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Earl - Notable Historical Events

Henry VIIIMay 17, 1544

Charles ISep 20, 1643

Charles IINov 9, 1673

Earl WarrenSep 30, 1953

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Earl - Historical Events
Date Event
910-08-05

The last major Viking army to raid England is defeated at the Battle of Tettenhall by the allied forces of Mercia and Wessex, led by King Edward and Earl Aethelred.

976-07-21

Emperor Otto II gives earl Leopold I, East Bavaria

988-03-30

Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders

1035-05-30

Boudouin V van Rijsel becomes earl of Flanders

1040-07-10

Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry, according to legend, to force her husband, the Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes

1070-07-17

Arnulf III the Hapless becomes earl of Flanders

1090-07-03

Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II

1091-06-17

Floris II de Vette becomes earl of Holland

1111-10-06

Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders

1119-06-17

Charles the Good becomes earl of Flanders

1128-06-21

Battle of Akspoele: earl Willem of Normandy beats Diederik

1141-02-02

Battle of Lincoln: King Stephen captured by forces loyal to Empress Matilda and commanded by Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester

1179-06-19

The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.

1214-01-08

Earl Ferrand of Flanders drops ties with France

1217-05-20

The Second Battle of Lincoln is fought near Lincoln, England, resulting in the defeat of Prince Louis of France by William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke.

1229-04-12

Queen Blanche of Castile & earl Raymond VII van Toulouse sign peace

1229-10-23

Otto II becomes earl of Gelre

1233-07-01

Earl Otto II van Gelre grants Arnhem state justice

1248-11-01

Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor

1264-05-14

Battle of Lewes, 2nd Barons' War: Simon de Montfort the younger, Earl of Leicester, defeats English King Henry III

1265-01-20

1st English Parliament called into session by Earl of Leicester

1273-10-01

Earl Rudolf van Habsburg becomes Roman Catholic-German king

1281-05-27

Flemish Earl Gwijde Dampierre takes financial responsibility of Brugge

1296-01-09

Earl Floris V signs accord with French King

1300-05-24

King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured

1304-09-11

Willem III becomes earl of Holland

1306-06-19

The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Robert Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.

1349-01-05

Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand

1354-12-07

Margaretha van Bavarian's son earl Willem V signs peace treaty

1357-01-04

Flemish earl Louis & Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty

1396-04-30

Crusaders & Earl of Nevers depart from Dijon

1396-06-24

Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reach Vienna

1396-09-12

Crusaders under earl of Nevers reaches Nicopolis

1405-06-08

Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, are executed in York on Henry IV's orders.

1469-07-26

Wars of the Roses: Battle of Edgecote Moor - Pitting the forces of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick against those of King Edward IV.

1470-10-30

Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle.

1471-04-14

Battle of Barnet - King Edward IV vs Earl of Warwick

1484-07-22

Battle of Lochmaben Fair - a 500-man raiding party led by Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany and James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas are defeated by Scots forces loyal to Albany's brother James III of Scotland; Douglas is captured.

1536-09-08

Earl of Nassau disbands siege of Peronne

1543-09-03

Cardinal Beaton replaces the Earl of Arran as regent for Queen Mary of Scotland

1544-04-14

Battle at Carignano: French troops under Earl d'Enghien beat Swiss

1544-05-17

Scot Earl Matthew Lennox signs secret treaty with Henry VIII

1545-09-08

English Earl of Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland

1547-01-19

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed in the Tower of London for treason

1549-08-26

Battle of Dussingdale, near Norwich: John Dudley, Earl of Warwick, defeats rebels and ends "John Kett's Rebellion"

1549-08-27

Battle of Dussindale: John Dudley Earl of Warwick destroys Robert Kett's army, ending Kett's rebellion

1549-10-12

John Dudley earl of Warwick becomes English premier

1551-04-20

John Dudley becomes Earl Marshal of England

1555-10-21

Emperor Charles V makes Erard of Pallandt earl of Culemborg

1558-07-23

Battle of Grevelingen: Gen/earl Lamoraal of Egmont beat France

1564-09-29

Robert Dudley becomes Earl of Leicester

1567-06-15

Battle at Carberry, Scotland: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwell's army

1570-01-23

Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out

1582-04-03

French van Valois honored as duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen

1582-08-23

French van Valois pays tribute to earl of Flanders

1583-11-15

Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees

1584-05-30

Earl Adolf of Nieuwenaar and Meurs becomes viceroy of Gelderland

1585-12-20

English fleet & Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, reach Vlissingen

1586-02-04

Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor-general of the States General of the United Provinces (Netherlands)

1587-12-17

The Earl Leicester's army leaves Netherlands

1590-03-06

Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"

1590-04-02

States-General appoints earl Mauritius, viceroy of Utrecht

1591-10-21

Nijmegen surrenders to Earl Mauritius van Nassau

1593-06-28

Earl Mauritius conquerors Geertruidenberg

1594-05-22

Earl Mauritius & Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen

1594-07-23

Groningen surrenders to earl Mauritius/Willem Louis

1596-07-05

English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz

1597-10-09

Earl Mauritius occupies Breevoort

1599-09-07

Earl of Essex & Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty

1600-07-02

Battle at Newport: Earl Mauritius van Nassau beats Spanish Army

1601-01-07

Robert, Earl of Essex, leads revolt in London against Queen Elizabeth

1601-02-08

Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London

1601-07-30

Spanish garrison of Rhine birch surrenders to Earl Mauritius

1601-08-06

Spanish garrison of Meurs surrender to earl Mauritius

1601-11-24

Earl Mauritius ceases siege of De Bosch due to strict monarchy

1602-09-19

Grave surrenders to earl Mauritius

1625-08-06

Earl Earnest Casimir appointed as viceroy of Groningen

1626-04-25

Battle at the Dessauer bridge: Monarch Albrecht von Wallenstein beats Earl of Mansfeld

1626-08-01

Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal

1626-09-30

Battle between King Bethlen Gabor & Earl Mansfeld-Wallenstein ends

1631-05-17

Earl Johann Tilly attacks Maagdenburg

1631-05-20

Magdeburg in Germany seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire under earl Johann Tilly, most inhabitants massacred, one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.

1640-11-11

Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, impeached by the House of Lords on the evidence of John Pym, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was later executed.

1641-07-06

Battle at La Marfée Sedan: Earl Soisson beats French government army

1643-09-20

First Battle of Newbury (English civil war): King Charles I's forces beaten by a parliamentary army led by the Earl of Essex and Philip Stapleton

1644-05-28

Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby. (English Civil War)

1664-08-01

Battle at St Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Kiprulu

1672-05-02

John Maitland becomes Duke of Lauderdale and Earl of March.

1673-11-09

British king Charles II dismisses Earl of Shaftesbury

1673-11-13

Prince Willem III/Raimundo earl Montecuccoli conquer Bonn

1677-02-16

Earl of Shaftesbury arrested and confined in the Tower of London

1678-02-27

Earl of Shaftesbury freed out of London Tower

1681-07-02

Earl of Shaftesbury arrested for high treason

1681-10-24

Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London

1682-12-02

English Earl of Shaftesbury flees to Amsterdam

1688-12-22

Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York

1688-12-31

Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham [OS=Dec 21]

1689-01-01

Pro-James II-earl of Danby occupies York

1696-02-29

English ex-premier Earl Danby accused of corruption

1710-08-07

Sidney, 1st Earl of Godolphin resigns as English minister of Finance

1715-11-13

Battle of Sheriffmuir during Jacobite rebellion. Battle inconclusive but Government forces halt advance of Jacobite army lead by Scottish Earl of Mar

1742-02-09

British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford

1742-02-16

Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier (First Lord of the Treasury)

1749-07-20

Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is only refuge of weak minds"

1779-09-03

Earl d'Orvilliers (French/Spanish Armada) sails back to Brest

1830-11-22

Charles Grey, (2nd Earl Grey), became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

1845-02-15

William Parsons, Earl of Rosse, 1st uses 72 inch (183 cm) reflector

1851-04-15

Earl G Andressy sentenced to death in Hungary

1852-03-01

Archibald William Montgomerie, 13th Earl of Eglinton appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

1856-04-18

Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns

1862-10-12

Maj Gen Earl Van Dorn assumes command of Conf troops in Missisippi

1863-04-10

Rebel Gen Earl Van Dorn attacks at Franklin, Tenn

1894-03-05

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.

1901-05-09

Cleve's Earl Moore no-hits Chicago White Sox 9 inn but loses in 10th 4-2

1904-09-26

Earl Grey is named British governor-general of Canada

1911-09-23

Earl Ovington becomes 1st air mail pilot

1911-10-04

1st public elevator (London's Earl's Court Metro Station)

1912-08-30

St Louis Brown Earl Hamilton no-hits Detroit Tigers, 5-1

1915-05-05

German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom

1921-06-11

53rd Belmont: Earl Sande riding Grey Lag wins in 2:16.8

1923-05-19

49th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Zev wins in 2:05.4

1923-06-09

55th Belmont: Earl Sande riding Zev wins in 2:19

1924-06-07

56th Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Mad Play wins in 2:18.8

1925-05-16

51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6

1926-05-21

White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double

1927-06-11

59th Belmont: Earl Sande riding Chance Shot wins in 2:32.6

1929-04-16

Cleve Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st AL to hit a HR on 1st at bat

1930-01-01

Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to 2nd lieutenant

1930-05-09

56th Preakness: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:00.6

1930-05-17

56th Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:07.6

1930-06-07

62nd Belmont: Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6

1931-09-17

Red Sox Earl Webb sets record with 65 en route to 67 doubles

1932-09-07

Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games

1933-08-27

Earl Averill becomes 2nd Cleveland ballplayer to hit for cycle Moody defaults in 3rd set, trailing 3-0

1935-06-28

Earl Averill's consecutive-game streak ends at 673

1935-09-24

Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi

1943-12-26

Earl Claus von Stauffenberg vain with bomb to Hitlers headquarter

1944-07-01

Earl Claus von Stauffenberg promoted to colonel

1944-07-19

Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem

1947-02-20

Earl Mountbatten of Burma appointed as last viceroy of India

1948-08-23

Earl Bernadotte asks aid for fugitives to Palestine

1953-09-30

Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

1953-10-05

Earl Warren sworn in as 14th chief justice of US

1959-06-18

Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane.

1962-06-26

Boston Red Sox Earl Wilson no-hits LA Angels, 2-0

1968-06-08

James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured

1968-06-21

Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns

1968-07-11

Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles

1969-03-10

James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr

1969-10-15

Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a World Series

1971-05-05

"Earl of Ruston" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 5 performances

1971-05-08

"Earl of Ruston" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 5 performances

1971-11-24

Braves catcher-infielder Earl Williams, wins NL Rookie of Year

1973-05-24

Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords.

1973-08-31

PBA National Championship Won by Earl Anthony

1974-04-06

Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony 11/16

1975-02-03

Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame

1976-10-04

Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke

1977-06-10

James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison

1977-06-13

Convicted Martin Luther King assassin James Earl Ray recaptured

1977-09-15

Orioles forfeit to Blue Jays when mgr Earl Weaver pulls team off field in 5th citing hazardous condition (small tarpaulin on bullpen mound)

1977-12-08

43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)

1978-04-22

Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Earl Anthony

1979-04-05

Balt manager Earl Weaver wins his 1,000th game as a skipper

1979-09-05

Earl Mountbatten's funeral held in London

1982-02-27

Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million

1982-11-06

Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager

1982-11-11

Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Oriole manager

1985-06-14

Earl Weaver comes out of retirement to manage Balt Orioles

1986-06-17

Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns Antonin Scalia nominated

1987-08-18

Houston Oiler Earl Campbell, retires from NFL

1988-09-05

CFL's Earl Winfield (Ham) scores TDs on 101-yd punt return, 100-yd kickoff return & 58-yd pass reception

1996-03-05

Earl Weaver & Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame

1997-02-28

FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia

1997-03-27

Martin Luther King's son meets James Earl Ray, his father's killer

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Earl - Notable Birthdays

John Rushworth JellicoeDec 5, 1859

David BeattyJan 17, 1871

Earl WarrenMar 19, 1891

Curly LambeauApr 9, 1898

Earl - Birthdays
Date Event
1188-03-24

Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I

1209-01-05

Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)

1222-08-04

Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (d. 1262)

1243-09-02

Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (d. 1295)

1273-11-24

Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (d. 1284)

1285-05-01

Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1326)

1286-06-30

John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey, English politician (d. 1347)

1287-04-25

Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (d. 1330)

1300-06-01

Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)

1301-08-05

Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (d. 1330)

1301-09-24

Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)

1328-06-25

William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (d. 1397)

1331-10-04

James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (d. 1382)

1338-03-16

Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (d. 1401)

1341-11-10

Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (d. 1408)

1374-04-11

Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March (d. 1398)

1391-11-06

Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)

1417-11-23

William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)

1420-11-24

John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (d. 1473)

1421-07-25

Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (d. 1461)

1428-12-22

Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury

1438-02-12

Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen

1443-05-17

Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England

1451-05-17

Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz/viceroy of Luxembourg

1462-02-14

Edzard I Cirksena, the Great, earl of East-Friesia (1494-1528)

1467-11-09

Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 10]

1467-11-10

Charles of Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen [or Nov 9]

1526-07-10

Philip III van Croij, duke of Aarschot/earl of Porcien

1533-06-24

Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester/English commander-in-chief in Neth

1535-11-22

John, the Old, earl of Nassau/tribal father Neth royal family

1536-05-10

Thomas Howard, 4th duke of Norfolk, English Earl Marshall

1546-05-05

Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (d. 1623)

1549-09-01

Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, etc

1550-04-12

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English politician (d. 1604)

1550-10-15

Henry, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg/brother of William of Orange

1563-06-01

Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English administrator and politicia

1563-11-19

Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (d. 1626)

1565-11-10

Robert Devereux 2nd Earl of Essex/cousin/lover of Elizabeth I

1566-10-13

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (d. 1643)

1566-12-01

Philip, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, gov of Ft Gorinchem/Nijmegen

1573-10-06

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)

1574-08-07

Robert Dudley, styled Earl of Warwick, English writer (d. 1649)

1577-05-28

Floris II van Pallandt, Dutch earl of Culemborg/politician

1582-10-21

Johan Ernst earl of Nassau-Siegen, military/son of Johan VII

1583-06-16

Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent

1584-08-13

Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (d. 1640)

1584-09-16

Matthias Gallas, Austria earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna/general-major

1586-07-07

Thomas Howard, 21st Earl of Arundel, English statesman (d. 1646)

1586-08-08

Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen

1586-12-29

Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna/marquis of Aytona

1590-08-19

Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (d. 1649)

1591-01-11

Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, English Civil War general (d. 1646)

1592-08-12

Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, Dutch gov (Fort Emmerik/Heusden)

1593-04-13

Thomas Wentworth, London, earl of Strafford/Viceroy of Ireland

1606-06-16

Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (d. 1675)

1607-01-31

James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby

1609-02-18

Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67)

1611-08-09

Henry earl of Nassau-Siegen, colonel/governor of Hulst Neth

1612-02-22

George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)

1614-07-10

Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (d. 1686)

1621-04-25

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (d. 1679)

1621-07-22

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury/minister (1660-73)

1621-12-23

Heneage Finch, 1st Earl of Nottingham, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1682)

1623-05-30

John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (d. 1686)

1628-08-29

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (d. 1701)

1635-02-25

Walraad, the Elder, Dutch fieldmarshall/earl of Nassau-Usingen

1638-01-24

Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet (d. 1706)

1641-04-08

Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (d. 1704)

1642-11-24

Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, earl of Tourville/knight/admiral/marshal

1647-04-01

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet (d. 1680)

1647-07-02

Daniel Finch 2nd earl of Nottingham, English min of foreign affairs

1651-01-13

Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)

1656-11-07

Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen

1657-11-11

Guido Starhemberg, Austria earl/fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars)

1661-04-16

Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman (d. 1715)

1661-11-28

Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British Governor of New York and New Jersey (d. 1723)

1661-12-05

Robert Haley, earl of Oxford/English premier (Whig, 1710-14)

1665-08-27

John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (d. 1751)

1666-02-09

George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)

1668-10-18

Wierich PL earl von Daun, Austrian prince of Thiano/fieldmarshall

1671-02-26

Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (d. 1713)

1674-06-22

Eugene J P, Earl of Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo

1680-02-14

John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (d. 1737)

1684-02-22

William Pulteney, London, statesman (Earl of Bath)

1689-05-24

Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (d. 1769)

1690-04-22

John Carteret, Earl Granville (C), English chief minister (1722-42)

1690-11-23

Ernst J earl van Biron, Russian duke of Koerland/regent of Ivan VI

1690-12-01

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764)

1694-04-25

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (d. 1753)

1700-05-26

Nikolaus L earl von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, German evangelist

1705-03-02

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (d. 1793)

1710-04-17

Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (d. 1767)

1710-05-16

William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (d. 1782)

1711-09-26

Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (d. 1779)

1712-12-11

Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedic (Viaggio in Russia)

1713-05-25

John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, English premier (1760-63)

1715-03-04

James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)

1716-10-06

George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)

1716-12-24

Patrice F earl De Neney, South Netherlands chairman of Secret Council

1718-05-17

Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat and politician (d. 1778)

1718-09-29

Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/diplomat (plot against Peter III)

1718-11-03

John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)

1720-03-09

Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)

1720-08-18

Laurence Shirley, 4th Earl Ferrers, English murderer (d. 1760)

1721-08-31

George Hervey, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (d. 1775)

1724-05-19

Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (d. 1779)

1726-04-20

Jozef de Ferraris, French/Austrian earl/general/cartographer

1737-05-02

William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1805)

1737-05-14

George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, British statesman (d. 1806)

1740-02-07

Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP

1749-01-12

Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat

1751-06-04

John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon

1753-08-01

Charles, 3rd earl Stanhope, England, radical politician/scientist

1758-03-12

Leopold earl of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general/politician [or March 22]

1759-09-26

Hans D L earl Yorck von Wartenburg, Prussian fieldmarshal/gov-gen

1760-11-08

Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Neth earl/general

1761-10-03

Dirk earl van Hogendorp, general/Dutch minister of War [OS]

1761-10-13

Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War [NS]

1761-10-31

Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl/Grand Pensionary

1762-07-21

Willem GF Bentinck, Dutch earl/politician/organist

1762-09-16

Charles G G, earl of Merode/mayor of Brussels/French senator

1763-01-03

Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator

1764-03-13

Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)

1766-07-20

Thomas Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, British diplomat

1770-06-07

Earl of Liverpool, (C) British PM (1812-27)

1770-12-26

Pierre earl de Cambronne, French general (Waterloo, Elba)

1771-06-20

Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, Scottish philanthropist (d. 1820)

1775-04-08

Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general/Napoleon's wife Marie lover

1775-12-14

Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (d. 1860)

1782-08-15

Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs)

1784-01-28

George HG earl of Aberdeen, English secretary of State

1787-11-27

Jacob earl van Rechteren van Appeltern, governor of Gelderland

1791-04-13

Félix PBOG earl de Merode, Belgian minister of War/Finance

1792-04-12

John George Lambton, London, statesman (1st Earl of Durham)

1792-06-09

Frederic L G, Earl of Merode, Belgian revolutionary

1792-08-18

John, 1st Earl Russell, British Whig PM (1846-52, 1865-66)

1794-02-25

Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, Dutch earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam

1799-03-29

Edward Stanley, Earl Derby (C), British PM (1852, 1858-59, 1866-68)

1800-04-16

George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)

1810-10-04

Alexander Walewski, French earl/foreign minister/Napoleon I's son

1811-07-20

James Bruce, earl of Elgin & Kincardine, governor (Jamaica)

1812-12-14

Charles J Canning, English earl/1st viceroy of British-Indies

1820-03-25

Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome)

1831-02-24

Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia

1833-02-24

Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)

1841-02-26

Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general (Egypt)

1842-04-28

Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Brazil (1870-89)

1845-06-09

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)

1846-05-29

Albert Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian minister of Education

1847-05-07

Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Lib), British PM (1894-95)

1848-07-25

Arthur Earl Balfour, (C), British PM (1902-05) (Balfour Declaration)

1850-09-04

Luigi Cadorna, Italian fieldmarshal/earl (WW I-Caporetto)

1852-09-28

John [Denton Pinkstone] French, Earl of Ypres/British field marshall

1853-07-07

Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Le Pacha Bonneval)

1853-08-19

Lawrence D'Orsay, The Earl of Pawtucket

1854-11-27

Aloys L earl von Aehrenthal, Austrian minister of Foreign affairs

1859-12-05

John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, British Admiral of the Fleet, Southampton

1859-12-05

Earl Jellicoe, Q-Ships

1863-07-25

Andrew Mack, The Ragged Earl

1863-9-19

Ernest Lacy, The Ragged Earl

1865-11-26

Earl Ross Drake, composer

1866-06-26

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert 5th Earl of Carnarvon,

1871-01-17

David Beatty, Nantwich, Cheshire, 1st Earl Beatty and British Admiral of the Fleet

1873-02-02

Johan P earl van Limburg Stirum, Dutch diplomat

1875-03-13

Earl Wayland Bowman, Big Stakes

1875-08-21

Maurice Lippens, Belgian earl/minister/governor of Congo

1877-9-21

Earl Ritter, Saps at Sea

1880-02-09

Earl 'Hap' Hogan, King Kong

1880-07-20

Hermann earl Keyserling, German philosopher/writer

1880-9-14

Earl Hurd, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1881-04-16

Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax/ambassador to US (1940-46)

1883-10-03

Earl Dwire, Blue Steel

1884-05-01

Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (d. 1964)

1884-08-24

Earl Derr Biggers, House of the Long Shadows

1884-08-26

Earl Biggers, author ("Charlie Chan" detective series)

1885-08-15

Earl Lynn, The Geaser of Berlin

1886-04-15

Earl Benham, Ed Wynn

1886-05-04

Earl Lee, Five

1886-12-02

Earl Cooper, The Speed Kings

1886-9-12

Earl L. McMurtrie, Kismet

1887-05-04

Earl Pingree, Dark Streets

1888-02-27

Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler (d. 1950)

1888-02-27

Earl Caddock, Stecher-Caddock Wrestling Match

1889-03-11

Earl Metcalfe, Ignorance

1889-05-13

Earl Schenck, Salomé

1889-11-12

Earl Mohan, Riders of the Kitchen Range

1890-01-23

Earl Miller, Citizen Kane

1890-07-02

Earl Roy Curry, religious thinker and Kirtland Temple overseer (d. 1980)

1891-02-10

Harold RLG, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Gov-gen of Canada (1945-52)

1891-03-19

Earl Warren, Los Angeles California, Governor of California/14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69)

1891-05-20

Earl Browder, Episode dated 2 June 1957

1892-05-11

Earl Hudson, So Big

1892-05-13

Earl Esola, Greed for Gold

1892-06-14

Earl St. John, A Night to Remember

1893-04-25

Earl Wooden, My Pal Trigger

1893-11-22

Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (d. 1969)

1895-02-15

Earl Thomson, Canadian athlete (d. 1971)

1896-03-02

A. Earl Hedrick, The Lost Weekend

1897-02-15

Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965)

1897-06-12

Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon (C), British PM (1955-57)

1898-04-09

[Earl] Curly Lambeau, Green Bay Wisconsin, NFL coach (GB Packers)

1898-11-13

Earl Sande, jockey (Hall of Famer)

1899-04-04

Earl Rolfe, Blackmail

1900-03-31

Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/earl of Ulters

1900-06-25

Lord Louis Mountbatten, of Burma, royal relative/earl/baron/admiral

1901-01-30

Earl of Huntingdon, mural painter

1902-05-21

Earl Averill, baseball player (d. 1983)

1902-12-20

George EAE, English prince/earl of St Andrews

1903-12-05

Connie Earl, Gone with the Wind

1903-12-28

Earl Hines, American musician (d. 1983)

1904-02-29

Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausen

1904-05-21

Robert Montgomery, Beacon NY, actor/dir (Earl of Chicago, Yellow Jack)

1905-04-04

Earl Crowell, Vertigo

1905-11-29

Mowbray Henry Gordon Howard, 6th Earl of Effingham

1905-12-28

Earl "Fatha" Hines, Duquesne Pa, jazz pianist (Deep Forest)

1906-06-19

Earl Bascom, Take Willy with Ya

1906-08-14

Earl 'Snake Hips' Tucker, Crazy House

1906-10-09

13th earl of Stair, English lt-colonel/large landowner

1906-10-11

Earl "Dutch" Clark, Colo, NFL hall of fame QB (Spartans, Detroit)

1906-12-30

Johan A earl von Kielmansegg, German general/commandant NATO-Europe

1907-03-31

Kenneth Earl, The Big Trees

1907-05-03

Earl Wilson, Rockford Ohio, columnist (Midnight Earl)

1907-05-03

Earl Wilson, Stage Entrance

1907-07-28

Earl S Tupper, inventor (Tupperware)

1907-11-18

Earl Nickerel, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

1907-9-17

Earl Sydnor, Sunday Sinners

1907-9-25

Earl Colgrove, So Dear to My Heart

1908-06-04

Earl of Halsbury, chancellor (Brunei University)

1908-06-15

Earl McCready, Catch As Catch Can Wrestling

1908-07-02

Thurgood Marshall, Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren

1909-05-03

Earl Blackwell, The Marriage Bargain

1909-07-03

Earl L Butz, US Secretary of Agriculture (1971-76); a real Butz

1909-08-10

Earl Covert, Wagon Wheels

1909-10-16

Earl Felton, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

1910-02-03

Robert Earl Jones, The Sting

1910-02-15

9th earl of Jersey, English large landowner/art collector

1910-07-02

Earl Hawley Robinson, composer

1910-07-02

Earl Robinson, Woodstock

1910-9-17

Earl Dobbins, Western Union

1911-02-03

Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)

1911-02-18

Earl George, The Dybbuk

1911-03-17

Patrick Maitland, 17th Earl of Lauderdale, Scottish Unionist politician

1911-04-18

Earl Smith, The Macomber Affair

1912-01-19

Francis David Charteris, earl of Wemyss & March/Scottish landowner

1912-06-25

Earl Spainard, Simon, King of the Witches

1913-02-23

Edward Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln

1913-04-25

Earl Bostic, Tulsa OK, alto sax player (Flamingo, Temptation)

1913-04-25

Earl Bostic, Smoke

1913-05-03

Earl Blackwell, Atlanta Ga, author (Celebrity Register)

1913-12-13

Earl Unkraut, Boots Malone

1914-02-13

Earl Cadogan, British large landowner (Military Cross)

1914-03-07

Paul Sann, Earl Wilson

1914-06-19

Lester Raymond Flatt, TN, bluegrass (Earl-Ballad of Jed Clampett)

1914-06-21

Earl K. Brent, The Ides of March

1915-06-12

Earl Crain Jr., Battlestar Galactica

1915-11-26

Earl Wild, Pitts Pa, composer/pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942)

1915-11-26

Earl Wild, Episode #3.25

1915-11-29

Earl W Sutherland, US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971)

1916-01-01

Earl Wrightson, Balt Md, singer (Paul Whiteman's Goodyear Revue)

1916-01-01

Earl Wrightson, The Robert Q. Lewis Show

1916-04-22

Earl of Oxford & Asquith, governor (Seychelles)

1916-11-23

Earl Phelps, Bandits and Ballads

1917-03-11

Earl Bellamy, Seven Alone

1917-08-08

Earl Cameron, Inception

1917-08-10

Earl Gough, Moon Over Harlem

1917-12-27

Earl of Inchcape, English large landowner/industrialist (P&O)

1917-9-07

Earl Browning, Hôtel Terminus

1918-04-04

Earl Jellicoe, chancellor (U of Southhampton)

1918-04-12

18th earl of Derby, English landowner/multi-millionaire

1918-04-23

Antony Craxton, Investiture of His Royal Highness Prince Charles as Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester

1918-11-05

Earl Bennett, Charlotte's Web

1919-02-24

Earl Kitchener of Khartoum

1919-07-03

Earl Clark, Fire on the Mountain

1919-08-22

Earl Cathcart, British major-general

1919-09-27

Earl of Clanwilliam

1919-9-02

Earl Booth, Men at Law

1920-01-06

Earl Kim, composer

1920-08-21

Earl Rowe, The Blob

1921-04-17

Earl Montgomery, Rocky II

1921-05-14

Earl Audet, The All American

1921-06-17

Earl Hammond, The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus

1922-11-03

Earl of Lonsdale, English large landowner/multi-millionaire

1923-02-07

George H H Lascelles, English earl of Harewood/leader (Covent Garden)

1923-02-07

George Earl of Harewood, A Royal Family

1923-02-09

Jean Constantin, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

1923-04-27

Earl McClung, Band of Brothers

1923-05-29

Earl of Morley, Lord Lt (Devon)

1923-06-10

Earl Hamner Jr, Schuyler Va, TV narrator (Waltons)

1923-07-10

Earl Hamner Jr., The Waltons

1923-08-02

Earl Shuman, Nothing to Lose

1923-12-30

Earl Murphey, Rockin' in the Rockies

1923-9-17

Earl L. Myr, Thin Ice

1924-01-01

Earl Torgeson, Game 6

1924-01-06

Earl Scruggs, NC, bluegrass musician (& Flat-Ballad of Jed Clampett), (d. 2012)

1924-01-06

Earl Scruggs, The Pride of Jesse Hallam

1924-01-19

7th earl of Carnarvon, English large landowner

1924-01-19

Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert 7th Earl of Carnarvon, Episode #11.11

1924-01-24

8th earl Spencer, English large landowner/father of Diane

1924-05-01

Earl George, composer

1924-08-18

Earl Rosell, Little Big Man

1924-10-25

Earl Palmer, Pretty Woman

1925-08-12

Earl Coleman, singer

1925-11-10

Helen Klinkner, Earl Carroll Vanities

1925-9-12

Lorraine 'Frenchy' Allen, Earl Wilson

1926-05-12

Earl Hutto, Panama City Fla, (Rep-D-FL, 1979- )

1926-05-17

Earl of Airlie, KT

1926-05-17

Lord Chamberlain, Earl of Airilet

1926-06-04

Robert Earl Hughes, became heaviest known human (486 kg)

1926-06-04

Robert Earl Hughes,

1926-06-17

Dorothy Babb, Earl Carroll Sketchbook

1926-06-21

Earl Ubell, Six Hours of Surgery

1926-06-27

Wallace Earl Laven, Clambake

1926-10-04

Earl Calloway, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

1927-05-01

Lord Bathurst, English earl/large landowner/multi-millionaire

1927-08-03

Earl Parker, Terror House

1927-11-10

Jacob Pleydell-Bouvery 8th earl of Radnor/art collector

1928-03-10

James Earl Ray, assassin (Martin Luther King Jr.)

1928-03-10

James Earl Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King?

1928-04-03

Earl Lloyd, Episode #1.2

1928-09-11

Earl Holliman, Delhi La, actor (Police Woman, Tribes, Cry Panic)

1928-10-04

Earl L. Sands, The Reward

1928-10-28

Gene Earl, Stir Crazy

1928-12-25

Earl Brown, Salt Lake City Ut, actor (Stovall-Operation Petticoat)

1928-12-25

Earl Brown, Elvis

1928-9-11

Earl Holliman, Forbidden Planet

1929-03-28

Frederick Earl Exley, A Fan's Notes

1929-05-03

Michael Earl, Back in Fashion

1929-06-08

Earl Ferrers, British minister of state (Dept of Environment)

1929-07-07

Earl Berman, Brainscan

1930-02-11

Earl of Rosebery

1930-04-12

Patrick Edmund Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick, Irish peer and public servant

1930-07-08

Earl Van Dyke, Standing in the Shadows of Motown

1930-08-14

Earl Weaver, St Louis Mo, manager (Balt Orioles 1968-82, 85-86), (d. 2013)

1930-08-14

Earl Weaver, Signs of the Time

1931-01-17

James Earl Jones, Miss, actor (Darth Vader, Exorcist II, Soul Man)

1931-01-17

James Earl Jones, The Lion King

1931-01-20

Earl Grant, Idabel, Oklahoma, American musician and singer (Ebb Tide, Winter Wonderland)

1932-03-05

Earl Woods, Betting on a Fall/Tiger

1932-05-10

Ian Leslie, 21st Earl of Rothes, Scottish nobleman

1932-09-06

Earl of Cawdor, British large landowner

1932-10-17

Earl Barret, See No Evil, Hear No Evil

1932-10-27

Ronald Fair, Cornbread, Earl and Me

1933-01-20

Earl Grant, Imitation of Life

1933-04-29

Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist

1933-05-19

Earl Muron, Bilko and the Chaplain

1933-06-20

Earl of Cranbrook, CEO (Nature Conservancy Council)

1933-08-29

Clifford Earl, The Feast of Steven

1934-02-06

Earl King, Rush

1934-02-07

Earl King [Solomon Johnson], New Orleans, Louisiana, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Come On)

1934-05-17

Earl Morrall, NFL QB (Lions, Giants, Colts)

1934-05-17

Earl Morrall, Namath

1934-10-02

Earl Wilson, A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers

1934-10-02

John Zaccaro, Cornbread, Earl and Me

1935-01-05

Earl Battey, 1966 MLB All-Star Game

1935-01-09

Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American Publisher

1935-03-26

Earl of Kinnoull

1935-03-27

Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire

1935-07-31

Geoffrey Lewis, Plainsfield NJ, actor (Earl-Flo, Gun Shy)

1936-11-03

Earl Robinson, Disciples of Jackie Robinson

1937-04-15

Earl Russell, historian

1937-05-20

Earl of Iveagh, pres (Guiness Pics)

1937-07-06

Gene Chandler, [Eugene Dixon], Chicago, rocker (Duke of Earl)

1937-11-02

Earl "Speedoo" Carroll, NYC, rocker (Cadillacs, Coasters)

1937-11-02

Earl Carroll, Motown Returns to the Apollo

1937-12-12

Earl Finn, Spaceballs

1938-02-28

The Earl of Onslow, Episode #26.2

1938-04-27

Earl Anthony, bowler (PBA money champ 1974-6, 1981-3)

1938-08-03

George Memmoli, NYC, actor (Earl-Hello Larry)

1938-09-28

Ben E. King [Benjamin Earl Nelson], New York City, American soul singer (Stand by Me)

1939-01-31

Earl Faison, The Zombie

1939-03-20

Earl of Seafield, [Ginger], English large landowner

1939-04-25

Richard earl of Lichfield, English photographer

1939-05-19

17th earl of Pembroke, English landowner/director (Emily)

1939-05-27

Earl Cairns, CEO (S G Warburg & Co)

1939-10-18

Earl Jolly Brown, Live and Let Die

1940-02-20

Earl Gustkey, Mike Tyson for Losing to Buster Douglas

1940-08-29

Earl Gros, American NFL running back (Green Bay), (d. 2013)

1941-02-11

Earl Lewis, Doo Wop Cavalcade: The Definitive Anthology

1941-02-12

Earl L. Clark, Rocky II

1941-02-21

Charlie Shelburne, English earl/large landowner

1941-10-17

Earl Thomas Conley, Portsmouth Oh, country singer (Too Many Times)

1941-10-17

Earl Thomas Conley, Road House

1941-11-08

Earl Harris, Fanatic

1941-9-04

Earl Barton, Trip with the Teacher

1942-04-09

Earl F Hillard, (Rep-D-Alabama)

1942-05-06

Colin Earl, rocker

1942-10-20

Earl Hindman, Bisbee AZ, actor (Wilson-Home Improvement)

1942-10-20

Earl Hindman, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

1942-12-26

Earl Cate, Ark, country singers (Cate Bros-Fire on the Tracks)

1943-01-15

Earl Mackin, Shark Hunt

1943-04-11

John Montagu, 11th Earl of Sandwich, British entrepreneur, politician and nobleman

1943-05-10

James Earl Chaney, US civil rights activist

1943-05-31

Richard Timothy George Mansfield Parker, 9th Earl of Macclesfield

1943-07-03

Norman Earl Thagard,

1943-10-10

Earl of Stockton, English publisher/grandson of premier Macmillan

1943-9-18

Walter Earl Haraway, Die Alptraumfrau

1944-06-11

Vince Earl, Big Girl Now

1944-11-21

Earl "the Pearl" Monroe, Phila Pa, NBA Guard (NY Knicks, Balt Bullets)

1944-11-21

Earl Monroe, Episode #1.2

1944-9-07

Earl Manigault, Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1945-02-04

Earl Pomerantz, Major Dad

1945-07-04

Earl Billings, American Splendor

1945-10-08

Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Episode dated 1 February 2008

1945-11-07

Earl Boen, Terminator 2: Judgment Day

1945-12-31

Paris Earl, Skin Game

1946-03-17

Earl Edwards, O.J. Simpson: Juice on the Loose

1946-04-08

Stuart Pankin, Phila, comedian (Striptease, Congo, Earl-Dinosaurs)

1946-05-16

Roger Earl, rocker (Foghat)

1946-05-16

Roger Earl, People Like Us

1946-06-03

Earl of Cromer, managing director (Inchcape (China) Ltd)

1946-08-29

Earl Robie, The Enchanted Schoolteacher

1946-12-15

Steven Earl-Edwards, A Circle on the Cross

1947-10-03

7th earl of Bradford, English large landowner/multi-millionaire

1948-01-30

Earl of Huntingdon

1948-02-14

Randy Martin, Cornbread, Earl and Me

1948-04-05

Earl Watson, You Got Served

1948-07-14

Earl Williams, Game 3

1948-08-16

Earl Blumenauer, Rick Reilly

1948-10-04

Earl Thomas, St. Louis Cardinals vs. Washington Redskins

1949-02-15

George Howard, 13th Earl of Carlisle, English hereditary peer

1949-05-17

Earl Hebner, Episode #3.4

1950-08-06

Dorian Harewood, Dayton Ohio, actor (Earl-Glitter, Trauma Center)

1951-01-29

Earl Howe, Nanny McPhee

1951-02-28

Jimmie Earl Perry, Episode #1.1

1951-03-24

Earl Williams, NBAer

1951-05-25

Robert Earl, The Expendables

1951-08-22

Earl Kress, The Fox and the Hound

1952-09-02

Earl Pomeroy, (Rep-D-North Dakota)

1953-01-07

Earl Wilber Force "Wire" Lindo, rocker (Bob Marley & the Wailers)

1953-07-26

Earl Tatum, Four Square Miles to Glory

1953-09-16

Earl Klugh, Jazz pianist/guitarist

1953-11-02

Earl Klemm, Ready for Action

1954-9-16

Earl Klugh, 8 Mile

1955-03-29

Earl Campbell, NFL running back (Houston, New Orleans, 1977 Heisman)

1955-03-29

Earl Campbell, The Story of Darrell Royal

1955-06-21

Earl Younger, Flash the Sheepdog

1955-9-17

Stanley Earl Harrison, Dirty Laundry

1956-01-11

Robert Earl Keen, American singer

1956-01-11

Robert Earl Keen, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane

1957-01-23

Earl Falconer, Something Wild

1957-10-23

Earl Perque, Captain America: The Winter Soldier

1957-9-27

Earl Maddox, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

1958-03-27

Earl Ferrell, Denver Broncos vs. Phoenix Cardinals

1958-04-26

Johnny "Earl of" Dumfries, racing driver

1958-10-31

Russell Earl Cochran, Paducah KY, PGA golfer (1991 Centel Western)

1959-01-23

Earl Falconer, British reggae bassist (UB40-Red Red Wine)

1959-9-10

Michael Earl, The Muppet Movie

1961-08-06

Earl Winfield, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)

1961-08-21

Lance Earl Deal, Riverton Wyoming, hammer thrower (Olympics-silver-96)

1962-05-10

Earl Ellis, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

1962-05-31

John Earl Burnett, MacGyver

1962-06-12

Michael Link, Provo Utah, actor (Earl-Julia)

1962-06-26

George P N earl of St Andrews, under English prince Edward

1962-12-05

Earl Slate, Austin Powers XXX: A Porn Parody

1963-03-11

Stacy Earl, Untamed Heart

1963-09-28

Johnny Earl Dawkins Jr, NBA guard (Spurs, Charlotte Hornets)

1963-9-07

W. Earl Brown, Scream

1964-05-20

Earl Charles Spencer, Sandringham England, brother of Princess Diana

1964-05-20

Earl Charles Spencer, The Many Lovers of Miss Jane Austen

1964-07-11

Earl Jones, Inkster Mich, 800m runner (Olympic-bronze-1984)

1966-05-14

Jerome Richardson, Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1967-03-06

Connie Britton, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

1969-05-16

Steven Earl Lewis, Los Angeles California, 4X100/400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)

1969-06-16

Earl Hilliard Jr., The Truman Show

1969-08-10

Earl of Iveagh

1970-04-04

Gregory Thomas Garcia, My Name Is Earl

1970-06-23

A C Earl, NBA center (Toronto Raptors)

1970-12-17

Earl Dotson, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31)

1970-12-17

Earl Dotson, Super Bowl XXXII

1970-9-15

Johan Earl, Gabriel

1971-04-09

Earl Cole, Something Cruel Is About to Happen... Real Soon

1973-03-10

Earl Little, St. Louis Rams vs. Cleveland Browns

1973-04-28

Earl Holmes, linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)

1973-04-28

Earl Holmes, Tennessee Titans vs. Pittsburgh Steelers

1973-05-25

Earl Mackey, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)

1973-08-31

Earl Scott, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)

1974-12-03

Earl Pereira, The Recruit

1974-12-13

Earl Clay III, Dead at the Box Office

1974-12-16

Earl Poitier, Remember the Titans

1975-07-26

Joe Smith, Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1975-08-06

John Earl Robinson, Smitty

1976-05-18

David Hanson, Earl Makes the Grade

1976-06-02

Earl Boykins, American basketball player

1977-01-19

Diego López, Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1977-03-22

Anthony Earl, The Making of

1980-01-11

Earl Roesel, 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams

1980-05-28

Earl Hayes, Rock the Paint

1981-04-29

Earl Newton, Sacred Cow

1982-01-01

Jacob Swanson, My Earl Grey

1983-07-21

Olamide Faison, Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1984-05-02

Sarah M. Pott, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

1987-02-22

Elizabeth Earl, Ever After: A Cinderella Story

1988-01-28

Earl Andrew Nichols Smith, A Parable

1989-06-29

Natalie Marchelletta, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

1991-01-29

Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, Son of the Duke of Westminster

1992-08-31

Holly Earl, The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

1993-12-27

Olivia Cooke, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

1994-08-03

Esther Earl, With Esther

1998-04-25

Phoenix Smith, Teacher Earl

2007-12-17

James Windsor, Viscount Severn, son of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex

2010-05-20

Lady Cosima Windsor, daughter of Alexander Windsor, Earl of Ulster

Earl - Notable Weddings

Ada LovelaceJul 8, 1835

Earl WarrenOct 4, 1925

Prince EdwardJun 19, 1999

Arthur WellesleyJun 3, 2005

Earl - Weddings
Date Event
1404-08-01

Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland

1472-07-12

Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucester and later King of England, marries Anne Neville, daughter of the Earl of Warwick, in Westminster Abbey.

1506-05-29

Earl Willem I van Nassau-Dillenburg weds countess Walburg van Egmont

1524-06-27

Earl Henry III of Nassau weds Mencia de Medoza, 16-years old marquess

1567-05-15

Mary, Queen of Scots marries James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell

1613-02-24

English princess Elizabeth marries Earl Frederik of Palts

1613-12-26

Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, marries Frances Howard, occasioning John Donne's "Eclogue".

1638-02-11

Dutch countess Louise of Solms marries earl John of Brederode

1666-09-23

Princess Maria of Orange-Nassau marries Mauritius earl of Simmeren

1835-07-08

Mathematician Ada Lovelace [Ada Byron] (19) weds Earl of Lovelace, William King (30)

1925-10-04

Jurist Earl Warren (34) weds Nina Elisabeth Palmquist Meyers

1931-09-26

Earl Claus von Stauffenberg marries Freiin Nina von Lerchenfeld

1978-10-13

James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu

1988-01-09

English earl of St Andrews marries Sylvana Tomaselli

1999-06-19

Earl of Wessex Prince Edward (35) weds Sophie Rhys-Jones (34) at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle

2005-06-03

Earl of Mornington, Arthur Wellesley (27) weds great-granddaughter of Lord Beaverbrook and model/make-up artist Jemma Kidd (30) in a seaside ceremony on the beach near Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados

2009-05-16

Actress Jennifer Freeman (23) weds NBA guard Earl Watson (29) in Beverly Hills, California

2010-05-29

"Survivor: Fiji" winner Earl Cole (39) weds pharmacist Shelley Lee at the St. Regis Princeville Resort on Kauai

Earl - Divorces
Date Event
1976-03-19

Princess Margaret separates from the Earl of Snowdon, after 16 years

Earl - Notable Deaths

Louis XVIIISep 16, 1824

John Rushworth JellicoeNov 20, 1935

David BeattyMar 12, 1936

Earl WarrenJul 9, 1974

Earl - Deaths
Date Event
879-01-21

Boudouin with the Iron Arm, earl of Flanders, dies

898-01-01

Odo, earl of Paris/king of France (888-98), dies at about 39

956-02-17

Hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia, dies at about 55

993-09-18

Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle

1053-04-15

Godwin, Earl of Wessex

1066-09-25

Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, killed at the Battle of Stamford Bridge

1071-02-22

Arnulf III, earl of Flanders/Hainault (Arnulf I), dies in battle

1076-04-27

Willem, bishop of Utrecht (1054-76), murderer of earl Floris I, dies

1093-10-12

Robrecht de Fries, earl of Flanders (1071-93), dies at about 62

1118-06-05

Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester

1119-06-17

Boudouin VII with the Axe, earl of Flanders (1111-19), dies

1128-07-27

Willem van Normandia, earl of Flanders, dies in battle

1132-10-26

Floris the Black, brother of earl Dirk VI of Holland, murdered

1139-01-25

Godfried I, with the Beard, duke of Brabant/earl of Leuven, dies

1144-05-24

Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies

1147-10-31

Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, English politician (bc. 1090)

1151-09-07

Geoffrey Plantagenet, earl of Anjou/duke of Normandy, dies at 38

1168-04-05

Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester (b. 1104)

1171-08-11

Louis I, Earl of Wage/Rieneck, dies

1176-04-20

Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English soldier (b. 1130)

1176-10-12

William d'Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, English politician

1181-06-30

Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, English politician (b. 1147)

1182-12-04

Henry, earl of Gelre/Zutphen (1141/79-82), dies

1204-10-21

Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester, English nobleman

1215-09-01

Otto van Gelre, son of Otto I/earl-elect of Utrecht

1217-09-10

William de Reviers, 5th Earl of Devon

1218-06-25

Simon de Montfort the elder, 5th Earl of Leicester, French crusader dies in the siege of Toulouse

1218-12-30

Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1162)

1222-02-04

Willem I, earl of Holland (1203-22), dies

1226-03-07

William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader

1233-07-27

Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders, dies at 45

1247-02-25

Hendrik IV, duke of Limburg/earl of Bergen (1226-47), dies

1256-01-28

Willem II, earl of Holland/German emperor (1238, 47-56), dies at 22

1262-07-15

Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English soldier (b. 1222)

1265-04-25

Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, English crusader

1265-08-04

Simon de Montfort the younger, English Earl of Leicester, dies in battle

1271-01-10

Otto II, the Lame, earl of Gelre, dies

1272-04-02

Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1209)

1275-09-24

Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)

1284-08-19

Alphonso, Earl of Chester, son of Edward I of England (b. 1273)

1288-06-05

Hendrik VI, earl of Luxembourg/Laroche (1281-88), dies in battle

1295-12-07

Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)

1296-09-28

Adolf VII, earl of Mountain (1259-96), dies

1297-12-31

Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)

1304-09-27

John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey, English soldier

1312-06-19

Piers Gaveston, earl of Cornwall, beheaded

1322-03-16

Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276) dies in battle at Boroughbridge

1322-03-22

Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)

1326-10-09

Reinald I, earl of Gelre/monarch, went insane, dies

1326-11-17

Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician (b. 1285)

1330-03-19

Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1301)

1330-11-29

Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England (b. 1287)

1336-01-22

Louis III, last Earl of Loon, dies

1337-06-07

Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand, dies at about 49

1338-08-04

Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, son of Edward I of England (b. 1300)

1345-03-25

Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)

1345-09-22

Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281)

1345-09-26

Willem IV, earl of Henegouwen/Holland/Zealand, dies at about 27

1360-02-26

Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March, English military leader (b. 1328)

1372-08-31

Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (b. 1301)

1376-01-24

Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, English military leader

1381-12-27

Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, English politician

1382-10-18

James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormonde (b. 1331)

1383-03-01

Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49

1392-09-22

Aleid van Poelgeest, lover of earl Albrecht of Bavaria, murdered at 22

1392-09-22

Willem Cuser, earl Albrecht of Beierens, murdered

1393-01-28

Earl of Joigny, burned at royal ball in Paris

1393-01-30

Yvain, son of earl of Foix, burned at royal ball

1397-06-03

William Montacute, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1328)

1397-09-21

Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (executed) (b. 1346)

1398-07-20

Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, heir to the throne of England (b. 1374)

1400-01-05

John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (b. ca. 1350)

1403-07-23

Thomas Percy, 1st Earl of Worcester, English rebel (executed) (b. 1343)

1408-02-20

Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)

1410-03-16

John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (b. 1373)

1415-10-13

Thomas FitzAlan, 12th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1381)

1415-10-25

Philip of Nevers, French earl, dies in battle

1425-01-18

Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (b. 1391)

1428-11-03

Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388)

1435-06-12

John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, English military leader (b. 1408)

1439-04-30

Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, English military leader (b. 1382)

1442-05-03

Engelbert I, Earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies

1453-07-17

John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, English military leader

1455-05-22

Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)

1456-11-03

Edmund Turdor, earl of Richmond, dies

1460-12-31

Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England (executed) (b. 1443)

1460-12-31

Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (b. 1400)

1461-03-29

Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)

1471-04-14

Richard Neville Warwick, 2nd earl of Salisbury, dies at 42

1473-05-08

John Stafford, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English politician (b. 1420)

1477-07-22

Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies in battle at 39

1483-06-25

Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, English writer

1483-11-02

Henry Stafford, earl of Buckingham/constable of Engl, beheaded at 49

1493-05-10

Colin Campbell, 1st Earl of Argyll, Scottish politician

1498-04-28

Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician

1499-04-29

John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies

1504-05-31

Engelbert II, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg-Dietz, dies

1513-03-10

John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)

1516-07-30

Johan V Nassau, earl of Nassau-Vianden/Dietz, dies

1538-03-21

Hugo, earl of Leisnig, governor of Frisia, dies at about 79

1538-06-30

Charles van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen, dies at 70

1547-01-19

Henry Howard, earl of Surrey, army commander/poet, beheaded at 29

1547-01-24

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason

1550-07-30

Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton, English politician (b. 1505)

1558-11-23

Charles, earl of Lalaing/land guardian of the Neth, dies at 52

1563-09-17

Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier

1567-02-09

Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered

1568-06-05

Lamoraal, earl of Egmont/prince of Gavere, beheaded

1570-10-16

Baron van Montigny, Dutch earl of Horne, murdered

1571-09-04

Earl of Lennox, regent of Scotland, murdered

1572-08-22

Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (b. 1528)

1572-10-24

Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby, English politician (bc. 1508)

1574-04-14

Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies in battle at 35

1578-04-14

James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, consort of Mary I of Scotland

1581-06-02

James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland

1583-06-09

Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland

1584-07-10

William I "the Silent" [William of Orange], Earl of Nassau, is assassinated at 51in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.

1585-01-16

Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)

1588-09-04

Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, dies at 87

1590-11-18

George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, English statesman (b. 1528)

1598-09-29

Floris I van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg, dies at about 61

1601-02-25

Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, executed for treason against Elizabeth I

1604-06-24

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550)

1604-09-12

Louis Gunther, earl of Nassau, dies in battle at about 29

1606-04-03

Charles Blount, 1st Earl of Devon, English politician (b. 1563)

1608-04-19

Earl of Dorset, poet/statesman, dies

1608-11-07

Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle

1612-05-24

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/PM (1598-1612), dies at 48

1613-11-23

Charles Philip of Croij, marquis of Havre/earl of Fontenoy, dies at 64

1614-06-15

Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, English politician (b. 1540)

1616-07-20

Hugh O'Neill, 3rd Earl of Tyrone, Irish soldier

1618-03-23

James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician

1620-05-31

Willem Louis, earl of Nassau-Dillenburg, dies at 59

1622-06-16

Alexander Seton, 1st Earl of Dunfermline, Chancellor of Scotland (b. 1555)

1623-02-08

Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)

1624-11-10

Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (b. 1573)

1624-12-14

Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English statesman (b. 1536)

1626-07-13

Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman (b. 1563)

1635-08-17

Francisco de Moncada, Spanish earl of Osuna, dies at 48

1639-06-02

Floris II van Pallandt, earl of Culemborg/politician, dies at 62

1640-06-03

Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, English politician (b. 1584)

1642-07-18

Willem earl of Nassau-Siegen, gov of Ft Emmerik/Heusden, dies

1642-11-07

Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician

1643-07-25

Robert Pierrepont, 1st Earl of Kingston-upon-Hull, English statesman (b. 1584)

1643-09-15

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, Irish politician (b. 1566)

1645-07-17

Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset, Scottish politician

1645-08-06

Lionel Cranfield, 1st Earl of Middlesex, English merchant (b. 1575)

1646-09-14

Robert Devereux, 3rd earl of Essex, dies

1646-09-14

Thomas H Earl of Arundel, English art collector (Marbles), dies

1647-04-25

Matthias Gallas, Austrian earl of Campo/duke of Lucerna, dies at 62

1649-03-09

Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)

1649-07-11

Margaret Coventry, 1st English earl of Shaftesbury, dies

1650-11-06

Willem II, earl of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 24

1651-12-18

Francisco the Melo, Portuguese/Spanish earl of Assumar, dies at 54

1652-12-31

Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury, dies

1654-08-28

Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent, dies at 71

1661-04-04

Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, Scottish soldier (b. circa 1580)

1667-05-16

Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, English statesman (b. 1607)

1672-05-11

Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, English royalist (b. 1615)

1674-12-09

Edward Hyde 1st earl of Clarendon, English PM (1660-67), dies at 65

1675-03-18

Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)

1675-11-28

Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (c. 1608)

1677-05-20

George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, British statesman (b. 1612)

1679-10-26

Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery, British soldier, statesman, and dramatist (b. 1621)

1680-07-26

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, poet/courtier, dies

1680-07-30

Thomas Butler, Earl of Ossory, Irish naval commander (b. 1634)

1683-01-21

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury, dies at 61

1683-07-13

Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)

1685-02-24

Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English politician and military leader (b. 1629)

1685-07-28

Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, English statesman (b. 1618)

1686-04-06

Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Anglesey, English royalist statesman (b. 1614)

1686-10-26

John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, English politician (b. 1623)

1691-08-14

Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnel, Irish rebel (b. 1630)

1694-01-02

Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (b. 1651)

1694-01-07

Charles Gerard, 1st Earl of Macclesfield, English general (bc. 1618)

1701-08-22

John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath, English royalist statesman (b. 1628)

1701-11-05

Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (bc. 1659)

1702-09-28

Robert Spencer 2nd earl of Sunderland, Engl PM (1687-88), dies at 61

1704-04-08

Henry Sydney, 1st Earl of Romney, English statesman (b. 1641)

1705-01-15

Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies

1706-01-29

Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)

1706-04-10

Arthur Chichester, 3rd Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1666)

1707-01-08

John Dalrymple, 1st Earl of Stair, Scottish politician (b. 1648)

1709-11-23

Hans Willem baron Bentinck, Dutch/English earl of Portland, dies at 60

1711-05-02

Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester, English statesman (b. 1641)

1711-08-25

Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey, English politician

1712-07-24

Cornelis earl of Nassau, general-major/mister of Woudenberg, dies

1712-08-18

Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers, English soldier

1712-12-15

Sidney 1st earl of Godolphine, English minister of Finance, dies at 67

1713-02-15

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, writer, dies

1716-04-14

Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, British admiral

1717-03-19

John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist

1718-05-30

Arnold Joost van Keppel, earl of Albemarle/general, dies at about 48

1720-01-31

Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (c. 1654)

1721-02-05

James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope, English general, dies at 47

1721-12-17

Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)

1723-03-31

Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-born American statesman (b. 1661)

1723-04-10

Claude F Tserclaes, South Neth earl of Tilly, dies at 74

1723-10-10

William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)

1725-05-21

Robert Haley earl of Oxford, English Whig-premier (1710-4), dies at 63

1729-01-04

Joseph de Montesquiou earl d'Artagnan, French lt-general, dies at 77

1730-01-01

Daniel Finch, 2nd earl of Nottingham, dies at 82

1732-09-12

Eugene JP earl the Merode, Belgian marquis of Westerloo, dies at 58

1737-01-29

George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)

1737-03-07

Guido Starhemberg, Austrian earl/fieldmarshal, dies at 79

1737-09-27

John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)

1738-05-01

Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c. 1669)

1740-12-26

Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, lt-gen (12 children), dies

1743-07-02

Spencer Compton earl of Wilmington, English minister of Finance, dies

1747-05-09

John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)

1751-01-20

John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)

1753-05-26

Willem Maurits, earl of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders, dies

1753-12-15

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694)

1756-12-08

William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, British statesman and diplomat

1758-03-06

Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)

1760-04-16

Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward

1763-01-02

John Casteret earl Granville, English premier, dies at 72

1763-08-21

Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, British statesman (b. 1710)

1764-03-06

Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)

1764-05-03

Francesco Algarotti, Italian earl/encyclopedist, dies at 53

1764-07-07

William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician (b. 1683)

1767-12-01

Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)

1769-08-02

Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (b. 1689)

1771-06-08

George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (b. 1716)

1772-12-28

Ernst J earl van/of Biron, Russian duke of Courland, dies at 82

1775-09-16

Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)

1778-05-16

Robert Darcy, 4th Earl of Holderness, English diplomat (b. 1718)

1779-09-12

Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple, English politician (b. 1711)

1779-12-23

Augustus Hervey, 3rd Earl of Bristol, British admiral and politician (b. 1724)

1781-09-28

William Henry Nassau de Zuylestein, 4th Earl of Rochford, British diplomat and statesman (b. 1717)

1782-04-27

William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, English politician (b. 1710)

1783-04-11

Nikita I Panin, Russian earl/ambassador in Denmark, dies at 64

1784-01-01

Patrice F earl de Neney, South Neth Secret Council chairman, dies at 67

1784-02-13

Charles Gravier, French earl of Vergennes/min of For affairs, dies

1784-04-30

Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies

1788-10-13

Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet (b. 1702)

1790-05-16

Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (b. 1720)

1791-02-16

Richard earl d'Alton, Austria general of S Neth, commits suicide at 58

1792-03-10

John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute/English premier (1760-63), dies at 78

1792-04-30

John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, English Naval minister, dies at 73

1793-03-20

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)

1793-08-28

Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/parliament member, dies

1793-12-28

Louis earl of Bylandt, Dutch admiral, dies at about 75

1794-04-18

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1714)

1794-08-06

Henry Bathurst, 2nd Earl Bathurst, British politician (b. 1714)

1798-01-09

Pedro Pablo Abarca d Bolea earl of Aranda, Spanish officer, dies at 79

1803-10-08

Vittorio A Alfieri, Italian earl/writer (Filippo), dies at 54

1805-05-07

William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)

1822-10-29

Dirk van Hogendorp, Dutch earl/general/minister of War, dies at 61

1824-09-16

Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies

1825-03-25

Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl, dies at 63

1827-08-27

Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff, Austrian earl/prince/diplomat, dies

1828-02-02

Frederik Sigismund earl of Bylandt, vice-admiral, dies at 78

1828-12-04

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)

1829-02-22

Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general, dies at 53

1830-02-18

Charles G G, Earl of Merode, mayor (Brussels), dies at 67

1830-10-04

Hans DL earl Yorck von Wartenburg, gov-gen of E-Prussia, dies at 71

1835-10-22

Willem G F Bentinck, earl/politician/organist, dies at 73

1838-07-10

Willem earl van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial governor, dies at about 43

1839-05-13

Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies

1845-07-09

Jacob earl of Rechteren/Appeltern, gov of Gelderland, dies at 57

1845-07-17

Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1764)

1847-09-23

Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgium revolutionary (Souvenirs), dies at 65)

1849-03-27

Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)

1855-10-25

Willem F earl van Bylandt, military, dies at 84

1857-02-07

Félix PBOG, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister of War, dies at 65

1858-01-05

Johann JWAFK Radetzky von Radetz, Austr earl/field marshal, dies at 91

1860-10-31

Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, British admiral (b. 1775)

1861-12-14

George HG earl of Aberdeen, Engl Minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 76

1863-10-04

Gerrit Schimmelpenninck, earl of Nijenhuis/Peckedam, dies at 69

1865-10-31

William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse & maker of large telescopes, dies

1868-03-28

James Thomas Brudenell, 7th earl of Cardigan, dies at about 70

1868-09-27

Alexander Walewski, French earl/duke/diplomat/Foreign minister, dies

1874-07-11

Xavier FMG earl Merode, Belgium pontifical defense minister, dies at 54

1878-05-28

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1792)

1881-04-19

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, dies

1890-02-18

Guyla Andr ssy Sr, earl/premier of Hungary (1867-71), dies at 66

1894-12-07

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer/diplomat/earl, dies at 89

1899-02-06

Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor, dies at 67

1899-03-01

Gyorgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian MP, dies at 90

1905-11-17

Philip EFMCBLG, earl of Flanders, dies

1910-08-30

Albert Vandal, French earl/historian (Napoleon), dies at 57

1910-11-20

Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS]

1914-03-01

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)

1916-05-06

Earl Ross Drake, composer, dies at 50

1916-06-17

Ernest Lacy, The Ragged Earl

1917-01-29

Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egypt, dies at 75

1922-08-28

Louis PMFG of Orleans, earl of Eu/Brazil, dies at 80

1923-04-05

George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, English financier (b. 1866)

1923-04-05

George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert 5th Earl of Carnarvon,

1927-04-10

Ivo Bligh, cricketer (8th Earl of Darnley, 4 Tests 1882-83), dies

1928-01-26

Earl Metcalfe, Ignorance

1928-01-29

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig/field marshal (WW I), dies at 66

1928-10-15

Earl Mohan, Riders of the Kitchen Range

1931-05-21

Andrew Mack, The Ragged Earl

1931-09-13

Lawrence D'Orsay, The Earl of Pawtucket

1933-02-07

Albert Gyorgy Earl Apponyi, Hung minister of Education, dies at 86

1933-04-05

Earl Derr Biggers, House of the Long Shadows

1935-11-20

John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, British Admiral of the Fleet, Kensington, London, of pneumonia

1935-11-20

Earl Jellicoe, Q-Ships

1936-01-02

Earl Burtnett, My Dream Is Yours

1936-03-12

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty and British Admiral of the Fleet dies of heart failure at 65 in London, England

1937-05-14

Earl 'Snake Hips' Tucker, Crazy House

1940-01-16

Earl Dwire, Blue Steel

1940-04-03

Earl Askam, Flash Gordon

1940-08-30

Earl Taggert, The Sin of Madelon Claudet

1940-09-28

Earl Hurd, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

1942-08-25

George EAE, English prince/earl of St Andrews, dies in battle at 39

1944-07-23

Helmuth J von Moltke, German earl (July 20th plotter), executed

1944-10-14

Earl 'Hap' Hogan, King Kong

1947-09-01

Earl Stafford, Plain Clothes

1948-04-17

Johan P earl of Limburg Stirum, diplomat, dies at 75

1948-06-17

Earl Carroll, Murder at the Vanities

1949-02-09

Earl Dobbins, Western Union

1950-01-30

Earl Neville, Love Bound

1950-08-25

Earl Caddock, professional wrestler (b. 1888)

1950-08-25

Earl Caddock, Stecher-Caddock Wrestling Match

1952-05-13

Earl Wooden, My Pal Trigger

1952-09-05

Earl Wayland Bowman, Big Stakes

1955-06-02

Earl Lee, Five

1956-09-23

Earl Godwin, newscaster (Meet the Veep), dies at 75

1957-11-30

Earl Ritter, Saps at Sea

1958-03-20

Earl S. Hayman, Holiday Inn

1958-07-10

Robert Earl Hughes,

1958-07-12

Earl Pingree, Dark Streets

1958-07-19

Robert Earl Hughes, weighed 1,041 lbs (473 kg), dies at 32

1959-08-21

Earl Hudson, So Big

1960-09-05

Earl Long, Louisiana Boys: Raised on Politics

1961-03-06

Earl Seaman, A Night at the Opera

1962-12-02

Earl L. McMurtrie, Kismet

1963-04-14

Earl Gunn, Billy the Kid

1963-06-22

Earl Gordon Bostwick, The Phantom of the Opera

1964-07-26

Francis Curzon, 5th Earl Howe, British politician, naval officer and racing driver (b. 1884)

1964-09-23

Earl Miller, Citizen Kane

1964-11-03

Albert M. Newman, Earl Carroll Vanities

1965-04-25

Earl Sitar, The Time of Your Life

1965-05-23

Earl Webb, American baseball player (b. 1897)

1965-10-28

Earl Bostic, American saxophonist (b. 1913)

1965-10-28

Earl Bostic, Smoke

1968-06-15

Samuel Earl "Wahoo Sam" Crawford, baseball pitcher, dies at 88

1968-08-20

Earl Sande, US jockey (Kentucky Derby), dies at 69

1969-04-10

Harley J. Earl, American automobile designer (b. 1893)

1969-06-16

Harold RLG 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Brit field marshal, dies at 78

1970-06-11

Earl Grant, American musician and singer (b. 1931)

1973-06-27

Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45), dies at 82

1974-03-09

Earl W Sutherland Jr, US pharmacologist (Nobel 1971), dies at 58

1974-03-11

Earl Crowell, Vertigo

1974-07-09

Earl Warren, governor of California/Supreme court justice (1953-68), dies at 83

1977-07-01

Earl Bailly, On the Shores of Nova Scotia

1977-07-08

Earl K. Brent, The Ides of March

1977-10-11

Earl A. Wolcott, King Kong

1979-08-27

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Queen Elizabeth II's cousin, is assassinated by an IRA bomb on his boat in Ireland

1980-09-25

Earl Curry, American religious author (b. 1890)

1983-04-22

Earl "Fatha" Hines, US, jazz pianist/conductor, dies

1983-04-22

Earl 'Fatha' Hines, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion

1983-08-16

Earl Averill, American baseball player (b. 1902)

1983-10-05

Earl Tupper, American inventor (b. 1907)

1985-05-20

George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46

1985-09-18

A. Earl Hedrick, The Lost Weekend

1986-02-03

Earl Crain Jr., Battlestar Galactica

1986-09-05

Paul Sann, Earl Wilson

1986-09-24

Earl L. Sands, The Reward

1987-01-16

Earl Wilson, Bdwy columnist (Midnight Earl), dies in Yonkers at 79

1987-01-16

Earl Wilson, Stage Entrance

1987-03-04

Earl Montgomery, Rocky II

1987-09-22

Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert 6th Earl of Carnarvon, Episode #8.1

1988-11-05

Paris Earl, Skin Game

1988-11-06

Earl Gilpin, Gunga Din

1989-05-06

Colonel Earl 'Red' Blaik, Columbia World of Sports: Army's All-American

1989-07-09

Earl Sydnor, Sunday Sinners

1990-11-08

Earl Torgeson, Game 6

1991-02-15

Earl E.T. Smith, Over the Seven Seas

1991-07-20

Earl Robinson, Woodstock

1991-10-20

Earl McDonald, The House of Rothschild

1992-01-04

Earl Colbert, entertainer, dies

1992-02-29

Earl Scheib, CEO (Earl Scheib Auto Paint), dies at 85

1992-03-06

Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll's), dies of pneumonia

1992-03-29

Earl Spencer, father of Lady Diana, dies at 68

1992-04-18

Kenneth Earl, The Big Trees

1992-06-17

Frederick Earl Exley, A Fan's Notes

1992-09-18

Earl Van Dyke, Standing in the Shadows of Motown

1993-01-24

Thurgood Marshall, Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren

1993-03-07

Earl Wrightson, singer/actor (Pinafore), dies of heart failure at 77

1993-03-07

Earl Wrightson, The Robert Q. Lewis Show

1994-07-10

Earl Strum, referee (NBA), dies of brain cancer at 66

1995-03-01

Earl Blackwell, The Marriage Bargain

1995-06-25

Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, dies of heart failure at 78

1995-07-12

Earl Coleman, singer, dies at 69

1995-08-28

Earl Bascom, American rodeo pioneer (b. 1906)

1995-08-28

Earl Bascom, Take Willy with Ya

1996-04-16

Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist, dies at 62

1997-01-30

Jean Constantin, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

1997-07-24

William Brennan, Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren

1997-10-14

Earl L. Myr, Thin Ice

1998-04-23

James Earl Ray, American assassin (b. 1928)

1998-04-23

James Earl Ray, Who Killed Martin Luther King?

1998-05-13

Dorothy Babb, Earl Carroll Sketchbook

1998-05-15

Earl Manigault, American basketball player (b. 1944)

1998-05-15

Earl Manigault, Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1998-07-18

Walter Earl Haraway, Die Alptraumfrau

1999-06-21

Antony Craxton, Investiture of His Royal Highness Prince Charles as Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester

1999-10-25

Earl Murphey, Rockin' in the Rockies

2000-04-01

Connie Earl, Gone with the Wind

2000-11-16

Earl Colgrove, So Dear to My Heart

2001-07-07

Edward Fiennes-Clinton, 18th Earl of Lincoln

2001-09-11

Henry George Reginald Molyneux Herbert 7th Earl of Carnarvon, Episode #11.11

2002-02-01

Earl Rowe, The Blob

2002-02-24

Earl Parker, Terror House

2002-05-17

Earl Hammond, The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus

2002-12-18

Earl Audet, The All American

2003-04-17

Earl King, American musician and songwriter (b. 1934)

2003-04-17

Earl King, Rush

2003-09-29

Earl Luick, The Ox-Bow Incident

2003-11-15

Earl Battey, 1966 MLB All-Star Game

2003-11-30

Earl Bellamy, Seven Alone

2003-12-29

Earl Hindman, American actor (b. 1942)

2003-12-29

Earl Hindman, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three

2004-01-30

Earl George, The Dybbuk

2005-01-13

Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster (b. 1915)

2005-04-23

Earl Wilson, American baseball player (b. 1934)

2005-04-23

Earl Wilson, A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers

2005-11-11

Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield, British photographer (b. 1939)

2006-05-03

Earl Woods, Athlete and father of Tiger Woods (b. 1932)

2006-05-03

Earl Woods, Betting on a Fall/Tiger

2006-08-24

Earl Jolly Brown, Live and Let Die

2006-09-07

Robert Earl Jones, The Sting

2007-01-03

Earl Reibel, Canadian ice hockey forward Detroit Red Wings (b. 1930)

2007-03-21

John Zaccaro, Cornbread, Earl and Me

2007-05-29

Earl Ubell, Six Hours of Surgery

2007-10-04

Earl Bennett, Charlotte's Web

2007-11-07

Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)

2008-01-10

Earl Brown, Elvis

2008-02-02

Earl L. Butz, King Corn

2008-09-19

Earl Palmer, Pretty Woman

2008-12-03

Earl Booth, Men at Law

2008-12-31

Helen Klinkner, Earl Carroll Vanities

2009-04-17

Earl Gustkey, Mike Tyson for Losing to Buster Douglas

2009-10-19

Earl Berman, Brainscan

2009-12-24

Earl Mackin, Shark Hunt

2010-01-23

Earl Wild, Episode #3.25

2010-05-14

Earl Robie, The Enchanted Schoolteacher

2010-07-12

Earl Rosell, Little Big Man

2010-08-25

Esther Earl, With Esther

2011-02-21

Mrs. Earl E.T. Smith, Over the Seven Seas

2011-05-14

The Earl of Onslow, Episode #26.2

2011-07-11

George Earl of Harewood, A Royal Family

2011-09-19

Earl Kress, The Fox and the Hound

2012-02-27

Wallace Earl Laven, Clambake

2012-03-28

Earl Scruggs, American bluegrass musician, dies from natural causes at 88

2012-03-28

Earl Scruggs, The Pride of Jesse Hallam

2012-11-25

Earl Carroll, Motown Returns to the Apollo

2012-12-05

Earl Watson, You Got Served

2013-01-19

Earl Weaver, American hall of fame MLB manager, dies from a heart attack at 82

2013-01-19

Earl Weaver, Signs of the Time

2013-01-28

Earl Williams, Game 3

2013-03-17

Earl Maddox, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2013-05-09

Michael Earl, Back in Fashion

2013-07-15

Earl Gros, American NFL player, dies at 72

2013-10-23

Earl Browning, Hôtel Terminus

2013-11-27

Earl McClung, Band of Brothers

2014-04-25

Earl Morrall, Namath

2014-08-20

Earl Calloway, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords

2014-12-08

Earl Hayes, Rock the Paint

2014-12-28

Earl Clark, Fire on the Mountain

2015-02-26

Earl Lloyd, Episode #1.2

2015-03-23

Earl Harris, Fanatic

2015-07-30

Clifford Earl, The Feast of Steven

2016-03-25

Earl Hamner Jr., creator of the Waltons tv series, dies at 92


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