March 27th
Holidays and Festivals
World Theatre Day (International)
National "Joe" Day
Celebrate Exchange Day
Education and Sharing Day
Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
Viagra Day a.k.a. The FDA Approves Viagra Day
Anniversary of Funky Winkerbean
Christian Feast Day of Alexander, a Pannonian soldier, martyred in 3rd century.
Christian Feast Day of Amador of Portugal
Christian Feast Day of Augusta of Treviso, a virgin, beheaded by her pagan father in 5th century.
Christian Feast Day of Gelasius
Christian Feast Day of John of Egypt
Christian Feast Day of Philetus and companies
Christian Feast Day of Romulus of Nîmes, a Benedictine abbot, martyred c. 730.
Christian Feast Day of Rupert of Salzburg
Christian Feast Day of Zanitas and Lazarus of Persia
* National Cherry Blossom Festival (USA) March 20th through April 14th
* Big Ears Festival Knoxville, Tennessee, USA March 26 – 28 (2of3) (2010)
* Ultra Music Festival Miami, Florida, USA March 27 – 28 (1of2) (2010)
Toast of The Day
"Here's to beauty, wit, and beer,
and to a full stomach, a full purse, and a light heart."
- Traditional Irish
-Variation-
"A full belly, a heavy purse, and a light heart."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Lefty Special
1 Part Vodka
2 Parts Cranberry Juice
2 PARTS ORANGE JUICE
Splash of Pineapple Juice
Float Amaretto
Wine of The Day
Maryhill 2009 Rosé of Sangiovese
Columbia Valley
$10
Beer of The Day
Oude Geuze Boon
Brewer - Brouwerij BOON N.V., Lembeek, Belgium
Style - Belgian-Style Sour Ale
Joke of The Day
A wife decides to take her husband to a strip club for his birthday.
They arrive at the club and the doorman says, "Hey, Dave! How ya doin'?"
His wife is puzzled and asks if he's been to this club before.
"Oh, no," says Dave. "He's on my bowling team."
When they are seated, a waitress asks Dave if he'd like his usual and brings over a Budweiser.
His wife is becoming increasingly uncomfortable and says,"How did she know that you drink Budweiser?"
"She's in the Ladies' Bowling League, honey. We share lanes with them."
A stripper then comes over to their table, throws her arms around Dave, and says "Hi Davey. Want your usual table dance, big boy?"
Dave's wife, now furious, grabs her purse and storms out of the club.
Dave follows and spots her getting into a cab. Before she can slam the door, he jumps in beside her. He tries desperately to explain how the stripper must have mistaken him for someone else, but his wife is having none of it. She is screaming at him at the top of her lungs, calling him every name in the book.
The cabby turns his head and says, "Looks like you picked up a real bitch tonight, Dave."
Quote of the Day
“At some point, you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other people out. They fence you in. Life is messy. That’s how we’re made. So, you can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.”
- Grey’s Anatomy (television series), premiered on March 27, 2005.
March Observances
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month
Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month
Berries and Cherries Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Child Life Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness Month (Different sponsor than National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
Credit Education Month
Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month
Employee Spirit Month
Exotic Winter Fruit, Leeks and Green Onions Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
National Expect Success Month
Holy Humor Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Expect Success Month
International Ideas Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
International Women's Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month
March for Babies (March and April)
Music In Our Schools Month
National Athletic Training Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Color Therapy Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Different sponsor than Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
National Craft Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Irish-American Heritage Month
National Kidney Month
National Kite Month (3/31-4/30)
National March Into Literacy Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month
National Nutrition Month
National On-Hold Month
National Optimism Month
National Peanut Month
National Social Work Month
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month
Optimism Month
Play-the-Recorder Month
Poetry Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Red Cross Month
Save Your Vision Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month
Social Workers Month
Spiritual Wellness Month
Steroid Abuse Prevention Month
Supply Management Month
Umbrella Month, Natl
Vulvar Health Awareness Month
Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Youth Art Month
Observances this Week
Tsunami Awareness Week, Last Full Week in March
Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week, Last Full Week in March
National Protocol Officer's Week, Last Full Week in March
National Cleaning Week, Last Full Week in March
Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination, Fourth Week of March
Youth Violence Prevention Week, Last Week in March
Termite Awareness Week, Last Work Week in March
Historical Events on March 27th
(196 BC) Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1306 Robert The Bruce is crowned King of Scotland at Scone.
1309 Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1329 Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as heretical.
1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
1599 Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland
1613 The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.
1642 The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.
1668 English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
1708 English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk
1709 Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)
1713 Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar
1721 France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid
1758 Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine
1782 Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1790 The modern shoestring (string and shoe holes) invented in England
1794 Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1794 US Navy forms, The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1802 Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
1808 Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna
1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend, General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama, War of 1812.
1836 1st Mormon temple dedicated, Kirtland Temple in Ohio is dedicated in an 8 hour long service led by Joseph Smith, Jr. and Sidney Rigdon.
1836 Goliad massacre Antonio López de Santa Anna orders the Mexican army to kill about 400 Texas POW's at Goliad, Texas, the Texas Revolution.
1841 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC
1846 Mexican-American War: Siege of Fort Texas.
1848 John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
1849 Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
1851 First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.
1854 Crimean War: The United Kingdom declares war on Russia.
1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
1863 President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
1865 Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1866 Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill, it later becomes 14th amend
1868 The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
1871 The first international rugby football match, England v. Scotland, is played in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place, Scotland 1, England 0.
1879 Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
1881 Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.
1884 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
1886 Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
1890 A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1906 The Alpine Club of Canada is founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1910 Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312
1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC
1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1918 Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
1920 Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
1924 Canada recognizes USSR
1924 New French government of Poincaré begins
1928 KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
1928 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1928 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1929 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1929 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1930 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
1931 John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
1932 De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt
1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
1933 Japan leaves League of Nations
1933 Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
1936 WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
1937 Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam
1938 The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1939 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: U of Oregon beats OH State 46-33
1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
1941 Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
1941 Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
1941 Yugoslavian Air Force officers topple the pro-axis government in a bloodless coup, gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul, World War II.
1942 Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
1942 Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward
1942 Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC)
1943 Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau
1943 Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio
1943 US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
1943 Battle of the Komandorski Islands In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska, World War II.
1944 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1944 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
1944 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
1944 Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
1945 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44
1945 British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
1945 DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title
1945 Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"
1945 Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed
1945 US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
1945 World War II, Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
1948 The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1950 Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleve OH)
1950 Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58
1951 Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"
1952 Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
1953 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio
1955 9th Tony Awards, Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win
1955 Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
1955 WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 French commandos land in Algeria
1956 US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1957 29th Academy Awards "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win
1958 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
1958 Havana Hilton opens
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union and 1st sect of Communist Party.
1960 Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open
1961 Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
1961 Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
1961 Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
1962 Ann Jellicoe's "Knack," premieres in London
1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
1962 Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy
1963 Beeching axe, Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United Kingdom's rail network.
1964 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
1964 Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
1964 The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska, killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage.
1964 UN troops arrive on Cyprus
1966 Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational
1968 Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in SF
1968 Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia
1969 Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars
1970 Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"
1970 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLA wins their 5th consecutive NCAA basketball title
1972 Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching U of Kentucky
1972 Venera 8 launched to Venus
1973 45th Academy Awards, "Godfather," Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1973 Dennis Amiss out for 99 v Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket
1973 Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession
1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title
1976 The first 4.6 miles of the Washington DC underground Metro subway system opens.
1977 Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
1977 Tenerife airport disaster, Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). 61 survived on the Pan Am flight.
1978 40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Kentucky beats Duke 94-88
1978 Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 perfs
1978 Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
1979 Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars
1980 "Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
1980 "Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances
1980 Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)
1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
1980 Silver Thursday, A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
1980 The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
1981 John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in UK
1982 "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 perfs
1982 Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match v Sri Lanka at Lahore
1982 Randy Holt sets Wash Cap record of 34 penalty minutes
1983 13th Easter Seal Telethon
1983 Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs," premieres in NYC
1984 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express," premieres
1985 Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
1986 A car bomb explodes at Russell Street Police HQ in Melbourne, killing 1 police officer and injuring 21 people.
1986 Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
1987 President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad
1988 Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1988 Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (URS)
1988 Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
1988 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA)
1988 Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament
1988 Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase
1989 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations," premieres on NBC-TV
1989 Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1990 Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India, 21 die
1990 NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
1990 The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
1991 NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992
1991 New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
1991 Scotty Bowman & Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1992 Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" & "Lucky Town"
1993 Italian former minister and Christian Democracy leader Giulio Andreotti is accused of mafia allegiance by the tribunal of Palermo.
1993 Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1994 23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews
1994 Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed
1994 Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS)
1994 Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (RUS)
1994 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (JPN)
1994 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1994 One of the biggest tornado outbreaks in recent memory hits the Southeastern United States. One tornado slams into a church in Piedmont, Alabama during Palm Sunday services killing 20 and injuring 90.
1994 The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
1995 67th Academy Awards, "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win
1996 "State Fair," opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances
1997 "Young Man From Atlanta," opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances
1997 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
1997 Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray
1998 The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.
1999 An F-117 Nighthawk is shot down during the Kosovo War.
2000 A Phillips Petroleum plant explosion in Pasadena, Texas kills 1 and injures 71.
2002 Passover Massacre, A Palestinian suicide bomber kills 29 people partaking of the Passover meal in Netanya, Israel.
2004 HMS Scylla (F71), a decommissioned Leander class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
2006 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
2009 Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails, killing at least 99 people
2013 12 people are killed in the Philippines after a mini-tornado causes a boat to capsize
2013 Canada becomes the first country to withdraw from the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
2014 UN General Assembly condemns Russia's annexation of Crimea
2015 Russia's Soyuz TMA-16M launches to deliver three crew members to the international space station to research the long-term effects of micro gravity
2016 Suicide bomb kills more than 70 people at a park in Lahore, Pakistan, Taliban connected Jamaat-ul-Ahrar claim responsibility
2134 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
Born on March 27th
972 King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
1416 Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (d. 1480)
1554 Everhardus van Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer
1627 Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
1665 Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1676 Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (d. 1735)
1696 Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
1702 Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (d. 1762)
1710 Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer
1712 Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
1714 Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
1730 Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar (d. 1786)
1746 Augustin Ullinger, composer
1746 Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
1746 Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
1757 Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
1760 Ishmail Spicer, composer
1760 MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers
1765 Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1841)
1772 Giovanni Liverati, composer
1780 August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1784 Alexander Csoma de Korös, Hungarian philologist, the founder of Tibetology (d. 1842)
1785 Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95) (d. 1795)
1797 Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer and writer (Moise, Chatterton) (d. 1863)
1809 Georges Eugene Haussmann, French architect, civic planner (d. 1891)
1810 A Glabbrenner, writer
1810 William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
1813 Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (Currier & Ives) (d. 1888)
1816 George Elvey, composer
1817 Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
1818 Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
1823 Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers)
1844 Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
1845 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901) (d. 1923)
1847 Otto Wallach, German chemist (Nobel Prize laureate 1910) (d. 1931)
1851 Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer
1851 Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)
1857 Karl Pearson, English statistician (d. 1936)
1858 Peter Christian Lutkin, composer
1859 George Giffen, Australian cricketer (d. 1927)
1860 Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
1863 Henry Royce, English automobile pioneer (Rolls-Royce) (d. 1933)
1867 Edyth Walker, US singer
1868 Patty Smith Hill, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
1869 James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)
1871 Heinrich Mann, German writer (Blue Angel), brother of Thomas Mann (d. 1950)
1871 Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
1879 Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
1879 Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
1883 Jan Kunc, composer
1883 Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
1886 Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, German architect (Bauhaus) (d. 1969)
1886 Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
1889 Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
1892 Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grofe, American composer (d. 1972)
1892 Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
1893 Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator
1893 Karl Mannheim, Hungarian sociologist (Ideology & Utopia) (d. 1947)
1894 William Harrigan
1895 Betty Schade, German-born American film actress (d. 1982)
1897 Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/anti-fascist
1897 Douglas Hartree, English mathematical physicist (d. 1958)
1899 Gloria Swanson, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly) (d. 1983)
1901 Albert Henneberg, composer
1901 Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1901 Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1975)
1901 Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD) (d. 1963)
1901 Kenneth Slessor, Australian poet (d. 1971)
1901 Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1901 Wilhelm Conrad von Roentgen, physicist (Nobel)
1902 Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
1902 Mary Armour, artist
1903 Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
1905 Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1906 Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
1907 Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
1908 Jacques (Izaak) den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
1909 Ben(jamin F) Webster, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1973)
1909 Golo Mann (Gottfried), German historian (Antisemitism) (d. 1994)
1910 Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1912 James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1976-1979) (d. 2005)
1912 Reuel Lahmer, composer
1912 Robert Watson Hughes, composer
1913 Godfrey Turner, composer
1913 Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)
1914 Budd Schulberg, American screenwriter and novelist (On the Waterfront) (d. 2009)
1914 Richard Denning, American actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0) (d. 1998)
1914 Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
1915 Richard Sharp, civil servant
1915 Robert Lockwood, Jr., American blues guitarist (d. 2006)
1915 Selma Rubin, Toledo, Ohio, environmental activist (Earth Day co-founder), (d. 2012)
1917 Cyrus R Vance, American politician, US Secretary of State (1977-80) (d. 2002)
1917 Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
1919 Julian Amery, conservative minister
1919 Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned)
1920 Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
1920 Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
1921 Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
1921 Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967)
1922 Margaret Stacey, sociologist
1922 Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1923 Endo Shusaku, Japanese author (d. 1996)
1923 Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death)
1923 Shusaku Endo, writer
1923 Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
1924 Harold Nicholas, US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather)
1924 Sarah L Vaughan, American singer, jazz and scat (Broken Hearted Melody) (d. 1990)
1925 Lord Plumb, MEP
1925 R(obert) P Cohan, artistic director (Contemporary Dance Trust)
1926 Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter
1927 Anthony Lewis, columnist (NY Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
1927 Lord Fanshawe of Richmond, MP
1927 Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (d. 2007)
1928 Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977)
1930 Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching)
1930 Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1931 Burt Collins, trumpeter
1931 David Janssen (Meyer), American actor (Fugitive, Harry O) (d. 1980)
1931 R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
1931 Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
1932 Wes Covington, baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies)
1933 DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
1933 Frank Taylor, Chief Constable (Durham)
1933 J Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School)
1934 Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
1934 David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science)
1934 Istvan Csurka, Budapest, Hungary, politician and writer, (d. 2012)
1935 Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
1935 Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire
1935 Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (d. 1981)
1935 Julian Glover, British actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela)
1936 Jerry Lacy, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Play it Again Sam)
1936 Malcolm Goldstein, composer
1937 Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den)
1937 Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
1938 A J Bellingham, president (Royal College of Pathologists)
1938 Jock Slater, admiral
1938 P Daubeny, CEO (Electricity Association)
1939 Cale Yarborough, American race car driver (Daytona 500-1968, 77, 83, 84)
1939 Jay C Kim, (Rep-R-California)
1939 Judy Carne, comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
1939 Lord Lyell
1939 Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
1940 Austin Pendleton, American actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again)
1940 Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
1940 June Wilkinson, Eastbourne England, actress (Absolutely Glamarous)
1941 Charles Pashayan Jr, (Rep-R-CA, 1979)
1941 Ivan Gašparovic, President of Slovakia
1941 Liese Prokop, Austria, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1968)
1942 John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
1942 Michael York, England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
1942 Raymond J McGrath, (Rep-R-NY, 1981)
1943 M Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1975-81, 83)
1943 Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1944 Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
1945 Briton Selby, NHLer
1946 Bill Sudakis, baseball player
1946 Carl Weintraub, actor (Harry-Executive Suite)
1946 Jerry Lacy, actor (Rev Trask-Dark Shadows)
1946 Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
1947 Brian Jones, British balloonist
1947 Daphne Todd, president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)
1947 Dough Wilkerson, football
1947 Tom Sullivan, Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
1947 Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
1949 Patrick Deuchar, CEO (Albert Hall)
1950 Lynn McGlothen, American baseball player (d. 1984)
1950 Maria Ewing, opera singer
1950 Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
1950 Tony Banks, English musician (Genesis)
1950 Vic Harris, baseball
1951 Bobby Lalonde, NHLer (Boston Bruins)
1951 Tony Banks, rocker
1952 Chick Vennera, Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)
1952 Maria Schneider, French actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor)
1952 Richard Séguin, Quebec singer and songwriter
1952 Rocky Maffit, rocker (Champaign)
1953 Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie)
1955 Kim Brassey, racehorse trainer
1955 Patrick McCabe, novelist
1956 Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1956 Leung Kwok Hung, Hong Kong activist
1956 Thomas Wassberg, Swedish cross-country skier, 15K/50K (Oly-gold-1980)
1957 Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (d. 1997)
1957 Duncan Goodhew, England, 100m breast stroke swimmer (Oly-Gold-1980)
1957 Nick Hawkins, British politician, MP
1958 Bart Connor, gymnast/sportscaster (Olympic-gold-1984)
1958 Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-NY)
1959 Andrew Farriss, Australian musician (INXS)
1960 Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian
1960 Hans Pflügler, German footballer
1960 Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter
1960 Renato Russo, Brazilian rock singer-songwriter (d. 1996)
1960 Steve Jarvin, Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1961 Clark Datchler, vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Don't Say it's Love)
1961 Ellery Hanley, rugby league player
1961 Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
1961 Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
1962 Jann Arden, Canadian musician
1962 John O'Farrell, British author and satirist
1963 Charly Alberti, Argentinian musician
1963 Dave Koz, American saxophonist
1963 Ed Pinckney, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1963 Quentin Tarantino, American director, writer, and producer (Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill)
1963 Randall Cunningham, American football player, NFL QB (Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings)
1963 Todd Graves, Laurel Miss, skeet (Olympics-1992, 96)
1963 Xuxa (Maria da Graca Meneghel), Brazilian television personality (Xuxa Park)
1964 Glenn Carter, English actor and singer-songwriter
1966 Haruto Umezawa, Japanese manga artist
1966 Kate Donahoo, Las Vegas NV, US judoka (Olympic-92)
1966 Paula Trickey, American actress
1967 David Bavaro, American football player
1967 Jaime Navarro, Bayamon Puerto Rico, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1967 Kenta Kobashi, Japanese professional wrestler
1967 Paul Adams, American celebrity
1967 Talisa Soto (Miriam), American actress (License to Kill)
1967 Tom Hammonds, NBA forward (Minn Timberwolves, Denver Nuggets)
1968 Irina Belova, Russian pentathelete (world record 1992)
1968 Sandra Hess, Swiss-born actress and model
1969 Kevin Corrigan, American actor
1969 Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
1969 Tom Beer, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1969 Victoria O'Keefe, British actress (d. 1990)
1970 Anthony Prior, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Jets, Minnesota Vikings)
1970 Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler)
1970 Brent Fitz, Canadian musician (Theory of a Deadman)
1970 Corey Page, actor (Richard Wilkins-Loving/City)
1970 Ed Philion, NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1970 Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
1970 Mariah Carey, American R&B/pop singer
1970 Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
1971 David Coulthard, Scottish Formula One driver
1971 Mariah Carey, NYC, singer (Love Takes Time, Hero)
1971 Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
1972 Charlie Haas, professional wrestler
1972 Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
1972 Kirby Dar Dar, wide reciever (Miami Dolphins)
1973 Serge Tremblay, La Malbaie Quebec, weightlifter (Olympics-96)
1974 Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
1974 Rosanna Gimenez, Miss Paraguay Universe (1997)
1974 Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)
1975 B J Gallis, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1975 Chakrit Yamnam, Thai film and television actor
1975 Gregory DuBois, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1975 Stacy (Fergie) Ferguson, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)
1975 Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
1976 Carl Ng, Hong Kong/British actor and model
1976 Danny Fortson, American basketball player, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1976 Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
1976 Roberta Alma Anastase, Miss Universe-Romania (1996)
1977 Adrian Anca, Romanian footballer
1977 Tom van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player (PSV)
1977 Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
1979 Michael Cuddyer, Minnesota Twins baseball player
1981 Carey Davis, National Football League fullback
1981 Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
1981 Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
1982 Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty queen, first runner-up Miss Universe 2006
1984 Emily Ann Lloyd, actress (Sarah Kramer-Something So Right)
1984 J P Steur, actor (Grace Under Fire)
1984 Laura Critchley, British singer/song writer
1985 Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel
1985 Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
1985 Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
1986 Baby M, American custody case child
1986 Melissa Stern, [Baby M]/[Sara Whitehead], surrogate baby
1986 Ramani, Indian Girl
1986 SoCal Val, American professional wrestling valet
1986 Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham, American professional wrestling valet
1987 Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 Brenda Song, American actress
1988 Kerri Ann Darling, actress (Alli Fowler-Another World)
1990 Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer
1995 Taylor Atelian, American actress
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710 Rupert of Salzburg
922 Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur, Persian mystic, beheaded at 64
965 Arnulf I, the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies
973 Herman, Duke of Saxony
1191 Pope Clement III (b. 1130)
1350 King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
1378 Gregory XI (Pierre R the Beaufort), last French Pope (1370-78) (b. 1336)
1462 Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
1472 Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator
1482 Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold. wife of Maximilian I, countess of Holland (b. 1457)
1555 William Hunter, Protestant martyr
1572 Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. 1523)
1625 James I Stuart, king of Scotland (1567), England (1603-25) (b. 1566)
1635 Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
1668 Clemens Thieme, composer
1676 Bernardino de Rebolledo, Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat (b. 1597)
1679 Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter
1697 Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
1701 Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, count of Tourville/Fr admiral
1714 Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet
1757 Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)
1757 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer
1761 Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer
1769 Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
1770 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (Banquet of Cleopatra) (b. 1696)
1809 Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
1826 Jakob Haibel, composer,
1827 François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
1836 James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
1843 Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
1849 Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)
1850 Wilhelm Bear, German banker and astronomer (Moon Map) (b. 1797)
1864 Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
1865 Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
1873 Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1875 Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
1878 Dobri Voynikov, composer
1878 George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811)
1879 Prince Waldemar of Prussia, son of Emperor Frederick III (b. 1868)
1889 John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
1889 Moritz Furstenau, composer
1894 Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika)
1897 Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
1898 Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual, co founder (Pakistan) (b. 1817)
1900 Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general
1910 Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist, son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835)
1910 David Duffle Wood, composer
1918 Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
1920 Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings),
1922 Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer
1923 Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
1924 Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841)
1925 Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist
1925 William Bligh, Canadian MP (b. 1887)
1926 Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1927 Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
1928 Leslie Stuart, composer
1929 Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian mathematician
1931 Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)
1933 Lionel Palairet, cricketer (49 runs in 2 Tests for England 1902)
1934 Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
1938 Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist
1939 Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America)
1940 Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
1943 Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash
1945 Jorgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance)
1947 Charles Smith, cricketer (batted for S Afr in 1902-03)
1948 Karel Candael, Flemish composer
1953 Narciso Garay, composer
1956 Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs
1959 Grant Withers, actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills
1960 Ian Whyte, composer
1961 Jack Kane, orchestra leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams Show)
1966 Mien Labberton, Dutch poet
1967 Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67)
1967 Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1967 Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
1968 Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash (b. 1934)
1972 M. C. Escher, Dutch artist, lithograph carver (Praedestinatie) (b. 1898)
1972 Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
1973 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer
1975 Arthur Bliss, English composer/conductor (Checkmate)
1975 Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering)
1977 A. P. Hamann, American politician (b. 1909)
1977 Diana Hyland, American actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough) (b. 1936)
1977 Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies in a plane crash
1977 Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Dutch Aviator (b. 1927)
1977 Lodewijk de Vocht, composer
1978 Wilfred Pickles, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog)
1979 Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot)
1981 Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1982 Betty Schade, German-born American actress (b. 1895)
1983 James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game)
1983 Janis Ivanovs, composer
1986 Cass Canfield, US publisher
1987 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director
1988 Jan van den Weghe, Flemish writer
1988 Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
1989 Jack Starrett, American actor and film director (b. 1936)
1989 May Allison, American actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel) (b. 1890)
1991 Aldo Ray, American actor (Battle Cry) (b. 1926)
1991 Elinor Remick Warren, composer
1991 Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation)
1991 Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard) (b. 1940)
1992 Anita Colby, US model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke)
1992 Easley Blackwood, American bridge player (b. 1903)
1992 Gerry Duggan
1992 James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68)
1992 Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist
1993 Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas)
1993 Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1931)
1993 Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas)
1993 Katherine Hynes De Groot
1993 Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900)
1993 Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch MP (KVP, CDA)
1994 Dennis Hartas, flier,
1995 Albert Drach, writer
1995 Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds),
1995 Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer
1995 Rene Allio, film Director
1996 Howard Wyeth, American drummer and pianist (b. 1944)
1998 David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
1998 Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
2000 Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942)
2002 Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
2002 Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
2002 Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
2003 Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
2003 Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
2003 Ricardo Munguia, Salvadoran aid worker (b. 1960)
2004 Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)
2005 Ahmed Zaki, Egyptian prominent actor (b. 1949)
2005 Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
2005 Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
2005 Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
2006 Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
2006 Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
2006 Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
2006 Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
2006 Stanislaw Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
2007 Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
2008 George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
2008 Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
2009 Jack Dreyfus, American businessman (b. 1913)
2010 Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster (b. 1921)
2012 Adrienne Rich, American feminist poet/essayist
2012 Warren Stevens, American actor
2013 Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian skater (b. 1923)