1921 - Cyd Charisse, [Tula Finklea], Amarillo Tx, dancer/actress (East Side)
1286 - John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)
1957 - Ruth Wysocki, Alhambra Calif, 800m/1500m runner
1922 - Carl Furillo, Brooklyn Dodger (NL Batting Champ 1953)
1922 - H Kipphardt, writer
1514 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
1958 - Gary Numan, [Gary Webb], Hammersmith England, vocalist (Replicas)
1958 - Nick Capra, American baseball player
1959 - Aidan Quinn, actor (Avalon, Desperately Seeking Susan, Mission)
1924 - Sean McClory, Dublin Ireland, actor (Jack-Californians, My Chauffeur)
1924 - Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer
1961 - Larry Murphy, Scarborough, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1925 - Francisco Rabal, Aguilas Spain, actor (Holy Innocents, Camorra)
1925 - Petrus Steenkamp, Dutch politician (KVP/CDA)
1746 - Andr Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
1927 - Joseph Berg, composer
1963 - Kathy Ireland, model/actress (Alien From LA, Side Out)
1963 - Mike Lalor, Buffalo, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1783 - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer
1931 - John McPhee, author (Back to ----)
1964 - Peter Ged Gill, drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-2 Tribes) [or 1/8]
1964 - Lance McCullers, American baseball player
1814 - Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)
1965 - Ftima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
1934 - Ron Taylor, Sydney Australia, cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals)
1827 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
1830 - Joo de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896)
1836 - Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army)
1937 - Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973-94)
1967 - Joel Johnston, American baseball player
1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mass, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32)
1937 - Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1968 - Michael Bartels, German race car driver
1853 - Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels, Flemish composer (Parisina)
1854 - Tom Felix Horan, cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Aust all-rounder)
1968 - Jim Dougherty, American baseball player
1969 - Andrea Parker, actress (Miss Parker-The Pretender)
1859 - Kenneth Grahame, author (Wind, Willows)
1970 - Jason Elam, NFL kicker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1862 - Joseph Lee, helped develop playgrounds
1970 - Vadim Bekboulatov, NHL forward (Belarus, Oly-98)
1940 - Theo Laseroms, [The Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1971 - Marc Tobert, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1876 - Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
1879 - M Lichnowsky, writer
1942 - Ann Packer-Brightwell, England, 400m/800m runner (Oly-gold-1964)
1942 - Ralph Ellis, England, rhythm (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1942 - [Dick] Richie Allen, baseball player (AL MVP 1972)
1886 - Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
1943 - Lynn Redgrave, London, actress (Georgie Girl)/Weight-Watcher
1889 - Oscar Ewing, US govt official (Everybody's Business)
1890 - Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher
1891 - Sam Jaffe, NYC, actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)
1973 - Kurt Mollekens, Belgian racing car driver
1945 - Graeme Watson, cricketer (Australian opening batsman 5 Tests 1966-72)
1898 - Louise Beavers, Cin Ohio, actress (Beulah-Beulah, Made for each other)
1974 - Toran James, linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1899 - Elmer Keith, Firearms enthusiast and Author (d. 1984)
1945 - Jim Chapman, American politician
1975 - Kenny Wheaton, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 - Fardeen Khan, Indian actor
1975 - Peggy Zina, Greek singer
1909 - Anthony Donato, composer
1976 - Juan Encarnacion, American baseball player
1947 - Florentino Prez, Spanish football executive
1948 - Little Peggy March, [Margaret Battavio], vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
1949 - Charles Lismont, Belgian marathon runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1911 - Elsie Agnes Giorgi, physician/humanitarian
1912 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
1914 - Jacob B Bakema, urban developer (St Louis Missouri)
1953 - Jim Rice, Boston Red Sox outfielder (AL MVP 1978)
1953 - Kathleen Ann Shower, Brookville Oh, Playmate of the Year (May, 1985)
1953 - Bob Brozman, American musician
1916 - R W Schnell, writer
1953 - Don Werner, American baseball player
1954 - Cheryl Baker, rock vocalist (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1918 - Alan Hale [MacKahan] Jr, LA Calif, actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island)
1954 - Karl Schnabl, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
1920 - Eileen Herlie, Glasgow Scot, actress (Myrtle Fargate-All My Children)
1920 - Eva Dahlbeck, Saltsjo-Duvnas Sweden, actress (Dreams, Lesson in Love)
1010 - Ferdowsi completes his Shahnameh.
1126 - Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Len.
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1655 - John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies.
1702 - Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1722 - The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
1736 - Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
1775 - An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1777 - Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1782 - Gnadenhtten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1862 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1868 - Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
1910 - French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
1911 - International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1916 - World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
1917 - International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
1917 - The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1920 - The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1924 - The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1936 - Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
1942 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1949 - Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason
1957 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
1957 - The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the state of Georgia.
1957 - Ghana joins the United Nations.
1963 - The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'tat by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
1966 - A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1978 - The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 - Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
1983 - President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
1985 - A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
1999 - The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 - A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
2010 - The stolen body of Tassos Papadopoulos, fifth President of Cyprus, is discovered in a cemetery near the capital.
1286 - John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)
1957 - Ruth Wysocki, Alhambra Calif, 800m/1500m runner
1922 - Carl Furillo, Brooklyn Dodger (NL Batting Champ 1953)
1922 - H Kipphardt, writer
1514 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
1958 - Gary Numan, [Gary Webb], Hammersmith England, vocalist (Replicas)
1958 - Nick Capra, American baseball player
1959 - Aidan Quinn, actor (Avalon, Desperately Seeking Susan, Mission)
1924 - Sean McClory, Dublin Ireland, actor (Jack-Californians, My Chauffeur)
1924 - Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer
1961 - Larry Murphy, Scarborough, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1925 - Francisco Rabal, Aguilas Spain, actor (Holy Innocents, Camorra)
1925 - Petrus Steenkamp, Dutch politician (KVP/CDA)
1746 - Andr Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
1927 - Joseph Berg, composer
1963 - Kathy Ireland, model/actress (Alien From LA, Side Out)
1963 - Mike Lalor, Buffalo, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1783 - Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer
1931 - John McPhee, author (Back to ----)
1964 - Peter Ged Gill, drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-2 Tribes) [or 1/8]
1964 - Lance McCullers, American baseball player
1814 - Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)
1965 - Ftima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
1934 - Ron Taylor, Sydney Australia, cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals)
1827 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
1830 - Joo de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896)
1836 - Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army)
1937 - Juvenal Hayarimana, president of Rwanda (1973-94)
1967 - Joel Johnston, American baseball player
1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mass, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32)
1937 - Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1968 - Michael Bartels, German race car driver
1853 - Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels, Flemish composer (Parisina)
1854 - Tom Felix Horan, cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Aust all-rounder)
1968 - Jim Dougherty, American baseball player
1969 - Andrea Parker, actress (Miss Parker-The Pretender)
1859 - Kenneth Grahame, author (Wind, Willows)
1970 - Jason Elam, NFL kicker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1862 - Joseph Lee, helped develop playgrounds
1970 - Vadim Bekboulatov, NHL forward (Belarus, Oly-98)
1940 - Theo Laseroms, [The Tank], Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1971 - Marc Tobert, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1876 - Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
1879 - M Lichnowsky, writer
1942 - Ann Packer-Brightwell, England, 400m/800m runner (Oly-gold-1964)
1942 - Ralph Ellis, England, rhythm (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1942 - [Dick] Richie Allen, baseball player (AL MVP 1972)
1886 - Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
1943 - Lynn Redgrave, London, actress (Georgie Girl)/Weight-Watcher
1889 - Oscar Ewing, US govt official (Everybody's Business)
1890 - Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher
1891 - Sam Jaffe, NYC, actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)
1973 - Kurt Mollekens, Belgian racing car driver
1945 - Graeme Watson, cricketer (Australian opening batsman 5 Tests 1966-72)
1898 - Louise Beavers, Cin Ohio, actress (Beulah-Beulah, Made for each other)
1974 - Toran James, linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1899 - Elmer Keith, Firearms enthusiast and Author (d. 1984)
1945 - Jim Chapman, American politician
1975 - Kenny Wheaton, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 - Fardeen Khan, Indian actor
1975 - Peggy Zina, Greek singer
1909 - Anthony Donato, composer
1976 - Juan Encarnacion, American baseball player
1947 - Florentino Prez, Spanish football executive
1948 - Little Peggy March, [Margaret Battavio], vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
1949 - Charles Lismont, Belgian marathon runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1911 - Elsie Agnes Giorgi, physician/humanitarian
1912 - Preston Smith, Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
1914 - Jacob B Bakema, urban developer (St Louis Missouri)
1953 - Jim Rice, Boston Red Sox outfielder (AL MVP 1978)
1953 - Kathleen Ann Shower, Brookville Oh, Playmate of the Year (May, 1985)
1953 - Bob Brozman, American musician
1916 - R W Schnell, writer
1953 - Don Werner, American baseball player
1954 - Cheryl Baker, rock vocalist (Bucks Fizz-My Camera Never Lies)
1918 - Alan Hale [MacKahan] Jr, LA Calif, actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island)
1954 - Karl Schnabl, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
1920 - Eileen Herlie, Glasgow Scot, actress (Myrtle Fargate-All My Children)
1920 - Eva Dahlbeck, Saltsjo-Duvnas Sweden, actress (Dreams, Lesson in Love)
1010 - Ferdowsi completes his Shahnameh.
1126 - Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Len.
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1655 - John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies.
1702 - Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1722 - The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
1736 - Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
1775 - An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1777 - Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1782 - Gnadenhtten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1844 - King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1862 - American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1868 - Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka.
1910 - French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
1911 - International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1916 - World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
1917 - International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar).
1917 - The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1920 - The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
1921 - Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1924 - The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1936 - Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
1937 - Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
1942 - World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java.
1949 - Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason
1957 - Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
1957 - The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the state of Georgia.
1957 - Ghana joins the United Nations.
1963 - The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'tat by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
1966 - A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1978 - The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 - Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
1983 - President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
1985 - A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
1999 - The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 - A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
2010 - The stolen body of Tassos Papadopoulos, fifth President of Cyprus, is discovered in a cemetery near the capital.
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