• 0037 - Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar Nero, emperor of Rome (54-68)
• 1368 - Sigismund, Nrnberg Germany, Holy Roman emperor (1410-37)
• 1483 - Babur, founder of Mughal dynasty in India (1526-30
• 1497 - Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant
• 1519 - Pedro Menendez de Aviles, explorer (found St Augustine Florida)
• 1524 - Charles de Guise, archbishop/cardinal of Reims
• 1557 - Alfonso Fontanelli, composer
• 1564 - Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist
• 1571 - Michael Praetorius, Kreuzberg Germany, composer (Syntagma music)
• 1620 - Fran‡ois Charpentier, French scholar/archaeologist
• 1650 - Anne Jules duke de Noailles, marshal of France (hugenot)
• 1660 - Frans Anneessens, Belgian merchant/dean of artisans
• 1666 - Antonio M Valsalva, Italian anatomist (eardrums, glottis)
• 1705 - Charles A Vanloo, French painter
• 1707 - Claude Prosper, Paris France, novelist
• 1710 - Louis XV the Well-Beloved, Versailles, King of France (1715-74)
• 1726 - Abraham Clark, farmer/lawyer, signed Declaration of Independence
• 1740 - Ernst Eichner, composer
• 1748 - Jeremy Bentham, London England philosopher/originator (Utilitarian)
• 1759 - Friedrich A Wolfius, [Wolf], German philological (Prolegomena)
• 1760 - Jean-Fran‡ois Le Sueur, composer
• 1764 - Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Danske V'rker)
• 1766 - Thomas Malthus, Rookery Surrey UK, economist/demographer
• 1768 - Jozef B Cannaert, [Olim], Flemish lawyer
• 1774 - W G Frederik, prince of Orange
• 1780 - Carel Asser, Dutch jurist
• 1783 - Johann Nepomuk Poissl, composer
• 1785 - Claude Louis Marie Navier
• 1789 - Friedrich Fesca, composer
• 1795 - Charles Niellon, Belgian brigade general (10 day campaign)
• 1797 - Henry Engelhard Steinway, piano maker (Steinway)
• 1800 - Frederik W Conrad, Dutch hydraulic engineer/railway pioneer
• 1803 - John Augustus Sutter, Swiss/US colonist (New Helvetia Ca, Sutter Mill)
• 1807 - Ignacy Feliks Dobrzynski, composer
• 1809 - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)
• 1811 - Domingo F Sarmiento, president of Argentina (1868-74)
• 1812 - Charles Lewis Tiffany, Killingly Ct, jeweler (Tiffany)
• 1817 - Charles F Daubigny, French restauranteur/painter
• 1819 - Christopher Sholes, Mooresburg Penn, inventor (typewriter)
• 1820 - Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette
• 1821 - Abraham de Amorie van der de Have, theologist/poet
• 1822 - Theodor Uhlig, composer
• 1823 - Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli Canton
• 1826 - George J Stoney, Irish physicist
• 1828 - Johan H van Dale, schoolmaster (New Dutch Language Dictionary)
• 1829 - Silas Weir Mitchell, US physician/author (Roland Blake)
• 1834 - William Preece, English electrical engineer/wireless pioneer
• 1835 - Alexander Stuart Webb, Major General (Union Army), died in 1911
• 1845 - Elihu Root, (R)/US Sec of State (1905-09)/Nobel Peace Prize (1912)
• 1847 - Robert Fuchs, composer
• 1855 - Gustav Hollaender, composer
• 1856 - Frank Harris, Galway England, writer
• 1858 - William Pickering, Boston, astronomer (9th & 10th moons of Saturn)
• 1861 - Alfred North Whitehead, Engl mathematician/philosopher (Adv of Ideas)
• 1861 - Halford John Mackinder, Gainsborough Lincolnshire, geographer
• 1866 - Bannister Fletcher, London, architect & architectural historian
• 1874 - Emilis Melngailis, composer
• 1874 - Ernest H Shackleton, Kilkee Ireland, explorer (Endurance, Antarctica)
• 1882 - John Barrymore, [Blythe], Phila, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)
• 1885 - Richard Wurz, composer
• 1886 - Sax Rohmer, England, author (Dr Fu Manchu)
• 1887 - H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist
• 1890 - Robert Ley, German chemist/MP (NSDAP)
• 1892 - James Forrestal, US, banker/minister of Navy
• 1893 - Harm H Kamerlingh Onnes, painter/etcher/ceramist
• 1893 - Walter Donaldson, US pianist/composer (Girl Crazy, Whoopee)
• 1894 - Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil, lawyer/statesman (1st pres of UN)
• 1896 - Arthur Shields, Dublin Ireland, actor (River, Enchanted Island)
• 1897 - Earl H Blaik, Det, college football hall of fame coach (elected 1965)
• 1898 - Ibuse Masuji, Japanese writer (Y“hai Taich“, Kuroi Ame)
• 1898 - Toto, (Antonio de Curtis), Naples Italy, actor (Motorizzate, Noi Duri)
• 1899 - Gale Sondergard, Litchfield Mn, actress (Cat & Canary, Road to Rio)
• 1899 - Georges Auric, Lodve France, Composer
• 1899 - Lillian Disney, Mrs Walt Disney
• 1901 - Andr‚ Parrot, French archaeologist/theologist (Assur)
• 1901 - Christmas Humphreys, Engld, lawyer/writer/Buddhist (Awakening of Zen)
• 1901 - Paul Haesaerts, Flemish architect/painter (Animisme)
• 1904 - Antonin Magne, French bicyclist (Tour de France 1931, 34)
• 1904 - Mary Adshead, muralist/painter
• 1905 - Harold Arlen, [Hyman Arluck], US, composer (Over the Rainbow)
• 1906 - Stephen Brown, CEO (Stone-Platt Industries)
• 1907 - Cesar Romero, NYC, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, Thin Man)
• 1907 - Jean Langlais, composer
• 1908 - Sidney Gilliat, producer
• 1908 - Ypk fan der Fear, Frisian writer (Reade Runen)
• 1909 - Harold Beeley, British diplomat
• 1910 - 9th earl of Jersey, English large landowner/art collector
• 1911 - Leonard Woodcock, labor leader (UAW)
• 1912 - George Mikes, Hungary, British writer (How to Be an Alien)
• 1913 - Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist (Suske & Wiske)
• 1914 - Arthur Sydney Martin, spy catcher
• 1914 - Kevin McCarthy, Seattle, actor (Invasion of Body Snatchers, Howling)
• 1914 - R W Woods, bishop (Worcester)
• 1915 - Paul Ferris, British author
• 1916 - Ian Ballantine, publisher (Ballantine Books)
• 1918 - Alan Arbus, NYC, actor (Dr Sidney Freedman-M*A*S*H)
• 1920 - Ingmar Milveden, composer
• 1920 - Piet van Aken, Flemish writer (Devil Sails to US, Niggers)
• 1920 - Richard O'Brien, CEO (Manpower Services Commission)
• 1922 - Herman Kahn, NJ, writer (Thinking About the Unthinkable)
• 1923 - Justice Drake, British justice
• 1923 - Keene Curtis, Salt Lake City Utah, actor (Magician, Amanda's)
• 1923 - Yelena Bonner, Moscow, soviet disident/wife of Andre Sakharov
• 1927 - Frank Dunlop, director (Edinburgh International Festival)
• 1927 - Gottfrid Grasbeck, composer
• 1927 - Harvey Korman, Chicago, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles)
• 1927 - William Bentley, diplomat
• 1929 - Countess of Dysart,
• 1929 - Gerald Harper, broadcaster/actor (Tunes of Glory, Extra Day)
• 1929 - Graham Hill, London, auto racer (1962, 68 international racing champ)
• 1929 - James Schlesinger, US Secretary of Defense (1973-75)
• 1930 - C F Payne, Cleveland, British chief constable
• 1931 - W K Reid, British ombudsman
• 1931 - [Patricia] Claire Bloom, London, actress (Charly, Look Back in Anger)
• 1932 - Adrian Swire, British aircraft magnate (Cathay Pacific)
• 1933 - Adolfo, Cardones Cuba, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan)
• 1934 - Niklaus Wirth, Switzerland, computer programmer/inventor (PASCAL)
• 1935 - John R Block, US Secretary of Agriculture (1981-86)
• 1935 - Roger B Chaffee, Grand Rapids Michigan, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
• 1935 - Susan Brownmiller, Brooklyn, feminist author (Against Our Wills)
• 1936 - Andrew Miller, British principal (Stirling U)
• 1937 - Nicholas Bayne, diplomat
• 1937 - P J Squire, British headmaster (Bedford Modern School)
• 1937 - Terry Everett, (Rep-R-Alabama)
• 1937 - Zoltan Pesko, composer
• 1938 - Jack Tinker, drama critic
• 1938 - Lord Justice Ward, British judge
• 1939 - Jo Clayton, US, sci-fi author (Irsud, Maeve, Star Hunters)
• 1939 - Ollie Ellefs„ter, Norway, 3K steeplechase (Olympics-1960)
• 1939 - Tony Bloom, deputy CEO (Sketchley)
• 1941 - Brian Holland, US pianist/producer (Holland/Dozier/Holland)
• 1941 - Dan Crompton, Nottinghamshire, Chief Constable
• 1941 - Florinda Bolkan, Ceara Brazil, actress (Damned, Last Valley, Word)
• 1944 - Aleksandr A Serebrov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-7, T-8, TM-8, TM-17)
• 1944 - Mick Avory, rock drummer (Kinks-Lola)
• 1944 - Tineke Netelenbos, Dutch MP (PvdA)
• 1945 - Douglas R Hofstadter, NYC, author (G”del, Escher, Bach)
• 1946 - Clare Short, British MP
• 1946 - John Greenway, British MP
• 1947 - John Adams, Worcester Mass, composer (Nixon in China)
• 1947 - Marisa Berenson, NYC, actress (Barry Lyndon, Death in Vienna, SOB)
• 1947 - Rusty Hamer, Tenafly NJ, actor (Rusty-Make Room for Daddy)
• 1948 - Ron "Penguin" Cey, Tacoma Wash, 3rd baseman (LA Dodgers)
• 1949 - Christopher Rouse, composer
• 1949 - Earl of Carlisle
• 1949 - Jess Walton, Mich, actress (Jill Foster Abbott-Young & Restless)
• 1949 - Ken Anderson, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals)
• 1950 - Donna Hanover Giuliani, TV news anchor (WPIX)/wife of Mayor Giuliani
• 1950 - Nikolai Sergeivich Grekov, Russia, cosmonaut
• 1951 - Jane Seymour, [Joyce Frankenberg], England, actress (Dr Quinn)
• 1951 - Melissa Manchester, Bronx NY, vocalist (Don't Cry Out Loud)
• 1953 - Derek Conway, British MP
• 1954 - Matt Groening, cartoonist (Life in Hell, Simpsons)
• 1955 - Bev Francis, Australia, world women's power-lifting champion
• 1955 - Clive Aslet, British editor (Country Life)
• 1956 - Desmond Haynes, cricket (WI opener-greatest batsman in 1-day history)
• 1956 - Hilda Beatriz "Hildita" Guevara, Cuba, daughter of "Che" Guevara
• 1957 - Bienvenida Buck, Velencia Spain, lover of Brit Peter Harding
• 1957 - Charles Edward Pevensey Tennant, aristocrat
• 1957 - Jake E Lee, rocker (Badlands-Dreams in the Dark)
• 1959 - Ali Campbell, British reggae vocalist/guitarist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
• 1959 - Guy De Alwis, cricket wicket-keeper (Sri Lankan mid 80s)
• 1959 - Joe Hesketh, US baseball player (Boston Red Sox)
• 1960 - Darrell Green, NFL cornerback (Washington Redskins)
• 1960 - Jeanne Goldsmith, LA Calif, WPVA volleyballer (National-5th-1987)
• 1960 - Mikey Craig, rock bassist (Culture Club-Do You Really Want to Hurt Me)
• 1962 - [Babette] Renee Props, Okla, actress (Elly Snyder-As the World Turns)
• 1964 - Chris Farley, actor (SNL, Wayne's World, Coneheads)
• 1964 - Mark Price, NBA guard (Washington Bullets, Orlando Magic)
• 1965 - Craig Matthews, cricket pace bowler (South African Test)
• 1966 - Melido Perez, Dominican/US baseball pitcher (NY Yankees)
• 1966 - Petra Huber, Austria, tennis star
• 1967 - Michael Easton, actor, (Ally McBeal)
• 1968 - Kurt Robin McKinney, Louisville Ky, actor (Ned-General Hospital)
• 1968 - Michael Easton, LA Calif, actor (Tanner-Days of Our Lives)
• 1969 - Brian Williams, Lancaster SC, pitcher (Detroit Tigers, Astros)
• 1969 - Edgar Bennett, NFL running back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
• 1970 - Gloria Trevi, Mexico, sexy spanish vocalist (A Gatas)
• 1970 - Nathaniel Mills, Evanston Ill, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
• 1970 - Tyrone Legette, NFL cornerback (NO Saints)
• 1971 - Barbara Failey-Herbert, South Africa, golfer (1989 winner SA Champ)
• 1971 - Jim Butler, Iowa City Iowa, table tennis player (Olympics-92, 96)
• 1971 - Renee O'Connor, actress, (Xena Warrior Princess)
• 1971 - Tyrone Legette, cornerback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
• 1972 - Jaromir Jagr, Kladno Cze, NHL right wing (Penguins, Czech Oly-G-1998)
• 1972 - Lance Scott, NFL offensive linesman (Arizona Cardinals)
• 1973 - Amy Van Dyken, 50m/100m freestyle/100m butterfly swimmer (Oly-2 g-96)
• 1974 - Erik Schulz, Port Huron Mich, pairs skater (& Ilana Goldfogel)
• 1974 - Jodie McMullen, Miss Universe-Australia/Miss Congeniality (1996)
• 1974 - Tim Hall, running back (Oakland Raiders)
• 1974 - Ugueth Urbina, Caracas Venezuela, pitcher (Montreal Expos)
• 1975 - Robert Fuchs, soccer player (PSV)
• 1977 - Brook Wackman, rocker
• 1979 - Kaj-Erik Eriksen, actor (Quarantine)
• 1991 - Nicholas Garland, son of Pamela Sue Martin

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1043 - Gisela, wife of RC-German emperor Conrad II the Salier, dies at 52
• 1145 - Lucius II, [Gherardo Caccianemici], Italian Pope (1144-45), dies
• 1152 - Konrad III, Roman-German King (1138-1152), dies at about 58
• 1400 - Richard II, British King (1377-99), murdered at Pontefract Castle
• 1503 - Henry Deane, Archbishop of Canterbury (1501-03), dies
• 1568 - Hendrik van Brederode, Dutch noble (Compromise of Nobles), dies at 36
• 1580 - Cunerus Petri, Dutch theologist/bishop of Leeuwarden, dies
• 1597 - Pieter J Kies, Dutch mayor of Haarlem (1572-73), dies at about 66
• 1600 - Jos‚ the Acosta, Spanish missionary (Peru), dies at 59(?)
• 1621 - Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at 50
• 1637 - Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hun/German Emperor (1619-37), dies at 58
• 1660 - Klaas Geritsz Compaen, Dutch buccaneer/merchant, dies at 72
• 1680 - Jan Swammerdam, Dutch entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 41
• 1680 - John Swammerdam, anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature), dies at 43
• 1686 - Mathias Rauchmller, German sculptor (Piasten mausoleum Poland), dies
• 1701 - Adam Drese, German composer, dies at 80
• 1713 - Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, writer, dies
• 1744 - Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer, dies at 49
• 1744 - John Hadley, inventor (sextant), dies
• 1759 - Alexander von Papenhoven, Flemish religious sculptor, dies at 89
• 1761 - Carlo Cecere, composer, dies at 54
• 1778 - Johann Gottlieb Gorner, composer, dies at 80
• 1779 - James Cook, explorer, murdered by natives in Hawaii
• 1780 - William Blackstone, jurist, dies
• 1781 - G E Lessing, writer, dies at 52
• 1781 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Saxon playwright/critic, dies
• 1818 - Charles XIII, King of Sweden (1809-18)/Norway (1814-18), dies at 69
• 1820 - Pierre-Joseph Cambon, member of Committee the Salut Public, dies at 63
• 1820 - William Ellery, US attorney (signed Decl of Independence), dies at 92
• 1831 - Henry Maudslay, inventor (metal lathe), dies
• 1832 - Hardenack Otto Conrad Zinck, composer, dies at 85
• 1835 - Henry Hunt, British politican, dies
• 1841 - Sibrand Acker Stratingh, Dutch dr/chemist (electrical car), dies at 53
• 1844 - Henry Addington Lord Sidmouth, Brit premier (1801-04), dies at 86
• 1849 - Pierre F Verhulst, Belgian mathematician (logistic curve), dies at 44
• 1857 - Mikhail Glinka, composer, dies
• 1857 - Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka, Russian composer, dies at 53
• 1864 - Israel Zangwill, writer/Zionist/philanthropist, dies
• 1864 - William Dyce, painter, dies
• 1865 - Nicholas Wiseman, 1st Archbishop of Westminster (1850-65), dies
• 1885 - Leopold Damrosch, composer, dies at 52
• 1887 - Alexander Borodin, composer, dies
• 1891 - William Sherman, Union General in Civil War, dies
• 1896 - E J Nicholson, writer, dies
• 1902 - Wilhelmina JR Albregt-Engelman, Dutch actress, dies at 68
• 1903 - Julie Verstraete-Lacquet, Flemish actress, dies at 69
• 1905 - Lewis Wallace, US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), dies at 77
• 1910 - Albert Fuchs, composer, dies at 51
• 1916 - Nikolay Nikolayevich Lodizhensky, composer, dies at 73
• 1917 - Charles A van Ophuysen, Dutch orientalist, dies at 60
• 1919 - Pieter K Pel, Dutch internist (Pel-Ebstein fever), dies at 66
• 1921 - Hans Haym, composer, dies at 60
• 1922 - Clara [G Meijer-]Wichmann, German/Dutch anarchist/feminist, dies at 36
• 1923 - Josephine B Willson Bruce, US black theorist, dies at 69
• 1924 - Lionel Monckton, English composer (Country Girl), dies at 62
• 1928 - Hubert H Asquith, premier Great-Britain (1908-16), dies at 75
• 1932 - Minnie Maddern Fiske, actress (Henrik Ibsen's plays), dies at 66
• 1933 - Anton J Cermak, (Mayor-D-Chicago), assassinated in Miami
• 1939 - Foppe G Scheltema, Dutch lawyer, dies at 47
• 1939 - Henri Jaspar, premier of Belgium (1926-31), dies at 68
• 1942 - Guido Adler, Austrian musicologist, dies at 91
• 1942 - Stanislav Binicki, composer, dies at 69
• 1943 - Thomas "Fats" Waller, US jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 38
• 1943 - William Victor Harris, composer, dies at 73
• 1955 - S Z Sakall, actor (Dolly Sisters, Casablanca), dies at 71
• 1959 - Owen W Richardson, English physicist (Nobel 1928), dies at 69
• 1961 - Jack Whiting, actor (Top Speed, Life of the Party), dies at 59
• 1961 - Marubel Vinaon Owen, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1932), dies
• 1962 - Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak & Dagger), dies at 72
• 1964 - Ken Hubbs, 2nd baseman (Chic Cubs), dies in plane crash at 22
• 1965 - Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), dies at 49
• 1966 - Camillo Torres, Colombian priest/guerrilla fighter, dies
• 1967 - Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor/director (It, Careers), dies at 79
• 1967 - William C Bullitt, 1st US ambassador in USSR, dies at 76
• 1968 - Little Walter, rocker, dies at 37
• 1971 - Marian Viktorovich Koval, composer, dies at 63
• 1972 - Edgar P Snow, US author/journalist (Battle for Asia), dies at 66
• 1972 - Jef [Josephus CF] Last, Dutch poet/Indonesian politician, dies at 73
• 1973 - Tim Holt, actor (Stagecoach, Hitler's Children), dies of cancer at 55
• 1973 - Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48
• 1974 - Kurt Magnus Atterberg, composer, dies at 86
• 1975 - Julian Huxley, biologist, dies
• 1975 - Pelham G Wodehouse, writer, dies
• 1978 - Ilka Chase, actress (Masquerade Party), dies at 72
• 1979 - Alex Bradford, actor/composer (Your Arms too Short...), dies at 51
• 1979 - Mehdi Rahimi, Iran general/milt governor of Teheran, executed
• 1981 - Jack Crapp, cricketer (7 Tests for England 1948-49, 319 runs), dies
• 1981 - Mike Bloomfield, rocker (Electric Flag), dies of drug overdose at 36
• 1981 - Thomas Beversdorf, composer, dies at 56
• 1982 - Rolfe Sedan, actor (Mailman-George Burns Show), dies at 86
• 1984 - Avon Long, dancer/actor (Roots: Next Generation), dies of cancer at 73
• 1984 - Ethel Merman, singer/actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76
• 1984 - Leamon Hunt, US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists
• 1987 - Jimmy Holiday, US singer (Baby I Love You), dies at 42
• 1987 - Osmo Uolevi Lindeman, composer, dies at 57
• 1988 - Frederick [Fritz] Loewe, composer, dies
• 1988 - Gardiner Means, US economist, dies at 91
• 1988 - Gerard Holt, architect, dies at 83
• 1988 - Neil R[onald] Jones, sf writer (Space War, Twin Worlds), dies at 78
• 1988 - Richard P Feynman, physicist (Nobel 1965, Physical Law), dies at 69
• 1990 - Henry Brandon, actor (Assault on Precinct 13), dies at 77
• 1990 - Jack Fletcher, actor (Any Wednesday), dies of heart attack at 68
• 1991 - Gary Gears, Chicago disk jockey, dies at 46 of a heart attack
• 1991 - Luis Escobar, Spanish actor (Don Juan My Love), dies at 78
• 1992 - William H Schuman, US composer (Pulitzer)/Pres of Julliard, dies at 81
• 1993 - George Wallington, [Giacinto Figlia], Italian bebop-pianist/, dies
• 1994 - Andrei Tsjikatilo, [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
• 1994 - Tiger Haynes, US actor (Moscow on the Hudson, Cosby Show), dies at 79
• 1995 - Francis Taylor, builder, dies at 90
• 1995 - Joseph Ortiz, French-Algerian extremist/rebel, dies at 77
• 1995 - Lord Taylor of Hadfield, Brit pres of Taylor Woodrow Group, dies at 90
• 1995 - Nabila Diahnine, Algerian architect/feminist, murdered at 33
• 1995 - Sahnoun Jawhari, Tunisian Annahda-leader, dies at 40 in jail
• 1995 - Viscount Camrose, British large landowner/Conservative, dies
• 1996 - Bruno Ferenc Straub, Hungarian statesman, dies
• 1996 - Margaret Courtenay, actress (Royal Flash, Duet for One), dies at 72
• 1996 - McLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry), dies at 66
• 1996 - Oscar Abrams, community organiser, dies at 58
• 1996 - Tommy Rettig, actor (Lassie)/computer programmer (Clipper), dies at 54
• 1998 - Martha Gelhorn, female war correspondents, dies at 89