• 1506 - Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan
• 1534 - Jos‚ de Anchieta, Spanish jesuit/missionary (Brazilian Tupi-Indians)
• 1613 - Gerard Dou, Dutch painter (Night School)
• 1622 - Louise Hollandine, daughter of King Frederik V & Elizabeth Stuart
• 1629 - Juan Jos‚, of Austria, Spanish general/governor of Netherlands
• 1648 - Ferdinand van Kessel, Flemish painter
• 1694 - Coelestin Praelisauer, composer
• 1699 - Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer
• 1727 - Henri Hardouin, composer
• 1727 - Michel Adanson, French biologist (Natural History of S‚n‚gal)
• 1745 - Georg Druschetzky, composer
• 1748 - Georg Wenzel Ritter, composer
• 1756 - Charles Felix, King of Sardina (1821-31)
• 1763 - Domenico Dragonetti, composer
• 1768 - Karl Theodor Toeschi, composer
• 1770 - William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude)
• 1772 - F M Charles Fourier, French socialist
• 1775 - Francis C Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill
• 1780 - William Ellery Channing, US, Unitarian clergyman
• 1786 - William Rufus DeVane King, (D) 13th VP (1853)
• 1801 - Henry Eagle, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
• 1803 - Flora Tristan, writer
• 1805 - Francis Wilkinson Pickens, (Gov-SC, Confederacy), died in 1869
• 1819 - Hubert Leonard, composer
• 1820 - Gy”rgy Klapka, Hungarian general/MP (Kom rom-castle)
• 1822 - Gershom Mott, Major General (Union volunteers)
• 1826 - Johann Hermann Berens, composer
• 1841 - Alfred Cogniaux, Belgian botanicus
• 1841 - Joseph H "Jozef" Neuhuys, painter
• 1847 - J P Jacobsen, writer
• 1851 - Otto Adolf Klauwell, composer
• 1858 - Adrien H Gerhard, Dutch socialist politician (SDAP)
• 1859 - Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale)
• 1860 - W K Kellogg, a real corn flake
• 1869 - David Grandison Fairchild, US, botanist/explorer, brought plants to US
• 1870 - Gustav Landauer, German socialist
• 1870 - Joseph Ryeland, Belgian composer/Baron
• 1872 - William Monroe Trotter, famous African
• 1878 - C M M Hathorn, cricketer (South African Test centurion in 1905-06)
• 1878 - Jozef C Bittremieux, Flemish theologist (Virgin & Mother of God)
• 1882 - Bert "Dainty" Ironmonger, cricketer (belated Australian rep 1928-33)
• 1882 - Kurt von Schleiger, German chancellor (12/2/32-1/28/33)
• 1884 - Charles Dodd, English new testament authority
• 1884 - Louis H N Bosch van Rosenthal, Dutch politician/resistance fighter
• 1889 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean poet (Desolaci˘n, Tenderness/Nobel 1945)
• 1890 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades)
• 1893 - Allan W Dulles, US diplomat/CIA head 1953-61 (Germany's Underground)
• 1893 - Irene Castle, dancer (leader in anti-vivisection movement)
• 1894 - Gerald Brenan, English writer
• 1895 - Eduardo Toldra, composer
• 1895 - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer
• 1896 - Benny Leonard, lightweight boxing champ (1917-25)
• 1897 - Harald Sigurd Johan Saeverud, composer [OS]
• 1897 - Walter Winchell, Harlem NYC, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables)
• 1899 - Robert Marcel Casadesus, French pianist/composer (Prix Di‚mer)
• 1900 - Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, England, 50K walker (Olympic-bronze-1952)
• 1903 - Willi Forst, Austrian actor/director (Im weissen R”ssl)
• 1908 - Le Duan, Vietnamese politician
• 1908 - Percy Faith, conductor (Summer Place)
• 1912 - John Adrian Hope, politician/businessman
• 1912 - ValŠre Depauw, Flemish writer
• 1914 - Sydney Thompson, rock climber
• 1915 - Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], Balt, singer (Aint Nobodys Business)
• 1915 - Henry Kuttner, US, sci-fi author (Dark World, As You Were)
• 1917 - R G Armstrong, Birmingham Ala, actor (T.H.E. Cat)
• 1918 - C B Bertie Clarke, cricketer (Barbados & West Indian leg-spinner)
• 1918 - Peanuts Hucko, Syracuse NY, dixieland clarinetist (Lawrence Welk Show)
• 1918 - Peter Aryans, [PCJ Vander], Dutch radio actor (Shoot Out)
• 1918 - Ronald Howard, Norwood England, actor (Naked Edge, Africa-Texas Style)
• 1919 - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italy, ‚p‚e (Olympic-gold-1952)
• 1919 - Ralph Flanagan, Loraine Ohio, orch leader (Let's Dance)
• 1920 - Ravi Shankar, Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India)
• 1920 - Terence Edward Armstrong, polar geographer
• 1922 - Kenneth Howard Peacock, composer
• 1924 - Harry Cordon, comic/host (Fred Hach‚ Show)
• 1924 - Ikuma Dan, composer
• 1924 - Nick Perito, Denver Colo, orch leader (Don Knotts Show, Big Show)
• 1926 - Johannes Rood, Dutch immunologist (Eurotransplant)
• 1928 - Alan J Pakula, director (All the President's Men, Klute)
• 1928 - James Garner, Norman Okla, actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick)
• 1928 - James White, UK, sci-fi author (Star Surgeon, Star Healer)
• 1930 - Andrew Sachs, actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
• 1931 - Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot
• 1931 - Donald Barthelme, Phila Pa, writer (Snow White, Sadness)
• 1932 - Louis "Mr Bo" Collins, blues SInger
• 1933 - Wayne Rogers, Birmingham Ala, actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs)
• 1934 - Ian Richards, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Montgomery-Ike)
• 1935 - Bobby Bare, Irontown Oh, country singer (Detroit City)
• 1935 - Hodding Carter III, press secretary (Jimmy Carter)
• 1935 - Yvonne Fedderson, co-founder (Childhelp USA)
• 1937 - Charley Thomas, rocker (Drifters)
• 1938 - Freddie Hubbard, Indianapolis, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey)
• 1938 - Jerry Brown, ex-California governor
• 1938 - Yvonne Lime, Glendale Calif, actress (Father Knows Best, Dobie Gillis)
• 1938 - [Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr, (Gov-D-Cal, 1974-..)
• 1939 - David Frost, Tenterdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was)
• 1939 - Donald L Holmquest, Dallas Texas, astronaut
• 1939 - Francis Ford Coppola, Detroit, director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
• 1940 - Jan Wilhelm Morthenson, composer
• 1940 - Patricia Paay, Dutch singer (You are not hip)
• 1942 - Edda Barends, actress (Arthur & Eva)
• 1943 - Dennis Amiss, cricketer (prolific English batsman)
• 1943 - Mick Abrahams, Luton, rock guitarist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick)
• 1943 - Roberta Shore, Monterrey Park, Calif, actress/singer (Virginian)
• 1943 - Spencer Dryden, NYC, rock drummer (Jefferson Airplane-Go Ask Alice)
• 1946 - Barbara Benary, composer
• 1946 - Bill Kreutzmann, Calif, rock drummer (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots)
• 1947 - Patricia Bennett, US singer (He's So Fine)
• 1951 - Janis Ian, NYC, [Janis Eddy Fink], lesbian/folk rocker (At 17)
• 1951 - John Dittrich, Union NJ, country singer (Restless Heart-Wheels)
• 1952 - Bruce Gary, Burbank Ca, rock drummer (Knack-My Sharona)
• 1952 - Jane Frederick, US pentathlete (Olympics-7th-1976)
• 1953 - Everard Endt, US, yachting (Olympic-gold-1952)
• 1954 - Donna White, LPGA golfer
• 1954 - Jackie Chan, martial art actor (Rumble in the Bronx)
• 1954 - Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys, Heisman Trophy)
• 1955 - Andrea Fisher, artist
• 1956 - Gail Lee Hirata, LPGA golfer
• 1958 - Alexandra Neil, Boston, actress (Rose-Guiding Light)
• 1958 - Tony Aire, rocker (Adventures-Sea of Love)
• 1960 - Simon Climie, rock vocalist/keyboardist (Climie Fisher-Love Changes)
• 1962 - Andy Hampsten, Columbus Ohio, cyclist (Olympics-96)
• 1962 - Bonny Warner, Mount Baldy Calif, lugist
• 1962 - Hugh Edward Ralph O'Connor, actor (In the Heat of the Night)
• 1964 - Helen Wadsworth, S Wales, golfer (Curtis Cup 1990)
• 1964 - Joe Durant, Pensacola FL, Nike golfer (1992 Boise Open-7th)
• 1965 - Alexander Mronz, Cologne Germany, tennis star
• 1965 - Kaushik Amalean, cricketer (two Tests for Sri Lanka 1986-88)
• 1966 - Teri Ann Linn, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Kristen-Bold & Beautiful)
• 1967 - Steve Wisniewski, NFL guard (Oakland Raiders)
• 1968 - Bill Bellamy, actor (Fled, How to be a Player, Joey Breaker)
• 1968 - Don[ald] Smith, North Tonawanda NY, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
• 1969 - Clark Sheehan, Denver Colo, cyclist (Olympics-96)
• 1969 - Jeremy Lincoln, NFL cornerback (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
• 1969 - Peggy Clasen, St Paul Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
• 1969 - Ricky Bones, Salinas Puerto Rico, pitcher (Mil Brewers, NY Yanks)
• 1969 - Ricky Watters, NFL running back (Phila Eagles)
• 1970 - Alexander Karpovtsev, Moscow Russia, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
• 1970 - Kevin Smith, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
• 1971 - Cara Kendra Bernosky, Miss USA-Pennsylvania (1997)
• 1971 - Mark Thompson, Russellville KY, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
• 1971 - Stephen Brimacombe, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
• 1971 - Victor Kraatz, Berlin Ger, Canadian ice dancer (1995 World Champs-4th)
• 1972 - Greg Clark, tight end (San Francisco 49ers)
• 1972 - Joanne Brown, Australian softball catcher/1st baseman (Olym-bronze-96)
• 1972 - Lovett Purnell, wide receiver (New England Patriots)
• 1972 - Malcolm Huckaby, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
• 1972 - Shana Williams, Bridgeton NJ, long jumper/heptathlete
• 1974 - Anita Maxwell, WNBA forward (Cleveland Rockers)
• 1975 - Beverly Peele, super model (Elle)
• 1975 - Ronde Barber, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
• 1975 - Tiki Barber, running back (NY Giants)
• 1975 - Victoria Adams, "Posh Spice", Hertfordshire, vocalist (Spice Girls)
• 1976 - Erich Goldmann, Dingolfing GER, hockey defenseman (Team Germany 1998)
• 1978 - Siobhan Drake-Brockman, Bunbury Aust, tennis star (1994 Port Pirie)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0030 - Christ, crucified, according to astronomer Schaefer, dies
• 0924 - Berengarius I, Emperor of Italy, murdered
• 1444 - John Capreolus, French theologist (Libri IV), dies at about 50
• 1498 - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), dies at 27
• 1524 - Philip of Burgundy, bishop of Utrecht, dies
• 1614 - El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies (birth date unknown)
• 1719 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies at 67
• 1766 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch classicist, dies at 81
• 1767 - Franz Sparry, composer, dies at 51
• 1768 - Michel Mathieu, composer, dies at 78
• 1778 - Johann Balthasar Kehl, composer, dies at 52
• 1783 - Ignaz Jakob Holzbauer, composer, dies at 71
• 1789 - Abdl-Hamid I, 27th sultan of Turkey (1774-89), dies at 64
• 1789 - Peter Camper, anatomist/animal scholar, dies at 66
• 1803 - [Fran‡ois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture/Haitian revolutionary, dies
• 1810 - Pieter L van de Kasteele, Dutch politician/patriot, dies at 61
• 1833 - Antoni Henryk Radziwill, Lithuanian/Polish composer, dies at 57
• 1842 - Henrik A Bjerregaard, Norw writer/poet (Fjeldeventyret), dies at 50
• 1850 - William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets), dies at 87
• 1858 - Anton Diabelli, Austria publisher/composer, dies at 76
• 1862 - Sydney Nelson, composer, dies at 62
• 1871 - Alexander, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 1 day old
• 1871 - Wilhelm Freiherr von Tegetthoff, Aus adm (Helgoland/Lissa), dies at 43
• 1875 - Georg Herwegh, writer, dies at 57
• 1877 - Errico Petrella, composer, dies at 63
• 1880 - Diederich Krug, composer, dies at 58
• 1881 - Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte, Corsican MP, dies at 65
• 1884 - Maria van Ackere-Doolaeghe, Flemish poet (Avondlamp), dies at 80
• 1891 - Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88
• 1917 - Spyridon Filiskos Samaras, composer, dies at 53
• 1932 - Erv A Kelley, US policeman, shot to death by Pretty Boy Floyd
• 1933 - Jan Erik/Eric Jan Hanussen, Berlin astrologist/illusionist, murdered
• 1934 - William Monroe Trotter, African, dies on 62nd birthday in Boston
• 1943 - Jovan Ducic, Serbian poet (Blue Legends), dies at 72
• 1950 - Walter Huston, dies at 66
• 1955 - Theda Bara, actress (Camille, Cleopatra, 2 Orphans), dies at 62
• 1958 - Judge Jackson, composer, dies at 75
• 1958 - Klimenty Arkad'yevich Korchmaryov, composer, dies at 58
• 1961 - Jesus Guridi, composer, dies at 74
• 1961 - Marian Jordan, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly), dies at 62
• 1961 - Yusef Greiss, composer, dies at 61
• 1967 - Anne Morrison Chapin, dies in West Hollywood
• 1968 - Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car
• 1970 - Josina Machel, wife of Mozambique's 1st pres Samora Machel, dies
• 1971 - Charles F Pahud de Mortanges, (Olympic-gold-1928, 32), dies at 74
• 1972 - "Crazy" Joe Gallo, mobster, killed at his 43rd birthday party
• 1972 - Abeid Karume, Tanzanian sheik/president, murdered
• 1972 - Victor Wong, actor (Mission to Moscow, King Kong) dies at 65
• 1973 - Nick Stuart, bandleader, dies of cancer at 69
• 1976 - Mary Margaret McBride, TV hostess (Mary Margaret McBride), dies at 76
• 1977 - Siegfried Buback, German FR procureur-genl, murdered attorney-general
• 1978 - Ernest Kanitz, composer, dies at 83
• 1979 - Bruno Apitz, writer, dies at 78
• 1982 - Brenda Benet, actress (Track of Thunder), commits suicide by gun at 36
• 1983 - Gavin Gordon, television actor (Romance, Lone Cowboy), dies at 82
• 1984 - Frank Church, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1957-81), dies at 59
• 1984 - Samuel C Engel, poet, dies of heart failure at 79
• 1987 - Maxine Sullivan, [Williams], US actress (Going Places), dies at 75
• 1988 - Cesar Bresgen, Austrian composer/organist, dies at 74
• 1989 - Tikhon Toropets, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123(?)
• 1992 - Alix Talton, former Miss Georgia, dies of lung cancer at 72
• 1992 - Clovis Ruffin, fashion designer (T shirt dress), dies of AIDS at 46
• 1992 - Rick Emery, dies after long illness at 39
• 1993 - Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80
• 1993 - Richard Schmiechen, dies of AIDS at 45
• 1993 - S C (Billy) Griffith, cricketer (England 1948-49, MCC sect), dies
• 1994 - Agathe Uwilingiyimana, PM of Rwanda, assassinated
• 1994 - Angelus Gottfried "Golo" Mann, German/US historian, dies at 85
• 1994 - Arthur Gordon Clough, journalist, dies at 59
• 1994 - Evert Hartman, Dutch writer (War Without Friends), dies at 56
• 1994 - Fran‡ois de Grossouvre, Pres Mitterrand advisor, suicide at 76
• 1994 - Kurt Cobain, grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun at 27
• 1994 - Lee Brilleaux, British R&B-singer/guitarist (Stupidity), dies at 41
• 1995 - Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect, dies at 68
• 1996 - Ian Spurling, ballet designer, dies at 59