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Births

• 1684 - Antoine Watteau, French painter (d. 1721)
• 1700 - Lambert-Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor (d. 1759)
• 1731 - Henry Cavendish, British scientist (d. 1810)
• 1780 - John Abercrombie, Scottish physician (d. 1844)
• 1794 - William Whiting Boardman, American politician (d. 1871)
• 1813 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer (d. 1901)
• 1819 - Heinrich Joseph Dominicus Denzinger, German theologian (d. 1883)
• 1825 - Paul Kruger, President of the Transvaal Republic (d. 1904)
• 1828 - Samuel J. Randall, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1890)
• 1830 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (d. 1904)
• 1834 - Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (d. 1872)
• 1837 - Robert Gould Shaw, American Army officer (d. 1863)
• 1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, Nobel laureate (d. 1930)
• 1863 - Louis Cyr, French Canadian strongman (d. 1912)
• 1863 - Helen Dunbar, American actress (d. 1933)
• 1864 - T. Frank Appleby, United States Congressman from New Jersey (d. 1924)
• 1870 - Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1953)
• 1885 - Walter Anderson, German folklorist (d. 1962)
• 1895 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (d. 1935)
• 1895 - Bhakti Raksaka Sridhara Deva Gosvami Maharaja, Indian guru (d. 1988)
• 1895 - Wolfram von Richthofen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
• 1898 - Lilly Daché, French-born milliner (d. 1989)
• 1900 - Helen Hayes, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1901 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (d. 1966)
• 1903 - Vernon Duke, American composer and songwriter (d. 1969)
• 1903 - Prince Charles of Belgium, Prince Regent of Belgium (d. 1983)
• 1906 - Paul Creston, American composer (d. 1985)
• 1906 - R.K. Narayan, Indian novelist (d. 2001)
• 1908 - Johnny Green, American songwriter, arranger and conductor (d. 1989)
• 1908 - Mercè Rodoreda, Catalan novelist (d. 1983)
• 1913 - Claude Simon, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 2005)
• 1914 - Tommy Fine, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1914 - Ivory Joe Hunter, American R&B singer (d. 1974)
• 1917 - Thelonious Monk, American jazz pianist (d. 1982)
• 1923 - Nicholas Parsons, English actor
• 1924 - James Clavell, Australian author (d. 1994)
• 1924 - Ed Wood, American filmmaker (d. 1978)
• 1924 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (d. 2004)
• 1925 - Great Antonio, Croatian-Canadian strongman (d. 2001)
• 1926 - Richard Jaeckel, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1927 - Dana Elcar, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1930 - Mustafa Zaidi, Pakistani poet (d. 1970)
• 1930 - Yves Chauvin, French chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1930 - Harold Pinter, English playwright, Nobel laureate
• 1932 - Harry Smith, English footballer
• 1933 - Jay Sebring, American hair stylist and Manson murder victim (d. 1969)
• 1935 - André Bureau, French Canadian communications executive
• 1938 - Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
• 1941 - Peter Coyote, American actor
• 1942 - Radu Vasile, Romanian Prime Minister, 17 April 1998- 13 December 1999
• 1946 - Charles Dance, English actor
• 1946 - Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
• 1946 - John Prine, American singer
• 1946 - Chris Tarrant, English TV presenter
• 1946 - Ben Vereen, American actor
• 1946 - Peter Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1946 - Mildred Grieveson (aka: Anne Mather, Caroline Fleming, Cardine Fleming), English writer
• 1947 - Martin Ruane, English professional wrestler (d. 1998)
• 1948 - Séverine, French singer
• 1948 - Ed Volker, American musician
• 1951 - Epeli Ganilau, Fijian statesman
• 1953 - Midge Ure, Scottish musician
• 1953 - Gus Williams, American basketball player
• 1954 - Rekha, Bollywood actress
• 1955 - David Lee Roth, American singer
• 1956 - Amanda Burton, Northern Irish actress
• 1957 - Rumiko Takahashi, Japanese artist
• 1958 - Tanya Tucker, American singer
• 1959 - Kirsty MacColl, English singer (d. 2000)
• 1959 - Bradley Whitford, American actor
• 1960 - Eric Martin, American singer (Mr. Big)
• 1961 - Jodi Benson, American voice actress
• 1961 - Henrik Jørgensen, Danish marathon runner
• 1961 - Julia Sweeney, American actress and comedian
• 1963 - Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer (d. 2003)
• 1963 - Daniel Pearl, American journalist (d. 2002)
• 1963 - Jolanda de Rover, Dutch swimmer
• 1963 - Vegard Ulvang, Norwegian cross-country skier.
• 1964 - Jim Rome, sports talk radio host and host of The Jim Rome Show.
• 1965 - Chris Penn, American actor (d. 2006)
• 1965 - Clive Jones, British engineer
• 1965 - Rebecca Pidgeon, American actress
• 1965 - Toshi, Japanese singer (X Japan)
• 1966 - Tony Adams, English footballer
• 1967 - Jonathan Littell, French-American writer
• 1968 - Bart Brentjens, Dutch mountain biker
• 1969 - Brett Favre, American football player
• 1969 - Wendi McLendon-Covey, American actress
• 1970 - Dean Kiely, Irish footballer
• 1970 - Bai Ling, Chinese American actress
• 1970 - Corinna May, German singer
• 1970 - Sir Matthew Pinsent, English rower
• 1971 - Ian Bennett, English footballer
• 1971 - Evgeny Kissin, Russian pianist
• 1972 - Alexei Zhitnik, Russian ice hockey player
• 1973 - Mario López, American actor
• 1973 - Semmy Schilt, Dutch kickboxer
• 1974 - Dale Earnhardt Jr., American race car driver
• 1974 - Assi Cohen, Israeli comedian and actor
• 1974 - Julio Ricardo Cruz, Argentinian footballer
• 1974 - Chris Pronger, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 - Plácido Polanco, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 - Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born skateboarder
• 1976 - Pat Burrell, American baseball player
• 1978 - Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, American actress
• 1979 - Mya Harrison, American singer
• 1979 - Nicolás Massú, Chilean tennis player
• 1979 - Ahn Chil Hyun (Kangta), lead singer of the former South Korean group H.O.T.
• 1980 - Tim Maurer, American singer (Suburban Legends)
• 1980 - Elvis Hammond, Ghanaian footballer
• 1980 - Wu Chun, Brunei Born Taiwanese Actor
• 1982 - Amon Buchanan, Australian rules footballer
• 1982 - Hideki Mutoh, Japanese racing driver
• 1983 - Vusimuzi Sibanda, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1984 - Stephanie Cheng, Hong Kong singer
• 1984 - Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese actress
• 1984 - Paul Posluszny, American football player
• 1985 - Dominique Cornu, Belgian professional cyclist

Deaths

• 19 - Germanicus, Roman general (b. 15 BC)
• 680 - Husayn ibn Ali, Shi'a imam, Mahomet's grandson (b. 626)
• 732 - Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Moorish Governor of Andalusia
• 833 - al-Ma'mun, Abbasid caliph of Baghdad (b. 786)
• 1359 - King Hugh IV of Cyprus (b. 1295)
• 1459 - Gianfrancesco Poggio Bracciolini, Italian humanist and classicist (b. 1380)
• 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss reformer (killed in battle) (b. 1484)
• 1659 - Abel Tasman, Dutch explorer (b. 1603)
• 1674 - Thomas Traherne, English poet
• 1691 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (b. 1613)
• 1708 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (b. 1659)
• 1714 - Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert, French economist (b. 1646)
• 1720 - Antoine Coysevox, French sculptor (b. 1640)
• 1723 - William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1665)
• 1725 - Philippe de Rigaud Vaudreuil, Governor-General of New France (b. 1643)
• 1747 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1674)
• 1759 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (b. 1713)
• 1765 - Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1688)
• 1795 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (b. 1714)
• 1806 - Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (b. 1772)
• 1827 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian writer (b. 1778)
• 1837 - Charles Fourier, French philosopher (b. 1772)
• 1872 - William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State (b. 1801)
• 1875 - Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (b. 1817)
• 1876 - Charles Joseph Sainte-Claire Deville, French geologist (b. 1814)
• 1893 - Lip Pike, American baseball player (b. 1845)
• 1901 - Lorenzo Snow, fifth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1814)
• 1913 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
• 1913 - Adolphus Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch) (b. 1839)
• 1914 - King Carol I of Romania (b. 1839)
• 1927 - Gustave Whitehead, German-born inventor (b. 1874)
• 1930 - Adolf Engler, German botanist (b. 1844)
• 1939 - Eleanor Rigby, a real person whose name may have suggested the title to The Beatles song (b. 1895)
• 1940 - Berton Churchill, Canadian actor (b. 1876)
• 1957 - Karl Genzken, Nazi physician (b. 1885)
• 1963 - Roy Cazaly, Australian rules footballer (b. 1893)
• 1964 - Eddie Cantor, American singer and vaudeville performer (b. 1892)
• 1964 - Heinrich Neuhaus, Soviet pianist (b. 1888)
• 1970 - Édouard Daladier, French politician (b. 1884)
• 1971 - John Cawte Beaglehole, New Zealand historian (b. 1901)
• 1976 - Silvana Armenulic, Yugoslavian folk singer (b. 1939)
• 1977 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
• 1978 - Ralph Metcalfe, American athlete (b. 1910)
• 1978 - Ralph Marterie, American big band leader (b. 1914)
• 1979 - Christopher Evans, British psychologist and computer scientist (b. 1931)
• 1979 - Paul Paray, French conductor (b. 1886)
• 1982 - Jean Effel, French painter and journalist (b. 1908)
• 1983 - Ralph Richardson, English actor (b. 1902)
• 1985 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (b. 1920)
• 1985 - Orson Welles, American director and actor (b. 1915)
• 1986 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (b. 1899)
• 1998 - Clark Clifford, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1906)
• 2000 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1916)
• 2001 - Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer (b. 1911)
• 2001 - Vasily Mishin, Soviet rocket designer (b. 1917)
• 2002 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
• 2003 - Eugene Istomin, American pianist (b. 1925)
• 2004 - Ken Caminiti, American baseball player (b. 1963)
• 2004 - Christopher Reeve, American actor (b. 1952)
• 2004 - Arthur H. Robinson, American cartographer (b. 1915)
• 2004 - Maurice Shadbolt, New Zealand writer (b. 1932)
• 2005 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (b. 1921)
• 2005 - Milton Obote, President of Uganda (b. 1925)
• 2006 - Michael John Rogers, English ornithologist (b. 1932)
• 2006 - Ian Scott, Canadian politician (b. 1934)

Notes

1. Antonio Sant'Elia
2. Orson Welles
3. Ed Wood, Jr.
4. Charles Fourier
5. David Gascoyne
6. Alberto Giacometti
7. Urania (magazine)
8. Peter Bradshaw
9. George Barbier
10. Antoine Watteau
11. Wayne C. Booth
12. Nora Roberts
13. Carrie Bradshaw
14. Ludwig von Mises
15. Jeanette Dimech

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