2012 Event In Ireland, anti-austerity protesters use a coffin draped in the Irish tricolor 1978 Event Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery 1926 Event Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1 hours 1900 Birthday Ian Hunter, born in Capetown South Africa, actor, Dr. Blood's Coffin, White Unicorn 1892 Birthday Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter, WW II 1864 Death Thomas Jonathan Coffin Amory, U.S. Union-Brigadier-General, dies at about 34 1829 Birthday Phoebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England 1793 Birthday Lucretia Coffin Mott, U.S., teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist 765 Event Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China
