• 1572 - Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist)
• 1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer
• 1697 - Francesco A Vallotti, Italian organist/composer/theorist
• 1704 - Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer
• 1719 - Franz K von Velbruck, German free mason/prince-bishop of Luik
• 1723 - J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
• 1740 - Luigi Gatti, composer
• 1776 - John Constable, England, landscape painter (Hay Wain)
• 1807 - James Findlay Schenck, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
• 1808 - Charles Henry Poor, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
• 1816 - Robert Huston Milroy, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
• 1822 - Samuel Davis Sturgis, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889
• 1823 - James Lawson Kemper, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
• 1829 - Hendrik Gerhard, Founder (Dutch Social-Democratic)
• 1840 - Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser
• 1842 - Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician
• 1842 - Carl PG von Linde, German engineer/physicist (Linde-proc‚d‚)
• 1847 - Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader (English women's movement)
• 1861 - Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer
• 1863 - Eduard David, German undersecretary (constitution of Weimar)
• 1864 - Richard Georg Strauss, Munich Germany, composer (Don Quixote)
• 1865 - Jan H Leopold, Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam)
• 1867 - Charles Fabry, discoverer (ozone layer in upper atmosphere)
• 1874 - Richard Stohr, composer
• 1876 - Alfred L Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, author (Anthropologist looks at History)
• 1879 - Roger P Bresnaham, hall of fame catcher/manager
• 1880 - Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (Rep-Montana)
• 1883 - Frank O King, Cashton Wisc, cartoonist (Gasoline Alley)
• 1886 - David Steinman, NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough)
• 1886 - Lillian Fontaine, Reading England, actress (Suddenly it's Spring)
• 1889 - Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director (Keystone Kops)
• 1892 - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic
• 1895 - Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)
• 1897 - Bruno Frei, writer
• 1899 - George Frederick McKay, composer
• 1899 - Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist (Thousand Cranes)
• 1900 - Lawrence E Spivak, Bkln NY, news panelist (Meet the Press)
• 1902 - Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer
• 1903 - Ernie Nevers, NFL fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals)
• 1904 - Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, jazz pianist/singer (Boogie Woogie Piano)
• 1904 - Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer
• 1904 - Emil Frantisek Burian, composer
• 1906 - Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop
• 1907 - Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Man in the Moon)
• 1907 - Jose Bernabe Marino Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader
• 1907 - Paul Mellon, US, oil magnate/pres (Washington National Gallery of Art)
• 1910 - Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II, Apocalypse Now)
• 1910 - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, France, oceanic explorer (Calypso)
• 1911 - Russ Hodges, Dayton Tn, sportscaster (Wednesday Night Fights)
• 1912 - Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer
• 1912 - William Baziotes, painter (abstract expressionist)
• 1913 - John Elliott Terry, managing director (National Film Finance Corp)
• 1913 - Revaz Kondrat'yevich Gabichvadze, composer
• 1913 - Ris‰ Stevens, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Met Opera)/actor (Going My Way)
• 1913 - Vince Lombardi, NFL coach (Green Bay Packers)
• 1914 - Gerald Mohr, NYC, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue)
• 1914 - Hendrik Berkhof, Dutch theologist (Church & Emperor)
• 1914 - Henry G Cisheros, (Mayor-D-San Antonio)
• 1914 - Jack Mann, pilot/hostage
• 1915 - David Kindersley, font designer/cutter
• 1917 - James Bostock, painter/engraver
• 1918 - Nelson Mandela, President (South Africa)
• 1919 - Richard Todd, Ireland, actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident)
• 1920 - Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, King of Nepal (1955-72)
• 1920 - Hazel Scott, Trinidad, singer/pianist (Hazel Scott)
• 1920 - Irving Howe, US, writer/critic (World of Our Fathers)
• 1920 - Robert Hutton, Kingston NY, actor (Torture Garden, Rocket)
• 1921 - Beatrice "Fiet" van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer
• 1921 - Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator (Hedda Gabler)
• 1922 - Erving Goffman, sociologist (presentation of self in everyday life)
• 1922 - John Bromfield, South Bend In, actor (Easy to Love)
• 1922 - Michael Cacoyannis, director (Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women)
• 1922 - Tony Charmoli, director/choreographer (Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye)
• 1923 - Gerard Vaughn, MP (Conservative)
• 1925 - William Styron, Va, novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice)
• 1926 - Brother Dave Gardner, Novelty singer/comedian
• 1926 - Carlisle Floyd, Latta SC, composer (Slow Dusk)
• 1927 - Beryl Grey, prima ballerina
• 1927 - Eric St Eval Atkinson, cricketer (bro of Denis WI pace bowler 1958-59)
• 1927 - John Aspinall, owner (casino, zoos)
• 1927 - Josef Anton Reidl, composer
• 1927 - Marcus Fox, conservative MP/chairman (1922 Committee)
• 1928 - Fabiola de Mora y Arag¢n, Spanish Queen of Belgium
• 1928 - Gerard van Leijenhorst, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior (CDA)
• 1930 - Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup)
• 1930 - Charles B Rangel, (Rep-D-NY, 1971- )
• 1931 - Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, lord advocate
• 1931 - Lucianna Paluzzi, Rome Italy, actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball)
• 1931 - Tab Hunter, NYC, actor (Tab Hunter Show)
• 1932 - Athol Fugard, Middleburg S Africa, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot)
• 1932 - Timothy Sainsbury, British minister of state
• 1933 - Jud Strunk, Jamestown NY, singer/comedian (Laugh-In)
• 1934 - Anthony Evans, British high court judge
• 1934 - Pookie Hudson, vocalist (Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite-Spaniels)
• 1935 - Gene Wilder, [Jerome Silbermann], Milwaukee, actor (Silver Streak)
• 1935 - Sheikh Fazalur Rehman, cricketer (played 1 Test Pakistan v WI 1958)
• 1936 - Chad Everett, South Bend In, actor (Medical Center, Airplane II)
• 1936 - George Bryan Ingham, artist
• 1937 - Johnny Brown, St Petersburg Fla, comedian (Good Times, Leslie Uggams)
• 1939 - Barry George Barrington Porter, politician
• 1939 - Barry Porter, MP (Conservative)
• 1939 - Christina Crawford, author, Joan's daughter (Mommie Dearest)
• 1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scotland, driver/sports announcer (27 Grand Prix)
• 1939 - Rachel Heyhoe Flint, English cricket player/journalist
• 1939 - Wilma Burgess, country-pop singer
• 1940 - Joey Dee, Passaic NJ, singer (Hey Let's Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris)
• 1942 - Somachandra De Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan leg-spinner 1982-84)
• 1944 - Alan Horworth, MP
• 1944 - Barry Stevens, British/Neth, choreographer (Personals, Young Again)
• 1944 - James "Ox" D A van Hoften, Fresno Calif, astronaut (STS 11, STS 20)
• 1945 - Adrienne Barbeau, Sacramento Calif, actress (Maude, Swamp Thing)
• 1946 - Jenny Pittman, horse trainer
• 1946 - John Lawton, British rock singer (Uriah Heep)
• 1946 - Michael Wilkes, commander (UK Field Army)
• 1946 - Richard Pietraá, writer
• 1947 - Glenn Leonard, R&B singer (Temptations)
• 1948 - Anthony Nelson, British Sec of Treasury
• 1948 - Skip Alan, [Alan Skipper], drummer (Them, Pretty Things)
• 1948 - Stephen Schnetzer, Boston Mass, actor (Cass Winthrop-Another World)
• 1949 - Frank Beard, rocker (ZZ Top-She Got Legs, Fandango)
• 1949 - George Willig, stuntman (climbed World Trade Center in 1977)
• 1950 - Debbie "Pokey" Watson, US, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
• 1950 - Lindsey de Paul, singer
• 1950 - Michael Swan, Palo Alto Calif, actor (Duncan-As The World Turns)
• 1951 - Collis King, cricketer (WI all-rounder late 70s)
• 1951 - Jan Fransen, Dutch MP (VVD)
• 1951 - Maren Seidler, Bkln NY, shot putter (Olympics-11th-1968)
• 1951 - Mark D Siljander, (Rep-R-MI, 1981- )
• 1951 - Mithra Wettimuny, cricketer (bro of Sidath 2 Tests for SL v NZ 1983)
• 1952 - Donnie Van Zant, rock vocalist (.38 Special)
• 1952 - Russell Hitchcock, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
• 1953 - Peter Bergman, actor (All My Children, Starland Vocal Band)
• 1954 - Gary Fencik, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
• 1954 - John Dyson, cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman)
• 1955 - Tony Allcock, bowler
• 1956 - Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
• 1957 - Bruce Plummer, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 West Coast)
• 1958 - Deborah Vidal, Ponce Puerto Rico, LPGA golfer (1994 Oldsmobile-19th)
• 1959 - Hugh Laurie, actor (Strapless)
• 1962 - Michael Kenny, WLAF offensive assistant (Scottish Claymores)
• 1963 - Max Stevens, Millmeran QLD, Australasia golfer
• 1963 - Tommy Barnhardt, NFL punter (Carolina Panthers, GB Packers, TB Bucs)
• 1964 - Kim Gallagher, Phila, 800m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
• 1965 - Anthony Painter, Milton NSW, Australasia golfer
• 1965 - Giola Bruno, rocker (Expose)
• 1965 - Joe Cain, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
• 1966 - Scott Mellanby, Montreal, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
• 1966 - Tiffany Cohen, Culver City Calif, swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-1984)
• 1967 - Clare Carey, actress (Kelly Fox Rosebrock-Coach)
• 1967 - John Doherty, pitcher
• 1967 - Mario Chitarroni, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
• 1968 - Staci Baldwin, Miss Washington USA (1996)
• 1969 - Johan Hansma, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
• 1969 - Nancy Blogg, Swiss dancer (Josephine)
• 1970 - Brock Marion, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
• 1970 - Roman Kontsek, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
• 1970 - William Selby, Monroeville MI, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
• 1971 - Dion Foxx, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
• 1971 - Duane Dmytryshyn, CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
• 1972 - Andrew Peterson, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
• 1972 - Joe O'Brien, WLAF defensive tackle (Scottish Claymores)
• 1973 - Lance Johnstone, defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
• 1973 - Robby Kiger, Encino Calif, actor (Josh Fox-Crazy Like a Fox)
• 1973 - Tony McKenzie, WLAF guard (London Monarchs)
• 1974 - Emilee Klein, Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic-2nd)
• 1974 - Tanya Pogatchnik, Miss Montana USA (1996)
• 1974 - Tatiana Ignatieva, Minsk Belarus, tennis star (1994 Futures-Sopot POL)
• 1976 - Scott Guyton, Tokoroa NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
• 1978 - Joshua Jackson, actor (Mighty Ducks)
• 1978 - Leah Sexton, Miss Missouri Teen USA (1996)
• 1986 - Brighton Hertford, actress (BJ Jones-General Hospital)
• 1989 - Jeff Linton Osbourne, son of Jeffrey & Sheri

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1216 - Hendrik of Constantinople, emperor of Constantinople (1206-16), dies
• 1249 - Adelheid van Schaarbeek, Flemish mystic/saint, dies
• 1479 - Johannes a San Facundo, Spanish Augustine saint, dies
• 1488 - James III, king of Scotland, dies in battle
• 1560 - Marie Guise, French wife of king Jacobus V of Scotland, dies at 44
• 1560 - Mary of Lorraine, pro-French Regent of Scotland, dies at 44
• 1666 - Cornelis Evertsen the Old, Swiss vice-admiral, dies in battle at 55
• 1674 - Susanna van Baerle, Dutch poet/wife of Geeraert Burns, dies at 52
• 1698 - Balthasar Bekker, Frisian theologist (Enchanted World), dies at 64
• 1764 - Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer, dies at 74
• 1766 - Elisabeth Farnese, princess of Parma/queen of Spain, dies at 73
• 1775 - Egidio Romoaldo Duni, Italian composer, dies at 67
• 1808 - Giovanni Battista Cirri, composer, dies at 83
• 1811 - Charles Frederick, liberal ruler of Baden, dies at 82
• 1825 - Daniel D Tompkins, 6th US Vice President (1817-25), dies at 54
• 1828 - Dugald Stewart, Scot philosopher (Scottish common sense), dies at 74
• 1829 - Adolf M�llner, writer, dies
• 1856 - Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist, dies at 76
• 1879 - Willem, (crown)prince of Orange, dies of bronchitis or murder at 39
• 1886 - Ant¢nio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet, dies at 40
• 1896 - Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, composer, dies at 72
• 1900 - Charles Swinnerton Heap, composer, dies at 53
• 1903 - Draga Masin, wife of Serbian king Aleksandar I, murdered at 35
• 1906 - Heinrich Hart, German writer (Das Lied der Menschheit), dies at 50
• 1908 - Georg Adler, German statehouse head, dies at 45
• 1912 - L‚on Dierx, French poet (Amants), dies at 74
• 1913 - Machmud Shevket Pasha, Turks grand vizier, murdered
• 1915 - Luis Coloma, Spanish jesuit/writer (Peque¤eces, Boy), dies at 64
• 1924 - Alexander F de Savornin Lohmann Jr, Dutch minister (CHU), dies at 87
• 1924 - Theodore Dubois, composer, dies at 86
• 1927 - William Attewell, cricket bowler (England in 10 Tests 1884-1891), dies
• 1929 - Gyula Andr ssy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 68
• 1930 - George Alexander, cricketer (two early Tests for Australia), dies
• 1930 - Henry Clay Folger Jr, CEO (Folger Shakespeare Library), dies at 72
• 1943 - Sam[uel] de Vries, actor (Boefje, In Sobibor), dies at 50
• 1949 - Koci Xoxe, Albanian vice-premier, executed
• 1949 - Oton Zupanic, Slavs poet (Zimzelen pod snegom), dies at 71
• 1951 - Montagu Odd, cricket bat-maker (W G Grace), dies
• 1955 - Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, French industrialist, murdered
• 1955 - Marcel Louis Auguste Samuel-Rousseau, composer, dies at 72
• 1955 - Walter Hampden, actor (Sabrina, 5 Fingers, Vagabond King), dies at 75
• 1956 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Poesie grigio-verdi), dies at 61
• 1956 - Ralph Morgan, actor (Creeper, Imposter, Jack London), dies at 73
• 1963 - Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon
• 1966 - Ethel Clayton, actress (Warning Shadows), dies at 82
• 1966 - Wallace Ford, actor (Deputy), dies of heart attack at 68
• 1967 - Billy Wells, Gong striker for Rank Films, dies at 79
• 1969 - John L Lewis, formed (Congress of Industrial Org), dies at 89
• 1969 - J¢szi Jen” Ters nszky, Hungarian writer (Till Next Time), dies at 81
• 1970 - Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917), dies at 89
• 1970 - Camille Bombois, French circus wrestler/painter, dies at 87
• 1970 - Frank Laubach, Benton Pa, taught reading through phonetics, dies
• 1970 - Frank Silvera, Jamaican actor (High Chaparral), dies at 55
• 1975 - Floro Manuel Ugarte, composer, dies at 90
• 1979 - August Maes, Flemish actor/director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85
• 1979 - John Wayne, actor (Green Berets, True Grit), dies at 72
• 1981 - Eppo Doeve, Dutch graphic artist/cartoonist/painter, dies at 73
• 1984 - Enrico Berlinguer, secr-general (CP) Italy, dies
• 1985 - Karen Ann Quinlan, comatose patient, dies in Morris Plains NJ at 31
• 1986 - Robert E Howard, sci-fi author (Conan the Conqueror), dies at 80
• 1988 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71), dies at 89
• 1988 - Nathan Cook, actor (White Night), dies of an allergic reaction at 38
• 1990 - Clyde McCoy, jazz trumpeter (wah wah sound), dies at 86
• 1991 - Vlastimil Fisar, Czech actor/pres (Intl Actors Federation), dies
• 1992 - Marjorie Newell Robb, oldest living survivor of Titantic, dies at 103
• 1992 - Marlene Hazlett, entertainer, dies of cancer
• 1992 - Scotty Sachs, actor (Hanoi Hilton), dies of gunshot wounds at 39
• 1993 - Muriel C Bradbrook, English writer (Rise of Common Player), dies at 84
• 1993 - Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock), dies of AIDs at 40
• 1994 - Christopher Collins, actor (True Identity), dies after illness at 44
• 1994 - Herbert Anderson, actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace), dies at 77
• 1994 - Jack Hannah, animator, dies at 90
• 1994 - Kitty Rosalind Muggeridge, author, dies at 90
• 1995 - Lovelace Watkins, singer, dies at 58
• 1995 - Luigi Innocenti, designer, dies at 71
• 1996 - Alan Weeks, British sports commentator, dies at 72
• 1996 - Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim], actress (Gloria), dies at 90
• 1996 - Kevin Meadows, gay rights activist, dies at 21
• 1996 - Lonne Elder, playwright/screenwriter, dies at 69
• 1996 - Ulysses Dove, dancer/choreographer, dies at 49
• 1997 - Thalassa Cruso, gardening expert (PBS), dies of Alzheimer's at 87