2012 Event Elizabeth Taylor's collection of artworks by Vincent Van Gogh, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas sell for over 13.7 million pounds at Christie's in London 2007 Death Hans Wollschlager, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses, dies in Bamberg, Germany 1995 Event Edgar Martinez drives home tying and winning runs to rally Mariners to 6-5 win in bottom of 11th to beat Yankees and win AL Division Series 1994 Death Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter, dies at 62 1993 Death Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer, dies after lengthy illness at 76 1989 Event Edgar Bowers wins Bollingen Prize 1988 Event Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000 1983 Death Edgar Graham, member of N Ireland Assembly, shot dead by IRA 1979 Death Edgar Buchanan, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), dies at 77 1978 Death Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75 1976 Death Edgar Pangborn, sci-fi author (Judgment of Eve, Davy), dies at 66 1975 Birthday Edgar Renteria, born in Barranquilla, Colombia, infielder for the Florida Marlins 1975 Death Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show), dies at 76 1974 Death Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62 1974 Death Edgar Dearing, actor (Free and Easy, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 81 1973 Birthday Edgar Davids, Dutch soccer player, Ajax, AC Milan 1972 Death J Edgar Hoover, head of FBI (1924-72)/cross dresser, dies at 77 1972 Death J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant 1972 Death Edgar P Snow, U.S. author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66 1969 Birthday Edgar Bennett, NFL running back, Green Bay Packers Superbowl 31 1964 Event ML King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign 1964 Event J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar" 1964 Death Edgar Barrier, actor (Cobra Woman, Rocky, Macbeth), dies at 57 1964 Death Edgar Maass, German/US author (Verdun), dies at 67 1963 Event J. Edgar Hoover last meeting with president John F. Kennedy 1963 Birthday Edgar Martinez, New York City, baseball 1st baseman for the Seattle Mariners 1960 Death Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian, painter/decorator, dies at 67 1959 Death Edgar Guest, U.S. poet/newspaperman, dies at 77 1958 Death Edgar A Robert Cecil viscount of Chelwood, (Nobel 1937), dies at 94 1958 Event Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia 1956 Death Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer, dies at 76 1956 Birthday Bruce Edgar, cricketer, New Zealand opener through the 80' 1955 Event Edgar Faure forms French government 1954 Death Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher/drawer, dies at 77 1953 Event J Edgar Hoover declines 6 figure offer to become president of International Boxing Club 1951 Event FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner 1950 Death Edgar Rice Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), dies at 74 1950 Death Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet 1949 Birthday Edgar Warren Williams, composer 1949 Event J Edgar Hoover gives Shirley Temple a tear gas fountain pen 1948 Death Edgar Istel, composer, dies at 68 1948 Death Edgar Kennedy, actor (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 58 1947 Birthday Edgar Broughton, born in Warwick, England, founder, progressive rock group, The Edgar Broughton Band, 1968 1946 Birthday Edgar Winter, Beaumont, Texas, rocker, They Only Come Out at Night 1944 Death Edgar Stillman Kelley, U.S. composer (Gulliver), dies at 87 1944 Birthday Edgar Froese, rocker, Tangerine Dream 1943 Birthday Robert W. Edgar, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Representative-D-Pennsylvania, 1975 - 1987 1943 Birthday Liz Edgar, horse show jumper 1941 Birthday John Edgar Widerman, U.S. writer 1940 Death William Edgar Borah, Senator-R-Idaho, 1907 - 1940, lawyer, died at the age of 74 1936 Event Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and dummy Charlie McCarthy, appear on TV 1936 Event Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio 1936 Event FBI's J. Edgar Hoover arrests Alvin Karpis 1935 Birthday Hans Wollschlager, born in Minden, Germany, writer, editor, translated completed works of Edgar Allen Poe, James Joyce's Ulysses 1932 Birthday Edgar Valcarcel, composer 1932 Birthday Edgar Louis Vanderstegen Millington Drake, painter 1932 Death R H Edgar Wallace, British writer/journalist (3 Just Men), dies at 76 1932 Death Edgar Wallace, British Writer 1930 Birthday Edgar Dean Mitchell, Hereford Texas, Captain USN/astronaut, Apollo 14 1930 Birthday Edgar Sergeyi Hovhanesyan, composer 1929 Birthday Edgar White, U.S., yachtsman 1952 Olympics gold 1929 Birthday William Edgar Thornton, born in Faison, North Carolina, MD/astronaut, STS-8, 51-B, sk:49 1926 Birthday Edgar D Ngoyi, South African ANC leader, 17 years in Robbeneiland Jail 1926 Birthday Edgar Meuli, cricketer, opened New Zealand batting in Test vs. South Africa 1953 1925 Birthday William Edgar Mitchell, physicist 1924 Event J. Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI 1924 Event J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI 1923 Event Bill Ponsford and Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Vict 1921 Event J. Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI 1921 Death Edgar Saltus, American Writer 1919 Event J Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia 1918 Event John E Hoover decides to be called J Edgar Hoover 1917 Death Edgar Degas, painter, Paris 1917 Death Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina), dies 1917 Event J. Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice 1912 Death Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le chant Gregorien), dies at 58 1912 Event Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes "Tarzan of the Apes" 1912 Birthday Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop 1912 Birthday Edgar Evans, born in Cardiganshire, Wales, tenor, singer, founder of Covent Garden Opera Company, performed more than 45 roles 1912 Death Edgar Evans, British explorer of Antarctica, dies 1911 Birthday Edgar Beck, president, John Mowlem 1909 Birthday Edgar Pangborn, U.S., sci-fi author, Judgment of Eve, Davy 1908 Birthday Edgar Faure, thriller writer/Prime Minister of France, 1952, 1952 - 1956 1907 Birthday Edgar Barrier, born in New York, actor, Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered 1906 Birthday Edgar Unsworth, Justice of Appeals, Gibralter 1905 Birthday Edgar P. Snow, U.S. author/journalist: Red star over China 1903 Birthday Edgar Bergen, Chicago, ventriloquist, Charlie McCarthy 1902 Birthday Edgar Buchanan, born in Humansville, Missouri, actor, Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction 1898 Birthday Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, New York City, bandleader, Jerry Colonna Show 1895 Birthday J. Edgar Hoover, American Public Servant 1893 Birthday Edgar Dearing, bron in Ceres, California, actor, Abraham Lincoln, Free and Easy 1893 Birthday Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian muralist and decorator 1891 Birthday Edgar Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer 1890 Birthday Edgar "E Livingstone" Kennedy, U.S. actor and director, My Old Dutch 1889 Birthday Edgar D Adrian, English physiologist, Nobel 1932 1888 Birthday Tarzan, of the Apes, according to Edgar Rice Burroughs' novel 1882 Birthday Edgar Mayne, cricketer, Australian batsman, prolific for Victoria 1881 Birthday Edgar Albert Guest, born in Detroit, Michigan, poet/newspaperman 1880 Birthday Edgar Istel, composer 1880 Birthday Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer 1879 Birthday Edgar Tytgat, Flemish painter/etcher 1878 Birthday Alfred Edgar Coppard, England, writer, Black Dogs and Other Stories 1877 Birthday Edgar Cayce, American 1875 Birthday Edgar Rice Burroughs, U.S., sci-fi author, Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga 1875 Birthday Edgar Wallace, born in England, novelist, playwright and journalist, Terror 1875 Death Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasverus), dies at 72 1868 Birthday Edgar Lee Masters, American Poet 1865 Birthday William Edgar Borah, born in Fairfield, Illinois, Senator-R-Idaho, 1907 - 1940, lawyer 1861 Birthday Charles Edgar Duryea, inventor, 1st auto built and operated in U.S. 1857 Birthday Edgar Stillman Kelley, Sparta Wisconsin, composer, Gulliver 1855 Birthday Edgar Saltus, American Writer 1854 Birthday Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer, Le Chant Gregorien 1849 Death Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Baltimore at 40 1849 Death Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet 1845 Event Edgar Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published (New York City) 1841 Event Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue," published 1834 Birthday Edgar Degas, born in France, impressionist painter, Bouquet 1834 Birthday Edgar Degas, French painter, ballerina 1831 Event Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy 1819 Birthday Daniel Edgar Sickles, Major General Union volunteers 1809 Birthday Edgar Allan Poe, Boston, author, Pit and the Pendulum 1803 Birthday Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian, Ahasverus 975 Death Edgar, King of England (959-75), dies
