Date | Event |
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1169 |
Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1183) |
1487 |
Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope (1550-55) |
1550 |
Alonso de Guzmán El Bueno, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Spanish Armada commander (d. 1615) |
1561 |
Hernando Arias de Saavedra, Spanish colonial governor (d. 1634) |
1585 |
Ercole Porta, composer |
1588 |
Nicholas Lanier, composer |
1624 |
Thomas Sydenham, English physician (d. 1689) |
1638 |
Maria Theresa of Spain, El Escorial, Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France (d. 1683) |
1645 |
Romeyn de Hooghe, Haarlem Neth, painter/goldsmith |
1659 |
Henry Purcell, English organist/composer (Dido & Aeneas) |
1714 |
Niccolo Jommelli, Italy, composer |
1736 |
Carter Braxton, US farmer/signer (Declaration of Independence) |
1751 |
Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Italian violinist/composer/conductor |
1753 |
John Soane, English architect (Bank of England, Soane Museum) |
1758 |
Hannah Webster Foster, American author (d. 1840) |
1779 |
Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer |
1786 |
Nicolás Bravo, Mexican politician and soldier (d. 1854) |
1786 |
William Mason, American politician (d. 1860) |
1787 |
John Jordan Crittenden, MC (Union), died in 1863 |
1788 |
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, French archaeologist (d. 1868) |
1801 |
Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881) |
1810 |
Albert Gallatin Blanchard, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) |
1815 |
Eleazer Arthur Paine, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) |
1823 |
Adolf von Doss, composer |
1832 |
Randall Lee Gibson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1892 |
1836 |
Joseph Wheeler II, Maj Gen (Confederacy/Cavalry/Army of Tennessee) |
1836 |
Karl Merz, composer |
1839 |
Isaac Kauffman Funk, US, publisher (Funk & Wagnalls) |
1839 |
Charles Peirce, American philosopher (d. 1914) |
1844 |
Abel Hoadley, Australian confectioner (d. 1918) |
1848 |
William M Harnett, US painter (Old Violin) |
1852 |
Alice Brown Davis, Seminole chief (d. 1935) |
1854 |
Anton CR Dreesmann, German/Neth manufacturer (Vroom & Dreesman) |
1857 |
James E Keeler, US, astronomer (rings of Saturn) |
1861 |
Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (d. 1941) |
1866 |
Tor Bernhard Vilhelm Aulin, composer |
1866 |
Jeppe Aakjær, Danish writer (d. 1930) |
1869 |
Caro Roma, composer |
1871 |
Charles Collett, British mechanical engineer (d. 1952) |
1872 |
Josephina "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Verdoold Sheep) |
1872 |
Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji, India, cricketer/politician |
1875 |
Paul Scheinpflug, composer |
1877 |
Georgia B D Camp Johnson, US, poet/playwright (Autumn Love Cycle) |
1882 |
Paul Harvey, IL, actor (Calamity Jane, Heldorado, Jamboree) |
1883 |
Euphemia "Phemia" Molkenboer, Dutch author/poster artist |
1885 |
Berthold Altaner, German church historian (Patrologie) |
1885 |
Carl Clinton Van Doren, US literary (9th Wave) |
1885 |
Johannes de Jong, cardinal/archbishop of Utrecht (Handbook) |
1886 |
Hilda Doolittle, US, poetess (imagisten) |
1887 |
Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy |
1889 |
Vilem Petrzelka, composer |
1890 |
Franz Werfel, Austria, author (40 Days of Musa Dagh) |
1890 |
Elsa Schiaparelli, Rome, Italian fashion designer |
1892 |
Arthur H Compton, US physicist (X-rays) |
1893 |
Al "Fuzzy" St John, Santa Ana California, actor (Lash of the West) |
1893 |
Maria de Jesus, Portuguese supercentenarian |
1895 |
Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana, Telugu writer (d. 1976). |
1896 |
Ye Ting, Chinese military leader (d. 1946) |
1896 |
Adele Astaire, American dancer and entertainer (d. 1981) |
1896 |
Robert Taschereau, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1970) |
1897 |
Nancy Keene Lancaster, designer/Collector |
1897 |
Georges Bataille, French writer (d. 1962) |
1897 |
Hilde Hildebrand, German actress (d. 1976) |
1898 |
Adele Marie Astaire, Omaha NE, sister of Fred Astaire, entertainer |
1898 |
Bessie Love, Midland TX, actress (Broadway Melody, Children of Damned) |
1898 |
Waldo Semon, American inventor (d. 1999) |
1902 |
Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Wegwerkers) |
1904 |
Max Shachtman, American politician (d. 1972) |
1906 |
Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, composer/conductor (Hooglied) |
1907 |
Alva R. Fitch, American army officer (d. 1989) |
1908 |
Raymond Harry Warnow Scott, Brooklyn New York, American composer ('The Toy Trumpet') |
1908 |
Waldo Wedel, American Archaeologist (d. 1996) |
1912 |
Brother William Oliver Antoninus Everson, poet |
1912 |
Mary Walter, Filipina actress (d. 1993) |
1913 |
Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, pres South Afr Pan-African Congress (1986- ) |
1914 |
Robert Wise, director (Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story) |
1915 |
Edmond O'Brien, NYC, actor (Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight) |
1916 |
Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician |
1917 |
Franfo Fortini, poet |
1917 |
Miguel Serrano, Chilean author and diplomat |
1918 |
Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog (d. 1932) |
1919 |
John Noorda, resistance fighter |
1919 |
Lex van Delden, Dutch composer/writer |
1920 |
Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor/director (Assault) |
1920 |
Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer (d. 2001) |
1921 |
Cornelis A H Wagtho, student/resistance fighter |
1924 |
Boyd K. Packer, LDS apostle |
1924 |
Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (d. 1988) |
1925 |
Roy James Brown, New Orleans, boxer/soul singer (Good Rockin' Tonight) |
1926 |
Beryl Cook, British painter |
1927 |
Gwen Watford, British actress (Body in the Library, Ghoul) |
1928 |
Leo P[atrick] Kelley, US, sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space) |
1928 |
Jean Vanier, Canadian disabilities advocate |
1928 |
Walter Martin, American Christian apologist (d. 1989) |
1929 |
Akio Yashiro, composer |
1929 |
Arnold Daniel Palmer, Latrobe PA, PGA golfer (1964 Masters) |
1929 |
Pentti Siimes, [Pentti Kalevi Siimes], Helsinki Finland |
1930 |
Kenneth Kweku Sinaman Dadzie, diplomat |
1931 |
Philip Baker Hall, American actor |
1932 |
Bo Goldman, American screenwriter |
1933 |
David Rowland, English real estate developer/broker/multi-millionaire |
1933 |
Yevgeny Vassilyevich Khrunov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 5) |
1933 |
Karl Lagerfeld, Hamburg Germany, German fashion designer (Chanel) |
1934 |
Charles Kuralt, Wilmington NC, newscaster (On the Road) |
1934 |
James L Oberstar, (Rep-D-Minnesota, 1975- ) |
1934 |
Larry Sitsky, composer |
1934 |
Roger Maris, Hibbing, Minnesota, Yankee, HR champ (61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961), (d. 1985) |
1934 |
Vasil Kazandzhiev, composer |
1935 |
John Palmer, Kingsport Tenn, news anchor (NBC Weekend News) |
1935 |
Paul van Vliet, Dutch cabaret performer |
1935 |
Mary Oliver, American poet |
1937 |
Alun Edward Islwyn Pask, rugby International |
1937 |
Paul Martin Palombo, composer |
1937 |
Jared Diamond, American biologist and author |
1939 |
Artie Tripp, rocker (Mothers Of Invention) |
1939 |
Greg Mullavey, Buffalo NY, actor (Tom-Mary Hartman, Rituals) |
1939 |
Topham Brinton, English carpet magnate/multi-millionaire |
1940 |
Roy Ayers, LA, disco jazz artist (Fever, You Send Me) |
1940 |
Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut |
1941 |
Pyotr I Klimuk, Poland, cosmonaut (Soyuz 13, 18B, 30) |
1941 |
Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist (d. 2002) |
1941 |
Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997) |
1942 |
Danny Hutton, Ireland, rock vocalist (Three Dog Night) |
1943 |
Garrett List, composer |
1943 |
Eldridge Coleman ("Superstar" Billy Graham), American professional wrestler |
1943 |
Daniel Truhitte, American actor |
1943 |
Neale Donald Walsch, American author |
1944 |
Thomas Allen, British opera singer |
1945 |
Jose Feliciano, Lares, Puerto Rican singer/songwriter (Light my Fire) |
1945 |
Rein van den Broek, Dutch trumpeteer (Ekseption) |
1945 |
Richard M Mullane, Tx, USAF/astro (STS 41-D, STS-27, STS-36) |
1945 |
Tom Ligon, New Orleans, actor (Joyride) |
1946 |
James R Hines, Dumas Ark, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1968) |
1946 |
Jim Hines, American athlete |
1946 |
Michèle Alliot-Marie, French politician |
1947 |
Larry Gene Nelson, Ft Payne AL, PGA golfer (1980 Atlanta Classic) |
1947 |
Larry Nelson, Fort Payne Alabama, American golfer (three-time Major Championship winner) |
1948 |
Bob Lanier, NBA center (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks) |
1948 |
Judy Geeson, Arundei Sussex England, actress (To Sir With Love, Berserk) |
1948 |
Margaret Trudeau, Vancouver BC, former Canadian 1st lady |
1948 |
Tony Gatlif, Algerian-born director |
1948 |
Bob Lanier, American basketball player |
1948 |
Zhang Chengzhi, Chinese writer |
1948 |
Charlie Waters, American football player |
1949 |
Barriemore Barlow, rocker (Jethro Tull) |
1949 |
Don Muraco, professional wrestler |
1949 |
Bill O'Reilly, American journalist and commentator |
1950 |
Don Powell, England, rock drummer (Slade) |
1950 |
Joe Perry, Lawrence, Massachusetts, American rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Walk this Way) |
1951 |
Albert R Wynn, (Rep-D-Maryland) |
1951 |
Alder Taylor, rocker |
1951 |
Peter Tolson, rocker |
1952 |
Gerry Conway, Marvel comics writer (Punisher) |
1952 |
Vic Toews, Canadian politician |
1953 |
Amy Irving, Palo Alto, Cal, actress (Yentl, Carrie, Crossing Delancy) |
1954 |
Martha Nause, Sheboygan WI, LPGA golfer (1994 du Maurier Ltd Classic) |
1955 |
Charlotte Lewis, Chicago Illinois, basketball player (Olympic-silver-1976) |
1955 |
Giannina Facio Franco, San Jose Costa Rica, Mrs Phillipe Junot |
1955 |
Pat Mastelotto, rock drummer (Mr Mister, King Crimson) |
1956 |
Johnny Fingers, rocker (Boomtown Rats) |
1956 |
Johnny Hickman, American musician |
1957 |
Brian Fitzpatrick, Upper Darby Pa, actor (Rick Alden-Loving) |
1957 |
Kate Burton, Geneva Switzerland, actress (Ice Storm, August) |
1957 |
Siobhan Fahey, Dublin, rocker (Bananarama-Venus, Shakespear's Sister) |
1957 |
Carol Decker, UK singer (T'Pau-Heart & Soul) |
1958 |
Chris Columbus, writer/director (Mrs Doubtfire, Nine Months) |
1959 |
Peter Nelson, American actor |
1960 |
Colin Firth, Hampshire England, actor (Femme Fatale, Hostages) |
1960 |
Miranda Wilson, Nebraska, actress (Sandra-Santa Barbara) |
1960 |
Alison Bechdel, American cartoonist |
1960 |
David Lowery, American musician |
1962 |
Esteban Toledo, Mexicali Mexico, Nike golfer (1991 Ben Hogan Reno-2nd) |
1963 |
David Titlow, rocker (Blue Mercedes-Rich & Famous) |
1963 |
Susan Gautier-Smith, TV producer |
1963 |
Bill Stevenson, American music producer and musician |
1964 |
Karl Wilson, NFL defensive end (Buffalo Bills) |
1964 |
Peter Vogler, Australian baseball outfielder (Olympics-1996) |
1964 |
Tim Harris, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers) |
1964 |
John E. Sununu, American politician |
1965 |
Allison Daughtry, actress (Guilding Light) |
1965 |
Brian Washington, NFL safety (KC Chiefs) |
1966 |
Joe Nieuwendyk, NHL forward (Dallas Stars, Team Canada 1998) |
1966 |
Kimble Anders, NFL fullback (KC Chiefs) |
1966 |
Ted Popson, NFL tight end (SF 49ers) |
1968 |
Yvo Joordens, soccer player (MVV) |
1968 |
Big Daddy Kane, American rapper |
1968 |
Guy Ritchie, British film director |
1969 |
Bob Spitulski, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks) |
1969 |
Matt Geiger, NBA center (Charlotte Hornets) |
1969 |
Jonathon Schaech, American actor |
1970 |
Julie Halard, Versailles France, tennis star (1995 Prague) |
1970 |
Robert Green, NFL running back (Chic Bears) |
1970 |
Paula Kelley, musician |
1971 |
Brandon Harrison, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers) |
1971 |
Brian Earley, Fresno California, diver (Olympics-96) |
1971 |
Chris Oeding, Santa Ana California, water polo driver (Olympics-96) |
1972 |
James Duval, American actor |
1973 |
Ghada Shouaa, Syria, heptatlete (Olympics-gold-96) |
1973 |
Ferdinand Coly, Senegalese footballer |
1974 |
Ben Wallace, NBA forward (Wash Wizards) |
1974 |
Jill Chartier, Miss Oregon USA (1996) |
1974 |
Sandra Cacic, Joliet Ill, tennis star |
1974 |
Ryan Phillippe, American actor |
1975 |
Temple Taggart, Miss USA-Utah (1997, top 6) |
1975 |
Jonathan Hoenig, American investment advisor |
1975 |
Dan O'Toole, Peterborough Ontario, Canadian sports anchor (TSN, Fox Sports 1) |
1976 |
Gregory Robert Henderson, Dunedin NZ, 4k pursuit cyclist (Olympics-96) |
1979 |
Jacob Young, American actor and singer |
1980 |
Timothy Goebel, Evanston Ill, figure skater (1996 National Jr champ) |
1986 |
Hiroki Uchi, Japanese Idol |
1988 |
Jordan Staal, Canadian ice hockey player |
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