• 0772 - Po Tjiu-i, Chinese poet/governor of Hang-tsjow
• 1456 - Wladyslaw Jagiello, king of Bohemia/Hungary (1471/90-1516)
• 1494 - Il Bacchiacca, [Franceso Ubertini], Italian painter
• 1528 - Albrecht V von Wittelsbach, [the Generous], duke of Bavaria
• 1607 - Giovanni Francesco Milanta, composer
• 1610 - Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian
• 1630 - Ferdinand van Apshoven de Jongere, Flemish painter, baptized
• 1690 - Conrad Johann Conrad Beissel, composer
• 1703 - Dieudonne Raick, composer
• 1709 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer
• 1711 - Peregrinus Pogl, composer
• 1734 - Pieter Valck[x], South Netherland sculptor
• 1771 - Armand-Emmanuel Trial, composer
• 1779 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, composer
• 1780 - L‚onard PJ du Bus de Gisignies, gov-general of Neth Indies (1826-30)
• 1788 - Gheorghe Asachi, Romania, writer/humanist/politician
• 1799 - Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky, composer
• 1810 - Fr‚d‚ric Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) [NS]
• 1811 - Robert Christie Buchanan, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1878
• 1820 - George Davis, Atty Gen (Confederacy), died in 1896
• 1820 - Richard Redhead, composer
• 1822 - Albin Francisco Schoepf, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
• 1822 - Charles Champion Gilbert, Brig General (Union volunteers)
• 1826 - John Thomas, composer
• 1828 - James Fleming Fagan, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
• 1828 - Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright
• 1831 - Hiram Bronson Granbury, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
• 1832 - Friedrich Grutzmacher, composer
• 1835 - Matthias J Scheeben, German theologist (Natur und Gnade)
• 1837 - Ion Creanga, Romanian fairy tale author (Amintiti the Copilarie)
• 1837 - William Dean Howells, US, novelist/critic/editor (Atlantic)
• 1838 - Gabriele dell' Addolorata, [Francesco Possenti], Italian priest
• 1841 - Blanche Kelso Bruce, Virginia, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881)
• 1841 - Romualdo Marenco, composer
• 1848 - Augustus Saint-Gaudens, US, sculptor/designer (1907 $20 gold piece)
• 1852 - Theophile Delcass‚, French statesman
• 1856 - Florimond Fonteyne, Flemish priest/politician (Volkseeuw)
• 1858 - Georg Simmel, German philosopher/sociologist
• 1860 - Suzanna Salter, 1st US female mayor/temperance leader
• 1864 - Rebecca Lee, 1st black woman to get a medical degree
• 1865 - Gerard Vissering, Dutch banker/president (Bank of Java)
• 1874 - Jean de Merode, [Marie-Louise B Courtenay], Princess of Neth
• 1878 - Gabriel Edouard Xavier Dupont, composer
• 1880 - Julian Myrick, promoter of junior tennis
• 1880 - Lytton Strachey, biographer/critic (Benson Medal 1923)
• 1882 - Ida Moore, Altoona Ks, actress (Mr Music, Ma & Pa Kettle at Waikiki)
• 1883 - Thomas Shelvin, college footballer great (Yale)
• 1885 - Lionel Atwill, English/US actor (Mystery of the Wax Museum)
• 1886 - Oskar Kokoschka, Russia/Austrian/British, painter (Erasmus Prize 1960)
• 1890 - Jan Duiker, Dutch architect (Zonnestral)
• 1892 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
• 1893 - Theo Frenkel, actor (Footlights, Hague's Comedy)
• 1895 - G B "Duke" Keats, hockey hall of famer (elected 1958)
• 1896 - Dimitri Mitropoulos, Athens Greece, conductor/composer
• 1900 - Donald Keith Falkner, singer
• 1903 - Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, Iowa, jazz cornetist (In a Mist)
• 1904 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra-In the Mood)
• 1904 - Paul Hartman, SF Calif, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction)
• 1905 - Pol le Roy, Flemish author/novelist/writer (Stroom)
• 1907 - Lois Moran, Pitts, actress (Mom-Waterfront)
• 1909 - David Niven, Kirriemuir Scotland, actor (Casino Royale)
• 1909 - Richard de Guide, composer
• 1909 - Robert Selby Taylor, bishop
• 1909 - Terence De Marney, England, actor (Case Thomas-Johnny Ringo)
• 1911 - Harry Golombek, chess grandmaster
• 1913 - Helmut Erich Robert Gernsheim, photogrpaher/collector
• 1914 - Archibald J Gumede, S Afr ANC member/chairman (UDF)
• 1914 - Ralph Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man, Shadow & Cast)
• 1915 - Johannes J "Joop" Klant, Neth/S Afr economist (Madame Sans Gˆne)
• 1917 - Dinah Shore, Winchester Tenn, singer (See the USA in a Chevrolet)
• 1917 - Robert Lowell, poet/pacifist (Lord Weary's Castle, Near the Ocean)
• 1918 - Roger Delgado, London, actor (Agent 8 3/4, Hot Enought for June)
• 1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind)
• 1920 - Alfred Grant Goodman, composer
• 1920 - Harry Caray, baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs)
• 1920 - Howard Nemerov, US, 3rd US poet laureate/novelist (Blue Swallows)
• 1921 - Jack Clayton, film director
• 1921 - Richard Wilbur, 2nd US Poet Laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep)
• 1921 - Terrence "Cardinal" Cooke, (NY)
• 1922 - William M Gaines, publisher (MAD Magazine)
• 1922 - Yitzak Rabin, premier (Israel, 1992-95, Nobel 1994)
• 1923 - Bonita Granville, actress/producer (Perry Mason)
• 1923 - Duncan White, Ceylon, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1948)
• 1924 - Donald "Deke" Kent Slayton, Sparta Wisc, Major USAF/astro (Apollo 18)
• 1925 - Al Rosen, Spartanburg SC, 3rd baseman (AL MVP 1953)/NY Yankee pres
• 1926 - Cesare Danova, Rome Italy, actor (Garrison's Gorillas)
• 1926 - Pete Rozelle, NFL commissioner (1960-89)
• 1926 - Robert Clary, Paris France, actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes)
• 1927 - Harry Belafonte, Harlem NYC, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher)
• 1927 - Lusine Amara, opera/concert singer
• 1927 - Robert Heron Bork, judge, nominated for supreme court
• 1929 - Sonny James, singer (Young Love, Running Bear)
• 1930 - C D Gopinath, cricketer (batted in 8 Tests for India in the 1950's)
• 1930 - Pierre Max Dubois, composer
• 1930 - Raymond St Jacques, actor/director (Cotton Comes to Harlem, Mr Moses)
• 1932 - Jacques Leduc, composer
• 1933 - Istvan Lang, composer
• 1933 - Joan Hackett, NY, actress (Will Penny, One Stone Pony)
• 1933 - Myrlie Evers, politician/commissioner (LA Board of Public works)
• 1934 - Jim "Ed" Brown, Sparkman Ark, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
• 1934 - Riet [M J J] Roosen-van Pelt, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
• 1935 - George G‚n‚reux, Canada, trap shooter (Olympic-gold-1952)
• 1935 - Judith Rossner, author (Looking for Mr Goodbar)
• 1935 - Robert Conrad, [Conrad R Falk], Chicago, actor (Wild Wild West)
• 1936 - Camille E Baly, St Maartens poet (Sonny)
• 1936 - Jean-Edern Hallier, writer
• 1936 - Marion Farouk-Sluglett, political scientist
• 1937 - Jed Allan, Bronx NY, actor (Days of our Lives, CC-Santa Barbara)
• 1938 - Michael J[oseph] Kurland, US, sci-fi author (Infernal Device)
• 1939 - Leo Brouwer, composer
• 1939 - Warren Davis, rocker (Monotones)
• 1940 - David Broome, Show Jumper (world champ-1970)
• 1940 - Ralph Towner, rocker (Oregon)
• 1941 - Michael L Lampton, Williamsport Pa, astronaut
• 1942 - Jerry Fischer, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
• 1942 - Peter Guber, producer (Flashdance)
• 1943 - Benjamin W Jipcho, Mt Elgon Kenya, 3K steeplechase (Oly-silver-1972)
• 1943 - Franz Hohler, writer
• 1943 - Mauro Checcoli, Italy, 3 day equestrian (Olympic-gold-1964)
• 1943 - Piet Veerman, Dutch rock vocalist/guitarist (Cats-Sailin' Home)
• 1943 - Wolfgang Scheidel, German DR, luge (Olympic-gold-1972)
• 1944 - Dirk Benedict, Helena Mont, actor (A-Team, Battlestar Galactica)
• 1944 - John B Breaux, (Rep-D-LA, 1972-88)
• 1944 - John Napier, London, set designer (Royal Shakesphere Company)
• 1944 - Mike D'Abo, rock vocalist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
• 1944 - Roger Daltrey, English rocker/actor/producer (The Who-Tommy)
• 1945 - Burning Spear, [Winston Rodney], Jamaican reggae singer
• 1946 - Lana Wood, [Svetlana Gurdin], Santa Rosa Calif, (Diamonds are Forever)
• 1946 - Tony Ashton, Blackburn England, rocker (Ashton, Gardner & Dyke)
• 1947 - Alan Thicke, Ontario, actor/host (Thicke of the Night, Growing Pains)
• 1948 - Norman Connors, singer (You Are My Starship)
• 1949 - Sido Martens, Dutch guitarist/singer/mandolin player (Fungus)
• 1950 - Shahid Israr, Pakistani cricket wicket-keeper (in one Test v NZ 1976)
• 1951 - Barbara DeAngelis, talk show hostess (Barbara DeAngelis Show)
• 1952 - Alice Ritzman, Kalispell MT, LPGA golfer (1995 Rochester Intl-5th)
• 1952 - David Allen Barr, Kelowna BC, PGA golfer (Atlanta Golf Classic)
• 1953 - Bandula Warnapura, cricketer (1st Sri Lanka Test captain)
• 1953 - Ron Howard, Okla, actor/director (American Graffiti, Happy Days)
• 1954 - Catherine Bach, Warren Oh, actress (Daisey Duke-Dukes of Hazzard)
• 1954 - Janis Gill, Torrance Cal, singer (Sweethearts of Rodeo-Midnight Girl)
• 1955 - Jimmy Fortune, Newport News Va, singer (Statler Bros-Class of '57)
• 1956 - Balwinder Singh Sandhu, cricketer (Sikh pace bowler 1983 World Cup)
• 1956 - Mark Todd, UK, NZ equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
• 1956 - Timothy Daly, Sufferin NY, actor (Joe-Wings, Diner, Made in Heaven)
• 1957 - Jon Carroll, Wash DC, vocalist (Starland Vocal Band-Afternoon Delight)
• 1958 - Nik Kershaw, singer/songwriter (Wouldn't it be Good)
• 1958 - Wayne B Phillips, cricket wicket-keeper (Australia)
• 1960 - Alicia Dibos, Lima Peru, LPGA golfer (1994 US Women's Open-4th)
• 1961 - Davis Daniel, Arlington Heights Ill, country singer
• 1961 - Mike Rozier, NFL halfback (Heisman Trophy-1983, Houston, Atlanta)
• 1962 - Bill Leen, rocker (Gin Blossoms)
• 1962 - Mark Gardner, LA Calif, pitcher (SF Giants)
• 1963 - Arnold Oosterveer, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
• 1963 - Barb[ara] Marois, Auburn Mass, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
• 1963 - Magnus Svensson, Leksand Swe, NHL defenseman (Florida Panthers)
• 1963 - Maurice Benard, actor (Sonny Corinthos-General Hospital)
• 1963 - Robert James Affuso, Newburgh NY, rock drummer (Skid Row-Psycho Love)
• 1963 - Ron Francis, Sault Ste Marie, NHL center (Pitts Penguins, Team Canada)
• 1963 - Tony Castillo, Lara Venezuela, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
• 1964 - Jennifer McCarters, Sevierville Tn, singer (McCarters-The Gift)
• 1965 - Les Miller, defensive end (Carolina Panthers)
• 1966 - Clinton Gregory, singer
• 1966 - John David Cullum, actor (1776, Sweet Country, Day After)
• 1966 - Luis Sojo, Barquisimeto Venezuela, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
• 1966 - Steve Reed, LA Calif, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
• 1967 - Aron Winter, Surnamese/Dutch soccer star (Ajax, Lazio)
• 1968 - Dave Zuniga, Worland WYO, 136« lbs/greco-roman wrestler (Olympics-96)
• 1968 - Salil Ankola, cricketer (Indian pace bowler one Test 1989)
• 1968 - Sanjeeva Weerasinghe, cricketer (Test for Sri Lanka v India at 17)
• 1969 - Azam Khan, cricketer (Pakistan ODI batsman 1996)
• 1969 - Doug Creek, Winchester VA, pitcher (SF Giants)
• 1969 - Vincenzo Esposito, NBA guard (Toronto Raptors)
• 1970 - Lisa Eagen, Harlan Iowa, team handball wing/back court (Olympics-1996)
• 1970 - Ray Crittenden, wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
• 1970 - Stuart Thompson, Australian baseball infielder (Olympics-1996)
• 1971 - Allen Johnson, Wash DC, long jumper/110m hurdler (Olympics-gold-96)
• 1971 - Andr‚ Karnebeek, soccer player (FC Twente
• 1971 - Austin Robbins, NFL defensive tackle (Oakland Raiders, NO Saints)
• 1971 - Shepherd Clark, Atlanta Ga, figure skater (1994, 97 Eastern Sr champ)
• 1971 - Tim Prinsen, CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
• 1971 - Tyler Hamilton, Marblehead Mass, cyclist (Olympics-96)
• 1971 - Zahoor Elahi, cricketer (Pakistan opening batsman v NZ 1996)
• 1972 - Omar Daal, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
• 1972 - Profail Grier, CFL running back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
• 1973 - Chris Webber, NBA forward (Washington Bullets/Wizards)
• 1973 - Igor Murin, Trencin CZE, hockey goaltender (Team Slovakia 1998)
• 1974 - Mark-Paul Gosselaar, actor (Zack-Saved by the Bell)
• 1974 - Stephen Davis, running back (Washington Redskins)
• 1975 - Maria Jose Suarez, Miss Universe-Spain (1996)
• 1976 - Maringo Vlijter, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
• 1977 - Rod White, Sharon Pa, archer (Olympics-gold-1996)
• 1980 - Rose VBL Windsor, daughter of English prince Richard
• 1980 - Shahid Afridi, cricketer (ton in 37 balls in 1st ODI innings)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0965 - Leo VIII, Italian (anti-)Pope (963-65), dies
• 1131 - Stephen II, King of Hungary (1116-31), dies
• 1383 - Amadeus VI, (Green Earl), earl of Savoy, dies at 49
• 1510 - Francisco d'Almeida, viceroy of India, dies in battle at about 59
• 1535 - Bernardo Accolti, [Unico Aretino], Italian writer (Virginia), dies
• 1619 - Thomas Campion, English physician/composer/poet (Poemata), dies at 53
• 1633 - George Herbert, English poet, dies at 39
• 1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer/organist, dies at 59
• 1693 - Benedict Schultheiss, composer, dies at 39
• 1771 - Isfrid Kayser, composer, dies at 58
• 1773 - Jan Wagenaar, Dutch historian, dies at 63
• 1773 - Luigi Vanvitelli, [Louis van Wittel], Italian architect, dies at 72
• 1777 - Georg Christoph Wagenzeil, Austria (court)composer/pianist, dies at 62
• 1788 - Orazio Mei, composer, dies at 56
• 1797 - Juan Manuel Olivares, composer, dies at 36
• 1804 - Wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer, dies at 63
• 1817 - Luigi Gatti, composer, dies at 77
• 1826 - J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59
• 1859 - Josef Theodor Krov, composer, dies at 61
• 1865 - Anna Paulowna Romanova, great monarch of Russia, dies at 70
• 1869 - Alphonse MLP de Lamartine, Fr poet (History of Girondins), dies at 78
• 1870 - Francisco S L¢pez, Pres of Paraguay (1862-70), dies at 43
• 1892 - Archibald Scott, Scottish chemist, dies at 60
• 1896 - ... Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
• 1896 - ... Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
• 1896 - ... Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
• 1899 - Gy”rgy earl Apponyi, Hungarian MP, dies at 90
• 1901 - Bernhard Erdmannsd”rffer, German historian (Mirabeau), dies at 68
• 1906 - Jos‚ M de Pereda y S nchez the Porr£a, Spanish writer, dies at 73
• 1906 - Moriz Heyne, German germanist (German W”rterbuch), dies at 68
• 1911 - Jacobus H van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist/physicist (Nobel 1901), dies at 58
• 1914 - Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer, dies at 47
• 1918 - Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer, dies at 64
• 1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack
• 1921 - Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79
• 1924 - Louise MA, princess of Belgium, dies at 66
• 1926 - Camilo d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China), dies at 58
• 1928 - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer, dies at 62
• 1928 - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 77
• 1930 - Alo‹s Walgrave, Flemish writer/pastor (Peace on Earth), dies at 54
• 1932 - Dino Campana, Italian poet (Canti Orfici), dies at 46
• 1938 - G D'Annunzio, writer, dies at 74
• 1938 - Gabrielle d'Annunzio, Italian poet/fascist (Il fuoco), dies at 74
• 1940 - Josef Swickard, actor (Lost City, Tale of 2 Cities), dies at 73
• 1944 - ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz
• 1947 - J Boogaard, nazi collaborator, executed
• 1953 - Anton GO Ridder Van Rappard, painter/lithographer/etcher, dies
• 1958 - Giacomo Balla, Italian painter, dies at 86
• 1962 - Roscoe Ates, actor (Dep Roscoe-Marshal of Gunsight Pass), dies at 70
• 1964 - Sergius Kagen, composer, dies at 54
• 1965 - Boleslav Vomacka, composer, dies at 77
• 1968 - G v d Vring, writer, dies
• 1968 - Georg von der Vring, German painter (Camp Lafayette), dies at 78
• 1970 - Ed[uard] Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Na jaren), dies at 59
• 1972 - Victor Babin, composer, dies at 63
• 1974 - Jos de Haes, Flemish philological/poet (Azuren Holte), dies at 53
• 1976 - Jean Martinon, French conductor/composer, dies at 66
• 1979 - Dolores Costello, actress (Noah's Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73
• 1979 - Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iranian Kurd leader (KDP), dies at 75
• 1980 - John Jacob Niles, composer, dies at 87
• 1984 - Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies at 69
• 1985 - Eugene List, US concert pianist, dies at 66
• 1988 - Jean Le Poulain, actor (Divine), dies at 63
• 1988 - Joe Besser, comedian (3's Stooges, Abbott & Costello), dies at 80
• 1989 - Henk van Stipriaan, Dutch radio host, dies at 64
• 1989 - Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/dir (Bluejackets), dies at 72
• 1990 - Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies
• 1991 - Edwin H Land, inventor (Polaroid Camera), dies at 81
• 1991 - Katharine Blake, actress (To Have & To Hold), dies at 62
• 1991 - Scott Huston, composer, dies at 74
• 1992 - Maria D‚a, French actress (Pi‚ges), dies at 73
• 1993 - Luis Kutner, US co-founder (Amnesty International), dies at 84
• 1993 - Terry Frost, actor (Waterfront, Dead Man's Trail), dies at 86
• 1994 - Eliseo Diego, Cuban poet, dies at 74
• 1994 - Jacob "Jimmy" Herman Huizinga, journalist/writer, dies at 75
• 1994 - Manmohan Desai, filmmaker, dies at 57
• 1994 - Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer Musician, dies at 51
• 1994 - Walter Kent, US composer (I'll Be Home for Christmas), dies at 82
• 1995 - Edmund Boyd Fisher, publisher, dies at 56
• 1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
• 1996 - Margaret McKay, politician, dies at 85