Date | Event |
---|---|
1207 |
Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273) |
1227 |
Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292) |
1530 |
Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606) |
1550 |
Michael Maestlin, German mathematician (d. 1631) |
1622 |
Johann Sebastiani, composer |
1627 |
Robinson Crusoe, fictional character, according to Daniel Defoe |
1631 |
William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701) |
1685 |
Gunther Jacob Wenceslaus, composer |
1700 |
Stanisław Konarski, Polish writer (d. 1773) |
1710 |
John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, British statesman (d. 1771) |
1715 |
Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, French philosopher (d. 1780) |
1732 |
Jacques Necker, French finance minister of Louis XVI (d. 1804) |
1743 |
Jeronymo Francisco de Lima, composer |
1752 |
Justin Heinrich Knecht, composer |
1765 |
José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary (d. 1815) |
1800 |
Decimus Burton, British architect (d. 1881) |
1805 |
Samuel Peter Heintzelman, Major General (Union volunteers) |
1808 |
Lambertus GC Ledeboer, Dutch vicar (Folies-old Calvinist communities) |
1811 |
Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890) |
1824 |
Peter Milne, composer |
1827 |
Carlo A Alfieri, Italian MP (Liberal) |
1827 |
Kenner Garrard, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879 |
1827 |
Ellis H. Roberts, American politician (d. 1918) |
1832 |
Frederick Sleigh "Bobs" Roberts, Brit gov of Natal (Ireland-Boer war) |
1833 |
Ferdinand von Saar, writer |
1840 |
Johan Severin Svendsen, composer |
1847 |
Wilhelmina E Drucker, [Lensing], Dutch feminist |
1852 |
Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish organist/composer |
1856 |
Andrejs Jurjans, composer |
1857 |
Hermann Sudermann, German writer (Honor, That Ehre, Frau Sorge) |
1861 |
William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932) |
1862 |
Georgy Eduardovich Konyus, composer |
1863 |
Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (WW I) |
1869 |
Ernest Jones, cricket pace bowler (marvellous Aust at turn of century) |
1870 |
Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926) |
1870 |
Thomas W. Lamont, American banker; father of Corliss Lamont; great-grandfather of Ned Lamont (d. 1948) |
1871 |
John Fabricius, Neth/English stageauthor (Ring of Prophet) |
1871 |
Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer |
1876 |
Katherine Griffith, SF CA, actress (Pollyanna, Fast Company) |
1879 |
Ernst Isler, composer |
1879 |
Henri Casadesus, French violist and composer (Viola d'amour) |
1882 |
George Bancroft, Phila, actor (Underworld)/wife of Octavia Brooke |
1883 |
Robert H Lightfoot, English theologist/exegetist (St John's Gospel) |
1883 |
Bernhard Rust, Nazi education minister (d. 1945) |
1887 |
Lil Dagover [Marta-Maria Lillits], Madiun, Java, Dutch-born German actress (Spiders) |
1893 |
Lansdale Sasscer, American politician (d. 1964) |
1894 |
Dirk J Bush, Dutch/US mathematician (Concise History of Mathematics) |
1895 |
Lewis Milestone, Russian-born film director (d. 1980) |
1898 |
Felix Kersten, Baltic-German/Finnish masseuse (Heinrich Himmler) |
1898 |
Johannes Rontgen, composer |
1898 |
Renée Adorée, French actress (d. 1933) |
1898 |
Princess Charlotte of Monaco (d. 1977) |
1899 |
Hendrik Marsman, Dutch poet/writer/critic |
1900 |
Otto Roesch, paleontologist |
1902 |
Piet[er J] "Piet" Lieftinck, Dutch minister of Finance (1945-52) |
1904 |
Frank Lawton, London England, actor (Devil Doll, Invisible Ray) |
1905 |
Michael Powell, English director/screen writer/producer (Red Shoes) |
1905 |
Nevill Francis Mott, physicist |
1905 |
Ralph Forbes, London England, actor (Romeo & Juliet, Daniel Boone) |
1906 |
Eamonn O Gallagher, composer |
1906 |
John I M Stewart, British detective writer (Comedy of Terrors) |
1906 |
Michael John Innes Mackintosh Stewart Innes, writer |
1907 |
Arnold Elston, composer |
1908 |
David Oistrakh, Odessa Russia, violinist/prof (Moscow Conservatory) |
1908 |
Edzard H Schaper, German/Swiss sailor/UP-correspondent/antifascist |
1912 |
Oliver Charles Anderson, novelist |
1915 |
Lester Garfield Maddox, (Gov-D-Ga)/restaurant owner |
1915 |
Robert Morris, lawyer |
1917 |
Buddy Rich, New York, American jazz drummer and band leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go), (d. 1987) |
1917 |
Chung Hee Park, general/pres of South Korea (1961-79), assassinated |
1917 |
Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, USSR, director (Taganka) |
1918 |
Lewis Nixon, WWII Veteran (d. 1996) |
1919 |
Patricia Neway, Brooklyn New York, American soprano (Consul, Maria Golovia), (d. 2012) |
1919 |
Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health |
1919 |
Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (d. 1992) |
1920 |
Donald Keech, entrepreneur |
1920 |
Ghazar Saryan, composer |
1920 |
Aldo Parisot, Brazilian-American musician and cellist |
1921 |
Deborah Kerr, Helensburg Scotland, actress (King & I, Night of Iguana) |
1921 |
Eileen Zhang Ailing Chang, writer |
1922 |
Allan Rae, cricketer (prolific WI opening batsman 1948-53) |
1922 |
Alan Stretton, Australian general |
1924 |
Charles Quinlivan, Jersey City NJ, actor (7 Guns to Mesa) |
1924 |
Truman Capote, New Orleans Louisiana, American author (In Cold Blood) |
1925 |
Gwyn A Williams, historian/socialist |
1926 |
Peder Holm, composer |
1926 |
Robin Roberts, pitcher (Phillies, Won 28 in 1952) |
1927 |
W. S. Merwin, American poet |
1928 |
Elie Wiesel, Romania, author (Souls on Fire)/Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986) |
1930 |
Ben Cooper, Hartford CT, actor (Rose Tattoo, Outcast, Arizona Raiders) |
1931 |
Angie Dickinson, [Angeline Brown], Kulm ND, actress (Police Woman) |
1931 |
Ray Willsey, Regina Sask, WLAF def coordinator (Frankfurt, Scotland) |
1932 |
Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo) |
1932 |
Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008) |
1933 |
Mars Zakirovich Rafikov, Russian cosmonaut |
1934 |
Udo Jürgens, Austrian singer |
1934 |
Anna Kashfi, Welsh actress |
1935 |
Jill Corey, Avonmore Pa, singer (Your Hit Parade) |
1935 |
Johnny Mathis, SF, voclaist (Chances Are, 12th of Never) |
1936 |
Butler Derrick, (Rep-D-SC, 1974- ) |
1936 |
James R Sasser, (Sen-D-Tenn, 1977- ) |
1937 |
Jurek Becker, writer |
1937 |
Valentin Vasil'yevich Sil'vestrov, composer |
1938 |
Salvatore Michael Caruana, Mass, criminal (FBI Most Wanted List) |
1939 |
Len Cariou, Winnipeg Manitoba, actor (Four Seasons-Sherry) |
1939 |
Piet M Blauw, Dutch MP (VVD) |
1940 |
Harry Winston Jerome, Sask Canada, 100m runner (Olympic-bronze-1964) |
1942 |
Dewey Martin, Canada, rock vocalist/drummer (Buffalo Springfield) |
1942 |
Frankie Lymon, NYC, rocker (The Teenagers-Why do Fools Fall in Love) |
1942 |
Gus Dudgeon, British pop producer (Joan Armatrading, David Bowie) |
1942 |
Sture Pettersson, Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968) |
1943 |
Jody Powell, press mouthpiece (Jimmy Carter) |
1943 |
Marilyn McCoo, Jersey City NJ, host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension) |
1943 |
Johann Deisenhofer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
1943 |
Ian Ogilvy, British Actor |
1944 |
Diane Dufresne, French Canadian singer |
1945 |
Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel |
1945 |
Bob Lassiter, American radio personality |
1946 |
Paul Sheahan, cricketer (dashing Australian Test batsman 1967-74) |
1946 |
Sylvia Peterson, US vocalist (Chiffons-He's So Fine) |
1946 |
Héctor Lavoe, Puerto Rican singer (d. 1993) |
1946 |
Claude Vorilhon, founder of Raelism, a ufo religion |
1946 |
William Thurston, Washington, mathematician (Fields Medal, 1982), (d. 2012) |
1947 |
Marc Bolan, London England, rock vocalist (T-Rex-Bang a Gong) |
1947 |
Rula Lenska, St Neots England, actress (Friends from Europe are here) |
1947 |
Dave Arneson, American game designer |
1948 |
Craig Kusick, former Major League Baseball Player |
1949 |
Michel Tognini, Vincennes France, astronaut (Soyuz TM-15, sk: STS 93) |
1950 |
Victoria Tennant, London England (All of Me, Chiefs, Winds of War) |
1950 |
Renato Zero, Italian musician |
1951 |
Catie Ball, US, 100 m breast stroke swimmer (Olympic-4X4 gold-1968) |
1951 |
Nicholas Yermakov, US, sci-fi author (Epiphany, Jehad, Clique) |
1951 |
Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine |
1952 |
Darrell Hair, cricketer (Australian Test umpire since 1993-94) |
1952 |
Frank Zincavage, rocker (Romeo Void) |
1952 |
Jack Wild, British actor (d. 2006) |
1953 |
Deborah Allen, Memphis Tn, country singer (Jim Stafford Show) |
1953 |
S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author |
1954 |
Barry Williams, Santa Monica California, actor (Greg-Brady Bunch) |
1954 |
Calvin Levels, Cleveland Ohio, actor (Knightwatch) |
1954 |
Patrice Rushen, Los Angeles California, rock vocalist |
1955 |
Frankie Kennedy, flute player |
1956 |
Maria Esmeralda, Belgian princess/daughter of Leopold III/Lilian Baels |
1957 |
Fran Drescher, Queens NY, actress (Cadillac Man, Nanny) |
1957 |
Gladys Portugues, NYC, Mrs Jean-Claude Van Damme/actr (It's Alive 3) |
1957 |
William Christian, Wash DC, actor (Derek Frye-All My Children) |
1958 |
Christopher Cass, Cold Spring Harbor NY, actor (Jack Forbes-Loving) |
1958 |
Marty Stuart, Phila Miss, country singer (Hillbilly Rock) |
1958 |
Nona Garson, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96) |
1958 |
Rodwell Biggie Tembo Marasha, musician |
1959 |
Basia Trzetrzelevska, Poland, jazz singer (Time & Life) |
1959 |
Hans Werdekker, Dutch soccer player (Ajax, RKC/Amsterdam Admirals) |
1959 |
Kim Bauer, New Orleans LA, LPGA golfer (1993 Minn LPGA Classic-30th) |
1959 |
Ettore Messina, Italian basketball coach |
1960 |
Mike Herbert, Rogers Ark, kayak (alt-Olympics-96) |
1960 |
Susan Keith, actress (Shana Vochek-Loving) |
1960 |
Blanche Lincoln, American politician |
1961 |
Chandrakant Pandit, Indian cricket wicket-keeper (late 80's) |
1961 |
Crystal Bernard, Garland TX, actress (Amy-It's a Living, Helen-Wings) |
1961 |
Eric Stoltz, actor (Anaconda, Pulp Fiction, Mask) |
1961 |
Eric van de Poele, Belgian racing driver |
1961 |
Sally Yeh, Hong Kong singer and actress |
1962 |
Dave Magadan, Tampa FL, 1st baseman (NY Mets, Chicago Cubs) |
1962 |
Frank Rijkaard, Surinam/Dutch soccer star (Ajax, AC Milan) |
1962 |
George Jamison, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs) |
1962 |
Leon Hutten, soccer player (RKC) |
1962 |
Shaan, Indian singer |
1963 |
Cristina Marsillach, Madrid Spain, actress (Barocco) |
1963 |
Ed Drakich, Windsor Ontario, volleyball player (Olympics-96) |
1963 |
Reb Beach, rocker (Winger) |
1964 |
Michael McKay, Australian rower (Olympics-96) |
1964 |
Stephen N Frick, Pitts PA, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut |
1964 |
Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish) |
1964 |
Monica Bellucci, Citta di Castello Italy, actress (Dracula) |
1965 |
Kathleen Madigan, American comedian |
1966 |
Kerry G. Johnson, African American graphic designer and caricaturist |
1967 |
Nadine Handford, Adelaide Aust, golfer (1993 T77 Alpine Aust Ladies) |
1967 |
Yorkis Perez, Bajos de Haina Dom Rep, pitcher (Florida Marlins) |
1969 |
Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991) |
1970 |
Eric Piatkowski, NBA guard/forward (LA Clippers) |
1971 |
Brentson Buckner, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers) |
1971 |
Jenna Elfman, Los Angeles California, actress (Townies, Dharma & Greg) |
1971 |
Ron Collins, WLAF tackle (Frankfurt Galaxy) |
1972 |
Cedric Saunders, NFL tight end (Tampa Bay Bucs, Scotland Claymores) |
1972 |
Jamal Anderson, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons) |
1972 |
Troy Dumas, NFL linebacker (KC Chiefs) |
1972 |
Ari Behn, Norwegian author |
1974 |
Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player |
1975 |
Marion Cotillard, French actress |
1975 |
Carlos Guillén, Venezuelan baseball player |
1976 |
Adita Linares, Miami Fla, spanish actress (Clueless, Cookie) |
1977 |
Maia Brewton, Los Angeles California, actress (Margaret-Lime Street) |
1977 |
Stacey Storey, Eagle River Alaska, Miss America-Alaska (1996) |
1977 |
Sun Jihai, Chinese footballer |
1977 |
Roy Carroll, Northern Irish footballer |
1978 |
Candice Michelle, American female wrestler |
1979 |
Andy van der Meyde, Dutch footballer |
1979 |
Clio-Danae Othoneou, Greek actress, musician and pianist |
1979 |
Vince Chong, Malaysian singer-songwriter |
1980 |
Martina Hingis, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star (1997 Aust/US/Wimb) |
1980 |
Camilla D'Errico, Canadian comic book artist and painter |
1981 |
Dominique Moceanu, California, gymnast (World-silver-95, Olympics-gold-96) |
1981 |
Brandon Watson, American baseball |
1982 |
Lacey Chabert, actress (Party of Five) |
1982 |
Michelle Marsh, British model |
1982 |
Kieran Culkin, American actor |
1982 |
Teal Redmann, American actress |
1982 |
Ryan Stout, American comedian |
1983 |
Andreea Răducan, Romanian gymnast |
1984 |
T-Pain, American rapper/singer |
1987 |
Denise Laurel, Filipine actress and singer |
1992 |
Marina CAK Windsor, granddaughter of English prince Edward |
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