Re: Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXI

[Peelz]

LOL Good morning to you. Donkey Raping SHiteater.

[Flynbyu]

Windy here too.

~Brian

[Colorado700R]

LOL Good morning to you. Donkey Raping SHiteater.

I don't eat shit 

[Danny T]

also windy here, my brother went to the dunes today (silver lake) he said the line was like a mile long. i should be there with him but my rappy no start:(

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Apr 5 1815

Mount Tambora erupts in what is now Indonesia, killing 12,000 and spewing eighty cubic kilometers of ash into the atmosphere at once. The blast is heard more than 900 miles away, and makes summer feel like winter in many parts of the world.

Apr 5 1944

The Nazis begin deporting jews from Hungary.

Apr 5 1949

Twenty newborn babies and 57 other people die as St. Anthony's Hospital in Effingham, IL is destroyed by fire.

Apr 5 1951

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for acts of treason, which in this case means giving atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union.

Apr 5 1990

London physician Raymond Crocket is removed from the medical register after it is shown that he paid for and removed kidneys from Turkish donors brought to England.

Apr 5 1994

Kurt Cobain blows his fucking head off.

Apr 5 1997

Allen Ginsberg dies. We are sure that Allen's work for NAMBLA (North American Man/Boy Love Association) has touched us all.

Apr 5 1998

"Hollywood is run by Jews; it is owned by Jews, and they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of -- of people who are suffering. Because they've exploited -- we have seen the -- we have seen the and Greaseball, we've seen the Chink, we've seen the slit-eyed dangerous Jap, we have seen the wily Filipino, we've seen everything but we never saw the Kike. Because they knew perfectly well, that that is where you draw the wagons around." --Marlon Brando, on Larry King Live

Apr 5 2005

Rapper C-Murder (AKA C Miller) is sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a teenager in Harvey, Louisiana. C-Murder, brother of rapper/CEO Master P, goes on to release an entire album while behind bars, and even manages to film a music video. Quote the Sheriff: "Suffice it to say, I'm not pleased."

Birthdays today...
1288 - Emperor Go-Fushimi of Japan (d. 1336)
1472 - Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1510)
1523 - Blaise de Vigenère, French cryptographer (d. 1596)
1588 - Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (d. 1679)
1604 - Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1675)
1622 - Vincenzo Viviani, Italian mathematician (d. 1703)
1649 - Elihu Yale, American benefactor of Yale University (d. 1721)
1692 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (d. 1730)
1719 - Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier; father of Axel von Fersen the Younger (d. 1794)
1732 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist (d. 1806)
1752 - Sébastien Érard, French musical instruments maker (d. 1831)
1784 - Louis Spohr, German violinist (d. 1859)
1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1890)
1827 - Joseph Lister, English surgeon (d. 1912)
1832 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (d. 1893)
1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet (d. 1909)
1856 - Booker T. Washington, American educator (d. 1915)
1869 - Sergei Chaplygin, Russian physicist and engineer (d. 1942)
1869 - Albert Roussel, French composer (d. 1937)
1871 - Mirko Seljan, Croatian explorer
1872 - Samuel Cate Prescott, American food scientist and microbiologist (d. 1962)
1875 - Mistinguett, French vaudeville performer (d. 1956)
1893 - Clas Thunberg, Finnish speed skater (d. 1973)
1899 - Alfred Blalock, Surgeon who partnered up with Vivien Thomas (d. 1964)
1900 - Spencer Tracy, American actor (d. 1967)
1901 - Melvyn Douglas, American actor (d. 1981)
1906 - Lord Buckley, American monologist (d. 1960)
1908 - Bette Davis, American actress (d. 1989)
1908 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (d. 1989)
1908 - Jagjivan Ram, Indian politician (d. 1986)
1909 - Albert R. Broccoli, American film producer (d. 1996)
1912 - John Le Mesurier, British actor (d. 1983)
1916 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
1917 - Robert Bloch, American author (d. 1994)
1920 - Arthur Hailey, American writer (d. 2004)
1920 - Rafique Zakaria, Indian author (d. 2005)
1922 - Tom Finney, English footballer
1922 - Christopher Hewett, British actor (d. 2001)
1922 - Gale Storm, American singer
1923 - Michael V. Gazzo, American actor (d. 1995)
1923 - Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam (d. 2001)
1926 - Roger Corman, American film director
1928 - Tony Williams, American singer (The Platters) (d. 1992)
1929 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (d. 2008)
1929 - Ivar Giaever, Norwegian physicist, Nobel laureate
1929 - Nigel Hawthorne, British actor (d. 2001)
1929 - Joe Meek, English record producer (d. 1967)
1932 - Billy Bland, American singer and songwriter
1933 - Larry Felser, American sports columnist
1933 - Frank Gorshin, American actor (d. 2005)
1934 - Roman Herzog, German politician
1934 - Stanley Turrentine, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2000)
1935 - Peter Grant, British music manager (d. 1995)
1936 - John Kelly, Irish republican politician (d. 2007)
1937 - Colin Powell, U.S. Secretary of State
1937 - Allan R. Thieme, American inventor
1938 - Colin Bland, South African Cricket player
1939 - Ronald White, American singer and songwriter (d. 1995)
1939 - Crispian St. Peters, British singer
1941 - Michael Moriarty, American actor
1941 - Dave Swarbrick, British folk musician
1942 - Peter Greenaway, Welsh film director
1943 - Max Gail, American actor
1944 - Pedro Rossello, Puerto Rican politician
1945 - Tommy Smith, English footballer
1946 - Jane Asher, British actress
1947 - Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of the Philippines
1948 - Les Binks, British musician, former drummer for Judas Priest
1948 - Dave Holland, British musician (Judas Priest)
1949 - John Berg (actor), American actor (d. 2007)
1949 - Judith Resnik, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1950 - Agnetha Fältskog, Swedish singer (ABBA)
1950 - Miki Manojlović, Serbian actor
1951 - Dean Kamen, American inventor
1952 - Mitch Pileggi, American actor
1954 - Stan Ridgway, American musician (Wall of Voodoo)
1955 - Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist
1955 - Janice Long, English broadcaster
1955 - Charlotte de Turckheim, French actress
1956 - Diamond Dallas Page, American professional wrestler
1958 - Johan Kriek, South African born tennis player
1961 - Lisa Zane, American actress
1961 - Jim LeRoy, Airshow Pilot
1962 - Lana Clarkson, American actress (d. 2003)
1964 - Steve Beaton, English darts player
1964 - Christopher "Kid" Reid, American rapper (Kid 'n Play)
1964 - Princess Erika, French singer
1965 - Cris Carpenter, American baseball player
1966 - Mike McCready, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1967 - Gary Gait, Canadian lacrosse player
1968 - Paula Cole, American musician
1970 - Thea Gill, Canadian actress
1970 - Miho Hatori, Japanese singer and songwriter (Cibo Matto)
1971 - Dong Abay, Filipino musician, singer-songwriter
1972 - Krista Allen, American actress
1972 - Tom Coronel, Dutch racing driver
1972 - Pat Green, American singer and songwriter
1972 - Paul Okon, Australian soccer player
1973 - Tony Banks, American football player
1973 - Élodie Bouchez, French actress
1973 - Pharrell, American music producer (The Neptunes)
1974 - Sahaj Ticotin, American musician/producer (Ra)
1974 - Uhm Tae Woong, South Korean actor
1975 - John Hartson, Welsh footballer
1976 - Kim Collins, Nevisian sprinter
1976 - Ryan Drese, American baseball player
1976 - Ross Gload, American baseball player
1976 - Simone Inzaghi, Italian footballer
1976 - Fernando Morientes, Spanish footballer
1978 - Franziska van Almsick, German swimmer
1978 - Stephen Jackson, American basketball player
1979 - Timo Hildebrand, German footballer
1980 - Matt Bonner, American basketball player
1980 - Lee Jae Won, South Korean actor, singer, and rapper
1981 - Jorge de la Rosa, Mexican baseball player
1981 - Michael A. Monsoor, American soldier (d. 2006)
1982 - Thomas Hitzlsperger, German footballer
1982 - Matt Pickens, American soccer player
1982 - Alexandre Prémat, French racing driver
1984 - Shin Min-a, South Korean model and actress
1990 - Haruma Miura, Japanese actor

Famous deaths...
582 - Eutychius, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. c. 512)
1168 - Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)
1419 - Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (b. 1350)
1605 - Adam Loftus, English Protestant archbishop in Ireland (b. c. 1513)
1617 - Alonso Lobo, Spanish composer (b. 1555)
1673 - François Caron, French explorer (b. 1600)
1676 - John Winthrop, the Younger, American politician (b. 1606)
1693 - Anne, Duchess of Montpensier, French writer (b. 1627)
1695 - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English writer (b. 1633)
1697 - King Charles XI of Sweden (b. 1655)
1717 - Jean Jouvenet, French painter (b. 1647)
1735 - William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657)
1735 - Samuel Wesley, English poet (b. 1662)
1765 - Edward Young, English poet (b. 1683)
1794 - Georges Danton, French Revolutionary leader (b. 1759)
1794 - Camille Desmoulins, French journalist and politician (b. 1760)
1900 - Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (b. 1822)
1923 - George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1866)
1928 - Roy Kilner, English cricketer (b. 1890)
1941 - Sir Nigel Gresley, Steam locomotive engineer (b. 1876)
1943 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (b. 1869)
1945 - Karl Otto Koch, German SS-officer (b. 1897)
1945 - Huldreich Georg Früh (b. 1903)
1946 - Vincent Youmans, American songwriter (b. 1898)
1952 - Charles Collett, GWR chief mechanical engineer (b. 1871)
1964 - General Douglas MacArthur, American general (b. 1880)
1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1890)
1967 - Mischa Elman, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1891)
1969 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (b. 1903)
1969 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (b. 1917)
1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891)
1972 - Brian Donlevy, American actor (b. 1901)
1972 - Isabel Jewell, American actress (b. 1907)
1973 - John Coleman, Australian rules footballer (b. 1928)
1974 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (b. 1882)
1975 - Chiang Kai-shek, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1887)
1976 - Howard Hughes, American aviator (b. 1905)
1976 - Wilder Penfield, Canadian surgeon (b. 1891)
1979 - Eugène Gabritschevsky, Russian biologist and artist (b. 1893)
1981 - Bob Hite, American singer (Canned Heat) (b. 1945)
1982 - Abe Fortas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1910)
1983 - Danny Rapp, American musician (Danny & the Juniors) (b. 1941)
1987 - Jan Lindblad, Swedish naturalist, writer, photografer (b. 1932)
1989 - María Cristina Gómez, Salvadoran Teacher (b. 1938)
1991 - John Tower, American politician (b. 1925)
1991 - Sonny Carter, American astronaut (b. 1947)
1992 - Molly Picon, American actress (b. 1898)
1992 - Sam Walton, American retailer (b. 1918)
1994 - Kurt Cobain, musician (Nirvana) (b. 1967)
1997 - Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)
1998 - Cozy Powell, British musician (b. 1947)
1999 - Paul David, French-Canadian cardiologist (b. 1919)
2000 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (b. 1914)
2001 - Brother Theodore, German comedian (b. 1906)
2002 - Layne Staley, American musician (Alice in Chains) (b. 1967)
2004 - Heiner Zieschang, German mathematician (b. 1936)
2004 - Sławomir Rawicz, Polish soldier (b. 1915)
2005 - Saul Bellow, Canadian born writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2005 - Dale Messick, American comic strip artist (b. 1906)
2005 - Debralee Scott, American actress (b. 1953)
2005 - John Sichel, British film and television director (b. 1937)
2006 - Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
2007 - Mark St. John, American musician (Kiss) (b. 1956)
2007 - Darryl Stingley, American football player (b. 1951)
2007 - Maria Gripe, Swedish writer (b. 1923)
2007 - Leela Majumdar, Bengali writer (b. 1908)
2007 - Poornachandra Tejaswi, Kannada writer (b. 1938)
2008 - Charlton Heston, American actor (b. 1923)

Holidays and observances...
Mauritius: Ougadie.
Qingming Festival in the Chinese calendar
Arbor Day and Hansik in South Korea

Have a great Sunday.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

4:46 am.....

I'm sleepping on the couch......when I hear a loud crash. I think it's part of the thunderstorm that was moving into the area. I get up, and look outside and teh concrete is dry. I see stuff all over the road, so I shut my alarm off and wonder outside. Someone hit the brick mailbox across the street. The car was 50 yards up the street and some one was staggering around the car. I cal the police, and let them know where the accident was. I go back outside and teh car is sitting in the middle of the road, no driver. The police show up, and as they arrive another car arrives. It's the family of the driver of the car.

Turns out they were coming back to try to move the car and stage the accident. They told the police the diver wasn't here, that they went home to "get something to eat" and they were just tired. The officer said "Go get his ass right now, he's commiting a felony by leaving the scene of an accident." The driver returns and it was a woman. The person I saw walking around the car wasn't a woman. The police officer questions her and finds out it wasn't her. He goes to the house and gets the driver down the street. Turns out it was a black guy I used to play football with. He was driving his mother's car, and got scared because he has two warrants. He just left a club that had a shooting, and was speeding home drunk when he jumped the curb, drove through my neighbor's yard, took out a mailbox, and continued through two more yards before ending back on the street. Oh, and here's the kicker...the insurance had just expired on the car my dealership sold them. It was a 2008 Pontiac G6 GT.

I've been helping my neighbor picki up bricks since since 5:00 am. I'm going to bed!

~Brian

[socalrappy700]

Damn, that was quite a morning.  I've been up since 5 am so I feel your pain.

So what did you do that Brandy had to send you to the couch?   

[Peelz]

Morning Brian and E. Nifty story. WTF!

[BLU700R]

football Ay. You shoulda tackled his ass

[disco]

   Yeah, throw a brick at him.  "Go deep!" 

When I first starting reading this, I thought somebody hit his box with a bat or brick or something, not their freaking car!  My mailbox has a few battle scars from wayward bats and stuff.   

People used to always get drunk and crash down the road from my house.  The road turns, they don't.  Hello pine trees.  Now there's reflective signs, arrows, crap telling you the road goes ==> that-a-way now.  Dead end street and they would be trying to get to the highway.  Had an asphalt truck overturn there, "paved" a large section of the woods, had a chick get killed bouncing off a pine and snapping a power pole.  My neighbor was laughing at me.  I told him I woke up after the power was restored when my ceiling fan turned on and the aquarium started bubbling.  I asked him what happened.  He asked if I heard the police cars, fire trucks, ambulance or crews pulling all that mess out and resetting the pole.  "Uh... no."  I guess when I sleep good, I sleep REAL good.

[Krandall]

Morning Ho's!

[Flynbyu]

Damn, that was quite a morning.  I've been up since 5 am so I feel your pain.

So what did you do that Brandy had to send you to the couch?   

Nothing...She didn't want to wake me. I we were watching Pineapple Express, and I dozed of at the end.

~Brian

[Flynbyu]

Today in history...

Apr 6 1868



Mormon prophet Brigham Young marries 23-year-old Ann Eliza Webb. This is Young's 27th wife, 18 of which are still married to him.

Apr 6 1976



Howard Hughes dies of health complications related to syphilis. 

Apr 6 1990

Police trace a series of obscene phone calls to the president's private White House telephone. The caller turns out to be the president of American University in Washington, Richard E. Berendzen, who was apparently hung up over some personal ad. He is later forced to resign his position but is never charged with any crime. 

Apr 6 1994

The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi are both killed in a mysterious plane crash near the Rwandan capital. Consequently, widespread violence erupts in Rwanda amidst rumors that the plane had been shot down.

Bithdays today...
1483 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (d. 1520)
1613 - Stjepan Gradić, Croatian philosopher and scientist (d. 1683)
1632 - Maria Leopoldine of Austria, Holy Roman Empire Empress (d. 1649)
1651 - André Dacier, French classical scholar (d. 1722)
1664 - Arvid Horn, Swedish statesman (d. 1742)
1671 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (d. 1741)
1725 - Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (d. 1807)
1773 - James Mill, Scottish philosopher and historian (d. 1836)
1812 - Alexander Herzen, Russian writer (d. 1870)
1815 - Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883)
1818 - Aasmund Olavsson Vinje, Norwegian poet (d. 1870)
1820 - Nadar, French photographer (d. 1910)
1823 - Joseph Medill, journalist and mayor of Chicago (d. 1899)
1826 - Gustave Moreau, French painter (d. 1898)
1841 - Karl Binding, German jurist (d. 1920)
1849 - John William Waterhouse, British painter (d. 1917)
1851 - Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (d. 1932)
1861 - Stanislas de Guaita, French occultist (d. 1897)
1878 - Erich Mühsam, German author (d. 1934)
1884 - Walter Huston, Canadian-born actor (d. 1950)
1886 - Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, The Last Nizam of Hyderabad state (d. 1967)
1890 - Anthony Fokker, Dutch designer of aircraft (d. 1939)
1892 - Donald Wills Douglas, Sr., American industrialist (d. 1981)
1892 - Lowell Thomas, American travel writer (d. 1981)
1894 - Gertrude Baines, American supercentenarian
1901 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (d. 1925)
1902 - Veniamin Kaverin, Russian writer (d. 1989)
1903 - Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player (d. 1962)
1903 - Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (d. 1990)
1909 - Hermann Lang, German race car driver (d. 1987)
1909 - William M. Branham, American evangelist (d. 1965)
1911 - Feodor Felix Konrad Lynen, German biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1918 - Alfredo Ovando Candía, Bolivian president (d. 1982)
1920 - Edmond H. Fischer, Swiss-American biochemist, Nobel laureate
1926 - Sergio Franchi, Italian-born singer and actor (d. 1990)
1926 - Gil Kane, Latvian-born cartoonist (d. 2000)
1926 - Ian Paisley, Northern Irish politician
1927 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (d. 1996)
1928 - James D. Watson, American geneticist, Nobel laureate
1929 - Joi Lansing, American model and actress (d. 1972)
1929 - André Previn, German-born composer and conductor
1931 - Ivan Dixon, American actor and director (d. 2008)
1932 - Helmut Griem, German actor (d. 2004)
1933 - Roy Goode, British lawyer
1933 - Eduardo Malapit, American Democratic politician (d. 2007)
1934 - Anton Geesink, Dutch judoka
1937 - Merle Haggard, American musician
1937 - Peter Maivia, Samoan professional wrestler (d. 1982)
1937 - Billy Dee Williams, American actor
1938 - Paul Daniels, English magician
1938 - Roy Thinnes, American actor
1939 - André Ouellet, French Canadian politician
1940 - Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Mexican actor
1941 - Phil Austin, American comedian
1941 - Don "The Snake" Prudhomme, American drag racer
1941 - Gheorghe Zamfir, Romanian musician
1942 - Barry Levinson, American film producer/director
1944 - Felicity Palmer, English soprano
1945 - Neal Boortz, American talk radio personality
1947 - John Ratzenberger, American actor
1948 - Patrika Darbo, American actress
1949 - Horst Ludwig Störmer, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1951 - Bert Blyleven, Dutch-born baseball player
1952 - Udo Dirkschneider, German singer
1952 - Marilu Henner, American actress
1952 - Michel Larocque, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1992)
1953 - Christopher Franke, German musician and composer
1955 - Keith Hunter Jesperson, Canadian-born serial killer
1955 - Michael Rooker, American actor
1956 - Dilip Vengsarkar, Indian cricketer and administrator
1957 - Paolo Nespoli, Italian astronaut
1961 - Rory Bremner, English comedian and impressionist
1964 - Phil Gayle, English news presenter
1965 - Frank Black, American singer/songwriter
1965 - Lieve Slegers, Belgian athlete
1965 - Sterling Sharpe, American football player
1966 - Young Man Kang, South Korean film director
1967 - Mika Koivuniemi, Finnish ten-pin bowler
1967 - Jonathan Firth, British actor
1968 - Vanessa Lann, American composer
1968 - Affonso Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
1969 - Jack Canfora, American playwright
1969 - Bison Dele, American basketball player (disappeared 2002)
1969 - Ari Meyers, Puerto Rican-born American actress
1969 - Philipp Peter, Austrian racing driver
1969 - Paul Rudd, American actor
1969 - Bret Boone, Baseball Player
1970 - Olaf Kölzig, South African-born ice hockey player
1970 - Huang Xiaomin, Chinese swimmer
1971 - Lou Merloni, American baseball player
1972 - Ami James, Israeli-born American tattoo artist
1972 - Jason Hervey, American actor
1972 - Jo Van Daele, Belgian discus thrower
1973 - Donnie Edwards, American football player
1973 - Rie Miyazawa, Japanese actress/singer
1973 - Sun Wen, Chinese footballer
1973 - Gina Yashere, English comedian
1974 - Robert Kovač, Croatian footballer
1975 - Zach Braff, American actor
1975 - Hal Gill, Ice Hockey player
1976 - Candace Cameron, American actress
1976 - Georg Hólm, Icelandic musician
1977 - Andy Phillips, American Baseball Player
1978 - Tim Hasselbeck, American football player
1978 - Myleene Klass, British singer
1978 - Martin Mendez, Uruguayan-born Bassist (Opeth)
1978 - Blaine Neal, American baseball player
1981 - Robert Earnshaw, Zambian born, Welsh international footballer
1981 - Alex Suarez, American bassist (Cobra Starship)
1982 - Ilan Hall, Israeli-American chef
1982 - Bret Harrison, American actor
1982 - Michael Guy Chislett, Australian-American guitarist (The Academy Is...)
1983 - Diora Baird, American actress
1983 - Jade Seah, Singaporean model, host and actress
1983 - James Wade, English Darts Player
1984 - Max Bemis, American musician/songwriter
1985 - Garrett Zablocki, American musician
1985 - Clarke MacArthur, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 - Levi Porter, English footballer
1988 - Leigh Adams, Australian rules footballer
1988 - Mike Bailey, English actor
1988 - Fabrice Muamba, Anglo-Congolese footballer
1995 - Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese Actor and Singer, Nick Hall
2007 - Princess Haalah bint Hashim, Princess of Jordan 

Famous deaths...
885 - Saint Methodius (b. c. 815)
1147 - Frederick II, Duke of Swabia (b. 1090)
1199 - King Richard I of England (b. 1157)
1199 - Pierre Basile, French soldier
1362 - James I, Count of La Marche, French soldier (b. 1319)
1490 - King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary
1520 - Raphael, Italian painter and architect (b. 1483)
1528 - Albrecht Dürer, German artist (b. 1471)
1551 - Joachim Vadian, Swiss humanist (b. 1484)
1571 - John Hamilton, Scottish prelate and politician
1590 - Francis Walsingham, English spymaster
1605 - John Stow, English historian
1655 - David Blondel, French Protestant clergyman (b. 1591)
1686 - Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)
1707 - Willem van de Velde, the younger, Dutch painter (b. 1633)
1755 - Richard Rawlinson, English minister and antiquarian (b. 1690)
1825 - Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (b. 1757)
1829 - Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician (b. 1802)
1833 - Adamantios Korais, Greek humanist scholar (b. 1748)
1838 - José Bonifácio de Andrade e Silva, Brazilian statesman and geologist (b. 1763)
1862 - Albert Sidney Johnston, American Confederate general (b. 1803)
1883 - Benjamin Wright Raymond, American politician (b. 1801)
1906 - Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (b. 1849)
1933 - Elizabeth Bacon Custer, wife of George Armstrong Custer (b. 1842)
1935 - Edwin Arlington Robinson, American poet (b. 1869)
1947 - Herbert Backe, German Nazi politician (b. 1896)
1953 - Idris Davies, Welsh poet (b. 1905)
1961 - Jules Bordet, Belgian immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1870)
1963 - Otto Struve, Russian-born astronomer (b. 1897)
1970 - Sam Sheppard, American accused murderer (b. 1923)
1970 - Maurice Stokes, American basketball player (b. 1933)
1971 - Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (b. 1882)
1974 - Willem Marinus Dudok, Dutch architect (b. 1884)
1974 - Hudson Fysh, Australian aviator and businessman (b. 1895)
1976 - Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
1992 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920)
1994 - Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician (b. 1937)
1994 - Cyprien Ntaryamira, Burundian politician (b. 1956)
1996 - Greer Garson, Irish actress (b. 1904)
1998 - Wendy O. Williams, American singer (Plasmatics) (b. 1949)
1998 - Tammy Wynette, American singer (b. 1942)
1999 - Red Norvo, American jazz vibraphonist (b. 1908)
2000 - Habib Bourguiba, Tunisian politician (b. 1903)
2001 - Charles Pettigrew, American singer (b. 1963)
2003 - David Bloom, American reporter (b. 1963)
2003 - Babatunde Olatunji, Nigerian drummer (b. 1927)
2003 - Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, Canadian religious figure (b. 1912)
2004 - Larisa Bogoraz, Soviet dissident (b. 1929)
2004 - Niki Sullivan, American guitarist (The Crickets) (b. 1937)
2005 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco (b. 1923)
2006 - Maggie Dixon, American college basketball coach (b. 1977)
2006 - Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (b. 1917)
2007 - Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (b. 1916) 

Holidays and observances...
Tartan Day, the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Arbroath in 1320, a day set aside for the celebration of Scottish influence
The date of organization of The Church of of Latter-day Saints by Joseph Smith, Jr.. Also the date on which many in The Church believe that Jesus was born.  Have a great Monday.~Brian

[Krandall]

The date of organization of The Church of of Latter-day Saints by Joseph Smith, Jr.. Also the date on which many in The Church believe that Jesus was born.  Have a great Monday.


Yea.. What do those Jehova witness's know.. alll they know by my apt is how to ride bikes and ruin peoples evenings. 

[Flynbyu]

Jehovah's peeps don't knock my door anymore. I answered the door in my underwear and they haven't been back since.

No shit.

~Brian