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2004 Helmut Newton, photographer, Vogue, dies at 83

1998 Apple discontinues developing Newton computer

1996 Joy Newton, dancer, dies at 82

1994 Singer Wayne Newton (52) weds attorney Kathleen McCrone (30)

1990 Cody Newton Gifford, son of Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford

1989 Huey Newton, U.S., Black Panther leader, shot dead at 47

1980 Bert Kaempfert, orchestra leader, songwriter, composed jazz-oriented, easy-listening records including Strangers in the Night and hit Wonderland by Night, Danke Schoen for Wayne Newton and L-O-V-E for Nat King Cole

1972 Thandie Newton, British Actress

1972 Tony Clark, born in Newton, Kansas, infielder for the Detroit Tigers

1970 U.S. Black Panther leader Huey Newton let out of jail

1970 Peter Newton, born in Kailua, Hawaii, sprint kayak 1996 Olympics

1969 Scott DeFreitas, Newton Massachusetts, actor, Andy Dixon-As the World Turns

1967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope

1967 Matt Leblanc, born in Newton, Massachusetts, actor, Joey-Friends

1963 Theodore Newton, actor (Voltaire, Ace of Aces), dies at 58

1962 Connie Needham Newton, Anaheim California, actress, Elizabeth-8 is Enough

1961 Nate Newton, NFL guard for the Dallas Cowboys

1961 FCC Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland"

1960 Christopher J "Gus" Loria, Newton, Massachusetts, Major USMC/astronaut

1956 Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50

1952 Juice Newton, Judy Cohen, Virginia, vocalist, Angel of the Morning

1946 Gilbert Newton Lewis, American Scientist

1945 Paul Newton, rock bassist

1942 Wayne Newton, born in Roanoke, Virginia, singer, Danke Schon

1942 Huey Newton, Black Panther leader

1939 Clem Cattini, born in Stoke Newton, North London, England, musician, drummer, played with The Tornados in the 1960's, appeared for diverse array of artists, featured on 45 different UK number one singles, considered most beloved early British rock n' roll figure

1931 Robert Morse, Newton Massachusetts, actor, That's Life, Jack Frost

1930 Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn, to New Orleans

1928 Anne Sexton, Newton Massachusetts, poet, Live or Die; Pulitzer 1967

1926 Newton N. Minow, American Lawyer

1923 Bert Kaempfert, born in Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany, orchestra leader, songwriter, composed jazz-oriented, easy-listening records including Strangers in the Night and hit Wonderland by Night, Danke Schoen for Wayne Newton and L-O-V-E for Nat King Cole

1920 Helmut Newton, German Photographer

1920 Homer Newton Bartlett, composer, dies at 74

1918 Malcolm Shepherd, born in England, born Malcolm Newton Shepherd, Lord Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd of Spalding, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the House of Lords

1918 Washington catcher Eddie Ainsmith applies for deferment from the draft Secretary of War Newton D. Baker rules baseball players are not draft exempt

1918 Robert Preston, born in Newton, Massachusetts, actor, Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter

1906 Bob Howard, born in Newton, Massachusetts, singer/pianist, Sing it Again

1905 Robert Newton, England, actor, Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days

1904 Theodore Newton, New Jersey, actor, Ace of Aces, Voltaire

1875 Gilbert Newton Lewis, American Scientist

1871 Frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Massachusetts, composer

1845 Homer Newton Bartlett, composer

1835 Newton Martin Curtis, Major General Union volunteers

1824 Innis Newton Palmer, Major General Union volunteers

1823 John Newton, Major General Union volunteers

1794 Pieter Nieuwland, prodigy/"Dutch Newton", dies at 30

1764 Pieter Nieuwland, Dutch scientist, Newton

1742 Edmund Halley, genius eclipsed by Newton, dies at 85

1727 Isaac Newton, English Mathematician

1727 Issac Newton, English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84

1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College

1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night

1687 Newton publishes "Principia"

1687 Isaac Newton's 'Principia' published by Royal Society in England

1672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London

1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge

1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

1643 Isaac Newton, born in Grantham, England, physicist, mathematician, and astronomer


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