February 3rd
Holidays and Celebrations
The Day the Music Died * (See Below)
Heroes' Day (Mozambique)
Setsubun (Japan) * (See Below)
Four Chaplains Day (United States - 1809)
Pilgrimage of Saint Blaise (Metz, Lorraine, France)
Cordova Ice Worm Day
African American Coaches Day
The Illinois Territory Day (USA)
Norman Rockwell Day, Birthday of the American illustrator (1894 - d. 1978)
Four Chaplains Memorial Day
National Carrot Cake Day
Woodrow Wilson Day, 28th President of the United States, Nobel laureate (1924 - b. 1856)
Earliest Date for Fat Tuesday, the end of the Carnival Season * CLICK HERE
Earliest Date that Mardi Gras can occur (USA) * CLICK HERE
Feast of Saint Blaise, Catholics visit churches to have their throats blessed.
Feast of Aaron the Illustrious, saint of the Syriac Orthodox Church
Feast of Saint Ansgar, patron saint of Denmark
Feast of Saint Hadelin
Feast of Saint Werburgh
Feast of Saint Berlindis
Feast of Saint Margaret of England
Feast of Saint Nona and Saint Celsa
Feast of Berlinda of Meerbeke
Feast of Celsa and Nona
Feast of Werburgh
* Bean Throwing Festival (Setsubun - Japan)
* Benin Voodoo Festival, Ouidah, Benin
* Anniversary of The Day the Music Died - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens and the Big Bopper and Roger Peterson died in a plane crash in 1959. near Clear Lake, IowaBuddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)
Roger Peterson, pilot (b. 1937)
Ritchie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson, American singer (b. 1930)
* Setsubun - The festival of Setsubun held before spring (Japan
Fête de la Vache Translation: Cow Day (French Republican) The 15th day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May we never have friends who,
like shadows,
follow us in sunshine only to desert us on a cloudy day. "
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Southern Whiskey Manhattan
2 Parts Southern Whiskey
1 Part Sweet Vermouth
Shake and Strain with a Cocktail Shaker, then strain into a Cold Cocktail Glass
Garnish With A Cherry.
Wine of The Day
Unionville Vineyards 2009 "Lafayette's Pride"
New Jersey
$15
Beer of The Day
Geuze Mariage Parfait
Brewer - Brouwerij BOON N.V. ; Lembeek, Belgium
Style - Belgian-Style Sour Ale
Joke of The Day
Jock decided to call his father-in-law the "Exorcist"
cuz every time he came to visit he made the spirits disappear!
Quote of the Day
"If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs."
- David Daye
Whiskey of The Day
Blanton's The Original Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey
$45
February Observances
AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month
Aggressive Driving Month
American Heart Month
National Heart Healthy Month
American History Month
An Affair to Remember Month
Avocado and Banana Month
Bake for Family Fun Month
Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month
Berry Fresh Month
Black History Month
Burn Awareness Month
Canned Food Month
Celebration of Chocolate Month
Creative Romance Month
Dog Training Education Month
Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month
Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
From Africa to Virginia Month
National Get To Know An Independent Real Estate Broker Month
Grapefruit Month
Great American Pie Month a.k.a American Pie Month
International Boost Self-Esteem Month
International Expect Success Month
International Friendship Month
International Hoof-care Month
Jobs in Golf Month
Library Lovers' Month
Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
Marijuana Awareness Month
National African American History Month
National Bird Feeding Month
National Black History Month
National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
National Cherry Month
National Children's Dental Health Month
National Condom Month
National Embroidery Month
National Fiber Focus Month
National Grapefruit Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Laugh-Friendly Month
National Mend A Broken Heart Month
National Parent Leadership Month
National Pet Dental Health Month
National Snack Food Month
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
National Therapeutic Recreation Month
National Time Management Month
National Weddings Month
National Wild Bird Feeding Month
Parent Leadership Month, Natl
Plant The Seeds Of Greatness Month
Potato Lover’s Month
Pull Your Sofa Off The Wall Month
Relationship Wellness Month
Responsible Pet Owner's Month
Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
Senior Independence Month
Spay/Neuter Awareness Month
Spiritual Teachers Month
Spunky Old Broads Month
Sweet Potato Month
Truck Month (GM)
Wise Health Care Consumer Month
Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month
Youth Leadership Month
Observances this Week
Women's Heart Health Week, First Week in February
Women's Heart Week, First Week of February
National Patient Recognition Week, First Week in February
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend, First Week of February
National Green Week, First week in February (For some it lasts until the end of april)
Shape Up With Pickles Time, First Week of February
Boy Scout Anniversary Week, First Full Week of February
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week, First Full Week of February
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week, First Full Week of February
International Coaching Week, First Full Week of February
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week, First Full Week of February
Historical Events on February 3rd
1112 Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona and Douce I of Provence marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states.
1377 Cardinal Robert of Geneva (anti-pope Clemens VII) starts term
1377 More than 2,000 people of the Italian city of Cesena are slaughtered by Papal Troops (Cesena Bloodbath).
1451 Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1488 Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay (Angra dos Vaqueros) after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south.
1509 The Battle of Diu, between Portugal and the Ottoman Empire takes place in Diu, India.
1518 Pope Leo X imposed silence on the Augustinian monks.
1534 The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed by the order of Henry VIII in London, England.
1547 Russian czar Ivan IV (17) marries Anastasia Romanova
1576 Henry of Navarre (future Henry IV) escapes from Paris
1591 German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau
1637 Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) by government order.
1653 Cardinal Mazarin returns to Paris from exile
1660 General Moncks army reaches London
1690 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Massachusetts)
1690 The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in America.
1706 During the Battle of Fraustadt Swedish forces defeat a superior Saxon-Polish-Russian force by deploying a double envelopment.
1740 Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
1743 Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
1744 Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd explained in a tract: 'God designs that those whom He sanctifies...shall tarry awhile in this present evil world, that their own experience of temptations may teach them how great the deliverance is, which God has wrought for them.'
1752 Dutch States-General forbid export of windmills
1781 Dutch West Indies island of St Eustatia taken by the British
1783 American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
1783 Spain recognizes US independence
1787 Shays' Rebellion is crushed.
1807 A British military force, under Brig-Gen. Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now capital of Uruguay.
1809 Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
1813 The Battle of San Lorenzo takes place. It is the first military action of José de San Martín's cavalry élite unit Granaderos a Caballo at the Argentine War of Independence.
1815 World's 1st commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1823 The opera "Semiramide" is produced (Venice)
1825 Dutch North Sea coast floods
1830 The sovereignty of Greece was confirmed in a London Protocol.
1834 Wake Forest University is established.
1836 Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany NY)
1844 Hector Berlioz' "Carnaval Romain," premieres in Paris
1852 The Battle of Caseros marks the end of the hegemony of Buenos Aires Province Governor Juan Manuel de Rosas over the Argentine Confederation.
1855 Wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
1860 Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
1864 In Columbus, Ohio, a fellowship of independent Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational and United Brethren churches organized itself into a separate Protestant denomination known as the Christian Union.
1864 Sherman's march through Georgia
1865 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse
1867 Emperor Meiji becomes the 122nd emperor of Japan.
1867 Prince Mutsuhito, 14, becomes Emperor Meiji of Japan (1867-1912)
1869 Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in New York NY (Romeo & Juliet)
1870 The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
1876 Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods company, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1882 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1887 To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act
1892 Russia closes down Yeshiva of Volozhin
1894 1st US steel sailing vessel, Dirigo, launched, Bath, Me
1895 Wilhelm Mauseth skates world record 500 meter (46.8 seconds)
1899 -16º F (-27º C), Minden LA (state record)
1900 Gubernatorial candidate William Goebel is assassinated in Frankfort, Kentucky.
1900 Rival forces fight for control of the Union Park ball grounds in Baltimore
1901 Dutch troops under General Van Heutsz conquer Batu Ilië on Sumatra
1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Kano West Africa
1908 Foundation of Panathinaikos in Athens, Greece.
1908 Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1913 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1913 Golden/Cawthorne's musical "Sunshine Girl" premieres in New York NY
1913 The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
1915 Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
1916 Canada's original Parliament buildings, in Ottawa, burns down
1916 Tristan Tzar publishes Dada-manifest in Zurich Switzerland
1917 US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
1917 The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, World War I.
1918 The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet (3,633 meters) long.
1919 Herbert/Blossom's musical "Velvet Lady" premieres in New York NY
1919 League of Nations 1st meeting (Paris)
1919 Socialist conference convenes (Berne Switzerland)
1923 The Alpha Zeta chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia founded at Pennsylvania State University.
1924 Alexei Ryko elected as President of People's commission (succeeds Lenin)
1927 Uprising against regime of General Carmona in Portugal
1929 Revolutionary Socialist Party forms in Amsterdam
1930 The Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
1930 Vietnamese Communistic Party forms
1930 William Howard Taft, resigns as chief justice for health reasons
1931 Arkansas legislature passes motion to pray for soul of H L Mencken after he calls the state the "apex of moronia"
1931 The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
1933 1st interstate legislative conference in US opens, Washington, DC
1933 German minister Goering bans social-democratic newspaper Vorwarts
1933 Marinus van der Lubbe departs to Berlin
1937 Bradman scores 212 (in 441 minutes!) in 5th Test Cricket vs England
1938 Paul Osborn's "On Borrowed Time" premieres in New York NY
1941 Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets minimum wages & maximum hours
1942 1st Japanese air raid on Java
1942 Baseball owners agree to permit each club up to 14 night games in 1942
1943 4 chaplains drown after giving up their life jackets to others
1943 The Allied troopship S.S. Dorchester was torpedoed by a German sub and went down with a loss of 600 lives. As it sank, four chaplains gave up their lifejackets to shipmates, thereby also perishing in the icy waters. The bravery of Rev. Clark Poling (Dutch Reformed), Rev. George Lansing Fox (Methodist), Father John Washington (a Catholic priest) and Alexander David Goode (a Jewish rabbi) led Congress afterward to mark February 3rd as "Four Chaplains Day."
1944 United States troops capture the Marshall Islands. During the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, U.S. Army and Marine forces seize Kwajalein Atoll from the defending Japanese garrison, World War II.
1945 Almost 1000 Flying Fortresses drop 3000 ton bombs on Berlin
1945 Walt Disney's "The 3 Caballeros" released
1945 As part of Operation Thunderclap, 1,000 B-17s of the Eighth Air Force bomb Berlin, a raid which kills between 2,500 to 3,000 and dehouses another 120,000, World War II.
1947 -81°F (-63°C), Snag Yukon (North American record)
1947 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)
1947 Bradman bowled by Alec Bedser for a duck in 4th Test Cricket
1947 The lowest temperature in North America is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
1948 Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
1950 Nuclear physicist Klaus Fuchs arrested on spy charges
1951 "Victor Borge Show" debuts on NBC TV
1951 Dick Button wins US skating title for 6th time
1951 Largest purse to date in horse racing, $144,323, won by Great Circle
1951 Tennessee Williams' "Rose Tattoo" premieres in New York NY
1953 J Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show
1954 Jeen van den Berg wins Dutch Eleven Cities Skating race (7:32)
1956 Autherine J Lucy admitted to University of Alabama, suspended 2/7 after a riot
1956 Toni Sailor becomes 1st Olympics skier to sweep the 3 alpine events
1957 Patty Berg wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
1957 Senegalese political party Democratic Rally merges into the Senegalese Party of Socialist Action (PSAS).
1958 Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
1958 Royal Teens' "Short Shorts" enters Top 40 chart & peaks at #3
1959 American Airlines Electra crashes in New York's East River, killing 65
1959 A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper, and pilot Roger Peterson and the incident becomes known as The Day the Music Died.
1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through c: olonial Africa, signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
1961 6th largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
1962 John Uelses pole vaults record 489 cm
1962 President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational
1964 "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold
1964 Black & Puerto Rican students boycott NYC public schools
1965 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams
1965 Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down
1965 Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture
1965 Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km)
1966 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US)
1966 The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
1967 "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix
1967 Ronald Ryan, the last person to be executed in Australia, is hanged in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne.
1969 "Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 122 performances
1969 In Cairo, Yasser Arafat is appointed Palestine Liberation Organization leader at the Palestinian National Congress.
1969 The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
1971 KTSC TV channel 8 in Pueblo-Colorado Springs CO (PBS) 1st broadcast
1971 New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
1972 11th Winter Olympics games opens in Sapporo Japan (1st in Asia)
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 Dr Hook's "Cover of "Rolling Stone"" enters Top 40 & peaks at #6
1973 President Nixon signs Endangered Species Act into law
1974 "Pajama Game" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 performances
1974 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational
1975 Billy Herman, Earl Averill, & Bucky Harris elected to Hall of Fame
1976 26th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 123-109 at Philadelphia
1977 Martin Dihigo John Lloyd elected to Hall of Fame
1978 Australia beat India 3-2 on 6th day of final test
1978 India needing 493 to beat Australia at Adelaide, all out 445
1979 "YMCA" by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1979 Minnesota Twins trade Rod Carew to California for 4 players
1979 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1979 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
1980 30th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 144-136 (OT) at Washington
1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Lorenzo Holmes in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 Muhammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy
1981 Australia beats New Zealand 3-1 to win World Series Cup
1981 Gro Harlem Brundtland elected premier of Norway
1982 Columbia Shuttle moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating for STS-3 mission
1982 Greatest helicopter lift, 56,888 kg, Podmoscovnoe, USSR
1982 John Sharples of England finishes disco dancing 371 hours
1982 Porn star John Holmes ordered to stand trial for murder
1983 US female Figure Skating championship won by Rosalynn Sumners
1984 10th Space Shuttle Mission (41B)-Challenger 4 launched
1984 John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Long Beach CA announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
1984 Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
1985 "Harrigan 'n Hart" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 5 performances
1985 In South Africa, Desmond Tutu, 53, became Johannesburg's first black Anglican bishop.
1985 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1986 President Reagan announces formation of Committee on Challenger Accident
1987 Expos trade Jeff Reardon to Twins for Neal Heaton
1987 San Diego Yacht Club celebrates return of America's Cup
1988 The United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to aid Nicaraguan Contras, Iran-Contra Affair.
1989 After a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns party leadership and the presidency of South Africa.
1989 Bill White named NL president; 1st black major-league sports head
1989 Military coup overthrows Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay since 1954.
1989 Start 1st Test Cricket, New Zealand vs Pakistan, washed out
1990 Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse races
1990 New York Met Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation
1991 Meg Mallon wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1991 NFL Pro Bowl, AFC beats NFC 23-21
1992 Defense opens calling Noriega "our ally in the war on drugs"
1992 Labor strike at Royal Canadian Mint ends
1992 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $300 per week
1993 Cincinnati Reds owner Marge Schott suspended for 1 year due to racist comments
1993 Federal trial of 4 police officers charged with civil rights violations in videotaped beating of Rodney King begins in Los Angeles CA
1993 General Hospital's Tristan Rogers convicted of drunk driving
1994 "Les Miserables," opens at Kallang Theatre, Singapore
1994 Actor Jean-Claude van Damme (32) weds Darcy Lapier (28) in Bangkok
1994 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
1994 STS-60 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1995 STS 63 (Discovery 19), launches into orbit
1996 The Lijiang earthquake in Lijiang, Yunnan, China.
1997 Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca NY
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Detroit MI on WKRK 97.1 FM
1998 Britain issues a set of Princess Diana stamps
1998 Cavalese cable-car disaster: a United States Military pilot causes the death of 20 people when his low-flying plane cuts the cable of a cable-car near Trento, Italy.
1998 Florida Panther Dino Ciccarelli's is 9th NHLer to score 600 career goals
1998 Karla Faye Tucker is executed in Texas becoming the first woman executed in the United States since 1984.
1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, violates probation with 14 year-old father of her baby
1998 New York Yankees replace general manager Bob Watson with Brian Cashman
1998 Stamps commemorating Princess Diana go on sale across Britain
1998 US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy, kills 20
1999 In Jammu and Kashmir the political party Democratic Janata Dal (Jammu and Kashmir) is revived.
2002 Super Bowl XXXVI: New England Patriots beat St. Louis Rams, 20-17 at the Louisiana Superdome, New Orleans MVP: Tom Brady, New England, QB
2007 A Baghdad market bombing kills at least 135 people and injures a further 339
2011 All available blocks of IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed to regional authorities
2013 33 people are killed by a suicide bombing by an explosive-packed truck in Kirkuk, Iraq
2013 Super Bowl XLVII: Baltimore Ravens beat San Francisco 49ers, 34-31 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome MVP: Joe Flacco, Baltimore, QB
2014 2 students are shot & killed in a school shooting in Moscow
2016 Lord Lucan's death certificate is granted, 42 years after he disappeared following the murder of nanny Sandra Rivett
Born on February 3rd
1338 Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (d. 1378)
1368 Charles VI, King of France (1380-1422)
1525 Giovanni Perluigi da Palestrina, composer
1648 Louis Bouteiller, composer
1655 Francois Fagel, Dutch fieldmarshal, baptized
1677 Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (d. 1723)
1689 Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (d. 1741)
1690 Richard Rawlinson, English minister (d. 1755)
1721 Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz, Prussian general (d. 1773)
1736 Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Austrian organist/composer
1740 Guillaume Lasceux, composer
1747 Samuel Osgood, American patriot (d. 1813)
1755 Florido Tomeoni, composer
1763 Caroline von Wolzogen, [von Lengefeld], German author
1777 John Cheyne, British physician, surgeon and author (d. 1836)
1784 John Fane graaf van Westmorland, English (opera)composer/diplomat
1795 Antonio José de Sucre, South American independence leader (d. 1830)
1805 Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier Prussia
1805 Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel premier Prussia
1807 Joseph Eggleston Johnston, American Confederate general (Commander army of Tennessee) (d. 1891)
1808 Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar, Princess of Prussia (d. 1877)
1809 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, German composer (Great Scherzos) (d. 1847)
1811 Horace Greeley, American journalist, editor, and publisher ("Go west, young man") (d. 1872)
1817 Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist (d. 1881)
1817 Emile Racine Gauthier Prudent, composer
1817 Samuel Ryan Curtis, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1820 Elisha Kent Kane, US Arctic explorer (Kane Basin off NW Greenland)
1821 Elizabeth Blackwell, American physician, 1st woman physician (d. 1910)
1823 Spencer F Baird, US biologist (Wood's Hole Station)
1824 George Thomas "Tige" Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1824 Nathan George "Shanks" Evans, Brigadier General (Confederacy), died in 1868
1824 Ranald MacDonald, Canadian-born Scottish educator and interpreter (d. 1894)
1826 Walter Bagehot, English essayist, journalist and businessman (d. 1877)
1830 Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1903)
1830 Robert Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury (C), British PM (1885-1902)
1831 Cyrus Ballou Comstock, Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1833 Thomas T H Jorissen, Dutch historian
1842 Sidney Clopton Lanier, US, composer/poet (Hall of Fame)
1842 Sidney Lanier, American writer (d. 1881)
1843 William Cornelius Van Horne, American-born railway pioneer and executive (d. 1915)
1845 Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Sedan)
1851 Johannes B van Heutsz, Lieutenant-General/Governor-General Dutch East Indies
1851 Lord Harris, cricketer (4 Tests for England MCC big-wig)
1857 Giuseppe Moretti, Italian sculptor (d. 1935)
1859 Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer (d. 1935)
1861 Léopold Courouble Belgian writer (Family Kaekebroeck)
1862 James Clark McReynolds, American Supreme Court Justice (d. 1946)
1865 Martinus Ballings, Flemish jesuit/author (Will Power)
1868 Damaso Ledesma, composer
1870 Ada Negri, Italian poet/author (Il Libro di Mara)
1872 Lou Criger, American baseball player (d. 1934)
1873 Ernest B Allo, French theologist
1874 Franklyn Dyall, Liverpool England, actor (Easy Virtue)
1874 Gertrude Stein, American writer (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas) (d. 1946)
1876 William Tedmarsh, English-born American silent movie actor (d. 1937)
1878 Joseph Gordon Coates, PM of New Zealand (1925-28)
1879 Charles Follis, 1st black NFL football player
1880 Arnoldus JH Aerts, bishop of Netherlands-Guinea (1920-42)
1882 Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherlands)
1883 Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter
1883 Clarence Mulford, Illinois, western writer (Hopalong Cassidy)
1886 Erwin Kroll, composer
1887 Carlo Jachino, composer
1887 Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Autumn of the Lonely) (d. 1914)
1887 Juan Negrín, Spanish Prime Minister (d. 1956)
1887 Silvio d'Amico, Italian theater critic (Tramonto del grande attore)
1888 Joris Baers, Flemish bibliography/founder (Boekengids)
1889 Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (Leaves from Satan's Body, Passion of Jeanne d'arc) (d. 1968)
1889 Risto Ryti, Finnish premier/president
1890 Charles [Andy] Correll, Peoria IL, actor (Calvin & the Colonel)
1890 Heinrich Barth, Swiss philosopher (Problem des Bösen)
1891 Jan Donner, Dutch minister of Justice (1926-33)
1891 Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor/director (Great Netherlands Stage)
1893 Gaston Julia, French mathematician (d. 1978)
1894 Juan Negrín, PM of the Spanish Republic (1936-39)
1894 Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers) (d. 1978)
1895 Izak Buys, cricketer (one Test for South Africa 1922, 0 & 4*, 0-52)
1895 Nick Kenny, Astoria New York NY, columnist/songwriter (Nick Kenny Show)
1895 Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, politician (found APRA party in Peru)
1896 Johannes Urzidil, writer
1898 Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect (Finlandia House) (d. 1976)
1898 Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician
1899 Doris Speed, English actress (Annie-Coronation Street) (d. 1994)
1899 Forrest "Red" DeBernardi, basketball hall of famer (elected 1961)
1899 João Café Filho, Brazilian president (d. 1970)
1899 Lao She, Chinese writer (d. 1966)
19-- Brenda Dickson-Weinberg Long Beach CA, actress (Young & Restless, Deathmaster, Taxi Driver)
19-- Joel Bartlett KPIX (Channel 5) weatherman
19-- Mariclare Costello actress (Rosemary-Waltons)
1900 Mabel Mercer, English cabaret vocalist (Fly Me to the Moon)
1902 Ramón [J] Sender [Garcés], Spanish writer (El Lugar del Hombre)
1903 Priaulx Rainier, composer
1903 Walter Linck, Swiss sculptor
1904 Luigi Dallapiccola, Italian composer (d. 1975)
1904 Charlie "Pretty Boy" Floyd, American gangster, FBI Most Wanted criminal (d. 1934)
1904 Roger Makins, diplomat
1905 Arne Beurling, American mathematician(d. 1986)
1906 Ludvig Nielsen, composer
1907 James Michener, American author (Tales of the South Pacific, Centennial, Chesapeake, Hawaii, Space) (d. 1997)
1908 Oddbjörn Hagen, Norway, cross country jumper (Olympics-gold-1936)
1909 André Cayatte, French filmmaker (d. 1989)
1909 M Vasalis [Margaretha Droogleever Fortuyn-Leenmans], poet (Phoenix)
1909 Simone Weil, French philosopher, Resistance fighter (WW II) (d. 1943)
1910 Blas Galindo Dimas, San Gabriel Mexico, composer (A la Patria)
1910 Nelson Case, Long Beach California, TV host (Trash or Treasure)
1911 Jehan (Ariste) Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940)
1911 Jesse Thomas, blues singer
1911 Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)
1912 Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist, French minister of information (d. 1990)
1912 Mary Carlisle, American actress and singer
1913 Richard Seaman, British racing driver (d. 1939)
1914 Cornelis "Kees" Andrea, Dutch painter/graphic artist/carpet designer
1914 Felix Kelly, artist
1915 Jann Willem Holsbergen, author (Zakenmensen Fair as Gold)
1915 Richard Bales, composer
1916 Vivien Signy, nurse
1918 Helen Stephens, American runner, 100 meter dash (Olympics-gold-1936) (d. 1994)
1918 Joey Bishop, American entertainer (Joey Bishop Show), member of the Rat Pack (d. 2007)
1920 Bibi Osterwald, New Brunswick NJ, actress (Bridget Loves Bernie)
1920 Henry Heimlich, American physician (Heimlich maneuver)
1920 Stan Ockers, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1955, 56)
1920 Tony Gaze, Australian racing driver
1922 Bill Chappell Jr, (Representative-D-FL, 1969)
1922 Jean-Pierre Rampal, flutist (Italian Flute Concertos)
1923 Alys Robi, Quebec singer
1924 E. P. Thompson, English socialist historian, (The Making of the English Working Class), (d. 1993)
1924 Martial Asselin, Canadian politician and lieutenant governor of Quebec
1925 John Fiedler, American voice actor (Mr Peterson-Newhart) (d. 2005)
1925 Joop C Swart, Dutch publisher/founder (World Press Photo)
1925 Keith Dunstan, Australian author and journalist
1925 Leon Schlumpf, member of the Swiss Federal Council
1926 Arthur Arfons, auto racer/designer (Green Monster 1964-536.71 MPH)
1926 Glen Tetley, US choreographer
1926 Hans-Jochen Vogel, German politician, leader of West Germany's Social Democrats (SPD)
1926 J Roy Rowland (Representative-D-GA, 1983)
1926 Shelley Berman, American comedian (Son of Blob, Love American Style)
1927 Blas Ople, Filipino politician (d. 2003)
1927 Joan Lowery Nixon, American writer (d. 2003)
1927 Kenneth Anger, American Underground Filmmaker
1927 Val Doonican, Irish singer and entertainer
1928 C V Gadkari, cricketer (Indian batsman in 6 Tests 1953-55)
1928 Frankie Vaughan, English singer (d. 1999)
1928 Mr [Fred] Rogers, Latrobe, Pa, kid host (Mr Roger's Neighorhood)
1929 Ken Shipp, American football coach
1929 Russell Arms, Berkeley California, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
1929 Val Doonican, Irish singer/entertainer
1930 Gillian Ayres, English painter
1930 Joan Rice, actress (Payroll, Steel Key, Curtain Up)
1931 Göran J S Palm Swedish poet/writer (Hudens Besök)
1932 J P "Pom-Pom" Felloes-Smith, cricketer (South Africa batsman vs England 1960)
1932 Maria Itkina, USSR, sprinter (9 world records)
1932 Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (Little Women, Daisy Kenyon) (d. 1984)
1933 Paul S Sarbanes, American politician (Senator-D-MD, 1977)
1934 Jeremy Kemp, Chesterfield England, actor (Winds of War)
1935 Johnny "Guitar" Watson, rock guitarist
1936 Bobby Simpson, cricketer (great Australian batsman/capt/coach/slip)
1936 Jim Marshall, American photographer (d. 2010)
1936 Robert Simpson Australian cricket player/manager (great Australian batsman/captain/coach/slip)
1938 Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer
1938 Victor Buono, American actor (Man from Atlantis, Untouchables) (d. 1982)
1938 Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny, Russia, cosmonaut
1939 Deszö Nowak Hungary, soccer play (Olympics-gold-1964, 68)
1939 Michael Cimino, American film director
1939 Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut
1939 Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky Russian cosmonaut
1940 Fran Tarkenton, American football player, NFL quarterback (New York Giants, Minnesota Vikings)
1940 Jim Hartz, newscaster (NBC-TV, Innovations)
1941 Angelo D'Aleo, Bronx, tenor (Dion & Belmonts-Teenager in Love)
1941 Bridget Hanley, American actress (Here Come the Brides)
1941 Carol Mann, Buffalo NY, golfer (LPGA Hall of Fame 1977, 1965 US Open)
1941 Chuck Tharp, rock vocalist (Fireballs)
1941 Dory Funk, Jr., American professional wrestler
1941 Gary Bartlett, cricket pace bowler (New Zealand in 10 Tests in the 1960's)
1941 Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
1943 Blythe Danner, American actress (Butterflies are Free)
1943 Dennis Edwards, American singer (The Temptations)
1943 Eric Haydock, bassist (Hollies-He Aint Heavy He's My Brother)
1943 Shawn Phillips, American singer, guitarist and songwriter
1944 Trisha Noble, Australian singer and actress (Deadline, Strike Force, Executive Suite)
1945 Bob Griese, American football player, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, 1971 Player of Year)
1945 Johnny Cymbal, American singer and songwriter (Mr Bass Man) (d. 1993)
1945 Willeke Alberti, [Verbruggen], Dutch vocalist/actress (Small Truth)
1947 Chose Alberts, [Krommenhoek], vocalist (Yet Many Years)
1947 Dave Davies, English musician, vocalist (The Kinks)
1947 Joe Coleman, baseball pitcher (Washington, Detroit)
1947 Koos Alberts, [Krommenhoek], Dutch vocalist (Many More Years to Come)
1947 Melanie Safka, American singer-songwriter (Candles in the Rain)
1947 Paul Auster, American novelist (Mr Vertigo, Smoke)
1947 Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor (Call Me, Death Valley)
1948 Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorese politician, Nobel Peace laureate
1948 Henning Mankell, Swedish author
1949 Arthur Kane, American musician (d. 2004)
1949 Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist
1949 Oscar Benton, Dutch blues vocalist/guitarist (Ze is Zoals Jij)
1950 Lizzie Borden director/writer (Love Crimes, Working Girls)
1950 Michael Dickinson, British reorganizer
1950 Morgan Fairchild (Patsy McClenny), American actress (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road)
1951 Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
1951 Felipe Munoz, Mexican 200 meter backstroke swimmer (Olympics-gold-1968)
1952 Fred Lynn, American baseball player, outfielder (Boston, California, Baltimore)
1952 Jack Fields (Representative-R-TX, 1981)
1953 Savvas Tsitouridis, Greek politician
1954 Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 Kirsty Wark, British broadcast journalist
1955 Stephen Euin Cobb, American novelist
1956 John Jefferson, American football player
1956 Lee Ranaldo, American musician (Sonic Youth)
1956 Nathan Lane, American actor (Birdcage, Timon-Lion King, Mouse Hunt, One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie)
1956 Pamela Cossey, England, model/sister of transsexual Tula
1957 Chico Serra, Brazilian racing driver
1957 Michele Greene, Las Vegas Nevada, actress (Abby Perkins-LA Law)
1957 Steven Stapleton, English musician (Nurse With Wound)
1957 Tony Butler musician (Big Country-Wonderland)
1958 Joe Frank Edwards Jr, American astronaut, Commander USN/astronaut (STS 89)
1958 Lee Crystal, musician (Joan Jett & Blackhearts-Ashes in the Wind)
1958 Lizzie Borden, director/writer (Love Crimes, Working Girls)
1958 N. Gregory Mankiw, American economist
1959 Ferzan Özpetek, Turkish cinema director
1959 Lol Tolhurst, English musician (The Cure)
1959 Molly Killingbeck, Jamaican 4X400 meter relayer (Olympics-silver-1984)
1959 Thomas Calabro, American actor (Michael Mancini-Melrose Place)
1959 Yasuharu Konishi, Japanese musician (Pizzicato Five)
1960 B J Jefferson, Dallas Tx, actress (Ronnie Laurance-Another World)
1960 Kerry Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1993)
1960 Marty Jannetty, American Wrestler
1960 Richard Kotzen, musician
1961 Jay Adams, American skateboarder
1961 Keith Gordon, American actor (Dressed to Kill, Legend of Billie Jean)
1961 Linda Eder, American singer
1962 Joe Handle, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1962 Marty Jannetty, American professional wrestler
1962 Michele Greene, American actress (Abby Perkins-LA Law)
1963 Raghuram Rajan, American economist
1965 Dorcas Wonsavage, Madison Wis, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1965 Karlous Marx Shinohamba, Namibian politician
1965 Kathleen Kinmont, American actress (Fraternity Vacation, Renegade)
1965 Maura Tierney, American actress (Lisa-Newsradio)
1966 Danny Morrison, cricket pace bowler (New Zealand since 1987)
1966 Frank Coraci, American film director
1966 Freedom Williams
1966 Gillian Bonner, Athens GA, playmate (Apr, 1996)
1966 Kostas Patavoukas, Greek basketball player
1966 Sean Patrick Wade, Houston TX, New Zealand marathoner (Olympics-96)
1967 Aurelio Vidmar, soccer player (Standard Luik, Feyenoord)
1967 Bob Taylor, English footballer
1967 Dave Benson Phillips, English children's TV presenter
1967 Jason Morris, Scotia NY, half-middleweight judoka (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1967 Natalie Hunter, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1968 Frantisek Kucera, Prague Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks, Olympics-gold-98)
1968 Leroy Thompson, NFL running back (Kansas City Chiefs)
1968 Mark Koevermans, Netherlands, tennis star
1968 Vlade Divac, Serbian basketball player, NBA center (Charlotte Hornets, Los Angeles Lakers)
1969 Casey Weldon, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1969 Jeff Christy, NFL center (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 Retief Goosen, South African golfer
1969 Robert Pack, American basketball player, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Dallas Mavericks)
1969 Terry Bradshaw, US baseball outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1970 Alonza Barnett, WLAF safety (Amsterdam Admirals)
1970 Eric Curry, NFL defensive end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1970 Jason Muzzatti, Toronto, NHL goalie (Hartford Whalers)
1970 Keith Carney, Providence, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, Team US)
1970 Oscar Cordoba, Colombian footballer
1970 Warwick Davis, British actor
1970 Óscar Córdoba, Colombian footballer
1971 Elisa Donovan, American actress
1971 Eric Owens, Danville VA, outfielder (Cincinnati Reds)
1971 Hong Seok-cheon, South Korean actor
1971 Marcus Buckley, NFL linebacker (New York Giants)
1971 Roman Cechmanek, NHL goaltender (Team Czechoslovakia Olympics-gold-1998)
1971 Sarah Kane, English playwright (d. 1999)
1971 Sean Dawkins, American football player, NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 Vincent Elbaz, French actor
1972 Jermaine Smith, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1972 Jesper Kyd, Danish film and video game music composer
1972 Keith Elias, NFL running back (New York Giants)
1972 Mart Poom, Estonian football player
1972 Tyrone Poole, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers)
1973 Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist
1973 Jim Campbell, Worcester, NHL center (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1973 Kyle Richardson, WLAF punter (Rhein Fire)
1974 Julie Meadows, American pornographic actress
1974 Konrad Galka, Polish swimmer
1974 Miriam Yeung, Hong Kong actress
1976 Dwayne Rudd, American football player, linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
1976 Isla Fisher, Australian actress
1976 Karen Bradley, Miss Rhode Island USA (1996)
1976 Mathieu Dandenault, Canadian ice hockey player
1976 Tim Heidecker, American comedian
1977 Daddy Yankee , Puerto Rican reggaeton singer/rapper
1977 Maitland Ward, Torrance CA, actress (Jessica-Bold & Beautiful)
1978 Adrian R'Mante, American actor
1978 Eliza Schneider, American actress and singer
1980 Kim E-Z, former member of the Korean girl group Baby V.O.X.
1980 Rakhi Sawant, Indian item girl
1980 Sarah Lewitinn, American writer
1981 Alisa Reyes, American actress and singer
1981 Maurice Ross, Scottish footballer
1982 Alan Gurr, Australian V8 Supercar driver
1982 Jessica Harp, American singer (The Wreckers)
1983 Gabriel Sargissian, Armenian chess Grandmaster
1983 Richard Bartel, American football player, National Football League quarterback
1983 Silambarasan Rajendar, Indian Tamil actor
1984 Unknown, Long Beach CA, 1st baby conceived by embryo transplant
1988 Kyuhyun, a singer, a member of Korean boy group Super Junior
1989 Ryne Sanborn, American actor
1989 Slobodan Rajkovic, Serbian footballer
1990 Cody Newton Gifford, son of Kathie Lee & Frank Gifford
1990 Sean Kingston, American reggae rapper
1994 Tallulah Belle Willis, 3rd daughter of Bruce Willis & Demi Moore
Died on February 3rd
474 Leo I, Byzantine Emperor (457-74)
619 Laurence of Canterbury, 2nd Archbishop of Canterbury
699 Saint Werburgh
865 Ansgar/Anscharius/Oskar, German 1st (arch)bishop of Hamburg/saint
1014 King Sweyn I of Denmark
1116 King Coloman of Hungary (b. 1070)
1399 John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, king of Castile & Leon (b. 1340)
1428 Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)
1451 Murad II, Ottoman Sultan (1421-51) (b. 1404)
1468 Johannes Gutenberg, German publisher
1536 Garcia de Resende, Port writer/publisher (Cancioneiro Geral)
1549 Sri Suriyothai, Chief Queen of Ayutthaya
1558 Alfonsus de Castro, Spanish theologist (council of Trente)
1566 George Cassander, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
1602 Paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62
1619 Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (b. 1564)
1679 Jan Havicksz Steen, Dutch painter (St Nicolas Feast)
1697 Sjoucke Gabbes, Frisian sailor, dies/buried on Dirk-Hartog Island
1715 Gottfried Vopelius, composer
1737 Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)
1748 Henri Madin, composer
1802 Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish statesman (b. 1723)
1803 Pedro R de Campomanes, Spanish economist/lawyer/literary
1814 Johann Antonin Kozeluch, composer
1832 George Crabbe, English naturalist and poet (Borough) (b. 1754)
1846 Joseph Weigl, Austria composer/conductor (Waisenhaus)
1853 August Kopisch German writer (Mäuseturm)
1862 Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist (b. 1774)
1866 François-Xavier Garneau, French Canadian poet and historian (b. 1809)
1873 Isaac Baker Brown, English gynaecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
1874 Lunalilo, Hawaiian monarch (b. 1835)
1875 Everhardus J Potgieter, writer (Liedekens van Bontekoe)
1876 Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane
1882 Guglielmo Quarenghi, composer
1889 Belle Starr, American outlaw, US female gangster, murdered (b. 1848)
1890 Christophorus H D Buys Ballot, Dutch meteorologist
1900 Ottokar Eugen Novacek, composer
1902 Isaac Fransen van der Putten, Dutch PM (1866)
1903 Frederick E Kitziger, composer
1909 Johann Georg Herzog, composer
1921 Max Wilhelm Zach, composer
1922 Christiaan R de Wet, South African Boer general
1922 John Butler Yeats, Northern Irish artist (b. 1839)
1924 Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States (1913-21), Nobel laureate (b. 1856)
1925 Jaap Eden, Dutch World champion bicyclist/speed skating
1929 Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish scientist (b. 1878)
1931 Hans Schardt, Swiss geologist
1935 Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859)
1936 Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg, consort of William of Wied, Prince of Albania (b. 1885)
1937 Marija Leiko, Latvian film actress (b. 1887)
1938 Armando Palacio Valdés Spanish writer (El Cuarto Poder)
1943 Alexander Goode, rabbi who surrendered his life jacket, drowns
1945 Jose Rolon, composer
1945 Roland Freisler, German Nazi judge (July 20th plotter case)(b. 1893)
1947 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director
1947 Marc A "Pete" Mitscher. US Lieutenant-Admiral (WWII-Task Force 58)
1947 Marc Mitscher, American Navy Admiral (b. 1887)
1950 Karl Seitz, president of Austria
1952 Harold L. Ickes, American administrator and politician (b. 1874)
1956 Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (b. 1916)
1956 Émile Borel, French mathematician (b. 1871)
1958 Henry Kuttner, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were)
1958 Johannes F Buziau, Dutch cabaret performer
1959 The Day the Music Died, Buddy Holly, American singer (That'll be the Day) (b. 1936), Roger Peterson, pilot (b. 1937), Ritchie Valens, American singer (Donna, La Bamba) (b. 1941), J.P. "The Big Bopper" (Jilles Perry Richardson), American singer (Chantilly Lace) (b. 1930) all die in a plane crash in Iowa.
1960 Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
1960 Johannes G Geelkerken, Dutch reformed vicar
1961 Anna May Wong, actress (Gallery of Madame Lui-Tsang
1961 Viscount Dunrossil, Australian governor-general (1959-61) (b. 1893)
1962 Werner Bock, writer
1964 Sir Albert Richardson, English architect (b. 1880)
1966 June Walker, actress (War Nurses)
1967 Joe Meek, English musician (Tornados), and record producer (Telstar), committed suicide (b. 1929)
1967 Winifred Kingston, silent screen actress (David Garrick)
1969 Eduardo Mondlane Mozambican independence founder, president of Mozambique, murdered (b. 1920)
1971 Jay C Flippen, actor (Ensign O'Toole)
1972 John Litel, actor (Big Boss, Crime Doctor, My Buddy)
1973 Edward Lockspeiser, composer
1975 John Secondari, newscaster (Open Hearing)
1975 Robert Evett, composer
1975 Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer (b. 1904)
1975 William D. Coolidge, American physicist and inventor (b. 1873)
1976 Neville Lindsay, cricketer (South Africa batsman in Test vs Australia 1921)
1977 Pauline Starke, actress (Dante's Inferno, Viking, Sun Up)
1979 Jody Gilbert, actress (Willard, Shaggy, Blonde Dynamite)
1984 Anne Townsend, lacrosse/tennis/field hockey star
1984 Ravindara Mhatrem, Indian diplomat, killed in England
1985 Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist (b. 1912)
1989 John Cassavetes, American actor (Husbands, Dirty Dozen) (b. 1929)
1989 Lionel Newman, American movie music orchestra leader, composer and arranger (b. 1916)
1991 Harry Ackerman, American TV executive producer (b. 1912)
1991 Nancy Kulp, American actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies) (b. 1921)
1993 Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (8 Horse Bet)
1995 John Pinsent, classical scholar
1995 Turner Fodrell, blues singer/guitarist
1996 Audrey Meadows, actress (Alice-Honeymooners)
1996 Broderick Vernon Chinnery-Haldane Photographer
1996 Edward Adamson, art therapist/collector
1996 Edward Frederick Weston Goodman, property Developer
1996 Tibor Reich, textile designer
1996 Wild Jimmy Spruill, blues guitarist
1997 Anthony Cuthbert Baines, writer/curator
1997 Bohumil Hrabal, writer
1997 William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert
1998 Fat Pat, American rapper (Screwed Up Click) (b. 1970)
1998 Karla Faye Tucker, murderer, executed at 38
2000 Richard Kleindienst, American politician (b. 1923)
2003 Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (b. 1962)
2004 Jason Raize, American musical theatre actor (b. 1975)
2005 Corrado Cardinal Bafile, Italian Catholic cardinal (b. 1903)
2005 Ernst Mayr, German-born biologist (b. 1904)
2005 Zurab Zhvania, Prime Minister of Georgia (b. 1963)
2006 Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
2007 George Becker, American president of United Steelworkers (1993-2001) (b. 1928)
2007 Pedro Knight, Cuban-American musician, husband of legendary singer Celia Cruz (b. 1921)
2007 Ralph de Toledano, Moroccan-born American political columnist and author (b. 1916)
2008 Douglas Fraser, Scottish pilot (b. 1916)
2009 Sheng-yen, Buddhist monk and founder of Dharma Drum Mountain (b. 1930)
2010 Regina, Crown Princess of Austria (b. 1925)
2011 Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952)
2012 Ben Gazzara, American actor, pancreatic cancer
2012 Christopher Samuel Youd, British science fiction writer
2012 Norton Zinder, American biologist
2012 Zalman King, American actor and director
2013 Cardiss Collins, American Congresswoman
2015 Sir Martin Gilbert, British historian (Winston Churchill biography)
2015 Charlie Sifford, American professional golfer
