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2002 Peg Phillips, actress/theater company founder, Northern Exposure, dies at 84

2000 Ginetta Sagan, freedom fighter, a founder of Amnesty International, dies at 75

2000 Mark Reynolds Hughes, entreprenuer, Herbalife founder, dies at 43

2000 Todd Karns, actor/theater director and founder, It's a Wonderful Life, dies at 79

1997 Kathy Keeton Guccione, publisher, A founder of Omni, dies at 58

1996 Angelo John Novarese, record company founder, dies at 72

1995 Florence Greenberg, record company founder, dies at 82

1995 Howard Yanks, founder of the Philadelphia folk festival, dies at 65

1995 Nico Adriaans, founder of Rotterdam Junkiebond, dies of AIDS at 37

1995 Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder (Scottish Opera), dies at 68

1994 Fabio Grobart, founder (Cuban Communist Party), dies

1994 Rollo May, founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement), dies at 85

1994 Fred Lebow, U.S. founder of New York Marathon, dies of cancer

1994 Alec Dickson, founder of VSO, dies at 80

1994 Alain Berdarin, founder/owner of "Crazy Horse Saloon," suicide at 78

1994 H Minderop, founder/chairman (TROS-radio/TV), dies

1994 Nick Banton, founder of Body Positive, dies at 37

1994 Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder of the LSE, dies at 83

1994 Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69

1994 Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76

1993 Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination, dies at 80

1993 Ewing Kaufman, founder/owner (Kansas City Royals), dies of lung cancer at 76

1993 Kansas Royals rename stadium Ewing Kaufman Stadium after founder

1993 Andries Treurnicht, founder South Africa Conservative Party, dies at 72

1993 Arthur P Smith, U.S. founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76

1993 Hans Werner Richter, German writer/founder (Gruppe 47), dies at 84

1992 Petra Kelly, founder (German Green Party), found dead at 44

1992 Wim Van Exter, founder Unity Profession Central (1944), dies

1992 Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports Fund), dies at 79

1992 Julio C Fernandez, Cuban/US journalist (founder Alma Mater), dies

1992 William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82

1992 William France, founder (Daytona 500), dies at 82

1992 Carl Stotz, founder (baseball's little league), dies at 82

1992 Philip Dunne, founder (Screen Writers Guild), dies of cancer at 84

1992 Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee), dies

1992 Roberto D'Aubuisson, El Salvadorian founder (ARENA), dies

1992 Josef Neckermann, German founder mail-order firm/travel bureau, dies

1991 Harry Thomas, founder (Flower Festival, Dutch Homofielen Party), dies

1991 Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82

1991 Soichiro Hondo, CEO and founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84

1991 Floyd B McKissick, U.S. founder (CORE), dies

1991 August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92

1990 Meir Kahane, founder of Jewish defense league, assassinated at 58

1990 T Issan Dorsey, founder (Hartford St. Zen Center SF), dies

1990 Mario De Andrade, founder (Movimiento Popular of Lib of Angola), dies

1990 Frederick Mellinger, founder of Fredericks of Hollywood, dies at 76

1990 Robert Noyce, co-inventor (semi-conductor)/founder (Intel), dies

1990 Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86

1990 Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder (Club Med), dies at 88

1989 Hubert Beuve-Mery, French newspaper founder (Le Monde), dies at 87

1988 North Carolina fed grand jury indict PTL founder Jim Bakker on fraud and conspiracy

1988 S B Fuller, founder (Fuller products), dies at 83

1987 Thomas F Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), dies of AIDS at 50

1987 Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party), dies at 74

1987 Alfred Lion, record founder (Blue Note), dies at 78

1986 Moses Asch, record founder (Folkways), dies at 81

1986 L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74

1985 Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., U.S. founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85

1984 Ray Kroc, founder of MacDonalds/owner San Diego Padres, dies at 81

1982 Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion

1982 Taisen Deshimaru, founder of several Zen centers in France, dies at 67

1981 Joseph H Hirschhorn, U.S. art collector/founder H Museum, dies at 82

1981 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), dies at 97

1981 Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti, Iran Islamic Rep Party founder, bombed

1981 Dewitt Wallace, U.S. founder (Reader's Digest), dies at 91

1980 Harland "Colonel" Sanders, founder Kentucky Fried Chicken, dies at 90

1979 Conrad Hilton, U.S. founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91

1975 Joris Baers, Flemish bibliographer (founder Boekengids), dies at 87

1975 Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer Albas, founder (Opus Dei), dies at 73

1974 McDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres

1973 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder AVRO, dies at 84

1973 Libbe de Wal, founder of Humanistic Covenant, dies at 72

1972 Howard Johnson, U.S. restaurant/hotel founder, dies at 75

1972 Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, founder (SF Zen Center), ashes buried

1972 Padraic Colum, Irish poet/writer/founder (Irish Review), dies at 90

1971 Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies

1971 James Cash Penney, U.S. founder (J C Penney), dies at 95

1968 Norman Thomas, founder (ACLU)/Socialist Party (1926-55), dies at 84

1968 William E B Dubois, U.S. founder NAACP (Souls of black people), dies

1968 Robert R "Bob" Jones, founder (Bob Jones University), dies at 84

1967 Claude A. Barnett, founder (Associated Negro Press), dies at 77

1966 Isaac Keesing, Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80

1966 Abe Saperstein, founder (Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 63

1965 Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77

1964 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/min of Just, dies

1963 Jan Schouten, Dutch founder (illegal Trouw)/chairman (ARP), dies

1963 W E B Du Bois, scholar/founder (NAACP), dies at 95 in Accra Ghana

1961 Daiun Sogaku Harada, Zen founder of Sanbo Kyodan lineage, dies at 91

1960 John P "John" Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84

1957 John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70

1956 Nick Banton, founder, Body Positive

1955 John R Mott, U.S. theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89

1954 Curtis Sliwa, founder, Guardian Angels, /radio personality, WABC

1953 Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer/founder (KLM), dies at 64

1953 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, founder of Saudi Arabia, dies at about 73

1953 Ernst H Ridder Rappard, Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53

1951 Hetty de Boer-Jongkind, founder, Vakvereniging Medical Astrology

1950 Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, founder National-India Party, dies

1949 Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79

1948 Gerrit H Kersten, vicar/founder (Calvinist Party), dies at 66

1947 Eddie Antar, founder/CEO, Crazy Eddie Electronics Store

1946 Debbie Moore, founder/CEO, Pineapple Dance Studios

1946 Candy Lightner, political activist/founder, MADD

1945 Harry Thomas, Dutch founder, Schlager Festival Gay Party

1945 Sasaki Shigetsu Sokei-an, founder 1st Zen Institute of America, dies

1945 Carlos Gimenez, Arg/Venez founder, Theater festival of Caracas

1945 Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah), dies

1944 Molly Bennett Aiken, founder, riding for the handicapped

1943 Nicholas Peter Negroponte, New York City, founder/director, Media Lab at MIT

1943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft

1943 Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, founder of Sanbo Kyodan, receives dharma

1943 Nolan Bushnell, founder, Atari, /creator, Pong

1942 Colin Sanders, founder, Solid State Logic

1942 Barry Diller, founder, Fox-TV

1941 Kees van Kooten, Dutch TV host/founder, Simplistic Union

1941 Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scout movement), dies at 83

1940 David Sainsbury, English billionaire/founder, Dutch Soc-Dem

1940 Henri Desgrange, French cyclist/founder (Tour de France), dies at 75

1940 Ann Armstrong Dailey, founder, Children's Hospice Intl

1940 Vladimir Jabotinsky, founder of Revisionist Zionism, dies

1940 Peter Goldstein, joint founder, Superdrug

1939 Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder, dies at 70

1937 Daito Kokushi, Zen founder of Daitokuji, dies in Kyoto at 55

1937 Larry Boxx, founder, Land B Computer Serv

1936 Dipak Nandy, founder, Runnymead Trust

1935 Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65

1934 Gary Davidson, U.S. sports league founder, ABA, WHA, WFL

1932 Gloria Lane, educator/author/founder, Women's International Center

1932 Dave Thomas, founder, Wendy's Restaurants

1932 Paul Krassner, comic strip cartoonist, MAD Magazine, and founder, Yippies

1931 Ban Johnson, founder of baseball's American League, dies at 67

1930 Robert Buchanan, founder, Center for History of Tech Bath University

1930 Herbert David Croly, U.S. founder (New Republic), dies at 61

1930 Don Tyson, founder, Tyson Foods

1929 Joan Ganz Cooney, founder, Children's Television Workshop

1929 Howard Yanks, founder, Philadelphia folk festival

1929 Sally L Smith, educator/founder, Lab School of Wash

1928 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies

1926 Kenneth H Olsen, U.S., engineer/founder, Digital Equipment Corp

1926 Alexander Gibson, British conductor/founder, Scottish Opera

1926 Prunella Briance, founder, National Childbirth Trust

1925 Malcolm X, [Little], [Detroit Red], Omaha NB, founder, Black Muslims

1925 Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder, World Press Photo

1925 John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at 79

1924 Jacob P Vis, Dutch founder (NV Royal Salt Industries), dies at 66

1924 Kenneth David Kaunda, founder/president, Zambia, 1964-91

1924 Patrick Sergeant, founder, Euromoney Publications

1924 Al Neuharth, newspaper founder, USA Today

1923 Angelo John Novarese, record company founder

1923 Jean Nidetch, born in Brooklyn, nutritionist founder, Weight Watchers

1923 Sam Phillips, musician/record founder, Sun

1922 Margaret Scott, founder, Australian Ballet School

1921 Eunice Shriver, founder, Special Olympics

1921 Lady Fisher, founder, British Women Caring Trust

1921 Andries Treurnicht, [Dr. No], founder, South Africa Conservative Party

1920 An Wang, founder, Wang Labs, Wang Computers

1919 Ellen Stewart, actress/founder, La Mama Theatre Group

1918 Cheddi B Jagan, dentist/founder PPP/Guyanese Premier, 1953, 1957-64

1918 Ton Brandsteder, CEO/founder, Sony Nederland

1917 Peter Caddy, founder, Findhorn Community

1915 Lancelot Ware, founder, MENSA

1915 Monica Dickens, author/founder, US Samaritians

1915 Herman Musaph, Dutch psychiatrist/sexologist/founder, NVSH

1914 Alec Dickson, founder, VSO

1913 Everhard van Royen, Dutch flautist/founder, Alma musica

1913 Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder, Sports funds

1913 Werenfried [Flip] van Straaten, founder, Oostpriesterhulp

1912 Philip Kapleau, founder, Rochester Zen Center in New Haven

1912 William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies

1911 Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader/founder, Federal Trust

1910 Mary Baker Eddy, founder (Christian Science (Monitor)), dies

1910 J Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross, YMCA), dies

1910 Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder, LSE

1910 Dorothy Maynor, born in Norfolk, Virginia, soprano/founder, Harlem School of Arts

1910 Gloria Stuart, actress, Rose-Titanic, /founder, Screen Actors Guild

1910 Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist/founder, Samsung Business

1910 Abram Hill, director/playwright/founder, American Negro Theater

1909 Phia [Sophia R] Berghout, harpist/founder Eduard of Beinumstichting

1909 Hendrik van Randwijk, Dutch author/founder, Vrij Netherland

1907 Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman philosphy in Neth), dies at 65

1907 Paul J. Steenbergen, Neth, actor, Ciske Rat, /founder, Hague's Comedy

1907 Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80

1906 Soichiro Honda, Japan, founder/CEO, Honda Motor Co

1906 R. W. Bonham, founder, International Braille Chess Association

1906 Jan A H J S Bruins Slot, Dutch founder illegal Trouw/MP, ARP

1905 Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies

1905 Bernard C J Lievegoed, Dutch anthroposophist?, founder Free College

1905 Harry Campion, statistician/founder, Brit Central Statistical Office

1905 Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly), dies at 60

1904 Juan E Yrausquin, founder, Party of Patriot Arubans, /minister

1904 Ralph J Bunche, founder/diplomat, UN, Nobel 1950

1904 Mary Calderone, physician/founder, planned parenthood

1904 Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder, Het Parool

1903 Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, founder, Spanish Falange

1903 Gardner Cowles, Iowa, publisher/founder, Look Magazine

1902 Ray Kroc, born in Illinois, founder of McDonalds and owner for the San Diego Padres

1902 Allen Lane, English publisher/founder, Penguin Books

1901 Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies

1901 Gerard Blitz, Belgian swimmer/founder, Club Mediterranee

1901 Robert Marshall, founder, Wilderness Society

1899 Harold Guinzburg, publisher, founder of Literary Guild

1899 Ernst H Ridder van Rappard, Dutch SS officer/founder, NSNAP

1899 Paul E Garber, U.S. founder/1st curator of National Air and Space Museum

1899 Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the news agency (Reuters), dies

1899 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, LI, New York, founder, Pan Am Airways

1898 Paul A Daum, writer/founder/editor (Batavian Newspaper), dies

1898 August de Schrijver, Belgian politician/founder, CVP

1898 Sajjid Ahmad Chan, co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80

1898 Frances Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), dies at 58

1896 Andre Breton, France, surrealist poet and writer, founder of surrealism

1895 Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, founder, Peruvian Aprista Party

1894 Forrest Shaklee, founder, Shaklee Products

1894 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, founder, Indonesian Communist

1894 Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book publisher (Van Dale), dies

1893 Johannes T. Thijsse, Dutch founder, Waterloopkundig lab Delft

1893 Palmiro Togliatti, founder, Communist Party of Italy

1893 Emmett J. Culligan, founder of water treatment organization

1892 Helena Rubinstein, cosmetics CEO/founder, Helena Rubinstein

1892 Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), dies at 74

1890 Harlan Sanders, founder/CEO, Kentucky Fried Chicken

1889 Claude A. Barnett, founder, Associated Negro Press

1889 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director, KLM

1889 Bessie Hillman, founder, Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America

1888 Clinton Golden, Penn, founder, United Steelworkers of America

1888 Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary/founder (Flemish Wind), dies at 38

1888 Henry A Wallace, D/P, 33rd VP, 1941-45, /founder Progressive Party

1888 Willem Vogt, Dutch radio pioneer/founder, AVRO

1888 James E. Casey, founder, United Parcel Service

1888 Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76

1888 Joris Baers, Flemish bibliography/founder, Boekengids

1887 Aldo Leopold, founder, Wilderness Society

1886 Isaac Keesing, Dutch publisher/founder, System Keesing

1886 Henry Gerhard, founder (Social-Democratic Union), dies at 57

1885 Willem H. Winkel, Dutch physician/founder, Red Cross of Curacao

1885 Alice Paul, ERA advocate/founder, National Woman's Party

1884 Roger Nash Baldwin, founder, American Civil Liberties Union

1883 Morihei Ueshiba, founder, Aikido

1883 Rene "Sascha" Schickele, German writer/founder, Sturmer

1882 Gerrit H Kersten, Dutch vicar/founder, Calvinist party

1882 Ima Hogg, Texas art patron/founder of Houston Symphony

1881 Evert Gorter, founder of Dutch medical child care

1880 Ernest F E Douwes Dekker, Dutch founder, National-India Party

1880 Mikhail Fokine, born in Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance

1877 Feliks E Dzjerzjinski, Lithuania, founder, KGB

1875 James Cash Penney, department store founder, J C Penney

1873 Willem Roell, Dutch general/founder, Ordedienst

1873 Cornelis G N de Vooys, translator/founder, New Taalgids

1872 Horace Greeley, U.S. founder/publisher (New York Tribune), dies at 61

1872 Arthur Griffith, Irish journalist, founder of Sinn Fein

1872 Paul Fort, French poet/founder of Vers et Prose

1871 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader, Croatian Farmers' Party

1870 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder, Flemish People's Party

1869 James E Sullivan, founder, Amateur Athletic Union

1869 Helene ELJ Kroller-Muller, Dutch founder, Kroller-Muller Museum

1868 Johan H. A. Schaper, Dutch MP/founder, SDAP

1866 Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder Disciples of Christ, dies at 77

1865 Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76

1865 John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59

1865 Richard Cobden, founder Anti-Corn-Law League, dies at 60

1864 Ban Johnson, Norwalk, Connecticut, baseball founder, American League

1863 Henry Royce, automobile founder, Rolls-Royce

1863 Henry Royce, founder, Rolls-Royce Limited in 1884

1862 Jane Delano, U.S., nurse, teacher and founder, Red Cross

1862 Frank Nelson Doubleday, publisher/founder, Doubleday and Co

1861 Rudolph Steiner, Kraljevic Aust, founder (doctrine of anthroposophy

1860 Henrietta Szold, founder, Hadassah

1860 Juliette Gordon Low, activist/founder, Girl Scouts of America

1860 Theodor Herzl, Austria, journalist/founder, Zionist movement

1859 Balington Booth, founder, Volunteers of America

1859 Josephin Peladan, French writer/founder, French Rosicrucians

1859 Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, founder, League of Women Voters

1858 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic

1858 Jacob P Vis, Dutch industrialist, founder NV Royal Salt Industries

1857 Robert Baden-Powell, founder, Boy Scouts, Girl Guides

1856 Otto Brahm, German critic/founder, Neue Deutsche Rundschau

1855 Ernst L Wolzogen, German writer/founder, Cabaret oberbrettl

1855 Andrew W. Mellon, founder, Mellon Bank, /US Sec of Treasury

1853 August Belmont, Jr., breeder, Man 'O War, /founder, New York Jockey Club

1852 Gerhard M Roentgen, founder Fijenoord dockyard, dies at 57

1852 Charles Taze Russell, religion founder, Jehovah's Witnesses

1852 Francois MP Liberman, French founder (Congr of H Heart), dies at 49

1850 Paul A Daum, Dutch writer/founder/editor, Batavian Newspaper

1850 Sajjid Ali Mohammed Bab, Persian founder of Babism

1850 Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British PM/founder London Police, dies at 62

1847 W R Pettiford, Founder, Alabama Penny Savings Bank

1846 Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch lib politician/founder, Social Weekly newspaper

1842 Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder, Rosa opera company

1842 Anton G van Hamel, founder, Roman Philology in Netherlands

1839 Georg von Siemens, founder, Deutsche Bank

1839 Frances E C Willard, New York, founder, Woman's Christian Temperance Union

1839 John D. Rockefeller, U.S. capitalist/founder, Standard Oil

1837 A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder, CVP

1836 Stephen Fuller Austin, founder of state of Texas, dies at 43

1836 Joseph Norman Lockyer, discoverer, Helium, /founder, Nature magazine

1834 Aernout Drost, Dutch literary/founder (The Guide), dies at 24

1834 Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder, Free Parish

1833 Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26

1833 John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine, oldest chess mag

1833 James Ball Antyne, Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60

1832 Joseph Smith, son of founder of Mormonism

1832 Philip Danforth Armour, founder, Armour Foods

1831 Henry van Wine, archivist/founder General Rijksarchief, dies at 91

1831 Helene P Blavatsky, founder, Theosophist Cooperation

1829 Hendrik Gerhard, Founder, Dutch Social-Democratic

1829 William Booth, founder, Salvation Army

1828 Jean Henri Dunant, Switz, writer/founder, Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901

1827 Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder

1826 Martinus Nijhoff, founder Nijhoff's book/publisher, Van Dale

1825 Ferdinand Lassalle, French politician/founder, Allgemeiner

1821 Clara Harlowe Barton, Oxford Massachusetts, nurse/founder, American Red Cross

1821 George Williams, England, founder YMCA

1820 Oliver Mowat, a founder of the Canadian Confederation

1819 John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84

1819 Charles Halle, pianist/conductor/founder, Halle Orch

1819 Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi and founder American Hebrew Congregations

1818 Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader, founder of Chicago, dies

1818 William George Fargo, founder, Wells Fargo

1817 Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist/founder KNMI

1814 Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/founder, Coop of Welfare of the People

1813 Judocus Smits, Dutch Catholic newspaper pioneer/founder, The Time

1811 James Melville Gilliss, founder, Naval Observatory in Washington

1811 Robert Raikes, founder of Sunday Schools, dies

1809 Cornelia Connelly, Philadelphia, founder, Society of the Holy Child Jesus

1808 Thomas Cook, founder, Cook travel bureau

1807 Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder, Liefdezusters

1807 Ezra Cornell, founder, Western Union Telegraph, Cornell University

1806 Nathaniel Willis, writer/editor/founder, American Monthly Mag

1805 Joseph Smith, Jr., Sharon Vt, founder, Mormon Church

1805 Henry Wells, founder, American Express Co and Wells Fargo and Co

1805 John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church

1805 Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder, Pella colony in Iowa

1804 Richard Cobden, West Sussex, founder, Anti-Corn-Law League

1804 Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder, US kindergarten

1804 John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies

1803 Prudence Crandall, founder, School for "young ladies of colour"

1802 Marie-Franeois-Xavier Bichat, a founder of histology, dies

1799 Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit

1798 Auguste Comte, philosopher/founder, sociology and positivism

1797 Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder, Institute of Charity

1795 Gerhard M. Roentgen, industrialist, founder dockyard Fijenoord

1792 Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies

1792 John Keble, Anglican priest/founder, Oxford Movement

1789 Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder

1788 Sarah Hale, founder, Seaman's Aid Society of Boston

1788 Alexander Campbell, Irish/US founder, Disciples of Christ

1788 Robert "Bobbie" Peel, British conservative premier/founder, Bobbies

1787 Samuel Cunard, founder, 1st regular Atlantic steamship line

1781 Stamford Raffles, founder, Singapore

1778 Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, founder of turnverein, gymnastics, movement

1778 Pieter Teyler van der Hulst, Dutch founder (Teyler Museum), dies at 76

1778 Robert Peel, British Prime Minister, 1834-46, founder, Tories

1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY

1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder, Farmer's Almanac

1763 Thomas Campbell, founder, Church of Disciples in America

1745 Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry

1736 Anna Lee, Manchester England, founder, Shaker movement in America

1735 Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51

1735 John H van Kinsbergen, Dutch lt-admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corp

1725 Robert Clive, English explorer/founder, British empire in India

1725 Robert Clive, founder, British empire in India

1704 August Gottlieb Spangenberg, founder of Moravian Church in North America

1696 Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Ital theologist/bishop/religious order founder

1691 George Fox, founder of Quakers, dies at 66

1684 Ludvig Baron Holberg, founder, Danish and Norwegian literature

1684 Justus van Effen, writer/founder, Holland Spectator

1677 John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57

1667 Jacobus Golius, mathematician/founder (Leidse observ), dies at 71

1660 St. Vincent de Paul, Vincentian Cong founder, dies

1660 Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder, British Museum

1644 William Penn, English Quaker and founder of PA

1637 Jacques Marquette, jesuit/missionary founder, Chicago

1633 Carlo Caraffa, Ital jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72

1632 Thomas Osborne, Duke of Leeds, English PM, 1690-94, /founder, Tories

1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England

1629 Pierre the Berulle, French cardinal/founder (French Oratorio), dies

1620 John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography

1620 Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia

1619 John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony

1614 Camillus de Lellis, Ital soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64

1612 Thomas Bodley, diplomat/founder (Bodleian Library), dies

1610 Jean de la Badie, French divine, founder of Lagardists

1608 Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44

1594 William Allen, English cardinal/founder seminary of Douai, dies at 62

1563 Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, Caracciolini

1561 Edwin Sandys, a founder of Virginia colony

1558 Shalom Shakna ben Joseph, Rabbi (founder of 1st Polish Yeshiva), dies

1556 Ignatius Loyola, Spanish founder (Jesuit), dies at about 65

1556 St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Society of Jesus, dies in Rome

1554 Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies

1550 Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint

1530 Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, founder Mogols-dynasty, dies at 47

1495 Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint/founder, Brothers of Mercy

1483 Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30

1483 Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, prince/founder Mogols-dynasty

1474 Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint

1360 Louis, founder of house of Anjou

1327 Bassui Tokusho, Zen founder, Kogakuji monastery in Nakamura Japan

1303 Nanshu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/founder (Zounan temple), dies

1286 Mugaku Sogen, Zen Rinzai line founder of Engakuji temple, dies at 60

1280 Sogen Mugaku, founder of Engakuji temple arrives in Japan from China

1262 Shinran, founder of Japan's True Pure Land Buddhist sect, dies

1249 Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies

1236 Theodorus Van Celles, monastery founder (Kruisheren), dies

1229 Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68

1221 Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans)

1202 Joachim Van Fiore, Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies

1189 Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint, dies

1160 Johannes de Matha, French saint/founder, Trinitarians

1142 Gulielmus of Vercelli, Italian hermit/monastery founder/saint, dies

1134 Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51

1124 Stefanus of Thiers/Muret, founder of order of Grammond/saint, dies

1073 Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies

976 T'ai tsu, emperor of China/founder of Sung-dynasty, dies

732 Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line

615 Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies

580 Mohammed, Arabic prophet/founder, Islam

511 Clovis, king of Salische France/founder of Merovingische, dies at 45

482 Severinus, German monastery founder/saint, dies

439 Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder/saint, dies at about 56

347 Pachomius, Egyptian monastery founder/abbot (Coenobieten), dies



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