• 1464 - Johanna van Valois, Queen of France
• 1464 - Robert Fayrfax, composer
• 1484 - Julius C‘sar Scaliger, Italy, scholar (On the Subtlety of Things)
• 1500 - Alexander Alesius, [Aless/Alane], System theologist/physician
• 1547 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quioxite)
• 1598 - Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp, naval commander
• 1623 - Jan Adam Reincken, composer
• 1629 - John Commelin, director (Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam)
• 1649 - Andreas Kneller, composer
• 1697 - George Baron Anson, British admiral/explorer
• 1708 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem)
• 1715 - Johann Friedrich Doles, composer
• 1728 - Samuel Wallis, explorer (Wallis Island)
• 1735 - Ildephons Haas, composer
• 1747 - Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer
• 1756 - Alexander Reinagle, composer
• 1775 - Joseph Mallord Turner, England, landscape painter (Shipwreck)
• 1791 - James Buchanan, Cove Gap PA, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president (1857-61)
• 1791 - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist
• 1803 - Jules J baron d'Anethan, Belgian minister of Justice
• 1804 - Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium)
• 1809 - Eugene-Prosper Prevost, composer
• 1810 - Thomas Wright, historian
• 1812 - Louis-Antoine Julien, conductor
• 1813 - Stephen Arnold Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates)
• 1818 - James Anthony Froude, historian
• 1818 - John Gill Shorter, Gov (Confederacy), died in 1872
• 1821 - Pierre Dupont, song writer
• 1823 - Abd�l-Medjid, 31st sultan of Turkey (1839-61)
• 1827 - Johann F Ritter von Schulte, German Catholic lawyer
• 1828 - Albert FA, king of Saxon (1873-1902)
• 1838 - Alfred J Verwee, Flemish painter
• 1852 - Edwin Markham, US, poet (1st winner of Amer Acad of Poets Award 1937)
• 1855 - Ernst L Wolzogen, German writer/founder (Cabaret šberbrettl)
• 1858 - Max K E Ludwig Planck, German physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918)
• 1861 - Edmund Henry Hynman, 1st viscount Allenby of Megiddo/Fieldmarshal
• 1867 - Simon Abramsz, Dutch teacher/writer (For the Young Ones)
• 1877 - Arthur Farwell, composer
• 1881 - Claude Carter, South African slow lefty cricketer (1912-22)
• 1881 - Otakar Sini, composer
• 1882 - Albert Coates, St Petersburg Russia, conductor/composer (Eagle)
• 1882 - Max [G M J] Winders Maximilien, Belgium, architect (WW II)
• 1889 - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher
• 1890 - Donald Nichols Tweedy, composer
• 1890 - Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter (El Dorado)
• 1891 - Sergey Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Ukraine, composer (Peter & the Wolf)
• 1892 - Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Voort], Flemish writer
• 1892 - R Huelsenbeck, writer
• 1893 - Frank Borzage, Salt Lake City, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo)
• 1894 - Basil Sydney, England, actor (Hamlet, Jassy, Simba, Farmer's Wife)
• 1894 - George Renevant, Paris, actor (Moulin Rouge, Scotland Yard, Comrade X)
• 1896 - Margaret Kennedy, novelist
• 1897 - Harold French, director (Encore)/actor
• 1897 - John Wengraf, Vienna Austria, actor (12 to Moon, Pride & Passion)
• 1897 - Lester Bowles Pearson, (L) 14th Canadian PM (1963-68) (Nobel 1957)
• 1897 - Lucius du Bignon Clay, US, general (WW II)/gov (West Germany)
• 1898 - Edwin E Dwinger, German writer (General Vlassov)
• 1899 - Edith Ngaio Marsh, NZ, Kiwi mystery writer (Black Beech & Honeydew)
• 1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, St Petersburg Russia, novelist (Lolita, Ada)
• 1900 - Ary Verhaar, composer
• 1900 - Henry Barraud, composer
• 1900 - Joseph Green, film maker
• 1902 - Halld¢r Laxness, Iceland, novelist (Salka Valka) (Nobel 1955)
• 1904 - Duncan Renaldo, Spain, actor (Cisco Kid)
• 1904 - Leslie French, actor/singer (More than a Miracle)
• 1905 - Lord Carew, Ireland, judge (dressage)
• 1906 - Marcel Hillaire, Cologne Germany, actor (Adv in Paradise)
• 1906 - Maria Arnoldo, [Adrianus Broeders], photographer/writer
• 1907 - Baroness Dudley
• 1908 - Frederick Hawkins, dancer
• 1908 - Herbert Telley, British actuary
• 1909 - Thomas Padmore, senior civil servant
• 1911 - Ronald Neame, director (1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure)
• 1911 - Simone Simon, France, actress (All Money Can Buy, Ladies in Love)
• 1913 - Jan Meyerowitz, composer
• 1914 - Andrew Martin, Lord-Lt (Lechestershire England)
• 1914 - John Hubbard, Indiana Harbor Indiana, actor (Don't Call Me Charlie)
• 1914 - Mitsu Suzuki, teacher of tea ceremony at SF Zen Center
• 1915 - Arnold Hall, CEO (Hawker Siddeley Group)
• 1916 - Bud Wilkinson, college football coach (Oklahoma)
• 1917 - Jacob Kistemaker, nuclear physicist (ultra centrifuge)
• 1918 - Anthony Craxton, British TV producer
• 1918 - Maurice Druon, [Kessel], French writer/journalist (Prix Goncourt)
• 1919 - Dorian Leigh, San Antonio TX, model, sister of Suzy Parker
• 1919 - Talivaldis Kenins, composer
• 1920 - Eric Yarrow, CEO (Clydesdale Bank)
• 1920 - Louis Barron, composer
• 1921 - Janet Blair, Altoona Pa, actress (Leave it to the Girls, Smith Family)
• 1921 - Warren Spahn, left-handed pitcher (Boston/Milwaukee Braves)
• 1922 - Boy [Segundo JA] Ecury, Aruba, resistance fighter
• 1922 - Diarmuid Downs, auto engineer
• 1923 - Avram Davidson, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Peregrine: Primus, Rork!)
• 1923 - James Kirkup, travel writer/poet/novelist (African in Greenland)
• 1923 - Nathan "Dambuza" Mdledle, singer
• 1924 - Arthur Frackenpohl, Irving NJ, composer (Natural Superiority of Music)
• 1924 - Colin Welch, columnist/critic
• 1924 - James Colin Ross Welch, journalist
• 1924 - Malcolm Anson, CEO (Wessex Water Authority)
• 1926 - James P Donleavy, Brooklyn, novelist (Ginger Man, Onion Eaters)
• 1926 - Richard Laws, Master (St Edmunds College Cambridge)
• 1927 - Russell Smith, composer
• 1928 - Bill Cotton, CEO (Noel Gay TV)
• 1928 - Okke Jager, Dutch theologist/writer/poet
• 1928 - Shirley Temple Black, Ca, actress (Heidi)/ambassador (UN)
• 1929 - George Steiner, professor (English)
• 1930 - Alan Oppenheimer, NYC, actor (6 Million Dollar Man, Eischied)
• 1930 - Michael Bowen, RC Archbishop (Southwark)
• 1932 - Halston, [R Halston Frowick], fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame)
• 1932 - Jim Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on Running)
• 1933 - Roger Wittevrongel, Flemish painter
• 1935 - David Evans, MP
• 1936 - Elias, [Etienne Michiels], Flemish painter
• 1936 - Estelle Harris, actress (Estelle Castanza-Seinfeld)
• 1936 - John D'Arcy, cricketer (NZ Test batsman on 1958 England tour)
• 1936 - Joseph Willaert, Flemish painter
• 1936 - Roy Orbison, Vernon Tx, rocker (Pretty Woman)
• 1937 - Barry Shepherd, cricketer (Australian lefty bat early 60's)
• 1937 - Don Massengale, Jackson TX, PGA golfer (1966 Bing Crosby Celebrity)
• 1937 - Victoria Glendinning, author (Edith Sitwell A Unicorn Among Lions)
• 1938 - Leonard Ernest John Chant, social worker
• 1938 - Russell Hillhouse, under-sect Scottish Office
• 1938 - Steven D Symms, (Sen-R-ID, 1981- )
• 1939 - David Birney, Wash DC, actor (Brigette Loves Bernie, St Elsewhere)
• 1939 - Ray Peterson, Denton Tx, singer (Tell Laura I Love Her)
• 1939 - William Hagerty, editor (People)
• 1940 - Lee Majors, [Harvey Yeary], Mich, TV actor ($6,000,000 Man, Stunt Man)
• 1940 - Richard Monaco, US, sci-fi author (Grail War, Final Quest)
• 1941 - Ed Stewart, British DJ
• 1941 - Hal Daub, (Rep-R-NB, 1981- )
• 1942 - Sandra Dee, [Zuck], Bayonne NJ, actress (Gidget, Imitation of Life)
• 1943 - Carmen von Thyssen, Barcelona Spain, Baroness
• 1943 - Herve Villechaize, France, "Da Plane! Da Plane!" (Fantasy Island)
• 1943 - Hugh Davies, composer
• 1943 - Tony Esposito, Ontario, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
• 1943 - [Gerardus] Bob van Toll, actor/interpreter/director (Pastorale 1943)
• 1944 - Niklaus Schilling, Basel Germany, director (Dormire, Atem, Rheingold)
• 1947 - Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, Ireland, political activist [or 1940]
• 1947 - Saskia, [Trudy van den Berg], singer (S & Serge, Spinning Wheel)
• 1948 - Richard Day, engineer/development expert
• 1948 - Tessa Wyatt, actress (Beast in the Cellar, Wedding Night)
• 1949 - Blair Brown, Wash DC, actress (Altered States, Molly Dodd)
• 1949 - John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards (John Miles Band-Rebel, Zaragon)
• 1949 - Joyce DeWitt, Wheeling WV, actress (Janet Wood-Three's Company)
• 1949 - Walter Sweeney, MP
• 1951 - Loek M L H A Hermans, Dutch MP (VVD)
• 1952 - Lionel Johnston, Augusta Ga, actor (Sons & Daughters)
• 1952 - Narada, [Michael Walden], Mich, rocker (Don't Want Nobody Else)
• 1952 - Terry Moor, Hartford Conn, tennis star
• 1952 - Tony Maselli, (fictional character on "Who's the Boss")
• 1953 - Fred Upton, (Rep-R-Michigan)
• 1953 - James Russo, NYC, actor (My Own Private Idaho, China Girl)
• 1955 - Captain Sensible, rocker
• 1955 - Judy Davis, Perth Australia, actress (Husbands & Wives)
• 1955 - Mike Smith, British DJ
• 1955 - Su Ingle, British TV hostess
• 1955 - Tony Miles, chess player
• 1956 - Peter Teravainen, Plymouth MA USA, Australasia golfer
• 1957 - Jan Hooks, Decatur Georgia, comedienne actress (SNL, Designing Women)
• 1957 - Kathleen Lynch, Motueka NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
• 1958 - Max Planck, physicist (Quanta Physics)
• 1959 - Terri Luckhurst, LPGA golfer
• 1960 - Joseph Martin Mudd, Louisville KY, PGA golfer (1988 Federal Express)
• 1960 - Steve Clark, Hillsborough England, rock guitarist (Def Leppard)
• 1960 - Valerie Bertinelli, Del, (1 Day at a Time, Sydney); Ms Eddie Van Halen
• 1963 - Benoit Doucet, Montreal Quebec, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
• 1964 - Dan Frischman, Whippany NJ, actor (Arvid Engen-Head of the Class)
• 1964 - Gen, [Simon Matthews], English pop drummer (Jesus Jones-Zeroes & Ones)
• 1964 - Martin Lopez-Zubero, Spanish backstroke swimmer (world record 200m)
• 1965 - Donna Weinbrecht, skier (Olympic-gold)
• 1966 - Jacques "Jacq" Koumans, soccer player (NAC)
• 1966 - Richard Greenwood, LA Calif, Canadian Tour golfer (1990 Napa Valley)
• 1966 - Wayne Drinkwalter, CFL defensive tackle (BC Lions)
• 1967 - Brent Muscat, rocker (Faster Pussycat-Wake Me When It's Over)
• 1967 - Melina Kanakaredes, Akron Ohio, actress (Eleni Andros-Guiding Light)
• 1967 - Rheal Cormier, New Brunswick, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
• 1968 - Susan Emily Savastano, E Providence RI, Miss RI-America (1991)
• 1969 - Nadeem Shahid, cricketer
• 1970 - Cristiano Caratti, Italy, tennis star (1987 Orange Bowl boys doubles)
• 1970 - Frank Temming, WLAF running back (Amsterdam Admirals)
• 1971 - Chuck Adams, Pacific Palisades Calif, tennis star (1989 USTA Boys)
• 1972 - Rachel Hetherington, Port Macquarie NSW, golfer (1993 NSW Champ)
• 1973 - Derek Armstrong, Ottawa, NHL center (NY Islanders)
• 1973 - Patrick Poulin, Vanier, NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning)
• 1974 - Joey Kent, wide receiver (Tennessee Oilers)
• 1974 - Sam Madison, cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
• 1975 - Bret Anderson, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
• 1976 - Tamas Buday Jr, Budapest Hungary, Canadian canoeist (Olympics-96)
• 1981 - Gabriella MAO Windsor, daughter of English prince Michael

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0034 - Christ, crucified, according to Isaac Newton
• 0303 - George, knight/saint/patron of England, beheaded
• 0871 - Ethelred I, king of Wessex/brother of Alfred the Great, dies
• 0990 - Ekkehart II, [Palatinus], monk to St-Gallen/poet, dies
• 0997 - Vojtech "Adalbert" of Prague, 2nd bishop of Prague/apostle, dies at 40
• 0303 - George, knight of Cappadoci‰?/saint/patron of England, beheaded
• 1014 - Brian Boru, king of Ireland, dies in battle at 87
• 1014 - Sweyn Forkbeard, Viking king of England (1013-14), dies
• 1016 - Aethelbred II "the Unready", king of England (979-1016), dies
• 1416 - Blaise/Blasius of Parma, Ital astrologist/philosopher/algebra, dies
• 1616 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), dies at 69
• 1616 - William Shakesphere, Engl author (Hamlet), dies on his 52nd birthday
• 1625 - Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, dies at 57
• 1670 - Loreto Vittori, composer, dies at 69
• 1691 - Jean-Henri D'Anglebert, composer, dies
• 1695 - Henry Vaughan, poet (Silex Scintillans), dies at 72
• 1728 - Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco, composer, dies at 83
• 1732 - Cajetan Kolberer, composer, dies at 63
• 1740 - Thomas Tickell, poet, dies
• 1742 - Mihael Omerza, composer, dies at 62
• 1762 - Johann Samuel Endler, composer, dies at 67
• 1774 - Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich, painter, dies
• 1786 - Alexander Cozens, English water colors painter, dies at about 68
• 1812 - Franz Sebastian Haindl, composer, dies at 85
• 1827 - Johanna C Wattier-Ziesenis, actress (Phaedra/Lady MacBeth), dies at 65
• 1838 - John W Janssens, gov-gen of Cape Colony/Dutch-Indies, dies at 75
• 1847 - Erik Gustaf Geijer, composer, dies at 64
• 1850 - William Wordsworth, poet, dies at 80
• 1853 - Auguste Laurent, chemist, dies
• 1865 - James Dearing, US Confederate brig-general, dies at 24
• 1878 - Friedrich Preller, landscape painter, dies
• 1880 - Guess Saleh, [Sarief Bastaman], Javanese painter, dies
• 1885 - William Henry Holmes, composer, dies at 73
• 1895 - Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig, physiologist, dies
• 1897 - Clement Harris, composer, dies at 25
• 1905 - Karel Komzak, composer, dies at 54
• 1915 - Rupert Chawner Brooke, English poet (Lithuania), dies at 27
• 1918 - Percy Thomson Dean, lt-commander, killed at Zeebrugge, dies
• 1925 - Andr‚ Caplet, French composer (Le miroir de J‚sus), dies at 45
• 1926 - Joseph Pennell, artist/author, dies
• 1929 - Rudolf W Nilsen, Norwegian poet (Hverdagen), dies at 28
• 1942 - Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, pres of Argentina (1922-28), dies at 73
• 1943 - Fr‚deric baron d'Erlanger, French composer/banker, dies at 74
• 1945 - Albrecht Haushofer, writer, dies at 42
• 1946 - Jesus Castillo, composer, dies at 68
• 1952 - Elisabeth Schumann, singer, dies
• 1952 - Minus van Looi, [Benjamin van der Neart], Flemish writer, dies at 60
• 1955 - Robert H Woltjer, classical/AR-First-Member of parliament, dies at 76
• 1957 - William Orlamond, actor (Flesh & Devil, Words & Music), dies at 89
• 1960 - Cornelis Jan Bakkerr, Dutch/US nuclear physicist, dies
• 1960 - Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71
• 1962 - Stirling Moss, auto racer, killed while racing at 32
• 1965 - Josephina J "Fien" de la Mar, Dutch actress (Pygmalion), dies at 67
• 1969 - Krzystzof Komeda, composer, dies at 37
• 1970 - Herb Shriner, humorist/TV host (Herb Shriner Show), dies at 51
• 1971 - William Tubman, president of Liberia (1944-71), dies at 76
• 1973 - Otto Eissfeldt, German old testament scholar, dies at 85
• 1975 - Pete Ham, rocker (Badfinger), commits suicide by hanging himself at 27
• 1975 - R D Brinkmann, writer, dies
• 1975 - William Hartnell, actor (Dr Who), dies at 67
• 1976 - James Flavin, actor (Man With a Camera), dies at 69
• 1976 - Ronald Radd, actor (King Lear, Up Jumped a Swagman), dies at 47
• 1976 - Shimen Ruskin, actor (Meyer-Corner Bar), dies at 68
• 1980 - Jane Froman, US singer (JF's USA Canteen), dies at 72
• 1983 - Buster Crabbe, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932), dies at 73
• 1983 - Selena Royale, actress (Robot Monster), dies at 78
• 1984 - August "Guus" Oster, actor/director (Carrie), dies at 68
• 1985 - Kent Smith, actor (Peyton Place, Invaders), dies at 78
• 1985 - Sam J Ervin Jr, (Sen-D-NC), dies at 88
• 1986 - Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], US composer, murdered at 81
• 1986 - Jim Laker, cricketer (193 wkts for England at 21 24), dies
• 1986 - Otto Preminger, dir (Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder), dies at 79
• 1988 - Arthur Michael, Lord Ramsey/archbishop of Canterbury, dies
• 1990 - Albert Salmi, (Caddyshack), kills terminally ill wife & self at 62
• 1990 - Palmer Deane, actor (Still of the Night), dies
• 1990 - Paulette Goddard, actress (Hazard), dies in Switzerland at 78
• 1991 - Peter Bailey, Graphic designer/calligrapher, dies
• 1992 - Deron Johnson, 1965 NL run leader, dies of cancer at 53
• 1992 - Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70
• 1992 - Victoria Kellem Lederman, model, dies of amyloidosis at 52
• 1993 - Bertus Aafjes, poet/writer (World is a Muze), dies at 78
• 1993 - Lalith Athulathmudali, Sri Lankan minister, murdered at 59
• 1994 - Cassidy Clinton Cremer, author (John Cremer), murdered at 30
• 1994 - Cecile Dreesmann, son of Anton Dreesmann, dies at 74
• 1995 - Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), dies at 77
• 1995 - John Stennis, (Sen-D-MS), dies at 93
• 1995 - Lonesome Sundown, blues singer/guitarist, dies at 66
• 1995 - Robert Selby Taylor, bishop, dies at 86
• 1996 - Leonard Kuntstat, blues discographer, dies at 70
• 1996 - Pamela Lyndon Travers, writer (Mary Poppins), dies at 96