2004 Julia Child, French Chef, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, dies at 91
2000 Chris Rebello, high school football coach/child actor, Jaws, dies at 37
1999 Dana Plato, child star, Different Strokes, dies at 34
1998 Dr. Mary Calderone, doctor/writer, Talking With Your Child About Sex, dies at 94
1998 Dr. Benjamin Spock, pediatrician/writer, Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care, dies at 94
1997 U.S. Agriculture Department estimates it costs $149,820 to raise a child to 18
1996 Jon Benet Ramsey, Colorado child beauty queen, murdered at 6
1996 Michael Jinks, child care pioneer, dies at 59
1996 "Buried Child" closes at Brook Atkinson Theater New York City after 77 performances
1996 "Buried Child," opens at Atkinson Theater New York City for 77 performances
1996 [Elsie] Evelyn Laye, actress and singer (Sun Child), dies at 95
1994 Frances Tustin, child Psychologist, dies at 81
1994 William Elgin Swinton, child Psychiatrist, dies at 54
1994 Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues Singer, dies at 64
1993 Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41)
1993 Patricia Quinn, 11th child of actor Anthony Quinn, 78
1993 George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), dies at age 65
1993 Marvin Young, producer/child actor (Player), dies at 90
1993 James Bulger, English child beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys
1993 Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies
1992 "Scared Silent" is 1st non news program to be seen on 3 networks simultaneously. (CBS, NBC and PBS), about child abuse hosted by Oprah
1992 U.S. Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography
1992 Andrew Samuel, child actor (Our Gang), dies at 82
1992 Ted Liss, actor (Child's Play), dies of heart attack at 72
1992 Freddie Bartholomew, child actor (Kidnapped), dies of emphysema at 67
1991 Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
1991 Gerrit Mik, child psychiatrist/Dutch MP (D66), dies
1991 "Lucifer's Child" closes at Music Box Theater New York City after 28 performances
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich charged with burglary
1991 Former child actor Adam Rich arrested for breaking into a pharmacy
1991 "Lucifer's Child" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 28 performances
1990 Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
1989 "Nightmare on Elm Street 5: Dream Child" premieres
1989 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, New York-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h
1989 Jack Douglas, humorist (My Brother Was an Only Child), dies at 80
1988 Rumer Willis, child of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore
1988 Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11
1984 Zoe, Melbourne Australia, 1st frozen-embryo child
1981 Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent
1981 Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Mary, My Child), dies at 83
1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"
1979 International Year of the Child begins
1978 Sam Shepard's "Buried Child," premieres in New York City
1978 Dhani Harrison, George Harrison's 1st child
1977 Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)
1976 U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution declaring 1979 - Year of Child
1973 Betty Burfeindt wins LPGA Child and Family Service Golf Opens
1971 Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at 31
1970 Robert Marasco's "Child's Play," premieres in New York City
1968 Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress (Abandoned Child), dies at 71
1968 Supremes release "Love Child"
1968 Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44
1967 Charlotte Lewis, born in Kensington, London, actress, Golden Child, Pirates
1967 John Child, East York Ontario, beach volleyballer 1996 Olympics bronze
1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion
1965 Slash, [Saul Hudson], England, guitarist, Guns and Roses-Sweet Child
1965 Steven Adler, born in Cleveland, Ohio, drummer, Guns and Roses-Sweet Child
1964 Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
1964 Lisa Elaine Comshaw, born in Akron, Ohio, actress, Scanner Cop, Lukas' Child
1961 Marcy Walker, Paducah, Kentucky, actress, Liza-All My Child, Santa Barbara
1961 Beatles record Aint She Sweet, Cry for a Shadow, When the Saints Go Marching In, Why, Nobody's Child and My Bonnie, in Hamburg
1960 Melanie Klein, [Reizes], child psycho-analyst, dies
1959 Michael E Knight, Princeton, New Jersey, actor, Date with Angel, All My Child
1957 Pam Tillis, born in Plant City, Florida, country singer, Melancholy Child
1954 Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31
1954 Julie Budd, Brooklyn, singer, Child of Plenty
1951 Nick Gilder, born in London, England, singer, Hot Child in the City
1951 Catherine Hicks, born in Scottsdale, Arizona, actress, Star Trek IV, Child's Play
1950 Janis Ian, [Fink], New York City, rock vocalist, At 17, Society's Child
1946 Dr. Ben Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care" published
1945 Roger Lee Jones, West Virginia, child molester, FBI Most Wanted List
1944 Jeremy Child, actor, Privilege, Taffin
1944 Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time," premieres in London
1942 Chris Sarandon, West Virginia, actor, Child's Play, Dog Day Afternoon, Lipstick
1942 Claude Miller, director, Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child
1940 Norman [Richard] Spinrad, U.S., sci-fi author, Child of Fortune
1940 William Elgin Swinton, child psychiatrist
1938 U.S. forbids child labor in factories
1938 Philippe Wynne, U.S. soul singer, Detroit Spinners, Ghetto Child
1936 Michael Jinks, child care pioneer
1933 Floyd Ashton, U.S. singer, Tams-What Child of Fool
1931 Kristin Hunter, [Eggleston], U.S. author, God Bless the Child
1930 Sam[uel] van Houten, lib minister (Child labor laws), dies
1930 Child labor laws established in Belgium
1930 Byron "Wild Child" Gipson, blues singer
1929 Sheila Kitzinger, author, anthropologist and child birth educator
1928 Indonesian child laws enfoced in Bahasa Indonesia
1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
1927 Jack Douglas, comedian, My Brother Was an Only Child, Jack Paar Show
1926 Ellen K S Key, Swed author/feminist (Century of the Child), dies at 76
1924 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director, Monday's Child
1924 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland
1923 Stig H Dagerman, Swedish writer, Burned Child
1922 Dutch 2nd Chamber votes for child labor laws
1918 Supreme Court rules child labor laws unconstitutional
1916 Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)
1914 Dylan Thomas, Swansea Wales, poet, Child's Christmas in Wales
1913 Frances Tustin, child psychologist
1912 Julia Child, born in Pasadena, California, chef, French Chef
1911 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist, dies
1905 Michael Kemp Tippett, English composer and conductor, Child of our Time
1902 Georgette Heyer, England, novelist, Friday's Child
1889 Belgium rules on women/child labor law
1889 Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director, Abandoned Child
1881 Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care
1874 Child labor law takes 12 year olds out of work force
1874 1st Chamber accept law against child labor
1874 Dutch 2nd Chamber passes child labor law
1873 Dutch socialist Samuel van Wooden demands law against child labor
1866 Harry Davenport, New York City, actor and director, Her Unborn Child, My Sin
1857 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist
1842 Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)
1842 1st U.S. child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
1837 Sam[uel] van Houten, Dutch, lib, minister, child labor laws
1809 Cornelia Connelly, Philadelphia, founder, Society of the Holy Child Jesus
1802 Lydia Maria Child, U.S., author/abolitionist, Juvenile Miscellany
1791 Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, 6th child of Austrian composer WAM
1785 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Pigeon), dies
1714 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor, Child with Pigeon
1714 Jean B Pigalle, French sculptor, Child with Bird Cage
1669 Abandoned child, Huygens friend poet Catharina Questiers, buried at 31
1656 All female jury hears case of woman who killed her child (acquit her)
1637 Catharina Questiers, Dutch poet, Friend of Abandoned Child
1624 William, Jamestown, Virginia, 1st black child born in English America
1624 William Tucker, 1st Black child born in America
1588 Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies
1587 1st English child born in New World, Virginia Dare
1308 Henry I, the Child, 1st landgrave of Hessen (1256-1308), dies
1244 Hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen, 1256-1308
911 Ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911), dies
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