January 4th
Holidays and Celebrations
Independence Day (Myanmar) * (see below)
Carnaval Blancos Negros * (see below)
Schuetzenfest (Adelaidein) * (see below)
Independence Day (Burma)
World Braille Day * (see below)
Newtons Birthday * (see below)
Martyrs of Independence Day (Zaire) (Democratic Congo)
Day of Martyrs of the Colonial Repression (Angola)
Head of State's Birthday (Samoa)
Trivia Day (United States of America)
Jakob Grimm's Birthday (1785)
Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Nigeria)
Chona-hajimeshiki (Kamakura, Japan) at Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gu.
Admission Day (Utah)
Tom Thumb Day
National Spaghetti Day AKA Spaghetti Day
Extra Humiliation Day
Blender Day
Dimpled Chad Day
Earth at Perihelion
World Hypnotism Day
Pop Music Chart Day (Anniversary of the Pop Music Chart)
The Eleventh Day of Christmas in Western Christianity
Christian Feast Day of Elizabeth Ann Seton
* Carnaval Blancos Negros (1of3) takes place in town of Pasto - Narino , Colombia from 4th-6th of January every year. The 5th of January is the day of the blacks and the 6th is the day of the whites. The parades begin on January 4th with the celebration of the "Arrival of the Castañeda Family"
* Schuetzenfest (Adelaidein) January at Bonython Park just outside the CBD4
* World Braille DayA.K.A. Braille Day AKA Louis Braille's Birthday 1809.
* Newtons Birthday, Sir Isaac Newton, 1643 English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727)
Lapin Day Translation Rabbit Day (French Republican) The 15th day of the Month of Nivose in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May the warmth of our affections survive the frosts of age."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Afterburner
1 shot sambuca
1 shot absinthe
1 shot ouzo
Mix the 3 in any order
Optional : On fire
Wine of the Day
Prejean 2008 Estate Grown
Style - Gewurztraminer
Finger Lakes
$20
Beer of The Day
- Eastern Hemisphere -
Sinebrychoff Porter
Brewer - Sinebrychoff ; Kerava, Finland
Style - Baltic Black Porter
Attributes - Extra-strong dark ale
Flavor - Mud-black, Deep Flavor
- In Celebration of the Independence of Finaland, Recognised on January 4, 1918
- Western Hemisphere -
Black Forest Schwarzbier
Brewer - Squatters Pub Brewery ; Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Style - German-Style Schwarzbier
- In Celebration of Utah's Admission to Union January 4, 1896
Joke of The Day
Things That Are Difficult to Say When Drunk:
"Innovative"
"Preliminary"
"Proliferation"
"Cinnamon"
Things That Are Very Difficult to Say When Drunk:
"Specificity"
"Anti-constitutionalistically"
"Passive-aggressive disorder"
"Transubstantiate"
Things That Are Downright Impossible to Say When Drunk:
"Nope, no more booze for me!"
"Sorry, but you're not really my type."
"Taco Bell? No thanks, I'm not hungry."
"Good evening, officer. Isn't it lovely out tonight?"
"Oh, I couldn't! No one wants to hear me sing karaoke."
"I'm not interested in fighting you."
"Thank you, but I won't make any attempt to dance, I have no coordination. I'd hate to look like a fool!"
"Where is the nearest bathroom? I refuse to pee in this parking lot or on the side of the road."
"I must be going home now, as I have to work in the morning."
Quote of the Day
"Sometimes too much drink is not enough."
- Unknown
Whiskey of The Day
A Special Toast to ...
January Observances
Apple and Apricots MonthArtichoke and Asparagus Month
Be Kind to Food Servers
Bread Machine Baking Month
California Dried Plum Digestive Health Month
Carnival Season (Starting January 6th)
Celebration of Life Month
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Cervical Cancer Screening Month
Cherry Blossom Festival in Okinawa, Japan, a very colorful festivals every January in Nago since 1928.
Coffee Gourmet International Month
Family Fit Lifestyle Month
Financial Wellness Month
First Binary Month (1of 3) (0s and 1s)
International Brain Teaser Month
International Change Your Stars Month
International Creativity Month
International New Years Resolutions Month for Businesses
International Quality of Life Month
International Wayfinding Month
International Wealth Mentality Month
National Bath Safety Month
National Be On-Purpose Month
National Birth Defects Prevention Mont
National Blood Donor Month
National Book Blitz Month
National Braille Literacy Month
National Candy Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Egg Month
National Get Organized Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hobby Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Lose Weight, Feel Great Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Meat Month
National Mentoring Month
National Oatmeal Month
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Polka Music Month
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
National Soup Month
National Stalking Awareness Month
National Thank You Month
National Volunteer Blood Donor Mont
National Wheat Bread Month
Prune Breakfast Month
Resolve to Eat Breakfast Month
National Returns Month
Rising Star Month
Self-Love Month
Self-help Group Awareness Month
Shape Up US Month
Thaipusam - Festival of Faith in Batu Caves, Malaysia
Thyroid Awareness Month
Tubers and Dried Fruit Month
World Buskers Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Observances this Week
First Week 1st Week in JanuaryWinterfest Week 1st Week in January
National Personal Trainer Awareness Week 1st Week in January
National Thank Your Customers Week 1st Week in January
Women's Self-Empowerment Week 1st Week in January
New Year's Resolutions Week 1st Week in January
Celebration of Life Week 1st Week in January
Diet Resolution Week 1st Week in January
Silent Record Week 1st Week in January
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week January 2nd-8th
Women's Self Empowerment Week January 3rd-7th Christmas Week, December 25th through January 6th
The Twelve Days of Christmas, December 25th through January 6th
Christmas Bird Count Week, December 14th through February 5th
Historical on January 4th
46 BC Julius Caesar defeats Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina.
0274 St Eutychian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0871 Ethelred of Wessex fights, and is defeated by, a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Reading
1357 Flemish Earl Louis & Luxembourg Duke Wenceslaus sign peace treaty
1490 Anna of Brittany announces that all those who would ally with the king of France will be considered guilty of the crime of lese-majesty.
1493 Christopher Columbus leaves the New World, ending his first journey.
1519 1st Altenburger sermon (Luther & Karl von Miltitz)
1528 Ferdinand of Austria, younger brother to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, issued the first secular mandate forbidding the Anabaptist religious movement.
1540 German Reformer Martin Luther testified in a sermon: 'Faith is the "yes" of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life.'
1570 Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew"
1642 King Charles I of England sends 400 soldiers to arrest members of Parliament, commencing England's slide into civil war.
1698 Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire.
1710 Composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was born.
1717 The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance.
1720 Composer Johann Friedrich Agricola was born.
1725 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London
1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York City NY)
1762 Great Britain declares war on Spain and Naples.
1780 Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown New Jersey
1781 André Méchain discovers M80 (globular cluster in Scorpio)
1821 The first native-born American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, died in Emmitsburg, MD.
1832 Insurrection of Trinidad negroes
1843 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Don Pasquale" premieres in Paris
1843 Royal Academy (Technical Hague court) Delft opens
1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government.
1850 The first American ice-skating club was organized in Philadelphia, PA.
1854 The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang.
1861 President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession
1861 US Fort Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama
1862 Battle of Fort Hindman, AR (Arkansas Post) and Battle of Helena, AR
1862 Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath in the Romney Campaign
1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
1863 The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.
1865 The New York Stock Exchange opens its first permanent headquarters at 10-12 Broad near Wall Street in New York City.
1874 Composer Josef Suk was born.
1878 Sofia is emancipated from Ottoman rule.
1881 Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture" premieres, Breslau
1883 Ontario Rugby Football Union (forerunner of CFL) formed
1884 The socialist Fabian Society was founded in London.
1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
1885 Dr. William Grant performed the first successful appendectomy. The patient was Mary Gartside, 22.
1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (San Francisco-San Francisco); 21,700km
1893 US President Harrison grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy
1894 France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia
1896 AFL charters Actors' National Protective Union, New York City NY
1896 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state
1896 Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
1898 1st installment of William Dean Howell's "Life & Letters" appears
1902 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick vs England at the MCG
1903 Topsy, an elephant, was electrocuted by Thomas Edison during the War of Currents campaign.
1904 Ottawa Silver 7 beat Winnipeg Rowing Club 2 games to 1 (Stanley Cup)
1904 Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US
1906 South Africa beat England by one wicket, their 1st Test win
1907 George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" premieres in London
1912 The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
1912 Smallest earth-moon distance this century, 356,375 km center-to-center
1915 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
1915 Democrat Moses Alexander, 62, was sworn in as governor of Idaho. He was the first elected Jewish governor in the U.S., and served two terms (1915-19).
1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes
1920 Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits
1921 Eugene O'Neill's "Diff'rent" premieres in New York City NY
1923 1st broadcast of "Barn Dance Show" (WBAP - Fort Worth TX)
1923 Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin
1925 French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better"
1926 Theodorus Pangalos resigns as Greek dictator
1928 NBC Radio debuted "The Dodge Victory Hour" which starred Will Rogers, Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra and singer Al Jolson.
1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru
1932 NBC Radio debuted "The Carnation Contented Hour". The show was as a showcase for top singers and musicians.
1932 Bradman scores 167 for Australia vs South Africa at the MCG
1932 State of siege proclaimed in Honduras
1934 1st Dutch talkie movie, Jan Teunissen's "Willem of Orange" premieres
1935 Bert Ambrose and his Orchestra recorded "Hors d’oeuvres."
1935 Bob Hope was heard for the first time on network radio as part of "The Intimate Revue."
1935 Fort Jefferson National Monument, Florida established
1936 The first pop music chart based on national sales was published by "Billboard" magazine.
1936 Grimmett becomes world record wicket taker with no 190 vs South Africa
1939 Frieda Wunderlich elected 1st woman dean of a US graduate school
1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration
1941 Resistance fighters counter d'Estienne d'Orves/Jan Doornik, 1st meet
1941 Sergey Rachmaninov's "Symphonie Dances" premieres in Philadelphia
1942 NFL Pro Bowl Chicago Bears beats NFL All-Stars 35-24
1942 Premier Churchill & General Marshall fly to Florida
1942 Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame
1943 Thomas Mann completes his tetralogy, "Joseph & His Brothers"
1944 The attack on Monte Cassino was launched by the British Fifth Army in Italy.
1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department
1944: Operation Carpetbagger- World War II, involving the dropping of arms and supplies to resistance fighters in Europe, begins.
1945 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam
1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack
1947 "Park Avenue" closes at Shubert Theater New York City NY after 72 performances
1947 "Show Boat" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City NY after 417 performances
1947 Presbyterian clergyman Peter Marshall ("A Man Called Peter"), 45, was elected Chaplain of the U.S. Senate. He was the 54th chaplain chosen in the Senate's history, and the first Presbyterian appointed since 1879.
1948 Burma regains its independence from the United Kingdom.
1950 RCA Victor announced that it would manufacture long-playing (LP) records.
1951 During the Korean conflict, North Korean and Communist Chinese forces captured the city of Seoul.
1953 "The Catholic Hour" first aired over NBC-television. This long-running series was produced in cooperation with the National Council of Catholic Men and aired through August 1970.
1953 Tufted plastic carpeting was introduced by Barwick Mills.
1953 KTSM TV channel 9 in El Paso TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Elvis Presley recorded "Casual Love" and "I’ll Never Stand in Your Way." in a 10 minute demo in Nashville
1954 Soap Opera "The Brighter Day" premieres
1957 "Blondie" situation comedy premieres on NBC TV (later on CBS)
1957 "Collier’s" magazine was published for the last time. The periodical was published for 69 years.
1957 Boxer Joe Louis appeared on "The Steve Allen Show" to introduce singer Solomon Burke.
1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000
1958 The Soviet satellite Sputknik I fell to the earth from its orbit and burned up. The craft had been launched on October 4, 1957.
1959 Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft
1959: Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to leave Earth's gravity and reach the vicinity of the Moon.
1960 French author Albert Camus died in an automobile accident at age 46.
1960 European Free Trade Association forms in Stockholm
1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 years-Danish barbers' assistants
1962 Gene McDaniels recorded "Point of No Return".
1962 New York City introduced a train that operated without conductors and motormen.
1962 1st automated (unmanned) subway train (New York City NY)
1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon
1965 Poet T.S. Eliot died at age 76.
1965 The Fender Guitar Company was sold by Leo Fender to CBS for $13 million.
1965 United States President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaims his "Great Society" during his State of the Union address.
1966 Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test
1966 WFLD TV channel 32 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 A military coup takes place in Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.
1967 Donald Campbell is killed on Coniston Water while attempting to break the world water speed record.
1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas
1968 Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million
1969 "Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst New York City NY after 4 performances
1969 France begins arms embargo against Israel
1970 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios
1970 Kansas City Chiefs beat Oakland Raiders 17-7 in AFC championship game
1970 Minnesota Vikings beat Cleveland Browns 27-7 in NFC championship game
1970 New York City NY transit fare rises from 20¢ to 30¢, new larger tokens used
1970 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary
1971 - Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated
1971 - The film "Performance" starring Mick Jagger debuted in London.
1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes
1971 Dr Melvin H Evans inaugurated as 1st elected Governor of Virgin Islands
1971 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims
1971 Philadelphia's Veteran Stadium dedicated
1972 Rose Heilbron became the first woman judge in Britain at the Old Bailey, London.
1973 The Allman Brothers name Lamar Williams as the replacement for the late Berry Oakley. The announcment was in Rolling Stone magazine.
1974 NBC-TV presented hockey in prime time. The Boston Bruins and the New York Rangers were the teams in the National Hockey League (NHL) game.
1974 United States President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
1975 "Good News" closes at St James Theater New York City NY after 16 performances
1975 "Gypsy" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 120 performances
1975 "Over Here" closes at Shubert Theater New York City NY after 341 performances
1975 Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828)
1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica
1975 Montréal Canadiens shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
1975 Elizabeth Ann Seton becomes the first American-born saint.
1976 "Candide" closes at Broadway Theater New York City NY after 740 performances
1976 "Home Sweet Homer" opens & closes at Palace Theater New York City NY
1976 Mal Evans was shot to death by police at his Los Angeles apartment. Evans alledgedly pointed a loaded rifle at officers causing them to fire upon him. Evans was a former roadie and bodyguard of the Beatles.
1977 Mary Shane hired by Chicago White Sox as 1st woman TV play-by-play
1980 President Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics
1981 "Peter Pan" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City NY after 578 performances
1981 The Broadway show "Frankenstein" lost an estimated $2 million, when it opened and closed on the same night.
1981 69th Australian Mens Tennis B Teacher beats Kim Warwick (75 76 63)
1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper"
1982 ABC Direction Network (57 affiliates) & ABC Rock Network (40 affiliates) become the 5th & 6th ABC radio network
1982 Bryant Gumbel moved from NBC Sports to the anchor desk where he joined Jane Pauley as co-host of the "Today" show on NBC.
1982 Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show
1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm
1983 US Football League holds its 1st player draft
1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV
1984 Wayne ‘The Great One’ Gretzky scored eight points (four goals and four assists) for the second time in his National Hockey League (NHL) career. Edmonton’s Oilers defeated the Minnesota North Stars, 12-8. The game was the highest-scoring NHL game to date.
1984 Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8-highest-scoring modern NHL game
1986 David Boon's second Test century, 131 vs India at Adelaide
1986 NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots
1987 An Amtrak train bound from Washington to Boston collided with Conrail engines approaching from a side track, 16 people were killed in Chase, Maryland. The Chase, Maryland Rail wreck.
1989 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion
1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean
1989 Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President
1989 A pair of Libyan MiG-23 "Floggers" are shot down by a pair of US Navy F-14 Tomcats during an air-to-air confrontation. The Second Gulf of Sidra incident:
1990 Charles Stuart jumped to his death from a Boston Harbor bridge. He had become a suspect in the murder of his wife. He had claimed that a gunman had shot him and his wife.
1990 Deposed Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega was arraigned in U.S. federal district court in Miami on drug-trafficking charges.
1991 The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to condemn Israel's treatment of the Palestinians in the occupied territories.
1991 AT&T workers in Newark accidentally snap a cable
1991 Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal
1991 Iraq agrees to send Aziz to Geneva to meet Baker on Jan 9th
1991 Jan Krzystof Bielecki becomes premier of Poland
1992 8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
1993 7th largest wrestling crowd (63,500-Tokyo Dome)
1994 10th largest wrestling crowd (58,000-Tokyo Dome)
1995 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House
1996 "Father" opens at Criterion Theater New York City NY for 52 performances
1997 The Greek Cypriot government signed an agreement to buy S-300 surface-to-air missiles from Russia.
1998 "Funny Thing Happened" closes at St James New York City NY after 715 performances
1998 "Ivanov" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City NY after 51 performances
1998 "Triumph of Love" closes at Royale Theater New York City NY
1998 A massive ice storm hits eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, continuing through January 10 and causing widespread destruction.
1998 Wilaya of Relizane massacres in Algeria: over 170 are killed in three remote villages.
1999 16 people were killed and 25 injured when gunmen opened fire on Shiite Muslim worshippers at a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan.
1999 A drifting Nicaraguan fishing boat was found by the Norwegian oil tanker Joelm. The fisherman had been lost at sea for 35 days after the engine of their vessel quit working.
1999 Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura was sworn in as Minnesota's 37th governor.
1999 Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
2001 FBI agents in the Dallas area charged the "Texas 7" of unlawful flight to avoid federal prosecution for capital murder, broadening the manhunt nationwide.
2001 Rapper Vanilla Ice spends night in jail after allegedly ripping out some of his wife's hair during a row
2004 Britney Spears has her surprise marriage annulled less than 55 hours after tying the knot with childhood friend Jason Alexander at the Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas
2004 Spirit, a NASA Mars Rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.
2006 Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman to hold the position.
2006 Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel suffers a second, apparently more serious stroke. His authority is transferred to acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
2010 In Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the Burj Burj Khalifa, (Dubai Tower) opened as the world's tallest tower at 2,625 feet.
2010 The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV infection from its list of communicable diseases of public health.
2013 9 people are killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria
2013 8 people are killed by a gunman in Kawit, the Philippines
2013 6 people are killed a 2 are seriously injured after a snowmobile veers off a ski slope on Mt Cermis, Italy
2013 3 people are killed after a Beechcraft BE35 crashes into a house in Florida
2014 14 people are killed after a three-story building construction site collapses in Goa, India
2015 Gary Anderson of Scotland wins the PDC World Darts Championship
2016 Colombo's Gemology Institute certifies world's largest ever blue star sapphire at 1404.49 carats, found in a Sri Lankan mine in August 2015
Born on January 4th
1077 Emperor Zhezong of Song Dynasty in China (d. 1100)
1334 Amadeus VI (Green Earl), Earl of Savoye (d. 1383)
1341 Wat Tyler leader of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381 (d. 1381)
1567 Franciscus Aguilon physicist/mathematician/jesuit/architect
1579 Willem Teellinck Dutch theologist/vicar
1581 Bishop James Ussher, Irish Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, calculated Earth's beginning (November 23, 4004 BC)(d. 1656)
1604 Jacob Balde German jesuit/barok conductor (Jephthe)
1643 Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and natural philosopher (d. 1727)
1664 Lars Roberg, Swedish physician (d. 1742)
1672 Hugh Boulter, Irish Archbishop of Armagh (d. 1742)
1710 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (Il Prigioniero Superbo)(d. 1736)
1717 Antonio Maria Mazzoni, composer
1720 Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer/organist (d. 1774)
1726 Cornelis Ploos van Amstel Dutch engraver/art collector
1735 Claude Martin, French then British General (d. 1800)
1739 Henrik C Cras Dutch lawyer (Laudatio Hugonis Grotii)
1756 Anne Nagell van Ampsen Dutch politician
1759 Maria Rosa Coccia composer
1772 Paul-Louis Courier (de Méré), French writer/interpreter
1773 Johann Peter Heuschkel composer
1785 Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm (Jakob Grimm, one of the Brothers Grimm) Germany philologist and folklorist (fairy tale collector)(d. 1863)
1789 Benjamin Lundy philanthropist/abolitionist
1797 Wilhelm Beer Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed 1st Moon map)
1805 Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh composer
1807 Baltasar Saldoni composer
1809 Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind and inventor of braille (reading system for blind)(d. 1852)
1813 Alexander Freiherr von Bach Austria attorney/premier (1852-59)
1813 Louis L Bonaparte English/French linguist/senator
1813 Sir Isaac Pitman, English inventor (shorthand) (d. 1897)
1821 Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland
1821 John James Peck Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1878
1822 Joseph Jones Reynolds Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1899
1823 Otto van Rees Governor-General of Dutch-Indies (1884-88)
1823 Peter Joseph Osterhaus Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1917
1832 George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893)
1837 Casimiro de Abreu Brazil, poet (Camoes e o jau)
1838 Charles "Tom Thumb" Stratton, American circus performer (d. 1883)
1839 Carl Humann, German engineer (d. 1896)
1842 Frederic T. Greenhalge, 38th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1896)
1844 Thomas H Rollinson composer
1847 Hendrik Goeman Borgesius Dutch politician
1848 Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913)
1869 Percy Pitt composer
1869 Tommy Corcoran, American baseball player (d. 1960)
1870 Percy Pitt, English organist and conductor (d. 1932)
1872 Edmund Rumpler Austria, auto/airplane builder
1874 Josef Suk, Czech violinist/composer (Asrael)(d. 1935)
1874 Sven Fleuron writer
1877 Gibson Gowland England, actor (Blind Husbands, Phantom of the Opera)
1878 A. E. Coppard, English poet and short story writer (d. 1957)
1878 Alfred Edgar Coppard England, writer (Black Dogs & Other Stories)
1878 Augustus John, Welsh painter (d. 1961)
1881 Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German painter/poet/sculptor (Seated Youth) (d. 1919)
1882 Aristarkh Lentulov, Russian artist (d. 1943)
1883 Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)
1883 Johanna Westerdijk botanist/Netherlands 1st female profressor (Utrecht, 1917-52)
1883 Max F Eastman, American writer/critic/essayist (Masses)(d. 1969)
1883 Nicolas Ledesma, composer, dies at 91
1885 Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer, dies at 29
1886 Ernest Panckoucke, French publisher (Horace), dies at 77
1888 Arthur Berry England, soccer player (Olympics-gold-1908, 12)
1889 Albertus W "Albert" van Dalsum actor/director (Abandoned Child)
1890 Alfred G Jodl German Wehrmacht General/Chief of Staff
1890 Mosa Pijade Yugoslavia, MP (communist)
1891 Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
1891 Edward Brooker, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1948)
1891 Joe Hunter, cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Aust tour), dies
1892 Maria Diaz Cortes, Spanish supercentarian (d. 2009}
1893 Manuel Palau Boix composer
1893 Yone Minagawa, Japanese supercentarian (d. 2007)
1894 Manuel de Abreu, Brazilian physician (d. 1962)
1894 Wesley La Violette composer
1895 Leroy Grumman, American industrialist (d. 1982)
1895 Lourens G M Baas Becking Dutch botanist/resistance fighter
1896 André Aimé René Masson, French Surrealist artist (Labyrinth)(d. 1987)
1896 Everett McKinley Dirksen, American politician (Senator-R-IL)(d. 1969)
1896 Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
1898 Frantisek Pivoda, composer, dies at 73
1898 Roger Vuataz composer
1900 James Bond, American ornithologist and author (Birds of The West Indies) (d. 1989)
1901 C. L. R. James, Trinidadian writer and journalist (d. 1989)
1902 John McCone, American CIA Director (d. 1991)
1903 George J H Poggenbeek, Dutch surrealist painter, dies at 49
1903 Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
1903 Joris Diels Flemish actor/director (Haagsche Comedy)
1903 Ramón Ernesto Cruz, Uclés Honduras President (1971-72); overthrown
1903 Topsy the elephant (b. circa 1875)
1903 W H M "Dicky" Richards, cricketer (score 4 & 0 in Test for S Af), dies
1905 Sterling Holloway, American actor (Waldo-Life of Riley, The Jungle Book)
1908 Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal Austrian nude model/Hitler's lover
1908 Antony Winkler Prins, writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia), dies at 70
1908 Walther Vanbeselaere, Flemish art historian
1910 Arthur Villeneuve, Quebec painter (d. 1990)
1910 Leon Delagrange, French aviation pioneer, dies
1913 Alfred von Schlieffen, Prussian general-field marshal, dies at 79
1913 Malietoa Tanumafili II Samoa (1962- )
1913: Malietoa Tanumafili II, Sovereign Ruler of West-Samoa (d. 2007)
1914 Herman Franks, American baseball player (d. 2009)
1914 Jane Wyman St Joseph MO, 1st Mrs Ron Reagan, (Magnificent Obsession)
1914 Mohammed Sahir shah (Afghanistan)
1914 Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Free Quaker), dies at 84
1915 Meg Mundy, American actress
1916 Catherina Elisabeth "Tootje" Vreede portrait painter
1916 Lionel Newman, American film music composer (d. 1989)
1916: Robert Parrish, American film editor and director (Casino Royale)(d. 1995)
1917 Jesse (Marc Weidenfeld) White Buffalo NY, actor (Maytag Repairman, Bedtime for Bonzo, Million Dollar Mermaid)
1917 Maurice Wohl English broker/multi-millionaire
1919 Al "Jazbo" Collins New York City NY, disk jockey (Tonight! America After Dark)
1919 Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
1919 Havelock Henry Trevor Hudson underwriter (Lloyd's of London)
1920 Benito Perez Galdos, Spanish writer (Fortunata y Jacinta)(b. 1843)
1920 William Egan Colby, American CIA director (Nixon) (d. 1996)
1922 Frank Wess flutist/saxophonist/composer
1922 Rosalie Crutchley, English actress (d. 1997)
1923 Don Butterfield, American jazz and classical tuba player (d. 2006)
1923 Flavio Testi composer
1924 Sebastian Kappen, Indian theologian (d. 1993)
1925 Veikko Hakulinen, Finland, 30K/50K cross country skier (Olympics-gold-1956)(d. 2003)
1927 Barbara Rush, Denver CO, actress (Marsha-Peyton Place, Flamingo Road)
1927 Paul Desmarais, Canadian businessman
1929 Amitai W Etzioni US sociologist (Active Society)
1929 Bobby Tulloch, ornithologist
1930 Don Shula, winningest NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
1930 Iain Cuthbertson, British actor (Guilty, Scandal, Rep, Danger UXB)
1930 Sorrell Booke, American actor (Bye Bye Braverman, Black Like Me)(d. 1994)
1931 Adi Lady Lala Mara, First Lady of Fiji (d. 2004)
1931 Sir William Deane, Governor-General of Australia
1932 Carlos Saura, Spanish director
1932 Carlos Saura, Spanish director
1932 Jorge Russek, Mexican actor (d. 1998)
1932 Richard Stahl Detroit MI, actor (Howard-It's a Living)
1933 Ed Jenkins (Representative-D-GA, 1977- )
1933 Ilia II, Catholicos-Patriarch of all Georgia.
1933 Ray Starling
1934 Jean Chretien
1934 Rudolf Schuster, President of Slovakia
1935 Floyd Patterson, American Boxing heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62) (Olympics-gold-1952)(d. 2006)
1935 Kenneth Money, Canada, astronaut (STS 42-alt)
1937 Dyan Cannon, Tacoma Wash, Mrs Cary Grant/actress (Heaven Can Wait, Revenge of the Pink Panther)
1937 Grace Bumbry, American singer, mezzo-soprano (Venus in Tannhäuser)
1937 Mick O'Connell, Gaelic footballer
1937 R Surendranath, cricketer (Indian pace bowler in 11 Tests early 60s)
1938 Louis Krebs Graham, Nashville TN, PGA golfer (1975 US Open)
1939 Jon Appleton, composer
1939 Oliver Clark, Buffalo NY, actor (Bob Newhart Show, Two of Us)
1940 Anthony Skooter Teague, Texas, actor (How to Succeed in Business)
1940 Brian David Josephson, Welsh physicist, Nobel laureate
1940 Brian Josephson, British physicist (Nobel 1973)
1940 Gao Xingjian, Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate
1940 Helmut Jahn, German architect
1941 George Pan Cosmatos, Greek film director (d. 2005)
1941 Joe Renzetti, American film composer
1941 John Bennett Perry, Williamstown Mass, singer/actor (Falcon Crest)
1941 Jörg Remé German/Dutch painter/graphic artist
1941 Maureen Reagan
1941 Maureen Reagan, American political activist, 1st daughter (Ronald Reagan) (d. 2001)
1942 John McLaughlin, , English jazz and rock guitarist (Sentimental Journey/Clouds of Joy)
1943 Doris Kearns Goodwin, American writer
1943 Tom Wilkinson, CFL QB (Edmonton Eskimos)
1944 Henri "Hans" Flu, Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/antifascist, murder
1944 Volker Hornback, rocker (Tangerine Dream)
1945 Jay Dee Maness, Loma Linda Ca, singer (Desert Rose Band-Love Reunited)
1945 Richard R. Schrock, American chemist, Nobel laureate
1945 Vesa-Matti Loiri, Finnish entertainer
1946 Arthur Conley, American singer (d. 2003)
1946 Bernard Sumner, rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1946 Dr.S.Rajasekharan, Indian poet and critic
1946 Susannah McCorkle, American jazz singer (d. 2001)
1946 Susannah McCorkle, American jazz singer (d. 2001)
1947 Chris Cutler, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, Art Bears)
1947 J Danforth Quayle (Senator-R-IN, 44th Vice President 1989-1993)
1947 Rick Stein, English chef and television presenter
1948 Eugeniusz Wycislo, Polish politician
1949 Mick Mills, British soccer player
1950 John Louis Evans, American convicted murderer (d. 1983)
1951 Barbara Ann Cochran, American alpine skier, Claremont NH, slalom skier (Olympic-gold-1972)
1953 James Warren, American journalist
1953 Norberto Alonso, Argentine footballer
1954 Eugene Chadbourne, American composer and musician
1955 Kathy Forester, Lookout Mountain GA, country singer (The Forrester Sisters)
1955 Mark Hollis, English pop musician (Talk Talk, Dum Dum Girl)
1956 Ann Magnuson, Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger)
1956 Barney Sumner, rock guitarist/vocalist (New Order-Blue Monday)
1956 Bernard Albrecht, English pop guitarist (Joy Division)
1956 Nels Cline, American guitarist and composer
1957 Gurdas Maan, Punjabi singer, actor, lyricist
1957 Patty Loveless (Ramey), Pikeville KY, singer (Blue Side of Town)
1958 Andy Borowitz, American comedian and satirist
1958 Gary Jones, Welsh-born actor
1958 Julian Sands, English actor (Leaving Las Vegas)
1958 Matt Frewer, American actor (Max Headroom, Doctor Doctor)
1958 Nina Foust, Asheboro NC, LPGA golfer (1994 Hawaiian Ladies Open-6th)
1959 Vanity (Denise Marquardt), Ontario Canada, actress (52 Pick Up)
1959 Yoshitomo Nara, Japanese pop artist
1960 April Winchell, American actress
1960 April Winchell, American actress
1960 Cory Everson, Racine Wisconsin, body builder (6X Ms Olympia)
1960 Michael Stipe, US rock vocalist (R.E.M.-Losing My Religion, Stand)
1961 Lee Curreri, New York City NY, actor (Bruno Martelli-Fame)
1961 Sidney Green, American basketball player
1962 André Rouvoet, Dutch politician
1962 Joe Kleine, American basketball player, NBA center (Phoenix Suns, Chicago Bulls)
1962 Laila Eloui, Egyptian actress
1962 Martin McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
1962 Patrick Cassidy, Los Angeles California, actor/composer (Fever Pitch, Off the Wall)
1962 Peter Steele, American musician (Type O Negative)(d. 2010)
1962 Robin Guthrie, Scottish guitarist (Cocteau Twins)
1963 Dave Foley, Canadian comedian and actor (Kids In The Hall, Dave Nelson-News Radio)
1963 Linda Muri, Killingly Conn, rower (Olympics-96)
1963 Till Lindemann, German singer (Rammstein)
1964 Dot-Marie Jones, Actress (The Boondock Saints)
1964 Nikos Thanopoulos, Greek businessman
1964 Stephanie Maxwell-Pierson, Somerville NJ, US rower (Olympic-92)
1964 Tom Westman, American reality-show contestant
1965 Beth Gibbons, English singer (Portishead)
1965 Cait O'Riordan, British musician (The Pogues)
1965 David Glasper, rocker (Breathe-All I Need)
1965 Guy Forget, Morocco, tennis star
1965 Jergus Baca Liptovsky, Mikulas Czechoslovakia, IHL defenseman (Team Slovakia 98)
1965 John Jackson, NFL offensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1965 Julia Ormond, London England, actress (Sabrina, Legends of the Fall, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
1965 Kevin Wickander, US baseball pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1965 Mitch Booth, Australian tornado yachter (Olympics-96)
1965 Rick Hearst, Howard Beach New York City NY, actor (Alan-Michael-Guiding Light)
1965 Yvan Attal, French actor and director
1966 Deana Carter, American country singer (Strawberry Wine)
1967 Benjamin Darvill (Crash Test Dummies)
1967 David Berman, American poet and singer/songwriter (Silver Jews)
1967 David Wayne Toms, Monroe LA, PGA golfer (1992 Northern Telecom-3rd)
1967 Donald Campbell, boat racer, dies trying to break 300 mph on water
1967 Johnny Nelson, English boxer
1967 Marina Orsini, Canadian actress
1967 Michael "Mike" Peterson, Washington DC, rower (Olympics-1996)
1967 Rick Cunningham, NFL tackle (Minnesota Vikings, Oakland Raiders)
1968 Jackie Harris, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers, Tampa Bay Bucs)
1968 Mike Wilpolt, Head Coach of the Cleveland Gladiators of the Arena Football League
1969 Corie Blount, American basketball player, NBA forward (LA Lakers)
1969 Kees van Wonderen, Dutch soccer player (NEC/NAC)
1969 Lindsay Kennedy, Atlanta Ga, actor (Jeb-Little House on the Prairie)
1970 Chris Kanyon, American professional wrestler
1970 Colin Scrivener, CFL defensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1970 Sean Lumpkin, NFL safety (New Orleans Saints)
1971 Carlos Perez, Dominican/US baseball pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1971 Deb Sonnenberg, Edmonton Alberta, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1971 Errol Brown, CFL defensive back (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 Garrison Hearst, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers)
1971 Jeremy Licht, LA California, actor (Mark-Valerie/Hogan Family)
1971 Junichi Kakizaki, Japanese artist, sculptor
1971 Orlanda Truitt, wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
1971 Richard Chee Quee, cricketer (New South Wales opening batsman Fiji/Chin ancestry)
1972 James Longley, American documentary filmmaker
1972 James Longley, American documentary filmmaker
1972 Mike McCoy, WLAF quarterback (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 Frank Høj, Danish cyclist
1973 Greg de Vries, Canadian hockey player
1973 Harmony Korine, American film director (Spring Breakers) and artist
1973 Lamont Warren, NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 Ray Mickens, cornerback (NY Jets)
1973 Todd Sauerbrun, NFL kicker (Chicago Bears)
1974 Armin Zöggeler, Italian luger
1974 Carl Powell, defensive end (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 Ian Moor, English singer
1975 Jill Marie Jones, American actress
1976 Benoît Joachim, Luxembourg cyclist
1976 Ted Lilly, American baseball player
1977 Dan Shanahan, Irish hurler
1977 Irán Castillo, Mexican actress
1977 Tim Wheeler, Irish singer (Ash)
1978 Dominik Hrbatý, Slovakian tennis player
1978 Mai Meneses, Spanish singer
1979 Charity Rahmer, American actress
1979 Jeph Howard, American musician (The Used)
1979 Tristan Gommendy, French racing driver
1980 Bobbi Eden, Dutch pornostar
1980 Erin Cahill, American actress (Boogeyman 3)
1980 Greg Cipes, American actor
1980 Miguel Monteiro, Portuguese footballer
1980 Yaroslav Popovych, Ukrainian cyclist
1981 Aaron Schwartz, Actor (The Mighty Ducks)
1981 Silvy De Bie, Belgian singer
1982 Kang Hye-jeong, South Korean actress
1982 Paulo Ferrari, Argentinian footballer
1982 Richard Logan, English footballer
1983 Kerry Condon, Actress (Unleashed)
1983 Spencer Chamberlain, American musician (Underoath)
1984 Robin Sydney, Actress (The Gingerdead Man)
1985 Al Jefferson, American basketball player
1985 Fernando Rees, Brazilian race car driver
1985 Lenora Crichlow, Actress (Fast Girls)
1986 Charlyne Yi, Actress (Knocked Up)
1986 James Milner, English footballer
1986 Steve Slaton , American football player
1987 Sergej Moya, Actor (Kronos. End and Beginning)
1988 Nabila Jamshed, Indian writer
1989 Graham Rahal, American race car driver
1990 Alberto Paloschi, Italian footballer
1990 Toni Kroos, German footballer
1991 Olivia Tennet, New Zealand actress
1992 Andrea Rewal, Actress (The Last Letter)
1993 Kerem Duymus, Director (Dead of Gother)
1994 Haley Evans, Actress (First Day)
1995 Harry Skinner, English skiier
1995 Maddie Hasson, Actress (God Bless America)
1995 María Isabel, Spanish singer
1997 Carmen LoPorto, Actor (Pride and Glory)
1998 Kaitlyn Maggio, Actress (Port Charles)
1999 Kendall McCulty, Actor (Crossing)
2000 Addy Miller, Actress (The Secret Life of Bees)
2000 Rhiannon Leigh Wryn, American actress (The Last Mimzy)
2004 Dimitri Rabouille, Actor (Le monde est petit)
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41 Caligula murdered
838 Babak Persian social/religious reformer, martyred
1248 King Sancho II of Portugal (b. 1207)
1428 Frederick I, Elector of Saxony, 'The Warlike' (b. 1370)
1564 Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
1584 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, (b. 1539)
1612 Henry L Spieghel Dutch merchant/writer
1678 Johan Maetsuyker Dutch Governor-General of Ceylon (1653-78)
1695 Duke of Luxembourg, Luxembourg/French marshal, dies
1695 François Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, duc de Luxembourg, French general (b. 1628)
1701 Ernst R Tarhemberg Austria, field marshal
1707 Louis Willem I count of Baden-Baden, dies
1729 Joseph de Montesquiou Earl d'Artagnan French Lieutenant-General
1729 Meir Bacharach, Hebrew poet, dies
1745 Willem I Kerricx, the Young, Flemish architect/painter
1752 Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (paradox of Cramer), (b. 1704)
1761 Stephen Hales, English vicar/inventor (ventilator), (b. 1677)
1765 Joseph Franz Xaver Dominik Stalder, composer
1773 Anton Losenko, Russian painter (b. 1737)
1778 Charles D J Eisen, French engraver/painter
1782 Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French architect (Ecole Military), (b. 1698)
1786 Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), (b. 1729)
1793 Bengt Lidner, Swedish poet (Medea/Yttersa domen)
1799 Galib Dede/Seyh Galib Turkish poet (Hüsn ü Ask), dies at about 40
1804 Charlotte Lennox, English novelist (The Female Quixote), (b. c.1730)
1809 Bartolomeo Giacometti, composer, dies at 67
1821 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1st native-born American saint, dies in Maryland (b. 1774)
1825 King Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (Ferdinand IV),(b. 1751)
1831 Nikola P Neofit Rilski, Bulgaria abbot/poet
1843 Petronella Moens, Frisian author/poetess
1863 Roger Hanson, American Confederate general (b. 1827)
1864 Mateo Ferrer, composer
1874 Thomas Gregson, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1798)
1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt, US robber baron, American entrepreneur (b. 1794)
1880 Anselm Feuerbach, German painter, dies
1882 John William Draper, English scientist, photographer (b. 1811)
1883 Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (b. 1823)
1883 Nicolas Ledesma composer
1885 Eduard Yosif Kotek composer
1886 Ernest Panckoucke French publisher (Horace)
1891 Antoine Labelle, Quebec catholic priest (b. 1833)
1891 Joe Hunter cricket wicket-keeper (England on 1884-85 Autralian tour), dies
1896 Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (b. 1821)
1898 Frantisek Pivoda composer, dies at 73
1903 Geo[rge J H] Poggenbeek Dutch surrealist painter
1903 Gulstan Ropert, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1839)
1903 Topsy the elephant (b. c. 1875)
1903 W H M "Dicky" Richards cricketer (score 4 & 0 in Test for South Africa), dies
1908 Antony Winkler Prins writer (Groiller Encyclopaedia)
1910 Léon Delagrange, French aviator and sculptor (b. 1873)
1913 Alfred von Schlieffen Prussian General-field marshal
1914 Redjâizade M Ekrem Turkish poet/writer
1914 Silas Weir Mitchell US physician/author (Free Quaker)
1919 Georg von Hertling, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1843)
1920 Benito Pérez Galdós, Spanish novelist (b. 1843)
1924 Alfred Grünfeld, Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1852)
1931 Art Acord, western actor (Set Free, Spurs & Saddles), (b. 1890)
1931 Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (b. 1867)
1933 Lucas Lindeboom, Dutch evangelist (Vredebond)
1940 Conrad Weiss, German writer/poet (Heart of Words)
1941 Henri Bergson, French philosopher (Le Rire) Nobel laureate (b. 1859)
1942 Leon Jessel, composer, dies at 70
1944 Henri "Hans" Flu Indonesian/Dutch family doctor/anti-fascist, murder
1944 Kaj Munk, (Harald Leininger) Danish playwright and pastor , anti-fascist writer (b. 1898)
1946 Barney Oldfield, daredevil, dies at 67
1947 Forrest Reid, Irish author/critic (Young Tom, Apostate)
1947 Julian Ashby Burruss, American academic (b. 1876)
1952 Constantly Permeke, Flemish painter (Boerin)
1953 Arthur Hoyt, actor (Gold Rush Gertie, Lost World)
1955 Dominicus Johner, composer, dies at 80
1955 Francois Rasse, composer, dies at 81
1955 Jan D Domela Nieuwenhuis Nyegaard, Dutch preacher
1956 Alexandr Tikhonovich Grechaninov, composer
1957 Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian President (1951-57)
1958 Waverley John Anderson, Scot, viscount/governor of Bengal
1960 Albert Camus, Algerian-born philosopher and Nobel laureate(Stranger), died in an auto accident (b. 1913)
1961 Barry Fitzgerald, actor (Going My Way), dies at 72
1961 Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1887)
1962 Hans Lammers, German SS officer (b. 1879)
1964 Ralph Dumke, actor (Movieland Quiz)
1965 T. S. Eliot, American-born writer, Nobel laureate (Washed Country)(b. 1888)r
1967 Donald Campbell, English motorboat racer, dies trying to break 300 mph on water (b. 1921)
1968 Joseph Pholien, Belgian PM (1950-52) communist fighter, dies at 83
1969 Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (b. 1908)
1969 Montague Fawcett Phillips, composer
1970 Jean-Étienne Valluy, French general (b. 1899)
1971 Arthur Ford, American clairaudient (b. 1896)
1972 Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer7
1974 Karel Janacek, composer
1975 Carlo Levi, Italian painter, writer and activist(Parole Sono Pietre), (b. 1902)
1976 Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov), dies at 84
1978 Willem Bruynzeel, Dutch timber/lumber/wood manufacturer, dies at 76
1979 Charles Mingus jazz bassist, dies of heart attack
1981 Ruth Lowe, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1914)
1985 Brian Gwynne Horrocks English Lieutenant-General (A Full Life) (b. 1895)
1985 Lovro von Matacic, Croatian conductor (b. 1899)
1986 Christopher Isherwood, British writer (Lions & Shadows)(b. 1904)
1986 Phil Lynott, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose (b. 1949)
1987 F van Heek, Dutch sociologist, dies at 79
1987 Jack Martin, cricketer (English pace bowler, 1-111 & 0-18 in Test), dies
1987 Peggy Bacon, author/illustrator (Off With Their Heads)
1988 Lily Laskine, French harpist (b. 1893)
1990 Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62)
1990 Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
1990 Robert F Adams, US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57
1990 Sir Henry Bolte, Australian politician , Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b. 1908)
1991 Berry Kroeger, actor (Demon Seed)
1991 Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon), committed suicide
1991 Leo N Wright, US saxophonist (I Left My Heart in San Francisco)
1992 Earl Colbert, entertainer, dies
1992 William Walker, stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint)
1993 Daniel H Craven, South African rugby coach, dies
1993 Joe Keenan, actor (Conviction of Kitty Dodd)
1993 Charles Bridgford, Australian politician (b. 1910)
1994 Jim Booth, New Zealand producer (Heavenly Creatures)
1994 Michiel P "Michael" Gorsira, Gov of Curacao (1951-67)
1994 RD Burman, Indian musician (b. 1939)
1995 D Elmina Davies, filmmaker
1995 Dorothy Granger, US actress (Hog Wild, Dentist)
1995 Eduardo Mata, Mexican conductor, dies in air crash (b. 1942)
1995 Jonathan Zeitlyn, artist, dies at 43
1995 Leonard Hirsch, British violinist/conducter (BBC Empire Orchestra), dies at 92
1995 Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholarbr>
1995 Sol Tax, American anthropologist (b. 1907)
1996 Roy McKelvie, soldier/sports writer
1996 Ramón Vinay, Chilean operatic tenor (b. 1911)
1997 Harry B Helmsley, American real estate mogul (Empire State Building) (b. 1909)
1998 Mae Questel, American actress (b. 1908)
1998 John Gary, American singer (b. 1932)
1999 Iron Eyes Cody, American actor (b. 1904)
2000 Spyros Markezinis, Greek politician (b. 1909)
2000 Tom Fears, American football player (b. 1922)
2001 Les Brown, American bandleader (b. 1912)
2003 Sabine Ulibarri, Mexican American writer (b. 1919)
2003 Conrad Hall, American cinematographer (b. 1927)
2003 Yfrah Neaman, Lebanese-born violinist (b. 1923)
2004 Jeff Nuttall, English writer (b. 1933)
2004 John Toland, American historian (b. 1912)
2004 Brian Gibson (director), English film director (b. 1944)
2004 Jake Hess, American singer (b. 1927)
2004 Joan Aiken, English author (b. 1924)
2005 Alton Tobey, American artist (b. 1914)
2005 Guy Davenport, American author, artist, and scholar (b. 1927)
2005 Ali al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad
2005 Bud Poile, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1924)
2005 Frank Harary, American mathematician (b. 1921)
2005 Humphrey Carpenter, English author (b. 1946)
2005 Robert Heilbroner, American economist (b. 1919)
2006 Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai (b. 1946)
2006 Robert Howard White, Mayor of Papatoetoe, New Zealand (b. 1914)
2006 Irving Layton, Canadian poet (b. 1912)
2006 John Hahn-Petersen, Danish actor (b. 1930)
2007 Ben Gannon, Australian theatre film and television producer (b. 1952)
2007 Helen Hill, American independent film-maker (b. 1970)
2007 Jan Schröder, Dutch cyclist (b. 1941)
2007 Marais Viljoen, former State President of South Africa (b. 1915)
2007 Sandro Salvadore, Italian footballer (b. 1939)
2007 Steve Krantz, American film and TV producer (Fritz the Cat) (b. 1923)
2007 Gren, Welsh newspaper cartoonist (b. 1934)
2007 Gáspár Nagy, Hungarian poet and writer (b. 1949)
2007 Osman Waqialla, Sudanese artist and calligrapher (b. 1925)
2007 Sir Lewis Hodges, British Air Chief Marshal (b. 1918)
2008 Joyce Carlson, American artist (b. 1923)
2008 Jimmy Nah, Singaporan comedian and actor (b. 1968)
2008 Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan print editor (b. 1932)
2008 Yannis Tamtakos, Greek political activist (b. 1908)
2009 Gert Jonke, Austrian poet, playwright and novelist (b. 1946)
2009 Giselle Salandy, Trinidadian female boxer (b. 1987)
2010 - Casey Johnson, American heiress and socialite (b. 1979)
2010 - Johan Ferrier, Surinamian politician (b. 1910)
2010 - Rory Markas, American sportscaster (b. 1955)
2010 - Sandro, Argentine songwriter (b. 1945)
2010 - Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese Businessman, and Survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings (b. 1916)
2010 Casey Johnson, American heiress and socialite (b. 1979)
2010 Johan Ferrier, Surinamian politician (b. 1910)
2010 Rory Markas, American sportscaster (b. 1955)
2010 Sandro, Argentine songwriter (b. 1945)
2010 Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese Businessman, and Survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings (b. 1916)
2011 Coen Moulijn, Dutch footballer (b. 1937)
2011 Dick King-Smith English Author (b. 1922)
2011 Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter (b. 1947)
2011 Mick Karn, Cypriot-born British musician (Japan) (b. 1958)
2012 Eve Arnold, American photojournalist
2012 Gatewood Galbraith, [Louis], lawyer, American political activist, iconic Kentucky political figure
2012 Harry Fowler, English actor, dies at 85
2012 James Crow, American geneticist
2012 Rod Robbie, Canadian architect and planner3
2012 Ruben Ayala, American politician (California State Senator 1974-1998)
2013 Sammy Johns, American country artist
2013 Derek Kevan, English footballer
2013 Tony Lip, American actor
2013 Yevgeny Pepelyaev, Soviet fighter pilot
2015 Stuart Scott, American sports journalist (ESPN)
2016 Robert Stigwood, music entrepreneur (Saturday Night Fever, Grease)