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Birthdays
VIP
1927 – John Warner
American captain, lawyer, and politician
U.S. Senator, R. VA, 1979-2009
61st United States Secretary of the Navy, 1972-1974
(13th under the Department of Defense)
Notable
1372 – Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Egyptian jurist and scholar (d. 1448)
1404 – Leon Battista Alberti, Italian painter and philosopher (d. 1472)
1486 – Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, Indian monk and saint (d. 1534)
1516 – Mary I of England (d. 17 Nov 1558)
Queen of England and Ireland, 1553 - 1558
1530 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese daimyo (d. 1578)
1543 – Charles III, Duke of Lorraine (d. 14 May 1608)
Duke of Lorraine and Bar and Marquis of Pont-à-Mousson,
1545 - 1608
1559 – Isaac Casaubon, Swiss philologist and scholar (d. 1614)
1602 – Per Brahe the Younger (d. 1680)
Swedish soldier and politician, Governor-General of Finland
1609 – Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (d. 9 Dec 1674)
English historian and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer
maternal grandfather of Queen Mary II and Queen Anne
1632 – Giovanni Battista Vitali (d. 1692)
Italian violinist and composer
1635 – Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish politician (d. 1680)
1642 – Marie Champmeslé, French actress (d. 1698)
1658 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre (d. 29 Apr 1743)
French philosopher and author
1677 – Jacques Cassini (d. 16 Apr 1756)
French astronomer and academic
1732 – Johann Christian Kittel (d. 1809)
German organist and composer
1745 – Alessandro Volta (d. 7 Mar 1827)
Italian physicist, invented the battery
1781: Henry Martyn (d. 16 Oct 1812
Anglican priest and missionary to India and Persia
1795: George Peabody (d. 4 Nov 1869)
American-British entrepreneur
1814 – Samuel Fenton Cary (d. 1900)
American lawyer and politician
1817 – Lewis Armistead (d. 5 Jul 1863)
American army officer and Confederate general
1818 – Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (d. 1870)
1836 – Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay
Indian mystic and guru (d. 1886)
1838 – Ernst Mach (d. 19 Feb 1916)
Austrian physicist and philosopher
1846 – Wilson Barrett, English actor (d. 1904)
playwright, and manager
1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany (d. 17 Jan 1933)
American stained glass artist
1849 – Alexander Kielland (d. 1906)
Norwegian author, playwright, and politician
1850 – George Henschel (d. 1934)
German-English singer-songwriter, pianist, and conductor
1855 – Jean Jules Jusserand
French historian, author, and diplomat (d. 1932)
1858 – Wilhelm Schmidt, German engineer (d. 16 Feb 1924)
1860: Anders Zorn (d. 22 Aug 1920)
Swedish painter, sculptor, and etcher
1861: Sir William Throsby Bridges (d. 18 Jun 1915)
Australian general
1st Australian Chief of the General Staff, 1909
1862 – Charles M. Schwab (d. 18 Sep 1939)
American businessman, co-founded Bethlehem Steel
1870 – William Laurel Harris (d. 1924)
American painter and author
1871 – Harry Brearley, English metallurgist (d. 1948)
1877 – Arthur Corbett, Australian public servant (d. 1970)
1883 – Nikos Kazantzakis (d. 26 Oct 1957)
Greek philosopher and author
1885 – Henri Laurens, French sculptor and illustrator (d. 1954)
1890 – Edward Arnold (d. 26 Apr 1956)
American actor and singer
1890 – Adolphe Menjou (d. 29 Oct 1963)
, American actor and singer
1892 – Wendell Willkie (d. 8 Oct 1944)
American captain, lawyer, and politician
1897 – Charles Kuentz, German-French soldier (d. 2005)
1898 – Enzo Ferrari (d. 14 Aug 1988)
Italian race car driver and businessman, founded Ferrari
1898 – Luis Muñoz Marín (d. 1980)
Puerto Rican poet and politician
1st Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
1899 – Arthur Bryant (d. 22 Jan 1985)
English historian and journalist
1901 – Reginald Sheffield (d. 8 Dec 1957)
English-American actor
1902 – Walter Herbert, German-American conductor (d. 1975)
1903 – Nikolai Podgorny (d. 1983)
Ukrainian engineer and politician
1905 – Queenie Leonard (d. 2002)
English-American actress and singer
1906 – Hans Asperger (d. 21 Oct 1980)
Austrian pediatrician and academic
1907 – Oscar Brodney (d. 2008)
American lawyer and screenwriter
1909 – Tuppy Owen-Smith (d. 1990)
South African-English cricketer and rugby player
1909 – Wallace Stegner (d. 13 Apr 1993)
American historian and author
1911 – Jānis Vītols, Latvian cyclist (d. 1993)
1914 – Pee Wee King (d. 2000)
American singer-songwriter and fiddler
1915 – Phyllis Calvert, English actress (d. 8 Oct 2002)
1916 – Jean Drapeau (d. 1999)
Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Mayor of Montreal
1917 – José Curbelo (d. 2012)
Cuban-American pianist and manager
1917 – Dona Massin (d. 26 May 2001)
Canadian actress and choreographer
1919 – Jack Palance, American actor (d. 10 Nov 2006)
1920: Bill Cullen (d. 7 Jul 1990)
American radio and television personality
and game show host
1920: Eddie Slovik (d. 31 Jan 1945)
Only American soldier court-martialled and executed
for desertion since the American Civil War
1921 – Oscar Feltsman (d. 2013)
Ukrainian-Russian pianist and composer
1922 – Eric Gairy (d. 1997)
Grenadan politician, 1st Prime Minister of Grenada
1922 – Helen Gurley Brown (d. 2012)
American journalist and author
1922 – Allan Melvin (d. 2008)
American actor, singer, and screenwriter
1922 – Juhan Smuul, Estonian author (d. 1971)
1923: Allan John Melvin, American actor (d. 17 Jan 2008)
1924 – Humberto Fernández Morán
Venezuelan scientist and academic (d. 1999)
1924 – Nicola Rizzuto, Italian-Canadian mob boss (d. 2010)
1924 – Sam Rolfe (d. 1993)
American screenwriter and producer
1925: Jack Gilbert, American Poet (d. 13 Nov 2012)
1925 – George Kennedy, American actor
1926: A. R. Ammons, American poet (d. 25 Feb 2001)
1926 – Nalini Jaywant, Indian actress (d. 2010)
1927 – Luis Arroyo (d. 2016)
Puerto Rican baseball player, manager, and scout
1928 – Tom Johnson (d. 2007)
Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
1929 – Len Deighton, English historian and author
1929 – André Mathieu (d. 1968)
Canadian pianist and composer
1931 – Johnny Hart (d. 7 Apr 2007)
American cartoonist, co-created The Wizard of Id
1931 – Toni Morrison
American author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Miloš Forman
Czech-American director and screenwriter
1932: Duane Michals, American photographer
1933 – Yoko Ono
Japanese-American singer-songwriter (Plastic Ono Band)
1933 – Bobby Robson (d. 2009)
English footballer and manager
1934 – Skip Battin (d. 2003)
American singer-songwriter & bass player
(The Byrds, The New Riders of the Purple Sage,
The Flying Burrito Brothers)
1934 – Audre Lorde, American poet and activist (d. 1992)
1934 – Paco Rabanne, Spanish-French fashion designer
1936 – Jean M. Auel, American author
1936 – Dick Duff, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1936: Ian Hacking, Canadian philosopher
1936 – Kathryn Ish, American actress (d. 2007)
1936 – Ab McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
1937 – Ulvi Voog, Estonian freestyle swimmer
1938 – Barry Knight, English cricketer and coach
1938 – Manny Mota
Dominican baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1938 – Sadanoyama Shinmatsu
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 50th Yokozuna
1938 – István Szabó, Hungarian director and screenwriter
1939 – Claude Ake (d. 1996)
Nigerian political scientist and academic
1939 – Marek Janowski, Polish-German conductor
1939 – Dal Maxvill
American baseball player, coach, and manager
1940 – Fabrizio De André (d. 1999)
Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941 – Mati Nuude, Estonian weightlifter and singer (d. 2001)
1941 – Herman Santiago
Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (The Teenagers)
1941 – Irma Thomas, American singer-songwriter
1943 – Graeme Garden, Scottish comedian, actor, and author
1944 – Pat Bowlen, American businessman
1945 – Judy Rankin, American golfer and sportscaster
1946 – Michael Buerk, English journalist
1946 – Jean-Claude Dreyfus, French actor
1947 – José María Cañizares, Spanish golfer
1947 – Dennis DeYoung
American singer-songwriter, keyboard player,
and producer (Styx)
1947 – Eliot Engel, American educator and politician
1947 – Princess Christina of the Netherlands
Princess Christina of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-
Nassau, Princess of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 1947-present
1947 – Carlos Lopes, Portuguese runner
1948 – Sinéad Cusack, Irish-English actress
1949 – Gary Ridgway, American serial killer
1950: Bebe Moore Campbell (d. 27 Nov 2006)
American author and teacher
1950 – Cristina Ferrare
American model, actress, author, and host
1950 – Michel Gauthier, Canadian journalist and politician
1950 – John Hughes
American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1950 – Cybill Shepherd, American actress and singer
1951 – Queen Komal of Nepal
1951 – Isabel Preysler, Filipino-Spanish journalist
1952 – Veronica "Randy" Crawford, American singer
1952 – Maurice Lucas (d. 2010)
American basketball player and coach
1952 – Judy Kay "Juice" Newton
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1952 – Martin J. Taylor, English mathematician and academic
1952 – Bernard Valcourt, Canadian lawyer and politician
1952 – Māra Zālīte, Latvian poet and writer
1953 – Robbie Bachman
Canadian drummer
(Brave Belt and Bachman–Turner Overdrive)
1953 – Derek Pellicci
Australian drummer (Little River Band and Mississippi)
1954 – Charlie Fowler (d. 2006)
American mountaineer, author, and photographer
1954 – John Travolta, American actor, singer, and producer
1955 – Peter Luff, English politician
1955 – Raymond Rougeau, Canadian wrestler and sportscaster
1955: Lisa See, American writer
1955 – Miles Tredinnick
English singer-songwriter and playwright (London)
1956 – Ted Gärdestad, Swedish singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
1956 – Bidzina Ivanishvili
Georgian businessman and politician
10th Prime Minister of Georgia
1956 – Paul Reed Smith
American businessman, founded PRS Guitars
1957 – Marita Koch, German sprinter
1957 – George Pelecanos
American author, screenwriter, and producer
1957: Warren Stephens, American businessman
1957 – Vanna White
American model and game show host
and television personality
1957: Steve Womack
American politician
U.S. Representative, R. AR, 2011-present
1959 – Jayne Atkinson, English actress
1959 – Bryan Brandenburg
French-American game designer and author
1959 – Ken Freedman, American radio host
1959 – Hallgrímur Helgason, Icelandic painter and author
1959 – Christian Koeberl, Austrian geologist and academic
1959 – James Metzger
American businessman and philanthropist
1960 – Tony Anselmo, American animator and voice actor
1960 – Gazebo, Italian musician
1960 – Andy Moog, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 – Greta Scacchi, Italian-Australian actress
1961 – Hironobu Kageyama
Japanese singer (Lazy and JAM Project)
1961: Alison Owen, English film producer
1961 – Douglas Rushkoff, American theorist and author
1963 – Rob Andrew, English rugby player and cricketer
1964 – Matt Dillon, American actor and director
1965 – Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer (d. 2005)
1965 – Andre Romelle Young (bka Dr. Dre)
American rapper, producer, and actor
(World Class Wreckin' Cru and N.W.A)
1966 – Phillip DeFreitas, Dominican-English cricketer
1966 – Guy Ferland, American director and producer
1966 – Tetsushi Tanaka, Japanese actor
1967 – Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
1967 – Colin Jackson, Welsh sprinter and hurdler
1967 – Yongyoot Thongkongtoon
Thai director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – John Valentin, American baseball player and coach
1968 – Molly Ringwald, American actress
1969 – Tomaž Humar, Slovenian mountaineer (d. 2009)
1969 – Alexander Mogilny, Russian ice hockey player
1970 – Susan Egan
American actress, singer, dancer, voice artist, and comedian
1970: Raine Maida, Canadian musician
1972 – Fabian Picardo
Gibraltarian politician and barrister
7th Chief Minister of Gibraltar
1973 – Shawn Estes, American baseball player and sportscaster
1973 – Claude Makélélé, French footballer and manager
1974 – Radek Černý, Czech footballer
1974 – Ruby Dhalla, Canadian chiropractor and politician
1974 – Julia Butterfly Hill
American environmentalist and author
1974 – Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Russian tennis player
1974: Nadine Labaki, Lebanese actress and director.
1974 – Jillian Michaels, American fitness trainer and author
1975: Sarah Joy Brown, American actress
1975: Gary Neville, English footballer and coach
1976 – Bernadette Sembrano, Filipino journalist
1977 – Ike Barinholtz
American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977: Meredith Ostrom, American actress
1977: Kristoffer Polaha, American actor
1977: Sean Watkins, American songwriter and musician
1977 – Chrissie Wellington, English triathlete
1978 – Lena Burke, Cuban singer-songwriter
1978 – Oliver Pocher, German comedian and actor
1978 – Josip Šimunić, Croatian footballer
1980 – Aivar Anniste, Estonian footballer
1980 – Nik Antropov
Kazakhstani-Canadian ice hockey player
1980 – Regina Spektor
Russian-American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1981 – Kim Jaewon, South Korean actor
1981 – Andrei Kirilenko, Russian basketball player
1981 – Alex Ríos, American baseball player
1982 – Kaspars Cipruss, Latvian basketball player
1982 – Shane Jenek (aka Courtney Act)
Australian drag queen, singer and entertainer
1982 – Juelz Santana
American rapper and actor (Skull Gang and The Diplomats)
1982: Wesley Schultz, American musician
1982 – Christian Tiffert, German footballer
1983 – Joel Huiqui, Mexican footballer
1983 – Jermaine Jenas, English footballer
1983 – Jason Maxiell, American basketball player
1984 – Stéphanie, Hereditary Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
1984 – Idriss Carlos Kameni, Cameroonian footballer
1984: Nick McDonell
American author, journalist, screenwriter, producer,
novelist, and researcher
1984 – Ricardo Salampessy, Indonesian footballer
1985 – Anton Ferdinand, English footballer
1985 – Chelsea Hobbs, Canadian actress
1985 – Todd Lasance, Australian actor
1985 – Lee Boyd Malvo, Jamaican-American murderer
1985 – Jos van Emden, Dutch cyclist
1986 – Crystallia, Greek singer
1986 – Sakura Ando, Japanese actress
1986 – Robert DeLong, American musician
1986 – Vika Jigulina
Moldavian-Romanian DJ, singer, and producer
1986 – T.J. Mack, American wrestler
1986 – Marc Torrejón, Spanish footballer
1987 – Vicente Guaita, Spanish footballer
1988 – Shim Chang-min (aka Changmin)
South Korean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
(TVXQ and SM the Ballad)
1988 – Maiara Walsh, American actress
1989 – Bruno Leonardo Vicente, Brazilian footballer
1990 – Didi Gregorius, Dutch baseball player
1990 – Cody Hodgson, Canadian ice hockey player
1990 – Park Shin-hye, South Korean actress and singer
1990 – Kang So-ra, South Korean actress and singer
1991 – Malese Jow, American actress and singer
1991 – Sebastian Neumann, German footballer
1991 – Henry Surtees, English race car driver (d. 2009)
1991: Jeremy Allen White, American actor
1992 – Logan Miller, American actor
Family
Coulee City
Other
1923: Adeline Nordhagen
Anniversaries
Coulee City
Deaths
VIP
Notable
814 – Angilbert, Frankish monk and diplomat (b. 760)
901 – Thābit ibn Qurra, Iraqi physician, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 826)
999 – Pope Gregory V (b. 972)
1139 – Yaropolk II of Kiev (b. 1082)
1218 – Berthold V, Duke of Zähringen (b. 1160)
1294 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1215)
1379 – Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg (b. 1318)
1405 – Timur, Mongol ruler (b. 1336)
1455 – Fra Angelico, Italian priest and painter (b. 1395)
1478 – George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (b. 1449)
1535 – Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa (b. 1486)
German magician, astrologer, and theologian
1546 – Martin Luther (b. 1483)
German priest and theologian, leader of the Protestant Reformation
1564 – Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (b. 1475)
1654 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac, French author (b. 1594)
1683 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem, Dutch painter (b. 1620)
1712 – Louis, Dauphin of France, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1682)
1718 – Peter Anthony Motteux, French-English author and playwright (b. 1663)
1743 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici (b. 1667)
French wife of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine
1748 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
1772 – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff, Danish politician (b. 1712)
1778 – Joseph Marie Terray (b. 1715)
French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances
1780 – Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (b. 1714)
1788 – John Whitehurst, English geologist and clockmaker (b. 1713)
1803 – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, German poet and educator (b. 1719)
1836 – Cornplanter, American tribal chief (b. 1732)
1842 – Thomas Hazlehurst (b. 1779)
English businessman, founded Hazlehurst & Sons
1851 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (b. 1804)
1873 – Vasil Levski (b. 1837)
Bulgarian activist, founded the Internal Revolutionary Organization
1889 – Jerónimo Espejo, Argentinian general (b. 1801)
1893 – Serranus Clinton Hastings (b. 1814)
American lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Justice of California
1895 – Carl Abs, German wrestler (b. 1851)
1895 – Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen (b. 1817)
1902 – Charles Lewis Tiffany (b. 1812)
American businessman, founded Tiffany & Co.
1906 – John Batterson Stetson (b. 1830)
American businessman, founded the John B. Stetson Company
1910 – Lucy Stanton, American activist (b. 1831)
1911 – Billy Murdoch, Australian cricketer (b. 1854)
1923 – Alois Rašín, Czech economist and politician (b. 1867)
1931 – Milan Šufflay, Croatian historian, author, and politician (b. 1879)
1931 – Louis Wolheim, American actor (b. 1880)
1933 – James J. Corbett, American boxer and actor (b. 1866)
1945 – Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general (b. 1906)
1956 – Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
1957 – Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
1957 – Henry Norris Russell (b. 1877)
American astronomer, astrophysicist, and academic
1964 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier (b. 1907)
Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc.
1966 – Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1967 – Dragiša Cvetković (b. 1893)
Serbian politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1904)
1973 – Frank Costello, Italian-American mob boss (b. 1891)
1977 – Andy Devine, American actor and singer (b. 1905)
1978 – Maggie McNamara, American actress (b. 1928)
1981 – Jack Northrop (b. 1895)
American engineer and businessman, founded the Northrop Corporation
1982 – Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)
1990 – Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist (b. 1958)
1993 – Jacqueline Hill, English actress (b. 1929)
1993 – Kerry Von Erich, American wrestler (b. 1960)
1995 – Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler and booker (b. 1961)
1995 – Robert Neil "Bob" Stinson (b. 1959)
founding member and lead guitarist of the American rock band,
The Replacements
1998 – Harry Caray, American sportscaster (b. 1914)
2001 – Balthus, Polish-Swiss painter and illustrator (b. 1908)
2001 – Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)
2001 – Clare Kelly, English actress (b. 1922)
2001 – Eddie Mathews, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1931)
2003 – Isser Harel, Belarusian-Israeli intelligence officer (b. 1912)
2006 – Richard Bright, American actor (b. 1937)
2008 – Mihaela Mitrache, Romanian actress (b. 1955)
2008 – Alain Robbe-Grillet, French author and director (b. 1922)
2009 – Tayeb Salih, Sudanese journalist and author (b. 1929)
2009 – Miika Tenkula (b. 1974)
Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sentenced)
2010 – John Babcock, Canadian soldier (b. 1900)
2012 – Roald Aas, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (b. 1928)
2012 – George Brizan (b. 1942)
Grenadian politician, 9th Prime Minister of Grenada
2012 – Elizabeth Connell, South African-English soprano (b. 1946)
2013 – Jerry Buss, American chemist and businessman (b. 1933)
2014 – Viscera, American wrestler and actor (b. 1971)
2014 – Mavis Gallant, Canadian-French author and playwright (b. 1922)
2014 – Kristof Goddaert, Belgian cyclist (b. 1986)
2014 – Nikhil Baran Sengupta (b. 1943)
Indian art director and production designer
2014 – Maria Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (b. 1914)
2015 – Claude Criquielion, Belgian cyclist (b. 1957)
2015 – Jerome Kersey, American basketball player and coach (b. 1962)
2015 – D. Ramanaidu (b. 1936)
Indian actor, director, and producer, founded Suresh Productions
Family
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