• 1342 - Philip, the Bold, duke of Burgundy
• 1463 - Frederick III, the Wise, elector of Saxony (1486-25), protector Luther
• 1501 - Leonhard Fuchs, Germany, botanist (History of Plants)
• 1504 - Pius V, [Antonio Ghislieri] saint, pope (1566-72)
• 1517 - Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (Passion of Johannes)
• 1545 - Antonio Pace, composer
• 1574 - Robert Fludd, composer
• 1600 - Calderon, writer
• 1600 - Pedro Cald‚ron de la Barca, Spanish poet/dramatist
• 1612 - Thomas Fairfax, Lord Fairfax, English Parliamentary general
• 1657 - Pieter van Bloemen, [Standaart], Flemish painter, baptized
• 1659 - Antonio Veracini, composer
• 1683 - Gerard van Loon, Dutch historian
• 1706 - Benjamin Franklin, Boston, kite flyer/statesman/wit/inventor
• 1712 - John Stanley, composer
• 1719 - Jean-Joseph Vade, composer
• 1728 - Johann Gottfried Muthel, composer
• 1732 - Stanislaw II August Poniatowski, last king of Poland (1764-95)
• 1733 - Thomas Linley, composer
• 1734 - Fran‡ois-Joseph Gossec, Belgian-French composer (Les Pˆcheurs, Mirza)
• 1745 - Nicolas Roze, composer
• 1759 - Paul Cuffe, Mass, merchant/shipbuilder/black nationalist
• 1761 - James Hall, Scotland, geologist
• 1769 - Ole Andreas Lindeman, composer
• 1771 - Charles Brockden Brown, father of American novel (Wieland)
• 1806 - James Madison Randolph, (Jefferson's grandson) 1st born in White House
• 1814 - Ellen Wood, English author (East Lynne, Pomeroy Abbey)
• 1818 - Antoine Dorion, (L) joint premier of Canada (1858, 1863-64)
• 1820 - Anne Bronte, English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
• 1828 - Lewis Addison Grant, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1918
• 1834 - Wilhelmina J R Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress/daughter of Mimi Bia
• 1835 - Antanas Baranauskas, Lithuanian bishop/poet/dialectologist
• 1835 - Johan Filip von Schantz, composer
• 1836 - Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer
• 1842 - Anton G van Hamel, founder (Roman Philology in Netherlands)
• 1845 - Lucas Lindeboom, Dutch vicar/evangelist (Vredebond)
• 1850 - Alexander Sergeyevich Taneyev, St Petersburg Russia, composer
• 1853 - Alva Vanderbilt Beaumont, women's rights advocate & activist
• 1857 - Eugene Augustin Lauste, developer (1st sound-on-film recording)
• 1857 - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austrian composer (Evangelimann)
• 1858 - Tomas Carrasquilla, Colombian author (Frutos de mi Tierra)
• 1862 - John E Akkeringa, Dutch painter/etcher
• 1863 - David Lloyd George, (L-PM-Britain, 1916-22)
• 1863 - Henry Charles Tonking, composer
• 1863 - Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russia, director (Stanislavski Method)
• 1864 - Lucien Herr, France, scientist (Corresp entre Schiller et Schiller)
• 1873 - Fran‡ois Rasse, composer
• 1876 - Olga Fastrova, writer
• 1877 - Hans Jelmoli, composer
• 1878 - Oscar Apfel, Cleve, actor (Abraham Lincoln, Inspiration, Before Dawn)
• 1880 - Mack Sennett, movie creator (Keystone Kops)
• 1881 - Alfred R Radcliffe-Browne, British anthropologist (Andaman Islanders)
• 1884 - Noah Beery, US actor (Mark of Zorro, Sea Wolf)
• 1885 - E Ball-Hennings, writer
• 1885 - Joseph Arendt, Belgian worker's union leader
• 1886 - Glenn Luther Martin, aviator (Collier Trophy-1933)
• 1886 - Ronald Firbank, London, novelist (Flower Beneath the Foot)
• 1891 - Marjorie Gateson, Bkln NY, actress (One Man's Family)
• 1891 - Norman "Squab" Read, US aviator who lived to be 101
• 1891 - Walter Eucken, German economist
• 1896 - Harry Reser, Ohio, orch leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
• 1897 - Nils Asther, Malm” Sweden, actor (Bluebeard, Night Monster)
• 1899 - Al Capone, Italy, gangster (Chicago bootlegging)
• 1899 - Nevil Shute [Norway], London, novelist (On the Beach, Town Like Alice)
• 1899 - Robert Maynard Hutchins, US, educator/civil libertarian
• 1899 - Roel [Martinus F] Houwink, Dutch literary (1 Man Without Character)
• 1900 - Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts
• 1901 - Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky, composer
• 1902 - Geoffrey W Lloyd, British minister of Brandstoffen/Energy (1951-55)
• 1903 - Warren Hull, Gasport NY, actor (Strike it Rich, Who in the World)
• 1904 - Grant Withers, Pueblo CO, actor (Oklahoma, Annie)
• 1904 - Patsy Ruth Miller, actress (Quebec, Wide Open, Sap, Twin Beds)
• 1905 - Franz Schmid, Germany, ascended northside of Matterhorn (1931)
• 1907 - Henk H Badings, Bandung Indonesia, Dutch opera composer (Orestes)
• 1908 - Akkineni LV Lakshmi Varaprasada Rao Prasad, producer
• 1910 - Edith S Green, (Rep-D-Ore)
• 1910 - Michael Economides, restaurateur
• 1911 - Hermann Pfrogner, Austria, musicologist (Zerrissene Orpheus)
• 1911 - Luis W Alvarez, US, physicist (sub atomic, Nobel 1968) [or Jun 13]
• 1912 - Orest Alexandrovich Evlahkov, composer
• 1913 - Werenfried [Flip] van Straaten, founder (Oostpriesterhulp)
• 1913 - Yuvraj of Patiala, cricketer (scored 24 & 60 in only Test India v Eng)
• 1916 - Joel Herron, Chicago Ill, orch leader (Jaye P Morgan Show)
• 1917 - Maruthur Gopalan Ramachandran, (MGR), Indian film star, politician
• 1917 - Oskar Morawetz, Svetla Czechoslovakia, composer
• 1917 - Ulyses Simpson Kay, composer
• 1918 - Joseph Walker Barr, banker/politician
• 1920 - Joseph George Handy Hendleman, musician
• 1920 - Nora Kaye, NYC, prima ballerina
• 1921 - Dehl Berti, Pueblo Colo, actor (John Taylor-Guns of Paradise)
• 1922 - Betty White, Oak Park, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden Girls)
• 1922 - Luis Echeverr¡a Alvarez, president Mexico
• 1923 - Onno Molenkamp, Dutch actor (Lifespan, Broken Mirrors, The Lift)
• 1924 - Jewel Plummer Cobb, educator/pres (California State U at Fullerton)
• 1925 - A H Kardar, cricketer (Pak 1st Test capt, prev played for India)
• 1925 - Annie Delorie, Dutch opera singer (Scenes & Arias)
• 1925 - Duane Hanson, US sculptor
• 1925 - Rock Hudson, Winnetka Ill, actor (McMillian & Wife)
• 1926 - Clyde Walcott, cricketer (one of the three W's, later ICC chairman)
• 1926 - Moira Shearer, Dunfermline Scotland, ballerina (Red Shoes)
• 1926 - Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer
• 1927 - Donald Erb, Youngstown, Ohio, composer
• 1927 - Eartha Kitt, singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman)
• 1927 - Michael Herford Wooller, TV/film producer
• 1928 - Jean Barraqu‚, French composer
• 1928 - Ken Archer, cricketer (Australian batsman, 5 Tests early 50s)
• 1928 - Vidal Sassoon, London, hair stylist/CEO (Vidal Sasson)
• 1929 - Jacques "Jake the Snake" Plante, Qu‚bec, NHL goaltender (#1)
• 1930 - Bill Benyon, English large landowner/Conservative Lower house leader
• 1930 - Robert Ceely, composer
• 1931 - Frederick Alfred Fox, composer
• 1931 - James Earl Jones, Miss, actor (Darth Vader, Exorcist II, Soul Man)
• 1931 - L Douglas Wilder, (Gov-D-Va)
• 1933 - Aga Khan, religious leader (Muslims)
• 1933 - Bruno Schroder, British baron/banker/multi-millionaire
• 1933 - Dalida, Cairo, actress/singer, Miss Egypt (The 6th Day)
• 1933 - Sheree North, [Dawn Bethel], LA, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• 1933 - Yolande Christina Dalida, Cairo Egypt
• 1934 - Donald Cammell, film director
• 1934 - Shari Lewis, Bronx NY, ventriloquist/puppeteer (Lamb Chop)
• 1934 - Sydney Phillip Hodkinson, composer
• 1935 - Jimmy Powell, Dallas TX, PGA golfer (1990 Southwestern Bell Classic)
• 1935 - Paul O[sborne] Williams, US, sci-fi author (Ends of the Circle)
• 1936 - Jerry Fogel, Rochester NY, actor (Jerry-Mothers-in-Law, White Shadow)
• 1938 - John Bellairs, US, sci-fi author (Chessmen of Doom)
• 1938 - Paul Revere, Harvard Nebraska, pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders)
• 1939 - Antao D'Souza, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler in six Tests 1959-62)
• 1939 - Maury Povich, TV host (Current Affair, Maury)/Mr Connie Chung
• 1939 - Toini Gustafson, Sweden, 5K/10K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1968)
• 1940 - H Kipchoge "Kip" Keino, Kenya, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1968, 72)
• 1940 - Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, South African poet (Fireflames)
• 1942 - Muhammad Ali, [Cassius Clay], heavyweight champ boxer (1964-7 74-8)
• 1942 - Randy Boone, Fayetteville NC, actor (Cimarron Strip, Virginian)
• 1943 - Chris Montez, rocker
• 1943 - Daniel Charles Brandenstein, Watertown Wi, ast (STS 8, 51-G, 32, 49)
• 1945 - William Hart, US singer (4 Gents, Delfonics-I'm Sorry)
• 1947 - Gail Toushin, LPGA golfer
• 1947 - Jane Elliot, NYC, actress (Baby Boom, Gen Hospital, Knots Landing)
• 1947 - Todd Susman, St Louis Mo, actor (Goodnight Beantown)
• 1947 - Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer
• 1948 - Alexander "Alec" Erwin, South African worker's union leader
• 1948 - Mick Taylor, rock bassist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
• 1949 - Andy Kaufman, NYC, comedian/actor (Latka Gravas-Taxi)
• 1949 - Debbie Watson, La Mirada Calif, actress (Karen, Tammy)
• 1951 - Rolando Thoeni, Italy, slalom (Olympic-bronze-1972)
• 1952 - Larry Fortensky, former husband of Liz Taylor (7th)
• 1952 - Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jap, rocker (Academy Award 1988, Yellow Magic Orch)
• 1953 - Sheila Hutchinson, rocker
• 1954 - Janet Dykman, Monterey Park Calif, archer (Olympics-1996)
• 1954 - Robert F Kennedy Jr, attorney (Natural Resources Defense Council)
• 1955 - Steve Earle, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Guitar Town)
• 1956 - David Caruso, actor (NYPD Blue, Michael Hayes)
• 1956 - Mitch Vogel, Alhambra Calif, actor (Jamie-Bonanza)
• 1956 - Paul Young, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Every Time You Go Away)
• 1957 - Donna Stone, NJ, fencer-epee (Olympics-96)
• 1958 - Jez Strode, rocker (Kajagoogoo)
• 1959 - Susanna Hoffs, actress/rocker (Bangles-Walk Like an Egyptian)
• 1960 - Chili Davis, Kingston Jamacia, outfielder (California Angels)
• 1960 - John Crawford, Palo Alto Ca, bass (Berlin-You Take My Breath Away)
• 1961 - Maia Chiburdanidze, Kutaisi USSR, women's world chess champ
• 1962 - Jim Carrey, Ontario Canada, actor (Living Color, Dumb & Dumber, Mask)
• 1964 - Jeff Tabaka, US baseball pitcher (San Diego Padres)
• 1966 - Anna Ivan, La Jolla Cal, tennis star
• 1966 - Don Myrah, Oakland Calif, cyclist (Olympics-20th-96)
• 1966 - Karissa Rushing, Benton Arkansas, Miss Arkansas-America (1991)
• 1966 - Rexton Gordon, Jamaican dj/rapper (Shabba Ranks-Extra Naked)
• 1966 - Shabba Ranks, reggae singer
• 1966 - Trish Johnson, Bristol England, LPGA golfer (1993 Las Vegas)
• 1967 - Gregory Caccia, Bayshore NY, team handball right back (Olympics-1996)
• 1967 - William Michael Heinen Jr, Rayne LA, PGA golfer (1994 Shell Houston)
• 1970 - Candace Murray, Vancouver BC, softball shortstop (Olympics-96)
• 1970 - Darnell Walker, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons, SF 49ers)
• 1970 - Jeremy Roenick, Boston MA, NHL center (Team USA, Blackhawks, Coyotes)
• 1971 - Derek Plante, Cloquet, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres)
• 1971 - Peter Winter, Australian decathlete (Olympics-96)
• 1971 - Tyler Houston, US baseball catcher (Atlanta Braves)
• 1972 - Rohn Meyer, CFL offensive linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
• 1972 - Wendall Gaines, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals)
• 1973 - Amanda Elizabeth Spivey, Spartanburg SC, Miss America-SC (1996)
• 1974 - Derrick Mason, wide receiver (Tennessee Oilers)
• 1974 - Guillermo Mercedes, Dominican/US baseball infielder (Texas Rangers)
• 1974 - Marcus Spriggs, offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
• 1974 - Sharon Marie Ferris, NZ, yachter (Olympics-96)
• 1977 - Ali el Kattabi, soccer player (Sparta)
• 1978 - Irina A Borisova, Miss Universe-Ukraine (1996)
• 1981 - Ray J, singer

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0395 - Theodosius I, the Great, Spanish emperor of Rome, dies at 49
• 1103 - Frutolf, German monk/musicologist/historian, dies
• 1119 - Boudouin VII Hapkin, count of Flanders, dies
• 1229 - Albert, bishop of Riga/founder (Sword Knights), dies at about 68
• 1604 - Santino Garsi, composer, dies at 61
• 1617 - Pieter C Bockenberg, Dutch historian, dies at 68
• 1620 - Diego Alvarez de Paz, Span missionary/writer (Peru), dies at about 59
• 1625 - Nicolo Rubini, composer, dies at 50
• 1654 - Paul Potter, Dutch painter, buried
• 1661 - Andres Malong, Philippines rebel leader, executed
• 1676 - Pier Francesco Cavalli, Italian opera composer, dies at 73
• 1702 - Thomas Franklin, English smith/uncle of B Franklin, dies [OS=Jan 6]
• 1738 - Jean-Francois Dandrieu, composer, dies
• 1750 - Tomaso Albinioni, Italian composer (Adagio in G Minor), dies at 78
• 1781 - Marie de Negre Dables, marquess, dies
• 1788 - Alessio Prati, composer, dies at 37
• 1805 - Abraham-Hyacinthe Anquetil du Perron, French interpreter, dies at 73
• 1820 - Daniel W Wyttenbach, Dutch classicist/historian, dies at 73
• 1823 - Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36
• 1826 - Juan Cris¢stomo Arriaga y Balzola, Spanish composer, dies at 19
• 1830 - W Waiblinger, writer, dies
• 1833 - James Ball Antyne, Scot founder (Ball Antyne Press), dies at about 60
• 1833 - William Rush, Indians sculptor (Spirit of the Schuylkill), dies
• 1856 - Thomas Attwood Walmisley, composer, dies at 41
• 1863 - E J Horace Vernet, French painter, dies at 73
• 1869 - Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky, composer, dies at 55
• 1874 - Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai Siamese twins, dies at 62
• 1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51
• 1889 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author (Siete Tratados), dies at 56
• 1890 - Salomon Sulzer, composer, dies at 85
• 1891 - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer, dies at 74
• 1892 - Alexandre Levy, composer, dies at 27
• 1893 - Rutherford B Hayes, 19th US Pres (1877-81), dies in Fremont Ohio at 70
• 1901 - Jacob G Agarah, Swedish algologist, dies at 87
• 1902 - Gideon Scheepers, South Africa Boer leader, executed
• 1908 - Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane, dies at 72
• 1910 - Thomas Crapper, inventor (flush toilet), dies
• 1910 - Wilhelm F Kohlrausch, Germ physicist (Additiviteitsregel), dies at 69
• 1911 - Francis Galton, English scholar, dies at 88
• 1913 - Carl Baermann, composer, dies at 73
• 1917 - Hendrik Goeman Borgesius, Dutch politician, dies at 70
• 1933 - John Hodges, cricketer (6 wickets in Australia's 1st two Tests), dies
• 1938 - William H Pickering, astronomer (predicted Pluto), dies at 79
• 1941 - Jos‚ Leite de Vasconcelos, Portuguese scholar (Etnografia), dies at 82
• 1942 - Frederick Jerome Work, composer, dies at 61
• 1946 - Gottfried Rudinger, composer, dies at 59
• 1952 - Walter O "Spike" Briggs, owner (Det Tigers), dies at 74
• 1955 - J A Veraart, economist, dies at 68
• 1955 - Joannes A Veraart, Dut judge/MP, (Jews in Neth), dies at 68
• 1959 - Abdul Aziz, cricket, dies at 17 struck by ball in fc match for Karachi
• 1961 - Patrice Lumumba, African revolutionary, murdered at 36
• 1962 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Dead End), dies at 56
• 1964 - Terence Hanbury White, novelist (England Have My Bones), dies at 57
• 1966 - Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50
• 1967 - Evelyn Nesbit, actress (Redemption), dies at 82
• 1968 - Julis Deutsch, Austria politician/general Spanish rep army, dies at 83
• 1969 - Grazyna Bacewicz, composer, dies at 59
• 1970 - Billy Stewart, singer (I Do Love You), dies in auto-accident at 32
• 1972 - Rochelle Hudson, actress (That's My Boy), dies at 55
• 1973 - Fred Essler, actor (Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies at 77
• 1976 - Ad Verhoeven, soccer player (Xerxes/Sparta), dies in auto-accident
• 1977 - Gary Gilmore, executed in Utah, 1st US execution since 1967
• 1980 - Barbara Britton, actress (Pamela-Mr & Mrs North), dies at 59
• 1981 - Bernard Lee, actor (M in James Bond Movies), dies at 73
• 1983 - Doodles Weaver, actor/comedian (Ring of Fire), shoots himself at 71
• 1989 - Sterling A Brown, US poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87
• 1990 - Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies
• 1991 - Olav AFEC van Sleeswijk-Holstein-S-G V, king of Norway (1957), dies
• 1992 - Bill Walker, actor (Big Mo, Mask, Harlem Globetrotters), dies at 95
• 1992 - Charlie Ventura, jazz sax (Bop for the people), dies at 75 of cancer
• 1992 - Dorothy Alison, actress (Maggie, 3rd Key, Long Arm), dies
• 1993 - Ger ter Horst, Dutch soccer trainer (Sparta), dies
• 1994 - Allan G Odell, Ad exec (Burma Shave), dies at 90
• 1994 - Chung Il Kwon, PM of S Korea (1964-70), dies
• 1994 - Grady "Fats" Jackson, tenor Sax Player, dies at 66
• 1994 - Han Jansen, Dutch journalist (Volkskrant), dies at 61
• 1994 - Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77
• 1994 - Noel Chiboust, trumpeter/sax, dies at 84
• 1995 - Isador Caplan, lawyer/Aldeburgh Festival pioneer, dies at 82
• 1995 - Urias Nooteboom, Dutch journalist/critic (The Time), dies at 54
• 1996 - Barbara Charline Jordan, politician, dies at 59
• 1996 - Charles Henry Madge, poet writer/sociologist, dies at 83
• 1996 - Giles William Playfair, writer, dies at 85
• 1996 - John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman, dies at 83
• 1996 - Robert Covington, drummer/singer, dies at 54
• 1997 - Andrea Fisher, artist, dies at 21
• 1997 - Asfa Wossen, [Amha Selassie], crown emperor of Ethiopia in exile, dies
• 1997 - Clyde William Tombaugh, discoverer (Pluto), dies at 90
• 1998 - Emil Sitka, actor (3 Stooges shorts), dies of stroke at 82