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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













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