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Births

• 1592 - Pierre Gassendi, French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (d. 1655)
• 1654 - Richard Blackmore, English physician and writer (d. 1729)
• 1690 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (d. 1743)
• 1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, German author and philosopher (d. 1781)
• 1781 - François Antoine Habeneck, French violinist (d. 1849)
• 1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron, English poet (d. 1824)
• 1796 - Karl Claus, Russian chemist (d. 1864)
• 1797 - Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress of Brazil (d. 1826)
• 1799 - Ludger Duvernay, Quebec printer and publisher (d. 1852)
• 1820 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
• 1840 - Ernest Roland Wilberforce, English bishop (d. 1907)
• 1849 - August Strindberg, Swedish writer (d. 1912)
• 1858 - Beatrice Webb, British economist (d. 1943)
• 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)
• 1874 - Edward Harkness, American philanthropist (d. 1940)
• 1875 - D. W. Griffith, American film director (d. 1948)
• 1882 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born actor, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1956)
• 1886 - Roman Ungern von Sternberg, Russian counter-revolutionary (d. 1921)
• 1887 - Helen Hoyt, American poet (d. 1972)
• 1889 - Henri Pélissier, French cyclist (d. 1935)
• 1890 - Fred M. Vinson, 13th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1953)
• 1890 - Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (d. 1976)
• 1891 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian Communist writer and politician (d. 1937)
• 1892 - Marcel Dassault, French industrialist (d. 1986)
• 1893 - Conrad Veidt, German actor (d. 1943)
• 1897 - Rosa Ponselle, American soprano (d. 1981)
• 1900 - Ernst Busch, German singer and actor (d. 1980)
• 1902 - Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (d. 1970)
• 1903 - Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist (d. 1966)
• 1904 - George Balanchine, Russian choreographer (d. 1983)
• 1904 - Arkady Gaidar, Russian children's writer (d. 1941)
• 1906 - Joe Gladwin, English actor (d. 1987)
• 1906 - Robert E. Howard, American author (d. 1936)
• 1907 - Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (d. 1995)
• 1907 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (d. 1980)
• 1907 - Mary Dresselhuys, Dutch actress (d. 2004)
• 1908 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
• 1909 - Porfirio Rubirosa, Dominican diplomat and international playboy (d. 1965)
• 1909 - Ann Sothern, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1909 - U Thant, Burmese 3rd United Nations Secretary General (d. 1974)
• 1911 - Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1990)
• 1913 - William Cardinal Conway, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1977)
• 1913 - Carl F. H. Henry, American theologian and publisher (d. 2003)
• 1914 - Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek composer (d. 2001)
• 1915 - Heinrich Albertz, German theologian and politician (d. 1993)
• 1916 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
• 1916 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer
• 1918 - Elmer Lach, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1920 - Sir Alf Ramsey, English football manager (d. 1999)
• 1922 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (d. 1987)
• 1924 - J. J. Johnson, American jazz trombonist and composer (d. 2001)
• 1927 - Lou Creekmur, American football player
• 1928 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (d. 2004)
• 1931 - Sam Cooke, American singer (d. 1964)
• 1932 - Berthold Grünfeld, Norwegian psychiatrist and former sexologist
• 1932 - Piper Laurie, American actress
• 1934 - Bill Bixby, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1934 - Graham Kerr, British-born chef
• 1935 - Seymour Cassel, American actor
• 1936 - Alan J. Heeger, American chemist, Nobel laureate
• 1937 - Edén Pastora, Nicaraguan rebel leader
• 1937 - Joseph Wambaugh, American author
• 1939 - Jeff Smith, American chef (d. 2004)
• 1939 - Jean-Claude Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1994)
• 1940 - Addie "Micki" Harris, singer (Shirelles) (d. 1982)
• 1940 - John Hurt, English actor
• 1940 - George Seifert, American football coach
• 1942 - Mimis Domazos, Greek footballer
• 1945 - Arthur Beetson, Australian rugby league footballer and coach
• 1946 - Malcolm McLaren, English impresario, musician and self-publicist
• 1946 - Serge Savard, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1947 - Afeni Shakur, 2Pac's mother
• 1948 - Gilbert Levine, American conductor
• 1949 - Mike Caldwell, American baseball player
• 1949 - Phil Miller, English guitarist (National Health, In Cahoots, Matching Mole)
• 1949 - Steve Perry, American singer and musician (Journey)
• 1951 - Ondrej Nepela, Slovak figure skater (d. 1989)
• 1952 - Ace Vergel, Filipino actor, cardiac arrest. (d. 2007)
• 1952 - Teddy Gentry, vocals and bass for Alabama
• 1953 - Jim Jarmusch, American director
• 1954 - Tully Blanchard, American wrestler
• 1954 - Chris Lemmon, American actor
• 1954 - Peter Pilz, Austrian politician
• 1955 - Timothy R. Ferguson, American politician
• 1956 - John Wesley Shipp, American actor
• 1957 - Mike Bossy, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1957 - Francis Wheen, English writer and journalist
• 1958 - Nikos Anastopoulos, Greek football player and manager
• 1959 - Linda Blair, American actress
• 1960 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (INXS) (d. 1997)
• 1961 - Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter and artist
• 1962 - Mizan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia's Ruler
• 1962 - Choi Min-sik, South Korean actor
• 1963 - Andrei Tchmil, Ukrainian-Belgian cyclist
• 1965 - Steven Adler, American drummer (Guns N' Roses)
• 1965 - DJ Jazzy Jeff, American rapper and actor
• 1965 - Diane Lane, American actress
• 1965 - Brian McCardie, Scottish actor
• 1965 - Andrew Roachford, English singer and songwriter
• 1965 - Chintara Sukapatana, Thai actress
• 1966 - Ecaterina Szabo, Romanian gymnast
• 1967 - Manabu Nakanishi, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1968 - Frank Lebœuf, French footballer
• 1968 - Hiroshi Morie, Japanese musician
• 1968 - Mauricio Serna, Colombian footballer
• 1969 - Olivia d'Abo, English actress
• 1969 - John Linton Roberson, American cartoonist
• 1970 - Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist
• 1970 - Alex Ross, American comic book painter (Marvels, Kingdom Come)
• 1971 - Stan Collymore, English footballer
• 1972 - Gabriel Macht, American actor
• 1972 - Romi Paku, Japanese seiyu (voice actress)
• 1972 - Gonzalo Rodriguez, Uruguayan racing driver (d. 1999)
• 1973 - Rogerio Ceni, Brazilian footballer
• 1974 - Cameron McConville, Australian racing driver
• 1975 - Balthazar Getty, American actor
• 1975 - Felipe Giaffone, Brazilian racing driver
• 1975 - ZP Theart, South African singer
• 1975 - David Výborný, Czech ice hockey player
• 1976 - Mikko Luoma, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1976 - James Dearth, American football player
• 1977 - Jono Gibbes, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1977 - Hidetoshi Nakata, Japanese footballer
• 1978 - Chone Figgins, American baseball player
• 1980 - Christopher Masterson, American actor
• 1980 - Ben Moody, American guitarist (Evanescence)
• 1980 - Jonathan Woodgate, English footballer
• 1980 - Jake Grove, American football player
• 1981 - Willa Ford, American singer
• 1981 - Beverley Mitchell, American actress
• 1981 - Ibrahima Sonko, French footballer
• 1982 - Fabricio Coloccini, Argentine footballer
• 1982 - Jason Peters, American football player
• 1983 - Shaun Cody, American football player
• 1983 - Robert Steinhäuser, German perpetrator of the Erfurt massacre (d. 2002)
• 1984 - Ben Eager,Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 - Raica Oliveira, Brazilian supermodel
• 1984 - Leon Powe, American basketball player
• 1984 - Maceo Rigters, Dutch footballer
• 1985 - Mohamed Sissoko, Malian footballer
• 1986 - Robert O'Connor, Irish singer-songwriter, actor and model
• 1986 - Lee Pa-ni, South Korean model
• 1987 - Astrid Jacobsen, Norwegian cross-country skier
• 1988 - Greg Oden, American collegiate basketball player

Deaths

• 1536 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
• 1599 - Cristofano Malvezzi, Italian composer (b. 1547)
• 1666 - Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor of India (b. 1592)
• 1750 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
• 1763 - John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, English statesman (b. 1690)
• 1767 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
• 1779 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (b. 1733)
• 1779 - Claudius Smith, American Revolutionary War loyalist (b. 1736)
• 1840 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
• 1892 - Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1813)
• 1900 - David E. Hughes, American musician (b. 1831)
• 1901 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
• 1921 - Captain George Streeter, American riverboat captain and circus owner (b. 1837)
• 1922 - Fredrik Bajer, Danish politician and pacifist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
• 1922 - Pope Benedict XV (b. 1854)
• 1922 - Camille Jordan, French mathematician (b. 1838)
• 1931 - Alma Rubens, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1945 - Else Lasker-Schuler, German-born poet (b. 1869)
• 1949 - William Thomas Walsh, American author (b. 1891)
• 1950 - Alan Hale, Sr., American actor (b. 1892)
• 1951 - Karl Nessler, inventor of the perm (b. 1872)
• 1959 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver and one-time F1 world champion (b. 1929)
• 1966 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
• 1967 - Robert Henriques, British writer (b. 1905)
• 1968 - Duke Kahanamoku, American swimmer (b. 1890)
• 1973 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (b. 1908)
• 1975 - Andrew George Burry, Swiss-born manufacturer and businessman (b. 1873)
• 1978 - Oliver Leese, British World War II general (b. 1894)
• 1978 - Herbert Sutcliffe, English cricketer (b. 1894)
• 1981 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (b. 1903)
• 1982 - Tommy Tucker, American singer and pianist (b. 1933)
• 1987 - Budd Dwyer, American politician (b. 1939)
• 1987 - Wally Whyton - British musician/songwriter and radio/TV personality (b. 1929}
• 1988 - Parker Fennelly, American comedian and actor (b. 1891)
• 1991 - Robert Choquette, French Canadian novelist, poet and diplomat (b. 1905)

• 1993 - Abe Kobo, Japanese writer (b. 1924)
• 1994 - Jean-Louis Barrault, French actor and director (b. 1910)
• 1994 - Rhett Forrester, American singer, Second Riot frontman (b. 1956)
• 1994 - Telly Savalas, Greek-American actor (b. 1922)
• 1995 - Jerry Blackwell, American wrestler (b. 1949)
• 1995 - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (b. 1890)
• 1997 - Ron Holden, American singer (b. 1939)
• 1997 - Billy Mackenzie, Scottish musician (Associates) (b. 1957)
• 1997 - Wally Whyton, English musician (b. 1929)
• 1999 - Graham Staines, Australian missionary (b. 1941)
• 2000 - Craig Claiborne, American writer and editor (b. 1920)
• 2000 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (Kamouraska) (b. 1916)
• 2001 - Tommie Agee, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2001 - Roy Brown, American clown (b. 1932)
• 2002 - Stanley Marcus, American business executive (b. 1905)
• 2003 - Bill Mauldin, American World War II cartoonist (b. 1921)
• 2004 - Billy May, American composer and musician (b. 1916)
• 2004 - Thomas Mead, Australian politician and journalist (b. 1918)
• 2004 - Ann Miller, American actress and dancer (b. 1923)
• 2005 - César Gutiérrez, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1943)
• 2005 - Carlo Orelli, Italian veteran of World War I (b. 1894)
• 2005 - Consuelo Velázquez, Mexican songwriter (b. 1924)
• 2005 - Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure (b. 1917)
• 2007 - Bam Bam Bigelow, American wrestler (b. 1961)
• 2007 - Doug Blasdell, American personal trainer
• 2007 - Disco D, American music producer (b. 1980)
• 2007 - Carlos Olivier, Venizuelan actor and physician (b. 1952)
• 2007 - Liz Renay, American actress (b. 1926)
• 2007 - Ngo Quang Truong, South Vietnamese general (b. 1929)

Notes

Antonio Gramsci François Truffaut August Strindberg George Byron Malcolm McLaren Victoria of the United Kingdom Georg Friedrich Händel Kobo Abe Arthur Symons The Happy Wanderer Jim Jarmusch Pierre Gassendi Grigori Rasputin D. W. Griffith Jean-Louis Barrault Conrad Veidt