Cheshiresoft CDAY Almanac

Today is Friday, September 3, 2010.

Birthdays

1596 Nicolo Amati, Italian violin maker
1814 J.J. Sylvester --1897
1856 Louis Sullivan, father of modern US architecture.
1884 S. Lefschetz --1972
1907 Andrew Brewin, Canadian lawyer, cofounder of New Democratic Party
1913 Alan Ladd, actor
1914 Kitty Carlisle-Hart
1943 Valerie Perrine
1960 Perry Bamonte, The Cure
1965 Charlie Sheen
1969 Gwen Stefani, No Doubt

Deaths

1917 Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed
1962 e[dward] e cummings, US poet (Tulips & Chimneys), dies at 67
1963 Cruys Voorbergh, actor/director (Vliegende Hollander), dies at 64
1965 Otto Lederer, actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 79
1967 David Cohen, historian/chairman (Jewish Council), dies at 84
1967 James Dunn, actor (Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 6 Gun Law), dies at 61
1967 Woody Guthrie, rocker, dies of Huntington's Chorea at 55
1969 Ho Chi Minh, [Nguyen Ta't-Tanh], N Vietnamese president, dies at 79
1970 Al Wilson, "Blind Owl", guitarist/vocalist (Canned Heat), dies at 27
1970 Vince Lombardi, football coach (Packers), dies in Washington DC at 57
1971 Veronica Turleigh, actress (Promoter), dies at 68
1980 Barbara O'Neil, actress (Tower of London, Stella Dallas)
1980 Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury), dies at 76
1982 Michael Thoma, actor (8 is Enough, Fame), dies at 55
1984 Arthur Schwartz, producer (Inside USA with Chevrolet), dies at 83
1984 Duncan Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid), dies at 80
1985 Joe Jones, drummer, dies at 73
1987 Vokopach Stalingrada/Kira Georgijevna, dies at 76
1990 David Acer, Florida dentist, dies of AIDs after infecting 5 patients
1991 Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94
1992 Johannes van Capel, oldest man in Netherlands (Born 4/22/1884), dies
1993 Leon Liebgold, Pol/US actor/chairman (Hebrew Actors Union), dies at 83
1994 James Aubrey, actor (Riders of the Storm), dies of heart attack at 75
1994 Major Lance, soul singer, dies at 55
1994 Nikos Ghika, artist, dies at 88
1994 Roswell Gilbert, who mercy killed his ailing wife, dies at 85
1994 William Ambrose Right, footballer, dies at 70
1995 Alex Brown, snooker player, dies at 87
1995 Alfred Earle Birney, poet, dies at 91
1995 Donald Cuthbert Coleman, economic historian, dies at 75
1995 Mary Adshead, muralist/painter, dies at 91
1995 Peter Michalke, journalist, dies at 40
1996 John Cheek, Falkland Islands advocate, dies at 56
1996 Julian Amery, politician, dies at 77
1996 Robert Croften Brown, politician, dies at 75

Events

1783 Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, is signed.
1849 California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey
1900 British annex Natal (South Africa)
1935 First automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir Malcolm Campbell
1939 Britain declared war on Germany. France followed six hours later, quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa & Canada
1940 US gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for military bases
1976 US Viking 2 lands on Mars at Utopia
1978 Crew of Soyuz 31 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 29
1985 20th Space Shuttle Mission - Discovery 6 returns to Earth

That's all for today.