• 1574 - Claudio Achillini, Italian lawyer/poet
• 1636 - Pietro Sanmartini, composer
• 1684 - Johann Gottfried Walther, Erfurt Germany, composer/Musicographer
• 1713 - Jean Allamand, French theologist/natural philosopher
• 1733 - George Read, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)
• 1750 - Tomas de Iriarte, Spanish writer (Fabulas Literarias)
• 1752 - Adrien-Marie Lagendre, mathematician, worked on elliptic integrals
• 1752 - Johann Anton Sulzer, composer
• 1765 - Oliver Holden, composer
• 1772 - Martin-Pierre Dalvimare, composer
• 1779 - Joseph Story, Mass, 19th Supreme Court justice (1812-45)
• 1786 - Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer
• 1787 - Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist
• 1805 - Robert Cowdin, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
• 1815 - Henry Constantine Wayne, Brig General (Confederate Army)
• 1818 - Marcellus Augustus Stovall, Brig General (Confederate Army)
• 1838 - Anton Mauve, painter/graphic artist/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh
• 1860 - Alberto Franchetti, composer
• 1863 - Hermann Kutter, Swiss Christ-social theologist
• 1870 - Clark Wissler, anthropologist (American Indian)
• 1874 - Johannes Anker Larsen, Danish writer (Vises Sten)
• 1876 - Milan Rakic, Serbian poet (Pesme)
• 1877 - Jozef de Voght, Flemish priest/songwriter (Under the Snow)
• 1883 - Lord Berners, [Gerald Tyrwhitt], England, composer (1st Childhood)
• 1885 - Abdul Muslim Mahomayev, composer
• 1890 - Vladimir Ambros, composer
• 1893 - Arthur Benjamin, Sydney Australia, composer (Jamaican Rumba)
• 1893 - Frederic Mar‚s, Spanish sculptor
• 1893 - William March, [Campbell], US, writer (Company K)
• 1895 - John G Diefenbaker, Neustadt Ontario, 13th Canadian PM (C) (1957-63)
• 1897 - John Mens, writer (People Without Money)
• 1897 - Pablo Sorozabal Marialcurrena, composer
• 1901 - Harold Clurman, producer/director (Deadline at Dawn)
• 1905 - Agnes De Mille, NYC, choreographer (Oklahoma)
• 1905 - Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Oakland Calif, actor (Jack Benny Show)
• 1905 - Greta Garbo, Stockholm, actress (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel, Camille)
• 1906 - Semjon I Kirsanov, Ukrainian poet (Semj Dnej Nedeli) [OS=Sept 5]
• 1907 - Edwin M McMillan, US, physicist/discoverer plutonium (Nobel prize)
• 1908 - Viktor A Ambartsoemjan, Russian astronomer (Stalin Prize 1946, 50)
• 1910 - Henri A Cornelis, gov-general Belgian Congo/Rwanda-Urundi
• 1910 - Josef Tal, composer
• 1910 - Leon Stein, composer
• 1915 - Hetta Empson, artist
• 1915 - Ronald Ogden, engineer
• 1916 - John J Rhodes, (Rep-R-Az)
• 1916 - Rossano Brazzi, Bolognia Italy, actor/director (Antaeus-Survivors)
• 1917 - Alan Ande Anderson, opera director
• 1917 - Gerrit Borgers, literature
• 1918 - John Berger, politician
• 1920 - Jack Warden, Newark NJ, actor (NYPD, Crazy Like a Fox, Norby)
• 1923 - J T Mellema, Boer politician (CHU)
• 1924 - Zelda Fichandler, Boston, theater director/producer (Raisin, K2)
• 1925 - Harvey Haddix, baseball pitcher (pitched perfect game into 12th)
• 1926 - Bud Greenspan, documentary maker (Olympic Games)
• 1928 - Adam Walacinski, composer
• 1928 - Phyllis Kirk, Syracuse NY, actress (Thin Man, Red Button's Show)
• 1929 - June Rosemary Fisher, teacher/trade unionist
• 1929 - Louis Myers, blues guitarist /harmonica player
• 1932 - Jack Mullaney, Pitts Pa, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time)
• 1932 - Nikolai N Rukavishnikov, Siberia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 10, 16, 33)
• 1932 - Valery Viktorovich Ryumin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 25, 32/34, 35/37)
• 1933 - Jimmie Rodgers, WA, singer/guitarist (Jimmie Rodgers Show, Honey Comb)
• 1933 - Manfred Niehaus, composer
• 1933 - Robert Blake, Nutley NJ, (Baretta, Little Rascals, Coast to Coast)
• 1933 - Robert F Bennett, (Sen-R Utah)
• 1933 - Roman Polanski, Paris France, director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown)
• 1933 - Scotty Bowman, NHL player/coach (Mont Canadians)
• 1933 - V L Ponomaryova, cosmonaut
• 1933 - Valentina Leonidovna Ponomaryova, cosmonaut (Vostok 6 backup)
• 1937 - Norman Dinnerstein, composer
• 1939 - Bob Whittaker, (Rep-R-KS, 1979- )
• 1939 - Fred Willard, Ohio, comedian (Fernwood 2 Night, Real People)
• 1939 - Naresh Kumar Sohal, composer
• 1940 - Frankie Avalon, Phila, actor (Beach movies)/singer (Venus)
• 1941 - Clive Burton, neuropathologist
• 1941 - Haflidi Magnus Hallgrimmson, composer
• 1941 - Mariangela Melato, Milan Italy, actress (Flash Gordon, Summer Night)
• 1942 - Koos van den Berg, Dutch MP (SGP)
• 1943 - Michael Vetter, composer
• 1944 - Charles Lacy Veach, Chicago Illinois, astronaut (STS 39, STS 52)
• 1944 - Michael Franks, rocker
• 1946 - Alan "Bam" King, rocker
• 1947 - Hans Vermeulen, singer/guitarist (Sandy Coast)
• 1949 - Jim McCrery, (Rep-R-Louisiana)
• 1949 - Kerry Livgren, Kansas, rock guitarist (Kansas)
• 1950 - Helene Weijel, author (In the Street Without a Coat)
• 1950 - Mike Hossack, Patterson NJ, rock drummer (Doobie Brothers)
• 1951 - Dee Dee Ramone, Virg, [Douglas Colvin], rock bassist (Ramones)
• 1954 - Murtaza Bhutto, politician
• 1954 - Takao Doi, Tokyo Japan, astronaut (STS 87)
• 1955 - Jeana Tomasino, Milwaukee Wis, playmate (Nov, 1980)
• 1958 - Lita Rossana Ford, London England, metal guitarist (Kiss Me Deadly)
• 1959 - Ryne Sandberg, Spokane WA, infielder (Chic Cubs)
• 1960 - Kim Wilde, [Kim Smith], Chiswick England, vocalist
• 1961 - Jensen Buchanan, Montgomery Ala, actress (Vicky/Marley-Another World)
• 1961 - Sharon Barrett, San Diego, LPGA golfer (1993 Nabisco Dinah Shore-22nd)
• 1962 - Joanne Catherall, Sheffield England, rock vocalist (Human League)
• 1963 - Rich Weiss, Munich Germany, US slalom single kayak (Olympics-6th-96)
• 1964 - Holly Robinson, Phila, actress (21 Jump Street)
• 1964 - Marco Masini, Italian entertainer
• 1965 - Monique Klemann, singer (Lo‹s Lane)
• 1966 - Isabelle Demongeot, Gassin France, tennis star
• 1966 - Spike, guitarist (Ian Spice Breathe, Flash Cadillac) [or Feb 4]
• 1967 - Ricky Bell, Boston Mass, rock vocalist (New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe)
• 1967 - Tara Fitzgerald, Sussex England, actress (Siren)
• 1968 - Toni Kukoc, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
• 1969 - Robert Coons, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills)
• 1970 - Everett Lindsay, NFL guard/center (Minn Vikings)
• 1970 - Gary Rogers, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
• 1970 - Michela Rocco, Udine Italy, Miss Italy (1987)
• 1970 - Mike Compton, NFL center/guard (Detroit Lions)
• 1971 - Jada Pinkett, actress (Jason's Lyric, Menace II Society)
• 1971 - Kate Starre, Armadale Australia, field hockey utility (Olympics-96)
• 1971 - Lance Armstrong, Plano Texas, road cyclist (Olympics-6th-92, 96)
• 1971 - Oleg Ladik, Kiev Ukraine, Canadian 100 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
• 1971 - Ron Childs, NFL linebacker (NO Saints)
• 1972 - Fran‡ois Gesthuizen, soccer player (PSV, NAC)
• 1972 - Michael Landes, actor (American Summer)
• 1972 - Richard Huntley, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons)
• 1978 - Shelly Moore, Miss Teen USA (Tennessee, 1997)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0031 - Sejanus, Roman head of praetorisch guard, executed
• 0096 - Domitian, Roman emperor, dies
• 0993 - Arnulf vanf Gent, Westfries earl (988-93), dies in battle
• 1137 - Erik II Eimune, [Onvergetelijke], king of Denmark (1134-37), murdered
• 1180 - Louis VII, King of France, dies
• 1261 - Koenraad van Hochstaden, archbishop of Cologne, dies
• 1426 - Hubert [Huybrecht] van Eyck, painter, dies
• 1684 - Jan A "Joannes" Antonides van der Goes, poet (Ystroom), dies at 37
• 1721 - Matthew Prior, poet/diplomat, dies
• 1735 - Justus van Effen, writer/founder (Holland Spectator), dies at 51
• 1759 - James Wolfe & the French commander Louis Montcalm, killed
• 1775 - Andrew Foulis, bookseller/printer, dies
• 1783 - Leonhard Euler, mathematician, dies
• 1792 - Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies
• 1797 - Louis-Lazare Hoche, French revolutionary general, dies
• 1818 - Olaf Swaertz, botanist, dies
• 1827 - Robert Pollok, poet, dies
• 1830 - William Hazlitt, critic/essayist, dies
• 1831 - Peter Hansel, composer, dies at 60
• 1857 - Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer, dies at 72
• 1860 - Casimiro de Abreu, Brazilians poet (Primaveras), dies
• 1860 - Joseph Locke, railway engineer, dies
• 1872 - Charles XV Louis E, king of Sweden/Norway (1859-72), dies
• 1890 - Dion Boucicault, Irish/US actor/playwright (Octoroon), dies at 67
• 1894 - Rafael NŁ¤ez, president (Colombia)/writer (La fonolgia Moderna), dies
• 1896 - Armand-Hippolyte-Louis Fizeau, physicist, dies
• 1903 - Isidor Vorobchievici, composer, dies at 67
• 1903 - Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, composer, dies at 79
• 1904 - Herbert von Bismarck, German politician/son of Otto, dies
• 1905 - George MacDonald, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), dies at 80
• 1911 - Pjotr A Stolypin, premier Russia (1906-11), murdered at 49 [NS=Oct 1]
• 1918 - Ernest Bristow Farrar, composer, dies at 33
• 1924 - Francis Herbert Bradley, British philosopher (neo-idealism), dies
• 1929 - Hermann Gradener, composer, dies at 85
• 1934 - Marie Shotwell, actress (Sally of the Sawdust), dies at 54
• 1944 - Anthony Stefanich, British boxer/captain, killed in Arnhem
• 1944 - Hendrikus Colijn, Dutch premier (1933-39), dies at 75
• 1944 - Hubert Ahaus, chaplin (Godsrijk), dies at 67
• 1944 - Paul Gr„bner, German SS-captain, dies in battle in Arnhem
• 1944 - Peter Waddy, British major 1st Para Brigade, dies in battle in Arnhem
• 1944 - Robert Cole, US lt-colonel, dies in battle at Best
• 1949 - Frank Morgan, actor (Annie Get Your Gun, Wizard of Oz), dies at 59
• 1949 - Theodor Z”ckler, German theologist (Jodenzending), dies at 82
• 1951 - John Douglas Cockcroft, physicist, dies
• 1952 - Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Dreamy), dies
• 1952 - Maria Matos, Portuguese actress (Menina da R dio), dies at 61
• 1960 - A J Evans, cricketer (only England Test v Aus 1921), dies
• 1961 - Dag Hammarskj”ld, UN Sect Gen, dies in an air crash over Congo at 56
• 1962 - Therese Neumann, German stigma, dies at 64
• 1964 - Sean O'Casey, Irish playwright (Playboy of Western World), dies at 84
• 1966 - Fernand Lamy, composer, dies at 85
• 1966 - Jeno Vecsey, composer, dies at 57
• 1968 - Franchot Tone, actor (Advise & Consent, Dark Waters), dies at 63
• 1968 - Francis McDonald, actor (Will-Adv of Champion), dies at 77
• 1968 - Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 65
• 1969 - Rudolph Wagner-Regeny, composer, dies at 66
• 1970 - Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Hayes), dies of an overdose at 27
• 1973 - Nora Nicholson, actress (Blue Lagoon, Crow Hollow), dies at 80
• 1973 - Th‚o LefŠvre, premier Belgium, dies
• 1974 - Edna Best, actress (Key, Calendar, Escape), dies at 74
• 1975 - Pamela Brown, actress (Cleopatra, Beckett, Night Digger), dies at 58
• 1979 - Gene Kelly, sportscaster (Sportsreel), dies at 60
• 1980 - K A Porter, writer, dies at 90
• 1994 - Franco Moschino, Italian fashion designer, dies at 44
• 1994 - Vitas Gerulaitis, tennis star (Davis Cup 1979), dies at 40
• 1995 - Donald Alfred Davie, poet/critic, dies at 73
• 1995 - Doreen Cannon, teacher of acting (London), dies at 64
• 1995 - Lesley Sunderland, decorative artist, dies at 47
• 1996 - Spiro Theodore Agnew, US VP (1969-73), dies at 77
• 1997 - Harry Brian Boyne, journalist, dies at 87
• 1997 - Jimmy Witherspoon, singer, dies at 65