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2003 Edwin Starr, American Musician

1997 Paul Edwin Zimmer, sci-fi writer, dies of heart attack at 54

1997 Edwin Haig Alberian, TV celebrity, played Clarabell

1996 Charles Edwin Molnar, computer pioneer, dies at 61

1996 Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35

1996 Edwin Clarke, historian/neurologist, dies at 76

1996 Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher, dies at 89

1995 Edwin "Russell" House, saxophonist, dies at 65

1995 Donald Edwin White, ad copywriter/opera administrator, dies at 59

1993 Edwin A Walker, U.S. Maj-Gen, dies of lung cancer at 84

1993 Edwin "Rick" Bakker, author (Rick's Report/AIDS Diary), dies at 31

1993 Edwin Louis Battle, actor (Almost Blue, Chase), dies of stroke at 33

1991 Edwin M McMillan, U.S., chemist (neptunium, plutonium, Nobel 1951), dies

1991 Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81

1991 Edwin Jongejans of Netherlands wins 1-meter springboard diving title

1987 Danny Harris beats Edwin Moses, ends streak of 122 cons hurdle wins

1987 "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial New York City after 608 performances

1986 Caroline Kennedy (28) marries Edwin Schlossberg (41)

1986 40th Tony Awards: I'm Not Rappaport and Mystery of Edwin Drood win

1985 "Mystery of Edwin Drood" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 608 performances

1985 Rupert Holmes' musical "Mystery of Edwin Drood," premieres in New York City

1985 Edwin Meese III becomes U.S. Attorney General

1985 U.S. Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general

1984 Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race

1984 Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network

1983 Att Gen Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free and that's easier than paying for it"

1983 Edwin Moses of USA sets 400m hurdle record (47.02) in Koblenz

1971 Edwin van Holten, soccer player, FC Volendam

1970 Edwin Huizinga, Dutch soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen, Emmen

1970 Edwin van der Sar, Dutch soccer goalkeeper, Ajax

1970 Edwin Land patents Polaroid camera

1970 Edwin Zoetebier, Dutch soccer player, FC Volendam

1970 Edwin de Kruyf/Kruijff, soccer player, FC Utrecht, FC Groningen

1969 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11

1968 Edwin Vurens, Dutch soccer player, FC Twente

1968 Edwin O'Connor, U.S. writer, dies at 49

1964 Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81

1963 Edwin Gorter, soccer player, Lommel/FC Utrecht

1961 Edwin "Rick" Bakker, Dutch author: Rick's Report, AIDS Diary

1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of Today Show

1961 Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman

1959 Edwin Muir, Scottish Poet

1956 Edwin Franko Goldman, composer, dies at 78

1955 Edwin Corley Moses, Dayton, 400m hurdler, Oly-2 gold/br-76, 84, 88

1955 Edwin Scharff, German painter/sculptor (Rossebandiger), dies at 68

1954 Edwin Armstrong, American Inventor

1954 Edwin H Armstrong, U.S. radio inventor (FM), commits suicide at 63

1953 Edwin P Hubble, astronomer, designer of telescopes, dies at 63

1953 Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist

1951 Robert Edwin Wadkins, Richmond, Virginia, PGA golfer, 1994 Kemper Open-2nd

1949 Brigadier Gen Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA

1948 Edwin Maxwell, actor (Taming of the Shrew), dies at 62

1947 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA

1946 Fighting Mack, [Edwin Alberto], Antillian welterweight boxer

1945 Edwin Schlossberg, husband of Carolyn Kennedy

1943 1st president of a black country to visit U.S. (Edwin Barclay, Liberia)

1942 Edwin Starr, U.S. singer, War

1940 Edwin Markham, American Poet

1938 Edwin Elliason, Washington, U.S. archer 1992 Olympics

1937 Edwin Roxburgh, composer

1935 Donald Edwin White, advertising copywriter/opera administrator

1935 Edwin Cannan, economist, dies

1935 Edwin H Flack, English 800/1500m runner (Oly-gold-1896), dies at 60

1934 Edwin Lehare, composer, dies at 69

1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars

1932 Jake Edwin Garn, Sen-R-Utah, 1974-, and astronaut, STS 51D

1931 Edwin Meese III, prude, U.S. attorney General, 1985-88

1930 Edwin Justus Mayer's "Children of Darkness," premieres in New York City

1929 BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe

1929 Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe

1929 Edwin London, composer

1927 Edwin W. Edwards, Gov-La

1927 Edwin W. Edwards, Politician

1927 Edwin Edwards, American Politician

1926 Edwin "Duke" Snider, Brooklyn Dodger centerfielder, 406 HRs

1926 Edwin James Nairn Carr, composer

1925 Edwin Gordon, New York City, VOA correspondant

1924 Edwin Hubble announces existence of other galactic systems

1924 U.S., min of marine Edwin Denby ends term due to Teapot Dome-scandal

1923 Edwin Hubble identifies Cepheid variable star

1919 Edwin C Tubb, Brits sci-fi writer, Earth is Heaven, Earthfall

1919 Edwin Clarke, historian and neurologist

1919 Edwin Newman, New York City, newscaster/journalist/author, NBC-TV, Comment

1918 Edwin Charles "Preacher" Roe, baseball pitcher, Brooklyn Dodgers

1914 Edwin Mirvish, owner, Old Vic

1911 Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 mins Notts vs. Sussex

1911 Edwin Arthur Jones, composer, dies at 57

1909 Edwin Gerschefski, composer

1909 Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat

1909 Edwin H Land, inventor, instant photography, Polaroid,

1909 Edwin H. Land, American Inventor

1907 Edwin M McMillan, U.S., physicist/discoverer plutonium, Nobel prize

1906 Edwin H "Buddy" Morris, music publisher

1903 Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, U.S. dance critic/poet, Snoring in N

1900 Edwin McLeod, cricketer, played in NZ's 2nd-ever Test 1930

1900 Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player

1900 Edwin George Monk, composer, dies at 80

1898 Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster

1898 Edwin E. Dwinger, German writer, General Vlassov

1893 Edwin Booth, American Actor

1893 Royal Butler, [Edwin Richey], born in Atlanta, Georgia, actor

1890 Edwin Howard Armstrong, New York City, radio pioneer inventor, FM

1889 Edwin Hubble, astronomer, discoverer of galaxies, red shift

1889 Edwin Powell Hubble, American Scientist

1889 Edwin Hatch, English Theologian

1887 Edwin Muir, Scottish Poet

1887 Edwin Scharff, German "entartet" painter/sculptor

1886 Ed Wynn, [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], Philadelphia Pennsylvania, comedian, Ed Wynn Show

1885 Gen Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, mayor (Elzas-Lothar'n), dies

1878 Edwin Franko Goldman, composer

1877 Edwin T. Holmes installs 1st telephone switchboard burglar alarm

1869 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, U.S. Secretary of War (1861-65), dies at 55

1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson, U.S., poet, Richard Corey

1869 Edwin Lutyens, architect, London

1869 Edwin M. Stanton, American Lawyer

1867 President A Johnson defies Congress suspending Sec of War Edwin Stanton

1865 Edwin Lehare, composer

1864 William Edwin Baldwin, U.S. Confederate brig-general, dies

1863 Edwin Vose Sumner, U.S. Union-general-major (Fair Oaks), dies at 66

1862 William Edwin Starke, Conf brig-gen, dies in battle at about 48

1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake

1858 Edwin T. Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Massachusetts)

1856 Robert Edwin Peary, U.S., arctic explorer, North Pole-Apr 6 1909

1855 Edwin H Hall, U.S. physicist, Hall effect

1853 Edwin Arthur Jones, composer

1852 Edwin Markham, U.S., poet, 1st winner of Amer Acad of Poets Award 1937

1849 1st performance by U.S. actor Edwin Booth (Richard III)

1848 Edwin Howland Blashfield, decorated the dome of Library of Congress

1838 Edwin Henry Stoughton, Brig General Union volunteers, died in 1868

1836 Edwin Gray Lee, Brig General Confederate Army, died in 1870

1835 Edwin Hatch, English Theologian

1833 Edwin Thomas Booth, U.S., U.S. Hall of Fame/actor, Hamlet

1833 Edwin Booth, American Actor

1832 Edwin Arnold, English writer, Light of India

1830 Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are destroyed forever

1819 Edwin George Monk, composer

1819 Edwin Drake, drilled 1st productive U.S. oil well

1814 Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton, Ohio, U.S. Secretary of War, 1861-65

1814 Edwin M. Stanton, American Lawyer

1811 Edwin Denison Morgan, Sect of War, Confederacy, died in 1883

1809 Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy, Elzas-Lutherian

1800 Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer

1797 Edwin Vose Sumner, Major General Union volunteers, died in 1863

1561 Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony



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