2015 Event Two art works set world records at a Christie's auction in New York, with Pablo Picasso's painting 'Women of Algiers Version O' selling for $160 million and Alberto Giacometti's sculpture 'Pointing Man' selling for $141.3 million A 37-year-old man from South Carolina is rescued 500 miles from home after 66 days lost at sea; Louis Jordan had been in an antique 35-foot sailboat fishing in the open sea when the boat capsized in a storm, and he survived on fish and rainwater 2014 Event Tension increases for New York City police after a man kills two officers to avenge the killing of two unarmed black men by police in recent weeks; police have been ordered to work in pairs and to consider their own safety first while on patrol Protests erupt in New York and other U.S. cities after a grand jury does not indict a white police officer for choking to death an unarmed man, Eric Garner; New York Mayor Bill de Blasio plans to retrain the police force in conflict resolution A mentally ill man is apprehended after jumping the White House fence and injuring the two police dogs that stopped him; the man had been previously arrested near the White House on a misdemeanor Julia Pierson, the first female director of the U.S. Secret Service, resigns after an 18-month tenure during which several security breaches occurred, including the recent daytime intrusion of the White House by a man armed with a knife A Liberian man has been identified as the first U.S. case of Ebola; the man was initially misdiagnosed at a hospital in Dallas, Texas, but the virus was found after he was hospitalized for his worsening condition A man is apprehended inside the White House after scaling the fence and running into the building; U.S. President Barack Obama and his family were not there at the time of the incident A 21-year-old man is the first reported case of Ebola in Senegal; the man had recent contact with Ebola victims from Guinea Tobacco company R. 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Reynolds must pay over $23 billion in resolution of a lawsuit filed by the widow of a man who died from lung cancer at age 36; the suit accused the company of hiding the health risks and habit-forming nature of cigarettes The world's oldest man, Alexander Imich, passes away at age 111 in New York; the oldest living woman is currently 116 years old and lives in Japan 2013 Event The 2013 Man Booker Prize is won by Eleanor Catton for her book, 'The Luminaries' At the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, Andy Murray wins the Men's Singles after beating Novak Djokovic in straight sets; he becomes the first British man to win since Fred Perry's Wimbleton 1936 win The oldest European remains of a white man are discovered in Australia; the Manning River Skull may belong to a man born in 1650, predating the country's history that Captain James Cook was the first to land on Australia's east coast in 1770 In England, a man is arrested for charges related to the attack on 'The Hay Wain' painting, completed by artist John Constable in 1821; the work is considered one of England's greatest and most popular paintings 2013 Death The world's oldest living person and verified longest lived man ever, Jiroemon Kimura, dies in the city of Kyotango, Japan at age 116 During the new swearing in ceremony of Enrico Letta, an Italian man shoots and wounds two policemen outside Palazzo Chigi A court grants Iceland's Blaer Bjarkardottir the right to use her own name; after previously ruling Blaer was only a man's name, the Reykjavik court rules it could also be used as a girl's name 2012 Event A novel corona virus found in a Qatari man returning from Saudi Arabia is investigated by the World Health Organization, prompting the announcement of a global alert The writer of 'Carrie's War,' Nina Bawden, who was shortlisted for the 1987 Booker Prize and the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010, dies in London at age 87 In the Najran Province of Saudi Arabia, a man is beheaded on charges of sorcery and witchcraft 2011 Event Rejean Hinse, a Quebec man wrongly convicted of a crime in the 1960s and acquitted 30 years later, receives $13.1 million in compensation 2010 Event Lawyers for Allen Stanford, a man charged with running a $7 billion ponzi scheme, seek to postpone his trial for two years Game-maker NCsoft is sued by a man claiming he would not have played Lineage II if he knew it was addictive and render him unable to function 2003 Death Kamato Hongo, old man, world's oldest well-documented man for almost four years, dies at 116 Barry White, man with velvet voice, ", Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe, ", dies at 58 Buddy Hackett, comedian/actor, The Music Man, dies at 78 "DeVon ""Robot Man"" Smith", world champion hitchhiker, dies at 76 2002 Death William Warfield, singer/teacher, Old Man River, dies at 82 Jack Olsen, writer, Last Man Standing, dies at 77 Timothy Findley, writer, The Piano Man's Daughter, dies at 71 Damon Knight, science fiction writer/editor/teacher, To Serve Man, dies at 79 2000 Death Richard Farnsworth, actor/stunt man, The Straight Story, dies at 80 Curt Siodmak, screenplay writer, The Wolf Man, dies at 98 1999 Death Pete Conrad, "astronaut, businessman", third man to walk on the moon, dies at 69 Richard Kiley, actor, Man of La Mancha, dies at 76 Dusty Springfield, pop singer, Son of a Preacher Man, dies at 59 Michael Angelo Avallone, writer, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., novelization, dies at 73 1998 Event Tony Awards, Side Man, Death of a Salesman revival, Annie Get Your Gun revival and You're a Good Man Charlie Brown revival won major awards 1998 Death Tammy Wynette, singer, Stand by Your Man, dies at 55 1997 Death Gul Mohammed, world's shortest man (22.1"/56.16 cm), dies at 36 Viktor Frankl, psychotherapist (Man's Search for Meaning), dies at 92 Vincent Gulliver, Britain's oldest man, dies at 109 1997 Event "Young Man From Atlanta" closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 85 performances Michael Dorris, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord', commits suicide in Concord, New Hampshire, at age 52 "Young Man From Atlanta," opens at Longacre New York City for 85 performances Fred Zinnemann, director, A Man for All Seasons, dies of heart attack at 89 1995 Event Million Man March held in Washington D.C. (over 800,000 black men attend) 1995 Death John Cairncross, linguist (5th Man), dies at 82 Jim Leyritz homers with a man on in 15th inning to give Yankees 2-0 Division Series lead over Mariners Forbes Mag announces Bill Gates is the richest man in world, worth$12.9 billion dollars William John Phillips, actor (Nothing but a Man), dies at 80 Michael Horden, actor (Fool, Green Man, Scoop), dies at 83 Calder Willingham, U.S. scriptwriter (End as a Man), dies at 72 Paul Monette, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy, dies of AIDS in Los Angeles, California at 49 Yahya Ayyash, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis, assassinated by Isreal's Shin Bet with a booby trapped cellular phone 1994 Event Radio personality Howard Stern talks a man out of attempting suicide Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal 1994 Death Paul Swift, U.S. actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60 Man shoots another man on IRT #4 train at Grand Central Station Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), dies of lung cancer at 76 Ralph Waldo Ellison, U.S. writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80 "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances "No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 61 performances 1993 Death Myrna Loy, actress (Thin Man, Vanity Fair), dies at 88 Maroun Bagdadi, director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42 Harry Bellaver, actor (Blue Collar, Old Man and the Sea), dies at 88 Nan Grey, actress (Invisible Man Returns), dies on 75th birthday Jan Wiley, actress (Underdog, Brute Man, She Wolf of London), dies Carleton Morse, radio dramatist (One Man's Family), dies at 91 Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86 1992 Death Charles Fraser-Smith, English inventor (man who never was), dies James Seay, actor (Amazing Colossal Man), dies at 78 Johannes van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Born 4/22/1884), dies Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51 1992 Event "Man of La Mancha" closes at Marquis Theater New York City after 108 performances Maxine Audley, British actress (Vikings, Our Man in Havana), dies at 69 Wayne McLaren, model (Marlboro Man), dies of lung cancer at 51 Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM), dies Sheena Easton collapses on stage while performing in "Man of LaMancha" "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 108 performances Man accidentally backs in A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini Robert Beatty, actor (Odd Man Out), dies at 82 Wade Preston, actor (Man Called Sledge), dies at 62 Willie Dixon, blues composer (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man), dies at 76 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with U.S. man William Walker, stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74 1991 Event Ted Turner is named Time Magazine Man of Year 1991 Death W Hudson, U.S. "strongest man to the world" (540 kg), dies Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46 Byron Webster, actor (That Man Bolt), dies of AIDS at 58 TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man Mary Lawrence, actress (Best Man), dies of respiratory failure at 73 Irene Campbell, British actress/dancer (Wicker Man, St. Justice), dies Gene Clark, folk-rocker (Byrds-Tambourine Man), dies at 49 Defense releases docs claiming Noriega is "CIA's man in Panama" Graham Greene, British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana), dies at 86 1990 Death Aaron Copeland, composer (Fanfare for Common Man), dies at 90 Margaret Mary Lockwood, actress (Man in Grey, Wicked Lady), dies at 73 1990 Event Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977 On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children and no man can stand her for long Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London Joel Fluellen, actor (Man Friday, Burning Cross), dies at 79 1989 Event 1st NFL game coached by a black man (Art Shell), his Los Angeles Raiders beat New York Jets 14-7 on Monday Night Football 1989 Death Tim Hovey, actor (Slim Carter, Man Afraid), dies of a drug overdose Braves Dale Murphy, hits 2 3-run home runs in an inning, 14th man to hit 2 home runs in an inning. Also ties record of 6 RBIs in an inning Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza, Hulk Hogan beats "Macho Man" Savage 1988 Event Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St. subway station (New York City) Willie Stargell became 200th man inducted in Baseball's Hall of Fame 1988 Death Eva Novak, actress (Medicine Man), dies of pneumonia at 90 David Prater, U.S. singer (Sam and Dave-Soul Man), dies in car crash at 50 Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase Allan Cuthbertson, actor (Running Man, 7th Dawn), dies at 67 1987 Event 3 white New York teens convicted of manslaughter in death of a black man 43 die in Pacific Southwest Airline crash in California (man shot pilots) Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England 1987 Death O B McClinton, U.S. country singer (Man needs a woman), dies at 47 15 yr old Michael Chang is youngest man to win U.S. Tennis Open match Philip Rush of New Zealand, set record for triple crossing English Channel his time 28:21, 10 hours faster than 1st man to do it Cincinnati Red Eric Davis becomes 7th and earliest 30 home run - 30 steal man Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89 Robert Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), dies at 68 1986 Death Scatman Crothers, singer and actor (Shining, Chico and The Man), dies at 76 Murray Hamilton, actor (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 63 John Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies at 45 Helen Craig, actress (Rich Man Poor Man), dies at 74 1985 Event PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election St. Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man 1985 Death Grant Williams, actor (Shrinking Man), dies of toxic poisoning at 54 George Holmes, actor (Man in the Trunk), dies at 66 1985 Birthday Tina Majorino, actress, Waterworld, When a Man Loves a Woman 1984 Event Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) and Macho Man Randy Savage (Poffo) wed 1984 Death Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61 John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him" Howard Goodall/Melvyn Bragg's musical "Hired Man," premieres in London William Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner), dies of a stroke at 94 Irwin Shaw, U.S. writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71 Muddy Waters, blues singer/guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man), dies at 68 Christopher Wilder, FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally kills self William Powell, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 91 1983 Event Pope John Paul II pardons man who shot him (Mehmet Ali Agca) 1983 Death Paul de Man, Belgian Critic Calvin Smith of U.S. becomes fastest man alive (9.93 for 100m) 1982 Event TIME's Man of the Year is a computer 1982 Death Russell Thorson, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 72 1982 Birthday Robert Anthony, born in Chicago, Illinois, ring name, 'Egotistico Fantastico', professional wrestler, athlete, World Junior Heavyweight Champion, Iron Man Champion, AAW Heavyweight Championship Stanley Holloway, comedian (My Fair Lady, Our Man Higgins), dies at 91 1981 Death Jack Albertson, actor (Chico and the Man), dies at 74 Chief Dan George, actor (Harry and Tonto, Little Big Man), dies at 82 1981 Birthday Austin O'Brien, actor, Apollo 13, My Girl 2, Lawnmower Man Nelson Algren, U.S. writer (Man with the Golden Arm), dies at 72 1981 Event Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game Paul Horbiger, actor (3rd Man), dies at 86 [Adele] Marie Astaire, actress (Last Man on Earth, Millie), dies at 82 1980 Event David Bowie appears in role of 'Elephant Man' in Denver 1980 Death Gail Patrick, actress (My Man Godfrey), dies of leukemia at 69 1979 Event British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring 1979 Birthday Anndi Lynn McAfee, actress, Ice Cream Man, Conagher 1979 Death Catherine Lacey, actress (October Man, Carnival), dies at 75 Don Martina's MAN party wins election in Dutch Antilles 33rd Tony Awards: Elephant Man and Sweeny Todd win Louis Paul Boon, Flemish writer (Eros and the Lonely Man), dies at 67 Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed 1978 Birthday Clay Aiken, born in Raleigh, North Carolina, singer, appeared on 'American Idol' television show, debut album, 'Measure of a Man' went multi-platinum 1978 Event Graham Salmon set worlds record for 100 meters by a blind man Supreme Court orders California medical school to admit Allan Bakke a white man claiming reverse discrimination when application was rejected 1st Iron Man Triathlon held, Kona, Hawaii 1978 Death Derrick De Marney, actor (Inheritance, Projected Man), dies at 71 1977 Event "Man of La Mancha" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 124 performances Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man," premieres in London 1977 Death Florence Vidor, actress (Jack Knife Man), dies at 82 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 124 performances Don Blackman, actor (Old Man and Sea, Desert Legion), dies at 65 "I'm Your Boogie Man" by Kansas City and Sunshine Band peaks at #1 Jim Boles, actor (Kraft Music Hall, One Man's Family), dies at 63 Marjorie Gateson, actress (One Man's Family), dies at 86 Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico and the Man), shoots himself at 22 1976 Death Godfrey Cambridge, actor (Watermelon Man), dies at 43 Man Ray, U.S. artist (dada), dies at 86 1976 Event Greece's 98 year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis, is oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33 James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69 Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Every Man is My Enemy), dies at 65 "Rich Man, Poor Man" mini-series premieres on ABC TV Margaret Leighton, actress (Best Man, Go-Between), dies at 53 1975 Birthday Scott E Weinger, New York City, actor, Steve Taylor-Family Man, Full House 1975 Event Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," premieres in London 1975 Death Muriel Hutchinson, actor (Another Thin Man), dies at 60 Paul Verhoeven, director (Robocop, 4th Man, Total Recall), dies at 73 Brendan Fay, actor (Hustler, Man on a Swing), dies at 54 Lubov Orlova, actress (Moscow Laughs, Man of Music, Tanya), dies at 72 1974 Event "Man With Golden Gun" premieres in US Most complete early man skeleton found (Johanson and Gray in Ethiopia) "I'm A Ramblin' Man" by Waylon Jennings peaks at #75 "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV 1973 Death Mantan Moreland, comedian (Watermelon Man), dies at 71 Billy Greene, actor (Burton-One Man's Family), dies at 76 1973 Event Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park, Isle of Man, UK Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps Luis Van Rooten, actor (One Man's Family), dies at 66 Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk), dies at 50 Ludwig Stossel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 89 1972 Event "Man of La Mancha" closes at Beaumont Theater New York City after 140 performances 1972 Death Leo G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), dies at 80 1972 Birthday Dennis Military man, soccer player, Sparta/Vitesse "Man of La Mancha" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 140 performances 1971 Death Christopher Dark, actor (Man Behind the Badge), dies at 51 1971 Event John Newcombe is 1st top-seed man to lose in 1st round of U.S. Open "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" closes at Golden New York City after 31 performances "Man of La Mancha" closes at ANTA Washington Square Theater New York City after 2329 performances "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" opens at Golden New York City for 31 performances Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S. theologist (Nature and Destiny of Man), dies at 78 John Longden, actor (Man From Interpol), dies at 70 1971 Birthday Method Man, American Musician John Buchanan, actor, Sidekicks, Black Stallion, Family Man 1970 Death Joseph W. Krutch, U.S. writer (Measure of Man), dies at 76 1970 Birthday Natasha Ryan, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Amy-Ladies' Man 1969 Birthday Gene Hunt, R&B musician, Acid Man 1969 Event 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hour flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft 1969 Death Ella Logan, actress (52nd Street, Woman Chases Man), dies at 56 Ernst Deutsch, Dorian, Czechoslovakian actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78 1968 Death Lee Tracy, actor (Doctor X, Bombshell, Best Man), dies of cancer at 70 1968 Birthday Hugh Jackman, born in Sydney, Australia, actor, producer, movies include 'Kate & Leopold', 'The Prestige', 'X-Men', named 'Sexiest Man Alive' by People magazine Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, and Seryogin, in plane crash at 34 Pauly Shore, Hollywood, comedian, Totally Pauly, Encino Man Whitfield Crane, rocker, Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad 1967 Death Francoise Dorleac, actress (That Man From Rio), dies at 35 1967 Birthday Eric Schweig, born in Inuvik, Canada, actor, Dead Man's Walk Claude Rains, actor (Invisible Man), dies at 77 Henry C Rumke, psychiatrist (Light of Man), dies at 74 Mellow Man Ace, Cuba, spanish rapper/actor, Only the Strong 1967 Event 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," E Taylor and P Scofield win Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in New York City Mischa Auer, actor (My Man Godfrey), dies at 61 of a heart attack 1966 Birthday Bill Ranford, Brandon Man, NHL goalie, Team Canada, Boston C Thomas Howell, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man Valeria Golino, Naples Italy, actress, Rain Man, Little Flames Mike Tyson, born in Brooklyn, New York, professional boxer, youngest man to win WBC, WBA IBF world heavyweight titles, nickname 'Iron Mike' 1966 Event 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade and Man of La Mancha win 1966 Death Pat O'Malley, silent film actor (Wild One, Quiet Man), dies at 75 Yahya Ayyash, born in Palestine, nicknamed 'the Engineer,' chief bomb maker for Hamas, most wanted man in Israel, caused deaths of 90 Israelis Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London William Harrigan, actor (Invisible Man, Girl in 419), dies at 71 1965 Death Harry Harvey Sr, actor (It's a Man's World), dies at 64 1965 Event "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Washington Square Theater New York City for 2329 performances 1965 Birthday Kadeem Hardison, actor, A Different World, The Sixth Man Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man New Zealand vs. Pakistan Forrest Taylor, actor (This is Life, Man Without a Gun), dies at 81 Cordell Crockett, rocker, Ugly Kid Joe-Mad Man, Too Bad Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man" 1964 Event Launch of Voskhod 1, 1st 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov) 1964 Death Calvin Thomas, actor (Judge Hunter-One Man's Family), dies at 79 "Man from U.N.C.L.E," premieres on NBC-TV 1964 Birthday Debi Mazar, born in Queens, New York, actress, Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law Flannery O'Connor, writer (Good Man is Hard to Find), dies at 39 Biz Markie, rocker, Meteor Man, Townsend Television Frank Albertson, actor (Chico and Man, Room Service), dies at 55 U.S. Supreme Court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry vs. Sanders) A Marja, Dutch author (Man of Day and Night), dies at 46 1963 Birthday Scott Ian, U.S. heavy metal guitarist, Anthrax-I'm the Man Brian Clark, Brandon Man, Canadian Tour golfer, 1994 Morden Pro-Am 1963 Death Pierre Blanchar, actor (Man From Nowhere), dies at 71 Robert Stroud, "bird man of Alcatraz", dies Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 74 1962 Birthday Beatie Edney, born in London, England, actress, Diary of a Mad Old Man 1962 Death Frank Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48 1962 Event 16th Tony Awards: Man For All Seasons and How to Succeed win Clint Black, born in Long Branch, New Jersey, country vocalist, A Better Man 1961 Death Marion Perkins, sculptor (Man of Sorrow), dies at 53 1961 Event John F. Kennedy sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade 1961 Birthday Riaz Poonawalla, cricketer, Indian 12th man/UAE bat 1994 ICC Trophy "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 1375 performances Julia Louis-Dreyfus, born in New York City, comedienne, SNL, Seinfeld, Soul Man, Troll Dashiell Hammett, U.S. detective writer (Thin Man), dies at 66 1960 Birthday Rene Froger, Dutch singer, Everything Can Make a Man Happy 1960 Death Kathlyn Williams, actress (Single Man), dies of heart attack at 72 1960 Event Robert Bolt's "Man For All Seasons," premieres in London Tommy Aldridge, heavy metal rocker, Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man Gore Vidal's "Best Man," premieres in New York City 1959 Birthday Danitra Vance, comedienne, SNL, Little Man Tate, Limit Up 1959 Death Una O'Connor, actress (Banjo, Invisible Man), dies at 78 1958 Event 12th Tony Awards: Sunrise at Campobello and Music Man win 1957 Event "Music Man" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 1375 performances 1957 Birthday Fran Drescher, Queens, New York, actress, Cadillac Man, Nanny David Simons reaches 30,942 m in Man High 2 balloon 89th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Gallant Man wins in 2:26.6 Fred Markham, 1st man to pedal a bike 65 mph Jenifer Lewis, actress, Girl 6, Meteor Man, Sister Act 1956 Birthday Nico Slothouwer, Dutch poet, Man and his Bag Randi Brooks, New York City, actress, Man With 2 Brains, Tightrope Dwight Yoakam, born in Pikeville, Kentucky, country singer, Honky Tonk Man 1956 Death Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50 1955 Birthday Bo Derek, Mary Collins, born in Long Beach, California, actress, 10, Tarzan the Ape Man 1955 Event Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th Kix Brooks, born in Shreveport, Louisiana, singer, Brooks and Dunn-Brand New Man 1954 Birthday Ullrich Diessner, born in East Germany, 4 man cox 1976 Olympics gold Walter Diessner, born in East Germany, 4 man cox 1976 Olympics gold Alex Cox, born in Bebington, Mereyside, England, screenwriter, film director, independent film producer, actor, author, directed film 'Repo Man', wrote book '10,000 Ways to Die' Eva Mattes, Tegernsee Germany, actress, Celeste, Man Like Eva 1954 Death Bert Lytell, actor (Henry-One Man's Family), dies at 69 Reed Birney, born in Alexandria, Virginia, actor, Greatest Man in the World Eugene Pallette, actor (It's a Date, My Man Godfrey), dies at 65 Steve Wright, Britain's wacky DJ/actor, Funny Man Sam J Jones, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Chris-Code Red, The Highway Man Freddie Prinze, New York City, comedian/actor, Chico and the Man John Iles, dolby supervisor, Elephant Man, Richard III Gunther Tiersch, born in East Germany, 8 man cox, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics Norbert Hahn, born in East Germany, 2 man luge, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics 1953 Event "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax 1953 Death Hendrik de Man, sociologist (Belgian Working people Party), dies at 67 Pulitzer prize awarded to E Hemingway (Old Man and The Sea) 1953 Birthday Hans Rinn, born in East Germany, 2 man lugist, Gold Medal 1976, 1980 Olympics Kay Lenz, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Moving Violations, Rich Man Poor Man 1952 Birthday "Macho Man" Randy Savage, Poffo, Sarasota, Florida, wrestler, WWF/SMW/ICW 1952 Event Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man and Sea" published Graham Salmon, blind runner, fastest 100m by a blind man 78th Preakness: Conn McCreary aboard Blue Man wins in 1:57.4 Marilu Henner, born in Chicago, actress, Taxi, Man Who Loved Women, Eve Shade 1951 Birthday Jeff Altman, comedian/actor, Nurses, Pink Lady, Soul Man Penny Peyser, Irvington, New York, actress, Rich Man Poor Man, Knots Landing Charo, Murcia Spain, actress and singer, Chico and the Man, Love Boat John McTiernan, born in Albany, New York, actor, Predator, Die Hard, Medicine Man 1950 Event Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League 1950 Birthday Belinda J Montgomery, born in Winnipeg, actress, Man From Atlantis John "Jocko" Marcellino, rocker/actor, Tagget, Hot to Trot, Rain Man 1949 Event "One Man's Family" premieres on TV 1949 Birthday Geoff Capes, born in Holbeach, England, shot putter, two-time winner, World's Strongest Man title, two-time Commonwealth Games shot put champion Francis Rossi, guitarist, Status Quo-Picture of a Matchstick Man Patrick Duffy, born in Townsend, Montana, actor, Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis 1948 Death Warren William, actor (Fear, Wolf Man, Madame X), dies at 53 Lillian Brainthwaite, British actress (Man About the House), dies at 75 1948 Birthday Susan Blakely, Frankfurt Germany, actress, Rich Man Poor Man Kim Darby, N Hollywood, actress, True Grit, Enola Gay, Rich Man Poor Man Charles Fillmore, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, mystic, co-founder, Unity, a New Thought movement church, created metaphysical interpretations of the Bible, promoted idea that God is good, God is available, God is in you, wrote, 'The Twelve Powers of Man', dies Berry Oakley, born in Chicago, Illinois, rocker, Allman Brothers-Ramblin' Man Jacques Kloes, singer, Dizzy Man's Band Tony Iommi, rock guitarist, Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man 1947 Birthday Greg Lake, born in Dorset, England, singer, songwriter, guitarist, performed "Karn Evil 9" with the Trans Siberian Orchestra, played "Lucky Man" with Jethro Tull 1947 Death Man O' War, racehorse, dies Terje Rypdal, born in Oslo, Norway, composer, guitarist, works include 'Mystery Man', 'Last Nite', featured in the film 'Heat' Candy Clark, born in Oklahoma, actress, Man Who Fell to Earth, Q, American Graffiti Shakira Caine, Guyana, actress, Man Who be King, Miss Guyana, 1967 John Lees, England, rock guitarist and vocalist, Medicine Man 1946 Death Herman de Man, Salomon H Hamburger, author/Radio Orange, dies 1946 Event Court martial convicts Henry de Man to 20 years, in Brussels 1946 Birthday Erich Scharer, born in Switzerland, 2 man bobsled, 1980 Olympics gold John Conlee, Versailles, Kentucky, country singer, Common Man Brigitte Fossey, born in Tourcoing, France, actress, Man Who Died Twice Manfred Stengl, Austria, 2 man lugist 1960 Olympics gold 1945 Birthday Paul Monette, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, writer, wrote, 'Becoming a Man', wrote about gay relationships, taught writing, Milton Academy 1945 Death Franz Werfel, Czechoslovakian/German/U.S. poet and writer, 'Mirror Man', dies at 54 1945 Event U.S. drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki George Barbier, actor (Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at 80 Tim Hovey, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Queen Bee, Toy Tiger, Man Afraid Laura Lee, Rundless, singer, Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights Johnny Cymbal, rocker, Mr Bass Man Michael Dorris, born in Louisville, Kentucky, writer, scholar, first unmarried man to adopt child, Raynold Abel, wrote about Reynold in 'The Broken Cord' 1944 Birthday Eddy Raven, Lafayette, Louisiana, country singer, Right Hand Man Corinna Tsopel, born in Athens, actress, Man Called Horse, Miss Universe, 64 Robert Powell, England, actor, Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets Katherine Crawford, actress, Captains and Kings, Gemini Man Alan Fudge, Wichita, Kansas, actor, Man From Atlantis, Paper Dolls 1944 Death Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man), dies at 79 Katherine Crawford, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Gemini Man, Captains and Kings 1943 Birthday Dickey Betts, West Palm Beach, Florida, guitarist, Allman Bros-Ramblin' Man Roger Donaldson, director, Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands Joe Namath, Pennsylvania, NFL quarterback for the New York Jets, $400,000 man, 1969 Superbowl 1942 Event Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man 1942 Birthday Johnny Rivers, Ramistella, New York City, singer, Secret Agent Man Britt Ekland, Stockholm Sweden, actress, Wicker Man, Asylum Donna Corcoran, Quincy Massachusetts, actress, Man Without a Star Giancarlo Giannini, born in Spezia, Italy,actor, New York Stories, Sensual Man Roger McGuinn, guitarist, Byrds-Turn Turn Turn, Mr. Tambourine Man Tammy Wynette, Redbay Alabama, country singer, Stand by your Man Francoise Dorleac, born in Paris, France, actress, That Man From Rio Peter Strauss, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, actor, Rich Man Poor Man 1941 Birthday Fionnula Flanagan, Dublin Ireland, actress, Rich Man Poor Man David Porter, U.S. songwriter, Soul Man 1941 Event Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres Meinhard Nehmer, born in East Germany, 2 man bobsledder 1976 Olympics gold Susannah York, London, actress, A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones 1940 Birthday Percy Sledge, soul singer, When A Man Loves A Woman F Murray Abraham, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Amadeus, Mad Man Lee Majors, Wyandotte, actor, $6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy 1940 Death Robert Wadlow, world's tallest man (8'11.1"), dies at 32 Randle Ayrton, actor (Manx Man), dies at 70 Mireille Darc, Toulo,n France, actor, Week End, Hurried Man Lee Majors, born in Michigan, TV actor, $6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man 1940 Event Cornelious Warmerdam became 1st man to pole vault 15 ft Robby Mueller, cinematographer, Breaking the Waves, Dead Man, Korczak John Hurt, England, actor, Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express 1939 Death Alice Brady, actress (My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee), dies at 46 1939 Event George Kaufman/Moss Hart's "Man Who Came to Dinner," premieres in New York City 1939 Birthday Corin Redgrave, born in London, actor, Excalibur, Man For All Seasons Lawrence Pressman, born in Kentucky, actor, Man From Atlantis, Hellstrom Chronicle [Henry] Havelock Ellis, English sexologist (Man and Woman), dies at 80 Man Mohan Sood, cricketer, scored 0 and 3 in his only Test for India Lou Gehrig day; Gehrig makes "luckiest man" speech Kenneth Warby, fastest man on water at 300 knots, 345 mph Robert Nye, writer, Facts of Life and other fiction, 3 Views of Man 1938 Birthday Rosalind Cash, Atlantic City, New Jersey, actress, Omega Man, Wrong is Right 1938 Event Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in New York City (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100' of microfilm) 1938 Death Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man and Mark), dies at 65 Victor Buono, SD California, actor, Man from Atlantis, Untouchables 1937 Birthday Anthony Hopkins, born in Wales, actor, Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Bounty Claude Lelouch, movie director, A Man and A Woman, Cat and Mouse, Bolero Waylon Jennings, country singer/guitarist, Ramblin' Man Jimmy Jones, born in Birmingham, Alabama, African-American rocker, singer, songwriter, performed with doo-wop group The Berliners, wrote 'Handy Man' recorded by the Sparks of Rhythm Joanna Russ, U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, Female Man, Alyx 1936 Birthday Michael Stone, English broker/multi-millionaire, Man Group Alex Rocco, actor, Blue Knight, Stanley, Stunt Man Virginia Maskell, actress, Suspect, Doctor in Love, Man Upstairs 1935 Birthday Esther Phillips, EM Jones, U.S. singer, When a Woman Loves a Man Lou Rawls, born in Chicago, Illinois, vocalist, Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man 1934 Birthday Leonard Cohen, Montreal, singer and songwriter, Death of Ladies Man Sam Trimble, cricketer, Queensland bat, 12th man for Australia, no Test Diane Cilento, Rabaul, actress, Hombre, Tom Jones, Wicker Man Yuri Gagarin, born in Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space, aboard Vostok 1 Nick Nolte, born in Omaha, Nebraska, actor, Teachers, 48 hours, Rich Man Poor Man 1933 Birthday Diane Cilento, born in Australia, actress, Agony and Ecstasy, Wicker Man Clari Baruch, Clara C de Lieme, actress, Man With White Flower Louis Farrakhan, minister, black islam nation, million man march 1932 Birthday Dimitra Arliss, actress, Rich Man Poor Man II Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade Yugoslavia, director, Man is Not a Bird 1932 Event 1st broadcast of "One Man's Family" on NBC-radio William Smith, born in Columbia, Missouri, actor, Rich Man Poor Man, Hawaii 5-0 1931 Birthday Mary Murphy, Washington D.C., actress, A Man Alone, Maggie-Investigators James Earl Jones, Mississippi, actor, Darth Vader, Exorcist II, Soul Man Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author, Man of Earth 1930 Birthday Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor and director, Man and a Woman, Z Richard Harris, Ire, actor, Man Called Horse, singer, MacArthur Park Grant Williams, New York City, actor, Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man Abbey Lincoln, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress and singer, Nothing But a Man Gregory Corso, beat poet, Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man 1929 Birthday Bob Hawke, cricketer, no relation to Lord 12th man for Oxford U 1954 1929 Event 1st skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien James Coco, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death 1928 Event 2nd Test Cricket Australia vs. England starts with Bradman 12th man 1928 Birthday Rex Reason, Berlin Germany, actor, Man Without a Gun, Roaring 20s Clu Gulager, Holdenville Oklahoma, actor, Virginian, Survivors, Tall Man Phyllis Kirk, Syracuse, New York, actress, Thin Man, Red Button's Show George Maharis, actor, Rich Man, Poor Man, Route 66 James Coburn, Laurel Nebr, actor, Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven Paul Whiteman and orchestra record "Ol' Man River" for Victor Records Mitch Leigh, born in Brooklyn, New York, Irwin Michnick, graduated from Yale, composer, musical theater composer, theatrical producer, known for show Man Of La Mancha, composed jingle 'Nobody Doesn't Like Sara Lee' 1927 Birthday Barbara Cook, born in Atlanta, Georgia, stage singer and actress, Music Man Carmen Zapata, born in New York City, actress, Hagen, Viva Valdez, Man and the City 1926 Event Noel Coward's "This Was a Man," premieres in New York City 1926 Birthday Richard Anderson, born in Long Beach, New Jersey, actor, Oscar Goldman-6 Million $ Man James P. Donleavy, born in Brooklyn, novelist, Ginger Man, Onion Eaters Vera-Ellen, Westmeyr Rohe, Cincinnati, actress/dancer, Wonder Man 1925 Birthday Sammy Davis, Jr., New York City, singer/dancer/actor, Ocean's 11, Candy Man 1925 Death Max Linder, actor (Man in the Silk Hat), dies at 41 1925 Event George Kaufman's "Butter and Egg Man," premieres in New York City Jimmy Reed, born in Mississippi, blues singer, Soulin', Big Boss Man Gloria DeHaven, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Bog, Yellow Cab Man, Irene-Nakia Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy Martha Vickers, Ann Arbor, Michigan, actress, Alimony, Man I Love, Ruthless Jeanne Crain, Barstow California, actress, Man Without a Star Rod Steiger, born in West Hampton, New York, actor, Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker Flannery O'Connor, born in Georgia, novelist, A Good Man is Hard to Find 1924 Birthday Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright, Man for All Seasons, Dr. Zhivago Thomas Berger, U.S., novelist, Vital Parts, Little Big Man 1923 Birthday Peter Lawford, born in London, England, actor, Mrs Miniver, Thin Man Cathy O'Donnell, Siluria AL, actress, Miniver Story, Man from Laramie John Compton, born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, actor, Shannon-D.A.'s Man Hugh Lloyd, actor, Punch and Judy Man, Dunroamin' Rising Murray Hamilton, born in Washington, North Carolina, actor, Rich Man Poor Man Chuck Yeager, U.S. test pilot, 1st man to break sound barrier 1922 Birthday Adele Jergens, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man Adolfo Celi, born in Sicily, Italy, director, Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue Barry Levinson, director, Rain Man Richard Kiley, born in Chicago, actor, Man of La Mancha, Endless Love Carl Reiner, born in Bronx, comedian, 2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show William Sylvester, born in Oakland California, actor, 2001, Gorgo, Gemini Man 1921 Birthday Alida Valli, Pola Italy, actress, Miracle of the Bells, 3rd Man 1921 Event Florence Allen is 1st woman judge to sentence a man to death British submarine K5 leaves with man and mouse 1920 Event Man O'War's last race and win 1920 Death Essad Pasja, Albanian military man/minister, murdered at peace confer 52nd Belmont: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 2:14.2 46th Preakness: Clarence Kummer aboard Man o' War wins in 1:51.6 1920 Birthday Sloan Wilson, Norwalk, Conn, novelist, Man in the Gray Flannal Saul Bass, born in New York City, New York, graphic designer, filmmaker, created title sequences for 40 years, famous for The Man with the Golden Arm, kinetic typography in North by Northwest, Vertigo 1919 Birthday Paul de Man, Belgian Critic 1919 Event White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series Ronny Graham, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actor, Bob Crane Show, Chico and the Man Man o'War's only defeat (Upset wins at Saratoga) Alex Nicol, Ossining, New York, actor, Man From Laramie, Air Cadet 1918 Birthday Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper, 1936 Olympics 1918 Event Samuel Riddle buys Man o'War for $5,000 Robert Preston, born in Newton, Massachusetts, actor, Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter 1917 Birthday Ossie Davis, born in Cogdell, Georgia, actor and playwright, Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam Ruth Hussey, born in Providence, Rhode Island, actress, Another Thin Man, Philadelphia Story Charles Kerruish, president, Tyndwald Isle of Man Glenn Langan, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, Amazing Colossal Man, Margie Man O'War, racehorse, winner of 20 out of 21 races and $249,465 Virginia Grey, born in Louisiana, actress, Another Thin Man, Idiot's Delight, Idaho Phyllis Calvert, London, actress, Man in Grey 1916 Birthday John Vivyan, actor, Mr Lucky, Wrong Man, Imitation of Life Stanley Kauffmann, born in New York City, playwright, Red Handkerchief Man 1915 Birthday Muddy Waters, guitarist, Hoochie Coochie Man 1914 Birthday William John Phillips, actor, Nothing but a Man Clifford Irving, Chairman, Isle of Man Government Frank Lovejoy, born in Bronx, New York, actor, Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw Morton DaCosta, born in Philadelphia, director, Island of Love, Music Man Ralph Waldo Ellison, U.S. writer, Invisible Man, Shadow and Cast Jim Boles, Lubbock, Texas, actor, Joe-One Man's Family 1913 Birthday Stuart J[ames] Byrne, U.S., sci-fi author, Star Man, God Man John Cairncross, linguist, 5th Man Irwin Shaw, U.S., novelist, Rich Man Poor Man Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet and writer, Man Without a Head 1912 Birthday Alexander Mackendrick, Boston, director, Man in the White Suit, Mandy Barry Sullivan, New York City, actor, Duffy's Tavern, Man Called X, Tall Man Adriaan Morrien, Dutch literary, An Untidy Man 1911 Birthday Harry Andrews, Kent England, actor, Equus, Man of La Mancha Gail Patrick, Birmingham, Alabama, actress, My Man Godfrey, Love Crazy 1911 Event Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK John Sturges, U.S., director, Old Man and Sea, Magnificent 7 1910 Event 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon 1910 Birthday Franz Kemser, Germany, 4 man bobsled 1952 Olympics gold Cao Yu, born in China, born Wan Jiabao, playwright, dramatist, celebrated for Thunderstorm, Sunrise, and Peking Man, responsible for spoken theater in 20th century Chinese literature Jean Servais, Angers Belgium, actor, Every Man is My Enemy Marc Lawrence, New York City, actor, Man With Golden Gun 1st stumping by a 12th man in Tests (N C Tufnell, SAf vs. Eng) Russ Bender, actor and writer, Amazing Colossal Man, Space Monster 1909 Birthday Carol Lombard, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, actress, My Man Godfrey, In Name Only Nelson Algren, U.S., novelist, Man with the Golden Arm 1908 Birthday Robert F Simon, Mansfield, Ohio, actor, Man who shot Liberty Valance 1908 Event B Tarkington and HL Wilson's "Man from Home," premieres in New York City Inez Courtney, born in New York City, actress, 13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven 1907 Event David Belasco's "Grand Army Man," premieres in New York City 1907 Birthday Jack Albertson, born in Malden, Massachusetts, actor, Thin Man, Chico and the Man Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer, Man in the Moon Charles Collier wins 1st Isle of Man TT Race: (38.22 mph) Cesar Romero, born in New York City, actor, Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, Thin Man 1906 Birthday Carol Reed, motion picture director, 3rd Man H Allen Smith, Illinois, humorist/author, Low Man on Totem Pole Luis Van Rooten, Mexico City Mexico, actor, One Man's Family James Flavin, Portland Me, actor, Man With a Camera 1905 Birthday Mischa Auer, Ounskowsky, St. Petersburg Rus, actor, My Man Godfrey 1905 Event Edward Milton Royle's "Squaw Man," premieres in New York City RAC Tourist Trophy, 1st run, on Isle of Man Myrna Loy, Helena, Montana, actress, Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair Joseph Cotten, Virginia, actor, 3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse Henrich Schlappi, born in Switzerland, 4 man bobsled 1924 Olympics gold Viktor Emil Frankl, pyschiatrist, Man's Search for Meaning Emilio Segre, born in Tivoli, Italy, physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics, discovered antiprotons, a sub-atomic antiparticle and an element used for Fat Man atomic bomb used on Nagasaki 1904 Birthday Kermit Bloomgarden, producer, Diary of Anne Frank, Music Man Graham Greene, English journalist, 3rd Man William "Count" Basie, jazz pianist, Policy Man, Blazing Saddles John Gielgud, born in London, England, actor, Arthur, Ages of Man 1904 Event Theodore Roosevelt, appoints 7 man committee to study Panama Canal 1903 Birthday Konrad Lorenz, zoologist/ethologist, Man and His Ideas, Nobel 1973 1903 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Creeping Man" Muriel Kirkland, Yonkers, New York, actress, Fast Workers, Hold Your Man 1902 Birthday Christina Stead, born in Australia, novelist, Man Who Loved Children David Burns, actor, Music Man, Hello Dolly! [Robert] Meredith Willson, Mason City Iowa, composer, Music Man Carl Jaffe, born in Hamburg, Germany, actor, 1st Man in Space, Escapement 1901 Birthday Paul Verhoeven, born in Unna, Germany, director, 4th Man, Basic Instinct 1900 Birthday John Longden, West Indies, actor, Man From Interpol Martita Hunt, Argentina, actress, Man in Grey, Becket 1899 Birthday Frank Vosper, born in London, England, actor, Man Who Knew Too Much Chief Dan George, actor, Harry and Tonto, Little Big Man. Smith! John Randall, Jr., Michigan, historian/philosopher, Western Man Roel [Martinus F] Houwink, Dutch literary, 1 Man Without Character 1898 Death Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds, disguised as man fought for union, dies 1898 Birthday Herman de Man, Salomon H Hamburger, Dutch writer/Radio Orange Curtis Stevens, U.S., 2 man bobsled 1932 Olympics gold Paul Robeson, born in Philadelphia, singer, Old Man River Alfred Schlappi, born in Switzerland, 4 man bobsled, Gold Medal 1924 Olympics 1897 Birthday Hermione Gingold, born in London, England, actress, Gigi, Music Man Billy Greene, actor, Burton-One Man's Family 1896 Birthday Roark Bradford, writer/humorist, Ol' Man Adan an' His Chillun 1896 Death Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58 Tristan Tzara, Samuel Rosenfeld, French poet, Approximate Man 1895 Birthday Florence Vidor, Arto, born in Houston, Texas, actress, Jack Knife Man John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker, Secretary of War 1941 - 1945, President Chase Man John Ford, Maine, director, Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man 1894 Event Ohio national guard kills 3 lynchers while rescuing a black man George Bernard Shaw's "Arms and the Man," premieres in London 1893 Birthday Alexander Korda, British movie producer, 3rd man Daan Boens, Flemish poet, Man who sold his Wife Henry C Rumke, Dutch psychiatrist, Periods in Man's Life 1892 Birthday Emory Parnell, St. Paul Minnesota, actress, Rocket Man, County Fair Alice Brady, New York City, actress, My Man Godfrey, Gay Divorcee, Zenobia Leo G Carroll, Weedon England, actor, Topper, Man From Uncle William Powell, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Thin Man, My Man Godfrey Reinhold Niebuhr, U.S., theologian, Nature and Destiny of Man Minna Gombell, Baltimore, actress, Bad Girl, Thin Man, Hello Sister 1891 Birthday Wallace Reid, born in St. Louis, Missouri, actor/dir/screenwriter, Every Inch a Man Marjorie Gateson, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, One Man's Family Storm Jameson, English novelist, The Green Man, Cousin Honore 1890 Death Johann A H Scheler, Belgian man of letters/librarian, dies at 71 1890 Event John Owen is 1st man to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds 1890 Birthday Stanley Holloway, born in London, England, actor, Higgins-Our Man Higgins Ernst Deutsch, Dorian, Prague Czechoslovakia, actor, Moon is Down, 3rd Man Man Ray, U.S. statues artist/photographer/movie, dada Marjorie Main, Tomlinson, Action, Indiana, actress, Another Thin Man 1889 Birthday Claude Rains, London, actor, Invisible Man, Casablanca 1889 Event Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Crooked Man" Bruce F Cummings, English author, Journal of a Disappointed Man Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip" 1888 Birthday Monty Wooley, New York City, actor, Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner 1887 Birthday Lynn Fontanne, born in Woodford, England, Bdwy actress, Dulcy, Arms and the Man Alexander Woollcott, New Jersey, short story writer, Man Who Came to Dinner 1887 Event Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (SF-SF) 1886 Birthday R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man, died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108 1885 Birthday Henry de Man, Belgium, sociologist/chairman, Belgian Workers Party Bert Lytell, New York City, actor, Henry-One Man's Family Alfred Fuller, CEO, Fuller Brush Man 1884 Birthday Davidson Black, born in Canada, doctor of anatomy, identified Peking Man Harry Langdon, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, comic/director, Strong Man John van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands 1883 Death Johannes van Vloten, Dutch man of letters/theologist, dies at 65 1883 Birthday Lon Chaney, CO, man of 1000 faces, actor, High Noon, Phantom of Opera Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor, Man With a Camera 1882 Birthday Creighton Hale, Cork Ireland, actor, Gorilla Man, Way Down East 1881 Birthday Emil Ludwig, German biographer, Diana, Son of Man 1878 Birthday A. W. "Dave" Nourse, cricketer, "Grand Old Man" of South African cricket 1876 Birthday William Farnum, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Spoilers, Man who Fights Alone 1876 Death Lame White Man, Cheyenne, dies at Little Bighorn Pauline Musters, smallest man, 1'11.2", 58.9 cm, 1875 Birthday Grazia Deledda, Italy, novelist, Old Man of the Mtn-Nobel 1926 1874 Birthday Ernst Cassirer, Germany, philosopher/educator, Essay on Man Grant Mitchell, Columbus, Ohio, actor, Man Who Came to Dinner Gilbert Keith Chesterton, England, novelist, Man Who Made Gold 1872 Death Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68 1872 Birthday Louis Bleriot, 1st man to fly an airplane across English Channel 1866 Birthday Emil Strauss, Germany, writer, Naked Man 1865 Event Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man" S Brownsville, Texas (Palmito Ranch) Final engagement of Civil War PVT John J Williams of 34th Indiana is last man killed 1864 Birthday Robert E Park, U.S., sociologist, human ecology, marginal man 1861 Birthday Samuel D. Riddle, horse owner, Man 'o War 1860 Event Maiden voyage of 1st steamship owned by 1 man (C Vanderbilt) 1860 Birthday Joseph Carey Merrick, "Elephant Man" 1859 Event Man in San Francisco claims himself Norton I, emperor of America 1858 Birthday Franz Boas, anthropologist/linguist, Mind of Primitive Man Matthew Ricketts, 1st Black man elected to Neb State Legislature 1856 Birthday R G Nivelle, French military man 1854 Birthday Charles Fillmore, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, mystic, co-founder, Unity, a New Thought movement church, created metaphysical interpretations of the Bible, promoted idea that God is good, God is available, God is in you, wrote, 'The Twelve Powers of Man' 1853 Death Joaquin Murietta, Chilian/U.S. military man, murdered 1853 Birthday August Belmont, Jr., breeder, Man 'O War, founder, New York Jockey Club 1850 Birthday Daniel Chester, French/American sculptor, Minute Man 1849 Birthday James Whitcomb Riley, U.S., poet, Raggedy Man 1845 Event Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour 1834 Event 1st U.S. labor newspaper, "The Man," published, New York City 1822 Birthday Edward Everett Hale, U.S., clergyman/author, Man without a Country 1811 Birthday Horace Greeley, editor, "Go west, young man" 1804 Birthday Ludwig A. Feuerbach, German philosopher, Man is what he eats James Bridger, scout, fur trader and mountain man par excellance 1798 Death Matija A Reljkovic, Croatian writer (Satire of Wild Man), dies at 66 1797 Birthday Claude Ambroise Seurat, born in Troyes, France, World's skinniest man 1795 Birthday James Barry, female disguised as a man, surgeon general, British army Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/man of letters 1790 Death Jeremiah Carlton, laziest man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed and stayed there for next 70 yrs, dies at 89 1789 Event French National Assembly issues "Decl of Rights of Man and Citizen" 1763 Birthday John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in U.S., banker/fur trader 1747 Death Simon Fraser, 12th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England 1726 Birthday Louise-Florence Depinay, born in France, writer, Woman, Man and 2 Kingdoms 1703 Death Man in the Iron Mask, prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris, dies Archibald Campbell, Scottish military man (blood bath of Glencoe), dies at 52 1567 Death Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63 1547 Birthday Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland 1531 Death Fernan Perez de Oliva, Spanish poet (Dignity of Man), dies at 37
