1980 Death Gideon Fagan, composer, dies at 75 1963 Birthday Gideon Joe Ng, born in Toronto, Ontario, table tennis player 1996 Olympics 1961 Event Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann 1961 Event Paddy Chayefsky's "Gideon," premieres in New York City 1943 Death Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22 1929 Birthday Gideon N N Nxumalo, composer 1927 Birthday Anthony Lewis, columnist New York Times and author, Gideon's Trumpet 1919 Birthday Gideon William Waldrop, composer 1919 Birthday John Gregson, born in Liverpool England, actor, Gideon CID, Shirley's World 1913 Event Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper 1913 Event Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper 1908 Event 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room 1906 Birthday Miriam Gideon, composer 1904 Birthday Gideon Fagan, composer 1902 Death Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed 1899 Event Gideon Society established to place bibles in hotels 1813 Event Gideon Hawley becomes 1st state school superintendent in U.S. (NY) 1806 Birthday Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1802 Birthday Gideon Welles, Secretary Navy, Union 1757 Death Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant, dies at 59 1697 Birthday Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant
