• 1583 - Orlando Gibbons, English composer (O Clap Your Hands), baptized
• 1601 - Jose Ximenez, composer
• 1624 - Angelus Silesius, [Johann Scheffler], German mystic (St Seelenlust)
• 1628 - No‰l Coypel, French painter
• 1642 - Isaac Newton, Grantham Engld, physicist/mathematician/astronomer [OS]
• 1646 - Harald Vallerius, composer
• 1686 - Giovanni Battista Somis, composer
• 1698 - Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver/illustrator
• 1711 - Jean-Joseph Cassenea de Mondonville, composer
• 1717 - Pius VI, [Giovanni A Braschi], Italy, Pope (1775-99)
• 1721 - William Collins, Chichester England, (Mayor-Chichester)/poet
• 1728 - Johann Adam Hiller, composer
• 1750 - John "Christmas" Beckwith, composer
• 1752 - Mithra
• 1763 - Claude Chappe, French engineer (optical telegraph)
• 1765 - Joseph Mazzinghi, composer
• 1771 - Dorothy Wordsworth
• 1775 - Antun Sorkocevic, composer
• 1808 - Stephen Cleeg Rowan, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1890
• 1811 - Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz
• 1813 - Milledge Luke Bonham, (Confederacy) died in 1890
• 1814 - Jan de Liefde II, Dutch vicar/founder (Coop of Welfare of the People)
• 1815 - Temistocle Solera, composer
• 1821 - Clara Harlowe Barton, Oxford Mass, nurse/founder (American Red Cross)
• 1823 - Preston Smith, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
• 1825 - Esteban Salas y Castro, composer
• 1829 - Patrick S Gilmore, composer
• 1831 - Johann Herbeck, composer
• 1832 - Thomas Alfred Smyth, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1865
• 1837 - Cosima Liszt, wife of Austrian composer Richard Wagner
• 1855 - James Galvin, pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884
• 1859 - Raoul Gunsbourg, composer
• 1863 - E Fern ndez Arb¢s, Spanish violinist/conductor/composer
• 1865 - Evangeline Cory Booth, Salvation Army general (1904-34)
• 1867 - Alfred Kerr, writer
• 1868 - Eugenie Besserer, Watertown NY, actress (Jazz Singer)
• 1875 - Theodor Innitzer, cardinal/archbishop Vienna
• 1875 - Walter Lees, cricketer (Surrey pace bowler toured for Eng 1905-06)
• 1876 - Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Karachi, founded Pakistan (1947)/gov (1947-58)
• 1878 - W Starling Burgess, yacht designer (America Cup's Enterprise)
• 1881 - Joseph V McCarthy, baseball manager (NY Yankees)
• 1883 - Fran Lhotka, composer
• 1883 - Maurice Utrillo, France, painter (Port St Martin, Montmartre)
• 1887 - Conrad Hilton, hotel mogul (Hilton Hotels)
• 1887 - Jacobus W G Balfoort, Dutch actor (Bulldog Drummond)
• 1887 - John Davidson, NYC, actor (Charlie Chan-Chinese Cat)
• 1891 - Clarrie Grimmett, cricketer (in Dunedin Great Australian leg-spinner)
• 1891 - Earle Foxe, Oxford OH, actor (Dance Fools Dance)
• 1891 - Kenneth A N Anderson, British general (Dunkerk, North Africa)
• 1892 - Rebecca West, [Cicely Isabel Fairfield], English author
• 1893 - Bert Bertram, actor (How to Steal a Million)
• 1893 - Fred Hillebrand, Bkln NY, actor (Martin Kane)
• 1893 - Ropert L Ripley, Santa Rosa Calif, cartoonist (Believe It or Not)
• 1898 - Theo Swagemakers, Dutch portrait painter
• 1899 - Frank Fergusson, actor (My Friend Flicka, Peyton Place)
• 1899 - Humphrey Bogart, NYC, actor, Here's looking at you, kid (Casablanca)
• 1899 - Raphael Soyer, artist (Depression Scenes in NYC)
• 1900 - Barton Maclane, Columbia SC, actor (Gen Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie)
• 1900 - Gladys Swarthout, Deepwater Missouri, mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda)
• 1900 - W L "Tich" Cornford, cricketer (Sussex keeper played for England 1930)
• 1901 - Alice C, English duchess of Gloucester/aunt of Elizabeth II
• 1902 - Barton MacLane, SC, actor (Geisha Boy, Peterson-I Dream of Jeannie)
• 1903 - Antiochos Evanghelatos, composer
• 1903 - Corry Lievens, [Isabella MJ Adriaens], Flemish actress (Blue Bird)
• 1903 - J Edward Bromberg, Hungary, actor (Mark of Zorro, Under 2 Flags)
• 1904 - Gerhard Herzberg, Can, physicist (molecular structure-Nobel 1971)
• 1906 - Clark M Clifford, US Secretary of Defense (1968-69)
• 1906 - Herman J Scheltema, [NEM Pareau], Dutch jurist/poet
• 1906 - Lew Grade, British TV mogul (ATV)/movie producer (Boys from Brazil)
• 1906 - William McChesney Martin, Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank (1951-70)
• 1907 - Cab[ell] Calloway, Rochester, bandleader (Minnie the Moocha, Jazzball)
• 1908 - Frank Ferguson, Calif, actor (Wagons West, Dynamite, My Gal Sal)
• 1908 - Helen Twelvetrees, actress (State's Attorney, Painted Desert)
• 1908 - Jan Seidel, composer
• 1909 - Louis van Lint, Belgian painter
• 1909 - Marguerite Churchill, actress (Dracula's Daughter, Big Trail)
• 1909 - Mike Mazurki, Tarnopal Austria, actor/wrestler (Centerfold Girls)
• 1910 - David Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US dancer (Make Mine Music)
• 1911 - Burne Hogarth, strip-cartoon artist
• 1912 - Donald McRae, cricketer (Test for NZ, the 1946 debacle vs Australia)
• 1912 - Herman W Filarski, Dutch bridge journalist
• 1912 - Leighton Noble, singer/bandleader
• 1912 - Tony Martin, Oakland Cal, singer (Tony Martin Show, Tonight We Love)
• 1912 - Werner Fussan, composer
• 1912 - Willian Noel Moffat, architect
• 1913 - Henri Nannen, journalist
• 1914 - Tony Martin, [Alvin Morris], SF, singer (It's a Blue World, To Each)
• 1915 - Noelle de Mosa, Neth/British dancer/teacher (Brigadoon)
• 1915 - Nora Dunfee, actress (Forrest Gump, Lorenzo's Oil)
• 1915 - Pete Rugolo, bandleader/arranger (Fugitive)
• 1916 - Daniel Devoto, composer
• 1918 - Anwar el-Sadat, Egyptian Pres (1970-81, Nobel 1978)
• 1918 - Eddie Safranski, Pitts Pa, orch leader (Jonathan Winters Show)
• 1920 - Artur Agostinho, Lisbon Port, actor (Capas Negras, Leao da Estrela)
• 1920 - Henry Charnock, oceanographer
• 1922 - Kitty Kallen, Phila Pa, singer (Judge For Yourself)
• 1923 - Louis Lane, Eagle Pass Texas, conductor (Oere Orch 1968-73)
• 1923 - N”el Vandernotte, France, cox (Olympic-bronze-1936)
• 1924 - Mih ly V ci, Hungarian poet/politician
• 1925 - Christmas F Tinto, South African ANC'er/UDF-leader
• 1925 - Ossi Reichert, German FR, giant slalom (Olympic-gold-1956)
• 1927 - Nellie Fox, White Sox infielder (AL MVP 1959)
• 1928 - Earl Brown, Salt Lake City Ut, actor (Stovall-Operation Petticoat)
• 1929 - Billy Horton, rocker (The Silhouettes-Get a Job)
• 1929 - Chris Kenner, rocker
• 1929 - Irish McCalla, Pawnee City Neb, actress (Sheena Queen of Jungle)
• 1931 - Carlos Castaneda, US, writer/mystic (Eagle's Gift, Fire From Within)
• 1931 - Uzo Egonu, painter/print maker
• 1932 - Jos‚ Maria Capricorne, Cura‡aos graphically designer/painter
• 1932 - Peter John Swales, football club chairman
• 1934 - Bob Martinez, (Gov-Fl)
• 1934 - Giancarlo Baghetti, racing driver/journalist
• 1934 - John Ashley, KC Mo, actor (Clipper-Straightaway)
• 1934 - McKinley Mitchell, US gospel/singer (The Town I Live In)
• 1935 - Gunter Friedrichs, composer
• 1936 - Alexandra HEOC, English princess/daughter of sir Angus Ogilvy
• 1936 - Ismail Merchant, Bombay India, producer (Householder)
• 1937 - O'Kelly Isley, Cincinnati Ohio, singer (Isley Brothers-Twist & Shout)
• 1938 - David Borden, composer
• 1938 - Wibo van de Linde, Dutch TV host/director (Avro)
• 1939 - Bob James, rocker
• 1939 - Christopher Wates, English real estate developer/multi-millionaire
• 1940 - Frans Moor, Dutch MP (PvdA)
• 1940 - Peter Brown, Chicago Il, rocker
• 1941 - Don Pullen, pianist/composer
• 1941 - Lex Hixon, religious teacher/author
• 1941 - Ronald Perera, composer
• 1942 - Fran‡oise Durr, France, tennis player (1976 US indoor Doubles)
• 1942 - Mani Kaul, director (Idiot, Nazar, Dhrupad, Duvidha)
• 1943 - Hanna Schygulla, Katowice Silesia, actress (Love is Colder than Death)
• 1943 - Hedley Howarth, cricketer (brother of Geoff, NZ lefty spinner 1969-77)
• 1943 - Ravish Malhotra, India cosmonaut (Soyuz T-11 backup)
• 1943 - Trevor Lucas, rocker (Fairport Convention)
• 1944 - Henry Vestine, rock guitarist (Canned Heat-On the Road Again)
• 1944 - Rick Berman, [Richard], producer (Star Trek Generations)
• 1945 - Gary Sandy, Dayton Ohio, actor (Andy-WKRP in Cincinnati)
• 1945 - Ken "The Snake" Stabler, NFL quarterback (Oak Raiders, Super Bowl XI)
• 1945 - Kenny Everett, British TV personality (Kenny Everett Show)
• 1945 - Noel Redding, rocker (The Jimi Hendrix Experience-Purple Haze)
• 1945 - Steve Mancha, [Clyde Wilson], US singer/songwriter (Too Many Cooks)
• 1946 - Jimmy Buffet, Mobile Alabama, vocalist (Margaritaville)
• 1946 - Larry Csonka, NFL running back (Miami Dolphins, NY Giants)
• 1947 - Connie Petracek, Chambersburg PA, swimmer (Olympics-92, 96)
• 1948 - Barbara Mandrell, Houston Tx, singer/TV host (Mandrell Sisters)
• 1948 - Merry Clayton, rocker
• 1949 - Dan Pastorini, NFL QB (Raiders) [or May 26]
• 1949 - Sissy Spacek, Quitman Tx (Carrie, Badlands, Coal Miner's Daughter)
• 1950 - Barry Pearson, NFLer
• 1950 - Manny Trillo, baseball infielder (Phila Phillies)
• 1951 - Ria Thielsch, Dutch singer (Luv)
• 1953 - Arnella Flynn, Rome Italy, Errol Flynn's daughter
• 1953 - Dave Wasick, NFLer
• 1954 - Annie Lennox, Aberdeen Scotld, vocalist (Eurythmics-Sweet Dreams, Why)
• 1954 - Robin Campbell, British reggae vocalist/guitarist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
• 1954 - Steve Wariner, Noblesville Indiana, country singer (Small Town Girl)
• 1955 - Claus Strigel, director (Obituary for the Automobile, Act of God)
• 1955 - William Andrews, actor (Sealed Cargo)
• 1956 - Mansoor Akhtar, cricketer (Pakistani batsman early 80's)
• 1957 - Jan Rot, Dutch composer/writer (Wrong Nights)
• 1957 - Jillie Mack, Mrs Tom Selleck/actress (Magnum PI)
• 1957 - Shane McGowan, rock vocalist (Pogues-Red Roses For Me)
• 1958 - Joop Hiele, soccer player (Dordrecht '90, Go Ahead Eagles)
• 1958 - Rickey Henderson, Chic, baseball player (stolen base king, A's, Yanks)
• 1959 - Chris Spice, Australian field hockey coach (Olympics-96)
• 1959 - Michael P Anderson, Plattsburgh NY, major USAF/astronaut (STS 89)
• 1959 - Missy Cleveland, Jackson Miss, playmate (April, 1979)
• 1959 - Ton Lokhoff, Dutch soccer player (NAC)
• 1960 - Amy Grant, vocalist (That's What Love Is, Baby Baby)
• 1961 - Storm Davis, baseball player
• 1962 - Dean Cameron, Morrison Ill, actor (Herbie-Spencer)
• 1962 - Mary Ellen Clark, Abington Pa, diver (Olympics-2 bronze-92, 96)
• 1963 - Joop Gall, Dutch soccer player (FC Groningen)
• 1964 - Anil Kaul, Amritsar India, Canadian badminton player (Olympics-96)
• 1964 - Janet Soulsby, Corbridge Australia, golfer (Curtis Cup 1982)
• 1964 - Peter Hanson, English/Sierra Leone/Dutch actor (Darling How Could You)
• 1964 - Raymond Libregts, soccer player (MVV)
• 1965 - Dmitri Mironov, Moscow Rus, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins, Anaheim)
• 1965 - Kathleen Luciano, Munich Ger, WPVA volleyballer (Nationals-17th-1993)
• 1966 - Craig Veasey, NFL defensive tackle/defensive end (Houston Oilers)
• 1966 - Javier Frana, Rafaela Argentina, tennis star
• 1966 - Sandy Corn, model/Penthouse Pet (March, 1991)
• 1967 - Kathleen Franey, Brooklyn NY, 1.5k runner
• 1968 - Corey Widmer, NFL linebacker (NY Giants)
• 1968 - Don Silvestri, NFL/WLAF kicker (NY Jets, London Monarchs)
• 1968 - Helena Christensen, Copenhagen Denmark, model/actress (Inferno)
• 1968 - Jim Dowd, Brick, NHL center (Vancouver Canucks)
• 1968 - Scott Bullett, Martinsburg WV, outfielder (Chic Cubs)
• 1969 - Bernhard Jr, Prince of Netherlands
• 1970 - Azhar Saeed, UAE cricketer (opening batsman 1996 World Cup)
• 1970 - Ghalid Salamat, soccer player (MVV)
• 1970 - Stu Barnes, Spruce Grove, NHL center (Florida Panthers)
• 1971 - Marlon Forbes, safety (Chicago Bears)
• 1971 - Noel Hogan, musician (Cranberries)
• 1971 - Terry Vaughn, CFL receiver (Calgary Stampeders)
• 1972 - Fantasia, [Tonya Manley], Detroit Mich, dancer/actress (Pump it Up)
• 1974 - Chris Naeole, guard (New Orleans Saints)
• 1974 - Grayson Shillingford, NFL wide receiver (Seattle Seahawks)
• 1976 - Scott Vermillion, Independence MO, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
• 1976 - Yazmin Fiallos, Miss Universe-Honduras (1996)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0795 - Adrian I, Italian Pope (772-95), dies
• 0820 - Leo V, the Armenian, Byzantine gen/Emperor (813-20), murdered
• 1156 - Peter Venerabilis, Fr theologist/9th abbot of Cluny, dies at about 61
• 1249 - Peter Nolascus, Spanish monastery founder/St, dies
• 1513 - Johannes Amerbach, Swiss publisher/printer, dies at about 70
• 1530 - Babur, emperor of Delhi, dies
• 1683 - Kara Mustapha, Turkish grand-vizier (1676-83), executed
• 1761 - Elisabeth Petrovna, tsarina of Russia (1741-62), dies at about 51
• 1765 - Antonio Tonelli, composer, dies at 79
• 1788 - John Logan, Scottish conductor (Ode to the Cuckoo), dies at about 40
• 1824 - Barbara Krudener, mystic visionary who renounced nobility, dies at 60
• 1842 - Bedrich Divis Weber, composer, dies at 76
• 1848 - Johann Erik Nordblom, composer, dies at 60
• 1868 - Linus Yale, developer of cylinder lock, dies
• 1878 - Anna Claypoole Peale, US painter of miniatures, dies
• 1883 - Marek Konrad Sokolowski, composer, dies at 65
• 1895 - Raul d'Avila Pompeia, Brazilian writer (Boarding-school), dies at 32
• 1903 - Albert Sch„ffle, German sociologist, dies at 72
• 1904 - Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer, dies at 61
• 1921 - Hans Huber, composer, dies at 69
• 1921 - Korolenko, writer, dies
• 1922 - Alphonse Goovaerts, composer, dies at 75
• 1925 - Sergei Jessenin, writer, dies at 30
• 1926 - Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at 47
• 1927 - Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66
• 1930 - Harvey Worthington Loomis, composer, dies at 65
• 1936 - Pierre Maurice, composer, dies at 68
• 1938 - Karel Capek, Czech author/antifascist (B¡l  Nemoc), dies at 48
• 1940 - Agnes Ayres, actress (Johnny Belinda, Sheik), dies at 42
• 1942 - Vojislav Vuckovic, composer, dies at 32
• 1943 - Ilona Durigo, Hungarian singer, dies at 62
• 1943 - Raymond Huntington Woodman, composer, dies at 82
• 1946 - W C Fields, writer/comedian (Bank Dick, It's A Gift), dies at 67
• 1950 - Xavier Villaurrutia, Mexican poet (Nostalgia de la muerte), dies at 47
• 1951 - Harry T Moore, Florida NAACP official, killed by bomb
• 1954 - Johnny Ace, Memphis rocker, accidently shot self in head at 25
• 1954 - Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding), dies at 96
• 1954 - Rosario Scalero, composer, dies at 84
• 1956 - Robert Walser, writer, dies at 78
• 1957 - Frederick Law Olmsted, US architect (Central Park), dies at 87
• 1961 - Rheinhold Rudenberg, inventor of electron microscope, dies
• 1963 - Tristan Tzara, writer, dies at 67
• 1964 - Cheerio Meredith, actress (One Happy Family), dies at 74
• 1971 - Byron Arnold, composer, dies at 70
• 1973 - Ismet In”n� [Mustapha Ismet Pasha], Turkish PM (1923..65), dies at 89
• 1975 - Gaston Gallimard, French publisher (Library Gallimard), dies at 94
• 1976 - Arthur Mitchell, cricketer (batted in 6 Tests for Eng 1933-36), dies
• 1976 - Frankie Darro, actor (Radio Ranch, Valley of Wanted Men), dies at 58
• 1977 - Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88
• 1979 - Joan Blondell, actress (Real McCoys), dies at 70
• 1979 - Lee Bowman, actor (Ellery Queen, Miami Undercover), dies at 64
• 1980 - Fred Emney, actor (Adventures of a Private Eye), dies at 80
• 1980 - Louis Neefs, Belgian singer, dies at 43
• 1980 - Oscar Romero, archbishop of El Salvador, murdered
• 1983 - Joan Miro, Spanish surrealist, dies at his home in Majorca at 90
• 1985 - George Rhodes, orch leader (Sammy Davis Jr Show), dies at 66
• 1989 - Barrel Regtien, student leader, dies
• 1989 - Billy Martin, NY Yankee manager, killed in a car accident at 61
• 1989 - Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's dictator Nicolea, executed
• 1989 - Nicolea Ceausescu, dictator of Romania, executed
• 1989 - Roger Pigaut, actor (Indoptable Ang‚lique), dies
• 1989 - Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at 51
• 1990 - Marguerite N Wittenberg, entertainer, dies of cancer at 77
• 1991 - Curt Bois, actor (Great Waltz, Boat is Full), dies at 90
• 1991 - Mahmood Hussain, cricketer (27 Tests for Pakistan, 68 wickets), dies
• 1991 - Orane Demazis, French actress (Marius, Fanny et C‚sar), dies at 87
• 1991 - Sal Provenza, entertainer, dies of lymphoma at 45
• 1992 - Garrison H Davidson, US lt-gen commandant (West Point), dies
• 1992 - Helen B M Fennell Joseph, English/South Afr anti-apartheid, dies at 87
• 1992 - Monica Dickens, English/US journalist/author, dies at 77
• 1992 - Ted Croker, RAF-pilot/sect English soccer team (sponsoring), dies
• 1994 - Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87
• 1994 - Zail Singh, president of India (1982-87), dies at 78
• 1995 - Dean Martin, singer/actor (Return to Me), dies at 78
• 1995 - Emmanuel Levinas, philosopher, dies at 89
• 1995 - Jimmy Boucher, cricketer (great Irish all-rounder 1929-54), dies
• 1995 - Nikolai [Nicolas Leonidovich] Slonimsky, musicologist, dies at 101
• 1996 - Derek Prouse, writer actor/director (Le Scandale), dies at 74
• 1996 - Jon Benet Ramsey, Colo child beauty queen, murdered at 6
• 1996 - Rupert John, gov-gen of Grenadines (1970-76), dies
• 1997 - Anatoli Boukreev, mountaineer, dies at 39
• 1997 - Denver Pyle, actor (Dukes of Hazzard), dies at 77
• 1997 - Giorgio Strehler, theatre director, dies at 76
• 1997 - Laurence Gower, academic, dies at 84