2004 Jack Paar, TV host, early Tonight Show host, dies at 85
2002 Mildred Wirt Benson, journalist/writer, wrote many early Nancy Drew books, dies at 96
2001 Lance Loud, "actor/early ""reality show"" star", An American Family, dies at 50
2001 William Hewlett, "started an early ""garage"" company", co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, dies at 87
2000 Steve Allen, writer/TV host, early Tonight Show host, dies at 80
1999 Early Wynn, American Athlete
1994 Kay Petre, early racing driver, dies at 91
1985 1st AIDS theme TV movie - "An Early Frost"
1981 Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader, 1,777
1975 Chinese archeologists discover a 3-acre burial site with 6,000 clay statues of warriors dating as early as 221 BC
1974 Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson and Gray in Ethiopia)
1972 Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez and Early Wynn
1972 Sandy Koufax, Yogi Berra, and Early Wynn elected to Hall of Fame
1965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
1965 Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service
1965 Quinn Early, NFL wide receiver, NO Saints, Buffalo Bills
1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous communication satellite
1963 Early Wynn, wins his 300th and last game at 43
1963 Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game
1960 Eldine Baptiste, cricketer, WI all-rounder early 80's
1959 Paul Di'anno, rocker (Iron Maiden Chingford, London V Early Vocalist
1959 White Sox Early Wynn beats Red Sox 1-0 on his own HR
1958 Yograj Singh, cricketer, Indian pace bowler early 80's
1957 Graeme Fowler, cricketer, England left-handed opener early 80s
1957 Everton Mattis, cricketer, WI batsman early 80's
1956 Mansoor Akhtar, cricketer, Pakistani batsman early 80's
1956 Hoboken dedicates a plaque honoring achievements of Alexander Cartwright in organizing early baseball at Elysian Field
1955 Roger Binny, Indian cricket medium-pace all-rounder, early 80's
1955 Mohsin Khan, cricketer, Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s
1954 Derick Parry, cricketer, WI off-spinner early 80's
1954 Yashpal Sharma, cricketer, Indian right-handed batsman early 80'
1953 Peter McEwan, cricketer, NZ batsman early 80's
1953 Elquemedo Willett, cricketer, WI lefty spinner early 70's
1951 Geoff Howarth, cricketer, NZ captain early 80's
1951 Karsan Ghavri, cricketer, Indian lefty medium pacer early 80s
1951 German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
1949 Peter Willey, cricketer, England batsman late 70's early 80's
1945 Steven Camacho, cricketer, WI batsman early seventies
1945 Robin Jackman, cricketer, England medium-pacer early eighties
1943 Michael Findlay, cricket wicket-keeper, WI early 70's
1942 Barry Wood, cricketer, England opener in early 70's
1942 Arthur Barrett, cricketer, WI leggie early 70's
1939 Brian Luckhurst, cricketer, England opener of 60's and early 70's
1938 Chester Watson, West Indian cricket fast bowler, early 60s
1937 V B Ranjane, Indian cricket fast bowler, early 1960's
1937 Barry Shepherd, cricketer, Australian lefty bat early 60's
1937 R Surendranath, cricketer, Indian pace bowler in 11 Tests early 60s
1936 Eric Russell, cricketer, England opening batsman early 60s
1935 Paul Barton, cricketer, NZ batsman in early 1960's, century vs. South Africa
1935 Geoff Pullar, cricketer, England opening batsman late 50's early 60's
1934 Ron Gaunt, cricketer, Australian fast bowler late 50s early 60s
1934 Brian Bolus, cricketer, England opening batsman early 60's
1933 Joseph D Early, Rep-D-MA, 1975-
1930 Michael Melle, cricketer, South African pace bowler of early 1950's
1928 Ken Archer, cricketer, Australian batsman, 5 Tests early 50s
1927 Ramesh Divecha, cricketer, eleven wickets for India in early 50's
1927 Pulitzer prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
1926 John Dewes, cricketer, England opener late 40's early 50's
1926 Probir Sen, cricket wicketkeeper, India in late 40's/early 50's
1924 Adolf Hitler freed from jail early
1923 Sadu Shinde, cricketer, Indian leg-spinner late 1940's/early 1950's
1922 Roy Tattersall, cricketer, brilliant England off-spinner early 50's
1922 Allan Watkins, cricketer, England batsman late 40s early 50s
1920 Jack Cheetham, cricketer, South African batsman, Test capt early 50's
1920 Early Wynn, Hartford Ala, baseball Hall of famer, pitcher
1918 Doug Ring, cricketer, Australian leggie of the late 40's early 50's
1918 Due to WW I, 15th World Series begins a month early
1918 Arthur McIntyre, cricket wicket-keeper, England 3 times early 50's
1913 "Dachshund" by Pathe Freres, early animated cartoon, released
1908 Bill Merritt, cricketer, early NZ Test leg-spinner, also Northants
1907 Harry Boyle, round-arm cricket bowler (12 of Aust's early Tests), dies
1906 Alan Fairfax, cricketer, Australian all-rounder late 20's early 30's
1905 Ian Cromb, cricketer, NZ pace bowler in the early 1930's
1903 Johnny Blood, aka John McNally, early NFL halfback, Green Bay
1903 Kay Petre, early racing driver
1902 Milford "Curly" Page, cricketer, NZ bat early 1930's, All Black half
1901 George Duckworth, cricket wicket-keeper, England late 20's early 30's
1900 An early 50 mile race is won by an electric car in over 2 hrs
1896 Louis Bromfield, Mansfield Ohio, writer, Early Autumn, Pulitzer-1926
1896 Cyril Allcott, cricketer, NZ all-rounder in their early Tests
1894 Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star, 1920-26
1894 Guy Chamberlin, early NFL end/coach, Canton, Frankford, Cards
1892 Johnny Dodds, early jazz clarinettist
1892 Hal Roach, early film director/producer, 1 Million BC
1885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director/actor, Grand Illusion
1885 Eugen Herrigel, Germany, philosopher/early pioneer of Zen in Europe
1883 Albert "Tibby" Cotter, cricketer, great Aussie quick of early century
1881 Aubrey Faulkner, cricketer, great South Africa all-rounder early 20th cent
1878 Hanson Carter, cricketer, Yorkshire Aussie WK of early 20th century
1876 Bert Vogler, cricketer, early South African googly bowler
1865 General Early's army is defeated at Waynesborough
1864 Battle of Fisher's Hill VA-Gen Early Retreats to Brown's Gap
1864 Early retreats from Washington City back to Shenandoah Valley
1864 Battle of Fort Stevens, DC (Early's Raid, Tennallytown, MD)
1864 Confederate forces led by Gen J Early begin invasion of Washington D.C.
1864 Harpers Ferry, West Virginia - Federals evacuate in face of Early's advance
1864 Gen Early and Confederate forces reach Winchester en route to Washington D.C.
1864 Lee sends Early into Shenandoah Valley
1862 Alexander Early Stone, Confederate, dies in battle
1862 Raid at Early's: Maryland towards Washington D.C.
1857 Conrad Haebler, German historian, Early printers of Spain/Portugal
1851 Oliver Joseph Lodge, born in England, early radio pioneer
1844 'Abdu'l-Baha, early Baha'i leader, 'Azamat 7, 1
1818 Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)
1816 Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General Confederate Army, died in 1894
1729 Henry William, Baron, Stiegel, early American glassmaker
1492 Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early
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