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1997 Death - David Abell Wood, priest, dies at 72

1997 Death - Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader, dies at 75

1996 Death - Gerald Moverley, priest, dies at 74

1996 Death - Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest, dies at 83

1996 Death - George Henderson, priest/politician, dies at 74

1996 Death - Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest, dies at 78

1996 Death - Alan Cheales, dominican priest, dies at 83

1996 Death - Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest, dies at 61

1996 Death - David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist, dies at 60

1995 Death - Simon Bailey, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson, died while distributing leaflets for the Labor Party

1995 Death - Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, russion Orthodox Priest, dies at 68

1995 Death - Bernadette Hingley, priest, dies at 47

1995 Death - Ronald Farrow, radio producer/priest, dies at 49

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

1995 Death - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician, dies at 83

1995 Death - Philip Sherrington, opus Dei Priest, dies at 51

1995 Death - Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/MI6-spy/priest, dies at 76

1994 Death - Jean-Marie Vincent, Haitian Catholic priest, shot dead

1994 Death - Giuseppe Diana, Italian anti-mafia priest, murdered

1992 Death - Paul Storken, Dutch priest (Away Backing), dies

1992 Death - Patrick Peyton, Rosary Priest, dies of kidney failure at 83

1991 Event - Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church

1991 Event - Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church

1991 Death - Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit, dies at 83

1990 Death - Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Jes priest/apprentice Zen teacher, dies at 92

1990 Death - Tom Brown, actor (Judge Priest, Hello Sucker, Ex-Champ), dies at 77

1985 Death - James Vance (20) and Raymond Belknap (18), commit suicide, sparking their families to sue rock group Judas Priest for subliminal messages

1984 Death - Jerzy Popieluszko, Polish priest/dissident, kidnapped and murdered

1982 Event - In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish priest with a bayonet is stopped prior to his attempt to attack Pope John Paul II

1978 Death - Rolf Gunther, East German priest, self imolation

1978 Event - Joseph Freeman, Jr. is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

1977 Event - Maurine Stuart, ordained as Zen priest by Eido Tai Shimano Roshi

1977 Event - 1st woman formally ordained an Episcopal priest (Jacqueline Means)

1973 Birthday - Priest Holmes, running back for the Baltimore Ravens

1973 Birthday - Priest Lauderdale, NBA center for the Denver Nuggets

1971 Death - Ferdinand LR Sassen, priest/philosopher (Descartes), dies at 77

1970 Event - Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest

1970 Event - Dutch bishops says he is in favor of married priest

1969 Death - Wim van Nuland, priest and writer 'Doorstep', dies

1968 Death - Thomas Merton, French/U.S. priest and writer '7 Story Mountain', dies at 53

1966 Death - Camillo Torres, Colombian priest/guerrilla fighter, dies

1962 Birthday - Michael Wilton, born in San Francisco, California, guitarist, singer, member of Queensryche, progressive metal musician, influenced by Judas Priest, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, UFO

1961 Death - Henri-Edouard-Prosper Breuil, priest/archaeologist, dies

1961 Birthday - Maxi Priest, Max Elliott, Jamaican/English singer, Wild World

1955 Birthday - Simon Bailey, born in Halifax, England, Reverend Simon Bailey, priest, Anglican, Labor Party member, socialist historian associates include Dorothy Thompson, J.B. Priestly, E.P Thompson

1954 Death - Floris HL Prims, Flemish priest/historian/archivist of Antwerp, dies

1953 Event - Vatican disallows priest holiday work in factory

1953 Birthday - Jane Priest, born in Perth, Australia, Prince Charles' lover

1951 Death - Oscar Stanton De Priest, Representative-D-Illinois 1929 - 1935, dies at 80

1950 Birthday - Steve Priest, London, rock bassist, Sweet Hayes

1948 Birthday - Bernadette Hingley, British priest

1946 Birthday - Ronald Farrow, radio producer and priest

1945 Event - John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest

1944 Death - Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian, dies

1944 Event - Stalin meets Polish/U.S. priest S Orlemanski

1942 Death - Titus Brandsma, Anno Sjoerd, Dutch RC priest (Dachau), dies

1941 Death - Camille Melloy, the Paepe, Belgian priest/poet (Requiem), dies at 50

1941 Event - Archbishop De Young bans priest cooperation on Rijks radio

1940 Birthday - Penelope Keith, British actress, Norman Conquests, Priest of Love

1938 Death - Arthur Boon, Flemish priest/philologist, dies at 54

1936 Birthday - David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist

1936 Birthday - Ama Samy, Burma, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher/disciple of Yamada Koun

1934 Birthday - Lawrence Martin Jenco, priest

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

1931 Death - Willem H Nolens, priest/2nd Chamber member, dies

1928 Birthday - Joss Ackland, born in London, England, actor, Queenie, To Kill a Priest

1927 Birthday - Ivan Metropolitan Ioann Snychev, Russion Orthodox Priest

1927 Birthday - Claude Laydu, actress, Diary of a Country Priest

1925 Birthday - David Abell Wood, priest

1925 Birthday - Ernesto Cardenal, born in Granada, Nicaragua, Catholic priest, famous Nicaraguan Sandinista liberation theologian, served as culture minister, poet, established primitivist art community

1923 Birthday - Philip Berrigan, militant priest, Chicago 7

1923 Death - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw), dies at 67

1921 Birthday - Michael Hollings, catholic priest/crusader

1921 Birthday - George Henderson, priest/politician

1921 Birthday - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest

1918 Birthday - Halsey S. Colchester, British SAS, spy for MI6 and priest

1918 Birthday - Adriano Mandarino Hypolito, priest

1913 Birthday - Alan Cheales, dominican priest

1913 Birthday - Guiseppe Dossetti, politician/priest

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

1912 Birthday - Alexis Kagame, Rwanda, priest/writer

1911 Birthday - Wim van Nuland, Willem C Mohlmann, Dutch priest/writer, Doorstep

1911 Birthday - Kenneth Norman Joseph Loveless, priest folk musician

1910 Death - Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, dies at 70

1907 Birthday - Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit

1907 Death - A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/politician (CVP), dies

1904 Event - Angelo G Roncalli (Pope John XXIII) becomes a priest.

1902 Birthday - Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer y Albas, Spanish priest, Opus Dei

1898 Birthday - Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, Germany, Jesuit priest/Zen teacher

1896 Death - Emile AH Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer/man of letters, dies at 58

1895 Birthday - Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest

1891 Birthday - Maurus H Hulsman, Dutch priest/editor, Amigoe di Curaeao

1890 Death - Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader, dies at 85

1888 Birthday - Georges Bernanos, France, novelist, Diary of a Country Priest

1888 Birthday - Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer, Viaduct Murder

1882 Birthday - Floris H. L. Prims, Flemish priest, historian and archivist of Antwerp

1878 Birthday - James M. Kilroe, priest of St. Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx

1877 Birthday - Jozef de Voght, Flemish priest/songwriter, Under the Snow

1876 Birthday - Irvin S Cobb, Kentucky, writer/humorist, Old Judge Priest

1874 Birthday - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian priest/writer

1860 Birthday - Willem H Nolens, priest/Dutch ambassador to Vatican

1856 Birthday - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest and politician, Volkseeuw

1856 Birthday - Anton Askerc, Slavic priest/poet, Primoz Trubar

1855 Birthday - Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian

1854 Death - Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, dies at 71

1849 Death - Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botany, dies at 44

1840 Birthday - Franz Xaver Haberl, German priest/musicologist, Magister choralis

1838 Birthday - Gabriele dell' Addolorata, Francesco Possenti, Italian priest

1837 Birthday - A Adolf Daens, Belgian priest/Dutch party founder, CVP

1837 Birthday - Emile A H Seipgens, Dutch priest/beer brewer

1830 Birthday - Guido Gezelle, Flemish priest/poet

1824 Death - Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/Friesland, dies at 79

1815 Event - Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos

1815 Death - Jose Maria Morelos, Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards

1811 Death - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, Mexican hero priest, executed by Spanish

1811 Death - Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed

1804 Birthday - Desire de Haerne, Belgian priest/Congressional leader

1804 Birthday - Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botanist

1803 Birthday - Cornelius Broere, Dutch priest/poet

1803 Death - Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian, dies at 80

1793 Event - Father Stephen Theodore Badin is 1st U.S. Roman Catholic priest ordained

1792 Birthday - John Keble, Anglican priest/founder, Oxford Movement

1791 Event - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman

1782 Birthday - Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer, L'avenir

1744 Birthday - Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland

1744 Death - Andre Campra, French priest/ composer and conductor (Tancrede), dies at 83

1729 Birthday - Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet, Il Giorno

1722 Birthday - Jean-Noel/Joannes Natalis Paquot, Belgian priest/historian

1719 Death - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67

1713 Birthday - Junipero Serra, priest had a mission in California

1700 Event - Mass orders priest to leave the colony

1695 Event - Jonathan Swift ordained an Anglican priest in Ireland

1651 Birthday - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theorist/saint

1647 Event - Massachusetts disallows priest access to colony

1603 Death - Philippus the Monte, priest/bandmaster/composer, dies at 82

1595 Death - Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest

1594 Death - Michel Renichon, priest, executed

1572 Death - Joannes van Naarden, priest, hanged

1572 Death - Ludovicus Voets, priest, hanged

1564 Death - Jean Caulvin, John Calvin, priest/church reformer, dies at 54

1561 Death - Menno Simonsz, Dutch priest/vicar (Foundation Book), dies

1544 Death - Alardus Aemstelredamus, priest/humanist, dies at about 53

1536 Death - Desiderius Erasmus, humanist/priest (Novum instrumentum omne), dies

1533 Birthday - Christianus Adrichomius, Dutch priest/writer, Vita Jesu Christi

1523 Death - Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake

1523 Death - John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake

1515 Birthday - St. Philippus Nerius, Philippo Neri, Italian merchant/priest

1507 Birthday - Viglius ab Aytta Zuichemus, Aytta van Zwichem, Dutch priest

1400 Death - Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies

1381 Death - John Ball, English priest/ideologist of Boer uprising, hanged

1335 Event - Ex-emperor Hanazono became a Zen priest

1222 Birthday - Nichiren, Japan, Buddhist priest and saint

1021 Event - Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest













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