1995 Death Burl Ives, folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 85 1993 Death George Ives, dies at 111 1991 Death John Kirckpatrick, U.S. musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies 1970 Event Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premieres 1965 Event Charles Ives' "From the Steeples and the Mountains," premieres 1965 Event Ives' 4th Symphony premieres 1960 Event Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner," premieres 1956 Event Charles Ives' overture "Robert Browning," premieres in New York City 1954 Death Charles Edward Ives, U.S. composer (Unanswered Question), dies at 79 1946 Event Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres 1946 Event 1st performance of Charles Ives' 3rd Symphony 1939 Event Charles Ives' 1st Sonate "Concord," premieres 1932 Birthday John Nott, born in Bideford, Devon, Sir John William Frederic Nott, Conservative Party, served as Secretary of State for Defense 1981 - 1983, was Member of Parliament for St. Ives in Cornwall 1966 - 1983 1930 Birthday Robert Gavron, English publisher/multi-millionaire, St. Ives 1909 Birthday Burl Ives, born in Hunt, Illinois, folk singer and actor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1874 Birthday Charles Edward Ives, Danbury, Connecticut, composer, Holiday Quick Step 1869 Event Ives W. McGaffey of Chicago patents 1st vacuum cleaner 1824 Birthday James Merritt Ives, lithographer, Currier and Ives 1813 Birthday Nathaniel Currier, lithographer, Currier and Ives 1662 Death Simon Ives, composer, dies at 61 1600 Birthday Simon Ives, composer