February 6th
Holidays and Celebrations
Waitangi Day (New Zealand) National Holiday A.K.A. New Zealand Day
Bob Marley Day a.k.a. Birthday of Bob Marley in Rastafarianism (Jamaica and Ethiopia)
International Day Against Female Genital Mutilation AKA...
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (United Nation)
Cologne Carnival begins (Germany)Thursday before Ash Wednesday (2013) * CLICK HERE
Treaty of Alliance Day (USA) 1778. In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
Ratification Day (Massachusets) 1788. Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
Battle of Port Henry Day (1862). In the American Civil War Ulysses S. Grant gave the United States (North) its first victory of the war, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the Battle of Fort Henry.
Saami National Day (in Finland and Scandinavia) A.K.A. Saami Existence Day (1992). The Saami people of the Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence.
Aaron Burr Day (b.1756) - 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
Babe Ruth Day (b.1756) - American baseball player (d. 1948)
Ronald Reagan Day (b.1911), Birthday of the 40th President of the United States (d. 2004)
Digital Learning Day
Gordy's Birthday (Canada) Gordon Downie (born February 6, 1964) is a Canadian rock musician and writer. He is the lead singer and lyricist for the Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip.
Lame Duck Day
Christian Feast Day of Saint Amand,
Feast of the Apostle of the Franks
Feast of Saint Vedastus
Feast of Saint Dorothea of Caesarea, patron saint of florists
Feast of Saint Paul Miki
Feast of Saint Titus
Toast of The Day
"There are many good reasons for drinking,
And one has just entered my head,
If a man doesn't drink when he's living,
How the hell can he drink when he's dead!"
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Abortion
1 part grenadine
1 part vodka
Use chilled vodka if possible. Pour vodka into shot glass until half to three quarters full. Fill with grenadine. Take shot. Repeat
Wine of The Day
Midnight Cellars 2006 Estate
Style - Merlot
Paso Robles
$25
Beer of The Day
- Western Hemisphere -
Samuel Adams Noble Pils
Brewer - Boston Beer Company ; Boston, Massachusets, USA
Style - Bitter German-style pilsner
Attributes - Contains the 5 german "Noble" hops
Flavor Crisp, slightly Bitter
- In Celebration of Admission Day (Massachusetts) on February 6th, 1788
- Eastern Hemisphere -
Tiger Crystal
Brewer - Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd. ; Singapore
Style - Tropical-Style Light Lager
- In Celebration of the founding of Singapore on February 6th,1819.
Joke of The Day
A drunk gets up from the bar and heads for the bathroom. A few minutes later, a loud, blood-curdling scream is heard coming from the bathroom. A few minutes after that, another loud scream echo's through the bar.
The bartender goes into the bathroom to investigate what the drunk is screaming about. What's all the screaming about in there? You're scaring my customers!"
The drunk responds, "I'm just sitting here on the toilet and every time I try to flush, something comes up and squeezes the hell out of my balls."
The bartender opens the door and looks in. You idiot! You're sitting on the mop bucket!
Quote of the Day
"The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable."
- Actual Sign In a Bucharest hotel lobby
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 6th
337 St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
679 Death of Amandus, the founder of Belgian monasticism. During his 95 years, he established eight abbeys, five in the Southern Netherlands.
1189 Riots of Lynn in Norfolk spread to Norwich England
1508 Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1577 King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots
1626 Huguenot rebels & the French sign Peace of La Rochelle
1651 Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris
1685 James II of England and VII of Scotland becomes King upon the death of his brother Charles II.
1693 Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va
1716 England & Netherlands renew alliance
1778 In Paris the Treaty of Alliance and the Treaty of Amity and Commerce are signed by the United States and France signaling official recognition of the new republic.
1778 England declares war on France
1788 Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
1815 New Jersey grants the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.
1817 The Argentinian San Martín crosses the Andes with an army in order to liberate Chile from Spanish rule.
1819 Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore
1820 (NY to Sierra Leone)
1820 The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society sail from New York NY to Sierra Leone, Africa, started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1820 US population announced at 9,638,453
1832 1st appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland
1832 US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1839 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Even in the wildest storms the sky is not all dark; and so in the darkest dealings of God with His children, there are always some bright tokens for good.'
1840 Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between Britain & Maoris of New Zealand, establishing New Zealand as a British colony.
1843 The first minstrel show in the United States, The Virginia Minstrels, opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).
1851 Robert Schumann's 3rd Symphony "Rhenisch" premieres in Düsseldorf
1854 Composer R Schumann is saved from suicide attempt into the Rhine
1861 1st meeting of Provisional Congress of Confederate States of America
1861 English Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy issues 1st storm warnings for ships
1862 Ulysses S. Grant gives the United States its first victory of the American Civil War, by capturing Fort Henry, Tennessee, known as the Battle of Fort Henry, and ten days later Fort Donelson; Grant earns the nickname "Unconditional Surrender" Grant.
1862 Naval Engagement at Tennessee River-USS Conestago vs CSS Appleton Belle
1862 Ulysses S. Grant begins military campaign in Mississippi
1864 Skirmish at Barnett's Ford Virginia
1865 2nd day of battle at Dabney's Mills (Hatcher's Run)
1865 Robert E Lee appointed Confederate General in Chief
1867 Peabody Fund forms to promote Black education in South
1869 Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
1891 1st great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
1899 Spanish-American War ends, The Treaty of Paris, a peace treaty between the United States and Spain, is ratified by the United States Senate.
1900 Battle at Vaalkrans, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 The international arbitration court at The Hague is created when the Netherlands' Senate ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
1902 Young Women's Hebrew Association organized in New York NY
1904 Russian-Japanese war began
1911 1st old-age home opened in Prescott AZ
1911 Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople/Istanbul Turkey
1918 Britain grants women (30 & over) the right to vote
1919 1st day of 5-day Seattle general strike
1920 Saarland administrated by League of Nations
1921 "The Kid", starring Charlie Chaplin & Jackie Coogan, released
1922 Cardinal Achille Ratti elected Pope Pius XI
1922 The Washington Naval Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., limiting the naval armaments of United States, Britain, Japan, France, and Italy.
1924 Station KFSG (Kall Four Square Gospel) went on the air. One of the earliest radio stations licensed, it broadcast the services of Angelus Temple, the flagship congregation of the International Foursquare Gospel Church, founded by Aimee Semple Mc Pherson in 1923.
1926 NFL rules college students ineligible until college classes graduates
1926 St Louis Browns acquire catcher Wally Schang from New York Yankees
1929 Rudy Vallee recorded "Deep Night"
1931 Pioneer American linguist and missionary Frank Laubach wrote in a letter: 'There is a deep peace that grows out of illness and loneliness and a sense of failure. God cannot get close when everything is delightful. He seems to need these darker hours, these empty-hearted hours, to mean the most to people.'
1932 1st Olympics dog sled race, Lake Placid New York (demonstration sport)
1932 Fascist coup in the Memel territory
1933 -90°F (-68°C), Oymyakon, USSR (Asian record)
1933 Highest recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 meters (112 feet), in Pacific hurricane near Manila
1933 President von Hindenburg & von Papen end Prussian parliament
1933 The 20th Amendment to the United States Constitution, establishing the beginning and ending of the terms of the elected federal offices, goes into effect, Presidential term begins in Jan not March.
1934 Far right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
1934 Reds purchase 43-year-old Dazzy Vance from the Cards for $7,500
1935 "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time
1935 1st election to allow women to vote in Turkey
1935 Board game "Monopoly" goes on sale for the 1st time
1936 4th Winter Olympics games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1936 Pravda criticizes Shostakovich's ballet "Clear Brook"
1937 K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer
1939 Spanish government flees to France
1941 Auke Adema wins 6th official Dutch 11 Cities Skating Race (9:19)
1941 Battle of Beda Fomm: Italian 10th army destroyed
1941 British troops conquer Bengazi, Libya
1942 The United Kingdom declares war on Thailand, World War II.
1943 1st Spitfire in action above Darwin, Australia, Mu Ki-46 shot down
1943 Singer Frank Sinatra debuts on radio's "Your Hit Parade"
1945 8th Air Force bombs Magdeburg/Chemnitz
1945 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder
1946 "Lute Song" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 142 performances
1947 Compton & Arthur Morris both complete dual tons in same Test Cricket
1948 1st radio-controlled airplane flown
1948 Bradman retires hurt, 57 in his last Test Cricket innings in Australia
1948 KNXT (now KCBS) TV channel 2 in Los Angeles, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
1951 "Broker Special" train crashes in Woodbridge NJ, killing 84
1951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago IL
1951 The Broker, a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. The accident kills 85 people and injures over 500 more. The wreck is one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
1951 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site Argonne Atomic Lab (Illinois), to demonstrate lax in security
1952 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal: 'Christianity, disruptive in nature, has nonetheless integrating powers for the individual in the culture, though both he and it may expect revolution.'
1952 Elizabeth II becomes Queen upon the death of her father George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a treehouse at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
1952 England replaces King George VI stamp series with Queen Elizabeth II
1953 Ian Craig makes Test Cricket debut at 17 years 239 days, youngest Aussie
1953 US controls on wages & some consumer goods were lifted
1956 Chicago's Daily Defender, begins publishing
1956 French premier Guy Mollet pelted with tomatoes in Algiers
1956 University of Alabama refuses admission to Autherine Lucy (because he's black)
1958 Eight Manchester United F.C. players are killed in the Munich air disaster.
1958 Ted Williams signs with Red Sox for $135,000, making him highest paid
1959 1st successful test-fire of Titan ICBM
1959 At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
1959 Fidel Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
1959 Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.
1959 US 1st successful Titan intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)
1961 "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC
1961 KOAP TV channel 10 in Portland, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 Schoolman Athletic Field in the Bronx named
1964 "Rugantino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 28 performances
1964 France & Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
1964 WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1965 "Kelly" opens & closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC
1965 Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1
1967 Cultural Revolution in Albania
1967 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 in Houston for heavyweight boxing title
1968 10th Winter Olympics games opens in Grenoble, France
1968 Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam
1968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one
1968 KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1969 "Dear World" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances
1969 Jerry Herman's "Dear World" premieres at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances
1970 Graeme Pollock completes 274 vs Australia at Durban
1970 NBA expands to 18 teams with Buffalo, Cleveland, Houston & Portland
1971 1st time a golf ball is hit on the Moon (by Alan Shepard)
1973 "Shelter" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 31 performances
1973 6th ABA All-Star Game: West 123 beats East 111 at Utah
1973 40,000 civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution
1973 Bernice Fekete skips her curling rink to 2nd straight 8-ender, Edmonton
1974 3rd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1974 Dutch speed limit set at 100 km due to oil crisis
1974 US House of Representatives begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 George Harrison releases "This Guitar (Can't Keep From Crying)"
1977 4th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 4-0
1977 Alain Prieur jumps his motorcycle 65 meter over 16 buses, near Paris
1977 Harley Race beats Terry Funk in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champion
1978 Muriel, wife of late Hubert Humphrey (Senator-D-MN) takes his office
1978 The Blizzard of 1978, one of the worst Nor'easters in New England history, hit the region, with sustained winds of 65 mph and snowfall of 4" an hour. (54" (137cm)
1979 Supreme court of Lahore affirms death sentence against premier Bhutto
1981 "Brady Brides," debuts on NBC TV
1981 Beatles McCartney, Starr & Harrison record a tribute to John Lennon
1981 Suleiman Nyambui runs world record 5k indoor (13:20.4)
1982 "Centerfold" by J Geils Band hit #1 on pop chart
1983 13th NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 20-19
1983 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1984 Moslem militiamen take over West Beirut from Lebanese army
1986 New Jersey Devil Peter McNab becomes the 42nd NHLer to score 350 goals
1987 Justice Mary Gaudron is appointed to the High Court of Australia, the first woman to be appointed.
1987 No-smoking rules take effect in federal buildings
1987 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government
1989 The Round Table Talks start in Poland, thus marking the beginning of overthrow of communism in Eastern Europe.
1990 Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50
1990 Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium
1990 Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes & 58.44 seconds backwards!
1991 Mousey Davis becomes the 1st coach of the New York-New Jersey Knights
1992 "Late Night's 10th Anniversary Show At Radio City Music Hall" on NBC
1992 The Saami people of the Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence.
1993 44th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 16-6 at Montreal
1993 Riddick Bowe TKOs Michael Dokes in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1994 "Government Inspector" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 37 performances
1994 Dawn Coe-Jones wins LPGA Healthsouth Palm Beach Golf Classic
1994 Jose Maria Figueres elected president of Costa Rica
1994 Leonid Voloshin triple jumps world record 17.77 meters
1994 Martti Ahtisaari elected President of Finland
1994 NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 17-3
1995 Beachboy Brian Wilson wed Melinda Ledbetter
1995 Darryl Strawberry suspended from baseball for 60 days
1995 Greg Blewett scores his 2nd century in his 2nd Test Cricket
1996 Heidi Fleiss scheduled to begin her 7 year jail sentence
1997 Diane Blood, 32, in England, won right to use her dead husbands sperm
1998 In Corsica, the prefect Claude Erignac is assassinated in Ajaccio, presumably by Yvan Colonna.
1998 Mary Kay LeTourneau, 36, former teacher, who violated probation by seeing 14 year old father of her baby, sentenced to 7½ years
1998 Twins trade Chuck Knoblauch to New York Yankees for $3 million & 4 minor leaguers
1998 Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
2005 Super Bowl XXXIX, the New England Patriots win 24-21 over the Philadelphia Eagles
2012 6.9 magnitude quake hits near the central Philipines with 43 confirmed deaths
2012 Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot is presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
2012 Queen Elizabeth II marks her 60th anniversary of becoming Britain's Monarch becoming only the second to do so
2013 A magnitude 8.0 earthquake occurs off the Solomon Islands coast causing the death of nine people
2014 Jay Leno ends his time on The Tonight Show
2014 The Taliban and Pakistani government begin peace negotiations
2014 "Black Coal, Thin Ice" wins the Golden Bear at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival
2015 "Selma" wins Outstanding Motion Picture at the 46th NAACP Image Awards
2016 Eighth Republican presidential candidates debate hosted by ABC, held in Goffstown, New Hampshire
Born on February 6th
1347 Dorothea of Montau, Catholic saint (d. 1394)
1461 Džore Držic, Croatian poet and playwright (d. 1501)
1465 Scipione del Ferro, Italian mathematician (d. 1526)
1536 Toyotomi Hideyoshi 2nd of three unifier of Japan in 16th century
1564 Christopher Marlowe, English poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus)
1577 Beatrice Cenci, Italian noblewoman (d. 1599)
1582 Mario Bettinus, Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1657)
1605 Bernard of Corleone, Catholic saint (d. 1667)
1608 Antonio Vieira, Portuguese Jesuit preacher and writer (d. 1697)
1611 Chongzhen Emperor, Emperor of China (d. 1644)
1612 Antoine Arnauld, French theologian, philosopher and mathematician (d. 1694)
1637 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, unified Japan
1639 Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
1664 Mustafa II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1703)
1665 Anne Stuart, Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland (1702-14) (d. 1714)
1673 Maximilian Dietrich Freisslich, composer
1695 Andre Cheron, composer
1695 Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (d. 1726)
1705 Johann Matthias Leffloth, composer
1721 Christian Friedrich Heinecken, "the Infant of Lübeck" (d. 1725)
1724 Paul-Louis Cyfflé Flemish sculptor (Terre de Lorraine)
1726 Patrick Russell, Scottish surgeon and naturalist (d. 1805)
1732 Charles Lee, General in the American Revolution (d. 1782)
1736 Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783)
1744 Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
1748 Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher, founder of the Bavarian Illuminati (d. 1811)
1753 Evariste Desire Desforges chevalier de Parny, French poet
1753 Évariste de Parny, French poet (d. 1814)
1756 Aaron Burr, 3rd Vice President of the United States (1801-05) (d. 1836)
1757 Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)
1769 Ludwig von Wallmoden-Gimborn, Austrian general. (d. 1862)
1772 Karl von Kügelgen, German landscape and history painter (d. 1832)
1778 Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer, revolutionary and poet (Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis) (d. 1827)
1788 Károly Kisfaludy Hungary, romantic poet (Tartars in Hungary-1819)
1793 Pietro Rovelli, composer
1796 John Stevens Henslow, English botanist and geologist (d. 1861)
1797 Joseph Maria von Radowitz, Prussian minister of Foreign affairs and general (d. 1853)
1798 Théodore Caruelle d'Aligny French painter/etcher
1799 Imre Frivaldszky, Hungarian botanist and entomologist (d. 1870)
1800 Achille Devéria, French painter and lithographer (d. 1857)
1802 Charles Wheatstone, English scientist and inventor (d. 1875)
1804 Ragnerus L van Andringa de Kempenaer, Dutch officer/swindler
1807 Hans Matthison-Hansen, composer
1811 Henry George Liddell, father of the Alice in Alice in Wonderland (d. 1898)
1818 Henry Charles Litolff, keyboard virtuoso and composer (d. 1891)
1818 Jenaro Quesada y Matheus, Spanish nobleman, soldier and politician (d. 1889)
1818 William Maxwell Evarts, (Union), American lawyer and statesman (d. 1901)
1829 Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer, French architect (d. 1914)
1830 Daniel Oliver, British botanist (d. 1916)
1830 Marcellus Monroe Cmusician, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1865)
1832 John Brown Gordon, General (Confederate Army), U.S. Senator from Georgia, and 53rd Governor of Georgia (d. 1904)
1833 James Ewell Brown "JEB" Stuart, Major General, Commander of Cavalry, Confederate Army (d. 1864)
1833 José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (Sotileza) (d. 1906)
1834 Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist (d. 1913)
1834 Ema Puksec, Croatian singer (d. 1889)
1834 Wilhelm von Scherff, German general and military writer (d. 1911)
1834 William Dorsey Pender, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1838 Henry Irving, [John H Brodribb], Engld, knighted 1895/actor (Hamlet)
1838 Sir Henry Irving, British actor (Hamlet) (d. 1905)
1838 Yisrael Meir Kagan, Chofetz Chayim (d. 1933)
1839 Eduard Hitzig, German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist (d. 1907)
1842 Mary Rudge, English female chess master (d. 1919)
1843 Frederic William Henry Myers, English poet, essayist and psychical researcher (d. 1901)
1843 Inoue Kowashi, Japanese statesman (d. 1895)
1847 Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (d. 1918)
1848 Luigi Mancinelli, composer
1852 C. Lloyd Morgan, British zoologist and psychologist (d. 1936)
1852 Vasily Safonov, Russian pianist, teacher, conductor and composer (d. 1918)
1853 Ignacij Klemencic, Slovenian physicist (d. 1901)
1854 Tommaso Alberto Vittorio of Savoy-Genoa, Italian prince (d. 1931)
1859 Wilhelm Cohn, German chess master (d. 1913)
1860 Johan [Eliza J] de Meester, Dutch journalist/writer (Geertje)
1861 Nikolay Zelinsky, Russian chemist (d. 1953)
1864 John Henry Mackay, Scottish individualist anarchist, thinker and writer (d. 1933)
1866 Karl T Sapper, German geologist and linguist (Vulkankunde) (d. 1945)
1872 Robert Maillart, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1940)
1872 Theodor Lessing, writer
1874 Milton Bennett Medary, US, architect (Washington Chapel)
1875 Leonid Gobyato, Russian general (d. 1915)
1876 Wilhelm Schmidtbonn[-Schmidt], German playwright (Der Sprechende Eros)
1878 Waclaw Gieburowski, composer
1878 Walter B. Pitkin, American lecturer in philosophy and psychology (d. 1953)
1879 Carl Ramsauer, German physicist (d. 1955)
1879 Magnús Guðmundsson, Icelandic politician (d. 1937)
1879 Othon Friesz French artist of the Fauvist movement (d. 1949)
1881 Karl Weigl, composer
1883 Dmitry Pavlovich Grigorovich, Russian aircraft designer (d. 1938)
1886 Louis Piérard Belgian journalist/writer (Great Germany)
1887 Josef Frings, German Archbishop of Cologne (d. 1978)
1888 Ljudmil Stojanow, Bulgarian poet (Metsh i Slowo, Cholera)
1889 Karel Wellens, Flemish painter
1889 Siegfried Kracauer, writer
1890 Anton Hermann Fokker aviation pioneer
1892 William Parry Murphy, American physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1987)
1893 Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, Pakistani diplomat, pres of UN General Assembly (1962-63) (d. 1985)
1894 Eric Partridge, New Zealand lexicographer (d. 1979)
1894 Kirpal Singh, spiritual teacher ("Sant") (d. 1974)
1895 George Herman (Babe) Ruth, American baseball player (NY Yankees) (d. 1948)
1897 Alberto [de Almeida] Cavalcanti, Brazil, director (Nicholas Nickleby)
1897 Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (d. 1944)
1899 Ramon Novarro (Jose RG Samaniegos), Mexican actor (Ben Hur) (d. 1968)
1900 Roy Smeck, guitarist/banjoist
1900 Rudolf Vornlund, Swedish playwright (Heliga Familjen)
1901 Ben Lyon, American actor (I Cover the Waterfront, Night Nurse) (d. 1979)
1902 George Brunies, American musician (d. 1974)
1902 Louis Nizer, lawyer (defended blacklisted stars in '50s, Catspaw)
1903 Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (d. 1991)
1903 John Dunning, cricketer (New Zealand medium-fast bowler of 30's)
1903 Pieter G Buckinx, Flemish writer (Temptation of Poverty)
1904 Claudio Arrau, Chile, composer/pianist (Boston Symphony Orchestra)
1905 Władysław Gomułka, Polish leader (d. 1982)
1907 Sam Green, industrialist/inventor
1908 Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician, Premier of Italy (d. 1999)
1908 Edward Lansdale, general/model (Quiet American, Ugly American)
1908 General Edward Lansdale model for "Quiet American" & "Ugly American"
1908 Thomas Dorrington Tomlinson, national Park Warden
1909 Israel Citkowitz, composer
1910 Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (d. 1993)
1910 George H Poyser, English soccer player/manager (Brentford)
1910 Irmgard Keun, German author (Das kunstseidene Mädchen) (d. 1982)
1911 A W "Dooley" Briscoe, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests for South Africa 30's)
1911 Ronald Reagan, American actor (Bedtime for Bonzo), 40th President of the United States (R) (1981-89) (d. 2004)
1912 Christopher Hill, English Marxist historian (d. 2003)
1912 Eva Braun, German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler (d. 1945)
1913 John Lund, Rochester NY, actor (Wackiest Ship in the Army)
1913 Mary Leakey, British anthropologist (d. 1996)
1913 Mary Nicol Leakey, palaeontologist
1914 Thurl Ravenscroft, American voice actor (d. 2005)
1915 Derk Roemers, Dutch politician (Social-Democrat)
1916 Bill Doggett, musician
1916 John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
1917 Arthur Gold, Toronto, Canada, pianist
1917 Liberato Firmino Sifonia, composer
1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor (Zsa Sari), Budapest, actress (Queen of Outer Space)
1918 Lothar-Günther Buchheim, German author (d. 2007)
1919 Lindsay Tuckett, cricketer (son of Len, 9 Tests for South Africa 1947-49)
1919 Louis Heren, journalist/writer (China's Three Thousand Years)
1920 James H Scheuer, (Representative-D-NY, 1965-73, 75)
1922 Bill Johnston, Australian cricketer (d. 2007)
1922 Denis Norden, British television personality
1922 Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
1922 Patrick Macnee, British actor (Jonathan Steed-Avengers)
1923 Gyula Lóránt, Hungarian football player and manager (d. 1981)
1923 Maurice Le Roux, composer
1924 Billy Wright, English soccer player (d. 1994)
1924 Jin Yong, Chinese-language novelist
1924 Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Road to Rome)
1925 Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Indonesian author (d. 2006)
1926 Haskell Wexler, American cinematographer
1926 Walker Edmiston, American actor (d. 2007)
1927 Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist (d. 1992)
1927 Smokey Burgess, baseball catcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1929 Keith Waterhouse English writer (Billy Liar, Say Who Are You?)
1929 Oscar Sambrano Urdaneta, Venezuelan writer
1929 Pierre Brice, French actor
1929 Sixten Jernberg, Sweden, skier (Olympic-gold-1956/60/64)
1929 Valentin Yanin, Russian historian
1930 Jun Kondo, Japanese theoretical physicist
1931 Fred Trueman (Fiery Fred), English cricket player
1931 Mamie Van Doren, American actress (Navy vs Night Monsters)
1931 Ricardo Vidal, Filipino Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Cebu
1931 Rip Torn, American actor (Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1932 Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary (d. 1959)
1932 François Truffaut, French film director (Jules & Jim, Fahrenheit 451) (d. 1984)
1932 Heinz-Klaus Metzger, German music critic and theorist (d. 2009)
1933 Leslie Crowther, British comedian (d. 1996)
1933 Mamie Van Doren, Rowena SD, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters) [or 2/2]
1933 Walter E Fauntroy (Representative-D-DC, 1971)
1934 Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (d. 2000)
1936 J. Howard Marshall III, American businessman
1936 Kent Douglas, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2009)
1936 Otis Williams, musician (Charms)
1936 Wies Andersen [Aloïs de Bois], Belgian actor/producer (Maigret)
1937 Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner
1938 Ellsworth Milburn, composer
1939 Mike Farrell, American actor (BJ Honeycutt-M*A*S*H, Battered)
1939 Orlando Parga, Puerto Rican politician
1940 Jimmy Tarbuck, British comedian
1940 Petr Hájek, Czech mathematician
1940 Tom Brokaw, American news anchorman (NBC Nightly News 1982)
1941 Gigi Perreau, American actress (Journey to Center of Time)
1941 Spencer Silver, American chemist, co-creator of the Post-it note
1941 Stephen Albert, composer
1942 James Loewen, American sociologist and historian
1942 John London, bassist (Michael Nesmith band)
1942 Sarah Brady, American gun-control activist
1943 Fabian Forte, American singer (Turn Me Loose, Tiger)
1943 Gayle Hunnicutt, American actress (Legend of Hell House, Dallas)
1944 Christine Boutin, French politician
1944 Michael Tucker, American actor (Stuart Markowitz-LA Law)
1944 Willie Tee, American singer and songwriter (d. 2007))
1945 Bob Marley, Jamacian reggae musician and singer-songwriter (Whalers - Roots Rock Reggae) (d. 1981)
1946 Jim Turner, American politician
1946 Kate McGarrigle, Canadian singer and songwriter (d. 2010)
1947 Bill Staines, American singer and songwroter
1947 Charles Hickcox, US, 200 meter/400 meter medley swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1968)
1949 Frank Rich, US politician
1949 Jim Sheridan, Irish film director
1949 Manuel Orantes, tennis champion (US Open-1975)
1949 Mike Batt, British composer
1949 Richie Zisk, baseball player
1950 Mike Batt, composer/arranger
1950 Natalie Cole, American singer (Unforgettable, Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy)
1950 Punky Meadows, Washington DC, rock guitarist (Angel)
1950 Rich Glover, NFLer
1951 Jacques Villeret, French film actor (d. 2005)
1951 Kevin Whately, English actor
1951 Marco Antônio, Brazilian footballer
1951 Margo O'Donnell, Irish singer
1951 Maria Christina, Belgian princess/daughter of Leopold III
1952 John Sanderford Orlando FL, actor (Recoil, Ryan's Hope)
1952 Ricardo Lavolpe, Argentine football coach
1952 Richard Charsworth, Australian women field hockey head coach (Olympics-96)
1952 Viktor Giacobbo, Swiss writer, comedian, moderator and actor
1953 Susie Hutchison, Flintridge California, equestrian show jumper (Olymp-96)
1954 Scott Kempner, "Top Ten" musician (Del Lords)
1955 Eric Money, NBA basketball player
1955 Michael Pollan, American journalist
1956 Jon Walmsley, Lancashire England, actor (Jason-Waltons)
1956 Linda Grovenor, Baltimore MD, actress (Die Laughing, Wheels of Fire)
1957 Jerry Marotta, musician (Orleans-Love Takes Time)
1957 Kathy Najimy, American actress and comedienne (Sister Act, Veronica's Closet)
1957 Robert Townsend, American actor (Hollywood Shuffle, Ratboy)
1957 Simon Phillips. Drummer (Toto)
1958 Barry Miller, American actor (Fame, Peggy Sue Got Married)
1958 Bill Dawley, baseball player
1958 Cecily Adams, American actress, entertainment caster (American Heart) (d. 2004)
1958 Kelly Leadbetter, Phoenix AZ, LPGA golfer (1986 Hennessy French Open)
1958 Mark Hamilton, Louisville KY, sprint kayak Olympics-96)
1958 Simon Baker, Australian speed walker, (Olympics-84, 88, 96)
1959 Ken Nelson, English record producer
1960 Megan Gallagher, American actress (Slap Maxwell, Millennium)
1961 Bill Lester, American racecar driver
1961 Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko, Russian major/cosmonaut (Mir, Soyuz TM-23)
1962 Axl Rose, [William Bailey], Lafayette In, vocalist (Guns & Roses)
1962 Axl Rose (William Bailey), American vocalist (Guns & Roses)
1962 Stavros Lambrinidis, Greek politician
1963 David Capel, cricketer (England all-rounder in 15 Tests 1987-90)
1963 Kevin Trudeau, American entrepreneur
1963 Mike Hough, Montreal, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1964 Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russian film director and actor
1964 Gordon Downie, Canadian musician (The Tragically Hip)
1964 Matt Hayes, Australian soling yachtsman (Olympics-96)
1964 Skip Ewing, Redlands California, country vocalist (Coast of Colorado)
1965 Jan Sverák, Czech film director (Kolya, Jizda, Ropaci)
1966 Alex Antonitsch, Austria, tennis star
1966 Rick Astley, British singer (Never Gonna Give You Up)
1966 Tom Tupa, NFL punter/quarterback (Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots)
1967 Anita Cochran, American singer
1967 Bennie Dekker, Dutch soccer player (NEC/AZ/De Graafschap)
1967 Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (Zard) (d. 2007)
1967 Mike Evans, WLAF defensive tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1967 Randy Hilliard, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1968 Adolfo Valencia, Colombian footballer
1968 Akira Yamaoka, Japanese composer
1968 Imtiaz Abbasi, UAE cricket wicket-keeper (World Cup 1996)
1968 Malika Mahfoud, Copenhagen Denmark, golfer (Gippsland Ladies Amateur)
1968 Richard Newbill, WLAF linebacker (London Monarchs)
1969 Anna Acker-Macosko, Marshfield WI, LPGA golfer (1995 Gold Coast Tour)
1969 April Lerman, Chicago Ill, actress (Lila-Charles in Charge)
1969 Bob Wickman, Green Bay WI, pitcher (Chicago White Sox, New York Yankees)
1969 David Hayter, American Voice actor (Solid Snake)
1969 Greg Patrick, WLAF safety (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 James Jones, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens)
1969 Kurt Abbott, US baseball player (Florida Marlins)
1969 Masaharu Fukuyama, Japanese singer
1969 Rajindra Dhanraj, Trinidad cricket leg-spinner (West Indies 1994-95)
1969 Tim Sherwood, English footballer
1970 Jeff Rouse, US, 50 meter/100 meter backstroke swimmer (Olympics-gold/silver-92, 96)
1970 Mark Hutton, Adelaide Australia, pitcher (New York Yankees)
1970 Per Frandsen, Danish footballer
1971 Brad Hogg, Australian cricket player (WA chinaman all-rounder, Australia vs India 1996)
1971 Brian Stepanek, American actor
1971 Carlos Rogers, NBA forward/center (Toronto Raptors)
1971 Dana Eskelson, American actress
1971 Lance Bade, Vancouver British Columbia, US double trap (Olympics-bronze-1996)
1971 Mana Endo, Hiroshima Japan, tennis star (1996 3rd round Australian Open)
1971 Peter Tchernyshev, St Petersburg Russia, dance skater (& Naomi Lang)
1972 David Binn, American football player, NFL safety (San Diego Chargers)
1972 Mark Labbrook, Australian 200 meter/400 meter runner (Olympics-96)
1972 Shawn Respert, NBA guard (Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors)
1973 Arie Obdam, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1973 Fred Miller, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1973 Lulama Masikazana, cricket wicket-keeper (Kwazulu for E Province)
1974 Nathan Davis, defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1974 Olaf Lindenbergh, soccer player (Ajax, De Graafschap)
1975 Brett Hawke, Australian swimmer
1975 Chad Allen, Dallas Tx, baseball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1975 Leo Insam, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1975 Orkut Büyükkökten, Turkish software engineer who developed the social networking service Orkut
1975 Svend-Allan Sørensen, Danish artist
1975 Tomoko Kawase, Japanese singer
1976 Colin Teo, Singaporean Grand Prix driver
1976 Elina Zisi, Miss Greece Universe (1997)
1976 Kasper Hvidt, Danish handball goalkeeper
1976 Kim Zmeskal, American gymnast (Olympic-92)
1976 Princess Marie of Denmark
1976 Tanja Frieden, Swiss snowboarder
1977 Jason Euell, English-born footballer
1977 Josh Stewart, American actor
1979 Dan Balan, Moldovan singer (O-Zone)
1980 Kim Poirier, Canadian actress
1980 Luke Ravenstahl, American politician
1980 Mamiko Noto, Japanese seiyu
1981 Alison Haislip, Attack of the Show! correspondent
1981 Calum Best, American model
1981 Jens Lekman, Swedish musician
1981 Shim Eun Jin, former leader of Baby V.O.X.
1981 Ty Warren, American football player, defensive lineman
1982 Alice Eve, English actress
1982 Jade Edmistone, Australian swimmer
1982 Tank Lu, Mandopop singer
1983 Brodie Croyle, American football player
1983 Dimas Delgado, Spanish footballer
1983 Jamie Whincup, Australian racing driver
1983 Melrose Bickerstaff, American fashion model
1983 Myron Wolf Child, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1983 S. Sreesanth, Indian cricketer
1984 Antoine Wright, American basketball player
1984 Brandon Hammond, American actor (Gregory Hines Show)
1984 Darren Bent, English footballer
1984 Piret Järvis, Estonian singer
1985 Joji Kato, Japanese speedskater
1985 Kris Humphries, American basketball player
1985 Yang Yu, Chinese swimmer
1986 Alice Greczyn, American actress
1986 Brendan Taylor, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 U-Know, leader of Korean group TVXQ
1988 Allison Holker, American dancer
1988 Bailey Hanks, American actress
1989 Craig Cathcart, Irish footballer
1992 Víctor Mañon, Mexican u-17s footballer
2004 Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Princess of Belgium
Died on February 6th
743 Hisham ibn 'Abd al-Malik, 10th Moslem caliph
891 Photius, Byzantine theologist, Patriarch of Constantinople, saint
891 St. Photius I the Great
1140 Thurstan, archbishop of York, dies
1378 Jeanne de Bourbon, wife of Charles V of France (b. 1338)
1497 Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c.1410)
1515 Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
1585 Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (b. 1518)
1593 Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
1593 Jacques Amyot, French writer (b. 1513)
1612 Christopher Clavius, calendar reformer, dies (birth date unknown)
1617 Prosper Alpinus, Italian scientist (b. 1553)
1685 Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660-85) (b. 1630)
1695 Ahmed II, 21st sultan of Turkey (1691-95)
1699 Jozef Ferdinand of Bavaria, heir of Spanish king Carlos II
1725 Johann Philipp Krieger, composer
1740 Pope Clement XII (b. 1652)
1775 William Dowdeswell, English politician (b. 1721)
1783 Capability Brown, English landscape gardener (b. 1716)
1783 Lancelot "Capability" Brown, English architect (Kew)
1785 Iman Willem Falck, Dutch governor of Ceylon (1765-83)
1793 Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (L'avaro) (b. 1707)
1798 Niels Schiorring, composer
1804 Joseph Priestley, England/US theologist/philosopher/chemist
1806 Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, French general and father of author Alexandre Dumas, père (b. 1762)
1807 John Reid, British army general and composer (b. 1721)
1812 Carlo Goldoni, writer, dies at 104
1816 Maria Ludwika Rzewuska, Polish szlachcianka (b. 1744)
1833 Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (b. 1762)
1834 Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (b. 1804)
1855 Josef Munzinger, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1791)
1859 Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer
1865 John Pegram, US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle
1881 Pieter Mijer, Governor-General of Netherlands Indies (1866-72)
1896 Abraham Czn van Stolk, Dutch art collector
1897 Ebenezer C Brewer, British writer (Dictionary of Phrase & Fable)
1899 Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor
1899 Leo von Caprivi, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1831)
1899 Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of Edinburgh (b. 1874)
1910 Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b. 1839)
1914 J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Hague School)
1916 Anne C A I van Diest, Belgian physician/feminist
1916 Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
1917 Edouard A Drumont, French anti-semite journalist
1918 Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter (b. 1862)
1919 Friedrich W Mengelberg, German sculptor/painter
1923 Edward E Barnard, US astronomer (5th moon Jupiter)
1927 Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker
1927 Sam Maguire, Irish Republican and Gaelic footballer (b. 1879)
1930 Eva Strittmatter, writer, dies at 17
1938 Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (b. 1860)
1941 Maximilien Luce, French painter, dies at 82
1942 Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist, dies at 78
1943 HA Seyffardt, Dutch Lieutenant-General/NSB "minister"
1945 Jan Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1945 Paul Bos, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1947 Albert JM Bakker, Dutch actor (Teun the night watch)
1947 Luigi Russolo, composer
1948 Robert Brasillach, French author/nazi collaborator
1950 Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (b. 1884)
1951 Gabby Street, former MLB player (b. 1882)
1952 George VI, King of Britain (1936-52) (succeeded by daughter, Elizabeth II) (b. 1895)
1958 7 Manchester United soccer players die in an air crash near Munich
1958 David Pegg, English footballer (b. 1935)
1958 Eddie Colman, English footballer (b. 1936)
1958 Frank Swift, English footballer and journalist (b. 1913)
1958 Geoff Bent, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 Mark Jones, English footballer (b. 1933)
1958 Roger Byrne, English footballer (b. 1929)
1958 Tommy Taylor, English footballer (b. 1932)
1958 Walter Crickmer, English football club secretary and manager
1960 Jesse Belvin, rocker, dies at 26 in a car crash
1961 Archibald T Davison, composer
1963 Abd el-Krim, Moroccan politician
1963 Mohammed ibn al-Chattabi Abd el-Krim, Morocco opposition leader, dies
1963 Werner Erich Josten, German composer (Jungle)
1964 Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and President (b. 1869)
1964 Sophocles Venizelos, premier of Greece (1944, 50-51)
1964 W L Cornford, England cricket wicket-keeper (4 Tests vs New Zealand 1930)
1965 Jack Wagner, actor (Jive Junction)
1966 Johan Algot Haquinius, composer
1966 Narcisa de Leon, Filipino film mogul (b. 1877)
1967 Martine Carol, French film actress (Nana) (b. 1920)
1968 C Montague Shaw, actor (Buck Rogers, Planet Outlaws)
1970 Roscoe Karns, actor (Captain Shafer-Hennesey)
1972 Julian H Steward, US anthropologist (South American)
1973 Ira S Bowen, US physicist/astronomer (Mt Wilson/Palomar)
1976 Ritwik Ghatak, Bengali Indian film maker and scriptwriter (b. 1925)
1976 Vince Guaraldi, American musician (Charlie Brown TV specials) (b. 1928)
1979 Alain Teister, Dutch sculptor/writer
1979 Arthur van Schendel, Dutch art historian
1981 Frederika of Hanover, Queen Consort of Greece (b. 1917)
1981 Hugo Montenegro, American film music composer (b. 1925)
1982 Ben Nicholson, England, painter/sculptor (Circle)
1985 Charles Briggs, actor (13 Frightened Girls, Captain Newman)
1985 James Hadley Chase, English writer (b. 1906)
1986 Dandy Nichols, English actress (Confessions of a Window Cleaner) (b. 1907)
1986 Frederick Coutts, Salvation Army general (b. 1899)
1986 Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (b. 1912)
1986 William Collier, actor (Up the River, She's My Weakness)
1988 Lee Goodman, actor (Imitation of Life)
1988 Marghanita Laski, English author (Victorian chaise-lounge)
1988 Nuno Oliveira, Bass Player (b. 1925)
1989 André Cayatte, French filmmaker (b. 1909)
1989 Barbara Tuchman, American historian (Guns of August-Pulitzer) (b. 1912)
1989 Chris Gueffroy, East German attempted defector (b. 1968)
1989 Osbourne Ruddock, Jamaican Dub music performer (b. 1941)
1990 Jane Novak, silent screen actress (Ghost Town)
1990 John Merivale, actor (Caltiki)
1991 Danny Thomas, American singer, comedian, and actor (Jazz Singer) (b. 1914)
1991 Marten Levendig, Dutch TV correspondent to Moscow, dies
1991 Salvador Luria, Italian biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1992 Frank Wilson, actor (Beware, Sunday Sinners, Club)
1992 Wade Preston, actor (Man Called Sledge)
1993 Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS (b. 1943)
1993 Frances Hunt, actress (You're a Sweetheart)7
1994 Ignace Strasfogel, Polish/US pianist/conductor/composer
1994 Jack Kirby, American comic book writer (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk) (b. 1917)
1994 Joseph Cotten, American actor (Citizen Kane) (b. 1905)
1994 Norman Del Mar, conductor/writer (Conducting Brahms)
1995 Arthur S Taylor Jr, US drummer/author (Notes on notes)
1995 James Ingram Merrill, US poet (Braving the elements)
1995 James Merrill, American poet (b. 1926)
1996 Guy Madison, actor (Wild Bill Hickok)
1996 Ronald Fletcher, broadcaster
1996 Rosemary Tsay, drama critic/SOE operator
1997 Roger Laurent, Belgian racing driver (b. 1913)
1998 Carl Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys), dies of lung cancer (b. 1946)
1998 Falco, Austrian singer (b. 1957)
1998 Haroun Tazieff, French vulcanologist and geologist (b. 1914)
1998 Nazim al-Kudsi, Syrian PM (1949, 1950-51)/President (1961-63), dies
1998 [Johann Hoelzel] Falco, singer (Rock Me Amadeus), dies at 40
2001 Filemon Lagman, Filipino Communist revolutionary (b. 1953)
2001 Fulgence Charpentier, Quebec journalist (b. 1897)
2002 Max Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1914)
2005 Karl Haas, American radio presenter (b. 1913)
2005 Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2007 Frankie Laine, American singer (b. 1913)
2007 Lee Hoffman, American author (b. 1932)
2007 Len Hopkins, Canadian politician (b. 1930)
2007 Lew Burdette, American baseball player (b. 1926)
2007 Willye White, American athlete (b. 1939)
2008 John McWethy, American journalist (b. 1947)
2008 Tony Rolt, English racing driver (b. 1918)
2011 Gary Moore, Irish musician (b. 1952)
2012 Antoni Tapies, Spanish artist, dies at 88
2012 Janice Voss, American astronaut
2012 Peter Breck, American actor
2015 André Brink, South African writer (Kennis van die aand - First Afrikaans book banned)
2016 Dan Hicks, American singer-songwriter (Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks)