An deinem Geburtstag...
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1394 – King James I of Scotland (d. 1437)
1452 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
1588 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
1751 – George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
1787 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator (d. 1851)
1804 – Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
1805 – Josef Skoda, Bohemian physician (d. 1881)
1815 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
1820 – Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821)
1821 – Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1877)
1822 – César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
1824 – George MacDonald, Scottish writer and preacher (d. 1905)
1827 – Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
1830 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
1851 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, (d. 1931)
1870 – Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne (d. 1947)
1870 – Adolf Loos, Austrian architect (d. 1933)
1870 – Pierre Louÿs, French author (d. 1925)
1878 – Rajaji, India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of independent India (d. 1972)
1880 – Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
1882 – Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher (d. 1945)
1884 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (d. 1967)
1885 – Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
1891 – Harold Alexander, British Army Field Marshal, first Earl of Tunis (d. 1969)
1891 – Nelly Sachs, German-born writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1970)
1903 – Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986)
1907 – Rumer Godden, English writer (d. 1998)
1907 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
1908 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
1909 – Hermes Pan, American choreographer and dancer (d. 1990)
1911 – Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
1912 – Philip A. Hart, U.S. Senator (d. 1976)
1913 – Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996)
1913 – Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
1914 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996)
1917 – Sultan Yahya Petra, King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
1918 – Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003)
1918 – Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995)
1919 – Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008)
1920 – Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian writer (d. 1977)
1920 – Reginald Rose, American writer (d. 2002)
1922 – Lucía Hiriart, First Lady of Chile (1974–1990), wife of Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet
1923 – Harold Gould, American actor (d. 2010)
1924 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
1925 – Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)
1925 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet
1928 – Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972)
1928 – John Colicos, Canadian actor (d. 2000)
1933 – Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)
1934 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1994)
1935 – Terry Allcock, English footballer
1938 – Porter Goss, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Florida, 19th and last Director of Central Intelligence, and 1st Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1938 – Yuri Temirkanov, Russian orchestral conductor
1939 – Dick Bavetta, American basketball referee
1939 – Barry Cunliffe, English university professor
1941 – Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress
1941 – Tommy Kirk, American actor
1941 – Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996)
1941 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
1941 – Chad Stuart, English singer (Chad and Jeremy)
1944 – Steve Renko, American baseball player
1945 – Mukhtar Altynbayev, former Kazakhstani Minister of Defense and General of the Army of Kazakhstan
1946 – Thomas Lux, American poet
1947 – Douglas Kenney, American humorist (d. 1980)
1947 – Rəsul Quliyev, Azerbaijani politician
1947 – Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
1948 – Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1950 – John Boozman, American politician, junior senator of Arkansas
1951 – Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer
1952 – Clive Anderson, English television presenter
1952 – Susan Dey, American actress
1953 – Chris Bury, American journalist
1954 – Jack Hues, English musician
1955 – Jacquelyn Mitchard, American novelist
1956 – Rod Blagojevich, 40th Governor of Illinois
1956 – Roberto Cassinelli, Italian politician and lawyer
1957 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
1957 – Paul Hardcastle, English composer and musician
1957 – Prem Rawat, known also as Guru Maharaj Ji and Maharaji, American Indian spiritual leader and speaker
1958 – Pepsi Demacque, aka Helen Pepsi Demacque-Crockett English singer
1959 – Mark Aguirre, American basketball player
1959 – Udi Aloni, American-Israeli filmmaker, writer, and activist
1959 – Wolf Hoffmann, German musician (Accept)
1960 – Michael Schoeffling, American actor
1960 – Kenneth Branagh, Northern Irish actor and director
1961 – Nia Peeples, American singer/actress
1961 – Oded Schramm, Israeli-American mathematician
1962 – John de Wolf, former Dutch International footballer
1964 – Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur
1964 – George Newbern, American actor
1965 – Greg Giraldo, American comedian (d. 2010)
1965 – J Mascis, American musician
1965 – Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress
1966 – Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player
1969 – Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player
1970 – Bryant Stith, American basketball player
1971 – Brian Nichols, American spree killer
1972 – Donovan Frankenreiter, American surfer
1972 – Brian Molko, Belgian-born singer and songwriter (Placebo)
1974 – Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1975 – Steve Bradley, American wrestler (d. 2008)
1975 – Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
1977 – Mr. Águila, Mexican wrestler
1977 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
1978 – Marko Jaric, Serbian basketball player
1978 – Summer Phoenix, American actress
1979 – Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler
1980 – Sarah Chang, American violinist
1980 – Massari, Lebanese-born Canadian singer
1981 – Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
1981 – Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinea swimmer
1981 – Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Shilpa Anand, Indian film and television actress
1983 – Patrick Flueger, American actor
1983 – Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
1983 – Katrin Siska, Estonian singer
1983 – Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
1984 – Jayson Paul, American wrestler
1984 – Mark Applegarth, Rugby League player
1985 – Matt Forte, American football player
1985 – T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player
1985 – Raven-Symoné, American actress and singer
1985 – Trésor Mputu, Congolese footballer
1986 – Matthew Bates, English footballer
1987 – Gonzalo Higuaín, French/Argentine footballer
1988 – Mitchell Donald, Dutch footballer
1989 – Ng Chee Yang, Singaporean singer
1990 – Giulia Boverio, Italian actress
1990 – Pál Joensen, Faroese swimmer
[edit]Deaths
949 – Herman I, Duke of Swabia
1041 – Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
1198 – Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
1508 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
1603 – William Gilbert, English scientist (b. 1544)
1618 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (b. 1551)
1626 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
1665 – Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
1736 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1663)
1831 – Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
1850 – Józef Bem, Polish general (b. 1794)
1865 – King Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
1896 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
1909 – Red Cloud, Oglala Lakota Sioux Chief (b. 1822)
1911 – Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
1917 – Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Canadian politician (b. 1823)
1920 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturer (b. 1868)
1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician (b. 1845)
1928 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)
1936 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1867)
1941 – Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915)
1944 – John Brunt, British military officer (b. 1922)
1945 – Theodor Dannecker, German Nazi officer (b. 1913)
1946 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1946 – Damon Runyon, American writer (b. 1884)
1951 – Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)
1953 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
1956 – David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer (b. 1891)
1958 – Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b. 1864)
1967 – Otis Redding, American soul singer (b. 1941)
1967 – Ronnie Caldwell, American soul and R&B musician (b. 1948)
1967 – Phalon Jones, American soul and R&B musician (b. 1949)
1968 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886)
1968 – George Forrest, Northern Irish politician (b. 1921)
1968 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
1973 – Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (b. 1922)
1977 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
1978 – Edward D. Wood, Jr., American filmmaker (b. 1924)
1979 – Ann Dvorak, American film actress (b. 1912)
1982 – Freeman Gosden, American actor (b. 1899)
1986 – Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
1986 – Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
1987 – Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist (b. 1901)
1987 – Nikos Stavridis, Greek actor (b. 1910)
1988 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
1988 – Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1911)
1990 – Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector (b. 1898)
1991 – Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
1991 – Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945)
1992 – Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
1994 – Keith Joseph, English politician (b. 1918)
1994 – Alexander Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
1995 – Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967)
1996 – Faron Young, American singer (b. 1932)
1999 – Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
1999 – Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
1999 – Franjo Tuđman, Croate politician (b. 1922)
2000 – Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
2001 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
2002 – Andres Küng, Swedish-born Estonian politician and journalist (b. 1945)
2004 – Gary Webb, American journalist (b. 1955)
2005 – Eugene McCarthy, America politician (b. 1916)
2005 – Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2006 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
2007 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian actress (b. 1981)
2007 – Aqsa Parvez, Pakastani-born Canadian honor killing victim (b. 1991)
2008 – Didith Reyes, Filipino singer (b. 1948)
2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian physicist (b. 1925)
2010 – John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
2010 – J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-born American documentarian (b. 1913)
2010 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)