Events

189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
1556 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
1678 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (d. 1736)
1687 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
1715 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
1730 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
1765 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
1788 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
1792 - John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
1837 - Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
1841 - William Rockhill Nelson, founder of Kansas City Star and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)
1850 - Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921)
1850 - Tomáš Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
1857 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)
1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
1873 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
1875 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
1878 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
1887 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)
1888 - Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
1902 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)
1908 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
1915 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician (d. 2000)
1917 - Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer
1922 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
1925 - Rene Gagnon, US Marine shown in photograph of the raising of the US flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1979)
1926 - Alan Sues, American comedian and actor
1927 - James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
1927 - Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and teacher (d. 2006)
1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
1933 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
1934 - Willard Scott, American television broadcaster
1934 - Giorgos Katsaros, Greek musician and composer
1938 - David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel laureate
1938 - Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
1940 - Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, American televangelist (d. 2007)
1942 - Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
1942 - Charles R. Boutin, American politician
1943 - Chris White, British musician (The Zombies)
1944 - Stanley Schmidt, American editor
1944 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (1997)
1945 - John Heard, American actor
1945 - Arthur Lee, American musician (Love) (d. 2006)
1946 - Matthew Fisher, British musician (Procol Harum)
1946 - Peter Wolf, American musician (J Geils Band)
1947 - Richard Lawson, American actor
1947 - Walter Röhrl, German race car driver
1947 - Helen Eadie, Scottish politician
1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
1950 - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
1950 - Franco Harris, American football player
1951 - Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power)
1952 - Ernie Isley, American musician(The Isley Brothers)
1952 - Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
1952 - Lynn Swann, American football player
1955 - Tommy Kramer, American football player
1956 - Bryan Cranston, American actor
1958 - Alan Hale, American astronomer
1958 - Rik Mayall, British actor
1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
1962 - Taylor Dayne, American singer
1963 - Bill Brochtrup, American actor
1963 - Denyce Graves, American singer
1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
1964 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedian
1965 - Jack Armstrong, American baseball player
1965 - Steve Beuerlein, American football player
1965 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
1968 - Jeff Kent, American baseball player
1969 - Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress and radio DJ
1971 - Rachel Weisz, British actress
1971 - Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
1972 - Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and musician
1972 - Maxim Roy, Quebec actress
1973 - Ray Parlour, English footballer
1973 - Sébastien Izambard, operatic pop singer (Il Divo)
1973 - Jason Bright, Australian racing driver
1974 - Jenna Fischer, American actress
1976 - Chelsea Charms, American adult actress
1977 - Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
1980 - Laura Prepon, American actress
1980 - Anthony Ocana, Dominican composer & guitarist
1982 - Kate Michael, American beauty queen
1982 - Erika Yamakawa, Japanese talent
1984 - Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
1985 - Thomas Erak, American guitarist
1986 - Ben Griffin, Australian footballer
1990 - Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins Births

322 BC - Aristotle, Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC)
161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
308 - Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
1226 - William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
1274 - Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher (b. 1225)
1578 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
1625 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
1767 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer (b. 1680)
1778 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
1810 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
1904 - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
1913 - Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet
1928 - Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
1932 - Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1949 - Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)
1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
1954 - Otto Diels, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1957 - Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
1967 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
1975 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
1975 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b. 1901)
1976 - Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
1978 - Steve Bilko, Baseball player (b. 1928)
1981 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
1983 - Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
1984 - Paul Rotha, English director (b. 1907)
1986 - Jacob Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
1988 - Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
1991 - Cool Papa Bell, baseball player, (b. 1903)
1995 - Paul-Émile Victor, French explorer (b. 1907)
1997 - E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)
1997 - Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1999 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
1999 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)
2000 - Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
2001 - Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
2004 - Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
2005 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)
2006 - Ali Farka Touré Malian musician (b. 1939)
2006 - Gordon Parks, photographer (b. 1912)
2006 - John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930) Holidays and observances

Catholicism — Feast day of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas, patron saint of married women