Today In History - Monday, May 16, 2022




	Search For: (Advanced Search)

Welcome to Today In History for Monday, May 16, 2022.

On this day in history ..

0955 - Alberich II, (bastard?) son of Octavianus elected pope
1165 - Ramjbam & his family reach Acre Palestine
1527 - Florence becomes a republic
1532 - Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor
1547 - Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg
1568 - Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
1571 - Johannes Kepler, by his own calculations, is conceived at 4:37 AM
1584 - 7 Westfriese towns divide monasteries of Egmond/Blokker/St-Pietersdal
1605 - Camillo Borghese elected to succeed Pope Leo XI becomes Paul V
1606 - 2,000 foreigners murdered in Russia
1648 - Battle at Z¢lty Wody: Bohdan Chmielricki's cosacks beat John Casimir
1747 - Prince Willem V sworn in as admiral-general of Neth
1763 - James Boswell's 1st meeting with Samuel Johnson
1763 - Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
1770 - Marie Antoinette (14) marries future King Louis XVI (15) of France
1792 - Denmark abolishes slave trade
1795 - Hedges Treaty: Bataafse Republic becomes French vassel state
1796 - Lombardije Republic forms
1803 - Peace of Amiens ends
1804 - Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France
1811 - Peninsular War-Allies defeat French at Albuera
1817 - Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1860 - -18] Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln candidate
1861 - Confederate govt offers war volunteers $10 premium
1861 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
1862 - Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir builds 1st automobile
1863 - Battle of Champion's Hill, MS-bloodiest action of Vicksburg Campaign
1864 - Atlanta Campaign-battle of Resaca, ends (since May 13)
1864 - Battle of Bermuda Hundred, VA
1864 - Last battles at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties)
1866 - Charles Elmer Hires invents root beer
1866 - Congress authorizes nickel 5› piece (replaces silver half-dime)
1866 - US Treasury Dept authorizes nickel
1868 - Bedrich Smetana's opera "Dalibor," premieres in Prague
1868 - By one vote, Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1869 - Cincinnati Reds play their 1st baseball game, win 41-7
1872 - Metropolitan Gas Company lamps lit for 1st time
1874 - 1st recorded dam disaster in US (Williamsburg Mass)
1875 - Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
1879 - Antonin Dvor k's "Slavic Dancing," premieres
1879 - Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
1881 - World's 1st elec tram goes into service in Lichterfelder (near Berlin)
1882 - 8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40¬
1884 - 10th Kentucky Derby: Isaac Murphy aboard Buchanan wins in 2:40¬
1888 - CPR opens Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC
1891 - George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam
1894 - Fire in Boston destroys baseball stadium & 170 other buildings
1901 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Priory School" (BG)
1902 - 2 deaf-mutes face each other for 1st time as Dummy Hoy leads off for the Reds against Dummy Taylor of the Giants, Reds win 5-3
1903 - 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)
1903 - George Wyman makes 1st motorcycle trip across the US
1910 - US Bureau of Mines forms
1911 - Remains of a neanderthal man found in Jersey UK
1911 - Zeppelin "Deutscheland" wrecked at Dusseldorf
1914 - American Horseshoe Pitchers Assn organizes in Kansas City
1914 - Ewing Field, near Masonic Street, opens
1916 - 41st Preakness: Linus McAtee aboard Damrosch wins in 1:54.8
1920 - Joan of Arc (Jean D'arc) canonized a saint
1920 - Spanish bullfighter Joselito is fatally gored fighting his last bull
1921 - 47th Preakness: F Coltiletti aboard Broomspun wins in 1:54.2
1922 - White Star Line Majestic completes 5« day maiden voyage
1924 - 108øF (42øC) in Blitzen Oregon
1925 - 51st Kentucky Derby: Earl Sande aboard Flying Ebony wins in 2:07.6
1927 - NY Yankee Bob Meusel steals 2nd, 3rd & home
1927 - Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax
1929 - 1st Academy Awards - "Wings," Emil Jennings & Janet Gaynor wins
1930 - 6th Walker Cup: US, 10-2
1931 - 57th Kentucky Derby: Charley Kurtsinger on Twenty Grand wins 2:01.8
1932 - Yanks 4th straight shutout to equal record set by Cleveland & Boston
1933 - Cecil Travis becomes 1st player to get 5 hits in his 1st game
1936 - 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
1936 - 62nd Preakness: George Woolf aboard Bold Venture wins in 1:59
1938 - 1st animal breeding society forms (NJ)
1938 - 38 die in Terminal Hotel fire (Atlanta Ga)
1938 - In cricket Bradman scores 278 Aust v MCC, 349 mins, 35 fours 1 six
1939 - 1st AL night game, Phila Shribe Park (Indians 8, Athletics 3 in 10)
1939 - Food stamps are 1st issued
1940 - Nazi's forbid non-professional auto workers
1940 - Premier Winston Churchill returns to London from Paris
1941 - 1st US/radio performance of Bennett's "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"
1941 - Germans made their last major air attack on Britain
1941 - Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia
1941 - Last great German air attack on Great Britain (Birmingham)
1941 - Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)
1942 - 1st transport of British/Dutch prisoners to South Burma
1943 - -17th] RAF bombs M”hne & Eder (Battle of Ruhr)
1943 - German troops destroy synagogue of Warsaw
1943 - Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto ends after 30 days of fighting
1944 - 1st of 180,000+ Hungarian Jews reach Auschwitz
1944 - Milt police attack gypsies
1945 - Violent battles around Sugar Loaf/Half Moon Okinawa
1946 - Musical "Annie Get Your Gun," starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC
1948 - Botvinnik wins 5-player tournament to determine world chess champion
1948 - CBS news correspondent George Polk's body is found in Greece
1948 - Chaim Weizmann elected 1st president of Israel
1948 - Egyptians enter the Gaza
1948 - George Polk, CBS news correspondant, body found
1948 - Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
1952 - "New Faces (of 1952)" opens at Royale Theater NYC for 365 performances
1953 - Phillies Curt Simmons gives up a single, then retires next 27 in a row
1954 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open
1954 - Ted Williams gets 8 hits in 1st game (DH) since breaking collarbone
1954 - WGAN (now WGME) TV channel 13 in Portland, ME (CBS) 1st broadcast
1955 - Heavyweight Rocky Marciano KOs Don Cockell in SF
1955 - King Baudouin of Belgium visits Congo
1955 - Ray Lindwall scores his 2nd Test Cricket century 118 at Bridgetown
1955 - Rocky Marciano TKOs Don Cockell in 9 for heavyweight boxing title
1956 - Egypt recognizes People's Republic of China
1956 - Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Monte Bello Is Australia
1956 - Kraft Theater presents an act from "Profiles in Courage"
1956 - Laker takes 10-88 for Surrey v Australians at the Oval
1957 - Maj Irwin, USAAF flies a Lockheed Starfight to a record 1,404.18 MPH
1957 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Invicti Athletae
1957 - US launches its 3rd atomic submarine, USS Skate, at Groton Conn
1957 - Yanks involved in Copacabana Incident, leads to Billy Martin trade
1958 - Eli Beeding experiences 83 g deceleration on a rocket sled, New Mex
1958 - Walter Irwin flies 2,259 KPH in F-104A Starfighter
1959 - 85th Preakness: William Harmatz aboard Royal Orbit wins in 1:57
1959 - WTOM TV channel 4 in Cheboygan, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Big 4 summit in Paris collapses as USSR levels spy charges against US
1961 - 13rd Emmy Awards: Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr & Barbara Stanwyck
1963 - "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 4 performances
1963 - Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends US Proj Mercury
1964 - 90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8
1964 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1964 - Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1965 - "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 232 perfs
1965 - Balt Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 & homers
1965 - Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam
1965 - Spaghetti-O's 1st sold
1965 - Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1965 - WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, NY (TEL) begins broadcasting
1966 - Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released
1966 - National Welfare Rights Organization organizes
1966 - Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating
1967 - Phila voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium
1968 - Earthquake kills 47 in Japan
1969 - Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute
1969 - Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam
1969 - US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF
1969 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 - Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere
1969 - Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault
1970 - 96th Preakness: Eddie Belmonte aboard Personality wins in 1:56.2
1970 - Grover Henson Feels Forgotten by Bill Cosby hits #70
1971 - 1st class postage now costs 8› (was 6›)
1971 - Benjamin Britten's opera "Owen Wingrave," premieres in Aldwych
1971 - Bulgaria adopts it's constitution
1972 - "Don't Play Us Cheap" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 164 perfs
1972 - Greg Luzinski's 500' HR hits Liberty Bell monument in Phila Vet
1972 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Suzuki Golf Internationale
1973 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Dave Soutar
1973 - AC Milan wins 13th Europe Cup II in Saloniki
1974 - Helmut Schmidt becomes West German chancellor
1974 - USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1975 - India annexes Principality of Sikkim
1975 - Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Ron Lyle in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1975 - Wings release "Listen to What the Man Said" in UK
1976 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep Phila Flyers in 4 games
1976 - Sue Roberts wins LPGA American Defender Golf Classic
1977 - 5 die as NY Airway helicopter topples on Pan Am bldg in NYC
1977 - Muhammad Ali beats Alfredo Evangelist in 15 for heavywgt boxing title
1979 - FC Barcelona wins 19th Europe Cup II in Basel
1979 - NL approves Astros sales from Ford Motors to John J McMullen for $19M
1980 - 34th NBA Championship: LA Lakers beat Phila 76ers, 4 games to 2
1980 - Brian May of rock group Queen collapses on stage with hepatitis
1980 - Paul McCartney releases "McCartney II" album
1980 - Former Buggles members Geoff Downes & Trevor Horn replace Jon Anderson & Rick Wakeman in Yes
1981 - "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes hits #1 for next 9 weeks
1981 - 107th Preakness: Jorge Velasquez aboard Pleasant Colony wins in 1:54.6
1981 - Houston Astro Craig Reynolds hits 3 triples beating Cubs 6-1
1981 - Pretenders' Martin Chambers weds Tracy Atkinson
1982 - "Barnum" closes at St James Theater NYC after 854 performances
1982 - "Is There Life after High School?" closes at Barrymore after 12 perfs
1982 - Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating in preparation for STS-4
1982 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Michelob Golf Tournament
1982 - Salvador Jorge Blanco wins presidential election in Dominican Rep
1982 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders sweep Vancouver Canucks in 4 games
1983 - Lebanese parliament accept peace accord with Israel
1984 - Guinea-Bissau adopts constitution
1984 - Juventus wins 24th Europe Cup II in Basel
1984 - Phillie pitcher Steve Carlton hits a grand slam homer
1984 - US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site
1984 - Mackay pays $218,718 for 44,166 tickets to keep Twins in Minn Twins sell 51,863 tickets but only 6,346 fans show up for the game
1985 - Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
1985 - Pope John Paul II arrives in Belgium
1986 - "Top Gun," premieres
1986 - Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from dead on Dallas
1986 - Joaqu¡n Balaguers PRSC wins Dominican Rep parliamentary election
1986 - South African Pres P W Botha sends Coetsee to visit Mandela
1987 - "Mystery of Edwin Drood" closes at Imperial NYC after 608 perfs
1987 - 113th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Alysheba wins in 1:55.8
1987 - Rocker David Crosby weds Jan Dance in LA
1987 - Weird Al Yankovic performs live at 72nd National Orange Show
1987 - "Bobro 400," a barge carrying 3,200 tons of garbage, set sail from NY, beginning an unsuccesful 8-week search for a dumping site
1988 - Surgeon Gen C Everett Koop reports nicotine as addictive as heroin
1988 - US Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
1989 - Soviet president Mikhail S Gorbachev & Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ended a 30-year rift when they formally met in Beijing
1990 - Dominican Republic President Joaqu¡n Ricardo Balaguer re-elected
1990 - Juventus wins 19th UEFA Cup in Avellino
1991 - Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)
1991 - Queen Elizabeth becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
1992 - "Smells Like Nirvana," by Weird Al Yankovic hits #35
1992 - 118th Preakness: Chris McCarron aboard Pine Bluff wins in 1:55.6
1992 - Polls show Perot, Bush & Clinton could be in a deadlock
1992 - US space shuttle STS-49 lands (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 - "3 Men on a Horse" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 40 performances
1993 - "Wilder, Wilder, Wilder" closes at Circle in Sq NYC after 30 perfs
1993 - Farmer Sugeng finds 1.2 million year old Pithecanthropus IX skull
1993 - Judd Nelson pleads no contest to kicking Kim Evans in the head
1993 - Laura Davies wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1993 - Sleyman Demirel elected president of Turkey
1994 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Orlando FL on WTKS 104.1 FM
1994 - Jacqueline Onassis admitted to the hospital for cancer treatment
1994 - Joaqu¡n Balaguer (86) elected president of Dominican Republic
1994 - Tennis star Jennifer Capriati arrested on possession of marijuana
1995 - Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara & charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
1996 - Sammy Sosa is 1st Chic Cub to hit 2 HRS in 1 inning
1997 - Atlanta Braves beat St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 in 13 innings
1997 - Brandi Sherwood, (Idaho) replaces Brook Lee (Miss Univ) as Miss USA
1997 - Brook Mehealani Lee, 26, of US crowned 46th Miss Universe
1997 - Expos trailing SF Giants by 9 runs comeback to win 14-13
1997 - St Louis Cards Gary Gaetti records his 2,000th hits
1998 - 124th Preakness
1999 - 125th Preakness

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1558 - Andreas of Austria, Bohemia cardinal/gov of Netherlands (1598-1600)
1609 - Ferdinand, Austria, cardinal of Spain/governor of Netherlands
1641 - Dudley North, financier/economist
1659 - Campegius Vitringa, Dutch theologist
1718 - Maria G Agnesi, Italy mathematician curves= xýy=aý(a-y)
1748 - Antonius van Alphen, apostolic vicar of De Bosch
1761 - John Opie, artist
1763 - Louis-Nicolas Vauquelin, chemist (discovered chromium, beryllium)
1782 - John Sell Cotman, water color artist
1788 - F Rckert, writer
1788 - Friedrich Rckert, poet
1801 - William Henry Seward, Sec of State (1861-69, buys Alaska at 2›/acre)
1804 - Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten)
1806 - George C Cadwalader, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1879
1816 - Henry Hopkins Sibley, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1886
1819 - Daniel Ammen, Capt (Union Navy), died in 1898
1822 - Eduard Hille, Dutch composer/conductor
1824 - Edmund Kirby Smith, Fla, General (Confederate Army), died in 1893
1824 - Levi Parsons Morton, (R) 22nd US VP (1889-93)
1827 - Petrus J H Cuypers, architect (Amsterdam Museum, Central station)
1831 - David Edward Hughes, inventor (microphone, teleprinter)
1832 - Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)
1845 - Dietrich Sch„fer, German historian (Deutsche Hanse)
1850 - Arthur Henry Mann, organist/composer
1857 - Juan Morel Campos, composer
1858 - Frank Lynes, composer
1858 - Hanus Trnecek, composer
1866 - Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school)
1878 - Taylor Holmes, Newark NJ, actor (Tobor the Great, Beware My Lovely)
1880 - Julian Tannen, NY, comedian (Great Moment)
1887 - Bull Montana, Vogliera Italy, actor (Brass Buttons, Victory)
1887 - J van Hoddis, writer
1889 - Joan Collette, Dutch (male) painter (New Church, Delft)
1892 - Coenraad B van Haeringen, linguist/etymologist (Dutch Dictionary)
1892 - Richard Tauber, [Ernst Seiffert], Austria/British, tenor/conductor
1893 - Jos‚ Calvo Sotelo, Spanish minister of Finance (1925-30)
1893 - Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer
1897 - Walther Geiser, composer
1898 - August de Schrijver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP)
1902 - Jan Kiepura, Sosnowiec Poland, vocalist/actor (Her Wonderful Lie)
1904 - Hugh Plaxton, Canada, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1928)
1904 - Lily Pons, opera singer/actress (That Girl From Paris)
1905 - H[erbert] E[rnest] Bates, novelist (Feast for July, Love for Lydia)
1905 - Henry Fonda, Grand Is Nebraska, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond)
1906 - Arturo Uslar Pietri, Venezuela, writer/minister (Lanzas Coloradas)
1906 - Ernie McCormick, cricketer (Australian quickie of late 30's)
1906 - Nicholas Beriozoff, ballet master
1907 - Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1932)
1908 - Hilary Preston, editor
1908 - Mohammed Roem, Indonesian foreign minister (Linggadjati)
1909 - Charles Wislon, principal (Glasgow University)
1911 - Margaret Sullavan, Norfolk Va, actress (Back Street)
1911 - Olaff J de Landell, [JB Wemmerslager van Sparwoude], writer
1912 - Studs Terkel, NYC, author/host (Stud's Place, Working)
1913 - Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)
1916 - Adriana Caselotti, cartoon voice
1916 - Bernard Braden, broadcaster/actor (All Night Lone, Full Treatment)
1916 - Ephraim Katzir, biophysicist/president (Israel)
1916 - Irene Elizabeth Beatrice Ighodaro, doctor/social reformer
1917 - George Gaynes, Helsinki Finland, actor (Henry-Punky Brewster)
1917 - Geraint Jones, conductor/organist
1918 - Edward Thomas, historian/intelligence expert
1918 - Juan Rulfo, Mexican writer (Pedro P ramo)
1918 - Kevin Skelton, Bishop (Lichfield)
1919 - Liberace, West Allis WI, pianist (Liberace Show, Evil Chandell-Batman)
1919 - Richard Mason, author
1919 - [Wladziu Valentino] Liberace, West Allis Wisconsin, pianist
1920 - Martine Carol, [Maryse Mopurer], Saint-Mande France, actress (Nana)
1921 - Harry Carey Jr, Saugus Calif, actor (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1921 - Robert Croften Brown, politician
1922 - Colin Cole, Principal King of Arms
1922 - Russell Wood, treasurer (Queen Elizabeth)
1924 - Dawda Kairaba Jawara, president (Gambia, 1970-94)
1924 - Frank F Mankiewicz, NYC, columnist (Perfectly Clear)
1926 - Jan Zimmer, composer
1927 - John Walford, solicitor
1928 - Billy Martin, baseball 2nd baseman/manager (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
1928 - Reginald Askew, dean (King's College London)
1929 - Adrienne Cecile Rich, Balt Md, feminist writer (Diamond Cutters)
1929 - John Conyers Jr, (Rep-D-MI, 1965- )
1929 - Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer
1930 - Desmond Langley, gov (Bermuda)
1930 - Don Conicannon, govt minister
1930 - Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist/composer (Hangman's Songs)
1931 - Donald James Martino, Plainfield NJ, composer (Noturnno-Pulitzer 1974)
1931 - Jack Dodson, Pitts Pa, actor (Howard Sprage-Andy Griffith Show)
1931 - Lowell P Weicker, (Sen-R-CT, 1971-88/Gov-D-CT)
1931 - Peter Levi, poet/writer
1932 - Isaac "Redd" Holt, US drummer (Young-Holt Unlimited-In Crowd)
1934 - Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1934 - Nicholas Goodison, CEO (TSB Group)
1936 - Philippe de Montebello, Paris, art exhibitionist (Treasures of Tut)
1936 - Roy Hudd, comedian (Blood Beast Terror, Vampire Beast Craves Blood)
1937 - James Hunt Jr, (Gov-NC)
1937 - Yvonne Craig, Taylorville Ill, actress (Batgirl-Batman, Kissin Cousin)
1938 - Anthony Walker, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1938 - Stuart Bell, MP
1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma Italy, director (1900, Last Emperor)
1940 - Gareth Roberts, chancellor (Sheffield University)
1941 - John McWilliams, MP
1941 - Maurice Henry Weddington, composer
1943 - Dan Coats, (Rep-R-IN, 1981- )
1943 - Jon Jost, director (All the Vermeers in NY)
1944 - Billy Cobham, Panam , jazz artist (Same Ole Love)
1945 - Brewster H Shaw Jr, Mich, Col USAF/astro (STS-9, STS 61B, STS-28)
1945 - James Moran, (Rep-D-Virginia)
1945 - Nicky Chinn, English songwriter/producer (Chinn & Chapman)
1946 - Jessi B Wilson, Mississippi, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1946 - Roger Earl, rocker (Foghat)
1947 - Barbara Lee, US singer (Chiffons, He's So Fine)
1947 - Bill Smitrovich, actor (Crime Story, Miami Vice)
1947 - Rosie Barnes, MP
1949 - Jimmy Hood, MP
1949 - Rick Reuschel, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1949 - William Sputnik Spooner, rock guitarist (Grateful Dead, Tubes)
1950 - Jock Bartley, rocker (Firefall)
1950 - Johannes Bednorz, German superconductivity physicist (Nobel 1987)
1951 - Jonathan Richman, rocker (Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae)
1952 - Pierce Brosnan, County Meath Ire, actor (Remington Steele, Golden Eye)
1953 - David Maclean, British minister of state
1953 - Richard Page, LA Calif, rocker (Mr Mister)
1953 - Rick Rhoden, pitcher (NY Yankees)
1954 - Janet Maw, actress (Sparrow, King John, Mayor of Casterbridge)
1954 - [Dafydd] Rhys Williams, Saskatoon Canada, MD/astronaut (sk: STS 90)
1955 - Debra Winger, Columbus Oh, actress (Officer & Gentleman)
1955 - Hazel O'Connor, Coventry England, singer/actress (Breaking Glass)
1955 - Jack Morris, St Paul Minn, pitcher (Detroit Tigers)
1955 - Olga Korbut, Grodno Belorussia, gymnist (Olympic-2 golds-1972)
1957 - Joan Benoit Samuelson, Cape Elizabeth ME, marathoner (Oly-gold-1984)
1958 - Glenn Gregory, rock vocalist (Heeaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1959 - Bob Patterson, Jacksonville FL, pitcher (Chic Cubs)
1959 - Mare Winningham, Phoenix Az, actress (St Elmo's Fire, Turner & Hooch)
1959 - Ty Armstrong, Waxahachie TX, Nike golfer (1993 Anheuser-Busch-19th)
1960 - Anne Parillaud, Paris France, actress (Subway, Nikita, Innocent Blood)
1961 - Nina Arvesen, White Plains NY, actress (Cassandra-Young & Restless)
1962 - Gary Crocker, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman)
1963 - Jimmy Osmond, rocker (Osmond Brothers)
1964 - John Salley, NBA star (Detroit Pistons)
1965 - Brent Jasmer, Portland Oregon, actor (Sly-Bold & Beautiful)
1965 - Lori Sippel, Stratford Ontario, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1966 - Janet Jackson, Gary Indiana, singer, Michael's sister (Control)
1966 - Scott Reeves, Santa Monica Calif, actor (Ryan-Young & Restless)
1966 - Sean Quilty, Australian marathoner (Olympics-96)
1966 - Thurman Thomas, NFL running back (Buffalo Bills)
1968 - Ralph Tresvant, Boston, singer (New Editon)
1969 - Marcel Schewe, cricketer (Holland wicket-keeper 1996 World Cup)
1969 - Steven Earl Lewis, LA Calif, 4X100/400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1969 - Tracey Gold, NYC, actress (Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)
1969 - Tricia Cast, actress (Nina-Young & Restless)
1970 - Eric Lynch, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1970 - Gabriela Sabatini, Argentina, tennis player (Olympic-silver-1988)
1971 - Khari Jones, CFL/WLAF quarterback (BC Lions, Scottish Claymores)
1972 - Keith Burns, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1972 - Matthew Hart, cricketer (NZ lefty spinner 1994- )
1974 - Conal Groom, Northford Conn, rower (Olympics-1996)
1974 - Keith Thibodeaux, cornerback (Washington Redskins)
1978 - Vincent Larusso, Livingston, NJ, actor (Adam-Mighty Ducks, D2, D3)
1979 - Evan Ferrante, actor (Owen-Swan's Crossing)
1981 - Jessica Ponzo, Miss New Jersey Teen USA (1996)

Famous deaths for this day ..

0942 - Saadiah Gaon, head of Talmudic Academy of Sura, dies
1434 - Pieter Appelmans, Flemish architect/master builder, dies at about 60
1669 - Pietro da Cortona, [Berrettini], painter/architect, dies
1669 - Reyer Anslo, writer/poet, dies at about 42
1691 - Jacob Leisler, becomes 1st American colonist hanged for treason
1703 - Charles Perrault, author/fairy tale writer, dies
1754 - Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76
1762 - Ernst Chreistian Hesse, composer, dies at 86
1768 - Cornelis Writer, fleet supervisor, dies at about 81
1777 - Button Gwinnet, US revolutionary leader, dies from wounds
1782 - Daniuel Charles Solander, botanist, dies
1805 - Christian Brunings, hydraulic engineer, dies at 68
1819 - Alexander van Bylandt, military, dies at 75
1829 - William Congreve, English officer, dies at 56
1830 - Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier, mathematician, dies
1835 - Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies
1847 - Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
1862 - Lev A Ms, Russian nobleman/poet, dies at 40
1863 - Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 47
1864 - Lean Bear, Cheyenne chief, murdered
1880 - Karl August Krebs, composer, dies at 76
1892 - John Banvard, painted worlds largest painting (3 mile canvas), dies
1892 - Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter, dies at 74
1903 - Eduard Rappoldi, composer, dies at 72
1904 - N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies
1910 - Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter, dies at 53
1918 - Eusapia Palladino, Napolitan, dies at 64
1926 - Mehmed VI Vahideddin (Mohammed Osman), last sultan of Turkey, dies
1928 - Edmund William Grosse, poet/author, dies
1929 - Lilli Lehmann, soprano, dies
1932 - Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
1932 - William Pember Reeves, politician/poet, dies
1938 - Stephen Fairbairn, oarsman/coach, dies
1942 - Bronislaw Kasper Malinowski, anthropologist, dies
1944 - George Ade, US novelist/playwright (Counsel Widow), dies at 78
1944 - Leone Sinigaglia, composer, dies at 75
1944 - Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author, dies
1949 - William Newzam Prior Nicholson, painter/engraver, dies
1952 - Alec Hearne, cricketer (scored 9 in Test for Eng v S Afr 1892), dies
1954 - Clemens Krauss, Austrian conductor (Vienna State Opera), dies at 61
1954 - Werner Bischof, Swiss photographer, dies accidentally at 38
1955 - James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), dies in NY
1958 - Jeroom Verten [Jozef F Vermetten], Flemish playwright, dies at 49
1959 - Joe Cook, Stage comedian, dies at 69
1966 - Randolph Turpin, boxer, shot dead in his home
1969 - Johnny Jordan, cameraman (You Only Live Twice), dies at 44
1972 - Maxime Dumoulin, composer, dies at 79
1973 - A P Gtersloh, writer, dies at 86
1975 - Michael X, (Abdul Malik), hanged in Trinidad, for murder
1979 - Asa Philip Randolph, labor leader & civil rights pioneer, dies at 90
1983 - Carel Brons, composer, dies at 52
1984 - Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), dies of cancer at 35
1984 - Irwin Shaw, US writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), dies at 71
1985 - Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz), dies at 82
1988 - Carrie Baxter, Best Bodybuilder (1983-85), dies in car crash at 42
1988 - Kay Baxter, Best Bodybuilder in the World (1983-85), dies at 42
1988 - Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78
1989 - Hassan Khaled, sheik of Lebanon, murdered
1990 - Dag Drollet, Cheyenne Brando's boyfriend killed by brother Christian
1990 - Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), dies at 53
1990 - Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), dies at 64
1991 - Prudence Nesbitt, British actress/TV producer, dies
1992 - Marisa Mell, actress (Hostages), dies of cancer at 53
1993 - Marv Johnson, US soul singer (You Got What it Takes), dies at 54
1994 - Alain Cuny, actor (Lovers, Emanuelle, Camille Claudel), dies
1994 - Barbara Jean Jones, fictional character on General Hospital, dies at 7
1994 - Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82
1994 - Vasek Simek, Czech/US actor (Green Card, Mistress), dies at 66
1995 - Lola Flores, singer/actress (Kuma Ching, Faraona), dies at 70
1995 - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian, dies at 82
1996 - Edward McInnes, German scholar, dies at 60
1996 - Mike Jeremy Boorda, commandant (NATO), commits suicide at 57
1996 - Pierre Debizet, resistance fighter/special agent, dies at 72