February 22nd
Holidays and Celebrations
Independence Day (Saint Lucia) * (See Below)
George Washington's Birthday - actual * CLICK HERE
Saint Vincent's Day (Romania) * CLICK HERE
Dimanche Gras (Trinidad &Tobago)
National Margarita Day (USA)
International World Thinking Day * (See Below)
Woolworth's Day
Be Humble Day
Single-Tasking Day
Spay Day
Walking the Dog Day
Celebrity Day (Church of Scientology)
Feast of the Chair (Roman Catholic Church)
Christian Feast Day of Christian Feast Day of Blessed Isabelle of France
Feast of Margaret of Cortona
* Fašiangy Slovakia, (1-3)
* Independence Day (Saint Lucia), celebrating independence from United Kingdom in 1979.
* World Thinking Day, also known as "B.-P. day" or "Founder's Day", the shared birthday of the Scouts' founder Sir Robert Baden-Powell and his wife Lady Olave Baden-Powell, the World Chief Guide. (World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts)
Toast of The Day
"Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed."
- Benjamin Franklin - Happy Birthday President Washington!
Drink of The Day
Margarita
1 and a Half oz Tequila
Half oz Tripple Sec
1 oz Lime Juice
Squeeze or Pour lime juice on Rim of Margarita Glass and dip in salt. Shake all ingredients with ice, strain into the glass, then serve.
- In Honor of National Margarita Day
Wine of The Day
Pollak Vineyards 2009 Estate
Style - Pinot Gris
Monticello
$20
Beer of The Day
Founders Porter
Brewer - Founders Brewing Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Style - Robust Porter
- In Celebration of George Washington's Birthday (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799), the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1799.
Joke of The Day
A young couple were on their honeymoon. The husband was sitting in the bathroom on the edge of the bathtub saying to himself, "Now how can I tell my wife that I've got really smelly feet and that my socks absolutely stink? I've managed to keep it from her while we were dating, but she's bound to find out sooner or later that my feet stink. Now how do I tell her?"
Meanwhile, the wife was sitting in the bed saying to herself, "Now how do I tell my husband that I've got really bad breath? I've been very lucky to keep it from him while we were courting, but as soon as he's lived with me for a week, he's bound to find out. Now how do I tell him gently?"
The husband finally plucks up enough courage to tell his wife and so he walks into the bedroom. He walks over to the bed, climbs over to his wife, puts his arm around her neck, moves his face very close to hers and says, "Darling, I've a confession to make."
And she says, "So have I, love."
To which he replies, "Don't tell me, you've been eating my socks."
Quote of the Day
"If we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity."
- Abraham Lincoln, address to the Washington Temperance Society, Springfield, Illinois, February 22nd, 1842
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 Engineers Week, Week of George Washington's BirthdayNational Justice for Animals Week, Week of George Washington's Birthday
National Conference on Education, Fourth Weekend of February
Texas Cowboy Poetry Week, Fourth Weekend of February
National Pancake Week, Fourth Week of February
Read Me Week, Fourth Week of February
Historical Events on February 22nd
896 Pope Formosa crowned king Arnulf of Karinthie/French emperor
1071 Battle of Cassel-Robert I the Frisian defeats Arnulf III/I
1281 Simon de Brion elected Pope Martinus IV
1288 Girolamo Masci elected Pope Nicolas IV
1300 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree
1349 Jews are expelled from Zurich Switzerland
1495 King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1561 William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais
1630 Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
1632 Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1656 New Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site
1744 Battle at Toulon, War of the Austrian Succession, English-French & Spanish fleet
1746 French troops conquer Brussels
1746 Jakobijnse troops vacate Aberdeen
1774 English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
1775 1st US joint stock company (to make cloth) offers shares at 10 cents
1775 Jews expelled from outskirts of Warsaw Poland
1784 1st US ship to trade with China, "Empress of China," sails from NY
1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1825 Russia & Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
1828 Russia & Persia sign Peace of Turkmantsjai
1835 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leave Valdivia Chile
1836 Dutch garrison evacuates fort Du Bus New Guinea
1847 The Battle of Buena Vista 5,000 American troops drive off 15,000 Mexicans, Mexican-American War.
1853 Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1854 1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)
1855 The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
1856 The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1858 Dion Boucicault's "Jessie Brown," premieres in NYC
1860 Organized baseball played in SF for 1st time
1860 Shoe-making workers of Lynn Ms, strike successfully for higher wages
1861 On a bet Edward Weston leaves Boston to walk to Lincoln's inauguration
1862 Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1864 Battle at Dalton Georgia
1864 2nd and last day of Battle of Okolona, MS
1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta) Tennessee
1865 Battle of Wilmington, NC (Fort Anderson) occupied by Federals
1865 Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery
1872 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)
1876 Johns Hopkins University opens
1878 Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio)
1879 In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1882 The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1882 With 120 miles James Saunders wins NYC's 24 hour race & $100 prize
1887 Union Labor Party organized in Cincinnati
1888 John Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
1889 President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1892 "Lady Windermere's Fan" by Oscar Wilde premieres at St James (London)
1892 Manitoba Rugby Football Union forms
1898 Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC
1900 Battle at Wynne's Hill, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1900 Hawaii became a US territory
1903 Due to drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
1904 The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1906 Black evangelist William J Seymour arrives in LA Calif
1907 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
1907 Leonid N Andreyev's "Zhizn Cheloveka," premieres in St Petersburg
1909 Great White Fleet, 1st US fleet to circle the globe, returns to Va
1912 J Vedrines makes 1st airplane flight over 100 mph-161.29 kph
1913 Lowell HS, SF opens (on it's 1st campus)
1915 Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare, World War I.
1917 German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
1918 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
1920 1st artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville California)
1922 Congress authorizes Grant Memorial $1 gold coin
1922 The British unilaterally declare the independence of Egypt.
1923 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (LA California)
1923 Transcontinental airmail service begins
1924 U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1927 ARC soccer team forms in Alphen on the Rhine
1927 Baruch Spinosa's house of mourning opened as a museum
1928 1st solo England to Australia flight lands (Bert Hinkler)
1932 Purple Heart award reinstituted
1933 Goering forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
1934 "It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall
1935 Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
1936 Construction on Ypenburg Neth airport begins
1939 Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
1940 Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
1940 German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
1941 Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
1941 German assault on El Agheila Libya
1941 IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam
1941 Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
1941 Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres
1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable, World War II.
1943 Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany, World War II.
1944 American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone, World War II.
1945 Arab League froms (Cairo)
1945 British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
1945 Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
1948 Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
1948 Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1950 Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
1955 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
1956 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"
1957 Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
1957 Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
1958 "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
1958 Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
1958 Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1958 Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
1959 1st Daytona 500 auto race, Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
1962 Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts
1963 Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
1964 Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
1965 USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
1966 Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
1967 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
1967 Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in NYC
1967 Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
1968 Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
1970 "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 perfs
1971 Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
1972 Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
1972 President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
1972 The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973 Following United States President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators
1974 Organisation of the Islamic Conferencesummit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1976 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
1978 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tenn
1979 Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's
1979 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
1979 Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 Afghanistan declares martial law
1980 Miracle on Ice, In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
1981 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1982 NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful)
1983 Harold Washington wins Chicago's Democratic mayoral primary
1983 Hindus kill 3000 Moslems in Assam, India
1983 The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1983 Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record
1984 Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec
1986 Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1987 Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
1988 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)
1989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
1989 31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
1989 Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
1989 NY Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
1989 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
1989 US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
1990 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
1991 Actor Bill Bixby (57) weds Laura Michael (32)
1991 Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal
1991 Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
1991 Test Cricket debut of Sanath Jayasuriya, vs NZ at Hamilton
1992 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" closes at Music Box NYC
1992 Barry Diller resigns as CEO of Fox
1992 Ed McMahon, 69, weds Pamela Hurn, 37
1992 Lisa Walters wins LPGA Itoki Hawaiian Ladies Open Golf Tournament
1992 Rockers Kurt Corbin (Nirvana) & Courtney Love (Hole), wed
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 224 v England at Bombay, 411 balls, 23 fours
1994 "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya
1994 Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995 Algiers police kill at least 99 prison rioters
1995 Steve Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
1995 The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1996 "Bus Stop" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 performances
1996 Actress Halle Berry files for divorce from David Justice
1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), launches into orbit
1997 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA Cup Noodles Hawaiian Ladies Open
1997 In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
1998 "King & I," closes at Neil Simon Theater NYC after 781 performances
1998 18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan
2002 Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011 An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people
2012 Train crash in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 50 and injures hundreds
2013 13 Chadian soldiers and 65 Muslim insurgents are killed in conflict in Northern Mali
2013 29 people are killed and 150 are injured by by 3 Syrian army missiles in Aleppo
2013 The European Commission forecast for 2013 expects growth of 0.1% across the 27 members of the EU but a contraction of 0.3% in the Eurozone economy
2013 The UK's credit rating is downgraded from AAA to AA1 by Moody's Investors Service, the agency expects growth to "remain sluggish over the next few years"
2014 "12 Years a Slave" wins Outstanding Motion Picture at the 45th NAACP Image Awards
2014 Marit Bjørgen of Norway becomes the most successful female Winter Olympian with 10 medals
2014 Matteo Renzi becomes Prime Minister of Italy
2014 Protests in Kiev, Ukraine, occupy the office of President Yanukovich
2015 "Birdman" Best Film and Director (Alejandro González Iñárritu), Eddie Redmayne and Julianne Moore - Best Actor and Actress at the 87th Academy Awards
2015 Joey Logano wins (148.379 MPH) the 57th Daytona 500
2016 10 million people are without water in Delhi after caste protests in Jat sabotage the Munak water canal
Born on February 22nd
1040 Rashi, French rabbi (d. 1105)
1403 Charles VII, King of France (1422-61), drove out English (d. 1461)
1440 Ladislaus Posthumus of Bohemia and Hungary (d. 1457)
1500 Cardinal Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian humanist (d. 1564)
1514 Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1542 Santino Garsi, composer
1573 Gemignano Capilupi, composer
1599 Anthony Van Dyck, Antwerp Belgium, painter
1612 George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
1634 Petrus "Pieter" van Schooten, fortress architect
1684 William Pulteney, London, statesman (Earl of Bath)
1705 Peter Arctedius (Artedi), Swedish biologist (d. 1735)
1714 Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French historian (d. 1795)
1732 George Washington, First President of the United States (1789-97) (d. 1799)
1745 Joao de Sousa Carvalho, composer
1749 Johann Nikolaus Forkel, musicologist/1st biographer of Bach
1756 Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
1761 Erik Eriksson Tulindberg, composer
1761 Jacob Kimball, composer
1764 Alexander Campbell, composer
1770 Jan Matyas Nepomuk August Vitasek, composer
1772 Joseph Lipavsky, composer
1772 Karl Jacob Wagner, composer
1773 Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter
1778 Rembrandt Peale, American artist (Court of Death) (d. 1860)
1779 Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
1788 Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (Great Pessimist) (d. 1860)
1796 Adolphe Quetelet, Belgium, mathematician/astronomer/statistician
1796 Alexis Bachelot, French missionary (d. 1837)
1796 Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1874)
1797 William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
1798 Charles Mynn Thruston, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1873
1806 Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
1810 Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer [OS]
1810 Holger Simon Paulli, composer
1814 Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
1817 Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1817 Niels Wilhelm Gade, Danish violinist/composer/conductor
1819 Bernardo Calvo Puig, composer
1819 James Russell Lowell, American poet and essayist (d. 1891)
1821 Giovanni Bottesini, composer
1822 Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
1824 Pierre Janssen, French astronomer (d. 1907)
1825 Jean Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe (d. 1898)
1827 James Barnet Fry, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1894
1828 Robert Alexander Cameron, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1833 Josef Foerster, composer
1834 Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
1836 Eduard Wachmann, composer
1838 Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen, discoverer of hydrogen in Sun
1839 Francis Pharcellus Church, American editor and publisher (d. 1906)
1840 August Bebel
1840 F August Bebel, German politician, social-democrat (d. 1913)
1842 Carl Rosa, Hamburg Germany, founder (Rosa opera company)
1842 Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian/mayor (Ukkel)
1843 Affonso de Escragnolle Taunay, France/Brazil writer (Inocencia)
1844 Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
1849 Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin, Russian mathematician (d. 1915)
1850 Isaac L Rice, Germany, (namesake of Columbia Univ's Rice stadium)
1852 Pieter K Pel, internist (Pel-Ebstein fever)
1857 Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves (d. 1894)
1857 Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, English founder of the Scout movement (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides) (d. 1941)
1862 Karen Hulda Garborg[-Bergersen], Norwegian playwright (Mot Solen/Eli)
1864 Jules Renard, French author (Poil de Carotte) (d. 1910)
1865 Otto Modersohn, German painter
1868 Henri Polak, union leader/politician (soc-dem)
1873 Muhammad Iqbal, Dutch East Indies lawyer/poet/philosopher
1874 Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
1877 Yme C Schuitmaker, Dutch potato salesman/dramatist
1878 Walter Ritz, Swiss physicist (d. 1909)
1879 Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish physical chemist (d. 1947)
1880 Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1956)
1881 Albin Prepeluh, Slovenian author and politician (d. 1937)
1881 Joseph B. Ely, American politician (d. 1956)
1882 Eric Gill, British sculptor (Perpetua) (d. 1940)
1883 Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps)
1883 Jaroslav Kocian, composer
1883 Marguerite Clark, American actress (Snow White) (d. 1940)
1884 Abraham "Abe" Attell, boxing hall of famer
1886 Hugo Ball, German author and poet, co-founder Flametti (d. 1927)
1887 Ksawery Tartakower, Polish chess player (d. 1956)
1887 Mary Ellen Chase, educator/author (Windswept, 1959 Sarah Hale Award)
1888 Owen Brewster, American politician (d. 1961)
1889 Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
1889 Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain)
1890 Beatriz Michelena, Latin-American silent movie star (d. 1942)
1891 "Chico" Marx, NYC, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers)
1891 Jan Wils, Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium)
1891 Lucien Cailliet, composer
1891 Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
1892 David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
1892 Edna St. Vincent Millay, American writer, feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize) (d. 1950)
1894 Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer
1895 Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician, founder (Peruvian Aprista Party) (d. 1979)
1896 Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
1896 Enid Markey, Dillon Colo, actress (Aunt Violet-Bringing Up Buddy)
1896 Nacio Herb Brown, US composer
1896 Paul Van Ostaijen, Flemish poet/writer/critic (Occupied City)
1897 Karol Swierczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
1898 Anton de Kom, Surinam/Dutch worker's union leader/resistance fighter
1899 Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
1899 Dwight Frye, American actor (Black Camel, Dracula, Frankenstein) (d. 1943)
1899 George O'Hara, American actor (d. 1966)
1900 Evald Aav, composer
1900 Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
1900 Luis Buñuel, Spanish-born film director (d. 1983)
1900 Sean O'Faolain (John Whelan), Irish author (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk) (d. 1991)
1901 Charles E Whittaker, Kansas, US Supreme Court justice (1957-62)
1901 Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
1901 Stefan Lorant, writer
1902 Fritz Strassmann, German physicist (d. 1980)
1902 Hanns Neupert, German piano builder/author (Das Klavichord)
1903 Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
1903 Morley Callaghan, Canadian writer (Toronto Star, Native Argosy) (d. 1990)
1903 Robert Weede, American baritone (d. 1972)
1904 Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of Jose Herrera)
1905 Luis Sandi, composer
1906 Edmund von Borck, composer
1906 Gale Gordon, LA California, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
1906 Humayun Kabir, Indian educationist and politician (d. 1969)
1907 Robert Young, American actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD) (d. 1998)
1907 Sheldon Leonard, American actor (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie) (d. 1997)
1908 John Mills, England, actor (Big Sleep, King Rat, War & Peace) (d. 2005)
1908 Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president (1945-48, 1958-64)(d. 1981)
1909 Roderick Barclay, diplomat
1910 Al Sears, jazz performer
1910 Muriel Monkhouse, Red Cross worker
1910 Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist
1911 Bill Baker, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1913 Buddy Tate, American jazz musician (d. 2001)
1914 Henry Reed, English poet (d. 1986)
1914 Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1915 Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing It Again)
1915 Gus Lesnevich, light heavyweight boxing champ (1947 fight of year)
1917 Harmen van Rossum, civil servant/resistance fighter (WW II)
1917 Jack Robertson, cricketer (superb Engld batsman only played 11 Tests)
1917 Jane Bowles, American playwright (d. 1973)
1918 Charles O Finley, American sports entrepreneur, baseball team owner (Oakland A's) (d. 1996)
1918 Don Pardo, American announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live)
1918 Robert Wadlow, American tallest ever-human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1") (d. 1940)
1918 Sid Abel, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL (1948-49 Hart Trophy) (d. 2000)
1919 Jiri Pauer, composer
1920 Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer
1920 Del Wood, singer
1921 David Greene, British television director (d. 2003)
1921 Giulietta Masina, Italian actress, (La Strada, Swindle, White Sheik) wife of Federico Fellini (d. 1994)
1921 Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African Republic leader (d. 1996)
1921 Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1922 Andre Asriel, composer
1922 Felix Werder, composer
1922 Jesús Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1923 Bleddyn Williams, Welsh rugby player (d. 2009)
1925 Edward Gorey, American illustrator (Curious Sofa) (d. 2000)
1925 Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician
1925 Raymond Joseph Cecil, British architect
1926 Bud Yorkin, American film director (All in the Family, 1959, 1960 Emmy)
1926 Kenneth Williams, English actor (d. 1988)
1927 David Ahlstrom, composer
1927 Donald May, Chicago Ill, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45)
1928 Axel Strøbye, Danish actor (d. 2005)
1928 Bruce Forsyth, British entertainer, TV host (Generation Game)
1928 Clarence 13X, American religious leader (d. 1969)
1928 Paul Dooley, American actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding)
1929 James Hong, American actor
1929 Marni Nixon, singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr)
1929 Rebecca Schull, American actress
1929 Ryne Duren, near-sighted pitcher (NY Yankees)
1930 Allison Hayes, Washington, actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman)
1930 JPS van Neerven, Dutch economist/editor (Limbourg Daily)
1930 James McGarrell, American painter
1930 Marni Nixon, American singer
1932 Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass, 1962), (Don't let him drive)
1932 Ted Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009)
1933 Bobby Smith, English footballer
1933 Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley, Duchess of Kent
1934 George "Sparky" Anderson, American baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)
1934 Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
1935 Ineke (R M) Haas-Berger, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1935 Sven Inge, Swedish artist (d. 2008)
1936 Ernie K-Doe (Ernest Kador Jr), American singer (d. 2001)
1936 J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1937 Dubravko Detoni, composer
1937 Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
1937 Noel Murphy, British(?) rugby player
1937 Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire
1937 Tommy Aaron, Gainesville GA, PGA golfer (1973 Masters)
1938 Bobby Hendricks, US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling)
1938 Ishmael Reed, American writer (Last Days of Louisiana Red)
1938 Pierre Vallières, French-Canadian politician (d. 1995)
1938 Steve Barber, American baseball player, pitcher (Balt Orioles, NY Yankees) (d. 2007)
1940 Billy Name, American photographer
1940 Chet Walker, NBA all-star forward (Chicago Bulls)
1940 Johnson P Mlambo, South African politician (Pan-African Congress)
1940 Julian Chagrin, London, mime/actor (Golddiggers)
1941 Giorgos Arvanitis, Greek cinematographer
1941 Hipólito Mejía, Dominican politician
1942 Christine Keeler, English model and showgirl
1943 David E Skaggs, (Rep-D-Colorado)
1943 Dick Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (NY Knicks, Phoenix Suns)
1943 Horst Köhler, President of Germany
1943 Louise Lopez, singer
1943 Terry Eagleton, British theorist
1943 Tom Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (Detroit, Cincinnati, KC-Omaha, Phil)
1944 E J Peaker, Tulsa Oklahoma, actress (That's Life)
1944 Jonathan Demme, American director (Caged Heat, Swing Shift)
1944 Ranjit Fernando, Sri Lankan cricket wicketkeeper (1975 World Cup)
1944 Robert Kardashian, American lawyer (d. 2003)
1944 Tom Okker, Dutch tennis player
1945 Leslie Charleson, American actress
1945 Oliver, American singer (Good Morning Starshine, Jean) (d. 2000)
1947 Carol Burns, Australian actress
1947 Frank P. Tomasulo, American film professor and critic
1947 Harvey Mason, Jazz drummer
1947 John Bryant, (Rep-D-TX, 1983)
1947 Maurizio De Angelis, Italian musician
1948 Dennis Awtrey, NBA center (Chicago Bulls, Suns)
1948 John Ashton, American actor
1949 Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
1949 Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver and entrepreneur, formula 1 (world champ 1975, 77, 84)
1949 Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
1950 Ellen Greene, American actress (Little Shoppe of Horrors)
1950 Genesis P-Orridge, English musician and performer
1950 Julie Walters, England, actress (Educating Rita, Prick Up Your Ears)
1950 Julius Erving, American basketball player, ABA and NBA forward (Virg Squirers, NY Nets, Phila 76ers)
1950 Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
1950 Sylvette Miou-Miou, French actress (Dog Day, My Other Husband, Bottom Line, Menage)
1951 Elaine Tanner, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canadian swimmer (1966 Commonwealth Games, 1968 Olympics)
1951 Harley O Staggers Jr, (Rep-D-WV, 1983)
1952 Bill Frist, American politician
1952 Cyrinda Foxe, American model (d. 2002)
1952 James Philip Bagian, Philadelphia, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40)
1952 Wayne John Levi, Little Falls NY, PGA golfer (1983 Buick Open)
1953 Graham Lewis, English musician (Wire)
1953 Nigel Planer, British actor
1955 David Axelrod, American political consultant
1955 Gordon Banks, American guitarist
1955 Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 Amy Alcott, Kansas City MO, LPGA golfer (1983 Nabisco Dinah Shore)
1958 Kyle MacLachlan, Yakima WA, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Hidden)
1959 Jirí Cunek, Czech politician
1959 Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
1959 Susan Benjamin, actress (Tracy-Accidental Family)
1960 Charles Cullen, American serial killer
1961 Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
1961 Debbie Linden, Glasgow Scotland, actress (Kenny Everett Show)
1961 Don Van Spall, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1961 Marla O'Hara, Gardena Ca, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-3rd-1991)
1961 Mike Morris, NFL center (Minnesota Vikings)
1962 Lenda Murray, American bodybuilder (4X Ms Olympia)
1962 Les Wallace, Scottish darts player
1962 Lisa Jacquin, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96)
1962 Michael Wilton, singer
1962 Steve Irwin, Australian herpetologist, TV Entertainer (d. 2006)
1963 Dave Besteman, Madison Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1963 Devon Malcolm, English Cricketer (in Jamaica England fast bowler 1989-95)
1963 Vijay Singh, Fijian golfer, PGA (1993 Buick Classic)
1964 Ed Boon, video game programmer and Mortal Kombat co-creator
1964 Gigi Fernandez, Puerto Rican tennis player (Olymp-gold-96)
1964 Jim Wicek, NYC, actor (Ben-Ryan's Hope)
1965 Chris Dudley, American basketball player, NBA center (NY Knicks, Portland Trail Blazers)
1965 Dean Karr, American director and photographer
1965 Joe Reekie, Victoria, NHL defenseman (Washington Capitals)
1965 Pat LaFontaine, American ice hockey player, NHL center (NY Islanders, NY Rangers)
1966 Aiden Shaw, English pornographic actor
1966 Brent Severyn, Vegreville, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1966 Brian Greig, Australian politician
1966 Rachel Dratch, American actress and comedienne
1966 Resga Riggins, Trussville Alabama, Miss Alabama-America (1991)
1966 Suave, singer
1966 Thorsten Kaye, German actor (Patrick-One Life to Live, Silencers)
1967 Alf Poier, Austrian comedian
1967 Marianne Ihalainen, ice hockey right wing (Finland, Oly-98)
1967 Steve Broussard, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1968 Abeyratne Samarasekera, UAE cricket all-rounder (1996 World Cup)
1968 Bradley Nowell, American musician (Sublime) (d. 1996)
1968 Elna Reinach, South African tennis player
1968 Jayson Williams, American basketball player, NBA center (NJ Nets)
1968 Jeri Ryan, American actress (7 of 9-Star Trek Voyager)
1968 Johanne Samarasekera, UAE cricket opening bowler (96 World Cup)
1968 Reggie Rivers, NFL running back (Denver Broncos)
1968 Shawn Graham, Canadian politician
1969 Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer
1969 Byron Stroud, American bassist
1969 Clinton Kelly, American television personality
1969 Hans Klok, Dutch illusionist
1969 Joaquín Cortés, Spanish dancer
1969 Kahryn Tough, Calgary Alberta, volleyball (Olympics-96)
1969 Leslie Spalding, Billings MT, golfer (Montana Women's Amat-90, 91)
1969 Mark Chmura, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 Shawn Jefferson, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers, NE Patriots)
1969 Thomas Jane, American actor
1970 Adam Keefe, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1970 Dominic Roussel, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL goalie (Winnipeg Jets)
1970 Leo Stefan, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1970 Ravi Vakil, Canadian-American mathematician
1971 Barry Smith, 100m/200m runner
1971 Gilbert Brown, NFL defensive tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1971 Jason Marshall, Cranbrook, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1971 Lea Salonga, Filipina actress and singer (Miss Siagon)
1971 Lisa Fernandez, Lakewood California, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1971 Max Lane, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
1971 Mohammed Sylla, soccer player (Willem II, FC Martigues)
1971 Rico Mack, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1972 Christin Didier, Miss USA-Montana (1997)
1972 Laurence Leboucher, French cyclist
1972 Michael Chang, American tennis player (1989 French Open)
1973 Claus Lundekvam, Norwegian footballer
1973 Einar Kristian Tveitå, Norwegian athlete
1973 James Christensen, NFL guard (Atlanta Falcons)
1973 Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 Kate Sage, Australian field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1973 Kimberly Davies, Melbourne Aust, actress (Baywatch)
1973 Ntala Skinner, Sun Valley Idaho, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1974 Aaron Gavey, Sudbury, NHL center (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1974 Chris Moyles, English DJ
1974 James Blunt, English musician
1974 Kyoko Nagatsuka, Shizuoka Prefecture Japan, tennis star (1996 Hobart)
1975 Charles O'Bannon, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons)
1975 Drew Barrymore, American actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy)
1975 Gregory Maddalone, Schenectady NY, dance skater (& Demkowski)
1976 Faan Rautenbach, South African rugby player
1977 Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
1977 Melanie Schnell, Radstadt Austria, tennis star (1994 semi Surabaya)
1977 Timo Rose, German filmmaker
1978 Jenny Frost, British singer/presenter/model/DJ (Atomic Kitten)
1978 Peter Madsen, Danish football player
1979 Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
1979 David Lopez, Queens NY, actor (and God Created Women, Ghostwriter)
1979 Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
1981 Fredson Camara, Brazilian footballer
1982 Dichen Lachman, Australian Actress
1982 Jenna Haze, American pornographic actress
1982 Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player
1982 Shawntae Spencer, American football player
1983 Penny Flame, American pornographic actress
1983 Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer
1984 Branislav Ivanovic, Serbian footballer
1984 Giorgos Printezis, Greek basketball player
1984 Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player
1984 Venetian Princess (Jodie-Amy Rivera), Internet You-tube Star
1985 Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
1985 Sean Garballey, American politician
1986 Miko Hughes, American actor
1986 Rajon Rondo, American basketball player
1987 Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
1988 Kevin Borlée, Belgian athlete
1988 Przemyslaw Kazimierczak, Polish footballer
1989 Alia Sabur, American college educator
Died on February 22nd
606 Sabinian, Italian Pope (604-06)
965 Odo, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
1071 Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (killed in battle), dies in battle (b. c. 1055)
1076 Godfried III, with the Hump, duke of Lower Lorraine, murdered
1078 Johannes van Fecamp, Italian mystic writer, dies
1111 Roger Borsa, King of Sicily
1213 Wibert of Gembloers, benediction/writer/abbot of Gembloers
1371 David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71) (b. 1324)
1478 Hendrik Herp (Herpius/Harphius), writer (Spieghel volcomenheit)
1512 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian merchant and explorer (America) (b. 1454)
1627 Olivier van Noort, Dutch navigator (b. 1558)
1674 Jean Chapelain, French writer (b. 1595)
1674 John Wilson, composer
1680 Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c. 1640)
1687 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Paris, composer
1690 Charles Le Brun, French artist (Academie de Peinture (b. 1619)
1727 Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer (b. 1661)
1731 Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
1732 Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
1742 Charles Rivington, English publisher (b. 1688)
1750 Pietro Filippo Scarlotti, composer
1770 Christopher Snider, 11, Boston, becomes 1st martyr of US Revolution
1788 Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer
1797 Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
1799 Heshen, infamous Qing Dynasty Chinese official at court (b. 1750)
1816 Adam Ferguson, Scottish philosopher and historian (b. 1723)
1822 Johann Ignaz Walter, composer
1824 John Davy, composer
1829 Adam A earl von Neipperg, Austrian general
1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer
1836 John Clarke-Whitfeld, composer
1838 Friedrich Johann Eck, composer
1846 Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
1846 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher
1849 Alexander Ernst Fesca, composer
1875 Charles Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology)
1875 Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (b. 1796)
1875 Sir Charles Lyell, Scottish geologist (b. 1797)
1878 Franz Hunten, composer
1890 Carl Heinrich Bloch, Danish painter (b. 1834)
1890 John Jacob Astor III, American businessman (b. 1822)
1892 Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (b. 1828)
1896 Thomas Hughes, politican/author of Tom Brown's Schooldays, Brighton
1903 Frederick William Farrar, writer/dean (Canterbury 1895-1903)
1903 Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Austrian composer (Corregidor) (b. 1860)
1904 Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (b. 1832)
1912 Richard Andree, German geographer (Andree's Handatlas)
1913 Ferdinand Mongin de Saussure, Swiss linguist
1913 Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist (b. 1857)
1913 Francisco Indalecio Madero, Mexican pres, assassinated in milt coup
1921 Salim Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1864)
1923 Théophile Delcassé, French statesman (b. 1852)
1925 Georges/Joris Helleputte, Belgian Catholic minister
1925 Nina David (Mrs Radcliffe N Salomon), poet/author
1925 Thomas C Allbutt, English physiologist
1930 Godfried CE van Daalen, Dutch general/governor of Atjeh
1934 Willem Kes, Dutch conductor (b. 1856)
1936 Johan M Skjoldborg, Danish writer (Dynaes Digte)
1939 Antonio Machado, Spanish poet (b. 1875)
1942 Stefan Zweig, Austrian writer (b. 1881)
1943 Christoph Probst, German resistance fighter (That Weisse Rose) (b. 1919)
1943 Hans Scholl, German resistance fighter (White Rose) (b. 1918)
1943 Sophie Scholl, German resistance fighter (Die Weisse Rose) (b. 1921)
1944 Kasturba Gandhi, wife of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 Osip Brik, Russian writer (b. 1888)
1949 Russell Porter, actor (Betsy, Hanna's War, British Empire)
1957 Harry Sothern, actor (Dr Huer-Buck Rogers)
1958 Abul Kalam Azad, Indian independence movement leader (b. 1888)
1958 Michael Todd, film magnate, killed in an New Mexico air crash
1959 Helen Parrish, actress (Hour Glass)
1960 Hubert Cuypers, composer/choir conductor (Missa Populi)
1960 Paul-Émile Borduas, Quebec painter (b. 1905)
1961 George de las Cuevas Bustillo y Teheran, Chilean marquis
1961 Nick LaRocca, American jazz musician (b. 1889)
1964 Edie Martin, actor (Titfield Thunderbolt)
1965 Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1882)
1966 Paul de Keyser, Flemish philologist/folklorist
1967 Fritz Erler, German politician (SDP)
1967 Joe Forte, actor (Horwitz-Life With Luigi)
1968 Omer CFL Tulippe, Belgian geographer
1968 Peter Arno, American cartoonist (b. 1904)
1971 Barry Macollum, actor (On the Waterfront)
1971 Matt McHugh, actor (Taxi, Freaks, Barbary Coast)
1971 Rudolf Mauersberger, composer
1972 Walter Sande, actor (Adventures of Tugboat Annie)
1973 Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish novelist (Cat Jumps)
1973 Jean-Jacques Bertrand, Quebec politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1916)
1973 Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (For Whom the Bell Tolls, Zita) (b. 1900)
1973 Winthrop Rockefeller, US governor (Arkansas)
1974 Samuel Byck, American attempted assassin of Richard Nixon (b. 1930)
1976 Angela Baddeley, English actress (Speckled Band) (b. 1904)
1976 Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)
1976 Michael Polany, Hungarians/English chemist/sociologist
1977 Edith Barrett, actress (Molly & Me, Ghost Ship)
1977 Jack O'Connor, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England 1929-30)
1978 Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party, Trials of O'Brien)
1978 Phyllis McGinley, US poetess (Pulitzer 1961)
1980 Alfred Andersch, German writer (Red Head)
1980 Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian artist (b. 1886)
1980 Richard Kallman, actor (Verboten, Hell Canyon Outlaws)
1982 Josh Malihabadi, Urdu poet of India and Pakistan (b. 1898)
1982 Murray "the K" Kaufman, NYC DJ (5th Beatle)
1983 Christina E "Christine" Auwen, singer/wife of John Kelly
1983 Romain Maes, Belgian bicyclist (Tour de France 1935) (b. 1913)
1983 Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
1984 David, spent most of his life in a plastic bubble (12yo)
1984 Jessamyn West, American writer (b. 1902)
1985 Alexander Scourby, American actor (Victory at Sea, Ransom) (b. 1913)
1985 Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist (b. 1889)
1985 Salvador Espriu, Spanish poet (b. 1913)
1987 Andy Warhol, American artist, director, and writer (b. 1928)
1987 David Susskind, TV host (Open End, David Susskind Show)
1987 Glenway Wescott, US writer (Apartment in Athens)
1989 Joan Woodbury, actress (Super Sleuth, Northwest Trail)
1989 Moisés da Costa Amaral, East Timorese leader, UDT President in the exterior (b. 1938)
1990 Stephen Burns, actor (Casey's Shadow)
1992 Richard Sheldon
1993 Jean Lecanuet, French UDF-presidential candidate
1993 Pieter A H Bos, Dutch lawyer/procureur-general (Aruba)
1994 "Papa" John Creach, American jazz musician (Papa Blues), (b. 1917)
1995 Ed Flanders, American actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere) (b. 1934)
1995 Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director
1995 Lembarek Boumaarafi, Algerian murderer of Pres Boudiaf
1996 Helmut Schoen, soccer coach
1996 Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician
1997 Austin Andrew Wright, sculptor
1997 Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter
1997 Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
1998 Abraham Ribicoff, American politician (b. 1910)
1998 Grandpa (Louis Marshall) Jones, country singer (Hee Haw)
1998 Jose Maria de Areilza, Sp minister of foreign affairs (1975-76)
1998 Sandy Hume, correspondent (Fox News), commits suicide
1999 Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2000 Fernando Buesa, Spanish politician (b. 1946)
2002 Chuck Jones, American cartoonist (b. 1912)
2002 Daniel Pearl, American journalist (b. 1963)
2002 Jonas Savimbi, Angolan rebel and political leader (b. 1934)
2002 Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat and war hero (b. 1916)
2003 Daniel Taradash, American screenwriter (b. 1913)
2004 Andy Seminick, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2004 Roque Máspoli, Uruguayan footballer (b. 1917)
2005 Hunter S. Thompson, American author and journalist (b. 1937)
2005 Lee Eun Ju, Korean actress (b. 1980)
2005 Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
2005 Zdzislaw Beksinski, Polish artist (b. 1929)
2006 Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (b. 1961)
2007 Dennis Johnson, American basketball player (b. 1954)
2007 George Jellicoe, Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords & Special Boat Service veteran (b. 1918)
2007 Howard Verne Ramsey, oldest U.S. veteran of WWI (b. 1898)
2007 Samuel Hinga Norman, Sierra Leonean alleged war criminal (b. 1940)
2011 Nicholas Courtney, British actor (b. 1929)
2012 Billy Strange, American singer-songwriter
2013 Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist (b. 1923)
2013 Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater
2014 Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist & Poet
2016 Douglas Slocombe, British cinematographer (Kind Hearts and Coronets, Raiders of the Lost Ark)
2016 Sonny James [James Loden], American country music singer-songwriter (Young Love)
2016 Yolande Betbeze Fox, Miss America 1951, first to refuse to parade in a swimsuit
2016 Wesley A Clark, American computer designer (first personal computer - LINC)