Births And Deaths on this Day

[Toronto]

July 11
Births
1274 - Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (d. 1329)
1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1657 - King Frederick I of Prussia (d. 1713)
1754 - Thomas Bowdler, English physican and censor (d. 1825)
1767 - John Quincy Adams, President of the United States (d. 1848)
1844 - King Peter of Serbia (d. 1921)
1857 - Alfred Binet, French psychologist (d. 1911)
1897 - Eugene "Bull" Connor, sheriff of Birmingham, Alabama (d. 1973)
1899 - E. B. White, American writer (d. 1985)
1903 - O. E. Hasse, actor (d. 1978)
1906 - Herbert Wehner, German politician (d. 1990)
1910 - Irene Hervey, American actress (d. 1998)
1913 - Cordwainer Smith, American writer (d. 1966)
1916 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
1916 - Gough Whitlam, twenty-first Prime Minister of Australia
1921 - Ilse Werner, actress
1924 - Brett Somers, Canadian actor
1925 - Nicolai Gedda, Swedish tenor
1926 - Frederick Buechner, American author
1929 - Hermann Prey, German baritone (d. 1998)
1930 - Harold Bloom, American literary critic
1931 - Tab Hunter, American actor
1934 - Giorgio Armani, Italian fashion designer
1939 - Seth Gaaikema, Dutch comedian
1949 - Liona Boyd, English-born classical guitarist
1950 - Bruce McGill, American actor
1956 - Sela Ward, American actress
1957 - Michael Rose, Jamaican musician (Black Uhuru)
1958 - Hugo Sánchez, Mexican footballer
1959 - Suzanne Vega, American singer
1959 - Richie Sambora, guitarist (Bon Jovi)
1968 - Esera Tuaolo, American football player
1973 - Konstantinos Kenteris, Greek athlete
1974 - Hermann Hreidarsson, Icelandic footballer
1975 - Lil' Kim, American rapper
1976 - Eduardo Najera, Mexican-born basketball player
1982 - Sean O'Hair, American golfer
1983 - Marie Eleonor Serneholt, Swedish musician (A-Teens)
1984 - Tanith Belbin, Canadian figure skater

Deaths
472 - Anthemius, Emperor of the Western Roman Empire (legal murder)
937 - Rudolph II of Burgundy
969 - Olga of Kiev
1679 - William Chamberlayne, English poet (b. 1619)
1804 - Alexander Hamilton, United States Secretary of the Treasury (duel) (b. 1757)
1937 - George Gershwin, American composer (b. 1898)
1959 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
1971 - John W. Campbell, writer and editor (b. 1910)
1974 - Pär Lagerkvist, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1994 - Gary Kildall, American computer programmer (b. 1942)
1994 - Savannah American adult actress (b. 1970
1989 - Sir Laurence Olivier, English actor (b. 1907)
1999 - Helen Forrest, American jazz singer (b. 1917)
2000 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1921)
2001 - Herman Brood, Dutch singer and artist (suicide) (b. 1946)
2004 - Laurance Rockefeller, American conservationist and philanthropist (b. 1910)

[gucom]

im wondering what a legal murder is...sumn like death row?? :roll:

[Toronto]

legal murder I think is when the person was killed by a crime.
for example killing someone in a war isn't legal murder because the gov. thinks you are allowed to kill that person? but i might be wrong

[pharzo]

In this case it means execution.

For July 12

Births
100 BC - Gaius Julius Caesar, Roman soldier and politician (d. 44 BC)
1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (d. 1441)
1468 - Juan del Encina, poet and composer
1730 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
1807 - Thomas Hawksley, English civil engineer (d. 1893)
1817 - Henry David Thoreau, American writer and philosopher (d. 1862)
1819 - Charles Kingsley, English writer (d. 1875)
1824 - Eugène Boudin, French painter (d. 1898)
1849 - Sir William Osler, Canadian physician, author, professor of medicine (d. 1919)
1850 - Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (d. 1912)
1852 - Hipólito Yrigoyen, President of Argentina (d. 1933).
1854 - George Eastman, American inventor (d. 1932)
1855 - Edward 'Ned' Hanlan, rower (d. 1908)
1861 - George Washington Carver, American botanist (d. 1943)
1868 - Stefan George, German poet (d. 1933)
1870 - Louis II of Monaco (d. 1949)
1876 - Max Jacob, French poet (d. 1944)
1880 - Tod Browning, American film director (d. 1962)
1884 - Amedeo Modigliani, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1920)
1886 - Jean Hersholt, Danish film director and actor (d. 1956)
1892 - Bruno Schulz, Polish writer and painter (d. 1942)
1892 - Harry Piel, actor, film director, and producer (d. 1963)
1895 - Kirstin Flagstad, Norwegian soprano (d. 1962)
1895 - R. Buckminster Fuller, American architect (d. 1983)
1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II, American lyricist (d. 1960)
1902 - Günther Anders, philosopher and writer (d. 1992)
1904 - Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician and leader (d. 1997)
1904 - Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet, Nobel Prize recipient (d. 1973)
1908 - Milton Berle, American comedian (d. 2002)
1909 - Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian (d. 1993)
1913 - Willis Lamb, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1917 - Andrew Wyeth, American artist
1920 - Beah Richards, American actress (d. 2000)
1920 - Pierre Berton, Canadian journalist and writer (d. 2004)
1922 - Mark Hatfield, U.S. Senator from Oregon
1925 - Roger B. Smith, American automobile executive
1930 - Gordon Pinsent, Canadian actor, director, and writer
1932 - Otis Davis, American runner
1933 - Donald E. Westlake, American author
1934 - Van Cliburn, American pianist
1937 - Bill Cosby, American comedian and actor
1937 - Lionel Jospin, Prime Minister of France
1943 - Christine McVie, singer, musician, and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
1947 - Gareth Edwards, Welsh rugby player
1948 - Richard Simmons, American fitness trainer
1948 - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Sufi musician (d. 1997)
1964 - Gaby Roslin, English television presenter
1967 - Richard Herring, English comedian
1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi, American figure skater
1972 - Travis Best, NBA player
1976 - Anna Friel, British actress
1977 - Brock Lesnar, American professional wrestler
1984 - Gareth Gates, British singer
1991 - Erik Per Sullivan, American actor


Deaths
783 - Bertrada, wife of Pippin III (b. 720)
1441 - Ashikaga Yoshinori, Japanese shogun (b. 1394)
1536 - Erasmus, Dutch writer and philosopher
1773 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German flutist and composer (b. 1697)
1845 - Henrik Wergeland, Norwegian author (b. 1808)
1918 - Dragutin Lerman, Croatian explorer (b. 1864)
1919 - Charles Rock, actor
1921 - Ralph Herz, actor
1923 - Harry Lonsdale, actor
1926 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (b. 1868)
1931 - Nathan Söderblom, Swedish clergyman, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1866)
1935 - Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer (b. 1859)
1949 - Douglas Hyde, first President of Ireland (b. 1860)
1950 - Elsie De Wolfe, actress and interior decorator (b. 1865)
1962 - Roger Wolfe Kahn, American band leader (b. 1907)
1988 - Josh Logan, film director and writer
1996 - John Chancellor, American television journalist (b. 1927)
1996 - Jonathan Melvoin, musician and keyboardist (The Smashing Pumpkins) (b. 1961)
1999 - Bill Owen, British actor (b. 1914)
2003 - Benny Carter, American musician (b. 1907)

[nthfinity]

wow, if it keeps up like this--- (birth:death ratio), the planet will be so over populated with important people

[ZfrkS62]

1991 - Erik Per Sullivan, American actor

Dewey has to be the funniest character on that show ::waits for the hamster ball to roll by::

[pharzo]

yeah haha dewey's great...the show has gone downhill the past couple of season imo though

[Toronto]

July 13th
Births
* 100 BC - Julius Caesar (or July 12), statesman and military leader (d. 44 BC)
* AD 40 - Gnaeus Julius Agricola, Roman Governor of Britain (d. 93)
* 1527 - John Dee, English scientist
* 1590 - Pope Clement X (d. 1676)
* 1608 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1657)
* 1816 - Gustav Freitag, writer (d. 1895)
* 1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan leader (d. 1877)
* 1841 - Otto Wagner, Austrian architect (d. 1918)
* 1864 - John Jacob Astor IV, American entrepreneur (d. 1912)
* 1894 - Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (d. 1940)
* 1900 - George Lewis, American jazz musician (d. 1969)
* 1913 - Dave Garroway, American television host (d. 1982)
* 1918 - Alberto Ascari, Italian race car driver (d. 1955)
* 1921 - Ernest Gold, film score composer (d. 1999)
* 1924 - Carlo Bergonzi, Italian tenor
* 1927 - Simone Veil, French politician
* 1928 - Bob Crane, American actor, (d. 1978)
* 1928 - Mace Neufeld, film producer
* 1929 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (d. 1989)
* 1933 - David Malcolm Storey, writer
* 1934 - Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer
* 1934 - Aleksei Yeliseyev, cosmonaut
* 1935 - Jack Kemp, American football player and Vice Presidential candidate
* 1936 - Albert Ayler, Jazz Musician, (d. 1970)
* 1940 - Patrick Stewart, English actor
* 1941 - Robert Forster, American actor
* 1942 - Harrison Ford, American actor
* 1942 - Roger McGuinn, American musician
* 1944 - Ernő Rubik, Hungarian inventor, sculptor, and architect
* 1946 - Cheech Marin, American actor and comedian
* 1953 - Johnny Clegg, South African composer and musician
* 1954 - Sezen Aksu, Turkish singer and songwriter, Eurovision Song Contest winner
* 1957 - Cameron Crowe, American film director and writer
* 1962 - Rhonda Vincent, bluegrass singer
* 1963 - Neal Foulds, English snooker player
* 1966 - Gerald Levert, singer
* 1970 - Barry Pinches, English snooker player
* 1974 - Jarno Trulli, Formula 1 racer

Deaths
* 939 - Pope Leo VII
* 1205 - Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury and Justicier of England
* 1621 - Archduke Albert of Austria, governor of the Low Countries (b. 1559)
* 1683 - Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex, English statesman (b. 1631)
* 1705 - Titus Oates, Protestant conspirator (b. 1649)
* 1755 - Edward Braddock, British general
* 1793 - Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary (murdered by Charlotte Corday) (b. 1743)
* 1807 - Henry Benedict Stuart, the Cardinal-Duke of York and the last Jacobite Claimant (as Henry IX and I) to the thrones of England, Scotland, (France), and Ireland (b. 1725)
* 1896 - Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz, German organic chemist (b. 1829)
* 1946 - Alfred Stieglitz, American photographer (b. 1864)
* 1951 - Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
* 1954 - Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (b. 1907)
* 1967 - Tom Simpson, British cyclist (exhaustion) (b. 1937)
* 1974 - Patrick Blackett, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
* 1980 - Seretse Khama, first President of Botswana (b. 1921)
* 1983 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author (b. 1909)
* 1993 - Davey Allison, American race car driver (b. 1961)
* 2002 - Yousuf Karsh, Turkish-born photographer (b. 1908)
* 2003 - Compay Segundo, Cuban folk musician (b. 1907)
* 2004 - Arthur Kane, musician (New York Dolls) (complications of leukemia) (b. 1951)

[Toronto]

july 14th
Births
* 1454 - Poliziano, Florentine classical scholar and poet, one of the revivers of Humanist Latin (d. 1494)
* 1602 - Jules Mazarin, French statesman and cardinal (d. 1661)
* 1610 - Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1670)
* 1634 - Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (d. 1719)
* 1829 - Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1896)
* 1857 - Emmeline Pankhurst, English suffragette (d. 1928)
* 1860 - Owen Wister, American author (d. 1938)
* 1862 - Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter and graphic artist (d. 1918)
* 1868 - Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist, writer, spy, and administrator (d. 1926)
* 1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish Yiddish author (d. 1991)
* 1906 - Tom Carvel, soft ice cream inventor (d. 1990)
* 1910 - William Hanna, American animator (d. 2001)
* 1912 - Northrop Frye, Canadian literary critic (d. 1991)
* 1912 - Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (d. 1967)
* 1913 - Gerald Ford, President of the United States
* 1916 - Natalia Ginzburg, writer (d. 1991)
* 1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film and theatre director
* 1918 - Arthur Laurents, American playwright, novelist, and director
* 1919 - Lino Ventura, Italian-born actor (d. 1987)
* 1921 - Leon Garfield, English children's author (d. 1996)
* 1923 - Dale Robertson, American actor
* 1926 - Harry Dean Stanton, American actor
* 1927 - John Chancellor, American television commentator (d. 1996)
* 1930 - Polly Bergen, American actress, singer, and entrepreneur
* 1932 - Roosevelt Grier, American football player, actor, and Christian minister
* 1938 - Jerry Rubin, American activist (d. 1994)
* 1939 - George E. Slusser, American scholar and writer
* 1939 - Karel Gott, Czech singer
* 1941 - Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
* 1942 - Javier Solana, Spanish European Union foreign policy chief
* 1946 - John Wood, Australian actor
* 1956 - Ran Andrews, Canadian painter
* 1967 - Robin Ventura, baseball player
* 1971 - Chirag Bhimani, Structural and Environmental Engineer
* 1971 - Bubba Ray Dudley, professional wrestler
* 1977 - Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden

Deaths
* 664 - Deusdedit of Canterbury, Archbishop of Canterbury
* 1223 - King Philip II of France (b. 1165)
* 1270 - Boniface of Savoy, Archbishop of Canterbury
* 1274 - Saint Bonaventure (b. 1221)
* 1575 - Richard Taverner, Bible translator
* 1723 - Claude Fleury, French historian (b. 1640)
* 1742 - Richard Bentley, English classical scholar (b. 1662)
* 1834 - Edmond Charles Genêt, French ambassador to the United States during the French Revolution (b. 1763)
* 1881 - Billy the Kid, American outlaw (b. 1860)
* 1887 - Alfred Krupp, German munitions manufacturer (b. 1812)
* 1904 - Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (b. 1860)
* 1907 - William Henry Perkin, English chemist and inventor of aniline dyes (b. 1838)
* 1954 - Jacinto Benavente, Spanish writer (b. 1866)
* 1965 - Adlai Stevenson, U.S. presidential candidate (b. 1900)
* 1984 - Philippe Wynne, American musician (b. 1941)
* 1984 - Ernest Tidyman, American writer (b. 1928)
* 1994 - César Tovar, Major League Baseball player (b. 1940)
* 1998 - Dick McDonald, co-founder of McDonald's Corporation (b. 1909)
* 1999 - Gar Samuelson, musician (Megadeth)
* 2000 - William Roscoe Estep, American Baptist historian (b. 1920)
* 2002 - Joaquín Balaguer, President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1906)
* 2002 - Qiqi, longest-living captive Chinese river dolphin
* 2003 - André Claveau, French singer (b. 1911)
* 2003 - Tex Schramm, American football general manager (b. 1920)

[Max Power]

Happy birthday Gerald Ford

[Toronto]

July 15
Births

* 1553 - Archduke Ernest of Austria (d. 1595)
* 1573 - Inigo Jones, English architect (d. 1652)
* 1606 - Rembrandt, Dutch artist (d. 1669)
* 1631 - Jens Juel, Danish diplomat (d. 1700)
* 1779 - Clement Clarke Moore, American educator, author, and poet (d. 1863)
* 1796 - Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist (d. 1796)
* 1808 - Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, English Catholic archbishop (d. 1892)
* 1812 - James Hope-Scott, English barrister (d. 1873)
* 1848 - Vilfredo Pareto, Italian economist and sociologist (d. 1923)
* 1850 - Mother Cabrini, Italian-born Roman Catholic saint (d. 1917)
* 1865 - Alfred Charles William Northcliffe, newspaper publisher (d. 1922)
* 1870 - Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov, Russian publisher and politician (d. 1922)
* 1871 - Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
* 1892 - Walter Benjamin, German literary critic and writer (d. 1940)
* 1899 - Sean F. Lemass, Irish leader (d. 1971)
* 1902 - Jean Rey, Belgian politician and President of the European Commission {d. 1983)
* 1911 - Edward Shackleton, English explorer (d. 1994)
* 1914 - Hammond Innes, English writer (d. 1998)
* 1918 - Bertram N. Brockhouse, Canadian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
* 1919 - Iris Murdoch, English writer (d. 1999)
* 1922 - Leon M. Lederman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1923 - Philip Carey, American actor
* 1926 - Leopoldo Galtieri, Argentine dictator (d. 2003)
* 1926 - Driss Chraïbi, Moroccan author
* 1927 - Nan Clow Martin, actress
* 1928 - Carl Woese, American microbiologist
* 1930 - Jacques Derrida, French philosopher (d. 2004)
* 1930 - Stephen Smale, American mathematician
* 1931 - Clive Cussler, American author
* 1933 - Julian Bream, English guitarist and lutenist
* 1933 - Guido Crepax, Italian comics artist (d. 2003)
* 1934 - Harrison Birtwistle, English composer
* 1934 - Risto Jarva, Finnish filmmaker (d. 1977)
* 1935 - Diahann Carroll, American actress
* 1942 - Mil Mascaras, Mexican professional wrestler
* 1944 - Millie Jackson, singer
* 1945 - Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (d. 2003)
* 1946 - Linda Ronstadt, American singer
* 1949 - Carl Bildt, Swedish politician
* 1949 - Trevor Horn, English musician
* 1951 - Jesse Ventura, professional wrestler and Governor of Minnesota.
* 1953 - Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President of Haiti
* 1953 - John Denham, British politician
* 1956 - Ian Curtis, British musician, singer and lyricist (Joy Division) (d. 1980)
* 1956 - Barry Melrose, Canadian hockey player, coach, and commentator
* 1956 - Marky Ramone, American musician (The Ramones)
* 1958 - Mac Thornberry, American politician
* 1961 - Forest Whitaker, American actor
* 1961 - Scott Ritter, UNSCOM weapons inspector in Iraq
* 1966 - Irène Jacob, French-born Swiss actress
* 1968 - Eddie Griffin, American actor
* 1968 - Stan Kirsch, American actor
* 1970 - Chi Cheng, American musician
* 1971 - John Dolmayan, Lebanese-born drummer (System of a Down)
* 1973 - Brian Austin Green, American actor

Deaths
* 518 - Roman Emperor Anastasius I
* 1085 - Robert Guiscard, French adventurer
* 1262 - Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford
* 1291 - Rudolph I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1218)
* 1381 - John Ball, English priest
* 1406 - William of Austria, Duke of Carinthia, Styria, and Carniola
* 1571 - Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
* 1685 - James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate son of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
* 1767 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (b. 1746)
* 1782 - Farinelli, Italian castrato (b. 1705)
* 1828 - Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (b. 1741)
* 1839 - Winthrop Mackworth Praed, English poet (b. 1802)
* 1844 - Claude Charles Fauriel, French historian (b. 1772)
* 1857 - Carl Czerny, Austrian composer (b. 1791)
* 1869 - A.J. Hayne, soldier
* 1890 - Gottfried Keller, Swiss writer (b. 1819)
* 1904 - Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (b. 1860)
* 1919 - Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
* 1929 - Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian writer (b. 1874)
* 1930 - Leopold Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1845)
* 1931 - Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Russian economist (b. 1868)
* 1933 - Irving Babbitt, American literary critic (b. 1865)
* 1933 - Freddie Keppard, American musician (b. 1890)
* 1946 - Razor Smith, English cricketer (b. 1877)
* 1947 - Walter Donaldson, American songwriter (b. 1893)
* 1948 - John J. Pershing, U.S. general (b. 1860)
* 1957 - George Cleveland, actor
* 1957 - James M. Cox, American politician (b. 1870)
* 1959 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
* 1960 - Lawrence Tibbett, American actor (b. 1896)
* 1961 - John E. Brownlee, Canadian politician (b. 1884)
* 1965 - Francis Cherry, American politician (b. 1908)
* 1991 - Bert Convy, American actor (b. 1933)
* 1992 - Hammer DeRoburt, first President of Nauru (b. 1922)
* 1996 - Dana Hill, American actress (b. 1964)
* 1997 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)
* 2003 - Adi Preißler, German footballer
* 2003 - Roberto Bolaño, Chilean writer (b. 1953)

[Toronto]

July 16
Births

* 1486 - Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter (d. 1530)
* 1796 - Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter (d. 1875)
* 1821 - Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader (d. 1910)
* 1834 - Franz Adolf Lüderitz, salesman and politician (d. 1886)
* 1862 - Ida B. Wells, American journalist and anti-lynching crusader (d. 1931)
* 1872 - Roald Amundsen, Norwegian explorer (d. 1928)
* 1888 - Percy Kilbride, American actor (d. 1964)
* 1888 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
* 1889 - Joe Jackson, American baseball player (d. 1951)
* 1889 - Larry Semon, film comedian (d. 1928)
* 1896 - Trygve Lie, first United Nations Secretary General (d. 1968)
* 1902 - Georg Schwarz, writer (d. 1991)
* 1903 - Carmen Lombardo, Canadian singer, saxophonist, composer, and arranger (d. 1971)
* 1907 - Dr. Frances Horwich, American television personality (d. 2001)
* 1907 - Orville Redenbacher, American farmer and businessman (d. 1995)
* 1907 - Barbara Stanwyck, American actress (d. 1990)
* 1911 - Ginger Rogers, American actress and dancer (d. 1995)
* 1913 - Peter van Eyck, actor (d. 1969)
* 1919 - Choi Kyuha, President of South Korea
* 1924 - Bess Myerson, Miss America and television personality
* 1925 - Cal Tjader, musician (d. 1982)
* 1926 - Irwin Rose, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
* 1946 - Ron Yary, American football player
* 1947 - Assata Shakur, Black Panther Party member
* 1948 - Rubén Blades, Panamanian actor, musician, and politician
* 1948 - Pinchas Zukerman, Israeli violinist
* 1952 - Stewart Copeland, American musician
* 1956 - Tony Kushner, American playwright
* 1959 - Gary Anderson, American football player
* 1963 - Phoebe Cates, American actress
* 1963 - Fatboy Slim, English musician
* 1963 - Srečko Katanec, Slovenian footballer and coach
* 1964 - Phil Hellmuth, American poker player
* 1964 - Miguel Induráin, Spanish cyclist
* 1968 - Barry Sanders, American football player
* 1971 - Corey Feldman, American actor
* 1976 - Anna Smashnova, Israeli tennis player

Deaths

* 1647 - Masaniello, Italian rebel (b. 1622)
* 1691 - François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, French war minister (b. 1641)
* 1770 - Francis Cotes, English painter (b. 1726)
* 1882 - Mary Todd Lincoln, First Lady of the United States (b. 1818)
* 1953 - Hilaire Belloc, French writer and journalist (b. 1870)
* 1979 - Alfred Deller, English countertenor (b. 1912)
* 1981 - Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (b. 1942)
* 1985 - Heinrich Böll, German writer (b. 1917)
* 1989 - Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor (b. 1908)
* 1991 - Frank Rizzo, mayor of Philadelphia (b. 1920)
* 1994 - Julian Schwinger, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
* 1995 - Stephen Spender, American poet (b. 1909)
* 1998 - John Henrik Clarke, American historian and scholar (b. 1915)
* 1999 - John F. Kennedy Jr., son of John F. Kennedy (b. 1960)
* 2002 - John Cocke, American computer scientist (b. 1925)
* 2003 - Celia Cruz, Cuban musician (b. 1924)
* 2003 - Carol Shields, Canadian author (b. 1935)

[gucom]

* 1997 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (b. 1946)

hey wasnt gianni versace the guy that got murdered?