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2004 Yasser Arafat, PLO leader/former terrorist, dies at 64

2000 "Gordon ""Tex"" Beneke", band leader/saxophonist, led the Glenn Miller Orchestra after Miller's death, dies at 86

2000 Robert Rathburn Wilson, nuclear physicist, a leader of the Manhattan Project, dies at 82

1999 Daisy Bates, civil rights leader, dies at 84

1998 Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed

1997 Yegorov, Russian leader (1994-95), dies

1997 Deng Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th)

1996 Daniel Raphaeautl Mayer, journalist/resistance leader, dies at 86

1996 Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader, dies at 85

1996 Andrew Hutchings, teachers' leader, dies at 88

1996 Georgios Zoitakis, leader of Greece (1967-72), dies

1996 Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader, dies at 85

1996 Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader, dies at 65

1996 Leon Shenandoah, native American leader, dies at 81

1996 Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader, dies at 52

1996 Lucius E Burch Jr, U.S. civil rights leader, dies at 84

1996 Les Baxter, singer/orch leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73

1996 Willian Myuon Bany Guerrilla leader, dies

1995 Yehuda Meir Getz, rabbi/soldier/religious leader, dies at 71

1995 Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier

1995 Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader

1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House

1995 Sydney Simone, band leader, dies at 80

1995 Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death

1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in U.S.

1995 Howard Hunter, U.S. leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87

1995 Abdelhafid Said, Algerian student leader, murdered

1995 Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"

1995 Mahmoud Sayed Selim, Egyptian moslim leader, shot to death at 29

1995 Souphanouvong, leader of Pathet Lao (1957), dies

1994 PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail

1994 Cab[ell] Calloway, U.S. band leader/actor (Missourians), dies at 86

1994 Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curaeao

1994 Ali Kouider Benyahia, [sheik Boualem], Alg Moslem leader, shot at 26

1994 Cherif Gousmi, [kalief Abu Abdallah Ahmed], Alger Moslem leader, shot

1994 Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52

1994 Kirby Puckett pass Rod Carew with 2,088 hit as Twin's top hit leader

1994 Menachem Mendel Schneerson, Lubavitcher leader (1950-94), dies at 92

1994 Dhirendra Bhramachari, [Flying Swami], hindu leader, dies at 70

1994 Ezra Taft Benson, min of Agr/leader of mormon (1985-94), dies at 94

1994 Sandor Lakatos, Hungarian violist/orchestra leader, dies at 69

1994 Talaat Yassin Hamman, militant Moslem leader, shot dead at 32

1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript

1994 Louis Freeman, band leader, dies at 100

1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't

1994 Fred de Bruyne, Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice), dies at 63

1993 Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25

1993 Imad Aqal, Palestinian Hamas leader, dies at 24

1993 Luciano Liggio, Italian mafia leader/painter, dies

1993 Hernan Heleno Castro, El Salvadorian guerilla leader, murdered

1993 Francisco Velis, El Salvador guerilla leader (FMLN), murdered

1993 Alex Lyon, English Labor Lower house leader (1966-83), dies at 61

1993 Paul Henry, U.S. Republicans Congressional leader, dies at 51

1993 Carlton Fisk, 45, released by White Sox, as all time leader of most games caught and most home runs by a catcher

1993 Sun Ra, blues pianist/orchestra leader, dies of strokes at 79

1993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life

1993 Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader

1993 David Koresh, [Vernon Howell], cult leader (Davidians), suicide

1993 Ihsan Mohamed Salem, [Yunis Awad], Palestinian Al-Fatah leader, killed

1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2 week speech

1993 Alfredo de Leon, leader (Philippines Red Scorpio Gang), killed

1993 Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies

1993 Top mafia leader Salvatore "Toto" Riina arrested in Palermo

1992 Richard H Ichord, U.S. leader of House Un-American Act Comm, dies

1992 Bernard Drukker, Dutch pianist/orch leader (duivelswiel), dies

1992 Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/gov KMA Breda, dies

1992 Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader/jurist (Constitution), dies at 74

1992 Abul Qassim Khoei, Iraqi great-ayatollah/leader of Sjiieten, dies

1992 Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53

1992 Anthony "Tony" Papa, big band leader, dies at 65

1992 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch trade union leader (CNV), dies at 80

1992 Markos Vafiades, leader (ELAS, 1943-49), dies

1992 Abbas Musawi, leader of Hezbollah, assassinated

1992 Roberto d'Aubuisson, leader of El Salvador, dies

1992 Anthony Del Casino, band leader (Charlie Barnet Band), dies at 79

1991 Buck Clayton, U.S. jazz trumpeter/orchestra leader, dies

1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize

1991 Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname religious leader, dies

1991 U.S. trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins

1991 Jo Budie, Dutch orch leader (KRO), dies

1991 U.S. trial of former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega begins

1991 Klas Bruinsma, leader criminal organization, murdered

1991 ANC leader Nelson Mandela addresses congress

1991 Jiang Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung, commits suicide

1991 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81

1991 Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68

1991 Richard Bolling, (Rep-D-Mo)/US civil-rights leader, dies at 74

1990 Lucas Polhaupessy, Moluccan leader, dies

1990 Rifaat El-Maghub, Egyptian MP leader, murdered

1990 Ian Gow, British Conservative parliament leader, murdered

1990 South-Africa worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested

1990 Moelvi Mohammed Farouk, Indian spiritual leader, murdered

1990 Ralph David Abernathy, U.S. civil rights leader, dies

1990 Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail

1990 Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to U.S. authorities

1989 Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies

1989 Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at 51

1989 Premier Lubbers sees CDA-party leader Elco Brinkman as successor

1989 Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67

1989 East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns

1989 South african ANC-founder/leader Walter Sisulu freed

1989 Pavlos Bakoyannis, Greek parliament leader, murdered in Rome

1989 Abdul Rahman Qassemlu, Iran Kurds leader, murdered

1989 South-African President Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson Mandela

1989 Funeral for Imre Nagg, leader of Hungarian uprising in 1956

1989 Ayatalloh Ruhullah Khomeini, Iranian leader (-1989), dies at 89

1989 Ayatollah Khomeini, Leader

1989 Soviet president Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing

1989 Huey Newton, U.S., Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47

1989 FW de Klerk replaces Botha as South Africa's National Party leader

1989 Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use New York Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129

1988 Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud

1988 PLO leader Yasi Arafat accepts Israel's right to exist

1988 South Africa anti-apartheid leader Sisulu wins $100,000 Human Rights prize

1988 Melvin J "Cy" Oliver, U.S. jazz composer/orchestra leader, dies at 77

1988 Karoly Grosz succeeds party leader Janos Kadar in Hungary

1988 Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges

1987 Czechoslovak party leader Gustav Husak resigns

1987 Milt coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic

1987 Sammy Kaye, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 77

1987 Buddy Rich, drummer/orch leader (Away We Go), dies at 69

1987 PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns after sex scandal with Jessica Hahn

1986 House Dems select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker

1986 Horace Heidt, orch leader (Swift Show Wagon), dies at 85

1986 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village

1986 Rolando Olalia, Philippines worker's union leader, murdered

1986 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested

1986 Leroy Holmes, orch leader (Tonight Show, 1956-57), dies at 72

1986 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 75

1986 Tony Desimone, combo leader (Ernie in Kovacsland), dies at 66

1986 President Babrak Karmal resigns as party leader of Afghanistan

1986 Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19), dies

1986 Haiti's President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier flees to France Henri Namphy becomes leader of Haiti

1986 Angolan Unity Leader Jonas Savimbi visits Washington, D.C.

1985 Terrorists kill 20 and wound 110 attacking El Al at Rome and Vienna airports, President Reagan blames Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi

1985 George Rhodes, orch leader (Sammy Davis, Jr. Show), dies at 66

1985 French President Mitterrand receives Polish leader Jaruzelski

1985 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time

1985 Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris

1985 South African attorney/UDF leader "Dulah" Omar arrested

1985 Harchand Singh Longowai, Sikh leader, shot by Sikh extremists

1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai

1985 "Leader of the Pack" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 120 performances

1985 Wayne King, orch leader (Wayne King Show), dies at 84

1985 Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader

1985 Mohammed Munir, Indonesian worker's union leader, executed

1985 Enver Hoxha, Albanian leader (1944-85), dies

1985 Ramiz Alia succeeds Enver Hoxha as party leader of Albania

1985 Enver Hoxha, party leader/premier of Albania, dies at 76

1985 "Leader of the Pack" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 120 performances

1985 Jack Miller, orch leader (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89

1985 Mikhail S. Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader

1985 Konstantin Chernenko, party leader/president of U.S.S.R. (1984-85), dies at 73

1985 Jordan king Hussein and PLO leader Arafat sign accord

1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea

1985 Mahmoud Taha, Sudanese Moslem leader, hanged at 76

1985 Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., U.S. founder/leader John Birch Society, dies at 85

1984 Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader

1984 Fred Waring, orch leader (Fred Waring Show), dies at 84

1984 Raoul Salan, French general/OAS leader (Algeria), dies at 85

1984 Emil Coleman, orchestra leader, Arthur Murray Party

1984 Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader

1984 Bomb explodes in rebel leader Eden Pastora headquarters in Nicaragua

1984 Gordon Jenkins, orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73

1984 U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president

1984 Harry Salter, orch leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85

1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa

1984 Ina Ray Hutton, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show), dies at 66

1984 Konstantin Chernenko succeeds Yuri Andropov as U.S.S.R. leader

1983 Egyptian president Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat

1983 Freddy Martin, orch leader (started Merv Griffin), dies at 76

1983 South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu freed after 19 years

1983 Benigno S Aquino Jr, Philippines opposition leader, killed at 50

1983 Syria throws out PLO leader Arafat

1983 U.S.S.R. party leader Yuri Andropov elected president

1983 Soviet leader Andropov decreases nuclear weapons in Europe

1983 Ana Maria, Salvador guerilla leader, murdered

1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana

1983 Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (soc dem), dies at 67

1983 August Cool, Belgian trade union leader, dies at 79

1982 Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents

1982 Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered

1982 U.S.S.R. KGB-chief Yuri V Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as U.S.S.R. leader

1982 Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland

1982 Pope John Paul II receives PLO leader Yasser Arafat

1982 Wladislaw Gomulka, Polish partisan/party leader, dies at 76

1982 PLO leader Yasser Arafat leaves Beirut

1982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president

1982 Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide

1981 Poland General Jaruzelski elected party leader

1981 William Loeb, publisher of Manchester Union Leader, NH, dies at 75

1981 Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered

1981 Gen Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama, dies in plane crash

1981 Poland Communist Party selects ex-party leader Edward Gierek

1981 Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China PR

1981 Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader, 1,777

1981 French Duynstee, Dutch states rights leader, dies at 67

1981 Bobby Sherwood, orch leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 66

1980 Malando, [Arie Maasland], composer/orch leader (Ole Guapa), dies at 72

1980 Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 75

1980 South Korea opposition leader Kim Dae Jung sentenced to death

1980 Poland party leader Edward Gierek resigns

1980 Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87

1980 ... Mantovani, orch leader (Mantovani), dies at 74

1980 George Meany, labor leader, dies at 86

1979 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, dies at 39

1979 Stan Kenton, orch leader (Music 55), dies at 67

1979 Arthur Fiedler, orch leader (Boston Pops), dies at 84

1979 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader and civil rights pioneer, dies at 90

1979 Mollah Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish leader, dies at 75

1979 Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75

1979 Charles Mingus, U.S. jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader, dies at 56

1978 Jim Jones, U.S. pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide

1978 Enoch Light, orch leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70

1977 Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait

1977 Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset

1977 Guy Lombardo, orch leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75

1977 Steven Biko, South African black student leader, dies in police custody

1977 Pete Rose passes Frankie Frisch as switch-hit leader with 2,881

1977 Norman Paris, orch leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41

1977 Charles Sanford, orch leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71

1976 Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader

1976 Mao Zedong, Chinese Leader

1976 Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orch leader (Air time '57), dies at 61

1976 Kathryn Kuhlman, religious leader/faith healer, dies

1975 Vincent Lopez, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 76

1975 Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to U.S.

1975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses United Nations in New York City

1975 John Scott Trotter, orch leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67

1975 Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87

1975 Sammy Spear, orch leader (Dom Deluise Show), dies at 65

1975 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, dies in Chicago at 78

1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conservative Party

1974 Jean-Paul Sartre visits RAF leader Andreas Baader in prison

1974 Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], actr (Follow the Leader), dies at 70

1974 Romanian Communist Party names party leader Ceausescu president

1974 Georgios Grivas, Greek gen/oppos leader on Cyprus (EOKA), dies at 75

1974 Roy Bargy, orch leader (Jimmy Durante Show), dies at 79

1973 Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader

1973 Earl Browder, leader U.S. Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82

1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France

1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits U.S.

1973 Hal Hastings, orch leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66

1973 Vaughn Monroe, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show), dies at 61

1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany

1972 Jet's Don Maynard becomes all time pro reception leader (632)

1972 Alan Roth, orch leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68

1972 Denny Vaughn, orch leader, Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour

1972 Joseph F Smith Jr, leader U.S. mormon chuch, dies at 95

1972 West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof

1972 Otto Brenner, German trade union leader, dies at 64

1972 Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal

1972 Al Goodman, Russian/US orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81

1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader

1971 Whitney M Young Jr, leader (National Urban League 1961-71), dies at 49

1970 Edward Gierek succeeds Wladyslaw Gomulka as Poland's party leader

1970 Charles De Gaulle, Leader

1970 PLO leader Arafat threatens to make a cemetery of Jordan

1970 U.S. Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail

1970 Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies

1970 Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"

1970 Constantine Karamanlis, Greek Leader

1969 Fred Hampton, U.S. Black-Panther leader, murdered

1969 Mitchell Ayres, orch leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58

1969 Russ Morgan, orch leader (Welcome Aboard), dies at 65

1969 John L. Lewis, American Leader

1969 Emmitt Smith, running back, Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader

1968 Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed

1968 George P Gooch, English historian/House of Commons leader, dies

1968 E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution"

1968 Merle Kendrick, orch leader (Window on the World), dies at 72

1968 Bobby Hutton, U.S. Black Panther leader, shot to death

1968 Martin Luther King, Jr., American Leader

1968 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70

1968 Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia

1967 Paul Whiteman, U.S. orchestra leader (Fabulous Dorseys), dies at 77

1966 Hendrik W. Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81

1965 Mehdi Am Barka, Moroccan socialist leader, murdered in Paris

1965 Ben Barka, Moroccan opposition leader, kidnapped and murdered in Paris

1965 Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian leader (PKI 1951-65), murdered at 42

1965 Carl Hoff, orch leader (Music Hall), dies at 60

1965 Harry Reser, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 69

1965 Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Cons party

1965 Arnold Meijer, leader (Fascist Nationally Front), dies

1965 South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years

1965 Stoica becomes president and Ceausescu party leader of Romania

1965 Malcolm X, [Little], black Moslem leader, assassinated in New York City at 39

1965 Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader, dies at 63

1964 Don Redman, orch leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64

1964 Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians

1964 Russ Case, orch leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52

1964 Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Leader

1963 Axel Stordahl, orch leader (Frank Sinatra Show), dies at 50

1963 South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested

1963 South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested

1963 Lambrakis, Greek EDA-parliament leader, murdered

1963 Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured

1963 Todd "Hugh" Gaitskell, leader British Labour Party, dies at 56

1963 Mohammed ibn al-Chattabi Abd el-Krim, Morocco opposition leader, dies

1962 Andre Renard, Belgium worker's union leader (MSU), dies at 51

1962 OAS leader general Raoul Salan sentenced to life

1961 Former nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice (if the shoe fits...)

1961 Jack Kane, orch leader (Steve and Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37

1961 Suzanna Salter, 1st U.S. female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101

1960 Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61

1960 Cunningham T Ngcukana, South African worker's union leader

1960 Jose Luis Rodr’guez Zapatero, Spanish Leader

1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state

1959 Jesse Barfield, Illinois, outfielder, Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 HR leader

1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his U.S. visit

1959 Sydney P Mufamadi, South African leader, SACP

1957 Aga Khan III, leader of ismailieten (Indian transition), dies

1957 James F "Jimmy" Dorsey, U.S. orchestra leader, dies at 53

1957 Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African leader, UDF

1956 Victor Young, orch leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56

1956 Murphy Morobe, South Afr UDF leader, spent 3 years in Robbeneiland Jail

1956 Erno Gero succeeds Matyas Rakosi as party leader of Hungary

1956 Azhar Cachalia, Scottish/South Africa leader, United Democratic Front

1956 Hungarian party leader Matyas Rakosi enforces his own policy

1956 Frank Dailey, orch leader (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 54

1956 Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin

1955 Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, dies at 79

1955 Shoko Asahara, [Chizuo Matsumoto], Japanese sect leader

1954 Jayaseelan Naidoo, South African worker's union leader

1954 Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt

1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90

1954 Bulelani T Ngcuka, South African attorney/leader, UDF

1953 Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening

1953 Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation, Pakistan

1953 Josef V Stalin, soviet leader responsible for 11M murders, dies at 73

1953 Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader

1953 James Mndaweni, South African worker's union leader/president, NACTU

1952 Isaac Sadeh, leader of Jewish commando forces, dies

1952 Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader, dies at 66

1951 Pat Bradley, golfer, leader in LPGA career earnings

1950 Yunus I Mahomed, South African attorney/leader, UDF

1950 Dutch NSB leader C van Gelderen sentenced to life

1950 Jorg Haider, Austrian polical leader, Austrian Freedom Pary

1950 Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies

1949 Ira Newborn, New York City, orch leader, Manhattan Transfer

1949 Paul Shaffer, Thunder Bay Ont, orch leader, SNL, David Letterman

1949 NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP

1949 Don Baylor, born in Texas, baseball player, Rockies, 1979 AL RBI leader, 267 HBP

1949 Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco

1948 Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader

1948 Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader

1947 Stephanus S "Tian" van Merwe, leader, South Africa Democratic Party

1947 Nikola Petkov, leader of Bulgaria Boer party, hanged

1947 Mosibudi Mangena, South African black leader, On Your Own

1947 Sanner, leader of Norger blood bath, executed

1946 Julius Streicher, German District Leader (Of Sturmer), hanged

1946 Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed

1946 Ernest Thompson Seton, American Leader

1946 F Gouin follows De Gaulle as temporary leader of French government

1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania

1945 Gene Upshaw, NFL guard, Oakland, NFLPA leader

1945 Marshal Henri Petain, leader Vichy-regime, goes on trial

1945 Diana Warwick, leader, Association of University Teachers

1945 Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader and Chief of Police, committed suicide

1945 Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44

1945 Bernito Mussolini, Fascist leader (Italy), tried and shot

1945 Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, leader of France's Vichy collaborationist regime during WW II, arrested for treason

1945 General Blaskowitz becomes nazi leader of "Fort Holland"

1945 Hans Brunhart, leader of Liechtenstein, 1978-93

1944 Glenn Miller, U.S. jazz composer/orch leader (Danny boy), dies at 40

1944 Glenn Miller, U.S. band leader/jazz composer, dies at 40

1944 Bijnen, Dutch opposition leader (LKP), shot to death in Apeldoorn

1944 Ernst "Teddy" Thalmann, leader of German KPD, dies

1944 Jan Postma, leader of illegal Dutch party (CPN), executed at 49

1944 Gladys Knight, born in Atlanta, Georgia, singer, leader of Pips, Last Train

1944 Partisan leader Tito escapes Germans surrounding Bosnia

1944 Dzhokhar Dudayev, separatist leader

1944 Eugene Terre Blanche, South Africa leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging

1943 H van Zanten, guerrilla leader on North Sumatra, executed

1943 Jan Dieters, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed

1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN), executed

1943 Lou Jansen, leader of illegal Dutch political party (CPN) arrested

1943 Jan Dieters (leader of illegal CPN) arrested

1943 Henri Polak, Dutch union leader/politician (soc-dem), dies at 74

1942 Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 61

1942 Seyss-Inquart allows Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert to call himself Leader

1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"

1942 Gustave "Staff" de Clercq, leader Flemish Nationally Covenant, dies

1942 W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded

1942 German 1st tank leader captures Elista, Kalmukkensteppe

1942 Gen B. Montgomery becomes commandant British 8th leader in North Africa

1942 Johan H Westerveld, Lt-colonel/leader Order Service, executed

1942 Henk Sneevliet, leader of Dutch RSAP/Spartacus, executed at 58

1942 Neil Kinnock, Wales, leader, Labour Party

1942 Huey Newton, Black Panther leader

1942 Reimond Tollenaere, leader Flemishch National Front, dies at 81

1941 Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines

1941 Marcus Garvey, U.S. black leader (Back to Africa Movement), dies at 52

1941 Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., son of Jimmy Hoffa/Teamster union leader

1941 Alf Clausen, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, orch leader, Mary, Simpsons

1941 Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed

1940 Ed Garvey, labor leader, Major League Baseball Players Assn

1940 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, Glasnost Berlin

1940 Willie Stargell, outfielder/1st baseman, Pirates, 1971 NL HR leader

1940 Johnson P Mlambo, South African leader, Pan-African Congress

1940 Julian Bond, born in Nashville, Tennessee, D-Ga, civil rights leader

1939 Hitler named Adolf Eichmann leader of "Referat IV B"

1939 Franklin A Sonn, union leader, South African workers

1939 Eleanor Smeal, leader, National Organization for Women

1939 Lou Brock, one-time baseball stolen base leader for the St. Louis Cardinals

1939 Nganani Enos J Mabuza, South African leader, Inyandza National Movement

1939 U.S. worker's union leader Tom Mooney freed (jailed since 1916)

1938 Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader

1938 Franco, Zaire, composer/guitarist/leader, Masumbuku

1938 James Weldon Johnson, black leader (NAACP), dies in car crash at 67

1938 Philip Kleintjes, republic leader, dies at 70

1937 Don Sebesky, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, orch leader, Jimmy Dean Show

1937 Hitler informs his military leader of his intentions of going to war

1937 Jacobus H "Koos" van de Merwe, South Africa attorney/CP parliament leader

1937 Alan Tuffin, trade union leader

1937 Raynoma Gordy, [Mayberry], U.S. orchestra leader, Rayber Voices

1937 Eden Pastora Gomez, Nicaraguan contra leader

1936 Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan

1936 Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchists army leader, dies in battle

1936 Sepp Blatter, Swiss Leader

1935 Dominico Tromp, Aruba, stage leader

1935 Esmond Bulmer, English cider brewer/Conservative Lower house leader

1935 Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader

1935 Dalai Lama 14, Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists

1935 Denis J. Worrall, South African politician/leader, DP

1934 Robert E Hughes, New York City, orch leader, Rich Little Show

1934 Chinese Red leader under Mao Tse Tung begins Long March

1934 Jonas Savimbi, Angolian leader of Unita

1933 Alan Tuffin, trade union leader

1933 Bob Rozario, Shanghai China, orch leader, Tony Orlando, Marie

1933 Suriname worker's union leader A de Come banish to Netherlands

1933 Perry Botkin, Jr., born in New York City, orch leader, Bert Convy Show

1933 Aga Khan, religious leader, Muslims

1932 Roy Hattersley, British journalist/Labour-parliament leader

1932 Ethel L Ennis, U.S. orchestra leader/jazz singer, Once Again

1932 Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine opposition leader; assassinated

1932 Michael Knight, air chief marshall/British leader, NATO

1932 Wilson "Papa" Godett, Curacaos worker's union leader/boxer

1932 Curnick M Ndlovu, Jailed South Africian worker's union leader

1932 Roosje Vos, Dutch trade union leader, dies at 71

1932 Roses Fox, Trade union leader, dies at 71

1932 Air force's Marmaduke Brutal becomes leader of revolutionary junta

1931 Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, leader B-sect/guru of rich

1931 Arthur James Cook, union leader (coal miners), dies at 47

1931 Del Insko, harness racer, toothpick in mouth, 1969 money leader

1931 Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader

1930 John Daly, British trade union leader

1930 David M G Curry, South African Labour Party parliament leader

1930 Buddy Bregman, Chicago, orch leader, Eddie Fisher Show

1930 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70

1930 Richard Hayman, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, orch leader, Vaughn Monroe Show

1930 Bill Benyon, English large landowner/Conservative Lower house leader

1929 Billy Nair, South Africa union/SACP leader, 20 years in Robbeneiland Prison

1929 Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada, leader of South Africa Communist Party

1929 Yasser Arafat, leader, Palestine Liberation Organization

1929 James Last, orchestra leader/composer/arranger

1929 Arthur S. Taylor, Jr., U.S. drummer and band leader, Taylor's Wailers

1928 Peter Matz, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, orch leader, Hullabaloo, Carol Burnette Show

1928 Albert Shanker, American labor leader, Amer Fed of Teachers

1928 Mangosuthu Buthelezi, South African Leader

1928 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader (Croatian Boer party), dies

1928 Jean-Marie le Pen, born in France, leader, National Front party

1928 Ludwig Enneccerus, German leader, dies at 85

1928 Idi Amin, Leader

1928 Ariel Sharon, Israeli Leader

1927 Helenard J "Allan" Hendrickse, leader of South Africa Labour Party

1927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house leader, dies at 75

1927 Coretta Scott King, born in Marion, Alabama, civil rights leader

1927 Gerry Mulligan, British saxophonist and orch leader, Jazz on a Summer Day

1927 Cesar Chavez, born in Yuma, Arizona, farm labor leader, United Farm Workers

1927 Donn Trenner, born in New Haven, Connecticut, orch leader, ABC's Nightlife

1926 Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader, 17 years in Robbeneiland Jail

1926 Alan Copeland, born in Los Angeles, California, orch leader/singer, Your Hit Parade

1926 Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated at 47

1926 Lucien Herr, French leader (Correspondance entre Schiller), dies

1926 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader, Southern Christian Leadership

1926 Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats, SPD

1925 Tom Jackson, British union leader, Post Office

1925 James Moody, U.S., jazz saxophonist/orchestra leader

1925 Elliot Lawrence, Philadelphia, orch leader, Guide Right, Howard Cosell

1925 Benjamin Hooks, civil rights leader

1925 British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader

1925 Marty Paich, born in Oakland California, orch leader, Sonny and Cher, Glenn Campbell

1924 Allyn Ferguson, born in San Jose, California, orch leader, Andy Williams Show

1924 Colin Romoff, New York City, orch leader, Andy Williams Show

1924 Terry Gibbs, born in Brooklyn, New York, orch leader, Steve Allen Comedy Hour

1924 Louis Bellson, Rock Falls, Illinois, orch leader, Pearl Bailey Show

1924 Rainer Barzel, German leader, CDU-CSU, /minister

1924 Nick Perito, born in Denver, Colorado, orch leader, Don Knotts Show, Big Show

1924 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 53

1924 Vladimir Lenin, Russian Leader

1923 Wilton S Mkwayi, South African ANC leader

1923 Milt Okun, born in Brooklyn, New York, orch leader, Starland Vocal Band Show

1923 [Auguste-]Maurice Barres, French writer/parliament leader, dies at 61

1923 Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister

1923 Jack Parnell, born in London, England, orch leader, Englebert Humperdick Show

1923 Dipa Nusantara Aidit, Indonesian communist/leader of PKI, 1951-65

1923 Britain recognizes Transjordan with Abdullah as its leader

1923 Mort Lindsey, born in Newark, New Jersey, orch leader, Merv Griffin Show

1923 George H H Lascelles, English earl of Harewood/leader, Covent Garden

1923 Max Nordau, [Sudfeld], German physician/zionists leader, dies at 73

1923 Willem Aantjes, Dutch politicial leader, CDA

1922 British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader

1922 Neal Hefti, Hastings, Nebraska, orch leader, Kate Smith Show

1922 Frank Comstock, SD California, orch leader, Jimmie Rodgers Show

1922 Charles Evers, civil rights leader, Amazing Grace

1922 Jack Boddy, British trade union leader

1922 Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush

1922 Andre Kloos, Dutch trade union leader, NVV/VARA

1922 Les Baxter, U.S., singer, orchestra leader and composer, Born Again

1922 Ray Anthony, Penn, orch leader, Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme

1921 Harper MacKay, born in Boston, Massachusetts, orch leader, NBC Follies

1921 Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League

1921 Billy Taylor, born in Greenville, North Carolina, orch leader, David Frost Show

1921 Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and orchestra leader, Ripley's Game

1921 Syd[ney G] Vincent, British mine workers leader

1921 Bernie Leighton, West Haven, Connecticut, orch leader, Chance of a Lifetime

1920 Mohammed ibn Addoellah, Somalian resistances leader "Mad Molla", dies

1920 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian hindu leader, dies

1920 Georges Marchais, political leader, French Communist Party

1920 William Simpson, British trade union leader

1920 Pogrom leader Petljoera declares Ukraine Independence

1920 Liam Cosgrave, leader, Fine Gael Party

1920 Jose Melis, Havana Cuba, orch leader, Jack Paar Program

1920 Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed

1920 James Farmer, Marshall, Tex, civil rights leader

1919 Louis Botha, South African Boer leader, dies

1919 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered at 39

1919 Ralph Flanagan, born in Loraine, Ohio, orch leader, Let's Dance

1919 Antoon J. Hubben, Dutch mayor and trade union leader

1919 Luther Henderson, Jr., born in Kansas City, Missouri, orch leader, Polly Bergen Show

1919 Buddy Morrow, orch leader, Jimmie Rodgers Show

1919 Allie Reynolds, New York Yankee pitcher, 1952 AL ERA leader, 2.07,

1919 Bob Boucher, Kent Ohio, orch leader, Music on Ice

1919 Bernard Drukker, Dutch organist/pianist/orch leader, Devil's Wheel

1918 Eddie Safranski, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, orch leader, Jonathan Winters Show

1918 Milton Delugg, born in Los Angeles, California, orch leader, Tonight Show

1918 Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution

1918 Bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orch leader, Club Seven

1918 Ray Charles, Chicago, orch leader, Perry Como

1918 Gerald Wilson, Shelby Mississippi, orch leader, Redd Foxx

1918 Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech

1918 Andreas M Donner, Dutch state leader

1918 Coleman A Young, civil rights leader, Mayor-D-Detroit

1918 Kirby Stone, born in New York City, jazz combo leader, Baubles Bangles and Beads

1918 Trotsky becomes leader of Reds

1918 Skitch Henderson, born in Birmingham, England, orch leader, Tonight Show

1918 Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party

1917 Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czech, dies

1917 Jiang Zemin, Chinese Leader

1917 Ted Steele, born in Hartford, Connecticut, orch leader, Cavalcade of Stars

1917 Buddy Rich, born in Brooklyn, New York, drummer/orch leader, Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go

1917 Harry West, Unionist party leader, Unionist

1917 Ina Ray Hutton, born in Chicago, Illinois, orch leader, Ina Ray Hutton Show

1916 Hal Hastings, New York City, orch leader, Chevrolet on Broadway

1916 Billy May, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, orch leader, Milton Berle Show

1916 Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73

1916 Vic Schoen, Brooklyn New York, orch leader, Patti Page Olds Show

1916 George Wyle, born in New York City, orch leader, Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show

1916 Joel Herron, born in Chicago, Illinois, orch leader, Jaye P Morgan Show

1916 Vic Mizzy, born in Brooklyn, New York, orch leader, Don Rickles Show

1915 Serbian leader flees to Albania

1915 Joe Hill, Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder

1915 Jack Fascinato, Bevier, Missouri, pianist/orch leader, Kukla Fran and Ollie

1915 Ron Smith, union leader, British Postal Workers

1915 Leon Shenandoah, native American leader

1915 Van Alexander, New York City, orch leader, Gordon MacRae Show

1915 Bobby Hackett, born in Providence, Rhode Island, trumpeteer/orch leader, Air Time '57

1915 Joe Hitchcock, darts player, leader of St. Dunstan's Four

1915 Alvy West, born in Brooklyn, New York, orch leader, Andy Williams Show

1914 Glenn Osser, Munising, Michigan, orch leader, Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue

1914 Bai Long, [White Wolf], Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies

1914 Richard Maltby, orch leader, Vaughn Monroe Show

1914 Bobby Sherwood, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, orch leader, Milton Berle Show

1914 Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orch leader

1914 Ralph Herman, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, orch leader, Circus Time

1913 Leroy Holmes, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, orch leader, Tonight Show, 1956-57

1913 Bob Crosby, Spokane, Washington, Bing's brother, orch leader, Bob Crosby Show

1913 Axel Stordahl, Staten Island, New York, orch leader, Frank Sinatra Show

1913 Adhemar Esmein, French Reichts leader, dies at 65

1913 Jimmy Hoffa, missing labor leader

1913 Bert Farber, born in Brooklyn, New York, orch leader, Arthur Gudfrey, Vic Damone

1913 Tutti Camarata, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, orch leader, Vic Damone Show

1913 Song Jiao-ren, leader Chinese Guomindang-Party, dies

1913 Artur Axmann, nazi youth leader

1913 Jimmy Hoffa, Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975

1913 Edward Gierek, party leader, Polish CP

1912 William Booth, English minister/founder (Leader des Heils), dies

1912 Louis Antoine, Belgian miner/sect leader, dies at about 65

1912 Lou Brown, Brooklyn, orch leader, Jerry Lewis Show

1912 Russ Case, born in Hamburg, Iowa, orch leader, Julius La Rosa Show

1912 Paul Weston, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, orch leader, Jim Nabors Hour

1912 Lucius E Burch, Jr., U.S. lawyer/civil rights leader

1912 Victor Reuther, Wheeling, West Virginia, labor leader

1911 George Cates, New York City, orch leader, Lawrence Welk Show

1911 Vaughn Monroe, born in Akron, Ohio, singer/orch leader, Vaughn Monroe Show

1911 Irwin Kostal, born in Chicago, Illinois, orchestra leader, Garry Moore Show

1911 Konstantin Chernenko, U.S.S.R. leader

1911 Frank Devol, Moundsville, West Virginia, orch leader, I'm Dickens He's Fenster

1911 Marinus Ruppert, Dutch chairman, CNV, /trade union leader

1911 Lester Lanin, orchestra leader, 40 Beatle Hits

1911 Lord Lovat, [Shimi], Scottish cattle breeder/leader of clan Fraser

1911 Diego Fabbri, Italian, playwright/leader, Vatican movie bureau

1911 Alvino Rey, born in Cleveland, Ohio, orch leader, King Family

1911 Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader, dies

1911 Jean-Pierre Levy, resistance leader

1911 Leonard Woodcock, labor leader, UAW

1910 Mitchell Ayres, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, orch leader, Hollywood Palace

1910 Edmundo Ros, English orchestra leader

1910 Jef Keuleers, Belgian worker's union leader

1910 Milton "Tippy" Larkin, band leader

1910 Govan AM Mbeki, South African leader, ANC/SACP

1910 Ray McKinley, born in Ft. Worth, Texas, orch leader/drummer, Glenn Miller Time

1910 David Rose, born in London, England, orch leader, Red Skelton Show, Stripper

1910 Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove, Missouri, orch leader, NBC Comedy Hour

1910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader

1910 Sammy Kaye, born in Rocky River Ohio, orch leader, Sammy Kaye Show

1910 Frans Dohmen, union leader, Dutch Catholic Mineworker's Union

1909 Roy Reuther, Wheeling, West Virginia, labor leader

1909 2nd viscount Camrose, British Conserv Lower house leader, 1941-45

1909 Archie Bleyer, born in Corona, New York, orch leader, Arthur Godfrey

1909 Lord Collison, British union leader, agriculture workers

1909 Daniel Raphael Mayer, journalist/resistance leader

1909 Lionel Hampton, orch leader/vibraphone improviser, Depths Below

1908 Ray Carter, born in Chicago, Illinois, orch leader, Arthur Murray Dance Party

1908 Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania, 1944-85

1908 Bernie Green, born in New York City, orch leader, Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show

1908 Raymond Harry Warnow Scott, born in Brooklyn, New York, orch leader, Your Hit Parade

1908 John Scott Trotter, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, orch leader, George Gobel Show

1908 Malando, [Arie Maasland], composer/orchestra leader, Ole Guapa

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

1908 Lawrence Welk, born in Strasburg, North Dakota, orchestra leader, Lawrence Welk Show

1907 Andrew Hutchings, teachers' leader

1907 Howard William Hunter, Mormon Church Leader

1907 Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader

1907 Walter Reuther, labor leader/president, UAW and CIO

1907 Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orch leader, Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith

1907 Felix de Nobel, Dutch orchestra leader

1907 Eddie Ballantine, Chicago, orch leader, Don McNeill TV Club

1906 Lord Margadale, English Conserv parliament leader/large landowner

1906 Freddy Martin, born in Cleveland, Ohio, orch leader, started Merv Griffin

1906 Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy

1906 Harry Sosnik, born in Chicago, orch leader, Jack Carter Show, Your Hit Parade

1906 Kay Kyser, born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, orch leader, Kay Kyser's Kollege

1905 Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, orch leader, Stage Show, Mahogany

1905 Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged

1905 John Gart, Russia, orch leader, Paul Winchell Show

1905 Arnold Meijer, Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National/Black Front

1905 Annunzio Mantovani, born in Venice, Italy, orch leader, Mantovani

1905 Ruth Page, U.S. choreographer/ballet leader, Diaghilev, Pygmalion

1904 Vera Vague, [Barbara Jo Allen], New York City, actress, Follow the Leader

1904 Deng Xiaoping, Chinese party leader, 1976-1983

1904 Shunryu Suzuki, Japanese Leader

1904 Russ Morgan, born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, orch leader, Welcome Aboard

1904 Peter Van Steeden, born in Amsterdam Netherlands, orch leader, Break the Bank

1904 Jimmy Dorsey, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, orch leader, Stage Show

1904 John "Pepper" Martin, baseballer, NL stolen base leader 1933,34,36

1903 Sumatra Atjehs guerilla leader Panglima Polim surrenders

1903 August Cool, Belgian union leader/minister of state

1903 Frankie Carle, born in Providence, Rhode Island, orch leader, Golden Touch

1903 Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iran, Kurd leader, KDP

1902 Leonard Hirsch, British violinist and orchestra leader, RAF Symph Orch

1902 Ray Block, born in France, orch leader, Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason

1902 Guy Lombardo, orch leader, Auld Lang Syne

1902 William D Revelli, Spring Gulch Colorado, band leader

1902 Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed

1901 Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president

1901 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies

1901 Jimmy Dale, born in Bronx, New York City, orch leader, Sonny and Cher

1901 U.S. captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo

1901 Horace Heidt, Alameda California, orch leader, Swift Show Wagon

1901 Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader

1900 Heinrich Himmler, Nazi SS leader

1900 Victor Young, born in Chicago, Illinois, orch leader, Milton Berle Show, In Old California

1900 Don Redman, Piedmont, West Virginia, orch leader, Sugar Hill Times

1900 Ayatollah Khomeini, Leader

1899 Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronje vs Gen Methuen

1899 Pandit Rambharos Gangaram Panday, Suriname relig leader/co-found, VHP

1899 Ezra Taft Benson, American Leader

1899 Raoul Salan, Fr/Indochina/Algeria, leader OAS

1899 Arvid Pelshe, Latvian Communist leader, CPSU Politburo member

1898 Vincent Lopez, born in Brooklyn, New York, orch leader, Welcome Aboard

1898 George Grey, New Zealander Leader

1898