1996 Death Tristan Keuris, composer, taught composition in Utrecht, Amsterdam, works include 'Saxophone Quartet Concerto', dies in Amsterdam, Holland 1995 Death Tristan Jones, sailor, author, Welsh story teller, dies at 71 1963 Death Tristan Tzara, writer, dies at 67 1962 Death Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde), dies at 79 1961 Event Volcano eruptions on Tristan de Cunha (South Atlantic) 1961 Event A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha 1946 Birthday Tristan Keuris, born in Amersfoort, Netherlands, composer, taught composition in Utrecht, Amsterdam, works include 'Saxophone Quartet Concerto' 1946 Birthday Tristan Rogers, born in Australia, actor, Robert Scorpio-General Hospital 1929 Birthday Tristan Jones, born in Liverpool, England, sailor, author, Welsh story teller, wrote about sailing in books and articles 1927 Birthday Oskar Pastior, born in Sibiu, Romania, poet, writer, translator, studied German at University of Bucharest, translated Romanian literature into German, among other works by Tudor Arghezi, Tristan Tzara, Gellu Naum, Urmuz 1916 Event Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland 1896 Birthday Tristan Tzara, Samuel Rosenfeld, French poet, Approximate Man 1888 Birthday Jean-Jacques Bernard, French writer, Mon pere Tristan Bernard 1866 Birthday Tristan Bernard, French Playwright 1865 Event Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany 1844 Death Flora Tristan, writer, dies at 41 1816 Event Great Britain annexes Tristan da Cunha 1803 Birthday Flora Tristan, writer 1655 Death Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)
