2015 Event Nobel prize winning mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., 86, and his wife Alicia, 82, die after an accident in New Jersey in which their taxi lost control 2015 Event The National Baseball Hall of Fame elects four players: Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, John Smoltz, and Craig Biggio; the induction ceremony will take place in July 2014 Event The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser and John O'Keefe, neuroscientists who discovered the brain cells responsible for positioning and navigation memory 2014 Event Former Press Secretary James S. Brady dies at age 73; Brady's death has been ruled a homicide due to a gunshot wound made 33 years earlier by John W. Hinckley, Jr.; Hinckley was found to be insane and was not charged with the original crime 2014 Event Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel has resigned in the wake of security breaches late last year in which customer data was stolen; the company will be run by John Mulligan, the company's Chief Financial Officer, until a new president is identified 2014 Event Pope Francis canonizes John XXIII and John Paul II; this is the first time that the Catholic Church has elected two former popes to sainthood in the same ceremony 2014 Event Debbie Dingell, wife of U.S. Representative John Dingell, announces her plans to run for her husband's seat after he retires; Rep. Dingell announced his retirement yesterday 2014 Event 29-term U.S. Rep. John Dingell announces that he will retire at the end of his current term; the 87-year-old congressman says that his health is fine, but the hostile climate in Congress means that he can no longer do his job effectively 2014 Event U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry criticizes Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan, for legislation he signed last week to ban same-sex marriage and criminalize gay rights groups and their activities; the law includes penalties of up to 14 years imprisonment 2014 Event U.S. NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and John Holdren, White House Science Advisor, announce that President Obama's administration approved extending the use of the International Space Station through 2024 2013 Event The U.S. commemorates day of John F. Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas 2013 Event Teresa Heinz Kerry, 74, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, was discharged from the hospital after suffering a seizer nearly three weeks ago; she is expected to make a full recovery 2013 Event In Rome, Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII are canonized by the Vatican, becoming saints 2013 Event Reports that Pope John Paul II will be canonized are confirmed as his case awaits approval from Pope Francis, and confirmation of an alleged second miracle from the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints 2013 Event In England, a man is arrested for charges related to the attack on 'The Hay Wain' painting, completed by artist John Constable in 1821; the work is considered one of England's greatest and most popular paintings 2013 Event U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton steps down from her post; she is succeeded by Senator John Kerry 2013 Event U.S. Senator John Kerry is confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the next U.S. Secretary of State 2013 Event U.S. Republican Chuck Hagel is nominated to be the country's next Secretary of Defense by President Barack Obama; John O. Brennan is nominated to be the next CIA Director 2012 Event U.S. Governor of Colorado, John Hickenlooper, emboldened by the passage of a voter-approved amendment to the state constitution last month, declared marijuana legal for recreational use 2012 Event In the U.S., President Obama nominates John R. Allen as Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), with General Joseph Dunford positioned to succeed Allen in his previous post of commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan 2012 Event John Hume, Ireland's former Social Democratic Party Leader, receives the papal knighthood at a special mass at St. Eugene's Cathedral in Derry 2012 Event Ghana's state funeral, held in Accra for President John Atta Mills, attracts tens of thousands 2012 Event Vice-President John Dramani Mahama becomes President of Ghana after President John Atta Mills, dies 2012 Event In Bulgaria, remains believed to be John the Baptist, are scientifically dated to be from the first century AD 2012 Event Former Democratic Party candidate for the U.S. Presidency, John Edwards, is cleared on one count of corruption, with a mistrial declared on the other five counts 2012 Event The trial over illegal use of campaign funds by U.S. Presidential candidate John Edwards begins in North Carolina 2012 Event The movie 'John Carter' becomes one of the biggest losses in film history; Disney takes a $200 million writedown on the film 2012 Event Queen Elizabeth II appoints John Howard, Prime Minister of Australia, and artist David Hockney, to the Order of Merit 2011 Event John Corzine, former CEO of MG Global, testifies before a committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, stating he doesn't know where hundreds of millions of dollars of his customers' money has gone 2011 Event John Corzine, former Governor of New Jersey, is issued a subpoena over the collapse of MF Global and disappearance of customer funds 2011 Event Command of the NATO forces in Afghanistan transfers from U.S. General David Petraeus to U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Genreal John R. Allen 2011 Event Former North Carolina Senator and U.S. Presidential Candidate John Edwards is indicted on charges of conspiracy and violating campaign finance laws 2011 Event The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts Dr.John, Tom Waits, Alice Cooper, Darlene Love and Neil Diamond into its Hall of Fame 2011 Event U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is shot, Judge John Roll killed, in a Tucson, Arizona shooting rampage that killed 6 people and injured 14 2011 Event The 112th United States Congress convened; Republican Representative John Boehner of Ohio assumes his new position as Speaker of the House 2010 Event At auction, John James Audubon's 'Birds of America' sells for a record price of $10.3 million 2010 Event John Holmes, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator announces Niger faces total crop failure worse than that of 2005 2009 Death John Updike dies of lung cancer, at 76 2008 Death John Michael Hayes, dies in New Hampshire, of natural causes, at 89 2008 Death Matthew John Rinaldo, Representative-R-New Jersey 1973 - 1993, died from Parkinson's disease 2008 Death John F. Seiberling, Representative-D-Ohio, 1971 - 1986, died of respiratory failure 2008 Death John Archibald Wheeler, dies in New Jersey, at 96 2006 Death John M. Ford, American Writer 2006 Death John M. Ford, author, science fiction and fantasy, poet, game designer, wrote, 'The Final Reflection', 'How Much Just for the Planet?', dies of natural causes, at age 49 2006 Death John Money, New Zealander Psychologist 2005 Event John G. Roberts is confirmed as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 2005 Event John G. Roberts is nominated for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 2005 Death John H. Johnson, American Businessman 2005 Event John G. Roberts, Jr. is nominated to the United States Supreme Court 2005 Death John T. Walton, American Businessman 2005 Death John DeLorean, American Businessman 2004 Death John Peel, DJ, dies at 65 2004 Event Democrats nominate John Kerry as their Presidential candidate 2004 Death John Maynard Smith, English Scientist 2004 Death John Randolph, actor, Prizzi's Honor, dies at 88 2004 Death John Hench, American Artist 2003 Death John Gregory Dunne, writer, True Confessions, dies at 71 2003 Death John Hawkesworth, producer/writer, ", Upstairs, Downstairs, ", dies at 82 2003 Death John Ritter, actor/comic, Three's Company, dies at 56 2003 Death John Jacob Rhodes, Representative-R-Arizona 1953 - 1983, died from cancer 2003 Death John Schlesinger, director, Midnight Cowboy, dies at 77 2003 Event 45th Grammy Awards, Norah Jones and John Mayer win major awards 2003 Death John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian 2002 Death John Rawls, American Educator 2002 Death John Wallach, journalist/humanitarian, dies at 59 2002 Death John Frankenheimer, director, The Manchurian Candidate, dies at 72 2002 Death John Entwistle, bass player, The Who, dies at 57 2002 Death John Gotti, American Criminal 2002 Death John B. Keane, Irish Playwright 2002 Death John Agar, actor, the original The Thing, dies at 81 2002 Death John Thaw, actor, Inspector Morse, dies at 60 2002 Death John W. Gardner, American Educator 2001 Death John Lilly, American Scientist 2001 Death John Walters, British Musician 2001 Death John Lee Hooker, bluesman, dies at 83 2001 Death John Phillips, singer, the Mamas and the Papas, dies at 65 2001 Death John G. Schmitz, American Politician 2000 Death John Lindsay, American Politician 2000 Death John Milford, actor, dies at 70 2000 Death John Harsanyi, American Educator 2000 Death John Tukey, American Scientist 2000 Death John W. Tukey, professor/computer theorist, The Practice of Data Analysis, dies at 85 2000 Death John Coolidge, American Celebrity 2000 Death Sir John Gielgud, British actor, Arthur, dies at 96 2000 Death John Cardinal O'Connor, American Clergyman 2000 Death John Sladek, science fiction satirist, dies at 62 2000 Death John Colicos, actor, in the original Battlestar Gallactica, dies at 71 1999 Death John Chafee, senator, Rhode Island senator, dies at 77 1999 Death John F. Kennedy, Jr., publisher and philanthropist, 'George' magazine, dies at 38 1999 Death John Minor Wisdom, American Judge 1998 Event John Glenn returns to space at the age of 77 as a payload specialist on the Discovery 1998 Death John Holliman, CNN journalist, dies at 49 1998 Death John Hopkins, writer for film, television, edited screenplay 'Thunderball', television show 'Play for Today', dies in Woodland Hills, California 1998 Death John Derek, actor/director, dies at 71 1998 Event 40th Grammy Awards, Shawn Colvin, Bob Dylan, Sarah McLachlan, and Elton John win major awards 1998 Event Elton John knighted 1998 Event Pope John Paul II condemns U.S. embargo against Cuba 1998 Event Pope John Paul II visits Cuba 1998 Event NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again 1998 Death John Gary, singer, dies at 65 1997 Death John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter, dies at 81 1997 Death John Whitley, air-Marshal, dies at 92 1997 Death John Pinkerton, compuer scientist, dies at 78 1997 Event SWAT team shoots John E Armstrong in Fla, freeing 2 young hostages 1997 Death William John Elwyn Davies, painter, dies at 80 1997 Event 28th New York City Marathon won by John Kagwe of Kenya in 2:08:12 1997 Event Elton John's tribute to Princess Diana breaks world record, 318 million distributed 1997 Death John Denver, country star (Country Boy), dies in plain crash at 53 1997 Event Elton John releases Diana tribute 'Candle in the Wind 1997' 1997 Death John Seldon Whale, theologian, dies at 100 1997 Event New York Met John Olerud hits for the cycle 1997 Death John Sengstacke, publisher (Defender), dies at 84 1997 Event John Bell, 115, recieves new pacemaker 1997 Death John Curtis, Jr., president/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide at 58 1997 Death John Richard Patterson, businessman, dies at 51 1997 Event Brunswick World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by John Gant 1997 Death Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist, dies at 67 1997 Death John Burgess, rugby administrator, dies at 71 1996 Death Rupert John, Governor-General of Grenadines (1970-76), dies 1996 Death John Duffey, bluegrass musician, dies at 62 1996 Death John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72 1996 Death Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator, dies at 45 1996 Death John Reginald Bevins, politician, dies at 88 1996 Death John Qace Hardbattle, political activist, dies at 51 1996 Event Braves John Smoltz wins NL Cy Young Award 1996 Death John Gorman, printer/socialist historian, dies at 66 1996 Death John Gregory, dancer, dies at 82 1996 Death John Bauldie, music journalist/Dylanologist, dies at 47 1996 Death William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist, dies at 80 1996 Death John Hillaby, writer/traveller, dies at 79 1996 Death Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman, dies at 79 1996 Event Baltimore Oriole Roberto Alomar spits in face of umpire John Hirschbeck 1996 Event John F. Kennedy, Jr. marries Caroline Bisset 1996 Death John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate, dies at 56 1996 Death John Christopherson, artist/collector, dies at 75 1996 Death Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer, dies at 63 1996 Death "Jock" John Wallace, soccer player/manager, dies at 60 1996 Death John Corner, scientist, dies at 80 1996 Death John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot, dies at 50 1996 Event Yank John Weteland blows save after record 24 consecutive saves 1996 Death John William Fozard, aircraft designer, dies at 68 1996 Death John Panozzo, drummer, dies at 48 1996 Event New York Yankee John Weteland sets record of 24 consecutive saves 1996 Death John Boon, publisher, dies at 79 1996 Death John Chancellor, news anchor (VOA, NBC), dies at 68 1996 Death John William Chancellor, journalist, dies at 68 1996 Event Yankee John Weteland sets record of 20th cons saves en route to 24 1996 Event New York Yankee John Weteland ties Lee Smith's record of 19 consecutive saves 1996 Death Angelo John Novarese, record company founder, dies at 72 1996 Death MacKenzie John, pipe major, dies at 83 1996 Death John Alton, cinematographer, dies at 94 1996 Event John Tesh's final day as host of "Entertainment Tonight" 1996 Death John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47 1996 Death John "Jack" Layden, local politician, dies at 70 1996 Death John Morrison, politician/landowner, dies at 89 1996 Death John Abbott, British actor (Lady Jane, Quest), dies at 90 1996 Death John Pertwee, actor (Dr. Who), dies at 76 1996 Death Edqard John Gurney, politician, dies at 82 1996 Death John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher, dies at 57 1996 Death Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63 1996 Death John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist, dies at 94 1996 Death John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian, dies at 87 1996 Death John Lorne Campbell, folklorist, dies at 90 1996 Event "Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore" opens at Belasco for 12 perf 1996 Event John Bobbitt is put under house arrest in Las Vegas for 120 days 1996 Death Christopher John Seward, aid worker, dies at 45 1996 Death John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist, dies at 87 1996 Death John McSheery, dies of heart attack while umpiring a game, at 51 1996 Death John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, news commentator (BBC), dies at 91 1996 Death Christopher John Magenis Headington, musician, dies at 65 1996 Death John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher, dies at 67 1996 Death John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian, dies at 96 1996 Death John Joseph Krol, cardinal, dies at 95 1996 Death John Grant, rear-admiral, dies at 87 1996 Death Daniel John Chapman Cunningham, physiologist, dies at 76 1996 Death John Hartford Worlock, RC Bishop (Liverpool), dies at 76 1996 Death John Terence Reese, bridge master, dies at 82 1996 Death John Mosely, recording expert/entrepreneur, dies at 81 1996 Death John Patrick Sutton Ludlow, actor (Agatha), dies at 93 1996 Death David Schultz, wrestler, Gold Medal 1984 Olympics, killed by John Du Pont 1996 Event 53th Golden Globes: Mel Gibson, Nicole Kidman, John Travolta 1996 Death John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83 1996 Death John Howard Purnell, scientist, dies at 70 1996 Death John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher, dies at 68 1995 Death John Powell, campaigner, dies at 75 1995 Death Jeremy John Beadle, writer/broadcaster, dies at 39 1995 Death John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer, dies at 90 1995 Death James Altgens, John F. Kennedy assassination photographer, dies at 76 1995 Death Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian, dies 1995 Death John Heawood, actor singer/choreographer (Pleasure Garden), dies at 75 1995 Death John Francis Boyd, journalist, dies at 85 1995 Death John Gillett, film researcher, dies at 70 1995 Death John Trevor Key, photographer, dies at 48 1995 Death John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist, dies at 88 1995 Death Peter John Welding, record producer, dies at 60 1995 Death John Lapworth Holt, boat Designer, dies at 83 1995 Death John Lee Admiral-Barber, dies at 90 1995 Death John Patrick, screenwriter, dies at 90 1995 Death Leonard Ernest John Chant, social Worker, dies at 57 1995 Death John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer, dies at 90 1995 Death John Walker, museum director, dies at 88 1995 Event John Bobbitt has plastic surgery to increase his penis 3 inches 1995 Death John Rodolph, wheelchair-race world record holder, hit by truck at 31 1995 Death John Alfred Scali, journalist/diplomat, dies at 77 1995 Death John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82 1995 Event "George" magazine premieres, published by John F Kennedy Jr 1995 Death John Stuart-Jervis, balloonist, dies 1995 Death John Britten, motorcycle Designer, dies at 45 1995 Death John Megna, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird), dies at 42 1995 Death John Erik Jonsson, businessman/Mayor of Dallas, dies at 93 1995 Death John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer, dies at 60 1995 Death John E. Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist, dies at 63 1995 Death John Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC), dies at 89 1995 Death John Priestly McCartjy, detroit DJ, dies at 62 1995 Death Douglas John Gorman, businessman, dies at 58 1995 Death Herbert Whitton John Sumsion, organist/composer, dies at 96 1995 Death John Schofield, journalist, dies at 29 1995 Event 124th British Golf Open: John Daly shoots a 282 at St. Andrews Scotland 1995 Death John Cruickshank, French scholar, dies at 70 1995 Death John Eric Tieman, production Manager (Guardian), dies at 67 1995 Death John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer, dies at 66 1995 Death John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner, dies at 71 1995 Death Arthur John Howard, actor (Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso), dies at 85 1995 Event John Valentin hits 3 home runs 1995 Death William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man), dies at 80 1995 Event Kansas City Royal John Nonely is 70th to home run on his 1st at bat 1995 Death John C. Stennis, Senator-D-Mississippi, dies at 93 1995 Death John Elliott Terry, film financier, dies at 82 1995 Event Beatles song, "Baby It's You," with late John Lennon as lead singer, is released, 1st Fab Four single in more than 30 years 1995 Death John Silverlight, journalist, dies at 75 1995 Death John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer teacher organist, dies at 69 1995 Death Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82 1995 Death John Humphreys Whitfield, italianist, dies at 88 1995 Death John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter, dies at 83 1995 Death John Everett Allen, U.S. businessman, dies at 91 1995 Death John Pinsent, classical scholar, dies at 72 1995 Death John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC), dies at 74 1995 Death Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of President John F Kennedy, dies at 104 1995 Death John Halas, animator, dies at 82 1995 Death John Halas, Hungarian/US cartoonist (Animal Farm), dies at 81 1995 Event Pope John Paul II begins visit to Australia 1995 Event Pope John Paul II begins visit to SE Asia 1995 Death John AG Gere, English art historian (Raphael and his Circle), dies at 73 1994 Death John Eastburn Boswell, medievalist, dies at 47 1994 Death John James Osborne, playwright, dies at 65 1994 Death John Keith Wright, English Assistant Secretary of State (1971-84), dies at 66 1994 Death John Osborne, English playwright (Entertainer, Luther), dies at 65 1994 Event John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier 1994 Death John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer, dies at 68 1994 Death Donald John Urquhart, librarian, dies at 85 1994 Death Gerard John Toorenaar, Amsterdam police commissar, dies at 69 1994 Death John Michael Grimes, set Designer, dies at 70 1994 Death John Lucarotti, scriptwriter, dies at 68 1994 Death John Boylan, U.S. actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 82 1994 Death John F Hampe, pathologist (Fabric and Stoflongen), dies at 83 1994 Death John I M Stewart, detective writer (A Comedy of Terrors), dies at 88 1994 Death Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer, dies at 88 1994 Death John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian, dies at 80 1994 Death William John Readings, literary theorist, dies at 34 1994 Death Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby League Player, dies at 83 1994 Death Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist, dies at 74 1994 Death John the King, CDA-minister of Social Businesses, dies at 68 1994 Death John Heddle Nash, singer, dies at 68 1994 Death John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73 1994 Death John van Damme, businessman, hanged in Singapore at 59 1994 Death John Edward Teddy Buckner, trumpeter, dies at 85 1994 Death John DeLaFose, zydeco musician, dies at 55 1994 Death John William Stevens, jazz drummer, dies at 54 1994 Death Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist, dies at 79 1994 Death John Newman, Australian parlement member (Lab), murdered at 47 1994 Death John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington, dies at 59 1994 Death John Beavan, newspaper Editor, dies at 84 1994 Death John Doucette, actor (Fighting Mad, Gang War), dies of cancer at 73 1994 Death Mark "Red" Mitchell, actor (John F. Kennedy, 8 Seconds, Want to Live), dies at 33 1994 Death John Hidalgo Moya, architect, Designer of Skylon, dies at 74 1994 Death John van Raay, John Oradi, radio-imitator (Paul Flanders) 1994 Death John Bayard Britton, abortion doctor, killed by Paul Hill 1994 Death John M Dengler, jazz Bass Sax/Trumpet/Trombone, dies at 67 1994 Death John Ernest, constructionist Artist, dies at 72 1994 Death Lex Humphries, born in New York City, New York, drummer, music style mixed world music with jazz, worked with John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef, dies at 57 1994 Event John Wayne Bobbitt and Kristina Elliot arrested for domestic battery 1994 Event Mets reliever John Franco sets lefty save mark at 253 1994 Death John Britton, English Mathematician 1994 Event Pope John Paul II visits Spain 1994 Death John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80 1994 Death John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies 1994 Birthday Prima Sellecchia Tesh, daughter of John Tesh and Connie Sellecca 1994 Death John Barrington Wain, author, dies at 69 1994 Death John Wain, English Poet 1994 Death John Henry Weidner, Dutch/US resistance fighter, dies at 81 1994 Death John Weidner, war hero, dies at 71 1994 Death [Henry] John Baker, resistance fighter/journalist (Slogan), dies at 79 1994 Death John Smith, British Labour Party chairman (1992-94), dies at 55 1994 Death John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52 1994 Death John Preston, U.S. writer (Gay House, Big Gay Book), dies at 48 1994 Death Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30 1994 Death John McLiam, dies of Parkinson's disease at 75 1994 Death John Curry, English figure skater, Gold Medal 1976 Olympics, dies of AIDS at 44 1994 Death Albert Goldman, U.S. biographer (Lives of John Lennon), dies at 66 1994 Death John Logan Gorlay, journalist, dies at 74 1994 Death John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC), dies at 48 1994 Death John Ewart, Sydney Australia, dies of cancer at 55 1994 Death John Candy, actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack at 43 1994 Death "Papa" John Creach, U.S. jazz musician (Papa Blues), dies at 76 1994 Event Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals 1994 Death John Wesley Funchess Littlejohn, blues guitarist/singer, dies at 62 1994 Death John Bradley, raised U.S. flag at Iwo Jima, dies at 70 1993 Event Loveboat actress Jill Whelan (27) weds Brad St. John (33) 1993 Event John Maclean passes Kirk Muller as all-time New Jersey Devils scorer (521 pts) 1993 Event Actress Teri Garr weds John O'Neil 1993 Event John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops 1993 Event "Mixed Emotions" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 48 performances 1993 Event Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 2 days for fractured shoulder 1993 Event Elton John awarded $518,700 from Sunday Mirror false report his diet 1993 Death John Bowles, president (Rexall Drugs), dies at 76 1993 Event "Mixed Emotions" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 48 performances 1993 Event Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical Veritatis splendor 1993 Death John Truscott, Australian set designer (Camelot), dies at 57 1993 Death John/Eoin Higgins, N Ire supreme court justice (1984-93), dies at 66 1993 Event 93rd U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by John Harris 1993 Event Pope John Paul II begins visit of U.S. 1993 Event Pope John Paul II visits Mexico 1993 Event Pope John Paul II publishes Veritatis splendor encyclical 1993 Death John Castrios, 1st murder in Washington, New Hampshire in 200 years, killed at 45 1993 Event Israeli Court of Appeal overturns (5-0) conviction of John Demjaujuk, saying not enough evidence he is Concentration Camp Ivan the Terrible 1993 Death John Beck, U.S. producer (Harvey, Singing Nun), dies at 83 1993 Event John F. Kennedy, Jr., gives notice of quitting as ADA in Manhattan 1993 Event Pope John Paul II hospitalized for Cat Scan test 1993 Event "Falsettos" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 487 performances 1993 Death John B Connally, Governor of Texas/shot with John F. Kennedy in 1963, dies at 76 1993 Death John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), dies at 76 1993 Death John Granger, actor (Advise and Consent), dies at 69 1993 Death John Frost, English lt-kol (operation Market Garden 1944), dies at 80 1993 Death John Holland, actor (They Saved Hitler's Brain), dies at 65 1993 Death John P. W. Meefout, sculptor (Laying wife), dies at 77 1993 Death John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78 1993 Event Pope John Paul II declares Duns Scotus, a saint 1993 Death John D Boeke, organist/conductor, dies 1993 Death John Grossman, Czechoslovakian director (Process, Revisor), dies 1993 Death John Steadman, actor (Gator, Fade to Black), dies of lung ailment 83 1993 Event Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed 1993 Birthday John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, son of Caroline Kennedy 1993 Death John B "Dizzy" Gillespe, blues trumpeter, dies of cancer at 75 1992 Death John G Kemeny, U.S. computer pioneer (BASIC), dies 1992 Death John Foreman, producer (Prizzi's Honor), dies at 67 of heart attack 1992 Death John H Davis, actor (Our Gang), dies of respiratory failure at 78 1992 Death Jim Garrison, Louisiana DA (investigate John F. Kennedy assassination), dies at 70 1992 Death John Hancock, actor (LA Law, Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51 1992 Death John Hancock, actor (Ike-Love and War), dies of heart attack at 51 1992 Death John Hancock, actor (Catch the Heat), dies of a heart attack at 51 1992 Event Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL 1992 Event John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers) 1992 Death John van Dreelen, Jacques T van Drielen Gimberg, actor (Topaz), dies 1992 Death John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82 1992 Death John J Sirica, U.S., judge (Watergate), dies at 88 1992 Death John Cage, avante-garde composer, dies of a stroke at 79 1992 Death John Anderson, actor (MacGyver), dies of heart attack at 69 1992 Event Kieren John Perkins swims world record/OR 1500m free style (14:43.4) 1992 Event Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 3 weeks to have tumor removed 1992 Event John Ellis becomes CEO of Seattle Mariners 1992 Event John Phillips, rocker (Mamas and Papas), undergoes a liver transplant 1992 Event John Gotti begins life sentence in jail 1992 Death Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 43 1992 Death John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70 1992 Death John Lund, actor (Perils of Pauline), dies at 81 1992 Event "Falsettos" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 487 performances 1992 Event Lou Conaseca retires as coach of St. John's basketball team 1992 Birthday Jett Travolta, son of John Travolta and Kelly Preston 1992 Event John Majors, (C) elected Prime Minister of England 1992 Event John Tesh (Entertainment Tonight) marries actress Connie Selleca 1992 Event John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos 1992 Event Last defendant in St. John sex assault case sentenced to 3 years prob 1992 Death John Ireland, actor (Rawhide), dies of leukemia at 78 1992 Death John E Allen, Jr., actor (1 2 3), dies 1992 Event Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60) 1992 Death John Dehner, actor (Apache, Cowboy, Boys from Brazil), dies at 76 1992 Death Jack [John T] Aitken, British anatomist, dies at 78 1992 Death John Touchstone, actor (Across Five Aprils), dies of cirrhosis at 59 1992 Death John Bleifer, actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 90 1992 Death John Remme, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56 1991 Death John Morgan Evans, actor, dies after lengthy illness at 49 1991 Death Dehl Berti, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise), dies at 70 1991 Death John Blatnik, (Rep-Minnesota, 1947-75), dies at 80 1991 Event White House Chief of Staff John Sununu resigns 1991 Death John Blatnik, (Rep-Minn, 1947-75), dies at 80 1991 Death John Kirckpatrick, U.S. musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies 1991 Death John Korbal, film historian (Marlene Dietrich), dies at 51 1991 Event John Brodie wins Security Pacific Senior Golf Classic 1991 Event John Hart becomes general manager of Cleveland Indians 1991 Death John Hoyt, actor (My Favorite Brunette), dies of lung cancer at 87 1991 Death John Lawrence, doctor, dies 1991 Death John Crosby, U.S. columnist/detective writer dies at 79 1991 Death John Lawrence, examined effect of neutron radiation on fabric, dies 1991 Event Actor John Travolta weds Kelly Preston 1991 Event John F. Kennedy, Jr. wins his 1st battle as an attorney 1991 Death Vaughn Shoemaker, U.S. cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies 1991 Event 73rd PGA Championship: John Daly shoots a 276 at Crooked Stick Ind 1991 Event Shite Moslems release British hostage John McCarthy 1991 Death John Brasser, Zaans resistance fighter (White Ko), dies 1991 Event Pope John Paul II compares abortion with nazi murders 1991 Death John Edward Craven, dies 1991 Birthday Emily McEnroe, daughter of Tatum O'Neal and John McEnroe 1991 Event Pope John Paul II's encyclical on Centesimus annus 1991 Event John Stockton breaks his own NBA season assist record at 1,136 1991 Death John Tower, Senator-R-Texas 1961 - 1985, dies in a plane crash at 65 1991 Death John Heinz III, Senator-R-Pennsylvania 1977 - 1991, dies in a plane crash at age 52 1991 Death John Carter, U.S. jazz clarinetist (Roots and folklore), dies 1991 Death John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies 1991 Event John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in New York City 1991 Event John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award 1991 Event Bruce McNall, Wayne Gretzky and John Candy buy CFL's Toronto Argonauts 1991 Death John A McCone, Head of CIA (1961-65), dies 1991 Death John Sloan Dickey, American Diplomat 1991 Death John McIntire, actor (Virginian, Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83 1991 Death John Russell, actor and writer (Apache Uprising, Yellow Sky), dies at 70 1991 Death John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks), dies at 82 1990 Event Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors 1990 Event Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher 1990 Event Radio stations around world play "Imagine" honoring John Lennon 1990 Death John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84 1990 Death John Stewart Bell, Irish Physicist 1990 Event Federal judge sentenced former national security adviser John M Poindexter to 6 months for making false statements to Congress 1990 Event Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella 1990 Event John Poindexter (National Security Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal 1990 Event John Stockton reaches 1000-assist mark for NBA record 3 years in a row 1990 Death John Merivale, actor (Caltiki), dies 1990 Event John McEnroe becomes 1st ever expelled from Australian Open 1989 Death John Paine, actor (Miracle on 34th St), dies at 77 1989 Death John M Pritchard, British conductor, dies at 68 1989 Event U.S.S.R. President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican 1989 Death John Meillon, actor (Wild Duck, Crocodile Dundee), dies 1989 Death John Ogdon, English pianist/composer, dies at 52 1989 Event John Wayne Bobitt marries Lorena L Gallo 1989 Death John Matusek, NFLer (Oak Raider)/actor, dies of a heart attack at 38 1989 Death John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies 1989 Death John Waldo Green, composer, dies at 80 1989 Event Pope John Paul II beatifies Victoire Rasoamanarivo of Madagascar 1989 Event New York Yankee Tommy John ties record of playing 26 seasons, his 287th win puts him 19th overall as Yankees beat Twins on opening day 4-2 1989 Death John J. McCloy, American Lawyer 1989 Event Senate rejects George H. W. Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary 1989 Death John Cassavetes, actor and director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59 1989 Death John Cassavetes, U.S. actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, dies at 59 1989 Event New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner meets with Pope John Paul II 1989 Event Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble 1988 Event John Tarrant, 1st Australia born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission 1988 Death John Loder, actor (Sabotage, Java Head), dies at 90 1988 Death John Canning, New York Post managing editor, dies at 56 1988 Event Amy Benz/John Huston wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1988 Death John Carradine, actor (Ten Commandments), dies of kidney failure at 82 1988 Death [John] Hein Donner, chess grand master, dies at 61 1988 Death John Mitchell, former Atny Gen, dies of heart attack in Washington 1988 Death John N. Mitchell, American Politician 1988 Death John Houseman, actor (Paper Chase, Fog), dies of spinal cancer at 86 1988 Death John Houseman, actor (Paper Chase), dies at 86 1988 Event Elton John sells out MSG for a record 26th time 1988 Death Adela Rogers St. John, journalist (Free Soul, Honeycomb), dies at 94 1988 Death John Cardinal Dearden, U.S. cardinal, dies at 80 1988 Event Cincinnati Red pitcher John Franco sets a record of 13 saves in 1 month 1988 Event John Franco saves record 13th game of July 1988 Event Yankees' Tommy John makes 3 errors on 1 play yet beats Brewers 16-3 1988 Event Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yankees rout Brewers 16-3 1988 Event Red Sox replace manager John McNamara with Joe Morgan 1988 Death Errol John, playwright, dies at 63 1988 Death John Duncan, Sr., Representative-R-Tennessee 1965 - 1988 1988 Event "Everything Your Heart Desires" by Daryl Hall and John Oates peaks at #3 1988 Event "Rooty Toot Toot" by John Cougar Mellencamp peaks at #61 1988 Event John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute 1988 Event Howard Stern fans disrupt WMMR's and John DeBella's "Louie Louie" parade 1988 Event John Demjanjuk (Ivan the Terrible), sentenced to death in Jerusalem 1988 Event Gerrit John Heijns murderer, arrested 1988 Death John Clellon Holmes, American Writer 1987 Birthday Thomas Dekker, born in Las Vegas, Nevada, musician, singer, actor, played Zach on 'Heroes', John Connor in 'Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles' 1987 Death John M "Joop" de Uyl, Dutch social-dem premier (1973-77), dies at 68 1987 Death Jaco Pastorius, John Francis Anthony 'Jaco' Pastorius III, musician, electric bass player, jazz genre, style included intricate, higher register solos, voted 'Greatest Bass Player Who Has Ever Lived' by Bass Guitar magazine, dies at 35 1987 Death John Qualen, actor (Patch of Blue, Jungle Book), dies 1987 Death Gerrit John Heijn, senior executive (Ahold), kidnapped/murdered 1987 Event Benjamin and Patrick Binder separated at John Hopkins Hospital 1987 Event John McEnroe is fined $17,500 for tirades at U.S. Tennis Open 1987 Death John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81 1987 Event John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel 1987 Event John Poindexter testifies at Iran-Contra hearings 1987 Death John Hammond, Jazz reviewer (Melody Maker), dies at 76 1987 Event Pope John Paul II receives Austrian President Kurt Waldheim 1987 Death John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner, dies at 73 1987 Event "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor 1987 Death John Baur, museum director, dies at 78 1987 Event Pope John Paul II beatifies Edith Stein, a Jewish born nun 1987 Event John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering 1987 Event John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins 1986 Death John Antill, studied under Alfred Hill, played in NSW State Orchestra, dies at 82 1986 Event Wrestler John Tatum charged with possession of marijuana 1986 Death John E. Grotberg, Representative-R-Illinois 1985 - 1986 1986 Event John Lennon releases "Menlove Avenue" album 1986 Death John Braine, British Novelist 1986 Event Cathy Evelyn Smith sentenced to 3 years for death of John Belushi 1986 Event John Tesh's 1st appearance on Entertainment Tonight 1986 Death John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45 1986 Event Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal 1986 Death John P. East, Senator-R-North Carolina, dies at 55 1986 Death John Bubbles Sublett, tap dancer (Black and Bubbles), dies at 84 1986 Event Captain Midnight (John R. MacDougall) interrupts HBO 1986 Event Pope John Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue 1986 Death John Ciardi, U.S. poet/interpreter (Dante), dies at 69 1986 Event John N. McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1986 Death Sarah Cunningham, actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 67 1986 Death Hal Buckley, actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby), dies at 49 1986 Event "John Lennon: Live in New York City" album is released 1986 Event Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India 1985 Event President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser 1985 Death John Sparkman, Senator-D-Alabama 1946 - 1979, dies at 85 1985 Death John Lodge, actor (Sensation, In Like Flint)/(gov-R-CT), dies at 82 1985 Event Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine 1985 Event "Every Step Of The Way" by John Waite peaks at #25 1985 Death John Holt, Australian Statesman 1985 Event John Williams introduces new Today Show theme 1985 Event 105th U.S. Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (76 63 64) 1985 Death John Herbert McDowell, composer, dies at 58 1985 Death John de Quay, Dutch premier (1959-63), dies at 83 1985 Event FBI arrests John A Walker, Jr., convicted of spying for U.S.S.R. 1985 Event Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium 1985 Event Pope John Paul II arrives in Netherlands 1985 Death John B Kelly, Jr., chairman U.S. Olympic Committee, dies at 57 1985 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Ashbery and Fred Chapell 1985 Death Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., U.S. founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85 1984 Death John Rock, U.S. co-developer of anti-conceptiepil, dies at 94 1984 Event John W Mercom, Jr. announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million 1984 Event John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him" 1984 Death John Woods Duke, composer, dies at 85 1984 Event John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million 1984 Death John Facenda, sportscaster (NFL Action), dies at 72 1984 Event 36th Emmy Awards: Hill St. Blue, Cheers, John Ritter and Tyne Daly 1984 Event Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister succeeding John Turner 1984 Event 104th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Ivan Lendl (63 64 61) 1984 Event L.A. federal jury acquits auto maker John DeLorean on cocaine charges 1984 Death John Boynton Priestley, English, stagewriter (Magicians), dies at 89 1984 Event Yoko Ono releases "I'm Stepping Out", the last single from the John Lennon and Yoko Ono album 'Milk and Honey' 1984 Event 98th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats J Connors (61 61 62) 1984 Event John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada 1984 Event 54th French Men Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (36 26 64 75 75) 1984 Death John Marley, actor (Cat Ballou), dies at 77 following heart surgery 1984 Death John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81 1984 Event John Long (Detroit) ends NBA free throw streak of 51 games 1984 Event Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon 1984 Event John J O'Connor named 8th archbishop of New York 1984 Event John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time" 1984 Event John Long (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games 1984 Event Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney, Australia 1984 Death John Macvane, newscaster (United or Not), dies at 71 1984 Event John and Yoko release "Milk and Honey" album 1984 Event John Lennon releases "Nobody Told Me" 1983 Event Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca) 1983 Event Test Cricket debut of Gregory Richard John Matthews, vs. Pakistan MCG 1983 Event 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome) 1983 Death John Le Mesurier, British actor (Jabberwocky, Dad's Army), dies at 71 1983 Event Pope John Paul II names 3 new Dutch bishops 1983 Death John K M McCaffery, TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69 1983 Death Balthasar J "John" Vorster, South African premier (1966-78), dies at 67 1983 Event John Sain of South Bend, Indiana builds 3.91 m house of cards 1983 Event 97th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Chris Lewis (62 62 62) 1983 Event Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1983 Death John P Strijbos, writer (Called that Bird), dies at 92 1983 Death John Williams, actor (Family Affair, Dial M for Murder), dies at 80 1983 Death John Cowles Sr, U.S. publisher, dies at 84 1983 Death Christina E "Christine" Auwen, singer/wife of John Kelly, dies at 75 1983 Event Pope John Paul II names 18 new cardinals 1983 Event Superbowl XVII: Washington Red Skins beat Miami Dolphins, 27-17 in Pasadena Superbowl MVP: John Riggins, Washington, RB 1983 Death John McHugh, actor (Unspeakable), dies of a heart attack at 69 1982 Death John Leonard Swigert, Jr., astronaut (Apollo 13), dies of cancer at 51 1982 Event Joanne Carner/John Mahaffey wins LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic 1982 Death John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer, murdered 1982 Event Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner) 1982 Event Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pontiff to visit Spain 1982 Event Car maker John DeLorean indicted for drug trafficking, later acquitted 1982 Event Automaker John DeLorean arrested on cocaine charges (Not guilty) 1982 Event Pope John Paul II canonizes Reverend M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint 1982 Event John Palmer becomes news anchor of Today Show 1982 Event Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat 1982 Death John C Gardner, U.S., writer (Life and Times of Chaucer High), dies at 49 1982 Death John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27 1982 Event KC's John Wathan steals 31st en route to 36 base for catcher's record 1982 Death John Alexander, actor (Alien PI), dies at 85 1982 Death John Everett Watts, composer, dies at 51 1982 Event Washington D.C. jury finds John Hinckley, Jr. innocent by insanity 1982 Event John Hinckley found not guilty of 1981 attempted assassination of President Reagan by reason of insanity 1982 Death John Cheever, U.S. writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer), dies at 70 1982 Death John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author, dies at 70 in Ossining 1982 Death John Honeyman-Scott, guitarist (Pretenders), overdoses on drugs 1982 Event Pope John Paul II visits Argentina 1982 Event John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA 1982 Event President Reagan meets Pope John Paul II and Queen Elizabeth 1982 Event Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain 1982 Event John McMullen buys NHL Colorodo Rockies and gets approval to move to New Jersey 1982 Event Pope John Paul II declares "Peerke" Donders divine 1982 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike for 'Rabbit is Rich' 1982 Event In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II 1982 Event WABC New York City plays its last record, John Lennon's Imagine 1982 Event Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. attempted assassin of Reagan, begins 1982 Death John Cody, U.S. cardinal and archbishop of Chicago (1965-82), dies at 74 1982 Event John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God," premieres in New York City 1982 Death John Belushi, comedian (Sat Night Live), dies of drug overdose at 33 1982 Death John Hay Whitney, U.S. newspaper magnate, dies at 76 1982 Event John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours 1982 Event Pope John Paul II prays for an end to martial law in Poland 1981 Death John Kieran, TV host (Information Please), dies at 89 1981 Death John Warburton, actor (King Rat, Cavalcade), dies at 94 1981 Event "Day in Hollywood, A Night..," closes at John Golden New York after 588 perf 1981 Event Rolling Stones begin their 6th U.S. tour at John F. Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia 1981 Event Pope John Paul II publishes encyclical "Laborem exercens" against capitalism/marxism 1981 Event 101st U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (46 62 64 63) 1981 Event John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to kill President Reagan 1981 Event Mark David Chapman, John Lennon's murderer, is sentenced to 20 years 1981 Event 95th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats B Borg (46 76 76 64) 1981 Event John McEnroe exhibits a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbledon 1981 Event Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon 1981 Event Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 55 days for infection 1981 Death John S Knight, U.S. newspaper magnate, dies at 86 1981 Event Pope John Paul II released from hospital after assassination attempt 1981 Event John Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol 1981 Event Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca 1981 Event Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St. Peter's Square 1981 Event Rocker Papa John Phillips arrested for drug possession 1981 Event President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III 1981 Event John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in the United Kingdom 1981 Death John Gnagy, artist (Learn to Draw), dies at 73 1981 Event People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie and Papa John Phillips 1981 Birthday John Walker Lindh, American Criminal 1981 Event Beatles McCartney, Starr and Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon 1981 Event John Lennon releases "Woman" in the United Kingdom 1981 Event "Tintypes" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 93 performances 1981 Event John Severin sets 100-mi unicycle speed record, 9 h 21 m 1981 Event 50th hat trick in Islander history - John Tonelli scored 5 goals 1980 Event At 2 PM EST there is 10 minutes of silence in memory of John Lennon 1980 Death John Lennon, assassinated in New York by Mark David Chapman at 40 1980 Event 2 months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin breaks up 1980 Death John William McCormack, American Politician 1980 Event John and Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum 1980 Event John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in the United Kingdom 1980 Event Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany, 1980 Death Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77 1980 Event Astros owner John McMullen replaces General Manager Tal Smith with Al Rosen 1980 Event John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in the United Kingdom 1980 Event "Tintypes" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 93 performances 1980 Event John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges 1980 Death John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32 1980 Event John and Yoko sign a recording contract with Geffin Records 1980 Event 100th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (76 61 67 57 64) 1980 Event John McEnroe and Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest U.S. Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title 1980 Event John Arlott calls his last game, England vs. Australia at Lord's 1980 Event John and Yoko begin recording "Double Fantasy" 1980 Event John Phillips of Mamas and Papas is arrested on drug charges 1980 Death John W. Davis, President (WV State college), dies at 92 1980 Death John Laurie, actor (39 Steps, Jericho, Kidnapped), dies at 83 1980 Event "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd and John Belushi premieres 1980 Event Rep John Jenrette, Jr. (D-SC) indicted in "Abscam" investigation 1980 Event John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg for U.S. Open 1980 Event Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter 1980 Event Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title 1980 Event Tiger reliever John Hiller, 37, (who had a 1971 heart attack), retires 1980 Event Pope John Paul II begins African tour 1980 Event "Day in Hollywood, A Night..." opens at John Golden New York City for 588 perf 1980 Event Mike Weaver KOs John Tate in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1980 Event Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago 1980 Death John Jacob Niles, composer, dies at 87 1980 Event "Blues Brothers" movie with Dan Akwoyd and John Belushi opens 1980 Event 68th Australian Men Tennis: Guillermo Vilas beat John Sadri (76 63 62) 1979 Event Twins John Castino and Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year 1979 Death John Glassock, bass (Jethro Tull), dies at 27 following heart surgery 1979 Event John F. Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston 1979 Event John Tate beats Gerrie Coetze in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1979 Death John Stuart, actor (Number 17), dies at 81 1979 Event Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House 1979 Event Pope John Paul II begins visit of US 1979 Event John Huston's "Wine Blood" premieres at New York Film Festival 1979 Event Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland 1979 Event Elton John, sick with flu, collapses at the Hollywood Universal Ampitheater 1979 Death John Cromwell, actor and director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91 1979 Death John McQuade, actor (Charlie Wild Private Detective), dies at 73 1979 Event 99th U.S. Mens Tennis: John McEnroe beats Vitas Gerulaitis (75 63 63) 1979 Death John Reed King, TV host (Why?, Let's See), dies at 64 1979 Death John Wayne, actor (Green Berets, True Grit), dies at 72 1979 Event Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1979 Event John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a communist country (Poland) 1979 Event Pope John Paul II visits Poland 1979 Event Pope John Paul ordains John J O'Conner as a bishop 1979 Event Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in U.S.S.R. 1979 Event NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M 1979 Event John McMullen becomes CEO of Houston Astros 1979 Death John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Morton, satirist (Beachcomber), dies 1979 Event Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel 1979 Death John Carroll, actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta, Geraldine), dies at 72 1979 Death Sid Vicious, John Simon Ritchie, bassist (Sex Pistols), OD's at 31 1979 Event Pope John Paul II's 1st overseas trip as supreme pontiff 1979 Event John N Mitchell (former AG) released on parole from federal prison 1978 Birthday John Legend, American Musician 1978 Event Police in Des Plaines Ill, arrest John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for murder 1978 Event Oakland Raider's John Madden becomes 13th coach to win 100 NFL games 1978 Event 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, and Darrell Evans, available 1978 Event Pope John Paul II installed 1978 Event John Kander and Fred Ebb's musical "Ballroom," premieres in New York City 1978 Event Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I 1978 Death John Paul I, Pope for 34 days, dies at 65 1978 Death John Paul I, Albino Luciano, Pope (1978), dies after 33 days as pope 1978 Death Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani), 263rd Catholic Pope, died 1978 Death Pope John Paul I, Pope 1978 Event Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff 1978 Event John McClain performs 180 outside loops in an airplane over Houston 1978 Event Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice becomes Pope John Paul I 1978 Death Petros John Petridis, composer, dies at 86 1978 Event 60th PGA Championship: John Mahaffey shoots a 276 at Oakmont CC PA 1978 Death [John] Willem van Otterloo, conductor and composer (Symphonic), dies at 70 1978 Event John Lydon forms rock group Public Ltd Image 1978 Event "Grease" starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John opens 1978 Death John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher, dies at 71 1978 Death John Selwyn Brooke Selwyn Lloyd, speaker of house of commons, dies 1978 Death John Clinge Doorenbos, Dutch journalist/poet, dies at 93 1978 Birthday John Smit, professional rugby player, born in Pietersburg, South Africa, hooker, tight head prop, forward, played for Clermont, Natal Sharks 1978 Death John Cazale, actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter), dies at 41 1978 Event Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA 1978 Death John D Rockefeller III, U.S. billionaire/philanthropist, dies at 71 1978 Death John D MacArthur, U.S. insurance billionaire, dies at 80 1977 Event "Saturday Night Fever,"starring John Travolta, premieres in New York City 1977 Event Red Sox trade Fergie Jenkins to Rangers for John Poloni and cash 1977 Death John Little McClellan, Senator-D-Arkansas 1943 - 1977 1977 Event Hamilton Deane and John Balderstons "Dracula," premieres in New York City 1977 Birthday John Mayer, American Musician 1977 Event Elton John honored by MSG Hall of Fame 1977 Death John Breeden, actor (Madame Racketeer, Salute), dies at 73 1977 Birthday Edward Furlong, born in Pasedina, California, actor, John Connor-Terminator 2 1977 Event John F. Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA 1977 Event John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in U.S. 1977 Event Seattle's John Montague pitches 6 2/3 innings of perfect relief tying 2 game record of retiring 33 consecutive batsmen 1977 Death John R Powers, U.S. director model bureau, dies at 80 1977 Event John Edrich scores his 100th 100, Surrey vs. Derbyshire at The Oval 1977 Event Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison 1977 Event Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st U.S. male saint 1977 Event 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist 1977 Death "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker (Electric), dies at 74 1977 Event Supreme Court refuses to hear appeals of Watergate wrong doers H R Halderman, John Ehrlichman and John Mitchell 1977 Death John Marriott, dies at 83 1977 Event Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame 1977 Death John Vincent, composer, dies at 74 1976 Birthday Vanessa Kerry, born in Boston, Massachusetts, medical resident, daughter of John Kerry, campaigned with her father in the 2004 Presidential election 1976 Event John Lever takes 7-46 in 1st Test Cricket innings, vs. India Delhi 1976 Event Liz Taylor's 7th marriage to John Warner 1976 Birthday John Lee, born in Chicago, Illinois, dance skater, & Julia Bikbova 1976 Event "Going Up" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 49 performances 1976 Event John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent 1976 Event San Francisco Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0 1976 Event "Going Up" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 49 performances 1976 Event Pitt Pirate John Candelaria no-hits Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-0 1976 Death John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, found murdered 1976 Event White Sox John Odom (5 inn) and Francisco Barrios (4 inn) no-hits A's 1976 Event John Naber is 1st to swin 200m backstroke under 2 minutes 1976 Event John Walker of New Zealand sets record for 2000 m, 4:51.4 1976 Event NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor and David Brinkley, premieres 1976 Death Martha Mitchell wife of former Attorney General John Mitchell, dies in New York at 57 1976 Event 102nd Preakness: John Lively aboard Elocutionist wins in 1:55 1976 Death Freddie Lennon, father of John Lennon (Beatles), dies at 63 1976 Event Men's Figure Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB) 1976 Event John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio 1975 Event 1st New York Jet to gain 1,000 yards rushing (John Riggins) 1975 Event John Paul Stevens becomes a Supreme Court Justice 1975 Event Bill Veeck buys 80% of White Sox from John Allyn 1975 Event Giants pitcher John "the Count of" Montefusco wins NL Rookie of Year 1975 Event John Bucyk, Boston, became 7th NHLer to score 500 goals 1975 Death John Scott Trotter, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67 1975 Birthday Emily John Orton, Creswell Oregon, Miss America, Oregon-2nd-1996 1975 Event Elton John given a star in Hollywood 1975 Event 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins 1975 Birthday Sean Ono Lennon, John and Yoko's Son 1975 Event U.S. decides John Lennon won't be deported due to U.K. pot conviction 1975 Birthday John Harm Skippers, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen 1975 Death John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show), dies at 61 1975 Birthday John Thomas, NBA forward for the Boston Celtics 1975 Death John Mylong, actor (Robot Monster), dies at 82 1975 Death John R Dunning, U.S. physicist, dies at 67 1975 Death John Baragrey, actor (Gamera), dies at 57 1975 Event All star MVP: Bill Madlock (Pittsburgh Pirates) and John Matlock (New York Mets) 1975 Birthday John Hargis, born in Little Rock, Arkansas, 100m butterfly 1996 Olympics 1975 Event Elton John, Eagles and Beach Boys play Wembley 1975 Event "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," by John Denver hits #1 1975 Birthday John Higgins, Scottish Celebrity 1975 Birthday John Macready, born in Los Angeles, California, gymnast, Olympics-5th-96 1975 Death Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam 1975 Event John Lennon appears on "Tonight" and Ringo on "Smother Brothers" 1975 Event John Lennon releases "Stand by Me" 1975 Death John B McKay, U.S. test pilot (X-15), dies 1975 Event John Wooden's final game, UCLA, wins 10th NCAA championship in 12 yrs 1975 Death John A DeMott, dies at 63 1975 Death Francine Larrimore, actress (John Meade's Woman), dies at 76 1975 Event John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album 1975 Event John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman sentenced to 2-8 yrs 1975 Death John Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing), dies at 55 1975 Event John Lennon releases "#9 Dream" 1975 Birthday John Piersma, U.S., 200m/400m freestyle swimmer, Olympics-4th-96 1975 Death John Slater, actor (Deadlock, 3 on a Spree), dies at 58 1975 Event Judge Sirica orders release of Watergate's John W Dean III, Herbert W Kalmbach and Jeb Stuart Magruder from prison 1975 Death John Dierkes, actor (Red Badge of Courage), dies at 69 1975 Death John Gregson, actor (Rooney, Assassin), dies at 55 1974 Event John Lennon's last concert appearance (Elton John concert in MSG New York City) 1974 Event John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" 1974 Event Canadian John Hathaway begins 2-yr ride of 50,600 miles 1974 Event John Lennon releases "Walls and Bridges" album 1974 Death John Smallenbroek, Dutch Internal minister, dies at 72 1974 Event John Lennon appears as guest dj on WNEW-FM (New York City) 1974 Event Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan and John Milner come to bat 12 times each 1974 Event Giants John Montefusco makes his major league debut 1974 Event John Lennon reports seeing a UFO in New York City 1974 Event "Words and Music" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 127 performances 1974 Event John Lennon is ordered to leave U.S. in 60 days 1974 Event John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights 1974 Event Mike Marshall saves Tommy John's 4-1 win 1974 Death John C Ransom, U.S. poet (World's Body), dies 1974 Death John Wengraf, actor (Pride and Passion, 12 to the Moon), dies at 77 1974 Event "Words and Music" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 127 performances 1974 Birthday John Coppinger, born in El Paso, Texas, pitcher, Baltimore Orioles 1974 Birthday John Hall, kicker for the New York Jets 1974 Death Howard St. John, actor (Investigator, Dr. Lewis-Hank), dies at 68 1974 Birthday John Wallace, NBA forward for the Toronto Raptors 1974 Birthday John Drew Nichols, born in Oklahoma, rocker, PC Quest-Can You See 1973 Event 61st Australian Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats O Parun (63 67 75 61) 1973 Birthday Garth John Da Silva, Auckland New Zealand, heavyweight boxer 1996 Olympics 1973 Event 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB) 1973 Birthday John Zimmerman, Birmingham, Alabama, pairs skater, & Steigler 1973 Death John Rostill, born in Kings Norton, England, composer, bass guitarist, member, The Shadows, The Internst, rock and roll, pop genres, dies at 31 in Radlett, Hertfordshire 1973 Event John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album 1973 Birthday John Solomon, NFL defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks 1973 Event John Lennon sues U.S. government to admit FBI is tapping his phone 1973 Birthday John Baldwin, Jr., born in Dallas, Texas, figure skater, 1996 SW Pacific Sr champ 1973 Birthday John Mobley, NFL linebacker, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 1973 Event 93rd U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Jan Kodes (64 16 46 62 62) 1973 Death John R R Tolkien, British story writer (Hobbitt), dies of ulcer at 81 1973 Death John Ford, U.S. director (Mary of Scotland, Stagecoach), dies at 78 1973 Event John Adams and his drum - become a right-field fixture in Cleveland Stadium 1973 Birthday Gavin Hassett, born in Saint John, New Brunswick, rower 1996 Olympics 1973 Event John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list" 1973 Event John Dean begins testimony before Senate Watergate Committee 1973 Event Super Fly Meets Shaft by John and Ernest hits #31 1973 Birthday John Davis, WLAF tight end, Amsterdam Admirals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1973 Event John and Yoko form a new country with no laws or boundaries, called Nutopia, its national anthem is silence 1973 Birthday John Oppio, Sparks Nevada, double trap 1996 Olympics 1973 Birthday John Michels, NFL tackle, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 1973 Event "Shelter" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 31 performances 1973 Birthday John Elmore, guard for the Baltimore Ravens 1973 Event "Shelter" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 31 performances 1973 Event Test Cricket debut of Richard John Hadlee, New Zealand vs. Pakistan, Wellington 1973 Death John Banner, actor (Schultz-Hogan's Heroes), dies on 62nd birthday 1973 Event John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus," on BBC 1972 Birthday John Walsh, NFL quarterback for the Cincinnati Bengals 1972 Birthday Jude St. John, CFL offensive linebacker for the Hamilton Tiger Cats 1972 Birthday John Steel, Auckland New Zealand, 100m/200m swimmer 1996 Olympics 1972 Event Nobel prize for economy awarded to Kenneth J Arrow and John R Hicks 1972 Birthday John Hyden, Tustin California, volleyball outside hitter alternate for 1996 Olympics 1972 Event John and Yoko appear on Jerry Lewis' Muscular Dystrophy Telethon 1972 Event Jerry Lewis' 7th Muscular Dystrophy telethon, John and Yoko appear 1972 Event John Lennon and Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden 1972 Death John Barnes Chance, composer, dies at 39 1972 Birthday John Jones, WLAF guard for the Rhein Fire 1972 Birthday John Wasdin, Ft. Belvoir, Washington, pitcher for the Oakland A's 1972 Birthday John Lilley, born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, U.S. hockey forward 1994 Olympics 1972 Birthday John Paci, WLAF quarterback for the Frankfurt Galaxy 1972 Death Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (John L Lewis), dies at 63 1972 Birthday Edward Reevey, St. John NB, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 South Carolina Intercol 1972 Event John Sebastian makes 63 consecutive free throws while blindfolded 1972 Birthday John Burrough, NFL defensive tackle for the Atlanta Falcons 1972 Event John Lennon says his phone is tapped by FBI on Dick Cavett Show 1972 Birthday John Holecek, NFL linebacker for the Buffalo Bills 1972 Event New York City Mayor John Lindsey appeals that John Lennon not be deported 1972 Event Apollo astronauts John Young and Charles Duke ride on Moon 1972 Event John Young and Charles Duke explores Moon (Apollo 16) 1972 Death John A H J S Bruins Slot, co-founder/editor in chief (illegal), dies 1972 Birthday John Godina, born in Fort Sill Oklahoma, shot putter/discus thrower, 1996 Olympics silver 1972 Birthday John Rothell, Titusville Florida, 400m hurdler 1972 Birthday John Farquhar, tight end for the New Orleans Saints 1972 Birthday John Leach, CFL running back for the Toronto Argonauts 1972 Birthday Maria Maunder, born in St. John's, New Foundland, rower 1996 Olympics 1972 Event John and Yoko are served with deportation papers 1972 Event John and Yoko end a week of co-hosting Mike Douglas Show 1972 Event John and Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week 1972 Birthday John Slaney, St. John's, NHL defenseman for the Los Angeles Kings 1972 Event Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported 1972 Death John Litel, actor (Big Boss, Crime Doctor, My Buddy), dies at 79 1972 Birthday Aaron John Mcintosh, Auckland New Zealand, sailboard yachter 1996 Olympics 1972 Death John Berryman, U.S. poet (Imaginary Jew), dies 1971 Event John Sinclair (sentence: 10 yrs, sold 2 marijuana joints) is freed 1971 Birthday John Sacca, WLAF quarterback for the Amsterdam Admirals 1971 Death John A Emmens, art historian/poet (Dog of Pavlov), dies at 47 1971 Event Galt MacDermot/John Guare's "2 gentlemen of Verona," premieres in New York City 1971 Event John and Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US 1971 Birthday John Anderson, WLAF safety for the Rhein Fire 1971 Birthday John Francis Zingg, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rocker, 4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys 1971 Event John List kills family and moves to Colorado 1971 Event John and Yoko record "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in New York City 1971 Birthday John Coker, NBA center for the Phoenix Suns 1971 Event William H Rehnquist and Lewis F Powell nominated to U.S. Supreme Court by Nixon, following resignations of Justices Hugo Black and John Harlan 1971 Event John and Yoko appear on "Dick Cavett Show" 1971 Event John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine" 1971 Birthday John Lynch, NFL safety for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 1971 Event John Vermeers painting "The liefdesbrief" stolen 1971 Event John Lennon and Yoko Ono are Dick Cavett's only guest 1971 Event John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear on Dick Cavett Show (ABC-TV) 1971 Event John Lennon releases "Imagine" album 1971 Event John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington D.C. 1971 Birthday John Burke, NFL tight end for the New England Patriots 1971 Birthday John Thierry, NFL defensive end for the Chicago Bears 1971 Event John Lennon leaves U.K. for New York City, never to return 1971 Event John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of U.S. Open 1971 Birthday John Raposo, CFL defensive tackle for the Toronto Argonauts 1971 Death John W. Campbell, U.S., sci-fi writer (Space Beyond), dies at 61 1971 Birthday John Achterberg, soccer player, NAC 1971 Event John Lennon and Yoko Ono unannounced appearance at Fillmore East in New York City 1971 Birthday Noah Wyle, born in Hollywood, California, actor, Dr. John Carter-ER 1971 Death John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70 1971 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun) 1971 Birthday John Senden, born in Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer 1971 Birthday Lara St. John, Canadian Musician 1971 Birthday Johnny Knoxville, born in Knoxville, Tennessee, born Philip John Clapp, actor, comedian, co-creator of MTV television series, 'Jackass', appeared in film, 'The Ringer' 1971 Birthday John Buchanan, actor, Sidekicks, Black Stallion, Family Man 1971 Event Montreal Canadien John Believau scores his 500th NHL goal 1971 Birthday John Bock, NFL center, New York Jets, Miami Dolphins 1971 Event John Guares "House of Blue Leaves," premieres in New York City 1971 Event U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich 1971 Birthday John Reece, WLAF/NFL cornerback, Amsterdam Admirals, Dallas Cowboys 1971 Event John and Yoko record "Power to the People" 1971 Event John Lennon meets Yoko Ono's parents in Japan 1971 Birthday John Wozniak, American Musician 1971 Death John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50 1971 Event John Snow takes 7-40 for England to beat Australia by 299 runs 1971 Event Tigers ace reliever John Hiller, 27, sufferes a heart attack, but later makes a remarkable comeback to record 38 saves 1970 Death John de Mol, Dutch accordionist, dies at 58 1970 Birthday John DeWitt, WLAF defensive end for the Scottish Claymores 1970 Birthday John Amaechi, NBA center and forward for the Cleveland Cavaliers 1970 Death John T Scopes, U.S. teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70 1970 Event John Frazier kills Ohta's declares WW 3 has begun 1970 Birthday John Mabry, Wilmington, Delaware, outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals 1970 Event John Creach, joins Jefferson Airplane 1970 Death John Roderigo Dos Passos, U.S. writer (Manhattan Transfer), dies at 74 1970 Birthday John Copeland, NFL defensive end for the Cincinnati Bengals 1970 Event Elton John's 1st U.S. appearance, Los Angeles 1970 Birthday John Carmack, born in Roeland Park, Kansas, game programmer, co-founder of id Software, lead programmer for computer games, 'Quake', 'Doom', 'Commander Keen' series 1970 Birthday John Rennie, cricketer, Zimbabwe pace bowler 1993 1970 Death John G B Barbirolli, English conductor/composer, dies at 70 1970 Death John Barbirolli, English conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, dies at 70 1970 Birthday John Kalin, CFL safety for the Calgary Stampeders 1970 Birthday John Roethlisberger, born in Afton, Minnesota, gymnast, Olympics-5th-96 1970 Event 102nd Belmont: John Rotz aboard High Echelon wins in 2:34 1970 Death John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68 1970 Birthday John Karelse, born in Wemeldinge, Zeeland, professional soccer player, goalkeeper, goalkeeping coach for NACE, played for NAC Breda, NAC 1970 Death John Knittel, writer, dies at 79 1970 Event "Park" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 5 performances 1970 Event "Park" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 5 performances 1970 Death John H O'Hara, U.S. journalist (Pal Joey, Rage to Live), dies at 65 1970 Event 42nd Academy Awards - "Midnight Cowboy," John Wayne and Maggie Smith win 1970 Event John and Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations 1970 Event "Blood Red Roses" opens and closes at John Golden Theater New York City 1970 Birthday John Frusciante, American Musician 1970 Event John Lennon pays 1,344 pounds fine for 96 protesting South African rugby team playing in Scotland 1970 Event Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa vs. Australia, Durban 1970 Birthday John Frascatore, U.S. baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1970 Event John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass) 1970 Death John J "Johnny" Murphy, U.S. baseball pitcher (New York Yankees), dies at 61 1970 Birthday John Gerak, NFL tight end/guide, Minnesota Vikings, St. Louis Rams 1969 Event "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John and Yoko" posters begin appearing 1969 Event John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar 1969 Event John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War 1969 Birthday John Parrella, NFL defensive tackle for the San Diego Chargers 1969 Death Joseph P. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy/RFK/TMK father, dies in Hyannis Port Massachusetts, at 81 1969 Event John and Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK 1969 Birthday Henry John Mills, NFL tight end for the Houston Oilers 1969 Event Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen 1969 Birthday John Kasay, NFL kicker for the Carolina Panthers 1969 Birthday John McMullen, Santa Rosa California, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 NCAA-15th 1969 Birthday John Edward, American Entertainer 1969 Birthday Rick Mercer, born in St. John's, Canada, comedian, satirist, television personality, created television show, 'This Hour Has 22 Minutes', trademark routine titled, 'Talking to Americans' 1969 Birthday John Morton, WLAF WR for the Frankfurt Galaxy 1969 Event Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko and Eric Clapton) 1st live performance 1969 Birthday Elaine Irwin Mellencamp, Allentown Penn, wife of John Cougar 1969 Birthday John Crotty, NBA guard, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trailblazers 1969 Birthday John Leclair, St. Albans VT, NHL forward, Team USA, Philadelphia 1969 Birthday John Oostendorp, born in Iowa City, Iowa, 220 lbs greco-roman wrestler 1996 Olympics 1969 Event John and Yoko are hospitalized after a car crash 1969 Event John Hampshire scores 107 on Test cricket debut vs. WI at Lord's 1969 Event John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m) 1969 Death John BMR "John" Hanlo, poet (Oote oote boe), dies at 57 1969 Death John Scott, rocker with the Pretenders, dies at 25 1969 Event John and Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show 1969 Event Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band and joins Rolling Stones 1969 Event "The Ballad Of John and Yoko" by The Beatles hit #1 in UK 1969 Death John L Lewis, formed (Congress of Industrial Org), dies at 89 1969 Death John L. Lewis, American Leader 1969 Event Beatles release Ballad Of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US 1969 Event John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" 1969 Death John Cipollini, guitarist, dies of ephysema at 45 1969 Event John and Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal) 1969 Birthday John van Halst, soccer player, FC Twente 1969 Birthday John Forest, soccer player, Go Ahead Eagles 1969 Event John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam) 1969 Event John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton) 1969 Event Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar 1969 Death John Bracken, Canadian Politician 1969 Birthday John Fina, NFL offensive tackle for the Buffalo Bills 1969 Death John Wyndham, Parkes Lucas B Harris, author (Chrysalids), dies at 65 1969 Death John Boles, actor (Stella Dallas, Curly Top), dies at 73 1969 Event John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders 1969 Birthday John Moore, Australian baseball catcher 1996 Olympics 1969 Birthday John Veenhof, Dutch soccer player, FC Groningen 1969 Death John Zajic, Czechoslovakian student, self incinerates 1969 Birthday John Flannery, guard/corner for the Dallas Cowboys 1969 Event Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro 1969 Birthday Stephen John Davies, Australia field hockey forward/vice captain, 2 Bronze Medals and 1 Silver Medal 1992, 1996, 2000 Olympics 1968 Death John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath, Nobel 1940, 62), dies at 66 1968 Event John and Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK 1968 Event John Lennon is fined 150 pounds for unauthorized drug possession 1968 Birthday John Johnstone, Liverpool, New York, pitcher for the Houston Astros 1968 Birthday John O'Neill, Detroit, U.S. field hockey midfielder 1996 Olympics 1968 Event John Kander/Fred Ebbs musical "Zorba," premieres in New York City 1968 Event John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album 1968 Birthday John Jett, NFL punter, Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions 1968 Event Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John 1968 Birthday Nico John Hoogma, soccer player, FC Twente 1968 Event Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby 1968 Event U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony 1968 Event During Olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos give black power salute 1968 Birthday John Preston, born in Utah, actor, Greg-General Hospital 1968 Event Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover 1968 Event John and Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at MSG 1968 Death John Gordon Mein, U.S. ambassador in Guatemala, dies 1968 Death John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70 1968 Event Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry 1968 Birthday John Coyle, West Bloomfield, Michigan, short track skater 1994 Olympics 1968 Birthday John Olerud, born in Seattle, Washington, infielder for the Toronto Blue Jays 1968 Birthday John P Navin, Jr., Philadelphia, actor, Joey Elliot-Jennifer Slept Here 1968 Birthday John Maginnes, born in Atlanta, Georgia, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Texarkana Open-5th 1968 Death John Indrisano, actor (OK Crackerby), dies at 62 1968 Event John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce 1968 Event John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here) 1968 Death John Gough, actor (Circus Kid, 2 for Tonight), dies at 73 1968 Birthday John Lumkes, born in Chicago, Illinois, 3k steeplechase runner 1968 Event John Lennon and Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral 1968 Birthday John Connelly, born in Toledo, Ohio, Nike golfer, 1991 New Hampshire Open 1968 Death Little Willie John, rocker, dies at 30 1968 Death William E "Little Willie" John, U.S. R&B-singer (Fever), dies at 30) 1968 Event Paul McCartney and John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host 1968 Birthday John Johnson, NFL linebacker for the New Orleans Saints 1968 Birthday John Tardy, U.S. heavy metalist, Obituary, Slowly We Rot 1968 Birthday John Barrowman, actor, Peter Fairchild-Central Park West 1968 Birthday John Velddman, soccer player, Sparta 1968 Event John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth 1968 Event Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon and wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi 1968 Birthday John Hudson, NFL center/guard, New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles 1968 Death John Ridgely, actor (Air Force, Possessed, Big Sleep), dies at 58 1968 Death John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80 1968 Birthday John de Visser, soccer player, South Carolina Heerenveen 1967 Birthday John Randle, NFL defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings 1967 Death John Nance Garner, (Vice President-D, 1933-41), dies at 98 1967 Birthday John Romero, born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, game designer, programmer, co-founder of id Software, games include 'Dangerous Dave', 'Quake', Wolfenstein 3D' 1967 Birthday John Flaherty, New York City, catcher for the San Diego Padres 1967 Birthday Gary John Anderson, Wanganui New Zealand, cyclist 1996 Olympics 1967 Event Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon) 1967 Birthday John Lovell, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, tornado yachter, Olympics-8th-1996 1967 Event WCAE TV channel 50 in St. John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting 1967 Event 87th U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86) 1967 Event Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly 1967 Birthday John Jurkovic, defensive tackle for the Jacksonville Jaguars 1967 Death John Francis Larchet, composer, dies at 83 1967 Birthday Margo Malowney, born in Saint John, New Brunswick, volleyball player 1996 Olympics 1967 Birthday John Femia, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Square Pegs, Hello Larry 1967 Death John Macchia, actor (Beach Blanket Bingo), dies of stroke at 35 1967 Birthday Julian McMahon, actor, Ian Rain-Another World, John Grant-Profiler 1967 Death John Coltrane, U.S. jazz sax/composer, dies at 40 1967 Event 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61) 1967 Death John Clark, actor (Last Day of the War), dies at 50 1967 Birthday John Wehner, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, infielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates 1967 Event John Entwistle of rock group Who weds Alison Wise 1967 Birthday John Doherty, born in the Bronx, New York, John Harold Doherty, pitcher, played for Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox Major League Baseball teams 1967 Birthday John Yoo, American Educator 1967 Event Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II 1967 Event John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce 1967 Birthday Craig John Monk, Auckland New Zealand, finn class yachter 1996 Olympics 1967 Birthday John Friesz, NFL quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks 1967 Death John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 65 1967 Birthday John Smoltz, born in Detroit, Michigan, pitcher, Atlanta Braves, 1996 Cy Young 1967 Birthday John Child, East York Ontario, beach volleyballer 1996 Olympics bronze 1967 Death John Coltrane, American Musician 1967 Event "Wait A Minim!" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 457 performances 1967 Event Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark 1967 Birthday John Mangum, NFL safety for the Chicago Bears 1967 Event John F. Kennedy's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial 1967 Death John F Bothwell, actor (Freckles-Our Gang), dies at 46 1967 Death John Griggs, actor (Joey Bishop Show), dies at 57 1967 Event John Herbert's "Fortune and Men's Eyes," premieres in New York City 1967 Birthday John Valentin, Mineola, New York, infielder for the Boston Red Sox 1967 Birthday John Patterson, U.S. baseball infielder for the San Francisco Giants 1966 Event John W Mecom, Jr. becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints 1966 Event John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at a London art gallery 1966 Death Mississippi John Hurt, rocker, dies at 73 1966 Birthday John van de Brom, soccer player, Ajax 1966 Event 86th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64) 1966 Birthday John Terry, CFL tackle for the Saskatchewan Roughriders 1966 Birthday John Wetteland, San Mateo California, pitcher, New York Yankees, Rangers, Expos 1966 Event Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark 1966 Birthday Tylin John, born in Encino, California, playmate, Mar, 1992 1966 Event John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m) 1966 Event Gemini 10 launched (John Young and Michael Collins) 1966 Birthday Michael John Bradley, born in Largo, Florida, PGA golfer, 1993 Kemper Open-3rd 1966 Birthday Kristoff St. John, born in New York City, actor, Adam-Generations, Young and Restless 1966 Birthday John Cusack, born in Chicago, actor, Stand By Me, Sure Thing, Better Off Dead 1966 Birthday John Randle, golfer, 1992 Canadian Tour Fall-3rd 1966 Event Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers 1966 Event "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in U.K. 1966 Birthday John Jaha, born in Portland, Oregon, infielder for the Milwaukee Brewers 1966 Birthday John VanderWal, born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, outfielder for the Colorado Rockies 1966 Birthday John Patrick Daly, born in born in Sacramento, California, PGA golfer, 1995 British Open 1966 Event "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 457 performances 1966 Event John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" 1966 Birthday John David Cullum, actor in 1776, Sweet Country, Day After 1966 Birthday John Druce, Peterborough, NHL right wing, Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings 1966 Birthday John Velyvis, born in North Adams, Massachusetts, rower 1996 Olympics 1966 Birthday Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, model/wife of John Kennedy Jr 1966 Birthday John Kropke, CFL defensive tackle for the Saskatchewan Roughriders 1965 Birthday John Feskens, Dutch soccer player, Willem II 1965 Birthday John Keller, Jr., Toledo Ohio, team handball back court 1996 Olympics 1965 Birthday "Stuttering John" Melendez, interviewer, Howard Stern Show 1965 Death [John] Selwyn (Brooke) Lloyd, British statesman, dies 1965 Death John Bata, Czechoslovakian shoe manufacturer, dies at 67 1965 Birthday John Starks, NBA guard for the New York Knicks 1965 Birthday John Smith, born in Del City, Oklahoma, 62kg freestyle wrestler, Gold Medals 1988, 1992 Olympics 1965 Event John Edrich completes 310* vs. New Zealand in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes 1965 Birthday John Leonard, born in Australia, poet, editor of poetry journal, 'Overland', 'Unlove', 'Braided Lands', 'Jesus in Kashmir' 1965 Birthday John Frawley, Australia, tennis star 1965 Birthday John "Chip" McKibben II, born in Balboa Island, California, rower 1996 Olympics 1965 Event John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published 1965 Event 97th Belmont: John Sellers aboard Hail to All wins in 2:28.6 1965 Birthday John C. Reilly, American Actor 1965 Birthday John Schofield, born in Barnsley, England, professional soccer player, midfielder, manager of Lincoln City, assistant manager, Cheltenham Town 1965 Birthday John Jensen, Danish Athlete 1965 Event William F. Raborn, Jr. replaces John A. McCone as 7th head of CIA 1965 Event "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden New York City after 192 performances 1965 Birthday John "Jumbo" Elliot, NFL tackle, New York Giants, New York Jets 1965 Birthday John Smiley, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, pitcher, for the Cincinnati Reds 1965 Birthday John Stephenson, cricketer, England opening bat in one Test vs. Australia 1989 1965 Birthday John Commins, cricketer, South African Test batsman vs. New Zealand 1994-95 1965 Event John Lennon passes his driving test 1965 Birthday John van Loen, Dutch soccer player, Feyenoord, San Frecce 1965 Death John Larkin, actor (Saints and Sinners, 12 O'Clock High), dies at 52 1965 Death John Larkin, dir (Circumstanial Evidence), dies of heart attack at 52 1965 Birthday John Jackson, NFL offensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers 1964 Birthday John Burkett, New Brighton, Pennsylvania, pitcher for the Florida Marlins 1964 Event 30th Heisman Trophy Award: John Huarte, Notre Dame (quarterback) 1964 Death John Fabricius, playwright, dies at 55 1964 Birthday John Williams, NFL linebacker/FB for the Pittsburgh Steelers 1964 Birthday John Maclean, Oshawa, NHL right wing for the New Jersey Devils 1964 Death John Tasker Howard, composer, dies at 73 1964 Death John Emery, actor (Ship Ahoy, Kronos, Mademoiselle Fifi), dies at 59 1964 Event "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" opens at John Golden New York City for 192 performances 1964 Birthday John Joseph Thomas, Arcadia California, actor, Young Dan'l Boone 1964 Birthday John Tucker, Windsor, NHL right wing, Tampa Bay Lightning 1964 Birthday Susan Walters, Georgia, actress, Lorna-Loving, Mary Beth-Dear John 1964 Birthday John Sununu, born in Boston, Massachusetts, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from New Hampshire 2003 - 2009, sits on Congressional Oversight Panel for TARP 1964 Event John Osborne's "Inadmissable Evidence," premieres in London 1964 Birthday John Mooney, born in Seattle, Washington sprint kayak 1996 Olympics 1964 Birthday John Cullen, Puslinch, NHL center, Tampa Bay Lightning 1964 Birthday John Leguizamo, born in Columbia, actor, Mambo Mouth, Whispers in the Dark 1964 Event All star MVP: John Callison, Philadelphia Phillies 1964 Event "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 673 performances 1964 Death John Finley Williamson, conductor (Westminster Choir), dies at 76 1964 Birthday John Salley, NBA star, Detroit Pistons 1964 Birthday John Parrott, born in Liverpool, England, professional snooker player, winner, World Snooker Championship, 1991, won UK Championship title, 1991 1964 Event John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in U.S. 1964 Death Edwin John Pratt, Canadian poet (Towards the Last Spike), dies at 81 1964 Birthday John Carney, NFL kicker for the San Diego Chargers 1964 Event John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years 1964 Birthday John Morris, cricketer, England right-hand batsman vs. India 1990 1964 Event Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race 1964 Event Britain sets memorial for the late President John F. Kennedy 1964 Birthday John Norum, born in Vardo, Norway, musician, hard rock guitarist, co-founder of Swedish band Europe 1964 Event Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, and Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame 1964 Birthday John Gallagher, rugby league player 1964 Birthday John Habyan, U.S. baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1964 Death Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, U.S. jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58 1964 Birthday John Erickson, born in Woodland Hills, California, golfer, 1991 Windsor Charity 1963 Event Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends 1963 Birthday John Lammers, Dutch soccer player, NAC 1963 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up Warren Commission to investigate assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963 Event John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery 1963 Death Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy's assassinator, shot dead by Jack Ruby 1963 Event John F. Kennedy's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House 1963 Event Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for John F. Kennedy) 1963 Death John F Kennedy, 35th President (1961-63), assassinated in Dallas at 46 1963 Death John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts 1947 - 1953, 35th President 1961 - 1963, dies at age 46 1963 Event John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas 1963 Event John F. Kennedy flies to Texas 1963 Birthday John Barnes, born in Kingston, Jamaica, British professional soccer player, manager for Tranmere Rovers Football Club 1963 Birthday Tatum O'Neal, LA Cal, Mrs. John McEnroe, Paper Moon, Little Darlings 1963 Event John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewelry" line 1963 Event J. Edgar Hoover last meeting with president John F. Kennedy 1963 Event John F. Kennedy signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty 1963 Event 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office 1963 Event Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game 1963 Birthday John Elliot, Bristol CT, Nike golfer, 1994 NIKE Miss Gulf Coast 1963 Birthday John Vanbiesbrouck, born in Detroit, Michigan, NHL goalie, Team USA, Florida 1963 Birthday John Philipson, pop bassist, Rowwen Heze, Kroenenberg 1963 Event John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17' 1963 Birthday John Bush, U.S. heavy metal singer, Anthrax-Armed and Dangerous 1963 Birthday John Stamos, born in Cypress, California, actor, General Hospital, Full House 1963 Death John Powell, composer, dies at 80 1963 Death John Sutton, actor (Of Human Bondage), dies of heart attack at 54 1963 Event John F. Kennedy speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt 1963 Event Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII 1963 Death John Whiting, British dramatist/actor (Devils), dies 1963 Event John F. Kennedy says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act" 1963 Event John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women 1963 Event John F. Kennedy names Winston Churchill U.S. honorary citizen 1963 Birthday John Restino, born in Westchester, New York, Canadian Tour golfer, 1993 Tommy Armour 1963 Event British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler 1963 Death John XXIII, Angelo G Roncalli, Pope (1958-63), dies at 81 1963 Death Pope John XXIII, Italian Pope 1963 Event John F. Kennedy offers Israel assistance against aggression 1963 Birthday John Cameron Mitchell, born in El Paso, Texas, actor, Misplaced, Band of the Hand 1963 Event John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty 1963 Birthday Julian Lennon, John's son and singer, Too Late for Goodbyes 1963 Event British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler 1963 Event Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold 1963 Birthday John Andretti, born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, race car driver, winner, CART, NHRA Top Fuel Dragsters NASCAR stock racing and endurance racing 1963 Birthday John Cangelosi, born in Brooklyn, New York, outfielder for the Houston Astros 1963 Event U.S.S.R. informs John F. Kennedy it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba 1963 Birthday John Gesek, NFL center for the Washington Redskins 1963 Birthday John Marzano, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, catcher for the Seattle Mariners 1963 Birthday John Dye, Amory Massachusetts, actor, Andrew-Touched by an Angel 1963 Event Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, and John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 1963 Death John Farrow, actor and director (Botany Bay), dies at 58 1963 Death John Sigvard Olsen, comedian (Olsen and Johnson), dies at 70 1963 Death Al St. John, actor (Law and Order, Devil Riders), dies at 70 1962 Birthday John de Wolf, soccer player, Feyenoord 1962 Birthday Stephen John Elkington, Inverell Australia, PGA golfer, 1990 Kmart 1962 Birthday John Gaasbeek, soccer player, FC Twente/NAC 1962 Birthday John Samuel Inman, Greensboro, North Carolina, PGA golfer, 1993 Buick South Open 1962 Birthday John Squire, English pop guitarist, Stone Roses, She Bangs the Drums 1962 Event John F. Kennedy announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled 1962 Event Cuban missile crisis ends, John F. Kennedy says U.S.S.R. is dismantling missile bases 1962 Event "Beyond the Fringe" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 673 performances 1962 Event John F. Kennedy warns Russia U.S. will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba 1962 Event Nikita Khrushchev sends note to John F. Kennedy offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if U.S. closed its bases in Turkey offer is rejected 1962 Event American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize in literature 1962 Event John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba 1962 Event John F. Kennedy imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis 1962 Event John F. Kennedy receives Ugandan premier Milton Obote 1962 Event John F. Kennedy meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko 1962 Birthday John Dorge, Australian basketball center 1996 Olympics 1962 Event Cuban missile crisis began as John F. Kennedy becomes aware of missiles in Cuba 1962 Event 2nd Vatican Council (21st ecumenical) convened by Pope John XXIII 1962 Event NASA civilian test pilot John B McKay takes X-15 to 39,200 m 1962 Death John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, New York City builder, dies at 79 1962 Event John F. Kennedy routes 3,000 federal troops to Mississippi 1962 Event John F. Kennedy authorized use of federal troops to integrate University of Mississippi 1962 Event John Lennon weds Cynthia Powell 1962 Birthday John Williams, NBA center and forward for the Phoenix Suns 1962 Event John F. Kennedy dines with premier MacMillan in London 1962 Death John N Ireland, English composer/pianist (Epic March), dies at 82 1962 Birthday John Alt, NFL tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs 1962 Event "John Birch Society," by Chad Mitchell Trio hits #99 1962 Event 88th Preakness: John Rotz aboard Greek Money wins in 1:56.2 1962 Birthday John Corbett, actor/singer, Chris-Northern Exposure 1962 Event John F. Kennedy authorizes Area Redevelopment Act 1962 Event John F. Kennedy throws out 1st ball at Washington's new DC Stadium 1962 Birthday John Gruffith, rocker, Red Rockers 1962 Birthday John Taylor, NFL wide receiver for the San Francisco 49ers 1962 Birthday John Stockton, born in Spokane, Washington, NBA guard, Utah Jazz, 1996 Olympics gold 1962 Event John F. Kennedy visits SF 1962 Death John Owen Jones, composer, dies at 85 1962 Event John F. Kennedy announces U.S. will resume above ground nuclear testing 1962 Event John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth in Friendship 7 1962 Event John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm 1962 Event 1st pole vault over 16' (4.88m) (John Uelses-16', Melrose Games) 1962 Event John F. Kennedy arrives in Uruguay 1962 Event Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to John Hall Wheelock 1962 Birthday Donald John Cowie, Auckland New Zealand, yachting Star class 1996 Olympics 1962 Event Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro 1961 Event John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister MacMillan meet in Bermuda 1961 Event "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden New York City after 55 performances 1961 Event John F. Kennedy visits Puerto Rico 1961 Event Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" is 1st country song to get a gold record 1961 Event Jimmy Dean's Big Bad John album is country music 1st million $ seller 1961 Death John Acton, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie, dies 1961 Event John F. Kennedy provides U.S. miltary helicopters and crews to South Vietnam 1961 Event John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA 1961 Event John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam 1961 Event "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden New York City for 55 performances 1961 Death John Axel Fernstrom, composer, dies at 63 1961 Event John F. Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters 1961 Event John F. Kennedy begins underground nuclear testing 1961 Birthday John Kidd, NFL punter for the Miami Dolphins 1961 Birthday John Viscardi, New York City, actor, Father Tony-One Life to Live 1961 Birthday Bradford John Faxon, Jr., Oceanport, New Jersey, PGA golfer, 1986 Provident 1961 Birthday Mark "Red" Mitchell, actor, John F. Kennedy, 8 Sceonds, I Want to Live 1961 Event John Chancellor becomes news anchor of Today Show 1961 Event Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et magistrate 1961 Event John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev meet in Vienna 1961 Birthday John Cameroon, guitarist, 'Claw Boys Claw' 1961 Event John F. Kennedy visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris 1961 Birthday John Lugbill, Wauseon Ohio, U.S. canoist/kayaker 1992 Olympics 1961 Event John F. Kennedy sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade 1961 Event Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Mater et Magistra 1961 Event 87th Kentucky Derby: John Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 2:04 1961 Event South Africa ANC-leader John Nkadimeng arrested 1961 Event John F. Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs 1961 Birthday John Podhoretz, American Writer 1961 Birthday John Clarke, actor, Mickey-Days of Our Life 1961 Event Dutch foreign minister Luns talks to John F. Kennedy about New Guinea 1961 Birthday John Stockwell, Galveston, Texas, actor, Born to Ride, City Limits 1961 Birthday John Clark Gable, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Bad Jim 1961 Event John F. Kennedy sets up the Alliance for Progress 1961 Event John F. Kennedy names Henry Kissinger special advisor 1961 Birthday John Kruk, U.S. baseball 1st baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies 1961 Event John F. Kennedy asks for an Alliance for Progress and Peace Corp 1961 Event 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (John F. Kennedy) 1961 Death John Joseph Becker, composer, dies a day before 75th birthday 1961 Event Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at John F. Kennedy's inauguration 1961 Birthday John Thune, born in Murdo, South Dakota, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from South Dakota, U.S. House of Representatives from South Dakota's At-Large district 1960 Birthday John Fitzgerald, Australia, tennis star 1960 Birthday John Fitzgerald, Australia, tennis star 1960 Birthday John Felton, Kyogle Australia, canoeist 1996 Olympics 1960 Birthday John F. Kennedy, Jr., New York City, son of John F. Kennedy, lawyer, magazine publisher, 'George' magazine 1960 Event John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts, beats Vice President Richard Nixon to become the 35th U.S. president 1960 Event John F. Kennedy and Nixon clashed in 4th and final presidential debate (New York City) 1960 Event Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy 1960 Birthday John Aalberg, Orland Norway, U.S. cross country skier 1994 Olympics 1960 Event John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon's 3rd presidential debate 1960 Event Radio - TV executive John Fetzer buys a controlling interest of Detroit Tigers 1960 Event 2nd John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon debate 1960 Death Harry St. John Philby, sheik Abdullah, British explorer, dies 1960 Birthday John MacBeth Paxson, NBA Guard, Chicago Bulls 1960 Birthday John Rocca, English funk singer, Southern Freeze 1960 Birthday John Franco, born in Brooklyn, New York, pitcher for the New York Mets 1960 Death John Phillips Marquand, novelist, dies at 66 1960 Event U.S. Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate 1960 Birthday John Elway, NFL quarterback, Denver Broncos Superbowl 32 1960 Death John Brenden Kelly, rower, Gold Medals 1920, 1924 Olympics, dies at 70 1960 Birthday John Taylor, born in England, rock bassist, Duran Duran-Girls on Film 1960 Birthday Mark John Calcavecchia, Laurel NE, PGA golfer, 1987 Honda Classic 1960 Birthday Steve Lyons, born in Tacoma, Washington, Stephen John Lyons, nicknamed 'Psycho', baseball player, outfielder, third baseman, television sportscaster, played with Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball team, known for oddities, such as playing hangman and tic-tac-toe with his spikes 1960 Birthday Vinodhan John, cricket pace bowler, Sri Lankan in 6 Tests 1983-84 1960 Birthday John Cowsill, rock vocalist, Cowsills-Hair 1960 Event "At the Drop of a Hat" closes at John Golden New York City after 216 performances 1960 Death John D Rockefeller, Jr., philanthropist, dies at 86 1960 Death John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American Businessman 1960 Event John F. Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia 1960 Death John P "John" Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84 1960 Event Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African and 1st Filipino cardinal 1960 Event John F. Kennedy makes missile gap the presidential campaign issue 1960 Birthday John van Grinsven, soccer player, MVV 1960 Event John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos," premieres 1960 Birthday William John Readings, literary theorist 1960 Birthday John Caliri, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actor, Vinnie-Square Pegs, Double Trouble 1960 Birthday John Galliano, British Designer 1960 Death John Miljan, actor (Charlie Chan in Paris, Yankee Clipper), dies at 66 1960 Birthday John Crawford, Palo Alto California, bass, Berlin-You Take My Breath Away 1960 Event John F. Kennedy announces run for U.S. Presidency 1960 Event John Reynolds sets age of solar system at 4,950,000,000 years 1960 Event Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president 1959 Birthday John Whitaker, Van Nuys California, actor, Family Affair, Snowball Expr 1959 Event Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum 1959 Event "Billy Barnes Revue" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 87 performances 1959 Event "At the Drop of a Hat" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 216 performances 1959 Death John H Kliegl, developer of Klieg light, dies at 89 1959 Event Progressive Party under John Steytler forms in South Africa 1959 Event "Billy Barnes Revue" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 87 performances 1959 Event Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia 1959 Birthday John Sykes, Irish hard rock guitarist, Thin Lizzy-Blue Murder 1959 Birthday John Keeble, London, rock drummer, Spandau Ballet-True 1959 Event Pope John XXIII 1st encyclical "On truth, unity, and peace, in charity" 1959 Death John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State 1953 - 1959, dies at 71 1959 Event "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 44 performances 1959 Event Dorothy Rigney, husband John, and Hank Greenberg resign from White Sox 1959 Event "Party with Comden and Green" opens at John Golden New York City for 44 performances 1959 Event U.S. Secretary of States John Foster Dulles resigns 1959 Death John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111 1959 Birthday John Arthur Wilson, Ceres California, PGA golfer, 1994 Anheuser-Busch-4th 1959 Birthday John McEnroe, tennis player, U.S. Open 1979-81, 84 Wimb 1981, 83, 84 1959 Event Pope John XXIII proclaims 2nd Vatican council 1959 Event "Party with Comden and Green" closes at John Golden New York City after 38 performances 1959 Birthday John Singleton, born in Los Angeles, California, director and screenwriter, 'Boyz n The Hood' 1958 Event "Party with Comden and Green" opens at John Golden New York City for 38 performances 1958 Birthday John J York, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Mac Scorpio-General Hospital 1958 Event Robert H W Welch, Jr. and 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society 1958 Event Angelo G. Roncalli crowned as pope John XXIII 1958 Event Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII 1958 Death John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 72 1958 Death John Hamilton, actor (Perry White-Superman), dies at 61 1958 Birthday John M Grunsfeld, born in Chicago, Illinois, PhD/astronaut, STS-67, 81 1958 Death John B Watson, U.S. psychologist/behaviorist, dies 1958 Birthday John Bennett Herrington, Wetumka, Oklahoma, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut 1958 Death John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa (1954-58), dies at 65 1958 Death John Gobau, Flem/Dutch actor (Death of Business Traveller), dies at 67 1958 Death Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident 1958 Birthday John Bracewell, New Zealand cricketer, premiere spinner of 80's 1958 Birthday John Wesley Jones, born in Lawton, Oklahoma, 4X100m relayer, 1976 Olympics gold 1958 Birthday John Ensign, born in Roseville, California, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Nevada, former chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee 1958 Birthday John Paul Morse, Marshall, Michigan, PGA golfer, 1995 United Airlines 1958 Death John Lindeboom, Dutch vicar/church historian, dies at 75 1958 Death Waverley John Anderson, Scot, viscount/governor of Bengal, dies at 75 1957 Death John W. Van Druten, U.S. stage/screenwriter (I Remember Mama), dies at 56 1957 Birthday John Webster, rocker, Red Ryder-Light in the Tunnel 1957 Event 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St. John's England) 1957 Event 23rd Heisman Trophy Award: John Crow, Texas A&M (HB) 1957 Birthday Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg, attorney, John F. Kennedy and Jackie's daughter 1957 Birthday John "Jellybean" Benitez, music producer 1957 Death John HA Eman, founder of Aruban Peoples Party, dies at 70 1957 Event "Mask and Gown" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 39 performances 1957 Birthday John Neuman Cook, born in Toledo, Ohio, PGA golfer, 1981 Bing Crosby 1957 Death John W. "John" Eisenloeffel, goldsmith, dies at 81 1957 Event "Bachelor Father" with John Forsythe premieres 1957 Event "Mask and Gown" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 39 performances 1957 Death John Coltrane, rocker, dies of cancer at 30 1957 Event Marine Major John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record (03:28:08) 1957 Event Beatle John Lennon 1st meets Paul McCartney 1957 Event John Lennon (16) and Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group The Quarry Men perform at a church dinner 1957 Birthday Lee John, English singer and actor, Body Talk 1957 Birthday John Ryder, rock bassist, Face To Face 1957 Event John Diefenbacker (C) takes office as Prime Minister of Canada 1957 Event John Diefenbacker (C) elected Prime Minister of Canada 1957 Birthday John G. Rowland, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Governor of Connecticut 1995 - 2004 1957 Birthday John Rowland, American Politician 1957 Birthday Sid Vicious, John Simon Ritchie, England, bassist, Sex Pistols 1957 Birthday John Stuper, baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals 1957 Birthday [Christopher St. John] "Sinjin" Smith, born in Los Angeles, California, volleyballer 1996 Olympics 1957 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage) 1957 Event All NL teams intergates, John Irwin Kennedy is 1st black on Phillies 1957 Event 61st Boston Marathon won by John J Kelley of Connecticut in 2:20:05 1957 Birthday John Castellanos, San Diego, California, actor, John Silva-Young and Restless 1957 Event John Osborne's "Entertainer," premieres in London 1957 Birthday John M. Ford, born in East Chicago, Indiana, author, science fiction and fantasy, poet, game designer, wrote, 'The Final Reflection', 'How Much Just for the Planet?' 1957 Birthday John Hoeven, born in Bismarck, North Dakota, politician, Republican, 34th Governor of North Dakota, longest-serving Governor in the U.S. 1957 Birthday John Turturro, born in Brooklyn, actor, Brain Donor, Color of Money, Jungle Fever 1957 Birthday Falco, John Hoelcel, rock vocalist, Rock Me Amadeus 1957 Death John Von Neumann, astronomer, dies at 53 1957 Birthday Don Snow, born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1992, changed name to John Savannah, musician, guitarist, drummer, saxophonist, toured with Van Morrison, member of Squeeze, Procol Harum, played Hammond organs, piano 1956 Event Gene de Paul/John Meyer's musical "Li'l Abner," premieres in New York City 1956 Event Douglas Moore/John Latouche' opera "Ballad of Baby Doe," premieres 1956 Birthday John Jorgenson, born in Madison, Wisconsin, singer, Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited 1956 Birthday John Treacy, marathonr, Olympics-silver-1984 1956 Event Reds' John Klippstein, Hershel Freemman and Joe Blacks no-hitter, broken up with 2 outs in 10th and lose to Braves in 11th, 2-1 1956 Event John Osbornes "Look Back in Anger," premieres in London 1956 Birthday Jeremy John Beadle, writer/broadcaster 1956 Birthday John James, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actor, Jeff Colby-Dynasty 1956 Death Joseph John Richards, composer, dies at 77 1956 Birthday John F. Reid, cricketer, New Zealand batsman of 70's/80's 1956 Birthday John Cowsill, born in Newport, Rhode Island, rock drummer, Cowsills-We Can Fly 1956 Birthday Johnny Rotten, John Lydon, rocker, Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen 1956 Birthday John McNally, Naha Okinawa, U.S. rapid fire pistol, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 Olympics 1956 Birthday John Phillips Naber, Evanston, Illinois, swimmer, Olympic-4 gold/silver-76 1956 Death John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor (WW II Monument Amsterdam), dies at 70 1955 Death John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign affairs (1913-18), dies at 87 1955 Death John Hodiak, actress (Lifeboat, Battleground), dies at 41 1955 Birthday John Kricfalusi, Canadian Artist 1955 Death John de Young, cardinal and archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 69 1955 Birthday John Sweeney, American Politician 1955 Birthday John Gilmore, born in America, fifth employee of Sun Microsystems, among founders of Cygnus Solutions, Cypherpunks mailing list, Electronic Frontier Foundation 1955 Birthday John Waite, vocalist, Babies/Bad English-Forget Me Not, Missing You 1955 Birthday John Hinckley, Jr., shot and wounded President Reagan, 1981 1955 Birthday John Stevens, member of European Parliament, founder of the Pro-Euro Conservative party, known for his pro-Euro policy stance 1955 Birthday John Glavin, rock keyboardist, Molly Hatchet 1955 Birthday Mark David Chapman, assassin, John Lennon 1955 Birthday John Hutton, born in Westcliff-on-Sea, England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Secretary of State for Defence 1955 Birthday John Nunn, born in London, England, champion chess player, chess writer, publisher, mathematician, once ranked among the world's top ten, two-time champion in chess problem solving 1955 Birthday John Campbell, harness racer, 3-time winner of Hambletonian 1955 Birthday John Grisham, writer, Client, Firm, Pelican Brief 1955 Death John R Mott, U.S. theologist/founder (YMCA, Nobel 1946), dies at 89 1955 Birthday John Baldacci, born in Bangor, Maine, politician, Democratic party, 73rd Governor of Maine 1955 Event John Williams Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962) 1955 Birthday John Tate, U.S., heavyweight boxer 1968 Olympics bronze 1954 Birthday John Anderson, born in Apopka, Florida, country singer and actor, Lone Wolf McQuade 1954 Event John Strodom succeeds Malan as premier of South Africa 1954 Death John Rosamund Johnson, composer, dies at 81 1954 Event Lieutenant Colonel John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled 1954 Birthday Jere Burns, Cambridge MS, actor, Something So Right, Kirk-Dear John 1954 Birthday John Lloyd, England, tennis star, former husband of Chris Everet 1954 Birthday John Colwell, Kingston Ont, Canadian Tour golfer, 1978 Simon Fraser 1954 Event West German secret service head Otto John defects to East Germany 1954 Birthday John Wright, New Zealand cricketer, opening batsman 1978-92 1954 Birthday John Kimmel, born in East Orange, New Jersey, John C. Kimmel, horse trainer, trained at University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School, trained famous horses, Better Than Honour, Premium Tap, wins include Florida Derby, 2004, Pennsylvania Derby, 2007, among others 1954 Event "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" closes at Imperial New York City after 229 performances 1954 Event John Landy runs world record mile (3:58.0) 1954 Birthday John Dyson, cricketer, NSW and Australian opening batsman 1954 Event John Costello becomes premier of Ireland 1954 Birthday John Iles, dolby supervisor, Elephant Man, Richard III 1954 Birthday Janet Maw, actress, Sparrow, King John, Mayor of Casterbridge 1954 Birthday John Greg Adams, born in Scottsdale, Arizona, PGA golfer, 1982 Hall of Fame-2nd 1954 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A. Lindbergh and John Patrick 1954 Birthday John Schneider, born in Mount Kisco, New York, actor, Bo-Dukes of Hazzard 1954 Birthday John Bolger, actor, Captain Gabe McNamara-Another World 1954 Birthday John Travolta, born in Englewood, New Jersey, actor, Welcome Back Kotter, Pulp Fiction 1954 Event Senator John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press" 1953 Birthday John Callahan, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Craig-Santa Barbara, Falcon Crest 1953 Event "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial New York City for 229 performances 1953 Birthday John Malkovich, born in Christopher, Illinois, actor and director, Killing Fields 1953 Event 19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB) 1953 Birthday John McFee, rock guitarist, Doobie Brothers, Clover 1953 Death John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66 1953 Death John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76 1953 Birthday John Lucas, Durham, North Carolina, NBA guard, Houston, Golden State, Milwaukee 1953 Event John Patrick's "Teahouse of the Red Moon," premieres in New York City 1953 Event "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden New York City for 849 perf 1953 Birthday John Mengatti, New York City, actor, Nick-White Shadow, For Love and Honor 1953 Event Senator John F. Kennedy, 36, marries Jacqueline Bouvier, 24 1953 Birthday John Williams, U.S., archer, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1953 Birthday John Zorn, American Composer 1953 Event John Norman Lewis contends players have no desire to form a union 1953 Event Baseball player reps Ralph Kiner (NL) and Allie Reynolds (AL) hire John Norman Lewis at $15,000 to give legal advice to players in negotiation 1953 Birthday John Salazar, American Politician 1953 Birthday John Denham, born in Seaton, England, John Yorke Denham, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Southampton Itchen, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, served, then resigned as, Minister of State at the Home Office in 2003, over the Iraq War 1953 Birthday John Edwards, born in Seneca, South Carolina, politician, 2004 Democratic candidate for Vice President, Presidential candidate, 2008, U.S. Senator from North Carolina 1953 Birthday John Edward Stevens, New York City, bank robber, FBI Most Wanted List 1953 Event Winston Churchill criticizes John Foster Dulles domino theory 1953 Birthday John P. Hiler, born in Chicago, Illinois, Representative-R-Indiana 1981 - 1991 1953 Birthday John Buchanan, cricketer, Qld batsman 78-79, Shield coach 1995 1953 Event Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer and John Nicks of GRB 1953 Birthday John Shirley, U.S., sci-fi author, Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona 1953 Event John Foster Dulles appointed as Secretary of State 1952 Birthday John Lurie, American Actor 1952 Birthday John Francome, born in Swindon, England, jockey, National Hunt Champion Jockey seven times, apprenticed with Fred Winter, presenter for horseracing broadcasts on Channel 4 1952 Birthday John Lynch, born in Waltham, Massachusetts, politician, Democrat, 90th Governor of New Hampshire, second most popular Governor in the nation 1952 Birthday Alec John Such, born in Yonkers, New York, rocker, musician, former bassist for band Bon Jovi, managed local New Jersey bands and Heaven band in Chicago with James Young of Styx 1952 Birthday John Lone, American Actor 1952 Birthday John Otway, born in Buckinghamshire, England, unsuccessful singer, built large cult following based on underdog persona 1952 Birthday John Kinsella, USA, swimmer, Gold Medal 1972 Olympics 1952 Birthday John Emburey, England cricket off-spinner, 1978-95, captain 1988 1952 Birthday John Hiatt, U.S. singer and songwriter, Have a Little Faith in Me 1952 Birthday John Tesh, born in Garden City, New York, New age pianist/TV host, ET 1952 Birthday John Goodman, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor, Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe 1952 Death John Dewey, U.S. philosopher (Common Faith), dies at 92 1952 Death John Garfield, actor (Juarez, Air Force), dies at 39 1952 Birthday John Kasich, born in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, politician, Republican party, former U.S. Representative from Ohio's 12th district, 'Heartland with John Kasich' host 1952 Event 1st performance of John Cage's "Water Music" 1952 Birthday Wayne John Levi, Little Falls, New York, PGA golfer, 1983 Buick Open 1952 Birthday John Hickenlooper, American Politician 1952 Birthday John Cornyn, born in Houston, Texas, politician, Republican, U.S. Senator from Texas, Chairman, National Republican Senatorial Committee for the 111th U.S. Congress 1952 Death Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43), dies at 64 1951 Birthday Jaco Pastorius, born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, John Francis Anthony 'Jaco' Pastorius III, musician, electric bass player, jazz genre, style included intricate, higher register solos, voted 'Greatest Bass Player Who Has Ever Lived' by Bass Guitar magazine 1951 Event John Van Druten's "I am a Camera," premieres in New York City 1951 Death John H Van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice, dies at 57 1951 Event Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson 1951 Birthday John Ford Coley, rocker, England Dan and John Ford Coley 1951 Birthday John Mellencamp, born in Seymour, Indiana, singer, songwriter, sold over 40 million albums worldwide, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, hits include, 'Jack & Diane' 1951 Death John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist, dies 1951 Birthday John Tierney, American Politician 1951 Death John French Sloan, American Artist 1951 Birthday John Deacon, British pop guitarist, Queen-Somebody to Love 1951 Birthday John Childs, cricketer, England left-arm spinner, two Tests vs. WI 1988 1951 Death J of Oudshoorn, John K Feylbrief, writer (Maze of Sentences), dies 1951 Birthday John Doerr, American Businessman 1951 Birthday John Salthouse, British actor, American Werewolf in London 1951 Birthday John Redwood, British Politician 1951 Birthday Richard Thomas, born in New York City, John Boy-Waltons, Last Summer, Johnny Belinda 1951 Death John Erskine, U.S. writer/poet/pianist (Venus Love Goddess), dies at 71 1951 Birthday John Conteh, born in Liverpool, England, athlete, former British boxer, world light-heavyweight boxing champion 1951 Birthday John Battle, born in Bradford, England, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Leeds West, attended University of Leeds 1951 Death John Alden Carpenter, U.S. composer (Sea Drift), dies at 75 1951 Birthday Andrew John Fairclough, trade union educator 1951 Birthday John Bentley, born in Deptford, South East London, rocker, bass player, played for Squeeze 1980 - 1982, appeared on albums Argybargy and East Side Story 1951 Birthday John L. Phillips, born in Ft. Belvoir, Virginia, PhD/astronaut 1951 Birthday John Dittrich, born in Union, New Jersey, country singer, Restless Heart-Wheels 1951 Birthday John Hannah, American Athlete 1951 Birthday John Abizaid, American Soldier 1951 Birthday John Gosden, born in Sussex, England, racehorse trainer, trained Nannina, winner, 2005 Filles' Mile and 2006 Coronation Stakes, and 2008 Breeders' Cup Classic 1951 Birthday John Wetton, rocker, Asia 1951 Death John Winter Thompson, composer, dies at 83 1951 Birthday John Parker, cricketer, New Zealand batsman of 70s 1951 Event "John and Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21 1951 Birthday John McTiernan, born in Albany, New York, actor, Predator, Die Hard, Medicine Man 1950 Event "Let's Make an Opera" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 5 performances 1950 Event "Let's Make an Opera" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 5 performances 1950 Birthday John Akii-bua, Uganda, 400m hurdler, gold 1972 Olympics 1950 Death Ernest John Moeran, British composer, dies at 55 1950 Birthday John Candy, Ontario Canada, comedian, SCTV, Uncle Buck 1950 Birthday John Doolittle, born in Glendale, California, Representative-R-California 1991 - 2009 1950 Birthday John Doolittle, American Politician 1950 Birthday John Matuszak, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, NFLer, Raiders, actor, Hollywood Beat 1950 Birthday John Sayles, born in Schenetady, New York, actor, Brother from Another Planet 1950 Death John C Smuts, co-found British RAF/South African Prime Minister 1919 - 1948, dies at 80 1950 Birthday John Landis, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, American Werewolf in London 1950 Birthday Gregory Harrison, Catalina California, actor, Trapper John, Logan's Run 1950 Birthday Bernie Taupin, lyricist, writes with Elton John 1950 Birthday John "Jocko" Marcellino, rocker/actor, Tagget, Hot to Trot, Rain Man 1950 Death John G Fletcher, U.S. poet (Burning Mountain), dies 1950 Event John F. Dulles becomes advisor to U.S. Secretary of State Acheson 1950 Birthday John Hartman, born in Falls Church, Virginia, rock drummer, Doobie Brothers 1950 Birthday John Voldstad, Oslo Norway, actor, Darryl-Newhart 1950 Birthday John Hughes, director, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller 1950 Birthday England Dan, singer, England Dan and John Ford Coley 1950 Birthday John Hughes, director, Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science 1949 Event Maurice Ravel/John Cranko's ballet "Beauty and the Beast," premieres 1949 Birthday Christopher John Seward, aid worker 1949 Birthday Rita Jenrette, born in San Antonio, Texas, wife of Rep John Jenrette, D-SC 1949 Birthday John Boehner, born in Reading, Ohio, Representative-R-Ohio 1991 - 1949 Birthday John Curry, England, figure skater 1976 Olympics gold 1949 Birthday Peter John Wiegold, composer 1949 Birthday John Baldwin, Detroit, light middleweight boxer 1968 Olympics bronze 1949 Birthday John Savage, Old Bethpage, New York, actor, Deer Hunter, Maria's Lovers 1949 Birthday John Bauldie, music journalist/dylanologist 1949 Birthday John Tarrant, Tasmania, 1st Australian born Zen teacher 1949 Birthday John Riggins, NFL running back, New York Jets, Washington Redskins 1949 Birthday John Arthur Casken, composer 1949 Birthday John Illsley, born in Leicester, England, rock bassist, Dire Straits 1949 Birthday John Wetton, born in Willington, Derbyshire, musician, keyboardist, singer, bassist, guitarist, principal songwriter for ASIA, a pop rock band 1949 Birthday John Illsley, rocker, Dire Straits 1949 Birthday John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards, John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon 1949 Birthday John Oates, born in New York City, rock guitarist and vocalist, Hall and Oates-Rich Girl 1949 Birthday John Shea, born in North Conway, New Hampshire, actor, Honeymoon, New Life, Lois and Clark 1949 Event Walter and John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win 1949 Birthday John Duttine, actor, Day of the Triffids 1949 Birthday James Sempill, born in Scotland, born James William Stuart Whitemore Sempill, Lord Sempill, 21st Lord Sempill, Peerage of Scotland, created in 1489 for Sir John Sempill 1949 Birthday John Lever, cricketer, England lefty quick in 21 Tests 1976-81 1949 Birthday Nigel Olsson, rock guitarist/drummer, Elton John Band 1949 Birthday John Belushi, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedian/actor, SNL, Blues Brothers 1949 Birthday John Christopher Parry, rocker, Cure 1948 Birthday John Bolton, American Statesman 1948 Birthday Andrea Marcovicci, New York City, actress, Gloria-Berrengers, Fran-Trapper John 1948 Birthday John Peterson, U.S., Middleweight 1976 Olympics gold 1948 Birthday John Engler, American Politician 1948 Birthday John M. McHugh, born in Watertown, New York, Representative-R-New York 1993 - 1948 Birthday John M. McHugh, American Politician 1948 Birthday John Ritter, born in Burbank, California, actor, Jack-3's Company, Hearts Afire 1948 Birthday Murray Parker, cricketer, brother of John Three Tests for New Zealand 1976 1948 Death David John de Lloyd, composer, dies at 65 1948 Birthday John Scarlett, British Celebrity 1948 Birthday John B. Larson, American Politician 1948 Birthday John Larson, American Politician 1948 Death John J Pershing, Black Jack, U.S. general (Mexico, WW I), dies at 87 1948 Death John Joseph Pershing, American Soldier 1948 Death John Blackwood McEwen, composer, dies at 80 1948 Death Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee, blues player, dies at 34 1948 Birthday John Henry "Bonzo" Bonham, drummer, Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven 1948 Birthday John Amiel, director, Queen of Hearts, Tune in Tomorrow 1948 Birthday John R. McKernan, Jr., born in Bangor, Maine, Representative-R-Maine 1983 - 1987, Governor-Maine 1987 - 1995 1948 Birthday John Drayton Mahaffey, Kerrville, Texas, PGA golfer, 1978 PGA Champ 1948 Birthday John Evans, Aka Evan, rock drummer, Jethro Tull 1948 Event John Cunningham sets world altitude record (54,492' (18,133 m)) 1948 Birthday John de Lancie, actor, Q-Star Trek Next Gen, Days of our Lives 1948 Birthday John Browne, group chief executive, British Petroleum Company 1948 Event John Costello follows Eamon Da Valera as premier of Ireland 1948 Birthday John Carpenter, born in Carthage, New York, director, Halloween, The Thing 1947 Event 13th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lujack, Notre Dame (quarterback) 1947 Birthday John Larroquette, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, actor, Dan Fielding-Night Court 1947 Event John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published 1947 Birthday John Wilson, rock drummer, Them 1947 Birthday John Johnson, NBA, Seattle SuperSonic 1947 Birthday John Perry Barlow, American Writer 1947 Birthday John Fiddler, born in England, rock vocalist and guitarist, British Lions 1947 Birthday John Panozzo, Chicago, rocker, Styx 1947 Event John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH 1947 Birthday Ann Beattie, born in Washington, D.C., short story writer, novelist, compared to John Updike, J.D Salinger, professor at Harvard, University of Virginia, Rea Award for the Short Story recipient 1947 Birthday John Kline, American Politician 1947 Birthday John Morrison, cricketer, "Mystery" New Zealand batsman 1973-82 1947 Birthday John Howard, U.S., speed record, 152.284 mph at Bonneville Flats, UT 1947 Birthday John Trevor Key, photographer 1947 Birthday John Dykstra, American Scientist 1947 Birthday John Bonham, Redditch England, drummer, Led Zeppelin-Stairway 1947 Birthday John Bruton, Prime Minister, Republic of Ireland 1947 Birthday John Traicos, cricketer, in Egypt South Africa 1970, Zimbabwe 1992-93 1947 Death John Ray Sinnock, U.S. chief engraver (1925-47), dies at 59 1947 Birthday John Reid, born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, politician, Member of Parliament for Airdrie and Shotts, public service includes Secretary of State for Scotland, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1947 Birthday John Laurence Miller, born in San Francisco, California, golfer, U.S. Open 1973, British Open 1976 1947 Birthday John Weider, bassist, Family-Family Entertainment 1947 Birthday John Thorn, American Historian 1947 Birthday John Ratzenberger, born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, actor, Cliff Clavin-Cheers 1947 Birthday Elton John, born in Pinner, England, also known as Reginald Kenneth Dwight, singer 'Rocketman' and 'Candle in the Wind' 1947 Event John D Rockefeller, Jr. donates New York City East River site to the U.N. 1947 Birthday John Eastburn Boswell, medievalist 1947 Birthday John Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire 1947 Event John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in U.S. Navy 1947 Birthday John Stossel, American Journalist 1947 Birthday John Dawkins, Australian Politician 1947 Birthday John Wiley Bryant, born in Lake Jackson, Texas, Representative-D-Texas 1983 - 1997 1947 Birthday John C. Maxwell, born in Garden City, Michigan, evangelical Christian, author, pastor, speaker, leadership expert, wrote over 50 books on leadership, sold over 13 million copies including 'Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow' 1947 Birthday John Lees, England, rock guitarist and vocalist, Medicine Man 1946 Birthday John Akkerman, Dutch guitarist/composer, Focus-Can't Stand Noise 1946 Birthday John Spencer, actor, Tommy Mullanney-LA Law 1946 Event U.N. accepts 6 Manhattan blocks as a gift from John D Rockefeller Jr 1946 Birthday John Rubinstein, born in Los Angeles, California, actor/composer, Family, Boys from Brazil 1946 Birthday John "Blackfoot" Colbert, U.S. singer, Soul Children, Taxi 1946 Event John F. Kennedy elected to House of Representatives 1946 Death John S Curry, U.S. painter (Baptism in Kansas), dies 1946 Birthday John Prine, Maywood, Illinois, country singer, Hello in There 1946 Birthday John T. Walton, American Businessman 1946 Birthday John Coghlan, London, rock drummer, Status Quo 1946 Birthday John Conlee, Versailles, Kentucky, country singer, Common Man 1946 Event Dreyfuss family, owners of Pittsburgh Pirates since 1900, sells club to Frank McKinney and John Galbreath for $25 million 1946 Birthday John Klemmer, born in Chicago, Illinois, musician, songwriter, arranger, saxophonist, plays jazz, pop, cross over jazz, co-written music with David Batteau 1946 Birthday John "Mike" Lounge, born in Denver, Colorado, astr, STS-51-I, STS-26, STS-35 1946 Birthday John Astor, born in Britain, 3rd Baron Astor of Hever, businessman, Conservative Party, House of Lords, Shadow Minister of Defense 1946 Birthday John Lawton, British rock singer, Uriah Heep 1946 Birthday John Paul Jones, rock bassist, Led Zeppelin 1946 Birthday John Woo, Chinese Director 1946 Birthday John Maclean, cricketer, Australian wicket-keeper 1978-79 1946 Birthday John Waters, director, Hairspray 1946 Death John M. Keynes, English economist (How to pay for the war?), dies at 62 1946 Death John Maynard Keynes, English Economist 1946 Birthday Dee Murray, rocker, Elton John Band 1946 Birthday John Virgo, British snooker player 1946 Birthday John Barbata, drummer, Turtles-Happy Together, Eleanor 1946 Death John S S P V Gort, viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley, dies at 59 1946 Death John Clapham, English Economist 1946 Birthday John Greenway, British MP 1946 Birthday John Harrison, South Africa correspondent, BBC 1946 Birthday John Paul Jones, rocker, Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven 1945 Birthday John Kevin Moorhouse, test pilot 1945 Birthday John Walsh, activist/TV host, America's Most Wanted 1945 Birthday John McEuen, rocker, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band 1945 Death John Amery, British Politician 1945 Event John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest 1945 Birthday John Densmore, Louisiana, drummer, Doors-C'mon Light My Fire 1945 Birthday John McVie, British rock bassist, Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk 1945 Event 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson 1945 Birthday John Lithgow, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Harry and Hendersons, Pelican Brief 1945 Death John "Pa" van de Steur, philanthropist (Java), dies at 80 1945 Death John McCormack, Irish singer (Irish national anthem/folk songs), dies 1945 Birthday John Mauceri, born in New York City, conductor, Washington D.C. Opera 1945 Death John S Mccain, U.S. admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean), dies 1945 Birthday John Qace Hardbattle, political activist 1945 Birthday John Bowis, born in Brighton, England, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Battersea, member of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly 1945 Birthday John Lodge, born in Birmingham, England, musician, singer, songwriter, bass guitar player, member of The Moody Blues rock band, created songs 'Candle of Life', 'Eyes of a Child', 'Send Me No Wine' 1945 Birthday John Motson, British Celebrity 1945 Birthday John McCook, born in Ventura, California, actor, Codename: Firefox, Bold and Beautiful 1945 Birthday John Carlos, track star, Olympic bronze 1968, ; gave black power salute 1945 Birthday John Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, rock vocals, Creedence Clearwater Revival 1945 Birthday John Richard Patterson, businessman 1945 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell for Adano) 1945 Death John Poston, British major/Montgomery's ADC, dies in battle at 25 1945 Event 49th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:30:40.2 1945 Death John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies 1945 Birthday John Heard, actor, Cat People, Cutter's Way, CHUD 1945 Birthday John Hayes, Secretary-General, British Law Society 1945 Birthday John Peters, rock drummer, Harpers Bizarre 1945 Birthday Barry John, Welsh international rugby player 1945 Event John Patrick's "Hasty Heart," premieres in New York City 1944 Birthday John Abercrombie, born in Port Chester, New York, jazz guitarist, know for songs with jazz-rock band, Dreams 1944 Event John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery 1944 Event John Van Druten's "I Remember Mama," premieres in New York City 1944 Death John Eigenhuis, writer (The Dike), dies at 78 1944 Birthday John Entwistle, London, rock guitarist and vocalist, Who-Baba O'Riley 1944 Birthday John S. Tanner, born in Halls, Tennessee, Representative-D-Tennessee 1989 - 1944 Birthday John S. Tanner, American Politician 1944 Death John Grayburn, English (Victoria Cross), dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 Death John AC Fitch, British Lt-colonel, dies in battle in Arnhem 1944 Birthday John Surman, jazz musician 1944 Birthday John Glover, born in Kingston, New York, actor, 52 Pick-Up, Something Special 1944 Death John Post, Dutch farmer/resistance fighter (passage fight), executed 1944 Event Attempt to liberate prisoners in Amsterdam fails, John Post arrested 1944 Death Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41 1944 Birthday John Benaud, cricketer, brother of Richie, Australian bat 1972-73 1944 Birthday John Heard, actor, Pelican Brief, CHUD, Radio Flyer, Big 1944 Birthday John Rhys-Davies, Salisbury England, actor, Sir Edward-Quest, Sliders 1944 Birthday John Verity, rocker, Argent 1944 Birthday John Bryant, editor, Europeans 1944 Event Dutch Communist Party-resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death 1944 Birthday John Lill, professor/pianist 1944 Birthday John Kay, Joachim F Krauledat, Germany, rock vocalist, Steppenwolf 1944 Birthday John Milius, writer, Red Dawn, 1941, Big Wednesday 1944 Birthday John Stax, rocker, Pretty Things-Don't Bring Me Down 1944 Death John Peale Bishop, U.S. poet (Undertaker's Garland), dies at 51 1944 Birthday John Suchet, British TV journalist, Independent TV News 1944 Birthday Joseph Celli, born in America, composer, musician, experimental, contemporary music genres, worked with John Cage, the Kronos Quartet 1944 Birthday John Sebastian, born in New York City, singer, Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter 1944 Birthday John Breaux, born in Crowley, Louisiana, Representative-D-Louisiana 1972 - 1988 1944 Birthday John Napier, London, set designer for the Royal Shakesphere Company 1944 Birthday Johnny Winter, John Dawson, Leland Mississippi, guitarist, Silver Train 1944 Birthday John Inverarity, cricketer, Australian batsman 1968-72 1944 Birthday John Thornton, English chocolate factory/multi-millionaire 1944 Birthday John Edmonds, British trade unionist 1944 Birthday John Tavener, composer, The Whale 1944 Birthday John Kenneth Tavener, composer 1943 Birthday John Denver, New Mexico, singer, 'Rocky Mountain High', 'Thank God He's a Country Boy' 1943 Birthday John F. Kerry, American Politician 1943 Event John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle," premieres in New York City 1943 Death John Bouber, Blom, actor/author (Bluejackets), dies at 22 1943 Birthday John Mackin, born in Bellshill, Scotland, soccer player, footballer, manager, Corby Town 1943 Birthday John Paul Hammond, New York City, blues singer, So Many Roads 1943 Birthday John Maus, New York City, rock vocalist, Walker Brothers 1943 Birthday John Shepherd, cricketer, WI all-rounder 1969-71, later in South Africa 1943 Birthday Marlene Jobert, novelist, Adventures of John Difool 1943 Death John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23 1943 Birthday John Locke, rock keyboardist, Spirit-I Got A Line on You 1943 Birthday John Cipollina, San Francisco Cal, rock guitarist, Quicksilver Messenger Service 1943 Event Lt. John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands 1943 Birthday John Lodge, Birmingham, bassist, Moody Blues-Nights in White Satin 1943 Birthday John H Casper, Greenville, South Carolina, USAF/astronaut, STS-36, 54, 62, 77 1943 Birthday John Allen Strang, composer 1943 Birthday John Lilipaly, Dutch 2nd Chamber member, PvdA 1943 Birthday John "Poli" Palmer, rocker, Family K 1943 Birthday John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro, Wimbledon 1967, 70, 71 1943 Birthday Tommy John, pitcher, Yankee/Dodger 1943 Birthday John Oliver Creighton, born in Orange, Texas, Captain USN/astronaut, STS-51G, 36, 48 1943 Birthday John Montagu, born in England, 11th Earl of Sandwich, elected as a hereditary peer in the House of Lords, related to 4th Earl who popularized the sandwich 1943 Birthday John Major, British Prime Minister, C, 1990-97 1943 Birthday John Leeson, British Actor 1943 Birthday John Beck, Chic, actor, Mark-Dallas, Flamingo Road, Santa Barbara 1943 Birthday John Mica, American Politician 1943 Death John Burns, English minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies 1942 Birthday John Crowley, U.S., sci-fi author, Deep, Beasts, Novelty 1942 Birthday John Du Preez, cricketer, South Africa leg-spin all-rounder vs. Australia 1966-67 1942 Birthday John M. Spratt, Jr., born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Representative-D-South Carolina 1983 - 1942 Birthday John Spratt, American Politician 1942 Birthday John P "Jannie" Roux, South African sect to President, Botha/De Klerk 1942 Birthday Robin John Maconie, composer 1942 Event Fight at Matanikau, Guadalcanal (John Hersey-Into the Valley) 1942 Birthday John Taylor, jazz pianist 1942 Birthday John Linder, born in Deer, River, Minnesota, Representative-R-Georgia 1993 - 1942 Birthday John E Blaha, San Antonio, USAF/astronaut, STS-29, 33, 43, 58, 79/81 1942 Birthday John Meulendijks, Dutch cryptogram maker, People's Daily 1942 Birthday John F. Lehman, Jr., American Businessman 1942 Birthday John Pleshette, New York City, actor, Richard-Knots Landing, 7th Avenue 1942 Birthday John de Hont, Dutch guitarist, ZZ and Masks 1942 Birthday John Howard McGuire, composer 1942 Death John Kubris, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter, killed Heydrich, dies at 28 1942 Birthday John Rostill, born in Kings Norton, England, composer, bass guitarist, member, The Shadows, The Internst, rock and roll, pop genres 1942 Birthday John Daniel, British Vice-Chancellor, Open U 1942 Death John Barrymore, U.S. actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8), dies at 60 1942 Birthday John Ashcroft, American Public Servant 1942 Birthday John Martin Dalby, composer 1942 Birthday John Kyl, American Politician 1942 Birthday John Wayne Gacy, born in Chicago, Illinois, serial killer, 32 boys 1942 Birthday John Whittaker, English real estate developer, Peel Holdings 1942 Birthday John Cale, born in Wales, rock vocalist/keyboardist, Velvet Underground 1942 Birthday John Irving, born in New Hampshire, short-story writer, wrote World According to Garp 1942 Birthday John Lewis, Head Master, Eton College 1942 Birthday John London, bassist, Michael Nesmith band 1942 Birthday John McLaughlin, rock guitarist, Sentimental Journey/Clouds of Joy 1941 Birthday John Davidson, Pitts, TV host, Hollywood Squares, That's Incredible 1941 Birthday John Nelson, San Jose Costa Rica, conductor, Les Troyens of Berlioz 1941 Birthday John de Andrea, U.S. sculptor 1941 Death John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer (Plaskett's twins), dies 1941 Birthday John Snow, cricketer, fiery England quickie Unpopular with Aussies 1941 Birthday John Mackey, NFL tight end, Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers 1941 Birthday John A Wismont, Jr., California, watercolor painter, over 50,000 1941 Birthday John McNally, Liverpool, rock guitarist and vocalist, Searchers 1941 Birthday John Gould, British composer/musical comic 1941 Birthday John Jameson, cricketer, England batsman, 465 p/ship with Kanhai 1941 Birthday John Edgar Widerman, U.S. writer 1941 Death Pieter J Kromsigt, theologist/publicist (John Knox), dies at 74 1941 Birthday John Fred, born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, born John Fred Gourrier, musician, co-wrote chart-topping parody of The Beatles song 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' 1941 Death John R Locksmith de Brown, vicar/CHU-politician, dies at 71 1941 Birthday John Williams, born in Melbourne, Australia, guitarist, Academy Award 1941 Death John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Challenger), dies at 73 1941 Death John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73 1941 Birthday John Aprea, born in Englewood, New Jersey, actor, Lucas-Another World, Godfather 2 1941 Birthday John Hancock, born in Hazen, Arkansas, actor, Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights 1941 Birthday John Butterfill, born in Kingston upon Thames, England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament Bournemouth West 1941 Birthday John Hampshire, cricketer, of Yorkshire Century on debut for England 1969 1941 Birthday John Steel, rock drummer, Animals-House of the Rising Sun 1941 Death John Oxenham, British Journalist 1941 Birthday Long John Baldry, England, blues vocalist, Don't try to Lay No Boogie 1941 Birthday John E. Walker, English Scientist 1941 Birthday John Bennett Perry, born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, singer and actor, Falcon Crest 1940 Event John Van Druten's "Old Acquaintance," premieres in New York City 1940 Birthday John Alderton, Gainsborough England, actor, Zardoz 1940 Birthday Dr. John, Rebennack, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, vocalist, I Was in Right Place 1940 Birthday John Gotti, American Criminal 1940 Birthday Chris Farlowe, born in North London, England, John Henry Deighton, rocker, singer, soul, rhythm and blues, jazz rock, signed with Columbia and Immediate, once used pseudonym 'Little Joe Cook' 1940 Birthday John Lennon, English Musician 1940 Birthday John Warnock, American Scientist 1940 Birthday John Dawes, born in Chapel of Ease, Wales, rugby union player, rugby coach, captain for The Barbarians, British and Irish Lions, Wales 1940 Birthday Jack Thompson, John Pain, Sydney Australia, actor, Breaker Morant 1940 Birthday John Banham, director-general, CBI 1940 Birthday Jill St. John, Oppenheim, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Diamonds are Forever 1940 Event St. Louis Brown John Whitehead no-hits Detroit Tigers, 4-0 in 6 innings 1940 Birthday John W. Carlin, born in Salina, Kansas, politician, 40th Governor of Kansas 1979 - 1987, Archivist of the United States 1995 - 2005 1940 Event John Sigmund begins swimming for 89 hours 46 minutes in the Mississippi River 1940 Birthday John Pennel, pole vaulter, James E Sullivan Award-1963 1940 Birthday John Salvito, rocker, Duprees 1940 Birthday John Mahoney, born in Manchester, England, actor, Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out 1940 Birthday Dary John Mizelle, born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, composer, co-founder SOURCE magazine, works include, SPANDA Symphonies of Sound, 2006 1940 Birthday John William Stevens, jazz drummer 1940 Birthday John Irvin, actor, Moment in Time 1940 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) 1940 Birthday Jan Cremer, Dutch writer/sculptor, I, John Cremer 1940 Birthday John Havlicek, born in Martin's Ferry, Ohio, NBA hall-of-famer for the Boston Celtics 1940 Death John Gilmour, Scottish Politician 1940 Birthday John Lewis, born in Troy, Alabama, Representative-D-Georgia 1987 - 1940 Death John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor-General of Canada (1935-40), dies 1940 Birthday John Hurt, England, actor, Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express 1939 Birthday John Amos, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Good Times, Coming to America 1939 Birthday Martin Feldstein, economist, 1977 John Bates Clark Medal 1939 Birthday Rick Lenz, born in Springfield, Illinois, actor, Hec Ramsey, Scandalous John 1939 Birthday John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate 1939 Birthday John Cleese, born in Weston-super-Mare, England, comedian, Monty Python 1939 Birthday Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin, John F. Kennedy 1939 Birthday John Pilger, Australian Journalist 1939 Birthday John J. LaFalce, born in Buffalo, New York, Representative-D- New York 1975 - 2003 1939 Birthday John Stewart, born in San Diego, California, rocker, Kingston Trio-Fire in the Wind 1939 Birthday John Peel, British Entertainer 1939 Birthday John Badham, Luton England, director, Dracula, Short Circuit 1939 Event John Cobb (Britain) drives 365.85 MPH (593.48 KPH) at Bonneville Flats 1939 Birthday John W. Snow, American Economist 1939 Birthday John R West, rock guitarist, Gary Lewis and Playboys-This Diamond Ring 1939 Birthday John Howard, Australian Statesman 1939 Birthday John Negroponte, American Diplomat 1939 Birthday Marco St. John, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, actor, Rayford-Ball Four 1939 Death John Foulds, composer, dies at 58 1939 Birthday John Chilcot, civil servant 1939 Birthday John McCabe, born in Huyton, England, composer, pianist, wrote thirteen symphonies by age 11, composed Notturni ed Alba in 1970, ballets, string quartets, piano music, known for his concerti 1939 Birthday John DeLaFose, zydeco Musician 1939 Event John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published 1939 Birthday Mike Lowry, born in St. John, Washington, Representative-D-Washington 1979 - 1989, Governor of Washington 1993 - 1997 1939 Birthday John Fahey, singer, Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death 1939 Birthday John D Hancock, actor and director, Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights 1939 Birthday John Schuck, born in Boston, Massachusetts, comedian, McMillan and Wife, Holmes and Yoyo 1939 Birthday John M Fabian, Goosecreek, Texas, Col USAF/astronaut, STS-7, STS-51G 1939 Event Joe Louis KOs John Henry Lewis in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1938 Birthday Larry Bryggman, Concord California, actor, Dr. John Dixon-As the World Turns 1938 Birthday John Harris Harbison, Orange, New Jersey, composer 1938 Birthday John Agyekum Kufuor, Ghanaian Statesman 1938 Birthday John J Cale, Oklahoma City, rock guitarist, After Midnight 1938 Birthday John "Jack" Baines, mountaineering publisher 1938 Birthday John Reilly, Chicago, actor, Sean-General Hospital, Dallas, Hamptons 1938 Birthday John Asprey, British jeweler/multi-millionaire 1938 Birthday John Heinz III, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Senator-R-Pennsylvania 1977 - 1991 1938 Birthday John Dean III, former White House counsel, Watergate figure 1938 Event John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 350.2 MPH (lasts 1 day) 1938 Birthday Ronny Cox, actor/singer, Robocop, Dr. John Gideon-St. Elsewhere 1938 Birthday John Sparling, New Zealand cricket all-rounder, 11 Tests 1958-64 1938 Birthday John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge 1938 Birthday Ian St. John, Scottish Athlete 1938 Birthday John Prescott, British MP 1938 Birthday John R. Miller, Representative-R-Washington 1985 - 1993 1938 Birthday John Walters, British Musician 1938 Birthday Madge Sinclair, Kingston Jamaica, actress, Bell-Roots, Trapper John 1938 Birthday Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker 1938 Death Henry John Newbolt, poet/author (Studies Green and Gray), dies at 75 1938 Birthday John Weston, born in England, diplomat, UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council, 1992 - 1995, British Permanent Representative to the United Nations 1995 - 1998 1938 Death John Bates Clark, American Economist 1938 Birthday Charles Siebert, born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, actor, One Day at A Time, Trapper John 1938 Birthday John Corigliano, born in New York City, composer, Fern Hill, Ghosts of Versailles 1938 Birthday John Guare, U.S. writer, 6 degrees of Separation, Atlantic City, Taking Off 1938 Birthday John Bellairs, U.S., sci-fi author, Chessmen of Doom 1938 Birthday John Considine, actor, Reginald Love-Another World 1937 Birthday John Hartford, born in New York City, country singer, Gentle on My Mind 1937 Birthday John [Thomas] Sladek, U.S., sci-fi author, Tik-Tok, Bugs 1937 Event John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," premieres in New York City 1937 Birthday William E "Little Willie" John, Woods, U.S. R&B singer, Fever 1937 Birthday John Patrick Williams, born in Helena, Montana, Representative-D-Montana 1979 - 1997 1937 Birthday John Phillip Law, Hollywood, actor, Barbarella, Love Machine 1937 Birthday John Bernard, Dutch TV weatherman 1937 Birthday John Price, England cricket fast-medium bowler, 1964-72 1937 Birthday John Edrich, cricketer, England left-handed batsman, 310* vs. New Zealand 1965 1937 Death John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla 1937 Death John D. Rockefeller, American Businessman 1937 Event John Murray/Allen Boretz' "Room Service," premieres in New York City 1937 Birthday John Cope, MP/Paymaster General 1937 Death John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54 1937 Birthday John Ward, New Zealand cricket wicket-keeper, 8 Tests 1964 - 1968 1937 Birthday John MacGregor, British MP 1937 Birthday John Devitt, Australia, 100m freestyle swimmer 1960 Olympics gold 1937 Birthday John Ogdon, Manchester England, pianist/composer 1937 Birthday John Hume, Irish Politician 1937 Death John Felix August Korling, composer, dies at 72 1937 Death John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church, dies of pneumonia at age 55 1936 Event John Monks/Fred Finklehoff's "Brother Rat," premieres in New York City 1936 Birthday John Menzies, Scottish publisher/banker/multi-millionaire 1936 Birthday John Danforth, born in Missouri, Senator-R-Missouri 1977 - 1995 1936 Birthday John Olver, born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Massachusetts 1991 1936 Birthday John McCain, born in Panama, Representative-R-Arizona 1983 - 1986, Senator-R-Arizona 1987 - 1936 Birthday Lex Humphries, born in New York City, New York, drummer, music style mixed world music with jazz, worked with John Coltrane, Yusef Lateef 1936 Birthday John Poindexter, U.S. Chief of Staff 1936 Birthday D V Day, Principal, St. John's College, Durham U 1936 Birthday John Dancy, born in Jackson, Texas, newscaster, Prime Time Sunday 1936 Birthday John Burton-Hall, Dorset England, captain, QE2 1936 Event Phillies John Moore hits 3 consecutive home runs 1936 Birthday John Shalikashvili, Polish/US general, NATO 1936 Birthday Douglas John Gorman, businessman 1936 Birthday John Martin Tchicai, composer 1936 Birthday John D'Arcy, cricketer, New Zealand Test batsman on 1958 England tour 1936 Birthday John Madden, NFL coach for the Oakland Raiders/sports commentator, CBS, FOX 1936 Birthday John Albert, professor, Master of University College Oxford 1936 Birthday John White, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, musician, tuba player, invented Systems music, a British form of minimalism, influences include Howard Skempton, Cornelius Cardew 1936 Death John Larkin IV, actor and writer (Charlie Chan in Panama), dies at 63 1936 Birthday Roy Beggs, born in Ballyclare, Northern Ireland, John Robert Beggs, Ulster Unionist Party, Member of Parliament for East Antrim 1983 - 2005, known for his Euroscepticism, strong support of Northern Ireland's grammar schools 1936 Death John Hope, president of Atlanta University, dies at 67 1936 Birthday John Harris, British cricket player 1936 Birthday John Paul Cain, Sweetwater, Texas, PGA golfer, 1989 Greater Grand Rapids 1936 Death John Gilbert, actor (Love, Downstairs), dies at 40 1935 Birthday John L Finley, USAF/astronaut 1935 Death John H Aberson, 1st rector of Landbouw high school, dies at 78 1935 Birthday Peter John Welding, record producer 1935 Birthday Jerry Douglas, born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, actor, John Abbott-Young and Restless 1935 Birthday John Nicholas Maw, composer 1935 Death Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis, dies at 71 1935 Birthday John B Coleman, Boston, hotel magnate, Ritz Carlton 1935 Birthday John Palmer, Kingsport Tennessee, news anchor, NBC Weekend News 1935 Birthday John Phillips, singer/guitarist, Mama and Papas-California Dreaming 1935 Birthday Michael Holroyd, born in London, England, author, biographer, wrote biographies of George Bernard Shaw, Augustus John 1935 Birthday John McCartan, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, ice hockey player, Gold Medal 1960 Olympics 1935 Birthday John Saxon, born in Brooklyn, actor, Bees, Nightmare on Elm St, Electric Horseman 1935 Birthday John MacIvor Perkins, composer 1935 Birthday John David Crow, football player, Heisman Trophy 1957 1935 Birthday John Swan, raised in Deepdale, Bermuda, politician, United Bermuda Party, Premier of Bermuda 1982 - 1985 1935 Birthday Jim Dine, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, pop artist, St. John the Divine 1935 Birthday John Porter, born in Evanston, Illinois, Representative-R-Illinois 1980 - 2001 1935 Event 39th Boston Marathon won by John A Kelley of Mass in 2:32:07.4 1935 Birthday John Pepper Clark, born in Nigeria, writer, Horn, Song of a Goat 1935 Birthday Easton Dudley Ashton St. John McMorris, cricketer, WI batsman of 60's 1935 Birthday John Murray, cricketer, England 1961 - 1967, 1st wk called Murray to play Tests 1935 Birthday John Charles Eaton, composer 1935 Death John J R Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58 1935 Birthday Judd Hirsch, born in Bronx, actor, Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People 1935 Birthday John Gross, author, Age of Kipling, Dickens and 20th Century 1935 Birthday John R Block, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1981 - 1986 1935 Birthday John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys, supreme commander South Africa army 1980- 1935 Birthday John George Hughes, bishop of Kensington 1935 Birthday David John Lodge, English writer, Soul and Bodies 1934 Birthday John Akers, business executive 1934 Birthday John Ashley, born in Kansas City, Missouri, actor, Clipper-Straightaway 1934 Event John Van Druten's "Distaff Side," premieres in New York City 1934 Birthday John S Bull, Memphis Tennessee, astronaut 1934 Birthday John Brunner, Kilian Houston, UK, sci-fi author, 100th Millennium 1934 Birthday John Guy, cricketer, solid left-handed batsman for New Zealand in late 1950's 1934 Birthday John Stears, Middlesex England, special effects expert, Dr. No 1934 Birthday John M Chowning, composer 1934 Birthday John Standing, born in London, England, actor, Edward-Lime Street 1934 Death John Kane, Scotish/US miner/painter, dies at 73 1934 Birthday John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber, Annapurna I in 1970 1934 Birthday J E F "John" Beck, cricketer, lefty bat in 8 Tests for New Zealand 1953-56 1934 Birthday John Pardoe, CEO, Sight and Sound Education, Liberal MP 1934 Death John Dillinger, shot dead at Biograph Theater in Chicago, at 33 1934 Birthday Donald Sutherland, St. John NB, actor, M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers 1934 Birthday John V. Tunney, born in New York City, New York, heavyweight boxing champion, Representative-D-California 1965-1971 and Senator-D-California 1971 - 1977 1934 Event Yank pitcher John Broaca ties record by striking out 5 times 1934 Birthday Michael Mates, born in England, born Michael John Mates, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for East Hampshire 1934 Birthday John Robertson, deputy chairman, Barclays de Zoete Wedd 1934 Birthday John J. Sweeney, American Businessman 1934 Birthday John Barbour, born in Toronto, TV host, Real People 1934 Birthday John K. Barlow, English rubberplanter/financier/multi-millionaire 1934 Birthday Lindsay Oliver John Boynton, furniture historian 1934 Birthday John Roch, high court judge 1934 Death John Collier, British Artist 1934 Birthday John Lelliott, English contractor and multi-millionaire 1934 Birthday John D. Loudermilk, rock drummer/vocalist, Language of Love, Norman 1934 Birthday John Noakes, British TV presenter 1934 Birthday John Duffey, bluegrass musician 1934 Event John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol 1934 Death John McGraw, manager (New York Giants), dies at 60 1934 Birthday John Surtees, British race car driver 1934 Birthday John A. Ziegler, Jr., Grosse Pointe, Michigan, 4th NHL President, 1977-92 1934 Death Patrick O'Malley, U.S. policeman, killed by John Dillinger 1933 Death John Joly, Irish Scientist 1933 Birthday John Mayall, MacClesfield England, pop musician, Don't Washed Me Time 1933 Event John Dillinger escapes from Allen County, OH, jail 1933 Birthday John Gale, theatrical producer 1933 Birthday John Aniston, Crete, actor, Search for Tomorrow, Day of our Lives 1933 Birthday John C Gardner, scholar/writer, Grendel, Sunlight Dialogues 1933 Death John M Acket, literary (New Friends), dies at 70 1933 Birthday John Bradshaw, born in Houston, Texas, educator, speaker, author, popularized dysfunctional family, wrote 'Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child' 1933 Birthday John Sparrow, CEO, British Horseracing Betting Levy Board 1933 Birthday John Karlen, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Harvey Lacey-Cagney and Lacey 1933 Event Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay 1933 Birthday John Browning, Denver Colorado, pianist, Leventritt Award-1956 1933 Death John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author (Der Schwimmer), dies at 69 1933 Birthday John Mortimore, cricketer, England off-spinner 1959-64 1933 Birthday John Denison-Pender, born in England, John Willoughby Denison-Pender, Lord Pender, 3rd Baron Pender of Porthcurnow in the County of Cornwall 1933 Birthday John A. Llewellyn, born in Cardiff, Wales, astronaut 1933 Birthday Tim Rathbone, born in England, born John Rankin Rathbone, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Lewes from 1974 to 1997 1933 Birthday John Hall, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire 1933 Death John Galsworthy, England, writer (Forsythe, Nobel 1932), dies at 65 1933 Birthday John Boorman, producer/dir, Exorcist II, Deliverance, Zardoz 1933 Birthday Leonard John Coldwell, cricketer 1932 Event John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of New York City 1932 Birthday John Hillerman, Denison, Texas, actor, Magnum PI, Blazing Saddles 1932 Birthday Peter John Swales, football club chairman 1932 Birthday John Hillerman, actor, Magnum PI 1932 Birthday John Gary, Watertown, New York, singer 1932 Birthday John Barnes Chance, composer 1932 Death John Sharp Williams, American Politician 1932 Birthday John James Fenwick, English warehouse owner/multi-millionaire 1932 Event Dodger John Quinn, 49, is oldest pitcher to win a major league game 1932 Birthday John Searle, American Philosopher 1932 Birthday John Chilton, jazz trumpeter 1932 Event John McGraw retires from baseball 1932 Birthday John P. Murtha, born in New Martinsville, West Virginia, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1974 - 1932 Event Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) and bat in a run, as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2 1932 Birthday John Barrymore, Jr., born in Beverly Hills, California, actor, Pantomine Quiz 1932 Event John McGraw, who came to New York in 1902, resigns as manager of Giants 1932 Birthday John Grogery Dunne, U.S. writer, Up Close and Personal, True Confessions 1932 Birthday John Lyons, Cambridge England, Master, Trinity Hall 1932 Birthday John Armitage, principal, College of St. Hilda and St. Bede Durham 1932 Birthday John Clement, chairman, Unigate Group 1932 Birthday John Glen, Thames England, actor, Spy Who Loves Me, Backfire 1932 Birthday John Bond, cricket umpire 1932 Birthday John Gavin, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Felony, Jennifer, House of Shadows 1932 Birthday John Jakes, born in Chicago, writer, Sir Scoundrel, Great Women Reporters 1932 Birthday Wes Santee, born in Ashland, Kansas, runner, athlete, competed in 1,500-meter events, competed against Roger Bannister, John Landy 1932 Birthday John Updike, born in Reading, Pennsylvania, writer, novelist, art critic, literary critic, Pulitzer Prize winner 1932 Death John Philip Sousa, U.S. composer (Stars and Stripes Forever), dies at 77 1932 Birthday John Vernon, Canada, actor, Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry 1932 Event John Van Druten's "There's Always Juliet," premieres in New York City 1932 Birthday John Towner Williams, Flushing, New York, composer and conductor, Boston Pops 1932 Birthday John Hart, born in Denver, Colorado, newsman, CBS News Retrospective, NBC News 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 1931 Birthday John de Mol, Dutch vocalist/composer/producer 1931 Death John T "Legs" Diamond, U.S. gangster, murdered at 35 1931 Death John Hyatt Brewer, composer, dies at 75 1931 Death John P Lotsy, botanist/geneticist (Resumptio Genetics), dies at 64 1931 Birthday John Kerr, New York City, actor, South Pacific, Peyton Place, Pit and Pendulum 1931 Birthday John A Manke, U.S. test pilot, HL-10 1931 Birthday John Macchia, California, actor, Beach Blanket Bingo, Beach Party 1931 Birthday John LeCarre, Cornwell, England, spy novelist, Little Drummer Girl 1931 Birthday John Le Carre, English Author 1931 Death John Monash, Australian Soldier 1931 Birthday John E. Gilmore, tenor Saxophonist 1931 Birthday Matthew John Rinaldo, born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Representative-R-New Jersey 1973 - 1993 1931 Birthday John Leonard Swigert, Jr., Denver Colorado, astronaut, Apollo 13 1931 Birthday John Perkins, rocker, Crew Cuts 1931 Birthday John Shirley-Quirk, Liverpool England, baritone, Death in Venice 1931 Birthday John Shelby Spong, American Clergyman 1931 Birthday John Dellow, commisioner, London Metropolitan Police 1931 Birthday John Schrieffer, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1972 1931 Birthday John S. Horn, born in San Juan Bautista, California, Representative-R-California 1993 - 2003 1931 Birthday John Chapple, British chief of General Staff 1931 Birthday John Gabriel, Niagara Falls, New York, actor, Cat Gang, Fantasies 1931 Birthday John Bartlett, tennis player, Davis Cup captain-Britain 1931 Birthday John Chalstrey, alderman/Lord Mayor, London 1931 Birthday Ruth Etchells, principal, St. John's College-Durham 1931 Event John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on 1931 Birthday John Rae, British educator, Conscience and Politics 1931 Death John Atkinson, Irish Judge 1931 Birthday John McPhee, author, Back to ---- 1931 Birthday John Smith, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men 1931 Birthday John Hopkins, born in London, England, writer for film, television, edited screenplay 'Thunderball', television show 'Play for Today' 1930 Birthday John Morressy, U.S., sci-fi author, Starbrat, Greymantle, Kingsbane 1930 Birthday John Paul Schiffer, Senator R-Wyoming 1930 Birthday John Henry Mayer, composer 1930 Birthday John Arden, England, novelist/playwright, Left Handed Liberty 1930 Birthday John Polkinghorne, British Physicist 1930 Birthday Colin Dexter, born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England, author, crime writer of 13 detective novels and 33 episode television series featuring fictional character Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse, portrayed by John Thaw 1930 Birthday John Watts Young, born in San Francisco, California, astronaut, Gem 3 10, Apollo 10 16, STS-1 9 1930 Birthday Jim Rohn, born in Idaho, entrepreneur, author, motivational speaker, joined direct sales organization of John Earl Shoaff, became millionaire by age 31, shared rags to riches story and personal development philosophy with over 4 million people worldwide, authored 17 books, audio, video programs 1930 Event Winnipeg Rugby Football Club 1st game, loses to St. John's Rugby, 7-3 1930 Birthday John Daly, British trade union leader 1930 Birthday John Watts, chief of defense, Omani Armed Forces 1930 Birthday John Fairclough, British scientific adviser 1930 Birthday John G. Schmitz, American Politician 1930 Event Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City 1930 Birthday John Gorman, printer/socialist historian 1930 Birthday John Everett Watts, composer 1930 Birthday John Alabaster, cricketer, New Zealand most prolific leg-spinner with 49 wkts 1930 Birthday John Waine, bishop, Chelmsford 1930 Birthday John Barth, novelist, Sot-Weed Factor 1930 Birthday Christopher John Magenis Headington, composer 1930 Birthday John Robson, British ambassador, Norway 1930 Birthday John Bartholomew Tucker, born in Pennsylvania, TV host, Candid Camera, Treasure Island 1930 Birthday John Reardon, born in New York City, baritone, Falke-Die Fledermaus 1930 Birthday John Astin, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actor, I'm Dickens He's Fenster, Addams Family 1930 Birthday John Cullum, born in Knoxville, actor, Hamlet, Hawaii, Northern Exposure 1930 Birthday John Frankenheimer, New York City, director, Birdman of Alcatraz 1930 Birthday John Gilpin, English ballet dancer, Etudes, Alice in Wonderland 1930 Birthday John Junkin, actor and writer, A Hard Day's Night 1930 Birthday John Waite, cricket wicket-keeper, great South African 1929 Birthday John Osborne, England, playwright, Look Back in Anger, Luther-TONY 1964 1929 Birthday John Cassavetes, New York City, actor, Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby 1929 Birthday Betta St. John, Hawthorne California, actress, Corridors of Blood 1929 Event John Baldridge' "Berkeley Square," premieres in New York City 1929 Birthday Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist 1929 Death John Metzelaar, Dutch/US writer (Report on the Fishes), dies at 37 1929 Birthday John Zochonis, British multi-millionaire soap magnate 1929 Event John Schrober becomes chancellor of Austria 1929 Birthday John Rutherford, cricketer, one Test for Australia 1956 1929 Birthday John Stewart-Clark, MEP, C 1929 Birthday John Gutfreund, former CEO of investment bank, Salomon Brothers Inc., featured in book Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis 1929 Birthday John Milford, Johnstown, New York, actor, Lieutenant, Legend of Jesse James 1929 Birthday John Alldis, composer and conductor 1929 Birthday John Hannam, born in the United Kingdom, Member of Parliament for Exeter, Conservative Party 1929 Birthday Johnny Ace, born in Memphis, Tennessee, born John Marshall Alexander, Jr., singer, member of the B.B. King band, signed to Duke Records, toured with Willa Mae "Big Mama" Thornton 1929 Birthday John Morgan, British ambassador, to Mexico 1929 Birthday John Turner, born in Richmond, England, L, 17th Canadian PM, 1984 1929 Birthday Lord St. John of Fawsley 1929 Birthday John Conyers, Jr., born in Highland Park, Michigan, Representative-D-Michigan 1965 - 1929 Birthday John Conyers, American Politician 1929 Death John Scalise, U.S. gangster, murdered by Al Capone 1929 Birthday John Polk Allen, Carnegie, Oklahoma, CEO, Biosphere 2 1929 Birthday John Taylor, bishop, St. Albans, Lord High Almoner to Queen 1929 Birthday John S Ragin, Newark, New Jersey, actor, Dr. Astin-Quincy ME 1929 Birthday Nigel Hawthorne, actor, Tartuffe, Pope John Paul II 1929 Birthday Michael Ryan, actor, John Randolph-Another World 1929 Death John Ebenezer West, composer, dies at 65 1929 Birthday John Polanyi, Berlin, Canadian chemist, Nobel 1986 1929 Birthday John Charles Polanyi, Canadian Scientist 1929 Birthday John Naisbitt, born in Salt Lake City, Utah, author, public speaker, futures studies, wrote, 'Megatrends', 1982, sold over 9 million copies in 57 countries, special assistant to Lyndon B. Johnson 1928 Event John McGraw backs NL President John Heydler's designated hitter idea 1928 Event NL President John Heydler proposes designated hitter for pitchers 1928 Birthday John Colicos, Toronto, actor, Battlestar Galactica 1928 Birthday John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer/climber 1928 Birthday John Lupton, Highland Park, Illinois, actor, Tom-Broken Arrow 1928 Birthday John B. Keane, Irish Playwright 1928 Birthday John Bratby, painter/writer, Breakdown 1928 Event 1st color TV broadcast in London (John Logic Baird) 1928 Birthday John Wills, lord-lt of Avon England 1928 Birthday John S. Bell, Irish Physicist 1928 Birthday John Forbes Nash, American Mathematician 1928 Birthday John Reid, cricketer, prolific New Zealand batsman 1949 - 1965 1928 Birthday John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher 1928 Birthday John Keith Wright, English economist and Assistant Secretary of State, 1971 - 1984 1928 Birthday Pernell Roberts, Waycross, Georgia, actor, Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD 1928 Event John McGraw is knocked down by a taxicab and suffers a broken leg 1928 Birthday Theodore Sorenson, presidential advisor, John F. Kennedy, author, 1000 Days 1928 Birthday John Ingle, actor, Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital 1928 Birthday John Horlock, British vice-chancellor, Open College 1928 Birthday John Gavin, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Back Street, Psycho, Murder for Sale 1928 Birthday John William Fozard, aircraft designer 1927 Birthday John Carter, Center Ridge, Arkansas, actor, Max-Falcon Crest 1927 Birthday John Britton, English Mathematician 1927 Birthday John Sainsbury, English billionaire 1927 Birthday John Eric Tieman, production manager, The Guardian 1927 Birthday John Downey, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, pianist, conductor, professor of composition and theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founder, director of the Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum 1927 Birthday John Buller, born in England, composer, known for Proenca, written for electric guitar, mezzo-soprano and orchestra, one of his sons is Ed Buller, a record producer 1927 Birthday Elvin Jones, born Pontiac, Michigan, musician, jazz drummer, played hard bop, avant-garde jazz, post-bop, member of John Coltrane quartet, appearing in A Love Supreme 1927 Birthday John Hoskyns, director-general, Institute of Directors 1927 Death John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75 1927 Birthday John Freeland, Legal advisor U.K. foreign office 1927 Birthday John Warr, England, cricket bowler, avg 281, president, MCC 1927 Birthday John William Chancellor, born in Chicago, Illinois, news anchor, NBC, VOA 1927 Birthday John Ashbery, American Poet 1927 Birthday John M Dengler, jazz bass sax/trumpet/trombone 1927 Birthday John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher 1927 Birthday John Aspinall, owner, casino, zoos 1927 Birthday John Kelly, Jr., U.S., sculls, Olympic-bronze-1956, brother of Grace Kelly 1927 Birthday John Walford, solicitor 1927 Birthday John McDermott, Lord Justice of Appeal, Northern Ireland 1927 Birthday John Gilbert, born in England, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Dudley East, life peer as Baron Gilbert, of Dudley in the County of West Midlands 1927 Birthday John McLaughlin, commentator, McLaughlin Report 1927 Birthday John McLaughlin, TV commentator, McLaughlin Group 1927 Birthday John Vane, FRS/pharmacologist 1927 Birthday John Pierre Herman Joubert, composer, Chamber Music for brass quintet 1927 Birthday John Harold Kander, composer, Cabaret, Funny Lady, Kramer vs. Kramer 1927 Birthday John Beckwith, composer 1927 Birthday John Fairchild, born in Newark, New Jersey, CEO, Fairchild publishing 1927 Birthday John Swire, British aircraft magnate, Cathay Pacific 1927 Event John Golden Theater (Theatre Masque) opens at 252 W 45th St. New York City 1927 Birthday John Warner, American Politician 1927 Birthday John T. Myers, born in Covington, Indiana, Representative-R-Indiana 1967 - 1997 1927 Event NL President John Heydler rules Rogers Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals and play for the Giants 1927 Birthday John Hayes, cricketer, New Zealand fast bowler in 15 Tests 1951-58 1926 Birthday John Herbert McDowell, composer 1926 Death John M Brown, U.S. weapons constructer, dies 1926 Event John C Garand patents semi-automatic rifle 1926 Birthday John Dewes, cricketer, England opener late 40's early 50's 1926 Birthday John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor, Sam Bolt-Honey West 1926 Birthday John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist, Round Midnight 1926 Birthday John Knowles, U.S. writer, Morning in Antibes 1926 Birthday John R[obert] Jones, U.S., sci-fi author, White Regiment, Lizard War 1926 Birthday John Derek, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, 10, Annapolis Story 1926 Event Don Juan with John Barrymore shown 1926 Birthday John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer 1926 Birthday John Graham, British ambassador to NATO 1926 Birthday John Dingell, born Colorado Springs, Colorado, Representative-D-Michigan 1955 - 1926 Birthday John Dingell, American Politician 1926 Birthday John Lucarotti, scriptwriter 1926 Event 52nd Preakness: John Maiben aboard Display wins in 1:59.8 1926 Birthday John Hamilton-Jones, CEO, Richmond Enterprises, British Major-General 1926 Birthday John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, born in England, 11th Duke of Marlborough, justice of the peace, cousin of Sir Winston Churchill 1926 Birthday John Fowles, born in England, novelist, Collector, French Leiutenent's Woman 1926 Birthday John Heddle Nash, singer 1926 Birthday John C. Holmes, U.S. writer, Horn 1926 Birthday John Clellon Holmes, American Writer 1926 Birthday John Schlesinger, born in London, England, director, Midnight Cowboy, Darling 1926 Birthday John Clark, CEO, Plessey Company 1926 Birthday John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer 1926 Event 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London 1926 Birthday John "Jack" Layden, local politician 1925 Birthday David Doyle, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actor, John Bosley-Charlie's Angels 1925 Birthday John Balcombe, Lord Chief Justice of Appeal 1925 Birthday John Tower, born in Houston, Texas, Senator-R-Texas 1961 - 1985 1925 Death John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 52 1925 Birthday John Gillett, film researcher 1925 Birthday John Hawkes, U.S. writer, 2nd Skin 1925 Birthday John Howard Purnell, scientist 1925 Birthday Ernst Jandl, born in Vienna, Austria, writer, poet, influenced by Dada, translated Gertrude Stein, Robert Creeley's The Island and John Cage's Silence 1925 Death John Pieter Veth, painter/lithographer/etcher/writer, dies at 61 1925 Event Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial 1925 Birthday Pierre Salinger, newsman, ABC, press secretary, John Kennedy 1925 Birthday Roy Hughes, born in Pontllanfraith, Wales, born Royston John Hughes, Baron Islwyn, politician, Labor Party, union organizer, Member of Parliament for Newport, Member of Parliament for Newport East 1925 Birthday John Keith Laumer, Anthony LeBaron, U.S., science fiction author, Retief's War 1925 Birthday Gerard John Toorenaar, political commissar in Amsterdam, 1975-79 1925 Birthday John Moberly, diplomat 1925 Death John [Denton Pinkstone] French, British field marshall (WWI), dies at 72 1925 Birthday John Simon, theater critic, New York Times 1925 Event John T. Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee 1925 Birthday John Neville, actor, Adventures of Baron Munchausen 1925 Birthday John Yates, bishop, Lambeth England 1925 Death John Singer Sargent, U.S. portrait painter, dies at 69 1925 Birthday John Knox, British supreme court justice 1925 Birthday John Wells, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Maidstone, educated at Eton College and Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1925 Birthday John E. Grotberg, born in Winnebago, Minnesota, Representative-R-Illinois 1985 - 1986 1925 Birthday John D Erlichman, Politician, Nixon aide, Watergate 1925 Birthday John Ehrlichman, American Politician 1925 Event Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a bishop 1925 Birthday John Barrington Wain, born in England, novelist and poet, Hurry on Down 1925 Birthday John Wain, English Poet 1925 Birthday John Fiedler, Platville Wisconsin, actor, Mr Peterson-Newhart 1925 Death John F Mellaerts, Flemish social founder (Boerenbond), dies at 79 1925 Birthday John Bury, born in England, theatre designer of sets, costumes, and lighting, made Amadeus with Peter Hall, nominated for multiple Tony awards 1925 Event John Howard Lawson's "Processional," premieres in New York City 1925 Birthday John DeLorean, former automaker, DeLorean 1925 Birthday John DeLorean, American Businessman 1925 Event French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, and Hugh Jennings 1924 Birthday Errol John, Port-of-Spain Trinidad, actor, PT-109, Assault on a Queen 1924 Birthday John Portman, born in South Carolina, architect, Ivan Allen Award-1964 1924 Birthday John Backus, inventor, FORTRAN computer language 1924 Birthday John Vassall, spy/civil servant 1924 Birthday John Michael Grimes, set Designer 1924 Birthday John Melcher, Sioux City, Iowa, Representative-D-Montana 1969 - 1977, Senator-D-Montana 1977 - 1989 1924 Birthday John A Emmens, art historian/poet, Kunst and Vliegwerk 1924 Birthday John Milne, CEO, Blue Circles Industries 1924 Death John Henry Roberts, composer, dies at 76 1924 Birthday John Kilgour, director of prison medical services, Home Office 1924 Birthday John Cruickshank, French scholar 1924 Event 50th Kentucky Derby: John Mooney aboard Black Gold wins in 2:05.2 1924 Event 50th Preakness: John Merimee aboard Nellie Morse wins in 1:57.2 1924 Birthday John Harvey-Jones, CEO, ICI 1924 Birthday John Grigg, British historian 1924 Death John Frederick Bridge, composer, dies at 79 1924 Event 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago 1924 Death Gee John, U.S. mobster (1st executed in gas chamber-Nevada), dies 1924 Birthday Jan Willem Radecker, sculptor/son of John Raedecker 1923 Birthday Angelo John Novarese, record company founder 1923 Event Giants defeat Baltimore Orioles 9-0 to benefit former Giants owner John Day 1923 Event John Harwood patents self-winding watch (Switzerland) 1923 Birthday Mary McCarty, Winfield, Kansas, actress and singer, Starch-Trapper John MD 1923 Birthday John Hale, born in Ashford, Kent, linguist, historian, professor, editor, attended Johns Hopkins University, Harvard University, served as a Fellow of the British Academy 1923 Birthday John Holt, Jr., cricketer, WI batsman in 17 Tests, 1066 runs at 36 75 1923 Birthday John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner 1923 Birthday John McKay, West Virginia, football coach, USC, Tampa Bay, 5 time Rose Bowl champ 1923 Birthday Jimmy Cameron, cricketer, brother of John WI batsman 1948-49 1923 Birthday John Compton, born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, actor, Shannon-D.A.'s Man 1923 Birthday John Lea, British Vice-Admiral 1923 Birthday John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer, Friends in High Places 1923 Birthday John Dugdal, Lord-Lt, Salop 1923 Birthday John Mortimer, English Novelist 1923 Birthday John Holt, Australian Statesman 1923 Birthday John Watkins, cricketer, South African all-rounder in 15 Tests 49-57 1923 Death John Venn, British Philosopher 1923 Birthday John Smith, English large landowner/financier/MP, C 1922 Birthday John B McKay, U.S. test pilot, X-15 1922 Birthday John Pinsent, classical scholar 1922 Birthday John Chafee, born in Providence, Rhode Island, Senator-R-Rhode Island 1976 - 1999 1922 Birthday John Weidner, war hero 1922 Birthday John Anderson, Clayton, Illinois, actor, Virgil-Legend of Wyatt Earp 1922 Event Giants beat St. Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant 1922 Birthday John Farr, born in Nottingham, England, Sir John Arnold Farr, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Harborough 1959 - 1992, served with Royal Navy during World War II 1922 Birthday Janis Paige, born in Tacoma, Washington, actress, Lanigan's Rabbi, Trapper John MD 1922 Birthday MacKenzie John, pipe major 1922 Birthday John W. Vessey, Jr., American Soldier 1922 Death John C Kapteyn, astronomer, dies at 71 1922 Birthday John Veale, composer 1922 Birthday John Bromfield, born in South Bend, Indiana, actor, Easy to Love 1922 Birthday John McNamara, baseball player 1922 Birthday John West, vice chancellor, Bradford University 1922 Birthday John Heerbecq, Church commissioner 1922 Birthday John Alderson, chief constable, Devon and Cornwall UK 1922 Birthday John Ernest, constructionist artist 1922 Birthday John Paul Hammerschmidt, born in Harrison, Arkansas, Representative-R-Arkansas 1967 - 1993 1922 Birthday John Braine, English novelist, Life at the Top 1922 Event John Willard's "Cat and the Canary," premieres in New York City 1922 Death John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89 1921 Birthday John V Lindsay, Mayor-R/D-NY, 1965-73 1921 Birthday John V. Lindsay, Politician 1921 Birthday John Lindsay, American Politician 1921 Birthday Rodney Dangerfield, John Cohen, Babylon, New York, comedian, Caddyshack 1921 Birthday John Willard Peterson, composer 1921 Death John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81 1921 Birthday John Arthur Giles Gere, English art historian, Pre-Raphaelite painter 1921 Birthday John Hendricks, lyricist singer, Lambert, Hendricks and Ross 1921 Death John M Martin, last confederate congress member, dies 1921 Birthday John Christopherson, artist/collector 1921 Birthday John Glenn, born in Cambridge, Ohio, astronaut, Mercury 7, STS-95, Senator-D-Ohio 1921 Birthday John Money, New Zealander Psychologist 1921 Birthday John Harrison, British vice admiral/surgeon 1921 Birthday John Garlick, British senior civil servant 1921 Birthday John van Kesteren, Dutch tenor, Komische Oper, West-Berlin 1921 Birthday John Stott, British Clergyman 1921 Birthday John Bouber, Blom, actor/author, Fool of Heideloo 1921 Birthday John Rawls, American Educator 1921 Birthday John M Pritchard, born in London, England, conductor 1921 Birthday John Agar, Chicago, actor, Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima 1921 Birthday John Doucette, Brockton Massachusetts, actor, Lock Up, Big Town 1921 Birthday Dehl Berti, born in Pueblo, Colorado, actor, John Taylor-Guns of Paradise 1921 Birthday John Henry Davis, Jr., Smithtown, New York, weightlifter, Olym-gold-1948, 52 1921 Birthday John Russell, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Pale Rider, Rio Bravo 1920 Birthday John Richard Ravensdale, historian 1920 Birthday John Smith, CEO, Liverpool FC 1920 Death John A "Jacky" Kilverston, Admiral/designer (dreadnought), dies at 79 1920 Birthday John Ayers Lessard, composer 1920 Birthday John Howard Griffin, U.S., photographer/author, Black Like Me 1920 Birthday John Heawood, actor/singer/choreographer, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 1920 Birthday John Harsanyi, American Educator 1920 Birthday John Cruickshank, banker 1920 Birthday Pope John Paul II, Polish Pope 1920 Death John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies 1920 Birthday John Henderson, Lord-Lieutenant, Berkshire England 1920 Birthday John Hidalgo Moya, architect/designer, Skylon 1920 Event John Galsworthy's "Skin Game," premieres in London 1920 Birthday John Paul Stevens, born in Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice, 1975- 1920 Birthday John William Farr, born in Detroit, bank robber, FBI Most Wanted List 1920 Death John Conrad Nordqvist, composer, dies at 80 1920 Birthday John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice 1920 Birthday William Butterfield, born in England, born William John Hughes Butterfield, Lord Butterfield, life peer as Baron Butterfield of Stechford, Order of the British Empire, medical researcher, clinician, administrator 1920 Birthday John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, Poland, Pope, 1978- 1920 Birthday John La Montaine, born in Oak Park, Illinois, composer, Pulitzer 1959 1920 Birthday John Addison, born in Surrey, England, composer, Tom Jones-Academy Award 1920 Birthday David Wright, born in Johannesburg, South Africa, given name David John Murray Wright, editor of 'X', autobiography 'Deafness. A Personal Account' gives insight into deafness 1920 Birthday John Hartford Worlock, rC Bishop of Liverpool 1920 Birthday John Logan Gorlay, journalist 1920 Birthday Richard John Copeland Atkinson, archaeologist 1920 Birthday John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Philadelphia, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY 1920 Birthday John Junor, British editor in chief, Sunday Express 1920 Birthday John Cardinal O'Connor, American Clergyman 1920 Birthday John Powell, campaigner 1920 Birthday John Maynard Smith, English Scientist 1919 Death John Alcock, pilot (1st non-stop over Atlantic), dies in crash at 27 1919 Birthday John Silverlight, journalist 1919 Birthday John McCarthy, composer 1919 Birthday John Secondari, Rome, Italy, newscaster, Open Hearing 1919 Death John Harry, cricket wicketkeeper (Australia one Test 1895, one catch), dies 1919 Birthday Daniel John Chapman Cunningham, physiologist 1919 Birthday John Moroney, cricketer, Australian opener 1949-51 1919 Birthday Boyd Bradfield Upchurch, John Boyd, U.S., sci-fi author, IQ Merchant 1919 Birthday John Meade, born in Ireland, 7th Earl of Clanwilliam, a title in the Peerage of Ireland created in 1776 for John Meade, who served as Attorney-General for Ireland 1919 Event New York City welcomes home General John J Pershing and 25,000 WW I soldiers 1919 Birthday John Noorda, resistance fighter 1919 Event John Reed forms American Communist Labor Party in Chicago 1919 Event General John Smuts becomes premier of South Africa 1919 Birthday John Cox, Flemish/U.S. painter/dir, Museum of Fine Physician, Boston 1919 Birthday John Pinkerton, compuer scientist 1919 Death John W. S. Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies at 76 1919 Death Lord John WS Raleigh, British physicist (Nobel 1904), dies 1919 Birthday John Eldridge, CEO, Matthews Wrightmson 1919 Birthday John Michael Hayes, born in Massachusetts, screenwriter, scripted several famous Alfred Hitchcock films 1919 Birthday John Goddard, cricketer, West Indian all-rounder 1948-57 1919 Birthday John Presper Eckert, co-inventor, 1st electronic computer-ENIAC 1919 Birthday McGeorge Bundy, born in Boston, national security adviser, John F. Kennedy 1919 Birthday John Duncan, Sr., born in Tennessee, Representative-R-Tennessee 1965 - 1988 1919 Birthday John Gregson, born in Liverpool England, actor, Gideon CID, Shirley's World 1919 Event NL President John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team and threw games in collusion with gamblers 1919 Death John C F, son of English king George V, dies at 13 1919 Event John McGraw, Charles A Stoneham, and Judge McQuade buy New York Giants 1918 Event John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover 1918 Event John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League 1918 Death John Ireland, Irish/U.S. archbishop of St. Paul, dies at 80 1918 Birthday John Berger, politician 1918 Birthday John F. Seiberling, born in Akron, Ohio, Representative-D-Ohio, 1971 - 1986 1918 Birthday Martha Mitchell, wife of Attorney General John Mitchell 1918 Birthday John Bunting, senior civil servant 1918 Birthday John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla, 264th Roman Catholic pope, 1978- 1918 Birthday John Johnston, British diplomat, Rhodesia, Malaysia 1918 Birthday John Alfred Scali, journalist/correspondent, ABC 1918 Birthday John Baragrey, born in Haleyville, Alabama, actor, Creeper, Colossus of New York 1918 Birthday John Gray, FRS/marine biologist 1918 Birthday John Read, CEO, TSB Group 1918 Birthday John Intoxication, resistance fighter 1918 Death John L Sullivan, Massachusetts, heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 59 1918 Birthday Maurice Laing, life president, John Laing 1918 Birthday John Forsythe, born in New Jersey, actor, Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty 1918 Death John McCrae, Canadian poet/physician, dies 1918 Birthday John McLiam, Alberta, actor, Parker-Men From Shiloh 1918 Birthday John H. Johnson, American Businessman 1917 Birthday John Whiting, British dramatist/actor, Saint's Day 1917 Death John W. Foster, American Soldier 1917 Birthday John Lee Hooker, born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, blues guitarist, Canned Heat 1917 Event Sunday benefit baseball game at Polo Grounds results in John McGraw and Christy Mathewson's arrest for violating Blue laws 1917 Birthday John Cunningham, executive director, British Aerospace 1917 Birthday John Hillaby, writer/traveller 1917 Birthday John Stokes, born in England, politician, Conservative Party Member of Parliament, The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, member of the Conservative Monday Club, Primrose League 1917 Birthday John F. Kennedy, born in Brookline, Massachusetts, Senator-D-Massachusetts 1947 - 1953, 35th President 1961 - 1963 1917 Birthday "Papa" John Creach, violinist 1917 Birthday Pape John Creech, rocker, Hot Tuna, Jefferson Airplane 1917 Birthday Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman 1917 Birthday John Arnatt, actor, Circumstantial Evidence 1917 Birthday John Beradino, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Steve Hardy-General Hospital 1917 Birthday John Gardner, composer 1917 Birthday John B. Connally, Gov/Sen-D/R-Tx, took a bullet with John F. Kennedy 1917 Birthday John Connally, Gov-D/R-Texas, shot in Kennedy motorcade 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 John Raitt, born in Santa Ana California, actor/singer, Chevy Show, Pajama Game 1917 Birthday John Raitt, Bonnie Raitt's father/singer/actor, Pajama Game 1916 Birthday John Boon, publisher 1916 Death John Francis Barnett, composer, dies at 79 1916 Birthday William John Elwyn Davies, painter 1916 Birthday John Lapsley, British air marshal 1916 Birthday John Jacob Rhodes, born in Council Grove, Kansas, Representative-R-Arizona 1953 - 1983 1916 Birthday John Thoday, geneticist 1916 Birthday John Slater, born in London, England, actor, Deadlock, Cartel, Devil's Pass 1916 Birthday William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist 1916 Birthday John de Young, resistance fighter 1916 Birthday John Clark, born in Hampton, Iowa, actor, Graveyard of Horror 1916 Birthday John D. MacDonald, novelist, Deep Blue Goodbye 1916 Birthday John Ciardi, poet and critic, translated Dante 1916 Birthday John Young, actor/TV panelist, Masquerade Party 1916 Birthday John Vivyan, actor, Mr Lucky, Wrong Man, Imitation of Life 1916 Birthday John McIntyre, theologian 1916 Birthday John Hinde, photographer/circus promoter 1916 Birthday John Vivyan, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Imitation of Life, Mr. Lucky 1916 Birthday John Paul, Governor-General, Bahamas 1916 Birthday John Corner, scientist 1916 Birthday John Oliver Killens, novelist 1915 Birthday John P. W. Meefout, Dutch sculptor, Laying Woman 1915 Event St. John Ervine's "John Ferguson," premieres in Dublin 1915 Birthday John Dehner, Forkum, Staten Is, New York, actor, Big Hawaii, Bare Essence 1915 Birthday John Conte, Plamer Massachusetts, actor, Mantovani 1915 Event John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll 1915 Event 21st U.S. Golf Open: John Travers shoots a 297 at Baltusrol Golf Club New Jersey 1915 Birthday John Tukey, American Scientist 1915 Birthday John Randolph, New York City, actor, King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie 1915 Event John B. Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll 1915 Birthday Paul A. Samuelson, economist, 1970 Nobel, 1947 John Bates Clark Medal 1915 Birthday John Habakkuk, principal, Jesus College in Oxford 1915 Birthday John Egerton, born in England, born John Egerton, 6th Duke of Sutherland, served with British Expeditionary Force, captured at St. Valery, spent four years in a prisoner of war camp 1915 Birthday John Archer, Osceola Nebraska, actor, Destination: Moon 1915 Birthday John Arnold, British high court judge 1915 Death John Bunny, American Actor 1915 Birthday John Freeman, British politician, Labour, ambassador/TV host 1915 Birthday John D. Profumo, born in England, politician 1915 Birthday John Lilly, American Scientist 1915 Birthday John Hope Franklin, historian 1914 Death John Muir, American Environmentalist 1914 Birthday Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist 1914 Birthday John Berryman, American poet, Friends and Associates 1914 Birthday John Reed King, Atlantic City, New Jersey, TV host, Why?, Let's See 1914 Birthday John Mosely, recording expert/entrepreneur 1914 Birthday John Kluge, Chemnitz Germany, media CEO, Metromedia, billionaire 1914 Event John French evacuate Amiens 1914 Death John Weiss, German new testament, dies 1914 Event British field marshal John French and General Wilson land in France 1914 Death John Philip Holland, submarine designer, dies 1914 Event John Wray patents animation 1914 Event John French appointed British supreme commander 1914 Birthday William John Phillips, actor, Nothing but a Man 1914 Birthday John G Bearer, writer, Metro, Drunken Canary, Fast Heartbeat 1914 Birthday John J "John" Beautiful Garden, sculptor 1914 Birthday John Hersey, American Writer 1914 Event 40th Kentucky Derby: John McCabe aboard Old Rosebud wins in 2:03.4 1914 Birthday John Hubbard, born in Indiana Harbor, Indiana, actor, Don't Call Me Charlie 1914 Birthday John Hodiak, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat 1914 Birthday John Gregory, dancer 1914 Birthday John Cameron, cricketer, brother of Jimmy WI v-captain 1939 England tour 1914 Birthday John Beith, British diplomat 1914 Birthday Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee, blues musician, Down and Out Blues 1914 Death John Murray, piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island, dies 1914 Birthday John Arlott, cricketer, the doyen of cricket commentators and writers 1914 Death John Tenniel, British illustrator (Alice in Wonderland), dies at 93 1914 Birthday John Daly, South Africa, newscaster/TV game show host, What's My Line 1914 Birthday John Ireland, Vancouver BC, actor, Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral 1914 Birthday Edqard John Gurney, politician 1913 Birthday John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, English art historian 1913 Event John K Tener becomes president of baseball's National League 1913 Birthday John K M McCaffery, Moscow Idaho, TV host, One Minute Please 1913 Birthday John McGiver, New York City, actor, Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show 1913 Event John McGraw, after drinking, blames Wilbert Robinson's coaching mistakes for World Series lose, Robertson blames McGraw and is fired 1913 Birthday John Mitchell, Nixon's attorney general who went to jail 1913 Birthday John N. Mitchell, American Politician 1913 Birthday John Terence Reese, bridge master 1913 Birthday John Cairncross, linguist, 5th Man 1913 Birthday George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer, Serf, John Socman 1913 Birthday John Kubris, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter 1913 Birthday John Elliott Terry, managing director, National Film Finance Corp 1913 Birthday John Edmunds, composer 1913 Death Lord Avebury, John Lubbock, British banker/politician, dies 1913 Death John Lubbock, British Statesman 1913 Event John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation 1913 Birthday Lord Aberconway, CEO, John Brown and Co 1913 Birthday John Howard, born in Cleveland, Ohio, actor, Dave-My Three Sons 1913 Death John Pierpont Morgan, U.S. banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies at 75 1913 Death John Thomas, composer, dies at 87 1913 Birthday John Jacob Weinzweig, born in Toronto, Canada, composer, Enchanted Hill 1913 Birthday John Grandy, Brits RAF-marshal 1913 Birthday John Lund, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Wackiest Ship in the Army 1913 Birthday Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist 1912 Birthday John W. Pritchard, Ian Wallace, U.S., sci-fi author, Megalomania 1912 Death John P. Jones, American Politician 1912 Birthday John Paul I, Albino Luciano, 263rd Roman Catholic pope, 1978 1912 Birthday Pope John Paul I, Pope 1912 Birthday John W. Gardner, American Educator 1912 Birthday John de Mol, Dutch accordianist/producer, Baantjer, Pril Geluk 1912 Birthday John Cage, born in Los Angeles, California, composer, Imaginary Landscape No 1/O'O 1912 Event 18th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 294 at CC of Buffalo NY 1912 Birthday John Dacie, hematologist 1912 Birthday John Toland, U.S., political writer, Rising Sun, Pulitzer 1971 1912 Birthday John B M R "John" Hanlo, Dutch poet, Go to the Mosque 1912 Birthday John Cheever, writer, Wapshot Chronicle 1912 Birthday John Payne, Roanoke, Virginia, actor, Restless Gun 1912 Birthday John Lapworth Holt, boat Designer 1912 Birthday John Halas, animator 1912 Birthday John Larkin, born in Oakland California, actor, Saints and Sinners, 12 O'Clock High 1912 Birthday John Adrian Hope, politician and businessman 1912 Birthday John Le Mesurier, born in Bedford, England, actor, Jabberwocky, Dad's Army 1912 Birthday John Payne, born in Roanoke, Virginia, actor, Dodsworth, Razor's Edge 1912 Birthday John Amery, British Politician 1912 Birthday John Garfield, born in New York City, actor, Air Force, Destination: Tokyo, Juarez 1912 Birthday John Edward Christopher Hill, English Historian 1911 Death John Bigelow, American Lawyer 1911 Birthday John Archibald Wheeler, born in Florida, American theoretical physicist, coined terms black hole, wormhole 1911 Event 17th U.S. Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago Golf Club in Illinois 1911 Birthday Edgar Beck, president, John Mowlem 1911 Birthday John Rhea "Yank" Lawson, trumpeter 1911 Birthday Augustus John "Gus" Risman, rugby league player 1911 Birthday John Paxton, screenwriter, On The Beach, Kotch, Farewell My Lovely 1911 Birthday John Sturges, U.S., director, Old Man and Sea, Magnificent 7 1910 Birthday John Kerr, New Zealand, cricketer, opening batsman in 1930's 1910 Birthday John Hammond Sr, New York City, rock/jazz producer, I Can Tell, So Many Roads 1910 Death John LaFarge, American Artist 1910 Birthday John "Cardinal" Krol, former archbishop, Philadelphia 1910 Birthday John Wooden, basketball coach, UCLA-10 national championships 1910 Birthday Eugene John Weigel, composer 1910 Birthday John Shea, U.S., 500m/1500m speed skater 1932 Olympics gold 1910 Death John YWJ Eilerts de Cock, sea officer (Suriname), dies at 44 1910 Birthday John Francis Boyd, journalist 1910 Birthday John W. Campbell, U.S., sci-fi writer, Moon is Hell 1910 Birthday Ben Aerden, John Mikkelsen, actor, Hamlet 1910 Birthday Constance Cummings, Wash, actress, John and Julie, 7 Sinners, Glamour 1910 Birthday John Beavan, newspaper editor 1910 Event John Galsworthy's "Justice," premieres in London 1910 Birthday John Banner, Vienna Austria, actor, Sergeant Hans Schultz-Hogan's Heroes 1910 Birthday Arthur John Howard, actor, Frieda, Last Holiday, Paradiso, Glass Cage 1909 Birthday Donald John Urquhart, librarian 1909 Birthday John Megaw, British Lord Justice of Appeal 1909 Birthday John Ridgely, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Northern Pursuit, Air Force 1909 Birthday John Beal, Joplin, Missouri, actor, 10 Who Dare, I Am the Law, Amityville 3D 1909 Birthday John Baur, museum director/author, American Paintings in 19th Century 1909 Event John A. Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League 1909 Birthday John Edward "Teddy" Buckner, trumpeter 1909 Birthday John Cochrane, South African cricket pace bowler, one Test 1931 1909 Birthday John Schepens, Jean Baudoux, Flemish journalist and writer, Polyfoto 1909 Birthday John Arkell, director of administration, BBC 1909 Death John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37 1909 Death John Synge, Irish Poet 1909 Birthday John Evan "Jasper" Weston Mather, writer 1909 Event John Galsworthy's "Strife," premieres in London 1909 Birthday John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian 1909 Birthday Saul David Alinsky, born in Chicago, Illinois, radical writer, John L Lewis 1908 Birthday John Volpe, Gov-Mass, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1969 - 1973 1908 Birthday John H Doeg, tennis champ, U.S. Open-1930 1908 Birthday John Alwyne Kitching, zoologist 1908 Birthday John Sutton, Rawalpindi India, actor, Tower of London, Return of Fly 1908 Birthday John Kenneth Galbraith, economist, Affluent Society-58 Hillman Award 1908 Birthday John Grant, British rear-admiral 1908 Birthday John Waldo Green, New York City, composer, Body and Soul, Guy Lombardo's arranger 1908 Death John Churton Collins, English Critic 1908 Birthday John Haeton, U.S., bobsled, Silver Medals 1928, 1948 Olympics 1908 Birthday John Reginald Bevins, politician 1908 Event St. Louis Card John Lush's 2nd no-hitter, beats Dodgers, 2-0 in 6 inn 1908 Event John Hayes wins 4th olympics marathon (2:55:18.4 world record) 1908 Birthday John Hench, American Artist 1908 Birthday John Verrall, composer 1908 Birthday John Scott Trotter, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, orchestra leader, George Gobel Show 1908 Event John Krohn begins walk around perimeter of U.S., which took 357 days 1908 Event John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan," premieres in London 1908 Birthday John Bardeen, U.S., physicist, transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972 1908 Birthday John T. Hughes, Bishop to Forces 1908 Death John Eliot, English meteorology, dies at 68 1908 Birthday John Mills, England, actor, Big Sleep, King Rat, War and Peace 1908 Event John Blockx' opera "Baldie" premieres in Antwerp 1907 Birthday John Sloan Dickey, American Diplomat 1907 Birthday John "Cardinal" Dearden, U.S. cardinal, 1969 - 1988, archbishop of Detroit 1907 Birthday John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist 1907 Birthday John A Kelly, U.S. marathon runner, Berlin 1936, Boston 1935..1991 1907 Death John Kerr, physicist (magneto-optic Kerr-effect), dies at 82 1907 Birthday John McIntire, born in Spokane, Washington, actor, Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian 1907 Birthday John Hadfield, author/publisher, Love on a Branch Line 1907 Birthday John Wayne, Winterset, Iowa, actor, Green Berets, True Grit 1907 Death John Albert Delany, composer, dies at 54 1907 Birthday John Canaday, art critic, Metropolitan Museum of Art Portfolios 1906 Birthday John Walker, museum director 1906 Birthday John Morrison, politician/landowner 1906 Death John A. C. Oudemans, Dutch geographer/astronomer, dies at 78 1906 Birthday John Humphreys Whitfield, scholar of Italian language and literature 1906 Birthday John Lorne Campbell, folklorist 1906 Birthday John I M Stewart, British detective writer, Comedy of Terrors 1906 Birthday Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer 1906 Event John Galsworthy's "Silver Box," premieres in London 1906 Birthday John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher 1906 Birthday John Coolidge, American Celebrity 1906 Birthday John Betjeman, poet laureate of England, Mount Zion 1906 Event Cincinnati Red John Weimer no-hits Dodgers, 1-0 in 7 inning game 1906 Birthday John Huston, born in Nevada, Missouri, director and writer, African Queen, Chinatown 1906 Birthday John Carroll, Julian LaFaye, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, actor, Wolf Call 1906 Event John Hope becomes 1st black president of Morehouse College 1906 Birthday John Mayo, director-general, Help the Aged 1906 Event Phillie's John Lush no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-0 1906 Death John Knowles Paine, U.S. composer, dies at 67 1906 Birthday John Betjeman, English Poet Laureate 1972-1984, Mount Zion 1906 Birthday John Cameron Swayze, born in Wichita, Kansas, newscaster, Timex, Hindenberg 1906 Birthday John Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman, Timex 1906 Birthday John D. Rockefeller, billionaire philanthropist, oil 1906 Birthday John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, elected 1962 1906 Birthday John Carradine, Greenwich Village, New York, actor, Grapes of Wrath, Howling 1905 Death Henry Irving, John H Brodribb, English actor (Hamlet), dies at 67 1905 Birthday Howard St. John, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Born Yesterday, Li'l Abner 1905 Birthday John Whitley, British air-marshal 1905 Birthday John Hay Whitney, publisher, New York Herald Trib 1961-67 1905 Birthday John C F, son of English King George V 1905 Death John Hay, U.S. politician, dies 1905 Birthday John Gardener, boatbuilder/writer 1905 Birthday John Gart, Russia, orchestra leader, Paul Winchell Show 1905 Birthday John Abbott, born in London, actor, Smogasboard 1905 Birthday John Patrick, screenwriter 1905 Birthday John Minor Wisdom, American Judge 1905 Birthday John S "Jimmy" Thach, U.S. pilot/admiral, WW II 1905 Birthday John Lee-Barber, admiral 1905 Birthday John Kirkpatrick, New York City, pianist, Concord Sonata 1905 Death John H. Reagan, American Politician 1905 Birthday John Dierkes, Ohio, actor, Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, Hanging Tree 1905 Birthday John O'Hara, Pottstown Penn, novelist, Appointment at Samarra 1905 Birthday John Carmel Heenan, Essex, cardinal archbp of Westminster, 1963-75 1905 Birthday John Henry Jacques, co-operative retailer 1904 Event George Bernard Shaws "John Bull's Other Island," premieres in London 1904 Birthday John Hoyt, Bronxville, New York, actor, Gimme a Break, Tom Dick and Mary 1904 Event Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest. 1904 Death John Simon, public health pioneer, dies 1904 Death Henry M Stanley, John Rowlands, British explorer, dies 1904 Birthday John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, bBC news announcer/commentator 1904 Birthday John Snagge, commentator, BBC 1904 Birthday John Breeden, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Salute, Madame Racketeer, Joy Street 1904 Birthday John Gielgud, born in London, England, actor, Arthur, Ages of Man 1904 Birthday John Antill, born in Sydney, Australia, composer, studied under Alfred Hill, played in NSW State Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, famous for ballet suite Corroboree 1904 Birthday John R. Hicks, British economist, Nobel 1972 1904 Birthday John J Sirica, U.S. federal judge, Watergate hearings 1904 Birthday John J. Sirica, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, John Joseph Sirica, judge, Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, presided over Watergate scandal, Time magazine Person of the Year, 1973 1904 Birthday John "Pepper" Martin, baseballer, NL stolen base leader 1933,34,36 1904 Birthday Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenber----dorff, Sr, near Hamburg, Germany 1904 Birthday John Farrow, born in Sydney, Australia, director/actor, Botany Bay, Wake Island 1904 Event John Millington Synges "Well of Saints," premieres in Dublin 1904 Death John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician, dies at 64 1903 Birthday John von Neumann, mathematician and astronomer, Bocher Award 1938 1903 Birthday John Piper, British writer, US Churches in WW I, official war painter 1903 Birthday Johnny Blood, aka John McNally, early NFL halfback, Green Bay 1903 Birthday John Lodge, Washington D.C., actor, Witchmaker 1903 Birthday John Everett Allen, U.S. businessman 1903 Birthday John Ringling North, circus director, Ringling Bros 1903 Birthday John Wyndham P L B Harris, U.S., sci-fi author, Day of the Triffids 1903 Event 37th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Africander wins in 2:21.75 1903 Event 7th Boston Marathon won by John Lorden of Mass in 2:41:29.8 1903 Birthday John Williams, born in England, actor, Niles-Family Affair, Dial M for Murder 1903 Birthday John Patrick Sutton Ludlow, actor, Agatha 1903 Death Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer (John Inglesant), dies at 68 1903 Birthday John Dunning, cricketer, New Zealand medium-fast bowler of 30's 1903 Birthday John Eccles, British physiologist/neurologist 1903 Birthday "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker 1902 Death John Wesley Powell, U.S. geologist (Grand Canyon), dies at 68 1902 Birthday John Houseman, Bucharest Romania, actor, Kingsfield-Paper Chase 1902 Birthday Pieter John Bouman, sociologist/historian 1902 Event New York Giants lose their 1st game under new manager John McGraw 1902 Death John White, composer, dies at 47 1902 Event John McGraw named manager of New York Giants 1902 Event John McGraw, accused by Ban Johnson of trying to wreck Baltimore and Washington clubs, negotiates his release from the Orioles 1902 Event John McGraw becomes manager of New York Giants (stays for 30 years) 1902 Birthday John Dillinger, U.S. bank robber, public enemy #1 1902 Death John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69 1902 Event 36th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Mastermam wins in 2:22.6 1902 Birthday John Vincent, composer 1902 Death John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85 1902 Death John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54 1902 Birthday John Steinbeck, born in Salinas, California, author, Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962 1902 Birthday John Bubbles, born in Louisville, Kentucky, rhythm tap dancer, No Maps on My Taps 1901 Birthday John Wijga, painter/illustrator 1901 Birthday John Norrie McArthur, malariologist/microscopist 1901 Birthday John Alton, cinematographer 1901 Birthday John Erik Jonsson, businessman/Mayor of Dallas 1901 Birthday John C. Stennis, born in Mississippi, Senator-D-Mississippi, 1947 - 1989 1901 Birthday John Gunther, born in Chicago, Illinois, author/host, John Gunther's High Road 1901 Birthday John Sherman Cooper, Sen-Kentucky 1901 Birthday John C. Stennis, born in Mississippi, Senator-D-Mississippi 1947 - 1989 1901 Birthday John Bleifer, born in Zawiercie, Poland, actor, Highway to Heaven 1901 Death John Farmer, composer, dies at 64 1901 Death John Fiske, Edmund Fisk Green, U.S. historian/philosopher, dies 1901 Birthday John Wesley Work, composer 1901 Birthday John W. Van Duren, playwright, I Remember Mama 1901 Death John Stainer, composer, dies at 60 1901 Event Cincinnati Enquirer reports Baltimore manager John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant 1901 Death Edward John Hopkins, composer, dies at 82 1901 Event Boer general John Smuts and De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal 1900 Birthday John Longden, West Indies, actor, Man From Interpol 1900 Birthday John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution 1900 Birthday John Mason Brown, born in Louisville, Kentucky, critic, Tonight on Broadway 1900 Death John Power, Irish baronet/whiskey manufacturer, dies in battle 1900 Event John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson sign with Cardinals 1900 Death John Luther (Casey) Jones, dies in Cannonball Express train wreck 1900 Birthday John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian, University of London 1900 Birthday Sean O'Faolain, John Whelan, Ire, writer, Murder at Cobbler's Hulk 1900 Death John Ruskin, English writer (Dearest Mama Talbot), dies of flu at 81 1900 Event 1st date in John dos Passos' USA trilogy (The 42nd Parallel) 1899 Birthday John Sparkman, born in Hartselle, Alabama, Senator-D-Alabama 1946 - 1979 1899 Death John William Glover, composer, dies at 84 1899 Birthday John Qualen, Vancouver BC, actor, Grapes of Wrath, Searchers 1899 Birthday John Barbirolli, English conductor, New York Philharmonic Orchestra 1899 Birthday Robert Welch, found John Birch Society 1899 Event U.S. Minister of Foreign affairs John Hay publishes his "Open Through Note" 1899 Birthday John Woods Duke, composer 1899 Birthday John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice, 1955-71 1899 Event John McGraw, at 36, managerial debut as Oriole manager 1899 Birthday John Randall, Jr., Michigan, historian/philosopher, Western Man 1898 Death John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies 1898 Birthday John J Slauerhoff, Dutch ship's doctor/writer/poet, El Dorado 1898 Birthday Francine Larrimore, Verdun France, actress, John Meade's Woman 1898 Birthday John Stuart, Edinburgh Scotland, actor, Number 17 1898 Birthday John Grierson, documentary film maker 1898 Event John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding and gumming mach (Mass) 1898 Birthday John George, Syria, actor, Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu 1897 Birthday John Axel Fernstrom, composer 1897 Death John Mercer Langston, U.S. black jurist, dies at 67 1897 Birthday John Steuart Curry, U.S. painter/lithographer, Baptism in Kansas 1897 Death John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch Internal minister (1866..88), dies at 79 1897 Birthday John Mens, writer, People Without Money 1897 Event John McNally's musical "Good Mr. Best," premieres in New York City 1897 Birthday John Douglas Cockroft, English physicist, Radar, Nobel 1951 1897 Birthday John Wengraf, born in Vienna, Austria, actor, 12 to Moon, Pride and Passion 1897 Event 1st American marathon ran, John J McDermott wins in 2:55:10 (Boston) 1897 Event 1st Boston Marathon won by John McDermott of New York in 2:55:10 1897 Birthday John B. Glubb, British commandant/writer, A soldier with the Arabs 1897 Birthday John Laurie, born in Dumfries, Scotland, actor, Jericho, Island of Desire 1897 Birthday John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist, polio-Nobel 1954 1897 Death John Cottam, cricket (Test for Australia 1897, no Sheffield matches), dies 1897 Event John Dewey's essay "My Pedagogic Creed" appears in School Journal 1897 Event Henrik Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," premieres in Helsingfors 1896 Event "Stars and Stripes Forever" written by John Philip Sousa 1896 Birthday John Seldon Whale, theologian 1896 Death John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67 1896 Birthday John Urzidil, Austria/U.S. writer, Die erbeuteten Frauen 1896 Event John Mcdermott wins 1st U.S. marathon (New York City) 1896 Death John Everett Millais, English painter, dies at 67 1896 Event 1st public film showing in U.S. John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in New York City 1896 Event John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres (New York City) 1896 Death John Rogers Thomas, composer, dies at 66 1896 Birthday John Little McClellan, born in Sheridan, Arkansas, Senator-D-Arkansas 1943 - 1977 1896 Birthday John Moores, British gambling magnate/multi-millionaire 1896 Birthday John dos Passos, novelist, 1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel 1895 Birthday John Knudsen Northrop, aircraft designer, Northrop Air 1895 Birthday John Boles, Greenville, Texas, singer and actor, Babes in Baghdad 1895 Birthday John G Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM, C, 1957-63 1895 Birthday John G. Diefenbaker, Politician 1895 Event 1st pro football game (quarterback John Brallier paid $10 and won 12-0) 1895 Death John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74 1895 Birthday John Gilbert, Pringle, Logan, Utah, actor, Heart o' the Hills 1895 Birthday John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Secretary of War 1941 - 1945, President Chase Man 1895 Birthday John J. McCloy, American Lawyer 1895 Death John Stuart Blackie, Scottish Writer 1895 Birthday John Ford, Maine, director, Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man 1894 Birthday Ernest John Moeran, British composer 1894 Birthday John S. Knight, West Virginia, publisher, Knight-Rider 1894 Birthday John B[oynton] Priestly, author, Good Companions, wed Jessica Hawkes 1894 Birthday John H van Maarseveen, Dutch minister of Justice/Internal minister 1894 Event John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal" 1894 Birthday Adela Rogers St. John, journalist/author, Foreign Correspondent 1893 Birthday John Miljan, Lead City, South Dakota, actor, Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox 1893 Death John Abbott, Prime Minister of Canada (C) 1891 - 1892, dies at 72 1893 Birthday Al "Fuzzy" St. John, born in Santa Ana California, actor, Lash of the West 1893 Birthday John G Strijdom, premier of South Africa, 1954-58 1893 Birthday Mississippi John Hurt, rocker 1893 Death John Murray Corse, U.S. general (Union), dies on his 58th birthday 1893 Death John Addington Symonds, critic/poet, dies 1893 Birthday John Lawrence Seymour, composer 1892 Birthday John Litel, Albany WI, actor, Virginia City, My Hero 1892 Event Foundation Stone of Cathedral of St. John laid (New York City) 1892 Birthday John Alcock, English pilot, 1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean 1892 Birthday John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen, Wabash, Indiana, comedian, Olsen and Johnson 1892 Birthday John Mylong, Austria, actor, Robot Monsters 1892 Event 1st public appearance of John Philip Sousa's band, New Jersey 1892 Event James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title 1892 Death John G. Whittier, U.S. poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies 1892 Death John Greenleaf Whittier, American Poet 1892 Birthday John Kieran, New York City, columnist/author, Natural History of New York City 1892 Birthday Petros John Petridis, composer 1892 Birthday John Donald Robb, composer 1892 Event John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game 1892 Event Sierra Club forms by John Muir for conservation of nature 1892 Birthday John Peale Bishop, U.S. poet, This Side of Paradise 1892 Death John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies 1892 Birthday John Jacob Niles, composer 1892 Death John Couch Adams, English co-discoverer of Neptune, dies 1892 Death John Heykamp, old-catholic archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 67 1891 Birthday John W. McCormack, D, Speaker of House, 1962-70 1891 Birthday John William McCormack, American Politician 1891 Death John A Neuhuys, painter, dies at 59 1891 Birthday John Metzelaar, Dutch/US, About Tropical Atl Visschen 1891 Event John Stephens Durham, named minister to Haiti 1891 Death John Neruda, Czechoslovakian writer/poet (Povidky Malostranske), dies at 57 1891 Event John T. Smith patents corkboard 1891 Birthday John Northrop, U.S., biochemist, crystallized enzymes, Nobel 1946 1891 Death John McDonald, Canadian Leader 1891 Birthday John Gobau, Flemish/Dutch actor, Electricity, Hostage Rights 1891 Birthday John Knittel, writer 1891 Birthday John P Strijbos, Dutch writer, Wandering through South Africa 1890 Birthday John Tasker Howard, composer 1890 Event John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds 1890 Event 1st 100 yard dash under 10 seconds (John Owens 9-4/5 seconds, Washington D.C.) 1890 Death John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89 1890 Death John Henry Newman, English cardinal, dies at 89 1890 Death John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet 1890 Death John Hart or William Kemmler, U.S., 1st executed in electric chair (NY) 1890 Birthday Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mom of John F. Kennedy, RFK and Ted 1890 Death John C "Pathfinder" Fremont, U.S. explorer/governor (Ariz), dies at 76 1890 Death John Charles Fremont, American Soldier 1890 Death John Barnett, composer, dies at 87 1890 Birthday John P M L de Vries, fairy tale writer 1889 Birthday John P "Hannes" Kolehmainen, Fin long-distance runner, Olympic-gold 1912 1889 Birthday Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate, Nobel 1959 1889 Birthday John B Kelly, Olympic champion rower/father of Grace Kelly 1889 Death John Sanger, circus entrepreneur, dies 1889 Birthday John F Mahoney, developed pencillin treatment of syphillis 1889 Birthday John Charles Reith, 1st Baron Reith, 1st director-general BBC, 1927-38 1889 Event John L. Sullivan KOs Jake Kilrain in 75 rounds (last bare-knuckle bout) 1889 Birthday John Kilbane, U.S., featherweight boxing champ, 1912-23 1889 Event John T. Reid opens 1st U.S. golf course in Yonkers, New York 1889 Death John Bright, British Politician 1889 Event Battle at Gallabat (Metema): Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV 1889 Death Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85 1889 Birthday John Mills, dancer, Mills Brothers 1889 Event John Herschel uses camera obscura to photograph 48" (120cm) telescope 1888 Event Heavyweight boxing champ John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain 1888 Event John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tire 1888 Event John J Loud patents ballpoint pen 1888 Death John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71 1888 Birthday Joseph P. Kennedy, born in Boston, Massachusetts, diplomat, father of John F. Kennedy, RFK and Teddy 1888 Birthday John Logie Baird, Scotland, inventor, father of TV 1888 Event John Boyd Dunlop, applies to patent pneumatic tire 1888 Death John H Zuckertort, German chess player, dies at 45 1888 Birthday John Crowe Ransom, U.S. poet and critic, God Without Thunder 1888 Event HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds 1888 Birthday John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State, 1953 - 1959 1888 Event John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans in Yonkers, New York 1887 Event Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted 1887 Birthday John Davidson, New York City, actor, Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat 1887 Birthday John Cromwell, born in Toledo, Ohio, actor and director, Spitfire, Of Human Bondage 1887 Birthday John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions 1887 Birthday John Warburton, Huddersfield England, actor, Saratoga Trunk 1887 Birthday John Finley Williamson, Canton Ohio, conductor, Westminster Choir 1887 Birthday John van Melle, South African writer, Dawid Booysen 1887 Event Battle of Dogali: Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians 1887 Birthday John Hamilton, Penn, actor, Perry White-Superman 1886 Death John A. Logan, American Soldier 1886 Birthday John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright 1886 Death John Liptrot Hatton, composer, dies at 77 1886 Birthday John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist 1886 Birthday John SSPV Gort, viscount of Limerick/Field Marshal of Palestine 1886 Event Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke 1886 Death John Keble, theologian, Bournemouth 1886 Birthday John "Home Run" Baker, hall of famer, hit 2 home run in 1911 world series 1886 Birthday John Joseph Becker, composer 1886 Birthday John G Fletcher, U.S., poet, Epic of Arkansas 1885 Event John Brahms' 4th Symphony in E, premieres 1885 Event John Ward and several teammates secretly form Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players, 1st baseball union 1885 Birthday John Raedecker, Dutch sculptor, National monument on the Dam 1885 Event Boxing's 1st heavyweight title fight with 3-oz gloves and 3-minute rounds fought between John L Sullivan and Dominick McCaffrey 1885 Event John E. W. Thompson, named minister to Haiti 1885 Death John H Scholten, theologist (Free Want), dies at 73 1885 Birthday Harry St. John Philby, sheik Abdullah, British explorer 1885 Event John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine 1885 Birthday John Henry Towers, aviator/naval hero 1885 Birthday John Curtin, Victoria, Australian PM, Labor, 1941-45 1884 Event John B Meyenberg of St. Louis patents evaporated milk 1884 Event Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel" 1884 Event Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention 1884 Birthday John Francis Larchet, composer 1884 Event John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention 1884 Birthday John McCormack, Irish/US singer, Irish folksongs 1884 Event John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chair 1884 Birthday John van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands 1884 Death John Wisden, publisher/cricketer (prominent Sussex player), dies 1884 Event John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, California 1884 Death John Pike Hullah, composer, dies at 71 1883 Event John Brahms' 3rd Symphony in F, premieres 1883 Birthday Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist, St. John's Gospel 1883 Birthday John G van Dillen, historian, Of Wealth and Oligarchists 1883 Birthday John Bracken, Canadian Politician 1883 Birthday John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge England, economist and journalist 1883 Death Albrecht of Prussia, mistress of John van Rossum, dies at 73 1883 Event John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss) 1883 Birthday David John de Lloyd, composer 1883 Event John Heemskerk Azn forms Dutch government 1883 Event John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi 1882 Birthday John Berry Hobbs, England, 1st cricket played knighted, 1953 1882 Event John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen," premieres 1882 Birthday John Lowry, Mount Vernon, New York, New York City builder, Radio City Music Hall 1882 Birthday John Powell, composer 1882 Birthday Waverley John Anderson, Scottish viscount/governor of Bengal 1882 Birthday John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright, Abraham Lincoln 1882 Birthday John Barrymore, Blythe, Philadelphia, actor, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 1882 Event Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Miss 1882 Death John Linnell, British painter/minaturist/engraver, dies 1881 Birthday John XXIII, Angelo Roncalli, Bergamo Italy, 261st pope, 1958-63 1881 Birthday Pope John XXIII, Italian Pope 1881 Birthday John Gresham Machen, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church 1881 Event Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass) 1881 Birthday William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar, Ynys yr Hud 1881 Event Dr. John H Watson is introduced to Sherlock Holmes 1880 Event 1st cash register patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton Ohio 1880 Birthday John Foulds, composer 1880 Event John Philip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band 1880 Birthday John Boyd Orr, nutritionist, UN's FAO, Nobel 1949 1880 Birthday Marguerite "John" Radclyffe-Hall, author 1880 Death John Sutter, U.S. colonist (gold discovered on his land), dies at 77 1880 Event John Ward, Providence, pitches perfect game vs Buffalo 1880 Event 1st baseball perfect game, John Richmond of Worcester beats Cleveland 1880 Event John Lee Richmond pitches 1st major league perfect game, Worcester 1, Cleveland's Forest City 0 1880 Death John Curwen, composer, dies at 63 1880 Death John Goss, composer, organist, wrote hymn 'Praise my Soul, the King of Heaven', dies at 79 1880 Event Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisconsin) 1880 Birthday John L. Lewis, union leader, United Mine Workers, 1920-60 1879 Event John Brahms' "Tragic Ouverture," premieres 1879 Birthday John Erskine, U.S., poet/pianist, Private Life of Helen of Troy 1879 Death John B Hood, confederate general (lost Atlanta), dies at 48 1879 Death John B. Hood, American Soldier 1879 Birthday John N Ireland, English composer/pianist, Mai-Dun 1879 Birthday John Broadus Watson, behaviorist psychologist 1879 Event John Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig 1878 Birthday John C Kielstra, Dutch economist/governor of Suriname, 1933-44 1878 Event Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press) 1878 Birthday Joseph John Richards, composer 1878 Birthday John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate, Salt-Water Ballads 1878 Event Atty John Henry Smyth named minister to Liberia 1877 Event John Stevens, applies for a patent for his flour rolling mill 1877 Death John Zwijsen, archbishop of Utrecht, dies at 83 1877 Birthday John Parsons Beach, composer 1877 Event John Mercer Langston named minister of Haiti 1877 Event Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce indians 1877 Death John Lothrop Motley, (History of United Netherlands), dies at 63 1877 Death John Roberts, composer, dies at 54 1876 Event John Brahms' 1st Symphony in C, premieres 1876 Birthday John J R Macleod, Scottish/Canadian physiologist, Nobel 1923 1876 Death John Patton, trumpeter, dies at Little Bighorn 1876 Birthday John Gilmour, Scottish Politician 1876 Birthday John Owen Jones, composer 1876 Birthday John Elicius Benedict B P Quick Carrington Dwyer, cricketer, Sussex 1876 Birthday John Alden Carpenter, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, Sea Drift 1876 Death Henry John Gauntlett, composer, dies at 70 1875 Birthday John P "Jan" Musch, Dutch actor, Dead Water 1875 Death John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71 1875 Birthday John Buchan, Scotland, Governor-General of Canada/writer, Battle of Somme 1875 Death John Mitchel, Irish Journalist 1875 Event 1st U.S. cardinal (John McCloskey) invested 1875 Birthday John Lindworsky, German jesuit/psychologist, Der Wille 1874 Death John Henry Foley, sculptor, dies 1874 Birthday John Russell Pope, U.S., architect, Jefferson Memorial 1874 Death John Bachman, American Clergyman 1874 Birthday John David Rockefeller, Jr., born in Cleveland, Ohio, philanthropist 1874 Birthday John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American Businessman 1873 Event Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents gold crown 1873 Birthday John Clapham, English Economist 1873 Birthday John Rosamond Johnson, Florida, co-composer, Lift Every Voice and Sing 1873 Birthday John Wesley Work, composer 1873 Death John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, dies at 66 1873 Birthday John McGraw, born in Truxton, New York, MLB player and manager of the New York Giants, nicknamed 'Little Napoleon' 1873 Death John Lodge Ellerton, composer, dies at 71 1872 Birthday John Cowper Powys, born in Derbyshire, England, writer, 'Wood and Stone' 1872 Event John Henry Conyers of South Carolina becomes 1st black student at Annapolis 1872 Birthday John Jarvis, England, swimmer, won 108 titles 1871 Birthday John Fabricius, Netherlands/English stageauthor, Ring of Prophet 1871 Birthday John Sloan, American Artist 1871 Birthday John French Sloan, American Artist 1871 Death John F. W. Herschel, British astronomer (Catalogue of Nebulae), dies 1871 Death John Herschel, cataloguer of southern hemisphere stars, dies at 79 1871 Death John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75 1871 Birthday John Millington Synge, Ireland, dramatist/poet, Riders to the Sea 1871 Birthday John Synge, Irish Poet 1871 Death John J Rochussen, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1845-51), dies at 73 1870 Birthday John Lomax, Mississippi, folk song collector/ethnomusicologist 1870 Death John P. Kennedy, American Soldier 1870 Death John D Zocher, Jr., architect (Soestdijk Palace), dies at 79 1870 Birthday John McClutcheon, cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize-1931 1870 Event John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil 1869 Birthday John Heisman, pioneering football coach/trophy namesake 1869 Event John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer," premieres 1869 Birthday John Joseph Pershing, American Soldier 1869 Event Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, New York 1869 Event John Menard is 1st black to make a speech in Congress 1868 Birthday John Nance Garner, Texas, Vice President-D-1933-41 1868 Event John D. Rockefeller begins anti oil war 1868 Birthday John Nance Garner, D, 32nd Vice President, 1933-41 1868 Event 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana) 1868 Event John Menard of Louisiana is 1st black elected to Congress 1868 Birthday John Blackwood McEwen, composer 1868 Event 1st performance of John Brahms' "Ein german Requiem" 1867 Birthday John Winter Thompson, composer 1867 Death John Strachan, Canadian Clergyman 1867 Death John Fawcett, composer, dies at 77 1867 Birthday John Galsworthy, England, author, Forsyte Saga-Nobel 1932 1867 Birthday John Robert Gregg, Ireland, inventor, shorthand 1867 Birthday John James Ferris, cricketer, mighty Australian bowler of late 1880's 1867 Event British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage 1867 Birthday John P Lotsy, Dutch botanist/geneticist, Genetics 1866 Birthday John Eigenhuis, writer, Tough Workers 1866 Birthday John Loudon, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs, 1913-18 1866 Death John Gibson, sculptor, dies 1865 Birthday John S Plaskett, Canadian astronomer, Plaskett's twins 1865 Event John Hyatts patents billard ball 1865 Death John Brough, U.S. publisher/(gov-R-Ohio), dies at about 54 1865 Birthday John Monash, Australian Soldier 1865 Death John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59 1865 Birthday John Raleigh Mott, organizer, YMCA, Nobel 1946 1865 Event S Brownsville, Texas (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed 1865 Death John Wilkes Booth, assassin, is shot dead near Bowling Green Virginia at 27 1865 Death Abraham Lincoln, assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at 7:22 am, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, 16th president 1861 - 1865 1865 Event President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth 1865 Death John Park, composer, dies at 61 1865 Death John Austin Wharton, U.S. Confederate general-major, dies at 36 1865 Death John Henry Winder, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General/provost marshal, dies at 64 1865 Death John Pegram, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 33 1865 Event Confederate Brigadier General John Pegram marries Hetty Cary 1864 Birthday John Felix August Korling, composer 1864 Death John Leech, English Artist 1864 Death John Gregg, U.S. judge/Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 36 1864 Event John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln 1864 Death John Dunovant, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1864 Death John Calhoun Sanders, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 24 1864 Death John H Kelly, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 24 1864 Death John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., planter/Confederate, dies in battle at 31 1864 Death Margaret E Breckinridge, U.S. nurse/daughter of Vice President John, dies 1864 Event CSA President Davis replaces General Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood 1864 Event General John B Hood replaces General Johnston 1864 Death John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70 1864 Death "Uncle" John Sedgwick, U.S. Union general-major, dies in battle at 50 1864 Death John Marshall Jones, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 43 1864 Birthday [John] Casey Jones, RR engineer, Ballad of Casey Jones 1864 Birthday John Henry Mackay, Scottish/German author and poet, Anarchists 1863 Death John Buford, American Soldier 1863 Birthday John Ebenezer West, composer 1863 Birthday Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis, Poppenhuis 1863 Birthday John Huston Finley, Illinois, editor of the New York Times, 1937-38 1863 Birthday John Bunny, American Actor 1863 Death John Buchanan Floyd, U.S. Minister of War (1857-60), Confederate general, dies 1863 Event Battle of Salineville OH, John Hunt Morgan and 364 troops surrender 1863 Death John S Bowen, U.S. architect/Confederate General-major, dies at 32 1863 Death John Fulton Reynolds, Union general-major, dies in battle at 42 1863 Death John Pelham, U.S. Confederate artillery major, dies in battle at 24 1862 Birthday John M Acket, Dutch literary, Grammatic Conceptions 1862 Death John Bordenave Villepigue, U.S. Confederate Brigadier-General, dies at 32 1862 Birthday John Briggs, cricketer, mighty England all-rounder late 19th century 1862 Event Liliuokalani, queen of Hawaii (1891-93) marries John Owen Dominis 1862 Event General John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX 1862 Event R John Hunt Morgan:Cynthiana, Kentucky CS24 US17 Skirmish at Columbia, Tennessee 1862 Event General John Hunt Morgan captures Tompkinsville, Kentucky 1862 Event U.S. Army of Virginia established under General John Pope 1862 Birthday Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet 1862 Event John D. Lynde patents aerosol dispenser 1862 Event General John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, Tennessee 1862 Death John Baillie McIntosh, U.S. general-major (Union Army), dies at 32 1862 Birthday John Jay Chapman, U.S. advocate/poet/writer, Learning and Other Essays 1862 Death John Tyler, 10th U.S. President (1841-45), dies in Richmond Virginia at 71 1862 Birthday John E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher 1861 Death John Breckinridge Grayson, Confederate Brigadier-General, dies 1861 Event Former Vice President John C. Breckinridge flees Kentucky 1861 Death John Willis Ellis, U.S. governor of North Carolina (1858-61), dies 1861 Death John Garland, U.S. Union colonel/Brigadier-General, dies in battle 1861 Death John Q Marr, U.S. Confederate captain, dies in battle at Fairfax Courthouse 1861 Event John Merryman is arrested under suspension of writ of habeas corpus it later sparks a supreme court decision protecting writ 1861 Birthday Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer 1860 Birthday John J, Blackjack, Pershing, U.S. commander, WW I 1860 Birthday John Kane, Scottish-born U.S. primitivist painter, Self-Portrait 1860 Death John Ackersdijk, Dutch state house builder, dies at 69 1860 Event John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres 1860 Death St. John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male U.S. saint, dies 1859 Birthday John W Fortescue, military historian 1859 Death John Brown, U.S. abolitionist (Harpers Ferry), hanged at 59 1859 Birthday John Dewey, philosopher, educational theorist/writer, Learn by doing 1859 Event John Brown leads 20 in raid on federal arsenal, Harper's Ferry, Va 1859 Death John LA Luyten, Catholic Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, dies at 72 1859 Death John Emde, German evangelist, dies at about 84 1859 Event 1st performance of John Brahms' 1st Serenade for orchestra 1859 Birthday John H Been, town's archivist of Brielle, Baasje and Witkop 1858 Birthday John L Sullivan, Massachusetts, heavyweight boxing champ, 1882-92 1858 Event John Holden hits 1st recorded home run (Brooklyn vs New York) 1858 Event John Brown holds antislavery convention 1858 Birthday John Meade Falkner, novelist, Moonfleet 1858 Event Sir Richard Burton and John Speake explore Lake Tanganyika, Africa 1858 Event John Brown organized raid on Arsenal at Harper's Ferry 1857 Birthday John Joly, Irish Scientist 1857 Birthday John H Aberson, 1st chancellor, Dutch Agricultural University 1857 Death John Wilson Croker, politician 1857 Death John B van Bree, violinist, composer and conductor, dies at 56 1856 Birthday Joseph John Thomson, Eng, physicist discovered electron, Nobel 1906 1856 Death John Eaton, American Politician 1856 Death John Wilbur, American Clergyman 1856 Event John Rutledge, Liverpool - New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die 1856 Death John Braham, singer/composer, dies at 81 1856 Birthday John Hyatt Brewer, composer 1856 Birthday John Singer Sargent, U.S., portrait painter, Wyndham Sisters 1856 Event Dr. John A Veatch discovers borax, Tuscan Springs, California 1855 Event John Bartlett publishes "Familiar Quotations" 1855 Birthday John White, composer 1855 Birthday John M Browning, U.S., weapons manufacturer 1854 Death John G Lockhart, scorpion, English biographer, dies at 60 1854 Birthday John Philip Sousa, Washington D.C., march king, Stars and Stripes Forever 1854 Event John Fremont issues proclamation freeing slaves of Missouri rebels 1854 Birthday John Sharp Williams, American Politician 1854 Birthday John Blackham, cricketer, Australia's 1st wicketkeeper 1854 Death John Wilson, Scottish Writer 1853 Event John Morrissey wins boxing title, when Yankee Sullivan leaves ring after 36th round to slug Morrissey's fans 1853 Death John C de Jonge, Dutch historian/archivist, dies at 60 1852 Event 1st Chinese theater in U.S., Celestial John, opens in San Francisco 1852 Birthday John Oxenham, British Journalist 1852 Birthday John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Earl of Ypres/British field marshall 1852 Death John McKinley, American Politician 1852 Birthday John Albert Delany, composer 1852 Death John Richardson, Canadian writer (War of 1812), dies 1852 Death John Howard Payne, actor and playwright (Fair Warning), dies 1852 Death John Landseer, printer/engraver (Royal Academy), dies 1852 Birthday John Harvey Kellogg, surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry 1851 Birthday John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house member 1851 Birthday John Lincoln Clem, Drummer Union volunteers 1851 Event John F. Loudon discovers tin on East Indian Island of Billiton 1851 Event Dr. John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine" 1851 Death John Parry, composer, dies at 75 1851 Death John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65 1850 Event John Wisden bowls all 10 South batsmen, North vs. South at Lord's 1850 Event John Geary becomes 1st San Francisco mayor 1850 Birthday Edward John Gregory, painter/engraver 1850 Birthday John Munroe Longyear, U.S., capitalist/bank president 1850 Birthday William Henry Welch, U.S., pathologist, founded John Hopkins 1850 Death John Calhoun, dies at 68 1850 Birthday John Collier, British Artist 1849 Birthday John Godden, English explorer, Curacao 1849 Event Col John W Geary arrives as 1st postmaster of SF 1848 Birthday John Henry Roberts, composer 1848 Death John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company, dies at 84 1848 Event John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster 1848 Birthday John Churton Collins, English Critic 1848 Death John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. President 1825 - 1829, dies of a stroke at 80 1847 Birthday John Peter Altgeld, German/U.S., Gov-Ill, pardoned Haymarket-anarchists 1847 Event Urbain J J Leverrier and John Couch Adams, codiscoverers of Neptune meet for 1st time at home of John Herschel 1847 Birthday John Alexander Dowie, Elijah the Restorer, U.S., evangelist 1847 Birthday John Watson, Canada, philosopher, Objective Idealism 1847 Birthday John Bates Clark, American Economist 1845 Birthday John F Mellaerts, Flemish social worker, 1st Belgian farm gilde 1845 Death John Kinker, translator/philosopher/poet, dies at 81 1845 Birthday Thomas John Barnardo, English social worker 1845 Death John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed, dies in Allen County Indiana 1844 Birthday John Atkinson, Irish Judge 1844 Birthday John Frederick Bridge, composer 1844 Birthday John S D Thompson, C, 4th Prime Minister of Canada, 1892 - 1894 1844 Birthday Henry John Heinz, founded prepared-foods company, 57 varieties 1844 Death John Dalton, English physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77 1844 Birthday John Boyle O'Reilly, Irish Poet 1844 Event U.S. President John Tyler marries Julia Gardiner in New York City 1842 Birthday John H Zuckertort, German chess player 1842 Death John Sell Cotman, landscape painter, dies 1842 Event John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria 1842 Death John England, bishop of Charleston Carolina, dies 1842 Birthday John Fiske, Edmund Fisk Green, U.S. historian and philosopher 1842 Event 1st known sewing machine patented in U.S., John Greenough, Washington D.C. 1842 Event John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in White House 1841 Birthday John W. Rayleigh, England, physicist, Nobel 1904, Cambridge, 1908-14 1841 Event John Hampton patents venetian blind 1841 Birthday Edward John Armstrong, poet 1841 Event John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus 1841 Event Fordham University, then St. John's College, opens in the Bronx 1841 Death John Thomson, composer, dies at 35 1841 Birthday John Murray, Canada oceanographer, Depths of the Ocean 1841 Birthday John Arbuthnot Fisher, Ceylon, 1st Baron Fisher/admiral of the fleet 1840 Birthday John Addington Symonds, British historian and writer, Probs in Greek Ethics 1840 Death John H van de Palm, theologist/literature/speaker, dies at 77 1840 Death John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist, dies at 50 1840 Birthday John Stainer, composer 1840 Birthday John Conrad Nordqvist, composer 1840 Birthday John Herbert Kelly, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1840 Birthday John Philip Holland, Liscannor Ireland, pioneer in submarine building 1840 Birthday John Boyd Dunlop, Scotland, developer, pneumatic rubber tire 1840 Birthday John Doby Kennedy, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1839 Event 1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in U.S., John Draper, New York City 1839 Event John Herschel takes 1st glass plate photograph 1839 Birthday John D. Rockefeller, U.S. capitalist and founder of Standard Oil 1839 Birthday John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1839 Birthday John Eliot, English meteorologist 1839 Death John Galt, Scottish writer (Last of the Lairds), dies at 59 1839 Birthday John Knowles Paine, Portland Maine, composer 1838 Birthday John Grant Mitchell, Major General Union volunteers 1838 Birthday John Milton Hay, politician, Union 1838 Birthday John Hay, American Writer 1838 Birthday John Pelham, Major Confederate Army 1838 Birthday John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St. Paul 1838 Birthday John Wilkes Booth, actor/assassin, President Lincoln 1838 Death John Whites, hydraulic engineer, dies at 82 1838 Birthday John Wanamaker, merchant, Wanamakers Department Store 1838 Death John W. Janssens, Governor-General (Cape Colony), dies at 75 1838 Birthday John Wilkes Booth, American Criminal 1838 Birthday John Muir, U.S., naturalist/discoverer, glaciers in High Seirras 1838 Birthday John Shaw Billings, U.S., librarian and army physician 1838 Birthday Henry Irving, John H Brodribb, England, knighted 1895/actor, Hamlet 1837 Birthday John Carpenter Carter, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1837 Birthday John Wesley Hyatt, inventor, celluloid 1837 Birthday John van der Waals, Hol, physicist, Nobel 1910, Liquid and Gas States 1837 Birthday John Francis Barnett, composer 1837 Death Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer, dies at 80 1837 Event Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins manufactures Worcester Sauce 1837 Birthday Elon John Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1837 Birthday John Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast, Burroughs Medal namesake 1837 Death John Constable, English painter/water colors painter, dies at 60 1837 Death John Field, composer, dies at 54 1837 Death John Soane, English architect (Book of Designs), dies at 84 1837 Death John Field, Irish pianist/composer (Nocturnes), dies at 54 1836 Birthday John Thomas Croxton, Major General Union volunteers 1836 Death John Stafford Smith, composer, dies at 86 1836 Birthday John McCausland, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1836 Birthday John Farmer, composer 1836 Event 1st Canadian RR opens, between Laprairie and St. John, Quebec 1836 Birthday John W. Foster, American Soldier 1836 Death John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer, dies at 65 1835 Event N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel 1835 Death John Marshall, American Judge 1835 Death John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies 1835 Birthday John La Farge, U.S. painter 1835 Birthday John LaFarge, American Artist 1834 Birthday Joseph H Shorthouse, English writer, John Inglesant 1834 Birthday John Venn, British Philosopher 1834 Birthday John Lubbock, British Statesman 1834 Birthday John Wesley Powell, U.S., geologist/explorer/ethnologist 1834 Birthday Lord Avebury, John Lubbock, British banker/politician 1834 Birthday John Acton, born in Naples, Italy, 1st Baron Acton, English historian, friends with De Tocqueville, Bluntschli, Montalembert, his extensive library was purchased after his death by Andrew Carnegie 1833 Birthday John James Ingalls, Rep-Ks 1833 Birthday John Singleton Mosby, lawyer/Col Confederate Army 1833 Birthday John Wesley Turner, Major General Union Army 1833 Birthday John Rogers Cooke, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1833 Event John Deere makes 1st steel plow 1833 Birthday John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General Confederate Army 1833 Birthday John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine, oldest chess mag 1833 Birthday John Randolph Chambliss, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1832 Event John Calhoun becomes 1st Vice President to resign over differences with President Jackson 1832 Birthday John Henry Ketcham, Major General Union volunteers 1832 Birthday John Kirk Barry, Scot, Dr/companion to explorer David Livingstone 1832 Event 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in New York City; fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Streets 1832 Event John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine 1832 Death John van Speijk, Dutch heroic sailor, buried 1832 Birthday John A. Neuhuys, painter 1832 Birthday John George Nicolay, U.S., author, Abe Lincoln's biographer 1832 Birthday John Brown Gordon, Major General Confederate Army 1832 Birthday John Pegram, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1831 Death John George Schetky, composer, dies at 55 1831 Event Former President John Quincy Adams takes his seat as member of House of Representatives 1831 Birthday John Franklin Miller, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Birthday John McAlister Schofield, Major General Union volunteers 1831 Event John Henslow asks Charles Darwin to travel with him on HMS Beagle 1831 Death John White, composer, dies at 52 1831 Birthday John Bell Hood, General Confederate Army 1831 Birthday John B. Hood, American Soldier 1831 Birthday John Bratton, Old Reliable, U.S. physician/Confederate Brigadier General 1831 Event John Frazee becomes 1st U.S. sculptor to receive a federal commission 1831 Birthday John Aaron Rawlins, Major General Union Army 1831 Birthday John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track 1831 Death John CJ van Speijk, commits suicide at 29 1831 Birthday John Bullock Clark, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday John Frederick Hartranft, Major General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday Esten Cooke, John Confederate Army 1830 Birthday John Stevens Bowen, Major General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday John Parker Hawkins, Major General Union Army 1830 Birthday John Bordenave Villepigue, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1830 Birthday John Converse Starkweather, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1830 Birthday John Rogers Thomas, composer 1829 Birthday John Mercer Langston, 1st black to hold U.S. political office 1829 Birthday John Horace Forney, Major General Confederate Army 1829 Birthday John Everett Millais, England, painter, Order of Release 1829 Birthday John Baillie McIntosh, Major General Union Army 1829 Event Joseph Smith ordained by John the Baptist according to Joseph Smith 1829 Death George Washington Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, dies 1829 Birthday John Potts Slough, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1829 Birthday John P. Jones, American Politician 1829 Birthday John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian 1828 Birthday John Beatty, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday John Rutter Brooke, Major General Union volunteers 1828 Birthday John Austin Wharton, Major General Confederate Army 1828 Death John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman, dies at 64 1828 Event John Quincy Adam's son John marries in White House 1827 Birthday John A. C. Oudemans, Dutch geographer and astronomer 1827 Birthday Isaac Munroe St. John, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday John Grubb Parke, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday John Morrison Oliver, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Birthday John Gibbon, Major General Union volunteers 1827 Event English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches 1827 Birthday John Robert Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday John Calvin Brown, Major General Confederate Army 1827 Birthday John Wesley Frazer, Brigadier General Confederate Army, die in 1906 1826 Birthday Mercer Brooke John, Confederate Navy 1826 Death John Flaxman, English sculptor (tombs at St. Paul's Cathedral), dies at 71 1826 Birthday John Benjamin Sanborn, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Event John Walker invents friction match in England 1826 Birthday John McArthur, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday Thomas John Lucas, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Death John Adams, 2nd president 1797-1801, dies at 90 1826 Birthday John Buford, American Soldier 1826 Birthday John Thomas, composer 1826 Birthday John Alexander Logan, Major General Union volunteers 1826 Birthday John A. Logan, American Soldier 1825 Event President John Quincy Adams suggests establishment of a U.S. observatory 1825 Birthday John Cook, Major General Union volunteers 1825 Birthday John Hunt Morgan, Brigadier General, Confederate cavalry commander 1825 Death John Henry Fuseli, painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow), dies at 84 1825 Birthday John Dunovant, Brigadier General in the Confederate Army 1825 Event John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president 1825 Event House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th U.S. president 1824 Birthday John Kerr, System physicist, electro-visually Kerr-effect 1824 Birthday John Sanford Mason, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1824 Death John Taylor, philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy), dies at 70 1824 Birthday John Tyler Morgan, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday John Creed Moore, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1824 Birthday John Crawford Vaughn, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Birthday Thomas John Wood, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday John Newton, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Event 9th Postmaster General: John McLean of Ohio takes office 1823 Birthday John Henry Hobart Ward, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday John Gray Foster, Major General Union volunteers 1823 Birthday John Sherman, MC, Union 1823 Birthday Joseph Medill, born in St. John, Canada, newspaper editor, Chicago Tribune 1823 Birthday John Echols, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1823 Death John P Kemble, English actor and director (Covent Garden), dies at 66 1823 Birthday John Daniel Imboden, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1822 Birthday John Roberts, composer 1822 Birthday John Eberhard, built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US 1822 Birthday Fitz John Porter, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday John George Walker, Major General Confederate Army 1822 Event John Phillips becomes 1st mayor of Boston 1822 Birthday John Pope, Major General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday John Basil Turchin, Ivan Turchinoff, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1822 Birthday John Porter Hatch, volunteers Major General, Union 1821 Birthday John Dunlap Stevenson, Major General Union volunteers 1821 Birthday John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director. 1821 Death John Wall Calcott, composer, dies at 54 1821 Birthday [Carlos] Charles John Stolbrand, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1821 Death John Crome, Old Crome, English landscape painter/etcher, dies at 52 1821 Birthday John Abbott, born in Quebec, Canada, C, 3rd Canadian PM, 1891-92 1821 Death John Keats, Romantic poet, dies of tuberculosis at 25 in Rome 1821 Death John Keats, writer, dies at 25 1821 Birthday John Cabell Breckinridge, D, 14th U.S. Vice President, 1857 - 1861, major-general, Confederate 1821 Birthday John James Peck, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday John Willis Ellis, Governor, Confederacy 1820 Birthday John Fulton Reynolds, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday John Franklin Farnsworth, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday John Marshall Jones, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1820 Birthday John Bartlett, U.S., editor, compiled Familiar Quotations 1820 Birthday Julia Gardiner Tyler, 2nd wife of President John Tyler, 1841-45 1820 Birthday John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator, Alice in Wonderland 1820 Birthday John Milton Thayer, Major General Union volunteers 1820 Birthday John Haskell King, Major General Union Army 1819 Birthday John White Geary, Major General Union volunteers 1819 Birthday John Geary, 1st San Francisco postmaster, 1st mayor, May 1, 1850 1819 Death John Langdon, American Politician 1819 Death John Playfair, Scottish geologist/mathematician, dies 1819 Birthday John Couch Adams, English astronomer, co-discover Neptune 1819 Death John H van Kinsbergen, lt-admiral/founder (Corps Marines), dies at 84 1819 Birthday John Ruskin, writer/critic/artist/Gothic Revivalist, Prerafaelite 1818 Birthday John Henninger Reagan, Attorney General, Confederacy 1818 Birthday John H. Reagan, American Politician 1818 Birthday John Heemskerk Azn, Dutch minister of Internal minister, 1866..88 1818 Birthday John Stuart "Cerro Gordo" Williams, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Birthday Edward John Hopkins, composer 1818 Death John van Well, choreographer/mime (Pierrot), dies at 44 1818 Birthday John Albion Andrew, Gov, Union 1818 Birthday John Gill Shorter, Gov, Confederacy 1818 Birthday John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1818 Death John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician, dies at 61 1818 Birthday John Reese Kenly, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday John Bigelow, American Lawyer 1817 Death John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant 1817 Event John Quincy Adams becomes Secretary of State 1817 Birthday John McAuley Palmer, U.S. Union msj-gen, Gov-Ill, 1868 - 1872 1817 Birthday John Leech, English Artist 1817 Birthday John Gilbert, painter/illustrator 1817 Birthday John Fowler, English engineer, London Metropolitan Railway 1817 Birthday John Philip, painter 1817 Birthday John Wilson Sprague, Major General Union volunteers 1817 Birthday John Glover, English chemist, sulfuric acid 1817 Birthday John Selden Roane, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1816 Event Patent for a dry dock issued to John Adamson, Boston 1816 Birthday John Curwen, composer 1816 Birthday John Eugene Smith, Major General Union Army 1816 Birthday John Palmer Usher, Secretary Int, Union 1815 Birthday John Banvard, New York City, painted worlds largest painting, 3 mile canvas 1815 Birthday John Mitchel, Irish Journalist 1815 Death John Sevier, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), dies at 70 1815 Death John Singleton Copley, British painter, dies at 77 1815 Birthday John Richardson Liddell, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday John Porter McCown, Major General Confederate Army 1815 Birthday John William Glover, composer 1815 Birthday John Gross Barnard, Major General Union Army 1815 Event New Jersey issues 1st U.S. railroad charter (John Stevens) 1815 Birthday John A. MacDonald, C, 1st Prime Minister of Canada, 1867 - 1873 1815 Birthday John McDonald, Canadian Leader 1814 Birthday John Clifford Pemberton, Lieutenant General Confederate Army 1814 Birthday John Lothrop Motley, U.S., historian/author, Rise of Dutch Rep 1814 Birthday John Blair Smith Todd, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday John Wolcott Phelps, Brigadier General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday John Jones Pettus, Confederate governor, D-Miss, 1859-63 1813 Birthday John Sedgwick, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Event Captain John Lawrence utters Navy motto "Don't give up the ship" 1813 Birthday John Letcher, Gov, Confederacy 1813 Birthday John McNeil, Major General Union volunteers 1813 Birthday John C Fremont, Pathfinder, map maker/explorer, western U.S., Gov, AZ 1813 Birthday John Charles Fremont, American Soldier 1812 Death John Malchair, composer, dies at 82 1812 Birthday John Rodgers II, Commander Union Navy 1812 Birthday John Pike Hullah, composer 1812 Death John W de Winter, Dutch Vice-Admiral, dies at battle at Kamperduin at 51 1812 Birthday John Alexander McClernand, Major General Union volunteers 1812 Birthday John Randolph Tucker, Captain, Confederate Navy 1811 Death John Antes, composer, dies at 71 1811 Birthday John Ancrum Winslow, Commander Union Navy 1811 Birthday John Bright, British Politician 1811 Birthday John Humphrey Noyes, Vt, found Oneida Community, Perfectionists 1811 Death John FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples, dies at 77 1811 Birthday John Archibald Campbell, Assistant Secretary War, Confederacy 1810 Death Johann/John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl' Uffizi), dies at 77 1810 Event John Jacob Astor organizes Pacific Fur Co (Astoria, Oregon) 1810 Birthday John McCloskey, U.S., President of St. John's College, Fordham U 1809 Birthday John AB Dahlgren, U.S. Union Lieutenant-Admiral/inventor, Civil war Dahlgren-cannon 1809 Birthday John Stuart Blackie, Scottish Writer 1809 Death John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer, dies at 58 1809 Birthday John Smith Preston, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1809 Birthday John Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, Silver Fleet 1808 Birthday John Liptrot Hatton, composer 1807 Birthday John Greenleaf Whittier, U.S., poet, Snow-bound 1807 Birthday John Tideman, Dutch Remonstrant theologist 1807 Death John Muhlenberg, Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday 1807 Birthday John Bankhead "Prince John" Magruder, Major General Confederate Army 1807 Death John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio, dies at 45 in Berners Street, London 1806 Birthday John Breckinridge Grayson, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1806 Birthday John Sterling, writer, Representative Victorian 1806 Birthday John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War, Union 1806 Birthday John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian 1806 Death John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81 1806 Death John Alcock, composer, dies at 90 1805 Birthday John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church 1805 Birthday John Stephens, U.S. archaeologist; founded study of Central America 1805 Birthday John Thomson, composer 1805 Birthday Henry John Gauntlett, composer 1804 Birthday John William, Turk, Livingston, Commander Union Navy 1804 Death John Wedgwood, founder (Royal Horticulture Society), dies 1804 Birthday John Deere, pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements 1803 Birthday John ACA van Nispen Sevenaer, Member of Dutch 2nd parliament, 1848-75 1803 Birthday John Gorrie, inventor, cold-air process of refrigeration 1803 Death John Barry, 1st American commodore, dies 1803 Birthday John Ericsson, U.S., inventor, screw propeller, shipbuilder-USS Monitor 1803 Event John Hawkins and Richard French patent the Reaping Machine 1803 Event 1st impeachment trial of a federal judge, John Pickering, begins 1803 Birthday John Augustus Sutter, Swiss / U.S. colonist, New Helvetia, California, Sutter Mill 1802 Birthday John Barnett, composer 1802 Event John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress 1801 Birthday John Drake Sloat, Ret Major General Commander Union Navy 1801 Birthday John Hill Hewitt, composer 1801 Birthday John Henry Newman, England, cardinal/author, Dream of Gerontius 1801 Birthday John Rylands, England, merchant/philanthropist 1801 Event John Marshall appointed U.S. chief justice 1801 Birthday John Lodge Ellerton, composer 1800 Birthday John Goss, born in Fareham, England, composer, organist, wrote hymn 'Praise my Soul, the King of Heaven' 1800 Event John Adams is 1st President to move into the White House 1800 Event White House completed and President and Mrs. John Adams move in 1800 Birthday John Brown, abolitionist; led attack on Harpers Ferry 1800 Death John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, dies at 46 1800 Death John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84 1800 Birthday John Henry Winder, Brigadier General Confederate Army 1799 Death John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English physician/nature investigator, dies at 68 1799 Death John Bacon, English sculptor, dies at 58 1799 Death John Randall, composer, dies at 82 1799 Birthday John Lindley, English botanist, Elements of Botany 1798 Death John Fitch, American inventor, clockmaker, etc, dies 1797 Death John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader, dies at 72 1797 Birthday John J Rochussen, governor-general of Dutch-Indies, 1845-51 1797 Birthday John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx 1797 Birthday John Winebrenner, U.S., clergyman, founded Church of God 1797 Event John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of the United States 1797 Event 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London) 1796 Event John Adams elected president 1796 Birthday John Richardson, Canadian writer, Wacousta, or the prophecy 1796 Birthday John Middleton Clayton, Delaware, Sen-Del, U.S. Secretary of State, 1849 - 1850 1796 Birthday John Gelinde van Blom, Frisian notary/author 1795 Birthday John Keats, born in London, England, romantic poet, Ode to a Grecian Urn 1795 Birthday John P. Kennedy, American Soldier 1795 Event John Rutledge becomes 2nd chief justice of Supreme Court 1795 Birthday John Marston, Jr., Commander Union Navy 1794 Birthday John Barrien Montgomery, Commander Union Navy 1794 Event John Dalton 1st lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society 1794 Birthday John G Lockhart, Scorpion, biographer, Life of Sir Walter Scott 1793 Death John Hancock, U.S. merchant and signer Declaration of Independence, dies at 56 1793 Birthday John Clare, Northamptonshire peasant poet, Shepard's Calendar 1793 Birthday John Claire, England, poet 1792 Birthday Edward John Trelawney, England, traveler/author, Adv of Younger Son 1792 Birthday John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM, 1846-52, 1865-66 1792 Death John Burgoyne, soldier/playwright, dies 1792 Death John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, English Naval minister, dies at 73 1792 Birthday John Keble, Anglican priest/founder, Oxford Movement 1792 Birthday John George Lambton, London, statesman, 1st Earl of Durham 1792 Death John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78 1792 Birthday John Herschel, born in Slough, England, William Herschel's son, astronomer 1791 Event John Fitch grants U.S. patent for his working steamboat 1791 Birthday John Howard Payne, U.S., author/actor/diplomat, Home Sweet Home 1791 Event John Stone, Concord, Massachusetts, patents a pile driver 1790 Death John Keyse Sherwin, engraver/painter, dies 1790 Birthday John Gibson, British sculptor 1790 Birthday John Eaton, American Politician 1790 Birthday John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrialist 1790 Birthday John Tyler, born in Virginia, 10th President, 1841-1845 1790 Event John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia 1790 Birthday John Bachman, American Clergyman 1790 Death John Stinstra, Dutch baptist vicar, dies at 81 1789 Birthday John Fawcett, composer 1789 Event Jefferson appointed 1st Secretary of State; John Jay 1st chief justice; 1789 Event President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice 1789 Birthday John Martin, English painter 1789 Event John Adams sworn in as 1st U.S. Vice President (9 days before Washington) 1789 Event John Odell signs contract for 336 pounds to build St. Peter's church (Bronx) 1788 Death John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40 1788 Death John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence, dies at 47 1788 Death Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68 1787 Birthday John Jordan Crittenden, MC, Union 1787 Birthday John Bake, classical composer 1787 Event John Fitch's steamboat completes its tests, years before Fulton 1787 Death John Brown, (British) theologist, dies 1787 Birthday John Burke, Irish genealogist, Burke's Peerage 1786 Death John Stanley, composer, dies at 74 1786 Death John Goodricke, English deaf and dumb astronomer, dies at 21 1786 Birthday John Franklin, British explorer, Arctic 1785 Death John William Fletcher, evangelist, dies 1785 Birthday John Wilson, Scottish Writer 1785 Birthday John James Audubon, Haiti, bird watcher/artist 1785 Event John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times 1784 Event John Jay becomes 1st U.S. Secretary of State 1784 Birthday John McLoughlin, Hudson's Bay Co pioneer in Oregon Country 1784 Event John Carroll appointed supervisor of U.S. Catholic Missions 1784 Death Mary Mead, wife of English journalist John Wilkes, dies 1784 Event John Wesley charters Methodist Church 1784 Birthday John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English, opera, composer/diplomat 1783 Birthday John Heathcoat, inventor, lace-making machinery 1783 Birthday John Claudius, born in London, England, horticulturist 1782 Death John Barueth, vicar/pamphleter, dies 1782 Death John de Mol, porcelein manufacturer, dies 1782 Birthday John Field, Dublin Ireland, pianist/composer, Nocturnes 1782 Birthday John Sell Cotman, water color artist 1782 Birthday John Caldwell Calhoun, South Carolina, Andrew Jackson's Vice President, 1825 - 1832 1782 Birthday John C. Calhoun, American Statesman 1781 Death John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 57 1781 Event John Hanson elected 1st "President of U.S. in Congress assembled" 1780 Death John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold) 1780 Event British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Pt 1780 Death John Andre, hanged as a British spy at 29 1780 Birthday John McKinley, American Politician 1779 Birthday John W. Pieneman, historical painter, Battle at Waterloo 1779 Event John Adams negotiates Revolutionary War peace terms with Britain 1779 Event John Paul Jones' "Bon Homme Richard" defeats HMS Serepis 1779 Death John Heart, U.S. farmer signed Declaration of Independence, dies at about 68 1779 Birthday John Galt, Scotland, novelist, Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd 1779 Death John Burman, Dutch botanist/director (botanical gardens), dies at 71 1779 Birthday John White, composer 1778 Birthday John Murray, publisher 1778 Birthday John Strachan, Canadian Clergyman 1777 Event British General John Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga NY 1777 Death John Bartram, father of American botany, dies at 77 1777 Event English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting U.S. flag 1776 Event Battle of Pelham: Col John Glover and Marblehead regiment meet British Forces in Bronx 1776 Event John Nixon gave 1st public reading of Decleration of Independence in Philadelphia 1776 Birthday John Constable, England, landscape painter, Hay Wain 1776 Birthday John George Schetky, composer 1776 Birthday John Walter II, London, chief proprietor, The Times, 1812-47 1776 Birthday John Parry, composer 1775 Event John Adams graduates Harvard 1775 Event Minutemen Captain John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon 1775 Death John Baskerville, English printer/type designer, dies at 68 1774 Birthday John Chapman, Johnny Appleseed, frontier nurseryman 1774 Birthday John Wilbur, American Clergyman 1774 Birthday John Braham, composer 1772 Death John Mauritius Quinkhard, portrait painter, dies at 84 1772 Death John Woolman, American Clergyman 1772 Event John Clais patents 1st scale 1771 Death John E Loovens, lawyer, dies at 76 1770 Birthday John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer 1769 Event John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (U.S.) 1768 Birthday John Crome, Old Crome, English landscape painter/etcher 1768 Event 1st U.S. bachelor of medicine degree, Dr. John Archer 1768 Death John Wainwright, composer, dies at 44 1767 Death John Newberry, English publisher, dies 1767 Birthday John Quincy Adams, Braintree, Massachusetts, 6th President of the United States, Democrat, 1825 - 1829 1766 Birthday John Wall Calcott, composer 1766 Birthday John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter 1766 Event John Byron back in England after trip around the world 1764 Event John Adams marries Abigail Smith, marriage lasts 54 years 1764 Birthday John Goodricke, English astronomer/member Royal Society 1764 Birthday John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society 1764 Birthday John Abernethy, London, surgeon 1764 Event John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women" 1764 Birthday John Kinker, Dutch linguist/philosopher/poet, Minderjarige Zangster 1763 Birthday John Molson, founded Montreal brewery, Molsons 1763 Event English journalist John Wilkes injured at duel 1763 Death John Althuysen, Fries vicar/poet (Frysk Jierboek), dies at 47 1763 Birthday John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in U.S., banker/fur trader 1763 Birthday John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman 1763 Event London Journalist John Wilkes confined in the Tower 1763 Event John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs 1763 Death John Theodor of Bavaria, prince-bishop of Liege/cardinal, dies 1763 Death John Casteret earl Granville, English premier, dies at 72 1762 Birthday John W. Janssens, Governor-General of Cape colony/Dutch-Indies 1811 1762 Death John Alberti, theologist/philological, dies at 64 1761 Birthday John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio 1761 Birthday John W de Winter, Dutch Vice-Admiral, Battle at Kamperduin 1758 Death John Dyer, poet, dies 1758 Birthday John Hoppner, portrait painter 1758 Birthday John Pinkerton, Scottish historian 1757 Birthday Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer 1757 Death John Byng, English Admiral (Minorca), executed at 52 1757 Birthday John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician 1757 Birthday John P Kemble, England, actor and director, Drury Lane, Covent Garden 1756 Birthday John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface, asphalt 1756 Birthday John Trumbull, U.S. painter, Declaration of Independence 1755 Birthday John Marshall, Virginia, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1801-35 1755 Birthday John Flaxman, English sculptor, Westminster Abbey tomb stones 1754 Death John Wood, architect/town planner, dies 1753 Birthday John Taylor, Virginia, philosopher, Jeffersonian Democracy 1753 Birthday John Soane, English architect, Bank of England, Soane Museum 1753 Birthday John H Midderigh, Rotterdam patriot, baptized 1752 Death John C Pepusch, English composer (Beggar's Opera), dies at about 85 1751 Death John Wilson, botanist, dies 1751 Birthday John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon 1750 Birthday John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer 1750 Birthday John Philpot Curran, Irish Public Servant 1750 Birthday John Stafford Smith, composer 1748 Birthday John Playfair, born in Scotland, clergyman, geologist and mathematician 1747 Birthday John Paul Jones, naval hero, "I have not yet begun to fight" 1746 Birthday John Vaclav Stich, Giovanni Punto, Bohemian horn player/composer 1746 Birthday John Muhlenberg, Lutheran pastor/general/congressman 1746 Death John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies 1745 Birthday John Jay, diplomat/governor, NY 1745 Birthday John Sevier, Tennessee, indian fighter, Gov/Rep-Tn 1744 Event English premier John Carteret resigns 1744 Death John Hadley, inventor (sextant), dies 1744 Birthday John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist 1743 Death John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/Field Marshal, dies at 64 1743 Birthday John Fitch, inventor, had a working steamboat years before Fulton 1741 Birthday John Langdon, American Politician 1741 Birthday John Penn, U.S. attorney, signed Declaration of Independence 1740 Birthday John Bacon, English sculptor 1740 Birthday John Antes, composer 1738 Birthday John Singleton Copley, Massachusetts, finest colonial American artist 1738 Birthday John Pindar, physician/poet 1737 Birthday John Hancock, American Politician 1737 Birthday John Hancock, patriot, 1st to sign Declaration of Independence 1736 Death John Weldon, composer, dies at 60 1736 Event Methodists John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia 1735 Birthday John Adams, Braintree, Massachusetts, 2nd president of the United States, 1797 - 1801 1735 Event Jury acquits John Zenger (New York Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of New York (victory for Freedom of press) 1735 Birthday John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army 1735 Birthday John H van Kinsbergen, Dutch lt-admiral/founder of Dutch Marines Corp 1735 Death John Arbuthnot, physician/mathematician, dies 1734 Event John Zenger, arrested for libel against New York col gov; later acquitted 1734 Birthday John F E Acton, cruel premier of Naples 1732 Death John Gay, English poet (Beggar's Opera), dies at 47 1731 Birthday William Cowper, English lawyer/poet, John Gilpin, 1730 Birthday John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English personal physician of Maria Theresia 1730 Birthday John Malchair, composer 1729 Death John Law, Scottish financier, dies at about 57 1728 Death John Friend, physician/politician, dies 1728 Death John Woodward, geologist/physician, dies 1728 Event John Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London 1727 Death John van Bylevelt, Catholic apostole, dies 1726 Death John B Wellekens, poet/painter (Wedding Guests), dies 1726 Death John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62 1725 Birthday John Wilkes, English journalist/MP, N Briton 1725 Death John Lovewell, U.S. indian fighter, dies in battle 1724 Birthday John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist 1724 Birthday John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist/co-founder, Society of It General 1724 Birthday John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer 1724 Event Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig 1723 Birthday John Wainwright, composer 1723 Birthday John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence 1722 Death John Churchill up Marlborough, English general strategist, dies at 72 1721 Event John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent 1721 Birthday John Hanson, Maryland, 1st U.S. President under Articles of Confederation 1721 Event English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower 1720 Birthday John Woolman, American Clergyman 1720 Birthday Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Utrechts regent 1719 Death John Flamsteed, 1st Astronomer Royal, dies at 73 1719 Birthday John/Jean Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname, 1768-79 1719 Birthday John Hawkins, born in England, wrote 1st history of music 1718 Birthday John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor, sandwich 1717 Birthday John Randall, composer 1716 Birthday John Evangelist Schreiber, composer 1715 Birthday John Althuysen, Frisian vicar/poet, Frisianche rymlery 1715 Event John Flamsteed observes Uranus for 6th time 1715 Birthday John Alcock, composer 1713 Birthday John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, English premier, 1760-63 1712 Death John Luyken, poet/etcher (species company), dies at 63 1712 Birthday John Stanley, composer 1709 Birthday John Wagenaar, Amsterdam merchant/historian, baptised 1709 Death John Philips, English Poet 1708 Death John Blow, composer (Venus and Adonis), dies at 59 1708 Birthday John Stinstra, baptist vicar 1707 Birthday John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens 1706 Birthday John Dollond, owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens 1706 Death John Evelyn, diarist, dies 1706 Birthday John Baskerville, English printer, typeface inventor 1704 Death John Locke, English philosopher (2 treatises of government), dies at 72 1704 Birthday John Kay, England, machinist, invented flying shuttle 1704 Event 1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell 1704 Death John Hudde, 21x mayor of Amsterdam, dies at 76 1703 Death John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (wig of W), dies 1703 Birthday John Wesley, English Clergyman 1703 Birthday John B Wesley, England, religion co-founder, Methodists 1702 Death John Benbow, English Vice-Admiral (Santa Marta), dies 1702 Death John de Baen, portrait painter/etcher, buried at 69 1700 Death John Dryden, English Poet 1700 Death John Dryden, English poet/playwright (Rival Ladies), dies 1699 Birthday John Bartram, naturalist/explorer, father of American botany 1698 Birthday John Alberti, Dutch theologist and philologist 1697 Death John Aubrey, English writer, wrote 'Brief Lives', died of apoplexy 1696 Event John Salomonsz elected chief of Saint-Eustatius 1695 Birthday John E Loovens, lawyer 1694 Death John Tillotson, British Theologian 1694 Death John L baron van Elderen, 63rd bishop of Liege (1688-94), dies at 73 1692 Death John Commelin, director of Hortus Botanist (Amsterdam), dies at 62 1690 Event John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it's undiscovered 1690 Death John Eliot, English missionary in Massachusetts, dies at 85 1690 Birthday John Carteret, Earl Granville, C, English chief minister, 1722-42 1689 Death John Graham, of Claverhouse, 1st viscount Dundee/soldier, killed, dies 1688 Event General strategist John Churchill joins with Willem III 1688 Event General strategist John Churchill meets Willem III 1688 Death John Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress), dies 1686 Death John Pearson, British Theologian 1685 Birthday John Gay, English poet, Beggar's Opera 1685 Birthday John Gay, author, Baggars' Opera 1684 Death John Uytenhage van Lacks, lawyer/author, drowned at 48 1682 Death John Ferrabosco, composer, dies at 56 1682 Birthday John Hadley, mathematician/inventor, 1st reflecting telescope 1682 Birthday John van Huysum, Dutch painter, flowers/fruit 1680 Death John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies 1680 Death John Swammerdam, anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 43 1679 Death John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam landscape painter, dies at 53 1679 Death John van Kessel, Flemish painter, dies at 53 1678 Death John Jenkins, composer, dies 1678 Birthday John Campbell, 2nd duke of Argyll/Field Marshal, Union of 1707 1678 Event John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published 1677 Event John and Nicolaas van der Heyden patents fire extinguisher 1677 Death John A van Riebeeck, Dutch founder Cape Colony, dies at 57 1676 Birthday John Philips, English Poet 1676 Death John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, dies at 76 1676 Death John de Haen, Vice-Admiral (Kijkduin/Palermo), dies in battle at 45? 1676 Birthday John Weldon, composer 1675 Death John Vermeer, Dutch painter (Love Letter), dies at 43 1675 Death John Lightfoot, English theologist (Horae Hebraicae), dies at 73 1675 Event John Flamsteed appointed 1st Astronomer Royal of England 1674 Death John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65 1674 Death John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver, dies at 66 1674 Event General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland 1674 Death John Wilson, composer, dies at 78 1673 Death John de Love I, Vice-Admiral, dies in sea battle at about 54 1673 Death John of Paffenrode, ruler of Ghussigny/poet, dies in battle 1672 Death John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland (1648-68), dies at 63 1672 Death John Wilkins, English Clergyman 1670 Death John Comenius, Czechoslovakian Educator 1669 Death John Coccejus, German/Netherlands reformed theologist, dies at about 66 1669 Event John Lockes Constitution of English colony Carolina approved 1668 Event Polish king John II Kazimierz resigns/goes to France 1668 Event King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France 1668 Event John Dryden (36) becomes 1st English poet laureate 1667 Death John Fox, Amsterdam writer, buried 1667 Birthday John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer, Alexander Pope 1664 Birthday John Vanbrugh, London, dramatist/architect, baptized 1662 Death John Tradescant, traveller/gardener, dies 1661 Death John Elsevier, book publisher/publisher, dies at 39 1659 Event General-major John Lambert drives out English Rump-govt 1659 Event English Rump-government fires John Lambert and other generals 1657 Event Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert 1654 Death John Selden, English Statesman 1653 Death John Bicker, ship builder/merchant/regent, dies at 61 1652 Death John Cotton, Mass Bay Puritan preacher, dies at 68 1652 Death John Asselijn, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 42 1652 Death John Both, landscape painter/etcher, dies at about 37 1652 Death John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist, dies at 68 1652 Event In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America 1652 Event John Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres in Northampton, Va 1652 Event John of Riebeeck lands/establishes VOC-post in Capetown 1651 Event John van Riebeeck departs to Cape of Good Hope 1651 Birthday John Baron Somers, Whig, William III's chief minister, 1696-1700 1650 Birthday John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist 1650 Death John Adriaensz, hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer), dies at about 74 1649 Death John Winthrop, 1st governor Mass Bay Colony, dies at 61 1649 Death John Winthrop, Puritan and 1st Governor (Mass), dies 1649 Birthday John Blow, composer of 1st English opera, Venus and Adonis, baptized 1648 Event Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir 1648 Event Battle at Pilawce: Bohdan Chmielricki's beats John Casimir 1648 Event Battle at Zolty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir 1648 Event Battle at Zolty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat John II Casimir 1648 Birthday John Luyken, poet/etcher, Duytse Lyre 1647 Birthday John A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet, Bellone aen bant 1646 Death John C Lichthart, Admiral (Cape Augustine), dies at about 45 1646 Birthday John Flamsteed, 1st astronomer royal of England 1645 Death lady Alice Lisle, English widow of John Lisle, beheaded 1644 Death John Wtenbogaert, theologist (Kerckelicke history), dies at 87 1643 Death John Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59 1643 Death John Hampden, English politician, dies of injuries at about 48 1641 Death Robert Dowland, English luitist/son of John Dowland, dies at about 50 1641 Death John Amner, composer, dies at 61 1640 Event John Pym, earl of Strafford locked in Tower of London 1639 Death John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68 1639 Death John Meursius, van Meurs, historian, dies at 60 1639 Event Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard 1638 Death John Ward, composer, chorister, Canterbury Cathedral, composed madrigals, anthems, works for viola da gamba, dies at 67 in Essex, England 1638 Event Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode 1637 Birthday John van der Heyden, Dutch painter and inventor, fire extinguisher 1637 Birthday John Swammerdam, Dutch anatomist/entomologist, Bible of Nature 1636 Death John Oldham, trader in Massachusetts, murdered by indians 1635 Event Virginia Governor John Harvey accused of treason and removed from office 1634 Death John Marston, English Poet 1632 Death John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40 1632 Birthday John Locke, England, empiricist philosopher; disproved substance 1631 Death John Pijnas, Dutch painter, buried at about 47 1631 Birthday John Dryden, 1st poet laureate of England, All for Love 1631 Birthday John Dryden, English poet/playwright, Heroic Stanzas 1631 Event John Winthrop is elected 1st governor of Massachusetts 1631 Death John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown) 1630 Death John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged 1630 Death John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide 1630 Event Governor John Winthrop begins "History of New England" 1629 Death John Pieterszoon Coen, merchant/Governor-General of East-Indies, dies at 42 1629 Birthday John Commelin, director, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam 1628 Birthday John Bunyan, England, cleric/author, Pilgrim's Progress 1628 Event John Ford's "Lover's Melancholy," premieres in London 1628 Death John Bull, English organist/composer, dies 1627 Birthday John Ray, English Environmentalist 1626 Birthday John Ferrabosco, composer 1626 Birthday John Aubrey, born in Percy, England, English writer, wrote 'Brief Lives' 1626 Death John Dowland, composer, dies 1626 Birthday John van de Cappelle, Amsterdam, landscape painter 1626 Death John Dowland, English composer (In Darkness We Dwell), dies at 62 1623 Death John I Van de Velde, calligrapher (Mirror of Write-Konste), dies 1622 Event County Maine appended on John Mason/Fernandino Gorges 1621 Event Dutch Governor-General John Pieterszoon Coen takes Banda-islands, 15,000 die 1621 Event John Pieterszoon Coen's troops land on Lontor, East Indies 1620 Birthday John Evelyn, British diarist, Life of Mrs. Godolphin 1620 Birthday John L baron of Elderen, 63rd prince-bishop of Luik, 1688-94 1620 Death John Aerts, Flemish sculptor 1620 Birthday John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography 1619 Death John Lippershey, inventor of telescope, buried 1619 Birthday John Lambert, English general-major/parliament leader 1619 Birthday John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony 1618 Event Captain John Gilbert patents 1st dredger in Britain 1617 Death John Napier, Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies 1616 Birthday John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer, product of Wallis 1616 Death John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist, dies at 65 1615 Birthday John Biddle, English minister, Unitarian 1614 Event Pocahontas, daughter of chief Powhatan, marries planter John Rolfe 1614 Event Indian princess Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe 1614 Birthday John Wilkins, English Clergyman 1612 Birthday John Pearson, British Theologian 1611 Event John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication 1609 Birthday John II Casimir Vasa, cardinal/king of Poland, 1648-68 1609 Birthday John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier 1608 Birthday John Milton, London, poet/puritan, Paradise Lost 1608 Event John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va 1608 Event John Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication 1607 Birthday John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard University 1607 Birthday John Lievensz, painter/etcher/wood carver 1607 Event English colonists (John Smith) lands near James River in VA 1605 Death John Stow, British historian, dies 1604 Birthday John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized 1604 Death John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury (1583-1604), dies at about 74 1602 Birthday John Lightfoot, English theologist and literary, Horae Hebraicae 1601 Event John Lancaster leads 1st East India Company voyage from London 1600 Death John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies 1600 Birthday John Galle, Flemish engraver/printer, baptised 1600 Death John Bruhesius, Bruhesen, bishop of Groningen, dies 1596 Death John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66 1595 Death John Hawkins, English navigator/treasurer of the Navy, dies at 63 1595 Birthday John Wilson, composer 1593 Death John Penry, English congressionalist, executed 1593 Death John Greenwood, English Congressionalist, hanged 1592 Birthday John Cloppenburg, vicar/theologist 1592 Birthday John Eliot, St. Germans Cornwall, English MP/author 1592 Birthday John Comenius, Czechoslovakian Educator 1588 Event John Hawkins becomes a knight 1588 Birthday John Winthrop, English attorney/puritan/1st Governor of Mass 1588 Birthday John Winthrop, 1st governor, Mass Bay Colony 1587 Death John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies 1586 Birthday John Ford, English dramatist, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore 1584 Birthday John Selden, English Statesman 1584 Birthday John Cotton, Puritan clergyman in Mass Bay colony 1584 Death John van Hembyze, South Netherlands Calvinist, dies at 71 1582 Birthday John Barclay, Scottish satirist/poet, Euphormio's Satyricon 1582 Birthday John Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet, Argenis 1580 Death John Bonga, beggar, dies 1580 Death Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of John), dies at 63 1579 Birthday John Fletcher, Elizabethan dramatist, Phylaster, baptized 1579 Birthday John Amner, composer 1579 Birthday John Meursius, Dutch historian 1576 Birthday John Marston, English Poet 1574 Birthday John Wilbye, composer 1572 Death John Knox, Scottish preacher, dies at about 67 1571 Death John Jewel, English Clergyman 1571 Birthday John Ward, born in Canterbury, England, composer, chorister, Canterbury Cathedral, composed madrigals, anthems, works for viola da gamba 1571 Birthday John I Pontanus, physicist/historian, Amsterdam 1566 Death John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister, dies 1565 Event Turkish siege of Malta broken by Maltese and Knights of St. John 1564 Event John Hawkins begins 2nd trip to America 1564 Death Jean Caulvin, John Calvin, priest/church reformer, dies at 54 1564 Death John Calvin, French Theologian 1563 Death John Bull, composer of British national anthem (God Save The King), dies 1560 Death John a Lasco, John Laski, Polish nobleman/reformed theologist, dies 1559 Event Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary 1557 Birthday John Wtenbogaert, remonstrants theologist 1556 Death John Sleidanus, German humanist/historian (Commentary), dies at 50 1555 Death John Hooper, deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy 1553 Death John Dudley, English Lord Admiral/premier (1551-53), beheaded 1553 Event Prime Minister John Dudley captured in Cambridge 1552 Death John Leland, antiquary, dies 1551 Event John Dudley becomes English Earl Marshal 1551 Event English premier John Dudley appointed duke of Northumberland 1550 Birthday John Drusius, Flemish hebrew translator 1549 Event John Dudley earl of Warwick becomes English premier 1549 Event Battle at Dussindale: John Dudley destroys English boer army 1549 Event Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels 1545 Death John Taverner, English composer (Western Wynde), dies at about 55 1544 Event Antwerps painter John Matsys banished 1540 Death John I Zapolyai, prince of Transsylvania/king of Hungary, dies 1540 Event Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic" 1535 Birthday John, the Old, earl of Nassau/tribal father Netherlands royal family 1535 Death John Fisher, English bishop (1504-35)/cardinal, beheaded at about 65 1535 Event English Catholic Cardinal John Fischer state rights 1535 Death John Houghton, English, executed 1531 Death John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded 1529 Death John Skelton, English poet, dies at about 69 1529 Death John Cuspinianus, Spiessheimer, German physician, dies at about 55 1527 Birthday John Dee, London, alchemist/astrologer/mathematician 1526 Event John I Zapolyai of Transsylvania chosen as king of Hungary 1525 Death John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake 1525 Event Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague 1525 Event Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius at The Hague 1525 Event Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague 1523 Death John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake 1522 Birthday John Jewel, English Clergyman 1519 Event Public debate between Martin Luther and theologist John Eck 1517 Death John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37 1516 Death John III van Egmont, Manke John, viceroy of Holland, dies at 78 1513 Birthday John van Hembyze, Flemish calvinist 1509 Birthday John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian 1505 Death John IX van Horne, prince-bishop of Lieges, executed 1499 Death John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies 1497 Event John Cabot tells King Henry VII of his trip to "Asia" 1497 Event John Cabot returns to Bristol from North-America 1497 Event John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia) 1497 Event John Cabot departs to North-America 1497 Death John Ockeghem, Flemish singer/composer, dies at 79 1496 Event English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore 1495 Birthday John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright, Kynge Johan 1495 Death John II, the Perfect/Consummate, King of Portugal (1481-95), dies 1495 Event 1st written record of Scotch Whiskey appears in Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, Friar John Cor is the distiller 1494 Death Hans Memling, John Memlinc, Flemish painter (Passietaferelen), dies 1494 Birthday John Agricola, Schneider, German theologist/prime minister 1493 Death John of Lannoy, Flemish governor/viceroy of Netherlands/Zealand, dies at 82 1487 Event Battle at Stoke: Henry VII beats John de la Pole and Lord Lovell 1487 Event Lord Lovell and John de la Poles army land at Furness Lancashire 1482 Death John van Schaffelaar, Gelders knight, dies 1479 Death John II, king of Aragon/Navarra, dies at 81 1471 Death John Soreth, French general, dies 1468 Death John Gutenberg, German inventor (boekdrukkunst), dies 1453 Death John Dunstable, English composer, dies 1444 Death John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50 1438 Birthday John III van Egmont, Manke John, viceroy of Holland 1429 Death John [Jean C] Gerson, French theologist (Theologica mystic), dies at 65 1427 Death John IV, duke of Brabant, dies 1425 Event Duke John VI van Brabant pledges Holland/Zealand to Philip the Good 1425 Death John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned 1420 Event Duke John VI of Bavaria visits "Christ's bride"/virgin Liduina 1419 Death John XXIII, Baldassare Cossa, Italian Pope (1410-15), dies 1419 Death John the Fearless, Burgundy/French warrior, murdered at 48 1418 Event Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant 1417 Death John Oldcastle, Lord Cobham, English nobleman, hanged and burned 1417 Death John van Touraine, 1st husband of Jacoba of Bavaria, dies 1416 Death John, Duke of Berry, captain of Paris, dies 1415 Event John IV van Bourgondy becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg 1414 Event Peace of Atrecht: John the fearless and Armagnacs 1410 Birthday John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia 1409 Birthday John II, French duke of Aleneon/co-fighter of Jeanne d'arc 1399 Death John of Ghent, duke of Lancaster/king of Castile and Leon, dies at 58 1385 Event John without Fear marries Margaretha of Brabant 1384 Death John Wycliffe, English religious reformer/bible translator, dies 1381 Death John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged 1381 Death John of Chatillon, governor/viceroy of Holland, dies 1380 Death John von Neumarkt, German bishop/Chancellor Karel IV, dies 1371 Birthday John, the Fearless, Burgundy France, Duke of Burgundy/warrior 1364 Event Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht 1363 Birthday John Van Gerson, French theologist 1361 Death John Tauler, German mystic (Gottesfreunde) dies at about 61 1348 Death John Andreae, Italian canonist, dies 1342 Event Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht 1342 Death John I, ruler of Poland, dies 1340 Birthday John duke of Berry, captain of Paris/art collector 1334 Death John XXII, Jacques Dueze, Pope (316-34), dies 1328 Event William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII 1322 Event Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht 1312 Event Duke John II of Brabant ends Charter of Kortenberg 1296 Birthday John the Blind, King of Bohemia/Count of Luxembourg 1294 Event John II becomes duke of Brabant/Limburg 1292 Death John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62 1277 Death John XXI, Petrus Juliani/Hispanus, Port Pope (1276-77), dies 1276 Event John XXI elected Pope 1274 Death John F Bonaventura, Italian/French theologist/dominican/saint, dies 1216 Death John, king of England (1199-1216, Magna Charta), dies 1215 Event King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England 1215 Event English barons serve ultimatum on king John without Country 1214 Event English king John begins siege around Lille France 1213 Event English king John names Stephen Langton Archbishop of Canterbury 1210 Event King John of England begins imprisoning Jews 1202 Event King Philip II throws out John without Country, from France 1167 Birthday John "without a land", king of England, 1199-1216 1143 Death John II Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies in an accident 1078 Death John of Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies 1075 Death John VIII Xiphilinus, theologian/patriarch of Constantinople, dies 1058 Event Bishop John "Minchio," [domkop] elected as Pope Benedictus X 1027 Event John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor 992 Death Mieszko I, Polish advisor to Pope John XV, dies 984 Death John XIV, Petrus Canepanova, Italian Pope (983-84), dies 976 Death John I Tzimisces, co-emperor of Byzantium (969-76), dies at 51 972 Death John XIII Crescentii, pope (965-72), dies 967 Event John XIII crowned Otto II the Red German compassionate emperor 965 Event John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII 964 Death John XII, Octavianus, Pope (955-64), dies 962 Event Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor 882 Event Marinus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding John VIII 882 Death John VIII, Italian Pope (872-82), dies 872 Event John VIII elected as Catholic Pope 866 Event John appointed bishop of the kingdom 707 Event John VII ends his reign as Catholic Pope 707 Death John VII, Greek Pope (705-07), dies 705 Event Greek pope John VII chosen as successor to John VI 705 Event John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope 705 Death John VI, Catholic Pope (701-05), dies 701 Event John VI of Greece begins his reign as Catholic Pope 686 Death John V, 1st Greeks-Syrian Pope (685-86), dies 685 Event John V begins his reign as Catholic Pope 642 Event John IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope 640 Event John IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope 574 Event John III ends his reign as Catholic Pope 574 Death John III, Italian Pope (561-74), dies 561 Event John III begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Pelagius I 535 Event John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope 535 Death John, Mercurius, Italian Pope (533-35), dies 533 Event John II begins his reign as Catholic Pope 526 Death John I, Pope (523-26), dies 523 Event St. John I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 155 Death Polycarp, disciple of Apostle John, arrested and burned at stake 29 Death John the Baptist, beheaded
