2012 Event Sisters Eva Hoffe and Ruth Wiesler, who inherited valuable documents belonging to Franz Kafka and his colleague Max Brod are ordered to turn the documents over to the National Library in Tel Aviv 2007 Death Max Roach, dies in Manhattan, at 83 2004 Death Max Faget, engineer, led the design of the Gemini space capsule, dies at 83 2003 Event Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Bjorkman beat Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi 1998 Event Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Max Mirnyi and Serena Williams beat Mahesh Bhupathi and Mirjana Lucic 1997 Event Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud and time served 1996 Death Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82 1996 Death Max Factor, Jr., makeup inventor, dies at 91 1995 Death Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52 1995 Death Max Factor, Jr., makeup inventor, dies 1995 Death Max Rudolf, conductor, dies at 92 1994 Death Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, dies at 85 1994 Death Max Kaminsky, trumpeter, dies at 85 1994 Death Max Schubert, winemaker, dies at 89 1993 Death Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72 1993 Death Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator, dies at 72 1993 Death Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77 1993 Death Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72 1993 Death Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80 1993 Death Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician 1992 Death Max Lerner, U.S. writer/columnist (New York Post), dies at 88 1991 Death Max Cantor, journalist, dies 1991 Death Max Koot, royal photographer, dies 1991 Death Max van Praag, Dutch singer, dies at 77 1991 Death Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79 1990 Death Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies 1990 Death Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies 1990 Death Bertil Unger, actor (Devil and Max Devlin), dies 1988 Death Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49 1988 Death Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69 1984 Event Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle 1982 Death Max Deutsch, composer, dies at 90 1982 Death Max Winders Maximilien, brought Belgium gold reserve to England, dies 1982 Event Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH 1981 Death Max [Machgielis] Euwe, chess champ (1935-37), dies 1981 Death Machgielis "Max" Euwe, world chess champion (1935-37), dies at 80 1981 Death Max Euwe, Dutch 1981 Death Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74 1976 Event Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam 1976 Death Max Vredenburg, composer, dies at 72 1976 Death Max Butting, composer, dies at 87 1976 Death Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85 1975 Death Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter, dies at 88 1975 Death Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist (What is Culture?), dies at 81 1973 Death Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78 1973 Death Max Terhune, actor (Range Justice, Night Riders), dies at 82 1973 Death Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53 1973 Death Max Adrian, actor (Boy Friend, Her Favorite Husband), dies at 69 1972 Event Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson and Max Walker vs. Pakistan at MCG 1972 Death Max Theiler, South Africa/U.S. microbiologist (vaccin-Nobel 1951), dies at 73 1971 Death Max Mell, Austria artillery officer/literary, dies at 88 1971 Death Max Trapp, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement, dies at 83 1971 Death Max Drischner, composer, dies at 80 1971 Birthday Max Lane, NFL tackle for the New England Patriots 1970 Birthday Max Huiberts, soccer player, Roda JC 1970 Event Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock" 1970 Death Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87 1969 Event Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm) 1969 Birthday Max Cavalera, Brazilian rock vocalist and guitarist, Sepultura 1969 Death Max F Eastman, U.S. critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86 1969 Death Max Eastman, American Author 1968 Death Max Brod, writer, dies at 84 1968 Birthday Max Perlich, actor, JH Brodie-Homicide 1967 Death Max Branch, music/radio commentator, dies at 75 1967 Death Max Tak, Dutch violinist and radio commentator, dies at 75 1967 Birthday Max Casella, actor, Vinnie-Doogie Howser 1967 Death Max Ophuls, Oppenheimer, German/French actor (Caught, Exile), dies 1964 Death Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook/newspaper owner (Leatherhead), dies 1963 Birthday Max Stevens, Millmeran QLD, Australasia golfer 1962 Event 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Max Schell win 1961 Event Max Frisch' "Andorra," premieres in Zurich 1961 Death Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter, dies 1961 Birthday Maxi Priest, Max Elliott, Jamaican/English singer, Wild World 1961 Death Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60 1959 Death Max Baer, U.S., heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49 1959 Death Max d' Ollone, composer, dies at 84 1959 Birthday Amanda Pays, born in London, England, actress, Max Headroom, Off Limits 1958 Death Max Jakob Friedlander, German/Dutch art historian, dies at 91 1958 Birthday Matt Frewer, Washington D.C., actor, Max Headroom, Doctor Doctor 1957 Birthday James De Paiva, Hayward California, actor, Max Holden-One Life to Live 1957 Death Max Ophuls, Maximilian Oppenheimer, German/French director, dies 1956 Death Max Kowalski, composer, dies at 73 1956 Death Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies 1956 Birthday Mel Gibson, born in Peekskill, New York, actor, Mad Max, Mrs. Soffel, Lethal Weapon 1955 Death Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73 1954 Event Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe 1953 Event Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row 1952 Death Max Pulver, writer, dies 1951 Death Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77 1951 Birthday Max Weinberg, rock drummer, E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show 1950 Death Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66 1948 Birthday Max Burns, American Politician 1948 Birthday Max Walker, Australian cricket player 1947 Death Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies 1946 Event Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer," premieres in Zurich 1946 Death Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61 1946 Event Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zurich 1945 Birthday Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief, Daily Telegraph 1945 Event Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl 1945 Event Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested 1944 Death Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend', dies in Neuotting, Bavaria, at age 79 1944 Death Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian (Der Anarchismus), dies at 79 1944 Death Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust, western author, dies 1944 Death Max Brand, American Writer 1944 Death Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67 1943 Death Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage manager (Turandot), dies 1943 Birthday Max Wright, Detroit, actor, Buffalo Bill, Alf, Misfits of Science 1943 Death Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed 1943 Birthday Max Gail, born in Detroit, Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab, Normal People 1943 Event Chicago Blackhawks beats New York Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals 1942 Death Jean Gilbert, Max Winterfield, German composer, dies at 63 1942 Birthday Pamela Tiffin, Pamela Wonso, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, actress, Viva Max! 1942 Birthday Max Cleland, American Politician 1941 Birthday Max Baucus, born in Helena, Montana, Representative-R-Montana 1975 - 1978, Senator-D-Montana 1978 - 1941 Birthday Max Stafford-Clark, artistic director, Royal Court Theatre 1941 Death Max Frisch, writer, dies at 29 1941 Event NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio 1941 Event Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage and Hour law, sets minimum wages and max hours 1939 Death Max Fiedler, composer, dies at 79 1939 Death Adolphe Max, Belgian liberal MP, dies at 69 1939 Birthday Max Neuhaus, born in Beaumont, Texas, composer, percussionist, avant-garde, experimental genres, interpreter of contemporary music, sound art pioneer, designed sound generation and projection systems 1939 Event 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer 1939 Birthday Max Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, black news anchor, ABC Evening News 1938 Event Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium 1937 Event Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe 1937 Birthday Max Baer, Jr., born in Oakland California, actor, Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies 1937 Birthday Peter Max, psychadelic artist, Dynamite Chicken 1937 Birthday Max Hebditch, director, Museum of London 1937 Death Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64 1936 Event German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis 1935 Event Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin 1935 Event James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1935 Death Max Liebermann, Germany impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87 1934 Death Max Pallenberg, Austria actor (Brave Suender), dies in air crash at 56 1934 Event Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City 1933 Death Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65 1933 Death Max Schillings, German composer and conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65 1932 Death Max Slevogt, German painter, dies at 63 1932 Event Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon 1932 Event Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (New York City) 1932 Event Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1932 Birthday Max Schubel, born in America, composer, contemporary classical music, founder and owner of Opus One records, recorded new music 1931 Death Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69 1931 Event Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title 1930 Event Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes 1930 Event Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey in New York City 1930 Event Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for hw boxing title 1930 Event Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader 1930 Birthday Max Frankel, journalist, Tables of Id of Organic Compounds 1930 Birthday Pierre Max Dubois, composer 1929 Death Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62 1929 Death Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52 1929 Birthday Max Von Sydow, born in Lund, Sweden, actor, Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape 1928 Birthday George Peppard, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max 1928 Death Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53 1926 Birthday Max Vernon Mathews, composer 1926 Birthday Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer, Dictionary Sranantongo 1925 Death Max Linder, actor (Man in the Silk Hat), dies at 41 1925 Death Max Linder, French actor/comic/director (Max toreador), dies at 41 1924 Birthday Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister, PvdA 1924 Birthday Max Roach, born in North Carolina, American jazz percussionist, drummer, composer 1923 Death Max Nordau, Hungarian Critic 1923 Death Max Nordau, Sudfeld, German physician/zionists leader, dies at 73 1922 Birthday Max Bygraves, London, actor, Tom Brown's School Days 1922 Event Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle of doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day 1921 Birthday Max de Metz, Dutch publisher and translator 1921 Death Max Wilhelm Zach, composer, dies at 56 1920 Birthday Max Tripels, attorney/Dutch MP 1920 Death Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82 1920 Death Max Bruch, composer, dies at 82 1920 Death Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63 1920 Death Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies 1919 Birthday Max Dendermonde, Henk Hazelhoff, Dutch literary 1919 Death Victor A D Segalen, Max Anely, French ship's doctor/writer, dies 1919 Birthday Max Shulman, novelist, Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap 1919 Death Max Heindel, Danish Celebrity 1918 Death Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51) 1918 Death Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51 1917 Birthday Max Georg Baumann, composer 1917 Birthday Max Showalter, born in Caldwell, Kansas, actor/composer, Stockard Channing Show 1916 Event Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz and Paquerette photographed in Paris 1916 Death Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed 1916 Death Max Reger, composer, dies at 43 1916 Death Max [Johann BJM] Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43 1915 Birthday Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, comedienne, Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan 1915 Birthday Max Lanier, baseball player 1914 Event Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels 1914 Birthday George Tabori, born in Budapest, Gyorgy Tabori, writer, theater director, worked for BBC in London, moved to United States, became screenwriter, translated works by Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch 1914 Birthday Max Manus, resistance fighter 1913 Event Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies 1913 Birthday Max van Praag, Dutch singer 1913 Birthday Max Youngstein, born in New York City, producer, United Artists 1912 Birthday Max Croiset, playwright/director/actor, Dog of Flanders, Little Ark 1911 Birthday Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer, Stiller, Biedermann 1909 Event Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet 1909 Birthday Max Black, Dutch/British/U.S. philosopher, analytical philosophy 1909 Birthday Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ, 1934-35 1908 Birthday Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, Ruban Sans Fin 1908 Birthday Max Kaminsky, trumpeter 1908 Birthday Max Tailleur, adjudant to Prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist 1908 Birthday Max Abramovitz, U.S. architect, Lincoln Center, United Nations Building 1906 Birthday Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist, Nobel 1969 1906 Birthday Max Zorn, German mathematician, lemma of Zorn 1906 Birthday Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician 1905 Birthday Max Schmeling, Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ, 1930-32 1905 Birthday Max Schubert, winemaker 1904 Birthday Max Factor, Jr., CEO, Max Factor Cosmetics 1904 Birthday [Francis] Max Factor, cosmetics manufacturer, Max Factor 1904 Birthday Max Vredenburg, composer 1903 Birthday Max Adrian, Enniskillen Northern Ireland, actor, Devils, Music Lover 1902 Birthday Max Lerner, U.S., columnist, New York Post 1902 Birthday Max Rudolf, born in Frankfurt, Germany, conductor, Goteberg Symphony Orchestra 1902 Birthday Max Ophuls, Saarland, dir/writer, Letters From an Unknown Woman 1902 Birthday Max Kommerell, German literary/author, Die Gefangenen 1901 Birthday Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion, 1935-37 1900 Death Max Muller, German Educator 1899 Birthday Max Theiler, English/U.S. microbiologist, Nobel 1951 1895 Birthday Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, Studies in prejudice 1893 Birthday Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist/author, Flemish Resurrection 1892 Birthday Max Deutsch, composer 1892 Birthday Max Brand, American Writer 1891 Birthday Max Tak, Dutch violinist and radio commentator 1891 Birthday Max Ernst, born in Germany, painter and sculptor, founded surrealism 1891 Birthday Max Terhune, actor, Arizona Stagecoach, Hit the Saddle, Range Justice 1891 Birthday Max Drischner, composer 1891 Birthday Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor 1888 Birthday Max Butting, composer 1888 Birthday Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, Vienna, composer, Gone With Wind 1887 Birthday Max Trapp, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement 1887 Birthday Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter 1887 Death Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66 1886 Birthday Max Vasmer, German slavic, La Tertulia de Pombo 1884 Birthday Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch nazi collaborator/traitor 1884 Birthday Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist 1883 Birthday Max Linder, Caverne France, actor/comic/director, Max Prend un Bain 1883 Event Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre," 1st performed 1883 Birthday Max F Eastman, U.S., critic/essayist, Masses 1883 Birthday Max Eastman, American Author 1882 Birthday Max Born, Germany, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954 1882 Birthday Max Mell, Austria officer/literary, Donauweibchen 1882 Birthday Heinrich Max Ludwig, composer 1882 Birthday Max Kowalski, composer 1882 Birthday Max [G M J] Winders Maximilien, Belgium, architect, WW II 1882 Birthday Gilbert M. Anderson, Max Aronson, Little Rock AR 1881 Birthday Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter/graphic artist, The Bridge 1881 Birthday Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter 1879 Birthday Jean Gilbert, Max Winterfield, German composer, Prince Regent 1877 Birthday Max Pallenberg, Austria, actor, Brave Suender, husband of Fritzi Massary 1877 Birthday Max Ettlinger, German philosopher 1876 Birthday Max Jacob, French writer, Concentration Camp, Le Siege de Jerusalem 1875 Birthday Max d' Ollone, composer 1874 Birthday Max Scheler, German philosopher, Vom Umsturz der Werte 1874 Birthday Max Ettinger, composer 1873 Birthday Max Reinhardt, Austria, theatrical director, Oedipus Rex 1873 Birthday Max Reger, born in Brand Bavaria, composer, pianist, professor, Leipzig University 1873 Birthday Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist 1872 Birthday Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit, Saturday Review 1869 Birthday Adolphe Max, Belgian Rep, Lib 1869 Birthday Max Hoffmann, German Soldier 1868 Birthday Max Slevogt, German painter 1868 Birthday Max Von Schillings, German composer and conductor, Der Pfeifertag 1867 Birthday Max Dauthendy, German painter/author, Ewige Hochzeit 1867 Birthday Max Prinz von Baden, German chancellor, Oct-Nov 1918 1867 Birthday Max Friedlander, German art historian, Altniederlandische Malerei 1865 Birthday Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend' 1865 Birthday Max Heindel, Danish Celebrity 1865 Birthday Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian, Le Premiere Internationale 1864 Birthday Max Wilhelm Zach, composer 1864 Birthday Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, Ancient Judaism 1862 Birthday Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet, Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya 1859 Birthday Max Fiedler, composer 1858 Birthday Max Planck, German physicist, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918 1857 Birthday Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor 1856 Death Max Stirner, German Philosopher 1849 Birthday Max Nordau, German arts/writer/zionist leader 1847 Birthday Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter 1840 Death Frantisek Max Knize, composer, dies at 55 1838 Birthday Max Bruch, Koln, Cologne, Germany, composer 1823 Birthday Max Muller, German Educator 1823 Birthday Max Mueller, German Writer 1817 Death Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34 1806 Birthday Max Stirner, Johann C Schmidt, German philosopher, Der Einzige 1784 Birthday Frantisek Max Knize, composer 1783 Birthday Max von Schenkendorf, German poet