2001 Ann Sothern, actress, ", My Mother, the Car, ", dies at 92
2000 Michaela Odone, creative mother, ispired the movie Lorenzo's Oil, dies at 60
1998 Britain's Queen Mother, 97, gets an emergency hip replacement
1997 Judith Merril, editor/writer, That Only a Mother, dies at 74
1997 Mother Teresa, philanthropist, Nobel (1979), No Greater Love, dies of cardiac arrest at 87
1997 Jolie Gabor, mother of Zsa Zsa and Eva, dies at 97
1995 Roxie Roker, actress (Claudine)/mother of Lenny Kravitz, dies at 66
1995 Queen Mother Elizabeth undergoes hip surgery
1995 Marcus Chenault, killer of Martin Luther King Jr's mother, dies at 54
1995 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of President John F Kennedy, dies at 104
1994 Sara Taylor, mother of Elizabeth, dies at 62
1994 Edna Manilow, mother of singer Barry Manilow, dies at 70 of cancer
1994 Ricardo Dela Corte, Italy, test tube baby born to oldest, 62, mother
1994 Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates, dies at 64
1994 Virginia Kelley Clinton, Mother of President Clinton, dies at 70
1993 Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
1993 Gusti Huber, Mother of Bibi Besch, dies of heart failure at 78
1993 Catherine Leno, mother of Tonight Show host Jay, dies of cancer at 82
1993 Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85
1992 Mother Clare Hale, cared for New York City AIDS babies (Hale House), dies at 87
1992 Dorothy Walker Bush, mother of President George Bush, dies at 91
1992 Dorothy Helen Baker, mother of Diane Baker, dies at 78
1992 Queen Mother of Oman, dies
1992 Eve Merriam, poet (Inner City Mother Goose), dies of cancer at 75
1991 Mother of All Parades - New York City welcomes desert storm troops
1988 Judith Barsi, child actress, shot dead with mother by her father at 11
1983 Marsha Norman's "'night, Mother," premieres in New York City
1979 Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize
1978 Joshua Harris, actor, Locked Up: A Mother's Rage
1975 Pope Paul VI declares Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton 1st U.S. saint
1975 Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint
1974 Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in church
1973 Bobby Riggs beat Margaret Smith Court in Mother's Day match in California
1973 Ed Kemper stuffs mother's throat in disposal
1972 "Mother Earth" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 12 performances
1972 "Mother Earth" opens at Belasco Theater New York City for 12 performances
1970 Louise Harrison, mother of Beatle George, dies
1960 Henny Porten, silent screen actress (Mother Love), dies at 70
1958 Julia Lennon, mother of Beatle John, dies in an auto accident
1956 Bertold Brecht, German writer (Mother Courage), dies at 58
1952 Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother dies in a car accident
1950 Mother Teresa found her Mission of Charity in Calcutta, India
1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1946 Mrs. Emma Clarissa Clement named "American Mother of Year"
1945 Larry Larden, rocker, Every Mother's Son
1944 ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
1943 Henri SZEPS, Lausanne Switzerland, actor, Mother and Son
1943 Bruce Milner, rocker, Every Mother's Son
1942 Jacqueline Kennedy's mother marries Hugh Auchincloss
1941 Chris Augustine, rocker, Every Mother's Son
1939 Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer/composer, dies at 53
1938 America's 1st saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified
1937 Nikolai Batalov, actor (Mother), dies at 37
1937 Joop Admiral, Dutch actor and director, You Are My Mother
1936 Maxim Gorki, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68
1935 Paul J M Beers, Dutch actor, Mother Courage and Her Children
1935 Avery Schreiber, born in Chicago, Illinois, comedian, My Mother the Car
1934 Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies
1931 Jerry Van Dyke, born in Danville, Illinois, actor, My Mother the Car, Coach
1930 Christine [Elizabeth C] Poolman, Dutch actress (Mother), dies at 79
1930 Mother Jones, American Activist
1929 Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates
1928 Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made
1927 Ray Stern, mother of radio personality Howard Stern
1922 Madeleine Sherwood, Montreal, actress, Mother Superior-Flying Nun
1914 President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
1914 U.S. Congress establishes mother's day
1912 Gladys L Presley, mother of Elvis
1910 Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Yugoslavia, Nobel 1979
1910 Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark
1909 Helen Giuliani, mother of Rudy, Mayor-R-NYC, 1994-2002
1908 1st Mother's Day observed
1905 Lillian Mortimer's "No Mother to Guide," premieres in Detroit
1905 Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him
1905 Clara "Mother" Hale, U.S. social worker, Hale House
1904 Willie Mae "Mother" Smith, gospel singer/evangelist folk artist
1902 Edward VII of England crowned after death of his mother Victoria
1901 Mark Donskoy, born in Odessa, Russia, director, Heart of a Mother
1900 Elizabeth, Queen Mother Of England, King George VI's wife
1899 Nikolai Batalov, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Mother
1899 Jolie Gabor, mother of Magda, Zsa Zsa, and Eva
1898 Audley Moore, civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]
1898 Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright, Mother Courage, composer
1893 Alois Haba, Czechoslovakia, opera, composer, Mother
1893 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist, Mother, Deserter
1889 Cor Hermus, Dutch actor, director and writer, A Mother
1886 Ma Rainey, [Gertrude Pridgett], "Mother of the Blues", U.S. blues singer
1878 Jozef C. Bittremieux, Flemish theologist, Virgin and Mother of God
1869 Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher, Mother Earth
1859 [Gerard] Jan Ligthart, Dutch educator, Nog bij mother, Ot and Sien
1852 Mary E. W. Freeman, U.S. writer, Revolt of Mother
1850 Francesca Xavier Cabrini, [Mother Cabrini], 1st U.S. saint
1837 Mother Jones, American Activist
1834 James A. McNeill Whistler, US/British painter, Whistler's Mother
1830 Mary Harris Jones, [Mother Jones], hell-raiser
1823 Mother Joseph, [Esther Pariseau], religious leader, US capitol
1789 Mary Ball Washington, mother of George, dies
1774 Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50
1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
1759 Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, writer/mother of Mary Shelley
1750 M Laetitia Bonaparte-Ramolino, [Madame Mere], mother of Napoleon I
1723 Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother
1719 Thomas Fleet publishes "Mother Goose's Melodies For Children"
1628 Charles Perrault, France, lawyer/writer, Mother Goose
1620 Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
1620 Battle at Ponts-the-Ce, Poitou: French king Louis XIII beats his mother Marie de Medici
1589 Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France, dies at 69
1528 Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarra/mother of French King Henry IV
1476 Louise of Savoye, French mother/regentes of king Francois I
1128 Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa
1068 Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies
820 Abu Abdallah M ibn Idris al-Sjafi'i, islamic (Book of Mother), dies
783 Bert(h)a/Berthrada, mother of Charles the Great, dies
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