1987 Death Lino Ventura, Italian/French actor (Medusa touch), dies at 68 1942 Birthday Paul Preuss, U.S., sci-fi author, Medusa Encounter, Starfire 1926 Birthday Hans Werner Henze, Guttersloh Germany, composer, Das Floss Medusa 1863 Event Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4 1816 Event Survivors of French frigate Medusa rescued off Senegal after 17 days 1816 Event French frigate "Medusa" runs aground off Cap Blanc. Gross incompetence kills 150 in calm seas 1816 Event French frigate Medusa wrecked; basis of Gericault's "Raft of the Medusa" 1791 Birthday J L A Theodore Gericault, French painter, Easy-Going of Medusa 1791 Birthday Theodore Gericault, French painter, Easy-going of Medusa
