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Birthdays
VIP
1860 – Charles Curtis (d. 8 Feb 1936)
American lawyer and politician
31st Vice President of the United States, 1929-1933
U.S. Senator, R. KS, 1907-1913, 1915-1929
U.S. Representative, R. KS, 1892-1907
Notable
17 – Messalina, Roman wife of Claudius (d. 48)
750 – Leo IV the Khazar, Byzantine emperor (d. 780)
1459 – Paul Hofhaimer, Austrian organist and composer (d. 1537)
1477 – Anne of Brittany (d. 9 Jan 1514)
Duchess of Brittany, 1488-1514
Queen consort of France, 1491-1498, 1499-1514
1509 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
1615 – Govert Flinck, Dutch painter (d. 1660)
1627 – Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1691)
1634 – Gaspar Fagel, Dutch politician and diplomat (d. 1688)
1640 – William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire (d. 18 Aug 1707)
English soldier and politician, Lord Steward of the Household
1688 – Juraj Jánošík, Slovak criminal (d. 1713)
1731: William Whipple, Jr. (d. 28 Nov 1735)
American judge, Continental Army general, and politician
signatory of the Declaration of Independence
1736 – Joseph-Louis Lagrange (d. 1813)
Italian-French mathematician and astronomer
1739 – Charles François Dumouriez (d. 1823)
French general and politician; French Minister of Defence
1743 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (d. 1819)
German philosopher and author
1750 – Johann Gottfried Vierling (d. 1813)
German organist and composer
1755 – Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (d. 1815)
1759 – Robert Burns, Scottish poet and songwriter (d. 21 Jul 1796)
1777 – Karoline Jagemann, German actress and singer (d. 1848)
1783 – William Colgate (d. 125 Mar 1857)
English-American businessman and philanthropist
founded Colgate-Palmolive
1794 – François-Vincent Raspail (d. 1878)
French chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer
1796 – William MacGillivray (d. 1852)
Scottish ornithologist and biologist
1813 – J. Marion Sims (d. 1883)
American gynecologist and physician
1822 – Charles Reed Bishop (d. 1915)
American businessman, philanthropist, and politician
founded Bishop Museum
1822 – William McDougall (d. 1905)
Canadian lawyer and politician
Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories
1824 – Michael Madhusudan Dutt (d. 1873)
Indian poet and playwright
1841 – John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (d. 1920)
Sri Lankan-English admiral
1851: Arne Garborg, Norwegian writer (d. 14 Jan 1924)
1858 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman (d. 1954)
1863: Rufus Matthew Jones (d. 16 Jun 1948)
American writer, editor, philosopher, and professor.
1864 – Julije Kempf, Croatian historian and author (d. 1934)
1868 – Juventino Rosas, Mexican violinist and composer (d. 1894)
1874 – W. Somerset Maugham (d. 16 Dec 1965)
British playwright, novelist, and short story writer
1878 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer (d. 1975)
1881: Emil Ludwig, German-Swiss biographer (d. 17 Sep 1948)
1882 – Virginia Woolf, English author and critic (d. 28 Mar 1941)
1885 – Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poet and author (d. 1942)
1886 – Wilhelm Furtwängler (d. 1954)
German conductor and composer
1886 – Morgan Russell, American painter (d. 1953)
1896 – Florence Mills (d. 1927)
American singer, dancer, and actress
1899 – Sleepy John Estes (d. 1977)
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1899 – Paul-Henri Spaak (d. 1972)
Belgian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Belgium
1900: Theodosius Dobzhansky (d. 18 Dec 1975)
Ukrainian-born American geneticist and evolutionary biologist
1900 – István Fekete, Hungarian author (d. 1970)
1900 – Yōjirō Ishizaka, Japanese author and educator (d. 1986)
1905 – Maurice Roy, Canadian cardinal (d. 1985)
1905 – Margery Sharp, English author (d. 1991)
1906 – Toni Ulmen (d. 1976)
German racing driver and motorcycle racer
1910 – Edgar V. Saks (d. 1984)
Estonian historian, author, and politician
Estonian Minister of Education
1913: Armand Deutsch, American film producer (d. 13 Aug 2005)
1913 – Huang Hua (d. 2010)
Chinese translator and politician
5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China
1913 – Witold Lutosławski (d. 1994)
Polish composer and conductor
1913 – Luis Marden (d. 2003)
American photographer and journalist
1915 – Ewan MacColl (d. 1989)
English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1917 – Ilya Prigogine (d. 2003)
Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist
Nobel Prize laureate
1917 – Jânio Quadros (d. 1992)
Brazilian politician; 22nd President of Brazil
1917 – Paul Rowe, Canadian football player (d. 1990)
1918 – Ernie Harwell, American sportscaster (d. 2010)
1919 – Edwin Newman (d. 13 Aug 2010)
American journalist and author
1921 – Samuel T. Cohen (d. 2010)
American physicist and academic
1923 – Arvid Carlsson
Swedish pharmacologist and physician
Nobel Prize laureate
1923 – Shirley Ardell Mason (d. 1998)
American psychiatric patient upon whom a novel and two
television miniseries were based
1923 – Jean Taittinger (d. 2012)
French politician; French Minister of Justice
1924 – Husein Mehmedov, Bulgarian-Turkish wrestler (d. 2014)
1925 – Giorgos Zampetas (d. 1992)
Greek bouzouki player and songwriter
1927 – Antônio Carlos Jobim (d. 1994)
Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist
1927 – Gregg Palmer, American actor (d. 2015)
1928 – Jérôme Choquette, Canadian lawyer and politician
1928 – Eduard Shevardnadze (d. 7 Jul 2014)
Georgian general and politician
2nd President of Georgia
1928 – Cor van der Hart, Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2006)
1929 – Elizabeth Allen, American actress and singer (d. 2006)
1929 – Robert Faurisson, English-French author and academic
1929 – Benny Golson, American saxophonist and composer
1929: Sir William "Bill" O'Brien
British Labour Party politician
1930 – Tanya Savicheva, Russian author (d. 1944)
1931 – Dean Jones, American actor and singer (d. 2015)
1933 – Corazon Aquino (d. 1 Aug 2009)
Filipino politician, 11th President of the Philippines
1933: Alden Albert Nowlan (d. 27 Jun 1983)
Canadian poet, novelist, and playwright
1934 – Mimi Kok, Dutch actress and singer (d. 2014)
1935 – Conrad Burns
American soldier, journalist, and politician
1935 – António Ramalho Eanes
Portuguese general and politician
16th President of Portugal
1935 – J. G. Farrell, Anglo-Irish author (d. 1979)
1936 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977)
1936 – Onat Kutlar, Turkish author and poet (d. 1995)
1937: Bill Pascrell
American politician
U.S. Representative, D. NJ, 1997-present
1937 – Ange-Félix Patassé (d. 2011)
Central African engineer and politician
President of the Central African Republic
1938 – Shotaro Ishinomori (d. 1998)
Japanese author and illustrator
1938 – Etta James, American singer-songwriter (d. 20 Jan 2012)
1938 – Leiji Matsumoto
Japanese author, illustrator, and animator
1938 – Vladimir Vysotsky (d. 1980)
Russian singer-songwriter, actor, and poet
1939 – Gabriel Romanus, Swedish politician
1941 – Buddy Baker (d. 2015)
American race car driver and sportscaster
1941 – Gregory Sierra, American actor
1942 – Eusébio, Mozambican-Portuguese footballer (d. 2014)
1942 – Kenichi Shinoda, Japanese mobster
1943 – Roy Black, German singer and actor (d. 1991)
1943 – Tobe Hooper
American director, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Tōru Emori, Japanese actor, voice actor, and director
1944: Bernard Tschumi, Swiss French architect
1945 – John Leslie (d. 2010)
American porn actor, director, and producer
1945 – Leigh Taylor-Young, American actress
1945: Dave Walker
English singer and guitarist
(Idle Race, Fleetwood Mac, Savoy Brown, Black Sabbath)
1947 – Eduardo Gonçalves de Andrade (bka Tostão)
Brazilian footballer, journalist, and physician
1947 – Ángel Nieto, Spanish motorcycle racer
1947: Marjorie Scardino
American-born British business executive
1948: Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
President of the United Arab Emirates, 2004-present
1948 – Ros Kelly
Australian educator and politician
1st Australian Minister for Defence Science and Personnel
1948 – Georgy Shishkin, Russian painter and illustrator
1949 – John Cooper Clarke, English poet and critic
1949 – Paul Nurse
English geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
1949: Tom Paulin, Northern Irish poet and critic
1950: Jean-Marc Ayrault
French politician
Prime Minister of France, 2012-2014
1950: Gloria Naylor, American novelist
1951 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
1951 – Leonid Telyatnikov (d. 2004)
Kazakhstani-Ukrainian firefighter
1952 – Sara Mandiano, French singer-songwriter
1952: Lee Strobel, American author
1952 – Peter Tatchell, Australian-English journalist and activist
1952: Timothy White (d. 27 Jun 2002)
American rock music journalist and editor
1953 – The Honky Tonk Man, American wrestler and actor
1953 – Mark Weil, Russian-Uzbek director and producer (d. 2007)
1954 – Ricardo Bochini, Argentinian footballer
1954: Joe Conason
American journalist, author and liberal political commentator
1954 – Renate Dorrestein, Dutch journalist and author
1957 – Eskil Erlandsson
Swedish technologist and politician
Swedish Minister for Rural Affairs
1957 – Andrew Harris
American commander, physician, and politician
1957 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress and singer
1958: James C. Collins
American business consultant, author, and lecturer
1958 – Kavita Krishnamurthy, Indian singer
1958 – Dinah Manoff, American actress and director
1958 – Franco Pancheri, Italian footballer and manager
1958 – Gary Tibbs, English bass player and actor
1959: Toni Servillo, Italian actor and director
1961 – Vivian Balakrishnan
Singaporean ophthalmologist and politician
Singaporean Ministry of National Development
1961 – Willie Revillame
Filipino actor, singer, and game show host
1962 – Chris Chelios, American ice hockey player
1963: Marcello Giordani, Italian operatic tenor
1963 – Fernando Haddad
Brazilian academic and politician
61st Mayor of São Paulo
1963 – Molly Holzschlag
American computer scientist and author
1963 – Timo Rautiainen
Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist
(Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus and Lyijykomppania)
1963: Kara Swisher
American technology columnist, author, and commentator
1965 – Esa Tikkanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
1966 – Chet Culver
American educator and politician; 41st Governor of Iowa
1966 – Yiannos Ioannou, Cypriot footballer and manager
1967 – David Ginola, French footballer and actor
1968 – Eric Orie, Dutch footballer and manager
1969 – Sergei Ovchinnikov (d. 2012)
Russian volleyball player and coach
1969: Ashwin Sanghi, Indian writer
1970 – Stephen Chbosky
American author, screenwriter, and director
1971 – Luca Badoer, Italian race car driver
1971 – Ana Ortiz, American actress and singer
1971: Marcus Samuelsson
Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef and restaurateur
1972 – Shinji Takehara, Japanese boxer
1973 – Geoff Johns
American author, screenwriter, and producer
1973 – Ace Steel, American wrestler and trainer
1974 – Emily Haines
Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1974 – Attilio Nicodemo, Italian footballer
1975 – Mia Kirshner, Canadian actress
1975 – Tim Montgomery, American runner
1975 – Dat Phan, Vietnamese-American comedian and actor
1976 – Mário Haberfeld, Brazilian race car driver
1976 – Dimitris Nalitzis, Greek footballer
1978 – Charlene, Princess of Monaco
Princess consort of Monaco, 2011-present
1978 – Ahmet Dursun, Turkish footballer
1978 – Denis Menchov, Russian cyclist
1978 – Jason Roberts, English footballer and sportscaster
1978 – B.J. Whitmer, American wrestler
1979 – Pi Hongyan, Chinese-French badminton player
1979 – Christine Lakin, American actress and producer
1979 – Rodrigo Ribeiro, Brazilian race car driver
1980 – Xavier "Xavi" Hernández Creus, Spanish footballer
1980 – Michelle McCool, American wrestler and model
1980 – Efstathios Tavlaridis, Greek footballer
1981 – Charlie Bewley, English actor
1981 – Francis Jeffers, English footballer
1981 – Alicia Keys
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
1981 – Clara Morgane, French actress and singer
1981 – Toše Proeski (d. 2007)
Macedonian singer-songwriter and actor
1982 – Sho Sakurai, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor
1984 – Robinho, Brazilian footballer
1984 – Stefan Kießling, German footballer
1984 – Fara Williams, English footballer
1985 – Tina Karol, Ukrainian singer and actress
1985 – Acie Law, American basketball player
1985 – Michael Trevino, American actor
1985 – Patrick Willis, American football player
1986 – Shahriar Nafees, Bangladeshi cricketer
1987 – Maria Kirilenko, Russian tennis player
1988 – Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player
1988 – Ryota Ozawa, Japanese actor
1989 – Sheryfa Luna, French singer and dancer
1989 – Mikako Tabe, Japanese actress and singer
1989 – Víctor Ruiz Torre, Spanish footballer
1990 – Lee Junho, South Korean singer (2PM)
1991 – Jared Cowen, Canadian ice hockey player
1991 – Nigel Melker, Dutch race car driver
1992 – Mayuko Arisue, Japanese model, actress, and entertainer
Family
Coulee City
Bob Huber Sr.
Kyle Dean Phillips
Steve V. White
Kristina Newman
Paul McKay
Francis Douglas
Brian McKay
Tammy Graff
Other
Anniversaries
Coulee City
Deaths
VIP
Notable
389 – Gregory of Nazianzus, Byzantine archbishop and saint (b. 329)
477 – Genseric, Vandals king (b. 389)
844 – Pope Gregory IV (b. 827)
1067 – Emperor Yingzong of Song (b. 1032)
1366 – Henry Suso, German priest and mystic (b. 1300)
1431 – Charles II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1364)
1494 – Ferdinand I of Naples (b. 1423)
1559 – Christian II of Denmark (b. 1481)
1578 – Mihrimah Sultan, Ottoman daughter of Suleiman the Magnificent (b. 1522)
1586 – Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter (b. 1515)
1640 – Robert Burton, English physician and scholar (b. 1577)
1670 – Nicholas Francis, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1612)
1726 – Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
1733 – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet (b. 1652)
English banker and politician, Lord Mayor of London
1751 – Paul Dudley, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1675)
1852 – Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen (b. 1778)
Russian admiral, cartographer, and explorer
1881 – Konstantin Thon (b. 1794)
Russian architect
designed the Grand Kremlin Palace and Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
1884 – Périclès Pantazis, Greek-Belgian painter (b. 1849)
1907 – René Pottier, French cyclist (b. 1879)
1908 – Ouida, English-Italian author (b. 1839)
1908 – Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player (b. 1850)
1912 – Dmitry Milyutin, Russian field marshal and politician (b. 1816)
1925 – Juan Vucetich (b. 1858)
Croatian-Argentinian anthropologist and police officer
1940 – Elias Simojoki, Finnish priest and activist (b. 1899)
1947 – Al Capone, American mob boss (b. 1899)
1949 – Makino Nobuaki (b. 1861)
Japanese politician; 15th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
1954 – M. N. Roy, Indian activist and theorist (b. 1887)
1957 – Ichizō Kobayashi (b. 1873)
Japanese businessman, founded Hankyu Hanshin Holdings
1957 – Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1958 – Cemil Topuzlu, Turkish surgeon and politician; Mayor of Istanbul (b. 1866)
1960 – Diana Barrymore, American actress (b. 1921)
1970 – Jane Bathori, French soprano (b. 1877)
1970 – Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese director and producer (b. 1901)
1971 – Barry III, Guinean lawyer and politician (b. 1923)
1972 – Erhard Milch, German field marshal (b. 1892)
1978 – Skender Kulenović, Bosnian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1910)
1981 – Adele Astaire, American dancer (b. 1897)
1982 – Mikhail Suslov, Russian economist and politician (b. 1902)
1985 – Ilias Iliou, Greek jurist and politician (b. 1904)
1988 – Colleen Moore, American actress (b. 1899)
1990 – Ava Gardner, American actress and singer (b. 1922)
1994 – Stephen Cole Kleene (b. 1909)
American mathematician, computer scientist, and academic
1996 – Jonathan Larson, American playwright and composer (b. 1960)
1999 – Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916)
2003 – Ina Clough, English actress (b. 1920)
2003 – Sheldon Reynolds, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1923)
2004 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch runner and hurdler (b. 1918)
2004 – Miklós Fehér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1979)
2004 – Zurab Sakandelidze, Georgian basketball player (b. 1945)
2005 – Stanisław Albinowski, Polish economist and journalist (b. 1923)
2005 – Philip Johnson (b. 1906)
American architect; designed the PPG Place and Crystal Cathedral
2005 – Manuel Lopes, Cape Verdean author and poet (b. 1907)
2005 – Ray Peterson, American singer (b. 1935)
2005 – Netti Witziers-Timmer, Dutch runner (b. 1923)
2006 – Anna Malle, American actress (b. 1967)
2008 – Christopher Allport, American actor (b. 1947)
2009 – Eleanor F. Helin, American astronomer (b. 1932)
2009 – Ewald Kooiman, Dutch organist and educator (b. 1938)
2009 – Kim Manners, American director and producer (b. 1951)
2010 – Ali Hassan al-Majid (b. 1941)
Iraqi general and politician, Iraqi Minister of Defence
2011 – Vassilis C. Constantakopoulos Greek captain and businessman (b. 1935)
2012 – Paavo Berglund, Finnish violinist and conductor (b. 1929)
2012 – Jacques Maisonrouge, French businessman (b. 1924)
2012 – Franco Pacini, Italian astrophysicist and academic (b. 1939)
2013 – Martial Asselin (b. 1924)
Canadian lawyer and politician; 25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
2013 – Irene Koumarianou, Greek actress (b. 1931)
2013 – Aase Nordmo Løvberg, Norwegian soprano and actress (b. 1923)
2014 – Gyula Sax, Hungarian chess player (b. 1951)
2015 – Zulkifli Abdhir, Malaysian terrorist (b. 1966)
2015 – Demis Roussos, Greek singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1946)
Family
1996: Margaret I. (Seaton) Taschereau (b. 20 Dec 1912)
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