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2007 Hans Wollschlager, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses, dies in Bamberg, Germany

1995 Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series

1994 Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter, dies at 62

1993 Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76

1989 Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize

1988 Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000

1983 Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA

1979 Edgar Buchanan, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77

1978 Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75

1976 Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66

1975 Edgar Renteria, born in Barranquilla, Colombia, infielder for the Florida Marlins

1975 Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76

1974 Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62

1974 Edgar Dearing, actor (Free and Easy, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 81

1973 Edgar Davids, Dutch soccer player, Ajax, AC Milan

1972 J Edgar Hoover, head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77

1972 J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant

1972 Edgar P Snow, U.S. author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66

1969 Edgar Bennett, NFL running back, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31

1964 ML King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign

1964 J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"

1964 Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57

1964 Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67

1963 J. Edgar Hoover last meeting with president John F. Kennedy

1963 Edgar Martinez, New York City, baseball 1st baseman for the Seattle Mariners

1960 Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian, painter/decorator, dies at 67

1959 Edgar Guest, U.S. poet/newspaperman, dies at 77

1958 Edgar A Robert Cecil viscount of Chelwood, (Nobel 1937), dies at 94

1958 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia

1956 Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer, dies at 76

1956 Bruce Edgar, cricketer, New Zealand opener through the 80'

1955 Edgar Faure forms French government

1954 Edgar Riley, Jr., rocker, Axe K

1954 Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher/drawer, dies at 77

1953 J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club

1951 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner

1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74

1950 Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet

1949 Edgar Warren Williams, composer

1949 J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen

1948 Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68

1948 Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58

1947 Edgar Broughton, born in Warwick, England, founder, progressive rock group, The Edgar Broughton Band, 1968

1946 Edgar Winter, Beaumont, Texas, rocker, They Only Come Out at Night

1944 Edgar Stillman Kelley, U.S. composer (Gulliver), dies at 87

1944 Edgar Froese, rocker, Tangerine Dream

1943 Robert W. Edgar, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Pennsylvania, 1975 - 1987

1943 Liz Edgar, horse show jumper

1941 John Edgar Widerman, U.S. writer

1940 William Edgar Borah, Senator-R-Idaho, 1907 - 1940, lawyer, died at the age of 74

1936 Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV

1936 Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio

1936 FBI's J. Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis

1935 Hans Wollschlager, born in Minden, Germany, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses

1932 Edgar Valcarcel, composer

1932 Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter

1932 R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76

1932 Edgar Wallace, British Writer

1930 Edgar Dean Mitchell, Hereford Texas, Captain USN/astronaut, Apollo 14

1930 Edgar Sergeyi Hovhanesyan, composer

1929 Edgar White, U.S., yachtsman 1952 Olympics gold

1929 William Edgar Thornton, born in Faison, North Carolina, MD/astronaut, STS-8, 51-B, sk:49

1926 Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader, 17 years in Robbeneiland Jail

1926 Edgar Meuli, cricketer, opened New Zealand batting in Test vs. South Africa 1953

1925 William Edgar Mitchell, physicist

1924 J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI

1924 J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI

1923 Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict

1921 J. Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI

1921 Edgar Saltus, American Writer

1919 J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia

1918 John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover

1917 Edgar Degas, painter, Paris

1917 Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina), dies

1917 J. Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice

1912 Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le chant Gregorien), dies at 58

1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes"

1912 Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop

1912 Edgar Evans, born in Cardiganshire, Wales, tenor, singer, founder of Covent Garden Opera Company, performed more than 45 roles

1912 Edgar Evans, British explorer of Antarctica, dies

1911 Edgar Beck, president, John Mowlem

1909 Edgar Pangborn, U.S., sci-fi author, Judgment of Eve, Davy

1908 Edgar Faure, thriller writer/Prime Minister of France, 1952, 1952 - 1956

1907 Edgar Barrier, born in New York, actor, Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered

1906 Edgar Unsworth, Justice of Appeals, Gibralter

1905 Edgar P. Snow, U.S. author/journalist: Red star over China

1903 Edgar Bergen, Chicago, ventriloquist, Charlie McCarthy

1902 Edgar Buchanan, born in Humansville, Missouri, actor, Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction

1898 Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, New York City, bandleader, Jerry Colonna Show

1895 J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant

1893 Edgar Dearing, bron in Ceres, California, actor, Abraham Lincoln, Free and Easy

1893 Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian muralist and decorator

1891 Edgar Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer

1890 Edgar "E Livingstone" Kennedy, U.S. actor and director, My Old Dutch

1889 Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel 1932

1888 Tarzan, of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel

1882 Edgar Mayne, cricketer, Australian batsman, prolific for Victoria

1881 Edgar Albert Guest, born in Detroit, Michigan, poet/newspaperman

1880 Edgar Istel, composer

1880 Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer

1879 Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher

1878 Alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer, Black Dogs and Other Stories

1877 Edgar Cayce, American

1875 Edgar Rice Burroughs, U.S., sci-fi author, Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga

1875 Edgar Wallace, born in England, novelist, playwright and journalist, Terror

1875 Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasverus), dies at 72

1868 Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet

1865 William Edgar Borah, born in Fairfield, Illinois, Senator-R-Idaho, 1907 - 1940, lawyer

1861 Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S.

1857 Edgar Stillman Kelley, Sparta Wisconsin, composer, Gulliver

1855 Edgar Saltus, American Writer

1854 Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer, Le Chant Gregorien

1849 Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Baltimore at 40

1849 Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

1845 Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (New York City)

1841 Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published

1834 Edgar Degas, born in France, impressionist painter, Bouquet

1834 Edgar Degas, French painter, ballerina

1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy

1819 Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General Union volunteers

1809 Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author, Pit and the Pendulum

1803 Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian, Ahasverus

975 Edgar, King of England (959-75), dies


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