2008 Death W. Mark Felt, dies in his sleep, in Santa Rosa, California, at 95 1996 Death Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist, dies at 69 1994 Death Rosa Chacel, Spanish author, dies at 96 1994 Death Rosa Chacel, spanish Novelist, dies at 96 1991 Event Rosa Mota wins 4th World Cup female marathon (2:26:14) 1990 Event Rosa Mota wins female marathon (2:31:27) 1990 Event 19th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:23 1988 Event Rosa Mota wins 2nd female olympic marathon (2:25:39) 1988 Event 17th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:24:30 1987 Event Rosa Mota becomes wins female Rome marathon (2:25:17) 1987 Event 16th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:21 1986 Event Rosa Mota wins Stuttgart female marathon (2:28:38) 1983 Event Rosa Mota runs female world record 20k (1:06:55.5) 1982 Event Gerard Nijboer (2:15:16) and Rosa Mota (2:36:04) win marathon 1981 Death Rosa Ponselle, U.S. singer (Metropolitan Opera), dies at 84 1970 Birthday Ana Rosa Brito, Miss Puerto Rico Universe 1997 1969 Birthday John McMullen, Santa Rosa California, Canadian Tour golfer, 1992 NCAA-15th 1969 Birthday Wendi Simmons, Santa Rosa California, heptathlete 1964 Death Russ Case, orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), dies at 52 1955 Event Historic bus boycott begins in Montgomery Alabama by Rosa Parks 1955 Event Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of bus 1953 Birthday Rosa Mota, Port marathoner 1988 Olympics gold 1952 Death Rosa Lewis, English chef/owner (Cavendish Hotel London), dies 1947 Birthday Karen Valentine, Santa Rosa California, actress, Love American Style, Room 222 1946 Birthday Lana Wood, Svetlana Gurdin, born in Santa Rosa, California, Diamonds are Forever 1943 Birthday Rosa DeLauro, born in New Haven, Connecticut, Representative-D-Connecticut 1991 - 1942 Birthday Rosa Von Praunheim, Holger Mischwitzky, Riga Latvia, dir, Affengeil 1942 Death Hector Abbas, actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58 1935 Birthday Jakusho Kwong, Santa Rosa California, head of Sonoma Mountain Zen Center 1931 Birthday Rita Moreno, Rosa Dolores Alverio, Humacao PR, West Side Story 1927 Birthday Rosa Joyce Plesters Brommelie, conservation scientist 1926 Birthday Julie London, born in Santa Rosa, California, actress, Nurse McCall-Emergency 1919 Death Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered 1914 Event Socialist conference in Brussel (Kautsky, Trotski and Rosa Luxemburg) 1913 Birthday Rosa Lee Parks, civil rights activist, bus protestor 1913 Birthday Rosa Parks, American Activist 1912 Birthday Russ Case, born in Hamburg, Iowa, orchestra leader, Julius La Rosa Show 1899 Death Marie-Rosalie "Rosa" Bonheur, French painter, dies at 68 1898 Birthday Rosa Chacel, spanish novelist 1897 Birthday Rosa Ponselle, opera diva, Casta Diva, La Forza del Destino 1893 Birthday Ropert L Ripley, Santa Rosa California, cartoonist, Believe It or Not 1884 Birthday Hector Abbas, actor and director, Rosa Lynd Company 1874 Birthday Eugene Baie, Belgian author, Sub rosa et sub umbra 1870 Birthday Rosa Luxemburg, Polish Activist 1867 Birthday Rosa Lewis, society caterer/owner, Cavandish Hotel-England 1842 Birthday Carl A. N. Rosa, German violinist and composer 1842 Birthday Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder, Rosa opera company 1822 Birthday Rosa Bonheur, French landscape painter, Buffalo Bill 1759 Birthday Maria Rosa Coccia, composer 1673 Death Salvatore Rosa, Italian painter (Baroque)/poet/music/actor, dies at 57
