• 1432 - Afonso V "the African", king of Portugal (1438-1481)
• 1507 - Johann Oporinus [Herbster], Swiss book publisher (Koran)
• 1567 - Black Box, [Catherine Quinol], Guadeloupe, vocalist (Love Sensation)
• 1715 - Georg C Wagenzeil, Austria (court)composer/pianist
• 1716 - Philip Livingston, merchant (signed Declaration of Independence)
• 1730 - John Malchair, composer
• 1733 - Joseph Lederer, composer
• 1742 - Eugene Godecharle, composer
• 1779 - Jean Coralli, Paris, ballet producer/choreographer
• 1791 - Franz Gillparzer, Austrian tragic dramatist (Golden Fleece)
• 1793 - Ferdinand G Waldmller, Austrian painter
• 1795 - Willem de Clerq, Dutch merchant/man of letters
• 1798 - Thomas Crofton Croker, Irish story teller (Fairy legends)
• 1809 - Cornelia Connelly, Phila, founder (Society of the Holy Child Jesus)
• 1809 - Pierre Joseph Proudhon, France, politician (libertarian socialist)
• 1812 - Peter C Asbjírnsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer
• 1813 - James Marion Sims, SC, surgeon/gynecologist (vesicovaginal operation)
• 1814 - Ludwig Schl„fli, Swiss vicar/mathematician
• 1815 - Henry Morris Naglee, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1886
• 1817 - Lewis Golding Arnold, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1871
• 1821 - Lafayette McLaws, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
• 1826 - Mikhail Saltykov, Spas-Ugol Russia, satirist (Family of Noblemen)
• 1841 - Lord Frederick Stanley, presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup
• 1845 - Ella Flagg Young, 1st woman pres (National Educational Association)
• 1845 - Heinrich Vogl, composer
• 1850 - Mihail Eminesco, [Eminovici], Romanian poet (Samanul Dionis)
• 1850 - Sonya Kurtovsky Kovalevsky, mathemetician (Acad of Science)
• 1858 - Giovanni Segantini, Italy, painter
• 1863 - Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian
• 1863 - Wilhelm Marx, premier (Prussia)
• 1866 - Nathan S”derblom, Lutheran archbishop, internationalist (Nobel '30)
• 1868 - Noach Zjordanija, Georgian veterinarian/premier (1918-21)
• 1870 - Johan Peter Koch, Danish officer/explorer (Greenland)
• 1871 - Bertram Shapleigh, composer
• 1873 - Max Adler, Austria sociologist/socialist theorist
• 1877 - Lewis M Terman, Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test)
• 1878 - Johanna Muller-Hermann, composer
• 1879 - Ernest Thesiger, London England, actor (Bride of Frankenstein, Ghoul)
• 1882 - Florian Znaniecki, Polish/US sociologist (Polish Peasant in Europe)
• 1888 - Joseph Henabery, Omaha NE, director (Cobra)
• 1891 - Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet (Noise of Time)
• 1892 - Frank Hutchens, composer
• 1892 - Rex Ingram, [Reginald IM Hitchcock], dir (4 Horsemen of Apocalypse)
• 1893 - D Ivor D Novello, British composer/writer (Truth Game)
• 1893 - Dragisa Cvetkovic, Serbian premiere of Yugoslavia (1939-4.)
• 1893 - Ivor Novello, Cardiff Wales, actor (Lodger, Phantom Fiend)
• 1894 - Edmond Rubbens, Belgian attorney/minister of colonization
• 1896 - Jacobo Ficher, composer
• 1899 - Goodman Ace, radio/TV actor/columnist/humorist (Better of Goodman)
• 1900 - C‚sar Domela, Dutch painter (Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis son)
• 1900 - William Heinesen, F„ro‰s Island, writer (Noatun)
• 1902 - Abd al-Aziz ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Faisal al-Saud, king (Saudi Arabia)
• 1906 - Aristotle Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate
• 1906 - Rezso Kokai, composer
• 1908 - Edward Teller, Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project)
• 1908 - Roberta Bitgood, composer
• 1909 - Elie Siegmeister, NYC, composer (Plough & the Stars)
• 1909 - Enrique Sasal y Chapi, composer
• 1909 - Gene Krupa, Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing)
• 1911 - Cy Feuer, NYC, Bdwy producer (Feuer & Martin-Chorus Line)
• 1911 - Wim Kan, Dutch cabaretier
• 1912 - Michel J-P Debr‚, premier of France (1959-62)
• 1913 - Lloyd Bridges, San Leandro Calif, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane)
• 1914 - Lord Dacre of Glanton, British historian
• 1916 - Mikki Doyle, journalist
• 1918 - Andreas M Donner, Dutch jurist (constitutional law)
• 1918 - Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (1954-1971)
• 1920 - John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, Phila, Roman Catholic Archbishop of NY
• 1920 - John Junor, British editor in chief (Sunday Express)
• 1922 - Franz Fhmann, writer
• 1923 - Lee Teng-hui, president of ROC (Taiwan), head of KMT (1988- )
• 1925 - Keith Bentley, international racing cyclist
• 1925 - Ruth Slenczynska, Sacramento, California, pianist
• 1926 - Maria Schell, Vienna Austria, actress (Space 1999)
• 1927 - Francis Routh, composer
• 1927 - Norm Crosby, Boston MA, comedian (Young at Heart Comedians)
• 1929 - "Queen Ida" Guillory, Ziadaco music
• 1929 - Eva Badura-Skoda, composer
• 1929 - Martin Luther King Jr, Atlanta, dreamer (Nobel 1964)
• 1931 - Derek Meddings, special effects technician
• 1931 - Murad Kazhlayev, composer
• 1931 - Thomas Hoving, NYC, news correspondent (20/20)
• 1932 - Dean Smith, US actor/relay runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
• 1932 - Enrique Raxach, composer
• 1932 - Louis Woodard Jones, New Rochelle NY, 4X400m relayer (Oly-gold-56)
• 1935 - Malcolm Frager, St Louis, Missouri, pianist
• 1935 - Robert Silverberg, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Regan's Planet)
• 1937 - Margaret O'Brien, San Diego, actress (Jane Eyre, Meet Me in St Louis)
• 1939 - Charles Christopher Steel, composer
• 1941 - Captain Beefheart, [Don Van Vliet], rocker (Bongo Fury, Shiny Beast)
• 1942 - Edward "Sonny" Bivins, US singer (Manhattans-Kiss & Say Goodbye)
• 1943 - Mike Marshall, MLB pitcher (1974 Cy Young Award)
• 1945 - Marie-Christine AHI von Leibnitz, (German?)/British princess
• 1947 - Andrea Martin, Portland ME, comediene (SCTV, Club Paradise)
• 1947 - Pete Waterman, rocker (Stock Aitken & Waterman-Road Block)
• 1948 - Dini Petty, Canadian talk show host (CITY-TV)
• 1948 - Ronnie Van Zant, rocker (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
• 1948 - Tommy Nolan, Montreal Canada, actor (Jody-Buckskin)
• 1949 - Howard Allen Twitty, Phoenix AZ, PGA golfer (1979 BC Open)
• 1950 - David Lynn Jones, Bexar Ark, country singer (Bonnie Jean)
• 1951 - Charo, Murcia Spain, actress/singer (Chico & the Man, Love Boat)
• 1951 - Martha Davis, Calif, vocalist/guitar (Motels-Only the Lonely, Shame)
• 1952 - Melvyn Gale, rocker (ELO)
• 1953 - Boris Blank, rocker (Yello)
• 1953 - Randy White, NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys)
• 1955 - Enrico Mentana, Milan Italy, Italian newscaster (RAI)
• 1956 - Paul Parker, cricketer (one Test England v Australia 1981)
• 1956 - Vera Sosulya, USSR, toboggan (Olympic-gold-1980)
• 1957 - Mario Van Peebles, Mexico, actor (Posse, South Bronx Heroes)
• 1958 - Julian Sands, actor (One Night Stand)
• 1959 - Pete Trewavas, Middlesbrough, bassist, (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
• 1960 - Tim Curtis, cricketer (England righty batsman in 5 Tests 1988-89)
• 1961 - Iris DeMent, Paragould Ar, country singer (Our Town)
• 1963 - Erling Kagge, Norway, explorer (South Pole)
• 1963 - Lijuan Geng, Hebei China, Canadian tennis player (Olympics-96)
• 1963 - Richard Nasheim, hockey forward (Team Austria 1998)
• 1963 - Yaro Dachniwsky, Chic Ill, team handball goalie (Olympics-1996)
• 1964 - Cees van der de Linden, soccer player
• 1964 - Paula Schnurr, Kirkland Lake Ontario, 1.5k (Olympics-8-92, 96)
• 1965 - Derek B, rocker (Bullet from a Gun)
• 1965 - Michael Clemons, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
• 1967 - Lisa Lisa, [Velez], rock vocalist (& Cult Jam)
• 1967 - Richard Blakey, cricketer (England wicket-keeper in India 1993)
• 1967 - Ted N Tryba, Wilkes-Barre PA, PGA golfer (1995 Anheuser-Busch Golf)
• 1968 - Bob Dahl, NFL guard (Washington Redskins)
• 1968 - Chad Lowe, Dayton Ohio, actor (Spencer, Apprentice to Murder)
• 1968 - Felton Spencer, NBA center (SF Warriors)
• 1968 - Laurie Fellner, Appleton Wisc, team handball goalie (Olympics-92, 96)
• 1968 - Steve McConaghy, Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
• 1969 - Adam Burt, Detroit, NHL defenseman (Hartford Whalers)
• 1969 - Delino DeShields, Seaford DE, infielder (Montreal Expos, LA Dodgers)
• 1969 - Demetra Hampton, actress (Valentina)
• 1969 - Leonard Wheeler, NFL safety/cornerback (Cin Bengals, Minn Vikings)
• 1969 - Marsha Miller, Rochester NY, WPVA volleyballer (National-17th-1995)
• 1969 - Rob van Dijk, Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
• 1969 - Rod de Highden, Australian 5k/10k/marathoner (Olympics-96)
• 1969 - Siupeli Malamala, NFL guard/tackle (NY Jets)
• 1970 - Dan Landry, San Diego Ca, volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-96)
• 1970 - Elroy Kromheer, soccer player (FC Volendam)
• 1970 - Michele Granger, Anaheim Calif, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
• 1971 - LeShon Johnson, running back (Arizona Cardinals)
• 1971 - Regina King, LA Calif, actress (Brenda Jenkins-227)
• 1972 - Ernie Reyes Jr, San Jose Calif, actor (Ernie-Sidekicks)
• 1972 - Kimberly Anne Massaro, St Louis Mo, Miss America (Missouri-5th-1997)
• 1973 - Daniel Nijhof, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
• 1973 - Randy Srochenski, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
• 1974 - Aubrey Jo Hiller, Missoula Montana, Miss America-Montana (1997)
• 1974 - Mike Minter, safety (Carolina Panthers)
• 1975 - Greg Loveridge, cricketer (NZ leg-spinner, did not bowl v Zim 1996)
• 1975 - Mary Pierce, Montreal Canada, tennis star (1995 Australian Open)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0069 - Servius Sulpicius Galba, 6th emperor of Rome (68-69), lynched at 70
• 1208 - Peter of Castelnau, French nobleman, murdered
• 1684 - Caspar Netscher, Dutch portrait painter, dies at about 48
• 1705 - Walraad, the Young, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nijmegen, dies
• 1744 - Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer, dies at 72
• 1755 - Azzolino Bernardino Della Ciaia, composer, dies at 83
• 1765 - Carlmann Kolb, composer, dies at 61
• 1775 - Giovanni Battista Sammartini, composer, dies
• 1788 - Gaetano Latilla, composer, dies at 77
• 1812 - Johannes Herbst, composer, dies at 76
• 1816 - Henry Harington, composer, dies at 88
• 1844 - Joseph Mazzinghi, composer, dies at 78
• 1866 - M T d'Azeglio, writer, dies
• 1896 - Matthew B Brady, US photographer (Civil War), dies at about 72
• 1904 - Eduard Lassen, composer, dies at 73
• 1909 - Ernest Reyer, composer, dies at 85
• 1909 - Ernest von Wildenbruch, German playwright (Das Edle Blut), dies at 63
• 1911 - Wilhelm Berger, composer, dies at 49
• 1915 - Guillaume Couture, composer, dies at 63
• 1919 - Karl Liebknecht, Marxist revolutionary, murdered at 47
• 1919 - Rosa Luxemburg, Marxist revolutionary, murdered
• 1922 - John Kirk Barry, Dr/explorer David Livingstone's companion, dies at 89
• 1924 - Geza Zichy, composer, dies at 74
• 1926 - Enrico Toselli, composer, dies at 42
• 1932 - Georg Kerschensteiner, German educationalist, dies at 77
• 1934 - Hermann Bahr, Austrian writer (Concert), dies at 70
• 1934 - Patrick O'Malley, US policeman, killed by John Dillinger
• 1936 - Henry Forster, cricket (Hants & Oxford U, Gov-Gen of Australia), dies
• 1942 - Melvin Winfield Sheppard, runner (Olympic-gold-08, 12), dies at 58
• 1949 - Black Dahlia, murder victim found in LA (basis of the movie)
• 1949 - Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator, dies at 63
• 1953 - Viktor Patrick Vretblad, composer, dies at 76
• 1955 - Yves Tanguy, French/American sailor/surrealistic painter, dies
• 1961 - Francesco Maria Saraceni, composer, dies at 49
• 1962 - Kenneth MacKenna, actor (Men Without Women), dies of cancer at 62
• 1964 - Weldon John "Jack" Teagarden, US jazz trombonist/singer, dies at 58
• 1965 - Pierre Ngendandumwe, premier of Burundi, murdered
• 1966 - Betsy Mitchell, US 100m backstroke swimmer, dies at 25
• 1967 - Albert Szirmai, composer, dies at 86
• 1968 - Bill Masterson, 1st NHLer fatally injured during game (Jan 13), dies
• 1968 - John Davidson, actor (Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc), dies at 80
• 1968 - Leopold Infeld, Pol nuclear physcist (Motion & Relativity), dies at 69
• 1969 - Theodor Werner, German painter, dies at 82
• 1971 - John Dall, actor (Corn is Green, Rope), dies of heart attack at 50
• 1973 - Jef Alpaerts, Flemish pianist/conductor, dies at 68
• 1974 - Karel Salmon, composer, dies at 76
• 1978 - Margaret Bowman & Janet Levy, Chi Omega, FSU, killed by Ted Bundy
• 1981 - Emanuel Celler, (Rep-D-NY, 1923-73), dies at 92
• 1982 - Red Smith, sportscaster (Pulitzer, Fight Talk), dies at 76
• 1983 - Meyer Lansky, reputed mobster, dies in Miami Beach Fla at 80
• 1983 - Shepperd Strudwick, actor (Psychomania), dies of cancer at 75
• 1986 - James H "Jim" Crowley, US football player (Notre Dame), dies at 83
• 1987 - Dolores Hawkins, singer (Guy Mitchell Show), dies at 58
• 1987 - Gerrit Borgers, Dutch literary, dies at 69
• 1987 - Ray Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), dies at 83
• 1988 - Sean MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army, dies at 83
• 1989 - Wilf Slack, cricketer (whilst bat in Gambia England player 1986), dies
• 1990 - Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
• 1993 - Henry Iba, basketball coach, dies at 88
• 1993 - Huub H Jacobse, Dutch MP (VVD), dies at 68
• 1993 - Ken Cory, dies of AIDS at 51
• 1993 - Sammy Cahn, [Cohen], US songwriter (Bei Mir Bist Du Sch”n), dies at 79
• 1994 - Gy”rgy Cziffra, Hungarian/French pianist (Chopin/Liszt), dies at 72
• 1994 - Harry Nilsson, rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'), dies at 52
• 1994 - Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter, dies at 85
• 1995 - Sollie McElroy, singer, dies at 61
• 1996 - Les Baxter, singer/orch leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73
• 1996 - Moshushu II, King of Lesotho (1966-90), dies at 51
• 1996 - Richard Charles Cobb, historian, dies at 78
• 1997 - Jose Ignacio Domecq, wine maker, dies at 82
• 1997 - Kenneth Thimann, botanist, dies at 92
• 1998 - Amos "Junior" Wells, blues musician, dies at 63
• 1998 - Gulzarilal Nanda, temporary PM of India (1964, 66), dies
• 1998 - Junior Wells, blues harpist, dies at 63