Sunday, February 7, 2016

February 8 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths


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Notable

120 – Vettius Valens  (d. 175)
      Greek astronomer, mathematician, and astrologer
412 – Proclus, Greek mathematician and philosopher (d. 485)
882 – Muhammad ibn Tughj al-Ikhshid  (d. 946)
      Egyptian commander and politician
      Abbasid Governor of Egypt
1191 – Yaroslav II of Vladimir (d. 30 Sep 1246)
      Grand Prince of Vladimir, 1238–1246
1291 – Afonso IV of Portugal  (d. 28 May 1357)
      King of Portugal and the Algarve, 1325-1357
1405 – Constantine XI Palaiologos  (d. 29 May 1453)
      Last Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, 1449-1453
1487 – Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg  (d. 6 Nov 1550)
      Duke of Württemberg, 1498-1550
1552 – Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet and soldier (d. 1630)
1561 – Fujiwara Seika, Japanese philosopher (d. 1619)
1577 – Robert Burton  (d. 1640)
      English priest, physician, and scholar
1685 – Charles-Jean-François Hénault  (d. 1770)
      French historian and author
1700 – Daniel Bernoulli  (d. 1782)
      Dutch-Swiss mathematician and physicist
1708 – Václav Jan Kopřiva  (d. 1789)
      Bohemian organist and composer
1720 – Emperor Sakuramachi  (d. 28 May 1750)
      115th emperor of Japan, 1735-1747
1741 – André Grétry  (d. 1813)
      Belgian-French organist and composer
1762 – Gia Long  (d. 3 Feb 1820)
      1st Emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam, 1802-1820
1764 – Joseph Leopold Eybler  (d. 1846)
      Austrian composer and conductor
1792 – Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (d. 9 Feb 1873)
      Empress consort of Austria, Queen consort of Hungary and
            Bohemia, Queen consort of Lombardy–Venetia, 1816-1835
1798 – Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia (d. 9 Sep 1849)
      10th child and 4th son of Paul I of Russia and Sophie
            Dorothea of Württemberg
1804 – Richard Lemon Lander, English explorer (d. 1834)
1807 – Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins  (d. 1889)
      English sculptor and zoologist
1810:  Eliphas Levi  (d. 31 May 1875)
      born Alphonse Louis Constant
      French occult author and ceremonial magician
1819 – John Ruskin  (d. 20 Jan 1900)
      English author, critic, and academic
1820 – William Tecumseh Sherman  (d. 14 Feb 1891)
      American Union Army general
1822 – Maxime Du Camp  (d. 1894)
      French photographer and journalist
1825 – Henry Walter Bates  (d. 1892)
      English geographer, biologist, and explorer
1828 – Jules Verne  (d. 4 Mar 1905)
      French author, poet, and playwright
1829 – Vital-Justin Grandin  (d. 1902)
      French-Canadian bishop and missionary
1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev  (d. 1907)
      Russian chemist and academic
1850 – Kate Chopin, American author (d. 1904)
1866 – Moses Gomberg  (d. 1947)
      Ukrainian-American chemist and academic
1878 – Martin Buber  (d. 1965)
      Austrian-Israeli philosopher and academic
1880 – Franz Marc, German soldier and painter (d. 1916)
1880 – Viktor Schwanneke  (d. 1931)
      German actor and director
1882 – Thomas Selfridge  (d. 1908)
      American lieutenant and pilot
1883 – Joseph Schumpeter  (d. 1950)
      Czech-American economist and political scientist
1884 – Reginald Baker  (d. 1953)
      Australian boxer, rugby player, and actor
1886 – Charlie Ruggles, American actor and singer (d. 1970)
1888 – Edith Evans, English actress (d. 14 Oct 1976)
1890 – Claro M. Recto  (d. 1960)
      Filipino lawyer, jurist, and politician
1892 – Elizabeth Ryan, American tennis player (d. 1979)
1893 – Ba Maw  (d. 1977)
      Burmese politician, Prime Minister of Burma
1894 – Ludwig Marcuse  (d. 1971)
      German philosopher and author
1894 – King Vidor  (d. 1982)
      American director, producer, and screenwriter
1897:  Rudolf Dreikurs  (d. 25 May 1972)
      American psychiatrist and educator
1897 – Zakir Hussain  (d. 1969)
      Indian academic and politician, 3rd president of India
1899 – Lonnie Johnson  (d. 1970)
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1900 – Ivan Ivanov-Vano  (d. 1987)
      Russian animator and director
1902 – Demchugdongrub, Mongolian activist (d. 1966)
1903 – Greta Keller  (d. 1977)
      Austrian-American singer and actress
1903 – Aleksander Mitt, Estonian speed skater (d. 1942)
1906 – Chester Carlson  (d. 1968)
      American physicist and lawyer, invented Xerography
1909 – Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist (d. 2012)
1911 – Elizabeth Bishop  (d. 1979)
      American poet and short-story writer
1913 – Betty Field, American actress (d. 13 Sep 1913)
1913 – Danai Stratigopoulou, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
1914 – Bill Finger, American screenwriter and author (d. 1974)
1915 – Georges Guétary  (d. 1997)
      Egyptian-French singer, dancer, and actor
1918 – Freddie Blassie  (d. 2003)
      American wrestler and manager
1921 – Barney Danson  (d. 2011)
      Canadian colonel and politician
      21st Canadian Minister of National Defence
1921 – Lana Turner, American actress (d. 29 Jun 1995)
1922 – Audrey Meadows, American actress (d. 3 Feb 1996)
1924 – Lisel Mueller, German-American poet and academic
1925 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (d. 27 Jun 2001)
1926 – Neal Cassady  (d. 4 Feb 1968)
      American author and poet
1928 – Osian Ellis, Welsh harp player and composer
1928 – Jack Larson  (d. 2015)
      American actor, producer, and playwright
1928 – Gene Lees  (d. 2010)
      Canadian journalist and songwriter
1929 – Claude Rich, French actor and screenwriter
1930 – James Deetz  (d. 25 Nov 2000)
      American anthropologist and academic
1930 – Alejandro Rey  (d. 1987)
      Argentinian-American actor and director
1930 – Arlan Stangeland  (d. 2013)
      American farmer and politician
1931 – James Dean, American actor (d. 30 Sep 1955)
1932 – Cliff Allison, English race car driver (d. 2005)
1932 – Vladas Garastas
      Lithuanian basketball player and coach
1932 – John Williams
      American pianist, composer, and conductor
1933 – Elly Ameling, Dutch soprano
1939 – Ken Iman, American football player and coach (d. 2010)
1939 – Jose Maria Sison, Filipino activist and theorist
1940 – Ted Koppel, English-American journalist
1941 – Nick Nolte, American actor and producer
1941 – Tom Rush
      American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1941 – Jagjit Singh, Indian singer-songwriter (d. 2011)
1942 – Robert Klein, American comedian, actor, and singer
1942 – Terry Melcher  (d. 2004)
      American singer-songwriter and producer (Bruce & Terry)
1943 – Creed Bratton
      American actor and singer (The Grass Roots)
1943 – Pirzada Qasim, Pakistani poet and academic
1944 – Roger Lloyd-Pack, English actor (d. 2014)
1944 – Tony Minson, English virologist and academic
1944 – Barbro Hedvall, Swedish journalist
1944:  Sebastiao Salgado
      Brazilian documentary photographer and photojournalist
1946:  Paul Hawken
      American environmentalist, entrepreneur, and author
1947 – Yi Zhongtian, Chinese writer
1947 – Kerrie Biddell  (d. 2014)
      Australian jazz and session singer
1947 – Henry Oden, American blues musician
1948 – Dan Seals  (d. 2009)
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (England Dan & John Ford Coley)
1948 – Ron Tyson
      American singer-songwriter (The Temptations)
1949 – Brooke Adams, American actress and producer
1949 – Niels Arestrup
      French actor, director, and screenwriter
1949:  Julia Barr (born Julia Rose Buchheit)
       American actress
1950 – Cristina Ferrare, American model and actress
1952 – Marinho Chagas  (d. 2014)
      Brazilian footballer and coach
1952 – Daisuke Gōri, Japanese actor (d. 2010)
1953 – Mary Steenburgen
      American actress, singer, and producer
1955 – John Grisham, American lawyer and author
1955 – Jim Neidhart, American wrestler
1956 – Marques Johnson
      American basketball player and sportscaster
1956 – Dave Meros, American bass player (Spock's Beard)
1957 – Katherine Freese, American astrophysicist
1959:  Henry Czerny, Canadian actor
1959 – Andrew Hoy, Australian jockey
1959 – Mauricio Macri
      Argentinian businessman and politician
      President of Argentina
1960 – Benigno Aquino III
      Filipino politician, 15th President of the Philippines
1960 – Dino Ciccarelli, Canadian ice hockey player
1960 – Stuart Hamm, American bass player
1961 – Vince Neil
      American singer-songwriter and actor (Mötley Crüe)
1961 – Bruce Timm, American animator and producer
1962:  Malorie Blackman, British writer
1962 – Daniel Levy, English businessman
1962 – Dennis Padilla, Filipino actor
1963 – Mohammad Azharuddin, Indian cricketer and politician
1963 – Joshua Kadison, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1964 – Trinny Woodall, English fashion designer and author
1965 – Dicky Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (Big Four)
1965 – Miguel Pardeza, Spanish footballer
1966 – Sean Harris, English actor
1966 – Bruno Labbadia, German footballer and manager
1966 – Sarah Montague, English journalist and radio host
1966 – Kirk Muller, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1966 – Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer and manager
1967 – Rachel Cusk, Canadian-English author
1968 – Gary Coleman, American actor (d. 28 May 2010)
1969 – Mary Robinette Kowal, American puppeteer and author
1969 – Mary McCormack, American actress and producer
1970:  Stephanie Courtney, American actress and comedian
1970 – John Filan, Australian footballer and coach
1970 – Alonzo Mourning, American basketball player
1970 – Zoubin Ghahramani
      Professor of Information Engineering
      University of Cambridge
1971 – Andre El Haddad, Lebanese footballer and referee
1971 – Mika Karppinen
      Swedish-Finnish drummer
      (HIM and To Separate the Flesh from the Bones)
1971 – Aidy Boothroyd, English footballer and manager
1972 – Big Show, American wrestler and actor
1972 – Hiroshi Tsuchida, Japanese voice actor and actor
1973:  Peter V. Brett, American fantasy novelist
1973 – Keith McDonald, Japanese-American baseball player
1973 – Project Pat, American rapper
1974 – Seth Green, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1974:  Joshua Morrow, American actor
1974 – Chris Waitt, English singer and director
1976 – Khaled Mashud, Bangladeshi cricketer
1976 – Adam Piatt, American baseball player
1976 – Nicolas Vouilloz, French race car driver and biker
1977 – Barry Hall, Australian footballer
1977:  Marion H. "Pooch" Hall, Jr.
      American actor, rapper, and model
1977 – Roman Kostomarov, Russian ice dancer
1977 – Yucef Merhi
      Venezuelan-American poet and graphic designer
1979 – Aaron Cook, American baseball player
1979 – Josh Keaton, American actor and singer
1980 – Ralf Little, English footballer and actor
1980 – Jenny Miller, Canadian-Filipino actress
1980 – Cameron Muncey, Australian singer and guitarist (Jet)
1981 – Sophie Choudry, English actress and singer
1981 – Steve Gohouri, Ivorian footballer (d. 2015)
1981 – Myriam Montemayor Cruz, Mexican singer
1981:  Dawn Olivieri, American actress and model
1981:  Jim Parrack, American actor
1982 – Carlene Aguilar
      Filipino model and actress, Miss Philippines Earth 2001
1982 – Liam McIntyre, Australian actor
1982 – Sousuke Takaoka, Japanese actor
1983 – Jermaine Anderson, Canadian basketball player
1983 – Cory Jane, New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Elina Partõka, Estonian swimmer
1984 – Manuel Osborne-Paradis, Canadian skier
1984 – Cecily Strong, American actress
1984 – Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Greek basketball player
1985 – Petra Cetkovská, Czech tennis player
1985 – Jeremy Davis
      American bass player and songwriter (Paramore)
1985 – Nao Matsushita, Japanese actress and singer
1987 – Javi García, Spanish footballer
1987 – Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater
1988 – Nozomi Sasaki, Japanese model
1989 – Zac Guildford, New Zealand rugby player
1989 – Dani Harmer, English actress and singer
1989 – JaJuan Johnson, American basketball player
1989 – Courtney Vandersloot, American basketball player
1990 – Trần Thị Thùy Dung
      Vietnamese model, Miss Vietnam 2008
1990:  Bethany Hamilton, American surfer
1990 – Jonathan Page, English footballer
1990:  Ben Schnetzer, American actor
1990 – Daniel Vidot, Australian rugby league footballer
1991 – Aristidis Soiledis, Greek footballer
1991 – Roberto Soriano, Italian footballer
1991 – Nam Woo-hyun
      South Korean singer, dancer and actor
      (Infinite and Toheart)
1992 – Carl Jenkinson, English-Finnish footballer
1994 – Nikki Yanofsky, Canadian singer-songwriter
1995 – Ksenia Gaydarzhi, Russian tennis player
1996:  Kelli Michelle Berglund
      American actress, dancer and singer
1997:  Kathryn Newton,  American actress


Family



Coulee City

1919:  Vesta Tanneberg  (d. 10 Nov 2004)
1919:  Frank Miller  (d. 9 Feb 2003)
Howard D. Daniel
Joyce Kannenberg
Bonnie Welch
Gene McDonald
Velma Major
Bryce Todd
Andrew Peterson
Amanda Gavin
Hailey Peha
Jessica Millikan
Mike Elder


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1936 – Charles Curtis  (b. 1860)
      American lawyer and politician
      31st Vice President of the United States


Notable

1204 – Alexios IV Angelos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1182)
1250 – Robert I, Count of Artois (b. 1216)
1250 – William II Longespée, English martyr (b. 1212)
1265 – Hulagu Khan, Mongol ruler (b. 1217)
1296 – Przemysł II of Poland (b. 1257)
1572 – Cho Shik, Korean poet, scholar, and educator (b. 1501)
1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1542)
1599 – Robert Rollock, Scottish theologian and academic (b. 1555)
1676 – Alexis of Russia (b. 1629)
1623 – Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter  (b. 1546)
      English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire
1696 – Ivan V of Russia (b. 1666)
1709 – Giuseppe Torelli, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1658)
1725 – Peter the Great, Russian emperor (b. 1672)
1749 – Jan van Huysum, Dutch painter (b. 1682)
1750 – Aaron Hill, English playwright and poet (b. 1685)
1768 – George Dance the Elder  (b. 1695)
      English architect, designed St Leonard's and St Botolph's Aldgate
1772 – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (b. 1719)
1847 – Theodor Valentin Volkmar  (b. 1781)
      German politician, 1st Lord Mayor of Marburg
1849 – François Habeneck, French violinist and conductor (b. 1781)
1849 – France Prešeren, Slovenian poet and lawyer (b. 1800)
1856 – Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist and academic (b. 1773)
1907 – Hendrik Willem Bakhuis Roozeboom  (b. 1854)
      Dutch chemist and academic
1910 – Hans Jæger, Norwegian philosopher and activist (b. 1854)
1915 – François Langelier  (b. 1838)
      Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician
      10th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
1921 – George Formby Snr, English actor and singer (b. 1876)
1921 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist, geographer, and philologist (b. 1842)
1924 – Gee Jon, Chinese-American criminal (b. 1895)
1932 – Mad Dog Coll, Irish-American mob boss (b. 1908)
1932 – Yordan Milanov  (b. 1867)
      Bulgarian architect, designed the Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church
1935 – Eemil Nestor Setälä  (b. 1864)
      Finnish linguist and politician, Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs
1945 – Italo Santelli, Italian fencer (b. 1866)
1956 – Connie Mack, American baseball player and manager (b. 1862)
1957 – Walther Bothe  (b. 1891)
      German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1957 – John von Neumann  (b. 1903)
      Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist
1960 – J. L. Austin, English philosopher and academic (b. 1911)
1960 – Giles Gilbert Scott  (b. 1880)
      English architect and engineer
      designed the Red telephone box and Liverpool Cathedral
1963 – George Dolenz, Italian-American actor (b. 1908)
1964 – Ernst Kretschmer, German psychiatrist and author (b. 1888)
1972 – Markos Vamvakaris  (b. 1905)
      Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
1975 – Robert Robinson  (b. 1886)
      English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1977 – Eivind Groven, Norwegian composer and theorist (b. 1901)
1979 – Dennis Gabor  (b. 1900)
      Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
1980 – Nikos Xilouris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1936)
1982 – John Hay Whitney  (b. 1904)
      American financier and diplomat
      United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1984 – Karel Miljon, Dutch boxer (b. 1903)
1985 – William Lyons  (b. 1901)
      English businessman, co-founded Swallow Sidecar Company
1985 – Marvin Miller, American actor (b. 1913)
1987 – Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (b. 1905)
1990 – Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
1992 – Stanley Armour Dunham, American sergeant (b. 1918)
1993 – Nagalingam Shanmugathasan, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1920)
1994 – Raymond Scott, American pianist and composer (b. 1908)
1996 – Del Ennis, American baseball player (b. 1925)
1998 – Halldór Laxness  (b. 1902)
      Icelandic author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1998 – Enoch Powell  (b. 1912)
      English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Health
1998 – Julian Simon, American economist and author (b. 1932)
1999 – Iris Murdoch, Irish-born English philosopher and author (b. 1919)
2000 – Sid Abel  (b. 1918)
      Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and sportscaster
2000 – Derrick Thomas, American football player (b. 1967)
2001 – Ivo Caprino, Norwegian director and screenwriter (b. 1920)
2002 – Ong Teng Cheong  (b. 1936)
      Singaporean architect and politician, 5th President of Singapore
2002 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian and author (b. 1930)
2004 – Julius Schwartz, American journalist and author (b. 1915)
2005 – A. Chandranehru  (b. 1944)
      Sri Lankan Tamil merchant seaman and politician
2005 – Keith Knudsen
      American singer-songwriter and drummer
      (The Doobie Brothers and Southern Pacific) (b. 1948)
2006 – Elton Dean, English saxophonist (Soft Machine) (b. 1945)
2006 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
2007 – Anna Nicole Smith, American model and actress (b. 1967)
2007 – Ian Stevenson, Canadian-American psychiatrist and academic (b. 1918)
2008 – Chua Ek Kay, Chinese-Singaporean painter (b. 1947)
2008 – Phyllis A. Whitney, American author (b. 1903)
2009 – Marian Cozma, Romanian handball player (b. 1982)
2010 – John Murtha, American colonel and politician (b. 1932)
2011 – Tony Malinosky, American baseball player and soldier (b. 1909)
2012 – Gunther Plaut, German-Canadian rabbi and author (b. 1912)
2012 – Jimmy Sabater, American singer and timbales player (b. 1936)
2012 – Luis Alberto Spinetta  (b. 1950)
      Argentinian singer-songwriter
      (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso and Invisible)
2013 – Ralph Braun, American businessman (b. 1940)
2013 – Chris Brinker, American director and producer (b. 1970)
2013 – Giovanni Cheli, Italian cardinal (b. 1918)
2013 – James DePreist, American conductor and educator (b. 1936)
2014 – Dick Berk, American drummer and bandleader (b. 1939)
2014 – Els Borst  (b. 1932)
      Dutch physician and politician
      Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
2014 – Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1988)
2015 – Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde
      Finnish physician and parapsychologist (b. 1939)
2015 – Müzeyyen Senar, Turkish singer-songwriter (b. 1918)


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