April 14 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths

____________

April 14 in history

____________

Birthdays

VIP

1738 – William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland  (d. 1809)
      English politician
      Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1807-1809
      Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1783


Notable

1126 – Averroes, Spanish physician and philosopher (d. 1198)
1527 – Abraham Ortelius, Flemish cartographer and geographer (d. 1598)
1572 – Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician, philosopher, and academic (d. 1632)
1578 – Philip III of Spain (d. 1621)
1629 – Christiaan Huygens, Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (d. 1695)
1668 – Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (d. 1741)
1678 – Abraham Darby I, English iron master (d. 1717)
1709 – Charles Collé, French playwright and songwriter (d. 1783)
1714 – Adam Gib, Scottish minister and author (d. 1788)
1741 – Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
1756:  Joseph Alexandre Pierre, vicomte de Ségur  (d. 27 Jul 1805)
      French poet, songwriter and playwright
1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French politician, 6th Prime Minister of France (d. 1854)
1788 – David G. Burnet, American politician, 2nd Vice-President of Texas (d. 1870)
1800 – John Appold, English engineer (d. 1865)
1802:  Horace Bushnell  (d. 17 Feb 1876)
      American Congregational minister and theologian

1812:  George Grey  (d. 19 Sep 1898)

      British soldier, explorer, colonial governor, and writer

      11th Premier of New Zealand, 1877-1879

      Governor of Clape Colony, 1854-1861

      3rd Governor of New Zealand, 1845-1854 & 1861-1868

      3rd Governor of South Australia, 1841-1845

1814 – Dimitri Kipiani, Georgian publicist and author (d. 1887)
1818 – Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (d. 1909)
1827 – Augustus Pitt Rivers, English general, ethnologist, and archaeologist (d. 1900)
1854 – Martin Lipp, Estonian pastor and poet (d. 1923)
1857 – Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom (d. 1944)
1865 – Alfred Hoare Powell, English architect, and designer and painter of pottery (d. 1960)
1866 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (d. 1936)
1868 – Peter Behrens, German architect, designed the AEG turbine factory (d. 1940)
1870 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter and educator (d. 1905)
1870 – Syd Gregory, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 1929)
1872 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (d. 1953)
1879:  James Branch Cabell, American author  (d. 5 May 1958)
1881 – Husain Salaahuddin, Maldivian poet and scholar (d. 1948)
1882 – Moritz Schlick, German-Austrian physicist and philosopher (d. 1936)
1886 – Ernst Robert Curtius, German philologist and scholar (d. 1956)
1886 – Árpád Tóth, Hungarian poet and translator (d. 1928)
1889 – Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian and academic (d. 22 Oct 1975)
1891 – B. R. Ambedkar  (d. 1956)
      Indian economist, jurist, and politician
      1st Indian Minister of Law and Justice
1891 – Otto Lasanen, Finnish wrestler (d. 1958)
1892 – Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1962)
1892 – V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist and philologist (d. 1957)
1897 – Claire Windsor, American actress (d. 1972)
1898:  Harold Stephen Black, American electrical engineer  (d 11 Dec 1893)
1902 – Sylvio Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and referee (d. 1974)
1903 – Henry Corbin, French philosopher and academic (d. 1978)
1903 – Ruth Svedberg, Swedish discus thrower and triathlete (d. 2002)
1904 – John Gielgud, English actor, director, and producer (d. 2000)
1905 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American author and educator (d. 1999)
1905 – Georg Lammers, German sprinter (d. 1987)
1905 – Jean Pierre-Bloch, French author and activist (d. 1999)
1907 – François Duvalier, Haitian physician and politician, 40th President of Haiti (d. 1971)
1912 – Robert Doisneau, French photographer and journalist (d. 1994)
1912 – Georg Siimenson, Estonian footballer (d. 1978)
1913 – Jean Fournet, French conductor (d. 2008)
1916 – Don Willesee  (d. 2003)
      Australian telegraphist and politician
      29th Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs
1917 – Valerie Hobson, Irish-born English actress (d. 1998)
1917 – Marvin Miller, American businessman (d. 2012)
1918 – Mary Healy, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1919 – Shamshad Begum, Pakistani-Indian singer (d. 2013)
1919 – K. Saraswathi Amma, Indian author and playwright (d. 1975)
1920 – Ivor Forbes Guest, English lawyer, historian, and author
1921 – Thomas Schelling, American economist and academic
      2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
1922:  Ali Akbar Khan, Indian musician  (d. 18 Jun 2009)
1922 – Audrey Long, American actress (d. 2014)
1923 – Roberto De Vicenzo, Argentinian golfer
1924 – Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1994)
1924 – Joseph Ruskin, American actor and producer (d. 2013)
1924 – Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, English philosopher, and academic
1925 – Gene Ammons, American saxophonist (d. 1974)
1925 – Abel Muzorewa  (d. 2010)
      Zimbabwean minister and politician
      1st Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia
1925 – Rod Steiger, American soldier and actor (d. 2002)
1926 – Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (d. 2013)
1926 – Frank Daniel, Czech director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1926 – Gloria Jean, American actress and singer
1926 – Liz Renay, American actress and author (d. 2007)
1927 – Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
1927 – Dany Robin, French actress and singer (d. 1995)
1929 – Gerry Anderson, English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012)
1929 – Inez Andrews, American singer-songwriter (The Caravans) (d. 2012)
1930 – Martin Adolf Bormann, German priest and theologian (d. 2013)
1930 – Arnold Burns  (d. 2013)
      American lawyer and politician
      21st United States Deputy Attorney General
1930 – René Desmaison, French mountaineer (d. 2007)
1930 – Bradford Dillman, American actor and author
1930 – Jay Robinson, American actor (d. 2013)
1931 – Geoffrey Dalton, English admiral
1931 – Paul Masnick, Canadian ice hockey player
1932 – Atef Ebeid  (d. 2014)
      Egyptian academic and politician, 47th Prime Minister of Egypt
1932 – Bob Grant, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2003)
1932 – Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter and musician
1932 – Cameron Parker
      Scottish businessman and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Renfrewshire
1933 – Paddy Hopkirk, Northern Irish race car driver
1933 – Boris Strugatsky, Russian author (d. 2012)
1933 – Shani Wallis, English-American actress and singer
1934 – Fredric Jameson, American philosopher and theorist
1935 – Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton
      English table tennis player, swimmer, and politician
1935 – John Oliver, English bishop
1935 – Erich von Däniken, Swiss historian and author
1936 – Arlene Martel, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
1936 – Bobby Nichols, American golfer
1936 – Frank Serpico, American-Italian soldier, police officer and lecturer
1937 – Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (d. 2013)
1937 – Sepp Mayerl, Austrian mountaineer (d. 2012)
1938 – Mahmud Esad Coşan, Turkish author and academic (d. 2001)
1940 – David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes
      English archbishop and academic
      Archbishop of York, 1995-2005
1940 – Julie Christie, English actress
1940 – Richard Thompson English physician and academic
1941 – Pete Rose, American baseball player and manager
1942 – Valeriy Brumel, Russian high jumper (d. 2003)
1942 – Valentin Lebedev, Russian engineer and astronaut
1942 – Björn Rosengren, Swedish politician, Swedish Minister of Enterprise and Innovation
1942 – Ni Zhiqin, Chinese high jumper
1943 – Fouad Siniora, Lebanese businessman and politician, 65th Prime Minister of Lebanon
1944 – John Sergeant, English journalist
1945 – Uwe Beyer, German hammer thrower  (d. 15 Apr 1993)
1945 – Ritchie Blackmore
      English guitarist and songwriter
      (The Outlaws, Deep Purple, Rainbow, and Blackmore's Night)
1945 – Roger Frappier, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi
      Samoan economist and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa
1946 – Mireille Guiliano, French-American author
1946 – Michael Sarris, Cypriot economist and politician, Cypriot Minister of Finance
1946 – Knut Kristiansen, Norwegian pianist and orchestra leader
1947 – Dominique Baudis, French journalist and politician (d. 2014)
1947 – Bob Massie, Australian cricketer
1948 – Berry Berenson, American model, actress, and photographer (d. 2001)
1948 – Anastasios Papaligouras, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice
1949 – Dave Gibbons, English author and illustrator
1949 – DeAnne Julius, American-British economist and academic
1949 – Chris Langham, English actor and screenwriter
1949 – Chas Mortimer, English racing motorcyclist
1949 – John Shea, American actor and director
1950 – Francis Collins, American physician and geneticist
1950 – Péter Esterházy, Hungarian author
1950:  Lynda Obst, American film producer and author
1951 – José Eduardo González Navas, Spanish politician
1951 – Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist, conductor, and educator
1951 – Elizabeth Symons, Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean, English politician
1952 – Mickey O'Sullivan, Irish footballer and manager
1952 – David Urquhart, Scottish bishop
1953 – David Buss, American psychologist and academic
1954 – Sue Hill, English pathologist and civil servant
1954 – Katsuhiro Otomo, Japanese director, screenwriter, and illustrator
1954 – Bruce Sterling, American author and blogger

1955 – Ana Ambrazienė, Lithuanian hurdler

1955 – Imrich Bugár, Czech discus thrower

1955:  Binod Chaudhary, Nepalese businessman, industrialist and philanthropist

1956 – Barbara Bonney, American soprano and educator
1956 – Boris Šprem  (d. 2012)
      Croatian lawyer and politician, 8th President of Croatian Parliament
1956 – Larry Winters, American wrestler and trainer (d. 2015)
1957 – Lothaire Bluteau, Canadian actor
1957:  Bobbi Brown,  American makeup artist and businesswoman
1957 – Richard Jeni, American comedian and actor (d. 2007)
1957 – Mikhail Pletnev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor
1957:  Viktor Vekselberg, Ukrainian-born Russian businessman
1958 – Peter Capaldi, Scottish actor

1958 – John D'Aquino, American actor

1959:  Dave Allison  [Canadian hockey player and coach]

1960 – Brian Forster, American actor

1960 – Brad Garrett, American actor and comedian
1960 – Myoma Myint Kywe, Burmese historian and journalist
1960 – Osamu Sato, Japanese graphic artist, programmer, and composer
1960 – Tina Rosenberg, American journalist and author
1960 – Pat Symcox, South African cricketer
1961 – Robert Carlyle, Scottish actor and director
1961 – Daniel Clowes, American cartoonist and screenwriter
1962 – Scott Boman, American politician
1962 – Guillaume LeBlanc, Canadian race walker
1963 – Kalle Vellevoog, Estonian architect
1964 – Jeff Andretti, American race car driver
1964 – Greg Battle, American-Canadian football player
1964 – Gina McKee, English actress
1965 – Tom Dey, American director and producer
1965 – Alexandre Jardin, French author
1965:  Yukihiro Matsumoto, Japanese computer scientist
1965 – Craig McDermott, Australian cricketer and coach
1965 – Kirk Windstein
      English-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Crowbar, Down, and Kingdom of Sorrow)
1966 – André Boisclair, Canadian lawyer and politician
1966 – David Justice, American baseball player and sportscaster
1966 – Greg Maddux, American baseball player, coach, and manager
1967 – Nicola Berti, Italian footballer
1967 – Steve Chiasson, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
1967 – Alain Côté, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 – Barrett Martin
      American drummer, songwriter, and producer
      (Mad Season, Screaming Trees, Skin Yard, and Tuatara)
1967 – Julia Zemiro, French-Australian actress, comedian, singer and writer
1968 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor
1969 – Brad Ausmus, American baseball player and manager
1969 – Martyn LeNoble
      Dutch-American bass player
      (Porno for Pyros, Jane's Addiction, and Thelonious Monster)
1969 – Vebjørn Selbekk, Norwegian journalist
1969 – Pieter Zandvliet, Dutch mixed media artist and illustrator
1970 – Emre Altuğ, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor
1970 – Steve Avery, American baseball player
1970 – Shizuka Kudō, Japanese singer and actress (Onyanko Club)
1971 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer and manager (d. 2012)
1971:  Britt Daniel, American musician     FBD
1971 – Carlos Pérez, Dominican-American baseball player
1971 – Gregg Zaun, American baseball player and sportscaster
1972 – Paul Devlin, English-Scottish footballer and manager
1972 – Roberto Mejía, Dominican baseball player
1972 – Dean Potter, American rock climber and BASE jumper (d. 2015)
1973 – Roberto Ayala, Argentinian footballer
1973 – Adrien Brody, American actor
1973 – David Miller, American tenor and actor (Il Divo)
1974 – Da Brat, American rapper and actress
1975 – Lita, American wrestler and singer (The Luchagors)
1975 – Luciano Almeida, Brazilian footballer
1975 – Avner Dorman, Israeli-American composer and academic
1975 – Konstantinos Nebegleras, Greek footballer
1975 – Rajeshwari Sachdev, Indian actress
1975 – Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial artist and boxer
1976 – Christian Älvestam
      Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Scar Symmetry, Miseration, and Solution .45)
1976 – Georgina Chapman
      English model, actress, and fashion designer, co-founded Marchesa
1976 – Anna DeForge, American basketball player
1976 – Kyle Farnsworth, American baseball player
1976 – Françoise Mbango Etone, Cameroonian-French triple jumper
1976 – Jason Wiemer, Canadian ice hockey player
1977 – Nate Fox, American basketball player (d. 2014)
1977 – Martin Kaalma, Estonian footballer
1977 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress and producer
1977 – Chandra Levy, American murder victim (d. 2001)
1977 – Rob McElhenney, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – JD McPherson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

1977:  David Valadao

      American politician

      U.S. Representative, R. CA,  1913-Incumbent

1978 – Roland Lessing, Estonian biathlete
1978 – Paul O'Brien, South African-Australian actor
1979 – Iain Balshaw, English rugby player
1979 – Rebecca DiPietro, American wrestler and model
1979 – Marios Elia, Cypriot footballer
1979 – Ross Filipo, New Zealand rugby player
1979 – Noé Pamarot, French footballer
1979 – Filbert B. Girado, Jr. (bka King), Filipino singer
1979 – Patrick Somerville, American novelist and short story writer
1979 – Kerem Tunçeri, Turkish basketball player
1980 – Win Butler, American-Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Arcade Fire)
1980 – Claire Coffee, American actress
1980 – Ayumi Ito, Japanese actress
1980 – Jeremy Smith, New Zealand rugby league player
1981 – Mustafa Güngör, German rugby player
1981 – Amy Leach, English director and producer
1982 – Uğur Boral, Turkish footballer
1982 – Larissa França, Brazilian volleyball player
1982:  Rachel Swirsky, American author
1983 – Simona La Mantia, Italian triple jumper
1983 – James McFadden, Scottish footballer
1983 – William Obeng, Ghanaian-American football player
1983 – Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Georgian basketball player
1984 – Blake Costanzo, American football player
1984 – Charles Hamelin, Canadian speed skater
1984 – Harumafuji Kōhei, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 70th Yokozuna
1984 – Adán Sánchez, American-Mexican musician (d. 2004)
1984 – Tyler Thigpen, American football player
1985 – Grant Clitsome, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 – Matt Derbyshire, English footballer
1986:  Amy Hoggart, British comedian and actress
1986:  Todd Gilles, American ice dancer
1986 – Goran Gogić, Serbian footballer (d. 2015)
1986 – Anne Watanabe, Japanese model, actress, and singer
1987 – Michael Baze, American jockey (d. 2011)
1987 – Erwin Hoffer, Austrian footballer
1987 – Wilson Kiprop, Kenyan runner
1987 – Korina Perkovic, German tennis player
1988 – Roberto Bautista Agut, Spanish tennis player
1988 – Eliška Klučinová, Czech heptathlete
1988 – Vasileios Pliatsikas, Greek footballer
1988 – Brad Sinopoli, Canadian football player
1989 – Aleksei Olegovich Alekseyev, Russian footballer
1989 – Joe Haden, American football player
1989 – Dafina Zeqiri, Swedish-Kosovar singer and dancer
1990 – Christian Alexander, Greek-American actor
1990 – Markus Smarzoch, German footballer

1992 – Dar Bernardo, Filipino actor

1992 – Princess Snell, Filipino actress

1992 – Frederik Sørensen, Danish footballer
1993 – Vivien Cardone, American actress
1993 – Graham Phillips, American actor and singer

1993 – Ellington Ratliff, American drummer (R5)

1993 – Burnell Taylor, American singer

1994 – Skyler Samuels, American actress
1996 – Abigail Breslin, American actress


Family



Coulee City

Anastasia Carlson

Jeanne Schrock

Francis Smith

Lloyd McLean

Other




Anniversaries

Coulee City

Dennis & Pam Collier



Deaths

VIP



Notable

1132 – Mstislav I of Kiev (b. 1076)
1279 – Bolesław the Pious, Polish husband of Yolanda of Poland (b. 1224)
1322 – Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere, English soldier and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1275)
1345 – Richard de Bury, English bishop and politician, Lord Chancellor of The United Kingdom (b. 1287)
1471 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, English commander and politician (b. 1428)
1574 – Louis of Nassau (b. 1538)
1578 – James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, English husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1534)
1599 – Henry Wallop, English politician (b. 1540)
1662 – William Fiennes, 1st Viscount Saye and Sele, English politician (b. 1582)
1682 – Avvakum, Russian priest and saint (b. 1620)
1721 – Michel Chamillart, French politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1652)
1759 – George Frideric Handel, German-English organist and composer (b. 1685)
1785 – William Whitehead, English poet and playwright (b. 1715)
1792 – Maximilian Hell, Slovak-Hungarian astronomer and priest (b. 1720)
1843 – Joseph Lanner, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1801)
1864 – Charles Lot Church, American-Canadian politician (b. 1777)
1910 – Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter and sculptor (b. 1856)
1911 – Addie Joss, American baseball player and journalist (b. 1880)
1912 – Henri Brisson, French politician, 50th Prime Minister of France (b. 1835)
1914 – Hubert Bland, English activist, co-founded the Fabian Society (b. 1855)
1917 – L. L. Zamenhof, Polish physician and linguist, created Esperanto (b. 1859)
1925 – John Singer Sargent, Italian-American painter (b. 1856)
1930 – Vladimir Mayakovsky, Georgian-Russian actor, playwright, and poet (b. 1893)
1931 – Richard Armstedt, German philologist, historian, and educator (b. 1851)
1935 – Emmy Noether, German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1882)
1938 – Gillis Grafström, Swedish figure skater and architect (b. 1893)
1941 – Guillermo Kahlo, German-Mexican photographer (b. 1871)
1943 – Yakov Dzhugashvili, Georgian-Russian lieutenant (b. 1907)
1950 – Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru and philosopher (b. 1879)
1951 – Al Christie, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1881)
1962 – Visvesvaraya, Indian engineer and scholar (b. 1860)
1963 – Rahul Sankrityayan, Indian monk and historian (b. 1893)
1964 – Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (b. 1876)
1964 – Rachel Carson, American biologist and author (b. 1907)
1965 – Richard Hickock, American murderer (b. 1933)
1965 – Perry Smith, American murderer (b. 1928)
1968 – Al Benton, American baseball player (b. 1911)
1969 – Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, Spanish actress (b. 1900)
1975 – Günter Dyhrenfurth, German-Swiss mountaineer, geologist, and explorer (b. 1886)
1975 – Fredric March, American actor (b. 1897)
1976 – José Revueltas, Mexican author and activist (b. 1914)
1978 – Joe Gordon, American baseball player and manager (b. 1915)
1978 – F. R. Leavis, English educator and critic (b. 1895)
1983 – Pete Farndon, English bass player (The Pretenders) (b. 1952)
1983 – Gianni Rodari, Italian journalist and author (b. 1920)
1985 – Noele Gordon, English actress (b. 1919)
1986 – Simone de Beauvoir, French novelist and philosopher (b. 1908)
1990 – Thurston Harris, American singer (b. 1931)
1990 – Olabisi Onabanjo, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ogun State (b. 1927)
1994 – Salimuzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani chemist and scholar (b. 1897)
1995 – Burl Ives, American actor, writer and folksinger (b. 1909)
1997 – Gerda Christian, German secretary (b. 1913)
1999 – Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1911)
1999 – Anthony Newley, English-American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
1999 – Bill Wendell, American television announcer (b. 1924)
2000 – Phil Katz, American computer programmer, co-created the zip file format (b. 1962)
2000 – Wilf Mannion, English footballer (b. 1918)
2001 – Jim Baxter, Scottish footballer (b. 1939)
2001 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927)
2003 – Jyrki Otila, Finnish politician (b. 1941)
2004 – Micheline Charest, English-Canadian television producer, co-founded the Cookie Jar Group (b. 1953)
2005 – John Fred, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)
2006 – Mahmut Bakalli, Kosovo politician (b. 1936)
2007 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1924)
2007 – Don Ho, American singer and ukulele player (b. 1930)
2007 – René Rémond, French historian and economist (b. 1918)
2008 – Miguel Galván, Mexican actor (b. 1957)
2008 – Tommy Holmes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1918)
2008 – Ollie Johnston, American animator and voice actor (b. 1912)
2009 – Maurice Druon, French author (b. 1918)
2010 – Israr Ahmed, Pakistani theologian and scholar (b. 1932)
2010 – Alice Miller, Polish-French psychologist and author (b. 1923)
2010 – Peter Steele, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Type O Negative, Carnivore, and Fallout) (b. 1962)
2011 – Trevor Bannister, English actor (b. 1934)
2011 – Walter Breuning, American super-centenarian (b. 1896)
2011 – Jean Gratton, Canadian bishop (b. 1924)
2012 – Émile Bouchard, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1919)
2012 – Jonathan Frid, Canadian actor (b. 1924)
2012 – William Finley, American actor (b. 1940)
2012 – Piermario Morosini, Italian footballer (b. 1986)
2012 – Martin Poll, American film producer (b. 1922)
2013 – Efi Arazi, Israeli businessman, founded the Scailex Corporation (b. 1937)
2013 – Colin Davis, English conductor and educator (b. 1927)
2013 – R. P. Goenka, Indian businessman, founded RPG Group (b. 1930)
2013 – George Jackson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
2013 – Rentarō Mikuni, Japanese actor and director (b. 1923)
2013 – Armando Villanueva, Peruvian politician, 121st Prime Minister of Peru (b. 1915)
2013 – Charlie Wilson, American politician (b. 1943)
2014 – Nina Cassian, Romanian poet and critic (b. 1924)
2014 – Karl-Heinz Euling, German SS officer (b. 1919)
2014 – Brian Harradine, Australian politician (b. 1935)
2014 – Crad Kilodney, American-Canadian author (b. 1948)
2014 – Wally Olins, English businessman and academic (b. 1930)
2014 – Armando Peraza, Cuban-American drummer (Santana) (b. 1924)
2014 – Mick Staton, American soldier and politician (b. 1940)
2015 – Klaus Bednarz, German journalist and author (b. 1942)
2015 – Mark Reeds, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1960)
2015 – Kevin Rosier, American mixed martial artist and boxer (b. 1962)
2015 – Percy Sledge, American singer (b. 1940)
2015 – Roberto Tucci, Italian cardinal and theologian (b. 1921)


Family

1911:  Sir Henri-Elzéar Taschereau  (b. 7 Oct 1836)
      Canadian lawyer and jurist, 4th Chief Justice of Canada
      2nd cousin 2x removed


Coulee City



Other

April 13 Birthdays, Anniversaries, and Deaths

____________

April 13 in history

____________

Birthdays

VIP

1732 – Frederick North, Lord North   (d. 1792)
      English politician
      Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1770-1782
      Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1767-1782
      Secretary of State for Home Affairs, 1783

1743:  Thomas Jefferson   (d. 4 Jul 1826)
      American Founding Father
      3rd U.S. President, 1801-1809
      2nd U.S. Vice President,1797-1801
      1st U.S. Secretary of State, 1790-1793
      U.S. Minister to France, 1785-1789
      Delegate to the Congress of the Confederation from Virginia, 1783-1784
      2nd Governor of Virginia, 1779-1781
      Delegate to the Second Continental Congress from Virginia, 1775-1776

1890 – Frank Murphy  (d. 19 Jul 1949)
      American jurist and politician

      Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, 1940-1949

      56th United States Attorney General, 1939-1940

      35th Governor of Michigan, 1937-1939

Notable

1506 – Peter Faber  (d. 1546)
      French priest and theologian, co-founded the Society of Jesus
1519 – Catherine de' Medici  (d. 1589)
      Italian-French wife of Henry II of France
1570 – Guy Fawkes, English soldier, planned the Gunpowder Plot (d. 1606)
1573 – Christina of Holstein-Gottorp (d. 1625)
1593 – Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford  (d. 1641)
      English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1618 – Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French author (d. 1693)
1713 – Pierre Jélyotte, French tenor (d. 1797)
1729 – Thomas Percy, Irish bishop and poet (d. 1811)
1735 – Isaac Low  (d. 1791)
      American merchant and politician
      founded the New York Chamber of Commerce
1747 – Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1793)
1764 – Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr  (d. 1830)
      French general and politician, French Minister of War
1769 – Thomas Lawrence, English painter and educator (d. 1830)
1771 – Richard Trevithick, English engineer and explorer (d. 1833)
1780 – Alexander Mitchell  (d. 1868)
      Irish engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse
1784 – Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1877)
1787 – John Robertson, American lawyer and politician (d. 1873)
1794 – Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (d. 1867)
1802 – Leopold Fitzinger, Austrian zoologist and hepetologist (d. 1884)
1808 – Antonio Meucci, Italian-American engineer (d. 1889)
1810 – Félicien David, French composer (d. 1876)
1824 – William Alexander, Irish archbishop, poet, and theologian (d. 1911)
1825 – Thomas D'Arcy McGee  (d. 1868)
      Irish-Canadian journalist and politician
1828 – Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English bishop and theologian (d. 1889)
1832 – Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author and diplomat (d. 1889)
1840:  Samuel Ullman  (d. 21 Mar 1924)
      American businessman, poet, and humanitarian
1841 – Louis-Ernest Barrias, French sculptor and academic (d. 1905)
1850 – Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, Irish astronomer (d. 1917)
1851 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (d. 1928)
1851 – William Quan Judge, Irish occultist and theosophist (d. 1896)
1852 – Frank Winfield Woolworth  (d. 1919)
      American businessman, founded the F.W. Woolworth Company
1860 – James Ensor, Belgian painter (d. 1949)
1866 – Butch Cassidy, American criminal (d. 1908)
1872 – John Cameron, Scottish footballer and manager (d. 1935)
1872 – Alexander Roda Roda, Austrian-Croatian journalist and author (d. 1945)

1873 – John W. Davis  (d. 24 Mar 1955)

      American lawyer and politician

      1924 Democratic Party nominee for President

      U.S. Ambassador to the U.K., 1918-1921

      14th U.S. Solicitor General, 1913-1918

      U.S. Representative, D. WV, 1911-1913

1875 – Ray Lyman Wilbur  (d. 26 Jun 1949)
      American physician, academic, and politician

      31st U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1929-1933

1879 – Edward Bruce, American lawyer and painter (d. 1943)
1880 – Charles Christie  (d. 1955)
      Canadian-American businessman
      co-founded the Christie Film Company
1885 – Vean Gregg, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1885 – Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician, Head of State of Estonia (d. 1942)
1885 – György Lukács, Hungarian philosopher and critic (d. 1971)
1887 – Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician and golfer (d. 1995)
1887 – Peter Ratican, American soccer player (d. 1922)
1889 – Herbert Yardley, American cryptologist and author (d. 1958)
1890 – Dadasaheb Torne, Indian director and producer (d. 1960)
1891 – Maurice Buckley, Australian sergeant, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1921)
1891 – Nella Larsen, American nurse, librarian, and author (d. 1964)
1891 – Robert Scholl, German accountant and politician (d. 1973)
1892 – Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, English air marshal (d. 1984)
1892 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish engineer, invented the Radar (d. 1973)
1894 – Arthur Fadden  (d. 1973)
      Australian accountant and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Australia
1894 – Joie Ray, American runner (d. 1978)
1896 – Fred Barnett, English footballer (d. 1982)
1897 – Werner Voss, German lieutenant and pilot (d. 1917)
1899 – Alfred Mosher Butts  (d. 1993)
      American architect and game designer, created Scrabble
1899 – Harold Osborn, American high jumper and decathlete (d. 1975)
1900 – Pierre Molinier, French painter and photographer (d. 1976)
1901 – Jacques Lacan, French psychiatrist and academic (d. 1981)
1901 – Alan Watt  (d. 1988)
      Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian Ambassador to Japan
1902 – Philippe de Rothschild  (d. 1988)
      French race car driver, playwright, and producer
1902 – Marguerite Henry, American author (d. 1997)
1904 – David Robinson, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1987)
1905:  Bruno Rossi, Italian experimental physicist  (d. 21 Sep 1993)
1906 – Samuel Beckett  (d. 1989)
      Irish novelist, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
1906 – Bud Freeman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1991)
1906 – Ed Hamm, American long jumper and coach (d. 1982)
1906 – Klaudia Taev, Estonian opera singer and educator (d. 1985)
1907 – Harold Stassen  (d. 2001)
      American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota
1909 – Stanislaw Ulam, Ukrainian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1984)
1909 – Eudora Welty, American short story writer and novelist (d. 2001)
1911 – Ico Hitrec, Croatian footballer and manager (d. 1946)
1911 – Jean-Louis Lévesque, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1994)
1911 – Nino Sanzogno, Italian conductor and composer (d. 1983)
1913 – Dave Albritton, American high jumper and coach (d. 1994)
1913 – Kermit Tyler, American lieutenant and pilot (d. 2010)
1914 – Orhan Veli Kanık, Turkish poet and author (d. 1950)
1916 – Phyllis Fraser  (d. 2006)
      American actress, journalist, and publisher, co-founded Beginner Books
1917 – Robert Orville Anderson  (d. 2007)
      American businessman, founded Atlantic Richfield Oil Co.
1917 – Bill Clements  (d. 2011)
      American soldier, engineer, and politician
      15th U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense
      42nd Governor of Texas
1919 – Roland Gaucher, French journalist and politician (d. 2007)
1919 – Howard Keel, American actor and singer (d. 2004)
1919 – Madalyn Murray O'Hair  (d. 1995)
      American activist, founded American Atheists
1919 – Phil Tonken, American voice actor and producer (d. 2000)
1920 – Roberto Calvi, Italian banker (d. 1982)
1920 – Claude Cheysson  (d. 2012)
      French lieutenant and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs
1920 – Liam Cosgrave
      Irish lawyer and politician, 6th Taoiseach of Ireland
1920 – John LaPorta, American clarinet player and saxophonist (d. 2004)
1921 – Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza  (d. 2002)
      Dutch-Swiss art collector and businessman
1922 – Heinz Baas, German footballer and manager (d. 1994)
1922 – John Braine, English librarian and author (d. 1986)
1922 – Julius Nyerere  (d. 1999)
      Tanzanian educator and politician, 1st President of Tanzania
1922 – Valve Pormeister, Estonian architect (d. 2002)
1923 – A. H. Halsey, English sociologist and academic (d. 2014)
1923 – Stanley Tanger  (d. 2010)
      American businessman and philanthropist
      founded the Tanger Factory Outlet Centers
1923 – Donald James Yarmy (bka Don Adams)  (d. 25 Sep 2005)
      American actor, comedian, and director
1924 – John T. Biggers, American painter (d. 2001)
1924 – Jack T. Chick, American author, illustrator, and publisher
1924 – Stanley Donen, American director and choreographer
1925 – Michael Halliday, English linguist
1926 – Ellie Lambeti, Greek actress (d. 1983)
1926 – John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough  (d. 2014)
      English businessman
1927 – Rosemary Haughton
      English-American philosopher, theologian, and author
1927 – Antonino Rocca, Italian-American wrestler (d. 1977)
1927 – Maurice Ronet, French actor and director (d. 1983)
1928 – Alan Clark  (d. 1999)
      English historian and politician, Minister of State for Trade
1928 – Gianni Marzotto, Italian race car driver and businessman (d. 2012)
1929 – Marilynn Smith, American golfer
1931 – Anita Cerquetti, Italian soprano (d. 2014)
1931 – Robert Enrico, French director and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1931 – Dan Gurney, American race car driver and engineer
1931 – Arturo Rodenak, Argentinian-Chilean footballer (d. 2012)
1931 – Jon Stone, American composer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1997)
1932 – Orlando Letelier  (d. 1976)
      Chilean-American economist and politician
      Chilean Minister of National Defense
1933 – Ben Nighthorse Campbell, American soldier and politician
1934 – John Muckler, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1935 – Lyle Waggoner, American actor
1936 – Pierre Rosenberg, French historian and academic
1937 – Edward Fox, English actor
1937:  Jeremiah P. Ostriker, American astrophysicist and professor
1937 – Lanford Wilson, American playwright  (d. 2011)
      co-founded the Circle Repertory Company
1938 – Klaus Lehnertz, German pole vaulter
1938 – John Weston, English poet and diplomat
1939 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
1939 – Paul Sorvino, American actor, singer, and director
1940 – Mike Beuttler, Egyptian-English race car driver (d. 1988)
1940 – Lester Chambers, American singer-songwriter (The Chambers Brothers)
1940 – Vladimir Cosma, Romanian composer and conductor
1940 – J. M. G. Le Clézio, French author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940:  Michael Herr, American journalist and writer
1940 – Jim McNab, Scottish footballer (d. 2006)
1940 – Max Mosley
      English race car driver and engineer, co-founded March Engineering
1941 – Michael Stuart Brown
      American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1941 – Jean-Marc Reiser, French author and illustrator (d. 1983)
1941 – Marjorie Yates, English actress
1942 – Ataol Behramoğlu Turkish poet and author
1942 – Bill Conti, American composer and conductor

1943:  Robert Hormats

      American businessman and public servant, Under Secretary of State

            for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment 2009-2013

1943 – Alan Jones, Australian rugby coach, radio host, and educator
1943 – Billy Kidd, American skier
1943 – Tim Krabbé, Dutch journalist and author
1943 – Philip Norman, English journalist, author, and playwright
1944 – Franco Arese, Italian runner
1944 – Charles Burnett, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1944 – Jack Casady
      American bass player (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna, and Jefferson Starship)
1944 – Susan Davis, American social worker and politician
1944:  John Paul DeJoria, American businessman and philanthropist
1945 – Ed Caruthers, American high jumper
1945 – Tony Dow, American actor, director, and producer
1945 – Lowell George  (d. 1979)
      American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
      (Little Feat and The Mothers of Invention)
1945 – Bob Kalsu, American football player and lieutenant (d. 1970)
1945 – Judy Nunn, Australian actress and screenwriter
1946 – Al Green, American singer-songwriter, producer, and pastor
1946 – Christopher Strauli, English actor
1947 – Rae Armantrout, American poet and academic
1947 – Mike Chapman, Australian-English songwriter and producer
1947 – Jean-Jacques Laffont, French economist and academic (d. 2004)
1948 – Nam Hae-il, South Korean admiral
1948 – Drago Jančar, Slovenian author and playwright
1949 – Len Cook, New Zealand-English mathematician and statistician
1949 – Frank Doran, Scottish lawyer and politician
1949 – Christopher Hitchens, English-American journalist and author (d. 2011)
1949 – Ricardo Zunino, Argentinian race car driver
1950 – Joseph Paul Franklin, American serial killer (d. 2013)
1950 – Terry Lester, American actor (d. 2003)
1950 – Ron Perlman, American actor and producer
1950 – Tommy Raudonikis, Australian rugby league player and coach
1950 – William Sadler, American actor
1951 – Leszek Borysiewicz, Welsh immunologist and academic
1951 – Peabo Bryson, American singer-songwriter and producer
1951 – Peter Davison, English actor
1951 – Joachim Streich, German footballer and manager
1951 – Max Weinberg, American drummer
      (E Street Band and Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band)

1952 – Erick Avari, Indian-American actor

1952:  Jim Costa
      American rancher and politician

      U.S. Representative, D. CA  2005-Incumbent

1952 – Ron Dittemore, American businessman
1952 – David Drew, English lawyer and politician
1952 – Jonjo O'Neill, Irish jockey and trainer
1953 – Stephen Byers, English politician, Secretary of State for Transport
1953 – Dany Laferrière, Haitian-Canadian journalist and author
1954 – Jimmy Destri, American keyboard player and songwriter (Blondie)
1954 – Niels Olsen, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Olsen Brothers)
1954 – Barbara Roche
      English lawyer and politician, Minister of State for Immigration
1955 – Steve Camp, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 – Louis Johnson  (d. 2015)
      American bass player and producer (The Brothers Johnson)
1955 – Lupe Pintor, Mexican boxer
1955 – Hideki Saijo, Japanese singer
1955 – Ole von Beust, German lawyer and politician, 1st Mayor of Hamburg
1956 – Possum Bourne, New Zealand race car driver (d. 2003)
1956 – Alan Devonshire, English footballer and manager
1956 – Edward Forbes Smiley III, American art thief and map dealer
1957 – Amy Goodman, American journalist and author
1957 – Gary Kroeger, American actor
1957 – Dallas Moir, Maltese-Scottish cricketer
1957 – Saundra Santiago, American actress
1958 – Hisako Manda, Japanese actress
1960 – Lyn Brown, English social worker and politician
1960 – Bob Casey, Jr., American lawyer and politician
1960:  Michel Faber, Dutch-born writer of English-language fiction
1960 – Olaf Ludwig, German cyclist and manager
1960 – Rudi Völler, German footballer and manager
1961:  Liz Callaway, American actresss and singer
1961 – Hiro Yamamoto
      American bass player and songwriter (Soundgarden and Truly)
1962:  Chris Riddell, British illustrator, writer, and political cartoonist
1962 – Hillel Slovak  (d. 1988)
      Israeli-American guitarist (Red Hot Chili Peppers and What Is This?)
1963 – Garry Kasparov, Russian chess player and author
1964 – Davis Love III, American golfer and sportscaster
1964 – Caroline Rhea
      Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1964 – John Swinney
      Scottish businessman and politician, Deputy First Minister of Scotland
1965 – Patricio Pouchulu, Argentinian architect and educator
1966 – Ali Boumnijel, Tunisian footballer
1966 – Marc Ford
      American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
      (The Black Crowes and Burning Tree)
1966 – Adamantia Stamatopoulou (bka Mando), Greek singer-songwriter
1967 – Dana Barros, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1967 – Michael Eisen, American biologist and academic
1967 – Olga Tañón, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter (Chantelle)
1968 – Ted Washington, American football player
1969 – Dirk Muschiol, German footballer
1970 – Monty Brown, American football player and wrestler
1970 – Gerry Creaney, Scottish footballer and manager
1970 – Szilveszter Csollány, Hungarian gymnast
1970 – Ricardo Rincón, Mexican-American baseball player
1970 – Ricky Schroder, American actor and director

1970:  Kevin Warsh
      American financier,  lawyer, government official, and academic

      Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 2006-2011

1971 – Aldous Byron Valensia Clarkson (bka Valensia)

      Dutch composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist

1971 – Franck Esposito, French swimmer
1971 – Dina Korzun, Russian actress
1971 – Danie Mellor, Australian painter and sculptor
1971 – Bo Outlaw, American basketball player
1972 – Mariusz Czerkawski, Polish ice hockey player and golfer
1972 – Aaron Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Staind)
1973 – Bokeem Woodbine, American actor and producer
1974 – Sergei Gonchar, Russian ice hockey player
1974 – Darren Turner, English race car driver
1974 – David Zdrilic, Australian footballer and manager
1975 – Jasey-Jay Anderson, Canadian snowboarder
1975 – Lou Bega, German singer-songwriter
1975 – Bruce Dyer, English footballer
1975 – Tatiana Navka, Russian ice dancer
1976 – Jonathan Brandis, American actor (d. 2003)
1976 – Valentina Cervi, Italian actress
1976 – Patrik Eliáš, Czech-American ice hockey player
1976 – Glenn Howerton, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1976 – Yoo Ji-tae, South Korean actor and director
1977 – Jeff Stearns, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1977 – Margus Tsahkna, Estonian lawyer and politician
1978 – Arron Asham, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Nick Garrett, English singer
      (The Swingle Singers and Amici Forever)

1978 – Kyle Howard, American actor

1978 – James Jordan, English dancer and choreographer

1978 – Sylvie Meis, Dutch model and actress

1978 – Carles Puyol, Spanish footballer
1978 – Raemon Sluiter, Dutch tennis player
1978 – Keydrick Vincent, American football player
1979 – Gréta Arn, Hungarian tennis player
1979 – Baron Davis, American basketball player
1979 – Tony Lundon
      Irish singer-songwriter, producer, and dancer (Liberty X)
1979 – Síle Seoige, Irish television host
1979 – Meghann Shaughnessy, American tennis player

1979 – William Henry van Cutsem
      English godfather of Prince George of Cambridge

1979 – Murat Yıldırım, Turkish actor

1980 – Colleen Clinkenbeard, American voice actress, director, producer, and screenwriter

1980 – Kelli Giddish, American actress

1980 – Kyle Howard, American actor and screenwriter
1980 – Jason Maguire, Irish jockey
1980 – Alan Melikdjanian, Latvian-American actor, director, and producer
1980 – Wayne Purser, English footballer
1980 – Quentin Richardson, American basketball player
1981 – Nat Borchers, American soccer player
1981 – Gemma Doyle, Scottish politician
1981 – Courtney Peldon, American actress
1981 – Bryan Scott, American football player
1982 – Nellie McKay, English-American singer-songwriter and actress
1982 – Janice Vidal, Hong Kong singer and actress
1982 – Jill Vidal, Hong Kong singer and actress
1983 – Claudio Bravo, Chilean footballer
1983 – Schalk Burger, South African rugby player
1983 – Nicole Cooke, Welsh cyclist
1983 – Derek Lee Nixon, American actor and producer
1983 – Hunter Pence, American baseball player
1984 – Jarmo Ahjupera, Estonian footballer
1984 – Anders Lindegaard, Danish footballer

1984 – Hiro Mizushima, Japanese actor

1984 – Matthew Needham, English actor

1985 – Anna Jennings-Edquist, Australian actress, director, and playwright
1985 – Algo Kärp, Estonian skier
1985 – Kerim Zengin, Turkish footballer
1986 – Michael Bingham, American-English sprinter
1987 – Brandon Hardesty, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1987 – Massimiliano Pesenti, Italian footballer
1987 – Allison Weiss, American singer-songwriter
1988 – Anderson, Brazilian footballer
1988 – Petteri Koponen, Finnish basketball player
1988 – Allison Williams, American actress and singer
1989 – Ryan Bailey, American sprinter
1989:  Dong Dong, Chinese trampoline gymnast
1989 – Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova, Belarusian long jumper
1989 – Josh Reynolds, Australian rugby league player
1991 – Akeem Adams, Trinidadian footballer (d. 2013)
1991 – Ulises Dávila, Mexican footballer
1991 – Josh Gordon, American football player
1991:  Dylan Penn, American model and actress
1992 – Denis Kudryavtsev, Russian hurdler

1993 – Hannah Marks, American actress

1993 – Tony Wroten, American basketball player
1994 – Ángelo Henríquez, Chilean footballer
1994 – Elvis Merzļikins, Latvian ice hockey player


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Coulee City



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Notable

548 – Lý Nam Đế, Vietnamese emperor (b. 503)
799 – Paul the Deacon, Italian monk and historian (b. 720)
814 – Krum, Bulgarian ruler
1093 – Vsevolod I of Kiev (b. 1030)
1138 – Simon I, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1076)
1592 – Bartolomeo Ammannati, Italian architect and sculptor (b. 1511)
1612 – Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai (b. 1585)
1635 – Fakhr-al-Din II, Ottoman prince (b. 1572)
1638 – Henri, Duke of Rohan (b. 1579)
1641 – Richard Montagu, English bishop (b. 1577)
1695 – Jean de La Fontaine, French author and poet (b. 1621)
1716 – Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Torrington, English admiral and politician (b. 1648)
1722 – Charles Leslie, Irish priest and theologian (b. 1650)
1793 – Pierre Gaspard Chaumette, French botanist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1763)
1794 – Nicolas Chamfort, French playwright and poet (b. 1741)
1826 – Franz Danzi, German cellist, composer, and conductor (b. 1763)
1853 – Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic (b. 1788)
1853 – James Iredell, Jr., American lawyer and politician, 23rd Governor of North Carolina (b. 1788)
1855 – Henry De la Beche, English geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1796)
1868 – Tewodros II of Ethiopia (b. 1818)
1880 – Robert Fortune, Scottish botanist and author (b. 1813)
1882 – Bruno Bauer, German historian and philosopher (b. 1809)
1886 – John Humphrey Noyes, American religious leader, founded the Oneida Community (b. 1811)
1890 – Samuel J. Randall, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 33rd Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1828)
1909 – Whitley Stokes, Anglo-Irish lawyer and scholar (b. 1830)
1910 – William Quiller Orchardson, Scottish-English painter and educator (b. 1835)
1911 – John McLane, Scottish-American politician, 50th Governor of New Hampshire (b. 1852)
1911 – George Washington Glick, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of Kansas (b. 1827)
1912 – Takuboku Ishikawa, Japanese poet and author (b. 1886)
1918 – Lavr Kornilov, Russian general (b. 1870)
1925 – Frederik Buch, Danish actor and screenwriter (b. 1875)
1927 – Georg Voigt, German politician, Mayor of Frankfurt (b. 1866)
1936 – Konstantinos Demertzis, Greek politician 129th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
1938 – Grey Owl, English-Canadian environmentalist and author (b. 1888)
1941 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (b. 1863)
1941 – William Twaits, Canadian soccer player (b. 1879)
1942 – Henk Sneevliet, Dutch politician (b. 1883)
1942 – Anton Uesson, Estonian engineer and politician, 17th Mayor of Tallinn (b. 1879)
1944 – Cécile Chaminade, French pianist and composer (b. 1857)
1945 – Ernst Cassirer, Polish-American philosopher and academic (b. 1874)
1954 – Samuel Jones, American high jumper (b. 1880)
1954 – Angus Lewis Macdonald, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1890)
1956 – Emil Nolde, Danish-German painter and educator (b. 1867)
1959 – Eduard van Beinum, Dutch pianist, violinist, and conductor (b. 1901)
1961 – John A. Bennett, American soldier (b. 1935)
1962 – Culbert Olson, American lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of California (b. 1876)
1966 – Abdul Salam Arif, Iraqi colonel and politician, 2nd President of Iraq (b. 1921)
1966 – Carlo Carrà, Italian painter (b. 1881)
1966 – Georges Duhamel, French soldier and author (b. 1884)
1967 – Nicole Berger, French actress (b. 1934)
1969 – Alfred Karindi, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1901)
1971 – Michel Brière, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1949)
1971 – Juhan Smuul, Estonian author, poet, and screenwriter (b. 1921)
1975 – Larry Parks, American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1975 – François Tombalbaye, Chadian soldier, academic, and politician, 1st President of Chad (b. 1918)
1978 – Jack Chambers, Canadian painter and director (b. 1931)
1980 – Markus Höttinger, Austrian race car driver (b. 1956)
1980 – Karl Stegger, Danish actor and singer (b. 1913)
1983 – Gerry Hitchens, English footballer (b. 1934)
1983 – Theodore Stephanides, Greek physician, author, and poet (b. 1896)
1984 – Richard Hurndall, English actor (b. 1910)
1984 – Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harp player and musicologist (b. 1911)
1986 – Stephen Stucker, American actor (b. 1947)
1988 – Jean Gascon, Canadian actor and director (b. 1920)
1992 – Maurice Sauvé, Canadian economist and politician (b. 1923)
1992 – Feza Gürsey, Turkish mathematician and physicist (b. 1921)
1993 – Wallace Stegner, American novelist, short story writer, and essayist (b. 1909)
1996 – James Burke, American gangster (b. 1931)
1996 – Leila Mackinlay, English author and educator (b. 1910)
1997 – Bryant Bowles, American soldier and activist, founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People (b. 1920)
1997 – Alan Cooley, Australian public servant (b. 1920)
1997 – Dorothy Frooks, American author and actress (b. 1896)
1997 – Voldemar Väli, Estonian-Swedish wrestler (b. 1903)
1998 – Patrick de Gayardon, French skydiver and base jumper (b. 1960)
1999 – Ortvin Sarapu, Estonian-New Zealand chess player and author (b. 1924)
1999 – Willi Stoph, German engineer and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of East Germany (b. 1914)
2000 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (b. 1916)
2000 – Frenchy Bordagaray, American baseball player and manager (b. 1910)
2001 – Jimmy Logan, Scottish actor, director, and producer (b. 1928)
2002 – Desmond Titterington, Northern Irish race car driver (b. 1928)
2004 – Caron Keating, Northern Irish television host (b. 1962)
2005 – Don Blasingame, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1932)
2005 – Johnnie Johnson, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1924)
2005 – Johnny Loughrey, Irish singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
2005 – Phillip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (b. 1912)
2005 – Philippe Volter, Belgian actor and director (b. 1959)
2006 – Bill Baker, American baseball player, coach, and umpire (b. 1911)
2006 – Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1918)
2007 – Don Selwyn, New Zealand actor and director (b. 1935)
2008 – John Archibald Wheeler, American physicist and academic (b. 1911)
2009 – Mark Fidrych, American baseball player (b. 1954)
2009 – Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (b. 1936)
2009 – Bruce Snyder, American football player and coach (b. 1940)
2012 – William B. Buffum, American soldier and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Lebanon (b. 1921)
2012 – Cecil Chaudhry, Pakistani pilot, academic, and activist (b. 1941)
2012 – Shūichi Higurashi, Japanese illustrator (b. 1936)
2012 – Marilyn Lovell Matz, American actress and singer (b. 1931)
2012 – David S. Smith, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sweden (b. 1918)
2012 – Robert Wigmore, Cook Islander politician, 14th Deputy Prime Minister of the Cook Islands (b. 1949)
2013 – Frank Bank, American actor (b. 1942)
2013 – Chi Cheng, American bass player (Deftones) (b. 1970)
2013 – Stephen Dodgson, English composer and educator (b. 1924)
2013 – Dean Drummond, American composer and conductor (b. 1949)
2013 – Ian Henderson, Scottish-Kenyan police officer (b. 1927)
2013 – Vincent Montana, Jr., American drummer and composer (MFSB and Salsoul Orchestra) (b. 1928)
2013 – Lin Yang-kang, Taiwanese politician, 29th Vice Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1927)
2014 – Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick (b. 1929)
2014 – Fred Enke, American football player (b. 1924)
2014 – Ernesto Laclau, Argentinian-Spanish philosopher and theorist (b. 1935)
2014 – Michael Ruppert, American journalist and author (b. 1951)
2014 – Rafał Sznajder, Polish fencer (b. 1972)
2015 – Gerald Calabrese, American basketball player and politician (b. 1925)
2015 – Ronnie Carroll, Irish singer and politician (b. 1934)
2015 – Thelma Coyne Long, Australian tennis player and captain (b. 1918)
2015 – Eduardo Galeano, Uruguayan journalist and author (b. 1940)
2015 – Günter Wilhelm Grass  (b. 16 Oct 1927)
      German novelist, poet, playwright, and illustrator
      1999 Nobel Prize in Literature
2015 – Herb Trimpe, American author and illustrator (b. 1939)


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VIP

1777 – Henry Clay  (d. 29 Jun 1852)

      American lawyer and politician

      9th United States Secretary of State, 1825-1829

      U.S. Senator from Kentucky, 1806-1807, 1831-1842, 1849-1852

      U.S. Representative from Kentucky, 1811-1814, 1815-1821, 182-1825

      8th, 10th & 13th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

1874 – William B. Bankhead  (d. 1940)

      American politician

      47th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, 1936-1940

      U.S. Representative from Alabama, 1917-1940

Notable

1432 – Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (d. 1462)
1484 – Antonio da Sangallo the Younger  (d. 1546)
      Italian architect, designed the Apostolic Palace and St. Peter's Basilica
1500 – Joachim Camerarius, German scholar and translator (d. 1574)
1526 – Muretus, French philosopher and author (d. 1585)
1550 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford
      English courtier and politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (d. 1604)
1577 – Christian IV of Denmark (d. 1648)
1705 – William Cookworthy, English minister and pharmacist (d. 1780)
1710 – Caffarelli, Italian actor and singer (d. 1783)
1713 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal  (d. 1796)
      French historian and author
1716 – Felice Giardini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1796)
1722 – Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1793)
1724 – Lyman Hall  (d. 19 Oct 1790)
      British-American physician, clergyman, and politician
      16th Governor of Georgia, 1783 - 1784
1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist and author (d. 1836)

1778 – John Strachan  [Canadian clergyman] (d. 1 Nov 1867)

      1st Anglican Bishop of Toronto, 1839-1867

      Executive Council of Upper Canada, 1815-1836

      Legislative Council of Upper Canada, 1820-1841

1792 – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham  (d. 1840)
      English soldier and politician, Lord Privy Seal
1794 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin  (d. 1847)
      Belgian mathematician and engineer
1796 – George N. Briggs  (d. 12 Sep 1861)
      American lawyer and politician
      19th Governor of Massachusetts, 1844-1851

      U.S. Representative from Massachusetts, 1831-1843

1799 – Henri Druey  (d. 1855)
      Swiss lawyer and politician
      2nd President of the Swiss Confederation
1801 – Joseph Lanner, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1843)
1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright and translator (d. 1886)
1838:  John Shaw Billings, American librarian and surgeon  (d. 11 Mar 1913)
1839 – Nikolay Przhevalsky, Russian geographer and explorer (d. 1888)
1848 – José Gautier Benítez, Puerto Rican soldier and poet (d. 1880)
1851 – Edward Walter Maunder, English astronomer and author (d. 1928)
1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann  (d. 1939)
      German mathematician and academic
1856 – Martin Conway, 1st Baron Conway of Allington  (d. 1937)
      English mountaineer, cartographer, and politician
1861 – Walter Bingle, Australian public servant (d. 1928)
1866 – Princess Viktoria of Prussia (d. 1929)
1868 – Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese admiral (d. 1918)
1868 – Ella Gaunt Smith, American businesswoman (d. 1932)
1869 – Henri Désiré Landru, French serial killer (d. 1922)
1871 – Ioannis Metaxas  (d. 1941)
     Greek general and politician, 130th Prime Minister of Greece
1876:  Vic Willis, American baseball player  (d. 3 Aug 1947)
1880 – Addie Joss, American baseball player and journalist (d. 1911)
1883 – Imogen Cunningham  (d. 1976)
      American photographer and educator
1883 – Dally Messenger  (d. 1959)
      Australian rugby player, cricketer, and sailor
1884 – Tenby Davies, Welsh runner (d. 1932)
1884 – Otto Meyerhof  (d. 1951)
      German physician and biochemist
      1922 Nobel Prize in Medicine
1885 – Robert Delaunay, French painter (d. 25 Oct 1941)
1887 – Harold Lockwood, American actor and director (d. 1918)
1888 – Dan Ahearn  (d. 1942)
     Irish-American long jumper and police officer
1888 – Cecil Kimber, English automobile engineer (d. 1945)
1888 – Kaarlo Koskelo, Finnish-American wrestler (d. 1953)
1888 – Heinrich Neuhaus  (d. 1964)
      Ukrainian-Russian pianist and educator
1892 – Johnny Dodds  (d. 1940)
      American clarinet player and saxophonist
1893 – Robert Harron, American actor (d. 1920)
1894 – Francisco Craveiro Lopes  (d. 1964)
      Portuguese field marshal and politician, 13th President of Portugal
1894:  Ben Nicholson, British painter  (d. 6 Feb 1982)
1898 – Lily Pons, French-American soprano and actress (d. 1976)
1899:  Gladys Taber, American author  (d. 11 Mar 1980)
1901 – Lowell Stockman, American farmer and politician (d. 1962)
1902 – Louis Beel  (d. 1977)
      Dutch academic and politician
      36th Prime Minister of the Netherlands
1903 – Jan Tinbergen  (d. 1994)
      Dutch economist and academic
      1969 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
1904:  Claud Cockburn, British journalist  (d. 15 Dec 1981)
1907 – Felix de Weldon  (d. 2003)
      Austrian-American sculptor
      designed the Marine Corps War Memorial
1907 – Hardie Gramatky, American author and painter (d. 1979)
1907 – Zawgyi (born Thein Han)  (d. 26 Sep 1990)
      Burmese poet, author, literary historian, critic, and academic
1908 – Ida Pollock, English author and painter (d. 2013)
1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot and general (d. 2006)
1911 – Mahmoud Younis, Egyptian engineer (d. 1976)
1912 – Frank Dilio, Canadian businessman (d. 1997)
1912 – Walt Gorney, American actor (d. 2004)
1912 – Hamengkubuwono IX  (d. 1988)
      Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia
1912 – Hound Dog Taylor  (d. 1975)
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1913 – Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-American martial artist (d. 2013)
1914 – Armen Alchian, American economist and academic (d. 2013)
1916 – Movita Castaneda, American actress and singer (d. 2015)
1916 – Beverly Cleary, American author and librarian
1916 – Russell Garcia  (d. 2011)
      American-New Zealand composer and conductor
1916 – Benjamin Libet  (d. 2007)
      American neuropsychologist and academic
1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer and actress (d. 1999)
1917 – Vinoo Mankad, Indian cricketer (d. 1978)
1917 – Robert Manzon, French racing driver (d. 2015)
1919 – István Anhalt, Hungarian-Canadian composer and educator (d. 2012)
1919 – Billy Vaughn, American singer and bandleader (d. 1991)
1921 – Robert Cliche, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (d. 1978)
1922 – Simon Kapwepwe  (d. 1980)
      Zambian politician, 2nd Vice President of Zambia
1923 – Ann Miller, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2004)
1924 – Raymond Barre  (d. 2007)
      French economist and politician, Prime Minister of France
1924 – Peter Safar, Austrian physician and academic (d. 2003)
1925 – Evelyn Berezin, American computer scientist and engineer
1925 – Joe Bowman, American target shooter and boot maker (d. 2009)
1925 – Ned Miller, American singer-songwriter
1925 – Oliver Postgate  (d. 2008)
      English animator, puppeteer, and screenwriter
1926:  Jane Withers, American actress, model, and singer
1927 – Thomas Hemsley, English actor and singer (d. 2013)
1928 – Hardy Krüger, German actor and producer
1928 – Jean-François Paillard, French conductor and author (d. 2013)
1929 – Elspet Gray, Scottish actress (d. 2013)
1929 – Mukhran Machavariani, Georgian poet and educator (d. 2010)
1930 – John Landy
      Australian runner and politician, 26th Governor of Victoria
1930 – Manuel Neri, American sculptor and painter
1930 – Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician and educator (d. 2006)
1930 – Bryan Magee, English philosopher and politician
1931 – Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet and songwriter (d. 1995)
1932 – Lakshman Kadirgamar  (d. 2005)
      Sri Lankan lawyer and politician
      5th Sri Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs
1932 – Tiny Tim (born Herbert B. Khaury)  (d. 30 Nov 1996)
      American singer and ukulele player
1932 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor
1932 – Julio Ojeda Pascual, Spanish-Peruvian bishop (d. 28 Apr 2013)
1933 – Montserrat Caballé, Spanish soprano and actress
1933:  Charley Lau, American baseball player  (d. 18 Mar 1984)
1934 – Heinz Schneiter, Swiss footballer and manager
1935 – Jimmy Makulis, Greek-German singer (d. 2007)
1935 – Wendy Savage, English gynaecologist and activist
1936 – Charles Napier, American actor and singer (d. 2011)
1936 – Kennedy Simmonds, Kittitian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis
1937 – Dennis Banks, American author and activist
1937 – Igor Volk, Ukrainian-Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut
1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English director and playwright
1939 – Johnny Raper, Australian rugby league player and coach
1939:  Lyall Watson  (d. 25 Jun 2008)
      South African botanist, zoologist, biologist, anthropologist,
            ethologist, and author
1940 – Bashir Ahmad, Indian-Bangladeshi singer (d. 2014)
1940 – Woodie Fryman, American baseball player (d. 2011)
1940 – John Hagee, American pastor and theologian
1940 – Herbie Hancock
      American pianist, composer, and bandleader (Miles Davis Quintet)
1941 – Bobby Moore, English footballer and manager (d. 1993)
1942 – Frank Bank, American actor (d. 2013)
1942 – Bill Bryden, Scottish actor, director, and screenwriter
1942 – Carlos Reutemann
      Argentinian race car driver and politician, Governor of Santa Fe
1942 – Jacob Zuma
      South African politician, 4th President of South Africa
1943 – Sumitra Mahajan, Indian politician, 16th Speaker of the Lok Sabha
1943:  Michael Otto, German businessman
1944 – Georgios Balanos
      Greek Greek translator, author, publisher and researcher
1944 – Lisa Jardine, English historian, author, and academic (d. 2015)
1944 – John Kay
      German-Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
      (The Sparrows and Steppenwolf)
1945 – Lee Jong-wook, South Korean physician and diplomat (d. 2006)
1945:  Serge Schmemann, French American journalist, writer and editor
1946 – Ed O'Neill, American actor
1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen
      Scottish politician and diplomat, 10th Secretary General of NATO
1947 – Roy M. Anderson, English epidemiologist, zoologist, and academic
1947 – Martin Brasier, English palaeontologist, biologist, and academic (d. 2014)
1947 – Alex Briley, American singer (Village People)
1947 – Tom Clancy, American historian and author (d. 2013)
1947 – Woody Johnson, American businessman and philanthropist
1947 – Dan Lauria, American actor
1947 – David Letterman, American comedian, actor, and talk show host

1947 – Wayne Northrop, American actor

1947:  Richard Lee Sharp, American Businessman  (d. 24 Jun 2014)

1948 – Jeremy Beadle, English television host and producer (d. 2008)
1948 – Joschka Fischer
      German academic and politician

      Vice Chancellor of Germany, 1998-2005

      Minister for Foreign Affairs, 1998-2005

1948 – Marcello Lippi, Italian footballer, manager, and coach
1948 – Lois Reeves, American singer (Martha and the Vandellas)
1949 – Scott Turow, American lawyer and author

1950:  Joyce Hilda Banda

      Malawian politician

      4th President of Malawi, 2012-2014

      Vice-President of Malawi, 2009-2012

      Minister of Foreign Affairs, 2006-2009

1950 – Flavio Briatore, Italian businessman
1950 – David Cassidy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1950 – Nick Sackman, English composer and educator
1951 – Tom Noonan, American actor

1951:  Tim Walberg

      American politician

      U.S. Representative, R. MI, 2007-2009, 2011-Incumbent

1952 – Reuben Gant, American football player
1952 – Gary Soto, American author and poet
1952 – Ralph Wiley, American journalist (d. 2004)
1953 – Tanino Liberatore, Italian author and illustrator
1954 – John Faulkner
      Australian educator and politician
      52nd Australian Minister for Defence
1954 – Jon Krakauer, American mountaineer and author
1954 – Steve Stevaert  (d. 2015)
      Belgian businessman and politician, Governor of Limburg
1954 – Pat Travers, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1955 – Fabian Hamilton
      English graphic designer, engineer, and politician
1956:  Mike Bouchard, Michigan politician, R.
1956 – Andy García, Cuban-American actor, director, and producer
1956 – Herbert Grönemeyer, German singer-songwriter and actor
1956:  Walter Salles, Brazilian filmmaker and film producer
1957 – Greg Child, Australian mountaineer and author
1957 – Vince Gill
      American singer-songwriter and guitarist
      (Pure Prairie League and The Notorious Cherry Bombs)
1957 – Tama Janowitz, American novelist and short story writer
1958 – J. Alexander, American-French model
1958 – Will Sergeant, English guitarist (Echo & the Bunnymen and Electrafixion)
1958 – Klaus Tafelmeier, German javelin thrower
1958 – Ginka Zagorcheva, Bulgarian hurdler
1959 – Howard Stableford, English radio and television host
1959 – Tracy Tormé, American screenwriter and producer

1960:  Joseph M. "Joe" Kyrillos, Jr., New Jersey politician, R

1960 – Ron MacLean, Canadian sportscaster

1961 – Enedina Arellano Félix, Mexican drug lord
1961 – Corrado Fabi, Italian race car driver
1961 – Lisa Gerrard, Australian singer-songwriter (Dead Can Dance)
1961 – Charles Mann, American football player and sportscaster
1961 – Magda Szubanski, Australian actress
1962 – Art Alexakis
      American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
      (Everclear, Colorfinger, and The Easy Hoes)
1962 – Carlos Sainz, Spanish race car driver
1962 – Nobuhiko Takada, Japanese mixed martial artist and wrestler, founded Hustle

1962:  Vijay Kumar, Indian roboticist and professor

1962 – Carlos Sainz, Spanish race car driver

1962 – Nobuhiko Takada, Japanese mixed martial artist and wrestler

1963 – Lydia Cacho, Mexican journalist and author
1964 – Amy Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Indigo Girls)
1964 – Mark Simmonds, English surveyor and politician
1965 – Kim Bodnia, Danish actor and screenwriter
1965 – Tom O'Brien, American actor and producer
1965 – Chi Onwurah, English politician
1965 – Gervais Rufyikiri, Burundian politician
1965 – Mihai Stoica, Romanian footballer and manager
1966 – Nils-Olav Johansen, Norwegian guitarist and singer (Farmers Market)
1966 – Lorenzo White, American football player
1967 – Sarah Cracknell, English singer-songwriter (Saint Etienne)
1967 – Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (bka Mellow Man Ace)
      Cuban-American rapper (Cypress Hill)
1968 – Alicia Coppola, American actress
1968 – Toby Gad, German-American songwriter and producer
1968 – Adam Graves, Canadian ice hockey player
1968 – Ott, English musician and record producer
1969 – Jörn Lenz, German footballer and manager
1969 – Lucas Radebe, South African footballer and sportscaster
1969 – Michael Jackson, American football player and politician
1970 – Sylvain Bouchard, Canadian speed skater
1971 – Nicholas Brendon, American actor
1971 – Shannen Doherty, American actress, director, and producer
1971 – Eyal Golan, Israeli singer
1971 – Nick Hexum, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (311)
1972 – Şebnem Ferah, Turkish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1972 – Dimitrios Kokotis, Greek high jumper
1972 – Paul Lo Duca, American baseball player and sportscaster
1973 – J. Scott Campbell, American author and illustrator
1973 – Claudia Jordan, American model and actress
1973 – Ryan Kisor, American trumpet player and composer
1973 – Christina Moore, American actress
1973 – Antonio Osuna, Mexican-American baseball player
1974 – Kiyomi Asai, Japanese voice actress
1974 – Sylvio Mendes Campos Júnior (bka Sylvinho)
      Brazilian footballer and manager
1974 – Belinda Emmett, Australian actress (d. 2006)
1974 – Bryan Fletcher, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1974 – Roman Hamrlík, Czech ice hockey player
1974 – Marley Shelton, American actress
1976 – Olga Kotlyarova, Russian runner
1976 – Brad Miller, American basketball player
1977 – Giovanny Espinoza, Ecuadorian footballer
1977 – Jason Price, Welsh footballer
1977 – Glenn Rogers, Australian-Scottish cricketer
1977 – Jordana Spiro, American actress
1978 – Guy Berryman, Scottish bass player and producer (Coldplay and Apparatjik)
1978 – Cheeming Boey, Singaporean-Malaysian illustrator
1978 – Scott Crary, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1978 – Svetlana Lapina, Russian high jumper
1978 – Riley Smith, American actor and singer
1978 – Robin Walker, English businessman and politician
1979 – Claire Danes, American actress and producer
1979 – Jordan De Jong, American baseball player
1979 – Elena Grosheva, Russian gymnast
1979 – Mateja Kežman, Serbian footballer
1979 – Jennifer Morrison, American actress
1979 – Paul Nicholls, English actor
1979 – Cristian Ranalli, Italian footballer
1979:  Barton Seaver, American author, speaker and chef
1980 – Brian McFadden, Irish singer-songwriter (Westlife)
1980 – Erik Mongrain, Canadian guitarist and composer
1981 – Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Russian runner
1981 – Nicolás Burdisso, Argentinian footballer

1981:  Tulsi Gabbard

      American politician

      U.S. Representative, D. HI, 2013-Incumbent

1981 – Grant Holt, English footballer
1981 – Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist
1982 – Fuad Backović (bka Deen), Bosnian singer
1982 – Easton Corbin, American singer-songwriter
1983 – Jelena Dokic, Serbian-Australian tennis player
1983 – Genta Ismajli, Kosovan-Albanian singer-songwriter and actress
1983 – Luke Kibet, Kenyan runner
1983 – Dwayne Smith, Barbadian cricketer
1984 – Aleksey Dmitrik, Russian high jumper
1984:  Garrett Neff, American male model
1985 – James Alexandrou, English actor, director, and screenwriter
1985 – Brennan Boesch, American baseball player
1985 – Jeísa Chiminazzo, Brazilian model
1985 – Ted Ginn, Jr., American football player
1985 – Anna-Katharina Samsel, German actress
1985 – Olga Seryabkina, Russian singer-songwriter (Serebro)
1985 – Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer
      (Morning Musume, Dream Morning Musume, and Hangry & Angry)
1986 – Blerim Džemaili, Swiss footballer
1986 – Lorena Gómez Pérez (bka Lorena), Spanish singer
1986 – Marcel Granollers, Spanish tennis player

1986 – Matt McGorry, American actor

1987 – Brooklyn Decker, American model and actress
1987:  Ilana Glazer, American actress
1987 – Shawn Gore, Canadian football player
1987 – Brendon Urie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Panic! at the Disco)
1988 – Ricardo Gabriel Álvarez, Argentinian footballer
1988 – Stephen Brogan, English footballer
1988 – Amedeo Calliari, Italian footballer
1988 – Jessie James Decker, American singer-songwriter
1988 – April Rose Pengilly, Australian model and actress
1989 – Travis Tatum Mills  (bka Travis Mills or T. Mills)
      American rapper, recording artist, singer-songwriter, and actor
1989 – Miguel Ángel Ponce, American-Mexican footballer

1989 – Dominic Roco, Filipino actor

1989 – Felix Roco, Filipino actor

1989 – Kaitlyn Weaver, Canadian-American ice dancer
1990 – Francesca Halsall, English swimmer
1991 – Torey Krug, American ice hockey player
1991 – Oliver Norwood, English footballer
1991 – Magnus Pääjärvi, Swedish ice hockey player
1991 – Jazz Richards, Welsh footballer
1992 – Giorgio Cantarini, Italian actor
1992 – Chad le Clos, South African swimmer
1993 – Jordan Archer, English-Scottish footballer
1993 – Dorial Green-Beckham, American football player
1993 – Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Canadian ice hockey player
1993 – Katelyn Pippy, American actress
1994 – Isabelle Drummond, Brazilian actress and singer
1994 – Saoirse Ronan, U.S.-born Irish actress
1994 – Airi Suzuki, Japanese actress and singer (Aa!, Cute, and Buono!)
1995 – Pedro Cachín, Argentine tennis player
1996 – Elizaveta Kulichkova, Russian tennis player
1997 – Katelyn Ohashi, American gymnast

1999 – Akai Osei, English dancer

2000 – Suzanna von Nathusius, Polish actress

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Jacob Pierpoint
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Anniversaries

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Vic & Phyllis Spurbeck

Kevin & Kim Fuller

Bill & Dorothy Sieg

Ron & Sharon Thomas

Deaths

VIP

1945 – Franklin D. Roosevelt  (b. 1882)
      American lawyer and politician
      32nd President of the United States


Notable

45 BC – Gnaeus Pompeius, Roman general and politician (b. 75 BC)
238 – Gordian I, Roman emperor (b. 159)
238 – Gordian II, Roman emperor (b. 192)
352 – Pope Julius I
434 – Archbishop Maximianus of Constantinople
1125 – Vladislaus I, Duke of Bohemia (b. 1065)
1443 – Henry Chichele, English archbishop (b. 1364)
1550 – Claude, Duke of Guise (b. 1496)
1555 – Joanna of Castile (b. 1479)
1675 – Richard Bennett, English politician, colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1609)
1684 – Nicola Amati, Italian instrument maker (b. 1596)
1687 – Ambrose Dixon, English-American soldier (b. 1619)
1704 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French bishop and theologian (b. 1627)
1748 – William Kent, English architect, designed Holkham Hall and Chiswick House (b. 1685)
1782 – Metastasio, Italian-Austrian poet and composer (b. 1698)
1788 – Carlo Antonio Campioni, French-Italian composer (b. 1719)
1795 – Johann Kaspar Basselet von La Rosée, Bavarian general (b. 1710)
1814 – Charles Burney, English composer and historian (b. 1726)
1817 – Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic (b. 1730)
1850 – Adoniram Judson, American lexicographer and missionary (b. 1788)
1866 – Peter Hesketh-Fleetwood, English politician, founded Fleetwood (b. 1801)
1872 – Nikolaos Mantzaros, Greek composer and theorist (b. 1795)
1878 – William M. Tweed, American lawyer and politician (b. 1823)
1902 – Marie Alfred Cornu, French physicist and academic (b. 1842)
1906 – Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya  (b. 1836)
      Indian scholar, academic, and philanthropist
1912 – Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founded the American Red Cross (b. 1821)
1933 – Adelbert Ames, American general and politician, 30th Governor of Mississippi (b. 1835)
1937 – Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Turkish playwright and poet (b. 1852)
1938 – Feodor Chaliapin, Russian opera singer (b. 1873)
1943 – Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (b. 1889)
1953 – Lionel Logue, Australian actor and therapist (b. 1880)
1962 – Ron Flockhart, Scottish race car driver (b. 1923)
1966 – Sydney Allard, English racing driver and founder of the Allard car company (b. 1910)
1968 – Heinrich Nordhoff, German engineer (b. 1899)
1971 – Wynton Kelly, American pianist and composer (b. 1931)
1971 – Ed Lafitte, American baseball player and dentist (b. 1886)
1973 – Arthur Freed, American songwriter and producer (b. 1894)
1975 – Josephine Baker, American-French actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1906)
1977 – Philip K. Wrigley, American businessman, co-founded Lincoln Park Gun Club (b. 1894)
1980 – Clark McConachy, New Zealand snooker player (b. 1895)
1980 – William R. Tolbert, Jr., Liberian politician, 20th President of Liberia (b. 1913)
1981 – Prince Yasuhiko Asaka of Japan (b. 1887)
1981 – Joe Louis, American boxer, wrestler, and actor (b. 1914)
1983 – Carl Morton, American baseball player (b. 1944)
1984 – Edwin T. Layton, American admiral and cryptanalyst (b. 1903)
1986 – Valentin Kataev, Russian author and playwright (b. 1897)
1987 – Mike Von Erich, American wrestler (b. 1964)
1988 – Colette Deréal, French actress and singer (b. 1927)
1988 – Alan Paton, South African historian and author (b. 1903)
1989 – Abbie Hoffman, American activist, co-founded Youth International Party (b. 1936)
1989 – Sugar Ray Robinson, American boxer and actor (b. 1921)
1992 – Ilario Bandini, Italian race car driver and businessman (b. 1911)
1997 – George Wald, American neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
1998 – Robert Ford, Canadian poet and diplomat (b. 1915)
1999 – Marion Albert Pruett, American spree killer (b. 1949)
1999 – Boxcar Willie, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
2001 – Harvey Ball, American illustrator, created the smiley (b. 1921)
2002 – George Shevelov, Ukrainian-American linguist and philologist (b. 1908)
2003 – Sydney Lassick, American actor (b. 1922)
2004 – Moran Campbell, Canadian physician and academic, invented the venturi mask (b. 1925)
2005 – Ehud Manor, Israeli songwriter and translator (b. 1941)
2006 – Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (b. 1929)
2006 – William Sloane Coffin, American minister and activist (b. 1924)
2006 – Puggy Pearson, American poker player (b. 1929)
2007 – Kevin Crease, Australian journalist (b. 1936)
2008 – Cecilia Colledge, English-American figure skater and coach (b. 1920)
2008 – Patrick Hillery, Irish physician and politician, 6th President of Ireland (b. 1923)
2008 – Jerry Zucker, Israeli-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1949)
2009 – Marilyn Chambers, American porn actress and screenwriter (b. 1952)
2010 – Michel Chartrand, Canadian union leader (b. 1916)
2010 – Reynaldo Alfredo R. Hipolito (bka Palito), Filipino actor (b. 1934)
2010 – Werner Schroeter, German director and screenwriter (b. 1945)
2011 – Karim Fakhrawi, Bahraini journalist, co-founded Al-Wasat (b. 1962)
2012 – Mohit Chattopadhyay, Indian poet and playwright (b. 1934)
2012 – Aristóteles Radamés Coccó Flores (bka Masakre), Mexican wrestler (b. 1954)
2012 – Linda Cook, American actress (b. 1948)
2012 – Elly Deliou, Greek musician (b. 1936)
2012 – Rodgers Grant, American pianist and composer (b. 1935)
2012 – Amy Tryon, American horse rider (b. 1970)
2013 – Robert Byrne, American chess player and author (b. 1928)
2013 – Johnny du Plooy, South African boxer (b. 1964)
2013 – Michael France, American screenwriter (b. 1962)
2013 – Brennan Manning, American priest and author (b. 1934)
2013 – Annamária Szalai, Hungarian journalist and politician (b. 1961)
2013 – William Y. Thompson, American historian and author (b. 1922)
2013 – Ya'akov Yosef, Israeli rabbi and politician (b. 1946)
2014 – Pierre Autin-Grenier, French author and poet (b. 1947)
2014 – Fred Ho, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1957)
2014 – Brita Koivunen, Finnish singer and actress (b. 1931)
2014 – Pierre-Henri Menthéour, French cyclist (b. 1960)
2014 – Maurício Alves Peruchi, Brazilian footballer (b. 1990)
2014 – Hal Smith, American baseball player and coach (b. 1931)
2014 – Billy Standridge, American race car driver (b. 1953)
2015 – Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1979)
2015 – Paulo Brossard, Brazilian jurist and politician (b. 1924)
2015 – Patrice Dominguez, Algerian-French tennis player and trainer (b. 1950)
2015 – Alfred Eick, German commander (b. 1916)
2015 – André Mba Obame, Gabonese politician (b. 1957)
2022 – Gilbert Gottfried, American stand-up comedian and actor (b. 28 Feb 1955)

Family

1898 – Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian cardinal (b. 1820)


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