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Birthdays
VIP
Notable
1631 – Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds (d. 26 Jul 1712)
English politician
Lord President of the Council, 1689-1699
Lord High Treasurer, 1673-1679
Treasurer of the Navy, 1668-1673
1633 – Jan de Baen, Dutch painter (d. 1702)
1698 – Bernardo Tanucci (d. 1783)
Italian statesman, adviser to the Spanish Bourbon monarchs
1705 – Nicolas Chédeville (d. 1782)
French musette player and composer
1726 – William Prescott, American colonel (d. 13 Oct 1795)
1745 – Henry James Pye, English poet and politician (d. 1813)
1751 – Johann Heinrich Voss (d. 1826)
German poet, translator, and academic
1753 – Louis-Alexandre Berthier (d. 1815)
French general and politician, French Minister of Defence
1757 – John 'Mad Jack' Fuller (d. 1834)
English philanthropist and politician
1759 – Johann Christian Reil (d. 1813)
German physician, physiologist, and anatomist
1761 – Ludwig Abeille (d. 1838)
German pianist and composer
1763 – Adalbert Gyrowetz, Bohemian composer (d. 1850)
1792 – Eliza Courtney (d. 1859)
French daughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
1794 – William Carleton, Irish author (d. 1869)
1802 – Charles Auguste de Bériot (d. 1870)
Belgian violinist and composer
1819 – Alfred Escher (d. 1882)
Swiss businessman and politician
1825: William Allen Butler (d. 9 Sep 1902)
American lawyer and poetical satireist
1829: Joseph Jefferson (d. 23 Apr 1905)
American actor and comedian
1839 – Benjamin Waugh (d. 1908)
English activist, founded the NSPCC
1844 – Ludwig Boltzmann (d. 1906)
Austrian physicist and philosopher
1844 – Joshua Slocum (d. 1909)
Canadian sailor and adventurer
1848 – Edward H. Harriman (d. 9 Sep 1909)
American railroad executive and philanthropist
1850 – Nérée Beauchemin (d. 1931)
Canadian physician and poet
1857 – Bunny Lucas, English cricketer (d. 1923)
1860 – Karl Mantzius, Danish actor and director (d. 1921)
1866 – Carl Westman (d. 1936)
Swedish architect
designed the Stockholm Court House and Röhsska Museum
1867 – Louise, Princess Royal (d. 4 Jan 1931)
English Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife
1870 – Jay Johnson Morrow (d. 1937)
American military engineer and politician
3rd Governor of the Panama Canal Zone
1870: John W. "Jack" Raper (d. 12 Dec 1950)
American journalist
1874 – Mary Garden (d. 1967)
Scottish-American soprano and actress
1879 – Hod Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1907)
1880 – Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen (d. 1923)
French author and poet
1882 – Elie Nadelman, Polish-American sculptor (d. 1946)
1886: Béla Kun (d. 29 Aug 1938)
Hungarian revolutionary and politician
1887 – Vincent Massey (d. 30 Dec 1967)
Canadian lawyer and politician
18th Governor General of Canada
1887: Hesketh Pearson (d. 9 Apr 1964)
British actor, theatre director and writer
1888 – Georges Bernanos (d. 5 Jul 1948)
French soldier and author
1889 – Hulusi Behçet (d. 1948)
Turkish dermatologist and scientist
1893 – Elizabeth Holloway Marston (d. 1993)
American psychologist and author
1895 – Count Louis Zborowski (d. 1924)
English racing driver and automobile engineer
1898 – Jimmy Yancey (d. 1951)
American pianist and composer
1899 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (d. 1992)
American businessman
1901 – René Dubos (d. 1982)
French-American biologist and author
1901 – Louis Kahn (d. 1974)
American architect
designed the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum
and the Bangladesh Parliament Building
1901 – Muhammad Naguib (d. 1984)
Egyptian general and politician, 1st President of Egypt
1901 – Ramakrishna Ranga Rao of Bobbili (d. 1978)
Indian lawyer and politician
1902 – Ansel Adams (d. 22 Apr 1984)
American photographer and environmentalist
1903: Ella K. Maillart (d. 27 Mar 1997)
French-Swiss adventurer, travel writer, and photographer
1904 – Alexei Kosygin (d. 18 Dec 1980)
Russian soldier and politician
8th Premier of the Soviet Union, 1964-1980
1906 – Gale Gordon, American actor (d. 30 Jun 1995)
1907: Malcolm Atterbury, American actor (d. 16 Aug 1992)
1910 – Rudolf Beckmann, German SS officer (d. 1943)
1912 – Pierre Boulle, French soldier and author (d. 1994)
1912: Muriel Humphrey Brown
Wife of 38th Vice President Hubert Humphry
U.S. Sentator, D. MN, 1978
2nd Lady of the United States, 1965-1969
1913 – Tommy Henrich (d. 2009)
American baseball player and sportscaster
1914 – John Charles Daly (d. 1991)
South African–American journalist and game show host
1916 – Jean Erdman, American dancer and choreographer
1917: Emanuel "Manny" Farber (d. 18 Aug 2008)
American painter, film critic and writer
1918 – Leonore Annenberg (d. 2009)
American businesswoman and diplomat
1919 – James O'Meara, English soldier and pilot (d. 1974)
1920 – Karl Albrecht (d. 2014)
German businessman, co-founded Aldi
1920 – Yevgeny Dragunov (d. 1991)
Russian weapons designer
designed the Dragunov sniper rifle
1921 – René Jalbert, Canadian soldier (d. 1996)
1921 – Buddy Rogers, American wrestler (d. 1992)
1923 – Victor G. Atiyeh (d. 20 Jul 2014)
American politician, R.
32nd Governor of Oregon, 1979-1987
1923 – Forbes Burnham (d. 1985)
Guyanese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Guyana
1924: Donald M. Fraser
American politician
44th Mayor of Minneapolis, 1980-1993
U.S. Representative, D. MN, 1963-1979
1924: Greg Garrison (d. 25 Mar 2005)
American television producer and director
1924 – Gloria Vanderbilt
American actress, fashion designer, heiress, and socialite
1925 – Robert Altman (d. 2006)
American director and screenwriter
1925 – Tochinishiki Kiyotaka (d. 1990)
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 44th Yokozuna
1926 – Matthew Bucksbaum (d. 2013)
American businessman and philanthropist
co-founded General Growth Properties
1926 – Gillian Lynne
English ballerina, choreographer, and director
1926 – Richard Matheson (d. 2013)
American author and screenwriter
1926: Ken Olsen (d. 6 Feb 2011)
American engineer
co-founded Digital Equipment Corporation, 1957
1926: Bob Richards
American Olympic pole vaulter and decathlete
1927 – Roy Cohn, American lawyer and activist (d. 1986)
1927 – Ibrahim Ferrer (d. 2005)
Cuban singer
(Buena Vista Social Club and Afro-Cuban All Stars)
1927 – Sidney Poitier, American actor, director, and diplomat
1928 – Roy Face, American baseball player and carpenter
1928 – Jean Kennedy Smith
American diplomat
25th United States Ambassador to Ireland
1929 – Amanda Blake, American actress (d. 16 Aug 1989)
1929 – Efraim Allsalu, Estonian painter (d. 2006)
1931 – John Milnor, American mathematician and academic
1932 – Adrian Cristobal (d. 2007)
Filipino journalist and author
1934 – Bobby Unser, American race car driver
1935 – Ian Castles, Australian public servant (d. 2010)
1935 – Ellen Gilchrist, American author and poet
1935: Frank Jordan
American politician, foundation executive, and police chief
40th Mayor of San Francisco, 1992-1996
1936 – Marj Dusay, American actress
1936 – Larry Hovis, American actor (d. 2003)
1936 – Shigeo Nagashima, Japanese baseball player and coach
1937 – David Ackles (d. 1999)
American singer-songwriter and actor
1937 – Robert Huber
German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Roger Penske
American race car driver and businessman
1937 – Nancy Wilson, American singer and actress
1938 – George Richard Beymer, Jr.
American actor, director, and cinematographer
1938 – Wiley W. Hilburn (d. 2014)
American journalist and academic
1938 – Inge Lønning (d. 2013)
Norwegian theologian, educator, and politician
1940 – Jimmy Greaves, English footballer and sportscaster
1941: Alan Furst, American author
1941 – Lim Kit Siang, Malaysian politician
1941 – Buffy Sainte-Marie
Canadian American Cree singer-songwriter and producer
1942 – Phil Esposito
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1942 – Mitch McConnell
American soldier, lawyer, and politician
Senate Majority Leader, 2015-present
Senate Minority Leader, 2007-2015
U.S. Senator, R. KY, 1985-present
1942 – Claude Miller (d. 2012)
French director, producer, and screenwriter
1943 – Antonio Inoki
Japanese wrestler, mixed martial artist, and politician
1943 – Mike Leigh, English director and screenwriter
1943 – Tom McNally, Baron McNally, English politician
1944 – Robert de Cotret (d. 1999)
Canadian politician, 56th Secretary of State for Canada
1944 – Lew Soloff (d. 2015)
American trumpet player, composer, and actor
(Blood, Sweat & Tears and Mingus Big Band)
1944 – Willem van Hanegem, Dutch footballer and coach
1945 – Andrew Bergman, American director and screenwriter
1945: Randa Jo Haines
American film and television director and producer
1945 – Alan Hull (d. 1995)
English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lindisfarne)
1945 – Brion James, American actor (d. 7 Aug 1999)
1945: George Fitzgerald Smoot III
American astrophysicist and cosmologist
Nobel Prize in Physics, 2006
1946 – Brenda Blethyn, English actress
1946 – Sandy Duncan, American actress, singer, and dancer
1946 – J. Geils
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(The J. Geils Band)
1947 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (d. 2006)
1947 – Peter Strauss, American actor and producer
1947 – André van Duin, Dutch actor and singer
1948 – Pierre Bouchard
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1948 – Andrew Fabian, English astronomer and astrophysicist
1948 – Jennifer O'Neill, American model and actress
1949 – Ivana Trump, Czech-American skier and model
1949 – Adnan Kahveci, Turkish politician (d. 1993)
1950 – Walter Becker
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
(Steely Dan)
1950: Timothy Rob "Tim" Birkhead FRS
British zoologist
professor of behavior and evolution at the University
of Sheffield.
1950 – Peter Marinello, Scottish footballer
1950 – Ken Shimura, Japanese comedian and actor
1950: Anthony Howard "Tony" Wilson (d. 10 Aug 2007)
English record label owner, radio and television presenter,
nightclub manager, impresario, and journalist
1951 – Edward Albert, American actor (d. 22 Sep 2006)
1951 – Gordon Brown
Scottish historian and politician
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 2007-2010
1951 – Randy Craig Wolfe (bka Randy California) (d. 2 Jan 1997)
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Spirit)
1951: Anthony Davis, American jazz pianist and composer
1951 – Phil Neal, English footballer and manager
1953 – Roberto Ciotti, Italian guitarist and composer (d. 2013)
1953 – Kristy Marlana Wallace (bka Poison Ivy)
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
(The Cramps)
1954 – Jon Brant, American bass player (Cheap Trick)
1954 – Anthony Head, English actor
1954 – Patty Hearst
American author, actress and media personality
1957 – Glen Hanlon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1958 – Jamal Hamdan, Lebanese actor and voice actor
1958: James Wilby, English actor
1959 – Scott Brayton, American race car driver (d. 1996)
1959 – David Corn, American journalist and author
1959 – Bill Gullickson, American baseball player
1960 – Joel Hodgson
American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
1960 – Kee Marcello
Swedish guitarist (Europe and Kee Marcello's K2)
1960 – Cándido Muatetema Rivas (d. 2014)
Equatoguinean politician and diplomat
Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea
1962 – Kenn Nesbitt, American poet and author
1962 – Dwayne McDuffie (d. 2011)
American author, screenwriter, and producer
co-founded Milestone Media
1963 – Charles Barkley
American basketball player and sportscaster
1963 – Ian Brown
English singer-songwriter (The Stone Roses)
1963 – Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, Greek politician
1964 – Willie Garson, American actor
1964 – Tom Harris, Scottish journalist and politician
1964 – French Stewart, American actor
1965 – Ron Eldard, American actor
1966 – Cindy Crawford, American model and businesswoman
1967 – Kurt Cobain (d. 5 Apr 1994)
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(Nirvana and Fecal Matter)
1967 – David Herman, American comedian and actor
1967 – Andrew Shue
American actor and activist, founded Do Something
1967 – Lili Taylor, American actress
1967 – Tom Waddle, American football player and sportscaster
1968 – Ha Seok-ju, South Korean footballer and manager
1969: Robin Ince, English comedian, actor and writer
1969 – Siniša Mihajlović, Serbian footballer and manager
1969 – Keiji Takayama (bka Gedo), Japanese wrestler
1969 – Danis Tanović, Bosnian director and screenwriter
1969 – Azusa Watanabe, Japanese actress
1971 – Calpernia Addams
American actress, author, activist and musician
1971 – Shawn McKenzie
American programmer, created AutoTheme
1971 – Joost van der Westhuizen, South African rugby player
1972 – Brent Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player
1972 – Neil Primrose, Scottish drummer (Travis)
1975 – Liván Hernández, Cuban baseball player
1975 – Brian Littrell
American singer-songwriter and actor (Backstreet Boys)
1975 – Niclas Wallin, Swedish ice hockey player
1976 – Ed Graham
English drummer (The Darkness and Stone Gods)
1977 – Stephon Marbury, American basketball player
1978 – Lauren Ambrose, American actress
1978 – Jay Hernandez, American actor
1978: Chelsea Peretti
American stand-up comedian, actress and writer
1980 – Artur Boruc, Polish footballer
1980 – Imanol Harinordoquy, French rugby player
1980 – Yuichi Nakamura, Japanese voice actor
1980 – Luis Gabriel Rey, Colombian footballer
1981: Majandra Delfino, American actress and singer
1981 – Tony Hibbert, English footballer
1981 – Fred Jackson, American football player
1981 – Chris Thile
American singer-songwriter and mandolin player
(Nickel Creek and Punch Brothers)
1982 – Jason Hirsh, American baseball player
1983 – Jose Morales
Puerto Rican-American baseball player
1983 – Justin Verlander, American baseball player
1984 – Keisuke Koide, Japanese actor
1984 – Brian McCann, American baseball player
1984 – Trevor Noah
South African comedian and television host
1984 – Ramzee Robinson, American football player
1985: Charlie Kimball, American race car driver
1985 – Jake Richardson, American actor
1985 – Ryan Sweeney, American baseball player
1985 – Julia Volkova
Russian actress and singer (t.A.T.u. and Neposedi)
1986 – Diego Reis, Brazilian footballer
1987 – Miles Teller, American actor
1988 – Robyn Rihanna Fenty (bka Rihanna)
Barbadian-American singer-songwriter and actress
1988: Jiah Khan (born Nafisa Rizvi Khan)
British American actress, model and singer
1988 – Kealoha Pilares, American football player
1989 – Daly Cherry-Evans, Australian rugby league player
1989: Jack Falahee, American actor
1991 – Giovanni Kyeremateng, Italian footballer
1991 – Antonio Pedroza, English-Mexican footballer
1991 – Angelique van der Meet, Dutch tennis player
1991 – Kyle Wilkie, Scottish footballer
1997 – Roosa Timonen, Finnish tennis player
Family
Coulee City
Jerrold Jensen
Sara Diana Spurbeck
Kara Elder
Jeri Stone
Victoria Boutain
Other
Anniversaries
Coulee City
Frank & Karla Beardsley
Deaths
VIP
Notable
702 – K'inich Kan B'alam II, Mayan king (b. 635)
1054 – Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev and Novgorod (b. 978)
1154 – Wulfric of Haselbury, English saint (b. 1080)
1171 – Conan IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1138)
1194 – Tancred, King of Sicily (b. 1138)
1258 – Al-Musta'sim, Iraqi caliph (b. 1213)
1408 – Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland
English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (b. 1342)
1431 – Pope Martin V (b. 1368)
1524 – Tecun Uman, Mayan ruler (b. 1500)
1579 – Nicholas Bacon, English politician (b. 1509)
1618 – Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554)
1626 – John Dowland, English lute player and composer (b. 1563)
1762 – Tobias Mayer, German astronomer and academic (b. 1723)
1771 – Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (b. 1678)
French geophysicist and astronomer
1773 – Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia (b. 1701)
1778 – Laura Bassi, Italian physicist and scholar (b. 1711)
1790 – Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1741)
1806 – Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-American general and politician (b. 1725)
1810 – Andreas Hofer, Italian rebel leader (b. 1767)
1862 – William Wallace Lincoln, American son of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1850)
1871 – Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (b. 1810)
1893 – P. G. T. Beauregard, American general (b. 1818)
1895 – Frederick Douglass, American memoirist, statesman, and activist (b. 1818)
1900 – Chief Washakie, American tribal leader (b. 1798)
1907 – Henri Moissan, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1910 – Boutros Ghali (b. 1846)
Egyptian educator and politician 9th Prime Minister of Egypt
1916 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson (b. 1844)
Swedish journalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
1920 – Jacinta Marto, Portuguese saint (b. 1910)
1920 – Robert Peary, American admiral and explorer (b. 1856)
1936 – Max Schreck, German actor (b. 1879)
1941 – La Bolduc, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1894)
1961 – Percy Grainger, Australian-American pianist and composer (b. 1882)
1963 – Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer(b. 1879)
1966 – Chester W. Nimitz, American admiral (b. 1885)
1968 – Anthony Asquith, English director and screenwriter (b. 1902)
1969 – Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (b. 1883)
1972 – Maria Goeppert-Mayer (b. 1906)
German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1972 – Walter Winchell, American journalist and actor (b. 1897)
1976 – René Cassin, French lawyer and judge, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887)
1976 – Kathryn Kuhlman, American evangelist (b. 1907)
1981 – Nicolas de Gunzburg, French-American banker and publisher (b. 1904)
1985 – Bhawani Prasad Mishra, Indian poet and author (b. 1913)
1985 – Clarence Nash, American voice actor and singer (b. 1904)
1987 – Wayne Boring, American illustrator (b. 1905)
1992 – A. J. Casson, Canadian painter (b. 1898)
1992 – Roberto D'Aubuisson, Salvadoran politician (b. 1944)
1992 – Dick York, American actor (b. 1928)
1993 – Ferruccio Lamborghini (b. 1916)
Italian businessman, founded Lamborghini
1993 – Ernest L. Massad, American general (b. 1908)
1996 – Solomon Asch, American psychologist and academic (b. 1907)
1996 – Toru Takemitsu, Japanese pianist, guitarist, and composer (b. 1930)
1999 – Sarah Kane, English playwright (b. 1971)
1999 – Gene Siskel, American journalist and critic (b. 1946)
2000 – Anatoly Sobchak (b. 1937)
Russian lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Saint Petersburg
2001 – Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (b. 1910)
2001 – Donella Meadows (b. 1941)
American environmentalist, author, and academic
2003 – Maurice Blanchot, French philosopher and author (b. 1907)
2003 – Orville Freeman (b. 1918)
American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 29th Governor of Minnesota
2003 – Ty Longley (b. 1971)
American singer and guitarist (Great White and Samantha 7)
2005 – Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1942)
2005 – John Raitt, American actor and singer (b. 1917)
2005 – Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (b. 1937)
2005 – Thomas Willmore, English mathematician and academic (b. 1919)
2006 – Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster (b. 1919)
2006 – Lucjan Wolanowski, Polish journalist and author (b. 1920)
2008 – Emily Perry, English actress and dancer (b. 1907)
2009 – Larry H. Miller, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1944)
2010 – Alexander Haig (b. 1924)
American general and politician, 59th United States Secretary of State
2010 – Basavaraju Venkata Padmanabha Rao (b. 1931)
Indian actor, director, and producer
2012 – Knut Torbjørn Eggen, Norwegian footballer and manager (b. 1960)
2012 – Katie Hall, American educator and politician (b. 1938)
2013 – Kenji Eno, Japanese game designer and composer (b. 1970)
2013 – David S. McKay, American biochemist and geologist (b. 1936)
2013 – Antonio Roma, Argentinian footballer (b. 1932)
2013 – Osmo Antero Wiio, Finnish journalist, academic, and politician (b. 1928)
2014 – Rafael Addiego Bruno (b. 1923)
Uruguayan jurist and politician, President of Uruguay
2014 – Walter D. Ehlers, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1921)
2014 – Reghu Kumar, Indian composer (b. 1953)
2014 – Garrick Utley, American journalist (b. 1939)
2015 – Ibrahim Biogradlić, Bosnian footballer and manager (b. 1931)
2015 – John C. Willke, American physician, author, and activist (b. 1925)
Family
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