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2013 Event - In Rome, Italy, the papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis is held in St. Peter's Square; hundreds of thousands attend

2012 Event - At St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, Rome, Pope Benedict XVI delivers the annual Christmas Message and holds traditional Mass at St. Peters Basilica

2011 Event - The annual Christmas message is delivered by Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City

2011 Event - Opposition MP Peter Slipper replaces Harry Jenkins as speaker of the Australian House of Representatives

2011 Event - Pope Benedict XVI performs Easter Mass at St. Peter's Square in Vatican City; he calls for dialogue and diplomacy to end Libya's unrest

2010 Event - The first black mayor of a town in the former Eastern Bloc of Europe, Peter Bossman, becomes Mayor of Piran, Slovenia

2010 Event - Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop, is canonized by Pope Benedict XVI at Saint Peter's Square

2010 Event - The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to economists Peter A. Diamond, Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides

2007 Death - Peter Hoagland, Representative-D-Nebraska 1989 - 1995, died at age 65

2005 Death - Peter W. Rodino, Representative-D-New Jersey 1949 - 1989, chaired Watergate council, died at 95 of heart failure

2005 Death - Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant

2005 Death - Peter Benenson, British Lawyer

2005 Death - Peter Foy, English Actor

2004 Death - Peter Barnes, English Playwright

2004 Death - Peter Ustinov, actor/writer, Spartacus, dies at 82

2002 Death - Bill Peet, cartoon artist/writer, Disney's Peter Pan, dies at 87

2001 Death - Peter Maas, writer, Serpico, dies at 72

2000 Death - Peter McWilliams, writer, Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do, dies at 49

2000 Death - Craig Stevens, actor, Peter Gunn, dies at 81

2000 Death - Peter Levi, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood, dies

1998 Death - Peter Diamand, artistic administrator, dies at 84

1997 Event - Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud and time served

1997 Event - Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion

1997 Death - Peter Blos, psychoanalyst/writer, The Adolescent Passage, dies at 93

1997 Event - Mel Karmazin replaces Peter Lund as CEO of CBS TV

1997 Death - Peter Tali Coleman, Governor of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies

1997 Death - Peter Morris, historian of France, dies at 50

1997 Death - Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist, dies at 52

1996 Death - Peter Dormer, arts writer, dies at 47

1996 Death - Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73

1996 Death - Peter Muir Doig, politician, dies at 85

1996 Death - Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey, dies at 72

1996 Event - Christie Brinkey gets married for 4th time, she marries Peter Cook

1996 Death - Peter Michael Grayson, showman, dies at 70

1996 Death - Peter Phillips, printer, dies at 61

1996 Death - Peter Winter, naval commander, dies at 78

1996 Death - Peter James Frederick Green, CEO Lloyd's of London, dies at 71

1996 Death - Peter Ludwig, businessman/art collector, dies at 71

1996 Death - Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh, journalist, dies at 77

1996 Death - Peter Bird, ocean rower, first person to cross the Pacific ocean solo, trip from San Francisco to Great Barrier Reef, lasted 294 days, dies at age 49 at sea during an attempt to row across the Pacific

1996 Death - Peter Glenville, actor and director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82

1996 Death - Paul Peter Piech, artist, dies at 76

1996 Death - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer, dies at 68

1996 Death - Peter Fletcher, music teacher, dies at 60

1996 Death - Peter John Swales, football club chairman, dies at 63

1996 Death - Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian, dies at 67

1996 Death - Peter Baer, artost/printmaker, dies at 72

1996 Death - Peter Clemoes, Anglo-Saxon scholar, dies at 76

1996 Death - Peter Mansfield, writer, dies at 67

1996 Death - Peter Pooley, broadcaster, dies at 84

1996 Death - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic, dies at 85

1995 Death - Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54

1995 Death - Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker, dies at 75

1995 Death - Peter Grant, rock band manager, dies at 60

1995 Death - Peter John Welding, record producer, dies at 60

1995 Death - Peter Hinchcliff, historian, dies at 66

1995 Death - Peter Crichton Kirkpatrick, oarsman, dies at 79

1995 Death - Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer, dies at 81

1995 Death - Peter Shankland, film maker/writer, dies at 94

1995 Event - Mike Tyson returns to the ring and DQs Peter McNeeley in 38 seconds

1995 Death - Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist, dies at 81

1995 Death - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher, dies at 83

1995 Death - J Peter Grace, Jr., CEO (W R Grace), dies at 81

1995 Death - Joseph Peter Grace, businessman, dies at 61

1995 Death - Peter Brinson, dance educationalist, dies at 67

1995 Death - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest, dies at 73

1995 Death - Peter Woods, journalist, newsreader, broadcaster, famous newsreader, appeared on News Room for BBC News, dies at 64

1995 Death - Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82

1995 Death - Peter Guy Wykeham Fighter Pilot-Barnes, dies at 79

1995 Death - Peter Black, TV critic, dies at 82

1995 Death - Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright, dies at 75

1995 Death - Peter Cook, English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57

1994 Death - Peter Barker Howard May, cricket (4537 runs-England 1951-61), dies at 64

1994 Death - Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64

1994 Death - Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist, dies at 70

1994 Death - Peter Cushing, actor (Star Wars, Dr. Who), dies of cancer at 81

1994 Death - Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82

1994 Death - Peter Hacker, U.S. journalist/actor (NBC, Broadcast News), dies at 69

1994 Death - Peter Caddy, founder of the Findhorn Community, dies at 76

1993 Death - Peter Quennell, English Writer

1993 Death - Peter De Vries, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 83

1993 Event - Peter Angelos and William DeWitt purchase Orioles

1993 Death - Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73

1993 Event - Peter Townshend's musical "Tommy," premieres in New York City

1993 Death - Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90

1993 Death - Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash

1993 Death - Peter Brocco, blacklisted in the 1950's, dies of heart attack at 89

1992 Event - Ballet dancer Peter Martins charged with beating his wife

1992 Event - New York City Ballet star Peter Martins, arrested for beating his wife

1992 Event - Ottawa Senators make goalie Peter Sidorkiewicz their 1st draft

1992 Death - Peter Allen, entertainer (Legs Diamond), dies of aids at 48

1992 Death - Peter Von Zerneck, actor (Foreign Affair), dies at 84

1992 Death - Peter John "Ollie" Halsall, guitarist, dies of a heart attack at 43

1992 Death - Peter Bruni, dies of heart failure at 60

1992 Death - Peter D. Mitchell, British Scientist

1992 Event - Peter Collins discovers nova Cygni 1992

1992 Event - Actress Joan Chen (Twin Peaks) marries Dr. Peter Hui

1992 Event - "Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater New York City after 48 performances

1991 Event - "Peter Pan" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 48 performances

1991 Death - Peter Willes, British actor/producer (Way We Live), dies

1991 Death - Peter T. Thwaites, British Brigadier-General and playwright 'Love or money', dies

1991 Death - Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher, dies

1991 Death - Kevin Peter Hall, actor (Harry and Hendersons), dies of AIDS at 35

1991 Event - "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City or 45 performances

1990 Event - "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 45 performances

1990 Death - Peter Schilperoort, saxophonist/clarinetist, dies

1990 Death - Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), dies of cancer at 76

1990 Event - 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk and Patricia Wettig

1990 Death - Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies

1990 Death - Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70

1989 Event - 1st black owners (Betram Lee and Peter Bynoe) to own a major sports team, purchasing Denver Nuggets for $65m

1989 Event - Peter Koech of Kenya sets 3k steeplechase rec (8:05.39) in Stockholm

1989 Death - Peter Conrad Baden, composer, dies at 80

1989 Event - Peter Ueberroth deal to purchase Eastern Airlines falls through

1989 Event - Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973

1988 Death - Peter Langan, Irish restaurateur (Langans London), dies in fire

1988 Death - Peter Tosh, reggae singer shot dead at 43 in Jamacia

1988 Event - Peter Kalikow purchases New York Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million

1987 Event - Peter Shaffer's "Lettice and Lovage," premieres in London

1987 Death - Peter Brian Medawar, medical scientist, dies

1987 Event - 4th MTV Awards: Peter Gabriel wins

1987 Event - Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction

1987 Death - Peter Adams, actor (Alternative, Blowing Hot and Cold), dies at 69

1986 Death - Peter Pears, English tenor (Death in Venice), dies at 75

1986 Event - Peter Uberroth suspended 7 baseball players for 1 year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, they used drugs

1986 Event - New Jersey Devil Peter McNab becomes 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals

1985 Event - Commissioner Peter Ueberroth reinstates Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle

1985 Event - -69 degrees F (-56 degrees C), Peter's Sink, Utah (state record)

1984 Death - Peter Lawford, actor (Thin Man), dies of cardiac arrest at 61

1984 Event - Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball

1984 Death - Peter Charles Arthur Wishart, composer, dies at 63

1984 Death - Peter Bull, British actor (Dr. Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at 72

1984 Death - Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg), dies

1984 Event - Peter Ueberroth elected baseball commissioner (Effective Oct 1)

1984 Event - Brothers Anton and Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec

1983 Death - Peter Coffield, Ill, actor (Kevin-W E B), dies at 37

1983 Death - Peter Arne, actor (Straw Dogs), bludgeoned to death in London at 62

1983 Event - 11th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Hollis Stacy

1983 Death - Peter Mennin(i), U.S. composer (Moby Dick), dies at 60

1983 Death - Peter Edel, writer, dies

1983 Death - Peter Potter, DJ (Peter Potter Show, Juke Box Jury), dies at 78

1982 Event - 10th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Sandra Haynie

1982 Death - Peter Weiss, German playwright (Marat-Sade), dies at 65

1981 Event - 9th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Jan Stephenson

1981 Death - Peter Paul Kreuder, German composer, dies at 75

1981 Death - Peter Kreuder, German composer, dies

1981 Event - Pope John Paul II shot, wounded by assailant in St. Peter's Square

1981 Death - Peter Huchel, writer, dies at 78

1981 Event - Peter Sutcliffe admits he is the Yorkshire Ripper (murdered 13 women)

1981 Event - "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured

1981 Event - British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women

1981 Event - "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 578 performances

1981 Event - British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"

1980 Event - Peter Comita replaces Tom Peterson of Cheap Trick

1980 Event - 8th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Pat Bradley

1980 Death - Peter Sellers, actor (Pink Panther, Mouse that Roared), dies at 54

1980 Event - Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss

1979 Event - Peter Shaffers musical "Amadeus," premieres in London

1979 Event - "Peter Pan" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 578 performances

1979 Event - 7th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Amy Alcott

1979 Death - Peter Donald, host (Masquerade Party), dies at 60

1979 Event - Peter Jenkins finishes "A Walk Across America," Florence Oregon

1978 Birthday - Naomi Lang, born in Arcata, California, dance skater, & Peter Tchernyshev

1978 Event - 6th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner

1977 Death - Cyril Ritchard, actor (Peter Pan), dies at 80

1977 Birthday - Peter Mark Andrew Phillips, 9th in succession to British throne

1977 Event - Peter Schats opera "Houdini" premieres in Amsterdam

1977 Event - Peter Schats circus opera "Houdini," premieres in Amsterdam

1977 Event - 5th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Judy Rankin

1977 Event - 49th Academy Awards - "Rocky," Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway win

1977 Event - Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)

1977 Death - Peter Finch, actor (Network, Nun's Story, Judith), dies at 60

1976 Event - Peter Petherick takes hat-trick on debut New Zealand vs. Pak Javed 1st wkt

1976 Event - 4th du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Donna Caponi

1976 Birthday - Peter Devine, New York City, fencer-foil 1996 Olympics

1976 Event - Peter Casserly of New Zealand hand-sheers record 353 lambs in 9 holes

1976 Event - Peter Frampton released platinum live album "Frampton Comes Alive"

1975 Event - Peter Seitz makes Andy Messersmith and Dave McNally free agents

1975 Event - Peter Gabriel quits Genesis

1975 Event - 3rd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): JoAnne Carner

1975 Birthday - Tobey Maguire, born in Santa Monica, California, actor, known for role as Peter Parker and Spider-Man in the 'Spider-Man' film series

1975 Death - Peter Bamm, writer, dies

1975 Event - CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin

1975 Event - Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever and seriously injured

1975 Event - Gary Geld and Peter Udell's musical "Shenandoah," premieres in New York City

1974 Birthday - Peter Boulware, linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens

1974 Birthday - Peter Pucher, hockey forward, Team Slovakia 1998

1974 Event - Actress Faye Dunaway weds Peter Wolf of J Geils Band

1974 Event - 2nd du Maurier Golf Classic (Peter Jackson Classic): Carole Jo Skala

1974 Event - Petty thief Peter Leonard sets fire to cover burglary that torches "Gulliver's" nightclub killing 24 (Port Chester New York)

1974 Death - Peter Revson, U.S. race car driver (Indianapolis 500), dies at 35

1974 Event - "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published

1973 Birthday - Peter Scott, born in Newcastle, Australia, canoeist 1996 Olympics

1973 Birthday - Peter Tsekenis, Australian soccer midfielder, Olyroos, 1996 Olympics

1973 Event - Peter Shaffers "Equus," premieres in London

1973 Birthday - Peter Heijsteek, soccer player, DFC/Dordrecht '90

1973 Birthday - Peter Forsberg, born in Ornskoldsvik, Sweden, NHL center for the Colorado Avalanche

1973 Birthday - Shaun Pollock, cricketer, son of Peter South African Test quick 1995-

1973 Birthday - Peter Hoekstra, Dutch soccer player, PSV, Ajax

1973 Birthday - Peter Ferraro, Port Jefferson, NHL right wing, New York Rangers, 1994 Olympics

1972 Birthday - Peter Wright, U.S., 1500m freestyle 1996 Olympics

1972 Birthday - Christian Peter, defensive tackle for the New York Giants

1972 Birthday - Peter Ogilvie, Vancouver BC, 100m sprinter 1996 Olympics

1972 Birthday - Peter Billingsley, born in New York City, actor, Real People

1972 Death - Peter Whitney, actor (Rough Riders), dies at 55

1971 Death - Peter Deuel, actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide at 31

1971 Birthday - Peter Schwab, born in Boston, Massachusetts, rower 1996 Olympics

1971 Birthday - Peter Tchernyshev, St. Petersburg Russia, dance skater, & Naomi Lang

1971 Birthday - Peter "Chip" Cipollone, Ardmore, Pennsylvania, rower 1996 Olympics

1971 Birthday - Peter Winter, Australian decathlete 1996 Olympics

1970 Death - Peter II Karadjordjevic, last king of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57

1970 Event - Peter Yarrow arrested for taking "immoral liberties" with girl, 14

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

1970 Event - Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult

1970 Birthday - Peter Giles, born in London, Ontario, kayaker 1996 Olympics

1970 Death - Peter Veres, Hungarian minister of defense/writer, dies at 73

1970 Event - Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul and Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl

1970 Event - Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers

1970 Event - Gary Geld and Peter Udell's "Purlie," premieres in New York City

1969 Event - Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1

1969 Birthday - Peter Martin, cricketer, Lancashire and England pace bowler 1995

1969 Birthday - Peter Breen, Brockton Massachusetts, dance skater

1969 Birthday - Peter Ciavaglia, born in Albany, New York, U.S. hockey forward 1994 Olympics

1969 Death - Peter Van Eyck, dies after long illness at 56

1969 Death - Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83

1969 Event - Peter Stone and Sherman Edward's "1776," premieres in New York City

1969 Event - Jimi Hendrix and Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars

1968 Birthday - Peter Gross-Pass, WLAF defensive linebacker for the Rhein Fire

1968 Birthday - Peter Miller, CFL linebacker for the BC Lions

1968 Birthday - Peter van Foxes, soccer player, Ajax

1968 Event - Peter Luke's "Hadrian VII," premieres in London

1968 Birthday - Peter Blackburn, born in Australia, badminton player 1996 Olympics

1968 Birthday - John Barrowman, actor, Peter Fairchild-Central Park West

1968 Birthday - Peter Popovic, Koping Swe, NHL defenseman, Montreal Canadiens

1968 Birthday - Peter Bondra, Lutsk Ukr, NHL right wing for the Washington Capitals

1968 Birthday - Peter Hofstede, Dutch soccer player, Roda JC, FC Utrecht

1967 Birthday - Peter Murphy, Australian rower 1996 Olympics

1967 Event - Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership

1967 Birthday - Peter Hofstede, Dutch soccer player, Roda JC, FC Utrecht

1967 Birthday - Peter Cox, Jr., Bronxville, New York, fencer-sabre 1996 Olympics

1967 Birthday - Peter Loran, born in Teaneck, New Jersey, rock vocalist, Trixter-Give It To Me Good

1966 Birthday - Peter DeLuise, born in Hollywood, California, actor, 21 Jump Street, seaQuest DSV

1966 Birthday - Peter Fonseca, Lisbon Portugal, Canadian marathoner 1996 Olympics

1966 Birthday - Peter Shorts, CFL tackle for the Hamilton Tiger Cats

1966 Event - Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers

1966 Birthday - Peter McIntyre, cricketer, Australian leg-spinner 1995

1966 Death - Minerva Urecal, actress (Peter Gunn, Adv of Tugboat Annie), dies at 71

1966 Birthday - Peter Douris, Toronto, NHL right wing, Anaheim Mighty Ducks

1965 Birthday - Peter Draisaitl, born in Karvina, Czechoslovakia, hockey forward, Team Germany 1998

1965 Birthday - Peter MacKay, Canadian Politician

1965 Death - Peter Ronnefeld, composer, dies at 30

1965 Event - 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale

1965 Birthday - Peter O'Malley, Bathurst NSW, Australasia golfer

1965 Event - Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news

1965 Birthday - Peter Lundgren, Sweden, tennis star

1964 Birthday - Peter Hanson, English/Sierra Leone/Dutch actor, Darling How Could You

1964 Birthday - Peter Laviolette, Norwood Massachusetts, U.S. hockey defenseman 1994 Olympics

1964 Birthday - Peter Vogler, Australian baseball outfielder 1996 Olympics

1964 Birthday - Peter Such, cricketer, England off-spinner 1993-

1964 Event - Peter and Gordon release "World Without Love"

1964 Death - Peter Lorre, Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), dies at 59

1964 Death - Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), dies at 59

1964 Birthday - Peter Berg, born in New York City, New York, actor, film director, producer, known for role as Dr. Billy Kronk on television medical drama 'Chicago Hope', directed films 'The Kingdom', 'Hancock'

1964 Event - Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London

1963 Birthday - Peter Bosz, Dutch soccer star, Toulon/Feyenoord

1963 Event - Peter, Paul and Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)

1963 Event - "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul and Mary hits #2

1962 Birthday - Josh Silver, born in America, keyboardist, producer for band Type O Negative, viewed as a gothic metal band, played with Peter Steele, founding member of rock group Fallout

1962 Birthday - Marilyn, born in Kingston, Jamaica, born Peter Robinson, singer, famous for hit song, 'Calling Your Name', associated with Boy George

1962 Birthday - Peter Cantrell, cricketer, Queensland opening bat, Netherlands WC 1996

1962 Event - Peter, Paul and Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"

1962 Event - E German border guards shot and kill Peter Fechter, 18, attempting to cross Berlin Wall into western sector

1962 Birthday - Eriq La Salle, Hartford, Connecticut, actor, Dr. Peter Benton-ER

1962 Event - East Berliner Peter Fechter flees over Berlin Wall

1962 Event - Beatles meet their producer George Martin for 1st time, they record "Besame Mucho" with Peter Best on drums

1962 Birthday - Peter Steele, American Musician

1961 Event - South Africa vs. New Zealand, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow and Peter Pollock

1961 Birthday - Peter Jackson, New Zealander Director

1961 Death - Peter Jensen, co-inventer (loud speaker), dies at 75

1961 Death - Peter Dawson, Australian Musician

1961 Birthday - Peter Glen Vidmar, born in Los Angeles, California, gymnast, Olympic-2 gold/silver-1984

1961 Death - Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor and director (Dutch Comedy), dies at 70

1961 Birthday - Peter Doohan, Australia, tennis star

1960 Birthday - Peter G. Fitzgerald, American Politician

1960 Birthday - Peter Virgile, soap actor, Hostage, Popeye Doyle

1960 Birthday - Peter Winterbottom, British rugby player

1960 Death - Hope Emerson, actress (I Married Joan, Peter Gunn), dies at 62

1959 Birthday - Peter Senior, born in Singapore, Australasia golfer

1959 Death - Peter A Egge, Norwegian writer (The Dream), dies

1959 Birthday - Peter Fowler, Hornsby NSW, Australasia golfer

1959 Birthday - Peter Greene, born in Brooklyn, New York, producer, After Midnight

1959 Death - Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher (Suhrkamp Verlag), dies at 68

1958 Birthday - Peter "Jeff" K Wisoff, born in Norfolk, Virginia, PhD/Astronaut, STS-57, 68, 81/84

1958 Event - Peter Shaffer's "Five Finger Exercise," premieres in London

1958 Event - 87th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 278 at Royal Lytham

1958 Birthday - Peter Antonie, Australian rower 1996 Olympics

1958 Birthday - Peter Koech, Kiliburani Kenya, 3K steeplechaser 1988 Olympics silver

1958 Birthday - Peter R Mokaba, president, South African Youth Congress

1957 Birthday - Fulton Peter Allem, Kroonstad South Africa, PGA golfer, 1993 SW Bell

1957 Event - Peter Loader takes a cricket hat-trick England vs. WI Headingley

1957 Birthday - Peter Webb, New Zealand cricketer, batsman against West Indies 1980

1957 Birthday - Peter Murphy, born in Northampton, England, vocalist, goth rock genre, member of rock group, Bauhaus, released solo albums Deep, Love Hysteria, nicknamed, 'The Godfather of Goth'

1957 Birthday - Peter Sleep, cricketer, Australian leg-spin all-rounder 1979-90

1957 Birthday - Peter Deutsch, born in New York City, New York, Representative-D-Florida 1993 - 2005

1957 Birthday - Bienvenida Buck, Velencia Spain, lover of British Peter Harding

1956 Birthday - Peter Farrelly, American Director

1956 Birthday - Peter Buck, U.S. pop guitarist, REM-Murmur

1956 Birthday - Peter Frechette, Warwick, Rhode Island, actor, Paint it Black, George-Profiler

1956 Birthday - Peter Zaremba, born in America, singer, rocker, member of The Fleshtones, host of 'I.R.S. Records Presents The Cutting Edge', MTV program

1956 Birthday - Peter Taylor, cricketer, Australian off-spinner 1987-92

1956 Birthday - Peter Barton, actor, Powers of Matthew Star

1956 Birthday - [Peter] Marc Almond, Merseyside England, vocalist, Soft Cell

1956 Event - 85th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 286 at Hoylake England

1956 Birthday - Jan Peter Balkenende, born in Biezelinge, Netherlands, politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands, member of the Christian Democratic Appeal party

1956 Birthday - Peter Teravainen, Plymouth MA USA, Australasia golfer

1956 Event - Peter Ustinovs' "Romanoff and Juliet," premieres in Manchester

1956 Birthday - Peter O'Toole, Irish pop bassist, Hothouse Flowers-People

1956 Event - Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)

1956 Birthday - Peter Roebuck, cricketer, Somerset opening batsman and SMH writer

1956 Birthday - Peter Holsapple, rocker, Continental Drifters

1956 Birthday - Peter Hook, English rock bassist, New Order-Round and Round, Run

1956 Birthday - Peter Schilling, Stuttgart Germany, rocker

1955 Birthday - Peter Cox, rocker, Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down

1955 Birthday - Peter Boynton, Danaiscotta Maine, actor, Tonio-As the World Turns

1955 Birthday - Peter Gallagher, Armonk, New York, actor, Player, Summer Lovers, Dreamchild

1955 Birthday - Peter Kirsten, cricketer, South African middle-order batsman

1955 Birthday - Kevin Peter Hall, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor, Misfits of Science

1955 Birthday - Peter Reckell, Elkhart, actor, Days of our Lifes

1955 Event - Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised

1955 Event - "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 149 performances

1955 Birthday - Peter Fleming, New Jersey, tennis player, U.S. Open Doubles 1979, 81, 83

1954 Death - Peter Van Anrooy, conductor and composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie), dies at 75

1954 Birthday - Peter Woods, rocker, Romeo Void-Girl in Trouble

1954 Event - "Peter Pan" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 149 performances

1954 Birthday - Peter Scolari, New Rochelle, New York, actor, Jerry-Newhart, Bosom Buddies

1954 Death - Peter Anders, German opera singer, dies

1954 Event - Peter B Cortese of U.S. achieves a one-arm deadlift of 370 lbs; 22 lbs over triple his body weight, at York, Pennsylvania

1954 Event - Dr. Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit

1954 Birthday - Peter Erskine, jazz drummer, Weather Report

1954 Birthday - Peter Toohey, cricketer, NSW and Australian batsman 1977-80

1954 Birthday - Peter MacNicol, born in Dallas, Texas, actor, Chicago Hope, Sophie's Choice

1954 Birthday - Peter Erling Jacobsen, born in Portland, Oregon, PGA golfer, 1990 Bob Hope

1954 Birthday - Chris Hughes, born in London, England, drummer, musician, record producer, played drums for Dalek I Love You, The Blitz Brothers, member, Adam and the Ants, produced Tears for Fears, The Hurting, Songs from the Big Chair, co-produced Peter Gabriel's 'Red Rain'

1953 Birthday - Peter McEwan, cricketer, New Zealand batsman early 80's

1953 Birthday - Peter Isacksen, Dover, New Hampshire, actor, CPO Sharkey, Jessie

1953 Birthday - Peter Hoekstra, born in Groningen, Netherlands, Representative-R-Michigan 1993 -

1953 Birthday - Peter Firth, Bradford England, actor, Equus, Lifeforce, Tess

1953 Birthday - Peter Mandelson, British Politician

1953 Birthday - Peter Horton, Bellevue Wash, actor, Gary-30 Something

1953 Birthday - Peter Greenall, English brewer, Greenall Witley

1953 Birthday - Peter Bergman, born in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, actor, Eat or Be Eaten

1953 Birthday - Peter Bergman, actor, All My Children, Starland Vocal Band

1953 Birthday - Peter Garrett, Australian Musician

1953 Birthday - Peter McEvoy, British actor, Against the Innocent

1953 Death - Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter and the wolf), dies at 61

1953 Event - "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, New York City

1952 Birthday - Peter Westbrook, born in St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. fencer, Olympic-bronze-88, 92, 96

1952 Birthday - Peter Haycock, rock guitarist, All Along the Watchtower

1951 Birthday - Peter Gordon, born in New York City, New York, Peter Laurence Gordon, experimental composer, musician, opera, world music, jazz, rock influences, founder, Love of Life Orchestra, composed for Suzanne Vega, Laurie Anderson, worked on Desperate Housewives soundtrack

1951 Event - Peter Ustinov's "Love of Four Colonels," premieres in London

1951 Birthday - Peter Davison, actor, Dr. Who, Sink or Swim, Fiddlers Three

1951 Event - "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 320 performances

1950 Birthday - Peter te Bos, Dutch singer, Claw Boys Claw

1950 Birthday - Peter Jan Rens, Dutch actor and director, Mister Cactus, Passion

1950 Birthday - Peter Gabriel, rocker, Genesis-Against All Odds

1950 Birthday - Peter Schaufuss, director of ballet, Deutsche Opera Berlin

1950 Event - "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 320 performances

1950 Birthday - Peter Frampton, born in Kent, England, guitarist and vocalist with 'Humble Pie' and 'The Herd'

1950 Birthday - Peter Hain, born in Nairobi, Kenya, politician, Labor Party, Leader of the House of Commons, Cabinet member for Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, Member of Parliament for Neath

1950 Birthday - Peter Gabriel, born in Surrey, England, rock vocalist, Genesis, In Your Eyes

1949 Birthday - Peter Willey, cricketer, England batsman late 70's early 80's

1949 Birthday - Peter Ackroyd, British Author

1949 Birthday - Peter John Wiegold, composer

1949 Death - Amedos Peter Giannine, founder of Bank of America dies at 79

1949 Birthday - Peter Agre, American Scientist

1949 Birthday - Peter Dormer, arts writer

1948 Birthday - Peter Hammill, English singer and songwriter, Patient

1948 Death - Peter JM Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor, dies at 77

1948 Birthday - Peter Ruzicka, born in Dusseldorf, Germany, professor, composer, conductor, composes stage, orchestral, chamber, piano, vocal music

1948 Event - 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced (DR Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)

1948 Event - Columbia commits to 33 1/3 rpm records, plans to phase out 78's as Dr. Peter Goldmark of CBS demonstrates "long playing record"

1948 Birthday - Peter Wingfield, Wales, rocker/actor, Methos-Highlander

1948 Birthday - Peter Mond, born in England, 4th Baron Melchett, Lord Melchett, heir to Sir Alfred Mond's fortune, Labor Party whip, researched cannabis addition, Greenpeace activist

1947 Birthday - Peter Criss, rocker, Kiss-Beth

1947 Birthday - Peter Crisscoula, born in Brooklyn, New York, rocker, Kiss-Beth

1947 Birthday - Peter de Jong, Dutch actor, Maxi-Mini and Maxi

1947 Birthday - Rod Clements, born in North Shields, England, singer, songwriter, guitarist, worked with Wizz Jones, Peter Hamill, Michael Chapman

1947 Birthday - Peter Noone, rocker, Herman-Herman's Hermits-Silhouttes

1947 Birthday - Peter Hope-Evans, British singer/harmonicaist, Family

1947 Birthday - Peter Serkin, New York City, pianist, Tashi

1947 Birthday - Peter Banks, born in Barnet, London, bassist, rocker, played with the progressive rock band Yes

1947 Birthday - Peter Weller, born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, actor, Robocop, Of Unknown Origin

1947 Birthday - Peter DeFazio, born in Needham, Massachusetts, Representative-D-Oregon 1987

1947 Birthday - Peter Riegert, born in New York City, actor, Animal House, Crossing Delancey

1947 Birthday - Peter Hinchcliffe, co-founder, Iceland Frozen Foods

1947 Birthday - Peter Bird, born in Britain, ocean rower, first person to cross the Pacific ocean solo, trip from San Francisco to Great Barrier Reef, lasted 294 days

1947 Birthday - Peter Lucia, rock drummer, Tommy James and Shondells-Crystal Blue

1947 Birthday - Peter Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics

1947 Birthday - Peter Lankhorst, Dutch MP, PPR

1946 Birthday - Peter Green, Peter Greenbaum, London, rocker, Fleetwood Mac

1946 Birthday - Peter Martins, Danish actor

1946 Birthday - Peter Lieberson, composer

1946 Birthday - Peter Mahvolich, NHL star, Mont Canadiens

1946 Birthday - Peter Egan, actor, Bean, Chariots of Fire

1946 Birthday - Peter H. Kostmayer, born in New York City, New York, Representative-D-Pennsylvania 1977 - 1981 and 1983 - 1993

1946 Birthday - Peter Morris, historian of France

1946 Birthday - Peter Kilfoyle, British MP

1946 Birthday - Peter Sutherland, CEO, Allied Irish Banks

1946 Birthday - Peter L de Baan, Dutch actor, director and playwright, Leonce and Lena

1946 Birthday - Michael Peter Finnissey, composer

1946 Birthday - Peter Wolf, rock singer, J Giels Band-Centerfold, Freeze Frame

1945 Birthday - Peter Martins, Copenhagen, dancer-choreographer

1945 Birthday - Peter Storey, English Athlete

1945 Birthday - Peter Lewis, born in Los Angeles, California, rock guitarist and vocalist, Moby Grape

1945 Birthday - Peter James Leonard Klatzow, composer

1945 Event - Opera "Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten," premieres in London

1945 Birthday - Gordon Waller, born in Scotland, singer, Peter and Gordon-World Without Love

1945 Birthday - Peter Beckwith, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire

1944 Birthday - Peter Tosh, born in Westmoreland, Jamaica, musician, singer, guitarist, pianist, activist promoted marijuana legalization, played with Bob Marley, The Wailers

1944 Birthday - Peter Hobson, headmaster, Giggleswick School

1944 Death - Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem

1944 Birthday - Peter Cetera, born in Chicago, lead singer, Chicago-25 or 6 to 4, Old Days

1944 Birthday - Peter Weir, born in Sydney, Australia, director and writer, Witness, Dead Poets Society

1944 Birthday - Peter de Savary, English financier/multi-millionaire

1944 Birthday - Chris Spedding, born in Staveley, Derbyshire, England, born Peter Robinson, rocker, jazz guitarist, rock and roll, considered the most versatile session guitarist in the U.K.

1944 Birthday - Peter Albin, born in San Francisco, California, rocker, Big Brother and Holding Co

1944 Birthday - Peter Mayhew, British Actor

1944 Birthday - Peter Ryan, British national director, Police Training

1944 Birthday - Ian Peter Leslie Smith, journalist

1944 Birthday - Peter Staples, rocker, Troggs-Wild Thing

1944 Birthday - Peter T. King, born in New York City, New York, Representative-R-New York 1993 -

1944 Birthday - Peter Tork, Washington D.C., singer and actor, Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville

1944 Birthday - Peter Allen, Australia, vocalist/pianist, I Go to Rio, Legs Diamond

1944 Birthday - Peter Akinola, born in Ogun, Nigeria, church leader in Nigeria

1944 Birthday - Peter Lynch, American Businessman

1944 Birthday - Peter Eotvos, born in Odorheiu Secuiesc, Hungary, now Romania, composer, conductor, works include 'Love and Other Demons'

1943 Birthday - Peter Quaife, Devon England, rock bassist, Kinks-Long Tall Sally

1943 Birthday - Nicholas Peter Negroponte, New York City, founder/director, Media Lab at MIT

1943 Death - Peter "Pam" Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32

1943 Birthday - Peter Rigby, CEO, Specialist Computer Holdings

1943 Birthday - Peter Lilley, MP/sect of state for British social security

1943 Death - Henrik Pontoppidan, writer (Peter Gelukkige, Nobel 1917), dies at 86

1943 Birthday - Peter Hyams, director, 2010, Capricorn 1, Relic, Timecop

1943 Birthday - Peter Kenilorea, Prime Minister Solomon Islands

1943 Birthday - Peter Horak, jetboat jumper

1943 Birthday - Peter Graves, supt minister, Westminster Central Hall

1943 Birthday - Peter Straub, American Writer

1943 Birthday - Peter MacBeth, rocker, Foundations

1943 Birthday - Peter Kenton Winkler, composer

1942 Birthday - Peter Handke, Austrian songwriter, Ritt uber den Bodensee

1942 Birthday - Peter Kalikow, Queens New York City, real estate developer/publisher, New York Post

1942 Birthday - Peter Coyote, Cohon, New York City, actor, Kika, Living a Lie, Exposure, ET

1942 Birthday - Peter Petherick, cricketer, New Zealand slow lefty 1976-77, hat-trick on debut

1942 Birthday - Peter York, rock drummer, Spencer Davis Group

1942 Birthday - Peter Greenaway, British Director

1942 Birthday - Peter Eyre, born in New York City, New York, actor, films include 'Hedda', 'Dragonslayer', 'The Affair of the Necklace'

1942 Birthday - Peter Guber, producer, Flashdance

1942 Birthday - Peter Strauss, Croton-on-Hudson, New York, actor, Rich Man Poor Man

1941 Birthday - Peter Michael Goetz, actor, Jumping Jack Flash, King Kong Lives

1941 Birthday - Peter Hoagland, born in Omaha, Nebraska, Representative-D-Nebraska 1989 - 1995

1941 Birthday - Paul Peter Plishka, Old Forge Penn, bass, Bronx Botanical Gardens

1941 Birthday - Peter Truscott, cricketer, one Test New Zealand vs. Pakistan 1965, 3 and 26

1941 Birthday - Peter Pollock, cricketer, bro of Graeme/father of Shaun, S Af quickie

1941 Birthday - Peter Wilson, CEO, Gallaher

1941 Event - King Peter leaves Yugoslavia

1941 Death - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian, dies at 79

1940 Birthday - Peter Koelewijn, Dutch writer/vocalist, Come off that Roof

1940 Birthday - Peter Brown, born in Chicago, Illinois, rocker

1940 Birthday - Peter Benchley, New York City, novelist, Jaws, The Deep

1940 Birthday - Peter Goldstein, joint founder, Superdrug

1940 Birthday - Peter Haining, writer and editor, Anatomy of Witchcraft

1940 Death - Peter Behrens, German architect, dies

1940 Birthday - Peter Fonda, actor, Easy Rider, Lilith, Wild Angels, Trip

1940 Birthday - Peter McEnery, England, actor, Game is Over, Moonspinners

1940 Birthday - Peter Middleton, CEO, Lloyd's of London

1939 Birthday - Peter Camejo, American Businessman

1939 Birthday - Ginger [Peter] Baker, England, drummer, Cream-White Room

1939 Birthday - Peter Bogdanovich, born in Kingston, New York, director/producer, Last Picture Show

1939 Birthday - Peter Bogdanovich, American

1939 Birthday - Peter Duffell, Brits Lieutenant-General/minister of Defense

1939 Birthday - Peter Phillips, born in Birmingham, England, artist, painter, sculpture, screenprint, lithography, pioneer, Pop Art Movement

1939 Birthday - Peter Revson, auto racer, 1971 Indianapolis pole winner

1939 Birthday - Peter Struycken, statues/computer expert/teacher

1938 Birthday - Peter Snell, born in New Zealand, 800m/1500m runner, Gold Medals 1960, 1964 Olympics

1938 Birthday - Peter Carlstein, cricketer, South African Test batsman 1958-64

1938 Birthday - Peter Bonerz, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, actor, Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5

1938 Birthday - Peter Jennings, born in Toronto, Canada, news anchor, ABC Evening News

1938 Death - Peter Michael, CEO (Cray Electronics), dies

1938 Birthday - Peter Michael, English electronic manufacturer, UEI, Paintbox

1938 Birthday - Peter Sanders, CEO, Commission for Racial Equality

1938 Birthday - Peter Yarrow, New York City, Peter, Paul and Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon

1938 Birthday - Peter Preston, editor, Guardian

1938 Birthday - Peter Davies, Major-General/Director-General, RSPCA

1938 Birthday - Duane Eddy, born in Phoenix, Arizona, country singer, Peter Gunn, Cannonball

1938 Birthday - Peter Attenborough, British headmaster, Charterhouse

1937 Birthday - Paul Stookey, singer/musician, Peter, Paul, and Mary

1937 Birthday - Paul Stookey, Balt, singer, Peter, Paul and Mary-Wedding Song

1937 Birthday - Peter Edward Cook, Torquay England, actor/comedian, Bedazzled

1937 Birthday - Peter Cook, British Writer

1937 Birthday - Peter Lloyd, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Fareham 1979 - 2001

1937 Birthday - Peter Max, psychadelic artist, Dynamite Chicken

1937 Birthday - Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics, 1984, baseball commissioner

1937 Birthday - Peter Duchin, born in New York City, pianist/bandleader, Peter Duchin Orchestra

1937 Birthday - Peter Pike, born in England, born Peter Leslie Pike, politician, Labor Party, Member of Parliament for Burnley

1937 Death - James M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus/Peter Pan), dies

1937 Birthday - Peter Lupus, actor, Mission Impossible

1937 Birthday - Peter Frederic Williams, composer

1937 Birthday - Peter M. Harris, Official Solicitor, Supreme Court

1937 Birthday - Peter van der Merwe, cricketer, South African captain of mid-1960's

1937 Birthday - Peter Lashley, cricketer, 4 Tests for West Indies 1960-66

1936 Birthday - Peter Parfitt, cricketer, fine England batsman of the 1960's

1936 Birthday - Peter Michael Braun, composer

1936 Birthday - Mary Travers, born in Louisville, Kentucky, folk singer, Peter Paul and Mary

1936 Event - "Peter and Wolf" premieres in Moscow

1936 Birthday - Hans Peter Bleuel, writer

1936 Death - Peter H J "Piet" van Doorne, director BOVA Red Peppers, executed at 52

1936 Birthday - Peter Fletcher, music teacher

1935 Birthday - Peter Allan, cricketer, 1 Test Australia vs. England 1965, 2-58 and 0-25

1935 Birthday - Peter John Welding, record producer

1935 Birthday - Peter Boyle, Philadelphia, actor, Joe, Candidate, Everybody Loves Raymond

1935 Birthday - Peter Brown, New York City, actor, Lawman, Laredo, Bold and Beautiful

1935 Birthday - Peter Frankl, born in Hungary, pianist, performs classical music, Romantic period, early Modern, recorded the complete solo piano music of Debussy, performed with world class orchestras throughout America and Europe

1935 Birthday - Peter Schreier, Meissen Germany, tenor, Dresden State Opera 1961

1935 Birthday - Lord Peter Palumbo, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire

1935 Birthday - Peter Schat, Dutch opera composer, Labyrint, Houdine, Symposion

1935 Birthday - Peter Grant, rock band manager

1935 Birthday - Peter Bichsel, born in Lucerne, Switzerland, writer, journalist, wrote 'And Really Frau Blum Would Very Much Like to Meet the Milkman', member of the Gruppe Olten, a club of Swiss writers

1935 Birthday - Peter Ronnefeld, composer

1934 Birthday - Peter Philpott, cricketer, NSW and Australian leg spinner 1965-66

1934 Birthday - Valentine J Peter, born in Omaha, Nebraska, priest, Boy's Town 1985-

1934 Birthday - Peter Dickinson, composer

1934 Birthday - Peter Arnett, born in Riverton, New Zealand, journalist, worked for CNN

1934 Birthday - Peter Haskell, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Bracken's World, Rituals

1934 Birthday - Peter Maxwell Davies, Manchester England, composer, Prolation, Taverner

1934 Birthday - Peter Masterson, Houston Texas, actor, Ambush Bay

1934 Birthday - Bent Peter Rasch, Denmark, canoe 1952 Olympics gold

1934 Birthday - Peter Nero, New York City, conductor/pianist, A Sunday in New York

1934 Birthday - Peter Middleton, British permanent secretary, Treasury

1933 Birthday - Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine

1933 Birthday - Peter Post, Dutch bicyclist, 8x European Champion at Derny-drive

1933 Event - Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency

1932 Birthday - Peter John Swales, football club chairman

1932 Birthday - Al Levitt, born in New York City, New York, drummer, American jazz artist, studied under Irv Kuger, played in Europe with Peter Ind, Slide Hampton, Chet Baker, Wayne Marsh, James Moody

1932 Birthday - Peter Stormonth Darling, CEO, Mercury Asset Management Group

1932 Birthday - Peter Holmes, CEO, Shell Transport and Trading Company

1932 Birthday - Peter O'Toole, born in Ireland, actor, Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia

1932 Birthday - Peter Bart, American Editor

1932 Birthday - Graham Arnold, born in England, artist, founder of Brotherhood of Ruralists, other members include Jann Haworth, Sir Peter Blake, worked with oil and mixed media, realistic and surrealistic elements

1932 Birthday - Peter Burge, cricketer, dashing Australian batsman of 50's and 60's

1932 Birthday - Peter Moores, director, Littlewoods

1932 Birthday - Peter Ball, Bishop, Gloucester

1931 Death - Peter Christian Lutkin, composer, dies at 73

1931 Birthday - Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician

1931 Birthday - Peter Richardson, cricketer, England batsman mid-50's

1931 Birthday - Peter Batty, TV/movie producer

1931 Birthday - Peter Talbot Westergaard, composer

1931 Birthday - Peter Levi, born in Ruislip, England, poet, writer, professor of poetry, University of Oxford, Catholic, spent time in the priesthood

1931 Event - Norway claims Peter I Island

1931 Birthday - Peter Walters, CEO, Midland Bank

1931 Event - U.S. opera, "Peter Ibbetson," by Deems Taylor premieres at Met Opera New York City

1931 Birthday - Peter Barnes, English Playwright

1930 Birthday - Peter Hall, born in Suffolk, England, director, Royal Shakespeare Company

1930 Death - Peter Warlock, composer, dies at 36

1930 Birthday - Peter Woods, born in Britain, journalist, newsreader, broadcaster, famous newsreader, appeared on News Room for BBC News

1930 Birthday - Peter J Clase, South African minister of Education/Culture, 1985-

1930 Birthday - Peter Miller, CEO, Lloyd's of London

1930 Birthday - Peter Marshall, police commissioner, London

1930 Birthday - Heather Harper, born in Belfast, Ireland, soprano, known for role of Elsa in Lohengrin, by Wagner, Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, by Britten

1930 Birthday - Peter Tapsell, British MP

1929 Birthday - Peter Barker Howard, cricketer

1929 Birthday - Peter May, cricketer, dashing English batsman of 50's

1929 Birthday - Hans Peter Haller, composer

1929 Birthday - Peter Loader, cricketer, England quick in 13 Tests 1954-59, later WA

1929 Birthday - Peter Ruhmkorf, writer

1929 Death - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, dies at 74

1929 Birthday - Peter Thompson, golfer

1929 Birthday - Peter Yates, director, Breaking Away, Bullitt

1929 Birthday - Peter George, born in Akron, Ohio, weightlifter, Olympic-gold/2 silver-48, 52

1929 Birthday - Peter Carsten, Weissenberg Bavaria, actor, Mr Super Invisible

1929 Birthday - Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, composer

1929 Death - Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer, dies at 86

1929 Birthday - Peter Hordern, British CEO, Fina

1929 Birthday - Peter Jeffrey, actor, Dr. Phibes Rides Again, Twinsanity

1929 Birthday - Peter Breck, born in Rochester, New York, actor, Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji

1929 Birthday - Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, British church historian, 1 Sided Reciprocity

1929 Birthday - Peter Hinchcliff, historian

1929 Birthday - Peter NF Porter, Australian/British author and poet, Chair of Babel

1928 Birthday - Peter Nailor, civil servant/historian

1928 Birthday - Peter Matz, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, orchestra leader, Hullabaloo, Carol Burnette Show

1928 Birthday - Patrick Peter Sacco, composer

1928 Birthday - Peter Mansfield, writer

1928 Birthday - Peter Richard Tahourdin, composer

1928 Birthday - Peter, Indiana, jazz musician

1928 Birthday - Peter Heine, cricketer, solid South African fast bowler in 1950's

1928 Birthday - Peter Griffiths, born in London, born Peter Harry Steve Griffiths, politician, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for Smethwick

1928 Birthday - Peter Moore, Principal, London Business School

1928 Birthday - Peter Hacks, German playwright, Tie Windloch

1928 Birthday - Peter Roger Hunt, born in London, England, director, Dr. No

1928 Birthday - Peter Gordon Dorrell, archaeologist/photographer

1928 Birthday - Peter Byrne, actor, Postcards from America, Carry on Cabby

1928 Birthday - Peter Donat, Kentville Nova Scotia, Flamingo Road, Different Story

1928 Death - Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer, dies at 57

1928 Birthday - William Peter Blatty, New York City, author/director, The Exorcist

1927 Birthday - Peter [Malcolm] Dickinson, Zambia, sci-fi author, Heartsease

1927 Birthday - Peter Brinson, dance educationalist

1927 Birthday - Peter Falk, born in Ossining, New York, actor, Colombo, Scared Straight

1927 Birthday - Peter Swinnereton-Dyer, mathematician

1927 Birthday - Peter Bayliss, born in Thames, England, actor, From Russia With Love

1927 Birthday - Peter Malkin, Israeli Public Servant

1927 Birthday - Peter Mark Richman, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, actor, Andrew-Dynasty

1927 Birthday - Peter Marshall, born in Huntington, West Virginia, TV game show host, Hollywood Squares

1926 Birthday - Peter T. Thwaites, British Brigadier-General and playwright, 'Love or Money'

1926 Birthday - Peter Coker, captain

1926 Birthday - Peter Michael Grayson, showman

1926 Birthday - Peter Shaffer, twin brother playwright, 5 Finger Exercise, Equus

1926 Birthday - Peter Emery, British MP

1926 Death - Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer, dies at 75

1926 Birthday - Peter Crill, Bailiff of Jersey

1925 Birthday - Peter Sellers, born in England, actor, not now, Kato, Bobo, Pink Panther

1925 Birthday - Peter Ludwig, businessman/art collector

1925 Birthday - Peter Foy, English Actor

1925 Event - Peter DePaolo became 1st man to average over 100 mph at Indy

1925 Birthday - Peter Leng, Master General of the Ordnance

1925 Birthday - Peter Blum, German/South African/English poet, Capricorn

1925 Birthday - Peter Brook, born in London, director, 1776, TV writer

1925 Birthday - Peter Graves, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, actor, James Phelps-Mission Impossible

1925 Birthday - Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral

1925 Birthday - Peter Lane, born in England, Baron Lane of Horsell, Lord Land of Horsell, politician, businessman, Conservative Party, served in Royal Navy, life peer, House of Lords

1925 Birthday - John Bury, born in England, theatre designer of sets, costumes, and lighting, made Amadeus with Peter Hall, nominated for multiple Tony awards

1924 Birthday - Peter Prowtiny, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire

1924 Birthday - Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore, egyptologist

1924 Birthday - Peter Allsop, publisher

1924 Birthday - Peter James Frederick Green, CEO Lloyd's of London

1924 Birthday - Peter Miles, British keeper of privy purse

1924 Birthday - Peter Heatly, CEO, Commonwealth Games Federation

1924 Birthday - Peter Shore, MP, Labour

1924 Birthday - Peter Aldersley, actor/disc jockey

1924 Birthday - Peter Vaughan, actor, Haunted Honeymoon, Die Die My Darling

1924 Birthday - Peter Baer, artist and printmaker

1924 Birthday - Peter Godfrey, chartered accountant

1924 Birthday - Peter Webster, British High Court Judge

1923 Birthday - Peter Hammond, born in London, England, actor, Buccaneers

1923 Birthday - Peter Lawford, born in London, England, actor, Mrs Miniver, Thin Man

1923 Birthday - Peter II Karadjordjevic, King of Yugoslavia, 1934-45

1923 Birthday - Peter Carey, permanent secretary, DTI

1923 Birthday - Peter Gay, American Historian

1923 Birthday - Peter Mennini, Erie Pennsylvania, composer, Moby Dick

1923 Birthday - Peter Bowring, CEO, C T Bowring

1923 Birthday - Peter Fowler, physicist

1922 Birthday - Peter Birch, Bronx, choreographer, Jane Froman's USA Canteen

1922 Birthday - Peter Andrew Tranchell, composer

1922 Birthday - Peter Jona Korn, composer

1922 Birthday - Ray Anthony, Penn, orchestra leader, Ray Anthony Show, Peter Gunn Theme

1921 Birthday - Peter Hansen, born in Oakland California, actor, Mr Parkson-Mr Novak, General Hospital

1921 Birthday - Peter Pocklington, NHL team owner, Edmonton Oiler

1921 Death - Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia (1903-21), dies

1921 Birthday - Peter Benenson, British Lawyer

1921 Birthday - Peter Twiss, test pilot

1921 Birthday - Peter Charles Arthur Wishart, composer

1921 Birthday - Peter Ustinov, born in London, actor, Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd

1921 Birthday - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest

1921 Birthday - Peter Horsley, CEO, Osprey Aviation

1921 Death - Peter Kropotkin, Russ Prince/geologist/revolut anarchist, dies at 78

1921 Birthday - Peter Sallis, actor, Tast the Blood of Dracula

1920 Birthday - Peter D. Mitchell, British Scientist

1920 Birthday - Peter Racine Fricker, British composer

1920 Birthday - Peter West, British sports commentator

1920 Birthday - Peter Jones, born in England, actor, From a Bird's Eye View

1920 Event - 24th Boston Marathon won by Peter Trivoulidas of Greece in 2:29:31

1920 Birthday - Paul Peter Piech, artist

1920 Birthday - Peter Clemoes, anglo-Saxon scholar

1920 Birthday - Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker

1919 Birthday - Peter Strawson, English philosopher

1919 Birthday - Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright

1919 Birthday - Peter Malcolm Gordon Raleigh, journalist

1919 Birthday - Peter Abrahams, South African Novelist

1919 Death - Peter Altenberg, writer, dies at 59

1919 Death - Richard Englander, Peter Altenberg, Austrian author, dies at 59

1918 Birthday - Peter A. Juten, office clerk/resistance fighter

1918 Death - Peter Gast, composer, dies at 64

1918 Birthday - Craig Stevens, born in Liberty, Missouri, actor, Craig-Dallas, Peter Gunn

1918 Birthday - Peter Aryans, PCJ Vander, Dutch radio actor, Shoot Out

1918 Birthday - Peter O'Sullevan, born in Ireland, horse racing commentator

1917 Birthday - Ram Gopal, Indies/English dancer, Blue Peter, Purple Plain

1917 Birthday - Peter Adams, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Alternative

1917 Birthday - Peter Bennett, London, actor, Leonides-Adv of Sir Lancelot

1917 Birthday - Peter Winter, naval commander

1917 Birthday - Peter Caddy, founder, Findhorn Community

1917 Birthday - Peter Taylor, U.S. writer

1916 Birthday - Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist, Marat/Sade

1916 Birthday - Peter Shepherd, English contractor/multi-millionaire

1916 Birthday - Peter Finch, London, actor, Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe

1916 Birthday - Peter Crichton Kirkpatrick, oarsman

1916 Birthday - Peter Crossley-Holland, composer

1915 Birthday - Peter Guy Wykeham-Barnes, fighter Pilot

1915 Birthday - Peter Lind Hayes, born in San Francisco, California, comedian/singer, Peter Lind Hayes Show

1915 Birthday - Peter Medawar, England, zoologist, immunologist, Nobel 1953

1914 Birthday - Peter Woolridge Townsend, war hero courtier writer

1914 Birthday - Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer

1914 Event - King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent

1914 Birthday - Peter Lancelot Williams, dance journalist

1914 Death - Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda (1885-1914), dies at 79

1913 Birthday - Mary Martin, Weatherford, Texas, actress, Peter Pan, Larry Hagman's mom

1913 Birthday - Peter Black, TV critic

1913 Birthday - Peter Glenville, actor stage/screen director, Hotel Paradiso, Becket

1913 Event - Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)

1913 Birthday - Peter Van Eyck, Steinwehr Germany, actor, Brain, Wages of Fear

1913 Birthday - Peter Diamand, artistic administrator

1913 Birthday - Peter Gibson, British Rear-Admiral

1913 Birthday - Peter Cushing, England, actor, Dracula, Star Wars, Dr. Who

1913 Birthday - Joseph Peter Grace, businessman

1913 Birthday - Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist

1912 Birthday - Peter Gretton, British vice admiral

1912 Birthday - Peter Menzies, CEO, British Electricity Council

1912 Birthday - Peter Bull, actor/author, Executioner, Tom Jones, Dr. Strangelove

1912 Birthday - Peter Francis de Sautoy, publisher

1912 Birthday - Peter Pooley, broadcaster

1911 Birthday - Peter Saunders, English theater producer, Legend of the Werewolf

1911 Birthday - Peter Graves, born in London, England, actor, Mission Impossible, Stalag 17

1911 Birthday - Peter Muir Doig, politician

1911 Death - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer, dies at 76

1911 Death - Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general, dies at about 75

1910 Death - Johan Peter Selmer, composer, dies at 66

1910 Birthday - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic

1910 Birthday - Peter Pears, Farnham England, tenor, Death in Venice

1910 Death - Kalman Mikszath, Hungarian author (Szent Peter Esernyoje), dies at 63

1910 Birthday - Peter De Vries, Chicago, author, Reuben Reuben, Prick of Noon

1909 Birthday - Peter Drucker, American Businessman

1909 Event - Knights and Ladies of St. Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama

1909 Birthday - Peter W. Rodino, born in Newark, New Jersey, Representative-D-New Jersey 1949 - 1989, chaired Watergate council

1908 Birthday - Giacomo Manzu, Italy, sculptor, St. Peter, Laurenskerk, Lenin Prize

1908 Birthday - Peter Conrad Baden, composer

1908 Death - Peter Oliver, English Artist

1908 Birthday - Peter Anders, German opera singer

1908 Birthday - Peter Oliver, English Artist

1908 Death - Peter Milne, composer, dies at 83

1907 Event - 41st Belmont: G Mountain aboard Peter Pan wins

1907 Death - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limbourg monastery founder, dies at 80

1906 Birthday - Peter Carl Goldmark, developed color TV and LP records

1906 Birthday - Peter Mieg, composer

1905 Birthday - Peter Paul Kreuder, composer

1905 Birthday - Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic, Byron in Italy

1905 Birthday - Peter Quennell, English Writer

1904 Event - Duke of York Theatre opens in London (1st musical Peter Pan)

1904 Event - King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime

1904 Birthday - Peter Lorre, Hungarian American, actor, M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers

1904 Death - Peter Hille, writer, dies

1904 Birthday - Peter Van Steeden, born in Amsterdam Netherlands, orchestra leader, Break the Bank

1904 Birthday - Peter Hurd, Roswell, New Mexico, painter, Portrait of Jose Herrera

1904 Death - Peter Prime Minister Alberdingk Thijm, Dutch historian/writer, dies at 76

1904 Birthday - Peter Arno, New York City, cartoonist, New Yorker

1903 Birthday - Peter Huchel, writer

1902 Death - John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois, dies at 54

1902 Birthday - Tyra Ryman, Arboga Sweden, actress, Peter the Tramp

1901 Birthday - Staff Nees, Flemish organist/composer, Simon Peter

1901 Event - Peter O'Connor of Ireland, sets then long jump record at 24' 11 3/4"

1901 Birthday - Peter Shankland, film maker/writer

1901 Death - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer and conductor (High Mass), dies at 66

1900 Death - Peter S Koyer, Danish painter/sculptor/graphic artist, dies at 49

1900 Death - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, dies at 94

1900 Event - Peter Ostlund skates world record 500m (45.2 sec)

1898 Birthday - Cyril Ritchard, Sydney Australia, actor, Peter Pan, Hans Brinker

1897 Event - Peter Pan opens in New York at Empire Theater

1897 Birthday - Hope Emerson, Hawarden Iowa, actress, I Married Joan, Peter Gunn

1897 Birthday - Peter Veres, literary/Hungarian minister of defense

1895 Event - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Black Peter"

1894 Birthday - Peter Warlock, composer

1893 Event - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducted 1st performance of "Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique"

1893 Event - English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit

1893 Birthday - Cedric Hardwicke, Stourbridge England, actor, Peter Pan, Richard III

1892 Event - "Nutcracker Suite," Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet, premieres

1891 Event - Boxers Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds

1891 Birthday - Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, born in Ukraine, composer, Peter and the Wolf

1891 Birthday - Peter Suhrkamp, German publisher, Suhrkamp Verlag

1891 Birthday - Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor and director, Great Netherlands Stage

1887 Death - Peter "Peerke" Donders, missionary (Father of Melaatsen), dies at 77

1886 Death - Peter Hofstede de Groot, Dutch reformed theologist, dies at 84

1886 Birthday - Peter Alma, Dutch painter/graphic artist

1885 Birthday - Joseph Deems Taylor, New York City, composer, Peter Ibbetson

1885 Death - Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer, dies at 72

1884 Birthday - Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist, Nobel 1936

1882 Birthday - Ludvig Nordstrom, Sweden, writer, Story of Peter Svensk

1882 Birthday - Peter Dawson, Australian Musician

1882 Death - Peter Singer, composer, dies at 71

1879 Birthday - Peter Van Anrooy, Dutch conductor and composer, Piet Hein Rhapsodie

1879 Death - Peter Arnold Heise, composer, dies at 49

1879 Death - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69

1878 Death - Peter D Regout, industrialist (Sphinx, Maastricht), dies at 76

1878 Birthday - Selim Palmgren, Finnish pianist/ composer and conductor, Peter Schlemihl

1878 Event - Peter Tsjaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres

1875 Event - Peter Tsjaikofsky's "1st Pianoconcert up. 23" premieres in Boston

1875 Death - Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer, dies at 72

1874 Death - Johann Peter Pixis, composer, dies at 86

1874 Death - Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies at 49

1874 Birthday - Thornton Waldo Burgess, author, Peter Rabbit

1870 Death - Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter, dies at 64

1870 Birthday - Amedos Peter Giannine, born in San Jose, California, founded Bank of America

1870 Birthday - Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer, Greenland

1869 Death - Peter M Roget, England, lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus), dies

1869 Birthday - Peter A. Egge, Norwegian writer, De Droom

1867 Birthday - Finley Peter Dunne, U.S., journalist/humorist, Mr Dooley

1866 Birthday - Beatrix Potter, born in England, children's author, Tale of Peter Rabbit

1864 Death - Peter A Porter, U.S. Union colonel (8th New York), dies in battle

1861 Birthday - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist

1861 Death - Peter A de Genestet, vicar/poet, dies at 31

1860 Birthday - James Matthew Barrie, Scotland, novelist, Margaret Ogilvy, Peter Pan

1859 Death - Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53

1859 Birthday - Richard Englander, Peter Altenberg, Austria, author, Lebensabend

1858 Birthday - Peter Christian Lutkin, composer

1856 Death - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer, dies at 64

1856 Birthday - Peter Henry Emerson, 1st to promote photography as an independent art

1855 Birthday - Peter J Blok, Dutch historian, History of the Dutch People

1854 Birthday - Peter Gast, composer

1853 Death - Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer, dies at 80

1853 Death - Peter Lichtenthal, composer, dies at 73

1852 Event - 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published

1851 Death - Peter II Petrovic Njegos, bishop of Montenegro 1830 - 1851, dies at 37

1851 Birthday - Peter S Koyer, Danish painter/sculptor/graphic artist

1850 Birthday - Peter Erasmus Lange-Muller, composer

1849 Event - Peter Burnett elected 1st governor of California

1847 Birthday - John Peter Altgeld, German/U.S., Gov-Ill, pardoned Haymarket-anarchists

1846 Death - Peter Ritter, composer, dies at 83

1846 Birthday - Peter Carl Faberge, Russia, goldsmith/jeweler/egg maker

1844 Birthday - Peter I Karadjordjevic, King of Serbia/Yugoslavia

1844 Birthday - Johan Peter Selmer, composer

1843 Birthday - Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, Peter the Great

1842 Birthday - Peter Kropotkin, Russian Revolutionary

1842 Birthday - Odon Peter Jozsef de Mihalovich, composer

1840 Birthday - Peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Votkinsk, Russia, composer, 1812 Overture

1840 Birthday - Peter Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, 1812 Overture, 5/7 NS

1834 Birthday - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer and conductor, Leie/Rubens Cantata

1834 Birthday - Peter H Hugenholtz, Dutch reformer/founder, Free Parish

1834 Birthday - Peter Leyten, bishop of Breda, 1885-1914

1834 Birthday - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer

1831 Death - Peter Hansel, composer, dies at 60

1831 Death - Peter Fuchs, composer, dies at 78

1830 Death - Peter I Petrovic Njegos, bishop (Montenegro), dies

1830 Birthday - Peter Arnold Heise, composer

1829 Birthday - Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet

1827 Birthday - Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder

1826 Death - Johann Peter Hebel, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect, dies in Schwetzingen, Germany, at age 66

1825 Death - Peter Gronland, composer, dies at 64

1825 Death - Peter Winter, composer, dies at 71

1825 Death - Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor, dies at 82

1824 Birthday - Peter Cornelius, composer

1824 Birthday - Peter Milne, composer

1823 Birthday - Peter Joseph Osterhaus, Major General Union volunteers

1821 Birthday - Alexander Peter "Old Straight" Stewart, Lieutenant General Confederate Army

1815 Death - Johann Peter Salomon, composer, dies at 70

1815 Death - Johann Peter Saloman, composer, dies at 70

1813 Birthday - Peter II Petrovic Njegos, poet/ruler of Montenegro, 1830 - 1851

1813 Death - Johann Friedrich Peter, composer, dies at 67

1812 Event - Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pennsylvania patents a horse-drawn mower

1812 Birthday - Peter C Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer

1811 Death - Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, dies at 69

1810 Birthday - Peter Singer, composer

1809 Birthday - Peter P van Bosse, Dutch attorney/liberal minister of Finance

1809 Birthday - Peter "Peerke" Donders, Dutch RC missionary to Suriname

1806 Birthday - Peter van Schendel, Dutch painter

1805 Birthday - Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General Union volunteers

1805 Birthday - Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer

1805 Birthday - Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist

1803 Birthday - Johan Peter Cronhamm, composer

1802 Birthday - Peter Hofstede, the Great, Dutch reformed theologist

1800 Death - Georg Peter Weimar, composer, dies at 66

1800 Death - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53

1797 Birthday - Franz Peter Schubert, Lichtenthal, Austria, composer, Unfinished Symphony

1795 Birthday - Peter of Limburg Brouwer, physician/classical/author

1791 Birthday - Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner, composer

1791 Birthday - Peter Cooper, industrialist/philanthropist, Cooper Union

1789 Death - Peter I Panin, Russian general (Pugatshov-uprising), dies at about 67

1789 Death - Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66

1789 Event - John Odell signs contract for 336 pounds to build St. Peter's church (Bronx)

1788 Birthday - Johann Peter Pixis, composer

1780 Birthday - Peter Lichtenthal, composer

1779 Birthday - Peter Roget, thesaurus fame/inventor, slide rule, pocket chessboard

1778 Death - Peter Burmannus Secundus, P Burman, Dutch classicist, dies at 64

1775 Death - Peter A van de Parra, Governor-General of (Netherlands Indies), dies at 61

1775 Birthday - Peter the Great, Russia

1775 Death - Jemeljan Pugatshov, Russian kosak leader/"czar Peter III", dies

1773 Birthday - Johann Peter Heuschkel, composer

1772 Death - Johann Peter Kellner, composer, dies at 66

1770 Birthday - Peter Hansel, composer

1763 Birthday - Peter Ritter, composer

1762 Death - Peter III Fjodorovitsj, Emperor of Russia (1762), dies at 34

1762 Death - Peter III Feodorovich, tsar of Russia (1761-62), murdered at 34

1762 Event - Russian Czar Peter III divorces his wife Catharina II

1761 Birthday - Peter Gronland, composer

1761 Death - Peter Musschenbroek, physician/physicist (Leidse Bottle), dies at 69

1760 Birthday - Johann Peter Hebel, born in Basel, Switzerland, writer, teacher, most widely read German poet, author, wrote in Alemanic dialect

1754 Birthday - Peter Winter, composer

1753 Birthday - Peter Fuchs, composer

1747 Birthday - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, Moon has Risen

1746 Death - John Peter Zenger, journalist, involved in 1st amendment fight, dies

1746 Birthday - Johann Friedrich Peter, composer

1745 Birthday - Johann Peter Salomon, composer

1742 Birthday - Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor

1741 Birthday - Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, Siberia/Krim

1741 Death - Peter Burmannus, Peter Burman, Dutch attorney/classicist, dies at 72

1734 Birthday - Georg Peter Weimar, composer

1731 Event - 1st U.S. music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston)

1730 Death - Peter II Alekseyevitch, emperor of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14

1730 Death - Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14

1728 Birthday - Robert Bage, English writer, Criticism by Peter Faulkner

1728 Birthday - Peter III, Kiel Germany, Russian tsar, 1762, husband of Catherine

1728 Birthday - Peter III Feodorovich, German/Russian czar of Russia, 1761-62

1727 Event - Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia

1725 Death - Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia (1682-1725), dies at 52

1725 Death - Peter I "the Great" Romanov, czar of Russia, dies at 52

1724 Death - Peter Schuyler, English Politician

1722 Birthday - Peter Camper, Leyden Holland, anatomist/professor, Amsterdam

1722 Event - Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards

1722 Event - Czar Peter the Great begins civil system

1721 Event - Czar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"

1721 Event - Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy

1718 Birthday - Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/diplomat, plot against Peter III

1716 Event - Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom

1716 Event - Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia and marries Czar Peter the Great's niece

1715 Birthday - Peter II Aleksejevitsj, Emperor of Russia, 1727-30

1715 Birthday - Peter II, czar of Russia, 1727-30

1714 Birthday - Peter A van de Parra, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies, 1761-75

1713 Birthday - Peter Burmannus Secundus, Pieter Burman, Dutch classicist

1711 Event - Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov

1710 Death - Peter Codde, apostile vicar (1688-1704), dies at 62

1710 Event - Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget

1709 Birthday - Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia/daughter of Peter the Great

1709 Birthday - Elizabeth, empress of Russia, to Peter the Great and Catherine I

1707 Event - Rakoczi II and Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement

1705 Birthday - Johann Peter Kellner, composer

1705 Birthday - Peter Arctedius, Swedish biologist

1703 Event - St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great

1702 Death - Peter Rabus, Dutch poet/translator (Great Name Book), dies at 41

1699 Event - Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1

1698 Event - Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards

1698 Event - Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe

1698 Event - Russian czar Peter the Great begins term

1698 Event - Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam

1698 Event - Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Netherlands to England

1697 Event - Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe

1697 Event - Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe

1696 Event - Czar Peter I's fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River

1692 Birthday - Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist, Leyden jar

1690 Birthday - Aleksei P Romanov, Russia, son of Peter the Great

1689 Event - Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia

1672 Birthday - Peter I Romanov, tsar of Russia, 1682-1725

1672 Birthday - Peter I, the Great, tsar of Russia, 1682-1725

1672 Birthday - Peter I "the Great" Romanov, great tsar of Russia, 1682-1725

1671 Death - Peter Zrinyi, Hungarian banished to Croatia, beheaded at 49

1668 Birthday - Peter Burmannus, Pieter Burman, Dutch attorney/classicist

1660 Birthday - Peter Schenck, German/Netherlands engraver/publisher, baptised

1660 Birthday - Peter Rabus, poet/translator, Liberated Britanje

1660 Death - Peter Scriverius, lawyer/historian, dies at 44

1660 Death - Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian, dies at 84

1659 Event - Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in U.S.)

1657 Birthday - Peter Schuyler, English Politician

1655 Event - Peter Stuyvesant recaptures Dutch Ft. Casimir from Swedish in Delaware

1655 Event - New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bars Jews from military service

1655 Event - Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam

1654 Death - Peter Claver, Spanish saint (baptized 300,000 slaves), dies

1648 Birthday - Peter Codde, RC apostole vicar, 1688-1704

1648 Event - Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen

1640 Death - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, dies at 62

1637 Event - Peter Minuit and 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden

1637 Death - Pierre Vernier [Peter Werner], French mathematician, dies

1626 Event - Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24

1626 Event - Peter Minuit becomes director-general of New Netherlands

1622 Death - Peter Plancius, Flemish vicar/cartographer, dies at about 69

1621 Birthday - Peter Zrinyi, Hungarian ruler of Croatia

1595 Death - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, dies at 69

1587 Event - English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower

1587 Event - English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower

1577 Birthday - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter, Circumcision

1576 Birthday - Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian

1560 Death - Peter S Lotichius, Peter Lotz, German poet (Opera omnia), dies

1552 Death - Peter Apianus, Bennewitz/Bienewitz, German astronomer, dies at 50

1545 Death - Pierre Brully, Peter Brulius, calvinist minister, burned to death

1533 Birthday - Peter Bornemisza, Hungarian vicar/author/publisher, Tragoedia

1529 Death - Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies

1528 Birthday - Peter S Lotichius, Peter Lotz, Neo latin poet, Collected Works

1526 Birthday - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, Historia Martyrum

1521 Birthday - Peter Canisius, Pieter de Hondt/Kanijs, jesuit/saint

1518 Death - Pierre de la Rue/Peter van Straten, Flemish composer, dies

1474 Death - Peter van Hagenbach, Elzasser knight/land guardian, beheaded

1474 Event - Breisach land guardian Peter von Hagenbach throws out Walloon/Italians

1449 Death - Peter, Prince/regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa Benfeitoria), dies

1420 Death - Pierre d'ailly/Peter de Alliaco, French theologist/cardinal, dies

1392 Birthday - Peter, Prince/Regent of Portugal/writer, Virtuosa benfeitoria

1390 Death - Peter van Herenthals, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67

1364 Event - Peter Coutherel banished from Leuven

1322 Birthday - Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian

1252 Death - Peter of Verona, Peter Martyr, Italian inquisitor/st, dies at 45

1249 Death - Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies

1208 Death - Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered

1156 Death - Peter Venerabilis, French theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies at about 61

1115 Death - Peter van Amiens, French minister of crusades, dies at about 64

1111 Event - German King Hendry V arrives at St. Peter, Rome

1083 Event - Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St. Peter's Cathedral

969 Death - Peter, tsar of Bulgaria (927-69), dies













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