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Births

• 1854 - Arthur Rimbaud, French poet (d. 1891)

• 1859 - John Dewey, American philosopher (d. 1952)
• 1874 - Charles Ives, American composer (d. 1954)
• 1882 - Bela Lugosi, Hungarian-born actor (d. 1956)
• 1889 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (d. 1965)
• 1890 - Jelly Roll Morton, American composer (d. 1941)
• 1891 - James Chadwick, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
• 1891 - Jomo Kenyatta, President of Kenya (d. 1978)
• 1893 - Charley Chase, American comedian (d. 1940)
• 1894 - Olive Thomas, American actress (d. 1920)
• 1895 - Rex Ingram, American actor (d. 1969)
• 1897 - Crown Prince Eun of Korea (d. 1970)
• 1900 - Wayne Morse, U.S. Senator from Oregon (d. 1974)
• 1904 - Anna Neagle, English actress (d. 1986)
• 1904 - Tommy Clement Douglas, Canadian politician (d. 1986)
• 1905 - Ellery Queen, pseudonym of two American writers (d. 1982)
• 1907 - Arlene Francis, American television personality (d. 2001)
• 1909 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
• 1913 - Grandpa Jones, American banjo player and singer (d. 1998)
• 1914 - Fayard Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2006)
• 1917 - Jean-Pierre Melville, French director (d. 1973)
• 1918 - Robert Lochner, German journalist (d. 2003)
• 1922 - John Anderson, American actor (d. 1992)
• 1925 - Art Buchwald, American humorist (d. 2007)
• 1925 - Tom Dowd, American recording engineer (d. 2002)
• 1925 - Roger Hanin, French actor
• 1931 - Richard Caliguiri, American politician (d. 1988)
• 1931 - Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (d. 1995)
• 1932 - Rosey Brown, American football player (d. 2004)
• 1932 - William Christopher, American actor (M*A*S*H)
• 1934 - Eddie Harris, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
• 1934 - Michiko, empress of Japan
• 1935 - Jerry Orbach, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1937 - Juan Marichal, Dominican baseball player
• 1937 - Wanda Jackson, American rock and rockabilly singer
• 1938 - Iain MacMillan, Abbey Road photographer (d. 2006)
• 1940 - Kathy Kirby, British singer
• 1940 - Robert Pinsky, American poet and Poet Laureate of the United States
• 1942 - Earl Hindman, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1942 - Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• 1943 - Dunja Vejzovic, Croatian soprano
• 1944 - David Mancuso, American disc jockey
• 1946 - Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946 - Lucien Van Impe, Belgian cyclist
• 1949 - Valeri Borzov, Ukrainian athlete
• 1950 - Tom Petty, American musician
• 1951 - Claudio Ranieri, Italian football player and manager
• 1951 - Leif Pagrotsky, Swedish politician
• 1953 - Keith Hernandez, American baseball player
• 1953 - Bill Nunn, American actor
• 1954 - Steve Orich, orchestrator
• 1955 - Aaron Pryor, American boxer
• 1955 - David Profumo, English novelist
• 1956 - Danny Boyle, English film director
• 1957 - Susanna Haavisto, Finnish actress and singer
• 1958 - Dave Finlay, Northern Irish professional wrestler
• 1958 - Lynn Flewelling, American fantasy author
• 1958 - Scott Hall, American professional wrestler
• 1958 - Mark King, English musician
• 1958 - Dave Krieg, American football player
• 1958 - Viggo Mortensen, American actor
• 1958 - Ivo Pogorelic, Croatian pianist
• 1960 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (d. 2004)
• 1961 - Ian Rush, Welsh footballer
• 1961 - Michie Tomizawa, Japanese voice actress
• 1962 - Dave Wong, Hong Kong/Taiwanese singer-songwriter
• 1963 - Julie Payette, Canadian astronaut
• 1963 - Nikos Tsiantakis, Greek footballer
• 1965 - Mikhail Shtalenkov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1965 - William Zabka, American actor
• 1966 - Allan Donald, South African cricketer
• 1966 - Stefan Raab, German entertainer
• 1966 - Patrick J. Volkerding, Founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution
• 1966 - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al-Qaeda leader (d. 2006)
• 1967 - Luck Mervil, Québécois actor and singer
• 1967 - Marco Ngai, Hong Kong actor
• 1969 - Juan González, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1969 - Laurie Daley, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1969 - Lambros Papakostas, Greek high jumper
• 1970 - Chavo Guerrero, Jr., American professional wrestler
• 1970 - Michelle Malkin, American political commentator and author
• 1971 - Dannii Minogue, Australian singer
• 1971 - Snoop Dogg, American rapper
• 1972 - Will Greenwood, England rugby union player
• 1976 - Tom Wisniewski, American guitarist (MxPx)
• 1977 - Matt Jansen, English footballer
• 1978 - Virender Sehwag, Indian cricketer
• 1978 - Paul Wilson, Irish bass player (Snow Patrol)
• 1979 - John Krasinski, American actor
• 1979 - Paul O'Connell, Irish rugby player
• 1980 - Jose Veras, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 - Willis McGahee, American football player
• 1981 - Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1982 - Becky Brewerton, Welsh golfer
• 1982 - Yasser Al-Qahtani, Saudi football player
• 1983 - Alex Nackman, musician
• 1983 - Takayuki Yamada, Japanese actor
• 1983 - Luis Saritama, Ecuadorian footballer
• 1984 - Florent Sinama-Pongolle, French footballer
• 1984 - Andrew Trimble, Northern Irish rugby player for Irish rugby team
• 1985 - Jennifer Nicole Freeman, American actress
• 1985 - James Sutton, British racing driver
• 1988 - Risa Niigaki, Japanese singer

Deaths

• 460 - Aelia Eudocia, Byzantine Empress
• 1139 - Henry X, Duke of Bavaria
• 1570 - João de Barros, Portuguese historian (b. 1496)
• 1631 - Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550)
• 1640 - John Ball, English Puritan clergyman (b. 1585)
• 1652 - Antonio Coello, Spanish writer (b. 1611)
• 1713 - Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (b. 1652)
• 1740 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
• 1842 - Grace Darling, English heroine (b. 1815)
• 1865 - Champ Ferguson, Confederate guerilla (b. 1821)
• 1890 - Sir Richard Burton, British explorer and writer (b. 1821)
• 1900 - Naim Frashëri, Albanian poet (b. 1846)
• 1907 - Said Pasha Kurd, Kurdish statesman (b. 1834)
• 1910 - David B. Hill, Governor of New York (b. 1843)
• 1926 - Eugene Debs, American labor leader and Socialist presidential candidate (b. 1855)
• 1935 - Arthur Henderson, Scottish politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
• 1936 - Anne Sullivan, American teacher (b. 1866)
• 1964 - Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States (b. 1874)
• 1967 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
• 1968 - Bud Flanagan, British wartime entertainer (b. 1896)
• 1972 - Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (b. 1885)
• 1977 - Members of the American rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in a plane crash:
  • Cassie Gaines (b. 1948)
  • Steve Gaines (b. 1949)
  • Ronnie Van Zant (b. 1948)
• 1983 - Peter Dudley, British actor
• 1983 - Yves Thériault, French Canadian author (b. 1915)
• 1984 - Carl Ferdinand Cori, Austrian-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
• 1984 - Paul Dirac, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1987 - Andrey Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician (b. 1903)
• 1988 - Sheila Scott, English aviatrix (b. 1922)
• 1989 - Anthony Quayle, English actor (b. 1913)
• 1990 - Joel McCrea, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1993 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
• 1994 - Burt Lancaster, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1995 - Christopher Stone, American actor (b. 1942)
• 2001 - Ted Ammon, American financier (b. 1949)
• 2002 - Barbara Berjer, American actress (b. 1920)
• 2002 - Bernard Fresson, French actor (b. 1931)
• 2003 - Jack Elam, American actor (b. 1918)
• 2004 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (b. 1923)
• 2004 - Chuck Hiller, American baseball player (b. 1934)
• 2005 - Shirley Horn, American singer (b. 1934)
• 2005 - Endon Mahmood, First Lady of Malaysia (breast cancer) (b. 1941)
• 2005 - Eva Svankmajerova, Czech artist (b. 1940)
• 2006 - Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)

Notes

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