1997 Sheldon Leonard, producer and director, I Spy - Dick Van Dyke, dies at 89
1996 John Vassall, spy/civil servant, dies at 72
1996 Alger Hiss, former alleged spy/lawyer, dies at 92
1996 Pavel Anatolievich Sudoplatov, spy, dies at 89
1996 "Spy Hard," starring Leslie Nielsen is released
1995 Israel grants jailed U.S. spy Jason Pollard, citizenship
1993 Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (Spy Who Loved Me), dies at 78
1990 Malcolm Muggeridge, WW II spy for Britain, dies at 87
1990 Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73
1988 Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for U.S., executed
1986 U.S. releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
1986 U.S.S.R. releases U.S. journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1986 Jonathan Pollard, spy for Israel, pleads guilty in U.S. court
1985 Heleb MacInnes, U.S. spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77
1983 Stephen Murray, actor (Guilty, Silent Dust, Master Spy), dies at 70
1983 Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for U.S.S.R., dies at 75
1982 Dutch Internal minister Mr. M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists
1982 Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy (WW II), dies at 77
1981 Mehmet Shehu, PM Albania (1954-81)/"US-Russ spy", commits suicide
1979 Brit government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1975 Evelyn Brent, actress (Nitwits, Last Command, Spy Train), dies at 75
1974 Chancellor Willy Brandt sect Gunther Guillaume found to be a spy
1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1963 Guy Burgess, British spy for the U.S.S.R.
1963 British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow
1962 U.S.S.R. swaps spy Francis Gary Power to U.S. for Rudolph Abel
1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to U.S.S.R.
1961 USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights
1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1960 Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as U.S.S.R. levels spy charges against US
1960 U.S.S.R. announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
1960 Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers in a U-2 spy plane
1957 U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000
1957 Soviet spy Jack Sobel sentenced to 7 years (New York City)
1957 Helen Haye, actress (Girl in the Taxi, Spy in Black), dies at 83
1956 Bruce Greenwood, actor, Spy, Another Chance, Malibu Bikini Shop
1954 U.S. spy plane shot down North of Japan
1952 Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies
1950 Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
1949 Barbara Bach, [Goldbach], Queens, New York, actress, Spy Who Loved Me
1947 Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed
1945 Hans Oster, German major-general/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged
1942 Daniel J Callaghan, U.S. spy (at Guadalcanal), dies
1941 Spy Richard Sorge arrested in Tokyo
1941 Josef Jakobs, German spy, executed in Tower of London
1941 English Army breaks German spy codes
1939 Ken Follett, spy author, Eye of the Needle
1937 Bill Cosby, born in Philadelphia, actor/comedian, I Spy, Cosby, Leonard Part 6
1937 Tom Courtenay, born in England, actor, Dresser, Dr. Zhivago, To Catch a Spy
1936 Samuel Pl'h Naber, spy/librarian, dies at 71
1932 Robert Vaughn, New York City, actor, Napolean Solo-Man from UNCLE, I Spy
1932 John Glen, Thames England, actor, Spy Who Loves Me, Backfire
1932 Jayne Mansfield, [Vera Jane Palmer], Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, actress, Fat Spy
1931 John LeCarre, [Cornwell], England, spy novelist, Little Drummer Girl
1931 Garfield Morgan, Brtish actor, Odessa File, To Catch a Spy
1930 Robert Culp, Berkley California, actor, I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice
1929 Francis Gary Powers, U.S. spy, U.S.S.R. captures him in 1959 U-2 incident
1927 Robert Ludlum, New York City, spy novelist, Bourne Identity
1924 John Vassall, spy/civil servant
1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1923 John Weitz, spy/author/fashion designer, Friends in High Places
1918 Marguerite Chapman, born in Chatham, New York, actress, Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars
1918 Halsey S. Colchester, British SAS, spy for MI6 and priest
1917 Mata Hari, Dutch dancer/German spy, executed by firing squad in Paris
1916 Horace Hood, British spy (Battle of Jutland), dies in battle
1914 Arthur Sydney Martin, spy catcher
1912 Kim Philby, British spy/Soviet mole
1911 Klaus EJ Fuchs, German/British atomic physicist/spy
1911 Klaus E J Fuchs, German/British/German nuclear physicist/spy
1909 Eric Ambler, London, suspense writer, Epitaph for a Spy
1907 Anthony F Blunt, British historian/spy for U.S.S.R.
1904 Leopold Trepper, Polish/Israeli spy/founded, CP Palestina
1895 Richard Sorge, German spy for U.S.S.R. in Tokyo, WW II
1888 Hans Oster, German major general/spy/July 20th plotter
1876 Mata Hari, [Margaretha G Zelle], dancer/courtesan/spy, WW I
1843 Belle Boyd, spy, Confederate, /actress/lecturer
1810 Charles GLAAT chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy, dies at 81
1799 Etta L J "baronne" Palm-Aelders, Dutch adventurer/spy, dies at 55
1798 Giovanni Jacopo Casanova, Ital adventurer/spy/librarian, dies at 73
1780 John Andre, hanged as a British spy at 29
1776 Nathan Hale, U.S. captain/patriot/spy, hanged by British at 21
1776 Nathan Hale leaves Harlem Heights Camp (127th St) for spy mission
1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1728 Charles G Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy/transvestite
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