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842 Charles II the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German languages.
1009 First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.
1014 Pope Benedict VIII recognizes Henry II of Bavaria as King of Germany.
1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
1130 Jewish Cardinal Pietro Pierleone elected as anti-pope Anacletus II
1349 Approximately 2,000 Jews are burned to death by mobs or forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
1540 Emperor Charles V enters Ghent without resistance, executes rebels
1556 Archbishop Thomas Cranmer declared a heretic
1610 Polish king Sigismund III, Forges Dimitri #2 & Romanov family sign covenant against czar Vasili Shushki
1613 King James I's daughter Elizabeth marries Frederik
1630 Dutch fleet of 69 ships reaches Pernambuco Brazil
1670 Roman Catholic emperor Leopold I chases Jews out of Vienna
1689 English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince Willem III on the throne
1711 Handel's opera Rinaldo, premieres
1743 Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
1766 Dutch governor Falck signs Treaty of Batticaloa with rebels
1778 The United States Flag "Stars & Stripes" is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
1779 James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
1794 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
1797 French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Cape St. Vincent John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent and Horatio Nelson (later 1st Viscount Nelson) lead the British Royal Navy to victory over a Spanish fleet in action near Gibraltar.
1803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn
1803 Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that conflicts with the Constitution is void.
1804 Karadjordje leads the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire.
1831 Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray and defeats and kills Dejazmach Sabagadis in the Battle of Debre Abbay.
1835 The original Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is formed in Kirtland, Ohio.
1848 James K Polk became 1st pres photographed in office (Matthew Brady)
1849 In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
1855 Texas is linked by telegraph to the rest of the United States, with the completion of a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas.
1859 Oregon is admitted as the 33rd U.S. state.
1862 Galena, 1st US iron-clad warship for service at sea, launched, Conn
1867 Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection & Insurance Co issues 1st policy
1867 Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia)
1872 1st state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA)
1876 Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
1879 The War of the Pacific breaks out when Chilean armed forces occupy the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
1883 1st state labor union legislation; NJ legalizes unions
1887 Cubs sell Mike King Kelly to Boston for record $10,000
1889 1st train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east
1890 1st NSW v South Australia 1st-class cricket game
1894 Venus is both a morning star & evening star
1895 Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
1896 George Lohmann takes a hat-trick v South Africa, 8-7 for inning
1896 South Africa all out for 30 v England their lowest ever
1896 Winnipeg Victorias beat Montreal Victorias, 2-0 in the Stanley Cup
1896 Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat"
1899 Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
1900 Date of events in movie "Picnic at Hanging Rock"
1900 Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country.
1900 In South Africa, 20,000 British troops invade the Orange Free State, The Second Boer War.
1903 The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into Department of Commerce and Department of Labor).
1907 1st US fox hound association forms in NYC
1912 1st US submarines with diesel engines commissioned, Groton, Ct
1912 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state
1912 In Groton, Connecticut, the first diesel-powered submarine is commissioned.
1914 High Council of Labor forms in Hague Netherlands
1918 H Atteridge & S Rombergs musical "Sinbad," premieres in NYC
1918 The Soviet Union adopts the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar).
1919 The Polish-Soviet War begins.
1919 United Parcel Service forms
1920 The League of Women Voters is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1921 Canadian 5 cent nickel coin is authorized
1921 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," NY
1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1924 The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is founded.
1925 State of emergency crisis in Bayern ends, NSDAP re-allowed
1929 Saint Valentine's Day massacre, Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone's gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.
1931 Bradman scores 152 Aust v WI, 154 minutes, 13 fours 2 fives
1931 Spanish government of General Damasco Berenguer falls
1932 South Africa all out for 36 in 1st innings v Aust (Ironmonger 5-6)
1934 NHL Ace Bailey Benefit Game: Toronto beats All-Stars 7-3 in Toronto
1936 National Negro Congress organizes in Chicago
1936 US female Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1936 US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
1939 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind
1940 British merchant vessel fleet is armed
1941 1,000,000th vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel
1941 Carson McCuller's "Reflections in a Golden Eye" published
1941 Cebrie Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
1941 German Africa Corps lands in Tripoli, Libya
1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1942 Rotterdam's Maas tunnel opens
1943 German offensive through de Faid-pass Tunisia
1943 Soviets recapture Rostov
1943 Rostov-on-Don, Russia is liberated, World War II.
1943 Tunisia Campaign General Hans-Jurgen von Arnim's Fifth Panzer Army launches a concerted attack against Allied positions in Tunisia, World War II.
1944 Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
1944 Carl Wick publishes "Salmon Trolling for Commercial & Sport Fishing
1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden
1945 Peru, Paraguay, Chile & Ecuador joins UN
1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt meets with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia aboard the USS Quincy, officially starting the U.S.-Saudi diplomatic relationship.
1945 Mostar is liberated by Yugoslav partisans, World War II.
1945 On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony, World War II.
1945 Prague is bombed probably due to a mistake in the orientation of the pilots bombing Dresden, World War II.
1946 ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer, is unveiled.
1946 The Bank of England is nationalized.
1949 Dutch Drees government presents plan for the building of 30,000 houses
1949 The Asbestos Strike begins in Canada. The strike marks the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec.
1949 The Knesset (Israeli parliament) convenes for the first time.
1950 Moroney scores cricket twin centuries for Australia at Johannesburg
1950 USSR & China sign peace treaty
1951 Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta & takes middleweight title
1952 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway
1952 Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller
1954 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1954 Sen John Kennedy appears on "Meet the Press"
1954 WTOC TV channel 11 in Savannah, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 WFLA (now WXFL) TV channel 8 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (NBC) begins
1956 20th Congress of CPSU opens in Moscow
1956 Indonesia withdraws from Neth Indonesian Union
1956 The XX Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union begins in Moscow. On the last night of the meeting, Premier Nikita Khrushchev condemns Joseph Stalin's crimes in a secret speech.
1956 Verhoeven/Nauta/De King/Wijnhout win Dutch 11 city skate
1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites
1958 Arab Federation of Iraq & Jordan forms
1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC
1960 Beverly Hanson wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1960 Marshal Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan
1961 Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
1961 Element 103, Lawrencium, 1st produced in Berkeley Calif
1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Royal Poinciana Golf Invitational
1962 First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
1963 US launches communications satellite Syncom 1
1966 Australian currency is decimalised, introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps.
1966 Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
1966 Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Daniel found guilty
1967 Aretha Franklin records "Respect"
1967 Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up
1968 Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Penn Central
1968 WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting
1970 "Gantry" closes at George Abbott Theater NYC after 1 performance
1971 Movie "Ben Hur" 1st shown on television
1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House
1972 CBS "Late Movie" premieres
1972 John & Yoko co-host "Mike Douglas Show" for entire week
1972 Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 1st "micro on a chip" patented by Texas Instruments
1978 In girls' HS basketball, Chicago Latin beats Harvard St George
1979 "Whoopee!" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 204 performances
1979 In Kabul, Muslims kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
1980 "West Side Story" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 341 performances
1980 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
1980 US launches Solar Maximum Mission Observatory to study solar flares
1981 Stardust Disaster, A fire in a Dublin nightclub kills 48 people
1982 "Night of 100 Stars" takes place at NY's Radio City Music Hall
1982 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1983 United American Bank of Knoxville, Tennessee collapses. Its president, Jake Butcher is later convicted of fraud.
1984 Singer Elton John marries Renate Blauel in Sydney Australia
1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut
1987 53,745 largest NBA crowd to date-Phila at Detroit
1988 49th PGA Seniors Golf Championship, Gary Player
1988 Alfredo Stroessner re-elected president of Paraguay
1988 Bobby Allison at 50 becomes oldest driver to win Daytona 500
1988 General hospital star Jackie Zeman marries Glenn Gorden
1988 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
1989 African National Congress (ANC) opens office in Amsterdam
1989 Iranian leader Ruhollah Khomeini issues a fatwa encouraging Muslims to kill the author of The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
1989 Robin Givens is granted a divorce from Mike Tyson in the Dominican Republic
1989 The first of 24 satellites of the Global Positioning System (Skyphone) are placed into orbit.
1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it caused in the 1984 Bhopal Disaster.
1990 92 people are killed aboard Indian Airlines Flight 605 at Bangalore, India.
1990 Alan Ayckbourn's "Man of the Moment," premieres in London
1990 Perrier recalls 160 million bottles of sparkling water after traces of benzene, a carcinogen, are found in some
1990 Space probe Voyager 1 takes photograph of entire solar system
1991 "Mule Bone" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater NYC for 67 performances
1991 NL Cy Young winner Doug Drabek wins record $3 mil salary arbitration
1992 Andre Cason runs world record 6 m indoor (6.41 sec)
1992 Cease fire in Somalia begins
1992 Kieren John Perkins swims world record 800m freestyle (7:46.60)
1992 Merlene Ottey runs world record 60m indoor (6.96 sec)
1993 Fire in Linxi department store in Tangshan China, kills 79
1994 Alexander Golubev skates Olympic record 500m (36.33)
1994 Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting.
1994 Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia weds Deborah Koons
1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas
1995 Wellington 2-498d & 4-475 beat Canterbury 496 & 2-476d
1996 China launches a Long March 3 rocket, carrying the Intelsat 708 satellite. The rocket flies off course 3 seconds after liftoff and crashes into a rural village.
1998 Authorities in the United States announce that Eric Robert Rudolph is a suspect in an Alabama abortion clinic bombing.
2000 The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
2002 The Tullaghmurray Lass sinks off the coast of Kilkeel, County Down, Northern Ireland killing three members of the same family on board.
2004 In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
2005 Lebanese former Prime Minister, self-made billionaire, and business tycoon Rafik Hariri killed, along with 21 others, when explosives equivalent of around 1,000 kg of TNT were detonated as his motorcade drove near the St. George Hotel in Beirut.
2005 Seven people are killed and 151 wounded in a series of bombings by suspected Al-Qaeda-linked militants that hit the Philippines' Makati financial district in Metro Manila, Davao City, and General Santos City.
2008 Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 24 casualties; 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injured
2011 The 2011 Bahraini uprising commenced
2013 A suicide bombing kills 4 police officer and injures 5 in Dagestan
2013 Japan remains in recession as the economy shrinks by a further 0.1%
2013 Oscar Pistorius, a South African amputee sprinter, is charged with the murder of Reeva Steenkamp
2013 The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, will be switched off for two years for upgrading
2013 The recession in the Eurozone economy deepens with a fall of 0.6% in GDP in the fourth quarter of 2012
2014 Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta resigns after less than a year in office
2014 Actress Ellen Page comes out as gay in a speech at the Human Rights Campaign's "Time to Thrive" conference
2016 "The Revenant" Best Film, Alejandro González Iñárritu Best Director at the 69th British Film and Television Awards

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1462 Edzard I Cirksena, the Great, earl of East-Friesia (1494-1528)
1468 Johann Werner, German mathematician (d. 1522)
1483 Babur, Moghul emperor of India (d. 1530)
1483 Zahir al-Din Mohammed Babur Shah, prince/founder Mogols-dynasty
1487 Henry II of Bavaria, bishop of Utrecht/Worms/Freising
1513 Domenico Maria Ferrabosco, Italian composer
1515 Frederick III, the Pious, elect of the Palts
1533 Christianus Adrichomius, Dutch priest/writer (Vita Jesu Christi)
1546 Johann Pistorius, German theologist/historian
1572 Hans Christoph Haiden, composer
1602 Francesco Cavalli, Italian composer (d. 1676)
1602 Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer
1638 Sybilla Schwarz, writer
1670 Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer
1679 Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer
1680 John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (d. 1737)
1692 Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (d. 1754)
1701 Enrique Florez, Spanish historian (d. 1773)
1760 Richard Allen, Phila, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church
1763 Jean Victor Marie Moreau, French general (d. 1813)
1766 Thomas Malthus, England, population expert (Law of Malthus)
1778 Fernando Joseph Maria Sor, Spanish composer (d. 1839)
1799 Walenty Wankowicz, Polish painter (d. 1842)
1800 Emory Washburn, 22nd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1877)
1806 Lajos, Count Batthy ny, revolutionary premier of Hungary (1848-49)
1812 Alfred Thomas Agate, American artist (d. 1846)
1813 Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer
1813 John McNeil, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1818 Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist (d. 1895)
1819 Christopher Sholes, American inventor (typewriter) (d. 1890)
1819 James Green Martin, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
1819 Joshua A. Norton, American eccentric (d. 1880)
1824 Winfield Scott Hancock, American Civil War Union general (d. 1886)
1828 Edmond François Valentin About, French writer (d. 1885)
1829 Alfred Iverson Jr, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1911
1835 Francois Haverschmidt, Dutch writer (Snikken en grimlachjes)
1838 Margaret E. Knight, "the female Thomas Edison" American inventor, (d. 1914)
1845 Cecil De Vere, 1st official British chess champion (1866)
1846 Julian Scott, American artist and Civil War Medal of Honor recipient. (d. 1901)
1847 Anna Howard Shaw, American suffragette (d. 1919)
1847 Maria Pia of Italy, queen of Portugal (d. 1911)
1848 Benjamin Baillaud, French astronomer (d. 1934)
1853 Jan van Rijswijck, Flemish journalist/mayor (Antwerp)
1856 Frank Harris, Irish author and editor (My Life & Loves) (d. 1931)
1858 Charles Beach Hawley, composer
1858 Joseph Thomson, Scotland, geologist (Thomson's gazelle)
1859 George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr., American engineer and inventor (Ferris Wheel) (d. 1896)
1860 Eugen Schiffer, German politician (d. 1954)
1864 Israel Zangwill, England, Jewish author/Zionist (Children of Ghetto)
1864 Robert E Park, US, sociologist (human ecology, marginal man)
1868 Henricus A Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman
1869 Charles Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Wilson cloud chamber-Nobel) (d. 1959)
1871 Gerda Lundequist, Swedish actress (d. 1959)
1880 Aida Overton Walker, US dancer/singer (In Dahomey, Salome)
1880 Edgar Leslie Bainton, composer
1881 Otto Selz, German psychologist
1881 William John Gruffydd, Welsh poet/scholar (Ynys yr Hud)
1882 George Jean Nathan, US, editor/author/critic (American Mercury)
1882 Ignaz Friedman, composer
1884 Hezekiah M. Washburn, missionary (d. 1972)
1884 Joe Jagersberger, Austrian racing driver (d. 1952)
1884 Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (d. 1974)
1884 Nils Olaf Chrisander, Swedish actor, film director (d. 1947)
1885 Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim Indian/Pakistani philosopher (d. 1949)
1886 Theodor Werner, German painter
1890 Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist (d. 1956)
1892 Nikolaj A Orloff, Russian/British pianist (Chopin)
1892 Radola Gajda, Czech military commander (d. 1948)
1893 Kay Fisker, Danish architect (Hornbeck House, Copenhagen)
1894 Jack Benny (Benjamin Kubelski), American actor and comedian "Oh! Rochester!" (d. 1974)
1895 Max Horkheimer, German philosopher and sociologist (Studies in prejudice) (d. 1973)
1895 Nigel Bruce, Baja Mexico, actor (Son of Lassie, Spider Woman)
1897 Jorgen Bentzon, composer
1898 Bill Tilman, English mountaineer and explorer (d. 1977)
1898 Fritz Zwicky, Swiss-born American physicist and astronomer (super nova) (d. 1974)
1899 John Randall Jr, Michigan, historian/philosopher (Western Man)
1902 Fred Scott, Fresno California, vocalist/actor (Vincent Lopez)
1902 Ray "Crash" Corrigan, Milwaukee, cowboy (Crash Corrigan's Ranch)
1902 Stu Erwin, Squaw Valley California, actor (Stu Erwin Show)
1902 Thelma Ritter, American actress (d. 1969)
1902 Valentin Ruiz Azner, composer
1903 Stu Erwin, American actor (d. 1967)
1904 Charles William Oatley, Electrical engineer, Professor of electrical engineering (scanning electron microscope) (d. 1996)
1904 Hanning Phillips, Lord Lieutenant (Dyfed)
1904 Hertta Kuusinen, Finnish communist (d. 1974)
1905 Thelma Ritter, American actress (Miracle on 34th Street) (d. 1969)
1907 Johnny Longden, jockey/trainer (1958 Racing Hall of Fame)
1909 A Moses Klein, Montreal, poet (Hath Not a Jew...)
1911 Florence Rice, Cleveland OH, actress (Double Wedding, Riding on Air)
1911 Willem J Kolff, Dutch/US internist/inventor (Artificial Kidney)
1912 Edmund George Love, US, teacher/historian/author (A Small Bequest)=
1912 Juan Pujol Garcia, [Garbo/Arabel], Spanish British/German double agent
1912 Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist
1912 Tibor Sekelj, Croatian explorer (d. 1988)
1913 Ab [Albert] Visser, Dutch poet/writer (Man Without a Head)
1913 James Pike, Oklahoma City, bishop (Beyond Anxiety)
1913 Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader (Teamsters) (presumed d. 1975)
1913 Mel Allen, American sports reporter (voice of NY Yankees) (d. 1996)
1913 Woody Hayes, American college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of the year) (d. 1987)
1914 Margarete Mewes, Nazi overseer at concentration camp
1914 Norman Von Nida, Australian golfer (d. 2007)
1915 A W H Stewart-Moore, CEO (Gallaher)
1915 Irving Gordon, songwriter
1916 Edward Platt, American actor (Chief-Get Smart) (d. 1974)
1916 Marcel Bigeard, French general
1916 Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director (Joi-uchi) (d. 1996)
1916 Wawrzyniec Jerzy Zulawski, composer
1917 Herbert A. Hauptman, American mathematician, Nobel Prize Laureate (Nobel 1985)
1920 Arnold Elton, consultant surgeon
1920 Bob Wolff, American sportscaster
1921 Albert Sloman, Vice-Chancellor (Essex U)
1921 Hugh Downs, American television host (20/20, Concentration)
1921 Jeanne Demessieux, composer
1921 Piet Kraak, Dutch soccer player
1921 Skeezix, of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep
1922 Murray the K, American impresario and disk jockey (d. 1982)
1923 Derrick Holden-Brown, CEO (Allied-Lyons)
1923 Jay Herbert, golfer (1960 PGA winner)
1924 Arghyris Kounadis, composer
1924 Countess Mountbatten, of Burma
1925 Elliot Lawrence, Phila, orchestra leader (Guide Right, Howard Cosell)
1926 John Clark, CEO (Plessey Company)
1927 Lois Maxwell, Canadian actress (Miss Moneypenny) (d. 2007)
1928 Ben Garrido Blaz, (Rep-R-Guam, 1985)
1928 Juan Garcia Hortelano, Spanish author (Tormenta de verano)
1929 Matthew G Martinez, (Rep-D-CA, 1982)
1929 Vic Morrow, American actor (d. 1982)
1930 Duncan Montgomery Stewart, principal (Lady Margaret Hall-Oxford)
1931 Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian hockey player, NHL right wing (Canadiens, Rangers) (d. 2006)
1931 Brian Kelly, American actor (d. 2005)
1931 Lord Rossmore
1931 Phyllis McGuire, American singer, vocalist (The McGuire Sisters)
1931 Vic Morrow, Bronx NY, actor (Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie)
1932 Alexander Kluge, German actor and film director
1932 Jack Hibbert, director (Central Statistical Office)
1932 Jocelyn Stevens, CEO (English Heritage)
1932 Michael Ball, Bishop (Truro)
1932 Peter Ball, Bishop (Gloucester)
1933 Andrey Mikhaylovich Volkonsky, composer
1933 Bertram Jay Turetzky, composer
1933 Evelyn Ebsworth, Vice-Chancellor (Durham U)
1933 Madhubala, Indian actress (d. 1969)
1934 Florence Henderson, American actress (Carol-Brady Bunch)
1934 Marlene Matthews, Australia, sprinter (Oly-2 bronze-1956)
1934 Michel Corboz, Swiss conductor
1935 Christine CT "Christel" Adelaar, Dutch actress (Pipo the Clown)
1935 David Wilson, British governor (Hong Kong)
1935 Lord Wilson of Tillyorn
1935 Mickey Wright, San Diego CA, LPGA golfer (4 times LPGA champ)
1935 Peter Phillips, printer
1936 Andrew Prine, American actor (V, WEB, Wide Country)
1936 Fanne Foxe (Annabella Battistella), Argentine dancer and focus of a 1974 scandal involving Congressman Wilbur Mills
1937 John MacGregor, British MP
1937 Magic Sam, American blues musician (d. 1969)
1938 Lee Chamberlin, NYC, actor (Once Upon a Family, Rupture Fatale)
1939 Chris Pyne, trombonist
1939 Eugene Fama, American economist
1939 Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer (Donkeys' Years)
1940 Porpoise, 1st born in captivity in US (Marineland, Fla)
1941 Donna Shalala, American educator
1941 John Butterfill, MP
1941 Paul Tsongas, United States Senator from Massachusetts (d. 1997)
1942 Andrew Robinson, American actor
1942 Margaret Wright, chief commissioner (Guide Association)
1942 Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City
1942 Ricardo Rodríguez, Mexican racing driver (d. 1962)
1943 Aaron Russo, American movie producer (d. 2007)
1943 Eric Anderson, Pittsburgh Pa, vocalist (Avalanche, Be True to You)
1943 Ischa Meijer, journalist/critic/actor (Boezemvriend)
1943 Maceo Parker, American musician, US tenor saxophonist (King's One, Mo' Roots, P-Funk)
1943 Robert J Murphy Jr, Brooklyn NY, PGA golfer (1968 Phila Classic)
1944 Alan Parker, English film director, writer, and actor (Bugsy Malone, Evita)
1944 Bruce Summerhays, St Louis MO, PGA golfer (Provo Open-1966, 91 93)
1944 Carl Bernstein, American journalist,  Washington Post investigative reporter (Watergate)
1944 Ronnie Peterson, Swedish racing driver (d. 1978)
1945 Gregory Hines, NYC, actor/dancer (White Nights, Taps)
1945 Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein
1945 K M Jenkins, British director of personnel (Royal Mail)
1945 Vic Briggs, England, rocker (Animals)
1945 William Hill Boner, (Rep-D-TN, 1979)
1946 Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (d. 2003)
1946 David Green, English TV/video producer
1946 Gregory Hines, American dancer and actor (d. 2003)
1946 Tina Aumont, Hollywood California, actress (Master of Love, Casanova)
1947 Heidemarie Rosendahl, German FR, long jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1947 Judd Gregg, American politician, senior senator from New Hampshire (R, 1981)
1947 Pham Tuan, Vietnam, cosmonaut (Soyuz 37/36)
1947 Salah-ud-Din, cricketer (played 5 Tests for Pakistan 1965-69)
1947 Tim Buckley, American singer-songwriter (Blood, Sweat & Tears-When I Die) (d. 1975)
1948 Teller, American magician (Penn & Teller)
1948 Jackie Martling, "Jackie the Jokeman", comedian (Howard Stern Show)
1948 Pat O'Brien, American sportscaster and television host (Entertainment Tonight)
1948 Teller, American magician (Penn and Teller)
1948 Wally Tax, Dutch guitarist
1949 Ewa Aulin, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Candy, Fiorina LeVacca)
1949 Jimmy Randell, rocker
1949 Richard E Neal, (Rep-D-Massachusetts)
1950 Raymond van het Groenewoud, Belgian vocalist/actor (Brussels by Night)
1950 Roger Fisher, American musician (Heart)
1951 JoJo Starbuck, American ice skater
1951 Kevin Keegan, British soccer player and manager (Newcastle United)
1951 Michael Doucet, singer/musician (Beausoleil)
1952 Nancy Keenan, American reproductive-rights advocate and NARAL president
1953 Wayne Siegel, composer
1955 Carol Kalish, American publishing executive (d. 1991)
1955 James Eckhouse, American actor
1955 R Jeremy H Lascelles, grandson of English princess Mary
1955 Rip Rogers, American professional wrestler
1955 Ronald Desruelles, Belgian athlete
1956 Dave Dravecky, pitcher (SF Giants), had arm amputated
1956 Howard Edward Davis Jr, Glen Cove NY, lw boxer (Olympic-silver-1976)
1956 Ken Wahl, Chicago IL, actor (Wanderers)
1957 Alan Hunter, American TV personality, one of the original MTV VJs
1957 Soile Isokoski, Finnish soprano
1958 Enrique Mansilla, Argentine racing driver
1958 Grant Thomas, Australian rules footballer
1958 Perry Stephens, Frankfurt Germany, actor (Loving, All My Children)
1959 Renée Fleming, American soprano
1960 Jim Kelly, American football player, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills)
1960 Meg Tilly, American actress (Big Chill, Impulse)
1961 Latifa, Tunisian singer
1961 Phillip Hamilton, American author
1962 Kevyn Aucoin, American cosmetologist (d. 2002)
1962 Michael Higgs, English actor
1962 Philippe Sella, French rugby player
1962 Sakina Jaffrey, Indian actress
1963 D'Wayne Wiggins, singer (Tony! Toni! Tone!)
1963 Enrico Colantoni, Canadian actor
1963 Jeff Dellenbach, NFL center (NE Patriots, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
1963 John Marzano, American baseball player, catcher (Seattle Mariners)
1963 Zach Galligan, NYC, actor (Gremlins)
1964 Darrick Brilz, NFL center (Cin Bengals)
1964 Gianni Bugno, Italian cyclist
1964 Zach Galligan, American actor
1965 Jessie Tuggle, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1966 Clark Sherwood Dennis, Houston TX, PGA golfer (1990 Hawaiian Open-3rd)
1966 Petr Svoboda, Czech National Hockey League player, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Oly-gold-1998)
1967 Calle Johansson, Goteborg Swe, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1967 Laura Martin, LaJolla California, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-13th-1994)
1967 Manuela Maleeva-Fragniere, Bulgarian tennis player (1984 US Mix)
1967 Stelios Haji-Ioannou, British entrepreneur
1968 Chris Lewis, cricketer (in Guyana England all-rounder)
1968 Jules Asner, American television personality
1968 Scott McClellan, American politician
1969 Adriana Behar, Brazilian beach volleyball player
1969 Chad Magee, Tyler TX, Nike golfer (1993 NIKE Shreveport Open-36th)
1969 Harry Colon, American football player, NFL safety (Jacksonville Jaguars, Detroit Lions)
1969 Jeff Graham, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, NY Jets)
1969 Roy Barker, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings, SF 49ers)
1969 Shana Zadrick, Grand Junction Colo, model (Guess Jeans)
1970 David Podlich, Brisbane QLD, Australasia golfer
1970 Elaine Youngs, Orange California, volleyball outside hitter (Olympics-96)
1970 Giuseppe Guerini, Italian cyclist
1970 Guillaume Raoux, France, tennis star
1970 Kelly Stinnett, US baseball catcher (NY Mets)
1970 Richard Smehlik, Ostrava CZE, NHL defenseman (Team Czech Rep, Buffalo)
1970 Sean Hill, Duluth, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1970 Simon Pegg, British comedian and actor
1971 Derrick Witherspoon, NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Gheorghe Muresan, Romanian basketball player, NBA center (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
1971 Kenny Shedd, WLAF receiver (Barcelona Dragons, Oakland Raiders)
1971 Kris Aquino, Filipino Actress and TV Host
1971 Lonnie Johnson, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills)
1971 Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer
1971 Tommy Dreamer, American professional wrestler
1972 Big Daddy V, American professional wrestler
1972 Bruno Heppell, CFL full back (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 Drew Bledsoe, American football player, NFL quarterback (NE Patriots)
1972 Erika Rachael Schwarz, Folsom La, Miss America (Louisiana-2nd-1997)
1972 Hiroshi, Japanese comedian
1972 Mayne One, rocker (Young Nation)
1972 Najwa Nimri, Spanish actress
1972 Raymond Beerens, Dutch soccer player (PSV, FC Groningen)
1972 Rob Thomas, American musician (Matchbox Twenty)
1973 George Hegamin, NFL/WLAF tail back (Dallas Cowboys, Frankfurt Galaxy)
1973 Michael "Mike" Theodore Lambert IV, Thomaston Ga, rower (Oly-1996)
1973 Steve McNair, American football player, NFL quarterback (Houston Oilers) (d. 2009)
1973 Tyus Edney, American basketball player, NBA guard (Boston Celtics, Sacramento Kings)
1973 Yuka Sato, Japanese figure skater
1974 Filippa Giordano, Italian singer
1974 Michael Lowery, NFL linebacker (Chicago Bears)
1974 Philippe Léonard, Belgian footballer
1974 Rob Jahrling, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1975 Jennifer Michelle Roberts, Greensboro NC, Miss America-NC (1997)
1975 Malik Zidi, French actor
1975 Scott Owen, Australian musician (The Living End)
1975 Yul Kwon, American Survivor contestant
1976 Liv Kristine, Norwegian singer (Leaves' Eyes)
1977 Cadel Evans, Australian cyclist
1977 Darren Bennett, a Professional Latin Ballroom Dancer
1977 Darren Purse, English footballer
1977 Donna Cruz, Filipina Actress and Singer
1977 Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (d. 2007)
1977 Nathan Osmond, Utah, vocalist (Osmond Boys)
1978 Darius Songaila, Lithuanian basketball player
1978 Dean Gaffney, British actor
1978 Dwele, American R&B/Soul singer
1978 Laurie Schwoy, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1978 Richard Hamilton, American basketball player
1979 Pablo Pallante, Uruguayan footballer
1980 Fátima Leyva, Mexican footballer
1980 Josh Senter, American screenwriter
1980 Michelle Ye, Hong Kong actress
1981 Erin Torpey, American actress and singer
1981 Randy de Puniet, French motorcycle racer
1982 Marián Gáborík, Slovak hockey player, NHL (New York Rangers)
1983 Bacary Sagna, French footballer
1983 Rhydian Roberts, Welsh Singer, X factor Runner Up
1983 Rocky Elsom, Australian Rugby Captain
1984 Hamed Namouchi, Tunisian footballer
1985 Heart Evangelista, Filipina singer, TV and movie actress
1985 Jacob Parker, actor (Evening Shade)
1985 John Prats, Filipino Actor and Dancer
1985 Karima Adebibe, Moroccan-English actress and model
1985 Miki Yeung, Hong Kong singer and actress
1985 Natsume Sano, Japanese gravure idol
1985 Philippe Senderos, Swiss footballer
1985 Tyler Clippard, American baseball player
1986 Aschwin Wildeboer, Spanish swimmer
1986 Michael Ammermüller, German racing driver
1986 Roxanne Guinoo, Filipina actress
1986 Tiffany Thornton, American actress
1987 David Wheater, English footballer
1987 Joseph Pichler, American actor
1987 Julia Savicheva, Russian singer
1988 Asia Nitollano, American dancer, Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll winner
1988 Eliska Sursova, American actress
1988 Katie Boland, Canadian actress
1988 Quentin Mosimann, Swiss singer, winner of Star Academy France 7
1988 Ángel Di María, Argentine footballer
1989 Brandon Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
1992 Freddie Highmore, English actor
1994 Paul Butcher, American actor
1998 Arpad Flynn Busson, NYC, son of model Elle MacPherson

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270 St. Valentine marking Valentines Day (possibly 269 or 273)
869 Cyrillus, Greek apostle of Slaves, scholar, theologian and linguist (b. 827)
1317 Marguerite of France, queen of Edward I of England (b. 1282)
1400 Richard II, King of England (1377-99), murdered  (b. 1367)
1405 Timur, Mongol conqueror (b. 1336)
1528 Edzard I the Great, count of Austria-E Frisia (1494-1528)
1571 Benvenuto Cellini, Ital sculptor/writer (Perseus), dies at 70
1571 Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (b. 1517)
1676 Abraham Bosse, French engraver and artist
1681 Francesco Nigetti, composer, dies at 77
1714 Maria Luisa of Savoy, Queen Consort of Spain (b. 1688)
1737 Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)
1744 John Hadley, inventor (b. 1682)
1760 Francois Collin de Blamont, composer
1779 James Cook, British naval captain and explorer, killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii (b. 1728)
1780 William Blackstone, English jurist (b. 1723)
1790 Capel Bond, composer, dies at 59
1808 John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (b. 1732)
1818 John C Hespe, Dutch journalist/politician
1820 Charles F, Duke of Berry, murdered at 42
1831 Henry Maudslay, English inventor (b. 1771)
1831 Vicente Guerrero, Mexican revolutionary hero (b. 1782)
1841 Antun Sorkocevic, composer, dies at 65
1846 Cornelis F van Maanen, Dutch supreme court justice
1857 Johannes B van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer/conductor
1870 St. John Richardson Liddell, American Civil War Confederate General (b. 1815)
1873 Charles Samvei Bovy-Lysberg, composer
1881 Fernando Wood, New York City mayor (b. 1812)
1885 Jules Vallès, French writer (b. 1832)
1891 William Tecumseh Sherman, Civil War General (b. 1820)
1894 Eugène Charles Catalan, Belgian mathematician (b. 1814)
1901 Edward John Hopkins, composer
1908 Georges Jean Pfeiffer, composer
1916 Petko J Todorov, Bulgaria writer (Zmejova)
1922 Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (assassinated) (b. 1880)
1929 Tom Burke, American runner (b. 1875)
1937 Erkki Gustav Melartin, composer
1942 Adnan Bin Saidi, Officer of the Malay Regiment killed in the defense of Singapore (b. 1915)
1943 David Hilbert, German mathematician (Hilbert Space) (b. 1862)
1943 Dora Gerson, German actress, cabaret singer, and Holocaust victim (b. 1899)
1943 Frieda Reiss, French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz
1948 Mordecai Brown, American baseball player (b. 1876)
1949 Yusuf Salman Yusuf, Iraqi-Assyrian communist leader (b. 1901)
1950 Eduard Hermann, German linguist (Homer)
1950 Karl Guthe Jansky, Czech Discoverer of cosmic radio waves (b. 1905)
1952 Maurice De Waele, Belgian cyclist (b. 1896)
1955 Charles Cuvillier, composer
1958 Abdul Rab Nishtar, veteran leader of Pakistan Movement, (b. 1899)
1959 Baby Dodds, American jazz drummer (b. 1898)
1961 Wallis Clark, actress (Easy Money), dies at 78
1965 Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht, French composer/conductor
1967 James Schneider, actor (Keystone Kops), dies at 85
1967 Sig Ruman, German-American actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi) (b. 1884)
1969 Vito Genovese, American gangster, mafia chief (b. 1897)
1969 Wolfe Barzell, actor (Blue Angel)
1970 Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer (b. 1880).
1972 Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, composer/conductor (Dike)
1974 C S Dempster, cricketer (10 Tests for NZ, 723 runs)
1974 Stewie Dempster, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1903)
1975 Heintje Davids, [Hendrika David], Dutch cabaret artist
1975 Julian Huxley, British biologist, director general (UNESCO) (b. 1887)
1975 Pelham G Wodehouse, English writer (Piccadilly Jim) (b. 1881)
1978 Paul Governali, American football player (b. 1921)
1979 Adolph Dubs, American diplomat, US ambassador to Afghanistan, murdered (b. 1920)
1980 Luitkonwar Rudra Baruah, Assamese composer and actor (b. 1926)
1982 Henk Schaer (Hendricus J M Schaareman), Dutch actor
1983 Lina Radke, German athlete (b. 1903)
1986 Edmund Rubbra, English Composer (b. 1901)
1987 Bola Sete, guitarist, dies at 63
1987 Dmitri Borisovich Kabalevsky, Russian composer (b. 1904)
1987 Karolos Koun, Greek theater director (b. 1908)
1988 Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (My Fair Lady) (b. 1901)
1989 James Bond, American ornithologist (b. 1900)
1990 Graeme Hole, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia, 789 runs)
1990 Jean Wallace, [Walasek], actress (Big Combo)
1990 Tony Holiday, German singer (b. 1951)
1991 Arno Breker, German sculptor (Third Reich)
1991 John A McCone, Head of CIA (1961-65), dies
1992 Angelique Pettyjohn, actress (Biohazard), dies of cancer at 48
1992 Jacob "Bob" de Uyl, journalist/author (Restless Travel)
1992 Roepie Kruize, hockey player (Olympic-bronze-48/silver-52)
1993 Buddy Pepper, composer, dies of heart failure at 70
1994 Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (executed) (b. 1936)
1994 Christopher Lasch, American historian and social critic, author (Culture of Narcissism) (b. 1932)
1994 Gary "BB" Coleman, blues vocal/guitarist/producer
1994 Rodney Orr American racing driver (b. 1962)
1995 Alberto Burri, Ital physician/sculptor/painter
1995 Michael Vincent Gazzo, American actor (Godfather 2) (b. 1923)
1995 Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV Director/film-maker
1995 Patricia Highsmith, writer, dies at 74
1995 Roger de Grey, English chairman of Royal Academy (1984-93)
1995 Siem Suurhoff, TV-director (Behind the News, Sonja)
1995 U Nu, Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma (1948-56, 57-58, 60-62) (b. 1907)
1996 Bob Paisley, English football manager (b. 1919)
1996 Caroline Blackwood, writer
1996 Eva Hart, Titanic survivor
1996 Ivan William Hannaford, sociologist
1999 Buddy Knox, American singer and songwriter (b. 1933)
1999 John Ehrlichman, American presidential advisor (b. 1925)
2002 Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (b. 1922)
2003 Dolly the sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell dies young form a progressive lung disease (b. 1996)
2003 Johnny Longden, English jockey (b. 1907)
2004 Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (b. 1970)
2005 Najai Turpin, American boxer (b. 1981)
2005 Rafik Hariri, Lebanese politician and billionaire businessman (b. 1944)
2005 Tatiana Gritsi-Milliex, Greek novelist and journalist (b. 1920)
2006 Darry Cowl, French musician and actor (b. 1925)
2006 Lynden David Hall, British singer (b. 1974)
2006 Shoshana Damari, Israeli singer and actress (b. 1923)
2007 Gareth Morris, British flautist (b. 1920)
2007 Ryan Larkin, Canadian animated film maker. (b. 1943)
2009 Sir Bernard Ashley, Welsh businessman and entrepreneur. (b. 1926)
2010 Dick Francis, British jockey-turned-novelist (b. 1920)
2010 Doug Fieger, American musician The Knack (b. 1952)
2011 Sir George Shearing, Anglo-American jazz pianist (b. 1919)
2012 Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter
2013 Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and lawyer (b. 1931)
2015 Louis Jourdan, French actor (Gigi, Octopussy)
2015 Philip Levine, American poet (1995 Pulitzer prize)
2015 Alan Howard, British actor (Royal Shakespeare Company)
2015 Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (Ferrero SpA) created Nutella
2016 Steven Stucky, American composer (Los Angeles Philharmonic)

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