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2013 Event - The Liberal Political Party of Canada choses Justin Trudeau, son of Pierre Trudeau, as its new leader

2007 Death - Abbe Pierre, dies in Paris, France, following a lung infection, at 94

2004 Death - Pierre Berton, journalist/historian, Klondike Fever, dies at 84

2004 Death - Pierre Salinger, journalist/political press officer, dies at 79

2000 Death - Pierre Elliott Trudeau, former Canadian Prime Minister, dies at 80

2000 Death - Pierre Trudeau, Canadian Statesman

1996 Event - 4th Solheim Cup: U.S. beats Europe 17-11 at St. Pierre Wales

1996 Death - Pierre Lucien Claverie, bishop of Oran, dies at 58

1996 Death - Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist, dies at 73

1996 Death - Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72

1995 Death - Pierre Olaf, cabaret artist/clown, dies at 67

1995 Death - Pierre Schaeffer, composer/radio innovator, dies at 85

1995 Death - Jorge Peixinho, pianist, conductor, composer, studied with Pierre Boulez, founder, Lisbon Contemporary Music Group, dies in Lisbon, Portugal

1995 Death - Pierre Tisseyre, publisher (Circle du livre de France), dies at 85

1994 Death - Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87

1994 Death - Pierre Boulle, French writer (Executioner), dies at 81

1993 Death - Pierre Beregovoy, Prime Minister of France 1992 - 1993, commits suicide at 67

1993 Event - New York Islanders beat Washington Caps 4 to 1 in playoffs, Caps Dale Hunter attacks Pierre Turgeon after scoring, in hockey's worst cheap shot

1992 Death - Pierre Culliford [Peyo], Belgian cartoonist (Smurfs), dies at 64

1992 Death - Pierre Billotte, French military man (IIGM), dies

1989 Death - Pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82

1986 Death - Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61), dies at 81

1984 Event - Pierre Mauroy resigns as premier of France

1984 Event - John Turner succeeds Pierre Trudeau as premier of Canada

1984 Death - Pierre Cochereau, composer, dies at 59

1984 Event - Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau announced he is stepping down

1982 Death - Pierre Mendes-France, premier France (1954-55), dies

1980 Event - Pierre Elliott Trudeau's Liberal Party wins Canada's elections

1979 Event - Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau

1976 Event - Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title

1975 Death - Pierre Blaise, French actor (Lacombe Lucien), dies at 24

1975 Death - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (Monsieur Vincent), dies at 77

1972 Event - Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government

1972 Birthday - Pierre Allard, hockey forward, Team France 1998

1972 Death - Pierre Brasseur, French actor (Quai des Brumes), dies at 66

1972 Event - Pierre Messmer appointed French premier

1972 Birthday - Martin St. Pierre, born in Ripon, Quebec, 20k walker in 1996 Olympics

1970 Event - KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting

1969 Birthday - Pierre van Hooijdonk, Dutch soccer player, NAC, Celtic

1969 Birthday - Pierre Turgeon, Rouyn, NHL center, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens

1969 Death - Pierre Capdevielle, composer, dies at 63

1968 Death - Pierre Mulele, Congolese rebel leader, executed

1968 Event - Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM

1967 Death - Pierre Moulaert, composer, dies at 60

1967 Death - Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet (English paint box), dies at 80

1966 Death - Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer, dies at 63

1966 Death - Pierre Mercure, composer, dies at 38

1965 Event - Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government

1965 Death - Pierre Cardevielle, French composer and conductor (L'ile Rouge), dies at 59

1965 Death - Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered

1964 Birthday - Pierre Vercheval, CFL guard for the Toronto Argonauts

1964 Event - Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville

1964 Death - Pierre Monteux, French/U.S. conductor, Concert Building Orchestra, dies at 89

1964 Birthday - Pierre Trentin, France, 1K time trials, Gold Medal 1968 Olympics

1963 Death - Pierre Blanchar, actor (Man From Nowhere), dies at 71

1962 Death - Pierre Froidebise, composer, dies at 48

1960 Death - Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet (North-South), dies at 70

1958 Event - Pierre Pflimlin forms French government

1958 Birthday - Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco

1958 Birthday - Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco/bobsledder 1988 Olympics

1955 Birthday - Pierre Bokma, Dutch actor, Avonden, Leedvermaak

1955 Birthday - Pierre J Thuot, Groton Conn, Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, STS-36, 49, 62

1955 Death - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, French Philosopher

1954 Event - Pierre Mendes-France forms French government

1953 Birthday - Monique St. Pierre, Weisbaden Germany, playmate of year, Nov, 1978

1953 Death - Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc, author (Path to Rome), dies at 82

1949 Death - Pierre Breville, composer, dies at 88

1947 Death - Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator, dies at 79

1946 Birthday - Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry, born in Cameroon, astronaut, STS-18

1946 Birthday - Pierre van der Linden, Dutch drummer, Brainbox

1945 Death - Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, executed at 62

1945 Death - Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, French writer/poet, commits suicide at 52

1944 Death - Pierre Vienot, French ambassador to London/writer, dies

1940 Birthday - Jorge Peixinho, born in Montijo, Portugal, pianist, conductor, composer, studied with Pierre Boulez, founder, Lisbon Contemporary Music Group

1939 Birthday - Pierre Mertens, French/Belgian writer, Lettres Clandestines

1939 Birthday - Heinz Holliger, born in Langenthal, Switzerland, studied with Pierre Boulez, composer, world's most famous oboe player

1938 Birthday - Pierre Lucien Claverie, bishop of Oran

1937 Death - Pierre de Coubertin, baron/revivor of Olympics, dies at 74

1936 Death - Pierre Maurice, composer, dies at 68

1936 Birthday - Michel Decoust, born in Paris, France, composer, conductor, studied with Pierre Boulez, teacher, founder, Pantin Conservatoire Municipal de Musique

1935 Birthday - Pierre Marietan, composer

1935 Birthday - Pierre Kartner, Father Abraham, Dutch singer, Smurf Song

1935 Birthday - Pierre S Du Pont IV, gov-Del

1932 Birthday - Francois Bayle, born in Taomasina, Madagascar, composer, Musique concrete, acousmatic music, studied with Pierre Schaeffer, Karlheinz Stockhausen

1931 Birthday - Pierre Huyskens, Dutch radio host

1930 Birthday - Pierre Bourdieu, French Sociologist

1930 Birthday - Pierre Max Dubois, composer

1929 Birthday - Luc Ferrari, born in Paris, France, composer, concentrated on musical composition, collaborated with Pierre Schaeffer from 1957 - 1966, extended notion of abstract music, interested in breaking barriers that force musical tradition

1928 Birthday - Pierre Olaf, Cauderan France, actor, Kraft Music Hall

1927 Birthday - Pierre Henry, composer

1927 Birthday - Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter/director, Cobra

1927 Birthday - John Pierre Herman Joubert, composer, Chamber Music for brass quintet

1927 Birthday - Pierre Mercure, composer

1926 Birthday - Pierre Janssen, art museum director

1926 Birthday - Pierre "Peyo" Culliford, Brussels Belgium, cartoonist, Smurfs

1925 Birthday - Pierre Beregovoy, French premier, 1992-93

1925 Event - Pierre de Coubertin steps down as chairman of International Olympic Committee

1925 Birthday - Pierre Baugniet, Belgium, pairs ice skater 1948 Olympics gold

1925 Birthday - Pierre Salinger, newsman, ABC, press secretary, John Kennedy

1925 Death - Pierre Louys, PF Louis, French writer (Aphrodite), dies

1925 Birthday - Pierre Boulez, born in Montbrison, France, composer and conductor, Visage Nuptial

1924 Death - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer, dies at 76

1924 Birthday - Pierre Cochereau, composer

1923 Death - Pierre Loti, Julien Viaud, French sea officer/writer, dies

1922 Birthday - Pierre Chany, writer/cycling journalist

1922 Birthday - Pierre Cardin, Paris, France, fashion designer, Unisex

1921 Birthday - Pierre Laporte, Canada, journalist/statesman, Revolution Script

1921 Birthday - Lancelot Pierre, cricketer, 1 Test WI vs. England 1948, 0-28

1920 Birthday - Pierre A. Lauffer, Antillian poet, Patria

1920 Birthday - Pierre Berton, Canadian Author

1920 Birthday - Pierre Jonqueres d'Oriola, France, equest jumper, Gold Medal 1952, 1964 Olympics

1919 Death - Pierre A Renoir, French painter/sculptor, dies at 78

1919 Birthday - Pierre Trudeau, 15th Canadian PM, 1968-79, 1980-84

1917 Birthday - Pierre Dubois, Dutch literary

1916 Birthday - Pierre Emmanuel, French poet, Sodome

1916 Birthday - Pierre Messmer, PM, France

1915 Birthday - Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer, Capitaine Bruno

1915 Birthday - Pierre Wissmer, Swiss composer/theory, Capitaine Bruno

1914 Birthday - Pierre A Balmain, France, fashion designer, 1940's "New Look"

1914 Birthday - Pierre Froidebise, composer

1912 Birthday - Abbe Pierre, born in Lyon, France, French Catholic priest, founded Emmaus movement aiding poor, homeless, refugees

1911 Event - 1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m)

1910 Birthday - Pierre Musy, born in Switzerland, 4-man bobsled 1936 Olympics gold

1910 Birthday - Pierre Schaeffer, French engineer/composer

1907 Birthday - Pierre Moulaert, composer

1907 Birthday - Pierre E J Pflimlin, premier France

1906 Birthday - Pierre Fournier, born in Paris, France, violon cellist, Paris Conservatoire

1906 Birthday - Pierre [Louis] Boileau, born in Paris, France, novelist, Vertigo

1906 Death - Pierre Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), dies

1906 Birthday - Pierre Cardevielle, French composer and conductor, Amants Captifs

1906 Death - Pierre L Goossens, Belgian archbishop of Malines/Cardinal, dies at 78

1905 Birthday - Pierre Brasseur, Espinasse, French actor, Enfants du Paradis

1905 Death - Pietro/Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, 1st French Congo Governor (1890-98), die

1905 Death - Pierre de Braza, founder (French Congo), dies

1905 Event - Pierre de Brazza leaves Brazzaville

1905 Event - Pierre de Brazza reaches Leopoldville

1905 Event - Pierre de Brazza lands in Libreville Gabon

1905 Birthday - Pierre Mendes-France, French Premier, 1954-55

1904 Death - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French foreign minister (Dreyfus), dies

1903 Event - Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie

1903 Birthday - Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer

1902 Birthday - Pierre Brunet, France, figure skater pair, Gold Medal 1928, 1932 Olympics

1902 Event - Mount Pelee erupts, wipes out St. Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000

1902 Event - Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radioactive element radium

1902 Event - Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium

1902 Birthday - Pierre Palla, Dutch pianist/organist

1898 Event - Scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discovers radium

1898 Death - Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, French painter (Pantheon), dies at 73

1898 Birthday - Enny de Leeuwe, Engelina, actress, Anatevka, wife of Pierre Mols

1897 Birthday - Pierre Fresnay, born in Paris, France, actor, Grand Illusion

1893 Birthday - Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, French novelist/essayist, Gilles

1892 Birthday - Pierre Blanchar, born in Philippeville, Algeria, actor, Magnificent Sinner

1889 Birthday - Pierre Reverdy, French author and poet, Coeur de Chevre

1886 Birthday - Pierre Kemp, Dutch poet, Fugitives and Constants

1886 Birthday - Pieter "Pierre" Balledux, stage manager/Dutch resistance fighter

1883 Event - French fleet under Pierre begins siege of Tamatave, Madagascar

1882 Event - Pierre de Brazza meets Henry Morton Stanley

1882 Event - Belgian King Leopold II receives Pierre de Brazza

1882 Birthday - Pierre H Ritter, Jr., Dutch literary/head, Utrecht Newspaper

1882 Event - Pierre de Brazza festival welcomed in Paris

1881 Birthday - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, France, philosopher/paleontologist

1881 Death - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican MP, dies at 65

1880 Event - Henry Stanley and Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo

1880 Event - Pierre de Brazza signs treaty with King Makoko of Congo

1875 Birthday - Pierre Monteux, born in Paris, France, conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra 1919 - 1924

1873 Birthday - Charles Pierre Peguy, Orleans Fr, Catholic writer, God Speaks

1871 Death - Pierre A du Terrail, French writer, dies at 41

1870 Birthday - Pierre Louijs, France, novelist/poet, Aphrodite, Woman and Puppet

1868 Birthday - Pierre Maurice, composer

1868 Event - Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse

1867 Birthday - Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator

1866 Event - Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle

1863 Birthday - Pierre de Coubertin, France, baron, revived Olympic games

1861 Birthday - Pierre M M Duhem, French naturalist/philosopher/historian

1861 Birthday - Pierre Breville, composer

1859 Birthday - Pierre Marie Felix Janet, France, psychologist/neurologist

1859 Birthday - Pierre Curie, France, physicist, Nobel 1903

1858 Death - Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer, dies at 73

1856 Death - Pierre J David, David d'Angers, French sculptor, dies at 67

1852 Birthday - Pierre Brazza, explorer/colonial administrator, French Africa

1850 Birthday - Pierre Loti, Julien Viaud, French sea officer/writer, Pacheur

1849 Death - Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44

1848 Birthday - Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer

1846 Birthday - Pierre M Waldeck-Rousseau, French Minister of Foreign affairs/premier

1845 Death - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher, dies at 82

1845 Death - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French philosopher/Council of 500, dies

1842 Death - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist and composer, dies at 70

1842 Death - Pierre, earl the Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba), dies at 71

1841 Birthday - Pierre Auguste Renoir, Limoges France, Impressionist painter/sculptor

1838 Birthday - Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun

1830 Death - Pierre Rode, composer, dies at 56

1829 Birthday - Pierre A Vicomte de Ponson du Terrail, French serial writer

1827 Birthday - Pierre L Goossens, archbishop of Mechelen/Cardinal

1827 Death - Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82

1827 Death - Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician

1825 Death - Pierre Gaveaux, composer, dies at 64

1824 Birthday - Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, French painter, Pantheon

1821 Birthday - Pierre Dupont, song writer

1818 Birthday - Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, U.S. Confederate gen, Hero of Sumter

1815 Birthday - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican representative of the people

1813 Birthday - Charles Pierre Schimpf, governor of Suriname, 1855-59

1809 Birthday - Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician, libertarian socialist

1804 Birthday - Pierre F Verhulst, Belgium, mathematician, logistic curve

1799 Death - Pierre de Beaumarchais, dramatist, dies

1798 Death - Pierre Dutillieu, composer, dies at 44

1797 Death - Pierre de Jelyotte, composer, dies at 84

1793 Death - Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader, guillotined at 40

1793 Event - Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America

1789 Death - Pierre Lyonet, Dutch zoologist/cryptologist, dies at 82

1788 Birthday - Pierre J David, David d'Angers, French sculptor

1785 Death - Pierre Talon, composer, dies at 63

1785 Birthday - Alexandre Pierre Francois Boely, composer

1784 Death - Pierre Leclair, composer, dies at 74

1774 Birthday - Pierre Rode, composer

1771 Birthday - Pierre MF de Sales Baillot, French violinist and composer

1770 Birthday - Pierre earl de Cambronne, French general, Waterloo, Elba

1768 Death - Pierre van Maldere, composer, dies at 39

1764 Event - St. Louis founded as a French trading post by Pierre Laclade Ligue

1763 Birthday - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher

1760 Birthday - Pierre Gaveaux, composer

1758 Death - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60

1757 Death - Pierre Prowo, composer, dies at 60

1754 Birthday - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, France, architect laid out Washington D.C.

1754 Birthday - Pierre Dutillieu, composer

1753 Birthday - Pierre V Vergniaud, French politician/police leader

1753 Death - Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer, dies at 55

1749 Birthday - Pierre Laplace, French Mathematician

1744 Birthday - Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer

1738 Death - Pierre Drevet, French engraver, dies

1735 Birthday - Pierre Nicolas La Houssaye, composer

1732 Birthday - Pierre de Baumarchais, France, playwright, Barber of Seville

1731 Death - Pierre Danican Philidor, composer, dies at 50

1729 Birthday - Pierre van Maldere, composer

1728 Event - Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus," premieres in Paris

1722 Event - Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance," premieres in Paris

1721 Birthday - Pierre Talon, composer

1720 Event - Pierre de Marivaux' "Arlequin Poli Par l'Amour," premieres in Paris

1717 Death - Pierre Allix, French/British theologist/vicar, dies at about 75

1717 Birthday - Pierre de La Garde, composer

1713 Birthday - Pierre de Jelyotte, composer

1710 Death - Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 75

1709 Birthday - Pierre Leclair, composer

1706 Death - Pierre Bayle, French theologist (History of Criticism), dies at 59

1706 Death - Pierre Verdier, composer, dies at 79

1698 Birthday - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, heliometer

1697 Birthday - Pierre Prowo, composer

1697 Birthday - Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer

1688 Birthday - Pierre De Marivaux, Paris, France, writer, Marianne

1684 Death - Pierre Corneille, French lawyer/dramatist (El Cid, Polyeucte), dies at 42

1681 Birthday - Pierre Danican Philidor, composer

1674 Event - Pierre Corneille's "Surena," premieres in Paris

1670 Event - Pierre Corneille's "Tite et Berenice," premieres in Paris

1665 Death - Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (Fermat therorem), dies at 63

1665 Birthday - Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician

1665 Death - Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer/mathematician (principle of F), dies at 63

1664 Event - Pierre Corneille's "Othon," premieres in Paris

1663 Birthday - Pierre Drevet, French engraver

1659 Event - Pierre Corneille's "Oedipe," premieres in Paris

1656 Death - Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 64

1655 Death - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, dies at 63

1647 Birthday - Pierre Bayle, French/Netherlands theologist/philosopher/writer

1640 Event - Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis

1640 Event - Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris

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

1634 Death - Pierre De La Barre, composer, dies at 42

1631 Event - Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler

1629 Death - Pierre the Berulle, French cardinal/founder (French Oratorio), dies

1627 Birthday - Pierre Verdier, composer

1612 Birthday - Paul de La Pierre, composer

1606 Birthday - Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist, El Cid, Horace

1603 Death - Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies

1592 Birthday - Pierre de La Barre, composer

1592 Birthday - Pierre Gassendi, Champtercier Provence, scientist/philosopher

1590 Death - Pierre de Loyseleur de Villiers, S Netherlands theologist, dies at about 60

1575 Birthday - Pierre de Berulle, French cardinal

1567 Death - Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France, dies at 74

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

1523 Birthday - Pierre de Ronsard, poet

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

1493 Birthday - Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France

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

1392 Event - Assassination attempt on Pierre de Craon Van Clisson of France, fails

1378 Death - Gregory XI, Pierre R the Beaufort, last French Pope (1370-78), dies

1352 Death - Clement VI, Pierre Roger, Pope (1342-52), dies

1302 Death - Pierre Flote, French 1st legist/chancellor of king Philip IV, dies

1276 Death - Innocent V, Pierre the Tarantaise, Pope (1276), dies at about 36

1276 Event - Pierre de Tarantaise elected Pope Innocence V

1142 Death - Pierre Abelard, French philosopher (Sic et Non, Heloise), dies at 62













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