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ConstantineOct 8, 314

Henry IVApr 30, 1064

Francisco PizarroJul 26, 1519

Benedict ArnoldSep 21, 1780

Thomas JeffersonDec 23, 1793

James K. PolkDec 2, 1845

Nathan Bedford ForrestNov 14, 1863

Henry Ossian FlipperJul 1, 1873

Jesse JamesApr 3, 1882

Thomas EdisonFeb 1, 1893

Mae WestOct 4, 1918

Louis ArmstrongDec 28, 1928

BradmanFeb 17, 1940

FDRFeb 19, 1942

Paul HarveyFeb 6, 1951

Konrad AdenauerMar 27, 1952

Elizabeth IIJun 9, 1958

Lyndon B. JohnsonAug 19, 1961

Sophia LorenApr 9, 1962

Andy WarholJul 9, 1962

Cesar RomeroJan 12, 1966

Jerry WestApr 23, 1969

Kathy WhitworthSep 14, 1969

Aleksandr SolzhenitsynFeb 13, 1974

John Paul IINov 15, 1980

Chris EvertSep 11, 1982

Saddam HusseinSep 5, 1990

Kapil DevOct 17, 1994

Yasser ArafatJan 19, 1997

Kelly ClarksonSep 1, 2005

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West - Historical Events
Date Event
314-10-08

Battle at Cibalae: Roman emperor in the west Constantine beats emperor in the eas tLicinius

879-04-10

Louis III becomes King of West Francia.

921-11-07

Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other

1054-07-16

Three Roman legates fracture relations between Western and Eastern Christian churches by placing invalid Papal Bull of Excommunication on altar of Hagia Sophia during Saturday afternoon divine liturgy. Often dated as start of the East-West Schism.

1064-04-30

German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland

1479-03-06

Treaty of Alcaçovas - Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa.

1519-07-26

Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America

1551-12-19

Dutch west coast hit by hurricane

1552-01-12

Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, 100s killed

1597-06-24

Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java

1598-11-25

Jacob Cornelius van Neck's merchant fleet reaches Bantam West-Java on second Dutch expedition to Indonesia

1610-06-10

Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia

1621-06-03

Dutch West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (included, The Americas, Caribbean and West Africa)

1629-10-13

Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies

1634-05-04

Johan van Walbeecks fleet departs to West Indies

1637-08-28

WIC-colonel Hans Koin conquerors Fort Elmina, West Africa

1641-08-26

West India Company conquerors Sao Paulo de Loanda, Angola

1655-04-26

Dutch West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New Amsterdam

1666-08-09

Rear Admiral Robert Holmes leads a raid on the Dutch island of Terschelling, destroying 150 merchant ships in the Vlie estuary, and pillaging the town of West-Terschelling, an act later known as "Holmes's Bonfire".

1674-09-20

2nd West Indies Company forms

1683-05-21

West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname

1700-01-26

The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake took place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.

1738-05-09

England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea & West-Indies

1755-04-02

Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.

1759-05-01

British fleet occupies Guadeloupe, West Indies, capturing it from France

1762-04-05

British take Grenada, West Indies, from French

1763-10-07

George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement

1771-11-16

West Indian Company & Amsterdam divide up Suriname

1772-06-09

1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion

1772-12-22

Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny

1773-07-29

1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH

1778-07-08

George Washington headquarters at West Point for his Continental Army

1780-09-21

Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andre plans to West Point

1780-09-23

British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point

1781-02-03

Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by British

1782-04-12

Battle at Les Saintes West-Indies: British fleet beats French

1786-07-29

1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette

1792-03-24

Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London

1793-12-23

Thomas Jefferson warned of slave revolts in West Indies

1797-02-21

Trinidad, West Indies, surrenders to British

1802-03-16

Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)

1802-06-09

US Academy at West Point founded

1802-07-04

US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)

1810-10-27

US annexes West Florida from Spain

1813-10-23

The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).

1816-06-19

Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

1822-02-04

Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa

1822-03-30

Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory

1824-01-21

Ashantis defeat British at Accra, West Africa

1824-08-15

Freed American slaves establish Liberia on the West African coast through the American Colonization Society (ACS)

1825-02-12

Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826

1826-01-30

The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened.

1830-06-12

Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch.

1831-03-06

Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy

1836-09-01

Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington.

1839-02-25

Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West

1845-12-02

Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.

1846-02-04

Mormons leave Nauvoo, Illinois for settlement in the west

1846-02-05

"Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast

1846-02-10

Beginning of Mormon march to west US

1848-07-03

Slaves freed in Danish West Indies (now US Virgin Islands)

1855-06-20

Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin

1856-06-09

500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.

1860-03-12

Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists

1861-01-09

A Union merchant ship, the Star of the West, is fired upon as it tries to deliver supplies to Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina

1861-04-17

Indianola TX - "Star of West" taken by Confederacy

1861-04-27

West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from Union (US Civil War)

1861-06-19

Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia

1861-09-10

-15] Battle at Cheat Mountain, Elkwater West Virginia

1861-10-22

1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed

1861-10-24

West Virginia seceded from Virginia

1861-11-26

West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia

1862-05-07

Battle of West Point, VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)

1862-05-19

US Homestead Act becomes law - provides cheap land for settlement of American West

1862-05-20

Homestead Act provides cheap land for settlement of West

1862-07-15

CSS Arkansas vs USS Cardondelet & Queen of the West engage at Yazoo R

1862-07-27

Steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico

1862-09-14

Federal troops escape from beleaguered Harpers Ferry West Virginia

1862-12-31

President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union

1863-03-26

Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves

1863-06-20

West Virginia admitted as 35th US state

1863-10-16

Grant is given command of Union forces in West

1863-11-01

-8] Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia

1863-11-14

Nathan Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee

1864-05-21

Gen David Hunter takes command of Dept of West Virginia

1865-04-16

Battle of Columbus & West Point, GA (Ft Tyler)

1865-07-13

Horace Greeley reputedly advises his readers to "Go west young man"

1870-07-01

James W Smith of SC is one of 1st African Americans to enter West Point

1870-10-19

British steamship SS Cambria wrecked off the north-west of Ireland with the loss of 178 lives

1873-05-23

Canada's North West Mounted Police Force forms

1873-07-01

Henry Ossian Flipper of Georgia one of the first African Americans enters West Point Military Academy

1874-07-08

The Mounties (North West Mounted Police) begin their March West from Fort Dufferin

1875-12-07

Natives Sons of the West organized

1877-06-15

Henry Ossian Flipper becomes 1st African American to graduate from West Point Military Academy

1878-07-26

In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.

1882-04-03

American Old West: Outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford.

1883-05-01

"Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show

1883-05-17

Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild west show premieres in Omaha

1883-07-04

Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebr

1883-08-27

Krakatoa, west of Java, explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people

1883-11-03

American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.

1884-12-01

American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting Charles McCarthy.

1885-07-02

Canada's North-west Insurrection ends with surrender of Big Bear

1887-05-09

Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.

1888-08-19

1st beauty contest (Spa, Belgium), 18 yr old West Indian wins

1889-10-02

In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

1890-04-06

French troops under capt Archinard occupy Segu, West-Sudan

1890-04-27

French troops under Capt Archinard occupy Oussebougou West Sudan

1890-11-29

1st US Army - US Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point

1891-01-01

French troops occupy Nioro, West-Sudan, 3000 killed

1891-02-18

Capt Archinard's army fights with Nyamina of Niger in West-Sudan

1891-02-24

French troops under capt Archinard occupy Diena West Sudan

1893-02-01

Thomas Edison complete's worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)

1893-02-02

1st movie close-up (of a sneeze), Edison studio, West Orange, NJ

1893-09-11

Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)

1894-11-16

French captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki, West Africa

1894-12-25

1st midwestern football team to play on west coast, University of Chicago defeats Stanford 24-4 at Palo Alto, CA in football

1896-01-18

British troops occupy Kumasi, West Africa

1897-01-23

Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.

1897-03-11

A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.

1899-03-21

British & French accord over West Africa

1901-01-24

Denmark and the US sign a treaty under which Denmark will sell the Danish West Indies to the USA for $5 million, but the sale will be postponed until 1917

1902-11-30

American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.

1903-02-03

Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa

1903-06-16

Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway.

1903-09-11

The first race at The Milwaukee Mile in West Allis, Wisconsin is held. It is the oldest major speedway in the world.

1904-01-11

Herero people of South West Africa, now Namibia, begin uprising

1905-11-14

David Belasco's "Girl of Golden West" premieres in NYC

1906-03-12

Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast

1911-01-16

Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east

1911-08-01

Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point

1914-09-18

South African troops land in German South West Africa

1915-07-09

Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa

1916-03-14

Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun

1916-08-04

Denmark cedes Danish West Indies, including the Virgin Islands, to the US for $25 million

1917-03-31

US purchases Danish West Indies for $25M & renames them Virgin Islands

1917-12-01

Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha Neb

1918-10-04

Musical "Sometime" with Mae West premieres in NYC

1921-05-03

West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax

1921-05-21

Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co

1921-08-25

The first skirmishes of the Battle of Blair Mountain, a civil uprising in Logan County, West Virginia

1923-04-28

Wembley Stadium opens-Bolton Wanderers vs West Ham United (FA Cup)

1924-04-28

119 die in Benwood West Virginia coal mine disaster

1925-08-12

The first cast of Alpha Psi Omega, drawn from The Masquers of Fairmont College, West Virginia, is initiated.

1925-12-26

1st East West football game at Ewing Park before 25,000 fans

1926-06-23

Commencement of the West Indies' 1st Test cricket match, at Lord's

1926-11-13

Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java

1927-01-01

Communist uprising in West Java

1927-06-29

1st flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii

1928-04-09

Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"

1928-09-16

Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die

1928-12-28

Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues"

1929-01-08

1st telephone connection between Netherlands & West-Indies

1930-02-26

West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England

1930-03-04

Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.

1930-12-12

Start of the 1st Australia v West Indies Test (at Adelaide)

1931-01-07

Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.

1931-03-04

West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG

1931-06-19

1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct

1932-08-18

Englishman James Mollisson is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic

1933-09-10

1st Negro League All-Star Game, West beats East 11-7 (Comiskey Park)

1934-12-15

Fokker F18 Snip flies to Neth West Indies

1936-07-10

112°F (44°C) at Martinsburg, West Virginia (state record)

1937-12-27

Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio

1940-02-17

Bradman scores 135 in a non-Shield match for SA v West Australia

1940-06-21

The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia.

1942-02-19

FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans

1942-12-05

West Indies chocolate/coffee drop above Netherland

1944-05-10

Chinese offensive in West-Yunnan

1944-10-03

RAF bombs West Kapelse

1944-10-09

Canadian offensive in West-Zeeuws-Flanders

1944-12-17

US Army announces end of excluding Japanese-Americans from West Coast, detainees released.

1945-01-03

Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab

1945-01-25

West Africa 82nd division occupies Myohaung, Burma

1945-01-27

Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)

1945-06-17

Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)

1945-07-24

US destroyer Underhill torpedoed West of Guam

1946-11-01

West German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) created

1947-01-22

1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA

1947-04-09

Tornadoes striking West Texas & Oklahoma kill 169, injuring 1,300

1948-02-11

Test cricket debut of Frank Worrell for the West Indies vs. England at Port-of-Spain

1948-04-01

H H H Johnson debut as a bowler for West Indies to win v England 10-96

1948-06-19

USSR blocks access road to West Berlin

1948-06-20

Deutsche Mark introduced in West Germany

1948-06-28

US/British airlift to West Berlin begins

1948-07-24

Soviets blockades Berlin from west

1949-05-08

West German constitution approved

1949-05-23

Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)

1949-05-27

Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin

1949-07-29

Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends

1949-09-21

Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation

1950-04-24

Jordan formally annexes the West Bank

1950-06-29

West Indies beat England by 326 runs thanks to Ramadhin & Valentine

1950-08-16

West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England

1950-08-23

West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation

1950-08-29

International Olympic Committee votes to admit West Germany & Japan in 1952

1950-09-01

West Berlin granted a constitution

1950-09-14

Western allies rearm West Germany

1951-02-06

Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago

1951-03-02

1st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-94 at Boston

1951-04-18

France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community

1951-12-22

Australia cricket all out 82 v West Indies at Adelaide

1951-12-25

West Indies defeat Australia by 6 wkts on 3rd day of 3rd Test Cricket

1952-01-25

Test debut of Richie Benaud, v West Indies at the SCG

1952-03-01

Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain

1952-03-27

Failed assassination attempt of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer

1952-05-30

Darius Milhaud's "West Point Suite" premieres

1952-09-11

West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews

1952-10-21

Dutch government refuses New-Guinea (West-Irian)

1953-03-15

West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1

1953-03-18

Earthquake strikes West Turkey, 250 die

1953-04-07

1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight

1953-09-21

Allied forces form West Germany

1953-09-27

KNOE TV channel 8 in Monroe-West Monroe, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting

1953-10-09

Conrad Adenauer elected West German chancellor

1954-01-17

NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-9

1954-07-04

West Germany beats Hungary 3-2 for soccer's 5th World Cup in Bern

1954-07-17

Theodor Heuss re-elected president of West Germany

1954-07-20

West German secret service head Otto John defects to German DR

1954-10-02

Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal

1954-10-22

West Germany joins North Atlantic Treaty Organization

1955-01-01

WEAT (now WPEC) TV channel 12 in West Palm Beach, FL (CBS) begins

1955-01-16

NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-19

1955-04-30

West German unions protest for 40-hour work week & more wages

1955-05-05

West Germany granted full sovereignty by 3 occupying powers

1955-05-06

West Germany joins NATO

1955-05-07

West European Union established

1955-06-15

Australia score 8-758 v West Indies at Kingston, their best ever

1955-11-12

1st West German officers sworn in

1956-01-15

NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 31-30

1956-08-17

Federal Constitutional Court bans the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in West Germany

1956-10-11

AL Pres Will Harridge bars Wash Senators move to West Coast, unless unanimously approved by the other AL owners

1957-01-13

NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 19-10

1957-05-28

NL approves Brooklyn Dodgers' & NY Giants' move to west coast

1957-05-29

NYC Mayor Robert Wagner says he plans to confer with the Giants & Dodgers about the proposed move to the west coast

1957-07-05

Tom Graveney scores 258 v West Indies at Trent Bridge

1957-09-15

Adenauers CDU wins parliamentary election in West Germany

1957-09-26

"West Side Story" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 734 perfs

1957-09-26

Bernstein & Sondheim's musical "West Side Story" premieres in NYC

1957-09-29

Passenger train & oil train crash in Gambar West Pakistan, 300 die

1957-10-03

Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin

1957-10-22

Conrad Adenauer re-elected chancellor of West-Germany

1958-01-03

The West Indies Federation is formed.

1958-01-12

NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-7

1958-01-23

Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes v West Indies

1958-02-28

West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket

1958-03-01

West Indies cricket declare at stumps score of 3-790 decl v Pakistan

1958-03-21

1st presentation of West Point's Sylvanus Thayer Award

1958-03-25

West German parliament desires German atomic weapons

1958-06-09

HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.

1958-08-14

KLM Superconstellation crashes west of Ireland, killing 99

1959-01-11

NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 28-21

1959-03-07

West Indies all out 76 v Pakistan at Dacca, Fazal Mahmood 6-34

1959-05-01

West Germany introduces 5 day work week

1959-06-27

"West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 perfs

1959-07-01

Heinrich Lubke elected pres of West-Germany

1959-07-01

Israeli Knesset agrees to weapon sales to West-Germany

1959-10-04

1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA)

1959-12-16

Snow falling in Lowarai Pass West Pakistan kills 48

1960-01-17

NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-21

1960-01-22

10th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 125-115 at Philadelphia

1960-05-10

John F Kennedy wins primary in West Virginia

1960-08-30

East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin

1960-09-08

German Democratic Republic limits access to East-Berlin for West Berliners

1960-09-30

West Germany signs trade agreement with East Germany

1960-12-14

Australia v West Indies 1st Test Cricket at the Gabba ends in a tie

1961-01-15

NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 35-31

1961-02-01

Mackay & Kline hang on for 100 mins for cricket draw vs West Indies

1961-02-15

Australia beat West Indies 2-1 in one of best Test Cricket series ever

1961-06-16

Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West in Paris

1961-06-17

Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt

1961-06-27

Ghana imposes a total ban on exports to South Africa and South West Africa

1961-08-01

German DR limits traffic to West Berlin

1961-08-16

250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin

1961-08-19

US vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin

1961-08-20

East Germany begins erecting 5' high wall along the border with the west to replace the barbed wire put up Aug 13

1961-08-23

East Germany imposed new curbs on travel between West & East Berlin

1961-09-16

CDU loses West German election

1961-10-01

East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon

1961-10-18

"West Side Story", the film adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical, starring Natalie Wood, is released

1961-12-01

The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.

1962-01-07

AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 47-27

1962-01-14

NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-30

1962-01-24

28 refugees escape from East to West Germany

1962-04-09

34th Academy Awards - "West Side Story", Sophia Loren & Maximillian Schell win

1962-05-05

West Side Story soundtrack album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album

1962-05-31

The West Indies Federation dissolves.

1962-07-09

Andy Warhol's first West Coast gallery exhibition in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles

1963-01-13

AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 21-14

1963-01-13

NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-20

1963-05-01

Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Neth

1963-06-26

US President John Kennedy visits West Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" ("I am a Berliner";or is it "I am a doughnut")

1963-10-15

Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor

1963-12-17

West & East Berlin sign accord about travel rules

1963-12-20

Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners

1964-01-12

NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-17

1964-01-14

14th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-107 at Boston

1964-01-19

AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 27-24

1964-04-19

Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma" premieres in West Berlin

1964-06-11

West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia

1964-09-09

German DR government allows short visits to West Germany

1965-01-10

NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14

1965-01-16

AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-14

1965-02-26

West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania

1965-03-14

Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany

1965-03-25

West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution

1965-05-11

West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy

1965-05-12

Israel & West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations

1965-05-13

Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel

1965-05-19

West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II

1965-08-12

Race riot in West Side of Chicago

1965-09-06

India invades West Pakistan

1965-09-16

Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany

1965-09-19

Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections

1966-01-12

"Batman" with Adam West & Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV

1966-01-12

"Batman", starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Cesar Romero as The Joker, debuts on ABC

1966-01-15

NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7

1966-07-30

England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London

1966-10-01

West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.

1966-12-01

Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor

1967-01-21

AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23

1967-01-22

NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10

1967-03-09

Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West

1967-08-09

KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting

1967-10-07

Rolf Hochhuth's "Soldaten" premieres in West Berlin

1967-12-11

6.5 earthquake in West India, 170 killed

1968-01-09

1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana

1968-01-21

AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24

1968-01-21

NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20

1968-02-02

Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed

1968-02-18

10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin

1968-02-21

150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin

1968-05-11

The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor-Danforth Line, going to Scarborough in the east, and Etobicoke in the west.

1968-05-14

RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin

1968-05-30

West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law

1968-09-28

Marisa Danisi of West Germany roller skates record 21.995 miles in 1 hr

1969-01-19

AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-25

1969-01-19

NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 10-7

1969-01-21

22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal

1969-01-28

2nd ABA All-Star Game: West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville

1969-01-29

Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia v West Indies

1969-02-27

President Nixon visits West-Berlin

1969-03-05

Gustav Heinemann elected president of West Germany

1969-04-23

LA Laker Jerry West scores 53 points

1969-07-02

Ireland bowl out West Indies for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts

1969-07-02

Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain

1969-09-14

Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open

1969-09-28

SPD wins West German Parliament elections

1969-09-30

Atlanta's 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant

1969-10-13

Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins

1969-10-21

Willy Brandt elected chancellor of West Germany

1969-11-24

West German president Heinemann visits Netherlands

1970-01-17

AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 26-3

1970-01-18

NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 16-13

1970-01-20

20th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 142-135 at Philadelphia

1970-01-20

23rd NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 4-1 at St Louis

1970-01-24

3rd ABA All-Star Game: West 128 beats East 98 at Indiana

1970-02-01

West-Germany & USSR sign gas contract

1970-03-05

SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in NYC

1970-03-18

Five Unionist Members of Parliament (MPs), including William Craig and Harry West, are expelled from the Unionist Parliamentary Party, Northern Ireland

1970-05-14

RAF-leader Andreas Baader freed after serving 2 years in West Berlin

1970-09-13

Joanne Carner wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open

1970-11-14

DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed

1970-12-07

West Germany & Poland normalize relations

1971-01-19

24th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 2-1 at Boston

1971-01-23

4th ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina

1971-03-06

Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, v West Indies at Port-of-Spain

1971-03-29

Conrad Van Emde Boas becomes West Europe's 1st sexology professor

1971-06-06

Air West filght 706 collides with Navy Phantom jet over LA, 50 die

1971-08-10

During the internment round-up operation in west Belfast, the Parachute Regiment kill 11 unarmed civilians in what became known as the Ballymurphy massacre

1971-09-16

West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with Soviet president Brezhnev

1971-10-20

West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize

1971-12-03

Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: India invades West Pakistan and a full scale war begins claiming hundreds of lives.

1971-12-10

West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace

1971-12-16

India's army occupies Dacca, West Pakistani troops surrenders

1972-01-05

West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed

1972-01-22

22nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 112-110 at LA

1972-01-25

25th NHL All-Star Game: East beats West 3-2 at Minnesota

1972-01-29

5th ABA All-Star Game: East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville

1972-02-26

Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek West Virginia, kills 125

1972-03-18

AIAW 1st basketball champs, Immaculata beats West Chester State 52-48

1972-05-05

Alitalia DC-8 crashes west of Palermo Sicily; killing 115

1972-05-17

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) fires on workers leaving the Mackies engineering works in west Belfast (Although the factory was sited in a Catholic area it had an almost entirely Protestant workforce)

1972-06-01

Dmitri Shostakovitch's 15th Symphony, Dutch premieres in West Berlin

1972-06-01

West German police arrest Red Army Faction leader Andreas Baader

1972-06-15

West German police arrested RAF leader Ulrike Meinhof

1972-06-18

West Germany wins soccer world championship

1972-09-14

West Germany & Poland establish diplomatic relations

1972-11-19

Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election

1972-12-14

Willy Brandt re-elected West German chancellor

1973-01-01

West African Economic Community formed (Benin, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Upper Volta)

1973-01-23

23rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 104-84 at Chicago

1973-01-30

26th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at NY Rangers

1973-02-06

6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah

1973-05-18

Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany

1973-10-01

USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens

1973-12-11

West German chancellor Willy Brandt normalizes trade with Czech

1974-01-15

24th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 134-123 at Seattle

1974-01-20

7th ABA All-Star Game: East 128 beats West 112 at Virginia

1974-01-29

27th NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 6-4 at Chicago

1974-02-04

Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes on a bus as it traveled along the M62 motorway in West Yorkshire, England carrying British Army soldiers and some of their family members; nine British Army soldiers and three civilians are killed

1974-02-13

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship

1974-05-06

West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigns

1974-05-16

Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor

1974-06-30

Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west

1974-07-07

West Germany beats Neth 2-1 for soccer's 10th World Cup in Munich

1975-01-28

8th ABA All-Star Game: East 151 beats West 124 at San Antonio

1975-01-29

West Indies win fifth test against India to take exciting series 3-2

1975-02-27

CDU-politician Peter Lorentz kidnapped in West Berlin

1975-04-25

West German embassy blown-up in Stockholm Sweden

1975-06-21

West Indies beat Australia by 17 runs to win Cricket World Cup

1975-07-08

Israeli premier Yitzhak Rabin visits West-Germany

1975-08-03

500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China's West River

1975-08-03

Poland & West Germany reach accord about returning ethnic Germans

1975-12-28

Gary Cosier scores 109 v West Indies at MCG on Test Cricket debut

1976-01-05

Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies

1976-01-27

Morocco-Algeria battles in West Sahara

1976-02-03

26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia

1976-02-05

Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies

1976-03-09

1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy

1976-04-25

India all out for 97 v West Indies

1976-06-03

Test Cricket debut of Mike Brearley v West Indies (0 & 17)

1977-02-25

Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons

1977-09-05

RAF kidnap West German work chairman Schleyer

1977-09-22

West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht

1977-10-17

West German commandos storm hijacked Lufthansa in Mogadishu, Somalia freeing all 86 hostages & killing 3 of 4 hijackers

1977-10-19

Corpse of kidnapped West German, H M Schleyer, found

1978-01-31

Israel turns 3 milt outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements

1978-05-03

First unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail ("spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the US west coast

1978-05-04

Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany

1978-07-06

Israeli jet fighters swooped over mostly Moslem West Beirut

1979-05-23

West-Germany elects Karl Carstens president

1979-06-03

"Madwoman of Central Park West" opens on Broadway

1979-06-13

"Madwoman of Central Park West" opens at 22 Steps NYC for 86 perfs

1979-06-23

West Indies beat England by 92 runs to win Cricket World Cup

1979-08-25

"Madwoman of Central Park West" closes at 22 Steps NYC after 86 perfs

1979-09-16

23rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 17-11 at The Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, US)

1979-09-25

California Angels win their 1st NL West pennant

1980-01-22

West Indies beat England 2-0 to win 1st World Series Cup

1980-02-03

30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington

1980-02-13

NZ beats West Indies by one wicket in cricket at Dunedin

1980-02-14

"West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances

1980-03-14

Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay

1980-05-12

West Ham United wins the FA Cup, beating Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley Stadium. Midfield playmaker Trevor Brooking scores the winner with a rare header.

1980-05-26

Dietmar Mogenburg of West Germany ties high jump record at 7'8"

1980-06-23

West German wins European soccer title (2-1 against Belgium)

1980-06-30

West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt visits Moscow

1980-08-03

Sandra Post wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic

1980-11-13

Gabriella Brum, 18, of West Germany crowned 30th Miss World; she resigns the next day because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend

1980-11-15

Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany

1980-11-30

"West Side Story" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 341 perfs

1980-12-23

Sam Shepard's "True West" premieres in NYC

1981-01-23

Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin

1981-02-01

31st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-120 at Cleveland

1981-02-24

An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.

1981-04-22

Almost 1 million West German metal workers in strike

1981-08-09

Hollis Stacy wins LPGA West Virginia Bank Golf Classic

1981-09-07

West Tampa Fl defeats Rich Va, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series

1981-11-10

Ernest Thompson's "West Side Waltz" premieres in NYC

1982-01-27

West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup

1982-01-31

32nd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 120-118 at New Jersey

1982-04-24

150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany

1982-05-03

ABC's All Talk network begins on radio (2 west coast stations)

1982-07-11

Hollis Stacy wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic

1982-07-11

Italy beats West Germany 3-1 for soccer's 12th World Cup in Madrid

1982-09-11

Chris Evert wins her 6th & final US Open Tennis match at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills NY

1982-09-15

Israeli forces began pouring into west Beirut

1982-10-01

West Germany's Parliament ousts Helmut Schmidt for Helmut Kohl

1982-10-17

Sam Shepard's "True West" premieres in NYC

1983-02-13

33rd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-123 at LA

1983-03-06

Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections

1983-06-05

Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic

1983-06-16

Ringo releases "Old Wave" album in West Germany

1983-06-25

India beat West Indies by 43 runs to win Cricket World Cup

1983-09-12

Security guard Victor Gerena robs West Hartford company of $7 million

1983-09-17

Chicago White Sox clinch their 1st-ever AL West championship

1983-12-05

12 killed by a car bomb shattering 9-story building in west Beirut

1984-01-28

Record 295,000 dominoes toppled, Fuerth, West Germany

1984-01-29

34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver

1984-02-06

Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army

1984-02-12

West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality & gold medal

1984-06-09

Jurgen Hingsen of West Germany sets record for decathlon, 8,798 pts

1984-08-05

Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic

1984-08-14

West Indies complete 5-0 series annihilation of England

1984-10-25

West German Chancellor Rainer Barzel resigns due to corruption

1984-11-10

Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21

1985-02-10

35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana

1985-02-12

West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup

1985-04-25

West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust

1985-06-21

American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele

1985-08-23

West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR

1985-12-14

US Foreign Minister George Shultz arrives in West Berlin

1986-02-09

36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas

1986-02-09

West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)

1986-03-08

4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon

1986-04-05

US soldier & Turkish woman killed in West Berlin disco bombing

1986-04-16

West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England

1986-05-23

US & West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa

1986-06-19

Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup

1986-06-28

West European leaders, meeting in the Netherlands, delay indefinitely imposing economic sanctions against South Africa

1986-07-29

Bomb attack in West-Beirut, 30 killed

1986-10-14

Tim Kides of West NY, NJ performs 25,000 leg raises in 11:57:15

1986-10-29

West Indies all out for 53 v Pakistan (Abdul Qadir 6-16)

1986-11-09

Pakistan all out for 77 v West Indies at Lahore

1987-01-13

West German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking

1987-02-08

37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle

1987-03-23

West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns

1987-05-30

West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square

1987-09-02

West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia

1987-10-13

West Indies score 4-360 in 50 overs in Cricket World Cup v Sri Lanka

1987-11-25

India all out for 75 v West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24

1987-12-07

Palestinian uprising against Israel in West Bank

1987-12-09

Palestine uprising begin in Israeli-occupied West Bank

1988-02-07

38th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 138-133 at Chicago

1988-07-28

Jordan cancels $1.3 billion development plan in West Bank

1988-07-30

Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignity over West Bank to PLO

1988-12-22

South Africa signs accord granting independence to South West Africa

1989-01-02

Notre Dame beats West Virginia for college football championship

1989-01-18

West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win the World Series Cup

1989-01-26

Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG

1989-01-26

Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia v West Indies, Sydney

1989-02-12

39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston

1989-07-18

48 cm rainfall at Rockport, West Virginia (state record)

1989-09-10

East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czechoslovakia)

1989-09-27

Oakland wins AL West & SF wins NL West title

1989-09-30

Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.

1989-10-01

Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany

1989-11-01

Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets to win Cricket's Nehru Cup

1990-02-04

St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship

1990-02-11

40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami

1990-04-24

West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st

1990-05-18

East and West Germany sign a monetary union treaty

1990-06-30

East & West Germany merge their economies

1990-08-23

East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3

1990-08-31

East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems

1990-09-05

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West

1990-09-12

US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge

1990-09-24

West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty

1990-09-25

Oakland A's clinch 3rd straight AL West title

1990-10-02

Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors

1990-10-03

Reunification of East & West Germany. West German flag raised above Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight

1991-02-10

41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte

1991-06-06

Test Cricket debut of Graeme Hick, v West Indies at Headingley

1991-09-24

After 3 year reign as AL champs, A's are eliminated from AL West

1992-02-09

42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando

1992-02-09

NBA All Star Game - West beats East 153-113

1992-02-13

West beats East 14 to 9 in Major Soccer League all star game

1992-06-01

America West Arena opens in Phoenix

1992-09-28

Oakland A's win AL West title

1992-09-29

Atlanta Braves wins 2nd straight NL West title

1992-10-04

1st time AL East & West champs have same record (96-66)-Tor & Oak

1992-10-08

Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott

1992-11-07

1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105

1992-12-30

Shane Warne takes 7-52 to lead Australian MCG win v West Indies

1993-01-18

West Indies win the World Series Cup, beating Australia 2-0

1993-01-26

West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide

1993-02-21

43rd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 135-132 (OT) at Salt Lake City

1993-02-25

Pakistan all out 43 v West Indies, world one-day int record low

1993-05-09

Mustapha Matura's "Playboy of West Indies" premieres in NYC

1993-05-10

Premier Lubbers opens Terminal West on Schiphol

1993-08-28

Dam breaks in Qinghai West China, 223 killed

1993-10-03

Giants need to beat Dodgers to force a playoff game with Braves for NL West title, but Dodgers destroy Giants 12-1, Giants end year 103-59

1993-10-10

Ferry boat leaves for west coast of South Korea, 120 killed

1993-11-27

India defeat West Indies in Bengal Jubilee Cricket Final, Kumble 6-12

1993-12-08

Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England

1994-01-22

45th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 9-8 at NY Rangers

1994-01-22

East beats West 9-8 in 45th NHL All Star Game at Madison Square Garden in NYC

1994-02-13

44th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 127-118 at Minneapolis

1994-08-24

Israel & PLO initialed accord giving autonomy to Palestinians in West Bank in education, health, taxation, social welfare & tourism

1994-09-08

Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin

1994-10-17

Kapil Dev's final one-day international (v West Indies)

1995-01-01

Fred West, the Gloucestershire builder charged with 12 murders, found dead in his prison cell

1995-01-02

Carquest Bowl 5: South Carolina beats West Virginia, 24-21

1995-02-11

West Indies score 5-660 against NZ

1995-02-12

45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix

1995-02-13

West Indies beat NZ by innings & 332, Courtney Walsh 13-55

1995-05-03

Australia beat West Indies to regain the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy

1995-07-21

Brian Lara completes a pair for West Indians v Kent

1995-09-28

Yitzhak Rabin & Yasir Arafat, sign accord to transfer West Bank

1995-10-02

Seattle Mariners beat Cal Angels, 9-1 in a playoff game to win AL West

1995-10-20

Sri Lanka beat West Indies to win Sharjah Champions Trophy final

1995-11-22

Rosemary West found guilty in England of killing 10 women

1996-01-20

46th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 5-4 at Fleet Center Boston

1996-02-11

46th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 129-118 at San Antonio

1996-02-29

Kenya defeat West Indies (all out 93) in Cricket World Cup

1996-03-14

Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi

1996-09-23

Howard Stern radio show premieres in West Palm Beach FL (WCLB 95.5 FM)

1996-09-29

SD Padres sweep LA Dodgers in race for NL West title

1997-01-18

47th NHL All-Star Game: East beat West 11-7 at San Jose Arena

1997-01-18

In north west Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 3 Spanish aid workers, 3 soldiers and seriously wound one other.

1997-01-19

Yasser Arafat returns to Hebron after more than 30 years and joins celebrations over the handover of the last Israeli-controlled West Bank city.

1997-01-20

Pakistan defeat West Indies 2-0 to win Aust one-day Series

1997-02-09

47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland

1997-12-29

Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30

1998-02-08

48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at NYC

1999-02-04

Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.

1999-10-05

The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in west London kills 31 people.

2000-03-25

20th Golden Raspberry Awards: Wild Wild West wins

2000-09-10

52nd Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Will & Grace, James Gandolfini & Sela Ward win

2001-11-04

53rd Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Sex and the City, James Gandolfini & Edie Falco win

2002-05-11

Last performance of the musical Cats in London's West End.

2002-09-22

54th Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Friends, Michael Chiklis & Allison Janney win

2003-02-20

During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 300 others.

2003-09-21

55th Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Everybody Loves Raymond, James Gandolfini & Edie Falco wins

2005-03-03

Mayerthorpe Incident: James Roszko murders four Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his property in Rochfort Bridge, Alberta, then commits suicide. It is the deadliest peace-time incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion.

2005-08-16

West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 aboard.

2005-09-01

22nd MTV Awards: Green Day, Kelly Clarkson & Kanye West wins

2006-12-07

A tornado struck Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging around 150 properties.

2009-07-15

A 7.9 Magnitude earthquake registers 160km west of Invercargill, New Zealand, creating a small tsunami.

2011-08-18

The West Memphis Three are released from prison after 18 years in imprisonment

2012-09-07

64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China

2012-10-26

64 people are killed in West Burma after continued sectarian clashes

2013-02-17

Australia defeat the West Indies to win the women's 2013 Cricket World Cup

2013-04-17

15 people are killed and 100 are injured after a fertilizer plant explodes in West, Texas

2013-04-23

West Indian cricketer, Chris Gayle, smashes the fastest century in history (30 balls)

2013-08-18

6 people are killed by a bomb blast on a bus in West Bengal, India

2014-05-30

Seth MacFarlane's "A Million Ways to Die in the West" is released to theatres, MacFarlane's first live-action role on the big screen

2014-07-14

The death toll from the West African Ebola outbreak passes 500

2014-08-08

The West African Ebola outbreak is categorized as an international concern by the WHO

2014-09-27

The West African death toll from the Ebola virus reaches 3,000 lives

2015-11-20

American student among 3 killed in West Bank assault

2016-02-17

Kanye West's new album pirated over 500000 times

2016-02-29

Suicide bombings kill 40 in eastern Iraq, eight west of Baghdad

2016-06-26

West Virginia's worst flooding in a century has killed 23

2016-10-12

Kim Kardashian West sues over claims she faked robbery

2017-02-19

Iraqi planes drop leaflets on west Mosul to say offensive is imminent

2017-02-20

Anthony Davis has 52 to lead West to win in All Star Game

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West - Notable Birthdays

Alexander HamiltonJan 11, 1755

Noah WebsterOct 16, 1758

Walt WhitmanMay 31, 1819

Henry Ossian FlipperMar 21, 1856

Annie OakleyAug 13, 1860

Herbert HooverAug 10, 1874

Mae WestAug 17, 1893

LiberaceMay 16, 1919

Rita MorenoDec 11, 1931

Jerry WestMay 28, 1938

Robert PlantAug 20, 1948

George BrettMay 15, 1953

Larry BirdDec 7, 1956

Sylvia HanikaNov 30, 1959

Jeffrey DahmerMay 21, 1960

David RobinsonAug 6, 1965

Steffi GrafJun 14, 1969

Kanye WestJun 8, 1977

West - Birthdays
Date Event
846-11-01

Louis the Stammerer, King of West Francia (877-79) (d. 879)

1410-04-27

John Van Lannoy, Flemish governor of Holland/Zealand/West Frisia

1577-07-09

Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Jamestown colonist (d. 1618)

1721-11-25

Willem Crul, admiral (West-Indies)

1738-10-10

Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe)

1744-12-19

Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland

1755-01-11

Alexander Hamilton, Charlestown, Nevis, West Indies, 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury, (d. 1804)

1758-10-16

Noah Webster, West Hartford, Connecticut, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), (d. 1843)

1771-11-22

Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/St-Eustatius/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies

1795-11-26

Cornelis P J Elout, Dutch military/resident of West Sumatra

1797-04-30

Andreas V Michiels, Dutch military governor of West-Sumatra

1807-05-28

Jan van Swieten, Dutch general/governor of West-Sumatra

1810-01-03

Eliza Von Bretton di Zerega, Danish West Indies, baroness

1811-02-03

Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man")

1813-03-26

Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879

1819-05-31

Walt Whitman, West Hills New York, American poet (Leaves of Grass)

1819-11-10

Cyrus West Field, financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable

1821-12-17

Frederick West Lander, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1862

1822-09-19

Joseph Rodman West, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)

1829-09-24

Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)

1837-06-30

Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen

1848-02-05

Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], US female outlaw (wild west)

1850-02-09

Sabra de Shon, Lure of the West

1850-05-10

Thomas Lipton, Sir Thomas Lipton Out West

1855-05-08

John Gates ("Bet-a-million" Gates), West Chicago, Illinois, USA, American inventor and industrialist who established the market for barbed wire fencing

1855-12-10

Henry Nicholas Ridley, West Harling Hall, Norfolk, U.K., Botanist (Malay Peninsula rubber industry)

1856-03-21

Henry Ossian Flipper, Thomasville, Georgia, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1877

1857-08-01

Alfred J. West, The New Republic

1857-08-18

Olive West, Madame Butterfly

1860-02-14

Major Gordon W. 'Pawnee Bill' Lillie, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East

1860-07-26

William H. West, The Dream Seekers

1860-08-13

Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], North Star Ohio, sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), (d. 1926)

1861-01-03

Howard Truesdale, Go West

1861-10-04

Frederic Remington, US, artist/sculptor of American West

1863-12-07

John Ebenezer West, composer

1864-01-15

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Grafton West Virginia, early female photographer

1865-03-14

Filoteo Alberini, Buffalo Bill's Wild West

1867-03-25

Gutzon Borglum, Natural Wonders of the West

1869-01-19

Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Four Faces West

1870-06-12

Barney Gerard, Jiggs and Maggie Out West

1871-01-26

Paul West, A Mormon Maid

1872-01-31

Zane Grey, American West novelist (Riders of the Purple Sage)

1873-03-27

Ford West, Fighting Fate

1873-08-01

Guelfo Civinini, La fanciulla del West

1874-08-10

Herbert Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st US President (1929-1933), (d. 1964)

1875-03-25

Spencer Charters, Duncannon PA, actor (3 Faces West)

1876-06-04

Ed La Niece, Riders of the West

1876-9-06

Albert Russell, Courage of the West

1880-02-07

H. St. Barbe West, The Vultures of London

1880-03-12

Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (d. 1952)

1880-05-29

Oswald Spengler, Germany, philosopher (Decline of West)

1880-06-27

Charles Le Moyne, West Is West

1880-10-31

Charles Dudley Daly, Daly, of West Point

1881-11-11

Wayne West, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1881-12-14

James W. Horne, Way Out West

1881-12-24

Charles Wakefield Cadman, Go West

1882-01-15

James Carlisle, The Phantom of the West

1882-06-12

Kid Herman, Sophie Lang Goes West

1883-01-14

Ethel Coleridge, From Out of the West

1883-05-17

Charles Kyson, West of Nevada

1883-06-10

Jack Waltemeyer, Hearts of the West

1885-02-01

Edna West, Haunted House

1885-02-20

Roland West, Alibi

1885-11-30

Charles West, In the Border States

1885-12-23

Aleksandr Levitsky, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

1885-9-11

Walter West, The Merchant of Venice

1886-02-11

Raymond B. West, Civilization

1886-03-09

Robert Eichelberger, West Point on the Hudson

1886-03-15

Lillian West, Where Danger Lives

1886-07-25

Tom Brooker, A Wanderer of the West

1886-10-16

Porfiri Podobed, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

1886-9-28

Algernon West, Loyalties

1887-08-23

Mark Daly, The Ghost Goes West

1887-08-27

James Finlayson, Way Out West

1888-03-05

Jens von Hagen, U-Boat, Course West!

1888-04-19

Pat West, His Girl Friday

1888-06-28

George Challenor, cricketer (pioneering West Indian batsman)

1888-07-16

Ralph Bunker, The Ghost Goes West

1888-12-21

Kilbourn Gordon, West of Zanzibar

1889-01-04

Ulrich Mohrbutter, U-Boat, Course West!

1889-05-10

Clare West, Why Change Your Wife?

1889-06-27

Nikolai Aseyev, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

1889-07-10

Robert [Harriot] Barrat, NYC, actor (Go West, Distant Drums)

1890-01-16

Claudine West, Mrs. Miniver

1890-07-07

Tom Powers, Owensboro KY, actor (Station West, Destination Moon)

1891-02-03

Con West, Things Are Looking Up

1891-06-01

Leo West, Sophie's Fatal Wedding

1891-08-05

Billie West, Merely Players

1891-08-29

Dorothy West, The House with Closed Shutters

1891-11-16

Ralph Bucko, Code of the West

1891-12-26

Raymond G. Moses, West Point

1891-12-29

George Marshall, How the West Was Won

1892-02-23

Kathleen Harrison, actress (Fast Lady, Big Money, West 11)

1892-03-09

Vita Sackville-West, England, novelist, poet (The Land) and gardener

1892-05-18

Madge West, Money Troubles

1892-08-11

Archie Wiles, West Indian cricketer (d. 1957)

1892-09-22

Billy West, Russia, actor (Further Perils of Laurel & Hardy)

1892-12-21

Rebecca West, [Cicily I F Andrews], Engl author (Meaning of Treason)

1892-12-21

Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

1892-12-25

Rebecca West, [Cicely Isabel Fairfield], English author

1892-9-22

Billy West, Don't Be Foolish

1893-02-07

Doris Schroeder, Heart of the West

1893-06-01

Charles Soldani, Escort West

1893-08-17

Mae West, New York, film and stage actress and singer (She Done him Wrong), (d. 1980)

1893-08-17

Mae West, I'm No Angel

1893-09-10

Al "Fuzzy" St John, Santa Ana California, actor (Lash of the West)

1895-01-26

Geoffrey Kerr, The Ghost Goes West

1895-10-03

Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president West German SDP [OS]

1895-11-16

Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzhubin], Russ poet/journalist (South-West)

1896-01-29

Teddy Hoad, cricketer (pioneering West Indian Test batsman)

1897-04-23

Lucius du Bignon Clay, US, general (WW II)/gov (West Germany)

1899-04-30

Lucie Mannheim, Berlin, actress (East Meets West, 39 Steps)

1899-07-23

Gustav Heinemann, President of West Germany

1899-08-12

Ben Sealey, West Indian cricketer (d. 1963)

1899-12-21

Guy Wilkerson, TX, actor (Dead or Alive, West of Texas, Shootin' Iron)

1900-11-11

John Longden, West Indies, actor (Man From Interpol)

1901-04-14

Alfred West, champion cyclist/record hair splitter (17 splits)

1901-11-17

Walter Hallstein, West German politician (CDU) (Hallstein doctrine)

1903-10-17

Nathanael West, American novelist (Day of the Locusts)

1904-02-16

Ellis Achong, cricketer (West Indian SLA, 8 wickets in 6 Tests)

1905-02-06

Una Marson, Hello! West Indies

1905-04-03

Marvin Hatley, Way Out West

1905-05-10

Herbert Wilk, U-Boat, Course West!

1905-08-22

Imlay Watts, The Ghost Goes West

1905-08-28

Clem Horton, West of the Santa Fe

1905-11-19

Roy Seawright, Way Out West

1906-01-31

Mary Jane Sanderson, Gentlemen of the West

1906-04-01

Ned Glass, West Side Story

1906-04-03

Curtis Nero, West of Zanzibar

1906-05-12

Addison Randall, Where the West Begins

1906-06-06

Paolo Stoppa, Once Upon a Time in the West

1907-02-25

John A. Tondra, West Point

1907-04-08

Gravy, West of Dodge City

1907-06-02

Dorothy West, US journalist/author (Living is Easy)

1907-07-13

Peter A. DeCenzie, Wild Gals of the Naked West

1907-9-20

Bernard Smith, How the West Was Won

1908-01-11

Lionel Stander, Once Upon a Time in the West

1908-06-10

Elmore Vincent, Gone with the West

1908-08-14

Dean Dorn, West Point of the Air

1908-12-25

Frank Ferguson, California, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal)

1908-9-26

Mustard, West of Dodge City

1909-04-24

Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany)

1909-06-02

June MacCloy, Go West

1909-06-23

Robert H. Moreland, Four Faces West

1909-08-09

Roy M. Brewer Sr., Gallegher Goes West: Trial by Terror

1909-11-26

Tony Martinelli, The Shakiest Gun in the West

1909-9-12

Chili Bouchier, The Ghost Goes West

1910-01-23

Irene Sharaff, West Side Story

1910-02-12

Myrla Bratton, West of the Law

1910-03-09

Samuel Barber, West Chester Pa, composer (Pulitz, School for Scandal)

1910-03-11

Roger L. Stevens, West Side Story

1910-04-09

Sharon Lynn, Weatherford TX, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast)

1910-07-11

Irene Hervey, Los Angeles California, actress (Aunt Meg-Honey West)

1910-07-21

Janet Reade, The Mild West

1910-08-08

Ben Bishop, The Bull of the West

1910-12-30

Mary Alice Rice, Love Goes West

1911-01-05

Pierre Dermo, Far West

1911-02-11

Lynn Gabriel, Heart of the West

1911-04-03

Fred Miller, Sophie Lang Goes West

1911-05-24

Barbara West, English survivor of the Titanic sinking (d. 2007)

1911-08-24

Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister

1911-08-27

Paul West, Bud, the Boxer

1911-10-05

Maurice Zuberano, West Side Story

1911-10-27

Lynn Gilbert, Wild West Days

1911-9-02

Verdi Boyer, West Point of the Air

1912-02-05

Tex Atchison, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

1912-08-24

Patricia West, Broadway Serenade

1912-12-30

Rosina Lawrence, Way Out West

1913-01-04

Malietoa Tanumafili II, King of West-Samoa (1962- )

1913-01-27

Edna Mae Jones, Ten Gentlemen from West Point

1913-02-12

Sally West, The Kid from Spain

1913-02-24

James Warren, Code of the West

1913-07-14

Gerald Ford, The West Wing Documentary Special

1913-10-31

George William Wenzel Jr., Jiggs and Maggie Out West

1913-12-06

Seymour S. Klein, Gone with the West

1914-04-02

Willy Moser, West and Soda

1914-07-23

Jean Udko, The Way West

1914-07-25

Woody Strode, Once Upon a Time in the West

1914-09-10

Robert Wise, director (Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story)

1914-12-07

Winston Place, cricketer (England opener in West Indies 1948)

1915-01-01

Alvy West, Desperately Seeking Susan

1915-01-19

Alvy West, Brooklyn New York, American orchestra leader (Andy Williams Show)

1915-03-18

Rod Holton, West of the Alamo

1915-03-28

Raymond Emery, cricketer (NZ Test batsman vs West Indies 1952)

1915-05-03

Rudi West, De nachtwacht

1915-9-04

Joan Eremin, Hearts of the West

1916-02-22

Brooks West, Anatomy of a Murder

1916-03-19

Irving Wallace, The West Point Story

1916-04-26

Morris L West, Australia, novelist (Shoes of the Fisherman)

1916-04-26

Morris L. West, The Shoes of the Fisherman

1916-08-28

Edward F. Rhine, The Way West

1916-11-08

Luana Strode, Once Upon a Time in the West

1917-01-12

Walter Hendl, West New York NJ, conductor

1917-03-27

Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)

1917-05-01

Ulric Cross, Hello! West Indies

1917-06-14

Al "Lash" LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp)

1917-06-15

Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Black Lash, Lash of the West)

1917-10-23

Robert Bray, Kalispell Mont, actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West)

1917-10-31

William Hardy McNeill, historian (Rise of the West)

1917-12-12

Richard Martin, West of the Pecos

1917-12-14

Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg-spinner (West Indian of post-WWII years)

1918-04-07

C B Bertie Clarke, cricketer (Barbados & West Indian leg-spinner)

1918-05-30

Bernard West, Three's Company

1918-07-14

Arthur Laurents, NYC, playwright (West Side Story, Gypsy)

1918-07-14

Arthur Laurents, West Side Story

1918-08-25

Leonard Bernstein, Lawrence MA, conductor/composer (West Side Story)

1918-10-11

Jerome Robbins, [Rabinowitz], NY, choreographer (Tony-West Side Story)

1918-10-11

Jerome Robbins, West Side Story

1918-9-18

Hank Penny, Heading West

1919-01-22

Sid Ramin, West Side Story

1919-04-21

John Goddard, cricketer, West Indian all-rounder 1948-57)

1919-05-16

[Wladziu Valentino] Liberace, West Allis Wisconsin, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman)

1919-06-18

Ronn Marvin, Gas House Kids Go West

1919-10-06

Irwin Blacker, West

1919-11-06

Alan Lisette, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer vs West Indies 1956)

1919-9-18

Diana Lewis, Go West

1920-02-03

George A. Miller, Charleston, West Virginia, cognitive psychologist (the magical number seven), (d. 2012)

1920-03-18

Eric Halsall, In Search of a Champion - Heat 1: England West

1920-03-22

Ross Martin, Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West)

1920-06-05

Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist (Klimbim)

1920-07-12

Honoré Desmond Sharrer, West Point New York, American artist

1920-08-12

Peter West, British sports commentator

1920-08-12

Peter West, Episode #1.3

1920-08-18

Red Perkins, How the West Was Won

1920-11-13

Jack Elam, Once Upon a Time in the West

1921-01-10

Stanley Parlan, Ten Gentlemen from West Point

1921-01-30

Bernie Leighton, West Haven Ct, orchestra leader (Chance of a Lifetime)

1921-03-02

Christopher Lloyd, Buffalo Bill's Defunct: Stories from the New West

1921-04-15

Jack Williams, Wild Wild West

1921-05-01

Stanley Hosgood, North West Frontier

1921-05-04

John van Kesteren, Dutch tenor (Komische Oper, West-Berlin)

1921-10-05

Bob Edgecomb, Francis Goes to West Point

1921-11-03

Charles Bronson, Once Upon a Time in the West

1922-01-16

Laurie Anders, Screen Snapshots: Out West in Hollywood

1922-01-31

Evelyn West, A Night at the Follies

1922-06-04

John West, vice chancellor (Bradford University)

1922-07-26

Jason Robards, Once Upon a Time in the West

1922-12-19

Michael Garrison, The Wild Wild West

1922-12-28

Nyron Sultan Asgarali, cricketer (West Indian opening bat 1957)

1923-02-24

Carole Gallagher, The Falcon Out West

1923-03-24

Werner Kirsch, Wild Gals of the Naked West

1923-10-18

George Marshall Jr., How the West Was Won

1924-01-25

Speedy West, Charlie Wilson's War

1924-02-28

Harry Harris, Wild West Story

1924-04-22

Donald B. Hyatt, The Real West

1924-07-04

Robert 'Tiger' West, Charlotte's Web

1924-09-24

Simpson Guillen, cricketer (wicket-keeper for West Indies & NZ)

1924-09-28

Antonio Jacinto, Portuguese West Africa, Angolan poet

1924-11-03

Thomas Conroy, How the West Was Won

1924-12-11

Felix Blanchard, The Spirit of West Point

1924-12-26

Glenn Davis, The Spirit of West Point

1925-02-26

Everton Weekes, West Indian cricket player

1925-03-17

Gabriele Ferzetti, Once Upon a Time in the West

1925-04-04

Elizabeth Wilson, Grand Rapids Mich, actor (Doc, East Side/West Side)

1925-04-14

Rod Steiger, West Hampton NY, actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker)

1925-07-28

Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West

1925-10-03

Gore Vidal, West Point NY, author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), (d. 2012)

1925-12-13

Dick Van Dyke, West Plains Mo, actor (Rob Petrie-Dick Van Dyke Show)

1926-01-03

Bobby Clack, The Sagebrush Family Trails West

1926-02-03

Hans-Jochen Vogel, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats (SPD)

1926-05-11

Niels West-Larsen, As If It Were Raining

1926-07-14

Harry Dean Stanton, West Irvine KY, actor (Alien, Cool Hand Luke)

1926-08-08

Webb Pierce, West Monroe La, country singer (Ozark Jubilee)

1926-08-19

Johnny Boyd, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

1926-09-25

John Ericson, Dusseldorf Germany, actor (Sam Bolt-Honey West)

1926-11-29

Dagmar, Huntington, West Virginia, American actress (Broadway's Open House)

1926-9-10

Allen Clayton West,

1926-9-22

Stan West, The Boy and the Coach

1926-9-26

Julie London, Man of the West

1927-01-10

Lee Philips, Mae West

1927-02-15

Kenny Kingston, Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

1927-04-21

Rudy Del Campo, West Side Story

1927-04-29

Elizabeth Shaw, Trip West

1927-05-30

David Nevin, Dream West

1927-08-03

Ben Traywick, How the West Was Lost

1928-01-30

Harold Prince, US producer/director (West Side Story, Evita)

1928-01-30

Harold Prince, West Side Memories

1928-02-28

Bobby Caldwell, West Point of the Air

1928-04-18

William Bramley, West Side Story

1928-04-18

Ken Colyer, West 11

1928-04-27

Brian West, 84 Charing Cross Road

1928-05-11

Frank Wolff, Once Upon a Time in the West

1928-06-02

Sharon Lucas, Honey West

1928-09-19

Adam West, Walla Walla Wash, actor (Batman, Last Precinct)

1928-10-16

Nando Gazzolo, West and Soda

1928-11-08

Ruth West, F.I.S.T.

1928-9-19

Adam West, Batman: The Movie

1928-9-26

Don Greenwood Jr., How the West Was Won

1929-05-01

Paul Herlinger, Adventures in Odyssey: Go West Young Man

1929-07-24

Alfred Binns, West Indian cricket wicketkeeper (1953-56)

1929-08-20

Robert Spindola, The Law West of Tombstone

1929-9-11

Ann West, The Web of Evil

1929-9-16

Peter Darrell, Out of the West

1930-02-16

Judith Braun, Horizons West

1930-02-23

Paul West,

1930-03-22

Stephen Sondheim, NYC, lyricist (West Side Story, Company)

1930-04-03

Helmut Kohl, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Politician and Chancellor of West Germany 1982-90, Reunified Germany 1990-98

1930-04-29

Alf Valentine, Jamaican cricketer (great West Indian lefty spinner)

1930-05-03

Robert E. Relyea, West Side Story

1930-07-18

Richard West,

1930-07-20

William H. Goetzmann, The West of the Imagination

1930-09-16

Anne Francis, Ossining NY, actress (Honey West, Pancho Villa)

1930-09-17

David Huddleston, Vinton Va, actor (How the West Was Won)

1931-03-09

Fern Lea Peter, Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

1931-12-11

Rita Moreno, [Rosita Dolores Alverío], Humacao, Puerto Rico, singer, dancer and actress (West Side Story)

1931-12-11

Rita Moreno, West Side Story

1932-01-01

John Anthony West, The Old Kingdom and the Still Older Kingdom

1932-04-15

Stanley Gordon West, Amos

1932-05-09

Conrad Hunte, cricketer (great West Indian opener 1958-66)

1932-05-24

Elaine Malbin, The Girl of the Golden West

1932-05-24

Gerard Maloney, Into the West

1932-07-22

Dick Shane, Gone with the West

1932-08-01

Robert Yuro, The Shakiest Gun in the West

1932-08-07

Ann Harding, US, actress (East is West, Janie)

1932-10-04

Dottie West, country singer

1932-10-11

Dottie West, Nashville Tenn, country singer (Here Comes My Baby)

1932-10-11

Dottie West, Dottie West

1933-01-23

Chita Rivera, Wash DC, actress (West Side Story, Sweet Charity)

1933-09-16

George Chakiris, Norwood Ohio, actor (West Side Story)

1933-10-20

Lev Mailer, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

1933-11-16

Garrett "Garnet" Mimms, Ashland West Virginia, singer (Enchanters-Cry Baby)

1933-12-19

Francesco Degli Espinosa, Once Upon a Time in the Wild, Wild West

1933-12-21

Jackie Hendriks, cricketer (West Indian wicket-keeper of 60's)

1933-9-22

Robert Banas, West Side Story

1934-01-04

Jose De Vega, West Side Story

1934-01-12

Gordon Doversola, Honey West

1934-04-02

Dino Cassio, Badmen of the West

1934-09-05

Carol Lawrence, Illinois, dancer/actress (West Side Story)

1934-09-29

Lance Gibbs, cricketer (prolific West Indian off-spinner, 309 wickets)

1934-10-16

West Buchanan, The Long Riders

1934-10-20

Timothy West, Yorkshire England, actor (Masada)

1934-10-20

Timothy West, Ever After: A Cinderella Story

1934-11-04

Tommy Abbott, West Side Story

1934-11-24

Martin Charnin, Broadway lyricist (Annie, West Side Story)

1934-11-25

Howard Ostroff, The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West

1934-12-06

Howard Jeffrey, West Side Story

1934-9-16

George Chakiris, West Side Story

1935-03-01

Robert Conrad, [Conrad R Falk], Chicago, actor (Wild Wild West)

1935-05-05

Douglas Marland, West Sand Lake NY, soap opera writer (Gen Hospital)

1935-12-26

Rohan Kanhai, cricketer (one of West Indies' finest batsmen)

1936-04-24

Tucker Smith, West Side Story

1936-07-24

Mark Goddard, Lowell Mass, actor (Don West-Lost in Space)

1936-07-24

Huaili Yan, Journey to the West

1936-08-31

Marva Nettles Collins, educator (west side preparatory school)

1936-12-26

Clemence Bettany, Custer of the West

1937-02-11

Peter Lashley, cricketer (4 Tests for West Indies 1960-66)

1937-05-11

David Allan, cricketer (West Indian wicketkeeper 1962-66)

1937-06-29

Basil Thompson, The Music of the West

1937-08-28

Martin West, General Hospital

1937-08-31

Bobby Lee Parker, Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West

1937-09-12

Wesley Hall, West indian/British politician

1937-9-21

Yvonne Wilder, West Side Story

1938-02-20

Richard Beymer, West Side Story

1938-03-29

Larry Roquemore, West Side Story

1938-04-15

Claudia Cardinale, Once Upon a Time in the West

1938-05-28

Jerry West, West Virginia, NBA superstar (LA Lakers, Olympic-gold-1960)

1938-05-28

Jerry West, Episode dated 12 May 2010

1938-07-01

Chester Watson, West Indian cricket fast bowler (early 60s)

1938-07-05

Del 'Sonny' West, Pleasantville

1938-07-08

Shirley Gorospe, Honey and West

1938-07-20

Natalie Wood, West Side Story

1938-08-31

Jerry Skeels, One West Waikiki

1938-09-04

Leonard Frey, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Best of West, Mr Smith)

1938-10-24

Fred E. Finn, The Mickie Finns Finally Present How the West Was Lost

1939-02-08

Francesco Memeo, La fanciulla del West

1939-02-21

Richard Beymer, Avoca IA, actor (West Side Story, Diary of Anne Frank)

1939-04-05

David Winters, West Side Story

1939-07-15

Ronald Hadfield, chief constable (West Midlands England)

1939-07-31

John R West, rock guitarist (Gary Lewis & Playboys-This Diamond Ring)

1939-10-30

Norman West, US singer (Soul Children, Hearsay, Give 'em Love)

1939-11-02

Howard Wolpe, Have You Heard from Johannesburg?: Apartheid and the Club of the West

1939-11-22

Tom West, American astrophysicist

1939-12-18

Peter West, My Ain Folk

1939-9-22

Jennifer West, Too Soon to Love

1940-01-04

Anthony 'Scooter' Teague, West Side Story

1940-04-22

Gerry Bruno, Badmen of the West

1940-08-26

Mary Ann Kasica, Song of the Wild West

1940-9-07

Dario Argento, Once Upon a Time in the West

1941-01-07

Harvey Evans, West Side Story

1941-04-14

Celia West, Circus of Adventures

1941-05-24

Mara Zampieri, La fanciulla del West

1941-9-02

Suzie Kaye, West Side Story

1941-9-29

Fred West,

1942-02-22

Tania Béryl, Miss Shumway Goes West

1942-02-27

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West SC, news reporter (McNeil-Lehrer)

1942-05-18

Keith Hellawell, Chief Constable (West Yorkshire)

1942-06-10

Gordon Burns, North West Tonight

1942-06-21

Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney and public official

1942-07-05

Eliot Feld, West Side Story

1942-08-08

Giannetto De Rossi, Once Upon a Time in the West

1942-11-11

Diane Wolkstein, Journey to the West

1942-11-15

James L.W. West,

1942-11-25

Tracey Walter, Jersey City NJ, actor (Best of the West)

1942-12-15

Judi West, The Fortune Cookie

1943-02-21

Danièle Evenou, Far West

1943-03-15

Brenda Scott, Cincinnati Oh, actress (Midge-Road West)

1943-04-24

Gordon West, Ham Nation

1943-05-02

Elaine McDonald, Out of the West

1943-05-07

Rick West, [Richard Westwood], rocker (Brian Poole & Tremeloes)

1943-05-07

Rick West, Big Beat '64

1943-05-09

Maurice Foster, cricketer (West Indies batsman of 70's)

1943-05-20

Deryck Murray, cricket wicket-keeper (West Indian 1963-80)

1943-06-05

Hugh Worsnip, Fred West

1943-08-11

Denis West Payton, Hold On: It's the Dave Clark Five

1943-10-03

Eli Bo Jack Blackfeather, West Side Story

1943-11-13

Robert Jay Sigel, Narberth PA, PGA golfer (1994 GTE West Classic)

1943-11-19

Norma West, And the Ship Sails On

1943-12-12

Dickey Betts, West Palm Beach Fl, guitarist (Allman Bros-Ramblin' Man)

1943-12-22

Bert Michaels, West Side Story

1944-03-06

Kiri Te Kanawa, The Making of 'West Side Story'

1944-03-14

Dave West, Hey Jo

1944-05-31

Susan Oakes, West Side Story

1944-06-09

Brigid Bazlen, How the West Was Won

1944-10-17

Carol Cole, West Medford Mass, actress (Ellie-Grady)

1944-12-06

Christopher Culkin, West Side Story

1945-05-06

Richard Eyers, Los Angeles California, actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West)

1945-08-14

Wim Wenders, West German director (American Friend, Hammett)

1945-08-20

Désirée Edlund, Wild West Story

1945-10-08

Vanburn Holder, cricketer (West Indian pace bowler of 70's)

1945-10-10

Dennis West, Oyster Farmer

1945-10-22

Leslie West, [Weinstein] rocker (Mountain-Mississippi Queen)

1945-10-22

Leslie West, Pineapple Express

1945-12-21

Doug Walters, Benson & Hedges World Series Cup 3rd Final: Australia vs West Indies

1946-05-07

Barbara Daniels, La fanciulla del West

1946-05-26

Tom Betts, Leone's West

1946-05-31

Steve Bucknor, cricketer (West Indian Test umpire, FIFA referee)

1946-08-24

Richard "Dick" N Richards, Key West, USN/astr (STS 28, 41, 50, 64)

1946-08-31

Charlie West, Super Bowl IV

1946-12-04

Rade Colovic, Go West

1946-12-06

Keith West, Episode #1.24

1947-02-11

Terrance C. Leavey, Wild Wild West

1947-02-16

Franz West, Vienna, Austria, artist (Flause), (d. 2012)

1947-07-28

Jennifer West, Bondage Showdown: Jennifer West Meets Darla Crane

1947-10-11

Al Atkins, West Bromwich UK, English musician (Judas Priest)

1947-10-12

Randy West, Miami Spice

1947-12-30

Michael Burns, Mineola LI, actor (Barnaby West-Wagon Train)

1948-08-20

Robert Plant, West Bromwich England, rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love)

1948-10-12

Doug Botnick, Red Rock West

1948-11-16

Jay Kerr, East Meets West

1949-03-21

Alvin Kallicharran, cricketer (wonderful West Indies LHB 1972-81)

1949-03-22

Graham Fowler, South West 9

1949-03-26

Baroness Hayman [Hélène Hayman], Wolverhampton, West Midlands, Lord Speaker of the House of Lords

1949-05-28

Ric Calabrese, Gone with the West

1949-06-23

Anna Rita Pasanisi, Once Upon a Time in the West

1949-07-12

Donda West, Kanye West

1949-08-18

Christopher Swann, The Making of 'West Side Story'

1949-09-02

Albert West[laken], Dutch singer (Dumb Willie)

1949-11-06

P.J. West, Mark of the Astro-Zombies

1949-11-21

Basil Williams, cricketer (century on debut for West Indies 1978)

1949-12-29

Syed Kirmani, Final: India vs West Indies

1949-9-02

Albert West, 1940 - 1945 in tekst en muziek

1950-02-16

Frances Olivero, West 47th Street

1950-04-13

Riff West, rock bassist (Molly Hatchet)

1950-04-16

Billy West, Futurama: Bender's Big Score

1950-05-06

Samuel K. Doe, The Word Universe: A Journey to West Africa

1950-06-04

Dagmar Krause, West Germany, singer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)

1950-08-02

Mathieu Carriere, Hanover West Germany, actor (Bay Boy, Woman in Flames)

1950-11-18

Dennis Haskins, A Million Ways to Die in the West

1951-03-28

James West, Episode dated 9 May 2005

1951-05-01

Gordon Greenidge, cricketer (great West Indian opener 1974-91)

1951-05-13

Selina Scott, TV newscaster (West 57th)

1951-10-12

Bernie Ruoff, West Germany, CFL kicker (Winnipeg, Hamilton)

1952-01-05

Nermin Tulic, Go West

1952-01-21

Fausto Bara, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

1952-03-04

Jon Frederic West, Tristan und Isolde

1952-03-07

Vivian Richards, West Indian master blaster

1952-03-09

William Kirby Cullen, Santa Ana California, actor (How the West Was Won)

1952-04-16

Billy West, American voice actor

1952-06-10

Barbara Nyberg, Wild West Story

1952-07-22

Herbert Chang, West Indian cricket batsman (1979)

1952-10-31

Joe West, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

1952-12-16

Joel Garner, Christ Church, Barbados, West Indian cricketer (two-metre West Indian pace bowler 1977-87)

1953-02-02

Sharon 'Mae' West, Angel

1953-02-20

Riccardo Chailly, Milan Italy, conductor (West Berlin Symph Orch)

1953-03-15

Colin Croft, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler 1977-82)

1953-03-18

Jamie West-Oram, rocker (Fixx)

1953-04-06

Jeff West, Seattle Seahawks vs. San Diego Chargers

1953-05-15

George Brett, Glen Dale West Virginia, KC Royal 3rd baseman (1980 AL MVP)

1953-05-25

Gaetano Scirea, Final: Italy vs West Germany

1953-06-01

Diana Canova, West Palm Beach Fla, actress (Corrine-Soap)

1953-06-02

Cornel West, Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal

1953-11-29

Rosemary West,

1954-01-31

Sheik Faoud Ahamul Bacchus, cricketer (West Indian bat late 70's)

1954-02-19

Jamie West-Oram, rock guitarist (Fixx)

1954-05-15

Bob Beauchemin, Winnipeg Canada, golfer (West Coast Open-1982, 83)

1954-06-10

Rich Hall, How the West Was Lost

1954-06-23

Caryn West, My Education

1954-07-10

Neil Tennant, North Shields, Tyne-and-Wear, English singer/songwriter (Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl)

1954-08-02

Rooster McConaughey, West Texas Investors Club

1954-08-19

Tom West, The Sixth Sense

1954-08-25

Desiree West, Vista Valley PTA

1954-10-30

Kristina Van Eyck, Johnny West

1954-12-11

Sylvester Clarke, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler & brick-thrower)

1954-9-15

Donny West, Dazzle: The Donny West Story

1954-9-17

Douglas Brooks West, Hellfire

1955-01-24

Amick Byram, A Million Ways to Die in the West

1955-03-06

Jeff West, Almost

1955-05-14

Ricardo Jacques Gale, West Beirut

1955-07-07

Alexander Bernstein, The Making of 'West Side Story'

1955-10-11

Hans-Peter Briegel, Final: Italy vs West Germany

1955-11-17

Peter Cox, rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down)

1955-11-28

Alessandro Altobelli, Final: Italy vs West Germany

1955-12-15

Melanie Chartoff, West Haven Ct, actress (Fridays, Parker Lewis)

1956-01-23

Natalie West, Nate & Margaret

1956-03-10

Janet Anderson, West Sunbury PA, LPGA golfer (1982 US Women's Open)

1956-03-10

Gloria Kaye, How the West Was Fun

1956-04-19

Lori West, Denver CO, LPGA golfer (1994 State Farm-5th)

1956-04-26

Taina West, Iltalypsy

1956-04-27

Mark West, Not Necessarily the News

1956-04-29

Josh Shainberg, South of Heaven, West of Hell

1956-05-03

Bernd Förster, Final: Italy vs West Germany

1956-05-04

Ulrike Meyfarth, Frankfurt West Germany, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)

1956-06-23

Louise Edeiken, The Making of 'West Side Story'

1956-06-27

Debbie Letteau, Into the West

1956-08-18

Sandeep Patil, Final: India vs West Indies

1956-10-03

Bill Lichtenstein, West 47th Street

1956-11-13

Timothy Ray West, The Sunset Sky

1956-12-07

Larry Bird, West Baden, Indiana, NBA star (Boston Celtics, 12-time NBA All Star)

1956-12-11

Greg Luntzel, Wild Wild West

1956-12-19

Tom West, Forrest Gump

1957-03-05

Chick Bernhardt, Wild Wild West

1957-05-08

Brian West, Star Gate

1957-06-11

Bruce Plummer, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 West Coast)

1957-07-08

Clyde Butts, cricketer (West Indies off-spinner late eighties)

1957-07-14

Peter Webb, NZ cricketer (batsman against West Indies 1980)

1957-07-29

Daniel Werner, West

1957-12-07

Winifred Robinson, North West Tonight

1958-02-24

Sammy Kershaw, Red Rock West

1958-03-08

Andreas Maurer, West Germany, tennis star

1958-04-18

Malcolm Marshall, World Cup Match 17: South Africa vs West Indies

1958-05-15

Mitchell Schollars, The Way West

1958-05-23

Shelly West, Cleve OH, country singer (Red Hot, West by West)

1958-05-23

Shelly West, Any Which Way You Can

1958-07-29

Simon Nye, Wild West

1958-10-16

Tim Robbins, West Covina CA, actor (Bull Durham, Shawshank Redemption)

1958-11-27

Aphrodite Jones, West Memphis Three

1958-12-18

Andrea Heuer, Buddy Goes West

1959-01-20

Lea Antonoplis, West Covina Cat, tennis star

1959-02-05

Gary Mortensen, 2612 South Ave. West

1959-03-20

Richard Drummie, rocker (Go West-Call Me, Don't Look Down)

1959-04-04

Paula West, Bicentennial Man

1959-04-24

Yvonne D Cagle, West Point NY, MD/astronaut

1959-05-08

Jane West, Episode #1.5

1959-07-10

Sandy West, Edgeplay

1959-07-11

Richie Sambora, Wild Wild West

1959-11-30

Sylvia Hanika, Munich West Germany, tennis player (Avon-1982)

1960-04-06

Warren Sherk, Wild Wild West

1960-05-19

Mick West, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2

1960-05-21

Jeffrey Dahmer, West Allis Wisconsin, American serial killer (Milwaukee Cannibal)

1960-08-25

Maxim Biller, Ost oder West? Der neue Mut zum Unterschied

1960-11-05

Mark West, NBA center (Detroit Pistons)

1960-12-12

Volker Beck, East/West - Sex & Politics

1961-01-02

Jose Cuciuffo, Final: Argentina vs West Germany

1961-01-28

Norman West, Northern Exposure

1961-02-10

Eva Pfaff, West Germany, tennis star

1961-04-06

Rory Bremner, The Ultimate 'West Wing' Challenge

1961-04-17

Boomer Esiason, West Islip, New York, American NFL quarterback (NY Jets, Cincinnati Bengals)

1961-05-29

John T. Wardle, Dream West

1961-05-30

Harry Enfield, Horsham, West Sussex, English comedian (Dermot-Men Behaving Badly, Saturday Live)

1961-07-17

Simon West, Swallows and Amazons

1961-08-02

Ed West, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles, Atlanta Falcons)

1961-08-02

Ed West, Dallas Cowboys vs. Philadelphia Eagles

1962-01-12

Richie Richardson, cricketer (elegant West Indian batsman 1983-95)

1962-02-28

Nina Bernstein, The Making of 'West Side Story'

1962-05-28

Larry Swalley, West of Thunder

1962-08-09

Lesley West, Richard's Things

1962-11-01

Tracy Barone, Wild Wild West

1963-03-21

Susie Verrico, West London vs. Marbella

1963-04-18

Phil Simmons, cricketer (West Indian opening batsman)

1963-06-20

Don West, American professional wrestling announcer

1963-06-20

Don West, Episode dated 1 January 2005

1963-08-03

Steven Jaquith, 2612 South Ave. West

1963-08-06

Thomas Bohrer, US West Islip NY, rower (Olympic-92)

1963-08-14

Kristina West, Murphy Brown

1963-08-17

Jan Heintze, Oost west asbest

1963-09-21

Curtly Ambrose, Antiguan West Indies cricketer

1963-10-30

Mike Veletta, cricketer (West Aussie opening bat, 8 Tests for Aust)

1964-02-28

Lisa West, Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop

1964-03-08

Mark Oaten, The Ultimate 'West Wing' Challenge

1964-03-24

Hans Schwaier, West Germany, tennis star

1964-03-29

Ming Tsai, East Meets West with Ming Tsai

1964-05-30

Jodi West, Mother-Daughter Lesbian Lessons

1964-06-17

Michael Gross, West Germany, swimmer (Olympic-2 world records-1984)

1964-06-26

Alison Wyeth, Isle West Middlesex England, 1.5k/5k runner

1964-9-01

David West,

1964-9-01

David West, High Hopes: The Anatomy of a Winner

1965-02-17

Frank Dicks, West

1965-03-04

Kevin West, The Pursuit of Happyness

1965-03-11

Eric Jelen, West Germany, tennis star

1965-03-12

Molly Van Nostrand, West lslip NY, tennis star

1965-06-17

Dan Jansen, West Allis Wisc, speed skater (Oly-gold-1984, 88, 92)

1965-08-06

David Robinson, Key West Florida, NBA center (San Antonio Spurs, Olympic-gold-92)

1965-10-29

Andy Beal, Germany, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 West of England Pro)

1965-11-20

April West, The Chameleon

1965-12-04

Mylo Ironbear, Into the West

1966-02-11

Patrick Kuhnen, West Germany, tennis star

1966-03-04

Wash West [Wash Westmoreland], Leeds, English independent film director director

1966-04-04

Myriam Schropp, West Germany, tennis star

1966-04-30

Sharna West, Big Brother: Australia

1966-06-19

Samuel West, Van Helsing

1966-07-02

Kyle West, Boyz n the Hood

1966-08-30

Michael Michele, Evansville In, actress (Nikki-Central Park West)

1966-11-20

Angel West, The Loves of Lolita

1966-11-23

M.E. 'Dusty' Garza, Big West Conference NCAA Basketball

1966-11-26

Garcelle Beauvais, Wild Wild West

1967-01-12

Marco Boogers, Dutch soccer player (RKC, Sparta, West Ham United)

1967-03-11

John Barrowman, Glasgow, Scottish born actor (Peter Fairchild-Central Park West)

1967-03-30

Ian Ziering, West Orange NJ, actor (Steve Sanders-Beverly Hills 90210)

1967-05-27

Doug West, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)

1967-05-27

Marcello Olivieri, Doc West

1967-07-07

Doug West, The Voyage

1967-07-21

Tore Meinecke, West Germany, tennis star

1967-08-30

Frederique Van Der Wal, Wild Wild West

1967-10-17

Allen West, US metal guitarist (Obituary, Cause of Death)

1967-10-18

Andreas Nickl, West

1967-10-24

Ian Bishop, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler)

1967-11-26

Ridley Jacobs, cricket wicket-keeper (West Indian ODI 1996)

1967-12-12

Masood Anwar, cricketer (one Test Pakistan v West Indies 1990)

1967-12-22

Roland Holder, cricketer (West Indian batsman in ODI's 1993-)

1968-01-09

Jimmy Adams, cricketer (prolific West Indian lefty bat since 1992)

1968-01-29

Mikael Colville-Andersen, Zakka West

1968-02-01

Theo West, Abzocke

1968-05-18

Roxanne West, Naked News

1968-06-23

Ronnie West, WLAF RB (London Monarchs)

1968-08-18

John Coyle, West Bloomfield Mich, short track skater (Olympics-1994)

1968-11-21

Micah West, Any Given Sunday

1968-12-03

Isabel Cueto, West Germany, tennis star

1968-12-12

Laurie Williams, cricketer (West Indian ODI all-rounder v NZ 1996)

1968-9-08

Cutter West, Revenge of the Bi Dolls

1969-02-12

Shkumbin Istrefi, East, West, East: The Final Sprint

1969-02-13

Bryan Schmidt, The Real West

1969-03-09

Andrew Robertt, Slow West

1969-04-02

Kelly Boulware, Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West

1969-04-13

Agnieszka Czekanska, West

1969-06-14

Steffi Graf, Mannheim West Germany, tennis player (22 Grand Slam singles titles)

1969-06-25

Aaron McPherson, A Million Ways to Die in the West

1969-08-12

Stuart Williams, cricketer (West Indian opening batsman 1994- )

1969-08-29

David Saxe, Popovich and the Voice of the Fabled American West

1969-10-15

Dominic West, British actor

1969-10-15

Dominic West, 300

1969-11-23

Ken Dosch, American Rural West

1969-12-07

Sabine Hack, West Germany, tennis star

1969-12-25

Christina West, Masseuse II

1969-12-26

Roy 'Udo' West, Zero Hour

1969-12-30

Michelle McGann, West Palm Beach FL, golfer (1995 Sara Lee Classic)

1970-03-06

Tim West, Transformers

1970-04-11

Mark Hyatt, Sugar: The Fall of the West

1970-04-26

Eva-Maria Westbroek, La fanciulla del West

1970-04-29

J R Phillips, West Covina CA, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)

1970-05-12

James Michael Furyk, West Chester PA, PGA golfer (1994 Las Vegas-5th)

1970-05-25

Joey Eischen, West Covina CA, pitcher (LA Dodgers)

1970-06-30

John Burton West, There Will Be Blood

1970-07-05

Doug Bochtler, West Palm Beach FL, pitcher (San Diego Padres)

1970-07-16

Daniel Krige, West

1970-08-08

Steven L. Franklin, Wild Wild West

1970-08-16

Chris Luttrell, A West Texas Children's Story

1970-11-19

John Boyd West, 21 Grams

1970-11-29

Ghislain Bergevin, 2612 South Ave. West

1970-12-07

Courtney Browne, cricketer (West Indies Test wicket-keeper 1995)

1970-12-31

Chandra West, White Noise

1971-01-01

T.J. Gambrel, Dust: A Tale of the Wired West

1971-01-08

Jason Giambi, West Covina CA, infielder (Oakland A's)

1971-03-13

Robert Samuels, cricketer (West Indies Test opening batsman v NZ 1996)

1971-03-29

John West, The Collector

1971-04-08

Edward Fryatt, Rochdale England, Nike golfer (1994 NCAA West Regional)

1971-04-30

Ryan Hawblitzel, West Palm Beach Fla, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)

1971-06-02

Joe West, The Crow

1971-10-25

Ted West, Bachelor 37

1971-11-12

Shakeel Ahmed, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (v West Indies 1993)

1971-11-19

Adrian Griffith, cricketer (West Indian Test opening batsman 1997)

1971-9-21

Gavin De West, 2012

1972-01-11

Jennifer Tost, West of Here

1972-03-21

Frank West, CFL defensive back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)

1972-03-24

Jackamoe Buzzell, A Million Ways to Die in the West

1972-03-24

Thomas Aigelsreiter, Key West

1972-03-28

Derek West, offensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)

1972-03-30

Sofia Eng, Wild Wild West

1972-04-27

Maura West, Episode #1.13410

1972-07-11

Michael Alessandro, West Coast Region

1972-07-26

Nathan Buckley, Round 21: West Coast vs Geelong

1972-10-08

Wyatt Neumann, American Rural West

1972-11-11

Alessia Marcuzzi, Il mio West

1972-12-12

Noel O'Connell, Exploits at West Poley

1973-02-10

Nancy Klokocka, Into the West

1973-04-15

Giacomo Zafarano, A Million Ways to Die in the West

1973-06-19

Amy S. Kim, West Bank Story

1973-07-28

Nixon A McNamara McClean, West Indies cricket fast bowler (ODI 1996)

1973-10-17

Lorie Bennett West, Miss Kentucky USA (1996)

1973-9-19

Ashley West Leonard, Shadow Boxer

1973-9-25

Ryan Clum, Wild West Tech

1974-02-28

Mario West, Star Trek

1974-03-07

Tamsin West, The Quest

1974-03-18

Anne Robinson, West

1974-05-02

Miles Joseph, West Springfield Mass, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)

1974-05-23

Kimber West, Atlanta GA, playmate (Feb 1997)

1974-05-23

Kimber West, Playboy: Playmate Profile Video Collection Featuring Miss February 1997, 1994, 1991, 1988

1974-08-25

Chris Mantilla, West Palm Beach Fla, diver (Olympics-96)

1974-09-04

Lincoln Roberts, West Indian cricketer

1974-09-05

Rawl Lewis, West Indian cricketer

1974-09-26

Katie Kauffman, West Lawn Pa, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)

1974-11-14

Scott West, Episode #15.27

1974-11-23

Regina Fisher, Miss West Virginia USA (1996)

1974-9-17

Josh West, Verboten, Part 2

1975-04-06

Joel West, Blood Surf

1975-06-02

Katie McCarthy, American Rural West

1975-06-28

Libby West, Two Weeks Notice

1975-07-07

Michael Voss, Round 21: West Coast vs Geelong

1975-07-08

Beau Chaput, A Million Ways to Die in the West

1975-07-12

Luke Darcy, Round 21: West Coast vs Geelong

1975-10-06

Reon King, West Indian cricketer from Guyana

1975-10-13

Anna Castor, Sugar: The Fall of the West

1975-10-29

Sage Brucia, Have You Heard from Johannesburg?: Apartheid and the Club of the West

1975-9-22

John Caparulo, Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights - Hollywood to the Heartland

1976-03-26

Natalia Livingston, West of Brooklyn

1976-05-26

Shane Bartlett, West Hollywood Motel

1976-07-14

Matt West, The Green Cardigan

1976-08-12

Pedro Collins, West Indian cricketer

1976-08-24

Björn van der Doelen, Oost west asbest

1976-10-21

Jeremy Miller, West Covina California, actor (Ben-Growing Pains)

1976-9-06

Tracy R. West, Carrot

1976-9-14

Rodney Smith, Into the West

1976-9-20

Lane Fuller, How the West Was Hung

1977-02-06

Matt West, Oh Mummy: Sutekh's Story

1977-02-13

Matt West, Saw 3D: The Final Chapter

1977-02-26

Vin Hamilton, Upper West Side Story

1977-03-05

Natalie Bevins, Miss USA-West Virginia (1997)

1977-03-08

Johann Vogel, Oost west asbest

1977-03-25

Mario Drmac, Go West

1977-04-25

Matthew West, American Christian singer

1977-06-04

Zane West, A Beautiful Behind

1977-06-08

Kanye West, Atlanta, Georgia, American rapper and record producer

1977-06-08

Kanye West, The Great Gatsby

1977-09-18

Kieran West, British oarsman

1977-11-06

Sienna West, Hollywood Sex Wars

1977-11-14

Heather Gray, Miss West Virginia Teen USA (1996)

1978-03-04

Anissia West, The Rock 'n' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher

1978-03-20

Mocha, West Side

1978-04-08

Tanja Smoje, Go West

1978-05-31

Henry Martens, Going West

1978-06-10

Shane West, American actor

1978-06-10

Brian West, American soccer player

1978-06-10

Shane West, A Walk to Remember

1978-06-11

Gabe Witcher, A Million Ways to Die in the West

1978-07-01

Jacqie Turner, west Covina California, figure skater, 1997 SW Pacific-2nd

1978-07-22

Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer, (d. 2012)

1978-09-05

Sylvester Joseph, West Indian cricketer

1978-10-04

Phillip Glasser, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

1978-10-06

Ricky Hatton, Pacquiao vs. Hatton: The Battle of East and West

1978-10-08

Bill Mazzola, West of Brooklyn

1978-10-10

Kaki West, ESPY Awards

1978-10-24

James Hopes, Commonwealth Bank Series: Australia vs West Indies: Game 5

1978-10-27

Marty West, Episode #1.14411

1978-11-05

Bryan Lane, Into the West

1978-12-17

Manny Pacquiao, Pacquiao vs. Hatton: The Battle of East and West

1978-9-29

Nathan West, Bring It On

1979-01-03

Kali West, Extreme Naturals 7

1979-04-08

Javier Durán, How the West Was Hung

1979-06-07

Kevin Hofland, Oost west asbest

1979-07-26

Madeleine West, The Condemned

1979-09-21

Chris Gayle, Jamaican West Indies cricketer

1979-10-18

Michael R. West, Festival

1979-11-27

Simone West, Service Animals 19

1979-12-02

Melissa Archer, West End

1980-01-25

Amanda Michelle Burns, Miss West Virginia Teen USA (1997)

1980-03-19

Holly West, Who's Nailin' Paylin?

1980-05-17

Naomi West, Jupiter Landing

1980-06-08

Aleks West, Communication Breakdown

1980-06-15

Cara Zavaleta, Key West, Florida

1980-08-12

Shelton Jacobs, Wild West Tech

1980-08-29

David West, American basketball player

1980-08-29

David West, Episode dated 5 February 2009

1980-10-05

Ti West, V/H/S

1980-10-12

Orion West, Tonight I'm Yours

1980-10-21

Kim Kardashian West, Kim Kardashian: Fit in Your Jeans by Friday - Amazing Abs Body Sculpt

1980-12-25

Blazer, West Side

1980-9-14

Brandon West, They Feed

1981-01-18

Damon West, Oral Exams

1981-02-17

Vivian West, Back to Chloro Again!

1981-05-12

Shayla West, Why Did I Get Married?

1981-07-06

Emily West, Larry the Cable Guy's Star-Studded Christmas Extravaganza

1981-07-19

David Bernard, West Indian cricketer

1981-07-26

Jason Hees, Darius Goes West

1981-08-26

Tino Best, West Indian cricketer

1981-11-02

Adrian Hernandez, Ghosts of the West: The End of the Bonanza Trail

1981-11-10

Mark Joseph, Going West

1981-12-22

Anja Antonowicz, West

1982-01-30

Scott Slifer, The Wild West

1982-02-09

Dean J. West, The Ledge

1982-02-09

Samantha West, Max Actor

1982-03-29

Rachel Laine West, Diamond Road

1982-04-03

Brian West, A New World

1982-05-18

Eric West, American singer and actor

1982-05-18

Eric West, World War Z

1982-06-13

Tessa West, More Than a Handfull #17

1982-06-23

Daniel West, Memories of Tomorrow

1982-07-17

Omari Banks, West Indian Cricketer

1982-07-21

Tyler Knowles, Go West Happy Cow

1982-10-20

Casey Roth, The Wild West

1982-12-07

Evan Shafran, Go West

1982-9-11

Johannes Jonsson, 66°23 North West, the Day of the Avalanche

1982-9-22

Lexi Stone, Go West

1983-04-11

Jessica Burciaga, Go West, Young Girl

1983-07-26

Delonte West, American basketball player

1983-07-26

Delonte West, Episode dated 17 April 2009

1983-07-27

Ciarán Fitzgerald, Into the West

1983-12-20

Darren Sammy, St. Lucian West Indies cricketer

1984-01-03

Brooke Williams, Slow West

1984-06-22

Jerome Taylor, West Indies international cricketer

1984-06-26

Zhang Wen, Journey to the West

1984-07-10

Brogan West, Brazil

1984-08-05

Taylor Locke, Aliens in the Wild, Wild West

1984-11-02

Peter Whiting, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

1985-02-19

Tatanka Means, A Million Ways to Die in the West

1985-03-05

Gabby West, 3:10 to Yuma

1985-07-22

Maria Leicy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Rescue Sandra West!

1985-08-07

Mike Ledford, West of Memphis

1985-08-26

Jaylynn West, Jesse in Pink

1985-10-03

Alisa West, 50 to 1

1985-11-04

Julia Faye West, Slink

1985-12-20

Russell West, Behind Closed Doors

1986-01-06

Emoly West, Wolf Head

1986-01-29

John Curley, Go West

1986-03-13

Gillian Alexy, West

1986-10-07

Amber Stevens West, 22 Jump Street

1986-10-09

Jeff West, GCB

1986-11-13

Alex Wong, A Million Ways to Die in the West

1986-12-24

Donald Paul, West Side Gory

1987-06-16

Hannah West, Bonny & Clide

1987-08-11

Jemima West, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

1988-01-29

Valerie Mason, Go West, Young Girl

1988-03-13

Sadie West, Hearts & Minds 2: Modern Warfare

1988-04-04

Shaughnessy McDaniel, Out West: Experience Colorado

1988-05-17

Soccer the Dog, Wishbone's Dog Days of the West

1988-12-11

Kacie West, Miss USA

1988-9-01

Chanel West Coast, Tyler the Creator & Taco Bennett

1988-9-20

James Frawley, The Finals - 2nd Qualifying Final: West Coast vs Hawthorn

1989-05-10

Lindsey Shaw, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

1989-06-02

Callum West, The Tolpuddle Martyrs

1989-08-30

Carl Ryan Stemple, West of Thunder

1991-10-20

Elizabeth West, The Many Strange Stories of Triangle Woman

1991-10-24

Kevin Ng, West of Eden

1991-10-24

Arron West, Beyond the Rave

1993-01-12

Zayn Malik, Bradford West Yorkshire, British pop singer (One Direction)

1993-08-29

Liam Payne, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, British pop singer (One Direction)

1993-9-22

Nathaniel J. West, Supporting Characters

1994-08-24

Aqib Khan, West Is West

1995-01-23

Julz West, The Double Deal

1995-11-24

Michaela West, Mum, Dad and Michela

1996-9-09

Bailey Ann Scheller, Into the West

1998-9-11

Ben Fraser, The Modbury West Horrors

1999-04-24

Madelaine West Duchovny,

2000-05-16

Belle Shouse, A Million Ways to Die in the West

2008-10-13

Savannah West, The Temple

2013-06-15

North West, Kim's Journey to the Altar

West - Notable Weddings

James MadisonSep 15, 1794

Mae WestApr 11, 1911

Jerry WestApr 10, 1960

Leo DurocherJun 19, 1969

Dudley MooreFeb 21, 1988

Michael J. FoxJul 16, 1988

Robert MugabeAug 17, 1996

Noel GallagherJun 5, 1997

Angelina JolieMay 5, 2000

Kim KardashianMay 24, 2014

West - Weddings
Date Event
862-12-13

Boudouin Iron Arm & Count of Flanders, elopes with Princess Judith, daughter King Charles of West Francia

1794-09-15

4th US President James Madison (43) weds Dolley Madison (26) in Jefferson County, West Virginia

1891-03-21

A Hatfield marries a McCoy, ends long feud in West Virginia it started with an accusation of pig-stealing & lasted 20 years

1911-04-11

Actress Mae West (17) weds fellow vaudevillian Frank Wallace (21) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1945-06-13

"Three Smart Girls" actress Deanna Durbin (23) weds film writer, producer and actor Felix Jackson at The Little Church Of The West in Las Vegas

1960-04-10

NBA guard Jerry West (21) weds his college sweetheart Martha Kane in Morgantown, West Virginia

1969-06-19

Baseball manager Leo Durocher (63) weds socialite Lynne Walker Goldblatt (40) at the Ambassador West Hotel in Chicago

1978-05-28

NBA legend Jerry West (40) weds cheerleader Karen Bua

1988-02-21

Actor Dudley Moore (53) weds actress Brogan Lane at the Little Chapel of the West in Las Vegas

1988-07-16

"Back To The Future" actor Michael J. Fox (27) weds "Family Ties" actress Tracy Pollan (28) at West Mountain Inn in Arlington, Vermont

1991-07-08

"Sanford and Son" actor-comedian Redd Foxx (68) weds Ka Ho Cho at The Little Church of the West in Las Vegas

1996-08-17

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (72) weds Grace Marufu (31) at Kutama College in Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe

1997-06-05

Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher (30) weds Meg Mathews at the Little Church of the West in Las Vegas

1997-08-28

British-Indian novelist and essayist Salman Rushdie (50) weds Elizabeth West

1998-02-22

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos (34) weds British sound engineer Mark Hawley (34) in West Wycombe, England

1998-11-28

"The Truman Show" actor Noah Emmerich (33) weds "The West Wing" actress Melissa Fitzgerald (30) in a tent outside Philadelphia's Memorial Hall

2000-05-05

Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie (24) weds actor Billy Bob Thornton (44) at The Little Church of The West Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas, Nevada

2001-05-06

Actress-singer Billie Piper (18) weds media mogul Chris Evans (35) at the Little Church of the West in Las Vegas

2003-10-11

"The West Wing" actress Annabeth Gish (32) weds former "The X-Files" stunt man Wade Allen at The Sea Ranch Lodge

2004-07-10

"The West Wing" actor Dule Hill (29) weds actress Nicole Lyn (26) in Montego Bay, Jamaica

2004-07-24

"The Calling" singer Alex Band (23) weds "Cleopatra 2525" actress Jennifer Sky (27) in West Palm Beach, Florida

2005-09-10

Fashion model Jodie Kidd (26) weds entrepreneur Aidan Butler at St. Peter's Church in Twineham, West Sussex, England

2005-12-22

"Ospreys" Rugby star Shane Williams (28) weds Gail Lacey at Twyn Church in Garnant, West Wales

2006-09-02

"7th Heaven" actor Jeremy London (33) weds actress Melissa Cunningham at Hidden Chateau and Garden in West Hills, California

2007-07-14

Former "Full House" actress Jodie Sweetin (25) weds set designer Cody Herpin (30) at Little Church of the West in Las Vegas

2007-08-11

U.S. Women's Olympic ice hockey team member Krissy Wendell (25) weds NHL player John Pohl (28) at the Rose Hill Alliance Church in West Roseville, Minnesota

2014-05-24

Rapper and record producer Kanye West (36) weds model Kim Kardashian (33) at Fort di Belvedere in Florence, Italy

West - Notable Divorces

Mae WestJul 21, 1942

West - Divorces
Date Event
1942-07-21

Actress Mae West (48) divorces vaudeville performer Frank Wallace after 31 years of marriage

West - Notable Deaths

StilichoAug 22, 408

Francis DrakeJan 28, 1596

Thomas Alva EdisonOct 18, 1931

Henry Ossian FlipperMay 3, 1940

Konrad AdenauerApr 19, 1967

Mae WestNov 22, 1980

West - Deaths
Date Event
388-08-28

Magnus Maximus, Spanish West Roman Emperor (383-88), executed

408-08-22

Flavius Stilicho, West Roman field leader (395-408), executed at 48

879-04-10

Louis II the Stammerer, King of the West Franks (877-79)

988-05-06

Dirk II, West Frisian count of Holland

1450-08-27

Reginald West, 6th Baron De La Warr, English politician (b. 1395)

1533-04-28

Nicholas West, English bishop and diplomat (b. 1461)

1596-01-28

Francis Drake, English pirate, Admiral and Governor of Newfoundland (Porto Bello West Indies), dies of dysentery at 50

1618-06-07

Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)

1781-02-04

Willem Crul, admiral (West-Indies), dies in battle at 59

1820-03-11

Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe), dies at 81

1831-12-15

Paul R Cantzlaar, gov of Saba/Curacao/Dutch-West Indies, dies at 60

1843-09-03

Cornelis PJ Elout, military/pres of West Sumatra, dies at 47

1849-05-25

Andreas Michiels, Dutch milt gov of West Sumatra, dies in battle at 52

1862-03-02

Frederick West Lander, US Union brig-general/poet, dies at 40

1865-11-23

René E de Russy, West Indian/US brig-general, dies at about 75

1885-10-23

Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (b. 1829)

1888-09-09

John van Swieten, Dutch governor of West-Sumatra, dies at 71

1915-04-14

James Hutton Brew, Pioneer of West African Journalism, dies

1915-08-20

William H. West, The Dream Seekers

1917-09-20

Sabra de Shon, Lure of the West

1918-07-19

Joost van Vollenhoven, Neth, gov-gen (French West-Africa), dies

1918-10-29

Paul West, A Mormon Maid

1929-01-29

Tom Brooker, A Wanderer of the West

1929-02-28

John Ebenezer West, composer, dies at 65

1930-09-24

William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)

1931-10-02

Thomas Lipton, Sir Thomas Lipton Out West

1931-10-18

Thomas Alva Edison, inventor, dies in West Orange, NJ, at 84

1933-07-31

Norman Devol, The Son of the Golden West

1934-06-27

Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Four Faces West

1935-05-10

H. St. Barbe West, The Vultures of London

1936-01-03

Ford West, Fighting Fate

1937-01-10

Alfred J. West, The New Republic

1937-04-12

Filoteo Alberini, Buffalo Bill's Wild West

1938-09-30

Kid Herman, Sophie Lang Goes West

1940-05-03

Henry Ossian Flipper, American soldier, former slave and first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, dies at 84

1940-10-21

William G. Conley, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1866)

1940-12-22

Nathanael West, [Weinstein], US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37

1940-12-22

Nathanael West, The Day of the Locust

1941-03-06

Gutzon Borglum, Natural Wonders of the West

1941-12-08

Howard Truesdale, Go West

1942-01-28

Curtis Nero, West of Zanzibar

1942-02-03

Major Gordon W. 'Pawnee Bill' Lillie, Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East

1942-06-29

James W. Horne, Way Out West

1943-02-06

Janet Reade, The Mild West

1943-04-11

Claudine West, Mrs. Miniver

1943-05-29

Olive West, Madame Butterfly

1943-10-09

Charles Graham, Two Flags West

1943-10-10

Charles West, In the Border States

1944-04-10

Pat West, His Girl Friday

1944-06-30

Mary Jane Sanderson, Gentlemen of the West

1944-09-16

Camille Astor, Chimmie Fadden Out West

1945-07-16

Addison Randall, Where the West Begins

1946-04-03

Albert Russell, Courage of the West

1946-12-30

Charles Wakefield Cadman, Go West

1947-06-29

Vera West, Shadow of a Doubt

1948-01-29

Colin Clements, Call of the West

1948-10-24

Karl Hackett, Perils of the West

1949-01-16

Alfred Block, Way Out West

1949-05-20

Randolph West, American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1890)

1949-09-25

Ed La Niece, Riders of the West

1949-12-18

Philip Morris, West of the Pecos

1951-06-17

Robert Emmett Tansey, Pals of the West

1952-02-10

Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (b. 1880)

1952-03-31

Roland West, Alibi

1953-05-15

Voldemar Vetluguin, East Side, West Side

1953-10-09

James Finlayson, Way Out West

1954-04-10

Guelfo Civinini, La fanciulla del West

1954-07-16

Charles Kyson, West of Nevada

1955-05-17

Leslie Hylton, cricketer (West Indies quickie 1939), hung for murder

1955-11-09

Tom Powers, actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65

1956-07-27

Dick Dickinson, West of the Divide

1956-09-12

Tiny Ward, West of Zanzibar

1956-09-13

Charles Le Moyne, West Is West

1957-05-21

Edwin St Hill, cricketer (two Tests for West Indies 1930-31), dies

1957-09-15

Lee Hill, Pals of the West

1957-09-27

Mark Daly, The Ghost Goes West

1958-03-07

Walter West, The Merchant of Venice

1958-03-10

Eole Galli, The Roaring West

1958-07-05

Dorothy Earle, Pioneers of the West

1958-08-01

Vivien Oakland, Way Out West

1959-01-12

Jack Waltemeyer, Hearts of the West

1959-02-12

Charles Dudley Daly, Daly, of West Point

1961-02-23

Wilf Ferguson, cricket leg spinner (34 wickets for West Indies), dies

1961-12-06

Frantz Fanon, West Indian psychiatrist and writer (b. 1925)

1962-01-13

Ernie Kovacs, comedian, dies in a car crash in West LA, at 42

1962-06-02

V Sackville-West, writer, dies at 70

1962-06-30

Barney Gerard, Jiggs and Maggie Out West

1962-08-06

Ralph Bucko, Code of the West

1963-02-07

Edna West, Haunted House

1963-05-26

Sharon Lynn, actress (Way Out West, Big Broadcast), dies at 53

1966-04-28

Ralph Bunker, actor (Ghost Goes West), dies of a stroke at 77

1967-03-13

Frank Worrell, West indian cricketer, dies

1967-04-07

Anne Morrison Chapin, dies in West Hollywood

1967-04-19

Konrad Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63), dies at 91

1967-06-07

Billie West, Merely Players

1969-02-20

Jack Ingram, actor (Law of the West), dies of heart attack at 66

1969-08-14

Sigrid Gurie, actor (3 Faces West, Algiers), dies at 58

1970-01-07

Robert [Harriot] Barrat, actor (Bad Lands, Go West), dies at 81

1970-09-25

Erich M Remarque, German writer (Im West Nichts Neues), dies at 72

1973-08-11

John Selgrath, West Point of the Air

1975-07-21

Billy West, actor (Jimmy the Gent, Jealousy), dies at 82

1977-06-07

Raymond Cannon, Go West

1977-07-30

Jorgen Ponto, West German banker, murdered

1977-10-18

Rolph Grant, cricketer (West Indian capt on 1939 England tour), dies

1977-11-02

Herbert Wilk, U-Boat, Course West!

1978-09-12

Frank Ferguson, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal), dies at 69

1979-04-02

Ivan Barrow, cricketer (11 Tests for West Indies 1930-39), dies

1979-10-26

Jackie Grant, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930-35), dies

1980-06-30

Virginia Brown Faire, West of the Divide

1980-08-01

Clare West, Why Change Your Wife?

1980-09-06

Clem Horton, West of the Santa Fe

1980-11-22

Mae West, actress (She Done Him Wrong), dies in Hollywood at 87

1980-12-11

Dorothy West, The House with Closed Shutters

1981-01-04

Doris Schroeder, Heart of the West

1981-02-20

Julian West, Vampyr

1981-07-03

Ross Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), dies at 61

1981-11-29

Natalie Wood, actress (West Side Story), drowns at 43

1982-01-03

Derek Sealy, cricketer (West Indies 1930-39), dies

1982-02-13

Peter A. DeCenzie, Wild Gals of the Naked West

1982-02-26

Tom Quinn, Flame of the West

1982-03-31

Fritz Eberhard, West German lawyer/resistor, dies at 85

1982-04-11

Bobby Caldwell, West Point of the Air

1982-04-11

Joe Garcio, Where the West Begins

1982-06-27

Alfred Berke, Four Faces West

1982-08-04

Tex Atchison, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

1982-08-08

Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist, dies at 62

1983-03-07

Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65

1983-03-15

Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)

1983-03-15

Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier

1983-08-03

Carolyn Jones, How the West Was Won

1983-12-11

Stanley Scheuer, West Side Story

1984-02-07

Brooks West, actor (Richard-My Friend Irma), dies at 67

1984-02-07

Brooks West, Anatomy of a Murder

1984-02-22

Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)

1984-02-22

Jessamyn West, The Big Country

1984-02-22

Ralph Emerson, West Point

1984-04-13

George Shelley, Wild West Days

1984-05-16

Wally West, Desert Mesa

1984-06-15

Ned Glass, West Side Story

1984-11-20

Frederick E. West, The Living Christ Series

1985-02-23

Irwin Blacker, West

1985-05-29

Madge West, actress (Grandma-McLean Stevenson Show), dies at 93

1985-05-29

Madge West, Money Troubles

1985-10-27

William Bramley, West Side Story

1986-01-23

Joseph Beuys, West German avant-garde artist/politician, dies at 64

1986-03-05

Teddy Hoad, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930), dies

1986-04-11

Bobby Clack, The Sagebrush Family Trails West

1986-07-09

Karl-Heinz Beckurts, West german Siemens manager, murdered

1986-08-23

Marvin Hatley, Way Out West

1986-08-29

Ellis Achong, cricketer (West Indies 1933-35, "chinaman"), dies

1987-03-11

Frederick Betty, The Greatest Show in the West

1987-03-13

Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist, dies at 77

1987-04-08

Tommy Abbott, West Side Story

1987-08-26

John Goddard, cricketer (West Indian captain 1948-53), dies

1987-11-16

Myrla Bratton, West of the Law

1987-12-02

Peter Darrell, Out of the West

1988-01-16

Murray Rock, West of Hot Dog

1988-01-19

Ballard Berkeley, actor (East meets West), dies at 83

1988-01-27

Norman Willis, Out West

1988-03-08

Ken Colyer, West 11

1988-03-09

Kurt Georg Kiesinger, West German chancellor (1966-69), dies at 83

1988-04-19

Perry Murdock, The Shakiest Gun in the West

1988-05-01

Paolo Stoppa, Once Upon a Time in the West

1988-11-02

Howard Jeffrey, West Side Story

1988-12-22

Tucker Smith, singer/dancer (Cool-West Side Story), dies

1988-12-22

Tucker Smith, West Side Story

1988-12-29

Bob Edgecomb, Francis Goes to West Point

1989-01-18

Ben Bishop, The Bull of the West

1989-03-28

Lockwood West, The Dresser

1989-05-19

CLR James, West Indian writer and journalist (b. 1901)

1989-05-25

Brigid Bazlen, How the West Was Won

1989-06-02

Anthony 'Scooter' Teague, West Side Story

1989-09-03

Gaetano Scirea, Final: Italy vs West Germany

1989-10-09

Mary Alice Rice, Love Goes West

1990-04-08

Jose De Vega, West Side Story

1990-06-27

Don Greenwood Jr., How the West Was Won

1990-06-29

Irving Wallace, The West Point Story

1990-08-25

Howard Ostroff, The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West

1990-09-09

Samuel K. Doe, The Word Universe: A Journey to West Africa

1991-04-09

Elizabeth Shaw, Trip West

1991-04-30

Roy Seawright, Way Out West

1991-06-06

Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60

1991-09-04

Dottie West, country singer (Here Comes my Baby), dies at 58 in a car

1991-09-04

Dottie West, Dottie West

1991-11-17

Leonid Obolensky, The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks

1991-11-21

Prior Jones, West Indian cricket pace bowler (9 Tests 1948-52), dies

1992-02-03

Edward F. Rhine, The Way West

1992-04-17

Hank Penny, Heading West

1992-07-30

Brenda Marshall, actress (Highway West, Smiling Ghost), dies at 76

1992-10-05

Laurie Anders, Screen Snapshots: Out West in Hollywood

1992-10-08

Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), dies of cancer at 78

1992-12-25

Garrison H Davidson, US lt-gen commandant (West Point), dies

1993-01-19

Norman West, Northern Exposure

1993-02-02

Mustard, West of Dodge City

1993-06-04

Harold Earle, The Ghost Goes West

1993-08-10

Irene Sharaff, West Side Story

1993-09-05

Willem Wagter, actor (Ghetto, Medic Center West), dies at 60

1994-02-10

Fausto Bara, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

1994-07-02

Maurice Zuberano, West Side Story

1994-07-31

Dean Dorn, West Point of the Air

1994-09-04

Richard Martin, West of the Pecos

1994-11-30

Lionel Stander, Once Upon a Time in the West

1994-12-27

Karl AF Schiller, West German economist/SPD-minister, dies at 83

1994-12-31

Woody Strode, Once Upon a Time in the West

1995-01-01

Frederick West, Engl contractor/serial killer, commits suicide at 53

1995-01-01

Fred West,

1995-06-25

Will C. Brown, Man of the West

1995-10-21

Linda Goodman, Morgantown, West Virginia, American astrologer and poet, dies from complications of diabetes at 70

1995-11-22

West Buchanan, The Long Riders

1995-12-01

Joan Eremin, Hearts of the West

1996-05-21

Al "Lash" La Rue, cowboy actor (Lash of the West), dies at 78

1996-06-08

Gerry Gomez, cricketer (West Indian captain played 29 Tests), dies

1996-08-15

Tony Martinelli, The Shakiest Gun in the West

1996-09-02

Kenneth M Stewart, euro MP for Merseyside West, dies at 71

1996-10-11

Keith Boyce, cricketer (West Indies all-rounder 1969-76), dies of chronic cirrhosis of the liver at 53

1996-10-21

Eric Halsall, In Search of a Champion - Heat 1: England West

1997-01-18

Diana Lewis, Go West

1997-06-23

Rosina Lawrence, Way Out West

1997-11-15

Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85

1998-02-03

Roger L. Stevens, West Side Story

1998-05-15

Linwood G. Dunn, West Side Story

1998-06-15

Paul West, Bud, the Boxer

1998-07-29

Jerome Robbins, West Side Story

1998-08-16

Dorothy West, The Wedding

1998-08-22

Robert Spindola, The Law West of Tombstone

1998-09-05

Mary Ann Kasica, Song of the Wild West

1998-10-19

Ronn Marvin, Gas House Kids Go West

1999-02-09

Ann West, The Web of Evil

1999-03-03

Lee Philips, Mae West

1999-09-09

Chili Bouchier, The Ghost Goes West

1999-10-09

Morris L. West, The Shoes of the Fisherman

1999-11-04

Malcolm Marshall, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1958)

1999-11-04

Malcolm Marshall, World Cup Match 17: South Africa vs West Indies

1999-12-21

Bernard Smith, How the West Was Won

2000-03-27

Elmore Vincent, Gone with the West

2000-04-15

Frances Olivero, West 47th Street

2000-10-18

Julie London, Man of the West

2000-12-26

Jason Robards, Once Upon a Time in the West

2001-03-28

James Warren, Code of the West

2001-06-26

Soccer the Dog, Wishbone's Dog Days of the West

2001-11-13

Tom West, Forrest Gump

2002-09-08

Laurie Williams, West Indian cricketer (b. 1968)

2003-05-18

Seymour S. Klein, Gone with the West

2003-05-27

Verdi Boyer, West Point of the Air

2003-07-22

Thomas Conroy, How the West Was Won

2003-08-28

Rudy Del Campo, West Side Story

2003-08-30

Charles Bronson, Once Upon a Time in the West

2003-09-02

Peter West, Episode #1.3

2003-09-09

Patricia West, Broadway Serenade

2003-10-20

Jack Elam, Once Upon a Time in the West

2003-10-27

Johnny Boyd, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia

2003-11-15

Speedy West, Country Music Hall of Fame Steel Guitarist (b. 1924)

2003-11-15

Speedy West, Charlie Wilson's War

2004-09-23

Eli Bo Jack Blackfeather, West Side Story

2004-11-02

Basil Thompson, The Music of the West

2004-11-14

Evelyn West, A Night at the Follies

2004-12-11

Jose Cuciuffo, Final: Argentina vs West Germany

2005-01-19

Stan West, The Boy and the Coach

2005-03-09

Glenn Davis, The Spirit of West Point

2005-05-03

Peter West, My Ain Folk

2005-05-05

June MacCloy, Go West

2006-01-24

Sharon Lucas, Honey West

2006-01-27

Christopher Lloyd, Buffalo Bill's Defunct: Stories from the New West

2006-02-14

Robert 'Tiger' West, Charlotte's Web

2006-07-22

James E. West, mayor of Spokane, Washington (b. 1950)

2006-07-22

James West, Episode dated 9 May 2005

2006-08-26

Clyde Walcott, Barbadian West Indies cricketer (b. 1926)

2006-08-28

Rod Holton, West of the Alamo

2006-09-16

Roy M. Brewer Sr., Gallegher Goes West: Trial by Terror

2006-10-21

Sandy West, Edgeplay

2006-12-17

Denis West Payton, Hold On: It's the Dave Clark Five

2006-12-20

Sharon 'Mae' West, Angel

2006-12-26

Gerald Ford, The West Wing Documentary Special

2007-04-10

Jack Williams, Wild Wild West

2007-07-24

Jerry Skeels, One West Waikiki

2007-10-16

Barbara West, Second to last living Titanic survivor.

2007-11-10

Donda West, Kanye West

2008-01-18

Sally West, The Kid from Spain

2008-05-22

Donald B. Hyatt, The Real West

2008-11-24

Cecil H. Underwood, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1922)

2009-01-14

Ricardo Montalbán, Mexican actor (How the West Was Won), dies of congestive heart failure at 88

2009-04-12

Huaili Yan, Journey to the West

2009-04-19

Felix Blanchard, The Spirit of West Point

2009-07-11

Tessa West, More Than a Handfull #17

2009-12-28

Stanley Parlan, Ten Gentlemen from West Point

2010-02-02

Paul Herlinger, Adventures in Odyssey: Go West Young Man

2010-07-29

Bernard West, Three's Company

2010-09-07

William H. Goetzmann, The West of the Imagination

2011-03-18

David Nevin, Dream West

2011-04-19

Gordon Doversola, Honey West

2011-05-05

Arthur Laurents, West Side Story

2011-07-09

Shirley Gorospe, Honey and West

2011-08-05

Jeff West, Almost

2011-10-25

Howard Wolpe, Have You Heard from Johannesburg?: Apartheid and the Club of the West

2012-03-04

Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer, dies in a traffic collision at 33

2012-07-09

Dino Cassio, Badmen of the West

2012-07-26

Franz West, Austrian artist, dies at 65

2012-11-30

Alvy West, Desperately Seeking Susan

2013-01-31

Diane Wolkstein, Journey to the West

2013-03-05

Robert E. Relyea, West Side Story

2013-10-04

Ulric Cross, Hello! West Indies

2014-06-29

Dick Shane, Gone with the West

2014-06-30

Kenny Kingston, Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her

2014-12-12

Dave West, Hey Jo

2015-01-21

Stanley Gordon West, Amos

2015-04-25

Richard West,

2015-06-04

Albert West, 1940 - 1945 in tekst en muziek

2015-06-12

Wyatt Neumann, American Rural West

2015-10-18

Paul West,

2015-11-10

Helmut Schmidt, former West German chancellor, dies aged 96

2015-11-10

Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt dies at 96

2016-02-17

Former West Indies cricketer Andy Ganteaume dies aged 95

2016-03-09

Prolific West End producer Michael White dies aged 80

2016-04-30

Oscar-winning special effects guru and East Sheen native Kit West dies aged 80

2016-05-12

Veteran West Indies cricket commentator Tony Cozier dies, aged 75

2016-06-17

West Yorkshire MP Jo Cox dies after being shot in Birstall

2016-10-29

Actor Manfred Krug, a star in East and West Germany, dies aged 79

2017-04-18

Director of China's 'Journey to the West', Yang Jie, dies aged 88

2017-06-11

Adam West, star of hit TV series Batman, dies aged 88


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