February 10th
Holidays and Celebrations
St. Paul's Shipwreck day (Malta) * (See Below)
YMCA Day * (See Below)
Founder's Day (Texas Tech University) * (See Below)
Half Baked Day * (See Below)
Aniversary of the Military Industrial Complex Speach * (See Below)
The Grammy Awards, Date Varies (2013) * CLICK HERE
Election Day (Monaco) (2013) * CLICK HERE
Cliff Burton Day, American musician (b. February 10th, 1962 d. 1986)
Plimsoll Day
Umbrella Day
Cream Cheese Brownie Day
Christian Feast Day of Saint Scholastica
Christian Feast Day of Saint Charalampe
Christian Feast Day of Saint Austreberta
* National Memorial Day of Exiles and Foibe to commemorate (Italy) Remembering the Italian Istrian and Dalmatian exiles and Foibe massacres. (Italy, especially in Trieste)
* St. Paul's Shipwreck day - celebrates the birth of Catholicism in Malta
* YMCA Day (1870) The YWCA is founded (New York City).
* Founder's Day (Texas Tech University) 1923, founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
* Aniversary of the Military Industrial Complex Speach - President Dwight Eisenhower (1954) warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
* Half Baked Day, Celebrated on February 10th - Halfway to 4/20.
Toast of The Day
"Drink to the girls and drink to their mothers,
Drink to the fathers and to their brothers;
Toast their dear healths as long as you’re able,
And dream of their charms while under the table."
- Anonymous
Drink of The Day
Agent Orange
1 shot vodka
1/2 shot grand marnier
1/4 shot triple sec
dash orange juice
Blend with ice, serve in a highball glass
Wine of The Day
Prix 2006 Reserve, Estate Bottled, Vichy Vineyard "Block 4"
Style - Merlot
Napa Valley
$60
Kosher
Beer of The Day
Mocha Porter
Brewer - Rogue Ales, Newport, Oregon, USA
Style - American Porter
ABV - 5.3%
Joke of The Day
A guy walks into a bar with his dog on a leash the barman says, "Geez that's a weird dog: he's stumpy-legged, pink, and doesn't have a tail, but I bet my rottweiler would beat the heck out of it."
50 bucks is laid down. Out in the yard the rottweiler gets mauled to pieces.
Another drinker says his pit bull will win but the bet is 100 bucks.
Another trip to the yard and when it's all over there are bits of pit-bull terrier all over the place. The drinker pays up and says, "Say what breed is that anyway?"
The owner says, "Until I cut his tail off and painted it pink it was the same breed as every other alligator."
Quote of the Day
"Booze may not be the answer, but it helps you to forget the question”
- Henry Mon
Whisky of The Day
Wasmund's Single Malt Whisky
$40
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 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 10th
60 St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1098 Crusaders defeat Prince Redwan of Aleppo at Antioch
1258 Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
1306 In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
1355 The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1495 King's College was founded under Roman Catholic sponsorship in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1860 it merged with the Protestant Marischal College (established in 1593) to become the University of Aberdeen.
1535 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1546 German reformer Martin Luther wrote in a letter to his wife Kate, 'Pray, and let God worry.'
1549 Tomé de Sousa appointed Governor-General of Brazil
1567 An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
1635 Académie Française is founded in Paris (by Cardinal Richelieu)
1676 Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
1713 Netherlands & England sign accord concerning anti-French Barrier
1716 Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
1720 Edmund Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1746 English Pelham government resigns
1749 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
1763 The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the French and Indian War and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1774 Andrew Becker demonstrates diving suit
1794 Joseph Haydn's 99th Symphony in E, premieres
1798 Louis Alexandre Berthier invaded Rome, on February 15 proclaimed a Roman Republic and then on February 20 take Pope Pius VI as a prisoner.
1807 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress
1814 Battle of Champaubert, Napoleonic Wars
1824 Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1840 British queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert von Saksen-Coburg
1840 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 Beginning of Mormon march to west US
1846 British defeat Sikhs in battle of Sobraon, India
1846 First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1855 US citizenship laws amended all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1859 General Horsford defeats Begum of Oude & Nana Sahib in Indian mutiny
1860 John Brahms' 2nd Serenade in A, premieres
1862 Dutch 2nd government of Thorbecke forms
1863 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
1863 PT Barnum stages wedding of Tom Thumb & Mercy Lavinia Warren (New York NY)
1863 The fire extinguisher is patented.
1866 Dutch government Frans van der Putte forms
1868 Conservatives & military, seize Convention Hall in Florida
1870 City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
1870 The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1870 YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) is founded (New York NY)
1878 Peace of Zanjón
1878 Peter Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony in F, premieres
1879 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
1879 Henry Morton Stanley departs to the Congo
1880 Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Arcanum about Christian marriage
1881 Jacques Offenbach's opera "Les Contes d'Hoffman," premieres in Paris
1882 Rimski-Korsakovs opera "Snyegurochka," premieres in St Petersburg
1883 Fire at un-insured New Hall Hotel in Milwaukee Wisc, kills 71
1890 Around 11 million acres, ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
1897 New York Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1899 -39°F (-39°C), Milligan, Ohio (state lowest record temperature)
1899 The Church of England first authorized use of the 1885 English Revised (RV or ERV) Version of the Bible in Anglican liturgy and worship.
1899 US-Spain peace treaty signed by President McKinley; US gets Puerto Rico & Guam
1900 Peter Ostlund skates world record 500 meter (45.2 seconds)
1904 Japan & Russia declares war (The Russo-Japanese War) over Korea and Manchuria after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
1906 Britain's 1st modern & largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched
1906 State of siege proclaimed in Zululand
1908 Tommy Burns KOs Jack Palmer in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
1912 Hobbs & Rhodes make 323 cricket opening stand vs Australia at MCG
1913 Edward Sheldons "Romance" premieres in New York NY
1916 Conscription begins in Britain
1917 Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor
1920 Baseball outlaws all pitches involving tampering with the ball
1920 Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 Ink paste manufactured for 1st time by Standard Ink Company
1923 Owen Davis' "Icebound" premieres in New York NY
1923 SDAP speaks out against allied occupation of Ruhrgebied
1923 Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1924 Bucky Harris, 27, becomes youngest baseball manager (Washington Senators)
1925 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City, Ind
1925 AL decides to alternate leagues for game 1 of World Series each year
1926 Building of Olympian Stadium Amsterdam, begins
1927 President Calvin Coolidge asks for 2nd disarmament conference
1929 Bishop Stephen Alencastre, dedicates the beautiful Romanesque church of Saint Patrick in Honolulu
1929 In London, renowned Baptist clergyman and devotional author F. B. Meyer, 81, preached his last sermon. He soon entered a nursing home where his health failed rapidly, and he died March 28.
1930 Grain Stabilization Corporation authorized by Congress
1931 New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
1931 Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Harts premieres in New York NY
1933 -54°F (-48°C), Seneca, Oregon (state record)
1933 Delivery of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Company NYC)
1933 Dutch sea-plane bombs Dutch ship
1933 Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
1933 In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1933 Mutiny on "7 Provinces" ends (began Feb 4th), 23 killed
1933 The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
1934 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1934 Byrd souvenir sheet issued, NYC; 1st unperforated ungummed US stamp
1934 Howard Hanson's "Merry Mount" premieres in New York NY
1934 Stalin ends 17th CPSU-congress, says "Life becomes merrier"
1934 Thomson/Gertrude Stein's opera "Four Saints in Three Acts" premieres in New York NY
1935 1st US streamlined electric RR engine begins service
1935 Pennsylvania RR begins passenger service on new streamlined electric locomotive
1937 Ragnhild Hveger swims world free style record 400 meter (5:14.2)
1938 King Carol II of Romania drives out dictator Goga
1940 "In The Mood" by Glenn Miller hits #1
1940 Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1940 US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer
1940 US male Figure Skating championship won by Eugene Turner
1941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Washington DC-Harrisonburg, VA
1941 Anti-Nazi "Het Parool" begins publishing in Netherlands
1942 Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold disc for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
1942 Japanese submarine bombards Midway Atoll.
1943 "Manifesto of Algerian People" calls for equality & self-determination
1943 8th Army sweeps through North Africa to Tunisia
1943 Van der Veen Resistance starts fire in Amsterdam employment bureau
1944 Belgium resistance fighter/author Kamiel van Baelen arrested
1944 U-666/U-545/U-283 sink off Ireland
1945 "Rum & Coca Cola" by Andrews Sisters hits #1
1946 1st black pro-baseball player Jackie Robinson marries Rachel Isum
1947 Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia
1947 Netherlands Radio Union forms
1947 Province of Petsamo returned to Soviet Union by Finland
1947 U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall prayed: 'Save Thy servants from the tyranny of the nonessential. Give them the courage to say "No" to everything that makes it more difficult to say "Yes" to Thee.'
1947 WWII peace treaties signed
1948 Greek General Markos' guerrilla army bombs Saloniki
1949 Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
1951 "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
1951 Shah of Persia marries 19 year old Soraja Esfandiara Bakhtiari
1953 Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Jean Westwood & Lawrence Demmy of Great Britain
1953 Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Jennifer & John Nicks of Great Britain
1953 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Tenley Albright USA
1953 Men's Figure Skating Champion in Davos won by Hayes Alan Jenkins USA
1954 Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1954 Ice Dance Championship at Oslo won by Jean Westwood/Lawrence Demmy Great Britain
1954 Ice Pairs Championship at Oslo won by Frances Dafoe/Norris Bowden CAN
1954 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Gundi Busch Germany
1954 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Oslo won by Hayes Alan Jenkins US
1954 President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1956 "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel" for RCA
1957 Fay CMusician wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1957 Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
1959 Dutch Princess Wilhelmina publishes "Lonely, but not alone"
1959 Tornado in St Louis kills 19 & injures 265
1960 "Unsinkable Molly Brown" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 532 performances
1960 Charles Ives' "Lincoln, the Great Commoner," premieres
1961 AFL's Los Angeles Chargers move to San Diego
1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
1961 Walter Piston's 7th Symphony, premieres
1962 Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1962 Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3 minutes 58.9 seconds) in Los Angeles CA
1962 USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
1963 Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open
1963 US female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon
1963 US male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz
1964 Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82
1964 The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia. HMAS Voyager sinks.
1964 WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 Harmel government in Belgium resigns
1967 The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution (Presidential Disability & Succession) is ratified.
1968 "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3
1968 Peggy Fleming wins Olympics figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
1969 LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94
1970 26.4 cm precipitation falls on Mount Washington NH (state record)
1970 Dry powder avalanche moving at 120 mph smashes into youth hostel killing 40 Belgian, French, & German youths (Val d'Isere, France)
1971 American Mensa, Ltd incorporates in New York
1971 Bill White becomes 1st black baseball announcer (NY Yankees)
1971 John Guares "House of Blue Leaves" premieres in New York NY
1971 Royal Albert Hall bans scheduled concert featuring Frank Zappa
1972 BBC bans "Give Ireland Back to the Irish" by Wings
1972 Ras al Khaima joins the United Arab Emirates
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 2nd time Rangers shut-out Islanders 6-0
1973 83 meter wide gas tank on Staten Island NY explodes, crushing 40
1973 Mushtaq Mohammad follows up 201 to take 5-49 vs New Zealand Dunedin
1974 "Gigi" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 103 performances
1974 Gail Denenber wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic
1974 Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
1974 Judy Ikenberry wins 1st Us women's marathon (2:55:17)
1974 Silver futures hit record $4.81½ an ounce in London
1975 William "Judy" Johnson selected to baseball Hall of Fame
1977 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 92 performances
1977 Bomb explosion in Moskouse metro
1977 Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebee Raid (1976)
1977 Yehonathan Netanyou Lane in the Bronx named in honor of Bronx-born Israeli soldier who died freeing hostages in Entebbe Raid (1976)
1978 Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA
1979 "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod Stewart peaks at #1
1979 Border is named 12th man for Australia, only Test Cricket he missed
1980 Ianford Wilsons "Talley's Folly" premieres in New York NY
1980 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Elizabeth Arden Golf Classic
1981 8 killed & 198 injured by fire at Las Vegas Hilton
1981 33rd NHL All-Star Game Campbell beat Wales 4-1 at Los Angeles CA
1981 A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
1981 Dennis Lillee becomes Australian Cricket's top wicket-taker with 249
1982 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec
1983 Anglican synod vote 338-100 against unilateral UK nuclear disarmament
1985 -61ºF (-52ºC), Maybell CO (state record)
1985 35th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 140-129 at Indiana
1985 Andrea Schöne skates ladies world record 5 km (7:32.82)
1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-E mission
1985 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1985 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1986 John Lennon's "Live in NYC" album is released
1987 Philippine troops murder 17 civilians-Lupao Massacre
1988 3-judge panel of 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco strikes down Army's ban on homosexuals (later overturned by appeal)
1988 Rocky Malebane-Metsing coup in Bophuthatswana fails
1989 Celtic Kansas City Jones & Cavalier Lenny Wilkens elected to NBA Hall of Fame
1989 Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
1989 Minor League Football System opens organizational meeting, St Louis MO
1989 Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1989 Test Cricket debut of Aaqib Javed, Pakistan vs New Zealand age 16 years 189 days
1989 To gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport, in a New Jersey court
1989 Tony Robinson of Jamaica becomes Nottingham's 1st black sheriff
1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome)
1990 Buster Douglas KOs Mike Tyson in 10 to become heavyweight boxing champion
1990 Perrier Water pulls product from shelf due to benzene in water
1990 South Africa President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th
1990 US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
1991 "La Bete" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 24 performances
1991 41st NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 116-114 at Charlotte
1991 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Phar-Mor at Inverrary Golf Tournament
1991 Johann Koss skates world record 10 km (13:43.54)
1991 Lithuania votes for independence from USSR
1991 NBA All Star Game at Charlotte NC
1992 "Dangerous Women" final episode on WWOR-TV
1992 Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for the USA
1992 Mike Tyson convicted of raping Desiree Washington in Indiana
1993 "Michael Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding 39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
1993 Jani Sievinen swims world record 200 meter backstroke (1:55.59)
1993 US officially backs peace plan in Bosnia
1995 Chelsi Smith, 21, (Texas), crowned 44th Miss USA
1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults female indoor world record (4.12 meters)
1995 US female Figure Skating championship won by Nicole Bobek
1996 The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats chess champion Garry Kasparov for the first time.
1997 5th annual ESPY Awards presented
1997 13th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1997 Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Closest Approach to Earth (1.9245 AU)
1997 Lemrick Nelson found guilty in the fatal stabbing on Hasidic Jew Yankel Rosenbaum in Crown Heights Brooklyn in 1991
1997 O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25 million in punitive damages
1997 Soyuz TM-25 launches to the MIR
1998 AOL raises monthly flat rate Internet access from $19.95 to $21.95
1998 Olympics figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
1998 Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
2003 France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2008 "Atonement" Best Film, Ethan and Joel Coen Best Director at the 61st British Film and Television Awards
2008 NFC beats AFC 42-30 in the NFL Pro Bowl
2008 Rehab, Amy Winehouse win at the 50th Grammy Awards
2008 The 2008 Namdaemun fire severely damages Namdaemun, the first National Treasure of South Korea
2011 A Separation" wins the Golden Bear at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival
2013 5 people are killed by a falling lifeboat from the cruise ship Thomson Majesty in the Canary islands
2013 36 people are killed and 39 are injured in a stampede at a train station in Allahabad, India
2013 "Argo" - Best Film, Ben Affleck - Best Director, Daniel Day-Lewis and Emmanuelle Riva win at the 66th British Academy Awards
2013 Nigeria defeat Burkina Faso 1-0 to win the football 2013 Africa Cup of Nations
2013 Somebody That I Used To Know (Goyte), We are Young (Fun), and Babel (Mumford & Sons) win at the 55th Grammy Awards
2015 Comedian Jon Stewart announces he will be leaving "The Daily Show" at the end of the year
2016 Venezuelan government orders more than 100 malls to close early to save electricity, due to drought caused by El Niño
Born on February 10th
1499 Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
1524 Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (d. 1580)
1606 Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
1609 John Suckling, English poet (d. 1642)
1637 Henriette Catharina van Nassau, Dutch daughter of Frederik Henry
1670 Norbert van Flowers, [Cephalus], Flemish painter
1670 William Congreve, England, restoration writer (Old Bachelor, Way of the World)
1685 Aaron Hill, English writer (Tragedy of Zara) (d. 1750)
1686 Johann F Gronovius, Dutch physician (botany)
1696 Johann Melchior Molter, composer
1702 Jean-Pierre Guignon, composer
1717 Pierre de La Garde, composer
1728 Peter III Feodorovich, German/Russian czar of Russia (1761-62)
1735 Johann Christoph Kuhnau, composer
1741 Franz Adam Veichtner, composer
1750 Stanislao Mattei, composer
1775 Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 1834)
1783 Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
1785 Claude-Louis Navier, French physicist (d. 1836)
1788 Johann Peter Pixis, composer
1795 Ary Scheffer, French painter (d. 1858)
1807 Abner Clark Harding, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1818 Isham Green Harris, Governor (Confederacy), died in 1897
1819 Richard Storrs Willis, composer
1821 William Read Scurry, (Confederate Army Brigadier General, died in 1864)
1824 Samuel Plimsoll, Bristol England, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships)
1827 Peter J Savelberg, Dutch Limburgs monastery founder
1841 Walter Parratt, composer
1846 Charles Beresford, British admiral and politician (d. 1919)
1846 Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
1846 Mildred Childe "Life" Lee, daughter of confederate General Robert E Lee
1847 A N Hornby, cricketer (pioneering England Test batsman)
1859 Alexandre Millerand, French President (d. 1943)
1862 W H "Gobo" Ashley, cricketer (7 wickets in 1 Test for South Africa 1889)
1866 Bror Beckman, composer
1866 Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian
1868 Prince Waldemar of Prussia, son of Emperor Frederick III (d. 1879)
1868 William Allen White, Emporia KS, editor (Pulitzer 1942)
1869 Vasily Pavovlich Kalafati, composer
1870 Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter
1872 Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP)
1879 Franz Carl Bornschein, composer
1880 Jesse G Vincent, Arkansas, engineer designed 1st V-12 engine
1884 Frederick Hawksworth, GWR Chief mechanical engineer. (d. 1976)
1884 Herbert Hordern, cricketer (pioneering leggie for Australia & Philadelphia)
1887 (Fran J) Vital Celen, Flemish literary author
1888 G Ungaretti, writer
1889 Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom)
1890 Boris L Pasternak Russia, novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)
1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958) (d. 1960)
1890 Cor Ruys, Dutch actor (Princess Stage)
1890 Fanny Kaplan, failed assassin of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1918)
1891 Harold, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, Governor-General of Canada (1945-52)
1892 Alan Hale (Rufus Alan Mackahan), American actor (Little John-Adventures of Robin Hood) (d. 1950)
1893 Bill Tilden, American tennis player (d. 1953)
1893 Jimmy Durante, American actor/comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash) (d. 1980)
1893 William [Bill] T Tilden II, tennis player (US Open 1920-25, 29)
1894 Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1957-1963 (d. 1986)
1894 Roy D'Arcy, San Francisco CA, actor (Warning Shadows, Revolt of Zombies)
1894 (Maurice) Harold MacMillan, London, (C) British PM (1957-63)
1896 Olin Howlin, Denver Colo, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy)
1897 John Franklin Enders, American scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Nobel 1954) (d. 1985)
1897 Judith Anderson, Australian actress (d. 1992)
1898 Bertolt Brecht, German author (Mother Courage) (d. 1956)
1898 Dame Judith Anderson Adelaide Australia, actress (Laura, Rebecca, Tycoon)
1898 Joseph Kessel, French journalist and novelist (Army of the Shadows) (d. 1979)
1898 Judith Anderson, Adelaide Aust, actress (Laura, Rebecca, Tycoon)
1898 Robert Keith, Fowler IN, actor (Battle Circus, Branded, Wild One)
19-- Elaine [Kaufman] New York NY, restauranteur (Elaine)
1900 Rebecca Negrin
1901 Stella Adler, American actress (My Girl Tisa) (d. 1992)
1902 Armand Bernier, Belgian poet (Sorcier Triste)
1902 Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Nobel 1956-transistor) (d. 1987)
1903 Matthias Sindelar, Austrian footballer (d. 1939)
1903 Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, composer
1903 Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
1904 John Farrow, American film director (Botany Bay, Wake Island) (d. 1963)
1905 John Dierkes, Ohio, actor (Daughter of Dr Jekyll, Hanging Tree)
1905 Max Schubert, winemaker
1905 Vilko Ukmar, composer
1905 Walter A. Brown, sports organizer (NBA), Boston Celtics Owner (d.1964)
1906 Erik Rhodes (Ernest Sharpe), American actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz) (d. 1990)
1906 Henry Phelps Brown, historian/economist
1906 John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer (elected 1962)
1906 Lon Chaney Jr., American actor (Dracula vs. Frankenstein, The Phantom, Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats) (d. 1973)
1906 Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis
1907 Grace Hamilton, 1st black member of Georgia state legislature
1908 Jean Coulthard, composer
1909 Lord Milne
1910 Dominique Pire, Belgian friar, Nobel Prize Laureate, aided WW II refugees (Nobel 1958) (d. 1969)
1910 Douglas Spencer, actor (Thing, This Island Earth, River of No Return)
1910 Joyce Grenfell, actress (Pickwick Papers, Americanization of Emily)
1910 Paul Whitelaw, cricketer (New Zealand opening batsman vs England 1933)
1912 Lord Orr-Ewing
1913 Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer
1913 Philippa Bevans, actress (Notorious Landlady, World of Henry Orient)
1913 Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian
1914 Larry Adler, American musician, hamonicist (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer) (d. 2001)
1916 Edward R Roybal (Representative-D-CA, 1963)
1918 Gordon Pirie, England, Group Captain
1918 Idwal Pugh, British ombudsman
1920 Alexander Comfort, British physician and writer (Wreath for the Living) (d. 2000)
1920 J Heslop-Harrison, botanist
1921 Adrian Cruft, composer
1922 Harold Hughes (Governor-D-NJ)
1922 Neva Patterson, Iowa, actress (Governor & JJ, Doc Elliot, Nichols)
1923 Cesare Siepi, Italian basso (New York Metropolitan Opera)
1924 Bud (Norman) Poile, Canadian hockey player and executive (NHL) (d. 2005)
1924 Randy Van Horne, El Paso Tx, vocalist (Nat King Cole Show)
1926 Danny Blanchflower, Northern Irish soccer player (d. 1993)
1927 Brian Priestman, British conductor
1927 Jakov Lind, German/British author (Counting My Footsteps)
1927 Leontyne Mary Violet Price, American opera soprano (Porgy & Bess)
1927 Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal
1927 Viscount Cowdray, British financier/multi-millionaire
1928 Gene Taylor (Representative-D-St Louis, 1973)
1928 Hans Nielsen, Denmark, lightweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1929 Hallgeir Brenden, Norway, 15K/18K cross country (Olympics-gold-1952, 56)
1929 Henk Heidweiler, Surinam ambassador (in Netherlands)
1929 Jerry Goldsmith, American composer (Twilight Zone) (d. 2004)
1929 Jim Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest)
1929 Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer
1930 E.L. Konigsburg, American author
1930 John Gilpin, English ballet dancer (Études, Alice in Wonderland)
1930 Peter Phillips, composer
1930 Robert Wagner, American actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart)
1931 Doug Young, American voice actor
1931 Gerhard Rosenfeld, composer
1931 Makoto Shinohara, composer
1931 Thomas Bernhard, Austrian author (d. 1989)
1932 Donald Hilton, Moderator (General Assembly of United Reformed Church)
1932 Rockin Dopsie Sr, [Alton Jay Rubin], Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco)
1933 Richard Schickel, American film critic
1934 Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet
1935 Conrad Klapheck, German painter (typewriters)
1935 John Alcorn, American designer and illustrator (d. 1992)
1935 Salvator Pueyo, composer
1935 Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer
1936 Olwyn Bowey, painter
1936 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator
1937 Don Wilson, rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme)
1937 Lord Justice Rose
1937 Roberta Flack, American singer
1937 Yuriy Poyarkov, USSR, volleyball player (Olympics-2 gold/1 silver-1964-72)
1939 Adrienne Clarkson, 26th Governor General of Canada
1939 Barbara Kolb, Hartford Ct, composer (Trobar Jus)
1939 Boris Pickett, vocalist (Monster Mash)
1939 Roberta Flack, American vocalist (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face)
1940 Hamish Imlach, folk singer/comic
1940 Jimmy Merchant, Musician (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools Fall In Love)
1940 Mary Rand-Bignal-Toomey, British athlete, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1964)
1940 Peter Middleton, CEO (Lloyd's)
1941 John Hampshire, cricketer (of Yorkshire Century on debut for England 1969)
1941 Michael Apted, British director (Granada TV)
1942 Jimmy Merchant, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools)
1942 Michael Bishop, CEO (British Midland Airways)
1943 Bill Laskey, American football player
1943 Ral Donner, [Ralph Stuart], Black Mountain NC, singer (Starfires)
1944 Frances Moore Lappe, American writer and activist
1944 Frank Keating, American politician
1944 Peter Allen, Australian singer and actor (I Go to Rio, Legs Diamond) (d. 1992)
1944 Rufus Reid, American musician
1944 Vernor Vinge, American novelist
1945 John Hayes, secretary-general (British Law Society)
1945 Klas Tuinstra, Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 Donovan [P Leech] Scotland, Musician (Mellow Yellow)
1946 Eliot Wald, American comedy writer
1946 Keith Mans, MP
1947 Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer
1947 Louise Arbour, Canadian judge
1947 Nicholas Owen, English newsreader
1948 Conrad Cummings, composer
1948 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
1949 Harold Sylvester, American actor
1949 Jim Corcoran, Quebec singer and songwriter
1949 Joe Lavender, NFL Hockey Player
1949 Maxime Le Forestier, French singer
1949 Nigel Olsson, British musician
1950 Gail Rebuck, CEO (Random House)
1950 Mark Spitz, American swimmer (Olympics-9 gold/silver/bronze-68, 72)
1950 Mike Rutherford, Musician (Genesis-Against All Odds, Mike & Mechanics)
1951 Robert Iger, American entertainment executive
1951 Roxanne Pulitzer, Glendale California, author (Prize Pulitzer)
1951 Zeudi Araya, Asmara Ethiopia, Miss Ethiopia (1969)
1952 Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister of Singapore
1952 Mike Varty, NFL Football Player
1953 Carl Joseph Stone, composer
1953 John Shirley, US, sci-fi author (Eclipse Penumbra, Eclipse Corona)
1954 Larry McWilliams, baseball player
1955 Chris Adams, British pro wrestler and judoka (d. 2001)
1955 Greg Norman "The White Shark", Australian golfer, PGA golfer (1984 Kemper)
1955 Jim Cramer, American television personality
1955 Lusia Mae Harris, Minter City MS, basketball player (Olympics-silver-76)
1957 Debbie Brinkley, Tasmania, golfer (1990 T25 Victorian Open)
1957 Pranab Roy, cricketer (son of Pankaj, Indian batsman 1982)
1958 Michael Weiss, American musician
1958 Sharon Stone, Meadville PA, actress (Basic Instinct, Total Recall)
1959 Dennis Gentry, American football player
1959 John Calipari, American basketball coach
1959 Lisa McPherson, American Scientologist (d. 1995)
1959 Tonga (Uliuli Fifita), wrestler (WCW/WAR/WWF, Ming, Haku, Islanders)
1960 Lionel Cartwright, Ohio, country vocalist (I Watched it on the Radio)
1960 Robert Addie, British actor (d. 2003)
1961 Alexander Payne, American film director
1961 David Ward, cricketer (prolific Surrey batsman)
1961 Eva Pfaff, West Germany, tennis star
1961 George Stephanopoulos, American political commentator, presidential adviser (Clinton)
1962 Bobby Czyz, American boxer
1962 Cliff Burton, American musician (Metallica) (d. 1986)
1962 Jean-Marie Banos, Lavelanet France, Canada sabre (Olympics-9/10-88, 92, 96)
1962 Piero Pelù, Italian singer and songwriter (Litfiba)
1963 Bennie Thompson, NFLer (Saints, Chiefs, Cleveland Browns/Ravens)
1963 Harris Huizingh, soccer player (FC Groningen)
1963 Joakim Nystrom, Sweden, tennis star
1963 Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player, centerfielder (New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies)
1963 Philip Glenister, English actor
1964 Arthur Lenk, Israeli diplomat
1964 Francesca Neri, Italian actress (Ages of Lulu)
1964 Glenn Beck, American radio and television host (Conservative)
1964 Mir Aimal Kansi, Quetta Pakistan, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1964 Roger Reijners, soccer player (MVV)
1964 Sam Graddy, Gaffney SC, 4x100 meter runner (Olympics-gold-1984)
1964 Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
1965 Lenny Webster, New Orleans LA, catcher (Montreal Expos)
1965 Mario Jean, Quebec comedian and television actor
1965 Marjolein Macrander, Dutch actress (Drowned)
1966 Daryl Johnston, American football player, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys)
1966 Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
1967 Armand Serrano, Filipino animator
1967 Bradley Hughes, Mordialloc Victoria Australia, Australasia golfer
1967 Dwayne "Road Grader" White, NFL Football Player (New York Jets, St Louis)
1967 Jacky Durand, French cyclist
1967 Laura Dern, American actress (Jurassic Park, Mask, Smooth Talk)
1968 Atika Suri, Indonesian television newscaster
1968 Garrett Reisman, NASA astronaut
1968 Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Montreal Canadiens)
1968 Ryan Bowen, US baseball pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1969 Jayhawk Owens, Cincinnati Ohio, catcher (Colorado Rockies)
1969 Joe Mangrum, American artist
1969 Laurie Dhue, American television personality
1969 Tim Clark, US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1970 Alberto Castillo Dominican baseball catcher (New York Mets)
1970 Bobby Jones, Fresno CA, pitcher (New York Mets)
1970 Brendan Eppert, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1970 Melissa Doyle, Australian TV personality
1970 Myrea Pettit, British illustrator
1970 Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese racing driver
1970 Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer
1970 Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist
1971 Kevin Sefcik, Oaklawn IL, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1971 Lisa Marie Varon, American wrestler
1971 Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1971 Marty Nothstein, Allentown Pa, sprint cyclist Olympics-silver-96)
1971 Wayne Gandy, tackle (St Louis Rams)
1972 Michael Kasprowicz, cricketer (Australian Test fast bowler vs West Indies 1996)
1972 Nancy Christian, Scottsdale Az, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-17th-1995)
1972 Sara Simmons, Belmont Mass, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Torey Hunter, NFL cornerback (Houston Oilers)
1974 Andrew English, CFL receiver (British Columbia Lions)
1974 Elizabeth Banks, American actress
1974 Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
1974 Lea Ghirardi-Rubbi, Colombes France, tennis star (1994 Futures NC)
1974 Tanoai Reed, American stunt performer
1974 Ty Law, American football player, NFL cornerback (New England Patriots)
1975 Amber Frey, American witness in the Scott Peterson case
1975 Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
1975 Kool Savas, German rapper
1975 Tina Thompson, WNBA forward (Houston Comets)
1976 Keeley Hawes, English actress
1976 Kev Brown, American rapper/producer
1976 Lance Berkman, American baseball player
1976 Vedran Runje, Croatian footballer
1977 Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
1977 Stephanie Ann Foisy, Concord NH, Miss New Hampshire-America (1995)
1978 Don Omar, Puerto Rican singer
1978 Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
1979 Daryl Palumbo, American musician
1979 Ross Powers, American snowboarder
1980 César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
1980 Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 Steve Tully, English footballer
1981 Andrew Johnson, English footballer
1981 Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter
1981 Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer
1981 Tholomew Plague, drummer (Avenged Sevenfold)
1982 Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby league player
1982 Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
1982 Keith Dunne, Irish footballer
1983 Bless, a Canadian rapper.
1983 Daiane dos Santos, Brazillian gymnast.
1984 Alex Gordon, American baseball player
1984 Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
1985 Anette Sagen, Norwegian ski jumper
1986 Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
1986 Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
1986 Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1987 Choi Si Won, Korean singer (Super Junior)
1989 Bunmi Mojekwu, British actress
1990 Sooyoung, Korean singer
1991 Emma Roberts, American actress
1994 Makenzie Vega, American actress
1997 Chloe Moretz, American actress
Died on February 10th
1126 William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, poet (b. 1071)
1134 Robert III/II Curthouse, Duke of Normandy
1162 Boudouin III, son of King Fulco of Anjou/husband of Theodora
1162 King Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
1164 Hugo van Fosses/Prémontré abbott of Prémontré
1242 Emperor Shijo of Japan (b. 1231)
1278 Margaret II of Flanders (b. 1202)
1482 Luca della Robbia, Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs)
1495 William Stanley, English lord chamberlain, executed for conspiracy
1567 Darnley Stuart, husband of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered
1576 Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
1588 Joost Sybrantsz Buyck, Amsterdam merchant/regent
1598 Anna van Bull, 1st wife of Polish/Swedish king Sigismund II
1645 Dorothea Sophia, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1587)
1657 Sebastian Stosskopf, Elzabethian painter
1678 Philip Vingboons, Amsterdam's master builder, buried
1686 William Dugdale, Garter King of Arms (1677-86), English antiquarian (b. 1605)
1711 Lukas Fencer, Dutch poet (Meleager & Atalante)
1722 Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
1755 Montesquieu, French writer (b. 1689)
1758 Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1682)
1772 Jozef Wenceslas, monarch of Liechtenstein/general
1772 Louis Tocqué French painter
1774 Florian Leopold Gassmann, composer
1782 Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
1783 James Nares, composer
1816 Johann Paul Aegidius Martini, composer
1822 Albert-Kasimir, duke of Saxon-Teschen/governor of Hungary
1825 Paul van Hemert, Dutch theologist/philosopher (Kant)
1829 Leo XII (Annibale Sermattei), Italian Pope (1823-29)
1829 Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
1832 Antonio Benedetto Maria Puccini, composer
1837 Aleksandr S Pushkin, Russian poet and novelist (b. 1799)
1857 David Thompson, Canadian explorer (b. 1770)
1861 Francis Danby, Exmouth, painter
1865 Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
1876 Johan August Soderman, composer
1879 Honoré V Daumier French painter/lithographer
1879 Wolter R baron van Hoëvell Dutch vicar/abolitionist
1880 Isaäc M "Isaac A" Crémieux French minister of Justice
1887 Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey)
1887 Pieter van der Aa, Dutch geographer
1891 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1850)
1902 J N Krieger, German Selenographer
1904 John A. Roche, American politician (b. 1844)
1905 Ignacy Krzyzanowski, composer
1906 Ezra Butler Eddy, Canadian businessman (E.B. Eddy Company) and politician (b. 1827)
1912 Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, British surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic) (b. 1827)
1915 Albert J-BJ Thijs, Belgian Colonial pioneer (Congo)
1917 Emile Pessard, composer
1917 John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
1918 Abdul Hamid II, 34th Ottoman Sultan (lost Serbia/Egypt) (b. 1842)
1918 Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1833)
1923 Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Nobel 1901) (b. 1845)
1932 R H Edgar Wallace, English novelist and screenwriter (3 Just Men) (b. 1875)
1939 Pius XI (Ambrogio D A Ratti), Italian Pope (1922-39) (b. 1857)
1943 Wa'er, shot dead by Defiance
1944 Eugène Michel Antoniadi, Greek astronomer (b. 1870)
1945 Anacleto Diaz, Filipino jurist (b. 1878)
1945 Juan de Hernandez, composer
1948 Ewart Astill, cricket all-rounder (9 Tests for England 1927-30)
1948 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin)
1950 Armen Tigran Tigranyan, composer
1950 Marcel Mauss, French sociologist (b. 1872)
1951 Joseph Bovet, composer
1952 Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist (Dakin-West reaction) (b. 1880)
1957 Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (Little House on Prarie) (b. 1867)
1958 Billy Vine, actor (54th Street Revue)
1960 Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1962 Willem Paerels, Belgian painter and graphic artist
1964 Eugen Sänger, Austrian aerospace engineer (b. 1905)
1966 Billy Rose, American composer and band leader (Diamond Horse Show) (b. 1899)
1968 Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist
1975 Nikos Kavvadias, Greek poet and writer (b. 1910)
1977 Grace Mary Williams, composer
1982 K R Meher-Homji, cricketer (Test as Indian, catch no stumped), dies
1983 Eduard Franz, actor (Zorro)
1984 David Von Erich, American professional wrestler (b. 1958)
1985 Johnny Mokan, baseball player (b. 1895)
1986 Brian Aherne, actor (Juarez, My Sister Eileen, Rosie)
1987 Syed Sadequain Ahmed Naqvi, Pakistani painter, calligrapher and artist (b. 1930)
1989 Dan Kelly, NHL sportscaster, "He shoots, he scores!"
1990 Bill Sherwood, American filmmaker/composer (b. 1952)
1992 Alex Haley, American author (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots) (b. 1921)
1992 Florence Tarlow
1992 Mau Kopuit, Dutch editor-in-chief (New Israeli Weekly Newspaper)
1992 Meade Roberts, screenwriter
1992 Thomas Graftdijk, Dutch writer (Dr Faustus), dies
1992 Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track)
1993 Fred Hollows, New Zealand ophthalmologist (b. 1929)
1993 John Grossman, Czechoslovakian director (Process, Revisor), dies
1993 Joy Garrett, actress (Days of Our Live)
1993 Maurice Bourges-Maunoury, PM of France (1957), dies
1995 Kenton Kilmer, poet/translator, dies at 85
1995 Louis Sen A Kaw, Suriname's great dam builder
1995 Paul Monette, American author and gay rights activist (b. 1945)
1995 S van der Linde, church historian
1996 Hugh Francis Lamprey, ecologist
1997 Brian McManus Connolly, musician,
1997 Matthew Eappen of Newton Massachusetts (b. 1996)
1997 Milton Cato, PM of San Vincent & Grenadines (1979-84)
1998 Buddy the Wonder Dog, dog (Air Bud)
1998 Maurice Schumann, French foreign minister (1969-73), dies
2000 Jim Varney, American actor (b. 1949)
2001 Abraham Beame, American politician, Mayor of New York City (b. 1906)
2001 George Holmes Tate, American jazz saxophonist and clarinetist (b. 1913)
2002 Dave Van Ronk, American folk singer/songwriter (b. 1936)
2002 Traudl Junge, Adolf Hitler's secretary (b. 1920)
2003 Al Ruffo, American politician, Mayor of San Jose, California (b. 1908)
2003 Clark MacGregor, American politician, United States Congressman from Minnesota (b. 1922)
2003 Curt Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1959)
2003 Edgar de Evia, American photographer (b. 1910)
2003 Ron Ziegler, American press secretary to Richard Nixon (b. 1939)
2004 Guy Provost, Quebec actor (b. 1925)
2005 Arthur Miller, American playwright (b. 1915)
2006 Dick Harmon, American golf instructor (b. 1947)
2006 J Dilla, American rapper/producer (b. 1974)
2007 Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
2007 Ned Austin, American character actor (b. 1925)
2008 Adeline Jay Geo-Karis, American politician (b. 1918)
2008 Roy Scheider, American Actor (b. 1932)
2008 Steve Gerber, American comics writer (b. 1947)
2009 Jeremy Lusk, American freestyle motocross racer (b. 1984)
2009 Leila Hadley, American travel writer and socialite (b. 1926)
2010 Charles Wilson, American politician (b. 1933)
2010 Fred Schaus, American basketball coach and executive (b. 1925)
2012 Geoffrey Cornish, Canadian golf course architect
2012 Jeffrey Zaslow, American author and columnist
2013 W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
2013 Eugenio Trias, Spanish philosopher
2014 Shirley Temple, American actress and diplomat, famous 1930s child star (Bright Eyes, Heidi)