the Italian-born Queen of France  Catherine de' Medici (1519) |
Gunpowder, treason and plot's  Guido (Guy) Fawkes (1570) |
George III's sixth prime minister (Frederick)  Lord North (1713) |
the third US President  Thomas Jefferson (1743) |
Mechanical Engineer and developer of the World's first locomotive  Richard Trevithick (1771) |
nineteenth-century feminist  Josephine Butler (1828) |
retailer Frank Winfield Woolworth (1852) |
American outlaw  Butch Cassidy (1866*) |
Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of existential analysis  Ludwig Binswanger (1881) |
Cryptographer  Herbert Osborne Yardley (1889) |
inventor of Radar  Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt (1892) |
psychoanalyst and semantician  Jacques Lacan (1901) |
the dramatist  Samuel Beckett (1906*) |
American author  Eudora Welty (1909) after whom the e-mail program is named |
Inventor of the peace gun Robert Hingson (1913) |
actor  Howard Keel (1919) |
'Get Smart' actor  Don Adams (1923*) |
Formula 1 race car driver  Dan Gurney (1931) |
Nobel Laureate  Seamus Heaney (1939) |
actor  Paul Sorvino (1939) |
1985 Nobel Prizewinner and American molecular geneticist  Michael Stuart Brown (1941) |
The fifth Doctor Who, actor  Peter Davison (1951*) |
Me, Myself, I Alison Wheeler (1956*) |
American Footballer  Dennis Thurman (1956*) |
Chess Grandmaster  Garry Kasparov (1963) |
actress  Caroline Rhea (1964) |
actor  Rick Schroder (1970) |
1593 - Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, English statesman
1618 - Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy, French Writer
1729 - Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore and magazine editor
1747 - Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans
1753 - Frederick Frelinghuysen, American statesman
1780 - Alexander Mitchell, Irish Engineer
1787 - John Robertson, U.S. congressman
1808 - Antonio Meucci, Italian Inventor
1825 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Canadian journalist and politician
1828 - Joseph Barber Lightfoot, English theologian and Bishop of Durham
1932 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian author
1850 - Arthur Matthew Weld Downing, British astronomer
1860 - James Ensor, painter
1872 - Alexander Roda Roda, writer
1873 - John W. Davis, American Politician
1875 - Ray Lyman Wilbur, 31st US Secretary of the Interior
1880 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood
1885 - Georg Lukács, Philosopher and literary critic
1887 - Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician
1890 - Frank Murphy, American public servant
1891 - Nella Larsen, African-American novelist
1893 - Arthur Travers 'Bomber' Harris, commander of Bomber Command in WWII
1894 - Arthur Fadden, thirteenth Prime Minister of Australia
1900 - Pierre Molinier, Painter and photographer
1902 - Philippe de Rothschild, Grand Prix race-car driver and wine grower
1904 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur
1907 - Harold E. Stassen, frequent candidate for President of the United States
1909 - Stanislaw Marcin Ulam, Polish-American Mathematician
1911 - Ico Hitrec, Croatian football player
1919 - Roland Gaucher, French Journalist
1920 - Roberto Calvi, "God's banker"
1920 - Liam Cosgrave, fifth Taoiseach of Republic of Ireland
1920 - John LaPorta, jazz musician
1920 - Claude Cheysson, French Politician
1922 - John Braine, British Novelist
1924 - Stanley Donen, director
1924 - Jack Chick, Christian evangelist
1926 - John George Vanderbilt Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
1928* - Alan Clark - maverick British politician
1932 - Orlando Letelier, Chilean Politician
1933 - Ben Nighthorse Campbell - American senator
1935 - Erich von Däniken, writer
1935 - Lyle Waggoner, actor
1937 - Lanford Wilson, playwright
1937 - Edward Fox, British Actor
1943 - Bill Conti, Musical Director
1944 - Jack Casady, musician with "Jefferson Airplane"
1944 - Susan Davis, American Politician
1946 - Al Green, soul singer, pastor
1948 - B. Allan Benson, NLRB Regional Director
1948 - Sue Doughty, British Politician
1949 - Jean-Jacques Favier, Payload specialist
1949 - Frank Doran, Scottish Politician
1950 - Ron Perlman, actor
1951* - Peabo Bryson, pop singer
1951* - Max Weinberg, drummer
1952 - David Drew, British Politician
1952 - Ron Dittemore, NASA shuttle program manager
1953 - Stephen Byers, British Politician
1954 - Jimmy Destri, musician
1954 - Barbara Roche, British Politician
1955 - Ole von Beust, Mayor of Hamburg
1955 - Lupe Pintor, Mexican Boxer
1956* - Peter 'Possum' Bourne, Australian Rally Driver
1960 - Rudi Völler, former German national football coach
1972 - Mariusz Czerkawski, ice hockey player
1972 - Aaron Lewis, Singer
1974 - Sergei Gonchar, hockey player
1976 - Jonathan Brandis, actor
1976 - Patrik Elias, ice hockey player
1978 - Arron Asham, ice hockey player
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