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2004 Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer, dies at 95

1996 Henri Nannen, journalist, dies at 82

1996 Henri Nouwen, Dutch Clergyman

1994 Henri Rousselot, admiral, dies at 82

1994 Henri Calef, Bulgarian/French director (Jericho), dies

1993 Henri Konan Bedie names himself President of Ivory coast

1993 Henri van Soede, sub commandant (WW II), dies at about 83

1993 Hans [Henri EA] Tuynman, provo (Full-time Provo), dies at 50

1992 Henri J de Koster, Dutch Minister of Defense (1971-73), dies at 78

1992 Henri Guillemin, French historian, dies at 89

1991 Henri de Lubac, French theologist/antifascist, dies

1991 Henri Marius Rellys, dies at 86

1988 Henri van Praag, Dutch para-psychologist, dies

1988 Military coup in Haiti: Lieutenant General Avril takes control, Henri Namphy flees

1988 58th French Mens Tennis: Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61)

1986 Henri Knap, Dutch journalist/writer, dies at 75

1986 Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti

1984 Henri Michaux, writer, dies

1980 Henri Martelli, composer, dies at 85

1979 Henri La Mothe dives 28' into 12 3/8" of water

1977 Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist/composer, dies at 91

1974 Henri Crockett, NFL linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons

1974 Henri Smajda, Tunis/French publisher (Combat), commits suicide at 77

1973 Montreal Canadien Henri Richard scores his 1,000th NHL point

1972 Henri Coanda, Romanian Inventor

1972 Henri Potiron, composer, dies at 89

1971 Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor (Serenity), dies at 78

1971 Henri Tomasi, French composer (Don Juan de Manara), dies at 69

1969 Henri EJA de Page, Belgian lawyer, dies

1967 Henri Mulet, composer, dies at 88

1963 Henri Leconte, born in France, tennis player, French finalist 1988

1961 NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd

1961 Henri Gagnon, composer, dies at 74

1959 Henri Vidal, French actor (Fabiola), dies of a heart attack at 40

1959 Henri Pourrat, French writer (Le chasseur de la nuit), dies

1955 Henri Liebrecht, Belgian stagewriter/journalist, dies at 71

1955 Henri, Heir Apparent Prince of Luxembourg

1954 F Henri Berr, French occurence philosopher (L'hymne la vie), dies

1954 Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84

1954 Henri Matisse, French Artist

1954 Henri Zagwijn, composer, dies at 76

1952 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch supreme commander army/navy 1940, dies at 76

1952 Henri Vandeputte, Belgian writer (L'Autre Vie), dies at 75

1951 Henri Philippe Petain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime), dies

1951 Philippe Henri Edmonds, cricketer, in Zambia England slow left-arm

1951 Henri Velge, 1st chairman (Belgian Council of State), dies at 65

1949 Hendrik A de Fish, Henri Pauwels, Flemish philological, dies at 64

1949 Amsterdam Telegraph-director/SS'er Henri Holdert sentenced to 12 years

1949 Henri Rabaud, French composer and conductor (L'ete), dies at 75

1949 Henri de Vries, Hendricus Walterop, actor (Cleopatra), dies at 84

1947 Henri G Casadesus, French altviolist/composer (viola d'amour), dies at 66

1946 Johanna HC Albregt, actress/wife of Henri Dons (Paradise), dies at 71

1945 Marshal Henri Petain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial

1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason

1944 Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder

1943 Henri Szeps, born in Lausanne, Switzerland, actor, Mother and Son

1943 Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27

1943 Henri Halberstadt, Dutch resistance fighter (census dir), executed

1943 Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Lawyer

1943 Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74

1943 Henri J "Adriaan" Adriaansen, mime/director, Stinging Nettle King

1941 Henri Louis, French officer/resistance fighter, executed at 40

1941 French Marshal Henri Petain gave full support to Nazi Germany

1941 Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire, Nobel 1928), dies at 81

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

1939 Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1926-31), dies at 68

1939 Henri W A Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell), dies at 72

1937 Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer, dies at 72

1936 Henri "Rocket" Richard, NHL center, Montreal Canadiens

1935 Henri Pirenne, historian (Lesson villes ouch moyen-age), dies at 73

1935 Henri Barbusse, French writer (Le feu), dies at 62

1933 Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch composer (Handbook of Music), dies at 84

1933 Henri Duparc, French composer, dies at 85

1933 Akira Miyoshi, born in Suginami, Tokyo, composer, influenced by Henri Dutilleux, professor, Toho Gakuen School of Music, Japan

1932 Henri Namphy, Cap Hatien Haiti, President of Haiti, 1986-88

1932 52nd U.S. Mens Tennis: Henry E Vines beats Henri Cochet (64 64 64)

1932 Ellsworth Vines beats Henri Cochet for U.S. Tennis title

1932 Henri Lazarof, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, composer, studied with Paul Ben-Haim, teacher, UCLA, known for Tableaux, written for piano and orchestra

1932 Adrian Henri, poet and president, Liverpool Academy of Arts

1932 Henri Nouwen, Dutch Clergyman

1932 Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor (Bright Paradise), dies at 60

1930 6th French Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats Bill Tilden (36 86 63 61)

1929 Robert Henri, U.S. painter (The Eight), dies at 63

1929 Henri Pousseur, born in Malmedy, Belgium, composer, Homo Habitis

1928 48th U.S. Mens Tennis: Henri Cochet beats F T Hunter (46 64 36 75 63)

1928 Henri Cochet wins U.S. Tennis Open

1924 Charles Henri Marechal, composer, dies at 82

1916 Henri Dutilleux, Angers France, composer

1915 Hans [Henri A] Gomperts, Dutch literature, Duck on Attic

1915 Harry van Doorn, Henri W, CRM minister/Dutch politician, KVP/PPR

1914 Henri J de Koster, Dutch Minister of Defense, 1971-73

1914 Henri Rabauds opera "Marouf, Savetier de Caire," premieres in Paris

1913 Henri Nannen, journalist

1912 Henri Rousselot, admiral

1911 Henri Knap, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist/writer

1911 Frenchman Henri Rougier wins 1st Rally of Monte Carlo

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

1910 Henri A Cornelis, Governor-General Belgian Congo/Rwanda-Urundi

1910 Henri "le Douanier" Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, dies

1910 Henri Rousseau, French Artist

1910 Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53

1910 1st seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)

1910 Henri Queffelec, French writer, Au bout du monde

1909 13th Boston Marathon won by Henri Renaud of New Hampshire in 2:53:36.8

1908 Henri Cartier-Bresson, born in Chanteloup, France, photographer

1907 Henri Storck, Flemish poet, Cantico do Lomem, Olympics Bichos

1907 [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, chemist (Nobel 1906), dies at 54

1907 Henri van Albada, Belgian sculptor, Charles V

1906 Henri Temianka, composer

1906 Harry van Kruiningen, Henri A Janssen, painter/graphic artist

1904 Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer, dies at 57

1902 Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race

1902 Henri Garat, born in Paris, France, actor, Congress Dances

1901 Henri Cochet, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1928

1901 1st Nobel Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy)

1901 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, dies at 36

1901 Henri Tomasi, Marseilles France, composer, Don Juan de Manara

1901 George Keyt, born in Sri Lanka, artist, modern painter, cubist style, influenced by Henri Matisse, celebrated for line drawing translation of Gita Govinda into English and Sinhalese

1900 Henri Bruning, Dutch literary

1896 Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist

1895 Henri Martelli, composer

1894 French Captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa

1894 Henri E J A de Page, Belgian private law scholar

1894 French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18

1893 Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km)

1893 Henri Puvrez, Belgian sculptor, Sereniteit

1890 Floyd Henri Allport, U.S. psychologist/sociologist

1888 Henri [Ferdinand M J] Bosco, French author and poet, Gogol

1888 Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter, dies

1888 Henri Herz, composer, dies at a day before 85th birthday

1887 Henri Pourrat, French writer, Gaspard of the Montagnes

1887 Henri Gagnon, composer

1886 Henri Alain-Fournier, French novelist, Great Adventure

1886 Henri Coanda, Romanian Inventor

1886 Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist

1885 Henri Velge, 1st chairman, Belgian Council of State

1885 Hendrik A de Fish, Henri Pauwels, Flemish philological/sociologist

1884 Henri Liebrecht, Belgian playwright/journalist

1882 Henri Potiron, composer

1880 Henri G Casadesus, French altviolist/composer, Viola d'amour

1878 Henri Mulet, composer

1878 Henri Zagwijn, composer

1878 Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist, dies at 67

1877 Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author and poet, L'homme Jeune

1876 Henri G Winkelman, Dutch general/supreme commander/navy 1940

1876 Henri A Esquiros, French poet (Evangile du peuple), dies at 63

1874 Johanna HC Albregt, Dutch actress, Dumb August, wife of Henri Dons

1873 Henri Rabnaud, Paris, France, composer, Le Premer Glaire

1873 Henri Barbusse, Asnieres, France, novelist, Le Feu

1871 Henri Stroethoff, Dutch actor, A Chique Little Boy

1870 Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium, 1927-31

1869 Henri Matisse, France, impressionist painter, Odalisque

1869 Henri Leys, Flemish painter, dies at 54

1868 Henri Polak, union leader/politician, soc-dem

1866 Charles Jean Henri Nicolle France, bacteriologist, Nobel-1928

1866 Henri WA Deterding, Dutch oil magnate, Royal Oil, Shell

1866 Henri [Hendrik J] Hall, Dutch MP/comic, Put a Lid on it

1865 Henri [Lucien] Capitant, French lawyer, Loi Falcidie

1865 Robert Henri, U.S. painter, leader of Ashcan school

1864 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, France, painter, At the Moulin Rouge

1864 Henri de Vries, Van Walterop, Dutch actor, Cleopatra, White Cargo

1863 F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher, Revue the Synthesis

1862 Henri Pirenne, Belgian historian, History of Belgium

1859 Henri Bergson, France, philosopher, Creative Evolution-Nobel 1927

1857 Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer, dies at 73

1856 Louis Henri Sullivan, born in Boston, Massachusetts, father of modern U.S. architecture

1856 Henri E Cross, Delacroix, French painter

1856 Henri POBJ Petain, French marshal, Verdun/Vichy regime

1854 Henri Poincare, France, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher

1854 Henri La Fontaine, Belgian Lawyer

1852 Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovered radioactivity, Nobel 1903

1852 [Ferdinand-Frederic-]Henri Moissan, Paris, France, chemist, Nobel 1906

1852 Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight

1848 Henri[cus A] Viotta, Dutch conductor and composer, Lexicon of Music

1848 Henri Duparc, French composer

1847 Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs), dies at 65)

1846 Gaston Henri Charles Antoine Serpette, composer

1844 Henri Rousseau, French Artist

1844 Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter, Dream

1843 A G Henri Regnault, French water colors painter

1842 Charles Henri Marechal, composer

1840 Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser

1837 Henri Klimrath, French lawyer (Etude sur lesson costumes), dies at 30

1828 Jean Henri Dunant, born in Switzerland, writer and founder, Red Cross, YMCA, Nobel 1901

1828 Jean Henri Appelius, Dutch lawyer/minister of Finance, dies at 60

1823 Jean Henri Fabre, France, entomologist, insects and spiders

1821 Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

1820 Henri Hamal, composer, dies at 76

1820 Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher, Brussels Cons

1815 Henri Leys, Flemish painter

1812 Henri A. Esquiros, French poet and writer, Les Vierges Folles

1810 Henri V Regnault, French physicist/chemist

1808 Henri Hardouin, composer, dies at 81

1807 Henri Klimrath, French lawyer, Memoire sur lesson Olim

1803 Henri Moreau, composer, dies at 75

1803 Henri Herz, composer

1798 Henri Scheffer, painter

1794 Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, French Royalist Army leader, dies at 21

1784 Francois Henri Joseph Castil-Blaze, composer

1783 Stendahl, Marie Henri Beyle, France, writer, Le Rouge et de Noir

1782 Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary, Souvenirs

1776 Henri Dutrochet, discovered and named process of osmosis

1772 Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader

1767 Jean Henri Appelius, lawyer/minister of Finance

1763 Etienne-Nicolas Mehul, French organist/opera composer, Le Jeune Henri

1751 Henri F D'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717..50), dies at 82

1748 Henri Madin, composer, dies at 49

1744 Henri Hamal, composer

1728 Henri Moreau, composer

1727 Henri Hardouin, composer

1717 Henri d'Aguesseau's 1st appointment as chancellor of France

1698 Henri Madin, composer

1685 Henri Otto, Spanish marquis of Caretto/Savona/Grana, dies

1684 Henri Dumont, composer, dies

1675 Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne Vicomte de Turenne, General (France), dies

1668 Henri F d'Aguesseau, chancellor of France, 1717..50

1650 French rebel Henri de la Tour Turenne signs treaty with Spain

1644 Isabella van Bourbon, French princess of Henri IV, dies

1638 Henri II, duke of Rohan-Gie, French hugenot leader, dies at 58

1638 Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies

1632 Henri de Montmorency, French duke/plotter, beheaded

1632 Battle at Castelnaudary: Duke Henri de Montmorency's rebel army loses

1632 Battle at Castelnaudary: Henri de Montmorency's rebellion army loses

1598 French king Henri IV and duke van Mercour sign treaty

1597 Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV

1595 Pope Clemens VIII recognizes Henri IV as king of France

1595 Willem I's daughter of Elisabeth of Nassau marries duke Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne of Broth

1595 French king Henri IV declares war on Spain

1594 French King Henri IV festival in Paris

1594 Henri IV crowned king of France

1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic

1591 French bishops recognize Henri IV as king of France

1591 French king Henri IV occupies Rouen

1591 Chartres surrenders to king Henri IV in France

1591 Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French king Henri IV

1591 Edmond Auger, French jesuit (under Henri III), dies at about 60

1590 Battle at Ivry: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League

1590 Battle at Ivry: French King Henri IV beats Catholic League

1589 Battle at Arques: French king Henri IV beats Catholic League

1589 Jacques Clement, French monk (Henri III), dies

1588 French king Henri III accept demands of Catholic League

1588 King Henri III flees Paris

1588 Catholic League under duke Henri de Guise occupies Paris

1588 Duke Henri de Guises troops occupy Paris

1587 Battle at Auneau: Henri de Guise wins

1587 Battle at Coultras: Henri van Navarra beats Catholic League

1585 Pope Sixtus excommunicates Hendrik van Navarra (Henri IV)

1585 King Henri III and Duke De Guise signs Treaty of Nemours: French Huguenots loose all freedoms

1579 Henri II, Duke de Rohan-Gie, French Huguenot leader

1577 King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots

1572 King Navarra Henri de Bourbon marries Margaretha van Valois

1559 Duke of Montgomery wounds king Henri II during tournament

1558 French king Henri II occupies Calais

1556 Kings Henri I and Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles

1553 Henri IV the Bourbon, king of Navarra, Henri III, France

1552 Henri II of France occupies Metz

1550 Henri Guise [le Balafre], French duke/leader, Catholic League

1545 Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain/daughter of Henri II

1059 Henri I crowns his son compassionate King Philip I of France


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