• 1076 - Philippe Comtois, Montreal Quebec, 3m springboard diver (Olympics-96)
• 1530 - Ivan IV (the Terrible), 1st tsar of Russia (1533-84)
• 1664 - Johan van de Bergh, Leids regent
• 1718 - Johann Jacob Rowalt, composer
• 1724 - George Stubbs, England, animal painter (House Frightened by Lion)
• 1744 - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet
• 1758 - Franz Teyber, composer
• 1775 - Charlotte J T, infant of Portugal (Court in Rio de Janeiro)
• 1786 - [Charles] Louis I, (Augustus), King of Bavaria (Lola Montez)
• 1788 - Cornelis J van Assen, Dutch jurist (Language of the Constitution)
• 1811 - Joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
• 1812 - Percival Drayton, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1865
• 1819 - Allan Pinkerton, founded Chicago detective agency
• 1823 - John Newton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
• 1825 - Henry Warner Birge, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
• 1836 - Bret Harte, US, author (Outcasts of Poker Flat)
• 1841 - Theodor Kocher, Swiss surgeon, thyroid specialist (Nobel 1909)
• 1845 - Ludwig II, mad king of Bavaria (1864-86)
• 1846 - Louise J Gautier, French poetess
• 1851 - [Willem] Alexander KHF, prince of Orange/Netherlands
• 1860 - George Fawcett, US actor (Intolerance)
• 1880 - Robert E Stolz, Austrian composer/conductor (...smaller guard)
• 1887 - Friedrich L�bke, German politician
• 1887 - Olav Fartein Valen, composer
• 1887 - [Olav] Fartein V†len, Norwegian composer
• 1891 - Alberto Savinio, [Andrea de Chirico], Italian writer/composer
• 1891 - Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer
• 1891 - Samuel Gardner, composer
• 1896 - Dick Ryan, CT, actor (For Heaven's Sake, Born to be Bad)
• 1897 - Jaroslav Ridky, composer
• 1900 - Mary Bruce, dance Teacher
• 1901 - Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director (Tivoli)
• 1902 - Stefan Wolpe, Berlin Germany, composer (Zeus & Elidco)
• 1903 - Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian/US psycho-analyst (Uses of Enchantment)
• 1905 - Clara Bow, Bkln, actress (Wings, Down to the Sea in Ships)
• 1905 - Undine Smith Moore, composer
• 1906 - Eugen Gerstenmaier, German politician (CDU)
• 1906 - Mollie Panter-Downes, writer
• 1906 - William J Brennan, Newark, supreme court justice (1957-90) [or 4/25]
• 1907 - Desmond Flower, publisher
• 1908 - Esther Waterhouse, doctor/methodist
• 1908 - Philip Coolidge, Concord MA, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler)
• 1909 - Arwel Hughes, composer
• 1909 - Michael Rennie, Engld, actor (Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still)
• 1909 - Ruby Keeler, Halifax NS, dancer (Dames, 42nd Street)
• 1910 - J B Charles, [Willem H Nagel], criminologist/writer
• 1910 - Pierre Musy, Switzerland, 4-man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1936)
• 1911 - Jacopo Napoli, composer
• 1912 - Erich Honecker, Germany, Pres (East Germany)
• 1913 - Walt Kelly, cartoonist, creator (Pogo)
• 1914 - Alexei Haieff, Blagovestchensk Siberia, composer (Princess Zondilda)
• 1915 - Walter Trampler, Munich Germany, violist (Beaux Arts Trio)
• 1916 - Erich Von Stroheim Jr, actor/director (Napoleon, Sunset Blvd)
• 1916 - Frederic Robbins, US bacteriologist
• 1916 - Van Johnson, Newport RI, actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks
• 1917 - Don Defore, Cedar Rapids Iowa, actor (George-Hazel, Ozzie & Harriet)
• 1917 - Mel Ferrer, Elberon NJ, actor (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor)
• 1918 - Leonard Bernstein, Lawrence MA, conductor/composer (West Side Story)
• 1918 - Richard Greene, Plymouth England, composer/actor (Adv of Robin Hood)
• 1919 - George C Wallace, Clio Ala, (gov-D-Ala)/pres candidate
• 1920 - Jef Diederen, Dutch painter
• 1921 - Brian Moore, Ireland, novelist (Catholics, Doctor's Wife)
• 1922 - Ronnie Potsdammer, Dutch singer/song writer/programmer
• 1923 - Monty Hall, Winnipeg Canada, TV game show host (Lets Make a Deal)
• 1927 - Althea Gibson, Silver SC, 1st black tennis champion in a major event
• 1928 - Karl Korte, composer
• 1930 - Ariana CE Amsberg, Dutch publicist/actress (Aside, Sekstant)
• 1930 - Graham Javis, Toronto Ontario, actor (Charlie-Mary Hartman)
• 1930 - Page Johnson, WV, actress (Passages from Finnegan's Wake)
• 1930 - Sean Connery, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (James Bond)
• 1931 - Regis Philbin, host (Joey Bishop Show, Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)
• 1932 - Anatoli Yakovlevich Kartashov, Russia, cosmonaut
• 1933 - Regis Philbin, TV talk show host (Joey Bishop, Regis & Kathie Lee)
• 1933 - Tom Skerritt, Detroit Mich, actor (Ryan's Four, Alien, Big Bad Mama)
• 1933 - Wayne Shorter, rocker (Weather Report)
• 1934 - John Stears, Middlesex England, special effects expert (Dr No)
• 1934 - Valery F Bykovsky, USSR, cosmonaut (Vostok V, Soyuz 22, 31/39)
• 1935 - David Canary, Elwood Ind, actor (Peyton Place, Candy-Bonanza)
• 1935 - Lones Wigger, Great Falls Mont, shooter (Oly-gold/silver-1964, 72)
• 1938 - Frederick Forsyth, author (Day of the Jackal, Deceiver, Odessa File)
• 1939 - John Badham, Luton England, director (Dracula, Short Circuit)
• 1939 - Liselot[te JM] Beekmeyer, actress (Issue Blum)
• 1940 - Jos‚ Van Dam, Brussels Belgium, bass-baritone (Fran‡ois d'Assisif)
• 1941 - Shirley Carter Burden, patrician
• 1942 - Imogen Hassall, Surrey England, Countess of Cleavage (Carry on Lovng)
• 1942 - Margaret L Thompson Murdock, US, small bore rifle (Olympic-silver-76)
• 1942 - Nathen Deal, (Rep-D-Georgia)
• 1942 - Walter Williams, US, rock vocalist (O'Jays-Use to Be My Girl)
• 1944 - Anthony Heald, New Rochelle NY, actor (Orphans, Silence of Lambs)
• 1944 - Sherley Anne Williams, US literary (Dessa Rose)
• 1946 - Larry LaRocco, (Rep-D-Idaho)
• 1946 - Rollie Fingers, relief pitcher (Oakland Athletics, MVP/Cy Young-1981)
• 1947 - Anne Archer, LA Cal, actress (Fatal Attraction, Patriot Games)
• 1947 - Wim J van Gelder, Dutch MP (PvdA)
• 1949 - Anson Williams, actor (Happy Days)
• 1949 - Gene Simmons, [Chaim Witz], Haifa Israel, rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)
• 1949 - John Savage, Old Bethpage NY, actor (Deer Hunter, Maria's Lovers)
• 1950 - Willy Deville, NYC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Mink Deville)
• 1951 - Rob Halford, heavy metal (Judas Priest-Got Another Thing) [or Oct 25]
• 1952 - Duleep Mendis, cricketer (big-hitting Sri Lankan batsman of 80's)
• 1954 - Elvis Costello, [Declan Patrick McManus], Lon, rock vocalist (Allison)
• 1954 - Gilbert "Gibus" Duclos-Lassalle, French cyclist
• 1954 - Martin Jourard, keyboardist/vocalist (Motels-Only the Lonely)
• 1956 - Matt Aitken, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
• 1957 - Sikander Bakht, cricketer (Pakistani change bowler late 70's)
• 1958 - Christian LeBlanc, NC, actor (Michael Baldwin-Young & Restless)
• 1958 - Saskia van Orly, Dutch singer (Tambourine)
• 1961 - Billy Ray Cyrus, Flatwoods Ky, country singer (Achy Breaky Heart)
• 1961 - Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Manchester England, actress (Kill Me Again)
• 1962 - Dan Turk, NFL center (Oakland Raiders)
• 1962 - Mazzi Rawd, heavy metal rocker
• 1962 - Ron Heller, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
• 1962 - Shahid Mahboob, cricketer (batted in one Test for Pakistan 1989)
• 1962 - Vivian Campbell, heavy metal rocker (White Snake-Here I Go Again)
• 1964 - Blair Underwood, Tacomma Wash, actor (Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident)
• 1964 - Morgan Englund, actor (Dylan Lewis-Guiding Light)
• 1964 - Timothy Nicholson, journalist
• 1965 - Cornelius Bennett, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons, Buffalo Bills)
• 1965 - Kathleen Horvath, Chic Ill, tennis player (French Open Jr 1980)
• 1965 - Nate Odomes, NFL cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
• 1965 - Sanjeev Sharma, cricketer (Indian pace bowler 1988-89)
• 1966 - Albert Belle, Shreveport LA, outfielder (Indians, White Sox)
• 1968 - Dave Thomas, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars)
• 1969 - Catriona Matthew, Edinburgh Scotland, golfer (1995 British Open-12th)
• 1969 - Derek Fung, Hong Kong, Canadian Tour golfer
• 1969 - Elly Hakami, San Francisco CA, tennis star
• 1969 - Mike Gisler, corner (New England Patriots)
• 1969 - Mike Jones, NFL defensive end (NE Patriots)
• 1969 - Vivek Razdan, cricket pace bowler (Indian Test 1989-90)
• 1970 - Claudia Schiffer, Rheinbach Germany, super model (Elle, Rolling Stone)
• 1970 - Debbie Graham, Walnut Creek Calif, tennis star (1993 Taranto doubles)
• 1970 - Doug Glanville, Hackensack NJ, outfielder (Chic Cubs)
• 1970 - Katherine "Katie" Scanlon, Fairfield Ct, rower (Olympics-96)
• 1970 - Robert Horry, NBA forward (LA Lakers, Houston Rockets)
• 1970 - Ronald Waterreus, soccer player (Roda JC, PSV)
• 1971 - Makoto Kawahira, hockey forward (Team Japan 1998)
• 1971 - Michael Chack, Toms River NJ, figure skater (1997 Pac Coast Sr champ)
• 1971 - Quintis "Chico" Ristie, Suriname radio host
• 1972 - Bryan Stoltenberg, corner (NY Giants)
• 1972 - Marlo Perry, NFL linebacker (Buffalo Bills)
• 1972 - Marvin Harrison, wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts)
• 1972 - Tony Dumas, NBA guard (Dallas Mavericks)
• 1974 - Chris Mantilla, West Palm Beach Fla, diver (Olympics-96)
• 1974 - Darren Benson, NFL defensive tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
• 1974 - Mike Jenkins, wide receiver (Cincinnati Bengals)
• 1975 - Molly Tuter, WNBA guard (Phoenix Mercury)
• 1975 - Petria Thomas, Lismore NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-silver-96)
• 1976 - Sam Mackinnon, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)
• 1976 - Sarah Nadeau, Portland Maine, Miss America-Maine (1997)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0079 - Gaius Plinius Secundus, [Plinius Maior], Roman admiral/writer, dies
• 0383 - Flavius Gratianus, Emperor of Rome (375-383), murdered at 25
• 0882 - Louis III, King of France (879-82), dies at 19
• 1227 - Ghengis Khan, [Temudjin], founded Mongolia, dies
• 1270 - Louis IX, the Saint, King of France (1226-70), dies from plague at 56
• 1346 - Louis of Nevers, Count of Flanders, dies in battle
• 1554 - Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English great admiral, dies
• 1556 - David Jorisz, Flemish glass blower/sect leader, dies at about 54
• 1580 - Frederick Schenk van Toutenburg, last archbishop of Utrecht, dies
• 1649 - Richard Crashaw, English clergyman/poet, dies at about 36
• 1688 - Henry Morgan, Welsh lt-governor of Jamaica
• 1742 - Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer, dies at 38
• 1773 - Franz Nikolaus Novotny, composer, dies at 29
• 1774 - Nicolo Jommelli, composer, dies at 59
• 1789 - Mary Ball Washington, mother of George, dies
• 1791 - Pietro Domenico Paradisi, composer, dies
• 1822 - F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85
• 1835 - Ann Rutledge, said to be Lincoln's true love, dies in Ill at 22
• 1840 - K L Immermann, writer, dies at 44
• 1842 - Jerome-Joseph de Momigny, composer, dies at 80
• 1846 - Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73
• 1868 - Costache Negruzzi, Romanian author/poet, dies at about 60
• 1868 - Henry P Scholte, Dutch/US vicar (Iowa), dies at 62
• 1868 - Jacob van Lennep, Dutch 2nd member of parliament, dies at 66
• 1900 - Friedrich Nietschze, philosopher (Also sprach Zarathustra), dies at 55
• 1901 - Clara Maass, army nurse sacrificied her life at 25 to prove that the mosquito carries yellow fever
• 1929 - Frederick Burton, cricketer (Australian wicketkeeper 1886-87), dies
• 1930 - Siegfried Wagner, composer, dies at 61
• 1936 - Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary, dies
• 1938 - Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67
• 1942 - George EAE, English prince/earl of St Andrews, dies in battle at 39
• 1942 - Panayot Pipkov, composer, dies at 70
• 1942 - W van Daalen, opposition leader on Celebes, beheaded
• 1944 - Krijn van den Helm, resistance fighter (KP Leeuwarden), shot to death
• 1944 - Mussa Dshalil, writer, dies
• 1947 - Clark Wissler, US cultural anthropologist, dies at 76
• 1956 - Alfred C Kinsey, US sexologist (Kinsey Report), dies
• 1967 - George Lincoln Rockwell, head of American Nazi Party, assassinated
• 1967 - Paul Muni, actor (Good Earth), dies after lengthy illness at 71
• 1968 - John George, actor (Kolb-Adventures of Fu Manchu), dies at 70
• 1968 - Stan McCabe, cricketer (39 Tests for Australia 1930-38), dies
• 1971 - Ted Lewis, [Theodore L Friedman], bandleader, dies at 80
• 1972 - Juan Carlos Paz, composer, dies at 71
• 1972 - Robert Denzler, composer, dies at 80
• 1975 - Frans van Amelsvoort, choir conductor, dies at 75
• 1975 - John R Dunning, US physicist, dies at 67
• 1976 - Eyvind Johnson, Swedish author (Nobel-1974), dies at 76
• 1976 - Perc Hornibrook, cricketer (6 Tests 1928-30, 17 wickets), dies
• 1979 - Stan Kenton, orch leader (Music 55), dies at 67
• 1980 - Gower Champion, dancer (Marge & Gower Champion Show), dies at 60
• 1982 - John AM "Hans" van Tongeren, actor (Hunk), commits suicide at 27
• 1984 - Truman Capote, author (In Cold Blood), dies at 59
• 1984 - Waite Hoyte, knuckleball pitcher, dies at 84
• 1985 - Samantha Smith, actress (Elizabeth-Lime Street), dies in plane at 13
• 1986 - Allen Case, actor (Deputy, Legend of Jesse James), dies at 51
• 1988 - Price Daniel, (Gov/Sen-D-Texas), dies at 77
• 1989 - Gunnar Johnsen Berg, composer, dies at 80
• 1991 - Don Nute, entertainer, dies of AIDS at 56
• 1991 - Niven Busch, US writer (Duel in the Sun), dies
• 1991 - Sergei Ajromeiev, soviet general, commits suicide
• 1992 - Alma Graciela Haro Esmerelda, singer, dies of diabetes at 65
• 1992 - Frederick O'Neal, actor (Anna Lucasta, Free White & 21), dies at 86
• 1992 - Jan G Toonder, writer (Castle in Ireland), dies at 78
• 1993 - Amy Biehl, US activist in South-Africa, murdered at 26
• 1994 - Ramdas Nayak, Indies hindu leader/politician, murdered at about 52
• 1995 - John Killan Houston Brunner, British sci-fi writer, dies at 60
• 1995 - R B Hudmon, R&B/Soul Singer, dies at 41
• 1996 - Alexander Colleridge Vanderpuiye Baka Tetteh, actor/lawyer, dies at 64
• 1996 - Dai Houying, writer, dies at 58
• 1996 - Erskine Childers, UN official/civil servant, dies at 67
• 1996 - Les Burns, local councillor, dies at 53
• 1996 - Sylvia Fisher, opera Singer, dies at 86
• 1997 - Clodomiro Almeyda Medina, Chilean external minister (1970-73), dies
• 1997 - James Dewar, journalist/documentary film-maker, dies at 70
• 1997 - Robert Pinget, novelist/Playwright, dies at 78