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2009 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Burlusconi is knocked to the ground and hit in the face after a political rally in Milan, Italy
2003 Carlo Urbani, WHO doctor, ", president of the Italian branch of ""Doctors without Borders,"" died of SARS after helping to identify it, " 2003 Gianni Agnelli, Italian Businessman 2000 Vittorio Gassman, Italian Actor 2000 Steve Reeves, actor, Italian Hecules movies, dies at 74 1998 Luigi Veronesi, Italian abstract artist (Campo Grafico), dies at 90 1998 Umberto Mastroianni, Italian sculptor, dies at 87 1997 Alvinio Misciano, Italian tenor, killed in a fall from a window 1996 Dutch/Italian Beppo-SAX launches from Cape Canaveral 1995 Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79 1995 Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/painter, dies at 79 1995 Massimo Pallottino, Italian archaeologist (Etruscologia), dies at 86 1994 Sylvia Koscina, Croatian/Italian actress (Hercules), dies at 61 1994 Italian government of Berlusconi resigns 1994 Ivo Perilli, Italian screenplay/director (Ragazzo), dies at 92 1994 Jole Silvani, Niobe Quaiatti, Italian actress (La citta' Delle), dies 1994 Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44 1994 Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67 1994 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70 1994 Domenico Modugno, Italian singer (Volare), dies at 66 1994 Giovanni Spadolini, Italian historian/journalist, dies at 69 1994 Corrupt Italian ex-premier Craxi gets 8 year jail sentenced 1994 Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41 1994 Marcel Bich, Italian/French baron/pen manufacturer (Bic), dies at 79 1994 Silvio Berlusconi forms Italian government with 5 neo-fascists 1994 Ferdinando Scarfiotti, Italian set designer (Last Emperor), dies at 53 1994 Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered 1994 Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector, dies at 84 1994 Italian government of Ciampi resigns 1994 Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Italian actor (Octopus), dies at 52 1993 Bruno Rossi, Italian Scientist 1993 Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies 1993 Tonino Nardi, Italian cinematographer (Porte Manifest), dies at 54 1993 Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass (Don Carlos), dies at 79 1993 Italian police arrest Mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola 1993 Carlo Ciampi forms Italian government with ex-communists 1993 Giovanni Testori, Italian writer (Arialda), dies at 69 1993 Arnold Franchetti, Italian/U.S. composer, dies 1993 Franco Brusati, Italian dir/writer (Bread and Chocolate), dies at 70 1993 Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian auto-designer (Miura), dies 1993 George Wallington, Giacinto Figlia, Italian bebop-pianist, dies 1992 Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy), dies at 78 1992 Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist, dies 1992 Giulio C Argan, Italian art critic/mayor of Rome, dies 1992 Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies 1992 Paolo Borsellino, Italian anti-mafia judge, murdered by mafia 1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer/Claudia Cardinale's husband, dies 1992 Franco Cristaldi, Italian producer (Amarcord), dies 1992 Italian government of Amato forms 1992 Italian President Francesco Cossiga formally resigns 1992 Luigi De Laurentiis, Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni), dies 1991 Alessandro Lessona, Minister of Italian Colonies 1931 - 1938, dies 1991 Natalia Ginzburg, Italian writer (Sounds of the Night), dies at 75 1991 Concetto Lo Bello, Italian International soccer judge, dies 1991 Libero Grassi, Italian underwear manufacturer/anti mafia, dies 1991 Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires 1991 Italian actress Laura Antonelli found guilty of cocaine possession 1991 Argentine soocer star Diego Maradona suspended for 15 month by Italian League for testing positive for cocaine use 1991 Iraq releases 6 U.S., 3 British and 1 Italian POW 1990 Alberto Moravia, Italian writer (Woman in Red), dies at 82 1990 Luigi Nono, Italian composer (Intolleranza), dies at 66 1989 Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice), dies at 59 1989 Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad and Ugly), dies at 60 1988 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany 1988 Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50 1988 Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars), dies at 87 1987 Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68 1985 U.S. fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, gunmen are placed in custody 1985 PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro 1984 Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome), dies at 75 1984 Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca), dies at 68 1983 Tullio Campagnolo, Italian bicycle manufacturer, dies 1982 Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53 1982 Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer (Verdi/Puccini), dies at 67 1982 U.S., Italian and French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon 1982 Della Chiesa, Italian general/mafia fighter, murdered 1982 Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer, dies at 74 1982 Mario Praz, Italian author (Casa della vita), dies at 85 1981 Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered 1980 Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75 1980 Mount Everest climbed by Italian Reinhold Messner, alone 1980 Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81 1980 Pietro Nenni, Italian politician (Socialists), dies at 88 1979 Paolo Carlini, Italian actor (It Started in Naples), dies at 53 1979 Italian government of Cossiga begins 1979 Nino Rota, Italian composer (Torquemada), dies at 67 1978 Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist 1978 Ignazio Silone, Italian author (Fontamara, Pane e vino), dies at 78 1978 Paul VI, Giovanni Montini, Italian Pope (1963-78), dies at 80 1978 Pope Paul VI, Italian Pope 1978 Silvia Colloca, Italian Actress 1977 Paul Hardy, Belgian designer, Italian Country, dies at 69 1977 Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (Roma citt aperta), dies at 71 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53 1975 Vittorio Gui, Italian composer (Batture d'aspetto), dies at 90 1975 Asia Argento, Italian Actress 1975 Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian 12-tone composer, dies at 71 1975 Carlo Levi, Italian writer (Parole Sono Pietre), dies at 72 1974 Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director (Boccacio 70), dies 1974 Alessandro Del Piero, Italian Athlete 1974 Roberto Assagioli, Italian Psychologist 1974 Aldo Palazzeschi, Giurlani, Italian writer, dies at 89 1974 Italian Red Brigade officer Mario Sossi freed 1974 Red Brigade kidnaps Italian attorney general Mario Sossi 1974 An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo 1974 NASA launches Italian satellite San Marcos C-2 (235/843 km) 1973 Bruno Maderna, Italian composer and conductor (Satyricon), dies at 53 1973 In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth" 1973 Carlo Emilio Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (War Diary), dies at 79 1972 Antonio Segni, Italian PM/president (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81 1972 Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter, dies at 72 1972 Mariano Bombarda, Italian, soccer player, ACV, FC Groningen 1971 Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrial, dies at 89 1971 Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator, dies at 75 1971 Alice Tissot, actress (Italian Straw Hat), dies of cancer at 81 1971 Petro Scaglione, Italian procureur-general, killed by Mafia 1970 Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered at 41 1970 Italian Rumor government resigns 1969 Silvia Sommaggio, Italian 5k runner 1969 Giovanni Martinelli, Italian opera singer (New York Met), dies on 84th birthday 1969 Italian Rumor government resigns 1969 Piotr F. Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director (Chechov), dies at 82 1969 Giorgio Lamberti, Italian free style swimmer, world record 200m 1968 Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet 1968 Giovanni Guareschi, Italian author: Don Camillo/Peppone, dies at 60 1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), dies at 66 1968 Ildebrando Pizzetti, Italian composer, dies at 87 1967 Valeria Marini, Rome, Italy, sports commentator, Italian Soccer 1967 Roberto Baggio, born in Caldogno, Italy, retired Italian footballer, greatest of 125 footballers in 2004 FIFA 100 list 1966 Alberto "La Bomba" Tomba, Italian skier, Gold Medal 1988, 1992 Olympics 1966 Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian actress, Ugly Dirty and Bad 1966 Cecilia Bartoli, Italian Musician 1966 Aldo Moro forms Italian government 1965 Tito [Raffaele A] Schipa, Italian tenor/composer (Rondine), dies at 76 1965 Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar, dies at 90 1964 Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples 1964 Marco Masini, Italian entertainer 1964 Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Italian Party)/Minister of Justice, dies 1963 Aldo Moro forms Italian government 1963 Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies 1963 Antonella Ella, Italian entertainer 1963 Eros Ramazotti, Italian pop musician/songwriter, Adesso Te 1963 Alessandra Martines, Italian entertainer 1963 Pope John XXIII, Italian Pope 1963 George Dolenz, Italian actor (Count of Monte Cristo), dies at 55 1962 Giulla Boschi, Italian actress, Act of Contrition, Bonus Malus 1962 Grecia Colmenares, Italian entertainer 1962 Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate, dies at 58 1962 Daria Scagliola, Italian/Dutch photographer, vuurtorenpostzegels 1962 French and Italian workers break through at Mount Blanc Vehicular Tunnel 1962 St. Bernard Tunnel finished, Swiss and Italian workers shake hands 1961 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian United Nations pilots 1961 Alessandro Cecchi Paone, Italian entertainer 1961 Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian writer (I grandi ospiti), dies at 64 1960 Italian government of Fanfani forms 1960 Italian Government Tambroni, resigns 1960 Italian Somaliland gains independence, unites with Somali Republic 1960 Italian Somaliland declares independence from Italian-administration 1960 Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant 1960 Merlene Ottey, Jamaican/Italian running star, Olympics 1960 Italian government Tambroni forms 1960 Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, dies at 58 1960 Italian government of Segni falls 1960 Sibilla Aleramo, Rina Faccio, Italian poet (Una Donna), dies at 83 1960 Fausto Coppi, Italian, ran world record 45,798 km, dies at 40 1959 Gerhard Berger, formula-1 racer, Italian Grand Prix-1988 1959 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/pianist, suicide at 55 1959 Gelindo Bordin, Italian marathon runner, Gold Medal 1988 Olympics 1959 Antonio Segni forms Italian government 1958 Andrea Bocelli, Italian Musician 1958 Magdalene Szekely-Lulofs, author (Our Italian Employees), dies at 58 1958 Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86 1957 Albert Ascoli, Italian developed anti-tuberculosis vaccine, dies 1957 Curzio Malaparte, Kurt E Suckert, Italian author (Kaputt), dies at 59 1957 Adone Zoli forms Italian government 1957 Ezio F Pinza, Italian bass (Scale of Milan, New York Met Opera), dies 1957 Italian government of Segni resigns 1957 Maurizio Damilano, Italian speed walker, 30K World Record 1957 Arturo Toscanini, Italian U.S. conductor (NBC), dies in New York City at 89 1956 Pietro Badoglio, Italian general (1922-43), dies at 85 1956 Italian liner Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Stockholm 1956 Giovanni Papini, Italian author and poet (Un Uomo Finito), dies at 75 1956 Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi), dies at 61 1956 Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter, dies at 59 1955 Adelmo "Zucchero" Fornaciari, Italian R&B-singer, Senza una Donna 1955 Donatella Versace, Italian Designer 1955 Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Il Teatro Italian), dies at 68 1955 Enrico Mentana, Milan Italy, Italian newscaster, RAI 1955 Rodolfo Graziani, Italian East-Africa Minister of Defense, dies at 72 1954 Gianfranco Jannuzzo, Italian entertainer 1954 Enrico Fermi, Italian/US nuclear physicist, dies 1954 Enrico Fermi, Italian/U.S. physicist (Nobel 1938), dies at 53 1954 Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer, Puccini's Turandot, dies at 78 1954 Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73 1954 Al Dimeola, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, rocker, guitarist, Latin jazz and Italian American jazz fusion 1954 Fanfani forms Italian government 1953 Bertin Osborne, Italian entertainer 1953 Anna Marchesini, Italian entertainer 1952 Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Pegaso), dies at 59 1952 Sergio Vastano, Italian actor, Nightclub, Prete Bello 1952 Victor E Orlando, Italian premier (1917-19), dies at 92 1952 Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica), dies at 86 1952 Roberto Benigni, Italian Actor 1952 Pietro Mennea, Italian runner, 200m world record 1952 Alberto Savinio, Italian composer (Capitano Ulisse), dies at 60 1952 Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies at 81 1952 Massimo Lopez, Italian comedian 1951 La Cicciolina, Ilona Staller, Budapest Hungary, Italian MP 1951 Italian civil servants strike for pay increase 1950 Adriano Panatta, Rome, tennis star, French 1976, Italian 1976 1950 Cesare Pavese, Italian writer (Fuoco Grande), dies at 41 1949 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63 1948 Giuliana Sgrena, Italian Journalist 1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution 1947 Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer 1947 Mino Reitano, Italian entertainer 1947 Ettore Bugatti, Italian/French car manufacturer, dies 1947 Italian government of Gasperi forms 1947 Alfredo Casella, Italian composer and conductor (La Giara), dies at 63 1947 Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems and communists 1946 Gianni Versace, Italian Designer 1946 Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist 1946 Italian Republic established 1946 Italian plebiscite chooses republic over monarchy, National Day 1945 Jocelyn, Italian entertainer 1945 Ombrettqa Colli, Italian entertainer 1945 Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (Cavalleria Rusticana), dies at 81 1945 Benito Mussolini, Italian Politician executed 1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner 1945 Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Fatalit ), dies at 74 1944 Filippo T Marinetti, Italian writer (father of futurism), dies at 67 1944 Fausto Leali, Italian entertainer 1944 Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber, Mount Everest 1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing 1944 U.S.S.R. recognizes Italian Badoglio government 1944 Massive strikes in Northern Italian towns 1944 Galeazzo count of Cortellazzo Ciano, Italian politician, dies 1944 Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Politician 1943 Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina 1943 Eisenhower and Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice 1943 Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer 1943 German paratroopers, on orders of Adolf Hitler, seize former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini who was being held prisoner by the government 1943 Italian fleet anchors at Malta 1943 15 German JU-88's sink Italian flag ship Rome 1943 1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily) 1943 Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns 1943 German and Italian forces in Africa surrender 1943 Mario Monti, Italian Public Servant 1943 Operation-Weiss: Assault of German, Italian, Bulgarian and Croatian 1943 Carlo Tresca, New York's Italian newspaper editor/anti-fascist, murdered 1942 U.S. bombers struck Italian mainland for 1st time in WW II 1942 Italian army begin siege of French western Fort Bir Hachim 1942 German and Italian troops occupy Banghazi 1942 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel 1941 Vittoria Mezzogiorno, Italian actor, L'homme blesse, Tre fratelli 1941 Franco Nero, Italian Actor 1941 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83 1941 Angelo Scola, Italian Clergyman 1941 Italian army under general Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia 1941 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia 1941 Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to British and Ethiopian forces 1941 Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed 1941 Italian counter offensive in Albania 1940 Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle 1940 British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet 1940 Gigi Proletti, Italian entertainer 1940 Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani 1940 Italian troops under Marshal Graziani attack Egypt 1940 Italian troops enter Egypt 1940 Italian troops invade British Somalia 1940 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/Governor-General of Libya, dies at 44 1940 Tina Modotti, Maria del Carmen, Italian/Mexican communist, dies at 46 1939 Romano Prodi, Italian Statesman 1939 Giovanni Falcone, Italian Judge 1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania 1939 Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Il Bacio de Lesba), dies at 75 1939 Pius XI, Ambrogio D A Ratti, Italian Pope (1922-39), dies at 81 1938 Renata Adler, Italian Journalist 1938 Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews 1938 Great Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia 1938 Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74 1937 Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia 1937 Paola Ruffo di Calabria, Italian princess/queen of Belgium, 1993- 1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), dies 1937 Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist, dies at 46 1937 Italian regime bans marriages between Italians and Abyssinians 1936 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV, Nobel 1934), dies at 69 1936 Italian lire devalued 1936 Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Statesman 1936 Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64 1936 Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa 1936 Emperor Haile Selassie leaves Ethiopia as Italian invades 1936 Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56 1935 Italian bombers destroy Swedish Red Cross unit in Ethiopia 1935 Luciano Pavarotti, born in Italy, Italian operatic tenor 1935 League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia 1935 Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia 1935 Mussolini's Italian armys attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1935 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90 1935 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition 1934 Italian colonial Tripoli and Cyrenaica annexed to Libya 1934 Dionigi Tettamanzi, Italian Clergyman 1933 Michelangelo Pistoletto, Italian artist, glass painter 1933 Giuseppe Zangara, Italian Criminal 1933 Luigi A duke of the Abruzzi, Italian explorer (Ruwenzori), dies at 60 1932 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument Argentina), dies 1932 Errico Malatesta, Italian Activist 1932 Graziella Sciutti, Italian opera singer 1932 Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46 1931 Emanuele F duke of Aosta, Italian WW I-general/fascist, dies at 62 1930 Amelia Rosselli, born in Paris, France, poet, of Italian origin, daughter of political activist Carlo Rosselli, worked in Italy as a poet and literary translator, wrote prose in English, French and Italian, major work, 'Spazi metrici' 1930 Giulio Douhet, Italian Soldier 1930 Belgium Princess Marie-Jose marries Italian's crown prince Umberto 1929 Bud Spencer, Italian actor, Aladdin, Extralarge, Go For It 1929 Belgium princess Marie-Jose and Italian crown prince Umberto gets engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails 1929 Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist 1929 Oriana Fallaci, Italian Journalist 1929 Sergio Leone, Italian, director, Fist Full of Dollars 1928 Piero Angelo, Italian writer, Control 1928 Luigi Cadorna, Italian Field Marshal (WW I, Caporetto), dies at 78 1928 Italo Svevo, Ettore Schmitz, Italian writer (Una Vita), dies at 66 1928 Giovanni Giolitti, Italian Statesman 1928 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor (portraits), dies at 69 1928 Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War (1922-24), dies at 66 1927 Boris Porena, born in Rome, Italy, Italian composer, didactical expert, studied under Goffredo Petrassi, influenced by neoclassical poetics, wrote texts about music including Musica-Societa which includes social and political analysis 1927 Matilde Serao, Tuffolina, Italian writer (Land of Cockayne), dies 1927 Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet (Di Giacomo), dies at 47 1926 Italian and Albania sign peace treaty 1926 Italian Great Fascist Council forms 1926 Franco Evangelisti, Italian composer 1926 Camillo Golgi, Italian medical research (malaria, Nobel 1906), dies at 81 1925 Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties 1925 Italian army takes Somalia 1925 Italian sub "Sebastiano Veniero" lost off Sicily with 54 dead 1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator 1924 Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer, 'Madama Butterfly', dies in Brussels at 65 1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists 1924 Socialist Matteotti falls in Italian parliament by fascists 1924 Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer (L'ave), dies at 58 1924 Eleanora Duse, Italian actress (La Gioconda, La Locandiera), dies at 64 1924 Eleonora Duse, Italian Actress 1924 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome 1923 Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60 1923 Renato Capecchi, Italian violinist and baritone 1923 Italian troops leave occupied Korfu 1923 Italian parliament accepts new constitution 1923 Giovanni Testori, Italian writer, Rocco e i suoi fratelli 1923 Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige 1923 Italian nationalist and fascists merge (blue-shirts and black-shirts) 1922 Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year" 1922 Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists and Benito Mussolini 1922 Italian general strike broken by fascist terror 1922 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia), dies at 81 1922 Italian fascists occupy Fiume and Rijeka 1922 Italian government of Bonomi falls 1922 Jean-Pierre Rampal, flutist, Italian Flute Concertos 1922 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I Mala Voglia), dies at 81 1921 Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48 1921 Gianni Agnelli, Italian Businessman 1920 Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian Statesman 1920 Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer and journalist (Torre, Tre Croci), dies at 37 1920 Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35 1919 Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76 1919 Fausto Coppi, Italian bicylist, world record 45,798 km 1919 Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci), dies at 62 1919 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian Composer 1918 Arrigo Boito, Italian Poet 1918 Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party 1917 Battle at Caporetto: German and Austria smash Italian army 1917 Lou Monte, born in New Jersey, singer, Peppino the Italian Mouse 1916 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hours in Tyrol 1916 Natalia Ginzburg, Italian author, Family dictionary 1916 Asiago Italy falls when Austrian troops attack the Italian front 1916 Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer, Botteghe Oscure 1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272 1915 Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 killed) 1915 Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone, Figaro-Barber of Seville 1915 Italian offensive at Isonzo 1915 Mario del Monaco, Italian opera singer, Verdi/Puccini 1915 Alberto Burri, Italian physician, sculptor and abstract painter 1915 Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist 1914 Giuseppe Berto, Italian writer, Heaven Sees Red 1914 Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia 1914 Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79 1914 Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor and director, Divorce Italian Style 1914 Boris Christoff, Bulgaria/Italian bass, Boris Godunov 1913 Vasco Pratolini, Italian writer, Le ragazze di San Frediano 1913 Vittorio Sereni, Italian poet, Diario d'Algeria 1912 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control 1912 Michelangelo Antonioni, born in Ferrara, Italy, Italian modernist film director, 'Blow-up', 'Red Desert' 1912 Salvador E Luria, Italian/U.S. biologist, Nobel prize 1969 1912 Italian mariners occupy Turkish Island of Rhodes 1912 Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor 1912 Afro, Italian painter 1912 Renato Guttuso, Italian painter, Flight from Etna, Crucifixion 1911 Italian troops occupy Tripoli 1911 Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader, Vatican movie bureau 1911 Aly Khan, Italian Public Servant 1911 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68 1910 Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75 1910 Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85 1910 Anna Magnani, Italian actress, Awakening, Roma 1910 Mario Peragallo, Italian composer 1909 Alberto Erede, Italian conductor 1909 Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist, dies 1909 Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La rivolta ideal), dies 1909 Italian writer Marinetti publishes Futurist Manifest in Paris 1908 Charles Forte, Italian/British hotel magnate, Savoy 1908 Cesare Pavese, Italian writer, La belle estate 1908 Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/chairman, Club of Rome 1908 Giovanni Guareschi, Italian writer, Don Camillo, Peppone 1908 Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61 1908 Renzo Rossellini, Italian composer 1907 Alberto Moravia, Pincherle, Italian author, Indifferent Ones 1906 French/British/Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia 1906 John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language and literature 1906 Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian screenwriter (libretti opera Puccini), dies 1906 Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel 1906 Primo Carnera, Italian boxer, champ-1933 1905 British, Italian, Russisan, French and Austria-Hungary fleet attack Lesbos 1905 Franco Albini, Italian architect 1905 Isa Miranda, Ines Sampietro, Italian model/actress, La ronde 1905 Bruno Rossi, Italian Scientist 1904 Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector 1904 Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate 1904 Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer 1904 Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin 1903 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies 1903 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25 1903 Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Politician 1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist 1902 Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter, Ladri di Biciclette 1902 Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter, Bicycle Thiefs 1901 Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82 1901 Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director, Fietsendieven 1901 Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer, typewriter 1901 Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter 1901 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (Rigoletto/Traviata/Aida), dies at 87 1900 Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter, opera stars 1900 Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci 1900 Aimone duke of Spoleta and Aosta, Italian king of Croatia, 1941-43 1900 Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter 1900 Vittorio Bersezio, Carlo Nugelli, Italian playwright, dies at 71 1899 Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (Become his fare), dies 1899 Carel C van Essen, Dutch archaeologist, Italian and Roman art 1898 Amedeo duke of Aosta, viceroy of Ethiopia/Governor-General of Italian East-Africa 1898 Curzio Malaparte, Kurt E Suckert, Italian author, Kaputt 1897 Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70 1897 Olga Chekova, born in Russia, actress, Italian Strawhat, Cry of the Children 1897 Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49 1896 Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author, Il giorno del giudizio 1896 Mario Praz, Italian literary, La carne, la morte, e il diavolo 1896 Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/Governor-General of Libya, La marcia su Rome 1896 Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter 1896 Italian premier Crispi resigns 1896 ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies of injuries 1896 ... Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 ... Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle 1896 Italian government decides to attack governor Baratieri of Eritrea 1895 Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian general Baratieri's out 1895 Battle at Amba Alagi: Abyssinians beat Italian armies 1895 Italian general Oreste Baratieri lands in Massawa, Eritrea 1895 Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator 1895 Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer, Gente in Aspromonte 1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia) 1894 Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68 1893 Carlo Emilio Gadda, born in Milan, Italy, writer, poet, innovator of pre-war Italian language with dialects, jargon, wordplay 1893 Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic, Scrittori d'Oggi 1892 Ugo Betti, Italian playwright 1891 Alberto Savinio, Andrea de Chirico, Italian writer/composer 1891 Franco Faccio, Italian composer and conductor, dies at 51 1891 Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect, Nuove Struttura 1891 Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian writer/poet, La Ronda 1891 Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist 1890 Collodi, Carlo Lorenzini, Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies 1890 Carlo Collodi, Italian Writer 1890 Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist 1889 Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83 1889 Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies 1888 Henry Armetta, Italian/U.S. actor, Bell for Adano, Big Store 1888 Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57 1888 Roberto Assagioli, Italian Psychologist 1887 French/Italian Riviera struck by Earthquake; 2,000 die 1887 Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic, Tramonto del grande attore 1887 Diego Valeri, Italian author and poet, Le Gaie Tristezze 1886 Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director, Chechov 1886 Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51 1886 Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51 1885 Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet 1885 Dorando di Desiderio Pietri, Italian marathoner, Olympic-DQ gold-1908 1885 Vittorio Gui, Italian conductor and composer, Batture d'aspetto 1885 Dino Campana, Italian poet, Canti orfici 1885 Aldo Palazzeschi, Giurlani, Italian writer, I cavalli bianchi 1885 Umberto Nobile, Italian general 1884 Paul Taglioni, "the Great," Italian/Austrian choreographer, dies at 75 1883 Benito Mussolini, Il Duce, Fascist Italian dictator, 1922-43 1883 Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer and journalist, La Torre, Tre Croci 1882 Giorgio Abetti, Italian astronomer, Solar physics 1882 Rodolfo Graziani, Italian marschal/viceroy of Ethiopia 1882 Guiseppi Garibaldi, Italian rebel leader, dies at 74 1882 Alberto Pirelli, Italian industrialist 1882 Giovanni Amendola, Italian antifascist/editor-in-chief, Il Mondo 1881 Pope John XXIII, Italian Pope 1881 Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier, 1945 - 1953 1880 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Justice, dies at 76 1879 Francesco Gaeta, Italian poet, Il Libro Della Giovinezza 1879 Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator, Candide 1879 Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80 1878 Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Australia poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65 1878 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint 1876 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer, Futurism e Futurista 1876 Sibilla Aleramo, Rina Faccio, Italian feminist/poet, Una Donna 1876 Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer, Il dottore Antonio 1876 Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83 1875 Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator 1875 Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit and old testament scholar 1875 Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68 1872 Lorenzo Perosi, Italian composer 1872 Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor, Columbus monument in Argentina 1872 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66 1871 Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, Dog at a Rope 1871 Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies 1870 Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital 1870 Italian army under Victor Emmanuel II seizes Rome from the French 1870 Ada Negri, Italian poet and author, Il Libro di Mara 1869 Giulio Douhet, Italian Soldier 1869 Emanuele F, duke of Aosta, Italian general, WW I, fascist 1866 Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide 1866 Italian fleet under Admiral Persano capture Austrian Fort Lissa 1866 2nd Battle at Custozza: Prussian-Austria beats Italian army 1865 Adolfo Albertazzi, Italian writer, Amore and Amore, Top 1865 Bernard Berenson, art critic, Italian Painters of the Renaissance 1864 Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer, Roman law 1863 Alfredo Panzini, Italian author, Dizionario Moderno 1863 Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer/fascist, Cavalleria Rusticana 1863 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77 1862 Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer 1862 Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer 1862 Gabriele dell' Addolorata, patron of Italian Catholic youth, dies at 23 1861 Italo Svevo, Trieste Austria, Italian novelist, La Coscienza di Zeno 1861 Armando V Diaz, Italian marshal/minister of War, 1922-24 1861 Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59 1861 Camillo di Cavour, Italian Statesman 1860 1st Italian Parliament met at Turin 1858 Eleonora Duse, Italian Actress 1858 Giuseppe Peano, Italian mathematician, founder of symbolic logic 1858 Medardo Rosso, Italian sculptor, portraits 1858 Royal Italian Opera opens in Covent Garden London 1858 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist, Circulation of Elite 1858 French Emperor Napoleon III escapes attempt on his life by Felice Orsini, an Italian patriot who was later executed 1857 Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer, I pagliacci/Zaza 1857 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian Composer 1856 Matilde Serao, Tuffolina, Italian writer, Land of Cockayne 1855 Giovanni Pascoli, Italian classicist/poet 1854 Filippo Traetta, Philip Trajetta, Italian composer, dies at 77 1853 Errico Malatesta, Italian Activist 1853 Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Potifar, Giacobbe), dies at 66 1853 Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician, tensor analysis 1852 Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer, Political Struggle in Italy 1851 Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian composer, dies at 76 1850 Luigi Cadorna, Italian Field Marshal/earl, WW I-Caporetto 1850 Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned 1850 Giuseppe Giusti, Italian Poet 1850 Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint, dies at 54 1849 Battle of Novara (King Charles Albert vs Italian republic) 1848 P Rossi, Italian, murdered 1848 Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58 1848 1st battle at Custozza: Austrians under Radetzky beat Italian 1848 Vilfredo F D Pareto, Italian economist/sociologist 1848 Vilfredo Pareto, Italian Economist 1848 Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Italian composer, dies at 50 1847 Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist, 2-fasenmotor 1847 Guiseppe Giacosa, Italian songwriter, libretti opera Puccini 1846 Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer, Cuore 1846 Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73 1846 Desiderio FA Pietri, Italian baker and marathon runner Dorando's father 1845 Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies 1845 Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 60 1844 Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist 1842 Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet, Il santo/Leila 1842 Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81 1842 Arrigo Boito, Italian Poet 1840 Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano 1840 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer, Eros 1840 Franco Faccio, Italian composer and conductor 1839 Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies 1839 Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at 76 1838 Gabriele dell' Addolorata, Francesco Possenti, Italian priest 1837 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian Poet 1837 Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85 1835 Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist 1835 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (Norma), dies at 33 1835 Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist 1834 Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer, I promissory note sposi 1833 Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26 1832 Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, dies at 79 1830 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician/minister of Education 1830 Pius VIII, Francesco S Castiglioni, Italian Pope 1829 - 1830, dies at 69 1829 Leo XII, Annibale Sermattei, Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68 1828 Vittorio Bersezio, Carlo Nugelli, Italian playwright 1827 Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 76 1827 Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49 1827 Carlo A Alfieri, Italian MP, Liberal 1827 Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82 1826 Collodi, Carlo Lorenzini, Italian author, Pinocchio 1826 Carlo Collodi, Italian Writer 1826 Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, Reaction of Cannizzaro 1826 Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist 1825 1st Italian opera in U.S., "Barber of Seville" premieres (New York City) 1825 Antonio Salieri, Italian composer, dies in Vienna at 74 1824 Gioacchino Rossini becomes manager of Theatre Italian, Paris 1824 Giovanni Battista Viotti, Italian violist/composer, dies at 70 1823 Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naple revolution 1799), dies at 53 1822 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, dies at 64 1818 Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier 1817 Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63 1816 Vincenzo Galeotti, Tomazelli, Italian dancer/choreographer, dies at 73 1816 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76 1813 Giambattista Bodoni, Italian stamp cutter/publisher (bodoni), dies at 73 1813 Giuseppe Fortunio Francesco Verdi, Italian composer, Traviata, Aida 1812 Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/East poet, Lettere a Maria 1811 Angelo Catelani, Italian composer and conductor 1810 Camillo di Cavour, Italian Statesman 1809 Giuseppe Giusti, Italian Poet 1808 Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess/politican 1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri 1807 Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian Statesman 1807 Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder, Liefdezusters 1806 Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education 1806 Giacomo Antonelli, Italian cardinal and assistant sec of state for Pius IX 1805 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary, Il Apostolato Popolare 1805 Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer/cellist (Minuet), dies at 62 1804 Pietro Alessandro Guglieli, Italian opera composer, dies at 75 1804 Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Education 1804 Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75 1803 Vittoria A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54 1803 Vittorio Alfieri, Italian Dramatist 1803 Gugliemo Libri, della Somaia, Italian/French mathematician/book collector 1802 Giuseppe Sarti, Italian composer (Il er pastore, Ifigenia), dies at 72 1802 Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic 1801 Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer, La Sonnambula, Norma 1801 Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing-teacher 1801 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (Matrimonio segreto), dies at 51 1800 Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72 1799 Pius VI, Giovanni A Braschi, Italian Pope (1775-99), dies at 71 1799 Maria G Agnesi, Italian mathematician (xy=a(a-y)), dies at 80 1798 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomy/physicist, dies at 61 1798 Antonia M B Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat 1798 Giacomo Leopardi, Italian Poet 1795 Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint 1795 Rainieri de Calzabigi, Italian literary, dies at 80 1793 Carlo Goldoni, Italian author (L'avaro), dies at 85 1793 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter, dies at 80 1792 Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane 1788 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher, dies at 86 1787 Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat, dies at 58 1787 Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/saint, dies at 90 1787 Ruggiero Boscovich, Italian physicist/astronomer/philosopher, dies at 75 1786 Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist 1784 Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat 1782 Farinelli, Italian singer, dies at 77 1780 Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist/composer, dies at 82 1779 Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer (Farnace), dies at 52 1778 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher, dies at 58 1778 Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis 1775 Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer, dies at 67 1773 Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian traveller/nature investigator/diplomat 1773 Luigi Vanvitelli, Louis van Wittel, Italian architect, dies at 72 1770 Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian, Naples Revolution 1799 1770 Marie AC de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer, dies at 60 1770 Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73 1770 Giuseppe Tartini, Italian composer/violinist, dies at 77 1768 Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer, dies at 78 1768 Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70 1768 Filippo della Valle, Italian sculptor, dies at about 70 1767 Benedetto Alfieri, Italian architect (San Giovanni Battista), dies 1765 Giovanni Paolo Pannini/Panini, Italian painter/architect, dies at 73 1764 Ann Ward Radcliffe, English Gothic novelist, Italian 1764 Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53 1764 Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 68 1762 Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist 1760 M Luigi CZS Cherubini, Italian prodigy/composer 1757 Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor 1757 Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (La Silvia), dies at 71 1756 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, dies at 94 1755 Frederico Fiorillo, Italian violist/composer 1754 Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter, Napoleon 1754 Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet/translator, Al Signor di Montgolfier 1752 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal, dies at 88 1752 Muzio Clementi, Italian composer 1751 Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist, composer and conductor 1750 Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78 1749 Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer, Il Matrimonio Segreto 1749 Vittoria A. Alfieri, Italian count/poet, Maria Stuarda 1749 Vittorio Alfieri, Italian Dramatist 1747 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76 1746 Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk, mathematician, and discoverer, discovers 1st asteroid, Ceres 1744 Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian/Russian master builder, Hermitage Theater 1744 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer, dies at 64 1744 Giambattista Vico, Italian Philosopher 1743 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian/France composer (Forced Marriage), dies at 77 1743 [Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist, Minuet 1743 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer, dies at 85 1742 Evaristo EF dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer, dies on 67th birthday 1742 Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 62 1742 Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 70 1741 Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Italian composer, dies at 63 1740 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer, Barber of Seville 1740 Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72 1737 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist/physicist 1736 Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect (Cappella Corsini), dies at 45 1736 Giovanni B Pergolesi, Italian composer (Stabat Mater), dies at 26 1735 Cesare Beccaria-Bonesana, Italian lawyer 1733 Vincenzo Galeotti, Tomazelli, Italian dancer/choreographer 1731 Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italian piano builder, dies at 75 1729 Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet, Il Giorno 1729 Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer. 1728 Ferdinando Galiani, Italian economist/philosopher/diplomat 1728 Francisco Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright 1728 Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64 1728 Agostino Steffani, Italian/German diplomat/composer, dies at 73 1728 Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer, Buona Figliuola 1727 Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer/band leader, Farnace 1725 Henry Benedict Stuart, Italian Statesman 1723 Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, dies at 66 1721 Clement XI, Giovanni F Albani, Italian Pope (1700-21), dies at 71 1720 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Italian etcher 1717 Niccolo Amenta, Italian poet (La Gostanza), dies 1714 Rainieri De Calzabigi, Italian's literary, 1st European Lottery 1713 Arcangelo Corelli, Italian violinist and composer, dies at about 49 1712 Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedic, Viaggio in Russia 1712 Francesco Guardi, Italian painter 1712 Jean [Giovanni] D Cassini, Italian/French astronomer, dies 1711 Ruggiero G Boscovich, Rudzer J Boskovic, Italian astronomer 1710 Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, Italian painter, dies at 36 1710 Marie A C de Camargo, Spanish/Italian/Belgian dancer 1710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer, Il Prigioniero Superbo 1709 Giuseppi Torelli, Italian composer, dies at 50 1708 Pompeo Girolamo Batoni, Italian painter 1706 Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer, opera's buffa 1703 Caffarelli, Gaetano Majorano, Italian castra singer/duke 1702 Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher 1701 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75 1700 Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect 1697 Francesco A. Vallotti, Italian organist/composer/theorist 1696 Alfonsus M de' Liguori, Italian theologist/bishop/religious order founder 1696 Giovanni Battista Tupolo, Italian painter 1695 Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer 1694 Francesco Morosini, Italian army general, dies 1693 Antonio Caraffa, Italian general (Eperieser Bloedgericht), dies at 46? 1691 Alessandro Galilei, Italian architect, Cappella Corsini 1691 Carlo di Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect/composer, dies at 79 1691 Alexander VIII, Pietro Ottoboni, Italian Pope (1689-91), dies at 80 1690 Giovanni Legrenzi, Italian composer, dies at 63 1690 Francesco Maria Veracini, Italian opera composer 1686 Benedetto Marcello, Italian author/composer, Lettera Famigliare 1686 Ercole Ferrata, Italian sculptor/restauranteur, dies at 76 1686 Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66 1685 Sassoferrato, Giovanni B Salvi, Italian painter (Madonna), dies at 75 1682 Alessandro Stradella, Italian violist/composer, murdered at 37 1680 Giovanni L Bernini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies 1680 Baron Emanuele d' Astorga, Italian composer, Stabat mater 1679 Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius 1679 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer 1676 Clement X, Emilio Altieri, Italian Pope (1670-76), dies at 86 1676 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73 1676 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian (opera)composer, dies at 73 1675 Evaristo E Felice dall' Abaco, Italian cellist/composer 1674 Giacomo Carissimi, Italian bandmaster/composer (Jephta), dies at 68 1673 Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57 1672 Orazio Benevoli, Italian composer, dies at 67 1671 Francesco Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius 1671 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer, Adagio in G-minor 1670 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian, opera, composer 1669 Clement IX, Giulio Rospigliosi, Italian Pope 1667 - 1669, dies 1669 Leo Allatios, Greek/Italian theologist/literary, dies at about 82 1668 Giambattista Vico, Italian Philosopher 1667 Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist (Assertiones Theologicae), dies 1667 Alexander VII, Fabio Chigi, Italian Pope (1655-67), dies at 68 1666 Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist, eardrums, glottis 1664 Giulio Alberoni, Spanish/Italian minister/cardinal 1663 Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic, Arcadia 1661 Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58 1660 Francesco Albana, Italian painter (Hemelopneming of Maria), dies at 72 1657 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer 1656 Michelangelo Rossi, Italian opera composer, buried at about 55 1654 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 58 1654 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, dies at 76 1652 Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer/composer (Miserere), dies at about 67 1649 Famiano Strada, Italian jesuit (bello belgico decades duae), dies at 77 1647 Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist 1646 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Poesie liriche), dies at 53 1644 Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist and composer 1643 Claudio Giovanni Monteverdi, Italian composer (L'arianna), dies at 76 1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer/organist, dies at 59 1643 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at 60 1642 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66 1642 Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy 1640 Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 63 1640 Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer, dies at 61 1639 Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, dies at 70 1636 Giovanni B Aleotti, Italian writer/theater architect, dies at about 90 1633 Carlo Caraffa, Italian jesuit/religious order founder, dies at about 72 1633 Jacopo Peri, Italian opera composer, dies at 71 1633 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun 1630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface 1629 Camillo Procaccini, Italian painter/etcher, dies 1629 Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/writer, dies at 67 1627 Gonzaga, Italian monarch of Mantua/Monferrato, dies 1625 Giulio C Procaccini, Italian sculptor/painter, dies 1625 Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor 1623 Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian/politician, dies at 70 1620 Carlo Saraceni, Carlo Veniziano, Italian painter (Judith), dies 1617 Prosper Alpinus, Italian physician/botanist, dies at 63 1616 Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (Procurazie Nuove, Venice), dies 1614 Felice Anerio, Italian composer (pontifical royal chapel), dies 1614 Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint, dies at 64 1612 Giovanni Gabrieli, Italian composer (Madrigali), dies at about 60 1610 Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary (China), dies 1609 Sassoferrato, Giovanni B Salvi, Italian painter, Madonna 1609 Federico Zuccari, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at about 69 1608 Evangelista Torricelli, Italian Scientist 1608 Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, dies at 44 1607 Pietro Sforza, Italian theologist: Istoria del Concilio di Trento 1607 Alessandro Agnolo Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer, dies at 72 1605 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical, dies at 82 1605 Leo XI, Alessandro O de' Medici, Italian Pope (1605), dies at 69 1604 Claudio Merulo, Italian organist/composer, dies at 71 1603 Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist (Tre libri), dies at 62 1602 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer 1599 Ottavio Piccolomini, Italian/Spanish marshal 1596 Tibaldi II, Italian painter/sculptor/architect, dies 1595 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor/architect 1595 Philippus Nerius, Filippo Neri, Italian merchant/saint, dies at 79 1595 Torquato Tasso, Italian poet/playwright, dies at 51 1595 Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter, dies 1594 Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter, dies at 75 1594 Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer, dies at 68 1593 Fulvio Testi, Italian poet, Pianto d'Italia 1592 Marc A Ingegneri, Italian violinist and composer (Responsoria), dies 1592 Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at 80 1591 Gregory XIV, Niccolo Sfondrati, Italian Pope, dies at 56 1591 Aloysius [Luigi] van Gonzaga, Prince/Italian Jesuit saint, dies 1590 Urban VII, Giambattista Castagna, Italian Pope (1590), dies 1589 Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian, dies at 67 1588 Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies 1587 Felix van Cantalice, Italian saint, dies 1585 Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor, dies 1585 Gregory XIII, Ugo Buoncampagni, Italian Pope (1572-85), dies 1583 Pirro Ligorio, Italian architect/painter/archaeologist, dies at 83 1582 Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer 1580 Giovanni Morone, Italian theologian/diplomat/cardinal, dies at 71 1580 Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of John), dies at 63 1578 Francesco Albana, Italian painter, Mary's Ascension 1578 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor, L'adamo 1578 Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter, dies 1577 Cristofano Allori, Italian painter, Judith 1577 Pietro Tacca, Italian sculptor/architect, Aanbidding of the Point 1576 Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, dies at 74 1576 Titian, Tiziano Vecelli, Italian painter, dies of plague 1574 Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet 1574 Cosimo d' Medici, Italian duke of Toscane, dies at about 54 1572 Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Palazza Marino, Milan), dies at 60 1571 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland 1571 Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor/writer (Perseus), dies at 70 1570 Antonio Paleario, Italian humanist, executed by inquisition at 67 1568 Giovan D "Tommaso" Campanella, Italian philosopher/poet, Citt del sole 1568 Aloysius "Luigi" van Gonzaga, Italian prince, jesuit and saint 1566 Marcus A Vida, Marcus Hieronymus, Italian humanist/poet/bishop, dies 1566 Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter, dies at 37 1566 Girolamo della Robbia, Italian sculptor (Majolica relief), dies 1566 David Riccio, Italian singer/secretary of Mary Stuart, murdered 1565 Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian (L'Ercolano), dies at 62 1565 Pius IV, Gianangelo de' Medici, Italian Pope (1559-65), dies at 66 1564 Pietro P Vergerio, Italian theologist/bishop of Croatia, dies 1564 Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian sculptor/painter (David), dies at 88 1563 Francesco Caracciolo, Italian religious founder/saint, Caracciolini 1561 Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author 1561 Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal, dies at 41 1559 Lodovico Cardi da Cigoli, Italian painter/architect 1558 Julius Caesar Scaliger, Italian physician (Poetice), dies at 74 1557 Niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician, dies 1557 Il Bacchiacca, Franceso Ubertini, Italian painter, dies at 63 1556 Pietro Aretino, Italian author, poet and playwright, said to have died from laughing 1556 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61 1555 Marcellus II, Marcello Cervini, Italian Pope (1555), dies at 53 1553 Bonifazio Veronese/Veneziano, de' Pitati, Italian painter, dies 1552 Matteo Ricci, Italian missionary, China 1551 Aristotele "Basiano" da Sangallo, Italian set designer, dies 1550 Veronica Gambara, Italian poet, dies at 64 1550 Camillus de Lellis, Italian soldier/monastery founder/saint 1549 Paul III, Alessandro Farnese, Italian Pope (1534-49), dies at 81 1549 Pope Paul III, Italian Clergyman 1547 Pierino del Vaga, Italian painter, dies at about 46 1547 Pierlugi Faraese, Italian son of Pope Paul III, murdered 1547 Cajetanus van Thiene, Italian saint, dies 1546 Giulio Romano, Italian painter/architect (Ondergang der Titanen), dies 1543 Agnolo Firenzuola, Giovannini, Italian monk (De golden ezel), dies 1542 Roberto Bellarmino, Italian theologist/diplomat 1542 Hieronymus Aleander, Girolamo Aleandro, Italian diplomat, dies at 61 1540 Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal/theologist, Tre libri 1540 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian/president of Romagna, dies at 57 1540 Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies 1539 Antonio M Zaccaria, Italian physician/saint, dies 1538 Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian writer, Faithfull Shepherd 1538 Giovanni P Lomazzo, Italian writer/poet, Trattato 1537 Lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, dies 1537 Alessandro de' Medici, Italian monarch of Florence, assassinated 1536 Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect/painter, dies 1535 Francesco Sforza, Italian ruler (Milan), dies 1535 Alessandro "Agnolo" Allori, Italian painter/carpet designer 1535 Bernardo Accolti, Unico Aretino, Italian writer (Virginia), dies 1534 Clement VII, Giulio de' Medici, Italian Pope (1523-34), dies at 56 1533 Ludovico Ariosto, Italian poet (Orlando Furioso), dies at 57 1531 Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter, dies at 44 1530 Andrea del Sato, d'Agnolo di Franceszo, Italian painter, dies at 44 1530 Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies 1529 Taddeo Zuccari, Italian painter 1528 Jacopo d'antonio Negreti Palma, Italian painter, dies at about 48 1527 Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter/sculptor 1525 Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet (Le Api), dies at 49 1522 Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian biologist/medical 1522 Giovanni A Amadei/Amadeo, Italian sculptor/architect, dies at about 75 1521 Leo X, Giovanni de' Medici, Italian Pope (1513-21), dies at 45 1521 Lodovico Guicciardini, Italian historian, Descrittione di Tutti 1519 Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal 1518 Tintoretto, Italian painter 1518 Giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio/husband of Veronica Gambara 1517 Antonio Scandello, Italian composer, Passion of Johannes 1515 Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter, dies at 41 1515 St. Philippus Nerius, Philippo Neri, Italian merchant/priest 1513 Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian composer 1512 Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher, dies at 48 1512 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 60 1511 Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian sculptor/architect 1510 Il Giorgione, Giorgio del Castelfranco, Italian painter, dies at 32 1509 Catharina Sforza, Italian duchess of Forli, dies at 45 1509 Pope Julius II excommunicates Italian state of Venice 1509 Giovanni Morone, Italian theologist/diplomat/cardinal/"heretic" 1508 Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, dies at 55 1507 Gentile Bellini, Italian artist, Sultan Mohammed II 1503 Benedetto Varchi, Italian humanist/historian, Storia Fiorentina 1503 Francesco Parmigianino, Italian artist, Madonna with the Long Neck 1499 Marsilio Ficino, Italian Philosopher 1499 Pius IV, Gianangelo de' Medici, Italian lawyer/pope, 1559-65 1498 Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77 1497 Francesco Botticini, Italian painter, dies at about 52 1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World 1496 Benedetto Bonfiglio, Italian painter, dies 1495 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet, Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione 1494 Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56 1494 Gian Galeazzo, Italian duke of Milan (1476-94), dies 1494 Il Bacchiacca, Franceso Ubertini, Italian painter 1493 Agnolo Firenzuola, Giovannini, Italian monk, Golden Donkey 1492 Innocent VII, Giovanni B Cibo, Italian Pope (1484-92), dies 1492 Andreas Alciatus, Giovanni Andrea-Alciato, Italian lawyer 1492 Pietro Aretino, born in Arezzo, Italy, Italian author, poet and playwright 1492 Andreas Alicatus, Italian author 1485 Veronica Gambara, Italian poet 1483 Raphael Sanzio, Italian painter and master builder, Madonna Sistina 1483 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian attorney and president of Romagna 1482 Paolo Toscanelli, Italian physician and mapmaker, dies 1482 Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs), dies at 81 1481 Bartholomeus Platinum, Italian humanist/pontifical librarian, dies 1480 Hieronymus Aleander, Girolamo Aleandro, Italian diplomat/cardinal 1475 Giovanni Rucellai, Italian poet, Le Api 1475 Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer (Citt di Vita), dies at 69 1474 Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter 1474 Angela Merici, Italian monastery founder/saint 1472 Leon Battista Alberti, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura', dies at 68 1471 Paul II, Pietro Barbo, Italian Pope (1464-71), dies at 54 1469 Giovanni della Robbia, Italian sculptor 1468 Pope Paul III, Italian Clergyman 1466 Francesco Sforza, Italian condottiere/duke of Milan, dies at 64 1464 Pius II, Aenea S Piccolomini, Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58 1463 Alessandro Achillini, Italian physician/philosopher 1463 Flavio Biondi, Italian writer (Rome instaurata), dies at about 65 1459 Pierozzi Antoninus, Italian archbishop of Florence/saint, dies 1458 Bernardo Accolti, Unico Aretino, Italian writer, Virginia 1458 Mapheus Vegius, Maffeo Vegio, Italian lawyer/humanist/poet, dies 1457 Laurentius Valla, Italian philosopher (Voluptate), dies at about 50 1456 Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet, Arcadia 1455 Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor, dies at 77 1455 Nicholas V, Tommaso Parentucelli, Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57 1455 Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter, dies 1454 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, America 1452 Ludovico Sforza [il Moro], Italian duke of Milan, 1494 . .1500 1450 Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70 1447 Eugene IV, Gabriele Condulmer, Italian Pope (1431-47), dies 1444 Bernardinus van Siena, Italian saint, dies at 63 1444 Sandro Botticelli, Italian painter, Birth of Venus 1443 Niccolo d'Albergati, Italian cardinal, dies 1439 Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53 1438 Jacopo di Piero della Quercia, Italian sculptor, dies at about 64 1433 Marsilio Ficino, Italian Philosopher 1431 Martinus V, Oddo Colonna, Italian Pope, dies 1431 Alexander VI [Rodrigo Borgia], Spanish/Italian pope, 1492 - 1503 1419 John XXIII, Baldassare Cossa, Italian Pope (1410-15), dies 1416 Blaise/Blasius of Parma, Italian astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies 1406 Innocent VII, Cosma de' Migliorati, Italian Pope (1404-06), dies 1406 Matteo Palmieri, Italian writer, Della vita civile 1405 Pius II, Aenea S Piccolomini, Italian pope, 1458-64, Cynthia 1404 Leon Battista Alberti, born in Genoa, Italy, Italian authors, poet, philosopher, and architect, 'Della Pittura' 1399 Raymundus of Capua, Italian general, dies 1389 Urbanus VI, Bartolomeo Prignano, Italian pope (1378-89), dies 1386 Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist//sciencist/general 1380 Bernardinus of Siena, Italian saint 1380 Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint 1375 Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet (Vita di Dante), dies 1374 Francesco Petrarca, Petracco, Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69 1374 Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet (Italia Mia), dies at 69 1374 Andreas Corsini, Italian saint/bishop of Fiesole, dies 1348 John Andreae, Italian canonist, dies 1341 Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor, dies 1337 Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader, dies 1336 Italian poet Francesco Petrarca climbs Mont Ventoux 1336 Giotto di Bondone, Italian Renaissance painter, dies at about 71 1333 Nicolaas V, Pietro Rainalducci, Italian anti-Pope (1328-30), dies 1327 Italian poet Petrarch 1st sets eyes on his beloved Laura 1324 Dino Compagni, Italian silk seller/poet/chronicler, dies 1321 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Commedy), dies at 56 1317 Agnes van Montepulciano, Italian mystic/saint, dies 1305 Nicholas van Tolentino, Italian saint, dies 1298 Jacob de Voragine, Italian bishop/writer (Golden Legend), dies 1287 Honorius IV, Giacomo Savelli, Italian Pope (1285-87), dies 1280 Nicholas III, Giovanni Gaetano Orsini, Italian Pope (1277-80), dies 1276 Adrian V, Ottobono Fieschi, Italian Pope (7/11-8/18/1276), dies 1274 John F Bonaventura, Italian/French theologist/dominican/saint, dies 1274 Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, dies at 48 1272 Zita/Cita, Italian maid/saint, dies at about 59 1272 Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies 1267 Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies 1265 Dante Alighieri, Italian poet, Divina Commedia 1253 Elias van Cortona, Italian general (1232-39), dies at about 53 1252 Peter of Verona, Peter Martyr, Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45 1241 Gregory IX, Ugolino di Segni, Italian Pope, dies 1221 Dominicus, Italian religious order founder (Dominicans) 1216 Innocent III, Lotario di Segni, Italian Pope (1198-1216), dies 1214 Huguccio/Hugo van Pisa, Italian bishop, dies 1202 Joachim Van Fiore, Italian religious founder (Joachimism), dies 1187 Gregory VIII, Alberto de Morra, Italian Pope (1187), dies 1187 Urbanus III, Umberto Crivelli, Italian Pope (1185-87), dies 1185 Lucius III, Ubaldo Allucingoli, Italian Pope (1181-85), dies 1181 Alexander III, Orlando Bandinelli, Italian Pope (1159-81), dies 1168 Paschal III, Guido di Crema, Italian anti-Pope, dies 1167 Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League 1164 Victor IV, Ottaviano Montecello, Italian antipope (1159-64), dies 1160 Peterus Lombardus, Italian theologist/bishop of Paris, dies 1153 Eugene III, Bernardo, Italian Pope (1145-53), dies 1145 Lucius II, Gherardo Caccianemici, Italian Pope (1144-45), dies 1144 Celestine II, Guido, Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle 1143 Innocent II, Gregorio de' Papareschi, Italian Pope 1130 - 1143, dies 1142 Gulielmus of Vercelli, Italian hermit/monastery founder/saint, dies 1124 Callistus II, Guido di Borgogna, Italian Pope (1119-24), dies 1087 Victor III, Dauferio/Desiderius, Italian Pope (1086-87), dies 1078 Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies 1078 John of Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies 1073 Johannes Gualbertus, Italian monk/saint, dies 1050 Guido van Arezzo, Italian music theorist, dies 1012 Sergius IV, Pietro Crescentii, Italian Pope (1009-12), dies 984 John XIV, Petrus Canepanova, Italian Pope (983-84), dies 983 Benedict VI, Italian Pope (974-83), dies 966 Benedictus V Grammaticus, Italian Pope (5/22-6/23 964), dies 965 Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies 939 Leo VII, Italian Pope (936-39), dies 911 Sergius III, Italian Pope (904-11), dies 891 Stephen V, VI, Italian Pope (885-91), dies 882 John VIII, Italian Pope (872-82), dies 872 Adrian II, Italian Pope (867-72)/last married pope, dies at about 80 867 Nicholas I, the Great, Italian Pope (858-67), dies 858 Benedict III, Italian Pope (855-58), dies 855 Leo IV, Italian Pope (847-55), dies 824 Paschal I, Italian Pope (817-24), dies 816 Leo III, Italian Pope (795-816), dies 795 Adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies 767 Paul I, Paolo Orsini, Italian Pope (757-67), dies 701 Sergius I, Syrian/Italian Pope (687-701), dies 685 Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85), dies 678 Donus, Italian Pope (676-78), dies 676 Adeodatus II, Italian Pope (672-76), dies 657 Eugene I, Italian Pope (654-7), dies 640 Severinus, Italian Pope (640), dies 638 Honorius I, dux plebis, Italian Pope, dies 625 Boniface V, Italian Pope (619-25), dies 618 Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies 607 Boniface III, Italian Pope (607), dies 606 Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06), dies 579 Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies 574 John III, Italian Pope (561-74), dies 561 Pelagius I, Italian Pope (547-51, 556-61), dies 555 Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55), dies 537 Sylvester, Italian Pope (536-37), dies 536 Agapitus I, Italian Pope (535-36), dies 535 John, Mercurius, Italian Pope (533-35), dies 514 Symmachus, Italian Pope (498-514), dies 483 Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83), dies 461 Leo I the Great, Italian Pope (440-61), dies 440 Sixtus III, Italian Pope (432-40), dies 432 Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32), dies 422 Boniface I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies 417 Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies 399 Siricius, Italian Pope (384-99), dies 366 Liberius, Italian Pope (352-66), dies 365 Felix II, Italian anti-pope, dies 273 Felix I, Italian Bishop of Rome, dies (or 274) 130 Claudius Galenus, Italian 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