• 1480 - Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)
• 1521 - Fran‡ois de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French general (Jarnac)
• 1580 - Thomas Middleton, English playwright (Game of Chess)
• 1590 - Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17)
• 1605 - Giacomo Carissimi, composer
• 1729 - Gaetano B Vestris, Italian/French ballet dancer
• 1732 - George Colman, "the Elder", playwright (baptised)
• 1740 - Francis Baring, banker/merchant
• 1744 - Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot
• 1759 - Jacques-Christian-Michel Widerkehr, composer
• 1764 - Bernhard Anselm Weber, pianist/conductor/composer
• 1777 - Ignac Ruzitska, composer
• 1786 - Franz Xaver Schnyder von Wartensee, composer
• 1797 - Louis-Adolphe Thiers, president of France
• 1803 - Charles F Pahud de Montagnes, gov-gen of Neth East Indies (1856-61)
• 1806 - Ludwig Schuberth, composer
• 1817 - George Henry Lewes, English philosophical writer (Life of Goethe)
• 1819 - Franz von Supp‚, Spalato Dalmatia, composer (Light Cavalry Over)
• 1839 - Frantz Jehin-Prume, composer
• 1839 - Henry Clarence Kendall, New South Wales Australia, poet (Bell Birds)
• 1842 - Antero Tarquinio de Quental, Portugal, poet (Beatrice)
• 1845 - Wilhelm Gericke, composer
• 1852 - George Clausen, painter
• 1855 - Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Jan Steen)
• 1855 - Josef Gruber, composer
• 1857 - Clarence S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial
• 1859 - Eduard G H H Cuypers, architect (Sanatorium High-Laren)
• 1863 - Felix Blumenfeld, composer
• 1864 - Richard Harding Davis, US, journalist/author (In The Fig)
• 1868 - Didericus G van Epen, genealogist (Dutch Patriciate)
• 1871 - Henry Stephenson, Brit WI, actor (Conquest, Little Old NY, Mr Lucky)
• 1873 - Jean Roger-Ducasse, composer
• 1881 - Hermann KJ Zilcher, German pianist/composer (Dr Eisenbart)
• 1881 - Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter
• 1882 - Leopold Stokowski, London England, conductor (Cincinnati Symphony)
• 1884 - Magda Janssens, Flemish/Neth actress/acting teacher (Maria Stuart)
• 1888 - Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, skier
• 1889 - Jessie Street, Austrialian pro womans/aborigine rights fighter
• 1889 - John Kilbane, US, featherweight boxing champ (1912-23)
• 1890 - James Rennie, Toronto Ontario, actor (Lash, Little Damozel)
• 1895 - Anton F Pieck, Dutch illustrator (Efteling, Kaatsheuvel) [or April 19]
• 1896 - C EugŠne Wegmann, Swiss geologist (Le Jura pliss‚)
• 1897 - Pedro Regas, actor (Pat Paulsen's Half a Comedy Hour) [or Apr 12]
• 1898 - Lord Leatherland, British journalist/Labour peer
• 1900 - Louise Tazewell, [Louise Skiller Tazewell], entertainer
• 1901 - L szl¢ N‚meth, Hungarian physician/author (Gy sz/Galilei)
• 1903 - Leonid Kinskey, St Petersburg Russia, actor (Casablanca)
• 1903 - Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer
• 1906 - Clara Eggink, [Ebbele], Dutch poetess (Life with JC Bloem)
• 1906 - Edgar Unsworth, Justice of Appeals (Gibralter)
• 1907 - Mikl¢s R¢zsa, Budapest Hungary, movie composer (Atomic Cafe, Fedora)
• 1907 - Stephen Longstreet, American writer (All or Nothing)
• 1908 - Edward Roberts, bishop (Ely)
• 1908 - Henry Guinness, missionary
• 1908 - Joseph Keilberth, German conductor (Bayreuther Festspiele)
• 1910 - Jamie L Whitten, (Rep-D-MS, 1941- )
• 1910 - Sylvia Fisher, soprano (Albert Herring Opera)
• 1911 - Francis Frederick Johnson, architect
• 1911 - George Huntington Hartford II, NYC, heir (A&P)
• 1912 - John Lapworth Holt, boat Designer
• 1912 - Wendy Barrie, Hong Kong, hostess (Wendy Barrie Show)
• 1913 - Al Hodge, actor (Capt Video)
• 1913 - Kent Wheeler Kennan, composer
• 1913 - Milos Sokola, composer
• 1913 - Susan Bosence, textile designer
• 1914 - C S Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C K, 11 Tests as leggie)
• 1914 - Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP)
• 1917 - Louise Frederika, Queen of Greece
• 1918 - Robert Zimonyi, Hungary, cox (Olympic-Hungary-bronze-1948/US-gold-64)
• 1918 - Roger de Grey, president (Royal Academy)
• 1918 - Tony Mottola, Kearney NJ, guitarist/host (Melody Street)
• 1920 - Walter Clegg, MP
• 1921 - Barbara Hale, Dekalb Ill, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason)
• 1922 - Avril Angers, actress (Brass Monkey)
• 1923 - Baroness Platt of Writtle, British CEO (Equal Opportunities Comm)
• 1923 - Leif Panduro, Danish writer ('k Have varnish on traditions)
• 1924 - Buxton Daeblite Orr, composer
• 1924 - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Vinton La, blues singer (Mary is Fine)
• 1924 - Henry J Hyde, (Rep-R-IL)
• 1924 - Lord Mason of Barnsley, MP (Lab)/British defense secretary
• 1924 - Raf de Linde, [Rapha‰l van Hecke], author (Vaarwel on Gertrude)
• 1925 - Bob Hastings, Bkln NY, actor (McHale's Navy, All in the Family)
• 1925 - Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician
• 1925 - Robert Caldwell Crawford, composer
• 1926 - Doug Insole, cricketer (England batsman of the 50's, nine Tests)
• 1926 - Gunter Meisner, Germany, actor (Between Wars, Quiller Memorandum)
• 1927 - Jim De Courcy, cricketer (in Newcastle Australian batsman 1953)
• 1928 - Jean-Fran‡ois Pailliard, Vitry-le-Fran‡ois France, conductor
• 1929 - Peter Hordern, British CEO (Fina)
• 1929 - Peter Jeffrey, actor (Dr Phibes Rides Again, Twinsanity)
• 1930 - Clive Revill, Wellington NZ, actor (Legend of Hell House)
• 1931 - Klas Lestander, Sweden, 20K biathlon (Olympic-gold-1960)
• 1932 - Dominic Milroy, OSB/headmaster (Ampleforth College England)
• 1933 - Alan Devereux, CEO (Scottish Tourist Board)
• 1934 - Jaap F Scherpenhuizen, Dutch MP (VVD)
• 1934 - James Drury, NYC, actor (Virginian)
• 1934 - Jan Klusak, composer
• 1934 - Jap F Scherpenhuizen, Dutch MP (VVD)
• 1934 - Mark Kingston, actor (Intimate Contact)
• 1935 - Joel Hefley, (Rep-R-Colorado)
• 1935 - Paul A Rothchild, record producer
• 1936 - Brian Fuller, commandant (Fire Service College, England)
• 1936 - Harold Innocent, [HS Harrison], English actor (Tall Guy)
• 1936 - Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator
• 1937 - Robert Hooks, Wash DC, actor (Fast Walking, Aaron Loves Angela)
• 1937 - Tatyana Shchelkanova, USSR, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1964)
• 1938 - Andreas J "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander (S Afr army)
• 1939 - Glen Hardin, rocker
• 1939 - Von McDaniel, baseball player
• 1940 - Ed Garvey, labor leader (Major League Baseball Players Assn)
• 1940 - Ira von Furstenberg, [Virginia Caroline] Rome Italy, Princess (Monaco)
• 1940 - Joseph L Goldstein, Sumter SC, physician (Nobel-1985)
• 1940 - Skip Stephenson, Omaha Neb, comedian (Real People)
• 1941 - Mike Vickers, rock guitarist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
• 1942 - Dick K J Tommel, chemist/(D66) Dutch Asst Sec of State (1994- )
• 1942 - Jochen Rindt, German race car driver
• 1944 - Irvine Shillingford, cricketer (cousin of Grayson, 4 Tests for WI)
• 1944 - Rudy Shackelford, composer
• 1946 - Alexander "Skip" Spence, Canada, guitarist/vocalist (Moby Grape-Omaha)
• 1946 - Anne Boyd, composer
• 1946 - Harvey Kagan, rocker
• 1946 - Hayley Mills, London England, actress (Parent Trap, Pollyanna)
• 1946 - Lenny Baker, rocker (Sha Na Na)
• 1947 - David Gee, director (Friends of the Earth)
• 1947 - Dorothy Lyman, Minneapolis Mn, (All my Children, Naomi-Mama's Family)
• 1947 - James Woods, Warwick RI, actor (Salvador, Against All Odds)
• 1947 - Lori Martin, Glendale Calif, actress (Velvet-National Velvet)
• 1948 - "Tiny" Nate Archibald, NBA guard (Cincinnati)
• 1948 - Catherine Malfitano, NYC, soprano (Metropolitan Opera)
• 1948 - Skip Stephenson, Omaha Neb, comedian (Real People)
• 1950 - Bill Sudderth III, trumpeteer (Atlantic Star-Touch 4 Leaf Clover)
• 1952 - Jim Scholten, Midland Mich, country singer (Betty's Bein' Bad)
• 1953 - Rick Moranis, Toronto, (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs)
• 1954 - Kim Stone, bassist (Spyro Gyra-Morning Dance)
• 1955 - Amschel Rothschild, banker
• 1955 - Anne-Marie Palli, Ciboure France, LPGA golfer (1992 ShopRite)
• 1956 - David Wayne Edwards, Neosho MO, PGA golfer (1980 Walt Disney)
• 1956 - Eric Roberts, Miss, actor (Pope of Greenwich Village, King of Gypsies)
• 1956 - John James, Minneapolis Mn, actor (Jeff Colby-Dynasty)
• 1956 - Melody Thomas Scott, actress (Nikki-Young & Restless)
• 1958 - Bernadette Robi, model/ex-wife of football player Lynn Swann
• 1958 - Lee Pattinson, rock bassist (Echo & Bunnymen-Heaven Up Here)
• 1958 - Malcolm Marshall, cricketer (WI quickie 1978-91, WI top wicket-taker)
• 1959 - Jim Eisenreich, St Cloud MN, outfielder (Phila Phillies, Fla Marlins)
• 1960 - Ocl Sweda, rocker (Bulletboys)
• 1961 - Ian Doig, Seaforth Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (1985 Florida Classic)
• 1961 - Jane Leeves, London, actress (Murphy Brown, Daphne Moon-Fraiser)
• 1961 - Jeff Cook, Muncie IN, Nike golfer (1990 Greater Ozarks Open)
• 1961 - Kelly Hansen, heavy metal rocker (Hurricane-I'm on to You)
• 1961 - Pamella Bordes, New Dehli India, Brit parliament prostitute
• 1962 - Mick Sweda, heavy metal (Bulletboys, King Kobra-Ready to Strike)
• 1962 - Shirlie Hollman, rocker (Pepsi & Shirley-All Right Now)
• 1962 - Wilber Marshall, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
• 1963 - Conan Chris O'Brien, Brookline Mass, TV host (Late Night)
• 1963 - Phil Simmons, cricketer (West Indian opening batsman)
• 1965 - Diana Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
• 1965 - Sylvia Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
• 1965 - Vicky Villegas, rocker (Triplets)
• 1966 - Chuck Wade, Menomonee Falls Wisc, diver (Olympics-96)
• 1966 - Michelle Chryst, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-17th-1994)
• 1966 - Valeri Kamensky, Voskresensk Rus, NHL left wing (Avalanche, Oly-S-98)
• 1967 - Jayce Fincher Jr, heavy metal bassist (Southgang-Tainted Angel)
• 1967 - Kenneth Gant, NFL safety (Tampa Bay Bucs)
• 1967 - Marcel Valk, soccer player (RKC, Go Ahead Eagles)
• 1968 - Christian Slater, actor (Tucker, Wizard, Young Guns 2) [or Aug 19]
• 1969 - Vladimir Tsyplakov, Inta Rus, NHL left wing (LA Kings, Belarus 1998)
• 1970 - Carl Simpson, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)
• 1970 - Francois Leroux, Ste-adele, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
• 1970 - Heike Friedrich, East Germany swimmer (world record 200m)
• 1970 - Peter Giles, London Ontario, kayaker (Olympics-96)
• 1970 - Vladimir Antipin, hockey defenseman (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
• 1970 - William Roaf, NFL tackle (NO Saints)
• 1971 - Dan Kordic, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
• 1971 - Kerry Lynn Kemper, Miss Nebraska USA (1996)
• 1971 - Oleg Petrov, Moscow Rus, NHL right wing (Montreal Canadiens)
• 1972 - Jeff Traversy, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
• 1973 - Derrick Brooks, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
• 1973 - Haile Gebresleassie, Ethiopia, 10k runner (Olympics-gold-96)
• 1973 - James "Jamie" Koven, Morristown NJ, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
• 1976 - Melissa Joan Hart, Sayville NY, actress (Clarissa, Sabrina)
• 1992 - Frances Bean Cobain, daughter of Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0680 - Mu'awijja, kalief of Al-Schaam, dies
• 1504 - Filippino Lippi, painter, dies at about 52
• 1530 - Fran‡ois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43
• 1552 - John Leland, antiquary, dies
• 1556 - Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Flora, Antigone), dies at 61
• 1567 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63
• 1587 - John Foxe, author (Book of Martyrs), dies
• 1610 - Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63
• 1612 - Emanuel Van Meteren, merchant/historian, dies
• 1679 - Hofmannswaldau, writer, dies
• 1684 - Gonzales Cocx, [Coques], painter, dies
• 1689 - George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge, dies
• 1690 - Charles V Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian fieldmarshal, dies
• 1710 - Pierre de La Barre, composer, dies at 75
• 1800 - John Evangelist Schreiber, composer, dies at 84
• 1800 - Pieter Fouquet, art merchant (Atlas of Fouquet), dies
• 1807 - Erasmus Darwin, physician/writer (Influence), dies
• 1818 - Pieter PJQ Ondaatje, Ceylon/Dutch lawyer, dies at 59
• 1824 - Edward Jones, composer, dies at 72
• 1830 - Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia, composer, dies at 62
• 1845 - Nicholas T the Saussure, Swiss chemist/botany, dies at 77
• 1853 - William King, US VP, dies a month after his inauguration
• 1854 - Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer, dies at 84
• 1855 - Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies
• 1860 - Count Istv n Sz‚chenyi, statesman, commits suicide
• 1861 - Heinrich August Neithardt, composer, dies at 67
• 1867 - Robert Smirke, architect, dies
• 1871 - Omar Pasha, [Michael Lats], Croatian governor, dies at 64
• 1873 - Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69
• 1874 - David Livingstone, buried in Westminster Abbey
• 1879 - Anthony Pannizim, principal librarian (British Museum), dies
• 1883 - Agnes Tyrrell, composer, dies at 36
• 1898 - Gustave Moureau, painter, dies
• 1905 - Juan Valera bon Alcal  Galiano, Sp author (Pepita Jim‚nez), dies at 80
• 1917 - Moritz F Freiherr von Bissing, gov-gen of Belg (1914-17), dies at 73
• 1919 - Enny Vrede, [Maria M M�ller], Dutch actress, drowns at 35
• 1921 - Earnest [Bachigaloupi] Tourniaire, actor (Inkwartiering), dies at 70
• 1925 - Charles Ebbets, Pres (Dodgers), dies
• 1928 - Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski, composer, dies at 58
• 1935 - Ignazio Guidi, Italian orientalist/archaeologist, dies at 90
• 1936 - Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer (Belkis), dies at 56
• 1936 - Seaborn M Denson, composer, dies at 82
• 1938 - Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, dies
• 1939 - Theo Mann, actress (Pink Bernd, Hedda Gabler), dies at 88
• 1940 - Florrie Forde, music hall artist, dies
• 1940 - Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher, historian, dies
• 1941 - ... Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide
• 1943 - I Yamamoto, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
• 1944 - C‚cile Chamindale, composer, dies
• 1945 - Ernest T Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WW II at 44
• 1945 - John Ambrose Fleming, electrical engineer, dies
• 1947 - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25), dies at 51
• 1949 - Leonard Bloomfield, linguist/philosopher, dies
• 1955 - Albert Einstein, German/US physicist (E=MCý), dies
• 1955 - Don Blackie, cricketer (3 Tests for Australia 1928-29), dies at 46
• 1955 - Eugen Herrigel, Zen philosopher/scholar, dies in Germany at 70
• 1958 - Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French generalissmo (WW I, WW II), dies at 85
• 1958 - Richard B Goldschmidt, German zoologist (butterflies), dies
• 1959 - Irving Cummings Sr, actor/director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70
• 1960 - Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66
• 1963 - Henrietta Kreis, 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist to fall to death
• 1964 - Albe Vidakovic, composer, dies at 49
• 1964 - Ben Hecht, playwright (Child of the Century), dies at 71
• 1969 - Piotr F Scharoff, Russ/Italian actor/director (Chechov), dies at 82
• 1971 - Masao Oki, composer, dies at 69
• 1974 - Betty Compson, actress (Barker, Weary River, Drag Net), dies at 77
• 1974 - Marcel Pagnol, French writer/movie (Topaz), dies at 79
• 1975 - Rob Touber, [Robert J Noordervliet), chansonnier/director, dies at 38
• 1976 - Percy Julian, holder of more than 138 chemical patents, dies at 78
• 1983 - Alan Melville, cricketer (11 Tests for South Africa, 894 runs), dies
• 1984 - John Lee Mahin, screenwriter, dies of emphysema at 81
• 1986 - Marcel Dassault, [Bloch], French airplane builder, dies at 94
• 1990 - Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87
• 1992 - Florence Randall, model/designer (Bill Blass), dies at 54 of cancer
• 1993 - Arthur P Smith, US founder of Miami Planetarium, dies at 76
• 1994 - Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
• 1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62), dies
• 1996 - Kalim Siddiqui, islamic campaigner, dies at 62
• 1996 - Michael Leander Farr, record producer, dies at 55
• 1996 - Piet Hein, architect/poet/mathematician/inventor, dies at 80
• 1996 - Robert William Paine, architect, dies at 88
• 1997 - Edward Barker, cartoonist, dies at 46