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Birthdays
VIP
Notable
1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus (d. 24 May 1543)
Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics
scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, economist.
polyglot and polymath
1526 – Carolus Clusius (d. 1609)
Flemish botanist and academic
1552 – Melchior Klesl, Austrian cardinal (d. 1630)
1630 – Chhatrapati Shivaji (d. 1680)
founder of the Maratha Empire
1660 – Friedrich Hoffmann (d. 1742)
German physician and chemist
1717 – David Garrick (d. 1779)
English actor, playwright, and producer
1743 – Luigi Boccherini (d. 1805)
Italian cellist and composer
1798 – Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet (d. 8 Aug 1862)
Canadian soldier, lawyer, and politician
Premier of Canada West, 1854-1856
1800 – Bl. Émilie Tavernier Gamelin, S.P. (d. 23 Sep 1851)
Canadian nun, founded the Sisters of Providence
1802 – Wilhelm Matthias Naeff, Swiss politician (d. 1881)
1804 – Carl von Rokitansky (d. 1878)
German physician, pathologist, and philosopher
1804 – David Wark (d. 1905)
Irish-Canadian merchant and politician
1821 – August Schleicher (d. 1868)
German linguist and academic
1824 – Henri Germain (d. 1905)
French banker and politician, founded Crédit Lyonnais
1833 – Élie Ducommun (d. 1906)
Swiss journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1843 – Adelina Patti, Spanish-Welsh soprano (d. 1919)
1855 – Nishinoumi Kajirō I (d. 1908)
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna
1858: Charles Alexander Eastman (d. 8 Jan 1939)
born Hakadah and later named Ohíye S’a
Santee Dakota physician, writer, national lecturer,
native American rights activist, and reformer
1859 – Svante Arrhenius (d. 1927)
Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1865 – Sven Hedin, Swedish geographer and explorer (d. 1952)
1869 – Hovhannes Tumanyan (d. 1923)
Armenian-Russian poet and author
1871 – Lugenia Burns Hope, American activist (d. 1947)
1872 – Johan Pitka, Estonian admiral (d. 1944)
1876 – Constantin Brâncuși (d. 16 Mar 1957)
Romanian-French sculptor and photographer
1877 – Gabriele Münter, German painter (d. 1962)
1878 – Harriet Bosse, Swedish–Norwegian actress (d. 1961)
1880 – Álvaro Obregón (d. 1928)
Mexican general and politician, 39th President of Mexico
1886 – José Abad Santos (d. 1942)
Filipino lawyer and jurist
5th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
1888 – José Eustasio Rivera (d. 1928)
Colombian lawyer and poet
1888 – Aurora Quezon (d. 1949)
Filipino wife of Manuel L. Quezon
2nd First Lady of the Philippines
1893 – Cedric Hardwicke (d. 1964)
English-American actor and director
1895 – Louis Calhern, American actor and singer (d. 1956)
1895 – Diego Mazquiarán, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1940)
1896 – André Breton, French poet and author (d. 28 Sep 1966)
1897 – Alma Rubens, American actress (d. 1931)
1899 – Lucio Fontana (d. 1968)
Italian-Argentinian painter and sculptor
1899 – Yury Olesha, Russian author and playwright (d. 1960)
1901 – Florence Green, English soldier (d. 2012)
1902 – Kay Boyle (d. 1992)
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist
1903 – Louis Slobodkin (d. 1975)
American author and illustrator
1904 – Havank, Dutch journalist and author (d. 1964)
1904 – Elisabeth Welch (d. 2003)
American singer, actress and entertainer
1906 – Eugene Eisenmann (d. 1981)
Panamanian-American lawyer and ornithologist
1910 – Dorothy Janis, American actress (d. 2010)
1911: Bill Bowerman (d. 24 Dec 1999)
American track and field coach
co-founder of Nike, Inc.
1911 – Merle Oberon, Indian-American actress (d. 1979)
1912 – Saul Chaplin (d. 1997)
American composer and director
1913 – Prince Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza (d. 2007)
1913: Frank Tashlin (d. 5 May 1972)
American animator, screenwriter, and film director.
1914 – Jacques Dufilho, French actor (d. 2005)
1915 – John Freeman
English lawyer, politician, and diplomat
British Ambassador to the United States (d. 2014)
1916 – Eddie Arcaro (d. 1997)
American jockey and sportscaster
1917 – Carson McCullers (d. 1967)
American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet
1920 – C. Z. Guest (d. 2003)
American fashion designer and author
1920 – Jaan Kross, Estonian author and poet (d. 2007)
1920 – George Rose, English actor and singer (d. 1988)
1922 – Władysław Bartoszewski (d. 2015)
Polish journalist and politician
Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs
1924 – David Bronstein, Ukrainian chess player (d. 2006)
1924 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 29 Aug 1987)
1924 – Bruce Norris, American businessman (d. 1986)
1926 – György Kurtág, Hungarian composer and academic
1926 – Ross Thomas, American soldier author (d. 1995)
1927 – Philippe Boiry, French journalist (d. 2014)
1929 – Jacques Deray (d. 2003)
French director and screenwriter
1930 – John Frankenheimer (d. 6 Jul 2002)
American director and producer
1930 – Kasinathuni Viswanath
Indian actor, director, and screenwriter
1932 – Joseph P. Kerwin
American captain, physician, and astronaut
1934 – Pierre Barouh, French singer-songwriter and actor
1935 – Dave Niehaus, American sportscaster (d. 10 Nov 2010)
1936 – Sam Myers, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1937 – Terry Carr, American author and educator (d. 1987)
1937 – David Margulies, American actor (d. 11 Jan 2016)
1937 – Alan Munro
Indian-English immunologist and academic
1937 – Boris Pugo (d. 1991)
Latvian politician, Minister of Interior of the Soviet Union
1937 – Robert Walker, American guitarist
1938 – Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama (d. 1989)
1938 – Dutch Mason (d. 2006)
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939: Heinz Pagels, American physicist (d. 23 Jul 1988)
1939 – Erin Pizzey
English activist and author, founded Refuge
1939: Gwen Taylor, English actress
1940 – Saparmurat Niyazov (d. 2006)
Turkmen engineer and politician
1st President of Turkmenistan
1940 – Smokey Robinson
American singer-songwriter and producer (The Miracles)
1940 – Bobby Rogers (d. 3 Mar 2013)
American singer-songwriter (The Miracles)
1941: Stephen Dobyns, American poet and novelist
1941 – David Gross
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge, English politician
1942 – Paul Krause, American football player
1942 – Howard Stringer, Welsh-American businessman
1942 – Will Provine (d. 2015)
American biologist, historian, and academic
1943 – Lou Christie, American singer-songwriter
1943 – Homer Hickam, American author and engineer
1943 – Tim Hunt
English biochemist and academic, Nobel laureate
1944 – Les Hinton
English-American journalist and businessman
1945 – Yuri Antonov, Uzbek-Russian singer-songwriter
1945 – Michael Nader, American actor
1946 – Paul Dean
Canadian guitarist (Loverboy and Streetheart)
1946 – Barry Everitt, English neuroscientist and academic
1946 – Hiroshi Fujioka, Japanese actor
1946 – Peter Hudson, Australian footballer and coach
1946: Carolyn Maloney
U.S. Representative, D. NY, 1993-present
1946 – Karen Silkwood (d. 1974)
American technician and activist
1947 – Tim Shadbolt
New Zealand politician, 42nd Mayor of Invercargill
1948 – Mark Andes
American singer-songwriter and bass player
(Spirit, Firefall, Jo Jo Gunne, and Heart)
1948 – Pim Fortuyn (d. 2002)
Dutch sociologist, academic, and politician
1948: Raúl Grijalva
U.S. Representative, D. AZ, 2003-present
1948 – Tony Iommi
English guitarist and songwriter
(Black Sabbath, Heaven & Hell, Velvett Fogg,
and Mythology)
1948: Clive John Sinclair FRSL, British author
1948 – Big John Studd, American wrestler and actor (d. 1995)
1949 – Danielle Bunten Berry (d. 1998)
American game designer and programmer
1949 – Eddie Hardin (d. 2015)
English singer-songwriter and pianist
(The Spencer Davis Group and Axis Point)
1949 – William Messner-Loebs
American author and illustrator
1950 – Juice Leskinen, Finnish singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1950 – Andy Powell
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Wishbone Ash)
1951 – Stephen Nichols, American actor and director
1951: Jerry Saltz, American art critic
1951 – Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Pakistani scholar and politician, founded Minhaj-ul-Quran
1952 – Rodolfo Neri Vela, Mexican engineer and astronaut
1952 – Amy Tan, American author
1952 – Danilo Türk
Slovene academic and politician, 3rd President of Slovenia
1953 – Corrado Barazzutti, Italian tennis player
1953 – Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Argentinian lawyer and politician
52nd President of Argentina, 2007-2015
1953 – Bill Kirchenbauer American comedian and actor
1953 – Massimo Troisi (d. 1994)
Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
1954 – Messaouda Boubaker, Tunisian writer
1954 – Francis Buchholz
German bass player
(Scorpions and Michael Schenker Group)
1954 – Michael Gira
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
(Swans, Angels of Light, The World of Skin,
and Circus Mort)
1954 – Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira
bka Sócrates (d. 4 Dec 2011)
Brazilian footballer and manager
1955 – Jeff Daniels, American actor
1955: Siri Hustvedt, American novelist and essayist
1956 – Kathleen Beller, American actress
1956 – Peter Holsapple
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(The dB's and The Continental Drifters)
1956: Jeffrey R. Immelt
American business executive
chairman and CEO of General Electric
1956 – Roderick MacKinnon
American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1956 – Dave Wakeling
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
(The Beat and General Public)
1957 – Johann "Hans" Hölzel (bka Falco) (d. 6 Feb 1998)
Austrian singer-songwriter
1957 – Lorianne Crook, American radio and television host
1957 – Ray Winstone, English actor
1958 – Helen Fielding, English author and screenwriter
1958 – Pierre-Loup Rajot, French actor and director
1959 – Roger Goodell, American businessman
1960 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York
1960 – John Paul, Jr., American race car driver
1961 – Benoît Chamoux, French mountaineer (d. 1995)
1961 – Justin Fashanu, English footballer (d. 1998)
1961 – Andy Wallace, English race car driver
1962 – Hana Mandlíková
Czech-Australian tennis player and coach
1963 – Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel (aka Seal)
English singer-songwriter
1963 – Laurell K. Hamilton, American author
1963 – Jessica Tuck, American actress
1964 – Doug Aldrich
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(Whitesnake, Burning Rain, Hurricane, Bad Moon Rising,
Lion, and Dio)
1964 – Jonathan Lethem, American author
1964 – Dmitri Lipskerov, Russian author and playwright
1964 – Richard A. Scott, American author and illustrator
1965 – Leroy Miller (bka Leroy)
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
(Smash Mouth)
1965 – Jon Fishman
American drummer
(Phish, Pork Tornado, and Surrender to the Air)
1965 – Andy Jameson, English swimmer and sportscaster
1966 – Justine Bateman, American writer, producer and actress
1966: Janet Echelman, American sculptor and artist
1966 – Enzo Scifo, Belgian footballer and manager
1966 – Eduardo Xol, American designer and author
1967 – Benicio del Toro
Puerto Rican-American actor, director, and producer
1968 – Frank Watkins (d. 2015)
American bass player (Obituary and Gorgoroth)
1968 – Prince Markie Dee
American rapper, songwriter, and actor (The Fat Boys)
1969 – Burton C. Bell
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(Fear Factory, Ascension of the Watchers, City of Fire,
and GZR)
1969 – Helena Guergis, Canadian politician
1970 – Joacim Cans
Swedish singer-songwriter (HammerFall and Warlord)
1970: Jonathan Tropper
American screenwriter, author, and professor
1970: Bellamy Young, American actress and producer
1971 – Miguel Batista, Dominican baseball player and poet
1971 – Jeff Kinney, American author and illustrator
1972 – Francine Fournier, American wrestler and manager
1972 – Nao Ōmori, Japanese actor
1973 – Eric Lange, American actor
1973 – Nikos Oikonomou, Greek basketball player and coach
1974 – Danny Doring, American wrestler
1975 – Daniel Adair
Canadian drummer and producer
(Nickelback and 3 Doors Down)
1975 – Daewon Song
South Korean-American skateboarder
co-founded Almost Skateboards
1976: Teddy Thompson, British folk and rock musician
1977: Vittorio Grigolo, Italian operatic tenor
1977 – Ola Salo
Swedish singer-songwriter and keyboard player (The Ark)
1977 – Andrew Ross Sorkin, American journalist and author
1977 – Gianluca Zambrotta, Italian footballer and manager
1978 – Ben Gummer, English scholar and politician
1978 – Michalis Konstantinou, Cypriot footballer
1978 – Stephanie Waring, English actress
1979: Andrew Buchan, English actor
1979 – Steve Cherundolo, American soccer player and manager
1979 – Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress (OV7)
1979 – René Renno, German footballer
1980 – Dwight Freeney, American football player
1980 – Spyridon Gianniotis, Greek swimmer
1980 – Mike Miller, American basketball player
1981 – Beth Ditto, American singer-songwriter (Gossip)
1981 – Kyle Martino, American soccer player
1981 – Gil Reyes, American boxer
1981 – Nicky Shorey, English footballer
1981 – Baiba Skride, Latvian classical violinist
1982 – Camelia Potec, Romanian swimmer
1983 – Kotoōshū Katsunori, Bulgarian sumo wrestler
1983 – Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer and actress
1983 – Ryan Whitney, American ice hockey player
1984 – Chris Richardson, American singer-songwriter
1984: Josh Trank
American director, producer, screenwriter, and film editor
1985 – Haylie Duff, American actress and singer
1985: Arielle Kebbel, American model and actress
1985 – Sławomir Peszko, Polish footballer
1986 – Kyle Chipchura, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Björn Gustafsson, Swedish comedian and actor
1986 – Reon Kadena, Japanese model and actress
1986 – Henri Karjalainen, Finnish race car driver
1986 – Maria Mena, Norwegian singer-songwriter
1986 – Michael Schwimer, American baseball player
1986 – Marta Vieira da Silva (bka Marta), Brazilian footballer
1987 – Vanesa Furlanetto, Argentinian tennis player
1988 – Miyu Irino, Japanese voice actor
1988 – Shawn Matthias, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 – Seth Morrison, American guitarist (Skillet)
1989: Luke Pasqualino, English actor
1991 – Trevor Bayne, American race car driver
1991: Caitlin Hale, American actress, singer and writer
1992 – Sander Pärn, Estonian race car driver
1992 – Jelena Simić, Bosnian tennis player
1993 – Martín Alaníz, Uruguayan footballer
1993 – Mauro Icardi, Argentinian footballer
1993 – Victoria Justice, American actress
1994 – Tiina Trutsi, Estonian footballer
1998 – Katharina Gerlach, German tennis player
2001 – David Mazouz, American actor
Family
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Lynnette Grass
Noelle Hardt
Michelle Evans
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Anniversaries
Coulee City
Errol Sr. & Patricia Burbank
David & Brandi Nichole Hansen
Deaths
VIP
Notable
197 – Clodius Albinus, Roman usurper (b. 150)
1133 – Irene Doukaina, Byzantine wife of Alexios I Komnenos (b. 1066)
1553 – Erasmus Reinhold, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1511)
1605 – Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (b. 1550)
1602 – Philippe Emmanuel, Duke of Mercœur (b. 1558)
1620 – Roemer Visscher, Dutch merchant and author (b. 1547)
1622 – Henry Savile, English scholar and politician (b. 1549)
1663 – Adam Adami, German bishop (b. 1603)
1672 – Charles Chauncy (b. 1592)
English-American minister, theologian, and academic
1709 – Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)
1716 – Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Norwegian author and poet (b. 1634)
1789 – Nicholas Van Dyke (b. 1738)
American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware
1799 – Jean-Charles de Borda (b. 1733)
French mathematician, physicist, and sailor
1806 – Elizabeth Carter, English poet and translator (b. 1717)
1837 – Georg Büchner, German-Swiss poet and playwright (b. 1813)
1837 – Thomas Burgess, English bishop and philosopher (b. 1756)
1887 – Multatuli, Dutch-German author (b. 1820)
1897 – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician and academic (b. 1815)
1915 – Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Indian philosopher and politician (b. 1866)
1916 – Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
1927 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer and educator (b. 1847)
1936 – Charles Harding Firth, English historian and academic (b. 1857)
1936 – Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot (b. 1879)
1942 – Frank Abbandando, American gangster (b. 1910)
1945 – John Basilone, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1916)
1951 – André Gide (b. 1869)
French novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1952 – Knut Hamsun (b. 1859)
Norwegian author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1957 – Maurice Garin, Italian-French cyclist (b. 1871)
1959 – Willard Miller, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1877)
1962 – Georgios Papanikolaou (b. 1883)
Greek-American pathologist, invented the Pap smear
1968 – Georg Hackenschmidt (b. 1877)
Estonian-English strongman and wrestler
1969 – Madge Blake, American actress (b. 1899)
1972 – John Grierson, Scottish-English director and producer (b. 1898)
1972 – Lee Morgan, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1938)
1972 – Tedd Pierce, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1906)
1973 – Kostas Negrepontis, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1897)
1973 – Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist (b. 1892)
1977 – Anthony Crosland (b. 1918)
English captain and politician
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
1977 – Mike González, Cuban baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1890)
1980 – Bon Scott (b. 1946)
Scottish-Australian singer-songwriter
(AC/DC, The Valentines, Fraternity, and The Spektors)
1983 – Alice White, American actress and singer (b. 1904)
1986 – Adolfo Celi, Italian actor and director (b. 1922)
1988 – André Frédéric Cournand
French-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1895)
1992 – Tojo Yamamoto, American wrestler and manager (b. 1927)
1994 – Derek Jarman, English director and set designer (b. 1942)
1996 – Charlie Finley, American businessman (b. 1918)
1997 – Frank Delfino, American actor (b. 1911)
1997 – Leo Rosten, Polish-American author and academic (b. 1908)
1997 – Deng Xiaoping (b. 1904)
Chinese politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
1998 – Grandpa Jones, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (b. 1913)
1999 – Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, Iraqi cleric (b. 1943)
2000 – Friedensreich Hundertwasser (b. 1928)
Austrian-New Zealand painter and illustrator
2001 – Stanley Kramer, American director and producer (b. 1913)
2001 – Charles Trenet, French singer-songwriter (b. 1913)
2002 – Sylvia Rivera, American activist (b. 1951)
2003 – Johnny Paycheck, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938)
2007 – Janet Blair, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
2007 – Celia Franca (b. 1921)
English-Canadian dancer and director, founded the National Ballet of Canada
2008 – Yegor Letov (b. 1964)
Russian singer-songwriter (Grazhdanskaya Oborona)
2008 – Lydia Shum, Chinese-Hong Kong actress and singer (b. 1945)
2009 – Kelly Groucutt (b. 1945)
English singer and bass player (Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part II)
2010 – Jamie Gillis, American porn actor and director (b. 1943)
2010 – Laura Spurr, American nurse and tribal leader (b. 1945)
2011 – Ollie Matson, American sprinter and football player (b. 1930)
2012 – Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale (b. 1933)
Australian-English politician
2012 – Ruth Barcan Marcus, American philosopher and logician (b. 1921)
2012 – Frits Staal, Dutch philosopher and academic (b. 1930)
2012 – Stasys Stonkus, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1931)
2012 – Jaroslav Velinský, Czech author and songwriter (b. 1932)
2012 – Vitaly Vorotnikov (b. 1926)
Russian politician, 27th Prime Minister of Russia
2013 – Armen Alchian, American economist and academic (b. 1914)
2013 – George Aratani (b. 1917)
Japanese American entrepreneur and philanthropist
2013 – Park Chul-soo (b. 1948)
South Korean director, producer, and screenwriter
2013 – Robert Coleman Richardson (b. 1937)
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
2013 – Lou Myers, American actor (b. 1935)
2013 – Eugene Whelan (b. 1924)
Canadian farmer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Agriculture
2014 – Norbert Beuls, Belgian footballer and manager (b. 1957)
2014 – Kresten Bjerre, Danish footballer and manager (b. 1946)
2014 – Dale Gardner, American captain and astronaut (b. 1948)
2014 – Valeri Kubasov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1935)
2015 – Betty Lou Bredemus, American actress and coach (b. 1934)
2015 – Harold Johnson, American boxer (b. 1928)
2015 – Nirad Mohapatra, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
2015 – Harris Wittels, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1984)
2016: Nelle Harper Lee, American author of To Kill a Mockingbird (b. 28 Apr 1926)
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