• 1540 - Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
• 1604 - John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator, baptized
• 1607 - Philipp Friedrich Boddecker, composer
• 1623 - Antonio Cesti, composer
• 1624 - William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
• 1694 - Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer
• 1711 - Johan Lulofs, Dutch physicist/philosopher/astronomer
• 1749 - Thomas Lynch, signer (Declaration of Independence)
• 1797 - Friedrich August Kummer, composer
• 1802 - Niels H Abel, Norwegian mathematician (Abel's Comparisons)
• 1811 - C L Ambroise Thomas, French composer (Ca‹d, Fran‡oise de Rimini)
• 1813 - Carnot Posey, Confederate brig-general
• 1813 - Ivar A Aasen, Norwegian linguistic/poet
• 1815 - Edward J Eyre, British explorer/governor (Jamaica)
• 1822 - Johann Georg Herzog, composer
• 1823 - Joseph E Labb‚, French lawyer
• 1828 - Giovanni Rossi, composer
• 1828 - WFAA Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway/princess of Netherlands
• 1829 - Heinrich Franz Daniel Stiehl, composer
• 1829 - Milo Smith Hascall, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1904
• 1830 - James A Healy, 1st black bishop in America
• 1843 - James Scott Skinner, composer
• 1850 - Anton Simon, composer
• 1850 - Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de Suif)
• 1856 - Achad Ha'am, [AsjŠr Ginsberg], Hebrew philosopher/writer
• 1860 - Joseph Carey Merrick, "Elephant Man"
• 1864 - Resurreccion Maria de Azkue, composer
• 1866 - Alfred Holy, composer
• 1868 - Oskar Merikanto, composer
• 1876 - Mary R Beard, Indianapolis, historian (Woman as a Force in History)
• 1880 - Gertrude E Durden Rush, US composer/playwright (Black Girls Burden)
• 1882 - Joe English, Irish/Flemish signaler (WW I)
• 1886 - Oscar Espla, composer
• 1887 - Reginald Owen, Wheathampstead Engld, actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes)
• 1888 - Victor Francen, Belgium, actor (J'Acusse, San Antonio)
• 1889 - Conrad P Aiken, US, poet/writer (Ushant/Conversation)
• 1890 - Erich Kleiber, Vienna Austria, conductor (NBC Symphony 1945-46)
• 1890 - Hans Gal, composer
• 1890 - Naum Gabo, [Pevsner], Russian/US sculptor (Stillife Flower)
• 1891 - Donald Kerr, Eagle Grove IA, actor (Carnival Lady, Devil Bat)
• 1899 - Conrad Aiken, US, poet/short story writer/critic (Selected Poems)
• 1900 - Bodi Rapp, [Johanna PAC Goetmakers], Dutch mezzo-soprano/teacher
• 1901 - Juan Carlos Paz, composer
• 1904 - Kenneth Thimann, botanist
• 1906 - Francis Walder, [Fran‡ois Waldburger], Belgian author
• 1906 - John Huston, Nevada Mo, director/writer (African Queen, Chinatown)
• 1906 - Wassely Leontief, Russ/US economist (Nobel 1973)
• 1907 - Ernestine "Tiny" Davis, jazz vocalist/trumpeter
• 1908 - Harold Holt, PM of Australia (1966-67); supported US in Vietnam
• 1910 - Jacquetta Hawker, English archaeologist/author (A Country)
• 1910 - Nan Gindele, US javelin thrower (World Record 1932-38)
• 1910 - [Johan] Erik Lindegren, Swedish poet/librettist (Aniara)
• 1911 - Robert Taylor, Filley Neb, actor (Death Valley Days)
• 1912 - Abb‚ Pierre, [Henri Pierre GrouŠs], French priest who helps poor
• 1913 - Nelly Aenders, [Petronella Meyer], Dutch actress (Spanish Fly)
• 1914 - Anita Colby, Wash DC, model/actress (Pepsi Cola Playhouse)
• 1914 - David Brian, NYC, actor (Accussed of Murder, Dawn at Sorocco)
• 1914 - Stjepan Sulek, Croatian violinist/composer (Coriolan)
• 1920 - G V [Sonny] Montgomery, (Rep-D-Mississippi, 1967- )
• 1920 - Selma Diamond, London Ontario, comedienne (Selma-Night Court)
• 1921 - Nazar Mohammad, cricketer (Mudassar's pop, Pakistan's 1st centurion)
• 1923 - Richard Kleindienst, attorney general (1972)
• 1925 - Cor Witschge, Dutch actor (Pipo the Clown)
• 1926 - Betsy Jolas, composer
• 1927 - Gunnar Bucht, composer
• 1930 - Neil Armstrong, Ohio, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)
• 1932 - Sister Vince Otto, mental health activist
• 1932 - Tera de Marez Oyens, composer
• 1933 - Joan Weldon, SF, actress (So This is Love, Them)
• 1934 - Vern Gosdin, Woodland Al, country singer (Set 'em Up Joe)
• 1935 - John McCartan, St Paul Minn, ice hockey player (Oly-gold-60)
• 1935 - John Saxon, Bkln, actor (Bees, Nightmare on Elm St, Electric Horseman)
• 1935 - Zakes Mokae, Johannesburg South Africa, actor (Comedians)
• 1936 - John Dancy, Jackson Tx, newscaster (Prime Time Sunday)
• 1938 - Hayes Wendell Jones, Sturksville Mich, 110m hurdler (Oly-gold-1964)
• 1938 - Ja'net Dubois, Phila, actress (Willona-Good Times, Beverly Hill 90210)
• 1939 - Irene, Princess of Netherlands
• 1941 - Leonid Denissovich Kizim, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-3, T-10, T-15)
• 1942 - Rick Huxley, guitarist (Dave Clark 5-Glad All Over)
• 1943 - Sammi Smith, singer
• 1944 - Loni Anderson, St Paul Minn, actress (Jennifer-WKRP in Cincinnati)
• 1945 - Jacob Reitsma, economist/Dutch MP (CDA)
• 1945 - Jo Collins, Oregon, Playboy playmate (Dec, 1964)
• 1946 - Erika Slezak, Hollywood, Calif, actress (Viki-One Life to Live)
• 1946 - Rick van der Linden, Dutch keyboardist (Ekseption)
• 1947 - Greg Leskiw, rocker
• 1947 - Rick Derringer, rocker (I am the Real American (Hulk Hogan's theme)
• 1948 - Tony DiCicco, Wethersfield Ct, US women's soccer coach (Olympics-96)
• 1950 - Holly Palance, LA Calif, actress (Thorn Birds, Ripley's Believe It)
• 1950 - Rosi Mittermaier, German FR, slalom/downhill (Olympic-gold-1976)
• 1953 - Samantha Sang, singer (Emotion)
• 1954 - Eddie "Fingers" Ojeda, Bx NY, (Twisted Sister-We're Not Gonna Take It)
• 1956 - Ferdi Bolland, Dutch singer/guitarist (Bolland & Bolland)
• 1956 - Maureen McCormick, actress (Marcia-Brady Bunch)
• 1957 - Andrei Yevgeniyevich Zaitsev, cosmonaut
• 1957 - Pavel V Vinogradov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-26)
• 1959 - Pete Burns, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
• 1960 - Calvin Hayes, rocker
• 1960 - Heidi S”renson, Vancouver BC, playmate (Jul, 1981)
• 1960 - Mike Nocito, rocker (Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back the Clock)
• 1961 - Athula Samarasekera, cricketer (Sri Lankan batsman)
• 1961 - Tawny Kitaen, SD Calif, actress (Bachelor Party, Witchboard)
• 1962 - Otis Thorpe, NBA forward (Vancouver Grizzlies, Detroit Pistons)
• 1962 - Patrick Ewing, Jamaica, NBA center (NY Knicks/Olympic-gold-92)
• 1962 - Richard De Groen, cricketer (NZ medium pacer 1993-)
• 1962 - William Roberts, NFL guard (NY Jets, NE Patriots)
• 1963 - James Wilder, Cleveland OH, actor (Scorchers, Zombie High, Murder 1)
• 1964 - M C A, [Adam Yauch], rapper (Beastie Boys)
• 1965 - M V Sridhar, cricketer (score 366 for Hyderabad v Andhra Pradesh 1994)
• 1966 - Jonathan Silverman, LA Cal, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Single Guy)
• 1967 - Mike Fox, NFL defensive end (Carolina Panthers)
• 1968 - Andreas Lupzig, Straubing GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
• 1968 - John Olerud, Seattle WA, infielder (Toronto Blue Jays)
• 1969 - Halle Cioffi, Cleveland OH, tennis star
• 1969 - James Fuller, NFL/WLAF safety (N O Saints, Frankfurt Galaxy, Scotland)
• 1969 - Robert Scott, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
• 1969 - Vasbert Conniel Drakes, cricketer (Barbados fast bowler, WI ODI 1995)
• 1969 - Venkatesh Prasad, cricketer (consistent Indian Test pace bowler 1996-)
• 1970 - Andy Antoine, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
• 1970 - Everett McIver, NFL guard (NY Jets, Miami Dolphins)
• 1970 - Travis Moore, CFL receiver (Calgary Stampeders)
• 1971 - Perry Carter, cornerback (Oakland Raiders)
• 1971 - Valeri Karpov, Chelyabinsk Rus, NHL left wing (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
• 1972 - Aaqib Javed, cricketer (Pakistani pace bowler 1989- )
• 1972 - Arthur Reid, Nashville Tenn, pairs skater (& Jennifer Darst)
• 1972 - Darryl Yung, Victoria BC, badminton player (Olympics-96)
• 1972 - John Wasdin, Ft Belvoir WA, pitcher (Oakland A's)
• 1973 - Brendan Todd, Australian mistral yachter (Olympics-96)
• 1973 - Ed Burman, WLAF linebacker (London Monarchs)
• 1974 - Frankie Hejduk, La Mesa Calif, soccer defender (Olympics-gold-96)
• 1974 - Jamie Lynn Bolding, Lakeland Florida, Miss America-Florida (1997)
• 1974 - Jason Shelley, WLAF wide receiver (Frankfurt Galaxy)
• 1975 - Ami Foster, actress (Margaux-Punky Brewster)
• 1975 - Erin Gingrich, Yuma Arizona, Miss America-Arizona (1997)
• 1976 - Germain Wattamaleo, soccer player (Sparta)
• 1978 - Kristin Link, Fairfax Va, diver (Olympics-96)
• 1978 - Lorrie Fair, Los Altos CA, soccer defender (Olympics-96)
• 2184 - Christine Lauren Chapel, Davenport Heights, Vermont (Star Trek)
• 2186 - Kevin Thomas Riley, Tasvennir, Tarsus IV (Star Trek)

Famous deaths for this day ..

• 1157 - Dirk VI, Count of Holland, dies
• 1644 - J Henry Alting, theologist (Statenvertaling), dies at 61
• 1778 - Thomas Linley, composer, dies at 22
• 1792 - Frederick 7th baron North, English premier (1770-82), dies at 60
• 1830 - Karl Friedrich Horn, composer, dies at 68
• 1834 - Gijsbert K van Hogendorp, Dutch min of Foreign affairs, dies at 71
• 1852 - Frantisek L Celakovsky, Czech slavist/poet, dies at 53
• 1856 - Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer, dies at 61
• 1862 - Thomas Williams, US Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47
• 1863 - Adolf Friedrich Hesse, composer, dies at 53
• 1864 - Griffin A Stedman, Union-brig-gen (Fort Stedman), dies in battle at 26
• 1889 - Willem Ruys J Dz, ship owner, dies at 80
• 1891 - Henry Charles Litolff, French pianist/componist, dies at 73
• 1895 - Friedrich English, German textile manufacturer/marxist, dies
• 1900 - James Augustine Healy, black Roman Catholic bishop, dies at 80
• 1901 - Victoria, Emperor of Germany/Queen of Prussia, dies at 60
• 1907 - Gentil T Antheunis, Flemish poet/music/composer, dies at 66
• 1910 - Wojciech Gawronski, composer, dies at 42
• 1916 - George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, composer, dies at 31
• 1916 - Nikolay Ivanovich Kazanli, composer, dies at 46
• 1927 - Tom Groube, cricketer (Test for Australia 1880), dies
• 1931 - Ullrich Haupt, actor (Morocco, Du Barry-Woman of Passion), dies at 43
• 1932 - Isra‰l Querido, writer (Jordan), dies
• 1934 - Neville Quinn, cricketer (12 Tests for S Africa), dies at 26
• 1940 - Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (North Pole), dies at 75
• 1943 - Adam Kuckhoff, writer, dies at 55
• 1944 - Maurice Turnbull, cricketer (England)/rugby (Wales), dies
• 1947 - Joannes D M Cornelissen, historian (Johann de White), dies
• 1950 - Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemistry, dies at 73
• 1955 - Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine Way), dies at 42
• 1957 - Heinrich O Wieland, German chemist (Nobel 1927), dies at 80
• 1958 - Joseph Holbrooke, English pianist/composer (3 Blind Mice), dies at 80
• 1959 - Edgar Guest, US poet/newspaperman, dies at 77
• 1961 - Eva JC Beck, actress (Elckerlyc, Resurrection), dies at 63
• 1961 - Sidney Holland, PM of New Zealand (1949-57), dies at 67
• 1962 - Marilyn Monroe, found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug OD at 35
• 1964 - Moa Martinson, writer, dies
• 1966 - Austin Diamond, cricketer (Australian capt to America 1913), dies
• 1971 - Josef Stanislav, composer, dies at 74
• 1972 - Frederic Tozere, actor (Mr Phillips-Stanley), dies at 71
• 1976 - Adrian Roland Holst, poet (Past the Roads), dies at 88
• 1977 - Charles Carson, actor (Cry the Beloved Country), dies at 87
• 1978 - Queenie Smith, actress/dancer (Funny Side), dies at 79
• 1982 - Wanda Rotha, actress (Mrs Fitzherbert), dies at 72
• 1983 - Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox), dies of cancer at 66
• 1984 - Howard Culver, actor (Howie-Gunsmoke), dies at 66
• 1984 - R Hagelstange, writer, dies
• 1984 - Richard Burton, actor (Cleopatra), dies of cerebral hemorrhage at 58
• 1984 - Rudolf Hagelstange, German author (Zeit fr ein L„cheln), dies at 72
• 1985 - Theodore Sturgeon, sci-fi author (Hugo, It, Caviar), dies at 67
• 1987 - Zygmunt Mycielsky, composer, dies at 79
• 1989 - Ralph Meeker, actor (Kiss Me Deadly, Gentle Giant), dies at 68
• 1990 - Herman Gooding, Suriname police-inspector, dies
• 1991 - Paul Brown, NFL founder (Cleveland Browns, Cin Bengals), dies at 82
• 1991 - Soichiro Hondo, CEO & founder (Honda), dies of liver cancer at 84
• 1992 - Jeff Porcaro, drummer (Toto-Africa), dies of cardiac arrest at 38
• 1992 - Robert Muldoon, premier NZ (1975-84)/President IMF, dies
• 1994 - Amy Sacks, producer (ABC sports, Disney), dies of Lupus at 39
• 1994 - Audrey Langford, sInging teacher, dies at 82
• 1994 - Clive Robertson Caldwell, British fighter pilot, dies at 84
• 1994 - Terry Hibbitt, soccer star, dies at 47
• 1995 - Agha Hasan Abedi, banker, dies at 73
• 1995 - Anthony Barber Doncaster, bookseller, dies at 81
• 1996 - Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, politician, dies at 72
• 1996 - Bruce Howard Lidington, actor (Sword of Valiant, Mosses), dies at 46
• 1996 - Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic, dies at 68
• 1997 - Don Steele, LA radio personality (KRTH), dies of cancer at 61