January 23rd
Holidays and Celebrations
Bounty Day (Pitcairn Island) * (see below)
Flag Day (Belgium) * CLICK HERE
Babin Den (Bulgaria)
Birthday of John Hancock (American statesman)
National Handwriting Day
Election Day (Jordan) (2013) * CLICK HERE
Anniversay of the Tiananmen Square incident. The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution. (2001)
Anniversary of the death of Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952 d.D:1990)
National Pie Day
Measure Your Feet Day
Belly Laugh Day
Beer Can Day
National Compliment Day
National Peanut Butter Day
Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day
Women's Healthy Weight Day
Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day
Feast of St. Abakuh, an Egyptian Christian martyr
Feast of St. Emerentiana, virgin and martyr, d. 305 (Roman Catholic calendar of saints)
Feast of Blessed Marianne of Molokai
* Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Cultural Festival (3of10) Alamos, Sonora the lilting strains of guitars, the pounding rhythms of rock bands and the echoing arias of opera stars.
* Big Day Out (6of14)last 2 weeks in January, Big Day Out is a music festival that travels around Australia & New Zealand.
National Rhubarb Pie Day
* Bounty Day (Pitcairn Island) , celebrating the burning of the Bounty in 1790
Perce-neige Day Translation Snowdrop Day (French Republican) The Fourth day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May we all come to peaceful ends,
And leave our debts unto our friends."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Baby Guinness
2/3 of a shot tia maria
1/3 of a shot Bailey's Irish Cream
Fill the shot glass with about 2/3 of tia maria and then get a normal teaspoon turn it up side down and gently pour 1/3 of baileys on top.
Wine of The Day
Chilcas 2008 "Red One" Red Blend
Style - Red Blend
Maule Valley
$30
Beer of The Day
Samuel Smith’s Imperial Stout
Brewer - Samuel Smith Old Brewery ; Tadcaster, England
Style - Russian Imperial Stout
ABV - 7%
Joke of The Day
Fellow 1 : "Now my grandfather, he knew the exact day of the year that he was going to die. It was the right year too. Not only that, but he knew what time he would die that day, and he was right about that too."
Fellow 2 : "Wow, that's Incredible. How did he know all of that?"
Fellow 1 : "A judge told him."
Quote of The Day
"I like beer. On occasion, I will even drink beer to
celebrate a major event such as the fall of communism
or the fact that the refrigerator is still working."
- Dave Barry
Whiskey of The Day
Age: 7 years
ABV: 45% (90 proof)
Price: $30
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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 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.
Week Celebrations
Sundance Film Festival 9 days Starting the third Tuesday in January
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week January 17th to 23rd
Week of Christian Unity January 18th to 25th
National Activity Professionals Week Starting third Saturday of January
Healthy Weight Week (Australia) January 20th-27th
Hunt For Happiness Week: January 20th-26th
National Nurse Anesthetists Week January 20th-26th
National Take Back Your Time Week January 21st-25th
National Handwriting Analysis Week Week of January 23rd (John Hancock’s birthday)
No Name Calling Week Fourth Week of January
Clean Out Your Inbox Week Last working week of January
Historical Events on January 23rd
(3102 BC) Epoch (origin) of the Kali Yuga.
393 Roman Emperor Theodosius I proclaims his nine year old son Honorius co-emperor.
638 Start of Islamic calendar
909 John of Rila aka Saint Ivan and the fable of two pies.
971 In China, the war elephant corps of the Southern Han are soundly defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops. The Southern Han state is forced to submit to the Song Dynasty, ending not only Southern Han rule, but also the first regular war elephant corps employed in a Chinese army that had gained the Southern Han victories throughout the 10th century.
1265 1st English Parliament formally convened (some authorities)
1368 In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.
1490 1st printing of Ramban's Sha'ar ha-Gemul
1492 "Pentateuch" (Jewish holy book) 1st printed
1510 Henry VIII of England, then 18 years old, appears incognito in the lists at Richmond, and is applauded for his jousting before he reveals his identity.
1533 Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England, discovers herself pregnant.
1546 Having published nothing for eleven years, Francois Rabelais publishes the Tiers Livre, his sequel to Gargantua and Pantagruel.
1552 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes manditory in England
1556 The deadliest earthquake in history, the Shaanxi earthquake, hits Shaanxi province, China. The death toll may have been as high as 830,000.
1570 Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland, assassinated; civil war breaks out in Scotland
1571 Queen Elizabeth I opens Royal Exchange in London
1579 The Union of Utrecht is signed and forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
1631 France & Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Bärwald
1637 Dutch Governor Johan Mauritius lands in Pernambuco Brazil
1643 Sir Thomas Fairfax takes Leeds for the Parliamentarians
1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament
1656 French scientist Blaise Pascal, 33, published the first of his 18 "Provincial Lettres," the majority of which attacked the Jesuit theories of grace and moral theology.
1663 King Louis XIV affirms covenant with Rÿnstaten
1668 England, Netherlands & Sweden signs Triple Alliance against French
1719 The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire.
1723 Georg Friedrich Händel's opera "Ottone" premieres in London
1755 Under the influence of the Methodist movement, English clergyman John Fletcher, 26, was converted to a living faith. He remained in the Anglican church but afterward became a chief defender of evangelical Arminianism.
1779 Charles Messier catalogs M56 (globular cluster in Lyra)
1789 Georgetown College was founded by Father John Carroll, 54 in Georgetown, Maryland (now a part of Washington, D.C.) Ä the first Roman Catholic college established in America.
1793 Humane Society of Philadelphia (first aid society) organized
1793 Russia and Prussia partition Poland for the second time.
1796 Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500
1812 7.8 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri
1833 Joseph Pease, a Quaker, admitted to Parliament on his affirmation
1845 Uniform US election day for President & Vice President authorized
1849 Patent granted for an envelope-making machine
1849 Elizabeth Blackwell is awarded her M.D. by the Medical Institute of Geneva, New York, becoming the United States' first female doctor.
1855 The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
1856 Steamer Pacific lost
1861 Agoston Haraszthy, 1st vintner in Sonoma Valley, imports 100,000 cuttings of 350 varieties from Europe
1865 Battle of City Point, VA (James River, Trent's Reach)
1865 General Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
1870 In Montana, U.S. cavalrymen kill 173 Native Americans, mostly women and children, in the Marias Massacre.
1879 National Archery Association forms (Crawfordsville Ind)
1879 The Battle of Rorke's Drift ends in the Anglo-Zulu War.
1889 Dr Daniel Hale Williams forms Provident Hospital in Chicago
1894 G W Bunbury of Dublin sets shorthand record of 250 wpm for 10 minutes
1896 Edward Macdowell's 2nd Suite in E, premieres
1897 Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The resulting murder trial of her husband is perhaps the only case in United States history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.
1897 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of the Abbey Grange"
1899 Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as President of the First Philippine Republic.
1900 The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces during the Second Boer War resulted in a British defeat.
1902 Winnipeg Victorias sweep Toronto Wellingtons in 2 for the Stanley Cup
1904 The Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style, The Ålesund Fire.
1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes the first Native American U.S. Senator.
1908 US & Great-Britain demand end of abuses in Congo
1909 1st radio rescue at sea
1912 The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
1916 Temp falls from 44ºF (7ºC) to -56ºF (49ºC) night of 23-24, Browning MT
1920 Dutch government refuses to turn over ex-Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to the allies
1923 Taxi strike in Amsterdam begins (through March 9th)
1924 Ramsey MacDonald forms 1st Labour government in Britain
1926 Eugene O'Neill's "Great God Brown" premieres in New York City NY
1928 "Abenteuer of brave Soldier Schwejk" premieres in Berlin
1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto
1930 George Washington Birthplace National Monument, Va established
1930 WIS-AM (now WOMG) in Columbia SC begins radio transmissions
1932 El Salvador army kills 4,000 protesting farmers
1933 20th amendment changes date of Presidential Inaugurations to 1/20
1935 British biblical expositor Arthur W. Pink wrote in a letter: 'Growth in grace is like the growth of a cow's tail Ä the more it truly grows, the closer to the ground it is brought.'
1936 Catholic People's Party (KVP) of Curaçao forms
1937 In Moscow, 17 leading Communists (Karl Radek & 16 others) go on trial accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime and assassinate its leaders.
1940 Pianist Ignaz Paderewski becomes premier of Polish government in exile
1941 Ground breaking for NACA (now NASA) Lewis Research Center
1941 WOR-AM in Newark NJ moves to New York City
1941 Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
1942 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
1942 Tank battle at Adzjedabia, African corps vs British army
1943 Duke Ellington plays at Carnegie Hall in New York City for the first time.
1943 Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured
1943 66.34 cm (26.12"), Hoegees Camp CA (state precipitation record)
1943 British 8th army marches into Tripoli
1943 Detroit Red Wings scores NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1943 Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured
1943 The New Tribes Mission was incorporated in Los Angeles by founder Paul W. Fleming. NTM works today primarily in missionary aviation, Bible translation, church planting and the production and distribution of Christian literature.
1943 Australian and American forces finally defeat the Japanese army in Papua. This turning point in the Pacific War (World War II) marks the beginning of the end of Japanese aggression.
1943 The Battle of Mount Austen (World War II), the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse on Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign ends.
1943 Troops of Montgomery's 8th Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German-Italian Panzer Army (World War II).
1944 Arnold Schoenberg's "Ode to Napoleon" premieres in New York City NY
1944 Detroit Red Wings score 15 goals against New York Rangers & NHL record 37 points, also most consecutive goals & most lopsided game 15-0
1945 Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal (World War II).
1945 Dutch Premier Gerbrandy, exiled in London, offers his resignation
1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA
1948 Bradman scores 201 in 272 minutes vs India, 21 fours 1 six
1948 Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens
1948 Test debut of Neil Harvey, vs India at Adelaide
1950 3rd edition of Joseph Kane's Famous 1st Facts published
1950 AP picks "Miracle Braves" of 1914 as greatest sports upset
1950 NFL rule changes open way for 2-platoon system (offense & defense)
1950 Rebel army of cap Raymond Westerner occupies Bandung
1950 The Knesset passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.
1951 3rd Emmy Awards Alan Young Show, Alan Young & Gertrude Berg
1953 Bobby Simpson makes 1st-class debut for New South Wales 16 years 357 days
1953 NFL's National & American conferences become Eastern & Western conferences
1953 NFL Dallas Texans become Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts)
1954 Harry van Thorn chosen chairman of Dutch KVP
1954 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1955 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
1955 KORK (now KVBC) TV channel 3 in Las Vegas, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1958 "Body Beautiful" opens at Broadway Theater New York City NY for 60 performances
1958 Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez flees Venezuela, Larrazábal takes power
1958 Hanif Mohammad completes 337 in 970 minutes vs West Indies
1960 The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 m (35,798 feet) in Mariana Trench, the Pacific Ocean.
1961 Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films
1961 Venezuela adopts constitution
1962 Bob Feller & Jackie Robinson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1962 British spy Kim Philby defects to USSR
1962 Libya, Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia plan to form United Arab Maghreb
1963 Guinea-Bissau War of Independence offially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attacked the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
1964 Arthur Miller's "After the Fall" premieres in New York City NY
1964 The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.
1965 "The King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV
1965 BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Dick Weber
1965 Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain
1967 Stan Musial is named GM of Cards
1967 Diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and Ivory Coast are established.
1968 Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1968 North Korea seizes the USS Pueblo (AGER-2) in Sea of Japan and the 83-man crew, claiming the ship had violated their territorial waters while spying.
1969 Cream releases their last album "Goodbye"
1970 Australia's 1st amateur radio satellite (Oscar 5) launched (California)
1970 Dolle Mina burns her bra in Amsterdam
1970 US launches 2nd generation weather satellite, ITOS 1
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 -80ºF (-62ºC), Prospect Creek Camp AK (US record)
1971 4th ABA All-Star Game East 126 beats West 122 at Carolina
1971 UCLA loses to Notre Dame, UCLA then wins next 88 games in a row
1972 Ard Schenk becomes European all-round skating champ
1972 Bootlegger sells wood alcohol to wedding party-100 die-New Delhi
1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest
1972 2nd NFL Pro Bowl AFC beats NFC 26-13
1973 23rd NBA All-Star Game East beats West 104-84 at Chicago
1973 Helgafell, island of Heimaey Iceland erupts for 1st time in 7,000 years
1973 Jordan Air crash at Kano, Nigeria kills 176 Moslem pilgrims
1973 A volcanic eruption devastates Heimaey in the Vestmannaeyjar chain of islands off the south coast of Iceland.
1973 President Richard Nixon announces that a peace accord has been reached to end the war in Vietnam.
1974 1st edition of women's magazine "Story"
1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV
1975 Ralph Kiner elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
1976 Ian Redpath hits his only 2 sixes in Cricket Tests, vs West Indies Adelaide
1976 Washington Capitals end 25 game winless streak (0-22-3) beat New York Rangers 7-5
1977 $1.5-million Serge Lepage dress exhibited, Paris
1977 Miniseries "Roots" premieres on ABC
1978 Sweden becomes the first nation in the world to ban aerosol sprays, believed to be damaging to earth's ozone layer.
1978 8th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 14-13
1978 Belgian industrial Haron Empain kidnapped in Paris
1979 Willie Mays elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1981 Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin
1981 1st Richard Nixon museum opens (San Clemente, CA)
1981 Jochem Bird elected mayor of West Berlin
1981 Mike Bossy becomes 1st in NHL to score 50 goals in 50 games
1981 Red Sox trade Fred Lynn to Angels for Frank Tanana & Joe Rudi
1982 Urbe Blanca (cow) produces record 110 kg of milk, Cuba (approximate date)
1982 World Airways DC-10 skids at Boston Logan Airport killing 2
1983 "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC
1983 Björn Borg announces his retirement from tennis
1983 Cerebral Palsy telethon raises $14,700,000
1983 In NBA, Portland scores all 17 points in overtime to beat Houston 113-96
1983 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean
1983 Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7 40.97)
1984 Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game
1984 Greatest unpaced 1-hour bicycle distance, F Moser (Italy), 51.15 km
1984 Hulk Hogan defeats Iron Sheik to become WWF champ
1985 Britains House of Lords debate 1st televised
1985 O.J. Simpson becomes the first Heisman Trophy winner elected to the Football Hall of Fame.
1986 "Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood" opens at Ritz Theater New York City NY for 13 performances
1986 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1986 The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducts its first members: Little Richard, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.
1987 Dow Jones rises 64 points then drops 110 points (44.15 point loss)
1987 Japan 1st exceeds military spending cap of 1% of GNP ($23 billion)
1988 45th Golden Globes Last Emperor, Sally Kirkland, Michael Douglas
1988 62nd Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Chris Evert (61 76)
1988 Bob Benoit bowls 1st 300-point game in a televised title match
1988 Experimental airplane Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan & Jeana Yeager, complete 1st nonstop, round-the-world flight without refueling lands
1989 Challenge to "who is a Jew" law filed in Israeli Supreme Court
1989 NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak
1990 Dean Jones scores twin Test tons vs Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
1991 "Seinfeld" debuts on NBC-TV
1991 High-denomination banknotes withdrawn in USSR
1991 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait
1992 "Visit" opens at Criterion Theater New York City NY for 45 performances
1993 50th Golden Globes Scent of a Woman, wins
1993 Graham Gooch scores his 100th 100, on tour at Cuttack
1993 Indian Airlines B737 crashes art Aurangabad, 61 die
1993 New York Newsday reports Oregon's Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 23 women
1993 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nancy Kerrigan
1994 Bernie Kosar is 2nd QB to throw TD passes in AFC & NFC Championship games
1994 Worldwide Day for peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina
1996 The first version of the Java programming language was released.
1996 Chris Cairns scores 120, 96 balls, 10x4, 9x6 in Test New Zealand vs Zimbabwe
1997 Antonis Daglis, a 23-year-old Greek truck driver is sentenced to thirteen consecutive life sentences, plus 25 years for the serial slayings of three women and the attempted murder of six others.
1997 Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State.
1998 Pope John Paul II condemns US embargo against Cuba
2001 The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.
2002 "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States in Federal Bureau of Investigation custody.
2002 Reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Karachi, Pakistan and is subsequently murdered .
2003 Final communication between Earth and Pioneer 10
2009 Dendermonde nursery attack occurred in Dendermonde, Belgium.
2012 European Union agrees to embargo Iranian oil in protest against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program
2013 23 people are killed in a mosque suicide bombing in Tuz Khormato, Iraq
2013 18 people are killed in a market shooting in Damboa, Nigeria
2013 US armed forces overturns 1994 ban on women serving in combat
2015 Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is crowned King of Saudi Arabia, on the death of this half-brother King Abdullah
2016 8 museum workers from Egyptian Museum, Cairo referred for prosecution for reattaching Tutankhamun's beard with inappropriate glue
2016 Blizzard delivers record snow to 80 US states, New York 30 inches of snow. Washington 28 inches at least 15 killed
2016 Zika virus outbreak in Brazil prompts Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Jamaica to recommend women delay pregnancies for up to 2 years
3268 Beginning of 2nd Julian Period
Born on January 23rd
1350 Vincent Ferrer, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1419)
1574 Lucas I Franchoys, Belgian painter
1582 John Barclay, Scottish satirist/Latin poet (Argenis)
1688 Queen Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden (d. 1741)
1719 John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790)
1730 Joseph Hewes, US merchant (Declaration of Independence signer)
1737 John Hancock, American patriot (1st to sign Declaration of Independence) (d. 1793)
1745 William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
1752 Muzio Clementi, Italian composer
1761 Friedrich von Matthison, German poet (Adelaide)
1762 Christian A Vulpius, Germany, writer (Rinaldo Rinaldini)
1783 Stendhal, (Marie Henri Beyle), French writer (Le Rouge et de Noir) (d. 1842)
1785 Carl A Agardh, Sweden, botanist/bishop of Karlstad
1786 Auguste de Montferrand, French architect (d. 1858)
1809 Veer Surendra Sai, Indian Freedom Fighter (d. 1884)
1813 Franz Commer, composer
1813 Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (d. 1895)
1816 Carl Herrmann, near Hanover Germany, stage magician
1820 Alexander Nikoleyevich Serov, composer
1827 Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)
1828 Calvin Edward Pratt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1896
1828 Takamori Saigo, Samurai, leader of Satsuma rebellion (d. 1877)
1830 Gaston AA Marquis de Gallifet, French General /minister of War (1899-1900)
1832 Édouard Manet, French artist , Impressionist painter (Olympia, The Luncheon on the Grass) (Déjeuner sur L'Herbe) (d. 1883)
1833 John Randolph Chambliss Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1840 Ernst Abbe, Germany, physicist (Carl Zeiss Optics Company) (d. 1905)
1843 Hans Heinrich XIV Hochberg, composer
1855 John Moses Browning, American inventor (d. 1926)
1857 Andrija Mohorovicic, Croatian seismologist (Moho discontinuity) (d. 1936)
1862 David Hilbert, German mathematician (d. 1943)
1865 Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor (Black Haired Whore)
1867 Herbert Bedford, composer
1868 Juventino Rosas, composer
1869 Carlo Felice Boghen, composer
1869 Herbert David Croly, US author (Promise of American Life)
1872 Joze Plečnik, Slovenian architect (d. 1957)
1872 Paul Langevin, French physicist (d. 1946)
1872 Goce Delchev, a revolutionary from the Balkans leader of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1903)
1876 Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1954)
1878 Oton Zupancic, Slovenian poet (Zimzelen pod Snegom)
1878 Rutland Boughton, composer
1881 Luisa Casati, Artist's patroness, muse and fashion icon (d. 1957)
1884 Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (d. 1956)
1885 Boleslaw Wallek-Walewski, composer
1887 Miklós Kállay, premier Hungary (1942-44)
1888 Gilbert Ledward, British sculptor
1889 Franklin Pangborn, Newark, actor (My Best Gal, Hats Off, Easy Living)
1889 Prosper Arents, Flemish bibliographer (Rubens-bibliography)
1891 Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist
1893 Frank Carlson, (Governor/Republican/Senator-R-KS)
1894 Remy Angenot, Flemish actor (Patriot/Idiot)
1896 Alf Hall, South African cricketer (d. 1964)
1896 Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1919-64) (d. 1985)
1897 Amanda Berry Smith, famous African
1897 Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austrian architect (d. 2000)
1897 Sir William Samuel Stephenson, Canadian soldier, W.W.II codename, Intrepid. Inspiration for James Bond. (d. 1989)
1897 Subhas Chandra Bose, Indian independence fighter (d. 1945)
1898 Freda Utley, British scholar and author (d. 1978)
1898 Randolph Scott, American actor (Last of the Mohicans, Western Union, Ride the High Country) (d. 1987)
1898 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director (Battleship Potemkin) (d. 1948)
1899 Glen Kidston, British aviator and racing driver (d. 1931)
1899 Joseph Nathan Kane, historian (Famous Firsts)
1899 Humphrey Bogart actor (Casablanca, Caine Mutiny, African Queen)
1899 Joseph Nathan Kane historian (Famous Firsts)
19-Angela Carrasco Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, Spanish singer
19-Ray Girardin Wakefield MA, actor (Charlie & Company)
1900 Mary Philips, CT, actress (Farewell to Arms, Incendiary Blonde)
1900 William Ifor Jones, Welsh conductor and organist (d. 1988)
1900 Ralph Graves, Cleveland OH, actor (Dirigible, Flight, Dream Street)
1901 Benno Stokvis, Dutch attorney/politician
1902 Benny Waters, saxophonist
1903 Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombian politician (d. 1948)
1904 Theodor Schaefer, composer
1905 Konstanty I Galczynski, Polish poet (Zielona Ges)
1905 David Newell, Missouri, actor (Runaway Bride, White Heat, Dangerous Curves)
1906 Bob Steele, Pendleton Oregon, actor (Duffy-F Troop, Big Sleep)
1907 Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)
1907 Dan Duryea, American actor (Pride of the Yankees) (d. 1968)
1907 Hideki Yukawa, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
1908 Hubert Nicholson, poet/novelist
1908 Pak Saleman Siswowitono, Javan/Surinamese writer
1909 Norman Fulton, composer
1910 Django Reinhardt, Belgian guitarist (d. 1953)
1911 Dan Smith, harmonica player/gospel singer
1912 Ank van der Moer, actress (Verkade, Dutch Comedy)
1912 Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (d. 2009)
1913 Wally Parks, American racing executive, founder of the NHRA (d. 2007)
1914 Napoleon L Bonaparte, French pretender to the throne
1915 Herma Bauma, Austria, javelin thrower (Olympics-gold-1948)
1915 Arthur Lewis, British economist, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)
1915 Potter Stewart, American Supreme Court Justice, 94th Supreme Court (d. 1985)
1916 Airey Neave, British Major, politician and indictment server at the Nuremberg Trials (d. 1979)
1916 David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist
1918 Gertrude Belle Elion, American scientist, biochemist/drug researcher (Nobel 1988)
1919 Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
1919 Nina Dumbadze, USSR, Discus thrower (Olympics-bronze-1952)
1919 Bob Paisley, English Football player and manager. (d. 1996)
1919 Ernie Kovacs, American comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show) (d. 1962)
1919 Hans Hass, Austrian zoologist and underwater scientist
1920 Erbet Pawel, biographer (Kafka)
1920 Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (d. 2010)
1923 Florence Halop, Queens, actress (Florence-Night Court, St Elsewhere)
1923 Horace Ashenfelter, US, 3000m steeplechase (Olympic-gold-1952)
1923 Cot Deal, major league baseball player and coach
1923 Walter M. Miller, Jr., American writer (Hugo, View from Stars) (d. 1996)
1924 Frank R Lautenberg, (Senator-D-NJ, 1983)
1924 Bal Thackeray, founder and president of Indian political party Shiv Sena
1924 Frank Lautenberg, American politician
1925 Marty Paich, Oakland California, orchestra leader (Sonny & Cher, Glenn Campbell)
1927 Lars-Eric Lindblad, Swedish-American entrepreneur and explorer (d. 1994)
1927 Jack Quinlan, Chicago Cubs Broadcaster (d. 1965)
1928 Eugene Monti, Italy, bobsledder (Olympic-2 golds-1968)
1928 Kees (Cornelis) Broekman, Dutch speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952)
1928 Chico Carrasquel, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1928 Jeanne Moreau, French actress (Going Places, Jules & Jim)
1929 Ian Thomson, cricketer (England seam bowler v South Africa 1964-65)
1929 Patriarch Filaret (Mykhailo Denysenko), of Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchate
1929 John Charles Polanyi, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (Nobel 1986)
1930 Ken Errair, rocker (Four Freshmen)
1930 William Reid Pogue, Okemah Oklahoma, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Skylab 4)
1930 Derek Walcott, West Indian writer, Nobel laureate (Omeros, Nobel 1992)
1930 Teresa Zylis-Gara, Polish singer
1932 Bud Shuster, (Representative-R-PA, 1973)
1933 Arlene Golonka, Chicago Ill, actress (Millie-Mayberry RFD)
1933 Joel Spiegelman, composer
1933 Chita Rivera, Puerto Rican actress and dancer (West Side Story, Sweet Charity)
1934 Pierre Bourgault, Quebec politician and essayist (d. 2003)
1934 Lou Antonio, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Barney-Snoop Sisters, Makin' It)
1935 Bob Moses, American civil rights activist
1936 Jerry Kramer, American football player, author (Instant Replay)
1938 Anatoly Marchenko, Siberia, Soviet dissident
1938 Georg Baselitz, German painter and sculptor
1938 Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1939 Arlene Golonka, American actress (Millie-Mayberry RFD)
1939 Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
1939 Arlene Golonka, American actress
1940 Johnny Russell, country singer
1940 Joe Dowell, American singer
1940 Johnny Russell, American country singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1942 Ivan Ivanovich Bachurin, cosmonaut
1942 Laurie Mayne, cricketer (Australian pace bowler in 6 Tests 1965-70)
1942 Razzak, Bangladeshi actor and director
1942 Willy Bogner Jr, Munich Germany, director (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
1943 Gary Burton, American jazz vibraphonist
1943 William E "Bill" Gibb, Scottish fashion designer
1943 Gil Gerard, American actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1944 Jerry Lawson, US singer (Persuasions-Under the Boardwalk)
1944 Rutger Hauer, Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Ladyhawke, Osterman Weekend)
1944 Sergey Belov, USSR, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1972)
1944 Marty Russo, (Representative-D-IL, 1975)
1945 Mike Harris, Canadian politician, Premier of Ontario
1946 Asif Masood, cricketer (Pakistani quick with long & erratic run-up)
1946 Don Whittington, American businessman, car & airplane racer and convicted felon
1946 Arnoldo Alemán, ex-president of Nicaragua
1947 Gatewood Galbraith, (Louis), Carlisle, Kentucky, Lawyer, American political activist, iconic Kentucky political figure, (d. 2012)
1947 Megawati Sukarnoputri, 5th President of Indonesia
1947 Thomas R. Carper, American politician (Representative-D-DE, 1983)
1948 Anita Pointer, American singer (Pointer Sisters)
1949 Robert D Cabana, Minneapolis MN, Major USMC/astronaut (STS 41, 53, 68, 88)
1950 Bill Cunningham, rock keyboardist/bassist (Box Tops)
1950 Luis Alberto Spinetta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, rock musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), (d. 2012)
1950 Patrick Simmons, guitarist/vocal (Doobie Brothers-Minute by Minute)
1950 Richard Gilliland, Fort Worth Tx, actor (Jonesy-Waltons, Tom-Heartland)
1950 William Cunningham, rock bassist/pianist (Box Tops-Letter)
1950 Danny Federici, American musician (Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band) (d. 2008)
1950 John Greaves, English musician (Henry Cow, National Health)
1950 Richard Dean Anderson, American actor (MacGyver, Stargate SG-1, Emerald Point NAS)
1951 David Patrick Kelly, Actor (K-PAX)
1951 Margaret Johnson Bailes, Bronx NY, 4X100 runner (Olympic-gold-1968)
1951 Michael Matz, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-silver-96)
1951 Chesley Sullenberger, Captain of US Airways Flight 1549, a flight that successfully ditched into the Hudson River
1952 Omar Henry, South African cricketer (1st colored player for South Africa 1992)
1952 Robin Zander rocker vocalist/guitarist (Cheap Trick-Dream Police)
1953 Antonio Villaraigosa, Hispanic-American 52nd Mayor of Los Angeles
1953 Lamont Robin Zander, American singer (Cheap Trick)
1953 Pat Haden, Westbury NY, NFL quarterback (Los Angeles Rams)
1953 Alister E. McGrath, British theologian and scientist
1953 John Luther Adams, American composer
1954 Rick Finch, rocker (KC & Sunshine Band-Give It)
1954 Trevor Hohns, cricketer (Australian leg-spinner 1989)
1954 Edward Ka-Spel, English musician (Legendary Pink Dots)
1954 Franco De Vita, Venezuelan singer and songwriter (Extranjero)
1955 Alexander O'Neal, R&B singer
1955 Reginald Calloway, trumpet player (Midnight Star-No Parking)
1955 Robin Zander, rocker vocalist/guitarist (Cheap Trick-Dream Police)
1957 Caroline Louise Marguerite Grimaldi, Monte Carlo Monaco, princess
1957 Lou Schuler, American fitness journalist
1958 Lorraine Michaels, Canterbury England, playmate (Apr, 1981)
1959 Earl Falconer, British reggae bassist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1959 Tyrone Power Jr, Los Angeles California, actor (Shag)
1959 Clive Bull, English radio talk show host
1960 Misha Mck, East Orange NJ, actress (Gerri-Me & Mrs C)
1960 Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and skysurfing pioneer (d. 1998)
1960 Greg Ritchie, cricketer (Queensland & Australian batsman Fat Cat Mahatma Cote)
1960 Jean-François Sauvé, Canadian ice hockey player
1961 Trey Junkin, tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
1961 Mas Selamat bin Kastari, Singapore's most-wanted terror fugitive
1962 Elvira Lindo, Spanish writer and journalist
1962 Peter Koch, Actor (Conspiracy Theory)
1962 Richard Roxburgh, Actor (Moulin Rouge!)
1962 Vasia Panayopoulou, Greek actress
1963 Hakeem Olajuwon, NBA center (Houston Rockets)
1963 Rocco Romano, CFL guard (Calgary Stampeders)
1963 Gail O'Grady, American actress (Hitman, Nobody's Perfect, NYPD Blue)
1964 Frank Winters, NFL center (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl XXXI)
1964 Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana
1964 Mario Roberge, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 Mariska Hargitay, American actress (Leaving Las Vegas, Jesse Smith-Downtown)
1965 Tim Berrett, Tunbridge Wells England, Canadian 20k walker (Olympics-14-92, 96)
1965 Louie Clemente, American drummer (Testament)
1966 Mike Brim, NFL cornerback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1966 Scott Fortune, Newport Beach CA, volleyballer (Olympics-G-88,B-92, 96)
1966 Haywoode Workman, American basketball player, NBA guard (Indiana Pacers)
1967 Christine Parris-Washington, Truro Nova Scotia, softball (Olympics-96)
1967 Naim Süleymanoglu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter (Olympics-gold-1988)
1968 Eric Metcalf, NFL receiver/running back (Atlanta Falcons, San Diego Chargers)
1968 Lubomir Kolnik, Skalica Czechoslovakia, hockey forward (Team Slovakia, Espoo)
1968 Petr Korda, Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1993 Doubles-Cincinnati OH)
1968 Todd Scott, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1969 Ariadna Gil, Spanish actress
1969 Brendan Shanahan, Mimico Ont, NHL left wing
1969 Eric Carter, CFL cornerback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1969 Andrei Kanchelskis, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
1969 Brendan Shanahan, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL Commissioner (Whalers, Red Wings)
1970 Alan Embree, Vancouver WA, pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1970 Mark Wohlers, Holyoke MA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1970 Marquel Fleetwood, WLAF quarterback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1970 Sherman Obando, Changuinola Panama, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1970 Jim Schwantz, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers)
1970 Richard Smehlik, Ostrava Czechoslovakia, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres, Olympics-Gold-98)
1970 Brendan O'Connor, Irish journalist, satirist
1970 Spiridon Vasdekis, Greek long jumper
1970 Tracey Cherelle Jones, American actress
1971 Lorne Spicer, British TV presenter
1971 Marc Nelson, American R&B singer and lyricist
1971 Mark Grimmette, Ann Arbor Mich, doubles luger (Olympics-1994)
1971 Adam Parore, cricket wicket-keeper (New Zealand, 1st Maori Test centurion)
1971 James Logan, WLAF linebacker (Scotland Claymores)
1971 Julie Foudy, San Diego CA, soccer midfielder (Olympics-96)
1971 Kevin Mawae, American football player, NFL center/guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 Scott Gibbs, Welsh rugby player
1972 Ewen Bremner, Scottish actor (Trainspotting, Julian Donkey Boy)
1972 Marcel Wouda, Dutch swimmer
1972 Tanya Harding, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 Anthony Peterson, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears, San Francisco 49ers)
1972 Gary Harrell, NFL/WLAF receiver (New York Giants, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 Kez McCorvey, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions)
1972 Tanya Harding Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1972 Mark Curry, American rapper
1973 Lanei Chapman, American actress
1973 Mark Kolesar, Minnedosa, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1974 Rebekah Elmaloglou, Australian actress
1974 Richard T. Slone, British artist
1974 Tiffani-Amber Theissen, American actress (Saved by Bell, 90210, Pandemic)
1974 Yosvani Pérez, Cuban baseball player
1974 Glen Chapple, cricketer (Lancashire & England A pace bowler)
1974 Joel Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
1974 Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1975 Kevin Alexander, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1975 Tito Ortiz, American UFC fighter
1975 Kevin Alexander, NFL wide receiver (New York Giants)
1976 Angelica Lee, Taiwanese actress and singer
1976 Brandon Duckworth, American baseball player
1976 Byron Hanspard, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
1976 Nigel McGuinness, English professional wrestler
1976 Phil Boudreault, Copper Cliff Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1977 Kamal Heer, Punjabi singer and musician
1978 Mahesh Pailoor, Director (Still Life)
1979 Juan Rincón, Venezuelan baseball player
1979 Larry Hughes, American basketball player
1979 Sampsa Astala, Finnish musician (Lordi)
1980 Theresa Kulikowski, Tacoma WA, gymnast (World-bronze-95, Olympics-96)
1981 Greg Smith, American UFC fighter
1981 Rob Friend, Canadian footballer
1981 Julia Jones, Native American actress (Hell Ride)
1982 Patrick Levis, American actor
1982 Wily Mo Peña, Dominican baseball player
1983 David Firth, Director (A Call from Washington DC)
1984 Arjen Robben, Dutch footballer
1985 Doutzen Kroes, Dutch supermodel (The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show)
1985 Dong Fangzhuo, Chinese footballer
1985 Mekenna Melvin, Actress (Melting the Snowman)
1986 Steven Taylor, English footballer
1986 José Enrique Sánchez, Spanish footballer
1987 Felicia Brandström, Swedish singer
1988 Steven Blacksmith, Actor (Matt and Ben)
1989 April Pearson, British actress (Tormented)
1990 Chanel Cresswell, Actress (This Is England)
1991 Molly Moss, Actress (Freeze)
1992 Priscilla Knetemann, Actress (Mass)
1993 Cameron Scher, Actor (Beerfest)
1994 Min-Jung Kwak, 2010 South Korean figure skating silver medalist.
1995 Holly Kenny, Actress (Mischief Night)
1996 Olivia 'Chachi' Gonzales, Dancer and Actress (AXI: Avengers of Xtreme Illusions)
1997 Brennan Bailey, Actor (My Sister's Keeper)
1998 Amaris D'Mayan-Psaqua, Actress (Mary Proud)
1999 M.K. Renae, Actor (Grave Robbers from Outer Space)
2000 David Knoll, Actor (The Blackwing)
2004 Mark Page, Actor (Happily After)
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1002 Otto III, German king, Holy Roman Emperor (983/996-1002) (b. 980)
1199 Yaqub, Almohad Caliph (b. 1160)
1356 Margaretha of Bavaria, Emperess of Germany,
1516 Ferdinand II, king of Aragon/Sicily,
1548 Bernardo Pisano, Italian composer (b. 1490)
1549 Johannes Honter, Transylvanian Saxon humanist and theologian (b. 1498)
1567 Jiajing, Emperor of China (b. 1507)
1570 James Stewart, Earl of Moray, regent of Scotland (assassinated)
1622 William Baffin, English explorer
1639 Francisco Maldonado da Silva Solis, Peruvian poet, burned at stake
1648 Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, Spanish poet (Del Rey Abajo), dies at 40
1708 Thomas Bullis, composer, dies at 80
1744 Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
1785 Matthew Stewart, Scottish mathematician (b. 1717)
1789 Frances Brooke, English writer (b. 1724)
1789 John Cleland, English novelist (b. 1709)
1800 Edward Rutledge, American statesman (signed Declaration of Independence) (b. 1749)
1803 Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (b. 1725)
1805 Claude Chappe, French telecommunications pioneer (b. 1763)
1805 Vaclav Pichl, composer, dies at 63
1806 William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1783..1806) (b. 1759)
1810 Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist and physicist (b. 1776)
1812 Robert Craufurd, British general (b. 1764)
1813 George Clymer, US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence), at 73
1814 Georg Friedrich Theodor Wolf, composer, dies at 52
1820 Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (b. 1767)
1837 John Field, Irish composer (b. 1782)
1838 Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch vice-admiral/colonial director, dies at 67
1845 Francesco Ruggi, composer, dies at 77
1864 Michele Puccini, composer, dies at 50
1866 Thomas Love Peacock, English satirist (b. 1785)
1875 Charles Kingsley English writer (Westward Ho!) (b. 1819)
1879 Adolf Jensen, composer, dies at 42
1883 Gustave Doré, French artist, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1832)
1891 Boudouin, prince of Belgium/count of Flanders, at 21
1893 Jose Zorrilla y Moral, Spanish poet (Granada), dies at 75
1893 Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1825)
1898 W A Remy, composer, dies at 66
1908 Edward Alexander MacDowell, US composer (Indian Suite), dies at 47
1913 Nazim Pasha, Turkey's PM, assassinated
1921 Wlasyslaw Zelenski, composer, dies at 83
1922 Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian conductor (b. 1855)
1923 Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader (b. 1849)
1926 Desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal, dies at 74
1926 Joseph Carl Breil, composer, dies at 55
1931 Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan) (b. 1881)
1936 Dame Clara Butt, alto singer (Country of Hope & Glory), dies at 62
1937 Orso Mario Corbino, Italian physicist (b. 1876)
1939 Matthias Sindelar, Austrian soccer star, suicide (b. 1903)
1941 Dobri Khristov, composer, dies at 65
1943 Alexander Woollcott, American actor, author, and bon vivant, dies of a heart attack on radio (b. 1887)
1944 Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (The Scream) (b. 1863)
1944 Viktor Gusev, Russian poet (b. 1909)
1945 Helmuth J Moltke, German politician ("July 20th Plot"), executed at 37
1946 Feliks Nowowiejski, composer, dies at 68
1946 Matteo Giulio Bartoli, linguist, dies at 72
1947 Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator, dies at 79
1947 Roy Park, cricketer (prolific Victorian bat & official), dies
1956 Alexander Korda, Hungarian/British film director (Henry VIII) (b. 1893)
1957 Willie Edwards, US black, murdered by KKK at 25
1958 Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (b. 1880)
1963 Józef Goslawski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (b. 1908)
1964 Louis Horst, composer, dies at 80
1966 Jo van Ammers-Küller Dutch playwright (Opstandigen), at 81
1969 Jaroslav Kricka, composer, dies at 86
1971 Fritz Feigl, Austria-born chemist (b. 1871)
1973 Alexander Onassis, Greek heir of the Onassis family (b. 1948)
1973 Kid Ory, American jazz trombonist (b. 1886)
1975 Karel Paul van der Mandele, director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94
1976 Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 44
1976 Paul Dupuis, French Canadian film and television actor (b. 1913)
1976 Paul Robeson, American actor, singer, and social activist (b. 1898)
1977 Bernard "Toots" Shor, New York restaurateur, barkeeper (b. 1903)
1978 Vic Ames, American singer (Ames Brothers) (b. 1925)
1978 Jack Oakie, American actor (Great Dictator, Gang Buster) (b. 1903)
1978 Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago), accidently shot in head (b. 1946)
1981 Bobby Sherwood, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 66
1981 Samuel Barber, American composer (School for Scandal) (b. 1910)
1982 Hope Hampton, actress (Star Dust, Lawful Larcency), dies at 83
1983 Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1984 Mu'in Bseiso, Palestinian poet (b. 1926)
1984 Samuel Gardner, composer, dies at 92
1986 Joseph Beuys, German artist (b. 1921)
1988 Charles Glen King, American biochemist (b. 1896)
1989 Salvador Dalí, Catalan Surrealist painter (b. 1904)
1990 Albert Collins, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies of pneumonia at 57
1990 Mariano Rumor, Italy's PM (1968-70, 73-1974), dies
1990 Allen Collins, American guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (b. 1952)
1991 Northrop Frye, Canadian writer and critic (b. 1912)
1992 Ian Wolfe, actor (Houdini, THX-1138, Homebodies), dies at 95
1992 Simon Brand, South African banker/adviser to President De Klerk,
1992 Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (Kidnapped) (b. 1924)
1992 Markos Vafiadis, leader of the Communist Party of Greece (b. 1906)
1993 Thomas A. Dorsey, American singer, dies of AIDS (Take My Hand, Precious Lord) (b. 1899)
1994 Brian Redhead, English journalist and broadcaster (b. 1929)
1994 Oliver Smith, US set designer (Guys & Dolls-7 Tony Awards), dies at 75
1994 Sherry Mathis, actress (Search for Tomorrow), dies of cancer at 44
1994 Suzanne M Blum, French lawyer (Charlie Chaplin), dies at 95
1994 Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet field marshal (Flight KAL 007) (b. 1917)
1995 Harold Collett Dent, journalist/educationist, dies at 100
1995 Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57
1995 Michael Whalley Wickham, artist,
1995 Peter Ambrose Cyprian Luke, playwright
1996 John Mackin, programmer
1996 Norman MacCaig, poet
1996 Shirley Carter Burden, patrician
1997 Charles Craig, opera singer
1997 David Waller, actor (Lady Jane, Perfect Friday, Hannay), dies at 76
1997 Jeremy Stephen Maas, writer/art dealer, dies at 68
1997 Randy Greenawalt, convicted killer, executed by injection at 47
1997 Roger John Tayler, astrophysicist
1997 Laura "Dinky" Patterson, dies during bungee jump at Super Bowl rehearsal at 43
1997 Richard Berry, American composer and musician (Louie Louie) (b. 1935)
1998 Hilla Limann, president of Ghana in (1979-81), dies
1999 Jay Pritzker, American businessman (b. 1922)
1999 Prince Lincoln Thompson, Jamaican musician (b. 1949)
2002 Paul Aars, American racecar driver (b. 1934)
2002 Pierre Bourdieu, French sociologist (b. 1930)
2002 Robert Nozick, American philosopher (b. 1938)
2003 Nell Carter, American singer and actress (b. 1948)
2004 Bob Keeshan, American actor (b. 1927)
2004 Helmut Newton, German-born photographer (b. 1920)
2005 Johnny Carson, American television host (b. 1925)
2005 Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, British politician (b. 1921)
2006 Chris McKinstry, Canadian scientist (b. 1967)
2007 E. Howard Hunt, American Watergate figure (b. 1918)
2007 Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist and writer (b. 1932)
2007 Syed Hussein Alatas, Malaysian Politician (b. 1928)
2009 Robert W. Scott, American politician, governor of North Carolina (b. 1929)
2011 Jack LaLanne, American fitness and nutritional expert (b. 1914)
2012 Anthony Capo, DeCavalcante crime family hitman and informant, dies from heart attack at 52/53
2013 Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (b. 1929)
2015 King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (2005-2015)
2016 Jack Bannister, English cricketer (Warwickshire stalwart) and commentator (BBC)
2016 Bobby Wanzer, American professional basketball player and coach (Rochester Royals)
2016 Walt "No-Neck" Williams, American professional baseball player (White Sox)
2016 Peter [Piet] Swevel, American rocker (Looking Glass, Starz)