• 1486 - Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat
• 1524 - Fran‡ois Hotman/Hotomanus, French lawyer/diplomat (Anti-Tribonien)
• 1593 - Fulvio Testi, Italian poet (Pianto d'Italia)
• 1727 - Friedrich Hartmann Graf, composer
• 1740 - Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41)
• 1751 - Louis-Fran‡ois Beffara, lexicographer
• 1754 - Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined
• 1769 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (La RŠgne Animal)
• 1773 - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher
• 1809 - Juliusz Slowacki, Polish poet (Trip to H Land)
• 1818 - Rufus Ingalls, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1893
• 1829 - Moritz B Cantor, German math historian
• 1832 - Alexander Chambers, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1888
• 1851 - A Jir sek, writer
• 1854 - Moritz Moszkowski, composer
• 1864 - Eleftherios K Venizalos, premier of Greece (1910-15, 28-32)
• 1867 - Marcel Schwob, Frans writer/journalist (Le Croisade des Enfants)
• 1869 - Edgar Lee Masters, poet/novelist [or Sep 23]
• 1869 - James (Sunny Jim) Rolph, SF mayor (1912-31), MUNI backer
• 1879 - Alfreds Kalnins, composer
• 1881 - Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist
• 1885 - Henry Thomas Tizard, scientist
• 1886 - Gottfried Rudinger, composer
• 1887 - Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright
• 1887 - Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright (Fatherland)
• 1887 - Jo Sternheim, Dutch actor/playwright
• 1889 - A Lichtenstein, writer
• 1893 - Roy Agnew, composer
• 1894 - Gareth Hughes, Llanelly Wales, actor (Midnight Girl)
• 1900 - Ernst Krenek, Vienna Austria, composer (Johnny Spielt Auf)
• 1901 - Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman
• 1901 - John Sherman Cooper, (Sen-Ky)
• 1903 - Mauritius van Haegendoren, Flemish historian/senator
• 1903 - William Primrose, Glasgow Scot, violist (Method for Violin & Viola)
• 1905 - Leonard Constant Lambert, London England, composer (King Pest)
• 1908 - Arthur Adamov, Kislovodsk Russia, playwright (Paolo Paoli)
• 1908 - Ben Barnett, Australian cricket wicket-keeper (1938 England tour)
• 1908 - Cornelis van Dis, Dutch MP
• 1911 - Albert Alberts, writer/journalist (French battle)
• 1911 - Birger Ruud, Norway, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1932, 36)
• 1911 - Carl Dolmetsch, director (Haslemere Festival)
• 1911 - Elizabeth "Betty" Robinson, US 100m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1928)
• 1912 - Gene Kelly, Pitts, dancer/actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way)
• 1912 - Jara Ribnikar, writer
• 1912 - Lord Kissin, president (GPG)
• 1913 - Bob Crosby, Spokane Wa, Bing's brother, orch leader (Bob Crosby Show)
• 1913 - Luis-Felipe Ramon y Rivera, composer
• 1913 - Stanley Kitchen, British chartered accountant
• 1916 - Mary Ward, [Myra Syri‰r], actress (Jenny Kissed Me, Playing for Keeps)
• 1918 - Guus [August CM] Hermus, Dutch actor (Jantjes, Soldaat van Oranje)
• 1919 - James Quinn, film producer/actor (Joey, Hammett, Overlord)
• 1919 - Robert Crichton-Brown, CEO (Rothmans International)
• 1920 - Aart Verstegen, ballet dancers/choreographer (Jolly Joker's Last Joke)
• 1921 - Sam Cook, cricketer (England slow left-armer in only Test)
• 1922 - Brian Young, Chairman (Christian Aid)
• 1922 - Jack Boddy, British trade union leader
• 1923 - Humphrey Fisher, TV producer
• 1923 - Kenneth Rickards, cricketer (WI batsman two Tests 104 runs)
• 1923 - Richard Adler, composer/songwriter (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game)
• 1923 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, Munich Ger, conductor (Vienna Symph 1960-70)
• 1924 - Denis Sargan, econometrician
• 1924 - Edvard Fliflet Braein, composer
• 1924 - Ephraim Kishon, writer
• 1924 - Siti Hartinah Suharto, wife of President Suharto of Indonesia
• 1925 - Sulkhan Fyodorovich Tsintsadze, composer
• 1925 - Wlodzimierz Kotonski, composer
• 1927 - Dick Bruna, Dutch illustrator
• 1927 - Houari Boum‚dienne, president of Algeria (1965-78)
• 1927 - John Hoskyns, director-general (Institute of Directors)
• 1927 - Martial Solal, composer
• 1928 - Gerd Natschinski, composer
• 1929 - Peter Thompson, golfer
• 1930 - Andy Ireland, (Rep-R-FL, 1977- )
• 1930 - Jack Bannister, cricketer (Warwickshire stalwart)/commentator (BBC)
• 1930 - John Fairclough, British scientific adviser
• 1930 - Michel Rocard, Courbevoie France, Prime Minister of France
• 1930 - Vera Miles, [Ralston], Boise City ID, actress (Psycho)
• 1931 - Richard Vincent, British chief of Defense
• 1932 - Mark Russell, Buffalo NY, political satirist/pianist (Real People)
• 1933 - Manfred Donike, chemist drug test pioneer
• 1933 - Pete Wilson, (Sen-R-CA, 1983-88/Gov-R-Ca 1991- )
• 1934 - Barbara Eden, [Huffman], Tucson Az, actress (Dream of Jeannie)
• 1934 - Christian "Sonny" Jurgensen, NFL QB (Eagles, Redskins)
• 1934 - Lojze Lebic, composer
• 1934 - Sonny Jurgensen, NFL quarterback (Wash Redskins)/sportscaster
• 1935 - Brendan Jackson, British air marshal
• 1935 - Loren Rush, composer
• 1935 - Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director (Victoria & Albert Museum)
• 1936 - Rudy Lewis, rocker (Drifters)
• 1938 - Roger Greenaway, composer
• 1938 - Ronny Cox, actor/singer (Robocop, Dr John Gideon-St Elsewhere)
• 1939 - Charles Wardle, MP/under sect of state British home office
• 1939 - Ronald [Ronny] A Casseres, minister of Dutch Antilles
• 1940 - Lee Majors, Wyandotte, actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy)
• 1940 - Richard Sanders, Harrisburg Pa, actor (Les-WKRP, Spencer, Berrengers)
• 1940 - Tony Bill, SD Cal, actor (What Really Happened to the Class of '65)
• 1941 - Gloria Ehret, LPGA golfer
• 1942 - Nancy Richey Gunther, San Ant Tx, tennis player (US Doubles 1965, 66)
• 1942 - Patricia McBride, Teaneck, NJ, ballerina (NYC Ballet Co)
• 1943 - Bobby Diamond, LA Calif, actor (Duncan Gillis-Dobie Gillis)
• 1943 - Dale Campbell-Savours, MP (Lab)
• 1943 - Peter Lilley, MP/sect of state for British social security
• 1944 - Antonia Novello, 14th US Surgeon General (1990-92)
• 1944 - Lena Tabori, Stockholm Sweden, model/daughter of Viveca Lindfors
• 1947 - Keith Moon, English rock drummer (Who-I'm A Boy)
• 1947 - Rex Allen Jr, Chicago, country singer (Nashville on the Road)
• 1947 - Terje Rypdal, composer
• 1947 - Willy Russell, author/playwright (Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita)
• 1948 - Ernst Jansz, Dutch keyboardist/singer (Doe Maar)
• 1948 - Ron Blomberg, 1st baseman (NY Yankees)/1st designated hitter
• 1949 - Christopher Blake, actor (Alexa)
• 1949 - Geoff Capes, shot putter
• 1949 - John Bauldie, music journalist/dylanologist
• 1949 - Norah Ellen O'Neill, airline pilot (Flying Tigers)
• 1949 - Pieter J Biesheuvel, lawyer/Dutch MP (CDA)
• 1949 - Rick Springfield, Australia, (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl)
• 1949 - Shelley Long, Fort Wayne Indiana, actress (Diane-Cheers, Money Pit)
• 1949 - Woody Paul, [Paul Chrisman], Nashville, singer (Riders in the Sky)
• 1951 - Barbra Mizrahie, LPGA golfer
• 1951 - Jimi Jamison, rocker (Survivor)
• 1951 - Mark Hudson, Portland Ore, comedian (Bonkers, Hudson Brothers Show)
• 1951 - Queen Noor, of Jordan
• 1952 - Cathy St George, Norfolk Va, playmate (Aug, 1982)
• 1952 - Dalton Reed, singer
• 1952 - Mac Cone, Memphis Tenn, Canadian equestrian jumper (Olympics-96)
• 1953 - Bobby Gubby, rocker (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
• 1953 - Klaus-Dietrich Flade, German FR, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-14)
• 1956 - ? Kennedy, daughter of future Pres Kennedy, dies same day
• 1956 - David A Wolf, Indianapolis Ind, MD/astronaut (STS 58, sk: 89/91)
• 1960 - Helen Rees, director (Design Museum)
• 1961 - Bobby Gubby, rocker
• 1961 - Julio Franco, Sp de Macrois Dom Rep, infielder (Cleveland Indians)
• 1962 - Glenn Healy, Pickering, NHL goalie (NY Rangers)
• 1962 - Kyle Clifton, NFL linebacker (NY Jets)
• 1963 - Blaine Schmidt, CFL offensive linebacker (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
• 1963 - Richard Illingworth, cricketer (England slow-left-armer 1991- )
• 1964 - Cam Emerson, Hamilton Ont, Canadian golfer (1989 Canadian Long Drive)
• 1965 - Anne Minter, Austratia, tennis star
• 1966 - Laura Richmond, Fort Dix NJ, playmate (Sep, 1988)
• 1966 - Rhonda Cator, Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
• 1966 - Rik Smits, NBA center (Indiana Pacers)
• 1967 - Karen Noble, Morristown NJ, LPGA golfer (1995 Dinah Shore-32nd)
• 1967 - Markus Ketterer, Helsinki FIN, hockey goalie (Team Finland)
• 1967 - Nancy Jane Cox, Campbellsville Kentucky, Miss Kentucky-America-1991
• 1968 - Christian Dean DiMarco, Huntington NY, PGA golfer (1994 Deposit-3rd)
• 1968 - Cortez Kennedy, NFL defensive tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
• 1968 - Scott Kowalkowski, NFL linebacker (Detroit Lions)
• 1969 - Amanda Hope, Austin Texas, playmate (Jul, 1992)
• 1969 - Clayton Holmes, NFL cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
• 1970 - Andrew Henry, CFL safety (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
• 1970 - Fabian Wilnis, Dutch soccer player (NAC, De Graafschap)
• 1970 - LaMark Carter, Shreveport Louisiana, triple jumper
• 1970 - River Phoenix, Madras Ore, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me)
• 1971 - Hugh Douglas, NFL defensive end (NY Jets)
• 1972 - Anthony Calvillo, CFL quarterback (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
• 1972 - Sheldon Benoit, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
• 1972 - Tony Carter, NFL running back (Chicago Bears)
• 1973 - James Roe, wide receiver (Baltimore Ravens)
• 1973 - Jason Clemett, CFL linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
• 1974 - Paula Gaye Montgomery, Cabot Ark, Miss America (Arkansas-3rd-1996)
• 1975 - Joe Andruzzi, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
• 1976 - Kate Sobrero, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
• 1976 - Linette Smith, Miss Universe-British Virgin Islands (1996)
• 1977 - Nicole Bobeck, Chic, figure skater (US Champ 1995)
• 1978 - Kobe Bryant, NBA guard (LA Lakers)
• 1994 - ? Beatty, son of Warren Beatty & Annette Bening

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0634 - Aboe Bekr Abd Allah, [al-Siddik], friend/successor of Mohammed, dies
• 1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled & beheaded
• 1328 - Nicolaas Zannekin, leader of rebel Flemish farmers, dies in battle
• 1507 - Jean Molinet, Burgundy historian (Chroniques), dies at about 72
• 1540 - Guillaume Bud‚, French humanist, dies at about 72
• 1591 - Luis de L‚on, scholar/poet, dies
• 1618 - Gerbrant A Bredero, poet/playwright (Moortje), dies at 33
• 1628 - George Viliers, 1st duke of Buckingham, assassinated by Felton at 36
• 1668 - Artus Quellinus, Flemish sculptor (Amsterdam townhall), dies
• 1723 - Antoine Mouque, composer, dies at 64
• 1777 - Giuseppe Sellitto, composer, dies at 77
• 1802 - Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer, dies at 51
• 1806 - Charles Augustin de Coulomb, Fren physicist (coulometrie), dies at 70
• 1819 - Oliver Hazard Perry, naval hero, dies on 34th birthday
• 1825 - Amos Bull, composer, dies at 81
• 1831 - August WA Grave von Gneisenau, Prussian fieldmarshal, dies at 70
• 1839 - Charles Philippe Lafont, composer, dies at 57
• 1865 - Ferdinand G Waldmller, Austria painter (biedermeier), dies
• 1878 - Adolf Fredrik Lindblad, composer, dies at 77
• 1898 - Joseph Robinson, composer, dies at 82
• 1903 - Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors painter/etcher, dies at 75
• 1914 - Felix Fivet, Belgian baby, executed by German troops at 3 weeks
• 1914 - George A Pogson, British consul in Puerto Rico, dies
• 1926 - Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies in NY at 31
• 1927 - Nicola Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti, executed in Mass
• 1929 - Charles Van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God on Sea), dies
• 1933 - Adolph Loos, Austrian architect, dies at 62
• 1937 - Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel, composer, dies at 68
• 1939 - Sidney Coe Howard, playwright (Silver Cord, Pulitzer 1925), dies at 48
• 1941 - Jack O'Connor, cricketer (four Tests for Aust 1908-09, 13 wkts), dies
• 1943 - Johann P Zilcher, German composer, dies at 88
• 1944 - Nikolay Andreyevich Roslavets, composer, dies at 63
• 1956 - ... Kennedy, daughter of future Pres Kennedy, dies same day
• 1958 - Martin du Gard, writer, dies
• 1960 - Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies at 65
• 1962 - Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw), dies at 70
• 1962 - Irving Fine, composer (Toccata), dies at 47
• 1965 - John Bata, Czech shoe manufacturer, dies at 67
• 1966 - Francis Xavier Bushman, actor (Ben-Hur), dies at 83
• 1970 - Nel Rose, dancer, dies at 55
• 1971 - Gisela Hernandez Gonzalo, composer, dies at 58
• 1971 - Oliver F McGowan, actor (Banning, Stagecoach), dies at 64
• 1972 - Balis Dvarionas, composer, dies at 68
• 1975 - Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies at 87
• 1977 - Sebastian Cabot, actor (Giles French-Family Affair), dies at 59
• 1979 - Mian Mohammad Saeed, cricketer (1st Pakistan capt 1948-49), dies
• 1979 - Richard Hearne, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower), dies at 70
• 1980 - Norman Shelley, English radio actor (Churchill's Speech), dies at 77
• 1982 - Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85
• 1982 - Stanford Moore, US biochemist (Nobel 1977), dies
• 1986 - Charles Janssens, Belgian actor (Mira, Malpertuis), dies at 80
• 1987 - Siegfried Borris, composer, dies at 80
• 1989 - Helen le Clerq, Dutch dancer, dies
• 1989 - Ronald Laing, British psychiatrist (anti-psychiatry), dies
• 1989 - Yusef Hawkins, shot by 30 whites in Bensonhurst because he's black
• 1990 - David Rose, composer (Holiday for Strings, Stripper), dies at 80
• 1991 - Florence B Seibert, bio-chemist (TB), dies at 93
• 1992 - Malcolm Atterbury, actor (7 Days in May, Wild River), dies at 85
• 1992 - Virginia Sale-Wren, entertainer, dies of heart failure at 92
• 1992 - Wayne McLaren, Marlboro Man, dies of lung cancer at 51
• 1993 - Charles Scorsese, actor (Cape Fear, Goodfellas, Wise Guys), dies at 80
• 1993 - Edwina Lewis, actress (Boy Who Cried Bitch), dies of heart attack 42
• 1993 - Victorine Hefting, historian/wife of Bert Baker, dies at 88
• 1994 - Henri Rousselot, admiral, dies at 82
• 1994 - Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author (Machina Mondiale), dies at 70
• 1994 - Rabah Stambouli, Algerian sociologist/politician, murdered at 65
• 1994 - Richard Jock Kinneir, graphic designer, dies at 77
• 1994 - Zolt n F bri, Hungarian director, dies of heart attack at 76
• 1995 - Alfred Eisenstaedt, photojournalist, dies at 96
• 1995 - Arthur Holt, politician, dies at 81
• 1995 - Dwayne Rudolph Goettel, musician, dies at 31
• 1995 - Hedda J Garza, writer/political activist, dies at 66
• 1995 - James Pilditch, designer, dies at 66
• 1995 - Johnny Carey, soccer star, dies at 76
• 1995 - Vincent Gordon Lindsay White, tycoon, dies at 72
• 1997 - Eric Gairy, PM of Grenada (1974-79), dies