, composer, dies at 63

1929 - Edouard baron Empain, Belgian builder (Heliopolis), dies at 76

1932 - Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71

1932 - Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71

1932 - Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist (b. 1853)

1932 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian inventor and radio pioneer (b. 1866)

Gangster John Dillinger (1934)

1934 - John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago, at 33

1937 - Ted McDonald, cricketer (43 wickets for Australia), dies in car crash

1950 - William LM King, premier of Canada (1921-30, 35-48), dies at 75

1950 - Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada, dies of pneumonia at 75

1952 - Antonio Maria Valencia, composer, dies at 49

1952 - August Balthazar, Belgian politician, dies at 58

1953 - Cy Kendall, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown), dies at 55

1955 - Joseph Foley, actor (Mr Peepers), dies at 45

1958 - Karl Nunes, cricketer (1st WI Test captain 1928), dies

1958 - Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author, dies at 62

1958 - Mikhail Zoshchenko, Russian writer (b. 1895)

1967 - Carl Sandburg, poet (Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Years), dies at 89

1968 - Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author: Don Camillo/Peppone, dies at 60

1969 - Hammy Love, cricketer (NSW wicket-keeper, played for Australia), dies

Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King (1950)

1970 - George Johnston, Australian journalist and novelist (b. 1912)

1972 - Hugo Kauder, composer, dies at 84

1972 - Pavel Borkovek, composer, dies at 78

1974 - Edna Lewis Thomas, US actress (Streetcar Named Desire), dies at 88

1974 - Lili Darvas, Hungarian actress (Szerelem, Cimmaron), dies at 68

1974 - Wayne L Morse, (Sen-D-Oregon), dies at 73

1979 - Hope Summers, actress (Clara - "The Andy Griffith Show"), dies at 78

1979 - Soschtschenko, writer, dies at 83

1979 - Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, American boxer/actor (On the Waterfront), dies at 69

1979 - Sndor Kocsis, Hungarian footballer (b. 1929)

1980 - Fred Kaps [Abram PA Bongers], magician (world champ 1955), dies at 54

1987 - A G Kripal Singh, cricketer (14 Tests for India), dies

1988 - Duane Jones, dies of cardiopulmonary arrest at 51

1988 - Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87

1989 - Martti Talvela, Finnish bass (b. 1935)

1990 - George Wood, dies of diabetes complications at 56

1990 - Preben Neergaard, Danish actor (Mordskab), dies of cancer at 70

1992 - David Wojuarowicz, artist (U2 album cover), dies of AIDs at 37

1992 - Souleiman Franjieh, president Lebanon (1970-76), dies

1992 - Wayne McLaren, model (Marlboro Man), dies of lung cancer at 51

1995 - Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter, dies at 85

1995 - Harold Larwood, cricket (98 wkts bowling for Engl 1926-34), dies at 91

1995 - Percy Humphrey, musician, dies at 90

1995 - Percy Humphrey, jazz trumpet player and bandleader in New Orleans, Louisiana, 90

1996 - Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65

1996 - Leon Shenandoah, native American leader, dies at 81

1996 - Peter Ludwig, businessman/art collector, dies at 71

1996 - Richard Day, engineer/development expert, dies at 48

1996 - Robert Collins, keyboard player, dies at 33

1996 - Tamara Danz, singer, dies at 43

1998 - Hermann Prey, German bass-baritone (b. 1929)

1999 - Gar Samuelson, American musician (Megadeth) (b. 1958)

2000 - Eric Christmas, British actor (b. 1916)

2000 - Carmen Martn Gaite, Spanish author (b. 1925)

2000 - Claude Sautet, French film director (b. 1924)

2001 - Indro Montanelli, Italian journalist and historian (b. 1909)

2003 - Qusay Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein (b. 1966)

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