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2008 Death - Joshua Lederberg, dies in New York, of pneumonia, at 82

1997 Death - Joshua Hassan, head of Gibraltar (1964-69, 72-87), dies

1997 Death - Joshua William Steward, polymath, dies at 83

1996 Event - Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)

1996 Death - Joshua Compston, art impressario, gallerist, Factual Nonsense art gallery, associated with the emergence of the Young British Artists, YBAs, dies at 26

1988 Birthday - Joshua Shalikar, actor, Honey I Blew Up the Kids

1988 Death - Joshua Logan, Broadway producer, dies at 79 of palsy

1988 Event - 30th Grammy Awards: Graceland, Joshua Tree, Jody Watley

1983 Event - Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana

1978 Birthday - Joshua Harris, actor, Locked Up: A Mother's Rage

1978 Birthday - Joshua Jackson, actor, Mighty Ducks

1975 Birthday - Joshua Rudoy, actor, Harry and Hendersons

1975 Birthday - Joshua Leonard, American Actor

1975 Birthday - Joshua Morrow. Juneau, born in Alaska, actor, Nicholas Newman-Young and Restless

1973 Birthday - Joshua Homme, American Musician

1972 Death - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator

1970 Birthday - Joshua Compston, born in the United Kingdom, art impressario, gallerist, Factual Nonsense art gallery, associated with the emergence of the Young British Artists, YBAs

1969 Birthday - Joshua Crayton, born in Redondo Beach, California, kayak alternate for 1996 Olympics

1969 Birthday - Joshua Micah Marshall, American Politician

1965 Birthday - Joshua Rifkind, actor, Marshall Chronicles

1958 Birthday - Robert Newman, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Joshua Lewis-Guiding Light

1957 Birthday - Joshua Mostel, New York City, actor, Delta House, At Ease

1956 Birthday - Lyle Lovett, born in Klein, Texas, country singer, God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth

1944 Birthday - Joshua Rifkin, born in New York, musicologist, composer, keyboard, involved in ragtime revival, in the 1970's, recorded Scott Joplin's works for Nonesuch Records

1936 Death - Joshua Willis Alexander, American Judge

1932 Birthday - Joshua Culbreath, Penn, 400m hurdler 1956 Olympics bronze

1929 Birthday - Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, composer

1926 Birthday - Joshua Hassan, chief minister, Gibralter

1925 Birthday - Joshua Lederberg, born in New Jersey, microbiologist, Nobel Prize winner, focused on genetics

1917 Birthday - Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwan minister, ZAPUA

1914 Death - Joshua Chamberlain, American Soldier

1913 Birthday - Joshua William Steward, polymath

1908 Birthday - Joshua Logan, Broadway producer, South Pacific

1908 Birthday - Josh White, born in Greenville, South Carolina, born Joshua Daniel White, guitarist, singer, civil rights activist, unique stylings and techniques inspired Nat King Cole, Harry Belafonte, Bob Dylan

1907 Birthday - Abraham Joshua Heschel, Polish Educator

1898 Event - Joshua Slocum completes 1st solo circumnavigation of the globe

1895 Event - Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat

1880 Birthday - Joshua L Cowen, inventor, electric train

1880 Death - [Joshua] Norton I, Emperor of US/Protector of Mexico, dies at 60

1862 Death - Joshua Woodrow Sill, U.S. Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31

1855 Event - Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope

1852 Birthday - Joshua Willis Alexander, American Judge

1831 Birthday - Joshua Woodrow Sill, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Major General Union volunteers

1828 Birthday - Joshua Chamberlain, American Soldier

1821 Birthday - Joshua Thomas Owen, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1819 Birthday - Joshua Norton, SF, Norton I, emperor of USA

1818 Death - Joshua Barney, American Soldier

1806 Birthday - Joshua Blackwood Howell, Brigadier General Union volunteers

1795 Birthday - Joshua Ratoon Sands, Commander Union Navy

1792 Death - Joshua Reynolds, English portrait painter (Simplicity), dies at 68

1759 Birthday - Joshua Barney, American Soldier

1723 Birthday - Joshua Reynolds, England, portrait painter, Simplicity

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