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51 Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
303 Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
932 Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
1152 Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
1215 King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.
1238 The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
1351 Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
1386 Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) was crowned King of Poland.
1461 Battle at Towton, Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England
1461 Wars of the Roses in England, Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1492 King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England.
1493 Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
1519 Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
1540 Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife
1570 King Philip II of Spain bans foreign Dutch students.
1590 Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
1611 George Abbot is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
1621 Jakarta, Java is renamed Batavia.
1629 The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1665 English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1699 Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
1741 English fleet under admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1774 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1776 The American War of Independence: The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
1778 The Continental Congress votes to ratify both the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance with France. The two treaties are the first entered into by the United States government.
1789 In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect (9 senators, 13 reps).
1790 France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
1791 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
1791 A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1791 Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session
1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1792 Oranges introduced to Hawaii
1793 French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.
1793 Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
1794 The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
1797 In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
1798 Catholic women force to do penance for kindling sabbath fire for Jews
1801 1st president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
1804 Castle Hill Rebellion, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising.
1809 Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
1813 Russian troops fighting the army of Napoleon reach Berlin in Germany and the French garrison evacuates the city without a fight.
1814 Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1824 The "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" was founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
1825 John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th president
1826 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, Mass
1829 Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president, Unruly crowd mobs White House during Pres Jackson inaugural ball
1830 V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice
1835 HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepcion
1837 The City of Chicago incorporates
1837 Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th president
1837 Weekly Advocate changes its name to the Colored American
1841 Dion Boucicault's "London Assurance," premieres in London
1841 Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1845 James K Polk inaugrated at 11th president
1848 Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
1848 Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
1849 US had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd
1853 Pope Pius IX recovers Catholic hierarchy in Netherlands
1853 William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US VP
1861 First national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
1861 Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th pres, 1st time US has 5 former pres
1861 Pres Lincoln opens government Printing Office
1863 Battle of Thompson's Station, TN
1863 The Idaho Territory is created as a political division of the United States.
1865 President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as president
1865 Third (and last) national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted, Confederate congress approves final design of the "official flag".
1869 Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president
1876 US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
1877 Tsjaikovsky's incomplete ballet "Zwanenmeer," premieres in Moscow, Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1880 NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan
1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1881 Holmes & Watson begin "A Study in Scarlet," 1st case together
1881 James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president
1881 South African president Kruger accepts ceasefire
1882 Britain's first electric trams run in East London.
1883 John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" in Mississippi
1885 Gilbert & Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London
1885 Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic pres since Civil War
1887 Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile which he test runs in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.
1889 Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president
1890 The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.
1893 Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe
1893 Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US president (2nd term)
1894 Great fire in Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
1895 Gustav Mahler's 2nd Symphony, premieres in Berlin
1897 William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US
1899 Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
1901 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech (Jefferson-Natl Intelligencer)
1901 President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president
1901 Term of George H White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends
1902 In Chicago, the American Automobile Association (AAA) is established.
1904 Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
1905 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Elga," premieres in Berlin
1908 The Collinwood School Fire, US primary school catches fire in Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1909 President Taft inaugrated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm
1909 US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
1911 Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in U.S..
1913 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
1913 Dept of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
1913 Gabriel Faure's opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo
1913 NY Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda)
1913 Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president
1917 Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia's renunciation of the throne is made public, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia publicly issues his abdication manifesto. The victory of the February Revolution.
1917 Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1918 Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
1918 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1920 Last day of Julian civil calendar in Greece
1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
1923 Lenin's last article in Pravda (about Red bureaucracy)
1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1925 Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio (live on 21 radio stations).
1925 Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US
1926 De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
1928 "Bunion Run" race from LA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne
1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes first native-American Vice President of the United States.
1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president
1930 Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1930 Emma Fahning bowls 1st sanctioned 300 game by a woman
1930 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.
1931 Bradman bowled by Herman Griffith for a duck as W I win the Test
1931 The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing salt to be freely used by the poorest members of the population.
1931 West Indies beat Australia for the 1st time, by 30 runs at SCG
1933 Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1933 Chancellor Dollfuss disdolves Austrian parliament
1933 FDR inaugrated as 32nd pres, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"
1933 Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 Henderson, DeSylva & Brown's "Strike Me Pink" premieres in NYC
1933 Noordwijk soccer team forms
1933 The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
1934 Easter Cross on Mt Davidson (SF) dedicated
1936 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1941 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague
1941 NHL Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stops record 80 of 83 Boston shots
1941 Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
1941 The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
1943 Transport nr 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
1943 The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end, World War II.
1944 Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
1944 1st US bombing of Berlin in World War II, After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1945 Finland declares war on nazi-Germany
1945 In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service as a driver.
1945 Lapland War, Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
1947 WWJ (now WDIV) TV channel 4 in Detroit, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister
1949 Piet Van de Pol (Neth) becomes world champion billiard player
1949 Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
1954 JE Wilkins, appointed 1st Black US sub-cabinet member
1954 Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
1955 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1957 The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1959 US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
1960 French freighter "La Coubre" explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1960 Lucille Ball files divorce from Desi Arnaz
1961 Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as sec-gen of NATO
1962 The United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation.
1964 Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1965 David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
1966 Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1966 John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP
1967 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler & Ford (GRB)
1967 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR)
1967 Men's Fig Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT)
1967 Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (US)
1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 Martin Luther King Jr announces plans for Poor People's Campaign
1968 Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1970 French submarine "Eurydice" explodes
1970 Jacksonville is 1st college basketball team to avg 100+ pts per game
1970 NY Rangers set then NHL record of 126 games without being shut-out
1971 "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
1972 Erhard Keller (Germany) skates world record 1000m (1:18.5)
1972 Last train run between Penrith to Keswick UK
1972 Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty
1973 15th Grammy Awards: 1st Time Ever I Saw Your Face, America
1974 David Hares' "Knuckle," premieres in London
1974 Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1976 John Pezzin bowls 33 consecutive strikes at Toledo, Ohio
1976 SF Giants are bought for $8 million by Bob Lurie & Bud Herseth
1976 The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.
1976 The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
1977 Colin Croft takes 8-29 against Pakistan at Port-of-Spain
1977 Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1977 The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
1978 Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1979 "Grand Tour" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 61 performances
1979 200th episode of "All in the Family"
1979 Sally Little wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1979 US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
1980 40th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1980 Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1982 2nd double hat trick in Islander history-Bossy & D Potvin
1982 NASA launches the Intelsat V-508 satellite.
1983 Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1984 Nancy Lopez wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1984 Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1985 STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled
1985 The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1985 Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
1985 War veterans returned to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
1986 Border completes twin Test tons (140 & 114*) v NZ
1986 The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Comet Halley and the first images ever of its nucleus.
1989 Actress Phoebe Cates marries actor Kevin Kline
1989 Eastern Airlines machinists strike
1989 Javier Sotomayor high jumps indoor world record (2.43m)
1990 20th Easter Seal Telethon
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1990 Loyola Marymount University, All-American basketball player Hank Gathers dies on the court of a heart attack during a conference semifinal game.
1990 US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
1991 Bank of Credit & Commerce Intl divests itself of 1st American Bank
1991 Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
1991 Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
1993 "Goodbye Girl" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 188 performances
1993 Katharine Hepburn enters the hospital suffering from exhaustion
1994 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
1994 Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
1994 Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
1995 1st NYC Mayor Trophy's High school track meet in 19 years
1995 Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
1995 George Foreman loses WBA boxing title, refusing to fight Tony Tucker
1995 Michael Johnson runs world record 400m indoor (44.63 sec)
1995 Replacement NY Yankees beat NY Mets 2-1
1997 Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)
1997 U.S. President Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
1997 Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
1998 Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex, although to strictly refer to this as "gay rights" is something of a misnomer.
2001 4 March 2001 BBC bombing, a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002 Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2002 Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
2002 Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission, Multinational Force in Afghanistan.
2005 The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers after it runs a roadblock in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
2005 United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
2006 No response is received in the final attempt to contact Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network.
2007 Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
2009 The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.
2012 Munitions dump explosions kill at least 250 people in the Republic of Congo
2012 Over 10,000 Peruvian illegal gold miners clash with police to gain control of Puerto Maldonado
2012 Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud
2013 11 children are killed after a bus collides a truck in the Jalandhar district, India
2013 40 Syrian soldiers are killed in an ambush in Western Iraq
2013 The Papal Conclave begins to select the successor of Pope Benedict XVI

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1188 Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
1394 Henry the Navigator, sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery (d. 1460)
1492 Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540)
1525 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (d. 1594)
1610 William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
1651 John Baron Somers, (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700) (d. 1716)
1665 Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
1678 Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque violin virtuoso and composer (4 Seasons) (d. 1741)
1702 Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
1706 Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759)
1715 James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
1719 Aert Schouman, Dutch bird/portrait painter
1719 George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
1729 Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (d. 1794)
1742 Johann Heinrich Egli, composer
1745 Charles Dibdin, English composer (d. 1814)
1747 Casimir Pulaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779)
1754 Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
1754 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer
1756 Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
1757 Ignaz Malzat, composer
1765 Charles Dibdin, England, composer/author (Sea Songs)/actor (baptized)
1766 Emanuel ADMJ, French historian (Napoleon)
1773 Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
1781 Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
1782 Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (Swiss Family Robinson) (d. 1830)
1789 Pavel P Gagarin, Russ monarch
1790 David "Robber" Lewis, American robber known for giving stolen money to the poor. (d. 1820)
1792 Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
1793 Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
1798 John Joseph Abercrombie, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1877
1813 Wijnand J J Nuijen, romantic/water colors painter (Wrecked)
1817 Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman, jurist and lawyer, 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
1819 Charles Oberthur, German-born harpist (d. 1895)
1820 Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
1822 Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
1826 John Buford, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (Union volunteers) (d. 1863)
1826 Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
1828 Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1828 Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), Welsh clergyman and author (d. 1870)
1834 Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer
1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italy, astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)
1835 John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
1838 Paul Lacome, composer
1841 Kristian Mandrup Elster, Norwegian author (And fremmed Fugl)
1844 Josip Jurcic, Slovenian writer (10th Brother)
1847 Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
1854 Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
1856 Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
1856 Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877)
1859 Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1905)
1862 Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
1862 Robert Emden, Swiss geo/astro physics (Emden-polytroop)
1863 John Henry Wigmore, American jurist and expert in the law of evidence (d. 1943)
1863 Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
1864 David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
1870 Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
1871 Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
1873 Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
1873 John H. Trumbull, 54th Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut (d. 1961)
1875 Alberto Vaccari, Italian jesuit/old testament scholar/interpreter
1875 Enrique Larreta (E R Maza), Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro)
1875 Mihály Károlyi, former Prime Minister and President of Hungary (d. 1955)
1875 Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37)
1876 Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
1876 Theodore Hardeen, Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945)
1877 Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer (d. 1957)
1877 Daniel G van Beuningen, Dutch art collector
1877 Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
1877 Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
1878 Arishima Takeo, Japanese writer (d. 1923)
1878 Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
1878 Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
1879 Bernhard Kellermann, writer
1879 Josip Murn Aleksandrov, Slovenian poet (d. 1901)
1880 Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
1881 Maude Fealy, American actress (d. 1971)
1881 Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
1881 Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
1881 Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1882 Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, government minister, and former President of the League of Nations (d. 1941)
1883 Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
1884 Red Murray, American professional baseball player (d. 1958)
1885 Willem H Winkel, Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curacao)
1886 Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
1887 John Alexander Buchanan, Canadian politician and civil engineer (d. 1976)
1887 Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)
1888 Jeff Pfeffer, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1972)
1888 Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (Notre Dame) (d. 1931)
1888 Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942)
1889 Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawaii and United States Senators from Hawaii (d. 1965)
1889 Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
1889 Pearl White (Victoria), American actress and stunt woman (Perils of Pauline) (d. 1938)
1889 Robert William Wood, American landscape artist (d. 1979)
1891 Dazzy Vance, American baseball player, hall of fame (led NL in strike-outs 7-yrs) (d. 1961)
1891 Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
1893 Adolph Lowe (born Adolf Löwe), German sociologist and economist (d. 1995)
1893 Charles Herbert Colvin, American aeronautical engineer (d. 1985)
1895 Jesse Baker, American baseball player (d. 1976)
1895 Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
1895 Shemp Howard, American comedian (d. 1955)
1896 Kai Holm, Danish film actor (d. 1985)
1897 Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, baseball player/organized Japanese baseball
1897 Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (d. 1969)
1898 Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940)
1899 Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
1899 Liana Del Balzo, Italian film actress (d. 1982)
1900 Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1900 Roberto Soundy, El Salvador, trap shooter (Olympic-1968)
1901 Charles H Goren, American bridge player and writer (26 US Titles) (d. 1991)
1901 Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
1901 Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist (d. 1986)
1902 Fred Mallin, English boxer (d. 1987)
1902 Russell Reeder, United States Army officer and author (d. 1998)
1903 Carrie Best, Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
1903 Dorothy Mackaill, British-born actress (d. 1990)
1903 Harold Berens, comedian
1903 John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
1903 Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman (d. 1973)
1903 Malcolm Dole, American chemist (d. 1990)
1903 Merwin Graham, American Olympic track and field athlete (d. 1989)
1903 William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
1904 Chief Tahachee, American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor (d. 1978)
1904 George Gamow, Ukrainian-born nuclear physicist (d. 1968)
1904 Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
1906 Avery Fisher, American audio specialist (d. 1994)
1906 Buck Canel, Argentine American sportscaster (d. 1980)
1906 Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
1906 Georges Ronsse, Belgian national cyclo-cross and world champion road bicycle racer (d. 1969)
1906 Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
1907 Edgar Barrier, NY, actor (Cobra Woman, Macbeth, Rocky, Cornered)
1907 Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (d. 2003)
1908 Boris N Poveloi (Kampov), Russian journalist and writer
1908 T.R.M. Howard, American civil rights leader (d. 1976)
1908 Thomas Shaw, American musician (d. 1977)
1909 George Edward Holbrook, American chemical engineer (d. 1987)
1909 Harry B Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur (Empire State Building) (d. 1997)
1910 Miriam Kressyn, Polish-born actor (d. 1996)
1910 Tancredo Neves, president of Civil rights activist
1911 Carl Forberg, American racecar driver (d. 2000)
1912 Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
1912 Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
1912 Edgar Tafel, American architect
1912 Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (d. 1996)
1912 Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974)
1913 John Garfield, American actor (Air Force, Destination: Tokyo, Juarez) (d. 1952)
1913 John H. Fremlin, English nuclear physicist (d. 1995)
1913 Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
1913 Willie Johnson (guitarist), American guitarist (d. 1995)
1914 Gino Colaussi (Luigi Colaussi), Italian footballer (d. 1991)
1914 Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
1914 Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1915 Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (Monte Carlo) (d. 1997)
1915 Charles Johnston, Baron Johnston of Rockport, British politician and businessman (d. 2002)
1915 Eunice Catunda, composer
1915 Frank Sleeman, Australian administrator and politician (d. 2000)
1915 Petrus de Jong, Dutch premier (KVP, 1967-71)
1915 Robert Thom, American painter and historian (d. 1979)
1916 Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (Botteghe Oscure) (d. 2000)
1916 Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
1916 Maurice Argent, American actor (d. 1981)
1916 Michael Howard, British actor and comedian (d. 1988)
1916 William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director (d. 1997)
1917 Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1918 Margaret Osborne DuPont, American tennis player (US Open 1948-50)
1919 Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
1919 Tan Chee Khoon, Malaysian politician (d. 1996)
1920 Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
1920 Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
1920 Marcella Grady Jennings, rancher
1921 Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (d. 1986)
1921 Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer
1921 Joan Greenwood, English actress (Amorous Mr Prawn) (d. 1987)
1922 Dina Pathak (Deena Pathak), Veteran Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)
1922 Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
1922 Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
1923 Patrick Moore, British astronomer and writer (A-Z of Astronomy)
1923 Piero J d'Inzeo, France, equestrian show jumper (Olymp-gold-1952, 64)
1923 Willie Johnson, American guitarist (d. 1995)
1924 Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to US President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
1925 Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
1926 Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
1926 Fran Warren, American singer
1926 James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)
1926 Pascual Pérez (boxing), Argentine boxer (d. 1977)
1926 Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway
1927 Cy Touff, American jazz musician (d. 2003)
1927 Dick Savitt, American tennis player
1927 Jacques Dupin, French poet
1927 Philip Batt, 29th Governor of the U.S. state of Idaho
1927 Robert Di Domenica, composer
1927 Robert Orben, American magician
1927 Thayer David, American actor (Eiger Sanction, Rocky, Nero Wolfe, Savages) (d. 1978)
1928 Alan Sillitoe, English writer (Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner) (d. 2010)
1928 Samuel Adler, American composer
1929 Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor (London Phil Orch 1969-78)
1929 Darrett B. Rutman, US historian (d. 1997)
1929 Elaine Shore, American actress (d. 2007)
1929 Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
1929 Peter Swerling, American RADAR theoretician (d. 2000)
1929 Wolfgang Hollegha, Austrian painter
1931 Alice Rivlin, American economist
1931 Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
1931 Gennady Rozhdestvensky, composer
1931 Han Jansen, Dutch painter
1931 Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
1931 William Henry Keeler, American Roman Catholic Archbishop
1932 Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
1932 Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (d. 1994)
1932 Guido Baggiani, composer
1932 Hessel Rienks, economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
1932 Miriam Makeba, South African singer (Grammy 1965) (d. 2008)
1932 Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
1932 Sigurd Jansen, Norwegian composer, pianist and conductor
1933 Ann Burton (Anna Rafalowicz), Dutch jazz singer (d. 1989)
1933 John W Mills, British sculptor
1933 Nino Vaccarella, Italian racing driver
1934 Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
1934 Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (Barbara McNair Show) (d. 2007)
1934 Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident
1934 Jane van Lawick-Goodall, ethologist/chimp expert (1974 Walker Prize)
1934 Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
1934 John Duffey, American bluegrass musician (d. 1996)
1934 Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer (Synchronisms)
1934 Sandra Reynolds, South African tennis player
1935 Bent Larsen, Danish chess player
1935 Edward Debicki, Polish Romani poet, musician and composer
1935 Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
1936 Aribert Reimann, German composer
1936 David Thompson, British food magnate/multi-millionaire
1936 Eric Allendale, West Indian trombonist and songwriter (Foundations) (d. 2001)
1936 Jim Clark, Scottish racing driver (Indianapolis 500) (d. 1968)
1936 Robert Garrow, American serial killer (d. 1978)
1937 Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
1937 Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer (New Zealand, 239 v India 1968)
1937 Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
1937 Richard B. Wright, Canadian novelist
1937 Ron Carter, jazz bassist (Ron Carter Meets Bach)
1937 Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut, medical doctor, explorer and TV anchorman. (d. 2003)
1937 (Bernard Barney Jean) Wilen, musician
1938 Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
1938 Allan Kornblum, United States federal judge (d. 2010)
1938 Angus MacLise, American percussionist (d. 1979)
1938 Anton Stanislaus Balasingham, Political strategist and negotiator (d. 2006)
1938 Don Perkins, American football player
1938 Marshall Cooke, retired Australian politician
1938 Paula Prentiss, American actress
1938 Roy Hazelwood, former FBI profiler of sex crimes
1939 Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
1939 Jack Fisher, American baseball player
1939 James Aubrey Turner, scientist
1939 Keith Skues, British radio personality
1939 Paula Prentiss (Ragusa) American actress (Parallax View, He & She)
1940 David Plante, American novelist
1940 Kas Garas, Kaunas Lithuania, actor (Hamlyn-Strange Report)
1940 Tamara Wilcox, American actress (d. 1998)
1940 Tom Pedigo, American set decorator (d. 2000)
1940 Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
1940 Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, German legal scholar and former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
1941 Adrian Lyne, English film director
1941 Bobby Shew, American jazz musician
1941 James Zagel, United States district judge and novelist
1941 John Aprea, American actor (Lucas-Another World, Godfather 2)
1941 John Hancock, Hazen AR, actor (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights)
1941 Linda Obermoeller, American painter
1942 Charles C. Krulak, American general and the 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
1942 David Matthews, American keyboardist
1942 Gloria Gaither, American gospel songwriter
1942 Henk van der Kroon, Dutch founder and president of the Federation of European Carnival Cities
1942 Ji-Tu Cumbuka, veteran American stage and screen actor
1942 Lynn Sherr, American broadcast journalist and author
1943 Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
1943 Malcolm Barber, English scholar of medieval history
1943 Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer
1944 Anthony Ichiro Sanda, Japanese-American particle physicist
1944 Bobby Womack, American singer (Woman's Got to Have It)
1944 Greg Weld, American racecar driver (d. 2008)
1944 Harvey Postlethwaite, English automotive engineer (d. 1999)
1944 Len Walker, former English footballer and manager
1944 Michael "Mick" Wilson, drummer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
1944 Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
1945 Dieter Meier, Swiss singer and children book writer (Yello)
1945 Femi Benussi, Italian film actress
1945 Frank Novak, American actor
1945 Gary Williams, American basketball coach
1945 Greg Craig, Washington-based lawyer and current White House Counsel to President Barack Obama
1945 Jaime Tirelli, NYC, actor (Orlando Lopez-Ball Four)
1945 Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966)
1945 Tim Weigel, American broadcaster (d. 2001)
1945 Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
1946 Daniel Frisella, American baseball player (d. 1977)
1946 David Gittins (Red Stripe), singer (Flying Pickets)
1946 Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker (Ashes & Embers)
1946 Harvey Goldsmith, impresario
1946 Jean-Claude Schmitt, prominent French medievalist
1946 Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur (Hawley-ADT)
1946 Nora Radcliffe, Scottish politician
1946 Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, American author
1946 Ralph Kirshbaum, Denton TX, cellist (RNCM Manchester Intl Festival)
1946 Robert Raymond, rocker
1947 Aura Lewis, South African singer
1947 David Franzoni, American screenwriter
1947 Greg Guma, American progressive journalist and author
1947 Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
1947 Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
1947 Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
1947 John Hinch, English Professor of fluid dynamics, Cambridge University
1947 Mike Sheahan, Australian journalist and sports television personality
1947 Peteris Plakidis, Latvian composer and pianist
1948 Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes)
1948 James Ellroy, American writer
1948 Jean O'Leary, American gay and lesbian rights activist and politician (d. 2005)
1948 Leron Lee, American baseball player
1948 Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
1948 Shakin' Stevens (Mike Barrett), Welsh singer (You Drive Me Crazy)
1948 Tom Grieve, American baseball player
1949 Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter
1949 Cookie Mueller, American actress and writer (d. 1989)
1949 Sergei Bagapsh, President of the partially recognized de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia
1949 Tomislav Trific, Serbian graphic artist
1950 Barrie Cassidy, veteran Australian political journalist
1950 Emilio Estefan, Cuba, rocker (Miami Sound Machine-1 2 3)
1950 Francis Affleck, Canadian race car driver (d. 1985)
1950 Judy Dickinson, Akron OH, LPGA golfer (1985 Boston Five Classic)
1950 Kenny Dalglish, soccer manager
1950 Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
1950 Rafael Canizares Poey, Alacs Mtnzs Cuba, basketballer (Oly-bronze-72)
1950 Rick Perry, 47th Governor of Texas
1950 Safet Plakalo, Bosnian playwright
1951 Cecilia Todd, Venezuelan singer and performer
1951 Chris Rea, English guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over)
1951 Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
1951 Gwen Welles, NYC, actress (Desert Hearts, Sticky Fingers)
1951 Kenny Dalglish, British soccer star (100+ goals) and manager
1951 Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
1951 Mike Quarry, American boxer (d. 2006)
1951 Pete Haycock, English guitarist and composer
1951 Sam Perlozzo, American baseball manager
1951 Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist (d. 1982)
1952 Ronn Moss, American actor (Ridge-Bold & Beautiful, Santa Barbara)
1952 Svend Robinson, Canadian politician
1952 Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1953 Chris Smith, American politician
1953 Christopher H Smith, (Rep-R-NJ, 1981)
1953 Daniel Woodrell, American crime fiction writer
1953 Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
1953 John Edwards, Australian television drama producer
1953 Kay Lenz, American actress (Moving Violations, Rich Man Poor Man)
1953 Paweł Janas, Polish football (soccer) manager and former footballer
1953 Peggy Rathmann, award-winning American author and illustrator
1953 Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
1953 Scott Hicks, Ugandan-born film director
1954 Adrian Zmed, American actor
1954 Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress (Beetlejuice, SCTV)
1954 François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France
1954 Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident
1954 Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor (d. 2005)
1954 Peter Erling Jacobsen, American professional golfer, PGA (1990 Bob Hope)
1954 Ricky Ford, American jazz tenor saxophonist
1954 St Clair L. Palmer, vocalist (Sweet Sensation)
1954 Timur Apakidze, Russian major general and Hero of the Russian Federation (d. 2001)
1954 Willie Thorne, English snooker player
1955 Benny Alexander, sec-gen (S Afr Pan-Africanist Movement)
1955 Dominique Pinon, French actor
1955 James Weaver, English race car driver
1955 Joey Jones, Welsh professional footballer
1955 Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42)
1956 Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist
1957 Jim Dwyer, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner
1957 Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver
1957 Ron Fassler, American film and television actor
1958 Caroline Ashley, Scottish actress
1958 Lennie Lee, British artist
1958 Patricia Heaton, American actress (Debra-Everybody Loves Raymond)
1959 Kelly Lynch, Golden Walley Minn, actress (Warm Summer Rain, Cocktail)
1959 Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
1960 Christina Sussiek, former German athlete
1960 John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
1960 Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter
1960 Mykelti Williamson, American actor
1960 Reggie McElroy, NFL tackle (Denver Broncos)
1960 Russell Todd, Troy NY, actor (Dr Jamie Frame-Another World)
1960 Thierry Pastor, French singer
1961 Alain Coumont, Belgian chef and restaurateur
1961 David "Tinker" Juarez, LA California, cyclist (Olympics-19th-96)
1961 Mahito Oba, Japanese voice actor and narrator
1961 Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, American boxer (killed a boxer in the ring)
1961 Roger Wessels, South African golfer (1994 Canadian Masters)
1961 Sabine Everts, former German track athlete
1961 Steven Weber, American actor (Brian Hackett-Wings)
1961 Theodosii Spassov, Bulgarian jazz musician
1961 Tinker Juarez, bike racer
1962 Brant Ian Woodward, Hurstville NZ, trap shooter (Olympics-96)
1962 David Sparrow, English actor
1962 Greg Kragen, American footballer, NFL nose tackle (GB Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1962 Jon Durno, bassist (Roman Holliday)
1962 Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
1962 Mikko Nissinen, Finnish ballet dancer
1962 Paul Canoville, English former professional footballer
1962 Simon Bisley, British comic book artist
1963 Alexei Kyrilloff, Russian artist
1963 Anne Minter, Australia, tennis star
1963 Barbara Bubula, Polish politician
1963 Daniel Roebuck, American actor
1963 Janey Lee Grace, English singer, author, television presenter, and radio disc jockey
1963 Jason Newsted, American bassist (Metallica, Voivod)
1963 MDV (Michiel de Vos), Dutch pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash)
1964 Brian Crowley, Irish politician
1964 Cheryl Fergison, British actress
1964 Emilia Eberle, Romania, gymnist (Oly-silver-80)
1964 Karen Knowles, Australian singer and entertainer
1964 Linda French, Oak Park Ill, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1964 Paolo Virzì, Italian screenwriter and director
1964 Tom Lampkin, American baseball player, catcher (SF Giants)
1964 Paul Bostaph, American drummer (Testament, Slayer, Exodus, Forbidden)
1965 Alexandra Harbold, NYC, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1965 Andrew Collins, English journalist, scriptwriter and broadcaster
1965 Dana Brown, Memphis Tenn, Miss Tenn-America (1991-3rd)
1965 Jonathan Shearer, Scottish castaway
1965 Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author and physician
1965 Paul W. S. Anderson, English filmmaker
1965 Stacy Edwards, American actress (Santa Barbara)
1965 WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
1965 Yuri Lonchakov, Russian cosmonaut
1966 Daniela Amavia, American actress and model
1966 Dav Pilkey, American author
1966 Emese Hunyady, Hungarian speed skater
1966 Grand Puba, American rapper
1966 Kevin Johnson, American basketball player, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns) and Mayor of Sacramento, California
1966 Mike Small, Aurora Illinois, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Emerald Coast)
1966 Nick Scandone, American paralympian yachtsman (d. 2009)
1966 Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer (The Sundays)
1966 Steve Bastoni, Italian Australian actor
1966 Wash West (Wash Westmoreland), English independent and gay porn film director director
1967 Andreas Wistuba, German taxonomist and botanist
1967 Andrew Osmond, English writer
1967 Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer (batsman Warne's bunny)
1967 Dave Rayner, English racing cyclist (d. 1994)
1967 Evan Dando, American musician (The Lemonheads)
1967 Fiona Ma, California State Assembly Majority Whip and San Francisco politician
1967 Juli Furtado, NYC, mountain cyclist (world champ-1991, 92)
1967 Kubilay Türkyilmaz, former Turkish-Swiss footballer
1967 Sam Taylor-Wood, English conceptual artist
1968 Brian Hunter, Torrance CA, infielder (Seat Mariners, Houston Astros)
1968 Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Australian cricketer
1968 Dinky van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star
1968 Dionna Harris, Wilmington Del, softball outfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 Evan Dando, rocker (Lemonheads)
1968 Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player
1968 Jorge Celedón, Colombian musician and singer
1968 Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
1968 Patsy Kensit, English actress (Lethal Weapon 2, Hanover St)
1968 Shafiek Abrahams, South African cricket player
1969 Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress
1969 Chaz Bono (Chastity Sun Bono), American actress (Sonny & Cher Show) and gay rights activist
1969 Frank Nicotero, American comedian
1969 Jason Townsend, American artist and record producer
1969 Jeff Tinsley, Shelbyville KY, outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1969 Karrie Poppinga, Manhattan Beach Ca, volleyballer (Pismo Beach-4-95)
1969 Kenneth Benson, CFL linebacker (Toronto Argonauts)
1969 Matt Tilley, Australian radio personality and comedian
1969 Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
1969 Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian football manager
1969 Stina Nordenstam, Swedish pop singer and musician
1970 Andrea Bendewald, American actress
1970 Caroline Vis, Dutch professional tennis player
1970 Dave Stevens, Fullerton CA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1970 Marja Helena Paluila, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1970 Matt Gay, WLAF safety (Rhein Fire)
1970 Tina Paternostro, Williamsport PA, golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple-57th)
1970 Àlex Crivillé, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
1971 Anders Kjølholm, Danish bass player (Volbeat)
1971 Claire Baker, Scottish politician
1971 Edwin van Holten, soccer player (FC Volendam)
1971 Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (The Cranberries)
1971 Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player
1971 Jason Sellers, American country music artist
1971 Jovan Stankovic, Serbian footballer
1971 Nick Stabile, American actor
1971 Satoshi Motoyama, Japanese racing driver
1971 Shavar Ross, American filmmaker
1972 Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)
1972 Brittney Powell, German-American actress
1972 Buck 65, Canadian hip hop artist, MC and turntablist
1972 Chris Borg, Lexington SC, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 Giorgos Mazonakis, Greek pop singer
1972 Ian Garbutt, English professional golfer
1972 Ivy Queen, American composer and singer
1972 Jennie Garth, actress (Beverly Hills 90210)
1972 Jos Verstappen, Dutch Formula One racing driver
1972 Katherine Center, contemporary American fiction author
1972 Martin St Pierre, Ripon Quebec, 20k walker (Olympics-96)
1972 Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast
1972 Robert Smith, American  NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 Sherida Pawiroredjo, Suriname Miss Indra Maju (1993)
1973 Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, Tollywood film director
1973 Len Wiseman, American director
1973 Mark Lavine, West Indian cricketer (d. 2001)
1973 Massimo Brambilla, Italian football player
1973 Phillip Daniels, American footballer, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 Summer Cummings, American porno actress
1974 Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer
1974 Bill Young, Australian rugby union footballer
1974 Crowbar, American professional wrestler
1974 David Wagner, American wheelchair tennis player
1974 Gabriel o Pensador, Brazilian hip hop rapper
1974 ICS Vortex (Simen Hestnæs), Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus)
1974 Jarrett Deuling, Vernon, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
1974 Karol Kucera, Slovak tennis player (1995-Rosmalen)
1974 Mladen Krstajic, Serbian footballer
1974 Sherry Wigginton, Austin Texas, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 Tommy Phelps, American baseball player
1975 Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 El-P, American hip hop artist and entrepreneur
1975 Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
1975 Julie Dibens, British triathlete
1975 Kim Jung-Eun, South Korean actress
1975 Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler
1975 Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
1975 Patrick Femerling, German-born professional basketball player
1976 Alireza Heidari, Iranian Olympic wrestler
1976 Brian Diego Fuentes, Argentine soccer player
1976 Cho In-Chul, World Champion South Korean judoka
1976 Christian Nicolay, German javelin thrower
1976 Gary Shortland, British professional figure skater
1976 Hayley Evetts, English singer, TV presenter and stage actor
1976 Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 Jasin Thomason, American guitarist (The Ataris)
1976 Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer
1976 Robbie Blake, English footballer
1976 Sam Mraovich, American screenwriter and film director
1976 Scott Sturgeon (Stza Crack), American musician (Choking Victim and Leftover Crack)
1976 Sean Covel, American film producer
1976 Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player
1976 Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football player
1976 Vic Wunderle, American archer
1977 Ana Gabriela Guevara, Mexican athlete
1977 Anna Baitchik, Miss Russia Universe (1997)
1977 Dan Wells, American horror fiction author
1977 Daniel Klewer, German footballer
1977 Gareth Wyatt, Welsh rugby union player
1977 Grégory Le Corvec, French rugby union footballer
1977 Jason Marsalis, American musician
1977 Jeremiah Green, American indie rock band drummer (Modest Mouse)
1977 Juha Helppi, Finnish professional poker player
1977 Mike Kinsella, American musician (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, American Football, and Owen)
1977 Nacho Figueras, Argentine polo player
1977 Rockell (Rachel Alexandra Mercaldo), American musician
1977 Ron Horsley, American author and artist
1977 Tonga Lea'aetoa, New Zealand-Tongan rugby union player
1977 Traver Rains, American designer (Heatherette)
1978 César Morales, Mexican bantamweight boxer
1978 Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
1978 Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player
1978 Nate Ackerman, British-American logician and wrestler
1978 Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress
1979 Ariel Carreño, Argentine football striker
1979 Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
1979 Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
1979 Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
1979 Karima Delli, French politician
1979 Mark Anthony Parrish, American actor, producer, and social and liberal political activist
1979 Neil Best, Irish rugby union footballer
1979 Paul Terry, English footballer
1979 Sarah Stock, Canadian professional wrestler
1979 Stelios Theocharous, Greek Cypriot actor
1979 Trenton Hassell, American basketball player
1979 Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian football goalkeeper
1980 Alex Ribeiro Garcia, Brazilian professional basketball player
1980 Arash Markazi, American sportswriter
1980 Giedrius Gustas, Lithuanian professional basketball player
1980 Greg Lamb, Zimbabwean cricketer
1980 Jack Hannahan, American baseball player
1980 Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (d. 2007)
1980 Kamalinee Mukherjee, (Kamalini Mukherjee) Indian film actress
1980 Michael Henrich, American-born ice hockey player
1980 Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
1980 Phil McGuire, Scottish football player
1980 Rohan Bopanna, Indian tennis player
1980 Scott Hamilton, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1981 Aketza Peña, Spanish road bicycle racer
1981 Ariza Makukula, Portuguese international football player
1981 Carol Banawa, Filipino singer and celebrity
1981 Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
1981 Gareth Knapman, English theatre actor and director
1981 Helen Wyman, British cyclist
1981 Laura Michelle Kelly, English actress and singer
1981 Marie Delattre, French sprint canoer
1982 Elia Rigotto, Italian road bicycle racer
1982 Landon Donovan, American soccer player
1982 Mariano Altuna, Argentine racing driver
1982 Uma Blasini, Puerto Rican beauty queen
1983 Adam Deacon, English Actor
1983 Akeem Omolade, Nigerian footballer
1983 Dante Senger, Argentine footballer
1983 Jaque Fourie, South African rugby union footballer
1983 Max Vergara Poeti, Colombian writer
1983 Ryan Lonie, Australian football player
1984 Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
1984 Marin Colak, Croatian auto racing driver
1984 Norbert Hosnyánszky, Hungarian water polo player
1984 Phillip Inzerillo, American musician
1984 Spencer Larsen, American football player
1984 Tamir Cohen, Israeli/English football midfielder
1984 Zak Whitbread, American-born footballer
1985 Chinedum Ndukwe, American football player
1985 Guillermo Diaz Puerto Rican professional basketball player
1985 Hrvoje Cale, Croatian footballer
1985 Jake Buxton, English professional footballer
1985 Jonas Troest, Danish professional football player
1985 Mathieu Montcourt, Professional French tennis player (d. 2009)
1985 Scott Michael Foster, American actor
1985 Whitney Port, American reality television personality
1986 Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer
1986 Erin O'Kelley, American beauty queen
1986 Margo Harshman, American actress
1986 Park Min Young, South Korean model and actress
1986 Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
1987 Ben McKinley, Australian footballer
1987 Cameron Wood, Australian rules footballer
1987 Tamzin Merchant, British actor and poetess
1988 Adam Watts, English footballer
1988 Cody Longo, American film actor
1988 Mikuru Uchino, Japanese gravure idol
1989 Bradley Middleton, English footballer
1989 Erin Heatherton, American fashion model
1990 Andrea Bowen, American actress
1990 Fran Mérida, Spanish footballer
1990 Georgi Pashov, Bulgarian footballer
1990 Maximiliano Oliva, Argentine footballer
1990 Paddy Madden, Irish footballer
1991 Diandra Newlin, American actress, singer, and fashion model
1991 Stuart O'Keefe, English footballer
1992 Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
1993 Abigail Mavity, American actress
1993 Alice Jones, British actress
1993 Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown
1993 Jenna Boyd, American actress
1993 Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor
1995 Bill Milner, English actor

HIDE

HIDE

251 Pope Lucius I
480 Saint Landry, bishop of Sées
561 Pope Pelagius I
1172 Stephan III, King of Hungary (1162-72) (b. 1147)
1193 Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)
1238 Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
1238 Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
1303 Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
1484 Kazimierz, the Saint, Polish ruler/saint
1484 Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
1496 Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
1583 Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517)
1595 Robert Southwell, English poet, hanged for becoming a Catholic priest
1604 Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
1615 Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
1617 Arcangelo Crivelli, composer
1619 Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574)
1710 Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
1733 Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
1744 John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669)
1762 Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
1793 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist
1793 Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
1794 Henri D count de Larochejacquelin, Fr Royalist Army leader
1795 John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
1804 Karl Leopold Rollig, composer, dies
1805 Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
1807 Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
1821 Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of King William IV, granddaughter of King George III (b. 1820)
1831 Georg Michael Telemann, composer
1832 Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
1839 Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist/composer
1851 James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
1851 Michael Henkel, composer
1852 Nikolai Gogol, Russian writer and playwright
1852 Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
1853 Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)
1858 Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)
1864 Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War (Christianity & Humanity) (b. 1824)
1866 Alexander Campbell, Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788)
1868 Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1872 Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
1876 Alfred Holmes, composer
1877 Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch governor (St Maarten)
1883 Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
1888 Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (Table Talk) (b. 1799)
1903 Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (John Inglesant) (b. 1834)
1906 John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
1910 Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
1915 William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)
1916 Franz Marc, German artist and co-founder (Blaue Reiter) (b. 1880)
1918 Eugene D'Harcourt, composer
1922 Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
1925 James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
1925 John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1925 Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854)
1927 Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
1933 Willie Walker, US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues)
1936 Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer
1938 George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
1938 Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1940 Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
1941 Edoardo Mascheroni, composer
1941 Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1858)
1942 Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer
1943 Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek foreign minister
1943 Pieter C Boutens, Dutch poet (Beatrijs)
1944 Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
1944 Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
1944 Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (b. 1897) (executed)
1944 Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
1944 René Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (b. 1879)
1945 Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
1945 Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
1946 Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
1948 Antonin Artaud, French actor/director (Napoleon) (b. 1896)
1949 Clarence Kingsbury British track cyclist (b. 1882)
1950 Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
1952 Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1953 Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter & the wolf)
1954 Georg Gohler, composer
1954 Noel Gay (Richard Moxon Armitage), English composer, (b. 1898)
1958 Albert Kuyle, [Lou Kuitenbrouwer], writer (Jesus' Carpet)
1959 Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
1960 Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896)
1960 Leonard Warren, American baritone (b. 1911)
1962 Cairine R Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed)
1962 George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
1963 William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883)
1966 Janis Medins, composer
1967 Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
1967 Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
1967 Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905)
1968 Alexandre Cellier, composer
1969 Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
1973 Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
1974 Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903)
1976 Jim Walsh, American basketball player (b. 1930)
1976 John Marvin Jones, Texan member of the United States House of Representatives and Chief Judge of the US federal Court of Claims (b. 1882)
1976 Nikolai Semashko, Soviet sports administrator (b. 1907)
1976 Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
1977 Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian modernist poet, essayist, translator, novelist, publisher, literary and art critic (b. 1925)
1977 Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
1977 Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887)
1977 Miles C. Allgood, U.S. Representative from Alabama (b. 1878)
1977 Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator (b. 1912)
1977 Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
1977 William Paul, American attorney, legislator, and political activist (b. 1885)
1978 Joe Marsala, Chicago-based jazz clarinetist and songwriter (b. 1907)
1978 John Meighan, Irish Clann na Talmhan politician (b. 1891)
1978 Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
1979 Gladys McConnell, American movie actress and aviatrix (b. 1905)
1979 Harry Hopkinson, British yodeler (b. 1902)
1979 Mike Patto, (Michael Thomas McCarthy), English vocalist and front man for The Bow Street Runners (b. 1942)
1979 Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant (b. 1893)
1979 Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)
1980 Alan Hardaker, English football administrator (b. 1912)
1980 Alex Vetchinsky, British film designer (b. 1904)
1980 Alfred Plé, Olympic Frnech rower (b. 1888)
1980 Eric Kerfoot, English footballer (b. 1924)
1980 J. F. A. McManus, Canadian pathologist (b. 1911)
1980 Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist and crystallographer (b. 1892)
1980 Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess master (b. 1905)
1981 Franz Kapus, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (b. 1909)
1981 John Knight, Australian politician (b. 1943)
1981 Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, World War II naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler (b. 1900)
1981 Odette Barencey, French film actress (b. 1893)
1981 Torin Thatcher, Indian actor (Houdini, Isranbul, Lady Godiva) (b. 1905)
1981 Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1982 Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-born English novelist (b. 1912)
1984 Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
1984 Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
1984 Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
1984 Martin Hürlimann, Swiss photographer (b. 1897)
1984 Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer
1986 Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist (b. 1917)
1986 Edward MacLysaght, Irish genealogist (b. 1887)
1986 Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (b. 1913)
1986 Henri Knap, Dutch journalist/writer, dies at 75
1986 Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
1986 John Spence, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1920)
1986 Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band), commits suicide (b. 1943)
1988 Beatriz Guido, Argentine novelist and screenwriter (b. 1924)
1989 Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
1990 Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
1990 Harry Worthington, American track and field athlete (b. 1891)
1991 Godfrey Bryan, English cricketer (b. 1902)
1991 Kenneth Lindsay, British Labour Party politician (b. 1897)
1991 Vance Colvig, actor (UHF, Barfly, My Chauffeur)
1992 Arthur Babbitt, American animator (Mr Magoo, Goofy) (b. 1907)
1992 C Meijer, Dutch editor in chief (Typhoon)
1992 Christian K Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie)
1992 Larry Rosenthal, American professional baseball outfielder (b. 1910)
1992 Mary Osborne, American jazz electric guitarist (b. 1921)
1992 Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (Kramer vs Kramer) (b. 1930)
1992 Pare Lorentz, American filmmaker (b. 1905)
1992 Peter Judge, English cricketer (b. 1916)
1993 Art Hodes, American jazz pianist (Jazz Record) (b. 1904)
1993 Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist (b. 1894)
1993 Michael Beecher, Australian-based model and actor (b. 1939)
1993 Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, British politician and government minister (b. 1929)
1993 Richard Sale, American screenwriter and film director (Oscar, Torpedo Run) (b. 1911)
1993 Tomislav Ivcic, Croatian singer, songwriter and politician (b. 1953)
1994 Chris Seydou, Malian fashion designer (b. 1949)
1994 George Edward Hughes, Irish-born philosopher and logician(b. 1918)
1994 Guus Verstraete Sr, Dutch actor/dir (2 Drops of Water)
1994 John Candy, Canadian comedian (SCTV, Uncle Buck) (b. 1950)
1994 Paul Solomon, American psychic (b. 1939)
1995 Eden Ahbez, songwriter
1995 Iftekhar, Bollywood character actor
1995 Matt Urban, Lieutenant Colonel United States Army (b. 1919)
1995 Eden Ahbez, American composer (b. 1908)
1996 Barbara Lewis, British obituarist, dies at 55
1996 Johnny Sauer, American football player, coach, and broadcaster (b. 1925)
1996 Minnie Pearl, American comedian (Grand Ole Opry) (b. 1912)
1997 Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman (b. 1914)
1997 Edouard Klabinski, Polish professional racing cyclist (b. 1920)
1997 Joe Baker-Cresswell, English Royal Navy officer (b. 1901)
1997 Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
1998 Donald Rodney, British artist (b. 1961)
1998 Ivan Dougherty, Australian World War II Army Major General (b. 1907)
1998 Jules Fontaine Sambwa, Zairean political officeholder and economist (b. 1940)
1999 Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
1999 Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (b. 1917)
1999 Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)
1999 Joseph Regenstein Jr., American business leader and philanthropist (b. 1923)
1999 Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, translator and literary historian (b. 1921)
1999 Milosz Magin, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1929)
1999 Teddy McRae, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger (b. 1908)
2000 Alphons Silbermann, German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist (b. 1909)
2000 Hermann Brück, German-born UK astronomer (b. 1905)
2000 Kyi Kyi Htay, four-time Myanmar Academy Award winning film actress, singer, opera performer and dancer (b. 1924)
2000 Michael Noonan, Australian-born New Zealander novelist and radio script writer (b. 1921)
2000 Ta-You Wu, Chinese-born atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist (b. 1907)
2001 Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
2001 Gerardo Barbero, Argentine chess grandmaster (b. 1961)
2001 Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950)
2001 Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907)
2001 Jean René Bazaine, French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer (b. 1904)
2001 Jim Rhodes, American politician, Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
2001 Martin Wright, British bioengineer (b. 1912)
2002 Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
2002 Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
2002 Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
2002 Margarete Neumann, German writer and lyrical poet (b. 1917)
2002 Shirley Ann Russell, award-winning British costume designer (b. 1935)
2002 Ugne Karvelis, Lithuanian writer and translator (b. 1935)
2002 Velibor Vasovic, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
2003 Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926)
2003 Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
2004 Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
2004 Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Spanish linguist and journalist. (b. 1923)
2004 George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
2004 John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955)
2004 Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
2005 Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934)
2005 Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953)
2005 Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964)
2005 Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
2005 Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)
2006 Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
2006 Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
2006 John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)
2006 Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
2007 Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950)
2007 Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932)
2007 Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian politician
2007 Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya), American soprano (b. 1908)
2007 Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
2007 Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b. 1966)
2007 Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
2007 Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
2008 Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress (b. 1941)
2008 Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator. (b. 1938)
2008 George Walter, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
2008 Leonard Rosenman, American film, television and concert composer (b. 1924)
2008 Robert Bruning, Australian actor and producer (b. 1928)
2008 Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress (b. 1935)
2008 Tina Lagostena Bassi, Italian lawyer, Italian deputy for Forza Italia party, showoman and writer (b. 1926)
2009 George McAfee, former American football player (b. 1918)
2009 Harry Parkes, English footballer (b. 1920)
2009 Horton Foote, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award-winning screenwriter (b. 1916)
2009 John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
2009 Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist and professor of piano literature (b. 1917)
2009 Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish writer (b. 1957)
2009 Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director (b 1944
2009 Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist (b. 1942)
2009 Yvon Cormier, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2010 Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
2010 Arthur Menzies, Canadian diplomat (b. 1916)
2010 Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor (b. 1939)
2010 Fred Wedlock, British folk musician (b. 1942)
2010 Hilario Chávez Joya, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1928)
2010 Joanne Simpson, American meteorologist (b. 1923)
2010 Joaquim Fiúza, Portuguese sailor (b. 1908)
2010 Johnny Alf, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1929)
2010 Lolly Vegas, American singer (b. 1939)
2010 Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
2010 Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (b. 1933)
2010 Roger Newman, British-born American actor and television writer (b. 1940)
2010 Samuel J. Eldersveld, U.S. academic, political scientist, and Democratic politician (b. 1917)
2010 Tetsuo Kondo, Japanese politician (b. 1929)
2010 Tony Richards, British footballer (b. 1934)
2010 Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945)
2011 Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)
2011 Arjun Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930)
2011 Charles Jarrott, British film and television director (b. 1927)
2011 Ed Manning, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
2011 Frank Chirkinian, American producer (b.c. 1926)
2011 Johnny Preston, American pop singer (b. 1939)
2011 Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Indian politician and former Nepali Prime Minister (b. 1924)
2011 Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1920)
2011 Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1925)
2011 Vivienne Harris, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher (b.c. 1921)
2012 Don Mincher, American Major League Baseball first baseman
2012 Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer
2013 Fran Warren, American singer
2016 Pat Conroy, American writer (The Great Santini, Prince of Tides)

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