1997 Death Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk, dies at 76 1968 Birthday Sebastian Philip Clerk Bach, born in Bahamas, rock, Skid Row-Psycho Love 1961 Birthday David Leavitt, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, writer, gay literature, professor at Princeton, author of, 'The Lost Language of Cranes', 'The Body of Jonah Boyd', 'The Indian Clerk' 1944 Event General Eisenhower's clerk Rickey marries corporal Pearlie 1934 Birthday Michael Wheeler-Booth, Clerk of the Parliaments 1924 Birthday James Swaffield, director-general, Swaffield and Clerk to the GLC 1922 Birthday Barend Busnac, office clerk/resistance fighter 1922 Birthday Wilfrid Bourne, QC/Clerk of the Crown in Chancery 1921 Birthday Bryan Woods, soldier/clerk 1920 Birthday Albertus Meintser, office clerk/resistance fighter 1918 Birthday Peter A. Juten, office clerk/resistance fighter 1917 Birthday Jacob Everaers, office clerk/resistance fighter 1879 Death James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48 1854 Birthday Dugald Clerk, inventor, engine operating the 2-stroke cycle 1838 Death Henry Fagel, baron/court clerk of States-General/diplomat, dies at 73 1831 Birthday James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist, electromagnetic theory 1654 Death Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch court clerk of States-General, dies at 66 1627 Death Cornelis van Aerssen, Flemish Clerk of the House, dies at about 81 1600 Birthday Dirck Graswinckel, Dutch States-General court clerk