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Birthdays
VIP
1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks (d. 1918)
American journalist and politician
26th United States Vice President
Notable
1014 – Anawrahta, founder of the Pagan Empire (d. 1077)
1366 – Anne of Bohemia (d. 1394)
1571 – Niwa Nagashige, Japanese daimyo (d. 1637)
1602: William Lilly, English astrologer (d. 9 Jun 1681)
1715 – Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, German organist (d. 1739)
1715 – Ignazio Fiorillo, Italian composer and educator (d. 1787)
1720 – Hieronymus Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Munchhausen (d. 22 Feb 1797)
German nobleman and storyteller
1722 – Petrus Camper, Dutch physician, anatomist, and physiologist (d. 1789)
1733 – Princess Victoire of France (d. 1799)
1752 – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (d. 1840)
1766: Isaac D'Israeli, British writer (d. 19 Jan 1848)
1771 – Laskarina Bouboulina, Greek commander (d. 1825)
1799 – John Lowell, Jr. (d. 1836)
American businessman and philanthropist, founded Lowell Institute
1801 – Henri Labrouste (d. 1875)
French architect and academic, designed the Sainte-Geneviève Library
1811 – Chang and Eng Bunker, Thai-American conjoined twins (d. 1874)
1811 – Jean-Jacques Challet-Venel, Swiss politician (d. 1893)
1817 – Fanny Cerrito, Italian ballerina and choreographer (d. 1909)
1824 – Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (d. 1904)
1827 – Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor and painter (d. 1875)
1835 – Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905)
1838 – Isabelle Bogelot, French philanthropist (d. 1923)
1838 – Walter Goodman, English painter, illustrator, and author (d. 1912)
1854 – Jack Blackham, Australian cricketer (d. 1932)
1854: Albion W. Small, American sociologist and academic (24 Mar 1926)
1861 – Frederick Russell Burnham, American soldier and adventurer (d. 1947)
1869 – Archibald Warden, English tennis player (d. 1943)
1870 – Otto von Friesen, Swedish linguist and academic (d. 1942)
1871 – Frank Schlesinger, American astronomer and author (d. 1943)
1875 – Harriet Quimby, American pilot and screenwriter (d. 1912)
1881 – Al Cabrera, Spanish-Cuban baseball player and manager (d. 1964)
1881 – Jan van Gilse, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1944)
1881 – Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and engineer (d. 1963)
1882 – Joseph Marx, Austrian composer, educator, and critic (d. 1964)
1884: Alma Gluck, Romanian-born American soprano (27 Oct 1938)
1888 – Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer (d. 1989)
1888 – Willis Augustus Lee, American admiral (d. 1945)
1889 – Paul Nash, British painter (d. 1946)
1890 – Willie Applegarth, English-American sprinter (d. 1958)
1890 – Helge Løvland, Norwegian decathlete (d. 1984)
1890 – Woodall Rodgers, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Dallas (d. 1961)
1892 – Margaret Rutherford, English actress (d. 1972)
1894 – Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1991)
1895 – Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (d. 1978)
1895 – William Grant Still, American composer and conductor (d. 1978)
1896 – Josip Štolcer-Slavenski Croatian composer and academic (d. 1955)
1897 – Kurt Gerron, German actor and director (d. 1944)
1897 – Robert E. Gross, American businessman (d. 1961)
1899 – Paulino Masip, Spanish author and playwright (d. 1963)
1901 – Gladys Rockmore Davis, American painter (d. 1967)
1902 – Karl Pärsimägi, Estonian painter (d. 1942)
1903 – Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player and manager (d. 1993)
1904 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter and illustrator (d. 1989)
1906: Jacqueline Cochran, American aviator (d. 9 Aug 1980)
1907 – Rose Ausländer, Ukrainian-English poet and author (d. 1988)
1907 – Rip Sewell, American baseball player and coach (d. 1989)
1909 – Ellis R. Dungan, American director and producer (d. 2001)
1909 – Kurt Großkurth, German actor and singer (d. 1975)
1909 – Herbert Murrill, English organist and composer (d. 1952)
1911: Robert P. McCulloch, American businessman (d. 25 Feb 1977)
1911 – Mitchell Sharp (d. 2004)
Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance
1911 – Phil Silvers, American actor and comedian (d. 1985)
1911 – Doodles Weaver, American actor and singer (d. 1983)
1912 – Foster Brooks, American actor (d. 2001)
1912 – Saadat Hasan Manto, Indian-Pakistani author and screenwriter (d. 1955)
1913 – Robert Jungk, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1994)
1914 – Haroun Tazieff, French volcanologist and geologist (d. 1998)
1916 – Camilo José Cela, Spanish author and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1918 – Sheila Burnford, Scottish Canadian author (d. 1984)
1918 – Richard Feynman, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
1918 – Phil Rasmussen, American lieutenant (d. 2005)
1919: John Michael Hayes, American screenwriter (19 Nov 2008)
1920 – Denver Pyle, American actor and director (d. 1997)
1921 – Robin Barbour, Scottish minister and author (d. 2014)
1921 – Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, German politician
1922 – Nestor Chylak, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1992)
1922 – Thelma Eisen, American baseball player and manager (d. 2014)
1922 – Ameurfina Melencio-Herrera, Filipino lawyer and jurist
1923 – Joan Moriarty, English nursing administrator
Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
1924 – Eugene Dynkin, Russian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 2014)
1924 – Helen Filarski, American baseball player (d. 2014)
1924: Tim Flock, American NASCAR driver (d. 31 Mar 1998)
1924 – Antony Hewish, English astronomer and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1924 – Ninfa Laurenzo, American businessman, founded Ninfa's (d. 2001)
1925 – Rhodes Boyson, English educator and politician (d. 2012)
1925 – William Glasser, American psychiatrist (d. 2013)
1925 – Edward J. King (d. 2006)
American football player and politician
66th Governor of Massachusetts
1926 – Caesar Trunzo, American soldier and politician (d. 2013)
1927 – Bernard Fox, Welsh-American actor and singer
1927 – Mort Sahl, Canadian-American comedian and actor
1927 – Gene Savoy, American explorer, author, and scholar (d. 2007)
1927: Zilpha Keatley Snyder, American author (d. 7 Oct 2014)
1928 – Yaacov Agam, Israeli sculptor
1928 – Marco Ferreri, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1928 – Vern Rapp, American baseball player, coach, and manager (d. 31 Dec 2015)
1928 – Andrew van der Bijl, Dutch missionary and author
1929 – Stan Kane, Scottish-Canadian actor and singer
1929 – Fernand Lindsay, Canadian churchman, organist, and educator (d. 2009)
1930 – Edsger W. Dijkstra (d. 2002)
Dutch computer scientist and academic
co-developed THE multiprogramming system
1930 – Bud Ekins, American actor and stuntman (d. 2007)
1930 – William Honan, American journalist and author (d. 2014)
1930 – Stanley Elkin, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (d. 1995)
1932: Donald Bren, American businessman
1932 – Valentino Garavani, Italian fashion designer, founded Valentino SpA
1932 – John Vasconcellos, American politician (d. 2014)
1933 – Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader
1933 – Narendra Patel, Baron Patel, Tanzanian-English obstetrician, academic, and politician
1933 – Zoran Radmilović, Serbian actor (d. 1985)
1934 – Jim Jeffords, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 2014)
1934 – Arthur Labatt, Canadian businessman and academic
1935 – Kit Lambert (d. 1981)
English record producer and manager (The Who)
1935 – Doug McClure, American actor (d. 1995)
1935 – Chris Perrins, English biologist, ornithologist, and academic
1935 – Francisco Umbral, Spanish journalist and author (d. 2007)
1936 – Carla Bley, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Jazz Composer's Orchestra)
1937 – Cheng Yen, Taiwanese Buddhist nun and philanthropist
1939 – Carlos Lyra, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939 – Dante Tiñga, Filipino jurist and politician
1940 – Juan Downey, Chilean-American director and producer (d. 1993)
1940 – Herbert Müller, Swiss race car driver (d. 1981)
1940: Margaret Visser, South Africa born writer
1941 – Eric Burdon, English singer-songwriter, actor, and painter (The Animals and War)
1941 – Graham Miles, English snooker player (d. 2014)
1941 – Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer and coach
1943 – Nancy Greene, Canadian skier and politician
1944 – John Benaud, Australian cricketer
1945 – Floyd Adams, Jr. (d. 2014)
American publisher and politician, 63rd Mayor of Savannah, Georgia
1946 – Robert Jarvik, American cardiologist, developed the Artificial heart
1946 – Plume Latraverse, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1947 – Butch Trucks, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band)
1947: Mark Vonnegut, American pediatrician and memoirist
1948 – Jack Cantoni, French rugby player (d. 2013)
1948 – Nirj Deva, Sri Lankan-English politician
1948: Pam Ferris, German-born British actress
1948 – Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese singer, actor, and poet
1950 – Sadashiv Amrapurkar, Indian actor and singer (d. 2014)
1950 – Dane Iorg, American baseball player
1950 – Jeremy Paxman, English journalist and author
1951 – Mike Slemen, English rugby player and educator
1951 – Ed Stelmach, Canadian farmer and politician, 13th Premier of Alberta
1952 – Shohreh Aghdashloo, Iranian-American actress
1952 – Frances Fisher, English-American actress
1952 – Warren Littlefield, American businessman
1952 – Mike Lupica, American journalist and author
1952 – Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan (bka Renaud), French singer-songwriter and actor
1953 – David Gest, American concert promoter (d. 2016)
1953 – Celine Lomez, Canadian actress and singer
1954 – John Clayton, American journalist
1954 – John Gregory, English footballer and manager
1954 – Lubomir Stoykov, Bulgarian fashion journalist
1954 – Judith Weir, English composer and educator
1955 – John DeStefano, Jr., American politician, 49th Mayor of New Haven
1955: William P. Young, Canadian author
1956 – Theresa Burke, Canadian journalist and producer
1956 – Alex Lester, English radio host
1957 – Mike Nesbitt, Northern Irish journalist and politician
1958 – Christian Brando, American actor (d. 2008)
1958 – Dan Ireland, American director and producer (d. 2016)
1958 – Nalliah Kumaraguruparan, Sri Lankan accountant and politician
1958 – Phil Smyth, Australian basketball player and coach
1958 – Walt Terrell, American baseball player
1959 – Martha Quinn, American radio and television host
1960 – Gildor Roy, Canadian actor
1960 – Jürgen Schult, German discus thrower
1961 – Luis Felipe, Cuban gang leader, founded the Latin Kings
1961 – Kimberly McCarthy, American murderer (d. 2013)
1961: Michael Ramirez, American editorial cartoonist
1962 – Steve Bono, American football player
1963 – Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish politician
10th Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation
1963 – Roark Critchlow, Canadian-American actor
1963 – Masatoshi Hamada, Japanese comedian and actor
1963 – Natasha Richardson, English-American actress (d. 2009)
1964: Michael Horton, American theologian
1964 – Tim Blake Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1964 – John Parrott, English snooker player and sportscaster
1964 – Katie Wagner, American journalist
1964 – Bobby Witt, American baseball player
1964 – Floyd Youmans, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1965 – Monsour del Rosario, Filipino martial artist and actor
1965 – Stefano Domenicali, Italian race car driver and manager
1965 – Greg Dulli, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(The Twilight Singers, The Afghan Whigs, and The Gutter Twins)
1966: Bill Ackman, American businessman
1966 – Julian Joseph, English pianist and composer
1966 – Christoph Schneider, German drummer (Rammstein and Feeling B)
1967 – Alberto García Aspe, Mexican footballer and manager
1967: Sue Gardner, Canadian journalist
1968 – Wenn V. Deramas, Filipino director and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1968 – Jeffrey Donovan, American actor
1969 – Mitch Healey, Australian rugby league player and coach
1969 – Simon Vroemen, Dutch runner
1970 – Harold Ford, Jr., American lawyer and politician
1970 – Nicky Katt, American actor
1970 – Jason Queally, English cyclist
1972 – Tomáš Dvořák, Czech decathlete and coach
1972 – Amanda Freitag, American chef FBD
1972 – Anita Hegh, Australian actress
1972 – Daniel Ornellas, South African bass player (Tree63)
1973 – Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese runner
1974 – Kevin Brown, English-Canadian ice hockey player
1974 – Stanley Gene, Papua New Guinean rugby league player and coach
1974 – Peter Alan Gruner Jr. (bka Billy Kidman)
American wrestler, trainer, and producer
1974 – Benoît Magimel, French actor
1974 – Darren Ward, English-Welsh footballer and coach
1975 – Coby Bell, American actor and producer
1975 – Francisco Cordero, Dominican-American baseball player
1975 – Ziad Jarrah, Lebanese terrorist, hijacker of United Airlines Flight 93 (d. 2001)
1976 – Anna Sahlene, Swedish singer
1977 – Janne Ahonen, Finnish ski jumper and race car driver
1977 – Gonzalo Colsa, Spanish footballer
1977 – Pablo Gabriel García, Uruguayan footballer
1977 – Victor Matfield, South African rugby player, coach, and sportscaster
1978 – Laetitia Casta, French model and actress
1978 – Ece Erken, Turkish TV-hostess and actress
1978 – Perttu Kivilaakso, Finnish cellist and composer (Apocalyptica)
1978 – Judy Ann Santos, Filipino actress and producer
1979: Mary Elizabeth Ellis, American actress
1979 – Erin Lang, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Vytautas Žiūra, Lithuanian-Austrian handball player
1980 – Guji Lorenzana, American-Filipino actor and singer
1980 – Ernest Vardanean, Armenian-Moldovan political scientist and journalist
1981 – Lauren Jackson, Australian basketball player
1981 – Dusán Mukics, Slovene journalist, poet, and translator
1981 – Austin O'Brien, American actor and photographer
1981 – Daniel Ortmeier, American baseball player
1982 – Jonathan Jackson, American actor, singer, and guitarist (Enation)
1982 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and singer (d. 2013)
1982 – Andrew Walter, American football player
1983 – Matt Leinart, American football player
1983 – Daizee Haze, American wrestler
1983 – Steven Sotloff, American-Israeli journalist (d. 2014)
1983 – Holly Valance, Australian actress and singer
1983 – Hanna Verboom, Belgian-Dutch actress
1983 – Frédéric Xhonneux, Belgian decathlete
1984 – John Bowie, American football player
1984 – Gerald Clayton, Dutch-American pianist and composer (The Clayton Brothers)
1984 – Andrés Iniesta, Spanish footballer
1984 – Marvin Wijks, Dutch footballer
1985 – Shiho Fujita (bka Sifow), Japanese singer
1985 – Matt Giraud, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1985 – Beau Ryan, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1986 – Ronny Heberson Furtado de Araújo, Brazilian footballer
1986 – Abou Diaby, French footballer
1986: Drummond Money-Coutts, English magician
1986 – Manuel Schenkhuizen, Dutch gamer
1986 – Miguel Veloso, Portuguese footballer
1987 – Albulena Haxhiu, Kosovo jurist and politician
1987 – Justin King, American football player
1987 – Lim Seulong, Korean singer
1987 – Monica Roșu, Romanian gymnast
1988 – Marcel Kittel, German cyclist
1988 – Brad Marchand, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Antoine McColister (bka Ace Hood), American rapper
1988 – Ami Nakashima, Japanese singer and dancer (Dream and E-girls)
1989 – Gianluigi Bianco, Italian footballer
1989 – Giovani dos Santos, Mexican footballer
1989 – Jack Grimes, Australian rules footballer
1989 – Emma Helistén, Finnish tennis player
1989 – Cam Newton, American football player
1991 – Alex Nimely, Liberian-English footballer
1992 – Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, French runner
1992 – Thibaut Courtois, Belgian footballer
1993 – Jirapong Meenapra, Thai sprinter
1994 – Hagos Gebrhiwet, Ethiopian runner
1994 – Nene Macdonald, Papua New Guinean rugby league player
1995 – Gelson Martins, Portuguese footballer
1995 – Yassi Pressman, Filipino actress and dancer
1999 – Sabrina Carpenter, American actress and singer
Family
1992: Brandy Kjolseth
Coulee City
Tracy Wilson
Deanne Collier
Other
Anniversaries
Coulee City
Deaths
VIP
Notable
912 – Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine emperor (b. 866)
1304 – Ghazan, Mongolian ruler (b. 1271)
1610 – Matteo Ricci, Italian priest and mathematician (b. 1552)
1672 – Charles Seton, 2nd Earl of Dunfermline, Scottish politician (b. 1615)
1686 – Otto von Guericke, German physicist and politician (b. 1602)
1696 – Jean de La Bruyère, French philosopher and author (b. 1645)
1708 – Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French architect, designed the Château de Dampierre and Grand Trianon (b. 1646)
1723 – Jean Galbert de Campistron, French playwright and author (b. 1656)
1760 – Alaungpaya, Burmese king (b. 1714)
1777 – George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot, English politician (b. 1719)
1778 – William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, English soldier and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
1779 – John Hart, American lawyer and politician (b. 1711)
1812 – Spencer Perceval, English lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
1848 – Tom Cribb, English boxer (b. 1781)
1849 – Juliette Récamier, French businesswoman (b. 1777)
1871 – John Herschel, English mathematician, astronomer, and chemist (b. 1792)
1878 – Henry Norris, English civil engineer (b. 1816)
1887 – Jean-Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist and academic (b. 1802)
1889 – John Cadbury (b. 1801)
English businessman and philanthropist, founded the Cadbury Company
1891 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (b. 1820)
1916 – Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1873)
1916 – Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
1920 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1878)
1920 – William Dean Howells, American novelist, literary critic, and playwright (b. 1837)
1927 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
1929 – Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (b. 1864)
1934 – Blaise Diagne, Senegalese-French soldier and politician (b. 1872)
1934 – Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1852)
1938 – George Lyon, Canadian golfer and cricketer (b. 1858)
1939 – Yevgeny Miller, Latvian-Russian general and politician (b. 1867)
1940 – Chujiro Hayashi, Japanese physician (b. 1880)
1954 – Sait Faik Abasıyanık, Turkish author and poet (b. 1906)
1955 – Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
1960 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
1963 – Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1966 – Alfred Wintle, English lieutenant and author (b. 1897)
1967 – James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)
1970 – Johnny Hodges, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1906)
1972 – Michael Blassie, American lieutenant (b. 1948)
1973 – Lex Barker, American actor (b. 1919)
1976 – Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect, designed Finlandia Hall and Paimio Sanatorium (b. 1898)
1979 – Lester Flatt (b. 1914)
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Foggy Mountain Boys and Nashville Grass)
1981 – Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1981 – Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bob Marley and the Wailers) (b. 1945)
1985 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900)
1986 – Alexander Akimov, Ukrainian Chernobyl worker (b. 1953)
1986 – Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (b. 1894)
1988 – Kim Philby, British double agent (b. 1912)
1990 – Stratos Dionysiou, Greek singer (b. 1935)
1994 – Timothy Carey, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
1996 – Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigerian journalist and politician, 1st President of Nigeria (b. 1904)
1996 – Rob Hall, New Zealand mountaineer (b. 1961)
1996 – Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1922)
1996 – Yasuko Namba, Japanese mountaineer (b. 1949)
1999 – Giorgos Kappis, Greek actor (b. 1929)
2000 – René Muñoz, Cuban-Mexican actor and screenwriter (b. 1938)
2000 – Paula Wessely, Austrian actress (b. 1907)
2001 – Douglas Adams, English novelist and screenwriter (b. 1952)
2002 – Joseph Bonanno, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1905)
2002 – Renaude Lapointe, Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1912)
2002 – Bill Peet, American animator and screenwriter (b. 1915)
2003 – Noel Redding (b. 1945)
English bass player (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Road,
Fat Mattress, and The Noel Redding Band)
2005 – Léo Cadieux (b. 1908)
Canadian politician, 17th Canadian Minister of National Defence
2005 – Michalis Genitsaris, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1917)
2006 – Yossi Banai, Israeli singer and actor (b. 1932)
2006 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer and actor (b. 1935)
2007 – Malietoa Tanumafili II, Samoan ruler (b. 1913)
2008 – Bruno Neves, Portuguese cyclist (b. 1981)
2008 – John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush) (b. 1953)
2009 – Abel Goumba (b. 1926)
Central African physician and politician
Prime Minister of the Central African Republic
2009 – Claudio Huepe (b. 1939)
Chilean economist and politician
Chilean Minister Secretary-General of Government
2009 – Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda, Indian admiral (b. 1915)
2009 – Rita Irene Quyn (bka Shanthi Lekha), Sri Lankan actress (b. 1929)
2010 – Doris Eaton Travis, American dancer and vaudevillian (b. 1904)
2010 – Emmanuel Ngobese, South African footballer (b. 1980)
2011 – Maurice Goldhaber, Ukrainian-American physicist and academic (b. 1911)
2011 – Robert Traylor, American basketball player (b. 1977)
2012 – Jack Benaroya, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1921)
2012 – Tony DeZuniga, Filipino author and illustrator (b. 1932)
2014 – Reg Gasnier, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1939)
2014 – Martin Špegelj, Croatian general and politician, 2nd Croatian Minister of Defence (b. 1927)
2015 – Alan Borovoy, Canadian lawyer and activist (b. 1932)
2015 – Jef Geeraerts, Belgian author and playwright (b. 1930)
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