January 26th
Holidays and Celebrations
Australia Day (Settled 1778)
Republic Day (India) * (see below)
Newman Day * (see below)
Liberation Day (Uganda)
Sexual Relations Day * (see below)
Admission Day (Michigan)
Birthday of Douglas MacArthur
Spouse's Day
Cockroach Racing World Championship in Brisbane, Australia
Lotus 1-2-3 Day
Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement
Better Business Communication Day
Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
National Pistachio Day
Anniversary of the Dental Drill
National Peanut Brittle Day
Feast day of Timothy and Titus
Feast day of Saint Paula
Feast day of Saint Alberic
Feast day of Saint Margaret of Hungary
Third day of the Sementivae in honor of Ceres and Terra (Roman Empire)
World Social Forum marks a Global Call for Action.
* Ati-Atihan (Phillipines) (10-14)
* Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Cultural Festival (6of10) Alamos, Sonora the lilting strains of guitars, the pounding rhythms of rock bands and the echoing arias of opera stars.
* Big Day Out - (9of14)last 2 weeks in January, Big Day Out is a music festival that travels around Australia & New Zealand
* Republic Day (India) - One of only three national holidays in India, celebrated with pomp and pageantry with a military parade in New Delhi and across the rest of the nation. .
* Newman Day, or Newman's Day, 24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not."[2] April 24 (Princeton), Friday nearest the actor's January 26 birthday (Bates College). March 30 (Kenyon College)
in honor of Paul Newman an American actor, philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner (1925 -2008)
* Sexual Relations Day- On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denied having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
Amadouvier Day Translation Tinder polypore Day (French Republican) The Seventh day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May your mornings bring joy
and your evenings bring peace...
May your troubles grow less
as your blessings increase!"
- Traditional
- Alternative -
"Cheers" or "Cherio"
- In Celebration of Australia Day January 26th
Mixed Drink of The Day
Seperator
1 Part Brandy
1 Part Creme de Cacao
Fill with Cream
Wine of The Day
Jarvis 2007 Estate Grown - Cave Fermented
Style - Petit Verdot
Napa Valley
$90
Beer of The Day
Saison du Bastone
Brewer - Bastone Brewery ; Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Style - Belgian/French-Style Ale
- In Celebration of Michigan's Admission to Union on January 26, 1837
Joke of The Day
Two Dutch girls are riding their old rickety bikes down the back
streets of Amsterdam one late afternoon. As it gets closer to dusk the
increasing darkness makes one of the girls a little nervous.
She leans over to the other and says, "You know, I've never come this
way before."
"I know, it's the cobblestones."
Quote of The Day
"Law of Drunkenness...You can't fall off the floor."
- Anonymous
Whiskey of The Day
Four Roses Yellow Label Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey
$20
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
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
National Medical Group Practice Week Starting the 4th Monday in January
New York City Restaurant Week Winter January 25th - February 7th
International Printing Week Last Week of January
World Leprosy Week Last Week of January
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week (Elko, Nevada) Starting Last Saturday of January
Historical Events on January 26th
66 5th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1340 King Edward III of England is declared King of France.
1500 Vicente Yáñez Pinzón becomes the first European to set foot on Brazil.
1531 Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake, about 30,000 die
1564 The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
1565 Battle of Talikota, fought between the Vijayanagara Empire and the Islamic sultanates of the Deccan, leads to the subjugation, and eventual destruction of the last Hindu kingdom in India, and the consolidation of Islamic rule over much of the Indian subcontinent.
1589 Job is elected as Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia.
1654 Portuguese troops conquer last Dutch base on Recife
1666 France declares war on England & Munster
1689 Jean Racine's "Esther" premieres in Saint-Cyr
1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night
1699 Treaty of Carlowitz is signed.
1699 Venice, Poland & Austria sign peace treaty with Turkey
1700 The magnitude 9 Cascadia Earthquake takes place off the west coast of the North America, as evidenced by Japanese records.
1736 Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
1736 Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne
1748 England, Netherlands, Austria & Sardinia sign anti-French treaty
1784 Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over the eagle as America's symbol
1788 The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) and hoists the English flag on Botany Bay to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on the continent. Commemorated as Australia Day
1789 John Odell signs contract for £336 to build St Peter's church (Bronx)
1790 Mozart's opera "Cosi Fan Tutte" premieres in Vienna
1797 Russia, Prussia & Austria sign treaty
1802 Congress passes an act calling for a US Capitol library
1808 Rum Rebellion, the only successful (albeit short-lived) armed takeover of the government in Australia.
1833 Gaetano Donizetti's opera "Lucrezia Borgia" premieres in Milan
1837 Michigan is admitted as the 26th U.S. state.
1838 Tennessee enacts the first prohibition law in the United States
1841 The United Kingdom formally occupies Hong Kong, Hong Kong proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain, which China later formally cedes.
1850 1st German-language daily newspaper in US published, New York City NY
1855 Point No Point Treaty is signed in Washington Territory.
1856 First Battle of Seattle. Marines from the USS Decatur drive off American Indian attackers after all day battle with settlers.
1861 Louisiana becomes 6th state to secede from the Union.
1862 Lincoln issues General War Order #1, calling for a Union offensive McClellan ignores order
1863 54th Regiment (Black) infantry forms
1863 General Ambrose Burnside is relieved of command of the Army of the Potomac after the disastrous Fredericksburg campaign. He is replaced by Joseph Hooker in the American Civil War.
1863 Governor of Massachusetts John Albion Andrew receives permission from Secretary of War to raise a militia organization for men of African descent in the American Civil War.
1870 Virginia rejoins the Union.
1871 British Rugby Union forms
1871 US income tax repealed
1875 Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green
1881 Union of Baptists Communities forms in Foxholl
1882 France government of Gambetta falls
1884 1st Dutch Wagner version of Elizabeth aria
1885 Muhammad Ahmed ("Mahdi") rebels conquer Khartoum
1885 Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum.
1886 Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor
1887 Abyssinian Emperor John IV defeats Italians in the Battle of Dogali
1891 Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua" premieres in New York City NY
1897 British troops beat Nupe's army at the Battle at Bida Gold Coast
1900 Henrik Ibsen's "Naar vi Dode Vaaguer" premieres in Stuttgart
1905 Arnold Schönberg's "Pelleas und Melissande" premieres in Vienna
1905 Han Yong-woon [Bongwan, Manhae] (1879-1944) ordained a monk in Korea
1905 The Cullinan Diamond is found at the Premier Mine near Pretoria in South Africa.
1905 World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa
1907 1st federal corrupt election practices law passed
1907 J M Synge's "Playboy of the Western World" opens; police are called
1907 The Short Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk III is officially introduced into British Military Service, and remains the oldest military rifle still in official use.
1910 Heavy rains cause floods in Paris
1911 Glenn Curtiss pilots 1st successful hydroplane, San Diego CA
1911 Glenn H. Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
1911 Richard Strauss's opera "Die Rosenkavalier" receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
1913 Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for being a pro
1914 600 Dutch textile workers go on strike
1914 Vatican puts Belgian Nobel winner Maeterlinck's works in their index
1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado established
1918 US food administrator Hoover calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" days for war effort
1920 Amadeo Modigliani's mistress jumps out of a window
1920 Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
1921 Soccer team GVAV of Groningen Netherlands forms
1921 Toronto St Pat Corb Denneny scores 6 goals vs Hamilton Tigers
1922 Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Pastoral Symphony" premieres in London
1924 Charles Jewtraw, US 500m skater, takes 1st Winter Olympics gold medal
1924 St.Petersburg is renamed Leningrad
1926 Television 1st demonstrated (John L Baird, London)
1927 Maxwell Anderson's "Saturday's Children" premieres in New York City NY
1929 Indian National Congress proclaims goal for India's independence
1930 Cleveland's Terminal Tower opens (52 stories)
1930 The Indian National Congress declares 26 January as Independence Day or as the day for Poorna Swaraj (Complete Independence) which occurred 20 years later.
1931 Hungary-Austria sign peace treaty
1931 Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs" premieres in New York City NY
1932 British submarine M-2 sinks in Channel (60 dead)
1932 KUT-AM in Austin Texas changes call letters to KNOW
1934 Bradman scores 128 New South Wales vs Victoria, 96 minutes, 17 fours 4 sixes
1934 Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years
1934 The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1939 Federal Hall National Monument established
1939 Filming begins on "Gone With the Wind"
1939 Franco conquers Barcelona in the Spanish Civil War with Troops loyal to nationalist General Francisco Franco and aided by Italy take Barcelona.
1940 Nazis forbid Polish Jews to travel on trains
1942 1st US force in Europe during WWII goes ashore in Northern Ireland
1942 Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel
1942 The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland in World War II.
1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
1947 KLM Dakota crashes near Copenhagen, 22 die
1948 Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed
1949 WHIO TV channel 7 in Dayton, OH (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic, ceasing to be a British dominion. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as its first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India.
1951 Mel Ott & Jimmie Foxx elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1952 Black Saturday in Egypt, rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
1954 Ground breaking begins on Disneyland
1956 7th Winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
1956 Buddy Holly's 1st formal recording session
1956 Hank Greenberg & Joe Cronin are elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1956 Porkkala military base returned to Finland by USSR
1957 Bernanos & Poulenc's opera "Dialogue des Carmelites" premieres
1957 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, forms
1957 India annexes Kashmir
1957 Joseph F Cairnes succeeds Lou Perini as president of Milwaukee Braves
1958 H Laskow replaces Moshe Dayan on as Israeli minister of Defense
1958 Jack Smith takes over for Art Baker as TV host of "You Asked for It"
1958 Japanese ferry Nankai Maru capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
1958 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Lake Worth Open Golf Invitational
1959 Italy government of Fanfani resigns
1959 KOKH TV channel 25 in Oklahoma City OK, (IND/PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Danny Heater scores 135 points in basketball game (Boys' High School)
1960 High-school basketball sensation Danny Heater scores 135 points
1960 Oakland enters the AFL
1960 Pete Rozelle elected NFL commissioner on the 23rd ballot
1961 "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to #1
1961 John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be his physician. This is the first time a woman holds this appointment.
1962 "Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools
1962 Bishop Burke of Buffalo Catholic dioceses declares Chubby Checker's "Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools
1962 Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard
1962 David Diamond's 7th Symphony, premieres in Philadelphia
1962 Ranger 3 is launched to study the moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1963 "Milk & Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City NY after 543 performances
1963 Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone
1965 Hindi becomes the official language of India.
1965 South Vietnam military coup under General Nguyen Khanh
1966 Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2 06.2)
1966 The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia.
1967 Chicago Blizzard strikes with a record 23 inches of snow fall causing 800 buses and 50,000 automobiles to be abandoned
1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1968 Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die
1969 "Red, White, & Maddox" opens at Cort Theater New York City NY for 41 performances
1970 Pendleton, Ford & Cryer's "Last Sweet Days of Isaac" premieres in New York City NY
1971 Charles Manson convicted of murder
1971 Dutch 2nd Chamber accept law against limitation of war crimes
1972 Stewardess Vesna Vulovic survives 10,160m fall without parachute
1973 Belgium government of Leburton forms
1975 Edward Albee's "Seascape" premieres in New York City NY
1976 6th NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 23-20
1976 Belgium catholic elite start amnesty campaign for war criminals
1976 David Mamet's "American Buffalo" premieres in New York City NY
1976 Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon
1976 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 23-20
1977 Soviet figure skaters Sergei Shakrai & Marine Tcherkasova are 1st to perform a quadruple twist lift, Helsinki
1978 Frank Herbert completes his novel "Destination: Void"
1978 International Ultraviolet Explorer placed in Earth orbit
1978 Mario Soares forms Portuguese government
1978 Strikers riot in Tunisia, killing about 40
1978 The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard with the lowest non-tropical atmospheric pressure ever recorded in the US, strikes the Ohio Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).
1979 "The Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS's vast wasteland
1979 Music Center Vredenburg opens in Utrecht Netherlands
1980 175,000 pay to hear Frank Sinatra sing in Rio de Janeiro
1980 Islanders & Whalers play a NHL penalty-free game
1980 Israel and Egypt establish diplomatic relations.
1980 Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes
1981 Sandeep Patil scores memorable 174 vs Australia at Adelaide Oval
1982 Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38, 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins
1982 Mauno Koivisto elected president of Finland
1983 Dutch/British infrared satellite IRAS launched from California
1984 Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 US navy exhibits Piasecki helistat-4 helicopters & a blimp able to lift 26 tons-Lakehurst New Jersey
1985 42th Golden Globes, Amadeus wins
1985 Edmonton Oiler Wayne Gretzky scores 50th goal in 49th game of season
1986 Hein Vergeer becomes European skating champ
1986 Super Bowl XX, Chicago Bears beat New England Patriots, 46-10 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Richard Dent, Chicago, Defensive End
1986 Val Skinner wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1986 Yoweri Museveni's rebel army conquerors Kampala Uganda
1987 14th American Music Awards, Whitney Houston, Lionel Richie & Alabama
1987 Hart Foundation beat British Bulldogs for WWF tag team title
1988 "Phantom of the Opera" opens at Majestic Theater New York City NY for 4,000+ performances
1988 Australia's 200th anniversary-parade of tall ships in Sydney Harbor
1989 "Black & Blue" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City NY for 829 performances
1989 AT&T reports 1st loss in 103 years; $1.67 B in 1988
1989 Allan Border takes 7-46 against the West Indies at the SCG
1989 Madison Square Garden announces 2-year $100 M renovation plan
1989 Test debut of Mark Taylor, Australia vs West Indies, Sydney
1989 US computer security expert warns of catastrophic virus
1990 Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
1990 Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as assistant GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)
1991 "Few Good Men" closes at Music Box Theater New York City NY after 497 performances
1991 65th Australian Womens Tennis, Monica Seles beats J Novotna (57 63 61)
1991 Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
1991 Houston guard Vernon Maxwell is 4th NBAer to score 30 points in a quarter
1991 Jan Stenerud becomes 1st pure placekicker to make NFL Hall of Fame
1991 Mohamed Siad Barre is removed from power in Somalia, ending centralized government, and is succeeded by Ali Mahdi.
1991 New York Lotto pays $90 million to nine winners (#s are 5-15-30-35-46-50)
1992 "Little Hotel on the Side" opens at Belasco Theater New York City NY for 41 performances
1992 80th Australian Mens Tennis, Jim Courier beats Stefan Edberg (63 36 64 62)
1992 Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
1992 Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
1992 Super Bowl XXVI Washington Redskins beat Buffalo Bills, 37-24 in Minnesota; Super Bowl MVP Mark Rypien, Washington, Quarterback
1993 West Indies defeat Australia by one run in 4th Test at Adelaide
1995 New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, dedicates a rest stop to Howard Stern
1996 "Les Miserables" opens at Musichall Theatre, Duisburg
1997 "Ideal Husband" closes at Barrymore Theater New York City NY after 308 performances
1997 85th Australian Mens Tennis: Pete Sampras beats Carlos Moya (62 63 63)
1997 Brunswick World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by John Gant
1997 Super Bowl XXXI Green Bay Packers beat New England Patriots, 35-21 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Desmond Howard, Green Bay, Kick Returner
1998 25th American Music Award: Spice Girls & Babyface win
1998 Intel launches 333 MHz Pentium II chip
1998 Lewinsky scandal: On American television, U.S. President Bill Clinton denies having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
1998 President Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
2001 An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2001 An earthquake hits Gujarat, India, causing more than 20,000 deaths.
2004 A whale explodes in the town of Tainan, Taiwan. A build-up of gas in the decomposing Sperm whale is suspected of causing the explosion.
2004 President Hamid Karzai signs the new constitution of Afghanistan.
2005 Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, becoming the first African American woman to hold the post.
2005 Glendale train crash, Two trains derail killing 11 and injuring 200 in Glendale, California, near Los Angeles.
2006 Western Union discontinues use of its telegram service
2013 10 people are killed and 20 are injured by a suicide bombing in Kunduz, Afghanistan
2013 30 people are killed during a violent protest in Port Said, Egypt
2013 The United States Sentencing Commission is hacked by Anonymous in response to the suicide of Aaron Swartz
2013 Miloš Zeman wins the Czech Republic’s presidential election
2013 Victoria Azarenka defeats Li Na to (4-6, 6-4, 6-3) win the women's singles at the 2013 Australian Open
2014 21 people are killed after a tourist boat capsizes off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
2014 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Lorde, and Daft Punk win at the 56th Grammy Awards
2014 Stanislas Wawrinka beats Rafael Nadal (6-3, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3) at the 102nd Men's Australian Open
2014 Team Rice beats Team Sanders 22-21 at the NFL Pro Bowl
2014 "Whiplash", directed by Damien Chazelle, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the 30th Sundance Film Festival
2015 Libby Lane is ordained as the first female bishop of the Church of England
2016 Cold snap across East Asia leads to more than 50 deaths and 60,000 travellers stranded in South Korea
2016 Leader of Oregon militia occupying Malheur wildlife refuge arrested and another killed in shoot-out with Federal agents
Born on January 26th
1497 Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
1541 Florent Chrestien, French writer (d. 1596)
1613 Johann Jakob Wolleb, composer
1667 Henricus Zwaardecroon, Governor-General of Netherland-Indies
1708 William Hayes, composer
1714 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor (Child with Bird Cage) (d. 1785)
1715 Claude Helvetius, Paris France, philosopher
1716 George Sackville Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville, British soldier and politician (d. 1785)
1722 Alexander Carlyle, Scottish church leader (d. 1805)
1722 Prestonpans
1742 Johann Friedrich Ludwig Sievers, composer
1748 Emmanuel Aloys Forster, composer
1763 Charles XIV, French marshall, king of Sweden & Norway (1818-44)
1770 Alexander Carlyle, Moderator of General Assembly
1771 Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director (Suriname)
1778 Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet (Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis)
1781 Achim von Arnim, German poet (d. 1831)
1781 Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
1786 Benjamin Robert Haydon, Plymouth, painter (Waiting for The Times)
1804 Eugane "Marie Joseph" Sue France, novelist (Wandering Jew)
1813 Juan Pablo Duarte, Dominican founding father (d. 1876)
1814 Rufus King, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1816 Lloyd Tilghman, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1819 Abner Doubleday, Union general-major/inventor (baseball)
1826 Julia Dent Grant, First Lady of the United States (1862-76) (d. 1902)
1828 Johan T Buys, Dutch lawyer
1831 Mary Mapes Dodge, New York City NY, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates)
1832 George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)
1842 François Coppée, French poet and novelist (d. 1908)
1852 Frederick Corder, composer
1852 Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (Pietro Paolo Savorgnan di Brazzà), explorer (d. 1905)
1855 Arthur Hervey, composer
1857 Trinley Gyatso, Tibetan, The 12th Dalai Lama (d. 1875)
1864 József Pusztai, Slovene writer, poet and journalist in Hungary (d. 1934)
1871 Warner Fabian, [Samuel H Adams], US journalist/writer (Average Jones)
1878 A W "Dave" Nourse, cricketer ("Grand Old Man" of South African cricket) (d. 1948)
1878 R A Schröcker writer
1879 Ludovicus H [Lode] Baekelmans, Flemish (stage)author (Tille)
1880 Douglas MacArthur, American general and Medal of Honor recipient (WW II) (d. 1964)
1884 Edward Sapir, Germany, linguist/anthropologist (Indians)
1884 Roy Chapman Andrews, US, scientist/explorer
1885 Michael Considine, Australian politician (d. 1959)
1886 Joannes A Veraart, Dutch economist/MP (Jews of the Netherlands)
1887 Enrique E Ecker, Curacao, bacteriologist
1887 François Faber, Luxembourgian cyclist (d. 1915)
1887 Marc A "Pete" Mitscher, US Lieutenant-Admiral (WWII-Task Force 58) (d. 1947)
1891 Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
1891 Ilya G Ehrenburg, Kiev Ukraine, writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw)
1891 Wilder Penfield, American-born Canadian neurosurgeon (d. 1976)
1892 Bessie Coleman, American pioneer aviator (d. 1926)
1892 Zara Cully, American actress (Mother Jefferson-The Jeffersons) (d. 1978)
1893 Bessie Coleman, 1st black airplane pilot
1893 Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (d. 1976)
1899 Wyllis Cooper, Pekin Ill, TV narrator (Volume One)
19-- Richard Hill, Harlan KY, actor (Al Gordean-Today's FBI)
1900 Karl Ristenpart, German conductor (d. 1967)
1901 Ervin Major, composer
1902 Laurence "Bill" Craigie, jet pioneer
1902 Menno ter Braak, Dutch author and polemicist (Carnaval of the Citizens) (d. 1940)
1902 Romney Brent, Saltillo Mexico, actor/writer (Dinner at the Ritz)
1904 Ancel Keys, American scientist (d. 2004)
1904 Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail)
1904 Seán MacBride, Irish statesman, Amnesty International co-founder, Nobel Prize Laureate (Nobel '74) (d. 1988)
1905 Charles Lane, American actor (Homer-Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), (d. 2007)
1905 John Carmel Heenan, Essex, cardinal archbishop of Westminster (1963-75)
1905 Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer, inspired "Sound of Music" (d. 1987)
1905 Marquess of Bath, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1907 Eddie Ballantine, Chicago IL, orchestra leader (Don McNeill TV Club)
1907 Henry Cotton, English golfer (British Open 1934, 1937, 1948)
1908 Jill Esmond, English actress (d. 1990)
1908 Rupprecht Geiger, German painter (d. 2009)
1908 Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (d. 1997)
1910 Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director (Adrift)
1910 Jean Image, Hungarian-born French animator (d. 1989)
1910 Marijan Lipovsek, composer
1911 Norbert Schultze, German composer and songwriter (d. 2002)
1911 Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Nobel 1955) (d. 1993)
1912 Cora Baird, New York City NY, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
1913 Jimmy Van Heusen, American songwriter (Love & Marriage) (d. 1990)
1913 William Prince, Nichols NY, actor (City in Fear, Cyrano de Bergerac)
1914 Kaye Webb, English writer/publisher (Puffin Club)
1914 Princess Hadice Hayriye Ayshe Dürrühsehvar (d. 2006)
1915 William Hopper, American actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason) (d. 1970)
1916 Lothar Jensch, composer
1918 Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanian dictator (1967-90) (d. 1989)
1918 Philip José Farmer, American writer (d. 2009)
1919 Bill Nicholson, English footballer and manager for Tottenham Hotspur. (d. 2004)
1919 K C Ibrahim, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests India vs West Indies 1948-49)
1919 Valentino Mazzola, Italian footballer (d. 1949)
1920 Derek Bond, Glasgow Scotland, actor (Nicholas Nickelby)
1920 John Logan Gorlay, journalist
1921 Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (Sony) (d. 1999)
1921 Eddie Barclay, French producer (Barclay Records) (d. 2005)
1921 Frantisek Chaun, composer
1921 Johannes Driessler, composer
1922 Michael Bentine, British comedian (Reluctant Jester) (d. 1996)
1922 Seán Flanagan, Irish Gaelic footballer and politician (d. 1993)
1923 Anne Jeffreys, American actress (Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital)
1924 Alice Babs, Swedish singer
1924 Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician (d. 1998)
1924 Rauf Denktas, Cypriot politician
1924 Warren Frank Benson, composer
1925 Claude Ryan, Quebec newspaper editor (d. 2004)
1925 David Jenkins, Bishop (Durham)
1925 Desmond Cassidi, British admiral
1925 Joan Leslie, American actress (Sergeant York, High Sierra, Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1925 Paul Newman, American actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler), philanthropist, race car driver and race team owner (d. 2008)
1926 Charles Tidbury, former chairman (Whitbread & Company)
1926 Farman Fatehpuri, Pakistani scholar
1926 Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator
1926 Ronnie Hilton, singer (Moonraker)
1927 Bob Nieman, American baseball player (d. 1985)
1927 Jose Simon Azcona Hoyo, President of Honduras (1986-90) (d. 2005)
1927 William Redfield, New York City NY, actor (Jimmy Hughes Rookie Cop, Marriage)
1928 Eartha Kitt, South Carolina, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman)
1928 Gene Snyder, (Representative-R-KY, 1963-65, 67)
1928 Philip Jose Farmer, Indiana, science fiction novelist (Riverworld)
1928 Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (And God Created Women, Barbarella) (d. 2000)
1929 Gordon Solie, American wrestling commentator (d. 2000)
1929 Jules Feiffer, American cartoonist (Passionella) and writer (Little Murders)
1929 M R Turner, publisher
1930 A N Solomons, chairman (Singer & Friedlander)
1930 Anne Macfarlane, Master (Court of Protection)
1930 Harry "Buddy" Melges Jr, Wisconsin, yachter (Olympics-gold/bronze-1964, 72)
1930 Napoleón Abueva, Filipino sculptor
1931 Mary Murphy, American film actress (A Man Alone, Maggie-Investigators)
1932 Christopher Price, Director (Leeds Metropolitan U)
1932 Coxsone Dodd, Jamaican record producer
1932 George H Clements, first Roman Catholic Priest to adopt a child.
1932 Ronald Allison, British author/broadcaster
1933 Ercole Baldini, Italian cyclist
1934 Huey "Piano" Smith, pianist (Having a Good Time)
1934 Roger Landry, Quebec businessman and newspaper publisher
1935 Bob Uecker, American baseball player, broadcaster, and actor (Mr Belvedere)
1935 Corrado Augias, Italian journalist, writer and TV personality
1935 Henry Jordan, Emporia Va, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland, Green Bay)
1935 Peter Ronnefeld, composer
1935 Zbigniew Penherski, composer
1936 Noel Harrison, London, singer/actor (Mark-Girl from UNCLE)
1936 Sal Buscema, American comic book artist
1937 Gerrit Gerritse, Dutch MP (CDA)
1937 Joseph Saidu Momoh, Sierra Leone political leader (d. 2003)
1937 S J B Langdale, Headmaster (Shrewsbury School)
1938 Margaret Daly, British MEP
1939 Marshall Lieb, rocker (Teddy Bears)
1941 Henry Jaglom, English director (Eating, Lucky Ducks, Always)
1941 Scott Glenn, American actor (Right Stuff, Personal Best, Backdraft)
1942 Nigel Walmsley, chairman (Carlton UK Television)
1942 Souad Hosni, Egyptian actress (d. 2001)
1942 William McLennan, CEO (Central Statistical Office)
1943 Austin "Jack" Warner,Trinidadian FIFA Vice-President and CONCACAF President
1943 César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 2005)
1943 Jean Knight, American singer (Mr Big Stuff)
1943 Peter Kenton Winkler, composer
1943 Sherian Grace Cadoria, Brigadier General
1944 Angela Davis
1944 Angela Yvonne Davis, American feminist, black activist, and professor
1945 Jacqueline du Pré, English cellist (d. 1987)
1945 Mick Hill, cricketer (New South Wales all-rounder 1964-75)
1946 Christopher Hampton, Azores, playwright (Oviri, Hotel du Lac)
1946 Gene Siskel, American film critic (Siskel & Ebert) (d. 1999)
1946 Timothy Clifford, director (National Galleries of Scotland)
1947 Michel Sardou, French singer
1947 Patrick Dewaere, French actor (Les Valseuses) (d. 1982)
1948 Corky Laing, rocker (Mountain)
1949 David Strathairn, American actor
1949 Derek Holt, rocker (Climax Blues Band)
1949 Jonathan Carroll, American author
1949 Paul Nurse, doctor/director-General elect (Imperial Cancer Research Fund)
1950 David Strathairn, actor (LA Confidential, Eight Men Out)
1950 Janet Lupo, American model
1950 Jorg Haider, Austrian political leader (Austrian Freedom Pary) (d. 2008)
1951 Andy Hummell, Memphis TN, rock bassist (Big Star)
1951 David Briggs, rock guitarist (Little River Band-Help is on it's Way)
1951 Jarmila Kratochvilova, Czechoslovakia, 400m/800m runner (women's world record holder, Olympics-silver-1980)
1951 Walt Willey, Ottawa IL, actor (Joe Novak-Ryan's Hope, Jackson Montgomery-All My Children)
1952 Mario Runco Jr, Bronx NY, Lieutenant-Commander USN/astronaut (STS 44, 54, 77)
1952 Thomas Edward Henderson, South Carolina, basketballer (Olympics-silver-1972)
1953 Alik L. Alik, vice-president of the Federate States of Micronesie
1953 Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark
1953 Andree C van Es, Dutch MP (PSP)
1953 Bert Heerink, Amsterdam, rock vocalist
1953 Lucinda Williams, American singer
1954 Kim Hughes, Australian cricketer (Australian batsman 1977-84)
1954 Martin Dunn, British editor (Today)
1955 Eddie Van Halen, Dutch musician (Van Halen)
1955 Lucia Mendez, Mexico, spanish singer (Lucia es Luna Moreno)
1956 Lisa Boray, (Schulte Nordholt), Dutch singer (Lovers Until the End)
1956 Simon Howard, English large landowner (Castle Howard)
1957 Ashok Malhotra, cricketer (Indian batsman in 7 Tests 1982-84)
1957 Shivlal Yadav, cricketer (Indian off-spinner 102 Test wickets 1979-87)
1958 Anita Baker, American singer (Giving You the Best That I Got)
1958 B James Lowry, rocker (Boys Band)
1958 Dave Rummells, Cedar Rapids IA, Nike golfer (1993 Buick-2nd)
1958 Ellen DeGeneres, American actress and comedian (Ellen Morgan-Ellen)
1958 Norman Lamont Hassan, British reggae musician (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1958 Salvador Sánchez, Mexican boxer
1960 Charlie Gillingham, American musician (Counting Crows)
1960 Gary Plummer, NFL linebacker (San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers)
1960 Jeanette Bolden, Los Angeles CA, 4x100m runner (Olympics-gold-1984)
1960 Road Warrior - Animal, American professional wrestler
1961 Li Cunxin, Chinese-Australian ballet dancer
1961 Tom Keifer, American musician (Cinderella)
1961 Wayne Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player (The Great One), Edmonton Oilers/Los Angeles Kings/New York Rangers (NHL MVP 1980-1987)
1962 Oscar Ruggeri, Argentine footballer
1962 Roshan Guneratne, cricketer (wicketless in only Test SL vs Australia 1983)
1962 Tim May, cricketer (Australian off-spinner 1987-95)
1962 Tom Keifer, rock guitarist/vocalist (Cinderella-Heartbreak Station)
1963 Andrew Ridgeley, English musician (Wham-Wake Me Up)
1963 Claudia Lonow New York City NY, actress (Diana-Knots Landing)
1963 Gisela Valcarcel, Peruvian Hostess
1963 Jazzie B, [Beresford Romeo], English rapper (Soul II Soul-Feel Free)
1963 José Mourinho, Portuguese football manager
1963 Riddell Akua, Nauruan politician
1963 Simon O'Donnell, cricketer (Deniliquin New South Wales ODI all-rounder 1985-90)
1964 Paul Johansson, American actor
1965 Allison Hossack, Manitoba, actress (Olivia-Another World)
1965 Lou Frazier, US baseball outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1965 Natalia Yurchenko, Soviet gymnast
1965 Thomas Östros, Swedish politician
1965 Tim McDonald, safety (San Francisco 49ers)
1967 Jeff Branson, US baseball infielder (Cincinnati Reds)
1967 Katie Peterson-Parker, Bethesda MD, LPGA golfer (1995 Oldsmobile-5th)
1967 Pradip Somasundaran, Indian playback singer
1967 Tim Pugh, Lake Tahoe CA, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds, Kansas City Royals)
1968 Eric Davis, NFL cornerback (San Francisco 49ers, Carolina Panthers)
1968 Ravi Teja, Tollywood film actor
1968 Reggie Jordan, NBA guard (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1969 Michael O'Hearn, American bodybuilder
1970 Dan Carlson, US baseball pitcher (San Francisco Giants)
1970 Dean Malkoc, Vancouver, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
1970 Kirk Franklin, American gospel singer
1970 Ronald Moore, NFL running back (New York Jets, St Louis Rams, Arizona Cardinals)
1970 Tracy Middendorf, American actress
1971 Bryan Callen, American actor
1971 Dorian Gregory, American actor
1971 Jon Heidenreich, WLAF G (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Lamar Mills, WLAF DE (Amsterdam Admirals)
1971 Lee Naylor, Australian 400m runner (Olympics-96)
1971 Min Tang, Hunan China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Canberra Australia)
1971 Tracy Middendorf, Georgia, actress (Beverly Hills 90210, Carrie-Days of Our Life)
1972 Harrison Houston, NFL wide receiver (Chicago Bears)
1973 Mark Brook, WLAF LB (Rhein Fire)
1973 Mayu Shinjo, Japanese mangaka
1973 Melvil Poupaud, French actor
1973 Tatsuki Katayama, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1973 Tony Ramirez, tackle (Detroit Lions)
1974 Shannon Hale, American author
1975 Frankie Rayder, American model
1976 Paul Byrne, Australian 800m ruuner (Olympics-96)
1976 Willie Adler, American guitar player
1977 Cindy Cesar, Miss Mauritius Universe (1997)
1977 Justin Gimelstob, American tennis player (1994 doubles USTA Bakersfield)
1977 Tye Tribbett, American Singer
1977 Vince Carter, American basketball player
1978 Corina Morariu, American tennis player
1978 Estéban Germán, Dominican baseball player
1978 Kelly Stables, American actress
1978 Reesa Starr Jr
1979 Sara Rue, American actress
1981 Gustavo Dudamel, Venezuelan Composer/Conductor
1981 Juan Jose Haedo, Argentinian Cyclist
1983 Petri Oravainen, Finnish footballer
1984 Iain Turner, Scottish footballer
1984 Layla Kayleigh, British television personality
1984 Luo Xuejuan, Chinese swimmer
1986 Gerald Green, American basketball player
1986 Hero, South Korean singer (TVXQ)
1986 Matt Heafy, American musician (Trivium)
1986 Shantelle Malawski, Canadian professional wrestler
1986 Thiago Pereira, Brazilian swimmer
1987 Marlon Mario Brandao da Silveira, Brazilian footballer
1987 Mia Rose, English/Portuguese singer
1987 Samir Nasri, French footballer
1987 Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (d. 2003)
1989 Emily Hughes, American figure skater
1990 Christopher Massey, American actor
1993 Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
1997 Pasaye, Twin, Palatine IL, twin born 92 days after his brother (Oct 26)
2009 Suleman octuplets
Died on January 26th
946 Eadgyth, German Queen (b. 910)
1109 Albericus of Côteaux, French saint
1567 Nicholas Wotton, English diplomat
1630 Henry Briggs, English mathematician (b. 1556)
1636 Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
1697 Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician (b. 1640)
1706 Guillaume Poitevin, composer
1744 Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
1750 Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
1795 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (b. 1732)
1798 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer
1799 Gabriel Christie, British general (b. 1722)
1803 Georg von Pasterwiz, composer
1823 Edward Jenner, English physician, discoverer (vaccination) (b. 1749)
1824 Théodore Géricault, French painter (Grand Derby d'Epsom) (b. 1791)
1849 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, English poet (Death's Jest-Book), suicide
1850 Francis Jeffrey, Baron Jeffrey, judge/literary critic
1855 Gérard de Nerval, French writer (b. 1808)
1869 Duncan Gordon Boyes, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1846)
1870 Cesare Pugni, composer
1870 Victor, 3rd duc de Broglie, French statesman and diplomat (b. 1785)
1885 Charles George Gordon, British general (Sudan) (b. 1833), executed (slain with troops by Sudanese in Khartoum)
1885 Edward Davy, English inventor (b. 1806)
1886 David Rice Atchison, American politician (b. 1807)
1891 Nicholaus Otto, auto pioneer (internal combustion engine)
1891 Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (b. 1833)
1893 Abner Doubleday, American military figure, and credited inventor of baseball (b. 1819)
1895 Arthur Cayley, mathematician
1904 John P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician
1904 Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (b. 1846)
1911 Charles Wentworth Dilke, English undersecretary of State
1920 Matthias Enzberger, German minister of finance
1922 Luigi Denza, composer
1926 John Flannagan, American educator, 2nd president of St. Ambrose University
1932 William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist, owner (Wrigley Gum, Chicago Cubs) (b. 1861)
1933 Alva Belmont, American socialite (b. 1853)
1939 Armand Calinescu, Romania's PM, assassinated by the iron guard
1942 Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (b. 1868)
1942 Gerard L F Philips, Dutch manufacturer (Philips)
1943 Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenicist (b. 1880)
1943 Nikolai Vavilov, Russian botanist, Saratovv labour camp (b. 1887)
1946 Adriaan van Maanen, Dutch-American astronomer (b. 1884)
1947 Grace Moore, American soprano (One Night of Love) (b. 1898)
1947 Gustav Adolf, crown prince of Sweden, dies in air crash
1947 Prince Gustaf Adolf, Duke of Västerbotten, (b. 1906)
1948 Ignaz Friedman, composer
1948 John Lomax, American musicologist and folklorist (b. 1867)
1949 Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind)
1950 Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)
1952 Khorloogiin Choibalsan, leader of Mongolia (b. 1895)
1952 Louis van Deyssel, Dutch writer (Diary of Franc Rozelaar)
1953 Athanase David, French Canadian politician and businessman (b. 1882)
1953 Martinus Nijhoff, Dutch poet/interpreter/linguist
1954 Carl J Eldh, Swedish sculptor
1961 Stan Nichols, English cricketer (41 wickets in 14 Tests for England 1930-39) (b. 1900)
1962 Fran Lhotka, composer
1962 Charles "Lucky" Luciano, American mobster (b. 1897)
1963 John Sigvard Olsen, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1965 Ali Mansoer, premier of Persia, murdered
1967 Albert Remy, actor (Blows)
1967 Kenneth Thomson, actor (White Gold), dies of emphysema at 68
1968 Merrill C. Meigs, American newspaper publisher (b. 1883)
1968 Yvor Winters, American poet (b. 1900)
1973 Edward G. Robinson, American actor (Little Caesar) (b. 1893)
1973 Jay C. Higginbotham, American musician (b. 1906)
1973 Meijer Sluyser, Dutch journalist/commentator (VARA)
1974 S v Vegesack, writer
1974 Wiktor Labunski, composer
1975 Lubov Orlova, actress (Moscow Laughs, Man of Music, Tanya)
1976 João Branco Núncio, Portuguese Bullfighter (b. 1901)
1977 Margaret Hayes, actress (Robert Montgomery Presents)
1978 Leo Genn, actor (Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry V)
1979 Nelson Rockefeller, 41st Vice President of the United States & 4 time Governor of NY (b. 1908)
1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant, American football coach (Alabama) (b. 1913)
1985 James Cameron, journalist,
1989 Paul Daels, Flemish chairman (IJzerbedevaart committee)
1989 Stéphane Steinier Belgian journalist, kidnapped & murdered
1990 Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1990 FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister
1990 Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
1991 Johnny van Doorn, Dutch writer/poet,
1992 José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (Cyrano de Bergerac) (b. 1912)
1992 Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet
1993 Axel Von Dem Bussche, German aristocrat
1993 Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (helped Anne Frank) (b. 1905)
1993 Jeanne Sauvé, French Canadian politician, Governor-General of Canada (b. 1922)
1993 Robert Jacobsen, Danish artist (large iron sculptures) (b. 1912)
1995 Bernardo Leighton, Chilian politician (1964-70)
1995 Geoffrey Penwill Parsons, Australian/British piano accompanist
1995 Louis Heren, journalist
1995 Vic Buckingham, English soccer player/trainer (Ajax)
1996 Dave Schultz, American wrestler (Olympics-Gold-84), killed by John Du Pont (b. 1959)
1996 Frank Howard, American college football player and coach (b. 1909)
1996 Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1921)
1996 Harold Brodkey, American author (b. 1930)
1996 Henry Jay Lewis, conductor
1996 Henry Lewis, American musician and conductor (b. 1932)
1996 Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
1997 Jeane Dixon, American astrologer (b. 1904)
1997 Margaret Hesse, princess of Hesse/the Rhine
1997 Sarah Lucas, theatre Administrator
1998 S P Leary, Texan Blues drummer (Muddy Waters)
1998 Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (Suzuki Method) (b. 1898)
1998 Walter Edmonds, writer (Drums Along the Mohawk)
2000 A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-born author (b. 1912)
2000 Don Budge, American tennis player (b. 1915)
2000 Kathleen Hale, British author (b. 1898)
2001 Al McGuire, American basketball coach (b. 1928)
2003 George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, British politician (b. 1931)
2003 Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, English historian (b. 1917)
2003 Valeriy Brumel, Soviet Olympic track-and-field athlete (b. 1942)
2004 Fred Haas, American golfer (b. 1916)
2006 Carol Lambrino, son of Carol II of Romania and Zizi Lambrino (b. 1920)
2006 Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani opposition leader and Pashtun nationalist (b. 1917)
2006 Len Carlson, Canadian actor (b. 1937)
2007 Gump Worsley, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1929)
2007 Hans J. Wegner, Danish furniture designer (b. 1914)
2008 Christian Brando, American actor; son of Marlon Brando (b. 1958)
2008 Viktor Schreckengost, American industrial designer (b. 1906)
2011 Charlie Louvin, American musician (b. 1927)
2011 Gladys Horton, American musician and singer, member of the group The Marvelettes (b. 1944)
2012 Ian Abercrombie, English actor
2013 Hiroshi Nakajima, Japanese doctor
2014 Tom Gola, American basketball player
2015 Tom Uren, Australian politician, Australian heritage and conservation campaigner
2016 Abe Vigoda, American actor (Barney Miller, The Godfather)
2016 Colin Vearncombe, English singer-songwriter (Black-Wonderful Like), dies after a road accident
