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2007 Death - Jane Wyman, dies in California, of natural causes, at 90

1999 Death - Mary Jane Croft, actress, The Lucy Show, dies at 83

1999 Death - Jane Crowley, censor, NBC censor for The Tonight Show, dies at 73

1997 Death - David Waller, actor (Lady Jane, Perfect Friday, Hannay), dies at 76

1996 Death - Ethel Jane Cain, original U.K. Speaking Clock voice, dies at 87

1996 Death - Jane Baxter, actress (We Live Again, Blossom Time), dies at 87

1996 Death - Jane Beverly Drew, architect, dies at 85

1996 Death - John Abbott, British actor (Lady Jane, Quest), dies at 90

1996 Death - Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80

1995 Death - Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67

1994 Event - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Chicago Golf Challenge

1993 Death - Jane Nigh, actress (Big Town, Blue Blood, Rawhide), dies at about 67

1993 Event - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic

1993 Event - Jane Seymour and James Kesch, Marriage

1992 Event - David Lewett and Jane Luu discovers comet: "1992 QB1" 64 mil km from Sun

1992 Death - Jane Pickens Langley Hoving, singer, dies at 83

1992 Event - Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee

1991 Event - U.S. actress Jane Fonda marries CNN-director Ted Turner

1991 Event - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Atlantic City Golf Classic

1991 Death - Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 69

1991 Event - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic

1991 Event - "Real Life With Jane Pauley" premieres on NBC-TV

1990 Event - Ted Turner and Jane Fonda announce their engagement

1990 Event - Jane Crafter wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament

1990 Death - Jane Novak, silent screen actress (Ghost Town), dies of stroke at 94

1990 Death - Mary Jane Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies

1989 Event - Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show

1989 Event - Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage

1988 Event - Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore

1987 Event - Jane Crafter/Steve Jones wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic

1987 Event - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic

1987 Event - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic

1987 Event - 33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes

1987 Event - Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic

1987 Event - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

1986 Death - Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM New York City helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes

1986 Event - Jane Geddes wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic

1986 Event - 41st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Jane Geddes

1985 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic

1985 Death - Jane Frazee, singer and actress (Alice-Beulah), dies at 67 of pneumonia

1985 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open

1985 Death - David Huffman, actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), dies

1985 Death - Elizabeth Julesberg, author (Dick and Jane), dies

1983 Birthday - Rachel and Ross Trudeau, twins of Jane Pauley and Gerry Trudeau

1983 Death - Alfredo Antonini, conductor (Jane Froman Canteen), dies at 82

1983 Event - "Cool Places" by Sparks and Jane Wiedlin peaks at #49

1981 Death - Isobel Elsom, actress (Unseen, Jane Eyre, Illegal), dies at 87

1980 Death - Jane Froman, U.S. singer (JF's USA Canteen), dies at 72

1980 Death - Jane Froman, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen), dies at 72

1980 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic

1979 Birthday - Lydia Jane Lipscombe, Christchurch New Zealand, breastroker 1996 Olympics

1979 Event - Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, New York City

1979 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament

1979 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Otey Crisman Golf Classic

1979 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Florida Lady Citrus Golf Tournament

1979 Event - 51st Academy Awards - "Deer Hunter," Jon Voight and Jane Fonda win

1979 Event - Jane Byrne, elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois

1979 Death - Jane Hylton, English actress (Adv of Sir Lancelot), dies at 52

1979 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic

1979 Event - 36th Golden Globes: Midnight Express, Jon Voight and Jane Fonda

1978 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship

1978 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic

1978 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic

1978 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic

1977 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Golf Tournament

1977 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Greater Baltimore Golf Classic

1977 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament

1976 Event - Jane Pauley becomes news co-anchor of Today Show

1976 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1976 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic

1976 Event - Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford

1975 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA 14 Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament

1975 Event - Sara Jane Moore pled guilty to trying to kill President Gerald Ford

1975 Event - Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate President Ford in San Francisco California

1975 Birthday - Jane Jamieson, Australian heptathlete 1996 Olympics

1975 Event - Ed Bullins' "Taking of Miss Jane," premieres in New York City

1975 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Karsten-Ping Golf Open

1974 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic

1974 Death - Jane Ace, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74

1974 Event - Jane Blalock/Sue Roberts wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open

1974 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic

1974 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International

1973 Event - Jane Blalock/Sandra Palmer wins Lady Angelo's 4-Ball Golf Tournament

1973 Death - Jane Bowles, writer, playwright, dies at 56

1973 Birthday - Jane March, born in Edgeware, England, actress, Lover

1972 Birthday - Jane Taylor, born in Maitland, Australia, tennis star, 1995 Futures-Wagga Waga

1972 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic

1972 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open

1972 Event - Sandra Palmer/Jane Blalock wins Angelo's Four-Ball Golf Championship

1972 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale

1972 Event - 1st Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jane Blalock

1972 Event - 44th Academy Awards - "French Connection," G Hackman and Jane Fonda win

1972 Death - Jane Morgan, actress (Mrs Margaret Davis-Our Miss Brooks), dies at 91

1971 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Pepsi Golf Open

1971 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA George Washington Golf Classic

1970 Birthday - Josie Bissett, born in Seattle, Washington actress, Jane Mancini-Melrose Place

1970 Event - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open

1969 Birthday - Jane Robinson, Australian rower 1996 Olympics

1969 Birthday - Thomas Jane, American Actor

1968 Birthday - Vanessa Vadim, Paris, daughter of Jane Fonda/actress, Last Party

1968 Death - Sara Jane Roberts, child actress (Our Gang), dies after surgery at 44

1968 Event - Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV

1968 Event - Paul McCartney and Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert

1967 Event - Paul McCartney and Jane Asher get engaged

1967 Birthday - Nancy Jane Cox, Campbellsville Kentucky, Miss Kentucky-America-1991

1967 Death - Jane Darwell, actress (Girls in Prison), dies of heart attack at 87

1967 Birthday - Jane Clayson, American Journalist

1966 Birthday - Samuel West, born in England, actor, theater director, appeared in 'Howards End', 'Jane Eyre', Van Helsing', 'Notting Hill' , 'Complicity' films, among others

1965 Birthday - Nyla Jane Carroll, New Plymouth New Zealand, 5k/10k/marathoner 1996 Olympics

1965 Death - Bessie Barriscale, actress (Plain Jane, Show Folks), dies

1963 Birthday - Jane Leary, Sydney Australia, golfer, 1992 Australian Amateur Champ

1963 Birthday - Jane Horrocks, Lancashire England, actress, Absolutely Fabulous

1962 Birthday - Demi Moore, Guynes, Roswell, New Mexico, actress, Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane

1962 Birthday - Cary Elwes, born in Westminster, London, actor, films include, 'The Princess Bride', 'Liar Liar', 'Twister', 'Lady Jane', 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights'

1961 Birthday - Jane Sibbett, actress, Teddy Z, Heddy Newman-Herman's Head

1961 Death - Eily Malyon, actress (Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch), dies at 81

1961 Birthday - Jane Leeves, born in London, actress, Murphy Brown, Daphne Moon-Fraiser

1961 Birthday - Keren Jane Woodward, born in Bristol, England, rock vocalist, Bananarama-Venus

1961 Event - Jane Fonda made her acting debut in the NBC drama "A String of Beads"

1960 Event - 12nd Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Robert Stack and Jane Wyatt

1960 Birthday - Jane Geddes, Huntington, New York, LPGA golfer, 1987 Women's Kemper Open

1959 Death - Jane Winton, actress (Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan), dies at 53

1958 Birthday - Jane Wiedlin, Wisconsin, singer/guitarist, GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour

1958 Event - 10th Emmy Awards: Gunsmoke, Robert Young and Jane Wyatt

1957 Event - Jerry Lee Lewis weds his cousin Myra Gale Brown, 13, while still married to his 1st wife Jane Mitcham

1957 Birthday - Harley Jane Kozak, actress, Arachnophobia, Necessary Roughness

1956 Death - Jane Seymour, actress (Young Mr. Bobbin), dies at 56

1955 Birthday - Jane Kaczmarek, American Actress

1955 Birthday - Jane Crafter, born in Perth, Australia, golfer, 1987 JC Penney Mixed Teams

1955 Death - Paul Harvey, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree), dies at 73

1955 Birthday - Jane Siberry, born in Toronto, Canada, singer, songwriter, also known as 'Issa', hits include, 'I Muse Aloud', 'One More Color', 'Calling All Angels'

1954 Birthday - Jane Campion, New Zealander Director

1954 Birthday - Mary Jane Smith, born in Van Nuys, California, WPVA volleyballer, National-9th-1993

1953 Birthday - Jane Badler, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Fine Gold, Easy Kill, V

1953 Birthday - Lucinda Green, born in Andover, England, born Lucinda Jane Prior-Palmer, champion equestrian, journalist, won gold at 1982 World Championships

1953 Birthday - Jane Priest, born in Perth, Australia, Prince Charles' lover

1952 Birthday - Gerry Beckley, rock vocalist and guitarist, America-Daisy Jane

1952 Birthday - Jane Frederick, U.S. pentathlete 1976 Olympics

1952 Event - SN Behrman's "Jane," premieres in New York City

1952 Birthday - Dewey Bunell, born in Yorkshire, England, rock guitarist, America-Daisy Jane

1951 Birthday - Jane Seymour, Joyce Frankenberg, England, actress, Dr. Quinn

1950 Birthday - Jane Pauley, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, newscaster, Today, NBC Weekend

1950 Death - Sara Allgood, Irish actress (Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase), dies at 56

1949 Birthday - Jane Actman, born in New York City, actress, Barbara-Paul Lynde Show

1949 Event - 21st Academy Awards - "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier and Jane Wyman win

1947 Birthday - Jane Curtin, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, actress, SNL, Allie Lowell-Kate and Allie

1947 Birthday - Jane Elliot, New York City, actress, Baby Boom, General Hospital, Knots Landing

1946 Birthday - Jane Birkin, born in London, England, actress, Mrs Don Juan, Dark Places, Dust

1946 Death - Susan St. James, Susan Jane Miller, Los Angeles California, actress (Kate and Allie)

1946 Birthday - Jane Asher, Paul McCartney's girlfriend and actress, Deep End

1946 Birthday - Jasper Carrott, English comedian, Jane and the Lost City, Detectives

1945 Death - Jerome Kern, U.S. composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane), dies at 60

1945 Birthday - Jane Blalock, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, LPGA golfer 1972 Colgate-Dinah Shore

1945 Birthday - Jane Blalock, champion golfer

1945 Birthday - Jane Harman, born in New York City, New York, Representative-D-California 1993 - 1999 and 2001 -

1945 Birthday - Jane Harman, American Politician

1944 Birthday - Jane Lapotaire, actress, Spirit of the Dead

1942 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn

1941 Birthday - Jane Brody, writer/nutritionist

1941 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn

1939 Birthday - Jane Alexander, Quigley, Boston, actress, Betsy, Kramer vs Kramer

1939 Event - 1st black woman judge, Jane Matilda Bolin, New York City

1939 Birthday - Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, U.S., sci-fi author, Spider Jane, Heart's Blood

1939 Birthday - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer, Everyone's Money Book

1939 Birthday - Jane Bryant Quinn, newspaper and television reporter

1937 Birthday - Jane Fonda, New York City, actress, Barbarella, Klute, physically fit

1937 Death - Colin Clive, actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Jane Eyre), dies at 39

1937 Birthday - Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress, Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St. Louis

1935 Death - Jane Addams, a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973), dies at 65

1935 Birthday - Jane Wagner, American Comedian

1934 Birthday - Jane Byrne, born in Chicago, Illinois, first female Mayor of Chicago, Illinois 1979 - 1983, served as head of consumer affairs

1934 Birthday - Jane Goodall, born in London, England, ethologist, studied African chimps

1934 Birthday - Jane van Lawick-Goodall, ethologist and chimp expert, 1974 Walker Prize

1933 Birthday - Cicely Tyson, born in Harlem, New York City, actress, Roots, Miss Jane Pittman

1932 Birthday - Jayne Mansfield, Vera Jane Palmer, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, actress, Fat Spy

1931 Birthday - Jill Bennett, Penang Malay, actress, Lady Jane, Concrete Jungle

1931 Event - Jane Addams (1st U.S. woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

1931 Birthday - Claudia Jane Archibald, parapsychologist

1931 Birthday - Jane Rule, Canadian Author

1928 Birthday - Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher

1928 Death - Jane Ellen Harrison, scholar/archaeologist, dies

1928 Birthday - Jane Powell, born in Portland Oregon, singer and actress, 7 Brides for 7 Brothers

1927 Birthday - Jane Withers, Georgia, actress, All Together Now, Josephine the plumber

1927 Birthday - Jane Nigh, born in Hollywood, California, actress, Lorelei-Big Town

1926 Birthday - Jane Hylton, born in London, England, actress, Adv of Sir Lancelot, Daybreak

1925 Birthday - Jane Connell, born in Oakland California, actress, Jane-Stanley, Bridget-Dumpling

1924 Birthday - Jane Greer, Washington D.C., actress, Prisoner of Zenda, Clown

1923 Birthday - Mary Jane Odell, Iowa, Secretary of State

1923 Birthday - Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist, After Julius

1922 Birthday - Peter Birch, Bronx, choreographer, Jane Froman's USA Canteen

1921 Birthday - Jane Russell, born in Bemidji, Minnesota, full-figured actress, Outlaw

1919 Birthday - Jane Randolph, singer, backup for Tony Orlando, Dawn

1918 Birthday - Jane Frazee, born in Duluth, Minnesota, actress and singer, Alice-Beulah

1917 Birthday - Jane Bowles, born in New York, New York, writer, playwright, wrote 'Two Serious Ladies', 'In The Summer House', works admired by Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, John Ashbery

1917 Birthday - Jane Wyman, born in Missouri, actress, film, television, Academy Award-winner, first wife of U.S. President Ronald Reagan

1916 Birthday - Jane Jacobs, Scranton, Pennsylvania, urbanologist

1915 Birthday - Jane Cowan, cello teacher

1914 Birthday - Elise Hoomans, Dutch director/actress, Jane Eyre

1912 Birthday - Jane Wyatt, Campgaw, New Jersey, actress, Father Knows Best, Star Trek

1912 Birthday - Jane Ross, Spokane, Washington actress, Audrey-Phyllis, Coed Fever

1911 Birthday - Jane Beverly Drew, architect

1909 Birthday - Jane Baxter, Feodora Forde, Bremen Germany, actress, We Live Again

1909 Birthday - Ethel Jane Cain, original U.K. Speaking Clock voice

1908 Birthday - Hank Sylvern, born in Brooklyn, New York, orchestra leader, Jane Froman's USA Canteen

1907 Birthday - Jane Froman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, singer, Jane Froman's USA Canteen

1906 Birthday - Penny Singleton, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, voice, Jane Jetsons, actress, Blondie

1905 Birthday - Jane Winton, Philadelphia, actress, Hell's Angel, Patsy, Don Juan

1903 Death - Martha Jane Cannary, Calamity Jane, U.S. desperado, dies

1896 Death - Jane Wilde, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights, dies

1896 Birthday - Jane Wilde, born in Dublin, Ireland, writer, poet, activist, nationalist movement supporter, advocate of women's rights

1895 Birthday - David Butler, born in San Francisco, California, director, April in Paris, Calamity Jane

1893 Birthday - Sara Allgood, Dublin Ireland, actress, Jane Eyre, Spiral Staircase

1882 Birthday - Paul Harvey, Illinois, actor, Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree

1879 Birthday - Eily Malyon, London, actress, Jane Eyre, I Married a Witch, Devotion

1879 Birthday - Jane Darwell, Patti Woodward, Palmyra, Missouri, actress, Huckleberry Finn

1877 Birthday - Maria "Marie" Hens, Flemish actress, Jane Eyre

1862 Birthday - Jane Delano, U.S., nurse, teacher and founder, Red Cross

1860 Birthday - Jane Addams, U.S., pacifist/social worker/feminist, Nobel 1931

1855 Death - Charlotte Bronte, English author 'Jane Eyre', dies at 38

1853 Event - Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348

1852 Birthday - Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke], frontier adventurer/indian fighter

1851 Birthday - Lillien Jane Martin, psychologist, found gerontology clinic

1850 Death - Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74

1847 Event - Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published

1847 Event - Charlotte Bronte finishes manuscript of "Jane Eyre"

1818 Birthday - Emily Jane Bronte, England, novelist, Wuthering Heights

1817 Death - Jane Austen, British Writer

1817 Death - Jane Austen, writer, dies

1816 Birthday - Charlotte Bronte, born in Tornton, England, novelist 'Jane Eyre'

1806 Birthday - Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady, 1853-57

1775 Birthday - Jane Austen, England, novelist, Pride and Prejudice

1715 Event - Nicholas Rowe's "Tragedy of Lady Jane Gray," premieres in London

1714 Event - Nicholas Rowe's "tragedy of Jane Shore," premieres in London

1674 Birthday - Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate, Jane Shore, Tamerlane

1554 Death - Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, Lady Jane Grey's father, executed

1554 Death - Jane Grey, queen of England for 13 days, beheaded at 17

1554 Death - Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded

1554 Death - Lady Jane Grey, deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule

1553 Event - English Lady Jane Grey/bishop Cranmer accused of high treason

1553 Event - 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days

1553 Event - Lady Jane Grey becomes queen of England

1553 Event - English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley

1537 Death - Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII, dies

1537 Birthday - Jane Grey, Queen of England for 9 days

1536 Event - English king Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour













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