February 5th
Holidays and Celebrations
Constitution Day (Mexico) * (see Drink of The Day)
Kashmir Day (Pakistan)
Liberation from the Alberoni Occupation (San Marino)
National Weatherman's Day or Weatherman's Day or Weatherperson's Day (United States)
Thomas Carlyle Remembrance Day, Scottish writer and historian (D: 1881 - b. 1795)
Runeberg's Birthday, where Runeberg's tart are made specially for the holiday. (Finland)
Western Monarch Day
World Nutella Day
Disaster Day
Move Hollywood & Broadway to Lebanon, PA Day
Don Cherry's Birthday, Canadian hockey commentator (1934)
Hank Aaron Day, American baseball player's Birthday (1934)
Pancake Day (IHOP)
National Chocolate Fondue Day
Christian Feast of St. Agatha of Sicily
* Rijeka Carnival (2011) (3of3 Jan 21th and 29th) is in Rijeka, Croatia. This festival usually occurs mid-late January. Also known as karneval/carnaval and to locals as maškare.
Toast of The Day
"May I see you grey and combing your grandchildren’s hair."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Addios Mother
1 pt. Vodka
1 pt. Rum
1pt. Gin
1 pt. Blue Curacao
fill with sweet and Sour Mix
Splash of 7-up
Lemon Wedge/cherry
- In Honor of Constitution Day (Mexico)
Wine of The Day
Alba 2007 Vintage Port
Style - Port
Warren Hills
$20
Beer of The Day
Saint Bob's Imperial Stout
Brewer - Il Vicino Brewing Co., Albuquerque, NM
Style - Aged Beer
- In honor of Nesta Robert "Bob" Marley, OM (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981)
Joke of The Day
A woman was shopping at her local supermarket where she selected:
1. A Litre of 2% milk,
2. A carton of eggs,
3. A Litre of orange juice,
4. A head of lettuce,
5. A can of coffee,
6. And one pack of bacon.
As she was unloading her items on the conveyor belt to check out, a drunk standing behind her watched as she placed the items in front of the cashier. While the cashier was ringing up her purchases, the drunk calmly stated,"You must be single."
The woman was a bit startled by this proclamation, but she was intrigued by the derelict's intuition, since she was indeed single.
She looked at her six items on the belt and saw nothing particularly unusual about her selections that could have tipped off the drunk to her marital status.
Curiosity getting the better of her, she said "Well, you know what, you're absolutely correct. But how on earth did you know that?"
The drunk replied, "'Cause you're ugly. "
Quote of the Day
"Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol."
-Anonymous
Whiskey of The Day
Bowman Brothers Pioneer Spirit Virginia Straight Bourbon Whiskey
$30
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 5th
62 Earthquake in Pompeii Italy
816 Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity
1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons
1488 Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
1512 French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna
1556 Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles
1572 Beggars assault Oisterwijk Netherlands, drive nuns out
1576 Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.
1597 A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society.
1631 English clergyman Roger Williams first arrived in America. He soon began questioning Massachusetts' religious policies which fused church and state matters. Williams was banished to Rhode Island five years later, where at Providence he established the first Baptist church in America.
1644 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
1649 The claimant King Charles II of England and Scotland is declared King of Scotland, by the Parliament of Scotland. This move was not followed by the Parliament of England or the Parliament of Ireland.
1663 Earthquake in Canada
1679 German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
1736 The English Methodists Wesley brothers, John (32) and Charles (28) first arrived in America at Savannah, GA. They had been invited by Georgia governor James Oglethorpe as missionaries to the American Indians.
1777 Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture
1778 South Carolina becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
1782 Spanish defeat British forces and take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from the English
1783 In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins, killing 30,000
1783 Sweden recognizes US independence
1783 In Calabria a sequence of strong earthquakes begins
1795 Zealand Netherlands surrenders to French General Michaud
1812 American missionary Adoniram Judson, 23, married schoolteacher Ann Hasseltine, 22. Two weeks later the couple set sail for India under sponsorship of the American [Congregational] Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
1816 Rossini's Opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1817 1st US gas company incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
1818 Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1825 Hannah Lord Montague of New York creates 1st detachable shirt collar
1831 Jan van Speijk blows up his gunboat in Antwerp, killing about 30
1846 "Oregon Spectator" is 1st newspaper to be published on the West Coast
1850 Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, New Paltz, NY
1855 British government of Palmerston forms
1859 Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexander John Cuza as the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state.
1861 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati
1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia PA
1861 Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
1864 Federals occupy Jackson, Mississippi
1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
1879 Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow
1881 Phoenix, Az incorporates
1885 King Léopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
1885 News of fall of Khartoum reaches London
1887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
1887 Snow falls on San Francisco
1887 The Chicago Evangelization Society was organized by evangelist D. L. Moody, 50. Two years later, the Society established the Bible Institute for Home and Foreign Missions. Moody died in 1899, and in 1900 the school was renamed Moody Bible Institute.
1893 Alfred Naess skates world record 500 meter (49.4 seconds)
1894 Female suffrage organization in Amsterdam forms
1897 Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel
1900 British troops under General Buller occupy Vaal Krantz, Natal
1900 The United States and the United Kingdom sign a treaty for the Panama Canal
1901 Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
1901 Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
1904 American occupation of Cuba ends
1907 Arnold Schoenberg's 1st string quartet premieres in Vienna
1911 Society of Dutch Composers forms in Amsterdam
1916 Enrico Caruso recorded "O Sole Mio" for the Victor Talking Machine Company
1917 Morosco Theater opens at 217 W 45th St NYC (demolished 1982)
1917 The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
1917 The current constitution of Mexico is adopted, establishing a federal republic with powers separated into independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
1918 SS Tuscania (1914) is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland, it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
1918 Separation of church & state begins in USSR
1918 Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
1919 Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.
1919 NL president John Heydler dismisses charges that Hal Chase bet against his team & threw games in collusion with gamblers
1921 Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium
1922 Reader's Digest magazine 1st published
1923 General mine strike against wage cuts in Saar
1923 Mass arrests of socialists & communists in Italy
1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips".
1927 Buster Keaton's movie "The General" released & bombed
1929 Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" cartoon debuts in San Francisco
1930 5th Aliyah to Israel begins
1931 Maxine Dunlap becomes 1st US women to earn a glider pilot license
1933 Marinus van der Lubbe passes Dutch/German boundary
1936 National Wildlife Federation forms
1937 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times", is released
1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United Statest, "court packing" plan failed.
1938 Hans Engnestangen skates world record 500 meter (41.8 seconds)
1940 General Winckelman replaces General Reijnders as Dutch supreme commander
1940 Glenn Miller & his Orchestra record "Tuxedo Junction"
1941 Dutch Premier De Geer returns from Lisbon to Netherlands
1942 "Woman of the Year", starring Hepburn & Tracy, opens at Radio City
1942 Braves get Tommy Holmes from Yanks for Buddy Hassett & Gene Moore
1943 Amsterdam resistance group CS-6 shoots Nazi General Seyffardt
1943 Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission
1944 358 RAF-bombers attack Stettin
1944 German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'Much that worries us beforehand can afterwards, quite unexpectedly, have a happy and simple solution... Things really are in a better hand than ours.'
1945 Big Racket becomes fastest race horse at 69.6 kph (440 yards/20.8 seconds)
1945 British premier Churchill arrives in Yalta, the Krim
1945 US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla, World War II
1946 The Chondoist Chongu Party is founded in North Korea.
1947 Bolewet Beirut becomes President of Poland
1948 "The Nature of Things" science show premieres on NBC prime time
1948 Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympics champion
1948 Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympics slalom champion
1949 Huaso sets official world equestrian high-jump record, 2.47 m, Chicago
1953 "Peter Pan" by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC
1953 5th Emmy Awards, I Love Lucy, Thomas Mitchell & Helen Hayes win
1954 WCDC TV channel 19 in Adams MA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 7th Winter Olympics games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
1956 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Havana Golf Open
1956 New York Mayor Robert Wagner & Brooklyn Boro President Frank Cashmore sponsor a bill to create a $30 million Brooklyn Sports Center Authority to build
1957 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Piano Concert
1958 A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
1958 Clifton R Wharton confirmed as 1st US black foreign minister (Romania)
1958 Gamel Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
1958 Test Cricket debut of Lance Gibbs, West Indies vs Pakistan, Port-of-Spain
1958 Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km
1959 "Redhead" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 455 performances
1959 Australia regain the Ashes with a 10 wicket victory at Adelaide
1962 French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1962 Suit to bar Englewood NJ from "racial segregated" schools is filed
1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter & Saturn within 16 degrees
1962 French President Charles De Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
1963 Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
1963 Soviet lunar probe failure
1965 Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels
1966 BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island
1967 "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)
1967 Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua
1967 Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren
1968 KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1968 Skater Kees Verkerk win Olympics gold in the 1500m
1968 Battle of Khe Sanh begins, Vietnam War.
1969 "Turn-On", debuts & is cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly
1969 US population reaches 200 million
1969 Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vice president, general manager & head coach of Redskins
1970 1st Test Cricket ton of Barry Richards, 126, 164 balls, 20 fours 1 six
1970 Test Cricket debut of John Traicos, South Africa vs Australia, Durban
1970 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 WSCV TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale, FL (IND) suspends broadcasting
1971 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro; Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hours
1972 "Another Puff" by Jerry Reed peaks at #65
1972 Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage
1973 Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted
1973 Funeral for LC William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam War
1973 Juan Corona sentenced to 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders
1974 British mine strike
1974 John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States.
1974 Mats Wermelin, Sweden, scores all points in 272-0 basketball win
1974 Maximum speed on Autobahn reduced to 100 kph
1974 Patty Hearst kidnapped
1974 US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus' cloud structure
1976 Australia complete 5-1 series drubbing of West Indies
1976 Last day of Test Cricket for Lance Gibbs & Ian Redpath
1976 The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
1977 "CB Savage" by Rod Hart peaks at #67
1977 "Dis-Gorilla (part 1)" by Rick Dees peaks at #56
1977 "In The Mood" by Henhouse 5 Plus Too (Ray Stevens) peaks at #40
1977 "Turn Loose On My Leg" by Jim Stafford peaks at #98
1977 "Up Your Nose" by Gabriel Kaplan peaks at #91
1977 General Mills Adventure Theater premieres on CBS radio
1977 Sugar Ray Leonard beats Luis Vega in 6 rounds in his 1st pro fight
1977 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1977 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
1978 Fred Newman makes 88 consecutive basketball free throws blindfolded
1979 Costliest single periodical ad, $3.2 million, Gulf + Western in Time
1979 Sears Radio Theater premieres on CBS
1980 32nd NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-3 at Detroit
1980 Egyptian parliament votes to end boycott of Israel
1981 "Piaf" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 165 performances
1981 Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane
1981 Military jury in North Carolina convicts Robert Garwood of collaborating with enemy
1982 British airline Laker Airways collapses owing 270M pounds ($351M)
1982 Chin A Sen ends term as president of Suriname
1982 DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of marijuana, 495 people
1982 Laker Airways collapse owing £270 million ($351 million)
1982 Suriname President Chin A Sen resigns & flees to Netherlands
1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
1984 New Zealand beat England (82 & 93) by an innings in 3 days
1984 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1986 Corazon Aquino & Ferdinand Marcos appear on "Nightline"
1987 Dow Jones average closes above 2,200 for 1st time
1987 Soyuz TM-2 launches
1988 1st prime-time wrestling match in 30 years-Andre beats Hulk Hogan
1988 Arizona House of Representatives vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham
1988 Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
1988 Panamanian General Manuel Noriega indicted by US grand jury for drugs
1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points
1990 Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)
1991 A Michigan court bars Dr Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides
1991 All American Bowl ends after 14 years
1991 Big East Football conference forms
1991 Howard Stern kisses New York Giant Leonard Marshall's ass over bet, Stern lost claiming the Giants would lose the Superbowl
1991 Joni Mitchel inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame
1991 Los Angeles King Dave Taylor becomes 29th NHLer to score 1000 points
1992 Jury selection begins in the Los Angeles cops beating Rodney King case
1992 Last day of Test Cricket cricket for Dilip Vengsarkar
1992 Mike Whitney career-best 7-27 at WACA in Test Cricket win vs India
1993 Grenade explodes in Sarajevo, killing 63 & injuring 160
1993 R James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA
1994 "Where On Earth Is Carmen San Diego," debuts on Fox TV
1994 Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
1994 Civil rights leader Medgar Evers' murderer Byron De La Beckwith sentenced to life, in Jackson Miss, 30 years after the crime
1994 During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina more than 60 people are killed and some 200 wounded as a mortar shell slams into a downtown marketplace in Sarajevo.
1995 Japan's Shinshinto Party wins local elections
1995 NFL Pro Bowl: AFC beats NFC 41-13
1995 Sandra Völker swims female European record 50 meter backstroke 27.77
1997 Brook Lee, Hawaii, crowned 46th Miss USA (en route to Miss Universe)
1997 The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
1998 Alberto Acciarito convicted of harassing his ex-wife Ingrid Rossellini
1998 Author Tom Clancy confirms he signed agreement to purchase Minnesota Vikings for slightly more than $200 million, an NFL franchise record
1998 Nancy Kerrigan & Tonya Harding talk on FOX (Taped Dec 22nd)
2004 Rebels from the Revolutionary Artibonite Resistance Front capture the city of Gonaïves, starting the 2004 Haiti rebellion.
2004 Twenty-three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.
2008 A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States leaves at least 58 dead, the most since the May 31, 1985 outbreak that killed 88
2009 The United States Navy guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal runs aground off Oahu, Hawaii, damaging the ship as well as a coral reef
2012 Quarterback Eli Manning wins his second Superbowl Most Valuable Player Award after leading the New York Giants to a 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Superbowl XLVI
2013 The US Postal Service announces the cessation of Saturday first-class mail delivery from August 2013
2013 UK House of Commons votes in favour of same-sex marriage
2014 Archaeologists decrypt the 13th C Viking jötunvillur runic code
2014 US President Obama and journalists globally call for the release of 3 Al Jazeera journalists detained in Egypt
2015 70s British rock star Gary Glitter is convicted of sexual child abuse charges in London
2015 "Taxi" wins the Golden Bear at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival
2016 Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York using Bangladesh banking codes, steal 81 million before a typo alerts authorities
Born on February 5th
976 Sanjo, Emperor of Japan (d. 1017)
1505 Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (d. 1572)
1519 René of Châlon, (d. 1544)
1534 Giovanni de' Bardi, Italian writer (d. 1612)
1589 Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish poet (d. 1669)
1589 Honorat de Brueil seigneur de Racan, French playwright/poet
1608 Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)
1626 Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné, French author (Portrait in Letters) (d. 1696)
1650 Anne-Jules, French general (d. 1708)
1662 Giuseppi Vignola, composer
1703 Gilbert Tennent, Irish-born religious leader (d. 1764)
1711 Joseph Umstatt, composer
1723 John Witherspoon, clergyman/signed Declaration of Independence
1725 James Otis, American lawyer and patriot (d. 1783)
1732 Nathanael Gottfried Gruner, composer
1744 John Jeffries, Physician, Surgeon, Balloonist (d. 1819)
1748 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven
1753 Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Frisian regent/patriot
1770 Alexandre Brongniart, Paris, mineralogist/geologist (Tertiary)
1775 Margaretha J de Neufville, author (Small Pligten)
1779 Frans van Campenhout Belgian vocalist/composer (Brabançonne)
1784 Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1818)
1788 Karoly Kisfaludy, Hungarian literary (A Tat rok Magyarorsz gon)
1788 Robert "Bobbie" Peel, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (British Conservative Party) (1834-5; 41-46), founded Tories (d. 1850)
1795 Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (d. 1871)
1799 John Lindley, English botanist (Elements of Botany)
1804 Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finnish poet (d. 1877)
1808 Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)
1810 Ole Bull, Norwegian violinist (d. 1880)
1833 John Watkinson, founder of British Chess Magazine (oldest chess magazine)
1837 Dwight Lyman Moody, American evangelist (Student Volunteer Movement) (d. 1899)
1840 Hiram Stevens Maxim, American inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle - Maxim gun) (d. 1916)
1840 John Boyd Dunlop, Scottish inventor (pneumatic rubber tire) (d. 1921)
1848 Belle Starr (Myra Belle Shirley), American outlaw (d. 1889)
1848 Ignacio Carrera Pinto, Chilean war hero (d. 1882)r
1848 Joris-Karl Huysmans, French author (Against the Grain) (d. 1907)
1856 Otto Brahm, German critic/founder (Neue Deutsche Rundschau)
1860 Jackson Showalter 1st US chess champion (1888-92, 1895-97, 1906-09)
1862 Felipe Villanueva y Gutierrez, Mexico, composer
1863 Armand Parent, composer
1864 Carl Tieke, composer
1865 Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer
1866 Arthur Keith, Scottish anthropologist
1866 Henri [Hendrik J] Hall, Dutch MP/comic (Put a Lid on it)
1866 Rossetter Gleason Cole, composer
1867 Casper A Lingbeek, vicar/Dutch MP (HSP, 1925..37)
1868 Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer
1871 Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends)
1878 André-Gustave Citroën, French automobile pioneer (d. 1935)
1879 Edward Rigby, England, actor (Star Look Down, Young & Innocent)
1880 Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (d. 1973)
1881 Frederick Leonard Lonsdale, British playwright (Balkan Princess)
1882 Felice Lattuada, composer
1887 A P Gütersloh writer
1889 Elias Henry "Patsy" Hendren, cricketer (prolific England bat of 20's)
1889 Ernest Tyldesley, English cricketer (1st Lancastrian to score 100 100's) (d. 1962)
1889 Ioan Dumitru Chirescu, composer
1891 Elizabeth Ryan, Anaheim California, doubles tennis champ (6 time Wimbled)
1891 Karl L Schmidt, German/Swiss theologist (Urchristentum)
1892 George Saiko, writer
1893 Roman Ingarden, Polish philosopher (Studia philosophica)
1897 Dirk U Stikker, director (Heineken)/Dutch foreign minister/NATO
19-- Jason Bieler rock guitarist (Saigon Kick-New World)
1900 Adlai Stevenson, American politician (Governor-D-IL), presidential candidate (D) (1952, 1956) (d. 1965)
1902 Bronislaw Kaper, composer
1903 Ivan Galamian, Tabriz Persia, violinist
1903 Joan Whitney Payson, American heiress (New York Mets & horse stables) (d. 1975)
1903 Nathaniel Owings, Indianapolis IN, architect (Oak Ridge TN; Sears)
1906 John Carradine, American actor (Grapes of Wrath, Howling) (d. 1988)
1907 Jan Klaasesz, Dutch governor Suriname (1949-56)
1907 Norton Simon, business executive (Simon & Schuster)
1907 Pierre E J Pflimlin, French Politician (d. 2000)
1908 Daisy and Violet Hilton, British conjoined twins (d. 1969)
1909 Grazyna Bacewicz, Polish composer and violinist (d. 1969)
1910 Charles Leblond, Canadian Cell Biologist (d. 2007)
1910 Francisco Varallo, Argentine footballer
1910 Martha van Och-Scholl, German/Dutch resistance fighter (WW II)
1911 Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (d. 1960)
1912 Willard Parker, New York NY, actor (Kiss Me Kate, What A Woman)
1912 Zoltan Pongracz, composer
1913 Rozelle Claxton, pianist/arranger
1914 Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Nobel 1963) (d. 1998)
1914 William S. Burroughs, American author (Naked Lunch) (d. 1997)
1915 Robert Hofstadter, US atomic physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1990)
1917 Isuzu Yamada, Japanese actress
1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor [Zsa Sari], Budapest Hungary, actress (Queen of Outer Space)
1918 Charles John "Tim" Holt, American actor (Treasure of Sierra Madre, Stagecoach, Hitler's Children) (d. 1973)
1918 Kara Abulfazogli Karayev, composer
1918 Robert Brown Hebrides Islands Scotland, actor (Here Come The Brides, Primus)
1919 Andrea George Papandreou, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (1981-89, 93) (d. 1996)
1919 Melina Mercouri actress (Never on Sunday)
1919 Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt), American actor (Sayonara, Poseidon Adventure) (d. 2006)
1920 Frank Muir, British comedian (d. 1998)
1921 John Pritchard, British conductor (d. 1989)
1922 Alain de Changy, Belgian racing driver (d. 1994)
1922 Bernard Kalb, spokesman (State Dept)/actor (Dave)
1923 Claude King, American musician
1923 Stephen J Cannell, TV producer/writer
1924 Robert Lynn, anarchist
1926 Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, New York NY, publisher (New York Times)
1927 Robert Brown, Herbrides Is, actor (Here Come the Brides, Primus)
1927 Ruth Fertel, American entrepreneur (d. 2002)
1927 Val Dufour, New Orleans LA, actor (Eugenie Grandet, Another World)
1928 Andrew Greeley, American priest and novelist
1928 Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis, middle east scholar
1929 Al Worthington, American baseball player
1929 Fred Sinowatz, Austrian politician, chancellor of Austria (1983-86) (d. 2008)
1929 Luc Ferrari, French composer (d. 2005)
1930 John A. Gambling, American radio show host (d. 2004)
1932 Cesare Maldini, Italian footballer and manager
1933 Jörn Donner, Finnish writer/director (Anna, Tenderness)
1933 Nick Georgiade, New York NY, actor (Untouchables, Run Buddy Run)
1933 Ron Wilson, US percussionist (Joy of Cooking)
1934 Don Cherry, Canadian ice hockey commentator
1934 Hank Aaron, American baseball player (record 755 home runs, 1957 NL MVP)
1935 Alex Harvey, musician (Just Visiting This Planet)
1935 John J "Jannie" Geldenhuys supreme commander South Africa army (1980)
1936 K. S. Nissar Ahmed, Kannada Poet
1937 Cocky van Oost, [Kommertje van Vliet], Dutch dancer (Sylphides)
1937 Gaston Roelants, Belgium, world cross-country champion
1937 Stuart Damon, American actor (Alan Quartermaine-General Hospital)
1937 Wang Xuan, Chinese scientist (d. 2006)
1938 Dick van Niehoff, Dutch vocalist (Fouryo)
1938 John Guare US writer (6º of Separation, Atlantic City, Taking Off)
1939 Brian Luckhurst, cricketer (England opener of 60's & early 70's)
1939 Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster/financial writer (Everyone's Money Book)
1940 H.R. Giger, Swiss artist, special effects designer (Alien)
1941 Barrett Strong, Detroit MI, singer (Money, That's What I Want)
1941 David Selby, American actor (Falcon Crest, Flamingo Road)
1941 Jane Bryant Quinn, American journalist
1941 Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor
1941 Rick Laird, jazz musician (Gerry Niewood & Timepiece)
1941 Stephen J. Cannell, American television producer and writer (Rockford Files)
1942 Cory Wells, American singer (Three Dog Night)
1942 J.R. Cobb, American guitarist (Classics IV)
1942 Roger Staubach, American football player, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1942 Susan Hill, English playwright (Magic Apple Tree)
1943 Charles Winfield, musician (Blood Sweat & Tears-Spinning Wheel)
1943 Craig Morton, American football player, NFL quarterback (Dallas, Denver)
1943 Ivan Alexandrovich Tcherepnin, composer
1943 Larry Tamblyn, rock guitarist (Standells-Dirty Water)
1943 Michael Mann, American film director (Sexpot, Close Friends)
1943 Nolan Bushnell, American video game pioneer, founder (Atari), creator (Pong)
1943 Sven Johnson, musician (Tangerine Dream)
1944 Al Kooper, American musician, keyboards and vocalist (Blood Sweat & Tears-When I Die)
1944 Cory Wells, musician
1944 J R Cobb, Birmingham Ala, musician (Atlanta Rhythm Section, Classic IV)
1946 Charlotte Rampling, British actress (Zardoz, Night Porter, Verdict)
1947 Claude King, singer
1947 Darrell Waltrip, American race car driver
1947 David Ladd, Los Angeles CA, actor (Raymie, Catlow, Misty, Deathline)
1947 Mary Louise Cleave, Southampton NY, PhD/astronaut (STS 61-B, STS 30)
1948 Barbara Hershey, American actress (Stuntman, Shy People, A World Apart)
1948 Christopher Guest, American actor (Saturday Night Live, Heartbeeps, This is Spinal Tap, Princess Bride)
1948 David Denny, rock guitarist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
1948 Elco [LC] Brinkman, Dutch minister WVC (CDA)
1948 Errol Morris, American film director
1948 Nigel Tufnel, musician (Spinal Tap)
1948 Sven-Göran Eriksson, Swedish football manager
1949 David Sullivan, English softporno/newspaper publisher (Sunday Sport)
1949 Maidarjabyn Ganzorig, Mongolia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 39 backup)
1949 Nigel Olsson, rock guitarist/drummer (Elton John Band)
1949 Yvon Vallières, Quebec politician
1950 Ann Sexton, US vocalist (You're Gone too Long)
1951 Elizabeth Swados, Buffalo NY, composer/playwright (1972 TONY)
1951 Russell Grant, British astrologer
1952 Daniel Balavoine, French singer and songwriter (d. 1986)
1953 John Beilein, American basketball coach
1953 Takashi Ishikawa, Japanese sumo and professional wrestler
1954 Cliff Martinez, American musician
1954 Roseanne Katan, Jamacian playmate (September 1978)
1955 Debra Jo Fondren, Los Angeles Cal, playmate of year (September, 1977)
1955 Mike Heath, American baseball player
1956 Betty Ong, flight attendant that died on September 11, 2001, on American Airlines Flight 11
1956 Hector Rebaque, Mexican racing driver
1957 Craig Wilson, Beeville TX, US water polo goalie (Olympics-silver-84, 88)
1958 Jennifer Jason Leigh [Morrow], Los Angeles CA, actress (Single White Female)
1959 Glenn Dubis, Lincoln Neb, US 3x40 rifle (Olympics-1984, 88, 96)
1959 Jennifer Granholm American Politician
1960 Aris Christofellis, Greek countertenor
1960 Jane Geddes, Huntington NY, LPGA golfer (1987 Women's Kemper Open)
1960 William John Readings, literary theorist
1961 Savvas Kofidis, Greek footballer and manager
1961 Tim Meadows, American actor and comedian
1962 Duff McKagan, [Michael], Seattle Wash, bassist (Guns & Roses)
1962 Tommy Skeoch, vocalist (Tesla-Five Man Acoustical Jam)
1963 Steven Shainberg, American film director
1964 Alexia, Cypriot singer
1964 Duff (Michael) "Rose" McKagan, American musician (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child of Mine)
1964 Jim Pugh, Burbank CA, tennis star
1964 Laura Linney, American actress
1965 Ben Lee, Rangoon Burma, US badminton player (Olympics-92)
1965 Gheorghe Hagi, Romanian footballer
1965 James David McGovern, Teaneck NJ, PGA golfer (1993 Shell Houston Open)
1965 Keith Moseley, American musician (The String Cheese Incident)
1965 Tarik Benhabiles, Algeria, tennis star
1966 Apostolos Nanos, Greek archer
1966 Jose Maria Olazabal, golfer
1966 Rok Petrovic, Slovenian skier (d. 1993)
1967 Chris Parnell, American actor
1967 Frederick Pitcher, Nauruan politician
1968 Chris Barron, musician (Spin Doctors)
1968 Eyþór Guðjónsson, Icelandic actor
1968 Nir Kabaretti, Israeli conductor
1968 Qasim Melho, Syrian actor
1968 Regina Rajchitova, Czechoslovakian tennis star
1968 Roberto Alomar, Puerto Rican baseball player, infielder (Baltimore Orioles)
1968 Will Furrer, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers, St Louis Rams)
1969 Bobby Brown, American singer (Ghostbusters, Don't Be Cruel)
1969 Michael Sheen, Welsh actor
1970 Darren Lehmann, cricketer (South Africa & Victoria LHB Australian ODI 1996)
1970 Forey Duckett, NFL/WLAF cornerback/safety (Saints, Scot Claymores)
1971 Dennis Hall Milwaukee WI, 125½ lbs greco-roman wrestler (Olympics-silver-92, 96)
1971 Dianne Norman, Sault Ste Marie Ontario, basketball forward (Olympics-96)
1971 Marcus Redman, actor (Raymond-Doogie Howser)
1971 Peter "Chip" Cipollone, Ardmore Pa, rower (Olympics-1996)
1971 Sara Evans, American singer
1972 Chris Bailey, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Olympics-98)
1972 Erin Phillips, Mexico Missouri, Miss America-Missouri (1996)
1972 Koriki Choshu, Japanese comedian
1972 Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark
1972 Tony Johnson, tight end (New Orleans Saints)
1973 Diego Serrano, Quito Ecuador, actor (Tomas Rivera-Another World)
1973 Israel Raybon, defensive end (Carolina Panthers)
1973 Laura Espinoza-Watson, Torrance CA, female infielder (Silver Bullets)
1973 Richard Matvichuk, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1973 Trijntje Oosterhuis, Dutch singer
1974 Adrienne Johnson, WNBA guard (Cleveland musicians)
1975 Adam Carson, American musician (AFI)
1975 Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1975 Jan l'Ami, Dutch soccer player (Willem II)
1976 Abhishek Bachchan, Indian actor
1976 Brian Moorman, American football player
1976 John Aloisi, Australian soccer player
1976 Nancy Feber, Antwerp Belgium, tennis star (1995 Puerto Rico)
1976 Tony Jaa, Thai actor
1977 Adam Everett, American baseball player
1977 Ahmad Merritt, American football player
1977 Ben Ainslie, British sailor
1978 Brian Russell, American football player
1978 Kristina Cherina, Miss Croatia Universe (1997)
1978 Shawn Reaves, American actor
1980 Brad Fitzpatrick, American programmer
1980 Jo Swinson, British politician
1980 Prince Peter, American-born Yugoslav royalty
1980 Robin Vik, Czech tennis player
1980 Stefano Di Fiordo, Italian footballer
1981 Loukas Vyntra, Greek football player
1982 Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, Iranian basketball player (d. 2007)
1982 Dionysis Makris, Greek singer
1982 Kevin Everett, American football player
1982 Marc Kennedy, Canadian Curler
1982 Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer
1982 Tomáš Kopecký, Slovak ice hockey player
1982 Wheesung, Korean R&B singer
1984 Carlos Tévez, Argentinine footballer
1984 Nate Salley, American football player
1985 Cristiano Ronaldo, Portuguese footballer
1985 Crystal Hunt, American actress
1985 Laurence Maroney, American football player
1985 Lindsey Cardinale, American singer
1986 Ashley Lane, American professional wrestler
1986 Billy Sharp, English footballer
1986 Carlos Villanueva, Chilean footballer
1986 Manuel Fernandes, Portuguese footballer
1986 Reed Sorenson, American racecar driver
1986 Vedran Corluka Croatian football player
1988 Kevin J Maclean, Scottish Singer Songwriter
1989 Cristine Reyes, Filipino actress
1989 Jeremy Sumpter, American actor
1990 Jordan Rhodes, English footballer (Huddersfield Town)
1992 Neymar, Brazilian footballer
1994 Saki Nakajima, Japanese singer
Died on February 5th
(45 BC) Cato Roman patriot & philosopher, commits suicide
995 William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
1520 Sten Sture the Younger, regent of Sweden (b. 1493)
1574 Nicolaas Kruik, Dutch cartographer (b. 1678)
1578 Giovanni B Moroni, Italian portrait painter (b. c.1520-24)
1591 Gerard de Jode, Flemish publisher
1658 Maria Margaretha van Angels, Dutch prioress at Oirschot
1679 Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet (Gysbreght van Aemstel)
1705 Jean Gilles, composer
1705 Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (b. 1635)
1721 James Stanhope 1st earl of Stanhope, English general
1738 Georg Reidel, composer
1745 Coelestin Praelisauer, composer
1754 Nicolaas S Cruquius, hydraulic engineer, (Haarlemmermeer)
1758 Bernhard Christian Weber, composer
1766 Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
1775 Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)
1790 William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist (b. 1710)
1807 Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b. 1725)
1812 Franz Schneider, composer
1822 Ali Pasha of Janina, (Napoleon, Lord Byron)
1825 Pierre Gaveaux, composer
1831 John CJ van Speijk, commits suicide
1838 Philippe Libon, composer
1843 Theodoros Kolokotronis, Greek general in the Greek War of Independence (b. 1770)
1867 Salomon Munk, published Arabic edition of Maimounides
1881 Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (b. 1795)
1888 Anton Mauve, Dutch painter/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh
1892 Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (b. 1807)
1897 Hoss Radbourn, pitcher won 60 games in 1884
1907 Ludwig Thuille, composer
1911 Petrus A Cronjé, Transvaal Boer general
1915 Ross Barnes, baseball player (b. 1850)
1917 Jaber II Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1860)
1917 Paul Rubens, composer
1919 Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher/writer
1922 Christiaan R De Wet, South African general (b. 1854)
1922 James William Tate, composer
1922 Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, Croatian inventor (b. 1871)
1924 Alexis Hollander, composer
1926 Andre Gedalge, composer
1927 Inayat Khan, Indian sufi (b. 1882)
1929 Siegfried Ochs, composer
1933 Josiah Thomas, Australian politician (b. 1863)
1937 Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born writer (Eroticism) (b. 1861)
1938 Hans Litten, German jurist (b. 1903)
1941 Banjo Paterson, Australian poet, author of "Walzing Matilda" (b. 1864)
1943 Wim Gertenbach, Dutch resistance fighter (Slogan), shot by Nazis
1944 Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man)
1946 George Arliss, English actor (Dr Syn, Voltaire) (b. 1868)
1947 Ganzefles, Dutch nazi spy/Jews hunter, executed
1947 Hans Fallada, writer
1948 Johann Blaskowitz, German General (surrendered at Wageningen) (b. 1883)
1949 Juozas Tallat-Kelpsa, composer, dies at 50
1952 Reginald Allen, cricketer (uncle of Gubby, Test Australia vs England 1887)
1954 Vittorio Gnecchi, composer
1956 Savilly Tartakower, Austrian/Polish/French chess player
1957 Sami Ibrahim Haddad, Lebanese surgeon (b. 1890)
1958 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Under red ensign)
1959 Gwili Andre, actress (No Other Woman, Roar of the Dragon)
1960 Louis Stricker, cricketer (South Africa open bat in 13 Tests 1909-12)
1960 Rudolf Nelson, composer
1961 Anthony G de Rothschild, British philanthropist
1962 Jacques Ibert, French composer (Escales) (b. 1890)
1965 Irving Bacon, actor (Fort Ti, Petticoat Fever)
1966 Ludwig Binswanger Swiss psychiatrist (Über Ideenflucht)
1967 Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Jokaste against God)
1967 Leon Leonwood Bean, American department store founder (b. 1872)
1967 Violeta Parra, Chilean folklorist and visual artist (b. 1917)
1968 Luckey Roberts, composer
1969 Thelma Ritter, American actress (Miracle on 34th Street) (b. 1905)
1970 Rudy York, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1971 Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian premier (1952..56)
1972 Marianne Moore, American poet (Pulitzer 1951) (b. 1887)
1973 George Morrison
1973 L C William Nolde, last US soldier killed in Vietnam, funeral
1976 Roger Livesey, actor (Drum, Vice Versa, Colonel Blimp)
1976 Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley and His Comets) (b. 1926)
1977 Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player
1977 Oskar Klein, Swedish physicist (b. 1894)
1978 Annie [Anna HM] Romein-Verschoor, Dutch historian (Omzien)
1978 Frans van Immerseel, Belgian graphic artist
1979 Eddie Paynter. cricketer (20 Tests for England, average 59.23)
1981 Barend Barendse, Dutch sportscaster
1981 Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut (b. 1919)
1981 Kuda Bux, Indian mystic (I'd Like to See)
1982 Dolores Moran, actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1982 Neil Aggett, South African worker's union leader, commits suicide
1982 Wies [Aloisius CA] Moens, Flemish writer/nazi
1983 Derk Roemers, Dutch union leader/politician (Social Democrat)
1984 Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta, Mexican wrestler and film actor (b. 1917)
1985 Georges-Émile Lapalme, Quebec politician (b. 1907)
1987 William Collier, American film and stage actor (b. 1902)
1989 Joe Raposa, composer/songwriter (Sesame Street)
1991 Dean Jagger, American actor (Mr Novak, Rawhide, Oscar) (b. 1903)
1991 Pedro Arrupe, Spanish priest/Jesuit
1992 Donald Zimmerman, editor
1992 Laura Liddell, actress (Shakespeare Wallah)
1992 Miguel Rolando Covian, Brazilian physiologist (b. 1913)
1993 Jack Young, cricketer (8 Tests for England 1947-49, 17 wickets)
1993 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (All about Eve) (b. 1909)
1993 Marcel Léger, Quebec politician (b. 1930)
1993 Seán Flanagan, Irish Gaelic footballer and politician (b. 1922)
1993 Tip Tipping, British actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958)
1994 Fred de Bruyne, Flemish cyclist/gang leader (Paris-Nice)
1994 Hermann Abs, German banker to Hitler & Adenauer
1994 Kenneth "Buddy" Scott, blues guitarist/Singer
1995 Courtenay E Benson, broadcaster
1995 Doug McClure, American actor (Trampas-Virginian) (b. 1935)
1995 Frans Köhler Dutch painter
1995 Frederick Craig Riddle, violinist
1995 Judith Fluks, Amsterdam's activist
1995 Kimberley Leston, journalist
1996 Antonio Ruiz Soler, spanish dancer
1996 Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor
1996 Peter Pooley, broadcaster
1996 W R Lee, language teacher
1997 John Richard Patterson, businessman
1997 Pamela Harriman, English-born American diplomat, US Ambassador to France (b. 1920)
1998 Tim Kelly, American musician (b. 1963)
1999 Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1906)
2000 Claude Autant-Lara, French film director (b. 1901)
2003 Helge Boes, American Central Intelligence Agency officer (b. 1970)
2004 John Hench, American animator (b. 1908)
2005 Gnassingbe Eyadema, President of Togo (b. 1937)
2006 Franklin Cover, American actor (b. 1928)
2006 Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress and comedian (b. 1930)
2007 Alfred Worm, Austrian investigative journalist (b. 1945)
2007 Fred Ball, American movie studio executive, actor, and the brother of comedienne Lucille Ball (b. 1915)
2007 Leo T. McCarthy, American politician and 43rd Lieutenant Governor of California (1983-1995) (b. 1930)
2008 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation (b. c. 1917)
2010 Harry Schwarz, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement (b. 1924)
2011 Brian Jacques, English author, author of the Redwall series (b. 1939)
2012 Sam Coppola, American actor
2013 Stuart Freeborn, English motion picture make-up artist