January 5th
Holidays and Celebrations
National Bird Day (USA) * (see below)
Joma Shinji (Japan) * (see below)
Mungday (Discordianism)
Carnaval Blancos Negros * (see below)
1/5 * (see below)
Nellie Ross Day * (see below)
The Eve of Epiphany (Chritianity), a transition between the 12 Days of Chritmas and some Carnival Seasons.
Twelfth Night (Chritianity) a.k.a. The Twelfth Day of Christmas (some consider it to be January 6th) it is the end of the 12 days of Christmas and the start of some Carnival Seasons.
Ati-Athan Festival (Philipines) begins, honors Santo Nino (Baby Jesus) Starts first Sunday and Ends 3rd Sunday on January
Dia de la Toma (Spain)
American Divorce Day
National Whipped Cream Day
Bean Day
Bird Day
Thank God It's Monday Day
Marilyn Manson's Birthday (Marilyn Manson Fans) (1969)
Feast day of Pope Telesphorus
Red Hackle Anniversary Day of the Black Watch
Christian Feast Day of John Neumann (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast day of Simeon Stylites (Western Church)
* National Bird Day (USA), celebrated semiannually in the United States
* Joma Shinji (Kamakura, Japan) at Tsurugaoka Hachiman.
* Carnaval Blancos Negros (2of3) takes place in town of Pasto - Narino , Colombia from 5th-6th 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 parades start on January 4th with the celebration of the "Arrival of the Castañeda Family"
* 1/5 (Ireland) Irish leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule in 1900
* Nellie Ross Day The First Woman Governor was Inaugurated as Wyoming's Governor on this day in 1925 .
Silex Day Translation Flint Day (French Republican) The 16th day of the Month of Nivose in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May you never lie, steal, cheat or drink.
But if you must lie, lie in each other's arms.
If you must steal, steal kisses.
If you must cheat, cheat death.
And if you must drink, drink with us, your friends."
- Traditional
Mixed Drink of The Day
Brass Monkey
One part dark rum
One part vodka
One part orange juice
Stir together and serve over ice in Hardball Glass.
- In honor of the Release of the song Brass Monkey by the Beastie Boys ( 1/5/1987)
Wine of The Day
Alexander Valley Vineyards (2007) "Redemption Zin",
Style - Zinfandel
Dry Creek Valley
$30
Beer of The Day
Russell Wee Angry Scotch Ale
Brewer - Russell Brewing Co. Surrey, Canada
Style - Scottish-Style Ale
Joke of The Day
There was a guy in a bar one night that got really drunk, I mean really, really, really drunk. When the bar closed he got up to go home. As he stumbled out the door he saw a nun walking on the sidewalk. So he stumbled over to the nun and punched her in the face. Well the nun was really surprised but before she could do or say anything he punched her again. This time she fell down and he stumbled over to her and kicked her in the butt. Then he picked her up and threw her into a wall. By this time the nun was pretty weak and couldn't move. So then he stumbled over to her, put his face right next to hers and said. "Not very strong tonight, are you Batman?"
Quote of the Day
"I told him, 'Son, what is it with you? Is it ignorance or apathy?' He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'"
- Frank Layden, (January 05, 1932). a retired American basketball coach and Utah Jazz president, on a former player.
Whiskey of The Day
January Celebrations
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 Month
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.
Historical Events This Date
1349 Margaretha of Bavaria names her son Willem V earl of Holland/Zealand
1355 Charles I of Bohemia was crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy in Milan.
1438 Pope Eugenius IV deallocated council of Basel to Ferrara
1463 French poet Francois Villon banished from Paris
1477 Charles the Bold and 7000+ are killed and Burgundy becomes part of France at the Battle of Nancy.
1500 Duke Ludovico Sforza's troops reconquer Milan
1527 Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, is executed by drowning.
1531 Pope Clemens VII forbids English king Henry VIII to re-marry
1554 A great fire occurs in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
1593 William Louis of Nassau becomes governor/viceroy of Drenthe
1638 Petition in Recife Brazil leads to closing of their 2 synagogues
1649 Francesco Cavalli's opera "Giasone," premieres in Venice
1675 The French army beats Brandenburg at the Battle of Colmar at Turkheim
1709 Sudden extreme cold kills 1000s of Europeans
1717 Prussian King Frederik Willem I buys conscript for nobles
1719 Engl/Hannover/Saxony-Poland/Austria sign anti-Prussian/Russian pact
1757 Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert–François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
1759 George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis.
1776 Assembly of New Hampshire adopts its 1st state constitution
1781 Richmond, Virginia, is burned by British naval forces led by Benedict Arnold.
1800 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service, Baltimore
1804 Ohio legislature passes 1st laws restricting free blacks movement
1809 Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France
1822 Central America proclaims annexation to Mexican Empire
1828 1st edition of Amsterdam General Trade Journal (Algemeen Handelsblad)
1834 Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell
1836 Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo
1840 Records show 95,820 licensed public houses in England on this date
1841 James Clark Ross (UK) is 1st to enter pack ice near Ross Ice Shelf
1846 The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom.
1850 California Exchange opens
1854 The San Francisco steamer sinks, killing 300 people.
1859 1st steamboat sails, Red River
1861 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter
1861 Alabama troops seize Forts Morgan & Gaines at Mobile Bay
1875 Charles Garnier's new Opera opens in Paris
1875 President Grant sends federal troops to Vicksburg, Miss
1880 Composer Nicolai Karlovich Medtner was born.
1885 The Long Island Railroad Company became the first to offer piggy-back rail service which was the transportation of farm wagons on trains.
1887 1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University
1888 Dutch Heidemaatschappij established
1889 Preston North End is declared winner of the original football league.
1892 1st successful auroral photograph made
1895 Henry James' play "Guy Domville" opens in London
1895 Victor Trumper makes first-class debut for NSW 17 yrs 64 days
1895 French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island for treason, later declared innocent
1896 Isaac Albeniz' opera "Pepita Jiminez," premieres in Barcelona
1896 It was reported by an Austrian newspaper that Wilhelm Roentgen had discovered the type of radiation that became known as X-rays.
1899 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure-Charles Augustus Milverton (BG)
1900 Irish Nationalist leader John Edward Redmond calls for a revolt against British rule.
1903 SF-Hawaii telegraph cable opens for public use
1903 The general public could use the Pacific cable for the very first time.
1904 -34°F (-36.7°C), River Vale, New Jersey (state record)
1904 -42°F (-41.1°C), Smethport, Pennsylvania (state record)
1904 England beat Australia at the MCG, Rhodes 7-56 & 8-68
1905 Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara
1905 National Association of Audubon Society incorporates
1909 Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama.
1911 Portuguese expel Jesuits
1911 San Francisco has its first air meet
1911 Kappa Alpha Psi, the Worlds second oldest and largest black fraternity is founded at Indiana University.
1912 1st National Hockey Association game (Victoria)
1912 The Prague Party Conference takes place.
1913 First Balkan War: During the Naval Battle of Lemnos, Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it did not venture for the rest of the war.
1914 The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and a minimum wage of $5 for a day's labor.
1916 Austria-Hungary offensive against Montenegro
1918 British premier Lloyd George demand for unified peace
1918 The Free Committee for a German Workers Peace, which would become the Nazi party, is founded.
1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
1919 Spartacus uprising in Berlin: state of siege
1920 NY Yankees announce purchase of Babe Ruth
1925 French Baseball Federation awards silver medals to John McGraw, Charlie Comiskey, & Hugh Jennings
1925 James Gleason & Richard Tabers "Is zat so?" premieres in NYC
1925 Under Polish control, Danzig establishes Port Gdansk post office
1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming was sworn in as the first female governor in the United States.
1927 Fox Studios exhibits Movietone
1927 Judge Landis begins 3-day public hearing on charges that 4 games played between Chicago & Detroit in 1917 had been thrown to White Sox
1929 Coup by King Alexander in South Slavia
1930 Mao Tse-tung writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"
1931 1st woman to purchase a baseball team Lucille Thomas purchases Topeka franchise in the Western League
1933 Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge begins on Marin County side in San Francisco Bay.
1934 Both the National and American baseball leagues decided to use a uniform-size baseball. It was the first time in 33 years that both leagues used the same size ball. (MLB)
1934 Fenway Park catches fire for 2nd time (May 8th 1926 also)
1935 Phil Spitalny’s All-Girl Orchestra was featured on CBS radio on the program, "The Hour of Charm."
1937 Fingleton & Bradman make record stand of 346 for 6th wkt
1937 Only unicameral state legislature in US opens 1st session (Nebr)
1940 FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for the first time with clear, static-free signal.
1940 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia
1940 The got its very first demonstration of FM radio.
1941 British/Australian troops conquer Bardia Lybia
1942 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
1943 Teams agrees to start season later due to WW II
1943 William H Hastie, civilian aide to secretary of war, resigns to protest segregation in armed forces
1944 The Daily Mail becomes the first transoceanic newspaper.
1944 The London "Daily Mail" was the first transoceanic newspaper to be published.
1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"
1945 Surprise attack on Liese-Aktion-office on Marnix St, Amsterdam
1945 The Soviet Union recognizes the new pro-Soviet government of Poland.
1946 "Show Boat" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 417 performances
1948 Warner Brothers-Pathe showed the very first color newsreel. The footage was of the Tournament of Roses Parade and the Rose Bowl football classic.
1949 General Spoor orders cease-fire on Sumatra
1949 President Harry S Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"
1950 Carson McCuller's "Member of the Wedding," premieres in NYC
1951 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open
1952 Flying Enterprise sinks
1953 Passenger ships Willem Ruys & Orange collide in the Red Sea
1953 Samuel Beckett's "En Attendant Godot," premieres in Paris
1955 KMSP TV channel 9 in Minneapolis-St Paul, MN (IND) 1st broadcast
1956 In the Peanuts comic strip, Snoopy walked on two legs for the first time.
1957 Dodgers' Jackie Robinson retires rather than be traded to NY Giants
1957 Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Mid East
1957 Pat Boone began filming the movie "Bernadine."
1959 "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV
1959 "It Doesn't Matter Anymore" backed by "Raining in My Heart" was released by Coral Records. It was the last release of Buddy Holly before his death.
1960 Continental League, a proposed third major league, gets an assurance of congressional support from NY Senator Kenneth Keating
1961 "Mr. Ed" debuted. The show would run for six years.
1961 US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba
1962 Tony Sheridan & Beatles produce "My Bonnie" & "The Saints"
1963 "Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 873 performances
1963 "Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 719 performances
1963 San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game
1964 Pope Paul VI visits Jordan & Israel
1964 San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship
1965 The Supremes recorded "Stop! In the Name of Love."
1967 KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, CA (IND) begins
1968 Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law
1968 Dubcek as party leader of Czechoslovakia
1968 Alexander Dubcek succeeds pres Novotny and comes to power, "Prague Spring" begins in Czechoslovakia.
1969 "Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances
1969 Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman & Karl Shapiro
1969 Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed
1969 USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus)
1969 Members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary damage property and assault occupants in the Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland. In response, residents erect barricades and establish Free Derry.
1970 23,000 Belgian mine workers strike
1970 KPTS TV channel 8 in Hutchinson-Wichita, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 Soap Opera "All My Children," premieres on ABC
1971 1st one-day international, Australia v England at the MCG
1971 Globetrotters lose 100-99 to NJ Reds, ending 2,495-game win streak
1971 US heavyweight "Sonny" Liston's (36) corpse found
1972 Largest crowd at Cleveland Arena (Cavs vs Lakers-11,178)
1972 NASA announces development of space shuttle, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon signs a bill for NASA to begin research on manned shuttle
1972 NYC transit fare rises from 30 cents to 35 cents
1972 West-Pakistani sheik Mujib ur-Rahman freed
1973 Mali & Niger break diplomatic relations with Israel
1973 Netherlands recognizes German DR
1974 An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
1974 Raul Julia appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Oh, Brother"
1974 An earthquake in Lima, Peru, kills six people, and damages hundreds of houses.
1974 Warmest reliably measured temperature in Antarctica of +59°F (+15°C) recorded at Vanda Station
1975 Charlie Smalls' "The Wiz" opened at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances on Broadway.
1975 14 die when British freighter "Lake Illawarra" rams pylon bridge between Derwent & Hobart, Tasmania & ship sinks
1975 Salyut 4 with crew of 2 is launched for 30 days
1975 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, is struck by the bulk ore carrier Lake Illawarra, killing twelve people.
1976 "MacNeil-Lehrer Report" premieres on PBS
1976 Greg Chappell scores 182* at SCG against West Indies
1976 Mal Evans, a Beatle's bodyguard and road manager, was killed in a confrontation with Los Angeles police.
1976 Cambodia is renamed the Democratic Kampuchea by the Khmer Rouge.
1977 Kenya president Jomo Kenyatta disbands parliament
1978 Prince made his solo performance debut in Minneapolis, MN.
1978 The Sex Pistols' U.S. concert debut took place.
1981 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 mins to 30 mins
1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of "Yorkshire Ripper" murders of 13 women
1982 Arkansas judge rules against obligatory teaching of creation
1984 Adrian Dantly (Utah), ties NBA record of 28 free throws
1984 Greg Chappell scores 182* in his last Test innings
1984 The Police, announced a farewell concert for March 2 in Australia. The group had been together for 9 years.
1985 Bryan Trottier failed on 9th Islander penalty shot
1985 Discovery moves to launch pad for STS 51-C mission
1987 Surrogate Baby M case begins in Hackensack, NJ
1987 U.S. President Ronald Reagan underwent prostate surgery.
1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test
1989 Baseball signs $400M with ESPN, showing 175 games in 1990
1990 J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
1991 "Oh, Kay!" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 77 performances
1991 Edwin Jongejans of Neth wins 1-meter springboard diving title
1991 Kevin Bradshaw of US Intl scores NCAA Div 1 record 72 pts
1992 "6 Degrees of Separation" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC after 496 perf
1992 "Crucible" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 32 performances
1992 "On Borrowed Time" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 99 perfs
1992 "Peter Pan" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 48 performances
1992 Ravi Shastri scores 206 at SCG before being Warne's 1st crick Test wkt
1993 Brian Lara completes 277 v Australia at cricket SCG
1993 Price is Right model Janice Pennington sues CBS for show accident
1993 Reggie Jackson elected to Hall of Fame
1993 The oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil.
1993 The state of Washington executed Westley Allan Dodd. It was America's first legal hanging since 1965 and the last legal hanging in America. Dodd was an admitted child sex killer.
1994 Aleksandr Popov swims world record 100m free style (47.82)
1994 Yat Weiju swims world record 100m butterfly stroke (58.71)
1994 Zhong Weiju swims world record 25m pool record (58.71)
1995 AFC beats NFC 41-13 in the pro bowl
1995 Lockheed C-140 Jetstar crashes at Isfahan Persia, 18 killed
1996 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone.
1996 Miami Dolphin coach Don Shula announces his retirement
1996 Muralitharan no-balled for throwing in ODI v WI at the Gabba
1996 Hamas bombmaker Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cellular phone.
1997 "Juan Darien-Carnival Mass" closes at Vivian Beaumont NYC
1997 "Love Thy Neighbor," closes at Booth Theater NYC
1997 "Show Boat," closes at Gershwin Theater NYC
1998 Ice storm knocks out electricity in Quebec & Ontario
1998 U.S. Representative Sonny Bono died in skiing accident.
1998 Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid
2002 A 15 year-old student pilot, Charles Bishop, crashed a small plane into a building in Tampa, FL. Bishop was about to begin a flying lesson when he took off without permission and without an instructor.
2003 Police arrest seven suspects in connection with Wood Green ricin plot
2005 Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory
2007 Bill Cowher resigns as head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers
2009 #3 Texas beats #10 Ohio State, 24-21 in the 38th Fiesta Bowl
2010 Mike Shanahan is formally introduced as head coach of the Washington Redskins
2010 #10 Iowa beats #9 Georgia Tech, 24-14 in the 76th Orange Bowl
2016 First batsman to ever score 1000 runs in a single innings in cricket - 15 year-old Mumbai schoolboy Pranav Dhanawade is 1009 not out
Born on This Date
1209 Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1272)
1548 Francisco Suarez, Spanish theologian (d. 1617)
1560 William Cobbold, composer
1587 Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer (d. 1641)
1592 Shah Jahan, Mughal emperor of India (1628-58), built Taj Mahal
1596 Henry Lawes, English composer
1614 Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (d. 1662)
1620 Miklós Zrínyi Hungarian poet/writer (The Peril of Sziget)
1661 Jacob Balthasar Schutz, composer
1667 Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1740)
1679 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer
1696 Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (d. 1757)
1710 Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer
1717 William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (d. 1793)
1729 Paul C la Fargue, cartoonist/painter
1759 Jacques Cathelineau, French royalist/army leader
1762 Constanze Mozart, wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (d. 1842)
1769 Jean Baptiste Say, French economist (Political Economics)
1773 Pieter Fontijn, Dutch painter/drawer
1778 Fortunato Santini, composer
1779 Stephen Decatur, US, naval hero (War of 1812)
1779 Zebulon Montgomery Pike, explorer (Pike's Peak)
1780 Claire countess of Rémusat/Vergennes/French author (Salon)
1787 John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke's Peerage)
1788 Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer
1806 Andre H C van Hasselt, Belgian poet (La Belgium)
1810 Auguste Mermet, composer
1811 Cyrus Hamlin, educator/missionary (established Robert College, Turkey)
1813 Thomas Neville Waul Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1903
1822 Joseph Brevard Kershaw Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1894
1823 William Rockstro composer
1828 August Valentine Kautz, Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1895
1829 Sir Roger Tichborne, missing U.K. heir who was the subject of the longest criminal trial in British history (d. c.1854)
1834 William John Wills, English explorer of Australia, member of the Burke and Wills expedition (d. 1861)
1835 Friedrich Richard Faltin, composer
1835 Hendrik E van Rijgersma, Dutch gouvernement doctor on Saint Maarten
1837 A Ch Swinburne, writer [or Apr 5]
1838 Camille Jordan, French mathematician (d. 1922)
1840 John Doby Kennedy, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1896
1846 Rudolf Christoph Eucken, Germany, Idealist philosopher (Nobel 1908)
1848 Khristo Botev, hero of Bulgarian revolt against Turkey, poet
1850 Theodoor Verstraete, Flemish painter/etcher
1855 King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor)
1858 Gustaf af Geijerstam, Swedish author (Boken om Lillebror)
1859 DeWitt B Brace, inventor (spectrophotometer)
1863 Konstantin Stanislavsky Russian actor/director/methodist
1864 Bob Caruthers, American baseball player (d. 1911)
1865 Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (d. 1920)
1871 Frederick Shepherd Converse, Newton Mass, composer
1874 Joseph Erlanger, doctor (shock therapy-Nobel 1944)
1876 Konrad Adenauer, Cologne Germany, chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949)
1879 Hans Eppinger, Austrian physician (d. 1946)
1880 Nicolai Karlovich Medtner, composer
1881 Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer
1882 Herbert Bayard Swope, U.S. journalist who coined the term "Cold War" (d. 1958)
1885 Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (d. 1940)
1889 Albert van Dalsum, Dutch actor/director (Little Rascal) [or 1899]
1890 Cora Witherspoon, New Orleans LA, actress (Bank Dick), dies
1891 Johan Boskamp, Dutch actor/singer (Potasch & Perlemoer)
1892 Francesca Bertini, Florence Italy, actress (Odette, Assunta Spina)
1893 Friedrich Blume, German musicologist (Das Rassenproblem in der Musik)
1893 Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (d. 1952)
1893 Zoltán Böszörmény, Hungarian Nazi politician (d. unknown)
1895 Elizabeth Cotten, American musician (d. 1987)
1895 Jeannette Piccard, balloonist/Episcopal priest
1896 Hendrik Algra, Dutch MP (ARP)
1897 Jack Wagner, OH, actor (Jive Junction)
1897 Theo Mackeben, German pianist/composer (Lady Fanny, Bel Ami)
1899 Albert van Dalsum Dutch actor/director (Little Rascal)
19-Claudia North New York City NY, high society child (December, 1979)
19-Kelly Nickels rock bassist (LA Guns-It's Over Now)
1900 Dennis Gabor, Hung/Brit physicist (holography-Nobel 1971) [or Jun 5]
1900 Paula Ludwig, writer
1900 Yves Tanguy, French/US sailor/surrealistic painter
1901 H L Honore comte d'Estienne d'Orves, French officer/resistance fighter
1901 Mario Scelba, premier Italy (1954-55)
1902 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English author (Cold Comfort Farm)
1902 Pierre Palla, Dutch pianist/organist
1902 Hubert Beuve-Méry French newspaper publisher (Le Monde (The Voice))
1903 Harold Gatty, Australian aviator, navigator with Wiley Post (d. 1957)
1903 Leighton Lucas, composer
1903 Telésforo A Palm Curaçao, composer/pianist
1904 Erica Morini, Vienna Austria, concert violinist (d. 1995)
1904 Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (d. 1997)
1905 László Papp Hungary, middleweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1906 Kathleen Kenyon, 1st person to place date on remains of Jericho
1907 Anton Ingolic, Slavic author (After Splavih, After Prelomu)
1907 Wilhelm "Willi" J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor
1908 George Dolenz, Trieste Italy, actor (A Bullet for Joey, Count of Monte Cristo-TV series)
1909 Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, bibliophile
1909 Stephen Cole Kleene, mathematician (Regular Expressions)
1909 Jean-Pierre Aumont Paris France, actor (Count of Monte Cristo, Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker)
1910 Hugh Brannum, American actor (d. 1987)
1910 Erica Morini Vienna Austria, concert violinist
1911 Jean-Pierre Aumont, Paris France, actor (Cat & Mouse, Happy Hooker) (d. 2001)
1912 Frank Pace Jr, US Secretary of Army (1950-53)
1914 George Reeves, [George Lescher Bessolo], Ashland Ky, actor (Superman, Gone With the Wind)
1914 Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (d. 1955)
1915 Arthur H. Robinson, Canadian-born cartographer (d. 2004)
1915 Mabel Leigh, potter
1915 Uta Graf, singer/teacher
1917 Francis L. Kellogg, U.S. diplomat and prominent socialite (d. 2006)
1917 Jane Wyman, St. Joseph, Missouri, American actress (Magnificent Obsession) and 1st Mrs Ronald Reagan (d. 2007)
1917 Reginald Smith Brindle, composer
1917 Wieland Wagner, German opera director
1918 Jeanne Dixon Medford WI, psychic (Gift of Prophecy)
1919 Severino Gazzelloni, Italian flautist (d. 1992)
1920 Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Brescia Italy, pianist
1920 Mohammad Aslam, Khokhar cricket (Pakistani bat scored 16 & 18 in only test)
1921 Friedrich Dörrenmatt, Switzerland, playwright/novelist (Visit) (d. 1990)
1921 Jean d'Aviano grand duke of Luxembourg (1964)
1922 Admiral Sir Anthony Synnot, Chief of the Australian Defence Force (d. 2001)
1923 Sam Phillips, American music producer (Sun) (d. 2003)
1923 Robert L Bernstein, New York City NY, publisher (Random House)
1924 Dr Gilbert Bogle, Australian scientist who died in the Bogle-Chandler case (1963)
1925 Wolf Morris, actor (Decoy)
1926 Claude (Buddy) Young, NFL running back (Yankees, Texans, Colts)
1926 Hosea Williams, American activist (d. 2000)
1926 Robert Earle, Baldwin NY, TV host (GE College Bowl)
1926 William De Witt Snodgrass, American poet
1928 Imtiaz Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistan wicket-keeper in 41 Tests 1952-62)
1928 Zulfikar Ali Khan Bhutto, Pakistani statesman and President (d. 1979)
1928 Walter Fritz Mondale (Senator-D-MN)/42nd Vice President (1977-81)
1929 Wilbert Harrison, singer
1930 Edward Galven Givens Jr, Quanah Texas, Major USAF/astronaut
1930 Frederick Charles Tillis, composer
1930 Richard Hayes, Passaic NJ, singer/emcee (Name That Tune)
1931 Alfred Brendel, Wiesenberg Moravia, Austrian pianist
1931 Alvin Ailey, choreographer (American Dance Theater)
1931 Joan Coxsedge, Australian politician
1931 Robert Duvall, American actor (Great Santini, Taxi Driver, Apocolypse Now)
1931 Walter Davis, US, running high jumper (Olympic-gold-1952)
1932 Chuck Noll, Cleveland, NFL coach (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1932 Umberto Eco, Italian author (Name of the Rose)
1932 Raïsa Maximovna Titorenko Gorbachev Russia's 1st lady (1982-1991)
1934 William Bendeck, Bolivian rally driver (d. 1971)
1935 Nancy L Johnson, (Representative-R-CT, 1983)
1936 Florence King, American humorist
1938 Edwin Elliason, Washington, US archer (Olympic-92)
1938 Jim Otto, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
1938 Juan Carlos I, king of Spain (1975)
1938 Leo Avery, abbot of Quarr
1938 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Kenyan writer
1938 Piet Kruiver, Dutch soccer star
1939 Bridget Parker, England, equestrian 3 day event (Olympic-gold-1972)
1939 Peter Struycken, statues/computer expert/teacher
1940 Athol Guy, Australian singer, member of The Seekers
1940 Dany Saval, Oakland California, actress (Boeing Boeing, Moon Pilot)
1940 General Sir Michael Rose, UK military officer, prominent in Bosnia
1940 Michael O'Donoghue, American writer (d. 1994)
1940 Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician
1941 Bob Cunis, cricketer (New Zealand pace bowler of the late 60's)
1941 Grady Thomas, US rock vocalist (Parliaments, Funkadelic, Maggot Brain)
1941 Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker (Spirited Away)
1941 Mansur Ali Khan, cricketer (Nawab of Pataudi, Indian batsman & capt)
1942 Charlie Rose, Henderson NC, newscaster (CBS Night Watch)
1942 Cliff Potts, Glendale California, actor (Ted-Lou Grant)
1942 Jan Leeming, English television presenter and newsreader
1942 Maurizio Pollini, Milan Italy, pianist
1942 Terenci Moix, Spanish writer (d. 2003)
1943 Eusebio de Silva Ferreira Mozambique/Portugal soccer star (Europa Cup 1 1962)
1944 Felix Arons, Dutch director/actor (Waaldrecht)
1944 Tommie Smith, US, 200m dash (Olympic-gold-1968) [or Jun 5]
1945 Chuck McKinley, U.S. tennis player (d. 1986)
1945 Roger Spottiswoode, Canadian-born film director
1945 Sam Wyche, NFL coach (Cincinnati Bengals)
1946 "Crazy Diamond" Syd Barret, rocker (Pink Floyd)
1946 Diane Keaton, Louisiana, actress (Annie Hall, The Godfather)
1947 Mercury Morris, American football player
1947 Ted Lange, Oakland California, actor (Isaac-Love Boat, Mr T & Tina)
1947 Michael DeWine, (Representative-R-OH, 1983)
1948 Parthasarathy Sharma, cricketer (Indian batsman of the mid-70's)
1948 Thom Mooney, rocker
1949 George Brown, rock drummer (Kool & the Gang-Celebration)
1949 Chris Stein Brooklyn NY, rock guitarist (Blondie-Heart of Glass, Call Me)
1950 Charlie Richmond, Canadian entrepreneur
1950 Chris Stein, rock guitarist and co-founder of Blondie (Heart of Glass, Call Me) born in Brooklyn, New York
1950 Ioan Petru Culianu, Romanian-born professor (d. 1991)
1950 John Manley, Canadian politician
1950 Michael O'Donoghue, writer/performer
1951 Steve Arnold, English footballer
1953 George Tenet, American CIA director
1953 Mike Rann, Australian politician
1953 Pamela Sue Martin, Westport Ct, actress (Nancy Drew, Fallon-Dynasty)
1953 Steve Archer, American singer (The Archers)
1954 Bryan Hitt, rocker (REO Speedwagon-Keep on Loving You)
1956 Chen Kenichi, Japanese-born chef
1957 Kevin Hastings, Australian rugby league footballer
1957 Vincent Calloway, Kentucky, trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1958 Suzy Amis, Oklahoma City OK, actress (Blame it on Rio, Where the Heart is)
1959 Clancy Brown, Actor (The Shawshank Redemption)
1959 Kapil Dev India's cricket player
1960 Glenn Strömberg, Swedish footballer
1960 Steve Jones, British aviator (Red Bull Air Race World Series)
1961 Curt Bader, Bloomfield Iowa, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1962 Danny Jackson, US baseball pitcher (Royals/Phillies/Cardinals)
1962 Joel Wyner, actor/director (Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club)
1962 Perry Fenwick, English actor
1962 Suzy Amis, American actress
1962 Brendon Kuruppu, cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman, 201* debut vs New Zealand 1987)
1962 Donald John Cowie, Auckland New Zealand, yachting Star class (Olympics-96)
1962 Suzy Amis, Actress (Titanic)
1963 Jeff Fassero, Springfield IL, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
1963 Rick Ambrose, singer (Jewel)
1964 John Erickson, Woodland Hills California, golfer (1991 Windsor Charity)
1964 Ted Harris Poley, Englewood NJ, rocker (Danger Danger-Screw It)
1964 Tracy Ham, CFL quarterback (Montreal Alouettes)
1965 Rick Tuten, NFL punter (Seattle Seahawks)
1965 Vinnie Jones, English-born Welsh footballer and actor (Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch)
1966 Kate Schellenbach, musician (Luscious Jackson)
1966 Renaldo Turnbull, NFL defensive end (New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers)
1967 Chris Nabholz, US baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1967 J B Brown, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers)
1967 Joe Flanigan, American actor
1967 Ray Crockett NFL, defensive back (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl XXXII)
1967 Ricky Paull Goldin, San Francisco CA, actor (Doug-Hail to the Chief, Another World)
1968 Andrew Golota, Polish boxer
1968 Carl Evans, Actor (Guilding Light)
1968 Carrie Ann Inaba, American dancer and choreographer
1968 DJ Bobo, Swiss singer
1968 Felton Spencer, NBA center (Utah Jazz)
1968 Jean Zedlitz, Stockton CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Children's Med-14th)
1968 Leila Meskhi, Tbilisi Georgia SSR, tennis star (1995 Hobart)
1968 Joe Juneau, Pont-Rouge Québec Canada, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1969 David Dixon, NFL guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1969 Marilyn Manson, singer/musician (The Dope Show, The Beautiful People)
1969 Paul McGillion, Scottish actor (Star Trek)
1969 Derrick Ned, NFL fullback (New Orleans Saints)
1969 Kurt Barber, NFL defensive end (New York Jets)
1969 Shea Whigham, Actor (Silver Linings Playbook)
1970 James Patton, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Rick Campanelli, Canadian TV presenter
1971 Eric Smith, NFL/WLAF wide receiver (Chicago Bears, Scotland Claymores)
1971 Hillary Butler, WLAF linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Jason Bates, Downey CA, infielder (Colorado Rockies)
1971 Mayuko Takata, Japanese actress
1972 Joseph Patton, NFL guard (Washington Redskins)
1972 Sakis Rouvas, Greek singer
1973 Phil Joel, Australian bassist (Newsboys)
1974 Calvin Collins, center/guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 John Drew Nichols, Oklahoma, rocker (PC Quest-Can You See)
1974 Michelle Scerri, Melbourne Australia, golfer (1995 Tasmanian)
1975 Bradley Cooper, American actor (The Hangover)
1975 Kylie Bax, New Zealand model
1975 Ray Morgan, announcer (I'd Like to See)
1975 Warrick Dunn, running back (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1976 Diego Tristán, Spanish footballer
1976 Matt Wachter, American bassist (30 Seconds to Mars)
1977 Jered Allen, Actor (Facing Death)
1978 America Olivo, Actress (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
1978 Franck Montagny, French Formula One driver
1978 January Jones, American actress (The Chrysanthemum and the Sword)
1978 Sabrina Harman, American military figure and accused torturer
1979 Ronnie O'Brien, Irish footballer
1979 Sarah Price, Miss Louisiana Teen USA (1997)
1980 Bennie Joppru, National Football League tight end
1980 Garette Patrick Ratliff, actor (Return to Blue Lagoon)
1980 Oscar Isaac, Actor (Drive)
1981 Brooklyn Sudano, American actress
1981 Corey Flynn, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1982 Janica Kostelić, Croatian skier
1983 Sean Dockery, American basketball player
1984 Amanda Hearst, American heiress
1985 Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor (d. 2001)
1985 Yoon So-Yi, South Korean actress
1986 Deepika Padukone, Indian model and actress (Chennai Express)
1986 Teppei Koike, Japanese actor and singer
1987 Kristin Cavallari, American actress and Reality TV Star (The Hills)
1988 Pauline, French singer
1989 Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer
1990 Grace McCabe, Actress (Smoke 10)
1991 Meghna Bhatter, Dancer (America's got Talent)
1992 Kwame Boateng, Actor (The Onion Movie)
1993 Stephen O'Connor, Screenwriter, Actor, Director (I Am Atheist)
1994 Sam Springsteen, Son of Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa.
1995 Jordan Del Spina, Actor (Thank You for Smoking)
1996 Max Baldry, English actor (Mr. Bean's Holiday)
1997 Dario Flick, Actor (Making of 'Vorstadtkrokodile')
1999 Marc Yu, American musician
2001 Liam Riccardo, Actor (Giallo)
Died on This Date
842 Al-Mu'tasim, Abbasid caliph (b. 794)
1066 Edward de Belijder, the Confessor, king of England (1043-66)
1387 Pedro IV, king of Aragon/conqueror of Sicily
1400 John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English politician (executed) (b. ca. 1350)
1425 John of Bavaria/Bayern, liege of Holland/Zealand/Dordrecht, poisoned
1448 Christopher of Bavaria (b. 1416)
1465 Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet (b. 1394)
1477 Charles, the Bold, duke of Burgundy/writer
1524 Marko Marulic/Marulus/Splichanin/Pecinich, Croatian poet
1527 Felix Manz, Swiss leader (executed) (b. 1498)
1588 Qi Jiguang, Chinese general (b. 1528)
1589 Catherine de' Medici, Queen mother of France
1592 Willem II, Duke of Gulik/Kleef/Gelre
1595 Ercole Procaccini, Italian painter
1603 Pieter Adriaansz van der Werff, mayor of Lead
1684 Claude Audran II, French painter/engraver
1713 Jean Chardin, French explorer (b. 1643)
1740 Antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer
1746 Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, composer
1759 Thomas-Philippe et de Boussu, S Neth cardinal
1762 Elizabeth Petrovna tsarina of Russia [Elizaveta Petrovna], Empress of Russia (1741-62) (b. 1709)
1771 John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (b. 1710)
1783 Friedrich Wilhelm Reidt, composer (b. 1710)
1788 Johann Schneider, composer
1796 Samuel Huntington, US judge (signed Declaration of Independence)
1799 Mohammed Esad Galib Dede, Turkish poet (Hüsn-ü asjk
1807 Michel Adanson, French biologist (Plant classes)
1814 Johann Gottfried Krebs, composer
1823 Major George Johnston, Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales (b. 1764)
1827 Frederick of York, English duke/bishop/general
1846 Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (b. 1812)
1848 Ferdinando Orlandi, composer
1856 Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor
1858 Johann Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian earl/field marshal
1860 St John Nepomucene Neumann, 1st male US saint
1862 Joseph Frohlich, composer
1883 Charles Tompson, first Australian published poet (b. 1806)
1888 Henri Herz, composer (b. 1803)
1891 Emma Abbott, American soprano (b. 1849)
1891 Guillaume L Baud, Dutch minister of Colonies (1848-49)
1904 Karl A von Zittel, German geologist/paleontologist (Libya)
1922 Ernest H Shackleton, Brittish Antarctic explorer (Endurance), aboard his ship
1933 Calvin Coolidge, 30th President (1923-29)
1936 Ramón M del Valle-Inclán, playwright (Tirano banderas)
1937 Marie Booth, child of William and Catherine Booth (b. 1864)
1939 Amelia Earhart, American aviator declared dead after disappearance in 1937 (b. 1897)
1940 Humbert Wolfe, Italian-British poet (b. 1885)
1940 Tina Modotti, [Maria del Carmen], Italian/Mexican communist
1941 Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
1942 Yves Paringaux, French chief of staff, murdered
1943 George Washington Carver, famous African-American agricultural scientist
1944 Adolph Goldschmidt, German/Swiss art historian
1945 Dezsö Szabó Hungarian writer (Wiped-out Village)
1946 Kitty Cheatham, American singer (b. 1864)
1951 Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan)
1952 Victor Alexander John Hope, viceroy of India (1936-43)
1952 Nawab of Pataudi, cricket (play polo 3 Tests for England 3 for India)
1954 Rabbit Maranville, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1956 Jeanne F Bourgeois, French head mistress (Moulin Rouge)
1956 Mistinguett, French singer (b. 1875)
1960 Donald Knight, cricketer (54 runs in 2 Tests for England 1921)
1960 Pavel P Parenago, Russia, cosmonaut
1963 Rogers Hornsby, baseball player
1965 Neil Craig, actor (Calling Dr Kildare)
1965 Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher
1965 Neil Craig actor (Calling Dr Kildare)
1965 Paul Arntzenius painter/graphic artist/etcher
1966 George Duckworth, cricketer (24 Tests for England, ct 45 stp 15)
1968 Jean Murat, actor (On the Riviera)
1969 Franz T Csokor, Austria author (Gottes General)
1969 Tom Aherne, actor (Hustler, April Fools)
1970 Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer (b. 1896)
1970 Max Born, German/British physicist (Nobel 1954)
1970 Roberto Gerhard, composer
1970 Joseph A Yablonski, candidate for United Mine Workers president, murdered
1971 Douglas Shearer, Canadian film engineer (b. 1899)
1971 Sonny Liston World Champ heavyweight boxer (1962-64)
1973 Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP (SGP)
1974 Lev Oborin, Russian pianist (b. 1907)
1974 Roy Bargy, orchestra leader (Jimmy Durante Show)
1975 Don Wilson, pitcher (Astro)
1976 Georges E Migot, French composer
1976 John A. Costello, Taoiseach of Ireland (b. 1891)
1977 Onslow Stevens, actor (Mr Fisher-This is the Life)
1979 Charles Mingus, US jazz bassist/composer/orchestra leader
1981 Harold C Urey, US chemist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934)
1981 Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher (b. 1901)
1981 Paul Félix, Flemish architect (Song of the Sun)
1982 Hans Conried, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy)
1982 Harvey Lembeck, actor (Phil Silvers, Hathaways)
1982 Sir Edmund Herring, Australian military commander, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria (b. 1892)
1985 Robert L. Surtees, American Oscar-winning cinematographer (Ben-Hur) (b. 1906
1987 Herman Smith-Johannsen, Norwegian-born Canadian cross-country skier (b. 1875)
1987 Margaret Laurence, Canadian author
1988 "Pistol Pete" Mavarich, American basketball player (Atlanta) (b. 1947)
1990 Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force)
1990 Bart LaRue, entertainer
1991 John Eckhardt, actor born without legs (Freaks)
1991 Marie Madeline Sullivan, actress (Elvira Mistress of Dark)
1991 Vasko Popa, Serbian WW II-partisan/poet (Sporedno Nebo)
1993 George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer
1993 Henk Knol, Suriname MP (PvdA)
1993 Jennifer Raine Bissell, daughter of Alan Napier
1993 Juan Benet Goitia, Spanish writer (Herrumbrosas Lanzas)
1993 Klaas Wiersma, Dutch sec of Justice (VVD)
1993 Leonce Gras, Flemish singer/conductor
1993 Nyamuisi Muvingi, Zaire minister of Culture, murdered
1993 Ronnie Welsh, actor (Patterns)
1993 Westley A Dodd, US murderer, 1st hanging in US since 1965
1994 Brian Johnston, cricketer (BBC radio commentator for 40 yrs)
1994 Louis R J Ridder van Rappard, Dutch mayor of Zoelen
1994 Thomas P "Tip" O'Neill, (D-Ma)/Speaker of House (1977-86)
1994 Tip O'Neill, American politician (b. 1912)
1994 Victor van Os, Dutch jazz guitarist
1994 William Raynor, writer
1995 Francis Lopez, French dentist/operetta composer (Andalousie)
1995 Mansour Satari, Brigadier General/commandant (Iran Air Force)
1995 Yahya Ayyash, PLO bomb maker, booby trapped cellular phone
1996 Jay Morris Arena, inventor/pediatrician
1996 Joseph Daniel White, singer/bandleader
1996 Lincoln Kirstein, ballet administrator
1996 Richard Versaille, tenor
1997 Andre Franquin, cartoonist
1998 Georgi Sviridov, composer
1998 Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (b. 1943)
1998 Sonny Bono, (Representative-R-CA)/singer (Sonny & Cher)
2001 Nancy Parsons, American actress (b. 1942)
2003 Doreen Carwithen, British composer, widow of William Alwyn (b. 1922)
2003 Jean Kerr, American author (b. 1923)
2003 Massimo Girotti, Italian film actor (b. 1918)
2003 Roy Jenkins, British politician (b. 1920)
2004 Tug McGraw, American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw (b. 1944)
2005 Danny Sugerman, American music manager (The Doors) (b. 1954)
2006 Lord Merlyn-Rees, British politician (b. 1920)
2007 Chih Ree Sun, Chinese-American physicist and poet (b. 1923)
2007 Momofuku Ando, inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles (b. 1910)
2008 Clinton Grybas, Australian sports commentator (b. 1975)
2009 Ned Tanen, American movie executive (b. 1931)
2010 Murray Saltzman, Reform Jewish rabbi and civil rights leader (b. 1929)
2010 Rory Markas, Angels baseball announcer (b.1955)
2012 Donald Carter, American professional bowler
2012 Frederica Maas, American playwright and screenwriter
2013 Bruce McCarty, American architect
2014 Carmen Zapata, American actress
2014 Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, Portuguese footballer (top goalscorer-1966 World Cup)
2014 Jerry Coleman, American baseball player
2016 Elizabeth Swados, composer and musicial director (1972 TONY)
2016 Pierre Boulez, French composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial)
2016 Nicholas Caldwell, American Rhythm and Blues singer (Whispers)
