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2009 Death - Frank McCourt, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland, dies at age 78 in Manhattan, New York

2006 Death - Eileen Caddy, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries, dies at age 89 in Findhorn, Scotland

2004 Death - Caitlin Clarke, actress/teacher, Dragonslayer, dies at 52

2004 Death - Noble Willingham, actor/teacher, ", Walker, Texas Ranger, ", dies at 72

2004 Death - Uta Hagen, actress/teacher, starred in original Broadway cast of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, dies at 84

2003 Death - Gertrude Ederle, swimming celebrity/teacher, first woman, and fifth person, to swim the English Channel, dies at 97

2003 Death - Larry Hovis, actor/teacher, Hogan's Heroes, dies at 67

2002 Death - William Warfield, singer/teacher, Old Man River, dies at 82

2002 Death - Jeff Corey, actor/teacher, blacklisted actor during the McCarthy era, dies at 88

2002 Death - Damon Knight, science fiction writer/editor/teacher, To Serve Man, dies at 79

2000 Death - Sir Malcolm Bradbury, writer/teacher, dies at 68

2000 Death - Martin Mailman, composer, teacher, guest conductor-composer at over 90 colleges across the U.S. and Europe dies in Denton, Texas

1999 Event - Two disaffected students brought guns to their high school in Columbine, Colorado and murdered twelve students, one teacher and then killed themselves

1999 Death - Sarah Delany, author/teacher, Having Our Say, dies at 109

1998 Death - Joan Lestor, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine, dies

1998 Event - Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7 years

1998 Death - Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher (Suzuki Method), dies at 99

1998 Death - Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher, dies at 99

1997 Death - Tom Hudson, artist/teacher, dies at 75

1997 Death - Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer, dies at 62

1997 Death - Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator, dies at 48

1997 Death - Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher, dies at 57

1997 Death - Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher and conductor, dies at 84

1997 Death - Litz Pisk, movement teacher, dies at 87

1996 Death - Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages, dies at 96

1996 Death - Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher, dies at 86

1996 Death - Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster, dies at 76

1996 Death - Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist, dies at 84

1996 Death - Helen Rosenthal, Teacher/health administrator, dies at 47

1996 Death - Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher, dies at 84

1996 Death - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher, dies at 67

1996 Death - James Wild, music teacher, dies at 68

1996 Death - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian, dies at 89

1996 Death - Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner, dies at 57

1996 Death - Brother Eugene Gerard Salois, teacher, dies at 76

1996 Death - Louise Brown, dancer/teacher, dies at 89

1996 Death - Raymond O'Malley, teacher, dies at 87

1996 Death - Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher, dies at 81

1996 Death - Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner, dies at 88

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

1996 Death - Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher, dies at 85

1996 Death - Jane Cowan, cello teacher, dies at 80

1996 Death - Alan Ridout, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, dies at 61

1996 Event - Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher and himself

1996 Death - John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher, dies at 67

1996 Death - George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66

1996 Death - Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist, dies at 44

1996 Death - Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist, dies at 84

1996 Death - W R Lee, language teacher, dies at 84

1996 Death - Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer, dies at 71

1996 Death - John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher, dies at 68

1995 Death - Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher, dies at 85

1995 Death - Mary Bruce, dance Teacher, dies at 95

1995 Death - June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist, dies at 66

1995 Death - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher, dies at 106

1995 Death - Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher, dies at 90

1995 Death - Martha Hill, modern dancer/teacher, dies at 94

1995 Death - John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist, dies at 88

1995 Death - Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71

1995 Death - James Ralph Darling, teacher, dies at 96

1995 Death - Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author, dies at 53

1995 Death - Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher, dies at 94

1995 Death - Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67

1995 Death - William Murray, teacher/educationalist, dies at 83

1995 Death - Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64

1995 Death - Per-Jakez Helias, Writer/teacher, dies at 81

1995 Death - Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher, dies at 94

1995 Death - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher, dies at 91

1995 Death - Ivor Keys, musician/teacher, dies at 76

1995 Death - Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher, dies at 69

1995 Death - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher (Zen Buddhism), dies at 64

1995 Death - Harvey Pennick, golfer/teacher, dies at 89

1995 Death - John Arthur Neill Lambert, composer teacher organist, dies at 69

1995 Death - Terence Weil, cellist/teacher, dies at 73

1995 Death - Uta Graf, singer/teacher, dies at 80

1995 Death - Rachid Mimouni, author, teacher at Ecole superieure du commerce, Algiers, wrote 'La Malediction', dies of hepatitis in Paris, France, at age 49

1995 Death - Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher, dies at 82

1995 Death - Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn, dies

1995 Death - Philip H Burton, Welsh producer/Richard Burton's teacher, dies at 80

1994 Death - William Henry Swinburne, music teacher, dies at 87

1994 Death - Audrey Langford, sInging teacher, dies at 82

1994 Death - Arthur Berry, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985, dies at 69

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

1992 Death - Vernon Howard, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth, dies

1991 Event - Subhana, becomes 1st Australian woman to become a Zen teacher

1991 Event - Pamela Smart (High School teacher) found guilty in New Hampshire of manipulating her student-lover to kill her husband

1990 Death - Brigitte D'Ortschy, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69

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

1990 Death - Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher, head of Cambridge Buddhist Association, dies

1990 Death - Suzuki Sochu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/abbot of Ryutakuji, dies

1989 Death - Yamada Koun, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies at 82

1989 Event - Augusto Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission

1988 Event - John Tarrant, 1st Australia born Zen teacher, receives Dharma Transmission

1987 Death - Hans Gal, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory

1985 Event - Christa McAuliffe chosen 1st school teacher to fly space shuttle

1984 Event - President Reagan announces Teacher in Space project

1984 Death - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76

1983 Event - Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of San Francisco Zen Center

1983 Death - Claus Adam, composer, cellist, teacher, performed with Julliard String Quartet 1955 - 1974, composed music for a string trio and cello concerto, dies at 65

1982 Event - Heater explodes at Star Elementary School-Okla, kills 6 kids and teacher

1981 Death - Bill Hopkins, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1981 Event - 69th Australian Mens Tennis: B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76 63)

1980 Death - Thien-an Thich, Zen teacher/Vietnamese Rinzai line, dies in LA at 54

1978 Death - Miura Isshu, Zen teacher, Hakuin Rinzai line, dies at 75

1977 Death - Maria Realino, teacher (Botany of Curaeao), dies at 87

1973 Death - Hakuun Yasutani, Zen teacher/co-founder (Sanbo Kyodan), dies

1972 Event - Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America

1971 Death - Shunryu Suzuki, Zen teacher, founder of San Francisco Zen Center, dies

1971 Event - Richard Baker becomes teacher of San Francisco Zen Center

1971 Death - Max Trapp, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement, dies at 83

1970 Death - John T Scopes, U.S. teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925), dies at 70

1964 Death - Anne de Vries, Dutch teacher/author (Bartje), dies at 60

1964 Death - Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66

1961 Death - Leon Jeunehomme, Belgian teacher (Pedagogie en Cours), dies at 77

1960 Death - Ernest Holmes, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine, dies

1958 Event - Philip Kapleau, Zen teacher, 1st awakening under Yasutani Roshi

1958 Death - Nyogen Senzaki, 1st Zen teacher to reside in USA, dies at 81

1957 Birthday - Terri R Adams, educator, teacher in space

1955 Birthday - Ann Bancroft, born in Mendota Heights, Minnesota, author, teacher, adventurer, Arctic and Antarctic explorer, National Women's Hall of Fame inductee

1954 Birthday - Brian Teacher, San Diego Cal, tennis star

1953 Birthday - David Leisner, born in America, teacher, classical guitarist, composer, taught at Manhattan School of Music, expert in focal dystonia

1952 Birthday - Dominic Muldowney, born in Southampton, England, composer, created television, film scores for Loose Connections, King Lear, radio work, theater music, created large-scale oboe concerto, versatile has created music for David Bowie, Royal Academy of Music teacher

1951 Birthday - Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist

1950 Birthday - Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher

1950 Event - Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher, receives dharma transmission

1949 Death - G. I. Gurdjieff, mystic, spiritual teacher, created 'The Work' idea, representing work on oneself, also called, the Fourth Way, dies at age 83, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

1949 Birthday - John Tarrant, Tasmania, 1st Australian born Zen teacher

1949 Birthday - Helen Rosenthal, British teacher/health administrator

1949 Birthday - Myra McCulloch, teacher academic/administrator

1948 Birthday - Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe, teacher/astronaut, STS-25

1947 Birthday - Barry Guy, born in London, England, composer, musician, double bass player, Guildhall School of Music teacher, influenced by contemporary jazz, member Michael Nyman Band

1946 Birthday - Silvio Blatter, born in Bremgarten, Switzerland, writer, teacher, works include, 'Das sanfte Gesetz' or 'The soft law'

1945 Birthday - Rachid Mimouni, born in Boudouaou, Algeria, author, teacher at Ecole superieure du commerce, Algiers, wrote 'La Malediction'

1944 Death - Han Yong-woon, Zen teacher, dies in Seoul County, Korea at 65

1943 Birthday - Bill Hopkins, born in Prestbury, Cheshire, England, British composer, music critic, teacher, pianist, studied at Oxford University with Egon Wellesz and Edmund Rubbra, taught at Birmingham University and University of Newcastle upon Tyne

1941 Birthday - Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author

1941 Birthday - Jackson Hill, born in Birmingham, Alabama, composer, vocal music, teacher, Ph.D. Musicology, teacher, Duke University, Bucknell University

1939 Birthday - Annea Lockwood, born in Christchurch, New Zealand, composer, records natural found sounds, Fluxus works with burning pianos, teacher, Vassar College

1939 Birthday - Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher

1939 Birthday - Bernard Glassman, New York, Zen teacher/head, Zen Center of New York

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

1938 Event - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood

1938 Birthday - Martyn Taylor, teacher/campaigner

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

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

1936 Birthday - Richard Baker, born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Zen teacher, Dharma Sangha

1936 Birthday - Peter Fletcher, music teacher

1935 Birthday - Frank Joseph Kofsky, teacher/writer

1934 Birthday - Alan Ridout, born in West Wickham, England, composer, teacher, professor Royal College of Music, worked with Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra, prolific instrumental and choral music composer

1934 Birthday - Jan Wijn, born in Amsterdam, Holland, Dutch pianist, piano teacher, played contemporary classical music to national and international audiences

1933 Birthday - Philip Corner, born in America, composer, visual artist, taught by Fritz Jahoda, teacher, Modern Music at the New School for Social Research

1932 Birthday - Martin Mailman, born in New York City, New York, composer, teacher, guest conductor-composer at over 90 colleges across the U.S. and Europe

1932 Birthday - Henri Lazarof, born in Sofia, Bulgaria, composer, studied with Paul Ben-Haim, teacher, UCLA, known for Tableaux, written for piano and orchestra

1932 Death - Hugo Kaun, music teacher, conductor, composer, wrote Romantic style operas, symphonies, organ, piano works, dies at 69 in Berlin, Germany

1931 Birthday - Joan Lestor, born in England, Baroness Lestor of Eccles, politician, Labor Party, teacher, founding editor, Searchlight, anti-fascist magazine

1931 Birthday - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism

1931 Birthday - Charles Nelson Reilly, born in New York, American actor, director, comedian, drama teacher, game show panelist

1930 Birthday - Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting, London

1930 Birthday - Frank McCourt, born in Brooklyn, New York, author, teacher, wrote Pulitzer-Prize winning book, 'Angela's Ashes', a memoir of his impoverished life in Ireland

1930 Birthday - Eino Tamberg, born in Estonia, composer, neoclassical Estonian music, teacher, Estonian Academy of Music, wrote ballet, 'Johanna tentate'

1930 Birthday - Luis de Pablo, born in Bilbao, Spain, founder, Alea, Nueva Musica, teacher, composer, chamber music works include 'Ex voto for Violin and Viola' 1995

1929 Birthday - June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist

1929 Birthday - George Alan Dawson, jazz drummer/teacher

1929 Birthday - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher

1928 Birthday - James Wild, music teacher

1928 Birthday - Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher

1928 Birthday - John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher

1928 Birthday - Dainin Katagiri, Osaka Japan, Zen teacher, associate of Shunryu Suzuki

1927 Death - Ole Olsen, composer, organist, teacher, wrote opera 'Stig Hvide', wrote Symphony in G major, dies at 77 in Oslo, Norway

1927 Birthday - John Phillipps Kenyon, historian/teacher

1927 Birthday - Seung Sahn, zen teacher, Korean line

1925 Birthday - Alastair Webster Mackie, poet/teacher

1925 Birthday - Arthur Berry, born in Smallthorne, Stoke-on-Trent, England, playwright, artist, teacher, poet, studied, then taught at Burslem School of Art, absorbed by Stoke-on-Trent College of Art, which in 1971 became North Staffordshire Polytechnic, where he taught painting until 1985

1924 Birthday - Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer

1924 Birthday - Philip Rawson, artist/teacher

1924 Birthday - Roy Harding, British teacher

1922 Birthday - Tom Hudson, artist/teacher

1921 Birthday - Terence Weil, cellist/teacher

1920 Birthday - Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster

1920 Birthday - Fanny Waterman, concert pianist and teacher

1919 Birthday - Ivor Keys, musician/teacher

1918 Birthday - Vernon Howard, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, spiritual teacher, speaker, philosopher, author, wrote humor books, children's books, spoke and wrote about self-development, self-awareness, spiritual, psychological growth

1918 Birthday - June Wayne, artist, lithographer and teacher

1917 Death - Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix

1917 Birthday - Claus Adam, born in America, composer, cellist, teacher, performed with Julliard String Quartet 1955 - 1974, composed music for a string trio and cello concerto

1917 Birthday - Eileen Caddy, born in Alexandria, Egypt, new age author, spiritual teacher, founded Findhorn Foundation commune, an international New Age community, dubbed 'Vatican of the New Age', today home to 400 residents from more than 40 countries

1915 Birthday - Noelle de Mosa, Netherlands/British dancer/teacher, Brigadoon

1915 Death - Jan Malat, composer, teacher, dies at 72

1915 Birthday - Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet

1915 Birthday - Jane Cowan, cello teacher

1915 Birthday - Pran Nath Chhuttani, physician/teacher

1915 Birthday - Uta Graf, singer/teacher

1914 Birthday - Nel Rose, Dutch dance teacher

1914 Birthday - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher

1914 Birthday - Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at San Francisco Zen Center

1914 Birthday - Per-Jakez Helias, writer/teacher

1912 Birthday - Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher

1912 Birthday - Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist

1912 Birthday - Audrey Langford, singing teacher

1912 Birthday - Sandor Vegh, violinist teacher conductor

1912 Birthday - William Murray, teacher/educationalist

1912 Birthday - Belinda Quirey, dance historian/teacher

1912 Birthday - Edmund George Love, U.S., teacher/historian/author, A Small Bequest, =

1911 Birthday - Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist

1911 Birthday - W R Lee, language teacher

1910 Birthday - Bruce Boyce, singer/teacher

1910 Birthday - Quentin Bell, artist author/teacher

1910 Birthday - Nina Verchinina, dancer choreographer/teacher

1909 Birthday - Litz Pisk, movement teacher

1909 Birthday - Raymond O'Malley, teacher

1908 Death - Marie Jungius, Dutch teacher/fairy tale writer, dies at 44

1908 Birthday - Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner

1907 Birthday - John Prickett, teacher/ecumenist

1907 Birthday - William Henry Swinburne, music teacher

1907 Birthday - Nakagawa Soen, Formosa, Zen teacher, Rinzai line

1907 Birthday - Albert Hughes Williams, teacher and historian

1906 Birthday - Louise Brown, dancer/teacher

1905 Birthday - Edna Deanne Fuelling, dancer choreographer/drama teacher

1905 Birthday - Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher, 50 years in 1 room school in SC

1904 Birthday - Philip Burton, teacher/writer/dramatist

1904 Birthday - Philip H Burton, Welsh director/acting teacher, Richard Burton

1902 Death - Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist, dies at 68

1900 Birthday - Alan Dudley Bush, composer pianist/teacher

1900 Birthday - Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher

1900 Birthday - Elizabeth Hill, teacher of Salvonic languages

1900 Birthday - Mary Bruce, dance Teacher

1900 Birthday - Bodi Rapp, Johanna PAC Goetmakers, Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher

1900 Birthday - John T Scopes, Tennessee teacher convicted for teaching evolution

1899 Birthday - James Ralph Darling, teacher

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

1898 Birthday - Shinichi Suzuki, music teacher

1897 Birthday - Wilhelmina J "Willy" Haak, Dutch actress/act teacher, Goethe/Brecht

1897 Event - National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)

1893 Event - Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)

1893 Birthday - Florrie Rodrigo, Dutch dancer/choreography/teacher, Schepelingen

1892 Birthday - Ruth Fuller Sasaki, U.S., Zen teacher, 1st Zen Institute of America

1892 Event - Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Mass

1892 Death - Imakita Kosen, Zen teacher/abbot of Engagkuji monastery, dies

1890 Birthday - Hans Gal, born in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory

1889 Birthday - Maria Realino, Frederikus Janssen, teacher, Botany of Curacao

1889 Birthday - Sarah Delany, author/teacher

1889 Birthday - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher

1888 Birthday - Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher

1887 Birthday - Max Trapp, born in Berlin, Germany, composer, teacher, Berlin's Stadtischen Konservatorium, member, National Socialist movement

1887 Birthday - Nadia Boulanger, Paris, composer/music teacher, Lasirene Ideology

1887 Birthday - Ernest Holmes, born in Lincoln, Maine, author, teacher, spiritualist, founded Religious Science movement, considered 'Science of Mind', part of New Thought movement, wrote metaphysical books, including 'The Science of Mind', founded 'Science of Mind' magazine

1884 Birthday - Magda Janssens, Flemish/Netherlands actress/acting teacher, Maria Stuart

1879 Birthday - Han Yong-woon, Hongsung County Korea, Zen teacher

1878 Birthday - Hattie Wyatt Caraway, politician/teacher/1st woman elected to senate

1874 Birthday - Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning

1867 Birthday - Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer, For the Young Ones

1866 Birthday - Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar, teacher and social activist

1866 Birthday - G. I. Gurdjieff, born in Alexandropol, Armenia, mystic, spiritual teacher, created 'The Work' idea, representing work on oneself, also called, the Fourth Way

1863 Birthday - Hugo Kaun, born in Berlin, Germany, music teacher, conductor, composer, wrote Romantic style operas, symphonies, organ, piano works

1862 Birthday - Jane Delano, U.S., nurse, teacher and founder, Red Cross

1861 Death - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59

1859 Birthday - Frank Heino Damrosch, author/musician/teacher, found Inst of Music

1850 Birthday - Ole Olsen, born in Hammerfest, Norway, composer, organist, teacher, wrote opera 'Stig Hvide', wrote Symphony in G major

1848 Event - Thomas Douglas becomes 1st San Francisco public teacher

1843 Birthday - Jan Malat, born in Stary Bydzov, Czechoslovakia, composer, teacher

1841 Event - Imakita Kosen, 1st Zen teacher of D. T. Suzuki, found the awakening

1833 Birthday - Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist

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

1826 Birthday - Hermann Kipper, music teacher/critic/composer

1820 Birthday - Henri Vieuxtemps, Verviers Belgium, composer/teacher, Brussels Cons

1812 Death - Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61

1807 Birthday - Louis Agassiz, born in Switzerland, naturalist, geologist, and teacher

1807 Death - John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio, dies at 45 in Berners Street, London

1793 Birthday - Lucretia Coffin Mott, U.S., teacher/minister/abolitionist/feminist

1769 Death - Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan

1761 Birthday - John Opie, born at Trevellas, England, teacher, artist, portraitist, historical works include, the Assassination of James I, Murder of Rizzio

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

1694 Death - Dokusho, Zen teacher, Obaku line, dies

1669 Birthday - Johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch deaf-mute teacher, Surdus Loquens

1630 Death - Tetsugen, Zen teacher (Jodo sect converted to Obaku Zen), dies

1422 Event - Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple

1382 Death - Daigaku, Zen teacher/46th head of Engakuji, dies in Kamakura Japan

1351 Death - Muso Soseki, Zen teacher/Rinzai line/head of Nanzenji, dies in Japan

1306 Death - Musho [Hokai], Zen teacher/found subtemple at Jochiji, dies

1303 Death - Nanshu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/founder (Zounan temple), dies

1278 Death - Daikaku, Zen teacher Rinzai line/head of Kenchoji, dies in Japan at 65

1200 Birthday - Dogen Kigen, Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto

866 Death - Lin-chi I-hsuan, J Rinzai Gigen, Zen teacher, dies

758 Death - Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher/disciple of Hui-neng, dies at 74

739 Death - P'u-chi Ho-shang Tao-chao, Northern Ch'an Line Zen teacher, dies

732 Event - Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line













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