Friday, September 27, 2013

Samuel Buell comments: While accepting fault, JP Morgan limits risk

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s mea culpa on Thursday was a rare break from white-collar custom. But the company’s admission of wrongdoing in its settlement with regulators was no smoking gun, according to legal scholars. They say it was crafted in a way that minimized the bank’s exposure to class-action litigation.

In agreeing to pay about $920 million in fines over actions tied to its 2012 “London Whale” trading debacle, J.P. Morgan conceded that it had been sloppy with its books and lacked internal controls over financial reporting.

“We have accepted responsibility and acknowledged our mistakes,” J.P. Morgan CEO James Dimon said in a statement Thursday.

But the candor, largely limited to questions of record-keeping, was contained. J.P. Morgan never said it misled or deceived anybody.

The settlement may seem like a clean win for the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has faced criticism from some judges and lawmakers for its “no-admit” boilerplate settlements with companies and individuals accused of misconduct. But legal scholars said the fine print still works out fine for J.P. Morgan.

None of the admissions opens the door to lawsuits from private parties. The company, for instance, admitted that it ran afoul of a provision of the Securities Exchange Act that requires public companies to “make and keep books, records, and accounts, which, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the issuer.”

Any potential securities class-action would still have to show that J.P. Morgan made a reckless misstatements that had real financial consequences.

“In terms of financial consequences, it doesn’t make a lot of difference,” University of Michigan law professor Adam C. Pritchard, who teaches corporate and securities law, told Law Blog.

A spokesman for J.P. Morgan didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The SEC declined comment.  The co-director of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement, George S. Canellos, said earlier that the company “failed to keep watch over its traders as they overvalued a very complex portfolio to hide massive losses.”

Should shareholders sue, the company’s admission at most could function as a “building block” to help demonstrate recklessness, Mr. Pritchard said.

The limited liability fallout makes sense, said Duke University law professor Samuel W. Buell, an expert on white-collar crime. “One would expect J.P. Morgan to structure a settlement that leaves them with running room on any private lawsuit,” he told Law Blog.

That doesn’t mean J.P. Morgan is feeling comfortable. An ongoing criminal probe remains a wildcard. But this appears to be a watered-down watershed moment.

“We still don’t have an example of someone admitting securities fraud liability,” said Mr. Buell.


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Bahari Harris: We need to stop repeating tragedies like Ferrell's

Almost anything I attempt to do is considered suspicious or unusual. For example, I cannot walk home from a 7-11 in the dark with a hood on. I cannot approach my neighbor when I am in distress after a car wreck. When I drive my sports car, it is considered “probable cause” and I get pulled over.  If I play my music too loud in a gas station parking lot, I might get shot by another customer in a neighboring car.  And I might get “stopped and frisked” in New York -- just because.

The recent examples of violence against black men in America are far too many. When Jonathan Ferrell was shot 12 times by Charlotte police officers last Saturday, an innocent life was taken. A life was cut short. A family was devastated. But who cares, really? 
Sadly, Jonathan Ferrell is a statistic in a long line of black men who have come under attack in America.
But what did Jonathan do wrong? He was in a car accident at 2:30 a.m. He jumped out of the car -- in pain and distress. He probably couldn’t find his cell phone, so he did the next best thing he could -- he knocked on a neighbor’s door. But that neighbor, probably startled by the late night caller, called the police. And the police ended up shooting and killing Jonathan. 
But it wasn’t just one shot; they fired 12 times. He was unarmed, bruised and battered, and probably scared. But the police, who pledge to protect and defend, instead killed in cold blood.
What are we learning about the Jonathan Ferrells in our world?  What have we learned, as a society, about the value of a black life?  Are black males an endangered species in America?  What are we, as a nation, going to do? 
It would be nice if we could pass a bill in Congress that would abolish racism. We cannot.  But we do have options. 
Harkening back to President Obama’s speech after the verdict was announced in the George Zimmerman trial, there are ways for us to approach the problem. First, we must demand that local and state law enforcement require training at all levels that addresses racial bias and racial profiling in police departments across the nation. Racial sensitivity training is a positive step toward decreasing mistrust in the system.
Second, we must stop talking about one another and start talking to one another. It is heartbreaking to think that we only have conversations regarding race after tragic events such as Ferrell’s.
We have to go beyond being reactive to becoming proactive in preventing these sorts of events.  We need ongoing conversations in our workplaces, school and churches.  Most importantly, we need to be talking to each other across our kitchen tables and on our front porches.
Until we recognize that every human being -- regardless of color or ethnicity -- has inherent worth and dignity, we will only heighten our divisions and repeat these tragedies.
Some can just turn the page on Jonathan Ferrell. But for me, as a black man, the pain doesn’t go away.

Bahari J. Harris is a public policy graduate student at Duke University. He has lived in Durham for the past 11 years.


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Kathryn Bradley comments: Judge resurrects ‘Messiah’ name in Tennessee

A lower court's ruling that a mother could not legally call her child Messiah has been overturned. Here's why

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Faculty Discuss Pending Climate Change Regulations

In an attempt to address global changes in climate, the Obama administration plans to use the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. The first set of proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations -- aimed at reducing power plants' carbon emissions -- is due by Sept. 20.

In a live webcast conversation at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, three Duke scholars will preview the legal, political, environmental and economic implications of the proposed regulations.

Watch the "Office Hours" conversation live on Duke's YouTube channel. To pose a question to the participants, post it on Twitter with the hashtag #dukelive or email it to live@duke.edu.

Participating in the conversation will be Jonas Monast, director of the Climate and Energy Program at Duke's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions; Robert Brenner a senior fellow at the Nicholas Institute; and Jonathan Wiener, the William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law at Duke Law School.

In announcing this summer his intention to use the Clean Air Act to limit greenhouse gas emissions, President Obama said, "For the sake of our children, and the health and safety of all Americans, I'm directing the Environmental Protection Agency to put an end to the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from our power plants, and complete new pollution standards for both new and existing power plants."

The Duke researchers will comment on what to look for in the EPA's upcoming proposal, what the regulations could mean for long-term climate policy and what technological innovations might affect climate change.

"Office Hours" is a live webcast series for the university community and others to engage with Duke scholars and their research. Watch archived episodes on YouTube or iTunes.

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Today in History for 25th September 2013

Events 1 - 100 of 191

303 - On a voyage preaching the gospel, Saint Fermin of Pamplona is beheaded in Amiens, France.
953 - Ratherius becomes bishop of Luik
955 - Bishop Ratherius of Luik flees
1066 - The Battle of Stamford Bridge; an English army under King Harold Godwinson beat the invading Norwegians led by King Harald Hardrada and Harold's brother Tostig, who were both killed. Three weeks later Harold died fighting the Normans at Hastings.
1212 - Emperor Frederik II ends Golden Degree (Bohemia)
1340 - England & France sign disarmament treaty
1396 - Battle of Nicopolis: Sultan Bajezid I defeats Crusades armies
1492 - Crewman on Pinta sights "land"-a few weeks early
1493 - Columbus sails with 17 ships on 2nd voyage to the Americas
1513 - Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see Pacific Ocean
1555 - Freedom of Religion in Augsburg
1560 - Spanish king Philip II names Frederik Schenck of Toutenburg, 1st archbishop of Utrecht
1597 - Amiens surrenders to French King Henri IV
1639 - First printing press in America
1639 - Suzuki Shosan, Samurai monk of Zen Buddhism, found awakening
1654 - England & Denmark sign trade agreement
1663 - Austrian Fort Neuhausl surrenders to invading Turkish army
1690 - Publick Occurrences, first newspaper in the American colonies (Boston), publishes first & last edition
1775 - American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
Explorer of the New World Christopher ColumbusExplorer of the New World Christopher Columbus 1777 - British general William Howe conquers Philadelphia
1780 - Benedict Arnold joins the British
1781 - -26] Joan Derks scatters "On the People of Netherlands" pamphlets
1789 - US Congress proposes Bill of Rights (10 of 12 will ratify)
1804 - 12th amendment to US constitution, regulating judicial power
1829 - Failed assassination attempt on Simon Bolívar
1836 - HMS Beagle anchors at St Michael
1844 - Canada defeats USA by 23 runs in the 1st cricket international
1846 - US troops under Gen Taylor occupies Monterey Mexico
1857 - Relief of Lucknow by Havelock & Outram begins
1861 - Secretary of US Navy authorizes enlistment of slaves
1862 - Skirmish at Davis' Bridge, Tennessee
1866 - (Leonard W) Jerome Park opens in Bronx for horse racing
1867 - Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Wash DC
1868 - The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Neuski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia.
Military and Political Leader Simon BolivarMilitary and Political Leader Simon Bolivar 1882 - 1st baseball doubleheader (Providence & Worcester)
1886 - Comedy opera "Dorothy," 1st produced in London
1888 - Royal Court Theatre, London, opens
1888 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" (BG)
1890 - Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California)
1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Silver Blaze" (BG)
1897 - 1st British bus service opens
1904 - Charles Follis is 1st black to play pro football
1906 - John Galsworthy's "Silver Box," premieres in London
1906 - In the presence of the king and before a great crowd, Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the invention of the Telekino in the port of Bilbao, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered the birth of the Remote control.
1907 - Jean Sibelius' 3rd Symphony, premieres
1908 - Cubs' Ed Reulbach becomes only pitcher to throw doubleheader shutout
1909 - Hudson-Fulton Celebration opens in NY
1911 - French battleship Liberte explodes at Toulon Harbor, 285 killed
1911 - Ground breaking begins in Boston for Fenway Park
1912 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
1915 - -26] Battle at Loos: 8,246 British & 0 German casualties
1915 - The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
US President Woodrow WilsonUS President Woodrow Wilson 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson is paralyzed by a stroke
1920 - 34th US Womens Tennis: M B Mallory beats M Zinderstein (63 61)
1920 - Vern Bradburn of Winnipeg Victorias kicks 9 singles in a game
1922 - Giants beat St Louis, to clinch John McGraw's 8th pennant
1924 - Malcolm Campbell sets world auto speed record at 146.16 MPH
1926 - 9th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen at Salisbury GC Westbury NY
1926 - Canadian government of MacKenzie King forms
1926 - Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week
1926 - International slavery convention signed by 20 states
1926 - NHL grants franchises to Chicago Black Hawks & Detroit Red Wings
1926 - Walter Hagen wins PGA golf tournament
1926 - Yankees take a doubleheader from Browns to clinch AL pennant
1929 - Queen-mother Emma opens Antonie van Leeuwenhoek House in Amsterdam
1930 - Austrian government of Vaugoin forms
1930 - Roger Hornsby replaces Joe McCarthy as Cubs manager
Ford Motor Company Founder Henry FordFord Motor Company Founder Henry Ford 1930 - Zoe Akins' "Greeks Had a Word for it," premieres in NYC
1932 - Jimmie Foxx hits his 58th HR in last game of season
1933 - 1st state poorhouse opens in Smyrna, Georgia
1933 - 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China
1934 - John Van Druten's "Distaff Side," premieres in NYC
1934 - Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,500th consecutive game
1934 - Rainbow (US) beats Endeavour (England) in 16th America's Cup
1935 - Maxwell Anderson's "Winterset," premieres in NYC
1936 - Joe Medwick sets a still-standing NL record with his 64th double
1937 - "il duce" visits Berlin/named "the Fuhrer" to corporal 1st class
1937 - Battle of of P'ing-hsin-kuan Wutai Mountain
1939 - German Luftwaffe strikes Warsaw with (fire)bombs
1939 - Versailles Peace Treaty forgot to include Andorra, so Andorra & Germany finally sign an official treaty ending WW I
1940 - German High Commissioner in Norway sets up Vidkun Quisling government
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
1941 - Brooklyn Dodgers win their 1st pennant in 21 years
1943 - Russian troops liberate Smolensk
1948 - "Heaven on Earth" closes at Century Theater NYC after 12 performances
1949 - 4th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Louise Suggs
1949 - Despite 71 injuries, Yankees have been in 1st place all season until Red Sox move into a tie for 1st place
1952 - Hal Newhouser of Tigers wins his 200th game
1954 - Francois "Doc" Duvalier wins Haitian presidential election
1954 - Indians win AL record 111 games
1954 - WCBD TV channel 2 in Charleston, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Detroit outfielder Al Kaline, 20, is youngest batting champ
1955 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
1955 - The Royal Jordanian Air Force is founded.
1956 - First transatlantic telephone cable goes into operation (Newfoundland-Oban)
1956 - Brooklyn Dodger Sal Maglie no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0
1957 - 300 US Army troops guard 9 black kids return to Central HS in Ark
1957 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1957 - Soviet 7 year plan (1959-1965) announced
1959 - Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley (37) & David Brown (43) wed

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 233

1358 - Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Japanese shogun (d. 1408)
1525 - Steven Borough, English explorer (d. 1584)
1593 - Matthew Merian, the Elder, engraver/bookseller
1599 - Francesco Borromini, Italian architect (d. 1667)
1612 - Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, Dutch historian
1644 - Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (d. 1710)
1683 - Jean-Philippe Rameau, Dijon France, composer (Traite) (baptized)
1711 - Qianlong Emperor of China (d. 1799)
1714 - Jean-Benoit Leclair, composer
1725 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, designed & built 1st automobile
1729 - Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist
1738 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
1741 - Vaclav Pichl, composer
1744 - Frederick Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97)
1752 - Carl Stenborg, composer
1764 - Fletcher Christian, English Bounty mutineer (d. 1793)
1766 - Armand-Emmanuel, duc de Richelieu, French PM (1815-18, 1820-21)
1773 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (d. 1856)
1780 - Jason Fairbanks, American murderer (d. 1801)
1782 - Charles Robert Maturin, Irish playwright and novelist (d. 1824)
1785 - George Frederic Pinto, composer
1793 - Felicia Dorothea Hermans, poet
1796 - Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
1798 - Henri Scheffer, painter
1798 - JBAL Leonce Elie de Beaumont, French mine engineer/geologist
1805 - Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar/founder (Pella colony in Iowa)
1822 - Adolph Wilhelm August Friedrich von Steinwehr, Brig Gen (Union vol)
1823 - Thomas John Wood, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1906
1829 - William Michael Rossetti, civil servant
1830 - Karl Klindworth, pianist/conductor
1832 - William Le Baron Jenney, US, architect/"father of skyscraper"
1839 - Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya)
1839 - [Wilhel]Mina JPR Kruseman, writer/feminist
1852 - Cornelis J Snijders, supreme commander of Dutch Navy (1910-18)
1852 - Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (Nietzsche Philosophy)
1862 - Leon Boellmann, French organist/composer (Variations Symphoniques)
1862 - Billy Hughes, seventh Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1952)
1866 - Thomas Hunt Morgan, US, biologist (Nobel-1933)
1867 - Evgenii Miller, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1938)
1872 - Charles Blake Cochran, impresario
1877 - Plutarco Elias Calles, Mexican revolutionary, president (1924-28)
1879 - Luis da Costa, composer
1879 - Lope K. Santos, Filipino writer and labor leader, Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar (d. 1963)
1881 - Lu Xun, Chinese writer (d. 1936)
1884 - Cornelis "Kees" Boeke, Dutch educationalist
1886 - Jesus Guridi, composer
1886 - John Howard Lawson, scriptwriter/playwright
1887 - May Sutton Bundy, US, 1st US woman to win Wimbledon (US 1904)
1889 - George Douglas Howard Cole, socialist/novelist
1889 - C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, Scottish writer and translator (d. 1930)
1896 - Elsa Triolet, writer
1896 - Roberto Gerhard, composer
1896 - Sandro Pertini, president Italy
1897 - Teddy Hart, NYC, actor (3 Men on a Horse)
Author and Nobel Laureate William FaulknerAuthor and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner (1897) 1897 - William Faulkner, New Albany Mississippi, author (Sound & Fury-Nobel 1949), (d. 1962)
1898 - Robert Brackman American artist (d. 1980)
1901 - Robert Bresson, French film director (d. 1999)
1902 - Ernst von Salomon, German writer (Kette Der Tausend Kraniche)
1902 - Jeno Takacs, composer
1903 - John Everett Allen, US businessman
1903 - Mark Rothko, [Marcus Rothkovich], US, painter (Green on Blue)
1905 - Nahman Avigad, Israeli archaeologist (Discovering Jerusalem)
1905 - Red Smith, Green Bay Wisc, sportscaster/columnist (Fight Talk)
1906 - Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, St Petersburg Russia, composer [NS]
1906 - Jaroslav Jezek, composer
1906 - Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer
1906 - Phyllis Pearsall, East Dulwich, London, British painter and writer (A to Z Map Company)
1907 - Jan Felderhof, composer
1907 - Robert Bresson, France, director (Pickpocket, Mouchette)
1908 - Eugen Suchon, composer
1909 - Florizel A Glasspole, governor-gen of Jamaica (1973-91)
1911 - Lionel Henry Nowak, composer
1911 - Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 1981)
1913 - David Hunt, British diplomat/quiz winner
1914 - Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist
1915 - Ethel Rosenberg, American Communist (d. 1953)
1916 - Tolia Nikiprowetzsy, composer
1917 - Johnny Sain, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1918 - Phil Rizzuto, Brooklyn New York, American sportscaster/shortstop (NY Yankees-MVP 1950)
1920 - Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director (War & Peace)
1921 - Remy C, de Kerckhove, Flemish poet
1921 - Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/chairman (IMF)
1922 - John Farr, British MP
1922 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (d. 1992)
1924 - Norman Ayrton, opera director (Royal Shakespearean Acad - UK)
1925 - Silvana Pampanini, Rome Italy, actress (Day in Court, Island Sinner)
1925 - William Edgar Mitchell, physicist
1925 - Paul MacCready, engineer/inventor (1st man-powered aircraft)
1926 - Aldo Ray, Pen Argyl PA, actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret)
1926 - John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West)
1926 - Sergei Filatov, USSR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1960)
1926 - Jack Hyles, Baptist pastor (d. 2001)
1927 - Carl Braun, basketball player (NY Knicks)
1927 - Colin Rex Davis, Weybridge England, conductor (NY Met 1967-71)
1928 - Hendrika G "Tine" de Vries, actress (Seaman's Wife)
1929 - John Rutherford, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1956)
1929 - Ronnie Barker, British comedian (the Two Ronnies)
1929 - Barbara Walters, American broadcaster
1929 - Kevin White, Boston, Massachusetts, American politicians (Mayor of Boston, 1968-1984), (d. 2012)
1930 - H Heckmann, writer

Weddings 1 - 9 of 9

1940 - "Sullivan's Travels" actress Veronica Lake (18) weds American motion picture art director and set designer John S. Detlie (31)
1954 - "Roman Holiday" actress Audrey Hepburn (25) weds actor Mel Ferrer (37) in Burgenstock
1959 - Cosmopolitan founder Helen Gurley Brown and film (37) weds theatre producer David Brown (43)
2003 - Prince of Venice and Piedmont Emanuele Filiberto (31) weds French actress Clotilde Courau (34) at the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome
2004 - Academy Award winning actor Kevin Costner (49) weds model and handbag designer Christine Baumgartner (30) at his 165-acre ranch in Aspen, Colorado
2005 - "Gremlins" actor Zach Galligan (41) weds Ling-Ling Hu Ingerick at New York City's Yale Club in New York City
2010 - Actress Emily Deschanel (33) weds writer-actor David Hornsby (34) in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles
2010 - PayPal founder Elon Musk (39) weds actress Talulah Riley (24) at Dornoch Cathedral in Scotland
2010 - Charlie Sheen's daughter Cassandra Estevez (25) weds Casey Huffman (27) in Santa Barbara, California

Deaths 1 - 100 of 123

813 - al-Amin, Arabic kalief of Islam (809-813), murdered
1066 - Harald III Hardrada, King of Norway (1047-66), dies in battle at 51
1066 - Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge
1086 - William VIII, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1025)
1333 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (b. 1301)
1392 - Sergius van Radonesj, Russian saint, dies at 78
1396 - Jean de Vienne, French admiral/crusader, dies in battle
1396 - Odard de Chasseron, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1396 - Philip of Bar, French knight/crusader, dies in battle
1496 - Piero Capponi, Italian soldier and statesman (b. 1447)
1501 - Dzore Drzic, Croatish poet, dies
1506 - Felipe I, the handsome, King of Castile (Spain) (1504-06), dies
1525 - Johannes Pistorius, [Bakker], RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26
1534 - Clement VII, [Giulio de' Medici], Italian Pope (1523-34), dies at 56
1602 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1617 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1617)
1617 - Francisco Suarez, Spanish Jesuit theologian (b. 1548)
1619 - Francesco Soto de Langa, composer, dies
1630 - Ambrogio Spinola, Spanish marquis of Balbases, dies at about 61
1665 - Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (b. 1610)
1680 - Samuel Butler, poet/satirist, dies
1716 - Johann Christoph Pez, composer, dies at 52
1727 - Jacques Abbadie, French theologist, dies at about 73
1733 - Georg Motz, composer, dies at 79
1774 - John Bradstreet, Canadian-born soldier (b. 1714)
1777 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, mathematician, dies at 49
1791 - William Bradford, American printer (b. 1719)
1792 - Adam Gottlob Moltke, Danish statesman (b. 1710)
1794 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (b. 1718)
1808 - Richard Porson, scholar, dies
1813 - Braz Francisco de Lima, composer, dies at 61
1825 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1879)
1840 - Jacques-Etienne-Joseph-Alexandre Macdonald, Duc de Tarente, soldier
1849 - Johann Baptist Strauss, elder, composer (Radetzky-Marsch), dies at 45
1860 - Carl Friedrich Zollner, composer, dies at 60
1867 - Oliver Loving, American pioneer rancher (b. 1812)
1871 - Arvir A Afzelius, Swedish story teller, dies
1876 - A Glabbrenner, writer, dies at 66
1900 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, premier of Québec (b. 1832)
1901 - Arthur Fremantle, British general and American Civil War observer (b. 1835)
1905 - Jacques Marie Eugène Godefroy Cavaignac, French politician (b. 1853)
1914 - A Lichtenstein, writer, dies at 25
1914 - Jan B Stobbaerts, Flemish painter, dies at 76
1916 - Julius Fucik, composer, dies at 44
1917 - Thomas Ashe, Irish revolutionary (b. 1885)
1918 - John Ireland, Irish/US archbishop of St Paul, dies at 80
1918 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (b. 1857)
1920 - William F Sudds, composer, dies at 77
1926 - Herbert Booth, son of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1862)
1928 - Karl Schneider, cricketer (South Aust bat), dies of leukaemia at 23
1929 - Miller Huggins, manager (NY Yankees), dies from blood poisoning at 49
1933 - Paul Ehrenfest, Austria/Neth physicist, dies at 53
1933 - Ring Lardner, American writer (b. 1885)
1944 - Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer (Irrfahrten), dies at 68
1944 - Leo Justinus Kauffmann, composer, dies at 43
1945 - Bela Bartok, composer, dies at 64
1945 - Charles A Ellwood, US sociologist/psychologist, dies at 72
1953 - Dimitur Poljanov, [Popov], Bulgaria poet (Iron Verses), dies
1954 - Eugenio d' Ors y Rovira, Spanish essayist/philosopher, dies at 71
1958 - John B Watson, US psychologist/behaviorist, dies
1959 - Ennio Porrino, composer, dies at 49
1959 - Helen Broderick, comedienne/actress (Swing Time, Top Hat), dies
1959 - S W R D Bandaranaike, Ceylon's PM, assassinated by a Buddhist monk
1960 - Emily Post, etiquette expert, dies at 86
1961 - Frank Fay, American actor (God's Gift to Women), dies at 69
1970 - Efim Golishev, composer, dies at 73
1970 - Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72
1971 - TC Jones, female impersonator, dies of cancer at 50
1974 - Coco the Clown, [Nikolai Poliakov], dies
1974 - William Sloane, publisher/writer ("Edge of Running Water"), dies
1975 - Bob Considine, newscaster (Tonight! America After Dark), dies at 68
1977 - Sidney van den Bergh, Dutch businessman/politician, dies at 78
1978 - Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80
1979 - Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete and actor (b. 1915)
1980 - John Bonham, English pop drummer (Led Zeppelin), overdoses at 32
1980 - Lewis Milestone, Moldovan film director (b. 1895)
1980 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (b. 1883)
1980 - Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890)
1983 - Leopold III, king of Belgium (1934-51), dies
1984 - Walter Pidgeon, actor (Forbidden Planet, Mrs Miniver), dies at 87
1985 - Albert Moeschinger, composer, dies at 88
1986 - Ben Sajet, physician/politician, dies at 99
1986 - Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist (b. 1909)
1986 - Donald MacDonald, Canadian politician (b.1909)
1987 - Emlyn Williams, actor/director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81
1987 - Mary Astor, actress (Cynthia, Meet Me in St Louis, Fiesta), dies at 81
1988 - Billy Carter, Pres Carter's brother Billy, dies of cancer at 51
1991 - Klaus Barbie, Gestapo chief of Lyon, dies of cancer at 77
1991 - Max Koot, royal photographer, dies
1991 - Viviane Romance, French actress (b. 1912)
1994 - John Richard Ravensdale, historian, dies at 73
1994 - Kitty Masters, actress, dies at 92
1994 - Ludwig Ferdinand von Hohenzollern, Germ prince of Prussia, dies at 86
1994 - Mark Alexander Abrams, market Researcher, dies at 88
1995 - Bessie Annie Elizabeth Delany, dentist writer, dies at 104
1995 - Dave Bowen, footballer, dies at 67
1995 - Dorothy Dickson, actress/dancer (Paying the Piper), dies at 102
1996 - Betty Phyllis Gathergood, curator, dies at 80
1996 - Nicu Ceausescu, playboy, dies at 45
1997 - Sayed Mutawli ad Imam scholar/broadcaster-Darsh, dies at 66


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