partypossum.com April 16th

April 16th

Holidays and Festivals

Emancipation Day (Washington, D.C.)
International Stress Awareness Day
Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day
National Health Care Decisions Day
International Moment of Laughter Day

National Librarian Day
High Five Day
National Auctioneers Day
Record Store Day
Birthday of Charley Chaplin (comedian)
National Eggs Benedict Day
National Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day
Final Day of Thingyan (Burma) * CLICK HERE
Fourth Day of Songkran (Myanmar) * CLICK HERE
Christian Feast Day of Benedict Joseph Labre
Christian Feast Day of Bernadette Soubirous
Christian Feast Day of Drogo
Christian Feast Day of Fructuosus of Braga
Christian Feast Day of Martyrs of Zaragoza
Christian Feast Day of Turibius of Astorga
* Coachella Festival Indio, California, USA April 16th to April 18th (1of3) (2010)
New Year in Southeast Asia * CLICK HERE

Fête de la Anémone Translation: Anemone Day (French Republican) The 27th day of the Month of Germinal in the French Republican Calendar

Toast of The Day

"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."

- Unknown

Drink of The Day

Muff Diver

3/4 oz. Irish Cream (Bailey's)
3/4 oz. Kahlua
Fill glass with Whipped cream
Garnish with Cherry (optional)
Pour Bailey's and Kahlua into a shot glass. Put shot glass in center of an empty margarita glass. Fill around and on top of the shot glass with whipped cream. drink this hands free off of the counter.

Wine of The Day

Irony (2008) Pinot Noir
Style - Pinot Noir
Monterey County
$20

Beer of The Day

Celia Saison
Brewer - The Alchemist, Waterbury, Vermont, USA
Style - Gluten Free Beer

Joke of The Day

A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year.
Another recent study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year.
That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon.
Not Bad.

Quote of The Day

"How come if alcohol kills millions of brain cells, it never killed the ones that made me want to drink?"
- Unknown

Whisky of The Day

The Balvenie Portwood 21 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky
$180

April Observances

ASPCA Month
Alcohol Awareness Month
Amateur Radio Month
Atlanta Food & Wine Month
Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage Month
Cancer Control Month
Celebrate Diversity Month
Community Spirit Days
Confederate History Month
Couple Appreciation Month
Cranberries and Gooseberries Month
DNA, Genomics and Stem Cell Education and Awareness Month
Defeat Diabetes Month
Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
Facial Protection Month
Fair Housing Month
Financial Literacy Month
Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month
Frog Month
Get Yourself Tested Month
Global Child Nutrition Month
Grange Month
Holy Humor Month
Home Improvement Time (April-Sept.30)
Honor Society Awareness Month (Different Sponsor to March)
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month
Informed Woman Month
Injury Prevention Month
International Cesarean Awareness Month
International Customer Loyalty Month
International Daffynitions Month
International Guitar Month
International Twit Award Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful Month
Lawn and Garden Month
Learn Thai Month
Library Snapshot Month
Math Awareness Month
Month of the Military Child
Month of the Young Child
National African American Women's Fitness Month
National Autism Awareness Month
National Car Care Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National DNA & Genomics & Stem Cell Education & Awareness Month
National Decorating Month
National Donate Life Month
National Garden Month
National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month
National Humor Month
National Kite Month
National Knuckles Down Month
National Landscape Architecture Month
National Multiple Birth Awareness Month
National Occupational Therapy Month
National Oral Health Month
National Parkinson's Awareness Month
National Pecan Month
National Pest Management Month
National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
National Pet Month
National Poetry Month
National Prepare Your Home To Be Sold Month
National Rebuilding Month
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
National Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Education and Awareness Month
National Stress Awareness Month
National Welding Month
National Welding Month
National Youth Sports Safety Month
Patient Safety Awareness Month
Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month
Physical Wellness Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
Prevent Lyme in Dogs Month
Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month
Procrastination Awareness Month
Records and Information Management Month
Rosacea Awareness Month
School Library Media Month
Southern Belles Month
Soy Foods Month
Sports Eye Safety Month
Straw Hat Month
Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
Tomatillo and Asian Pear Month
Women's Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
World Habitat Awareness Month
Worldwide Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month

Observances this Week

Organize Your Files Week, Third Week of April
Medical Labs Week, Third Week of April
Coin Week, Third Week of April
Fibroid Awareness Week, Third Week of April
National Karaoke Week, Third Week of April
National Volunteer Week, Third Week of April
National Pet ID Week, Third Week of April
National Paperboard Packaging Week, Third Week of April
National Playground Safety Week, Third Week of April
National Severe Storm Preparedness Week, Third Week of April
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week, Third Week of April
Preservation Week, Third Week of April
Sky Awareness Week, Third Week of April
International Whistlers Week (IWC), Third or Fourth week of April
Bat Appreciation Week, Second Full Week of April
National Environmental Education Week, Second full week of April
National Robotics Week, Second Full week of April
National Library Week, Second Full week of April
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators), Second Full Week in April
Pan American Week, Second Full Week in April
Week of The Young Child, Second Full Week in April
National Crime Victims Rights Week, Second Full week of April plus 3 days

Historical Events on April 16th

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(1178 BC) A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War.
73 Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
556 Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1071 Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
1346 King Stefanus IX of Serbia proclaims himself czar of Greece
1346 The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of the Balkans.
1395 Azzo X d'Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops.
1509 French army under Louis XII enters Alps
1521 Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
1582 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander
1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1724 1st Easter observed (OS=Apr 9)
1746 The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.
1777 Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout Brits
1780 The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
1787 1st American comedy, "The Contrast," made its debut in NYC
1789 George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1799 The Battle of Mount Tabor Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre, Napoleonic Wars.
1818 Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
1849 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le Prophete," premieres in Paris
1853 The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1854 Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa," premieres
1854 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
1854 Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die
1858 The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
1861 US president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
1862 A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law.
1862 The Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia, American Civil War.
1862 Pres Davis approves conscription act from US Confederate Congress for white males between the ages of 18-35
1863 The Siege of Vicksburg ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi, American Civil War.
1865 Battle of Columbus & West Point, GA (Ft Tyler)
1866 Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia
1866 Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Co office explodes
1868 Louisiana voters approve new constitution
1869 Ebenezer Bassett, 1st US Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti
1870 Vaudeville Theatre Strand opens in London
1871 German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions
1874 Dr David Livingstones corpse arrives in Southampton
1881 In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1883 Paul Kruger chosen president of Transvaal
1888 Drentse & Friese peat cutters go on strike
1900 US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1908 Natural Bridges National Monument forms (Lake Powell Utah)
1910 The University of Queensland is founded, with the names of the members of the first Senate published in the Queensland Government Gazette.
1912 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1912 Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base)
1917 Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia to start the Bolshevik Revolution after 10 years from exile in Switzerland.
1919 Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.
1921 Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague
1922 Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
1922 German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
1922 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1924 1st radio-transmission of wireless: Mattheus Passion
1924 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland
1925 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1926 Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" & "Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1929 Cleve Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st AL to hit a HR on 1st at bat
1929 NY Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers
1935 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
1935 Babe Ruth's 1st NL game, for Boston Braves, included a HR
1938 Great-Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
1939 Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact
1939 Stanley Cup, Boston Bruins beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
1940 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
1940 Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht," premieres in Rio de Janeiro
1941 Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1941 Little Theater at Adelphi Strand closes
1941 The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships, World War II.
1942 Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
1942 King George VI awards George Cross to Island of Malta
1943 40 NZ bombers attack Haarlem Neth (85 killed)
1943 Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1945 German troops in Groningen surrender
1945 More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.
1945 The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin (Battle of Berlin).
1945 The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
1945 US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II
1945 US troops land on He Shima Okinawa
1946 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands, NM; 8 km alt
1946 NSB mayor of Rotterdam Neth, FE Muller sentence to 100 years in jail
1946 Syria gains independence.
1947 Explosions & fire on French ship Grandcamp
1947 Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in a speach in South Carolina.
1947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (NYC)
1947 Texas City Disaster, An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris
1949 Stanley Cup, Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75
1952 "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 15 performances
1953 British royal yacht Britannica taken out of service
1953 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Palm Springs Golf Open
1953 Phillie's Connie Ryan gets 6 hits in a game
1953 Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
1953 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1953 WAND TV channel 17 in Decatur, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 KVAL TV channel 13 in Eugene, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Stanley Cup, Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3
1956 1st solar powered radios go on sale
1957 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis
1959 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 44 perfs
1959 Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation
1959 NY Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
1959 Phils' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit
1961 15th Tony Awards, Becket & Bye Bye Birdie win
1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1961 Stanley Cup, Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
1962 Brazil nationalizes US businesses
1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1964 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
1964 Geraldine Mock of US is 1st woman to fly solo round the world
1965 Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket
1966 Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
1967 "Walking Happy" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 perfs
1967 Yankees beat Boston 7-6 in 18 innings
1970 70 die in a snow crush (France)
1972 "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 4 perfs
1972 1st Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jane Blalock
1972 2 giants pandas arrive in US, from China
1972 The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1972 Chicago Cub Burt Hooton no-hits Phillies, 1-0
1972 China sent President Nixon two giant pandas as a gift.
1974 "Words & Music" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances
1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
1977 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
1978 "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 perfs
1978 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
1978 St Louis Card Bob Forsch no-hits Phillies, 5-0
1979 8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15
1979 15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks & Mets tie 1-1
1979 83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Mass in 2:09:27
1979 Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport in Belgium
1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"
1980 Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
1980 Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 "Copperfield" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 13 performances
1981 Columbia space shuttle returns
1982 Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution
1983 Steve Garvey sets NL record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games
1984 13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of NZ in 2:29:28
1984 88th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:10:34
1984 Oakland A Dave Kingman hits 3 HRs including a grand slam
1984 Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
1985 "Grind" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 79 performances
1985 Caps 1-Isles 2-Patrick Div Semifinals-Isle win series 3-2
1986 To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV
1986 West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England
1987 August Wilson's "Fences" wins 1987 Pulitzer Prize for drama
1987 British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London charged with gross indecency.
1987 FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves
1987 Howard Stern & Infinity Broadcasting are warned by FCC
1987 Michael Jordon, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season
1987 Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
1987 Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"
1989 1st Seniors Golf Tradition, Don Bies wins
1989 Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world
1989 Costa Rica beats US 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1989 Pat Bradley wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic
1989 Zeleka Metaferia wins 3rd World Cup marathon (2:10:28)
1990 "Piano Lesson" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 320 performances
1990 19th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:23
1990 94th Boston Marathon won by Gelindo Bordin of Italy in 2:08:19
1990 Maximum NY State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
1990 Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
1990 The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
1991 M Leander & E Seago's musical "Matador," premieres in London
1991 St Louis Blues becomes 8th NHL team in Play-off to come back from a 3-1 deficit as they beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in game 7
1992 "Metro" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 13 performances
1992 1st concrete is poured at new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1992 Afghanistan president Najibullah resigns
1992 NY Rangers win team record 50th game
1992 The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
1993 Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th
1994 Circus performers Marissa Young (24) & Matt Richardson (21) wed
1994 Singer Harry Connick Jr (26) weds model Jill Goodare (30)
1995 56th PGA Seniors Golf Championship, Ray Floyd wins
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Minneapolis/St Paul on WRQC 100.3 FM
1999 hockey great Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement.
2003 The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
2004 The super liner RMS Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first trans-Atlantic crossing, linking the golden age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel.
2007 Virginia Tech massacre, The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide.
2008 Start of Papal Journey of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States
2012 At least 55 people are killed in the Syrian uprising despite UN presence to oversee ceasefire
2012 For the first time since 1977 no Pulitzer Prize is awarded for fiction
2012 Wesley Korir of Kenya 1st man in 2:12:40 and Sharon Cherop of Kenya 1st woman in 2:31:50 at the 116th Boston Marathon
2013 16 people are killed after a gold mine collapses in Kyekyewere, Ghana
2013 37 people are killed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Khash country, Iran
2014 Real Madrid defeat Barcelona to win its 19th Copa del Rey trophy
2014 South Korean ferry MV Sewol sinks on route Incheon to Jeju, 304 drown, mostly students. National controversy erupts over rescue efforts and actions of crew and owner.

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Born on April 16th

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778 King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
1319 King John II of France (d. 1364)
1495 Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557)
1628 Cornelis Evertsen de Young, vice admiral of Zealand
1635 Frans van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch painter
1646 Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
1648 John Luyken, poet/etcher (Duytse Lyre)
1652 Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], Italy, Pope (1730-40)
1660 Hans Sloane, British collector and physician, founder (British Museum) (d. 1753)
1661 Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman (d. 1715)
1673 Francesco Feroci, composer
1682 John Hadley, British inventor (1st reflecting telescope) (d. 1744)
1693 Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
1697 Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer
1703 Caffarelli (Gaetano Majorano), Italian castra singer/duke
1728 Joseph Black, Scottish chemist (d. 1799)
1728 Joseph Zwart, Scottish chemist/physicist
1730 Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)
1755 Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842)
1800 George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
1800 Jozef Stefani, composer
1800 William Chambers, author/publisher (Basis of Communication & Coding)
1808 Caleb Blood Smith, Secy Int (Union), died in 1864
1816 Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson, Major General (Confederate Army)
1820 Georg Curtius, German classical linguist
1821 Ford Madox Brown, English painter (d. 1893)
1823 Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (d. 1852)
1823 Mother Joseph (Esther Pariseau), religious leader (US capitol)
1823 Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1907
1827 Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (d. 1879)
1832 John A Neuhuys, painter
1838 Karel Bendl, composer
1844 Anatole France, French writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman) (Nobel Prize laureate 1921) (d. 1924)
1847 Hans Auer, Swiss architect, (d. 1906)
1848 Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Social Reformer of Andhra Pradesh, India (d. 1919)
1850 Herbert Baxter Adams, US, historian (American Historical Association)
1851 Ernst Josephson, Sweden, artist
1859 Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (d. 1924)
1861 Isaac Murphy, US jockey (won 628 races)
1865 Henry George Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945)
1866 José de Diego, Puerto Rico statesman, Secretary of Justice, and journalist (d. 1918)
1867 Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (Wright Brothers) (d. 1912)
1868 Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer
1868 Spottiswoode Aitken, Edinburgh Scot, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home)
1871 John Millington Synge, Irish writer (Riders to the Sea) (d. 1909)
1871 Martin Lunssens, composer
1878 R E "Tip" Foster, English cricketer (d. 1914)
1881 Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax/ambassador to US (1940-46)
1882 Seth Bingham, composer
1885 Leo Weiner, Hungary, composer (Fasching)
1886 Ernst Thälmann, German politician, communist presidential candidate (d. 1944)
1886 Jekabs Graubins, composer
1886 Konstantin Mostras, composer
1889 Charlie Chaplin, English actor (Tramp) (City Lights), writer, songwriter, composer, and film producer (d. 1977)
1893 Federico Mompou, composer
1893 Joseph Yasser, composer
1895 Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948)
1896 Pat Clayton, British surveyor and explorer (d. 1962)
1896 Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet and essayist (d. 1963)
1897 Arthur Charles Ernest Hoeree, composer
1897 Jaap Vranken, Dutch organist/composer (Stabat Mater)
1897 John B Glubb, British commandant/writer (A soldier with the Arabs)
1899 Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988)
1900 Polly Adler, Russia, bordello proprieter/author (House is not a Home)
1901 Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen)
1901 Leo Poos, nazi police officer (caught Dutch underground agents)
1904 Clifford Case, (Sen-R-NJ)
1904 Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (Life Jimmy Dolan, Girl from Calgary) (d. 1983)
1904 Lily Pons, Draguignan France, soprano diva (Hitting a New High)
1905 Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005)
1905 John Lee-Barber, admiral
1906 Bep (Elisa H) Bakhuis, Dutch soccer star/writer
1906 Cobina W "Coby" Molenaar, Dutch peace activist
1906 Marion Lloyd Vince, Bkln NY, fencer (National champ 1928, 31)
1906 Pigmeat Markham, Durham NC, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In)
1907 August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (d. 1947)
1907 Joseph-Armand Bombardier, French-Canadian inventor and businessman (Bombardier Inc.) (d. 1964)
1909 Herman Uyttersprot, Flemish literature historian
1910 Berton Roueché, American medical writer (d. 1994)
1911 Christine McIntyre, actress (3 Stooges movies)
1911 William Stearn, botanist
1912 Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
1912 David Langton, Scotland, actor (Quintet, St Joan, Abandon Ship)
1912 Garth Williams, American illustrator (d. 1996)
1912 John Halas, animator
1913 Constance Shacklock, opera singer
1913 Les Tremayne, London, actor (Angry Red Planet, War of the Worlds)
1913 Lord Aberconway, CEO (John Brown & Co)
1914 John Hodiak, Pittsburgh PA, actor (A Bell for Adamo, Lifeboat)
1915 Dany (Daniel S) Tuijnman, head of Dutch traffic & water
1915 Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright (d. 1997)
1915 Joan Alexander, American actress (d. 2009)
1917 Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
1918 Dick Gibson, British racing driver
1918 Joan Alexander, American actress
1918 Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers) (d. 2002)
1919 Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (Acrobat in Every Soul is a Circus) (d. 2009)
1919 Tom Willmore, English geometer (d. 2005)
1920 Barry Nelson, Oakland, actor (Airport, My Favorite Husband)
1920 Dermot O'Callaghan Grubb, prison governor
1920 John William Farr, Detroit, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
1920 Kees Scherer, Dutch photographer (World Press Photo)
1921 Peter Ustinov, English actor (Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd) (d. 2004)
1922 Christopher Samuel Youd, UK, sci-fi author (Tripods Trilogy), (d. 2012)
1922 Kingsley Amis, English author (Lucky Jim, James Bond Dossier) (d. 1995)
1922 Leo Tindermans, British statesman
1924 Geoffrey Johnson Smith, actor (Norman Loves Rose, Drinking Games)
1924 Henry Mancini, American composer (Pink Panther) (d. 1994)
1924 John Harvey-Jones, industrialist, CEO (ICI) (d. 2008)
1924 Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1976)
1926 Barbara Tizzard, British educator
1927 Edie Adams, American actress, Mrs Ernie Kovacs (Murial Cigar) (d. 2008)
1927 Peter Mark Richman, American actor (Andrew-Dynasty)
1927 Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger), German theologist/dogmaticus
1928 "Night Train" Lane, American football player (d. 2002)
1928 Dick "Night Train" Lane, NFL defensive back (Rams, Cards, Lions)
1929 Ed Townsend, American singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
1929 Roy Hamilton, American singer (You'll Never Walk Alone) (d. 1969)
1930 Frank Page, British broadcaster/actor (Hudson Hawk, Dark Dancer)
1930 Herbie Mann, American jazz flute and sax player (Just Wallin') (d. 2003)
1930 John Robson, British ambassador (Norway)
1931 Piet de Visser, economist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1932 Imre Polyak, Hungary, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1932 Vince Hill, singer (Roses of Picardy, La Vie en Rose)
1933 Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster and actress (Cold Comfort Farm)
1933 Joseph Bottoms, Santa Barbara, California, actor (Blind Date, Braker)
1933 Perry Botkin Jr, NYC, orchestra leader (Bert Convy Show)
1934 Brian Peppiatt, joint CEO (SG Warburg Securities)
1934 Geoffrey Owen, British editor (Financial Times)
1934 Richard Kenshaw, British broadcaster
1934 Robert Stigwood, producer (Saturday Night Fever, Grease)
1935 Bobby Vinton, American singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue)
1935 Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler, blues singer/guitarist
1935 Sarah Kirsch, German poet
1936 James Rand, British judge (Advocate General)
1938 Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician
1938 Michael Hirst, chief constable (Leicestershire England)
1938 Rich Rollins, American baseballer
1939 Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor (d. 2008)
1939 Donald MacCormick, British broadcaster
1939 Dusty Springfield (Mary O'Brien), English singer (Growing Pains) (d. 1999)
1939 John DeLaFose, zydeco Musician
1939 Margaretha de Boer, Dutch minister (PvdA)
1939 Reinier Lucassen, Dutch painter (Kuifje contra James Union)
1940 Benoît Bouchard, French-Canadian politician
1940 David Holford, cricketer (cousin of G S Sobers WI leg-spin all-rounder)
1940 Lord Camoys, deputy CEO (Barclays de Zoete Wedd)
1940 Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark (1972)
1940 Paul Cox, actor (Exile, Golden Braid, Touch Me)
1940 Stephen Lawrence Pruslin, composer
1941 Cliff Stearns, (Rep-R-Florida)
1942 Jim Lonborg, American baseball player
1942 Frank Williams, English Formula One constructor and team principal (WilliamsF1)
1943 Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (d. 2000)
1943 Ewald Vanvugt, author (Kiss of Delight, Seed of Love)
1943 Johnny Watkins, cricketer (NSW leg-spinner, bowled 6 overs for Aust)
1943 Ruth Madoc, British actress (Hi Di Hi)
1944 Bob Montgomery, Nashville, Tennessee, last Major League Baseball player to bat without a helmet (1979)
1944 Dennis Russell Davies, composer
1944 Richard Bradshaw British opera conductor
1945 Goran Antunac, Yugoslavia, International Chess Master (1975)
1945 Stefan Grossman, NYC, country blues singer (Yazoo Basin Boogie)
1945 Tom Allen, American politician
1946 Margot Adler, American journalist
1947 Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician and songwriter (Baker Street)
1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor), American basketball player, NBA center (Mil Bucks, LA Lakers)
1948 Lynne Franks, British public relations consultant
1949 Melody Patterson, American actress
1950 David Graf, American actor (Police Academy 2, 3, 4, 6) (d. 2001)
1951 Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
1951 Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer and photographer
1951 John Bentley, rocker
1951 Mordechai Ben David, Jewish singer
1951 Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, French photographer
1952 Bill Belichick, American football coach
1952 Billy West, American voice actor
1952 Michel Blanc, French actor
1952 Peter Westbrook, St Louis Mo, US fencer (Olympic-bronze-88, 92, 96)
1953 J. Neil Schulman, American writer
1953 Jay O Sanders, Austin TX, actor (Meeting Venus, V I Warshawski)
1953 Peter Garrett, Australian singer (Midnight Oil) and politician
1954 Ellen Barkin, American actress (Big Easy, Sea of Love)
1954 John Bowe, Australian racing driver
1955 Bruce Bochy, American baseball player and manager
1955 Charlotte Morrison, English large landowner/multi-millionaire
1955 Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
1956 David McDowell Brown, American astronaut (d. 2003)
1956 Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
1956 Marty Dickerson, Middletown OH, golfer (1994 ShopRite Classic-22nd)
1958 Philip Bainbridge, British cricketeer
1959 Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player
1959 Anne Kursinski, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-silver-96)
1959 Scott McKinsey, American television director
1960 Pierre Littbarski, German footballer
1960 Rafael Benítez, Spanish football manager
1960 Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (d. 2007)
1961 Doris Dragovic, Croatian singer
1962 David Pate, LA Cal, tennis star
1962 Ian MacKaye, American musician, (Fugazi, Minor Threat, Cyrano de Bergerac)
1962 Jeanne Golay, Coral Gables Fla, cyclist (Olympics-16th-92, 96)
1963 Garry Galley, Montreal, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1963 Hu Na, China, tennis star
1963 Jimmy Osmond, American pop singer (The Osmonds, Donnie & Marie)
1963 Nick Berry, Britain, actor (Wicksy-EastEnders)
1963 Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer (Pakistani & Essex batsman)
1964 Dave Pirner, American rock singer (Soul Asylum)
1964 David Kohan, American television producer
1964 Robert Kelker-Kelly, Wichita Kansas, (Bo-Days of our Live)
1965 Caren Kemner, Quincy IL, volleyball outside hitter (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1965 Gerardo, rocker
1965 Jon Cryer, American actor (Pretty in Pink, Superman IV)
1965 Martin Lawrence, American actor (Martin)
1965 Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong actor and director
1966 Lewis Tillman, NFL running back (Chic Bears)
1967 Charles Evans, NFL running back (Minnesota Vikings)
1968 Grace Kim, Korea, tennis star
1968 Vickie Guerrero, WWE professional wrestling personality
1969 Fernando Viña, American baseball player, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1969 Melinda Rich, Muskegon Mich, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1993)
1969 Patrik Järbyn, Swedish alpine ski racer
1970 Dero Goi, German musician of industrial group Oomph!
1970 Fran Robinson, California, actress (Lauren-Charlie & Company)
1970 Ian Franklin, CFL cornerback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1970 Steve Emtman, NFL defensive tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1970 Walt Williams, American basketball player, NBA forward and guard (Toronto Raptors, Miami Heat)
1971 Frederik Nilsson, Stockholm SWE, IHL forward (Team Sweden, KC (IHL))
1971 Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor
1971 Natasha Zvereva, Minsk Belarus, tennis ace (finals 1995 Indian Wells)
1971 Peter Billingsley, American actor
1971 Seigo Yamamoto, Japanese racing driver
1971 Selena Quintanilla, Mexican American singer (Grammy-1994) (d. 1995)
1971 Trey Maples, Wheat Ridge Colo, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Canadian)
1972 Conchita Martinez, Spanish tennis player (1996 final Indian Wells)
1972 Jim Ballard, NFL/WLAF quarterback (Scottish Claymores, Buffalo Bills)
1972 Mario Bradley, WLAF cornerback (London Monarchs)
1973 Aliaune Thiam Akon, American singer and song writer
1973 Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer
1974 Mat Devine, American singer (Kill Hannah)
1974 Valarie Rae Miller, American actress
1974 Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress, singer and director
1975 Kelli O'Hara, American singer/actress
1975 Nick Pickard, British actor
1975 Nicky Sualua, NFL fullback (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 Sean Maher, American actor
1976 Dan Kellner, American fencer
1976 Lukas Haas, American actor (Music Box, Witness, Testament, Leap of Faith)
1976 Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
1977 Akon, American singer
1977 Alek Wek, Sudanese supermodel
1977 Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
1978 Lara Dutta, Indian actress
1978 Matthew Lloyd, Australian rules footballer
1979 Christijan Albers, Dutch Formula One driver
1979 Sean Costello, American blues musician
1979 Sixto Peralta, Argentine footballer
1980 Jesse Tendler, Madison Wisc, actor (Nick-Ellen Burstyn Show)
1980 Paul London, American professional wrestler
1981 Anestis Agritis, Greek footballer
1982 Barry Jones, Scottish magician
1982 Boris Diaw, French basketball player
1982 Gina Carano, American Mixed Martial Arts fighter, Actress (Haywire)
1982 Jonathan Vilma, American football player
1983 Cat Osterman, American softball pitcher
1983 George Patis, Greek badminton player
1983 Marié Digby, American Singer
1984 Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American author
1984 Noah Fleiss, American actor
1984 Tucker Fredricks, American speed skater
1985 Benjamín Rojas, Argentine actor and singer
1985 Luol Deng, British-Sudanese basketball player
1985 Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian
1986 Paul di Resta, British racing driver
1987 Aaron Lennon, English footballer
1987 Milton J Cross, NYC, TV announcer (Met Opera Auditions of the Air)
1987 Neil Haskell, Finalist of SYTYCD Season 3
1990 Heather Fulton, American marine biologist
1990 Lily Loveless, British actress
1990 Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
1992 Sébastien of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg
1993 Mirai Nagasu, American Figure Skater
1994 Liliana Mumy, American actress
2003 Alina Foley, child actress
2008 Eléonore of Belgium, Belgian princess

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69 Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
665 Fructuosus of Braga
744 al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph
924 Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy
1113 Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (b. 1050)
1118 Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily
1198 Duke Frederick I of Austria
1446 Filippo Brunelleschi, architect
1496 David van Bourgondie, Bishop of Utrecht (1456-96)
1529 Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake
1619 Denijs Calvaert/Caluwaert (Dionisio Fiamingo), Flemish painter
1645 Tobias Hume, English composer
1687 George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628)
1689 Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
1743 Cornelis van Bijnkershoek, Dutch lawyer (Roman law)
1756 Jacques Cassini, Fr astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn)
1760 Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward
1783 Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
1788 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
1825 John Henry Fuseli, painter/art writer (Tracks in the Snow)
1828 Francisco de Goya (y Lucientes), Spanish painter (b. 1746)
1846 Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)
1850 Marie (Gresholtz) Tussaud, maker of wax figures, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum (b. 1761)
1858 Johann Baptist Cramer, Ger/Brit pianist/composer/publisher
1859 Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
1860 Carolina, duchess of Berry/daughter of crown prince of Naples
1865 Robert C Tyler, US Confederate brig-general, dies in battle
1870 Anatoli O Demidov, Russian ruler of Donato/traveller
1876 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, compose
1879 Bernadette Soubirous, Saint of the Roman Catholic Church and visionary of Lourdes, France during 1858 (b. 1844)
1881 George William Martin, composer
1888 Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
1899 Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b. 1875)
1904 Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
1904 Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
1914 George William Hill, American astronomer (moon orbit) (b. 1838)
1915 Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
1916 Tom Horan, cricketer (15 Tests for Aust, 471 runs, 11 wickets)
1920 John Conrad Nordqvist, composer
1924 Jack Board, cricket wicket-keeper (Eng in 6 Tests 1898-1906)
1928 Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
1929 Abraham van Stolk Jzn, art collector
1930 José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
1938 Bertram Wagstaff Mills, circus proprietor
1938 Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
1941 Josiah Charles Stamp, 1st baron/statisician
1946 Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
1947 Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
1949 Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed
1951 Emile Erens, Dutch hagiographer (Pastor of Ars)
1955 Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded
1955 David Kirkwood, Scottish labor leader (b. 1872)
1958 Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
1959 Charles Halton
1968 Edna Ferber, American author (American Beauty) (b. 1885)
1968 Fay Bainter, American actress (Jezebel, Our Town, State Fair) (b. 1893)
1970 Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
1972 Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer (NobeL Prize laureate 1968) (b. 1899)
1973 Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944)
1978 Lucius Clay, American general, US zone W-Germany (airlift) (b. 1897)
1981 Eric Hollies, cricketer (13 Tests for England, 44 wickets)
1985 Scott Brady (Gerald Tierney), American actor (Shotgun Slade) (b. 1924)
1988 Abu Jihad (Khalil al-Wazzir), PLO-leader, murdered
1988 Clifford Roach, cricketer (16 Tests early in WI cricket history)
1988 Jacques de Kadt, Dutch 2nd chamber member (soc-dem)
1988 Khalil al-Wazir, PLO milt commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos
1988 Warde Donovan
1989 Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1940)
1989 Tawfieq Yusuf Awwaad, Lebanese writer
1991 David Lean, British film director (28 academy awards) (b. 1908)
1992 Andy Russell, American singer (Your Hit Parade) (b. 1919)
1992 Frank Killmond
1992 Neville Brand, American actor (Stalag 17) (b. 1920)
1993 John P W Meefout, sculptor (Laying wife)
1994 John McLiam
1994 Ralph Waldo Ellison, American writer (Invisible Man) (b. 1913)
1994 Ron Vawter, US actor (Roy Cohn, Silence of the Lambs)
1994 Samuel Selvon, author
1995 Arthur English, English actor and comedian (b. 1919)
1995 Cheyenne Brando, daughter of Marlon, commits suicide
1995 Cyril Enfield, film Director
1995 Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982)
1995 Stewart Myles MacPherson, broadcaster
1996 Lucille Bremer, dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies)
1996 Madeleine Bourdouxhe, writer
1996 Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist
1996 Stavros Spyros Niarchos, Greek shipowner, shipping tycoon (b. 1909)
1997 Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
1997 Emilio Azcarraga Milmo, media tycoon
1997 Mae Boren Axton, song writer (Heartbreak Hotel)
1997 Michael Stroka, actor (Aristede-Dark Shadows)
1997 Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
1998 Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
1998 Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
1999 Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1946)
2001 Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)
2002 Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2002 Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
2002 Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
2003 Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (b. 1930)
2003 Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909)
2005 Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
2005 Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
2005 Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)
2006 Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (b. 1983)
2007 Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
2007 G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954)
2007 Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (b. 1962)
2007 Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, Canadian instructor of French at Virginia Tech (b. 1958)
2007 Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
2007 Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Holocaust survivor (b. 1930)
2007 Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (b. 1915)
2007 Seung-Hui Cho, Korean American murderer (b. 1984), see List of victims of the Virginia Tech massacre
2008 Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
2008 Joseph Solman, American painter (b. 1909)
2010 Rasim Delic, Bosnian military chief of staff and war criminal (b. 1949)
2012 Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Danish shipping Magnate
2013 Pat Summerall, American NFL player and sportscaster
2016 Peter Tolson, English rocker (Pretty Things)

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