• 1543 - Juan de la Cueva, Spain, dramatist
• 1654 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer
• 1698 - Ange-Jacques Gabriel, French court architect (Palace de la Concorde)
• 1713 - Peter Burmannus Secundus, [Pieter Burman], Dutch classicist
• 1715 - Peter II Aleksejevitsj, Emperor of Russia (1727-30)
• 1752 - Nicolas Appert, inventor (food canning, bouillon tablet)
• 1767 - H Benjamin Constant, [de Rebeque], French politician/writer
• 1773 - Pietro Generali, composer
• 1788 - Sarah Hale, founder (Seaman's Aid Society of Boston)
• 1794 - Joseph Panny, composer
• 1797 - John J Rochussen, governor-general of Dutch-Indies (1845-51)
• 1801 - Gustav Albert Lortzing, composer
• 1805 - Adalbert Stifter, Austrian author (Nachsommer)
• 1810 - [Sarah] Margaret Fuller Ossoli, US feminist/revolutionary (NY Tribune)
• 1819 - Isac Baker Woodbury, composer
• 1820 - James Monroe Goggin, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1889
• 1824 - Thomas Gamble Pitcher, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1895
• 1828 - Turner Ashby, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
• 1835 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP (1893-97)
• 1844 - Louis Riel, Manitoba, leader of insurrection of M‚tis
• 1844 - Robert S Bridges, England, poet laureate (Eros & Psyche)
• 1846 - Alexander Andreyevich Archangel'sky, composer
• 1851 - Guillaume Couture, composer
• 1852 - Jean-Louis Forain, French etcher/lithographer
• 1868 - Rama V, [Chulalongkorn], leader of Thailand (-1910)
• 1869 - Jacobus H "Koos" Speenhoff, Dutch singer
• 1880 - Una O'Connor, Belfast Ireland, actress (David Copperfield)
• 1893 - Earnest Julius ™pik, Estonian astronomer (Physics of meteor flight)
• 1893 - Jean Absil, Belgian composer (Peau d'Ane)
• 1899 - Lilyan Tashman, Brooklyn NY, actor (Bulldog Drummond)
• 1900 - Douglas Jardine, cricketer (England's Bodyline captain)
• 1902 - Otmar Nussio, composer
• 1902 - Otto J Gombosi, Hungarian/US musicologist
• 1903 - Milford Dolliole, pioneer jazz drummer
• 1905 - Alexander Shamil'yevich Melik-Pashayev, composer
• 1905 - Felix Bloch, Swiss/US nuclear physicist (Nobel 1952)
• 1906 - Gertrude Ederle, NYC, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1924)
• 1906 - Miriam Gideon, composer
• 1910 - Hayden Rorke, Bkln NY, actor (Dr Bellows-I Dream of Jeannie)
• 1910 - Sally O'Neil, Bayonne NJ, actress (Beggar's Holiday, Moth)
• 1912 - Ilse D”rffeldt, Germany, sprint relay (Olympic-1936)
• 1914 - Frank (Bruiser) Kinard, NFL, AAFC tackle (Bkln, NY Yankees)
• 1917 - Robert Bray, Kalispell Mont, actor (Corey-Lassie, Stagecoach West)
• 1918 - James Daly, Wisc, actor (Medical Center)
• 1918 - Peggy Moran, actress (Double Date, Horror Island)
• 1921 - Tom Manders, Dutch cabaret artist (Dorus)
• 1922 - Coleen Gray, Staplehurst Nebraska, actress (Apache Drums)
• 1922 - Stuart Sloan, war hero/test pilot
• 1923 - Frank Sutton, Clarksville Tenn, actor (Sgt Carter-Gomer Pyle USMC)
• 1923 - Ned Rorem, Richmond Indiana, composer/author (Sky Music)
• 1925 - Johnny Carson, Corning Iowa, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust)
• 1925 - Manos Hadjidakis, Greek composer/conductor (Never on Sunday)
• 1925 - Nanni Loy, film director
• 1927 - Dezs” Gyarmati, Hungary, water polo player (Olympic-gold-1956, 60, 64)
• 1927 - Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Roxy)
• 1927 - Leszek Kolakowski, Polish philosopher (Conversations with the Devil)
• 1928 - Alexander Tanev, composer
• 1928 - Bella Darvi, [Bayla Wegier], Sosnowiec Poland, actress (Racers)
• 1928 - Patrick Peter Sacco, composer
• 1930 - Gerard Blain, Paris France, actor (Hatari)
• 1931 - Diana Dors, [Fluck], Swindon England, actress (Berserk!, Steaming)
• 1931 - Jim Bunning, Phillies pitcher (perfect Game vs Mets 1965)/(Rep-R-Ky)
• 1932 - Dimitra Arliss, actress (Rich Man Poor Man II)
• 1933 - Tom Dewdney, cricket pace bowler (WI of 50's)
• 1935 - Chi Chi Rodriguez, Rio Piedras PR, PGA golfer (1972 Byron Nelson)
• 1935 - Zbigniew Rudzinski, composer
• 1936 - Barry Sinclair, cricketer (21 Tests for NZ in the 60's, 3 centuries)
• 1936 - Philip Kaufman, director (Right Stuff, Henry & June)
• 1938 - John Heinz, (Sen-R-PA, 1977- )
• 1938 - Jordan Christopher, Youngstown Ohio, actor (Secrets of Midland Heights)
• 1939 - Charlie Foxx, US songwriter/soul singer (Mockingbird)
• 1939 - Ellie Greenwich, rocker
• 1940 - Edison Pel‚, Brazil, soccer player extraordinaire (NY Cosmos)
• 1940 - Freddie Marsden, Liverpool, rock drummer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
• 1941 - Colin Milburn, cricketer (England bat whose career was cut short)
• 1941 - Greg Ridley, bassist (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
• 1942 - Anita Roddick, English cosmetic manufacturer (Body Shop)
• 1942 - Michael Crichton, Chicago, novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker)
• 1944 - Warren Burton, Chicago IL, actor (Jason Dunlap-Another World
• 1946 - Gerda Lenten-Havertong, Surinam, Dutch singer/actress (Sesame St)
• 1946 - Miklos Nemeth, Hungary, javelin thrower (Olympic-gold-1976)
• 1947 - Greg Ridley, rocker
• 1950 - Harry Sacksioni, Dutch guitarist (Around the Corner)
• 1951 - Michael Rupert, Denver Colo, actor (Pasadena Playhouse)
• 1954 - Ang Lee, director (Ice Storm, Wedding Banquet, Sense & Sensibility)
• 1956 - Betsy Nagelsen, St Petersburg FL, tennis star
• 1956 - Darrell Pace, Cin Ohio, archer (Oly-2 gold/silver-1976, 84, 88)
• 1956 - Dwight Yoakam, Pikeville Ky, country singer (Honky Tonk Man)
• 1957 - Louann Fernald San Antonio TX, playmate (Jun, 1979)
• 1957 - Sue Ertl, LPGA golfer
• 1959 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, Calif, parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun)
• 1959 - Sam Raimi, actor (Indian Summer, Thou Shalt Not Kill Except)
• 1962 - Beatie Edney, London England, actress (Diary of a Mad Old Man)
• 1962 - Christo van Rensburg, South Africa, tennis star
• 1962 - Daria Scagliola, Italian/Dutch photographer (vuurtorenpostzegels)
• 1962 - Doug Flutie, CFL/NFL quarterback (Argonauts, Generals, Bears, Pats)
• 1962 - Jaime Yzaga, Peru, tennis star
• 1962 - Mike Tomczak, NFL quarterback (Pitts Steelers)
• 1963 - David Bedard, Montreal QUE, 3m springboard diver (Oly-84, 88, 92, 96)
• 1963 - Katherine Hushaw, Anaheim Ca, playmate (Oct, 1986)
• 1965 - Al Leiter, Toms River NJ, pitcher (Florida Marlins, NY Mets)
• 1967 - Jaime Yzaga, Lima Peru, tennis star
• 1967 - Michael Philbrick, CFL defensive tackle (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
• 1968 - Bettina Fulco Villella, Mar Del Plata Arg, tennis star (1993 Futures)
• 1968 - Kendall Gammon, NFL center (Pitts Steelers)
• 1968 - Kevin Henry, NFL defensive end (Pitts Steelers)
• 1968 - Maggie Philgence, St Lucia Castries VI, WPVA (Oly Fest-gold-91)
• 1969 - Brooke Theiss, Calif, actress (Wendy-Just the 10 of Us, Good & Evil)
• 1969 - Kristine Bailey, Livonia Mich, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1995)
• 1971 - Alai Kalaniuvalu, NFL guard (Phila Eagles)
• 1972 - Daryl Price, defensive end (San Francisco 49ers)
• 1972 - Patrise Alexander, linebacker (Washington Redskins)
• 1972 - Tiffeny Milbrett, Portland Oregon, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
• 1973 - Blaine McElmurry, NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
• 1973 - Mac Cozier, soccer forward (Olympics-gold-96)
• 1973 - Shawn Wooden, free safety (Miami Dolphins)
• 1973 - Sjoerd Sanders, soccer player (PSV/MVV)
• 1974 - Beatrice Roini Liua Faumuina, NZ, discus thrower (Olympics-96)
• 1974 - Dani Tyler, Denver Colo, softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
• 1974 - Kaleena Kiff, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Patti-Love Sidney)
• 1974 - Sander Westerveld, soccer player (FC Twente)
• 1975 - Keith Van Horn, NBA forward (NJ Nets)
• 1976 - Julie Howard, Brantford ON, 100m/200m backstroker (Olympics-27-92, 96)
• 1980 - Jade Davidson, Australia, gymnast (Olympics-96)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1260 - Koetoez, Turkish sultan of Egypt, murdered
• 1450 - Johannes van Capestrano, Italian saint, dies at 70
• 1602 - Franciscus Junius, French/Neth calvinist theologist/vicar, dies at 57
• 1753 - Columban Praelisauer, composer, dies at 50
• 1782 - Joseph Reipel, composer, dies at 73
• 1799 - William Paca, US judge/signer (Decl of Independence), dies at 58
• 1801 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60
• 1806 - Franz Seydelmann, composer, dies at 58
• 1869 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Tolbecque, Belgian composer, dies at 72
• 1872 - Th‚ophile Gautier, French poet/writer/historian/critic, dies at 61
• 1886 - Johann Nepomuk Kafka, composer, dies at 67
• 1890 - Karel M M Verlat, Flemish painter/graphic artist, dies
• 1892 - Mehemed Emin Pasja, German explorer, murdered at 52
• 1899 - W Penn Symons, British gen-maj, dies in battle
• 1901 - Georg von Siemens, founder (Deutsche Bank), dies
• 1903 - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, theologian (Scientific Theism), dies at 66
• 1913 - Henry Potoni‚, German paleo-botanist/geologist (sapropelium), dies
• 1915 - W G Grace, British cricketer, dies
• 1921 - John B Dunlop, Scottish inventor air tire (Dunlop Rubber), dies at 81
• 1925 - Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Karatigin, composer, dies at 50
• 1928 - F A Alphonse Aulard, French historian, dies
• 1929 - Thomas F Tout, historian (Manch school of historiography), dies at 74
• 1935 - Abe Landau, US gangster, murdered
• 1935 - Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], US gangster, murdered at 33
• 1935 - Otto "Aba Daba" Berman, US gangster, murdered
• 1936 - (Marie) Louise Hens, Flemish actress (Bitter Pill), dies at 80
• 1939 - Zane Grey, US western writer (Spirit of the Border), dies at 67
• 1942 - Georg Stumme, German general/commandant of African corps, dies
• 1942 - Ralph Rainger, composer, dies at 41
• 1948 - Eugeniusz Morawsky-Dabrowa, composer, dies at 71
• 1950 - Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], singer/actor (Jazz Singer), dies at 64
• 1952 - Susan Peters, actress (Random Harvest), dies at 31
• 1953 - Maurice Lugeon, Swiss geologist (nappism), dies at 83
• 1954 - Henri Zagwijn, composer, dies at 76
• 1957 - Frederick Burton, actor (One Way Passage), dies at 86
• 1963 - Rapha‰l HLAJM Verwilghen, architect/urban developer, dies at 78
• 1966 - Claire McDowell, actress (Big Parade), dies after long illness at 88
• 1969 - Tommy Edwards, rocker, dies at 47
• 1975 - Barboura Morris, actor (Wasp Woman, Machine-Gun Kelly), dies at 43
• 1975 - Charles Brokaw, actor (Outer Gate, I Cover the War), dies at 77
• 1976 - Leonard Lee, US R&B-singer (Shirley & Lee-I'm Gone), dies at 40
• 1978 - Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show), dies at 69
• 1982 - Jacques Klein, Brazilian pianist, dies at 52
• 1983 - Jessica Savage, Margate NJ, newscaster (NBC Weekend), dies at 36
• 1983 - Tamara Shayne (Jolson Story), actress, dies at 80 of a heart attack
• 1984 - David Gorcey, actor (Angel's Alley), dies at 63 in a diabetic coma
• 1984 - Oskar Werner, actor (Farenehit 451), dies of a heart attack at 61
• 1986 - Edward A Doisy Sr, discoverer of vitamin K (Nobel 1943), dies at 92
• 1986 - Lino Ventura, actor (French Detective, Slap, Jig-Saw), dies at 67
• 1990 - Louis Althusser, French philosopher, dies
• 1991 - Lance Baker, dies at 31
• 1992 - Kees Spermon, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies
• 1994 - Robert Lansing, actor (Blade Runner, Equalizer), dies of cancer at 66
• 1994 - William Leonard, head (CBS News), dies of a stroke at 78
• 1996 - Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher, dies at 67
• 1996 - Diana Trilling, writer, dies at 91
• 1996 - Lin Onus, artist, dies at 47
• 1996 - Ronald Alfred Gardyne "Rags" Butler, sailor, dies at 68