Tuesday, February 2, 2016

February 3 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths


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Birthdays

VIP


1830:  Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury  (U.K. Prime Minister)  d. 22 Aug 1903
1862:  James Clark McReynolds  (Associate Justice, SCOTUS)  d. 24 Aug 1946


Notable

1338 – Joanna of Bourbon  (d. 6 Feb 1378)
      Queen consort of France
1392 – Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland  (d. 1458)
      English commander
1654 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco, Italian composer (d. 1714)
1677 – Jan Santini Aichel  (d. 1723)
      Czech architect, designed the Karlova Koruna Chateau
1689 – Blas de Lezo, Spanish admiral (d. 1741)
1690 – Richard Rawlinson  (d. 1755)
      English minister and historian
1721 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz  (d. 1773)
      Prussian general
1736 – Johann Georg Albrechtsberger  (d. 1809)
      Austrian composer and theorist
1747 – Samuel Osgood  (d. 1813)
      American soldier and politician
      1st United States Postmaster General
1757 – Joseph Forlenze  (d. 1833)
      Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon
1777 – John Cheyne, Scottish physician and author (d. 1836)
1795 – Antonio José de Sucre  (d. 1830)
      Venezuelan general and politician
      2nd President of Bolivia
1807Joseph E. Johnston  (d. 21 Mar 1891)
      American general and politician
      Confederate General
      U.S. Representative, D. VA, 1879-1881
1808 – Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (d. 18 Jan 1877)
      Princess of Prussia
1809 – Felix Mendelssohn  (d. 4 Nov 1847)
      German pianist, composer, and conductor
1811 – Horace Greeley  (d. 29 Nov 1872)
      American journalist, editor, and politician
1816:  Frederick William Robertson  (d. 15 Aug 1853)
      English clergyman
1817 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse  (d. 1881)
      French geologist and mineralogist
1817 – Émile Prudent, French pianist and composer (d. 1863)
1819:  William Arthur  (d. 21 Mar 1901)
      Irish Wesleyan Methodist minister and author
1821 – Elizabeth Blackwell  (d. 31 May 1910)
      American physician and educator
1824 – Ranald MacDonald  (d. 1894)
      American explorer and educator
1826 – Walter Bagehot  (d. 24 Mar 1877)
      English journalist and businessman
1830 – Robert Gascoyne-Cecil  (d. 1903)
      3rd Marquess of Salisbury
      English politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1842 – Sidney Lanier, American composer and poet (d. 1881)
1843 – Sir William Cornelius Van Horne  (d. 3 Feb 1915)
      American-Canadian businessman
1857 – Giuseppe Moretti  (d. 1935)
      Italian sculptor, designed the Vulcan statue
1859 – Hugo Junkers  (d. 1935)
      German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1
1862 – James Clark McReynolds  (d. 1946)
      American lawyer and judge
1871 – Jean-Baptiste Mimiague, French fencer (d. 1929)
1872 – Lou Criger
      American baseball player and manager (d. 1934)
1874 – Gertrude Stein  (d. 29 Jul 1946)
      American poet and art collector
1878 – Gordon Coates  (d. 1943)
      New Zealand soldier and politician
      21st Prime Minister of New Zealand
1887 – Georg Trakl, Austrian pharmacist and poet (d. 1914)
1889 – Artur Adson  (d. 1977)
      Estonian poet, playwright, and critic
1889 – Carl Theodor Dreyer  (d. 1968)
      Danish director and screenwriter
1890:  Larry MacPhail  (d. 1 Oct 1975)
      American lawyer and  Major League Baseball executive
1892 – Juan Negrín  (d. 1956)
      Spanish physician and politician
      67th Prime Minister of Spain
1893 – Gaston Julia  (d. 1978)
      Algerian-French mathematician and academic
1894 – Norman Rockwell  (d. 8 Nov 1978)
      American painter and illustrator
1898 – Alvar Aalto  (d. 1976)
      Finnish architect
      designed the Finlandia Hall and Aalto Theatre
1899 – Café Filho, Brazilian journalist  (d. 1970)
      lawyer, and politician, 18th President of Brazil
1899 – Lao She, Chinese author and playwright (d. 1966)
1901:  Rosamond Nina Lehmann  (d. 12 Mar 1990)
      British novelist
1903 – Douglas Douglas-Hamilton,
      14th Duke of Hamilton  (d. 1973)
      Scottish soldier, pilot, and politician
1904 – Luigi Dallapiccola, Croatian-Italian composer (d. 1975)
1904 – Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (d. 1934)
1905 – Paul Ariste, Estonian linguist and academic (d. 1990)
1905 – Arne Beurling  (d. 1986)
      Swedish-American mathematician and academic
1906 – George Adamson  (d. 1989)
      British wildlife conservationist
1907:  William Hodding Carter II  (d. 4 Apr 1972)
      American progressive journalist and author
1907 – James A. Michener  (d. 16 Oct 1997)
      American author and philanthropist
1909 – André Cayatte, French lawyer and director (d. 1989)
1909 – Kurt Petter, German-Swedish physician (d. 1969)
1909 – Simone Weil  (d. 24 Aug 1943)
      French mystic and philosopher
1911 – Jehan Alain, French organist and composer (d. 1940)
1911 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor (d. 2006)
1912 – Jacques Soustelle  (d. 1990)
      French anthropologist and politician
1914 – Mary Carlisle, American actress and singer
1915 – Johannes Kotkas  (d. 1998)
      Estonian wrestler and hammer thrower
1917 – Shlomo Goren  (d. 1994)
      Polish-Israeli rabbi and general
1918 – Joey Bishop  (d. 17 Oct 2007)
      American entertainer and television presenter
1918 – Helen Stephens  (d. 1994)
      American runner, baseball player, and manager
1920 – Tony Gaze  (d. 2013)
      Australian race car driver and pilot
1920 – Henry Heimlich, American physician and author
1924 – E. P. Thompson  (d. 1993)
      English historian and author
1924 – Martial Asselin  (d. 2013)
      Canadian lawyer and politician
      25th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
1925 – John Fiedler, American actor (d. 25 Jun 2005)
1926 – Shelley Berman, American actor and comedian
1926 – Hans-Jochen Vogel
      German soldier and politician; 8th Mayor of Berlin
1927 – Kenneth Anger
      American actor, director, and screenwriter
1927:  Joan Lowery Nixon, American Author  (d. 28 Jun 2003)
1927 – Blas Ople  (d. 2003)
      Filipino journalist and politician
      21st President of the Senate of the Philippines
1928 – Frankie Vaughan, English singer and actor (d. 1999)
1931:  Arthur Levitt, Jr.
      25th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange
            Commission, 1993-2001
1932 – Peggy Ann Garner, American actress (d. 1984)
1932 – Stuart Hall  (d. 2014)
      Jamaican-English sociologist and theorist
1933 – Paul Sarbanes, American lawyer and politician
1934 – Juan Carlos Calabró, Argentinian actor (d. 2013)
1935 – John "Johnny 'Guitar'" Watson, Jr.  (d. 17 May 1996)
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1936:  Jeanine Basinger
      American film historian
1936 – Jim Marshall, American photographer and journalist (d. 2010)
1936 – Bob Simpson, Australian cricketer and coach
1937 – Billy Meier, Swiss author and photographer
1938 – Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982)
1938 – Emile Griffith, American boxer and trainer (d. 2013)
1939 – Michael Cimino, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1940 – Francis Asbury "Fran" Tarkenton
      American football player and sportscaster
1941 – Dory Funk, Jr., American wrestler and trainer
1943 – Neil Bogart, American record executive (d. 1982)
1943 – Blythe Danner, American actress
1943:  Dennis Edwards
      American soul and R&B singer (The Temptations)
1945 – Robert Allen "Bob" Griese
      American football player and sportscaster
1947 – Paul Auster, American author and poet
1947 – Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, East Timorese bishop
1947:  David Russell Gordon "Dave" Davies
      English singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Kinks)
1947 – Stephen McHattie, Canadian actor and director
1947 – Melanie Safka
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948 – Henning Mankell  (d. 2015)
      Swedish author and playwright
1949 – Hennie Kuiper, Dutch cyclist and manager
1950 – Morgan Fairchild, American actress
1951:  Hamilton E. James
      American business executive
      president and COO of The Blackstone Group L.P.
1951 – Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian footballer and manager
1951 – Michael Ruppert  (d. 2014)
      American journalist and author
1952 – Fred Lynn, American baseball player and sportscaster
1954 – Tiger Williams, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1955 – Kirsty Wark, Scottish journalist
1956 – John Jefferson, American football player and coach
1956 – Nathan Lane, American actor and comedian
1956 – Lee Ranaldo
      American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1957 – Eric Lander, American educator and scientist
1957 – Chico Serra, Brazilian race car driver
1958 – Joe F. Edwards, Jr.
      American commander, pilot, and astronaut
1958 – Greg Mankiw, American economist and academic
1958:  Richard Paul "Rick" Reilly
      American sportswriter
1959 – Yasuharu Konishi
      Japanese DJ, producer, and songwriter (Pizzicato Five)
1959 – Ferzan Özpetek
      Turkish-Italian director and screenwriter
1959:  Rob Wittman
      American politician
      U.S. Representative, R. VA, 2007-present
1959 – Óscar Iván Zuluaga
      Colombian economist and politician
      67th Colombian Minister of Finance
1960 – Marty Jannetty, American wrestler and trainer
1960 – Joachim Löw, German footballer and manager
1963 – Raghuram Rajan, Indian economist and academic
1964 – Indrek Tarand
      Estonian historian, journalist, and politician
1965 – Kathleen Kinmont, American actress and screenwriter
1965 – Maura Tierney, American actress
1966 – Frank Coraci, American director and screenwriter
1966 – Danny Morrison, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster
1966 – Kostas Patavoukas, Greek basketball player
1967 – Mixu Paatelainen, Finnish footballer and coach
1968 – Vlade Divac
      Serbian-American basketball player and sportscaster
1969 – Beau Biden  (d. 2015)
      American soldier, lawyer, and politician
      44th Attorney General of Delaware
1969 – Retief Goosen, South African golfer
1970 – Óscar Córdoba, Colombian footballer
1970 – Warwick Davis
       English actor, producer, and screenwriter
1971:  Sarah Kane, English playwright  (d. 20 Feb 1999)
1972:  Mitchell Joachim, American architect and designer
1972 – Jesper Kyd, Danish pianist and composer
1972 – Mart Poom, Estonian footballer
1973 – Ilana Sod, Mexican journalist and producer
1975 – Brad Thorn, New Zealand rugby player
1976 – Mathieu Dandenault, Canadian ice hockey player
1976:  Isla Fisher, Australian actress
1976:  Tim Heidecker
      American comedian, writer, director, actor and musician
1977:  Ramón Luis Ayala Rodríguez (bka Daddy Yankee)
      Puerto Rican singer, songwriter, producer and actor
1977 – Marek Židlický, Czech ice hockey player
1978 – Joan Capdevila, Spanish footballer
1979:  Becca Fitzpatrick, American author
1980 – Kim E-Z, South Korean singer (Baby V.O.X.)
1980 – Sarah Lewitinn
       American record producer, music critic, disc jockey, and blogger
1981:  Jose Antonio Vargas
      Born in the Philippines, raised in the U.S. from age twelve
      Journalist, filmmaker, and immigration rights activist
1982 – Marie-Ève Drolet, Canadian speed skater
1982:  Bridget Regan, American actress
1984 – Sara Carbonero, Spanish journalist
1984 – Kim Joon, South Korean actor and singer
1984:  Matthew Moy, American actor
1985 – Andrei Kostitsyn, Belarusian ice hockey player
1986 – Lucas Duda, American baseball player
1986 – David Edwards, Welsh footballer
1986 – Mathieu Giroux, Canadian speed skater
1986 – Kanako Yanagihara, Japanese actress, comedian, and entertainer
1988 – Gregory van der Wiel, Dutch footballer
1989 – Slobodan Rajković, Serbian footballer
1990 – Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter
1991 – Adrian Quaife-Hobbs, Welsh racing driver
1992 – Luke Keary, Australian rugby league player
      American Regional Mexican singer


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1944:  Carol Joplin Clapshaw
Dallas Isaak
George Sieg
Joseph Peterson
Beth Short


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VIP

1924 – Woodrow Wilson  (b. 1856)
      American historian, academic, and politician
      28th President of the United States
      Nobel Prize laureate


Notable

995 – William IV, Duke of Aquitaine (b. 937)
699 – Werburgh, English nun and saint (b. 650)
1014 – Sweyn Forkbeard, Danish husband of Gunhild of Wenden (b. 960)
1116 – Coloman, King of Hungary (b. 1070)
1399 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster  (b. 1340)
      Belgian-English politician, Lord High Steward
1428 – Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (b. 1386)
1451 – Murad II, Ottoman sultan (b. 1404)
1468 – Johannes Gutenberg  (b. 1398)
      German publisher, invented the Printing press
1566 – George Cassander, Flemish theologian and author (b. 1513)
1618 – Philip II, Duke of Pomerania, German nobleman (b. 1573)
1619 – Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham  (b. 1564)
      English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
1737 – Tommaso Ceva, Italian mathematician and academic (b. 1648)
1802 – Pedro Rodríguez, Conde de Campomanes, Spanish politician (b. 1723)
1813 – Juan Bautista Baigorria, Argentinian soldier
1813 – Juan Bautista Cabral, Argentinian sergeant (b. 1789)
1820 – Gia Long, Vietnamese emperor (b. 1762)
1832 – George Crabbe, English surgeon and poet (b. 1754)
1862 – Jean-Baptiste Biot  (b. 1774)
      French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician
1866 – François-Xavier Garneau, Canadian poet, author, and historian (b. 1809)
1873 – Isaac Baker Brown, English gynecologist and surgeon (b. 1811)
1874 – Lunalilo of Hawaii (b. 1835)
1883 – Richard Wagner, German director and composer (b. 1813)
1889 – Belle Starr, American criminal (b. 1848)
1922 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1839)
1929 – Agner Krarup Erlang, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1878)
1935 – Hugo Junkers, German engineer, designed the Junkers J 1 (b. 1859)
1936 – Princess Sophie of Schönburg-Waldenburg (b. 1885)
1944 – Yvette Guilbert, French singer and actress (b. 1865)
1945 – Roland Freisler, German lawyer and judge (b. 1893)
1950 – Sid Field, English actor (b. 1904)
1952 – Harold L. Ickes  (b. 1874)
      American journalist and politician
      32nd United States Secretary of the Interior
1955 – Vasili Blokhin, Russian general (b. 1895)
1956 – Émile Borel, French mathematician and academic (b. 1871)
1956 – Johnny Claes  (b. 1916)
      English-Belgian race car driver and trumpet player
1959 – The Day the Music Died
The Big Bopper, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1930)
Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
Ritchie Valens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1941)
1960 – Fred Buscaglione, Italian singer and actor (b. 1921)
1961 – Sadettin Kaynak, Turkish composer (b. 1895)
1961 – William Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil  (b. 1893)
      Scottish-Australian captain and politician
      14th Governor-General of Australia
1961 – Anna May Wong, American actress (b. 1905)
1964 – C. Sittampalam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (b. 1898)
1967 – Joe Meek, English songwriter and producer (b. 1929)
1969 – C. N. Annadurai  (b. 1909)
      Indian journalist and politician, 7th Chief Minister of Madras State
1969 – Eduardo Mondlane Mozambican activist and academic (b. 1920)
1975 – William D. Coolidge, American physicist and engineer (b. 1873)
1975 – Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1904)
1980 – Hanna Rovina, Israeli actress (b. 1893)
1985 – Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1912)
1989 – John Cassavetes, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
1989 – Lionel Newman, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1916)
1991 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (b. 1921)
1993 – Françoys Bernier, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1927)
1993 – Karel Goeyvaerts, Belgian composer (b. 1923)
1999 – Gwen Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1950)
2003 – Lana Clarkson, American actress and model (b. 1962)
2005 – Zurab Zhvania  (b. 1963)
     Georgian biologist and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Georgia
2005 – Ernst Mayr, German-American biologist and ornithologist (b. 1904)
2006 – Al Lewis, American actor and comedian (b. 1923)
2007 – Pedro Knight, Cuban musician (b. 1921)
2009 – Sheng-yen  (b. 1930)
     Chinese monk and scholar, founded the Dharma Drum Mountain
2010 – Dick McGuire, American basketball player and coach (b. 1926)
2010 – Frances Reid, American actress (b. 1914)
2011 – Maria Schneider, French actress (b. 1952)
2012 – Toh Chin Chye  (b. 1921)
      Singaporean academic and politician
      1st Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore
2012 – Ben Gazzara, American actor and director (b. 1930)
2012 – Raj Kanwar, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1961)
2012 – Zalman King, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1942)
2012 – Mart Port, Estonian architect (b. 1922)
2012 – Andrzej Szczeklik, Polish physician and academic (b. 1938)
2013 – Cardiss Collins, American politician (b. 1931)
2013 – Oscar Feltsman, Ukrainian-Russian composer and producer (b. 1921)
2013 – Jam Mohammad Yousaf  (b. 1954)
      Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan
2014 – Louise Brough, American tennis player (b. 1923)
2014 – Richard Bull, American actor (b. 1924)
2014 – Joan Mondale  (b. 1930)
      American artist and author, 42nd Second Lady of the United States
2015 – Mary Healy, American actress, singer and variety entertainer (b. 1918)
2015 – Charlie Sifford, American golfer (b. 1922)


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