2012 Event Seven new saints are canonized by Pope Benedict XVI, including Anna Schaffer, Kateri Tekakwitha, Marianne Cope and Pedro Calungsod 2007 Death Anna Nicole Smith, dies in Hollywood, Florida, of drug overdose, at 39 2004 Death Anna Lee, actress, General Hospital, dies at 90 2003 Death Anna Lindh, Swedish politician, Swedish foreign minister, dies in Stockholm, Sweden, at age 46, murdered by a knife attack while shopping 1996 Death Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano, dies at 84 1996 Death Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82 1994 Death Anna Hauptmann, wife of Lindbergh baby kidnapper Bruno, dies at 95 1994 Event Anna Nicole Smith (26) weds billionaire J. Howard Marshall II (89) 1994 Event Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose 1993 Death Margaret Landon, U.S. author (Anna and the King of Siam), dies at 90 1993 Death Anna Stein, actress (Wedding Night), dies of heart attack at 88 1993 Event "Anna Christie" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 54 performances 1993 Event "Anna Christie" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 54 performances 1992 Event "Anna Karenina" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 46 performances 1992 Event "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 46 performances 1992 Death Frederick O'Neal, actor (Anna Lucasta, Free White and 21), dies at 86 1991 Death Marcus Heeresma, writer/poet (Anna, Son of a Whore), dies 1990 Death Anna Palk, actress (Play it Cool, Frozen Dead), dies of cancer at 48 1990 Death Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84 1989 Death Ann Burton, Anna Rafalowicz, singer, dies at 56 1987 Death Hugh Dempster, actor (Anna Karenina, Candles at Nine), dies 1986 Death Anna Neagle, actress (Courtney Affair)/dancer, dies at 81 1984 Event Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit 1984 Death Anna Anderson Manahan, Grand Duchess Anastasia, dies in Virginia 1983 Death Anna Seghers, writer, dies at 82 1983 Death Ank [Anna M] van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy), dies at 71 1982 Death Anna Freud, Austria/English psychoanalyst/daughter of Sigmund, dies at 86 1982 Birthday Anna Paquin, oscar winning actress, Piano 1981 Birthday Anna Kournikova, born in Moscow, Russia, professional tennis player, model, winner, Grand Slam titles in Australia, 1999 and 2002 1980 Birthday Anna Chlumsky, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, My Girl 1980 Death Anna van Wageningen-Salomons, Dut author (Unspoilt Dream), dies at 94 1978 Event James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu 1978 Death Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Omzien), dies at 83 1977 Birthday Anna Louise Wilson, Dunedin, New Zealand, 100m breast stroke 1996 Olympics 1977 Birthday Anna Baitchik, Miss Russia Universe 1997 1976 Birthday Anna Faris, born in Baltimore, Maryland, actress, singer. appeared in 'Lost in Translation', 'Scary Movie', 'My Super Ex-Girlfriend', 'The House Bunny' movies 1976 Birthday Anna Smashnova, born in Minsk, Russia, tennis star, 1993 Futures-Erlangen GER 1976 Birthday Anna Friel, English Actress 1976 Birthday Anna Windsor, Sydney NSW Australia, swimmer 1996 Olympics 1975 Birthday Anna Valle, Miss Universe-Italy 1996 1974 Birthday Anna Ozolins, Australian rower 1996 Olympics 1974 Death Anna Q Nilsson, actress (Toll Gate, Sorrell and Son), dies at 85 1973 Death Anna Magnani, Italians actress (Roma, Citt Aperta), dies at 64 1972 Birthday Anna Van der Kamp, Abbotsford BC, rower 1996 Olympics 1972 Birthday Anna Falchi, born in Tampera, Finland, actress, La Dolce Vita '90 1971 Birthday Anna Katrina Simcic, Christchurch New Zealand, backstroker 1996 Olympics 1970 Death Anna Casati, Italian marchesa, murdered at 41 1970 Event Elizabeth Hoisington and Anna Mae Mays named 1st female U.S. generals 1970 Death Anna Louise Strong, American Journalist 1969 Birthday Anna Acker-Macosko, Marshfield WI, LPGA golfer, 1995 Gold Coast Tour 1967 Birthday Anna Nicole Smith, born in Texas, model, actress, spokeswoman, sex symbol 1966 Birthday Anna Clark, born in San Francisco, California, playmate, Apr, 1987 1966 Birthday Anna Wood, born in Roeumond, Netherlands, Dutch/Australian canoeist, 1988, 1996 Olympics 1966 Death Anna Achmatova, Ukrainian poet, dies at 76 1966 Death Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet 1966 Birthday Anna Ivan, La Jolla Cal, tennis star 1961 Death Grandma [Anna M] Moses, U.S. painter, dies at 101 1961 Death Anna May Wong, actress (Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang), dies at 54 1961 Death Anna May Wong, actress (Thief of Baghdad), dies at about 56 1960 Death Anna Luther, silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk), dies at 63 1960 Death Anna Blaman, Dutch writer (Life and Death), dies at 55 1957 Birthday Anna Lindh, born in Enskede, Sweden, politician, Social Democrat party, served as Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs 1956 Event 28th Academy Awards - "Marty," Anna Magnani and Ernest Borgnine win 1953 Birthday Anna Quindlen, American author, journalist, and New York Times columnist 1953 Birthday Anna Marchesini, Italian entertainer 1950 Birthday Anna M "Ansje" Beentjes, actress, Blindgangers 1950 Birthday Anna Ulvaeus, rocker, Aha-Take on Me 1949 Birthday Anna Lee Fisher, St. Albans, New York, MD/astronaut, STS-51-A 1949 Birthday Anna Bergman, Stockholm Sweden, actress, Agent 69 1948 Birthday Anna E "Annelies" Balhan, Dutch revue-artist/actress, Sweet Chairty 1948 Death Anna "Ans" van Dike, Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42 1947 Death Earnest Lubitsch, actor and director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies 1947 Birthday Anna Stuart, actress, Donna Love-Another World 1947 Death Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74 1947 Birthday Anna Calder-Marshall, Kensington England, actress, Zulu Dawn 1946 Birthday Patty Duke, Anna Marie, born in Elmhurst, New York, actress, Miracle Worker 1945 Birthday Anna Maria Horsford, New York City, actress, Thelma Frye-Amen 1944 Birthday Sally Kirkland, New York City, actress, Anna, Sting, Pvt Benjamin, Big Bad Mama 1944 Event Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta," premieres in New York City 1944 Event "Anna Lucasta," opens on Broadway 1943 Birthday Anna Ford, British broadcaster/actress, Secret Policeman's Ball 1943 Birthday Anna Gael, Gyarmarthy, Budapest Hungary, Lady Weymouth 1942 Birthday Anna Eshoo, American Politician 1941 Event 1st woman jockey in North America, Anna Lee Wiley in Mexico 1940 Birthday Anna Karina, Copenhagen Denmark, actress, Alphaville 1937 Birthday Anna Massey, actress, De Sade, Doll's House 1937 Birthday Anna Dawson, British comedienne, Violet-Keeping Up Appearances 1937 Birthday Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology, Oxford U 1936 Birthday Anna Quayle, actress, Mistress Pamela 1936 Birthday Anna Maria Alberghetti, Italy, singer and actress, Cinderfella 1935 Death Anna Katharine Green, American Author 1934 Death Marie Dressler, actress (Dinner at 8, Anna Christie), dies at 64 1934 Death Eugenie Besserer, actress (Anna Christie, Madame X), dies at 65 1933 Death Anna de Noailles, Romanian Writer 1933 Birthday Jorn Donner, Helsinki Finland, director, Anna, Tenderness 1933 Birthday Jean-Marie Straub, France, director, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach 1932 Death Anna Dickinson, dies just a week shy of her 90th birthday 1931 Death Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies 1930 Event 44th U.S. Womens Tennis: Betty Nuthall beats Anna McCune Harper (61 64) 1929 Birthday Robert Coles, Milton Massachusetts, author, Anna Freud, Pulitzer 1973 1924 Birthday Freddie Bartholomew, born in England, actor, Anna Karenina, David Copperfield 1922 Event Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Anna Christie) 1921 Event Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie," premieres in New York City 1920 Birthday Margaretha D Ferguson-Wigerink, Dutch author, Anna and her Father 1920 Birthday Elisabeth Andersen, Anna de Bruyn, Dutch actress, Yerma, Titania 1918 Death Anna Held, Polish Entertainer 1915 Birthday Anna van Beers, Graeve, actress, A Woman like Eve 1914 Birthday Anna Larina, revolutionary 1913 Birthday Jo Sinclair, born in Brooklyn, New York, pen name Jo Sinlair, writer, novelist, focused on race relations and the struggle of immigrant families, wrote Sing at My Wake, Anna Teller 1912 Birthday Anna Pollak, mezzo-soprano 1912 Birthday Stefan Schnabel, German actor, Anna, Dracula's Widow, Firefox 1912 Birthday Anna Lee, Ightham England, actress, Scruples, Lila-General Hospital 1911 Birthday Anna Russell, born in London, England, possibly born in London, Ontario, birth name Maida Vale, Anna Claudia Russell-Brown, composer, singer, comedian, recording artist 1910 Death Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82 1910 Birthday Anna Magnani, Italian actress, Awakening, Roma 1908 Birthday Anna Magnani, born in Alexandria, Egypt, actress, Rose Tattoo, Miracle 1908 Event Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female 1908 Death Anna S Barbiers, Dutch actress (Klaasje Zevenster), dies at 65 1907 Death Maria Anna Mahler, Gustav Mahlers eldest daughter, dies of scarlet fever and diptheria at 4 years and 7 months of age in Maiernigg, Austria, five days after her father, Gustav Mahler's 47th birthday. She is buried at Grinzing Cemetery, Vienna. 1907 Birthday Marie Dressler, actress, Anna Christie, Dinner at 8 1907 Birthday Anna May Wong, born in Los Angeles, California, actress, Impact, Study in Scarlet 1905 Birthday Anna "Ans" van Dike, "the Young", Jewish nazi collaborator 1905 Birthday Anna Blaman, Johanna P Vrugt, Dutch writer, Wife and Friend 1904 Birthday Anna Neagle, London England, actress, London Melody, Nurse Edith Cavell 1902 Birthday Ralph Richardson, born in England, actor, Anna Karenina, Dr. Zhivago 1901 Event 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor) 1900 Birthday Anna Seghers, Netty Radvanyi-Reiling, German author, 7th Cross 1899 Birthday Anna Arnold Hedgeman, social activist, New York City cabinet 1897 Birthday Anna Luther, born in New Jersey, silent screen actress, Sinners in Silk 1895 Birthday Anna Freud, Austrian/English psychoanalytist/daughter of Sigmund F 1895 Birthday Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian, Erflaters 1889 Birthday Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet 1888 Birthday Jacques Feyder, Frederix, Belg/French actor and director, Anna Christie 1888 Birthday Anna Achmatova, AA Gorenko, Russian conductor, Tsjetki 1888 Birthday Anna Q. Nilsson, born in Sweden, actress, Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin 1885 Birthday Anna Louise Strong, American Journalist 1882 Birthday Anna Pavlova, St. Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer 1880 Death Anna Caroline Oury, composer, dies at 72 1879 Birthday Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady, 1923-29 1878 Death Anna Claypoole Peale, U.S. painter of miniatures, dies 1878 Death Anna Sewell, English Writer 1876 Birthday Anna de Noailles, Romanian Writer 1876 Death Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (took Alamo), dies at 79 1872 Birthday Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director 1872 Birthday Anna Held, Polish Entertainer 1865 Death Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70 1864 Event Battle of North Anna, Va, 1st of 3 days of fighting 1864 Event Battle of N Anna River, Virginia (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown) 1864 Event Battle of Yellow Tavern, Virginia (Sheridan's Raid, South Anna Bridge) 1863 Birthday Emma Mary Wooley, educator, Mary Anna Wells 1860 Birthday Grandma "Anna Maria" Moses, New York, primitive painter, Old Oaken Bucket 1860 Death Anna Jameson, British Writer 1847 Birthday Anna Howard Shaw, U.S., suffragette 1846 Birthday Anna Katharine Green, American Author 1842 Birthday Anna S Barbiers, actress, Uncle Tom 1842 Birthday Anna Elizabeth Dickinson, orator, Joan of Arc of the Civil War 1836 Event Alamo besieged by Santa Anna; entire garrison eventually killed 1830 Event Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Anna Bolena," premieres in Milan 1828 Birthday Leo Tolstoy, Russia, novelist, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, 1828 Birthday Leo Tolstoi, Russian writer, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, 1825 Death Anna Letitia Barbauld, English Poet 1824 Death Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49 1820 Birthday Anna Sewell, English Writer 1816 Event Dutch King Willem II marries Russian grand-duchess Anna Paulowna 1815 Birthday Anna Ella Carroll, U.S., civil war writer, Reconstruction 1808 Birthday Anna Caroline Oury, composer 1807 Death Anna Amalia van Brumswijk-Wolfenbuttel, duchess of Saxon-Weimar, dies 1795 Birthday Anna Paulowna Romanova, monarch of Russia/daughter of czar Paul I 1794 Birthday Anna Brownell Jameson, Dublin, writer 1794 Birthday Anna Jameson, British Writer 1794 Birthday Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico, 1833-36 1791 Birthday Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures 1775 Birthday Anna Symmes Harrison, Ohio, 9th 1st lady, 1841 1774 Birthday Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet 1743 Birthday Anna L. Barbauld, writer of hymns 1743 Birthday Anna Letitia Barbauld, English Poet 1740 Death Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47 1740 Death Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47 1739 Birthday Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, duchess of Saxony-Weimar 1736 Birthday Anna Lee, Manchester England, founder, Shaker movement in America 1730 Event Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy 1709 Birthday Anna van Hannover, English princess/duchess of Brunswick-Luneburg 1693 Birthday Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia, 1730-40, 1693 Birthday Anna "Ivanovna", tsarina of Russia, 1730-40, 2/7 NS 1693 Birthday Anna Ivanova Romanova, daughter of Ivan V/empress of Russia, 1730-40 1678 Death Anna M van Schurman, Dutch poet/spoke 10 languages, dies at about 70 1666 Death Anna of Austria, queen of France/daughter of Philip III, dies at 64 1651 Death Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poet, dies at 68 1648 Event People's uprising against Anna of Austria and Cardinal Mazarin 1608 Event Reynier van Oldenbarnevelt marries Anna Weytzen in Delft 1601 Birthday Anna van Oostenrijk, queen of France/daughter of Philip III 1601 Event Louis Gunther of Nassau weds countess Anna Margaretha of Manderscheid 1598 Death Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II, dies 1588 Death Anna, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna van Saksen, dies at 24 1583 Birthday Anna Roemers Visscher, Dutch poet 1577 Death Anna, duchess of Saxon/wife of prince Willem of Orange, dies at 32 1569 Birthday Emilia van Nassau, daughter of Willem of Orange and Anna of Saxon 1563 Birthday Anna van Nassau, daughter of prince Willem I/Anna of Saksen 1561 Event Willem of Orange marries duchess Anna of Saxon 1558 Death Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies 1555 Death Hugh Latimer, royal chaplain of Anna Boley, burned at stake at 80 1551 Event Willem of Orange weds countess Anna van Egmond and Buren 1549 Birthday Anna of H Bartolomaeus, Flemish prioress/founded a nunnery 1544 Birthday Anna, duchess of Saxson/wife of prince Willem of Orange, 1561-71 1539 Event King Henry VIII and Anna of Kleef marry 1536 Death Lord Rochford, English brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded 1536 Event Anna Boleyn and Lord Rochford accused of adultery/incest 1536 Event King Henry VIII accused Anna Boleyn of adultery and incest 1533 Birthday Elizabeth, daughter of English king Henry VIII and Anna Boleyn 1533 Event Anna Boleyn crowned queen of England 1532 Event Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn 1515 Birthday Anna van Kleef, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII 1515 Event Anna of Bohemia (12) marries Karel van Ferdinand of Austria 1514 Death Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian, dies at 36 1491 Event King Charles VIII of France marries Anna of Bretagne 1491 Event Anna van Bretagne becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle" 1490 Event Anna van Bretagne marries a proxy Maximilian of Austria 1477 Birthday Anna de Bretagne, wife of Maximilian of Austria and Louis XII
