1606 - Christine Marie of France, regent of Savoy (d. 1663)
1609 - John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier
1637 - Henriette Catharina van Nassau, Dutch daughter of Frederik Henry
1961 - George Stephanopoulos, presidential adviser (Clinton)
1910 - Paul Whitelaw, cricketer (NZ opening batsman v England 1933)
1962 - Cliff Burton, rocker (Metallica)
1686 - Johann F Gronovius, Dutch physician/botany
1913 - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian
1914 - Larry Adler, Balt, hamonicist (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer)
1916 - Edward R Roybal, (Rep-D-CA, 1963- )
1918 - Gordon Pirie, England, Group Captain
1735 - Johann Christoph Kuhnau, composer
1920 - Alexander Comfort, English poet/writer (Wreath for the Living)
1964 - Mir Aimal Kansi, Quetta Pakistan, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1964 - Roger Reijners, soccer player (MVV)
1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
1788 - Johann Peter Pixis, composer
1795 - Ary Scheffer, Dutch painter/etcher/sculptor
1924 - Bud (Norman) Poile, NHLer
1924 - Randy Van Horne, El Paso Tx, vocalist (Nat King Cole Show)
1819 - Richard Storrs Willis, composer
1927 - Jakov Lind, German/British author (Counting My Footsteps)
1967 - Bradley Hughes, Mordialloc VIC, Australasia golfer
1927 - Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal
1841 - Walter Parratt, composer
1967 - Jacky Durand, French cyclist
1928 - Hans Nielsen, Denmark, lightweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
1929 - Henk Heidweiler, Surinam ambassador (in Netherlands)
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, pianist/composer (Twilight Zone)
1929 - Jim Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest)
1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist
1866 - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian
1868 - William Allen White, Emporia KS, editor (Pulitzer 1942)
1970 - Bobby Jones, Fresno CA, pitcher (NY Mets)
1970 - Brendan Eppert, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1872 - Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP)
1932 - Donald Hilton, Moderator (General Assembly of United Reformed Church)
1932 - Rockin Dopsie Sr, [Alton Jay Rubin], Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco)
1884 - Herbert Hordern, cricketer (pioneering leggie for Aust & Phila)
1935 - Conrad Klapheck, German painter (typewriters)
1971 - Marty Nothstein, Allentown Pa, sprint cyclist Olympics-silver-96)
1888 - G Ungaretti, writer
1889 - Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom)
1972 - Michael Kasprowicz, cricketer (Australian Test fast bowler v WI 1996)
1972 - Nancy Christian, Scottsdale Az, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-17th-1995)
1972 - Sara Simmons, Belmont Mass, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Torey Hunter, NFL cornerback (Houston Oilers)
1937 - Roberta Flack, American singer
1939 - Barbara Kolb, Hartford Ct, composer (Trobar Jus)
1939 - Boris Pickett, vocalist (Monster Mash)
1974 - Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
1894 - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, (C) British PM (1957-63)
1896 - Olin Howlin, Denver Colo, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy)
1897 - John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist (polio-Nobel 1954)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)/composer
1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
1976 - Lance Berkman, American baseball player
1976 - Kev Brown, American rapper/producer
1942 - Jimmy Merchant, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools)
1977 - Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
1978 - Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
1944 - Peter Allen, Australia, vocalist/pianist (I Go to Rio, Legs Diamond)
1903 - Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, composer
1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician
1945 - John Hayes, secretary-general (British Law Society)
1945 - Klas Tuinstra, Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 - Donovan [P Leech], Scotland, rocker (Mellow Yellow)
1981 - Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter
1905 - Vilko Ukmar, composer
1947 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer
1906 - Erik Rhodes, [Ernest Sharpe], actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz)
1948 - Conrad Cummings, composer
1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
1906 - Lon Chaney Jr, Okla City Okla, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1906 - Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis
1984 - Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
1950 - Gail Rebuck, CEO (Random House)
1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
1306 - In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 - First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1863 - The fire extinguisher is patented.
1870 - The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1906 - HMS Dreadnought is launched.
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 - Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1933 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1936 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
1942 - Japanese submarine bombards Midway Atoll.
1943 - World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962 - Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1964 - Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
2003 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2005 - North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons.
2009 - The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
1609 - John Suckling, English Cavalier poet/dramatist/courtier
1637 - Henriette Catharina van Nassau, Dutch daughter of Frederik Henry
1961 - George Stephanopoulos, presidential adviser (Clinton)
1910 - Paul Whitelaw, cricketer (NZ opening batsman v England 1933)
1962 - Cliff Burton, rocker (Metallica)
1686 - Johann F Gronovius, Dutch physician/botany
1913 - Ragnhild Marie Hatton, historian
1914 - Larry Adler, Balt, hamonicist (Harmonicats) (blacklisted performer)
1916 - Edward R Roybal, (Rep-D-CA, 1963- )
1918 - Gordon Pirie, England, Group Captain
1735 - Johann Christoph Kuhnau, composer
1920 - Alexander Comfort, English poet/writer (Wreath for the Living)
1964 - Mir Aimal Kansi, Quetta Pakistan, murderer (FBI Most Wanted)
1964 - Roger Reijners, soccer player (MVV)
1783 - Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter (d. 1873)
1788 - Johann Peter Pixis, composer
1795 - Ary Scheffer, Dutch painter/etcher/sculptor
1924 - Bud (Norman) Poile, NHLer
1924 - Randy Van Horne, El Paso Tx, vocalist (Nat King Cole Show)
1819 - Richard Storrs Willis, composer
1927 - Jakov Lind, German/British author (Counting My Footsteps)
1967 - Bradley Hughes, Mordialloc VIC, Australasia golfer
1927 - Nigel Bagnall, British field marshal
1841 - Walter Parratt, composer
1967 - Jacky Durand, French cyclist
1928 - Hans Nielsen, Denmark, lightweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1924)
1846 - Ira Remsen, American chemist (d. 1927)
1929 - Henk Heidweiler, Surinam ambassador (in Netherlands)
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, pianist/composer (Twilight Zone)
1929 - Jim Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest)
1969 - Joe Mangrum, American artist
1866 - Rafael Altamira Crevea, Spanish lawyer/historian
1868 - William Allen White, Emporia KS, editor (Pulitzer 1942)
1970 - Bobby Jones, Fresno CA, pitcher (NY Mets)
1970 - Brendan Eppert, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1872 - Anne Anema, Dutch lawyer/journalist/politician (ARP)
1932 - Donald Hilton, Moderator (General Assembly of United Reformed Church)
1932 - Rockin Dopsie Sr, [Alton Jay Rubin], Jazz-Fusion singer (Zydeco)
1884 - Herbert Hordern, cricketer (pioneering leggie for Aust & Phila)
1935 - Conrad Klapheck, German painter (typewriters)
1971 - Marty Nothstein, Allentown Pa, sprint cyclist Olympics-silver-96)
1888 - G Ungaretti, writer
1889 - Howard Spring, British author/novelist/writer/critic (O Absalom)
1972 - Michael Kasprowicz, cricketer (Australian Test fast bowler v WI 1996)
1972 - Nancy Christian, Scottsdale Az, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-17th-1995)
1972 - Sara Simmons, Belmont Mass, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 - Torey Hunter, NFL cornerback (Houston Oilers)
1937 - Roberta Flack, American singer
1939 - Barbara Kolb, Hartford Ct, composer (Trobar Jus)
1939 - Boris Pickett, vocalist (Monster Mash)
1974 - Ivri Lider, Israeli singer
1894 - [Maurice] Harold MacMillan, London, (C) British PM (1957-63)
1896 - Olin Howlin, Denver Colo, actor (Swifty-Circus Boy)
1897 - John Franklin Enders, Conn, microbiologist (polio-Nobel 1954)
1898 - Bertolt Brecht, Germany, playwright (Mother Courage)/composer
1975 - Hiroki Kuroda, Japanese born baseball player
1976 - Lance Berkman, American baseball player
1976 - Kev Brown, American rapper/producer
1942 - Jimmy Merchant, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & Teenagers-Why Do Fools)
1977 - Salif Diao, Senegalese footballer
1978 - Lorna Bailey, English ceramic designer
1944 - Peter Allen, Australia, vocalist/pianist (I Go to Rio, Legs Diamond)
1903 - Matvey Isaakovich Blanter, composer
1944 - Rufus Reid, American musician
1945 - John Hayes, secretary-general (British Law Society)
1945 - Klas Tuinstra, Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 - Donovan [P Leech], Scotland, rocker (Mellow Yellow)
1981 - Holly Willoughby, British TV presenter
1905 - Vilko Ukmar, composer
1947 - Butch Morris, American jazz cornetist and composer
1906 - Erik Rhodes, [Ernest Sharpe], actor (Top Hat, Night at the Ritz)
1948 - Conrad Cummings, composer
1948 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (d. 1994)
1906 - Lon Chaney Jr, Okla City Okla, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats)
1906 - Walraven (Wally) van Hall, Dutch banker/resisted Nazis
1984 - Kim Hyo-jin, South Korean actress
1950 - Gail Rebuck, CEO (Random House)
1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.
1306 - In front of the high altar of Greyfriars Church in Dumfries, Robert the Bruce murders John Comyn, his leading political rival, sparking revolution in the Scottish Wars of Independence
1355 - The St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 63 scholars and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1567 - An explosion destroys the Kirk o' Field house in Edinburgh, Scotland. The second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, Lord Darnley is found strangled, in what many believe to be an assassination.
1763 - French and Indian War: The 1763 Treaty of Paris ends the war and France cedes Quebec to Great Britain.
1798 - Louis Alexandre Berthier invades Rome, proclaims a Roman Republic on February 15 and then on February 20 takes Pope Pius VI prisoner.
1814 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Champaubert
1840 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
1846 - First Anglo-Sikh War: Battle of Sobraon - British defeat Sikhs in final battle of the war
1863 - The fire extinguisher is patented.
1870 - The YWCA is founded in New York City.
1906 - HMS Dreadnought is launched.
1920 - Jozef Haller de Hallenburg performs symbolic wedding of Poland to the sea, celebrating restitution of Polish access to open sea.
1923 - Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas.
1933 - The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram.
1933 - In round 13 of a boxing match at New York City's Madison Square Garden, Primo Carnera knocks out Ernie Schaaf, killing him.
1936 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italian troops launched the Battle of Amba Aradam against Ethiopian defenders.
1942 - Japanese submarine bombards Midway Atoll.
1943 - World War II: Attempting to completely lift the Siege of Leningrad, the Soviet Red Army engages German troops and Spanish volunteers in the Battle of Krasny Bor.
1947 - Italy cedes most of Venezia Giulia to Yugoslavia.
1954 - President Dwight Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
1962 - Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1964 - Melbourne-Voyager collision: The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne collides with the destroyer HMAS Voyager off the south coast of New South Wales, Australia.
1967 - The 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1981 - A fire at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino kills eight and injures 198.
1989 - Ron Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee becoming the first African American to lead a major American political party.
1996 - The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time.
1998 - Voters in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state to abandon such a law.
2003 - France and Belgium break the NATO procedure of silent approval concerning the timing of protective measures for Turkey in case of a possible war with Iraq.
2005 - North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons.
2009 - The communication satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos-2251 collide in orbit, destroying both.
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