Monday, February 29, 2016

March 1 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths


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Birthdays

VIP

1732 – William Cushing  (d. 13 Sep 1810)
      American lawyer and jurist
      Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1889-1810


Notable

40Marcus Valerius Martialis  (d. 102)
      (known in English as Martial)
      Spanish-Italian author and poet
1389Saint Antoninus of Florence, O.P.  (d. 2 May 1459)
      Italian Dominican friar, archbishop, and saint
      Archbishop of Florence, 1446-1459
1432Infanta Isabella of Coimbra (d. 2 Dec 1455)
      Queen consort of Portugal, 1447-1455
1456Vladislaus II of Hungary (d. 13 Mar 1516)
      King of Bohemia, 1471-1516
      King of Hungary and Croatia, 1490-1516
1547 – Rudolph Goclenius  (d. 1628)
      German philosopher and lexicographer
1597 – Jean-Charles della Faille  (d. 1652)
      Flemish priest and mathematician
1611 – John Pell, English mathematician and linguist (d. 1685)
1644 – Simon Foucher, French philosopher and academic (d. 1696)
1657 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian and author (d. 1740)
1683 – Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama  (d. 15 Nov 1706)
      6th Dalai Lama, 1697-1706
1683Caroline of Ansbach (d. 20 Nov 1737)
      Queen consort of Great Britain, 1727-1737
1723:  Joseph-François-Édouard de Corsembleu   (d. 25 Feb 1761)
      French playwright
1760 – François Buzot  (d. 18 Jun 1794)
      French lawyer, politician, and leader of the French Revolution
1769 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers  (d. 1796)
      French general
1781 – Javiera Carrera  (d. 1862)
      Chilean daughter of Ignacio de la Carrera
1792 – Rudecindo Alvarado, Argentinian general (d. 1872)
1807Wilford Woodruff  (d. 2 Sep 1898)
      American religious leader
      4th President of The LDS Church, 1889-1898
1808 – Edward "Ned" Kendall  (d. 1861)
      American bugle player and bandleader
1810 – Frédéric Chopin  (d. 17 Oct 1849)
      Polish pianist and composer
1812 – Augustus Pugin  (d. 1852)
      English architect
      co-designed the Palace of Westminster
1817 – Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor (d. 1882)
1821 – Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German bishop (d. 1896)
1837 – William Dean Howells  (d. 1920)
      American author and critic
1842 – Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter and academic (d. 1901)
1848 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens  (d. 11 May 1920)
      Irish-American sculptor and academic
1852 – Théophile Delcassé  (d. 1923)
      French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
1858 – Georg Simmel  (d. 1918)
      German sociologist and philosopher
1863 – Alexander Golovin  (d. 1930)
      Russian painter and set designer
1870 – E. M. Antoniadi  (d. 1944)
      Greek-French astronomer and academic
1876 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman (d. 1942)
1880 – Lytton Strachey, English author and critic (d. 1932)
1886 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter and poet (d. 1980)
1888 – Ewart Astill, English cricketer (d. 1948)
1888 – Fanny Walden, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1949)
1889 – Tetsuro Watsuji  (d. 1960)
      Japanese historian and philosopher
1890 – Theresa Bernstein, American painter and author (d. 2002)
1892 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author (d. 1927)
1893 – Mercedes de Acosta  (d. 1968)
      American author, poet, and playwright
1895 – Ogura Yuki, Japanese painter (d. 2000)
1896 – Dimitri Mitropoulos  (d. 1960)
      Greek pianist, composer, and conductor
1896 – Moriz Seeler, German playwright and producer (d. 1942)
1899 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer (d. 1972)
1899:  Louis Booker Wright  (d. 26 Dec 1984)
      American author, educator and librarian
1900:  Basil Cheesman Bunting, British modernist poet  (d. 17 Apr 1985)
1904 – Paul Hartman  (d. 2 Oct 1973)
      American actor, singer, and dancer
1904 – Glenn Miller  (d. 15 Dec 1944)
      American trombonist, composer, and bandleader
      (Glenn Miller Orchestra)
1904 – Pablo O'Higgins  (d. 1983)
      American-born Mexican muralist painter
1905 – Doris Hare  (d. 2000)
      Welsh-English actress, singer, and dancer
1906 – Camilla Spira, German actress (d. 1997)
1906 – Phạm Văn Đồng  (d. 2000)
      Vietnamese lieutenant and politician
      2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam
1909 – Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 1942)
1909 – Winston Sharples, American composer (d. 1978)
1910 – Archer John Porter Martin  (d. 28 Jul 2002)
      English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1910 – David Niven  (d. 29 Jul 1983)
      English-Swiss actor, singer, and producer
1911 – Rina Ketty, Italian-French singer (d. 1996)
1911:  Paul Murray Kendall  (d. 21 Nov 1973)
      American academic and historian
1912 – Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (d. 6 Apr 2003)
1912 – Boris Chertok  (d. 2011)
      Polish-Russian engineer and academic
1912:  Harold Loukes, British academic  (d. 7 Aug 1980)
1914 – Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 18 Feb 1998)
1914 – Ralph Ellison, American author and critic (d. 1994)
1915 – Clarrie Harders, Australian public servant (d. 1997)
1917 – Robert Lowell, American poet and academic (d. 1977)
1918 – Roger Delgado, English actor (d. 1973)
1918 – João Goulart  (d. 1976)
      Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil
1918 – Gladys Spellman  (d. 1988)
      American educator and politician
1920 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)
1921 – Cameron Argetsinger  (d. 2008)
      American race car driver and lawyer
1921 – Terence Cooke, American cardinal (d. 6 Oct 1983)
1921 – Richard Wilbur, American poet and academic
1922:  Michael Flanders  (d. 14 Apr 1975)
      English actor, broadcaster, and writer
1922 – William Gaines, American publisher (d. 1992)
1922 – Yitzhak Rabin  (d. 4 Nov 1995)
      Israeli general and politician
      5th Prime Minister of Israel
      Nobel Prize laureate
1924 – Arnold Drake, American author and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1924 – Deke Slayton  (d. 13 Jun 1993)
      American soldier, pilot, and astronaut
1926 – Robert Clary, French-American actor and author
1926 – Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (d. 1992)
1926 – Pete Rozelle, American businessman (d. 1996)
1926 – Allan Stanley  (d. 2013)
      Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1927 – Harry Belafonte
      American singer-songwriter, actor and activist
1927Robert Bork  (d. 19 Dec 2012)
      American lawyer and scholar
      Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District
            of Columbia Circuit, 1982-1988
      Solicitor General of the United States, 1973-2977
      U.S. Attorney General (acting) 1973
1928 – Jacques Rivette  (d. 2016)
      French director, screenwriter, and critic
1929 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian journalist and author (d. 1978)
1930 – R. P. Goenka  (d. 2013)
      Indian businessman, founded RPG Group
1930 – Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980)
1934 – Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 2005)
1934 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 8 Oct 1983)
1935 – Robert Conrad, American actor, director, and commentator
1936 – Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (d. 1997)
1937 – Eugen Doga, Romanian-Moldovan composer and conductor
1939 – Adnan Al-Kaissie, Iraqi wrestler and manager
1939 – Leo Brouwer, Cuban guitarist, composer, and conductor
1940 – Robert Grossman, American painter, sculptor, and author
1940 – Brian Waites, English golfer
1941 – Robert Hass, American poet and academic
1941 – Joo Hyun, South Korean actor
1941 – Donnie Walsh, American basketball player and coach
1942 – Jerry Fisher, American singer (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1942:  Louis V. Gerstner Jr., American businessman
      CEO of IBM, 1993-2002
1942 – Peter Guber, American film producer
1942:  Michael Giles, English drummer
1942 – Richard Myers, American general
1943 – Gil Amelio, American businessman
1943 – José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer and manager
1943 – Cha Katō, Japanese comedian and actor
1943 – Akinori Nakayama, Japanese gymnast and coach
1943 – Richard H. Price, American physicist and academic
1943 – Rashid Sunyaev
      Russian-German astronomer and physicist
1944 – Danilo Bach, American screenwriter and film producer
1944 – Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
      Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal
1944 – John Breaux, American lawyer and politician
1944 – Mike d'Abo
      English singer-songwriter
      (Manfred Mann and A Band of Angels)
1944 – Roger Daltrey
      English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
      (The Who, No Plan B, and The RD Crusaders)
1944:  John Holdren
      American public servant
      Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy,
            2009-present
1945 – Dirk Benedict, American actor and director
1946 – Gerry Boulet  (d. 1990)
      Canadian singer-songwriter (Offenbach)
1946 – Jim Crace, English author and academic
1946 – Lana Wood, American actress
1947 – Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and composer
1948 – Winston Rodney (bka Burning Spear)
      Jamaican singer-songwriter
1951:  Deb Fischer
      U.S. Senator, R. NE, 2013-present
1951 – Sergei Kourdakov, Russian-American KGB agent (d. 1973)
1952 – Steven Barnes, American author and screenwriter
1952 – Nevada Barr, American actress and author
1952 – Roy Marten, Indonesian actor and producer
1952 – Jerri Nielsen, American physician and explorer (d. 2009)
1952 – Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
1952 – Brian Winters, American basketball player and coach
1953:  Dan T. Cathy
      American businessman
      Chairman, President and CEO of fast-food chain Chick-fil-A
1953 – Sinan Çetin, Turkish actor, director, and producer
1953 – Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese footballer and manager
1953 – M. K. Stalin, Indian actor and politician
1953:  Chuck Zito
      American actor, amateur boxer, martial artist, celebrity
            bodyguard, stuntman, former boxing trainer, and former
            president of the New York chapter of the Hells Angels
1954 – Catherine Bach, American actress
1954:  Philippe Dauman
      American businessman
      President, CEO and Chairman of Viacom
1954 – Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer
1954 – Rod Reddy, Australian rugby league player
1954 – Mare Teichmann, Estonian psychologist and academic
1956 – Tim Daly, American actor, director, and producer
1956 – Dalia Grybauskaitė
      Lithuanian politician, 6th President of Lithuania
1956 – Mark Todd, New Zealand horse rider
1958 – Nik Kershaw
      English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1958 – Chosei Komatsu, Japanese-American conductor
1958 – Wayne B. Phillips, Australian cricketer
1958 – Bertrand Piccard, Swiss psychiatrist and pilot
1959 – Nick Griffin, English politician
1960 – Benedict Allen, English television host and author
1960:  Joe Andrew
      American politician and lawyer
      national chairman of the Democratic National Committee
            (DNC), 1999-2001
1962 – Russell Coutts, New Zealand sailor
1962 – Mark Gardner, American baseball player and coach
1962 – Bill Leen
      American bass player and producer (Gin Blossoms)
1962:  Kevin McCollum, Broadway producer
1962 – Melanie Moore, American porn actress and model
1963 – Rob Affuso, American drummer (Skid Row)
1963 – Thomas Anders
      German singer-songwriter and producer (Modern Talking)
1963 – Bryan Batt, American actor
1963 – Maurice Benard, American actor
1963 – Ron Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1963 – Mayo Kawasaki, Japanese actor and singer
1963 – Russell Wong, American actor
1964 – Clinton Gregory, American singer-songwriter and fiddler
1964 – Paul Le Guen, French footballer and manager
1964:  Basmah bint Saud
      Saudi businesswoman and reform advocate
      115th and youngest child of King Saud
1965:  Chris Eigeman, American actor and film director
1965 – Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey
1965 – Mary Lou Lord
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Helium)
1965 – Booker T, American wrestler and sportscaster
1966 – Susan Auch, Canadian speed skater
1966:  Randy Hultgren
      U.S. Representative, R. IL, 2011-present
1966:  Don Lemon, American journalist
1966 – Zack Snyder, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Yelena Afanasyeva, Russian runner
1967 – George Eads, American actor
1967:  Steve Jurvetson, American businessman and venture capitalist
1967 – Aron Winter, Suriname-Dutch footballer and manager
1968 – Salil Ankola, Indian cricketer and actor
1968 – Per Oddvar Johansen, Norwegian drummer (Close Erase)
1969 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
1970 – Jason V Brock, American author, director, and producer
1970 – Miho Nakayama, Japanese singer, actress, and model
1970:  Darin Strauss, American writer
1971 – Thomas Adès, English pianist, composer, and conductor
1971 – Ivan Cleary, Australian rugby league player and coach
1971 – Tyler Hamilton, American cyclist and trainer
1971:  Allen Kenneth Johnson
      American Olympic hurdler
1972 – Último Guerrero, Mexican wrestler
1973 – Jack Davenport, English actor
1973 – Anton Gunn, American academic and politician
1973 – Carlo Resoort, Dutch DJ and producer (4 Strings)
1973 – Chris Webber, American basketball player and sportscaster
1974:  Cara Buono, American actress, screenwriter, and director
1974 – Stephen Davis, American football player and coach
1974 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor
1974 – Shane Harwood, Australian cricketer
1975 – Maya Kulenovic, Croatian-Canadian painter
1975 – Francesco Mazzariol, Italian footballer and coach
1975 – Shirley Heights, British racehorse (d. 1997)
1975 – Tate Stevens, American singer and guitarist
1976 – Travis Kvapil, American race car driver
1976:  Luke Mably, English actor
1976 – Andreas Mjøs, Norwegian vibraphonist (Jaga Jazzist)
1977 – Rens Blom, Dutch pole vaulter
1977 – Esther Cañadas, Spanish actress and model
1978 – Jensen Ackles, American actor
1978:  Liya Kebede
      Ethiopian-born model, maternal health advocate, clothing
            designer, and actress
1978 – Sakura Nogawa, Japanese voice actress
1979 – Éowyn, American singer-songwriter
1979 – Mikkel Kessler, Danish boxer
1979 – Bruno Langlois, Canadian cyclist
1980 – Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer
1980 – Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 2015)
1980 – Gennaro Bracigliano, French footballer
1980 – Sercan Güvenışık, German-Turkish footballer
1980 – Abdur Rehman, Pakistani cricketer
1980 – Anna Semenovich, Russian singer, actress, and ice dancer
1980 – Djimi Traoré, Malian footballer
1981:  Zach Cregger
      American actor, writer, director and producer
1981 – Ana Hickmann, Brazilian model
1981 – Adam LaVorgna, American actor
1981 – Malinda Damgaard, Swedish milliner
1981 – Will Power, Australian race car driver
1981 – Brad Winchester, American ice hockey player
1982 – Shalva Didebashvili, Georgian-German rugby player
1982:  Leryn Franco, Paraguayan model, actress and athlete
1982:  Eddie Huang
      American restaurateur, chef, writer, and attorney
1982 – Juan Manuel Ortiz, Spanish footballer
1982 – Johnny Palermo, American actor (d. 2009)
1982 – Kim Min-hee, South Korean actress and model
1983 – Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Elán DeFan, Mexican singer-songwriter
1983:  Mary Kom, Indian boxer
1983 – Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-Kenyan actress
1983 – Davey Richards, American wrestler
1983 – Anthony Tupou, Australian rugby league player
1984 – Naima Mora, American model and actress
1984 – Alexander Steen, Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player
1985 – Andreas Ottl, German footballer
1985 – Yun Ok-hee, South Korean archer
1986 – Big E Langston, American wrestler
1986 – Jonathan Spector, American soccer player
1986 – Ayumu Goromaru, Japanese rugby union player
1987 – Kesha Rose Sebert (bka Kesha)
      American singer-songwriter
1987 – Sammie Leigh Bush Jr. (bka Sammie)
      American singer-songwriter
1988 – Katija Pevec, American actress
1988 – Yang Hyeon-jong, South Korean baseball player
1989 – Emma, Australian wrestler
1989 – Sonya Kitchell, American singer-songwriter
1989 – Daniella Monet, American actress, singer, and dancer
1989 – Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
1990 – Harry Eden, English actor
1993 – Kurt Mann, Australian rugby league player
1993 – Josh McEachran, English footballer
1993 – Syuusuke Saito, Japanese actor and singer
1994 – Justin Bieber
      Canadian singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1995:  Jonathan Krohn. American journalist and writer
1996 – Ye Shiwen, Chinese swimmer


Family



Coulee City

Laurie Ertz
Bill Hertenstein
Casey Tanneberg
McCauley Johnson
Mark Wesley Sieg


Other





Anniversaries

Coulee City

Mr. & Mrs. Ron Payne



Deaths

VIP



Notable

589 – Saint David (b. 500)
1131 – Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1101)
1233 – Thomas, Count of Savoy (b. 1178)
1244 – Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, Welsh son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
1320 – Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Emperor Renzong of Yuan (b. 1286)
1383 – Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (b. 1334)
1510 – Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1450)
1536 – Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet and author (b. 1465)
1546 – George Wishart, Scottish minister and martyr (b. 1513)
1620 – Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)
1633 – George Herbert, Welsh-English poet and priest (b. 1593)
1643 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1583)
1661 – Richard Zouch, English judge and politician (b. 1590)
1697 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician and poet (b. 1626)
1706 – Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming  (b. 1632)
      German field marshal and politician
1734 – Roger North, English lawyer and author (b. 1653)
1768 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and author (b. 1694)
1773 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect, designed the Palace of Caserta (b. 1700)
1792 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
1825 – John Haggin, American settler (b. 1753)
1841 – Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno  (b. 1764)
      French general and politician, French Minister of Defence
1862 – Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
1875 – Tristan Corbière, French poet and educator (b. 1845)
1882 – Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1818)
1884 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1820)
1895 – Pauline Musters, Dutch-American dwarf (b. 1876)
1898 – George Bruce Malleson, English colonel (b. 1825)
1906 – José María de Pereda, Spanish author (b. 1833)
1911 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff  (b. 1852)
      Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1912 – George Grossmith, English actor and singer (b. 1847)
1914 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto  (b. 1845)
      English politician, 8th Governor General of Canada
1920 – John H. Bankhead, American politician (b. 1842)
1920 – Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian soldier and activist (b. 1880)
1921 – Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)
1922 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
1929 – Royal Hurlburt Weller, American lawyer and politician (b. 1881)
1932 – Frank Teschemacher, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1906)
1933 – Uładzimir Žyłka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
1936 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (b. 1871)
1938 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1863)
1939 – Phillip Allen, American stage, film, and television actor (b. 1939)
1940 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
1941 – Lucien Mérignac, French fencer (b. 1873)
1942 – George S. Rentz, American commander (b. 1882)
1943 – Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
1952 – Mariano Azuela, Mexican physician and author (b. 1873)
1963 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player and coach (b. 1893)
1966 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1903)
1970 – Lucille Hegamin, American singer (b. 1894)
1974 – Bobby Timmons, American pianist (The Jazz Messengers) (b. 1935)
1976 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (b. 1910)
1978 – Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
1979 – Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (b. 1903)
1980 – Wilhelmina Cooper  (b. 1940)
      Dutch-American model, founded Wilhelmina Models
1980 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
1982 – Frank Sargeson, New Zealand author (b. 1903)
1983 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (b. 1905)
1984 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
1984 – Roland Culver, English actor (b. 1900)
1988 – Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (b. 1907)
1989 – Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1917)
1991 – Edwin H. Land  (b. 1909)
      American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation
1995 – Georges J. F. Köhler  (b. 1946)
      German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1995 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
1998 – Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (b. 1937)
2001 – Henry Wade, American lawyer (b. 1914)
2002 – C. Farris Bryant, American politician, 34th Governor of Florida (b. 1914)
2004 – Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (b. 1914)
2005 – Peter Malkin, Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
2006 – Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
2006 – Johnny Jackson, American drummer (The Jackson 5) (b. 1951)
2006 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
2006 – Jack Wild, English actor (b. 1952)
2008 – Raúl Reyes, Colombian guerrilla leader (b. 1948)
2010 – Kristian Digby, English television host and director (b. 1977)
2012 – Andrew Breitbart, American journalist and publisher (b. 1 Feb 1969)
2012 – Jerome Courtland, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1926)
2012 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1943)
2012 – Archie Kalokerinos, Australian physician (b. 1927)
2012 – Altamir Heitor Martins, Brazilian footballer (b. 1980)
2012 – Gemma McCluskie, English actress (b. 1983)
2012 – Callan Pinckney, American fitness trainer (b. 1939)
2013 – Magic, American rapper (b. 1975)
2013 – Jewel Akens, American singer and producer (b. 1933)
2013 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress and singer (b. 1944)
2013 – D. V. J. Harischandra, Sri Lankan psychiatrist and scholar (b. 1938)
2013 – Ric Menello, American director and screenwriter (b. 1952)
2013 – Naw Kham, Burmese drug lord (b. 1969)
2013 – Alan Smith, English lieutenant and pilot (b. 1917)
2014 – Nancy Charest, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1959)
2014 – Andy Gilpin, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1920)
2014 – Alan Heyman, American-South Korean musicologist and composer (b. 1931)
2014 – Les Layton, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2014 – Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2014 – Alejandro Zaffaroni, Uruguayan-American chemist and businessman (b. 1923)
2015 – Suzanne Farrington, English actress (b. 1933)
2015 – Joshua Fishman, American linguist and academic (b. 1926)
2015 – Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
2015 – Daniel von Bargen, American actor (b. 1950)
2015 – Chris Welp, German-American basketball player and coach (b. 1964)


Family



Coulee City



Other



February 29 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths


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Birthdays

VIP



Notable

1468 – Pope Paul III (d. 1549)
1692 – John Byrom, English poet and educator (d. 1763)
1724 – Eva Marie Veigel, Austrian-English dancer (d. 1822)
1736 – Ann Lee  (d. 1784)
      English-American religious leader, founded the Shakers
1792 – Gioachino Rossini, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1868)
1812 – James Milne Wilson
      Scottish-Australian soldier and politician  (d. 1880)
      8th Premier of Tasmania
1828 – Emmeline B. Wells  (d. 1921)
      American journalist, poet, and activist
1836 – Dickey Pearce  (d. 1908)
      American baseball player and manager
1852 – Frank Gavan Duffy  (d. 1936)
      Irish-Australian lawyer and judge
      4th Chief Justice of Australia
1852 – George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg  (d. 1912)
      Russian son of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
1860 – Herman Hollerith  (d. 1929)
      American statistician and businessman
      co-founded the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
1884 – Richard S. Aldrich  (d. 1941)
      American lawyer and politician
1892 – Ed Appleton, American baseball player (d. 1932)
1892 – Augusta Savage, American sculptor (d. 1962)
1896 – Morarji Desai  (d. 1995)
      Indian politician, 4th Prime Minister of India
1896:  Louis Fischer, American journalist  (d. 15 Jan 1970)
1896 – Roy Parker, American baseball player (d. 1954)
1896 – William A. Wellman  (d. 1975)
      American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1904 – Rukmini Devi Arundale  (d. 1986)
      Indian dancer and choreographer
1904 – Jimmy Dorsey  (d. 1957)
      American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
      (The California Ramblers, The Dorsey Brothers,
            and The Charleston Chasers)
1904 – Pepper Martin  (d. 1965)
      American baseball player and manager
1908 – Mary Beck  (d. 2005)
      Detroit politician; first female city councilman in Detroit
      first Ukrainian-American in that capacity
1908 – Dee Brown, American historian and author (d. 2002)
1908 – Alf Gover, English cricketer and coach (d. 2001)
1908 – Balthasar Klossowski (bka Balthus)
      French-Swiss painter and illustrator (d. 2001)
1916 – Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
1920 – Fyodor Abramov, Russian author and critic (d. 1983)
1920 – Arthur Franz, American actor (d. 2006)
1920 – James Mitchell, American actor and dancer (d. 2010)
1920 – Michèle Morgan, French-American actress and singer
1920 – Howard Nemerov, American poet and essayist (d. 1991)
1920 – Ivan Ivanovich Petrov, Russian opera singer (d. 2003)
1920 – Rolland W. Redlin, American lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
1924 – David Beattie  (d. 2001)
      New Zealand judge and politician
      14th Governor-General of New Zealand
1924 – Carlos Humberto Romero
      Salvadoran politician, President of El Salvador
1924 – Al Rosen, American baseball player and manager (d. 2015)
1928 – Joss Ackland, English actor and singer
1928 – Vance Haynes, American archaeologist, geologist, and author
1928 – Terry Lewis, Australian police officer
1928 – Seymour Papert
      South African mathematician and computer scientist
      co-created the Logo programming language
1928 – Tempest Storm, American actress, singer, and dancer
1932 – Jaguar, Brazilian cartoonist
1932 – Gene H. Golub  (d. 2007)
      American mathematician and academic
1932 – Masten Gregory, American race car driver (d. 1985)
1932 – Reri Grist, American soprano and actress
1932 – Gavin Stevens, Australian cricketer
1936 – Jack R. Lousma
      American astronaut, engineer, and politician
1936 – Henri Richard, Canadian ice hockey player
1936 – Alex Rocco, American actor (d. 2015)
1940 – Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
1940 – William H. Turner, Jr. American horse trainer
1944 – Ene Ergma, Estonian physicist and politician
1944 – Dennis Farina, American police officer and actor (d. 2013)
1944 – Nicholas Frayling, English priest and academic
1944 – Phyllis Frelich, American actress (d. 2014)
1944 – Leiki Loone, Estonian mathematician
1944 – Steve Mingori, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1944 – Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Italian author and illustrator
1944:  Mary Ellen Snodgrass, American author
1948 – Jirō Akagawa, Japanese author
1948 – Gérard Darmon, French-Moroccan actor and singer
1948 – Hermione Lee, English author, critic, and academic
1948 – Patricia A. McKillip, American author
1952 – Al Autry, American baseball player
1952 – Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush
      American journalist and producer
1952 – Tim Powers, American author and educator
1952 – Raisa Smetanina, Soviet-Russian cross-country skier
1952 – Bart Stupak, American police officer and politician
1956 – Jonathan Coleman
      English-Australian radio and television host
1956 – Jerry Fry, American baseball player
1956 – Bob Speller
      Canadian businessman and politician
      30th Canadian Minister of Agriculture
1956 – J. Randy Taraborrelli, American journalist and author
1956 – Aileen Wuornos, American serial killer (d. 2002)
1960 – Khaled, Algerian singer-songwriter
1960 – Lucian Grainge, English businessman
1960 – Bill Long, American baseball player
1960 – Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (d. 2013)
1960 – Tony Robbins, American motivational speaker and author
1964 – Dave Brailsford, English cyclist and coach
1964 – Lyndon Byers, Canadian ice hockey player and radio host
1964 – Mervyn Warren
      American tenor, composer, and producer (Take 6)
1968 – Suanne Braun, South African-English actress
1968 – Chucky Brown, American basketball player and coach
1968 – Pete Fenson, American curler and sportscaster
1968 – Naoko Iijima, Japanese actress and model
1968 – Bryce Paup, American football player and coach
1968 – Howard Tayler, American author and illustrator
1968 – Eugene Volokh
      Ukrainian-American lawyer, legal scholar, and educator
1968 – Frank Woodley
      Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – Iván García, Cuban sprinter
1972 – Mike Pollitt, English footballer and coach
1972 – Antonio Sabàto, Jr., Italian-American model and actor
1972 – Dave Williams  (d. 2002)
      American singer-songwriter (Drowning Pool)
1972 – Saul Williams
      American singer-songwriter and actor (Wax Poetic)
1972 – Pedro Zamora  (d. 1994)
      Cuban-American television personality
      cast member on The Real World: San Francisco
1976 – Jeffrey Atkins (bka Ja Rule), American rapper and actor
1976 – Zoë Baker, English-New Zealand swimmer and coach
1976 – Katalin Kovács, Hungarian canoe racer
1976 – Terrence Long, American baseball player
1980 – Chris Conley
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Saves the Day and Two Tongues)
1980 – Patrick Côté, Canadian mixed martial artist
1980 – Simon Gagné, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Michail Mouroutsos, Greek martial artist
1980 – Rubén Plaza, Spanish cyclist
1980 – Clinton Toopi, New Zealand rugby league player
1980 – Taylor Twellman
      American soccer player and sportscaster
1984 – Darren Ambrose, English footballer
1984 – Rica Imai, Japanese model, entertainer, and actress
1984 – Cullen Jones, American swimmer
1984 – Nuria Martínez, Spanish basketball player
1984 – Adam Sinclair, Indian field hockey player
1984 – Rakhee Thakrar, English actress
1984 – Dennis Walger, German rugby player
1984 – Cam Ward, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Lena Gercke, German model and television host
1988 – Scott Golbourne, English footballer
1988 – Benedikt Höwedes, German footballer
1988 – Bobby Sanguinetti, American ice hockey player
1992 – Sean Abbott, Australian cricketer
1992 – Perry Kitchen, American soccer player
1992 – Caitlin EJ Meyer, American actress
1992 – Majesty Rose, American singer
1992 – Saphir Taïder, French-Algerian footballer
1996 – Claudia Williams, New Zealand tennis player


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992 – Oswald of Worcester, French archbishop and saint (b. 925)
1212 – Hōnen, Japanese monk, founded Jōdo-shū (b. 1133)
1528 – Patrick Hamilton, Scottish martyr and reformer (b. 1504)
1592 – Alessandro Striggio, Italian composer and diplomat (b. 1540)
1600 – Caspar Hennenberger, German pastor, historian, and cartographer (b. 1529)
1604 – John Whitgift, English archbishop (b. 1530)
1740 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)
1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers  (b. 1683)
      French-English physicist and philosopher
1792 – Johann Andreas Stein, German piano builder (b. 1728)
1820 – Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German historian and critic (b. 1743)
1848 – Louis-François, Baron Lejeune, French general and painter (b. 1775)
1852 – Matsudaira Katataka, Japanese daimyo (b. 1806)
1868 – Ludwig I of Bavaria (b. 1786)
1880 – James Milne Wilson  (b. 1812)
      Scottish-Australian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of Tasmania
1908 – Pat Garrett, American sheriff (b. 1850)
1908 – John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow  (b. 1860)
      Scottish-Australian politician, 1st Governor-General of Australia
1920 – Ernie Courtney, American baseball player (b. 1875)
1928 – Adolphe Appia, Swiss architect and theorist (b. 1862)
1928 – Ina Coolbrith, American poet and librarian (b. 1841)
1940 – E. F. Benson, English archaeologist and author (b. 1867)
1944 – Pehr Evind Svinhufvud  (b. 1861)
      Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician, 3rd President of Finland
1948 – Robert Barrington-Ward, English barrister and journalist (b. 1891)
1948 – Rebel Oakes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1883)
1952 – Quo Tai-chi  (b. 1888)
      Chinese diplomat, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations
1956 – Elpidio Quirino  (b. 1890)
      Filipino lawyer and politician, 6th President of the Philippines
1960 – Melvin Purvis, American police officer and FBI agent (b. 1903)
1960 – Walter Yust, American journalist and author (b. 1894)
1964 – Frank Albertson, American actor and singer (b. 1909)
1968 – Lena Blackburne, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1886)
1968 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet and educator (b. 1886)
1972 – Tom Davies, American football player and coach (b. 1896)
1976 – Florence P. Dwyer, American politician (b. 1902)
1980 – Yigal Allon, Israeli general and politician, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1918)
1980 – Gil Elvgren, American painter and illustrator (b. 1914)
1984 – Ludwik Starski, Polish screenwriter and songwriter (b. 1903)
1988 – Sidney Harmon, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1907)
1992 – La Lupe, Cuban-American singer-songwriter (b. 1939)
1992 – Ruth Pitter, English poet and author (b. 1897)
1996 – Wes Farrell, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1939)
1996 – Shams Pahlavi, Iranian daughter of Tadj ol-Molouk of Iran (b. 1917)
1996 – Ralph Rowe, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1924)
2000 – Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
2000 – Kayla Rolland, American murder victim (b. 1993)
2004 – Kagamisato Kiyoji, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 42nd Yokozuna (b. 1923)
2004 – Jerome Lawrence, American playwright and author (b. 1915)
2004 – Toni Onley, Manx-Canadian painter (b. 1928)
2004 – Harold Bernard St. John  (b. 1931)
      Barbadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Barbados
2004 – Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer (b. 1943)
2008 – Janet Kagan, American author (b. 1946)
2008 – Erik Ortvad, Danish painter and illustrator (b. 1917)
2008 – Akira Yamada, Japanese scholar and philosopher (b. 1922)
2012 – Roland Bautista, American guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire) (b. 1951)
2012 – Davy Jones, English singer, guitarist, and actor (The Monkees) (b. 1945)
2012 – Sheldon Moldoff, American illustrator (b. 1920)
2012 – P. K. Narayana Panicker, Indian social leader (Nair Service Society) (b. 1930)


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1155Henry the Young King  (d. 11 Jun 1183)
      English son of Henry II of England
      Titular King of England, 1170-1183
1261Margaret of Scotland  (d. 9 Apr 1283)
      Queen consort of Norway, 1281-1283
1533Michel de Montaigne  (d. 13 Sep 1592)
      French philosopher and author
1552 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss mathematician and clockmaker (d. 1632)
1573 – Elias Holl, German architect (d. 1646)
1612 – John Pearson  (d. 1686)
      English bishop, theologian, and scholar (d. 1686)
1616 – Kaspar Förster, German singer-songwriter (d. 1673)
1619 – Giuseppe Felice Tosi, Italian organist and composer (d. 1693)
1627 – Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (d. 1703)
1670 – Benjamin Wadsworth  (d. 1737)
      English-American clergyman and academic
1675 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (d. 1726)
1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur  (d. 1757)
      French entomologist and academic
1704 – Louis Godin, French astronomer and academic (d. 1760)
1712Marquis de Louis-Joseph Montcalm-Gozon  (d. 14 Sep 1759)
      French general
1714 – Gioacchino Conti, Italian actor and singer (d. 1761)
1724George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend  (d. 14 Sep 1807)
      English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1792 – Karl Ernst von Baer  (d. 1876)
      German biologist, meteorologist, and geographer
1797:  Mary Mason Lyon  (d. 5 Mar 1849)
      American pioneer in women's education
      founder and 1st President of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
            (now Mount Holyoke College), 1837-1849
      founded Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College), 1834
1812 – Berthold Auerbach, German poet and author (d. 1882)
1816 – John Woolley  (d. 1866)
      English academic and clergyman
      the first principal of the University of Sydney, Australia
1820 – John Tenniel, English illustrator (d. 1914)
1823 – Ernest Renan, French philosopher and scholar (d. 1892)
1824 – Charles Blondin  (d. 1897)
      French tightrope walker and acrobat
1827 – Édouard-Charles Fabre, Canadian archbishop (d. 1896)
1830:  James Payn, English novelist  (d. 25 Mar 1898)
1833 – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal (d. 1913)
1838 – Maurice Lévy  (d. 1910)
      French mathematician and engineer
1840 – Henri Duveyrier, French explorer (d. 1892)
1848 – Arthur Giry, French historian and academic (d. 1899)
1851Samuel W. McCall  (d. 4 Nov 1923)
      American journalist and politician
      47th Governor of Massachusetts, 1916-1919
      U.S. Representative, R. MA, 1893-1913
1857:  Alfred Firmin Loisy  (d. 1 Jun 1940)
      French Roman Catholic priest, professor, and theologian
1858 – Tore Svennberg, Swedish actor and director (d. 1941)
1865 – Wilfred Grenfell  (d. 1940)
      English physician and missionary
1865:  Arthur William Symons  (d. 22 Jan 1945)
      British poet, critic, and magazine editor
1866 – Vyacheslav Ivanov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1949)
1873 – William McMaster Murdoch, Scottish sailor (d. 1912)
1876 – John Alden Carpenter, American composer (d. 1951)
1877:  André Louis Simon  (d. 5 Sep 1970)
      French-born wine merchant, gourmet, and writer about wine
1878 – Pierre Fatou  (d. 1929)
      French mathematician and astronomer
1878 – Artur Kapp, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1952)
1882 – Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (d. 1967)
1882 – Walter Keppel, 9th Earl of Albemarle  (d. 1979)
      English nobleman and soldier
1882 – Pádraic Ó Conaire, Irish journalist and author (d. 1928)
1882 – José Vasconcelos  (d. 1959)
      Mexican philosopher, lawyer, and politician
      Mexican Secretary of Public Education
1883 – Seán Mac Diarmada, Irish rebel (Easter Rising) (d. 1916)
1884 – Ants Piip  (d. 1942)
      Estonian lawyer and politician
      7th Prime Minister of Estonia
1887 – William Zorach  (d. 1966)
      Lithuanian-American sculptor and painter
1892 – Muhsin Ertuğrul, Turkish actor and director (d. 1979)
1893 – Ivan Vasilyov  (d. 1979)
      Bulgarian architect
      designed the SS. Cyril and Methodius National Library
1894 – Ben Hecht  (d. 18 Apr 1964)
      American director, producer, and screenwriter
1894:  Jud Wilson  (d. 24 Jun 1963)
      American Negro league baseball player and manager
1895 – Marcel Pagnol  (d. 1974)
      French author, playwright and director
1896 – Philip Showalter Hench  (d. 30 Mar 1965)
      American physician and endocrinologist
      Nobel Prize laureate
1898 – Zeki Rıza Sporel, Turkish footballer (d. 1969)
1900 – Wolf Hirth  (d. 1959)
      German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth
1901Linus Pauling  (d. 19 Aug 1994)
      American chemist and activist
     1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1903 – Vincente Minnelli  (d. 25 Jul 1986)
      American director and screenwriter
1906 – Bugsy Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947)
1907 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist (d. 3 Apr 1988)
1908 – Billie Bird, American actress (d. 27 Nov 2002)
1909 – Stephen Spender, English author and poet (d. 1995)
1911 – Otakar Vávra, Czech director and screenwriter (d. 2011)
1914 – Élie Bayol, French racing driver (d. 1995)
1915 – Ketti Frings  (d. 1981)
      American author, playwright, and screenwriter
1915 – Peter Medawar  (d. 2 Oct 1987)
      Brazilian-English biologist and immunologist
      Nobel Prize laureate
1915 – Zero Mostel  (d. 8 Sep 1977)
      American actor, singer, and comedian
1916 – Svend Asmussen, Danish violinist
1916 – Cesar Climaco  (d. 1984)
      Filipino lawyer and politician
      10th Mayor of Zamboanga City
1917 – Ernesto Alonso  (d. 2007)
      Mexican actor, director, and producer
1917 – Odette Laure, French actress and singer (d. 2004)
1918 – Alfred Burke, English actor (d. 16 Feb 2011)
1919 – Alfred Marshall  (d. 28 Dec 2013)
      American businessman, founded Marshalls
1919 – Brian Urquhart
      English soldier and diplomat
      Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
1920 – Jadwiga Piłsudska  (d. 2014)
      Polish soldier, pilot, and architect
1920 – Zaim Topčić, Yugoslav and Bosnian writer (d. 1990)
1921 – Pierre Clostermann  (d. 2006)
      French pilot, engineer, and author
1921:  Donal Henahan  (d. 19 Aug 2012)
      American music critic and journalist
1921 – Saul Zaentz  (d. 3 Jan 2014)
      American producer and record executive
1922 – Joyce Howard, English actress (d. 2010)
1922 – Yuri Lotman  (d. 1993)
      Russian-Estonian historian and scholar
1923 – Charles Durning  (d. 24 Dec 2012)
      American soldier and actor
1924 – Uno Prii, Estonian-Canadian architect (d. 2000)
1924 – Robert A. Roe, American soldier and politician (d. 2014)
1925:  James E. Burke  (d. 28 Sep 2012)
      American businessman
      CEO of Johnson & Johnson, 1976-1989
1925 – Harry H. Corbett, Burmese-English actor (d. 1982)
1926 – Svetlana Alliluyeva  (d. 22 Nov 2011)
      Russian-American author and educator
      Daughter of Joseph Stalin
1926 – Erol Taş, Turkish actor (d. 1998)
1928 – Stanley Baker, Welsh actor and producer (d. Jun 1976)
1928 – Tom Aldredge  (d. 2011)
      American film, television, and stage actor
1929 – Hayden Fry, American football player and coach
1929 – Frank Gehry
      Canadian-American architect
      designed 8 Spruce Street and Walt Disney Concert Hall
1929 – John Montague, American-Irish poet and academic
1929 – Joseph Rouleau, Canadian opera singer and educator
1930 – Leon Cooper
      American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 – Peter Alliss, German-English golfer and sportscaster
1931 – Iajuddin Ahmed  (d. 2012)
      Bangladeshi academic and politician
      14th President of Bangladesh
1931 – Gavin MacLeod, American actor
1931 – Dean Smith  (d. 2015)
      American basketball player and coach
1933 – Rein Taagepera, Estonian political scientist and politician
1938 – Foge Fazio, American football player and coach (d. 2009)
1938 – Mike Wofford, American pianist and composer
1939 – John Fahey, American guitarist (d. 2001)
1939 – Byron James John "Dewey" Robertson  (d. 16 Aug 2007)
      Canadian wrestler, bka The Missing Link
1939 – Chögyam Trungpa  (d. 1987)
      Tibetan philosopher and scholar
1939 – Daniel C. Tsui
      Chinese-American physicist and academic
      Nobel Prize laureate
1939 – Thomas James "Tommy" Tune
      American actor, singer, dancer, and director
1940 – Aldo Andretti, Italian-American race car driver
1940 – Mario Andretti, Italian-American race car driver
1940 – Barry Fantoni, English astrologer, author, and illustrator
1940 – Joe South  (d. 2012)
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941:  Alice May Brock
      American author of Alice's Restaurant Cookbook
      The Alice of Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant
1941 – Tristan Garel-Jones, Baron Garel Jones
      English politician, Minister of State for Europe
1941 – Suzanne Mubarak
      Egyptian wife of Hosni Mubarak, 5th First Lady of Egypt
1942 – Brian Jones  (d. 1969)
      English guitarist, songwriter, and producer
      (The Rolling Stones)
1942 – Dino Zoff, Italian footballer and manager
1943 – Barbara Acklin, American singer-songwriter (d. 1998)
1943 – Charles Bernstein, American composer and educator
1943 – Hans Dijkstal  (d. 2010)
      Egyptian-Dutch educator and politician
      Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1943 – Donnie Iris
      American singer and guitarist (The Jaggerz and Wild Cherry)
1943 – Ronnie Wells, American singer and educator (d. 2007)
1944 – Kelly Bishop, American actress and dancer
1944 – Edward Greenspan, Canadian lawyer and author (d. 2014)
1944 – Sepp Maier, German footballer and manager
1944 – Storm Thorgerson, English graphic designer (d. 2013)
1945 – Bubba Smith, American football player (d. 2011)
1946 – Philip Bailhache, English lawyer and politician
1946 – Robin Cook  (d. 2005)
      Scottish educator and politician
      Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
1946:  Marc Faber, Swiss inestor
1946 – Don Francisco, American singer-songwriter
1947 – Stephanie Beacham, English actress
1948:  John Kenneth "Ken" Blackwell
      American politician and activist
1948 – Bineshwar Brahma, Indian poet and author (d. 2000)
1948 – Steven Chu
      American physicist and politician
      12th United States Secretary of Energy
      Nobel Prize laureate
1948 – Mike Figgis, English director, screenwriter, and composer
1948 – Geoff Nicholls
      English keyboard player (Black Sabbath and Quartz)
1948 – Bernadette Peters
      American actress, singer, and animal rights activist
1948 – Mercedes Ruehl, American actress
1948 – Alfred Sant, Maltese politician, 11th Prime Minister of Malta
1949 – Ilene Graff, American actress and singer
1949 – Susan Hekman, American political scientist and academic
1950 – Futatsuryū Jun'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (d. 2014)
1951 – Bill Cratty, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1998)
1951 – Jim Wohlford, American baseball player
1952 – William Finn, American composer and songwriter
1952 – Frank Warren, English boxing manager and promoter
1953 – Ingo Hoffmann, Brazilian race car driver
1953 – Paul Krugman
      American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1953 – Ricky Steamboat, American wrestler, referee, and trainer
1954 – Brian Billick, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1954 – Manuel Torres Félix, Mexican drug trafficker (d. 2012)
1955 – Adrian Dantley, American basketball player and coach
1955 – Gilbert Gottfried
      American stand-up comedian, actor, and voice artist
1956 – Francis Hughes, PIRA volunteer (d. 1981)
1956 – Terry Leahy, English businessman
1956 – Guy Maddin, Canadian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
1956 – Jimmy Nicholl
      Canadian-born Northern Ireland international footballer and manager
1956 – Penny Sackett, Australian astronomer
1956 – Mike Tenay, American sportscaster
1956 – Jens Wendelboe, Norwegian trombonist and orchestra leader
1957 – Paul Delph  (d. 1996)
      American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
      (Zahara)
1957 – Ainsley Harriott, English chef and author
1957 – Ian Smith, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
1957 – Micky Stead, English footballer
1957 – John Turturro, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1957 – Cindy Wilson, American singer-songwriter (The B-52s)
1958Jack Abramoff
      American lobbyist, businessman, movie producer and writer
      Jack Abramoff Native American lobbying scandal
1958 – Natalya Estemirova, Russian journalist and activist (d. 2009)
1958 – Jeanne Mas, French singer-songwriter and actress
1958 – David R. Ross, Scottish historian and author (d. 2010)
1959 – Megan McDonald, American librarian and author
1960 – Tōru Ōkawa, Japanese voice actor
1960 – Dorothy Stratten  (d. 1980)
      Canadian-American model and actress
1961 – Éric Bachelart, Belgian race car driver
1961 – Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian-American actress
1961 – Mark Latham, Australian politician
1961 – Barry McGuigan, Irish-British boxer
1961 – René Simard, Canadian singer and television host
1961 – Toshihiko Tahara, Japanese singer
1962 – Gary Belcher
      Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1963 – Claudio Chiappucci, Italian cyclist
1964 – Djamolidine Abdoujaparov
      Uzbekistan sprinter and cyclist
1964 – Fernando del Valle, American tenor and actor
1964 – Lotta Lotass, Swedish author and playwright
1965 – Colum McCann, Irish-American author and academic
1965 – Norman Smiley, English-American wrestler and trainer
1966 – Vincent Askew, American basketball player and coach
1966 – Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer
1966 – Archbishop Jovan VI of Ohrid
      head of the Orthodox Ohrid Archbishopric
1966 – Edita Mildažytė, Lithuanian journalist and activist
1966:  Philip Reeve, British author and illustrator
1967 – Colin Cooper, English footballer and manager
1967 – Martin Tielli
      Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Rheostatics and Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle)
1968 – Stéphan Lebeau, Canadian ice hockey player
1969 – Butch Leitzinger, American race car driver
1969 – Robert Sean Leonard, American actor
1969 – Patrick Monahan, American singer-songwriter (Train)
1969 – U. Srinivas  (d. 2014)
      Indian mandolin player and composer
1970 – Daniel Handler, American author and screenwriter
1971 – Junya Nakano, Japanese pianist and composer
1971 – Peter Stebbings, Canadian actor and director
1972 – Rory Cochrane, American actor
1972 – Ville Haapasalo, Finnish actor and screenwriter
1973 – Mari Hanafusa, Japanese actress
1973 – Eric Lindros, Canadian ice hockey player
1973 – Nicolas Minassian, French race car driver
1973 – Masato Tanaka, Japanese wrestler
1974 – Lee Carsley, British-Irish footballer and manager
1974 – Moana Mackey, New Zealand biologist and politician
1974 – Tangi Miller, American actress and dancer
1974 – Alexander Zickler, German footballer
1975 – Mike Rucker, American football player
1975 – Greg Simkins, American painter
1976 – Ali Larter, American actress
1976 – Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge, Canadian actor and producer
1976 – Adam Pine, Australian swimmer and coach
1976:  Lauren Santo Domingo
      contributing editor at Vogue
      co-founder of online fashion retailer Moda Operandi
1977 – Jason Aldean, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1977 – Lance Hoyt, American football player and wrestler
1977:  Chris Wooding, British writer
1978 – Jeanne Cherhal, French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1978 – Rei Kikukawa, Japanese actress, model, and television host
1978 – Rana Naved-ul-hasan, Pakistani cricketer
1978 – Benjamin Raich, Austrian skier
1978 – Jamaal Tinsley, American basketball player
1978:  Louise Woodward
      English au pair, now a dance instructor
      Louise Woodward manslaughter incident and trial
1978 – Mariano Zabaleta, Argentinian tennis player
1979 – Michael Bisping
      Cypriot-English mixed martial artist and kick-boxer
1979 – Sébastien Bourdais, French race car driver
1979:  Chris Hayes, American political commentator
1979 – Ivo Karlović, Croatian tennis player
1979 – Primož Peterka, Slovenian ski jumper
1980 – Bada, South Korean singer and actress (S.E.S.)
1980 – Pascal Bosschaart, Dutch footballer
1980 – Lucian Bute, Romanian-Canadian boxer
1980 – Glasner da Silva Albuquerque, Brazilian footballer
1980 – Piotr Giza, Polish footballer
1980 – Christian Poulsen, Danish footballer
1980 – Tayshaun Prince, American basketball player
1981 – Brian Bannister, American baseball player
1981 – Florent Serra, French tennis player
1982 – Natalia Vodianova, Russian-French model and actress
1983 – Terry Bywater, English basketball player
1984 – Noureen DeWulf, American actress
1984 – Ben Fagan, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1984 – Karolína Kurková, Czech model and actress
1984 – Christian Müller, German footballer
1985 – Tim Bresnan, English cricketer
1985 – Fefe Dobson, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
1985 – Jelena Janković, Serbian tennis player
1985 – Diego Ribas da Cunha, Brazilian footballer
1986 – Mark Sztyndera, German rugby player
1986 – Tendai Mzungu, Australian footballer
1987 – Antonio Candreva, Italian footballer
1988 – Aroldis Chapman, Cuban baseball player
1988 – Jorge Gastélum, Mexican footballer
1988 – Markéta Irglová
      Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress
1988 – Yevgeni Kabayev, Russian footballer
1988 – Maikol Negro, Italian footballer
1989 – Danielle Haim, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1989 – Charles Jenkins, American basketball player
1989 – Zhang Liyin, Chinese singer
1990 – Naomi Broady, English tennis player
1991:  Sarah Lee Bolger, Irish actress
1991 – Hikaru Yamamoto, Japanese actress
1993 – Emmelie de Forest, Danish singer-songwriter
1994 – Jake Bugg, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1995:  Madisen Beaty, American actress
1995:  Quinn Shephard, American actress
1996:  Bobb'e J. Thompson, American actor
1997 – Kyoko Yoshine, Japanese actress


Family



Coulee City

Todd Hilmes
Casey Nutt
Dean Bach
Ty Jess
Bill Thomas


Other





Anniversaries

Coulee City

1966:  Mike & Marilyn Graffe  (his death, 30 Mar 2012)



Deaths

VIP



Notable

468 – Pope Hilarius
1261 – Henry III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1230)
1326 – Leopold I, Duke of Austria (b. 1290)
1453 – Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine (b. 1400)
1485 – Niclas, Graf von Abensberg, German knight (b. 1441)
1510 – Juan de la Cosa, Spanish cartographer and explorer (b, 1450)
1525 – Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler (b. 1495)
1572 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian and author (b. 1505)
1572 – Maharana Udai Singh, Ruler of Mewar (b. 1522)
1621 – Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1590)
1648 – Christian IV of Denmark (b. 1577)
1746 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian and author (b. 1660)
1786 – John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
1788 – Thomas Cushing  (b. 1725)
      American lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
1836 – Friedrich August Grotefend, German philologist and academic (b. 1798)
1857 – André Dumont, Belgian geologist and academic (b. 1809)
1869 – Alphonse de Lamartine, French author and poet (b. 1790)
1879 – Hortense Allart, French writer (b. 1901)
1891 – George Hearst, American businessman and politician (b. 1820)
1916 – Henry James, American-English author (b. 1843)
1925 – Friedrich Ebert, German politician, 1st President of Germany (b. 1871)
1929 – Clemens von Pirquet, Austrian physician and immunologist (b. 1874)
1932 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer and academic (b. 1851)
1935 – Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1847)
1936 – Justus Hagman, Swedish actor (b. 1859)
1936 – Charles Nicolle, French biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1941 – Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
1942 – Karel Doorman, Dutch admiral (b. 1889)
1956 – Émile Buisson, French gangster (b. 1902)
1959 – Maxwell Anderson, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1888)
1963 – Rajendra Prasad, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st President of India (b. 1884)
1967 – Henry Luce, Chinese-American publisher, co-founded Time Magazine (b. 1898)
1974 – Bobby Bloom, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
1977 – Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
1978 – Philip Ahn, American actor (b. 1905)
1978 – Zara Cully, American actress (b. 1892)
1978 – Eric Frank Russell, English author (b. 1905)
1979 – Paul Alverdes, German author and poet (b. 1897)
1985 – David Byron, English singer-songwriter (Uriah Heep and Spice) (b. 1947)
1986 – Laura Z. Hobson, American author (b. 1900)
1986 – Olof Palme  (b. 1927)
      Swedish captain and politician, 26th Prime Minister of Sweden
1987 – Stephen Tennant, English author (b. 1906)
1991 – Reinhard Bendix, German-American sociologist and academic (b. 1916)
1991 – Wassily Hoeffding, Finnish-American statistician and theorist (b. 1914)
1993 – Ishirō Honda, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1911)
1993 – Ruby Keeler, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1910)
1998 – Arkady Shevchenko, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1930)
2001 – Charles Pozzi, French race car driver (b. 1909)
2002 – Mary Stuart, American actress and singer (b. 1926)
2002 – Helmut Zacharias, German violinist and composer (b. 1920)
2003 – Chris Brasher  (b. 1928)
      Guyanese-English runner and journalist, co-founded the London Marathon
2003 – Dinos Dimopoulos, Greek director and screenwriter (b. 1921)
2003 – Rudolf Kingslake, English engineer and academic (b. 1903)
2003 – Roger Needham, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1935)
2003 – Fidel Sánchez Hernández  (b. 1917)
      Salvadorian general and politician, President of El Salvador
2004 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and librarian (b. 1914)
2004 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish author (b. 1921)
2004 – Andres Nuiamäe, Estonian sergeant (b. 1982)
2005 – Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The Searchers) (b. 1941)
2006 – Owen Chamberlain  (b. 1920)
      American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
2007 – Charles Forte, Baron Forte  (b. 1908)
      Italian-English businessman, founded the Forte Group
2007 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American historian and critic (b. 1917)
2007 – Billy Thorpe  (b. 1946)
      English-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
      (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs)
2008 – Joseph M. Juran, Romanian-American engineer and businessman (b. 1904)
2008 – Mike Smith  (b. 1943)
      English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
      (The Dave Clark Five)
2009 – Paul Harvey, American radio host (b. 1918)
2011 – Annie Girardot, French actress (b. 1931)
2011 – Peter J. Gomes, American preacher and theologian (b. 1942)
2011 – Jane Russell, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
2012 – Frisner Augustin, Haitian drummer and composer (b. 1948)
2012 – Jim Green, American-Canadian educator and politician (b. 1943)
2012 – Hal Roach, Irish comedian and author (b. 1927)
2013 – Daniel Darc, French singer-songwriter (Taxi Girl) (b. 1959)
2013 – Donald A. Glaser  (b. 1926)
      American physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
2013 – Neil McCorkell, English cricketer and coach (b. 1912)
2013 – Bruce Reynolds, English criminal (b. 1931)
2013 – Armando Trovajoli, Italian pianist and composer (b. 1917)
2014 – Hugo Brandt Corstius, Dutch linguist and author (b. 1935)
2014 – Ophelia DeVore, American model and businesswoman (b. 1922)
2014 – Lee Lorch, American mathematician and activist (b. 1915)
2015 – Tom Bettis, American football player and coach (b. 1933)
2015 – Alex Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2015 – Yaşar Kemal, Turkish journalist and author (b. 1923)
2015 – Anthony Mason, American basketball player and actor (b. 1966)


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February 27 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths


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VIP


1886Hugo Black  (d. 25 Sep 1971
      American captain, jurist, and politician
      Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1937-1971
      U.S. Senator, D. AL, 1927-1937
1917John Connally  (d. 15 Jun 1993
      American lieutenant and politician
      61st United States Secretary of Treasury, 1971-1972
      55th United States Secretary of the Navy, 1961
            8th Secretary under the DoD
      39th Governor of Texas, 1963-1969


Notable

272 – Constantine the Great  (d. 22 May 337)
      57th Emperor of the Roman Empire, 306–337
1572 – Francis II, Duke of Lorraine (d. 14 Oct 1632)
      Duke of Lorraine, 1625
      Count of Vaudémont, 1572-1625, 1625-1632
1575John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 31 Mar 1616)
      Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, 1590-1616
1606 – Laurent de La Hyre, French painter (d. 1656)
1630 – Roche Braziliano, Dutch pirate (d. 1671)
1667 – Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł  (d. 1695)
      Prussian-Lithuanian wife of Charles III Philip,
            Elector Palatine
1689 – Pietro Gnocchi  (d. 1775)
      Italian composer, director, historian, and geographer
1691 – Edward Cave  (d. 1754)
      English publisher, founded The Gentleman's Magazine
1703:  Lord Sidney Beauclerk  (d. 23 Nov 1744)
      British politician and fortune-hunter
      grandson of King Charles II
1711 – Constantine Mavrocordatos  (d. 23 Nov 1769)
      Ottoman Greek noble, Prince of Wallachia and Moldavia
1724Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (d. 15 Aug 1724)
      member of the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld,
            a branch of the House of Wittelsbach
1732 – Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin  (d. 22 Aug 1804)
      French cardinal
1746 – Louis-Jérôme Gohier  (d. 1830)
      French politician, French Minister of Justice
1748 – Anders Erikson Sparrman  (d. 1820)
      Swedish physician and activist
1767 – Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure  (d. 1855)
      French lawyer and politician
      24th Prime Minister of France
1779 – Thomas Hazlehurst  (d. 1842)
     English businessman, founded Hazlehurst & Sons
1789 – Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza  (d. 1818)
      Chilean lawyer and politician
      Chilean Minister of National Defense
1795José Antonio Navarro  (d. 13 Jan 1871)
      Texas American statesman, revolutionary, and merchant
1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  (d. 24 Mar 1882)
      American poet and educator
1809 – Jean-Charles Cornay, French missionary and saint (d. 1837)
1812 – Pieter Harting, Dutch biologist and botanist (d. 1885)
1831 – Nikolai Ge, Russian painter (d. 1894)
1846 – Franz Mehring, German historian and politician (d. 1919)
1847 – Ellen Terry, English actress (d. 21 Jul 1928)
1848 – Hubert Parry, English composer and historian (d. 1918)
1850 – Laura E. Richards, American author and poet (d. 14 Jan 1943)
1856 – Mattia Battistini, Italian opera singer (d. 1928)
1859 – Bertha Pappenheim  (d. 1936)
      Austrian-German activist and author
1862 – Anastasios Metaxas  (d. 1937)
      Greek target shooter and architect
1863 – Joaquín Sorolla, Spanish painter (d. 1923)
1863 – George Herbert Mead  (d. 26 Apr 1931)
      American sociologist and philosopher
1864 – Eemil Nestor Setälä  (d. 1935)
      Finnish linguist and politician
      Finnish Minister for Foreign Affairs
1867 – Irving Fisher  (d. 29 Apr 1947)
      American economist and statistician
1867 – Wilhelm Peterson-Berger  (d. 1942)
      Swedish composer and critic
1869 – Alice Hamilton, American physician and academic (d. 1970)
1870 – Louis Coerne, American composer and educator (d. 1922)
1872 – Alexandru Vaida-Voevod  (d. 1950)
      Romanian politician, Prime Minister of Romania
1877 – Walter Briggs, Sr., American businessman (d. 1952)
1877 – Adela Verne, English pianist and composer (d. 1952)
1878 – Alvan T. Fuller  (d. 30 Apr 1958)
      American politician
      50th Governor of Massachusetts
1878 – Teodor Ussisoo  (d. 1959)
      Estonian artist, designer and pedagogue
1879 – René Lefebvre, French businessman (d. 1944)
1881 – Sveinn Björnsson  (d. 1952)
      Danish-Icelandic lawyer and politician
      1st President of Iceland
1881 – L. E. J. Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and academic (d. 1966)
1882 – George Terwilliger  (d. 1970)
      American film director and screenwriter
1887 – Pyotr Nesterov, Russian captain, pilot, and engineer (d. 1914)
1888 – Roberto Assagioli  (d. 1974)
      Italian psychiatrist and psychologist
1888 – Earl Caddock, American wrestler (d. 1950)
1888 – Lotte Lehmann, German soprano (d. 1976)
1888 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr.  (d. 30 Oct 1965)
      American historian and academic
1890 – Freddie Keppard, American cornet player (d. 1933)
1891 – David Sarnoff  (d. 12 Dec 1971)
      Belarusian-American journalist and businessman, founded RCA
1892 – William Demarest, American actor and singer (d. 28 Dec 1983)
1895 – Miyagiyama Fukumatsu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1943)
1897 – Marian Anderson, American singer (d. 8 Apr 1993)
1899 – Charles Herbert Best  (d. 1978)
      American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist
      co-discovered Insulin
1901 – Marino Marini, Italian sculptor and academic (d. 1980)
1902 – Ethelda Bleibtrey, American swimmer (d. 1978)
1902 – Lúcio Costa  (d. 1998)
      French-Brazilian architect and engineer
      designed Gustavo Capanema Palace
1902 – Gene Sarazen  (d. 13 May 1999)
      American golfer and sportscaster
1902 – John Steinbeck  (d. 20 Dec 1968)
      American novelist and short story writer
      Nobel Prize laureate
1903 – Ion Irimescu, Romanian sculptor and illustrator (d. 2005)
1903 – Grethe Weiser, German actress and singer (d. 1970)
1903 – Reginald Gardiner, English-American actor (d. 7 Jul 1980)
1904 – James T. Farrell, American author and poet (d. 22 Aug 1979)
1904 – Chick Fullis, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton  (d. 1996)
      Russian physicist and academic
1904 – André Leducq, French cyclist (d. 1980)
1905 – Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
1907 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
1907 – Momčilo Đujić  (d. 1999)
      Serbian-American priest and commander
1909 – Väinö Myllyrinne, Finnish giant (d. 1963)
1910 – Joan Bennett, American actress and singer (d. 7 Dec 1990)
1910 – Peter De Vries, American editor and novelist (d. 28 Sep 1993)
1910 – Ted Horn, American race car driver (d. 1948)
1910 – Kelly Johnson  (d. 1990)
      American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works
1910 – Genrikh Kasparyan, Armenian chess player (d. 1995)
1912 – Kusumagraj, Indian author, poet, and playwright (d. 1999)
1912 – Lawrence Durrell  (d. 7 Nov 1990)
      Indian-French author, poet, and playwright
1913 – Paul Ricœur, French philosopher and academic (d. 2005)
1913 – Kazimierz Sabbat  (d. 1989)
      Polish soldier and politician, President of Poland
1913 – Irwin Shaw  (d. 16 May 1984)
      American author and screenwriter
1915 – Denis Whitaker  (d. 2001)
      Canadian general, football player, and businessman
1921 – Theodore Van Kirk  (d. 2014)
      American soldier, pilot, and navigator
1922 – Hans Rookmaaker  (d. 1977)
      Dutch historian, author, and scholar
1923 – Dexter Gordon  (d. 1990)
      American saxophonist, composer, and actor
1925 – Samuel Dash, American lawyer and academic (d. 2004)
1925 – Hardrock Gunter  (d. 2013)
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1925:  Kenneth Koch  (d. 6 Jul 2002)
      American poet, playwright, and professor
1926 – David H. Hubel  (d. 2013)
      Canadian-American neurophysiologist and academic
      Nobel Prize laureate
1927 – Peter Whittle
      New Zealand-English mathematician and theorist
1928 – Alfred Hrdlicka, Austrian painter and sculptor (d. 2009)
1929 – Jack Gibson  (d. 2008)
      Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
1929 – Stefan Kudelski  (d. 2013)
      Polish engineer, invented the Nagra
1929 – Djalma Santos, Brazilian footballer (d. 2013)
1930 – Jovan Krkobabić  (d. 2014)
      Serbian politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia
1930 – Peter Stone, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2003)
1930 – Paul von Ragué Schleyer  (d. 2014)
      American chemist and academic
1930 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (d. 23 Mar 2011)
1932 – David Young, Baron Young of Graffham
      English businessman and politician
      Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills
1933 – Raymond Berry, American football player and coach
1933 – Edward Lucie-Smith, British poet, author, and critic
1933:  Malcolm Wallop  (d. 14 Sep 2011)
      American rancher and politician
      U.S. Senator, R. WY, 1977-1995
1934 – Vincent Fourcade, French interior designer (d. 1992)
1934 – Tim Forster, English racehorse trainer (d. 1999)
1934 – N. Scott Momaday, American author and academic
1934 – Ralph Nader, American lawyer and politician
1934:  Van Williams, American actor
1935 – Mirella Freni, Italian soprano and actress
1935 – Brian Heap, English biologist and academic
1935 – Uri Shulevitz, American author and illustrator
1936 – Ron Barassi, Australian footballer and coach
1936:  Sonia Johnson, American feminist activist and writer
1936 – Roger Mahony, American cardinal
1937 – Barbara Babcock, American actress
1938 – Jake Thackray
      English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and journalist (d. 2002)
1938 – Derek Ware, English actor and stuntman (d. 2015)
1939 – Don McKinnon
      English-New Zealand politician
      12th Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand
1939 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (d. 1974)
1940 – Pierre Duchesne
      Canadian politician, 28th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
1940 – Howard Hesseman, American actor
1940 – Bill Hunter, Australian actor (d. 2011)
1941 – Paddy Ashdown, English captain and politician
1942 – Jimmy Burns, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1942 – Robert H. Grubbs
      American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1942 – Charlayne Hunter-Gault, American journalist
1942 – Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, German footballer (d. 2011)
1943 – Mary Frann, American actress (d. 1998)
1943 – Morten Lauridsen, American composer and conductor
1943 – Carlos Alberto Parreira, Brazilian footballer and manager
1944 – Ken Grimwood, American author (d. 2003)
1944 – Graeme Pollock, South African cricketer and coach
1944 – Roger Scruton, English philosopher and author
1945 – Carl Anderson, American singer and actor (d. 2004)
1947 – Alan Guth, American physicist and cosmologist
1947 – Gidon Kremer, Latvian violinist and conductor
1949 – Istvan Banyai, Hungarian illustrator and animator
1949 – Rosalinda Galli, Italian voice actress
1949:  Debra Monk, American actress, singer, and writer
1949 – Robert Paterson, English bishop
1950 – Annabel Goldie, Scottish lawyer and politician
1950:  Franco Moschino  (d. 18 Sep 1994)
      Italian fashion designer
1950 – Julia Neuberger, Baroness Neuberger
      English rabbi and politician
1951 – Lee Atwater
     American political activist and media consultant (d. 1991)
1951 – Steve Harley
      English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Cockney Rebel)
1951 – Janet Steinbeck, Australian swimmer
1952 – Stathis Psaltis, Greek actor
1953 – Gavin Esler, Scottish journalist and author
1953 – Ian Khama
      English-Botswanan lieutenant and politician
      4th President of Botswana
1953 – Yolande Moreau, Belgian actress and director
1954 – JoAnn Falletta, American conductor
1954:  Thylias Moss, American poet
1954:  Mark Neumann
      American businessman and politician
      U.S. Representative, R. WI, 1995-1999
1954 – Neal Schon
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Journey, Santana, Bad English, and Hardline)
1955 – Peter Christopherson  (d. 2010)
      English keyboard player, songwriter, and director
      (Coil and Throbbing Gristle)
1957 – Danny Antonucci
      Canadian animator, producer, and screenwriter
1957 – Robert de Castella, Australian runner
1957 – Adrian Smith
      English guitarist and songwriter
      (Iron Maiden, ASAP, and Psycho Motel, and Urchin)
1957 – Timothy Spall, English actor
1958 – Naas Botha, South African rugby player
1958 – Max Crivello, Italian illustrator
1958 – Maggie Hassan
      American lawyer and politician, 81st Governor of New Hampshire
1958:  Michael LeMoyne Kennedy  (d. 31 Dec 1997)
      American 6th of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy
1959 – Frédéric Durieux, French composer
1959 – Vardan Petrosyan, Armenian-French actor and screenwriter
1959 – Johnny Van Zant
      American singer-songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd and Van Zant)
1960 – Andrés Gómez, Ecuadorian tennis player
1960 – Paul Humphreys
      English singer-songwriter and keyboard player
      (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, The Listening Pool, and Onetwo)
1961 – George Kapiniaris, Australian comedian and actor
1961 – James Worthy, American basketball player and sportscaster
1962 – Adam Baldwin, American actor
1962:  Grant Show, American actor
1962 – Robert Spencer, American author and blogger
1963 – Cynthia Layne, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
1963 – Nasty Suicide
      Finnish guitarist (Hanoi Rocks and The Suicide Twins)
1963 – Pär Nuder, Swedish politician
1964 – Todd Bodine, American race car driver
1964 – John Pyper-Ferguson, Australian-Canadian actor
1964 – Thomas Lange, German rower and physician
1964 – Jeffrey Pasley
      professor of American history at the University of Missouri
1965 – Noah Emmerich, American actor
1965 – Pedro Chaves, Portuguese race car driver
1966:  Patrick Carman, American author
1966 – Donal Logue, Canadian actor and director
1966 – Baltasar Kormákur, Icelandic actor, director, and producer
1967 – Dănuț Lupu, Romanian footballer
1968:  Lisa McMann, American author
1968 – Matt Stairs, Canadian baseball player and sportscaster
1968:  Michael Vartan, French-American actor
1969 – Stuart MacBride, Scottish author
1969 – Gareth Llewellyn, Welsh rugby player and coach
1970 – Kent Desormeaux, American jockey
1970 – Patricia Petibon, French coloratura soprano
1971 – Sara Blakely, American businesswoman, founded Spanx
1971 – Derren Brown, English magician and painter
1971 – Roman Giertych
      Polish lawyer and politician
      Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland
1971 – Rozonda Thomas
      American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (TLC)
1972:  Richard Coyle, English actor
1973 – Peter Andre
      English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor
1973:  Li Bingbing (or Bingbing Li), Chinese actress
1973:  Kyp Malone
      American musician, record producer, and actor
      (TV on the Radio, Iran, Rain Machine, and Ice Balloons)
1973 – Ali Tabatabaee
      Iranian-American singer-songwriter (Zebrahead)
1973 – Mark Taylor, Welsh rugby player and manager
1974 – Julie Andrieu, French radio and television host
1974 – Colin Edwards, American motorcycle racer
1974 – Carte Goodwin, American lawyer and politician
1974 – Movlud Miraliyev, Uzbekistani-Azerbaijani martial artist
1975 – Nikita Gross, Czech-Russian porn actress and model
1975 – Prodromos Korkizoglou, Greek decathlete
1975 – Christopher B. Landon, American director and screenwriter
1975 – Eugenia Manolidou, Greek composer and conductor
1976 – Tony Gonzalez, American football player and sportscaster
1976 – Yukari Tamura, Japanese voice actress and singer
1976 – Sergei Semak, Ukrainian-Russian footballer and manager
1977 – James Wan
      Malaysian-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
1978 – James Beattie, English footballer and manager
1978 – Kakha Kaladze, Georgian footballer
1978:  Adam Kinzinger
      U.S. Representative, R. IL, 2013-present
1978 – Emelie Öhrstig, Swedish skier and cyclist
1979 – Adriana Campos, Colombian actress (d. 2015)
1980 – Chelsea Clinton, American journalist
1980 – Scott Prince, Australian rugby league player
1980 – Bobby V, American singer-songwriter (Mista)
1981 – Evi Goffin, Belgian singer-songwriter (Lasgo)
1981 – Josh Groban
      American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1981 – Cameron Ling, Australian footballer and sportscaster
1981 – Élodie Ouédraogo, Belgian sprinter
1981 – Alessandro Rottoli, Italian footballer
1982 – Pat Richards, Australian rugby league player
1982 – Bruno Soares, Brazilian tennis player
1983 – Devin Harris, American basketball player
1983 – Kate Mara, American actress
1983 – Mohammed Nabbous, Libyan journalist (d. 2011)
1983 – Vítězslav Veselý, Czech javelin thrower
1984 – David Noel, American basketball player
1984 – Aníbal Sánchez, American baseball player
1984 – Lotta Schelin, Swedish footballer
1985 – Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, Russian footballer
1985 – Braydon Coburn, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Vladislav Kulik, Ukrainian-Russian footballer
1985 – Brett Stewart, Australian rugby league player
1986:  Jennifer Lynn "Jenni" Farley (aka JWoww)
      American television personality
1986 – Yovani Gallardo, American baseball player
1986:  Ashthon Jones, American singer
1986 – Jonathan Moreira, Brazilian footballer
1986 – Sandeep Singh, Indian field hockey player
1987 – Djaïd Kasri, French-Algerian footballer
1987 – Kristian Marmor, Estonian footballer
1987 – Sandy Paillot, French footballer
1987 – Scott Davies, English footballer
1988 – Iain Ramsay, Australian footballer
1988 – Dustin Jeffrey, Canadian ice hockey player
1989 – David Button, English footballer
1989:  Stefano Langone, American singer
1989 – Shota Shimizu, Japanese singer-songwriter
1989 – Lloyd Rigby, English footballer
1991 – Misako Renbutsu, Japanese actress
1992 – Ty Dillon, American race car driver
1992 – Meyers Leonard, American basketball player
1992 – Ioannis Potouridis, Greek footballer
1992 – Jonjo Shelvey, English footballer
1992 – Callum Wilson, English footballer
1993 – Alphonse Aréola, French-Filipino footballer
1994 – Hou Yifan, Chinese chess player
1995 – Laura Gulbe, Latvian tennis player


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Notable

640 – Pepin of Landen, Frankish politician (b. 580)
956 – Theophylact of Constantinople (b. 917)
1659 – Henry Dunster, English-American clergyman and academic (b. 1609)
1699 – Charles Paulet, 1st Duke of Bolton  (b. 1625)
      English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire
1702 – Münejjim Bashi, Ottoman astrologer, Sufi, and historian
1706 – John Evelyn, English gardener and author (b. 1620)
1720 – Samuel Parris, English-American minister (b. 1653)
1735 – John Arbuthnot, Scottish physician and polymath (b. 1667)
1795 – Tanikaze Kajinosuke, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1750)
1844 – Nicholas Biddle, American banker and politician (b. 1786)
1887 – Alexander Borodin, Russian composer and chemist (b. 1833)
1892 – Louis Vuitton, French businessman, founded Louis Vuitton (b. 1821)
1902 – Peter Handcock, Australian lieutenant (b. 1868)
1902 – Breaker Morant, English-Australian lieutenant (b. 1864)
1921 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1871)
1928 – Jürgen Kröger, German architect (b. 1856)
1932 – William Southam, Canadian publisher (b. 1843)
1936 – Joshua W. Alexander  (b. 1852)
      American judge and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Commerce
1936 – Ivan Pavlov  (b. 1849)
      Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Emily Malbone Morgan  (b. 1862)
      American saint, founded the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross
1941 – William D. Byron, American politician (b. 1895)
1943 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1859)
1956 – Ganesh Vasudev Mavalankar  (b. 1888)
      Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Speaker of the Lok Sabha
1964 – Orry-Kelly, Australian-American costume designer (b. 1897)
1968 – Frankie Lymon, American singer-songwriter (The Teenagers) (b. 1942)
1969 – Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (b. 1883)
1972 – Pat Brady, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1973 – Bill Everett, American author and illustrator (b. 1917)
1977 – John Dickson Carr, American author and playwright (b. 1905)
1978 – Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (b. 1912)
1980 – George Tobias, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
1981 – Jacob H. Gilbert, American politician (b. 1920)
1985 – Ray Ellington, English singer and drummer (b. 1916)
1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.  (b. 1902)
      American politician and diplomat
      3rd United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1985 – J. Pat O'Malley, English-American actor and singer (b. 1904)
1986 – Jacques Plante, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929)
1987 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903)
1987 – Joan Greenwood, English actress (b. 1921)
1989 – Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (b. 1897)
1989 – Konrad Lorenz  (b. 1903)
      Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel laureate
1990 – Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Ukrainian-American scholar and theologian (b. 1903)
1990 – Josephine Johnson, American author and poet (b. 1910)
1992 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
1993 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
1998 – George H. Hitchings  (b. 1905)
      American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1999 – Horace Tapscott American pianist and composer (b. 1934)
2002 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian, actor, and author (b. 1918)
2003 – John Lanchbery, English-Australian composer and conductor (b. 1923)
2003 – Fred Rogers, American minister and television host (b. 1928)
2004 – Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian and academic (b. 1928)
2004 – Paul Sweezy, American economist and journalist (b. 1910)
2006 – Otis Chandler, American publisher (b. 1927)
2006 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American general and author (b. 1908)
2006 – Linda Smith, English comedian and author (b. 1958)
2007 – Bobby Rosengarden, American drummer (b. 1924)
2007 – Bernd Freytag von Loringhoven, German general (b. 1914)
2008 – Ivan Rebroff, German singer (b. 1931)
2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr.  (b. 1925)
      American author and journalist, founded the National Review
2008 – Boyd Coddington, American motorcycle designer (b. 1944)
2008 – Myron Cope, American journalist and sportscaster (b. 1929)
2010 – Nanaji Deshmukh, Indian educator and activist (b. 1916)
2011 – Frank Buckles, American soldier (b. 1901)
2011 – Necmettin Erbakan  (b. 1926)
      Turkish engineer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Turkey
2011 – Duke Snider, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1926)
2011 – Gary Winick, American director and producer (b. 1961)
2011 – Frank Alesia, American actor and television director (b. 1944)
2012 – Vince Dantona, American ventriloquist (b. 1949)
2012 – Ma Jiyuan, Chinese general (b. 1921)
2012 – Tina Strobos, Dutch physician and psychiatrist (b. 1920)
2012 – Helga Vlahović, Croatian journalist and producer (b. 1945)
2013 – Van Cliburn, American pianist (b. 1934)
2013 – Ramon Dekkers, Dutch mixed martial artist and kick-boxer (b. 1969)
2013 – Stéphane Hessel, German-French diplomat and author (b. 1917)
2013 – Dale Robertson, American actor (b. 1923)
2013 – Richard Street  (b. 1942)
      American singer-songwriter (The Temptations and The Monitors)
2013 – Adolfo Zaldívar, Chilean lawyer and politician (b. 1943)
2014 – Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (b. 1960)
2014 – Tim Kehoe, American chemist and author (b. 1970)
2014 – Huber Matos, Cuban-American activist (b. 1918)
2014 – Terry Rand, American basketball player (b. 1934)
2015 – Boris Nemtsov  (b. 1959)
      Russian academic and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia
2015 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor (b. 26 Mar 1931)
2015 – Julio César Strassera, Argentinian lawyer and jurist (b. 1933)


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