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Birthdays
VIP
Notable
121 – Marcus Aurelius (d. 17 Mar 180)
Roman emperor, 161-180
757 – Hisham I of Córdoba (d. 796)1538 – Gian Paolo Lomazzo, Italian painter and academic (d. 1600)
1575 – Marie de' Medici, Italian wife of Henry IV of France (d. 1642)
1607 – Countess Palatine Magdalene Catherine of Zweibrücken (d. 1648)
1647 – Sir William Ashhurst (d. 1720)
English banker and politician, Sheriff of London, Lord Mayor of London
1648 – Peter II of Portugal (d. 1706)
1697 – Adam Falckenhagen, German lute player and composer (d. 1754)
1710 – Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher and academic (d. 1796)
1711 – David Hume, Scottish political theorist
1718 – Esek Hopkins, American commander (d. 1802)
1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1853)
1782 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (d. 1866)
1785 – John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (d. 1851)
1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (d. 1862)
1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (d. 1863)
1801 – Ambrose Dudley Mann (d. 1889)
American politician and diplomat
1st United States Assistant Secretary of State
1804 – Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician (d. 1876)
1820: Alice Cary, American poet (d. 12 Feb 1871)
1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted (d. 28 Aug 1903)
American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park
1826 – George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
1826 – Ambrose R. Wright, American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1872)
1834 – Charles Farrar Browne (bka Artemus Ward), American author (d. 6 Mar 1867)
1856 – Joseph Ward (d. 1930)
Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician
17th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1862 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator (d. 1938)
1876 – Ernst Felle, German rower (d. 1959)
1878 – Frank Gotch, American wrestler (d. 1917)
1878 – Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (d. 1938)
1879 – Owen Willans Richardson (d. 1959)
English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
1886 – Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist (d. 1913)
1889 – Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 29 Apr 1951)
1895: Henry de Montherlant (d. 21 Sep 1972)
French essayist, novelist, and dramatist
1896 – Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (d. 1967)
1896 – Ernst Udet, German colonel and pilot (d. 1941)
1897: Cass Canfield, American publisher (27 Mar 1986)
1897 – Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder (d. 1967)
1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1898 – John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (d. 1972)
1899 – Oscar Rabin (d. 1958)
Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader (Oscar Rabin Band)
1900 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985)
1900 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
1904 – Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (d. 1991)
1909 – Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
1911 – Paul Verner, German soldier and politician (d. 1986)
1912 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author (d. 2000)
1914 – Charlie Chester, English radio and television host (d. 1997)
1914 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1986)
1914 – James Rouse (d. 1996)
American real estate developer, founded The Rouse Company
1916 – Morris West, Australian author and playwright (d. 1999)
1916 – Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
1916 – George Tuska, American illustrator (d. 2009)
1916 – Ken Wallis, English commander, engineer, and pilot (d. 2013)
1916 – Morris West, Australian author and playwright (d. 9 Oct 1999)
1917 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (d. 1992)
1917 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect
designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower
1917 – Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch sprinter and long jumper (d. 2004)
1918 – Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
1921 – Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 2008)
1922 – J. C. Holt, English historian and academic (d. 2014)
1922 – Jeanne Sauvé (d. 1993)
Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Governor General of Canada
1922 – Margaret Scott, South African-Australian ballerina and choreographer
1924 – Browning Ross, American runner and soldier (d. 1998)
1925 – Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author
1925 – Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
1925 – Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (d. 2015)
1925 – Frank Hahn, British economist (d. 2013)
1925 – Jørgen Ingmann, Danish singer and guitarist (Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann) (d. 2015)
1925 – Mac Martin, American bluegrass musician
1926 – David Coleman, English sportscaster and game show host (d. 2013)
1926 – J.B. Hutto, American singer and guitarist (d. 1983)
1926 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (d. 2003)
1927 – Jack Douglas, English actor (d. 2008)
1927 – Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1929 – Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (d. 2002)
1930: Bruce Jay Friedman, American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor
1930 – Roger Moens, Belgian runner and sportscaster
1931 – Paul Almond, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1931 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (d. 2008)
1932 – Israr Ahmed, Indian-Pakistani theologian, philosopher, and scholar (d. 2010)
1932 – Shirley Cawley, English long jumper
1932 – Frank D'Rone, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
1932 – Francis Lai, French accordion player and composer
1932 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
1933 – Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer
1933 – Aleksandr Chuchelov, Estonian sailor
1933 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican-American general (d. 2005)
1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1934: Donald Sterling, American businessman and attorney
1935 – Patricia Reilly Giff, American author and educator
1937 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
1938 – Nino Benvenuti, Italian boxer and actor
1938 – Duane Eddy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1938: Allen Klein, American author
1938 – Willie Wood, Scottish bowler
1940 – Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric and politician (d. 2014)
1940 – Harry Fielder, English actor and stuntman
1940: Dietmar Hopp, German software entrepreneur
1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1940 – Cliff Watson, English rugby league player
1941 – Claudine Auger, French model and actress
1941 – Claudine Clark, American singer-songwriter
1941 – Robin Jacob, English academic and judge
1941 – John Mitchell, American composer and educator
1942 – Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (d. 2014)
1942 – Sharon Carstairs, Canadian lawyer and politician
Canadian Leader of the Government in the Senate
1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor
1942 – Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist, political scientist, and academic
1943 – Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Spooky Tooth)
1943 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect and academic, designed the Therme Vals
1944 – Richard Bradshaw, English conductor (d. 2007)
1944 – Roger Coulam, English keyboard player (Blue Mink)
1944 – Amien Rais, Indonesian scholar and politician
1945 – Dick Johnson, Australian race car driver
1945 – Sylvain Simard, Canadian academic and politician
1946 – Ralph Coates, English footballer (d. 2010)
1946 – Marilyn Nelson, American poet and author
1946 – Alberto Quintano, Chilean footballer
1946: Niki Tsongas, American politician
U.S. Representative, D. MA, 2007-Incumbent
1947 – Warren Clarke, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer and manager
1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
1949 – Dominic Sena, American director and screenwriter
1951 – John Battle, English politician
1953 – Moushumi Chatterjee, Indian actress
1953 – Nancy Lenehan, American actress
1953 – Linda Thompson, American lawyer and theorist
1954 – Tatyana Fomina, Estonian chess player
1954 – Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer and explorer
1954 – Chito S. Roño, Filipino director and screenwriter
1955 – Mike Scott, American baseball player
1956 – Koo Stark, American actress and photographer
1958 – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish race car driver
1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor, director, and producer
1958 – Jeffrey Guterman, American psychotherapist, author, and academic
1958 – Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer, coach, and manager
1959 – John Corabi
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(Mötley Crüe, Angora, The Scream, Union, and Brides of Destruction)
1959 – Thanasis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
1959: Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician
19th Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, 2009-Incumbent
1960 – Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player and coach
1960 – Roger Taylor, English drummer (Duran Duran and Arcadia)
1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Chris Mars, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
(The Replacements and Golden Smog)
1962 – Colin Anderson, English footballer
1962 – Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer
1962 – Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
1963 – Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor, and producer
1963 – Colin Scotts, Australian-American football player
1963 – Bill Wennington, Canadian basketball player
1964 – Rebecka Törnqvist, Swedish singer
1965 – Susannah Harker, English actress
1965 – Kevin James, American actor and comedian
1966: Natasha Trethewey, American poet
1967 – Glenn Thomas Jacobs (bka Kane), Spanish-American wrestler and actor
1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress and singer-songwriter
1967 – Curtis Jones, American electronica and house music singer, songwriter and producer
1967 – Tõnu Tõniste, Estonian sailor
1967 – Toomas Tõniste, Estonian sailor and politician
1969 – Kate Hardie, English actress, director, and screenwriter
1969 – Teresa Lewis, American murderer (executed 23 Sep 2010)
1970 – Dean Austin, English footballer and manager
1970: Steve Breen, American editorial cartoonist
1970 – Kristen R. Ghodsee, American ethnographer and academic
1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian-American model and jewelry designer
1970: Lisa Unger, American author
1970 – Tionne Watkins, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (TLC)
1971 – Jay DeMarcus, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
(Rascal Flatts and East to West)
1972 – Jason Bargwanna, Australian race car driver
1972 – Natrone Means, American football player and coach
1972 – Francisco Miguel Narváez (bka Kiko), Spanish footballer
1972 – Avi Nimni, Israeli footballer and manager
1973 – Geoff Blum, American baseball player and sportscaster
1973 – Jules Naudet, French-American director and producer
1973 – Chris Perry, English footballer
1973 – Óscar García Junyent, Spanish footballer and coach
1974 – Adil Ray, English actor and radio host
1975 – Joey Jordison
American drummer, songwriter, and producer
(Slipknot, Murderdolls, and Scar the Martyr)
1975 – Nerina Pallot, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Rahul Verma, Indian social worker and activist; founded the Uday Foundation
1976 – Luigi Panarelli, Italian footballer
1976 – Václav Varaďa, Czech ice hockey player
1977 – Jason Earles, American actor, director, and producer
1977 – Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut
1977 – Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
1977 – Roxana Saberi, American journalist and author
1977 – Tom Welling, American actor
1978 – Myron Avant (bka Avant), American singer-songwriter
1978 – Joe Crede, American baseball player
1978 – Stana Katic, Canadian actress
1978 – Tyler Labine, Canadian actor
1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
1979 – Ariane Moffatt, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Janne Wirman, Finnish keyboard player (Children of Bodom, Warmen, and Masterplan)
1980 – Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress
1980 – Marlon King, English footballer
1980 – Anna Mucha, Polish actress and journalist
1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor and producer
1980 – Marnette Patterson, American actress
1981 – Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
1981 – Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley (bka Ms. Dynamite), English rapper and producer
1981 – Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw (bka Caro Emerald), Dutch singer
1981 – Sandra Schmitt, German skier (d. 2000)
1982 – Brock Gillespie, American basketball player
1982 – Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet and academic
1982 – Jon Lee, English singer and actor (S Club)
1982 – Cooper Wallace, American football player
1982 – Novlene Williams-Mills, Jamaican sprinter
1983 – José María López, Argentinian race car driver
1983 – Jessica Lynch, American soldier and POW
1985 – Nam Gyu-ri, South Korean singer and actress (SeeYa)
1985 – John Isner, American tennis player
1985: Jemima Kirke, British actress and artist
1985 – Andrea Koch Benvenuto, Chilean tennis player
1986 – Lior Refaelov, Israeli footballer
1986 – Yuliya Zaripova, Russian runner
1987 – Jorge Andújar Moreno, Spanish footballer
1987 – Jessica Lee Rose, American-New Zealand actress
1988 – Hazel Ann Mendoza, Spanish-Filipino actress
1988 – Eric Salamat, Filipino basketball player
1988 – Ben Spina, Australian rugby league player
1988 – Manuel Viniegra, Mexican footballer
1988 – Gareth Evans, English footballer
1989: Luke Bracey, Australian actor
1989 – Kang Dae-sung (bka Daesung)
South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (Big Bang)
1990 – Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer
1990 – Kim Yu-mi, South Korean model and actress, Miss Korea 2012
1990 – Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player
1990 – Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (d. 2012)
1991 – Lazaros Fotias, Greek footballer
1991 – Will Heard, British singer and songwriter
1991 – Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player
1991 – Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer
1991 – Wojciech Pszczolarski, Polish professional racing cyclist
1992 – Danielle Hope, English actress and singer
1994 – Daniil Kvyat, Russian race car driver
1995 – Daniel Padilla, Filipino actor and singer
Family
1960: Patty Thorsen (2nd Cousin)
Coulee City
Other
Anniversaries
Coulee City
Deaths
VIP
Notable
499 – Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei (b. 467)
645 – Richarius, Frankish monk and saint (b. 560)
757 – Pope Stephen II (b. 715)
1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
1476 – Simonetta Vespucci, Italian model (b. 1453)
1478 – Giuliano de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1453)
1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (b. 1651)
English jurist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
1717 – Samuel Bellamy, English pirate (b. 1689)
1784 – Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (b. 1718)
1789 – Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (b. 1721)
1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
1881 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
1892 – Provo Wallis, Canadian-English admiral (b. 1791)
1895 – Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (b. 1832)
Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1915 – John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
1932 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
1934 – Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
1936 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1944 – Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)
1945 – Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909)
1945 – Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871)
1946 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (b. 1882)
1950 – George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1881)
1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)
1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
1957 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (b. 1868)
1964 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (b. 1882)
1968 – John Heartfield, German illustrator and photographer (b. 1891)
1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (b. 1883)
1970 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister and author (b. 1886)
1970 – Charles January, American soccer player (b. 1888)
1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, exotic dancer, and writer (b. 1911)
1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist (b. 1902)
1976 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
1976 – Sid James, South African-English actor and singer (b. 1913)
1976 – Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-English actress and singer (b. 1893)
1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
1981 – Herb Voland, American actor (b. 1918)
1984 – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1904)
1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor and producer (b. 1911)
1986 – Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
1986 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
1987 – Shankar, Indian composer and conductor (b. 1922)
1987 – John Silkin (b. 1923)
English lawyer and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and producer (b. 1911)
1991 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1904)
1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
1991 – A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist and historian, (b. 1901)
1991 – Richard Hatfield, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1931)
1991 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
1994 – Mas Oyama, Japanese martial artist, founded Kyokushin kaikan (b. 1927)
1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)
1999 – Adrian Borland (b. 1957)
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Sound and The Outsiders)
1999 – Jill Dando, English journalist (b. 1961)
2003 – Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1930)
2003 – Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (b. 1984)
2003 – Edward Max Nicholson (b. 1904)
Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature
2003 – Peter Stone, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1930)
2004 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2005 – Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 – Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (b. 1926)
2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (b. 1917)
2007 – Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (b. 1921)
2009 – Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (b. 1920)
2010 – Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian graphic designer and academic (b. 1930)
2010 – Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (b. 1942)
2011 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sisters of Glory) (b. 1950)
2012 – Pete Fornatale, American radio host and author (b. 1945)
2012 – Ardian Klosi, Albanian author, publicist, and translator (b. 1957)
2012 – Ted Newall, Canadian businessman (b. 1935)
2012 – David Nunn, English actor (b. 1962)
2012 – Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (b. 1938)
2012 – Margie Stewart, American model and actress (b. 1919)
2013 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (b. 1930)
2013 – William L. Guy, American soldier and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (b. 1919)
2013 – George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
2013 – Marion Rushing, American football player (b. 1936)
2013 – Mary Thom, American journalist and author (b. 1944)
2013 – Jim Tucker, American journalist and author (b. 1934)
2014 – William Ash, American-English pilot and author (b. 1917)
2014 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (b. 1936)
2014 – Michael Heisley, American businessman (b. 1937)
2014 – Lee Marshall, American wrestling announcer and actor (b. 1946)
2014 – Antonio Pica, Spanish actor (b. 1933)
2014 – DJ Rashad, American DJ and producer (b. 1979)
2014 – Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (b. 1927)
2014 – W. E. "Pete" Snelson, American soldier, journalist, and politician (b. 1923)
2015 – Wang Guozhen, Chinese poet and educator (b. 1956)
2015 – Jayne Meadows, American actress (b. 1919)
2015 – Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930)
2015 – Bill Valentine, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1932)
Family
Coulee City
Other
1718 – Esek Hopkins, American commander (d. 1802)
1774 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1853)
1782 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily (d. 1866)
1785 – John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (d. 1851)
1787 – Ludwig Uhland, German poet, philologist, and historian (d. 1862)
1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (d. 1863)
1801 – Ambrose Dudley Mann (d. 1889)
American politician and diplomat
1st United States Assistant Secretary of State
1804 – Charles Goodyear, American banker, lawyer, and politician (d. 1876)
1820: Alice Cary, American poet (d. 12 Feb 1871)
1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted (d. 28 Aug 1903)
American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park
1826 – George Hull Ward, American general (d. 1863)
1826 – Ambrose R. Wright, American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1872)
1834 – Charles Farrar Browne (bka Artemus Ward), American author (d. 6 Mar 1867)
1856 – Joseph Ward (d. 1930)
Australian-New Zealand businessman and politician
17th Prime Minister of New Zealand
1862 – Edmund C. Tarbell, American painter and educator (d. 1938)
1876 – Ernst Felle, German rower (d. 1959)
1878 – Frank Gotch, American wrestler (d. 1917)
1878 – Rafael Guízar y Valencia, Mexican bishop and saint (d. 1938)
1879 – Owen Willans Richardson (d. 1959)
English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer (d. 1939)
1886 – Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet and publicist (d. 1913)
1889 – Anita Loos, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (d. 29 Apr 1951)
1890: Thomas Vernor Smith (24 May 1964)
American philosopher, scholar, and politician
U.S. Representative, D. IL, 1939-1941
1894 – Rudolf Hess, Egyptian-German politician (d. 1987)1895: Henry de Montherlant (d. 21 Sep 1972)
French essayist, novelist, and dramatist
1896 – Ruut Tarmo, Estonian actor and director (d. 1967)
1896 – Ernst Udet, German colonel and pilot (d. 1941)
1897: Cass Canfield, American publisher (27 Mar 1986)
1897 – Eddie Eagan, American boxer and bobsledder (d. 1967)
1897 – Douglas Sirk, German-American director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
1898 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1898 – John Grierson, Scottish director and producer (d. 1972)
1899 – Oscar Rabin (d. 1958)
Latvian-English saxophonist and bandleader (Oscar Rabin Band)
1900 – Charles Francis Richter, American seismologist and physicist (d. 1985)
1900 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (d. 1948)
1904 – Paul-Émile Léger, Canadian cardinal (d. 1991)
1909 – Marianne Hoppe, German actress (d. 2002)
1910 – Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese screenwriter and producer (d. 1997)
1911 – Paul Verner, German soldier and politician (d. 1986)
1912 – A. E. van Vogt, Canadian-American author (d. 2000)
1914 – Charlie Chester, English radio and television host (d. 1997)
1914 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1986)
1914 – James Rouse (d. 1996)
American real estate developer, founded The Rouse Company
1916 – Morris West, Australian author and playwright (d. 1999)
1916 – Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
1916 – George Tuska, American illustrator (d. 2009)
1916 – Ken Wallis, English commander, engineer, and pilot (d. 2013)
1916 – Morris West, Australian author and playwright (d. 9 Oct 1999)
1917 – Sal Maglie, American baseball player and coach (d. 1992)
1917 – I. M. Pei, Chinese-American architect
designed the National Gallery of Art and Bank of China Tower
1917 – Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
1918 – Fanny Blankers-Koen, Dutch sprinter and long jumper (d. 2004)
1918 – Stafford Repp, American actor (d. 1974)
1921 – Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, saxophonist, and composer (d. 2008)
1922 – J. C. Holt, English historian and academic (d. 2014)
1922 – Jeanne Sauvé (d. 1993)
Canadian journalist and politician, 23rd Governor General of Canada
1922 – Margaret Scott, South African-Australian ballerina and choreographer
1924 – Browning Ross, American runner and soldier (d. 1998)
1925 – Vladimir Boltyansky, Russian mathematician, educator and author
1925 – Gerard Cafesjian, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
1925 – Michele Ferrero, Italian entrepreneur (d. 2015)
1925 – Frank Hahn, British economist (d. 2013)
1925 – Jørgen Ingmann, Danish singer and guitarist (Grethe and Jørgen Ingmann) (d. 2015)
1925 – Mac Martin, American bluegrass musician
1926 – David Coleman, English sportscaster and game show host (d. 2013)
1926 – J.B. Hutto, American singer and guitarist (d. 1983)
1926 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (d. 2003)
1927 – Jack Douglas, English actor (d. 2008)
1927 – Harry Gallatin, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
1929 – Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (d. 2002)
1930: Bruce Jay Friedman, American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor
1930 – Roger Moens, Belgian runner and sportscaster
1931 – Paul Almond, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1931 – Bernie Brillstein, American talent agent and producer (d. 2008)
1932 – Israr Ahmed, Indian-Pakistani theologian, philosopher, and scholar (d. 2010)
1932 – Shirley Cawley, English long jumper
1932 – Frank D'Rone, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
1932 – Francis Lai, French accordion player and composer
1932 – Michael Smith, English-Canadian biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2000)
1933 – Carol Burnett, American actress, singer, and producer
1933 – Aleksandr Chuchelov, Estonian sailor
1933 – Filiberto Ojeda Ríos, Puerto Rican-American general (d. 2005)
1933 – Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1934: Donald Sterling, American businessman and attorney
1935 – Patricia Reilly Giff, American author and educator
1937 – Jean-Pierre Beltoise, French race car driver and motorcycle racer (d. 2015)
1938 – Nino Benvenuti, Italian boxer and actor
1938 – Duane Eddy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1938: Allen Klein, American author
1938 – Willie Wood, Scottish bowler
1940 – Molvi Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Indian cleric and politician (d. 2014)
1940 – Harry Fielder, English actor and stuntman
1940: Dietmar Hopp, German software entrepreneur
1940 – Giorgio Moroder, Italian singer-songwriter and producer
1940 – Cliff Watson, English rugby league player
1941 – Claudine Auger, French model and actress
1941 – Claudine Clark, American singer-songwriter
1941 – Robin Jacob, English academic and judge
1941 – John Mitchell, American composer and educator
1942 – Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (d. 2014)
1942 – Sharon Carstairs, Canadian lawyer and politician
Canadian Leader of the Government in the Senate
1942: April Glaspie, American diplomat
13th United States Ambassador to Iraq, 1988-1990
1942: John Gottman, American psychology professor
1942 – Michael Kergin, Canadian diplomat, Canadian Ambassador to the United States1942 – Bobby Rydell, American singer and actor
1942 – Jadwiga Staniszkis, Polish sociologist, political scientist, and academic
1943 – Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Spooky Tooth)
1943 – Peter Zumthor, Swiss architect and academic, designed the Therme Vals
1944 – Richard Bradshaw, English conductor (d. 2007)
1944 – Roger Coulam, English keyboard player (Blue Mink)
1944 – Amien Rais, Indonesian scholar and politician
1945: Richard Armitage, American politician
13th United States Deputy Secretary of State, 2001-2005
19th Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, 1983-1989
1945 – Howard Davies, English director and producer1945 – Dick Johnson, Australian race car driver
1945 – Sylvain Simard, Canadian academic and politician
1946 – Ralph Coates, English footballer (d. 2010)
1946 – Marilyn Nelson, American poet and author
1946 – Alberto Quintano, Chilean footballer
1946: Niki Tsongas, American politician
U.S. Representative, D. MA, 2007-Incumbent
1947 – Warren Clarke, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1949 – Carlos Bianchi, Argentinian footballer and manager
1949 – Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (d. 1995)
1949 – Dominic Sena, American director and screenwriter
1951 – John Battle, English politician
1952 – Spice Williams-Crosby (born Marceline Ann Williams)
American actress and stunt performer
1953 – Nancy Lenehan, American actress
1953 – David Reddaway, Canadian-English diplomat, British High Commissioner to Canada1953 – Moushumi Chatterjee, Indian actress
1953 – Nancy Lenehan, American actress
1953 – Linda Thompson, American lawyer and theorist
1954 – Tatyana Fomina, Estonian chess player
1954 – Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer and explorer
1954 – Chito S. Roño, Filipino director and screenwriter
1954 – Tatyana Fomina, Estonian chess player
1954 – Alan Hinkes, English mountaineer and explorer
1955 – Kurt Bodewig, German politician1955 – Mike Scott, American baseball player
1956 – Koo Stark, American actress and photographer
1957 – Michel Barrette, Canadian comedian and actor
1957 – Diane Hébert, Canadian medical patient (d. 2008)
1957 – Edwina Hart, Welsh banker and politician1958 – John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute, Scottish race car driver
1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor, director, and producer
1958 – Jeffrey Guterman, American psychotherapist, author, and academic
1958 – Georgios Kostikos, Greek footballer, coach, and manager
1959 – John Corabi
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
(Mötley Crüe, Angora, The Scream, Union, and Brides of Destruction)
1959 – Thanasis Papakonstantinou, Greek singer-songwriter and bouzouki player
1959: Pedro Pierluisi, Puerto Rican lawyer and politician
19th Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, 2009-Incumbent
1960 – Steve Lombardozzi, American baseball player and coach
1960 – Roger Taylor, English drummer (Duran Duran and Arcadia)
1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1961 – Chris Mars, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and producer
(The Replacements and Golden Smog)
1962 – Colin Anderson, English footballer
1962 – Michael Damian, American actor, singer and producer
1962 – Debra Wilson, American actress and comedian
1963 – Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor, and producer
1963 – Colin Scotts, Australian-American football player
1963 – Mark Serwotka, British union leader
General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)
1963 – Cornelia Ullrich, German hurdler1963 – Bill Wennington, Canadian basketball player
1964 – Rebecka Törnqvist, Swedish singer
1965 – Susannah Harker, English actress
1965 – Kevin James, American actor and comedian
1966: Natasha Trethewey, American poet
1967 – Glenn Thomas Jacobs (bka Kane), Spanish-American wrestler and actor
1967 – Marianne Jean-Baptiste, English actress and singer-songwriter
1967 – Curtis Jones, American electronica and house music singer, songwriter and producer
1967 – Tõnu Tõniste, Estonian sailor
1967 – Toomas Tõniste, Estonian sailor and politician
1969 – Kate Hardie, English actress, director, and screenwriter
1969 – Teresa Lewis, American murderer (executed 23 Sep 2010)
1970 – Dean Austin, English footballer and manager
1970: Steve Breen, American editorial cartoonist
1970 – Kristen R. Ghodsee, American ethnographer and academic
1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian-American model and jewelry designer
1970: Lisa Unger, American author
1970 – Tionne Watkins, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (TLC)
1971 – Jay DeMarcus, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
(Rascal Flatts and East to West)
1972 – Jason Bargwanna, Australian race car driver
1972 – Natrone Means, American football player and coach
1972 – Francisco Miguel Narváez (bka Kiko), Spanish footballer
1972 – Avi Nimni, Israeli footballer and manager
1973 – Geoff Blum, American baseball player and sportscaster
1973 – Jules Naudet, French-American director and producer
1973 – Chris Perry, English footballer
1973 – Óscar García Junyent, Spanish footballer and coach
1974 – Shondrella Avery, American actress
1974: Greg Laswell, American musician
1974 – Ivana Miličević, Bosnian-American actress and model1974 – Adil Ray, English actor and radio host
1975 – Joey Jordison
American drummer, songwriter, and producer
(Slipknot, Murderdolls, and Scar the Martyr)
1975 – Nerina Pallot, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975 – Rahul Verma, Indian social worker and activist; founded the Uday Foundation
1976 – Luigi Panarelli, Italian footballer
1976 – Václav Varaďa, Czech ice hockey player
1977 – Jason Earles, American actor, director, and producer
1977 – Samantha Cristoforetti, Italian astronaut
1977 – Kosuke Fukudome, Japanese baseball player
1977 – Roxana Saberi, American journalist and author
1977 – Tom Welling, American actor
1978 – Myron Avant (bka Avant), American singer-songwriter
1978 – Joe Crede, American baseball player
1978 – Stana Katic, Canadian actress
1978 – Tyler Labine, Canadian actor
1978 – Peter Madsen, Danish footballer
1978: Anna Mouglalis, French actress
1978: Pablo Schreiber, American actor
1978 – Shinnosuke Tachibana, Japanese voice actor1979 – Ariane Moffatt, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Janne Wirman, Finnish keyboard player (Children of Bodom, Warmen, and Masterplan)
1980 – Jordana Brewster, Panamanian-American actress
1980 – Marlon King, English footballer
1980 – Anna Mucha, Polish actress and journalist
1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor and producer
1980 – Marnette Patterson, American actress
1981 – Matthieu Delpierre, French footballer
1981 – Niomi Arleen McLean-Daley (bka Ms. Dynamite), English rapper and producer
1981 – Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw (bka Caro Emerald), Dutch singer
1981 – Sandra Schmitt, German skier (d. 2000)
1982 – Brock Gillespie, American basketball player
1982 – Joanne Gobure, Nauruan poet and academic
1982 – Jon Lee, English singer and actor (S Club)
1982 – Cooper Wallace, American football player
1982 – Novlene Williams-Mills, Jamaican sprinter
1983 – José María López, Argentinian race car driver
1983 – Jessica Lynch, American soldier and POW
1985 – Nam Gyu-ri, South Korean singer and actress (SeeYa)
1985 – John Isner, American tennis player
1985: Jemima Kirke, British actress and artist
1985 – Andrea Koch Benvenuto, Chilean tennis player
1986 – Lior Refaelov, Israeli footballer
1986 – Yuliya Zaripova, Russian runner
1987 – Jorge Andújar Moreno, Spanish footballer
1987 – Jessica Lee Rose, American-New Zealand actress
1988 – Hazel Ann Mendoza, Spanish-Filipino actress
1988 – Eric Salamat, Filipino basketball player
1988 – Ben Spina, Australian rugby league player
1988 – Manuel Viniegra, Mexican footballer
1988 – Gareth Evans, English footballer
1989: Luke Bracey, Australian actor
1989 – Kang Dae-sung (bka Daesung)
South Korean singer-songwriter and actor (Big Bang)
1990 – Jonathan dos Santos, Mexican footballer
1990 – Kim Yu-mi, South Korean model and actress, Miss Korea 2012
1990 – Mitch Rein, Australian rugby league player
1990 – Nevin Spence, Northern Irish rugby player (d. 2012)
1990 – Karthikeyan Velu (bka Karty) Indian actor and dancer
1991 – Shahira Barry, Irish model
1991 – Will Heard, British singer and songwriter
1991 – Isaac Liu, New Zealand rugby league player
1991 – Ignacio Lores Varela, Uruguayan footballer
1991 – Wojciech Pszczolarski, Polish professional racing cyclist
1992 – Danielle Hope, English actress and singer
1994 – Daniil Kvyat, Russian race car driver
1995 – Daniel Padilla, Filipino actor and singer
Family
1960: Patty Thorsen (2nd Cousin)
Coulee City
Debbie Mayfield
Samantha Baird
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Anniversaries
Coulee City
David & Joyce Adams
Deaths
VIP
Notable
499 – Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei (b. 467)
645 – Richarius, Frankish monk and saint (b. 560)
757 – Pope Stephen II (b. 715)
1192 – Emperor Go-Shirakawa of Japan (b. 1127)
1444 – Robert Campin, Flemish painter (b. 1378)
1476 – Simonetta Vespucci, Italian model (b. 1453)
1478 – Giuliano de' Medici, Italian ruler (b. 1453)
1489 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (b. 1465)
1716 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (b. 1651)
English jurist and politician, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain
1717 – Samuel Bellamy, English pirate (b. 1689)
1784 – Nano Nagle, Irish nun and educator, founded the Presentation Sisters (b. 1718)
1789 – Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian general (b. 1721)
1865 – John Wilkes Booth, American actor, assassin of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1838)
1881 – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, German general (b. 1815)
1892 – Provo Wallis, Canadian-English admiral (b. 1791)
1895 – Eric Stenbock, Estonian-English author and poet (b. 1860)
1910 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (b. 1832)
Norwegian-French author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1915 – John Bunny, American actor (b. 1863)
1920 – Srinivasa Ramanujan, Indian mathematician and theorist (b. 1887)
1932 – William Lockwood, English cricketer (b. 1868)
1934 – Arturs Alberings, Latvian politician, former Prime Minister of Latvia (b. 1876)
1936 – Tammany Young, American actor (b. 1886)
1940 – Carl Bosch, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1944 – Violette Morris, French footballer, shot putter, and discus thrower (b. 1893)
1945 – Sigmund Rascher, German physician (b. 1909)
1945 – Pavlo Skoropadskyi, German-Ukrainian general and politician, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1871)
1946 – James Larkin White, American miner, explorer, and park ranger (b. 1882)
1950 – George Murray Hulbert, American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1881)
1951 – Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist and academic (b. 1868)
1956 – Edward Arnold, American actor (b. 1890)
1957 – Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist, founded Shotokan (b. 1868)
1964 – E. J. Pratt, Canadian poet and author (b. 1882)
1968 – John Heartfield, German illustrator and photographer (b. 1891)
1969 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, founded aikido (b. 1883)
1970 – Erik Bergman, Swedish minister and author (b. 1886)
1970 – Charles January, American soccer player (b. 1888)
1970 – Gypsy Rose Lee, American actress, exotic dancer, and writer (b. 1911)
1973 – Irene Ryan, American actress and philanthropist (b. 1902)
1976 – Sidney Franklin, American bullfighter (b. 1903)
1976 – Sid James, South African-English actor and singer (b. 1913)
1976 – Armstrong Sperry, American author and illustrator (b. 1897)
1980 – Cicely Courtneidge, Australian-English actress and singer (b. 1893)
1981 – Jim Davis, American actor (b. 1909)
1981 – Herb Voland, American actor (b. 1918)
1984 – Count Basie, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1904)
1986 – Broderick Crawford, American actor and producer (b. 1911)
1986 – Bessie Love, American actress (b. 1898)
1986 – Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (b. 1899)
1987 – Shankar, Indian composer and conductor (b. 1922)
1987 – John Silkin (b. 1923)
English lawyer and politician, Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
1989 – Lucille Ball, American actress and producer (b. 1911)
1991 – Leo Arnaud, French-American composer and conductor (b. 1904)
1991 – Carmine Coppola, American composer and conductor (b. 1910)
1991 – A. B. Guthrie, Jr., American novelist and historian, (b. 1901)
1991 – Richard Hatfield, Canadian lawyer and politician, 26th Premier of New Brunswick (b. 1931)
1991 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (b. 1928)
1994 – Mas Oyama, Japanese martial artist, founded Kyokushin kaikan (b. 1927)
1996 – Stirling Silliphant, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1918)
1999 – Adrian Borland (b. 1957)
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Sound and The Outsiders)
1999 – Jill Dando, English journalist (b. 1961)
2003 – Rosemary Brown, Jamaican-Canadian academic and politician (b. 1930)
2003 – Yun Hyon-seok, South Korean poet and author (b. 1984)
2003 – Edward Max Nicholson (b. 1904)
Irish environmentalist, co-founded the World Wide Fund for Nature
2003 – Peter Stone, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1930)
2004 – Hubert Selby, Jr., American author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2005 – Mason Adams, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 – Maria Schell, Austrian-Swiss actress (b. 1926)
2005 – Augusto Roa Bastos, Paraguayan journalist, author, and academic (b. 1917)
2007 – Jack Valenti, American businessman, created the MPAA film rating system (b. 1921)
2009 – Hans Holzer, Austrian-American paranormal investigator and author (b. 1920)
2010 – Mariam A. Aleem, Egyptian graphic designer and academic (b. 1930)
2010 – Urs Felber, Swiss engineer and businessman (b. 1942)
2011 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sisters of Glory) (b. 1950)
2012 – Pete Fornatale, American radio host and author (b. 1945)
2012 – Ardian Klosi, Albanian author, publicist, and translator (b. 1957)
2012 – Ted Newall, Canadian businessman (b. 1935)
2012 – David Nunn, English actor (b. 1962)
2012 – Terence Spinks, English boxer and trainer (b. 1938)
2012 – Margie Stewart, American model and actress (b. 1919)
2013 – Jacqueline Brookes, American actress and educator (b. 1930)
2013 – William L. Guy, American soldier and politician, 26th Governor of North Dakota (b. 1919)
2013 – George Jones, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1931)
2013 – Marion Rushing, American football player (b. 1936)
2013 – Mary Thom, American journalist and author (b. 1944)
2013 – Jim Tucker, American journalist and author (b. 1934)
2014 – William Ash, American-English pilot and author (b. 1917)
2014 – Gerald Guralnik, American physicist and academic (b. 1936)
2014 – Michael Heisley, American businessman (b. 1937)
2014 – Lee Marshall, American wrestling announcer and actor (b. 1946)
2014 – Antonio Pica, Spanish actor (b. 1933)
2014 – DJ Rashad, American DJ and producer (b. 1979)
2014 – Paul Robeson, Jr., American historian and author (b. 1927)
2014 – W. E. "Pete" Snelson, American soldier, journalist, and politician (b. 1923)
2015 – Wang Guozhen, Chinese poet and educator (b. 1956)
2015 – Jayne Meadows, American actress (b. 1919)
2015 – Marcel Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1930)
2015 – Bill Valentine, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1932)
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