Tuesday, January 19, 2016

January 20 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths


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Birthdays

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Notable

225 – Gordian III  (d. 11 Feb 244)
      Marcus Antonius Gordianus Pius Augustus
      32nd Emperor of the Roman Empire, 238-244
1029 – Alp Arslan  (d. 15 Dec 1072)
      Muhammad bin Dawud Chaghri
      2nd Sultan of the Seljuk Empire, 1063-1072
1292 – Elisabeth of Bohemia (d. 28 Sep 1330)
      Queen consort of Bohemia, 1310-1330
      mother of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV
1436 – Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Japanese shogun (d. 1490)
1502 – Sebastian de Aparicio  (d. 1600)
      Spanish-born Franciscan, beatified for his work in Mexico
1554 – Sebastian of Portugal (d. 4 Aug 1578)
      King of Portugal and the Algarves, 1557-1558
1573 – Simon Marius  (d. 1624)
      German astronomer and academic
1586 – Johann Schein, German composer (d. 1630)
1664 – Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina  (d. 1718)
      Italian lawyer and jurist
1703 – Joseph-Hector Fiocco  (d. 1741)
      Flemish violinist and composer
1716 – Jean-Jacques Barthélemy  (d. 1795)
      French archaeologist and numismatist
1716 – Charles III of Spain (d. 14 Dec 1788)
      King of Spain, 1759-1788
      King of Sicily, 1734-1759
      King of Naples, 1734-1759
      Duke of Parma and Piacenza, 1731-1735
1732 – Richard Henry Lee  (d. 19 Jun 1794)
      American lawyer and politician
      signer of the Declaration of Independence
      signatory to the Articles of Confederation
      12th President of the Continental Congress, 1784-1785
      U.S. Senator, VA, 1789-1792
1741 – Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Swedish naturalist (d. 1783)
1755 – Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet  (d. 1824)
      English admiral
1762 – Jérôme-Joseph de Momigny  (d. 1842)
      Belgian-French composer and theorist
1775 – André-Marie Ampère  (d. 1836)
      French physicist and mathematician  (d. 1848)
1781 – Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg
      Austrian-German historian and politician
1783 – Friedrich Dotzauer  (d. 1860)
      German cellist and composer
1798 – Anson Jones  (d. 1858)
      American physician and politician
      5th President of the Republic of Texas
1804 – Eugène Sue, French author (d. 1857)
1806:  Nathaniel Parker Willis (aka N. P. Willis)  (d. 20 Jan 1867)
      American author, poet and editor
1812 – Thomas Meik, Scottish engineer (d. 1896)
1814:  David Wilmot  (d. 16 Mar 1868)
      American politician
      U.S. Senator, R. PA, 1861-1863
      U.S. Representative, D. PA, 1845-1851
1834 – George D. Robinson  (d. 1896)
      American lawyer and politician
      34th Governor of Massachusetts
1855 – Ernest Chausson, French composer (d. 1899)
1867 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (d. 1944)
1870 – Guillaume Lekeu, Belgian composer (d. 1894)
1872:  Julia Morgan  (d. 2 Feb 1957)
      American architect (Hearst Castle, Riverside Art Museum,
            Los Angeles Examiner Building)
1873 – Johannes V. Jensen  (d. 1950)
      Danish author, poet, and playwright
      Nobel Prize laureate
1876 – Josef Hofmann  (d. 1967)
      Polish-American pianist and composer
1878 – Finlay Currie, Scottish-English actor (d. 1968)
1878 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer (d. 1968)
1880 – Max Schöne, German swimmer (d. 1961)
1882 – Johnny Torrio, Italian-American mobster (d. 1957)
1883 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (d. 1968)
1886 – Claude Jameson, American soccer player (d. 1943)
1888:  Ethel Davis Wilson  (d. 22 Dec 1980)
      Canadian novelist and short story writer
1889 – Allan Haines Loughead  (d. 1969)
      American engineer and businessman
      founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company
1889 – G. H. Luce, British colonial scholar in Burma (d. 1979)
1891 – Mischa Elman, Ukrainian-American violinist (d. 1967)
1893 – Georg Åberg, Swedish triple jumper (d. 1946)
1894 – Harold Gray  (d. 1968)
      American cartoonist; created Little Orphan Annie
1894 – Walter Piston  (d. 1976)
      American composer, theorist, and academic
1895 – Gábor Szegő  (d. 1985)
      Hungarian mathematician and academic
1896 – George Burns  (d. 9 Mar 1996)
      American actor, comedian, singer, and producer
1896 – Rolfe Sedan, American actor (d. 1982)
1896 – Isabel Withers, American actress (d. 1968)
1898 – U Razak  (d. 1947)
      Burmese educator, politician & martyr
1899 – Clarice Cliff, English potter (d. 1972)
1899 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese engineer (d. 1990)
1900 – Colin Clive, French-English actor (d. 1937)
1902 – Leon Ames, American actor and singer (d. 1993)
1902 – Kevin Barry, Irish republican rebel (d. 1920)
1906 – Aristotle Onassis, Turkish-Greek businessman (d. 1975)
1907 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress and producer (d. 2000)
1909 – Gōgen Yamaguchi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1989)
1910 – Joy Adamson  (d. 1980)
      Austrian-Kenyan naturalist, painter and author
1912 – Hulusi Kentmen, Turkish actor (d. 1993)
1913 – S. M. Rasamanickam, Sri Lankan politician (d. 1974)
1915 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan  (d. 2006)
      Pakistani businessman and politician
      7th President of Pakistan
1918 – Juan García Esquivel  (d. 2002)
      Mexican pianist, composer, and bandleader
1918 – W. Cleon Skousen  (d. 2006)
      American author and academic
1920 – Federico Fellini  (d. 1993)
      Italian director and screenwriter
1920 – DeForest Kelley  (d. 1999)
      American actor, singer, and screenwriter
1920 – Thorleif Schjelderup  (d. 2006)
      Norwegian ski jumper and author
1921 – Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (d. 2006)
1922 – Ray Anthony
      American trumpet player, composer, bandleader, and actor
1922 – Don Mankiewicz  (d. 2015)
      German-American screenwriter and novelist
1922 – Graham Stark, English actor and director (d. 2013)
1923 – Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (d. 2015)
1923 – Slim Whitman  (d. 2013)
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1924 – Yvonne Loriod, French pianist and composer (d. 2010)
1925 – Jamiluddin Aali  (d. 2015)
      Pakistani poet, playwright, and critic
1925 – Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan priest, poet, and politician
1926 – Patricia Neal, American actress (d. 2010)
1926 – David Tudor, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
1927 – Qurratulain Hyder  (d. 2007)
      Indian-Pakistani journalist, author, and academic
1928 – Antonio de Almeida  (d. 1997)
      French conductor and musicologist
1929 – Jimmy Cobb, American drummer
1929 – Arte Johnson, American actor, singer, and screenwriter
1929 – Fireball Roberts, American race car driver (d. 1964)
1930 – Buzz Aldrin, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1931 – David Lee
      American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 – Hachidai Nakamura  (d. 1992)
      Japanese pianist and composer
1932 – Lou Fontinato, Canadian ice hockey player
1933:  Ronald Townson  (d. 2 Aug 2001)
      American singer (The 5th Dimension)
1934 – Hennie Aucamp  (d. 2014)
      South African poet, author, and academic
1934 – Tom Baker, English actor
1934 – Horst Mahseli, Polish footballer (d. 1999)
1936 – Frances Shand Kydd  (d. 3 Jun 2004)
      English-Scottish mother of Diana, Princess of Wales
1937 – Dorothy Provine  (d. 2010)
      American singer, dancer, and actress
1938 – William Berger, Austrian-American actor (d. 1993)
1938 – Derek Dougan  (d. 2007)
      Irish-English footballer and journalist
1939 – Paul Coverdell, American politician (d. 2000)
1939 – Chandra Wickramasinghe
      Sri Lankan-English mathematician, astronomer, and biologist
1940 – Carol Heiss, American figure skater and actress
1940 – Krishnam Raju, Indian actor and politician
1940 – Mandé Sidibé  (d. 2009)
      Malian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Mali
1941 – Pierre Lalonde, Canadian singer and television host
1941 – Clift Tsuji, American politician
1943 – Rick Evans
      American singer and guitarist (Zager and Evans)
1944 – José Luis Garci, Spanish director and producer
1944:  Bill Griffith, American cartoonist
1944 – Farhad Mehrad  (d. 2002)
      Iranian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945:  Robert Olen Butler, American fiction writer
1945 – Christopher Martin-Jenkins  (d. 2013)
      English journalist and sportscaster
1945 – Eric Stewart
      English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1946 – David Lynch
      American director, producer, and screenwriter
1946 – Vladimír Merta
      Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist
1946:  Susan Vreeland, American author
1947 – Cyrille Guimard, French cyclist and sportscaster
1948 – Nancy Kress, American author and academic
1948 – Natan Sharansky
      Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and politician
      Deputy Prime Minister of Israel
1949 – Göran Persson
      Swedish politician; 31st Prime Minister of Sweden
1949:  Ivana Trump
      Czech-American athlete, socialite, and fashion model
      former wife of Donald Trump, 1977-1992
1950 – Daniel Benzali, Brazilian-American actor
1950:  Edward Hirsch
      American poet, author, and critic
      president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1950 – William Mgimwa  (d. 2014)
      Tanzanian banker and politician
      13th Tanzanian Minister of Finance
1950 – Mahamane Ousmane
      Nigerian politician, President of Niger
1951:  Rochelle "Shelley" Berkley
      American politician
      U.S. Representative, D. NV, 1999-2013
1951 – Iván Fischer, Hungarian conductor and composer
1952 – Nikos Sideris, Greek psychiatrist and poet
1952 – Paul Stanley
      American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
      (Kiss and Wicked Lester)
1954 – Rudy La Scala
      Venezuelan singer-songwriter and producer
1954 – Ken Page, American actor and singer
1954 – Alison Seabeck, English politician
1955 – McKeeva Bush
      Caymanian politician, Premier of the Cayman Islands
1955 – Hiromi Ōta, Japanese singer
1956 – Maria Larsson
      Swedish educator and politician
      Swedish Minister of Health and Social Affairs
1956 – Bill Maher
      American comedian, actor, and television host
1956 – Richard Morecroft, English-Australian journalist
1958 – Lorenzo Lamas, American actor, director, and producer
1959 – Tami Hoag, American author
1959 – R. A. Salvatore, American author
1960 – Apa Sherpa, Nepalese-American mountaineer
1960 – Scott Thunes, American bass player
1960 – Will Wright
      American video game designer; co-founded Maxis
1961:  Josefina Vazquez Mota
      Mexican businesswoman and politician
1962 – Laima Muktupāvela, Latvian writer
1962:  Sophie Thompson, English actress
1963 – James Denton, American actor
1963 – Mark Ryden, American painter
1964 – NoB, Japanese singer
1964 – Ozzie Guillén
      Venezuelan-American baseball player and manager
1964 – Ron Harper, American basketball player and coach
1964 – Kaho Minami, Japanese actress
1964 – Kazushige Nojima, Japanese screenwriter and songwriter
1964 – Aquilino Pimentel III, Filipino lawyer and politician
1964 – Fareed Zakaria, Indian-American journalist and author
1965 – Colin Calderwood, Scottish footballer and manager
1965Sophie, Countess of Wessex
      wife of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
1965 – Greg K., American bass player (The Offspring)
1965 – John Michael Montgomery
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1965 – Heather Small
      English singer-songwriter and actress (M People)
1965 – Anton Weissenbacher, Romanian footballer
1966 – Stacey Dash, American actress
1966 – Tracii Guns, American guitarist and songwriter
1966 – Rainn Wilson, American actor, director, and producer
1967:  Alexander Ahndoril, Swedish novelist and playwright
1967 – Jay Hunt, Australian-English businessman
1967 – Eric Quizon
      Filipino actor, director, producer, and writer
1968 – Nick Anderson
      American basketball player and sportscaster
1968 – Junior Murray, Grenadian cricketer
1968 – Melissa Rivers
      American actress, television host, and producer
1968 – Charlie Swan, Irish jockey and trainer
1969 – Noriko Kinohara, Japanese actress
1969 – Patrick K. Kroupa
      American computer hacker and activist
      co-founded MindVox
1969 – Blair Larsen, New Zealand rugby player
1969 – Reno Wilson
      American actor, comedian and voice artist
1969 – Nicky Wire
      Welsh singer-songwriter and bass player
      (Manic Street Preachers)
1970 – Kerri Kenney-Silver, American actress and singer
1970 – Edwin McCain
      American singer-songwriter and musician
1970 – Skeet Ulrich, American actor
1971 – Gary Barlow
      English singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1971 – Derrick Green, American singer-songwriter (Sepultura)
1971 – Wakanohana Masaru
      Japanese sumo wrestler, the 66th Yokozuna
1971Ahmir Khalib Thompson (bka Questlove)
      American drummer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, music
            journalist, and record producer
      (The Roots and Soulquarians)
1972 – Nikki Haley
      American accountant and politician
      116th Governor of South Carolina
1973 – Queen Mathilde of Belgium
1974 – David Dei, Italian footballer
1974:  Duniya Vijay, Indian actor
1975 – Norberto Fontana, Argentinian race car driver
1975:  Zac Goldsmith, British politician and journalist
1976:  Kirsty Gallacher, British television presenter
1976 – Gretha Smit, Dutch speed skater
1977 – Paul Adams, South African cricketer
1977 – Melody, Belgian singer
1978 – Salvatore Aronica, Italian footballer
1978:  Michael John East, English middle distance athlete
1978 – Joy Giovanni, American wrestler and actress
1978 – Sonja Kesselschläger, German heptathlete
1978:  Omar Sy, French actor and comedian
1978 – Allan Søgaard, Danish footballer
1978 – Sid Wilson, American DJ and pianist
1978 – Luciano Zauri, Italian footballer
1979 – Asaka Kubo, Japanese singer
1979 – Shang Yi, Chinese footballer
1979 – Will Young, English singer-songwriter and actor
1980 – Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
      American-French oceanographer and journalist
1980 – Philippe Gagnon, Canadian swimmer
1980 – Kim Jeong-hoon, South Korean singer and actor
1980 – Petra Rampre, Slovenian tennis player
1980 – Matthew Tuck, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist
1981 – Daniel Cudmore, Canadian actor and stuntman
1981 – Brendan Fevola, Australian footballer
1981 – Freddy Guzmán, Dominican baseball player
1981 – Owen Hargreaves, English footballer
1981 – Crystal Lowe, Canadian actress
1981 – Jason Richardson, American basketball player
1982:  Ruchi Sanghvi, Indian computer engineer
1982 – Fredrik Strømstad, Norwegian footballer
1982:  Erin Wasson, American model, actress, and designer.
1983 – Mari Yaguchi
      Japanese singer and actress (Morning Musume)
1984 – Olivia Hallinan, English actress
1984 – Rene Mandri, Estonian cyclist
1984:  Bonnie McKee, American singer and songwriter
1985 – Marina Inoue, Japanese voice actress and singer
1985 – Tanel Sokk, Estonian basketball player
1985 – Roxanne Barcelo, Filipino singer, actress and host
1986 – Genie Chuo, Taiwanese singer and actress
1986 – Kevin Parker, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1987 – Janin Lindenberg, German sprinter
1987 – Michelle Maylene, American actress and model
1987:  Madhur Mittal, Indian British actor
1987 – Evan Peters, American actor
1987:  Pete Ploszek, American actor
1987 – Marco Simoncelli, Italian motorcycle racer (d. 2011)
1988 – Colin Bensadon, Gibraltarian swimmer
1988 – Uwa Elderson Echiéjilé, Nigerian footballer
1988 – Nathan Jones, Australian rules footballer
1988 – Callum MacLeod, English racing driver
1988 – Jeffrén Suárez, Spanish footballer
1989 – Nick Foles, American football player
1989 – Washington Santana da Silva, Brazilian footballer
1991 – Ciara Hanna, American actress and model
1991 – Polona Hercog, Slovenian tennis player
1991 – Jolyon Palmer, English race car driver
1991 – Lily LaBeau, American porn actress
1992 – Jorge Zárate, Mexican footballer
1992 – Maria Harfanti
      Indonesian social activist and pianist
      Miss Indonesia 2015
1993 – Lorenzo Crisetig, Italian footballer
1994 – Denis Mukhametdinov, Russian footballer
1995 – Joey Badass, American rapper (Pro Era)


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Ken Gilman
Kathy Gramprie
Nicole Goodwin


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Notable

250 – Pope Fabian (b. 200)
820 – Al-Shafi‘i, Palestinian scholar and jurist (b. 767)
842 – Theophilos, Byzantine emperor (b. 813)
1156 – Henry, English-Finnish bishop and saint
1191 – Frederick VI, Duke of Swabia (b. 1167)
1410 – Martin of Aragon (b. 1356)
1479 – John II of Aragon (b. 1397)
1568 – Myles Coverdale, English bishop and translator (b. 1488)
1612 – Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1552)
1663 – Isaac Ambrose, English minister and author (b. 1604)
1666 – Anne of Austria (b. 1601)
1707 – Humphrey Hody, English scholar and theologian (b. 1659)
1709 – François de la Chaise, French priest (b. 1624)
1751 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
1770 – Charles Yorke  (b. 1722)
      English lawyer and politician; Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
1779 – David Garrick  (b. 1717)
      English actor, producer, playwright, and manager
1810 – Benjamin Chew, American lawyer and judge (b. 1721)
1819 – Charles IV of Spain (b. 1748)
1837 – John Soane, English architect; designed the Bank of England (b. 1753)
1841 – Jørgen Jørgensen, Danish adventurer (b. 1780)
1841 – Minh Mạng, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1791)
1848 – Christian VIII of Denmark (b. 1786)
1850 – Adam Oehlenschläger, Danish poet-playwright (b. 1779)
1852 – Ōnomatsu Midorinosuke  (b. 1794)
      Japanese sumo wrestler; the 6th Yokozuna
1873 – Basil Moreau  (b. 1799)
      French priest; founded the Congregation of Holy Cross
1875 – Jean-François Millet, French painter and educator (b. 1814)
1891 – Kalākaua of Hawaii (b. 1836)
1900 – John Ruskin, English painter and critic (b. 1819)
1901 – Zénobe Gramme  (b. 1826)
      Belgian engineer; invented the Gramme machine
1907 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer (b. 1842)
1908 – John Ordronaux, American surgeon and academic (b. 1830)
1913 – José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican engraver and illustrator (b. 1852)
1921 – Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer (b. 1847)
1936 – George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1865)
1940 – Omar Bundy, American general (b. 1861)
1944 – James McKeen Cattell, American psychologist and academic (b. 1860)
1947 – Josh Gibson, American baseball player (b. 1911)
1954 – Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (b. 1882)
1962 – Robinson Jeffers, American poet and philosopher (b. 1887)
1965 – Alan Freed, American radio host (b. 1922)
1971 – Broncho Billy Anderson  (b. 1880)
      American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Minanogawa Tōzō  (b. 1903)
      Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna
1973 – Lorenz Böhler, Austrian physician and surgeon (b. 1885)
1973 – Amílcar Cabral  (b. 1924)
      Guinea Bissauan-Cape Verdian engineer and politician
1977 – Dimitrios Kiousopoulos  (b. 1892)
      Greek jurist and politician; 151st Prime Minister of Greece
1979 – Gustav Winckler, Danish singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
1983 – Garrincha, Brazilian footballer (b. 1933)
1984 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (b. 1904)
1988 – Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Pakistani activist and politician (b. 1890)
1988 – Dora Stratou, Greek dancer and choreographer (b. 1903)
1989 – Alamgir Kabir  (b. 1938)
      Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter
1990 – Hayedeh, Iranian singer (b. 1942)
1990 – Barbara Stanwyck, American actress and singer (b. 1907)
1993 – Audrey Hepburn, British actress and humanitarian (b. 1929)
1994 – Matt Busby, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1909)
1994 – Bedia Muvahhit, Turkish actress (b. 1897)
1996 – Gerry Mulligan, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1927)
1997 – Curt Flood, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1938)
1998 – Bobo Brazil, American wrestler and actor (b. 1924)
2002 – Carrie Hamilton, American actress and singer (b. 1963)
2003 – Al Hirschfeld, American painter and illustrator (b. 1903)
2003 – Nedra Volz, American actress (b. 1908)
2003 – Bill Werbeniuk, Canadian snooker player (b. 1947)
2004 – Alan Brown, English racing driver (b. 1919)
2004 – T. Nadaraja, Sri Lankan lawyer and academic (b. 1917)
2004 – Guinn Smith, American pole vaulter (b. 1920)
2005 – Parveen Babi, Indian model and actress (b. 1949)
2005 – Per Borten  (b. 1913)
      Norwegian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Norway
2005 – Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, Polish journalist and politician (b. 1913)
2006 – Dave Lepard  (b. 1980)
      Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Crashdïet)
2007 – Dan Christensen, American painter (b. 1942)
2009 – Stéphanos II Ghattas, Egyptian patriarch (b. 1920)
2009 – David "Fathead" Newman  (b. 1933)
      American saxophonist and songwriter
2012 – Etta James, American singer-songwriter (b. 1938)
2012 – John Levy, American bassist and manager (b. 1912)
2012 – Ioannis Kefalogiannis  (b. 1933)
      Greek politician, Greek Minister of the Interior
2012 – Alejandro Rodriguez  (b. 1918)
      Venezuelan-American pediatrician and psychiatrist
2013 – Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright (b. 1933)
2013 – Toyo Shibata, Japanese poet and author (b. 1911)
2014 – Claudio Abbado, Italian conductor (b. 1933)
2014 – James Jacks, American film producer (b. 1947)
2015 – Edgar Froese  (b. 1944)
      Russian-German keyboard player and songwriter (Tangerine Dream)
2015 – Hitoshi Saito, Japanese martial artist (b. 1961)
2015 – Tyrone José González Oramas  (b. 1988)
      Venezuelan composer and singer
2015 – Ricardo dos Santos; Brazilian surfer (b. 1990)


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2016:  Alfred Robert (Bob) Teal  (b. 27 Jul 1921)


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