• 1598 - Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized
• 1617 - Elias Ashmole, antiquary
• 1620 - Pieter Neefs, the Younger, Flemish painter, baptized
• 1644 - Thomas Eisenhut, composer
• 1696 - Johann Caspar Vogler, composer
• 1707 - Carolus Linn‘us, Sweden, biological classifier
• 1710 - Fran‡ois-Gaspard Adam, French sculptor (garden sculptures)
• 1718 - William Hunter, obstetrician/medal writer
• 1729 - Giuseppe Parini, Italian priest/poet (Il Giorno)
• 1734 - Friedrich Anton Mesmer, Austria, physician/hypnotist (Mesmerism)
• 1735 - Charles Joseph, prince the Ligne, Belgian fieldmarshal/author
• 1737 - Louis Fran‡ois Chambray, composer
• 1741 - Andrea Lucchesi, composer
• 1753 - Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer
• 1754 - Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter (Napoleon)
• 1756 - Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer
• 1759 - Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer
• 1790 - Jules-S‚bastien-C‚sar Dumont d'Urville, explorer
• 1794 - Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer
• 1795 - Charles Barry, architect
• 1799 - Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt)
• 1812 - Henri A Esquiros, French poet/writer (Les Vierges Folles)
• 1813 - Mason Brayman, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
• 1820 - James Buchanan Eads, US, engineer/inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis)
• 1824 - Ambrose Everett Burnside, Major General (Union volunteers)
• 1828 - Edward Hitchcock, America's 1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College)
• 1832 - Pieter J B C R van der Aa, Dutch Indologist/geographer
• 1837 - James Sanks Brisbin, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
• 1843 - Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer
• 1844 - 'Abdu'l-Bah , early Bah '¡ leader ('Azamat 7, 1)
• 1848 - Helmuth J L von Moltke, German general/chief of staff (WW I)
• 1848 - Otto Lilienthal, pioneer aviator
• 1849 - K roly earl Khuen-H‚derv ry, Premier of Hungary (1910-12)
• 1851 - Antoni Stolpe, composer
• 1862 - William "Dummy" Hoy, professional baseball player who lived to 99
• 1864 - Louis Glass, composer
• 1866 - Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist/criminalologist
• 1871 - Sigurd Lie, composer
• 1873 - Leo Baeck, rabbi/president (World Union for Progressive Judaism)
• 1882 - James Gleason, NYC, writer/actor (Bishop's Wife, Flying Fool)
• 1883 - Douglas Fairbanks, Denver CO, actor (Zorro/3 Musketeers/Robin Hood)
• 1886 - Hermann Neiáe, writer
• 1888 - Adrian Roland Holst, Dutch poet (Raged & Tired)
• 1890 - Herbert Marshall, London, actor (Murder, Razor's Edge, Little Foxes)
• 1890 - Virginia Eames, Ft Davis TX, entertainer
• 1891 - P„r Lagerkvist, Sweden, novelist/dramatist (Barabbas, Nobel 1951)
• 1898 - Frank McHugh, actor (Front Page, Gold Diggers 1935, Mighty Joe Young)
• 1898 - Joseph Hazen, lawyer
• 1901 - Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23]
• 1902 - Mark Lothar, composer
• 1903 - Walter Reisch, US, screenwriter (Ninotchka, Gaslight, Titanic)
• 1906 - Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer
• 1907 - Kenneth Allen, engineer
• 1907 - Matthew Campbell, British senior civil servant
• 1908 - Christian GK Ba‰ta, Togolese chairman (International Mission Council)
• 1908 - John Bardeen, US, physicist (transistor, Nobel 1956, 1972)
• 1908 - Max Abramovitz, US architect (Lincoln Center, UN Building)
• 1909 - Edwin Arrowsmith, diplomat
• 1910 - Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], NYC, bandleader (Come'on my House)
• 1910 - Franz Jozef Kline, US expressionist painter
• 1910 - Hugh Casson CH, architect
• 1910 - Scatman Crothers, [Benjamin], Terre Haute IN, actor (Zapped, Shining)
• 1911 - Boris Kremenliev, composer
• 1911 - Melvin M Payne, president (National Geographic Society)
• 1912 - David Barran, CEO (Midland Bank, England)
• 1912 - Jean Fran‡aix, Le Mans France, composer (Naked King)
• 1912 - John Payne, Roanoke Va, actor (Restless Gun)
• 1912 - Marius Goring, Isle of Wight, actor (Herr Palitz-Holocaust)
• 1912 - Samuel Curran, vice chancellor (Strathclyde University)
• 1913 - Ian Graeme, major-general
• 1914 - Alec Dickson, founder (VSO)
• 1914 - Barbara Ward, economist/writer (Only One Earth)
• 1914 - Leo Lerman, actor/manager/critic (Dance Magazine)
• 1914 - Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher
• 1915 - Clyde Wiegand, physicist
• 1916 - M Jean Francaix, composer
• 1916 - Margaret Hayden Rector, playwright (living legacy award 1995)
• 1918 - Bulent Arel, composer
• 1918 - Bumps Blackwell, rocker
• 1918 - Denis Compton, cricketer (England batsman 1938-56 & Arsenal forward)
• 1919 - Betty Garrett, St Joseph Mo, actress (Irene-All in the Family)
• 1919 - Robert KJE Antonissen, South African literary
• 1920 - Helen O'Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
• 1920 - Sid Melton, Bkln NY, actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas)
• 1921 - Humphrey Lyttelton, jazz musician/actor (It's Great to Be Young)
• 1921 - James [Benjamin] Blish, US/UK, sci-fi author (Hugo, Star Trek Reader)
• 1921 - Loren Tindall, OK, actor (Meet Me on Broadway, Girl of Limberlost)
• 1921 - Montague Modlyn, broadcaster
• 1921 - Sanderson Temple, circuit judge
• 1922 - Dennis Compton, author/crickleter
• 1923 - Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)
• 1923 - Nirode Chowdhury, Indian cricket pace bowler (1949-52)
• 1924 - Desmond Carrington, British radio host (Jim-Calamity the Cow)
• 1924 - Michael McCrum, master (Corpus Christi College Cambridge)
• 1924 - V N Swamy, cricketer (one Test India v NZ 1955, DNB, 0-45)
• 1928 - Nigel Davenport, Cambridge England, actor (Without a Clue, Masada)
• 1928 - Nina Otkalenko, USSR, 800m runner (9 world records)
• 1928 - Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet)
• 1929 - Joe Modise, South African commandant of Umkhonto we Sizwe (1965- )
• 1929 - Ulla Jacobson, Swedish actress (One Summer of Happiness)
• 1930 - Richard Anuszkiewicz, Erie, Pa, painter
• 1931 - Barbara Barrie, Chicago, actress (Breaking Away, Barney Miller)
• 1931 - Jos‚ Telles Da Concei‡ao, Brazil, high jumper (Olympic-bronze-1952)
• 1932 - James Lester, MP
• 1932 - John Lyons, Cambridge England, Master (Trinity Hall)
• 1933 - Bruce A Peterson, US test pilot (M2, HL-10)
• 1933 - Gerrit J M Braks, Dutch minister of agriculture & land & fishing (CDA)
• 1933 - Joan Henrietta Collins, London, actress (Alexis-Dynasty, Bitch)
• 1934 - Malcolm Gill, deputy head (Bank for Intl Settlements)
• 1934 - Robert A Moog, inventor (Moog Synthesizer)
• 1935 - Juliet Campbell, British ambassador (to Luxembourg)
• 1935 - Lord Grenfell, head of External affairs European office, world bank
• 1936 - Charles Kimbrough, actor (Murphy Brown)
• 1936 - Douglas John Gorman, businessman
• 1936 - Robert Sangster, horse owner/trainer
• 1937 - John Mazza, horse trainer
• 1938 - John R Miller, (Rep-R-WA, 1985- )
• 1938 - Peter Preston, editor (Guardian)
• 1939 - Ron Stevens, horse trainer
• 1941 - Jackson Hill, composer
• 1943 - John Newcombe, Australia, tennis pro (Wimbledon 1967, 70, 71)
• 1943 - Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat
• 1943 - Norman Johnson, singer/songwriter
• 1943 - Peter Kenilorea, PM Solomon Islands
• 1944 - General George Norman Johnson, US singer (Down at the Beach Club)
• 1944 - Giles Smith, TV journalist
• 1944 - Olga Maitland, MP
• 1944 - Ramon "Tiki" Fulwood, US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep)
• 1945 - Elliott Bernerd, English broker/multi-millionaire
• 1945 - Lauren Chapin, actress (Kathy-Father Knows Best)
• 1945 - Misty Morgan, country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard)
• 1946 - Tom Dorris, horse trainer
• 1947 - Ann Hui, director (Boat People)
• 1947 - Jonathan Pryce, North Wales, stage actor (Miss Saigon)
• 1948 - Reggie Cleveland, baseball player
• 1949 - Alan Garc¡a P‚rez, pres of Peru (1985-90)
• 1950 - Linda Thompson, Memphis Tn, actress (Hee Haw)
• 1951 - Anatoli Karpov, USSR, world chess champion (1975-85)
• 1951 - Judy Rodman, Riverside Calif, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too)
• 1952 - "Marvelous" Marvin Hagler, NJ, middleweight boxing champ (1982-83)
• 1952 - Deborah Adair, actress (Tracey-Dynasty, Kate-Day of Our Life)
• 1952 - James Mankey, rocker (Concrete Blonde)
• 1955 - John Stevens, MEP
• 1957 - Jimmy McShane, Pop singer (Baltimora-Tarzan Boy)
• 1958 - Shelly West, Cleve OH, country singer (Red Hot, West by West)
• 1958 - Thomas Reiter, Germany, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-22)
• 1959 - Linden Ashby, actor (Mortal Kombat)
• 1959 - Marcella Mesker, Netherlands, tennis star
• 1960 - Theo Vogelaars, pop bassist (Tr”ckener Kecks/Paid Love)
• 1961 - Dave Babych, Edmonton, NHL defenseman (Vancouver Canucks)
• 1961 - Drew Carey, Cleve Oh, actor/comedian (Drew-Drew Carey Show)
• 1961 - Kevin Romine, baseball player
• 1962 - Karen Duffy, [Duff], NYC, MTV VJ/actress (Meet Wally Sparks)
• 1962 - Keith Brantley, Scott AFB Ill, marathoner (Olympics-96)
• 1964 - Kenny Gattison, NBA forward (Orlando Magic)
• 1964 - Staci Greason, Denver, actress (Isabella Toscando-Days of Our Lives)
• 1965 - James Hasty, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
• 1965 - Lilian Drescher, Venezuela, tennis star
• 1965 - Woorkeri Venkat Raman, cricketer (Indian slow left-arm all-rounder)
• 1966 - Gary Roberts, North York, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
• 1966 - Graeme Hick, cricketer (in Zimbabwe Massive run-scorer for Worcs)
• 1966 - Helena Bonham Carter, London, actress (Ft Worth, Howards End)
• 1967 - Craig John Monk, Auckland NZ, finn class yachter (Olympics-96)
• 1968 - Daryl Hobbs, NFL wide receiver (Oakland Raiders)
• 1968 - Tiffany Rochelle-Anderson, Laguna Beach Ca, WPVA (Nationals-13th-1995)
• 1969 - Pat Hurst, San Leandro CA, LPGA golfer (1995 Rolex Rookie of the Year)
• 1969 - Ramon Caraballo, baseball player
• 1970 - Grahae Hick, cricketer
• 1970 - Ricky Gutierrez, Miami FL, infielder (Houston Astros)
• 1971 - Issac Booth, NFL cornerback/safety (Cleve Browns)
• 1971 - Joseph Rogers, CFL receiver (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
• 1971 - Marshall Boze, San Manual AZ, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
• 1972 - Isabelle Fijalkowski, WNBA center/forward (Cleveland Rockers)
• 1972 - Marco van Hoogdalem, Dutch soccer player (Roda JC)
• 1972 - Rene Ingoglia, running back (Buffalo Bills)
• 1972 - Shannon Brown, NFL defensive tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
• 1973 - Verna Vasquez, Miss Universe-best swimsuit (Curacao, 1997)
• 1974 - Duane Clemons, linebacker (Minnesota Vikings)
• 1974 - Jewel [Kilcher], Alaska, folk/rock vocalist (Pieces of You)
• 1974 - Kimber West, Atlanta GA, playmate (Feb 1997)
• 1975 - Vincent Goossens, soccer player (Dordrecht '90)
• 1976 - Kelly Marie Monaco, Phila PA, playmate (April, 1997)
• 1976 - Melanie Joyce Bell, Vernon New Jersey, Miss America-New Jersey (1997)
• 1980 - Sarah Louise Catherwood, Christchurch NZ, 4x200m swimmer (Oly-96)
• 1984 - Adam Wylie, actor (Picket Fences)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1125 - Hendrik V, Roman catholics German king/emperor (1098/1111-25), dies
• 1153 - David I, king of Scotland (1124-53), dies at about 68
• 1423 - Benedict XIII, [Pedro the Luna], Spanish Pope (1394-1423), dies
• 1498 - Girolamo Savonarola, dictator of Florence (1494-98), hanged at 45
• 1568 - Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27
• 1627 - Luis de G¢ngora y Argote, poet/writer, dies
• 1648 - Luis de Nain, painter, dies
• 1668 - Philips Wouwerman, Haarlems painter, buried
• 1684 - Adriaen Backer, Amsterdams painter buried at about 48
• 1701 - William Kidd, Scottish pirate, hanged at London's Execution Dock
• 1754 - John Wood, architect/town planner, dies
• 1783 - James Otis, American lawyer, dies
• 1785 - William Woollett, engraver, dies
• 1834 - Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76
• 1838 - John W Janssens, gov-gen (Cape Colony), dies at 75
• 1841 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76
• 1842 - Jos‚ de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet, dies at 34
• 1851 - Lucas Pieter Roodbaard, architect, dies at 69
• 1860 - Albert Richard Smith, author/lecturer, dies
• 1867 - Archibald Alison, Scottish historian, dies at 74
• 1875 - Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78
• 1881 - Kit Carson, frontiersman, dies
• 1881 - Leopold von Ranke, historian, dies
• 1883 - Cyprian K Norwid, Polish painter/poet/playwright (Wanda), dies
• 1887 - Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74
• 1891 - Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73
• 1895 - Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/physicist, dies at 96
• 1897 - Aleko Konstantinov, Bulgarian writer (To Chicago & Back), dies at 34
• 1905 - Martinus W van AA Meerbeke, head-editor (Time), dies at 75
• 1906 - Henrik Johan Ibsen, Norwegian playwright (Doll House), dies at 78
• 1908 - Fran‡ois Copp‚e, French poet, dies
• 1926 - Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73
• 1934 - Bonnie Parker, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush
• 1934 - Clyde Barrow, outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush
• 1937 - John Davison Rockfeller, industrialist, dies at 97 in Ormond Beach Fla
• 1938 - Philip Kleintjes, republic leader, dies at 70
• 1940 - Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
• 1940 - Paul Nizan, French journalist/writer (Ce Soir/Aden Arabia), dies at 35
• 1941 - Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies
• 1941 - Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45
• 1945 - Heinrich Himmler, Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44
• 1947 - C F Ramuz, writer, dies at 68
• 1952 - Georg Alfred Schumann, composer, dies at 85
• 1954 - H R Bromley-Davenport, cricketer (batted in 4 Tests for England), dies
• 1960 - Georges Claude, engineer/inventor, dies
• 1961 - Joan Davis, comedic actress (I Married Joan), dies at 53
• 1965 - David Smith, sculptor, dies
• 1966 - Ruth Gates, Denton TX, actress (Aunt Jenny-Mama), dies at 79
• 1967 - Philip Coolidge, actor (I Want to Live, Tingler), dies at 58
• 1967 - Sanne Sannes, photographer, dies at 30
• 1968 - James Burke, actor (Ellery Queen, Army Surgeon), dies at 81
• 1968 - Merle Kendrick, orch leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
• 1969 - Diane Aubrey, actress (Haunted Strangler), dies of heart attack at 79
• 1969 - Jimmy McHugh, composer (Can't Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74
• 1969 - Peter Alma, painter/graphic artist, dies at 83
• 1970 - Nydia Westman, actress (Going My Way, Young Mr Bobbins), dies at 68
• 1973 - Athena Lorde, actress (Fuzz, Skin Game, Firecreek), dies at 57
• 1974 - Kathleen Cannell, writer, dies
• 1975 - Jackie "Moms" Mabley, comedienne (Amazing Grace), dies at 81
• 1979 - Hubert van Doorne, auto manufacturer (DAF), dies at 79
• 1981 - George Jessel, US comic/toastmaster (Diary of Young Comic), dies at 83
• 1982 - Louis J N G‚rardin, bicyclist (world champ sprint 1930), dies at 69
• 1983 - Albert Claude, Belgian biologist (Nobel 1974), dies at 84
• 1986 - Sterling Hayden, actor (Blue & Gray), dies at 70
• 1987 - Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86
• 1988 - David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris), dies at 73
• 1990 - Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock & Roll), dies
• 1991 - Jean van Houte, Belgian premier, dies
• 1991 - Peter T Thwaites, British brig-gen/playwright (Love or money), dies
• 1991 - William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30
• 1992 - Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer/composer/poet/guitarist, dies
• 1992 - Giovanni Falcone, anti-mafia judge (Palermo), murdered
• 1993 - James Millhollin, actor (Anston Foster-Grindl), dies at 77
• 1994 - Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82
• 1994 - Joe Pass, US jazz guitarist (The Trio), dies at 65
• 1996 - Dorothy Hyson, actress (Spare a Copper, Sing as We Go), dies at 81
• 1996 - Kronid Arkadyevich Lyubarsky, human rights activist, dies at 61
• 1996 - Patrick Cargill, actor (Up Pompeii, Magic Christian), dies at 77