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
1995 Fabio Casartelli, Italian olympian (Oly-gold-92), dies at 24
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 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 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 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
1993 Bruno Rossi, Italian Scientist
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 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
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 Mt. 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 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
1978 Harry Bertoia, Italian Artist
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 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)
1974 Alessandro Del Piero, Italian Athlete
1973 Bruno Maderna, Italian composer and conductor (Satyricon), dies at 53
1973 Ludwig von Mises, Italian Economist
1973 In audience with Italian cyclists, Pope Paul VI praises athletes who "offer the magnificent show of a healthy, strong, generous youth"
1973 Carlo E 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 Italian Rumor government resigns
1969 Piotr F Scharoff, Russ/Italian actor and director (Chechov), dies at 82
1969 Giorgio Lamberti, Italian free style swimmer, world record 200m
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
1968 Antonio Porchia, Italian Poet
1967 Valeria Marini, Rome, Italy, sports commentator, Italian Soccer
1966 Alberto "La Bomba" Tomba, Italian skier, Olympics gold 1988, 92
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)/min of Just, 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 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 1988 Olympics gold
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 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 Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier (1945..53), dies at 73
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
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 Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
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 Franco Nero, Italian Actor
1941 Angelo Scola, Italian Clergyman
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/gov-gen of Libya, dies at 44
1939 Romano Prodi, Italian Statesman
1939 Giovanni Falcone, Italian Judge
1939 Grens mobilization due to Italian invasion in Albania
1939 Pius XI, [Ambrogio D A Ratti], Italian Pope (1922-39), dies at 81
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
1938 Renata Adler, Italian Journalist
1937 Dutch government recognizes Italian king Emanuel III as emperor of Abyssinia
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 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 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 fieldmarshal (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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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, [Basaldella], 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 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 Italian King Victor Emmanuel and Swiss president open Simplon tunnel
1906 Primo Carnera, Italian boxer, champ-1933
1905 British, Italian, Russ, French and Aust-Hung 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 Giuseppe Zangara, Italian Criminal
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 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/gov-gen 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 E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer, Madonna dei filosofi
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 Giorgio Morandi, Italian Artist
1890 Carlo Collodi, Italian Writer
1889 Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83
1889 Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies
1888 Henry Armetta, Italian/US 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
1886 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
1883 Benito Mussolini, [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator, 1922-43
1883 Federigo Tozzi, Italian writer/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 Ludwig von Mises, Italian Economist
1881 Alcide de Gasperi, Italian premier, 1945-53
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/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65
1878 Gemma Galgani, Italian saint
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 adm 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
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 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
1858 Eleonora Duse, Italian Actress
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
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 fieldmarshal/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
1829 Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68
1828 Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright
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 Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, Reaction of Cannizzaro
1826 Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist
1826 Carlo Collodi, Italian Writer
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 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona), dies at 76
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
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
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
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
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
1747 Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian opera-composer, dies at 76
1746 Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk/discoverer, 1st asteroid-Ceres
1744 Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer, dies at 64
1744 Giambattista Vico, Italian Philosopher
1743 [Ridolfo] Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer, cellist, Minuet
1743 Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer, dies at 85
1742 Omobono Stradivari, Italian violin maker/son of Antonius, dies at 62
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
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
1725 Giacomo Casanova, Italian writer, philanderer and adventurer
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 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 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
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