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1994 Death - Gilbert Roland, Mexican/US actor (Armand in Camille), dies at 88

1994 Death - Roland Ratzenberger, race car driver, claimed 1962 as birth year to appear younger and extend racing career, won 1986 Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festival, dies while qualifying for San Marino Prix, in 1994

1989 Death - Roland Winters, actor (Jet Pilot, Meet Millie), dies at 84

1984 Death - Roland Culver, actor (Thunderball), dies of heart problems at 83

1983 Event - Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling

1976 Death - Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88

1972 Birthday - Roland Ramoser, hockey forward, Team Italy 1998

1971 Birthday - Roland McGhee, Flint Michigan, long jumper

1967 Birthday - Roland Holder, cricketer, West Indian batsman in ODI's 1993-

1967 Birthday - Roland Jansen, soccer player, Willem II

1963 Birthday - Roland Lefebvre, cricket pace bowler, Glamorgan and Holland

1961 Birthday - Roland Orzabal, rock vocalist, Tears for Fears-Shout, Head over Heels

1961 Birthday - Roland Gift, UK, rocker, Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy

1960 Birthday - Roland Ratzenberger, Salzburg, Austria, race car driver, claimed 1962 as birth year to appear younger and extend racing career, won 1986 Brands Hatch Formula Ford Festival

1955 Birthday - Roland Emmerich, German Director

1954 Death - Roland Diggle, composer, dies at 69

1953 Birthday - Roland Butcher, cricketer, 1st black to play for England 1981

1953 Event - Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1953 Death - Roland Young, actor (David Copperfield, Irene, Dulcy), dies at 65

1952 Birthday - Duane Roland, rock guitarist, Molly Hatchet

1952 Death - Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author, dies at 82

1950 Birthday - Roland Matthes, born in East Germany, 100m/200m backstroke, 4 Gold Medals 1968, 1972 Olympics, Silver Medals 1968, 1972 Olympics, Bronze Medals 1972, 1976 Olympics

1945 Birthday - Adje Roland, Dutch disc-jockey

1945 Birthday - Roland Joffe, director, City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields

1945 Death - Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case), dies

1944 Death - Romain Roland, French writer/pacifist (Nobel 1915), dies at 78

1944 Event - July 20th Plot trial under Roland Freis in Berlin begins

1938 Death - Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter, dies at 70

1936 Birthday - Roland Sheldon, pitcher, New York Yankees

1936 Birthday - Rahsaan Kirk, Roland rocker

1928 Birthday - Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman, Police Complaints Authority

1927 Birthday - Roland Verhavert, Flemish screen writer, Sea Gulls Die in the Harbor

1924 Death - Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/explorer (Surinam), dies at 65

1919 Death - Roland baron Eotvos, Hungarian physicist, dies at 70

1918 Death - Roland Garros, French stunt flyer, dies

1917 Birthday - Tiny Rowland, Roland Fuhrop, German/British owner, Observer

1915 Death - Roland Leighton, dies at 20

1915 Birthday - Roland Barthes, French literary critic, L'Empire des Signer

1913 Event - Roland Garros is 1st to fly over Mediterranean Sea

1911 Birthday - Roland Jacobi Leich, composer

1905 Birthday - Gilbert Roland, Luis Alonso, born in Juarez, Mexico, actor, Juarez, Barbarosa

1904 Birthday - Roland Winters, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Mama, Smothers Brothers

1900 Birthday - Roland Culver, born in London, England, actor, Thunderball, Encore

1888 Birthday - Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet, Raged and Tired

1887 Birthday - Roland Young, London, England

1885 Birthday - Roland Diggle, composer

1869 Birthday - Henriette Georgia Roland Holst-van der Schalk, Dutch poet, Women in Forest

1868 Birthday - Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist/painter

1858 Birthday - Roland Napoleon Bonaparte, French officer/traveller, Surinam

1848 Birthday - Roland baron Eotvos, Hungarian physicist

1829 Birthday - Silas Weir Mitchell, U.S. physician/author, Roland Blake

1800 Death - Niccolo Piccinni, Italian composer (Roland), dies at 72

1778 Event - Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris

1594 Death - Roland de Lassus, composer, dies

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