History Hop Tags - Banker

1412-01-16

The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.

1453-05-29

French banker Jacques Coeurs possessions confiscated

1945-01-27

Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested

1982-06-19

The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.

1994-03-14

Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped

1459-03-06

Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant

1697-09-06

Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant

1735-09-07

Thomas Coutts, Scottish banker

1740-04-18

Francis Baring, banker/merchant

1743-02-23

Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)

1758-11-07

Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician

1763-07-17

John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader

1786-12-05

Henry Drummond, English banker/apostole

1791-10-26

Charles Sprague, Boston, banker/poet (Curiosity)

1827-02-01

Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker

1832-12-12

Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (liberal)

1834-01-30

Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician

1837-04-17

J. P. Morgan, Hartford, Connecticut, American banker/CEO (US Steel Corporation)

1839-02-07

Nicolaas G Pierson, Dutch banker/Suriname premier (1897-1901)

1844-10-29

Albert von Rothschild, Austrian banker

1845-06-17

Hendrik P Staal, Dutch banker

1855-03-24

Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, banker (Mellon Bank), US Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32) and philanthropist

1855-11-13

Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker

1865-03-01

Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java)

1867-02-21

Otto Hermann Kahn, Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Co

1870-09-30

Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948)

1878-11-15

Gabriel Signoret, Prometheus... Banker

1879-05-25

W Maxwell Aitken lord Beaverbrook, Canada/English banker

1880-06-21

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (d. 1941)

1881-09-07

Constantly WL Scheurleer, Dutch archaeologist/banker/art expert

1885-10-19

Charles Merrill, American investment banker (d. 1956)

1886-9-25

Victor Montell, En fremmed banker på

1887-08-13

Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (d. 1952)

1890-01-19

Léon Moussinac, Prometheus... Banker

1892-02-15

James Forrestal, US, banker/minister of Navy

1895-03-31

John Jay McCloy, lawyer/banker (Sec of War 1941-45, pres Chase Man)

1897-12-18

Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker

1904-04-21

Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67)

1906-02-10

Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis

1907-04-04

Bill Banker, Maybe It's Love

1908-09-26

Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker

1909-05-21

Guy de Rothschild, French banker

1910-01-07

Alain JG de Rothschild, France, banker/baron

1916-08-30

Lord Keith of Castleacre, English banker

1917-08-12

Douglas Gunsekera, banker

1918-01-17

Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician

1920-04-13

Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)

1920-05-20

John Cruickshank, banker

1922-05-14

Agha Hasan Abedi, banker

1923-02-17

Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton Ill, banker (Pres of World Bank)

1923-06-09

Alan Adair, The Lady Banker

1925-10-24

Jayaaram N Reddy, South African politician/banker

1926-08-15

Lewis T Preston, banker

1927-07-20

Anthony Cavendish, British MI 6 agent/banker

1928-05-29

Felix Rohatyn, Vienna Austria, investment banker (NY Big MAC Bonds)

1929-09-14

John Gutfreund, American investment banker and former CEO of Salomon Brothers Inc (King of Wall Street)

1930-07-24

Charles Hambro, English banker/multi-millionaire/CEO (Hambros)

1930-12-16

Vernon Joyner, The Banker

1931-03-29

Evelyn de Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire

1932-11-23

Michel David-Weill, French investment banker

1933-01-17

Bruno Schroder, British baron/banker/multi-millionaire

1933-04-22

Robin Hutton, merchant banker

1935-05-28

Kenneth Kleinwort, English banker/multi-millionaire

1935-06-18

Hugh McColl, American banker

1936-04-29

Jacob Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire

1936-08-10

Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao

1936-10-13

John Menzies, Scottish publisher/banker/multi-millionaire

1940-06-28

Muhammad Yunus, Bangladeshi banker, economist and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1942-05-18

Simon Isaacs, 4th Marquess of Reading, English aristocrat, banker and philanthropist

1942-12-14

David Band, banker

1944-10-09

Francis Girod, The Lady Banker

1948-03-17

Alexander Nelson Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport, British-born investment banker

1953-08-10

Gillian Elisa, The Blind Banker

1955-04-18

Amschel Rothschild, banker

1967-02-25

Nick Leeson, British banker (Baring bank)

1972-06-09

Beat Marti, I Was a Swiss Banker

1973-04-21

Mark Banker, Apple Thief

1976-06-14

Michael Banker, Hello Charlie

1923-03-23

Writer Anaïs Nin (Delta of Venus) marries banker and artist Hugh Parker Guiler in Havana, Cuba

1965-09-25

Novelist Danielle Steel (18) weds banker Claude-Eric Lazard

2004-11-13

"The View" co-host Star Jones (42) weds banker Al Reynolds at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York City

2005-08-21

"Strictly Come Dancing" hostess Natasha Kaplinsky (32) weds investment banker Justin Bower at St. Margaret's Church in Somerset, England

2006-04-01

Miss Costa Rica 2001 Piarella Peralta weds Dutch banker Tiemo Wesseling at Iglesia de Orosi in the Cartago province of Costa Rica

2010-07-31

Daughter of former US President Bill Clinton Chelsea Clinton (30) weds investment banker Marc Mezvinsky (32) at Astor Courts in Rhinebeck, New York

2013-06-08

Princess Madeleine of Sweden (30) weds banker Christopher O'Neill at The Royal Palace Church in Stockholm, Sweden

2013-08-18

Actress Rosanna Arquette (54) weds investment banker Todd Morgan at a private ceremony in Malibu, California

2008-05-09

"The View" former co-host Star Jones (46) divorces investment banker Al Reynolds (39) after three-and-a-half years of marriage

1456-11-25

Jacques Coeur, French merchant/banker, dies in battle

1525-12-30

Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66

1630-09-11

John de White, calvinist/banker to Prague, commits suicide

1718-01-06

Richard Hoare, English goldsmith and banker (b. 1648)

1757-06-27

Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant, dies at 59

1850-03-27

Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53

1860-02-20

Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader, dies at 69

1862-09-30

Isaac Peace Rodman, banker/Union brig-gen, dies of injury at about 40

1864-07-25

Clement Hoffman Stevens, Us banker/inventor/Confederate brigadier general, dies at 42

1875-08-27

William Chapman Ralston, American banker (b. 1826)

1877-03-24

Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51

1897-11-30

Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (Lib), dies at 64

1905-05-26

Alphonse de Rothschild, French banker, dies

1911-02-11

Albert von Rothschild, baron/Austrian banker, dies at 66

1913-03-31

John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), dies at 75

1913-05-28

Lord Avebury, [John Lubbock], British banker/politician, dies

1927-02-06

Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker, dies at 71

1937-03-16

Gabriel Signoret, Prometheus... Banker

1937-08-26

Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32), dies at 82

1937-12-17

Gerard Vissering, banker/president of Dutch Bank, dies at 72

1941-03-03

Constant W L Scheurleer, archaeologist/banker/art expert, dies at 59

1945-02-12

Walraven [Wally] van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis, executed at 39

1946-07-02

Anthony Overton, publisher/cosmetics manufacturer/banker, dies at 81

1948-02-02

Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father or Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (b. 1870)

1952-04-23

Julius Freed, American inventor and banker (b. 1887)

1977-05-22

Gijsbert van Hall, banker/mayor of Amsterdam (1957-67), dies at 73

1977-07-30

Jorgen Ponto, West German banker, murdered

1982-09-05

Maurice Naessens, Belgian banker, dies at 73

1985-09-25

Bill Banker, Maybe It's Love

1990-12-11

Fernand J Collin, Belgian economist/banker, dies at 92

1992-01-23

Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to Pres De Klerk, dies

1992-08-08

Eitan Berglas, Israeli banker/advisor, dies

1993-10-21

Melchior Ndadaye, banker/1st Hutu pres of Burundi (1993), murder at 40

1993-11-02

P A Jacob Mees, Dutch banker (Mees & Hope), dies at about 86

1994-02-05

Hermann Abs, German banker to Hitler & Adenauer, dies at 92

1994-08-10

Leendert-John Schalm, Dutch banker on Curacao, murdered at 58

1995-04-24

Douglas Gunsekera, banker, dies at 77

1995-05-04

Lewis T Preston, banker, dies at 68

1995-08-05

Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73

1996-02-23

Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician, dies at 78

1996-03-28

David Band, banker, dies at 53

1996-07-08

Amschel Rothschild, banker, dies at 41

1997-12-01

Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)

1998-05-08

Bebe Rebozo, American banker and Watergate figure (b. 1912)

2002-05-14

Vernon Joyner, The Banker

2005-07-31

Wim Duisenberg, Dutch banker (b. 1935)

2006-11-19

Francis Girod, The Lady Banker

2010-12-18

Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian banker and economist (b. 1940)

2016-03-09

King of Wall Street, John Gutfreund, American investment banker and CEO of Salomon Brothers, dies at 86

2016-03-20

Roger Agnelli, Brazilian banker who became Vale CEO, dies in plane crash aged 56

2017-04-01

Billionaire banker David Rockefeller dies aged 101