February 4th
Holidays and Celebrations
Independence Day (Sri Lanka) 1948
Rosa Parks Day * (See Below)
World Cancer Day
USO Day a.k.a. Birthday of the USO
Pisco Sour Day (Peru) * (see Drink of The Day)
Winterlude (Canada)
National Girls & Women in Sports Day (USA)
Biezputras Diena -observed (Ancient Latvia)
George Washington Election Day * (See Below)
Anniversary of the Outbreak of Armed Struggle against Portuguese Colonialism (Angola)
Winterlude (Canada)
Create a Vacuum Day
Liberace Day a.k.a. Birthday of Liberace, American musician (1987 - b. 1919)
Thank a Mailman Day
Homemade Soup Day
Carl Rogers Day, Birthday of the American psychologist (1987 - b. 1902)
National Stuffed Mushroom Day
Charles Lindbergh's Birthday, American pilot (1902 - d. 1974)
Alice Cooper's Birthday, American musician (1948)
International Dada month as 4 February, 28 March, 1 April, 15 July, 2 August, 7 August, 16 August, 26 August, 18 September, 22 September, 1 October, 17 October, and 26 October. Highberger and Cypress Frankenfeld selected the dates by first rolling dice to determine the number of days, then pulling numbers corresponding to every day in the year (1-365) from a colorful top hat.
Christian Feast Day of Andrew Corsini
Christian Feast Day of Gilbert of Sempringham Saint Gilbert (d. 1189)
Christian Feast Day of Saint John de Brito
Christian Feast Day of Rimbert
Christian Feast Day of Veronica
Christian Feast Day of Saint Rembert of Torhout
* Rosa Parks Day , Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist (1913 - d. 2005)
* George Washington Election Day - Washington is unanimously elected to be the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College (1789)
Toast of The Day
"Success to the lover,
honor to the brave,
Health to the sick,
and freedom to the slave."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Pisco Sour
2 fl oz (8 parts) Pisco
1 fl oz (4 parts) Lime juice
3/4 fl oz (3 part) Simple syrup
1 Egg white
1 dash Bitters
- The bitters are an aromatic garnish topping the finished drink, put on top of pisco sour foam.
Shake hard or blend with ice and strain into an Old Fashioned Glass and Serve
- In Honor of National Pisco Sour Day (Peru). Since 2003, Peru has a National Pisco Sour Day which is celebrated on the first weekend of February.
Wine of The Day
Heitz 2009 Grignolino Rosé
Style - Rosé
Napa Valley
$20
Beer of The Day
Aecht Schlenkerla Helles Lagerbier
Brewer - Brauerei Heller-Trum / Schlenkerla, Germany
Style: Munich Helles Lager
ABV 4.3%
Flavor: Aged smokey flavor, a Morning, Bright beer.
Joke of The Day
A man and his wife are dining at a table in a plush Restaurant
and the husband keeps staring at a drunken lady swigging her
gin as she sits alone at a nearby table.
The wife asks, do you know her?"
"Yes," sighs the husband, "She's my ex-wife. She took to
drinking right after we divorced 7 years ago, and I hear she
hasn't been sober since."
"My God!" said the wife. "Who would think a person could go
on celebrating that long?"
Quote of the Day
"(I recommend) bread, meat, vegetables and beer."
-Sophocles' (philosophy of a moderate diet).
February Observances
AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month
Aggressive Driving Month
American Heart Month
National Heart Healthy Month
American History Month
An Affair to Remember Month
Avocado and Banana Month
Bake for Family Fun Month
Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month
Berry Fresh Month
Black History Month
Burn Awareness Month
Canned Food Month
Celebration of Chocolate Month
Creative Romance Month
Dog Training Education Month
Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month
Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
From Africa to Virginia Month
National Get To Know An Independent Real Estate Broker Month
Grapefruit Month
Great American Pie Month a.k.a American Pie Month
International Boost Self-Esteem Month
International Expect Success Month
International Friendship Month
International Hoof-care Month
Jobs in Golf Month
Library Lovers' Month
Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
Marijuana Awareness Month
National African American History Month
National Bird Feeding Month
National Black History Month
National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
National Cherry Month
National Children's Dental Health Month
National Condom Month
National Embroidery Month
National Fiber Focus Month
National Grapefruit Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Laugh-Friendly Month
National Mend A Broken Heart Month
National Parent Leadership Month
National Pet Dental Health Month
National Snack Food Month
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
National Therapeutic Recreation Month
National Time Management Month
National Weddings Month
National Wild Bird Feeding Month
Parent Leadership Month, Natl
Plant The Seeds Of Greatness Month
Potato Lover’s Month
Pull Your Sofa Off The Wall Month
Relationship Wellness Month
Responsible Pet Owner's Month
Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
Senior Independence Month
Spay/Neuter Awareness Month
Spiritual Teachers Month
Spunky Old Broads Month
Sweet Potato Month
Truck Month (GM)
Wise Health Care Consumer Month
Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month
Youth Leadership Month
Observances this Week
Women's Heart Health Week, First Week in February
Women's Heart Week, First Week of February
National Patient Recognition Week, First Week in February
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend, First Week of February
National Green Week, First week in February (For some it lasts until the end of april)
Shape Up With Pickles Time, First Week of February
Boy Scout Anniversary Week, First Full Week of February
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week, First Full Week of February
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week, First Full Week of February
International Coaching Week, First Full Week of February
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week, First Full Week of February
Publicity for Profit Week, First Full Week of February
International Networking Week, First Work Week of February
National School Counseling Week, First Work Week of February
Intimate Apparel Week, (February 4th-8th, May 6th-10th, August 5th-9th, November 4th-8th)
Historical Events on February 4th
211 Roman Emperor Septimius Severus dies, leaving the Roman Empire in the hands of his two quarrelsome sons, Caracalla and Geta.
708 Sisinnius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
960 The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song Dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries.
1194 Richard I Lion Hearted pays Leopold O Fenrik VI's ransom of 100,000
1441 Pope Eugene IV published the encyclical "Cantante domino." It asserted that the biblical canon of the Roman Catholic Church contains both the 66 protocanonical books (i.e., the complete Protestant Bible) and 12 deuterocanonical (aka "apocryphal") books 78 writings in all.
1454 In the Thirteen Years' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.
1508 Maximilian I assumes imperial title without being crowned
1586 Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, becomes governor of Netherlands
1600 Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
1620 Prince Bethlen Gábor signs peace with emperor Ferdinand II
1657 Oliver Cromwell grants residency to Luis Caravajal
1697 3 VOC-ships anchor at Dirk-Hartogeiland, Australia
1699 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow
1703 In Edo (now Tokyo), 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
1782 British garrison surrenders to French & Spanish fleet
1783 Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
1784 1st unmanned balloon flight in Ireland
1787 1st Anglican bishops of New York & Pennsylvania consecrated in London
1787 Shays' Rebellion (of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers) fails
1789 1st electoral college chooses Washington & Adams as President & Vice President
1789 George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
1794 At the French National Convention, The French legislature abolishes slavery throughout all territories of the French Republic.
1797 Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000
1801 John Marshall is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States.
1803 William Dunlap, adapts French melodrama "Voice of Nature"
1810 The Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized in Tennessee as an outgrowth of the Great Revival of 1800. Standing between Calvinism and Arminianism, the denomination holds a "medium theology" which affirms unlimited atonement, universal grace, conditional election, eternal security of the believer and salvation of all children dying in infancy.
1810 The Royal Navy seizes Guadeloupe.
1820 The Chilean Navy under the command of Lord Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald completes the 2 day long Capture of Valdivia with just 300 men and 2 ships.
1822 Free American Blacks settle Liberia, West Africa
1824 J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public
1825 The Ohio Legislature authorizes the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal and the Miami and Erie Canal.
1846 Mormons leave Nauvoo MO for settlement in the west
1847 1st US telegraph company established in Maryland
1849 University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
1854 Alvan Bovay proposes the name "Republican Party", Ripon WI
1855 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela
1859 The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.
1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time In Montgomery, Alabama delegates from six break-away U.S. states meet and form the Confederate States of America. Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi & South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy
1864 Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi
1865 Hawaiian Board of Education formed
1865 Robert E Lee is named commander-in-chief of Confederate Army
1866 Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible
1873 Birth of George Bennard, American Methodist evangelist. He penned over 300 Gospel songs during his lifetime, but is primarily remembered today for one "The Old Rugged Cross."
1874 English poet and devotional writer Frances Ridley Havergal, 37, penned the words to the popular hymn of commitment, "Take My Life and Let It Be [Consecrated, Lord, to Thee]."
1875 Princess Louise marries Prince Philip von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha in Belgium
1880 Steele MacKay's "Hazel Kirke" premieres in New York NY
1887 Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
1895 1st rolling lift bridge opens, Chicago
1899 Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
1899 The Philippine-American War begins.
1903 Stanley Cup Montréal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1 & 1 tie
1904 John Millington Synges "Well of Saints," premieres in Dublin
1913 Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim
1913 National Institute of Arts & Letters founded
1914 US Congress approves Burnett-anti-immigration law
1915 Experiments to find cause of pellagra begin at Mississippi Penitentiary
1917 Belgium Council of Flanders established
1919 City of Bremen's Soviet Republic overthrown
1920 1st flight from London to South Africa takes-off (lasts 1½ months)
1922 WGY-AM in Schenectady NY begins radio transmissions
1924 1st Winter Olympics games close at Chamonix France
1924 George Kelly's "Show-Off" premieres in New York NY
1926 Austrian chancellor Seipel wants to join Germany
1927 KGA-AM in Spokane WA begins radio transmissions
1929 Archie Jackson scores 164 on Test Cricket debut vs England at Adelaide
1930 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans
1931 National League adopts a deader baseball
1932 3rd Winter Olympics games open in Lake Placid NY
1932 Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria, World War II
1933 Crew of Dutch "7 Provinces" mutiny after pay cuts
1933 German President Von Hindenburg limits freedom of the press
1936 Radium becomes the first radioactive element to be made synthetically (radium E).
1937 Jim Margie, Philadelphia PA, bowls 900 in 3 (unsanctioned) games
1938 "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
1938 Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
1939 Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-minute mile beyond human effort
1941 British tanks occupy Maus Libya
1941 Former Dutch premier De Geer flies to Berlin
1941 The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
1942 Clinton Pierce becomes 1st US general wounded in action in WW II
1943 Bertolt Brecht's "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan," premieres in Zurich
1944 Jean Anouilh's "Antigone," premieres in Paris
1944 US 7th Infantry Division captures Kwajalein
1945 World War II The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
1946 Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday" premieres in New York NY
1948 Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
1948 Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) declares independence from UK
1949 Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia
1950 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot resolved in his journal 'I may no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather respond to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.'
1951 US female Figure Skating championship won by Sonya Klopfer
1951 US male Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1952 1st black executive of a major TV station (Jackie Robinson-WNBC New York)
1956 AL plans to test automatic intentional walk during spring training
1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
1958 "Oh, Captain!" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 192 performances
1958 Hall of Fame fails to elect anyone for 1st time since 1950
1959 Israel begins exporting copper ore
1960 BBWAA voters fail to elect a new Hall of Fame member
1960 Giants move their offices to Candlestick Park
1960 Lionel Bart's musical "Fings ain't wot they used t'be," premieres
1961 Sputnik 7 launches into Earth orbit; probable Venus probe failure
1962 "Gay Life" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 113 performances
1962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1962 US female Figure Skating championship won by Barbara Roles
1962 US male Figure Skating championship won by Monty Hoyt
1964 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax
1964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City OK
1965 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 jet from Haneda Airport (Japan) plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
1967 "Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby
1967 Lunar Orbiter program Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
1968 Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball
1969 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cincinnati-Detroit, San Diego-Boston
1969 Beatles appoint Eastman & Eastman, as general counsel to Apple
1969 John Madden is named head coach of the NFL's Oakland Raiders
1969 Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men" premieres in New York NY
1969 Yasser Arafat takes over as chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1970 "Charles Aznavour" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 23 performances
1970 "Gantry" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 1 performance
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1971 Apollo 14 lander Antares lands on Moon (Shepard & Mitchell)
1971 Baseball announces a special hall of fame wing for African Americans
1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt
1971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil
1971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC
1972 6th round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks ends in Vienna Austria
1972 Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported
1973 "No, No Nanette" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 861 performances
1973 Islanders & Sabres had a penalty free game
1973 Manfred Kokot runs world record 50 meter indoor (5.61 seconds)
1973 Reshef, Israel's missile boat, unveiled
1974 Benzine rationing ends in Netherlands
1974 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months
1974 Gas rationing ends in Netherlands
1974 Patricia Hearst (19), daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
1974 The Symbionese Liberation Army kidnaps Patty Hearst in Berkeley, California.
1975 Haicheng earthquake (magnitude 7.3 on the Richter scale) occurs in Haicheng, Liaoning, China.
1976 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras
1976 12th Winter Olympics games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
1976 In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
1976 Judge Oliver upholds Seitz's decision on Andy Messersmith free agency
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 30th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 4-3 at Vancouver
1977 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt)
1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released
1977 Wings release "Maybe I'm Amazed"
1979 "Co-Ed Fever", TV Comedy, debut & cancelled that outing on CBS
1979 End of last 3+day D/N game for 15 years (WSC, SCG)
1979 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Colgate Triple Crown Golf Tournament
1980 Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini names Abolhassan Banisadr as president of Iran.
1980 Bani Sadr sworn in as premier of Iran
1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Whirlpool Golf Championship of Deer Creek
1982 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47 meters) Tacoma WA
1982 Musical "Pump Boys & Dinettes" premieres at Princess Theater NYC for 573 performances
1982 Suriname premier Chin A Sen flees
1983 Jose Happart becomes mayor of Voeren Belgium
1983 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1984 "9" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 739 performances
1984 "Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
1984 Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168 meters) Las Vegas
1985 20 countries (but not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture
1985 Naval exercises canceled when US refuses to tell New Zealand of nuclear weapons
1986 38th NHL All-Star Game Wales beat Campbell 4-3 (OT) at Hartford
1986 Israeli fighters intercept Libyan liner (passenger plane)
1987 President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress
1987 Sacramento Kings score only 4 points 1st quarter against the Lakers; fewest in a period since introduction of 24 second shot-clock in 1954
1987 Stars & Stripes beats Australia's Kookaburra 3, sweeps America's Cup
1988 Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega indicted on drug charges
1989 Dean Jones scores 216 vs West Indies at the Adelaide Oval
1990 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
1990 Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 meter freestyle (3 minutes 40.81 seconds)
1990 Danny Everett runs world record 400 meter indoor (45:04)
1990 Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60 meter hurdles indoor (7.69)
1990 NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 27-21
1990 Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
1990 Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)
1990 St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
1991 Hall of Fame's board of directors vote 12-0 to bar Pete Rose
1991 Martin Crowe & Andrew Jones make 467 stand vs SL, world record
1991 US postage raises from 25 cents to 29 cents
1992 A Coup d'état is led by Hugo Chávez Frías, against Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez.
1993 Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA
1993 Marge Schott suspended from baseball for 1 year due to racism
1993 Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror
1994 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards Days of Our Lives wins
1994 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan
1994 Merlene Ottey runs world record 50 meter indoor (6.00 seconds)
1994 Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 meter indoor (8:18.71)
1995 Dean Jones completes 324* for Victoria v South Australia
1995 Sandra Völker swims female European record 50 meter backstroke (27.77)
1995 Zimbabwe's 1st Test Cricket victory, over Pakistan by an inning
1996 Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at -26°F (-32.2°C)
1996 NFL Pro Bowl NFC beats AFC 20-13
1997 After at first contesting the results, Serbian President Slobodan Milošević recognizes opposition victories in the November 1996 elections.
1997 En route to Lebanon, two Israeli Sikorsky CH-53 troop-transport helicopters collide in mid-air over northern Galilee, Israel killing 73.
1997 Mario LeMieux is 7th NHL player to score 600 goals
1997 OJ Simpson found liable in murders of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson
1997 Secretary of State Margaret Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
1998 An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000.
1998 Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels Belgium
1999 The New Carissa runs aground near Coos Bay, Oregon.
1999 Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
2000 German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
2003 The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed to Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution.
2004 Facebook, a mainstream online social network is founded by Mark Zuckerberg.
2006 A stampede occurs in the ULTRA Stadium near Manila killing 71.
2008 The London Low Emission Zone (LEZ) scheme begins to operate in the UK
2012 Tens of thousands of people are stranded by floods in the Australian states of New South Wales and Queensland
2013 8 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus collides with two vehicles and flips in Yucaipa, California
2013 20 people are killed after an apartment building was struck by a rocket in Aleppo, Syria
2013 22 people are killed and 24 are injured after a bus and a truck collide in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
2013 22 people are killed and 44 are injured after a suicide bombing in Taji, Iraq
2013 Europol announces it will investigate over 680 football matches alleged to involve match fixing
2014 10 people are killed & 35 injured after a bus falls into a ravine in Pune, India
2014 Same-sex marriage is legalized in Scotland
2014 Satya Nadella succeeds Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft
2016 Morocco's Mohammed VI switches on world's largest solar plant near Ouarzazate. Planned to power 1 million homes when fully completed 2018
2016 Fifth Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast on MSNBC, held in Durham, New Hampshire
Born on February 4th
1465 French van Brederode, leader of Hoeksen
1524 Luis de Camões, Portugal's greatest poet. (d. 1580)
1549 Eustache du Caurroy, composer
1575 Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (d. 1629)
1581 Daniel Selich, composer
1620 Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman (d. 1667)
1646 Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz, German statesman and poet (d. 1699)
1677 Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)
1688 Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (Marianne) (d. 1763)
1693 George Lillo, bourgeois English dramatist (The London Merchant)
1698 Heinrich A Fouqué Prussian General
1725 Dru Drury, English entomologist (d. 1804)
1746 Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish, Belarusian-Lithuanian, and American national hero (New York Bridge) (d. 1817)
1751 Blas de Laserna, composer
1758 Pierre-Gabriel Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer
1764 Carel H Verhuell, Dutch/French vice-admiral/minister of Navy
1767 Johann Franz Volkert, composer
1768 Maurits C van Hall, Dutch ruler of Heicop & Boeicop, lawyer/politician
1769 Samuel I Wiselius, Dutch lawyer/businessman/writer
1778 Augustin P de Candolle, Swiss botanist (Théorie élémentaire) (d. 1841)
1799 Almeida Garrett, Portuguese writer (d. 1854)
1799 Joao Batista da Silva Leitao de Almeida Garret, Portuguese playwright
1802 Mark Hopkins, US, educator/philosopher (Williams College)
1805 Georg Andreas Henkel, composer
1805 William H Ainsworth, English writer (Old St Paul's, Rookwood)
1808 Josef Kajetán Tyl, Czech playwright, author of the Czech national anthem (d. 1856)
1819 Joshua Norton, San Francisco CA, Norton I, emperor of USA
1820 Bozena Nemcová [Barnora Panklová], Czechoslovakian author (Babicka)
1826 Halbert Eleazer Paine, Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1831 Oliver Ames, 35th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1895)
1841 Clément Ader French inventor (1st to fly a heavier-than-air craft) (d. 1926)
1842 Georg Brandes, (Morris Cohen), Danish literary-historian/critic
1842 Vasili O Klyutshevski, Russian historian
1846 Nikolay Umov, Russian physicist (d. 1915)
1848 Jean Aicard (François-Victor-Jean Aicard), French poet (Jeune Croyances) (d. 1921)
1849 Jean Richepin , French poet (Les Chansons de Gueux) (d. 1926)
1859 Timofei Mikhailov, Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya (d. 1881)
1865 Charles Bally, Swiss linguist (Le langage et la vie)
1868 Constance Gore-booth Markiewicy, Irish patriot/playwright/MP
1871 Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st Reichspräsident of the Weimar Republic (d. 1925)
1872 Gotse Delchev, a great Macedonian revolutionary, (d. 1903)
1873 Étienne Desmarteau, Canadian athlete (d. 1905)
1874 Robert Liefmann German economist (Unternehmersverbände)
1875 Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist (father of aerodynamics) (d. 1953)
1875 Raymond Moulaert, composer
1876 Victor Jean Leonard Vreuls, composer
1877 Eddie Cochems, Father of the Forward Pass in American football (d. 1953)
1881 Fernand Léger, French painter (The City) (d. 1955)
1881 Kliment J Woroshilov, marshal/president USSR (1953-60)
1881 Kliment J Woroshilov Marshal/President USSR (1953-60)
1884 Julius Callewaert, Flemish dominican/bringing up children
1884 Rolland Beaumont, cricketer (South African batsman in 5 tests 1912-14)
1885 Cairine Ray Wilson, Montreal, 1st female Canadian senator (appointed)
1888 Paul Althaus, German theologist (The Christian Truth)
1889 Walter Catlett, San Francisco CA, actor (Front Page, Tale of 2 Cities)
1891 Madabhushi Ananthasayanam Ayyangar, Speaker of Lok Sabha (d. 1978)
1891 Yuri Losmann, Estonia, marathon runner (Olympics-silver 1920)
1892 Andreu Nin, Catalan politician (d. 1937)
1892 E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet (d. 1964)
1892 Ugo Betti, Italian playwright
1892 Yrlö Henrik Kilpinen Finnish composer
1893 Bernard Rogers, New York NY, composer (Warrior, Marriage of Aude, Passion)
1893 Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus)
1895 Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Erflaters)
1895 Hanns [Johann] Rauter, German SS-Lieutenant-General/SS police chief in Netherlands
1895 Nigel Bruce, English actor (d. 1953)
1896 Friedrich Glauser, German-language Swiss writer (d. 1938)
1896 Friedrich Hund, German physicist (d. 1997)
1897 Ludwig Erhard, 2nd Bundeskanzler of Germany (CDU) (d. 1977)
19-- Stephanie Williams actress (Young & Restless, Simone-General Hospital)
1900 Jacques Prévert, French poet and lyricist (Paroles) (d. 1977)
1902 Charles Lindbergh, American pilot (1st fly solo across Atlantic) (d. 1974)
1902 Hartley Shawcross, British lawyer and politician (d. 2003)
1903 Alexander Oppenheim, mathematician
1903 Berend van den Amstel, [Bernard CED Hattink], actor (Beatrice)
1903 Edwin Denby, Tientsin China, US dance critic/poet (Snoring in N)
1903 Frank Howley, Hampton NY, Brigadier General (Answers for Americans)
1903 Siro Cisilino, composer
1904 Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch politician (SDAP)/resistance fighter
1904 MacKinlay Kantor, American writer (Andersonville) (d. 1977)
1904 Predrag Milosevic, composer
1905 Eddie Foy Jr, New Rochelle NY, actor (Eddie-Fair Exchange)
1905 Hylda Baker, English comedy actress (d. 1986)
1906 Clyde William Tombaugh, American astronomer (discovered Pluto) (d. 1997)
1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist (Confessing Church) (d. 1945)
1906 Primo Carnera, Italian boxer (champion-1933)
1908 Emmanuel "Manny" Klein, trumpeter
1908 Gordon Fraser, Lawrence Mass, newscaster (All Star News)
1908 Julian Bell, British poet (d. 1937)
1909 Kenneth W Howell, English Anglican bishop (Chile/Bolivia/Peru)
1909 Robert Coote, London, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe)
1910 Alfred Mendelsohn, composer
1910 Uys Krige, South African playwright/novelist (Orphan of the Desert)
1912 Byron Nelson, American golfer, PGA (won 19 tournaments in 1945) (d. 2006)
1912 Erich Leinsdorf, Austrian conductor (d. 1993)
1912 James Craig, Nashville TN, actor (Devil & Daniel Webster, Cyclops)
1912 Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, archbishop of Quebec (d. 2006)
1912 Ola Skjåk Bræk, Norwegian politician (d. 1999)
1913 Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (bus protestor) (d. 2005)
1913 Woody Hayes [Wayne], college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of year)
1914 Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head) (d. 1980)
1914 Ida Lupino, London England, actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Jennifer)
1915 Norman Wisdom, English actor and comedian
1915 Ray Evans, American songwriter with Jay Livingston (d. 2007)
1915 William Talman, American actor (Crashout, Hamilton-Perry Mason) (d. 1968)
1916 Basil Hembry, farmer/campaigner
1916 Colin Morris, playwright/documentary filmmaker
1916 David Vassall Cox, composer
1916 Gavin Buchanan Ewart, English poet (Pleasures of the Flesh)
1916 Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi Order (d. 1980)
1917 Aga Yahya Khan, Pakistan military/politician
1917 Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan (d. 1980)
1918 Ida Lupino, English film actress and director (Jennifer) (d. 1995)
1918 Janet Waldo, American actress
1918 Luigi Pareyson, Italian philosopher (d. 1991)
1918 Norman Wisdom, London England, comedian (Kraft Music Hall)
1918 Porky Chedwick, American radio personality
1919 Frank van Klingeren, Dutch architect (De Meerpaal, Dronten)
1920 Derek Worlock, English Roman Catholic archbishop (Liverpool)
1920 John Hartford Worlock, Roman Catholic Bishop of Liverpool
1921 Betty Friedan, American feminist (Feminine Mystique) (d. 2006)
1921 Lotfi Asker Zadeh, American-Iranian/Russian mathematician and computer scientist and the father of fuzzy logic
1922 Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Indian Classical Singer
1923 Conrad Bain, Canadian-born actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes)
1925 Gerald Sim, English actor
1925 Russell Hoban, American children's book author (Riddley Walker/Pilgermann)
1926 John Edward Caulwell Hearne, writer
1928 Dave Ketchum, Quincy Ill, actor (Agent 13-Get Smart)
1929 Eduard Zimmermann, German journalist, TV presenter and security expert (d. 2009)
1929 Jerry Adler, American actor
1929 Mary Joan Nielubowicz, rear admiral/nurse
1929 Paul Burlison, musician
1931 Argentina Rioja
1931 Isabel Martínez de Perón, President of Argentina (1974-1976), widow of Argentine President Juan Perón
1932 Ivan Davis, Electra Tx, pianist/writer (Hunger, Corn is Green)
1934 Gil Rogers Lexington KY, actor (Hawk-Guiding Light, Doctors)
1934 Jouko Sakari Linjama, composer
1935 Martti Talvela, Finnish operatic basso (d. 1989)
1935 Wallis Mathias, cricketer (1st non-Muslim to play for Pakistan)
1936 Daan van Golden, Dutch sculptor
1936 David Brenner, American comedian
1936 Gary Conway, American actor (Burke's Law, Land of the Giants)
1937 Collin Wilcox, Highlands NC, actor (To Kill a Mocking Bird)
1937 David Newman, American filmmaker (d. 2003)
1937 John Devitt, Australia, 100 meter freestyle swimmer (Olympics-gold-1960)
1937 Magnar Solberg, Norway, 20K biathalete (Olympics-gold-1968, 72)
1938 Donald W Riegle Jr, (Senator-D-MI, 1976)
1939 Jacques Charlier, Belgian sculptor
1939 Jane Bryant Quinn newspaper & television reporter
1939 John Schuck, Boston MA, actor/comedian (McMillan & Wife, Holmes & Yo-Yo)
1939 Stan Lundine, (Representative-D-NY, 1976-86)
1940 George A. Romero, American director, screenwriter and producer (Creepshow, Martin, 2 Evil Eyes)
1940 John Schuck, American actor
1941 John Steel, British musician (The Animals)
1941 Marie Masters, Cincinatti OH, actress (Susan-As the World Turns)
1942 Johnny Gamble, musician (Classics)
1943 Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese president of the regional government of Madeira
1943 Cheryl Miller, Sherman Oaks California, actress (Paula-Daktari, Born Free)
1943 Ken Thompson, American computer scientist
1943 Wanda Rutkiewicz, Polish mountaineer (d. 1992)
1944 Daniel A Mica (Representative-D-FL, 1979)
1944 Florence LaRue Gordon, Pennsylvania, musician (5th Dimension-One Less Bell)
1945 David Brenner, Philadelphia PA, comedian/TV talk show host (Nightlife)
1946 Mary Meyer, US, 500 meter speed skater (Olympics-silver-1968)
1946 Roy Yeager, Doraville Ga, musician (Atlanta Rhythm Section)
1947 James Danforth "Dan" Quayle, 44th Vice President of the United States (1989-93)
1947 Jeannie Wilson, Memphis Tenn, actress (Simon & Simon, Stir Crazy)
1947 Sanford Bishop (Representative-D-GA)
1947 Sanford Bishop, (Rep-D-Georgia)
1948 Alice Cooper (Vincent Furnier), American musician (School's Out)
1948 Rakesh Shukla, cricket leg-spinner (1 Test India vs Sri Lanka 1982)
1948 Robert Coover, novelist (Pricksongs & Descants)
1948 Rod Grams (Representative-R-MN)
1949 Michael Beck, American actor (Hans Helms-Holocaust)
1949 Rasim Delic, Bosnian military chief of staff and war criminal (d. 2010)
1950 James Dunn, US vocalist (Stylistics-You make me feel Brand New)
1950 Pamela Franklin, Japanese born British actress (Satan's School for Girls)
1950 Philip Ehart, rock drummer (Kansas)
1950 Robert-John Stips, rock keyboardist/singer (The Nits)
1951 Dariush Eghbali, Iranian singer and musician
1951 Patrick Bergin, Irish actor
1951 Phil Ehart, American musician (Kansas)
1951 Stan Papi, American baseball player
1952 Jerry Shirley, rock drummer (Humble Pie)
1952 Li Yinhe, Chinese sexologist
1952 Lisa Eichhorn, American actress (Cutter's Way, Yanks)
1953 Kitaro, Japanese composer
1953 Svetlana Ulmasova, USSR, 3K (world title 1978)
1955 Mikuláš Dzurinda, Slovak Prime Minister
1957 Don Davis, American composer
1957 Evan Wolfson, American attorney and activist
1958 Mary Ann Pascal, actress (Samantha-Brothers)
1958 Tomasz Pacynski, Polish writer
1958 Werner Schwab, writer
1959 Lawrence Taylor, American football player, NFL's greatest linebacker (New York Giants)
1959 Pamelyn Ferdin, American actress
1959 Zenani Mandela, daughter of Nelson & Winnie Mandela
1960 Jenette Goldstein, American actress
1960 Jonathan Larson, American composer (d. 1996)
1960 Mark Dawson, British-born American entertainment manager (The Iron Maidens)
1960 Pamelyn Ferdin, actress (Happy Birthday Wanda June, Tool Box Murders)
1960 Siobhan Dowd, British/Irish author (d. 2007)
1960 Tim Booth, British singer (James)
1961 Denis Savard, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1961 Stewart O'Nan, American author
1961 Vern Fleming, American basketball player (Olympics-gold-1984)
1962 Alfred Twardecki, Polish historian
1962 Clint Black, American musician, country vocalist (A Better Man)
1962 Dan Plesac, Gary IN, pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1962 Michael Riley, Canadian actor
1962 Vern Fleming, NBA guard (New Jersey Nets)
1963 Jane Leary, Sydney Australia, golfer (1992 Australian Amateur Champion)
1963 Pirmin Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier (Olympic-gold-1988)
1963 Tracie Ruiz-Conforto, Hawaiian synchronized swimmer (Olympics-2 gold/silver-84, 88)
1964 Noodles, American guitarist (The Offspring)
1965 Jerome Brown, American football player (d. 1992)
1965 John van Loen, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord, San Frecce)
1966 Barry Klein, Grand Rapids Mich, rower (Olympics-1996)
1966 Kyoko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
1966 Marissa Laakso, Boston MA, Miss Massachusetts-America (1990)
1966 Spike, musician
1966 Viatcheslav Ekimov, Russian cyclist
1967 Sergei Grinkov, Russian figure skater (Olympics-gold 1988, 1994) (d. 1995)
1968 Kristen Marie, actress (Cheryl McKinnon-Another World)
1968 Marko Matvere, Estonian actor
1969 Brad Cornett, US baseball pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1969 Brandy Ledford, American actress and model
1969 Chastity Bono, Los Angeles CA, daughter/actress (Sonny & Cher Show)
1969 Chris Crooms, WLAF safety (Barcelona Dragons)
1969 Dallas Drake, ice hockey player, NHL center (Winnipeg Jets)
1969 Duncan Coutts, Canadian bassist (Our Lady Peace)
1969 Joe Sacco, Medford MA, NHL right wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1970 Alisa Marie Kimble, Miss USA-California (1997)
1970 Gabrielle Anwar, English actress (Body Snatchers)
1970 John Frascatore, US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1970 Nicole Wood, Canton OH, playmate (Apr, 1993)
1970 Todd Peterson, NFL kicker (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 Kevin Farkas, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers)
1971 Maarten Atmodikoro, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, NAC)
1971 Michael A. Goorjian, American actor
1971 Pete Pierson, NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1971 Rob Corddry, American actor and comedian
1971 Sterling Palmer, NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1972 Dara Ó Briain, Irish comedian
1972 Giovanni Silva De Oliveira, Brazilian footballer
1972 Kelvin Anderson, CFL running back (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 Manny Legacé, Canadian ice hockey goaltender
1973 Michael Goorjian, actor (Party Of Five)
1973 Oscar de la Hoya, Mexican-American boxer (Olympic Gold 1992)
1974 Brandon Convery, Kingston, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1974 Chris Ward, defensive end (Baltimore Ravens)
1974 Eric Townsend, American musician and record producer
1974 Mijntje Donners, Dutch hockey international
1974 Urmila Matondkar, Indian actress
1975 Elana Eve Chomiszak, Providence RI, Miss America-Rhode Island (1997)
1975 Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
1975 Miriam Ruppert, Miss Universe-Germany (1996)
1975 Natalie Imbruglia, Australian musician and actress
1976 Cam'ron, American rapper
1977 Gavin DeGraw, American musician
1977 Mitra Hajjar, Iranian actress
1978 Danna Garcia, Colombian actress
1978 Laurence Borremans, Miss Belgium Universe (1997)
1979 Andrei Arlovski, Belarussian mixed martial artist
1979 Giorgio Pantano, Italian racing car driver
1980 Kelly Marie Sodan, Miss Kentucky Teen USA (1996)
1981 Ben Hendrickson, American baseball player
1981 Jason Kapono, America professional basketball player
1981 Johan Van Summeren, Belgian cyclist
1981 Tom Mastny, Indonesian baseball player
1982 Chris Sabin, American professional wrestler
1982 Kimberly Wyatt, American singer and dancer (Pussycat Dolls)
1982 Tomas Vaitkus, Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist
1983 Jarrad Waite, Australian rules footballer
1983 Lee Stempniak, American ice hockey player
1984 Mauricio Pinilla, Chilean footballer
1985 Bug Hall, American actor
1986 Mohammad Mahmudullah, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 Lucie Šafárová, Czech tennis player
1988 Alexandros Pagalis, Greek footballer
1988 Carly Patterson, American gymnast
1988 Eoin McDowell, Irish rugby player
1990 Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese Seiyū
1993 Tim McGrath, American musician
Died on February 4th
211 Lucius Septimus Severus, emperor of Rome (193-211)
708 Sisinnius, Greek-Syrian pope (708, 20 days)
856 HRabanus Maurus, Bishop of Mainz (b. c. 780)
869 Saint Cyril, Greek missionary to the Slavs (b. 827)
1189 Gilbert of Sempringham, English monastery founder/saint
1222 Willem I, earl of Holland (1203-22)
1503 Queen Elizabeth, consort of Henry VII of England
1505 Joan of Valois, Queen of France/saint
1508 Conrad Celtes, German humanist scholar (b. 1459)
1553 Caspar Othmayr, composer
1590 Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (b. 1517)
1615 Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
1615 Giovanni Battista della Porta, Italian scholar, polymath and child prodigy (b. 1535)
1617 Louis Elsevier, Dutch publisher (b. 1546)
1640 Hendrick C Vroom, Dutch seascape painter
1694 Nataliya Kyrillovna Naryshkina, Tsaritsa of Russia (b. 1651)
1713 Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, English politician and philosopher (b. 1671)
1714 Duke of Berry, French King Louis XIV's grandson
1746 Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), dies at 46
1774 Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701)
1781 Josef Myslivecek, Czech composer (b. 1737)
1781 Willem Crul, admiral (West-Indies), dies in battle
1799 Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (b. 1728)
1815 Geert Reinders, Dutch cattle breeder/inoculation proponent
1815 Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist
1816 Meingosus Gaelle, composer
1834 Amelie Julia Candielle, composer
1844 Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/literary
1854 Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer
1869 Johan M Dautzenberg, Flemish author/novelist (Future)
1894 Antoine J "Adolphe" Sax, instrument maker (saxophone) (b. 1814)
1895 Faustina Hasse Hodges, composer
1896 Henry David Leslie, composer
1905 Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor (b. 1841)
1911 Peter A "Piet" Cronje, South Africa Boer general
1912 Franz Reichelt, Austrian tailor/Inventor (b. 1800's)
1921 Xavier Mellery, Belgian painter/illustrator
1927 Thomas Linnemann Laub, composer
1928 Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (L transformation-Nobel 1902) (b. 1853)
1933 Archibald Sayce, English educator (b. 1846)
1936 Wilhelm Gustloff, German leader of the Swiss Nazi party (b. 1895)
1939 Edward Sapir US linguist/cultural anthropologist (Indian)
1939 Henri W A Deterding, Dutch oil magnate (Royal Oil, Shell)
1940 Nikolai Yezhov, Head of Soviet NKVD (b. 1895)
1941 Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian
1943 Frank Calder, the first NHL President (b. 1877)
1944 Arsen Kotsoyev, Russian writer (b. 1872)
1944 Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1867)
1946 Margarete Boie, writer, dies
1953 Alexander Loudon, Dutch diplomat (League of Nations)
1954 Vaclav Vackar, composer
1956 Leendert A Donker, Dutch Social Democrat party-minister of Justice
1956 Peder Gram, composer
1957 Joseph Hardaway, creator of Bugs Bunny
1957 Miguel Covarrubias, Mexican illustrator
1958 Frederik de Merode, Belgian prince
1958 Henry Kuttner, American author (b. 1915)
1959 Una O'Connor, Irish actress (Banjo, Invisible Man) (b. 1880)
1964 Siegfried T Bok, neurobiologist/anatomist (Cybernetica)
1965 U C Greyhound, champion trotter (horse)
1966 Gilbert H. Grosvenor, American president of the National Geographic Society (b. 1875)
1967 Albert Orsborn, 6th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1886)
1968 Ed Baker, actor (Keystone Kops)
1968 Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New)
1968 Neal Cassady, American writer (b. 1926)
1969 Thelma Ritter, actress (All About Eve, Pillow Talk)
1974 Mihail Andricu, composer
1974 Satyendra Nath Bose, Indian physicist (b. 1894)
1975 Howard Hill, American archer (b. 1899)
1975 Louis Jordan, American musician (b. 1908)
1976 Edward Benjamin Britten, composer
1977 Brett Halliday, American writer (b. 1904)
1978 Bergen Evans, English professor ($64,000 Question)
1982 Alex Harvey, Scottish musician (b. 1935)
1982 Georg Konrad Morgen, German judge (b. 1909)
1982 Sue Carol, actress (She's My Weakness)
1983 Jim Ameche, actor (Festival of Stars)
1983 Karen Carpenter, American singer and drummer (The Carpenters), dies of anorexia (b. 1950)
1983 Reginald Denham, director/writer (Death at BC House)
1987 Carl Rogers, American psychologist (b. 1902)
1987 Liberace, American musician (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman) (b. 1919)
1987 Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan feminist and founder of RAWA (b. 1956)
1989 Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, country singer (Homer & Jethro)
1990 Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1917)
1991 Bob Leslie, actor (Cinderella, Mako Jaws of Death)
1992 Fred Slyter, dialogue coach
1992 John Dehner, actor (Apache, Cowboy, Boys from Brazil)
1992 Lisa Fonssagrives, Swedish model (b. 1911)
1993 Connie Saylor, American NASCAR racecar driver (b. 1940)
1994 Fred De Bruyne, Belgian cyclist (b. 1930)
1994 Han Jansen, Dutch painter
1994 Harold Schneider, US producer (5 Easy Pieces, War Games)
1994 Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI)4
1994 Justinus Darmojuwono, Indonesian archbishop/cardinal
1995 Betty Davis, British dance teacher of Dame Margot Fonteyn
1995 Godfrey Brown, British athlete and teacher (b. 1915)
1995 Patricia Highsmith (Mary Patricia Plangman), American author (b. 1921)
1995 Roel Wiersma, Dutch soccer star (PSV)
1997 James Friell, political cartoonist
2000 Carl Albert, American politician, 54th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1908)
2000 Doris Coley, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1941)
2000 Phil Tonken, American radio and television announcer (b. 1919)
2001 Iannis Xenakis, Greek composer and architect (b. 1922)
2001 J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (b. 1924)
2001 Pankaj Roy, Indian cricketer (b. 1928)
2002 George Nader, American film and television actor (b. 1921)
2002 Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland (b. 1907)
2003 André Noyelle, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)
2003 Benyoucef Ben Khedda, Algerian politician (b. 1920)
2003 Charlie Biddle, Canadian jazz bassist (b. 1926)
2005 Ossie Davis, American actor, activist (b. 1917)
2006 Betty Friedan, American feminist (b. 1921)
2006 Myron Waldman, American animator (b. 1908)
2007 Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (b. 1934)
2007 Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959)
2007 José Carlos Bauer, Brazilian World Cup footballer (b. 1925)
2007 Jules Olitski, Ukrainian-born American abstract painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
2007 Steve Barber, American baseball pitcher (b. 1938)
2008 Stefan Meller, Polish foreign minister (b. 1942)
2009 Lux Interior, American musician (The Cramps) (b. 1946)
2012 Florence Green, last surviving veteran of World War One, 110 yo
2012 Istvan Csurka, Hungarian writer and politician
2012 Robert Daniel, five term American congressman for Virginia
2012 Robert Glaser, American educational psychologist, dies from Alzheimer's disease
2013 Pat Halcox, British trumpeter
2013 Reg Presley, English rocker
2016 Maurice White, American singer-songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire)
2016 Dave Mirra, American BMX rider, commits suicide
2016 Edgar Whitcomb, American politician and Governor of Indiana (1969-73)
2016 Edgar Mitchell, NASA astronaut (Apollo 14)
2016 Leslie Bassett, American classical composer (Variations for Orchestra - Pulitzer Prize 1966)