• 1471 - Frederik I, king of Denmark/Norway (1523-33)
• 1533 - Elizabeth, daughter of English king Henry VIII & Anna Boleyn
• 1533 - Queen Elizabeth I, England, (1558-1603) daughter of Henry VIII
• 1631 - Clemens Thieme, composer
• 1635 - Pal Esterhazy, composer
• 1703 - Jean Monnet, composer
• 1707 - George-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, writer on natural history
• 1726 - Fran‡ois-Andr‚ Danican Philidor, France, composer/chess champion
• 1731 - Damasus Brosmann, composer
• 1731 - Elisabetta de Gambarini, composer
• 1735 - Thomas Coutts, Scottish banker
• 1737 - Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist/physicist
• 1739 - Joseph Legros, composer
• 1756 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet/literature (Disease of Scientists)
• 1782 - Bernardus JC Dibbets, Dutch baron/general-major (Maastricht)
• 1784 - Frantisek Max Knize, composer
• 1811 - William Hamsley Emory, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
• 1815 - Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treas (Union), died in 1868
• 1819 - Jean E "Adriaan" van Bevervoorde, journalist (History of Holland)
• 1829 - August Kekule von Stradonitz, discovered structure of benzene ring
• 1829 - Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, US, geologist (Geograph Survey 1859-86)
• 1831 - Victorien Sardou, French stage writer (Madame Sans-Gˆne)
• 1836 - Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British PM (L) (1905-08)
• 1842 - John H Zuckertort, German chess player
• 1860 - Grandma "Anna Maria" Moses, NY, primitive painter (Old Oaken Bucket)
• 1860 - Willem H Nolens, priest/Dutch ambassador to Vatican
• 1864 - Giovanni Tebaldini, composer
• 1867 - Albert Basserman, Mannheim Germany, actor (Foreign Correspondant)
• 1867 - Camilod d'Almeida Pessanha, Portuguese poet (China)
• 1869 - Margot SE Scharten-Antink, Dutch author (Catherina, Sprotje)
• 1870 - Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Pojedinok) [OS=Aug 26]
• 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 - Harry Sinclair Lewis, US, writer (Babbitt, Nobel 1930)
• 1887 - Edith L Sitwell, English poetess/author (Wheels)
• 1889 - Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director (KLM)
• 1889 - Bruce F Cummings, English author (Journal of a Disappointed Man)
• 1891 - Roscoe Karns, San Bernadino Calif, 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, artificial heart pioneer
• 1908 - Paul Brown, Norwalk Ohio, NFL hall of famer (Browns, Bengals)
• 1909 - Elia Kazan, Constaninople Turkey, director (Streetcar Named Desire)
• 1909 - Jo Juda, Dutch musician
• 1909 - Natalia Dmitrevna Shpiller, singer
• 1910 - John Shea, US, 500m/1500m speed skater (Olympic-gold-1932)
• 1911 - Todor C Zjivkov, Bulgaria partizan/premier/president
• 1912 - David Packard, electronic engineer/businessman
• 1913 - Anthony Quayle, England, actor (Anne of 1000 Days, Lawrence of Arabia)
• 1913 - Oswald Szemerenyi, philologist
• 1913 - Willem C L "Wim" van der Grinten, Dutch lawyer/undersec of Economy
• 1914 - Herbert Delauney Bill Hughes, educationist
• 1914 - Hugo Pfister, composer
• 1914 - Ian Ball, photographer
• 1914 - James Van Allen, US physicist (discovered Van Allen radiation belts)
• 1918 - Chaim Herzog, Israeli president
• 1918 - Robert Lewis Campbell Lorimer, publisher
• 1920 - Harri Webb, poet
• 1922 - Arthur Ferrante, pianist/composer (Ferrante & Tachere-Exodus)
• 1922 - Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer
• 1923 - Louise Suggs, Atlanta GA, LPGA golfer (US Women's Open-1949, 52)
• 1923 - Peter Lawford, London England, actor (Mrs Miniver, Thin Man)
• 1924 - Charles Braswell, McKinney TX, entertainer
• 1924 - Daniel Ken Inouye, (Sen-D Hawaii, 1963- )
• 1924 - Hugh Aitken, composer
• 1924 - Leonard Rosenman, Bkln NY, TV composer (Marcus Welby MD)
• 1927 - Don Messick, cartoon voice (Bam-bam, Astro, Scooby-Doo)
• 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, Ireland, actor (Rivals, Holocaust)
• 1930 - Baudouin I, king of Belgium (1951-93)
• 1930 - Sonny Rollins, NYC, 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 (Phila Phillies)
• 1935 - Abdou Diouf, president of Senegal (1981- )
• 1935 - Don Messick, Buffalo NY, cartoon voice (Astro-Jetsons, Bamm Bamm)
• 1936 - Buddy Holly, Lubbock Tx, singer (Peggy Sue, That'll Be the Day)
• 1936 - Romualds Kalsons, composer
• 1937 - George Patrick Reid, schoolkeeper
• 1937 - John Phillip Law, Hollywood, actor (Barbarella, Love Machine)
• 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 - Dario Argento, director (Creepers, Deep Red, Tenebrae)
• 1941 - Mogoboya NN Ramadike, South African politician in Lebowa
• 1942 - Garrison Keillor, humorist (Praire Home Companion)
• 1942 - Richard Roundtree, actor (Shaft, Earthquake)
• 1945 - Luis Aravena Munoz, Chilean singer/exiled in Netherlands
• 1946 - Alfa Anderson, Bronx NY, rock vocalist (Chicago)
• 1948 - Susan Blakely, Frankfurt Germany, actress (Rich Man Poor Man)
• 1949 - Gloria Gaynor, Newark NJ, disco singer (I Will Survive)
• 1950 - Adriano Panatta, Rome, tennis star (French 1976, Italian 1976)
• 1950 - Peggy Noonan, author (What I Saw at the Revolution)
• 1951 - Chrissie Hynde, Akron Oh, rocker (Pretenders-Mystery Achievement)
• 1951 - Julie Kavner, LA Calif, actress (Brenda-Rhoda, Marge-Simpsons)
• 1951 - Mark R McCumber, Jacksonville FL, PGA golfer (1979 Doral-Eastern)
• 1951 - William Katt, US, actor (Butch & Sundance Kid, Carrie)
• 1953 - Ben Bossi, rocker (Romeo Void)
• 1953 - Michael Byron, composer
• 1954 - Benmont Tench, Gainesville Fl, rock keyboardist (Heartbreakers)
• 1954 - Corbin Bernsen, North Hollywood Calif, actor (Arnie Becker-LA Law)
• 1956 - Michael J Feinstein, pianist (Isn't It Romantic)
• 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 - David Steele, Birmingham, rock keyboardist (Fine Young Cannibals)
• 1963 - Eric Eazy-E Wright, rapper
• 1965 - Bruce Armstrong, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
• 1965 - Danny Harris, Torrance Calif, 400m hurdler (Olympic-silver-1984)
• 1966 - Christopher Acland, musician
• 1967 - Kathaleen K Cutone, Olenoridge NJ, fig skater (1994 Collegiate champ)
• 1968 - Erik Williams, NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
• 1968 - Kyle Stevens, NJ, rock guitarist (Bang Tango-Dancin' on Coals)
• 1969 - Angie Everhart, Akron Ohio, model/actress (Jade, Last Action Hero)
• 1969 - Darren Bragg, Waterbury CT, outfielder (Seattle Mariners)
• 1969 - Rudy Galindo, San Jose Calif, 1996 US Mens' Champion
• 1971 - Briana Scurry, Minneapolis MN, soccer 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, Alton IL, pitcher (NY Mets)
• 1972 - Willy Tate, NFL tight end (KC Chiefs)
• 1973 - Sam Couch, Newport Beach Calif, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
• 1974 - Antonio McDyess, NBA forward (Phoenix Suns)
• 1976 - Marja de Graaf, Miss Universe-Netherlands (1996)
• 1978 - G[eneral] A[ustin], Columbus Ga, rapper (Another Bad Creation)
• 1985 - Tatia Jayne Starkey, Ringo's 1st grandchild

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1134 - Alfonso I de Strijdvaardige, king of Aragon (1104-34), dies
• 1151 - Geoffrey Plantagenet, earl of Anjou/duke of Normandy, dies at 38
• 1625 - Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension executive of Lead, dies at 64
• 1655 - Tristan l'Hermite, French dramatist/poet, dies (birth date unknown)
• 1721 - Bernhard Albinus, [Weiss], German artist (Frederik of Prussia), dies
• 1775 - Johann Georg Holzbogen, composer, dies at 48
• 1783 - Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, dies
• 1799 - John Ingen Housz, Dutch/English physician/nature investigator, dies at 68
• 1809 - Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author, dies at 46
• 1809 - Karoline Schelling, writer, dies
• 1819 - Jean-Louis Duport, composer, dies at 69
• 1820 - Coert L van Beyma thoe Kingma, Fries regent/patriot, dies at 67
• 1838 - Joseph Panny, composer, dies at 43
• 1845 - Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies
• 1871 - Cowper Phipps Coles, English inventor (Steel warships), drowns
• 1871 - Mehmed E Ali Pasja, Turkish statesman, dies
• 1872 - Antoni Stolpe, composer, dies at 21
• 1881 - Sidney Clopton Lanier, composer, dies at 39
• 1892 - John G Whittier, US poet/secretary Anti-Slavery Society, dies
• 1902 - Franz Wullner, composer, dies at 70
• 1907 - R F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, French poet (Poesies, Nobel 1901), dies
• 1909 - EugŠne Lefebvre, dies test piloting a Wright A aircraft
• 1914 - Lord O'Brien, British nobleman, dies at 73
• 1925 - John Wesley Work, composer, dies at 52
• 1925 - Ren‚ [Raphael] Viviani, French premier (1914-15), dies
• 1933 - Edward Grey, English viscount of Fallodon/Foreign minister, dies
• 1940 - Edmund Rumpler, Austria auto/airplane builder, dies
• 1944 - Eduardo Sanchez de Fuentes, composer, dies at 70
• 1946 - Paul Zech, writer, dies at 65
• 1948 - Henricus A Poels, Dutch RC theologist/social foreman, dies at 80
• 1951 - Maria Montez, actress (Arabian Nights, Sudan), dies at 31
• 1955 - Earnest Rabel, Austrian/US civil rights activist, dies at 81
• 1956 - Charles Burgess Fry, English athlete/cricketer/journalist, dies at 84
• 1960 - Wilhelm Pieck, president of German DR (1949-60), dies at 84
• 1961 - Pieter S Gerbrandy, lawyer/premier to London 1940-5, dies at 76
• 1962 - Karen Blixen-Finecke, baroness/writer (Out of Africa), dies at 77
• 1965 - Catherine Dale Owen, actress (Behind Office Doors), dies at 62
• 1966 - Al Kelly, double talk comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), dies at 67
• 1969 - Everett McKinley Dirksen, (Sen-R), dies at 73
• 1971 - Spring Byington, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride), dies at 84
• 1972 - Jacques Pirenne, Belgian historian, dies at 81
• 1973 - Hans Lorbeer, writer, dies at 72
• 1977 - Gustave Reese, composer, dies at 77
• 1978 - Keith Moon, rock drummer (Who), dies of drug OD at 31
• 1983 - Hans Munch, composer, dies at 90
• 1983 - Henry Promnitz, cricketer (5-58 on debut for S Africa 1927-28), dies
• 1984 - Don Tallon, cricketer (great Queensland & Australian keeper), dies
• 1984 - Joe Cronin, shortstop/American League Pres, dies at 77
• 1986 - Ruth Polsky, record promoter, dies after being run over by a cab at 30
• 1986 - Vladimir Alexandrovich Vlasov, composer, dies at 83
• 1990 - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (Origins of WW II), dies
• 1991 - Archie N Menzies, playwright/composer (Under Your Hat), dies at 87
• 1991 - Ben Piazza, actor (Consenting Adults), dies of cancer at 58
• 1991 - John Crosby, US columnist/detective writer dies at 79
• 1991 - John Lawrence, examined effect of neutron radiation on fabric, dies
• 1992 - Henry Ephron, US screenwriter (Daddy Long Legs), dies at 81
• 1992 - Indra Kamadjojo, [Broekveld], Indon/Dutch dancer (Stille Kracht), dies
• 1992 - Leo van der Kar, masseur/businessman/founder (Sports Fund), dies at 79
• 1994 - Dennis Morgan, [Stanley], US actor (21 Beacon Street), dies at 83
• 1994 - Eric John Crozier, producer/librettist, dies at 79
• 1994 - Godfrey Quigley, actor (Barry Lyndon, Educating Rita), dies at 71
• 1994 - James Clavell, author (Shogun, Tai-Pan), dies at 69
• 1994 - Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79
• 1995 - Gordon DeMarco, writer/activist, dies at 51
• 1996 - Niccolo Castiglioni, composer, dies at 64
• 1997 - Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight), dies at 72
• 1997 - Derek Taylor, Beatles publicist, dies of cancer at 65
• 1997 - Mobutu Sese Seko, president of Zaire (1965-97), dies at 66