• 1075 - Abu 'l-Kasim Mahmud ibn Omar al-Zamachshari, Arab theologist
• 1495 - Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint/founder (Brothers of Mercy)
• 1607 - Johann Rist, composer
• 1714 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of JS Bach
• 1743 - Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer
• 1748 - Willem V Batavus, prince of Orange-Nassau
• 1778 - Friedrich August Kanne, composer
• 1783 - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer
• 1783 - Hannah Hoes Van Buren, NY, wife of pres Martin (1837-41) (died 1819)
• 1787 - Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery
• 1799 - Simon Cameron, Secy War (Union), died in 1889
• 1815 - Jean Delphin Alard, French violinist/composer
• 1825 - George William Martin, composer
• 1836 - Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army)
• 1839 - James Mason Crafts, US chemist (Friedel-Crafts-synthesis)
• 1840 - Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor
• 1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mass, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32)
• 1843 - Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer
• 1847 - Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente)
• 1853 - Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels, Flemish composer (Parisina)
• 1854 - Tom Felix Horan, cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Aust all-rounder)
• 1857 - Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (I pagliacci/Zaza)
• 1859 - Kenneth Grahame, author (Wind, Willows)
• 1859 - Otto Taubmann, composer
• 1862 - Joseph Lee, helped develop playgrounds
• 1865 - Frederick William Goudy, US, printer/type designer
• 1872 - Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
• 1876 - Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
• 1879 - M Lichnowsky, writer
• 1879 - Otto Hahn, German physicist/chemist (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium)
• 1883 - Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer
• 1886 - Anton Portielje, Dutch radio host/zoo director (Artis)
• 1886 - Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
• 1888 - Stuart Chase, NH, writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste)
• 1889 - Oscar Ewing, US govt official (Everybody's Business)
• 1890 - Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher
• 1891 - Sam Jaffe, NYC, actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)
• 1892 - M ty s R kosi, Hungarian party leader/premier (1952-53)
• 1894 - W„in” V Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor
• 1898 - Louise Beavers, Cin Ohio, actress (Beulah-Beulah, Made for each other)
• 1898 - Theophilus E D”nges, South Afr minister of Internal Affairs
• 1899 - Eric Linklater, Scotland, novelist/poet (Blue Swallows)
• 1902 - Jennings Randolph, (Sen)
• 1907 - Charles Boost, movie critic
• 1909 - Anthony Donato, composer
• 1909 - Claire Trevor, [Wemlinger], NYC, actress (Marjorie Morningstar)
• 1909 - Hugh Murphy, English multi-millionaire
• 1911 - Alan Hovhaness, Somerville Mass, composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo)
• 1911 - Elsie Agnes Giorgi, physician/humanitarian
• 1914 - Jacob B Bakema, urban developer (St Louis Missouri)
• 1915 - Vivien John, artist
• 1916 - R W Schnell, writer
• 1917 - A Marja, [ATE Mooy], Dutch literary (Shreds on the River)
• 1918 - Alan Hale [MacKahan] Jr, LA Calif, actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island)
• 1919 - Ivor Keys, musician/teacher
• 1920 - Eileen Herlie, Glasgow Scot, actress (Myrtle Fargate-All My Children)
• 1920 - Eva Dahlbeck, Saltsjo-Duvnas Sweden, actress (Dreams, Lesson in Love)
• 1920 - James Daniel "Danny" Turner, saxophonist
• 1921 - Cyd Charisse, [Tula Finklea], Amarillo Tx, dancer/actress (East Side)
• 1921 - Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson, trumpeter
• 1922 - Carl Furillo, Brooklyn Dodger (NL Batting Champ 1953)
• 1922 - H Kipphardt, writer
• 1923 - Juan M G "Wancho" Evertsz, premier of Dutch Antilles (NVP, 1973-77)
• 1923 - Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director (Doctor Noir)
• 1924 - Sean McClory, Dublin Ireland, actor (Jack-Californians, My Chauffeur)
• 1924 - Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer
• 1925 - Darwin Horacio Vargas-Wallis, composer
• 1925 - Francisco Rabal, Aguilas Spain, actor (Holy Innocents, Camorra)
• 1925 - Petrus Steenkamp, Dutch politician (KVP/CDA)
• 1927 - Jaromir Podesva, composer
• 1927 - Joseph Berg, composer
• 1928 - Frank Michael Beyer, composer
• 1928 - Judy Johnson, Norfolk Va, singer (Your Show of Shows)
• 1931 - John McPhee, author (Back to ----)
• 1931 - Neil Adcock, cricketer (South African pace bowler, 104 wkts 1953-62)
• 1933 - Johnny Dollar, singer
• 1934 - Christian Wolff, composer
• 1934 - Ron Taylor, Sydney Australia, cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals)
• 1936 - Gabor Szabo, Hungarian jazz pianist (Perfect Circle)
• 1936 - Sue Ane Langdon, Paterson NJ, actress (Bachelor Father, Arnie)
• 1937 - Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973-94)
• 1937 - Pamela McEvoy-Johnston, psychotherapist-board member (WIC)
• 1937 - Raynoma Gordy, [Mayberry], US orchestra leader (Rayber Voices)
• 1938 - Lew DeWitt, Va, country singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
• 1939 - George William Reed, astronomy writer/cartoonist (Dark Sky Legacy)
• 1939 - Jim Bouton, Newark NJ, pitcher (NY Yankees)/author (Ball Four)
• 1939 - Lydia Skoblikova, USSR, speed skater (Olympics-6 gold-1960, 64)
• 1939 - Mike Lowry, (Rep-D-WA, 1979- )
• 1939 - Robert Tear, Barry Wales, tenor (Welsh Natl Opera 1970)
• 1939 - Yannis Vlachopoulos, composer
• 1940 - Leslie Isben Rogge, one of FBI's most wanted
• 1940 - Susan Clark, Sarnia Ontario, actress (Night Moves, Webster)
• 1940 - Theo Laseroms, [The Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
• 1941 - Ivana Loudova, composer
• 1941 - Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff, composer
• 1942 - Ann Packer-Brightwell, England, 400m/800m runner (Oly-gold-1964)
• 1942 - Ralph Ellis, England, rhythm (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
• 1942 - [Dick] Richie Allen, baseball player (AL MVP 1972)
• 1943 - Lynn Redgrave, London, actress (Georgie Girl)/Weight-Watcher
• 1944 - Carole Bayer Sager, NY, aka Mrs Burt Bachrach, singer (Arthur)
• 1945 - Graeme Watson, cricketer (Australian opening batsman 5 Tests 1966-72)
• 1945 - Jim Chapman, (Rep-D-TX, 1985- )
• 1945 - Keith Jarrett, pianist/composer
• 1945 - Micky Dolenz, LA Calif, actor (Circus Boy)/singer (Monkees)
• 1946 - Mohammad Nazir, Pakistani cricket off-spinner (14 Tests 1969-83)
• 1946 - Randy Meisner, rock bassist/vocalist (Poco, Eagles-Take it Easy)
• 1947 - Mike Allsup, Modesto Ca, rock guitarist (Three Dog Night)
• 1948 - Little Peggy March, [Margaret Battavio], vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
• 1949 - Charles Lismont, Belgian marathon runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
• 1951 - Philippe Henri Edmonds, cricketer (in Zambia England slow left-arm)
• 1952 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-14)
• 1953 - Jim Rice, Boston Red Sox outfielder (AL MVP 1978)
• 1953 - Kathleen Ann Shower, Brookville Oh, Playmate of the Year (May, 1985)
• 1954 - Cheryl Baker, rock vocalist (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
• 1954 - David Wilkie, England, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1976)
• 1954 - Karl Schnabl, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
• 1957 - Cynthia Rothrock, Wilmington Del, actress (Lady Dragon, Honor & Glory)
• 1957 - Ruth Wysocki, Alhambra Calif, 800m/1500m runner
• 1958 - Andreas Maurer, West Germany, tennis star
• 1958 - Gary Numan, [Gary Webb], Hammersmith England, vocalist (Replicas)
• 1959 - Aidan Quinn, actor (Avalon, Desperately Seeking Susan, Mission)
• 1960 - Buck Williams, NBA forward (Portland Trail Blazers, NY Knicks)
• 1961 - Larry Murphy, Scarborough, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
• 1962 - Shaun Gayle, NFL strong safety (SD Chargers)
• 1962 - William Fuller, NFL defensive end (Phila Eagles, SD Chargers)
• 1963 - Gursharan Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90)
• 1963 - Kathy Ireland, model/actress (Alien From LA, Side Out)
• 1963 - Mike Lalor, Buffalo, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
• 1964 - Cheryl "Salt" James, singer (Salt-N-Pepa)
• 1964 - Peter Ged Gill, drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-2 Tribes) [or 1/8]
• 1965 - Kenny Smith, NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
• 1966 - Elliot Boult, Blenheim NZ, Australasia golfer
• 1966 - Holly Ann Salo, Keani Alaska, Miss Alaska-America (1991)
• 1966 - Laura McCabe, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
• 1967 - Brent Fedyk, Yorkton, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
• 1967 - Dale Joseph, CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
• 1968 - Clare Wood, Zululand South Africa, tennis star (1986 Futures-Lisbon)
• 1968 - Rob Zettler, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
• 1969 - Andrea Parker, actress (Miss Parker-The Pretender)
• 1970 - Harry Decheiver, soccer player (RKC)
• 1970 - Jason Elam, NFL kicker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
• 1970 - Rhett Harty, Pasedena CA, US soccer player (Olympic-92)
• 1970 - Vadim Bekboulatov, NHL forward (Belarus, Oly-98)
• 1971 - Bob Boughner, Windsor, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
• 1971 - Marc Tobert, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
• 1972 - Craig Johnson, St Paul Mn, NHL left wing (LA Kings/Oly-1994)
• 1972 - Pat Riley, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
• 1972 - Takuro Abe, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
• 1973 - Kendell Watkins, NFL tight end (Dallas Cowboys)
• 1973 - Nanette Pearson, Pleasant Grove Utah, Miss America-Utah (1997)
• 1974 - Steve Sarkisian, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
• 1974 - Toran James, linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
• 1975 - Brett Conway, NFL kicker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
• 1975 - Kenny Wheaton, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
• 1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr, actor (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
• 1977 - James Van Der Beek, actor (Dawson's Creek)
• 1977 - Petr Devyatkin, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 0883 - Albumasar, [Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi], Arabic astronomer, dies
• 1144 - Celestine II, [Guido], Italian Pope (1143-44), dies in battle
• 1403 - Bajezid I Jildirim, 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403), dies at 42
• 1466 - Francesco Sforza, Italian condottiere/duke of Milan, dies at 64
• 1550 - Juan de Dios, Port/Sp saint (Brothers of Mercy), dies at 55
• 1638 - Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 73
• 1640 - Guillaume van Messaus, composer, dies at 50
• 1661 - Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France, dies at 58
• 1702 - John de Baen, portrait painter/etcher, buried at 69
• 1702 - William III, Dutch King of England (1689-1702), dies at 51 [NS-Mar 19]
• 1709 - William Cowper/Cooper, English anatomist, dies at about 62
• 1716 - Harald Vallerius, composer, dies at 69
• 1720 - Georg Bronner, composer, dies at 53
• 1724 - Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect, dies at about 81
• 1728 - Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia), dies at 64
• 1734 - Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer, dies at 33
• 1754 - Don Jos‚ de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Sp min of Foreign affairs, dies
• 1828 - Johann Anton Sulzer, composer, dies at 75
• 1862 - Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56
• 1862 - Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in NYC for stealing 1,000 slaves
• 1869 - Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic), dies at 65
• 1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74
• 1887 - Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73
• 1889 - Jens/John Ericsson, Swed/US, engineer (fire extinguisher), dies at 85
• 1901 - Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician, dies at 64
• 1901 - Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
• 1917 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, dies at 78
• 1919 - Auguste Tolbecque, composer, dies at 88
• 1920 - Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69
• 1923 - Johannes S van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85
• 1930 - William Howard Taft, 27th US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72
• 1931 - Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer, dies at 87
• 1932 - Jan de Louter, Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina, dies at 84
• 1936 - Peter H J "Piet" van Doorne, director BOVA Red Peppers, executed at 52
• 1937 - Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion), dies at 71
• 1941 - Jose Serrano Simeon, composer, dies at 67
• 1941 - Sherwood Anderson, US writer/publisher (Winesburg Ohio), dies at 64
• 1942 - Jos‚ R Capablanca, Cuban chess player (world champ 1927), dies at 53
• 1945 - H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald
• 1945 - Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26
• 1950 - Jaroslav Kocian, composer, dies at 67
• 1951 - Honeymoon Killers, dies in electric chair
• 1951 - John Winter Thompson, composer, dies at 83
• 1954 - Percy Twentyman-Jones, cricketer (pair in only Test for S Afr), dies
• 1955 - Clementine, Princess of Belg, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte, dies at 82
• 1957 - Othmar Schoeck, composer, dies at 70
• 1958 - Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Salontiroler), dies at 85
• 1959 - Abdel Wahab Shawwaf, Iraqi colonel/putschist, murdered
• 1961 - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom), dies at 81
• 1963 - John Hartley, cricketer (bowl avg 115 in 2 Tests for Eng 1906), dies
• 1965 - Esther Howard, actress (Detour), dies of heart attack at 72
• 1967 - John F Bothwell, actor (Freckles-Our Gang), dies at 46
• 1971 - Harold Lloyd, US comic/actor (Why Worry), dies of cancer at 77
• 1973 - Gordon Leggat, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 351 runs at 21 93), dies
• 1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, rocker (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots), dies at 27
• 1974 - Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56
• 1974 - Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch actor (Silk Stockings), dies at 56
• 1975 - George Stevens, US director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70
• 1977 - Henry Hull, actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town), dies at 86
• 1979 - G‚rard Blitz, Dutch 400m swimmer (WR), dies at 78
• 1983 - William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast), dies at 80
• 1985 - Edward Andrews, actor (Broadside), dies at 70 of a heart attack
• 1985 - Thomas Creighton, US heart patient (3 implants in 46 hrs), dies at 33
• 1986 - Hubert Fichte, writer, dies at 50
• 1992 - Red Callender, US jazz bassist (Unfinished dream), dies at 76
• 1993 - Billy Eckstine, jazz singer (Fools Rush In), dies at 78 of stroke
• 1993 - Johan Bodegraven, radio host (Purses Open, Dikes Closed), dies at 78
• 1993 - Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69
• 1993 - Wells Root, US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92
• 1994 - John Ewart, Sydney Australia, dies of cancer at 55
• 1994 - Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69
• 1994 - Knut Haukelid, Norway/US resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943), dies at 82
• 1995 - Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund), dies at 83
• 1995 - Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist, dies at 91
• 1996 - Alison McCartney, pathologist/Breast Cancer campaigner, dies at 45
• 1996 - Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, commando, dies at 89
• 1996 - Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
• 1997 - Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman), dies at 75