September 7th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence day (Brazil) * (see below)
Victory Day (Mozambique)
Defence Day (Pakistan) * (see below)
National Threatened Species Day (Australia)
Flag Day (Kuwait) * CLICK HERE
Neither Rain nor Snow Day
Grandma Moses Day
Google Commemoration Day
Christian Feast Day of Anastasius the Fuller
Christian Feast Day of Clodoald
Christian Feast Day of Gratus of Aosta Christian Feast Day of Regina
* Independence day (Brazil) celebrates the independence of Brazil from Portugal in 1822.
* Defence Day (Pakistan), a Pakistani Air Force Day since 1971. (Pakistan)
Fête de la Églantier Translation: Wild Rose Day (French Republican) The 21st day of the Month of Fructidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Before you call for one for the road be sure you know the road."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Smith and Kerns
1 Part Dark Creme De Cacao
1 Part Cream
Fill With Club Soda
Wine of The Day
Coyote Canyon Winery (2009) Life is a Rosé
Horse Heaven Hills
$20
Beer of The Day
Otter Creek Copper Ale
Brewer - Otter Creek Brewing / Wolaver's, Vermont, United States
Style - Altbier
ABV - 5.4%
Joke of The Day
A farmer wanted to have his hens serviced, so he went to the market looking for a rooster. He was hoping he could get a special rooster, one that could service all of his many hens.
He told this to the market vendor. The vendor replied, "I have just the rooster for you". Dom here is the horniest rooster you will ever see!"
So the farmer took Dom back to the farm. Before setting him loose in the henhouse though, he gave Dom a little pep talk.
"Dom", he said, "I'm counting on you to do your stuff."
And without a word Dom strutted into the henhouse. Dom was as fast as he was furious, mounting each hen like a thunderbolt. There was much squawking and many feathers flying, till Dom had finished having his way with each hen.
But Dom didn't stop there. He went in to the barn and mounted all the horses, one by one and still at the same frantic pace. Then he went to the pighouse, where he did the same.
The farmer, watching all of this with disbelief, cried out, "Stop, Dom,you'll kill yourself."
But Dom continued, seeking out each farm animal in the same manner.Well, the next morning, the farmer looked out and saw Dom lying there on his lawn. His legs were up in the air, his eyes rolled back, and his long tongue hanging out. A buzzard was already circling above Dom.
The farmer walked up to Dom saying, "Oh you poor thing, look what you did, you've gone and killed yourself. I warned you my little buddy."
"Shhhhh," Dom whispered. "The buzzard's getting closer."
Quote of The Day
"Statistically, 6 out of 7 dwarfs are not happy."
- Unknown
September Observances
AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month
All American Breakfast Month
Apple Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Baby Safety Month
Backpack Safety America Month
Be Kind to Editors and Writers Month
Better Breakfast Month
Bourbon Heritage Month
Bumbershoot Festival (Seattle, Washington, USA)
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Childrens' Good Manners Month
Chili Peppers and Figs Month
Classical Music Month
College Savings Month
Craniofacial Acceptance Month
Eat Chicken Month
Fall Hat Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month
Happy Cat Month
Healthy Aging Month
Healthy Aging Month
Hunger Action Month
International Guide Dogs Month
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
Library Card Sign-Up Month
Little League Month
Menopause Awareness Month
Million Minute Family Challenge (September-December)
Mold Awareness Month
National 5-A-Day Month
National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month
National Biscuit Month
National Blueberry Popsicle Month
National Campus Safety Month
National Chicken Month
National Child Awareness Month
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
National Cholesterol Education Month
National Civics Awareness Month
National Coupon Month
National Courtesy Month
National DNA, Geonomics & Stem Cell Education Month
National Food Safety Education Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also June)
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)
National Home Furnishings Month
National Honey Month
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month
National Mushroom Month
National Organic Harvest Month
National Osteopathic Medicine Month
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (ovarian.org)
National Pediculosis (Head Lice) Prevention Month
National Piano Month
National Potato Month
National Preparedness Month
National Prime Beef Month
National Prosper Where You Are Planted Month
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month
National Recovery Month
National Rice Month
National Sickle Cell Month
National Skin Care Awareness Month
National Wilderness Month
One-on-One Month
Passion Fruit and Peach Month
Peas and Radish Month
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month
Pleasure Your Mate Month
Reunion Planning Month
Save The Koala Month
Sea Cadet Month
Self Improvement Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Southern Gospel Music Month
Sports and Home Eye Health and Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
United Planet Month
Update Your Resume Month
Virtual AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Days
Whole Grains Month
Women's Friendship Month
World Animal Remembrance Month
World Leukemia, Lymphoma And Myeloma Awareness Month
Observances this Week
National Childhood Injury Prevention Week, First Week of September
International Enthusiasm Week, First Week of September
National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India), First Week of September
National Waffle Week, First Week of September
Self-University Week, First Week of September
Suicide Prevention Week, First Week of September
Septemberfest, First Week of September
National Arbor Week, (South Africa) First Week of September * CLICK HERE
Historical Events on September 7th
(1251 BC) A solar eclipse on this date might mark the birth of legendary Heracles at Thebes, Greece.
70 A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.
1159 Ottaviano de Montecello elected as anti-Pope
1191 Third Crusade: Battle of Arsuf Richard I of England defeats Saladin at Arsuf.
1497 Sailor Perkin Warbeck becomes English King Richard IV
1525 Trial against "heretic" John Pistorius ends in the Hague
1543 Duke Willem of Gulik surrenders to emperor Charles V
1596 Dutch fleet bombs Banten Java
1599 Earl van Essex & Irish rebel Tyrone signs treaty
1652 Battle of Monte Christo: Dutch fleet under J van Galen beat English
1701 Germany, England & Netherlands sign anti-French covenant
1714 Treaty of Baden: Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI & France, ends War of Spanish Succession, French retain Alsace, Austria gets bank of Rhine
1776 World's first submarine attack: the American submersible craft Turtle attempts to attach a time bomb to the hull of British Admiral Richard Howe's flagship HMS Eagle in New York Harbor.
1800 Zion AME Church dedicated (NYC)
1812 Battle of Borodino of the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon defeats the Russian army of Alexander I near the village of Borodino.
1813 "Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer to US (Troy Post of NY)
1818 Carl III of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway, in Trondheim.
1821 The Republic of Gran Colombia (a federation covering much of present day Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, and Ecuador) is established, with Simón Bolívar as the founding President and Francisco de Paula Santander as vice president.
1822 Dom Pedro I, son of king Joao VI, declares Brazil independent from Portugal on the shores of the Ipiranga creek in São Paulo (National Day).
1860 Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin" sinks on Lake Michigan, with the loss of around 400 lives.
1863 Federal naval expedition arrives off Sabine Pass
1864 Atlanta, Georgia, is evacuated on orders of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman during American Civil War.
1871 English warship HMS Captain fired on in the Bay of Biskaje, 500 killed
1876 In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens (Cole, Bob, and Jim Younger arrested).
1880 Geo Ligowsky patents device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters
1888 Edith Eleanor McLean is 1st baby place in an incubator
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Engineer's Thumb" (BG)
1891 Captain Frederick Lugards army reaches Kavalli Equatoria
1892 James Corbett KOs John Sullivan in 21 for heavyweight boxing title
1893 The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, to become the first Italian football club, is established by British expats.
1895 The first game of what would become known as rugby league football is played, in England, starting the 1895-96 Northern Rugby Football Union season.
1896 A H Whiting wins the First closed-circuit automobile race, on a track at Cranston, RI
1897 George Davis (Giants) HR off Sport McAllister (Spiders) in DH
1901 The Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends with the signing of the Boxer Protocol (Peace of Peking).
1903 Federation of American Motorcyclists organized in NY
1906 Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
1907 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1907 Sutro's ornate Cliff House in SF destroyed by fire
1909 Eugene Lefebvre (1878–1909), while test piloting a new French-built Wright biplane, crashes at Juvisy France when his controls jam. Lefebvre dies, becoming the first 'pilot' in the world to lose his life in a powered heavier-than-air craft.
1911 French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
1912 Eddie Collins steals record 6 bases in 9-7 Athletics win over Detroit
1914 NY Post Office Building opens to public
1915 35th US Mens Tennis, Wm Johnston beats M E McLoughlin (16 60 75 108)
1915 John Gruelle patents his Raggedy Ann doll
1915 St Louis Dave Davenport no-hits Chicago (Federal League), 3-0
1916 Giants beat Brooklyn 4-1, to launch NY's record 26-game winning streak
1916 Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress
1916 Federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by(Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
1921 In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant, a two-day event, is held.
1922 In Aydin, Turkey, independence of Aydin, from Greek occupation.
1923 Boston Red Sox Howard Ehmke no-hits Phila A's, 4-0
1923 Interpol forms in Vienna
1923 Mary Katherine Campbell (Ohio), 16, crowned 2nd Miss America 1922-23
1927 Philo Farnsworth demonstrates 1st use of TV in SF
1927 The University of Minas Gerais is founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, by GovernorAntônio Carlos.
1927 The first fully electronic television system is achieved by Philo Taylor Farnsworth.
1928 Sophie Treadwell's "Machinal," premieres in NYC
1929 Steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. 136 lives are lost.
1932 Earl Grace, ends NL catcher record streak of 110 cons errorless games
1934 Luxury liner "Morro Castle" burns off NJ, killing 134
1936 Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) begins operation
1936 The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
1939 Radio NY Worldwide-WRUL begins radio transmission
1940 54th US Womens Tennis, Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (62 63)
1940 60th US Mens Tennis, McNeill beats Robert Riggs (46 68 63 63 75)
1940 Romania loses Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria in the Treaty of Craiova.
1940 The Blitz Nazi Germany begins to rain bombs on London. This will be the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing in World War II. Luftwaffe loses 41 bombers above England
1941 61st US Mens Tennis, R L Riggs beats Francis Kovacs (2d 57 61 63 63)
1942 62nd US Mens Tennis, F Schroeder Jr beats F Parker (86 75 36 46 62)
1942 First flight of the Consolidated B-32 Dominator.
1942 German occupiers take silver anniversary coins in battle
1942 8,700 Jews of Kolomyia (western Ukraine) sent by German Gestapo to death camp in Belzec.
1942 Transport nr 29 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1943 987 Dutch Jewish transported to Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1943 A fire at the Gulf Hotel in Houston, Texas, kills 55 people.
1943 The German 17th Army begins its evacuation of the Kuban River bridgehead (Taman Peninsula) in southern Russia and moves across the Strait of Kerch to the Crimea in World War II.
1944 SS-general Kurt Meyer takes Durnal Belgium
1944 Strongest Hurricane of century in Netherlands (wind force 12)
1945 Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender
1945 Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines.
1945 Joe Kuhel hits inside-the-park HR, only HR hit by a Senator all season at Washington's Griffith Stadium
1947 Battles between Hindus & Moslems in New Delhi
1948 1st use of synthetic rubber in asphaltic concrete, Akron Oh
1950 Monasteries shut down in Hungary
1952 66th US Womens Tennis, Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (63 75)
1952 72nd US Mens Tennis, Frank Sedgman beats Gardnar Mulloy (61 62 63)
1952 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Carrollton Golf Tournament
1952 General Naguib forms Egyptian government/becomes premier
1952 NY Yankees Johnny Mize's pinch-hit grand slam gives Yanks a 5-1 win at Washington He has now HRed in all 15 major league parks
1952 Outfielder Don Grate throws a baseball a record 434'1" (Tenn)
1952 Whitey Ford becomes 5th pitcher to hurl consecutive 1 hitters
1953 67th US Womens Tennis, Maureen Connolly beats Doris Hart (62 64)
1953 73rd US Mens Tennis, Tony Trabert beats Elias V Seixas Jr (63 62 63)
1953 Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1953 Roy Campanella sets catcher record of 125 (en route to 142) RBIs
1954 Integration begins in Wash DC & Balt MD public schools
1955 Yankees Whitey Ford is 5th to throw consecutive 1-hitters, beats A's
1956 Bell X-2 sets Unofficial manned aircraft altitude record 126,000'+
1957 71st US Womens Tennis, Althea Gibson beats A Louise Brough (63 62)
1957 WWL TV channel 4 in New Orleans, LA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 72nd US Womens Tennis, Althea Gibson beats Darlene R Hard (36 61 62)
1958 78th US Mens Tennis, A J Cooper beats M J Anderson (62 36 46 108 86)
1960 Ljudmila Shevcova runs female olympic record 800m (2:04.3)
1963 1st US TV appearance of Beatles (Big Night Out-ABC)
1963 American Bandstand moves to California, & airs once a week on Saturday
1963 The Pro Football Hall of Fame opens in Canton, Ohio with 17 charter members.
1964 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Valhalla Golf Open
1965 Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Miss & La
1965 China announces that it will reinforce its troops in the Indian border.
1965 In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlight, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula during the Vietnam War.
1966 KTNE TV channel 13 in Alliance, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 83rd US Womens Tennis, Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (62 62)
1969 Carol Mann wins LPGA Molson's Canadian Golf Open
1969 Rod Laver completes his 2nd grand slam winning US Tennis Open
1969 US amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60)
1970 An anti-war rally is held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, attended by John Kerry, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland.
1970 Bill Shoemaker sets record for most lifetime wins as a jockey (passing Johnny Longden).
1970 Donald Boyles sets record for highest parachute jump from a bridge, by leaping off of 1,053' Royal George Bridge in Colorado
1970 Fighting between Arabic guerillas and government forces in Amman, Jordan.
1970 Jerry Lewis' 5th Muscular Dystrophy telethon
1970 PLO hijacks 4 planes
1970 White Sox use record 41 players in doubleheader & lose both games
1973 Jackie Stewart becomes Formula 1 world champion
1973 Mike Storen becomes American Basketball Association's 4th commissioner
1974 "Irene" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 605 performances
1974 Shirley Cothran (Texas), 21, crowned 47th Miss America 1975
1975 95th US Mens Tennis, Manuel Orantes beats Jimmy Connors (64 63 63)
1975 Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1975 Cincinnati Reds, win earliest NL division title
1975 Last day of 1st-class cricket for Hanif Mohammad
1975 Manuel Orantes upsets #1 seed Jimmy Connors to win US Open
1976 US courts find George Harrison guilty of plagiarism (He's So Fine)
1977 Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with Somalia
1977 The Torrijos-Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed by President Carter & General Herrera . The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
1978 First game of Boston Massacre, Yanks beat Red Sox 15-3
1978 British Prime Minister James Callaghan announces that he will not call a general election for October, considered to be a major political blunder
1978 While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Giullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from in a specially-designed umbrella.
1979 5 day MUSE concert against nuclear energy opens at Madison Square Garden, NY
1979 The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for USD $1.5 billion to avoid bankruptcy.
1979 The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) makes its debut.
1980 32nd Emmy Awards shown despite boycott, Taxi, Lou Grant, Ed Asner & Barbara Bel Geddes
1980 100th US Mens Tennis, John McEnroe beats Bjorn Borg (76 61 67 57 64)
1980 Beth Daniel wins LPGA World Series of Women's Golf
1980 Cape Verde adopts its constitution
1980 Earnest Gray becomes 2nd NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs St Louis)
1980 John McEnroe & Bjorn Borg stage one of the greatest US Open finals as 21 year old McEnroe fends off Borg to win his 2nd straight title
1980 Oakland A's pitch record 78th complete game of season
1980 Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Barth Golf Classic
1981 Cleveland Browns' Brian Sipe sets club record with 57 pass attempts
1981 Jerry Lewis' 16th Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $31,500,000
1981 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1981 Judge Wapner & People's Court premier on TV
1981 West Tampa Fl defeats Rich Va, 6-4 to win American Legion World Series
1983 Drury Gallagher sets fastest swim around Manhattan (6h41m35s)
1984 Met Dwight Gooden's 11 strikeouts gives him NL rookie record 236
1985 99th US Womens Tennis, Hana Mandlikova beats M Navratilova (76 16 76)
1985 Mary Decker Tabb Slaney runs US 3K female record (8:25.83)
1986 100th US Womens Tennis, M Navratilova beats Helena Sukova (63 62)
1986 106th US Mens Tennis, Ivan Lendl beats Miloslav Mecir (64 62 60)
1986 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Cellular One-Ping Golf Championship
1986 Cleveland Browns becomes 1st team in NFL history to have a play reviewed by instant replay, Chicago 41, Browns 31
1986 Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of Capetown, the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.
1986 Failed assassination attempt on Chilean dictator Pinochet, 5 killed
1986 Gen. Augusto Pinochet, president of Chile, escapes attempted assassination.
1986 Ivan Lendl defeats Miloslav Mecir for US Tennis open title
1987 Jerry Lewis' 22nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $39,021,723
1987 Netherlands routes 2 minesweepers to Persian Gulf
1987 Rosie Jones wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1987 South Africa frees Dutch anthropologist, Anc'er Klaas de Young
1988 5th MTV Awards
1988 Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after 9 days on the Mir space station.
1988 Guy Lafleur, Tony Esposito & Brad Park inducted in NHL Hall of Fame
1988 NY Daily News reports boxer Mike Tyson is seeing a psychiatrist
1988 Security & Exchange Commission accuses Drexel of violating security laws
1990 "Street Scene" opens at NY State Theater NYC for 6 performances
1990 Marjorie Judith Vincent (Ill), 25, crowned 64th Miss America 1991
1991 1st South African international competition in 25 years, gymnastics
1991 105th US Womens Tennis, Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova (76 61)
1991 Die Laughing wins Messenger Stakes
1991 Harry Hamlin weds Nicollette Sheridan
1991 Monica Seles (17) defeats Martina Navratilova (34) to win US Open
1991 Ty Detmer of Brigham Young passes NCAA record 11,606 yards
1992 Army of Ciskei homeland kills 28 ANC demonstrators
1992 Baseball commissioner Faye Vincent resigns
1992 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Rail Charity Golf Classic
1993 Brazil votes over importing monarchy
1993 Cards Mark Whiten, hits 4 HRs & 12 RBIs in 2nd game of doubleheader
1994 Jingyi Le/Ying Shan/Ying Le/Bin Lu swimming 4x100 freestyle (3:37.91)
1995 12th MTV Awards
1995 STS 69 (Endeavour 9) launches into orbit
1995 Sen Bob Packwoord (R-Ore) resigns rather than face expulsion
1996 American Hip-Hop star Tupac Shakur is fatally shot four times on the Las Vegas strip after leaving the Tyson-Seldon boxing match. Doctors removed a failing lung and Tupac showed signs of progress in his recovery before passing away six days later due to hemorrhaging that the doctors were unable to stop.
1996 Women's championship at US Tennis Open
1997 111th US Womens Tennis, Martina Hingis beats Venus Williams (60 64)
1997 117th US Mens Tennis, Patrick Rafter beats Greg Rusedski (63 62 46 75)
1997 Boone Valley Senior Golf Classic
1997 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
1997 Karrie Webb wins Safeway LPGA Golf Championship
1997 Men's championship at US Tennis Open
1997 Steve Jones wins Canadian Golf Open with a 275
1997 The first test flight of the F-22 Raptor takes place.
1998 Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University
1998 Jerry Lewis' 33rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises
1999 A 5.9 magnitude earthquake rocks Athens, rupturing a previously unknown fault, killing 143, injuring more than 500, and leaving 50,000 people homeless.
2004 Hurricane Ivan, a Category 5 hurricane hitting Grenada, killing 39 and damaging 90% of its buildings.
2005 First presidential election was held in Egypt.
2008 The US Government takes control of the two largest largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
2011 Plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team
2012 64 people are killed and 715 injured after a series of earthquakes in south-west China
2012 Canada closes its Iranian embassy and expels Iranian diplomatic staff out of Canada
2012 US drone attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, South Somalia
2013 14 Syrian rebels and 2 civilians are killed by heavy government shelling of Damascus
2013 15 people are killed by a restaurant car bombing by Al-Shabaab in Mogadishu, Somalia
2013 Tony Abbott becomes Prime Minister of Australia after a Liberal-National Coalitions wins the election
2014 Asteroid 2014 RC makes a close approach to Earth (39,900 km; 24,800 mi)
2014 Bob and Mike Bryan win their fifth US Open men's tennis doubles
2015 British archaeologists announce the discovery of a Neolithic "superhenge" under 3ft of earth at Durrington Walls
Born on September 7th
786 Emperor Saga, 52nd Emperor of Japan (d. 842)
1438 Louis II, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1471)
1471 Frederik I, king of Denmark/Norway (1523-33)
1524 Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (d. 1583)
1533 Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1558-1603), daughter of Henry VIII and Anna Boleyn (d. 1603)
1631 Clemens Thieme, composer
1635 Pal Esterhazy, composer
1674 Ernest Augustus (d. 1728)
1683 Mary Anne of Austria, Archduchess of Austria and Queen consort of Portugal (d. 1754)
1694 Johan Ludvig, Danish policitian (d. 1763)
1703 Jean Monnet, composer
1705 Matthäus Günther, German painter (d. 1788)
1707 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist, biologist and author (d. 1788)
1726 François-André Danican Philidor, French chess player and composer (d. 1795)
1731 Damasus Brosmann, composer
1731 Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer
1735 Thomas Coutts, Scottish banker
1737 Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist/physicist
1739 Joseph Legros, composer
1740 Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (d. 1814)
1756 Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literature (Disease of Scientists)
1777 Heinrich Stölzel, German musician and composer (d. 1844)
1782 Bernardus JC Dibbets, Dutch baron/general-major (Maastricht)
1784 Frantisek Max Knize, composer
1810 Hermann Heinrich Gossen, Prussian economist (d. 1858)
1811 William Hamsley Emory, Major General (Union volunteers) (d. 1887)
1815 Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treas (Union) (d. 1868)
1815 John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (d. 1866)
1817 Louise of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel), queen of Denmark (d
1818 Thomas Talbot, 31st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1886)
1819 Jean E "Adriaan" van Bevervoorde, journalist (History of Holland)
1819 Thomas A. Hendricks, 21st Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
1829 Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, US, geologist (Geograph Survey 1859-86)
1829 Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German organic chemist, discovered structure of benzene ring (d. 1896)
1831 Alexandre Falguière, French sculptor and painter (d. 1900)
1836 August Toepler, German physicist (d. 1912)
1836 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British PM (L) (1905-08)
1842 Johannes H Zukertort, German chess master (d. 1888)
1851 Edward Ashael Birge, American pioneer in limnology (d. 1950)
1855 William Friese-Greene, British photographer (d. 1921)
1860 Grandma Moses (Anna Maria), American primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket) (d. 1961)
1860 Willem H Nolens, priest/Dutch ambassador to Vatican
1862 Sir Edgar Speyer, American-born British financier and philanthropist (d. 1932)
1864 Giovanni Tebaldini, composer
1866 Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (d. 1947)
1867 Albert Bassermann, German actor (Foreign Correspondant) (d. 1952)
1867 Camilod d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China)
1869 Ben Viljoen, South African Boer general and circus act (d. 1917)
1869 Margot SE Scharten-Antink, Dutch author (Catherina, Sprotje)
1870 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok), pilot, explorer and adventurer (d. 1938)
1870 Thomas Curtis, American athlete (d. 1944)
1876 C.J. Dennis, Australian poet and writer (d. 1938)
1877 Mike O'Neill, Irish baseball player (d. 1959)
1879 Nachman N "Neddy" Bamberg, Dutch actor (Haddock Mary)
1880 Attilio Brugnoli, composer
1880 Kurt von Wolfurt, composer
1881 Constantly WL Scheurleer, Dutch archaeologist/banker/art expert
1882 Johanna F Zandstra-Giezen, oldest person in Netherland (died at 111)
1885 Elinor Wylie, American poet and novelist (d. 1928)
1885 Harry Sinclair Lewis, US, writer (Babbitt, Nobel 1930)
1887 Edith L Sitwell, British poet and critic (Wheels) (d. 1964)
1889 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director (KLM)
1889 Bruce F Cummings, English author (Journal of a Disappointed Man)
1891 Roscoe Karns, San Bernadino California, actor (Capt Shafer-Hennesey)
1893 Leslie Hore-Belisha, British Minister of Transport
1899 Leendert A Donker, Dutch Minister of Justice (PvdA)
1900 "Janet" Taylor Caldwell, England, novelist (Melissa)
1900 Emerson Treacy, Phila, actor (California Straight Ahead)
1902 Roy Barcroft (Howard Ravenscroft), Crab Orchard NE, actor (Freckles)
1905 John Whitley, British air-marshal
1906 Filip Gershkovich, composer
1907 Ahmet Adnan Saygun, composer
1908 Max Kaminsky, trumpeter
1908 Michael E DeBakey, American cardiac surgeon, artificial heart pioneer (d. 2008)
1908 Paul Brown, American football player, , NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bengals), coach and executive (d. 1991)
1909 Elia Kazan, Greek-born American film and theater director (Streetcar Named Desire) (d. 2003)
1909 Jo Juda, Dutch musician
1909 Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, singer
1910 John Shea, American speed skater, 500m/1500m (Olympic-gold-1932)
1911 Todor C Zjivkov, Bulgarian Communist leader, president (d. 1998)
1912 David Packard, American electrical engineer and businessman (d. 1996)
1913 Anthony Quayle, British actor and director (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia) (d. 1989)
1913 Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist
1913 Willem C L "Wim" van der Grinten, Dutch lawyer/undersec of Economy
1914 Graeme Bell, Australian pianist and composer
1914 Herbert Delauney Bill Hughes, educationist
1914 Hugo Pfister, composer
1914 Ian Ball, photographer
1914 James Van Allen, American physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts) (d. 2006)
1917 Jacob Lawrence, American painter (d. 2000)
1917 John Cornforth, Australian chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1918 Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher
1919 Alberic Schotte, Belgian cyclist (d. 2004)
1920 Al Caiola, American guitarist
1920 Harri Webb, poet
1921 Josep Lluís Núñez, Spanish President of FC Barcelona (1978 2000)
1922 Arthur Ferrante, pianist/composer (Ferrante & Tachere-Exodus)
1922 Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer
1922 Lucien Jarraud, Canadian radio host (d. 2007)
1923 Louise Suggs, Atlanta GA, LPGA golfer (US Women's Open-1949, 52)
1923 Peter Lawford, British-born American actor (Mrs Miniver, Thin Man) (d. 1984)
1924 Bridie Gallagher, Donegal, Ireland, singer (A Mother's Love's A Blessing, The Boys from County Armagh), (d. 2012)
1924 Charles Braswell, McKinney TX, entertainer
1924 Daniel Ken Inouye, American senator (Sen-D Hawaii, 1963) and Medal of Honor recipient
1924 Hugh Aitken, composer
1924 Leonard Rosenman, Bkln NY, TV composer (Marcus Welby MD)
1925 Allan Blakeney, Canadian politician
1925 Laura Ashley, British designer (d. 1985)
1926 Don Messick, American voice actor (d. 1997)
1926 Erich Juskowiak, German footballer (d. 1983)
1927 Claire L'Heureux-Dubé, French Canadian judge
1927 Don Messick, cartoon voice (Bam-bam, Astro, Scooby-Doo)
1927 Eric Hill, British children's Author
1927 Graham Dudley Whettam, composer
1929 Gil Wolman, situationist
1929 John Milford, Johnstown NY, actor (Lieutenant, Legend of Jesse James)
1929 T(homas) P(atrick) McKenna, Irish actor (Rivals, Holocaust)
1930 Baudouin I, King of Belgium (1951-93) (d. 1993)
1930 Sonny Rollins, American jazz saxophonist (Blue Room)
1930 Thijs van Vlijmen, Dutch MP (CDA)
1931 Al McGuire, US, basketball coach (Marquette)
1931 Charles Camilleri, composer
1931 Cornelis de Wine, graphic artist
1934 Bill Giles, Rochester NY, baseball owner (Philadelphia Phillies)
1934 Little Milton, American musician (d. 2005)
1934 Mary Bauermeister, German artist
1934 Omar Karami, Prime Minister of Lebanon
1935 Abdou Diouf, president of Senegal (1981)
1935 Don Messick, Buffalo NY, cartoon voice (Astro-Jetsons, Bamm Bamm)
1936 Apostolos Kaklamanis, Greek politician
1936 Buddy Holly, American singer (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day; The Crickets) (d. 1959)
1936 Romualds Kalsons, composer
1937 Cüneyt Arkin, Turkish film actor
1937 George Patrick Reid, schoolkeeper
1937 John Phillip Law, American actor (Barbarella, Love Machine) (d. 2008)
1937 Oleg Lobov, Prime Minister of Russia
1937 Olly Wilson, composer
1939 Stanley David Griggs, Portland Oregon, astronaut (STS 51-D), STS 33)
1939 (Benjamin) Latimore, US singer (Let's Straighten It Out)
1940 Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (d. 2009)
1940 Dario Argento, Italian film director (Creepers, Deep Red, Tenebrae)
1941 Mogoboya NN Ramadike, South African politician in Lebowa
1942 Alan Oakes, British Footballer
1942 Garrison Keillor, humorist (Praire Home Companion)
1942 Richard Roundtree, actor (Shaft, Earthquake)
1943 Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada
1943 Lena Valaitis, Lithuanian-German Schlager singer
1944 Bertel Haarder, Danish politician
1944 Earl "the Goat" Manigault, American basketball player (d. 1998)
1945 Jacques Lemaire, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1945 Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled in Netherlands
1946 Alfa Anderson, Bronx NY, rock vocalist (Chicago)
1946 Willie Crawford, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1948 Susan Blakely, Frankfurt Germany, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
1949 Barry Siegel, American journalist
1949 Gloria Gaynor, American disco singer (I Will Survive)
1950 Adriano Panatta, Rome, tennis star (French 1976, Italian 1976)
1950 Julie Kavner, American actress
1950 Peggy Noonan, author (What I Saw at the Revolution)
1951 Chrissie Hynde, American guitarist and singer (The Pretenders)
1951 Julie Kavner, LA California, actress (Brenda-Rhoda, Marge-Simpsons)
1951 Mark Isham, American composer
1951 Mark R McCumber, Jacksonville FL, PGA golfer (1979 Doral-Eastern)
1951 Morris Albert, Brazilian singer
1951 William Katt, US, actor (Butch & Sundance Kid, Carrie)
1952 Ricardo Tormo, Spanish motocyclist (d. 1998)
1952 Susan Blakely, American actress
1953 Ben Bossi, Musician (Romeo Void)
1953 Benmont Tench, American keyboardist (Heartbreakers)
1953 Michael Byron, composer
1954 Corbin Bernsen, American actor (Arnie Becker-LA Law)
1954 Michael Emerson, American actor
1955 Efim Zelmanov, Russian mathematician
1955 Leonard Haze, American-born rock drummer, songwriter and producer (ex-Y&T)
1955 Mira Furlan, Croatian actress
1956 Byron Stevenson, British footballer (d. 2007)
1956 Diane Warren, American song writer
1956 Michael J Feinstein, pianist (Isn't It Romantic)
1957 Jermaine Stewart, American pop singer (Shalamar and Culture Club) (d. 1997)
1957 Margot Chapman, Hawaii, vocals (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
1957 Melvin Edward Mays, one of FBI's most wanted
1958 D Elmina Davies, filmmaker
1958 Nadieh, Dutch singer-guitarist, composer (Haifa Blue)
1959 Jermaine Stewart, rocker
1960 Andrew Voss, Australian television personality
1960 Carlos Martinez, American bowler
1960 David Steele, Birmingham, rock keyboardist (Fine Young Cannibals)
1961 Jean-Yves Thibaudet, French Pianist
1961 LeRoi Moore, American Saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band) (d. 2008)
1962 Jennifer Egan, American novelist
1963 Brent Liles, American punk rock bassist of Social Distortion (d. 2007)
1963 Eric "Eazy-E" Wright, American rapper (N.W.A.) (d. 1995)
1964 Andy Hug, Swiss Seidokaikan karateka and kickbokser (d. 2000)
1965 Andreas Thom, German footballer
1965 Angela Gheorghiu, Romanian opera singer
1965 Bruce Armstrong, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
1965 Danny Harris, Torrance California, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1984)
1965 Darko Pancev, Macedonian footballer
1965 Uta Pippig, German athlete
1966 Christopher Acland, musician
1967 Kathaleen K Cutone, Olenoridge NJ, fig skater (1994 Collegiate champ)
1967 Toby Jones, British actor
1968 Erik Williams, NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
1968 Kyle Stevens, NJ, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
1969 Angie Everhart, American model and actress (Jade, Last Action Hero)
1969 Darren Bragg, American baseball player, outfielder (Seattle Mariners)
1969 Diane Farr, American actress (Numb3rs)
1969 Little Jimmy Urine, American singer (Mindless Self Indulgence)
1969 Rudy Galindo, American figure skater, 1996 US Mens' Champion
1970 Tom Everett Scott, American actor
1971 Briana Scurry, American soccer player, goalkeeper (Olympics-96)
1971 John Burke, NFL tight end (NE Patriots)>>
1971 Tonny Jensen, Australian basketball guard (Olympics-96)
1971 Wesley Leasy, NFL linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 Andreas Pusnik, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
1972 Cedric Davis, NFL cornerback (Arizona Cardinals)
1972 Jason Isringhausen, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Mets)
1972 Slug, American rapper (Atmosphere)
1972 Willy Tate, NFL tight end (KC Chiefs)
1973 Sam Couch, Newport Beach California, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1973 Shannon Elizabeth, American actress
1974 Antonio McDyess, NBA forward (Phoenix Suns)
1974 Mario Frick, Liechtensteiner footballer
1975 Harold Wallace, Costa Rican footballer
1975 Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle road racer (d. 2007)
1976 Marja de Graaf, Miss Universe-Netherlands (1996)
1976 Oliver Hudson, American actor
1977 Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
1977 Jon Macken, British Footballer
1977 Nora Greenwald, American professional wrestler
1978 Devon Sawa, Canadian actor
1978 Erwin Koen, Dutch footballer
1978 G(eneral) A(ustin), American rapper (Another Bad Creation)
1978 Matt Cooke, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 Brian Stokes, American baseball player
1979 Owen Pallett, Canadian musician (Final Fantasy)
1979 Pavol Hochschorner and Peter Hochschorner Slovak slalom canoers
1980 Gabriel Milito, Argentine footballer
1980 Javad Nekounam, Iranian footballer
1980 Mark Prior, American baseball player
1980 Sara Carrigan, Australian cyclist
1981 Gökhan Zan, Turkish footballer
1981 Paul McCoy, American musician (lead singer of 12 Stones)
1982 Andre Dirrell, American boxer
1983 Annette Dytrt, German skater figure
1983 Mehmet Topuz, Turkisher footballer
1983 Philip Deignan, Irish cyclist
1983 Pops Mensah-Bonsu, British basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks
1984 Farveez Maharoof, Sri Lankan cricketer
1984 Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player
1985 Adam Eckersley, English footballer
1985 Rafinha, Brazilian footballer
1985 Tatia Jayne Starkey, Ringo's 1st grandchild
1986 Colin Delaney, American Professional Wrestler
1986 Spectacular Blue Smith, American musician (Pretty Ricky)
1987 Aleksandra Wozniak, Canadian tennis player
1987 Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
1988 Kevin Love, American basketball player
1990 Tanja Kolbe, German ice dancer
1993 Joshua Wilkinson, prince of self proclaimed principality sealand
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355 Claudius Silvanus, Roman usurper
1134 Alfonso I de Strijdvaardige, king of Aragon (1104-34)
1151 Geoffrey Plantagenet, earl of Anjou, Duke of Normandy (b. 1113)
1312 King Ferdinand IV of Castile (b. 1285)
1496 King Ferdinand II of Naples (b. 1469)
1552 Guru Angad Dev, second Sikh Guru (b. 1504)
1559 Robert Estienne, French printer (b. 1503)
1625 Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension executive of Lead
1632 Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia (b. 1572)
1644 Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman (b. 1579)
1654 Yom-Tov Lipmann Heller, Bohemian rabbi (b. 1579)
1655 François Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist and poet (b. 1601)
1657 Arvid Wittenberg, Swedish count, field marshal and privy councilor (b. 1606)
1708 Tekle Haymanot I of Ethiopia
1719 John Harris, English writer
1721 Bernhard Albinus, [Weiss], German artist (Frederik of Prussia)
1729 William Burnet, British-born American statesman (b. 1688)
1775 Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer
1783 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician
1799 John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English physician/nature investigator
1799 Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (b. 1717)
1809 Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (b. 1737)
1809 Caroline von Schelling (Michaelis), German author
1819 Jean-Louis Duport, composer
1820 Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot
1838 Joseph Panny, composer
1840 Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald, French marshal (b. 1765)
1845 Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini
1871 Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns
1871 Mehmed E Ali Pasja, Turkish statesman
1872 Antoni Stolpe, composer
1881 Sidney Clopton Lanier, composer
1881 Sidney Lanier, American writer (b. 1842)
1891 Lorenzo Sawyer, 9th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California (b. 1820)
1892 John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet, secretary Anti-Slavery Society (b. 1807)
1902 Franz Wullner, composer
1907 R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901)
1909 Eugene Lefebvre, dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft
1910 William Holman Hunt, English painter, dies at 83
1914 Lord O'Brien, British nobleman, dies at 73
1920 Simon-Napoléon Parent, politician, premier of the province of Quebec (b. 1855)
1921 Alfred William Rich, watercolor painter (b. 1856)
1925 John Wesley Work, composer
1925 René (Raphael) Viviani, French premier (1914-15)
1933 Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/Foreign minister
1939 Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
1940 Edmund Rumpler, Austria auto/airplane builder
1943 J. P. Morgan, Jr., American financier (b. 1867)
1944 Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer
1946 Paul Zech, writer
1948 Henricus A Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman
1949 José Clemente Orozco, Mexican painter (b. 1883)
1951 Maria Montez, Dominican actress (Arabian Nights, Sudan) (b. 1912)
1954 Bud Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1885)
1955 Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist
1955 Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1956 Charles Burgess Fry, English athlete/cricketer/journalist
1959 Maurice Duplessis, Québec Prime Minister (b. 1890)
1960 Wilhelm Pieck, president of German DR (1949-60)
1961 Pieter S Gerbrandy, lawyer/premier to London 1940-5
1962 Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1892)
1962 Graham Walker, British motorcycle racer (b. 1897)
1962 Isak Dinesen, Danish author (b. 1885)
1962 Karen Blixen-Finecke, Danish author (Out of Africa) (b. 1885)
1962 Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian singer (b. 1895)
1965 Catherine Dale Owen, American actress (Behind Office Doors) (b. 1900)
1966 Al Kelly, double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show)
1969 Everett McKinley Dirksen, (Sen-R)
1971 Spring Byington, American actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride) (b. 1886)
1972 Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian
1973 Hans Lorbeer, writer
1977 Gustave Reese, composer
1978 Keith Moon, English drummer (The Who), dies of drug OD (b. 1946)
1982 Ken Boyer, American baseball player (b. 1931)
1983 Hans Munch, composer
1983 Henry Promnitz, cricketer (5-58 on debut for South Africa 1927-28)
1984 Don Tallon, cricketer (great Queensland & Australian keeper)
1984 Joe Cronin, American baseball player, shortstop, manager and executive (b. 1906)
1986 Ruth Polsky, record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab
1986 Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer, dies at 83
1990 Alan J. P. Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II) (b. 1906)
1990 Earle E. Partridge, United States Air Force general (b. 1900)
1991 Archie N Menzies, playwright/composer (Under Your Hat)
1991 Ben Piazza, actor (Consenting Adults)
1991 Edwin McMillan, American physicist (b. 1907)
1991 John Crosby, US columnist, detective writer
1991 John Lawrence, examined effect of neutron radiation on fabric
1992 Henry Ephron, US screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs)
1992 Indra Kamadjojo (Broekveld), Indon-Dutch dancer (Stille Kracht)
1992 Leo van der Kar, masseur, businessman, founder (Sports Fund)
1994 Dennis Morgan (Stanley), American actor (21 Beacon Street) (b. 1908)
1994 Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist
1994 Godfrey Quigley, British actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita) (b. 1923)
1994 James Clavell, Australian-born American author (Shogun, Tai-Pan) (b. 1924)
1994 Terence Young, British director (Thunderball) (b. 1915)
1995 Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist
1996 Niccolo Castiglioni, composer
1997 Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight)
1997 Derek Taylor, Beatles publicist
1997 Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (b. 1951)
1997 Mobutu Sese Seko, President-Dictator of Zaire (1965-97) (b. 1930)
1999 Jim Keith, American conspiracy theorist (b. 1949)
2001 Billie Lou Watt, American actress (b. 1924)
2001 Spede Pasanen, Finnish television personality (b. 1930)
2002 Cyrinda Foxe, American model (b. 1952)
2002 Erma Franklin, American singer (b. 1938)
2002 Katrin Cartlidge, British actress (b. 1961)
2002 Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer (b. 1923)
2003 The Great Antonio, Canadian eccentric (b. 1925)
2003 Warren Zevon, American musician (b. 1947)
2004 Bob Boyd, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2005 Hope Garber, Canadian actress (b. c. 1924)
2005 Sergio Endrigo, Italian singer (b. 1933)
2008 Dino Dvornik, Croatian singer (b. 1964)
2008 Don Haskins, American College Basketball coach (b. 1930)
2008 Ilarion Ciobanu, Romanian actor (b. 1931)
2008 Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director (b. 1973)
2010 Amar Garibović, Serbian Cross Country Skier (b. 1991)
2010 Barbara Holland, American writer (b. 1933)
2010 Glenn Shadix, American Actor (b. 1952)
2010 John Kluge, American Businessman (b. 1914)
2015 Dickie Moore, American actor (Oliver Twist, Little Men)