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2010 Death - Famous Australian opera singer Dame Joan Sutherland dies in Switzerland at age 83, after a lengthy illness

2003 Death - Joan Kroc, philanthropist/former baseball team owner, started Peace Institutes at several universities, dies at 75

2000 Death - Joan Marsh, actress, Road to Zanzibar, dies at 86

1998 Death - Joan Hickson, actress, Miss Marple for the BBC, dies at 92

1998 Death - Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies

1997 Death - Joan Rice, actress, Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up, dies at 66

1996 Death - Joan Hammond, singer, dies at 84

1996 Death - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress (Hands of a Stranger), dies at 85

1996 Death - Joan "Maudie" Warburton, painter, dies at 76

1996 Event - Joan Pitcock wins LPGA Jamie Farr Kroger Golf Classic

1996 Death - Joan Thirkettle, journalist, dies at 48

1996 Death - Joan Sterndale Bennett, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows), dies at 86

1995 Death - Francis Joan Frances Will, actress, dies at 75

1995 Death - Joan A C Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury, dies at 84

1994 Death - Joan Barbara Grigor, artist, dies at 50

1994 Death - Joan Dickson, cellist, professor at Royal College of Music in London, dies at 72

1994 Death - Joan Harrison, English producer/Alfred Hitchcock's sect, dies at 83

1993 Event - Comedian Rodney Dangerfield (72) weds Joan Child (41)

1993 Event - "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater New York City after 49 performances

1993 Event - "St. Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 49 performances

1992 Death - Joan Maloney Rio, dancer, dies of cancer at 57

1992 Event - Joan Lunden ordered to pay her ex-husband $18,000 a month support

1992 Death - Joan Sanderson, actress (Young Wives' Tale, Fawlty Towers), dies at 79

1992 Death - Joan Merrill, vocalist, dies of a stroke at 74

1992 Event - Joan Lunden, breaks her left shoulder after being thrown from a horse

1992 Death - Joan Dixon, actress (Hot Lead, Bunco Squad, Gunplay), dies at 66

1992 Event - Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr. Peter Hui

1991 Death - Joan Caulfield, actress (My Favorite Husband), dies of cancer at 69

1990 Death - Joan Bennett, U.S. actress (House Across the Bay), dies at 80

1989 Death - Joan Barry, dies at 85

1989 Death - Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail), dies

1987 Death - Joan Shawlee, actress (Abbott and Costello Show), dies at 58

1987 Death - Joan Greenwood, English actress (Gentle Sex, Bad Sister), dies at 65

1984 Event - Joan Benoit (U.S.) wins 1st Olympic marathon for women (2:24:52)

1984 Event - Joan Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43)

1983 Death - Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90

1983 Death - Joan Hackett, actress (Group, Flicks, Rivals), dies of cancer at 49

1983 Event - 12th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:22:43

1983 Death - Joan Valerie, actress (Pier 13), dies of pneumonia

1982 Event - Senator Ted and Joan Kennedy divorce

1982 Death - Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73

1982 Birthday - Leelee Sobieski, born in New York City, New York, actress, films include, 'Deep Impact', Emmy-Award nominee for television movie, 'Joan of Arc'

1982 Event - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 wks

1981 Death - Joan Edwards, singer (Joan Edwards Show), dies at 62

1981 Event - "Dynasty" with Joan Collins premieres on ABC-TV

1979 Death - Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70

1979 Event - Johnny Rotten and Joan Collins appear together on BBC's Juke Box Jury

1979 Death - Joan Chandler, dies at 55

1979 Event - 8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15

1977 Death - Joan Tetzel, actress (Hell Below Zero), dies at 56

1977 Death - Joan Crawford, actress (Mildred Pierce), dies at 69

1976 Birthday - Melissa Joan Hart, born in Sayville, New York, actress, Clarissa, Sabrina

1975 Death - Joan Whitney Payson, owner of New York Mets, dies at 72

1974 Event - Joan Jett forms her rock group Runaways

1971 Birthday - Joan Kenmore, actress, Wizard of Oz

1967 Birthday - Joan Pitcock, born in Fresno, California, LPGA golfer, 1995 Standard Register PING-3rd

1967 Birthday - Joan Smith, born in Rochester, New York, biathelete 1994 Olympics

1966 Birthday - Joan Guetschow, born in Akron, Ohio, biathelete 1994 Olympics

1964 Birthday - Joan Bennett, born in Chicago, Illinois, playmate, January, 1985

1964 Birthday - Joan E. Higginbotham, born in Chicago, Illinois, astronaut

1963 Event - Carole Joan Crawford, 20, of Jamaica, crowned 13th Miss World

1963 Death - Beverly Wills, actress (Beverly-I Married Joan), dies at 29

1962 Birthday - Joan Cusack, born in Evanston, Illinois, actress, SNL, Addams Family Values

1962 Event - Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests

1961 Death - Joan McCracken, actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at 38

1961 Birthday - Joan Delk, born in Tampa, Florida, LPGA golfer, 1995 First Bank Edina Realty-66th

1961 Death - Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53

1961 Death - Joan Davis, actress (I Married Joan), dies of heart attack at 53

1961 Birthday - Joan Chen, born in Shanghai, China, actress, Heaven and Earth

1960 Birthday - Joan Jett, Philadelphia, singer, Blackhearts-I Love Rock 'n Roll

1960 Death - Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62

1960 Birthday - Joan Chen, Chen Chung, Shanghai China, actress, Last Emperor

1958 Birthday - Joan Severance, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Hear No Evil, See No Evil

1958 Birthday - Ricky Byrd, rocker, Joan Jett and Blackhearts

1958 Death - Johan N C "Joan" Collette, painter, dies at 68

1958 Birthday - Lee Crystal, rocker, Joan Jett and Blackhearts-Ashes in the Wind

1957 Birthday - Joan Benoit Samuelson, born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, marathoner, Gold Medal 1994 Olympics

1956 Death - Francis L Sullivan, actor (Joan of Arc, Winslow Boy), dies at 53

1956 Birthday - [Joan] Joni Sledge, born in Philadelphia, vocalist, Sister Sledge-We are Family

1956 Birthday - Joan Allen, Illinois, actress, Peggy Sue Got Married, Tucker, In Country

1956 Birthday - Pillow, Therese Joan Bell, California, bodybuilder, Gold Classic 1983

1952 Birthday - Kenny Aaronson, born in New York City, New York, rocker, bass guitar player, played for Dust, Stories, Hall & Oates, toured with Billy Squier, Joan Jett, Billy Idol

1950 Birthday - Joan Armatrading, St. Kitts, singer, Back to the Night

1950 Event - Paul Creston's 3rd Symphony "Triumph of St. Joan," premieres

1950 Birthday - Joan Lunden, Fair Oaks California, news host, Good Morning America

1949 Birthday - Leslie Joan Corn, theatre producer, director and writer

1948 Birthday - Joan [Carol] D[ennison] Vinge, U.S., sci-fi author, 2 Hugos, Dune

1947 Birthday - Joan Thirkettle, journalist

1947 Birthday - Joan La Barbara, composer

1944 Birthday - Joan Barbara Grigor, artist

1943 Birthday - Joan Van, born in Arkansas, New York City, actress, Valene-Dallas, Knots Landing

1942 Birthday - Gus Dudgeon, British pop producer, Joan Armatrading, David Bowie

1942 Birthday - Joan Van Ark, American Actress

1941 Event - Cease fire of Joan of Arc, ends combat in Lebanon and Syria

1941 Birthday - Joan Baez, Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate

1940 Birthday - Joan Haanappel, figure skater/sports reporter

1940 Birthday - Joan Joyce, Waterbury CT, LPGA golfer, 1984 S&H Golf Classic-6th

1940 Birthday - Joan Joyce, Waterbury, Connecticut, softball pitcher, Hall of Fame 1983

1940 Birthday - Joan Staley, playmate, Nov, 1958

1940 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer

1939 Birthday - Christina Crawford, author, Joan's daughter, Mommie Dearest

1939 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer

1938 Birthday - Joan Tower, born in New Rochelle, New York, composer, Breakfast Rhythms

1938 Event - U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer

1936 Birthday - Joan Kennedy, 1st wife of Mass Senator, Ted

1935 Birthday - Joan Darling, born in Boston, actress, Frieda-Owen Marshall

1934 Birthday - Joan Didion, U.S. novelist/journalist, Salvador

1933 Birthday - Joan Weldon, SF, actress, So This is Love, Them

1933 Birthday - Joan Rivers, born in Brooklyn, comedienne, Late Show, Hollywood Sq

1933 Birthday - Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress, Alexis-Dynasty, Bitch

1933 Birthday - Joan Collins, American Actress

1933 Birthday - Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster/actress, Cold Comfort Farm

1933 Birthday - Joan Hackett, born in New York, actress, Will Penny, One Stone Pony

1931 Birthday - Joan Lestor, born in England, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine

1931 Birthday - Joan Vohs, St. Albans, New York, actress, Fort Ti, Vice Squad, Sabrina

1931 Birthday - Joan Clague, director of nursing services, Marie Curie Foundation

1931 Birthday - Joan Carlyle, British soprano

1930 Birthday - Joan Mondale, wife of U.S. vice-president Walter Mondale, 1977-81

1930 Birthday - Joan Sims, actress, Carry on Behind, Carry on Cleo

1930 Birthday - Joan Franks-Williams, composer

1930 Birthday - Joan Rice, actress, Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up

1930 Birthday - Lynn Carlin, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Joan Hunter-James at 15

1929 Birthday - Joan Ganz Cooney, born in Phoenix, Arizona, TV executive, Children's TV Workshop

1929 Birthday - Joan Ganz Cooney, founder, Children's Television Workshop

1929 Birthday - Joan Plowright, Brigg England, actress, Brimstone and Treacle

1929 Birthday - Joan Shawlee, born in Forest Hills, New York, actress, Prehistoric Women

1929 Birthday - Mary Joan Nielubowicz, rear admiral/nurse

1928 Birthday - Joan Kroc, wife of Ray Korc/owner, McDonalds and San Diego Padres

1928 Birthday - Elizabeth Joan Smith, Canadian Politician

1926 Birthday - Joan Sutherland, Sydney Australia, operatic soprano, Met Opera

1925 Event - 38th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Suzanne Lenglen beats Joan Fry (62 60)

1925 Birthday - Joan Leslie, Detroit, actress, High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy

1924 Birthday - Joan Aiken, Romania, writer of children's songs

1924 Event - Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," in London

1923 Event - George Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan," premieres in New York City

1923 Birthday - Siobhan McKenna, Ireland, stage actress, Saint Joan

1923 Birthday - Joan Moriarty, Brigadier matron-in-chief/dir, Army Nursing Services

1922 Birthday - Joan McCracken, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actress, Claudie Story of a Marriage

1922 Birthday - Joan Caulfield, East Orange, New Jersey, actress, Liz-My Favorite Husband

1922 Birthday - Joan Copeland, Miller, New York City, actress, Roseland, A Little Sex

1921 Birthday - Joan Dickson, born in England, cellist, professor at Royal College of Music in London, studied with Enrico Mainardi in Paris, performed with Joyce Rathbone

1921 Birthday - Joan Tetzel, born in New York City, actress, Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning

1921 Birthday - Joan Greenwood, born in London, actress and director, Amorous Mr. Prawn

1920 Event - Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized a saint

1920 Birthday - Joan "Maudie" Warburton, painter

1920 Birthday - Joan Frances Will, actress

1919 Birthday - Joan Edwards, New York City, vocalist, Joan Edwards Show

1918 Birthday - Joan Bernard, Principal, Trevelyan College, Durham

1917 Birthday - Joan Fontaine, Tokyo, Japan, actress, Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca

1912 Birthday - Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano

1912 Birthday - David Langton, born in Scotland, actor, Quintet, St. Joan, Abandon Ship

1911 Birthday - Joan Perry Cohn Harvey, actress, Hands of a Stranger

1910 Birthday - Joan Alice Chetwode Ramsey nee Hamilton, lady Ramsey of Canterbury

1910 Birthday - Joan Sterndale Bennett, born in New Jersey, actress, Elizabeth-Dark Shadows

1910 Birthday - Joan Bennett, Palasades, New Jersey, actress, Little Women, Disraeli

1909 Birthday - [Rose] Joan Blondell, New York City, actress, Real McCoys, Here Come the Brides

1909 Birthday - Joan Harrison, screenwriter

1909 Event - Joan of Arc declared a saint

1908 Birthday - Joan Crawford, born in Texas, actress, Mildred Pierce

1907 Birthday - Joan Davis, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, actress, I Married Joan

1905 Birthday - Joan [Jacobus J] Remmelts, Dutch actor, Jantjes, Twee Vorstinnen

1903 Birthday - Joan Whitney Payson, owner, New York Mets and horse stables

1897 Birthday - Hope Emerson, Hawarden Iowa, actress, I Married Joan, Peter Gunn

1896 Birthday - Hal Walker, Ottumwa, Iowa, director, I Married Joan

1889 Birthday - Joan Collette, Dutch, male, painter, New Church, Delft

1889 Birthday - Felix Aylmer, actor, Anastasia, Hamlet, Iron Duke, Macbeth, St. Joan

1888 Birthday - Johanna E F G, Bachigaloupi, Tourniaire, actress, Saint Joan

1882 Birthday - Sybil Thorndike, England, actress, Saint Joan

1865 Birthday - Maude Gonne, Irish nationalist, Irish Joan of Arc

1863 Birthday - Ralph Adams Cram, U.S., gothic architect, Cathedral of St. Joan New York City

1842 Birthday - Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator, Joan of Arc of the Civil War

1824 Death - Joan M Kemper, lawyer (layed-out Civil Code), dies

1807 Death - Joan Lucaz, Dutch scholar/journalist/patriot, dies at 60

1794 Birthday - Joan F Van Oordt, vicar, Groninger direction

1784 Death - Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42

1781 Event - Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets

1776 Birthday - Joan M Kemper, Dutch lawyer, designed civil code law book

1746 Birthday - Joan Lucaz, Dutch journalist/patriot

1741 Birthday - Joan Derk van Capellen, leader of Netherlands Democratic Patriots

1711 Death - Joan van Hoorn, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1707-09), dies at 57

1678 Death - Joan Maetsuyker, Governor-General of Netherlands East-Indies, dies at 72

1676 Death - Joan Cererols, composer, dies at 57

1673 Death - Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer/publisher (Atlas Major), dies at 77

1672 Event - Joan Blaeus publishers destroyed by fire in Amsterdam

1653 Birthday - Joan van Hoorn, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies, 1707-09

1618 Birthday - Joan Cererols, composer

1596 Birthday - Joan Blaeu, cartographer/publisher

1505 Death - Joan of Valois, Queen of France/saint, dies at 40

1456 Event - Though she had already been executed, Joan of Arc is acquitted

1431 Death - Joan of Arc, burned as a witch by English at Rouen at 19

1431 Event - England begins trial against Joan of Arc

1431 Event - Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop

1430 Event - Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British

1429 Event - Joan of Arc leads French army in Battle of Orleans

1429 Event - French troops under Joan of Arc rescues Orleans

1429 Event - English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc

1429 Event - Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English

1412 Birthday - Joan of Arc, Domremy, martyr













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