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2004 Walter Wager, American Novelist

2002 Walter Annenberg, publisher/philanthropist/ambassador, started TV GUide, dies at 94

2002 Walter Lord, American Author

2000 Walter Matthau, actor, The Odd Couple movie version, dies at 79

1999 Walter Payton, football great, dies at 45

1998 Walter Edmonds, writer (Drums Along the Mohawk), dies at 93

1998 Walter Edmonds, writer, Drums Along the Mohawk, ., dies at 94

1998 Walter Diemer, inventor (bubble gum 1928), dies of heart failure at 93

1998 Walter Diemer, inventor/accountant, invented bubble gum, dies at 93

1997 Walter Stewart, murderer, executed at 42

1997 "Forever Tango!," opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City

1997 "Present Laughter," closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City

1997 Walter Ritchie, sculptor, dies at 77

1996 "Present Laughter" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City

1996 Hans Walter Kosterliz, biochemist, dies at 93

1996 Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer, dies at 80

1996 "7 Guitars" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City

1996 Walter Hassan, engineer, dies at 91

1996 Walter Guevara Arze, provisional president of Bolivia (1979), dies

1996 Walter Pardon, carpenter/traditional singer, dies at 81

1996 Walter Hyatt, singer, songwriter, founder, The Contenders, work includes album 'Some Unfinished Business', dies at 46 in a plane crash

1996 "7 Guitars" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City

1996 "Seven Guitars," opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City

1996 Walter Charles Marshall, scientist, dies at 63

1996 Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, blues singer and guitarist, dies at 80

1996 Harold Walter Bailey, philologist, dies at 96>>

1995 "Patti LuPone on Broadway" closes at Walter Kerr New York City after 46 performances

1995 Jack Walter Braden Finney, writer, dies at 84

1995 Henry A Walter Richard Percy, 11th Duke of Northumberland, dies at 42

1995 "Patti LuPone on Broadway" opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 46 performances

1995 Walter "Crash" Morgan, drummer, dies at 35

1995 Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist, dies at 83

1995 "Love! Valor! Compassion!" closes at Walter Kerr New York City after 276 performances

1995 Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83

1995 Walter Landor, designer, dies at 81

1995 Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic, dies at 83

1995 "Love! Valor! Compassion!" opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 276 performances

1994 Walter C "Dub" Taylor II, U.S. actor (You Can't Take it All), dies at 86

1994 Walter Bartley, biochemist, dies at 78

1994 Walter Arnold, Germ theologist (World council of Churches), dies at 64

1994 Walter Lantz, U.S. cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93

1994 Walter Janka, German writer (Troubles with Truth), dies at 79

1994 Walter Kent, U.S. composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82

1993 "Angels in America-Perestroika" opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 216 performances

1993 Walter Brown Newman, U.S. screenwriter (Cat Ballou), dies at 77

1993 Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack

1993 Walter Koenig, Checkov-Star Trek, suffers a mild heart attack

1992 Walter B. Jones, Representative-D-North Carolina 1966 - 1992, dies at 79

1992 "2 Trains Running" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 160 performances

1992 "2 Trains Running" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 160 performances

1992 Walter Stuart Surridge, cricketeer (Captain of Surrey), dies at 74

1992 "Crazy He Calls Me" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 7 performances

1992 "Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 7 performances

1991 Walter Hudson, 1,025 lb man, dies at 46

1991 Walter Chiari, actor (Girl Under Sheet), dies of heart attack at 67

1991 "I Hate Hamlet" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 88 performances

1991 "I Hate Hamlet" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 88 performances

1991 "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City after 320 performances

1990 "Piano Lesson" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City for 320 performances

1989 Walter Davis (Denver) ends NBA free throw streak of 53 games

1989 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games

1989 South african ANC-founder/leader Walter Sisulu freed

1989 Walter Martin, American Clergyman

1989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000' Mount Everest top

1988 Robin Givens and Mike Tyson appear on Barbara Walter's Show

1987 Walter H Brattain, U.S. physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), dies at 85

1987 Walter Payton scores NFL record 107th rushing touchdown

1987 Walter W. Heller, U.S. economist (Old Myths and New Realities), dies at 71

1987 Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88

1986 Walter Brooke, actor (DA Scanlon-Green Hornet), dies at 71

1986 Walter Leblanc, Belgian painter, dies at 53

1984 Walter Woolf King, actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85

1984 Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader

1984 Walter Alston, Baseball manager (Los Angeles Dodgers), dies at 72

1984 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet), dies of strokes at 87

1984 Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs. Miniver), dies at 87

1984 Walter Kaufmann, composer, dies at 77

1984 Walter Burke, actor (Jack the Giant Killer), dies at 75 of emphysema

1984 Walter F. Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco

1983 Walter Scott, rocker, dies

1983 Walter O'Keefe, songwriter/TV host (Mayor of Hollywood), dies at 82

1983 Nolan Ryan surpasses Walter Johnson for most strikeouts (3,508)

1983 Nolan Ryan becomes strikeout king (3,509), passing Walter Johnson

1983 Walter Slezak, actor (Bedtime For Bonzo), commits suicide in New York at 80

1983 Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame

1982 Shakey, Walter Horton, rocker, dies at 72

1982 Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU, H-doctrine), dies at 80

1981 Shakey, Walter Horton, harmonicist (Everybody's Fishin'), dies at 64

1981 Walter Knott, American Businessman

1981 Walter Mehring, writer, dies at 85

1981 [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of blues, dies at 88 of a heart attack

1981 Don Fagan and Walter Becker quit Steely Dan

1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, Virginia

1981 Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of CBS Evening News

1980 Walter Hass, Jr. becomes CEO of Oakland A's

1980 Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian (bomanslag), dies

1979 Walter O'Malley, CEO (Dodgers), dies at 75

1979 Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab

1979 Walter Legge, British Businessman

1978 Walter Poenisch completes swim of 207 km from Cuba to Florida

1978 Vice President Walter F. Mondale begins trip to Mid-East

1978 Walter Keirnan, TV panelist (I've Got a Secret), dies at 75

1977 Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards

1977 Walter Kraft, composer, dies at 71

1977 Walter Baldwin, actor (Gay Amigo), dies at 88

1976 Walter Bauer, writer, dies at 72

1976 Walter Fitzgerald, actor (Adv of Sadie, Fallen Idol), dies at 80

1976 Walter Hamor Piston, U.S. composer, dies at 82

1976 Walter Piston, American Composer

1976 Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager

1976 Walter Field, entertainer, dies at 101

1975 Walter Tetley, cartoon voice (Sherman-Bullwinkle Show), dies at 60

1975 Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye), dies at 74

1975 Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor, dies at 71

1974 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer, dies at 83

1974 Walter Lippmann, U.S. journalist (One of Dynasty), dies at 85

1974 Walter E. Washington, becomes 1st elected mayor of Washington D.C.

1974 Walter Brennan, actor (Real McCoys), dies at 80

1974 Walter Scheel succeeds Heinemann as president

1974 Walter McCarty, NBA forward for the Boston Celtics

1974 Walter Jones, tackle for the Seattle Seahawks

1973 Arnold Maria Walter, composer, dies at 71

1973 Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader

1973 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Scientist

1973 Walter Ulbricht, President East Germany, dies at 80

1973 Walter Blum becomes 6th jockey to ride 4,000 winners

1973 Walter Greaza, actor (Leonard-Martin Kane, Treasury Men), dies at 76

1973 Walter Scott, NFL defensive tackle, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31

1973 Walter Nicholas Henry Tongue, born in Auckland New Zealand, 50m/100m swimmer 1996 Olympics

1972 Ken Walter, punter for the Carolina Panthers

1972 Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75

1972 Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie), dies at 65

1972 Walter Winchell, writer/actor (Dondi, Love and Hisses), dies at 74

1971 Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner, composer, dies at 83

1971 Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars), dies of heart attack at 65

1971 Walter Van Tilburg Clark, U.S. author (Ox-Bow Incident), dies at 62

1971 Walter Schulthess, composer, dies at 76

1971 103rd Belmont: Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6

1971 Erich Honecker succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader

1970 Walter Dunson, NFL running back/kicker returner for the Arizona Cardinals

1970 Walter P Reuther, U.S. worker's union leader/president (CIO), dies

1970 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary

1969 Walter Hagen, PGA golfer (U.S. Open 1914, 19), dies at 76

1969 Walter Hagen, U.S. golfer (won 5x PGA-tournament), dies at 76

1969 Jamie Walter, actor, Pirate Island

1969 Walter Gropius, architect/found (Bauhaus school of design), dies at 86

1969 Arthur Walter Kramer, composer, dies at 78

1968 Walter Wanger, U.S. producer (Cleopatria), dies at 74

1968 Cy Walter, pianist (3's Company), dies at 52

1968 Walter Nash, New Zealander Statesman

1968 Reverend Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC

1968 Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37

1967 Walter Muller von Kulm, composer, dies at 68

1967 Walter Washington elected 1st mayor of Washington, D.C.

1966 Walter Lang, composer, dies at 69

1965 Walter Reeves, NFL tight end for the Cleveland Browns

1965 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony

1963 South African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested

1963 Joe Walter, NFL tackle for the Cincinnati Bengals

1962 Walter Anderson, German Writer

1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News

1962 Bruno Walter, symphony conductor (New York Philharmonic), dies at 85

1961 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general/WW II chief of staff, dies at 75

1961 Walter Swimburn, Irish jockey, Derby 1981

1961 Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres

1960 Walter Catlett, actor (Climax), dies of a stroke at 71

1960 WH Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda), dies at 67

1960 Walter O'Malley, Los Angeles Dodger owner, purchases Chavez Ravine for $494,000

1959 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117

1959 Walter Compton, news anchor (DuMont Evening News), dies at 47

1959 Walter Ray Williams, Jr., bowler, twice Player of the Year

1958 Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44

1958 Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter

1958 Walter Kingsford, actor (My Favorite Blonde, Fly by Night), dies at 76

1957 Walter Cronkite begins hosting weekly documentary

1957 Walter R. Tucker, born in Compton, California, Representative-D-California 1993 - 1995

1957 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony

1957 Walter Rohlfing, born in Dusseldorf, WLAF defensive line coach, Rhein Fire

1957 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958

1956 Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer, dies at 60

1956 Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at 42

1956 Walter S Adams, U.S. astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79

1956 Walter Salles, Brazilian Director

1955 Walter Piston's 6th Symphony, premieres

1955 Walter Rein, composer, dies at 61

1955 Walter Hampden, actor (Sabrina, 5 Fingers, Vagabond King), dies at 75

1954 Walter Diessner, born in East Germany, 4 man cox 1976 Olympics gold

1954 Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born and Walter Bothe

1954 Walter Paul Davis, Pineville, North Carolina, basketball player 1976 Olympics gold

1954 Walter Payton, NFL running back for the Chicago Bears

1954 Walter Braunfels, composer, dies at 71

1954 "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite and Jack Paar

1954 Constantine Phipps, born in England, Constantine Edmund Walter Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby, sold Warter Priory estate in 1998 for 48 million pounds, leases Mulgrave Castle to supermodel Elle MacPherson

1954 Ulrich Walter, born in West Germany, cosmonaut

1953 Walter Alston named Dodger manager

1953 Dodgers sign Walter Alston to a 1-year pact as manager for 1954

1953 35th PGA Championship: Walter Burkemo at Birmingham CC Michigan

1953 Walter Niemann, composer, dies at 76

1953 General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA

1953 "You Are There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television

1952 Walter P Reuther chosen chairman of CIO

1952 Walter Long, dies at 73

1952 Walter Schellenberg, German lawyer/headed spy (Venlo), dies

1952 Walter Mosley, American Novelist

1950 Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer, dies at 88

1950 Walter O'Malley fires Burt Shotton as Dodgers manager

1950 Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head

1950 Walter Huston, dies at 66

1950 Walter Eucken, German economist, dies at 59

1950 Walter Becker, New York City, rock bassist, Steely Dan-Peg

1949 Walter "Clyde" Owen, rocker

1949 Walter Hyatt, born in America, musician, singer, songwriter, founder, The Contenders, work includes album 'Some Unfinished Business'

1949 Walter Sweeney, born in Ireland, born Walter Edward Sweeney, politician, lawyer, Conservative Party, Member of Parliament for the Vale of Glamorgan

1949 Walter and John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win

1949 Walter S Browne, U.S. chess champion, 1974-78, 1980-84

1948 Walter Egan, born in New York City, rock vocalist, Not Shy, Fundamental Roll

1948 Walter Olkewicz, Bayonne, New Jersey, actor, Last Resort, Wizards and Warriors

1948 Walter P Reuther UAW President shot and wounded at his home in Detroit

1948 Walter P Reuther, President (United Auto Workers), shot at his home

1948 Walter Smith, Scottish Athlete

1948 Walter Piston's 3rd Symphony in E, premieres in Boston

1947 Walter Willison, born in Monterrey Park, California, actor, McDuff the Talking Dog, Two By Two [Tony Award nomination, Theatre World Award]

1947 Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (vs. New Zealand, Christchurch)

1946 Walter "Clyde" Orange, Florida, rocker, Commodores-Too Hot to Trot

1946 Walter Johnson, great pitcher for the Washington Senators, dies at 59

1945 Walter B Cannon, U.S. physiologist (Traumatic Shock), dies at 73

1945 Walter Model, German Field Marshal, commits suicide at 54

1945 Walter Charles, born in East Strousberg, Pennsylvania, actor, Fletch Lives, Weeds

1944 Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies

1944 Walter Piston's "Fugue for a Victory Tune," premieres in New York City

1944 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony

1943 Walter Spanghero, French rugby player

1943 Susan Davenny Wyner, New Haven, Connecticut, soprano, Walter Naumberg Prize

1943 Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42

1943 Walter Scott, rock vocalist, Whispers

1943 Walter Murch, American film editor and sound deisgner

1942 Tracey Walter, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actor, Best of the West

1942 Walter Williams, U.S., rock vocalist, O'Jays-Use to Be My Girl

1942 Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for New York - Washington game, raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief

1942 Walter Leigh, composer, dies at 36

1942 Walter Raphael Hazzard, Wilmington Del, basketball 1964 Olympic gold

1942 Walter Richard Sickert, British painter (Free House!), dies at 81

1942 Walter Hill, director, 48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice

1941 Walter H Nernst, German chemist (Nobel Prize 1920), dies at 77

1941 Gil [Walter] Morgan, Haddock Georgia, PGA golfer, 1990 Kemper Open

1941 Jessica Walter, born in Brooklyn, New York, actress, Play Misty For Me, Amy Prentiss

1940 Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"

1940 Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Washington Senators, loses Maryland congressional race

1940 Walter Kollo, composer, dies at 62

1940 Walter Benjamin, German/French literature critic/writer, dies at 48

1940 Walter Benjamin, writer, dies at 48

1940 Walter Chrysler, American Inventor

1940 Walter Connolly, actor (It Happened One Night, Good Earth), dies at 53

1940 Anne Campbell, born in England, politician, Labor Member of Parliament for Cambridge, portrayed by Harriet Walter in 10 Days to War, a BBC drama on events leading up to the Iraq War

1939 Walter Weller, Vienna Austria, conductor, Vienna Tonkustler Orchestra

1939 Wendy, Walter, Carlos, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, composer, Switched on Bach

1939 Ken Walter, South African cricket pace bowler, 1961-62 series vs. New Zealand

1937 Walter Gay, artist, dies

1937 Johannes Walter, German geologist (Die Denudation in Wuste), dies

1937 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43

1937 41st Boston Marathon won by Walter Young of Canada in 2:33:20

1936 1st baseman Walter Alston plays in his only major league game

1936 Walter Koenig, American Actor

1936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame - Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson

1935 Renata Scotto, born in Savona, Italy, singer, soprano, performed La Traviata at age 18, received 15 curtain calls performing Walter in La Wally at La Scala, 1953, directs opera and teaches at her opera academy in Italy, New York

1934 Walter Steffens, composer

1933 Walter Johnson takes over as Cleveland manager

1933 Walter E. Fauntroy, born in Washington, D.C., Representative-D-District of Columbia 1971 - 1991

1933 Walter Paulis, mineworker/pilot/Dutch MP, CDA

1932 Walter Leblanc, Belgian painter

1932 Clark Griffith announces Walter Johnson will be manager of Senators

1932 Walter Gilbert, American Scientist

1932 Ronnie Walter Cunningham, born in Creston, Iowa, Col USMC/astronaut, Apollo 7

1932 Walter Charles Marshall, scientist

1931 Walter Courvoisier, composer, dies at 56

1931 Walter Davis, U.S., running high jumper 1952 Olympics gold

1930 George Gershwin/Walter Donaldsons musical premieres in New York City

1930 Joan Mondale, wife of U.S. vice-president Walter Mondale, 1977-81

1930 Little Walter, Marion Walter Jacobs, rocker

1930 1st performance of Walter Piston's Suite for orchestra (Boston)

1929 Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro

1929 64th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Muirfield Gullane

1929 Walter Kempowski, German writer, Tadelloser and Wolff

1929 Walter Berry, Austria singer and ex husband of Christa Ludwig

1929 "NY Daily Mirror" columnist Walter Winchell debuts on radio

1928 Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee," premieres in New York City

1928 Walter Klien, born in Graz, Austria, pianist, performed and recorded concertos of Mozart, Brahms, Schubert piano sonatas, received Bosendorfter Prize in Vienna, 1953

1928 Walter Johnson signs a 3-year contract to manage the Senators

1928 Walter Martin, American Clergyman

1928 63rd British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 292 at Royal St. George's

1928 Walter Fritz Mondale, born in Ceylon, Minnesota, Senator-D-Minnesota 1964 - 1976, 42nd Vice President, 1977 - 1981

1928 Walter F. Mondale, American Lawyer

1927 Test Cricket debut of Walter Hammond, who scored 51 and took 5-36 vs. S Af

1927 Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title

1927 Walter Johnson records 113th and last shutout of his career

1927 Walter Aschaffenburg, composer

1926 Walter Johnson retires, signs 2-year contract to manage Newark

1926 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury Golf Club Westbury, New York

1926 Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament

1926 Paul Walter Furst, composer

1926 At 41, Walter Johnson pitches his 7th opening day shutout

1925 8th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Olympia Fields CC Matteson Ill

1925 Walter Percy Chrysler founded Chrysler Corp, Iacocca is 8 months old

1925 Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament

1925 Walter Camp, father of American football, dies at 65

1925 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran

1924 Walter Fufido, born in Bronx, New York, Iwo Jima casualty, WW II

1924 Walter Johnson elected AL MVP

1924 Walter Wager, American Novelist

1924 Washington Senator Walter Johnson 2nd no-hitter beats Browns, 2-0 in 7 innings

1924 59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake

1924 7th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at French Lick CC Ind

1924 Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83

1923 Walter Johnson becomes 1st to strikeout 3,000 (en route to 3,508)

1923 Walter Mittelholzer flies Junkers F-13 to Spitsbergen/Oostland

1923 Senator Walter Johnson pitches his 100th shutout, beats Yankees 3-0

1923 Walter Kohn, Austrian Physicist

1923 Walter M[ichael] Miller, Jr., U.S., sci-fi author, Hugo, View from Stars

1922 Walter Hollerer, writer

1922 Walter Rathenau, German foreign minister, killed by anti-semites at 54

1922 57th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 300 at Royal St. George

1921 4th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Inwood CC Far Rockaway NY

1921 Walter Johnson sets strikeout mark at 2,287

1921 Walter Kerr Theater (Ritz, CBS, NBC, ABC) opens at 223 W 48th St. New York City

1920 Walter Matthau, New York City, actor, Odd Couple, Bad News Bears

1920 1st class debut of Walter Hammond

1920 Washington Senator Walter Johnson no-hits Boston Red Sox, 1-0

1920 Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 300th game vs Detroit

1920 Sugar Ray Robinson, Walter Smith, middle/welterweight boxer, champ

1920 Walter Clegg, born in England, politician, Conservative Party, served as Comptroller of the Household, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, Member of Parliament for Wyre, Member of Parliament for North Fylde

1919 Walter Gieseler, composer

1919 Walter J. Hickel, Gov-R-Alaska, U.S. Secretary of Interior, 1969 - 1971

1919 Walter Scheel, German Foreign minister/president

1919 23rd U.S. Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Brae Burn CC Mass

1919 Yankees' Jack Quinn and Senators' Walter Johnson, 12 inning 0-0 tie

1919 Walter Ritchie, sculptor

1919 Anthony Dexter, Walter Fleischmann, NB Canada, actor, Valentino

1918 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game

1917 Walter Lord, American Author

1917 Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Washington Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0

1917 Shakey, Walter Horton, Mississippi, harmonicist, Everybody's Fishin'

1917 Walter Hendl, West New York, New Jersey, conductor

1916 Walter Cronkite, St. Joseph, Missouri, news anchor, CBS Evening News 1962-81

1916 Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer

1916 Walter Bartley, biochemist

1915 Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee, blues singer/guitarist

1915 Cy Walter, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, pianist, 3's Company

1915 Walter W. Heller, economist, Old Myths and New Realities

1915 Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist, Beaux Arts Trio

1915 Walter Hadlee, cricketer, father of Richard and Dayle, New Zealand batsman 40's

1915 Walter Tetley, born in New York City, animation voice, Sherman-Bullwinkle Show

1915 Walter Crane, English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at 69

1914 Walter Johnson accepts money from Federal League Chicago Whales Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court

1914 20th U.S. Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 290 at Midlothian CC Ill

1914 Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies

1913 Walter Schumann, New York City, choral director, Ford Show, composer, Rhenish

1913 Washington Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game

1913 Walter B. Jones, born in Farmville, North Carolina, Representative-D-North Carolina 1966 - 1992

1913 Walter Landor, designer

1913 Walter Kerr, New York drama critic, Sad Clowns

1913 George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer, Serf, John Socman

1913 Washington Senator Walter Johnson ends record scorless streak at 56 innings

1913 Walter Susskind, Praha, Prague, Czechoslovakia, conductor

1913 Walter Johnson begins string of 56 consecutive scoreless innings

1912 Walter Johnson's 16-game winning streak ends

1911 Walter Alston, baseball manager, Dodgers

1911 Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter

1911 Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist

1911 Walter Johnson pitches a record tying 4 strike outs in an inning

1911 Sam Walter Foss, American Poet

1911 Walter Ernest Allen, writer/critic

1910 Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude

1909 Eugene Walter's "Easiest Way," premieres in New York City

1908 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1

1908 Walter Annenberg, born in Milwaukee, publisher, Triangle-TV Guide and Ambassador to Great Britain

1908 Walter L "Red" Barber, Mississippi, sports announcer, Brooklyn Dodgers, New York Yankees

1907 Walter Reuther, labor leader/president, UAW and CIO

1907 Walter Johnson wins 1st of his 416 wins, 7-2 over Cleveland

1907 Walter Johnson, 19, debuts with Washington and loses 3-2 to Detroit

1907 Walter Kaufmann, composer

1906 Walter Sande, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, Navy vs Night Monsters

1906 Walter Robins, cricketer, dynamic England leg-spin all-rounder

1906 Walter Legge, British Businessman

1906 31st Preakness: Walter Miller aboard Whimsical wins in 1:45

1906 Walter Knape, composer

1905 Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer, dies at 79

1905 Walter Leigh, composer

1905 Walter Kraft, composer

1905 Walter Hassan, engineer

1905 Walter Brown, sports organizer, NBA

1904 Walter Bauer, writer

1903 Walter O'Malley, baseball team owner, Dodgers

1903 Walter Hammond, cricketer, one of the greatest of English batsman

1903 Walter Reisch, U.S., screenwriter, Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic

1903 Hans Walter Kosterliz, biochemist

1903 Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor

1902 Walter Reed, U.S. bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), dies

1902 Arnold Maria Walter, composer

1902 Walter Burle Marx, composer

1902 Ralph Walter Wood, composer

1902 Walter Dawson, British Air Chief marshall

1902 Walter Slezak, Vienna, actor, Bedtime for Bonzo, Inspector General

1902 Walter H Brattain, Amoy China, U.S. physicist, Nobel 1956-transistor

1902 Walter Keirnan, New Havens, Connecticut, TV panelist, I've Got a Secret

1901 Walter Hallstein, West German politician, CDU, Hallstein doctrine

1901 Walter Breedveld/Reinier de Muntel, writer, Een ship vergaat

1901 Walter Besant, novelist/philanthropist, dies

1901 Walter E. Schafer, German playwright

1900 Walter O'Keefe, Hartford, Connecticut, songwriter/TV host, Mayor of Hollywood

1900 Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever

1900 Walter Lantz, animator, Woody Woodpecker's creator

1899 Harold Walter Bailey, philologist

1899 Walter Muller von Kulm, composer

1899 Walter Camp publishes his 1st All-American football team in Collier's

1898 Walter Abel, born in St. Paul, Minnesota, actor, Suspicion, Dream Girl

1897 Walter Pidgeon, New Brunswick Can, actor, Mrs Miniver, Madame Curie

1897 Walter Winchell, born in Harlem, New York City, newscaster and columnist, Untouchables

1897 Walter Greaza, St. Paul, Minnesota, actor, Martin Kane Private Eye

1896 Walter Lang, composer

1896 Walter Fitzgerald, Keyhan Devonport England

1896 Walter Mehring, writer

1895 Walter Gieseking, German pianist/composer

1895 Walter Bedell Smith, U.S. general, WW II, head of CIA, 1950 - 1952

1894 Walter Schulthess, composer

1894 Walter Wanger, Feuchtwanger, U.S. producer, Stagecoach

1894 Walter Brennan, born in Swampscott, Massachusetts, actor, Real McCoys, At Gun Point

1894 Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, Swiss Air

1894 Walter Hamor Piston, Rockland Maine, composer, Incredible Flutis

1894 Walter Piston, American Composer

1893 Walter Rein, composer

1893 Walter Francis White, Atlanta Georgia

1893 Walter Ulbricht, president East Germany

1893 W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer, Andromeda

1893 Walter Donaldson, U.S. pianist/composer, Girl Crazy, Whoopee

1892 Walter Hagen, born in Rochester, New York, PGA golfer, U.S. Open 1914, 19

1892 Walter Benjamin, German literature critic/writer

1892 Henry Walter Bates, naturalist/explorer (South America), dies

1891 Erich Walter Sternberg, composer

1891 Walter Model, German Field Marshal

1891 Walter Eucken, German economist

1891 Walter Bothe, Germany, subatomic particle physicist, Nobel 1954

1890 Arthur Walter Kramer, composer

1889 Walter Knott, American Businessman

1889 Walter Lippmann, New York City, journalist/political writer, Men of Dystany

1889 Walter Catlett, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Front Page, Tale of 2 Cities

1889 Walter Baldwin, Ohio, actor, Gay Amigo

1888 Max[imilian Raoul Walter] Steiner, Vienna, composer, Gone With Wind

1887 Walter Johnson, Kansas, Washington Senator pitcher, 1907-27, 414-218

1887 Walter Connolly, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, actor, Good Earth, 5th Avenue Girl

1886 Charles Walter Stansby Williams, songwriter

1885 Walter Anderson, German Writer

1884 Walter Huston, actor, Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre

1883 Walter Gropius, Berlin Germany, architect, Bauhaus school of design

1882 Walter Braunfels, composer

1882 Walter Lucht, German artillery general, WW I/WW II

1882 Walter Vaes, Flemish painter/etcher

1882 Walter Nash, New Zealander Statesman

1881 Walter Kingsford, Redhill England, actor, My Favorite Blonde

1881 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss Scientist

1879 Walter Hampden, born in Brooklyn, New York, actor, Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame

1879 Walter Long, actor, Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol

1878 Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor, world champion cyclist, 1899

1878 Walter Kollo [Kollodziepski], German composer, Der Juxbaron

1877 Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51

1876 Walter S. Adams, U.S. astronomer and director of Mount Wilson, 1923 - 1946

1876 Walter Griffin, U.S. architect, city planner; designed Canberra, Australia

1876 Walter Niemann, composer

1876 Bruno Walter, B. W. Schlesinger, Berlin Germany, conductor, New York Phil

1875 Walter Lees, cricketer, Surrey pace bowler toured for England 1905-06

1875 Walter Percy Chrysler, found Chrysler Corp, 1925

1875 Walter Chrysler, founded car company, Chrysler

1875 Walter Andrae, German archaeologist, Babylon, Assur

1875 Walter Courvoisier, composer

1874 Arnold Franz Walter Schonberg, Vienna Austria, composer, 2nd Quartet

1874 Major Walter Copton Wingfield patents a portable tennis court

1874 Major Walter Winfield patents game called "sphairistike" (lawn tennis)

1873 Walter de la Mare, English poet/author (Behold the Dreamer), dies at 43

1871 Walter B Cannon, U.S. physiologist, Wisdom of the Body

1864 Walter Savage Landor, author, dies

1862 Walter Johannes Damrosch, composer

1860 Johannes Walter, German geologist, Denudation of the Wilderness

1860 Walter Richard Sickert Munich, Danish/English painter, The Miner

1859 Walter Camp, Connecticut, father of American football, Yale

1858 Sam Walter Foss, American Poet

1857 Walter Woodbury and James Page open photo studio in Batavia, Djakarta

1851 Walter Reed, U.S. Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever

1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York City); sold rights for $100

1845 Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator, Beauty and Beast

1842 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, d 1959

1841 Walter Parratt, composer

1839 Walter Pater, born in London, England, writer, Plato and Platoism

1837 Walter Geikie, painter, dies

1836 Walter Besant, writer/philanthropist, Rebel Queen

1832 Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer, Aylwin

1832 Walter Scott, Scottish attorney/poet/writer (Ivanhoe), dies

1832 Walter Quintin Gresham, Major General Union volunteers

1827 Walter Husted Stevens, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1826 Walter Cecil Macfarren, composer

1826 Walter Bagehot, England, economist/sociologist

1825 Walter Hunt patents safety pin

1822 Johann Ignaz Walter, composer, dies at 66

1817 Walter Page Lane, Brigadier General Confederate Army

1814 Walter Scott's "Waverley" published

1810 Walter White, secretary, NAACP

1795 Walter Geikie, Scottish painter

1794 John G Lockhart, Scorpion, biographer, Life of Sir Walter Scott

1785 John Walter publishes 1st issue of London Times

1776 John Walter II, London, chief proprietor, The Times, 1812-47

1775 Walter Savage Landor, Warwick, critic/writer, Imaginary Conversation

1771 Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet, Lady of Lake

1771 Walter Scott, Scottish Novelist

1755 Johann Ignaz Walter, composer

1634 Irish captain Walter Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein

1618 Walter Raleigh, English scholar, poet and historian, beheaded for treason

1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana

1603 Sir Walter Ralegh arrested

1588 Valerius Andreas, Walter Driessens, Flemish historian

1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia

1584 Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore N Amer

1578 Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51

1527 Johann Walter, composer


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