February 9th
Holidays and Celebrations
Saint Teilo's Day (Wales)
Saint Maron's Day (Lebanon)
Vote for Independence Day (Lithuania) * (See Below)
Nation Day (Jamaica) * (See Below)
Rebellion Declaratuion Day (USA) * (See Below)
John Quincy Adams Election Day, (1825) After no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams President of the United States.
Anniversary of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan Aniversary - The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers (1964).
Aniversary of Deployment to Vietnam War (USA) (1965) The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam.
National Stop Bullying Day (USA)
Birthday of President William Henry Harrison (9th U.S. President)
Joe Pesci Day, American actor (b.1943)
Mia Farrow Day, American actress (b.1945)
National Bagels and Lox Day
Charlie Day a.k.a. Charlie Day Day (b. February 9, 1976)
Toothache Day
Read in the Bathtub Day
Pizza Pie Day
Feast of Saint Ansbert of Rouen
Feast of Apollonia, patron saint of dentists and dental technicians.
* Vote for Independence Day (Lithuania) Voters in Lithuania vote for independence (1991)
* Nation Day (Jamaica) Jamaica becomes independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations (1962).
* Rebellion Declaratuion Day (USA) British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion, Start of the American Revolutionary War (1775).
Toast of The Day
"May your pockets be heavy
and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you
each morning and night."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
White Lady
Two parts gin
One part Cointreau
One part lemon juice
Mix the ingredients in a shaker half full of ice. Strain and serve in a sugar-rimmed glass. Garnish with a strip of lemon rind
Wine of The Day
Damian Rae Winery 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Napa Valley
$70
Beer of The Day
Velvet Merkin
Brewer - Firestone Walker Brewing Co. ; Paso Robles, California, USA
Style - Oatmeal Stout
Joke of The Day
A wealthy playboy met a beautiful young girl in an exclusive
lounge. He took her to his lavish apartment where he soon
discovered she was not a tramp, but was well groomed and
apparently very intelligent. Hoping to get her into bed he
began showing her his collection of expensive paintings,
first editions by famous authors and offered her a glass
of wine.
He asked whether she preferred Port or Sherry and she said,
"Oh, Sherry by all means. To me it's the nectar of the gods.
Just looking at it in a crystal-clear decanter fills me with a
glorious sense of anticipation. When the stopper is removed
and the gorgeous liquid is poured into my glass, I inhale the
enchanting aroma and I'm lifted on the wings of ecstasy. It
seems as though I'm about to drink a magic potion and my
whole being begins to glow. The sound of a thousand violins
being softly played fills my ears and I'm transported into
another world.
"On the other hand, Port makes me fart."
Quote of the Day
1
"I am a drinker with a writing problem."
- Brendan Behan (February 9th 1923 to March 20th 1964), an Irish poet.
2
"I only drink on two occasions - When I am thirsty and when I'm not thirsty."
- Brendan Behan
Whiskey of The Day
Corner Creek Reserve Bourbon Whiskey
Distiller: Corner Creek Distilling Co. (Bardstown, KY)
Age: 8 years
ABV: 44% (88 proof)
Price: $30 750mL
www.cornercreekbourbon.com
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
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
Love Makes the World Go Round, But Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week, Second Week of February
World AG Expo, Second Week of February
World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week, Second Week of February
Celebration of Love Week, Second Full Week of February
Children of Alcoholics Week, Second Full Week of February
Jell-O Week, Second Full Week of February
Love a Mench Week, Second Full Week of February
National Pancake Week, Second Full Week of February
International Flirting, Week of Valentines Day
Random Acts of Kindness Week, Second Full Week of February
Historical Events on February 9th
474 Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1267 Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps
1499 France & Venice sign treaty against Milan
1537 Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England
1540 The 1st recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)
1554 Battle at London, Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated
1555 Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake.
1574 Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht
1621 Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV, the last Pope elected by acclamation.
1667 Treaty of Andrussovo, Russia/Poland signs peace treaty
1674 English re-conquer New York from Netherlands
1682 Thomas Otway's "Venice Preserved" premieres in London
1742 British ex-premier Walpole becomes earl of Orford
1744 Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Admiral Matthews)
1775 The British Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion, Beginning of the American Revolutionary War.
1788 Austria declares war on Russia
1788 The Habsburg Empire joins the Russo-Turkish War in the Russian camp.
1799 USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgente off Nevis, West Indies
1801 France & Austrian sign Peace of Luneville
1807 French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon
1812 Pioneer missionary Samuel Newell married fellow Congregationalist Harriet Atwood. They afterward sailed for India with Adoniram and Ann Hasseltine Judson. (Harriet Newell and Ann Judson thereby became the first American women commissioned for missionary work abroad.)
1819 Birth of William True Sleeper, New England Congregational clergyman and author of the hymns "Jesus, I Come" and "Ye Must Be Born Again."
1822 American Indian Society organizes
1822 Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
1825 After no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th President of the United States.
1839 Scottish clergyman Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'In spiritual things, this world is all wintertime so long as the Savior is away.'
1849 New Roman Republic established
1861 Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama. Alexander Stephens elected Vice President
1861 Confederate Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were consistent with constitution of Confederate states
1861 Tennessee votes against secession
1863 Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane
1867 Nebraska becomes 37th US state
1870 Grant signs the bill establishing Federal Meteorological Service (US National Weather Service)
1870 The U.S. Weather Bureau is established.
1871 Federal fish protection office authorized by Congress
1885 The first Japanese government-approved immigrants arrive in Hawaii.
1886 President Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of anti-Chinese violence
1889 The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency.
1891 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento
1893 Canal builder De Lesseps & others sentenced to prison for fraud
1893 Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
1895 1st intercollegiate basketball game (Minnesota Agricultural beats Hamline, 9-3)
1895 William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette in Massachusetts, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
1900 Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
1904 Japan declares war on Russia, Battle of Port Arthur ensues
1906 Natal proclaims state of siege in Zulu uprising
1909 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
1909 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
1912 US Tennis Association amends rule taking bye away from defending champion
1913 10 Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die
1916 Britain's military service act enforced (conscription)
1916 NL votes down a proposal by Giants, Braves, & Cubs to increase club player limit from 21 to 22 (The Reds want to decrease to 20)
1918 Army chaplain school organized at Fort Monroe VA
1918 Sacha Guitry's "Deburan," premieres in Paris
1920 International treaty recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Svalbard
1920 Joint Rules Commission bans foreign substances & alterations to baseballs
1920 Under the terms of the Spitsbergen Treaty, international diplomacy recognizes Norwegian sovereignty over Arctic archipelago Svalbard, and designates it as demilitarized.
1922 Brazil becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1922 Italian government of Bonomi falls
1922 Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1923 Soviet Aeroflot airlines established
1924 Nakhichevan ASSR constituted within Azerbaijan SSR
1925 German Minister Stresemann proposes security treaty with France
1925 Haifa Technion (Israel), opens
1926 Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1929 USSR, Estonia, Latvia, Poland & Romania sign Litvinov Pact
1930 American pioneer linguist and missionary Frank Laubach wrote in a letter, 'The sense of being led by an unseen hand which takes mine, while another hand reaches ahead and prepares the way, grows upon me daily.'
1932 America enters Olympics 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
1932 US airship Columbia crashes during storm (Flushing, NY)
1933 -63°F (-53°C), Moran, Wyoming (state record)
1934 -14.3ºF (-25.8ºC), coldest day in New York City NY
1934 -51°F (-46°C), Vanderbilt, Michigan (state record)
1934 Balkan Entente alliance forms (Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey & Romania)
1935 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1935 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1939 Belgian Spaak government falls
1940 Joe Louis beats Arturo Godoy in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1941 British troops conquer El Agheila
1941 Nazi collaborators destroy pro-Jewish café Alcazar Amsterdam (Alcazar refused to hang "No Entry for Jews" signs in front of cafe)
1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
1942 Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
1942 Philadelphia "Phillies" change nickname (temporarily) to "Phils"
1942 Top United States military leaders hold their first formal meeting to discuss American military strategy in World War II.
1942 Year-round Daylight saving time is re-instated in the United States as a wartime measure to help conserve energy resources.
1943 FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1943 German riots at "plutocratenzoontjes", 1,200 in Vught Camp
1943 Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle
1943 NL seeks buyer for Phillies, as owner Gerry Nugent, falls in arrears
1943 Nazis arrest Dutch sons of rich parents
1943 Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal, World War II.
1944 U-734/U-238 sunk off Ireland
1945 Germany destroys Ruhrdammen
1945 WAAF-corporal flies along the tail of a Spitfire
1945 The Battle of the Atlantic HMS Venturer sinks U-864 off the coast of Fedje, Norway, in a rare instance of submarine-to-submarine combat in World War II.
1946 Dutch Labor Party (Dutch Social Democratic Party) forms
1947 Bank robber Willie Sutton escapes jail in Philadelphia PA
1948 U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'We are tempted to despair of our world. Remind us, O Lord, that Thou hast been facing the same thing in all the world since time began.'
1948 WLWT TV channel 5 in Cincinnati, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 Second Red Scare, Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with 205 Communists.
1951 St Louis Browns sign pitcher Satchel Paige, 45
1953 "The Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication
1953 General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA
1953 WNEP TV channel 16 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
1954 Mario Scelba forms new government in Italy
1955 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts crematory law
1955 US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO
1956 -5ºF (15ºC) in Sicily
1956 KHPL (now KWNB) TV channel 6 in Hayes Center, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
1956 R Lacoste follows Catroux as premier of Algeria
1959 Coasters's "Charlie Brown" peaks at #2
1960 AFL & NFL agree verbally to a no tampering pact
1960 Joanne Woodward receives the first star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1961 Joseph Ileo appointed premier of Congo
1962 Jamaica signs agreement, becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
1963 7th largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
1964 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
1964 9th Winter Olympics games close at Innsbruck, Austria
1964 GI Joe character created
1964 Hanumant Singh scores 105 India vs England on debut at Delhi
1964 NYC news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV
1964 The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a "record-busting" audience of 73 million viewers.
1965 The first United States combat troops are sent to South Vietnam, Vietnam War.
1966 Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points
1968 Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix
1969 KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1969 World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight
1971 Apollo 14 returns to Earth after the third manned moon landing.
1971 Probably 1st gay theme TV episode All in the Family
1971 Quake in San Fernando Valley kills 65 & causes over $½ billion damage
1971 Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
1971 The 6.4 on the Richter Scale Sylmar earthquake hits the San Fernando Valley area of California.
1972 British government declares state of emergency after month-long miners' strike
1973 Biju Patnaik of the Pragati Legislature Party is elected leader of the opposition in the state assembly in Orissa, India.
1974 "Daddy What If" by Bobby Bare peaks at #41
1974 "The Americans (A Canadian's Opinion)" by Gordon Sinclair peaks at #24
1974 US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill
1974 US male Figure Skating championship won by Gordon McKellen Jr
1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
1975 The Soyuz 17 Soviet spacecraft returns to Earth.
1976 Oscar Charleston selected to baseball's the Hall of Fame
1978 Ted Bundy kills Kimberly Leach, 12, Lake City FL, later he is executed
1979 21st Grammy Awards: Just the Way You Are, Taste of Honey
1979 ABC airs "Heroes of Rock N Roll" special
1979 Beginning of James Clavell's novel "Whirlwind"
1979 Nigeria amends constitution
1980 Rick Barry, Houston, is 1st in NBA to score 8, 3-point goals in a game
1982 34th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 4-2 at Washington
1983 Belgium buys 44 F-16s
1984 "Rink" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 204 performances
1985 Madonna's "Like a Virgin," album goes #1 for 3 weeks
1986 36th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 139-132 at Dallas
1986 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
1986 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed president of South Yemen
1986 Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
1986 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1986 Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
1986 West German team swims world record 4x200 meter freestyle (7:05.17)
1987 Former national security adviser Robert McFarlane attempts suicide
1987 New York Stock Exchange installs ladies restroom in the Exchange Luncheon Club
1988 39th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-5 (OT) at St Louis
1988 New Hampshire begins a NCAA record 32-game losing streak at home (ends Feb 1991)
1989 Kevin Johnson (Phoenix) ends NBA free throw streak of 57 games
1989 Michael Manley's Socialist Party wins Jamaica parliamentary election
1990 "The Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
1990 Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13)
1990 Galileo flies by Venus
1990 Namibia's constitution ratified
1991 "This Is Ponderous" by 2nu peaks at #46
1991 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 5k (6:41:73)
1991 Terry Norris knocks down Sugar Ray Leonard twice & beats him
1991 US Supreme Court agrees to hear Joseph Doherty case
1991 Voters in Lithuania vote for independence
1991 Wally Joyner wins record $2.1 million salary arbitration
1992 "2 Shakespearean Actors" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 29 performances
1992 42nd NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 153-113 at Orlando
1992 Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 second by Thomas School of Germany
1992 Heike Henkel high jumps female indoor world record (2.07 meters)
1992 Jani Sievinen swims world record 400 meter medley (4:07.10)
1992 NBA All Star Game West beats East 153-113
1992 Shelley Hamlin wins LPGA Phar-Mor Golf Tournament at Hamlin Inverrary
1993 Army of opium king Khun Sa kills 60 in NE Burma
1994 Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat
1995 "Heiress" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 340 performances
1995 Irina Privalova runs female world record 50 meter (5.96 seconds)
1995 Space Shuttle astronauts Bernard A. Harris, Jr. and Michael Foale become the first African American and first Briton, respectively, to perform spacewalks.
1996 The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by the explosion of a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
1996 WYNY-FM in New York NY changes calls to WKTU-FM
1997 11th American Comedy Award: Debbie Reynolds
1997 47th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 132-120 at Cleveland
1997 Fox cartoon series "Simpsons" airs 167th episode the longest-running animated series in cartoon history
1997 Kelly Robbins wins LPGA Diet Dr Pepper National Pro-Am
1997 LG Senior Golf Championship
1997 Mark O'Meara wins Buick golf invitational
1997 Palm Beach National LPGA Pro-Am
1997 Scotty Bowman, is 1st NHL coach to win 1,000 games
1998 6th annual ESPY Awards
1998 Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze
2001 The American submarine USS Greeneville accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School.
2002 AFC beats NFC 38-30 in the NFL Pro Bowl
2002 XIX Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City UT/Québec City
2003 West beats East 155-145 (2 OT) at Atlanta in the 52nd NBA All-Star Game
2006 Al Michaels joins NBC's "Sunday Night Football" broadcast with John Madden
2011 Latvia leaves deep recession with an annualised growth of 3.7% in the last quarter of 2010, it is reported today
2012 "Caesar Must Die" wins the Golden Bear at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival
2013 5 people are killed after Cessna plane crashes on a Brussels runway
2014 Australian National University scientists discover the oldest known star at 13.6 billion years old
2014 Protest erupt in Sarajevo and other cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina; the unemployment rate remains at 40% (57% for youth)
2014 Switzerland votes to return immigration quotas
2016 Denver Broncos defeat Carolina Panthers 24–10, at Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara in Super Bowl 50
2016 Two German passenger trains collide near Bad Aibling, Bavaria, killing 10 and seriously injuring 18
Born on February 9th
1404 Constantine XI Dragases, last Byzantine Emperor
1441 Ali Sjir Neva'i [Fani], Turkish poet/author (Mahbub al-kulub)
1533 Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai (d. 1611)
1578 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor (L'adamo)
1579 John Meursius, [van Meurs], Dutch historian
1602 Franciscus van de Enden, Flemish jesuit/free thinker/tutor of Spinoza
1607 Abraham Megerle, composer
1645 Johann Aegidius Bach, German violistian (d. 1716)
1666 George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (d. 1737)
1708 Egidio Romoaldo Duni composer (opéra-comique)
1735 Adriaan Kluit, Dutch historian
1741 Henri-Joseph Rigel, composer
1744 Amos Bull, composer
1748 Luther Martin, American patriot (d. 1826)
1756 Karel Blažej Kopriva, Czech composer (d. 1785)
1763 Ludwig I, Grand Duke of Baden (d. 1830)
1769 Susette Gontard, the beloved of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin (d. 1802)
1771 Daniel Belknap, composer
1772 Frans Mikael Franzén Finnish-Swedish poet (Abo)
1773 William Henry Harrison, 9th President of the United States (March 4-April 4, 1841) (Whigs) (d. 1841)
1775 Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (parallel axiom) (d. 1856)
1780 Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer
1781 Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist (d. 1826)
1783 Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (Homer) (d. 1852)
1789 Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)
1800 Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (d. 1844)
1808 Francesco Gomez da Rocha, composer
1814 Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for New York Public Library, 28th Governor of New York (d. 1886)
1822 Charles T Stork, Dutch industrialist
1826 John Alexander Logan, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
1830 Abd-ul-Aziz, 32nd Ottoman Sultan (1861-76) (d. 1876)
1834 Felix Dahn, German author (d. 1912)
1834 Franz Xaver Witt, composer
1839 Silas Adams, American lawyer and politician (d. 1896)
1846 Whitaker Wright, English mining tycoon (d. 1904)
1846 Wilhelm Maybach, German automotive designer (Mercedes) (d. 1929)
1853 Leander Starr Jameson, PM of South African Cape colony
1854 Aletta [Henriette] Jacobs, 1st Dutch female physician
1854 Edward Carson, 1st Baron Carson, lawyer/leader (Irish Unionist Party)
1857 Johannes T de Visser, theologist/Dutch 1st minister of Education
1863 Anthony Hope [Hopkins], London, novelist
1865 Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (d. 1949)
1865 (Beatrice) Patrick Campbell England, actress (Pygmalion, Sean O'Casey's mistress) (d. 1940)
1866 George Ade, US, journalist/playwright/humorist (Fables in Slang)
1867 Edward Naylor, composer
1867 Natsume Soseki (Natsume Kinnosuke), Japanese novelist (Kokoro) (d. 1916)
1871 Franc S Finzgar, Slovenian clergyman/writer (Our Blood)
1871 Howard T Ricketts, US pathologist (studied typhus fever)
1874 Amy Lowell, American poet (Patterns, Sword Blades & Poppy Seed) (d. 1925)
1874 Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical producer/director/actor (Houligan)
1875 Sidney Hugo Nicholson, composer
1876 Aloïs Walgrave Flemish writer/pastor (Silent hours)
1876 Martin Stixrud, Norway, figure skater (Olympics-bronze-1920)
1879 Carl Natanael Berg, composer
1879 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist
1880 Lipót Fejér, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1959)
1882 Thomas Campbell, South African cricket wicketkeeper (5 Tests 1909-12)
1884 Frederik Gerretson, [Geerten Gossaert], Dutch poet/politician)
1885 Alban Maria Johannes Berg, Austrian composer (d. 1935)
1887 Henry Zimmerman, baseball player (1912-batted .372 with 14 home runs)
1887 Vital Celen, Flemish writer (Puppy Love)
1890 Jacobus J P Oud, Dutch architect/co-founder (Stijl)
1891 Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs (1946-47)
1891 Ronald Colman, English actor, 1947 Academy Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities) (d. 1958)
1892 Barend ter Haar, Dutch lawyer (Indonesian adat justice)
1892 Peggy Wood, American actress (One Life to Live, Mama) (d. 1978)
1892 Tommy Treichel, American professional wrestler (d. 1936)
1893 Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer, politician and Prime Minister (d. 1987)
1895 Hermann Brill, German politician (d. 1959)
1897 Charles Edward Kingsford-Smith, Australian pilot (d. 1935)
19-- Darren Dalton actor (Chris-Best Times)
1901 Brian Donlevy, Irish actor (Barbary Coast, Glass Key, Wake Island, Dangerous Assignment) (d. 1972)
1901 James Murray, American actor (d. 1936)
1902 Blanche Calloway, US vocalist/dancer (12 Clouds of Joy)
1902 Chester H Lauck, Allene AR, actor (Dreaming Out Loud, 2 Weeks to Live)
1902 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's leader (d. 1999)
1903 Georg Trexler, composer
1906 André Kostolany, stock market expert and speculator (d. 1999)
1906 Gwen Catley, British soprano
1907 Aubrey "Dit" Clapper, NHL hall of famer (Boston Bruins)
1908 Jackie Fields, US, featherweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1924)
1909 Carmen Miranda (Maria do Carmo Miranda Da Cunha), Brazilian actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy) (d. 1955)
1909 Dean Rusk, 54th United States Secretary of State (1961-69) (d. 1994)
1909 Harald Genzmer, German composer (d. 2007)
1909 Heather Angel, British actress (Informer, Last of Mohicans) (d. 1986)
1909 John Eustace Theodore Brancker, lawyer/parliamentarian
1910 Jacques Monod, French biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976)
1911 Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord
1911 William Darby, American World War II Army officer (d. 1945)
1912 Hubert William Dean, air armaments specialist
1913 Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports funds)
1914 Bill Justice, American Disney animator
1914 Bill Veeck, American baseball executive (d. 1986)
1914 Ernest Tubb, American singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You) (d. 1984)
1914 Gypsy Rose Lee, Seattle Wash, stripper (or 0109 or 0208)
1914 Max Manus, resistance fighter
1914 Ralph Herman, Milwaukee Wisc, orchestra leader (Circus Time)
1915 Lennard Pearce, English actor (d. 1984)
1916 Tex Hughson, American baseball player (d. 1993)
1921 B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director (RAF Nursing Service)
1921 Charles Montgomery Monteith, publisher
1922 James C "Jim" Laker, English cricketer (d. 1986)
1922 Kathryn Grayson, American actress (d. 2010)
1923 Brendan Behan, Irish author (Hostage) (d. 1964)
1923 Kathryn Grayson, North Carolina, vocalist/actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate)
1923 Norman E Shumway, Michigan, pioneer cardiac transplant surgeon
1924 George Guest, British organist
1925 Burkhard Heim, German physicist (d. 2001)
1925 Vic Wertz, baseball player
1926 Garret FitzGerald, 7th Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
1927 Donald Miller, CEO (Scottish Power)
1927 Norman Adams, painter/ceramic sculptor
1928 Frank Frazetta, American illustrator
1928 Rinus Michels, Dutch football coach (d. 2005)
1928 Roger Mudd, American journalist (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News)
1929 Bill Barrett (Representative-R-NB)
1929 Clement Meadmore, Australian-born sculptor (d. 2005)
1929 James Mulcro Drew, composer
1929 Lennox Butler, cricketer (1 Test West Indies vs Australia 1955, 16 & 2-151)
1929 Willem Kersters, Flemish composer (Parwati, Gospel Song)
1930 Emil Petrovics, composer
1930 Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)
1931 Josef Masopust, Czech footballer
1931 Robert Morris, sculptor
1931 Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist (d. 1989)
1931 Xavier Benguerel, composer
1932 Gerhard Richter, German painter
1932 Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player
1933 Countess of Airlie
1933 Jo Ann Prentice, LPGA golfer
1933 Justice Johnson
1933 Lord Williams of Elvel
1933 Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (d. 2003)
1934 John A Ziegler Jr, Grosse Pointe MI, 4th NHL president (1977-92)
1935 Paul Flynn, MP
1935 Rev. Lionel Fanthorpe, British pastor, entertainer, journalist, writer and paranormal investigator
1936 Clive Swift, British actor (Frenzy, Passage to India)
1936 Clive Swift, Liverpool, actor
1936 Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country singer
1937 Brian Wenham, media consultant/journalist
1937 Clete Boyer, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1937 Johnny Sayles, US vocalist (You Made Me Wiggle)
1939 Barry Mann, American singer (Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)
1939 Janet Suzman, South African actress (Dry White Season, Nuns on the Run)
1940 Brian Bennett, British musician, drummer (The Shadows)
1940 J. M. Coetzee, South African author, Nobel laureate
1940 Ronnie Claire Edwards Oklahoma City OK, actress (Corabeth-Waltons, 8 Seconds, Sweet Bird of Youth)
1940 Smokey Robinson Musician (& Miracles-Tears of Clown)
1941 Sheila James Kuehl, politician/actress (Zelda-Dobie Gillis)
1941 Sheila Kuehl, American actress
1942 Carole King (Klein), American singer (Tapestry)
1942 Charlie Morrow, composer
1942 Milos Stedron, composer
1942 Peder Lunde Jr, Norway, yachtsman (Olympics-gold-1960)
1943 Barbara Lewis, American singer and songwriter (Hello Stranger)
1943 James King, New Orleans LA, basketball player (Olympics-gold-1968)
1943 Joe Pesci, American actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas)
1943 Jonny Nilsson, Swedish speedskater, 10K (Olympics-gold-1964)
1943 Joseph E. Stiglitz, American economist, Nobel laureate
1943 Ryland Davies, tenor
1943 Squire Fridell, Oakland California, actor (Rosetti & Ryan)
1944 Alice Walker, American writer (Color Purple, Meridian)
1944 Derryn Hinch, Australian media personality
1945 Bill Bergey, NFL Football Player
1945 Gérard Lenorman, French singer
1945 Mia (Maria) Farrow, American actress (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo)
1946 Annette Penhaligon
1946 Jim Webb, United States Senator from Virginia
1946 M J H Sterling, Vice-Chancellor (Brunel University)
1946 Séan Neeson, Northern Irish politician
1946 Vince Papale, American football player
1947 Carla Del Ponte, Swiss UN prosecutor
1947 Joe Ely, American musician, country vocalist (Honky Tonk Masquerade)
1947 Major Harris, American singer (Love won't Let me wait)
1947 Michel Lamarche, Canadian professional wrestler
1949 Bernard Gallacher, British golfer
1949 Janet Issaca Ashford, writer
1949 Judith Light, American actress, (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live)
1950 Andrew N Meltzoff, developmental psychologist
1950 Lloyd Weldon Keasor, Pumphrey MD, wrestler (Olympics-silver-1976)
1950 Richard F. Colburn, American politician
1950 Terry Hawkins, theatre administrator
1951 Dennis "Dee Tee" Thomas, saxophonist (Kool & the Gang-Celebration)
1951 Jay Inslee (Representative-D-Washington)
1951 Penny Peyser, Irvington NY, actress (Rich Man Poor Man, Knots Landing)
1952 Danny White, American football player, quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)
1952 Mookie Wilson, American baseball player
1953 Andre Sevard, NHL Hockey Player
1953 Antonius GM "Toon" Agterberg, Dutch actor (Hunk)
1953 Ciarán Hinds, Northern Irish actor
1953 Gabriel Rotello, American television documentary producer
1953 Gary Franks (Representative-R-CT)
1954 Christopher Gardner, American entrepreneur
1954 Kevin Warwick, Cyborg Scientist
1954 Mary Jo Duffy, American comic book writer and editor
1954 Ulrich Walter, German Federal Republic, cosmonaut
1955 Charles Shaughnessy, British actor (Shane-Days of our Lives, Nanny)
1955 Jim J. Bullock, American actor (Monroe-Too Close for Comfort)
1956 Philip Jackson Ford Jr, North Carolina, basketball player (Olympics-gold-1976)
1957 Gordon Strachan, Scottish football player and manager
1957 Mohammed Valli Moosa, South African leader (UDF)
1958 Alexander "Sandy" W B Lyle, Shrewsbury England, PGA golfer (1988 Phoenix Open)
1958 Chris Nilan, hockey player
1958 Cyrille Regis, English former footballer
1960 Holly Johnson, British singer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
1960 Peggy Whitson, NASA astronaut
1961 John Kruk, American baseball player, 1st baseman (Philadelphia Phillies)
1961 Jussi Lampi, Finnish musician and actor
1962 Anik Bissonnette, Quebec ballet dancer (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)
1962 Diego Perez, Spain, tennis star
1962 Martin D Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1963 Bonnie Levin, Miami Beach Fla, WPVA volleyballer
1963 Brian Greene, American physicist
1963 Madusa Miceli (Debra Ann), Milan Italy, wrestler (WCW)
1963 Mike Rindel, cricketer (N Transvaal opening bat ODI ton vs Pakistan 1995)
1963 Travis Tritt, American singer, country vocalist (Country Club)
1964 Rachel Bolan, Musician (Skid Row)
1965 David Brandon, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta Falcons)
1965 Igor Malkov, Russian speedskater
1965 Julie Warner, American actress
1965 Lennox Lewis London England, Super heavyweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1988)
1966 Amanda Roocroft, opera singer
1966 Ellen van Langen, Dutch athlete
1966 Harald Eia, Norwegian TV personality and comedian
1966 James "Rachel" Bolan, Point Pleasant NJ, Musician (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
1967 Kate Golden, Beaumont Texas, LPGA golfer (1992 Ping/Welch-5th)
1967 Stevon Moore, NFL safety (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1967 Todd Pratt, American baseball player, catcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 Alejandra Guzmán, Mexican singer
1968 Derek Strong, NBA forward (Los Angeles Lakers, Orlando Magic)
1968 Marcus Meloan, Agana Guam, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 US Amateur Champion)
1968 Paul Claxton, Vidalia GA, Nike golfer (NIKE Central Georgia Open-38th)
1968 Rahul Roy, Indian actor
1969 Ian Eagle, American sportscaster
1969 Jeff Pahukoa, NFL guard/tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1969 Jimmy Smith, American football player, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1969 Peta Edebone, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
1969 Thomas Brandl, Bad Tolz Germany, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1969 Todd Lyght, US football quarterback (St Louis Rams)
1970 Glenn McGrath, Australian cricketer
1970 Grant Moorhead, New Plymouth New Zealand, Australasia golfer
1970 Krister Linder, Swedish musician
1971 Gonzalo Floyd, CFL defensive end (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1971 Jason Mathews, NFL tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 Jim Miller, NFL quarterback (Pittsburgh Steelers, Atlanta Falcons, Jaguars)
1971 Johan Mjällby, Swedish footballer
1971 Ken Felder, US baseball outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1971 Pat O'Neill, NFL punter/place kicker (New England Patriots)
1971 Sharon Case, American actress (Sharon Collins-Young & Restless)
1972 Crispin Freeman, American voice actor
1972 Darren Ferguson, Scottish footballer
1972 Jason George, actor (Michael Bourre-Sunset Beach)
1972 Jason Winston George, American actor
1972 Norbert Rosza, Hungarian swimmer (100 meter freestyle record)
1973 Amber Valletta, Phoenix AZ, model (Face, House of Style, Bazaar)
1973 Colin Egglesfield, American actor
1973 Svetlana Boginskaya, Soviet gymnast
1974 Amber Valletta, American model
1974 Brad Maynard, National Football League punter (New York Giants)
1974 Erra Fazira, Malaysian actress and beauty queen
1974 John Wallace, American basketball player, NBA forward (Toronto Raptors)
1974 Orlando Bobo, guard (Minnesota Vikings)
1975 Clinton Grybas, Australian Football commentator (d. 2008)
1975 Viktor Chistiakov, Russian-born Australian athlete
1976 Charlie Day, American actor (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1976 Georgios Korakakis, Greek footballer
1976 Vladimir Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
1978 Airton Daré, Brazilian racing driver
1978 Daniel Mann, British television commentator
1979 Akinori Iwamura, Japanese baseball pitcher
1979 David Gray, English snooker player
1979 Irina Slutskaya, Russian figure skater
1979 Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress
1980 Angelos Charisteas, Greek footballer
1980 Shelly Martinez, American wrestler
1981 John Walker Lindh, American Taliban fighter
1981 Joël Camathias, Swiss racing driver
1981 The Rev, American musician (Avenged Sevenfold) (d. 2009)
1982 Ami Suzuki, Japanese singer
1982 Jameer Nelson, American basketball player
1983 Mikel Arruabarrena, Spanish footballer
1984 Dioner Navarro, Venezuelan baseball player
1984 Han Geng, Chinese pop artist
1984 Han Kyung, Korean singer Super Junior
1985 David Gallagher, American actor
1985 Rachel Melvin, American actress
1986 Princess Raiyah bint Al Hussein, of Jordan
1987 Joe O'Cearuill, Irish footballer
1987 Magdalena Neuner, German biathlete
1988 Lotte Friis, Danish swimmer
1989 Gia Farrell, American singer
1989 Wu Chia-ching, Taiwanese pool player
1990 Camille Winbush, American actress
1990 Tyson Houseman, Canadian actor
1992 Avan Jogia, Canadian actor
1996 Jimmy Bennett, American actor
Died on February 9th
1011 Bernard I, Duke of Saxony
1199 Minamoto no Yoritomo, Japanese shogun (b. 1147)
1450 Agnès Sorel, mistress of King Charles VII of France (b. 1421)
1555 John Hooper, deprived Bishop of Gloucester, burnt for heresy
1555 Rowland Taylor, English pastor (executed) (b. 1510)
1567 Henry Stuart, earl of Darnley/Consort of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered
1583 Jeseph Sanalbo, Jewish convert in Rome, burned at stake
1588 Marquis of Santa Cruz, Spanish admiral, dies
1617 Hans Christoph Haiden, composer, dies at 44
1619 Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (b. 1585)
1640 Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40), dies in Baghdad at 27
1670 Frederik III, King of Denmark/Norway (1648-70), dies at 60
1675 Gerard Dou, Dutch painter, buried
1675 Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter (b. 1613)
1709 François Louis, Prince of Conti, French general (b. 1664)
1740 Vincenz Lubeck, composer, dies at 85
1751 Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (1717-1750) (b. 1668)
1752 Fredric Hasselquist, Swedish naturalist (b. 1722)
1765 Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer, dies at 33
1777 Seth Pomeroy, American gunsmith and soldier (b. 1706)
1782 Joseph Aloysius Assemani, Lebanese orientalist (b. 1710)
1803 Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet (b. 1716)
1811 Nevil Maskelyne, 5th Astronomer Royal of England (1765-1811), dies
1812 Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer, dies at 57
1817 Franz Wilhelm Tausch, composer, dies at 54
1824 Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49
1846 Henry Gally Knight, architect/writer, dies
1849 Corneille Vander Planken, composer, dies at 76
1857 Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem (b. 1798)
1860 Edmond Willem van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military liberal politician
1874 Jules Michelet, French historian (History of France) (b. 1798)
1881 Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment) (b. 1821)
1891 Johan Jongkind, Dutch painter (Winter View) (b. 1819)
1906 Paul Laurence Dunbar, American black dialect poet (b. 1872)
1916 Hynek Ignac Frantisek Vojacek, composer, dies at 90
1916 Jack Barrett, cricketer (2 Tests for Australia 1890), dies
1917 Francis Allan, cricket bowler (lefty in 1879 Australia-England Test), dies
1918 Emiel van der Straeten, [Delrue], Flemish playwright, dies at 30
1924 Nils Kj'r, Norwegian playwright (Det Lykkelige Valg), dies at 53
1930 Richard With, Norwegian businessman, politician and captain, founder of Hurtigruten (b. 1846)
1932 Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered
1935 Karl Nef, Swiss musicologist, dies at 61
1936 Jacques Bainville, French historian/essayist/journalist, dies at 57
1938 Truby King, pioneer of mothercraft, dies
1940 Eugene Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (b. 1857)
1945 George J L Maduro, resistance fighter (Madurodam), dies in Dachau
1945 Jan Bakker, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1948 Karl Valentin, German comic/writer, dies at 65
1949 Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer, dies at 60
1951 Eddy Duchin, American musician (b. 1910)
1952 Norman Douglas, essayist/novelist, dies
1957 Miklós Horthy von Nagybanya, Hungarian admiral, regent (1920-44) (b. 1868)
1960 Alexandre Benois, Russian artist (b. 1870)
1960 Ernst von Dohnányi, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1877)
1961 Grigory Levenfish, International chess grandmaster from Russia
1964 Willie Bryant, singer (Sugar Hill Times), dies at 55
1966 Sophie Tucker, Russian-born actress (My Yiddish Mama) (b. 1884)
1968 Barbara Everest, actress (Inquest, Madeleine), dies at 77
1968 Frederik M baron van Asbeck, lawyer (League of Nations), dies at 78
1969 Gabby Hayes, American actor (b. 1885)
1969 Manuel Plaza Reyes, Chilean marathoner (Olympics-gold 1928), dies at 68
1969 George Gabby Hayes, actor (Albuquerque, Colorado), dies at 83
1973 Max Yasgur, American farmer, owner Woodstock-festival farmland (b. 1919)
1973 Vasiliki Maliaros, Greek actress (b. 1883)
1974 Cees de Lange, Dutch conferencier, dies at 60
1975 Constant Burniaux, Belgian art historian (L'amour Vivre), dies at 82
1976 Percy Faith, Canadian musician (b. 1908)
1977 Denys Amiel, French dramatist/playwright (Le mouton noir), dies at 92
1977 Gaus, an orangautan who lived to be 59
1977 Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aircraft designer (Ilyushin) (b. 1894)
1978 Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (b. 1893)
1978 Julio Jaramillo, Ecuadorian singer (b. 1935)
1978 Kimberly Leach, killed by Ted Bundy in Lake City Fla at 12
1979 C I J Smith, cricket all-rounder (5 Tests for England 1935-37), dies
1979 Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1980 Antoine Pompe, Belgian architect, dies at 106
1980 Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (b. 1900)
1981 Bill Haley, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock Around Clock) (b. 1925)
1984 Balasaraswathi, Indian classical dancer, dies in Madras
1984 Yuri Andropov, Soviet politician, Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84) (b. 1914)
1989 Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
1991 James Cleveland, American gospel singer (b. 1931)
1993 David Willis, British journalist (BBC World Service), dies at 54
1993 Kate Wilkinson, actress (Clara-Another World), dies of cancer at 76
1993 Nasrullah Mansoor, Afghan guerilla leader/governor of Paktia, dies
1994 Arnold Smith, British 1st Secretary-General of Commonwealth (1965-75)
1994 Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (b. 1934)
1994 Jarmila Novotna, Czechoslovakian soprano (Madame Butterfly)
1994 Louis Kaufman, US violinist/conductor (Gone with the Wind), dies at 88
1995 David Wayne (Wayne Mcmeekan), American actor (Dallas) (b. 1914)
1995 J. William Fulbright, American politician (Senator-D-AR), anti-Vietnam War (b. 1905)
1996 Adolf Galland, general (Luftwaffe), dies at 83
1996 Alistair Cameron Crombie, historian of science, dies at 80
1996 Barry Troyna, teacher/educational sociologist, dies at 44
1996 Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist, dies at 80
1996 Gerald Savory, actor playwright/TV producer (3 Weeks), dies at 86
1996 Neil Franklin, soccer star, dies at 74
1997 Barry Evans, actor (Dr Upton-Dr in the House), dies at 53
1997 Brian Connolly, Scottish singer (Sweet) (b. 1945)
1998 Laxness, Iceland's Nobel Literature laureate, dies at 95
1999 Bryan Mosley, British actor (b. 1931)
2001 Herbert Simon, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1916)
2002 Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom, sister of Queen Elizabeth II of England (b. 1930)
2002 Vicente Sardinero, Spanish baritone (b. 1937)
2004 Claude Ryan, Canadian newspaper director and politician (b. 1925)
2005 Robert Kearns, Inventor of the intermittent wiper (b. 1927)
2005 Tyrone Davis, American soul singer (b. 1938)
2006 Freddie Laker, British airline entrepreneur (b. 1922)
2006 Nadira, Indian actress (b. 1932)
2007 Hank Bauer, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2007 Ian Richardson, Scottish actor (b. 1934)
2008 Christopher Hyatt Occultist,Philosopher and Author. (b. 1943)
2008 Jazeh Tabatabai, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet and sculptor. (b. 1931)
2008 Scot Halpin, American musician, temporary drummer for (The Who) (b. 1954)
2008 Trichen Jurme Kunzang Wangyal, the eleventh Mindrolling Trichen, Tibetan Buddhist lama of the Nyingma school (b. 1930)
2009 Eluana Englaro, an Italian woman who lived in a persistent vegetative state for 17 years (b. 1970)
2010 Phil Harris, American fisherman from Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch (b. 1956)
2010 Walter Frederick Morrison, American inventor (b. 1920)
2013 Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-born American martial artist
2016 Sushil Koirala, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister of Nepal (2014-2015)