February 17th
Holidays and Celebrations
Independence Day (Kosovo) * (See Below)
Sepandarmazgan (Iran) * CLICK HERE
Missouri Compromise Day * (See Below)
Quirinalia in honor of Quirinus (Roman Empire)
Day Thomas Jefferson Becomes President * (See Below)
Election Day (Ecuador) (2013) * CLICK HERE
Tanis Diena observed (Ancient Latvia)
National Indian Pudding Day
National PTA Founders Day (USA)
World Human Spirit Day
Random Acts of Kindness Day
My Way Day
Michael Jordan's Birthday, (1963) American basketball player
Feast of Fintan of Clonenagh (d. 603), patron saint of Clonenagh (Co. Laois), Ireland
Feast of Lommán of Trim (fl. 5th-early 6th century), patron saint of Trim (Co. Meath), Ireland
Christian Feast Day of Seven Founders of the Servite Order (d. 1310)
Feast of Saint Alexis Falconieri
Feast of Saint Constabilis (d. 1124), abbot of La Trinità della Cava, Italy
* Missouri Compromise Day, The United States House of Representatives passes in 1819.
* Anniversary of the Day Thomas Jefferson Becomes President (1801) - An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives. Fête de la Chélidoine Translation: Celandine Day (French Republican) The 29th day of the Month of Pluviôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Gentlemen, start your livers!"
-In Celebration of the Dayton 500 (2/17/2013)
Drink of The Day
Bad Babysitter
1 part Butterscotch Schnapps
1 part Dooleys
Layer into a shot glass, Schnapps on bottom.
Wine of The Day
Cupcake 2009 Sauvignon Blanc
Style - Sauvignon Blanc
Marlborough
$15
Beer of The Day
Dude!A Where's My Vespa?
Brewer - Rock Bottom Brewery, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Style - Coffee Flavored Beer
Joke of The Day
I was at my divorce settlement yesterday, when I announced I would like to make a suggestion.
They agreed, so, I told them, "She can have the car, the house, all the funds in our joint account and full custody of our children on one condition... I get to keep whatever I have in my pocket."
"It's a deal," my wife said, with a smug look on her face.
"You obviously didn't check the lottery numbers last night, did you?"
Quote of the Day
"When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging, when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality."
- Al Capone (January 17th 1899 – January 25th 1947), an Italian-American gangster.
February Observances
AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month
Aggressive Driving Month
American Heart Month
National Heart Healthy Month
American History Month
An Affair to Remember Month
Avocado and Banana Month
Bake for Family Fun Month
Beans (Dried and Fresh) Month
Berry Fresh Month
Black History Month
Burn Awareness Month
Canned Food Month
Celebration of Chocolate Month
Creative Romance Month
Dog Training Education Month
Exotic Vegetables and Star Fruit Month
Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
From Africa to Virginia Month
National Get To Know An Independent Real Estate Broker Month
Grapefruit Month
Great American Pie Month a.k.a American Pie Month
International Boost Self-Esteem Month
International Expect Success Month
International Friendship Month
International Hoof-care Month
Jobs in Golf Month
Library Lovers' Month
Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
Marijuana Awareness Month
National African American History Month
National Bird Feeding Month
National Black History Month
National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
National Cherry Month
National Children's Dental Health Month
National Condom Month
National Embroidery Month
National Fiber Focus Month
National Grapefruit Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Laugh-Friendly Month
National Mend A Broken Heart Month
National Parent Leadership Month
National Pet Dental Health Month
National Snack Food Month
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
National Therapeutic Recreation Month
National Time Management Month
National Weddings Month
National Wild Bird Feeding Month
Parent Leadership Month, Natl
Plant The Seeds Of Greatness Month
Potato Lover’s Month
Pull Your Sofa Off The Wall Month
Relationship Wellness Month
Responsible Pet Owner's Month
Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
Senior Independence Month
Spay/Neuter Awareness Month
Spiritual Teachers Month
Spunky Old Broads Month
Sweet Potato Month
Truck Month (GM)
Wise Health Care Consumer Month
Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month
Youth Leadership Month
Observances this Week
National Condom Week, Third Week of February
National Nestbox Week, Third Week of February
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week, Third Week of February
Great Backyard Bird Count, Third Weekend of February
National Date (fruit) Week, Third Week of February
National Entrepreneurship Week, Third Week of February
National FFA Week, Week of George Washington's Birthday, Sat to Sat
Brotherhood Week, Third Week of February
Sisterhood Week, Third Week of February
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week, Third Week of February
National Engineers Week, Week of George Washington's Birthday
National Justice for Animals Week, Week of George Washington's Birthday
Historical Events on February 17th
1370 Germany beats Lithuania at The Battle of Rudau.
1500 The Battle of Hemmingstedt.
1568 Holy Roman Emperor agrees to pay tribute to the Sultan for peace
1598 Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia
1600 The Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, charged of heresy.
1621 Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of Plymouth colony.
1634 William Prynne tried in Star Chamber for publishing "Histrio-masti
1670 France & Bavaria sign military assistance treaty
1676 Kings Charles II & Louis XIV sign secret treaty
1691 Thomas Neale granted British patent for American postal service
1714 Parliament of Paris accepts Pope Clemens XI's "Unigenitus" degree
1753 In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
1772 1st partition of Poland-Russia & Prussia, joined later by Austria
1776 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published
1791 Messier catalogs M83 (spiral galaxy in Hydra)
1795 Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
1801 An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
1801 House breaks electoral college tie, chooses Jefferson pres over Burr
1809 Miami University is chartered by the State of Ohio.
1814 The Battle of Mormans.
1817 1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
1818 Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)
1819 The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise.
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Tasmania
1841 Dutch ex-king Willem I marries Henriette d'Oultremont de Wégimont
1848 Toscane gets liberal Constitution
1854 The United Kingdom recognizes the independence of the Orange Free State (South Africa).
1859 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in maschera" premieres in Napoli
1864 The H. L. Hunley becomes the first submarine to engage and sink a warship, the USS Housatonic, American Civil War.
1864 Confederate sub "HL Hunley" sinks Union ship "Housatonic"
1865 Columbia, South Carolina, is burned as Confederate forces flee from advancing Union forces, American Civil War.
1867 Gyula Andressy becomes premier of Hungary
1867 The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
1870 Esther Morris appointed 1st female judge
1870 Mississippi becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War
1871 The victorious Prussian Army parades though Paris, France after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
1876 Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine)
1878 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones
1880 Tsar Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt
1882 1st Test Cricket match played at Sydney Cricket Ground
1883 A Ashwell patents free-toilet in London
1885 Bismarck gives Carl Peters' firm management of East-Africa
1896 London Country Councils' Muzzling Order becomes effective
1897 National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)
1903 El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico becomes part of the United States National Forest System as the Luquillo Forest Reserve.
1904 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan
1905 Frances Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall
1906 Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Alice marries in the White House
1911 1st hydroplane flight to & from a ship (Glenn Curtiss, San Diego)
1913 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
1913 The Armory Show opens in New York City, displaying works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century (Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp).
1915 Edward Stone, 1st US combatant to die in WW I, is mortally wounded
1916 Romberg/Hanley/Atteridge/Smith' musical premieres in NYC
1921 Arthur Honegger's "Pastorale D'ete," premieres
1923 Ottawa Senator Cy Denneny becomes NHL's all time scorer (143 goals)
1924 In Miami, Florida, Johnny Weissmuller sets a new world record in the 100-yard freestyle swimming competition with a time of 522/5 seconds (52.4 seconds).
1925 Harold Ross and Jane Grant found The New Yorker magazine; the debut issue is dated February 21, 1925.
1926 Avalanche buries 75 in Sap Gulch Bingham Utah, 40 die
1926 Tennis star Suzanne Lenglen beats Helen Wills in their only match
1930 French government of Tardieu, falls
1931 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
1931 Hockey's Hershey Bears (now with AHL) 1st game
1932 Irving Berlin's musical "Face the Music," premieres in NYC
1933 Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead in the comic Blondie
1933 Marinus van der Lubbe arrives in Glindow, at Potsdam
1933 Newsweek magazine is published for the first time.
1933 The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
1934 1st high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)
1936 "Phantom" cartoon strip by Lee Falk debuts
1936 -58°F (-50°C), McIntosh, South Dakota (state record)
1936 SN Behrmann's "End of Summer," premieres in NYC
1936 The world's first superhero, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in comics.
1938 1st public experimental demonstration of Baird color TV (London)
1939 Katwijk soccer team forms
1940 Bradman scores 135 in a non-Shield match for SA v West Australia
1940 British destroyers board German Altmark off Norway
1941 Joe Louis KOs Gus Dorazio in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1943 Hitler visits fieldmarshal von Mansteins hq in Zaporozje
1943 Dutch churches protest at Seyss-Inquart against persecution of Jews
1943 General major Bradley flies to Wash DC
1943 NY Yankee Joe DiMaggio, enlists into the US army
1944 Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins; US victory on Feb 22
1944 Operation Hailstone, World War II, begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk (Chuuk), Japan's main base in the central Pacific, in support of the Eniwetok invasion.
1944 The Battle of Eniwetok Atoll, World War II, begins. The battle ends in an American victory on February 22.
1946 Humanistic Covenant forms in Amsterdam
1947 Dutch RC bishops publish manifest against "godless communism"
1947 The Voice of America begins transmitting radio broadcasts to the Soviet Union.
1949 Chaim Weitzman elected 1st president of Israel
1949 Ice Pairs Championship at Paris won by Andrea Kekesy/Ede Kiraly of HUN
1949 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Paris won by Alena Vrzanova of CZE
1949 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Paris won by American Richard Button, retains world figure skating championship in Paris
1950 31 die in a train crash in Rockville Center NY
1953 Baseball star sand pilot Ted Williams uninjured as plane shot down in Korea
1953 DSB soccer team forms in Eindhoven
1955 Ice Dance Championship at Vienna Austria won by J Westwood/Demmy GRB
1955 Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Frances Dafoe & Bowden of CAN
1955 KTVF TV channel 11 in Fairbanks, AK (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Tenley Albright US
1955 Mike Souchak sets PGA 72-hole record of 257
1956 Ice Dance Championship at Garmisch won by Pamela Weight/P Thomas GRB
1956 Ice Pairs Championship at Garmisch won by Schwarz & Oppelt of AUT
1956 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by Carol Heiss USA
1956 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Garmisch won by H A Jenkins USA
1957 A fire at a home for the elderly in Warrenton, Missouri, kills 72 people.
1957 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
1957 Suez Canal reopens
1958 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
1958 Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare of Assisi (1193~1253) the patron saint of television.
1958 WETV (now WPBA) TV channel 30 in Atlanta, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg
1959 Vanguard 2 The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
1962 A storm kills more than 300 people in Hamburg, West Germany.
1962 Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin"
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs St Louis
1963 Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon (2:15:15.8
1964 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling)
1964 Gabonese president Leon M'ba is toppled by a coup and his rival, Jean-Hilaire Aubame, is installed in his place.
1964 In Wesberry v. Sanders the Supreme Court of the United States rules that congressional districts have to be approximately equal in population.
1964 US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights
1964 US Supreme court rules 1 man 1 vote (Westberry v Sanders)
1964 WMEM TV channel 10 in Presque Isle, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting
1965 The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
1965 US-Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute
1966 French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit
1967 Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
1967 Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit
1968 In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.
1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash record an album (never released)
1969 Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister
1970 Jeffrey McDonald slices up his wife & daughter
1970 Joni Mitchell's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
1970 Robert Marasco's "Child's Play," premieres in NYC
1971 England regains cricket Ashes with a 2-0 series win
1972 British Parliament votes to join European Common Market
1972 President Nixon leaves Washington DC for China
1972 Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of Ford Model-T.
1973 Rodney Redmond scores 107 on debut v Pakistan, his only Test Cricket
1974 49 die in stampede for seats at soccer match, Cairo, Egypt
1974 Carol Mann wins LPGA Naples Lely Golf Classic
1974 Robert K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen helicopter.
1976 "Rockabye Hamlet" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 7 performances
1976 Macau adopts constitution (Organic Law of Macau)
1976 NZ scores their 1st innings win in Test Cricket, vs. India, Richard Hadlee takes 7-23, his 1st match-winning spell
1978 The Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.
1979 China invades Vietnam, The Sino-Vietnamese War begins.
1979 Eric Heiden equals skating world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1980 Buddy Baker wins Daytona 500 (177.6 MPH/285.8 kph)
1980 Dot Germain wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1981 Chrysler Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history
1982 Commencement of Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket match, v England
1983 Bob Bourne fails on 8th Islander penalty shot
1983 Netherlands adopts constitution
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 1st class postage rises from 20 cents to 22 cents
1985 1st day/night game at the MCG, Australia v England
1985 3rd person to receive an artificial heart (Murray Haydon)
1985 Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
1985 Laffit Pincay Jr is third to ride 6,000th winners at Santa Anita
1986 1st Francophone Summit convenes at Versailles
1986 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC morning radio (WXRK 92.3 FM)
1986 Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule drugs
1986 Libyan bombers attack N'djamena Airport in Chad
1987 Don Mattingly wins highest salary arbitration ($1,975,000 per year)
1987 Michelle Renee Royer, 21, (Texas), crowned 36th Miss USA
1988 Lebanese terrorists kidnap UN truce observer Lt Col William Higgins & later kill him.
1989 6-week study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
1989 Former baseball player/manager Leo Durocher injured in a car crash
1989 Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia & Libya form common market
1989 Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs record $7.9M-3 year contract
1989 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 Whitesnake's rocker David Coverdale weds actress Tawny Kitaen
1991 US male Figure Skating championship won by Todd Eldredge
1993 Haitian ferry boat capsize in storm, 800-2,000 die
1993 Mark Foster swims world record 50m free style (21.60 sec)
1995 11th Soap Opera Digest Awards
1995 Colin Ferguson is convicted of six counts of murder for the December 1993 Long Island Rail Road shootings and later receives a 200+ year sentence.
1995 Federal judge allows lawsuit claiming US tobacco makers knew nicotine was addictive & manipulated its levels to keep customers hooked
1995 The Cenepa War between Peru and Ecuador ends on a cease-fire brokered by the UN.
1995 Tiger mgr Sparky Anderson takes unpaid leave due to baseball strike
1996 1st full ODI for the Netherlands, v NZ, cricket World Cup Nolan Clarke makes ODI debut for Netherlands at age 47
1996 In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
1996 NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
1997 Carl Sagan Public Memorial at Pasadena Calif
1997 Weekly Standard shows evidence Larry Flint sex abused his daughter
1998 Diane Zamora, 20, Naval Academy cadet convicted of capital murder
1998 Larry Wayne Harris & Bill Levitt arrested for possession of anthrax
1998 USA Women's Ice Hockey Team beats Canada and wins the first Olympic Gold medal
2002 'Always On Time' by R&B artist Ja Rule featuring Ashanti starts a two-week run at No.1 on the US singles chart.
2002 Westlife go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'World Of Our Own.' The Irish boy band's 10th UK No.1 single.
2003 The London Congestion Charge scheme begins.
2006 A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
2008 Kosovo declares independence from Serbia
2009 Analog television has shutdown, which reverted to a digital
2012 Approximately 70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of Greece
2012 "The Help" wins Outstanding Motion Picture at the 43rd NAACP Image Awards
2012 The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal
2013 37 people are killed and 130 are injured in a series of Baghdad car bombings
2013 5 people are killed and 11 are injured after a gas explosion destroyed an apartment complex in Frenštát pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic
2013 Australia defeat the West Indies by 114 runs to win the Women's 2013 Cricket World Cup
2013 President Rafael Correa wins the Ecuadorian general election in a landslide victory
2013 West beats East 143-138 at Houston in the 62nd NBA All-Star Game
2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon premieres on NBC
2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry claims climate change requires urgent action and that only a small "window of time" remained open
2016 Car bomb attack on military convoy in Ankara, Turkey, by Kurdish militant eaves 28 dead
2016 Channing Dungey announced new President of ABC Entertainment Group, first African-American to lead a major US broadcast network
2016 Chief executive Tim Cook confirms Apple will contest an FBI order to unlock the phone of San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook
2016 Nike ends endorsement deal with Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao after he made TV comments gay people are "worse than animals."
2016 Oldest known case of human-Neanderthal sex (100,000 yrs ago) revealed by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), 50,000 yr old Neanderthal woman's remains from Altai mountains show traces of Homo Sapiens DNA
Born on February 17th
1444 Rudolf Agricola, (Roelof Huysman), Dutch humanist/organist
1490 Charles III, Duke of Bourbon, Constable of France (d. 1527)
1519 Francis, Duke of Guise, French soldier and politician (d. 1563)
1524 Charles of Guise, French cardinal (d. 1574)
1581 Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (d. 1653)
1583 J Henry Alting, Dutch theologist
1646 Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (d. 1714)
1653 Arcangelo Corelli, Italian composer (Concerto Grossi) (d. 1713)
1667 Georg Bronner, composer
1675 Johann Melchior Conradi, composer
1696 Baron Ernst Gottlieb, composer
1697 Louis-Maurice de La Pierre, composer
1699 Hans Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, German architect (Sanssouci)
1718 Matthew Tilghman, American Continental Congressman (d. 1790)
1723 Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (method of lunars for longitude determination) (d. 1762)
1740 Horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist
1747 Narciso Casanovas, composer
1752 Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (Wirrwarr) (d. 1831)
1754 Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer
1754 Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
1758 John Pinkerton, Scottish historian
1774 Raphaelle Peale, US, painter (After the Rain-1823)
1781 René-Theophile-Hyacinthe Lannec, French physician (stethoscope) (d. 1826)
1792 Karl Ernst von Baer, German biologist (d. 1876)
1796 Giovanni Pacini, composer
1796 Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866)
1804 Samuel Read Anderson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1883
1816 Friedrich Wilhelm Markull, composer
1816 Haller Nutt, Southern Plantation owner (d. 1864)
1820 Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Catholic cardinal (d. 1898)
1820 Henri Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer (Brussels Cons) (d. 1881)
1821 Lola Montez, Irish dancer (d. 1861)
1824 William Farrar "Baldy" Smith, Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1831 Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer
1836 Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet (d. 1870)
1837 Francis Jay Herron, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1902
1837 Samuel van Houten, Dutch (lib) minister (child labor laws)
1844 A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward)
1844 Aaron Montgomery Ward, American department store founder (d. 1913)
1848 Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner, the last to carry out capital punishment in Sweden (d. 1920)
1848 Louisa Lawson, Australian suffragist and writer (d. 1920)
1849 Selwyn Image, Bodiam Sussex, painter
1850 Anton Urspruch, composer
1850 Ludwig Bonvin, composer
1854 Friedrich Alfred Krupp, German industrialist, arms manufacturer (d. 1902)
1855 Otto Liman von Sanders, German general in Turkey (WW I)
1857 Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor/publisher
1858 Ernest Ford, composer
1861 Princess Helena, Duchess of Albany (d. 1922)
1862 Edward German (Jones), Whitchurch Shropshire, British composer
1862 Mori Ogai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)
1863 Fyodor Sologub, Russian symbolist novelist and poet (d. 1927)
1864 Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson, NSW Australia, poet (Waltzing Matilda)
1864 Banjo Paterson, Australian poet (d. 1941)
1864 Jozef Murgaš, Slovak inventor (d. 1929)
1867 William Cadbury, England, chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury)
1870 Louis de Raet, Belgian economist/founder (Flemish People's Party)
1874 Thomas J. Watson, American computer manufacturer (IBM) (d. 1956)
1877 André Maginot, French politician (d. 1932)
1877 Henri Vandeputte, Belgian author/poet (L'homme Jeune)
1877 Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and writer (d. 1904)
1879 Dorothy Canfield Fisher, US, novelist (Book-of-Month-Club)
1880 Alvaro Obregon, general/president Mexico (1920-24)
1882 Kurt Schindler, composer
1882 Noah Beery, Smithville AR, actor (Story of Esther, Mark of Zorro)
1884 Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish minister of Internal affairs (1940)
1885 Steve Evans, American baseball player (d. 1943)
1887 Leevi Antti Madetoja, Finnish composer (d. 1947)
1888 Henrietta P "Hetty" Beck, actress (Bouwmeester Award)
1888 Otto Stern, German physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate (Stern-Gerlach-experiment, Nobel 1943) (d. 1969)
1888 Ronald Aburthnott Knox, English priest/writer (Viaduct Murder)
1889 H(aroldson) L Hunt, Texas oil multi-millionaire
1890 Sir Ronald Fisher, Statistician and Geneticist (d. 1962)
1891 Abraham Fraenkel, German-born Israeli mathematician and recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1965)
1891 Georg Britting, writer
1892 Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis, Stalingrad)
1893 Wally Pipp, American baseball player (d. 1965)
1895 Anita Stewart, NY, actress (South of Hell Mountain)
1895 Edna Park Edwards, PA
1897 Johannes A Kaart, Dutch actor/stage manager (My Fair Lady)
1898 Tom Lowry, cricketer (NZ batsman in seven Tests & their 1st Test capt)
1902 Marian Anderson, Phila, operatic contralto (banned by D.A.R.)
1903 Johannes Linthorst Homan, director of the queen in Groningen
1903 Sadegh Hedayat, Iranian writer (d. 1951)
1904 Albert Kuyle, [Louis Kuitenbrouwer], Dutch writer (Jesus' Robe)
1904 Hans Morgenthau, German political philosopher (d. 1980)
1906 Galo Plaza Lasso, pres of Ecuador (1948-52), head of OAS (1968-75)
1906 Ramon Tapales, composer
1907 Alec Wilder, Rochester NY, composer (1973 ASCAP award)
1907 Charles B Timmer, Dutch translator/writer (Russia Black on White)
1908 Bo Yibo, Chinese politician (d. 2005)
1908 Red Barber, American baseball announcer (d. 1992)
1908 Staats Cotsworth, Oak Park IL, actor (Peyton Place)
1908 Walter L "Red" Barber, Miss, sports announcer (Bkln Dodgers, NY Yanks)
1909 Joseph "Poeske" Scherens, Belgian cyclist (champ sprinter 1932-37)[NS]
1909 Marjorie Lawrence, Australia, soprano (Venus-Tannhäuser)
1910 Ai Qing, poet
1910 Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (d. 1979)
1910 Marc Lawrence, American actor (Man With Golden Gun) (d. 2005)
1911 Arthur Hunnicutt, Gravelly AR, actor (Big Sky, Apache Uprising)
1911 Orrin Tucker, American bandleader and composer
1911 Oskar Seidlin, Silesian-born American literary scholar (d. 1984)
1912 Andre Norton, American author (d. 2005)
1913 Josephine F "Fietje" van Anrooy, Dutch actress/director
1913 Oskar Danon, composer
1913 Rene Leibowitz, composer
1914 Albert Westerlinck, [Jose J M Aerts], Flemish literary
1914 Arthur Kennedy, American actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place) (d. 1990)
1914 Per-Jakez Helias, writer/teacher
1914 Wayne Morris, American actor (d. 1959)
1914 (Bert de) Wayne Morris, American WW II-pilot/actor (Paths of Glory)
1915 Homer Keller, composer
1916 Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and Rugby Union footballer (d. 1940)
1916 Don Tallon, cricketer (perhaps Australia's greatest wicket-keeper)
1916 Raf Vallone, Italian actor (El Cid, 2 Women, Greek Tycoon) (d. 2002)
1917 Abdur Rahman Badawi, Egyptian philosopher (d. 2002)
1917 Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican inventor (d. 1965)
1918 Charles A Hayes, (Rep-D-IL, 1983)
1918 Olive Gibbs, peace campaigner
1919 Jock Mahoney, Chicago, actor (Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury)
1919 Joseph R Hunt, tennis champ (US Open-1943)
1919 Kathleen Freeman, American actress (Beverly Hillbillies) (d. 2001)
1920 Colin Franklin, doctor
1920 Ivo Caprino, Norwegian animated film director (d. 2001)
1920 Paul Fetler, composer
1920 Trevor Oswald Ling, religious studies professor
1922 Enrico Banducci, American nightclub owner (d. 2007)
1922 Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
1922 Tommy Edwards, American singer (It's All in the Game) (d. 1969)
1922 Valentino Mazzia, American forensic anesthesiologist (d. 1999)
1923 Alden Winship Clausen, Hamilton Ill, banker (Pres of World Bank)
1924 Gevork Vartanian, Iran, Soviet intelligence agent (Operation Long Jump), (d. 2012)
1924 Margaret Truman, American novelist (Murder at FBI) (d. 2008)
1925 Fritz Behrendt, German/Dutch cartoon character (The Slogan)
1925 Hal Holbrook, American actor (All the President's Men, Mark Twain)
1925 Ron Goodwin, English composer and conductor (d. 2003)
1926 Friedrich Cerha, composer
1926 Lee Hoiby, Madison Wisconsin, composer (1957 Arts & Letters)
1928 Marta Romero, Puerto Rican actress & singer
1929 Chaim Potok, American author (Promise) (d. 2002)
1929 Patricia Routledge, English actress
1929 Paul Meger, Canadian ice hockey player
1930 Roger Craig, American baseball player and manager
1930 Ruth Rendell, English writer
1930 Usko Merilainen, composer
1932 Buck Trent, American banjo player and singer (Hee Haw)
1933 Bobby Lewis, American singer (Tossin' & Turnin')
1933 Craig L. Thomas, American politician (Rep-R-Wyoming) (d. 2007)
1934 Alan Bates, English actor (Zorba the Greek, Unmarried Woman) (d. 2003)
1934 Barry Humphries, Australian actor and comedian (Dame Edna Everage)
1934 Buddy Ryan, NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles, Phoenix Cardinals)
1935 Christina Pickles, UK-born American actress
1935 Johnny Bush, country singer
1936 Barry Jarman, cricketer (Australian wicket-keeper in 60's)
1936 Jim Brown, American football player, NFL full back (Cleveland Browns)/actor (Dirty Dozen)
1936 Peter Walker, cricket all-rounder (Glamorgan did little for Eng 1960)
1937 Mickey McGill, US vocalist (Dells-Love is Blue)
1938 Mary Frances Berry, educator/head (US Commission on Civil Rights)
1939 John Leyton, British singer
1939 Mary Ann Mobley, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes) and beauty queen (Miss America-1959)
1940 Dennis Gamsy, cricketer (South African bat in 2 Tests v Australia 1970)
1940 Gene Pitney, American singer and songwriter (Town Without Pity) (d. 2006)
1941 Heidi Biebi, German Fed Rep, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1960)
1941 Julia McKenzie, English actress and theatre director
1942 Huey P. Newton, American political activist, Black Panther leader (d. 1989)
1943 Costas Azariadis, Greek macroeconomist
1944 Bernie Grant, British politician (Labour)
1944 Karl Jenkins, Welsh composer
1945 Brenda Fricker, Irish actress (My Left Foot)
1945 Patricia Morrow, actress (Rita-Peyton Place)
1945 Willie J L Swildens-Rozendal, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1945 Zina Bethune, American actress
1946 Andre Dussollier, Annecy France, actor (3 Men & a Cradle)
1946 Dodie Stevens, American singer and actress (Mary Hartman!)
1946 Valdemar Bandolowski, Denmark, yachting (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1946 Zina Bethune, NYC, actress (Nurses, Who's That Knocking at My Door), (d. 2012)
1947 Ben Cramer, Dutch vocalist (Clown)
1947 Dallas Adams, British actor/painter/writer (Terror From Within)
1948 Don Scardino, American television director and actor
1948 José José, Mexican singer and actor
1948 Rick Majerus, American basketball coach
1949 Fred Frith, English musician and composer (Skeleton Crew)
1950 Rick Medlocke, rock guitarist/vocalist (Blackfoot)
1951 Rashid Minhas, Pilot officer in Pakistan Air Force during Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 (d. 1971)
1952 Guillermo Vilas, tennis player (1977 US Open)
1952 Insook Bhushan, Seoul Korea, US US table tennis player (Olympic-92)
1952 Karin Janz, East German gymnast
1953 Janice Dickinson, Bkln NY, model (Vogue)
1953 Norman Pace, British actor and comic
1954 Rene Russo, American actress (Ransom)
1955 David Nakayama, American actor
1955 Mo Yan, Chinese novelist
1956 Richard Karn, American actor
1957 Loreena McKennitt, Canadian musician
1958 Heidi Hagman, actress (Linda-Archie Bunker's Place)
1958 Karen Lende O'Connor, Concord Ma, equestrian 3-day (Oly-silver-96)
1959 Ambrose "Rowdy" Gaines, US, 100m swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1959 Aryeh Deri, Israeli rabbi and politician
1959 Daniel Ray "Danny" Ainge, basketball & football star
1959 Neil Lomax, American football player
1959 Richard Karn, Seattle WA, actor (Al-Home Improvement)
1959 Rowdy Gaines, American swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-1984)
1961 Debra Richardson, Minneapolis MN, beach volleyballer (Olympics-96)
1961 Guy McIntyre, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1962 Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer (d. 1995)
1962 David McComb, Australian musician (The Triffids) (d. 1999)
1962 Hennie Meijer, soccer player (Cambuur L, FC Heerenveen)
1962 Lou Diamond Phillips, Philippine actor (La Bamba, Stand & Deliver)
1962 Samuel Bayer, American music video director
1962 Tony Blain, cricketer (NZ Test wicket-keeper)
1962 Tyrone "Ty" Jones, American screenwriter
1963 Dan Reed, rocker/actor (HOTS, Lake Consequence)
1963 Jen-Hsun Huang, American entrepreneur and businessman
1963 Larry the Cable Guy, American comedian and actor
1963 Michael Jordan, American basketball player, NBA guard,forward (Chicago Bulls)
1963 Rene Syler, American journalist
1964 Buster Olney, American sports columnist
1964 Mike Campbell, Seattle WA, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1965 Clayton Prince, Phila, actor (Hairspray, Reuben-Another World)
1965 Jim Bowie, Japanese/US baseball infielder (Oakland Athletics)
1965 Michael Bay, American film director
1966 Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
1966 Luc Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL left wing (NY Rangers, Pitts Penguins)
1966 Melissa Brooke-Belland, rocker (Voice of the Beehive-Let it Bee)
1966 Michael Lepond, American musician (Symphony X)
1966 Quorthon, Swedish musician (Bathory) (d. 2004)
1967 Chanté Moore, American singer
1967 Gary Shuchuk, Edmonton, NHL center (LA Kings)
1967 Michelle Forbes, Austin TX, actress (Ensign Ro-Star Trek Next Gen)
1968 Bryan Cox, American football player, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears)
1968 Celita Schutz, Riverdale NJ, half-middleweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1968 Patrick Uterwijk, pop guitarist (Pestilence, Consuming Impulse)
1969 David Douillet, French judoka, multiple olympic medalist
1969 David Klingler, NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders, Cin Bengals)
1969 Joel Steed, NFL nose tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1969 Levon Kirkland, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1969 Traci Adell, New Orleans La, playmate (July, 1994)
1969 Tuesday Knight, American actress
1970 Dominic Purcell, English-born actor
1970 Tim Mahoney, American musician (311)
1970 Tommy Moe, American Olympic skier, nordic (Olympic-gold/silver-1994)
1971 Denise Richards, American actress
1971 Jeremy Edwards, British actor
1971 Martyn Bennett, Canadian composer (d. 2005)
1972 Billie Joe Armstrong, American musician (Green Day)
1972 LG Petrov, Swedish singer (Entombed)
1972 Lloy Ball, Ft Wayne Ind, volleyball setter (Olympics-96)
1972 Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater
1972 Ralphie May, American comedian
1972 Richard MacQuire, Melbourne VIC Australia, canoeist (Olympics-96)
1972 Stephen Robinson, Arlington Va, rower (Olympics-1996)
1972 Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters)
1972 Tony Lawson, NSA Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1972 Valeria Mazza, Argentinian model
1972 Vladimir Vujtek, NHL forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998, Tampa Bay)
1972 William Floyd, full back (San Francisco 49ers)
1972 Yuki Isoya, Japanese singer (formerly Judy and Mary)
1973 Chris Robinson, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1973 Drew Barry, American basketball player, NBA guard (Atlanta Hawks)
1973 Frank Sanders, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals)
1973 Raphaël Ibañez, French rugby union footballer
1973 Raymond Jackson, NFL defensive back (Buffalo Bills)
1973 SaRenna Lee, American pornographic actress
1974 Bryan White, American singer
1974 Jerry O'Connell, American actor (Scream 2, Andrew-My Secret Identity)
1974 Kaoru, Japanese musician
1974 Valeria Mazza, Rosario Argentina, model (Cosmo-July 1995)
1975 Harisu, South Korean singer, model and actress
1975 Sung-Hee Park, Pusan Korea, tennis star (1993 Futures-Seoul)
1975 Todd Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Dallas Stars)
1975 Vaclav Prospal, Czech ice hockey player, NHL forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998, Philadelphia)
1975 Wish Bone, American rapper (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1976 Kelly Carlson, American actress
1976 Scott Williamson, American baseball player
1976 William Roussel, French musician (Mütiilation)
1977 Wong Choong Hann, Malaysian Badminton player
1978 Jacob Wetterling, American kidnapping victim
1979 Dee, Puerto Rican pornographic actress
1979 Josh Willingham, American baseball player
1980 Al Harrington, American basketball player
1980 Jason Ritter, American actor
1980 Klemi Saban, Israeli footballer
1980 Shanyn MacEachern, Brampton Ontario, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1981 Donielle Thompson, Wheatridge CO, gymnast (World-bronze-95, Oly-96)
1981 Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor
1981 Lisa Skinner, Queensland Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1981 Paris Hilton, American actress and heiress
1982 Adriano, Brazilian footballer
1982 Brian Bruney, American baseball player
1982 Joseph Gordon-Levitt, actor (Tommy Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
1982 Lupe Fiasco, American rapper
1982 Steven Pienaar, South African footballer
1983 Gérald Cid, French footballer
1983 Marios Kaperonis, Greek boxer
1984 AB de Villiers, South African cricketer
1984 Jimmy Jacobs, American professional wrestler
1984 Kenta Kamakari, Japanese actor and seiyuu
1984 Sadha, South Indian film actress
1985 Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian skijumper
1985 Anne Curtis, Filipino actress and commercial model
1986 Joey O'Brien, Irish footballer
1986 Sandra Nilsson, Swedish model
1988 Natascha Kampusch, Austrian kidnapping victim
1989 Rebecca Adlington, British swimmer
1991 Bonnie Wright, British actress
1992 Meaghan Jette Martin, American actress and singer
1996 Sasha Pieterse, South African child actress
Died on February 17th
364 Flavius Jovianus, Christian emperor of Rome (363-64) (b. 331)
440 Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian monk and linguist (b. 360)
956 Hugo the Great, earl of Paris/duke of Francia
1339 Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)
1371 Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
1596 Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)
1600 Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher, advocate of Copernican theory (burned at the stake) (b. 1548)
1609 Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
1612 Ernst of Bayern, prince/bishop of Luik/archbish Cologne
1612 Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartoonist/mathematician
1624 Juan de Mariana, Spanish historian (b. 1536)
1652 Gregorio Allegri, Italian singer/composer (Miserere)
1654 Michael Lohr, composer
1659 Abel Servien, French diplomat (b. 1593)
1673 Moliare (Jean Baptiste Poquelin), French author (Learned Lady) (b. 1622)
1680 Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English statesman and writer (b. 1599)
1680 Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist (b. 1637)
1688 Rev James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian
1715 Antoine Galland, French archaeologist (b. 1646)
1732 Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)
1768 Arthur Onslow, English politician (b. 1691)
1780 Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b. 1706)
1796 James Macpherson, poet
1815 Franz Gotz, composer
1827 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss educator
1841 Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist (b. 1770)
1847 William Collins, landscape painter, dies
1852 Micha Joseph Levenson, Hebrew poet, dies
1854 Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer
1854 John Martin, English painter (b. 1789)
1856 Heinrich Heine, German writer (b. 1797)
1856 John Braham, singer/composer
1874 Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (b. 1796)
1875 Luis NF Varela, Brazilian romantic poet
1878 Jose Amador de los Rios, Spanish historian/poet
1883 Napoleon Coste, French guitarist and composer (b. 1806)
1883 Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (b. 1845)
1890 Christopher Sholes, American inventor (b. 1819)
1901 Ethelbert Woodbridge Nevin, composer
1903 Joseph Parry, composer
1905 Serge Alexandrovich, gov-gen Moscow, murdered
1907 Henry Steel Olcott, US co-founder (Theosophist Society)
1909 Geronimo, Apache chief (b. 1829)
1912 Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister (Austria-Hungary)
1912 Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer (b. 1876)
1912 Lawrence Oates, British explorer (Antarctica)
1917 Edmund Bishop, English secretary of Thomas Carlyle
1919 Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (1896-1911) (b. 1841)
1924 Oskar Merikanto, composer
1929 John Read, cricketer (batted in 17 Tests for Eng for 463 runs)
1932 Frans Gailliard, Belgian painter/graphic artist (Egina)
1933 Henri(cus A) Viotta, Dutch composer (Handbook of Music)
1934 Albert I von Saksen-Coburg, king of Belgium (1909-34) (b. 1875)
1934 Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (b. 1862)
1936 Erich Schaeder, German theologist (Theozentrische)
1939 Willy Hess, German violinist (b. 1859)
1943 Armand J. Piron, American jazz violinist and composer (b. 1888)
1943 Konstantin Bogaevsky, Russian painter (b. 1872)
1944 Fausto Agnelli, Swiss painter
1951 Nikoghayos Fadeyi Tigranyan, composer
1954 Evert Gorter, children artist (Kindergeneeskunde)
1955 Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist
1958 Hugh McCrae, Australian writer (b. 1876)
1959 Kathryn Adams, actress (Meet the Chump, 5th Avenue Girl)
1959 Tim Mara, co-founder of NFL's NY Giants
1961 Nita Naldi, American actress (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde) (b. 1897)
1962 Bruno Walter, German conductor (NY Philharmonic) (b. 1876)
1962 Joseph Kearns, actor (George-Dennis the Menace)
1966 Frank Pettingell, actor (Becket, Up the Creek)
1966 Gail Kane, actress (White Sister, Arizona)
1966 Hans Hofmann, German/US painter (Search for the Real)
1968 Donald Wolfit, actor (Lawrence of Arabia)
1970 Agnon (SJ Czaczkes), Hebrew writer (Nobel 1966)
1970 Alfred Newman, American film composer (b. 1901)
1970 Schmuel J Agnon, novelist (Nobel 1966), dies
1970 Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Israeli writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1888)
1971 Teddy Hart, actor (3 Men on a Horse)
1972 Gavril Nikolayevich Popov, composer
1976 Jean Servais, Belgian actor (Every Man is My Enemy)
1976 Johannes A Card, actor/stage manager (My Fair Lady)
1977 Janani Luwum, Ugandan Archbishop (b. 1922)
1977 Quincy Howe, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1979 William Gargan, actor (Rain, Bells of St Mary)
1980 Graham Sutherland, painter
1980 Jerry Fielding, composer (Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes)
1982 Lee Strasberg, Austrian-born actor (And Justice for All) (b. 1901)
1982 Nestor Chylak, American baseball umpire (b. 1922)
1982 Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist and composer (b. 1917)
1984 Lucille Benson, actress (Lilly-Bosom Buddies)
1985 Wanda Perry, actress (Roberta, Death of a Salesman)
1986 Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (Kingdom Happiness) (b. 1895)
1986 Paul Stewart, actor (Opening Night, In Cold Blood, Window), dies
1987 Hal K Dawson, actor (Another Language, Wells Fargo)
1987 Verree Teasdale, actress (Skyscraper Souls)
1989 Lefty Gomez, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Yankees) (b. 1908)
1990 Erik Rhodes, American actor (Top Hat) (b. 1906)
1990 Frans Kellendonk, Dutch writer (Good for Nothing)
1990 Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1901)
1990 Keith Haring, US graffiti-artist
1990 Marc Clement, actor (Career Opportunities, Sluggers Wife)
1991 Enrique Bermudez, commandant (Contra)
1993 Alfredo de Leon, leader (Philippines Red Scorpio Gang), killed
1993 George E Wilburn, film editor, dies of emphysema at 77
1993 Leslie Townsend, cricket all-rounder (Engld in 4 Tests 1930-34)
1994 Randy Shilts, American author and activist (& the band played on) (b. 1951)
1995 Jan Bart Klaster, music editor (The Slogan)
1995 Thelma Hulbert, painter
1995 Timothy Hugh Brown, theatre critic
1995 Uta Graf, singer/teacher
1996 Bentley Bridgewater, british Museum secretary
1996 Henry Guinness, missionary
1996 Hervé Bazin, French writer (b. 1911)
1996 Jean Writer-Pierre Herve Bazin
1996 Michael Raptis, writer/recolutionary
1996 (Elsie) Evelyn Laye, actress/singer (Sun Child)
1997 Zein Isa, Palestinian militant imprisoned in the United States for the honor killing of his daughter
1998 Bob Merrill, American composer and lyricist (b. 1921)
1998 Ernst Jünger, German author (b. 1895)
2001 Barry Burman, English artist (b. 1943)
2001 Bob Geary, Canadian football player and manager (b. 1933)
2001 Khalid Abdul Muhammed, American Nation of Islam spokesman (b. 1948)
2003 Steve Bechler, American baseball player (b. 1979)
2004 José López Portillo, President of Mexico (b. 1920)
2005 Dan O'Herlihy, Irish actor (b. 1919)
2005 Omar Sivori, Argentine footballer (b. 1935)
2006 Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (b. 1948)
2006 Ray Barretto, Puerto Rican musician (b. 1929)
2007 Dermot O'Reilly, Irish-born musician, producer and songwriter (b. 1943)
2007 Jurga Ivanauskaite, Lithuanian writer (b. 1961)
2007 Maurice Papon, French Nazi collaborator (b. 1910)
2007 Mike Awesome, American professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2008 Brian Harris, English footballer (b. 1935)
2009 Conchita Cintrón, Chilean bullfighter (b. 1922)
2009 Gazanfer Özcan, Turkish actor (b. 1931)
2012 Ulric Neisser, American psychologist
2013 Richard Briers, English actor
2013 Mindy McCready, American country singer, commits suicide by gunshot
2014 Bob Casale, American musician
2016 Andy Ganteaume, Trinidadian cricketer (West Indian batsman who scored 112 in his only Test innings 1948)
2016 Tony Phillips, American MLB player (Oakland Athletics)