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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/orchestral 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, Minister of Agriculture/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/orchestral leader (duivelswiel), dies 1992 Alexander V Van de Wall Bake, staff leader/Governor 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 orchestra 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 Richard Bolling, Representative-D-Missouri 1949 - 1983, U.S. civil-rights leader, dies at 74 1991 Frans Dohmen, union leader (Netherlands Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81 1991 Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87), dies at 68 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 General 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 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 Czechoslovakian party leader Gustav Husak resigns 1987 Military coup leader Major-General Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic 1987 Sammy Kaye, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show), dies at 77 1987 Buddy Rich, drummer/orchestral 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, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra leader (Kate Smith Evening Hour), dies at 89 1985 Mikhail 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, orchestra 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, orchestra leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 73 1984 U.S.S.R. party leader Chernenko elected president 1984 Harry Salter, orchestra leader (Stop the Music), dies at 85 1984 Worker's union leader Billy Nair freed in South Africa 1984 Ina Ray Hutton, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, New Hampshire, dies at 75 1981 Robert Peci, Italian brother of Red Brigade leader, murdered 1981 General 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, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 66 1980 Malando, Arie Maasland, composer/orchestral 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 Bert Kaempfert, orchestra leader, songwriter, composed jazz-oriented, easy-listening records including Strangers in the Night and hit Wonderland by Night, Danke Schoen for Wayne Newton and L-O-V-E for Nat King Cole 1980 Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80), dies at 87 1980 ... Mantovani, orchestra 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, orchestra leader (Music 55), dies at 67 1979 Arthur Fiedler, orchestra 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 Kofi Busia, statesman, leader of the Ghana Congress Party, which became the United Party, Prime Minister, 2nd Republic of Ghana, 1969 - 1972, died 1978 Enoch Light, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra leader (For Your Pleasure), dies at 41 1977 Charles Sanford, orchestra leader (Your Show of Shows), dies at 71 1976 Ville Valo, born in Helsinki, Finland, musician, singer, songwriter, leader, HIM rock band, baritone voice, Moto Moto in Finnish version of movie, Madagaskar 2 1976 Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader 1976 Mao Zedong, Chinese Leader 1976 Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orchestral leader (Air time '57), dies at 61 1976 Kathryn Kuhlman, religious leader/faith healer, dies 1975 Vincent Lopez, orchestra 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, orchestra leader (George Gobel Show), dies at 67 1975 Chiang Kai-Shek, Nationalist Chinese leader, dies at 87 1975 Sammy Spear, orchestra 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, actress '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, orchestra 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, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway), dies at 66 1973 Vaughn Monroe, singer/orchestral 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, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 68 1972 Denny Vaughn, orchestra 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 orchestra 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, orchestra leader (Hollywood Palace), dies at 58 1969 Russ Morgan, orchestra 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, orchestra 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 1967 Heavy D, born in Jamaica, rapper, leader of Heavy D & the Boyz, sung theme song for In Living Color and MADtv shows 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, orchestra leader (Music Hall), dies at 60 1965 Harry Reser, orchestra 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, orchestra leader (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 64 1964 Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians 1964 Russ Case, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52 1964 Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian Leader 1963 Axel Stordahl, orchestra 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 Mike Nocito, born in Germany, rocker, leader of English pop band, Johnny Hates Jazz 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, orchestra 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 Rodriguez Zapatero, Spanish Leader 1960 Chuck D, born in Roosevelt, New York, rapper, author, leader, Public Enemy, created politically, socially conscious rap music, focused on hip hop genre, albums include, 'Yo! Bum Rush the Show', 'Fear of a Black Planet' 1960 Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam, calls for a black state 1959 Jesse Barfield, Illinois, outfielder, Blue Jays, Yankees, 1986 home run leader 1959 Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev concludes his U.S. visit 1959 Sydney P Mufamadi, South African leader, SACP 1957 Alan Donnelly, born in England, politician, Labor Party, leader, European Parliamentary Labor Party, 1998 - 2005, founded, serves, as executive chairman of public affairs company, Sovereign Strategy, represents President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, at Grand Prix 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, orchestra 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, orchestra 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 Frank Marino, born in Montreal, Canada, Francesco Antonio Marino, guitarist, rocker, musician, songwriter, leader of Canadian band Mahogany Rush 1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90 1954 Greg Ginn, born in America, guitarist, singer, songwriter, leader, Black Flag, hardcore punk, Rolling Stone's, 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time 1954 Bulelani T Ngcuka, South African attorney/leader, UDF 1953 Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening 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 Peter Hain, born in Nairobi, Kenya, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the House of Commons, Cabinet member for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Member of Parliament for Neath 1950 Jorg Haider, Austrian polical leader, Austrian Freedom Pary 1950 Joseph Issac Shneerson, Jewish Lubavitch Chabal leader, dies 1949 Ira Newborn, born in New York City, New York, orchestra leader, Manhattan Transfer 1949 Paul Shaffer, Thunder Bay Ont, orchestra 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 Ernest Thompson Seton, American Leader 1946 Julius Streicher, German District Leader (Of Sturmer), hanged 1946 Anton A Mussert, engineer/NSB leader, executed 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, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44 1945 Adolf Hitler, genocidal leader of Germany commits suicide 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. 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 1944 Peter Akinola, born in Ogun, Nigeria, church leader in Nigeria 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 Tom McNally, born in England, Thomas McNally, Baron McNally, politician, Liberal Party, Liberal Democrat leader in the House of Lords, life peer, Baron of Blackpool in the County of Lancashire 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 General 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 Kris Jensen, born in New Haven, Connecticut, musician, singer, guitarist, recorded with Kapp Records, Leader Records, Hickory Records, recorded chart topping hit 'Torture' 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, orchestra leader, Mary, Simpsons 1941 Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed 1940 Ed Garvey, labor leader, Major League Baseball Players Association 1940 Rudi [Rudolf] Dutschke, German student leader, Glasnost Berlin 1940 Willie Stargell, outfielder/1st baseman, Pirates, 1971 NL home run 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, orchestra 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 1935 Tony Campolo, born in America, pastor, speaker, author, promotes evangelical reform, leader, 'Red Letter Christian' movement, focusing on Christ's teachings, wrote, 'A Reasonable Faith', known for famous sermon, 'It's Friday, But Sunday's Coming!' 1934 Robert E Hughes, New York City, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Eddie Fisher Show 1930 Pieter Jelles Troelstra, Dutch SDAP leader, dies at 70 1930 Richard Hayman, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Hullabaloo, Carol Burnette Show 1928 Albert Shanker, American labor leader, American Federation 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 Ariel Sharon, Israeli Leader 1927 Helenard J "Allan" Hendrickse, leader of South Africa Labour Party 1927 John Dillon, Irish nationalist and British Lower house leader, dies at 75 1927 Coretta Scott King, born in Marion, Alabama, civil rights leader 1927 Gerry Mulligan, British saxophonist and orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Sonny and Cher, Glenn Campbell 1924 Allyn Ferguson, born in San Jose, California, orchestra leader, Andy Williams Show 1924 Colin Romoff, New York City, orchestra leader, Andy Williams Show 1924 Terry Gibbs, born in Brooklyn, New York, orchestra leader, Steve Allen Comedy Hour 1924 Louis Bellson, Rock Falls, Illinois, orchestra leader, Pearl Bailey Show 1924 Rainer Barzel, German leader, CDU-CSU, minister 1924 Nick Perito, born in Denver, Colorado, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Starland Vocal Band Show 1923 [Auguste-]Maurice Barres, French writer/parliament leader, dies at 61 1923 Bert Kaempfert, born in Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany, orchestra leader, songwriter, composed jazz-oriented, easy-listening records including Strangers in the Night and hit Wonderland by Night, Danke Schoen for Wayne Newton and L-O-V-E for Nat King Cole 1923 Shimon Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister 1923 Jack Parnell, born in London, England, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Kate Smith Show 1922 Frank Comstock, SD California, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme 1921 Harper MacKay, born in Boston, Massachusetts, orchestra leader, NBC Follies 1921 Whitney M. Young, Jr., civil rights leader, head of Urban League 1921 Billy Taylor, born in Greenville, North Carolina, orchestra leader, David Frost Show 1921 Tibor Varga, Hungarian violinist and orchestra leader, Ripley's Game 1921 Syd Vincent, British mine workers leader 1921 Bernie Leighton, West Haven, Connecticut, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Jack Paar Program 1920 Alexander Koltsjak, Admiral/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, orchestra leader, Let's Dance 1919 Antoon J. Hubben, Dutch mayor and trade union leader 1919 Luther Henderson, Jr., born in Kansas City, Missouri, orchestra leader, Polly Bergen Show 1919 Buddy Morrow, orchestra leader, Jimmie Rodgers Show 1919 Allie Reynolds, New York Yankee pitcher, 1952 AL ERA leader, 2.07, 1919 Bob Boucher, born in Kent, Ohio, orchestra leader, Music on Ice 1919 Bernard Drukker, Dutch organist/pianist/orchestra leader, Devil's Wheel 1918 Eddie Safranski, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, orchestra leader, Jonathan Winters Show 1918 Milton Delugg, born in Los Angeles, California, orchestra leader, Tonight Show 1918 Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution 1918 Bobby Byrne, Columbus Ohio, orchestra leader, Club Seven 1918 Malcolm Shepherd, born in England, born Malcolm Newton Shepherd, Lord Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd of Spalding, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the House of Lords 1918 Ray Charles, Chicago, orchestra leader, Perry Como 1918 Gerald Wilson, Shelby Mississippi, orchestra leader, Redd Foxx 1918 Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia, shot and wounded after speech 1918 Andreas 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, orchestra leader, Tonight Show 1918 Alessadro Natta, Italian political leader, Communist Party 1917 Uritsky, leader of Petrogradse Czechoslovakia, dies 1917 Jiang Zemin, Chinese Leader 1917 Ted Steele, born in Hartford, Connecticut, orchestra leader, Cavalcade of Stars 1917 Buddy Rich, born in Brooklyn, New York, drummer/orchestral leader, Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go 1917 Harry West, Unionist party leader, Unionist 1917 Ina Ray Hutton, born in Chicago, Illinois, orchestra leader, Ina Ray Hutton Show 1916 Hal Hastings, New York City, orchestra leader, Chevrolet on Broadway 1916 Billy May, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, orchestra leader, Milton Berle Show 1916 Klaas/old stick Kater, christian worker's union leader, dies at 73 1916 Richard Bolling, born in New York City, New York, Representative-D-Missouri 1949 - 1983, U.S. civil-rights leader 1916 Vic Schoen, Brooklyn New York, orchestra leader, Patti Page Olds Show 1916 George Wyle, born in New York City, New York, orchestra leader, Jerry Lewis Show, Flip Wilson Show 1916 Joel Herron, born in Chicago, Illinois, orchestra leader, Jaye P Morgan Show 1916 Vic Mizzy, born in Brooklyn, New York, orchestra 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/orchestral 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, orchestra leader, Gordon MacRae Show 1915 Bobby Hackett, born in Providence, Rhode Island, trumpeteer/orchestral leader, Air Time '57 1915 Joe Hitchcock, darts player, leader of St. Dunstan's Four 1915 Alvy West, born in Brooklyn, New York, orchestra leader, Andy Williams Show 1914 Glenn Osser, Munising, Michigan, orchestra leader, Paul Whiteman Goodyear Revue 1914 Bai Long, White Wolf, Chinese Robin Hood/crowd leader, dies 1914 Richard Maltby, orchestra leader, Vaughn Monroe Show 1914 Bobby Sherwood, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, orchestra leader, Milton Berle Show 1914 Frank Chacksfield, arranger/orchestral leader 1914 Ralph Herman, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, orchestra leader, Circus Time 1913 Leroy Holmes, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, orchestra leader, Tonight Show, 1956-57 1913 Bob Crosby, Spokane, Washington, Bing's brother, orchestra leader, Bob Crosby Show 1913 Axel Stordahl, born in Staten Island, New York, orchestra leader, Frank Sinatra Show 1913 Michael Foot, born Plymouth, England, born Michael Mackintosh Foot, writer, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition 1913 Adhemar Esmein, French Reichts leader, dies at 65 1913 Jimmy Hoffa, missing labor leader 1913 Kofi Busia, born in Wenchi, Ghana, statesman, leader of the Ghana Congress Party, which became the United Party, Catholic, Prime Minister, 2nd Republic of Ghana, 1969 - 1972 1913 Bert Farber, born in Brooklyn, New York, orchestra leader, Arthur Gudfrey, Vic Damone 1913 Tutti Camarata, Glen Ridge, New Jersey, orchestra 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, born in Brooklyn, New York, orchestra leader, Jerry Lewis Show 1912 Russ Case, born in Hamburg, Iowa, orchestra leader, Julius La Rosa Show 1912 Paul Weston, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Lawrence Welk Show 1911 Vaughn Monroe, born in Akron, Ohio, singer/orchestral 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, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra 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 Gordon B. Hinckley, born in Utah, religious leader, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1910 Ray McKinley, born in Ft. Worth, Texas, orchestra leader/drummer, Glenn Miller Time 1910 David Rose, born in London, England, orchestra leader, Red Skelton Show, Stripper 1910 Gordon Jenkins, Webster Grove, Missouri, orchestra leader, NBC Comedy Hour 1910 Bayard Rustin, civil rights leader 1910 Sammy Kaye, born in Rocky River Ohio, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Arthur Godfrey 1909 Lord Collison, British union leader, agriculture workers 1909 Daniel Raphael Mayer, journalist/resistance leader 1909 Lionel Hampton, orchestra leader/vibraphone improviser, Depths Below 1908 Ray Carter, born in Chicago, Illinois, orchestra leader, Arthur Murray Dance Party 1908 Enver Hoxha, post-war leader of Albania, 1944-85 1908 Bernie Green, born in New York City, orchestra leader, Arthur Godfrey Show, Garry Moore Show 1908 Raymond Harry Warnow Scott, born in Brooklyn, New York, orchestra leader, Your Hit Parade 1908 John Scott Trotter, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, orchestra leader, George Gobel Show 1908 Malando, Arie Maasland, composer/orchestra leader, Ole Guapa 1908 Hank Sylvern, born in Brooklyn, New York, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith 1907 Felix de Nobel, Dutch orchestra leader 1907 Eddie Ballantine, Chicago, orchestra leader, Don McNeill TV Club 1906 Lord Margadale, English Conserv parliament leader/large landowner 1906 Freddy Martin, born in Cleveland, Ohio, orchestra leader, started Merv Griffin 1906 Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy 1906 Harry Sosnik, born in Chicago, orchestra leader, Jack Carter Show, Your Hit Parade 1906 Kay Kyser, born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, orchestra leader, Kay Kyser's Kollege 1905 Tommy Dorsey, Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, orchestra leader, Stage Show, Mahogany 1905 Kinjikitile "Bokero" Ngwale, E African prophet/rebel leader, hanged 1905 John Gart, Russia, orchestra leader, Paul Winchell Show 1905 Arnold Meijer, Dutch leader of fascist Dutch National/Black Front 1905 Annunzio Mantovani, born in Venice, Italy, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Welcome Aboard 1904 Peter Van Steeden, born in Amsterdam Netherlands, orchestra leader, Break the Bank 1904 Jimmy Dorsey, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, orchestra 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, orchestra 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, orchestra leader, Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason 1902 Guy Lombardo, orchestra 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 and viceroy of Tsheli, dies 1901 Jimmy Dale, born in Bronx, New York City, orchestra leader, Sonny and Cher 1901 U.S. captures leader of Philippine rebels, Emilio Aguinaldo 1901 Horace Heidt, Alameda California, orchestra leader, Swift Show Wagon 1901 Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader 1900 Victor Young, born in Chicago, Illinois, orchestra leader, Milton Berle Show, In Old California 1900 Don Redman, Piedmont, West Virginia, orchestra leader, Sugar Hill Times 1900 Ayatollah Khomeini, Leader 1899 Battle of Magers' fountain - Boer leader Cronje vs. General 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, orchestra leader, Welcome Aboard 1898 George Grey, New Zealander Leader 1898 Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreograph/ballet leader, dies 1898 Otto von Bismarck, German Leader 1898 William E. Gladstone, British Leader 1898 Lou Holtz, comedian/actor, Follow the Leader 1898 Georgios Grivas, Greek general/opposition leader on Cyprus 1898 Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter 1898 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Lou de Palingboer, Dutch sect leader 1897 Sidney Bechet, U.S., jazz clarinetist/saxophonist/band leader 1897 Barbara baroness Wootton of Abinger, English Lower house leader 1896 Rex Maupin, St. Joseph, Missouri, orchestra leader, Tin Pan Alley TV 1896 Elijah Muhammad, U.S., leader of Nation of Islam 1896 Douwe Kalma, Dutch literary and leader, Young Frisian Movement 1896 Harry Reser, born Piqua, Ohio, orchestra leader, Sammy Kaye Show 1895 Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, dies at 77 1894 George Meany, New York City, labor leader, headed AFL-CIO 1894 Roy Bargy, Michigan, orchestra leader, Jimmy Durante Show 1894 Bill Wirges, born in Buffalo, New York, orchestra leader, Growing Paynes 1894 Anton A Mussert, Dutch nazi leader, NSB 1893 Mao Zedong, Chinese Leader 1893 Louis Freeman, band leader 1893 Henry Schultz, U.S., farm commune leader 1893 Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader, 1945-.. 1893 Irene Castle, dancer, leader in anti-vivisection movement 1893 British Independent Labor Party forms (Keir Hardie as its leader) 1893 Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian Leader 1892 Bob Dalton, U.S. leader of Daltonbende, dies 1892 Jack Hylton, English orchestra leader/impresario, Crazy Passage Show 1892 Gregor Strasser, German pharmacist/NSDAP-Reich organization leader 1892 Gyorgy Klapka, Hungarian general/parliament leader, dies at 72 1892 Josip Broz Tito, WW II partisan, leader of Yugoslavia, 1943-80 1892 Matyas Rakosi, Hungarian party leader/premier, 1952-53 1892 David Dubinsky, labor leader, Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom 1891 Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya opposition leader/1st premier, 1963-78 1891 Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45 1891 John McDonald, Canadian Leader 1890 Al Goodman, Nikopol Russia, orchestra leader, NBC Comedy Hour 1890 Ho Chi Minh, trail blazer/leader of Vietnam, 1946, 1969 1890 Paul Whiteman, born in Denver, Colorado, orchestra leader, Paul Whiteman's TV Teen Club 1890 Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85 1889 William Lawther, union leader 1889 Adolf Hitler, born in Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary, genocidal leader of Germany 1889 Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader, Railroad Porter's Union 1888 Hamilton Fish, U.S. congress leader/isolationist 1888 P A J Losecaat Vermeer, leader of Dutch High Council 1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber 1887 Ernst Rohm, German staff member/Bolivian leader/SA 1887 Sidney Hillman, union leader, Sidney Hillman Foundation 1885 Julius Streicher, German district leader, Sturmer 1885 Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader 1883 Arthur James Cook, England, union leader, coal miners 1883 Henk JFM Sneevliet, leader RSAP/editor Spartacus, Dutch-Indies 1882 Guiseppi Garibaldi, Italian rebel leader, dies at 74 1881 Eduard C "Edo" Fimmen, Dutch labor leader 1880 Johan H Westerveld, Dutch WW II resistance fighter/leader, OD 1880 John L. Lewis, union leader, United Mine Workers, 1920-60 1879 Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader 1879 Symon Petlyura, leader Ukraine, pogroms 1877 Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South, dies in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 56 1874 Apirana Turupa Ngata, Kawaka New Zealand, Maori political/cultural leader 1874 Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies at 63 1873 Margaret Bondfield, British Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member 1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after New York Times exposed his corruption 1871 Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy 1871 Stjepan Radic, founder/leader, Croatian Farmers' Party 1870 Vladimir Lenin, Russian Leader 1869 Mohandas Gandhi, Indian Leader 1868 Rama V, Chulalongkorn, leader of Thailand, -1910 1868 Roman Nose (Wiquini), Cheyenne indian leader, dies 1868 Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition 1868 Henri Polak, union leader/politician, soc-dem 1867 Philip Kleintjes, people's rights leader 1867 Maggie L Walker, black business and civic leader 1866 Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, Rabbi/Chassidic leader, dies 1866 Emile Vandervelde, leader of Belgian BWP party 1865 Robert Henri, U.S. painter, leader of Ashcan school 1863 Andres Bonifacio, leader of 1896 Philippine revolt against Spain 1860 Henry G. W. Smith, leader of British-Indian forces, dies at 73 1860 Ernest Thompson Seton, American Leader 1860 Suzanna Salter, 1st U.S. female mayor and temperance leader 1860 Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69 1859 Carrie Chapman Catt, women's rights leader 1856 Bal Gangadhar Tilak, British-Indian Hindi leader 1855 Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75 1854 Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader, Irish Unionist Party 1851 Isabella Caroline Somerset, temperance leader 1850 Jean V Constant de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader, dies at 77 1849 Max Nordau, German arts/writer/zionist leader 1847 Solomon Schechter, U.S. Talmudic scholar/Jewish leader 1847 Arthur T Verhaegen, Belgian worker's union leader 1847 Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader, English women's movement 1844 Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of Metis 1844 'Abdu'l-Baha, early Baha'i leader, 'Azamat 7, 1 1843 Mormon leader Joseph Smith say God OKs polygamy 1838 Octavia Hill, British reformer, leader of open-space movement 1837 Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann, Dutch minister/party leader, CHU 1836 Swami Ramakrishna [Gadadhar Chatterji], Indian mystic/hindu leader 1833 Klaas Kater, Dutch Christian Worker's Union Leader 1833 Stoffel Muller, Dutch sect leader, dies 1833 Norman Willis, union leader, Britain's Trades Union Congress 1832 Mary Edwards Walker, U.S., doctor/women's rights leader 1832 Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up 1828 Count d'Andreossi, French general/parliament leader, dies at 67 1827 Dov Baer Schneersohn, Lubavitch leader/author (Imirei Binah), dies 1825 Paulus Kruger, President of South African Republic, 1883, Boer leader 1824 Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati, Indian hindu leader 1823 Mother Joseph, Esther Pariseau, religious leader, US capitol 1823 Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton 1821 Mary Ashton Livermore, American reformer/women's suffrage leader 1821 Nathan Bedford Forrest, born in Chapel Hill, Tennessee, American Civil War, Confederate Army lieutenant general, cavalry leader, opposed Reconstruction era in the post-war South 1817 Sajjid Ahmad Chan, Indian moslem leader/co-founder, Pakistan 1816 Madame L'Ouverture, widow of Haiti's leader Toussaint L'O, dies 1815 Lucien Petipa, French dancer/choreographer/ballet leader 1815 Klara Fey, German orchestra leader, Deutscher Arbeiterverein 1815 John McDonald, Canadian Leader 1814 Jakob I van Przysucha, Polish hassidic leader, dies 1812 George Grey, New Zealander Leader 1811 Jon Sigurdsson, born in Iceland, leader/collects Icelandic legends 1810 Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism 1810 Andreas Hofer, military leader (fought Napoleon's France), executed at 42 1809 William Gladstone, British Leader 1807 Prince Hall, activist/Masonic leader, dies in Boston 1805 Auguste Blanqui, France, revolutionary, workers' leader 1804 Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader 1804 Senate and Tribune declare Napolean leader of France 1802 Francois MP Liberman, French relig leader, Congregation of Heart 1801 Brigham Young, religious leader of the Mormon church 1801 Henry de Cock, Dutch reformed vicar/secession leader 1800 Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion, 1831 1797 John Wilkes, English journalist/Higher/Lower house leader, dies at 72 1797 Edmund Burke, British author/parliament leader (Reflections), dies at 68 1796 Feargus O'Connor, County Cork, leader of English Chartists 1795 Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed 1795 Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao 1795 Tula, leader of Curacao slave opposition, imprisoned 1794 Georges-Jacques Danton, French revolutionary leader, guillotined at 34 1794 Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, French Royalist Army leader, dies at 21 1793 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40 1792 Thaddeus Stevens, U.S. Radical Republican congressional leader, Rep-R 1787 Henry G. W. Smith, leader of British-Indian forces 1784 Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42 1784 Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy 1777 Button Gwinnet, U.S. revolutionary leader, dies from wounds 1775 Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"czar Peter III", dies 1774 Cossack leader Emilian Pugachevs army occupies Kazan 1773 Jean V baron de Rebecque, Swiss/Dutch army leader 1772 Henri D Count de Larochejacquelin, French royalist leader 1767 Andreas Hofer, South Tirol, military leader, fought Napoleon's France 1760 Camille Desmoulins, born in France, journalist, pamphleteer and revolution leader 1759 Georges Danton, France, revolutionary leader/Minister of Justice 1759 Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader 1755 Rebel leader Mangkubuni signs Treaty of Gianti Java 1753 Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader 1752 George Rogers Clark, frontier military leader in Revolutionary War 1743 [Francois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture, Breda, leader, Haiti 1741 Joan Derk van Capellen, leader of Netherlands Democratic Patriots 1727 Tommaso MFS Traetta, Italian opera composer/band leader, Farnace 1721 William August duke of Cumberland, English army leader 1718 Jacob F Muller, Sjako/Jaco, German/Netherlands crowd leader, beheaded at 28 1717 German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam 1716 Dutch gang leader "Sjako" arrested 1706 Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist leader, dies 1703 Pieter van Wooden, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded 1703 Richard Saab, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded 1688 Emmanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader, Angelic Wisdom 1686 Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Netherlands, dies at 60 1676 King Philip, Metacomet, leader Wampanoag-indians, shot to death 1675 Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies 1675 Karl Rabenhaupt, GermanNetherlands baron of Sucha/army leader, dies at 73 1671 Stenka Razin, Cossack rebel leader, tortured and executed in Moscow 1671 Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader 1671 Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed 1671 Cosaks capture Russian boer leader Stenka Razin 1661 Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed 1657 Oliver Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert 1656 Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown) 1651 Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40 1647 Nathaniel Bacon, leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia, 1676 1644 Farm leader Li Zicheng becomes emperor of China and flees Peking 1639 George Jenatsch, Grisons leader, assassinated 1638 Henri II, duke of Rohan-Gie, French hugenot leader, dies at 58 1638 Henri duc de Rohan, French soldier/Huguenot leader, dies 1637 Dirck J Bas, Dutch merchant/regent/government leader (OIC), dies 1632 John Eliot, English parliament leader/author (In Jail), dies at 40 1629 French huguenot leader duke De Rohan signs accord with Spain 1626 Stephan Fadinger, Austrian boer leader, dies in battle 1619 John Lambert, English general-major/parliament leader 1619 Gerardus Vossius resigns as Dutch regent States college leader 1612 Thomas Killigrew, English humorist/playwright/leader, King's Men 1610 Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63 1605 Gunpowder Plot; Catholics try to blow up English Parliament. Plot uncovered and leader Guy Fawkes hanged 1602 Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader 1592 Sjihab al-Din Sultan Choerram Sjah Djahan, leader of India 1589 Maarten Schenck Nideggen, Dutch army leader, drowned at about 49 1588 Hendrik de Guise, French leader of Catholic League, murdered at 37 1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1587 English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower 1585 Cornelius Otto Jansen, France, Roman Catholic reform leader 1584 Spanish army leader Richebourg conquerors Liefkenshoek, Belgium 1579 Henri II, Duke de Rohan-Gie, French Huguenot leader 1577 King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots 1573 Willem van Bronkhorst, Brattenburg/Stein/army leader, dies 1568 Gijsbert van Bronkhorst-Batenburg, calvinist leader, beheaded 1558 Maximilian of Burgundy, leader of Holland/admiral, dies at 43 1556 Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu 1556 David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54 1555 Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader, dies at about 76 1550 Henri Guise [le Balafre], French duke/leader, Catholic League 1542 Richard Grenville, English parliament leader/Vice-Admiral, Roanoke 1534 English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader 1531 John Volkertsz Trimaker, Dutch anabaptist leader, beheaded 1530 Louis I Conde, French prince/leader of hugenots 1528 Lucas van Prague, Czechoslovakian leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68 1525 Thomas Munzer, German vicar/boer leader, executed 1523 Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested 1520 Great Worm, Worm Gerlefs Donia, Fries boer/rebel leader, dies 1519 Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral 1509 Siwara/Sjoerd Aylva, Fries army leader (siege of Franeker) 1502 Hendrik Niclaes, German/Dutch merchant/cult leader, Children of God 1499 Neithart Fox, Jonker Fox, German passage leader, slain in battle 1499 John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies 1492 Flemish rebel leader Philip van Kleef surrenders 1492 Jan Coppenhole, Flemish rebel leader, beheaded 1490 French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen, dies at about 25 1466 French van Brederode, leader Hoeksen 1465 French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen 1439 Traversari Ambrosius, Italian humanist/leader, dies at 53 1434 Prokopius, Bohemia, leader of taboriets, dies in battle 1424 Jan Zizka, Czechoslovakian (army)leader (Hussieten), dies of plague at 46 1415 Manuel Chrysoloras, Byzantine leader/diplomat (Erotemata), dies 1400 Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies 1387 French Ackerman, Ghent rebel/leader of Reisers, murdered at about 57 1381 Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants' Revolt, beheaded in London 1358 Etienne Marcel, French textile merchant/reformer/Boer leader, dies 1358 French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured 1337 Daito Kokushi, leader of O-To-Kan Rinzai school in Japan, dies at 54 1337 Angelus Clarenus/da Cingoli, Italian leader, dies 1328 Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle 1280 Albertus Magnus the Great, German leader/bishop Regensburg, dies at 87 1212 Simon de Montfort, a leader of the crusades, dies at 67 680 Husain ibn 'Ali, Shi'i religious leader, enters martyrdom 493 Odiaker, German army leader/King of Italy (476-93), dies 408 Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), dies at 48 70 Publius Vergilius Maro, Roman leader/poet, Bucolica, Aeneis |
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