• 1607 - John Harvard, England, clergyman/scholar, founded Harvard Univ
• 1640 - Carl Rosier, composer
• 1653 - Andreas Anton Schmelzer, composer
• 1663 - Pedro de Peralta y Barnuevo, Peruvian poet (Obras Dramaticas)
• 1731 - William Cowper, England, pre-romantic poet (His Task) [NS]
• 1736 - Charles-Joseph Panckoucke, French publisher (Mercure de France)
• 1744 - Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer
• 1754 - Georg Forster, writer
• 1792 - Sarah Moore Grimk‚, American abolitionist/women's rights advocate
• 1795 - Carl P Fohr, German painter
• 1795 - Cornelis P J Elout, Dutch military/resident of West Sumatra
• 1809 - Mariano Obiols, composer
• 1810 - William G Armstrong, of Cragside, Baron/British const (hydr crane)
• 1816 - William Henry Talkbot Walker, Major General (Confederate Army)
• 1818 - Louis Lacombe, composer
• 1823 - Thomas Dyke Acland Tellefsen, composer
• 1827 - Alfred Moore Scales, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892
• 1832 - Mary Edwards Walker, US, doctor/women's rights leader
• 1850 - Henricus Van de Wetering, archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929)
• 1857 - Ferdinand de Saussure, Switz, linguist (Cours de Laguistique Gener le)
• 1862 - Mark A Stein, archaeologist
• 1864 - Herman Gorter, Dutch socialist/poet (May, Tiny Hero's Poem)
• 1865 - Earl Ross Drake, composer
• 1874 - Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss/French author (Ecoute Isra‰l)
• 1876 - Bart A van der Leck, Dutch painter (Style)
• 1876 - Willis Haviland Carrier, developed air-conditioning equipment
• 1883 - Milh ly Babits, Hungarian literary (Laodameia)
• 1888 - Franz Jung, writer
• 1892 - Joe Guyon, NFL halfback (Canton, Cleveland, Oorang, Rock I, etc)
• 1894 - Norbert Wiener, US, mathematician/discovered cybernetics
• 1895 - Bertil Lindblad, Swedish astronomer (Milky Way system)
• 1901 - Philippus J Idenburg, Dutch statistician
• 1902 - Alberto Morin, PR, actor (Armando-Dallas)
• 1902 - Gerrit Jan van der Veen, [Wolffensperger], Dutch resistance fighter
• 1905 - George Emlyn Williams, Wales, actor/playwright (David Copperfield)
• 1906 - Sandro Fuga, composer
• 1907 - Frances Dee, LA Calif, actress (Of Human Bondage)
• 1908 - Charles Forte, Italian/British hotel magnate (Savoy)
• 1908 - Lefty Gomez, baseball pitcher
• 1908 - Philipp Mohler, composer
• 1909 - Eugene Ionesco, playwright
• 1910 - Cyril Cusack, Durban Natal South Africa, actor (Day of the Jackal)
• 1911 - Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs
• 1911 - Ronald Diggens, English fabric manufacturer/multi-millionaire
• 1911 - Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster/prodigy
• 1912 - Eric Sevareid, Velva ND, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
• 1912 - Eugene Ionesco, Slatina Romania, dramatist (Rhinoceros)
• 1912 - Gunnar Johannes Sonstevold, composer
• 1913 - Foy Draper, US, relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
• 1913 - Joshua William Steward, polymath
• 1915 - Earl Wild, Pitts Pa, composer/pianist (Caesar's Hour, NBC Symph 1942)
• 1915 - Herbert Joeks, [Herbert J van Hugten], Dutch actor (Snip & Snap, Pipo)
• 1915 - Th˜s Mauve, Dutch painter/wood engraver
• 1916 - Bob Elliot, baseball player
• 1916 - Mareo Ishiketa, composer
• 1918 - Patricio Aylwin, president of Chile (1990-94)
• 1919 - Frederik Pohl, US, sci-fi author (3 Hugo, Gateway, Bipohl)
• 1920 - Istvan Sarkozy, composer
• 1920 - Paul T B Rodenko, poet/author (Stolen Lover)
• 1921 - Francoise Gilot, painter, designer, author living legacy award, 1984
• 1922 - Adele Jergens, Brooklyn NY, actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man)
• 1922 - Charles M Schulz, Minneapolis MN, cartoonist (Peanuts)
• 1923 - Patricia Phoenix, County Galway Ireland, actress (L Shaped Room)
• 1924 - George Segal, NY, sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver)
• 1924 - Jasu Patel, cricketer (Indian off-spinner, 9-69 v Aust 1959)
• 1925 - Eugene Istomin, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award-1943)
• 1925 - Linda Hunt, Morriston NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
• 1926 - Joyce McCartan, peace campaigner
• 1926 - Mauro Bortolotti, composer
• 1927 - John Carter, Center Ridge Ark, actor (Max-Falcon Crest)
• 1929 - Betta St John, Hawthorne Calif, actress (Corridors of Blood)
• 1929 - Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
• 1931 - Adolfo P‚rez Esquivel, Buenos Argentina, (1980 Nobel Peace Prize)
• 1931 - Adrianus J "Cardinal" Simonis, archbishop of Utrecht
• 1931 - Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-bronze-1952)
• 1932 - Alan Stout, composer
• 1932 - Marten Beinema, Dutch MP (CDA)
• 1933 - Garrett "Garnet" Mimms, US singer (Enchanters-Cry Baby)
• 1933 - Robert Goulet, Lawrence Mass, singer/actor (Camelot, Naked Gun 2«)
• 1934 - Ludmila Shevtsova, USSR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
• 1935 - Marian Mercer, Akron Ohio, actress/singer (Dean Martin Show)
• 1936 - Margaret Boden, philosopher
• 1937 - Boris Borisovich Yegorov, USSR, doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I)
• 1937 - Garnett Mimms, rocker
• 1937 - L‚o Lacroix, France, skier (Olympic-silver-1964)
• 1938 - Elizabeth E Bailey, university dean (Carnegie Mellon)
• 1938 - Jeremy Boorda, admiral
• 1938 - Porter J Goss, (Rep-R-Florida)
• 1938 - Rich Little, Ottawa Canada, impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop)
• 1938 - Tina Turner, [Anna Mae Bullock], Brownsville Tx, singer (Proud Mary)
• 1941 - Jeff Torborg, baseball player
• 1942 - Olivia Cole, Memphis Tenn, actress (Roots, Szysznyk)
• 1943 - Gerald D Kleczka, (Rep-D-WI, 1984- )
• 1943 - Jan Stenerud, Norway, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs)
• 1943 - Paul Burnett, English disc-jockey
• 1944 - Alan Henderson, Belfast, rock bassist (Them)
• 1944 - Jean Terrell, Texas, rocker (Supremes)
• 1945 - Daniel Davis, Gurdun Ark, actor (Niles-Nanny)
• 1945 - John McVie, British rock bassist (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
• 1945 - Mikhail Woronin, USSR, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/4 silver/bronze-1968)
• 1945 - Tandy Cronyn, actress (Twisted, Guardian, Age Old Friends)
• 1946 - Angus Suttie, English potter
• 1946 - Bert Bouquet, bassist (Earth & Fire, Focus)
• 1946 - Burt Reiter, rocker (Focus)
• 1947 - Larry Gura, baseball player
• 1947 - Richie Hebner, baseball player
• 1948 - Galina Prozumenschikova, USSR, 200m backstroke (Olympic-gold-1964)
• 1949 - Maggie Donnelly, bag lady
• 1950 - Jorge Orta, baseball player
• 1951 - La Cicciolina, [Ilona Staller], Budapest Hungary, Italian MP
• 1952 - Wendy Turnbell, Australia, tennis player (1979,82 US Opens Double)
• 1953 - Louise Parks, LPGA golfer
• 1955 - Bob Walk, baseball player
• 1955 - Jay Howell, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees, Oakland A's)
• 1955 - Tracy [Raye] Hickman, US, sci-fi author (Dragons of Spring Dawning)
• 1956 - Nico Slothouwer, Dutch poet (Man & his Bag)
• 1958 - Steve Buyer, (Rep-R-Indiana)
• 1959 - Jamie Rose, NYC, actress (Susan Birch-St Elsewhere, Falcon Crest)
• 1959 - Mike Moore, baseball player
• 1960 - Harold Reynolds, baseball player
• 1961 - Dave Hannan, Sudbury, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres, Colorado Avalanche)
• 1961 - Marcy Walker, Paducah KY, actress (Liza-All My Child, Santa Barbara)
• 1962 - Chuck Finley, Monroe LA, pitcher (California Angels)
• 1962 - John Samuel Inman, Greensboro NC, PGA golfer (1993 Buick South Open)
• 1962 - Mike Johnson, NFL inside linebacker (Detroit Lions)
• 1963 - Allyson Rice-Taylor, Huntington WV, actress (As the World Turns)
• 1963 - Mario Elie, NBA forward/guard (Houston Rockets)
• 1964 - Al Smith, NFL linebacker (Houston Oilers)
• 1964 - Jeff Jaeger, NFL kicker (Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears)
• 1964 - Vreni Schneider, Swiss alpine skier (Olympics-Gold-1988)
• 1966 - Jay Berger, Fort Dix NJ, tennis star
• 1966 - Sue Wicks, WNBA forward (NY Liberty)
• 1967 - Karol Rusznyak, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
• 1967 - Ridley Jacobs, cricket wicket-keeper (West Indian ODI 1996)
• 1968 - Steve Lofton, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, NE Patriots)
• 1969 - Sam Militello, baseball player
• 1969 - Shawn Kemp, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers, Seattle Supersonics)
• 1970 - Greg Graham, NBA guard (NJ Nets)
• 1970 - John Amaechi, NBA center/forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
• 1970 - Lorissa McComas, Columbus Ohio, actress (Lap Dancing, Vamp)
• 1970 - Mark Dixon, CFL offensive linebacker (Montreal Alouettes)
• 1971 - Emma Robinson, Montreal Quebec, rower (Olympics-96)
• 1971 - Vince Danielsen, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
• 1972 - Nicole Beach, Phoenix AZ, model (Wonderbra)
• 1973 - John Zimmerman, Birmingham Ala, pairs skater (& Steigler)
• 1974 - David Barnard, WLAF defensive tackle (Scotland Claymores)
• 1974 - Jamie Jones, singer (All 4 One)
• 1974 - Richard Ikeda, Kamloops BC, gymnist (Olympics-96)
• 1978 - Sarah Cahill, Miss Minnesota Teen USA (1996)
• 1980 - Jessica Bowman, Walnut Creek Calif, actress (Colleen Cooper-Dr Quinn)
• 1981 - Jamie Fiske, liver transplant recipient
• 1992 - Louis Ducrut, prince/son of Princess Stephanie & Daniel Ducrut

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0399 - Siricius, Italian Pope (384-99), dies
• 1126 - Al-Borsoki, emir of Aleppo-Mosoel, assassinated
• 1240 - Edmund Van Abingdon, archbishop of Canterbury/saint, dies
• 1267 - Gozzolini Silvester, Italian hermit/saint, dies
• 1504 - Isabella I, Catholic Queen of Castill‰ & Aragon (1474-04), dies at 53
• 1651 - Henry Ireton, English gen/parliament leader (Marston Moor), dies at 40
• 1653 - Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51
• 1661 - Don Luis M‚ndez de Haro, premier of Spain (1643-61), dies at about 63
• 1688 - Philippe Quinault, French playwright (L'amant Indiscreet), dies at 53
• 1776 - Dov Baer of Mezhirech, hassidic rabbi, dies
• 1778 - Jean-Noel Hamal, composer, dies at 68
• 1809 - Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer, dies at 56
• 1810 - Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer, dies at 65
• 1821 - Friedrich Heine, composer, dies at 57
• 1822 - Johann Baptist Henneberg, composer, dies at 53
• 1854 - Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies
• 1855 - Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56
• 1857 - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69
• 1866 - Adrien Fran‡ois Servais, composer, dies at 59
• 1866 - Carl Jonas Love Almquist, composer, dies at 72
• 1880 - Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer, dies at 52
• 1882 - Otto T Freiherr von Manteuffel, premier of Prussia, dies
• 1883 - Sojourner Truth, abolitionist/women's rights advocate, dies at 96
• 1885 - Thomas Andrews, Irish physicist/chemist (ozone), dies at 71
• 1918 - Charlie McLeod, cricketer (all-rounder for Australia 1894-1905), dies
• 1923 - Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60
• 1925 - Johannes Haarklou, composer, dies at 78
• 1926 - John M Brown, US weapons constructer, dies
• 1927 - Jean-Louis Pisuisse, Dutch performer (governess), assassinated at 47
• 1928 - Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I), dies at 65
• 1929 - Michele Esposito, composer, dies at 74
• 1933 - Edward Julius Biedermann, composer, dies at 84
• 1938 - Henry Schultz, US farm commune, dies
• 1939 - James Naismith, Basketball inventor, dies
• 1943 - Edward H "Butch" O'hare, US pilot/lt-comdr, dies in battle
• 1950 - Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83
• 1956 - Tommy Dorsey, big bandleader, dies at 51
• 1957 - Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies
• 1957 - Billy Bevan, actor (White Sin), dies at 70
• 1959 - Albert William Ketelby, composer, dies at 84
• 1961 - Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer, dies at 86
• 1962 - Albert P Sarraut, Indo-China premier (1933, 36), dies at 90
• 1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian soprano, dies
• 1965 - Wild Bill Elliott, cowboy actor (49'ers), dies of cancer at 60
• 1966 - Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Got to Find a Way), dies at 35
• 1966 - Siegfried Kracauer, writer, dies at 77
• 1968 - Arnold Zweig, German antifascist/author (Junge frau 1914), dies at 81
• 1970 - B O Davis Sr, 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
• 1971 - Joe Adonis, US crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ, dies at 68
• 1973 - Albert DiSalvo, Boston strangler, stabbed in prison
• 1973 - John Rostill, rocker, dies at 31
• 1980 - Rachael Roberts, actress (This Sporting Life), dies at age 53
• 1981 - Machgielis "Max" Euwe, world chess champion (1935-37), dies at 80
• 1982 - Dan Tobin, actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73
• 1982 - Juhan Aavic, composer, dies at 98
• 1982 - Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73
• 1985 - Ransom Sherman, comedian (Father of Bride), dies at 87
• 1986 - Betico Croes, Arubian politician, dies in an accident at 48
• 1986 - Scatman Crothers, singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man), dies at 76
• 1987 - Emmanuel Bondeville, composer, dies at 89
• 1987 - Thomas G Lanphier Jr, US WW II pilot, dies at 71
• 1989 - Ahmed Abdallah, president of Comores, dies
• 1990 - David White, actor (Bewitched), dies of heart attack at 74
• 1991 - Bob Johnson, US hockey coach (Pittsburgh Penguins), dies at 60
• 1991 - Dehl Berti, actor (Bullies), dies of heart attack at 70
• 1991 - Fran‡ois Billetdoux, French author (Word Awake), dies in Phila
• 1992 - Stephen Burks, actor (Kiss of a Killer), dies at 36
• 1993 - Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
• 1993 - Mart Kempers, sculptor, dies at 69
• 1994 - Arturo Rivera Damas, archbishop of El Salvador (1980-94), dies at 71
• 1994 - David Bache, designer, dies at 69
• 1994 - Nimrod Workman, folksinger, dies at 99
• 1995 - Charles Warrell, big Chief I-Spy writer/teacher, dies at 106
• 1995 - David Briggs, record producer, dies at 51
• 1995 - Max Fernandez, businessman/politician, dies at 52
• 1995 - Sydney Dawson Bailey, pacifist/campaigner, dies at 79
• 1995 - Terri Jewell, writer, dies at 40
• 1996 - Euphemia MacDonald May Moxon, dance producer, dies at 91
• 1996 - Hans Klein, politician, dies at 65
• 1996 - Joan Hammond, singer, dies at 84
• 1996 - Michael Bentine, Brit author/comedian (Reluctant Jester), dies at 74
• 1996 - Paul Rand, graphic designer, dies at 82
• 1997 - Francis Paudras, designer/jazz fan, dies at 62