• 1584 - Melchior Teschner, composer
• 1636 - Esaias Reusner, composer
• 1642 - Christian Weise, German writer (Niederl„ndische Bauer)
• 1660 - Matthias Henriksen Schacht, composer
• 1667 - John Arbuthnot, Scottish writer (Alexander Pope)
• 1727 - Jean-Georges Noverre, French dancer/choreographer (ballet d'action)
• 1745 - Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800)
• 1771 - Matthaus Stegmayer, composer
• 1780 - Charles Nodier, French writer (La f‚e aux miettes)
• 1783 - David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting)
• 1806 - Earnest Freiherr von Feuchtersleben, Austria, physician/philosopher
• 1808 - Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer [or 1883]
• 1815 - Abram Duryee, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
• 1818 - Alexander II N Romanov, Tsar of Russia (1855-81)
• 1830 - Adolph Sutro, SF mayor, built Cliff House, railways, tunnels
• 1842 - Karl Mill”cker, Austria conductor/composer (Beggar Student)
• 1854 - Henri Poincar‚, France, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher
• 1855 - Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake) [OS]
• 1855 - Edmund van der Straeten, composer
• 1857 - Edouard Rod, France/Swiss writer (Mishel' Tes'e)
• 1857 - Frantisek Ondricek, composer
• 1860 - Lorado Taft, US, sculptor (Black Hawk)
• 1862 - Vittorio Mario Vanzo, composer
• 1863 - William Randolph Hearst, publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I)
• 1871 - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher (Intelligence of Children)
• 1872 - Eyvind Alnaes, composer
• 1873 - Alida J M Tartaud-Klein, actress/stage star (Rotterdam Stage)
• 1879 - Thomas Beecham, England, composer (found London Philharmonic)
• 1882 - Hendrik N Werkman, painter/printer/resistance fighter (Hot printing)
• 1885 - Egon E Kisch, Czech writer/journalist (Rasende Reporter)
• 1885 - Wallingford Riegger, Albany Georgia, composer (Bacchangle)
• 1893 - Elisaveta Bagrjana, [Beltsheva], Bulgaria, poet
• 1893 - Harold C Urey, Ind, physicist (Deuterium, Nobel 1934)
• 1894 - Paul H”rbiger, Budapest Hungary, actor (Liebelei)
• 1895 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Promenade Concerts)
• 1896 - Jacques Leon Wolfe, composer
• 1896 - Walter Mehring, writer
• 1899 - Duke Ellington, Wash DC, [Edward Kennedy], bandleader (Take "A" Train)
• 1899 - Karl Yngve Skold, composer
• 1899 - Natalie Talmadge, actress (Our Hospitality)
• 1901 - George Osborne Sayles, historian
• 1901 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-89)
• 1902 - Theodore Chanler, composer
• 1903 - Frank Parker, NYC, singer (Arthur Godfrey Show, Masquerade Party)
• 1904 - Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate
• 1904 - Russ Morgan, Scranton Pa, orch leader (Welcome Aboard)
• 1907 - Fred Zinneman, Austria, director (From Here to Eternity, Julia)
• 1907 - Tino Rossi, Ajaccio France, singer (Deux Amours, Marlene)
• 1908 - Jack [Stewart] Williamson, US, sci-fi author (Cometeers)
• 1908 - Philippe Brun, jazz trumpeter
• 1909 - Daniel Raphael Mayer, journalist/resistance leader
• 1909 - Tom Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], Ky, actor (Tom Ewell Show, 7 Yr Itch)
• 1910 - John Beavan, newspaper editor
• 1912 - Italo Valenti, Italian sculptor
• 1912 - Richard Carlson, MN, actor (All I Desire, Flat Top, Valley of Gwangi)
• 1912 - Terence de Vere White, novelist/critic
• 1913 - Jack Alexander Bently, trombonist
• 1913 - Thomas Chalmers, broadcaster
• 1914 - Ewan Roberts, Edinburgh Scotland, actress (Pvt Benjamin)
• 1915 - Donald Mills, singer (Mills Brothers)
• 1918 - Mervyn Roye Harvey, cricketer (brother of Neil, Test for Australia)
• 1919 - Celeste Holm, NYC, actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve)
• 1920 - Edward Blishen, writer teacher/broadcaster
• 1920 - Harold Samuel Shapero, Lynn Mass, composer (9 Minute Opera)
• 1921 - Cornelis de Jager, Dutch astronomer (Sun)
• 1922 - George Allen, football coach (LA Rams, Washington Redskins)
• 1922 - Parren J Mitchell, (Rep-D-MD, 1971- )
• 1922 - Tommy Noonan, WA, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Promises Promises)
• 1922 - Toots [Jean] Thielemans, Belgian/US jazz musician/composer
• 1923 - Irvin Kershner, Phila, director (Never Say Never Again)
• 1923 - Maxine Audley, London, actress (Peeping Tom, Ricochet, House of Cards)
• 1924 - Al Balding, Toronto Ont, Canadian Tour golfer (Quebec Open-1952)
• 1924 - Ren‚e Jeanmaire, Paris France, dancer (Hans Christian Anderson)
• 1925 - Ab Abspoel, Dutch actor/director (Surprise Attack, Elevator)
• 1925 - Danny Davis, rocker (Nashville Brass
• 1926 - Carie Meek, (Rep-D-Florida)
• 1927 - Betsy Ancker-Johnson, physicist/auto company exec
• 1927 - Dorothy Manley, England, 100m sprint (Olympic-silver-1948)
• 1928 - Big Jay McNeely, rocker
• 1928 - Carl Gardner, Tyler Tx, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin)
• 1929 - Peter Joshua Sculthorpe, composer
• 1929 - Vaclav Kucera, composer
• 1929 - W Kempowski, writer
• 1929 - Walter Kempowski, German writer (Tadell”ser & Wolff)
• 1929 - [John] Jeremy Thorpe, British MP (Liberal)
• 1930 - Alf Valentine, cricketer (great West Indian lefty spinner)
• 1930 - Alfred Lewis Valentine, Jamaican cricket player
• 1931 - Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 28)
• 1931 - Anthony "Lonnie" Donegan, Scotish skiffle vocalist/guitarist
• 1931 - Lonnie Donegan, Glasgow Scotland, vocalist
• 1931 - William Ball, actor (Suburban Commando)
• 1932 - King Hu, film director
• 1932 - Yevgeni Alekseyevich Zaikin, Russian cosmonaut (Voshkod 2 backup)
• 1933 - Darijan Bozic, composer
• 1933 - Keith Baxter, South Wales, actor (Barretts at Wimpole Street)
• 1933 - Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist
• 1933 - Rod Marvin McKuen, Oakland Calif, singer/composer (Alone, Beatsville)
• 1934 - Pedro Pires, premier (Cape Verde, 1975-91)
• 1935 - Len Weinrib, NYC, comedian (Spike Jones Show)
• 1935 - Otto M Zykan, composer
• 1936 - April Stevens, Niagara Falls NY, rock vocalist (Deep Purple)
• 1936 - Jacob Rothschild, English banker/multi-millionaire
• 1936 - Lane Smith, Memphis TN, actor (Perry White-Lois & Clark)
• 1936 - Richard Lynch, actor (Xavier-Battlestar Galactica)
• 1936 - Zubin Mehta, Bombay India, conductor (NY Philharmonic)
• 1940 - Brian Taber, cricket wicket-keeper (Australian between Grout & Marsh)
• 1941 - Jonah Barrington, British World champion squash player (1966-73)
• 1942 - Klaus Voorman, rock bassist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn)
• 1943 - Duane Allen, Taylortown Texas, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira)
• 1944 - Benedikte, Danish princess/daughter of Frederik IX
• 1944 - Jim Hart, Evanston, Ill, NFL quarterback (St Louis Cardinals)
• 1945 - Hugh Hopper, rocker (Soft Machine)
• 1945 - Richard Warwick, actor (Johnny Dangerously, Sebastine, If)
• 1945 - [Thomasina] Tammi Terrell, [Montgomery], singer (Ain't No Mt High)
• 1946 - Franc Roddam, director (K2, Bride, Aria, Quadrophenia)
• 1947 - Jim Ryun, US, 1500m runner/broke 4 minute mile (Olympic-silver-1968)
• 1947 - John Laurence Miller, SF CA, golfer (US Open 1973, British Open 1976)
• 1947 - Tommy James, singer (cri-im-son & clo-o-ver o-o-ver & o-o-ver)
• 1948 - Reb Brown, Los Angeles CA, actor (Cage, Yor, Capt America, Fast Break)
• 1949 - Anita Dobson, England, actress (Annie Watts-EastEnders)
• 1949 - Eddie Hart, US, 100m runner (Olympic-1972)
• 1949 - Francis Rossi, England, guitarist/vocalist (Status Quo-Down Down)
• 1952 - Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Schnectady, actress (Too Close for Comfort)
• 1952 - Nora Dunn, Chic Ill, comedienne (SNL, Miami Blues, Working Girl)
• 1953 - Dale Earnhardt, auto racer (6-time NASCAR national champion)
• 1953 - Nikolai Nikolayevich Budarin, Kirya Russia, cosmonaut (STS 71, TM-27)
• 1954 - Bill Paxon, (Rep-R-New York)
• 1954 - Deborah Iyall, rocker (Romeo Void)
• 1955 - Jerry Seinfeld, comedian/actor (Jerry-Seinfeld)
• 1955 - Kate Mulgrew, Dubuque Iowa, actress (Capt Janeway-Star Trek Voyager)
• 1956 - Ron Verlin, rocker (Shooting Star)
• 1957 - Richie C Robertson, rock bassist/vocalist (Fabulous Poodles)
• 1958 - Daniel Day-Lewis, England, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot)
• 1958 - Eve Plumb, Burbank, actress (Jan-Brady Bunch, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka)
• 1958 - Michelle Pfeiffer, Midway City Calif, actress (Married to the Mob)
• 1958 - Simon Edwards, rocker (Fairground Attraction-Find My Love)
• 1960 - Gerard Joling, Dutch singer (Love is in Your Eyes)
• 1960 - Joseph Guzaldo, Chicago Ill, actor (Stir Crazy)
• 1960 - William Lee Glasson Jr, Fresno CA, PGA golfer (1985 Kemper Open)
• 1962 - Bruce Driver, Toronto, NHL defenseman (NY Rangers)
• 1962 - Dieter Hegen, Kaufbeuren GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
• 1962 - Robert Druppers, runner (world record 1 km indoor)
• 1965 - Reggie Miller, NBA player (Indiana Pacers)
• 1966 - John VanderWal, Grand Rapids MI, outfielder (Colorado Rockies)
• 1966 - Phil Tufnell, cricketer (England slow lefty & slower fieldsman)
• 1967 - Curtis Joseph, Keswick Ont, NHL goalie (Team Canada, Edmonton Oilers)
• 1967 - Elizabeth "Betsy" McCagg, Kirkland Wash, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
• 1967 - Mary McCagg, Seattle Wash, rower (Olympics-4th-92, 96)
• 1967 - Rachel Williams, Greenwich Village NY, model (Absolut Vodka, Elle)
• 1968 - Browning Nagle, NFL quarterback (NY Jets, Atlanta Falcons)
• 1968 - Carnie Wilson, LA Calif, rock vocalist (Wilson Phillips-Hold On)
• 1969 - Arthur Marshall, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
• 1970 - Andre Agassi, Las Vegas Nev, tennis star (Oly-gold-96, US Open 1994)
• 1970 - Arnaud Briand, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
• 1970 - Derrick Frazier, NFL cornerback (Phila Eagles)
• 1970 - J R Phillips, West Covina CA, infielder (Phila Phillies)
• 1970 - Leuea Tagoai, CFL defensive end (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
• 1970 - Mark McMillian, NFL cornerback (Phila Eagles, KC Chiefs)
• 1970 - Uma Thurman, Boston Mass, actress (Baron Munchausen, Pulp Fiction)
• 1970 - William Martin III, Charleston SC, finn yachter (Olympics-23rd-1996)
• 1971 - Sterling Hitchcock, Fayetteville NC, pitcher (NY Yanks, Sea Mariners)
• 1972 - Gwendolyn Wentland, Flint Michigan, high jumper
• 1974 - Alana Blahoski, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
• 1975 - John Macready, LA Calif, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
• 1976 - God Shammgod, NBA guard (Wash Wizards)
• 1976 - Nayla Micherif, Miss Brazil Universe (1997)
• 1978 - Mike Bryan, Oxnard Calif, tennis star (USTA National 18 doubles)
• 1993 - Aurelia Clasina Lucia Wildeboer, daughter of Pieter & Mirtle

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0852 - Amalarius/Fortunatus/Symphosius of Metz/Lyon, bishop, dies at 76
• 1499 - John IV, Dutch army leader/earl of Egmond, dies
• 1535 - John Houghton, English, executed
• 1676 - Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear-admiral, (Newport), killed at 69
• 1699 - Samuel Apostool, vicar/theologist (Zonisten), dies at 50
• 1712 - Juan Bautista Jose Cabanilles, composer, dies at 67
• 1813 - Christian Danner, composer, dies at 55
• 1841 - A Bertrand, writer, dies
• 1864 - Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies at 80
• 1871 - John Gelinde van Blom, Fries notary/author, dies at 75
• 1905 - Ignacio Cervantes, composer, dies at 57
• 1918 - Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies at 22
• 1921 - Arthur Mold, Brit cricket bowler (1893, banished for throwing), dies
• 1928 - Henrich Federer, Switz, writer (I Switch Off The Light), dies at 61
• 1935 - Leroy Carr, rocker, dies=
• 1936 - Florentinus M Wibaut, Amsterdam social alderman, dies at 76
• 1943 - Joseph Achron, Latvian violinist/composer (Golem suite), dies at 56
• 1943 - Karl Adrian Wohlfart, composer, dies at 68
• 1943 - Sidney A K Keyes, English poet (Foreign Gate), dies at 20
• 1947 - Irving Fisher, US economist, dies at 80
• 1951 - Jules Verstraete, [Julien G de Graef], actor (Boefje), dies at 67
• 1951 - Ludwig J J Wittgenstein, Austria/English philosopher, dies at 62
• 1953 - Mo‹se Kisling, Polish/French painter (La souris boiteuse), dies at 62
• 1954 - Ernst Heldring, Dutch merchant/ship owner/financier, dies at 82
• 1956 - Nemesio Otano y Eugenio, composer, dies at 75
• 1957 - Otallo Morales, composer, dies at 82
• 1964 - Albert Saverys, Flemish painter, dies at 77
• 1966 - Eugene O'Brien, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 85
• 1967 - Anthony Mann, US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60
• 1968 - Frankie Lymon, rocker (& Teenagers), dies of a drug overdose at 25
• 1972 - Ntare V, deposed King of Burundi, killed in an abortive coup
• 1973 - Manfred Gurlitt, composer, dies at 82
• 1975 - Charles McMahon Jr, US USMC lance corporal, killed in Vietnam
• 1975 - Darwin Judge, USMC-corporal, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
• 1975 - Michael John Shea, USMC-lt/pilot, 1 of last soldiers killed in Vietnam
• 1975 - William Craig Nystul, USMC capt, 1 of last US soldiers killed in Viet
• 1976 - Wilhelm Maler, composer, dies at 73
• 1979 - Julia A Perry, US composer/conductor (Soul Symphony), dies at 55
• 1980 - Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80
• 1984 - Marvin Gaye, rocker (Sexual Healing), shot dead by his father at 45
• 1986 - Seamus McElwaine, Irish IRA-terrorist, killed at 25
• 1988 - Andrew Cruickshank, actor (Body in Library, Murder Most Foul), dies
• 1988 - Jan Kapr, composer, dies at 74
• 1991 - Claude Gallimard, French publisher, dies
• 1992 - Mae Clarke, actress (Public Enemy, Frankenstein), dies at 84
• 1993 - Cy Howard, director (Lovers & Other Strangers), dies at 77
• 1993 - Michael Gordon, actor/director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83
• 1993 - Mick Ronson, English guitarist/producer (Mott the Hoople), dies at 46
• 1994 - Bill Quinn, US actor (Quinn Brothers, Birds, Lucky Stiff), dies at 81
• 1994 - Erik Erikson, anthropologist, dies at 53
• 1994 - Oscar Sheldon A Williams, artist/critic, dies at 74
• 1995 - Robert Gibb, zoo/theme park creator, dies at 57
• 1996 - David William Eric Davis, broadcaster, dies at 87
• 1996 - Jaime Garcia Terre, poet/essayist, dies at 71
• 1996 - Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of Pres Suharto of Indonesia, dies at 72
• 1996 - Tony Hymphris, political activist, dies at 45
• 1997 - Keith Ferguson, blues (Fabulous Thunderbirds), dies of overdose at 50
• 1997 - Mike Royko, columnist, dies of stroke at 64
• 1997 - Peter Tali Coleman, gov of Americ Samoa (1956-61, 78-85, 89-93), dies