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2010 Event - Denisova hominin - a previously unknown type of ancient human, is identified by scientists through DNA analysis from a finger discovered in a cave near Siberia, Russia

2009 Event - Two previously unknown works by Mozart - a concerto movement and a prelude, are performed in Salzburg, Austria

1984 Event - 33 unknown Bach keyboard works found in Yale library

1981 Event - Unknown rocker Prince opens for Rolling Stones at LA Coliseum

1974 Death - Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72

1970 Death - Chester Morris, actor (Diagnosis: Unknown), dies at 69

1961 Death - Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker, Jr., Dutch actor (Unknown Woman), dies at 63

1960 Death - Ian Keith, actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61

1959 Event - USAF concludes less than 1% of UFO's are unknown objects

1955 Birthday - Dale Bozzio, Boston, vocalist, Missing Persons-Destination Unknown

1954 Birthday - Michael Shermer, born in Glendale, California, science writer, historian, television producer of Fox series 'Exploring the Unknown', founder, The Skeptics Society

1947 Birthday - Peter Weller, born in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, actor, Robocop, Of Unknown Origin

1940 Event - 1,000s Paris students lay reath at Grave of Unknown Soldier

1935 Birthday - Ray Manzarek, keyboardist, Doors-Light My Fire, Unknown Soldier

1933 Event - Manchester Guardian warns of unknown nazi terror

1930 Event - "Blue Angel," starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America

1923 Event - Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown solder, Arc de Triumph

1921 Event - President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier (Arlington Cemetary)

1915 Event - Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time)

1908 Birthday - Carl Esmond, Vienna Austria, actor, Address Unknown, Hitler

1903 Birthday - Frank Belknap Long, American writer, Rim of the Unknown

1902 Birthday - Max Ophuls, Saarland, dir/writer, Letters From an Unknown Woman

1901 Birthday - Roger Pryor, New York City, actor, Belle of the Nineties, Identity Unknown

1901 Birthday - Otto Waldis, Austria, actor, Port of Hell, Unknown World

1901 Birthday - Chester Morris, New York City, actor, Diagnosis: Unknown

1898 Event - USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown, 258 sailors die

1882 Birthday - Carl W de Vries, Dutch jurist, Unknown Thorbecke

1867 Death - Faustin-Elie Soulouque, emperor of Haiti, dies (birth date unknown)

1841 Event - John Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus

1786 Death - Patience Wright, 1st U.S. woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown)

1769 Death - Edmond Hoyle, games expert, dies (birth date unknown)

1672 Death - Anne Bradstreet, American poet, dies (birth date unknown)

1656 Death - Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)

1655 Death - Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)

1631 Death - John Donne, Metaphysical poet, dies (birth date unknown)

1624 Death - Jakob Bohme, German philosophical mystic, dies (birth date unknown)

1616 Death - Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)

1614 Death - El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown)

1612 Death - Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)

1557 Death - Jacques Cartier, French explorer, dies (birth date unknown)

810 Death - Pepin, son of Charlemagne, King of Italy, dies (birth date unknown)

468 Death - Pope Hilarius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)


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