• 1364 - Henry Percy, [Harry Hotspur], British soldier/politican
• 1470 - Pietro Bembo, cardinal/theologian
• 1537 - Hieronymus Fabricius Ab, Aquapend Italy, physician (De Formato Foetu)
• 1547 - Melchior Bischoff, composer
• 1554 - Paulo Bellasio, composer
• 1593 - Jacob Jordaens, Flemish barok artist
• 1743 - [Fran‡ois D] Toussaint L'Ouverture, (… Breda), leader (Haiti)
• 1750 - Stephen Girard, bailed out US bonds during War of 1812
• 1754 - Hans Gram, composer
• 1759 - William Thornton, architect (Capitol building, Wash DC)
• 1764 - J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer
• 1768 - Dolley Dandridge Payne Madison, 1st lady (1809-17)
• 1772 - William Congreve, English officer (design fire rocket)
• 1799 - Honor‚ de Balzac, France, novelist (Pere Goriot, Human Comedy)
• 1806 - John Stuart Mill, UK, philosopher/political economist/Utilitarian
• 1812 - Gustav Adolf Mankell, composer
• 1815 - Barth‚l‚my Menn, Swiss graphic artist/painter
• 1818 - William George Fargo, founder (Wells Fargo)
• 1822 - Emile Erckmann, [E-Chatrian], French writer (Waterloo)
• 1822 - Fr‚d‚ric Passy, French economist/pacifist (Nobel 1901)
• 1825 - Antoinette Brown Blackwell, clergy (1st ordained US female minister)
• 1828 - James William Reilly, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
• 1830 - Amalia MdGA, princess of Saxon-Weimar-Eisenach/wife of prince Henry
• 1830 - Hector H Malot, French writer (Without Family)
• 1841 - Sara Louisa Oberholtz, social reformer, anti-smoking advocate
• 1844 - Henri Julien Felix Rousseau, French ambassador/painter (Dream)
• 1850 - Eaton Faning, composer
• 1851 - Emile Berliner, Germany, inventor (flat phonograph record)
• 1851 - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, US, nun/daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 1856 - Henri E Cross [Delacroix], French painter
• 1872 - Albert Steinrck, German actor (Golem)
• 1874 - Folkert E Posthuma, Dutch minister of Agriculture/Industry
• 1876 - John Owen Jones, composer
• 1881 - Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier Poland (WW II general)
• 1882 - Sigrid Undset, Norway, novelist (Kristin Lavransdatter, Nobel 1928)
• 1883 - Paul Arntzenius, painter/graphic artist/etcher
• 1889 - Felix Arndt, composer
• 1889 - Margery Allingham, detective story writer
• 1889 - William Lawther, union leader
• 1890 - Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
• 1894 - Adela Rogers St John, journalist/author (Foreign Correspondent)
• 1895 - Reginald J "R" Mitchell, English aviation manufacturer (Spitfire)
• 1899 - Estelle Taylor, Delaware, actress (8 Commandments)
• 1899 - John M Harlan, Chicago, 91st Supreme Court justice (1955-71)
• 1901 - Max Euwe, Netherlands, world chess champion (1935-37)
• 1901 - Otto Waldis, Austria, actor (Port of Hell, Unknown World)
• 1902 - Hans Sahl, writer
• 1903 - Jerzy Fitelberg, composer
• 1904 - Russell Hardie, Buffalo NY, actor (Sequoia, In Old Kentucky)
• 1905 - Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (Sailing)
• 1905 - Harry Campion, statistician/founder (Brit Central Statistical Office)
• 1908 - Jimmy Stewart, PA, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life)
• 1909 - Edward Moss Hutchinson, educationalist
• 1909 - John Arkell, director of administration (BBC)
• 1911 - Annie M G Schmidt, writer (Fam Doorsnee, Jip & Janneke)
• 1911 - Gardner F[rancis] Fox, US, sci-fi author (Kothar-Barbarian Swordsman)
• 1912 - Joseph Proce, 3rd victim of NYC's Zodiac killer (survives)
• 1913 - Henry Cadbury Brown, architect
• 1913 - Ion Dumitrescu, composer
• 1913 - William Hewlett, cofounder (Hewlett-Packard Co)
• 1915 - Moshe Dayan, Israeli general/minister of Defense
• 1915 - Peter Copley, actor (Victim, King & Country)
• 1916 - Cornelie Coposu, politician
• 1916 - John McIntyre, theologian
• 1916 - Owen Chadwick, chancellor (U of East Anglia)
• 1917 - Enyss Djemil, composer
• 1917 - Richard Charles Cobb, historian
• 1919 - George Gobel, Chicago Ill, comedian/TV personality (I Love My Wife)
• 1920 - Betty Driver, actress (Penny Paradise)
• 1920 - John Cruickshank, banker
• 1920 - William Simpson, British trade union leader
• 1921 - John Harrison, British vice admiral/surgeon
• 1921 - John Marchi, (Rep-R-NY)
• 1921 - W Borchert, writer
• 1922 - Clifford Butler, vice chancellor (Loughborough Univ of Technology)
• 1923 - Edith Fellows, Boston, actress (Pennies From Heaven, City Streets)
• 1923 - Hugh Beach, British General
• 1923 - Samuel Selvon, author
• 1924 - Betty Driver, actress (Coronation St, Pardon the Expression)
• 1924 - Peter Shore, MP (Labour)
• 1925 - D French Slaughter Jr, (Rep-R-VA, 1985- )
• 1926 - David Hedison, Providence RI, actor (Colbys, Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
• 1926 - John Lucarotti, scriptwriter
• 1926 - Vic Ames, rocker (Ames Brothers)
• 1927 - David Frederick Barlow, composer
• 1927 - Walter Aschaffenburg, composer
• 1927 - [Harold] Bud Grant, Wisc, CFL/NFL player/coach (Winnipeg, Minnesota)
• 1928 - David Berriman, CEO (Rose Thomson Young group of Lloyds Trustees)
• 1928 - David Hedison, actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
• 1929 - Andr‚ Carolus Cirino, Suriname/Indian poet
• 1930 - James McEachin, Pennert NC, actor (Harry-Tenafly)
• 1930 - Robert Bunyard, Commandant (British Police Staff College)
• 1931 - Chiharu Igaya, Japan, slalom (Olympic-silver-1956)
• 1933 - Constance Towers, actress (Capitol, Shock Corrider, Naked Kiss)
• 1933 - Danny Aiello, NYC, actor (Moonstruck, Do the Right Thing)
• 1936 - Anthony Zerbe, Cal, actor (Harry-O, Centennial, They Call Me Mr Tibbs)
• 1937 - Dave Hill, Jackson MI, PGA golfer (1967 Memphis)
• 1937 - Earl of Iveagh, pres (Guiness Pics)
• 1937 - Lord "Benjie" Iveagh, British brewer (Guinness)/large landowner
• 1937 - Teddy Randazzo, song writer (I'm on the Outside Looking In)
• 1938 - Alan Smithers, British professor
• 1938 - Christina Bass-Kaiser, 3K Dutch speed skater (Olympic-gold-1972)
• 1939 - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway, PM/feminist/conservatist
• 1940 - Sadaharu Oh, of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR
• 1940 - Shorty Long, soul singer/pianist (Here Comes the Judge)
• 1940 - Stan Mikita, NHL center (led NHL in scoring 4 times)
• 1941 - Goh Chok Sole, premier of Singapore (1990- )
• 1941 - Maria Liberia-Peters, premier of Dutch Antilles (198?-93)
• 1942 - Lynn Davies, long jumper
• 1942 - Paula, [Jill Jackson], Tx, singer (Hey Paula)
• 1942 - Simon Keswick, British financier/merchant (Hong Kong)
• 1943 - Deryck Murray, cricket wicket-keeper (West Indian 1963-80)
• 1943 - Ian Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
• 1943 - Tison Street, composer
• 1944 - Boudouin de Groot, Dutch singer (Good night mister president)
• 1944 - Cipa Dichter, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, pianist/wife of Misha Dichter
• 1944 - David M Walker, Columbus Ga, Capt USN/astron (STS 51-A 30, 53, 69)
• 1944 - Joe Cocker, Sheffield Eng, rock vocalist (Little Help From My Friends)
• 1944 - Keith Fletcher, cricket captain (Essex & England)
• 1945 - Harold E Ford, (Rep-D-TN, 1975- )
• 1945 - Lord Hollick, CEO (MAI)
• 1945 - Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
• 1945 - Wally Herger, (Rep-R-California)
• 1946 - Bakhaavaa Buidaa, Mongolia, wrestler (Oly-silver-1972) disqualified
• 1946 - Cher Bono, Cal, rocker/actress (I Got You Babe, Jack Lalane, Mask)
• 1946 - Craig Patrick, NHL coach
• 1947 - Iain Vallance, CEO (British Telecom)
• 1948 - Dave Thomas, St Catherines Ontario, comedian (SCTV, Grace Under Fire)
• 1948 - John Amiel, director (Queen of Hearts, Tune in Tomorrow)
• 1948 - John R McKernan Jr, (Rep-R-ME, 1983-86/Gov-Maine)
• 1948 - Samuel Gejdenson, (Rep-D-Connecticut, 1981- )
• 1949 - Nick Joe Rahall II, (Rep-D-WV, 1977- )
• 1951 - Michael D Crapo, (Rep-R-Idaho)
• 1951 - Thomas D Akers, St Louis, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 41, 49, 61, 79)
• 1951 - William Cullen Bryant, actor (Hell Squad)
• 1952 - Warren Cann, Victoria Canada, rock drummer (Ultravox)
• 1954 - Galina Vasilyevna Amelkina, Russia, doctor/cosmonaut
• 1954 - James Henderson, country singer (Black Oak Arkansas)
• 1955 - Nigel Griffiths, MP (Labour)
• 1955 - Steve George, rock keyboardist (Mr Mister)
• 1956 - Andrew Hilditch, cricketer (Australian opening bat 1979-85)
• 1956 - Tomas Smid, Czech, tennis star
• 1958 - Jane Wiedlin, Wisc, singer/guitarist (GoGos, Fur, Rush Hour)
• 1958 - Mike Engleman, Sonoma Calif, cyclist (Olympics-96)
• 1958 - Ronald Prescot Reagan Jr, LA, Pres son/TV host (Ron Reagon Show)
• 1959 - Bronson Pinchot, NYC, actor (Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills Cop)
• 1959 - Peter Greene, Bkln NY, producer (After Midnight)
• 1960 - John Cowsill, rock vocalist (Cowsills-Hair)
• 1960 - Susan Cowsill, Newport RI, rock vocalist (Cowsills-We Can Fly)
• 1960 - Tony Goldwyn, LA Calif, actor (Ghost, Kuffs, Traces of Red)
• 1961 - Clive Allen, WLAF kicker (London Monarchs)
• 1961 - Kit Clarke, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
• 1961 - Nick Heyward, guitar/vocals (Haircut 100-Favourite Shirts)
• 1961 - Sally Quinlan, LPGA golfer
• 1961 - Vaughn Jefferis, Matangi NZ, equestrian 3 day event (Olymp-bronze-96)
• 1962 - Lydia Cheng, NYC, Ms Big Apple bodybuilder (1982) (Pumping Iron 2)
• 1962 - Sylvie Rauch, Munich German FR, nude model/actress
• 1963 - Brian Nash, Glendale Calif, actor (Joel-Please Don't Eat Daisies)
• 1963 - David Wells, Torrance CA, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, NY Yankees)
• 1963 - Dipak Chudasama, cricketer (Kenya opening batsman 1996 World Cup)
• 1964 - Earl Charles Spencer, Sandringham England, brother of Princess Diana
• 1964 - Jeff Schwarz, US baseball pitcher (Calif Angels, Chicago White Sox)
• 1964 - Joseph Sinnott Edwards, Chicago, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
• 1964 - Paul W Richards, Scranton PA, astronaut
• 1964 - Todd Peat, WLAF guard (Frankfurt Galaxy)
• 1965 - Bruno Marie-Rose, French runner (world record 200 m indoor)
• 1965 - Fia Porter, Mexia Tx, actress (Audrey Ames-One Life to Live)
• 1965 - Joe Cioe, Cranston RI, Canadian Tour golfer (NH Open-1992, 93)
• 1965 - Todd Stottlemyre, Yakima WA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals, Blue Jays)
• 1966 - Lawyer Tillman, NFL tight end (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
• 1966 - Liselotte Neumann, Finspang Sweden, LPGA golfer (1988 US Women's Open)
• 1966 - Mindy Cohn, LA, actress (Facts of Life)
• 1966 - Paolo Seganti, actor (Damian-As the World Turns)
• 1967 - Beate Reinstadler, Stuttgart Ger, tennis star (1989 Futures Israel)
• 1968 - Damon Mays, NFL wide receiver (Pitts Steelers)
• 1968 - Phil Hansen, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
• 1969 - Alberto Mancini, Argentina, tennis star
• 1969 - Suzanne Lawrence, Humble Texas, Miss Texas-America (1991) (4th)
• 1970 - Jason York, Nepean, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
• 1970 - Missy Cress, Burbank CA, female catcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
• 1970 - Niklas Andersson, Kungalv SWE, NHL forward (Team Sweden, NY Islanders)
• 1970 - Terrell Brandon, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks)
• 1971 - Jonas Berqvist, Angelhorn SWE, hockey forward (Team Sweden, Oly-98)
• 1971 - Niklas Andersson, Kungalv Swe, NHL left wing (NY Islanders)
• 1971 - Sandy Schreur, Dutch soccer player (NEC)
• 1972 - Michael Cox, Hannibal Missouri, 1.5k runner
• 1974 - Brandon Jessie, tight end (NY Giants)
• 1977 - Angela Goethals, actress (VI Warshawski, Heartbreak Hotel)
• 1979 - Tamika Thomas, Miss Michigan Teen USA (1996)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1277 - John XXI, [Petrus Juliani/Hispanus], Port Pope (1276-77), dies
• 1444 - Bernardinus van Siena, Italian saint, dies at 63
• 1449 - Peter, Prince/regent of Portugal/writer (Virtuosa Benfeitoria), dies
• 1471 - Henry VI, king of England (1422-61, 70-71)/France (1431-71), dies
• 1506 - Christopher Columbus, explorer, dies in poverty, in Spain at 55
• 1509 - Catharina Sforza, Italian duchess of Forli, dies at 45
• 1597 - Matthijs Heldt, dies in battle
• 1622 - Osman II, sultan of Turkey (1618-22), dies
• 1648 - Wladyslaw IV Wasa, King of Poland, dies
• 1650 - Francesco Sacrati, composer, dies at 44
• 1669 - Joris van der Hagen, landscape painter, dies
• 1751 - Domingo Miguel Bernaube Terradellas, composer, dies at 38
• 1782 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer, dies at 68
• 1782 - Christoph Gottlieb Schroter, composer, dies at 82
• 1795 - Ign c Martinovics, Hungarian physicist/revolutionary, beheaded
• 1834 - Marie-Joseph-Paul-Yves-Roch-Gilbert de Motier, nobleman, dies
• 1834 - Marquis de Lafayette, French general, dies
• 1841 - Joseph Blanco White, theological writert, dies
• 1847 - Mary Lamb, writer, dies
• 1864 - John Clare, English poet (Little Trotty Wagtail), dies at 70
• 1875 - Amalia, wife of King Otto of Greece, dies at 58
• 1876 - Harold, grandson of English queen Victoria, dies at 8 days old
• 1876 - Khristo Botev, Bulgarian poet, dies
• 1880 - EugŠne LFC prince the Ligne, Belgian prince of Ambise, dies at 76
• 1883 - William Chambers, author/publisher, dies
• 1895 - Ratu Agung-Agung Gd‚ Ngurah, radja van Mataram, Lombok, dies
• 1896 - Clara Josephine Wieck Schumann, composer/pianist, dies at 76
• 1900 - Gustav Heinrich Graben-Hoffman, composer, dies at 80
• 1910 - Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin, composer, dies at 88
• 1911 - E M Grace, cricketer (one Test v Australia 1880, 36 & 0), dies
• 1919 - Jacob Verdam, philosopher, dies
• 1923 - Hans Goldschmidt, German chemist, dies
• 1926 - Dick Pougher, cricketer (17 & 3-26 in only Test for Engld 1892), dies
• 1935 - Ivans, [Jacob van Schevichaven], lawyer/detective writer, dies at 68
• 1939 - Joe Carr, NFL hall of famer/NFL president (1921-39), dies at 59
• 1940 - Amar Singh, cricketer (of pneumonia Indian pace bowler 1932-36), dies
• 1940 - Joris [Georges] van Severen, Flem fascist/Member of parliament, dies
• 1956 - Andr‚ Eugene Maurice Charlot, actor (Summer Storm), dies
• 1956 - Max Beerbohm, caricturist/writer (Yet Again), dies
• 1959 - Alfred Schutz, Austrian/US architect/philosopher, dies at 60
• 1968 - Albert Hartkopf, cricketer (one Test for Australia), dies
• 1968 - Kees van Dongen, Dutch/French painter, dies at 91
• 1969 - Fred Sherman, actor (Chain Lightning), dies after a stroke at 64
• 1969 - Royal Beal, actor (Death of a Salesman), dies of cancer, at 69
• 1972 - Cornelis J van der Klauw, Dutch biologist/zoologist, dies at 78
• 1972 - Walter Winchell, columnist/narrator (Untouchables), dies at 75
• 1975 - Barbara Hepworth, sculptor, dies
• 1975 - Dame Barbara Hepworth, English sculptor, dies in fire at 72
• 1975 - Jacques Stehman, composer, dies at 62
• 1980 - Jack Walsh, cricketer (at Wallsend)/commentator (NBN), dies
• 1984 - Peter Bull, British actor (Dr Doolittle), dies of a heart attack at 72
• 1985 - George Memmoli, actor (Earl-Hello Larry), dies at 46
• 1986 - Bernard Naylor, composer, dies at 78
• 1986 - Willem P‚e, Belgian linguistic, dies at 83
• 1989 - Anton Diffring, actor (Zeppelin, Fahrenheit 451), dies at 70
• 1989 - Gilda Radner, comedienne (SNL, Haunted Honeymoon), dies at 42
• 1989 - John R Hicks, English economist (Nobel 1972), dies
• 1991 - Julian Orbon De Soto, composer, dies at 65
• 1993 - Max Klein, inventor (paint by numbers), dies at 77
• 1994 - Dallas Pratt, collector, dies at 79
• 1994 - Ronald Russell, actor/manager (We Are Angels), dies at 83
• 1994 - Vivien John, artist, dies at 79
• 1996 - Eric Davidson, comedy scriptwriter, dies at 65
• 1996 - George Malcolm Thomson, journalist, dies at 96
• 1996 - Jack Wyngaard, dancer, dies at 37
• 1996 - Janaki Ramachandran, PM of Indian state of Tamil Nadu (1988), dies
• 1996 - John Pertwee, actor (Dr Who), dies at 76
• 1996 - Julius Marmur, biochemist/geneticist, dies at 70
• 1996 - Lewis B Combs, naval commander/civil engineer, dies at 101
• 1997 - Virgilio Boat, president of Colombia (1986-90), dies