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Elder


1996 Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69

1983 Sam Chatman, elder statesman of the blues, dies

1969 Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," premieres in New York City

1968 Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, TV preacher, dies at 84

1961 Betty Elder, actress (Annie Get Your Gun), dies

1952 Larry Elder, American Journalist

1942 Ann Elder, born in Cleveland, Ohio, comedienne, Smothers Brothers Show, Laugh-In

1934 [Robert] Lee Elder, born in Dallas, Texas, PGA golfer, 1974 Monsanto Open

1930 Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in U.S., Cincinnati

1883 Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Newport New, Virginia, TV preacher

1849 Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45

1804 Johann Strauss, the Elder, Viennese violinist and composer, Radetzky March

1794 George Colman, the Elder, playwright, dies

1732 George Colman, "the Elder", playwright, baptised

1708 William Pitt the Elder, Whig, U.K. PM, 1756-61, 66-68, 'Great Commoner'

1681 French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter, dies at 45

1662 Gerard Terborch, the elder, painter, dies

1647 Nicholas Stone "Elder", English sculptor/architect, dies at about 61

1635 Frans van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch painter

1635 Walraad, the Elder, Dutch Field Marshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen

1610 Cornelis Evertsen, the Elder, Dutch/Swiss Vice-Admiral

1593 Matthew Merian, the Elder, engraver/bookseller

1548 Sigismund I, the Elder, King of Poland, dies at 81

1202 Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02), dies

965 Arnulf I, the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies

430 Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75


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