• 1436 - Regiomontanus (Johannes M�ller), prepares astronomical tables
• 1502 - Joƒo III, King of Portugal (1521-57)
• 1599 - Diego Vel zquez, Spain, painter (Rokeby Venus) (baptized)
• 1606 - Pierre Corneille, France, dramatist (El Cid, Horace)
• 1621 - P‚ter Zrinyi, Hungarian ruler of Croatia
• 1625 - Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor
• 1661 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, composer
• 1671 - Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader
• 1676 - Georg Reidel, composer
• 1695 - Adriaen Valckenier, gov-gen Neth-Indies (1737-41)/killed 8,000 Chinese
• 1722 - Adrien Trudo Sale, composer
• 1735 - Anton Schweitzer, composer
• 1755 - John Flaxman, English sculptor (Westminster Abbey tomb stones)
• 1755 - Nathan Hale, hanged patriot, had but one life to give for his country
• 1756 - John Trumbull, US painter (Declaration of Independence)
• 1765 - Cornelis Loots, Dutch accountant/poet (Dwingelandij)
• 1799 - Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit
• 1799 - Alexandr Pushkin, Russia, writer (Eugene Onegin) (5/26 OS)
• 1804 - Petter Conrad Boman, composer
• 1807 - Adrien Fran‡ois Servais, composer
• 1813 - Israel Washburn, gov (Union), died in 1883
• 1815 - Francesco Antonio Norberto Pinto, composer
• 1819 - William Howard Glover, composer
• 1825 - Ignaz V Zingerle Edler von Simmersberg, Austria, poet (Weist�mer)
• 1826 - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist
• 1829 - John Baillie McIntosh, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1888
• 1840 - John Stainer, composer
• 1840 - William Francis Bartlett, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
• 1842 - James Morrison Steele Mackaye, US actor (Amer Acad of Dramatic Art)
• 1847 - Gerben Postma, [Ids], Frisian writer (Swealtsjeblommen)
• 1850 - Karl F Braun, Germany, co-developed wireless telegraphy (Nobel 1909)
• 1860 - William R Inge, English theologist/Deacon St Paul's Cathedral
• 1862 - Henry John Newbolt, English sea historian/poet
• 1868 - Robert Falcon Scott, British leader of ill-fated south pole expedition
• 1869 - Andersen Nex”, writer
• 1869 - Siegfried Wagner, German opera composer/conductor
• 1872 - Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina (1894-1918)
• 1875 - Thomas Mann, Germany, novelist (Magic Mountain-Nobel 1929)
• 1875 - Walter Percy Chrysler, found Chrysler Corp (1925)
• 1878 - Vincent [de Moro-]Giafferi, French prosecutor (Dieudonn‚, Landru)
• 1879 - L Patrick Abercrombie, English architect
• 1880 - William T Cosgrave, president Irish Free state
• 1886 - Paul Dudley White, heart specialist
• 1887 - Ruth Benedict, anthropoligist
• 1890 - Dorothy Heyward, NYC, playwright (Porgy)
• 1891 - Istvan Kardos, composer
• 1891 - Ted Lewis, Circleville OH, bandleader/writer (Is Everybody Happy?)
• 1891 - Vladislac Vancura, writer
• 1892 - Pearl S Buck, writer
• 1893 - Ludovic Feldman, composer
• 1894 - Sabin V Dragoi, composer
• 1896 - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome)
• 1896 - Robert Sheriff, playwright (Journey's End)
• 1898 - Johannes J Fouch‚, president South-Africa
• 1898 - Ninette de Valois, [Edris Stannus], Engl, ballerina (Royal Ballet)
• 1898 - Walter Abel, St Paul Mn, actor (Suspicion, Dream Girl)
• 1900 - Arthur Askey, Liverpool, actor (Bees in Paradise, Ghost Train)
• 1901 - Achmed Sukarno, Java, PM of Indonesia (1945-67)
• 1902 - Avraham Daus, composer
• 1902 - Harold Roxbee Cox Kings Norton, aeronautical engineer
• 1903 - Aram Il'yich Khachaturian, Tiflis Georgia, musician/composer (Gayane)
• 1905 - John Gart, Russia, orch leader (Paul Winchell Show)
• 1906 - Max Zorn, German mathematician (lemma of Zorn)
• 1906 - Stefan Andres, writer
• 1907 - Bill Dickey, NY Yankee hall-of-fame catcher (1928-43)/manager (1946)
• 1907 - Robert Humphreys, British? historian
• 1909 - Isaiah Berlin, philosopher
• 1909 - M J Gopalan, cricketer (1 Test India v England 1933-34)
• 1910 - Ben Aerden, [John Mikkelsen], actor (Hamlet)
• 1910 - Toshitsugu Ogiwara, composer
• 1913 - Jiri Hajek, Czech jurist/foreign minister
• 1915 - Dhimit‰r Shuteriqi, Albania, writer (€lirimtar‰t The liberator)
• 1915 - Vincent Persichetti, Phila Pennsylvania, composer (Sibyl)
• 1917 - Kirk Kerkorian, CEO (MGM, UA)
• 1917 - Prior Jones, cricketer (WI pace bowler in 9 Tests 1948-52)
• 1918 - Maria Montez, Dominican Rep, actress (Arabian Nights)
• 1918 - Richard Crane, Newcastle Ind, actor (Surfside 6)
• 1918 - Tom Scott, poet/editor
• 1919 - Charles Pringle, British air marshal
• 1922 - Ian Hamilton, composer
• 1924 - Serge Nigg, composer
• 1926 - Klaus Tennstedt, Merseburg Germany, conductor (Fidelio)
• 1926 - Tom Ryan, comic strip cartoonist (Tumbleweeds)
• 1928 - George Deukmejian, Menands NY, (Gov-Cal)
• 1929 - Boguslaw Schaffer, composer
• 1929 - Viktor Konezki, writer
• 1930 - Frank Tyson, cricketer ("Typhoon" England pace destroyer mid-50's)
• 1931 - Lloyd Lindroth, the Liberace of the Harp
• 1932 - Billie Whitelaw, Coventry England, actress (Omen, Adding Machine)
• 1932 - David R Scott, San Antonio Tx, Col USAF/astronaut (Gem 8, Apol 9, 15)
• 1933 - Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist (tunneling microscope-Nobel 1986)
• 1934 - Ad G J Lansink, chemist/Dutch 2nd Chamber member (CDA)
• 1934 - Albert II FHTCEM, king of Belgium (1993- )
• 1934 - Philippe Entremont, France, pianist/conductor (Vienna Chamber Orch)
• 1935 - Bobby Mitchell, NFL running back/wide receiver (Browns, Redskins)
• 1935 - Dalai Lama 14, Tibet, spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists
• 1935 - Harry Crews, US writer/actor (Indian Runner)
• 1935 - Jean Gattegno, translator/scholar
• 1935 - Misja Mengelberg, Dutch jazz pianist/composer (Reconstruction)
• 1936 - Levi Stubbs, rocker (4 Tops-Same Old Song)
• 1939 - Gary "US" Bonds, [Anderson], Fla, singer/songwriter (New Orleans)
• 1939 - Louis Andriessen, Dutch composer (Reconstruction)
• 1939 - Marian Wright-Edelman, health care president (Childrens Defense Fund)
• 1939 - Nganani Enos J Mabuza, S African leader (Inyandza Natl Movement)
• 1940 - Laudir De Olivera, rocker (Chicago)
• 1940 - Phillip Rhodes, composer
• 1940 - Sandra Morgan, 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
• 1940 - Willie-John McBride, British rugby player
• 1942 - Howie Kane, rocker
• 1942 - Larry "The Mole" Taylor, rocker (Canned Heat)
• 1942 - Sandra Morgan, US 4 X 100m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1956)
• 1943 - Asif Iqbal, cricketer (elegant Pakistani batsman 1964-80)
• 1944 - Edgar Froese, rocker (Tangerine Dream)
• 1944 - Peter Albin, SF Calif, rocker (Big Brother & Holding Co)
• 1945 - David Dukes, SF, actor (Beacon Hill, 79 Park Avenue, Winds of War)
• 1945 - David E Bonior, (Rep-D-MI, 1977- )
• 1946 - Chelsea Brown, Chicago Ill, comedienne (Laugh-in, Matt Lincoln)
• 1946 - Lasse Hallstrom, director (Once Around, My Life as a Dog, ABBA)
• 1947 - Marion Coakes, England, equestrian show jumper (Olympic-silver-1968)
• 1947 - Terry Williams, rocker (First Edition)
• 1949 - Edgar Warren Williams, composer
• 1949 - Robert Englund, actor (Freddy Kreuger-Nightmare on Elm St, V)
• 1950 - Chantal Akerman, actor/director (Akermania, Je Tu II Elle)
• 1951 - Dwight Twilley, Tulsa Okla, country singer (Twilley Don't Mind)
• 1952 - Yukihiro Yakahashi, rocker (Yellow Magic Orchestra)
• 1953 - Ken Calvert, (Rep-R-California)
• 1954 - Harvey Fierstein, Brooklyn NY, playwright (Torch Song Trilogy, ID4)
• 1955 - Dana Carvey, Missoula MT, comedian (SNL, Garth-Wayne's World)
• 1955 - Sandra Bernhard, Flint Mich, actress (King of Comedy, Nancy-Roseanne)
• 1956 - Andy Pycroft, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test batsman)
• 1956 - Bj”rn B”rg, Sodertlage Sweden, tennis champ (Wimbledon 1976-79)
• 1956 - Jay C Buckey, NYC, physician/astronaut (STS 58 alt, sk: 90)
• 1956 - Marilyn Jones, Pitts Pa, actress (Carey-King's Crossing)
• 1957 - Mike Gatting, cricketer (England batsman 1977-95 & captain)
• 1958 - Elaine Crosby, Birmingham MI, LPGA golfer (1989 Mazda Japan Classic)
• 1959 - Amanda Pays, London England, actress (Max Headroom, Off Limits)
• 1960 - Gary Graham, actor (Money on the Side)
• 1960 - Lola Forner, Alicante SW Spain, Miss Spain (1979)
• 1960 - Steve Vai, guitarist (Frank Zappa, David Lee Roth Band, Whitesnake)
• 1961 - Bill Bates, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
• 1961 - Sydney Walsh, actress (Mo-Hooperman)
• 1963 - Dannette Leininger, Kailua HA, team handball wing (Olympics-92, 96)
• 1963 - Vladimir Ruzicka, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-Gold-1998)
• 1964 - Dee C Lee, [Diane Sealey], rocker (Style Council-You're Best Thing)
• 1964 - Sherry J Traylor, Mexico Missouri, Miss Missouri-America (1991)
• 1965 - David Whyte, rocker (Brother Beyond-Can You Keep a Secret)
• 1965 - Sally McDermid, Australian softball outfielder (Olympics-bronze-96)
• 1965 - Wendy Wiebe, St Catharines Ontario, rower (Olympics-96)
• 1966 - Angela Cavagna, Genoa Italy, singer
• 1967 - Max Casella, actor (Vinnie-Doogie Howser)
• 1967 - Michael Timpson, NFL wide receiver (Chic Bears, Philadelphia Eagles)
• 1967 - Wasim Haider, cricketer (member Pakistan's 1992 World Cup squad)
• 1968 - Brian Wright, Stillwater Okla, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 NM Open-2nd)
• 1968 - Craig Roberts, Everett WA, Canadian 68 kg freestyle wrestler (Oly-96)
• 1968 - Edwin Vurens, Dutch soccer player (FC Twente)
• 1969 - Brian Greenfield, WLAF punter (London Monarchs)
• 1969 - Douglas Lee Mitchell, Miles Mi, heavy metal artist (Southgang)
• 1969 - Mike Croel, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
• 1969 - Sunil Joshi, cricketer (Indian Test left-arm spinner 1996)
• 1970 - Randy Jordan, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
• 1971 - Mike Craig, St Mary's, NHL right wing (Toronto Maple Leafs)
• 1972 - Dulip Liyanage, cricketer (Sri Lanka righty fast-medium Test bowler)
• 1972 - Erin Woodley, Mississauga Ontario, synchro swimmer (Olympic-silver-96)
• 1972 - Frankie King, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
• 1972 - Gary Downs, running back (Atlanta Falcons)
• 1972 - Jeff Williams, Australian baseball pitcher (Olympics-1996)
• 1972 - Marko Kiprusoff, Turku FIN, NHL defenseman (Team Finland, Montreal)
• 1973 - Ashfaq Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistan pace bowler 1993-)
• 1973 - Jamie Wilson, tackle (Carolina Panthers)
• 1973 - Jon Hesse, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
• 1973 - Olindo Mare, kicker (Miami Dolphins)
• 1974 - Brooke Wilkins, Australian softball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
• 1974 - Patrick Hape, tight end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
• 1975 - Niklas Sundstrom, Ornskoldsvik Swe, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
• 1975 - Staci Keanan, [Anastasia Love Sagorsky], actress (Nicole-My 2 Dads)
• 1976 - Lukas Hass, actor (Mars Attacks, Lady in White, Witness, Music Box)
• 1976 - Melanie Sibetang, Miss Northern Marianas Universe (1997)
• 1979 - Summer Newman, Miss Georgia Teen USA (1996)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0840 - Agobard, archbishop of Lyon (anti-semite), dies
• 1134 - Norbertus van Xanten, monastery founder, dies at about 51
• 1671 - Stenka/Stepan Razin, Russian cossack/boer leader, killed
• 1686 - Joannes B van Neercassel, RC spiritual leader of Neth, dies at 60
• 1710 - Fran‡oise de la Baume Le Blanc, mistress of king Louis XIV, dies at 65
• 1735 - Georg Osterreich, composer, dies at 71
• 1747 - Jean Barriere, composer, dies
• 1784 - Joan Derk van de Capellen, leader of democratic Patriots, dies at 42
• 1785 - Johann Michael Demmler, composer, dies at 36
• 1816 - Christiane Vulpius, wife of Johann W von Goethe, dies at 51
• 1836 - Antons Klemens Theodor, king of Saksen (1827-36), dies at 80
• 1852 - Tommaso Marchesi, composer, dies at 79
• 1861 - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59
• 1862 - Turner Ashby, General, killed near Harrisonburg VA, dies at 33
• 1877 - Prairie Flower, daughter of Ponca & chief Standing Bear, dies
• 1878 - Gottfried Herrmann, composer, dies at 70
• 1881 - Henry Vieuxtemps, Belgian composer, dies at 61
• 1883 - Ciprian Porumbescu, composer, dies at 29
• 1898 - Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian, dies at 62
• 1914 - Walter T Watts-Dunton, England, lawyer/poet/writer (Aylwin), dies
• 1916 - Yuan Shikai, president of China, dies at 56
• 1917 - Iacob Moresianu, composer, dies at 59
• 1922 - Lillian Russell, entertainer, dies at 60
• 1926 - Henry Tate, composer, dies at 52
• 1928 - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67
• 1935 - Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68
• 1937 - Jean Harlow, actr (Bombshell), dies from gallbladder infection at 26
• 1939 - Ford Madox Ford, writer, dies at 65
• 1940 - E E Clive, actor (Bulldog Drummond, Night Muss Fall), dies at 56
• 1943 - Karl Landsteiner, Austrian/US pathologist (Nobel 1930), dies at 74
• 1944 - Danny Brotheridge, British lieutenant, 1st to die during D-Day
• 1944 - Gerrit John van de Peat, artist/resistance fighter, executed at 41
• 1945 - Meinoud M Rost van Tonningen, anti semite/NSB (1937-41), suicide
• 1946 - Gerhart Hauptmann, writer, dies at 83
• 1947 - Norman Reid, cricketer (Test S Af v Aust 1921-22, 11 & 6, 2-63), dies
• 1951 - Lionel Hallam, cricketer (England capt 1921), dies
• 1956 - Margaret Wycherly, actress (Claudia), dies at 74
• 1958 - Lily Theresa Strickland, composer, dies at 71
• 1961 - Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychatrist (šber Alchemie), dies at 85
• 1962 - Guinn Williams, actor (Big Boy-Circus Boy), dies of poisoning at 63
• 1962 - Yves Klein, French sculptor/painter, dies at 34
• 1964 - Robert Warwick, actor (Konga, Zorro, Lady Godiva), dies at 85
• 1965 - Lester Matthews, (Sir Dennis-Adv of Fu Manchu), dies at 64
• 1966 - Claudette Orbison, wife of singer Roy, dies in a motorcyle crash
• 1967 - Edward G Givens Jr, Major USAF/astronaut, dies in an car crash at 47
• 1968 - Franklin C Fry, US minister (World Rad of Church), dies
• 1968 - Robert F Kennedy, (Sn-D-NY), assassinated in LA by Sirhan Sirhan at 42
• 1971 - Arnold Elston, composer, dies at 63
• 1974 - Blanche Yurka, actress (Tale of 2 Cities, Cry of Werewolf), dies at 86
• 1975 - Larry Blyden, actor (Joe & Mabel, What's My Line), dies at 49
• 1976 - J Paul Getty, oil magnate/billionaire, dies at 83 in London
• 1976 - Victor Varconi, actor (Divine Lady, King of Kings), dies at 85
• 1977 - Sophie Stewart, actress (As You Like It), dies at 69
• 1979 - Jack Haley, actor (Wizard of Oz), dies of cancer at 79
• 1984 - A[rthur] Bertram Chandler, author (Empress of Outer Space), dies at 72
• 1984 - Bill Voce, cricketer (key player of the Bodyline series), dies
• 1985 - Siem Devout, Dutch actor, dies at 54
• 1988 - Ella Raines, actress (Brute Force), dies of throat cancer at 66
• 1991 - Larry Kert, actor (Tony-West Side Story), dies of AIDS at 60
• 1991 - Stan Getz, jazz saxophonist (Girl from Impanima), dies at 64
• 1991 - Sylvia Porter, economist/author (Money Book), dies at 77
• 1992 - Georgia Brown, British actress (Lock up your daughters), dies at 58
• 1992 - Larry Riley, actor (Soldier Story, Knots Landing), dies of AIDS at 39
• 1992 - Thijs van Lier, lawyer/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies at 44
• 1993 - James Bridges, writer/director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57
• 1993 - Peter Tazelaar, adjutant of Dutch queen Wilhelmina, dies at 73
• 1994 - Barry Sullivan, actor (Great Gadsby), dies at 81
• 1994 - John Morey Downs, actor/dancer/singer, dies at 80
• 1994 - John Slot, mayor of Eethen/Hardenberg/Ede, dies
• 1994 - Johnny Morey Downs, actor/singer (Algiers, Red Head), dies at 80
• 1994 - Mark McManus, actor (Ned Kelly), dies of pneumonia at 59
• 1994 - Peter Graves, English actor (Derby Day/Admirable Crichton), dies at 82
• 1994 - Willie Humphrey, jazz clarinetist, dies at 93
• 1995 - Imam Elissa, singer, dies at 76
• 1995 - James Anderson, writer, dies at 41
• 1996 - George Snell, genetecist, dies at 92
• 1996 - Glyn Worsnip, broadcaster, dies at 57
• 1996 - Jean Sinclair, teacher/campaigner, dies at 88
• 1996 - Richard Michael Hills, comedy script writer, dies at 70