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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