the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
1995  Mikolas Josef, Czech singer, musician and model
1997  Yuju, South Korean singer
2005  Prince Emmanuel of Belgium
1052  Vladimir of Novgorod (born 1020)
1250  Herman VI, Margrave of Baden (born 1226)
1305  Emperor Kameyama of Japan (born 1249)
1582  Teresa of Avila, Spanish saint (born 1515)
1597  Sarsa Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia (born 1550)
1661  Jacqueline Pascal, French child prodigy and nun (born 1625)
1669  Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter (born 1606)
1680  Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer (born 1609)
1747  Amaro Pargo, Spanish pirate (born 1678)
1785  David Brearly, American statesman (born 1703)
1821  John Rennie the Elder, Scottish engineer (born 1761)
1851  Manuel de Godoy, Prince of Peace, Spanish politician (born 1767)
1852  James Whitcomb, 8th Governor of Indiana (born 1795)
1859  Karl Baedeker, German publisher (born 1801)
1890  Catherine Booth, co-founder of the Salvation Army (born 1829)
1903  Otto Weininger, Austrian philosopher (born 1880)
1904  Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (born 1847)
1904  Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (born 1834)
1910  Sergey Muromtsev, Russian lawyer and politician (born 1850)
1915  Karl Staaff, 11th Prime Minister of Sweden (born 1860)
1943  Irena Illakowicz, Polish lieutenant and intelligence agent (born 1906)
1944  Al Smith, American politician (born 1873)
1946  Barney Oldfield, American automobile pioneer (born 1878)
1947  Max Planck, German physicist (born 1858)
1951  Henrietta Lacks, American medical patient (born 1920)
1955  Alexander Papagos, Greek general and political leader (born 1883)
1970  Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (born 1943)
1974  Anne Sexton, American poet (born 1928)
1981  Freddie Lindstrom, American baseball player (born 1905)
1982  Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician (born 1898)
1982  Glenn Gould, Canadian pianist (born 1932)
1989  Graham Chapman, British comedian, writer, doctor (born 1941)
1989  Secretariat, Triple Crown-winning race horse (born 1970)
1991  J. Frank Wilson, American singer (born 1941)
1992  Denny Hulme, New Zealand racing driver (born 1936)
1996  Silvio Piola, Italian footballer (born 1913)
1997  Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese game developer (born 1941)
2000  Michael Smith, biochemist (born 1932)
2000  Yu Kwo-hwa, Taiwanese Premier (born 1914)
2001  John Collins, American jazz guitarist (born 1913)
2003  Sid McMath, 34th Governor of Arkansas (born 1912)
2004  Gordon Cooper, American astronaut (born 1927)
2005  Stanley K. Hathaway, Governor of Wyoming (born 1924)
2009  Shoichi Nakagawa, Japanese politician (born 1953)
2009  Mercedes Sosa, Argentine singer (born 1935)
2009  Günther Rall, German fighter ace (born 1918)
2010  Norman Wisdom, British actor and comedian (born 1915)
2011  Yelena Chernykh, Russian theatre actress (born 1979)
2013  Vo Nguyen Giap, Vietnamese general and politician (born 1911)
2013  Nicholas Oresko, American sergeant (born 1917)
2014  Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc), President of Haiti (born 1951)
2014  Paul Revere, American musician (Paul Revere and the Raiders) (b. 1938)
2014  Hugo Carvana, Brazilian actor (born 1937)
2014  Fyodor Cherenkov, Russian footballer (born 1959)
2015  José Eduardo Dutra, Brazilian businessman and politician (born 1957)
2015  J. Whyatt Mondesire, American journalist and activist (born 1949)
2016  Mario Almada, Mexican actor (born 1922)
2016  Brigitte Hamann, German-Austrian historian and author (born 1940)
2017  Davoud Ahmadinejad, Iranian politician (born 1950)
2017  Liam Cosgrave, Irish politician, Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland (born 1920)
2017  John R. Miller, American politician and activist (born 1938)
2017  Jesús Mosterín, Spanish anthropologist and philosopher (born 1941)
2018  Dave Anderson, American sports writer (born 1929)
2018  Jeanne Ashworth, American speed skater (born 1938)
2018  Hamiet Bluiett, American jazz saxophonist (born 1940)
2018  Kurt Malangré, German politician (born 1934)
2018  José Sacal, Mexican sculptor (born 1944)
2018  Will Vinton, American animator (born 1947)
2019  Mikhail Biryukov, Russian tennis player (born 1992)
2019  Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (born 1935)
2019  Bill McKnight, Canadian politician (born 1940)
Independence Day (Lesotho)
Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Mozambique)
World Animal Day
Saint Francis of Assisi (Roman Catholicism)
BB Founder’s Day (The Boys’ Brigade)
660 BC – Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.
244 - mutinous soldiers in Zaitha, Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) murder Roman Emperor Gordian III.
731 – Gregory II ends his reign as Pope.
824 – Paschal I ends his reign as Pope.
1531 – Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
1543 – Battle of Wayna Daga – Ethiopian/Portuguese troops beat Muslim army.
1752 – Pennsylvania Hospital, 1st hospital in the United States, opens.
1790 – Society of Friends petitions United States Congress for abolition of slavery.
1794 – First session of United States Senate open to the public.
1808 – Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally.
1809 – Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.
1810 – Napoléon marries Marie-Louise of Austria.
1812 – Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry gerrymanders for the first time.
1814 – Norway's independence is proclaimed, marking the ultimate end of the Kalmar Union.
1826 – University College London is founded under the name University of London.
1837 – American Physiological Society organizes in Boston, Massachusetts.
1840 – Gaetano Donizetti's opera La Fille du Régiment receives its first performance in Paris.
1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.
1855 - Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia is crowned.
1858 – The Blessed Virgin Mary reputedly appears to Saint Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes.
1861 – American Civil War: United States House of Representatives unanimously passes a resolution guaranteeing noninterference with slavery in any state.
1873 – King Amadeus I of Spain abdicates.
1889 – Meiji constitution of Japan adopted; 1st Diet of Japan convenes in 1890.
1902 – Police beat up universal suffrage demonstrators in Brussels.
1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna.
1906 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer nos.
1907 - Paddle steamer Larchmont sinks after colliding with a schooner in Rhode Island Sound, killing 140 people.
1908 – Australia regain the Ashes with a 308 run cricket victory over England.
1916 – Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control.
1919 – Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected President of Germany.
1928 – 1928 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
1929 – Italy and the Vatican sign the Lateran Treaty.
1937 – A sit-down strike ends when General Motors recognizes the United Automobile Workers Union.
1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R.U.R. (This play coined the term 'robot.')
1941 – First Gold record presented to Glenn Miller for "Chattanooga Choo Choo".
1943 – General Dwight D. Eisenhower selected to command the allied armies in Europe.
1945 – Yalta Conference ends.
1948 – John Costello succeeds Éamon de Valera as Taoiseach of Ireland.
1953 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower refuses clemency appeal for Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
1953 – The Soviet Union breaks off diplomatic relations with Israel.
1961 – Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
1963 – The Beatles record 10 tracks for their first album, Please Please Me.
1964 – At the Washington, DC Coliseum, The Beatles have their 1st live appearance in the United States.
1964 – Greeks and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus.
1964 – The Republic of China (Taiwan) breaks off diplomatic relations with France.
1968 – Israeli-Jordanian border clashes.
1968 – Madison Square Garden III closes and Madison Square Garden IV opens in New York City.
1971 – US, UK, USSR, others sign Seabed Treaty outlawing nuclear weapons in international waters.
1973 – Vietnam War: First release of American prisoners of war from Vietnam takes place.
1975 - Margaret Thatcher becomes leader of the Conservative Party.
This will lead to her becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1979.
1978 – Censorship: China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, Shakespeare and Dickens.
1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seizes power in Iran.
1981 – 100,000 gallons (380 m3) of radioactive coolant leak into the containment building of TVA Sequoyah 1 nuclear plant in Tennessee, contaminating 8 workers.
1986 – Rights activist Anatoly Scharansky, released by the USSR, leaves the country.
1987 – Philippines constitution goes into effect.
1990 – James "Buster" Douglas KOs Mike Tyson to win heavyweight boxing crown.
1990 – Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, is freed from Victor Verster prison outside Cape Town, South Africa.
1991 – UNPO, the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, forms in The Hague, Netherlands.
1992 – Art band The KLF subvert the United Kingdom's BRIT Awards.
1999 – Pluto, a planet with an irregular orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet farthest from the sun.
It had been the eighth farthest since 1979.
It is downgraded to a dwarf planet in 2006.
2001 - A Dutch programmer starts the Anna Kournikova virus, infecting millions of emails through a trick photo of the tennis player.
2006 - On a hunting trip near Corpus Christi, Texas, US Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots and injures his friend, multimillionaire lawyer Harry Whittington.
2008 – East Timor's President José Ramos-Horta is injured in a rebel attack.
Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado dies in the attack.
2011 – 2011 Egyptian protests: In the wake of anti-government protests, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak resigns.
2012 - American singer and actress Whitney Houston is found dead in her hotel room in Los Angeles.
2013 - Pope Benedict XVI announces that he is to resign as Pope on February 28, as the first Pope to resign in 598 years.
2014 - At least 76 people are killed in a plane crash in northeastern Algeria.
2014 - 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi: The first Olympic women's Ski jumping competition takes place.
The gold medal is won by Carina Vogt of Germany.
2016 - Scientists announce the discovery of gravitational waves, as predicted by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
Before 1800
1261 - Otto III, Duke of Bavaria (died 1312)
1377 - King Ladislaus of Naples (died 1414)
1380 – Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist (died 1459)
1466 – Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII of England (died 1503)
1535 – Pope Gregory XIV (died 1591)
1568 – Honore d'Urfe, French writer (died 1625)
1657 - Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle, French scientist and writer (died 1757)
1715 - Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland, British collector of art and nature specimens (died 1785)
1755 – Albert Christoph Dies, German composer (died 1822)
1764 – Marie-Joseph de Chénier, French poet (died 1611)
1776 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greek diplomat and Head of State (died 1836)
1780 – Karoline von Günderode, poet (died 1806)
1800 – William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer (died 1877)
1801 - 1900
1802 – Lydia Child, novelist and abolitionist (died 1880)
1812 – Benjamin Franklin Sands, Commander (Union Navy) (died 1883)
1812 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, (died 1883)
1813 – Otto Ludwig, German novelist, playwright, critic (died 1865)
1819 – Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer (died 1890)
1821 – Auguste Edouard Mariette, French Egyptologist (died 1881)
1830 – Hans Bronsart von Schellendorf, musician (died 1913)
1833 – Melville Weston Fuller, 8th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1910)
1839 – Josiah Willard Gibbs, theoretical physicist, chemist (died 1903)
1847 – Thomas Alva Edison, inventor (died 1931)
1860 – Rachilde (Marguérite Vallette-Eymery), French writer (died 1953)
1863 - John F. Fitzgerald, American politician (died 1950)
1869 – Helene Kroller-Muller, Dutch museum founder and patron of the arts (died 1939)
1869 – Else Lasker-Schüler, lyricist, dramatist and narrator (died 1945)
1873 – Feodor Chaliapin, Russian singer (died 1938)
1874 – Elsa Beskow (Maartman), Swedish children's book and fairy tale writer, (died 1953)
1881 – Arthur Davidson, American businessman (d. 1950)
1887 – John van Melle, South African writer (died 1953)
1894 – Alfonso Leng, Chilean composer (died 1974)
1897 - Colgate W. Darden, Governor of Virginia (died 1981)
1898 – Leó Szilárd, Hungarian physicist, peace activist (died 1964)
1900 – Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (died 2002)
1901 - 1925
1902 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect and designer (died 1971)
1903 – Hans Redlich, composer (d. 1968)
1904 – Sir Keith Holyoake, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1983)
1904 - Clarence W. Meadows, Governor of West Virginia (died 1961)
1908 – Vivian Fuchs, British geologist, explorer (died 1999)
1908 - Philip Dunne, American screenwriter, director and producer (died 1992)
1909 – Max Baer (The Livermore Larruper), American boxer and actor (died 1959)
1909 – Joseph Mankiewicz, director (died 1993)
1911 – Alec Cairncross, chancellor of the University of Glasgow (d. 1998)
1912 – Roy Fuller, English poet and novelist (died 1991)
1912 – Rudolf Firkusny, Czech-American pianist (died 1994)
1914 – Matt Dennis, American singer (died 2002)
1914 – Menelaos Pallantios, composer
1915 – Patrick Leigh Fermor, English writer (died 2011)
1915 – Mervyn Levy, British artist, critic (died 1996)
1915 – Haakon Stotijn, Dutch oboist
1916 – Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco, California (died 1998)
1916 – Bernice Levin Neugarten, social scientist, gerontologist
1917 – Sidney Sheldon, American writer (died 2007)
1917 - Giuseppe Santis, Italian film director (died 1997)
1919 – Gretchen Fraser, American slalom skier (died 1994)
1919 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian actress (died 1995)
1919 - Anne-Stine Ingstad, Norwegian archaeologist (died 1997)
1919 – Eddie Robinson, college football coach.
1920 – King Farouk I of Egypt (died 1965)
1920 – Daniel Galouye, American science fiction writer (died 2006)
1920 – Billy Halop, American actor (died 1976)
1920 – Paul Peter Piech, artist (died 1996)
1921 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (died 2006)
1921 - Jacques Friedel, French physicist (died 2014)
1921 - Ottavio Missoni, Italian hurdler and fashion designer (died 2013)
1922 – Tudor Jarda, composer
1923 – Ronald Arculus, British diplomat
1924 – Mary Tregear, Chinese-British Oriental art historian (died 2010)
1924 - Budge Patty, American tennis player
1925 – Peter Berger, British Vice-Admiral (died 2003)
1925 – Virginia E. Johnson, American doctor and sexologist (died 2013)
1925 – Kim Stanley, American actress (died 2001)
1926 - 1950
1926 – Paul Bocuse, French chef (died 2018)
1926 – Alexander Gibson, British conductor and founder of the Scottish Opera (died 1995)
1926 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian-American actor (died 2010)
1927 - Albano Harguindeguy, Argentine military (died 2012)
1928 – Gotthilf Fischer, German choirmaster
1928 – Archibald Forster, CEO (Esso UK)
1928 – Conrad Janis, American actor
1929 - Albert Azaryan, Armenian gymnast
1929 – Leonard Kastle, American composer (died 2011)
1931 – Larry Merchant, American writer, boxing commentator
1932 – Jerome Lowenthal, American pianist, professor
1932 - Dennis Skinner, English politician
1934 – Tina Louise, American singer, actress and author
1934 – Francesco Pennisi, composer
1934 – Mary Quant, British fashion designer
1934 – John Surtees, British race car driver (died 2017)
1934 - Mel Carnahan, 51st Governor of Missouri
1935 – Bent Lorentzen, composer
1936 – Burt Reynolds, American actor
1937 – Lodewijk Boer, Dutch violinist, playwright
1937 – Marilyn Butler, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
1937 – Peter Lashley, West Indies cricketer
1937 – Bill Lawry, Australian cricketer
1937 - Mauro Staccioli, Italian sculptor (died 2018)
1938 – Bevan Congdon, New Zealand cricketer (died 2018)
1938 – Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer
1938 - Mohammed Gammoudi, Tunisian athlete
1938 – Manuel Noriega, Panamanian general and dictator (died 2017)
1939 – Gerry Goffin, American lyricist (died 2014)
1939 – Jane Yolen, American science fiction writer
1940 – Bobby Picket, American musician (died 2007)
1940 - Mick Staton, American politician (died 2014)
1941 – Sergio Mendes, Brazilian musician and songwriter
1942 – Otis Clay, American gospel and R&B singer (died 2016)
1943 – Iain Cameron, British brigadier
1943 - Gerhard Glogowski, German politician
1943 - Joselito, Spanish singer
1943 - Serge Lama, French singer
1944 – Buddhadev Dasgupta, Indian movie director
1944 – Bert Greene, golfer
1944 - Mike Oxley, American politician (died 2016)
1945 - Ralph Doubell, Australian athlete
1945 - Burhan Ghalioun, French-Syrian professor of sociology
1946 – Ian Porterfield, British footballer (died 2007)
1947 – Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan
1947 - Derek Shulman, Scottish musician
1948 - Chris Rush, American comedian, actor and author
1948 - Yoshihito, Prince Katsura of Japan (died 2014)
1951 - 1975
1953 – Jeb Bush, American politician, former Governor of Florida
1953 – Philip Anglim, American actor
1954 - Wesley Strick, American screenwriter
1955 - Anneli Jaatteenmaki, former Prime Minister of Finland
1956 - Catherine Hickland, American actress and singer
1959 - Bradley Cole, American actor
1959 - Harold J. Greene, American general (died 2014)
1959 - Deborah Meaden, British businesswoman
1960 - Richard Mastracchio, American engineer and astronaut
1960 - Momus, Scottish musician, author and journalist
1961 – Mary Docter, speed skater
1961 – Carey Lowell, American actress
1962 - Tammy Baldwin, American politician, United States Senator for Wisconsin
1962 – Sheryl Crow, American musician
1964 – Sarah Palin, American politician, former Governor of Alaska
1964 - Adrian Hasler, Prime Minister of Liechtenstein
1964 - Ken Shamrock, American professional wrestler and martial artist
1966 - Dieudonné M'bala M'bala, controversial French comedian
1969 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress
1970 – Alistair Brown, English cricketer
1971 - Damian Lewis, English actor
1972 - Dennis McManaman, English footballer
1972 - Kelly Slater, American surfer
1973 - Varg Vikernes, Norwegian musician
1974 – D'Angelo, singer
1974 - Nick Barmby, English footballer
1974 – Alex Jones, American radio host
1974 - Jaroslav Spacek, Czech ice hockey player
1975 – Chuck Watanabe, American kayaker
1977 - Mike Shinoda, American musician
1979 – Brandy Norwood, American singer and actress
1980 – Natasha Bobo, actress
1980 – Mark Bresciano, Australian footballer
1980 – Matthew Lawrence, American actor
1981 – Kelly Rowland, American singer (Destiny's Child)
1982 – Neil Robertson, Australian snooker player
1982 - Natalie Dormer, British actress
1983 – Rafael van der Vaart, Dutch footballer
1983 - Huang Shengyi, Chinese actress
1984 - Maxime Talbot, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 - Sarah Butler, American actress
1987 - Lembi Vaher, Estonian pole vaulter
1987 - Ebba Busch Thor, Swedish politician
1988 - Junjun, Chinese-Japanese singer
1990 - Javier Aquino, Mexican footballer
1990 - Princess Ayah bint Al Faisal, of Jordan
1990 - Go Ara, South Korean actress
1990 - Q'orianka Kilcher, American actress
1990 - Hwang Chan-sung, South Korean singer, rapper and actor
1991 - Georgia May Foote, British actress
1991 - Nikola Mirotic, Montenegrin-Spanish basketball player
1991 - Christofer Drew, American singer and composer
1992 – Taylor Lautner, American actor
1992 - Georgia Groome, British actress
1993 - Ben McLemore, American basketball player
1994 - Dominic Janes, American actor
1996 - Jonathan Tah, German footballer
Before 1900
55 - Britannicus, son of Claudius (b. 41)
244 - Gordian III, Roman Emperor
641 – Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium in 610–641 (born ca.
731 – Pope Gregory II
821 – Saint Benedict of Aniane (born ca.
824 – Pope Paschal I
1141 – Hugo of St. Victor, philosopher, theologian, mystic
1160 - Minamoto no Yoshitomo, Japanese general (born 1123)
1503 – Elizabeth of York, consort of King Henry VII of England (born 1466)
1543 – Ahmed Gran, sultan of Adal
1622 – Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
1626 - Pietro Cataldi, Italian mathematician (born 1552)
1650 – René Descartes, French philosopher (born 1596)
1685 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (born 1638)
1713 - Jahandar Shah, Mughal Emperor (born 1664)
1762 – Johann Tobias Krebs, composer (born 1690)
1763 – William Shenstone, poet (born 1714)
1795 - Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (born 1740)
1797 – Antoine Dauvergne, composer (born 1713)
1806 – Vicente Martín y Soler, composer
1829 - Alexander Griboyedov, Russian diplomat, playwright, poet and composer (born 1795)
1841 – J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
1848 - Thomas Cole, British-American painter (born 1801)
1862 – Elizabeth Siddal, poet and artist (born 1829)
1868 – Léon Foucault, French astronomer (born 1819)
1870 – Leopold Eugen Mechura, composer
1871 – Gaspard Théodore Ignace de la Fontaine, Luxembourg politician
1879 – Honore Daumier, caricaturist/painter (born 1808)
1879 – Willem J van Zeggelen, Dutch writer
1882 – Gustav Schmidt, composer (born 1874)
1892 – Erik Anthon Valdemar Siboni, composer
1894 – Pasqual Juan Emilio Arrieta y Corera, composer
1901 - 2000
1903 – Henryk Szulc, composer
1907 – Peter J Savelberg, Dutch monastery founder
1911 – Albert von Rothschild, baron, Austrian banker
1917 - Oswaldo Cruz, Brazilian physician (born 1872)
1918 - Taytou Betul, Empress of Ethiopia (born 1851)
1922 – Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher
1931 – Charles Algernon Parsons, British inventor (born 1854)
1937 - Walter Burley Griffin, American architect and city planner (born 1876)
1939 – Franz Schmidt, Austrian composer (born 1874)
1940 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish writer and Governor-General of Canada (born 1875)
1942 - Jamnalal Bajaj, Indian industrialist, philanthropist and independence activist (born 1884)
1945 – Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (born 1891)
1945 – J S H Lokerman, Dutch resistance fighter
1948 – Sergei Eisenstein, Russian movie director (born 1898)
1958 - Ernest Jones, British neurologist and psychoanalyst (born 1879)
1959 – Marshall Teague, race car driver (born 1922)
1960 – Ernst von Dohnanyi, Hungarian conductor (b. 1877)
1960 - Victor Klemperer, German writer (born 1881)
1961 – Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor, director
1963 – Sylvia Plath, American poet, novelist (born 1932)
1968 – Howard Lindsay, playwright (born 1888)
1970 – Emil Abranyi, composer
1971 – Whitney Young Jr, National Urban League director
1972 – Jan Wils, architect (born 1891)
1973 – Hans D Jensen, German physicist (born 1907)
1975 - Richard Ratsimandrava, President of Madagascar (born 1931)
1976 – Lee J Cobb, actor (born 1911)
1976 – Alexander Lippisch, German aerodynamicist (born 1894)
1977 – Louis Beel, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1946–1948, 1958–1959) (born 1902)
1977 - Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, 5th President of Pakistan (born 1905)
1978 – James B Conant, headmaster of Harvard University
1978 - Harry Martinson, Swedish writer (born 1904)
1982 – Eleanor Powell, actress, dancer (born 1912)
1982 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (born 1905)
1985 – Henry Hathaway American actor, director (born 1898)
1985 – Ulysses Simpson Kay, composer
1985 – Heinz Eric Roemheld, composer (born 1901)
1986 – Frank Herbert, science fiction writer (born 1920)
1989 – George O'Hanlon, American actor, director (born 1912)
1991 – Oscar Nitzchke, German architect
1993 - Robert W. Holley, American scientist (born 1922)
1993 – George A Stephen, inventor
1994 – Neil Bonnett, NASCAR driver (born 1946)
1994 – Sorrell Brooke, actor
1994 – William Conrad, actor
1994 - Paul Feyerabend, Austrian philosopher (born 1924)
1996 – Kebby Musokotwane, Prime Minister of Zambia (born 1946)
1996 – Cyril Poole, English cricket player
1996 – Amelia Rosselli, poet
2000 – Roger Vadim, French director (born 1928)
2000 - Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (born 1917)
2003 – Arndt Brause, Schlager singer
2003 – Daniel Toscan du Plantier, movie producer
2006 - Peter Benchley, American writer (born 1940)
2008 – Tom Lantos, American politician (born 1928)
2008 - Alfredo Reinado, East Timorese rebel leader (born 1967)
2010 – Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (born 1969)
2010 – Irina Arkhipova, Russian singer (born 1925)
2011 - Bo Carpelan, Finnish writer (born 1926)
2011 – Bad News Brown, Canadian musician (born 1977)
2012 – Whitney Houston, American singer and actress (born 1963)
2014 - Alice Babs, Swedish singer (born 1924)
2015 - Roger Hanin, French actor and director (born 1925)
2015 - Bob Simon, American journalist (born 1941)
2015 - Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball player (born 1930)
2015 - Anne Cuneo, Swiss journalist and author (born 1936)
2016 - Kevin Randleman, American mixed martial arts fighter and wrestler (born 1971)
2017 - Chavo Guerrero Sr.,
American professional wrestler (born 1949)
2017 - Fab Melo, Brazilian basketball player (born 1990)
2017 - Jiro Taniguchi, Japanese manga artist (born 1947)
2017 - Harvey Lichtenstein, American arts administrator (born 1929)
2018 - Asma Jahangir, Pakistani laywer (born 1952)
2018 - Vic Damone, American singer and actor (born 1928)
2018 - Jon D. Fox, American politician (born 1947)
2018 - Jan Maxwell, American actress (born 1956)
2018 - Nicholas Shehadie, Australian rugby player (born 1925)
Holidays and observances
Catholicism – Feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes
World Day of the Sick
Armed Forces Day (Liberia)
Islamic Revolution's Victory Day (Iran)
National Foundation Day (Japan)
Youth Day (Cameroon)
Inventors' Day (United States)
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was an American-born British poet.
He was one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.
He also wrote plays and some important essays about literature.
He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, then went to college in Harvard.
He spent most of his adult life in London, England.
He became a British citizen in 1928.
One famous book of his was written for children and is called The Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
The songs in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats are based on poems in it.
He also wrote "The Waste Land", a very mysterious, complicated poem that helped start a new style called Modernism.
His friend, Ezra Pound, another Modern poet, helped him finish it.
His poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and his play Murder in the Cathedral (about Thomas Becket) are also well known.
Personal life and death
He worked at a bank in England and later as the head editor of a famous publishing company in London that is now called Faber and Faber.
In 1948, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He died of emphysema in London.
1888 births
1965 deaths
American Christians
American essayists
American literary critics
American playwrights
American poets
British Anglicans
British essayists
British playwrights
British poets
Literary critics
Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
Writers from St. Louis, Missouri
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948) is a British composer and impresario of musical theatre.
His company, the Really Useful Group, is one of the largest theatre operators in London.
During his career, he has produced 15 musicals (several have run at the West End and on Broadway for ten or more years).
His lyricists have included: Tim Rice, Don Black, Christopher Hampton, Richard Stilgoe, and Ben Elton.
He wrote the music for two movies: Gumshoe and The Odessa File.
He wrote a Latin requiem mass.
He has won many awards for his work, most notably seven Tony Awards, three Grammy Awards, an Oscar, an International Emmy, six Olivier Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
Lloyd Webber was knighted in 1992, and entered the House of Lords in 1997.
Lloyd Webber's second marriage was to the actress and singer Sarah Brightman.
They divorced in 1990.
Lloyd Webber's third and current wife is Madeleine Gurdon, a former three-day event horsewoman.
His younger brother is cellist Julian Lloyd Webber.
On 25 October 2009, it was reported that Webber had been diagnosed with the early stages of prostate cancer.
He had an operation and has recovered.
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1967)
Jesus Christ Superstar (1970)
Evita (1976)
Cats (1981)
Song and Dance (1982)
Starlight Express (1984)
Phantom of the Opera (1984): as an idea, (1985): Started development and 1st debut, (1986): as 2 pop singles early that year and in October 9th 1st public debut
Aspects of Love (1989)
Sunset Blvd. (
By Jeeves (1996), a rewritten 1974 show
Whistle Down the Wind (1998)
The Beautiful Game (2000)
The Woman in White (2004)
Love Never Dies (2010)
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69 – Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
1147 - After a siege of four months crusader knights reconquer Lisbon.
1260 - The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France.
It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny was ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1590 - John White, governor of the second Roanaoake Colony in present-day Virginia, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
1648 – Peace of Westphalia is signed, ending the Thirty Years' War.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was completely divided between Austria, Prussia and Russia.
1812 – Battle of Maloyaroslavets in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.
1851 - William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting the planet Uranus.
1857 - Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
1861 – First transcontinental telegraph line in North America is completed, ending the Pony Express.
1901 - Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.
1902 - The Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts, almost completely destroying the city of Quetzaltenango.
1911 - Orville Wright remains in the air for 9 minutes and 45 seconds, in a Wright glider at Kill Devil Hills in North Carolina.
1912 - First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo ends in a Serbian victory.
1917 – Battle of Caporetto started on the Austro-Italian front of World War I.
1926 - Harry Houdini has his last performance in Detroit.
1929 – "Black Thursday" crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousted Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic.
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was then installed as "provisional president."
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opens to traffic, connecting New York and New Jersey.
1931 - Al Capone is convicted of tax fraud.
1935 – Italy invades Ethiopia.
1943 - The Provisional Government of Free India formally declares war on the United Kingdom and United States.
1944 – World War II: Zuikaku Japanese aircraft carrier is destroyed.
1945 – Founding of the United Nations.
1946 - A camera on board the V-2 No.
13 rocket takes the first photograph of Earth from space.
1947 – Walt Disney testifies to the House Unamerican Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1949 - The cornerstone of the United Nations headquarters is laid in New York City.
1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
1955 – The body of Manolo Just, a probable bisexual, is found in the Mexico apartment of Mary Rogers, daughter of Will Rogers.
Homicide is suspected, but never proven.
1956 – Soviet Union invades Hungary
1960 – An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baykonur space facility, killing 165.
Among the dead is field marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.
1963 - 129 miners are trapped underground in Lengede, Germany, being rescued successfully two weeks later.
1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and became the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony).
1964 - The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo end.
1970 – Salvador Allende is elected President of Chile
1973 – The Yom Kippur War ends.
1977 - The United States observes Veterans Day on the fourth Monday in October for the last time.
From the following year, it is observed on November 11.
1980 – Government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union.
1989 – Televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 45 years in prison and a 500,000 USD fine for defrauding investors of 3.7 million USD.
1992 - The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team not to be based in the United States (they are based in Canada) to win the World Series.
1995 - In Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi is placed under house arrest.
1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
1998 – Tropical Storm Mitch reached hurricane strength.
2001 - Two lorries collide in the Gotthard Road Tunnel in Switzerland, leading to a fire that kills 11 people.
2002 – Police arrested spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
2003 – Concorde made its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being.
2004 - Arsenal FC's run of 49 games unbeaten is ended by Manchester United.
2005 - Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida.
2007 - Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
2008 - "Black Friday" sees many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst single-day declines in their history.
2019 - The remains of Spanish dictator General Francisco Franco are removed from the Valley of the Fallen and reburied in a cemetery north of Madrid.
51 – Domitian, Roman Emperor (died 96)
1378 - David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, Scottish nobleman (died 1402)
1503 - Isabella of Portugal (died 1578)
1561 - Anthony Babington, English leader of the Babington Plot (died 1586)
1632 – Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist (died 1723)
1675 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (died 1749)
1713 - Marie Fel, French opera singer (died 1794)
1739 - Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel, German composer (died 1807)
1764 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (died 1839)
1765 - James Mackintosh, Scottish jurist, politician and historian (died 1832)
1788 – Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (died 1879)
1796 - David Roberts, Scottish painter (died 1864)
1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (died 1891)
1811 – Ferdinand Hiller, composer (died 1885)
1814 - Rafael Carrera y Turcios, President of Guatemala (died 1865)
1830 - Marianne North, English painter (died 1890)
1838 - Annie Edson Taylor, American adventuress (died 1921)
1838 - Emil Frey, Swiss politician (died 1922)
1844 - Karl Lueger, Austrian politician, Mayor of Vienna (died 1910)
1854 - Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (died 1907)
1855 – James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (died 1912)
1868 – Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, Buddhist and writer (died 1969)
1875 - Konstantin Yuon, Russian painter (died 1958)
1879 - B. A. Rolfe, American musician, singer and movie producer (died 1956)
1882 - Sybil Thorndike, British actress (died 1976)
1885 - Rachel Katznelson-Shazar, Zionist political figure (died 1975)
1887 - Octave Lapize, French cyclist (died 1917)
1887 – Victoria Eugenia, Queen of Spain (died 1969)
1891 – Rafael Molina-Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic (died 1961)
1893 - Kurt Huber, German psychology and musicology professor, resistance activist (died 1943)
1896 - Jack Warner, English actor (died 1981)
1897 - John P. Buchanan, 28th Governor of Tennessee (died 1930)
1898 - Peng Dehuai, Chinese general (died 1974)
1899 - Ferhat Abbas, President of Algeria (died 1985)
1901 - Gilda Gray, Polish-born American actress (died 1959)
1903 – Melvin Purvis, American FBI chief (died 1960)
1904 – Moss Hart, dramatist (died 1961)
1906 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (died 1968)
1909 – Bill Carr, American athlete (died 1966)
1909 - Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, Welsh barrister and politician (died 1989)
1913 – Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (died 1984)
1915 – Bob Kane, cartoonist and creator of Batman (died 1998)
1915 - Letitia Woods Brown, American researcher and historian (died 1976)
1919 - Frank Piasecki, American aeronautical engineer (died 2008)
1921 - R. K. Laxman, Indian cartoonist, illustrator and humorist (died 2015)
1922 - Horst Stern, German science journalist, filmmaker and writer (died 2019)
1923 - Robin Day, British political broadcaster and commentator (died 2000)
1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer (died 2003)
1925 - Bob Azzam, Egyptian singer (died 2004)
1925 - Emmett Chappelle, American scientist (died 2019)
1925 - Al Feldstein, American writer, editor and artist (died 2014)
1925 - Willie Mabon, American singer-songwriterand pianist (died 1985)
1925 - Ieng Sary, Cambodian Khmer Rouge politician (died 2013)
1926 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (died 2008)
1926 – Y. A. Tittle, American football player (died 2017)
1927 – Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner (died 1992)
1927 - Gilles Bécaud, French singer (d. 2001)
1929 - Jim Brosnan, American baseball player and author (died 2014)
1929 – George Crumb, American composer
1929 – Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer and playwright (died 2004)
1929 - Sos Sargsyan, Armenian actor (died 2013)
1930 - Ahmad Shah Pahang, King of Malaysia
1930 - Elaine Feinstein, English poet and novelist (died 2019)
1930 - Johan Galtung, Norwegian mathematician, sociologist and politologist
1930 – The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.), rock and roll star (died 1959)
1931 – Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
1931 - Ken Utsui, Japanese actor and director (died 2014)
1932 - Ian Cathie, Australian politician (died 2017)
1932 - Stephen Covey, American writer (died 2012)
1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist (died 2007)
1932 - Adrian Mitchell, British writer (died 2008)
1932 - Robert Mundell, Canadian economist
1933 - Reggie Kray, English criminal (died 2000)
1933 - Ronnie Kray, English criminal (died 1995)
1933 - Norman Rush, American writer
1936 – Bill Wyman, British musician (the Rolling Stones)
1936 - Jimmy Dawkins, American blues musician and singer
1937 - Santo Farina, American musician and composer
1938 - Odean Pope, American jazz saxophonist
1939 – F. Murray Abraham, American Academy Award-winning actor
1940 - Giacomo Bulgarelli, Italian footballer (died 2009)
1940 - Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (died 2015)
1941 - Peter Takeo Okada, Japanese priest, 11th Archbishop of Tokyo
1942 - Maggie Blye, American actress (died 2016)
1943 - Bill Dundee, American professional wrestler
1944 - Viktor Prokopenko, Ukrainian footballer and coach (died 2007)
1944 – Ray Downs American novelist and country music singer
1946 - Jerry Edmonton, Canadian musician (Steppenwolf) (died 1993)
1947 – Kevin Kline, American Academy Award-winning actor
1948 - Phil Bennett, Welsh rugby player
1948 – Kweisi Mfume, American civil rights activist and Congressman from Maryland
1948 - Barry Ryan, British musician
1948 - Paul Ryan, British musician
1949 - Keith Rowley, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago
1950 - Steven Greenberg, American musician, songwriter and conductor
1950 - Asa Hartford, Scottish footballer
1950 - Gabriella Sica, Italian poet
1953 - Jim Pettie, Canadian ice hockey player
1953 - Christoph Daum, German footballer and coach
1954 - Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Australia
1954 - Mike Rounds, American politician, 31st Governor of North Dakota
1954 - Tom Mulcair, Canadian politician, former leader of the New Democratic Party
1954 - Bradley Sherman, American politician
1956 - Jeff Merkley, American politician
1957 - Manuel Rivas, Spanish-Galician writer
1959 - Dominique Baert, French politician
1959 - Gunnar Bakke, Norwegian banker and politician
1960 - Christoph Schlingensief, German theatre director and writer (died 2010)
1960 – Ian Baker-Finch, golf champion
1960 - B.D. Wong, American actor
1961 – Mary Bono Mack, member of the United States House of Representatives from California
1962 - Jonathan Davies, Welsh rugby player
1963 - John Hendrie, Scottish footballer
1963 - Giselle Laronde, Trinidadian model
1964 - Rosana Arbelo, Spanish singer and composer
1966 - Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate and owner of Chelsea FC
1966 - Simon Danczuk, English politician
1967 - Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
1967 - Esther MacVey, English politician
1971 - Dervla Kirwan, Irish actress
1971 - Caprice Bourret, American model and actress
1972 – Pat Williams, American football player
1973 - Jackie McNamara, Scottish footballer
1975 - Juan Pablo Angel, Colombian footballer
1976 - Petar Stoychev, Bulgarian swimmer
1977 - Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadorean footballer
1979 - Ben Gillies, Australian musician
1980 - Matthew Amoah, Ghanaian footballer
1980 - Casey Wilson, American comic actress
1981 – Tila Nguyen, Vietnamese model
1981 - Sebastian Bueno, Argentine footballer
1982 - Fairuz Faury, Malaysian racing driver
1983 - Mikkel Beckmann, Danish footballer
1983 - V V Brown, English singer-songwriter
1983 - Katie McGrath, Irish actress
1984 - Jonas Gustavsson, Swedish ice hockey player
1985 - Matthew Robinson, Australian snowboarder (died 2014)
1985 – Wayne Rooney, English footballer
1986 - Drake, Canadian actor, rapper and singer
1986 - John Ruddy, English footballer
1987 - Anthony Vanden Borre, Belgian footballer
1988 - Mitch Inman, Australian rugby player
1989 - Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress
1989 - PewDiePie, Swedish YouTube personality
1989 - Eliza Taylor, Australian actress
1990 - Ilkay Gundogan, German footballer
1994 - Krystal, American-Korean singer
1997 - Claudia Fragapane, English gymnast
1998 - Daya, American singer
996 – King Hugh Capet of France
1260 - Qutuz, Egyptian sultan
1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark (b. 1320)
1537 – Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII of England
1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (b. 1508)
1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
1604 - Za Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia
1655 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician and scientist (b. 1592)
1672 – John Webb, architect
1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
1799 – Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
1821 – Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
1842 - Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean political figure (b. 1778)
1852 – Daniel Webster, lawyer and politician (b. 1782)
1875 - Raffaele Carboni, Italian writer (b. 1817)
1898 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter (b. 1898)
1912 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (b. 1842)
1918 - Daniel Burley Woolfall, English FIFA President (b. 1852)
1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
1935 - Dutch Schultz, American mobster (b. 1902)
1938 - Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
1944 – Louis Renault, French automobile manufacturer (b. 1877)
1945 – Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and traitor (b. 1887)
1948 – Franz Lehár, composer (b. 1870)
1957 – Christian Dior, an influential French fashion designer (born 1905)
1958 - George Edward Moore, British philosopher (b. 1873)
1964 - Toni Kinshofer, German mountaineer (b. 1931)
1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
1971 – Carl Ruggles, composer (b. 1876)
1972 – Jackie Robinson, American Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1919)
1972 - Claire Windsor, American actress (b. 1892)
1974 – David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (born 1908)
1981 - Edith Head, American costume designer (b. 1897)
1985 - Maurice Roy, Archbishop of Quebec (b. 1905)
1989 - Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (b. 1948)
1991 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer, creator of the Star Trek series (b. 1921)
1993 - Heinz Kubsch, German footballer (b. 1930)
1996 - Gladwyn Jebb, British politician and diplomat (b. 1900)
1997 – Don Messick, voice actor (b. 1926)
1999 - Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and politician (b. 1960)
2001 - Seishiro Shimatani, Japanese footballer (b. 1938)
2001 – Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
2002 – Winton M. Blount, first United States Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet (b. 1921)
2002 – Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright
2002 – Harry Hay, US gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder (b. 1912)
2004 – James Cardinal Hickey, archbishop of Washington, D.C. (b. 1920)
2005 – Rosa Parks, American Civil Rights activist (b. 1913)
2005 - José Azcona del Hoyo, President of Honduras (b. 1927)
2007 - Petr Eben, Czech composer (b. 1929)
2008 - Helmut Zilk, Austrian journalist and politician, Mayor of Vienna (b. 1927)
2012 - Anita Björk, Swedish actress (b. 1923)
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Bob Kane (October 24, 1915 – November 3, 1998) was an American cartoonist.
He is best known for creating the superhero Batman with Bill Finger.
American comics artists
American comics writers
American entertainers
1998 deaths
Batman is a fictional character created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger in the DC Comics and the protagonist of the DC Universe.
Batman is the secret identity of the very rich businessman Bruce Wayne.
Batman is one of the most famous and popular superheroes.
Often considered to be DC's flagship character and company mascot, he first appeared in comic books and was later used in several radio series, movies, TV programs, books, and video games.
There are also many toys and other merchandise dealing with Batman and other characters and items from the world he lives in.
Batman lives in the fictional city of Gotham.
Batman has a trusty sidekick Robin whose identity has been taken up by various heroes, usually his wards.
Batman was first named "Bat-Man" by Kane.
Batman made its first appearance in 1939 in Detective Comics No.
He was the second DC superhero to be created.
The first was Superman.
Batman's origin story is that as a young child, Bruce Wayne saw a robber named Joe Chill murder his mother and father after the family left a theatre.
Bruce decided that he did not want that kind of violence to happen to anyone else and wanted to avenge his parents' death.
He then dedicated his life to protect his city, Gotham City.
Wayne learned many different ways to fight as he grew up.
As an adult, Wayne used a costume to scare criminals so that there would be less crime in Gotham City.
He called himself Batman.
Batman's tools
Batman uses many different tools to help fight crime, these may vary based on the different iterations of batman.
Notable examples include his car which he calls "the Batmobile", a motorcycle called the "Bat-Cycle", and has a special belt full of tools called a "utility belt" and most notably bat-shaped boomerangs called "Bat-A-Rangs."
He also has radio signals in his bat ears and can shoot them out to his enemy.
He also has tasers built in his suit, shocking his foes.
In the movie "Batman & Robin" he has ice skates.