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Birthdays
VIP
1894 – Harold Macmillan (d. 29 Dec 1986)
British Army captain and Conservative politician
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1957-1963
Notable
1499 – Thomas Platter, Swiss author and scholar (d. 1582)
1524 – Albrecht Giese, Polish-German politician (d. 1580)
1606 – Christine Marie of France (d. 27 Dec 1663)
sister of Louis XIII of France
Duchess of Savoy, 1630-1637
Regent of Savoy, 1637-1648
1609 – Sir John Suckling (d. 1641)
English poet and playwright
inventor of the card game cribbage
1685 – Aaron Hill, English poet and playwright (d. 1750)
1696 – Johann Melchior Molter (d. 1765)
German violinist and composer
1744 – William Cornwallis (d. 1819)
English admiral and politician
1766 – Benjamin Smith Barton (d. 1815)
American botanist, naturalist, and physician
1775 – Charles Lamb, English essayist (d. 27 Jul 1834)
1785 – Claude-Louis Navier (d. 1836)
French physicist and engineer
1795 – Ary Scheffer, Dutch-French painter (d. 1858)
1808 – Honoré Daumier (d. 1879)
French illustrator and painter
1821 – Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter (d. 1908)
1824 – Samuel Plimsoll (d. 1898)
English merchant and politician
1842 – Agnes Mary Clerke, Irish astronomer (d. 1907)
1846 – Lord Charles Beresford (d. 1919)
Irish admiral and politician
1846 – Ira Remsen, American chemist and academic (d. 1927)
1847 – Nabinchandra Sen (d. 1909)
Bangladeshi poet and author
1859 – Alexandre Millerand (d. 1943)
French lawyer and politician
12th President of France
1867 – Robert Garran, Australian public servant (d. 1957)
1868 – Prince Waldemar of Prussia (d. 27 Mar 1879)
1868 – William Allen White (d. 29 Jan 1944)
American journalist, editor, politician, and author
1879 – Ernst Põdder, Estonian general (d. 1932)
1881 – Pauline Brunius, Swedish actress and director (d. 1954)
1884: Billy Evans, American baseball umpire (d. 23 Jan 1956)
1884 – Frederick Hawksworth, English engineer (d. 1976)
1888 – Giuseppe Ungaretti (d. 1970)
Egyptian-Italian soldier, journalist, and poet
1890 – Fanny Kaplan (d. 1918)
Ukrainian-Russian activist and rebel
1890 – Boris Pasternak (d. 30 May 1960)
Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
1892 – Alan Hale, Sr., American actor and director (d. 1950)
1893 – Jimmy Durante (d. 29 Jan 1980)
American actor, comedian, and singer
1893 – Bill Tilden, American tennis player and coach (d. 1953)
1897 – Dame Judith Anderson (d. 3 Jan 1992)
Australian actress
1897 – John Franklin Enders (d. 1985)
American virologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1898 – Bertolt Brecht (d. 14 Aug 1956)
German director, playwright, and poet
1898 – Joseph Kessel (d. 23 Jul 1979)
French journalist and author
1901 – Stella Adler (d. 21 Dec 1992)
American actress and acting coach
1902 – Walter Houser Brattain (d. 1987)
Chinese-American physicist and academic
Nobel Prize laureate
1903 – Franco Cortese, Italian race car driver (d. 1986)
1903 – Karl Deichgräber (d. 1984)
German philologist and academic
1903 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (d. 1948)
1903 – Matthias Sindelar (d. 1939)
Austrian footballer and manager
1904 – John Farrow (d. 27 Jan 1963)
Australian-American director, producer, and screenwriter
1905 – Walter A. Brown (d. 1964)
American businessman, founded the Boston Celtics
1905 – Chick Webb (d. 1939)
American drummer and bandleader
1906 – Lon Chaney, Jr., American actor (d. 12 Jul 1973)
1906 – Erik Rhodes, American actor and singer (d. 1990)
1908 – Jean Coulthard
Canadian composer and educator (d. 2000)
1909 – Min Thu Wun (d. 2004)
Burmese poet, writer and scholar
1909 – Peter L. Rypdal (d. 1988)
Norwegian fiddler and traditional fork music composer
1910: Joyce Grenfell (d. 30 Nov 1979)
British comedienne and actress
1910 – Dominique Pire (d. 1969)
Belgian friar, Nobel Prize laureate
1910 – Stanley Vann (d. 2010)
English composer, organist, choral conductor,
and choir trainer
1913 – Douglas Slocombe, English cinematographer
1914 – Larry Adler (d. 2001)
American harmonica player, composer, and actor
1915 – Vladimir Zeldin, Russian actor
1919 – Ioannis Charalambopoulos (d. 2014)
Greek colonel and politician
Deputy Prime Minister of Greece
1920 – Alex Comfort, English physician and author (d. 2000)
1920 – Neva Patterson, American actress (d. 2010)
1920 – José Manuel Castañón (d. 2001)
Spanish lawyer and author
1922 – Árpád Göncz
Hungarian author, playwright, and politician (d. 2015)
1st President of Hungary
1922: Harold E. Hughes (d. 23 Oct 1996)
American businessman and politician
U.S. Senator, D. IA, 1969-1975
36th Governor of Iowa, 1963-1969
1923 – Allie Sherman (d. 2015)
American football player and coach
1924 – Max Ferguson (d. 2013)
Canadian radio host and actor
1924 – Bud Poile (d. 2005)
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1925 – Pierre Mondy, French actor and director (d. 2012)
1926 – Sidney Bryan Berry, American general (d. 2013)
1926 – Danny Blanchflower (d. 1993)
Northern Irish footballer and manager
1926: Doug Larson
American journalist, columnist, and editor
1927 – Leontyne Price, American operatic soprano
1927 – Brian Priestman (d. 2014)
English conductor and educator
1929 – Jerry Goldsmith (d. 2004)
American composer and conductor
1929 – Jim Whittaker, American mountaineer
1929 – Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer
1930 – E. L. Konigsburg (d. 19 Apr 2013)
American author and illustrator
1930 – Robert Wagner, American actor and producer
1932: Barrie Ingham, English actor (d. 23 Jan 2015)
1933 – Jay Conrad Levinson (d. 2013)
American educator and author
1933 – Richard Schickel
American journalist, author, and critic
1933 – Faramarz Payvar (d. 2009)
Iranian santur player and composer
1934: Fleur Adcock, New Zealand poet and editor
1935 – Theodore Antoniou, Greek composer and conductor
1937 – Anne Anderson, Scottish scientist (d. 1983)
1937 – Roberta Flack, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1939 – Adrienne Clarkson
Hong Kong-Canadian journalist and politician
26th Governor General of Canada
1939 – Peter Purves, English actor
1940 – Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdullah Al ash-Sheikh
Saudi Arabian scholar and academic
4th Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia
1940 – Mary Rand, English sprinter and long jumper
1940 – Kenny Rankin, American singer-songwriter (d. 2009)
1941 – Michael Apted, English director and producer
1941 – John Hampshire, English cricketer
1941: Dave Parnas, Canadian engineer and professor
1942 – Lawrence Weiner, American artist
1943: Mary McGarry Morris, American author
1944 – Miyoko Akaza, Japanese actress
1944 – Peter Allen
Australian singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 1992)
1944: Bikram Choudhury, Indian yogateacher
1944 – Frank Keating
American lawyer and politician
25th Governor of Oklahoma, 1995-2003
1944 – Frances Moore Lappé, American author and activist
1944 – Rufus Reid
American bassist and composer
(The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra)
1944 – Hideki Takahashi, Japanese actor
1947 – Louise Arbour, Canadian jurist
1947 – Butch Morris (d. 2013)
American cornet player, composer, and conductor
1947 – Nicholas Owen, English journalist
1948 – Luis Donaldo Colosio (d. 1994)
Mexican economist and politician
1949 – Jim Corcoran
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Nigel Olsson
English drummer, songwriter, and producer
(The Spencer Davis Group and Plastic Penny)
1949 – Harold Sylvester
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1950 – Mark Spitz, American swimmer
1951 – Bob Iger, American businessman
1952 – Lee Hsien Loong
Singaporean general and politician
3rd Prime Minister of Singapore
1953: John Shirley, American writer
1955 – Chris Adams (d. 2001)
English-American wrestler and trainer
1955 – Jim Cramer
American television presenter and author,
co-founded TheStreet.com
1955 – Greg Norman, Australian golfer and sportscaster
1956 – James Martin Graham (d. 1997)
American Roman Catholic priest
1956 – Enele Sopoaga
Tuvaluan politician, 12th Prime Minister of Tuvalu
1958 – Michael Weiss, American pianist and composer
1959 – John Calipari, American basketball player and coach
1959: Jeff Jacoby
American journalist and syndicated newspaper columnist
1960: Lionel Cartwright, American country music artist
1960 – Jim Kent
American biologist, computer programmer, academic
1961 – Alexander Payne, American director and screenwriter
1961 – George Stephanopoulos, American journalist
1962 – Cliff Burton
American bass player and songwriter
(Metallica, Trauma, and EZ-Street) (d. 1986)
1962 – Bobby Czyz, American boxer and sportscaster
1962 – Randy Velischek, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1963 – Lenny Dykstra, American baseball player
1963 – Candan Erçetin
Turkish composer, singer-songwriter, teacher
1963: Philip Glenister, English actor
1964 – Glenn Beck, American journalist, producer, and author
1964 – Victor Davis, Canadian swimmer (d. 1989)
1964 – Francesca Neri, Italian actress
1966 – Natalie Bennett
Australian-English journalist and politician
1966 – Daryl Johnston
American football player and sportscaster
1966 – Ji Suk-jin, South Korean comedian, actor, and singer
1967 – Laura Dern, American actress, director, and producer
1967 – Jacky Durand, French cyclist and sportscaster
1967 – Ivan Francescato, Italian rugby player (d. 1999)
1967 – Vince Gilligan
American director, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – Peter Popovic, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
1968 – Garrett Reisman, American engineer and astronaut
1968 – Atika Suri, Indonesian journalist
1969 – Joe Mangrum, American painter and sculptor
1970 – Alberto Castillo, Dominican baseball player
1970 – Melissa Doyle, Australian journalist and author
1970 – Nobushige Kumakubo, Japanese race car driver
1970 – Noureddine Naybet, Moroccan footballer and manager
1970 – Åsne Seierstad, Norwegian journalist and author
1970 – Iván Velázquez Caballero, Mexican drug lord
1971 – Anna-Maria Hallgarn
Swedish actress, musician, and singer
1971 – Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (d. 2015)
1971 – Louie Spicolli, American wrestler (d. 1998)
1972 – Michael Kasprowicz, Australian cricketer
1973 – Ajdar, Turkish singer-songwriter and engineer
1973 – Martha Lane Fox, Baroness Lane-Fox of Soho
English businesswoman and politician
co-founded Lastminute.com
1973 – Sergei Shishkin, Russian footballer
1973 – Núria Añó, Spanish writer
1974 – Elizabeth Banks
American actress, director, and producer
1974 – Ty Law, American football player
1974 – Ivri Lider
Israeli singer-songwriter and producer
(The Young Professionals)
1974 – Henry Paul, New Zealand rugby player
1975 – Scott Elrod, German-American actor
1975 – Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese baseball player
1976 – Lance Berkman, American baseball player and coach
1976 – Keeley Hawes, English actress and singer
1976 – Carmelo Imbriani, Italian footballer and coach (d. 2013)
1976 – Vedran Runje, Croatian footballer
1977 – Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
1979 – Joey Hand, American race car driver
1979 – Jumaine Jones, American basketball player
1979 – Daryl Palumbo
American singer-songwriter
(Glassjaw, Head Automatica, and Color Film)
1980 – César Izturis, Venezuelan baseball player
1980 – Enzo Maresca, Italian footballer
1980 – Mike Ribeiro, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Bruno Šundov, Croatian basketball player
1981 – Uzo Aduba, American actress and singer
1981 – Christian Fickert, German footballer
1981 – Andrew Johnson, English footballer
1981: Barry Sloane, English actor
1981 – Natasha St-Pier, Canadian singer-songwriter
1981 – Holly Willoughby, English model and television host
1982 – Justin Gatlin, American sprinter
1982 – Tarmo Neemelo, Estonian footballer
1982 – Iafeta Paleaaesina, New Zealand rugby player
1983 – Ricardo Clark, American soccer player
1983 – Daiane dos Santos, Brazilian gymnast
1983 – Vic Fuentes
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(Pierce the Veil, Isles & Glaciers, and Cinematic Sunrise)
1983 – Taiji Ishimori, Japanese wrestler
1984 – Alex Gordon, American baseball player
1985 – Selçuk İnan, Turkish footballer
1986 – Jeff Adrien, American basketball player
1986 – Josh Akognon, Nigerian-American basketball player
1986 – Radamel Falcao, Colombian footballer
1986 – Roberto Jiménez Gago, Spanish footballer
1986 – Yui Ichikawa, Japanese actress and model
1986 – Viktor Troicki, Serbian tennis player
1987 – Jakub Kindl, Czech ice hockey player
1987 – Facundo Roncaglia, Argentinian footballer
1987 – Yuja Wang, Chinese pianist
1988 – Jade Ramsey, English actress
1988 – Daniil Ratnikov, Estonian footballer
1988 – Olga Zadvornova, Latvian figure skater
1989 – Liam Hendriks, Australian baseball player
1989 – Neelofa Noor
Malaysian actress, television host, and model
1990 – Barbara Guarischi, Italian cyclist
1990 – Choi Soo-young
South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer
(Girls' Generation)
1991 – Emma Roberts, American actress
1992 – Misha B, English rapper
1992 – Haruka Nakagawa
Japanese singer
(JKT48, AKB48, and Watariroka Hashiritai)
1992 – Reinhold Yabo, German footballer
1993 – Tomasz Mokwa, Polish professional footballer
1993 – Chaochih Liu, Taiwanese-American figure skater
1993 – Max Kepler, German professional baseball outfielder
1993 – Filip Twardzik, Czech footballer
1993 – Luis Madrigal, Mexican footballer
1994: Makenzie Vega, American actress
1995 – Haruna Kawaguchi, Japanese model and actress
1995: Lexi Thompson, American golfer
1996 – Christina Parie, Australian singer-songwriter
1997 – Chloë Grace Moretz, American actress
2000: Yara Shahidi, American actress
2005 – Rio Suzuki, Japanese actress and entertainer
Family
Coulee City
Dan Bolyard
Leila Huber
Rachel Geer
Ben Adams
Sidra Scammon
Shirley Boger
Other
Anniversaries
Coulee City
Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Herdrick
Deaths
VIP
Notable
1126 – William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 1071)
1162 – Baldwin III of Jerusalem (b. 1130)
1242 – Emperor Shijō of Japan (b. 1231)
1278 – Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (b. 1202)
1307 – Temür Khan, Emperor Chengzong of Yuan (b. 1265)
1576 – Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar, translator, and academic (b. 1532)
1645 – Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (b. 1587)
1686 – William Dugdale, English genealogist and historian (b. 1605)
1722 – Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate (b. 1682)
1755 – Montesquieu, French lawyer and philosopher (b. 1689)
1758 – Thomas Ripley, English architect (b. 1682)
1782 – Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian and author (b. 1702)
1829 – Pope Leo XII (b. 1760)
1837 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian poet and author (b. 1799)
1857 – David Thompson, English-Canadian surveyor and explorer (b. 1770)
1865 – Heinrich Lenz, Estonian-Italian physicist and academic (b. 1804)
1887 – Ellen Wood, English author (b. 1814)
1891 – Sofia Kovalevskaya (b. 1850)
Russian-Swedish mathematician and physicist
1904 – John A. Roche, American politician, 30th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1844)
1906 – Ezra Butler Eddy (b. 1827)
American-Canadian businessman and politician
1912 – Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, English surgeon and academic (b. 1827)
1913 – Konstantinos Tsiklitiras, Greek long jumper (b. 1888)
1917 – John William Waterhouse, Italian-English soldier and painter (b. 1849)
1918 – Abdul Hamid II Ottoman sultan (b. 1842)
1918 – Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (b. 1833)
Italian soldier and journalist, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 – Amedee Reyburn, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1879)
1923 – Wilhelm Röntgen (b. 1845)
German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1928 – José Sánchez del Río Mexican martyr and saint (b. 1913)
1932 – Edgar Wallace, English author and screenwriter (b. 1875)
1939 – Pope Pius XI (b. 1857)
1944 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and chess player (b. 1870)
1945 – Anacleto Díaz, Filipino lawyer and jurist (b. 1878)
1950 – Marcel Mauss, French sociologist and anthropologist (b. 1872)
1956 – Wilbert Coffin, Canadian murderer (b. 1915)
1956 – Leonora Speyer, American poet and violinist (b. 1872)
1956 – Emmanouil Tsouderos (b. 1882)
Greek banker and politician, 132nd Prime Minister of Greece
1957 – Laura Ingalls Wilder, American author (b. 1867)
1958 – Aleksander Klumberg, Estonian decathlete and coach (b. 1899)
1960 – Aloysius Stepinac, Croatian cardinal (b. 1898)
1964 – Eugen Sänger, Austrian engineer (b. 1905)
1966 – Billy Rose, American composer and songwriter (b. 1899)
1975 – Nikos Kavvadias, Greek sailor and poet (b. 1910)
1979 – Edvard Kardelj (b. 1910)
Slovene general and politician, 2nd Foreign Minister of Yugoslavia
1985 – Johnny Mokan, American baseball player (b. 1895)
1987 – Sadequain, Pakistani painter and calligrapher (b. 1930)
1990 – Bill Sherwood, American director and screenwriter (b. 1952)
1992 – Alex Haley, American soldier, journalist, and author (b. 1921)
1993 – Fred Hollows (b. 1929)
New Zealand-Australian ophthalmologist and academic
1995 – Paul Monette, American author and activist (b. 1945)
1997 – Brian Connolly, Scottish-English singer-songwriter (Sweet) (b. 1945)
1998 – Yorgos Vrasivanopoulos, Greek actor (b. 1924)
2000 – Jim Varney, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter (b. 1949)
2001 – Lewis Arquette, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1935)
2001 – Abraham Beame (b. 1906)
American academic and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City
2001 – Buddy Tate, American saxophonist and clarinet player (b. 1913)
2002 – Ramón Arellano Félix, Mexican drug trafficker (b. 1964)
2002 – Dave Van Ronk, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
2003 – Edgar de Evia, Mexican-American photographer (b. 1910)
2003 – Curt Hennig, American wrestler and manager (b. 1958)
2003 – Albert J. Ruffo (b. 1908)
American lawyer and politician, Mayor of San Jose
2003 – Ron Ziegler (b. 1939)
American politician, 14th White House Press Secretary
2005 – Arthur Miller, American playwright and essayist (b. 1915)
2006 – Gordon Barker, English cricketer and footballer (b. 1931)
2006 – Beko Ransome-Kuti, Nigerian physician and activist (b. 1940)
2007 – Jeong Da-bin, South Korean actress (b. 1980)
2007 – Bruno Ruffo, Italian motorcycle racer and racing driver (b. 1920)
2008 – Roy Scheider, American actor and boxer (b. 1932)
2008 – Adeline Geo-Karis, American lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
2008 – Steve Gerber, American author (b. 1947)
2008 – Ron Leavitt, American writer and producer (b. 1947)
2009 – Jeremy Lusk, American motocross racer (b. 1984)
2010 – Fred Schaus, American basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
2010 – Enn Soosaar, Estonian translator, literary critic and columnist (b. 1937)
2010 – Charles Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (b. 1933)
2011 – Trevor Bailey, English cricketer (b. 1923)
2012 – Ronald Fraser, English historian and author (b. 1930)
2012 – David Anthony Pizzuto, Canadian-American voice actor (b. 1951)
2012 – Jeffrey Zaslow, American journalist and author (b. 1958)
2013 – W. Watts Biggers, American author, screenwriter, and animator (b. 1927)
2013 – David Hartman (b. 1931)
American-Israeli rabbi and philosopher
founded the Shalom Hartman Institute
2013 – Eugenio Trías Sagnier, Spanish philosopher and academic (b. 1942)
2013 – Zhuang Zedong, Chinese table tennis player (b. 1940)
2014 – Stuart Hall, Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist (b. 1932)
2014 – Doug Jarrett, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
2014 – Tomaž Pengov, Slovenian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1949)
2014 – Shirley Temple, American actress, singer, dancer, and diplomat (b. 1928)
2015 – Naseer Aruri, Palestinian scholar and activist (b. 1934)
2015 – Karl Josef Becker, German cardinal and theologian (b. 1928)
2015 – Bill Enyart, American football player (b. 1947)
2015 – Matías Funes, Honduran philosopher, academic, and politician (b. 1952)
2015 – Deng Liqun, Chinese theorist and politician (b. 1915)
Family
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