January 29th
Holidays and Celebrations
Constitution Day (Gibraltar)
Statehood Day (Kansas) * (see below)
Thomas Paine Day * (see below)
Freethinkers Day
World Leprosy Day
Bierfest Kunstmann Valdivia (Chile)
Birthday of President William McKinley (25th President of the United States (1843 - 1901))
National Puzzle Day
Seeing Eye Dog Day a.k.a. Guide Dog Day
National Seed Swap Day
Curmudgeon's Day
Birthday of W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield - American comedian) * See Toast of the Day and Quotes of the Day
Oprah Winfrey Day, American talk show host and actress (1954)
National Cornchip Day
Roman Catholic Feast of Valerius of Trèves
Roman Catholic Feast of Saint Juniper
* Dr. Alfonso Ortiz Tirado Cultural Festival (9of10) Alamos, Sonora the lilting strains of guitars, the pounding rhythms of rock bands and the echoing arias of opera stars.
* Big Day OAti-Atihan (Phillipines) (13-14) ut - (12of14)last 2 weeks in January, Big Day Out is a music festival that travels around Australia & New Zealand.
* Rijeka Carnival (2011) (2of3 Jan 21th and Feb 5th) is in Rijeka, Croatia. This festival usually occurs mid-late January. Also known as karneval/carnaval and to locals as maškare.
* Thomas Paine Day, English-born American patriot and Father of the American Revolution. (1737 - 1809)
Coignée Day Translation Axe Day (French Republican) The 10th day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Drink with impunity..
Or anyone who happens to invite you!"
- W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield) (January 29, 1880– December 25, 1946), was an American comedian, actor, performer and writer.
Drink of The Day
Martini
3 Parts Gin
1 Part Dry Vermouth
- In Honor of Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), who said "The Martini is the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet".
Wine of The Day
Davis Family 2008 Guyzer Block
Style - Syrah
Russian River Valley
$45
Beer of The Day
Ich Bin Ein Berliner Weisse
Brewer - Nodding Head Brewery and Restaurant ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Style - German-Style Sour Ale
Joke of The Day
A man and his wife are awoken at 3 o'clock in the morning by a knock on the door. The man gets up and goes to the door where a stranger is asking for a push.
"Not a chance" says the husband -- "It's three o'clock in the morning!" He closes the door and returns to bed.
"Who was it?" asks his wife.
"Just a stranger asking for a push" he answers.
"Did you help him? she asks.
"No I didn't -- it's three in the morning"
"Well you've got a short memory" says his wife, "Can't you remember about three months ago when we broke down on holiday and those two guys helped us?. I think you should help him."
The man does as he is told and returns to the front door and calls out into the dark "Hello -- are you still there?"
"Yes", comes the answer.
"Do you still want a push?" calls out the husband.
"Yes please!" comes the reply from the dark.
"Where are you?" asks the husband
"Over here on the swing" the man replies.
Quotes of the Day
"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.""I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."
- W.C. Fields
"Everybody has to believe in something.....I believe I'll have another drink."
- W.C. Fields
“What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?”
- W.C. Fields
"I never drink water, fish f*ck in it."
- W.C. Fields
"Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."
- W.C. Fields
"There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it."
- W.C. Fields
"I like to keep a bottle of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy."
- W.C. Fields
"I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."
- W. C. Fields
Whisky of The Day
January Celebrations
Apple and Apricots MonthArtichoke and Asparagus Month
Be Kind to Food Servers
Bread Machine Baking Month
California Dried Plum Digestive Health Month
Carnival Season (Starting January 6th)
Celebration of Life Month
Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Cervical Cancer Screening Month
Cherry Blossom Festival in Okinawa, Japan, a very colorful festivals every January in Nago since 1928.
Coffee Gourmet International Month
Family Fit Lifestyle Month
Financial Wellness Month
First Binary Month (1of 3) (0s and 1s)
International Brain Teaser Month
International Change Your Stars Month
International Creativity Month
International New Years Resolutions Month for Businesses
International Quality of Life Month
International Wayfinding Month
International Wealth Mentality Month
National Bath Safety Month
National Be On-Purpose Month
National Birth Defects Prevention Mont
National Blood Donor Month
National Book Blitz Month
National Braille Literacy Month
National Candy Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your Computer Month
National Egg Month
National Get Organized Month
National Glaucoma Awareness Month
National Hobby Month
National Hot Tea Month
National Lose Weight, Feel Great Month
National Mail Order Gardening Month
National Meat Month
National Mentoring Month
National Oatmeal Month
National Personal Self-Defense Awareness Month
National Polka Music Month
National Poverty in America Awareness Month
National Radon Action Month
National Skating Month
National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
National Soup Month
National Stalking Awareness Month
National Thank You Month
National Volunteer Blood Donor 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
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
Meat Week Starting the last Sunday in January (http://www.meatweek.com/)
International Hoof Care Week Starting Last Monday in January
US National Snow Sculpting Week Starting Last Tuesday in January
Historical Events on January 29th
904 Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
993 St. Ulrich, who lived c.890-973, and was Bishop of Augsburg from 923, was canonized at a Lateran Synod. With this action by Pope John XV, St. Ulrich became the first individual in Roman Catholic history formally elevated to sainthood.
1499 Birth of Katherine von Bora, the former German nun who became Martin Luther's wife in 1525 when he was 41 and she 26. During their 21-year marriage, Katie bore Martin 3 sons and 3 daughters. Her death in 1552 followed six years after her husband's in 1546.
1523 Sermon of Constanz, Zwingli defends 67 Schlussreden
1574 Sea battle of Reimerswaal Admiral Boisot beats Spanish fleet
1587 Deventer & Zutphen surrender to Spain
1595 William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed.
1613 Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees
1676 Fjodor Aleksejevitsj III becomes czar of Russia
1728 John Gays' "Beggar's Opera" premieres in London
1732 Paris churchyard Saint-Medard closed after Jansenistic ritual
1780 Pioneer American Methodist bishop Francis Asbury wrote in his journal: 'My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.'
1781 Mozart's opera "Idomeneo" premieres, Munich
1788 Australia Day
1802 John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress
1814 France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
1834 US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
1839 Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood
1845 "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
1848 Sicily accepts new Constitution (choose parliament/freedom of press)
1850 Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 bill on slavery to the U.S. Congress.
1856 Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross, established to acknowledge bravery
1860 American College established in Rome by Pope Pius IX
1861 Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1863 Battle at Bear River, Washington. US Army vs Indians, the Bear River Massacre.
1864 Battle of Moorefield, WV (Rosser's Raid)
1872 Francis L Cardoza elected State Treasurer of South Carolina
1879 Custer Battlefield National Monument, Montana established
1886 1st successful gasoline-driven car patented, Karl Benz, Karlsruhe
1886 Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1891 Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
1895 King Koko's Kopermannen assault on Akassa Niger, 100's killed
1896 Emile Grubbe is 1st doctor to use radiation treatment for breast cancer
1900 American League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis
1900 Boers under Joubert beat English at Spionkop Natal, 2,000 killed
1900 The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
1903 Dutch railroad workers strike
1904 1st athletic letters given (Univ of Chicago football team)
1906 Coen de King skates world record time, 32,370 km
1908 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, at Cornell University, incorporates
1912 Martial law declared in textile strike in Lawrence, MA
1913 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, at Howard University, incorporates
1916 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place in World War I.
1917 English submarine K13 leaves Gaire Loch
1919 Secretary of state proclaims the 18th amendment (prohibition)
1920 Walt Disney starts 1st job as an artist; $40 week with Kansas City Slide Co
1921 Hurricane hits Washington & Oregon
1921 The Congregational Holiness Church was formally organized, following a split the previous year with the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Headquartered today in Griffin, GA, most CHC churches are located in the Southeast US.
1922 Union of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras & El Salvador dissolved
1923 1st flight of the autogiro (Juan de la Cierva, Madrid Spain)
1924 Ice cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor, Cleveland
1925 British Liberals choose David Lloyd George as party leader
1927 4th German government of Marx forms
1929 Seeing Eye Guide Dog Organization forms
1932 Test debut of Bill O'Reilly, vs South Africa at Adelaide
1933 German president von Hindenburg appoints Hitler chancellor
1936 1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame-Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson
1940 Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed.
1942 1st broadcast of Roy Plomley's "Desert Island Discs" on BBC
1942 German & Italian troops occupy Benghazi
1942 Peru & Ecuador sign Protocol of Rio (boundary determiniation)
1943 New Zealand's Kiwi cruiser collides with Japanese sub I-1 at Guadalcanal
1943 Sidney Kingsley's "Patriots" premieres in New York City NY
1943 The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
1944 285 German bombers attack London
1944 In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
1944 USS Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the United States Navy is launched.
1944 Approximately 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland in World War II.
1944 The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy, World War II.
1947 Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" premieres in New York City NY
1948 "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City NY for 188 performances
1948 Commissioner Happy Chandler fines the Yankees, Cubs, & Phillies $500 each for signing high school players
1949 Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand & Switzerland recognize Israel
1951 "Where's Charley?" opens at Broadway Theater New York City NY for 56 performances
1951 Baseball signs 6 year All-Star pact for TV-radio rights for $6 million
1951 Liz Taylor's 1st divorce (Conrad Hilton Jr)
1953 1st movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres
1954 Arnold Schoenberg's "De Profundis," premieres in Cologne
1955 John William Cox buys Yankee Stadium, sells grounds to Knights of Columbus, later leaves structure to Rice University (1962)
1956 F Dürrenmatt's "Der Besuch der Alten Dame" premieres in Zürich
1957 Graham Greene's "Potting Shed" premieres in New York City NY
1958 Murderer, Charles Starkweather, captured by police in Wyoming
1958 Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward wed
1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released
1961 US female Figure Skating championship won by Laurence Owen
1961 US male Figure Skating championship won by Bradley Lord
1963 Jim Thorpe, Red Grange & George Halas elected to football hall of fame
1963 The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1964 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria
1964 Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" & "Sie Leibt Dich"
1964 Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana)
1964 Stanley Kubrick's"Dr Strangelove," premieres
1964 Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit
1966 "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater New York City NY for 608 performances
1966 Lawry & Simpson complete 244 opening stand vs England, Adelaide
1966 Snow storm in north east US kills 165
1966 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1966 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1967 "Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City NY after 107 performances
1967 Branch Rickey & Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1967 Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ
1967 Pope Paul VI and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny conferred at the Vatican in the first meeting in history between a Roman Catholic pontiff and the head of a Communist state.
1967 WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 Nauru adopts constitution
1969 Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars
1969 Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia vs West Indies
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakstan/Semipalatinsk USSR
1971 Test debut of Dennis Keith Lillee, vs England at Adelaide
1972 5th ABA All-Star Game, East 142 beats West 115 at Louisville
1974 27th NHL All-Star Game, West beat East 6-4 at Chicago
1975 "Men on the Moon" opens at Little Theater New York City NY for 5 performances
1975 1st Annual Comedy Awards of the Year hosted by Alan King
1975 W I win Fifth Test against India to take exciting series 3-2
1976 Zeiss planetarium in Hague destroyed by fire
1978 Joanne Carner wins Colgate Triple Crown Match-Play Golf Championship
1978 Sweden outlaws aerosol sprays due to their harmful effect on the ozone layer, becoming the first nation to enact such a ban.
1979 9th AFC-NFC pro bowl, NFC wins 13-7
1979 Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings, inspires Boomtown Rats "I Don't Like Mondays".
1979 Chinese vice-premier Deng Xiaoping visits Washington, DC
1979 Emerson, Lake & Palmer disband after 10 years together
1979 NFL Pro Bowl, NFC beats AFC 13-7
1979 President Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years
1980 6 Iranian held US hostages escape with help of the Canadians
1980 Cleveland Cavaliers beat Los Angeles Lakers 154-153 in quadruple OT
1981 AL approves sale of White Sox to Jerry Reinsdorf & Eddie Einhorn for $20 million, & 80% of Mariners to George Argyros for $104 million
1982 Old Dominion ends Los Angeles Tech's women's basketball record 54-game win streak
1982 Wayne Garland, baseball 1st millionaire free agent, waived by Indians
1983 "Down Under" by Men At Work hit #1 on UK pop chart
1983 40th Golden Globes, Gandhi, ET & Tootsie win
1984 34th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver
1984 34th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 154-145 (OT) at Denver
1984 Actress Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) marries Robert Altman
1984 NFL Pro Bowl, NFC beats AFC 45-3
1984 President Reagan formally announces he will seek a 2nd term
1984 Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Mazda Golf Classic of Deer Creek
1984 Space Shuttle 41-B (STS-11) Challenger launched
1985 Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
1985 Jari Kurri of Edmonton Oilers scores 100th point of season in game 39
1986 193.8 million shares traded in New York Stock Exchange
1986 Yoweri Museveni sworn in as president of Uganda
1987 Lisa files for separation from husband New York Met Darryl Strawberry
1987 William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA
1988 Canadian Ben Johnson breaks own 50-yard dash world record at 5.15
1988 Detroit's Kirk Gibson signs a 3-year contract with Dodgers
1988 Largest NBA crowd-Boston Celtics at Detroit (61,938)
1988 Talks break down between Sandinistas and Contras
1988 United Airlines Boeing 747SP, circles world in 36 hours 54 minutes 15 seconds
1989 77th Australian Open Men Tennis Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (62 62 62)
1989 Cleveland's Chris Dudley misses 5 free throws during 1 foul attempt
1989 Dottie Mochrie wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1989 Dow jumps 38.06 recoups 508-point loss since October 1987; index at 2,256.43
1989 Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
1989 Game-winning RBI, official statistic dropped after 9 years of use New York Mets Keith Hernandez is the all-time leader with 129
1989 Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
1989 L I preacher Gene Profeta pleads guilty to tax-evasion
1989 NFL Pro Bowl, NFC beats AFC 34-3
1989 Orlando Arena opens
1989 USSR's Phobos II enters Martian orbit
1990 Exxon Valdez captain Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
1991 "Piano Lesson" closes at Walter Kerr Theater New York City NY after 320 performances
1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (begins)
1991 Nelson Mandela & Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi meet in Durban after 28 years
1993 Test debut of Vinod Kambli, prolific Indian batsman
1995 Andre Agassi defeats Pete Sampras to win Australian Open
1995 Greg Blewett scores century on Test debut vs England, Adelaide
1995 Super Bowl XXIX San Francisco 49ers beat San Diego Chargers, 49-26 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Steve Young, San Francisco, Quarterback
1996 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
1996 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
1996 La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1996 Last day of Test cricket for David Boon
1996 President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
1998 "Capeman" opens at Marquis Theater New York City NY
1998 In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
1998 Singers Bobby Brown found guiilty of DWI in Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1998 Soyuz TM-27 launches to MIR
1998 Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium & Netherlands, 6 die
1998 Woman's Clinic in Birmingham, Alabama bombed, 1 killed
2001 Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 In his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 The first direct commercial flights from the mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines carrier landed in Beijing
2006 Roger Federer beats Marcos Baghdatis (5-7, 7-5, 6-0, 6-2) at the 94th Men's Australian Open
2006 Amelie Mauresmo beats Justine Henin (6-1, 2-0, ret.) at the 94th Women's Australian Open
2006 "Quinceanera", directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the 22nd Sundance Film Festival
2006 US 39-cent stamp is released featuring Hattie McDaniel in the dress she wore in 1940 when she became the 1st African-American actress to accept an Academy Award
2006 Irfan Pathan becomes first bowler to take a Test cricket hat-trick in the opening over of a match
2007 Ken Dryden's #29 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens
2009 Rod Blagojevich, the Governor of Illinois, is removed from office after being convicted of corruption charges
2012 AFC beats NFC 59-41 at the NFL Pro Bowl
2012 Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal (5-7, 6-4, 6-2, 6-7, 7-5) at the 100th Men's Australian Open
2012 Victoria Azarenka beats Maria Sharapova (6-3, 6-0) at the 100th Women's Australian Open
2012 Team Chara beats Team Alfredsson 12-9 at Ottawa, Ontario at the 59th NHL All-Star Game
2012 "The House I Live In", directed by Eugene Jarecki, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at the 28th Sundance Film Festival
2014 Archaeologists discover the oldest Roman Temple (6th C BC) at Sant’Omobono
2014 Scientists discover how to convert normal cells into stem cells in mice
2014 Bohuslav Sobotka becomes Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
2015 Malaysia officially declares the disappearance of missing flight MH370 an accident
Born on January 29th
1584 Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (d. 1647)
1632 Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
1688 Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist and philosopher (Angelic Wisdom) (d. 1772)
1689 Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet
1700 Daniel Bernoulli Basel, Swiss mathematician (10 time French award)
1703 Carlmann Kolb, composer
1711 Giuseppe Bonno, Austrian composer (d. 1788)
1715 Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (d. 1777)
1717 Jeffrey Amherst, British military leader (d. 1797)
1718 Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
1737 Thomas Paine, English-born American patriot (Common Sense, Age of Reason) (d. 1809)
1749 King Christian VII of Denmark (d. 1808)
1754 Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
1756 Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee (Republican/Governor-VA)/General/cavalryman
1756 Henry Lee III, American General (d. 1818)
1761 Abraham AA "Albert" Gallatin, Switzerland, US minister of Finance (1801-14)
1761 Albert Gallatin, Swiss-American United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1849)
1763 J G Seume, writer
1782 Daniel-Francois-Esprit Auber, French composer (Fra Diavolo) (d. 1871)
1782 Frantiszek Tucek Scigalski, composer
1783 Vasili A Zjukovski, Russian folk poet/translator (Homerus)
1784 Ferdinand Ries, composer
1798 Henry Neele, London, poet
1801 Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881)
1801 Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer (Felix Meritis)
1803 James Outram, Bulterley Hall Derbyshire, general
1810 Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
1821 Isaac Ferdinand Quinby, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1823 Franklin Gardner, Major-General in the Civil War-fought at Shiloh & Port Hudson (Confederate Army)
1824 Karl von Perfall, composer
1836 Benjamin Franklin Potts, Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1836 James Meech Warner, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1843 William McKinley, 25th President of the United States (1897-1901) (d. 1901)
1846 Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (d. 1915)
1850 Ebenezer Howard, London, pioneer of garden cities
1850 Lawrence Hargrave, inventor (box kite)
1852 Frederic Hymen Cowen, composer
1852 Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian actor/playwright (O Noapte Furtunoasa)
1854 Willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian
1860 Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Russian writer (Cherry Orchard) (d. 1904)
1862 Frederick Delius, English composer (Hiawatha) (d. 1934)
1864 Adolf Philipp, composer
1866 Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter (d. 1944)
1866 Romain Rolland, France, writer (Jean-Christophe) (Nobel 1915) (d. 1944)
1867 Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse) (d. 1928)
1869 Andrey Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
1871 Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer
1873 Luigi A duke of the Abruzzes, Italy, explorer/climber (Mt St Elias)
1873 Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italy, explorer/climber (Mt St Elias)
1874 John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
1874 Robert Lach, composer
1876 Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer
1876 Havergal Brian, British composer (d. 1972)
1877 Georges Catroux, French general (d. 1969)
1878 Barney Oldfield, Ohio, daredevil
1880 W. C. Fields [William Claude Dukenfield], American actor (Bank Dick) (d. 1946)
1884 Juhan Aavic, composer
1887 Albert Conti, Trieste Austria, actor (Jazz Heaven, Doomed Battalion)
1888 Sydney Chapman, British mathematician and geophysicist (d. 1970)
1889 Francisco Santiago, composer
1889 Rudolf Mauersberger, composer
1891 Elizaveta Gerdt, Russian ballerina (d. 1975)
1891 R. Norris Williams, American survivor of the RMS Titanic sinking (d. 1968)
1891 R N Williams II, tennis champ (US Open-1914)
1892 Clifford Gray, US, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1928)
1893 Edric Cundell, composer
1893 Martian Negrea, composer
1895 Muna Lee, American poet (d. 1965)
1896 Teddy Hoad, cricketer (pioneering West Indian Test batsman)
1898 Fernand Quinet, Belgian cellist/composer/conductor (La Guerre)
1898 Karl Bjarnhof, Danish blind journalist/writer (History of Sascha)
19-- Niclas Sigevall rocker (Electric Boys-Funk-o-metal Carpet Ride)
1900 Marco Tajcevic, composer
1900 Willem F K Hussem, Dutch painter/poet (Coastline, Lookout on Sea)
1901 Allen B. DuMont, American scientist and inventor (perfected coml practical cathode ray tube) (d. 1965)
1903 Cornelis H Edelman, Dutch geologist
1905 Barnett Newman, American painter (postpainterly abstraction) (d. 1970)
1906 Franciscus Hin, Holland, yachtsman (Olympic-gold-1920)
1906 Joe Primeau, NHL center
1908 Adam Clayton Powell, (Representative-D-NY, 1945-70)
1909 Alan Marshal, Sydney Australia, actor (White Cliffs of Dover, Lydia)
1909 Tonypandy, Viscount
1910 Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
1910 Henri Queffélec French writer (Au bout du monde)
1910 Paul Hodder-Williams, publisher
1911 Bernard Herrmann New York City NY, composes film music
1911 George Burns, British major-general
1911 Peter von Siemens, German industrialist (d. 1986)
1912 "Professor" Irwin Corey, Brooklyn NY, comedian (Car Wash, Doc)
1912 Jacob "Jaap" Balk, journalist (AH, Onder de Keizerskroon)
1912 Professor Irwin Corey Brooklyn NY, comedian (Car Wash, Doc)
1913 Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (d. 2003)
1913 Peter von Zahn, German journalist and writer (d. 2001)
1913 Victor Mature, American actor (1 Million BC, Samson & Delilah) (d. 1999)
1915 Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author
1915 Halfdan Rasmussen, Danish poet/WWII resistance fighter (Skoven)
1915 John Serry, Sr., American musician and arranger (d. 2003)
1916 Barbara Skelton, writer
1917 John Raitt, Santa Ana California, actor/singer (Chevy Show, Pajama Game)
1918 John Forsythe, American actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty) (d. 2010)
1918 William Rigney, baseball manager (San Francisco Giants)
1919 Norman F Simpson, British playwright (One Way Pendulum)
1920 Alec Coppen, psychiatrist
1920 José Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
1921 Anthony George, American actor (d. 2005)
1922 Gerda Steinhoff, Nazi concentration camp supervisor (d. 1946)
1923 Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (d. 2000)
1923 Paddy Chayefsky, American writer (Marty, Hospital) (d. 1981)
1924 Brian Trubshaw, British test pilot
1924 Gregson, Lord
1924 Luigi Nono, Italian composer (Canonic Variations) (d. 1990)
1924 Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
1924 Peter Voulkos, American artist (d. 2002)
1925 Anthony George, Endicott NY, actor (Untouchables, Checkmate)
1925 Lane of Horsell, Lord
1925 Pier Tania (Meinte Piet), radio/TV host (ANP, De Bezetting)
1926 Abdus Salam, Pakistani physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)
1926 Bob Berry, cricketer (England slow lefty 1950)
1926 Franco Cerri, Italian musician
1927 Edward Abbey, American author and environmentalist (Desert Solitaire) (d. 1989)
1928 Bengt Hambraeus, composer
1928 Lee Shau Kee, Hong Kong property developer
1928 Marinus Peijnenburg, Dutch politician
1928 Peter Byrne, actor (Postcards from America, Carry on Cabby)
1929 Elio Petri, Italy, director (Property is no theft)
1929 William McMillan, US, rapid pistol (Olympic-gold-1960)
1930 Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
1930 John Junkin, English radio, television and film performer (A Hard Day's Night) (d. 2006)
1931 Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer (Stop the world I want to get off)
1932 Clyde, Lord
1932 George Allen, English footballer
1932 Raman Subba Row, CEO (Test/County Cricket Board)
1932 Tommy Taylor, English footballer (d. 1958)
1933 A C Alston, bibliographer
1933 Hugo Herrestrup, Danish actor
1933 Margaret Laird, Commissioner (Third Church Estates)
1933 Paul Sally, American mathematician
1933 Sacha Distel, French singer and guitarist (d. 2004)
1934 Paul Gutama Soegijo, composer
1936 James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records (d. 1983)
1936 Malcolm Binns, concert pianist
1936 Noel Harrison actor (Girl From UNCLE)
1937 Bobby Scott, jazz singer
1938 Bill Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1939 Germaine Greer, Australian writer (Female Eunich)
1939 O P Kolomitsev, cosmonaut
1940 Katharine Ross, American actress
1940 Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
1941 Robin Morgan, American feminist and activist
1942 Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez, Cuba, cosmonaut, 1st Cuban in space (Soyuz 38)
1942 Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer
1942 F R Hartley, Vice-Chancellor (Cranfield University)
1942 Katharine Ross, Hollywood Cal, actress (Graduate, Francesca-Colbys)
1942 Richard Needham, British MP
1942 Robin Morgan, Lake Worth Fla, actress (Dagmar-Mama)
1943 Charles Fitzgerald-Lombard, Abbot of Downside
1944 Andrew Loog Oldham, English rock and roll producer
1944 Barbara Moore, Wardell Mo, actress (Lisa Rogers-Man From UNCLE)
1944 Hans Plomp, Dutch writer/poet (Venus in Holland)
1944 Patrick Lipton Robinson, Jamaican judge
1944 Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
1945 Donna Marie Caponi Young, Detroit MI, LPGA golfer (US Open 1969, 70)
1945 James Nicholson, British MEP
1945 Jim Nicholson, Irish politician
1945 Tom Selleck, American actor, screenwriter and film producer (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI)
1947 David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep) (d. 1985)
1947 Israel Wetrin, managing director (Elonex)
1947 Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1947 Marián Varga, Slovak musician
1947 Michael Mavor, Head Master (Rugby School)
1948 Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1948 Cristina Saralegui, American talk-show host
1948 Felice Taylor, R&B singer (I Feel Love Comin' On)
1948 Marc Singer, Canadian-born actor (V, Dallas)
1948 Pat Kenny, Irish TV presenter and radio host
1950 Ann Jillian, American actress (Mr Mom, Jennifer Slept Here)
1950 Jody Schecter, South African auto maker (World Driver's 1979)
1951 Andy Roberts, West Indian cricketer
1951 Earl Howe England, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence
1952 Rupert Hanley, South African cricketer
1952 Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
1953 Dalila di Lazzaro, Udine Italy, covergirl/model (Vogue)
1953 Hwang Woo-Suk, South Korean biomedical scientist
1953 Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
1953 Paulin Bordeleau, Quebec ice hockey player
1953 Teresa Teng, Taiwanese singer (d. 1995)
1954 Alejandro Casañas Havana Cuba, 110m hurdler (Olympics-silver-1976, 80)
1954 Dick Manitoba, vocalist (Dictators)
1954 Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
1954 Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host and actress (Color Purple, Oprah)
1954 Richard Manitoba, American singer (The Dictators and MC5)
1954 Terry Kinney, American actor
1955 Eddie Jordan, American basketball player and head coach
1955 John Tate, US, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-bronze-1968)
1955 Lynne McGranger, Australian actress
1957 Grazyna Miller, Italian poet, translator, and journalist
1957 Irlene Mandrell, Corpus Christi Tx, country singer (Mandrell Sisters)
1957 Jac Bico, Dutch guitarist/singer (Tambourine)
1957 Rino Schreuder, Dutch publisher
1958 Judy Norton-Taylor, Santa Monica California, actress (Mary Ellen-Waltons)
1958 Ole Mortensen, cricketer (pace bowler for Derbyshire & Denmark)
1959 Paul McGann, actor (Dr Who)
1960 Cho-Liang Lin, Taiwan, violinist (Queen Sophia 1st prize)
1960 Cho-Liang Lin Taiwan, violinist (Queen Sophia 1st prize)
1960 Eddie Jackson, bassist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence, The Warning)
1960 Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
1960 Gregory Efthimos Louganis, American diver (Olympic-gold-1984, 88)
1960 J. G. Thirlwell, Australian-born musician
1960 Matthew Ashford, American actor (Jack Devaraux-Days of Our Lives)
1960 Sean Kerly, English field hockey player
1960 Steve Sax, 2nd baseman (Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox)
1961 Mike Aldrete, US baseball infielder (Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees)
1962 Nicholas Turturro, American actor (James Martinez-NYPD Blue)
1963 Bob Holly, American professional wrestler
1963 Michelle Bell, Melrose MA, LPGA golfer (1981 Mass School Girls Champ)
1963 Monica Horan, American actress
1964 Andre Reed, American football player, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills)
1964 Anna Ryder Richardson, British interior designer and television presenter
1964 John Gallagher, rugby league player
1964 John Habyan, US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1964 Roddy Frame, rock vocalist/guitarist (Aztec Camera-Stray)
1965 Dominik Hašek, Czech ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Czech Olympics-Gold-98, Buffalo)
1965 Peter Lundgren, Sweden, tennis star
1965 Tim Johnson, NFL defensive tackle (Washington Redskins)
1966 Romário, Brazilian footballer
1967 Cyril Suk, Czech tennis player
1967 David Pitcher, CFL fullback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 Khalid Skah, Midelt Morocco, 5k/10k runner
1967 Sean Burke, Windsor, NHL goalie (Hartford Whalers)
1967 Stacey King, American basketball player, NBA forward/center (Miami Heat)
1968 Aeneas Williams, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1968 Chris Pringle, (New Zealand cricket pace bowler (since 1990)
1968 Edward Burns, American actor (Brothers McMullen)
1968 Harold Green, NFL running back (Cincinnati Bengals, Atlanta Falcons)
1968 John Hudson, NFL center/guard (New York Jets, Philadelphia Eagles)
1968 Kevin Roberson, US baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs)
1968 Sora Jung, Korean actress
1968 Susi Erdmann, German bobsledder and luger
1969 Aeneas Williams, cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 Flora Perfetti, Faenza Italy, tennis star (1995 Futures-Reims-FRA)
1969 Hyde, Japanese singer (L'Arc-en-Ciel)
1969 Karen Fonteyne, Calgary Alberta, synchronized swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
1969 Robert Young, NFL player (St Louis Rams)
1970 Eric Gouka, cricketer (Netherlands pace bowler 1996 World Cup)
1970 Heather Graham, American actress (Drugstore Cowboy, Diggstown)
1970 Jörg Hoffmann, German swimmer
1970 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Indian shooter
1970 Scott Davis, guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 Chris Vargas, CFL quarterback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1971 Jamal Fountaine, NFL defensive end (San Francisco 49ers, Atlanta Falcons)
1972 Hessley Hempstead, NFL guard (Detroit Lions)
1972 Scott Davis, Great Falls Mont, figure skater (Olympics-1994)
1972 Simon Cook, cricketer (Victorian pace bowler joined New South Wales 1995-96)
1973 Darnell Stephens, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1973 Jason Schmidt, American baseball player, pitcher (Atlanta Braves)
1973 Scott Milanovich, quarterback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1974 David LaFleur, tight end (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 Jeff Mitchell, corner (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 Kris Burley, Truro Nova Scotia, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1974 Pat Walsh, WLAF Tackle (London Monarchs)
1975 Hendrik Dreekmann, Germany, tennis star
1975 Kelly Packard, Glendale CA, actress (Tiffani Smith-California Dreams)
1975 Lorraine Magwenzi, Miss Zimbabwe Universe (1997)
1975 Maarten Kerkhof, soccer player (Vitesse, De Graafschap)
1975 Sara Gilbert, American actress (Darlene-Roseanne, Poison Ivy)
1976 Charles Divins, American model and actor
1976 Chris Castle, American singer-songwriter
1976 Ilmira Shamsutdinova, Miss Universe-Russia/best costume (1996)
1977 Chaly Jones, Dutch footballer
1977 Justin Hartley, American actor
1977 Martin Hohenberger, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1978 Martin Schmitt, German ski jumper
1978 Rob Bironas, American football player
1979 Andreas Thorstensson, website developer
1979 Andrew Keegan, American actor (Step by Step, Party of Five)
1979 April Scott, American actress and model
1979 Joseph Todd, Arena Football League player
1979 Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
1980 Ingimundur Ingimundarson, Icelandic handball player
1980 Ivan Klasnic, Croatian football player
1980 Jason James Richter, Medford OR, actor (Free Willy)
1980 Yael Bar-Zohar, Israeli actress and model
1981 Darío Lopilato, Argentine actor
1981 Jonny Lang, American musician
1981 Álex Ubago, Spanish musician
1982 Adam Lambert, American actor and singer
1982 Heidi Mueller, American actress
1982 Irina Shabayeva, American fashion designer
1983 Nedžad Sinanovic, Bosnian basketball player
1985 Athina Onassis, French heiress
1985 Isabel Lucas, Australian actress
1985 Marc Gasol, Spanish basketball player
1985 Mikey Hachey, American musician (Suburban Legends)
1985 Todd Herzog, American reality-show contestant
1986 Chris Bourque, American pro hockey player
1986 Drew Tyler Bell, American actor
1986 Jair Jurrjens, Dutch baseball player
1986 Mark Howard, English football player
1986 Simon Vukčević, Montenegrin football player
1987 Matthew Wilson, English world rally driver
1987 Spencer Clark, American race car driver (d. 2006)
1988 Stephanie Gilmore, Australian professional surfer
1991 Hugh Grosvenor, Earl Grosvenor, Son of the Duke of Westminster
1993 Michelle Larcher De Brito, Portuguese tennis player
1996 Megan Jossa, English actress
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969 Peter, tsar of Bulgaria (927-69)
1119 Pope Gelasius II
1240 Pelagio Galvani, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano (b. c. 1165)
1342 Louis I, Duke of Bourbon (b. 1279)
1559 Thomas Pope, English politician, benefactor
1597 Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
1608 Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1557)
1647 Francis Meres, English writer (b. 1565)
1663 Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln (1660-63)
1676 Tsar Alexis I of Russia (b. 1629)
1678 Jeronimo Lobo, Portuguese Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1696 Ivan V, Russian tsar (1682-89) (b. 1666)
1706 Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier (b. 1638)
1737 George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
1743 André-Hercule de Fleury, French cardinal (1726-43) (b. 1653)
1763 Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
1814 Johann G Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre)
1820 King George III of the United Kingdom (1760-1820) (b. 1738)
1824 Louise MC countess of Albany, Henegouws salon owner
1829 Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician (b. 1755)
1837 Aleksandr Pushkin, poet/novelist (Golden Cockeral), killed in a duel
1870 Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1797)
1871 Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, French Canadian writer and Seigneur (b. 1786)
1879 Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat
1888 Edward Lear, poet/author, dies at 75
1899 Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
1899 Robert J Fruin, Dutch historian (80-year war)
1901 King Milan I of Serbia (b. 1855)
1906 Christaan IX, King of Denmark (1893-1906) (b. 1818)
1910 Edouard Rod, French/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e)
1912 Hermann Bang, writer, dies at 54
1916 Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvils, composer
1917 Evelyn Baring earl Cromer, English consul-general in Egyp
1918 Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin, Russian-counter revolutionary (b. 1861)
1921 Billy Gunn, cricket (score 392 runs for England including a century), dies
1924 Joseph Ludwig, composer
1928 Douglas Haig, British soldier, field marshal (WW I) (b. 1861)
1933 Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
1934 Fritz Haber, German chemist, Nobel Laureate (Nobel 1918) (b. 1868)
1941 Ioannis Metaxas, Greek general and dictator (1936-41), suicide (b. 1871)
1942 Ladislao Joseph Philip Paul Zavrtal, composer2
1944 William Allen White, US journalist (Emporia Gazette)
1946 Harry Hopkins, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce, US min of Business (Loan & Lease law) (b. 1890)
1946 Sidney James Jones, composer
1947 Fred Barratt cricket (5 wickets at 47 in 5 Tests for England 1929-30)
1948 Tomislav II of Croatia, 4th Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (b. 1900)
1950 Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1885)
1951 Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
1951 James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor), dramatist
1955 Hans Hedtoft, premier of Denmark (1947.. 55)
1955 Hans Hedtoft premier of Denmark (1947-55)
1956 H. L. Mencken, American journalist (Smart Set) (b. 1880)
1960 Louis Jean Heydt, actor (Joe-Waterfront)
1961 John F. O'Ryan, American major general (b. 1874)
1962 Fritz Kreisler, Austrian violinist (b. 1875)
1963 Robert Frost, American poet (New Hampshire, 4 Pulitzers) (b. 1874)
1964 Alan Ladd, American actor (Shane) (b. 1913)
1965 John Larkin, actor (Saints & Sinners, 12 O'Clock High)
1965 Michael Spisak, composer
1966 Josef Winckler, German dentist/writer (Tolle Bomberg)
1966 Pierre Mercure, French Canadian composer (b. 1927)
1967 Wlodzimierz Pozniak, composer, dies at 62
1968 Laxmidas Purshottamdas Jai, cricketer (Test for India)
1969 Allen Dulles, American CIA director (b. 1893)
1970 B. H. Liddell Hart, British historian (b. 1895)
1973 Johannes Paul Thilman, composer, dies at 67
1973 Ludwig Stossel, Austrian actor (Man With a Camera)
1975 Orestis Makris, Greek actor (b. 1898)
1976 Michael Gwynn, actor (Dunkirk, Barabbas, Cleopatra)
1977 Buster Nupen, South African cricketer (b. 1902)
1977 E P "Buster" Nupen, cricketer (50 wickets for South Africa, lost eye)
1977 Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (Chico & the Man) (b. 1954)
1978 Tim McCoy, actor (Arizona Bound)
1980 Antonio Molina, composer
1980 Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (Palooka, Jimmy Durante Show) (b. 1893)
1981 Cozy Cole, rocker (Topsy Part II)
1984 Frances Goodrich (Diary of Anne Frank)
1986 Leif Erickson, American actor (John-High Chaparral) (b. 1911)
1987 Ivo Lhotka-Kalinski, composer
1988 Bantcho Bantchevsky, US opera singer, commits suicide
1988 James R Killian Jr, MIT president (1948-59)
1988 Rogier van Otterloo, Dutch composer/conductor
1989 Halina Konopacka, Polish athlete (b. 1900)
1991 Jan Odé Dutch pianist/director Sweelinck Conservatory
1991 Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907)
1992 Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (I'm a Man, Backdoor Man) (b. 1915)
1993 Hank Werba, [Herman Werblowski], US journalist (Variety)
1993 Michel Renault, French ballet dancer (Giselle), dies
1993 Ron Kostelnik, American football player (b. 1940)
1994 Jevgeni P Leonov, Russian actor (Gori, Moja Zvezda)
1994 Nick Cravat, midget (Gremlin-Twilight Zone)
1994 Ulrike Maier, Austrian alpine skier, breaks neck during world cup skiing (b. 1967)
1995 Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock, English agronomist (Rhodesia)
1995 Chris de Marigny, painter/designer
1995 Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect
1995 Richard Burnell, British rower (Olympics-gold-1948)
1995 Richard Desborough Burnell, British oarsman (Olympics-gold-1948)
1996 Jack Sutherland, journalist
1996 John Terence Reese, bridge master
1997 Eric Schneider, murderer of 2 teachers, executed
1997 Louis Pauwels, writer/editor, dies at 76
1997 Osvaldo Soriano, writer, dies at 54
1998 Joseph Alioto, mayor of San Francisco (b. 1916)
1999 Lili St. Cyr, American dancer (b. 1918)
2002 Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (b. 1928)
2002 Harold Russell, Canadian-born actor (b. 1914)
2003 Frank Moss, American politician (b. 1911)
2004 Janet Frame, New Zealand writer (b. 1924)
2004 M. M. Kaye, British writer (b. 1908)
2005 Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist (b. 1924)
2005 Eric Griffiths, Welsh guitarist (The Quarrymen) (b. 1940)
2007 Barbaro, American thoroughbred racehorse (b. 2003)
2007 Dia Abdul Zahra Kadim, Iraqi extremist leader (b. 1970)
2008 Margaret Truman, American writer, daughter of Harry S. Truman (1924)
2008 Philippe Khorsand, French actor (b. 1948)
2008 Raymond Jacobs, American soldier (b. 1925)
2009 Bill Frindall, English cricket scorer and statistician (b. 1939)
2009 Hélio Gracie, Brazilian martial artist (b. 1913)
2009 John Martyn, Scottish singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
2012 Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, Italian politician
2012 Camilla Williams, American operatic soprano
2013 Frank Hahn, British economist
2014 Ashutosh Mahara, Indian spiritual leader and founder of the Divine Light Awakening Mission, which claims 30 million followers
2015 Rod McKuen, American singer-songwriter (Jean) and poet
2015 Colleen McCullough, New Zealand-born Australian author (The Thorn Birds)
2016 Jacques Rivette, French New Wave film director (The Beautiful Troublemaker)