2015 Event Lee Kuan Yew, founder of the nation of Singapore and prime minister for 31 years, dies at the age of 91 after suffering for weeks from pneumonia 2014 Event Tesla Motors announces that it will make hundreds of patents for its Model S electric cars open source; the company's founder, Elon Musk, seeks to encourage development of the electric car market 2013 Event Founder Michael Dell leads a consortium that announced plans to take Dell private with a $24.4 billion leveraged buyout deal - the largest buyout seen since the recession 2012 Event Hearings are delayed for the U.S. extradition of Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom over concerns about the search and seizure of documents 2012 Event In a gesture to honor North Korean founder Kim II-Sung's birthday in April, North Korea plans to launch a new satellite that reportedly will be used to study crops and natural resources 2011 Event U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, founder of the militant Islamist group Al-Quaeda was killed by American military operatives 2010 Event WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, is released on bail 2010 Event Chinese Buddhist monks and archaeologists reveal part of a skull believed to be Buddhism's founder, Siddartha Gautama 2009 Death Billy Mays, famous television pitchman, direct response advertising salesman for 'As Seen on TV' products, CEO, Founder, Mays Promotions, Inc., dies at age 50 2002 Death Peg Phillips, actress/theater company founder, Northern Exposure, dies at 84 2000 Death Ginetta Sagan, freedom fighter, a founder of Amnesty International, dies at 75 2000 Death Mark Reynolds Hughes, entreprenuer, Herbalife founder, dies at 43 2000 Death Todd Karns, actor/theater director and founder, It's a Wonderful Life, dies at 79 1998 Death Dick Higgins, composer, coined term 'intermedia', founder, Something Else Press, dies of a heart attack in Quebec, Canada 1997 Death Kathy Keeton Guccione, publisher, A founder of Omni, dies at 58 1996 Death Angelo John Novarese, record company founder, dies at 72 1996 Death Walter Hyatt, singer, songwriter, founder, The Contenders, work includes album 'Some Unfinished Business', dies at 46 in a plane crash 1995 Death Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82 1995 Death Jorge Peixinho, pianist, conductor, composer, studied with Pierre Boulez, founder, Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, dies in Lisbon, Portugal 1995 Death Eazy-E, drug dealer, gang member, rapper, producer, regarded as a founder of gangsta rap, member of N.W.A. group, dies of AIDS, at age 31 1995 Death Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65 1995 Death Nico Adriaans, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37 1995 Death Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68 1994 Death Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies 1994 Death Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85 1994 Death Fred Lebow, U.S. founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer 1994 Death Alec Dickson, founder of VSO, dies at 80 1994 Death Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78 1994 Death H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies 1994 Death Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37 1994 Death Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder of the LSE, dies at 83 1994 Death Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69 1994 Death Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76 1993 Death Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination, dies at 80 1993 Death Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (Kansas City Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76 1993 Event Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder 1993 Death Andries Treurnicht, founder South Africa Conservative Party, dies at 72 1993 Death Arthur P Smith, U.S. founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76 1993 Death Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84 1992 Death Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44 1992 Death Wim Van Exter, founder Unity Profession Central (1944), dies 1992 Death Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports Fund), dies at 79 1992 Death Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies 1992 Death William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82 1992 Death William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82 1992 Death Carl Stotz, founder (baseball's little league), dies at 82 1992 Death Philip Dunne, founder (Screen Writers Guild), dies of cancer at 84 1992 Death Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies 1992 Death Roberto D'Aubuisson, El Salvadorian founder (ARENA), dies 1992 Death Josef Neckermann, German founder mail-order firm/travel bureau, dies 1991 Death Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies 1991 Death Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), dies at 82 1991 Death Soichiro Hondo, CEO and founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84 1991 Death Floyd B McKissick, U.S. founder (CORE), dies 1991 Death August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92 1990 Death Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58 1990 Death T Issan Dorsey, founder (Hartford St. Zen Center SF), dies 1990 Death Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola), dies 1990 Death Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at 76 1990 Death Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founder (Intel), dies 1990 Death Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86 1990 Death Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder (Club Med), dies at 88 1989 Death Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper founder (Le Monde), dies at 87 1988 Event North Carolina federal grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud and conspiracy 1988 Death S B Fuller, founder (Fuller products), dies at 83 1987 Death Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), dies of AIDS at 50 1987 Death Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party), dies at 74 1987 Death Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78 1986 Death Moses Asch, record founder (Folkways), dies at 81 1986 Death L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74 1985 Death Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., U.S. founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85 1984 Death Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at 81 1982 Event Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion 1982 Death Taisen Deshimaru, founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 67 1981 Death Joseph H Hirschhorn, U.S. art collector/founder H Museum, dies at 82 1981 Death Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), dies at 97 1981 Death Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed 1981 Death Dewitt Wallace, U.S. founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91 1980 Death Harland "Colonel" Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90 1979 Death Conrad Hilton, U.S. founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91 1975 Death Joris Baers, Flemish bibliographer (founder Boekengids), dies at 87 1975 Death Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer Albas, founder (Opus Dei), dies at 73 1974 Event McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres 1973 Death Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84 1973 Death Libbe de Wal, founder of Humanistic Covenant, dies at 72 1972 Death Howard Johnson, U.S. restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75 1972 Death Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder (SF Zen Center), ashes buried 1972 Death Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90 1971 Death Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies 1971 Death James Cash Penney, U.S. founder (J C Penney), dies at 95 1968 Death Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84 1968 Death William E B Dubois, U.S. founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies 1968 Death Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84 1967 Birthday Vin Diesel, born in New York City, New York, actor, director, producer, appeared in 'The Fast and the Furious', 'Pitch Black', founder of One Race Films production company 1967 Death Ethel Percy Andrus, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons , dies 1966 Death Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools, dies at 82 1966 Death Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80 1966 Death Jean Arp, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich, dies in Basel, Switzerland at age 79 1966 Death Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63 1965 Death Henry A Wallace, Vice President (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77 1965 Birthday Michael Dell, born in Houston, Texas, businessman, founder of Dell, Inc., philanthropist, named 'Inc.' magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year, worth over $12 billion 1964 Birthday Dave Ellefson, born in Jackson, Minnesota, bass guitar player, founder and member, thrash metal band, Megadeth 1964 Death Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/Minister of Justice, dies 1964 Birthday Jeff Bezos, born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founder, President of Amazon.com, previously a financial analyst for D.E. Shaw & Co. 1963 Death Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies 1963 Birthday Eazy-E, born in Compton, California, drug dealer, gang member, rapper, producer, regarded as a founder of gangsta rap, member of N.W.A. group 1963 Death W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana 1963 Birthday Jason Newsted, born in Battle Creek, Michigan, bassist, Metallica, heavy metal band member, founder of Chophouse Records studio 1963 Birthday Bruce Schneier, born in America, computer security specialist, cryptographer, writer, founder, BT Counterpane, books include, 'Practical Cryptography', 'Schneier on Security' 1961 Death Daiun Sogaku Harada, Zen founder of Sanbo Kyodan lineage, dies at 91 1961 Birthday David Huff, born in America, David Lyndon Huff, drummer, songwriter, producer, session musician, founder, Giant, 1980's hard rock band, member of White Heart, a Christian rock band 1960 Birthday Django Bates, born in Beckenham, England, jazz musician, founder, Human Chain, plays tenor horn, keyboards, piano 1960 Death John P "John" Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84 1960 Birthday Tony Robbins, born in North Hollywood, California, self-help author, motivational speaker, books include, 'Awaken the Giant Within', founder, 'Anthony Robbins Foundation' 1958 Birthday Steve Case, born in McLean, Virginia, co-founder and chief executive officer of America Online, AOL, founder of Revolution LLC holding, chairman of the Case Foundation 1958 Birthday Billy Mays, born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, famous television pitchman, direct response advertising salesman for 'As Seen on TV' products, CEO, Founder, Mays Promotions, Inc. 1957 Death John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70 1957 Birthday Jeff Hawkins, born in Huntington, New York, founder of Palm Computing, inventor of the Palm Pilot, founder of Handspring, inventor of Trio, author of, 'On Intelligence' 1956 Birthday Nick Banton, founder, Body Positive 1955 Birthday John Stevens, member of European Parliament, founder of the Pro-Euro Conservative party, known for his pro-Euro policy stance 1955 Death John R Mott, U.S. theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89 1955 Birthday Jools Holland, born in Blackheath, England, born Julian Miles Holland, composer, singer, pianist, television presenter, founder of band, Squeeze, hosts show titled, 'Later... with Jools Holland' 1954 Birthday Jeffrey Sachs, born in Detroit, Michigan, Jeffrey David Sachs, economist, founder, co-President of the Millennium Promise Alliance to end extreme poverty and hunger, Senior Advisor to the Global Poverty Project 1954 Birthday Michael Shermer, born in Glendale, California, science writer, historian, television producer of Fox series 'Exploring the Unknown', founder, The Skeptics Society 1954 Birthday Steve Morse, born in Hamilton, Ohio, rocker, guitarist, founder of the Dixie Dregs, guitar player in Deep Purple 1954 Death B. C. Forbes, Bertie Charles Forbes, founder Forbes magazine, financial journalist, books include, 'Forbes Epigrams', '101 Unusual Experiences', dies 1954 Birthday Curtis Sliwa, founder, Guardian Angels, radio personality, WABC 1953 Death Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64 1953 Death Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73 1953 Birthday Felix Hanemann, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, musician, keyboardist, vocalist, founder of band, Zebra, member of band, Harry Slash & The Slashtones 1953 Birthday Debbie Steinbach, born in Fullerton, California, professional golfer, author, instructor, twelve-year LPGA Tour veteran, founder of Venus Golf, wrote, 'Venus on the Fairway', has provided over 5,000 individual golf lessons 1953 Death Ernst H Ridder Rappard, Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53 1951 Birthday Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, founder, Vakvereniging Medical Astrology 1951 Birthday Peter Gordon, born in New York City, New York, Peter Laurence Gordon, experimental composer, musician, opera, world music, jazz, rock influences, founder, Love of Life Orchestra, composed for Suzanne Vega, Laurie Anderson, worked on Desperate Housewives soundtrack 1950 Birthday Kid Creole, born in the Bronx, New York, born Thomas August Darnell Browder, singer, lyricist, composer, arranger, producer, founder of Kid Creole and the Coconuts 1950 Death Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies 1949 Birthday Walter Hyatt, born in America, musician, singer, songwriter, founder, The Contenders, work includes album 'Some Unfinished Business' 1949 Death Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79 1948 Death Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66 1948 Birthday Billy Zoom, born in Savanna, Illinois, musician, guitarist, founder of punk rock band X, Guitar Player named him greatest guitar player of all time in 2007, worked with Gene Vincent, rockabilly legend, as well as Etta James, Big Joe Turner 1947 Birthday Eddie Antar, founder/CEO, Crazy Eddie Electronics Store 1947 Birthday Edgar Broughton, born in Warwick, England, founder, progressive rock group, The Edgar Broughton Band, 1968 1946 Birthday Debbie Moore, founder/CEO, Pineapple Dance Studios 1946 Birthday Candy Lightner, political activist/founder, MADD 1945 Birthday Harry Thomas, Dutch founder, Schlager Festival Gay Party 1945 Death Paul Valery, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931, dies at 73 1945 Death Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies 1945 Birthday Carlos Gimenez, Argentina/Venezuela founder, Theater festival of Caracas 1945 Death Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies 1944 Birthday Stephen Scott, born in Corvallis, Oregon, composer, developed bowed piano, founder, Bowed Piano Ensemble, 1977 1944 Birthday Molly Bennett Aiken, founder, riding for the handicapped 1943 Birthday Nicholas Peter Negroponte, New York City, founder/director, Media Lab at MIT 1943 Event Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft 1943 Event Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma 1943 Birthday Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari, creator, Pong 1942 Birthday Colin Sanders, founder, Solid State Logic 1942 Birthday Barry Diller, founder, Fox-TV 1942 Birthday Petr Kotik, born in Prague, Czech Republic, composer, flutist, minimalist style, founder, S.E.M. ensemble, wrote opera, 'Many Many Women' 1942 Birthday Thom Mayne, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, architect, awarded Pritzker Prize, 2005, principal, Morphosis, famous architecture firm in Santa Monica, California, founder, Southern California Institute of Architecture 1941 Birthday Kees van Kooten, Dutch TV host/founder, Simplistic Union 1941 Death Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83 1940 Birthday David Sainsbury, English billionaire/founder, Dutch Soc-Dem 1940 Death Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75 1940 Birthday Ann Armstrong Dailey, founder, Children's Hospice International 1940 Death Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies 1940 Birthday Peter Goldstein, joint founder, Superdrug 1940 Birthday Jorge Peixinho, born in Montijo, Portugal, pianist, conductor, composer, studied with Pierre Boulez, founder, Lisbon Contemporary Music Group 1939 Death Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder, dies at 70 1938 Birthday Carmen Callil, born in Melbourne, Australia, publisher, author, founder, Virago Press, publisher of Chatto & Windus, Hogarth Press 1938 Birthday Dick Higgins, born in Cambridge, England, composer, coined term 'intermedia', founder, Something Else Press 1937 Death Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55 1937 Birthday Larry Boxx, founder, Land B Computer Serv 1936 Birthday Michel Decoust, born in Paris, France, composer, conductor, studied with Pierre Boulez, teacher, founder, Pantin Conservatoire Municipal de Musique 1936 Birthday Wally Amos, born in Tallahassee, Florida, actor, speaker, co-wrote, 'The Power in You', founder, 'Famous Amos' chocolate chip cookie brand, first African-American talent agent, represented Diana Ross & the Supremes, Simon & Garfunkel 1936 Birthday Dipak Nandy, founder, Runnymead Trust 1936 Birthday Manfred Schoof, born in Madgeburg, Germany, composer, founder, European free jazz, professor in Cologne, interpreter of works by Bernd Alouis Zimmermann 1935 Death Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65 1934 Birthday Gary Davidson, U.S. sports league founder, ABA, WHA, WFL 1934 Birthday Roger Reynolds, born in Detroit, Michigan, composer, professor, University of California at San Diego, founder, ONCE Group, won Pulitzer Prize 1989 1932 Birthday Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder, Women's International Center 1932 Birthday Charles Stanley, born in Dry Fork, Virginia, senior pastor, founder of In Touch Ministries, created globally syndicated religious broadcasts, appearing in 500 radio stations, 300 television stations, in 49 languages 1932 Birthday Dave Thomas, founder, Wendy's Restaurants 1932 Birthday Graham Arnold, born in England, artist, founder of Brotherhood of Ruralists, other members include Jann Haworth, Sir Peter Blake, worked with oil and mixed media, realistic and surrealistic elements 1932 Birthday Max Schubel, born in America, composer, contemporary classical music, founder and owner of Opus One records, recorded new music 1932 Birthday Paul Krassner, comic strip cartoonist, MAD Magazine, and founder, Yippies 1931 Death Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67 1930 Birthday Robert Buchanan, founder, Center for History of Tech Bath University 1930 Death Herbert David Croly, U.S. founder (New Republic), dies at 61 1930 Birthday Don Tyson, founder, Tyson Foods 1930 Birthday Luis de Pablo, born in Bilbao, Spain, founder, Alea, Nueva Musica, teacher, composer, chamber music works include 'Ex voto for Violin and Viola' 1995 1929 Birthday Amar Bose, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, electrical engineer, Ph.D. from MIT, founder, chairman, Bose Corporation, patented dominantly reflecting sound field mimicking listening space of the audience in a concert hall 1929 Birthday Joan Ganz Cooney, founder, Children's Television Workshop 1929 Birthday Howard Yanks, founder, Philadelphia folk festival 1929 Birthday Sally L Smith, educator/founder, Lab School of Wash 1928 Birthday Bo Diddley, born in Mississippi, acclaimed as a founder of American rock and roll, singer, guitarist, songwriter 1928 Death Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies 1927 Birthday John Downey, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, pianist, conductor, professor of composition and theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founder, director of the Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum 1926 Birthday Louise L. Hay, born in Los Angeles, California, motivational author, professional speaker, self-help and motivational writer, 'You Can Heal Your Life', 1984, on the New York Times Bestseller list, sold 35 million copies in 30 languages, made into movie of the same title, founder, Hay House Publishing 1926 Birthday Kenneth H Olsen, U.S., engineer/founder, Digital Equipment Corp 1926 Birthday Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder, Scottish Opera 1926 Birthday Prunella Briance, founder, National Childbirth Trust 1925 Birthday Malcolm X, Little, Detroit Red, Omaha NB, founder, Black Muslims 1925 Birthday Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder, World Press Photo 1925 Death John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at 79 1924 Death Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66 1924 Birthday Kenneth David Kaunda, founder/president, Zambia, 1964-91 1924 Birthday Patrick Sergeant, founder, Euromoney Publications 1924 Birthday Al Neuharth, newspaper founder, USA Today 1923 Birthday Angelo John Novarese, record company founder 1923 Birthday Jean Nidetch, born in Brooklyn, nutritionist founder, Weight Watchers 1923 Birthday Sam Phillips, musician/record founder, Sun 1922 Birthday Margaret Scott, founder, Australian Ballet School 1921 Birthday Eunice Shriver, founder, Special Olympics 1921 Birthday Lady Fisher, founder, British Women Caring Trust 1921 Birthday Andries Treurnicht, Dr. No, founder, South Africa Conservative Party 1921 Birthday Andre Hodeir, born in Paris, France, violinist, composer, studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, founder and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris, comprised of nine musicians including Bobby Jaspar and Nat Peck 1920 Birthday An Wang, founder, Wang Labs, Wang Computers 1919 Birthday Ellen Stewart, actress/founder, La Mama Theatre Group 1919 Birthday Ian Smith, born in Zimbabwe, founder, first Prime Minister of Rhodesia 1918 Birthday Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier, 1953, 1957-64 1918 Birthday Ton Brandsteder, CEO/founder, Sony Nederland 1917 Birthday Peter Caddy, founder, Findhorn Community 1917 Birthday Carl Karcher, born in Ohio, restauranteur, founder of Carl's Jr. hamburger chain, supported Conservative causes 1915 Birthday Lancelot Ware, founder, MENSA 1915 Birthday Monica Dickens, author/founder, US Samaritians 1915 Birthday Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder, NVSH 1914 Birthday Alec Dickson, founder, VSO 1913 Birthday Everhard van Royen, Dutch flautist/founder, Alma musica 1913 Birthday Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder, Sports funds 1913 Birthday Werenfried [Flip] van Straaten, founder, Oostpriesterhulp 1912 Birthday Philip Kapleau, founder, Rochester Zen Center in New Haven 1912 Death William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies 1912 Birthday Edgar Evans, born in Cardiganshire, Wales, tenor, singer, founder of Covent Garden Opera Company, performed more than 45 roles 1911 Birthday Ota Adler, Czechoslovakian/British fur trader/founder, Federal Trust 1910 Death Mary Baker Eddy, founder Christian Science Monitor, dies 1910 Death J Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA), dies 1910 Birthday Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder, LSE 1910 Birthday Dorothy Maynor, born in Norfolk, Virginia, soprano/founder, Harlem School of Arts 1910 Birthday Gloria Stuart, actress, Rose-Titanic, founder, Screen Actors Guild 1910 Birthday Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist/founder, Samsung Business 1909 Birthday Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, harpist/founder Eduard of Beinumstichting 1909 Birthday Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder, Vrij Netherland 1907 Death Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Netherlands), dies at 65 1907 Birthday Paul J. Steenbergen, Netherlands, actor, Ciske Rat, founder, Hague's Comedy 1907 Death Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80 1906 Birthday Soichiro Honda, Japan, founder/CEO, Honda Motor Co 1906 Birthday R. W. Bonham, founder, International Braille Chess Association 1906 Birthday Jan A H J S Bruins Slot, Dutch founder illegal Trouw/MP, ARP 1905 Death Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies 1905 Birthday Bernard C J Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposophist?, founder Free College 1905 Birthday Harry Campion, statistician and founder, British Central Statistical Office 1905 Birthday Laszlo Kalmar, born in Hungary, mathematician, discovered mathematical logic, founder, theoretical computer science in Hungary 1905 Death Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60 1904 Birthday Juan E Yrausquin, founder, Party of Patriot Arubans, minister 1904 Birthday Ralph J Bunche, founder/diplomat, UN, Nobel 1950 1904 Birthday Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder, Het Parool 1903 Birthday Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, founder, Spanish Falange 1903 Birthday Gardner Cowles, Iowa, publisher/founder, Look Magazine 1902 Birthday Ray Kroc, born in Illinois, founder of McDonalds and owner for the San Diego Padres 1902 Birthday Allen Lane, English publisher/founder, Penguin Books 1902 Death Swami Vivekananda, founder of Ramakrishna Mission, chief disciple of Ramakrishna, responsible for bringing Vedanta and Yoga to Europe, America, introduced Hinduism at Parliament of World Religions at Chicago, 1893, dies at age 39, suffered form Asthma, diabetes, and other physical ailments 1901 Death Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies 1901 Birthday Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder, Club Mediterranee 1901 Birthday Robert Marshall, founder, Wilderness Society 1899 Birthday Harold Guinzburg, publisher, founder of Literary Guild 1899 Birthday Ernst H Ridder van Rappard, Dutch SS officer/founder, NSNAP 1899 Birthday Paul E Garber, U.S. founder/1st curator of National Air and Space Museum 1899 Death Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies 1899 Birthday Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, born in Long Island, New York, founder, Pan Am Airways 1898 Death Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies 1898 Birthday August de Schrijver, Belgian politician/founder, CVP 1898 Death Sajjid Ahmad Chan, co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80 1898 Death Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58 1896 Birthday Andre Breton, France, surrealist poet and writer, founder of surrealism 1895 Birthday Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, founder, Peruvian Aprista Party 1894 Birthday Forrest Shaklee, founder, Shaklee Products 1894 Birthday Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder, Indonesian Communist 1894 Death Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies 1893 Birthday Johannes T. Thijsse, Dutch founder, Waterloopkundig lab Delft 1893 Birthday Palmiro Togliatti, founder, Communist Party of Italy 1893 Birthday Emmett J. Culligan, founder of water treatment organization 1892 Birthday Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics CEO/founder, Helena Rubinstein 1892 Death Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74 1891 Death Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true, dies, date of death celebrated by Theosophists, who call it, Whilte Lotus Day 1890 Birthday Harlan Sanders, founder/CEO, Kentucky Fried Chicken 1889 Birthday Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director, KLM 1889 Birthday Bessie Hillman, founder, Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America 1888 Birthday Clinton Golden, Penn, founder, United Steelworkers of America 1888 Death Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary/founder (Flemish Wind), dies at 38 1888 Birthday Henry A Wallace, D/P, 33rd Vice President, 1941-45, founder Progressive Party 1888 Birthday Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder, AVRO 1888 Birthday James E. Casey, founder, United Parcel Service 1888 Death Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76 1888 Birthday Joris Baers, Flemish bibliography/founder, Boekengids 1887 Birthday Aldo Leopold, founder, Wilderness Society 1886 Birthday Jean Arp, born in Strasbourg, Germany, artist, sculptor, painter, poet, mediums include torn, pasted paper, founder, Dada movement in Zurich 1886 Birthday Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher/founder, System Keesing 1886 Death Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57 1885 Birthday Willem H. Winkel, Dutch physician/founder, Red Cross of Curacao 1885 Birthday Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder, National Woman's Party 1884 Birthday Ethel Percy Andrus, born in San Francisco, California, educator and founder of AARP, the American Association of Retired Persons 1884 Birthday Ehm Welk, born in Biesenbrow, Germany, writer, journalist, pseudonym, Thomas Trimm, survived Oranienburg concentration camp, founder, folk high schools 1884 Birthday Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union 1883 Birthday Morihei Ueshiba, founder, Aikido 1883 Birthday Rene "Sascha" Schickele, German writer/founder, Sturmer 1882 Birthday Gerrit H Kersten, Dutch vicar/founder, Calvinist party 1882 Birthday Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony 1881 Birthday Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care 1880 Birthday Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder, National-India Party 1880 Birthday B. C. Forbes, born in New Deer, Scotland, Bertie Charles Forbes, founder Forbes magazine, financial journalist, books include, 'Forbes Epigrams', '101 Unusual Experiences' 1880 Birthday Mikhail Fokine, born in Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance 1877 Birthday Feliks E Dzjerzjinski, Lithuania, founder, KGB 1875 Birthday James Cash Penney, department store founder, J C Penney 1873 Birthday Willem Roell, Dutch general/founder, Ordedienst 1873 Birthday Cornelis G N de Vooys, translator/founder, New Taalgids 1872 Death Horace Greeley, U.S. founder/publisher (New York Tribune), dies at 61 1872 Birthday Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist, founder of Sinn Fein 1872 Birthday Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose 1871 Birthday Paul Valery, born in France, philosopher, writer, poet, elected to Academie francaise, 1925, founder, the College International de Cannes, 1931 1871 Birthday Stjepan Radic, founder/leader, Croatian Farmers' Party 1870 Birthday Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder, Flemish People's Party 1869 Birthday James E Sullivan, founder, Amateur Athletic Union 1869 Birthday Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch founder, Kroller-Muller Museum 1868 Birthday Johan H. A. Schaper, Dutch MP/founder, SDAP 1866 Death Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77 1865 Death Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76 1865 Death John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59 1865 Death Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60 1864 Birthday Ban Johnson, Norwalk, Connecticut, baseball founder, American League 1863 Birthday Henry Royce, automobile founder, Rolls-Royce 1863 Birthday Henry Royce, founder, Rolls-Royce Limited in 1884 1863 Birthday Swami Vivekananda, born in Calcutta, India, founder of Ramakrishna Mission, chief disciple of Ramakrishna, responsible for bringing Vedanta and Yoga to Europe, America, introduced Hinduism at Parliament of World Religions at Chicago, 1893 1862 Birthday Jane Delano, U.S., nurse, teacher and founder, Red Cross 1862 Birthday Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder, Doubleday and Co 1861 Birthday Rudolph Steiner, born in Kraljevic, Austria, founder, doctrine of anthroposophy 1860 Birthday Henrietta Szold, founder, Hadassah 1860 Birthday Juliette Gordon Low, activist/founder, Girl Scouts of America 1860 Birthday Theodor Herzl, Austria, journalist/founder, Zionist movement 1860 Birthday Will Keith Kellogg, born in America, vegetarian, founder of Kellogg Company, pioneered process of making flaked cereal, promoted corn flakes as a healthy breakfast cereal 1859 Birthday Balington Booth, founder, Volunteers of America 1859 Birthday Josephin Peladan, French writer/founder, French Rosicrucians 1859 Birthday Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder, League of Women Voters 1858 Birthday Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic 1858 Birthday Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist, founder NV Royal Salt Industries 1857 Birthday Robert Baden-Powell, founder, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides 1856 Birthday Otto Brahm, German critic/founder, Neue Deutsche Rundschau 1855 Birthday Ernst L Wolzogen, German writer/founder, Cabaret oberbrettl 1855 Birthday Andrew W. Mellon, founder, Mellon Bank, U.S. Secretary of Treasury 1853 Birthday August Belmont, Jr., breeder, Man 'O War, founder, New York Jockey Club 1852 Death Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57 1852 Birthday Charles Taze Russell, religion founder, Jehovah's Witnesses 1852 Death Francois MP Liberman, French founder (Congr of H Heart), dies at 49 1850 Birthday Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor, Batavian Newspaper 1850 Death Sajjid Ali Mohammed Bab, Persian founder of Babism 1850 Death Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62 1847 Birthday W R Pettiford, Founder, Alabama Penny Savings Bank 1846 Birthday Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder, Social Weekly newspaper 1842 Birthday Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder, Rosa opera company 1842 Birthday Anton G van Hamel, founder, Roman Philology in Netherlands 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 1839 Birthday Georg von Siemens, founder, Deutsche Bank 1839 Birthday Frances E C Willard, New York, founder, Woman's Christian Temperance Union 1839 Birthday John D. Rockefeller, U.S. capitalist and founder of Standard Oil 1837 Birthday A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder, CVP 1836 Death Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state of Texas, dies at 43 1836 Birthday Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer, Helium, founder, Nature magazine 1834 Death Aernout Drost, Dutch literary/founder (The Guide), dies at 24 1834 Birthday Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder, Free Parish 1833 Death Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26 1833 Birthday John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine, oldest chess mag 1833 Death James Ball Antyne, Scottish founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60 1832 Birthday Joseph Smith, son of founder of Mormonism 1832 Birthday Philip Danforth Armour, founder, Armour Foods 1831 Death Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91 1831 Birthday Helena Blavatsky, born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, founder of the Theosophical Society, with William Quan Judge, Henry Steel Olcott, believed all inner religious teachings are true 1829 Birthday Hendrik Gerhard, Founder, Dutch Social-Democratic 1829 Birthday William Booth, founder, Salvation Army 1828 Birthday Jean Henri Dunant, born in Switzerland, writer and founder, Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901 1827 Birthday Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder 1826 Birthday Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book/publisher, Van Dale 1825 Birthday Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder, Allgemeiner 1821 Birthday Clara Harlowe Barton, Oxford Massachusetts, nurse/founder, American Red Cross 1821 Birthday George Williams, England, founder YMCA 1820 Birthday Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation 1819 Death John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84 1819 Birthday Charles Halle, pianist/conductor/founder, Halle Orchestra 1819 Birthday Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi and founder American Hebrew Congregations 1818 Death Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies 1818 Birthday William George Fargo, founder, Wells Fargo 1817 Birthday Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist/founder KNMI 1814 Birthday Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/founder, Coop of Welfare of the People 1813 Birthday Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder, The Time 1811 Birthday James Melville Gilliss, founder, Naval Observatory in Washington 1811 Death Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies 1809 Birthday Cornelia Connelly, Philadelphia, founder, Society of the Holy Child Jesus 1808 Birthday Thomas Cook, founder, Cook travel bureau 1807 Birthday Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder, Liefdezusters 1807 Birthday Ezra Cornell, founder, Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University 1806 Birthday Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder, American Monthly Mag 1805 Birthday Joseph Smith, Jr., Sharon Vt, founder, Mormon Church 1805 Birthday Henry Wells, founder, American Express Co and Wells Fargo and Co 1805 Birthday John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church 1805 Birthday Henry P. Scholte, Dutch / U.S. vicar and founder, Pella colony in Iowa 1804 Birthday Richard Cobden, West Sussex, founder, Anti-Corn-Law League 1804 Birthday Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator and founder, U.S. kindergarten 1804 Death John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies 1803 Birthday Prudence Crandall, founder, School for "young ladies of colour" 1802 Death Marie-Franeois-Xavier Bichat, a founder of histology, dies 1799 Birthday Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit 1798 Birthday Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder, sociology and positivism 1797 Birthday Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder, Institute of Charity 1795 Birthday Gerhard M. Roentgen, industrialist, founder dockyard Fijenoord 1792 Death Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies 1792 Birthday John Keble, Anglican priest/founder, Oxford Movement 1789 Birthday Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder 1788 Birthday Sarah Hale, founder, Seaman's Aid Society of Boston 1788 Birthday Alexander Campbell, Irish / U.S. founder, Disciples of Christ 1788 Birthday Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British conservative premier/founder, Bobbies 1787 Birthday Samuel Cunard, founder, 1st regular Atlantic steamship line 1781 Birthday Stamford Raffles, founder, Singapore 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 1778 Birthday Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein, gymnastics, movement 1778 Death Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76 1778 Birthday Robert Peel, British Prime Minister, 1834-46, founder, Tories 1774 Event Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY 1766 Birthday Robert Bailey Thomas, founder, Farmer's Almanac 1763 Birthday Thomas Campbell, founder, Church of Disciples in America 1745 Birthday Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry 1744 Birthday Mayer Amschel Rothschild, Frankfurt, founder, House of Rothschild 1736 Birthday Anna Lee, Manchester England, founder, Shaker movement in America 1735 Death Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51 1735 Birthday John H van Kinsbergen, Dutch lt-admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corp 1725 Birthday Robert Clive, English explorer/founder, British empire in India 1725 Birthday Robert Clive, founder, British empire in India 1704 Birthday August Gottlieb Spangenberg, founder of Moravian Church in North America 1696 Birthday Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/religious order founder 1691 Death George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66 1684 Birthday Ludvig Baron Holberg, founder, Danish and Norwegian literature 1684 Birthday Justus van Effen, writer/founder, Holland Spectator 1677 Death John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57 1667 Death Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71 1660 Death St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Cong founder, dies 1660 Birthday Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder, British Museum 1644 Birthday William Penn, English Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania 1637 Birthday Jacques Marquette, jesuit/missionary founder, Chicago 1633 Death Carlo Caraffa, Italian jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72 1632 Birthday Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM, 1690-1694, founder, Tories 1631 Event Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England 1629 Death Pierre the Berulle, French cardinal/founder (French Oratorio), dies 1620 Birthday John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography 1620 Birthday Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia 1619 Birthday John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony 1614 Death Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64 1612 Death Thomas Bodley, diplomat/founder (Bodleian Library), dies 1610 Birthday Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists 1608 Death Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44 1594 Death William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62 1563 Birthday Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, Caracciolini 1561 Birthday Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony 1558 Death Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies 1556 Death Ignatius Loyola, Spanish founder (Jesuit), dies at about 65 1556 Death St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome 1554 Death Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies 1550 Birthday Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint 1530 Death Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, founder Mogols-dynasty, dies at 47 1495 Birthday Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint/founder, Brothers of Mercy 1483 Birthday Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India 1526 - 1530 1483 Birthday Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, prince/founder Mogols-dynasty 1474 Birthday Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint 1360 Birthday Louis, founder of house of Anjou 1327 Birthday Bassui Tokusho, Zen founder, Kogakuji monastery in Nakamura Japan 1303 Death Nanshu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/founder (Zounan temple), dies 1286 Death Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60 1280 Event Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China 1262 Death Shinran, founder of Japan's True Pure Land Buddhist sect, dies 1249 Death Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies 1236 Death Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies 1229 Death Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68 1221 Death Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) 1202 Death Joachim Van Fiore, Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies 1189 Death Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint, dies 1160 Birthday Johannes de Matha, French saint/founder, Trinitarians 1142 Death Gulielmus of Vercelli, Italian hermit/monastery founder/saint, dies 1134 Death Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51 1124 Death Stefanus of Thiers/Muret, founder of order of Grammond/saint, dies 1073 Death Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies 976 Death T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies 732 Event Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line 615 Death Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies 580 Birthday Mohammed, Arabic prophet/founder, Islam 511 Death Clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingische, dies at 45 482 Death Severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies 439 Death Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56 347 Death Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies
