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1997 Russ "Mad Monk" Meyer, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 74

1996 Brother Adam Kehrle, benedictine monk/beekeeper, dies at 98

1994 Parmeso Emekrasha, buddhist Monk, dies

1992 Washington Redskin Art Monk sets NFL record with 820th reception

1983 Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions

1983 Luis Bunuel, director (Monk), dies of cirrhosis of liver at 83

1982 Theolonious S Monk, U.S., jazz pianist/composer (Blue Monk), dies at 64

1976 Parmeso Emekrasha, Buddhist Monk

1967 Craig John Monk, Auckland NZ, finn class yachter 1996 Olympics

1963 Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon

1959 S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk

1957 Art Monk, NFL wide receiver, Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles

1942 Meredith Monk, Lima Peru, choreographer-composer-performing artist

1917 Thelonious Monk, jazz composer/pianist

1916 Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated

1916 Grigori Rasputin, a powerful Russian monk, murdered

1915 Thomas Merton, born in France, Trappist monk/poet/essayist, 7 Storey Mt

1905 Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea

1900 Edwin George Monk, composer, dies at 80

1898 Brother Adam [Kehrle], benedictine monk/beekeeper

1889 William Henry Monk, composer, dies at 66

1884 Gregor Mendel, Augustine monk/heredity pioneer, dies at 61

1871 [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, mad Russian monk

1835 Dom Joseph Pothier, French monk/musicologist

1826 Giuseppe Piazzi, monk/mathematician (found 1st asteroid), dies at 80

1823 William Henry Monk, composer

1822 Gregor Mendel, monk/geneticist, discoverer of laws of heredity

1819 Edwin George Monk, composer

1746 Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian monk/discoverer, 1st asteroid-Ceres

1742 Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky, Czech monk/composer, dies at 58

1684 Bohuslav M Czernohorsky, Czech monk/composer

1684 Bohuslav Matej Czernohorsky, Czech monk/composer

1655 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai/monk/propagator of Zen Buddhism, dies at 76

1639 Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening

1624 Anne of Saint Bartolomaeus, Flemish nun/monk/saint, dies at 74

1608 George Monck/Monk, English general/gov of Scotland

1589 Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III

1589 Jacques Clement, French monk (Henri III), dies

1553 Cornelia da Nomatalcino, monk converted to Judaism, burned at stake

1543 Agnolo Firenzuola, [Giovannini], Ital monk (De golden ezel), dies

1540 Angela Merici, Italian monk/monastery, dies

1519 Johann Tetzel, Dominican monk, dies at about 79

1519 Johann Tetzel, (German) monk, dies at about 79

1506 Sesshu Toyo, Zen monk/painter, dies in Yamaguchi Japan at 86

1493 Agnolo Firenzuola, [Giovannini], Italian monk, Golden Donkey

1472 Fra Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter

1471 Thomas Kempis, [Thomas Hammerken von Kempen], monk, dies at 91

1455 Fra Angelico, Italian monk/painter, dies

1452 Girolamo Savonarola, monk/reformer/dictator of Florence, 1494-98

1416 Monk Nicolaas Serrurier arrested because of heresy at Tournay

1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews

1383 Johannes Cantacuzenus, Byzantium emperor(1341-54)/monk, dies at ñ90

1332 Andronicus II Paleologus, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328)/monk, dies

1217 Eustace "the Monk", French buccaneer, dies in battle

1199 Stefanus Nemanja (Symeon), monk, dies

1129 Shirakawa, emperor of Japan (1072-86)/budhist monk, dies at 76

1103 Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies

1075 Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet

1073 Johannes Gualbertus, Italian monk/saint, dies

1061 Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed

1024 Henry II, the Monk, German King (1002-24), dies

990 Ekkehart II, [Palatinus], monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies

973 Ekkehard I, monk of St. Gallen (Vita Waltharii manu fortis), dies

912 Nottker "the Stamelaar", benedictine monk/poet, dies at about 71

404 Telemachus, Roman monk, murdered



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