1403 - Charles VII of France (d. 1461)
1891 - "Chico" Marx, NYC, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers)
1891 - Jan Wils, Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium)
1514 - Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1891 - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
1892 - David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
1892 - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
1612 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
1934 - Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
1896 - Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
1936 - Ernie K-Doe, [Ernest Kador Jr], New Orleans La, rocker
1936 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1936 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
1937 - Dubravko Detoni, composer
1937 - Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
1756 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
1937 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire
1899 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
1938 - Bobby Hendricks, US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling)
1900 - Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
1900 - Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ire, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
1900 - Sen Faolin, Irish author (d. 1991)
1773 - Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter
1901 - Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
1779 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
1940 - Billy Name, American photographer
1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
1797 - William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
1904 - Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of Jose Herrera)
1806 - Jzef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
1906 - Edmund von Borck, composer
1943 - Horst Khler, President of Germany
1814 - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
1907 - Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1908 - Romulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
1819 - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
1821 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer
1945 - Leslie Charleson, American actress
1910 - Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist
1947 - John Bryant, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1915 - Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing It Again)
1949 - Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
1834 - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
1949 - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
1917 - Jane Bowles, writer
1918 - Charles O Finley, baseball team owner (Oakland A's)
1840 - F August Bebel, German social-democrat
1918 - Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1")
1918 - Sid Abel, NHLer (1948-49 Hart Trophy)
1950 - Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
1844 - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
1952 - James Philip Bagian, Philadelphia, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40)
1920 - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer
1952 - Bill Frist, American politician
1857 - Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)
1921 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1864 - Jules Renard, France, writer (Poil de Carotte)
1922 - Andre Asriel, composer
1958 - Kyle MacLachlan, Yakima WA, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Hidden)
1922 - Jess Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1874 - Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
1925 - Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician
1961 - Don Van Spall, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1961 - Marla O'Hara, Gardena Ca, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-3rd-1991)
1961 - Mike Morris, NFL center (Minn Vikings)
1961 - Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
1883 - Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps)
1927 - Donald May, Chicago Ill, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45)
1962 - Michael Wilton, singer
1928 - Paul Dooley, Parkensburg WV, actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding)
1963 - Dave Besteman, Madison Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1963 - Devon Malcolm, cricketer (in Jamaica England fast bowler 1989-95)
1963 - Vijay Singh, Lautoka Fiji, PGA golfer (1993 Buick Classic)
1889 - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain)
1371 - Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1744 - War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
1797 - The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 - By the Adams-Ons Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
1853 - Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1862 - Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1872 - The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1882 - The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1904 - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1909 - The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 - World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 - World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1948 - Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1957 - Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972 - The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973 - Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 - Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 - Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
1983 - The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1986 - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995 - The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing 53m (about $92.5 million or 78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011 - A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand at only 5 kilometers from the surface, causing widespread damage and hundreds of fatalities.
1891 - "Chico" Marx, NYC, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers)
1891 - Jan Wils, Holland, architect/designer (Amsterdam's Olympic Stadium)
1514 - Tahmasp I, shah of Persia (1524-76)/author (Tazkire-i Shah)
1891 - Vlas Chubar, Soviet politician (d. 1939)
1892 - David Dubinsky, labor leader (Freedom Award, 1969 Medal of Freedom)
1892 - Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize)
1612 - George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, English statesman (d. 1677)
1934 - Thomas Paul, Chicago Illinois, bass (NYC Opera 1963-70)
1896 - Edvin Wide, Sweden, 10K runner (Olympic-silver-1924)
1936 - Ernie K-Doe, [Ernest Kador Jr], New Orleans La, rocker
1936 - J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1936 - Ernie K-Doe, American singer (d. 2001)
1937 - Dubravko Detoni, composer
1937 - Joanna Russ, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Female Man, Alyx)
1756 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
1937 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer/multi-millionaire
1899 - Dechko Uzunov, Bulgarian painter (d. 1986)
1938 - Bobby Hendricks, US soul vocalist (Itchy Twitchy Feeling)
1900 - Giorgios Seferis, Greece, poet (Nobel 1963)
1900 - Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ire, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk)
1900 - Sen Faolin, Irish author (d. 1991)
1773 - Matthijs I van Bree, Flemish (court)painter
1901 - Mildred Davis, PA, actress (Grandma's Boy)
1779 - Joachim Nicolas Eggert, composer
1940 - Billy Name, American photographer
1903 - Morley Callaghan, Canada, author (Toronto Star, Native Argosy)
1903 - Ain-Ervin Mere, Estonian Nazi (d. 1969)
1797 - William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
1904 - Peter Hurd, Roswell NM, painter (Portrait of Jose Herrera)
1806 - Jzef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (d. 1875)
1906 - Edmund von Borck, composer
1943 - Horst Khler, President of Germany
1814 - Henryk Oskar Kolberg, composer
1907 - Sheldon Leonard, NYC, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie)
1817 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1908 - Romulo Betancourt, pres of Venezuela (1945-48, 1958-64)
1819 - James Russell Lowell, poet/critic/diplomat/abolitionist
1821 - Giovanni Bottesini, composer
1945 - Leslie Charleson, American actress
1910 - Nicholas Monsarrat, Liverpool England, novelist
1947 - John Bryant, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1914 - Renato Dulbecco, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate
1915 - Dan Seymour, Chicago Ill, actor (We the People, Sing It Again)
1949 - Leslie Charleson, KC Missouri, actress (Monica-General Hospital)
1834 - Albert Heinrich Zabel, composer
1949 - Olga Morozova, Russian tennis player
1917 - Jane Bowles, writer
1918 - Charles O Finley, baseball team owner (Oakland A's)
1840 - F August Bebel, German social-democrat
1918 - Robert Wadlow, Alton Ill, tallest known human (2.72 m, 8' 11.1")
1918 - Sid Abel, NHLer (1948-49 Hart Trophy)
1950 - Lenny Kuhr, Dutch singer
1844 - Kazamierz Julian Kratzer, composer
1952 - James Philip Bagian, Philadelphia, MDPE/astronaut (STS 29, STS 40)
1920 - Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer
1952 - Bill Frist, American politician
1857 - Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves
1857 - Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)
1921 - Wayne Booth, American literary critic (d. 2005)
1864 - Jules Renard, France, writer (Poil de Carotte)
1922 - Andre Asriel, composer
1958 - Kyle MacLachlan, Yakima WA, actor (Blue Velvet, Dune, Hidden)
1922 - Jess Iglesias, Argentine racing driver (d. 2005)
1874 - Bill Klem, American baseball umpire (d. 1951)
1925 - Gerard Hoffnung, Berlin Germany, artist/humorist/musician
1961 - Don Van Spall, guitarist (Sleeze Beez)
1961 - Marla O'Hara, Gardena Ca, WPVA volleyballer (Santa Cruz-3rd-1991)
1961 - Mike Morris, NFL center (Minn Vikings)
1961 - Akira Takasaki, Japanese guitarist
1883 - Alfred Wikenhauser, German RC exegetist (John-Apokalyps)
1927 - Donald May, Chicago Ill, actor (Adam-Edge of Night, Colt .45)
1962 - Michael Wilton, singer
1928 - Paul Dooley, Parkensburg WV, actor (16 Candles, Strange Brew, Wedding)
1963 - Dave Besteman, Madison Wis, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1963 - Devon Malcolm, cricketer (in Jamaica England fast bowler 1989-95)
1963 - Vijay Singh, Lautoka Fiji, PGA golfer (1993 Buick Classic)
1889 - Robin G Collingwood, English philosopher (Roman Britain)
1371 - Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty.
1495 - King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne.
1632 - Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.
1744 - War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon begins.
1797 - The Last Invasion of Britain begins near Fishguard, Wales.
1819 - By the Adams-Ons Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
1847 - Mexican-American War: The Battle of Buena Vista - 5,000 American troops defeat 15,000 Mexicans.
1853 - Washington University in St. Louis is founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.
1855 - The Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)
1856 - The Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1862 - Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.
1872 - The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
1879 - In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
1882 - The Serbian kingdom is refounded.
1889 - President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
1904 - The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina, the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
1909 - The sixteen battleships of the Great White Fleet, led by Connecticut, return to the United States after a voyage around the world.
1915 - World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1924 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
1942 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as the Japanese victory becomes inevitable.
1943 - World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1944 - World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
1948 - Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
1957 - Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam survives a communist shooting assassination attempt in Ban Me Thuot.
1958 - Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
1959 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
1972 - The Official Irish Republican Army detonates a car bomb at Aldershot barracks, killing seven and injuring nineteen others.
1973 - Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
1974 - The Organisation of the Islamic Conference summit begins in Lahore, Pakistan. Thirty-seven countries attend and twenty-two heads of state and government participate. It also recognizes Bangladesh.
1974 - Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 - Independence of Saint Lucia from the United Kingdom.
1980 - Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3.
1983 - The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
1986 - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
1994 - Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
1995 - The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
1997 - In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.
2002 - Angolan political and rebel leader Jonas Savimbi is killed in a military ambush.
2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing 53m (about $92.5 million or 78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
2011 - A 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, New Zealand at only 5 kilometers from the surface, causing widespread damage and hundreds of fatalities.
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