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February 20th

Holidays and Celebrations

World Day for Social Justice (UN International)
Orbit Day * (See Below)
Kurt Cobain's Day * (See Below)
Psychology Day * (See Below)
Repeal of Prohibition Proposal Day * (See Below)
Mystery Science Theater Day * (See Below)

Chineese New Year, Lunar New Year, Spring Festival Lunar Calender (2013) * CLICK HERE

Ferrari Day * (See Below)
Hoodie-Hoo Day (Northern Hemisphere)
Eleutherius of Tournai
Prussia Disestablishment Day. In 1947 State of Prussia ceased to exist.
Cherry Pie Day
Love Your Pet Day
Love Your Dog Day
William Carleton Day, Irish novelist (1794 - d. 1869)
Ansel Adams Day, American photographer (1902 - d. 1984)
Hunter S. Thompson Remembrance Day, American journalist and author (b. 1937 D: 2005)
Pisces Begins
Anniversary of the Closest Approach of a Comet to Earth
Christian Feast Day of Wulfric of Haselbury
* Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival, Canary Islands (1-5)
* Mazatlan Carnival Mazatlan, Mexico (1-5)
* Cologne Carnival Cologne, Germany - Thu before Mardi Gras (2-5) * Orbit Day - In 1962 While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth. Called the Mercury program:
* Kurt Cobain's Day, The birthday of Kurt Cobain, an American musician (Nirvana) (1967 -d. 1994). It is an official holiday in Aberdeen, Washington, his place of birth.
* Psychology Day - The birthday of Johann Christian Reil, German physician, founder of psychiatry (1759 - d. 1813)
* Ferrari Day - Enzo Ferrari, Italian automobile manufacturer, designer and racing car driver (1898 - d. 1988)
* Repeal of Prohibition Proposal Day. In 1933 The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, which would end Prohibition in the United States. 1944 - World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
* Mystery Science Theater Day. Celebrated on Joel Hodgson birthday , American comedian and creater of Mystery Science Theater 3000 (b. 1960)

Fête de la Cornouiller Translation: Dogwood Day (French Republican) The Second day of the Month of Ventôse in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"Here's to me in my sober mood,
When I ramble, sit, and think.
Here's to me in my drunken mood,
When I gamble, sin, and drink.
And when my days are over,
And from this world I pass,
I hope they bury me upside down,
So the world can kiss my ass!"

- Unknown

Drink of The Day

My Fair Lady

1 part Gin
1 part Lemon Juice
1 part Orange Juice
1 part Sirop de Fraise/Strawberry Syrup
1 dash of egg white
Shake ingredients with ice, and strain into a cocktail glass

Wine of The Day

Summerhill Pyramid 2008 Gewurztraminer
Style - Gewurztraminer
Okanagan Valley
$25

Beer of The Day

Fourth Dementia Olde Ale
Brewer - Kuhnhenn Brewing Co., Warren, Michigan, USA
Style - Old Ale

Joke of The Day

A seal walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a drink.
The bartender asks the seal, "What's your pleasure?"
The seal replies, "Anything but Canadian Club."

Quote of the Day

“Sh*t and Piss here”
- Actual sign Above the bathrooms In a Bejing Airport

Whisky of The Day

Hankey Bannister Blended Scotch Whisky
$20

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 20th

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1472 Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment.
1525 Swiss & German mercenaries desert Francois I's army
1547 Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey following death of Henry VIII.
1613 Gerard Reynst appointed Dutch gov-gen of East-Indies
1653 Defeat of Dutch fleet under Adm Van Tromp by Adm Blake off Portsmouth
1673 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
1710 Johan Willem Friso becomes viceroy of Groningen Neth
1724 George F Handel's opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto," premieres in London
1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for £100 a scalp bounty
1732 Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna
1737 French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness, Fort August, Scotland
1768 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)
1792 The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.
1798 Louis Alexandre Berthier removes Pope Pius VI from power.
1809 Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
1810 Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, was executed.
1811 Austria declares bankruptcy
1816 Rossini's opera "Barber of Seville" premieres in Rome
1823 English Capt James Weddell reaches 74°15' S, 1520 km from S pole
1831 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
1832 Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean
1835 Concepción, Chile is destroyed by an earthquake, 5,000 die.
1839 Congress prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
1846 British occupy Sikh citadel of Lahore
1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-NY steamer, hits iceberg; many die
1861 Dept of Navy of Confederacy forms
1861 Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm
1864 Battle of Olustee occurs, the largest battle fought in Florida during the American Civil War.
1865 M I T forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
1869 Tenn Gov W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis
1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
1872 In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags
1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine
1873 The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco, California.
1877 1st cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
1887 1st minor league baseball association organizes (Pittsburgh)
1887 Germany, Austria-Hungary & France end Triple Alliance
1890 Amsterdam Theater destroyed by fire
1895 Congress authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
1899 Ill Tel & Tel granted franchise for Chicago freight tunnel system
1901 The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, SF
1903 Nick Young remains as NL president as AG Spalding ends challenge
1909 Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
1912 Argentina beat the MCC in their inaugural cricket 1st-class fixture
1913 King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition opens in SF
1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die
1917 Kern, Bolton & Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Boy!," premieres in NYC
1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt
1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran
1922 Marc Connelly & George Kaufman's "To the Ladies," premieres in NYC
1922 Vilinus, Lithuania, agrees to separate from Poland
1922 WOR-AM in New York City begins radio transmissions
1923 Christy Mathewson becomes pres of Boston Braves
1927 Golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
1929 American Samoa organizes as territory of US
1929 Red Sox announce they will play Sunday games at Braves Field
1930 Capelle soccer team forms
1931 The Congress of the United States approves the construction of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.
1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
1933 Curom, Curacaose Broadcast System starts: Princess Juliana's speech
1933 Sidney Howard's "Alien Corn," premieres in NYC
1933 The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.
1934 Virgil Thomson's opera "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens in NYC
1935 Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
1937 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca
1938 UK Foreign Sec Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
1940 Larry Clinton & his Orchestra record "Limehouse Blues"
1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
1941 Romania breaks relations with Netherlands
1942 Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
1942 Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1943 Allied troops occupy Kasserine pass in Tunisia
1943 American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (Mexico)
1943 Phil Wrigley & B Rickey charter All-American Girls Softball League
1943 The Parícutin volcano begins to form in Parícutin, Mexico.
1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
1944 US takes Eniwetok Island
1944 The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers, World War II.
1944 The United States takes Eniwetok Island, World War II.
1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA
1947 Lord Mountbatten appointed as last viceroy of India
1947 State of Prussia ceases to exist.
1948 Czechoslovakia's non-communist minister resigns
1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal Ks)
1950 Dylan Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
1950 WOL-AM in Washington DC swaps calls with WWDC
1952 "African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in NYC
1952 1st black umpire in organized baseball certified (Emmett Ashford)
1952 Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
1953 August A Busch buys the Cards for $3.75 million
1953 US Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business, affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
1954 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1954 General Zahedi wins election in Persia
1955 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open
1956 WOSU TV channel 34 in Columbus, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 Hughie Tayfield takes 9-113 v England, 13 wkts for match
1958 Jockey Eddie Arcaro rides his 4,000th winner
1958 LA Coliseum Comm approves 2-yr pact allows Dodgers to use facility
1959 The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
1960 Jimi Hendrix, rock and roll guitarist, plays his first gig.
1962 John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
1962 Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
1963 End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey & Alan Davidson
1963 Willie Mays (SF Giants) signs a record $100,000 per year contract
1965 Beatles record "That Means a Lot"
1965 Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
1965 Turkish government of Uerguplu forms
1966 Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR
1968 John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth
1968 State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M
1971 Bruin Phil Esposito is NHL's quickest to score 50 goals in a season
1971 Maj General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda
1971 Natl Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
1972 1st time Cleveland Cavaliers beat NY Knicks (111-109)
1972 Ard Schenk becomes world champ skater
1972 Sicco Mansholt becomes chairman of European Committee
1973 10th time Islanders shut-out-4-0 vs Penguins
1974 Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono
1974 Gordie Howe comes out of retirement for $1M from Houston Aeros, WHA
1975 Leonard Baichan scores 105* on Test Cricket debut, v Pakistan Lahore
1975 Margaret Thatcher elected leader of British Conserv Party
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1976 Muhammad Ali KOs Jan Pierre Coopman in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1976 The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
1977 "My Fair Lady" closes at St James Theater NYC after 384 performances
1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1978 4th People's Choice Awards: Star Wars, Carol Burnett & Bob Hope
1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in NY, to become WWF wrestling champ
1978 Egypt announces it is pulling its diplomats out of Cyprus
1978 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1979 "Comin' Uptown" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 45 performances
1980 Actress Susan Dey (LA Law) weds producer Bernard Sofronski
1981 Flight readiness firing of Columbia's main engines; 20 seconds
1981 James Sanford equals 50m indoor world record (5.61 sec)
1982 NY Islanders wins then NHL record 15th straight game
1983 Japan launches Tenma satellite to study x-rays (450/570 km)
1983 Roland Liboton becomes world champ cross-country cycling
1985 After defending his WBC flyweight championship, Sot Chitalada's check for $104,000 is stolen by a ringside pickpocket
1986 LA Dodger Orel Hershiser is 1st to win a $1M salary by arbitration
1986 Mike Tyson sexually harasses a woman in Albany NY
1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City
1987 David Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America," after 11 years
1987 In Salt Lake City, a Unabomber bomb explodes in a computer store.
1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil
1988 Andre Hoffmann skates world record 1500m (1:52.06)
1988 Brian Boitano wins Olympic gold medal in figure skating
1988 Cornelia Oschkenat hurdles indoor world record 50m (6.58 sec)
1988 Kelly Hrudy's 5th Islander shut-out win-Hartford 3-0
1988 Peter Kalikow purchases NY Post from Rupert Murdoch for $37.6 million
1988 Rob Druppers runs world record indoor 1000m (2:16.2)
1988 Stefka Kostadinova high jumps indoor world record (2.06 m)
1989 An IRA bomb destroys a section of a British Army barracks in Ternhill, England
1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players
1991 "Taking Steps" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 78 performances
1991 33rd Grammy Awards: Another Day in Paradise, Mariah Carey
1991 A gigantic statue of Albania's long-time dictator, Enver Hoxha, is brought down in the Albanian capital, Tirana, by mobs of angry protesters.
1992 "Private Lives" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 37 performances
1992 Orthodox patriarch Shenouda III visits Netherlands
1992 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show
1993 Florida Marlins open their 1st spring training camp
1993 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
1993 NY Islanders retire Billy Smith's number 31
1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage
1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 10 km (13:30.55)
1994 Pope John Paul II demands juristic discrimination of homosexuals
1997 "Stanley" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC
1997 SF Giants Barry Bonds signs record $22.9M 2 year contract
1998 American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.
1998 Tara Lipinski wins Olympic figure skating gold medal
1998 UN Sec-Gen Kofi Annan lands in Baghdad, for peace negotiations
1998 US movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)
2002 In Reqa Al-Gharbiya, Egypt, a fire on a train injures over 65 and kills at least 370.
2003 During a Great White concert in West Warwick, Rhode Island, a pyrotechnics display sets the club ablaze, killing 100 and injuring over 200 others.
2005 Spain becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial margin, but on a low turnout.
2009 Two Tamil Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en-route to the national airforce headquarters were shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching their target, in a kamikaze style attack.
2010 In Madeira Island, Portugal, heavy rain causes floods and mudslides, leaving at least 32 deaths in the worst disaster on the history of the archipelago.
2012 Scientists successfully regenerate Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
2012 South Korea angers North Korea as it proceeds with live fire drills in disputed Korean sea borders
2013 Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars
2013 Kepler-37b, the smallest known exoplanet, is discovered
2016 Gunman goes on random killing spree in Kalamazoo, Michigan, killing 6
2016 Tropical Cyclone Winston hits Fiji, killing at least 29 - most powerful storm on record in Southern Hemisphere winds 296 kilometers per hour (184 mph)

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Born on February 20th

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1494 Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)
1507 Gentile Bellini, Italian artist (Sultan Mohammed II)
1523 Jan Blahoslav, Czech humanist/bishop (Bohemian brothers)
1631 Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds, English PM (1690-94), founder (Tories) (d. 1712)
1633 Jan de Baen, Dutch portrait painter (d. 1702)
1656 Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised
1734 Franz Ignaz Beck, composer
1745 Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
1745 Johann Peter Salomon, composer
1751 Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826)
1752 Charles Broche, composer
1753 Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
1757 John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
1759 Johann Christian Reil, German physician, founder of psychiatry (d. 1813)
1763 Adalbert Gyrowetz, composer
1770 Ferdinando Carulli, composer
1779 Augustus Callcott, landscape painter, Kensington
1784 Adam Black, Edinburgh Scotland, politician/publisher
1791 Carl Czerny, Vienna Austria, pianist/composer (Schule der Virtuosen)
1794 William Carleton, Irish novelist (d. 1869)
1796 Eduard W van Dam van Isselt, Dutch military/liberal politician
1802 Charles-Auguste de Beriot, Belgian violinist (d. 1870)
1803 Friedrich Theodor Frohlich, composer
1805 Angelina Grimke, reformer/abolitionist/politician/lawyer
1808 Daumier, Marseilles France, artist
1809 Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1809 Henry Walton Wessells, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1816 Josef Michal Ksawery Jan Poniatowski, composer
1819 Alfred Escher, Swiss politician, railroad entrepreneur (d. 1882)
1820 Mahlon Dickerson Manson, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
1827 Edward Stuyvesant Bragg, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1912
1835 Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist
1838 James Barbour Terrill, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1839 Benjamin Waugh, American minister; founder of the NSPCC (d. 1908)
1844 Joshua Slocum, Canadian seaman and adventurer (d. 1909)
1844 Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann, Austrian physicist (statistical mechanics) (d. 1906)
1848 Edward Henry Harriman, American railroad executive (d. 1909)
1850 Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian physician and poet (d. 1931)
1852 Nikolai Garin [Michailovski], Russian author (Tjoma Kartashov)
1854 Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director (Youth)
1861 Nicolaas van Meeteren, Curacao, folklorist
1866 Carl Westman, Swedish architect and designer (d. 1936)
1867 Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife (d. 1931)
1870 Pieter Cornelis Boutens, Holland, mystic poet/scholar (Verzen)
1874 Mary Garden, Aberdeen Scotland, opera star
1876 Fyodor Akimenko, composer
1880 Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French aristocrat and novelist (d. 1923)
1881 Pedro Munoz Seca, Spanish playwright (Vengeanza de Don Mendo)
1883 Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)
1886 Bela Kun, Czehul Romania, head of Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919)
1887 David McKinley Williams, composer
1887 Hesketh Pearson, England, biographer/playwright (Writ for Libel)
1887 Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (d. 1967)
1888 Georges Bernanos, French writer (Diary of a Country Priest) (d. 1948)
1888 Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher
1889 Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer
1893 Elizabeth Holloway Marston, American psychologist (d. 1993)
1893 Russel Crouse, American playwright (Life with Father) (d. 1966)
1895 Freida Geiken, autobiographer (National Historic Taping)
1896 Henri de Lubac sj, French theologist/anti-fascist
1897 Ivan Albright, Illinois, painter (Door, Window)
1898 Enzo Ferrari, Italian automobile manufacturer, designer and racing car driver (d. 1988)
1898 Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (d. 1951)
1899 Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman, founder (Pan Am Airways) (d. 1992)
1899 Leon Woizikowski, Polish dancer/ballet master (Ballets Russes)
1900 Antonio Veretti, composer
1900 Graham Spry, St Thomas Ontario, Canadian radio pioneer
1900 Jean Negulesco
1901 Ali Muhammad Naguib, Khartoum, president of Egypt (1952-54)
1901 Cecil Harmsworth King, English newspaper owner (Daily Mirror) (d. 1987)
1901 Henry Eyring, Mexican/US chemist
1901 Louis I Kahn, Estonia, architect (Bryn Mawr dormitory) [or Dec 20]
1901 Muhammad Naguib, President of Egypt (d. 1984)
1901 René Jules Dubos, France, US microbiologist/author (Health & Disease)
1902 Ansel Adams, American photographer (1966 ASMP Award) (d. 1984)
1903 Ella Maillart, explorer
1903 Karel Janacek, composer
1903 Pierre Charles, Belgian heavyweight boxer
1904 Aleksei N Kosygin, Soviet premier (1964-80)
1904 Alexei Kosygin, Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1980)
1904 Armin Loos, composer
1904 Bramwell Fletcher, Yorkshire England, actor (White Cargo, Mummy)
1905 Jascha Golowanjuk, Swedish writer (Acrobat)
1906 Gale Gordon, American television and radio actor (d. 1995)
1907 Malcolm Atterbury, American actor (Jonas-Thicker than Water, Apples Way) (d. 1992)
1907 Nadine Conner, California, soprano (Carmen, Pamina-Magic Flute)
1907 Owain Jenkins, company director
1908 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1)
1908 Rosalind Laura Burke, aviatrix
1910 Julian Trevelyan, English Surrealist painter/collage maker
1910 Millicent Fenwick, (Rep-R-NJ 1975-82)
1911 Margot Grahame
1911 Robert Guyn McBride, Tucson Arizona, composer (Mexican Rhapsody)
1912 Muriel Humprhey Brown, American politician (d. 1998)
1912 Pierre Boulle, French author (d. 1994)
1913 Jozef Kresanek, composer
1913 Mary Durack, poet
1913 Rex Tucker, TV writer/director
1913 Tommy Henrich, American baseball player (d. 2009)
1914 John Daly, South African newscaster, TV game show host (What's My Line) (d. 2001)
1914 Marion Kettlewell, British director (WRNS)
1914 Willem J H Baart, Dutch vicar (Cuentanan di Nanzi)
1915 Philip Friend, Horsham England, actor (Vulture, Fur Collar)
1916 Jackie Gleason, Bkln NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners)
1916 Julius Juzeliunas, composer
1916 Paul Tripp, NYC, TV host (Mr I Magination)
1917 Frederick Page, CEO (British Aerospace Aircraft Group)
1917 Juan Vicente Torrealba, Venezuelan harpist and composer
1918 Leonore Annenberg, American Billionaire (d. 2009)
1919 James O'Meara, British Battle of Britain Spitfire Flying Ace (d. 1974)
1920 Armin Schibler, Dutch Swiss composer (Devil in the Winter Palace)
1920 Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (d. 1991)
1920 Liesbeth Tonckens, [Wilhelmina], actress/lecturer (Free People)
1921 Amanda Blake, [Beverly], Buffalo NY, actress (Kitty Russell-Gunsmoke)
1921 Joseph Albert Walker, Wash DC, test pilot (X-15)
1921 Nurv Shiner, singer
1921 Ruth Gipps, British(?) conductor/composer
1923 Forbes Burnham, President of Guyana (1964-85) (d. 1985)
1924 Gloria Vanderbilt, American socialite and clothing designer
1925 Alex La Guma, Cape Town South Africa, novelist (A Walk in the Night)
1925 Heinz Kluncker, German trade union leader (d. 2005)
1925 Pramudya Ananta Tur, Javanese author (Anak semua bangsa)
1925 Robert Altman, American film director (Nashville, M*A*S*H) (d. 2006)
1926 Cameron Rusby, British Vice-Admiral
1926 Edgar Meuli, cricketer (opened NZ batting in Test v South Africa 1953)
1926 Kenneth H Olsen, US, engineer/founder (Digital Equipment Corp)
1926 Richard Matheson, American author
1926 Robert Eugene Richards, Ill, pole vaulter (Olympic-gold-48, 52, 56)
1927 Ibrahim Ferrer, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club) (d. 2005)
1927 Roy Cohn "grand inquisitor", American lawyer for Sen Joseph McCarthy (d. 1986)
1927 Sidney Poitier, American actor (Porgy & Bess, A Raisin in the Sun)
1928 Donald Longmore, British cardiac surgeon
1928 Elroy Face, baseball pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates)
1929 Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 1989)
1929 Toshiro Mayuzumi, Yokohama Japan, composer (Sphenogramme)
1930 Bill Walker, British MP
1930 Patricia Smith, New Haven Ct, actress (Bob Newhart Show)
1930 Willie Cunningham, Northern Irish footballer (d. 2007)
1932 Adrian Cristobal, Filipino writer (d. 2007)
1933 Hannes Postma, Dutch graphic artist
1934 Bobby Unser, American racing driver (1968, 75, 81 Indianapolis 500)
1934 Lady Wharton
1936 Larry Hovis, American actor (Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes) (d. 2003)
1936 Marj Dusay
1936 Marj Dusay (Mahoney), American actress (Kate-Bret Maverick)
1936 Roy Beggs, British MP
1936 Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach
1937 David Ackles, Illinois, vocalist/songwriter (American Gothic)
1937 Nancy Wilson, American singer (Feel Like Making Love)
1937 Robert Huber, German chemist, Nobel laureate (Nobel 1988)
1937 Roger Penske, American racing driver, race team owner and entrepreneur
1938 Jack Bicknell, WLAF head coach (Barcelona Dragons)
1938 Mona Mitchell, Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Alexandra
1938 Richard Beymer, American actor
1939 Barbara Ellis, Olympia Wa, rocker (Fleetwoods)
1939 Frank Arundel, English footballer (d.1994)
1939 Roy George Elroy Josephs, jazz dance teacher
1940 Barbara Laine Ellis, singer
1940 Christoph Eschenbach, Breslau, Germany, pianist/conductor
1940 Jimmy Greaves, British broadcaster, soccer player
1940 RA Weiss, director (Institute of Cancer Research)
1940 V Payne, British headmistress (Malvern Girls' College)
1941 Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian singer (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone)
1941 Lim Kit Siang, Democratic Socialist opposition party in Malaysia
1942 Charlie Gillett, British radio DJ (Sound of the City)
1942 Claude Miller, French film director and screenwriter (Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child) (d. 2012)
1942 David O'Dowd, Chief Constable (Northamptonshire)
1942 Mitch McConnell, American politician (Sen-R-KY, 1985)
1942 Peter Strauss, Croton-on-Hudson NY, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
1942 Phil Esposito, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center and GM (Bruins, Rangers)
1943 Aleksandr Pavlovich Alexandrov, Russian, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-9, TM-3)
1943 Antonio Inoki (Kanji Rikidozan), Japanese professional wrestler (NJPW/JWA)
1943 Lord McNally
1943 Mike Leigh, British film director (High Hopes, Secrets & Lies)
1943 Moshe Cotel, American composer and pianist
1944 Lew Soloff, Bkln NY, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1944 Robert de Cotret, French Canadian politician (d. 1999)
1944 Roger Knapman, British MP
1944 Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach (Feyenoord)
1945 Alan Hull, singer/composer
1945 Andrew Bergman, American screenwriter and film director (Soapdish, Honeymoon in Vegas)
1945 Annu Kapoor, Indian actor
1945 Brion James, American actor (d. 1999)
1946 Brenda Blethyn, English actress (Secrets & Lies)
1946 J(erome) Geils, American guitarist (The J. Geils Band)
1946 Mieke H A Boers-Wijnberg, Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 Richard Cocciante, French-Italian singer and songwriter
1946 Sandy Duncan, American singer and actress (Hogan Family)
1947 Andre van Duin (Kyvon), Dutch comedian (Bloemkoole)
1947 Eggert Magnusson, Icelandic football executive
1947 Jennifer O'Neill, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, actress (Summer of '42)
1947 Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
1947 Peter Strauss, American actor
1948 A C Fabian, astronomer
1948 Barry Wordsworth, conductor
1948 Billy Zoom, musician
1948 Gerda Boykin, LPGA golfer
1948 Jennifer O'Neill, Brazilian-born actress
1948 John Browne, group chief executive, British Petroleum Company
1948 Pierre Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player
1949 Eddie Hemmings, cricket off-spinner (immense England)
1949 Ivana Trump, Czech-born American socialite, ex-wife of Donald Trump (1st Wives Club)
1950 John Voldstad, Oslo Norway, actor (Darryl-Newhart)
1950 Ken Shimura, Japanese performer and actor
1950 Tony Wilson, British journalist and impresario (d. 2007)
1950 Walter Becker, American guitarist (Steely Dan)
1951 Bonnie Lauer, LPGA golfer
1951 Edward Albert, American actor (Jeff-Falcon Crest, Butterflies are Free) (d. 2006)
1951 Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2007–10)
1951 Kathy Baillie, Morristown NJ, country vocalist (Baille Boys-Oh Heart)
1951 Phil Neal, English soccer player
1951 Randy California (Wolfe), American guitarist (Spirit) (d. 1997)
1952 Catherine Cummins, Clintwood Va, 1st of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1953 Carol Cummins, Clintwood Va, 2nd of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1953 Poison Ivy, American musician (The Cramps)
1953 Riccardo Chailly, Italian conductor (West Berlin Symph Orch)
1954 Anthony Stewart Head, English actor (Buffy Vampire Slayer)
1954 Jon Brant, American musician (Cheap Trick)
1954 Patty Hearst Shaw, American famous kidnap hostage (Tanya)
1954 Vasili Vasilyevich Tsibliyev, Rus col/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17, TM-25)
1955 Kelsey Grammer, Virgin Islands, actor (Fraiser Crane-Cheers/Fraiser)
1956 Charles Cummins, Clintwood Va, 3rd of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1956 Charlie Adler, American voice actor
1956 Rick Green, Canadian ice hockey player
1957 Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey coach
1958 Carol Ficatier, Auscene France, playmate (December, 1985)
1958 James Wilby, Burma, actor (Howards End, Maurice)
1959 Bill Gullickson, American baseball player, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1959 Joel Rifkind, NY serial killer
1959 Scott Evans Brayton, racing car driver
1960 Joel Hodgson, American comedian (Mystery Science Theater 3000)
1960 Kee Marcello, Swedish guitarist (Europe)
1960 Mark Reilly, [Matt Bianco], rocker (Indio-Big Harvest)
1961 Claudia Cummins, Clintwood Va, 4th of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1961 Imogen Stubbs, British actress (Summer Story)
1961 Steve Lundquist, US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1984)
1962 Adam Schreiber, NFL center/guard (Atlanta Falcons, NY Giants)
1962 Joel Ellis, rocker
1962 Kenn Nesbitt, American children's author
1962 Ria Coyne, Scranton Penn, comedienne (Betsy-Batman Forever)
1963 Charles Barkley, American basketball player, NBA forward (Phoenix, Rockets, Oly-gold-96)
1963 Ian Brown, English singer (The Stone Roses)
1963 Jon Lynn Christensen, former Nebraska Congressman
1963 Marilisa Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek politician
1963 William Baldwin, NY, actor (Backdraft, Sliver, Flatliners)
1964 Christian Ruuttu, Lappeenranta FIN, hockey forward (Team Finland)
1964 French Stewart, American actor (Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
1964 Jeffrey Allan Maggert, Columbia MO, PGA golfer (1993 Walt Disney)
1964 Rodney Rowland, American actor
1964 Terry Ilous, rock vocalist (XYZ, Cannibal Jacket) [or Jun 28]
1965 Federica Moro, Carate Brianza Italy, Miss Italy (1982)
1965 Ron Eldard, American actor
1966 Britt Hager, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos, St Louis Rams)
1966 Cecilia Cummins, Clintwood Va, 5th of 5 siblings born on 2/20
1966 Cindy Crawford, American model (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)
1966 Dennis Allen Mitchell, Cherry Point NC, 100m/200m (Olympics-silver-96)
1966 Derek Lilliquist, US baseball pitcher (Cleveland Indians, Atl Braves)
1967 Andrew Shue, American television actor (Melrose Place)
1967 Broderick Thomas, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Minn, Cowboys)
1967 Chris Singleton, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1967 David Herman, American comedian
1967 Katherine Soucie, American voice actress
1967 Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994)
1967 Kurt Knudsen, US baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1967 Lili Taylor, American actress (Ransom, Short Cuts)
1967 Rebekka Lynn Armstrong, Bakersfield Ca, playmate (Sep, 1986)
1967 Theresa Luke, Vancouver BC, rower (Olympics-96)
1967 Tom Waddle, NFL player (Chicago Bears/Cincinnati Bengals)
1968 Bennie Goods, CFL defensive tackle (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 Lorraine Olivia, Geneva Ill, playmate (Nov, 1990)
1968 Ted Hankey, English darts player
1969 Danis Tanovic, Bosnian film director and screenwriter
1969 Gedo, Japanese professional wrestler
1969 Siniša Mihajlovic, Serbian footballer
1969 Tommy Vardell, National Football League fullback (Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions)
1969 Vaginal Davis, American drag queen and performance artist
1969 (Touchdown) Tommy Vardell, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
1970 Bryan Robinson, defensive end (St Louis Rams)
1970 Cheyenne Brando, Papeete Tahiti, daughter of Marlon
1970 Jeff Robinson, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos, St Louis Rams)
1970 Leo Stefan, Chelyabinsk Russia, hockey forward (Team Germany)
1971 Jari Litmanen, Finnish footballer (Ajax)
1971 Shalanda Burt, US murderess
1971 Shawn McKenzie, American programmer
1972 Brent Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 Corinna Harney, Bremerhaven Germany, playmate (Aug, 1991)
1972 K-OS, Canadian musician/rapper
1973 Kimberley Davies, Australian actress
1973 Vladimir Iiic, WLAF defensive end (Barcelona Dragons, Rhein Fire)
1974 Katerina Kroupova, Olomouc Czech, tennis star (1994 Futures-Sofia-BUL)
1974 Ophelie Winter, French actress
1975 Brendan Witt, Humboldt, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1975 Brian Littrell, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
1975 Ismael Kirui, Marakwet Kenya, 5k runner
1975 Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
1976 Ed Graham, English drummer (The Darkness)
1976 Gail Kim, Canadian professional wrestler
1976 Rohan Gavaskar, Left-handed batsman, India ODI 2004 (son of Sunil Gavaskar)
1977 Amal Hijazi, Lebanese singer and model
1977 Bartosz Kizierowski, Polish swimmer
1977 Sarah Ryan, Adelaide SA Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1977 Stephon Marbury, American basketball player, NBA guard (Minn Timberwolves)
1977 T.J. Slaughter, American football player
1977 Veronica Ledesma, Miss Universe-Argentina (1996)
1978 Andrea Moody, Abbotsford BC, 4X100 swimmer (Olympics-96)
1978 Jakki Degg, English glamour model/actress
1978 Jay Hernandez, American actor
1978 Julia Jentsch, German actress
1978 Lauren Ambrose, American actress
1980 Artur Boruc, Polish footballer
1980 Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby union footballer
1981 Chris Thile, American musician
1981 Tony Hibbert, English footballer
1982 Jason Hirsh, American baseball player
1983 Jose Morales, Puerto Rican baseball player
1983 Justin Verlander, American baseball player
1984 Brian McCann, American baseball player
1985 Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
1985 Yulia Volkova, Russian singer (t.A.T.u.)
1988 Jiah Khan, Indian actress
1988 Rihanna, Barbadian singer
1989 Melanie Leishman, Canadian actress

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702 K'inich Kan B'alam II, king of the Maya state of Palenque (b. 635)
1054 Yaroslav I, the Wise, ruler (Kiev), dies
1154 Saint Wulfric of Haselbury Plucknett
1171 Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
1194 Tancredo of Lecce, King of Sicily (b. 1138)
1258 Al-Musta'sim, last Abbasid Caliph of Baghdad (b. 1213)
1408 Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, English statesman (b. 1342)
1431 Martinus V (Oddo Colonna), Italian Pope (b. 1368)
1524 Tecún Umán, last leader of the K'iche' (Quiché) Maya people
1569 Mark van Vaernewijck, Flemish nobleman/politician, dies at 50
1579 Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
1595 Ernst, archduke of Austria, dies at 41
1618 Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
1626 John Dowland, English composer and lutenist (b. 1563)
1628 Gregor Aichinger, German composer/organist, dies at about 63
1656 James Ussher, Irish bible scholar/anglican archbishop, dies at 76
1667 David ben Samuel Halevi, rabbi/author (Shulchan Aruch), dies
1707 Aurangzeb, Mogul emperor of India (1658-1707), dies
1731 Frederich Karl Erbach, composer, dies at 50
1737 Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies
1746 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Mary Leszczynska), dies at 68
1762 Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1771 Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan, French geophysicist (b. 1678)
1773 Charles Emanuel I, King of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy (CE III) (b. 1701)
1778 Laura Bassi, Italian scholar (b. 1711)
1786 Johann Wolfgang Kleinknecht, composer, dies at 70
1788 Gijsbert John van Hardenbroeck, Dutch regent (Utrecht), dies at 68
1790 Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
1803 Marie Dumesnil, French actress (b. 1713)
1806 Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (b. 1725)
1809 Johann Joseph Emmert, composer, dies at 76
1810 Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean national hero (fought Napoleon's France) (executed) (b. 1767)
1810 Johann Friedrich Kranz, composer
1817 Martin de Ron, composer
1845 Pavel Ivanovich Dulgorukov, composer
1848 [Willem] Alexander FCNM, prince of Neth/gen-maj
1851 Josef Alois Ladurner, composer
1855 Joseph Hume, social reformer
1860 Henry Drummond, English banker/religious leader
1862 William Wallace Lincoln, son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
1871 Paul Kane, Irish-born painter (b. 1810)
1892 Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Law of Kopp)
1893 P.G.T. Beauregard, American Confederate general (b. 1818)
1895 Frederick Douglass, American abolitionist writer, escaped slave, (b. 1818)
1904 Gustav Adolf Heinze, composer
1905 Jeremiah W. Farnham, American merchant captain
1907 Henri Moissan (Ferdinand-Frederic-), French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Nobel 1906) (b. 1852)
1910 Boetros Ghali, Egyptian premier, murdered
1911 Alexander Alexandrovich Kopilov, composer
1911 Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer
1916 Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Nobel 1908) (b. 1844)
1920 Robert Peary, American explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909) (b. 1856)
1936 John Hope, president of Atlanta University
1936 Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
1937 "Barlow" Carkeek, Aust cricket wicketkeeper (1912 series)
1941 La Bolduc, French Canadian singer and songwriter (b. 1894)
1942 Guido Gasperini, composer
1946 Hugh Allen, musician
1951 Howard Brockway, composer
1958 Thurston Hall, actor (Mr Schuyler-Topper)
1959 Ray McDonald, dancer, dies of barbituate overdose
1960 Leonard Woolley, archaeologist, dies
1961 Otto E Huiswoud, [Frank Billings], editor (Negro Worker)
1961 Percy Aldridge Grainger, Australian composer (b. 1882)
1962 Halliwell Hobbes
1963 Ferenc Fricsay, Hungarian conductor (b. 1914)
1963 Jacob Gade, Danish composer(b. 1879)
1964 R T Stanyforth, English cricket wicketkeeper (South Africa 1927-28)
1965 Fred Immler, German actor (b. 1880)
1966 Chester W Nimitz, American admiral (WW II) (b. 1885)
1968 Anthony Asquith, British film director and writer (b. 1902)
1969 Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
1969 Jack Ingram, actor (Law of the West)
1970 Albert Louis Wolff, composer
1970 Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (b. 1885)
1972 Herbert Menges, composer
1972 Maria Goeppert-Mayer, German physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1972 Walter Winchell, American journalist (Dondi, Love & Hisses) (b. 1897)
1973 Brigitte Reimann, writer
1973 Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian/US violinist
1973 Maurice Dallimore, actor (Collector)
1974 David Monrad Johansen, Norwegian composer (b. 1888)
1975 Edgar "Cookie" Fairchild, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show)
1975 Lillian Fontaine, actress (Suddenly it's Spring)
1975 Robert Strauss, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey)
1976 Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907)
1976 René Cassin, French judge, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1887)
1980 Alice Longworth Roosevelt, youngest daughter of Theodore
1981 Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, magazine editor, socialite (b. 1904)
1983 Fritz Köberle, Austrian-Brazilian physician (b. 1910)
1983 James G Richardson, (Tim Cassidy-Sierra), dies in ski accident
1983 Ray Vitte, actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police
1984 Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, composer
1985 Clarence "Ducky" Nash, American voice actor (Donald Duck) (b. 1904)
1986 Francisco Paolo Mignone, composer
1986 Jacobus G Rietkerk, Dutch foreign minister (VVD)
1987 Ivan Brkanovic, composer
1992 Andrew Schenck, conducter
1992 Dick York, American actor (Bewitched) (b. 1928)
1992 Joan Dixon, actress (Hot Lead, Bunco Squad, Gunplay)
1992 Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician, founder (ARENA) (b. 1944)
1993 Ernest L. Massad, U.S. Army general (b. 1908)
1993 Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (Miura) (b. 1916)
1994 Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
1994 Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England)
1994 Manuel F "Garincha" dos Santos, soccer player (Brazil)
1995 John Humphreys Whitfield, italianist
1995 Shlomo Averbach, Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend
1996 Jeffrey Kindersley Quill, Test pilot
1996 Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer
1996 Solomon Asch, American psychologist (b. 1907)
1996 Toru Takemitsu, Japanese composer (b. 1930)
1996 Walter Charles Marshall, scientist
1997 Zachary Breaux, American jazz guitarist (b. 1960)
1999 Gene Siskel, American film critic (b. 1946)
1999 Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
2000 Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician (b. 1937)
2001 Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
2003 Harry Jacunski, American football player (b. 1915)
2003 Maurice Blanchot, French author (b. 1907)
2003 Mushaf Ali Mir, Pakistani Chief of the Air Staff (b. 1947)
2003 Orville Freeman, American politician (b. 1918)
2003 Ty Longley, American guitarist (Great White) (b. 1971)
2005 Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (Suicide) (b. 1937)
2005 John Raitt, American actor (b. 1917)
2005 Pam Bricker, American jazz singer and Thievery Corporation vocalist (b. 1954)
2005 Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)
2005 Tom Willmore, English geometer (b. 1919)
2006 Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
2006 Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist, writer and traveller (b. 1920)
2007 Carl-Henning Pedersen, Danish artist, member of the CoBrA movement (b. 1913)
2007 F. Albert Cotton, American chemist (b. 1930)
2007 Mike Awesome, Pro Wrestler (b. 1965)
2008 Emily Perry, English Actress (b. 1907)
2008 Larry Davis (criminal)
2009 Larry H. Miller, American businessman and owner of the Utah Jazz (b. 1944)
2010 Alexander Haig, American soldier and politician (b. 1924)
2012 Renato Dulbecco, Italian-born American virologist and Nobel laureate
2013 Antonio Roma, Argentinian footballer
2016 Peter Mondavi, American winemaker (Charles Krug - Napa Valley)

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