2012 Event Academy award-winning actor Ernest Borgnine, dies at the age of 95 2000 Death Jim Varney, actor, Ernest Goes to Camp, dies at 50 1996 Death George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76 1996 Death Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver, dies at 93 1996 Death Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician, dies at 81 1995 Death Ernest LeRoy Boyer, educator, dies at 67 1995 Death Leonard Ernest John Chant, social Worker, dies at 57 1995 Death Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club Owner, dies at 93 1995 Death Ernest Anderson, publicist, dies at 85 1995 Death Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist, dies at 80 1995 Death Ernest H Martin, impressario, dies at 75 1995 Death Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered 1995 Death Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic, dies at 83 1994 Death Ernest Clark, actor (Pope Must Die, Gandhi), dies at 82 1994 Death Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist, dies at 90 1994 Death John Ernest, constructionist Artist, dies at 72 1991 Death Ernest K Gann, U.S. adventure novelist, dies at 81 1989 Death Ernest Morrison, actor (Peggy Does Her Darndest), dies 1988 Event Chris Speier hits for the cycle and Ernest Riles hits 10,000th Giant home run 1986 Death Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer, dies at 89 1984 Death Ernest Tubb, singer (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 70 1981 Event Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz," premieres in New York City 1980 Death Ernest White, composer, dies at 80 1979 Event Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond," premieres in New York City 1978 Event 1st black mayor of New Orleans (Ernest Morial) inaugurated 1978 Death Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83 1977 Event Ernest N. Morial elected mayor of New Orleans 1977 Event New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial 1977 Birthday Sarah Chalke, Ottawa, actress, Becky-Roseanne, Ernest Goes to School 1974 Death Ernest Milton, actor (Julius Caesar, Cat Girl), dies at 84 1974 Death Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer, dies at 86 1974 Death Ernest Becker, Canadian Scientist 1973 Death Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete and Gladys, Mr. Peepers), dies at 73 1973 Death Ernest Truex, actor (Fluffy, Scared, His Girl Friday), dies at 82 1973 Event Super Fly Meets Shaft by John and Ernest hits #31 1973 Death Ernest MacMillan, composer, dies at 79 1971 Birthday Ernest Hunter, NFL running back for the Cleveland Browns 1971 Birthday Ernest Dixon, NFL linebacker for the New Orleans Saints 1971 Birthday Ernest Faber, born in Geldrop, Netherlands, professional soccer player, played for the Netherlands national football team, PSV Eindhoven, FC Groningen and Sparta Rotterdam 1971 Birthday Ernest Dye, NFL tackle for the Arizona Cardinals 1971 Birthday Ernest Jones, NFL defensive end, Saints, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 1969 Birthday Theodore Ernest Els, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer, 1994 U.S. Open 1969 Death Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor/composer, dies at 85 1968 Death Ernest Claes, Belgium, author (The White), dies at 82 1968 Death Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician, dies at 60 1964 Birthday Ernest Givins, NFL wide receiver for the Jacksonville Jaguars 1961 Event Ernest Davis is 1st black to win Heisman Trophy 1961 Death Ernest Hemingway, writer, commits suicide at 61 1961 Death Ernest Thesiger, actor (Brass Monkey, Ghoul), dies at 81 1960 Death Ernest Holmes, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine, dies 1959 Death Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78 1959 Death Ernest Bloch, Swiss/US composer (Macbeth), dies at 78 1959 Death Ernest Newman, English Critic 1959 Death Ernest Willem Mulder, composer, dies at 60 1958 Death Douglas Mawson, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage, in Brighton, South Australia, at age 76 1958 Death Ernest Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939, dies at 57 1958 Death Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist 1958 Event Ernest Green and 600 whites graduate from Little Rock's Central HS 1956 Death Ernest J King, U.S. fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations, dies at 77 1956 Event 28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win 1954 Event Ernest Hemingway wins Nobel prize for literature 1954 Event Nobel prize for literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway 1954 Event Ernest Blochs 4th string quartet, premieres 1953 Death Ernest Irving, composer, dies at 74 1953 Event Ernest Blochs "Suite Hebraique," premieres 1952 Birthday Ernest Harden, Jr., born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Marcus-Jeffersons 1952 Event Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" published 1950 Death Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at 55 1950 Birthday Ernest Thompson, Bellows Fall Vt, actor, Sierra, Westside Medical 1950 Death Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies 1950 Birthday Ernest Thomas, born in Gary, Indiana, actor, Roger-What's Happening!! 1950 Birthday Ernest Istook, born in Fort Worth, Texas, Representative-R-Oklahoma 1993 - 2007 1949 Death Ernest Ford, composer, dies at 91 1949 Death Ernest Walker, composer, dies at 78 1947 Death Ernest Austin, composer, dies at 72 1947 Death Ernest Samuel Williams, composer, dies at 65 1946 Death Ernest Thompson Seton, American Leader 1946 Birthday Jim Varney, born in Lexington, Kentucky, actor, Ernest Goes to Jail, "Hey Vern" 1945 Death Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44 1945 Death Ernest B Allo, French theologist, dies at 71 1942 Event Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered 1942 Death Ernest Pingoud, composer, dies at 53 1941 Birthday Chubby Checker, Ernest Evans, Philadelphia, rock vocalist, Twist 1941 Birthday Ernest Wright, Jr., U.S. rock vocalist, Imperials-So Much 1940 Event Ernest Hemingway and Benjamin Glazer premiere in New York City 1939 Birthday Ernest Davis, 1st black to win Heisman Trophy, 1961 1939 Death Ernest Schelling, composer, dies at 63 1939 Event Nobel for physics awarded to Ernest Lawrence for the cyclotron 1939 Event Ernest Hausen of Wisconsin sets chicken-plucking record-4.4 sec 1938 Birthday Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker 1937 Death Ernest Rutherford baron of Nelson, English physicist (Nobel 1908), dies 1937 Event Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have and Have Not" published 1936 Birthday Ernie K-Doe, Ernest Kador Jr, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, rocker 1933 Death Ernest Torrence, actor (I Cover the Waterfront), dies at 54 1933 Birthday Ernest Gaines, American Writer 1931 Event Ernest Lassy completes longest canoe journey without port (6,102 mi) 1930 Birthday Dorothy Tutin, born in London, actress, Importance of Being Ernest, Cromwell 1930 Birthday Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as Vice President of American Zoologists 1928 Birthday Ernest Flatt, choreographer, Carol Burnett Show 1928 Birthday Ernest L Boyer, educator/chancellor, NY's State Universities-SUNY 1928 Birthday Ernest R Tidyman, Ohio, novelist/screenwriter, French Connection 1926 Birthday Ernest Harrison, CEO, Racal Electronics 1925 Birthday David Bache, born in Worcestershire, England, David Ernest Bache, son of footballer Joe Bache, car designer, worked with Rover, established design company David Bache Associates, created the Land Rover, Series II Land Rover 1924 Birthday Ernest Tomlinson, composer 1923 Birthday Ernest Mandel, Belgian philosopher and economist 1922 Birthday John Ernest, constructionist artist 1922 Death Ernest H Shackleton, British South pole explorer (Endurance), dies at 47 1922 Death Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer 1922 Birthday Ernest Hollings, born in Charleston, South Carolina, Senator-D-South Carolina 1966 - 2005 1921 Birthday Ernest Gold, born in Vienna, Austria, Ernst Gold, composer, wrote nearly 100 film and television scores, including It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, On the Beach, four Academy-Award nominations, three Golden Globe nominations 1920 Birthday George Ernest Leslie, trade union official 1920 Birthday Earl Kim, born in Dinuba, California, Korean-American composer, professor at Princeton and Harvard, studied with Roger Sessions, Arnold Schoenberg, Ernest Bloch 1919 Birthday Ernest H Martin, Markowitz, producer, Feuer and Martin-Chorus Line 1918 Death Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer, dies at 33 1917 Event Ernest Bloch's "Schelomo," premieres 1917 Event 1st performance of Ernest Bloch's symphony "Israel" 1917 Birthday Ernest Borgnine, Hamden, Connecticut, actor, Ice Station Zebra, McHale, Marty 1915 Birthday Michael Denison, York England, actor, Importance of Being Ernest 1915 Birthday Ernest Borneman, sexual researcher psychotherapist writer/musicologist 1915 Birthday Ernest Armstrong, miner/politician 1914 Event 3rd pole expedition Ernest Shackleton "Endurance" 1914 Birthday Ernest Tubb, born in Texas, guitarist/singer, I'm Walking the Floor over You 1913 Birthday Ernest Sidey, British air marshal 1912 Birthday Ernest Clark, born in London, England, actor, Doctor in the House 1911 Birthday Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic 1910 Birthday Ernest Anderson, publicist 1909 Death Ernest F Cambier, Bel colonial pioneer (1st Congo railway), dies at 65 1909 Event British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole 1909 Death Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85 1909 Death Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63 1909 Event Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees 23' south 1908 Birthday Ernest Burnelle, Belgian politician 1908 Birthday Mary Hemingway, writer, Ernest Hemmingway Biography 1908 Birthday Vivian [Ernest] Fuchs, geologist/explorer, British Antarctic Survey 1906 Birthday Erik Rhodes, Ernest Sharpe, actor, Top Hat, Night at the Ritz 1905 Birthday Ernest Baier, Germany, figure skater 1936 Olympics gold 1904 Birthday Arthur Ernest Mourant, haematologist 1904 Birthday Iron Eyes Cody, born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, actor, Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp 1903 Birthday Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver 1902 Birthday Ernest Charles Melvin Patrick Ekundio Marke, club owner 1901 Birthday Ernest Lawrence, born in Canton, South Dakota, inventor of the cyclotron, Nobel Prize in Physics 1939 1901 Birthday Ernest Lawrence, American Scientist 1900 Birthday Ernest White, composer 1900 Death Ernest Dowson, English Poet 1899 Birthday Ernest Hemingway, born in Oak Park, for whom the bell tolled..., Nobel 1954 1899 Death Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44 1898 Birthday Ernest Willem Mulder, composer 1897 Birthday Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer 1895 Death Ernest H Baillon, French botanist (History of Plants), dies at 67 1895 Birthday Ernest Junger, German philosopher, Anschwellender Bocksgesang 1894 Birthday Ernest John Moeran, British composer 1894 Birthday Ernest Kanitz, composer 1893 Birthday Ernest MacMillan, composer 1892 Death Ernest Renan, French Philosopher 1892 Death Ernest Guiraud, composer, dies at 54 1891 Death Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75 1890 Birthday Ernest Milton, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Cat Girl, Fiddler's Three 1889 Birthday Ernest Truex, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, Pop-Pete and Gladys, Mr. Peepers 1889 Birthday Ernest Tyldesley, cricketer, 1st Lancastrian to score 100 100's 1888 Birthday Ernest Pingoud, composer 1887 Birthday Alfred Ernest Whitehead, composer 1887 Birthday Ernest Holmes, born in Lincoln, Maine, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine 1886 Death Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horace), dies at 77 1885 Birthday Ernest Claes, Belgian author, Saints from Zichem 1885 Birthday Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer 1883 Birthday Ernest Ansermet, born in Vevey, Switzerland, conductor, Ruilles de Printemps 1883 Birthday Ernest E Just, biologist, pioneered cell division 1882 Birthday Douglas Mawson, born in Yorkshire, England, Antarctic explorer, geologist, member, Ernest Shackleton's Nimrod expedition, among first to reach South Magnetic Pole 1881 Birthday Ernest Samuel Williams, composer 1881 Birthday Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour and Foreign affairs 1880 Birthday Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder, National-India Party 1880 Birthday Ernest Bloch, born in Geneva, Switzerland, composer, MacBeth 1879 Birthday Ernest Thesiger, born in London, England, actor, Bride of Frankenstein, Ghoul 1879 Birthday Ernest Jones, British psychoanalyst, Life and Work of Sigmund Freud 1878 Birthday Ernest J King, U.S. fleet admiral/Chief of Naval Operations, WW II 1878 Birthday Ernest Irving, composer 1878 Birthday Ernest Torrence, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, actor, Hunchback of Notre Dame 1876 Birthday Ernest Schelling, Belvidere, New Jersey, composer and conductor, Victory Ball 1874 Birthday Ernest Austin, composer 1874 Birthday Ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer, Endurance, Antarctica 1874 Birthday Ernest Shackleton, Irish Explorer 1873 Birthday Johnny Tyldesley, cricketer, brother of Ernest, 31 Tests for England 1873 Death Ernest Feydeau, French author, dies at 52 1873 Birthday Ernest B Allo, French theologist 1871 Birthday Ernest Lord Rutherford, England, physicist, atomic nucleus; Nobel 1908 1871 Birthday Ernest Rutherford, nuclear scientist 1870 Birthday Ernest Walker, composer 1869 Birthday Ernest Jones, cricket pace bowler, marvellous Australia at turn of century 1868 Birthday Ernest Newman, English Critic 1867 Birthday Ernest C Dowson, British poet 1867 Birthday Ernest Dowson, English Poet 1866 Birthday Ernest Watson Burgess, U.S. sociologist, ecological school 1860 Birthday Ernest T Seton, naturalist/painter/author, Buffalo Wind-1938 1860 Birthday Ernest Thompson Seton, American Leader 1858 Birthday Ernest Ford, composer 1857 Birthday Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, orientalist/museum curator 1857 Birthday Henry Ernest Dudeney, mathematician and puzzle maker 1850 Birthday Ernest Albert Waterlow, water-color painter 1845 Birthday Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright, Sedan 1844 Birthday Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer, 1st railway Congo. 1840 Birthday Ernest Debes, German cartographer, Baedeker 1837 Birthday Ernest Guiraud, composer 1837 Birthday Ernest Daudet, French writer, White Terror 1827 Birthday Ernest H Baillon, French botanist, History of Plants 1823 Birthday Ernest Reyer, composer 1823 Birthday Ernest Renan, French philosopher/historian/scholar of religion 1821 Birthday Ernest Feydeau, French author, Georges Feydeau 1815 Birthday Ernest Meissonier, French painter/sculptor 1811 Death Ernest Louis Muller, composer, dies at 70 1808 Birthday Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher, Horatius 1740 Birthday Ernest Louis Muller, composer