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2007 Max Roach, dies in Manhattan, at 83

2004 Max Faget, engineer, led the design of the Gemini space capsule, dies at 83

2003 Wimbledon Men's Doubles Finals, Todd Woodbridge and Jonas Bjorkman beat Mahesh Bhupathi and Max Mirnyi

1998 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles Finals, Max Mirnyi and Serena Williams beat Mahesh Bhupathi and Mirjana Lucic

1997 Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud and time served

1996 Max Manus, resistance fighter, dies at 82

1996 Max Factor, Jr., makeup inventor, dies at 91

1995 Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52

1995 Max Factor, Jr., makeup inventor, dies

1995 Max Rudolf, conductor, dies at 92

1994 Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, dies at 85

1994 Max Kaminsky, trumpeter, dies at 85

1994 Max Schubert, winemaker, dies at 89

1993 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator/interpreter, dies at 72

1993 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator, dies at 72

1993 Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77

1993 Max Tripels, Dutch attorney/MP, dies at 72

1993 Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80

1993 Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician

1992 Max Lerner, U.S. writer/columnist (New York Post), dies at 88

1991 Max Cantor, journalist, dies

1991 Max Koot, royal photographer, dies

1991 Max van Praag, Dutch singer, dies at 77

1991 Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer (Stiller, Biedermann), dies at 79

1990 Max Tailleur, adjunct prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist, dies

1990 Max Wall, actor (Jabberwocky), dies

1990 Bertil Unger, actor (Devil and Max Devlin), dies

1988 Max Robinson, 1st black network (ABC) TV anchor, dies of AIDS at 49

1988 Max Shulman, author (Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap), dies at 69

1984 Damaged Solar Max satellite snared by Challenger shuttle

1982 Max Deutsch, composer, dies at 90

1982 Max Winders Maximilien, brought Belgium gold reserve to England, dies

1982 Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH

1981 Max [Machgielis] Euwe, chess champ (1935-37), dies

1981 Machgielis "Max" Euwe, world chess champion (1935-37), dies at 80

1981 Max Euwe, Dutch

1981 Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist (Nobel 1969), dies at 74

1976 Fons Rademakers' film "Max Havelaar" premieres in Amsterdam

1976 Max Vredenburg, composer, dies at 72

1976 Max Butting, composer, dies at 87

1976 Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor, dies at 85

1975 Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter, dies at 88

1975 Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist (What is Culture?), dies at 81

1973 Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, dies at 78

1973 Max Terhune, actor (Range Justice, Night Riders), dies at 82

1973 Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland, dies at 53

1973 Max Adrian, actor (Boy Friend, Her Favorite Husband), dies at 69

1972 Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson and Max Walker vs. Pakistan at MCG

1972 Max Theiler, South Africa/U.S. microbiologist (vaccin-Nobel 1951), dies at 73

1971 Max Mell, Austria artillery officer/literary, dies at 88

1971 Max Trapp, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement, dies at 83

1971 Max Drischner, composer, dies at 80

1971 Max Lane, NFL tackle for the New England Patriots

1970 Max Huiberts, soccer player, Roda JC

1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"

1970 Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954), dies at 87

1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)

1969 Max Cavalera, Brazilian rock vocalist and guitarist, Sepultura

1969 Max F Eastman, U.S. critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86

1969 Max Eastman, American Author

1968 Max Brod, writer, dies at 84

1968 Max Perlich, actor, JH Brodie-Homicide

1967 Max Branch, music/radio commentator, dies at 75

1967 Max Tak, Dutch violinist and radio commentator, dies at 75

1967 Max Casella, actor, Vinnie-Doogie Howser

1967 Max Ophuls, Oppenheimer, German/French actor (Caught, Exile), dies

1964 Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook/newspaper owner (Leatherhead), dies

1963 Max Stevens, Millmeran QLD, Australasia golfer

1962 34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story," Sophia Loren and Max Schell win

1961 Max Frisch' "Andorra," premieres in Zurich

1961 Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter, dies

1961 Maxi Priest, Max Elliott, Jamaican/English singer, Wild World

1961 Max Hymans, WW II resistance fighter/Head of Air France, dies at 60

1959 Max Baer, U.S., heavyweight boxing champ (1934), dies at 49

1959 Max d' Ollone, composer, dies at 84

1959 Amanda Pays, born in London, England, actress, Max Headroom, Off Limits

1958 Max Jakob Friedlander, German/Dutch art historian, dies at 91

1958 Matt Frewer, Washington D.C., actor, Max Headroom, Doctor Doctor

1957 James De Paiva, Hayward California, actor, Max Holden-One Life to Live

1957 Max Ophuls, Maximilian Oppenheimer, German/French director, dies

1956 Max Kowalski, composer, dies at 73

1956 Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies

1956 Mel Gibson, born in Peekskill, New York, actor, Mad Max, Mrs. Soffel, Lethal Weapon

1955 Max Pechstein, German painter/graphic artist (Oceania), dies at 73

1954 Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe

1953 Braves Max Surkont strikes out record 8 Reds in a row

1952 Max Pulver, writer, dies

1951 Max Ettinger, composer, dies at 77

1951 Max Weinberg, rock drummer, E Street Band, Conan O'Brien Show

1950 Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist, dies at 66

1948 Max Burns, American Politician

1948 Max Walker, Australian cricket player

1947 Max KEL Planck, German physicist (constantly of P, Nobel 1918), dies

1946 Max Frisch' "Die Chinesische Mauer," premieres in Zurich

1946 Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61

1946 Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zurich

1945 Max Hastings, British editor-in-chief, Daily Telegraph

1945 Special Council of Annulment affirms death sentence of Max Blokzijl

1945 Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl arrested

1944 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 Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian (Der Anarchismus), dies at 79

1944 Max Brand, Frederick Schiller Faust, western author, dies

1944 Max Brand, American Writer

1944 Max Jacob, French writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67

1943 Max Reinhardt, Austrian stage manager (Turandot), dies

1943 Max Wright, Detroit, actor, Buffalo Bill, Alf, Misfits of Science

1943 Jean "Max" Moulin, French resistance fighter, executed

1943 Max Gail, born in Detroit, Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab, Normal People

1943 Chicago Blackhawks beats New York Rangers 10-1, Max Bentley scores 4 goals

1942 Jean Gilbert, Max Winterfield, German composer, dies at 63

1942 Pamela Tiffin, Pamela Wonso, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, actress, Viva Max!

1942 Max Cleland, American Politician

1941 Max Baucus, born in Helena, Montana, Representative-R-Montana 1975 - 1978, Senator-D-Montana 1978 -

1941 Max Stafford-Clark, artistic director, Royal Court Theatre

1941 Max Frisch, writer, dies at 29

1941 NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins nazi propaganda on Dutch radio

1941 Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage and Hour law, sets minimum wages and max hours

1939 Max Fiedler, composer, dies at 79

1939 Adolphe Max, Belgian liberal MP, dies at 69

1939 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 1st boxing match to be televised, Lon Nova defeats Max Baer

1939 Max Robinson, Richmond, Virginia, black news anchor, ABC Evening News

1938 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium

1937 Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe

1937 Max Baer, Jr., born in Oakland California, actor, Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies

1937 Peter Max, psychadelic artist, Dynamite Chicken

1937 Max Hebditch, director, Museum of London

1937 Max Adler, Austrian socialist theorist, dies at 64

1936 German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis

1935 Max Euwe becomes world champ chess beating Alexander Aljechin

1935 James J Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1935 Max Liebermann, Germany impressionist painter/graphic artist, dies at 87

1934 Max Pallenberg, Austria actor (Brave Suender), dies in air crash at 56

1934 Max Baer KO's Primo Carnera in 11 for HW box champ in Long Island City

1933 Max von Schillings, composer, dies at 65

1933 Max Schillings, German composer and conductor (Mona Lisa), dies at 65

1932 Max Slevogt, German painter, dies at 63

1932 Auguste Piccard/Max Cosijns reach 16,201m in a balloon

1932 Heavyweight Jack Sharkey TKOs Max Schmeling (New York City)

1932 Jack Sharkey beats Max Schmeling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1932 Max Schubel, born in America, composer, contemporary classical music, founder and owner of Opus One records, recorded new music

1931 Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet (Six Chansons), dies at 69

1931 Max Schmeling TKOs Young Stribling in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1930 Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes

1930 Heavyweight Max Schmeling KOs Jack Sharkey in New York City

1930 Max Schmeling beats Jack Sharkey on a foul in 4 for hw boxing title

1930 Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader

1930 Max Frankel, journalist, Tables of Id of Organic Compounds

1930 Pierre Max Dubois, composer

1929 Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62

1929 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher/theorist, dies at 52

1929 Max Von Sydow, born in Lund, Sweden, actor, Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape

1928 George Peppard, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor, Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max

1928 Max Scheler, German philosopher, dies at 53

1926 Max Vernon Mathews, composer

1926 Max Sordam, Suriname warden/writer, Dictionary Sranantongo

1925 Max Linder, actor (Man in the Silk Hat), dies at 41

1925 Max Linder, French actor/comic/director (Max toreador), dies at 41

1924 Max van der Stoel, Dutch Foreign minister, PvdA

1924 Max Roach, born in North Carolina, American jazz percussionist, drummer, composer

1923 Max Nordau, Hungarian Critic

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

1922 Max Bygraves, London, actor, Tom Brown's School Days

1922 Cubs swap Max Flack for Cards Cliff Heathcote during middle of doubleheader. Both play for both teams that day

1921 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher and translator

1921 Max Wilhelm Zach, composer, dies at 56

1920 Max Tripels, attorney/Dutch MP

1920 Max Bruch, German composer (Kol Nidre), dies at 82

1920 Max Bruch, composer, dies at 82

1920 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor, dies at 63

1920 Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, dies

1919 Max Dendermonde, Henk Hazelhoff, Dutch literary

1919 Victor A D Segalen, Max Anely, French ship's doctor/writer, dies

1919 Max Shulman, novelist, Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap

1919 Max Heindel, Danish Celebrity

1918 Max Dauthendy, German painter/author (Raubmenschen), dies at 51)

1918 Max Dauthendey, writer, dies at 51

1917 Max Georg Baumann, composer

1917 Max Showalter, born in Caldwell, Kansas, actor/composer, Stockard Channing Show

1916 Picasso, Max Jacob, Kisling, Ortiz and Paquerette photographed in Paris

1916 Max Immelmann, German pilot (WW I), killed

1916 Max Reger, composer, dies at 43

1916 Max [Johann BJM] Reger, German composer/pianist/organist, dies at 43

1915 Dody Goodman, Columbus Ohio, comedienne, Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan

1915 Max Lanier, baseball player

1914 Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels

1914 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 Max Manus, resistance fighter

1913 Pirates Max Carey goes hitless, but scores 5 runs against Phillies

1913 Max van Praag, Dutch singer

1913 Max Youngstein, born in New York City, producer, United Artists

1912 Max Croiset, playwright/director/actor, Dog of Flanders, Little Ark

1911 Max Frisch, Swiss architect/writer, Stiller, Biedermann

1909 Max Wolf rediscovers Halley's comet

1909 Max Black, Dutch/British/U.S. philosopher, analytical philosophy

1909 Max Baer, Omaha Nebraska, heavyweight boxing champ, 1934-35

1908 Max Bill, Swiss painter/sculptor/politician, Ruban Sans Fin

1908 Max Kaminsky, trumpeter

1908 Max Tailleur, adjudant to Prince Bernhard/Jewish humorist

1908 Max Abramovitz, U.S. architect, Lincoln Center, United Nations Building

1906 Max Delbruck, German/U.S. biologist, Nobel 1969

1906 Max Zorn, German mathematician, lemma of Zorn

1906 Max A. Zorn, American Mathematician

1905 Max Schmeling, Germany, world heavyweight boxing champ, 1930-32

1905 Max Schubert, winemaker

1904 Max Factor, Jr., CEO, Max Factor Cosmetics

1904 [Francis] Max Factor, cosmetics manufacturer, Max Factor

1904 Max Vredenburg, composer

1903 Max Adrian, Enniskillen Northern Ireland, actor, Devils, Music Lover

1902 Max Lerner, U.S., columnist, New York Post

1902 Max Rudolf, born in Frankfurt, Germany, conductor, Goteberg Symphony Orchestra

1902 Max Ophuls, Saarland, dir/writer, Letters From an Unknown Woman

1902 Max Kommerell, German literary/author, Die Gefangenen

1901 Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion, 1935-37

1900 Max Muller, German Educator

1899 Max Theiler, English/U.S. microbiologist, Nobel 1951

1895 Max Horkheimer, German philosopher/sociologist, Studies in prejudice

1893 Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist/author, Flemish Resurrection

1892 Max Deutsch, composer

1892 Max Brand, American Writer

1891 Max Tak, Dutch violinist and radio commentator

1891 Max Ernst, born in Germany, painter and sculptor, founded surrealism

1891 Max Terhune, actor, Arizona Stagecoach, Hit the Saddle, Range Justice

1891 Max Drischner, composer

1891 Max Ernst, German/French surrealist painter/sculptor

1888 Max Butting, composer

1888 Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, Vienna, composer, Gone With Wind

1887 Max Trapp, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement

1887 Max Ackermann, German "entartet" painter

1887 Eduard Douwes Dekker, Dutch writer (Max Havelaar), dies at 66

1886 Max Vasmer, German slavic, La Tertulia de Pombo

1884 Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch nazi collaborator/traitor

1884 Max Beckmann, German painter/graphic artist

1883 Max Linder, Caverne France, actor/comic/director, Max Prend un Bain

1883 Max Bruch's "Kol Nidre," 1st performed

1883 Max F Eastman, U.S., critic/essayist, Masses

1883 Max Eastman, American Author

1882 Max Born, Germany, physicist, quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954

1882 Max Mell, Austria officer/literary, Donauweibchen

1882 Heinrich Max Ludwig, composer

1882 Max Kowalski, composer

1882 Max [G M J] Winders Maximilien, Belgium, architect, WW II

1882 Gilbert M. Anderson, Max Aronson, Little Rock AR

1881 Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter/graphic artist, The Bridge

1881 Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter

1879 Jean Gilbert, Max Winterfield, German composer, Prince Regent

1877 Max Pallenberg, Austria, actor, Brave Suender, husband of Fritzi Massary

1877 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher

1876 Max Jacob, French writer, Concentration Camp, Le Siege de Jerusalem

1875 Max d' Ollone, composer

1874 Max Scheler, German philosopher, Vom Umsturz der Werte

1874 Max Ettinger, composer

1873 Max Reinhardt, Austria, theatrical director, Oedipus Rex

1873 Max Reger, born in Brand Bavaria, composer, pianist, professor, Leipzig University

1873 Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist

1872 Max Beerbohm, England, caricaturist/writer/wit, Saturday Review

1869 Adolphe Max, Belgian Rep, Lib

1869 Max Hoffmann, German Soldier

1868 Max Slevogt, German painter

1868 Max Von Schillings, German composer and conductor, Der Pfeifertag

1867 Max Dauthendy, German painter/author, Ewige Hochzeit

1867 Max Prinz von Baden, German chancellor, Oct-Nov 1918

1867 Max Friedlander, German art historian, Altniederlandische Malerei

1865 Max Halbe, born in Guttland, now Kozliny, Germany, writer, dramatist, Naturalist movement literary style, works include 'Jugend'

1865 Max Heindel, Danish Celebrity

1865 Max HHR Nettlau, Austrian historian, Le Premiere Internationale

1864 Max Wilhelm Zach, composer

1864 Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, Ancient Judaism

1862 Max Elskamp, Belgian author and poet, Lesson Joies Blondes, Maya

1859 Max Fiedler, composer

1858 Max Planck, German physicist, Planck Constant, Nobel 1918

1857 Max Klinger, German graphic artist/painter/sculptor

1856 Max Stirner, German Philosopher

1849 Max Nordau, German arts/writer/zionist leader

1847 Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter

1840 Frantisek Max Knize, composer, dies at 55

1838 Max Bruch, Koln, Cologne, Germany, composer

1823 Max Muller, German Educator

1823 Max Mueller, German Writer

1817 Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34

1806 Max Stirner, Johann C Schmidt, German philosopher, Der Einzige

1784 Frantisek Max Knize, composer

1783 Max von Schenkendorf, German poet


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