2015 Event A continued rise in cases of dengue fever has alarmed officials in the Dominican Republic and in Delhi, India; Delhi is requiring suspension of all surgeries to make 1,000 additional beds available for victims of the disease 2011 Event In Pakistan, over 5,000 people reportedly are infected with Dengue fever 2010 Event A professor searching into medical records of playwright Bertolt Brecht discovers he may have died after contracting undiagnosed rheumatic fever as a child 2010 Event Dhaka's University of Engineering and Technology in Bangladesh is shut down after a student rampage injures four people because of 2010 FIFA World Cup fever 2004 Death Pierre Berton, journalist/historian, Klondike Fever, dies at 84 1993 Event Joe Petruzzi files for divorce from Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever) 1991 Death Julie Bovasso, actress (Saturday Night Fever), dies at 61 of cancer 1989 Event Actress Annabella Sciorra (Jungle Fever) weds Joe Petruzzi 1988 Event New York City 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9 year old Bronx boy) 1985 Death Alexa Kenin, actress (Mousie-Coed Fever), dies at 23 1979 Event "Co-Ed Fever," TV Comedy, debut and cancelled that outing on CBS 1978 Event Bee Gees' "Saturday Night Fever" album goes #1 for 24 weeks 1977 Event "Saturday Night Fever,"starring John Travolta, premieres in New York City 1969 Birthday Doug E Doug, rapper/comedian, Operation Dumbo Drop, Jungle Fever 1968 Death William E "Little Willie" John, U.S. R&B-singer (Fever), dies at 30) 1967 Death Bela Schick, Hungarian/U.S. children's physician (Scarlet Fever), dies at 90 1967 Birthday Carling Bassett-Seguso, Canada, tennis player/actress, Spring Fever 1965 Birthday Veronica Webb, supermodel/actress, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X 1965 Death Irving Bacon, actor (Fort Ti, Petticoat Fever), dies at 71 1962 Birthday Alexa Kenin, New York City, actress, Mousie-Coed Fever 1962 Birthday Patrick Cassidy, born in Los Angeles, California, actor/composer, Fever Pitch, Off the Wall 1961 Birthday James McNichol, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Fitzpatricks, California Fever 1959 Birthday Kato Kaelin, actor, Beach Fever, and O.J . Simpson roommate/witness 1958 Birthday Lorenzo Lamas, born in Los Angeles, California, actor, Lance-Falcon Crest, California Fever 1957 Birthday Heather Thomas, born in Greenwich, Connecticut, actress, Jody-Fall Guy, Coed Fever 1957 Birthday Marc McClure, born in San Mateo, California, actor, Ross-California Fever 1957 Birthday Spike Lee, born in Atlanta, director, Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X 1957 Birthday John Turturro, born in Brooklyn, actor, Brain Donor, Color of Money, Jungle Fever 1956 Birthday David Sedaris, born in London, England, writer, comedian, published, 'Barrel Fever', 'Naked', 'Me Talk Pretty One Day' 1954 Birthday Adrian Zmed, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, TJ Hooker, Dance Fever 1950 Birthday Susan Anton, Oak Glen California, actress, Golden Girl, Spring Fever 1949 Birthday Maurice Gibb, Manchester Eng, rocker, Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever 1949 Birthday Robin Gibb, born in Manchester, England, rocker, Bee Gees-Saturday Night Fever 1948 Birthday Ted Nugent, born in Detroit, guitarist, Cat Scratch Fever, Damn Yankees 1940 Birthday Roy Ayers, Louisiana, disco jazz artist, Fever, You Send Me 1937 Birthday William E "Little Willie" John, Woods, U.S. R&B singer, Fever 1934 Birthday Robert Stigwood, producer, Saturday Night Fever, Grease 1932 Event Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced 1919 Birthday Richard Mason, born near Manchester, England, author, learned Japanese in World War II, interrogated prisoners of war, wrote 'The Wind Cannot Read', 'The Fever Tree', 'The World of Suzie Wong' 1919 Death Pieter K Pel, Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at 66 1912 Birthday Jane Ross, Spokane, Washington actress, Audrey-Phyllis, Coed Fever 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. 1902 Death Walter Reed, U.S. bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), dies 1901 Death Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever 1900 Event Dr. Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever 1878 Event Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500 1871 Birthday Howard T Ricketts, U.S. pathologist, studied typhus fever 1870 Birthday Frederick Russell, developed 1st successful typhoid fever vaccine 1864 Death David Bullock Harris, U.S. Confederate colonel, dies of yellow fever 1854 Birthday William Crawford Gorgas, U.S., Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever 1852 Birthday Pieter K Pel, internist, Pel-Ebstein fever 1851 Birthday Walter Reed, U.S. Army Surgeon, proved mosquitoes transmit yellow fever
