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Birthdays
VIP
1732 – George Washington (d. 14 Dec 1799)
American general and politician
1st President of the United States, 1789-1797
Notable
1040 – Rashi, French rabbi and author (d. 1105)
1403 – Charles VII of France (d. 22 Jul 1461)
King of France, 1422-1461
1440 – Ladislaus the Posthumous (d. 23 Nov 1457)
Duke of Austria, 1440-1457
King of Hungary and Croatia, 1440-1457
King of Bohemia, 1453-1457
1500 – Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Italian cardinal (d. 1564)
1514 – Tahmasp I (d. 14 May 1576)
Shah of Iran, 1524-1576
1645 – Johann Ambrosius Bach (d. 2 Mar 1695)
German violinist and composer (d. 28 Aug 1693)
1645 – Johann Christoph Bach
German pianist and composer
1705 – Peter Artedi (d. 1735)
Swedish ichthyologist and zoologist
1749 – Johann Nikolaus Forkel (d. 1818)
German musician and musicologist
1756 – Georg Friedrich von Martens (d. 1821)
German jurist and diplomat
1761 – Erik Tulindberg (d. 1814)
Finnish violinist and composer
1778 – Rembrandt Peale, American painter and curator (d. 1860)
1779 – Joachim Nicolas Eggert (d. 1813)
Swedish composer and musical director
1788 – Arthur Schopenhauer (d. 21 Sep 1860)
German philosopher and author
1796 – Alexis Bachelot, French priest and missionary (d. 1837)
1796 – Adolphe Quetelet (d. 1874)
Belgian mathematician, astronomer, and sociologist
1806 – Józef Kremer, Polish historian and philosopher (d. 1875)
1810 – Frédéric Chopin (d. 17 Oct 1849)
Polish pianist and composer
1817 – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (d. 1880)
German mathematician and academic
1819 – James Russell Lowell (d. 12 Aug 1891)
American poet and critic
1820: Christian Nestell Bovee, American writer (d. 18 Jan 1904)
1824 – Pierre Janssen (d. 1907)
French astronomer and mathematician
1825 – Jean-Baptiste Salpointe (d. 1898)
French-American archbishop
1836 – Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya (d. 1906)
Indian scholar and academic
1838: Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (d. 3 Jun 1912)
American poet, author, and editor
1839: Francis Pharcellus Church (d. 11 Apr 1906)
American Publisher & Editor
1840 – August Bebel, German theorist and politician (d. 1913)
1849 – Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (d. 1915)
Russian mathematician and academic
1857 – Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (d. 8 Jan 1941)
English general, co-founded The Scout Association
1857 – Heinrich Hertz (d. 1 Jan 1894)
German physicist, philosopher, and academic
1863 – Charles McLean Andrews (d. 9 Sep 1943)
American historian, author, and academic
1864 – Jules Renard, French author and playwright (d. 1910)
1874 – Bill Klem, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1951)
1878 – Walther Ritz, Swiss physicist and academic (d. 1909)
1879 – Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (d. 1947)
Danish chemist and academic
1879: Norman Lindsay (d. 21 Nov 1969)
Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, scale modeler writer,
editorial cartoonist,, and amateur boxer
1881 – Joseph B. Ely (d. 13 Jun 1956)
American lawyer and politician
52nd Governor of Massachusetts
1881 – Albin Prepeluh (d. 1937)
Slovenian journalist and politician
1882 – Eric Gill, English sculptor and illustrator (d. 1940)
1883 – Marguerite Clark, American actress (d. 25 Sep 1940)
1886 – Hugo Ball, German author and poet (d. 1927)
1887 – Savielly Tartakower
Polish journalist, author, and chess player (d. 1956)
1888 – Owen Brewster (d. 25 Dec 1961)
American captain and politician
54th Governor of Maine
1889 – Olave Baden-Powell (d. 1977)
English scout leader, founded the Girl Guides
1889 – Robin G. Collingwood (d. 9 Jan 1943)
English historian and philosopher
1891 – Vlas Chubar, Russian economist and politician (d. 1939)
1892 – Edna St. Vincent Millay (d. 19 Oct 1950)
American poet and playwright
1895 – Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, Peruvian politician (d. 1979)
1897 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (d. 1947)
1899 – Dwight Frye, American actor (d. 1943)
1900 – Luis Buñuel, Spanish director and producer (d. 1983)
1900: Meridel Le Sueur, American writer (d. 14 Nov 1986)
1900: Seán Ó Faoláin, Irish author (d. 20 Apr 1991)
1903 – Morley Callaghan (d. 25 Aug 1990)
Canadian author and playwright
1903 – Frank P. Ramsey (d. 1930)
British mathematician, philosopher and economist
1907 – Sheldon Leonard (d. 11 Jan 1997)
American actor, director, and producer
1907 – Robert Young (d. 21 Jul 1998)
American actor, singer, and producer
1908 – Rómulo Betancourt (d. 1981)
Venezuelan politician, 56th President of Venezuela
1908 – Sir John Mills, English actor (d. 23 Apr 2005)
1911 – Bill Baker (d. 2006)
American baseball player and coach
1913 – Buddy Tate (d. 2001)
American saxophonist and clarinet player
1913 – Ranko Marinković (d. 2001)
Croatian author and playwright
1914 – Renato Dulbecco (d. 2012)
Italian-American virologist and academic
Nobel Prize laureate
1914: Henry Reed (d. 8 Dec 1986)
British poet, translator, radio dramatist and journalist
1917 – Reed Crandall, American illustrator (d. 1982)
1918 – Sid Abel (d. 2000)
Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1918: Charles Finley (d. 19 Feb 1996)
American businessman
1918 – Don Pardo (d. 2014)
American radio and television announcer
1921 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Central African general and politician (d. 1996)
2nd President of the Central African Republic
1921 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (d. 1994)
1922 – Apostolos Santas, Greek soldier (d. 2011)
1922 – Marshall Teague, American race car driver (d. 1959)
1922 – Joe Wilder (d. 2014)
American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader
1925 – Edward Gorey, American illustrator and poet (d. 2000)
1926: Nelson Bunker Hunt (d. 21 Oct 2014)
American oil company executive
1926 – Kenneth Williams (d. 15 Apr 1988)
English actor and screenwriter
1926 – Bud Yorkin (d. 2015)
American producer, director, writer and actor
1927 – Florencio Campomanes (d. 2010)
Filipino political scientist and chess player
1927 – Donald May, American actor
1927 – Guy Mitchell, American singer (d. 1999)
1928 – Texas Johnny Brown (d. 2013)
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1928 – Paul Dooley, American actor
1928 – Bruce Forsyth, English television host
1929 – James Hong, American actor and director
1929 – Rebecca Schull, American actress
1930 – Bill Mitchell (d. 2014)
Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
1930 – Marni Nixon, American soprano and actress
1932 – Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (d. 25 Aug 2009)
American soldier, lawyer, and politician
U.S. Senator, D. MA, 1962-2009
1933 – Katharine, Duchess of Kent
wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent
1933 – Justin Capră (d. 2015)
Romanian engineer and academic
1933 – Sheila Hancock, English actress and author
1933: Nicholas Pileggi
American producer, author and screenwriter
1934 – Sparky Anderson (d. 4 Nov 2010)
American baseball player and manager
1935 – Hisako Kyōda, Japanese voice actress
1936 – J. Michael Bishop
American microbiologist and immunologist
Nobel Prize laureate
1936 – Ernie K-Doe, American R&B singer (d. 2001)
1937 – Joanna Russ, American author and activist (d. 2011)
1938 – Steve Barber, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1938 – Barry Dennen, American actor, singer, and writer
1938 – Ishmael Reed, American author, poet, and playwright
1940 – Judy Cornwell, English actress
1941 – Hipólito Mejía
Dominican politician
52nd President of the Dominican Republic
1942 – Christine Keeler, English model and dancer
1943 – Terry Eagleton, English philosopher and critic
1943 – Horst Köhler
Polish-German economist and politician
9th President of Germany, 2004-2010
1943 – Otoya Yamaguchi (d. 1960)
Japanese assassin of Inejiro Asanuma
1944 – Jonathan Demme
American director, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Robert Kardashian (d. 2003)
American lawyer and businessman
1944 – Christopher Meyer
English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States
1946 – Kresten Bjerre, Danish footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1946: Daniel Jay Millman, American author and lecturer
1947 – Harvey Mason
American drummer (Fourplay and The Headhunters)
1947 – John Radford, English footballer
1948 – Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore
Northern Irish lawyer and jurist
Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
1948 – Harumi Miyako, Japanese singer
1949: Guy Finley
American self-help writer, philosopher, and spiritual teacher,
and former professional songwriter and musician
1949 – Niki Lauda, Austrian race car driver
1949 – Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player and coach
1950 – Miou-Miou, French actress
1950 – Julius Erving
American basketball player and sportscaster
1950 – Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer-songwriter
1950: Guilherme Leal, Brazilian billionaire entrepreneur
1950 – Neil Andrew Megson (bka Genesis P-Orridge)
English singer-songwriter
(Psychic TV, Thee Majesty, Pigface, and Splinter Test)
1950 – Julie Walters, English actress
1951 – Ellen Greene, American singer and actress
1952 – Cyrinda Foxe, American model and actress (d. 2002)
1952 – Bill Frist, American physician and politician
1952 – Bernard Silverman
English minister, statistician, and academic
1953 – Graham Lewis, English bass player (Wire and Dome)
1954: Stuart Jay Olshansky
biodemography and gerontology professor and researcher
1955 – David Axelrod, American journalist and political adviser
1955: Edward Burtynsky, Canadian photographer and artist
1955 – Tim Young, Canadian ice hockey player
1956: Amy Alcott, American LPGA golfer
1956: Gijs M. de Vries, Dutch politician
1956: Philip Kerr, British author
1957 – Willie Smits, Dutch microbiologist and engineer
1958: Richard Greenberg
American playwright and television writer
1958 – Dave Spitz
American bass player and songwriter
(Black Sabbath, White Lion, Great White, and Impellitteri)
1959 – Jiří Čunek, Czech politician
1959 – Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
1960 – Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde
Scottish politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
1961 – Akira Takasaki
Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and producer
(Lazy and Loudness)
1962 – Steve Irwin (d. 2006)
Australian zoologist and television host
1963 – Vijay Singh, Fijian-American golfer
1964 – Ed Boon
American video game designer, co-created Mortal Kombat
1964 – Gigi Fernández, Puerto Rican-American tennis player
1965 – Chris Dudley, American basketball player and politician
1965 – Kieren Fallon, Irish jockey
1965 – Pat LaFontaine, American ice hockey player
1966 – Rachel Dratch, American actress
1966 – Jason Feddy, British singer/songwriter
1966 – Thorsten Kaye, German actor
1967 – Juan Ebodio Gonzalez (bka Psicosis II)
Mexican wrestler
1967: Paul Lieberstein
American screenwriter, actor, and television producer
1967 – Alf Poier, Austrian comedian and actor
1968: Viet D. Dinh (born Đinh Đồng Phụng Việt)
Vietnamese American lawyer
U.S. Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal
Policy, 2001-2003
1968 – Shawn Graham
Canadian politician, 31st Premier of New Brunswick
1968 – Bradley Nowell (d. 1996)
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
(Sublime)
1968 – Jeri Ryan, American model and actress
1969 – Thomas Jane
American actor, screenwriter, producer, director,
and comic book writer
1968: Jayson Williams, American basketball player
1969 – Clinton Kelly
American fashion consultant and media personality
1969 – Brian Laudrup, Danish footballer and sportscaster
1970 – Ravi Vakil
Canadian-American mathematician and academic
1971 – Super Caló, Mexican wrestler
1971 – Lea Salonga, Filipino actress and singer
1971 – Giuseppe Veneziano, Italian painter
1972 – Michael Chang, American tennis player and coach
1972 – Claudia Pechstein, German speed skater
1973 – Philippe Gaumont, French cyclist (d. 2013)
1973 – Juninho Paulista, Brazilian footballer
1973 – Scott Phillips
American drummer (Creed, Alter Bridge, and Projected)
1974 – James Blunt, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Nina Flowers
Puerto Rican-American drag queen performer
1975 – Drew Barrymore
American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Timo Rose, German actor, director, and producer
1977 – Hakan Yakin, Swiss footballer
1978 – Jenny Frost
English singer and dancer (Precious and Atomic Kitten)
1978: Dhani Jones, American football player
1979: Howard Bach
Vietnamese-American Olympic badminton player
1979 – Brett Emerton, Australian footballer
1979 – Lee Na-young, South Korean actress
1980 – Kang Sung-hoon, South Korean singer (Sechs Kies)
1980 – Shamari Fears, American singer (Blaque)
1981 – Jeanette Biedermann
German singer-songwriter and actress
1982: Dichen Lachman
Nepalese-born American actress and producer
1982 – Shawntae Spencer, American football player
1982 – Robert Weiner, Jr., American water polo player
1983 – Shaun Tait, Australian cricketer
1984 – Tommy Bowe, Irish rugby player
1984 – Branislav Ivanović, Serbian footballer
1984 – Georgios Printezis, Greek basketball player
1984 – Yuki Sato, Japanese actor
1985 – Hameur Bouazza, Algerian footballer
1985 – Georgios Printezis, Greek basketball player
1985 – Larissa Riquelme, Paraguayan model and actress
1985: Zach Roerig, American actor
1986 – Choi Daniel, South Korean actor and singer
1986: Josh Helman, Australian television and film actor
1987 – Han Hyo-joo, South Korean actress and model
1987 – Sergio Romero, Argentinian footballer
1988 – Jonathan Borlée, Belgian sprinter
1988 – Efraín Juárez, Mexican footballer
1988 – Ximena Navarrete
Mexican model and actress, Miss Universe 2010
1988 – Sebastian Tyrała, Polish-German footballer
1989 – Alia Sabur, American engineer, lawyer, and academic
1989 – Anna Sundstrand, Swedish singer (Play)
Family
Coulee City
Paula Malone
Randy Sieg
Nathaniel West
Paula Jones
Mary Conklin
Other
Anniversaries
Coulee City
Mr. & Mrs. Karl Jones
Phil & Candy Ottinger
Deaths
VIP
Notable
556 – Maximianus of Ravenna, Italian bishop and saint (b. 499)
606 – Pope Sabinian
965 – Otto, Duke of Burgundy (b. 944)
1071 – Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (b. 1055)
1111 – Roger Borsa, Italian son of Robert Guiscard (b. 1060)
1371 – David II of Scotland (b. 1324)
1511 – Henry, Duke of Cornwall (b. 1511)
1512 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian cartographer and explorer (b. 1454)
1627 – Olivier van Noort, Dutch explorer (b. 1558)
1674 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (b. 1595)
1680 – La Voisin, French occultist (b. 1640)
1690 – Charles Le Brun, French painter and theorist (b. 1619)
1727 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer and educator (b. 1661)
1731 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
1732 – Francis Atterbury, English bishop (b. 1663)
1799 – Heshen, Chinese politician (b. 1750)
1816 – Adam Ferguson, Scottish historian and philosopher (b. 1723)
1875 – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, French painter and illustrator (b. 1796)
1875 – Charles Lyell, Scottish-English geologist and lawyer (b. 1797)
1888 – Anna Kingsford, English physician and activist (b. 1846)
1890 – John Jacob Astor III, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1822)
1890 – Carl Bloch, Danish painter and academic (b. 1834)
1897 – Charles Blondin, French tightrope walker and acrobat (b. 1824)
1898 – Heungseon Daewongun, Korean king (b. 1820)
1903 – Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (b. 1860)
1904 – Leslie Stephen, English author and critic (b. 1832)
1913 – Ferdinand de Saussure, Swiss linguist and author (b. 1857)
1923 – Théophile Delcassé (b. 1852)
French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
1934 – Willem Kes, Dutch violinist and conductor (b. 1856)
1939 – Antonio Machado, Spanish-French poet and author (b. 1875)
1942 – Stefan Zweig, Austrian journalist and author (b. 1881)
1943 – Christoph Probst, German activist (b. 1919)
1943 – Hans Scholl, German activist (b. 1918)
1943 – Sophie Scholl, German activist (b. 1921)
1944 – Kasturba Gandhi, Indian activist, wife of Mahatma Gandhi (b. 1869)
1945 – Osip Brik, Russian critic (b. 1888)
1958 – Abul Kalam Azad (b. 1888)
Indian scholar and politician, Indian Minister of Education
1960 – Paul-Émile Borduas, Canadian-French painter (b. 1905)
1961 – Nick LaRocca (b. 1889)
American trumpet player (Original Dixieland Jass Band)
1965 – Felix Frankfurter, Austrian-American lawyer and jurist (b. 1882)
1973 – Jean-Jacques Bertrand (b. 1916)
Canadian lawyer and politician, 21st Premier of Quebec
1973 – Elizabeth Bowen, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1899)
1973 – Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (b. 1900)
1973 – Winthrop Rockefeller (b. 1912)
American colonel and politician, 37th Governor of Arkansas
1976 – Angela Baddeley, English actress (b. 1904)
1976 – Florence Ballard, American singer (The Supremes) (b. 1943)
1977 – Jack O'Connor, English cricketer (b. 1897)
1978 – Phyllis McGinley, American author and poet (b. 1905)
1978 – Dennie Moore, American actress (b. 1902)
1979 – Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter and critic (b. 1877)
1980 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian painter, poet and playwright (b. 1886)
1981 -- Michael Maltese, American storyboard artist and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1982 – Josh Malihabadi, Indian-Pakistani poet and author (b. 1898)
1983 – Adrian Boult, English conductor (b. 1889)
1983 – Romain Maes, Belgian cyclist (b. 1913)
1985 – Salvador Espriu, Spanish author, poet, and playwright (b. 1913)
1985 – Alexander Scourby, American actor (b. 1913)
1985 – Efrem Zimbalist, Russian violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1889)
1987 -- David Susskind, American producer and talk show host (b. 1920)
1987 – Andy Warhol, American painter and photographer (b. 1928)
1992 – Markos Vafiadis, Greek general and politician (b. 1906)
1994 – Papa John Creach (b. 1917)
American violinist (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and The Dinosaurs)
1995 – Ed Flanders, American actor (b. 1934)
1997 – Joseph Aiuppa, American gangster (b. 1907)
1998 – Abraham A. Ribicoff (b. 1910)
American lawyer and politician
4th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
1999 – William Bronk, American poet and academic (b. 1918)
1999 – Menno Oosting, Dutch tennis player (b. 1964)
2002 – Roden Cutler (b. 1916)
Australian lieutenant and politician
32nd Governor of New South Wales
2002 – Chuck Jones, American animator, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1912)
2002 – Jonas Savimbi, Angolan general, founded UNITA (b. 1934)
2004 – Andy Seminick, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1920)
2005 – Lee Eun-ju, South Korean actress and singer (b. 1980)
2005 – Simone Simon, French actress (b. 1910)
2006 – Atwar Bahjat, Iraqi journalist (b. 1976)
2006 – Anthony Burger (b. 1961)
American pianist and singer (The Kingsmen Quartet)
2007 – George Jellicoe, 2nd Earl Jellicoe (b. 1918)
English admiral and politician, Leader of the House of Lords
2007 – Dennis Johnson, American basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
2008 – Chuck Adamson (b. 1936)
American television producer, screenwriter and police officer
2008 -- Dennis Letts, American professor and actor (b. 1934)
2009 – Candido Cannavò, Italian journalist (b. 1930)
2009 -- Howard Zieff, American director and photographer (b. 1927)
2011 – Nicholas Courtney, English actor (b. 1929)
2012 – Sukhbir, Indian author and poet (b. 1925)
2012 – Marie Colvin, American journalist (b. 1956)
2012 – Rémi Ochlik, French photographer and journalist (b. 1983)
2013 – Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (b. 1938)
2013 – Mario Ramírez, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1957)
2013 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German pianist and conductor (b. 1923)
2014 – Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand–Australian television host (b. 1966)
2014 – Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (b. 1915)
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