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January 27th

Holidays and Celebrations

International Holocaust Remembrance Day * (see below)
Vietnam Peace Day * (see below)
St. Sava Day (Serbia)
Flag Day (Indonesia) * CLICK HERE
Mad Tea Party * (see below)
Rabbit Hole Day * (see below)
Mozart Day (Birthday of Amadeus Wolfgang Mozart)
National Speak Up and Succeed Day
Punch the Clock Day

Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day Last Monday of January

Thomas Crapper Day
Chocolate Cake Day
National Kazoo Day AKA Kazoo Day
Catholic Schools Week.
Day of Saint Devota (Monaco), patron saint ·
Christian Feast Day of Saint Devota (local veneration in Monaco)
Christian Feast Day of Saint Sava Day (Serbia)
* Ati-Atihan (Phillipines) (11-14)
* Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Cultural Festival (7of10) Alamos, Sonora the lilting strains of guitars, the pounding rhythms of rock bands and the echoing arias of opera stars.
* Lowcountry Oyster Festival (Mount Pleasant, SC, USA) Last Sunday in January (2013)
* Big Day Out - (10of14)last 2 weeks in January, Big Day Out is a music festival that travels around Australia & New Zealand.

* International Holocaust Remembrance Day (United Nations) a.k.a. UN International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust
* Holocaust Memorial Day (United Kingdom)
* Dzien Pamieci Ofiar Nazizmu (Poland) The Memorial Day for the Victims of Nazism.·
* Auschwitzdag (Denmark) a.k.a. Auschwitz Day or Auschwitz Liberation Day; Anniversary of Auschwitz Liberated and commemoration day for the victims of the Holocaust and other genocides.
* Gedenktag für die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Germany) a.k.a. The Commemoration Day for the Victims of National Socialism or Day of Remembrance for Victims of Nazism
* Il Giorno della Memoria (Italy) Memorial Day.

* Vietnam Peace Day. Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War in 1973. Colonel William Nolde falls becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty.
* Mad Tea Party Day is Lewis Carroll's birthday. Also known as...
* Everyones UnbirthdayCelebration except those who are born on Jan 27th
* Rabbit Hole Day, internet meme in honor of the birthday of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)

Carnival Season (Christianity) January 6th to the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday A celebration period proceeding the Fast of Lent

Mézéréon Day Translation Daphne mezereum Day (French Republican) The Eighth day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"Work like you don’t need the money,
dance as if no one were watching,
sing as if no one were listening,
and live every day as if it were your last."

- Unknown

Drink of The Day

Aperitivo

2 oz. Gin
1 1/2 oz. Sambuca
3 dashes Bitters, orange

Combine ingredients in a mixing glass with ice and stir. Strain into cocktail glass.

Wine of The Day

Peachy Canyon 2007 "Cirque du Vin"
Paso Robles
$20

Beer of The Day

Anchor Porter
Brewer - Anchor Brewing ; San Francisco, California, USA
Style - American Porter
ABV - 5.6%

Joke of The Day

The LAPD, the FBI, & the CIA are all trying to prove that they are the best at apprehending criminals. The President decides to give them a test. He releases a rabbit into a forest and each of them has to catch it.
The CIA goes in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After three months of extensive investigations they conclude that rabbits do not exist.

The FBI goes in. After two weeks with no leads they burn the forest, killing everything in it, including the rabbit and they make no apologies. The rabbit had it coming.

The LAPD goes in. They come out two hours later with a badly beaten bear. The bear is yelling: "Okay, okay, I'm a rabbit, I'm a rabbit!"

Quote of the Day
"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world."
- Kaiser Wilhelm Wilhelm II (The Last German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia) Born on January 27th, 1859 and died June 4th 1941.

Whisky of The Day

The Balvenie "Signature" 12 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky

$55

January Celebrations

Apple and Apricots Month
Artichoke 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
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
Catholic Schools Week Starting the last Sunday in January

Historical Events on January 27th

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98 Trajan becomes Roman Emperor after the death of Nerva.
661 The Rashidun Caliphate ends with death of Ali.
672 St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
847 Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1142 Execution, believed wrongful, of noted Song Dynasty General Yue Fei.
1186 Henry VI, the son and heir of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I, marries Constance of Sicily.
1302 Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
1343 Clement VI's bull "Unigenitus" officially ratified the belief that Indulgences owed their potency to the Pope's dispensation of the accumulated merit of the Church. (In 1518 Cardinal Thomas Cajetan accused German reformer Martin Luther, 32, of challenging the validity of this Catholic doctrine.)
1538 States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy
1556 Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies
1593 The Vatican opens seven year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
1606 Gunpowder Plot, The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
1662 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)
1671 Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City
1695 Mustafa II becomes the Ottoman sultan in Istanbul on the death of Ahmed II. Mustafa rules until his abdication in 1703.
1710 Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget
1736 Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland
1774 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'If my labours should be in vain for the people, the Lord gives me a gracious reward in my own soul.'
1778 Piccinni's opera "Roland" premieres, Paris
1785 The University of Georgia is founded, the first public university in the United States.
1823 President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America
1825 The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the "Trail of Tears".
1839 Birth of John Julian, famed English authority on sacred music. His undoubted masterwork is the monumental "Dictionary of Hymnology" which he published in 1892 (later revised, updated and reissued in 1957).
1842 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Call upon the name of the Lord. Your time may be short... The longest lifetime is short enough. It is all that is given you to be converted in. They are the happiest who are brought soonest to the bosom of Jesus."
1864 Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee
1864 Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, Va
1870 1st sorority (Kappa Alpha Theta) (DePauw University in Greencastle IN)
1870 After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union
1870 Manitoba & Northwest Territories incorporated
1870 The Kappa Alpha Theta fraternity is founded at DePauw University.
1880 Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
1886 1st British government of Salisbury resigns
1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C..
1891 Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant Pennsylvania
1894 1st college basketball game, University of Chicago beats Chicago YMCA 19-11
1894 Midwinter Fair opens in Golden Gate Park
1896 Tasmania bowl out Victoria for 65 for their 1st ever innings victory
1897 British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)
1900 Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention
1902 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City NY)
1905 Maurice Rouvier forms government in France
1906 Rudolf Gundersen skates world record 500m at 44.8 seconds
1908 Pasiphaë, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte
1909 The Young Left is founded in Norway.
1915 US Marines occupy Haiti
1916 Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin
1917 Coen de Koning wins 2nd official 11 cities race (9:53) (record)
1918 "Tarzan of the Apes," 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater
1918 The first hostilities occur in the Finnish Civil War.
1924 Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier
1924 Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square
1926 1st public demonstration of television, John L Baird, London
1926 US Senate agrees to join World Court
1927 Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game
1933 Otto Meisnner dines with British ambassador Rumbold
1934 27th Australian Men's Tennis Open, Fred Perry beat Crawford (63 75 61)
1934 French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair)
1934 VARA refuses to hire after commemoration of Marinus Van de Lubbe
1939 First flight of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning.
1940 -17ºF (-27ºC), CCC Camp F-16, Georgia (state record)
1941 Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreibér warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor
1942 -19ºF (-27.4ºC), Netherlands' coldest day since 1850
1943 The VIII Bomber Command dispatched ninety-one B-17s and B-24s to attack the U-Boat construction yards at Wilhemshafen, Germany. The first American bombing attack on Germany in World War II.
1944 Casey Stengel, manager of the Boston Braves since 1938, resigns Lou Perini, Guido Rugo, & Joseph Maney buy control of Boston Braves
1944 Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days with 600,000 killed
1944 The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted in World War II.
1945 Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands)
1945 Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland)
1945 S Romberg, H&D Fields' musical premieres in New York City NY
1945 Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance," arrested
1945 The Red Army liberates the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland in World War II.
1948 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates
1948 1st tape recorder sold
1949 Chinese liner "Taiping" collides with a collier off south China
1950 2nd Emmy Awards, Ed Wynn Show & Texaco Star Theater win
1951 "Peter Pan" closes at Imperial Theater New York City NY after 320 performances
1951 Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat (126 nuclear tests in total).
1953 Netherlands end Marshall aid
1955 "Plain & Fancy" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City NY for 476 performances
1956 NFL's New York Giants switches games from Polo Grounds to Yankee Stadium
1957 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1958 Ferenc Münnich follows Kádár as premier of Hungary
1961 "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
1962 "Family Affair" opens at Billy Rose Theater New York City NY for 65 performances
1963 Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 seconds
1963 Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1964 "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US
1964 Barlow & Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval
1964 Margaret Chase Smith (Senator-R-ME) tries for Republican Presidential bid
1965 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite
1965 Ground breaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue
1966 Wisconsin State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or National League must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966
1967 Apollo 1 Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center.
1967 Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records
1967 More than sixty nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
1967 New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker)
1967 Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed
1968 "Darling of the Day" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City NY for 31 performances
1969 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus Syria
1969 14 spies hung in Baghdad
1969 Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies Feb 5th)
1969 Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years
1970 Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
1971 Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru'
1972 In Columbia, the white and black United Methodist conferences of South Carolina -separated since the Civil War -voted in their respective meetings to adopt a plan of union.
1973 The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict's last recorded American combat casualty, ending longest US war & military draft.
1973 UCLA's basketball team wins 61st consecutive game (NCAA record)
1973 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn (her 5th consecutive win)
1973 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1973 William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty
1974 "Lorelei" opens at Palace Theater New York City NY for 320 performances
1974 The Brisbane River breaches its banks causing the largest flood to affect the city of Brisbane in the 20th Century
1976 "Laverne & Shirley" spin-off from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV
1976 9th ABA All-Star Game, Denver 144 beats ABA 138 at Denver
1976 Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara
1976 Viv Richards scores his 1st Test century against Australia
1977 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV
1977 President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000)
1979 36th Golden Globes, Midnight Express, Jon Voight & Jane Fonda
1979 Islanders ends 23 undefeated games at home streak (15-0-8)
1980 "Comin' Uptown" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City NY after 45 performances
1980 10th NFL Pro Bowl, NFC beats AFC 37-27
1980 Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian caper.
1982 "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" opens at Royale New York City NY for 747 performances
1982 Mauno Koivisto installed as president of Finland
1982 Philadelphia trades Larry Bowa & Ryne Sandberg to Cubs for Ivan DeJesus
1982 Roberto S Cordova installed as president of Honduras
1982 West Indies beat Australia 3-1 to win World Series Cup
1983 The pilot shaft of the Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest sub-aqueous tunnel (53.85 km) between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido, breaks through.
1983 World's longest subaqueous tunnel (53.90 km) opens, Honshu-Hokkaid
1984 John & Yoko release "Milk & Honey" album
1984 Los Angeles Kings end Wayne Gretzky's NHL-record 51-game scoring streak
1984 Pop singer Michael Jackson suffers second and third degree burns to his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in the Shrine Auditorium.
1985 "Doug Henning & His World..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NY after 60 performances
1985 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth
1985 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic
1985 Mark Mckoy cycles world record 50m hurdles indoor (5.25)
1985 NFL Pro Bowl, AFC beats NFC 22-14
1986 13th American Music Award, Whitney Houston, Huey Lewis & Crystal Gayle
1987 Midnight Rockers beat Buddy Rose & Doug Somers for AWA World Tag Team
1988 Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M Kennedy to US Supreme Court
1989 German war criminals Fischer & Austrian der Fünten freed
1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) begins NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1989 Oklahoma's linebacker, Mark VanKeirsblilck assaults an Oklahoma grad student
1990 64th Australian Open Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats Mary Jo Fernandez (63 64)
1990 Dissolution of Polish communist party
1991 79th Australian Open Men's Tennis Boris Becker beats Ivan Lendl (16 64 64 64)
1991 Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
1991 Nadine Strossen is 1st female president of the ACLU
1991 Super Bowl XXV New York Giants beat Buffalo Bills, 20-19 in Tampa; Super Bowl MVP Ottis Anderson, New York Giants, Running Back
1992 "Crazy He Calls Me" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City NY for 7 performances
1992 19th American Music Award: C & C Music Factory, Michael Bolton win
1992 Jane Fonda undergoes arthroscopic surgery on her right knee
1992 Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty)
1992 Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
1993 DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12
1994 "No Man's Land" opens at Criterion Theater New York City NY for 61 performances
1994 Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras
1994 Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites
1995 69th Australian Open Women's Tennis Mary Pierce beats A S Vicario (63 62)
1996 15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies
1996 70th Australian Open Women's Tennis Monica Seles beats Anke Huber (64 61)
1996 Catherine Roskam becomes the 1st New York female Episcopal bishop
1996 Colonel Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara deposes the first democratically elected president of Niger, Mahamane Ousmane, in a military coup.
1996 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1996 Germany first observes it's 1st International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
1996 Monica Seles beats Anke Huber to win Australian Open
1996 Shiv Chanderpaul scores 303* for Guyana vs Jamaica at Kingston
1997 "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" opens at Gershwin New York City NY
1997 24th American Music Award: Toni Braxton & Alanis Morissette win
1998 Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City NY) Tram, injuring 10
1998 Roland Clarkson discovers 2^3021377-1 (37th known Mersenne prime)
1998 WNBA begins filling rosters of Washington Mystics & Detroit Shock
2006 Western Union discontinues its Telegram and Commercial Messaging services.
2013 7 people are killed and 3 are injured after a retaining wall collapses during a football match at the Ugur Sports Facility, Turkey
2013 11 people are killed and 32 are injured after a bus crashes down a ravine in Serta, Portugal
2013 20 police officers have been killed in a series of bomb attacks in Kandahar, Afghanistan
2013 In Port Said, Egypt, protests result in 7 people being killed and 630 are injured
2013 Novak Djokovic defeats Andy Murray (6-7, 7-6, 6-3, 6-2) to wins his third consecutive men's singles title at the 101st Men's Australian Open
2013 Magnus Carlsen wins the 2013 Tata Steel Chess Tournament
2013 Spain defeats Denmark to win the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship
2013 NFC beats AFC 62-35 in the NFL Pro Bowl
2013 "Fruitvale Station", directed by Ryan Coogler, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the 29th Sundance Film Festival

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Born on January 27th

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1443 Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
1546 Joachim Friedrich III, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1608)
1556 Abbas I "the Great", shah of Persia (1587-1629)
1585 Hendrick Avercamp, Dutch painter (d. 1634)
1592 Pierre de La Barre, composer
1603 Harbottle Grimston, English politician (d. 1685)
1621 Thomas Willis, English physician (d. 1675)
1662 Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (d. 1742)
1679 Jean-Francois de Troy, French painter
1687 Balthasar Neumann, German architect (d. 1753)
1701 Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim, German historian (bishop) (d. 1790)
1708 Anna Petrovna of Russia (d. 1728)
1715 Vaclav Kalous, composer
1720 Samuel Foote, English dramatist (Mirror) (d. 1777)
1723 Johann A Cramer, prime minister/poet
1741 Hester Thrale, Welsh diarist (d. 1821)
1756 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (Figaro) (d. 1791)
1774 Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (Views on Christianity) (d. 1854)
1775 Manuel del Popolo Vicente Rodriguez Garcia, Spanish tenor/composer
1784 Martin-Joseph Mengal, composer
1805 Maria Anna of Bavaria, Queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
1805 Samuel Palmer, English artist (Valley of Vision) (d. 1881)
1805 Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1872)
1806 Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga y Balzola, Spanish composer (d. 1826)
1807 David Strauss, German theologian and writer (Jesus' Life) (d. 1874)
1814 Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
1821 John Chivington, American officer (d. 1892)
1822 Thomas Leiper Kane, Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1823 Edouard-Victoire-Antoine Lalo, France, composer (Symphonie Espagnole)
1823 Edouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892)
1824 Jozef Israels, Dutch painter
1826 Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer (d. 1889)
1826 Richard Taylor, American confederate general (d. 1879)
1827 Nakahama Manjiro, Japanese translator (d. 1898)
1828 Louis Schubert, composer
1828 Samuel Allen Rice, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1864
1830 Georg Hellmesberger, composer
1830 William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1832 Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), English author (Alice in Wonderland) (d. 1898)
1834 Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist (discovered periodic table of the elements)
1834 Robert Sanford Foster, Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1836 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (masochism) (d. 1895)
1841 Arkhip Kuindzhi, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1848 Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
1850 Edward J. Smith, English captain of the RMS Titanic (d. 1912)
1850 John Collier, British writer and painter (d. 1934)
1850 Samuel Gompers, American labor leader (American Federation of Labor) (d. 1924)
1851 Rafael Obligado, Argentina, writer (Santos Vega)
1858 Neel [Cornelia H] Doff, Dutch/French/Belgian painter's model/writer
1859 Wilhelm II, Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)
1867 Claude Antoine Terrasse, composer
1868 Cato Engelen-Sewing, Dutch soprano prima donna (Dutch Opera)
1869 Will Marion Cook, composer
1872 Learned Hand, Albany NY, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals)
1875 Elizabeth Israel, Purported world's oldest person (d. 2003)
1882 Giuseppe Prezzolini, Italy, writer (La Voce, La Cultura Italiano)
1885 Eduard Künneke, German composer (Vetter aus Dingsda) (d. 1953)
1885 Jerome Kern, American composer (Showboat, Roberta) (d. 1945)
1885 Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)
1886 Radhabinod Pal, Indian jurist (d. 1967)
1887 Carl Blegen, Minneapolis MN, archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos)
1889 Balthasar van der Pol, physicist (Comparison of Van der Pol)
1891 Ilya Ehrenburg, Ukranian writer (Fall of Paris, The Thaw) (d. 1967)
1892 Mitya Stillman, composer
1893 Soong Ching-ling, Chinese wife of Sun Yat-sen (d. 1981)
1894 Fritz Pollard, early black NFL star (1920-26)
1895 Claudio Carneyro, composer
1895 Harry Ruby, American composer (d. 1974)
1895 Joseph Rosenstock, Polish conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1936-41) (d. 1985)
1899 Granville English, composer
19-- Marc Ferrari rocker (Cold Sweat-Break Out)
1900 Hyman Rickover, American admiral, (father of modern nuclear navy) (d. 1986)
1901 Art Rooney, NFL Pittsburgh Steelers founder and owner (d. 1988)
1901 Willy Fritsch, German actor (Spies, Women in the Moon) (d. 1973)
1903 John Carew Eccles, Australian neuropsychologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1903 Otto P. Weyland, American military figure (d. 1979)
1903 Reginald Gardiner Wimbledon England, actor (Pruitts of So Hampton)
1904 James J. Gibson, American ecological psychologist (d. 1973)
1905 Howard McNear, American actor (Floyd-Andy Griffith Show, Jetsons) (d. 1969)
1905 Luther Diamond, radio personality
1906 Radames Gnattali, composer
1907 Henry Cotton, English golf champion (won 3x British Open)
1908 Oran Page, American musician (d. 1954)
1908 William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American newspaper magnate (Hearst Publishing) (d. 1993)
1910 Edvard Kardelj, Yugoslav Communist politician (d. 1979)
1911 Benay Venuta, San Francisco CA, actress (Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister)
1911 George Pope, cricketer (English pace bowler, 1-49 & 0-36 in his only Test)
1912 Arne Næss, Norwegian philosopher (d. 2009)
1912 Francis Rogallo, American aeronautical engineer (d. 2009)
1912 Lawrence Durrell, Indian/British writer (Private Country, Alexandria Quartet)
1913 Milton Adolphus, composer
1913 Valery Viktorovich Zhelobinsky, composer
1914 Anna Larina, revolutionary
1915 Jack Brymer, clarinettist
1915 Jacques Hnizdovsky, Ukrainian-born artist (d. 1985)
1917 Dunboyne, Lord
1917 Merrivale, Lord
1918 Elmore James, American blues musician (Dust My Broom) (d. 1963)
1918 Skitch Henderson, English bandleader (Tonight Show) (d. 2005)
1918 William Seawell, United States Army Brigadier General (d. 2005)
1919 David Seville, [Ross Bagdasarian], Fresno California, (Alvin & Chipmunks)
1919 H D Halsey, Bishop of Carlisle
1919 Nina Milkina, pianist
1919 Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American musician (d. 1972)
1920 Helmut Zacharias, German violinist (d. 2002)
1920 John Box, British film production designer and art director (d. 2005)
1921 Donna Reed, American actress, (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life) (d. 1986)
1922 Wilfrid Bourne, QC/Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
1924 Alexander Georgiyevich Chugayev, composer
1924 Kenneth Corfield, CEO (STC)
1924 Rauf Denktasj, Turkish-Cypriot politician
1924 Rix, Lord
1924 Sabu Dastagir, Indian actor (Elephant Boy, Drum) (d. 1963)
1924 William van Straubenzee, British MP
1925 Geoffrey Tucker, British political consultant
1925 John Bury, designer
1926 Fritz Spiegl, Austrian journalist (d. 2003)
1926 Ingrid Thulin, Swedish actress (d. 2004)
1927 Doretta Morrow, New York City NY, actress (Because You're Mine)
1927 Joe Perry, AAFC/NFL Hall of Fame fullback (San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts)
1927 Michael Craig, Poona India, actor (Escape 2000, Vault of Horror)
1927 Nancy Dickerson, journalist (NBC)
1928 Hans Modrow, German politician, premier of East Germany
1928 Jean-Michel Damase, composer
1928 Michael Craig, British actor
1929 Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist (d. 1984)
1929 Ingrid Thulin, Solleftea Sweden, actress (Cries & Whispers, Damned)
1929 Richard Du Cann, lawyer QC
1930 Bobby "Blue" Bland, Rosemark TN, blues singer (Call on the Drummer)
1930 Bobby Blue Bland, American singer
1930 Esteban Edward Torres (Representative-D-CA, 1983)
1930 Roger Sims, British MP
1931 John Hopkins, writer
1931 Mordecai Richler, Canadian author (Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz) (d. 2001)
1931 Rudi Maugeri, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1931 Vinson, Lord
1932 Boris Shakhlin, Soviet gymnast
1932 Neville Trotter, British MP
1933 Mohamed Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman (Harrods)
1933 Rita Hennessy, matron-in-chief (QARANC)
1934 Donald Spiers, controller (Aircraft MoD)
1934 Edithe Cresson, premier of France (1991-92)
1934 Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Barcelona Spain, UNESCO director (1987)
1934 George Follmer, American racecar driver
1934 Julian Ogilvie Thompson, CEO (De Beers)
1935 Gillian Beer, professor/president (Clare Hall-Cambridge)
1936 Ismail Kadare, Albanian author/poet (Dimri i Madh)
1936 Samuel C. C. Ting, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1936 Troy Donahue, American actor (Surfside Six, Cockfighter, Hawaiian Eye) (d. 2001)
1937 John Ogdon, English pianist (d. 1989)
1938 Kim Gardner, musician (Byrds)
1938 Timothy Elworthy, Captain of The Queen's Flight
1939 Mike Hill, Jackson MI, PGA golfer (1977 Ohio Kings Island Open)
1939 N R Bomford, head master (Harrow School)
1939 Rawlings, Baroness
1939 Tigran Yegiayi Mansuryan, composer
1940 Brian T O'Leary, Boston Mass, astronaut
1940 Harry Kümel Flemish director (Monsieur Hawarden)
1940 James Cromwell, American actor (Stretch-All in the Family, Babe)
1940 Petru Lucinschi, second President of Moldova
1940 Terry Harper, Canadian ice hockey player
1941 Beatrice Tinsley, New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1981)
1942 John Witherspoon, American actor
1942 Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (d. 1986)
1942 Petr Kotik, composer
1942 Stewart Raffill, American film director
1943 A H Harper, CEO (Baltic Exchange)
1943 Cumberlege, Baroness
1944 Kevin Coyne, musician
1944 Mairéad Corrigan, Irish activist, Nobel laureate
1944 Nick Mason, English drummer (Pink Floyd)
1944 Peter Akinola, Nigerian religious leader
1945 Harold Cardinal, Cree political leader (d. 2005)
1945 Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976)
1946 Kim Gardner, England, rock bassist (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
1946 Nedra Talley, American singer (Ronettes)
1947 Björn Afzelius, Swedish singer (d. 1999)
1947 Cal Schenkel, American artist
1947 Nedra Telley, New York City NY, vocalist (Ronettes-Be My Little Baby)
1947 Vyron Polydoras, Greek politician
1948 Chuck Larsen, rocker (Snuff)
1948 Jean-Philippe Collard, French pianist
1948 Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-born dancer (That's Dancing)
1948 Valeri Brainin, Russian/German musicologist, music manager, composer, and poet
1949 Ethan Mordden, American author
1949 Lifford Viscount
1950 Amos Grunebaum, Israeli-born physician
1950 Derek Acorah, English spirit medium
1951 Brian Downey, Irish musician (Thin Lizzy)
1951 Scott Lane, New York City NY, actor (Gary-McKeever & the Colonel)
1951 Seth Justman, Washington DC, rock vocalist/keyboardist (J Geils Band-Centerfold)
1952 "White Shoes" Johnson, American football player
1952 Brian Gottfried, Baltimore Md, tennis star (Wimbledon Doubles 1976)
1952 Peter Garland, composer
1954 Ed Schultz, American radio talk show host
1954 Joko Ninomiya, Japanese martial artist
1954 Kimberly J "Kim" Hughes, Australian cricketer
1954 Peter Laird, American comic-book artist
1955 Alexander Stuart, British author
1955 Brian Engblom, Canadian ice hockey player
1955 John G. Roberts, 17th Chief Justice of the United States
1955 Koji Ushikubo, Japanese racing driver
1955 Mimi Rogers Coral Gables FL, actress (Paper Dolls, The Rousters)
1955 Richard Young, Glasgow Ky, singer (Kentucky Headhunters-Davy Crockett)
1956 Fred Quillan, Portland Oregon, WLAF offensive coach (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1956 Mimi Rogers, American actress (Paper Dolls, The Rousters)
1957 Frank Miller, American comic book author and film director (Batman-The Dark Knight Returns)
1957 Frank Skinner, English writer and comedian
1957 Janick Gers, British guitarist (Iron Maiden)
1957 Karen Kondazian Boston MA, actress (Irene-Shannon, Mortal Sins)
1958 Alan Milburn, British MP
1958 Charles Waltz, rocker (Shooting Star)
1958 James Grippando, American novelist
1958 Kadri Mälk, Estonian artist and jewelry designer
1958 Susanna Thompson, American actress
1959 Cris Collinsworth, American football player and TV sportscaster
1959 Göran Hägglund, Swedish politician
1959 Keith Olbermann, American news anchor & commentator
1959 Patti Cohoon, Whittier California, actress (Molly-Here Come the Brides)
1960 Sarah Kennedy, Coquille OH, comedienne (Laugh in)
1961 Charlotte Kemp Omaha NE, playmate (December 1982)
1961 Dina Bonnevie, Filipino actress
1961 Gillian Gilbert, British musician (New Order)
1961 Jean-Paul Banos, Lavelanet France, Canada sabre (Olympics-9/10-88, 92, 96)
1961 Karen Velez, American model, playmate (December, 1984)
1961 Margo Timmins, Canadian singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1961 Martin Degville, musician (Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Love Missile F-111)
1961 Narciso Rodriguez, American fashion designer
1961 Rudi Mauger, rocker (Crew Cuts)
1962 James F Doehring, Santa Barbara CA, shot putter (Olympics-silver-1992)
1962 Michael Collins, clarinettist
1962 Roberto Paci Dalò, Italian director and composer
1964 Bridget Fonda, American actress (Scandal, Single White Female)
1964 Cathy Podewell, California, actress (Dallas)
1964 Inga Thompson, Reno Nevada, US cyclist (Olympic-8th-88, 84, 92)
1964 Jack Haley, American basketball player, NBA center (Chicago Bulls)
1964 Migi, [Miguel Drummond] rock (Curiosity Killed Cat-Keep Your Distance)
1964 Woody Austin, Tampa FL, PGA golfer (1995 Buick Open)
1965 Alan Cumming, Scottish actor
1965 Igor Matoushkin, NHL defenseman (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1965 Mike Newell, English football manager
1966 Michael De Angelis, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1966 Tamlyn Tomita, Okinawa, actress (Karate Kid 2, Ming Li-Santa Barbara)
1967 Alfred Oglesby, NFL defensive tackle (Cincinnati Bengals)
1967 Bobby Deol, Indian actor
1967 Byron Mann, Hong Kong actor
1967 Carrington Garland, Los Angeles CA, actress (Kelly Capwell-Santa Barbara)
1967 Dave Manson, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Winnipeg Jets)
1967 Laura Golarsa, Italy, tennis star
1967 Sue Palmer, Collingwood Ontario, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1968 Anthony Pleasant, NFL defensive end (Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons)
1968 Eric Wedge, US baseball catcher (Boston Red Sox)
1968 Matt Stover, NFL kicker (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1968 Mike Patton, American singer (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle)
1968 Patrick Blondeau, French footballer
1968 Reggie Johnson, NFL tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1968 Rusty Meacham, Stuart FL, pitcher (Kansas City Royals, Seattle Mariners)
1968 Tracy Lawrence, Atlanta Tx, country singer (Sticks & Stones)
1968 Tricky, English rapper
1969 Cornelius, Japanese musician and producer (Flipper's Guitar)
1969 Kristen Danihy, Lawton Oklahoma, team handball circle/wing (Olympics-1996)
1969 Marc Forster, German-Swiss filmmaker
1969 Michael Kulas, Canadian singer (James)
1969 Patton Oswalt, American actor and writer
1969 Phil Plantier, Manchester NH, outfielder (San Diego Padres, Red Sox, A's)
1969 Shane Thomson, New Zealand cricket off-spin all rounder (since 1990)
1970 Carlos Javier Bernardo, Dutch prince
1970 Dario Brose, Queens NY, US soccer halfback (Olympics-92)
1970 Dean Headley, cricket (grandson of George, England ODI quick 1996)
1970 Emmanuel Pahud, Swiss-born flautist
1970 Jon Douglas Rainey, American TV personality
1971 Fann Wong, Singapore actor
1971 Lil Jon, American rapper and producer
1971 Mark Noordlander, soccer player (Sparta)
1971 Patrice Brisebois, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1972 Bryant Young, NFL defensive tackle (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 Chad Askew, NFL wide receiver (New York Jets)
1972 Guillermo, Mexican-born American TV personality
1972 Janine Ilitch, Australian netballer
1972 Josh Randall, American actor
1972 Keith Wood, Irish rugby player
1972 Mark Lawrence, Burlington, NHL right wing (Dallas Stars)
1972 Mark Owen, English pop singer
1972 Wynne Evans, Welsh operatic tenor
1973 Eddie Davis, CFL cornerback (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 Margot Bourgeois, Miss Universe-3rd place (Trinidad & Tobago, 1997)
1974 Andrei Pavel, Romanian tennis player
1974 Chaminda Vaas, Sri Lankan cricketer
1974 Ole Einar Bjørndalen, Nordic biathlete
1974 ZP Theart, South African-born English singer (Dragonforce)
1975 Arturo Chen aka Dj Arthur C, Panamanian Dj/Musician
1975 Chaminda Vaas, brilliant Sri Lankan cricket pace bowler (1994)
1976 Ahn Jung-Hwan, Korean football player
1976 Clint Ford, American voice actor
1976 Fred Taylor, American football player
1976 Haimish Karrasch, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1976 Mike Ferrier, Suriname/Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam, Salernitana)
1976 Rhett Warrener, Shaunavon, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
1976 Ruby Lin, Taiwanese actress and singer
1976 Todd MacCulloch, American basketball player
1976 Zoriah Miller, American photojournalist
1978 Jake Pavelka, American reality TV star (The Bachelor)
1978 Pete Laforest, Canadian baseball player
1979 Daniel Vettori, New Zealand cricketer
1979 Jessica Lynn Ferdinand, Miss New York Teen USA (1997)
1979 Liesbet Van Breedam, Belgian beach volleyball player
1979 Mario Fatafehi, American football player
1980 Chanda Gunn, American ice hockey player
1980 Marat Safin, Russian tennis player
1981 Alicia Molik, Australian tennis player
1981 Jonny Lang, blues musician
1981 Tony Woodcock, New Zealand rugby union player
1983 Carlo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
1983 Gavin Floyd, American baseball player
1983 Mike Zagurski, American baseball player
1983 Paulo Colaiacovo, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 Davetta Sherwood, American actress
1987 Katy Rose, American pop singer
1987 Lily Donaldson, British model
1988 Kerlon Moura Souza, Brazilian footballer
1988 Liu Wen, Chinese model

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98 Marius Cocceius Nerva, emperor of Rome (96-98) (b. 35)
661 Ali, the final Sunni Rashidun and first Shia Imam (b. 599 or 600)
672 Vitalianus, pope (657-72) and saint
847 Sergius II, pope (844-47)
1164 Abraham ibn Ezra, poet/philosopher, dies
1490 Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (b. 1435)
1540 Angela Merici, Italian religious leader and saint (b. 1474)
1565 Robrecht de Berghes, prince-bishop of Liege (1557-64)
1595 Sir Francis Drake, English explorer (b. c.1540)
1612 Maarten van Valckenborch, Flemish painter, buried at about 77
1625 Adriaen Valerius, notary/Netherlands Gedenck-clanck
1629 Hieronymus Praetorius, German composer (b. 1560)
1638 Gonzalo de Céspedes y Meneses, Spanish novelist (b. 1585?)
1669 Gaspar de Crayer, Flemish painter
1689 Robert Aske, merchant whose charitable foundation operates Haberdashers' Aske's Boys School and Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls (b. 1619)
1699 William Temple, statesman
1731 Bartolomeo di Francesco Cristofori, Italian musical instrument maker (b. 1655)
1740 Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692)
1763 John Theodor of Bavaria, prince-bishop of Liege/cardinal, dies
1802 Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg, composer
1814 Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)
1814 Philip Astley, theatre manager
1816 Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (b. 1724)
1837 Alexandr Pushkin, Russian poet (b. 1799)
1850 J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/writer
1850 Philipp Roth, composer
1851 John James Audubon, French-born naturalist and ornithologist (Audubon Society) (b. 1789)
1851 Karl Moser, composer
1857 Dorothea von Benckendorff, Baltic monarch of Lieven, Russian noblewoman (b. 1785)
1858 Gerrit van der Linde Jz, Dutch "Principal", poet
1859 Carl A Agardh, Swedish botanist/bishop of Karlstad
1860 János Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (parallel) (b. 1802)
1864 Franz von Klenze, German architect (palace Leuchtenberg)
1866 John Gibson, sculptor, dies
1880 Edward Middleton Barry, English architect (b. 1830)
1889 Ivan S Aksakov, Russian journalist
1893 James G Blaine, US minister of foreign affairs
1901 Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (Rigoletto/Traviata/Aïda) (b. 1813)
1904 Adam Minchejmer, composer
1910 Thomas Crapper, English inventor (b. 1836)
1919 Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (Margita élni akar) (b. 1877)
1921 Maurice Vincent Buckley, Australian soldier (b. 1891)
1922 Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I Mala Voglia)
1922 Nellie Bly, American journalist and writer (b. 1864)
1927 Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis-Matulevicius (Matulewicz), Lithuanian bishop (b. 1871)
1927 Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army
1928 Marie Verstraete, actress (Frou-Frou/Nora)
1930 Jean Hure, composer
1940 Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (b. 1894)
1941 Iver Paul Fredrik Holter, composer
1942 Kaarel Eenpalu, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1888)
1949 Boris Asafiev, composer
1953 Martinus Nijhoff Dutch poet/interpreter/linguist
1954 Paul-Marie Masson, composer
1955 Ernst Penzoldt, writer
1956 Erich Kleiber, Austrian conductor (b. 1890)
1963 John Farrow, actor/director (Botany Bay)
1964 Lieb Glantz, composer
1965 Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader
1967 Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France (b. 1888)
1967 Edward Higgins White II, Lieutenant-Colonel USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), dies in Apollo I fire (b. 1930)
1967 Roger Chaffee, astronaut, Crew of Apollo 1, dies in Apollo I fire (b. 1935)
1967 Virgil I (Gus) Grissom, astronaut, Crew of Apollo 1, dies at 40 in Apollo I fire (b. 1926)
1969 Charles Winninger, actor (Charlie Farrell Show)
1969 Hanns Jelinek, composer
1970 Ed Ford comedian (Can You Top This?)
1970 Probir Sen, cricket (20 catch & 11 stumpings, 14 Tests for India)
1970 Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (b. 1908)
1971 Jacobo Arbenz, President of Guatemala (b. 1913)
1972 Mahalia Jackson, American singer (He Got the Whole World) (b. 1911)
1972 Richard Courant, German-American mathematician (b. 1888)
1973 William Nolde, last American combat casualty of Vietnam War (b. 1929)
1974 Georgios Grivas, Cyprus-born general in the Greek Army (b. 1898)
1974 Paula Ludwig, writer,
1975 Bill Walsh, American producer and writer (b. 1913)
1977 Walter Baldwin, actor (Gay Amigo)
1978 Marguerite Canal, composer
1978 Oscar Homolka, actor (7 Year Itch, Ball of Fire)
1979 Qalander Ba Ba Auliya, Sufi master (b. 1898)
1981 Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58)
1982 Iris Korn, actress (Widder-Palmerstown USA)
1983 Louis de Funès, French actor (Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacobs) (b. 1914)
1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant, US football coach (Alabama)
1983 Robert Christian, actor (Bustin' Loose)
1984 Lou Crosby, TV announcer (Mayor of Hollywood)
1986 L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology)
1986 Lilli Palmer, German actress (Boys from Brazil, Kinder) (b. 1914)
1988 Massa Makan Diabaté, Malian author (b. 1938)
1989 Bayani Casimiro, Filipino dancer and actor (b. 1918)
1989 Thomas Sopwith, British aviation pioneer (b. 1888)
1990 Helen Jerome Eddy, actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
1992 Clara Solovera, Chilean folk musician (b. 1909)
1992 Francesca Primus, columnist (Back Stage)
1992 Gene Harris, entertainer, dies after long illness
1992 Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, British actress (The Master Blackmailer, Eliza Dolittle)
1993 André "the Giant" Roussimoff, French professional wrestler and actor (The Princess Bride) (b. 1946)
1993 Erik Mörk Danish actor (Europe)
1994 Claude Akins, American actor (Rio Bravo, Lobo) (b. 1918)
1994 Eddie Calhoun, jazz Bassist, dies at 72
1994 Joe Mays, actor (Mr Saturday Night), dies of AIDS at 44
1994 Stanley Adams, songwriter
1995 Geoffrey Parsons, Australian/British pianist
1995 Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/MI6-spy/priest
1995 Jean Tardieu, author
1995 Willem R "Wim" van der Zee, General-Secretary Council of Churches
1996 Barbara Skelton, writer
1996 John Patrick Sutton Ludlow, actor (Agatha)
1996 Julian Hill, research chemist
1996 Olga Havlova, political activist
1996 Ralph Webster Yarborough, American politician (b. 1903)
1996 Tommy Mitchell, cricket (Derbyshire leg-spin, 5 Tests for England)
1997 Cecil Lewis, airman/writer, dies at 98
1997 Gerald Marks, American songwriter (All of Me) (b. 1900)
1997 Matthew Coady, journalist, dies at 73
2000 Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist (b. 1930)
2001 Stavros Damianides, Greek musician (b. 1941)
2003 Henryk Jablonski, President of Poland (b. 1909)
2003 Louis Archambault, Quebec sculptor (b. 1915)
2004 Jack Paar, American television show host (b. 1918)
2004 Salvador Laurel, Vice President of the Philippines (b. 1928)
2006 Gene McFadden, American singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 Jean-Christophe Lafaille, French mountaineer (disappeared) (b. 1965)
2006 Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
2007 Alberta Davis, American supercentenerian
2007 Tige Andrews, American actor (b. 1920)
2007 Yang Chuan-kwang, Taiwanese athlete (b. 1933)
2008 Gordon B. Hinckley, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1910)
2008 Louie Welch, mayor of Houston (b. 1918)
2008 Suharto, President of Indonesia (b. 1921)
2009 John Updike, American Novelist (b. 1932)
2009 R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (b. 1910)
2010 Howard Zinn, American historian (b. 1922)
2010 J. D. Salinger, American novelist (b. 1919)
2010 Zelda Rubinstein, American actress (b. 1933)
2012 Kevin White, American politician
2014 Pete Seeger, American folk singer (Weaver, Goodnight Irene) and activist, helped create the modern American folk music movement
2015 Charles Townes, American Physicist (Nobel Prize 1964 for mazer-lazer principle)
2016 Artur Fischer, German Inventor with more patents than Edison

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