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2003 Abel Ehrlich, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers

1997 Michael Dorris, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord', commits suicide in Concord, New Hampshire, at age 52

1991 Reynold Abel Dorris, (Broken Cord), dies at 23 in car crash

1991 Abel Kivlat, U.S. 1500m runner. Silver Medal 1912 Olympics, dies at 99

1987 Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88

1982 Ab [Albert] Visser, poet and writer (Kain sloeg Abel), dies

1981 Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92

1979 Bishop Abel Muzorewa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's 1st black PM

1978 Abel Talamantez, Texas, singer, Menudo-Cannonball

1962 U.S.S.R. swaps spy Francis Gary Power to U.S. for Rudolph Abel

1957 U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000

1953 Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74

1947 Joe Morton, New York City, actor, Hal-Grady, Abel Marsh-Another World

1945 Michael Dorris, born in Louisville, Kentucky, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord'

1937 Alfred Abel, actor (Dr. Mabuse, Metropolis), dies at 57

1927 53rd Preakness: Whitey Abel aboard Bostonian wins in 2:01.6

1925 Abel Muzorewa, bishop/premier, Rhodesia

1918 Sid Abel, NHLer, 1948-49 Hart Trophy

1916 George Abel, Canada, ice hockey player, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics

1915 Abel Ehrlich, born in Cranz, East Prussia, composer, won the Israel Prize for Music and the Prime Minister's Prize for Israeli Composers

1898 Walter Abel, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, actor, Suspicion, Dream Girl

1893 Abel J Herzberg, Russian/Dutch writer, Persecution of Jews

1892 Bobby Abel carries his bat for 132* for England in SCG Test

1889 Abel Gance, French film pioneer/actor, Napoleon, J'accuse

1878 Felix M Abel, French bible scholar, Jerusalem Nouvelle

1857 Robert Abel, cricketer, The Guv'nor Surrey and England batsman

1844 Abel P Upshur, Secretary of State, dies in explosion on USS Princeton

1818 Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1802 Niels H Abel, Norwegian mathematician, Abel's Comparisons

1787 Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63

1723 Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola-da-gamba-player/composer

1642 New Zealand discovered by Dutch navigator Abel Tasman

1642 Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)

1642 Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand


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