1948 Birthday Frank Abagnale, born in Bronxville, New York, security consultant and former forger 1947 Death Han [Henricus A] van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, dies at 58 1947 Event Trial of art forger Han of Meegeren begins in Amsterdam 1917 Death Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp merchant/forger, dies 1889 Birthday Han [Henricus A] Van Meegeren, Dutch painter/art forger, Vermeer 1861 Death Vaclav Hanka, Czechoslovakian author/translator/forger, dies at 69 1835 Death William Henry Ireland, forger (Shakespearean manuscripts), dies 1824 Birthday Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger 1791 Birthday Vaclav Hanka, Czechoslovakian author/interpreter/forger
