History Hop Tags - Ocean

Ocean - Notable Historical Events

Ferdinand MagellanNov 28, 1520

Francis DrakeJul 26, 1579

James CookAug 25, 1768

Charles DarwinFeb 20, 1832

Amelia EarhartJun 18, 1928

Franklin RooseveltJun 19, 1941

Admiral DonitzMay 24, 1943

Edward TellerNov 1, 1952

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Ocean - Historical Events
Date Event
1513-09-25

Vasco Nunez de Balboa is first European to see Pacific Ocean

1520-10-21

Exploer Ferdinand Magellen and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become first Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean

1520-11-28

Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean

1579-07-26

Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean

1768-08-25

Captain James Cook departs from Plymouth, England on his first voyage, on board the Endeavour, bound for the Pacific Ocean

1776-07-12

Captain Cook departs with Resolution for 3rd trip to Pacific Ocean

1793-07-22

Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Pacific Ocean becoming the first Euro-American to complete a transcontinental crossing of Canada.

1805-11-07

Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean

1805-11-19

Lewis & Clark reach Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross continent

1809-06-10

1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila

1819-06-20

320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)

1832-02-20

Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean

1834-05-04

Charles Darwin's expedition reaches 200 km from Atlantic Ocean

1834-06-10

HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean

1843-07-19

Brunel's steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becoming the first ocean-going craft with an iron hull or screw propeller and also becoming the largest vessel afloat in the world.

1845-03-03

Congress authorizes ocean mail contracts for foreign mail delivery

1855-01-28

The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway.

1866-12-11

1st yacht race across Atlantic Ocean

1872-12-04

The ship the Mary Celeste discovered mysteriously abandoned by her crew in the Atlantic Ocean

1882-07-12

1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC

1889-12-04

Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean

1901-11-16

3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds

1914-05-30

The new and then largest Cunard ocean liner RMS Aquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

1916-04-24

Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for ice-trapped ship Endurance

1922-05-10

The United States annexes the Kingman Reef in n the North Pacific Ocean

1926-05-11

Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean

1928-06-18

American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the 1st woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean landing at Burry Port, Wales

1931-07-23

Ashmore & Cartier Is in Indian Ocean transferred to Australia

1933-07-17

After successfully crossing the Atlantic Ocean, the Lithuanian research aircraft Lituanica crashes in Europe under mysterious circumstances.

1934-02-13

The Soviet steamship Cheliuskin sinks in the Arctic Ocean.

1935-02-12

Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean

1937-07-02

Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean

1938-05-17

US Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy

1938-09-27

British ocean liner "Queen Elizabeth" launches at Clydebank Scotland

1941-05-08

German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean

1941-06-19

US President Franklin Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act

1942-03-23

Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean

1943-01-30

USS Chicago sinks in Pacific Ocean

1943-03-26

Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean

1943-05-24

Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean

1943-08-14

-Aug 24th: Quadrant conference over strike in Pacific Ocean

1943-11-18

U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1943-11-19

U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1943-11-20

U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1943-11-25

U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1943-11-29

U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1944-01-17

Korvet Violet sinks U-641 in Atlantic Ocean

1944-08-12

Pipeline under ocean (Pluto) begins operating

1944-12-17

M-Ocean View streetcar resumes service & is extended to Market St

1947-08-07

Thor Heyerdahl and his fellow adventurers aboard the Kon-Tiki reach the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean

1947-12-26

British transfer Heard & McDonald Is (Indian Ocean) to Australia

1952-03-15

Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean

1952-10-19

Alain Bombard departs from the Canary Islands on his solitary journey across the Atlantic ocean with almost no provisions and only a sextant for navigation to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive

1952-11-01

"Ivy Mike", the first thermonuclear weapon to utilize the H-bomb design of Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam, is detonated in the Marshall Islands, Pacific Ocean

1955-05-14

US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

1955-11-23

British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia

1957-09-21

German sail training ship Pamir sails Atlantic Ocean

1958-08-27

US performs nuclear test at South Atlantic Ocean

1958-08-30

US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean

1958-09-06

US performs nuclear test at S Atlantic Ocean

1962-03-16

US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167

1962-05-06

US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

1962-07-28

Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean

1963-06-03

A Northwest Airlines DC-7 crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of British Columbia, killing 101.

1964-12-16

US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

1965-02-12

Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

1965-11-08

British Indian Ocean Territory formed

1968-05-21

Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores

1968-11-11

Maldives (in Indian Ocean) becomes a republic

1969-01-15

Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean

1976-10-06

Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, exploded onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados. All 73 people on-board were killed.

1979-01-30

Varig 707-323C freighter, flown by the same commander as Flight 820, disappears over the Pacific Ocean 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo.

1979-09-22

Israel performs nuclear test at Indian Ocean

1982-02-15

Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die

1983-01-23

Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean

1986-10-06

Russian nuclear sub K291 sinks in Atlantic Ocean

1987-11-28

South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die

1988-08-28

Patty Jordan wins LPGA Ocean State Golf Open

1989-08-27

Tina Barrett wins LPGA Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State Golf Open

1990-10-01

Meteorite explode above Pacific Ocean

1991-09-29

29th Ryder Cup: US beats Europe, 14½-13½ at Ocean Course (South Carolina, US)

1992-04-16

The Katina P runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.

1994-02-01

Large meteorite falls near Kusaie, Pacific Ocean

1995-02-22

Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)

1998-02-26

Total solar eclipse in Venezuela-Pacific Ocean (4m09)

1998-03-02

Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.

1999-10-29

Deadliest Indian Ocean tropical cyclone hits Orissa, India. This event was known as 1999 Orissa cyclone ever since.

2000-01-30

Off the coast of Ivory Coast, Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169.

2000-01-31

Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.

2000-08-08

Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.

2001-03-23

The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.

2001-06-21

Total solar eclipse in Madagascar-Indian Ocean (4m56s)

2001-08-24

Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.

2003-09-22

David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.

2004-01-12

The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.

2004-04-16

The super liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first Transatlantic crossing, linking the golden age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel.

2004-12-23

Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean is hit by an 8.1 magnitude earthquake.

2004-12-26

A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing 230,000 people.

2005-05-14

The former USS America (CV-66), a decommissioned supercarrier of the United States Navy, is deliberately sunk in the Atlantic Ocean after four weeks of live-fire exercises. She is the largest ship ever to be disposed of as a target in a military exercise.

2005-12-30

Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.

2007-11-23

MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands.

2009-06-01

Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew were killed.

2013-02-01

Zenit-3SL, a Ukranian-Russian carrier rocket, fails 40 seconds after liftoff and crashes into the Pacific Ocean

2013-09-10

3 people are killed after a Canadian Coast Guard helicopter crashes in the Artic Ocean

2016-04-24

Pilot lands solar-powered plane after risky flight across Pacific Ocean

2016-12-21

Obama bans oil drilling 'permanently' in millions of acres of ocean

2017-03-31

SpaceX makes history: It launched a used rocket and then landed it in the ocean

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Ocean - Notable Birthdays

Cesar RomeroFeb 15, 1907

Matt DamonOct 8, 1970

Ocean - Birthdays
Date Event
1833-10-17

Paul Bert, Auxerre, French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine whose study of the effects of air pressure on the body, such as altitude sickness and 'the bends', made possible space and ocean exploration

1841-03-03

John Murray, Canada oceanographer (Depths of the Ocean)

1884-01-20

Carlyle Blackwell, The Ocean Waif

1885-11-26

Chai Hong, Over the Ocean Waves

1887-05-20

Nicolai Remisoff, Ocean's 11

1887-07-09

Samuel Eliot Morison, historian (Admiral of the Ocean Sea)

1890-06-15

Georg Wüst, Posen, German Oceanographer who provided the first complete understanding of the temperature, salinity and deep-current structure of the Atlantic Ocean

1892-11-06

John Alcock, English pilot (1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean)

1894-05-28

Sammy White, RI, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off)

1894-07-27

Gerald F Bogan, US vice-admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)

1900-08-24

Preston Foster, Ocean City NJ, actor (Waterfront, Gunslinger)

1903-03-22

James S Russell, US pilot/admiral (WW II Pacific Ocean)

1906-02-21

Jeanne Aubert, The Gem of the Ocean

1906-03-18

Roy L Johnson, US admiral (WW II-Pacific Ocean)

1907-02-15

Cesar Romero, New York City, New York, American actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11)

1907-03-06

Carol Tevis, Ocean Swells

1908-06-17

Orville Fouse, 711 Ocean Drive

1911-12-31

Charles Lederer, Ocean's Eleven

1912-05-18

Perry Como, Ocean's Eleven

1912-06-12

Dick Manning, Ocean's Eleven

1912-11-21

Dick Pinner, Monster from the Ocean Floor

1913-9-10

Tedi Thurman, When Ocean Meets Sky

1915-10-05

Ocean Claypool, Marie Antoinette

1915-12-19

Nina Yurushkina, The Ice of the Ocean

1917-01-16

Buddy Lester, Ocean's 11

1917-03-01

Robert Lowell, Boston, Massachusetts, American poet/pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)

1917-04-30

Harry Brown, Ocean's Eleven

1917-06-06

Kirk Kerkorian, Ocean's Eleven

1917-07-18

Henri Salvador, Ocean's Eleven

1918-02-27

William Lambert, Ocean's 11

1920-07-12

Keith Andes, Ocean City NJ, actor (Farmer's Daughter, Away All Boats)

1922-04-22

Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, US, painter (Ocean Park Paintings)

1924-07-27

Vincent Canby, Jonas at the Ocean

1924-10-27

Alain Bombard, Paris, French Biologist, Physician, and Politician who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in a small boat to test his theory that a shipwrecked person could survive without provisions

1925-02-15

Marcel Stellman, Ocean's Eleven

1925-12-08

Sammy Davis Jr, NYC, singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man)

1925-12-08

Sammy Davis Jr., Ocean's 11

1926-07-17

Piero Umiliani, Ocean's Twelve

1926-12-17

Patrice Wymore, Ocean's 11

1928-06-12

Lew Gallo, Ocean's 11

1928-11-06

Lotte Hass, The Girl on the Ocean Floor

1929-01-09

Ulu Grosbard, The Deep End of the Ocean

1929-07-10

George Clayton Johnson, Ocean's Eleven

1930-9-29

Billy Strange, Ocean's Eleven

1931-08-27

Sri Chinmoy, Ocean Monk

1932-02-02

Arthur Lyman, Ocean's Eleven

1932-06-28

Anne Kimbell, Monster from the Ocean Floor

1934-06-07

Philippe Entremont, Ocean's Eleven

1934-10-17

Rose Gregorio, The Deep End of the Ocean

1934-9-22

Ornella Vanoni, Ocean's Twelve

1935-05-10

Julius Wechter, Ocean's Eleven

1936-01-15

Obo Addy, Ocean Waves

1937-08-08

Bruno Lauzi, Ocean's Twelve

1937-9-26

Jerry Weintraub, Ocean's Eleven

1941-04-19

Roberto Carlos, Ocean's Twelve

1941-06-05

Erasmo Carlos, Ocean's Twelve

1942-01-21

Mac Davis, Ocean's Eleven

1942-01-27

Steve Wynn, Ocean's Eleven

1942-11-20

Norman Greenbaum, Ocean's Eleven

1942-9-03

Ray Xifo, Ocean's Thirteen

1943-03-14

Terry Lanni, Ocean's Eleven

1943-04-02

Troels Kløvedal, På togt med Troels Kløvedal - Nordkaperen i det indiske ocean

1944-07-07

Emanuel Steward, Ocean's Eleven

1946-12-14

Marie-Christine Birague, Ocean's Twelve

1947-02-19

Peter Bird, ocean rower

1947-03-20

Tamio Kageyama, Coo: Come from a Distant Ocean Coo

1950-01-21

Billy Ocean, [Leslie S Charles], Trinidad, singer (Caribbean Queen)

1950-01-21

Billy Ocean, Filth

1950-04-26

André Meulman, Ocean's Twelve

1950-08-08

Roberto Penna, Ocean's Twelve

1950-10-25

Soledad St. Hilaire, Ocean's Thirteen

1951-04-19

Bob Marshak, Ocean's Eleven

1951-05-05

Richard Ocean, This Is Spinal Tap

1951-12-10

Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Deep End of the Ocean

1952-11-21

Deborah Shelton, Wash DC, actress (Dallas, Ocean Kill, Body Double)

1953-10-15

Walter Jon Williams, All Great Neptune's Ocean

1954-04-14

Bruce Sterling, US, sci-fi author (Involution Ocean, Schismatrix)

1954-06-09

Paul L. Nolan, Ocean's Eleven

1954-11-19

Greg Ives, Ocean Frontiers: The Dawn of a New Era in Ocean Stewardship

1955-05-02

Jo Callis, Ocean's Thirteen

1955-08-11

Steve McNicholas, Wild Ocean

1955-10-02

Phil Oakey, Ocean's Thirteen

1955-11-27

Bill Nye, Ocean Life

1955-12-10

Ana Gabriel, The Deep End of the Ocean

1957-01-11

Saeko Himuro, Ocean Waves

1957-06-12

Tomohito Aoki, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

1957-10-01

Rusty Meyers, Ocean's Eleven

1957-10-05

Bernie Mac, Ocean's Eleven

1957-9-07

Miguel Pérez, Ocean's Eleven

1958-04-01

Ray Sergeant, When I Find the Ocean

1958-06-22

Doug Purcell, Ocean's Thirteen

1959-08-26

Susan Ekins, Ocean's Eleven

1959-11-06

Nobuo Tobita, Ocean Waves

1959-11-17

Jeff Winn, Ocean's Twelve

1959-12-02

Patty Jordan, Buffalo NY, LPGA golfer (1988 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean)

1961-07-20

Robert Peters, Ocean's Eleven

1961-08-01

Tom Miller, Jacques Cousteau: Above the Ocean

1961-9-24

K.G. Ramsey, Ocean's Eleven

1962-02-03

Chris Tates, Ocean's Twelve

1962-11-15

Jeroen Willems, Ocean's Twelve

1962-12-14

Chia-ming Weng, When the Ocean Is Blue

1963-01-14

Steven Soderbergh, Atlanta, Georgia, American producer, director, writer (Ocean's Eleven, Traffic)

1963-01-14

Steven Soderbergh, Ocean's Eleven

1963-10-01

Luke Cresswell, Wild Ocean

1963-11-30

Erik Van Wouden, Ocean's Twelve

1964-02-15

Tawny Ocean, The Seven Deadly Sins

1964-07-24

Brian S. Kalata, Ocean's Twelve

1965-08-28

Umberto Pelizzari, Ocean Men: Extreme Dive

1966-01-05

Yuri Amano, Ocean Waves

1966-06-05

Tina Barrett, Balt, LPGA golfer (1989 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State)

1968-12-10

Mark Gantt, Ocean's Eleven

1968-9-21

Trugoy The Dove, Ocean's Eleven

1969-02-08

Joost Brouwer, Ocean's Twelve

1969-02-14

David Holmes, Ocean's Eleven

1969-05-08

Akebono, Ocean's Thirteen

1969-9-21

Adam Lazarre-White, Ocean's Thirteen

1970-03-04

Erin McGrew, Ocean Front Property

1970-06-10

Woody Jackson, Ocean's Twelve

1970-07-09

Giuseppe Nardi, Ocean's Twelve

1970-07-31

Alex Procopio, Ocean's Thirteen

1970-10-08

Matt Damon, Cambridge, Massachusetts, American actor (Good Will Hunting, Ocean's trilogy, Bourne trilogy)

1970-12-21

Ted Griffin, Ocean's Eleven

1971-05-02

Musashimaru, Ocean's Thirteen

1971-11-07

Lisa Maris, The Deep End of the Ocean

1971-11-08

Ocean Hellman, Along Came a Spider

1972-05-21

Olga Sosnovska, Ocean's Thirteen

1974-03-16

Johan Widerberg, Ocean's Twelve

1974-03-31

Benjamin Eicher, Ocean Predators

1975-07-11

Jon Wellner, Ocean's Thirteen

1975-10-30

Jennifer Greenberg, Ocean's Thirteen

1975-11-13

Stoffel Van Verrewegen, Ocean's Twelve

1976-05-01

Youma Diakite, Ocean's Twelve

1976-05-06

Claire Alderton, Ocean's Eleven

1976-06-12

Paris Paul, Ocean's Eleven

1976-08-23

Scott Caan, Ocean's Eleven

1976-9-06

David Meanti, Ocean's Twelve

1976-9-09

Shawn Pettus Brown, Ocean's Thirteen

1977-07-26

Manuel Witting, The Girl on the Ocean Floor

1977-11-07

Corrado Serri, Ocean's Twelve

1977-11-18

Ocean Bloom, I Spy

1978-06-07

Mini Anden, Ocean's Twelve

1978-06-07

Eric Lipe, Ocean's Twelve

1978-07-20

Denny Mendez, Ocean's Twelve

1978-09-28

Marzena Godecki, actress (Ocean Girl)

1979-06-07

Nick Puga, Ocean's Thirteen

1980-01-20

Philippe Cousteau, Ocean's Deadliest

1980-07-03

Michael Mantella, Ocean's Eleven

1980-07-03

Alex Hartman, Ocean's Eleven

1980-11-11

Dong Han, Ever Loving Ocean of Blues

1980-11-20

Ana Caterina Morariu, Ocean's Twelve

1980-9-18

Elizabeth Stenson, Ocean's Thirteen

1981-07-13

Zarah Cabanas, Ocean's Insomnia

1983-06-18

Supatchaya Reunreung, Ocean Butterfly

1984-02-28

Noureen DeWulf, Ocean's Thirteen

1984-11-28

Martina Stella, Ocean's Twelve

1984-12-04

Petar Jevtic, Ocean

1985-07-23

Stephanie Gordon, Ocean Blues

1985-11-25

Chris Zomer, Ocean's Twelve

1987-10-28

Frank Ocean, The Great Gatsby

1987-12-14

Aletta Ocean, Geisha

1991-01-10

Phillip Ocean, Harry el Sucio

1994-04-04

Michael McElroy, The Deep End of the Ocean

Ocean - Weddings
Date Event
2003-05-10

"Ocean's Eleven" director and producer Steven Soderbergh (40) weds former fashion model Jules Asner (35) in Manhattan, New York

2005-05-14

The Beverly Hills, 90210 actor Jason Priestley (35) weds British makeup artist Naomi Lowde at the One & Only Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas

2008-09-06

Singer KT Tunstall (33) weds drummer Luke Bullen in a marquee overlooking the Atlantic Ocean on the Isle of Skye

Ocean - Deaths
Date Event
1886-11-11

Paul Bert, Auxerre, French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine whose study of the effects of air pressure on the body made possible space and ocean exploration, dies of dysentery at 53

1912-12-07

George Darwin, theorized Moon was pulled out of Pacific Ocean, dies

1937-07-02

Fred L Noonan, US navigator, disappeared over Pacific Ocean

1945-09-06

John S Mccain, US admiral, (WW II-Pacific Ocean), dies

1953-10-10

Greta Isgrigg, 711 Ocean Drive

1960-01-06

Edith Barstow, The Gem of the Ocean

1960-03-03

Sammy White, actor (711 Ocean Drive, Sound Off), dies at 65

1960-07-21

Al Hoffman, Ocean's Eleven

1968-05-14

Husband Edward Kimmel, commandant US Ocean fleet WW II, dies at 86

1976-05-15

Samuel Eliot Morison, US historian (Admiral of Ocean Sea), dies at 88

1977-09-12

Robert Lowell, US poet/pacifist (Near the Ocean), dies at 60)

1984-02-21

Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies

1985-03-12

Eugene Ormandy, Ocean's Eleven

1986-11-02

Harry Brown, Ocean's Eleven

1988-03-06

Jeanne Aubert, The Gem of the Ocean

1990-05-16

Sammy Davis Jr., Ocean's 11

1991-04-11

Dick Manning, Ocean's Eleven

1993-03-30

Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, US painter (Ocean Park Paintings), dies at 70

1993-04-25

Henri Rene, Ocean's Thirteen

1993-07-23

Ocean Claypool, Marie Antoinette

1995-07-03

William Lambert, Ocean's 11

1996-06-02

Peter Bird, ocean rower, dies at 49

1997-10-25

Dick Pinner, Monster from the Ocean Floor

1998-01-26

Tamio Kageyama, Coo: Come from a Distant Ocean Coo

1999-02-01

Julius Wechter, Ocean's Eleven

2000-06-11

Lew Gallo, Ocean's 11

2000-09-15

Vincent Canby, Jonas at the Ocean

2001-02-14

Piero Umiliani, Ocean's Twelve

2001-03-20

Nina Yurushkina, The Ice of the Ocean

2001-05-12

Perry Como, Ocean's Eleven

2002-02-24

Arthur Lyman, Ocean's Eleven

2002-10-04

Buddy Lester, Ocean's 11

2004-12-26

Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian jazz musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1959)

2004-12-26

Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish musician, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1962)

2004-12-26

Mieszko Talarczyk, Lead singer/Guitarist of grindcore band, Nasum, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1974)

2004-12-26

Troy Broadbridge, Australian rules footballer, in 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake (b. 1980)

2005-02-13

Bob Marshak, Ocean's Eleven

2005-07-19

Alain Bombard, French Biologist, Physician, and Politician who made a solitary journey across the Atlantic ocean without provisions, dies at 80

2006-06-12

Tomohito Aoki, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time

2006-10-24

Bruno Lauzi, Ocean's Twelve

2007-10-11

Sri Chinmoy, Ocean Monk

2008-02-13

Henri Salvador, Ocean's Eleven

2008-06-06

Saeko Himuro, Ocean Waves

2008-08-09

Bernie Mac, Ocean's Eleven

2008-11-01

Jacques Piccard, Swiss ocean explorer (b. 1922)

2011-07-14

Terry Lanni, Ocean's Eleven

2012-02-22

Billy Strange, Ocean's Eleven

2012-03-15

Doug Purcell, Ocean's Thirteen

2012-03-19

Ulu Grosbard, The Deep End of the Ocean

2012-09-13

Obo Addy, Ocean Waves

2012-09-17

Tedi Thurman, When Ocean Meets Sky

2012-10-25

Emanuel Steward, Ocean's Eleven

2012-12-03

Jeroen Willems, Ocean's Twelve

2014-03-22

Patrice Wymore, Ocean's 11

2015-01-14

Lotte Hass, The Girl on the Ocean Floor

2015-06-15

Kirk Kerkorian, Ocean's Eleven

2015-07-06

Jerry Weintraub, Ocean's Eleven


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