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Birthdays
VIP
1457 – Henry VII of England (d. 21 Apr 1509)
King of England, 1485-1509
1784 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen (d. 1860)
Scottish politician, diplomat, and landowner
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1852-1855
1822 – Alexander Mackenzie (d. 17 Apr 1892)
Scottish-Canadian soldier, journalist, and politician
2nd Prime Minister of Canada
Notable
1312 – Joan II of Navarre (d. 6 Oct 1349)
Queen of Navarre, 1328-1349
1540 – Ludolph van Ceulen (d. 1610)
German-Dutch mathematician and academic
1578 – Cornelius Haga, Dutch diplomat (d. 1654)
1582 – John Barclay (d. 1621)
French-Scottish poet and author
1600 – Pope Clement IX (d. 9 Dec 1669)
238th Pope of Rome, 1667-1669
1608 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (d. 1679)
Italian physiologist and physicist
1611 – Johannes Hevelius (d. 1687)
Polish astronomer and politician
1622 – Adrien Auzout (d. 1691)
French astronomer and instrument maker
1693 – Gregor Werner, Austrian composer (d. 1766)
1701 – Charles Marie de La Condamine (d. 1774)
French mathematician and geographer
1706 – John Baskerville (d. 1775)
English printer and typographer
1712 – Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
1717 – Mustafa III (d. 21 Jan 1774)
Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, 1757-1774
1719 – Johann Elias Schlegel (d. 1749)
German poet and critic
1719 – Christian Felix Weiße (d. 1802)
German writer and pedagogue
1755 – Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (d. 1830)
Polish-German physician, anthropologist, and paleontologist
1797 – Charles Gray Round (d. 1867)
English barrister and politician
1818 – George S. Boutwell (d. 1905)
American lawyer and politician
28th United States Secretary of the Treasury
1833 – Charles George Gordon (d. 1885)
English general and politician
1841 – Henry Morton Stanley (d. 10 May 1904)
Welsh-American explorer and journalist
1843 – Mihkel Veske, Estonian poet and linguist (d. 1890)
1853 – José Martí (d. 1895)
Cuban journalist, poet, and theorist
1853 – Vladimir Solovyov (d. 1900)
Russian philosopher, poet, and critic
1857 – William Seward Burroughs I (d. 14 Sep 1898)
American businessman, founded the Burroughs Corporation
1858 – Tannatt William Edgeworth David (d. 1934)
Welsh-Australian geologist and explorer
1861 – Julián Felipe, Filipino composer and educator (d. 1944)
1863 – Ernest William Christmas (d. 1918)
Australian-American painter
1864 – Charles Williams Nash (d. 6 Jun 1948)
American businessman, founded Nash Motors
1864 – Herbert Akroyd Stuart (d. 1927)
English engineer, invented the Hot bulb engine
and Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine
1865 – Lala Lajpat Rai, Indian author and politician (d. 1928)
1865 – Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (d. 1952)
Finnish lawyer, judge, and politician
1st President of Finland
1873 – Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (d. 3 August 1954)
French novelist, mime, actress, and journalist
1875 – Julián Carrillo (d. 1965)
Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor
1878 – Walter Kollo, German composer (d. 1940)
1881: Ruby M. Ayres, British romance novelist (d. 14 Nov 1955)
1884 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (d. 1962)
1885 – Vahan Terian, Armenian poet and activist (d. 1920)
1886 – Marthe Bibesco (d. 1973)
Romanian-French author and poet (d. 1976)
1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic
1887 – Arthur Rubinstein (d. 20 Dec 1982)
Polish-American pianist
1890 – Robert Stroud, American ornithologist (d. 1963)
1892 – Ernst Lubitsch (d. 1947)
German-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1897 – Valentin Kataev, Russian author and playwright (d. 1986)
1899 – Elias Simojoki, Finnish priest and activist (d. 1940)
1900 – Alice Neel, American painter (d. 1984)
1903 – Aleksander Kamiński (d. 1978)
Polish author and educator
1904 – Canuplin, Filipino magician and actor (d. 1979)
1908 – Paul Misraki (d. 1998)
Turkish-French composer and historian
1909 – John Thomson, Scottish footballer (d. 1931)
1910 – John Banner, Austrian actor (d. 28 Jan 1973)
1910 – Arnold Moss, American actor (d. 1989)
1911 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch academic and politician
1912 – Jackson Pollock, American painter (d. 11 Aug 1956)
1918 – Trevor Skeet (d. 2004)
New Zealand-English lawyer and politician
1919 – Gabby Gabreski, American colonel and pilot (d. 2002)
1922 – Anna Gordy Gaye (d. 2014)
American businesswoman, composer and songwriter
1922 – Robert W. Holley (d. 1993)
American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1924 – Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (d. 1976)
1925: John Ronald Dennis (d. 31 Dec 2014) obituary
Australian born American dancer and actor
1925 – Raja Ramanna, Indian physicist and politician (d. 2004)
1927 – Eşref Kolçak, Turkish actor
1927 – Per Oscarsson (d. 2010)
Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1927 – Ronnie Scott (d. 1996)
English saxophonist (The Jazz Couriers)
1927 – Hiroshi Teshigahara (d. 2001)
Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter
1929 – Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (d. 2014)
1929 – Claes Oldenburg
Swedish-American sculptor and illustrator
1929 – Nikolai Parshin (d. 2012)
Russian footballer and manager
1930 – Jasraj, Indian singer
1930 – Kurt Biedenkopf
German academic and politician
54th President of the German Bundesrat
1930 – Roy Clarke, English soldier and screenwriter
1930 – Ruth Cohen, American actress (d. 2008)
1934 – Juan Manuel Bordeu (d. 1990)
Argentinian race car driver
1934 – Mitr Chaibancha, Thai actor and producer (d. 1970)
1935: Sue Hubbell, American author
1935 – David Lodge, English author and critic
1935 – Nicholas Pryor, American actor
1936 – Alan Alda (born Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo)
American actor, director, and screenwriter
1936 – Ismail Kadare, Albanian author and poet
1937 – Karel Čáslavský (d. 2013)
Czech historian and television host
1937: Ken Hill (d. 23 Jan 1995)
English playwright and theatre director
1938 – Tomas Lindahl
Swedish-English biologist and academic
Nobel Prize laureate
1938 – Leonid Zhabotinsky, Ukrainian weightlifter (d. 2016)
1939 – John M. Fabian, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1940 – Carlos Slim
Mexican businessman, founded Grupo Carso
1941 – Joel Crothers, American actor (d. 1985)
1941 – King Tubby (d. 1989)
Jamaican DJ, producer, and engineer
1942 – Sjoukje Dijkstra, Dutch figure skater
1943 – John Beck, American actor
1943 – Paul Henderson, Canadian ice hockey player and minister
1944 – Bobby Ball, English comedian, actor, and singer
1944 – Tim Heald, English journalist and author
1944 – Susan Howard, American actress and screenwriter
1944 – Rosalía Mera (d. 2013)
Spanish businesswoman, co-founded Inditex and Zara
1944 – John Tavener, English composer (d. 2013)
1945 – Maxwell Fuller, Australian chess player (d. 2013)
1945 – Karen Lynn Gorney, American actress and singer
1945 – Marthe Keller, Swiss actress and director
1945 – John Perkins, American author and activist
1945 – Robert Wyatt, English singer-songwriter and drummer
1947 – Jeanne Shaheen
American educator and politician
78th Governor of New Hampshire
1948 – Bob Moses, American drummer
1948 – Mikhail Baryshnikov
Russian dancer, choreographer, and actor
1948 – Charles Taylor
Liberian politician; 22nd President of Liberia
1948: Bennie Thompson
U.S. Representative, D. MS, 1993-present
1949 – Gregg Popovich, American basketball player and coach
1950 – Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Bahraini king
1950 – Barbi Benton, American model, actress, and singer
1950 – David C. Hilmers
American colonel, physician, and astronaut
1950 – Naila Kabeer
Bangladeshi-English economist and academic
1951 – Brian Bilbray, American politician
1951 – Leonid Kadeniuk, Ukrainian general, pilot, and astronaut
1952 – Richard Glatzer (d. 2015)
American director, producer, and screenwriter
1952 – Tomokazu Miura, Japanese actor (RC Succession)
1953 – Colin Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1954 – Peter Lampe, German theologian and historian
1954 – Bruno Metsu, French footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1954 – Kaneto Shiozawa, Japanese voice actor (d. 2000)
1954 – Rick Warren, American pastor and author
1955 – Vinod Khosla
Indian-American businessman
co-founded Sun Microsystems
1956: Lou Barletta
U.S. Representative, R. PA, 2011-present
1956 – Richard Danielpour, American composer
1957 – Kent Kessler, American bassist
1957 – Mark Napier
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1957 – Nick Price, South African-Zimbabwean golfer
1957 – Frank Skinner, English comedian, actor, and author
1959 – Frank Darabont, American director and producer
1960: John Galliano
Gibraltar-born British fashion designer
1960 – Loren Legarda, Filipino journalist and politician
1961 – Arnaldur Indriðason, Icelandic author
1961: Rosemary Mahoney, American writer
1962 – Keith Hamilton Cobb, American actor
1962: Patrice Motsepe
South African mining magnate
founder and executive chairman of African Rainbow Minerals
1962 – Sam Phillips (born Leslie Ann Phillips)
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1963: Jane Jensen (born Jane Elizabeth Smith)
American video game designer
1963 – Dan Spitz, American guitarist
1964 – Jürgen Teller, German-English photographer
1965 – Lynda Boyd, Canadian actress, singer, and dancer
1966 – Seiji Mizushima, Japanese director and producer
1967 – Jan Lamb, Chinese singer and actor
1967: Pastor Marvin Louis Sapp
American Gospel music singer-songwriter
founder and senior pastor of Lighthouse Full Life Center
Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan
1968 – Rakim, American rapper (Eric B. & Rakim)
1968 – Sarah McLachlan
Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1968 – DJ Muggs
American DJ and producer (Cypress Hill and The 7A3)
1969 – Kathryn Morris, American actress
1969 – Mo Rocca, American comedian and television journalist
1969 – Linda Sánchez, American lawyer and politician
1971 – Anthony Hamilton
American singer-songwriter and producer
1972 – Léon van Bon, Dutch cyclist
1973: Carrie Vaughn, American author
1974 – Tony Delk, American basketball player and coach
1974 – Ramsey Nasr, Dutch author and poet
1974: Ty Olsson, Canadian actor
1974 – Magglio Ordóñez
Venezuelan baseball player and politician
1975 – Shark Boy, American wrestler
1975 – Tanya Chua
Singaporean singer-songwriter and producer
1975 – Terri Conn, American actress
1975 – Hiroshi Kamiya, Japanese voice actor and singer
1975 – Pedro Pinto, Portuguese-American journalist
1975 – Junior Spivey, American baseball player and coach
1976 – Lee Ingleby, English actor
1976 – Emiko Kado, Japanese wrestler (d. 1999)
1976 – Mark Madsen, American basketball player
1976 – Rick Ross, American rapper and producer
1976 – Miltiadis Sapanis, Greek footballer
1976 – Sireli Bobo, Professional Rugby Union player
1977 – Matt DeVries, American guitarist
1977 – Joseph Anthony "Joey" Fatone, Jr.
American singer, dancer, and actor (*NSYNC)
1977 – Takuma Sato, Japanese race car driver
1978 – Sheamus, Irish wrestler and actor
1978 – Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
1978 – Jamie Carragher, English footballer and sportscaster
1978 – Papa Bouba Diop, Senegalese footballer
1979 – Ali Boulala, Swedish skateboarder
1980 – Nick Carter
American singer-songwriter, producer, dancer, and actor
(Backstreet Boys)
1980 – Yasuhito Endō, Japanese footballer
1980 – Michael Hastings (d. 18 Jun 2013)
American journalist and author
1980 – Jesse James Hollywood, American murderer
1981 – Gen Hoshino
Japanese singer-songwriter, lyricist, actor, and voice actor
1981 – Elijah Wood, American actor and producer
1982: Camila Alves
Brazilian-American model and designer
1984 – Andre Iguodala, American basketball player
1985 – Daniel Carcillo, Canadian ice hockey player
1985 – Jermaine Lamarr Cole (bka J. Cole)
American rapper and producer
1985 – Lauris Dārziņš, Latvian ice hockey player
1985: Tom Hopper, English actor
1985 – Arnold Mvuemba, French footballer
1985 – Libby Trickett, Australian swimmer
1986 – Jessica Ennis-Hill, English heptathlete and hurdler
1986 – Shruti Haasan, Indian actress and singer
1986 – Nathan Outteridge, Australian sailor
1986 – Antonis Petropoulos, Greek footballer
1986 – Blake Riley, American porn actor
1986 – Asad Shafiq, Pakistani cricketer
1988 – Kiernan Jarryd Forbes (bka AKA)
South African hip hop musician and record producer
1988 – Paul Henry, English footballer
1988 – Seiya Sanada, Japanese wrestler
1989 – Siem de Jong, Dutch footballer
1989 – Ronny Philp, Romanian-German footballer
1990 – Kalifa Faifai Loa, New Zealand rugby player
1990 – Zhang Kailin, Chinese tennis player
1991 – Carl Klingberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1991 – Calum Worthy
Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter
1992 – Sergio Araujo, Argentinian footballer
1992 – Andrei Savchenko, Russian footballer
1993 – Richmond Boakye, Ghanaian footballer
1993 – Will Poulter, English actor
1998 – Ariel Winter, American actress and singer
Family
Coulee City
Phil Walesby
Denise Gilman
Jamie Newman
Loree Hyde
Chris Stone
Ermadyne Smith
Other
Anniversaries
Coulee City
Deaths
VIP
Notable
592 – Guntram, French king (b. 532)
814 – Charlemagne, Roman emperor (b. 742)
1061 – Spytihněv II, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1031)
1271 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France (b. 1247)
1443 – Robert le Maçon, French diplomat (b. 1365)
1547 – Henry VIII of England (b. 1491)
1613 – Thomas Bodley (b. 1545)
English diplomat and scholar, founded the Bodleian Library
1621 – Pope Paul V (b. 1550)
1672 – Pierre Séguier, French politician, Lord Chancellor of France (b. 1588)
1681 – Richard Allestree, English priest and academic (b. 1619)
1687 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (b. 1611)
1697 – Sir John Fenwick, 3rd Baronet, English general and politician (b. 1645)
1754 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian-Danish historian and philosopher (b. 1684)
1802 – Joseph Wall (b. 1737)
Irish born British Army officer and Lieutenant Governor of Gorée
1832 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
1859 – F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich (b. 1782)
English politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1864 – Émile Clapeyron, French physicist and engineer (b. 1799)
1903 – Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer (b. 1847)
1912 – Gustave de Molinari, Belgian economist and theorist (b. 1819)
1918 – John McCrae, Canadian soldier, physician, and author (b. 1872)
1921 – Mustafa Suphi, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1883)
1930 – Emmy Destinn, Czech soprano (b. 1878)
1935 – Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer and conductor (b. 1859)
1937 – Anastasios Metaxas, Greek architect and target shooter (b. 1862)
1938 – Bernd Rosemeyer, German race car driver (b. 1909)
1939 – W. B. Yeats, Irish poet and playwright; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1865)
1942 – Edward Siegler, American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1881)
1945 – Roza Shanina, Russian sergeant (b. 1924)
1947 – Reynaldo Hahn (b. 1875)
Venezuelan-French composer, conductor, and critic
1948 – Hans Aumeier, German SS officer (b. 1906)
1948 – Therese Brandl, German concentration camp guard (b. 1902)
1948 – Arthur Liebehenschel, German SS officer (b. 1901)
1949 – Jean-Pierre Wimille, French race car driver (b. 1908)
1950 – Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1883)
1953 – James Scullin
Australian journalist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1876)
1953 – Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher and poet (b. 1879)
1959 – Walter Beall, American baseball player (b. 1899)
1960 – Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1891)
1962 – Hermann Wlach, Austrian-Swiss actor (b. 1884)
1963 – Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (b. 1884)
1965 – Tich Freeman, English cricketer (b. 1888)
1965 – Maxime Weygand, Belgian-French general (b. 1867)
1967 – Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (b. 1896)
1968 – Aleksander Maaker, Estonian bagpipe player (b. 1890)
1971 – Donald Winnicott, English paediatrician and psychoanalyst (b. 1896)
1973 – John Banner, Austrian actor (b. 1910)
1975 – Ola Raknes, Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. 1887)
1976 – Marcel Broodthaers, Belgian painter and poet (b. 1924)
1978 – Ward Moore, American author (b. 1903)
1979 – Eileen Shanahan, Irish poet (b. 1901)
1983 – Frank Forde (b. 1890)
Australian educator and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Australia
1983 – Billy Fury, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1940)
1986 – crew of Space Shuttle Challenger:
– Gregory Jarvis, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1944)
– Christa McAuliffe, American educator and astronaut (b. 1948)
– Ronald McNair, American physicist and astronaut (b. 1950)
– Ellison Onizuka, American engineer and astronaut (b. 1946)
– Judith Resnik, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1949)
– Dick Scobee, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1939)
– Michael J. Smith, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1945)
1988 – Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and politician (b. 1911)
1989 – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (b. 1938)
1993 – Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (b. 1905)
1994 – Hal Smith, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
1996 – Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)
Russian-American poet and academic; Nobel Prize laureate
1996 – Burne Hogarth, American cartoonist and author (b. 1911)
1996 – Jerry Siegel (b. 1914)
American author and illustrator; co-created Superman
1998 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1938)
1999 – Valery Gavrilin, Russian composer (b. 1939)
2001 – Ranko Marinković, Croatian novelist and playwright (b. 1913)
2002 – Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist and soldier (b. 1913)
2002 – Astrid Lindgren, Swedish author and screenwriter (b. 1907)
2002 – Ayşe Nur Zarakolu, Turkish author and activist (b. 1946)
2004 – Joe Viterelli, American actor (b. 1937)
2005 – Jim Capaldi, English singer-songwriter and drummer (b. 1944)
2005 – Karen Lancaume, French porn actress (b. 1973)
2005 – Jacques Villeret, French actor (b. 1951)
2006 – Yitzhak Kaduri, Iraqi-Israeli rabbi
2006 – Henry McGee, English actor and singer (b. 1929)
2007 – Carlo Clerici, Swiss cyclist (b. 1929)
2007 – Robert Drinan, American priest, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920)
2007 – Beatrice Hsu, Taiwanese actress and singer (b. 1978)
2007 – Teala Loring, American actress (b. 1922)
2007 – Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (b. 1963)
2007 – Karel Svoboda, Czech composer (b. 1938)
2008 – Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens (b. 1939)
2009 – Billy Powell (b. 1952)
American keyboard player and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
2012 – Keriman Halis Ece (b. 1913)
Turkish pianist and model; Miss Universe 1932
2012 – Roman Juszkiewicz, Polish astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1952)
2014 – Gudo Wafu Nishijima, Japanese priest and educator (b. 1919)
2014 – Jorge Obeid (b. 1947)
Argentinian engineer and politician; Governor of Santa Fe
2015 – Suraj Abdurrahman, Nigerian general, architect, and engineer (b. 1954)
2015 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic; Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
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