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1127 – Emperor Xiaozong of China (d. 1194 )

1576 – Shimazu Tadatsune, Ruler of Satsuma (d. 1638 )

1582 – Pierre Dupuy, French scholar (d. 1651 )

1630 – Archduke Sigismund Francis of Austria (d. 1665 )

1635 – Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719 )

1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish inventor and astronomer (d. 1744 )

1710 – Robert Lowth, British bishop (d. 1787 )

1746 – Robert Livingston, negotiated the Louisiana Purchase from France (d. 1813 )

1746 – Increase Sumner, 5th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1799 )

1754 – Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794 )

1779 – Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre, French general (d. 1865 )

1804 – Julius Benedict, German-born composer (d. 1885 )

1809 – Fanny Kemble, British actress (d. 1893 )

1833 – Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (d. 1897 )

1843 – Cornelius Vanderbilt II, American businessman (d. 1899 )

1843 – Elizabeth Stride, victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888 )

1857 – Charles Scott Sherrington, British physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1952 )

1865 – Janez Evangelist Krek, Slovene politician (d. 1917 )

1867 – Charles Koechlin, French composer (d. 1950 )

1871 – Giovanni Giorgi, Italian physicist (d. 1950 )

1874 – Charles A. Beard, American historian (d. 1948 )

1874 – Chaim Weizmann, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952 )

1878 – Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet (d. 1948 )

1885 – Liviu Rebreanu, Romanian writer (d. 1944 )

1894 – Amphilochius of Pochayiv, Ukrainian Orthodox saint (d. 1971 )

1894 – Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989 )

1897 – Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969 )

1898 – Fredric Warburg, publisher and author (d. 1981 )

1901 – Ted Husing, American sportscaster (d. 1962 )

1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1976 )

1907 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000 )

1907 – Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Indian poet (d. 2003 )

1909 – James Agee, American writer (d. 1955 )

1909 – Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (d. 1967 )

1911 – David Merrick, American stage producer (d. 2000 )

1911 – Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist

1916 – Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002 )

1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998 )

1920 – Abe Lenstra, Dutch footballer (d. 1985 )

1920 – Buster Merryfield, English actor (d. 1999 )

1921 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak politician (d. 1992 )

1925 – John Maddox, British science writer and editor (d. 2009 )

1925 – Marshall Thompson, American actor (d. 1992 )

1925 – Ernie Wise, British comedian (d. 1999 )

1927 – Carlos José Castilho, Brazilian footballer (d. 1987 )

1928 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (d. 2005 )

1928 – Ronald William "Josh" Kirby, British artist (d. 2001 )

1930 – Joe DeNardo, Pittsburgh Meteorologist

1930 – Rex Shelley, Singaporean author (d. 2009 )

1932 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983 )

1933 – Jacques Godbout, French Canadian novelist, journalist and filmmaker

1934 – Ammo Baba, Iraqi-Assyrian footballer

1934 – Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer, producer and songwriter (d. 1975 )

1935 – Les Blank, American documentary filmmaker

1937 – Gail Sheehy, American writer

1939 – Dave Giusti, American baseball player

1940 – Bruce Lee, American actor and martial artist (d. 1973 )

1941 – Eddie Rabbitt, American singer (d. 1998 )

1941 – Aimé Jacquet, French football manager

1942 – Henry Carr, American athlete

1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970 )

1943 – Nicole Brossard, French Canadian poet

1944 – Arthur "Neddy" Smith, Australian underworld figure

1945 – Barbara Anderson, American actress

1945 – Alain de Cadenet, Speed Channel personality

1948 – James Avery, American actor

1949 – Masanori Sekiya, Japanese racing driver

1950 – Gran Hamada, Japanese professional wrestler

1951 – Jayne Kennedy, American sportscaster and actress

1952 – Kathryn Bigelow, American film director

1952 – Sheila Copps, Canadian politician

1952 – Daryl Stuermer, American guitarist (Genesis)

1952 – James D. Wetherbee, American astronaut

1953 – Curtis Armstrong, American actor

1953 – Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer (Aquarium)

1954 – Patricia McPherson, American actress

1954 – Kimmy Robertson, American actress

1955 – Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster

1955 – Pierre Mondou, Canadian ice hockey player

1956 – William Fichtner, American actor

1957 – Kenny Acheson, Northern Irish racecar driver

1957 – Caroline Kennedy, American journalist and attorney

1957 – Kevin O'Connell, American sound re-recording mixer

1958 – Mike Scioscia, American baseball player and manager

1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and keyboardist (Simple Minds)

1960 – Ken O'Brien, American football player

1960 – Kevin Henkes, American children's book writer/illustrator

1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American politician, 39th Governor of Minnesota

1960 – Yulia Tymoshenko, Ukrainian prime minister

1961 – Steve Oedekerk, American film director, actor and comedian

1962 – Charlie Benante, American drummer (Anthrax)

1962 – Mike Bordin, American musician (Faith No More)

1963 – Fisher Stevens, American actor

1964 – Robin Givens, American actress

1966 – Andy Merrill, American voice actor

1967 – Shane Embury, British guitarist/bassist (Napalm Death, among others)

1968 – Michael Vartan, French-born actor

1969 – Myles Kennedy, American musician

1970 – Brooke Langton, American actress

1970 – Patricia Zentilli, Canadian actress

1971 – Larry Allen, American football player

1971 – Nick Van Exel, American basketball player

1971 – Erik Menendez, American convict

1972 – Shane Salerno, American screenwriter

1973 – Sharlto Copley, South African producer, actor and director

1973 – Samantha Harris, American model and host

1973 – Evan Karagias, American professional wrestler

1973 – Twista, American rapper

1974 – Kirk Acevedo, American actor

1975 – Martin Gramatica, Argentinian-American football player

1976 – Jean Grae, South African-born rapper

1976 – Jaleel White, American actor

1976 – Chad Kilger, Canadian ice hockey player

1977 – Mika Tan, American pornographic actress

1978 – Jimmy Rollins, American baseball player

1978 – Shy Love, adult film actress

1978 – Radek Štěpánek, Czech tennis player

1978 – Mike Skinner, English musician

1978 – Tim Yeung, American drummer (Vital Remains)

1979 – Ricky Carmichael, American motocross racer

1979 – Hilary Hahn, American violinist

1979 – Shin Hyesung, Korean singer (Shinhwa)

1979 – Teemu Tainio, Finnish footballer

1980 – Michael Yardy, English cricketer

1981 – Gary Lucy, English actor

1981 – Matthew Taylor, English footballer

1984 – Domata Peko, American football player

1985 – Alison Pill, Canadian actress

1985 – Klara Ósk Elíasdóttir, Icelandic singer

1986 – Suresh Kumar Raina, Indian cricketer

1991 – Nur Atikah Nabilah, Singaporean gymnast

 

Type in your date of birth i.e 16 September, and go in Wikipedia, if you scroll down it tells you who was born on the same day as you.

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[spoiler=3rd June] * 1540 – Charles II of Austria (d. 1590)

* 1635 – Philippe Quinault, French writer (d. 1688)

* 1636 – John Hale, pastor during the Salem witch hunt (d.1700)

* 1659 – David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708)

* 1723 – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Italian-born naturalist (d. 1788)

* 1726 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist (d. 1797)

* 1770 – Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician (d. 1820)

* 1808 – Jefferson Davis, American politician and President of the Confederate States of America (d. 1889)

* 1818 – Louis Faidherbe, French general (d. 1889)

* 1819 – Anton Anderledy, Swiss Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1892)

* 1832 – Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)

* 1840 – Michael O'Laughlen, American conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln (d. 1867)

* 1843 – Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1912)

* 1844 – Garret Hobart, 24th Vice President of the United States (d. 1899)

* 1844 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet (d. 1909)

* 1853 – William Matthew Flinders Petrie, English Egyptologist (d. 1942)

* 1864 – Otto Erich Hartleben, German writer (d. 1905)

* 1864 – Ransom E. Olds, American automobile pioneer (d. 1950)

* 1865 – George V of the United Kingdom (d. 1936)

* 1866 – George Howells Broadhurst, English director (d. 1952)

* 1873 – Otto Loewi, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1961)

* 1877 – Raoul Dufy, French painter (d. 1953)

* 1878 – Barney Oldfield, American race car driver (d. 1946)

* 1879 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist (d. 1940)

* 1881 – Mikhail Larionov, Russian painter (d. 1964)

* 1888 – Tom Brown, American musician (d. 1958)

* 1899 – Georg von Békésy, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate (d. 1972)

* 1901 – Maurice Evans, English actor (d. 1989)

* 1901 – Zhang Xueliang {d. 2001}

* 1903 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (d. 1956)

* 1904 – Jan Peerce, American tenor (d. 1984)

* 1905 – Martin Gottfried Weiss, German, commandant of Dachau concentration camp (d. 1946)

* 1906 – Josephine Baker, American dancer (d. 1975)

* 1907 – Paul Rotha, English director (d. 1984)

* 1910 – Paulette Goddard, American actress (d. 1990)

* 1911 – Ellen Corby, American actress (d. 1999)

* 1913 – Pedro Mir, Dominican Poet Laureate (d. 2000)

* 1917 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (d. 1969)

* 1918 – Patrick Cargill, English actor (d. 1996)

* 1918 – Lili St. Cyr, American ecdysiast (d. 1999)

* 1921 – Forbes Carlile, Australian athlete

* 1922 – Alain Resnais, French director

* 1923 – Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician

* 1924 – Colleen Dewhurst, Canadian actress (d. 1991)

* 1924 – Ted Mallie, American radio and television announcer (d. 1999)

* 1924 – Torsten Wiesel, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

* 1924 – Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (d. 1997)

* 1925 – Tony Curtis, American actor

* 1925 – Thomas Joseph Winning, Archbishop of Glasgow, Scotland (d. 2001)

* 1926 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)

* 1927 – Boots Randolph, American saxophonist (d. 2007)

* 1929 – Werner Arber, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate

* 1929 – Chuck Barris, American game show host

* 1930 – Marion Zimmer Bradley, American author (d. 1999)

* 1930 – Dakota Staton, American jazz singer (d. 2007)

* 1930 – Ben Wada, Japanese television producers

* 1931 – Françoise Arnoul, French actress

* 1931 – Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman

* 1931 – John Norman, American author

* 1931 – Lindy Remigino, American athlete

* 1933 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (d. 1999)

* 1934 – Rolland D. McCune, American theologian

* 1935 – Irma P. Hall, American actress

* 1936 – Jim Gentile, baseball player

* 1936 – Larry McMurtry, American author

* 1937 – Solomon P. Ortiz, American politician

* 1937 – Edward Winter, American actor (d. 2001)

* 1939 – Steve Dalkowski, baseball player

* 1939 – Ian Hunter (singer), English musician

* 1939 – Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, American novelist

* 1940 – Connie Saylor, American NASCAR racecar driver. (d. 1993)

* 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician (d. 1999)

* 1943 – Billy Cunningham, American basketball player

* 1944 – Edith McGuire, American runner

* 1944 – Eddy Ottoz, Italian athlete

* 1945 – John Derbyshire, British-American mathematician and political commentator

* 1945 – Hale Irwin, American professional golfer

* 1946 – Michael Clarke American musician (d. 1993)

* 1946 – Eddie Holman, American singer

* 1946 – Tristan Rogers, Australian-American actor

* 1947 – Mickey Finn, British guitarist and percussionist (T.Rex) (d. 2003)

* 1947 – Mike Burgmann, Australian racing driver (d. 1986)

* 1947 – John Dykstra, American special effects supervisor

* 1949 – Floyd Lloyd, Jamaican reggae singer

* 1950 – Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter

* 1950 – Suzi Quatro, American musician and actress

* 1950 – Christos Verelis, Greek politician

* 1950 – Deniece Williams, American singer

* 1952 – Billy Powell, American keyboardist (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 2009)

* 1952 – David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur

* 1954 – Dan Hill, Canadian singer and songwriter

* 1954 – Wally Weir, Quebec ice hockey player

* 1956 – Brad Nessler, American sports broadcaster

* 1956 – George Burley, Scottish football player and manager

* 1956 – Danny Wilde, American musician (The Rembrandts)

* 1957 – Horst-Ulrich Hänel, German field hockey player

* 1958 – Margot Käßmann, Lutheran theologian, German bishop

* 1959 – John Carlson, American talk radio host

* 1961 – Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer and author

* 1962 – Susannah Constantine, British fashion guru

* 1963 – Rudy Demotte, Belgian politician

* 1963 – Toshiaki Karasawa, Japanese actor

* 1964 – Kerry King, American musician (Slayer)

* 1964 – James Purefoy, British actor

* 1965 – Mike Gordon, American musician (Phish)

* 1965 – Jeff Blumenkrantz, American composer and actor

* 1966 – Wasim Akram, Pakistani cricketer

* 1967 – Anderson Cooper, American reporter, journalist and anchorman

* 1967 – Jason Jones, Canadian actor

* 1968 – Jamie O'Neal, American singer

* 1968 – Samantha Sprackling, Nigerian singer

* 1969 – Takako Minekawa, Japanese musician

* 1969 – Hiroyuki Takami, Japanese musician

* 1970 – Esther Hart, Dutch singer

* 1970 – Julie Masse, French Canadian singer

* 1970 – Peter Tägtgren, Swedish musician (Hypocrisy) and producer

* 1970 – Ammon McNeely, American rock climber

* 1971 – Carl Everett, American baseball player

* 1971 – John Hodgman, American author and humorist

* 1974 – Kelly Jones, Welsh singer (Stereophonics)

* 1974 – Arianne Zucker, American actress

* 1975 – Jose Molina, Puerto Rican baseball player

* 1976 – Jamie McMurray, American NASCAR driver

* 1976 – Yuri Ruley, American drummer

* 1976 – Enda Markey, Irish/Australian entertainer

* 1977 – Cristiano Marques Gomez, Brazilian footballer

* 1977 – Az-Zahir Hakim, American football player

* 1977 – Travis Hafner, American baseball player

* 1978 – Lyfe Jennings, R&B singer and song-writer

* 1980 – Lazaros Papadopoulos, Greek basketball player

* 1982 – Yelena Isinbayeva, Russian pole vaulter

* 1982 – Dihan Slabbert, South African singer and composer

* 1983 – Janine Habeck, German model and Playmate

* 1984 – Emily Scott, Australian model

* 1985 – Enkhbatyn Badar-Uugan, Mongolian boxer

* 1986 – Al Horford, Dominican basketball player

* 1986 – Alexandros Karageorgiou, Greek archer

* 1986 – Rafael Nadal, Spanish tennis player

* 1986 – Adrián Vallés, Spanish racing driver

* 1986 – Tomas Verner, Czech ice skater

* 1987 – Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress

* 1989 – Katie Hoff, American swimmer

* 2006 – Countess Leonore of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg, Member of the Dutch Royal Family

 

 

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[spoiler=December 4th]1555 – Heinrich Meibom, German historian and poet (d. 1625)

1580 – Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval officer (d. 1626)

1585 – John Cotton, American Puritan leader (d. 1652)

1595 – Jean Chapelain, French writer (d. 1674)

1646 – Alain Emmanuel de Coëtlogon, Marshal of France (d. 1730)

1660 – André Campra, French composer (d. 1744)

1670 – John Aislabie, English politician (d. 1742)

1711 – Barbara of Portugal, queen of Spain (d. 1758)

1713 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and dramatist (d. 1786)

1777 – Juliette Récamier, French socialite (d. 1849)

1795 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (d. 1881)

1798 – Jules Armand Dufaure, French statesman (d. 1881)

1835 – Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)

1844 – Franz Xavier Wernz, German Superior General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914)

1852 – Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)

1861 – Lillian Russell, American singer and actress (d. 1922)

1861 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1922)

1868 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player (d. 1953)

1875 – Joe Corbett, American baseball player (d. 1945)

1875 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet (d. 1926)

1881 – Erwin von Witzleben, German field marshal (d. 1944)

1883 – Katharine Susannah Prichard, Australian author (d. 1969)

1889 – Lloyd Bacon, American actor and film director (d. 1955)

1892 – Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)

1895 – Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990)

1899 – Charles William (Charlie) Spencer Newcastle and England football player (d. 1953)

1903 – Cornell Woolrich, American writer (d. 1968)

1908 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)

1909 – Jimmy Jewel, English actor (d. 1995)

1910 – Alex North, American film music composer (d. 1991)

1910 – R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (d. 2009)

1912 – Pappy Boyington, American pilot (d. 1988)

1913 – Mark Robson, Canadian-born film director and producer (d. 1978)

1914 – Rudolf Hausner, Austrian artist (d. 1995)

1914 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d. 1993)

1915 – Eddie Heywood, American jazz musician (d. 1989)

1916 – Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (d. 1994)

1918 – Albert Francis Capone, son of Al Capone (d. 2004)

1921 – Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress

1922 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (d. 1959)

1923 – Charles Keating, American attorney and businessman

1924 – John Portman, American architect

1925 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer who made the first ascent of K2 (d. 2009)

1928 – Dena Dietrich, American actress

1930 – Ronnie Corbett, Scottish actor

1930 – Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist

1931 – Alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player

1931 – Wally George, American TV commentator (d. 2003)

1932 – Roh Tae-woo, President of South Korea

1933 – Horst Buchholz, German-born actor (d. 2003)

1934 – Victor French, American actor (d. 1989)

1934 – Wink Martindale, American game show host

1935 – Paul O'Neill, American businessman and former Secretary of the Treasury

1935 – Robert Vesco, American financier and fugitive (d. 2007)

1936 – Derek Nally, Irish Politician

1937 – Max Baer, Jr., American actor

1938 – Andre Marrou, American politician, presidential candidate

1938 – Yvonne Minton, Australian soprano

1939 – Freddy Cannon, American musician

1940 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)

1942 – Gemma Jones, English actress

1944 – Chris Hillman, American singer (The Byrds)

1944 – Anna McGarrigle, Canadian folk music singer and songwriter

1944 – François Migault, French racing driver

1944 – Dennis Wilson, American musician (The Beach Boys) (d. 1983)

1945 – Roberta Bondar, Canadian astronaut

1947 – Terry Woods, Irish musician (The Pogues, Steeleye Span)

1948 – Southside Johnny, American singer

1949 – Jeff Bridges, American actor

1949 – Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born actress

1951 – Gary Rossington, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)

1951 – Patricia Wettig, American actress

1953 – Rick Middleton, Canadian ice hockey player

1954 – Tony Todd, American actor and producer

1955 – Dave Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player

1956 – Bernard King, American basketball player

1957 – Raul Boesel, Brazilian racing driver

1957 – Eric S. Raymond, American open source advocate

1959 – Susan W Krebs, American politician

1959 – Paul McGrath, Irish footballer

1959 – Christa Rothenburger, German speed skater and cyclist

1960 – David Green, American baseball player

1960 – Glynis Nunn, Australian athlete

1961 – Frank Reich, American football player

1961 – Naomi Robson, American-born Australian journalist

1962 – Kevin Richardson, English footballest

1963 – Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter

1964 – Sertab Erener, Turkish singer

1964 – Jonathan Goldstein, American actor

1964 – Scott Hastings, Scottish Rugby Union international

1964 – Chelsea Noble, American actress

1964 – Marisa Tomei, American actress

1965 – Álex de la Iglesia, Spanish film director

1966 – Fred Armisen, American actor and musician

1966 – Masta Ace, American rapper

1966 – Suzanne Malveaux, American television news reporter

1966 – Chris Shepherd, English film director

1969 – Jay-Z, American rapper

1970 – Kevin Sussman, American actor

1970 – John L. Adams, American actor

1970 – Sylvester Terkay, American wrestler

1971 – Shannon Briggs, American boxer

1972 – Jassen Cullimore, Canadian ice hockey player

1972 – Nikki Tyler, American actress

1973 – Racci Shay, American Musician

1973 – Tyra Banks, American supermodel

1973 – Frank Boeijen, Dutch musician (The Gathering)

1973 – Ferry Corsten, Dutch musician and DJ

1973 – Steven Menzies, Australian rugby league footballer

1973 – Kate Rusby, English folk singer

1973 – Atsushi Tamura, Japanese comedian, musician (jealkb)

1974 – Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player

1976 – Amie Comeaux, American singer (d. 1997)

1976 – Ysabella Brave, American singer

1976 – Kristina Groves, Canadian speed skater

1977 – Big Pokey, American rapper

1978 – Michele Di Piedi, Italian footballer

1978 – Jaclyn Victor, Malaysian singer

1979 – Jay DeMerit, American soccer player

1979 – Jeff Taylor, Canadian computer scientist

1981 – Courtney Cummz, American pornographic actress

1982 – Ho-Pin Tung, Dutch-Chinese racing driver

1983 – Jimmy Bartel, Australian rules footballer

1984 – Brooke Adams, American model

1984 – Lindsay Felton, American actress

1984 – Lauren London, American actress

1985 – Andrew Brackman, American baseball player

1985 – Carlos Gómez, Dominican baseball player

1986 – Martell Webster, American basketball player

 

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[spoiler= August 11th Events] 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.

2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.

480 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Battle of Artemisium – the Persians achieve a naval victory over the Greeks in an engagement fought near Artemisium, a promontory on the north coast of Euboea.

355 – Claudius Silvanus, accused of treason, proclaims himself Roman Emperor against Constantius II.

1510 – Margaret Palaeologina, Duchess of Mantua is born.

1755 – Charles Lawrence gives expulsion orders to remove the Acadians from Nova Scotia beginning the Great Upheaval.

1786 – Captain Francis Light establishes the British colony of Penang in Malaysia

1804 – Francis II assumes the title of first Emperor of Austria.

1858 – First ascent of the Eiger.

1898 – Spanish-American War: American troops enter the city of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.

1918 – World War I – Battle of Amiens ends.

1919 – Constitution of Weimar Republic adopted.

1920 – The Latvia-Bolshevist Russia peace treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed.

1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

1934 – First civilian prisoners arrive at Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.

1952 – Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan.

1960 – Chad declares independence.

1965 – Race riots (the Watts riots) begin in Watts area of Los Angeles, California.

1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit departs South Vietnam.

1975 – East Timor: Governor Mário Lemos Pires of Portuguese Timor abandons the capital Dili, following a coup by the Timorese Democratic Union (UDT) and the outbreak of civil war between UDT and Fretilin.

1988 – Al-Qaeda is formed.

1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.

2003 – NATO takes over command of the peacekeeping force in Afghanistan, marking its first major operation outside Europe in its 54-year-history.

2003 – Jemaah Islamiyah leader Riduan Isamuddin, better known as Hambali, is arrested in Bangkok, Thailand.

2003 – A heat wave in Paris results in temperatures rising to 112°F (44° C), leaving about 144 people dead.

 

 

[spoiler= Births and Deaths]

[edit] Births

1467 – Mary of York, English princess (d. 1482)

1648 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (d. 1720)

1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (d. 1743)

1673 – Richard Mead, English physician (d. 1754)

1718 – Sir Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (d. 1791)

1722 – Richard Brocklesby, English physician (d. 1797)

1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German (Prussian) gymnastics educator and nationalist (d. 1852)

1794 – James Barton Longacre, American engraver (d. 1869)

1807 – David Rice Atchison, American politician (d. 1886)

1808 – William W. Chapman, American politician (d. 1892)

1833 – Robert G. Ingersoll, American politician and soldier (d. 1899)

1833 – Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877)

1836 – Warren Brown, American politician (d. 1919)

1837 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (d. 1894)

1855 – John Hodges, Australian cricketer (d. 1933)

1858 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician, Nobel Prize Laureate (d. 1930)

1863 – Gaston Doumergue, President of the French Third Republic (d. 1937)

1870 – Tom Richardson, English cricketer (d. 1912)

1870 – Walter Bowman, Canadian soccer player (d. ?)

1872 – Shidehara Kijuro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)

1877 – Adolph M. Christianson, justice of the North Dakota Supreme Court (d. 1954)

1878 – Oliver W F Lodge, English poet and author (d. 1955)

1892 – Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (d. 1962)

1892 – Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish poet (d. 1978)

1892 – Archie Wiles, West Indian cricketer (d. 1957)

1897 – Louise Bogan, American poet (d. 1970)

1897 – Enid Blyton, English author (d. 1968)

1900 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist (d. 1994)

1902 – Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)

1902 – Lloyd Nolan, American actor (d. 1985)

1905 – Erwin Chargaff, Austrian biochemist (d. 2002)

1907 – Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (d. 1989)

1909 – Yuji Koseki, Japanese composer (d. 1989)

1912 – Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (d. 1954)

1912 – Thanom Kittikachorn, Prime Minister of Thailand (d. 2004)

1913 – Angus Wilson, British novelist (d. 1991)

1913 – Paul Dupuis, French Canadian actor (d. 1976)

1913 – Bob Scheffing, American professional baseball player and manager (d. 1985)

1914 – José Silva, American parapsychologist (d. 1999)

1916 – Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (d. 1956)

1919 – Ginette Neveu, French violinist (d. 1949)

1919 – Luis Olmo, Puerto Rican baseball player

1920 – Chuck Rayner, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002)

1921 – Alex Haley, American historian (d. 1992)

1923 – Stan Chambers, American television reporter

1925 – Mike Douglas, American entertainer (d. 2006)

1925 – Floyd Curry, National Hockey League player (d. 2006)

1926 – Aaron Klug, Lithuanian-born chemist, Nobel Prize Laureate

1926 – Claus von Bülow, Danish-born British socialite

1927 – Raymond Leppard, English conductor

1928 – Arlene Dahl, American actress

1932 – Fernando Arrabal, Spanish writer

1932 – Peter Eisenman, American architect

1932 – Israel Asper, Canadian tax lawyer (d. 2003)

1932 – John Gorrie, English director

1933 – Jerry Falwell, American preacher (d. 2007)

1933 – Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (d. 1999)

1936 – Andre Dubus, American short-story writer (d. 1999)

1938 – Branko Stanovnik, Slovenian chemist

1939 – Ronnie Dawson, American rockabilly performer (d. 2003)

1940 – Lennie Pond, American NASCAR driver

1942 – Mike Hugg, British musician (Manfred Mann)

1943 – Abigail Folger, American heiress and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)

1943 – Stefania Toczyska, Polish mezzo-soprano

1943 – Pervez Musharraf, Pakistani politician

1944 – Ian McDiarmid, Scottish actor

1944 – Frederick W. Smith, American entrepreneur

1946 – Marilyn vos Savant, American newspaper columnist

1946 – John Conlee, American country music singer

1947 – Georgios Karatzaferis, Greek politician

1948 – Jan Palach, Czechoslovakian student protester (d. 1969)

1949 – Eric Carmen, American musician

1949 – Tim Hutchinson, American politician

1950 – Erik Brann, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (d. 2003)

1950 – Gennidy Nikonov, Russian weapons inventor (d. 2003)

1950 – Steve Wozniak, American computer pioneer

1951 – Vincent Bilodeau, Canadian actor and comedian

1952 – Bob Mothersbaugh AKA Bob 1, American musician (Devo)

1953 – Hulk Hogan, American professional wrestler

1953 – Amy Holland, American Pop Rock singer

1954 – Joe Jackson, English singer

1954 – Juan Maria Solare, Argentine composer

1954 – Yashpal Sharma, Indian cricketer

1954 – M. V. Narasimha Rao, Indian cricketer

1955 – Sylvia Hermon, British politician

1955 – Marc Bureau, Canadian politician

1956 – Pierre-Louis Lions, French mathematician

1957 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, British singer (Skrewdriver) (d. 1993)

1959 – Gustavo Cerati, Argentinian musician (Soda Stereo)

1959 – Yoshiaki Murakami, Japanese investor

1961 – Craig Ehlo, American basketball player

1962 – Shaul Karnain, Sri Lankan cricketer

1962 – Ennis Whatley, American basketball player

1963 – Hiromi Makihara, Japanese baseball player

1964 – Jim Lee, Korean comic book artist

1964 – Nikki Randall, American pornographic actress

1964 – Miguel A. Núñez, Jr., American actor

1965 – Marc Bergevin, Canadian ice hockey player

1965 – Shinji Mikami, Japanese video game designer (Resident Evil)

1965 – Viola Davis, American actress

1965 – Embeth Davidtz, American actress

1965 – Duane Martin, American actor

1966 – Nigel Martyn, English footballer

1967 – Enrique Bunbury, Spanish singer

1967 – Eric Maleson, Brazilian bobsledder

1967 – Collin Chou, Taiwanese actor

1967 – Joe Rogan, American television host, comedian, commentator,and, actor

1968 – Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (d. 2009)

1969 – Ashley Jensen, British actress

1971 – Tommy Mooney, English football player

1971 – Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress

1971 – Julie Clarke, glamor model

1972 – Jonathon Prandi, American model

1973 – Nigel Harman, British actor

1973 – Carolyn Murphy, American model

1974 – Audrey Mestre, French diver (d. 2002)

1974 – Hadiqa Kiyani, Pakistani singer

1974 – Marie-France Dubreuil, Canadian figure skater

1974 – Anju Jain, Indian cricketer

1975 – Davey von Bohlen, American musician (The Promise Ring, Maritime)

1976 – Iván Córdoba, Colombian footballer

1976 – Bubba Crosby, American baseball player

1976 – Will Friedle, American actor

1976 – Ben Gibbard, American musician (Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service)

1976 – Erick Lindgren, American poker player

1976 – Ľubomír Višňovský, Slovak ice hockey player

1977 – Gemma Hayes, Irish singer

1978 – Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer

1978 – Amber Mariano, American reality television personality

1978 – Jermain Taylor, American boxer

1979 – Aggeliki Daliani, Greek actress

1980 – Lee Suggs, American football player

1981 – Fiona Sit, Hong Kong singer and actress

1981 – Sandi Thom, Scottish singer

1982 – Alan Halsall, British actor

1983 – Chris Hemsworth, Australian actor

1984 – Melky Cabrera, Dominican baseball player

1984 – Lucas Di Grassi, Brazilian racing driver

1984 – Katie Rees, American beauty pageant contestant

1985 – Asher Roth, American rapper

1986 – Kaori Fukuhara, Japanese voice actress

1986 – Pablo Sandoval, Venezuelan baseball player

1993 – Alyson Stoner, American actress, model, singer and dancer

[edit] Deaths

480 BC – Leonidas, King of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae (b. c. 540 BC)

353 – Magnentius, Roman usurper (b. 303)

449 – Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople

897 – Wilfred the Hairy, Count of Barcelona

1204 – King Guttorm of Norway (b. 1199)

1253 – Clare of Assisi, Italian follower of Francis of Assisi (b. 1194)

1259 – Möngke Khan, Great Khan of the Mongol Empire

1456 – John Hunyadi, regent of Hungary (b. 1387)

1464 – Nicholas of Cusa, German philosopher and mathematician (b. 1401)

1494 – Hans Memling, Flemish painter (b. c. 1430)

1519 – Johann Tetzel, German opponent of the Reformation (b. 1465)

1563 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer (b. c. 1500)

1578 – Pedro Nunes, Portuguese mathematician (b. 1502)

1596 – Hamnet Shakespeare, son of William Shakespeare (b. 1585)

1614 – Lavinia Fontana, Italian painter (b. 1552)

1656 – Prince Octavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi, Austrian field marshal (b. 1599)

1774 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer (b. 1722)

1813 – Henry James Pye, English poet (b. 1745)

1851 – Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)

1854 – Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)

1886 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (b. 1843)

1890 – John Henry Cardinal Newman, English Catholic cardinal (b. 1801)

1892 – Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)

1903 – Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Puerto Rican educator and nationalist (b. 1839)

1908 – Khudiram Bose, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1889)

1919 – Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born industrialist and philanthropist (b. 1835)

1936 – Blas Infante, Spanish writer and politician (b. 1885)

1937 – Edith Wharton, American author (b. 1862)

1939 – Jean Bugatti, Italian automobile designer (b. 1909)

1953 – Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver (b. 1892)

1954 – Santo Trafficante, Sr., Sicilian-born American mobster (b. 1886)

1956 – Jackson Pollock, American artist (b. 1912)

1961 – Antanas Škėma, Lithuanian writer actor and director (b. 1910)

1965 – Bill Woodfull, Australian cricketer (b. 1897)

1972 – Max Theiler, South African virologist, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1899)

1974 – Vicente Emilio Sojo, Venezuelan musician. (b. 1887)

1974 – Jan Tschichold, German typographer (b. 1902)

1980 – Paul Robert, French lexicographer and publisher (b. 1910)

1982 – Tom Drake, American actor (b. 1918)

1984 – Alfred A. Knopf, American publisher (b. 1892)

1984 – Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (b. 1916)

1988 – Anne Ramsey, American actress (b. 1929)

1991 – J. D. McDuffie, American NASCAR driver (b. 1938)

1994 – Peter Cushing, British actor (b. 1913)

1995 – Phil Harris, American singer and comedian (b. 1904)

1996 – Rafael Kubelík, Czech-born conductor and composer (b. 1914)

1996 – Mel Taylor, American drummer (The Ventures) (b. 1933)

1996 – Baba Vanga, Bulgarian prophet, mystic, clairvoyant and herbalist (b. 1911)

2000 – Jean Papineau-Couture, Canadian composer (b. 1916)

2001 – Percy Stallard, English racing cyclist (b. 1909)

2002 – Galen Rowell, American photographer and mountain climber (b. 1940)

2003 – Armand Borel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1923)

2003 – Herb Brooks, American ice hockey coach (b. 1937)

2005 – James Booth, English actor (b. 1927)

2006 – Mike Douglas, American singer and talk show host (b. 1925)

2009 – Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy (b. 1921)

 

 

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1245 – Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)

1409 – René I of Naples (d. 1480)

1477 – Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)

1501 – Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)

1616 – François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)

1626 – Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)

1634 – Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)

1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)

1728 – Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)

1807 – Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d. 1877)

1815 – Henry W. Halleck, American Civil War general (d. 1872)

1821 – John C. Breckinridge, U.S. Vice-President and Confederate general (d. 1875)

1834 – Robert R. Hitt, American politician (d. 1906)

1836 – King Francis II of the Two Sicilies (d. 1894)

1838 – Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)

1844 – Ismail Qemali, Albanian nationalist (d. 1919)

1853 – Andre Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)

1853 – Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937)

1853 – Gen Sir Ian Hamilton, British military commander (d. 1947)

1853 – Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov, Russian philosopher (d. 1900)

1872 – Edward Gordon Craig, English actor, producer, director and scenic designer (d. 1966)

1872 – Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)

1874 – Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)

1875 – Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)

1878 – Harry Carey, American silent film actor (d. 1947)

1885 – Zhou Zuoren, Chinese writer (d. 1967)

1886 – John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)

1888 – Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)

1893 – Daisy Kennedy, Australian violinist (d. 1981)

1894 – Irving Mills, American jazz music publisher (d. 1985)

1895 – Nat Schachner, American author (d. 1955)

1896 – Ruth Rose, American screenwriter (d. 1978)

1897 – Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977)

1898 – Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)

1898 – Irving Rapper, UK-US film director (d. 1999)

1901 – Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)

1901 – Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)

1902 – Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)

1903 – William Grover-Williams, English-French racing driver and WWII resistance fighter (d. 1945)

1905 – Ernesto Halffter, Spanish composer and conductor (d. 1989)

1906 – Diana Wynyard, British actress (d. 1964)

1907 – Alexander Knox, Canadian actor (d. 1995)

1907 – Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)

1908 – Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984)

1908 – Günther Prien, German World War II submarine captain (d. 1941)

1910 – Dizzy Dean, American baseball player (d. 1974)

1911 – Roger Lapébie, French cyclist (d. 1996)

1911 – Eduardo Frei Montalva, Chilean politician (d. 1982)

1914 – Roger Wagner, American choral musician (d. 1992)

1915 – Leslie H. Martinson, American television and film director.

1916 – Philip Lucock, Australian politician and Presbyterian minister (d. 1996)

1917 – Carl Karcher, founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain (d. 2008)

1918 – Nel Benschop, Dutch poet (d. 2005)

1918 – Clem Jones, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)

1918 – Stirling Silliphant, American writer (d. 1996)

1920 – Alberto Crespo, Argentine racing driver (d. 1991)

1921 – Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)

1922 – Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)

1923 – Gene Feist, American stage actor and producer

1923 – Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)

1924 – Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)

1928 – Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)

1928 – William Kennedy, American author

1930 – Clarence Ray Allen, American murderer (d. 2006)

1930 – Norman Podhoretz, US writer, foreign policy adviser

1931 – Johannes Rau, German politician (d. 2006)

1932 – Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)

1933 – Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)

1934 – Marilyn Horne, American opera singer

1935 – A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner

1937 – Lorraine Bayly, Australian actress

1937 – Luiz Bueno, Brazilian racing driver

1938 – Jô Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality

1942 – René Angélil, Canadian music executive

1942 – Barbara Lynn, American singer

1943 – Gavin Bryars, English composer and double bassist

1943 – Brian Ferneyhough, British composer

1944 – Jim Stafford, American singer and songwriter

1946 – Kabir Bedi, Indian actor

1946 – Ronnie Milsap, American singer and songwriter

1946 – Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano

1947 – Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)

1947 – Harvey Proctor, British politician

1947 – Dr. Laura Schlessinger, American radio talk show host

1948 – John Carpenter, American film director

1948 – Dalvanius Prime, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)

1948 – Ruth Reichl, American magazine editor

1948 – Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player

1949 – Andrew Refshauge, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of New South Wales

1950 – Debbie Allen, American dancer and choreographer

1950 – Brian Castro, Australian author

1950 – Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer (Can)

1950 – Caroline Munro, British actress

1951 – Glenn Ordway, American radio talk show host

1952 – King Fuad II of Egypt

1952 – L. Blaine Hammond, NASA astronaut

1953 – Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi (d. 1984)

1955 – Jerry M. Linenger, NASA astronaut

1956 – Jennifer Dale, Canadian actress

1956 – Martin Jol, Dutch football manager

1956 – Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (d. 2007)

1958 – Anatoli Boukreev, Russian climber (d. 1997)

1958 – Lena Ek, Swedish politician

1959 – Juanita Bynum, American televangelist

1959 – Sade, Nigerian-born singer

1961 – Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke) (d. 2007)

1961 – Jill Sobule, American singer-songwriter

1962 – Joel Fitzgibbon, Australian politician

1962 – Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk, .O.rang)

1962 – Tracey Moore, voice actress

1963 – James May, English television presenter

1965 – Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)

1968 – David Chokachi, American actor

1969 – Dead, Swedish black metal vocalist (Mayhem) (d. 1991)

1969 – Roy Jones Jr., American boxer

1969 – Neil Back, England rugby player

1970 – Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author

1970 – Brendan O'Hare, Scottish drummer (Teenage Fanclub, Telstar Ponies)

1970 – Ron Villone, American baseball player

1971 – Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player

1972 – Ruben Bagger, Danish footballer

1972 – Ang Christou, Australian rules footballer

1972 – Dameon Clarke, Canadian actor

1972 – Yuri Drozdov, Russian footballer

1972 – Ezra Hendrickson, Vincentian footballer

1972 – Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner

1972 – Joe Horn, American football player

1972 – Richard T. Jones, American actor

1972 – Greg Page, Australian musician and actor

1972 – Alen Peternac, Croatian footballer

1973 – Josie Davis, American actress

1974 – Marlon Anderson, American baseball player

1974 – Kate Moss, English model

1975 – Greg Strause, American visual effects creator

1975 – Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress

1976 – Viktor Maslov, Russian racing driver

1976 – Martina Moravcová, Slovak female swimmer

1977 – Ariel Zeevi, Israeli judoka

1977 – Jeff Foster, American basketball player

1978 – Alfredo Amézaga, Mexican baseball player

1979 – Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)

1979 – Brenden Morrow, Canadian ice hockey player

1979 – Jason Ward, Canadian ice hockey player

1980 – Seydou Keita, Malian footballer

1980 – Lin Manuel Miranda, American actor, composer, lyricist (In The Heights)

1980 – Albert Pujols, Dominican-born baseball player

1980 – Michelle Wild, Hungarian model

1981 – Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)

1981 – Bobby Zamora, English footballer

1982 – Samuel Preston, British singer (The Ordinary Boys)

1982 – Tuncay Şanlı, Turkish footballer

1983 – Emanuel Pogatetz, Austrian footballer

1984 – Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss footballer

1984 – Jared Slingerland, Canadian musician

1985 – Jonathan Richter, Danish footballer

1985 – Joe Flacco, American football player

1986 – Paula Pareto, Argentine judoka

1987 – Lauren McAvoy, British fashion model

1988 – Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer

1989 – Yvonne Zima, American actress

 

 

 

That sure is alot O.o

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1334 – King Henry II of Castile (d. 1379)

1505 – Joachim II Hector, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1571)

1562 – Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet (d. 1601)

1596 – Jan van Goyen, Dutch painter (d. 1656)

1610 – Maria Anna of Austria, Electress of Bavaria (d. 1665)

1616 – Antoinette Bourignon, Flemish mystic (d. 1680)

1635 – Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)

1651 – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (d. 1694)

1683 – Christoph Graupner, German composer (d. 1760)

1720 – Richard Hurd, English bishop and writer (d. 1808)

1749 – Friedrich Müller, painter and dramatist (d. 1825)

1777 – Elisa Bonaparte, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, sister of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1820)

1787 – John Davis, 14th and 17th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1854)

1804 – Paul Gavarni, French caricaturist (d. 1866)

1805 – Thomas Dyer, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1862)

1808 – Salmon P. Chase, 6th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1873)

1812 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (d. 1883)

1832 – Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (d. 1899)

1845 – Félix Tisserand, French Astronomer (d. 1896)

1858 – Oskar Minkowski, Biologist (d. 1931)

1859 – Kostis Palamas, Greek poet (d. 1943)

1861 – Max Nonne, German neurologist (d. 1959)

1864 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1928)

1865 – Princess Marie of Orléans (d. 1908)

1866 – Vasily Kalinnikov, Russian composer (d. 1901)

1869 – Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1931)

1870 – Ross Granville Harrison, American biologist (d. 1959)

1878 – Lionel Groulx, Canadian nationalist (d. 1967)

1881 – Essington Lewis, Australian industrialist (d. 1961)

1883 – Prince Arthur of Connaught (d. 1938)

1884 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and performer (d. 1966)

1885 – Alfred Fuller, Canadian businessman, The "Fuller Brush Man" (d. 1973)

1886 – Art Ross, Canadian ice hockey player and executive (d. 1964)

1887 – Gabriel Gabrio, French actor (d. 1946)

1887 – George Gurdjieff, Armenian-Greek mystic (d. 1949)

1890 – Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (d. 1945)

1893 – Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (d. 1963)

1893 – Clark Ashton Smith, American writer (d. 1961)

1898 – Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr (d. 1944)

1898 – Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)

1899 – Kay Francis, American actress (d. 1968)

1901 – A. B. Guthrie, American novelist, historian (d. 1991)

1901 – Mieczysław Żywczyński, Polish historian and priest (d. 1978)

1904 – Richard Addinsell, British composer (Warsaw Concerto) (d. 1977)

1906 – Zhou Youguang, Chinese linguist

1909 – Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist (d. 1934)

1910 – Yannis Tsarouchis, Greek painter (d. 1989)

1911 – Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, Premier of Queensland (d. 2005)

1913 – Jeff Morrow, American actor (d. 1993)

1914 – Lord Ted Willis, British television dramatist (d. 1992)

1919 – Robert Stack, American actor (d. 2003)

1921 – Dachine Rainer, British writer (d. 2000)

1922 – Albert Lamorisse, French film director and producer (d. 1970)

1923 – Daniil Shafran, Russian cellist (d. 1997)

1924 – Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-born philosopher (d. 1994)

1924 – Roland Petit, French choreographer

1925 – Georgi Kaloyanchev, Bulgarian actor

1925 – Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (d. 2000)

1926 – Michael Bond, British writer

1926 – Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, American feminist author (d. 2003)

1927 – Brock Adams, American politician (d. 2004)

1927 – Sydney Brenner, British Nobel Laureate

1929 – Joe Pass, U.S. jazz guitarist (d. 1994)

1930 – Liz Anderson, American singer

1930 – Frances Sternhagen, American actress

1931 – Ian Hendry, English actor (d. 1984)

1931 – Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor (d. 2007)

1931 – Chris Wiggins, British actor

1934 – Rip Taylor, American actor

1935 – Mauro Forghieri, Italian automotive & mechanical engineer (Scuderia Ferrari)

1935 – Elsa Martinelli, Italian actress

1936 – Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone

1938 – William B. Davis, Canadian actor

1938 – Tord Grip, Swedish football manager

1938 – Shivkumar Sharma, santoor player, music composer

1939 – Jacek Gmoch, Polish footballer and coach

1939 – Cesare Maniago, Canadian ice hockey player

1940 – Edmund White, American author

1941 – Pasqual Maragall, Spanish politician

1943 – Carol Cleveland, English actress

1943 – Richard Moll, American actor

1946 – Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician

1947 – Jacek Majchrowski, Mayor of Kraków

1947 – Carles Rexach, former Spanish-Catalan footballer and coach

1947 – John Lees, English Musician

1948 – Gaj Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur

1949 – Brandon Tartikoff, American television executive (d. 1997)

1949 – Rakesh Sharma, first Indian and 138th person to visit space

1950 – Bob Forsch, American baseball player

1950 – John McNaughton, American film director

1954 – Trevor Rabin, South African guitarist (Yes)

1955 – Paul Kelly, Australian singer-songwriter

1955 – Jay McInerney, American writer

1956 – Janet Hubert-Whitten, American actress

1957 – Lorrie Moore, American writer

1957 – Mark O'Meara, Major winning American Golfer

1959 – James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth)

1960 – Takis Lemonis, Greek footballer and coach

1961 – Wayne Coyne, American singer (The Flaming Lips)

1961 – Julia Louis-Dreyfus, American actress

1961 – Suggs, English singer (Madness)

1962 – Trace Adkins, American country music singer-songwriter

1962 – Paul Higgins, Canadian hockey player

1962 – Kevin Mitchell American baseball player

1963 – Kevin McClatchy, American businessman

1964 – Penelope Ann Miller, American actress

1964 – Ronan Rafferty, Northern Irish golfer

1966 – Patrick Dempsey, American actor

1966 – Shelagh Fogarty, British radio presenter

1967 – Annie Jones, Australian actress

1968 – Traci Bingham, American actress

1968 – Mike Whitlow, English footballer

1968 – Chara, Japanese singer and actress

1969 – Stefania Belmondo, Italian cross-country skier

1969 – Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player

1970 – Keith Coogan, American actor

1970 – Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist (d. 2004)

1970 – Shonda Rhimes, American screenwriter/creator Grey's Anatomy

1971 – John Mallory Asher, American film actor/director

1972 – Mark Bosnich, Australian footballer

1972 – Nicole Eggert, American actress

1972 – Atoosa Rubenstein, Iranian-born American magazine editor

1972 – Vitaly Scherbo, Belarusian gymnast

1972 – Park Jin-Young, Korean singer

1973 – Nikolai Khabibulin, Russian ice hockey player

1973 – Gloria Yip, Hong Kong actor

1974 – Sergei Brylin, Russian ice hockey player

1976 – Michael Peña, American actor

1976 – Tania Vicent, Canadian short track speed skater

1977 – Orlando Bloom, English actor

1977 – James Posey, American basketball player

1978 – Ashmit Patel, Indian actor

1980 – Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist

1980 – Nils-Eric Johansson, Swedish footballer

1980 – Akira Kaji, Japanese footballer

1980 – Michael Rupp, American ice hockey player

1981 – Reggie Brown, American football player

1981 – Shad Gaspard, American professional wrestler, bodyguard, and actor

1981 – Darrell Rasner, American baseball player

1982 – Guillermo Coria, Argentine tennis player

1983 – Julian Morris, English actor

1983 – William Hung, American Idol contestant

1983 – Ronny Turiaf, French basketball player

1986 – Joannie Rochette, Canadian figure skater

1987 – Marc Staal, Canadian ice hockey player

1987 – Lee Seung Gi, K-pop singer

1989 – Bryan Arguez, American soccer player

1989 – James Berrett, English footballer

1989 – Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer

1992 – Adam Matthews, Welsh footballer

1995 – Qaasim Middleton, American musician and actor

 

 

 

@ Bolded:

 

Megadeth :D

Orlando Bloom eh, ok :)

William Hung the dude from american idol(youtube him its hilarious)

Qaasim: We are exactly the same age

 

The dude above: we are close together

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[spoiler=March 3rd]

1455 – King John II of Portugal (d. 1495)

1520 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (d. 1575)

1583 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, English diplomat, poet, and philosopher (d. 1648)

1589 – Gisbertus Voetius, Dutch theologian (d. 1676)

1606 – Edmund Waller, British poet (d. 1687)

1652 – Thomas Otway, British dramatist (d. 1685)

1678 – Madeleine de Verchères, French Canadian heroine (d. 1747)

1756 – William Godwin, English journalist, political philosopher and novelist (d. 1836)

1778 – Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Hanover (d. 1841)

1793 – William Charles Macready, English actor (d. 1873)

1800 – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)

1805 – Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1861)

1816 – William James Blacklock, British landscape painter (d. 1858)

1831 – George Pullman, American inventor and industrialist (d. 1897)

1839 – Jamsetji Tata, Indian industrialist (d. 1904)

1845 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918)

1847 – Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-Canadian inventor (d. 1922)

1848 – Adelaide Neilson, English actress (d. 1880)

1851 – Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911)

1860 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (d. 1925)

1863 – Arthur Machen, Welsh-born author (d. 1947)

1866 – Fred A. Busse, Mayor of Chicago (d. 1914)

1868 – Émile Chartier, French philosopher, journalist and pacifist (d. 1951)

1869 – Henry Joseph Wood, English conductor (d. 1944)

1871 – Maurice Garin, French cyclist (d. 1957)

1873 – William Green, American labor union leader (d. 1952)

1880 – Florence Auer, American actress (d. 1962)

1880 – Yōsuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (d. 1946)

1880 – Sir Robert Chapman, British soldier and politician (d. 1963)

1882 – Charles Ponzi, Italian fraud convict (d. 1949)

1883 – Cyril Burt, educational psychologist (d. 1971)

1886 – Tore Ørjasæter, Norwegian poet (d. 1968)

1887 – Lincoln J. Beachey, American aviator (d. 1915)

1890 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor and humanitarian (d. 1939)

1891 – Federico Moreno Torroba, Spanish composer (d. 1982)

1893 – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramicist (d. 1998)

1894 – Ethel Grandin, silent film actress (d. 1988)

1895 – Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Norwegian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

1895 – Matthew Ridgway, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, U.S. Army Chief of Staff (d. 1993)

1901 – Claude Choules, One of two surviving British veterans of World War I

1910 – Kittens Reichert, American silent screen child actor (d. 1990)

1911 – Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)

1911 – Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician and Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 1982)

1911 – Harold J. Stone, American actor (d. 2005)

1917 – Will Eisner, Jewish-American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur (d. 2005)

1917 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian nuclear scientist (d. 1952)

1918 – Dr. Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)

1918 – Fritz Thiedemann, German equestrian (d. 2000)

1920 – Julius Boros, American golfer (d. 1994)

1920 – James Doohan, Canadian-born actor (d. 2005)

1920 – Ronald Searle, British illustrator

1921 – Diana Barrymore, stage & film actress (d. 1960)

1922 – Nándor Hidegkuti, Hungarian footballer (d. 2002)

1923 – Barney Martin, American actor (d. 2005)

1923 – Doc Watson, American musician

1924 – Tomiichi Murayama, former Prime Minister of Japan

1924 – Ali Faik Zaghloul, Egyptian radio presenter

1924 – Lilian Velez, Filipno actress (d. 1948)

1926 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer

1926 – Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (d. 2003)

1926 – James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)

1927 – Pierre Aubert, member of the Swiss Federal Council

1928 – Gudrun Pausewang, German writer

1930 – Heiner Geißler, German politician

1930 – Ion Iliescu, President of Romania

1933 – Marco Antonio Muñiz, Mexican singer (Los Tres Aces)

1933 – Margaret Fink, Australian film producer

1933 – Lee Radziwill, American fashion executive

1933 – Alfredo Landa, Spanish actor

1937 – Bobby Driscoll, American actor (d. 1968)

1940 – Germán Castro Caycedo, Colombian writer and journalist

1940 – Perry Ellis, fashion designer (d. 1986)

1940 – Owen Spencer-Thomas, English broadcaster, journalist and Anglican clergyman

1942 – Mike Pender, English singer and guitarist (The Searchers)

1944 – Lee Holdridge, Haitian-American composer

1945 – George Miller, Australian film director

1946 – John Virgo, English snooker player

1947 – Jennifer Warnes, American singer and songwriter

1947 – Otto Stuppacher, Austrian racing driver (d. 2001)

1947 – Clifton Snider, American poet and writer

1948 – Snowy White, British guitarist (Thin Lizzy, Pink Floyd)

1949 – Jüri Allik, Estonian psychologist

1949 – Gloria Hendry, American actress

1949 – Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player

1950 – Tim Kazurinsky, American actor and comedian

1951 – Lindsay Cooper, English musician and composer (Henry Cow, News from Babel)

1951 – Heizō Takenaka, Japanese economist and retired politician

1952 – Dermot Morgan, Irish actor and comedian (d. 1998)

1952 – Rudy "Daboy" Fernandez, Filipino actor (d. 2008)

1953 – Robyn Hitchcock, British musician

1953 – Zico, Brazilian footballer

1954 – Édouard Lock, Canadian dance choreographer (La La La Human Steps)

1955 – Andy Breckman, American comedian and radio personality

1956 – Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer

1957 – Thom Hoffman, Dutch actor and photographer

1958 – Miranda Richardson, British actress

1958 – Marc Silvestri, American comic book artist and publisher (Top Cow Productions)

1959 – Ira Glass, American radio host

1960 – Neal Heaton, American baseball player

1960 – Colin Wells, English cricketer

1961 – Perry McCarthy, English racing driver

1961 – Mary Page Keller, American actress

1961 – Knut Nærum, Norwegian comedian

1961 – Fatima Whitbread, English javelin thrower

1961 – John Matteson, American biographer

1962 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee, American athlete

1962 – Glen E. Friedman, American photographer and artist

1962 – Herschel Walker, American football player

1963 – Sophia Aliberti, Greek actress and TV presenter

1964 – Raúl Alcalá, Mexican cyclist

1964 – Laura Harring, Mexican-born American actress

1964 – Duncan Phillips, Australian drummer (Newsboys)

1965 – Dragan Stojković, Serbian footballer

1966 – Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor

1966 – Timo Tolkki, Finnish musician (Stratovarius)

1966 – Tone Lōc, American rapper and actor

1968 – Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player

1969 – Simon Whitlock, Australian Darts Player

1970 – Julie Bowen, American actress

1970 – Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer

1971 – Charlie Brooker, English comedian, writer and broadcaster.

1971 – Tyler Florence, chef, Food Network personality, & cookbook author

1972 – Darren Anderton, English footballer

1973 – Romāns Vainšteins, Latvian cyclist

1973 – Matthew Marsden, English actor and singer

1973 – Victoria Zdrok, Ukrainian model

1974 – David Faustino, American actor

1974 – Paula Malai Ali, Malaysian-Bruneian TV presenter and actress

1976 – Fraser Gehrig, Australian Rules footballer

1977 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer

1977 – Stéphane Robidas, Canadian ice hockey player

1978 – Matt Diaz, American baseball player

1978 – Seomoon Tak, Korean singer

1979 – Albert Jorquera, Spanish footballer

1979 – Patrick Renna, American actor

1979 – Alex Zane, English comedian

1980 – Mason Unck, American football player

1981 – Dusty Dvoracek, American football player

1981 – Kim Yoo-Jin (Eugene), South Korean singer and actress

1981 – Lil' Flip, American rapper

1981 – Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer

1981 – Sung Yu Ri, South Korean singer and actress

1981 – Julius Malema, South African politician

1982 – Jessica Biel, American actress

1982 – Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player

1983 – Ashley Hansen, Australian Rules footballer

1984 – Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player

1984 – Santonio Holmes, American football player

1985 – Sam Morrow, Northern Irish footballer

1986 – Stacie Orrico, American singer

1990 – Vladimir Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player

 

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[spoiler=March 23rd]

* 1429 – Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)

* 1638 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1731)

* 1645 – William Kidd, Scottish sailor (d. 1701)

* 1699 – John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777)

* 1723 – Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)

* 1732 – Marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800)

* 1754 – Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)

* 1769 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (d. 1839)

* 1769 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)

* 1823 – Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)

* 1826 – Léon Minkus, German/Czech composer and violinist (d. 1917)

* 1831 – Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)

* 1834 – Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858)

* 1858 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941)

* 1862 – Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d. 1950)

* 1868 – Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d. 1923)

* 1874 – J. C. Leyendecker, German American Illustrator (d. 1951)

* 1878 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (d. 1934)

* 1880 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (d. 1922)

* 1881 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1958)

* 1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)

* 1882 – Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)

* 1887 – Juan Gris, Spanish artist (d. 1927)

* 1887 – Josef Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1945)

* 1887 – Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)

* 1893 – Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960)

* 1893 – G. D. Naidu (Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu), Indian Inventor & Engineer (Edison of India) (d. 1974)

* 1895 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)

* 1899 – Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)

* 1900 – Erich Fromm, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1980)

* 1904 – H. Beam Piper, American science fiction author (d. 1964)

* 1905 – Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)

* 1905 – Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)

* 1906–Urs Allo Mahar sharif was celebrated in the memory of Syed Muhammad Amin Shah.

* 1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)

* 1910 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)

* 1912 – Wernher von Braun, German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977)

* 1915 – Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II hero (d. 1991)

* 1919 – Carl Graffunder, mid-century modernist architect

* 1920 – Neal Smith, former United States Congressman

* 1920 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach

* 1921 – Donald Campbell, British car and motorboat racer (d. 1967)

* 1922 – Marty Allen, American comedian and actor

* 1922 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990)

* 1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (d. 1980)

* 1925 – David Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008)

* 1929 – Sir Roger Bannister, English runner

* 1931 – Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005)

* 1931 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player

* 1932 – Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1933 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment

* 1934 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician

* 1934 – Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)

* 1934 – Mark Rydell, American film and television director

* 1937 – Craig Breedlove, American land speed record holder

* 1937 – Robert Gallo, American physician

* 1938 – Maynard Jackson, first black mayor of Atlanta (d. 2003)

* 1938 – Dave Pike, American jazz musician

* 1939 – Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer

* 1941 – Jim Trelease, American educator and children's literature author

* 1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)

* 1943 – Lee May, former Major League Baseball player

* 1943 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (d. 2001)

* 1944 – Michael Nyman, British minimalist composer

* 1944 – Tony McPhee, English singer and guitarist (The Groundhogs)

* 1945 – Franco Battiato, Italian singer, songwriter and filmmaker

* 1945 – David Grisman, American bluegrass musician

* 1948 – David Olney, American musician

* 1949 – Ric Ocasek, American musician (The Cars)

* 1949 – Roland Lee, American Watercolor Artist

* 1950 – Anthony De Longis, American actor

* 1950 – Corinne Clery, French actress

* 1951 – Ron Jaworski, American football player and analyst

* 1952 – Kim Stanley Robinson, American author

* 1953 – Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)

* 1953 – Chaka Khan, American singer

* 1953 – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Indian entrepreneur, Chairman of Biocon Ltd

* 1954 – Geno Auriemma, American basketball coach

* 1955 – Moses Malone, American basketball player

* 1955 – Petrea Burchard, American actress

* 1956 – José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician, president of the European Commission

* 1957 – Teresa Ganzel, American actor

* 1957 – Amanda Plummer, American actress

* 1957 – Robbie James, Welsh footballer (d. 1998)

* 1957 – Lucio Gutierrez, former President of Ecuador

* 1958 – Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist

* 1958 – El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (d. 1997)

* 1959 – Catherine Keener, American actress

* 1959 – Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (d. 1997)

* 1959 – Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005)

* 1960 – Nicol Stephen, Deputy First Minister of Scotland

* 1961 – Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster

* 1961 – Steve Holmes, Romanian-German porn actor

* 1962 – Steve Redgrave, British rower, 5 Olympic Gold Medals

* 1963 – Míchel (José Miguel González Martín), Spanish footballer

* 1964 – Hope Davis, American actress

* 1964 – John Pinette, American comedian

* 1965 – Sarah Buxton, American actress

* 1965 – Richard Grieco, American actor and singer

* 1965 – Marti Pellow, Scottish singer

* 1965 – Gary Whitehead, American poet

* 1967 – David Ford, Canadian kayaker

* 1968 – Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur, Gorillaz and The Good, the Bad & the Queen)

* 1968 – Mitch Cullin, American novelist

* 1968 – Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer

* 1968 – Michael Atherton, English cricketer

* 1971 – Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian supermodel

* 1971 – Karen McDougal, American model

* 1971 – Gail Porter, British television presenter

* 1971 – Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player

* 1971 – Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1972 – Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer

* 1972 – Judith Godrèche, French actress and author

* 1973 – Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer

* 1973 – Wim Eyckmans, Belgian racing driver

* 1973 – Jason Kidd, American basketball player

* 1975 – Alydar, American racehorse (d. 1990)

* 1976 – Michelle Monaghan, American actress

* 1976 – Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle trials rider

* 1976 – Jeremy Newberry, American football player

* 1976 – Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player

* 1976 – Keri Russell, American actress

* 1976 – Jayson Blair, American journalist and author

* 1976 – Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian race car driver

* 1977 – Jean Carlos Gamarra, Peruvian taekwondo practitioner

* 1978 – Perez Hilton, American blogger and television persona

* 1978 – Walter Samuel, Argentine footballer

* 1978 – Nicholle Tom, American actress

* 1979 – Natalya Baranovskaya, Belarusian swimmer

* 1979 – Mark Buehrle, American baseball player

* 1979 – Misty Hyman, American swimmer

* 1979 – IshQ Bector, Indian Hiphop artist, singer, & rapper

* 1979 – Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish rugby player

* 1980 – Russell Howard, British comedian

* 1980 – Itay tiran, Israeli actor

* 1981 – Luciana Carro, Canadian actress

* 1981 – Erin Crocker, American race car driver

* 1981 – Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player

* 1982 – José Raúl Contreras, Chilean footballer

* 1983 – Jerome Thomas, English footballer

* 1985 – Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player

* 1986 – Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer

* 1986 – Steven Strait, American actor

* 1990 – Princess Eugenie of York

* 1990 – Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish racing driver

* 1995 – Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist

* 1997 – Aidan Davis, Britain's Got Talent finalist

 

 

 

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[spoiler=March 23rd]

* 1429 – Margaret of Anjou' date=' wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482)

* 1638 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1731)

* 1645 – William Kidd, Scottish sailor (d. 1701)

* 1699 – John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777)

* 1723 – Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771)

* 1732 – Marie Adélaïde of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800)

* 1754 – Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)

* 1769 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (d. 1839)

* 1769 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)

* 1823 – Schuyler Colfax, Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)

* 1826 – Léon Minkus, German/Czech composer and violinist (d. 1917)

* 1831 – Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866)

* 1834 – Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858)

* 1858 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941)

* 1862 – Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d. 1950)

* 1868 – Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d. 1923)

* 1874 – J. C. Leyendecker, German American Illustrator (d. 1951)

* 1878 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (d. 1934)

* 1880 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (d. 1922)

* 1881 – Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1958)

* 1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965)

* 1882 – Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)

* 1887 – Juan Gris, Spanish artist (d. 1927)

* 1887 – Josef Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1945)

* 1887 – Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967)

* 1893 – Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960)

* 1893 – G. D. Naidu (Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu), Indian Inventor & Engineer (Edison of India) (d. 1974)

* 1895 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001)

* 1899 – Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)

* 1900 – Erich Fromm, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1980)

* 1904 – H. Beam Piper, American science fiction author (d. 1964)

* 1905 – Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972)

* 1905 – Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)

* 1906–Urs Allo Mahar sharif was celebrated in the memory of Syed Muhammad Amin Shah.

* 1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992)

* 1910 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998)

* 1912 – Wernher von Braun, German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977)

* 1915 – Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II hero (d. 1991)

* 1919 – Carl Graffunder, mid-century modernist architect

* 1920 – Neal Smith, former United States Congressman

* 1920 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach

* 1921 – Donald Campbell, British car and motorboat racer (d. 1967)

* 1922 – Marty Allen, American comedian and actor

* 1922 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990)

* 1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (d. 1980)

* 1925 – David Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008)

* 1929 – Sir Roger Bannister, English runner

* 1931 – Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005)

* 1931 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player

* 1932 – Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1933 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist, known for the Stanford prison experiment

* 1934 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician

* 1934 – Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)

* 1934 – Mark Rydell, American film and television director

* 1937 – Craig Breedlove, American land speed record holder

* 1937 – Robert Gallo, American physician

* 1938 – Maynard Jackson, first black mayor of Atlanta (d. 2003)

* 1938 – Dave Pike, American jazz musician

* 1939 – Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer

* 1941 – Jim Trelease, American educator and children's literature author

* 1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980)

* 1943 – Lee May, former Major League Baseball player

* 1943 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish writer (d. 2001)

* 1944 – Michael Nyman, British minimalist composer

* 1944 – Tony McPhee, English singer and guitarist (The Groundhogs)

* 1945 – Franco Battiato, Italian singer, songwriter and filmmaker

* 1945 – David Grisman, American bluegrass musician

* 1948 – David Olney, American musician

* 1949 – Ric Ocasek, American musician (The Cars)

* 1949 – Roland Lee, American Watercolor Artist

* 1950 – Anthony De Longis, American actor

* 1950 – Corinne Clery, French actress

* 1951 – Ron Jaworski, American football player and analyst

* 1952 – Kim Stanley Robinson, American author

* 1953 – Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)

* 1953 – Chaka Khan, American singer

* 1953 – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Indian entrepreneur, Chairman of Biocon Ltd

* 1954 – Geno Auriemma, American basketball coach

* 1955 – Moses Malone, American basketball player

* 1955 – Petrea Burchard, American actress

* 1956 – José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician, president of the European Commission

* 1957 – Teresa Ganzel, American actor

* 1957 – Amanda Plummer, American actress

* 1957 – Robbie James, Welsh footballer (d. 1998)

* 1957 – Lucio Gutierrez, former President of Ecuador

* 1958 – Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist

* 1958 – El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (d. 1997)

* 1959 – Catherine Keener, American actress

* 1959 – Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (d. 1997)

* 1959 – Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005)

* 1960 – Nicol Stephen, Deputy First Minister of Scotland

* 1961 – Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster

* 1961 – Steve Holmes, Romanian-German porn actor

* 1962 – Steve Redgrave, British rower, 5 Olympic Gold Medals

* 1963 – Míchel (José Miguel González Martín), Spanish footballer

* 1964 – Hope Davis, American actress

* 1964 – John Pinette, American comedian

* 1965 – Sarah Buxton, American actress

* 1965 – Richard Grieco, American actor and singer

* 1965 – Marti Pellow, Scottish singer

* 1965 – Gary Whitehead, American poet

* 1967 – David Ford, Canadian kayaker

* 1968 – Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur, Gorillaz and The Good, the Bad & the Queen)

* 1968 – Mitch Cullin, American novelist

* 1968 – Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer

* 1968 – Michael Atherton, English cricketer

* 1971 – Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian supermodel

* 1971 – Karen McDougal, American model

* 1971 – Gail Porter, British television presenter

* 1971 – Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player

* 1971 – Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Japanese professional wrestler

* 1972 – Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer

* 1972 – Judith Godrèche, French actress and author

* 1973 – Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer

* 1973 – Wim Eyckmans, Belgian racing driver

* 1973 – Jason Kidd, American basketball player

* 1975 – Alydar, American racehorse (d. 1990)

* 1976 – Michelle Monaghan, American actress

* 1976 – Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle trials rider

* 1976 – Jeremy Newberry, American football player

* 1976 – Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player

* 1976 – Keri Russell, American actress

* 1976 – Jayson Blair, American journalist and author

* 1976 – Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian race car driver

* 1977 – Jean Carlos Gamarra, Peruvian taekwondo practitioner

* 1978 – Perez Hilton, American blogger and television persona

* 1978 – Walter Samuel, Argentine footballer

* 1978 – Nicholle Tom, American actress

* 1979 – Natalya Baranovskaya, Belarusian swimmer

* 1979 – Mark Buehrle, American baseball player

* 1979 – Misty Hyman, American swimmer

* 1979 – IshQ Bector, Indian Hiphop artist, singer, & rapper

* 1979 – Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish rugby player

* 1980 – Russell Howard, British comedian

* 1980 – Itay tiran, Israeli actor

* 1981 – Luciana Carro, Canadian actress

* 1981 – Erin Crocker, American race car driver

* 1981 – Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player

* 1982 – José Raúl Contreras, Chilean footballer

* 1983 – Jerome Thomas, English footballer

* 1985 – Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player

* 1986 – Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer

* 1986 – Steven Strait, American actor

* 1990 – Princess Eugenie of York

* 1990 – Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish racing driver

* 1995 – Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist

* 1997 – Aidan Davis, Britain's Got Talent finalist

 

 

 

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January 14 Birthdays in History - January 14 Deaths - January 14 Events

 

1988 Jamie Altman, son of Lynda Carter and Robert Altman

1988 Jordy, born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, French singer, guitarist, achieved Guinness Book of World Records as youngest singer with number one chart-topping hit, 'Dur dur d'etre bebe!', or, 'It's Tough to be a Baby', founded, tours, records with Jordy and the Dixies

1977 Terry Ryan, St. Johns, NHL left wing, Montreal Canadiens

1975 Marcel Koning, soccer player, FC The Hague/NEC

1974 Hugues Legault, born in Montreal, Quebec, 50m swimmer 1996 Olympics

1974 Kevin Jefferson, NFL linebacker for the Cincinnati Bengals

1974 Michael Dritlein, WLAF wide receiver for the Rhein Fire

1974 Nancy Napolski, Hinsdale Idaho, air rifle 1996 Olympics

1973 Ed Howard, NFL wide receiver for the Atlanta Falcons

1973 Lethon Flowers, NFL defensive back for the Pittsburgh Steelers

1973 Rod Myers, Conroe, Texas, outfielder for the Kansas City Royals

1972 Kyle Brady, NFL tight end for the New York Jets

1972 Michael Davis, NFL cornerback for the Cleveland Browns

1970 Eric Charron, Verdun, NHL defenseman for the Washington Capitals

1970 Steve Cooke, Kanai Hawaii, pitcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates

1970 Tyrone Hughes, NFL cornerback, New Orleans Saints, Chicago Bears

1969 Dave Grohl, drummer, Nirvana, Foo Fighters

1969 David Webb, WLAF linebacker for the Frankfurt Galaxy

1969 Jason Kent Bateman, Rye, New York, actor, David-Valerie, Hogan Family

1969 Martin Bicknell, cricketer, England pace bowler 1993

1969 Rico Smith, NFL wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns

1969 Jason Bateman, American Actor

1968 Fred[ric] Honebein, born in San Francisco, California, rower, Olympics-5th-1996

1968 L L Cool J, James Todd Smith, St. Albans, New York, rapper, Bigger and Deffer

1967 Emily Watson, actress, Breaking the Waves, Boxer

1967 Terry Wooden, NFL linebacker, Seattle Seahawks, Kansas City Chiefs

1967 Tom Rhodes, actor, Tom Rhodes-Mr Rhodes

1967 Zakk Wylde, American Musician

1966 Daniel J Schneider, born in Memphis, Tennessee, actor, Dennis-Head of the Class

1966 Matt Brock, NFL defensive end/tackle for the New York Jets

1965 Dave Lowry, Sudbury, NHL left wing for the Florida Panthers

1965 Desiree Nosbusch, Luxembourg, actress, The Fan

1965 Jemma Redgrave, born in London, England, actress, Buddha of Suburbia

1965 Slick Rick, American Musician

1964 Sergei Nemchinov, born in Moscow, Russia, NHL center, New York Islanders, Silver Medal 1998 Olympics

1964 Steven Soderbergh, writer, Mimi, Schizoplis

1964 Shepard Smith, American Journalist

1962 Patrica Morrison, rocker, Sisters of Mercy-Walk Away, Black Planet

1961 Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman

1960 Eric Alterman, American Writer

1959 Carl Chas Smash Smyth, rock bassist, Madness-Our House

1959 Geoff Tate, vocalist, Queensryche-Breaking the Silence

1959 Paul Terry, cricketer, in Germany Two Tests England vs. WI 1984

1959 Susan Smith, Beloit WISC, playmate, Sept, 1981

1958 Colin Ferguson, murderer, 6 people on the LIRR on Dec 7, 1993

1953 Denzil Douglas, Statesman

1952 Sydney Biddle Barrow, madam/autohr, Mayflower Madam

1952 Sydney Biddle Barrows, American Celebrity

1951 Gil Pak Jong, Korea PR, judo, Olympic-1976

1951 William Risrook, rocker, BT Express-Here Comes the Express

1949 Christine Belford, Amityville, New York, actress, Banacek, Empire, 90210

1949 Lawrence Kasdan, born in Miami, Florida, director and writer, Accidental Tourist

1949 Franklin Raines, American Businessman

1948 Carl Weathers, New Orlean, Louisiana, actor, Apollo Creed-Rocky

1948 T-Bone Burnett, born in St. Louis, Missouri, musician, songwriter, produced artists including BoDeans, Counting Crows, music for films

1948 Tim Harris, rocker, Foundations

1947 Bill Weberniuk, Canadian snookers player

1944 Graham Vivian Marsh, Kalgoorlie Australia, PGA golfer, 1977 Heritage

1943 Holland Taylor, Philadelphia, actress, Bossom Buddies, Camilla-Naked Truth

1943 Jose Luis Rodriguez, born in Caracas, Venezuela, singer, Dueno De Nada

1943 Ronald Hunter, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Lazarus Syndrome

1943 Shannon Lucid, born in Shanghai, China, astronaut, STS-51G, 34, 43, 58, 76/79

1942 Amichand Rajbansi, South African politician

1942 Carol Bellamy, Planfield, New Jersey, City Council Pres-D-NYC, 1978-85

1941 C L "Gibby" Gilbert, Jr., Chattanooga, Tennessee, PGA golfer, 1976 Danny Thomas

1941 Marjoe Gortner, born in Long Beach, California, actor, Speak Up America, Falcon Crest

1941 [Dorothy] Faye Dunaway, Bascom, Florida, actress, Chinatown, Bonnie and Clyde

1941 Faye Dunaway, American Actress

1940 Julian Bond, born in Nashville, Tennessee, D-Ga, civil rights leader

1940 Trevor Nunn, English Director

1938 Allen Toussaint, Naomi Neville, pianist/songwriter, Ride Your Pony

1938 Jack Jones, born in Los Angeles, California, singer, Love Boat Theme

1937 Billie Jo Spears, country singer

1937 Ken Higgs, cricketer, effective England pace-bowler in 15 Tests 1965-68

1936 Clarence Carter, U.S. singer, Thread the Needle

1936 John Paul Cain, Sweetwater, Texas, PGA golfer, 1989 Greater Grand Rapids

1936 Ludmila Pinayeva, U.S.S.R., 500m kayak, Gold Medals 1964, 1968, 1972 Olympics

1936 Reiner Klimke, born in West Germany, equestrian dressage 1984 Olympics gold

1933 Stan Brakhage, American Director

1932 Caterina Valente, Paris, France, singer, Entertainers

1932 Harriet Andersson, Stockholm Sweden, actress, Cries and Whispers

1930 Edgar Sergeyi Hovhanesyan, composer

1930 Ernest Just, Black biologist, served as Vice President of American Zoologists

1929 Aleksander Petrovic, film director

1929 Billy Walker, born in Ralls, Texas, country singer, Ozark Jubilee

1928 Gerald Arpino, Staten Island, New York, choreographer

1928 Garry Winogrand, born in New York City, New York, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations'

1927 Ivan Kalita, U.S.S.R., equestrian dressage, Silver Medal 1968 Olympics

1926 Frank Aletter, Long Island, New York, actor, Mac-It's About Time, Tom-Nancy

1926 Harold Wolpe, sociologist lawyer/Soth African activist

1926 Tom Tryon, Hartford, Connecticut, actor, Cardinal, All That Glitters

1926 Warren Mitchell, Australian Actor

1925 Yukio Mishima, Japan, novelist, Temple of Golden Pavilion

1924 Guy Williams, New York City, actor, Zorro, Lost in Space

1921 Charles Gaupp, German/Dutch painter

1921 Mark Lawrence, Washington D.C., pianist, Alice Pearce

1920 Bertus de Harder, Dutch soccer star, Bordeaux

1920 Donald Beard, cricketer, New Zealand pace bowler in the 1950's

1920 George Herman, newsman, CBS-TV

1919 Andy Rooney, born in Albany, New York, CBS news correspondent, 60 Minutes

1919 Giulio Andreotti, 7 x premier, Italy

1916 John Oliver Killens, novelist

1915 Andre Frossard, Catholic columnist

1914 Harold Russell, actor, Best Years of Our Life

1913 Tillie Olsen, born in Nebraska, writer, considered the first generation of American feminists

1912 Rudolf Hagelstange, German author and poet, Spielball der Gotter

1911 George Amadee Tremblay, composer

1911 Helmut Degen, composer

1910 Renier van der Velden, composer

1909 Joseph Walton Losey, Wisconsin, director, Damned, Accident

1908 Carl Esmond, Vienna Austria, actor, Address Unknown, Hitler

1908 Ruggiero de Rudolpho Columbo, U.S. singer and actor, Miracle of Women

1907 Derek Richter, British neuro chemist, Aspects of learning and memory

1907 Sophie Redmond, Suriname's 1st female physician

1906 Walter Knape, composer

1906 William Bendix, born in New York City, actor, Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley

1904 Cecil Beaton, England, royal family photographer

1903 Veronica Turleigh, County Donegal Ireland, actress, Promoter

1902 Alfred Tarski, Warsaw, mathematician/logician

1902 F C Terborgh, Reijnier Flaes, Dutch writer, De Turkenoorlog

1901 Bebe Daniels, Scotland, actress, 42nd Street, Lonesome Luke

1901 Carlos P Romulo, Philippine general/diplomat/jurist

1899 Fritz Bayerlein, German Lieutenant-General, WW I, Poland, Libya, St-Lo

1899 Carlos P. Romulo, Filipino Politician

1898 Helen Flint, Chicago, actress, Sea Devils, Married Before Breakfast

1896 John dos Passos, novelist, 1919, Big Money, 42nd Parallel

1895 George Richard Samways, children's writer

1892 Hal Roach, early film director/producer, 1 Million BC

1892 Martin Niemoller, clergyman, German Protestant, ; imprisoned by Hitler

1889 Vincenzo Davico, composer

1886 Hugh Lofting, England, writer and illustrator, Dr. Dolittle

1882 Hendrik W van Loon, Netherland, commentator/writer, Story of America

1882 Hendrik Willem Van Loon, American Journalist

1878 Victor A. D. Segalen, French writer

1875 Albert Schweitzer, doctor/humanitarian/organist, Nobel 1954

1874 Thornton Waldo Burgess, author, Peter Rabbit

1871 Pauline Beersmans, PLJM van Cuyck, Flemish actress, Hofslachter

1868 Catharina A. M. de Savornin Lohman, Dutch author, Belief

1863 Pieter Oosterlee, Dutch educator

1861 Wilhelm von Polenz, German writer, Der Pfarrer von Breitendorf

1851 Theophile EA de Bock, Dutch painter/etcher/drawer

1850 Jean de Reszke, Polish tenor

1850 Pierre Loti, Julien Viaud, French sea officer/writer, Pacheur

1845 Henry C K Petty-Fitzmaurice 5th marquess of Landsdowne/Governor-General Canada

1844 Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer

1841 Berthe M P Morisot, French painter/aquarellist

1841 Berthe Morisot, French Artist

1836 [Hugh] Judson Kilpatrick, Major General Union volunteers

1834 William Cleaver Francis Robinson, composer

1831 John Bullock Clark, Jr., Brigadier General Confederate Army

1822 Nicholas Mori, composer

1819 Fabio Campana, composer

1819 Frederick Steele, Major General Union volunteers

1818 Zacharias Topelius, Finnish historical novelist, Surgeon's Stories

1817 Harmen S Sytstra, Dutch poet/editor, Iduna

1814 Johannes Josephus Viotta, composer

1812 Carl Gradener, composer

1806 Matthew Fontaine Maury, Naval Commander, Confederacy

1800 Ludwig A. F. Ritter von Kochel, Austrian musicologist, Mozart, Fux

1798 Isaac da Costa, Dutch writer/lawyer

1798 Johan R Thorbecke, Premier of Netherlands, Lib-1849..72

1791 Calvin Phillips, became shortest known adult male, 67 cm; 2' 2"

1780 Francois-Joseph Dizi, composer

1751 Corona Elizabeth Wilhelmine Schroter, composer

1741 Benedict Arnold, U.S. general turn traitor, Revolutionary War

1730 William Whipple, merchant/judge, Declaration of Independence signer

1722 Friedrich Gottlob Fleischer, composer

1705 Jean-Baptiste C Bouvet de Lozier/Lozier-Bouvet, governor, Reunion Is

1700 Picander, Christian F Henrici, German writer, Der Sauffer

1684 Jean-Baptiste Vanloo, French painter

1664 Simon van Slingelandt, Dutch grand pensionary, 1727-36

1655 Angelo Predieri, composer

1618 Jan Six, Dutch mayor of Amsterdam

1615 John Biddle, English minister, Unitarian

1592 Sjihab al-Din Sultan Choerram Sjah Djahan, leader of India

1566 Angelo Notari, composer

1467 Henry van Stolberg and Wernigerode, German gov/viceroy of Frisia

1451 Franchinus Gaffurius, composer

 

 

 

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1578 – Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640)

1694 – William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771)

1703 – Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759)

1710 – Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783)

1738 – Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775)

1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)

1760 – John Breckinridge, American politician (d. 1806)

1811 – Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885)

1817 – Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)

1825 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891)

1846 – Pierre Marie René Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904)

1859 – Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891)

1863 – Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926)

1884 – Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953)

1885 – George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950)

1886 – Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949)

1891 – Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969)

1891 – Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987)

1892 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002)

1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948)

1895 – Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967)

1897 – Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)

1898 – Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918)

1899 – John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970)

1899 – John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952)

1899 – Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989)

1901 – Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986)

1902 – Howard Koch, American screenwriter (d. 1995)

1906 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977)

1910 – Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991)

1914 – Bill Erwin, American actor

1914 – Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002)

1914 – Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001)

1917 – Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992)

1921 – Carlo Cardinal Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem

1922 – Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist

1923 – Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977)

1924 – Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American soldier and politician

1924 – Vilgot Sjöman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006)

1925 – Julie Harris, American actress

1930 – Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize

1930 – David Piper, British race car driver

1931 – Nigel Calder, British science writer

1931 – Hatsumi Masaaki, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization

1931 – Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971)

1931 – Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor

1933 – Michael Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003)

1933 – K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist

1934 – Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church

1934 – Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist

1934 – Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004)

1935 – David Hackett Fischer, American historian

1939 – Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician

1939 – Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate

1939 – Harry Reid, American politician

1943 – Wayne Allard, American politician

1944 – Inger Davidson, Swedish politician

1944 – Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006)

1944 – Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter

1944 – Botho Strauß, German author

1945 – Penelope Spheeris, American film director

1946 – Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997)

1947 – Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations)

1947 – Tommy Jenkins, English football player

1947 – Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist

1948 – T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer

1950 – Bob Kevoian, American radio personality

1950 – Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic

1950 – Benjamin Stora, French historian

1951 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher

1952 – Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman

1954 – Dan Butler, American actor

1954 – Stone Phillips, American television journalist

1956 – Steven Bauer, American actor

1957 – Dagfinn Høybråten, Norwegian politician

1958 – Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer

1958 – George Saunders, American writer

1960 – Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984)

1960 – Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard)

1962 – Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family

1963 – Dan Gauthier, American actor

1963 – Ann Patchett, American novelist

1963 – Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player

1966 – Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler

1968 – Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002)

1968 – Lucy Liu, American actress

1968 – Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters)

1968 – Rena Sofer, American actress

1968 – Chris Wedge, American animator

1970 – Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature)

1970 – Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer

1971 – Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor

1971 – Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player

1972 – Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004)

1973 – Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer

1973 – Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player

1973 – Jan Ullrich, German cyclist

1976 – Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player

1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation)

1977 – Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer

1978 – Melissa Archer, American actress

1978 – Jarron Collins, American basketball player

1978 – Jason Collins, American basketball player

1978 – Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter

1978 – Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player

1978 – David Rivas, Spanish footballer

1978 – Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse)

1979 – Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress

1979 – Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer

1981 – Danijel Pranjić, Croatian football player

1981 – Britney Spears, American singer

1981 – Isabella Soprano, American porn star

1982 – Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen

1982 – Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer

1982 – Pizon, American rapper/producer

1982 – Matt Ware, American football player

1983 – Chris Burke, Scottish footballer

1983 – Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player

1983 – Aaron Rodgers, American football player

1984 – Péter Máté, Hungarian footballer

1985 – Dorell Wright, American basketball player

1986 – Claudiu Keserü, Romanian football player

1987 – Teairra Mari, American R&B singer

1988 – Alfred Enoch, British actor

1988 – Soniya Mehra, Indian actress

1989 – Cassie Steele, Canadian actress

1990 – Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese actor

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1469 – Ferdinand II of Naples (d. 1496)

1540 – King Magnus of Livonia (d. 1583)

1676 – Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1745)

1694 – Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College (d. 1755)

1728 – Johann Heinrich Lambert, German scientist (d. 1777)

1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French chemist (d. 1790)

1740 – Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)

1743 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)

1775 – William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)

1789 – Abbas Mirza, Prince of Persia (d. 1833)

1792 – Manuel Oribe, Uruguayan political figure (d. 1857)

1819 – Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (d. 1861)

1826 – Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (d. 1875)

1845 – Mary Ann Nichols, English victim of Jack the Ripper (d. 1888)

1850 – Charles Richet, French physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935)

1854 – Arnold Fothergill, England cricketer (d. 1932)

1862 – Herbert Booth, American son of William and Catherine Booth (d. 1926)

1864 – Anna Ulyanova, older sister of Vladimir Lenin (d. 1935)

1865 – Arthur James Arnot, Scottish inventor (d. 1946)

1873 – Lee DeForest, American inventor (d. 1961)

1874 – Zona Gale, American novelist (d. 1938)

1875 – John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish novelist, Governor General of Canada (d. 1940)

1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire, French poet and art critic (d. 1918)

1882 – James Franck, German-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1964)

1885 – Jules Romains, French author (d. 1972)

1890 – Tommy Andrews, Australian cricketer (d. 1970)

1894 – Sparky Adams, Baseball player (d. 1989)

1896 – Ivan Mihailov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1990)

1897 – Yoon Boseon, President of South Korea (d. 1990)

1898 – Peggy Guggenheim, American art collector (d. 1979)

1899 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (d. 1991)

1900 – Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (d. 1980)

1901 – Hans Kammler, German engineer and SS officer (disappeared in 1945)

1901 – Maxwell Taylor, American general (d. 1987)

1901 – Chen Yi, Chinese communist military commander and politician (d. 1972)

1904 – Christopher Isherwood, English-born writer (d. 1986)

1906 – Albert Sabin, American polio researcher (d. 1993)

1908 – W. B. Henning, Prussian-born Iranist (d. 1967)

1908 – Aubrey Schenck, film producer (d. 1999)

1908 – Bill Hunt, Australian cricketer (d. 1983)

1909 – Jim Davis, American actor (d. 1981)

1909 – Gene Moore, baseball player (d. 1978)

1909 – Eric Davies, South African cricketer (d. 1976)

1910 – Mother Teresa, Nobel Peace Prize winning Christian missionary (d. 1997)

1914 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer (d. 1984)

1920 – Brant Parker, American cartoonist (d. 2007)

1920 – Prem Tinsulanonda, Thai soldier and politician

1921 – Benjamin Bradlee, American journalist

1922 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist (d. 2009)

1923 – Wolfgang Sawallisch, German conductor and pianist

1924 – Alex Kellner, baseball player (d. 1996)

1925 – Jack Hirshleifer, American economist (d. 2005)

1925 – Alain Peyrefitte, French politician and writer (d. 1999)

1925 – Sangharakshita, Buddhist Philosopher, Founder of the Western Buddhist Order

1927 – B. V. Doshi, Indian architect

1928 – Peter Appleyard, Canadian jazz vibraphonist

1928 – Naïm Kattan, Canadian novelist and essayist

1930 – Joe Solomon, West Indian cricketer

1932 – Luis Salvadores, Chilean basketball player.

1934 – Tom Heinsohn, American basketball player and commentator

1935 – Geraldine Ferraro, American politician

1936 – Yvette Vickers, American actress

1938 – Jet Black, English Drummer, one of the founder members of The Stranglers

1940 – Don LaFontaine, American voice actor (d. 2008)

1941 – Barbet Schroeder, Swiss film director

1941 – Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress

1941 – Chris Curtis, English singer and drummer (The Searchers) (d. 2005)

1942 – Vic Dana, American singer

1942 – Dennis Turner, British politician

1944 – Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, British prince

1944 – Stephen Greif, English actor

1944 – Maureen Tucker, American musician (The Velvet Underground)

1945 – Jo Freeman, American feminist scholar

1945 – Tom Ridge, first United States Secretary of Homeland Security

1946 – Valerie Simpson, American singer

1946 – Mark Snow, American composer

1946 – Zhou Ji, Education Minister of the People's Republic of China

1946 – Chantal Renaud, Quebec singer and actress

1947 – Emiliano Díez, Cuban actor

1947 – Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer (d. 2007)

1950 – Benjamin Hendrickson, American actor (d. 2006)

1952 – Bryon Baltimore, Canadian ice hockey player

1952 – Michael Jeter, American actor (d. 2003)

1952 – Will Shortz, American crossword editor

1953 – Pat Sharkey, Irish footballer

1954 – Efren Reyes, Filipino pool player

1956 – Mark Mangino, American football coach

1957 – Dr. Alban, Nigerian-Swedish singer

1957 – Rick Hansen, Canadian paraplegic athlete

1958 – Jan Nevens, Belgian cyclist

1959 – Stan Van Gundy, American basketball coach

1960 – Branford Marsalis, American saxophonist and bandleader

1960 – Nancy Martinez, Canadian-born singer

1960 – Wanda De Jesus, American actress

1961 – Daniel Lévi, French singer-songwriter, composer and pianist

1961 – Jeff Parrett, American baseball player

1962 – Bob Mionske, American cyclist and attorney

1963 – David Byas, English cricketer

1965 – Chris Burke, American actor

1965 – Bobby Duncum, Jr., wrestler (d. 2000)

1965 – Jon Hensley, American actor

1966 – Jacques Brinkman, Dutch field hockey player

1966 – Shirley Manson, Scottish singer

1966 – Avner Ben-Gal, Israeli artist and painter

1968 – Byron Lawson, Canadian actor

1970 – Olimpiada Ivanova, Russian athlete

1970 – Brett Schultz, South African cricketer

1971 – Thalía, Mexican singer

1975 – Morgan Ensberg, American baseball player

1975 – Tyler Connolly, Canadian Singer

1976 – Amaia Montero, Spanish singer (La Oreja de Van Gogh)

1976 – Zemfira, Russian singer

1977 – Saeko Chiba, Japanese seiyū

1977 – Morris Peterson, American basketball player

1977 – Liam Botham, Hampshire cricketer and rugby league player

1978 – Raja Kashif, Pakistani singer

1979 – Jamal Lewis, American football player

1979 – Cristian Mora, Ecuadorian footballer

1979 – Rubén Pazos, Spanish footballer

1979 – Yağmur Sarıgül, Turkish Musician (maNga)

1980 – Macaulay Culkin, American actor

1980 – Brendan Harris, American baseball player

1980 – Manolis Papamakarios, Greek basketball player

1980 – Chris Pine, American actor

1981 – Tino Best, West Indian cricketer

1981 – Andreas Glyniadakis, Greek basketball player

1981 – Demetria McKinney, American actress

1981 – Vangelis Moras, Greek footballer

1981 – Jesse Martin, Australian yachtsman

1981 – Petey Williams, Canadian professional wrestler

1982 – David Long, New Zealand musician

1982 – Noah Welch, American ice hockey player

1983 – Félix Porteiro, Spanish racing driver

1986 – Cassie, American singer

1986 – Colin Kazim-Richards, Turkish footballer

1988 – Elvis Andrus, Venezuelan baseball player

1988 – Princess Maria Laura of Belgium, Archduchess of Austria-Este

1988 – Danielle Savre, American actress

1992 – Yang Yilin, Chinese gymnast

1993 – Keke Palmer, American actress

 

 

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1454 – Poliziano, Florentine humanist (d. 1494)

1602 – Jules Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d. 1661)

1608 – George Goring, Lord Goring, English royalist soldier (d. 1657)

1610 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)

1634 – Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)

1671 – Jacques D'Allonville, French astronomer and mathematician (d. 1732)

1675 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (d. 1747)

1676 – Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)

1696 – William Oldys, English antiquarian and bibliographer (d. 1761)

1721 – John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (d. 1807)

1743 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)

1785 – Mordecai Manuel Noah, American writer, journalist (d. 1851)

1801 – Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)

1816 – Arthur de Gobineau, French philosopher (d. 1882)

1829 – Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)

1834 – James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American painter (d. 1903)

1858 – Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928)

1859 – Willy Hess, German violinist (d. 1928)

1860 – Owen Wister, American author (d. 1938)

1862 – Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)

1865 – Arthur Capper, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1951)

1868 – Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926)

1872 – Albert Marque, French sculptor and doll maker (d. 1939)

1874 – Khedive Abbas II of Egypt (d. 1944)

1885 – King Sisavang Vong of Laos (d. 1959)

1888 – Scipio Slataper, Italian writer and essayist (d. 1915)

1891 – Alexander M. Volkov, Russian novelist and mathematician (d. 1977)

1893 – Clarence J. Brown, Newspaper publisher and politician (d. 1965)

1896 – Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (d. 1936)

1898 – A. B. "Happy" Chandler, American politician and baseball commissioner (d. 1991)

1901 – Gerald Finzi, British composer (d. 1956)

1903 – Irving Stone, American writer (d. 1989)

1906 – Tom Carvel, Greek-born businessman and inventor (d. 1990)

1910 – William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)

1911 – Terry-Thomas, British actor (d. 1990)

1912 – Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)

1912 – Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967)

1913 – Gerald Ford, 38th President of the United States (d. 2006)

1918 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director (d. 2007)

1918 – Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director

1919 – Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987)

1921 – Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)

1921 – Geoffrey Wilkinson, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996)

1922 – Robin Olds, American World War II and Vietnam War ace fighter pilot (d. 2007)

1922 – Elfriede Rinkel, Nazi concentration camp guard

1923 – Dale Robertson, American actor

1923 – Willie Steele, American Olympic gold medalist (d. 1989)

1924 – James W. Black, Scottish pharmacologist, Nobel laureate

1926 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor

1927 – John Chancellor, American television commentator (d. 1996)

1928 – Nancy Olson, American actress

1930 – Polly Bergen, American actress

1932 – Roosevelt Grier, American football player and actor

1933 – Robert Bourassa, Quebec politician (d. 1996)

1937 – Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician

1938 – Jerry Rubin, American activist (d. 1994)

1938 – Richard Rust, American actor (d. 1994)

1939 – Karel Gott, Czech singer

1939 – Sid Haig, American actor

1939 – George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer

1940 – Susan Howatch, English author

1941 – Maulana Karenga, American author and activist

1941 – Andreas Khol, Austrian politician

1942 – Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief

1943 – Christopher Priest, English novelist

1944 – Billy McCool, American baseball player

1946 – Vincent Pastore, American actor

1946 – John Wood, Australian actor

1947 – Claudia Kennedy, U.S. Army officer

1947 – Navin Ramgoolam, Prime Minister of Mauritius

1950 – Gwen Guthrie, American singer (d. 1999)

1951 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)

1952 – Franklin Graham, American evangelist

1952 – Eric Laneuville, American director, Actor, Producer

1952 – Joel Silver, American film producer

1952 – Bob Casale, AKA Bob 2, American Musician (Devo)

1955 – L. Brent Bozell, American author and pundit

1956 – Vladimir Kulich, Czech actor

1958 – Robert Jensen, American journalist and activist

1958 – Joe Keenan, American screenwriter, television producer and novelist.

1960 – Jane Lynch, American actress

1960 – Anna Bligh, Australian politician

1960 – Kyle Gass, American musician and actor (Tenacious D)

1960 – Angelique Kidjo, Beninese singer

1961 – Jackie Earle Haley, American actor

1962 – Jeff Olson, American musician

1963 – Phil Rosenthal, American newspaper columnist

1966 – Tanya Donelly, American musician (Belly)

1966 – Juliet Cesario, American actress

1966 – Ellen Reid, Canadian musician (Crash Test Dummies)

1966 – Matthew Fox, American actor

1966 – Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator

1967 – Robin Ventura, American baseball player

1967 – Patrick J. Kennedy, politician

1968 – Kazushi Sakuraba, Japanese mixed martial artist/professional wrestler

1970 – Nina Siemaszko, American actress

1971 – Mark LoMonaco, American professional wrestler

1971 – Joey Styles, American wrestling commentator

1971 – Marie-Chantal Toupin, French Canadian singer

1971 – Nick McCabe, British musician (The Verve)

1971 – Howard Webb, British Football Referee

1972 – Deborah Mailman, Australian actress

1973 – Halil Mutlu, Bulgaria-born Turkish weightlifter

1973 – Adam Quinn, American bagpipe player

1973 – Paul Methric, American musician

1973 – Candela Peña, Spanish actress

1974 – David Mitchell, English comedian and actor

1975 – Jamey Johnson, Country Music Artist

1975 – Taboo, American rapper

1975 – Tim Hudson, American baseball player

1976 – Geraint Jones, English cricketer

1976 – Kirsten Sheridan, Irish film director and screenwriter

1977 – Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

1979 – Bernie Castro, Dominican baseball player

1979 – Axel Teichmann, German cross-country skier

1980 – George Smith, Australian rugby union footballer

1980 – Jed Madela, Filipino singer

1981 – Lee Mead, English actor

1982 – Dmitry Chaplin, So You Think You Can Dance finalist

1983 – Wesley Dening, Australian TV personality

1984 – Chris Steele, Canadian musician, (Alexisonfire)

1984 – Nilmar, Brazilian Footballer

1984 – Nansy Stergiopoulou, Greek singer (Hi-5 (Hi-5)

1985 – Billy Celeski, Australian footballer

1987 – Adam Johnson, English footballer

1988 – James Vaughan, English footballer

 

 

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