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2007 Calendar
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[edit] Events

  • 79 - Mount Vesuvius erupted, destroying Pompeii
  • 1995 - MSN launched.

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths

  • 79 - Pliny the Elder, Roman writer and naturalist (b. 23)
  • 1042 - Michael V, Byzantine Emperor) (b. 1015)
  • 1103 - King Magnus III of Norway (b. 1073)
  • 1217 - Eustace the Monk, French mercenary and pirate
  • 1540 - Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Italian painter (b. 1503)
  • 1542 - Gasparo Contarini, Italian diplomat and cardinal (b. 1483)
  • 1572 - Victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
    • Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b. 1519)
    • Pierre de la Ramée, French humanist (b. 1515)
    • Charles de Téligny, French Huguenot soldier
  • 1595 - Thomas Digges, English astronomer (b. 1546)
  • 1647 - Nicholas Stone, English sculptor and architect (b. 1586)
  • 1664 - Maria Cunitz, Silesian astronomer
  • 1679 - Jean François Paul de Gondi, cardinal de Retz, French churchman and agitator (b. 1614)
  • 1680 - Thomas Blood, Irish-born thief of the British crown jewels (b. 1618)
  • 1683 - John Owen, English non-conformist theologian (b. 1616)
  • 1759 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (b. 1715)
  • 1779 - Kosmas Aitolos, Greek Orthodox martyr (b. 1714)
  • 1831 - August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
  • 1832 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
  • 1888 - Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (b. 1822)
  • 1921 - Nikolay Gumilyov, Russian poet (b. 1886)
  • 1841 - Theodore Edward Hook, English author (b. 1788)
  • 1940 - Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, German television pioneer (b. 1860)
  • 1946 - James Clark McReynolds, U.S. Supreme Court justice (b. 1862)
  • 1954 - Getúlio Vargas, President of Brazil (b. 1882)
  • 1956 - Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898)
  • 1967 - Henry J. Kaiser, American industrialist (b. 1882)
  • 1975 - Eamon de Valera, President of Ireland (b. 1882)
  • 1978 - Louis Prima, American band leader (b. 1910)
  • 1979 - Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (b. 1912)
  • 1985 - Paul Creston, American composer (b. 1906)
  • 1990 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (b. 1941)
  • 1991 - Bernard Castro, Italian inventor (b. 1904)
  • 1995 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (b. 1898)
  • 1998 - E.G. Marshall, American actor (b. 1910)
  • 2002 - Hoyt Wilhelm, baseball player (b. 1922)
  • 2003 - Sir Wilfred Thesiger, British explorer (b. 1910)
  • 2004 - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss-born psychiatrist (b. 1926)