• 1432 - Luigi Pulci, Italy, poet (Morgante)
• 1619 - Hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate
• 1688 - Frederick-William I, king of Prussia (1713-1740)
• 1702 - Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian rococo painter/etcher
• 1725 - Ferdinando Bertoni, composer
• 1727 - Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer
• 1736 - Johann Christoph Kellner, composer
• 1740 - M Claudius, writer
• 1741 - Thomas Norris, composer
• 1769 - Napoleon Bonaparte, resident of Elba (emperor 1804-13, 1814-15)
• 1771 - Walter Scott, Scotland, novelist/poet (Lady of Lake)
• 1776 - Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Apollo under the Hirten)
• 1776 - Ignaz Xaver von Seyfried, composer
• 1782 - Henri MG earl the Merode, Belgian revolutionary (Souvenirs)
• 1785 - Thomas De Quincey, Eng, writer (Confessions of English Opium Eater)
• 1787 - Alexander Aliabiev, composer
• 1788 - Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director
• 1794 - Elias M Fries, Swedish botanist (System mycologicum)
• 1803 - James Douglas, father of British Columbia
• 1822 - Wilhelm Rust, composer
• 1823 - Orris Sanford Ferry, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
• 1829 - Eduard de Hartog, composer
• 1839 - Hugh Archibald Clarke, composer
• 1845 - Walter Crane, England, painter/illustrator (Beauty & Beast)
• 1851 - [Georgette A] Helena Amelung, Dutch actress (Scapegoat)
• 1856 - J Keir Hardie, 1st Labour representative in British Parliament
• 1860 - Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding, 1st lady (1921-23)
• 1860 - Roosje Vos, Dutch union organizer
• 1865 - Johan[nes] B Schepers, Frisian writer (Braga)
• 1866 - Charles-Jean Vall‚e-Poussin, mathematician (d'analyse)
• 1872 - Harold Fraser-Simson, composer
• 1872 - Rubin Goldmark, composer
• 1874 - Joseph Klausner, Polish/Israeli new testament expert
• 1875 - Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, London, composer (Hiawatha's Wedding Feast)
• 1876 - Aleksandar Belic, Serb linguist
• 1878 - Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general (White Armies, WW II)
• 1879 - Ethel Barrymore, Phila, actress (Constant Wife, Corn is Green)
• 1885 - Andrey Filippovich Pashchenko, composer
• 1885 - Edna Ferber, author, playwright
• 1885 - Mary Nash, Troy NY, actress (Phila Story, Till the Clouds Roll By)
• 1886 - Bill Whitty, cricketer (Australian left-arm bowler 1909-12)
• 1887 - Edna Ferber, US, author (American Beauty, Cimarron)
• 1888 - Albert Spalding, composer
• 1888 - T E Lawrence Tremadoc, [Lawrence of Arabia], Wales, soldier/writer
• 1890 - Jacques Ibert, Paris France, composer (Escales)
• 1892 - Knud Christian Jeppesen, composer
• 1892 - Louis-Victor prince of Broglie, France, physicist (Nobel 1929)
• 1893 - Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer
• 1893 - Harlow H Curtice, pres of General Motors (1953-8)
• 1896 - Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor
• 1897 - Marion Eugene Bauer, composer
• 1898 - Lillian Carter, Pres Carter's (1977-1981) mom
• 1900 - Estelle Brody, NYC, actress (Safari, Kitty, Plaything)
• 1901 - Arias Arnulfo, 3 time president of Panama (1940-41, 49-51, 68)
• 1901 - Byron Arnold, composer
• 1901 - Hans Lorbeer, writer
• 1901 - Sulho Ranta, composer
• 1902 - Jan RT Campert, writer (Song the 18 dead)
• 1904 - Bill Baird, Grand Is Nebr, puppeteer (Kukla Fran & Ollie, Muppet Show)
• 1906 - Finn Videro, composer
• 1907 - Paul Vincze, medallist
• 1909 - Raymond O'Malley, teacher
• 1910 - Hugo Winterhalter, composer
• 1910 - Josef Klaus, Chancellor of Austria (1966-70)
• 1910 - Signe Hasso, actress (QB VII, Taxi 13, Black Bird, Crisis)
• 1912 - Julia Child, Pasadena Calif, chef (French Chef)
• 1912 - Wendy Hiller, England, actress (Major Barbara, David Copperfield)
• 1912 - Wijnanda M C "Nan" Aberson, friend of Gerard Reve Sr
• 1914 - Peter Nicholson Gunn, writer
• 1915 - Alma Gardeslan, Surinamese/Dutch folklorist
• 1915 - Kamiel van Baelen, Flemish author/resistance fighter (Mensch op Weg)
• 1915 - Signe Hasso, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Johnny Angel, Double Life)
• 1918 - Fay Honey Knopp, activist
• 1918 - Raymond Gallois-Montbrun, composer
• 1919 - Huntz Hall, NYC, actor (Cyclone, Gas Pump Girls, The Rating Game)
• 1922 - Lukas Foss, [Fuchs], Berlin Germany, composer (Prairie)
• 1923 - Rose Marie, NYC, actress (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
• 1923 - Simon Peres, [Persky], premier of Israel
• 1924 - Phyllis Schlafly, St Louis, right-winger/Eagle Forum president
• 1924 - Robert Oxton Bolt, playwright (Man for All Seasons, Dr Zhivago)
• 1925 - Billy Pinkney, Sumter NC, rock bassist/vocalist (Drifters)
• 1925 - Gertrude Shope, South African head (ANC female section)
• 1925 - Mike Connors, [Krekor Ohanian], Fresno, Calif, actor (Mannix)
• 1925 - Rose Marie, actress/comedienne (Sally Rogers-Dick Van Dyke Show)
• 1926 - Georgiann Johnson, Decorah Iowa, actress (Marge-Mr Peepers)
• 1926 - Lewis T Preston, banker
• 1926 - Lyutsian Abramovich Prigozhn, composer
• 1927 - Eddie Leadbeater, cricketer (England leg-spinner with an avg of 109)
• 1928 - Nicolas Roeg, London England, cinematographer/director (Aria, Eureka)
• 1931 - Janice Rule, Norwood Ohio, actress (Alvarez Kelly, Doctor's Wife)
• 1931 - Mario Kuri-Aldana, composer
• 1932 - Robert L[ull] Forward, US, sci-fi author (Dragon's Egg, Starquake)
• 1933 - Bobby Helms, rock vocalist (Jingle Bell Rock)
• 1933 - Floyd Ashton, US singer (Tams-What Child of Fool)
• 1933 - Lori Nelson, Santa Fe NM, actress (Greta-How to Marry a Millionaire)
• 1934 - Reg Scarlett, WI cricket off-spinner (3 Tests 1960)
• 1934 - Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut
• 1935 - Abby Dalton, Las Vegas NV, actress (Joey Bishop Show)
• 1935 - Jim Dale, Rothwell England, Broadway actor (Barnum, My One & Only)
• 1935 - Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr, civil rights activist (National Urban League)
• 1937 - Ronnie G Flippo, (Rep-D-NY, 1977- )
• 1938 - Maxine Waters, (Rep-D-California)
• 1938 - Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court justice
• 1939 - H Onno C R Ruding, director (Amrobank)/Dutch Financial minister (CDA)
• 1939 - Herman van Keeken, Dutch singer (Daddy don't run so fast)
• 1941 - Don Rich, Olympia Wash, guitarist/country singer (Hee Haw)
• 1941 - Viktor Mikhailovich Pisarev, Russian cosmonaut
• 1942 - Peter York, Cleve, rock drummer (Spencer Davis Group)
• 1943 - Barbara Bouchet, Reichenberg Czech, actress (Casino Royale)
• 1943 - Eni F H Faleomavaega, (Rep-D-American Samoa)
• 1944 - Frederick Knight, US singer (I've been lonely so long)
• 1944 - Linda Ellerbee, Bryan Texas, newscaster (Weekend, NBC Overnight)
• 1945 - Charlemagne Palestine, composer
• 1945 - Gene Upshaw, NFL guard (Oakland), NFLPA leader
• 1945 - Thomas C Sawyer, (Rep-D-Ohio)
• 1946 - Jimmy Webb, Elk City Okla, songwriter (MacArthur Park, Up Up & Away)
• 1946 - Kathryn Jean Whitmire, Houston Texas, (4 time Mayor-Houston)
• 1947 - Brian Hulls, British TV news cameraman
• 1947 - Geraldo Velez, jazz congas (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
• 1947 - Manley Lanier "Sonny" Carter Jr, Macon Ga, USN/astro (STS 33)
• 1949 - Ann Ryerson, Wisc, actress (Pvt Carol Winter-Pvt Benjamin)
• 1949 - Carlien Brouwer, translator/missing since Jan 6, 1994
• 1949 - Kate Taylor, rocker
• 1950 - Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise Windsor, Engl, Princess/olympic equestrian
• 1950 - Tess Harper, Mammoth Sp AR, actress (Amityville 3D, Tender Mercies)
• 1950 - Thomas Aldrich, country drummer (Black Oak Arkansas)
• 1950 - William "Bill" Griffin, US singer (Miracles-Love Machine)
• 1951 - Bobby Caldwell, NYC, rocker
• 1951 - John Childs, cricketer (England left-arm spinner, two Tests v WI 1988)
• 1952 - Ger Hoeymakers, Dutch rock guitarist (Franc Boeijen Group)
• 1955 - Kenneth Carr, Clearwater Fla, basketball player (Olympic-gold-1976)
• 1955 - Larry Mathews, Burbank Calif, actor (Ritchie-Dick Van Dyke Show)
• 1956 - Gordon Bruks, England, Dr/cosmonaut
• 1956 - Vinny Denunzio, rocker
• 1957 - Zeljko Ivanek, Lujubljana Yugoslavia, actor (Mass Appeal)
• 1959 - Scott D Altman, Lincoln Ill, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut (sk: STS 90)
• 1960 - Maureen "Peanut" Louie Harper, SF, tennis player (Denver-1985)
• 1960 - Ron van de Berg, soccer player (Sparta)
• 1960 - Tommy Aldridge, heavy metal rocker (Ozzy-Diary of a Mad Man)
• 1961 - Joan Delk, Tampa FL, LPGA golfer (1995 First Bank Edina Realty-66th)
• 1961 - Matt Johnson, rocker (The The-Infected Soul Mining)
• 1962 - Bubby Brister, NFL quarterback (NY Jets, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
• 1962 - Igor Dorokhin, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
• 1963 - Greg Adams, Nelson, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
• 1963 - Jack Russell, superb England cricket wicket-keeper (36 Tests 1988-94)
• 1963 - Lydia Czuckermann-Hatuel, Israel, Women's foil fencer (Oly-1996)
• 1964 - Debi Mazar, Queens NY, actress (Civil Wars, Little Man Tate, LA Law)
• 1964 - MCA, [Adam Yauch], rock vocalist (Beastie Boys-You Gotta Fight)
• 1965 - Jon Evans, Nottimgham ENG, Australasia golfer
• 1966 - Fred Strickland, linebacker (Dallas Cowboys)
• 1966 - Leo Goeas, guard (Baltimore Ravens)
• 1967 - Mike James, Ft Walton FL, pitcher (California Angels)
• 1967 - Moulay Brahim Boutaib, Morocco, 10k runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
• 1967 - Neil Wilkinson, Selkirk, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
• 1968 - Luciana Bemvenuti, Porto Alegre Brazil, golfer (1994 Jamie Farr-36th)
• 1968 - Vassili Pankov, NHL forward (Team Belarus, Oly-98)
• 1969 - Eric Bieniemy, NFL running back (Cin Bengals)
• 1969 - James Black, Regina, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
• 1969 - Mark Heese, Toronto Ontario, beach volleyballer (Olympics-bronze-96)
• 1969 - Pavel Kamentsev, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
• 1969 - Yancey Thigpen, NFL wide receiver (Pitts Steelers)
• 1970 - Dawn Ponte, Kent RI, dance skater (& Frey-1995 Eastern Jr champ)
• 1971 - Perry Carter, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
• 1971 - Priscilla Taylor, Miami FLA, playmate (Mar, 1996)
• 1972 - Ben Affleck, actor (Daddy)
• 1972 - Freddie Solomon, NFL wide receiver (Phila Eagles)
• 1972 - Jason Maniecki, defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
• 1972 - Ken Walter, punter (Carolina Panthers)
• 1972 - Mikey Graham, Dublin Ireland, Irish singer (Boyzone)
• 1973 - Marcus Jones, defensive tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
• 1974 - Ramon Morel, Villa Gonzalez Dom Rep, pitcher (Pitts Pirates)
• 1975 - Bert Berry, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
• 1975 - Jurgen Dirkx, soccer player (PSV)
• 1976 - Boudewijn Send, soccer player (PSV)
• 1976 - Ger Unterluggauer, hockey defenseman (Team Austria 1998)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0069 - Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), murdered
• 0423 - Flavius Honorius, emperor East Roman Republic (395-423), dies
• 1038 - Stefanus I, [Arpad], 1st king of Hungary, dies
• 1057 - Macbeth, King of Scotland, slain by son of King Duncan
• 1118 - Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1081-1118), dies
• 1464 - Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian Pope (1458-64), dies at 58
• 1576 - Baliny Valentin Bakfark, composer, dies
• 1600 - Johann Baptista Serranus, composer, dies at 60
• 1615 - Cornelis C Vrancx, Flemish poet/writer (Comfort of Soles), dies
• 1619 - Miriam Bella, head of Jewish community of Cracow, dies
• 1666 - Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionary/astronomer, dies
• 1725 - Gerard Noodt, lawyer, dies at 77
• 1728 - Marin Marias, composer, dies at 72
• 1729 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau), dies at 64
• 1758 - Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician (fotometrie), dies at 60
• 1798 - Felice Alessandri, composer, dies at 50
• 1807 - Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70
• 1848 - Timothy Olmstead, composer, dies at 88
• 1852 - Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium), dies at 92
• 1853 - Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer, dies at 72
• 1864 - Daniel Phineas Woodbury, US engineer/Union general-major, dies
• 1887 - Me‹r Aron Goldschmidt, Danish writer (Ravnen, Hjemlís), dies at 67
• 1901 - Karl Weinhold, Germany, sociologist, dies at 77
• 1907 - Joseph Joachim, German violinist/composer, dies at 76
• 1914 - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59 [NS=Aug 28]
• 1915 - Albert Siegfried Bettelheim, Jew convicted of murder, lynched
• 1918 - Peter Gast, composer, dies at 64
• 1935 - Gerard Brucken Fock, composer, dies at 75
• 1935 - Wiley Post, aviation pioneer, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 36
• 1935 - Will Rogers, humoprist, killed in plane crash in Alaska at 55
• 1936 - Grazia Deledda, Sardina/Italian author (Nobel 1926), dies at 64
• 1936 - Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer, dies at 76
• 1951 - Artur Schnabel, Austria/US pianist (Reflections on Music), dies at 69
• 1956 - Constantine Freiherr von Neurath, German foreign minister, dies at 83
• 1958 - William L C "Big Bill" Broonzy, US blues singer/guitarist, dies at 65
• 1963 - John Powell, composer, dies at 80
• 1966 - Gerhard/Gerhart Pohl, German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64
• 1966 - Jan Kiepura, actor (Give Us this Night), dies of heart attack at 64
• 1966 - Seena Owen, actress/writer (Queen Kelly), dies at 71
• 1967 - Ren‚ Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter, dies at 68
• 1968 - Edward Kilenyi, composer, dies at 84
• 1969 - Stijn Streuvels, [F Lateur], Flemish writer (Vlaschard), dies at 97
• 1970 - Karl August Andersen, composer, dies at 66
• 1971 - Paul Lukas, actor (Kim, Berlin Express), dies of heart failure at 76
• 1972 - Alf Thorbald Hurum, composer, dies at 89
• 1974 - Edmund Cobb, actor (Motorcycle Gang), dies at 82
• 1974 - Mrs Park Chung Hi, wife of South Korean president, murdered
• 1975 - Mujibur Rahiman, Pakistani sheik, killed in a military coup at 53
• 1976 - Jean P J C Haesaert, Flemish lawyer/sociologist, dies at 84
• 1978 - Harrison Kerr, composer, dies at 80
• 1982 - Patrick J G McGee, Irish actor (Barry Lyndon), dies at 60
• 1983 - Anthony Costello, actor (Blue), dies at 42
• 1983 - Benjamin V Cohen, US author of New Deal-legislation, dies at 88
• 1985 - Richard Yardumian, US composer (Creator Spirit), dies at 68
• 1988 - Barry Bingham Sr, US daily newspaper publisher, dies at 82
• 1988 - Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, President of Pakistan, killed in plane crash
• 1988 - Ray Buchanan, US blues gitarist, dies at about 48
• 1989 - F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies
• 1990 - Nina Bara, actress (Missile to the Moon), dies of cancer at 66
• 1991 - Marietta Tree, ambassador (UN Comm of Human Rights), dies at 74
• 1992 - Evelyn Wesler Zemel, US author (American Glass Animals), dies
• 1992 - Giorgio Perlasca, Italian anti-fascist (saved 5,200 Jews), dies
• 1992 - Marie Paxton, entertainer, dies after brief illness
• 1992 - Martha Blackburn, Canada newspaper publisher (London Free Press), dies
• 1992 - Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies
• 1993 - Robert W Kempner, German officer of justice in Prussia, dies at 93
• 1994 - Shepherd Mead, London England, dies of stroke at 80
• 1994 - Simon R Naoli, Tanzanian marathoner, dies in an accident at 28
• 1994 - Wout Wagtmans, cyclist (Rome-Naples-Rome 1957), dies at 64
• 1995 - Erbie Bowser, pianist, dies at 77
• 1995 - Humphrey Sims Moore, pacifist/journalist, dies at 86
• 1995 - Ismay Thomas, teacher, dies at 74
• 1996 - Agnes Beatrice Read, medical social worker, dies at 86
• 1996 - Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver, dies at 93
• 1996 - Masao Maruyama, social scientist, dies at 82