1483 - Hendrik van Nassau-Dillenburg en Dietz, gov/viceroy of Holland 1483 - Henry III of Nassau-Breda, German noblem (d. 1538) 1492 - Andreas Alicatus, Italian author 1562 - Charles Emanuel I, the great, Duke of Savoy 1576 - Peter Scriverius, Dutch lawyer/historian 1579 - Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist, (found boiling point temperature) 1580 - Lord Alexander Ruthven, Scottish nobleman (d. 1600) 1588 - John Winthrop, 1st governor (Mass Bay Colony) 1588 - Jose Ribera [Lo Spagnoletto], Spanish painter 1591 - Jos Ribera, Spanish painter (d. 1652) 1597 - Franois Duquesnoy, French sculptor (d. 1643) 1599 - Adrian van Utrecht, Flemish painter 1628 - Charles Perrault, Paris France, author (Mother Goose) 1638 - Ernst R Tarhemberg, Austrian fieldmarshal (Turkish Wars) 1674 - Reinhard Keiser, composer 1711 - Gaetano Latilla, composer 1715 - Jacques Duphly, composer
1967 - Mike Simms, Whittier CA, outfielder (Houston Astros) 1967 - Ulf Dahlen, Ostersund SWE, NHL forward (Team Sweden, San Jose) 1967 - Vendela [Kirsebom], Stockholm Sweden, model (Sports Illustrated 1993) 1968 - Heather Mills, Aldershot England, model/writer (Out on a Limb) 1968 - Vince Buck, NFL safety (NO Saints) 1968 - Junichi Masuda, Japanese composer 1968 - Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer 1969 - Cam Russell, Halifax, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks) 1969 - Robert Prosinečki, Croatian footballer 1970 - Jenny Griffith, Burbank Calif, WPVA volleyballer (National-13th-1995) 1970 - Nigel Wilson, Canadian/US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins) 1970 - Takahiro Ikenoue, WLAF defensive linebacker (Rhein Fire) 1970 - Raekwon, American rapper 1970 - Zack de la Rocha, American musician (Rage Against the Machine) 1971 - Andy Fox, Sacramento CA, infielder (NY Yankees) 1971 - Oscar Sturgis, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys) 1971 - Scott Burrell, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls, Charlotte Hornets) 1971 - Shane Dronett, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos) 1972 - Dominique Ross, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys) 1972 - Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Rajiv Gandhi 1972 - Randy Sklar, American comedian 1973 - Greg Morton, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King) 1973 - Dan Haseltine, American singer (Jars of Clay)
1814 - Jones Mitchell Withers, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1890 1819 - Zealous Bates Tower, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1900 1821 - Nikolai Afanisev, composer 1822 - tienne Lenoir, French engineer (d. 1900) 1825 - Joseph Robert Davis, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 1826 - Charles Cruft, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 1832 - Richard Waterhouse Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1876 1837 - Adolf Jensen, composer 1837 - Carlos Troyer, composer 1842 - Francois Coppee, French poet 1849 - Jean Braud, French painter (d. 1935) 1852 - Joseph J C Joffre, French fieldmarshal (Indo China, Marne) 1853 - Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (tensor analysis) 1856 - John Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters) 1860 - Henry Larkin, American baseball player (d. 1942) 1863 - Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer 1871 - Paul Guthnick, German astronomer 1873 - Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner (d. 1940) 1875 - Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Ulla Bella) 1876 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Venice Italy, composer 1876 - Jack London, writer/socialist (Call of the Wild)
1982 - Chris Ray, American baseball player 1982 - Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player 1984 - Scott Olsen, American baseball player 1985 - Yohana Cobo, Spanish actress 1985 - Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer 1986 - Miguel ngel Nieto, Spanish footballer 1987 - Andrew Lawrence, Phila, actor (Andy Roman-Brotherly Love) 1987 - Naya Rivera, actress (Cindy-Fresh Prince of Bel Air) 1987 - Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer 1987 - Will Rothhaar, American actor 1988 - Chris Casement, Irish footballer 1988 - Joseph Dundas, British TV Presenter 1990 - Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player 1992 - Mao Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol 1995 - Laurel McGoff, American singer 1996 - Sarah Morales, Mexico, Siamese twin (survived) 1996 - Sarahi Morales, Mexico, Siamese twin (died on Jan 27, 1996) 1998 - Nathan Gamble, American child actor
475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople. 1528 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden. 1539 - Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. 1773 - The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina. 1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Ass is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California. 1808 - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh. 1848 - The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies. 1866 - The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London. 1872 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years. 1875 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. 1895 - The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom. 1898 - Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan. 1899 - 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued off the coast of England by the Lynmouth Lifeboat. 1906 - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election. 1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time. 1911 - The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees. 1915 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress. 1915 - The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. 1918 - Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens. 1921 - Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner. 1926 - Original Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago radio later renamed Amos 'n' Andy in 1928. 1932 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1942 - World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board. 1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic. 1966 - Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. 1967 - Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. 1970 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. 1971 - The Harrisburg Seven: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C. 1976 - The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights). 1986 - Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61C as a Mission Specialist. 1991 - Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. 1998 - Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. 2004 - The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage. 2005 - Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket. 2006 - A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims. 2006 - Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II. 2006 - The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship. 2007 - Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years. 2010 - The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
1967 - Mike Simms, Whittier CA, outfielder (Houston Astros) 1967 - Ulf Dahlen, Ostersund SWE, NHL forward (Team Sweden, San Jose) 1967 - Vendela [Kirsebom], Stockholm Sweden, model (Sports Illustrated 1993) 1968 - Heather Mills, Aldershot England, model/writer (Out on a Limb) 1968 - Vince Buck, NFL safety (NO Saints) 1968 - Junichi Masuda, Japanese composer 1968 - Mauro Silva, Brazilian footballer 1969 - Cam Russell, Halifax, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks) 1969 - Robert Prosinečki, Croatian footballer 1970 - Jenny Griffith, Burbank Calif, WPVA volleyballer (National-13th-1995) 1970 - Nigel Wilson, Canadian/US baseball outfielder (Florida Marlins) 1970 - Takahiro Ikenoue, WLAF defensive linebacker (Rhein Fire) 1970 - Raekwon, American rapper 1970 - Zack de la Rocha, American musician (Rage Against the Machine) 1971 - Andy Fox, Sacramento CA, infielder (NY Yankees) 1971 - Oscar Sturgis, NFL defensive end (Dallas Cowboys) 1971 - Scott Burrell, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls, Charlotte Hornets) 1971 - Shane Dronett, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons, Denver Broncos) 1972 - Dominique Ross, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys) 1972 - Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Rajiv Gandhi 1972 - Randy Sklar, American comedian 1973 - Greg Morton, Milwaukee Wisc, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King) 1973 - Dan Haseltine, American singer (Jars of Clay)
1814 - Jones Mitchell Withers, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1890 1819 - Zealous Bates Tower, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1900 1821 - Nikolai Afanisev, composer 1822 - tienne Lenoir, French engineer (d. 1900) 1825 - Joseph Robert Davis, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1896 1826 - Charles Cruft, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883 1832 - Richard Waterhouse Jr, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1876 1837 - Adolf Jensen, composer 1837 - Carlos Troyer, composer 1842 - Francois Coppee, French poet 1849 - Jean Braud, French painter (d. 1935) 1852 - Joseph J C Joffre, French fieldmarshal (Indo China, Marne) 1853 - Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro, Italian mathematician (tensor analysis) 1856 - John Singer Sargent, US, portrait painter (Wyndham Sisters) 1860 - Henry Larkin, American baseball player (d. 1942) 1863 - Vivekananda, Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer 1871 - Paul Guthnick, German astronomer 1873 - Spiridon Louis, Greek marathon runner (d. 1940) 1875 - Marika Stiernstedt, Swedish author (Ulla Bella) 1876 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Venice Italy, composer 1876 - Jack London, writer/socialist (Call of the Wild)
1982 - Chris Ray, American baseball player 1982 - Dontrelle Willis, American baseball player 1984 - Scott Olsen, American baseball player 1985 - Yohana Cobo, Spanish actress 1985 - Artem Milevskiy, Ukrainian footballer 1986 - Miguel ngel Nieto, Spanish footballer 1987 - Andrew Lawrence, Phila, actor (Andy Roman-Brotherly Love) 1987 - Naya Rivera, actress (Cindy-Fresh Prince of Bel Air) 1987 - Salvatore Sirigu, Italian footballer 1987 - Will Rothhaar, American actor 1988 - Chris Casement, Irish footballer 1988 - Joseph Dundas, British TV Presenter 1990 - Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player 1992 - Mao Kobayashi, Japanese gravure idol 1995 - Laurel McGoff, American singer 1996 - Sarah Morales, Mexico, Siamese twin (survived) 1996 - Sarahi Morales, Mexico, Siamese twin (died on Jan 27, 1996) 1998 - Nathan Gamble, American child actor
475 - Basiliscus becomes Byzantine Emperor, with a coronation ceremony in the Hebdomon palace in Constantinople. 1528 - Gustav I of Sweden crowned king of Sweden. 1539 - Treaty of Toledo signed by King Francis I of France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. 1773 - The first public Colonial American museum opens in Charleston, South Carolina. 1777 - Mission Santa Clara de Ass is founded in what is now Santa Clara, California. 1808 - The organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh. 1848 - The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon kingdom of the Two Sicilies. 1866 - The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London. 1872 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years. 1875 - Kwang-su becomes emperor of China. 1895 - The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom. 1898 - Ito Hirobumi begins his third term as Prime Minister of Japan. 1899 - 13 crew members and 5 apprentices are rescued off the coast of England by the Lynmouth Lifeboat. 1906 - Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's cabinet (which included amongst its members H. H. Asquith, David Lloyd George, and Winston Churchill) embarks on sweeping social reforms after a Liberal landslide in the British general election. 1908 - A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time. 1911 - The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees. 1915 - The Rocky Mountain National Park is formed by an act of U.S. Congress. 1915 - The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to give women the right to vote. 1918 - Finland's "Mosaic Confessors" law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens. 1921 - Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner. 1926 - Original Sam 'n' Henry aired on Chicago radio later renamed Amos 'n' Andy in 1928. 1932 - Hattie W. Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
1942 - World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board. 1964 - Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic. 1966 - Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. 1967 - Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation. 1970 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. 1971 - The Harrisburg Seven: The Reverend Philip Berrigan and five others are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C. 1976 - The UN Security Council votes 11-1 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights). 1986 - Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61C as a Mission Specialist. 1991 - Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. 1998 - Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning. 2004 - The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage. 2005 - Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta 2 rocket. 2006 - A stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims. 2006 - Turkey releases Mehmet Ali Ağca from jail after he served 25 years for shooting Pope John Paul II. 2006 - The French warship Clemenceau reaches Egypt and is barred access to the Suez Canal. Greenpeace activists board the ship. 2007 - Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) reaches perihelion becoming the brightest comet in more than 40 years. 2010 - The 2010 Haiti earthquake occurs killing an estimated 316,000 and destroying the majority of the capital Port-au-Prince.
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