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Birthdays
VIP
1812 – Henry Wilson (d. 22 Nov 1875)
born Jeremiah Jones Colbath
American colonel and politician
18th Vice President of the United States, 1873-1875
U.S. Senator, R. MS, 1855-1873
Notable
1032 – Emperor Yingzong of Song (d. 25 Jan 1067)
5th emperor of the Song Dynasty of China, 1063-1067
1222 – Nichiren (d. 21 Nov 1282)
Japanese monk, founded Nichiren Buddhism
1304 – Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür (d. 2 Sep 1332)
Emperor Wenzong of Yuan, 1328-1329, 1329-1332
12th Khagan of the Mongol Empire
8th Emperor of the Yuan dynasty
1497 – Philipp Melanchthon (d. 19 Apr 1560)
German theologian and reformer
1519 – Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral (d. 1572)
1543 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter and educator (d. 1590)
1620 – Frederick William (d. 29 Apr 1688)
Elector of Brandenburg, Duke of Prussia, 1640-1688
1643 – John Sharp (d. 2 Feb 1714)
English divine
Archbishop of York, 1691-1714
Dean of Canterbury, 1689-1691
1698 – Pierre Bouguer (d. 1758)
French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer
1727 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (d. 1817)
Austrian botanist, chemist, and mycologist
1740 – Giambattista Bodoni (d. 1813)
Italian publisher and engraver
1761 – Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804)
1774 – Pierre Rode, French violinist and composer (d. 1830)
1786 – Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (d. 23 Jun 1859)
Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, 1828-1853
1802 – Phineas Quimby (d. 16 Jan 1866)
American mystic and philosopher
1804 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (d. 1885)
German physiologist and zoologist
1821 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (d. 1865)
1822 – Francis Galton (d. 1911)
English biologist and statistician
1824 – Peter Kozler (d. 1879)
Slovenian cartographer and geographer
1825 – Crosby Stuart Noyes (d. 1908)
American newspaper publisher
1826 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel (d. 1886)
German poet and author
1831 – Nikolai Leskov (d. 1895)
Russian author, playwright, and journalist
1834 – Ernst Haeckel (d. 1919)
German biologist and philosopher
1838 – Henry Adams (d. 27 Mar 1918)
American journalist, historian, and author
1843 – Henry M. Leland (d. 1932)
American machinist, inventor, engineer, and automotive
entrepreneur; founder of Cadillac and Lincoln
1845 – George Kennan (d. 1924)
American journalist and explorer
1847 – Philipp Scharwenka (d. 1917)
Polish-German composer and educator
1848 – Hugo de Vries (d. 1935)
Dutch botanist, geneticist, and academic
1848 – Octave Mirbeau (d. 1917)
French journalist, author, and playwright
1852: Charles Taze Russell (d. 31 Oct 1916)
American Christian restorationist minister
1856 – Willem Kes, Dutch violinist and conductor (d. 1934)
1856 – Ossian Everett Mills (d. 1920)
American academic, founded Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia
1866 – Billy Hamilton (d. 1940)
American baseball player and manager
1873 – Radoje Domanović (d. 1908)
Serbian satirist and journalist
1874 – Marie Gutheil-Schoder (d. 1935)
German soprano and educator
1868 – Edward Sheriff Curtis (d. 1952)
American photographer
1876 – George Macaulay Trevelyan (d. 1962)
English historian and academic
1878 – Pamela Colman Smith (d. 1951)
English occultist and illustrator
1878 – James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1920)
1883 – Elizabeth Craig (d. 7 Jun 1980)
Scottish journalist and author
1884 – Robert J. Flaherty (d. 23 Jul 1951)
American director and producer
1886 – Van Wyck Brooks (d. 2 May 1963)
American historian and critic
1887 – Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 28 Dec 1962)
1888: Harold Medina (d. 14 Mar 1990)
American lawyer, teacher and judge
1891 – Hans F. K. Günther (d. 1967)
German eugenicist and academic
1893: Katharine Cornell (d. 9 Jun 1974)
American stage actress, writer, theater owner, and producer
1896 – Eugénie Blanchard, French super-centenarian (d. 2010)
1898 – Katharine Cornell (d. 1974)
American actress and producer
1901 – Vincent Coleman, American actor (d. 26 Oct 1971)
1901 – Wayne King (d. 16 Jul 1985)
American singer-songwriter and conductor
1901 – Chester Morris, American actor (d. 11 Sep 1970)
1903 – Edgar Bergen (d. 30 Sep 1978)
American ventriloquist and actor
1903 – André Berthomieu (d. 1960)
French director and screenwriter
1903 – Georges-Henri Lévesque (d. 2000)
Canadian priest and sociologist
1904 – James Baskett, American actor (d. 1948)
1904 – Karl-Heinz Bürger, German SS officer (d. 1988)
1904 – George F. Kennan (d. 17 Mar 2005)
American historian and diplomat
United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union
1906 – Vera Menchik, Russian-English chess player (d. 1944)
1909 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (d. 14 May 1982)
1909 – Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (d. 24 Nov 1995)
1909 – Richard McDonald (d. 14 Jul 1998)
American businessman, co-founded McDonald's
1913 – Jim O'Hora, American football player and coach (d. 2005)
1915 – Michael Relph, English director and producer (d. 2004)
1916 – Bill Doggett, American pianist and composer (d. 1996)
1916: Dương Văn Minh (d. 6 Aug 2001)
Vietnamese general and politician
President of South Vietnam, 1963-1964, 1975
1918: Patricia Marie "Patty" Andrews (d. 30 Jan 2013)
American singer (The Andrews Sisters)
1918 – Walt Faulkner, American racing driver (d. 1956)
1919: Torkom Manoogian (d. 12 Oct 2012)
96th Armenian Patriarch of Jerusalem
1919 – Georges Ulmer, Danish-French actor and composer (d. 1989)
1920 – Tony Crook, English racing driver (d. 2014)
1920 – Anna Mae Hays, American general
1921 – Jean Behra, French race car driver (d. 1959)
1921 – Esther Bubley, American photographer (d. 1998)
1921 – Vera-Ellen, American actress and dancer (d. 1981)
1921 – John Galbraith Graham, English priest and academic (d. 2013)
1922 – Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer, German soldier and pilot (d. 1950)
1925 – Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
1926 – Margot Frank, German-Dutch Holocaust victim (d. 1945)
1926 – John Schlesinger, English actor and director (d. 25 Jul 2003)
1927: June Brown, MBE, English actress
1929 – Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian footballer and architect (d. 1980)
1929 – Peter Porter, Australian-English poet and educator (d. 2010)
1931 – Otis Blackwell (d. 6 May 2002)
American singer-songwriter and pianist
1931 – George E. Sangmeister (d. 2007)
American lawyer and politician
1931 – Ken Takakura, Japanese actor and singer (d. 2014)
1932: Aharon Appelfeld, Israeli novelist
1932 – Ahmad Tejan Kabbah (d. 2014)
Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician
3rd President of Sierra Leone
1932 – Gretchen Wyler (d. 27 May 2007)
American actress and dancer
1934 – August Coppola, American author and academic (d. 2009)
1934 – Marlene Hagge, American golfer
1934 – Hal Kalin, American singer (Kalin Twins) (d. 2005)
1934 – Herbie Kalin, American singer (Kalin Twins) (d. 2006)
1935 – Brian Bedford (d. 2016)
English-American actor and director
1935 – Sonny Bono (d. 3 Jan 1998)
American actor, singer, and politician
1935 – Stephen Gaskin (d. 2014)
American activist, co-founded The Farm
1935 – Bradford Parkinson
American engineer and inventor
father of the Global Positioning System
1936: Carl Icahn
American business magnate, investor, activist shareholder,
and philanthropist
founder and majority shareholder of Icahn Enterprises
1937 – Paul Bailey, English author and critic
1937 – Yuri I. Manin
Russian-German mathematician and academic
1938 – John Corigliano, American composer and academic
1938 – Barry Primus, American actor, director, and producer
1939 – Adolfo Azcuna, Filipino lawyer and judge
1939 – Czesław Niemen (d. 2004)
Polish singer-songwriter (Niebiesko-Czarni)
1939 – David Simpson, Northern Irish politician
1940 – Hannelore Schmatz, German mountaineer (d. 1979)
1940 – Michael J. Shapiro
American philosopher, author, and academic
1941 – Anne Lonsdale, English sinologist and academic
1941 – Kim Jong-il (d. 2011)
North Korean politician
2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea
1942 – Richard Williams, American tennis player and coach
1943 – Howard Riley, English pianist and composer
1944 – Glyn Davies, Welsh farmer and politician
1944: Richard Ford, American novelist and short story writer
1944: Nigel Hamilton
British author, biographer, academic, and broadcaster
1944 – António Mascarenhas Monteiro
Cape Verdean politician, 2nd President of Cape Verde
1945: Jeremy Bulloch, English actor
1948: Troy Evans, American actor
1948 – Kaiketsu Masateru (d. 2014)
Japanese sumo wrestler and coach
1948: Eckhart Tolle, German-born author
1948 – Andy Van Hellemond
Canadian ice hockey player and referee
1948: Roger von Oech
American speaker, conference organizer, creativity theorist,
author, consultant, toy-maker, and inventor
1949 – Bob Didier, American baseball player and coach
1949 – Bob O'Reilly, Australian rugby league player
1949 – Lyn Paul, English singer and actress (The New Seekers)
1950 – Peter Hain
Kenyan-Welsh politician, Secretary of State for Wales
1950 – Roman Tam (d. 2002)
Hong Kong singer (Roman and the Four Steps)
1950 – Kazuki Tomokawa, Japanese singer
1951 – Barry Foote, American baseball player and coach
1951 – Yumi Takigawa, Japanese actress and singer
1952 – William Katt, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1952 – Terence Kealey, English biochemist and academic
1952 – Peter Kitchen, English footballer
1952 – James Ingram, American singer-songwriter and producer
1953 – John Bradbury (d. 2015)
English drummer and songwriter (The Specials)
1953 – George Martin, American football player
1953 – Lanny McDonald
Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1953 – Roberta Williams
American video game designer
co-founded Sierra Entertainment
1954 – Iain Banks, Scottish author and playwright (d. 2013)
1954 – Margaux Hemingway (d. 1 Jul 1996)
American model and actress
1954 – Michael Holding, Jamaican cricketer and sportscaster
1955: Bradley Byrne
American business attorney and politician
U.S. Representative, R. AL, 2013-present
1956 – Vincent Ward, New Zealand director and screenwriter
1957 – LeVar Burton
German-American actor, director, and producer
1958 – Natalie Angier, American journalist and author
1958 – Michael W. Burns, American lawyer and politician
1958 – Tracy Lauren Marrow (bka Ice-T)
American rapper and actor
1958 – Oscar Schmidt, Brazilian basketball player
1958 – Herb Williams, American basketball player and coach
1959 – John McEnroe
German-American tennis player and sportscaster
1959 – Kelly Tripucka
American basketball player and sportscaster
1960 – Bill Pecota, American baseball player
1960 – Pete Willis
English guitarist
(Def Leppard, Atomic Mass, Gogmagog, and Roadhouse)
1961 – Liu Kang, Chinese footballer and manager (d. 2013)
1961 – Andy Taylor
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
(Duran Duran and The Power Station)
1962 – John Balance (d. 2004)
English singer-songwriter (Coil)
1963: Faran Tahir
Pakistani-American film and television actor
1964 – Bebeto, Brazilian footballer and manager
1964 – Christopher Eccleston, English actor
1965 – Dave Lombardo
Cuban-American drummer
(Slayer, Grip Inc., Fantômas, Voodoocult, and Testament)
1965: Valerie (Massonneau) Trierweiler
French journalist and author
1967 – Keith Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1968 – Warren Ellis, English author and screenwriter
1969 – Gangrel, American wrestler and actor
1970 – Serdar Ortaç, Turkish singer-songwriter
1970 – Angelo Peruzzi, Italian footballer
1971 – Amanda Holden, English actress and singer
1972 – Jerome Bettis, American football player and sportscaster
1972 – Sarah Clarke, American actress
1972 – Naomi Nishida, Japanese actress
1972: David Rouzer
American politician
U.S. Representative, R. NC, 2015-present
1973 – Cathy Freeman, Australian sprinter
1973 – Maureen Johnson, American author
1974 – Luis Figueroa, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1974 – Fanis Katergiannakis, Greek footballer
1975 – Nanase Aikawa, Japanese singer
1975 – Vanina Ickx, Belgian race car driver
1976 – Eric Byrnes, American baseball player and sportscaster
1976 – Joe Odagiri, Japanese actor and singer
1977 – Ian Clarke, Irish computer scientist, founded Freenet
1977 – Ahman Green, American football player
1977: Sergei Udaltsov, Russian activist
1978 – Tia Hellebaut, Belgian high jumper
1978 – Wasim Jaffer, Indian cricketer
1978: Eric Ladin, American actor
1978 – John Tartaglia, American actor, singer, and puppeteer
1979 – Eric Mun
American-South Korean singer and actor (Shinhwa)
1979 – Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
1980 – Longineu W. Parsons III
French-American drummer (Yellowcard)
1981 – Jay Howard, English race car driver
1981 – Jerry Owens, American baseball player
1981 – Qyntel Woods, American basketball player
1982 – Aleksandr Dmitrijev, Estonian footballer
1982 – Lupe Fiasco
American rapper and producer
(Child Rebel Soldier and Japanese Cartoon)
1982 – Rickie Lambert, English footballer
1982 – Paulo Jorge Sousa Vieira, Portuguese footballer
1983 – Agyness Deyn, English model, actress, and singer
1983 – John Magaro, American actor
1984 – Sofia Arvidsson, Swedish tennis player
1985 – Simon Francis, English footballer
1985: Kara Lindsay, American actress
1985 – Ron Vlaar, Dutch footballer
1986 – Zoi Dimoschaki, Greek swimmer
1986 – Josje Huisman, Dutch singer, actress, dancer (K3)
1987 – Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1987 – Ryosuke Miura, Japanese actor
1987 – Hasheem Thabeet, Tanzanian basketball player
1988 – Diego Capel, Spanish footballer
1988 – Zhang Jike, Chinese table tennis player
1988 – Denílson Pereira Neves, Brazilian footballer
1988 – Andrea Ranocchia, Italian footballer
1988 – Kim Soo-hyun, South Korean actor and singer
1989 – Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
1990 – Abęl Makkonen Tesfaye (aka The Weeknd)
Canadian singer-songwriter and producer
1991 – Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg
Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg,
Princess of Nassau, Princess of Bourbon-Parma
1991 – Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer
1992 – Nicolai Boilesen, Danish footballer
1992 – Zsófia Susányi, Hungarian tennis player
1994 – Annika Beck, German tennis player
1995 – Katy Dunne, English tennis player
1995 – Mayu Matsuoka, Japanese actress
1995 – Carina Witthöft, German tennis player
1996 – Nana Komatsu, Japanese actress and model
Family
Coulee City
Ole Burbank
David T.R. Dormaier
Mark C. Miller
Bonnie Rimmer
Billie Trexler
Other
Anniversaries
Coulee City
Deaths
VIP
Notable
549 – Zhu Yi, Chinese general (b. 483)
1247 – Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
1279 – Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210)
1391 – John V Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1332)
1531 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)
1560 – Jean du Bellay, French cardinal and diplomat (b. 1493)
1645 – Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba (b. 1585)
Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan
1710 – Esprit Fléchier, French bishop and author (b. 1632)
1721 – James Craggs the Younger (b. 1686)
English politician, Secretary of State for the Southern Department
1754 – Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1673)
1820 – Georg Carl von Döbeln, Swedish general (b. 1758)
1844 – Joseph Crosfield, English businessman (b. 1792)
1898 – Thomas Bracken (b. 1843)
Irish-New Zealand journalist, poet, and politician
1899 – Félix Faure (b. 1841)
French merchant and politician, 7th President of France
1907 – Giosuè Carducci, Italian poet and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1835)
1912 – Nicholas of Japan, Russian-Japanese monk and saint (b. 1836)
1916 – Georg von Oettingen (b. 1824)
Estonian-Russian physician and ophthalmologist
1917 – Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1848)
1919 – Vera Kholodnaya, Ukrainian actress (b. 1893)
1924 – John William Kendrick, American engineer and businessman (b. 1853)
1928 – Eddie Foy, Sr., American actor and dancer (b. 1856)
1932 – Ferdinand Buisson (b. 1841)
French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Edgar Speyer, American-English financier and philanthropist (b. 1862)
1933 – Bekir Sami Kunduh (b. 1867)
Turkish general and politician, 1st Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs
1944 – Henri Nathansen, Danish author, playwright, and director (b. 1868)
1944 – Dadasaheb Phalke, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1870)
1957 – Josef Hofmann, Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1876)
1961 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (b. 1891)
1967 – Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1911)
1967 – Amund Rydland, Norwegian actor and theatre director (b. 1888)
1974 – John Garand (b. 1888)
Canadian-American engineer, designed the M1 Garand Rifle
1975 – Morgan Taylor, American hurdler and coach (b. 1903)
1975 – Norman Treigle, American actor and singer (b. 1927)
1978 – E. Roland Harriman, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1895)
1979 – Nematollah Nassiri, Iranian general (b. 1911)
1980 – Erich Hückel, German physicist and chemist (b. 1895)
1984 – M. A. G. Osmani, Bangladeshi general (b. 1918)
1988 – Jean Carignan, Canadian fiddler and composer (b. 1916)
1990 – Keith Haring, American painter and activist (b. 1958)
1991 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan lieutenant and engineer (b. 1932)
1992 – Angela Carter, English journalist and author (b. 1940)
1992 – Jânio Quadros, Brazilian politician, 22nd President of Brazil (b. 1917)
1992 – Herman Wold, Norwegian-Swedish economist and statistician (b. 1908)
1996 – Roberto Aizenberg, Argentinian painter and sculptor (b. 1922)
1996 – Roger Bowen, American actor and author (b. 1932)
1996 – Pat Brown (b. 1905)
American lawyer and politician, 32nd Governor of California
1996 – Brownie McGhee, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1915)
1997 – Chien-Shiung Wu, Chinese-American physicist (b. 1912)
1999 – Michael Larson (b. 1949)
American game show contestant on Press Your Luck
2000 – Marceline Day, American actress (b. 1908)
2000 – Lila Kedrova, Russian-French actress and singer
2000 – Karsten Solheim (b. 1911)
Norwegian-American businessman, founded PING
2001 – Bob Buhl, American baseball player (b. 1928)
2001 – Howard W. Koch, American director and producer (b. 1916)
2001 – William Masters, American gynecologist and sexologist (b. 1915)
2002 – Peter Voulkos, American ceramic artist (b. 1924)
2002 – Walter Winterbottom, England footballer and manager (b. 1913)
2004 – Doris Troy, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2005 – Narriman Sadek, Egyptian wife of Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1933)
2006 – Ernie Stautner, German-American football player and coach (b. 1925)
2009 – Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, South Korean cardinal (b. 1921)
2010 – Wan Chi Keung, Hong Kong footballer and actor (b. 1956)
2011 – Len Lesser, American actor (b. 1922)
2011 – Justinas Marcinkevičius, Lithuanian poet and playwright (b. 1930)
2012 – Gary Carter, American baseball player and coach (b. 1954)
2012 – Donald Henry Colless, Australian entomologist and academic (b. 1922)
2012 – Elyse Knox, American model, actress, and fashion designer (b. 1917)
2012 – John Macionis, American swimmer and lieutenant (b. 1916)
2012 – Anthony Shadid, American journalist (b. 1968)
2012 – Dick Anthony Williams, American actor (b. 1934)
2013 – Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (b. 1991)
2013 – Eric Ericson, Swedish conductor and educator (b. 1918)
2013 – Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (b. 1918)
2013 – Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940)
2013 – Ernie Vossler, American golfer (b. 1928)
2014 – Ken Farragut, American football player (b. 1928)
2014 – Raymond Louis Kennedy (b. 1946)
American singer-songwriter, saxophonist, and producer
2014 – Gert Krawinkel, German guitarist (Trio) (b. 1947)
2014 – Jimmy Murakami, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1933)
2014 – Michael Shea, American author (b. 1946)
2015 – Lasse Braun, Algerian-Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2015 – Lesley Gore, American singer-songwriter and actress (b. 2 May 1946)
2015 – R. R. Patil (b. 1957)
Indian lawyer and politician, Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra
2015 – Lorena Rojas, Mexican actress and singer (b. 1971)
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