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February 8th

Holidays and Celebrations

Prešeren Day a.k.a. Culture Day (Slovenia)
World Marriage Day
Samuel Butler Day, English poet (1612 - 1680)
James Dean Day, American actor (1931 - 1955)
Boy Scout Day * (See Below)
Nirvana Day * (See Below)

Needle Mass (Ha-ri-ku-yo - Japan)
Extraterrestrial Culture Day (New Mexico)
Girl Scout Cookie Day
Kite Flying Day
Laugh and Get Rich Day
Grammy Awards Day
Man Day
Devil's Footprint Day - The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon (1855).
Gas Execution Day -The first state execution using gas in the United States takes place in Nevada (1924).
Molasses Bar Day
Birthday of James Dean (actor)
Birthday of Jules Verne (writer)
Opera Day
Ted Koppel Day, American journalist (b.1940)
Nick Nolte Day, American actor (b.1941)
Robert Klein Day, American comedian (b.1942)
John Grisham Day, American writer (b.1955)
Gary Coleman Day, American actor (1968 - 2011)
Day 3 of Carnival Season
Feast of Saint Jerome Emiliani
Feast of Saint Juventius
Feast of Saint Meingold of Huy
Christian Feast Day of Josephine Bakhita
Christian Feast Day of Juventius of Pavia
Christian Feast Day of Meingold of Huy
Christian Feast Day of Stephen of Muret

* Boy Scout Day - Also Known as Boy Scout Anniversary Day celebrating the birthday of scouting.
* Scout Sunday - The Sunday preceding February 8 is designated as Scout Sunday and the following Saturday is designated as Scout Sabbath.
* Nirvana Day (Mahayana Buddhism) - an annual Buddhist festival.

Fête de la Serpette Translation: Billhook Day (French Republican) The 20th day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"Here's to _, (s)he's true blue,
(S)he's a wanker through & through,
(S)he's a bastard so they say,
Tried to get to heaven but (s)he went the other way.
Drink it down, down, down."

- Traditional

-Alternative Version-

"Here's to you, you're true blue,
A wanker through & through,
You're a bastard so they say,
Tried to get to heaven but you went the other way.
Drink it down, down, down."
- Traditional

Drink of The Day

Ass Whipper

1oz peach schnapps
5oz absinthe
1oz vodka
2oz gin

Wine of The Day

Jazz Cellars 2008 Doctor's Vineyard
Style - Pinot Noir
Santa Lucia Highlands
$45

Beer of The Day

Troegenator
Brewer - Troegs Brewery, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
Style - Traditional German-Style Bock

Joke of The Day

Top ten signs that you are too drunk

10. You have to hold onto the lawn to keep from falling off the Earth.
9. Mosquitoes catch a buzz after attacking you.
8. The back of your head keeps getting hit by the toilet seat.
7. Your idea of cutting back is less salt.
6. You can focus better with one eye closed.
5. You fall off the floor.
4. The whole bar greets you when you come in.
3. You haven't had a driver's license in such a long time that you have forgotten what one looks like.
2. You don't recognize your wife/husband unless seen through bottom of glass.
1. You spent more time on the floor than you do standing up.

Quote of the Day

"I don't jog... it makes the ice jump right out of my glass."
- Unknown

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

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)
Dump Your Significant Jerk Week, The Week Before Valentines Day
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week, Second Week of February
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week, Second Week of February
Risk Awareness Week, Second Week of February
Great American Pizza Bake,Second Week of February
Kraut and Frankfurter Week, Second Week of February
World AG Expo, Second Week of February
World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week, Second Week of February
Love Makes the World Go Round, But Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week, Second Week of February

Historical Events on February 8th

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421 Flavius Constantine becomes emperor Constantine III of West Roman empire
1526 Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die
1575 University Leiden Netherlands founded, and given the motto "Praesidium Libertatis"
1587 Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
1600 Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death
1601 Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London
1601 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I the revolt is quickly crushed.
1622 King James I of England disbands the English Parliament.
1672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1690 French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire
1690 Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal
1692 A doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony suggests that two girls in the family of the village minister may be suffering from bewitchment, leading to the Salem witch trials.
1693 The College of William and Mary was founded in Williamsburg, Virginia for the purpose of educating Anglican clergyman. After Harvard, it is the second oldest institution of higher learning in America.
1726 The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia.
1735 1st opera in US "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC
1743 Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth
1744 Colonial missionary to the American Indians, David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'I find that both mind and body are quickly tired with intenseness and fervor in the things of God. Oh that I could be as incessant as angels in devotion and spiritual fervor.'
1744 French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon
1750 Minor earthquake in London
1775 Leidse University 400th anniversary dinner
1776 Wolfgang von Goethes' "Stella," premieres in Hamburg
1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock
1807 Battle of Eylau Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
1809 Franz I of Austria declares war on France
1817 Las Heras crosses the Andes with an army to join San Martín and liberate Chile from Spain.
1837 Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate (Van Buren administration).
1849 New Roman Republic established.
1851 Death of Alexander Haldane, 83. In 1797 he founded the Society for Propagating the Gospel at Home, after discovering that the Church of Scotland was as little interested in home missions as it was in foreign missions.
1855 The Devil's Footprints mysteriously appear in southern Devon.
1856 Barbu Dimitrie Stirbei abolishes slavery in Wallachia.
1861 Confederate States of America organizes in Montgomery, Alabama
1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound
1862 Dion Boucicault's opera "The Lily of Killarney" is produced (London)
1862 Opera "Lily of Killarney," premieres in London
1865 1st black major in US army, Martin Robinson Delany
1865 Birth of Lewis E. Jones, American YMCA director. Jones was also a writer of hymns, and his most enduring contribution (which he both wrote and composed) was "Power in the Blood."
1865 In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
1867 The Ausgleich results in the establishment of the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary.
1879 Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invent the fountain pen
1887 Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minn became the 1st US ski club
1887 The Dawes Act authorized the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments. Natives living apart from tribe granted citizenship
1889 Flood ravages Dutch coast
1894 Enforcement Act repealed, making it easier to disenfranchise blacks
1895 Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg
1896 Georges Feydeaus' "Le Dindon," premieres in Paris
1896 Western Conference forms of Midwestern U, later renamed Big 10 Conference
1898 John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming machine (Massachusetts)
1900 British troops are defeated by Boers at Ladysmith, South Africa.
1904 Outbreak of hostilities in Russo-Japanese war at the Battle of Port Arthur, A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War.
1905 Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people
1908 Wilhelmina '08 soccer team forms in Weert Netherlands
1909 France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
1910 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated & chartered by William D. Boyce.
1911 US helps overthrow President Miguel Dávila of Honduras
1911 Victor Herbert's opera "Natoma" premieres in New York NY
1912 1st eastbound US transcontinental flight lands in Jacksonville, Fla
1914 General Zamon becomes president of Haiti
1915 "Birth of a Nation" opens at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles CA
1915 D.W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374
1916 NL votes down Charlie Ebbets proposal to limit 25 cent seats
1918 "Stars & Stripes", weekly US armed forces newspaper, first published
1920 Swiss men vote against women's suffrage
1922 President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
1922 Radio arrives at the White House
1923 Coal mine explosion at Dawson, New Mexico kills 120
1923 German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
1924 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
1924 The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
1925 Kaufman & Berlin's "Coconuts" premieres in New York NY
1925 Marcus Garvey enters federal prison in Atlanta GA
1926 German Reichstag decides to apply for League of Nations membership
1926 Sean O'Casey's "The Plough & the Stars" opens at Abbey Theatre Dublin
1926 Walt Disney Studios is formed
1927 Belgian-Swiss treaty signed
1928 1st transatlantic TV image received, Hartsdale, NY
1928 Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV
1929 KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions
1930 "Happy Days Are Here Again" by Benny Mereoff hits #1
1931 Gas explosion Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000
1933 -23°F (-31°C), Seminole, Texas (state record)
1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247
1934 Export-Import Bank organizes in Washington, DC
1934 Gaston Doumergue forms new French government
1935 1st NFL draft, Heisman Trophy winner Jay Berwanger of University of Chicago is 1st pick (by Eagles), He never plays in the NFL
1936 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, MN
1936 1st successful Toronto Maple Leaf penalty shot, Conacher vs Rangers
1936 Pandit Jawaharlal follows Gandhi as chairman of India Congress Party
1937 Maxwell Anderson's "Masque of Kings" premieres in New York NY
1940 Lewis & Hamilton's musical "Two for the Show" premieres in New York NY
1940 Lodtz, 1st large ghetto established by Nazis in Poland
1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
1941 NSB'er Max Blokzijl begins Nazi propaganda on Dutch radio
1942 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
1942 Stravinsky's "Danses Concertantes" premieres in Los Angeles
1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk
1944 1st black reporter accredited to the White House, Harry McAlpin
1944 U-762 sunk off Ireland
1945 Allied air attack on Goch/Kleef/Kalkar/Reichswald
1946 Béla Bartók's 3rd Concert for piano/orchestra premieres in Philadelphia, PA, US
1946 Premier Salazar of Portugal forbids opposition parties
1947 Jan van der Hoorn wins 8th Dutch 11-cities skating race (10:51)
1947 KSD (now KSDK) TV channel 5 in St Louis, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
1948 5th Winter Olympics games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
1949 Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary is sentenced for treason.
1949 Hungarian Cardinal Mindszenty sentenced to life in prison
1950 American missionary and martyr Jim Elliot wrote in his journal, 'Sin in a Christian makes God seem distant, deaf. In the body, sin saps animation, as cancer. In the soul, sin stifles the affections; as corrosion in the spirit, sin solidifies the attitudes, as a callous.'
1952 "RCA Victor Show Starring Dennis Day," debuts on NBC TV
1952 Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the UK.
1953 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1953 WLVA (now WSET) TV channel 13 in Lynchburg-Roanoke, VA (ABC) begins
1955 Malenkov resigns as USSR premier, Bulganin replaces him
1955 The Government of Sindh abolished Jagirdari system in the province. One million acres (4000 km²) of land thus acquired is to be distributed among the landless peasants.
1956 Mine disaster in Quaregnon Belgium, 8 die
1957 San Francisco Public Library's bookmobile initiated in front of City Hall
1958 Edgar Whitehead succeeds Garfield Todd as premier of South Rhodesia
1958 French planes bomb Sakiet Tunisia, 75 die
1958 KIRO TV channel 7 in Seattle, WA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)
1960 Congress opens hearings looking into payola
1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".
1962 Charonne massacre, Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
1962 KACB TV channel 3 in San Angelo, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist)
1963 AFL's Dallas Texans become Kansas City Chiefs
1963 Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
1963 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London
1964 Representative Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act
1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84
1965 Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love"
1966 The National Hockey League awards Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania a second NHL franchise, the Pittsburgh Penguins.
1967 French Diadème D-1C satellite launches into Earth orbit
1967 Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games)
1967 Peter (Asher) & Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership
1967 Pirate Radio UKGM (England) closes down
1967 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre, an attack that left three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina on black students from South Carolina State University who were protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley.
1968 Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg)
1969 Allende meteorite falls near Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico.
1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico
1971 Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion
1971 South Vietnamese troops invade Laos
1971 The NASDAQ stock market index opens for the first time.
1972 Josh Gibson & Buck Leonard selected to Hall of Fame
1973 Jean Kerrs "Finishing Touches" premieres in New York NY
1973 Mushtaq & Asif Iqbal make 350 stand for 4th wicket vs New Zealand
1973 Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal
1974 "Good Times" debuts on CBS TV
1974 After 84 days in space, the crew of the first American space station Skylab returns to Earth.
1974 Military coup in Upper Volta.
1974 Ringo Starr releases "You're 16"
1974 Soap opera "The Secret Storm" ends a 20 year run
1975 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea
1975 Capitals only got one shot in a period against the Islanders
1976 Hua Guofeng becomes premier of China PR
1976 Jan Stephens wins LPGA Sarah Coventry Naples Golf Classic
1976 Largest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavaliers vs Washington-21,130)
1977 Earthquake in San Francisco CA, at 5.0, strongest since 1966
1977 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced
1978 Crown Prince Sad Abdallah al-Salim Al Sabah becomes PM of Kuwait
1978 Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
1979 Denis Sassou-Nguesso becomes the President of the Republic of the Congo for the first time.
1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 "5 O'Clock Girl" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 12 performances
1981 "Brigadoon" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 133 performances
1981 Sally Little wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1981 US female Figure Skating championship won by Elaine Zayak
1981 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Hamilton
1982 Dodgers trade Davey Lopes to A's breaking up the longest-playing infield (Cey-Russell-Lopes-Garvey)
1983 35th NHL All-Star Game Campbell beat Wales 9-3 at New York Islander
1983 Baseball orders Mickey Mantle to sever ties with Claridge Casino
1983 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland, never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance
1983 Eric Peters sets transatlantic sailboat record (E-W)-46 days
1983 The Melbourne dust storm hits Australia's second largest city. The result of the worst drought on record and a day of severe weather conditions, a 320 metres (1,050 ft) deep dust cloud envelops the city, turning day to night.
1983 Tina Howe's "Painting Churches" premieres in New York NY
1983 Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period
1984 1st time 8 people in space
1984 14th Winter Olympics games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
1984 A's take Yankees pitcher Tim Belcher as Type A free agent compensation
1984 Soyuz T-10 launches with crew of 3 to Salyut 7
1985 1st-class cricket debut of Jimmy Adams (age 17), Jamaica vs Barbados
1985 Bruce Morris, Marshall University, makes a 92' 5¼" basketball shot
1985 Michael Gross swims world record 800 meter freestyle (7:38.75)
1985 Opposition leader Kim Dae Jung returns to South-Korea
1986 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition
1986 1984 Summer Olympics head of the LAPD bomb squad, Arleigh McCree, and his partner Officer Ronald Ball of the Firearms and explosives unit were killed while trying to dismantle two pipe bombs when they responded to a call. McCree was recognized as one of the top explosive experts in the world.
1986 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano
1987 37th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 154-149 (OT) at Seattle
1987 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1988 NASA launches DOD-2
1989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles
1989 An Independent Air Boeing 707 crashes into Santa Maria mountain in Azores Islands off the coast of Portugal, killing 144.
1989 Jockey Chris Antley begins record of 64 consecutive winning days
1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
1990 David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London
1991 Roger Clemens signs record $5,380,250 per year Red Sox contract
1992 "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1
1992 16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France
1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter
1993 General Motors sues NBC after Dateline NBC allegedly rigs two car-truck crashes intended to demonstrate that some 1973-87 GM pickups can easily catch fire if hit in certain places. NBC settles the lawsuit the next day.
1993 Suchoi-24 crashes into Tupolev passenger flight, 134 die
1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car
1994 Kapil Dev sets world record for Test Cricket wickets with 432
1994 Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee charge with possession of loaded firearm
1995 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed)
1996 NFL & Cleveland allows Art Modell to move his NFL franchise to Baltimore but he had to leave the Browns' name behind
1996 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
1996 The massive Internet collaboration "24 Hours in Cyberspace" takes place.
1998 1st female ice hockey game in Olympics history Finland beats Sweden 6-0
1998 48th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 135-114 at NYC
1998 NHL stops season until Feb 24th to accommodate the Olympics
2002 XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
2005 Israel and Palestinians agree to cease-fire
2008 Nebraska bans electric chair as sole execution method
2009 Please Read The Letter, Adele wins at the 51st Grammy Awards
2009 "Slumdog Millionaire" Best Film, Danny Boyle Best Director at the 62nd British Film and Television Awards
2013 29 people are killed and 69 are injured in a series of Iraq bombings
2013 16 people are killed and 27 are wounded by a market bombing in Kalaya, Pakistan
2013 100, 000 people march to demand justice for the atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War in Dhaka
2013 A massive blizzard begins in the US and Canada that resulted in 15 deaths, 5,300 cancelled flights, and loss of power for 900,000 people
2014 15 people are killed & 130 injured in a hotel fire in Medina, Saudi Arabia
2014 17 people are killed after a truck & bus collide in Mendoza, Argentina
2014 Ole Einar Bjørndalen equals the Winter Olympics medal record with 12
2015 Best Song "Stay With Me" by Sam Smith, Best Album "Morning Phase" by Beck at the 57th Grammy Awards
2015 "Boyhood" Best Film, Richard Linklater Best Director at the 68th British Film and Television Awards
2015 Ivory Coast wins the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations football championship

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Born on February 8th

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412 Proclus, Greek philosopher, patriarch of Constantinople (d. 487)
1191 Yaroslav II of Russia (d. 1246)
1291 Afonso IV, King of Portugal (1325-57) (d. 1357)
1405 Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last reigning Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1453)
1487 Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1550)
1552 Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (Tragiques) (d. 1630)
1577 Robert Burton, English cleric and writer (Anatomy of Melancholy) (d. 1640)
1586 Jacob Praetorius, German composer (d. 1651)
1612 Samuel Butler, English poet (Hudibras) (d. 1680)
1649 Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian (d. 1728)
1677 Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1756)
1685 Charles-Jean-François Hénault, French historian (d. 1770)
1700 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (d. 1782)
1708 Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer
1712 L Joseph de Montcalm de Saint-Véran French General in America
1720 Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
1741 Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer
1764 Joseph Leopold von Eybler, Austrian composer
1789 Ludwig Wilhelm Maurer, composer
1792 Caroline Augusta of Bavaria, queen of Hungary and Bohemia (d. 1873)
1795 Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist (Chinoline)
1795 Moritz G [Moses] Saphir, Hungarian journalist/serial writer
1798 Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia, Russian Grand Duke (d. 1849)
1804 Richard Lemon Lander, British explorer (d. 1834)
1807 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, English sculptor and naturalist (d. 1889)
1807 Franciscus J van Vree, Dutch Catholic foreman
1810 Norbert Burgmuller, composer
1811 Edwin Denison Morgan, Secretary of War (Confederacy), dies in 1883
1813 Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist
1817 Richard Stoddert Ewell, Lieutenant General (Confederate Army), dies in 1872
1818 Austin Blair, Governor/MC (Union), died in 1894
1819 John Ruskin, English author, Gothic Revivalist (Prerafaelite) (d. 1900)
1820 William Tecumseh Sherman, American Union general (War is hell) (d. 1891)
1822 Maxime Du Camp, French photographer and journalist (Les Buveurs de Cendres) (d. 1894)
1824 Barnard Elliot Bee, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1861
1828 Antonio Cagnoni, composer
1828 Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, premier of Spain
1828 Jules Verne, French author (From the Earth to the Moon) (d. 1905)
1834 Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist (d. 1907)
1847 Hugh Price Hughes, English social reformer (d. 1902)
1850 Kate Chopin, American author (d. 1904)
1851 Kate O'Flaherty Chopin, novelist
1852 Nikolai Garin (Michailovski), Russ author (Tjoma Kartashov)
1859 John H Been, town's archivist of Brielle (Baasje & Witkop)
1876 Paula Modersohn-Becker, German "entartet" painter
1878 Martin Buber, Austrian-born Israeli philosopher (Ich und Du) (d. 1965)
1880 Franz Marc, German painter (Blaue Reiter) (d. 1916)
1882 George Siegmann, actor (Birth of Nation, Queen of Sheba, Oliver Twist)
1882 Thomas Selfridge, First person to die in an airplane crash (d. 1908).
1883 Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Austrian economist (d. 1950)
1884 Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (d. 1953)
1886 Charles Ruggles, American actor (The Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show) (d. 1970)
1888 Dame Edith Evans, British actress (Tom Jones, David Copperfield) (d. 1976)
1888 Matthijs Vermeulen, Dutch composer/music critic
1890 Claro M. Recto, Filipino nationalist, opponent of US colonialism (d. 1960)
1891 Edgar Palm, Curacao, pianist/composer
1892 Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt)
1893 Ba Maw, Burmese politician (d. 1977)
1894 King Vidor, American film director (d. 1982)
1894 Ludwig Marcuse, German author and philosopher (d. 1971)
1895 King Vidor, director (War & Peace, Stella Dallas)
1896 Orville Caldwell, California, actor (Patsy, French Doll, Last Warning)
19-- Alice Kramden fictional character of the Honeymooners
19-- Louis Giambalvo Brooklyn NY, actor (Fade To Black, Robert-Oh Madeline)
1900 Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer
1900 Ivan Ivanov-Vano Soviet animator and Russian animation director (d. 1987)
1900 John Cameron, judge
1901 Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Poland, women's world champion archer
1902 Demchugdongrub, Mongolian politician (d. 1966)
1902 Lyle Talbot (Lysle Hollywood), Pittsburgh PA, actor (Glen or Glenda)
1903 Abdulrahman, minister of Internal affairs/premier of Malaysia
1903 Greta Keller, Austrian-born cabaret singer and actress (d. 1977)
1904 Igor' Fyodorovich Belza, composer
1905 Truman Bradley, Missouri, TV host (Science Fiction Theater)
1906 Artur Balsam, Polish/US pianist (Begeleidde Menuhin, Milstein)
1906 Chester F Carlson, American physicist and inventor (xerography) (d. 1968)
1906 Henry Roth, Austria-Hungary/US writer (Call it Sleep)
1908 Grigor Eghiazaryan, composer
1908 Leslie Kenneth O'Brien, Lord O'Brien of Lothbury, missionary
1908 Myron McCormick, Albany, actor (Hustler, Jolson Sings Again)
1909 Henry Roth, writer
1911 Anne Aitken (nee Hopkins), Chicago IL, co-founder-Diamond Sangha
1911 Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (d. 1979) (North & South), Pulitzer Prize (1956)
1911 Henri Knap, Dutch resistance fighter/journalist/writer
1912 Simon Jurovsky, composer
1913 Betty Field, American actress (Kings Row, Bus Stop) (d. 1973)
1913 John Grandy, British Royal Air Force-marshal
1914 Bert Haas, baseball player
1914 Jules van Ackere, Flemish musicologist (Eternal Music)
1915 Lambros Georges Guetary Worloou, singer
1918 Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1918 John Intoxication, resistance fighter
1918 Lord Maxd Rayne, English broker/multi-millionaire
1919 Buddy Morrow, orchestra leader (Jimmie Rodgers Show)
1920 Buddy Blattner, baseball player
1920 Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest)
1921 Hoot Evers, baseball player
1921 Lana Turner, American actress (d. 1995)
1922 Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 1996)
1922 Joeri Averbach, Russian chess grandmaster
1923 Andrew MacElhone, bar owner
1924 Audrey Meadows, Wu Chang China, actress (Alice-Honeymooners)
1924 Joe Black, baseball player
1925 Alvin Brehm, composer
1925 Jack Lemmon, American actor and film director (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing) (d. 2001)
1925 Raimondo d'Inzeo, It, equestrian (Olympics-gold/2 silver/3 bronze-1948-76)
1926 Neal Cassady, American writer (d. 1968)
1927 John T Myers (Representative-R-IN, 1967)
1927 Stanley Baker, Ferndale Wales, actor (Concrete Jungle, Zorro, Zulu)
1927 Zdenek Zouhar, composer
1928 Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher, lawyer
1928 Gene Lees, Canadian biographer and lyricist
1930 Alejandro Rey, Argentine actor (Carlos-Flying Nun) (d. 1987)
1930 Arlan Stangeland (Representative-R-MN, 1977)
1930 Catherine Hardy, Carollton GA, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1952)
1930 James Deetz, American anthropologist (d. 2000)
1930 Manuel Castillo, composer
1931 James Dean, American actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause) (d. 1955)
1932 Cliff Allison, British racing driver (d. 2005)
1932 Jan H Christiaanse, president Dutch political party (CDA)
1932 John Towner Williams, American composer and conductor (Boston Pops)
1933 Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano (Ilya-Idomeneo)
1933 Jack Larson, American actor
1933 Jack Larson, Los Angeles CA, actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman)
1934 Galina Bystrova, USSR, pentathelete (1957, 58)
1935 Vincent Weir 3rd baron Inverforth, Scottish shipping magnate
1936 Cletis Boyer, 3rd baseman (New York Yankees)
1936 Larry Verne, American singer (Custer)
1936 Manohar Hardikar, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests India vs West Indies 1958-59)
1937 Joe Raposo, American composer (Sesame Street) (d. 1989)
1937 Manfred Krug, German actor (Boxer)
1938 Ray Sharpe, singer
1939 Barry Mann, vocalist (Who Put the Bump)
1939 Gerrit Lakmaaker, sculptor/painter (Leidsepleingroep)
1939 José Maria Sison, Filipino communist
1940 Averil Cameron, British historian
1940 Nick Nolte, American actor (Under Fire, Lorenzo's Oil, Teachers, 48 Hours, North Dallas 40)
1940 Susan Clark Ontario, actress (Katherine-Webster)
1940 Talib Rasul Hakim, composer
1940 Ted Koppel, American journalist (ABC Nightline)
1941 Tom Rush, American singer and songwriter (Circle Game, Urge For Going)
1942 Bob Munden, American shooting competitor
1942 Fritz Peterson, baseball pitcher (New York Yankees)
1942 Robert Klein, American comedian (Hooper, Deadly Rivals)
1942 Terry Melcher, American musician and record producer, Doris Day's son (d. 2004)
1943 Bob Oliver, baseball player
1943 Creed Bratton, American actor and musician (Grass Roots-Sooner or Later)
1943 Jose de Almeida Prado, composer
1943 Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and Vice Chancellor of Karachi University
1944 Bunky Henry, golfer
1944 Jim Capaldi, Musician (Traffic)
1944 Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor
1944 Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian documentary photographer
1946 "Fito" Adolpho De La Parra, Los Angeles CA, Musician (Canned Heat-Hot Money)
1946 Paul Wheatbread, Musician (Gary Puckett & Union Gap-Young Girl)
1947 Sam Gannon, cricketer (Australia lefty quick, 3 Tests vs India 1977-78)
1948 Dan Seals, American singer (d. 2009) (England Dan & John Ford Coley-I'd Really Love to See You Tonight, Nights Are Forever Without You, Meet Me in Montana)
1948 Lynda Lyon Block, American convicted murderer (d. 2002)
1948 Ron Tyson, American singer (The Temptations)
1949 Brooke Adams, American actress (Cynthia-OK Crackerby, Body Snatchers)
1949 Julia Barr, Fort Wayne IN, actress (Brooke-All My Children)
1949 Scott Allen, USA, skater (Olympics-bronze-1964)
1950 Cristina Ferrare, American former supermodel and actress
1950 Jose Armando Lopez-Falcon, Cuba, cosmonaut
1950 Michael Goodroe, rock bassist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
1950 Ted Turner, Musician (Wishbone Ash)
1951 Camille LaPierre, NHL Hockey Player
1951 Z'EV, American text/sound artist (born Stefan Weisser)
1952 Hans Van de Lubbe, Dutch bassist/singer (Dike)
1952 Nancy Lord, Libertarian Vice-President candidate (1992)
1953 Mary Steenburgen, American actress (Parenthood, Time After Time)
1953 Roger Clavet, Québécois politician
1954 "Sensational" Sherri Martel (Russell), New Orleans LA, wrestler (WWF/AWA)
1955 Ethan Phillips, actor (Neelix-Star Trek Voyager)
1955 Jim "the Anvil" Neidhart, wrestler (WWF/WCW/NJPW/CWFI/Calgary)
1955 John Grisham, American writer (Client, Firm, Pelican Brief)
1955 Nancy Oliver, American playwright and television writer
1956 Dave Meros, American bassist (Spock's Beard)
1958 Barry Miller New York NY, actor (Joe & Sons, Szysznyk)
1958 Sherri Martel, American professional wrestler (d. 2007)
1959 Heinz Gunthardt, Switzerland, tennis star
1959 Irina Kalinina, USSR, springboard diver (Olympics-gold-1980)
1959 Pamela Jean Bryant, Indianapolis In, playmate (April, 1978)
1960 Alex Scott, British horse trainer
1960 Dino Ciccarelli, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (Minnesota North Stars, Washington Capitals)
1960 Linda Fratianne, Los Angeles CA, figure skater (Olympics-silver-1980)
1961 Bruce Timm,TV Producer (DC Animated Universe)
1961 Sammy Llanas, Musician (Bodeans)
1961 Vince Neil, American singer (Mötley Crüe)
1963 Joshua Kadison, American pianist and songwriter
1963 Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer
1963 Raleigh MCkenzie, NFL center/guard (Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers)
1964 Dennis Gibson, NFL inside linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1964 Robert Nebrenský, Czech actor and musician
1964 Trinny Woodall, British fashion guru
1965 Carmen Savy, Brisbane Queensland, golfer (1990 Brisbane & District)
1965 Jim Thornton, NFL tight end (Houston Oilers)
1965 Lee Knight, CFL full back (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1965 Mathilda May, Paris France, actress (Lifeforce)
1965 Terry McDaniel, NFL cornerback (Oakland Raiders, Los Angeles Raiders)
1966 Gary Coleman, American actor (Arnold-Diff'rent Strokes)
1966 Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer
1966 Kirk Muller, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1967 Yvon Corriveau Ontario, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals)
1968 Claudette Pace, Maltese singer
1968 Joy Fawcett, Inglewood California, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
1968 Nasos Thanopoulos, Greek businessman
1968 Ron Goetz, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1969 Herb Hohenberger, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)
1969 Mary McCormack, American actress (Murder One, Private Parts)
1969 Shiva Rose, American actress
1970 Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player, NBA center (Miami Heat, Charlotte Hornets)
1970 Cameron Cuffy, cricketer (St Vincent & West Indies fast bowler 1994-)
1970 John Filan, Australian footballer
1971 Andrus Veerpalu, Estonian cross-country skier
1971 Heidi Mark, Columbus OH, playmate (Jul, 1995)
1971 Mika Karppinen, Finnish drummer (HIM)
1972 Adrian Rollins, cricketer (Derbyshire batsman, brother of Robert of Essex)
1972 Marcus Pollard, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1972 Paul Wight, American professional wrestler
1973 Andreas Gliatis, soccer player (NEC)
1973 Dave Dopek, Bolingbrook Illinois, 200m runner
1973 Eric Kresser, quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
1973 Keith McDonald, American baseball player
1973 Michelle Brogan, Australian basketball forward (Olympics-bronze-96)
1973 Tom King, Australian 470 class yachtsman (Olympics-96)
1974 Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, French disc jockey (Daft Punk)
1974 Kimbo Slice, American mixed martial artist
1974 Seth Green, American actor
1974 Ulises de la Cruz, Ecuadorian footballer
1975 Damon Denson, guard (New England Patriots)
1975 Joshua Morrow. Juneau Alaska, actor (Nicholas Newman-Young & Restless)
1976 Abi Titmuss, British glamour model
1976 Adam Piatt, American baseball player
1976 Holly Manthei, Edina Minn, soccer midfielder/forward (Olympics-96)
1976 Jim Parque, Norwalk California, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1976 Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricketer
1976 Nicolas Vouilloz, French rally driver
1977 Barry Hall, Australian rules footballer
1977 Bridgette Kerkove, American actress
1977 Dave "Phoenix" Farrell, American musician, Bassist (Linkin Park)
1977 Mathieu Turcotte, Canadian short-track speed skater
1977 Yucef Merhi, Venezuelan artist
1978 Christa Williams, Houston TX, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1979 Aaron Cook, American baseball player
1979 Josh Keaton, American actor and singer
1979 Tara Tucker, Miss Alabama Teen USA (1997)
1980 Cameron Muncey, Australian guitarist (Jet)
1980 Ralf Little, English actor/comedian
1980 Stephen Wright, English footballer
1981 Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer
1981 Tommy Michaels, Staten Island NY, actor (Timmy Hutton-All My Children)
1982 Danny Tamberelli, American actor
1982 Eric Alexander, American football player
1982 Satomi Korogi, Japanese voice actress
1982 Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor
1983 Jim Verraros, American singer
1984 Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player
1987 Carolina Kostner, Italian European champion figure skater
1988 Keegan Meth, Zimbabwean cricketer
1988 Ryan Pinkston, American actor
1989 Dani Harmer, English actor
1989 Danielle Harmer, English actress
1991 Abdisalam Ibrahim, Somali-Norwegian footballer
1994 Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian artist
1995 Jordan Todosey, Canadian actress

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1124 Stefanus of Thiers/Muret, founder of order of Grammond/saint
1204 Alexius IV Angelus, deposed Eastern Roman Emperor (b. c. 1182)
1245 Johannes de Rupella/de la Rochelle, French theologist
1250 Robert I of Artois, French crusader (b. 1216)
1250 William II Longespee (b. 1212)
1265 Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217)
1296 King Przemysl II of Poland (b. 1257)
1303 Nanshu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/founder (Zounan temple)
1513 Alonso de Ojeda, Spanish explorer (Curacao & Bonaire)
1529 Baldassare Castiglione, Italian writer and diplomat (b. 1478)
1587 Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded (b. 1542)
1599 Robert Rollock, Scottish educator (b. 1555)
1611 Jan H Van Linschoten, traveller/writer (Reys-Gheschrift), dies
1623 Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, English politician (b. 1546)
1650 John Adriaensz, hydraulic engineer (Haarlemmermeer)
1676 Aleksei M Romanov, 1st Romanov-czar of Russia
1686 Francois Tak, Dutch diplomat on Java, murdered
1691 Carlo di Girolamo Rainaldi, Italian architect and composer
1709 Giuseppe Torelli, Italian composer (b. 1658)
1725 Peter the Great (Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov), tsar of Russia (1682-1725) (b. 1666)
1740 Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], blind Pope (1730-40)
1749 Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682)
1750 Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685)
1768 George Dance the Elder, English architect (b. 1695)
1772 Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719)
1797 Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
1801 Johann Chrysostomus Drexel, composer
1821 Paul Anton Wineberger, composer
1824 Rhijnvis Feith, Dutch mayor/writer (Zwolle, Julia)
1849 France Prešeren, Slovenian poet (Sonetni Venec) (b. 1800)
1849 François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (b. 1781)
1856 Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)
1874 David F Strauss, German theologist
1878 Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (mycologicum)
1884 Arnold Henry Guyot, Swiss/US geologist/meteorologist
1897 Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, premier of Spain, murdered
1907 Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom, Dutch chemist (fasenleer) (b. 1854)
1909 Edouard Silas, composer
1909 Mieczyslaw Karlowicz, composer
1910 Hans Jæger, Norwegian writer and political activist (b. 1854)
1911 Gustaf Fröding Swedish poet (Grabstänk)
1920 Richard Dehmel, writer
1921 Barrett Wendell, American academic and author (b. 1855)
1921 George Formby, Sr., English entertainer (b. 1876)
1921 Peter A Kropotkin, Russian ruler and anarchist (b. 1842)
1924 Gee Jon, US mobster , First man in U.S. to be executed by lethal gas. (b. 1895)
1929 Maria Christina, Queen Regent of Spain (b. 1858)
1932 Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll, New York City gangster from County Donegal in Ireland (b. 1908)
1935 Max Liebermann, German impressionist painter/graphic artist
1936 Charles Curtis, 1st American-Indian Vice-President USA (b. 1860)
1937 Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian
1942 Fritz Todt, German Reichs minister (Organization Todt)
1944 Clem Wilson, cricketer (brother of Rockley, 2 Tests for England 1896), dies
1946 Miles Mander, actor/director (Murder, 3 Musketeers)
1947 Ernest Samuel Williams, composer
1949 Franco Leoni, composer
1949 Leonid Alexeyevich Polovinkin, composer
1953 Cliff Clark, actor (Golden Hoofs, Kid Glove Killer), dies at 63
1954 Mabel Paige, actress (Lucky Jordan)
1956 Connie Mack, American baseball manager and executive (Philadelphia A's, 1901-50) (b. 1862)
1957 John von Neumann, Hungarian-born mathematician and physicist (b. 1903)
1957 Walther Bothe, German physicist and inventor, Nobel laureate (b. 1891)
1959 William J "Wild Bill" Donovan, Office Strategic Services
1960 Giles Gilbert Scott, British architect (b. 1880)
1960 John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher, (b. 1911)
1961 William Duncan, actor (Hopalong Rides Again)
1963 Abdul Karim Kassem, PM of Iraq (58-63), assassinated in Baghdad
1963 George Dolenz, Italian actor (Count of Monte Cristo), father of Micky Dolenz (b. 1908)
1964 Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist (b. 1888)
1964 Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru)
1968 J Borremans, Belgian politician (Communist)
1972 Markos Vamvakaris, Greek musician and songwriter (b. 1905)
1973 Herbie Taylor, cricketer (2936 runs in 42 Tests for South Africa)
1974 Fern Andra, dies at 80
1974 Fritz Zwicky, Swiss/US astronomer (supernova)
1975 Martyn Green, actor (Gilbert & Sullivan, Mikado, dies at 75
1975 Robert Robinson, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1886)
1977 Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and ethnomusicologist (b. 1901)
1979 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet
1980 Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer (b. 1936)
1982 John Hay Whitney, American financier, US newspaper magnate (b. 1904)
1984 Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
1985 Marvin Miller, actor (Michael Anthony of "The Millionaire")
1985 Tom Greenway, actor (Miami Story)
1985 William Lyons, British automobile manufacturer (b. 1901)
1987 Bronislawa Wajs [Papuscha], writer, dies
1987 Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (Mrs Drysdale-Beverly Hillbillies) (b. 1905)
1987 Hendrik Koekoek, founder (Dutch Boer party)
1988 Allan Cuthbertson, actor (Running Man, 7th Dawn)
1989 Maurits Kok, Dutch writer/poet (Railroad Strike)
1990 Del Shannon, American entertainer, rock vocalist (Runaway) (suicide) (b. 1934)
1991 Miran Bux, cricketer (2 Tests for Pakistan 1954-55)
1992 Baruch Lumet, actor (Killer Shrews)
1992 Denny Wright, British jazz guitarist (b. 1924)
1993 Casper van den Berg, Dutch poet (Fashionable inconvenience)
1993 Douglas Heyes, director/writer (Kitten with a Whip)
1993 Eliot Janeway, financial columnist (Eliot Doomsday)
1993 Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May)
1993 N. Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan communist leader (b. 1920)
1993 Paul Brickhill, Dutch/US WW II pilot/physician
1994 Jacob Firet, Dutch theologist (Agogic Moment)
1994 Ken Hall, Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line)
1994 Raymond Scott, American composer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) (b. 1908)
1995 B G Hooghoudt, radio-telescope builder (Dwingeloo/Westerbork)
1995 Wilhelm J Soukop, Austrian/British sculptor
1995 William Fulbright, US politician
1996 Del Ennis, American baseball player (b. 1925)
1996 John Hartford Worlock, Roman Catholic Bishop (Liverpool)
1996 Mercer Kennedy Ellington, trumpeter bandleader/composer
1997 Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher
1998 Enoch Powell, British politician, Conservative MP and shadow cabinet member (b. 1912)
1998 Halldór Laxness, Icelandic author, Nobel laureate (b. 1902)
1998 Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
1998 William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter
1999 Iris Murdoch, Irish author (b. 1919)
2000 Bob Collins, American radio broadcaster (b. 1942)
2000 Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
2000 Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1918)
2001 Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (b. 1920)
2002 Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (b. 1930)
2002 Ong Teng Cheong, President of Singapore (b. 1936)
2004 Julius Schwartz, American comic book and science fiction editor (b. 1915)
2005 Jimmy Smith, American jazz musician (b. 1925)
2005 Keith Knudsen, American drummer, vocalist and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1948)
2006 Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
2006 Elton Dean, English musician (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
2007 Anna Nicole Smith, American model, actress, and entertainer (b. 1967)
2007 Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American professor and reincarnation expert (b. 1918)
2008 Chua Ek Kay, Singaporean painter (b. 1947)
2009 Marian Cozma, Romanian handball player (b. 1982)
2010 John Murtha, American politician (b. 1932)
2011 Tony Malinosky, American baseball player (b. 1909)
2012 Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi
2013 James DePreist, American conductor
2016 Violetta Verdy, French ballerina and teacher
2016 John Disley, Welsh athlete (co-founded London Marathon)
2012 Luis Alberto Spinetta, Argentinian rock musician, dies from lung cancer

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