• 1304 - Muhammad ibn Battutah, Arab travel writer (Travels in Asia & Africa)
• 1463 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italy, scholar/platonist
• 1500 - Carlos V, King of Spain (1516-56)/Holy Roman Emperor
• 1501 - Sixt(us) Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Suzanna)
• 1536 - Clement VIII, [Ippolito Aldofireini], Fano Italy, Pope (1592-1605)
• 1547 - Jan of Austria, Spanish military man/land guardian of the Netherland
• 1557 - Matthias, Vienna, Holy Roman emperor (1612-19)
• 1595 - Matthias C Sarbiewski, [Sarbievius], Polish jesuit/poet
• 1619 - Charles Le Brun, Paris, painter, designer (Chancellor S‚guier)
• 1679 - Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer
• 1684 - Catherine I, Empress of Russia 1725-27, Dorpat, Estonia
• 1697 - Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist
• 1704 - Hubert Renotte, composer
• 1717 - Bernhard Hupfeld, composer
• 1750 - Mikl¢s R‚vai, Hungarian linguistic/poet
• 1766 - Samuel Wesley, Bristol England, composer/organist (Exultate Deo)
• 1771 - Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher
• 1786 - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
• 1797 - Samuel Lover, composer
• 1809 - Albert Sch„ffle, German sociologist (Abriss der Soziologie)
• 1809 - Edwin H K Freiherr von Manteuffel, governor/viceroy (Elzas-Lutherian)
• 1811 - Daniel A Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
• 1811 - Edward Dickinson Baker, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1861
• 1824 - John Crawford Vaughn, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
• 1827 - Charles Davis Jameson, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
• 1831 - Georg Leo earl von Caprivi, German chancellor/premier of Prussia
• 1833 - Eduard earl von Taaffe, Austrian premier (1868..93)
• 1836 - Winslow Homer, US, painter (Gulfstream)
• 1838 - Thomas Benton Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1923
• 1842 - Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer
• 1843 - [Joaquim] The¢filo F Braga, Portuguese poet/author/politician
• 1846 - Luigi Denza, composer
• 1848 - C Grant B Allen, Canadian writer (Woman Who Did)
• 1848 - Johanna C P Barbiers, actress (Voddenraper of Paris)
• 1852 - George A Moore, Ireland, painter/novelist (Esther Waters)
• 1854 - Franz Courtens, Flemish painter (Golden Rain)
• 1858 - Arnold Dolmetsch, Le Mans, musician
• 1860 - Daniel Berkeley Updike, printer/publisher/writer (Printing Types)
• 1866 - Arthur Pearson, Wookey Somerset England, newspaper proprietor
• 1872 - John Jarvis, England, swimmer (won 108 titles)
• 1874 - Honus Wagner, HOF shortstop (Pittsburgh Pirates, 1900-17)
• 1876 - Jean Poveigh, composer
• 1876 - Victor Moore, Hammonton NJ, comedian (Ziegfeld Follies, 7 Year Itch)
• 1877 - Rudolf Ganz, composer
• 1879 - Herman Teirlinck, Belgian writer (Sun)
• 1885 - Bert Lytell, NYC, actor (Henry-One Man's Family)
• 1885 - Chester Nimitz, US admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WW II)
• 1885 - Joseph Sprinzak, Speaker of Israeli Knesset (1949-59)
• 1885 - Juliusz Kaden-Bandrowski, Polish novelist/satirist (Black Wings)
• 1887 - Mary Ellen Chase, US linguistic/author (White Gate)
• 1890 - Antonio Massana, composer
• 1890 - Marjorie Main, [Tomlinson], Action Ind, actress (Another Thin Man)
• 1898 - Kurt Tank, German WW II aircraft designer
• 1899 - Jacob Presser, Dutch historian/writer (Down-fall)
• 1905 - E Boyland, biochemist
• 1905 - Guillaume Landre, composer
• 1906 - Alexis Curvers, Belgian author (Tempo di Roma, Bourg-le-Rond)
• 1909 - August William Derleth, Sauk City Wisc, writer (Judge Peck Mysteries)
• 1909 - Jean Yves Morvan Marin, broadcaster
• 1909 - Max Black, Dutch/British/US philosopher (analytical philosophy)
• 1909 - Michael Francis Morris Lindsay, orientalist
• 1910 - Lord Hazlerigg
• 1911 - Konrad Lechner, composer
• 1912 - Julius Kowalski, composer
• 1913 - Richard Murphey Goodwin, economist
• 1914 - David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator
• 1914 - Zachary Scott, Austin Tx, actor (Spotlight Playhouse, Mildred Pierce)
• 1915 - Charles Henry "Harry" Urwin, trade unionist
• 1916 - Gene Mitchell, museum director
• 1917 - William Fairbank, Minneapolis, physicist (superconductivity)
• 1919 - Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist
• 1919 - Earl Kitchener of Khartoum
• 1920 - Frank Rogers, CEO (NPA Telegraph)
• 1921 - Abe Vigoda, NYC, actor (Barney Miller, Fish)
• 1921 - Douglass Watson, Jackson GA, actor (Satan Murders, Another World)
• 1921 - Ingvar Lidholm, composer
• 1921 - Ludvig Aschkenazy, writer
• 1922 - Kanwar Rai Singh, cricketer (batted at MCG in Test for India 1948)
• 1922 - Richard Hamilton, painter
• 1922 - Steven Hill, Seattle WA, actor (Goddess, Raw Deal, Yentl, Law & Order)
• 1924 - Lionel Dakers, director (Royal School of Church Music)
• 1924 - William Pillar, British admiral
• 1926 - Reginald Freeson, British MP
• 1927 - David Mourao-Ferreira, poet/politician
• 1928 - Al Lettieri, NYC, actor (Deadly Kiss, Pulp, Mr Majestyk, Getaway)
• 1928 - Michael Harrington, St Louis, socialist/author (Fragments of Century)
• 1928 - Paul B Elvstr”m, Denmark, yachter (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56, 60)
• 1929 - David Houston, Major-General/Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland
• 1929 - Richard B Shull, Evanston Ill, actor (Diana, Holmes & Yoyo)
• 1930 - Barbara Lawrence, Carnegie OK, actress (Joe Dakota)
• 1931 - Brian Close, cricketer (played for England between 1949 & 1976)
• 1931 - Inge Bernstein, British judge
• 1931 - Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov, Russia, cosmonaut
• 1931 - Maezumi Hakuyu Taizan Koun, teacher Rinzai/Soto lines of Zen Buddhism
• 1931 - Marta Marzotto, Italy, countess
• 1932 - Andrew Jacobs Jr, (Rep-D-IN, 1965-73, 75- )
• 1932 - Everard Goodman, English real estate developer (TOPS Estates)
• 1932 - John Vernon, Canada, actor (Animal House, Chained Heat, Dirty Harry)
• 1932 - Michel Legrand, composer (Summer of '42, Windmills of Your Mind)
• 1934 - Bettino Craxi, Italy's 1st socialist premier (1983-87)
• 1934 - Flemming Nielsen, Denmark, soccer player (Olympic-silver-1960)
• 1934 - Frank Chapot, US, equestrian (Olympic-silver-1960, 1972)
• 1934 - Linda Cristal, Buenos Aires Arg, actress (Victoria-High Chapparal)
• 1934 - Renata Scotto, Savona Italy, soprano (Violetta-La Traviata)
• 1934 - Shuko Mizuno, composer
• 1935 - Renata Scotto, singer
• 1937 - Jerry Wiggin, British MP
• 1938 - James Farentino, Bkln NY, actor (Dead & Buried, Final Countdown)
• 1938 - Kathleen Richardson, president (Methodist Conference)
• 1939 - George Bain, principal (London Business School)
• 1940 - Denis Law, British(?) soccer player
• 1940 - Jimmy Ellis, WBA heavyweight boxing champ (1968-70)
• 1940 - Theo Bosch, Dutch humanist/architect (Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam)
• 1942 - David K Williamson, Australian screenplay/playwright (Removalists)
• 1942 - Joe Lieberman, (Sen-D Connecticut)
• 1942 - Paul Jones, England, rocker (Manfried Mann-Mighty Quinn)
• 1942 - Stuart Henry, British disc jockey
• 1944 - Barry Bostwick, San Mateo Ca, actor (Rocky Horror Show, Megaforce)
• 1944 - Nicky Hopkins, rock pianist (Stones-Ruby Tuesday, Quicksilver)
• 1944 - Sheila Larkin, Bkln NY, actress (Deborah-Storefront Lawyer)
• 1945 - Alain Prost, formula-1 racer (1985, 86 champ)
• 1946 - Anthony Mayer, chief executive (Housing Corporation)
• 1946 - Michael Radford, director (1984, White Mischief)
• 1947 - Edward James Olmos, Cal, actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)
• 1947 - Lonnie Turner, bassist/vocalist (Steve Miller Band-Abracadabra)
• 1947 - Rubert Holmes, Tenafly NJ, vocalist (Pi€a Colada song)
• 1948 - Dennis "Minder" Waterman, London England, actor (Fair Exchange)
• 1948 - Lord Melchett
• 1948 - Lorri Menconi, playmate (Feb, 1969)
• 1949 - John Lever, cricketer (England lefty quick in 21 Tests 1976-81)
• 1950 - Cathy Mant, LPGA golfer
• 1950 - G J M Gazdar, computational linguist
• 1951 - Derek Randall, cricketer (England batsman & animated cover fieldsman)
• 1951 - Helen Shaver, Ontario Canada, actress (WIOU, Praise of Older Women)
• 1952 - Simon Weinstock, businessman/racehorse owner
• 1952 - Tom Burleson, USA, basketball (Oly-silv-1972) tallest Olympian-7'4"
• 1954 - Marquess of Normanby
• 1955 - Bob Abrams, Ohio, rocker (Buckinghams)
• 1955 - Steven Jobs, co-founder (Apple Computer)
• 1956 - Eddie Murray, LA Calif, 1st baseman (Orioles, Dodgers, Cleve Indians)
• 1956 - Paula Zahn, Napperville Ill, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)
• 1957 - Lan Burden, rocker
• 1957 - Phil McConkey, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
• 1958 - Sammy Kershaw, Kaplan LA, country vocalist (Cadillac Style)
• 1958 - Susan Scannell, Lexington Mass, actress (Nicole-Dynasty)
• 1959 - Beth Broderick, Falmouth KY, actress (Aunt Zelda-Sabrina)
• 1959 - Michael Roy Whitney, cricket (great NSW & Aussie lefty quick 1981-92)
• 1961 - Janice Gibson, Tulsa OK, LPGA golfer (1994 Youngstown-Warren-15th)
• 1961 - Persijn "Dakota" Joling, Dutch rock guitarist/singer (Pilgrims-Red)
• 1961 - Ruud Really, soccer player (Feyenoord)
• 1962 - Michelle Shocked, singer/musician
• 1963 - Fuad Reveiz, NFL kicker (Minn Vikings)
• 1963 - Matias Carrillo, Mexican/US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins)
• 1965 - Paul Gruber, NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Bucs)
• 1966 - Billy Zane, actor (Orlando, Memphis Belle, Millions, Titanic)
• 1966 - Rene Arocha, Cubans/US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
• 1968 - John Velddman, soccer player (Sparta)
• 1968 - Kendall Cross, Hardin MT, 125« lbs freestyle wrestler (Oly-g-92, 96)
• 1968 - Vaughn Booker, NFL defensive end (KC Chiefs)
• 1970 - Jeff Garcia, CFL quarterback (Calgary Stampeders)
• 1970 - Jonathan Ward, Balt Md, actor (Doug-Charles in Charge, Beans Baxter)
• 1970 - Wilson Alvarez, Maracaibo Venezuela, pitcher (Chic White Sox)
• 1971 - Aki Rahunen, Finland, tennis star
• 1971 - Brian Savage, Sudbury, NHL left wing (Montreal Canadiens)
• 1972 - Larry Amar, Camarillo Calif, field hockey midfielder/captain (Oly-96)
• 1972 - Manon Rheaume, Lac Beauport Quebec, 1st female NHLer (Tampa Bay)
• 1972 - Patricia Regan Leines, Medford Or, Miss America (Oregon-3rd-1997)
• 1972 - Ron Davis, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, GB Packers-Superbowl 31)
• 1973 - Alexei Kovalev, Moscow Rus, NHL right wing (NY Rangers)
• 1973 - Harold Morrow, full back (Minnesota Vikings)
• 1973 - James Michael Kennedy, Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
• 1973 - Kavis Reed, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
• 1973 - Oscar de la Hoya, boxer
• 1974 - Jeremy Laster, Fullerton Calif, water polo driver (Olympics-96)
• 1974 - Simeon Rice, defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
• 1977 - Alexis Jose Grullon, NYC, vocalist (Menudo-Cannonball)
• 1977 - Floyd Mayweather, Grand Rapids Mich, featherweight boxer (Oly-br-96)
• 1978 - Louise Woodward, ELton England, nanny who killed Matthew Eappen

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1563 - Fran‡ois Guise, French general/duke, assassinated at 44
• 1624 - Vicente Espinel, Sp adventure/chaplain (Marcos de Obr‚gon), dies at 72
• 1642 - Marco da Gagliano, Italian opera composer, dies at about 66
• 1666 - Nicholas Lanier, composer, dies at 77
• 1686 - Ferdinando Tacca, Italian painter/son of Pietro Tacca, dies at 66
• 1692 - Antimo Liberati, composer, dies at 74
• 1704 - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
• 1735 - Georg Friedrich Kauffman, composer, dies at 56
• 1784 - Anton Laube, composer, dies at 65
• 1785 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney, dies at 39
• 1799 - Broerius Brorius, theologist (Pensive Christian), dies at about 41
• 1799 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56
• 1806 - John Nieuwenhuijzen, theologist (Society for General Use), dies at 81
• 1810 - Henry Cavendish, physicist/chemist, dies
• 1812 - Hugo Kollataj, Polish teacher/minister, dies at 61
• 1815 - Robert Fulton, steamboat pioneer, dies
• 1825 - Thomas Bowdler, self-appointed Shakespearean censor, dies
• 1829 - Auguste Chouteau, St Louis co-founder, dies
• 1836 - D niel Berzsenyi, Hungarian poet, dies at 59
• 1848 - Frans van Campenhout, Belg singer/composer (Braban‡onne), dies at 69
• 1862 - Bernard S Ingemann, Danish author (Holger Danske), dies at 72
• 1871 - Th‚odore Caruelle d'Aligny, French painter/etcher, dies at 73
• 1874 - Anselmo Clave, composer, dies at 49
• 1876 - Jan Pieter Heije, Dutch physician/writer/poet, dies at 67
• 1895 - Ignaz Lachner, composer, dies at 87
• 1907 - Otto Goldschmidt, composer, dies at 77
• 1908 - Anatol' Vakhnyanyn, composer, dies at 66
• 1919 - Josephine McGill, composer, dies at 41
• 1922 - Alfred Espinas, French sociologist (Soci‚tes Animales), dies at 77
• 1922 - Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
• 1924 - Edmond Picard, Fren/Belg writer (Ambidextre journalist), dies at 87
• 1926 - Eddie Plank, pitcher (won 327 games in 17 years), dies at 51
• 1929 - Andre-Charles-Prosper Messager, composer, dies at 75
• 1930 - Jacobus van Looy, Dutch writer/painter (Night Cactus), dies at 74
• 1933 - Spottiswoode Aitken, actor (Eagle, Home Sweet Home), dies at 64
• 1941 - Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56
• 1944 - Leo H A Baekeland, Belgian/US chemist (bakeliet), dies at 80
• 1945 - Ahmed Maher Pasha, Egypt's PM, assassinated in parliament
• 1953 - Karl R G von Rundstedt, Germ gen-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77
• 1958 - Fernand Baldensperger [Fernand Baldenne], French poet, dies at 86
• 1960 - Jean Binet, composer, dies at 66
• 1961 - L‚on Jeunehomme, Belgian teacher (P‚dagogie en Cours), dies at 77
• 1964 - Alexander Archipenko, Ukr sculptor/water colors painter, dies at 76
• 1964 - Frank Conroy, actor (Midnight Mary, Threat), dies at 73
• 1967 - Franz Waxman, German composer (Day at the races), dies at 60
• 1969 - Kenneth Green, actor (Penrod), dies of heart attack at 61
• 1970 - Conrad Nagel, actor (Celebrity Time), dies at 73
• 1973 - Art Smith, actor (Quicksand), dies of heart attack at 73
• 1975 - Nikolai A Bulganin, marshal/premier of USSR (1955-58), dies at 79
• 1976 - Charles Wilfred Orr, composer, dies at 82
• 1976 - H Allen Smith, TV host (Armchair Detective), dies at 69
• 1976 - Julian Rivero, actor (Via Pony Express), dies at 85
• 1982 - Virginia Bruce, actress (Born to Dance, Great Ziegfield), dies at 71
• 1983 - Herbert Norman Howells, composer, dies at 90
• 1983 - Tennessee Williams, US playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), dies at 71
• 1984 - Uwe Johnson, writer, dies at 59
• 1988 - Irwan Chanin, US theater builder, dies at 96
• 1990 - Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
• 1990 - Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70
• 1990 - Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93
• 1990 - Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
• 1991 - George Gobel, Chicago, comedian (George Gobel Show), dies at 71
• 1991 - Jean Rogers, actress (Flash Gordon, Hot Cargo), dies at 74
• 1991 - Marcella Markham, dies of breast cancer at 68
• 1991 - Webb Pierce, US country singer (Bye Bye Love), dies of cancer at 64
• 1992 - Kay Loring, dies after long illness
• 1993 - Bobby Moore, English soccer team capt (World champs 1966), dies
• 1993 - Toy Caldwell, guitarist (Marshall Tucker Band), dies at 45
• 1994 - Dinah Shore, singer (Chevrolet), dies of cancer at 76
• 1994 - Donald Phillips, pianist/composer, dies at 80
• 1994 - Jean Sablon, crooner, dies at 87
• 1994 - Knut Anders Haukfield, SOE Operative, dies at 83
• 1994 - Lores Bonney, aviator, dies at 96
• 1995 - Richard Nicholson, musician, dies at 89
• 1996 - Anna Larina, revolutionary, dies at 82
• 1996 - Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday
• 1996 - James Runcieman Sutherland, academic, dies at 95
• 1996 - Laurence Richard Deniz, jazz guitarist, dies at 71
• 1997 - Isabelle Harriet Lucas, actress/singer (Outland, Comics), dies at 69
• 1998 - Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please), dies at 92