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2012 Event - The North Korean Workers party names Kin Jong Un First Secretary, with his father, Kim Jong IL delcared as the party's 'eternal' General Secretary 2011 Event - North Korea's Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-il, dies; Kim Jong-un is announced as his father's successor 2011 Event - Muammar Gaddafi appears on Libyan television claiming himself the 'father of Libya' 2004 Death - Gibson Kente, wrote about life in South African black townships, known as Father of Black Theater in South Africa, dies 2003 Death - Edward Teller, scientist/professor, The father of the H-bomb, dies at 95 2000 Event - Elian Gonzalez is snatched by a SWAT team from his Florida relatives to return him to his father in Cuba 1998 Death - Jon Postel, Father of the Internet, dies at 55 1998 Event - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years 1997 Death - James Komack, producer (Courtship of Eddie's Father), dies at 67 1997 Event - Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion 1997 Event - Todd and Mel Stottlemyre become 1st father and son to win 100 games 1996 Death - Claude Mauriac, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust, dies at 81 1996 Event - "Father" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 52 performances 1996 Event - "Father" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 52 performances 1994 Event - "Shakespeare after My Father" closes at Helen Hayes New York City after 266 perf 1993 Death - Leon Ames, actor (Father of the Bride), dies at 91 of stroke 1993 Death - James Jordan, NBA Michael Jordan's father, found dead near McColl, South Carolina 1993 Death - Jordan, father of Michael Jordan, murdered 1993 Event - "Shakespeare for My Father" opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 266 performances 1993 Death - Klaas Schenk, Dutch speed skater/coach/father of Ard, dies at 86 1993 Death - Juan of Borbon y Battemberg, father of king Juan Carlos I, dies 1993 Event - "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale New York City after 462 performances 1992 Event - "Conversations with My Father" opens at Royale New York City for 462 performances 1992 Event - Herb Gardner's "Conversations With My Father," premieres in New York City 1992 Death - Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana, dies at 68 1992 Death - Karel Poons, father of Paul Deen, dies 1991 Death - Carmine Coppola, composer/father of Francis Ford Coppola, dies 1990 Event - Ken Griffey Sr &, Jr. are 1st father and son to play on same team each goes 1 for 4 for Seattle Mariners 1990 Event - Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr. become 1st father and son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning 1990 Event - Marla Maples father sues National Enquirer for $12M 1988 Death - Richard Castellano, aqctor (Honor thy Father), dies at 55 1988 Death - Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11 1987 Event - Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel 1986 Death - Lurene Tuttle, actress (Father of Bride, Julia), dies at 79 1985 Death - Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of Bride), dies at 87 1984 Death - Martin Luther King Sr, U.S. vicar/father of MLK, Jr., dies at 84 1984 Death - Marvin Gaye, rocker (Sexual Healing), shot dead by his father at 45 1981 Death - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart attack 1980 Death - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91 1979 Death - Lewis Charles, actor (Feather and Father Gang), dies at 59 1977 Death - Steve Dunne, actor (Professional Father), dies at 59 1976 Birthday - Vanessa Kerry, born in Boston, Massachusetts, medical resident, daughter of John Kerry, campaigned with her father in the 2004 Presidential election 1976 Death - Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63 1976 Death - James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73 1973 Death - David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at 87 1973 Death - Murray Wilson, father of beachboys Brian, Carl and Dennis, dies at 55 1971 Birthday - Kimberly Williams, actress, Father of the Bride 1971 Death - Jack Good, actor (Father Goose), dies 1971 Birthday - Dalton James, actor, My Father the Hero, Mark-Beverly Hills 90201 1970 Death - Del Moore, actor/announcer (Cal-Bachelor Father), dies at 53 1969 Death - Joseph P. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Massachusetts, at 81 1968 Birthday - Brandon Douglas, born in Oklahoma City, actor, Dr. Quinn, Father's Homecoming 1968 Event - Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in New York City 1967 Death - Stuart Erwin, actor (Trouble With Father), dies of heart attack at 64 1967 Death - Spencer Tracy, U.S. actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride), dies at 67 1967 Birthday - Timothy Gibbs, born in Burbank, California, actor, Father Murphy, Santa Barbara 1966 Death - Russel Crouse, U.S. stagewriter (Life with Father), dies at 73 1964 Death - Sammee Tong, actor (Bachelor Father, Mickey), dies at 63 1964 Event - John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years 1963 Birthday - Tracy Nelson, California, actress, Glitter, Square Pegs, Father Dowling 1963 Death - Zasu Pitts, actress (Wedding March, Life With Father), dies at 65 1962 Birthday - Brandon Cruz, actor, Eddie-Courtship of Eddie's Father 1961 Birthday - John Viscardi, New York City, actor, Father Tony-One Life to Live 1960 Event - Vernon Presley (father of Elvis) weds Dee Alliot 1958 Birthday - Lesley Player, born in Redhill, England, Sarah Fergusson's father's lover 1957 Event - "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres 1957 Death - "Black Jack" Bouvier, father of Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of cancer 1955 Death - Dorothy Bernard, actress (Margaret-Life With Father), dies at 65 1955 Event - King Norodom Sihanukh of Cambodia succeeded by his father 1954 Event - "Father Knows Best" premieres 1953 Birthday - Katherine Cannon, born in Hartford, Connecticut, actress, Father Murphy, Survivors 1949 Birthday - Simon Callow, born in London, England, actor, Good Father 1948 Birthday - Carole Drinkwater, actress, Father, All Creatures Great and Small 1947 Birthday - Robert Gilliot, father of Gerda Havertongs daughter Zulema 1947 Birthday - Cat Stevens, Yusaf Islam, rock vocalist, Peace Train, Father and Son 1944 Death - Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67 1944 Birthday - Kristina Holland, Fayetteville, North Carolina, Tina-Courtship of Eddie's Father 1943 Birthday - Noreen Corcoran, Quincy Massachusetts, actress, Kelly-Bachelor Father 1943 Death - Robert Cooper, father of Card pitcher Mort and catcher Walker, dies 1943 Birthday - Robert Crumb, U.S., cartoonist, Father Time, Fritz Cat 1943 Birthday - Aron Kincaid, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Warren-Bachelor Father, Ski Party 1943 Birthday - Bob Blewett, cricketer, father of Greg South Australia batsman 1975-79 1942 Birthday - Don Novello, Father Guido Sarducci, Ashtabula, Ohio, comedian, SNL 1941 Birthday - Peter Pollock, cricketer, bro of Graeme/father of Shaun, S Af quickie 1940 Birthday - Merlin Olsen, Utah, NFL tackle, Rams, sportscaster/actor, Father Murphy 1940 Birthday - Jimmy Boyd, McComb, Missouri, singer and actor, Howard-Bachelor Father 1939 Event - H Lindsay and R Crouse' "Life with Father," premieres in New York City 1939 Birthday - Marti Wilder, father of rocker Kim Wilde 1938 Birthday - Wynne Bradburn, cricketer, father of Grant New Zealand batsman vs. South Africa 1964 1938 Event - 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over U.S. radio (by Father Coughlin) 1938 Birthday - Yvonne Lime, born in Glendale, California, actress, Father Knows Best, Dobie Gillis 1937 Death - Joseph Lee, father of Playgrounds movement, dies 1937 Birthday - Elinor Donahue, born in Tacoma, Washington, actress, Father Knows Best, Get a Life 1936 Death - Gilbert K Chesterton, English writer/poet (Father Brown), dies 1936 Birthday - Sue Ane Langdon, born in Paterson, New Jersey, actress, Bachelor Father, Arnie 1935 Death - Clarence Day, writer (Life with Father), dies 1935 Birthday - Pierre Kartner, Father Abraham, Dutch singer, Smurf Song 1935 Birthday - Burt Metcalfe, born in Saskatchewan Canada, actor/dir, Father of the Bride 1935 Event - President Mustapha Kemal Pasha names himself "Ataturk: Father of Turkey" 1934 Death - Henry WAE, Prince of Netherlands/father of Queen Juliana, dies 1932 Birthday - Gerard van den Berg, Dutch TV host, Like Father, Like Son 1932 Birthday - William Christopher, Evanstown, Illinois, actor, Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H 1932 Birthday - Gibson Kente, born in South Africa, wrote about life in South African black townships, known as Father of Black Theater in South Africa 1932 Birthday - Gay Talese, author, Honor Thy Father 1931 Birthday - Vijay Manjrekar, cricketer, father of Sanjay, reliable Indian batsman 1931 Birthday - Leslie Caron, born in Boulogne-Biliancourt, France, actress, Lili, Father Goose 1930 Birthday - James Komack, born in New York City, writer/director/actor, Courtship of Eddie's Father 1929 Birthday - Miyoshi Umeki, born in Japan, actress, Mrs Livingston-Courtship of Eddie's Father 1928 Birthday - Datta Gaekwad, cricketer, father of Anshuman, batted in 11 Tests 50's 1927 Birthday - Zin Harris, cricketer, father of Chris New Zealand batsman in 50's and 60's 1925 Death - Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65 1924 Birthday - 8th earl Spencer, English large landowner/father of Diane 1922 Event - BBC sends 1st British radio play "Truth about Father Christmas" 1922 Death - Dmitri B Shostakovich, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies 1921 Birthday - Dobrica Cosic, born in Velika Drenova, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, now Serbia, writer, political, national theorist, first president of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia 1992 - 1993, called 'Father of the Nation' 1920 Birthday - Don Taylor, Freeport, Pennsylvania, actor, Father's Little Dividend 1920 Birthday - Lewis Charles, New York City, actor, Feather and Father Gang 1920 Birthday - Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author, Anna and her Father 1918 Birthday - T Berry Brazelton, doctor, On Being a Father 1918 Birthday - John Forsythe, born in New Jersey, actor, Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty 1918 Birthday - Steve Dunne, Northampton Massachusetts, actor, Professional Father 1917 Event - Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha Neb 1917 Birthday - Robert Anderson, born in New York, writer, Tea and Sympathy, Never Sang for My Father 1917 Birthday - John Raitt, Bonnie Raitt's father/singer/actor, Pajama Game 1915 Birthday - Walter Hadlee, cricketer, father of Richard and Dayle, New Zealand batsman 40's 1914 Birthday - Claude Mauriac, born in France, writer, journalist, author, personal secretary to Charles de Gaulle1944 - 1949, co-scripted his father's novel titled Therese Desqueyroux, wrote study of Marcel Proust 1912 Birthday - H "Giff" Vivian, cricketer, father of Graham 1st Test for New Zealand at 18 1912 Birthday - Jane Wyatt, Campgaw, New Jersey, actress, Father Knows Best, Star Trek 1910 Event - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash) 1910 Birthday - Jahangir Khan, cricketer, father of Majid, Indian player 1932-36 1907 Death - Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahlers eldest daughter, dies of scarlet fever and diptheria at 4 years and 7 months of age in Maiernigg, Austria, five days after her father, Gustav Mahler's 47th birthday. She is buried at Grinzing Cemetery, Vienna. 1907 Birthday - Robert Young, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD 1906 Birthday - Lurene Tuttle, Pleasant Lake, Indiana, actress, Father of Bride, Julia 1906 Birthday - Howard Zahniser, Father of Wilderness Act 1903 Birthday - Leon Ames, Portland Indiana, actor, Mr Ed, Father of the Bride 1902 Birthday - James McCartney, father of Beatle, Paul McCartney 1902 Birthday - Ruby Dandridge, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actress in Father of the Bride 1900 Birthday - Spencer Tracy, born in Milwaukee, actor, Father's Little Dividend, Adam's Rib 1900 Birthday - Hyman G Rickover, U.S. Admiral, father of modern nuclear navy 1898 Birthday - Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Germany, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher 1898 Birthday - ZaSu Pitts, Parsons Kansas, actress, Life With Father, Dames 1896 Birthday - Doris Lloyd, actress, Bachelor Father, Charley's Aunt, Sarah and Son 1896 Birthday - Michael Balcon, Birmingham England, producer/father of Jill Balcon 1893 Birthday - Ann O'Neal, Missouri, actress, Nana-Professional Father 1893 Birthday - Fritz Perls, father of Gestalt therapy 1893 Birthday - Furry Lewis, father of the blues 1893 Birthday - Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright, Life with Father 1889 Birthday - John B Kelly, Olympic champion rower/father of Grace Kelly 1889 Birthday - A Provost Idell, father of modern volleyball 1889 Birthday - Vladimir K Zworykin, U.S.S.R., electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV 1889 Birthday - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank 1888 Birthday - Joseph P. Kennedy, born in Boston, Massachusetts, diplomat, father of John F. Kennedy, RFK and Teddy 1888 Birthday - John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor, father of TV 1887 Death - Peter "Peerke" Donders, missionary (Father of Melaatsen), dies at 77 1884 Birthday - Robert Flaherty, Michigan, father of documentary film, Nanook of North 1875 Birthday - Ludwig Prandtl, Germany, physicist, father of aerodynamics 1874 Birthday - Clarence Shepard Day, New York City, author, Life with Father 1866 Birthday - Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China, ROC and PRC, traditional 1859 Birthday - Walter Camp, Connecticut, father of American football, Yale 1858 Birthday - William Watson, British poet, Prince's Quest, Father of Forest 1856 Birthday - Louis Henri Sullivan, born in Boston, Massachusetts, father of modern U.S. architecture 1856 Birthday - Sigmund Freud, Austria, cigar smoker, father of psychology 1856 Birthday - Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of scientific management 1850 Birthday - Lewis Lewin, Germany, toxicologist/father of psychopharmacologist 1850 Birthday - Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi 1850 Birthday - Tomas G. Masaryk, born in Czechoslovakia, Father/President of Czechoslovakia, 1918-35 1849 Birthday - Edmund Gosse, London, translator/critic, Father and Son 1849 Death - Juliusz Slowacki, Pol poet (Father of the Plague-Patient), dies at 39 1849 Birthday - James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger 1849 Birthday - Lord Randolph Churchill, England, politician, Winston's father 1846 Birthday - Desiderio FA Pietri, Italian baker and marathon runner Dorando's father 1844 Birthday - Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine" 1841 Death - Catherine McAuley, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children, dies at her House of Mercy 1840 Birthday - Father Joseph Damien de Veuster, Belgium, helped lepers in Hawaii 1839 Birthday - Ned Gregory, cricketer, bro of Dave, father of Syd Played 1st Test 1839 Death - Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies 1838 Birthday - Cleveland Abbe, U.S., meteorologist, Father of Weather Bureau 1835 Birthday - Emile Gaboriau, author, father of French detective novels 1832 Birthday - William Le Baron Jenney, U.S., architect/"father of skyscraper" 1820 Birthday - Isvar Chandra Vidyasagar, father of Bengali prose, Exile of Sita 1817 Birthday - Alexander Tilloch Galt, a Canadian founding father 1812 Birthday - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking 1809 Birthday - Nikolai Gogol, father of 19th-century Russian realism, Dead Souls 1805 Birthday - Thomas Graham, father of colloid chemistry 1803 Birthday - James Douglas, father of British Columbia 1793 Event - Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st U.S. Roman Catholic priest ordained 1778 Birthday - Catherine McAuley, born in Dublin, Ireland, founder, the Sisters of Mercy, established 12 foundations in Ireland, 2 in England, inherited fortune from father, used money to care for, educate, homeless women and children 1777 Death - John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77 1771 Birthday - Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel, Wieland 1769 Event - Father Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego, 1st mission in California 1764 Birthday - Jose Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay 1756 Birthday - Christian G Korner, German lawyer/father of Karl 1753 Birthday - Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, father of Mexican independence 1746 Birthday - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon 1743 Birthday - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, Paris, father of mod chemistry, Oxygen 1720 Birthday - Gilbert White, "father of British naturalists" 1707 Event - Jacob V succeeds his father Pedro II as king of Portugal 1699 Birthday - John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany 1694 Death - Marcello Malpighi, father of microscopic anatomy, dies 1694 Birthday - Francis Hutcheson, born in Drumaleg, Ireland, philosopher, Scottish Presbyterian, founding father of Scottish Enlightenment, proponent of Utilitarianism 1674 Event - Father Marquette builds 1st dwelling in what is now Chicago 1660 Death - Jacob Cats, Father Cats, pension advisor of Holland, dies at 82 1658 Event - Richard Cromwell succeeds his father as English Lord Protector 1647 Death - Thomas Hooker, clergyman, father of American democracy, dies 1645 Event - Aleksei Mihailovitch Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar 1645 Event - Aleksei Romanov succeeds his father Michael as czar of Russia 1619 Event - Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow 1598 Birthday - Georg Stiernhielm, "father of Swedish poetry", Hercules 1597 Birthday - Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" 1583 Birthday - Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law 1577 Birthday - Jacob Cats, Father Cats, Dutch grand pensionary/poet, Houwelyck 1564 Event - Maximilian II succeeds his father Ferdinand II as RC emperor 1556 Event - Akbar (14) succeeds his father Humajun on as Sultan of Delhi 1554 Death - Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, executed 1535 Birthday - John, the Old, earl of Nassau/tribal father Netherlands royal family 1520 Event - Suleiman I succeeds his father Selam I as sultan of Turkey 1494 Event - Alfonso II replaces his father as king of Naples 1416 Event - Alfonso V succeeds his father as king of Aragon 1031 Event - Henry I succeeds father Robert II as King of France |
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