1632 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
1688 - Emmanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom)
1689 - Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet
1958 - Judy Norton-Taylor, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Mary Ellen-Waltons)
1920 - Jos Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
1711 - Giuseppi Bonno, composer
1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian (court)composer/pianist
1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America/fieldmarshal
1718 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
1960 - Matthew Ashford, Davenport IA, actor (Jack Devaraux-Days of Our Lives)
1924 - Luigi Nono, Venice Italy, composer (Canonic Variations)
1924 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
1960 - Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
1925 - Anthony George, Endicott NY, actor (Untouchables, Checkmate)
1961 - Mike Aldrete, US baseball infielder (Oakland Athletics, NY Yankees)
1962 - Nicholas Turturro, Queens NY, actor (James Martinez-NYPD Blue)
1963 - Michelle Bell, Melrose MA, LPGA golfer (1981 Mass School Girls Champ)
1963 - Bob Holly, American professional wrestler
1927 - Edward Abbey, US author (Desert Solitaire)
1784 - Ferdinand Ries, composer
1964 - John Habyan, US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1801 - Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer (Felix Meritis)
1929 - Elio Petri, Italy, director (Property is no theft)
1929 - William McMillan, US, rapid pistol (Olympic-gold-1960) [or Jul 3]
1930 - John Junkin, actor/writer (A Hard Day's Night)
1930 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
1931 - Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer (Stop the world I want to get off)
1967 - David Pitcher, CFL fullback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Khalid Skah, Midelt Morocco, 5k/10k runner
1843 - William McKinley, Niles Ohio, (R) 25th pres (1897-1901)
1967 - Stacey King, NBA forward/center (Miami Heat)
1850 - Ebenezer Howard, London, pioneer of garden cities
1968 - Chris Pringle, (New Zealand cricket pace bowler (since 1990)
1936 - Malcolm Binns, concert pianist
1852 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian actor/playwright (O Noapte Furtunoasa)
1854 - Willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian
1938 - Bill Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1862 - Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha)
1939 - O P Kolomitsev, cosmonaut
1968 - Sora Jung, Korean actress
1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
1942 - Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez, Cuba, cosmonaut (Soyuz 38)
1871 - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer
1873 - Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italy, explorer/climber (Mt St Elias)
1942 - Katharine Ross, Hollywood Cal, actress (Graduate, Francesca-Colbys)
1942 - Richard Needham, British MP
1876 - Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer
1876 - Havergal Brian, Dresden Staffordshire, composer
1943 - Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer
1944 - Barbara Moore, Wardell Mo, actress (Lisa Rogers-Man From UNCLE)
1880 - W C Fields, [William Claude Dukenfield], Phila, actor (Bank Dick)
1944 - Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
1972 - Scott Davis, Great Falls Mont, figure skater (Olympics-1994)
1945 - Donna Marie Caponi Young, Detroit, LPGA golfer (US Open 1969, 70)
1973 - Darnell Stephens, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1945 - Tom Selleck, Detroit Mich, actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI)
1973 - Scott Milanovich, quarterback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1947 - David Byron, vocalist (Uriah Heep)
1892 - Clifford Gray, US, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1928)
1974 - Kris Burley, Truro Nova Scotia, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1947 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Marin Varga, Slovak musician
1948 - Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1948 - Felice Taylor, R&B singer (I Feel Love Comin' On)
1975 - Maarten Kerkhof, soccer player (Vitesse, De Graafschap)
1975 - Sara Gilbert, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Melissa-Roseanne)
1976 - Ilmira Shamsutdinova, Miss Universe-Russia/best costume (1996)
1950 - Ann Jillian, Cambridge Mass, actress (Mr Mom, Jennifer Slept Here)
1950 - Jody Schecter, South African auto maker (World Driver's 1979)
1977 - Justin Hartley, American actor
1952 - Tommy Ramone, [Erdelyi], Hungary, rock drummer/bassist [Ramones)
1953 - Dalila di Lazzaro, Udine Italy, covergirl/model (Vogue)
1908 - Adam Clayton Powell, (Rep-D-NY, 1945-70)
1909 - Alan Marshal, Sydney Aust, actor (White Cliffs of Dover, Lydia)
1909 - Tonypandy, Viscount
1979 - Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
1910 - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
1954 - Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
1980 - Ivan Klasnic, Croatian football player
904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
1814 - France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
1834 - US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
1845 - "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1863 - Bear River Massacre.
1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
1900 - The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
1916 - World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1918 - Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
1918 - Ukrainian-Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
1936 - The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
1940 - Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed.
1943 - The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
1944 - World War II: Approximately 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
1944 - In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
1963 - The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1967 - The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
1979 - Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings.
1985 - Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
1989 - Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
1991 - Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
1996 - La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 - In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 - The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
1688 - Emmanuel Swedenborg, Sweden, religious leader (Angelic Wisdom)
1689 - Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet
1958 - Judy Norton-Taylor, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Mary Ellen-Waltons)
1920 - Jos Luis de Villalonga, Spanish aristocrat (d. 2007)
1711 - Giuseppi Bonno, composer
1715 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian (court)composer/pianist
1717 - Jeffrey Amherst, English gov-gen of America/fieldmarshal
1718 - Paul Rabaut, French Huguenot pastor (d. 1794)
1960 - Matthew Ashford, Davenport IA, actor (Jack Devaraux-Days of Our Lives)
1924 - Luigi Nono, Venice Italy, composer (Canonic Variations)
1924 - Marcelle Ferron, Quebec painter and stained glass artist (d. 2001)
1960 - Gia Carangi, American model (d. 1986)
1925 - Anthony George, Endicott NY, actor (Untouchables, Checkmate)
1961 - Mike Aldrete, US baseball infielder (Oakland Athletics, NY Yankees)
1962 - Nicholas Turturro, Queens NY, actor (James Martinez-NYPD Blue)
1963 - Michelle Bell, Melrose MA, LPGA golfer (1981 Mass School Girls Champ)
1963 - Bob Holly, American professional wrestler
1927 - Edward Abbey, US author (Desert Solitaire)
1784 - Ferdinand Ries, composer
1964 - John Habyan, US baseball pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1801 - Johannes Bernardus van Bree, Dutch violinist/composer (Felix Meritis)
1929 - Elio Petri, Italy, director (Property is no theft)
1929 - William McMillan, US, rapid pistol (Olympic-gold-1960) [or Jul 3]
1930 - John Junkin, actor/writer (A Hard Day's Night)
1930 - Derek Bailey, English guitar virtuoso (d. 2005)
1931 - Leslie Bricuse, English/US composer (Stop the world I want to get off)
1967 - David Pitcher, CFL fullback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1967 - Khalid Skah, Midelt Morocco, 5k/10k runner
1843 - William McKinley, Niles Ohio, (R) 25th pres (1897-1901)
1967 - Stacey King, NBA forward/center (Miami Heat)
1850 - Ebenezer Howard, London, pioneer of garden cities
1968 - Chris Pringle, (New Zealand cricket pace bowler (since 1990)
1936 - Malcolm Binns, concert pianist
1852 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian actor/playwright (O Noapte Furtunoasa)
1854 - Willem PC Knuttel, Dutch bibliographer/librarian
1938 - Bill Christian, US, ice hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1862 - Frederick Delius, Bradford England, composer (Hiawatha)
1939 - O P Kolomitsev, cosmonaut
1968 - Sora Jung, Korean actress
1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
1942 - Arnaldo Tamayo-Mendez, Cuba, cosmonaut (Soyuz 38)
1871 - Eduardo Lopez-Chavarri y Marco, composer
1873 - Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italy, explorer/climber (Mt St Elias)
1942 - Katharine Ross, Hollywood Cal, actress (Graduate, Francesca-Colbys)
1942 - Richard Needham, British MP
1876 - Carl Henrik Ludolf Nielsen, composer
1876 - Havergal Brian, Dresden Staffordshire, composer
1943 - Timothy Andrew James Souster, composer
1944 - Barbara Moore, Wardell Mo, actress (Lisa Rogers-Man From UNCLE)
1880 - W C Fields, [William Claude Dukenfield], Phila, actor (Bank Dick)
1944 - Yoweri Museveni, President of Uganda
1972 - Scott Davis, Great Falls Mont, figure skater (Olympics-1994)
1945 - Donna Marie Caponi Young, Detroit, LPGA golfer (US Open 1969, 70)
1973 - Darnell Stephens, NFL linebacker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1945 - Tom Selleck, Detroit Mich, actor (Lance-Rockford Files, Magnum PI)
1973 - Scott Milanovich, quarterback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)
1947 - David Byron, vocalist (Uriah Heep)
1892 - Clifford Gray, US, bobsled (Olympic-gold-1928)
1974 - Kris Burley, Truro Nova Scotia, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1947 - Linda B. Buck, American scientist, Nobel laureate
1947 - Marin Varga, Slovak musician
1948 - Bill Kirchen, singer/guitarist (Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
1948 - Felice Taylor, R&B singer (I Feel Love Comin' On)
1975 - Maarten Kerkhof, soccer player (Vitesse, De Graafschap)
1975 - Sara Gilbert, Santa Monica Calif, actress (Melissa-Roseanne)
1976 - Ilmira Shamsutdinova, Miss Universe-Russia/best costume (1996)
1950 - Ann Jillian, Cambridge Mass, actress (Mr Mom, Jennifer Slept Here)
1950 - Jody Schecter, South African auto maker (World Driver's 1979)
1977 - Justin Hartley, American actor
1952 - Tommy Ramone, [Erdelyi], Hungary, rock drummer/bassist [Ramones)
1953 - Dalila di Lazzaro, Udine Italy, covergirl/model (Vogue)
1908 - Adam Clayton Powell, (Rep-D-NY, 1945-70)
1909 - Alan Marshal, Sydney Aust, actor (White Cliffs of Dover, Lydia)
1909 - Tonypandy, Viscount
1979 - Sui Feifei, Chinese basketball player
1910 - Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
1954 - Doug Risebrough, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and executive
1980 - Ivan Klasnic, Croatian football player
904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
1676 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia.
1814 - France defeats Russia and Prussia in the Battle of Brienne.
1834 - US President Andrew Jackson orders first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
1845 - "The Raven" is published in the New York Evening Mirror, the first publication with the name of the author, Edgar Allan Poe
1850 - Henry Clay introduces the Compromise of 1850 to the U.S. Congress.
1856 - Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.
1861 - Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1863 - Bear River Massacre.
1886 - Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
1891 - Liliuokalani is proclaimed Queen of Hawaii, its last monarch.
1900 - The American League is organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with 8 founding teams.
1916 - World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1918 - Ukrainian-Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
1918 - Ukrainian-Soviet War: An armed uprising organized by the Bolsheviks in anticipation of the encroaching Red Army begins at the Kiev Arsenal, which will be put down six days later.
1936 - The first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame are announced.
1940 - Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka, Japan, collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station. 181 people are killed.
1943 - The first day of the Battle of Rennell Island, U.S. cruiser Chicago is torpedoed and heavily damaged by Japanese bombers.
1944 - World War II: The Battle of Cisterna takes place in central Italy.
1944 - World War II: Approximately 38 men, women, and children die in the Koniuchy massacre in Poland.
1944 - In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical Theatre of the Archiginnasio is destroyed in an air-raid.
1963 - The first inductees into the Pro Football Hall of Fame are announced.
1967 - The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
1979 - Brenda Spencer kills two people and wounds eight at the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shootings.
1985 - Final recording session of We Are The World, by the supergroup USA for Africa.
1989 - Hungary establishes diplomatic relations with South Korea, making it the first Eastern Bloc nation to do so
1991 - Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
1996 - President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
1996 - La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
1998 - In Birmingham, Alabama, a bomb explodes at an abortion clinic, killing one and severely wounding another. Serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is suspected as the culprit.
2001 - Thousands of student protesters in Indonesia storm parliament and demand that President Abdurrahman Wahid resign due to alleged involvement in corruption scandals.
2002 - In his State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea.
2005 - The first direct commercial flights from mainland China (from Guangzhou) to Taiwan since 1949 arrived in Taipei. Shortly afterwards, a China Airlines flight lands in Beijing.
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