• 1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi, composer
• 1554 - Everhardus van Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer
• 1665 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
• 1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
• 1710 - Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer
• 1746 - Augustin Ullinger, composer
• 1746 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
• 1757 - Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
• 1760 - Ishmail Spicer, composer
• 1760 - MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers
• 1765 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist
• 1772 - Giovanni Liverati, composer
• 1780 - August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
• 1785 - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95)
• 1797 - Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Mo‹se, Chatterton)
• 1809 - Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect
• 1810 - A Glabbrenner, writer
• 1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
• 1816 - George Elvey, composer
• 1818 - Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
• 1823 - Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers)
• 1844 - Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
• 1845 - Wilhelm Konrad R”ntgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
• 1847 - Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
• 1851 - Paul-Marie-Theodore-Vincent d'Indy, Paris, comp (Symphonie C‚venole)
• 1851 - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer
• 1854 - Edgar Tinel, Flemish composer (Le Chant Gr‚gorien)
• 1857 - Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician
• 1857 - Pearson, mathematician
• 1858 - Peter Christian Lutkin, composer
• 1859 - George Giffen, cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders)
• 1863 - Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
• 1867 - Edyth Walker, US singer
• 1868 - Patty Smith Hill, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
• 1871 - Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
• 1871 - Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
• 1879 - Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
• 1883 - Jan Kunc, composer
• 1886 - Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus)
• 1889 - Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
• 1891 - Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/US author (Arar t/Sd a nap)
• 1892 - Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grof‚, NY, composer
• 1892 - Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
• 1893 - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator
• 1893 - Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
• 1894 - William Harrigan, NYC
• 1897 - ... Hartree, mathematician
• 1897 - Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/anti-fascist
• 1899 - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Ill, actress (Sadie Thomson, Queen Kelly) [NS]
• 1901 - Albert Henneberg, composer
• 1901 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
• 1901 - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
• 1901 - Wilhelm Conrad von R”ntgen, physicist (Nobel)
• 1902 - Mary Armour, artist
• 1903 - Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
• 1905 - ... Kalm r, mathematician
• 1907 - Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
• 1908 - Jacques [Iza„k] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
• 1909 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
• 1909 - Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
• 1910 - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
• 1912 - James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
• 1912 - Reuel Lahmer, composer
• 1912 - Robert Watson Hughes, composer
• 1913 - Godfrey Turner, composer
• 1914 - Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront)
• 1914 - Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
• 1914 - Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
• 1915 - Richard Sharp, civil servant
• 1917 - Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
• 1917 - Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
• 1919 - Julian Amery, conservative minister
• 1919 - Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned)
• 1920 - Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
• 1921 - Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
• 1922 - Margaret Stacey, sociologist
• 1923 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death)
• 1923 - Shusaku Endo, writer
• 1923 - Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
• 1924 - Harold Nicholas, US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather)
• 1924 - Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
• 1925 - Lord Plumb, MEP
• 1925 - R P Cohan, choreographer
• 1925 - Robert Cohan, artistic director (Contemporary Dance Trust)
• 1926 - Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter
• 1927 - Anthony Lewis, columnist (NY Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
• 1927 - Cecil B”dker, writer
• 1927 - Lord Fanshawe of Richmond, MP
• 1927 - Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor
• 1928 - Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
• 1930 - Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching)
• 1930 - David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
• 1930 - Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
• 1931 - Burt Collins, trumpeter
• 1931 - R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
• 1931 - Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
• 1932 - Wes Covington, baseball player (Phila Phillies)
• 1933 - DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
• 1933 - Frank Taylor, Chief Constable (Durham)
• 1933 - J Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School)
• 1934 - Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
• 1934 - David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science)
• 1935 - Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire
• 1935 - Julian Glover, London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela)
• 1936 - Jerry Lacy, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Play it Again Sam)
• 1936 - Malcolm Goldstein, composer
• 1937 - Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den)
• 1938 - A J Bellingham, president (Royal College of Pathologists)
• 1938 - Jock Slater, admiral
• 1938 - P Daubeny, CEO (Electricity Assn)
• 1939 - Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Daytona 500-1968, 77, 83, 84)
• 1939 - Jay C Kim, (Rep-R-California)
• 1939 - Judy Carne, comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
• 1939 - Lord Lyell
• 1939 - Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
• 1940 - Austin Pendleton, Warren OH, actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again)
• 1940 - June Wilkinson, Eastbourne England, actress (Absolutely Glamarous)
• 1941 - Charles Pashayan Jr, (Rep-R-CA, 1979- )
• 1941 - Liese Prokop, Austria, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1968)
• 1942 - Michael York, England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
• 1942 - Raymond J McGrath, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
• 1943 - M Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1975-81, 83- )
• 1945 - Briton Selby, NHLer
• 1946 - Bill Sudakis, baseball player
• 1946 - Carl Weintraub, actor (Harry-Executive Suite)
• 1946 - Jerry Lacy, actor (Rev Trask-Dark Shadows)
• 1947 - Daphne Todd, president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)
• 1947 - Dough Wilkerson, football
• 1947 - Tom Sullivan, Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
• 1949 - Patrick Deuchar, CEO (Albert Hall)
• 1950 - Maria Ewing, opera singer
• 1950 - Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
• 1950 - Vic Harris, baseball
• 1951 - Bobby Lalonde, NHLer (Boston Bruins)
• 1951 - Tony Banks, rocker
• 1952 - Chick Vennera, Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)
• 1952 - Maria Schneider, Paris, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor)
• 1952 - Rocky Maffit, rocker (Champaign)
• 1953 - Annemarie Moser-Pr”ll, Austria, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1980)
• 1953 - Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie)
• 1955 - Kim Brassey, racehorse trainer
• 1955 - Patrick McCabe, novelist
• 1956 - Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
• 1956 - Thomas Wassberg, Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1980)
• 1957 - Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch)
• 1957 - Duncan Goodhew, England, 100m breast stroke swimmer (Oly-Gold-1980)
• 1957 - Nicholas Hawkins, MP
• 1958 - Bart Connor, gymnast/sportscaster (Olympic-gold-1984)
• 1958 - Shaun Cassidy, rocker/actor (Hardy Boys, Texas Guns)
• 1958 - Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-NY)
• 1960 - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian
• 1960 - Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter
• 1960 - Steve Jarvin, Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
• 1961 - Clark Datchler, vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Don't Say it's Love)
• 1961 - Ellery Hanley, rugby league player
• 1963 - Dave Koz, saxophonist
• 1963 - Ed Pinckney, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
• 1963 - Quentin Tarantino, director/screenwriter (Pulp Fiction)
• 1963 - Randall Cunningham, NFL QB (Phila Eagles, Minnesota Vikings)
• 1963 - Todd Graves, Laurel Miss, skeet (Olympics-1992, 96)
• 1963 - Xuxa, [Maria da Graca Meneghel], Brazil, actress (Xuxa Park)
• 1966 - Kate Donahoo, Las Vegas NV, US judoka (Olympic-92)
• 1967 - Jaime Navarro, Bayamon Puerto Rico, pitcher (Chic Cubs)
• 1967 - Talisa Soto, [Miriam], Brooklyn NY, actress (License to Kill)
• 1967 - Tom Hammonds, NBA forward (Minn Timberwolves, Denver Nuggets)
• 1968 - Irina Belova, Russian pentathelete (world record 1992)
• 1969 - Tom Beer, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
• 1970 - Anthony Prior, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Jets, Minnesota Vikings)
• 1970 - Corey Page, actor (Richard Wilkins-Loving/City)
• 1970 - Ed Philion, NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
• 1971 - Mariah Carey, NYC, singer (Love Takes Time, Hero)
• 1972 - Kirby Dar Dar, wide reciever (Miami Dolphins)
• 1973 - Serge Tremblay, La Malbaie Quebec, weightlifter (Olympics-96)
• 1974 - Rosanna Gimenez, Miss Paraguay Universe (1997)
• 1975 - B J Gallis, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
• 1975 - Gregory DuBois, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
• 1976 - Danny Fortson, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
• 1976 - Roberta Alma Anastase, Miss Universe-Romania (1996)
• 1977 - Tom van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player (PSV)
• 1984 - Emily Ann Lloyd, actress (Sarah Kramer-Something So Right)
• 1984 - J P Steur, actor (Grace Under Fire)
• 1986 - Melissa Stern, [Baby M]/[Sara Whitehead], surrogate baby
• 1988 - Kerri Ann Darling, actress (Alli Fowler-Another World)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0922 - Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur, Persian mystic, beheaded at 64
• 0965 - Arnulf I, the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies
• 1211 - Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1211), dies at 56
• 1378 - Gregory XI, [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), dies
• 1472 - Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37
• 1482 - Maria, duchess of Burgundy/countess of Holland, dies at 25
• 1625 - James I Stuart, king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58
• 1668 - Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36
• 1679 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter, dies at 38
• 1701 - Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, count of Tourville/Fr admiral, dies at 58
• 1714 - Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80
• 1757 - Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer, dies at 39
• 1761 - Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72
• 1769 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60
• 1770 - Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73
• 1809 - Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92
• 1826 - Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63
• 1850 - Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53
• 1875 - Edgar Quinet, French writer/historian (Ahasv‚rus), dies at 72
• 1878 - Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44
• 1878 - George Gilbert Scott, architect, dies
• 1889 - Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 64
• 1894 - Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49
• 1898 - Sajjid Ahmad Chan, co founder (Pakistan), dies at 80
• 1900 - Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69
• 1910 - Alexander E Agassiz, US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74
• 1910 - David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72
• 1920 - Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26
• 1922 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63
• 1924 - Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83
• 1925 - Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92
• 1928 - Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64
• 1929 - ... Shatunovsky, mathematician, dies
• 1931 - Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies
• 1933 - Lionel Palairet, cricketer (49 runs in 2 Tests for England 1902), dies
• 1938 - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66
• 1939 - Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57
• 1943 - Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash
• 1945 - Jírgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42
• 1946 - Gabriela Preissov , writer, dies
• 1947 - Charles Smith, cricketer (batted for S Afr in 1902-03), dies
• 1948 - Karel Candael, Flemish composer, dies at 64
• 1953 - Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 76
• 1956 - Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
• 1959 - Grant Withers, actor (Okla Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54
• 1960 - Ian Whyte, composer, dies at 58
• 1961 - Jack Kane, orch leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37
• 1966 - Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82
• 1967 - Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49
• 1968 - Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34
• 1972 - Maurits C Escher, Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73
• 1973 - Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer, dies at 72
• 1975 - Arthur Bliss, English composer/conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83
• 1975 - Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63
• 1977 - Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41
• 1977 - Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies in a plane crash at 46
• 1977 - Lodewijk de Vocht, composer, dies at 89
• 1978 - Wilfred Pickles, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73
• 1979 - Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82
• 1982 - Joris No‰, Flemish literary, dies at 68
• 1983 - James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75
• 1983 - Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at 76
• 1986 - Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88
• 1987 - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90
• 1988 - Jan van den Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67
• 1989 - May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies
• 1991 - Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer
• 1991 - Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91
• 1991 - Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
• 1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
• 1992 - Anita Colby, US model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77
• 1992 - Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89
• 1992 - Gerry Duggan, dies at 82
• 1992 - James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84
• 1992 - Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies
• 1993 - Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47
• 1993 - Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61
• 1993 - Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62
• 1993 - Katherine Hynes De Groot, dies of stroke at 88
• 1993 - Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch MP (KVP, CDA), dies at 74
• 1994 - Dennis Hartas, flier, dies at 69
• 1995 - Albert Drach, writer, dies
• 1995 - Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67
• 1995 - Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer, dies at 75
• 1995 - Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70