February 12th
Holidays and Celebrations
Abraham Lincoln's birthday (USA) * CLICK HERE
Darwin Day * (See Below)
Red Hand Day (United Nations)
Union Day (Myanmar)
Georgia Day (U.S.) state of Georgia
Chineese New Year, Lunar New Year, Spring Festival Start of the Lunar Calender (2013) * CLICK HERE
National Freedom to Marry Day (USA - unofficial)
NAACP Day, Anniversary of the NAACP
Plum Pudding Day a.k.a. National Plum Pudding Day
Oglethorpe Day
Safety Pup Day a.k.a. Birthday of Safetypup
Red Hand Day
Signing of the Independence (Chile) Bernardo O'Higgins signs the Independence of Chile near Concepción 1818.
Establishment Day (Michigan State University), established in 1855
Peanut's Rememberence Day - Charles Schultz's famous comic strip Peanuts prints its last comic 2000, It was also the day Charles Schulz died (b. 1922).
Paul Bunyan Day (Born Feb. 12, 1834 in Bangor, ME)
Storm of 2006 Day - A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
Immanuel Kant Rememberence Day, German philosopher (b. 1724 D: 1804)
Tom Landry Memorial Day. Hall of Fame football coach Tom Landry died at age 75 in 2000.
Feast of Saint Benedict of Aniane
Feast of Saint Damian of Alexandria
Feast of Saint Julian the Hospitaller
Evolution Sunday is a service conducted in a number of Christian churches to celebrate Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The Sunday chosen is the closest Sunday to Darwin's birthday Fête de la Trainasse Translation: Common Knotgrass Day (French Republican) The 24th day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Though life is now pleasant and sweet to the sense
We'll be damnably mouldy a hundred years hence."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Between The Sheets
1 Part Brandy
1 Part Rum
1 Part Tripple Sec
1 Part Sweet and Sour Mix
Wine of The Day
R & B Cellars 2008 Petite Sirah
Style - Petite Sirah
Napa Valley
$35
Beer of The Day
Guppie Pale Ale
Brewer - BJ's Restaurant & Brewery, Huntington Beach, California, USA
Style - Session Beer
Joke of The Day
A guy walks into a pub and sees a sign hanging over the bar which reads:
Cheese Sandwich: $1.50
Chicken Sandwich: $2.50
Hand Job: $5.00
Checking his wallet for the necessary payment, he walks up to the bar and beckons to one of the three exceptionally attractive blondes serving drinks to an eager-looking group of men.
"Yes?" she enquires with a knowing smile, "Can I help you?"
"I was wondering", whispers the man, "are you the one who gives the hand-jobs?"
"Yes" she purrs "I am."
The man replies "Well wash your f*cking hands, I want a cheese sandwich!"
Quote of the Day
"I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer."
- Abraham Lincoln (February 12th, 1809 – April 15th, 1865), the 16th President of the United States, served from March 1861 until his assassination.
- Alternative -
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
Whisky of The Day
Old Parr Grand 12 Year Old Blended Scotch Whisky
$35
February Observances
AMD/Low Vision Awareness MonthAdopt 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 12th
881 Pope John VIII crowns Charles the Fat, the King of Italy: Emperor
1049 Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg crowned Pope Leo IX
1111 German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome
1130 Pope Innocent II elected
1429 English forces under Sir John Fastolf defend a supply convoy carrying rations to the army besieging Orleans from attack by the Comte de Clermont and Sir John Stewart of Darnley in the Battle of Rouvray (also known as the Battle of the Herrings).
1502 Granada] Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism
1502 Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
1528 Treaty of Dordrecht between emperor & ecclesiastical power
1541 Santiago, Chile is founded by Pedro de Valdivia.
1554 A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
1577 Spanish land guardian Don Juan of Habsburg signs "Eternal Edict"
1624 English parliament comes together
1689 The Convention Parliament convenes and declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.
1700 The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe.
1709 Alexander Selkirk, Scottish seaman is rescued after 4+ years from Fernandez Island (inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe")
1719 The Onderlinge van 1719 u.a., the oldest existing life insurance company in the Netherlands is founded.
1733 Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
1736 Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor Francois I)
1762 English fleet occupies Martinique
1763 John Casteret appointed British minister of foreign affairs
1771 Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
1772 Yves de Kerguelen of France discovers Kerguelen Archipelago, India
1793 1st US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
1797 Haydn's song "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," premieres in Vienna
1816 The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.
1817 An Argentine/Chilean patriotic army, after crossing the Andes, defeats Spanish troops on the Battle of Chacabuco.
1818 Chile gains independence from Spain, Bernardo O'Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.
1821 Mercantile Library of City of NY opens
1825 Creek Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the United States government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
1832 Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
1839 Boundary dispute between Maine & New Brunswick, leads to the Aroostock War
1840 Housatonic Railroad opens
1848 Ballet "Faust" premieres, Milan
1850 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300
1855 Michigan State University was established.
1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon, AK
1865 Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Reps
1870 Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada
1870 Women gain the right to vote in the Utah Territory.
1873 Congress abolishes bimetallism & authorizes $1 & $3 gold coins
1874 King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Is Hawaii, is 1st king to visit US
1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop
1877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem, Mass
1877 US railroad builders strike against wage reduction
1878 Frederick Thayer patents catcher's mask (pat # 200,358)
1879 News about slaughtering of Isandlwana reaches London
1879 The first artificial ice rink in North America opens at Gilmore's Park in New York City.
1880 National Croquet League organizes (Phila)
1882 Social-Democratic Union forms in Amsterdam
1885 Carl Peters founds German East-Africa Society
1886 2nd British government of Salisbury forms
1889 Caesar Francks Symphony in D, premieres
1889 Henrik Ibsens "Fruen fra Haven," premieres in Oslo
1894 Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.
1899 -47°F (-44°C), Camp Clarke, Nebraska (state record)
1899 1st 2-man team 6-day bicycle race in US begins, Madison Square Garden, NYC
1901 Dutch Penitentiary children's law proclaimed
1906 George Cohans musical "George Washington," premieres in NYC
1908 Anna Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
1908 NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1909 Netherlands' SDAP suspends Marxist Tribune group (Gorter & Wijnkoop)
1909 Robert Fowler runs world record marathon (2:46:52.6)
1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1912 The Republic of China adopts the Gregorian calendar.
1912 Xuantong Emperor of the Manchu Qing dynasty, the last Emperor of China, Hsuan T'ung, abdicates.
1914 In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1916 1st edition of Joseph Patterson/Sidney Smith strip "Gumps"
1920 -Apr 26] 14,000 Rotterdam/Amsterdam harbor workers strike
1920 NL votes 6-2 for 1 commissioner AL votes 6-2 to keep group commission
1921 Soviet troops invade Georgia (theirs, not ours)
1921 Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies
1924 Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
1924 George Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" premieres at Carnegie Hall (NYC)
1924 George Kaufman's "Beggar on Horseback," premieres in NYC
1925 1st federal arbitration law approved by Congress
1925 E Thieffry departs with Handley Page for the Belgian Congo
1925 Estonia forbids communist Party
1926 Barendrecht soccer team forms
1927 British expeditionary army lands in Shanghai
1929 Karst Leemburg wins Dutch 11 cities skate (11:30)
1931 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting with the callsign HVJ
1932 Communist Party of Holland forms Unemployed Combat Committees
1933 German vice-chancellor von Papen demands Catholic aid for Nazis
1934 Export-Import Bank incorporates
1934 France hit by a general strike against fascists & royalists
1934 In Spain the national council of Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional-Sindicalista is inaugurated. The council decides to merge the movement with the Falange Española.
1934 The Austrian Civil War begins.
1934 The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
1935 Great airship, USS Macon, crashes into Pacific Ocean
1937 Cleveland (now Los Angeles) Rams granted an NFL franchise
1938 Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg visits Hitler in Berchtesgaden, German troops entered Austria
1940 FBLA-PBL organization is founded.
1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen
1941 Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome"
1942 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
1943 General Eisenhower departs Algiers to Tebessa
1944 Wendell Wilkie (R) enters presidential race
1945 SF selected for site of UN Conference
1946 Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats, World War II.
1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia
1947 Record 100.5-kg sailfish caught, C W Stewart, Galapagos Islands
1948 1st Lt Nancy Leftenant becomes 1st black in army nursing corps
1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 perfs
1949 Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio
1949 Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey
1949 Unidentified aircraft bomb Jerusalem
1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
1950 Sen Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees
1953 USSR breaks relations with Israel
1955 McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks
1955 Pres Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to S Vietnam
1955 Soviets decides space center built in Baikonur, Kazachstan
1955 WTVY TV channel 4 in Dothan, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Miami Beach Golf Open
1957 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) been developed
1958 Celtic Bill Russell grabs 41 rebounds to beat Syracuse 119-101
1958 Gen Miguel Ydegoras Fuentes elected president of Guatemala
1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers
1961 Celtic Bill Russell grabs 40 rebounds to beat Warriors 136-125
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1961 Mushtaq Mohammad scores 1st Test Cricket century at 17 yrs 82 days
1961 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.
1962 Bus boycott starts in Macon, Georgia
1963 Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron
1964 Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)
1964 End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career
1964 US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
1964 US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen
1965 KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
1965 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
1966 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, announces the Six Points in Karachi as the election manifesto of Awami League, that later led to formation of Bangladesh.
1967 Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater
1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
1967 Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting
1970 Anthony Shaffers "Sleuth," premieres in NYC
1971 Only Test Cricket for Ken Eastwood, who scored 5 & 0 Aust v England
1973 1st US POWs in N Vietnam released;
1973 The first United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong from the Vietnam War, 116 of 456 flown to Philippines
1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.
1976 Actor Sal Mineo is stabbed to death in West Hollywood.
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 Toronto Maple Leafs shutout Washington Capitals 10-0
1978 "Jesus Christ Superstar" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 96 perfs
1978 Debbie Austin wins LPGA American Cancer Society Golf Classic
1978 US female Figure Skating championship won by Linda Fratianne
1978 US male Figure Skating championship won by Charles Tickner
1979 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
1980 "Canterbury Tales" opens at Rialto Theater NYC for 16 performances
1980 NY Islanders 2nd scoreless tie, vs Winnipeg Jets
1980 Richard Hadlee becomes NZ's top wicket-taker with 117
1981 Admiral Bobby R Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA
1981 Arbitrator Goetz declares Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk a free agent
1981 Cape Verde amends its constitution
1981 Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Bldg, 10m
1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1982 Wayne Gretzky scores 153rd point of season, tieing NHL record
1984 Alice Miller wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1984 Cale Yarborough, becomes 1st Daytona 500 qualifier, above 200 MPH
1984 Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics
1984 West Indies beat Australia 2-0-1 to win cricket World Series Cup receiving all perfect scores for quality & gold medal
1985 37th NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 6-4 at Calgary
1985 West Indies beat Australia 2-1 to win cricket World Series Cup
1986 1st-class cricket debut of Curtly Ambrose, Leeward Is v Guyana
1987 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7M damages
1989 5 Pakistani Moslem rioters killed protesting "Satanic Verses" novel
1989 39th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 143-134 at Houston
1989 50th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Larry Mowry
1989 Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church
1989 Gretzky sets 2 records, his 45th hat trick & 10th 40+ goal season
1989 Thursday's Child sets sailing record, NY-Cape Horn-SF, 80 d 20 h
1989 US male Figure Skating championship won by Christopher Bowman
1990 Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.
1991 Iceland recognizes Lithuania's independence
1991 North & South Korea form a joint team for table tennis competition
1994 17th Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
1994 20th century premiere of 6 restored Haydn-sonatas in Boston
1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" stolen (in Oslo)
1994 Inna Lassovskaya jumps world record 14.90m
1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose
1995 45th NBA All-Star Game: West beats East 139-112 at Phoenix
1995 Angela Kennedy swims woman's world record 50m butterfly
1995 Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec)
1995 Dieter Baumann runs European record 3k indoor (7:37.51)
1995 Jeff Rouse swims world record 50m backstroke (24.37 sec)
1995 Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k indoor (7:35.15)
1995 PRI loses/PAN wins Mexican regional elections
1995 Sun Cayun pole vaults indoor female world record (4.13m)
1995 Susan Auch skates female world record 500m (38.94 sec)
1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgement
1997 Hwang Jang-yop, secretary in the Workers' Party of Korea and a prime architect of North Korea's Juche doctrine, defects at the South Korean embassy in Beijing along with his aide, Kim Dok-hong.
1998 "Freak," opens at Cort Theater NYC
1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt
1998 Dallas Cowboys sign Chan Gailey as their 4th head coach
1998 Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740
1998 US district judge T Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional
1999 President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2001 NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
2002 An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
2002 The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its conclusion.
2002 US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is a suitable site for a deep geological repository for the United States.
2004 The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2006 A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington DC up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City.
2007 A gunman opens fire in a mall in Salt Lake City, killing 5 people in the Trolley Square shooting.
2009 Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all 49 on board and one on the ground.
2012 Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow is re-elected president of Turkmenistan with 97% of the vote
2012 Rolling In The Deep, Bon Iver wins at the 54th Grammy Awards
2012 Zambia defeat Ivory Coast 8-7 on penalties in the Africa Cup of Nations
2012 "The Artist" Best Film, Michel Hazanavicius Best Director at the 65th British Film and Television Awards
2013 At a ceremony in Philadelphia, the NFL pays tribute to the life of the late Steve Sabol and his many contributions to the league
2013 North Korea conducts its third underground nuclear test, prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community
2014 Intel entrepreneur and co-founder of the X-PRIZE Foundation, Peter Diamandis, claims that 50% of US jobs are under threat of being mechanized within 10 years
2014 Tatyana Volosozhar and Maksim Trankov win the Olympic gold in pairs figure skating
2016 Britain's Ordnance Survey, using NASA data posts map of Mars on Flickr
2016 Fiji becomes the first country to ratify the UN climate deal (signed Paris, December 2015)
2016 Pope Francis begins his visit to Mexico, arriving at “Benito Juarez” International Airport in Mexico City
2016 Pope Francis meets Patriarch Kirill in Havana - first meeting between Catholic and Russian Orthodox church heads for nearly 1,000 years
2016 Student leader Kanhaiya Kumar is arrested on “anti-nationalism” charges by Indian police at an anniversary event of the death of Afzal Guru, at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University
Born on February 12th
1074 Conrad, King of Germany and Italy (d. 1101)
1211 Henry VII, Roman catholic German king (1220-35)
1218 Kujo Yoritsune, Japanese shogun (d. 1256)
1438 Adolf van Egmond, duke of Gelre/earl of Zutphen
1474 Lorenzo Campeggi(o), archbishop of Bologna/diplomat
1567 Thomas Campion, English composer and poet (d. 1620)
1584 Casparus Barleaus, Flemish theologist/poet (Muiderkring)
1585 Caspar Bartholin, Malmö , physician, theologian, writer on anatomy
1606 John Winthrop, the Younger, Governor of Connecticut (d. 1676)
1636 Herman Witsius, [Wits], Dutch reformed theologist
1637 Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist (Bible of Nature) (d. 1680)
1663 Cotton Mather, New England minister (d. 1728)
1665 Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (sexuality plant) (d. 1721)
1704 Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (d. 1772)
1706 Josef Christian, German sculptor
1728 Étienne-Louis Boullée, French architect (d. 1799)
1740 Matej Sojka, composer
1751 Joseph Waast Aubert Nonot, composer
1753 François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798)
1753 Lambert-Francois Godecharle, composer
1758 Christian Ignatius Latrobe, composer
1760 Jan Ladislav Dussek, Bohemia, pianist/composer
1768 Francis II, Last Holy Roman Emperor (1792-1806) (d. 1835)
1775 Louise Catherine Johnson Adams, First Lady of the United States, wife of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) (d. 1852)
1777 Bernard Courtois, French chemist (d. 1838)
1777 Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German poet (d. 1843)
1778 Franz Joseph Volkert, composer
1785 Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist (d. 1838)
1788 Carl Reichenbach, German chemist and philosopher (d. 1869)
1791 Jan D Zocher Jr, Dutch garden architect (Vondelpark, Amsterdam)
1791 Peter Cooper, American Industrialist, inventor and philanthropistt (Cooper Union) (d. 1883)
1792 Ferdinand de Braekeleer, Belgian painter
1794 Alexander Petrov, Russian chess player (d. 1867)
1804 Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (d. 1865)
1809 Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-65) (d. 1865)
1809 Charles Darwin, English naturalist, discovered evolution (Origin of species) (d. 1882)
1818 Otto Ludwig, German writer (Die Heiterethei)
1824 Arya Samaj Maha Rishi Dayanand Sarsvati, Indian hindu leader
1828 George Meredith, English writer (Shaving of Shagpat) (d. 1909)
1828 Robert Ransom Jr, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
1831 John Morrissey, boxer/developer of Saratoga Springs horse race track
1838 Charles Carroll Walcott, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1898
1841 Gijsbert van Tienhoven, Dutch mayor (Amsterdam) and foreign minister
1843 John Graham Chambers, English athlete who wrote the Queensberry rules for boxing (d. 1883)
1850 Amaat Vyncke, Flemish missionary (Flemish Flag)
1852 Hendrik Blink, geographer (Van de Eems tot de Schelde)
1853 Bertram Luard-Selby, composer
1857 Bobby Peel, English cricketer (d. 1943)
1861 Lou Andreas-Salome, Russian-born author (Im Kampf um Gott) (d. 1937)
1865 Kazimierz Tetmajer, Polish poet and writer (Young Poland) (d. 1940)
1867 Hedwig Courths-Mahler, German author (Warbride) [or Febr 18]
1867 Joe Howard, NYC, vocalist (Gay Nineties Revue)
1868 Johan H A Schaper, Dutch MP/founder (SDAP)
1869 Hendrik P Marchant, Dutch minister of Education/Arts (VVD)
1870 Marie Lloyd, English music-hall performer (d. 1922)
1876 Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (d. 1933)
1880 John L. Lewis, American labor union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60) (d. 1969)
1881 Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (d. 1931)
1882 Walter Vaes, Flemish painter/etcher
1883 Ludwig Stossel, Austria, actor (Man With a Camera)
1884 Johan Laidoner, Estonian military commander (d. 1953)
1884 Marie Vassilieff, Russian artist (d. 1957)
1884 Max Beckmann, German artist (d. 1950)
1885 Julius Streicher, Nazi German publisher (d. 1946)
1885 Licinio Refice, composer
1886 Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist, composer
1886 Michel Brusselmans, composer
1889 Bhante Dharmawara, Cambodian monk and supercentenarian (d. 1999)
1891 Cecil Dixon, cricket off-spinner (1 Test for South Africa, 3-118, pair)
1891 Maurice Yvain, composer
1891 Max Terhune, actor (Arizona Stagecoach, Hit the Saddle, Range Justice)
1893 Marcel G J Minnaert, Dutch astronomer
1893 Omar Bradley, American general (WW II), the last surviving five-star general in the United States and the 1st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (d. 1981)
1897 Vola Vale, American actress (d. 1970)
1898 Wallace Ford (Samuel Jones Grundy), English-born actor (Deputy) (d. 1966)
1898 (Le)Roy Harris, Oklahoma, composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
1899 Albert Huybrechts, composer
1900 Fred Emney, London England, actor (Let the People Sing, Lilac Domino)
1900 Roger J. Traynor, American judge (d. 1983)
1902 William Collier, American stage and film actor (d. 1987)
1902 William D Revelli, Spring Gulch Colorado, band leader
1903 Chick Hafey, baseball player (d. 1973)
1903 Joseph F. Biroc, American cinematographer (d. 1996)
1904 Ted Mack, American television host (Original Amateur Hour) (d. 1976)
1905 Harry Bellaver, actor (Sgt Arcaro-Naked City)
1907 Clifton C. Edom, American photojournalism educator (d. 1991)
1908 August Neo, Estonian wrestler (d. 1982)
1908 Jacques Herbrand, French logician and mathematician (d. 1931)
1908 Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (d. 1982)
1909 Barry Wood, New Haven Ct, vocalist (Your Hit Parade)
1909 Sigmund Rascher, German SS doctor (d. 1945)
1910 Forsyth Hardy, documentary film pioneer
1910 Lee Byung Chull, Korean industrialist/founder (Samsung Business)
1911 Charles Mathiesen, Norway, 1500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1936)
1911 Frank Hercules, writer
1911 Stephen H. Sholes, American recording executive (d. 1968)
1911 Sylvstre A Guzman Fernandez, president (Dominican Republic)
1912 Eddie J Bush, golf professional
1912 Ernest Clark, London England, actor (Doctor in the House)
1912 R. F. Delderfield, English author (d. 1972)
1913 Pedro Gastao de Orleans e Braganca, grandson of emperor Pedro I
1914 Arvid Pardo, Maltese diplomat, a.k.a "Father of the Law of the Sea Conference" (d. 1999)
1914 Gordon Tex Beneke, saxophonist/bandleader/vocalist (Glenn Miller Orch)
1914 Nello Celio, Swiss president
1914 Tex Beneke, American musician and band leader (d. 2000)
1915 Andrew J Goodpaster, US, general/supreme commander (NATO-Europe
1915 Lorne Greene, Canadian actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) (d. 1987)
1916 Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998)
1916 Karl Hubert Rudolf Schiske, Austrian composer (Vom Tode)
1917 Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (d. 2006)
1917 Thomas K Scherman, NYC, conductor (Little Orch Society 1947-75)
1918 Dominic DiMaggio, baseball outfielder (Boston Red Sox)
1918 Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1919 Forrest Tucker, American actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail) (d. 1986)
1920 Pran, Indian actor
1920 William Roscoe Estep, Baptist historian and professor (d. 2000)
1922 Hussein bin Dato' Onn, Malaysian Prime Minister (d. 1990)
1923 Chaskel Besser, Orthodox rabbi (d. 2010)
1923 Franco Zeffirelli, Italian film and opera director and designer (Romeo & Juliet)
1923 James Abdnor, (Sen-R-SD, 1981-87), (d. 2012)
1923 Mel Powell, composer
1924 Hans Berghuis, Dutch author/poet (3 Women, Adam)
1925 Sir Anthony Berry, British politician (d. 1984)
1926 Charles Van Doren, American quiz show contestant
1926 Joe Garagiola, American baseball player and announcer, host (Today Show)
1926 Paul Hamlyn, English publisher/multi-millionaire (Octopus)
1927 Anne Gillis, Little Rock Ark, actress (Adv of Tom Sawyer, Little Men)
1929 Agustin Gonzalez Acilu, composer
1930 Arlen Specter, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (Sen-R-PA, 1981)
1930 Gerhard Rohm, writer
1930 John Doyle, Irish hurler
1931 Constance A Morella, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1931 Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch author
1932 Axel Jensen, Norwegian author (d. 2003)
1932 Julian Lincoln Simon, American economist and author (d. 1998)
1932 Lincoln Kilpatrick, St Louis Mo, actor (BJ-Leslie Uggams Show)
1933 Costa-Gavras, director
1933 Ivan Nikolayevich Anikeyev, cosmonaut
1933 Juanita [Ruth] Coulson, sci-fi author (Web of Wizardry, Space Trap)
1934 Anne Krueger, American economist
1934 Annette Crosbie, Scottish actress
1934 Bill Russell, American basketball player (Boston Celtics, Oly-gold-56)
1935 Gene McDaniels, American singer and actor (Young Swingers)
1935 Ken Still, golfer
1936 Arnost Parsch, composer
1936 Fang Lizhi, Beijing China, Chinese astrophysicist/dissident (Tiananmen Square, 1989), (d. 2012)
1936 Joe Don Baker, American actor
1936 Joe Don Baker, Groesback Tx, actor (Eischied, Walking Tall, Fletch)
1936 Paul Shenar, American actor (Carrington-Roots)
1937 Charles Everett Dumas, American athlete, high jumper (Olympic-gold-1956) (d. 2004)
1938 Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver
1938 Judy Blume, American author (Wifey)
1938 Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris, British politician
1939 John D Hancock, actor/director (Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights)
1939 Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors)
1940 Hank Brown, (Rep-R-CO, 1981-88)
1940 Richard Lynch, American actor
1941 Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer, mountain climber (1st Japanese to scale Everest)
1941 Ross Morgan, cricketer (NZ batsman in 20 Tests 1965-72)
1942 Chananjit Vohra, Kenyan/British hotel magnate/multi-millionaire
1942 Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel
1942 Lionel Grigson, professor of jazz
1942 Pat Dobson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1942 Rick Frank, rocker
1944 Charles Pasarell, tennis pro
1944 Desmond Nuttall, English educator
1944 Jackie Torrence, story teller/artist
1944 Moe Bandy, American singer (Just Good Ol' Boys)
1945 Cliff De Young, LA California, actor (F/X, Hunger, Shock Treatment)
1945 David Friedman, American economist
1945 Joe Schermie, Madison Wi, bassist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1945 Maud Adams, Swedish actress (Octopussy, Rollerball, Tattoo)
1946 Ajda Pekkan, Turkish singer
1946 Cliff DeYoung, American actor and musician
1946 Ever Meulen, [Eddy Vermeulen], Dutch designer (children stamps 1992)
1946 Jean Eyeghe Ndong, Prime Minister of Gabon
1947 Guus Willemse, Dutch bassist/singer (Solution)
1947 Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indian leader of Damdami Taksal (d. 1984)
1947 Jim Durham, American sportscaster
1948 Cindy Hill, LPGA golfer
1948 Mike Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player
1948 Raymond Kurzweil, American inventor and author
1949 Gundappa Viswanath, cricketer (prolific Indian batsman of 70s)
1949 Joaquín Sabina, Spanish singer and songwriter
1949 Len Randle, baseball player (NY Mets)
1949 Stanley Knight, country artist (Black Oak Arkansas-High on the Hog)
1950 Michael Ironside, Canadian actor (Starship Troopers)
1950 Steve Hackett, English guitarist (Genesis)
1951 Gil "The Bird" Moore, musician (Triumph)
1951 Steven Parent, Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
1952 Michael McDonald, American musician (Doobie Brothers)
1952 Salvador Pineda, Mexico City, doctor
1952 Simon MacCorkindale, British actor
1953 Joanna Kerns (de Varona), American actress (Maggie-Growing Pains)
1953 Nabil Shaban, British actor
1953 Robin Thomas, American actor
1953 Simon MacCorkindale, Cambridge, actor (Falcon Crest, Manimal) [or 2/2]
1954 Philip Zimmermann, American cryptographer
1954 Tzimis Panousis, Greek musician and stand-up comedian
1955 Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host (Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America)
1955 Bill Laswell, American bassist and record producer
1955 Chet Lemon, American baseball player
1955 Daniele Masala, Italy, pentathelete (Olympics-1976)
1956 Ad P Melkert, Dutch minister of Social Affairs (1994)
1956 Brian Robertson, Scottish musician (Thin Lizzy and Motörhead)
1958 Bobby Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
1958 Grant McLennan, Australian musician (The Go-Betweens) (d. 2006)
1958 Ingrid Klich, Whittier California, rower (Olympics-96)
1958 Ruth Guerri, St Louis Mo, playmate (July, 1983)
1959 Dan Puric, Romanian actor, director and writer
1959 Larry Nance, American basketball player
1959 Nancy Remy, reporter (NYC's Shadow Traffic)
1959 Omar Hakim, drummer (Dire Straits, Weather Report)
1959 Per Gessle, rocker (Roxette-Joy Ride)
1959 Sigrid Thornton, Australia, actress (Amelia Lawson-Guns of Paradise)
1960 George Gray, American professional wrestler
1961 Chris Heyne, Offenbach Germ, WLAF General Manager (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1961 Jim Harris, Canadian politician
1962 Jimmy Kirkwood, Irish-born field hockey player
1963 Brent Jones, NFL tight end (SF 49ers)
1963 Ed Lover, American radio personality
1963 John Michael Higgins, American actor
1964 Maurice Douglass, NFL safety (NY Giants)
1964 Michel Petit, St Malo, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1964 Milton Small, cricket pace bowler (WI v Australia 1984)
1964 Raphael Sbarge, actor (Risky Business, My Science Project, Werewolf)
1965 Ruben Amaro, US baseball outfielder (Cleveland Indians)
1966 Boty Goodwin, artist
1967 Andrew Dunkley, Kent England, golfer (1991-93 Co-Captain U of W Fla)
1967 Chitravina N. Ravikiran, Indian composer and musician
1967 Chris McKinstry, Canadian computer scientist
1968 Christopher McCandless, American nomad, subject of biography Into the Wild (d. 1992)
1968 Chynna Phillips, American singer (Wilson Philips-Hold On)
1968 Grégory Charles, French Canadian singer, dancer, pianist, radio and television host
1968 Josh Brolin, American actor (Johnny-Private Eye, Jimmy Hickok-Young Riders)
1968 Kyle Vincent, American singer/songwriter
1968 Todd Fanning, Saskatoon Sask, golfer (Manitoba Amat-1984, 90, 91, 92)
1969 Brad Werenka, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 Colin Keely, Buffalo NY, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
1969 Darren Aronofsky, American director and writer
1969 Hong Myung-Bo, Korean footballer
1969 Meja, Swedish singer
1969 Shauna Lyn Searles, Miss California USA (1996)
1970 Bryan Roy, Surinam/Dutch soccer star (Ajax)
1970 Dell Demps, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1970 Jim Creeggan, Canadian bassist (Barenaked Ladies)
1970 Judd Winick, writer and artist
1970 Lamar Thomas, NFL wide receiver (Tampa Bay Bucs, Miami Dolphins)
1971 Lincoln Kennedy, tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1971 Romeo Bandison, NFL defensive tackle (Cleveland Browns)
1971 Shane Tonkin, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
1971 Shante Carver, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys)
1971 Tracy Kennick, Miss Utah USA (1996)
1972 Ajay Naidu, Indian-American actor
1972 Andrew Cassesse, actor (Revenge of Nerds II, TV 101)
1972 Dulip Samaraweera, cricketer (Sri Lankan Test opening batsman 1993-)
1972 Lance Hill, American football (soccer) player
1972 Owen Nolan, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 Brendon Mark Cameron, Pirongia NZ, 4k pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96)
1973 Gianni Romme, Dutch speed skater
1973 Kath Soucie, American voice actress
1973 Tara Strong, Canadian voice actress
1974 Fonzworth Bentley, American hip-hop artist
1974 Ian Mcintyre, Montreal, NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1974 Toranosuke Takagi, Japanese race car driver
1975 Chris Szarka, CFL full back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1975 Matt Finkes, linebacker (NY Jets)
1975 Scot Pollard, American basketball player, NBA center (Detroit Pistons)
1975 Seth Payne, defensive tackle (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1976 Anna Benson, American model
1976 Christian Cullen, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1976 Christopher Pettiet, LA California, actor (Young Riders)
1976 Silvia Saint, Czech pornographic actress
1977 Jimmy Conrad, American soccer player
1978 Brett Hodgson, Australian rugby league footballer
1978 Gethin Jones, Welsh television presenter
1978 Silver Meikar, Estonian politician
1979 Antonio Chatman, American football player, National Football League runningback
1979 Jesse Spencer, Australian actor
1979 Matt Mauck, American football player
1979 Richard Barnwell, English footballer
1980 Christina Ricci, American actress (Wednesday-Addams Family, Mermaids, Casper)
1980 Juan Carlos Ferrero, Spanish tennis player
1980 Sarah Lancaster, American actress (Rachel-Saved By Bell: New Class)
1981 Lisa Hannigan, Irish singer
1982 Louis Tsatoumas, Greek long jumper
1982 Onil Joseph, Dominican baseball player
1983 Carlton Brewster, American football player, National Football League
1984 Alexandra Dahlström, Swedish actress
1984 Aylar Lie, Norwegian model
1984 Brad Keselowski, American racing car driver, NASCAR Nationwide Series Driver
1984 Lolly Badcock, English pornographic actress
1984 Peter Vanderkaay, American mid-distance swimmer
1985 Saskia Burmeister Croft, Australian actress
1988 Nana Eikura, Japanese actress
1991 Faisal ibn Hamad Al Khalifah, prince of Bahrain (d. 2006)
1993 Jennifer Stone, American actress
Died on February 12th
1128 Toghtekin, slave/atabek of Damascus
1242 Hendrik VII, Roman Catholics German king (1220-35), commits suicide
1538 Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter
1554 Jane Grey, queen of England for 9 days, beheaded (b. 1537)
1554 Lord Guildford Dudley, Jane Grey's husband, beheaded (b. 1536)
1571 Nicholas Throckmorton, English diplomat and politician (b. 1515)
1590 François Hotman, French lawyer and writer (b. 1524)
1595 Archduke Ernest of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1553)
1612 Christopher Clavius, German astronomer (b. 1538)
1616 John Drusius, of Driesschen, Flemish Hebraist
1624 George Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist (b. 1563)
1630 Fynes Moryson, English traveler and writer (b. 1566)
1684 Pietro Andrea Ziani, composer
1700 Aleksei Shein, Russian general and statesman (b. 1662)
1724 Elkanah Settle, English writer (b. 1648)
1728 Agostino Steffani, Italian diplomat and composer (b. 1653)
1738 James Sherard, composer
1762 Laurent Belissen, French composer (b. 1693)
1763 Pierre de Marivaux, French writer (b. 1688)
1771 Adolf Frederik, king of Sweden (1751-70) (b. 1710)
1787 Ruggiero Boscovich, Ital physicist/astronomer/philosopher
1789 Ethan Allen, American patriot (b. 1738)
1799 Frantisek Xaver Dusek, composer
1799 Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (b. 1729)
1804 Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden) (b. 1724)
1820 Guillaume Albert Teniers, composer
1834 Friedrich Schleiermacher, German philosopher (b. 1768)
1837 Ludwig Borne, writer
1861 Hippolyte-Andre-Baptiste Chelard, composer
1889 Andrew Greenwood, cricketer (batted in Eng's 1st 2 Tests 1877)
1894 Hans von Bülow, German pianist and composer (b. 1830)
1896 Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (b. 1811)
1896 Charles Louis Ambrose Thomas, French composer (Mignon)
1896 Isaac Murphy, jockey, 628 wins on 1,412 mounts (44.5%)
1901 Ramon de Campoamor bon Campoosorio, Spanish poet (Colon)
1903 Gaspar Núñez de Arce, Spanish dramatist and statesman (b. 1834)
1905 Marcel Schwob, French writer/journalist (Coeur double)
1915 Charles Emile Waldteufel, composer
1915 Émile Waldteufel, French composer (b. 1837)
1916 J W Richard Dedekind, German mathematician
1916 Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (b. 1831)
1920 Emile Sauret, composer,
1920 Jean Allemane, French socialist/communard (allemanisten)
1920 Ottalee Baker, Frank "Home Run" Baker's wife
1921 Charles Leslie, cricketer (4 Tests England v Australia 1882-83)
1929 Freiherr Albert von Schrenk-Notzing, Ger para-psychologist
1929 Lillie Langtry, British singer and actress (b. 1853)
1931 Samedbey Mehmandarov, Russian general (b. 1855)
1933 Henri Duparc, French composer (b. 1848)
1935 Auguste Escoffier, French chef (b. 1846)
1942 Grant Wood, American painter (American Gothic) (b.1891)
1945 Antonio Villa-Real, Filipino jurist (b. 1880)
1945 Henrietta Szold, founder (Hadassah, Youth Aliyah)
1945 Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis, executed
1947 Sidney Toler, actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi)
1949 Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (b. 1906)
1951 Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (b. 1897)
1954 Dziga Vertov (Kaufman), Russian filmmaker (3 Songs of Lenin) (b. 1896)
1955 Tom Moore, actor (Ladies be Seated, Majority Rules)
1957 Eric Alfred Knudsen, American folklorist (b. 1872)
1957 Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Martha og Maria)
1958 Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (b. 1897)
1958 Marcel Cachin, 1st communist French senator, dies at 88
1960 Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown)
1965 Henry Kulky, actor (Otto-Life of Riley)
1969 Johanna EFG Tourniaire, actress (Potasch & Perlemoer)
1969 Paltiel Daykan, Russian-born Israeli jurist (b. 1885)
1970 Andre Souris, composer
1970 Ishman Bracey, American blues musician (b. 1901)
1971 George Shelton, actor (It Pays to be Ignorant)
1971 James Cash Penney, American department store founder (J C Penney) (b. 1875)
1973 Benjamin Frankel, composer
1976 James Clifton Williams, composer (Sinfonians)
1976 Sal Mineo, American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause) (b. 1939)
1979 Jean Renoir, French director (Human Beast) (b. 1894)
1980 Floyd Taliaferro Alderson, actor (Crossing Trails)
1980 Muriel Rukeyser, American poet (b. 1913)
1981 Jean Dixon, actress (Joy of Livng, You Only Live Once)
1982 Cornelis Rijnsdorp, Dutch writer (Culprit), dies at 87
1982 Hal Hooker, cricket (307 partners with Kippax for last wicket)
1982 Victor Jory, Canadian actor (Adv of Tom Sawyer, 1st Lady, Jigsaw) (b. 1902)
1983 Eubie Blake, American musician and songwriter (Memories of You) (b. 1887)
1984 Anna Anderson, claimant to the throne of Russia (b. 1896)
1984 Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (Final del Juego) (b. 1914)
1985 Nicholas Colasanto, American actor (Coach-Cheers) (b. 1924)
1986 Guy Douglas Hamilton Warrack, composer
1986 Sid Stone, comedian (Milton Berle Show)
1987 Lang Jeffries, Canadian actor (Skip-Rescue 8)
1989 Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director
1989 Thomas Bernhard, Austrian playwright and novelist (Heldenplatz) (b. 1931)
1991 Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds)
1991 Robert Wagner, mayor (NYC-D-1954-65)
1991 Roger Patterson, American death metal bass player (b. 1968)
1992 Bep (Lambertus) van Klaveren, Dutch boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1928) (b. 1907)
1992 Dorothy Tree, actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Nazi Agent)
1992 Ton Brandsteder, CEO (Sony Netherland BV)
1993 James Bulger, English murder victim, beaten to death at 2, by 10 yr old boys (b. 1990)
1994 Donald Judd, US furniture maker/architect/artist
1994 Sue Rodriguez, Canadian assisted suicide advocate (b. 1950)
1995 Earring George Mayweather, blues harmonica player
1995 L Jansma, Fries publisher (Friese stamp)
1995 Philip Taylor Kramer, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1952)
1995 Rachid Mimouni, Algerian author (L'Honneur de la Tribu)
1995 Robert Bolt, English writer (b. 1924)
1995 Terence Beckles, pianist/teacher
1995 Tony Secunda, rock band manager
1996 Bob Shaw, Northern Irish novelist (b. 1931)
1996 Roger Omond, journalist
1997 Nora Beloff, journalist
1997 Walter Ritchie, sculptor
1998 Hugh Gardner Ackley, American economist (b.1915)
2000 Andy Lewis, Australian musician (b. 1967)
2000 Charles M. Schulz, American comics author (b. 1922)
2000 Oliver, American pop singer (b. 1945)
2000 Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American musician (b. 1929)
2000 Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)
2001 Kristina Söderbaum, German actress (b. 1912)
2001 Tiberio Mitri, Italian boxer (b. 1926)
2003 Vali Myers, Australian painter (b. 1930)
2005 Dorothy Stang, Brazilian nun (b. 1931)
2005 Rafael Vidal, Venezuelan athlete (b. 1964)
2005 Sammi Smith, American country music singer (b. 1943)
2007 Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1905)
2007 Randy Stone, American actor and casting director (b. 1958)
2008 Oscar Brodney, American screenwriter (b. 1907)
2009 Alison Des Forges, American investigator, expert of Rwanda genocide (b. 1942)
2009 Beverly Eckert, American co-chair of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee (b. 1951)
2009 Coleman Mellett, American musician (b. 1974)
2009 Gerry Niewood, American musician (b. 1943)
2010 Nodar Kumaritashvili, Georgian luger (b. 1988)
2011 Betty Garrett, American actress and dancer (b. 1919)
2011 Mato Damjanović, Croatian chess grandmaster (b. 1927)
2012 David Kelly, Irish actor
2012 John Severin, America comic book artist
2012 Zina Bethune, American actress
2013 Hennadiy Udovenko, Ukranian politician and diplomat
2014 Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar, American comic actor and writer ("Your Show of Shows")
2015 David Carr, American journalist (New York Times)
2015 Steve Strange [Steven Harrington] pop singer (Visage) and nightclub host
2015 Gary Owens, American disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show)
2016 Johnny Lattner, American football player