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Birthdays
VIP
1866: David F. Houston d. 2 Sep 1940
American academic, businessman and politician
48th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, 1920-1921
5th U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1913-1920
8th Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, 1908-1913
4th President of the University of Texas at Austin, 1905-1908
11th President of Texas A&M University, 1902-1905
Notable
624 – Wu Zetian (d. 705)
Chinese wife of Emperor Taizong of Tang
1201 – Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d. 1274)
Persian astronomer, biologist and theologian
1490 – Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (d. 6 May 1527)
French military leader
Count of Montpensier, Clermont and Auvergne,
and Dauphin of Auvergne, 1501-1523
Duke of Bourbon and Auvergne, Count of Clermont-
en-Beauvaisis, Forez and La Marche, and Lord
of Beaujeu, 1505-1521
Constable of France, 1515-1521
1519 – Francis, Duke of Guise (d. 24 Feb 1563)
French soldier and politician
Francis de Lorraine II, Prince of Joinville, Duke of Guise,
Duke of Aumale
1524 – Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (d. 26 Dec 1574)
Archbishop of Reims, 1538-1574
Bishop of Metz, 1550-1551
Abbot of Cluny, 1550-1574
Duc de Chevreuse, 1555-1574
1581 – Fausto Poli, Italian cardinal (d. 1653)
1646 – Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (d. 1714)
French economist
1653 – Arcangelo Corelli (d. 1713)
Italian violinist and composer
1718 – Matthew Tilghman, American politician (d. 1790)
1723 – Tobias Mayer (d. 1762)
German astronomer and academic
1740 – Horace-Bénédict de Saussure (d. 1799)
Swiss physicist and meteorologist
1752 – Friedrich Maximilian Klinger (d. 1831)
German author and playwright
1754 – Nicolas Baudin (d. 1803)
French cartographer and explorer
1781 – René Laennec (d. 1826)
French physician, invented the stethoscope
1796 – Philipp Franz von Siebold (d. 1866)
German physician and botanist
1803: Edgar Quinet (d. 27 Mar 1875)
French historian and intellectual
1817 – Édouard Thilges (d. 1904)
Luxembourgian jurist and politician
7th Prime Minister of Luxembourg
1820 – Henri Vieuxtemps (d. 1881)
Belgian violinist and composer
1821 – Lola Montez (d. 1861)
Irish-American actress and dancer
1836 – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (d. 1870)
Spanish author, poet, and playwright
1844 – Aaron Montgomery Ward (d. 7 Dec 1913)
American businessman, founded Montgomery Ward
1848 – Albert Gustaf Dahlman, Swedish executioner (d. 1920)
1848 – Louisa Lawson, Australian poet and publisher (d. 1920)
1854 – Friedrich Alfred Krupp (d. 22 Nov 1902)
German businessman
1861 – Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont (d. 1 Sep 1922)
Duchess of Albany, 1882-1905
1862 – Eduard Bornhöhe, Estonian author (d. 1923)
1962: Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (d. 21 Oct 1935)
American playwright
1862 – Mori Ōgai, Japanese author and poet (d. 1922)
1863 – Fyodor Sologub, Russian author and poet (d. 1927)
1864 – Jozef Murgaš (d. 1929)
Slovak priest, botanist, and painter
1864 – Banjo Paterson (d. 1941)
Australian journalist, author, and poet
1874 – Thomas J. Watson (d. 19 Jun 1956)
American businessman
1877 – Isabelle Eberhardt, Swiss explorer and author (d. 1904)
1877 – André Maginot, French sergeant and politician (d. 1932)
1877 – Isidora Sekulić, Serbian author and critic (d. 1958)
1879: Dorothy Canfield Fisher (d. 9 Nov 1958)
American educational reformer, social activist, and author
1981: Bess Streeter Aldrich, American author (d. 3 Aug 1954)
1887 – Joseph Bech (d. 1975)
Luxembourgian lawyer and politician
15th Prime Minister of Luxembourg
1887 – Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer and critic (d. 1947)
1888: Ronald Knox (d. 24 Aug 1957)
English priest, theologian, author of detective stories,
and a writer and regular broadcaster for BBC Radio
1888 – Otto Stern (d. 1969)
German-American physicist and academic
Nobel Prize laureate
1889: H. L. Hunt (d. 29 Nov 1974)
American Texas oil tycoon and conservative Republican
political activist
1890 – Ronald Fisher (d. 1962)
English statistician, biologist, and geneticist
1891 – Abraham Fraenkel (d. 1965)
German-Israeli mathematician and academic
1893 – Wally Pipp (d. 1965)
American baseball player and journalist
1896 – Webu Sayadaw (d. 1977)
Theravada Buddhist monk, and vipassanā master
1899 – Jibanananda Das (d. 1954)
Bangladeshi-Indian poet and author
1900 – Ruth Clifford, American actress (d. 1998)
1902 – Orville "Hoppy" Jones (d. 1944)
American singer, bass and cello player (The Ink Spots)
1903 – Sadegh Hedayat (d. 1951)
Iranian-French author and translator
1904 – Hans Morgenthau (d. 1980)
German-American political scientist, philosopher,
and academic
1905 – Osvald Käpp, Estonian wrestler (d. 1995)
1906 – Mary Brian, American actress (d. 2002)
1907 – Yevgeniy Abalakov (d. 1948)
Russian mountaineer and sculptor
1908 – Red Barber, American sportscaster (d. 1992)
1908 – Bo Yibo (d. 2007)
Chinese general and politician
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
1910 – Arthur Hunnicutt, American actor (d. 1979)
1910 – Marc Lawrence, American actor (d. 2005)
1911 – Oskar Seidlin (d. 1984)
German-American author, poet, and scholar
1912 – Andre Norton, American author (d. 17 Mar 2005)
1914 – Arthur Kennedy, American actor (d. 5 Jan 1990)
1914 – Wayne Morris (d. 14 Sep 1959)
American actor, singer, and producer
1916 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian rugby player (d. 1940)
1916 – Raf Vallone, Italian footballer and actor (d. 2002)
1917 – Abdel Rahman Badawi (d. 2002)
Egyptian philosopher and poet
1917 – Guillermo González Camarena (d. 1965)
Mexican engineer
1918 – William Bronk, American poet and academic (d. 1999)
1918 – Volodymyr Shcherbytsky (d. 1990)
Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine
1919 – J. M. S. Careless (d. 2009)
Canadian historian and academic
1919 – Kathleen Freeman (d. 23 Aug 2001)
American actress and singer
1920 – Ivo Caprino (d. 2001)
Norwegian director and screenwriter
1920 – Curt Swan, American soldier and illustrator (d. 1996)
1922 – Tommy Edwards (d. 1969)
American singer and songwriter
1922 – Enrico Banducci, American businessman (d. 2007)
1923 – John M. Allegro (d. 1988)
English archaeologist and scholar
1923 – Buddy DeFranco (d. 24 Dec 2014)
American clarinet player
1924 – Margaret Truman (d. 29 Jan 2008)
American singer and author
1925 – Ron Goodwin (d. 2003)
English composer and conductor
1925 – Hal Holbrook, American actor and director
1928 – Marta Romero (d. 2013)
Puerto Rican-American actress and singer
1929: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Chilean film and theatre director, screenwriter, playwright,
actor, author, poet, producer, composer, musician,
comic book writer and spiritual guru
1929 – Chaim Potok (d. 23 Jul 2002)
American rabbi and author
1929 – Patricia Routledge, English actress and singer
1930 – Benjamin Fain (d. 2013)
Ukrainian-Israeli physicist and academic
1930 – Ruth Rendell, English author (d. 2015)
1931: Fay Godwin, British photographer (d. 27 May 2005)
1931 – Jiřina Jirásková, Czech actress and singer (d. 2013)
1933 – Larry Jennings, American magician and author (d. 1997)
1933: Bobby Lewis
American rock and roll and rhythm and blues singer
1933 – Craig L. Thomas
American captain and politician (d. 2007)
1934 – Alan Bates, English actor (d. 2003)
1934 – Barry Humphries
Australian comedian, actor, and author
alter ego of Dame Edna Everage
1935: Johnny Bush
American country music singer, songwriter, and drummer
1935 – Christina Pickles, English-American actress
1936 – Jim Brown, American football player and actor
1937 – Mary Ann Mobley (d. 2014)
American model and actress, Miss America 1959
1940 – Vicente Fernández
Mexican singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
1940 – Gene Pitney, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1941 – Julia McKenzie, English actress and singer
1942 – Huey P. Newton (d. 1989)
American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party
1944 – Bruce Fogle, Canadian veterinarian and author
1944 – Karl Jenkins
Welsh saxophonist, keyboard player, and composer
(Soft Machine)
1945 – Brenda Fricker, Irish actress
1946 – Dodie Stevens, American singer
1946 – Shahrnush Parsipur
Iranian-American author and academic
1948 – José José
Mexican singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1948 – Rick Majerus (d. 2012)
American basketball player and coach
1948 – Don Scardino, American actor and director
1949 – Fred Frith
English guitarist and songwriter
(Henry Cow, Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew)
1950 – Rickey Medlocke
American guitarist (Blackfoot and Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1951 – Rashid Minhas, Pakistani soldier and pilot (d. 1971)
1952 – Karin Büttner-Janz, German gymnast and physician
1952: Randy Forbes
American politician
U.S. Representative, R. VA, 2001-present
1952 – Vladimír Padrůněk (d. 1991)
Czech bass player (Energit and Etc...)
1953 – Annie Schreijer-Pierik, Dutch politician
1954 – Miki Berkovich, Israeli basketball player
1954: Don Coscarelli, Jr.
American film director, producer and screenwriter
1954 – Rene Russo, American actress
1955 – Mo Yan
Chinese author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1956 – Richard Karn, American actor and game show host
1957 – Loreena McKennitt
Canadian singer-songwriter, accordion player, and pianist
1958: Michael Sims, American author
1959 – Aryeh Deri
Moroccan-Israeli rabbi and politician
Internal Affairs Minister of Israel
1959 – Rowdy Gaines, American swimmer and sportscaster
1960 – Shunji Kosugi, Japanese wrestler
1961 – Chris Champion, American wrestler
1961 – Andrey Korotayev
Russian anthropologist, economic historian, and sociologist
1962 – David McComb (d. 1999)
Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
(The Triffids and The Blackeyed Susans)
1962 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor and director
1962 – Sarah Wollaston, British politician
1963 – Alison Hargreaves, English mountaineer (d. 1995)
1963 – Jen-Hsun Huang
Taiwanese-American businessman, co-founded Nvidia
1963 – Michael Jordan, American basketball player and actor
1963 – Daniel Lawrence "Larry" Whitney
stage name "Larry the Cable Guy"
American comedian and actor
1964: Jim Jordan
American politician
U.S. Representative, R. OH, 2007-present
1964: Mark Shriver, American politician
1965 – Michael Bay, American director and producer
1965 – Samuel Bayer, American director and cinematographer
1965 – Danny Lee, Australian rugby league player
1966 – Tomas "Ace" Börje Forsberg (aka Quorthon) (d. 2004)
Swedish guitarist and songwriter (Bathory)
1966 – Michael Lepond
American bass player (Symphony X and Seven Witches)
1966 – Robert Reid, British rally co-driver
1966 – Luc Robitaille
Canadian ice hockey player, manager, and actor
1967 – Chanté Moore, American singer-songwriter and actress
1970: Thomas Heatherwick, English designer
1970 – Dominic Purcell, English-born Irish-Australian actor
1971 – Martyn Bennett (d. 2005)
Canadian-Scottish bagpipe player and composer
1971 – Denise Richards, American model and actress
1972 – Yuki Kuramochi (bka Yuki)
Japanese singer-songwriter
(Mean Machine, Judy and Mary, and NiNa)
1972 – Billie Joe Armstrong
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and producer
(Green Day)
1972 – Philippe Candeloro, French figure skater
1972 – Taylor Hawkins
American singer-songwriter and drummer
(Foo Fighters and Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders)
1972 – Cezary Kucharski, Polish footballer
1972 – Valeria Mazza, Argentinian model and businesswoman
1973 – Raphaël Ibañez, French rugby player
1974 – Jerry O'Connell, American actor, director, and producer
1974: Bryan White, American country music artist
1975 – Václav Prospal, Czech ice hockey player
1976 – Kelly Carlson, American actress
1976 – William Roussel
French singer-songwriter and guitarist (Mütiilation)
1977 – Erin Cardillo
American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Bob Katsionis
Greek keyboard player
(Firewind, Nightfall, and Septicflesh)
1978: Ashton Holmes, American actor
1978: Rory Kinnear, English actor and playwright
1979: Cara Black, Zimbabwean tennis player
1980 – Aya Endō, Japanese voice actress
1980 – Al Harrington, American basketball player
1980: Jason Ritter, American actor
1981 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
American actor, director, and producer
1981 – Paris Hilton, American model and actress
1981 – Pontus Segerström, Swedish footballer (d. 2014)
1982 – Brian Bruney, American baseball player
1982: Brooke D'Orsay, Canadian actress
1982 – Daniel Merriweather
Australian singer-songwriter and producer
1982 – Deyvid Oprja, Estonian alpine skier
1982 – Adriano Leite Ribeiro, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Gérald Cid, French footballer
1983 – Kevin Rudolf
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1984 – Drew Miller, American ice hockey player
1984 – Marcin Gortat, Polish basketball player
1985 – Anders Jacobsen, Norwegian ski jumper
1985: Ahna O'Reilly, American actress
1985 – Hiroko Sato, Japanese actress, singer, and model
1986: Daphne Oz, American author, journalist, and TV host
1986 – Ricardo Rodriguez
American wrestler and ring announcer
1987 – Thomas Ayasse, French footballer
1987 – Aseem Trivedi, Indian cartoonist and activist
1989 – Rebecca Adlington, English swimmer
1989 – Chord Overstreet, American actor and singer
1990 – Marianne St-Gelais, Canadian speed skater
1991 – Ed Sheeran
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1991 – Bonnie Wright
English actress, director, and screenwriter
1992 – Meaghan Martin, American actress and singer
1993 – Nicola Leali, Italian footballer
1993 – Marc Márquez, Spanish motorcycle racer
1993 – Jannes Vansteenkiste, Belgian footballer
1996 – Sasha Pieterse
South African-American singer-songwriter and actress
Family
1820 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau (d. 12 Apr 1898)
1st cousin 3x removed
Archbishop of Quebec, 1871 – 1898
1st Canadian Cardinal, elevated 1886
Coulee City
Alicia McGuckin
Bradley Isaak
Evelyn Litt
Sally Emerson
Allen Boger
Mary Cline
Harvey Williams
Other
Anniversaries
Coulee City
Dan & Dawn Jenkin
Tom & Daphne Hennigh
Deaths
VIP
Notable
364 – Jovian, Roman emperor (b. 331)
440 – Mesrop Mashtots, Armenian monk, linguist, and theologian (b. 360)
661 – Finan of Lindisfarne, Irish bishop and saint
1339 – Otto, Duke of Austria (b. 1301)
1371 – Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria
1600 – Giordano Bruno (b. 1548)
Italian mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher
1609 – Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1549)
1624 – Juan de Mariana, Spanish priest and historian (b. 1536)
1652 – Gregorio Allegri, Italian priest and composer (b. 1582)
1659 – Abel Servien, French politician, French Minister of Finance (b. 1593)
1673 – Molière, French playwright and actor (b. 1622)
1680 – Denzil Holles, 1st Baron Holles, English politician (b. 1599)
1680 – Jan Swammerdam, Dutch biologist, zoologist, and entomologist (b. 1637)
1715 – Antoine Galland, French orientalist and archaeologist (b. 1646)
1732 – Louis Marchand, French organist and composer (b. 1669)
1768 – Arthur Onslow (b. 1691)
English lawyer and politician, Speaker of the British House of Commons
1780 – Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b. 1706)
1841 – Ferdinando Carulli, Italian guitarist and composer (b. 1770)
1854 – John Martin, English painter, engraver, and illustrator (b. 1789)
1856 – Heinrich Heine, German journalist and poet (b. 1797)
1863 – Ebenezer Thomas, Welsh poet (b.1802)
1874 – Adolphe Quetelet (b. 1796)
Belgian astronomer, mathematician, and sociologist
1883 – Vasudev Balwant Phadke, Indian activist (b. 1845)
1890 – Christopher Latham Sholes, American publisher and politician (b. 1819)
1905 – William Bickerton (b. 1815)
English-American religious leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
1909 – Geronimo, American tribal leader (b. 1829)
1912 – Edgar Evans, Welsh sailor and explorer (b. 1876)
1919 – Wilfrid Laurier (b. 1841)
Canadian lawyer and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Canada
1934 – Albert I of Belgium (b. 1875)
1934 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (b. 1862)
1939 – Willy Hess, German violinist and educator (b. 1859)
1943 – Armand J. Piron, American violinist and composer (b. 1888)
1946 – Dorothy Gibson, American actress, model and singer (b. 1889)
1961 – Lütfi Kırdar (b. 1887)
Turkish physician and politician, Turkish Minister of Health
1961 – Nita Naldi, American actress (b. 1897)
1962 – Joseph Kearns, American actor (b. 1907)
1962 – Bruno Walter (b. 1876)
German-American pianist, composer, and conductor
1966 – Hans Hofmann, German-American painter (b. 1880)
1970 – Shmuel Yosef Agnon (b. 1888)
Ukrainian-Israeli author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
1970 – Alfred Newman, American composer and conductor (b. 1900)
1976 – Bill Boswell, Australian public servant (b. 1911)
1976 – Jean Servais, Belgian-French actor (b. 1910)
1977 – Janani Luwum, Ugandan archbishop and saint (b. 1922)
1982 – Nestor Chylak, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1922)
1982 – Thelonious Monk, American pianist and composer (b. 1917)
1982 – Lee Strasberg, American actor, teacher, and director (b. 1901)
1986 – Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (b. 1895)
1988 – John M. Allegro, English archaeologist and scholar (b. 1923)
1988 – Karpoori Thakur, Indian politician, 11th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1924)
1989 – Lefty Gomez, American baseball player (b. 1908)
1990 – Jean-Marc Boivin, French mountaineer, skier, and pilot (b. 1951)
1990 – Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1901)
1990 – Erik Rhodes, American singer and actor (b. 1906)
1994 – Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (b. 1951)
1997 – Joe Kieyoomia, American soldier (b. 1919)
1998 – Ernst Jünger, German soldier, philosopher, and author (b. 1895)
1998 – Bob Merrill, American composer and songwriter (b. 1921)
2001 – Bob Geary, Canadian football player, coach, and manager (b. 1933)
2003 – Steve Bechler, American baseball player (b. 1979)
2004 – José López Portillo (b. 1920)
Mexican lawyer and politician, 51st President of Mexico
2005 – Dan O'Herlihy, Irish-American actor (b. 1919)
2005 – Omar Sívori, Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1935)
2006 – Ray Barretto, American drummer (b. 1929)
2007 – Mike Awesome, American wrestler (b. 1965)
2007 – Dermot O'Reilly (b. 1943)
Irish-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Ryan's Fancy)
2007 – Maurice Papon, French police officer and politician (b. 1910)
2008 – Aysel Gürel, Turkish lyricist and actress (b. 1929)
2009 – Conchita Cintrón, Chilean bullfighter (b. 1922)
2009 – Mike Whitmarsh, American volleyball player (b. 1962)
2010 – Kathryn Grayson, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
2012 – Robert Carr (b. 1916)
English engineer and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
2012 – Clarence Dart, American captain and pilot (b. 1920)
2012 – Michael Davis (b. 1943)
American singer-songwriter and bass player (MC5)
2012 – Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Dutch mathematician and theorist (b. 1918)
2012 – Ulric Neisser, German-American psychologist and academic (b. 1928)
2012 – Howie Nunn, American baseball player (b. 1935)
2013 – Richard Briers, English actor (b. 1934)
2013 – Shmulik Kraus (b. 1935)
Israeli singer-songwriter and actor (The High Windows)
2013 – Sophie Kurys, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2013 – Mindy McCready, American singer-songwriter (b. 1975)
2013 – Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin, Irish footballer, hurler, and sportscaster (b. 1923)
2014 – Bob Casale (b. 1952)
American guitarist, keyboard player, and producer (Devo)
2014 – Peter Florin (b. 1921)
German politician and diplomat
President of the United Nations General Assembly
2014 – Wayne Smith, Jamaican singer (b. 1965)
2015 – John Barrow, American-Canadian football player and manager (b. 1935)
2015 – John Hurt Fisher, American philologist and academic (b. 1919)
2015 – Cathy Ubels-Veen, Dutch politician (b. 1928)
Family
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