January 31st
Holidays and Celebrations
Independence Day (Nauru)
Fasching (Munich Germany)
National Brandy Alexander Day * (see Drink of the Day)
Child Labor Day
Backward Day
Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day
National Seed Swap Day
Family Guy Day (Family Guy debuts on American TV. 1999)
Jackie Robinson's Birthday (1919), American baseball player, and the first black player in Major League Baseball (d. 1972)
National Popcorn Day
Twist Off Day
Catholic Feast day of St. John Bosco, patron saint of Christian apprentices, editors, and publishers
Christian Feast Day of Saint Pedro Nolasco
Christian Feast Day of Saint Marcella
Christian Feast Day of Blessed Ludovica
Christian Feast Day of Saint Geminianus
Christian Feast Day of John Bosco
* Dance Festival (Khajuraho, India) 4 Days - Mid January to February (2013)
* Big Day Out - (14of14)last 2 weeks in January, Big Day Out is a music festival that travels around Australia & New Zealand.
Brocoli Day Translation Broccoli Day (French Republican) The 12th day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"A sunbeam to warm you,
A moonbeam to charm you,
A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you."
- Irish Blessing
Drink of The Day
Brandy Alexander
1 and a half oz brandy
1 oz dark creme de cacao
1 oz half-and-half
1/4 tsp grated nutmeg
- In Honor of Brandy Alexander Day
- Alternative Drink -
B and B
1 part cognac
1 part Bénédictine
Combine and stir, Serve in Snifter
Wine of The Day
Mazza Chautauqua Cellars 2009 Riesling
Style - Riesling
Lake Erie
$15
Beer of The Day
Vienna Lager
Brewer - The Covey Restaurant & Brewery ; Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Style - Vienna-Style Lager
Joke of The Day
A guy about to tee off was approached by a man who held out a card that read, "I am a deaf mute. May I please play through?"
The first man gave the card back, angrily shaking his head, and saying, "No, you CANNOT play through." He assumed the guy read lips so he mouthed, "I can't believe you would try to use your handicap to your own advantage like that! Shame on you!"
The deaf man walked away and the first man whacked the ball onto the green and then walked off to finish the hole.
Just as he was about to put the ball into the hole he was hit in the head with a golf ball that knocked him out cold.
When he came to a few minutes later, he looked around and saw the deaf mute sternly looking at him, one hand on his hip, the other hand holding up four fingers.
Quote of the Day
January Observances
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.
Observances this Week
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 31st
314 Silvester I begins his reign as Pope of the Catholic Church, succeeding Pope Miltiades.
876 Charles becomes king of Italy
1504 By treaty of Lyons, French cede Naples to Ferdinand of Aragon
1531 Kings Ferdinand of Austria/Janos Zapolyai of Hungary accept each other
1538 French reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter: 'I pray the Lord to keep you in His holy protection, and so to direct you that you may not go astray in that slippery path whereon you are, until He shall have manifested to you His complete deliverance.'
1560 Spanish king Philip II marries Elisabeth van Valois
1578 Battle of Gembloers
1596 Catholic League disjoins
1606 Gunpowder Plot, Guy Fawkes is executed for his plotting against Parliament and James I of England.
1609 Wisselbank of Amsterdam established
1627 Spanish government goes bankrupt
1675 Cornelia/Dina Olfaarts found not guilty of witchcraft
1679 Jean-Baptiste Lully's opera "Bellerophon," premieres in Paris
1696 Revolt of undertakers after funeral reforms (Amsterdam)
1747 The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
1752 The profession ceremony for Sister St. Martha Turpin was held at Ursuline Convent in New Orleans, LA. She was the first American-born woman to become a nun in the Catholic Church.
1779 Charles Messier adds M57 (Ring Nebula in Lyra) to his catalog
1804 British Vice-Admiral William Bligh's fleet reaches Curaçao
1814 Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina.
1817 Franz Grillparzer's "Die Ahnfrau" premieres in Vienna
1839 Two months before his premature death at age 39, Church of Scotland clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Is not a Christian's darkest hour calmer than the world's brightest?'
1842 John Tyler's daughter Elizabeth marries in the White House
1846 After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1848 John C. Fremont is court-martialed on grounds of mutiny and disobeying orders.
1849 Corn Laws are abolished in the United Kingdom (following legislation in 1846).
1851 Gail Borden announces invention of evaporated milk
1851 San Francisco Orphan's Asylum, 1st in California founded
1854 Dutch KNMI established (Royal Meteorological Institute)
1855 Western railroads blocked by snow
1861 Friedrich Hebbel's "Siegfrieds Tod" premieres in Weimar
1861 State of Louisiana takes over US Mint at New Orleans
1862 Alvan Graham Clark discovers the white dwarf star Sirius B, a companion of Sirius, through an 18.5-inch telescope now located at Northwestern University.
1863 1st black Civil War regiment, SC Volunteers, mustered into US army
1865 The United States Congress passes the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, abolishing slavery, submitting it to the states for ratification (121-24).
1865 Gen Robert E Lee named Commander-in-Chief of Confederate Armies
1867 Maronite nationalist leader Youssef Karam leaves Lebanon on board of a French ship for Algeria
1871 Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darken the sky
1874 Jesse James gang robs train at Gads Hill, Missouri
1876 The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
1891 The first attempt of a Portuguese republican revolution breakes out in the northern city of Porto.
1893 "Westminster Gazette" begins publishing
1895 José Martí & others leave New York City NY for invasion of Spanish Cuba
1900 Datu Muhammad Salleh is assassinated in Kampung Teboh, Tambunan, ending the Mat Salleh Rebellion
1901 Boer general John Smuts & De la Rey conqueror Mud river Transvaal
1901 Chekhov's "Three Sisters" opens at the Moscow Art Theater
1901 Winnipeg Victorias sweep Montréal Shamrocks in 2 for the Stanley Cup
1904 Béla Bartók's symphony "Kossuth" premieres
1905 1st auto to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
1905 Carroll Wright appointed 1st US Commissioner of Labor
1906 Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter
1911 Congress names San Francisco as Panamá Canal opening celebration site
1911 In Falcon, NC, the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church (FBHC) and the Pentecostal Holiness Church (PHC) officially merged. In 1915, the Tabernacle Pentecostal Church (TPC) joined the merger. In 1975, the name of this body officially became the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC).
1915 Germany uses poison gas against Russia for the first time in World War I.
1916 Dutch Girl Guides form
1917 World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare, will attack neutral merchant ship.
1918 A series of accidental collisions on a misty Scottish night leads to the loss of two Royal Navy submarines with over a hundred lives, and damage to another five British warships.
1919 The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.
1920 1st Ukrainian daily newspaper in US (New York City NY) begins publication
1920 Joe Malone, Québec Bulldogs, sets NHL record with 7 goals in a game against Toronto
1920 Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, at Howard University, incorporates
1925 Premier Ahmed Zogu (Zogu I) becomes President of Albania
1927 International allies military command in Germany disbands
1927 National League President John Heydler rules Roger Hornsby can't hold stock in the Cardinals & play for the Giants
1928 Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company
1929 Erich Maria Remarque publishes "Im Westen nichts Neues" in Berlin
1929 Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
1930 1st US glider flight from a dirigible, Lakehurst New Jersey
1931 NHL's Quebec Bulldogs' Joseph Malone scores a record 7 goals
1931 Philip Barry's "Tomorrow & Tomorrow" premieres in New York City NY
1932 US railway unions accept 10% wage reduction
1933 French government of Daladier takes power
1933 Hitler promises parliamentary democracy
1934 FDR devalues the dollar in relation to gold at $35 per ounce
1935 30.5 cm (12.0") of rain falls, Quinault RS WA (state record)
1936 "Green Hornet" radio show is 1st heard on WXYZ Radio in Detroit
1940 40 U boats sunk this month (111,000 ton)
1940 C Turney & J Horwin's "My Dear Children" premieres in New York City NY
1941 21 U boats sunk this month (127,000 ton)
1941 Anti-German demonstration in Haarlem Netherlands
1941 Joe Louis KOs Red Burman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 Layforce set sail.
1942 62 U boats sunk this month (327,000 ton)
1943 39 U boats sunk this month (203,100 ton)
1943 Chile breaks contact with Germany & Japan
1943 German Field Marshall Friedrich von Paulus surrenders to the Soviets at Stalingrad, followed 2 days later by the remainder of his Sixth Army, ending one of World War II's fiercest battles.
1944 Operation-Overlord (D-Day) postponed until June
1944 U-592 sunk off Ireland
1944 US forces invade Kwajalein Atoll
1944 American forces land on Kwajalein Atoll and other islands in the Japanese-held Marshall Islands in World War II.
1944 During Anzio campaign 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy, World War II.
1945 US 4th Infantry division occupies Elcherrath
1945 US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
1946 Yugoslavia's new constitution, modeling the Soviet Union, establishes six constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia).
1948 J D Salinger's "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in NY
1948 Magnetic tape recorder developed by Wireway
1949 1st daytime soap on TV "These Are My Children" (NBC in Chicago)
1949 American missionary and Auca Indian martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'One does not surrender a life in an instant Ä that which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime.'
1950 President Truman reveals that he ordered the Atomic Energy Commission to develop the hydrogen bomb
1952 Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1½ centuries
1952 Harry Heilmann & Paul Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1953 "Princess Victoria" capsized off Stanraer Scotland; 133 die
1953 A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands.
1953 Hurricane-like winds flood Netherlands drowning nearly 2,000
1953 New York, Cleveland & Boston retaliate at Bill Veeck, forcing the Browns to play afternoon games to avoid sharing TV revenues
1955 RCA demonstrates 1st music synthesizer
1956 French government of Mollet forms
1956 Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France.
1956 Juscelino Kubitschek becomes president of Brazil
1957 Eight people on the ground in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
1957 Liz Taylor's 2nd divorce (Michael Wilding)
1957 Trans-Iranian oil pipe line finished
1958 "Jackpot Bowling" premieres on NBC with Leo Durocher as host
1958 Explorer 1 The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.
1958 James Van Allen discovers the Van Allen radiation belt.
1958 US launches their 1st artificial satellite, Explorer 1
1959 Joe Cronin signs 7 year pact to become head of AL
1960 Songwriter Adolph Green marries actress/singer Phyllis Newman in New York City NY
1961 David Ben-Gurion resigns as premier of Israel
1961 Ham is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
1961 Houston voters approve bond to finance luxury domed stadium
1961 Kanhai completes twin tons (117 & 115) vs Australia at Adelaide
1961 NATO secretary-general Paul-Henri Spaak says he'll resign
1961 Project Mercury, Mercury-Redstone 2 Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
1961 USAF launches Samos spy satellite to replace U-2 flights
1962 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1962 Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout"
1963 Tony Sheridan & the Beat Brothers record "What'd I Say" & "Ruby Baby"
1964 US report "Smoking & Health" connects smoking to lung cancer
1965 Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1966 Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers
1966 The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
1968 Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 vs India in his last Test for ten years
1968 Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia
1968 Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Viet Cong attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
1969 Beatles perform last live gig (42-min concert on roof of Apple HQs)
1969 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1970 Grateful Dead members busted on LSD charges
1971 "My Sweet Lord" by George Harrison hit #1 on UK pop chart
1971 Apollo 14 Mission Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon.
1971 Jake Beckley, Joe Kelley, Harry Hooper, Rube Marquard, Chick Hafey & Dave Bancroft & George Weiss elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1971 The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.
1971 US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn
1971 US male Figure Skating championship won by John Misha Petkevich
1972 Aretha Franklin sings at Mahalia Jackson's funeral
1972 Birenda, becomes leader of Nepal
1972 Military coup ousts civilian government of Ghana
1972 US launches HEOS A-2 for interplanetary observations (396/244,998)
1974 MacDonald's founder Ray Kroc buys San Diego Padres
1975 Barry Manilow's "Mandy" goes gold
1975 John Lennon's "#9 Dream" is released
1975 UCLA wins NCAA basketball championship
1976 "Love Rollercoaster" by Ohio Players hits #1
1976 Lance Gibbs becomes highest Test wicket-taker at 308
1977 Frenchman Francois Claustre freed, after 33 months as hostage in Chad
1977 Joe Sewell, Amos Rusie, & Al Lopez elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1978 "Elvis The Legend Lives!" opens at Palace Theater New York City NY for 101 performances
1978 Israel turns 3 military outposts in West Bank into civilian settlements
1980 Police storm occupied Spanish embassy in Guatemala City, killing 41
1981 "The Tide Is High" by Blondie hits #1
1981 38th Golden Globes: Ordinary People, Coal Miner's Daughter
1981 Gaetan Boucher skates world record 1000m (1 13.39)
1982 10 Arabian oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman
1982 12th AFC-NFC pro bowl, AFC wins 16-13
1982 32nd NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 120-118 at New Jersey
1982 Gustafson skates world record 10 km (14 26.59)
1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1982 NFL Pro Bowl, AFC beats NFC 16-13
1982 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1984 36th NHL All-Star Game, Wales beat Campbell 7-6 at New Jersey
1984 Edwin Newman retires from NBC News after 35 years with the network
1984 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 "Harrigan 'n Hart" opens at Longacre Theater New York City NY for 5 performances
1985 South African president PW Botha offers to free Mandela if he denounces violence
1986 Mary Lund of Minnesota, is 1st female recipient of an artificial heart
1987 44th Golden Globes Platoon, Marlee Matlin win
1987 United Steelworkers union ratified a concessionary contract with USX Corp
1988 Barge sinks near Anacortes, WA, spills 70,000 gallons of oil
1988 Super Bowl XXII, Washington Redskins beat Denver Broncos, 42-10 in San Diego; Super Bowl MVP Doug Williams, Washington, Quarterback
1990 1st McDonald's in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds
1990 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
1990 Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ
1990 The 1st ever all-sports daily "The National" begins publishing
1991 Battle for Khafji in Saudi Arabia (ends after 3 days)
1991 Nugget's Michael Adams becomes shortest NBAer to get a triple-double
1991 Robert Gibson flies record 27,040 feet altitude
1992 MTA raised tolls on most New York City NY bridges from $2.50 to $3.00
1992 Sportscaster Howard Cosell retires
1993 "St Joan" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City NY for 49 performances
1993 81st Australian Men's Tennis Jim Courier beats Stefan Edberg (62 61 26 75)
1993 Super Bowl XXVII, Dallas Cowboys beat Buffalo Bills, 52-17 in Pasadena; Super Bowl MVP Troy Aikman, Dallas, Quarterback
1994 Barcelona opera theater "Gran Teatro del Liceo" burns down
1994 Dow Jones hits a record 3,978.36
1995 President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
1996 An explosives-filled truck rams into the gates of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka in Colombo, Sri Lanka killing at least 86 and injuring 1,400.
1998 72nd Australian Womens Tennis: Martina Hingis beats C Martinez (63 63)
1998 STS 89 (Endeavour 12) lands
1999 Super Bowl XXXIII, Denver Broncos beat Atlanta Falcons in Miami; Super Bowl MVP John Elway, Denver, Quarterback
2000 Alaska Airlines flight 261 MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 persons aboard.
2001 In the Netherlands a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 which blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988.
2003 The Waterfall rail accident occurs near Waterfall, New South Wales, Australia.
2007 Suspects are arrested in Birmingham in the UK, accused of plotting the kidnap, holding and eventual beheading of a serving Muslim British soldier in Iraq.
2009 In Kenya, at least 113 people are killed and over 200 injured following an oil spillage ignition in Molo, days after a massive fire at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi killed at least 25 people
2013 36 people are killed and 126 are injured in an explosion at Torre Ejecutiva Pemex, Mexico
2013 300 people are injured in a train collision in Pretoria, South Africa
2015 Australia defeats South Korea in football to win the 2015 AFC Asian Cup
2015 Lydia Ko at 17, becomes the youngest golfer in men's or women's golf history to be ranked No. 1 in the world
2015 Sergio Mattarella is elected President of Italy
2015 Junior Seau, Jerome Bettis, Charles Haley, Will Shields, Tim Brown, and Mick Tingelhoff inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
2015 Serena Williams beats Maria Sharapova (6-3, 7-6) at the 103rd Women's Australian Open
2016 Novak Djokovic beats Andy Murray 6-1 7-5 7-6 (7-3) at the 104th Men's Australian Open
2016 "World's best chef" French-Swiss Benoît Violier found dead after apparent suicide weeks after being named world's best by La Liste
Born on January 31st
36 BC Antonia Minor, daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor (d. 38 AD)
877 Taejo of Goryeo, ruler of Korea (d. 943)
1512 King Henry of Portugal (d. 1580)
1517 Gioseffo Zarlino, composer
1543 Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun of Japan (d. 1616)
1550 Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader (d. 1588)
1573 Ambrosius Metzger, composer
1573 Giulio Cesare Monteverdi, composer
1597 John Francis Regis, French saint (d. 1640)
1601 Pieter de Bloot, Dutch landscape painter
1607 James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby
1612 Hendrik Casimir I, count of Nassau-Dietz/mayor of Frisia
1614 Nicolas Saboly, composer
1620 Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief
1623 François-Xavier de Laval Montmorency, consecrated the first bishop of Québec Canada in 1674
1624 Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (d. 1669)
1633 Nathaniel Crew, English bishop (Durham)
1673 Louis de Montfort, French catholic priest and saint (d. 1716)
1686 Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758)
1734 Julien-Amable Mathieu, composer
1734 Robert Morris, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
1741 Theodor Gotlieb von Hippel East Prussian author/mayor of Köningsberg
1750 Gerrit J Pijman, Dutch minister of War (1798-1800, 1803-06)
1752 Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (d. 1816)
1759 François Devienne, French composer (d. 1803)
1778 Franz Anton graaf von Kolowrat, Austrian premiere of Bohemia (1848)
1784 Carl Wilhelm Henning, composer
1787 Louis Angely Germany, comedy writer (Sieben Mädchen in Uniform)
1797 Franz Peter Schubert, Austrian composer (Unfinished Symphony) (d. 1828)
1798 Karl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer
1802 Jan C J van Speijk, Dutch naval hero
1804 Jozsef Bajza, Hungarian author/poet/critic
1810 Daniel Ruggles, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1812 John Randolph Tucker, Capt (Confederate Navy), died in 1883
1813 Samuel Sarphati, Amsterdam, physician/pharmacist/social activist
1817 Antony Winkler Prins, Dutch writer (Groiler Encyclopaedia)
1818 William Raine Peck, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1871
1820 William B. Washburn, 28th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1887)
1830 James G Blaine
1830 James Gillespie Blaine, the "Plumed Knight", Representative-R-ME 1863-76/Senator-R-ME 1876-81/Secretary of State 1889-92.
1835 William Charles Lunalilo, Monarch of Hawaii (d. 1874)
1836 Henryk Szulc, composer
1857 George Jackson Churchward, Great Western Railway Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1933)
1863 F Henri Berz, French existensialist philosopher (Revue the Synthesis)
1865 Henri Desgrange, Founder of the Tour-de-France (d. 1940)
1865 Shastriji Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader (d. 1951)
1866 Emil Strauss, Germany, writer (Naked Man)
1866 Henry Forster, cricketer (Oxford blue 1887-89, later Australian Governor-General)
1868 Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel laureate (atomic weights, Nobel-1914) (d. 1928)
1869 Henry graaf Carton de Wiart, Belgian literary/premier (1920-21)
1872 Zane Grey, American Western writer (Riders of the Purple Sage, Spirit of the Border) (d. 1939)
1877 Max Ettlinger, German philosopher
1878 Willem J M van Eysinga, Dutch international law jurist
1881 Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931)
1881 Irving Langmuir, American chemist, Nobel laureate (tungsten filament lamp/Nobel 1932) (d. 1957)
1881 Joseph A Cushman US, palaentologist and foraminiferologist
1882 Anna Pavlova, St Petersburg Russia, ballerina/choreographer
1882 Josephus RH van Schaik, Dutch lawyer/vice-premier
1884 Nicholas Joy, Paris France, actor (Boss Lady)
1884 Theodor Heuss, 1st President of Germany (Bundespräsident) (d. 1963)
1886 Alfonso Lopez Colombia, statesman (President UN security council-1948)
1889 Frank Foster, English cricketer (330 runs & 45 wickets for England) (d. 1958)
1890 Adolf Bach, German language/sociologist (Deutsche Namenkunde)
1891 Max Drischner, composer
1892 Eddie Cantor, American actor and singer (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater) (d. 1964)
1893 Freya Stark, English explorist/author
1894 Isham Jones, American musician (d. 1956)
1894 Percy Helton, NY, actor (Jail Busters, Harbor of Missing Men)
1896 Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 1966)
19-- David Mason Daniels actor (Tyler-Capitol)
1901 Blaz Arnic, composer
1901 Marie Luise Kaschnitz, writer
1902 Alva Myrdal, Swedish politician, Nobel laureate, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize-1982) (d. 1986)
1902 Jean C M Picart le Doux, France, carpet designer
1902 Julian H Steward, US anthropologist/professor
1902 Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (d. 1968)
1903 Gardner Cowles, Iowa, publisher/founder (Look Magazine)
1903 Tallulah Bankhead, Huntsville Ala, actress (Lifeboat, Die Die Darling)
1904 E van Ruller, Dutch journalist/ARP-alderman/co-founder (Trouw)
1904 Léon N H Jungschläger head of military intelligence (Netherlands-Indies)
1905 Anna Blaman, [Johanna P Vrugt], Dutch writer (Wife & Friend)
1905 Charles de Trooz Belgian literary (Le Magister et Ses Maîtres)
1905 John Henry O'Hara Pottsville PA, novelist (Butterfield 8, Pal Joey, Appointment at Samarra)
1905 John O'Hara, American writer (Appointment at Samarra) (d. 1970)
1906 Benjamin Frankel, composer
1906 R W Bonham, founder (International Braille Chess Association)
1908 René Simone Mathieu, France, doubles tennis star (Wimbledon 1934)
1909 Foley Newns, British colonial administrator
1909 Miron Grindea, literary editor
1910 Herbert Ashworth, CEO (Nationwide Building Society)
1911 A G Ogston, president (Trinity College-Oxford)
1911 Christina Foyle, book seller
1911 Eddie Byrne, British actor (d. 1981)
1913 Don Hutson, American football player, NFL end (Packers) (d. 1997)
1913 Hector Iglesias Villoud, composer
1913 Wayne Millner, NFL end (Boston/Washington Redskins)
1914 Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (Skinner-Troubleshooters) (d. 1997)
1914 Jersey Joe Walcott, American boxer, heavyweight boxing champ (1951-52) (d. 1994)
1914 Louis Osman, architect/artist/goldsmith
1914 Sri Daya Mata, Hindu religious figure
1915 Alan Lomax, American musicologist (d. 2002)
1915 Bobby Hackett, Providence RI, trumpeteer/orchestra leader (Air Time '57)
1915 Garry Moore, [Thomas Garrison Morfit], American Comedian (Garry Moore Show, I've Got a Secret) (d. 1993)
1915 John Profumo, president (Toynbee Hall)
1915 Thomas Merton, American author and monk (7 Storey Mt) (d. 1968)
1915 William Crosbie, artist
1916 Ciro D Crown, premier of Dutch Antilles (1968-69)
1916 Frank A Parker, tennis champ (US Open-1944)
1916 Violet Cane, statistician
1917 Erich Geiringer, general practitioner campaigner
1917 Jose Maceda, composer
1919 Jackie Robinson, American baseball player, and the first black player in Major League Baseball (Dodgers) (d. 1972)
1919 Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry. Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.
1920 Patrick Heron, painter
1920 Robert Hersant, press baron
1920 Stewart L Udall, American politician, environmentalist, US Secretary of Interior (1961-69) (d. 2010)
1921 Carol Channing, American actress and singer (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hello Dolly)
1921 E. Fay Jones, American architect (d. 2004)
1921 John Agar, American actor (Fort Apache, Sands of Iwo Jima) (d. 2002)
1921 Mario Lanza, American singer (Great Caruso, Toast of New Orleans) (d. 1959)
1922 Joanne Dru, American actress (d. 1996)
1922 Michael Wilford, diplomat
1922 William Sylvester, Oakland California, actor (2001, Gorgo, Gemini Man)
1923 Eddie Ryder, New York City NY, actor (Slick Jones-General Hospital)
1923 Joanne Dru, Logan WV, actress (Guestwood Ho, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1923 Norman Mailer, American writer and journalist (Naked & the Dead) (d. 2007)
1924 Robert Gatehouse, former High Court judge
1924 Tengiz Abuladze, filmmaker
1925 Benjamin Hooks, American civil rights leader
1925 Charles Aidman, Frankfort Ind, narrator (New Twilight Zone)
1925 Fred Catherwood, MP
1926 Jean Simmons London England, actress (Thorn Birds, Guys & Dolls)
1926 Prunella Briance, founder (National Childbirth Trust)
1926 Tom Alston, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1927 Norm Prescott, American animation producer (d. 2005)
1928 Chuck Willis, American singer and songwriter (C C Rider) (d. 1958)
1928 Eric Ash, rector (Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine)
1928 Richard Buckley, royal equerry
1928 Robert Clatworthy, sculptor
1929 Jean Simmons, English-American actress (Spartacus, Thorn Birds, Guys and Dolls) (d. 2010)
1929 Rudolf Mössbauer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (Nobel 1961)
1930 Joakim Bonnier, Swedish racecar driver (d. 1972)
1930 Lynn Carlin, American actress (Joan Hunter-James at 15)
1931 Bill Watson, cricketer (New South Wales & Australian opening batsman mid-50s)
1931 Christopher Chataway, English athlete (world record 5k), newscaster and politician
1931 Ernie "Mr Cubs" Banks, American baseball player, short stop and 1st baseman (Chicago Cubs), Hall-of-Famer
1931 Jean Burroughs, educationalist
1931 Nicholas Gordon Lennox, diplomat
1932 Pieter Brattinga, Dutch graphic artist
1932 Rick Hall, country/R&B singer
1933 Bernardo Provenzano , Mafia Boss
1933 Camille Henry, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1997)
1933 Joseph D Early, (Representative-D-MA, 1975)
1933 Walter Paulis, mineworker/pilot/Dutch MP (CDA)
1934 Bob Turner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2005)
1934 Brian Bolus, cricketer (England opening batsman early 60's)
1934 James Franciscus, American actor (Mr Novak, Longstreet, Hunter) (d. 1991)
1934 Ron Weatherburn, jazz pianist
1935 Bojidar Dimov, composer
1935 Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese writer, Nobel laureate (The Catch, A Personal Matter)
1936 Marvin Junior, singer (Dells-Oh What a Night)
1937 Andrée Boucher, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1937 Philip Glass, American composer (Einstein on the Beach)
1937 Regimantas Adomaitis, Lithuanian actor
1937 Steve Karmen, Bronx NY, jingle writer (I Love NY, This Bud's for You)
1937 Suzanne Pleshette, American actress (Birds, Emily-Bob Newhart Show) (d. 2008)
1938 Ajip Rosidi, Indonesian poet/writer (Madjalah Sunda, Pesta)
1938 Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard, queen of Netherlands (1980)
1938 James G. Watt, American politician, US Secretary of Interior (1981-83)
1938 Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
1939 Claude Gauthier, Canadian singer and songwriter
1940 Kitch Christie, South African rugby union coach (d. 1998)
1940 Stuart Margolin, Davenport Iowa, actor (Love American Style)
1941 George S Mickelson (Governor-SD)
1941 Jessica Walter, American actress
1941 Jessica Walter, American actress (Arrested Development, Play Misty For Me, Amy Prentiss)
1941 Richard A. Gephardt, American politician (Representative-D-MO, 1977)
1941 Sharon Miller, LPGA golfer
1942 Daniela Bianchi, Italian actress (From Russia with Love)
1942 Derek Jarman, British director and writer (d. 1994) (Angelic Conversation, Edward II)
1942 Gerald Chamberlain, jazz musician
1944 Anton Korteweg, Dutch poet (For the Good Order)
1944 Charlie Musselwhite, American musician (Stand Back, Louisiana Fog)
1944 Eugene Terre Blanche, South African leader of Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging
1944 John Inverarity, cricketer (Australian batsman 1968-72)
1945 Joseph Kosuth, American conceptual artist
1945 Noah Creshevsky, composer
1946 Glynn Turman, American actor (Lew-Peyton Place, Manimal, Centennial)
1946 Jonathan Banks, Washington DC, actor (Armed & Dangerous, Cold Steel)
1946 Subroto Guha, cricketer (right arm swing bowler for India 1967-69)
1946 Terry Kath, American musician (Chicago) (d. 1978)
1947 Elena Nathanael, Greek actress (d. 2008)
1947 Jim Nollman, composer
1947 Jonathan Banks, American actor (Breaking Bad, Beverly Hills Cop)
1947 Nolan Ryan, American baseball player, pitcher (Mets, Angels, Astros) (7 no-hitters, 5,714 Ks)
1948 Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
1949 Carol Hawkins, actress (Dialing for Dingbats)
1949 Johan Derksen, Dutch footballer and sports journalist
1949 Ken Wilber, American philosopher
1950 Alexander Korzhakov, Boris Yeltsin's bodyguard
1951 Dave Benton, Aruban-born singer
1951 Cristine Rose, Actress (What Women Want)
1951 Harry Wayne Casey, American singer and musician (KC and the Sunshine Band)
1951 Phil Collins England, singer/drummer (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1951 Phil Manzanera, English guitarist (Roxy Music, Quiet Sun, 801)
1951 Presiley Baxendale, British QC
1952 Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (d. 1969)
1952 Rosanne Musgrave, headmistress (Blackheath HS)
1953 Aart Mol, Dutch bassist (Catapult)
1954 Adrian Vandenberg, Dutch musician (Whitesnake)
1954 Sheik Faoud Ahamul Bacchus, cricketer (West Indian bat late 70's)
1955 Virginia Ruzici, Romania, tennis star
1956 John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, English singer (Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd.)
1956 Johnny Rotten, [John Lydon], Musician (Sex Pistols-God Save the Queen)
1956 Lloyd Cole, Musician
1956 Trevor A Manuel, South African UDF/ANC-leader
1957 Brett "the Hitman" Hart, Alberta Canada, WWF champion
1957 Shirley F Babashoff, California, swimmer (Olympics-6 silver/2 gold-72, 76)
1958 Rafael Santana, shortstop (New York Mets, New York Yankees)
1958 Tom Schuman, pianist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
1959 Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor (Murder One)
1959 Kelly Lynch, American actress (Drugstore Cowboy, Charlie's Angels)
1959 Kelly Moore, American stock car driver
1960 Elaine Roque, Santa Monica Ca, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1960 Grant Morrison, British comic book author
1961 Lloyd Cole, British singer (& the Commotions-Rattlesnakes)
1962 Sophie Muller, Music video director
1963 John Dye, Amory Mass, actor (Andrew-Touched by an Angel)
1963 Scott Ian Rosenfeld, Bayside NY, Musician (Anthrax-Protest & Survive)
1964 Billey Shamrock, Swedish singer
1964 Jeff Hanneman, American musician (Slayer)
1964 Oto Hascak, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1964 Remi Bouchard, Canadian Tour golfer (1989 India Open)
1964 Sharon Cain, San Antonio TX, team handball center back (Olympics-1996)
1964 Sylvie Bernier, Quebec diver
1965 Adam Johnson, Portland Ore, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1965 Bianca Yasmin Salahshourian, Miss Connecticut-America (1990)
1965 Bobby Dollas, Canadian NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1965 Kim Clarke, Tulsa Oklahoma, team handball back court (Olympics-88, 92, 96)
1965 René Trost, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
1966 Al Jaworsky, [Alan Doughty], pop bassist (Jesus Jones)
1966 Charles Dimry, NFL cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Philadelphia Eagles)
1966 Dexter Fletcher, English actor (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels)
1966 Dr Umar Alisha, A Sufi Master was Born at Pithapuram.
1966 Jamie Taras, CFL guard (British Columbia Lions)
1967 Chad Channing, American musician
1967 Fat Mike, American musician
1967 Irene Wan, Hong Kong actress
1967 Joey Wong, Taiwanese actress
1968 Doug Pederson, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl XXXI)
1968 Matt King, British actor and comedian
1968 Michael Sinclair, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 Patrick Stevens, Belgian athlete
1968 Steve Phoenix, US baseball pitcher (Oakland Athletics)
1969 Mathew Pallister, Sydney New South Wales Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 Danny Michel, Canadian Musician
1970 Greg Skrepenak, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders, Carolina Panthers)
1970 Minnie Driver, Actress (Good Will Hunting)
1970 Rachel Jean Marteen, Atlanta GA, playmate (August 1995)
1970 Travis Hannah, NFL/WLAF receiver (Houston Oilers, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Brandi Sherwood, Miss Idaho-USA (1997, 2nd, succeeded Brook Lee)
1971 Corey Holliday, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1971 Dimitris Markos, Greek footballer
1971 Lee Young Ae, South Korean actress
1971 Minnie Driver, British actress (Good Will Hunting)
1971 Patricia Velásquez, Venezuelan actress and model (The Mummy Returns)
1971 Patrick Kielty, Northern Irish comedian
1972 Ben Cavil, guard (Baltimore Ravens)
1972 Fritz Fequiere, WLAF guard (Barcelona Dragons, London Monarchs)
1972 Marvin Coleman, CFL defensive back (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 Pulu Poumele, guard (San Diego Chargers)
1972 Reinier Robbemond, Dutch soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
1973 Latario Rachal, WLAF/NFL receiver (Amsterdam Admirals, San Diego Chargers)
1973 Portia de Rossi, Australian actress
1974 Anna Silk, Actress (It's a Fae, Fae, Fae, Fae World)
1974 Ariel Pestano, Cuban baseball player
1974 Bob Mulder, soccer player (Appingedam, FC Groningen)
1974 Lorenzo Styles, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 Othella Harrington, American basketball player, NBA forward (Houston Rockets)
1974 Pavi Sald, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Olympics-98)
1974 Tory Toogood, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Wil Anderson, Australian comedian
1975 Fred Coleman, former National Football League wide receiver
1975 Jackie O, Australian radio host
1975 Kenard Lang, defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1975 Preity Zinta, Indian actress
1976 Buddy Rice, American race car driver
1976 Paul Scheer, American Comedian, Actor (The League, Human Giant, NTSF:SD:SUV)
1976 Traianos Dellas, Greek footballer
1976 Tyrone Nesby, American basketball player
1977 Bobby Moynihan, American comedian (Saturday Night Live)
1977 Jim Kleinsasser, National Football League tight end
1977 Kate Shindle, American actress
1977 Kerry Washington, American actress (Django Unchained)
1977 Mark Dutiaume, National Hockey League player
1977 Naomi Darrell, Miss Bermuda Universe (1997)
1977 Portia de Rossi, American actress (Arrested Development, Better off Ted)
1977 Shingo Katori, Japanese actor and singer (SMAP)
1978 Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington, English heir of the Dukedom of Wellington
1978 Brad Rutter, Jeopardy! champion
1978 Bobby Moynihan, American actor (Saturday Night Live, Monsters University)
1978 Fabián Caballero, Argentine footballer
1978 Ray Shah, Irish DJ, TV, radio presenter
1979 Daniel Tammet, British autistic savant
1980 James Adomian, American actor
1980 Ryan Kienle, American musician
1980 Tiffany Limos, American actress
1981 Amrita Arora, Indian actress
1981 Julio Arca, Argentinian football player
1981 Justin Timberlake, American singer-songwriter (Sexyback, My Love)
1981 Sergio D. Acosta, Chicano Filmmaker
1982 Allan McGregor, Scottish football player
1982 Andreas Görlitz, German football player
1982 Brad Thompson, Major League Baseball player
1982 Bruno Nogueira, Portuguese actor, comedian and TV host
1982 Elena Paparizou, Greek singer
1982 Janis Sprukts, National Hockey League player
1982 Yuniesky Betancourt, Major League Baseball shortstop
1983 James Sutton, British television actor
1983 Tom Vangeneugden, Belgian swimmer
1984 Jeremy Wariner, American 400m runner
1984 Vernon Davis, NFL player
1985 Adam Federici, Australian footballer
1985 Andrew Giuliani son of Rudy (Mayor-R-NYC, 1994-2002)
1985 Kalomoira, Greek singer
1985 Mario Williams, NFL player
1986 Yves Makabu-Makalambay, Belgian football goalkeeper
1990 Kota Yabu, Japanese actor and singer
1994 Joel Bygg, Swedish Football player and guitarist
1996 Joel Courtney, Actor (Super 8)
Died on January 31st
743 Muhammad al-Baqir, Shia Imam (b. 676)
1398 Emperor Suko (b. 1334)
1435 Xuande, Emperor of China (b. 1398)
1561 Bairam Khan, Great Mughal General, regent for Akbar
1561 Menno Simons, Dutch Mennonite leader (Foundation Book) (b. 1496)
1580 Hendrik, Portuguese cardinal/epilepticus/regent (1578-80), dies
1580 Henry of Portugal (b. 1512)
1606 Ambrose Rokewood Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. c.1578)
1606 Guy Fawkes, convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot", executed (b. 1570)
1606 Thomas Wintour Gunpowder Plot conspirators (b. 1571)
1615 Claudio Aquaviva, Italian Jesuit (b. 1543)
1632 Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552)
1665 Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (b. 1622)
1686 Jean Mairet, French dramatist (b. 1604)
1720 Thomas Grey, 2nd Earl of Stamford, English privy councillor (b. c. 1654)
1729 Jakob Roggeveen, Dutch explorer (b. 1659)
1736 Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (b. 1678)
1788 Charles Edward Stuart, the exiled Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland (b. 1720)
1788 Francesco Zannetti, composer, dies at 50
1788 [Bonnie Prince] Charles E Stuart, English pretender, dies at 67
1790 Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler (b. 1718)
1794 Marriott Arbuthnot, British admiral (b. 1711)
1815 José Félix Ribas, Venezuelan independentist leader (b. 1775)
1828 Alexander Ypsilantis, Phanariot Greek military commander and national hero of the Greek War of Independence (b. 1792)
1836 John Cheyne (physician), British physician, surgeon and author (b. 1777)
1844 Henri Gratien, Comte Bertrand, French general (b. 1773)
1861 Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman, dies at 53
1864 Hamilton Rowan Gamble, US judge/governor of Missouri (1861-64), dies
1888 John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
1891 Ernest Meissonier, French painter/etcher/sculptor, dies at 75
1892 Charles Spurgeon, English preacher and evangelist (b. 1834)
1907 Timothy Eaton, Canadian department store founder (b. 1834)
1919 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Estimate), dies at 79
1922 Heinrich Reinhardt, composer, dies at 56
1923 Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (b. 1869)
1933 John Galsworthy, English writer, Nobel laureate (Forsythe, Nobel 1932) (b. 1867)
1939 George Thornton, cricketer (1 Test for South Africa 1902, 1* & 1-20), dies
1940 René "Sascha" Schickele, German writer (Erbe am Rhein), dies at 56
1942 Henry Larkin, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1942 Rolf Wenkhaus, German actor (b. 1917)
1944 Jean Giraudoux, French writer (b. 1882)
1945 Eddie Slovik, American soldier, 1st US executed for desertion since Civil War (b. 1920)
1949 Henri de Vries, [Hendricus Walterop], actor (Cleopatra), dies at 84
1954 Edwin Howard Armstrong, American electrical engineer and inventor of the FM radio, suicide (b. 1890)
1954 Florence Bates, actress (Kismet, I Remember Mama), dies at 65
1955 John R Mott, American YMCA leader, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Nobel 1946) (b. 1865)
1956 A. A. Milne, English author (b. 1882)
1960 Lowell Gilmore, actor (Calcutta, Roadblock), dies at 53
1966 Elizabeth Patterson, actress (Tall Story), dies at 90
1966 General Arthur Ernest Percival, British Army Officer (b. 1887)
1967 Chief Thundercloud, actor (Ambush, Colt 45, Typhoon), dies at 100
1967 Eddie Tolan, American athlete (b. 1908)
1967 Otto Dibelius, German theologian/bishop, dies at 86
1969 Alexander Mikhaylovich Dzegelyonok, composer, dies at 77
1969 Meher Baba, Indian guru (b. 1894)
1970 Slim Harpo, [James Moore], American singer (b. 1924)
1971 Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky, Russian literary historian, linguist (b. 1891)
1972 Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, king of Nepal (1955-72), dies at 51
1972 Howard Barlow, conductor (Voice of Firestone), dies at 79
1972 Istvan Szelenyi, composer, dies at 67
1973 Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist (Nobel 1969) (b. 1895)
1974 Glenn Morris, olympian/actor (Tarzan's Revenge), dies at 61
1974 Harry Baum, actor (Crime & Punishment), dies at 58
1974 Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter (Flandre), dies at 72
1974 Roger Pryor, actor (Lady by Choice), dies at 72
1974 Samuel Goldwyn, Polish-born film studio executive (MGM) (b. 1882)
1976 Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (b. 1941)
1980 J P Duminy, cricket (30 runs at 5 & 1 wicket at 39 in 3 Test South Africa), dies
1981 Cozy Cole, American jazz drummer (b. 1909)
1987 Yves Allégret French director (Such a lovely tiny beach) (b. 1907)
1989 Jack Douglas, humorist (My Brother Was an Only Child)
1989 William Stephenson, Canadian spymaster (b. 1896)
1989 Yasushi Akutagawa, composer
1990 Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
1992 Mel Hein, NFL center (New York Giants)
1992 Wim van Heumen, field hockey coach (Netherlands)
1994 Pierre Boulle, French writer (Executioner)
1995 George Abbott, American stage director and producer (Damn Yankees) (b. 1887)
1995 James Johnson, English MP (Labour, 1950..83)
1996 Gustave Solomon, mathematician
1997 Eve Lister, actress/singer (No Limit, Hyde Park)
1997 John Joseph Scanlan, Irish Catholic prelate (b. 1930)
1999 Baris Manço, Turkish singer, composer, television producer and celebrity. (b. 1943)
1999 Norm Zauchin, American baseball player (b. 1929)
1999 Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2000 Gil Kane, Latvian-born comic book writer (b. 1926)
2001 Gordon R. Dickson, Canadian writer (b. 1923)
2002 Francis Gabreski, American fighter pilot (b. 1919)
2004 Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (b. 1913)
2006 Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (The Red Shoes) and ballerina (b. 1926)
2007 Adelaide Tambo, South African activist and wife of Oliver Tambo (b. 1929)
2007 Kirka Babitzin, Finnish singer (b. 1950)
2007 Lee Bergere, American actor (b. 1924)
2007 Molly Ivins, American political columnist and author (b. 1944)
2008 Zeltim Odie Peterson, famous pug dog (b. 1997)
2009 Nagesh, Indian comedian actor in Kollywood (b. 1933)
2012 Anthony Bevilacqua, American cardinal
2012 Dorothea Tanning, American artist
2012 Tristram Coffin, American folklorist
2012 Mike Kelley, American artist, commits suicide
2013 Timir Pinegin, Societ sailor
2014 Christopher Jones, American actor
2015 Lizabeth Scott (Emma Matzo), American actress (Desert Fury)
2015 Don Covay (Donald Randolph), American R & B musician and songwriter (Chain of Fools)
2015 Richard von Weizsacker, German politician and 1st president of reunited Germany (1990-94)
2016 Terry Wogan, British broadcaster (Eurovision Song Contest, Blankety Blank)
